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Roland Deschain
May 20, 2017 by Tom
Tags: dark tower, gunslinger, idris elba, stephen king
In Stephen King's The Dark Tower series, Roland Deschain of Gilead (Idris Elba) is the last in a long line of gunslingers who keep the peace. He often appears detached and unsympathetic, but keeps a strong sense of heroism and helps others in need. He takes inspiration from Clint Eastwood's The Man with No Name.
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March 13, 2019 by Nicholas R Sherer
Buddy Repperton
Clarence “Buddy” Repperton (William Ostrander) is a character from the novel Christine by Stephen King, and the movie adaptation made by John Carpenter. Repperton is the leader of a a gang of bullies, and trashes titular car Christine after her owner got him kicked out of school.
April 4, 2018 by Kyera
The Man in Black from the Dark Tower
An immortal, evil sorcerer who delights in causing death and devastation, The Man in Black (Matthew McConaughey) is the powerful villain in the 2017 movie adaptation of Stephen King’s novel The Dark Tower. In this first installment of the series, The Man in Black- also known as Walter Padick – goes up against protagonist and Gunslinger Roland Deschain (Idris Elba) in a battle to protect the Tower. If the Tower falls, as the Man in Black wants, all the many universes linked to it will be destroyed. As expected, the Man in Black dresses entirely in black.
Jake Chambers
A young boy with powerful psychic abilities, Jake Chambers (Tom Taylor) follows his visions to a portal to another dimension called Mid-World in the 2017 adaption of Stephen King’s novel the Dark Tower. In this western-style parallel universe he befriends Roland Deschain, the last Gunslinger, and comes up against the Man in Black. The Man in Black wants to use Jake’s powers to destroy the Tower that links all universes; Jake and Roland set out to stop him. Jake dresses like all other boys his age do, in a casual hoodie, jeans and plaid shirt.
Henry Bowers from It (2017)
In Stephen King’s It (2017), Henry Bowers (Nicholas Hamilton) is the leader of the Bowers Gang who, along with Patrick Hockstetter, live to bully kids like Ben Hanscom and Richie Tozier from the Losers’ Club. Roll up your shirt cuffs and wrap a bandana around your wrist to complete the Bowers look.
In Stephen King’s It, Patrick Hockstetter (Owen Teague) is a disturbed teen who bullies the Losers Club. He cheers on Henry Bowers as he tries to carve his name into Ben Hanscom’s belly. Ben escapes, and Patrick goes into the sewers looking for him, only to find Pennywise instead.
Beverly Marsh from It (2017)
In Stephen King’s It (2017), Beverly Marsh (Sophia Lillis) is the only female member of the Losers Club. Coming from poverty and as a survivor of abuse, Bev forms strong bonds with other members including Ben Hanscom, Eddie Kaspbrak, Bill Denbrough, and Richie Tozier. Her olive drab overalls are tough to find, but these will do the trick once you convert them from longs to shorts.
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Posts Tagged ‘Mohamed Ibrahim’
Ranking the Big Ten’s running back units
Tags: Big Ten Football, Bradrick Shaw, Chris Evans, Cole Gest, college football, Connor Heyward, Devin Ozigbo, Greg Bell, Illinois Fighting Illini, Indiana Hoosiers, Iowa Hawkeyes, Ivory Kelly-Martin, Jeremy Larkin, JK Dobbins, John Moten, Jon Hilliman, Jonathan Taylor, Karan Higdon, LJ Scott, Lorenzo Harrison, Markell Jones, Maryland Terrapins, Michigan State Spartans, Michigan Wolverines, Mike Espstein, Mike Weber, Miles Sanders, Minnesota Golden Gophers, Mohamed Ibrahim, Morgan Ellison, Nebraska Cornhuskers, Northwestern Wildcats, Ohio State Buckeyes, Penn State Nittany Lions, Phil Steele, Purdue Boilermakers, Ra'Von Bonner, Raheem Blackshear, Ricky Slade, Rodney Smith, Rutgers Scarlet Knights, Tario Fuller, Toren Young, Tre Bryant, Ty Johnson, Wisconsin Badgers
Ohio State running back Mike Weber
14. Illinois Fighting Illini – Mike Epstein was Illinois leading rusher when a leg injury ended his season after five games last year. Ra’Von Bonner is the power back, while Reggie Corbin is the slasher. Epstein is a combination of the two. All three must prove they can remain healthy in the physical Big Ten.
13. Iowa Hawkeyes – Iowa has to replace two 1,000 yard rushers this year and every tailback on the roster is an underclassmen. Toren Young started one game and has power at 220 pounds. Ivory Kelly-Martin saw action in all 13 games as a true freshman and is a good change-of-pace for Young. This is a vastly inexperienced unit.
12. Rutgers Scarlet Knights – Jon Hilliman was added as a grad transfer after starting 29 games for Boston College. Despite being 225 pounds, Hilliman has good speed. Raheem Blackshear averaged 6.1 yards per carry as a true freshman last year and is quick and explosive.
11. Indiana Hoosiers – Morgan Ellison broke his left leg as a Sophomore and his right leg as a Junior in high school, which hurt his recruitment. He led the Hoosiers as true freshman last year with 704 yards and is naturally strong. Cole Gest provides the change of pace with great burst and explosion, while Mike Majette is a combination of the two.
10. Northwestern Wildcats – Northwestern is replacing their all-time leading rusher in 2018. Jeremy Larkin averaged 6.0 yards per carry last year and John Moten averaged 6.0 yards per carry in 2016. Jesse Brown is similar in size to Larkin and provides track speed.
9. Purdue Boilermakers – Tario Fuller started the first three games in 2017 and averaged 6.1 yards per carry before an ankle injury ended his season. Markell Jones has rushed for over 500 yards in each of his three seasons and has excellent hands out of the backfield. DJ Knox returned from an ACL injury in 2016 to average 6.2 yards per carry in 2017.
8. Minnesota Golden Gophers – If this list only pertained to the starting running back, then Minnesota would be ranked higher. Rodney Smith followed up his 1,000 yard season in 2016 with 977 yards last year, battling thru a couple of concussions. With Shannon Brooks sitting this season out due to injury, Mohamed Ibrahim, Dominik London, and Jonathan Femi-Cole provide quality depth.
7. Nebraska Cornhuskers – Just how deep is the Nebraska running back unit? So deep that Devine Ozigbo, who has led the Huskers in rushing each of the last two seasons, will likely have three others in front of him for 2018! Greg Bell is the newcomer that was a two-time Juco All-American, Tre Bryant began last year as the starter before a knee injury ended his season after two games, and Mikale Wilbon is a multiple back that is also a receiving option.
6. Maryland Terrapins – After rushing for over 1,000 yards as a true freshman, Ty Johnson was the focal point for many defenses in 2017 as Maryland was devastated at the QB position. Lorenzo Harrison is elusive and powerful, while Anthony McFarland is fully healed from a high school injury that resulted in him taking a redshirt last year and has sprinter speed.
5. Michigan State Spartans – LJ Scott would’ve likely been an NFL draft pick in 2018, but opted to return to East Lansing for his Senior season. He’s a 230 pound bruiser. Connor Heyward is the son of the late “Iron Head” Heyward and has tremendous explosiveness and great hands. Weston Bridges brings a change of pace and has great vision, but can also run through would be tacklers.
4. Penn State Nittany Lions – Miles Sanders will have the difficult task of replacing Saquan Barkley as the feature running back, but is similarly built and is also a great receiving threat. True freshman Ricky Slade was ranked as the No. 3 running back in the 2018 recruiting class and has elite acceleration. Mark Allen is the veteran of the unit and will be the change of pace running back.
3. Michigan Wolverines – Michigan still ranks this high even after the recent news that Kareem Walker has decided to transfer to Juco. Karan Higdon earned Third Team Big Ten honors last year that can run inside or bounce outside. Chris Evans averaged over five yards per carry in 2017 and is the fastest of the running backs. O’Maury Samuels has great stop-start ability, and Berkely Edwards was added as a grad transfer that has excellent quickness.
2. Wisconsin Badgers – While Wisconsin just may have the Heisman Trophy winner for 2018 in Jonathan Taylor, this list is about the entire unit, not just the starter. Backup Bradrick Shaw is coming off an ACL injury, Taiwan Deal is coming off an ankle injury, and Chris James was limited to nine games last year and injured his ankle during spring practices.
1. Ohio State Buckeyes – No team in the Big Ten has more talent at running back than Ohio State. It can be argued that JK Dobbins and Mike Weber, who each has ran for over 1,000 yards in season, are the best combination in the nation. Add a pair of very highly touted true freshman to the mix along with Demario McCall, who will also play the H-Back position and it’s easy to see why this unit is ranked where it is.
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Jodi Gordon claps back at ex Braith Anasta after he insulted her on radio
By Áine Ryan| 3 years ago
In happier times. Image: Getty
Hours after the ex-rugby player took a swipe at her during an appearance on The Kyle and Jackie O Show, Jodi hit back.
Jodi Gordon has clapped back at her ex-husband Braith Anasta.
"When someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you don't stoop to their level," she shared on Instagram, referencing a Michelle Obama quote. "No, our motto is, when they go low, we go high.'
The actress captioned the post with the hashtag #shinebrightlikeadiamond.
A post shared by Jodi Gordon (@jodigordon) on Mar 29, 2017 at 11:34pm PDT
Speaking to the KIIS FM hosts yesterday, Braith opened up about his split from the 32-year-old.
Although his 2015 divorce from Jodi is "all done", he said he wouldn't be re-gifting her "expensive" engagement ring for his current girlfriend, personal trainer Rachael Lee.
"Did you get the ring back?" asked Kyle.
"No way!" replied the 35-year-old. "I wish. That was a bad investment."
He then went on to say that the mother of his three-year-old daughter Aleeia might have sold it.
"She probably hocked it," he said. "She's probably bought a few bags with it…handbags."
"Oh my God! I thought you meant something else," Jackie responded.
In 2009 the Neighbours star was found cowering in the bedroom of an alleged bikie, fearing five armed men were breaking in. She allegedly told police in an interview that she had consumed cocaine that day.
Braith and Jodi announced the end of their three-year marriage in December 2015.
At the time they released a joint statement, saying they were going to continue to support each other and remain best of friends," and that they "only want the best for each other".
Jodi Gordon
Braith Anasta
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Clivus Multrum Composting Toilet Systems Australia
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Friends and Socializing
Preteens and Tweens
Suicide and Self-Harm
Trauma and Grief
Auditory Processing Disorder
Behavior and Conduct Disorders
Depressive and Mood Disorders
Elimination Disorders
OCD: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
Sleep-Wake Disorders
Substance Use and Addictive Disorders
Tourette’s and Tic Disorders
Trauma and Stress Related Disorders
Ask An Expert / Parenting Challenges
My son cries every day at kindergarten because he misses me, and isn’t making friends. What can I do?
First get more information from his teachers
Rachel Busman, PsyD, ABPP
Senior Director, Anxiety Disorders Center; Director, Selective Mutism Service
I am lost and heartbroken for my son. He cries almost every day at kindergarten because he misses me. I worry about him making friends. I don't need him to be the most popular, but I want him to go and have fun and be engaged. He mostly cries at lunch and will not participate on the playground. He says the boys don't ask him to play. I don't know that he would play even if they asked him.I ask him a lot of questions and am probably doing more harm—I think I am nagging. I tried telling him I have a job and so does he, and I will always be there at the end of the day so we can be together. I don't want the kids to think he is a crybaby. What can I do to help him really enjoy his day?
It must be so hard to go to work every day when you’re worried about your son feeling so sad. I love that you told him that you have a job and so does he but that you’ll be there at the end of the day. Those are really good messages.
It’s true that asking a lot of questions isn’t always the best strategy. Getting information from young children can often feel like pulling teeth, and it’s not uncommon for kindergarteners to give very little information when you ask about their day. Instead, the first thing I would do would be to have a conversation with his teachers and elicit from them what they observe. Is he just having difficulty with some of the transitional moments or more unstructured times, or is he actually crying throughout the day? Another good option is to have a social worker or school psychologist come in and do an observation of your son. It could be unobtrusive and would provide you with some helpful objective data.
Using rewards to encourage the brave behavior that you want to see can also be helpful. Simply using verbal encouragement can be very effective. Compliment him when you notice him doing something brave (for example, “Great job getting out of the car and walking into the school!”) Verbal encouragement like this helps your son feel good and promotes healthy self-esteem while also reinforcing the behaviors that you want to see from him. You might also come up with slightly more elaborate rewards for goals that your son is working towards. For example, you can set the goal that your son talk to someone at lunch and then each time he talks to someone at lunch he will get a sticker. After earning five stickers he can get a prize that you have both agreed on. You can also use any feedback that you get to help set goals for your son. For example if you hear he likes one particular boy at school, you can make playing with that boy a goal.
The bottom line is that, as a mother, your emotions are going to be pulled when you hear your child say he’s sad and he misses you. Take a step back and get some objective information from his teachers and other people at the school. Knowing more will put you in a better position to decide what to do next.
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Chris Lastovicka
composer + music designer
Music for Opera & Choir
How Birds Sing – for women’s choir, string quartet, double bass & piano
Melodia Women’s Choir of NYC; Cynthia Powell, conductor; The Transfiguration Quintet; Taisiya Pushkar, piano.
Notes Upon the Breeze
1. How Birds Sing read poem (2:18)
https://chrislastovicka.com/music/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/1.-How-Birds-Sing.mp3
2. Drops in the Bucket read poem (2:35)
https://chrislastovicka.com/music/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/2.-Drops-in-the-Bucket.mp3
3. Distance read poem (2:35)
https://chrislastovicka.com/music/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/3.-Distance.mp3
SSA | 2 vln, vla, vc, db, pno
Poetry by Kay Ryan
Dur: 7.5 min
Commissioned by Melodia Women’s Choir of NYC.
Chris Lastovicka rehearsing the premiere of “Ryan Songs” with conductor Philip Silvey. Eastman School of Music
Ryan Songs
1. Why We Must Struggle read poem (3:16)
https://chrislastovicka.com/music/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Why-We-Must-Struggle.mp3
2. Gaps read poem (3:37)
https://chrislastovicka.com/music/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Gaps.mp3
3. Say Uncle read poem (2:25)
https://chrislastovicka.com/music/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Say-Uncle.mp3
Eastman Women’s Chorus; Philip Silvey, conductor; Emily Luce, Sarah Korath, solosts; Miclen LaiPeng, Michael Perry, violins; Ian Greenberg, Philip Lee, cellos; Jacinda Ripley, trumpet; Bevin Fleming, french horn; HyoungJin Kim, piano.
SSA | 2 vln, 2 vc, tpt, hn, pno
Composed for Eastman Women’s Chorus.
https://chrislastovicka.com/music/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Icarus-2561.mp3
University of Cincinnati Women’s Chorus; Stephanie Mitchell, conductor; students from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music; Chris Lastovicka, piano.
“As Icarus flew higher, he heard drums.
He could see, feel, smell, finally even taste percussion.”
—E.M. Lauricella
SSA | 2 vln, vla, 2 vc, db, tpt, hn, pno
Dur: 5:15 min
Commissioned by the University of Cincinnati Women’s Chorus.
Crossing the Horizon – chamber opera about UFO abduction
Cynthia Katsarelis, conductor; Kimberly Tobola, soprano; Diana Cataldi, mezzo-soprano; Laura Backley, contralto; Eric Bates, Lara Theilmann-Messerly, violins; Robert Garcia, french horn; Christina Coletta, Heidi Mausbach, Damon Gray, cellos; Chris Lastovicka, piano.
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Introduction to my blog
What does “research-based” mean?
← Detroit ruins: Celebration or predation?
Streets can be good places for business and pleasure →
Posted on 13 September 2012 | 1 Comment
I’ll be away until late October and, since this blog is devoted to research-based analysis and commentary, I’ll take a break from posting, because there won’t be any time for research. Meanwhile, you might want to catch up on some blog entries from the past that you might have missed.
Why we love cities, even while we tell ourselves we hate them
What has globalization done to democracy?
From Henry Ford to Walmart: How North America went from innovation with labour to innovation against labour
Does mixed-income housing ameliorate poverty?
Does it make sense to build a highway through River Heights?
Why local governments can’t be trusted to regulate city growth
How is global political action organized? A list for your consideration
The last entry is about globally networked community organizations, such as Oxfam, the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights, the David Suzuki Foundation, and many, many others. For some time after I posted this blog entry, I got suggestions from readers for organizations I had overlooked. I haven’t heard from anyone on this topic for awhile, but I’ll bet there are more than I’ve listed. Please help if you can.
This entry was posted in Global communities, Global political action, Researchers' corner, The age of community. Bookmark the permalink.
One response to “Time out”
Richard van Abbe | 13 September 2012 at 4:29 pm | Reply
Saw this on Tweeter, Chris.
Have a terrific trip
(but stay the hell out of Libya).
-Richard
NOTES ON THINGS THAT INTEREST, CONCERN OR ALARM ME
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Finance specialists look at climate change from the viewpoint of insurance, and see nothing but risk.
How cars waste space: These graphics illustrate the little-noticed price we all pay for auto dominance of city streets.
Save the whales, save the planet: Really?
The history of Detroit since the ’60s is a microcosm of the ills of American cities.
Little-known fact: The idea of a guaranteed basic income for everyone has been advocated by ultra-conservative Milton Friedman for decades and continues to be advocated by some Conservatives in Canada today.
Should the standard be “no means no” or “yes means yes”? A thoughtful discussion.
Oops. Oregon State University foresters cut down a 420-year-old Douglas fir. They did it on purpose, but they regret it now.
Publicly-owned banks: An idea whose time has come? Ten California cities are considering it.
Oregon governor sends state police to round up legislators who have gone into hiding to duck a vote on a climate bill,
Karl Marx would have felt vindicated: As wealth grows, so does poverty.
Why ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft can’t make money even though they’ve broken the taxi monopoly.
Where are the public spaces for teen girls?
Can cities ever reach zero waste? That critically important achievement depends on generating demand, this article argues.
How big business is hedging against the apocalypse: Investors are finally paying attention to climate
change — though not in the way you might hope.
This graphic dramatically demonstrates how deeply school shootings have penetrated the consciousness of Americans.
Portland’s racist history haunts modern earthquake safety policy.
How self-driving cars can cause traffic snarls. Cruising costs less than parking.
What does Amazon want from us? Stacy Mitchell, who knows only too well, says EVERYTHING.
Telling it like it is: “Seventy years of taxpayer-subsidized, auto-centric sprawl have created a nation of clogged highways, urban decay, segregated neighbourhoods, obesity, loneliness, isolation and ugliness.”
Public libraries have developed affordable housing in New York, Chicago and San Francisco. Is this an idea whose time has come?
An empty world, or overcrowded? A fascinating map tool from the Smithsonian institute.
School streets: Keeping our kids safe. An idea we should be considering in North America.
Winnipeg’s own New Flyer Industries scores electric bus success where others have failed.
Right-wing fake news: “I’m not a conspiracy-theory-type person…” said Ms. C______, a former member of the National Organization of Women. Read this and watch as she gets sucked in.
Toronto banned cars from a major downtown artery. Result: huge increases in transit ridership and cycling.
The Koch brothers vs. public transportation.
Sleeping rough, sheltering in garbage bins: If you don’t see them, they get tipped in.” …and suffer a grisly death.
At last administrative orthodoxy catches up with a reality most of us noticed a long time ago: public works, like bridges or public buildings, always cost more than advertised.
Another wild animal attack. Are they catching on that we’re not as scary as they thought?
Here’s an example of the practical consequences of the fortress theory of urban design.
Trying to deal with the scourge of plastic bags. Is asking nicely an option? Looks like we need a stonger state.
Do kids benefit from leaving Mom at home? Here’s what research says.
Should Indian citizens thank the Supreme Court for overruling politicians? Their lungs say Yes.
How liberal cosmopolitan elites sour on democracy and become supporters of military rule.
Hormone-disrupting chemicals found in hair products for black women.
Employers complain about labour shortages. So why don’t they raise wages?
Growth of pedestrian traffic in U.S. cities is stimulating second thoughts about permitting cars to turn right on red.
Ontario pays for lies, or, at best, costly half-truths about energy costs.
Shopping for segregated housing in Chicago, but being careful not to say so.
“As gun violence spikes, Toronto faces a reckoning on the root causes of tragedy.” Excelllent long-form article looks at social, economic, political, law enforcement and public health costs.
Finding ways of increasing the supply of housing in existing neighbourhoods.
Shenzhen becomes the first city to electrify its entire fleet of buses. When will the rest of us catch up?
Cities experience congestion because they’re successful, but they have parking problems. Does Donald Shoup have the solution for them?
While the rich get richer… This article could be the opening skirmish in a battle that must be fought.
Two cultural revolutions that have shaped our lives since the 1960s.
What’s the value of an urban tree canopy? The US Forest Service makes a persuasive case that it’s a lot.
Why women’s safety is a political issue and why it should be a first-order concern in city planning.
Battling traffic and pollution: Here’s how they did it in Madrid, Paris and Montreal.
The proliferation of fare-free public transit in Europe, China, Australia, South America and (gasp!) the US.
Energy-efficiency in new buildings is critical, but what about old buildings? We can’t (and don’t want to) tear them all down. Here’s New York’s solution.
Why men and boys walk more than women and girls, why that’s a problem, and what to do about it.
The Washington Post teams up with a policy institute to form The World Post. With newspapers everywhere going out of business, this is a venture worth watching.
While Canada revels in prosperity, peace, and order, the hamlet of Pangnirtung in Nunavut languishes in post-colonial hell.
Why monopoly power is worrisome, and what the US could do about it. Is Canada, ironically, too small?
The creation and subsequent detection of new drugs: A cat-and-mouse game with potentially deadly consequences.
Attracting more riders to public transit: How Minneapolis increased ridership on its A Line by 30 per cent.
Since 1986 “an incomprehensible 88 children between 10 and 14 have killed themselves.” Read this long piece carefully. It will make you cry.
The Toronto van attack in the eyes of Muslim haters: A revealing glimpse into alt-right fantasyland.
Is it time to get serious about curbing monopoly power?
Why is oil so powerful in Canadian politics? Kevin Taft argues it’s not about oil revenue.
Unholy alliance: Mass shootings bring out trolls and conspiracy theorists.
How to fight climate change without coming on like an over-privileged, self-righteous jerk.
How does gun violence lead to privatization of city sidewalks? Kansas City knows.
“Transit costs visible money, cars cost hidden money.”: A fascinating, impressively well-informed discussion about what it takes to plan good transit service in an automobile-dominated society.
Racism and hatred are alive and well: Vandals are attacking memorials to victims of the Nazi regime.
When historic preservation clashes with housing affordability: A well-informed discussion, using the example of Seattle.
Seattle achieves impressive growth in transit ridership. How? By investing. Meanwhile, Winnipeg Transit suffers Manitoba disinvests.
“Tough luck, kid”: How Americans are off-loading the costs of infrastructure maintenance on their children and grandchildren. It’s the same story in Canada.</a
Portland, Oregon, leads an American movement to block expansion of fossil fuel facilities.
The Brady list: A secret list of Los Angeles police officers with records of misconduct.<
A London report sets out the case for investment in high streets— walkable main streets with shops, restaurants and public spaces.
Sexual assault and unwanted sexual advances in Canada, by the numbers.
Municipal planning policies can make housing more affordable — even in Vancouver
Toronto’s effort to speed up transit is giving a big boost to transit ridership..
Is technology killing jobs, or is it the monopoly power of the likes of Amazon?
I thought my former home, the US, had hit rock bottom when President Nixon’s credibility was so low that he felt the need to proclaim ”I’m not a crook.” What am I to think when President Trump has to reassure the public he’s not mentally unbalanced?
The future is coming. Arrive prepared. A fascinating discussion of the coming impact of technology on society. For example: Humans and machines are already merging. Will the same thing happen to the genders?
Sly humour as art: A collection of deliberately inconvenient everyday objects by Athens-based architect Katerina Kamprani. To see the title of each item hover over it with your cursor.
Attention new home buyers: The formidable advantages of geothermal power and heating are often overlooked.
Five road signs that let you know pedestrian safety is low on the list of priorities.≈
How big a problem is the monopolistic power of such tech giants as Facebook, Google and Amazon? Is resistance building?
Uber is to taxis what the sexual revolution was to sex work: The amateurs are ruining the business. I’m rooting for the pros.
Platform capitalism: A political theory for the digital age.
A transportation engineer argues that many of his colleagues who are responsible for road safety are acting unethically.
Why sprawl is a bigger problem when growth is slow.
Although most of us shop at the likes of Walmart and Costco by necessity, I prefer to shop at small, local businesses. If you feel the way I do, click here for a quick rundown on the reasons why small business is good for the community and a succinct list of policies to support it.
Is obscene inequality a necessary by-product of capitalism? Insightful observations from McKinsey and Company.
The north won the American Civil War, and advocates of slavery lost, but in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the Confederacy wins the propaganda war.
Why women had better sex under socialism: New York Times offers a really interesting take on modern history, and a lesson in the value of interventionist govrernance.
Laying out roads before they’re needed: A thoughtful discussion on managing urban growth.
Public ownership seems to be making a comeback in the UK and elsewhere.
Rising seas: Here’s what happens to hundreds of American coastal communities when global climate change causes rising sea levels.
The suburbanization of poverty and the consequences of hiding deprivation in affluent places.
#FakeNews recalls a long, dark history of European and North American anti-semitism, which remains very real today.
Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau has given up on proportional representation. Have you? Want to know more about it? This article from a US environmental advocacy group provides clear explanations of my favourite PR system and links to a wealth of supplementary material.
Why did the word “monopoly”, referring to big business, fall out of fashion? Should it have?
The north won the American
Civil War, and advocates of slavery lost, but in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the confederacy, and with it, slavery, win the propaganda war.
What happens when an environmental issue is also a social justice issue? Will environmentalists stand up for people of colour?
Finance, technology, impoverishment, and housing costs: Nine things the real estate industry doesn’t want you to know.
Could a modified version of the much-maligned immigrant investor program ease Vancouver’s housing crisis?
The spread of carbon pricing worldwide. An animated map tells a good-news story.
As autonomous vehicles proliferate, what happens to professional drivers? With the entrenchment of digital technology, we’ll be asking ourselves that queston about a lot of jobs.
Do charter schools promote racial segregation? The Atlantic says yes. Brookings Institution says the real problem is poverty, but racial segregation is a by-product.
Want to stop messing around and get serious about reducing carbon emissions? Take an example from Texas.
The overworked women of America’s rust belt: Victims of the decline of manufacturing and rise of opiod use.
Fires, mass faintings in Cambodian garment factories, a story that keeps repeating itself.
Is failure to address social exclusion providing support for President Trump’s anti-immigration rhetoric?
Can a non-profit survive in high-rent San Francisco? HealthRIGHT does it. Here’s how.
Rural poverty, joblessness: This well-written piece from North Carolina tells a typical story.
On the Columbia and Snake rivers, Sockeye Salmon are hauled around dams on barges. Is this unique to the US, or is it a common practice? It’s controversial.
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Is Amazon hollowing out local economies? An assessment of the problem and what to do about it.
Will Seattle succeed in checkmating NIMBY? The city government’s objective is to consider a broad range of interests — eg. renters and homeless people, as well as homeowners — in making development decisions. (When the link opens, scroll down.)
Will “ride-sharing” services like Uber promote road-pricing and strengthen public transportation in North American cities? Possibly, but, any way you slice it, they’re cheap labour. Dark times for cabbies.
Universal Basic Income (we used to call it Guaranteed Annual Income) may abolish want, but what will we do about bad jobs, and abusive employers?
Does Trump have the power to derail rational climate policies? Maybe not.
Are fracking and earthquakes really connected? An admirably concise summary of what’s known.
How to turn a bus stop into a place you actually want to visit: A Singapore neighbourhood blazes new trails in urban design.
Can police do their job without appearing as an occupying army in poor neighbourhoods? Stop and frisk vs. gang policing.
What should the working class do, now that globalization and automation have reduced them to penury? Here’s Barbara Ehrenreich’s answer. Click here for a related comment.
Unionize Uber? Can workers in the so-called sharing economy win the right to exercise some control over their earnings and working conditions?
Is the high cost of real estate attributable to a seismic shift in the global financial system?
Can improved housing address poverty? Yes and no: Chicago’s experience.
No country left behind: The case for focussing greater attention on the world’s poorest countries.
Are we doing our kids a favour by wrapping them up in cotton batting? The case for riskier playgrounds.
Concerns over refugees have dominated public discourse, but what about regular immigrants? Will their growing affluence undermine public transportation?
What will happen to Hispanic communities like Chicago’s Little Village in the Trump era?
Winter city design: At last someone’s thinking about what’s appropriate in a winter city, instead mindlessly copying whatever is fashionable in California.
Malevolence tempered by incompetence: A highly security-conscious commentator’s judgement on the Trump refugee/visa policies.
Vision Zero (elimination of traffic deaths) comes to Portland. Here’s Portland’s plan..
How Vancouver became North America’s car-free capital: A really well-done short video, informative viewing for anyone with an interest in cities. Click to start video, click again for full screen.
The fading dream of a borderless Europe: Implications for asylum, mutual trust, security and the rule of law.
What do electric vehicles do for the environment overall? The answer may surprise you, but Manitoba comes up smelling like a rose.
My former student Martine August, who’s way too smart to worry about other people’s opinions, views mixed-income housing ratber differently than I do.
Making the trains run on time? A closer look at fascist and authoritarian (as well as Trumpian?) claims of efficiency.
The real costs of resource development in Canada’s Peace River Valley: Excerpt from a new book. A real eye-opener.
A company called Wendover Productions offers videos that provide an intriguing variety of explanations of how the world works.
Will a new study supporting supervised drug injection sites persuade New York to join Vancouver and other cities in providing more help for street people?
Impressive vacant buildings in American cities, an unfortunate byproduct of unwillingness to invest the resources necessary to preserve America’s heritage.
Does sprawl make housing affordable? A well-informed discussion for people with a serious interest in cities.
Democracy Now has long presented often underreported news from a left perspective, but what hit me between the eyes today was how angry American politics has become.
Portland, Oregon, is requiring deconstruction of buildings instead of demolition. Here’s why and how.
Londoners want to limit development of highrise towers.
Why has it taken me this long to discover this thoughtful, melancholy reflection on where we come from and where we’ve gone?
If/when Britain leaves the European Union, bankers threaten to take their business elsewhere.
Trump vs. Clinton: What are Americans thinking? Here’s a serious attempt to answer the question.
At the University of Texas, you’re allowed to carry a gun, but not to brandish a dildo, on campus.
US moves to end use of private prisons. A refreshing antidote to the myth that private enterprise is better at everything.
Cities that are removing cars from the city centre: Madrid, Paris, Chengdu, Hamburg…
A Harvard professor discusses how the internet could be governed, without the involvement of governnents. A 21st Century policy discussion if ever there was one.
Are labour unions becoming irrelevant in an affluent society? Here’s an excellent, research-based discussion.
Rural poverty in Stilwell, Oklahoma: A well-written piece that portrays lives more typical than rhetoric about the American way would have you think.
Blood and Earth: How shockingly common slavery is in our world, what can be done about it, and how doing that will help resolve other issues
Corruption isn’t an occasional feature of the Olympics, it’s endemic, says The Atlantic.
The introduction of ride-sharing using autonomous cars enhances Pittsburgh’s reputation as a leader in robotic technology.
A German graduate student, writing a thesis on nomadic living, lives on a train, because it’s cheaper than rent.
Unpaving roads instead of paving them appears to be a trend in, of all places, the United States.
Trump’s gamble — and that of the American people: A president doesn’t need an attention span, only the ability to forge compromises.
Sorriest bus stop: Streetsblog USA is running a contest for America’s sorriest bus stop. These sample entries will make you laugh to keep from crying.
Will Seattle drivers who work for ride-share companies Uber and Lyft become unionized workers?
Why political life is so addictive: A Kenyan journalist’s perspective on a phenomenon that, as he makes clear, is a regular feature of political life in both Africa and North America.
What happens to the suburban lifestyle when the suburbanites are aging baby boomers? A thoughtful, non-dogmatic discussion.
Hauling kids around on bikes: It’s not as hard as you think. A photo essay.
The sprawl tax: How urban sprawl drives up the cost of living — a problem that economists usually ignore.
The migration wave: Young and poor descend upon the aging rich. A thoughtful analysis from Yale Global.
Liberty Pedestrian Bridge: A visionary plan for a New Jersey-New York pedestrian bridge — with cafes, retail spaces, solar panels, artwork and free wi-fi! — is drawing some supportive commentary.
Walkable urban neighbourhoods, with lively streets and a variety of transportation options, are proving to be economic development magnets in cities of all sizes.
Trump’s seven infrastructure myths. The most important thing about this article is not the demolition of myths, but the insight it offers into American (and Canadian) infrastructure woes.
The high cost of “free” parking: We all pay for it. Poor people pay, even if they don’t own a car.
With more than 80% of the world and more than 99% of the U.S. and Europe living under light polluted skies, the world atlas of artificial sky luminance looks like a timely project.
Dragging their heels all the way, American state road engineers reluctantly recognize the importance of walking and cycling as modes of transportation.
Is laissez-faire Houston — the only North American city without zoning — poised to become a well-planned city?
Good riddance: London supermarkets are building on what used to be parking lots. Surprisingly, one of the drivers of this trend is increased on-line shopping.
For four years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, train cars loaded with contaminated meat rolled around the western USSR trying to find a community to accept the meat. A fascinating glimpse into 1980s life in the Soviet Union.
How Thatcherism crushed the aspirations of Britain’s white working class. A thought-provoking piece in The Guardian.
When will we give up on the illusion that we’ll benefit from lower government spending regardless of the consequences? Is Justin Trudeau steering Canada off the path of that illusion?
Atlanta’s Beltline, a 25-year project to develop a walking, cycling and eventually streetcar trail encircling the inner city, is drawing admiring commentary. But will it do anything to counter Atlanta’s legendary sprawl?
Boston, struggling with the problem of providing late-night transit service, falls afoul of civil rights legislation.
Taking advantage of a well-designed, but poorly-managed street system, San Diego is trying to accommodate cyclists and pedestrians.
Good news for Winnipeg’s heritage and arts communities: An abandoned Logan Avenue church is to be renovated to become a performing arts space called The Valiant Theatre.
Animated maps vividly show the American history of sprawl from downtown density to barren city centres and densifying suburbs.
The long, ugly history of lead: It was marketed energetically for a century, even though it was known to be poisonous.
Clean energy investment by the numbers: Bloomberg.com takes a data-rich look at how clean energy was faring by the end of 2015. Is the picture they paint too optimistic?
Low oil prices are supposed to stimulate economic growth. Instead, we have cheap oil and economic stagnation. In the kind of research-rich journalism we need a lot more of, Andrew Nikiforuk calls this situation a “civilization shrinker”.
Don’t demonize driving, just stop subsidizing it.
Should cities create a special district for 24/7 business and entertainment? Amsterdam’s “night mayor” says Yes.
Portland, Oregon, Is the first U.S. city to make protection the default for all new bike lanes.
What you need to know about Hyperloop a radical new passenger and freight transportation technology that has some heavyweight backers. It’ll be interesting to see if anything comes of it.
The biggest blind spot of urban greens: zoning. The argument this article makes refers to Cascadia, but it applies equally to the rest of Canada and the U.S.
In the United States, are African Americans and Latinos ahead of the population as a whole in supporting climate policy solutions?
With governments preparing to regulate driverless cars, they’re on the way to becoming a social, economic, and legal reality — but they leave us with a host of question marks. Here’s a brief overview of the issues we face.
Perfect, boring Silicone Valley has run out of ideas. Look for fresh thinking in diverse, tumultuous Brooklyn.
How do neighbourhoods decline? Very informative article moves beyond case studies to an understanding of factors that exacerbate or counter decay in different circumstances. Main points are summarized here.
Is East Africa becoming even poorer? Straight talk about politics and the economy from Isaac Mwangi.
Bus seats and bike helmets: If we hope to go on living sustainably, we’ll have to re-think thousands of things. Here are two examples.
Your British Columbia: A huge collection of gorgeous photos from left coast publication The Tyee.
A Columbia economics professor offers an argument for solar subsidies aimed at American conservatives. (For more information about the collapse of Solyndra, mentioned by Professor Ho, click here.
The woman who made New York a bike-friendly city.
Ten traffic myths: Why the reasoning behind them is wrong.
What happens to the bodies of homeless people? Most of us haven’t even thought about that. Copenhagen has, and has done something about it.
By 2050, there will be more plastic than fish in the world’s oceans.
$7.5 million or much, much more: That’s what it costs for a condo in the sky next to Manhattan’s Central Park.
Stockholm levies a congestion charge on motorists driving in high-traffic areas, and is considering rebating some of the revenue to programs benefitting cyclists.
There’s no point banning ride-sharing services like Uber. Regulate them instead.
Highway 401 near Toronto
A San Francisco Bay area mobility expert considers eight traffic reduction policies and the pros and cons of each.
The world turned upside-down, in a good way: An environmentalist publication from Cascadia admiringly enumerates the main points of a program that establishes Alberta’s environmental leadership.
If you’ve been hearing about the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon, and you’re tempted to think Americans are all crazy, you might be interested in a view from the Oregon mainstream.
The Guardian newspaper takes a thoughtful look at arguably Canada’s most culturally diverse neighbourhood, and my favourite, the Central Park area in Winnipeg.
Rebuilding downtown. A guidebook for revitalization. This useful guide stresses the importance of equity and community engagement.
Fight for $15 We live in the wealthiest society in world history. When are we going to admit to ourselves that some hard-working people, living amid that wealth, can’t feed their families?
Bad street design kills people. The bad design referred to is the kind most often recommended by traffic engineers. Click on the links in the article for good supporting data.
A short history of global emissions from fossil fuel burning: A fascinating video that uses an animated map of the world to show how the causes of global warming have proliferated in Europe, the Americas and Asia.
When you shop at Amazon, you’re not getting as big a bargain as you think. Here’s an infographic account of the real costs.
Using prisons to give the appearance of job creation.
Retrofitting the walkable city: Seattle’s sidewalk-building program. A readable article that delivers a quick lesson on ways to build affordable sidewalks.
A CEO’s guide to gender equality: A corporate think tank acknowledges the persistence of gender bias, explains it, and suggests remedies. Geena Davis offers some astute observations on gender bias in media.
Grappling with homelessness: Portland, Oregon follows Los Angeles, Seattle and Hawaii in declaring a homelessness emergency. Some time ago, a Canadian source pointed to problems of the vulnerably housed.
Lac Mégantic (click to enlarge)
Are Canadian oil train shipments to the U.S. on the increase? If so Americans are noticing.
Climate change gets personal. It comes to Crescent Beach, South Surrey, British Columbia, Canada (and elsewhere).
Urban farms fill some of Cleveland’s empty spaces while helping to settle refugees. Can this project serve as a model?
Dealing creatively with excessive surface parking downtown — a problem many North American cities share. Despite many recent successful efforts, Winnipeg is no exception.
Return of the age of miracles: Winnipeg’s municipal government, traditionally so secretive that I used to liken it to the Kremlin, appears to be serious about consulting the public in drawing up the next budget. My advice: Browse the web site and share your views.
In New Jersey, they’re talking about the money they wasted by building too many roads —a discussion that’s long overdue in Winnipeg, where, as well we can’t maintain our older streets because we’re building too many new ones.
Why was there a spike in pregnancies during Sierra Leone’s Ebola crisis? Here are some illuminating personal accounts.
Hazardous oil trains: The risks to the U.S. Pacific Northwest from oil train lines and terminals in North Dakota and Alberta. Riveting photos illustrate an informative account.
Surging seas: A map tool that vividly pictures the impact of different degrees of global warming on our cities. Here’s a summary video.
Should we mourn gentrification? Here’s a look at the issue that contradicts the usual narrative. See also Why gentrification is a non-issue in Winnipeg and why that matters.
Road engineers like to threaten city councils with economy-killing congestion if they don’t build freeways. Here’s a response to that argument from Canada’s most attractive city.
São Paulo: Is economic recession threatening progress toward bureaucratic transparency, greater mobility, spatial inclusiveness, and environmental sustainability?
Varieties of participation: A masterful conceptualization of what’s involved in achieving optimum levels of public participation in government decision-making.
When planners promise safe streets, are they considering pedestrians and cyclists? Apparently not.
The United House of Prayer in Washington, D.C. opposes a bike lane on grounds of religious freedom.
The School of Life: How to make an attractive city. A thought-provoking, 14-minute YouTube that’s packed with interesting insights.
Real estate speculation in Vancouver leaves empty houses, and demolished houses in its wake.
Uber, the ride-sharing company, is bound to have a major impact on urban transportatlion. What challenges will it pose for city planners, and how can they meet them?
Compared with 1960, Americans in poverty today are more likely to be westerners, children, city dwellers, and in their prime working years, as well as black, Hispanic, or both.
Minimum wages in many countries look a little bit better when purchasing power is taken into account, but they’re still egregiously low. A table near the end of this article summarises the data.
Affordable housing advocates in high-rent American cities like Seattle, Boston, Denver, D.C., San Francisco, and New York City are battling to secure the enactment of promising policies to house people of limited means.
An American campaign to promote healthy lifestyles through improved urban design.
Food shortages drive an increase in African urban farming.
Professional sport generates traffic that all but mandates transit service, so why don’t the teams help pay for it?
Ever wonder why you’re surfing potholes everywhere you go? Here are three reasons.
The story of one Yazidi refugee family, 29 people living together for 10 months in an unfinished building, as told by the Mennonite Central Committee, my favourite charity.
When even chic urbanites have to worry about adapting to tiny apartments, you know real estate is getting too expensive.
Planners call programs designed to reduce the street space devoted to cars “road diets”. Here’s how and why they work to everyone’s advantage.
Island Lakes (click to enlarge)
In Winnipeg, road access to newer residential neighbourhoods is designed to discourage traffic. Here’s why that’s a mistake.
Gender mainstreaming: Planning cities so that they serve women and men equally well. A comprehensive European web site that’s loaded with information and policy advice.
Could we tackle the North American infrastructure crisis by imposing a per-mile (-kilometre) driving fee? This article makes the case for the U.S.
How energy companies evade responsibility for deadly oil field accidents.
Vision Zero — the reduction of traffic fatalities to nil — is gaining ground in jurisdictions from Sweden to Los Angeles. How does it work? A clear, straightforward explanation.
Will autonomous cars change the role and value of public transportation? Speculations about our likely future.
Our ancestors:
A statue in Portsmouth, England, commemorating the many emigrants who left Portsmouth and Southhampton to start new lives in North America. By extension, they represent the ancestries of most North Americans, who arrived here after taking a leap in the dark.
American recycling is stalling, and the big blue bin is one reason why.
How New Orleans stopped making jailing a business.
E before I: London’s deputy mayor for transport explains why it’s important to engage the public in the planning of infrastructure.
Is Houston waking up to the reasons for the infrastructure deficit? Houstonians see the folly of debt-financed sprawl, even if their leaders don’t.
Good Jobs First: An American web site that tracks government subsidies to business. The site promotes economic development that benefits communities.
The “dark store” strategy: How big box stores extract money from municipal governments.
Toronto’s Tower Renewal Project includes green retrofitting and rezoning to enliven surrounding streets with street-level commerce. Will it be enough?
Fewer Americans are riding the bus because there are fewer buses to ride.
What happens to you if you’re poor: This map, showing the hourly wage needed to rent a two-bedroom apartment in each American state is an eye-opener.
Mobility Lab: An informative web site to help free commuters from dependence on automobiles.
Desperate measures: Officials struggle to keep the regressive property tax viable in distressed neighbourhoods.
Saving a public housing project that was all but given up for lost: The story of Lord Selkirk Park in Winnipeg.
Oil train explosions: A timeline in pictures. A disturbing reminder of something we all need to worry about.
Police crackdowns on impoverished, violent American urban neighbourhoods: Order imposed by police becomes the cure that kills.
This place matters: The US National Trust for Historic Preservation has launched an ingenious campaign, using social media to get people involved in identifying places that matter to them.
Here’s a place that matters to Winnipeg: The Forks, commemorating the centuries during which the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine has been a meeting-place and marking the point at which Winnipeg stopped turning its back on the rivers.
Telling truth in hope of reconciliation: Here’s a broadcast every Canadian should listen to. It’s riveting.
Who pays for American roads? How the “users pay” myth gets in the way of solving transportation problems.
Can the recent Alberta election bring proportional representation to Canada?
Winnipeg City Councillor Janice Lukes is right about the City of Winnipeg’s communication system, and the consequences of its failures are far-reaching.
Instead of municipalities competing with each other for “one big deal”, urban regions should identify their collective competitive advantages and build on them to evolve a regional development program.
The politics of solar energy: U.S. utility companies spring into action to defend themselves against the proliferation of rooftop solar panels.
Think of the Canadian Human Rights Museum as an add-on: Interesting advice for Winnipeg and Manitoba tourism officials from well-written Winnipeg blog The View From Seven.
Vancouver faces a scramble for land as it promotes density in the interest of affordable housing and more viable transit.
Sharing economy: How co-ops figure in the recovery of such distressed areas as New Orleans, Rochester and Cleveland.
Public markets are doing well over all, but some are endangered by supermarkets, war, and more. Here is a report on endangered markets in Syria, Mexico, Vietnam, and Egypt.
Toronto, which has Canada’s highest rate of working poverty, has also reversed the time honoured North American pattern of suburban affluence and inner-city decay. In the Toronto region, poverty is worst in the suburbs. For details click here and here and here.
Intriguing evidence that wide one-way streets have higher accident rates, and possibly crime rates, as well as lower real estate values than two-way streets.
Here’s an important book: The greening of Asia: The business case for resolving Asia’s environmental emergency: Asia’s future is the future of us all.
Pittsburgh is adopting a complete streets policy. What’s that, what have other cities learned, and why should Winnipeg follow their example?
Why young people who are keenly interested in public policy don’t vote.
Cab drivers as cheap labour? Portland, Oregon, moves carefully as it tries to adapt its regulations for taxis and ride-sharing to competition from ride-sharing app companies Uber and Lyft.
“Polluters pay” bills before the Oregon House call for the proceeds to be used to mail out cheques to taxpayers and their dependents.
Designing a new approach to scarce water resources. Here’s how California’s water problem is pushing this shift. The Arid Lands Institute deals with problems like California’s.
Are driverless cars a realistic substitute for rapid transit?
Large-scale production of public utilities and centralised sanitation networks made the modern city as we know it. Are we now starting to shift toward more localized production of the services we all need? A clear, succinct, scholarly assessment.
Walmartification of the US: What are the implications of Walmart’s massive building spree for the environment, the grocery business, and independent business generally?
What can bike lanes do for social equity? There’s no definitive answer to this question, but you’ll find an interesting, factually informed discussion here.
China’s slash and burn approach to urban development leaves both victims and beneficiaries in its wake.
A state public servant learned the hard way that Florida is in denial about climate change
Shall we make our cities friendlier for cyclists by ensuring they can be served at drive-through windows? Salt Lake City says yes, but the state of Utah prepares to overrule the city.
Everyone wants to be the new Dubai. So far, Belgrade, Serbia; Machakos, a largely rural area in Kenya, and Edmonton (Alberta, Canada) have jumped on the bandwagon. Who’s driving it, and what do they stand to gain?
Clear thinking about transit: Here’s a lucid, careful summary by engineer Curt Hull of some issues we need to think about if we care about efficient movement of people in a big city.
The frightening toll taken by oil train accidents. Oregon and Minnesota are trying to do something about it. Is it enough?
Click on picture.
Source: Seattle Times.
It looks like a significant amount of U.S. job growth is beginning to shift from suburbs to city centres.
What has British Columbia’s carbon tax accomplished, and what results did it bring about? Ten takeaways from B.C.’s polluters-pay model.
Dutch provinces are considering developing a kind of bicycle expressway. It would be especially useful for e-bikes.
Why Americans should be worrying less about gentrification and more about concentrated poverty. Click on the Strong Towns podcast. On the same subject, check out this link.
Struggling to deal with homelessness in Los Angeles, Salt Lake City and Washington, D.C.
Time to end extreme inequality: Oxfam’s campaign to end the growing, and socially and economically damaging inequity in the distribution of income and wealth.
Trying to fix unemployment with on-line learning: The program appears to have merit, but the claims made for it are unrealistic.
The United States government is launching an ambitious public consultation about how to reform the American transportation system.
Apartheid in The City of Light: Paris confronts a legacy of racism and social exclusion that is built into to the very way the city is laid out.
Violence against aboriginal women starts with a hundred other terrible things that have happened to them. Stephen Harper take note: Murders of aboriginal women are not just crimes, they’re “sociological phenomena”.
Source: Urbanful.org
Could tent cities be the magic bullet for housing the homeless? Certainly not, but this is an informative article, with links to interesting and disturbing materials.
Are small businesses and retail workers discovering a common interest in battling the tyranny of big box work schedules?
Using affordable housing to attract artists to New York, Nashville and Minneapolis.
Is the US doing a better job than Canada of protecting Arctic lands from climate change?
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s popularity ratings hover above 80 per cent. Before you take those figures at face value, here are four things you should consider.
Housing and stores, not parking lots: How transit-oriented development (TOD) helped save Atlanta’s transit system.
The American NGO Good Jobs First makes a case for the proposition that urban sprawl is bad for labour unions.
Great source of information, and, for urbanists, a fun toy: The 2014 Global Metro Monitor Map provides a wealth of economic information about cities around the world.
How Harper created a more conservative Canada: A thought-provoking and worrisome, but scholarly assessment of the Harper agenda and changing Canadian values. (To start reading, scroll down a page-and-a-half.)
Thanks to absentee ownership in Vancouver, renters live in a mansion, and get a deal on rent.
Many North American city centres have acres of empty parking spaces. Winnipeg is no exception, but it’s not as bad (click on picture) as it used to be.
Do street trees promote mental health? An intriguing finding
Mandatory composting of food waste comes to Vancouver. Wisely, they’ve phased it in gradually.
Average annual pay in Canada: 100 top CEOs, $9.2 million; all Canadians, $47,358. For more detail, click here.
Why Canadian hospitals outperform U.S. hospitals.
Designing roads for a higher “level of service” isn’t about safety. Click here for a thoughtful comment about what it takes to make streets really safe.
In terms of income inequality, New York resembles Swaziland, Chicago is comparable to El Salvador, and San Francisco to Madagascar. Look for that and more about inequality here.
Don’t try to tell a German bureaucrat that brevity is the soul of wit. Translation of the sign: “No parking motor vehicles or bicycles. Violators will be towed at owner’s expense.”
When a few innocents are slaughtered by a gunman, we are rightly outraged. It’s time to do more about the many thousands of highway deaths. Vision Zero: Engineering roads to save lives.
In Africa, thieves vandalize electrical transformers to drain PCB-laden oil, and then sell it as cooking oil. This is an example of the things that poverty brings into people’s lives.
More high rises, street art and shipping containers, and more decay: Eight pictures that capture how American cities changed in 2014.
Reality check: Prosperous cities need workers who can’t afford the available housing. Here’s what Paris is doing about the problem.
Washington State: Making polluters pay, and using the proceeds to fund education and transportation.
Davie Village: The LGDBQ capital of Vanvcouver.
Extra-judicial killings in Kenya? How deeply are Britain and Israel involved? A disturbing report from Al Jazeera English.
Now that Colorado has legalized pot, here’s what they’re doing to regulate it.
Richer and whiter: A picture tour of 50 years of gentrification in American cities.
Ban diesel-driven vehicles. ban all cars from some neighbourhoods, double the number of cycle lanes — and more. Looks like Paris is getting serious about the environment.
If you’re interested in urban development — as a developer, a planner, a government official, or a citizen — you need to know about form-based codes.
An Australian coal mining and energy company, with operations in Washington State, Montana, Oregon and Wyoming takes a bath, and so do its investors.
Despite what you may have heard, Detroit’s misfortune continues. It still faces a sea of troubles, including a UN investigation of alleged human rights abuses.
Gentrification, plutocratization, patrician ghettos: Are global cities turning into “vast, gated citadels”?
The ultimate urban survivors: feral cats. They look well fed. For more urban cat pictures, click here.
Here’s a single source for lots of easily accessible information about carbon pricing.
Know anyone on Winnipeg City Council who relies on council salary for income? Tell your councillor you support the city’s existing provisions for a modest severance allowance to keep her/him going while looking for another job — or prepare for a council of developers, well-off lawyers and business people.
Click on picture. Source: Ottawa Citizen.
Inside Kingston Penitentiary: An arresting collection of photos of the grey fortress on the Ontario lakeshore.
Cutbacks, cutbacks, cutbacks: We North Americans and west Europeans live in the wealthiest society in world history. Why is so much of our politics about cutbacks? (If you see ads when you click, scroll down.)
Interactive map of the best bus rapid transit systems in the world, together with an explanation of of the standards they meet.
Rental Housing Index: A community-based initiative tries to ease access to affordable housing.
Click on the map for a better look.
Despite some progress toward gender equality, women still suffer disproportionately from poverty, violence, inadequate housing, and a long list of other ills. Look up chapter and verse here.
Shed village: An unusual approach to homelessness, but one worth considering.
Don’t blink slowly: College tells female students to practice facial expressions in the mirror to avoid being raped.
Drowning migrants is good politics: A deeply disturbing piece about refugees trying for a safe haven in Europe, and about possible future policies toward migrants.
In New York City, pay phones will be replaced by “links”, offering free local calling and wi-fi, paid for by advertising, even in low-income neighbourhoods. It’ll be interesting to see whether and how this works.
“Violet Is an Anagram of Love It”: An art exhibit that comments on connections among homelessness, urban decay and sprawl.
A corporate consulting firm offers some sensible approaches to the world’s massive affordable housing problem.
More evidence that devastated American inner cities are recovering. But what happens when all these young people have children and become middle-aged?
A fascinating map, superimposed on a London subway map, showing, for each stop, the language (other than English) most spoken nearby.
How mental patients, pushed out of psychiatric hospitals, became burden on police and judges. Are the recent Canadian shootings a warning that North Americans are sweeping mental illness under the rug?
Baltimore’s moral crisis: Lots of homeless people, and a glut of vacant houses. Is it time to create a community land trust?
Jim Crow racist legislation from another era returns to Texas.
Infrastructure crises: Minnesota cities and towns are facing the same dilemmas we face in Winnipeg. In fact, the problem is North-America-wide.
The turncoat poet: A fascinating and disturbing account of the classic totalitarianism that rules North Korea under the Kim dynasty.
How resistance to a development proposal generated community action that led to the transformation of a derelict park into a much-loved public space. The story of Congress Square Park in Portland, Maine.
The carnage that follows when streets aren’t designed to accommodate pedestrians: A U.S. report with excellent resources and an action guide. We need something like this for Canada.
Data vacuum makes it hard to track poverty. Is this the real reason for the Harper government’s cancellation of the long-form census? (If you don’t have information about them, you may not have to help them.)
Strong Towns: A different take on what many of us have called the problem of sprawl. Will it succeed where we’ve failed? (Like other cities referred to in the Strong Towns web site,Winnipeg is headed for bankruptcy.)
Strong Towns: How to design safe streets for cars to use and kids to play in.
The homeless person who earned a Ph.D.: A remarkable story, with, apparently, important policy implications. When will we start listening?
Why are only one-quarter of American cyclists women? The answer has a lot to do with bike safety, but even more with gender. I expect it’s much the same story in Canada.
Google and Microsoft have figured out that favela residents aren’t necessarily as poor as you might think. As I noticed in Mathare Valley, Kenya, the appearance of such “slums” can be deceiving.
Mathare Valley (click on picture)
The problem politicians don’t want to talk about: What to do as wealth increases and the numbers of good jobs decline.
The Institute for Local Self-Reliance has been battling big box stores and other community destroyers for decades, and they may be getting somewhere.
The threat of prosecution, legal bills, low wages: The sad realities of life for most American whistleblowers.
Energy efficiency, attention to the plight of the poor, walkable streets: Some examples of what municipal leaders can achieve if they try.
The supermarket of the future has no packaging, says The Atlantic. Eco-conscious shopping that could save you money as well
How everyone gains, in financial and other terms, if we break the habit of sprawl. Placemakers makes the case..
Berlin, Germany, has developed strategy for preventing social segregation — the formation of exclusive districts for the wealthy and low-income ghettos.
The benefits that accrue to cities if they get rid of restrictions on secondary suites, also called granny flats — an additional residential unit within a single-family home.
Los Angeles commissions housing designed for homeless people. Right on. We live in the wealthiest society in world history. Why do we tolerate homelessness?
In this article about car companies trying to get with digital communications, the best news is that young people are less interested in cars than their forebears were.
Infill transit stations: one of the best ways to increase ridership, with little additional service, while helping to revitalize neighbourhoods, according to The Transport Politic, a very informative web site.
With climate change a certainty, a beautiful Rhode Island beach, sure to be inundated, has an end-of-days feel.
Can we get over our petroleum addiction the way our ancestors beat the slave trade? (Scroll down to “Naomi Klein says…” and click on “Listen”.)
Using storage units to bring a measure of security and stability to the lives of homeless people.
Wildleaks, a sort of Wikileaks for the environment, is launching an attack on poaching, illegal logging and the smuggling of wildlife products.
Is Latin America teaching us how to do rapid transit right? With buses?
Winnipeg mayoral candidate Judy Wasylycia-Leis says it will take decades to fix the infrastructure. She’s got that right. Look left for the whole story.
Cheap labour: Who are the worst offenders? Here are some answers for the US. It would be interesting to know what, if any, are the differences in Canada.
I’ll be sleeping out with CEOs Sept 18. To help people who sleep rough in the world’s second coldest city, go to http://bit.ly/1rG3W7s.
Why is ISIS, the blood-soaked, self-appointed Islamic State attracting followers, and fighters. from all over the world? A well-informed explanation in plain English.
Egalitarian society? Find out how wealth is distributed at a web site offering lots of information about income inequality in the US (with a nod to Canada).
The Calgary DJ who’s making money manufacturing commuter bicycles in Detroit.
Bloggers in jail: Vietnam is the world’s second largest prison for bloggers. China is the largest.
A metric bike-sharing systems should consider: Does the CO2 saved by driving the bikes outweigh the CO2 generated by vans that cart bikes from where they aren’t needed to where they are? Thankfully, in some cities at least, the answer is yes.
Some innovative companies are turning away from the bleakness of suburban “campuses” as they discover that urban environments generate synergies and support creativity.
Turning downtown into a good place for families: Here are some good ideas from Seattle.
Cities vs. Airbnb: A particularly interesting sideshow in the battle over the social and economic change spawned by the digital revolution.
University professors and high school teachers beware: It appears, in plain words, that this web site offers to disguise plagiarism.
What do European cities have that ours don’t? A European perspective.
The Guardian, an excellent British newspaper, faces the woes besetting newspapers everywhere in the age of the internet. One of its survival strategies involves doing the right thing — promoting sustainable living. Novel idea, eh?
Who pays when an Uber — the 21st Century alternative to taxis — has a fender bender? Another bump on the road to ride sharing.
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Do you agree with the business publication that said “…if the government would just get off our backs most of us would do okay…”? We need more (intelligent) regulation, not less, as we should have learned from Lac-Mégantic.
The changing workplace, and changing hours of work, are bringing big changes for Toronto commuters — and commuters elsewhere as well.
Will social change force us to rethink zoning and parking regulations?
The 10 best cities in the world for bicycling, according to The Active Times. Winnipeg doesn’t qualify for top 10 status, but it’s much improved in the last couple of years.
Poverty in the United States has become both more suburban and more concentrated.
The Canadian federal government has been forcing foreign aid NGOs to fight paper wars in the name of market efficiency, instead of concentrating on their good work. The same thing happened to immigration settlement NGOs in BC. Will the government think again?
This riveting video tells the story of Bete Desta, a Winnipeg-based aid organization that helps orphans and poor children in Korem, Ethiopia, while keeping them at home. To contribute, call 204-997-5358 or 204-334-0322.
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The changing workplace, and changing hours of work, are bringing big changes to Toronto’s commuter rail service, GO Transit.
Should public transit be free? Is it feasible? How much would it cost? What would be the consequences? Here are some answers.
Has a pharmaceutical giant figured out a way to overrule the Supreme Court of Canada? (The pdf may be a bit wonky, but it’s legible.)
Thanks to mobile technology, we’re a society immersed in our devices and ignoring each other. Mobile technology is eroding social life, right? Wrong, says the Project for Public Spaces.
The pricing of everything: A witty dissection of the natural capital agenda: the pricing, valuation, monetization and financialization of nature in order to save it.
Things are taking a turn for the better in troubled Africa: Extreme poverty and HIV are less widespread than they were and economically, Africa is the fastest-growing continent.
This article in the Huff Post is about revitalizing cities, but the most interesting thing about it is its account of how digital-age cities will differ from industrial cities
Despite the current emphasis on dirty oil from the tar sands, Canada also exports clean energy. Why not more the latter and less of the former?
Walkable Los Angeles? What’s going on? Actually, quite a lot. The tide is turning in favour of transit in some unlikely places. Question is: Are they building neighbourhoods or parking lots around the transit stops?
In the age of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, it seems almost subversive to say this, but government regulation does work, as we can see from this example in the on-line Atlantic of notable US success with fuel emission standards.
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Winnipeg signals its dislike of cyclists: In English, the sign implies they’re trying to deny cars the right to use the street. In French the implication is that bicycles aren’t vehicles. (Judging by behaviour, some drivers think of them as toys that shouldn’t be on the street.)
In Zimbabwe, as in much of the rest of the world, the urbanization of what used to be rural poverty isn’t improving conditions.
Bicycle commuting is on the increase in the US, but is it becoming a gilded ghetto on wheels?
The geometry of suburban sprawl signals its disconnection from the environment. Interesting pictures and comments.
American politics: Is the F-35 a case study in how to provide political cover for an indefensible policy? (Source: The FP Group: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/)
The ballooning cost of Winnipeg’s police headquarters. Have we been suckered again by the bait-and-switch? Follow the links to this deplorable history. It’s instructive.
Biomimicry: Developing sustainable technologies by imitating nature Explore the web pages at the links. They’re eye openers.
Feeding the headquarters beast: Médecins Sans Frontières charges the UN and NGOs are too focussed on risk aversion and securing funding to put the best effort into relief.
Trying to prevent the deadly Ebola virus from sweeping across West Africa. http://bit.ly/1k3Bmq7
The automobile-driven bureaucratic tangle San Francisco had to go through to get a path-breaking bus rapid transit line approved. Luckily, next time it’ll be easier.
New prescription for failing American urban neighbourhoods: Turn them into national parks.
An urban park needs the support of urban neighbourhoods, and vice versa.
Is transit the answer for congestion? A well-informed discussion of the answer to this question as it applies to the rapidly growing Research Triangle Region of North Carolina.
By this account, the so-called “inclusive cities” movement, has marked progress, but still has a long way to go.
The curbee, a device to make streets more bicycle friendly, originated in Copenhagen, and has now appeared in Chicago.
Microfinance: A good idea gone wrong, or unjustifiably slandered?
In Minneapolis, bike sharing is being managed by a non-profit, and apparently producing better results than private management companies. The idea that public services always improve when they’re delivered by businesses is as oversimplified as the idea that Big Brother knows best.
A tool to help citizens become engaged in development issues and to push for higher quality urban development: Accidental Skyline
Using urban design — such things as the location, form and orientation of buildings — to combat crime in Manchester, England.
Protecting farmland from urban development, and dealing with ensuing dilemmas: Use-Value Assessment of Rural Land in the United States
Robbers making their getaway on public transit. Apparently, it happens more than you might think.
Why cheap labour is bad economics. Pay the living wage and it’s not just your employees who will benefit: Good article in The Independent, an impressive London newspaper.
Check out the Planners’ Web for a wealth of urban concerns, including planning for healthy communities, growing the local economy, combatting blight, transportation planning for an aging population, and much more.
Land titles enable slum residents in developing countries to make investments to improve their living conditions. Examples from Bogotá, Rio de Janiero, Johannesburg and Bangalore.
The Youth for Christ Centre on Main Street in Winnipeg is back in the news. It continues to raise the concerns that troubled me when it was first proposed.
Is strategic planning “a staggering waste of time and money”?
Why U.S. President Obama shouldn’t be making speeches about energy at Walmart.
Is Canada falling behind The U.S. in funding public transportation?
Arise News, a slick, Africa-focussed 24-hour, news and entertainment channel, with broadcast hubs in London, New York, Johannesburg and Lagos.
Governments aren’t doing much about climate change, so will the job be left to private finance, and can it succeed?
The Lac-Mégantic disaster: It was sadly predictable that the little guys would take the rap.
The United States Census Bureau makes large amounts of information available on line. The Canadian census struggles to offer a similar tool. Does that have anything to do with cutbacks?
Explaining the emergence of Boko Haram, the kidnappers of Nigerian schoolgirls.
An Al Jazeera documentary about infant mortality in America.
How walking builds community in an American neighbourhood, the “densest… between New York and Chicago.”
A new internet-based publication, The Intercept, focuses on a new political problem: Wholesale government spying on ordinary citizens, including you and me.
The bike-share business may be the way of the future, but it’s not a sure thing yet.
Google’s self-driving car navigates city streets. An illustrated description.
Will investments in oil and gas stocks become unprofitable? Interesting article, part of The Tyee’s “Are we screwed?” series.
Seniors are often walkers. Municipal decision-makers should be planning with that in mind.
An opera about Robert Moses, the controversial city builder, and Jane Jacobs, who fought him to a standstill over plans for a freeway across Lower Manhattan. Read this article and follow the links.
Do you know what a porch racist is? Here’s a thoughtful dissection of the Donald Stirling incident.
The surveillance society: A huge political issue that affects us all, and that we have yet to tackle.
Here are just a few of the great things that can happen if we tear down those hideous urban expressways: http://bit.ly/1jZWGyB http://bit.ly/1jGP6pv
“Sorry, gridlock is unfixable.” Well, not quite. Read to the end of this well-researched article and find out about constructive approaches.
Is this how we got talked into accepting the mess cars have made of our cities? Disney’s vision of the future.
EcoTipping Points: “Levers for restoring sustainability to our imperilled environment – small actions that tip the balance.” This is a well-constructed web site with loads of information about environmental success stories.
Are car-free cities possible? This video offers an overview of how it can be done.
Art and architecture of Boston and Cambridge: A picture essay.
City councils and planning commissions: Beware of the bait and switch, which, in some quarters, has become a standard business practice. Some examples and applications to Winnipeg.
Temporary foreign workers are paying the price for the federal government’s scorched-earth termination of federal-provincial co-operation on immigration and settlement.
For an example of the good results that the federal-provincial immigration and settlement program achieved, take a look at this study. (To skip the theoretical genuflections, start with the last paragraph on p. 494.)
For the remarkable story of a reclusive, talented artist who took riveting pictures of life on the streets of Chicago while making her living as a nanny, click here.
The Chinese real estate boom: The other shoe drops. Apartment buildings, hastily built in the 1980s and 1990s, are starting to disintegrate.
In dealing with refugees, the Canadian government is a hard-nosed debt collector and administrator.
A corporate think tank argues that making machine-readable government documents freely available would unlock substantial economic value.
For ratings of America’s worst sprawl, as well as the most compact connected cities, click here, and scroll to pp. 4-8. There’s more: The document is a gold mine.
The resource revolution: A prominent corporate think tank on how we can stretch limited resources to meet growing demands.
“How crime-ridden Medellín became a model for 21st-Century urbanism.” It’s an impressive story but — as we learn near the end of the article — it’s not all roses.
Tolerating hate speech and misogyny on an Ohio news web site.
Fracking and shale gas: Click here for a gold mine of up-to-date information.
Scientists haven’t yet determined the full environmental consequences of fracking, but what we do know isn’t encouraging.
Failed prophets: 13 grand architectural dreams that didn’t come true.
Dealing with urban poverty: Examples from Johannesburg, Curitiba, Cali and Mumbai.
If predictions hold, Vejle, Denmark, will be under water by 2100. Here’s what it’s doing to address the challenge.
Forbes Magazine has finally figured out what some of us have been telling city governments for years: Sprawl is expensive.
The US is wrestling with a problem it’s never before faced on the present scale: long-term unemployment.
Can you identify these cities by the sounds they make? An intriguing quiz in The Guardian.
The crazy, ephemeral world of London’s tech startups. An interesting piece in The Guardian.
Britain is ready to do just about anything to protect the City of London’s hold on dirty Russian money, or so an article in The New York Times says.
It’s not just the lower price of transit, it’s the growing volatility of gas prices that’s driving the increasing popularity of transit. in the US.
Exploring New York City taxi trails and sharing our way to a more sustainable urban future: Clever videos and a really interesting idea for the future of transportation in the US.
Are Manitoba cities becoming “more urban”? Multi-unit residential developments are up, and, thanks in part to the provincial government, a significant proportion are affordable and social housing.
New mega-skyscrapers are coming to New York City and Los Angeles, according to blogger Panethos.
London’s outrageous housing prices: An opportunity to sell emigration?
Here’s yet another education crisis. The claim: Most universities don’t teach leadership, humility, purposefulness and responsibility.
The Frank Underwood of Venezuela: An absorbing look at power struggles behind the headlines.
SkyCycle: The proposal for overhead, exclusive bike paths in London is hailed as innovative, but Lujiazui, China, unveiled a similar path for pedestrians three years ago (See 5 February 2013 below).
I’m not well-versed enough in finance to really understand Bitcoin, but common sense suggests that this acid assessment nails it.
Don’t look at me: Recriminations and denials amid the repercussions of the Bitcoin fiasco.
A Harvard economist explains why higher wages are linked to higher profits, even in poorly paid service occupations.
How oil pipeline companies avoid full environmental scrutiny of the impact of their projects.
A giant, artistic light show will turn the San Francisco Bay Bridge into the world’s largest light sculpture for the next two years.
Think the Nordic approach is the best way to deal with the sex trade? You might want to think again.
Downtown Winnipeg is improving, after decades of disheartening decay, but it has a way to go.
Can non-profits solve social problems by becoming “profits”? A well-argued contribution to an interesting debate.
A dictator’s guide to urban design: The role of public squares in political upheavals.
Driverless cars are coming and they will change the world, but how quickly, how much, and how?
Made for walking: Density and neighbourhood form: A readable, profusely illustrated book (e-book or paper) that makes the case for walkable city neighbourhoods and lays out what’s involved in achieving them.
What happens after the Olympics leave town? The answers to that question are different for these three cities.
Do you know what Agenda 21 is? I haven’t paid much attention to it, but I will now, because it draws the ire of people who like urban sprawl and hate the United Nations. Here are links to the text and the Wikipedia entry.
Confronting suburban poverty in America: A rich web site with an effective video, blogs and community profiles. It would be interesting to know how Canadian suburbs compare.
Walmart doesn’t just build big box stores. For cities that have the courage to demand it, they’re willing to produce much better designs.
Debunking the myth of Kitty Genovese, a story that had a profound impact on American society, even though it turned out to be largely hokum.
How cities go low carbon while supporting economic growth: There’s food for thought here. Winnipeg could start by not building unnecessary infrastructure.
Why is G8 agricultural aid being condemned as a new form of colonialism?
Clothing manufacturers are in arrears. They owe the workers caught up in Bangladesh’s Rana Plaza disaster $40 million.
Quite abruptly, Winnipeggers have started worrying less about crime and more about the lamentable state of Winnipeg’s infrastructure, according to Probe Research.
Tearing down urban expressways, once a political fringe idea, has gone mainstream, in both Canada and the United States.
But are American expressways on the way out? Not necessarily. Good thing Canada never committed itself as completely to expressways as the US.
Helen Forsey offers a rare infusion of common sense and careful analysis into the babble of nonsense that passes for debate on the future of the Canadian Senate.
The tragedy of the commons: A New York professor, arguing that the minimum wage benefits the middle class, provokes lively debate.
Most people feel safer on well-lit streets, but it “ain’t necessarily so.”
What’s going on in Winnipeg’s North End? There’s a lot of positive energy but is anyone noticing?
Advocating for the environment is risky business, In Brazil and elsewhere.
Brazil’s anti-poverty initiative pays poor people to keep their kids in school and use government medical services. The goal is to reduce social inequality. It seems to be working.
Who we are: Treaty elders’ teachings. in this book, the first of four volumes, more than 200 aboriginal elders share traditional stories in English and one of five other languages.
More than 5,000 African American slaves passed through Detroit’s Second Baptist Church on their way to freedom. This web site is a gold mine.
Streetcars are making a comeback in the US, surprisingly because they’re proving to be an economic development tool. Unlike many other cities, Toronto had the smarts to keep their old Red Rockets.
Red Rocket (click on picture)
Could a legal challenge to fracking become a charter case?
Indianapolis has always been my favourite example of a radically automobile-dominated city, but it looks as if things have changed.
Is a non-partisan Senate possible? Interesting article in The Tyee.
Transit ridership outside the rush hours is increasing in major American cities. It’s not just about reduced auto-dependence. Work habits and job location are also reasons…
…The problem is, transit fails to serve a lot of the people who need it most.
Free transit in Tallinn, Estonia: Exciting innovation or dumb idea?
Here’s what Manitoba’s Green Action Centre is saying Manitoba Hydro has to do to improve energy conservation efforts.
A global network of the urban poor seeks solutions to problems that defeat bureaucracies.
Financial journalists failed to connect dots, and, in 2008, left abusive, reckless, and criminal corporations free to drag the global economy into the abyss, says the author of The Watchdog that Didn’t Bark.
The world turned upside down: The European Union scales back its climate change commitments just as Coca-Cola and Nike embrace the idea that climate change is economically disruptive.
A mapping project that could help officials and politicians make better decisions about transit, location of housing, and more.
Will New York City succeed in its remarkable campaign to end traffic deaths?
Zombie subdivisions (click on picture):
A cautious, realistic approach to a problem that particularly affects U.S. cities.
Unpleasant design: City facilities that, deliberately or inadvertently, repel people.
What happens when a cool neighbourhood becomes too cool. Pay attention, Corydon Village.
Tongue-in-cheek video, by Swedish trade unions, takes a swipe at the California lifestyle by comparing it unfavourably with living like a Swede.
Dream merchants build African castles in the air, and ordinary Africans bear the consequences.
Watch the earth get warmer and stormier over time in this fascinating video.
Climate change intensifies the already crazy, shady competition over the delicious truffle.
Global warming and urban infrastructure: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Portland, Oregon, and other cities are working on new infrastructure policies to take account of climate change.
A streetcar renaissance is underway in the US. Here’s a good overview of what’s happening and a collection of links to streetcar web pages that’s useful, despite the occasional dead link.
What happens when a city bans bottled water? It’s been done, and we can now start to look at the outcome.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, addressing the ethnic media, admits temporary foreign workers are being abused. Go to minute 22:15 of this audio file. to listen to his remarks.
Battles over public space and the right to the city, organized on Facebook, are breaking out in Brazilian cities.
Are suburban neighbourhoods bad for your health? Take a look at this editorial and this 2010 blog post.
We don’t know nearly as much about the link between public health and urban planning as we think we do, but MIT intends to do something about that.
For many, “inner city” is a synonym for “poor neighbourhood”, but that’s a dated conception. Suburban poverty in Toronto and Vancouver.
Land banks as a tool for the redevelopment of derelict American inner cities: promise and pitfalls.
The Rockefeller Foundation’s Resilient Cities web site is an eclectic, informative resource for anyone interested in cities.
The Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, a classic map collection, has been digitized. For a brief overview of this wonderful storehouse of information, click here.
Islamist extremism has more to do with urban poverty than with religiosity: A thoughtful reflection, backed by a compelling story from Kenya.
Hamburg’s Hafencity development project is still a crane forest, struggling to become a model city-within-a-city.
A collection of stark, beautiful photos of Saskatchewan by Canadian photographer Vera Saltzman, reproduced in an American publication.
Toronto’s Tower Neighbourhoods, unique in North America, but typical of much of the world, are bigger energy users than single family homes. Their renewal is key to a low-carbon future.
Seven ingredients for building a healthy downtown, Part 1 and Part 2 No Canadian city needs this more than Winnipeg does, and we are in fact following the script.
This chart blows up the American myth of the welfare queen.
Taiwan-based non-government organization fights poverty and malnutrition by supporting the production and consumption of vegetables.
New York City, once dominated by cars, has transformed its streets to make them safe for bicycles and pedestrians.
Phoenix claims to have ended homelessness, while Vancouver struggles with many more in need of shelter. Is Vancouver’s problem really that much larger than Phoenix’s, or does Phoenix have lower housing standards?
Does your down coat or comforter come from live-plucked, force-fed geese? Look for the DOWNMARK® label.
American Republicans are increasingly inclined to disbelieve science. Obscurantism is as American as apple pie. Consider, for example, the Know-Nothing party.
The cost of a politics that attacks enemies, rather than seeking unity. A sad, eloquent comment from America’s rust belt.
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Japan Economic Alliance Asks Financial Regulator FSA to Reduce Tax on Crypto
The Japan Association of New Economy has asked the country’s financial watchdog to reduce crypto tax from 55% to 20%.
The Japan Association of New Economy has asked the country’s financial watchdog to reduce taxes on crypto
The Japan Association of New Economy (JANE) has asked the Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA) to reduce the current tax rate for crypto trading income, Cointelegraph Japan reported on Feb. 14.
Led by Hiroshi Mikitani, the CEO of Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten, JANE has reportedly sent a proposal request to the country’s financial regulator asking them to tax crypto in compliance with progressive taxation instead of general taxation.
According to the article, income from trading cryptocurrencies is currently taxed at 55 percent. Imposing progressive taxation on crypto gains intends to reduce the tax to 20 percent — the same rate that is applied to stocks and forex markets in the country. The association has also asked the FSA to impose no tax on crypto-to-crypto transactions.
In the regulation proposal, JANE asked the Japanese regulator not to harm innovation by imposing restrictive regulation on the crypto industry. Specifically, JANE’s proposals referred to the clarification of the FSA’s regulatory scope, the process of initial coin offering (ICO) settlement, crypto custody business and derivative trading.
Rakuten, known as “Japan’s Amazon,” has recently announced a revision of its corporate structure, setting up a new payments subsidiary that includes its crypto-related business. The company noted plans to rebrand its loyalty branch, Spotlight Inc., to a new entity called Rakuten Payment, which will also operate a cryptocurrency exchange.
Meanwhile, the FSA recently revealed that the agency’s review process of crypto-related businesses licenses will be either approved or rejected within six months, starting on Jan. 12.
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Can I start work before the Party Wall Notice has expired?
You have to serve a notice two months before you plan to start work. You should not expect to start work before the notice period has expired. BUT, so long as your neighbour (the adjoining owner) agrees, in writing, to the work starting earlier and there is a Party Wall Award in place, you can usually start. You can start any work that is unrelated to the party wall, for instance work somewhere else on the site.
Can I use a wall that is not a party wall or structure?
No, there is no right to make use of a wall that is not a party wall, party structure or a party fence wall.
But, you can ask for your neighbour’s consent to use their wall but they do not have to give it. If they do not give consent you will need to build your own wall next to theirs. If the new wall needs a foundation you will probably need to serve a notice for adjacent excavation. The act does grant a right to cut a flashing into your neighbour’s wall and if you intend to do this you must serve a party structure notice.
Be aware that if you agree to your neighbour using your wall, then that wall will become a party wall where it has been used and your neighbour will have acquired further rights over that section which has been enclosed upon. For instance, the right to underpin it.
Can I build up to an existing party wall that hasn't been built against?
Yes, a neighbour can make use of a party wall. If the wall has not previously been built against, then the person doing the building work may have to pay a compensation sum to next door for using the wall. This is to reflect the cost-saving made by using the wall that was constructed at the expense of next door. The Party Wall Surveyors will usually calculate and agree the figure and this will be included in the Party Wall Award or Party Wall Agreement.
Can I stop my neighbours work because I don't like it?
The Party Wall etc Act grants your neighbour various rights. Providing your neighbour is building within those rights then you cannot use the Act to stop your neighbour’s building works. If you don’t like the size or design, then you will usually have an opportunity to object when planning permission is sought.
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The Elements of the Best Resort and Hotel Website Designs
August 28, 2019 Julia Manoukian
Today, more than ever, a hotel website has become one of the most pivotal ways in which a potential guest sizes up where his or her next stay will be.
So, what separates a decent resort and hotel website from an exceptionally good one? Eye-catching design helps, of course, but what really makes a website stand out is thoughtful, strategic design that makes it clear and easy for someone to understand what this hotel is all about — and convince them to check in.
Vibrant visuals for the header image so it’s clear that this hotel is making a statement.
Sub-headlines that are descriptive and free of jargon make things that much clearer.
Multiple calls to action — things that signal to visitors that they should book a room — are imperative to improving your hotel website conversion rate.
Compelling and authentic visuals to go with those calls to action are another must, as is making sure the benefits of booking a stay are detailed. That means highlighting all of the amenities and details that define an experience at that hotel, whether it’s staying overnight, or just stopping in for a drink.
Which brings us to another crucial and essential element of the best resort and hotel websites: social proof in the form of guest feedback or press reviews or, better yet, captured moments from hotel guests and visitors.
Here’s a closer look at some exemplary hotel websites that manage to weave in the essential elements that the best sites display:
Hotel X: Marketing The Hotel As A Destination
In hotel marketing today, the goal is to sell the property as more than just a place to stay. It’s a destination itself, rather than just a stop along the way.
From the moment you first see Hotel X's site, the visuals illustrate what it’d be like to stay there with stunning photographs of the property and its many amenities, which include two libraries, and art gallery, a rooftop pool, and a sky bar, to name a few..
Another reason why this particular hotel site is so successful, too, is that it appeals to demographics of every age; it makes any visitor to the site feel like they’d be welcome at the hotel.
Driving you to book a stay and continue to explore the site are soft, secondary calls to action that lead site visitors down the funnel, which also includes a gallery of photos from hotel guests and visitors alike. Some of these calls to action lead visitors to a reservation page, imploring people to book.
Arizona Biltmore: A Superior User Experience
The website for the historic Arizona Biltmore lives up to its reputation with lush visuals befitting a luxury hotel.
But what makes this site particularly appealing and easy to navigate is the personalized experience bar, which offers a variety of suggested experiences for excursionists, families, retail junkies, gourmands, among others. Not only does the site allow the hotel to showcase itself, it emphasizes all of the experiences and special moments you can have during a stay, which can often be a challenge for other hotels to communicate.
The map, guest testimonials, and the expansive user-generated content gallery highlight those experiences perfectly, like this recent post from a guest.
Cabot Links: Compelling Visuals and Conversion Driven Design
One of the first things that you notice when you visit the website for Cabot Links is the dramatic drone footage of the property, encompassing everything the resort has to offer, from the golf courses to the beach to the golf villas.
The resort also takes full advantage of customized user-generated content galleries that specifically relate to all of the featured activities and experiences that you can have at Cabot Links. The “Food & Drink” page, for instance, has a gallery of guest and visitor photos showcasing their dining experiences, and the “Wedding” page has a gallery of numerous ceremonies and celebrations. With each of these galleries and pages, Cabot Links is illustrating that it’s more than just a place to golf — it’s a destination for relaxation, celebrations, gourmet endeavors, and much more.
And to top it all off, accompanying all of the visuals on the site are calls to action that lead visitors to book.
Badrutt’s Palace: Using Videos and History to Entice Website Visitors
Similarly to how Cabot Links uses incredible drone footage to show off its beautiful grounds, Badrutt’s Palace uses video visuals to illustrate the many different types of experiences you can have at this historic resort, which was first built as a family home back in 1896. Those vignettes include images of the beautiful lake, the lobby, dining experiences, and the rooms at the resort.
It’s that long and storied history that’s beautifully illustrated with a timeline of visuals in one section of the site, and as you continue to scroll throughout the site, there are plenty of calls to action, and even an easy way for potential guests to communicate directly with the resort via messaging on the site or through Facebook Messenger.
A “Social Page” celebrating the online Palace community features images from a variety of hashtags related to culinary, wellness, living, celebrations, and shopping. And making the site even easier to navigate are the descriptive header and the interactive menu bar at the very top of the page.
Gramercy Park Hotel: Easy Online Booking
The richness of this beautiful design hotel from artist Julian Schnabel is depicted perfectly on its website, which is formatted like a novel. The home page is split into chapters that continue to expand as you scroll your way down the site, and a convenient call to action encourages visitors to the site to do just that.
What this site does best is capture the drama of the hotel, but in a way that’s easy to navigate and, most importantly, to book: a “reserve a room” call to action remains a constant on every page.
In short, the best resort and hotel websites emphasize visual imagery, but do so in a way that’s easy to understand, to navigate, and best of all, easy to book a stay.
Image credit: @yagmurlee
Julia Manoukian is the Senior Content Marketing Manager at CrowdRiff, where she is responsible for strategy, execution and SEO. Every day, she looks forward to the challenge of creating educating and engaging content for travel and tourism brands. Julia has a passion for storytelling, travelling and tech.
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Ultra-Fast Blockchain Reaches 30,000 Transactions A Second
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Researchers in Australia announced on Wednesday a successful trial run of next generation blockchain that can reach cross-border speeds of 30,000 transactions per second. Operating on Amazon Web Services' (AWS) cloud infrastructure, the test potentially paves the way for global enterprise-scale applications of the technology. Red Belly Blockchain is a project of Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, in partnership with University of Sydney. According to Sept. 26 statement, the next-gen blockchain provides several improvements including solving the "environmental impact from significant energy use, double spending where an individual spends their money twice by initiating more than one transaction, and throughput, which refers to how many units of information can be processed in a short amount of time." The above refers to Bitcoin's (BTC) resource-intensive network that requires sophisticated computing and vast amounts of electricity. Australian researchers say their network requires less energy while enabling a large number of transactions across nodes located in various time zones. The test tun deployed Red Belly Blockchain on 1,000 virtual machines across AWS' cloud network in North America, South America, Australia (Sydney) and Europe. Faster Throughput For Local Use Cases
"The experiment highlights Red Belly Blockchain's scalability, while retaining fast transaction speeds and high security, making it ideal for faster processing of financial transactions and microgrids that use peer-to-peer trading to transform the energy sector."
According to researchers, Red Belly Blockchain uses a unique algorithm that enables scalable performance without an equivalent increase in electricity consumption. Two experiments were conducted using the same technology from July 2017 to May 2018 and these featured a throughput of 660,000 transactions per second. However, it only used 300 machines in a single Availability Zone. The latest test was designed to see throughput on AWS infrastructure on a global scale across multiple time zones. FedEx And Honeywell Join Consortium These and similar advancements are key in increasing adoption among Fortune 1000 companies who operate globally. Earlier this week FedEx, Honeywell and more than a dozen other organizations became new members of Hyperledger consortium. Both conglomerates have massive logistics and supply chains around the world and their membership shows that blockchain will see more enterprise use cases in the near future. The consortium has more than 270 members and its mission is to build blockchain applications for big organizations.
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News Mathematics 05 September 2019
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Introducing the amazing concept of gravito-electromagnetism
Robyn Arianrhod explores the world where mathematical analogies shed light on physical reality.
Mathematician and poet James Clerk Maxwell.
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In some ways, mathematics is like literature. It has its own definitions and grammatical rules – although unfortunately these are the bane of too many students’ lives. Which is a great pity, because when used elegantly and clearly, mathematical language can help readers to see things in entirely new ways. Take analogies, for example. They’re obviously powerful in literature – who doesn’t thrill to a creative, well-aimed metaphor? But they can be even more powerful in mathematical physics.
Making physical analogies is fundamental in the process of physics, because it helps physicists to imagine new physical phenomena. We still speak of the “flow” of an electric “current”, using liquid metaphors that physicists coined before they knew that electrons existed. On the other hand, the old concept of “ether” – a hypothetical light-carrying medium analogous to water or air – has long passed its use-by date. Physical analogies can be creative and useful, but sometimes they can lead one astray.
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The same is true of mathematical analogies applied to physical reality – and especially of the interplay between mathematical and physical analogies. An analogy that has tantalised mathematicians and physicists for a century, and which is still a hot if much-debated topic, is that between Albert Einstein’s equations of gravity and James Clerk Maxwell’s equations of electromagnetism. It’s led to an exciting new field of research called “gravito-electromagnetism” – and to the prediction of a new force, “gravito-magnetism”.
The surprising idea of comparing gravity and electromagnetism – two entirely different kinds of phenomena – began with the intriguing mathematical analogy between the equations of Newtonian gravity and Coulomb’s law of electrostatics. Both sets of equations have exactly the same inverse-square form.
In 1913, Einstein began exploring the much more complex idea of a relativistic gravitational analogue of electromagnetic induction – an idea that was developed by Josef Lense and Hans Thirring in 1918. They used Einstein’s final theory of general relativity (GR), which was published in 1916.
Today this so-called “gravito-electromagnetism”, or GEM for short, is generally treated mathematically via the “weak field” approximation to the full GR equations – simpler versions that work well in weak fields such as that of the earth.
It turns out that the mathematics of weak fields includes quantities satisfying equations that look remarkably similar to Maxwell’s. The “gravito-electric” part can be readily identified with the everyday Newtonian downward force that keeps us anchored to the earth. The “gravito-magnetic” part, however, is something entirely unfamiliar – a new force apparently due to the rotation of the earth (or any large mass).
It’s analogous to the way a spinning electron produces a magnetic field via electromagnetic induction, except that mathematically, a massive spinning object mathematically “induces” a “dragging” of space-time itself – as if space-time were like a viscous fluid that’s dragged around a rotating ball. (Einstein first identified “frame-dragging”, a consequence of general relativity elaborated by Lense and Thirring.)
But how far can such mathematical analogies be pushed? Is “gravito-magnetic induction” real? If it is, it should show up as a tiny wobble in the orbit of satellites, and – thanks also to the “geodetic” effect, the curving of space-time by matter – as a change in the direction of the axis of an orbiting gyroscope. (The latter is analogous to the way a magnetic field generated by an electric current changes the orientation of a magnetic dipole.)
Results from satellite missions such as Gravity Probe B have confirmed the Earth's geodetic and frame-dragging effects.
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Finally, after a century of speculation, answers are unfolding. Independent results from several satellite missions – notably Gravity Probe B, LAGEOS, LARES, and GRACE – have confirmed the earth’s geodetic and frame-dragging effects to varying degrees of precision. For frame-dragging, the best agreement with GR has been within 0.2%, with an accuracy of 5%, but astronomers expect that a new satellite (LARES 2), to be launched at the end of 2019, will, with data from LAGEOS, give an accuracy of 0.2%.
More accurate results will provide more stringent tests of GR, but astrophysicists have already taken gravito-magnetism on board. For instance, it suggests a mechanism to explain the mysterious jets of gas that have been observed spewing out of quasars and active galactic nuclei. Rotating supermassive black holes at the heart of these cosmic powerhouses would produce enormous frame-dragging and geodetic effects. A resulting gravito-magnetic field analogous to the magnetic field surrounding the two poles of a magnet would explain the alignment of the jets with the source’s north-south axis of rotation.
Making analogies is a tricky business, however, and there are some interpretive anomalies still to unravel. To take just one example, questions remain about the meaning of analogical terms such as gravitational “energy density” and “energy current density”. Things are perhaps even more problematic – or interesting – from the mathematical point of view.
For example, there is another, purely mathematical analogy between Einstein’s and Maxwell’s equations, which gives rise to a very different analogy from the GEM equations. To put it briefly, it’s a comparison between the so-called Bianchi identities in each theory.
The existence of two (and in fact several) such different mathematical analogies between the equations of these two physical phenomena is incredibly suggestive of a deeper connection. At present, though, there are some apparent physical inconsistencies between the “electric” and “magnetic” parts in each mathematical approach.
Still, the formal analogies are useful in helping mathematicians find intuitively familiar ways to think about the formidable equations of GR. And there’s always the tantalising possibility that this approach will prove as physically profound as the prediction of gravito-magnetism.
This is an abridged version of the story that appears in Cosmos 84. To read the full version, subscribe here.
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Brasserie de Vézelay beer in Beaune, Burgundy (Bourgogne), France
Tarte a la praline at Cafe des Federations in Lyon, France
Frisee (curly endive) at the L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue market in Provence, France
Mantis shrimp (squilles) at Maree Provencale in the Avignon Les Halles in Avignon, France
A variety of charcuterie for sale at the Marche Provencal in Antibes, France
A view of the streets of Flavigny-sur-Ozerain in Burgundy (Bourgogne), France
Orchard in morning light in Provence, France
Classic French pastries at Boulangerie Soulier in Arles, France
Baltus beer blonde de luxe in Lyon, France
View of a Bouchon from a Brasserie in Lyon, France
Elixir du Mont Ventoux herbal liqueur for sale in Roussillon, France
Tarte Tropézienne in Saint-Tropez, France
Green field on a farm in Provence, France
A distant view of Antibes, France
Sign for local cherries (cerises) for sale in Gard, France
Doors to an unknown space in the village of Venasque, France
Sheep (mouton) in the (Loire Valley), France
Assortment of shellfish (fruits de mer) on ice at Restaurant Albert 1er in Antibes, France
Saucisson de Lyon and rillette de harengs at Café des Fédérations in Lyon, France
A vineyard in the village of Sablet, France
Chevre du Mont-Ventoux cheese at the Les Halles de Lyon in Lyon, France
A view of the ocean from Antibes, France
Terrine de Canard “Maison” (duck pate) at restaurant Les Lavandes in Vence, France
A blue door to a house in the village of Venasque, France
A variety of cheese (fromage) in the Avignon Les Halles in Avignon, France
Baker at La Cabane a Pain at the market in Chalon-sur-Saone, Burgundy (Bourgogne), France
Cœur-de-bœuf tomatoes from Provence at the Cours Saleya market in Nice, France
A large vineyard in the Chateauneuf-du-Pape AOC, France
Roast chicken (poulet roti) in Beaune, Burgundy (Bourgogne), France
Sausages and offal at a butcher (boucherie) in the Avignon Les Halles in Avignon, France
Jambon de Bayonne cured ham in the Avignon Les Halles in Avignon, France
Pastries on display at a patisserie in Lyon, France
Pain d’Epices (spice bread or Dijon gingerbread) in Burgundy (Bourgogne), France
A monkfish (lotte) in Venasque, France
Young apples (pommes) on a tree in Provence, France
Relatively rare French cheese (fromage) at the Les Halles de Lyon in Lyon, France.
Boudin blanc (white sausage) at the market in Amboise (Loire Valley), France
Brasserie d’Amboise Bier’ouette Ambree beer in Amboise (Loire Valley), France
Wild asparagus at the market in Chalon-sur-Saône, Burgundy (Bourgogne), France
Tomatoes (tomates) in morning light at the Cours Saleya market in Nice, France
La Cabane a Pain, bakery on wheels at the market in Chalon-sur-Saone, Burgundy (Bourgogne), France
A vegetable vendor in the Avignon Les Halles in Avignon, France
Strawberries (fraises) growing at a strawberry farm near Crestet, France
Patriarche Père et Fils Crémant de Bourgogne Brut sparkling wine in Burgundy (Bourgogne), France
Vegetables at the market in Chalon-sur-Saone, Burgundy (Bourgogne), France
A display of cheese (fromage) at the Cours Saleya market in Nice, France
Poissonnerie La Sirène at the Marche Provencal in Antibes, France
House Beaujolais wine from Morgon at Cafe des Federations in Lyon, France
A field of wheat in Burgundy (Bourgogne), France
Pâté de lapin en croute (rabbit pate in crust) at the market in Amboise (Loire Valley), France
Brie de Meaux cheese (AOP) in the Avignon Les Halles in Avignon, France
Plie fish (Pleuronectes platessa) at Toute la Marée in the Avignon Les Halles in Avignon, France
Canelés in the Loire Valley, France
Chateau de Montmirail Gigondas Cuvee de Beauchamp at Caveau du Gigondas in Gigondas, France
A view of the landscape of Lyon, France
Prepared Escargots de Bourgogne (Burgundy snails) in Beaunes, Burgundy (Bourgogne), France
Macarons at Patisserie Wagner in Beaune, Burgundy (Bourgogne), France
A view of at the Cours Saleya market in Nice, France
A fishing boat in Saint-Tropez, France
The exterior vertical garden of the central market Avignon Les Halles in Avignon, France
La Bastide Blanche, Provence rosé wine from Bandol in Antibes, France
Local thyme from Provence at the L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue market in Provence, France
A vineyard and house with blue shutters in the Rhone Valley, France
The sign above the Marche Provencal in Antibes, France
Fava beans (feves) at the Cours Saleya market in Nice, France
Fresh fish at Toute la Marée in the Avignon Les Halles in Avignon, France
Pavé de saucisson (sausage in the shape of a cobblestone) at the market in Chalon-sur-Saone, Burgundy (Bourgogne), France
A view of Café des Fédérations in Lyon, France
Mâcon-Vinzelles white Burgundy wine in Burgundy (Bourgogne), France
Domain Chanson Beaune Greves 1er Cru red wine in Burgundy (Bourgogne), France
A view of the streets of Arles, France
Le Moulin De Barbentane “La Broutignan” olive oil in Barbentane, France
Anis de Flavigny delivery truck in Flavigny-sur-Ozerain, Burgundy (Bourgogne), France
Hamburger Franchouillard (meaning typically French) in Burgundy (Bourgogne), France
A view of the L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue market in Provence, France
Fishmonger with mussels at the market in Amboise (Loire Valley), France
Garlaban label Marc de Provence at Restaurant Albert 1er in Antibes, France
Artisan baguettes at the L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue market in Provence, France
Vedrenne Vieux Marc du Caveau brandy distilled from grapes in Burgundy (Bourgogne), France
Tarte aux Pommes (apple tart) in Burgundy (Bourgogne), France
Creme brulee at Restaurant Albert 1er in Antibes, France
Tomme de Touraine cheese at the market in Amboise (Loire Valley), France
Magret de canard aux fraises at Restaurant Fou de Fafa in Avignon, France
Pâté en Croûte at the Cours Saleya market in Nice, France
Fromage de tete (head cheese) for sale at the Marche Provencal in Antibes, France
Jambon Noir de Bigorre (black pig ham from Bigorre) at the Les Halles de Lyon in Lyon, France
Crepe a la confiture de fraise (strawberry jam) at Creperie Mam Goz in Arles, France
Banon (AOP) goat cheese (chevre) at the Marche Provencal in Antibes, France
Blackberries (mures) for sale at the Cours Saleya market in Nice, France
Saucisson Brioche Lyonnais at Brasserie le Nord in Lyon, France
La Maison des Vins in Vosne-Romanee, Burgundy (Bourgogne), France
A small orchard in Provence, France
RinQuinQuin peach aperitif for sale in Roussillon, France
Charentais melons and walnuts (noix) for sale in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
A view of the town of L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue in Provence, France
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TENSY FARLOW and the home for mislaid children was shortlisted in the Young Readers Category of the CBCA Book of the Year Awards 2010.
Viewpoint Review
Viewpoint Spring 2007
Stories, Pictures and Reality: Two Children Tell
by Virginia Lowe
(Routledge 2007
0 415 39724 3 ? pb)
a review by Maurice Saxby
When her baby Rebecca was born Virginia Lowe began a journal which she continued after her son Ralph arrived three years later. That journal carefully records in detail her children’s reactions to books from 13 weeks for Rebecca and 1 week for Ralph, from birth to age 8, with comments through to the children’s adolescence. From the outset the mother eschewed ‘labelling’ — point and tell — believing in the whole book experience of reading the text along with the pictures and allowing even the baby to react to that experience. She noted eye and hand movement, any sounds made and later the verbal and emotional response. Many of the books were read over and over again, sometimes with lengthy periods in between as many of the books were borrowed from the library so that the child’s initial reaction was compared with the later book experiences. The methodology was to keep the journal regularly and as far as possible on the spot. This present book is not a transcript of the children’s responses although they are often quoted but with the mother’s interpretation and at times comments on the situation. This is especially so when the two children shared a book experience and the age, sex and temperamental differences could be noted. Naturally Rebecca would at times comment on her younger sibling’s reaction. The two children displayed distinctive personalities.
It should be emphasised that both parents were highly literate and enthusiastic, dedicated to the project and that books were plentiful and part of the daily life of a professional family. Virginia, academically trained, had recourse to the professional literature of behavioural psychologists, linguists and literary experts. In her own right she is an astute psychologist and literary critic. Ultimately she was to draw on the content of her diary for her PhD thesis from which developed this present publication. The outcome is a most valuable and highly readable text sharing insights into children’s developmental behaviour patterns but which is also full of sound insights into not only literary discourse but the nature of reader response, bearing in mind always that her study is based on two individuals placed in a highly personal, perhaps even atypical situation. Nevertheless it is possible to back up certain assertions contradicting those of accepted ‘experts’ such as Piaget. There is therefore much valuable data not only to interest but also to challenge parents, teachers, academics studying literary theory and indeed anyone who believes in the power of story and the primacy of the book. Beyond a scholarly appreciation of the structure of the book there is the heart warming personality of the author shining through every page.
A loving, non-critical and accepting environment as well as a wide experiential background is paramount in establishing readers, as Lowe demonstrates — and that is crucial for teachers as well as for parents and is essential in establishing not only reading skills but an appreciation of the text, both verbal and visual. Out of such an environment Lowe, using the evidence of her journal, traces the development of true literacy from word recognition through to attaching meaning to both pictures and the abstractions of language and ultimately to a mature appreciation of narratology. Reality or ‘true’ is distinguished from ‘imaginary’ or make-believe — the suspension of disbelief — ‘are ghosts real?’ for example. There is the placing of oneself inside the story and extending the created secondary world into the known, experienced one; an understanding of cause and effect as demonstrated in a child’s everlasting ‘why’ which one hopes will with encouragement continue into adulthood. In this process the child is acquiring knowledge: the hard knowledge of the world, time and place; the soft knowledge of oneself and one’s fellows. Talk, questions and discussion, Lowe demonstrates, are important if not crucial to this development. A sense of perspective comes through the viewpoint of both author and illustrator. Hence comes the question, ‘Why will John Brown not look at the Midnight Cat?’ in the classic picture story by Wagner and Brooks? Therefore while the reader is being born so is the concept of the author, the mind behind the book — an attribute that is increasingly important in a technologically driven society. As Lowe says, ‘the relationship between author and reader is vital in the reading process for adults, and also for children.’ That is why ‘Meet the author/illustrator’ sessions are so valuable in schools at every level. Thus a sensitivity to style in both literature and art is developed be it recognising a Potter book or later a novel by Patrick White or a painting by Renoir. Through exposure, non-directive guidance and discussion comes the ability to detect irony and the subtleties of humour and ultimately an awareness of the ideology inherent in the text, as well as the development of ‘taste’, an aesthetic sense. All this is derived from an enjoyment of the created fictional world, the concepts of space and time manipulation which occur in current writing, the recognition of character traits and delight in language appropriate to the situation along with a response to emotionally stirring themes. That children are often true philosophers has long been recognise and is proven in this study.
In the latter chapters Lowe develops a theory of mind: an understanding that other people have minds and emotions which provide the motivation of their behaviour — in literature as in life. Such understanding develops through immersion in well crafted stories told with integrity to life in all its vagaries. The study demonstrates that early book experiences of characters in various predicaments and their reactions leads to an empathetic response to plot and to understanding people in the external world as well as within the private domain. Such insights and a spirit of open-mindedness is crucial in our multi-media world which increasingly is manipulated by ideological and commercial propaganda.
Identification with a literary character is not currently a fashionable concept. Lowe convincingly argues that through early experiences such as she documents, children — who grow into adults — get inside and empathise with book characters, understanding their thoughts and feelings. She even lists seven types of identification behaviour which include ‘self-character comparisons: attributes, behaviour or feelings’ to ‘the character quoted or referred to outside the reading session’ and ultimately ‘extended identification’. In this way caring, altruistic and purposeful individuals are nourished. An ‘Afterword’ by Virginia’s adult daughter, Rebecca, demonstrates indubitably that this can be so. ‘I still identify strongly with characters. Although not expressing this with games any more; I still feel as if I “am” a character that I have been reading about as I go about daily life.’ Although Rebecca argues that an adult can never hope to understand a child’s mind, it might well be asked to what extent can we understand the adult mind? We are all individuals but literature can help unlock an understanding of the motivations of others, the villains as well as the saints. Virginia Lowe invites her readers to feel, think and evaluate, even to empathise. Such is the stuff of true literature exemplified in Stories, Pictures and Reality.
Virginia's book Stories, Pictures and Reality: Two Children Tell has been published by Routledge (London) in November, 2006. You can order a copy from Virginia.
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==Election 2015==
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===Audio of Bellamy's campaign announcement:===
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Wes Bellamy
Wes Bellamy at his 2013 campaign announcement
Candidate for
Charlottesville City Council
Party Democratic
Election June 9, 2015 primary
For term to start January 2016
Term End December 2019
Term Start January 2014
Alma mater South Carolina State University
Profession Teacher at Albemarle High School
Campaign $ VPAP
Contributions $ VPAP
Wes Bellamy is the founder of Helping Young People Evolve and a candidate for one of three Democratic nominations for City Council in 2015. [1]
He also placed 3rd in the June 11, 2013 Democratic Primary for City Council. [2] [3]
1 Election 2015
1.1 Audio of Bellamy's campaign announcement:
Bellamy made his campaign announcement on February 15, 2015 at C'Ville Coffee. [1]
Audio of Bellamy's campaign announcement:
<play audio>http://s3.amazonaws.com/cville/cm%2Fmutlimedia%2F20150215-Bellamy-Announcement.mp3 </play audio>
Bellamy tied with Bob Fenwick with 1,088 votes each in the June 11, 2013 Democratic primary. [4] After a count of provisional ballots, Fenwick edged Bellamy by five votes. [3]
Bellamy announced his candidacy on March 13, 2013 at Tonsler Park. Just a month before, he had declared he would not run this year, but changed his mind. [5] He is originally from Atlanta, and moved to the area to take a job at the National Ground Intelligence Center.
Bellamy raised $3,828 between January 1 and May 29, 2013. His largest campaign contribution was $500 from Mark Brown. [6]
Bellamy also participated in a questionnaire on public housing conducted by the Public Housing Association of Residents. [7]
↑ 1.0 1.1 Web. Bellamy enters race for Charlottesville City Council, Lacey Naff, Charlottesville Tomorrow, February 15, 2015, retrieved February 17, 2015.
↑ Web. Bellamy announces Council candidacy, Sean Tubbs, Charlottesville Tomorrow, March 13, 2013, retrieved March 14, 2013.
↑ 3.0 3.1 Web. It's official: Fenwick to be on ballot for City Council, K. Burnell Evans and Aaron Richardson, Daily Progress, World Media Enterprises, June 14, 2013, retrieved June 19, 2013.
↑ Web. Bellamy, Fenwick in dead heat; Szakos wins easily, Aaron Richardson, Daily Progress, World Media Enterprises, June 12, 2013, retrieved June 12, 2013.
↑ Web. Szakos makes bid for second Council term official, Sean Tubbs, Charlottesville Tomorrow, February 14, 2013, retrieved March 14, 2013.
↑ Web. Palmer, McKeel lead local candidates in fundraising, Daily Progress Staff Reports, Daily Progress, World Media Enterprises, June 7, 2013, retrieved June 10, 2013.
↑ Web. [ Questionnaire for City Council Candidatesurl=http://www.pharcville.org/2013/06/04/phar-questionnaire-for-city-council-candidates/], June 4, 2013, retrieved June 10, 2013.
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Home » About NIDA » Organization » Offices » Office of the NIDA Director (OD) » Special Populations Office (SPO) » African American Researchers and Scholars Work Group (AARSWG)
NIDA’s African American Researchers and Scholars Work Group (AARSWG) is one of the four ethnic/minority advisory workgroups established by NIDA to forward its efforts to increase the numbers of underrepresented investigators conducting drug abuse research, and to increase its support of appropriate research on drug abuse in minority communities. The AARSWG was convened in 1994 to advise the NIDA Director on the unique drug abuse research and drug abuse research development needs of the African American community that, ultimately, will result in more effective prevention and treatment approaches in African American populations. Work group members are comprised of NIDA and NIH-funded researchers, educators, treatment providers, and community-based practitioners.
Major Highlights and Accomplishments
The AARSWG has successfully supported and mentored new African-American investigators through the sponsorship of four (4) annual Addiction Research Training Institutes; held intensive research grants preparation booster sessions; convened annual Mini Medical School forums on drug abuse topics pertinent to African American communities; actively lobbied for increased interest in drug abuse research in professional associations, such as the American Association of Criminology and the American Psychological Association; has been instrumental in establishing a NIDA Southern African Initiative, encouraging collaborative drug abuse and related research between NIDA and Southern African researchers; and increased African American representation as reviewers in the NIDA/ NIH review process. In addition, AARSWG workgroup members have successfully mentored and advised each other in pursuing research funding from NIDA and other NIH/PHS agencies.
Medline Plus – African American Health
U.S. DHHS Office on Women’s Health – African-Americans
http://www.nih.gov/news/health/aug2011/od-18.htm
Workgroup Roster:
Faye Belgrave, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Cultural Experiences in Prevention
808 West Franklin Street
Ronald L. Braithwaite, Ph.D.
Morehouse School of Medicine
Departments of Community Health and Preventive Medicine,
Family Medicine and Psychiatry
1513 East Cleveland Avenue
Building #100, 2nd Floor, Suite 250-B
Lawrence Brown, M.D., M.P.H.
Executive Senior Vice President
Addiction Research and Treatment
22 Chapel Street
Ann Kathleen (Kathy) Burlew, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Psychology
University of Cincinnati, ML #376
Julius Debro, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Political Science
11531 36th Avenue, NE
Robert Dunigan, Ph.D., MSW
Institute of Behavior Health
Schneider Institute for Health Policy
The Heller School of Social Policy & Management
415 South Street, Mail Stop 035
Waltham, MA 02454-9110
C. Debra Furr-Holden, Ph.D.
John Hopkins University
Director, DIVE Studies Laboratory
Deputy Director, Center for the Prevention of
111 Market Place, Suite 850
Estelle B. Gauda, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics
Neonatology Research Laboratories
CMSC 6-104
Barbara J. Guthrie, R.N., Ph.D., F.A.A.N.
Professor, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
100 Church Street South
Murelle Harrison, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Psychology
500 Jesse Stone
Rhonda Conerly Holliday, Ph.D.
Dept of Community Health and Preventive Medicine
1513 East Cleveland Ave
Bldg 100, Suite 250-B
Sean Joe, Ph.D., LMSW
Assistant Professor and Director
Norweeta G. Milburn, Ph.D.
Professor-in-Residence
Department of Psychiatry and
Biobehavioral Sciences
Director of Research and Evaluation
FOCUS Headquarters
UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and
760 Westwood Plaza, A8-159A
Ernest Quimby, Ph.D.
2441 6th Street, NW
Daniel Sarpong, Ph.D.
Director and Senior Biostatistician
Jackson Heart Study
350 West Woodrow Wilson Drive, Suite 701
Scyatta A. Wallace, Ph.D.
Marillac Hall, 8000 Utopia Parkway
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Instead of joining a multiplayer battle or logging into your favorite MMO, why don’t you sit down and experience a solo yet rewarding journey?
Yes, we are talking about single player games.
This kind is fun as always.
It’s because this trip is YOURS, and you are the ONLY player who can control it.
Of course, you don’t need to keep a certain pace or depend on any group during the game or follow any command. All you just do is to discover your own pace with deeper narrative elements.
Since you are here, we will show you the best single player PC games that are worth playing for sure.
Down here to know now!
10 best single player PC games you should not miss
2 Stardew Valley
3 Factorio
4 Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom
5 XCOM 2
6 Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn
7 Subnautica
8 Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
9 The Long Dark
10 Grand Theft Auto V
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As an action-packed single player and open world video game, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is playable through a third-person preview.
But what makes this game exciting is its unique story with great gameplay and revamped mechanics.
Its gameplay mainly concentrates on RPG and action elements. It allows the player to explore a massive world while finishing quests and leveling up the character and items.
As compared to the previous games, Wild Hunt provides fantastic quest designs, the best writing in the industry, excellent soundtracks, and an amazing world.
As a farming simulation fan, Stardew Valley is what you need, guys.
Developed by Chucklefish Games, this game features lots of unique elements together with some new ones. Here, your primary objective is to expand your farm as well as support other farmers and town.
As compared to other simulation games, Stardew Valley is a bit different because it provides both farming and life simulation elements. Besides, it permits you to talk, interact, and do many things like your real life.
Factorio will bring you to a fantastic 2D planet where you need to build as many as factories as possible.
Researching for technologies, mining resources, constructing infrastructures, and automating productions are interesting requests of this game. Additionally, wiping out the aliens and opening new areas are vital.
However, NOTE that,
The main mechanics depend on your capacity to gather resources and build factory parts. This help to establish more complex machines in the upcoming levels.
It can be said that Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom is one of the most ambitious and beautiful JRPGs on PC from Suikoden and Studio Ghibli.
This game introduces an open world with amazing real-time third-person combats and an enjoyable kingdom building sim.
Here, you need to search for new citizens by visiting other kingdoms, gain better gear by discovering secret dungeons and mini-bosses, and then bring everything back home to develop your own kingdom.
If you are a hardcore action and turn-based tactics video game fan, you should not miss XCOM 2.
In this game, your main task is to prevent a BIG invasion of aliens on the Earth. You need to direct a commander of the organizations and keep an eye on the Avenger, a portable base for XCOM.
Additionally, you have to give proper commands to the squad, protect research and engineering, make new weapons, technologies and gadgets, recruit new soldiers, defend the base, and wipe off the invaders.
With a vast range of different elements, a BIG narrative, and beautiful visuals, XCOM 2 is one of the best single player PC games that you should try.
Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn
The appearance of Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn seems to be a dream for Final Fantasy lovers who don’t care the rigamarole.
This game occurs in Eorzea, a high fantasy world. And you play as one of the iconic classes such as a black mage. Your main request here is to set out and support the locals to defend themselves from invasions by the evil Garlean Empire.
Although it looks similar to a Final Fantasy story, this version reaches some surprises to make their fans pleased. Moreover, it ensures endless fights to work through.
Subnautica is a single player first-person exploration, adventure and survival video game.
Here you will join a fantastic trip to discover an Aquatic planet. As the only survivor, your main task is to uncover this planet, deal with dangers, gather resources, build bases, tools, etc., interact with wildlife, and so on.
This game also provides an open world and concentrates on scuba diving as well as traveling in submarines.
Is there anything else?
Subnautica provides awesome themes and visuals together with amazing gameplay and cool improvements to the mechanics.
Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim will bring you to an open world environment. Here you are required to direct characters from the first-person view to discovering a huge map and finish quests with open selections.
As compared to other versions of Elder Scrolls series, the fifth one gives much more than just combat and exploration.
Interacting with other players and NPCs, fighting in towns, stealing items, and progressing are all awesome parts that you should not miss. It even provides a free skill-based system, universal lore, a massive variety of mods, and much more to uncover.
As an in-depth exploration and survival video game, The Long Dark is specially created for the single-player experience.
It’s more like a simulation that allows you to experience how you can survive on your own in the frozen wasteland. Since this game mainly concentrates on exploration, you will get an excellent and unique narrative while playing.
Although The Long Dark lacks thrilling elements like zombies or enemies, you always feel the dangers of Mother Nature.
Grand Theft Auto V brings not only an open world environment but also flexibility in both single and multiplayer. That means you can play it from a third-person or first-person view with ease.
This game introduces an awesome storyline that talks about three different characters. They will spend ambitious heist missions that occur in Los Angeles.
With improved graphics, unique gameplay, and promising actions, it’s a BIG pity if you miss at this time.
We’ve finished a list of 10 best single player PC games that you should not ignore for sure. There are different genres of the game so that you can select the one you want to play most.
Hopefully, you will enjoy all on your PC.
And don’t mind sending your feedbacks to improve our list in future.
Once again, thanks for reading, guys!
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32-Year-Old Area Woman Killed In Crash Was Miss Pakistan World
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Zanib Naveed of Pomona was killed in a car crash in Maryland. Photo Credit: GoFundMe
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A 32-year-old area woman who died in a single-vehicle crash in Maryland was Miss Pakistan World in 2012.
Rockland County resident Zanib Naveed, of Pomona, was killed around 11:40 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 1, in Prince George's County on Route 1, said the Maryland State Police.
According to police, Naveed was driving a 2018 Mercedes CL2 eastbound on the Inter-County Connector, when she went around a curve, hit a curb and overturned into oncoming traffic, state police said.
Naveed, the only person in the vehicle, was ejected into the roadway, state police said.
She was pronounced dead at the scene.
According to a preliminary investigation, alcohol does not appear to be a factor in the crash.
A GoFundMe page set-up to help with funeral arrangements said Naveed leaves behind her husband, Ali-Haider Shah, her parents Tabinda Naveed and Chaudry Qudrat, brothers Ali and Umer Naveed, and many others.
"She had a smile that could light up a room, a powerful personality, captivating eyes, a voice that demanded attention and beauty like no other," the GoFundMe page said. "She had a beautiful soul and she will forever be missed. Our lives will never be the same without her."
Funeral arrangments have not been set as of Tuesday, Dec. 3.
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From the New York Times, political #fail in three acts
On July 30, 2012 By Dan KennedyIn Media, Politics12 Comments
Three examples from Sunday’s New York Times of political coverage that makes you want to bang your head against an immoveable object until you’ve forgotten what you’ve just read:
• Maureen Dowd’s column, a characteristically superficial attack on Mitt Romney that veers into the ditch when, about halfway through, she sneers at Romney’s “shiny white family.” Seriously? What color is the Dowd family, Mo?
• Jeff Zeleny’s news analysis, in which he opines — oh, sorry, writes analytically — that both the Romney and the Obama campaigns are relying mainly on negative advertising.
Of course, there are few things more satisfying to the media mindset than asserting that both sides are just as bad. But as Zeleny writes as an aside to which he attaches no seeming significance (and as Greg Mitchell flags), the Romney campaign’s ads are five-to-one negative, whereas Obama’s are a relatively cheery two-to-one negative.
Even worse, Zeleny makes no attempt to assess whose negative ads are more truthful. The mere existence of negative ads on both sides is not the least bit newsworthy if one side’s consist of unfair attacks and the other’s are more or less on the level. All in all, a worthless exercise, yet the Times played it at the top of the front page. (Younger readers may be interested to learn that some news sites print a portion of their content on dead trees.)
• Public editor Arthur Brisbane, nearing the end of his somnolent stint as the Times’ in-house critic, laments that political coverage is too focused on the negative campaigns being waged (naturally) by both sides and not focused enough on the issues.
Now, this is a difficult one for me to wrap my arms around, because I’m as critical as anyone of horse-race coverage and the political press’ obsession with polls and tactics. But the alternative Brisbane proposes — “substance” and “issues” — strikes me as absurd given the historical moment in which we find ourselves.
This election will not be decided on issues. There is nothing important to learn by studying the fine points of Romney’s or President Obama’s tax proposals or financial-regulation plans.
Rather, this election is about broad themes, tribalism and cultural signifiers. There is more significance in polls results showing that one in six Americans believes Obama is a Muslim than there is in 50 stories telling us where he and Romney stand on cap-and-trade. Political coverage that avoids that central truth is destined to fail.
Where is our Hunter Thompson?
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"Last year more than a million hectares were destroyed during a fortnight of fires that devastated parts of Queensland unaccustomed to bushfires of that scale," Mr Millar said.
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MESSAGE FROM PRIME MINISTER AHMAD QAVAM TO AMBASSADOR SADCHIKOV ABOUT A JOINT OIL COMPANY
The Shah of Iran agrees to starting a Soviet-Iranian oil company using oil from Northern Iran. The letter contains Iran's conditions for this company and the promise that a treaty will soon follow this letter.
"Message from Prime Minister Ahmad Qavam to Ambassador Sadchikov About a Joint Oil Company ," April 04, 1946, History and Public Policy Program Digital Archive, GAPPOD AzR, f.1 op.89, d.113. Obtained for CWIHP by Jamil Hasanli and translated for CWIHP by Gary Goldberg. https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/120469
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Letter of [Prime Minister Ahmad] Qavam to Sadchikov about a joint oil company
Mister Ambassador!
In addition to the verbal discussions held between us, I have the honor to report to you that the government of His Majesty the Shah of Iran has agreed that the governments of Iran and the Soviet Union form a joint Soviet-Iranian company to explore and exploit oil fields in northern Iran in the following conditions:
1. For the first 25 years of operation of the company 49% of the stock will belong to the Iranian side and 51% to the Soviet side; for the second 25 years 50% of the stock will belong to the Iranian side and 50% to the Soviet side.
2. Profits received by the company will be shared in accordance with the size of the shares of each side.
3. The boundaries of the initial territory of the company intended for carrying out prospecting work will be those designated on a map which you handed me during a conversation on 24 March, with the exception of the part of the territory of western Azerbaijan situated along a line leading from the intersection of the Soviet, Turkish, and Iranian borders to the south along the eastern shore of Lake Rezaye, to the city of Miandub, as is additionally indicated on the above map of 4 April 1946; the Iranian government commits itself not to give the territory situated west of the designated line in a concession to either foreign companies, Iranian companies with foreign participation, or [those] using foreign capital.
4. The capital of the Iranian side will consist of the oil-bearing land mentioned in article 3 which, after conducting technical work, will have oil wells whose production will be used by the company. The capital of the Soviet side will consist of all the kinds of expenses, equipment, and wages of specialists and workers who will be needed to extract and process the oil.
5. The period of operation of the company is 50 years.
6. On cessation of the period of activity of the company the Iranian government will have the right to buy the shares of the Soviet side or extend the period of operation of the company.
Guarding of the region where prospecting work will be conducted, and [where] the oil wells and all the enterprises of the company [are to be located] will be conducted exclusively by Iranian security organs.
A treaty about the organization of a Soviet-Iranian oil company, which will be concluded later according to the text of this letter, will be presented for approval as soon as the new Majlis [Translator’s note: the Iranian parliament] begins its legislative activity, in any case no later than 7 months, counting from 24 March of this year.
Please accept, Mister Ambassador, expressions of my highest regard for you.
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Qavam, Ahmad, -1955
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February 23, 2011 Alabama
Republican Governors Differ With Wisconsin Governor’s Tactics
By Cynthia McCabe
If Wisconsin’s Gov. Scott Walker assumed he’d have the unwavering backing of his Republican gubernatorial colleagues around the country as he seeks to strip public employees of their rights, he appears to be mistaken.
From Florida to Iowa, governors are publicly stating that they don’t agree with Walker’s scorched-earth approach to revoking the right of public workers in his state to organize. Tens of thousands have marched on the Wisconsin Tstatehouse in Madison during the past week, in protest of Walker’s tactics.
That outpouring of sentiment by public workers and their supporters has rippled out from Wisconsin, with similar uprisings growing in Ohio, Idaho and Indiana.
Florida’s Republican Gov. Rick Scott told Tallahassee’s radio station WFLA FM, “My belief is as long as people know what they’re doing, collective bargaining is fine.”
Iowa’s Gov. Terry Branstad said in his weekly news conference Monday that he doesn’t favor Walker’s approach. “I think we should appeal to their (unions’) fairness and equality in doing what’s right and come back and work something out that’s more reasonable that won’t result in the level of layoffs that we’re looking at.”
In Pennsylvania, Gov. Tom Corbett told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “We’ll begin negotiations with the public-sector unions and anticipate we’ll conduct those in good faith.”
Indiana’s Gov. Mitch Daniels said that he’s not sending the state police after anybody in his state and said that an approach like Walker’s is too alienating and potentially jeopardizes meaningful education reform.
“I’m not gonna divert a single trooper from their job of protection the Indiana public. I trust that people’s consciences will bring them back to work,” Daniels said. “For reasons I’ve explained more than once I thought there was a better time and place to have this very important and legitimate issue raised.” He added, “I’ll also say I think it would have the potential — just tactically — to possibly reduce or wreck the chances for education reform and local government reform and criminal justice reform and the things we have a wonderful chance to do.”
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I think it is funny that Florida Gov. Rick Scott said, “My belief is as long as people know what they’re doing, collective bargaining is fine.” He supports the anti-union legislation that is being introduced in the state of Florida.
Kerry Hyman says:
I’m a Pennsylvania teacher of 23 years, and my summers (summers off- what a laugh!!!) have been spent working on concrete construction crews and doing side-jobs; anything I could to realize our slice of the American Dream. I typify the middle class taxpayer who is so busy with their life that they don’t have time to look into what’s really happening in the USA. Lately, I have taken some time to do some homework:
Before 1980 the MEGA rich were taxed 70-90% (Google it if you don’t believe me). The premise was that if the rich earned, say $50 million/yr., they could still live quite comfortably on $500,000 to $1,500,00. So guess what the MEGA rich did to get their tax breaks? They created a PAYROLL, invested in CORPORATE AMERICA, invested in JOB CREATION, invested in PHILANTHROPY, etc., in other words, they invested in AMERICA.
Since the 1980′s, our fiscally conservative politicians’ pushed for supply side economics, or “Reaganomics.” They claimed that the rich knew best how to create wealth in AMERICA, and that the gusher of capital would “trickle down” to the middle class and poor. So Reagan (yes, I voted for him based on his sincerity…) reduced taxes on the MEGA rich from 70% to 28%, which lifted the tax burden off of the rich and put it squarely on the shoulders of the middle class and poor.
What did the rich do to return the favor? The answer is: they OUTSOURCED our jobs, quit the silly philanthropy, and flooded FORIEGN markets with AMERICAN capital to realize a greater return on their investments in a global economy. Great business! Recently, the feds deregulated our financial sector to encourage their creativity (a move that brought us to the brink of economic disaster: too big to fail, so our govt. bailed them out with hundreds of billions of our tax $$$) oh, yea, Wall Street still dished out over $20 billion in bonuses to its brokers. And now, after 30 years of tax breaks, the rich have managed to destroy this country in ways the communists never dreamed of.
Our fiscally conservative politicians, whose elections were funded by these guys, don’t want to talk about this because they are buried deep in the pockets of the MEGA rich, and wouldn’t dare double cross their friends in high places.
Like I said, I’ve been busy teaching, coaching and working summers, and I didn’t put it together until our governor stared us down and said boldly, “everyone” must sacrifice, when what he really meant was- teachers, and those damnable unions that represent them, must sacrifice! But the ultra-rich, those who could most afford to help out and do their fair share, can continue to skate.
If the middle class doesn’t wake up soon, the next stop for AMERICA will be a fate similar to the Banana Republics’ where all we can do is protest outside the gated communities until they roll out the National Guard to disburse us…
What will happen to the United States of America’s economic might when the massive middle class has been stripped of what little buying power they have left? In my opinion, this situation is a National Security issue, and we are like fiddlers on the roof while Rome burns…
Wonder how the CEOs, hedge fund managers and other traitors to to American people will make out following the money, say in China, for instance…?
You all make very valid points. In addition to everything that was already stated, let’s not forget that teachers also have to pay to renew their teaching license after they prove that they have successfully completed the coursework that they paid for! How many other professions are there that require license renewal to keep a job? Possibly Doctors, Dentists, plumbers, electricians, those are a few I can think of, but I don’t think there are many in the private sector with comparable degrees as educators who have to maintain a license. I have relatives with BS degrees in the private sector who are always bashing teachers, yet with fewer years working than I with a MS degree, make more than I do. They hold business meetings on golf courses, receive nice bonuses from their companies, receive “kick back” gifts from their business accounts, get anywhere from four to six weeks of paid vacation time which can be taken at anytime of the year, not just when school isn’t in session etc.. Who really are the “haves” vs. the “have nots”? I don’t retire with health insurance benefits in place for the rest of my life! Politicians do! We could go on and on, but I really wonder if it matters that we try to justify our bargaining rights importance. There will always be people who believe the grass is greener on the otherside of the fence. Unfortunate that they don’t realize that if they really think we have it so good they too can go to school get that degree and become a teacher! Oh what a rude awakening that would be. I am thankful for those people fighting in Madison and across our country, and I hope the democrats stay out of the state in hiding and fight the good fight!
Bill Urbanski says:
Workers rights are human rights. When there’s no justice, there’s no peace. Gov. Walker’s actions have consequences. He may win in the short run by taking away workers right to collective bargain, but he won’t win in the long run, because he can’t prevent mass collective action by people in the streets. He can either negotiate at the table with collective bargaining, or he will have to deal with street protests to resolve labor issues. Which one makes more sense?
Governor Walker’s messages are so full of false innuendos…Especially the Republican lobbiest produced paid forTV commercials…Teacher’s have always paid their fair share… the reason they have good benefits is because they were asked to take those versesa pay raise…year after year . . . (cheaper for districts). Then For 10 years WI forced QEI no one mentions that…Forced to not get raises ! No money in the coffers to pay Teachers for those 10 years …yet we had to watch legislators, and most other community and state employees get raises ! ! !
Also the benefits (you say we get) to our pension fund were not paid by our districts in lean years, Many communities used the money elsewhere for other needs… What did The pension Board do with all the overdo IOU’s owed on our behalf ? Charge communities interest.? ..NO, we flet sorry for the communities and forgave their debt….But Oh No we are portrayed as Public employees who don’t pay our fair share… We have always overpaid and forgave our debtors their short comings…. …WE PAY the same taxes that everyone else in our income bracket does…We don’t get exempt like the ultra rich . . . .Also, Our pension fund doesn’t give us as much as we could be getting; because, tens of millions of dollars were not paid by many communities, they said they’d pay in for us but, didn’t. . . All we have is just torn up IOU’s… Teacher’s worked for low wages for decades and decades in the past with the promise of the pension…now we are to feel guilty about getting it ? We were paid less than the PRIVATE EMPLOYEE with our equal or less education levels… (Additional education Which we paid for ourselves / not classes paid by an industry employer to improve their employees skills.) Continuous improvement required for us to keep our positions in the school district !
Why do people believe anything these Republicans and billionaire business lobbiest put on the airways to brainwash the public against us ? They are getting richer not Joe Public employee or he/she wouldn’t be complaining. .. .Don’t the fellow citizens realize we are the group that try so hard to make you and your children as intellegent as they can be while they are our students…. So they each can go on in higher education, to be able to then get high paying careers to support themselves and later be able to take care of you their parents…as you age… ? ! Please think and help legislation not make a big mistake for now and your own futures.
kristy gerling says:
I don’t think it could have been said better!
Well said. Your restraint is admirable!
Debbie K says:
@ Stephen:
You stated that teachers work for 10 months a year and are paid for 12.
Not true.
In this school district; teachers have the option of being paid more for 10 months and receive nothing the other two or receiving 12 equal payments. . . .most people opt for 12 equal payments because its easier to buget.
And teachers are expected to take classes/attend seminars during the summer to stay current in their topics – on their own dime.
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Title: Distance learning between image and class for object recognition
Authors: Wang, Zhengxiang.
Keywords: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Image processing and computer vision
Source: Wang, Z. (2013). Distance learning between image and class for object recognition. Doctoral thesis, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Abstract: Object recognition is an active research topic in the computer vision community. Recently a novel Image-to-Class (I2C) distance has been proposed to handle this problem, which classifies images using a simple Naive-Bayes based nearest-neighbor (NBNN) classifier but provides surprisingly excellent performance. This new distance provides a novel direction that avoids feature quantization and shows better generalization capability than the traditional Image-to-Image (I2I) distance. However, the computation cost of calculating this distance is too expensive since its performance relies heavily on searching the nearest neighbor (NN) from a large number of training features, and the label information of the training data is not fully used, which limits its recognition performance. In this thesis, we aim to improve both the recognition performance and efficiency of this I2C distance as well as to extend its application field. First of all, we add a training phase to this distance for improving its recognition performance by learning a weighted I2C distance. A large margin optimization framework is proposed to learn the I2C distance function, which is modeled as a weighted combination of the distance from every local feature in an image to its NN in a candidate class. We learn these weights associated with local features in the training set by constraining the optimization such that the I2C distance from image to its belonging class should be less than that to any other class. To reduce the computation cost, we also propose two methods based on spatial division and hubness score to accelerate the NN search, which is able to largely reduce the on-line testing time while still preserving or even achieving a better classification accuracy. Secondly, we propose a distance metric learning method to further improve the performance of I2C distance by learning Per-Class Mahalanobis metrics. This Mahalanobis I2C distance is adaptive to different classes by combining with the learned metric for each class. These multiple Per-Class metrics are learned simultaneously by forming a convex optimization problem and solved by an efficient subgradient descent method. For efficiency and scalability to large-scale problems, we also show how to simplify the method to learn a diagonal matrix for each class. Thirdly, we extend the object recognition to the multi-label problem and propose a Class-to-Image (C2I) distance, which shows better performance than the I2C distance for multi-label image classification. However, since the number of local features in a class is huge compared to that in an image, the calculation of the C2I distance is more expensive than the one of I2C distance. Moreover, the label information of training images can be used to help select relevant local features for each class and further improve the recognition performance. Therefore, to make the C2I distance faster and perform better, we propose an optimization algorithm using L_1-norm regularization and large margin constraint to learn the C2I distance, which can not only reduce the number of local features in the class feature set, but also improve the performance of the C2I distance due to the use of label information. We also use this C2I distance for object localization, so that it can tell not only whether a candidate class appears in a test image, but also where it locates. With these three works, we are able to improve the recognition performance and efficiency of the I2C distance and make it applicable for the multi-label problem. Therefore, the learned distance between image and class would be more practical for real world object recognition applications.
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Canadian car sales predicted to stay strong throughout 2015
Kia recalling nearly 87,000 of its 2014 Forte sedans due to fire hazard
Mini Minor could return as entry-level hatchback
Hyundai executive says lower gas prices won't affect vehicle sales in a negative way
by Greg Quinn | January 26, 2015
2015 Hyundai Santa Fe SportNick Tragianis
Canada’s automobile sales will remain at record highs this year, bucking central bank concerns that a drop in oil prices will lead to an economic slowdown, says Hyundai Canada president Don Romano.
The Bank of Canada’s surprise decision to cut interest rates this week will offset worries about job security and energy-company cutbacks, Romano said, adding the prospects for a recovery are good after a short-term slowdown.
“For right now, there is understandable concern,” he said. “We try and look at it longer term, and the fundamentals of the economy are strong, and the Canadian economy is in a position to deal with this on a short-term basis.”
Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz’s surprise interest-rate cut on Jan. 21 came with a warning that lower oil prices threatened to spark a cycle of reduced investment, job losses and housing-market weakness. Poloz cited the example of an Alberta energy worker who doesn’t feel confident about the economy and delays buying a new pickup truck.
Automobile sales set records in 2013 and 2014 as low interest rates and promotions stoked demand. Sales rose 6.1 per cent last year to 1.85 million cars and light trucks, according to DesRosiers Automotive Consultants Inc.
“We had a record industry last year, we are going to do about the same this year,” Romano said. “It reflects a strong economy.”
Romano declined to provide a sales estimate for his own company this year.
In December the Bank of Canada said it would monitor risks in the automobile financing market, including longer-terms loans designed to compete with lease payments. Record consumer debt burdens are a major risk to the domestic economy, the central bank said last month and in this week’s rate decision.
Hyundai opened a financing unit that provides leases in an effort to give customers alternatives to taking out longer-term loans arranged through commercial banks. Romano said the bank loans, with terms of up to eight years, make it harder to build customer loyalty.
“The bigger concern is that the longer-term financing keeps them out of the market for a longer period of time,” he said. “We are really just trying to, as an industry, get the customers off of the longer-term financing.”
Canadian Markets
DesRosiers Automotive Consultants Inc.
Don Romano
Fossil Fuel Energy Production
Markham (Ontario)
Stephen Poloz
Simulators teach young drivers skills that classes can't
Defenders of the Realm: Classic SUVs are off-road icons
Robust Unimog a no-nonsense, do-anything beast
Sharing drunk driving checkpoint locations solves nothing
Hyundai raises price of Palisade slightly amid booming popularity
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Thursday at 10
Thirteen-year-old ChaseDreams becomes a famous singer overnight; meanwhile, his two older siblings, Brooke and Cary, do not.
Chase Goes to a Premiere
Chase, now a social media influencer, is invited to attend the movie premiere for "When in Gnome”; Brooke and Cary, who are not influencers of any kind, tag along.
Chase Gets a Girlfriend
Chase collaborates with another up-and-coming singer, forcing Brooke and Cary to confront their own relationships.
Chase Gets the Gays
Chase releases a socially progressive music video that is very much about Cary; and Brooke begins her new life as her little brother's personal assistant.
Chase Goes to a High School Dance
Chase goes to a school dance with a young fan. Brooke and Cary accompany him and try to have the high school experiences they never had as teens.
Chase Shoots a Music Video
Chase shoots a new music video that is borderline disgusting; Brooke confronts her past as a professional dancer; and Cary takes a big swing and debuts a new look to advance his career.
Chase Gets a Nosebleed
Brooke finds that it's hard to date with a famous brother; Cary tries to befriend a group of Instagays to help his chances of getting a part in a new Ryan Murphy miniseries.
Chase Turns Fourteen
Streeter throws Chase a 14th birthday party at a wildly inappropriate club; Brooke and Cary each reconnect with a guy from their past; Pat takes molly with a girl named Mona.
Chase Drops His First Album
Chase throws an album release party on a plane, and a devastating family secret is accidentally exposed on the live stream.
Chase Performs at the VMAs
Chase performs live for the first time ever, and Brooke and Cary get life-changing news.
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The effect of modafinil on behavioural and ERP correlates of inhibitory control in healthy, non-sleep deprived individuals
De Angelis, OJ 2016 , 'The effect of modafinil on behavioural and ERP correlates of inhibitory control in healthy, non-sleep deprived individuals', Honours thesis, University of Tasmania.
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Modafinil is a novel wakefulness-promoting medication that has become popularised for purposes of cognitive enhancement. Research has indicated that modafinil may improve inhibitory control-related functioning, though to date no studies have attempted to explore these effects using electrophysiological methods. This study investigated the effect of 200mg of modafinil on behavioural (RT and accuracy) and electrophysiological (N2 amplitude) correlates of inhibitory control within a sample of 18 healthy, non-sleep deprived males aged 19-27 years. Participants completed pre- and post-ingestion versions of a Flanker Go/Nogo paradigm over two double-blind, placebo-controlled experimental conditions. Results indicated that while modafinil maintained baseline levels of mood, sleepiness and alertness to a significantly greater extent than placebo, no effect on inhibitory control processes was observed on RT, accuracy, or amplitude of the N2 component. Despite this, tentative evidence was found for an overall improvement in processing speed following modafinil ingestion, independent of inhibitory control processes. Future research is necessary to investigate these effects further, and determine the extent to which they manifest independently from fatigue-inducing environments.
Thesis - Honours
De Angelis, OJ
Modafinil, attention, executive functions, cognitive enhancement, event-related potentials, N2
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New Classic LA
Aperture Duo
Aperture Duo curates fearless programs that explore new sounds, voices, and techniques through the lens of violin and viola chamber music. Lauded for their “precision and interpretation” along with their “distinct sense of unity and independence” (icareifyoulisten.com), Los Angeles-based Aperture Duo was founded in 2015 by violinist Adrianne Pope and violist Linnea Powell. Equally at home performing old and new music, Aperture Duo actively commissions diverse new works to expand the violin and viola duo repertoire. Performance credits include Tuesdays @ Monk Space, the main stage at the Carlsbad Music Festival, Music at Boston Court, L.A. Signal Lab, LA Downtown Art Walk, Brooklyn’s Home Audio Concert Series, UC Santa Barbara Summer Music Festival, Window Concert Series at the Craft in America Center, and Hear Now Music Festival.
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Welsh Care Homes Review (BBC Wales / Older People’s Commissioner for Wales)
Posted on November 11, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News
Summary A review of the quality of life for residents of care homes in Wales has found that many older people have an unacceptable quality of life and tend to become institutionalised quickly. Care homes tend to be perceived as … Continue reading →
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Weekend Hospital Care: Seven-Day Working (BBC News / NHS England / HEE / GMC)
Posted on December 15, 2013 by Dementia and Elderly Care News
Summary NHS England medical director Professor Sir Bruce Keogh has announced that hospitals in England will be required to ensure consultants and key diagnostic tests are available seven days a week. Research into the “weekend effect” has suggested for some years that hospital mortality … Continue reading →
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Exposing Election Fraud and Restoring Voting Rights:
Democracy Counts’ Same-Day Election Audit SystemTM
Democracy Counts, a nonprofit non-partisan tech company, has developed the processes and software to audit elections in real time, so injured parties can seek judicial redress the day after their elections.
America’s patchwork of weak and vulnerable vote-counting machinery, including our notorious paperless touch-screen systems, is disturbingly vulnerable to fraud. There is substantial circumstantial, statistical and anecdotal evidence that such fraud is common. If true, then some elected officials were not legitimately elected and do not represent the majority of their voters. This has inspired widespread belief that elections in America are being rigged, by both parties, undermining the legitimacy of government and its officials. Lack of transparency and verifiability contributes to this belief.
Evidence pointing to fraud or serious error will provide the direct evidence that courts require to enjoin questionable election results and order investigations and corrective actions. Our tools can also measure the effects of voter suppression, providing civil liberties groups the evidence required to prove Constitutional injury. When fraud and suppression are absent the findings will help restore confidence and legitimacy where trust has been eroded.
The audit is an insurance policy for candidates challenging local interests exercising strong control over local election machinery, a tool for citizens’ groups to hold their governments accountable, a new tool for minorities to build a new voting rights movement, and a way for governments to assure citizens of their elections’ integrity.
Multiple data streams are collected in mobile apps that transmit over encrypted channels to secure distributed databases. An exit-vote app is used to re-record voters’ preferences after they leave their polling stations; a non-voter app is used to quantify suppression; an official-data app is used to record and preserve local data before it is transmitted to the Secretary of State. This data is then compared to official results and flagged for review when anomalies are discovered.
An observer’s app allows voters and others to report qualitative evidence of illegal behavior. Any data with evidentiary value is then turned over to interested parties for their use in any legal actions they may take. The software is transparent and end-to-end verifiable and will compare favorably with the vulnerable systems that lend themselves to abuse. After each election the data will be placed in a public data repository for scholarly use.
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YOUR VOTE IS YOUR VOICE
The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Dec 10, 1948
The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government
This shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections
Voting is a ‘civic duty’
The same as taxation or jury duty
Everyone must embrace their responsibility to participate in the political process as an opportunity to be part of building the environment in which they live and work.
Thomas Jefferson said, “We do not have a government by a majority of the people, we have a government by a majority of the people who participate.”
Despite all of the U.S. media’s coverage of Elections, a majority of eligible voters will likely duck their civic duty on Election Day.
22 nations around the world make voting mandatory for its citizens, often starting at age 18. Several of these countries are in Latin America, and the others in the remaining continents.
For example, in Australia the failure to vote can result in a $20 fine. In the event of court proceedings being required, the fine can be increased to $50 and the non-voter is liable for court costs. On some occasions, if the fine is still not paid, defaulters have been imprisoned as being in contempt of court.
President Obama in a March 19, 2015 made arguments hinting that maybe, we should have mandatory voting in this country.
The three world most revered men of the 20th Century, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela each fought non-violent battles to secure voting rights for their people.
In the last two hundred plus years, millions of people have given their lives so that their countrymen could exercise “the right of fair representation”. George Washington fought England for the same reasons.
We need to change public attitude on voting. I appeal to you to become advocates among your peers, your friends, your family and anyone you know to convince them that their civic duty, their obligation, their responsibility is to “Register and VOTE at all local, state and national elections”.
School Boards, City Councils, County Commissions, Courts, State Offices, State Senate and State House all directly impact our lives more than presidential elections do.
Tarek Lucien Radjef – PISD, Dallas, Collin, Texas, USA.
Your Vote Is Your Voice flyer.docx is a downloadable copy of this flyer.
An Open Letter to Tom Steyer
Note to the reader:
On August 20 we mailed this letter to Mr. Tom Steyer. For those who don’t know him, he is a billionaire investor who has taken it upon himself to buck the Democratic Party establishment and push for the President’s impeachment, for which he has reportedly spent $40 million of his own money to raise interest around the country in impeachment. He has also pledged to spend $110 million on his new organization NextGen America to get young people to the polls. In this letter we are asking for his support as a kind of insurance policy for his work. We invite you to share the letter with anyone you know who may know him, to tweet him with it, to share it on your social media page, and/or to send it to your friends and anyone else you think might be interested in the issue. We thank you in advance.
Democracy Counts!, Inc.
Mr. Tom Steyer
NextGen America
Dear Mr. Steyer:
As Michael Roman, Special Assistant to our current President put it, “If an election is worth winning, then there is someone willing to steal it.”
As you know, our elections are rife with error, vulnerable to fraud, and plagued by voter suppression under color of law, and these factors may have put the President over the top in the states that gave him the Electoral College. They could give it to him again. And they may be flipping other elections as well.
NextGen America might get millions of young people to the polls, but if the referee can choose unelected winners with impunity those young people – as well as the rest of us – will feel betrayed.
The means now exists to prevent this.
Before I explain, let me introduce myself. My name is Daniel Wolf and I am the founder and CEO of Democracy Counts!, Inc., a nonprofit tech startup in San Diego that has developed the software and processes to conduct same-day election audits. I have a law degree from Harvard Law School, where I wrote the world’s first country-specific election observation manual (for Nicaragua), and continued my work on elections and democratization in Political Science at U.C. San Diego and wrote several well-regarded analyses of its elections. I started two other tech companies, for which I co-invented the technologies, have run a public company, was the founding director of the TransBorder Institute at the University of San Diego, received Fulbright, Thomas J. Watson, Jr. and Tinker Foundation Fellowships, and served on the board of the Fulbright Academy for Science and Technology.
Now to explain.
We have developed a citizen-led way to expose and correct future errors and theft.
Democracy Counts! has developed a citizen-run audit system that produces reliable comparison data in real time so that, if the official results differ significantly, injured parties can seek injunctions and investigative orders as early as the day after the election. In addition it quantifies the effects of voter suppression so as to provide standing and evidence for lawsuits against partisan voter I.D. laws and other forms of suppression.
Had our audit system been used in 2000 in Florida it would have provided grounds for legal action against the Secretary of State’s stripping of tens of thousands of voters from the rolls. If used in 2004 in Ohio it would have provided independent evidence as to whether the official results that narrowly gave Bush the Electoral College were legitimate – or if the election polls that gave Kerry a wide margin of victory were telling the truth. Had it been used in 2016, the results of Michigan’s ancient Scantrons, Pennsylvania’s numerous paperless electronic voting machines, and Wisconsin’s voter suppression might have been enjoined and investigated.
We have been working in obscurity, entirely bootstrapped, for almost three years to develop these audit tools and processes. We conducted a pilot in San Diego, Los Angeles, and Berkeley in California’s 2016 primary, using an early version of our app and a Fulcrum app for backup. With no prior publicity, voter education, signage or advertisements, over 90 percent of voters at the polling stations participated in the exit-vote function. We demonstrated that the logistics are manageable, that voters will cooperate, that we can collect useful data, and that we can manage interactions with officialdom. We are confident of our ability to implement the system and are working a concrete plan to audit key November 2018 elections.
Because control of the Congress is in play, in turn putting at risk the ability of certain Republicans to protect the President, the stakes this November could hardly be higher. Consequently, the incentives for local party machines to put their thumbs on the scales are stronger than ever before. Those that try must be exposed and thwarted if we are, first, to protect the integrity of our representative form of government and, second, to restore faith in it.
It is urgent that we begin to hold our electoral systems strictly accountable.
Errors (and probably fraud) flourish in our elections because there is little independent oversight, no negative consequences for the party or candidate who wins illegitimately, and practically no risk of discovery and punishment for the people who actually cause or permit errors or engage in criminal misconduct. Democracy Counts!’ real-time citizen audits, however, will change this picture, by forcing law enforcement investigations, expose illegitimate winners to reversal, and perpetrators to prosecution. The increase in risk of exposure and punishment, from near-zero to anything significant, will encourage accuracy and deter fraud in all but the most high-stakes and resource-rich elections.
This level of effectiveness will not remain the province of one party. Our mission is to provide independent oversight, regardless of political affiliation, in order to ensure that the voice of the people is heard. We will therefore make our audit system available to everyone, everywhere; it can and eventually will be used by Republicans to audit elections run by Democrats, especially in places like Chicago and Albany. That is only right and fair: In a democracy all political parties should compete on a level playing field. In the longer term it will actually be good for the Democratic Party because it will force ossified Democratic machines to compete on the basis of ideas and popularity rather than patronage and control.
Once we have it dialed in for the US we will make the system available as a SaaS to anyone, in the US or abroad, who wants to impose accountability on their local systems. Party representatives in several countries have made informal inquiries, and USAID employees, who assist countries in setting up free and fair elections, have expressed interest.
What is to be done?
Our immediate goal is to audit at least one major race this November 6. Our timeline is short; we are now rallying public support and interest to get us to that goal. A significant audit would demonstrate the audit’s utility, to challengers, parties, and civil society (especially if it exposes an attempted theft of a Senate seat). And it would give us the experience and public support necessary to audit and safeguard all of the battleground states in 2020.
The Senate races in Missouri and Florida are good candidates for audits because the motive, means, and opportunity for fraud are in bountiful supply: The races are very close, the rolls and voting machines are known to be vulnerable, the election apparata are in the hands of radical Republicans, Russian hackers allegedly have already been active, and above all, the races are highly consequential for control of the US Senate. This translates to a heightened probability of foul play.
Conducting a state-wide audit in the remaining time is a big, tall, and difficult task, but with adequate resources we can do it. The logistical and operational challenges are similar to those of a statewide political campaign.
The plan and the resources required
We plan during these last 11 weeks to conduct a social media campaign to raise awareness, raise more funds, recruit and train citizen auditors, configure the software, engage civic organizations in joint voter education campaigns, and set up data analysis and legal teams.
Our budget worksheets suggest marginal costs on the order of $1.5 million per state, the majority of which is driven by the number of polling places audited and the size of auditor stipends. Successful recruitment of large numbers of volunteers would reduce audit costs, but we must assume that stipends will be required to assure adequate recruitment in the scarce time remaining. About $150,000 of the total budget for each state would be used to assist civil society organizations to conduct voter education. $1 million should be adequate for our backend setup, organizational overhead, continuing development and early planning for 2020.
Sociopolitical support from influential figures like yourself is desirable. It will enhance our credibility, lead to more informed and favorable coverage in mainstream and social media, and enhance our standing in court should we expose errors or tampering. Furthermore, though our system does not require the cooperation of officials, their acquiescence, or at least non-interference, based on respect for our shared interests in transparency and verifiability, would reduce controversy and friction on election day and ease the tasks of auditor recruitment and voter education.
Mr. Steyer, we request that you commit a substantial sum – at least $1 million – to start this train rolling, that you throw your support behind it publicly, and that you facilitate introductions to other influencers and backers. This will impart political credibility and allow us to quickly demonstrate our operational credibility. Nearly 100 percent of people we explain the system to get excited, and our existing crowdfunding appeal, with minimal publicity, is already priming the pump. We are optimistic that with our credibility established it will be relatively easy to raise the additional funds required to cover the difference between your contribution and the need.
Benjamin Franklin famously quipped that the Framers had created “a republic, if you can keep it”. If we cannot make sure that it is the voters who choose our leaders then we will not be able to keep it.
Whether it’s Russian hackers playing with voter registration lists, insiders flipping votes, or simply obsolete and error-prone equipment tending to favor established interests, election manipulation will produce larger unrepresentative legislative majorities, in turn allowing more gerrymandered districts, greater incumbency advantage, ever-stricter voter suppression laws and practices, and increasingly partisan election workers wielding increasingly manipulated election machinery, ad infinitum. The end result could be permanent control of our government by illegitimate interests, such that over time our judiciary will grow more bound to those interests and less apt to maintain the rule of law.
Under present conditions it is only too easy to engineer illegitimate victories. And once a “winner” is announced, truth makes no difference because, barring overwhelming evidence of massive fraud, courts will not remove a certified winner.
America’s vote counting systems therefore must be held to account before the results are certified. We must prevent errors, whether negligent or intentional, from putting into office candidates who did not genuinely win their elections. Theft of office is tantamount to theft of our democracy.
I would be pleased to discuss our system and its implementation in greater detail with you. If you will share your assistant’s contact information with me I will follow up.
/s/ Daniel H. Wolf
San Diego, California, 92104 USA
Email: d.wolf@democracycounts.org
www.democracycounts.org
PS: To demonstrate to you the breadth of support our tool can generate we are making this letter public and will be encouraging people to bring it to your attention. If your feeds begin to fill up with talk about this you now will know why. Our pleasure. 🙂
Democracy Counts Plan for Implementation of Audit for November 2018
Leveraging our existing funds: Conduct an intensive two-month marketing campaign concentrating on Millennials, potential auditors, influencers, and liberal high-net-worth individuals, with extra outreach in Missouri, Florida, and one or two other jurisdictions where we may conduct an audit, with the goal of raising at least $2.5 million, collecting names, and building lists of potential citizen auditors.
Building on resulting awareness and credibility: On October 1 launch an intensive recruitment campaign for citizen auditors in the jurisdictions we have chosen for audits, using social media, conventional media, and direct cooperation with civil society groups.
Establishing operational capacity: For each state or jurisdiction being audited, hire a campaign director who has run a state-level political campaign to rent adequate space, recruit operational staff, establish relationships with local officials, and plan the detailed logistics for bringing auditors on, training them, establishing security (cyber and physical) processes, and coordinating with participating civil society organizations, all of which will come together on election day. (Note: An audit campaign resembles a political campaign in its logistical complexity and rising operational intensity, though not in its mission or messaging.)
Conducting voter education: The exit vote and suppressed-voter functions of the app require that such voters be made aware of “who those people are and what they’re doing”, and that they be encouraged to participate “in order to protect their votes”. A short but intensive marketing campaign is required.
Establishing analytic and legal capacity: For each state or jurisdiction being audited, hire a data analysis director, recruit data experts from universities and private industry, organize procedures for election night data analysis, and test scenarios and adjust; recruit a legal director with data analysis skills, recruit and educate additional attorneys with election law backgrounds, and establish protocols for managing and transmitting data-as-evidence to injured parties; assign responsibility for different types of expertise required for expert testimony in court and to the press.
(PDF: Democracy Counts to Tom Steyer, Public Letter, Final, 8-20-2018)
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War of the Rebellion: Serial 021 Page 0670 W.FLA., S.FLA., S.MISS., LA., TEX., N.MEX. Chapter XXVII.
Leaving out of the question these reasons for recovering this country by troops of the so-called Southern Confederacy, the probabilities of an invasion cease. At this moment I consider such probabilities so remote as to justify me in employing the troops under my command in chastising the hostile tribes of Indians by which the settled portion of the Territory are surrounded. The Mescalero Apaches have been completely subdued. I have now 350 of that tribe at Fort Summer and en route thither. These comprise all that are left of those Indians, except a few who have either run off into Mexico or joined the Gila Apaches. I shall try to settle what have come in on a reservation near Fort Stanton and have them plant fields for their subsistence the coming year.
The expedition ordered into the Gila country has already been quite successful. Mangus Colorado, doubtless the worst Indian within our boundaries, and one who has been the cause of more murders and of more torturing and of burning at the stake in this country than all others together, has been killed; and in one battle a few days since over 20 of his followers were killed (the bodies counted) and quite an amount of stock captured. Amongst this stock were found some of the United States mules captured from one of our trains in an attack made on it by these Indians last November on the Jornada del Muerto. Hostilities against the Gila Apaches are now prosecuted with vigor and will be productive of lasting benefits.
The evidences of rich gold fields and of veins of silver and of inexhaustible mines of the richest copper in the country at the head of the Miembres River and along the country drained by the Upper Gila are of an undoubted character. It seems providential that the practical miners of California should have come here to assist in their discovery and development.
I have sent four companies of California Volunteers to garrison Fort West, in the Pinos Altos gold region. I beg to ask authority to let, say, one-fourth of the command at a time have one month's furlough to work in the gold mines on their own account. In this way the mines and the country will become developed, while the troops will become contented to remain in service where the temptation to leave it is very great.
By the time the spring opens the Apaches of the Gila will doubtless have been subdued, when I propose to punish the Navajo Indians for their recent murders and wholesale robberies. It is not practicable with my present force and amount of means to amen effective demonstrations on more than one tribe at a time. It may be set down as a rule that the Navajo Indians have long since passed that point when talking would be of any avail. They must be whipped and fear us before they will cease killing and robbing the people. All of the Colorado Volunteers have been ordered home.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
JAMES H. CARLETON,
Brigadier-General Commanding.
[FEBRUARY 1, 1863.-For Carleton to Adjutant-General U. S. Army, transmitting Major David Fergusson's report of survey of Port Lobos and Libertad, Gulf of California, &c., see Series III, Vol. III.]
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Corruption war: Uhuru suspends all procurement officers in gov’t
Uhuru-Kenyatta
NAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 4 – All Heads of Procurement and Accounting Units in government ministries have been ordered to step aside pending a fresh vetting exercise, a move aimed to root out corruption in the government workforce.
In a statement issued by Government Spokesperson through Mwenda Njoka on Monday, the public officers have been directed to step aside with immediate effect and handover to their deputies.
“Whereas the exercise is geared towards determining suitability to continue holding public office in the public trust and promote confidence in the public service, the same will be undertaken in a fair and objective manner, exercised with due care and regard to officers’ rights as enshrined in the constitution,” read part of the statement.
They have been further instructed them to submit their personal information including that of assets and liabilities to the Office of the Head of Public Service before end of the week.
The move comes at a time President Uhuru Kenyatta has reaffirmed his position on the fight on corruption warning that the first causalities would be rogue procurement officers in the government departments.
In his Madaraka Day speech, the Head of State ordered fresh vetting for all the procurement heads of government entities in new measures to fight corruption in the fight sector.
“All Heads of Procurement and Accounts in Government Ministries, Departments, Agencies and Parastatals will undergo fresh vetting, including polygraph testing, to determine their integrity and suitability,” President Kenyatta said while instructing that the vetting exercise is concluded before the start of the 20182019 Financial Year.
Kenyatta warned that those who failed to meet the vetting standards would be suspended and later be prosecuted if found culpable to have violated procurement laws.
Kenyatta who is serving his final term in office was categorical that his government will not tolerate corrupt officials who loot public resources at the expense of the tax payer.
He emphasized that it was necessary for corrupt individuals to be dealt with firmly in all sectors for the betterment of growth in the country.
“We must, with a sense of great urgency, destroy and eliminate corruption in our country before it fully destroys us and the future of our children,” he said at the event held at Kinoru Stadium.
It is during the celebrations where he proclaimed the introduction of lie detectors that will aid in the vetting process of the procurement officials.
On numerous occasions, Kenyatta has vowed to crack the whip on corrupt government officials saying that they will be left to carry their own cross, sentiments which have empowered the relevant government agencies that deal with graft.
The office of the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and that of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have since made tremendous strides on acting on existing scandals like that of the National Youth Service by apprehending the accused individuals.
Among government officials charged in the NYS scandal are Public Service and Youth Affairs Principal Secretary Lillian Omollo and NYS Director-General Richard Ndubai both of who have stepped aside from their dockets for three months.
The officials are among 57 individuals and companies facing Sh458million shillings scandal which is part of a multi-billion shillings procurement scam at the state running institution.
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What People Get Most Wrong About Unconditional Basic Income
byChrisAgnos
Many seem to only think of paid work as work, but unpaid work is valuable work too.
The idea of an unconditional basic income as a foundational social investment policy is an evolution of traditional safety nets in recognition of the evolution of work. In five years it’s gone from an idea few people had ever even heard of to one many now think they know all about, despite being misinformed by those who are themselves misinformed. As someone who’s focused solely on this idea since 2013, I see people getting a lot wrong about UBI, but there are primarily three things people get wrong most: UBI’s impact on work, the cost of implementing it, and the nature of the idea itself.
Traditional safety nets are targeted, meaning that only some people qualify, and only if they meet the requirements. What’s commonly not understood is that the targeting itself, not the money, creates a disincentive to work. Because benefits are withdrawn as income is earned, recipients can effectively see tax rates exceeding 100%. It’s like asking people whether they’d like money, or more or less the same money plus misery. Which would you prefer?
Contrary to conditional benefits, unconditional basic income has no disincentive to work. Because UBI is never withdrawn, everyone is always financially better off employed than not employed. UBI is a floor, not a ceiling. Without a disincentive to work, the incentive to work then rests on the shoulders of those offering the work. Traditionally this tends to take the form of higher wages, but it can also be more meaningful work or more flexible hours.
What we mean by working and not working is also important. Many seem to only think of paid work as work, but unpaid work is valuable work too, and not working can actually be finding better work. For example, income guarantee experiments have shown people work fewer hours in a year. You’d think that’s all you need to know, right? But what if you then learned people were spending two more weeks finding a higher-paying more meaningful job that better utilizes their skills? What if they were teenage dropouts, and what they were doing was going back to school? What if they were mothers of newborns and what they were doing was maternity leave parenting?
The details matter don’t they?
Another common misconception about UBI is that it massively increases taxes. This simply isn’t true. UBI is a unique policy of everyone paying to receive income security. If your taxes go up $6,000, that can sound like a big tax hike, but if it’s for the receipt of a fully refundable $12,000 tax credit, then it’s actually a $6,000 tax cut. The opposite is true for a billionaire paying $1 million for $12,000 instead of the existing $30,000 tax deduction for owning a mansion. Focusing on only one side of a two-sided transaction is misleading at best and purposely deceitful at worst. The net cost is what matters.
Aside from reducing most people’s tax burdens, UBI is a consolidation of hundreds of programs and tax expenditures combined with the freedom-enhancing elimination of their bureaucratic conditions. Instead of food stamps, a low-income person would receive UBI. Instead of the standard deduction, a middle-income person would receive UBI. Instead of a home mortgage interest deduction, a high-income person would receive UBI. The bulk of UBI already exists, just hugely inefficiently.
Net costing UBI also requires costing the lack of UBI. How much does economic insecurity cost by deteriorating health and increasing crime? What’s the productivity cost of disengaged workers underbidding machines in the pursuit of basic survival? The status quo isn’t free. If not having UBI costs over $1 trillion annually, which it does, and the net cost of UBI is less than $500 billion annually, which it is, then UBI saves more than it costs.
Is it expensive to save money?
Lastly, political polarization has been growing for decades to the point ideas can be dismissed or embraced immediately depending on the source. Conservatives who read a progressive piece can therefore think UBI is leftist, and vice versa for leftists reading conservative pieces, but UBI isn’t left or right, it’s forward. It’s been embraced across the entire political spectrum, from Milton Friedman to Martin Luther King, Jr. It’s supported by billionaires like Elon Musk and it’s supported by the Poor People’s Campaign. Its support is unbounded.
UBI is also an idea that requires study to appreciate the breadth of the arguments. One article isn’t enough. One video isn’t enough. Entire books have been written about it that don’t cover everything. That’s really the big challenge, that UBI feels like a simple idea that can be judged in an instant, when it’s actually a complex idea to be discussed across conventional ideological lines.
From improved physical and mental health, to reduced crime, to increased productivity, to smaller government, to increased bargaining power, to reduced effective tax rates, to increased entrepreneurship, to better educational outcomes, to economic multiplier effects, there’s a growing body of evidence in support of a foundational floor of unconditional financial security. Together these reasons form a picture of indispensability. This is especially true as automation continues transforming how we work, making inflexible non-universal safety net conditionality increasingly unable to cope with a rapidly evolving twenty-first century labor market.
Basically, to be against UBI is understandable as long as one misunderstands UBI. But to be against UBI once one fully understands it and the realities of ongoing technological disruption, that’s what’s truly difficult to understand.
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Subtle Art author Mark Manson will get real in his next book, Everything is F—ed
By David Canfield
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Mark Manson gave countless readers some very timely advice with his 2016 mega-best-seller, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, a guidebook for how to get through some troubled times. Don’t expect to find quite as much solace in his follow-up — instead, readers will get a brutally fun reality check.
EW can exclusively announce that Manson will next publish Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope with Harper this spring. In this anticipated follow-up, Manson turns his gaze from the inevitable flaws within each individual self to the endless calamities taking place in the world around us. Drawing from the pool of psychological research on these topics, as well as the timeless wisdom of philosophers such as Plato, Nietzsche, and Tom Waits, he dissects religion and politics and the uncomfortable ways they have come to resemble one another. He looks at our relationships with money, entertainment and the internet, and how too much of a good thing can psychologically eat us alive. He openly defies our definitions of faith, happiness, freedom — and even of hope itself.
As HarperCollins teases for EW, “Manson takes us by the collar and challenges us to be more honest with ourselves and connected with the world in ways we probably haven’t considered before. It’s another counterintuitive romp through the pain in our hearts and the stress of our soul.”
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck is a No. 1 New York Times best-seller, which has remained on the list nearly every week since its Sept. 2016 publication. It has sold more than six million copies worldwide.
Below, EW can exclusively reveal the cover for Everything Is F*cked, as well as the tour that Manson is set to embark on this summer, including dates and locations. Everything Is F*cked publishes May 14 and is available for pre-order.
Everything is F*cked Tour Information
Tickets go on sale Friday for Mark Manson’s 11-city book tour. During the Everything is F*cked Tour, Mark will offer self-help for people who hate self-help — a no-BS brand of life advice and cultural commentary that has struck a chord with people around the world. The hour-long talk will be a counterintuitive romp that explores the highs and lows of modern life. Each ticket includes a copy of Everything is F*cked (a $27 value). VIP ticketholders will have prime seating, receive a signed book, and will meet Mark backstage for a photo. Subscribers to MarkManson.net will be invited to an exclusive post-show talkback and Q&A with Mark.
5/14 – New York, NY – The Town Hall
5/15 – Atlanta, GA – Buckhead Theatre
5/16 – Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren
5/20 – Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern
5/23 – Silver Spring, MD – The Fillmore
5/24 – Boston, MA – House of Blues
6/2 – Houston, TX – House of Blues
6/3 – Dallas, TX – House of Blues
6/4 – Vancouver, BC – The Rio Theatre
6/5 – Seattle, WA – The Neptune Theatre
6/18 – Charleston, SC – Charleston Gaillard Center
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September 21, 2017 at 08:11 PM EDT
Stronger (2017)
Stronger isn’t the first movie about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing; Peter Berg’s slick, sprawling action drama Patriots Day beat it to the box office by nearly a year. But it doesn’t suffer for being second, because director David Gordon Green’s aim is so radically different than Berg’s: paring down a large-scale tragedy to the stark, often painfully intimate pinpoint of one survivor’s story. Jake Gyllenhaal takes on the real-life role of Jeff Bauman, a wise-cracking Beantown Everyguy who suddenly became a national symbol — not by choice — when he lost his legs at the finish line.
The type of hometown boy who begs off work early for Sox games and has his own lucky seat at the bar, Jeff is still pining for his on-and-off ex, Erin (the excellently understated Tatiana Maslany). She’s a steady, responsible health worker; he’s the clownish good-time guy she can’t really rely on but can’t quite quit either. (
“Whoever thought you’d end up in a torrid melodrama with a chicken roaster from Costco?” her sister asks wryly). But when Erin stops by his local looking for donations for her marathon run, Jeff sees a chance to prove he can be the kind of man she wants him to be. And so he turns up at the race with his hand-lettered sign and joins the celebratory hordes; a hooded figure jostles by him, his attention clearly focused elsewhere. Then comes the explosion, and the aftermath. “
Your f—in’ legs,” a rueful buddy tells him bluntly as he lays shell-shocked and intubated in a hospital bed. “They’re gone, bro.”
Bauman’s family, a rowdy pahk-the-cah wolf pack straight of out a Dennis Lehane novel, aren’t remotely prepared for the emotional and physical demands of his condition, least of all the blowsy barfly mother (British actress Miranda Richardson, bleached blond and surgically attached to her cigarettes) he shares a cramped, messy apartment with. Erin’s different, but there’s nothing easy about the blurred lines between the two of them either. What kind of clean slate has his accidental sacrifice earned him, and when does romantic love taper off to duty and pity?
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Director Green (All the Real Girls, Pineapple Express) doesn’t gild the realities of Jeff’s struggle to come to terms with his radically altered life. For much of the movie he’s a mess — bailing on rehab sessions, baiting Erin into petty arguments, “driving” drunk with the help of a friend on the foot pedals. But Gyllenhaal gives such a powerfully lived-in performance that it’s hard not to follow him down into every moment: the awful instant a friendly encounter turns ugly at a pub; the terrifying flashbacks that jolt him as he’s wheeled out to salute the rapturous crowd at a hockey game; the debilitating efforts just to use the bathroom on his own. (Thankfully, there’s a thread of dark humor running through it all that leavens even some of the bleakest moments). In certain ways, Stronger is as broadly conventional as any Hollywood story of tragedy and triumph; some supporting characters are stock, and there’s never much doubt of the narrative’s long arc toward redemption. Still, there’s a raw, tangible humanity to nearly every scene that sets the film gratifyingly apart. Jeff might not fit into anyone’s glossy front-page idea of hero, but you never doubt for a moment that he’s real. A-
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Spelling Bee: First Rehearsal
In Theatre, Uncategorized on April 25, 2014 at 8:06 pm
Thoughts on my first rehearsal for The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at Berkeley Playhouse, as dictated to my phone while moving my car during a break at rehearsal. I will include both what my phone perceived and my attempt at translation, followed by elucidation as needed. Enjoy.
“Thoughts on my first rehearsal for spelling bee Playhouse, largely based on well everything. The cast appears all to be under 30, possibly even under 25. I feel like a dinosaur. I’m wearing plaid vest red tie navy blue shirt weather double batch the next AM., is that matters is that I feel so old in this cast I think I could I’m old enough to be something simple father.”
The cast appears all to be under 30, possibly even under 25. I feel like a dinosaur. I’m wearing a charcoal plaid vest, red tie, navy blue shirt. Overdressed. Will have to slob it up over the next couple months. This is a new experience for me: I feel so old in this cast, I think I’m old enough to be their father.
“The directors very attractive.”
The director seems to be a lovely human being. That always helps. I say “seems” because I have made the mistake of believing first impressions in the past, and it did not turn out well for me. So, I’m cautious. But she really does seem to be awesome. Time will tell, and I will trust with a grain of salt.
“I’m determined to be on my best behavior in this cast, but generally that’s true of every cast I will try to come apart. At the moment always comes when I make jokes that actually, it doesn’t always come. But it could come. And since I suspect that the majority of my doctors last year for from 510, and specifically Berkeley California, then I am cautious about making jokes. So dot dot dot its tricky.”
I’m determined to be on my best behavior in this cast, but generally that’s true of every cast of which I become a part. And the moment always comes when I make jokes that upset or offend someone. It doesn’t always come, actually. But it could come. And since I suspect that the majority of my cast hail from the 510, and specifically Berkeley, California, then I am cautious about making jokes. So … it’s tricky. I always assume that Theatre People will get my jokes, will be entertained by my schtick. Apparently, however, I am an acquired taste. Having been attacked and vilified by complete strangers — in a Theatre group — on Facebook, I am cautious. I will try to stay silent, say nothing, interact with nobody. That is a very difficult challenge, because I’ve hardly left the house since last May. I feel a bit like Robinson Crusoe thrust into a garden party.
“Interesting the first two musical numbers reversed are considered group members in which I do not appear to sing it note I have spoken words with them and I suppose it was good that I was there, but. No focus is given to my aunts music is fun absolutely fine, not necessarily I’m entering the cafe close email goodbye.”
Interesting: the first two musical numbers we rehearsed are “group numbers” — in which I do not appear to sing a note. I have spoken words within one of them and I suppose it was good that I was there, but: thus far, no actual focus is given to my material in the music. Which is absolutely fine, we had a lot of material to cover. Panch does not sing anywhere within the score. I hope that we’ll get them nailed down before it gets stressful. I can already feel how peripheral I am to this production. I’m entering the cafe across the street to refresh my beverage before returning to rehearsal, so I will close this email and say goodbye.
Interesting to note how accurate some of this was.
As of this writing, we have two weeks left. The reviews are all stellar, and there are currently some cheap tickets available via Goldstar: http://www.goldstar.com/e/81887
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Artistic gymnastics events at the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games concluded yesterday with two gold medal wins for China and gold medals for the Netherlands and the United States.
China's Feng Zhe won gold in the men's parallel bars, just narrowly beating out the German gymnast Marcel Nguyen by 0.166 points.
China also claimed a gold with Deng Linlin scoring a 15.600 in the women's beam. The balance beam proved treacherous for some: Gabrielle Douglas, considered a favourite for the event, came seventh after a dramatic fall. The United States did manage to get a bronze on the beam thanks to Alexandra Raisman who pulled off a routine that received enormous applause. She initially got less points than Romania's Catalina Ponor, but took the bronze after an appeal.
The men's horizontal bar event was a volley of high-scoring, high-difficulty routines. Danell Leyva from the United States started with a strong 15.833 point routine. China's Zhang Chenglong then grabbed the lead by earning 16.266 points. The German gymnast Fabian Hambuchen raised the bar even further with a 16.400 routine. The Dutch gymnast Epke Zonderland performed a near-flawless and immensely difficult routine that earned 16.533 points, earning him both a gold medal and a standing ovation from the audience in the North Greenwich Arena.
Zonderland's performance makes him the first Dutch gymnast to win gold at the Olympics since the win for the Dutch women's team at the Amsterdam Games in 1928. Hambuchen got a silver medal and the Chinese gymnast Zou Kai took bronze.
In the women's floor event, the eighteen-year-old United States gymnast Alexandra Raisman secured a second gold after her success in the women's team event last week. As in the beam event, she narrowly beat out Catalina Ponor from Romania with a score of 15.600 to 15.200. Aliya Mustafina from Russia took home bronze for her 14.900 point routine.
This article features first-hand journalism by Wikinews members. See the collaboration page for more details.
"Olympic gymnastics: Zonderland takes men's bar gold" — BBC Sport, August 7, 2012
"Olympics gymnastics: Deng Linlin wins women's beam gold" — BBC Sport, August 7, 2012
"Olympics gymnastics: Aly Raisman wins women's floor gold" — BBC Sport, August 7, 2012
"Olympics gymnastics: Feng Zhe of China swings to parallel bars gold" — BBC Sport, August 7, 2012
"Olympics: Epke Zonderland claims high bar gold for Netherlands" — BBC Sport, August 7, 2012
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What is IT automation? IT automation, sometimes referred to as infrastructure automation, is the use of software to create repeatable instructions and processes to replace or reduce human interaction with IT systems. Automation is key to IT optimization and digital transformation.
In enterprise IT shops, automation has become more than a trend: It has turned into a necessity. That’s due to the current mix of technologies in use, the speed at which IT must run, and talent concerns.
On the technology side, cloud, containers, and microservices lead the list of factors driving increased use of automation. Containers and microservices help tame the complexity of hybrid cloud environments. As you scale up your use of containers and microservices, automation soon becomes a core need.
“You could manually deploy and configure 50 or even 500 servers, but when you hit 5,000 servers that is no longer an option,” says Ned Bellavance, director of cloud solutions at Anexinet. “Automation gives the administrator tools to effectively deploy scalable workloads, without a commensurate increase in staff.”
That’s where automation tools like Ansible and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes come to the rescue: They help IT leaders reap the potential of cloud, containers, and microservices “in a scalable manner without constantly throwing new bodies at growing and evolving operational needs.” (Read our full article, 5 factors fueling automation in IT now .)
The speed at which organizations now work, and the concurrent rise of the DevOps way of working, also fuel the need for automation. DevOps requires paying down technical debt, such as time-sucking manual patches, so people can focus on more important problems.
“If adding manpower is the only way to grow your business, then scalability is a pipe dream."
“The result of automation is scalability – less effort per person to maintain and grow your IT environment," as Red Hat VP, Global Services John Allessio recently noted. “If adding manpower is the only way to grow your business, then scalability is a pipe dream. Automation reduces your manpower requirements and provides the flexibility required for continued IT evolution.” (See his full article, What DevOps teams really need from a CIO.)
Finally, there’s the IT talent factor. As we’ve noted, “If your engineers and other talent spend the bulk of their time on painful, manual tasks, are you getting their best work? Probably not, and that’s a killer when you’re constantly challenged to do more with less.
‘In the enterprise IT space, one of automation’s biggest use cases is ensuring businesses have the right people performing the right tasks,’ says Mark Kirstein, VP, products at BitTitan.”
IT leaders need talent working on strategic priorities today, not drudge work that can be automated. Also, IT people whose companies keep them on drudge work are more likely to leave - for a more innovative environment where they can grow their careers. Automation, in this regard, can help with retention.
DATA POINT: More than 50 percent of CIOs at WSJ CIO Network’s annual gathering on March 6 said they are “secretly worried that their firms don’t have the IT talent they will need to compete.” Source: WSJ CIO Network snap poll
Perhaps you have already started down the road to automation and are trying to increase its use. Or, perhaps you are just beginning to transition from older, manual ways of working to more automated ones. One of the hardest tasks is knowing what task makes a good automation candidate and what doesn’t.
Before you start automating, or automating more, make sure you are not automating a business or IT process that no longer makes sense, notes Red Hat chief technologist E. G. Nadhan. IT leaders working with automation must keep an eye on processes that can be sunsetted instead of automated.
“Automation is an effective trigger to revisit existing processes and determine their applicability in today’s market,” he writes. “While it is true that repeatable processes warrant automation, it is important to make sure they’re being executed the right way. Automating the wrong processes proliferates chaos.”
After examining your processes, identify types of low-skill work that vacuum up your IT team’s time.
As ServiceNow CIO Chris Bedi recently wrote, IT teams continue to spend too much of their time managing the day-to-day tasks involved in keeping the business up and running.
Bedi sought to free up more of his team’s time for innovation – after finding his team was
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spending nearly three-quarters of its time on day-to-day operations. So he decided to go all-in on automation. He advises an incremental approach – and patience.
“To be a 'no service' organization will take some time, effort, and a plan,” Bedi writes. “Service automation can’t just be about quick wins and incremental improvement. It’s about creating competitive advantage over the long run: It’s a marathon, not a sprint. You won’t jump from manual to machines completely managing every service in one step.”
“Start with end-to-end processes with a lot of structured tasks and where automation will alleviate the most workload for the IT team. Provisioning VMs, patching machines, and installing are good candidates. Automate these entire processes – the provisioning, the management, the reporting, the scaling up and down. Learn from them, then tackle more.”
DATA POINT: ServiceNow’s State of Work survey found that skilled workers spend 40 percent of their time on administrative tasks – running the business rather than growing it.
Bedi’s team boosted its operations resources spent on innovation from about 25 percent to 43 percent – and Bedi wants that number to keep rising. “Our IT team now has the time to experiment with how the rest of the organization can benefit from intelligent automation applied to their business processes,” Bedi notes.
You’ll also need to audit IT workflows, identify the success metrics for your work, and help others in the organization help themselves using automation. For detailed advice, see the full article: Getting started with automation: 6 tips.
As Bedi’s experience shows, automation success is far from automatic. Also, if you focus just on tools, you’ll soon see that people and process are key.
Here are some best practices to keep in mind:
Get buy-in from your team: Of course, this advice applies to any significant shift in IT strategy, but it’s particularly true with automation, which sometimes carries negative connotations, notes Ned Bellavance, director of cloud strategy at Anexinet. As an IT leader, you’ll need to explain how the automation strategy will benefit IT and the greater business, both at an organizational and individual job level.
“Although you may already have some tools in mind, listen closely to what your team suggests. They are the ones who will be using it the most, and they won’t use it if they don't believe it can do the job,” Bellavance says. “Some other team members may have misgivings about automation and the amount of work it will take. Put their fears to rest by identifying and making some quick wins that simplify the team’s life.”
Choose flexible tools: “When selecting an ideal automation toolbox, I would focus on three key attributes: flexibility, simplicity, usability,” Bellavance advises. “Any automation tool should be flexible enough to cover 90 percent of your use cases.”
Think long-term and begin incrementally: Don't try to tackle your entire software development life cycle (SDLC) or a similarly large workflow all at once.
Ellucian CIO Lee Congdon, following this strategy, has taken a measured approach to automation in his organization. As he writes, “For us, the first step in automation is thinking about what we can consume as a service. As we rely more and more on partners to do the low-level and routine work, we can also rely on them to automate that work for us, rather than do it ourselves.
Secondly, as we shift more of these technology tasks to cloud providers, and we gain more time to work more closely with the business, we’re naturally seeing more business automation opportunities. We can see where business people are doing manual and repetitive tasks and find new ways to assist them with tools for automating processes.” (See the full article, Ellucian CIO: How we took a measured approach to automation.)
Consider a dedicated automation lead on the IT team: They will champion efforts and document success over the long haul.
Insist on strong, clear documentation for automated processes: You don’t want Rube Goldberg projects that are complex masquerading as simple.
Don’t be afraid to pass on automation for projects where it doesn’t fit. Possible example: Services that require significant customization or one-off deliveries, whether to different business units, partners, or external customers.
Automation sounds scary to some people, since it is often mentally associated with job loss, and tied to some lingering misconceptions. Helping people understand the what, why, and how of your company’s automation strategy is a necessary step to achieving your goals.
We asked a variety of IT leaders for their advice on making the case for automation in your organization - up and down the ladder. Here are some tips:
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Show people what’s in it for them. Show people how your automation strategy will benefit them and their jobs. Will automating a particular process in the software pipeline mean fewer middle-of-the-night calls for team members? Will it enable some people to dump low-skill, manual tasks in favor of more strategic, higher-order work – the sort that helps them take the next step in their career?
“Convey what’s in it for them, and how it will benefit clients and the whole company,” advises Vipul Nagrath, global CIO at ADP. “Compare the current state to a brighter future state, where the company enjoys greater stability, agility, efficiency, and security.”
Paint a before-and-after picture to help people see the upside, he advises.
“You want to paint a picture of the current state that people can relate to,” Nagrath says. “Present what’s working, but also highlight what’s causing teams to be less than agile.” Then explain how automating certain processes will improve that current state.
Connect automation to specific business goals. “The case for automation needs to be driven by a business demand signal, such as revenue or operating expense,” says David Emerson, VP and deputy CISO at Cyxtera. “No automation endeavor is self-justifying, and no technical feat, generally, should be a means unto itself, unless it’s a core competency of the company.”
Break the plan into manageable pieces. This will help people digest it - and reduce skepticism. It will also give you some flexibility to tweak plans as you go.
Promote your success. Talk up your small wins. Eric Kaplan, CTO at AHEAD, says that the value “small” wins reveal can actually help you sharpen the big picture for people. Kaplan points to the value of individual and organizational time as an area everyone can connect with easily.
“The best place to do this is where you can show savings in terms of time,” Kaplan says. “If we can accelerate the time it takes for the business to get what it needs, it will silence the skeptics.” (For more, see the full article: IT automation: How to make the case. )
Like any IT effort, automation has its “oops” moments. Thankfully, use of automation has progressed to a point where you can learn plenty from the earlier mistakes of other people. Here are some common trip-ups to watch out for and avoid, as you automate more.
Botching your estimate of automation results: Vipul Nagrath, global CIO at ADP, says skimping on due diligence is a key automation pitfall to avoid. This is particularly true, Nagrath says, when it comes to defining the goals and expected outcomes of your automation plan.
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“Be realistic. If you overestimate the benefits, you risk not achieving your stated goals,” Nagrath explains, adding that there’s a flip side: “If you underestimate the benefits, you end up underselling the program, and that can cause ‘analysis paralysis.’ Carefully estimate what the automation effort is truly going to yield.”
Thinking too narrowly about the benefits: You may have a particular IT task in your sights to automate, but you need to think broadly for the business. “Probably the most common mistake I see today is myopia,” says David Emerson, VP and deputy CISO at Cyxtera. “Automation has so many benefits.”
For example, you may be able to use automation to realize peripheral benefits such as reduced compliance audit complexity, improved security posture, and fewer manual controls and processes that hamper engineering output, he says.
Expecting too much in the first few weeks: One of the most common mistakes Bruno Attore, CTO and co-founder at Uru, has seen is under-estimating the difficulty of the early stage of implementation. Expect some trial-and-error as you iterate and optimize, he stresses.
“If you are transitioning from a pure manual operations and QA process to an automated one, the first few weeks will be hard.”
“If you are transitioning from a pure manual operations and QA process to an automated one, the first few weeks will be hard,” Attore says. “It's important not to give up and keep pushing forward. In the end, everyone needs to know that this is not a flip of a switch, but instead, a continuous process that will only get better and better.”
Other common mistakes include believing automation will fix a bad process, failing to ensure governance, and ignoring the culture change aspect. For much more detail on these issues, see our article: 8 IT automation mistakes to avoid.
Since you will hear security worries from others in your organization (remember the early days of cloud security worries?), it’s important to be able to articulate how your move to automation will affect your security strategy.
The good news: Automation tools and their frequent partner, containers, can actually help improve your organization’s security posture (as many organizations have found is true of cloud services).
Orchestration tools like Kubernetes not only help you manage container deployments at scale, but they also manage related security tasks. As Red Hat security strategist Kirsten Newcomer shared in a related podcast, “You really want automation, orchestration to help manage which containers should be deployed to which hosts; monitoring host capacity; container discovery – knowing which containers need to access each other; managing shared resources, and monitoring container health.”
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Newcomer encourages people to think of container security as having ten layers – including both the container stack layers (such as the container host and registries) and container lifecycle issues (such as API management). (For complete details on the ten layers and how Kubernetes fits in, check out this whitepaper: Ten Layers of Container Security. )
At the same time, more organizations are baking security into each step of the development and operations pipeline (rather than bolting it on right before teams deploy code.) Some organizations call this approach DevSecOps.
Enterprises “are finding ways to move security left in their application development lifecycles,” Newcomer told us. “They’re adopting DevSecOps by integrating security practices, tooling, and automation throughout the CI/CD pipeline.” (Read the full article: Why DevSecOps matters to IT leaders. )
Containerization can also better protect against some existing threats and help you react quickly to emerging security issues.
“The good news is that most containers are stateless and replaceable, which makes it easy to roll out a newer version of the image across a deployment and improve your security posture quickly,” Bellavance says. They should also be immutable, in that they are replaced rather than changed.
When you’re dealing with IT technologies that involve this much change, it’s valuable to get a peek at what’s coming in the not-so-distant future. We’re monitoring several trends that IT leaders should keep on the radar screen.
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Machine learning and AI will mature and play bigger roles: When it comes to machine learning, it’s still very early days for most organizations in terms of actual implementations. However, machine learning is expected to play a significant role in the next waves of IT automation.
“With the data that is developed, automation software can make decisions that otherwise might be the responsibility of the developer,” says Mehul Amin, director of engineering for Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. “For example, the developer builds what needs to be executed, but identifying the best system to execute the processes might be [done] by software using analytics from within the system.”
Machine learning can also do things like enable automated systems to provision additional resources when necessary to meet timelines or SLAs, or retire resources when they’re no longer needed.
“IT automation is moving towards self-learning,” says Kiran Chitturi, CTO architect at Sungard Availability Services. “Systems will be able to test and monitor themselves, enhancing business processes and software delivery.”
Chitturi points to automated testing as an example; test scripts are already in widespread adoption, but soon those automated testing processes may be more likely to learn as they go, developing, for example, wider recognition of how new code or code changes will impact production environments.
Scripting and automation tools keep evolving: The way people view and use scripting or automation tools (sometimes referred to as configuration management tools) is evolving with greater use.
“There are many processes in the data center environment that are repetitive and subject to human error, and technologies such as Ansible help to ameliorate those issues,” says Mark Abolafia, chief operating officer at DataVision. “With Ansible, one can write a specific playbook for a set of actions and input different variables such as addresses, etc., to automate long chains of process that were previously subject to human touch and longer lead times.” (Want to learn more about this aspect of Ansible? Read the related article: Tips for success when getting started with Ansible. )
Also, the tools themselves continue to become more advanced. “With advanced IT automation tools, developers will be able to build and automate workflows in less time, reducing error-prone coding,” says Amin. “These tools include pre-built, pre-tested drag-and-drop integrations, API jobs, the rich use of variables, reference functionality, and object revision history.”
Automation opens new metrics opportunities: Automation paves the way for new ways to measure IT performance. “As more and more development activities – source control, DevOps pipelines, work item tracking – move to the API-driven platforms – the opportunity and temptation to stitch these pieces of raw data together to paint the picture of your organization's efficiency increases,” says Josh Collins, VP of architecture at Janeiro Digital.
Collins thinks of this as a possible new “development organization metrics-in-a-box.”
“Whether measuring individual resources or the team in aggregate, these metrics can be powerful – but should be balanced with a heavy dose of context,” Collins says. “Use this data for high-level trends and to affirm qualitative observations – not to clinically grade your team.”
For more issues to watch, see the full article: What’s next in IT automation: 6 trends to watch.
Want more detailed advice on automation? Dig into these articles, papers, and Ebooks:
The Automated Enterprise (Red Hat Ebook)
Tips for success when getting started with Ansible
Ansible in depth (Red Hat whitepaper)
DevOps metrics: Are you measuring what matters?
5 TED Talks on AI to watch
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Stocky and squat of stature, the Lalafell are by far the most diminutive of Eorzea's races. Typically maintaining a youthful appearance even in advancing years, a Lalafell's true age is ofttimes difficult for other races to ascertain. [1]
Originally an agrarian people hailing from the southern islands, the Lalafell gradually migrated to Eorzea over the years in pursuit of trade. In the Fifth Astral Era, they played a key role in the foundation of the city of Nym on Vylbrand, as well as the mystic city of Mhach in the lowlands of Yafaem. When both civilizations fell to the Sixth Umbral Calamity, the Lalafell were forced to seek new homes. The Nymian Lalafell employed their seafaring talents and returned to the south sea isles, while the survivors of Mhach wandered the lands before eventually settling in the wastes of Thanalan. [1]
The Lalafell are primarily composed of two clans: the grassland-dwelling Plainsfolk and the desert-dwelling Dunesfolk, with both tracing their roots to the south sea isles. Though slight differences in physical appearance have emerged over the many generations spent living apart, the two clans harbor no particular resentment for each other, and inter-clan marriages are commonplace, with many Lalafell today possessing both Plainsfolk and Dunesfolk blood. [1]
While placing great importance on familial bonds, the Lalafell are by no means exclusionary. This is manifest in the cordial relations they enjoy with their fellow races, and the success they have achieved as a race of traders and merchants. Though their singularly business-minded nature can lead to them being perceived as greedy and calculating, few can find it in their hearts to truly dislike the Lalafell, with their inherently bright and jovial nature. As such, examples of Lalafell being persecuted by other races are few and far between. [1]
Tongue:
As befitting their status as a race of traders, the Lalafell were unsurprisingly among the first to adopt and master the common tongue of the Hyur. Nevertheless, it is said that the old Lalafellin tongue is still spoken today on their island homes to the south. [1]
Dress:
A distinctive element of traditional Lalafellin garb is the scarf, which also serves an eminently practical function—it can be unfurled to serve as a signal flag on the wide seas or vast deserts, allowing a Lalafell to stand out beyond his or her modest stature. They are also known to favor relaxed, loose-fitting garments that conceal their naturally rotund builds. [1]
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↑ 1.01.11.21.31.4 1.5 Encyclopaedia Eorzea pg. 084
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Courtisane 2017: How does it mean? Jacques Rancière and Dissent!
In samenwerking met Courtisane nodigden de redacties van de Vlaamse filmkritische platformen Filmmagie, Sabzian en Cinea internationale filmcritici uit om het festival in Gent (29 maart - 2april) bij te wonen. Tara Judah van Desistfilm ging graag in op onze invitatie en schreef het volgende festivalverslag, over Courtisane als "een uitnodiging tot onderzoek".
“Something has happened to the real,” Jacques Rancière told the room. “What has happened to the real is that it has become a matter of inquiry.”
No capital R here, just a term that has something to do with historical (maybe indexical?) truth. No documentary turn to refute, just a new line of inquiry and a desire to find out how, not what, we understand.
The dissemination of technology does not necessarily democratise the playing field: I have a camera but not everything I shoot will or should be seen. Access cannot eliminate the modes of production that result in unequal power dynamics and, true equity, Rancière believes, lies elsewhere. It is the capacity for fictioning (not even fictioning itself) that belongs to everybody.
Fiction calls for an absence of politics (although, paradoxically, politics may participate in fiction, and exist in its modes of production) and allows inquiry into political material through the creation of a space and time that documentary does not have access to – unless, of course, it engages elements of fiction.
Fiction allows the inquiry to exist somewhere else; on the bodies, in the faces and through the time taken by people to do something, or nothing. Rancière’s examples included the work of Pedro Costa, Wang Bing and Kelly Reichardt.
The inquiry, of these makers of meaning is not simply to document reality but to construct images of how reality persists.
Wang Bing’s KU QIAN (Bitter Money, 2016), which screened as part of the official selection at Courtisane, served as a post Rancière exemplar. Beautifully and thoughtfully gliding from one protagonist to the next, capitalist fiction is exposed through seamless camera work. Bing reveals the modes of production through a cine-map of East China’s geographically motived socio-economic inequity: each person’s story has threads tied to someone else’s. Via an incredible feat of fluidity, so gentle in motion it defies the 155-minute run time, Bing shows how every bead of very real sweat that is poured into the rag trade’s incredible system of exploitation persists in the fiction of the final product.
Ogawa Productions’ epic, obfuscating and mesmeric SENNEN KIZAMI NO HIOKEI - MAGINO-MURA MONOGATARI (The Sundial Carved with a Thousand Years of Notches – The Magino Village Story) further illuminated Rancière’s conception of how fiction is a welcome disruptor of time. Dramatic (and melodramatic) re-enactment sit alongside observatory images of rice farming, allowing one to prove the importance, credence, manufactured essence and painstaking truth of the politics in social, economic and cultural production for the other. The time taken to show these things seems lengthy for cinema (the film runs at 222 minutes) but the fiction, here, lies in its brevity; time-lapse, ellipses and the noticeable camera movement through rice fields at a speed decided by the physical forward trajectory of a cinematographer.
Elsewhere in the programme Courtisane gave completely new meaning to Dušica Dražić and Wim Janssen’s PROJEKTOR (2017), shown in February this year as an installation at IFFR’s Nuts & Bolts exhibition. An historically resonant 35mm projector – the NP-21 (Narodni Projektor, the ‘Projector of the People’) – was dismantled and a mould was created of each individual part, cast and finished in bronze, filmed and then projected through the sum of its parts. A conceptual project in both spaces, PROJEKTOR is also, simultaneously, the revelation of modes of production and the presence of utility and completion within a given space. In Rotterdam, the focus was on the concept of completion; the gallery (no seats in sight) invites us to look but not to stick around. In Ghent, the film was further immersed in the fiction of duration; VRIJEME 1 (Time 1, 1977) and VRIJEME 2 (Time 2, 1980) by Mladen Stillinović and Harun Farocki’s magnificent SCHRIFSTELLER UND SCHMIED (1988), a portrait of Georg K. Glaser, writer and metal worker, each went to work on the audience before the story of the bronze beauty - stood staunchly in their midst - was allowed to unfold.
The physicality of the thing sparked a provocation about the tangibility of conceptual art: is its ontology an inherent truth or another line of fiction? Echoes of this haunting question cropped up in other areas of the festival’s official selection.
Jean Matthee’s NEON QUEEN (1986), though loaded with feminist protest and acutely attacking racism was also born of a formal inquiry into the utility of film. Whether or not one recognises the material as a manipulated scene from Douglas Sirk’s Written on the Wind (1956), one nevertheless feels Matthee’s rage against inequality through the fiction of the colour red and the construction of an image wrestling loudly and violently through the parity of a bored, peppy or overwhelmed Hollywood heroine dancing to the sounds of searing jazz. It is the interrogation of the format; two and three colour separations, and the interruption of narrative fiction by the colour red that affords the film its sensory affect, and that further allows viewers to investigate the politics of the situation, regardless of its relationship to the real.
Also in red was Laida Lertxundi’s SUNSET RED (2016), a personal attempt to interrogate how her practice relates to her embodied being, “It’s a set of echoes of an upbringing by communist radicals, not as nostalgia but as a way of making sense, finding practical applications of the past in the present.” Her menstrual blood, poured onto paper and the pavement, is not just the reality of her being, it is also a fiction that lets us think about the intersection of body and story: the corporeality of the film.
Courtisane, as a festival, far more than most, creates its fiction with all the skill and care that curation ought. The films are selected – not for their timeliness or premiere status, but for their ability to engage and provoke curiosity – and are shown in the hope of sharing something as simple yet powerful as “notes on cinema”. The notes, with all the hallmarks of great fiction, are quite simply an invitation to inquiry.
Beeld: Stoffel Debuysere & Jacques Rancière tijdens Dissent! 30 maart 2017, Minard (Gent)
Met dank aan Courtisane en Creative Europe Media Desk Flanders.
Ook Desistfilm publiceert Tara Judahs festivalverslag.
Geschreven door TARA JUDAH
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Faces of Palestine ~
We Are Palestine: The Faces, People and Dreams!
PHOTOS OF PALESTINE – Order here
Contributors and Supporters
#human_rights_violations
March 17, 2016 by emamei
Our Weapons and the Truth ~ Part I
Our weapons are the photographs we take, that like napalm burn images into the consciousness of the minds of our viewers. My keyboard express words as bullets, social media and the internet is our method and means of launch and delivery for every bomb of truth about the atrocities and human rights violations, the breaking of international laws, at the hands of the Occupation in Palestine. The Occupation lead by an Israeli government of extremist Zionist ideology and racist sense of superiority exerted as one human over another under the guise of religious entitlement.
Daily killings, fascist brutality, false imprisonment of children, women, men and the sick. Israelis armed 24/7 walk the streets in and around their illegal settlements built on stolen land, many look for active confrontations with peaceful Palestinians for no other reason than blatant hatred.
A country once free and fertile, now butchered and segregated from the inception of Zionist Occupation whose purpose was never to reside in this land with what they were given by master colonists who had no right to give what was never theirs in the first place.
I do not write from a bias or subjective perspective. I write based on the documented history and the many conversations and interviews I have had with Palestinians and Israelis, Christian, Jew and Muslim. All of whom agree what is and has been happening in Palestine for the last seven decades is a gross injustice and series of crimes against humanity as a whole.
From the illegal settlements that have been strategically planned and built from the beginning to spread like a malignant cancer on the land, enforced by an apartheid wall and fences, with access to and from via heavily guarded and armed checkpoints.
Children who are terrorized daily on their way to and from school, women and men harassed and attacked at random by IOF, villages stormed and raided in the dead of night for what IOF describes as a necessary approach to control a population by catching them off guard, because if such raids are attempted in broad daylight the resistance and ensuing conflict would be chaos.
IOF targets children and youth, raiding family homes, restraining frightened parents, physically and forcibly removing children from their beds, lining them up against walls in their homes, photographing them, mapping their homes to determine where each child sleeps, in what rooms and in what beds, interrogating them and their families, taking names and ages, and then they leave. But not for long, within days, sometimes only hours, IOF return to these homes and arrest and detain these children on false allegations of aggressive actions taken by the children against IOF or Settlers.
The oppressed have become the oppressor. I speak of course of the generations of European Zionist Jews that settled in this land during and since the Nakba between 1947 and 1949. Jews that were survivors of the Nazi led Holocaust. Perhaps born out of a need to exact revenge to victimize others in order to empower themselves, these newcomers to Palestine quickly exerted the same horrific violence and led massacres of the Palestinian people who had lived in this land peacefully long before the extremist European Zionists arrived.
Over the last seven decades this mentality has not changed and in many ways become that much worse. What is and has been happening in Palestine is nothing less than the carefully orchestrated, executed and systematic genocide of an entire Arab population that consists of Christian, Jew and Muslim alike. Just since October 2015, there have been nearly 250 Palestinian men, women and children murdered, martyred by IOF.
There are currently more that 700 children sitting in Israeli prisons. Children who have been brutalized physically, psychologically, and emotionally.
Where is the world on this issue? Why are the western governments providing continued monetary and military aid to this insane Zionist regime? Where is the Arab league on this issue as well? They turn a blind and appoint an Israeli representative to the Arab League just this month. This is in a classic turn phrase, a mutiny and betrayal to any possibility of a unified and peaceful Middle-East, let alone peace for Palestine.
It is only through ongoing intervention by world human rights organizations, initiatives, and movements in addition to the ongoing BDS and anti-apartheid movements that change is going take place. Even these are not enough. It is going take those of us as activists, freelance journalists, writers, photographers and videographers, through the power of the internet and effective use of social media to keep the spotlight on the oppressors, on the Occupation, reflecting back to the world the crimes being committed, and exposing that the world’s silence condones the violence and their complacency is contributing to the most heinous and dark side of humanity; Occupation, apartheid and genocide.
4 Corners Production of “Stone Cold Justice” a docu-news program that shows overwhelming evidence about the treatment inflicted on Palestinian children in Palestine and in Israeli prisons.
Posted in Freedom, Humanity, Palestine, Peace | Tagged #crimes_against_children, #human_rights_violations, Nakba, Occupation, Zionist | Leave a comment
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Absolutely Insane Game Of Thrones Theory On Daenerys Targaryen's Scaly Fate
SPOILER WARNING!
The internet's been stormed with wild theories about how Game of Thrones will end when the final episode for Season 8 airs this coming Sunday. To make matters more interesting, the show's writers apparently penned multiple endings to combat against the likelihood of leaks. So, even if you saw something about how Game of Thrones will end, you can't really be sure. Now, on to the theory that absolutely blew us away.
Ryan Caldwell's theory on how Game of Thrones will end went viral, and it is no surprise. Caldwell states that Daenerys Targaryen is a dragon. Yes, you read that right. And he supports this incendiary theory with quite the convincing argument.
10 Times Fan Theories Were Way Too Good to Ignore
T-Pain Puts An End To The Viral Centaur Theory On Twitter
T-Pain emerged from his cave to crack down on this wild fan theory once and for all.
t pain
Crazy Fan Theories Connecting Stranger Things To Stephen King's, It, Are SCARY Good
The Duffer Brothers behind the critically-acclaimed Netflix TV series Stranger Things, have made no attempts to steer people clear of their beliefs that Stranger Things and It might be connected. I mean hell, Stephen King himself said that watching Stranger Things was like working through some of his greatest hits! Well, this naturally inspired a nice little wave of impressively believable fan theories.
Dude's Tweet About Big Bird On Sesame Street Is Blowing Everyone's Mind
Unless you spent your waking childhood under a rock, not engaging with society and appreciating one of the greatest gifts to humanity, Sesame Street, you're likely well informed on the greatness that is Big Bird. Well, this dude had the brilliant (highdea?) that Big Bird might not be the biggest bird on the block....
Girl Watching Star Wars, Live-Tweets Plausible Theory Regarding How Avoidable Darth Vader Was
This Super Twisted Fan Theory About Origins of the Powerpuff Girls Will Give You Terrible Cringe Chills
12 People Pass Around Their Most Outlandish Fan Theories and These Are Instant Greatness
I can't be the only one highly unnerved by the Bob Ross is actually a serial killer one...but hey leave it to the wildly creative and committed fans of the interwebs to develop their theories to such an extent that we're bound to be left scratching our heads.
Highly Unnerving Fan Theory Makes Surprising Connection Between Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory, and Dante's Inferno
As an innocent and ignorant and wide-eyed kid I definitely fell prey to mistaking the iconic 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' movie as a candy-coated, chocolate-painted spectacle full of wildly enticing dreams. But dude, let me tell you. At some point or another further down the road when I'd lived a little bit more, and went back for the throwback viewing; that movie took on a whole different, sinister light.
It's vaguely terrifying. Unsuspecting kids touring a towering chocolate factory with a detached, devil-grin sporting tour guide, as they slowly get picked off one by one...succumbing to delicious temptations they'd been warned against. The fan theory here proposes a connection between the kids working their way through different layers of factory, much like Dante's Inferno involves the exploration of hell, and how its different levels include different sinful temptations. Honestly. I can see it. Mayhaps a little bit of a stretch, but the connection is definitely there.
H/T: Uproxx
This Film Theorist Calculated Exactly How Drunk Tyrion Lannister Is on Game of Thrones
Via The Film Theorists
Holy Childhood-Ruiner, Was There Cannibalism in WALL-E?!
Can't unsee/unthink that every time people talk about this super cute robot movie.
wall.e
Twitter Has All the Proof We Need that Nifflers From J.K. Rowling's 'Fantastic Beasts' Are Real
For real though, this is one of those things we all just want to believe no matter what cause those things were freaking adorable. Be sure to hide the valuable merchandise though.
Internet Strings Together an Alarmingly Plausible Theory about Donald Trump Having 7 Horcruxes
horcrux
'Grease' Fan Theory Suggests That Sandy Didn't Have a Happy Ending After All
Via atomicbolt
Is this fan theory a little too morbid? Well, there's an alternate theory to why the end scene was basically a fantasy.
via Randomd0g
Wait... that one might be worse.
Ben Schwartz Reveals the Truth Behind the Theory That Steve from Stranger Things Is Parks and Rec's Jean-Ralphio's Real Dad
Via The Late Late Show with James Corden
Just look at the comparison though, it has to be true.
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Falmouth Football
Boosters in Falmouth, Maine
Cheer and Stunt Teams
Register now for the 2019 Falmouth Football/Cheer Season!
March 31, 2019 By Mark Rand
https://go.teamsnap.com/forms/193540
Seeking Volunteers for the Snack Shack
August 17, 2018 By Pete McCluskey
The Falmouth Football Snack Shack will be open for ALL Home games (Varsity, JV, and Middle School!!) this season and WE NEED YOUR HELP! Please consider volunteering during a game when your child is not playing. You can sign up here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1j0UR2BEIkHs8JCQD-aHfQmpHL8BnuOSjWB9dSuwHXb0/edit?usp=sharing
Jack Bryant Named a Finalist for the Fitzpatrick Trophy
December 19, 2017 By Pete McCluskey
Congratulations to Jack Bryant who was named one of the three finalst for the 47th Fitzpatrick trophy.
The Fitzpatrick trophy is given out annually to state’s top football player. The semifinalists were chosen based on football and academic performance.
Jack is the first Falmouth player to be named a finalst. The award winner will be announced on January 14th.
https://www.pressherald.com/2017/12/19/three-finalists-announced-for-47th-fitzpatrick-trophy/
Head Coach John Fitzsimmons, Brady Douglas, Jake Ricker, Jack Bryant, Emilio Micucci, Josh Allen, Noah Barney & Coach George Spino, at the Annual Fitzpatrick Award Dinner where Jack Bryant was honored as a finalist for the award
2017 Campbell Conference All-Stars
December 6, 2017 By Pete McCluskey
It was a busy night for the Falmouth football team at the 2017 Campbell Conference Banquet. Several scholar athletes received recognition:
2017 First Team All-Conference
Griffin Aube
Noah Barney
Garret Aube
Jack Bryant
Coleman Allen
Brady Douglas
Emilio Micucci
Riley Reed
Jake Ricker
Emmitt Zinn
In addition, the league recognized players who have achieved a 93 GPA during their high school career.
2017 All Academic Team:
Will Bopp
Lastly, each year the league coaches vote on the best player in the league.
2017 Player of the Year
Combined Team Dinner – The Tradition Continues
October 23, 2017 By Falmouth Football
Thursday’s (10/19/17) High School team dinner continued a tradition of having the 8th grade football team join the HS players. Coach John Fitzsimmons and the Captains each spoke to and welcomed the incoming players.
Filed Under: General Interest, News
Falmouth Fire-EMS Supports Falmouth Football
October 17, 2017 By Pete McCluskey
Thanks to the Falmouth Fire-EMS Department for volunteering to run the snack shack tonight! This week is national fire prevention week and your fire-ems department is here to talk fire safety and to recruit new members. Visit the fire engine next to the snack shack. You are also all invited to the Fire-EMS department open house and touch a truck event tomorrow 10/14 at the fire station on Bucknam Road from 9 am to noon
Homecoming has officially geared up and hit Falmouth High School.
September 22, 2017 By Falmouth Football
On September 29, 2017 FHS will have its first official pep rally followed by a school and football sponsored tailgate before our home football game at 5pm.
Mark your calendars the events will be as follows:
1pm Friday 9/29 Will be the Rally (Itinerary coming soon) for FHS students.
5pm Tailgate on soccer field next to turf
-Food & Drinks will be provided for all.
Desserts & extra drinks are needed pls bring some to share if you can.
6:30pm football game against Messalonskee
Post Game Bonfire & tailgate for the football players, families and students. Come one, come all pls spread the word.
Bonfire will be near the shed of the theatre…. Over by the grass field hockey field…
Saturday night is the senior dance September 30, 2017
ALL KIDS ARE ENCOURAGED TO WEAR THE SCHOOL UNIFORMS, BAND, TEAMS, CHEERLEADERS, ETC.
SENIORS WILL WEAR BLACK SENIOR T’S
Filed Under: General Interest, High School, News
Shaw’s Supports Falmouth Youth Football
Thank you to SHAW’S Supermarket for your ongoing support to Falmouth’s Youth Football Program.
Key dates for the 2017 season
May 22, 2017 By Pete McCluskey
June 19th: Summer session begins
August 21st: Home scrimmage versus Massabesic High School (Class A Team) at 4pm
August 25th: Away exhibition game at Westbrook High School
2017 Varsity Game Schedule
Friday night varsity games will start at 6:30
9/1 @ Cony
9/8 H Mt Ararat
9/15 @ Kennebunk
9/22 @ Biddeford
9/29 H Messalonski
10/6 @ Marshwood
10/13 H Gorham
10/20 H Greely
Signing Day for Trey Fallon
February 2, 2017 By Zareh Derhagopian
Our own, Trey Fallon, made it official this week by committing to play football at Lafayette College. Must see links below – Congratulations Trey, enjoy every minute of it!
Lafayette Coaches Video
LSN’s Mike Joseph and Head Football Coach John Garrett discuss the signing of Offensive Lineman Trey Fallon, Class of 2021.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBpS-px43ig
Recruiting Class Overview
Lafayette head football coach John Garrett has secured the commitments of 17 student-athletes to National Letters of Intent as part of National Signing Day on Wednesday.
http://www.goleopards.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/020117aaf.html
Falmouth Football Annual Meeting
January 18, 2017 By Zareh Derhagopian
Welcome to 2017 and a new season of Falmouth Football and Cheer! To give you early notice, on February 13th we will be having our Annual Meeting for Falmouth Football Boosters at the High School Library at 7:00pm, and ALL are invited. There are two main elements to this meeting:
1 – To answer any and all questions regarding our programs, ranging from Flag to Youth Tackle, Middle School, High School and/or Cheer, along with updates from the VPs of each. There are no dumb questions and we are very inviting to new faces that want to learn more.
2 – To vote on the Board for the 2017 season. In the link below we have a summary of all Board positions and those volunteer positions that are managed by the Board (this does not include HS snack shack volunteering or any of the youth, MS or Cheer game-day needs). We still have volunteer openings, so don’t hesitate to call me or come to the meeting.
Hope to see you on the 13th!
2017 Board and Volunteer Positions
Falmouth Featured on WGME’s Friday Night Lights
WGME Channel 13 highlighted Falmouth Football’s 22-6 win against Mt. Ararat 6 during Friday’s Quirk Cheverolet’s Friday Night Lights (Week 4) with David Eid and Adam Epstein.
:30 Minute-Mark – Highlights of the game
3:25 Minute-Mark – Fan appreciation footage
6:00 Minute-Mark – In-studio interviews with Coach Fitzsimmons, Jack, Trey, Orlando and Big Jake
Connor Aube Receives John R. Schmidlin Trophy
August 9, 2016 By Pete McCluskey
Congratulations to Connor Aube, winner of the 2016 John R. Schmidlin Trophy which recognizes the best senior player in Class B football. The award was presented at half-time of the Senior Lobster Bowl in July. Connor is moving on to play baseball at the University of Tennessee Martin. You will be missed, Connor, but we all wish you the best of luck!
Falmouth Youth Football Field Day
June 10, 2016 By Falmouth Football
Wednesday – June 15, 2016 – 5 pm to 6:30 pm
As school is winding down, and summer is heating up, we’d like to get the kids thinking about fall football. As some of you recall we did a field day last year, with fun football drills, games, and prizes. We are holding this year’s Falmouth Youth Football Field Day next Weds. June 15 from 5 – 6:30 pm at the Community Park football field. This event is open to all ages (grades 1 – 6) and skill levels, but especially current flag and tackles players, and any other kids interested in football. Its a fun, non-contact way to get excited about the game before summer, plus everyone will get some good exercise in before the last day of school.
Drew Chamberlain Inducted into MeNFF
June 8, 2016 By Falmouth Football
Drew Chamberlain was inducted into the Maine Chapter of the National Football Foundation (MeNFF) on Wednesday, May 25th up at Bowdoin College. He was honored along with twenty other scholar athletes from across Maine. Drew was chosen based on his three-time selection to the Campbell Conference All Star Team, his being a semi-finalist for the Gaziano Lineman of the Year Award and being a two-time FHS team captain. He also excelled in the classroom where he maintained a 92-grade point average over his four years. Drew has been accepted to Bowdoin College where he will be playing football for the Polar Bears next fall. Joining Drew at the induction dinner were his mother Cheri Walker, his grandfather, Coaches Fitzsimmons and Bryant along with teammates Trey Fallon, Sean Bryant, Alex Wissemann and Jack Bryant. He now joins past Falmouth High School MeNFF winners Noah Nelson Class of 2015, Ryan MacDonald and Matt Kingry Class of 2011, Sam Dunwoody Class of 2008 and Nick Ford Class of 2006. We congratulate Drew on winning this prestigious award!!
Falmouth Receives BBF Organizational Grant
May 12, 2016 By Falmouth Football
On May 7, 2016 the Falmouth Football Booster group was invited to a reception in Foxboro, Massachusetts that honored the recipients of the 2015 Bill Belichick Foundation’s grants and scholarships. Last fall we applied to the BBF for a grant in support of our capital campaign for new lockers and an air filtration system. We were fortunate to receive the support we requested and had a chance to celebrate with other recipients at the luncheon. Matthew Barney attended with his son Noah, reporting back that Bill Belichick was very grateful for the work we all do as volunteers. He spoke about how his rookie camp was just starting with 16 new prospects, and that he doesn’t get to do what he does if there isn’t community support at the youth and school levels by volunteers. While we were very thankful to him and his Foundation for the support, he was clear that he is the one thanking us for our time and commitment to the sports in our communities.
Interesting Article Shared by a Parent
May 3, 2016 By Falmouth Football
A mom recently shared this article with us, and I thought others would like to read it. It’s a heartfelt breakdown of one man’s journey with the sport, and the benefits boys get from playing. I found the last two paragraphs particularly insightful. Feel free to share.
Eastern Michigan Head Coach Pens Powerful Letter To Potential F0otball Moms
Filed Under: General Interest
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Undone: The Crash Season 1, Ep 1
Bob Odenkirk and Rosa Salazar star in this rotoscope-animated show about a 28 year old Mexican-American's life following a car crash.
posted by fizzix on Sep 19, 2019 - 10 comments
Mystery Science Theater 3000: CODE NAME: DIAMOND HEAD Rewatch Season 6, Ep 8
I have some issues with the internet popularity poll I made that decided the "top 50" episodes of MST3K to watch. This is one of the biggest of those issues. I'm not sure how Code Name: Diamond Head (an actual Quinn Martin, made-for-TV production) got as many votes as it did. I guess some people just like it. It's got the short A Day At The Fair, at least. Anyway, enjoy this failed pilot for a kind of spy series. Previously.
posted by JHarris on Apr 17, 2019 - 4 comments
Mystery Science Theater 3000: SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL Rewatch Season 6, Ep 14
Rewatch! What would Airplane! be if it weren't played for laughs, like, at ALL? It'd be a lot like San Francisco International, a pilot for a TV series heavily inspired by the movies that inspired Airplane!, like Zero Hour and the various Airports. So come back with us and linger in a place that most people want to pass through as quickly as possible. Previously.
posted by JHarris on Feb 27, 2019 - 5 comments
Suits: Pilot Season 1, Ep 1
A "closer" for one of New York City's most successful law firms decides to hire an aloof genius who has passed the bar but never went to law school as his associate. [IMDB]
posted by like_neon on Aug 23, 2018 - 11 comments
Jean-Claude Van Johnson: Pilot Season 1, Ep 1
Jean Claude Van Damme runs into an old flame and wants out of Retirement... but not out of the retirement we know him for. Watch one of the greatest 90s action stars to satirize himself in an unexpectedly entertaining action comedy. Get Ready to meet his secret identity Jean Claude Van Johnson. [more inside]
posted by Nanukthedog on Jan 13, 2018 - 8 comments
The Chi: Pilot Season 1, Ep 1
A fictional drama following the lives of several people growing up in contemporary South Side Chicago; available on Showtime and Amazon. [more inside]
posted by fizzix on Jan 9, 2018 - 5 comments
Dynasty: I hardly recognized you Season 1, Ep 1
An heiress, her father, and his new fiance plot and scheme at work and at home. Everyone has something to hide, but they're ready to flaunt their wealth and oil barony.
posted by Margalo Epps on Oct 18, 2017 - 4 comments
Veronica Mars: Pilot Rewatch Season 1, Ep 1
Introductions all around! Veronica Mars is a junior at Neptune High, formerly popular with the rich kids, now an outcast. Her best friend was killed, her boyfriend dumped her, she was roofied. Her father used to be Sheriff, but now he's a private eye, and Veronica helps him while solving her own high-school drama mysteries. This week's episode introduces Wallace, a new student at Neptune who is targeted by the local biker gang. Veronica Mars was first broadcast in 2004, just after Buffy the Vampire Slayer ended, and in a lot of ways it directly took up the mantle of kick-ass blonde high school girl empowerment. Never a ratings success, it was a critical darling from the start. [more inside]
posted by rikschell on Sep 18, 2017 - 15 comments
RuPaul's Drag Race: Your Pilot's On Fire Season 9, Ep 9
The queens are challenged to come up with an idea for a TV series and star in their pilots. [more inside]
posted by en forme de poire on May 20, 2017 - 22 comments
Taken: Pilot Season 1, Ep 1
In the series premiere, young CIA operative Bryan Mills acquires a unique set of skills. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Feb 28, 2017 - 6 comments
Mystery Science Theater 3000: SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL Season 6, Ep 14
"Jet Packed Drama at a Giant Air Terminal!" Pilot for a TV show featuring the wacky shenanigans dramatic occurrences at... (spins the Wheel of Television) ...a major airport. A staple of MST3K is the failed TV pilot that never went to series. Well ha ha, this one did make it to series, minus its whole cast except for Clu Galuger, whose name sounds like it should be sung by Huckleberry Hound. YouTube (1h33m) Premiered November 19, 1994. [more inside]
posted by JHarris on Jan 26, 2017 - 10 comments
Frequency: Pilot Season 1, Ep 1
A detective discovers she's able to communicate via a ham radio with her estranged father who died decades earlier. She warns him of his untimely death, leading him to survive, but also dramatically changing the present. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Oct 6, 2016 - 8 comments
Timeless: Pilot Season 1, Ep 1
The trio chase Garcia Flynn to the Hindenburg disaster of 1937 in the series premiere of this sci-fi actioner about a professor, a soldier, and a scientist teaming up to travel through time to battle a master criminal out to alter human history. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Oct 3, 2016 - 23 comments
Homeland: Pilot First Watch Season 1, Ep 1
MIA POW Sargent Nicholas Brody is home after eight years as a captive of Al Qaeda. However CIA agent Carrie Mathison has unverified intel that an American has been turned to Al Qaeda's side and she suspects it is Brody. [more inside]
posted by Mitheral on Oct 1, 2016 - 3 comments
This Is Us: Pilot Season 1, Ep 1
The show follows four 36-year-old people with the same birthday. Jack's wife Rebecca goes into labor on his birthday. Kate attends a weight loss support group. Kevin quits his job as the lead on a bad sitcom. Randall meets his biological father for the first time. Major spoilers inside. [more inside]
posted by kevinbelt on Sep 22, 2016 - 13 comments
Designated Survivor: Pilot Season 1, Ep 1
A low-level Cabinet member becomes President of the United States after a catastrophic attack kills everyone above him in the Presidential line of succession.
posted by nubs on Sep 21, 2016 - 21 comments
Longmire: Pilot Season 1, Ep 1
Sheriff Walt Longmire investigates a shooting in a sheep pasture with the help of his staff at the Absaroka County, Wyoming Sheriff's Department and an assist from long time friend Henry Standing Bear. [more inside]
posted by Mitheral on Jul 3, 2016 - 18 comments
Podcast: Revisionist History: The Lady Vanishes
In the late 19th century, a painting titled The Roll Call, by a virtually unknown artist, took England by storm.
posted by Etrigan on Jun 16, 2016 - 2 comments
Archer: Pilot: Mole Hunt Season 1, Ep 1
While his fellow agents search for a mole in their ranks, Archer hacks into the agency's computers to conceal discrepancies in his expense accounts.
posted by Mitheral on May 20, 2016 - 15 comments
Flaked: Palms Season 1, Ep 4
A trip to Palm Springs for a visit with his mother Jackie turns into an emotional roller coaster ride for Dennis and fellow travelers Chip and London.
posted by aabbbiee on Mar 22, 2016 - 2 comments
Flaked: Rose Season 1, Ep 3
Chip visits his TV star ex-wife Tilly in an effort to save his store. Dennis and London have a dinner date. Chip disappoints Kara one time too many.
Flaked: Horizon Season 1, Ep 2
Finally confronting his landlord, Chip get some clarity on his store situation, then inadvertently helps Dennis and London's first date go smoothly.
Flaked: Westminster Season 1, Ep 1
Will Arnett co-created, co-writes, and stars in this Netflix series that premiered on March 11. The story takes place in Venice, California, and centers on alcoholic Chip (Arnett), friend/housemate Dennis (David Sullivan), and possible love interest London (Ruth Kearney). Mitchell Hurwitz (Arrested Development) is executive producer of the series. [more inside]
posted by aabbbiee on Mar 16, 2016 - 13 comments
Farscape: Incubator Rewatch Season 3, Ep 11
Hoping to gain access to the wormhole knowledge, Scorpius tells his life story to a neural clone of Crichton created by the chip that was once in Crichton's head.[via]
posted by cshenk on Jan 16, 2016 - 3 comments
The Expanse: Dulcinea (Pilot) Season 1, Ep 1
The pilot for a new series on SyFy based on James SA Corey's series of books that begin with Leviathan Wakes. In the US, the show begins airing on 14 December but SyFy has put the pilot on youtube.
posted by ROU_Xenophobe on Nov 28, 2015 - 65 comments
The Americans: Pilot First Watch Season 1, Ep 1
We are introduced to Elizabeth and Phillip, two KGB spies under deep cover as a married couple in suburban DC. They have an unexpected houseguest, and Phillip goes shopping for cowboy boots. Their new neighbor Stan takes an interest in their garage. [more inside]
posted by computech_apolloniajames on Oct 6, 2015 - 3 comments
Farscape: The Way We Weren't Rewatch Season 2, Ep 5
A datacam tape is uncovered showing Aeryn as part of a Peacekeeper firing squad that executed Moya's first pilot. The rest of the crew want answers but Aeryn is reluctant to revisit her past—especially her relationship with Velorek, the man who grafted the current Pilot into Moya's systems. Pilot refuses to communicate with the crew, not wanting to reveal his own complicity in the murky circumstances surrounding his installment as Moya's pilot. [via]
posted by along came the crocodile on Oct 2, 2015 - 6 comments
The Grinder: Pilot Season 1, Ep 1
When his long-running hit series comes to an end, Dean decides to move back to his small home town to take over his family's law firm.
posted by 2ht on Sep 30, 2015 - 12 comments
Grandfathered: Pilot Season 1, Ep 1
Successful restaurateur Jimmy Martino is surprised by the appearance of his adult son, Gerald and his baby daughter, Edie.
posted by 2ht on Sep 30, 2015 - 4 comments
Farscape: Vitas Mortis Rewatch Season 2, Ep 2
D'Argo takes part in a sacred ritual that helps a dying Luxan, an Orican, to pass on. During the ritual the Orican invokes a ritual of renewal, drawing from what she thinks is D'Argo's strength. Consequently Moya starts to age rapidly.
posted by along came the crocodile on Sep 23, 2015 - 4 comments
The Muppets: Pig Girls Don't Cry Season 1, Ep 1
In this, the first episode of the muppets. , the Muppets tackle some of the problems with the show, Up Late with Miss Piggy, and to find guest stars that Miss Piggy likes, after she shoots down Elizabeth Banks. Fozzie tries to get Becky's parents to see him as boyfriend material even though he is a bear. [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief on Sep 22, 2015 - 42 comments
The Carmichael Show: Pilot Season 1, Ep 1
When Maxine moves in with her boyfriend, Jerrod, she wants to tell his parents right away and Jerrod prefers never telling them.
posted by Margalo Epps on Sep 2, 2015 - 3 comments
Dark Matter: Pilot (parts 1 and 2) Season 1, Ep 1
Six strangers wake up on a derelict ship with no memories. Who they really are will change them forever - and perhaps the universe, too.
posted by rednikki on Jun 21, 2015 - 13 comments
Killjoys: Bangarang Season 1, Ep 1
Killjoys Dutch and John are in serious need of R&R after capturing a dangerous smuggler in the badlands of Westerley. But when a death warrant is posted for D'avin, John secretly takes the job to save his estranged brother. With a competing Killjoy also on the job, the team is in a race against time to clear D'avin's name and their own.
Mystery Science Theater 3000: STRANDED IN SPACE Season 3, Ep 5
STRANDED IN SPACE, a.k.a. The Stranger (1973, Color, TV Movie, Seventies, Sci-Fi, Dystopia) "The planet he uncovered was a twin to Earth... but so ominously different!" An astronaut goes up, but something seems weird about the planet he comes back down to. It's "Terra," a dystopia where everything is under the control of the "Perfect Order" and everyone lives in fear of being sent to the ominous "Ward E." As Crow points out to us, "lot of Chryslers on this planet." A TV movie salvaged from a failed series pilot, so don't expect an awful lot of resolution. As third season episodes go it's a bit of a sleeper, but that just means it's very funny. Has some classic host segments. Dust off your memories (if you're old enough to have them) of 70s TV stars for this one. YouTube (1h40m) First aired June 29, 1991. [more inside]
posted by JHarris on May 7, 2015 - 7 comments
The 100: Pilot Rewatch Season 1, Ep 1
97 years after a nuclear war, human kind is living in space. 100 juvenile delinquents are sent down to Earth to see if the planet is habitable.
posted by sciatrix on May 1, 2015 - 10 comments
Game of Thrones: Pilot: "Winter Is Coming" First Watch Season 1, Ep 1
Welcome to the continents of Westeros and Essos. It is the end of a decade-long Summer.
posted by zarq on Jan 16, 2015 - 27 comments
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Welcome To The Hellmouth / The Harvest Rewatch Season 1, Ep 1
Buffy Summers arrives at Sunnydale High looking for a fresh start. Sunnydale, being a center of demonic energy known as a Hellmouth, has other ideas. [more inside]
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Agent Carter: Now is Not the End Season 1, Ep 1
A spinoff from "Captain America" and "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" and a prequel to the events of "Marvel One Shot: Agent Carter", Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) fights the good fight against the forces of evil as a member of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s predecessor the Strategic Scientific Reserve (the S.S.R) while maintaining her cover as a telephone operator for Ma Bell in 1946 New York. First up: Howard Stark (Dominic Cooper) is accused of selling arms to the enemies of the United States and he turns to Peggy for help in clearing his name. [more inside]
posted by inturnaround on Jan 7, 2015 - 53 comments
Galavant: Pilot/Joust Friends Season 1, Ep 1
A fairytale musical comedy from the writer of Tangled, Dan Fogelman, with songs by more Disney veterans, composer Alan Menken and lyricist Glenn Slater, Galavant tells the story of the dashing namesake hero on a quest to win back his former lover Madalena, who left him for the evil King Richard. Bawdy jokes and anachronistic references follow.
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State of Affairs: Pilot Season 1, Ep 1
Intelligence analyst Charleston "Charlie" Tucker prepares the President's Daily Brief on the anniversary of the death of Aaron Payton, her fiancee and the President's son, in an attack on their convoy in Kabul, using her editorial discretion to suppress shaky intelligence about the location of Omar Fatah, the terrorist responsible for the attack, in order to free up a Special Forces team to rescue an American doctor with an uncanny resemblance to Aaron.
posted by Small Dollar on Nov 18, 2014 - 4 comments
Marry Me: Pilot Season 1, Ep 1
A long dating couple tries to get engaged, through a midst of bad timing and tirades.
Jane the Virgin: Chapter One Season 1, Ep 1
Through a series of plausible accidents, Jane gets pregnant through artificial insemination. Now she has to make some decisions. [more inside]
A to Z: A is for Acquaintances Season 1, Ep 1
The meet-cute start of Andrew & Zelda's eight month long relationship. [more inside]
posted by Margalo Epps on Oct 3, 2014 - 5 comments
The After: Pilot Season 1, Ep 1
A new Amazon Original Series: From Chris Carter, creator of The X-Files. Eight strangers are thrown together by mysterious forces and must help each other survive in a violent world that defies explanation.
posted by davidjmcgee on Oct 1, 2014 - 8 comments
Manhattan Love Story: Pilot Season 1, Ep 1
Yes, yes, yes -- "If I'm honest, it's half the reason I married her" -- "If you smash your phone, the internet disappears" -- New record -- Hip, ironic distance -- Number 72 -- Awarded for mediocrity
posted by Margalo Epps on Sep 30, 2014 - 6 comments
Selfie: Pilot Season 1, Ep 1
Rebranding -- "You'll discover that not all well-dressed, articulate, detail-oriented men are gay. Many of them are just... Asian."* -- Charmonique puts up a lot -- Ga ga, ooh la la -- "I can see you, you live in a glass house" -- "I rarely call my mother" -- "It's archaic, but it's dead-on" [more inside]
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Chuck: Pilot First Watch Season 1, Ep 1
Join me as I watch, for the first time ever, the show known simply as Chuck, whom IMDB describes as "a computer geek who gets a computer full of information zapped into his brain...information that contains secrets that the federal government desperately needs to keep in Chuck's head...and keep Chuck, himself, intact." In this opening episode, Chuck meets a woman who agrees to go on a date with him, but she's one of the government agents who's interested more in his head than his body. [more inside]
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Forever: Pilot Season 1, Ep 1
A medical examiner who's seen it all gets caught up in a train crash investigation. [more inside]
Scorpion: Pilot Season 1, Ep 1
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PhD applicants: Fall 2018
By jjj02027, August 28, 2017 in Public Health
health policy management
phd fall 2018
phd 2018
eek_ 28
Espresso Shot
14 hours ago, MarylandGirl said:
Well, as you know, I'm still waiting!
WTH. They STILL haven't said anything? I'd seriously be calling them at least every week for an update. That's just rude to completely ignore the April 15th deadline
hccgrl 24
Application Season:2018 Fall
Program:PhD Maternal and Child Health
2 hours ago, eek_ said:
Yes... Tell me about it. We're both going crazy (we're both waiting to hear from the same program). I emailed once since my interview asking for an update and did not get a reply. If it's a no...just say so, why drag it out.
On a different note, how do you guys feel about applying to a new PhD program? It's not necessarily ceph accredited, but from my understanding, when it comes to PhD, it really doesn't matter (specially since my mph is ceph). And this isn't one of those online school or for-profit... A legit University.
gallimimus 14
Program:Environmental Health Sciences PhD
44 minutes ago, hccgrl said:
On a different note, how do you guys feel about applying to a new PhD program?
I applied to UW-Milwaukee for an EHS PhD this past cycle, which is a relatively new program. From that experience, I figure the upside is that they're excited to build their program and really invest in their students. Ultimately I chose another program that had been more of a frontrunner for me from the start, but my interactions with UW were overwhelmingly positive. The downside will more than likely be funding related. I can't speak for every program, but in this case, there was not a lot of guaranteed funding although several professors I spoke with assured me that I could get funding through my lab once I committed. In terms of credibility, I think as long as the university itself is decent, the newness of the program is not something to really worry about. More important than the name recognition of the program is that there are faculty you'd be really excited to work with and who would be great PhD mentors and advocates.
MarylandGirl 1
Well, I just interviewed with them last week (like 4 hours of interviews!), after assuming I'd been rejected (they called the week before--on like April 17--asked if I was still interested and asked when I could come for interview). I was told they'd be meeting yesterday, presumably to decide (was just a regular faculty meeting). So...hope to hear soon? I was rejected from the other place I applied to (Hopkins--they let me know a couple months ago!), so it's not like they have competition. Still...
On 5/3/2018 at 4:31 PM, MarylandGirl said:
For the record...still nothing from them...
karlFrick 1
I have applied to the ucsd-sdsu joint phd in bioengineering. still no word from them, although i got an email from sdsu saying 'SDSU-UCSD Engineering Joint Doctoral Applicant: Your application has been approved by the SDSU Engineering Doctoral Committee and is now under review at UCSD'. this email was sometimes in march, but up till now i haven't got any other responses. is it possible for ucsd to reject me after i have been accepted by sdsu? can anyone who understands how the admission process works help?
On 5/14/2018 at 7:13 PM, MarylandGirl said:
any word yet? i am also waiting
1 hour ago, karlFrick said:
We both haven't heard from University of Maryland yet.... Very frustrating. Tried emailing and nothing.
Yep, extremely frustrating. Especially knowing that the semester is over now... Sorry you haven't heard anything either, KarlFrick.
6 hours ago, MarylandGirl said:
thank you. i have sent an email. i hope they respond. are you an international applicant?
19 hours ago, hccgrl said:
sorry to hear that... I was told by the grad cordinator that i was recommended by the program. he said i should expect a formal acceptance from the graduate dean. its been over 2 months now and no word formal letter of acceptance. I dont know what to think right now
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3 hours ago, karlFrick said:
Thanks! Nope, I actually live about 20 miles from the school...
I hope you hear something back from the e-mail. Are you international?
yes. i am international
On 5/28/2018 at 10:31 PM, karlFrick said:
Then they really need to let you know! You need time to figure out moving, any visas or things like that...
(Still nothing here, but head of program is off this week.)
ghint 1
Anyone who is joining the joint program at UCSD-SDSU??
10 hours ago, ghint said:
i am hopeful. still waiting for a response. i applied to the joint engineering sciences, what about you?
Did you guys ever hear?!? I've thought about you from time to time!
10 hours ago, eek_ said:
yea, i finally got an admit to the ucsd/sdsu joint phd. thank you for your good thoughts. any idea of how i can get an apartment close to ucsd but cheap will be very helpful
dreams1214 1
Program:Public Health
Anyone going to U Minn?
PhMe 14
Looks like the forum has pretty much winded down. Just want to say that reading about everyone's experiences, good and bad, and contributing my own felt like such a huge help throughout this difficult process for all these months. In the end, the waiting paid off. I'll be starting at GW this fall. Thank you all and good luck!
gloriaepi2019 2
Program:Public Health/Nutrition
On 3/13/2018 at 10:20 AM, Hongchao said:
Just got an offer from UTHealth, epi track, what about their financial support? Can I have my tuition and living expenses covered?
Hi, I am also accepted to this program this year but no mentioning of funding in the email either. Did you accept the offer and get the funding?
apex45 63
Program:Public Health PhD
On 7/17/2018 at 3:42 AM, dreams1214 said:
Maybe? They've been my least communicative program. I got notified that I was through the first round Jan 15 but haven't heard anything at all since. I'm assuming a rejection at this point (/acceptance without funding).
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Migrant Movement: Middle Keys Snapshot
by Alexander Harper
Black-and-white Warbler at Long Keys State Park by Rafael Galvez. Leica V-Lux 4.
The Florida Keys aren’t just a special place to observe migrating raptors – there are opportunities to observe large numbers of migrating shorebirds, herons, and of course, passerines. Starting in 2011, the counters at Curry Hammock began recording all non-raptor species detected at the site. And in 2012, standardized morning surveys at Long Key State Park also were set into motion.
Since beginning our surveys September 2 of this year, we have been watching migration build and continue to gain momentum. Early September saw high numbers of swallows, Eastern Kingbirds, and Prairie Warblers, but overall diversity just wasn’t there yet. Gradually, diversity began to increase as the month moved along, but it wasn’t until the morning of September 18 where a large pulse of new arrivals made landfall in the middle Keys. Early that morning, dozens of thrushes and hundreds of Bobolinks could be heard overhead at Long Key State Park. As dusk turned to day, passerines aloft began to put down in the tropical hardwood hammock. Numbers of Red-eyed Vireos rallied around fruiting Poisonwood (Metopium toxiferum) while Veery “quivered” nervously in the understory. Warbler numbers appeared to have increased compared to those we had seen over the past few days. Although the composition of species was that typical of that of mid-to-late September, a late Louisiana Waterthrush ran among the prop roots of Red Mangroves (Rhizophora mangle). A couple Prothonotary Warblers, another species which often favors mangrove forest during migration in coastal Florida, blitzed into the mangroves as we left the park for Curry Hammock and the hawkwatch.
Left: Blackburnian Warbler. Right: Chestnut-sided Warbler. Photos by Bob Stalnaker at Curry Hammock State Park.
It wasn’t until we reached Curry Hammock that we realized just how many passerines had moved into the Middle Keys in the morning. Diversity was high, although the individual numbers weren’t. Just in the vicinity of the hawkwatching platform, we would tally eighty species for the day. Seventeen of them were warbler species, and among them were species we often get in low numbers throughout the season: Blackburnian, Chestnut-sided, Hooded and Prothonotary. Also in the mix were the first Tennessee Warblers of the season and an unseasonable Palm Warbler. Two Dickcissels made a brief appearance in the campground, giving themselves away with their unique call. Buttonwoods (Conocarpus erectus) dripped with orange Baltimore Orioles, Red-eyed Vireos, and a variety of warblers. Also of note was another large nighthawk movement. Although a few thousand shy of a single-day count from earlier in the month (Sept 10, 2014), we would tally a healthy nine-hundred seventy-two for the day.
The first Palm Warbler of the season was seen on September 18, 2014.
Curious to see what the day brought as it progressed into late afternoon, a return to Long Key State Park was in order after leaving the hawkwatch. This time around, we would observe a relatively new set of birds. Maybe new birds had made landfall after we left earlier in the morning, or perhaps they were overlooked. Or more likely, it was a bit of both. In the same stretch of trail we had been earlier there were parties of strutting Ovenbirds, and easily-overlooked Empidonax species came in the form of Acadian and silent “Traill’s” Flycatchers. A vocal Hooded obliged us with a hollow and metallic “dink” call from thick undergrowth, and finally an Alder Flycatcher announced it’s identity with insistent “pep” calls. The last highlight of the afternoon came in the form of the day’s nineteenth warbler species, a male Kentucky Warbler that hopped furtively through a heavily-shaded hammock.
Hooded Warbler field sketch by Rafael Galvez.
Several reasons contribute to the opportunity to observe high diversity of migrating passerines in the Keys. For one, the Middle and Lower Florida Keys appear to get species from two different flyways. With a heavy influence of Atlantic Flyway and Caribbean-bound migrants, the Keys also make up the easternmost boundary of the Gulf of Mexico. This often means Trans-Gulf migrants make landfall in the Keys, especially after western winds over the Gulf. The farther south one goes in the island chain, the more likely one will stumble upon Trans-Gulf migrants. Secondly, there is a bottle-necking effect. Birds travelling down the Florida peninsula have the luxury of spreading over a large swath of landmass. As they move into the Keys, their options diminish, and they funnel down the islands until reaching their jump-off point to Cuba, the Yucatan, or elsewhere. Lastly, the insect-laden hardwood hammocks and mangroves also offer a variety of energy-rich fruiting trees. All of these are important ingredients for a show-stopping fall migration in Florida’s unique coral archipelago.
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Robin Diaz permalink
Wow!! What a fantastic and informative report. Thanks, Alex! Beautiful sketch, Rafael!
Susan Daughtrey permalink
Wonderful write-up, Alex! Enjoyed the photos and Rafael’s field sketch, too. Keep up the great reporting.
Lee Dunn permalink
Nice drawings latelynRaphael. Sorry we’re not there…it’s especially slow up here in Nantucket.
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The goal of the program is two-fold; we intend to increase teachers’ aptitude in the sciences, through Train the Trainer, while simultaneously creating a forum of live interaction between professional engineers and the teachers, via Engineer-Teacher Connection.
The Train the Trainer program consists of series of workshops that are designed to instruct pre-college educators how to develop classroom environments in which students feel comfortable solving math & science problems. Research has shown that Inquiry-based instruction has been proven to improve student’s learning aptitude by providing hands-on activities that require cognitive thinking skills to solve problems. The National Science Teachers Association has made inquiry instruction a best practice in teaching and inquiry has been adopted as a teaching method in the National Science Education Standards. Although widely accepted as the most effective teaching method, many teachers are simply not aware of its advantages, even though they are encouraged by County School Boards and the Florida Dept. of Education. A total of 10 workshops will serve 250 teachers from across the state in which they will learn how to implement inquiry methods in their classroom.
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Compare and Contrast: "Autobiography in Late Middle Age" and "Picnic, Lightning"
The tone in the poem “Picnic, Lightning” by Billy Collins changes from a seeming lightness to helplessness, and eventually to a sincere ponder as the speaker wonders the volatility of death and life. Conversely, “Autobiography in Late Middle Age” by Zulfikar Ghose is a piece of work, which is experimental in theme and form, and has a tone that is infused with magic-realism, realism, and metaphysical reality Kanaganayakam 34.
The variation in tone signals the realization of the speaker that life has to be enjoyed as it lasts. In the foremost stanza, Collins provides instances of freak accidents, which people may die from, like being struck by a single-engine plane while studying in a chair. This specific situation sounds very preposterous and improbable that the readers cannot aid but laugh (Collins 45). The relaxed tone draws the readers in, creating non-threatening atmospheres. Most people view death like something, which could not probably just happen unexpectedly to them. Nevertheless, Collins then continues to describe an actual account of a female struck by lightning while on a picnic.
The accident sounds mere as improbable, yet the readers understand it has really happened. Shifting into the subsequent stanza, Collins recognizes how heart attacks may just be unpredicted. He refers to death, as “a tiny dark ship is unmoored…” At this point, the poem has lost its previous flippancy regarding death (Collins and Henry 67). There is a fearful and dark feeling of helplessness in his death description silently overtaking the body.
On the other hand, Ghose’s piece of work frequently uses strategies to compel readers to reassess the basis of the text. The poem frequently challenges readers to appreciate that language and storyline are ancillary to a piece of art and are just tools Ghose manipulates in conveying his message (Kanaganayakam 76). Often, the poem expresses a view of a culturally isolated person and relates not just to his individual sense of dislocation from his home, but suggests a broader reaction to life during a post-colonial community.
Collins, Billy. Picnic, Lightning. , 2011. Print.
Collins, Billy, and Henry Taylor. Billy Collins with Henry Taylor, Conversation, 26 September 2001. Santa Fe, NM: Lannan Foundation, 2013. Internet resource.
Kanaganayakam, C. Structures of Negation: The Writings of Zulfikar Ghose. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. Print.
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Carriers are avoiding Panama and Suez Canal
20 Jun 2016 2 min read
Michael Ardelt
The opening of the Suez and the Panama Canal in 1869 respectively 1914 lead to a boom for container shipping.
However, due to high charges, the first freight forwarders and carriers are already switching to other routes.
In 1869 the Suez Canal was opened and a bit more than 50 years later the Panama Canal. These events are marking milestones within the history of shipping cargo on sea and changed the trade for freight forwarders fundamentally. For the very first time, container ships did no longer have to pass the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Hoorn for delivering their cargo from the US East Cost to Asia. Freight forwarders and carriers were not only able to ship their cargo faster from the USA to Asia but also were able to
save the expensive marine diesel.
Carriers are paying high prices for thoroughfare
At the same time, bordering countries are benefiting from the charges they put on Carriers for using the passage with their cargo ships. For Panama, the artificial waterway that links the Pacific and the Atlantic is an important source of income: From more than 300,000 dollars per cargo ship which freight forwarders have to pay for passing through the strait, the charges bring one billion dollar each year for the country. Egypt charges similarly high fees on freight forwarders and carriers for using the passage for their ships and cargo.
Low marine diesel price opens up alternatives for freight forwarders
Many companies consider these fees being too high now. Container shipping trade has been in a crisis for seven years. Carriers are hardly making profit anymore. And with the marine
diesel prices dramatic slump in March 2016 onto less than 150 dollar – almost two thirds compared to the previous year -, an alternative seems to have suddenly appeared for the two waterways: The freight shipping over South America and South Africa. Since 2015, especially the route over the Cape of Good Hope has been used more frequently from the first freight forwarders and carriers – despite the detour of almost 6,500km for ships and their cargo. In view of the cheap marine diesel for freight forwarders to ship heir cargo, this detour hardly matters.
Does the Panama Canal need to worry about competition?
In addition, other countries have been noticing the profitable business by the high income as well. By the end of 2014,Nicaragua started a construction project that connects the East Cost of the USA with Asia in order to compete against the Panama Canal. Nicaragua hopes to make big profit with the charges on freight forwarders and carriers, while the freight forwarders and carriers hope that Panamas monopoly might break away. But so far the constructions are advancing very slowly and some freight
forwarders are starting to worry that Nicaragua might have overreached itself with the planning and financing of this giant project. At least in Panama they seem to consider the freight forwarders’ and carriers’ hopes for rather unrealistic and have already announced an enlargement of the canal.
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Award-winning French pianist Lise de la Salle will perform at Fresno State at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12, in the Concert Hall as part of the Philip Lorenz Memorial Keyboard Concert Series. De la Salle will perform works by Beethoven, Ligeti and Prokofiev.
In just a few years, through her international concert appearances, de la Salle has established a reputation as one of today’s most exciting young pianists and as a musician of uncommon sensibility and maturity.
This concert is co-sponsored by L’Alliance Française de Fresno. Tickets are $25 general, $18 for seniors and $5 for students. Free parking is available in Lot P1 (Shaw and Maple avenues). INFO and tickets: 559.278.2337.
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By In heaven, July 4, 2004 in Movies and TV
In heaven 0
Ok Well I respect your point of view. I always take my music and movies way to serious. I'm a movie/music nazi.
Tybalt 0
if you really understand the definition of art and think of movies as art not entertainment these movies are for you.
Art and Entertainment are never mutually exclusive.
Y'all should take a look at these intelligent films and these extraordinary directors.
Limbo (1999) Written, Directed & Edited by John Sayles.
In Cold Blood (1967) Directed by Richard Brooks.
Night of the Hunter (1955) Directed by Charles Laughton. Based on the novel by Davis Grubb.
Double Indemnity , Sunset Boulevard .. Director: Billy Wilder
Psycho , Rear Window , Vertigo .. Alfred Hitchcock.
The Manchurian Candidate (1962) John Frankenheimer.
Doctor Strangelove (1964) Stanley Kubrick.
Now, That's Entertainment!
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Tybalt, I've seen most of those movies & I agree they're out of the ordinary & a must see for anybody who likes theatrical yet obscure movie plots.
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Nice list Tybalt, I enjoyed every one.
Inheaven, you asked me what films I liked. There are many but here's just a few that are in the same genre of the thread's topic:
Drowning by Numbers 1988
A Zed & Two Noughts 1985
The Last Temptation of Christ 1988
La Cabina 1972
The Phantom of Liberty 1974
The Holy Mountain 1973
Week-End 1967
Requiem for a Dream 2000
Hellraiser 1987
I think I need to verify myself and then I will go to bed.
Brittany Spears = Entertainer
Lou Reed = Artist
Joe Millionaire = Entertainment
Twin Peaks = Art
Not that art is void of entertainment just free of the lowest denominator of entertainment. Like when you watch a movie and you know how its going to end, any movie that involves a hot actress playing a maid/hooker/nerd/etc... that meets a rich/cool/powerful/etc... guy who falls in love with her. His friends will usually be against it blahblahblah.... or like on the new commercials for BIG BROTHER they are saying (in my movie guy voice) two people in the house are brother and sister and they dont even know about each other. What that is the stupidest thing I have ever heard that isn't reality its fake and people fall for it all the time. If you like the show turn away because I'am going to ruin it for you. They will end up liking each other not in a nasty way but they will be on a team or alliance whatever they call it on that show and I bet you a million dollars they will be the last two like it will be against them for the money(if they do the show like that). Then after they find outwho won they will tell them they are related they will cry and then the one who lost will say something about how she is a winner to get know her brother/sister junk like that the end. Do you think that is reality.
I love "last temptation"! excellent movie!
I noticed I used the pronoun her as the loser sorry ladies.
So close. I agree but my interpretation is as follows:
Brittany Spears = crap
Joe Millionaire = crap
"Brittany Spears = crap
Twin Peaks = Art"
*In Corny, 'Leave it To Beaver' voice*
Ha ha ha, oh Muzik!
If you are into The Exterminating Angel you should also like Viridiana also by Luis Bunuel.
An excellent movie. Charity doesn't always bring the rewards that one expects. Viridiana was an interesting experiment in that fact.
Twin Peaks = a sometimes clever, entertaining soap opera masquerading as something substantial and purposeful, as much art as St. Elsewhere.
But I agree with Mindcrime -- David Lynch's Lost Highway (1997) is a most skillful tag-along on a dream. It 's superior to the critical success Mullholland Dr.(2001).
Where does the movie Momento (2000. Directed by Christopher Nolan) fit?
Artful entertainment?
like Jaws(1975 .. Steven Speilberg)
or The Omen (1976 .. Richard Donner)
Opinions = opinions
How do you guys feel about "Punch Drunk Love"?
Denmark Street 0
well, ok...but you'll have to buy me a few drinks first.
Sara 2
I love both Adam Sandler and Emily Watson but that was a very strange movie. I saw it on pay-per-view and missed the first minute. I spent the entire movie thinking I must have missed a very relevant scene in that first minute that would make the whole movie come together. I rented it and watched the first minute. I hadn't missed a thing.
I found the line about wanting to pop out his eyeballs and roll them around in her mouth (paraphrasing here) to be quite odd for a love scene. The movie was very slow & when it was over I was left wondering what I had missed, even after I saw the first minute! My only thought was, "Well, I'm glad they found each other because they each would have a tough time finding another person who can love him/her." I did feel sorry for Adam Sandler's character b/c his sisters mis-treated him.
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Movies that make me laugh till my stomach hurts are the best. I know that whenever I need a good laugh all I need to watch is "Dumb and Dumber." Yah I know it can also be called "cheesy humor" but anyone who knows what I'm talking about knows what I mean.
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Mama Fish
Has anyone seen "The Boondock Saints" - it's a good movie . . . definitely different. . .
Never heard about it. What is it about?
From the Back Cover of "The Boondock Saints"
"Thou shalt not kill. It's the one commandment they cannot keep. Tough, stylish and extreme, fans of Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction will thrill to the action, intensity and intelligence of this modern day morality tale written in blood. Starring Willem Dafoe (The English Patient), Sean Patrick Flanery (Powder), and Norman Reedus (8MM).
When the sadistic Russian mob starts muscling in on their South Boston Irish neighborhood, Connor and Murphy McManus know what must be done. Feeling that the vengeance of God is flowing through their veins, they set out to rid the streets of gangsters, criminals and lowlifes. As the body count rises, the brothers became local heroes. Now, one unorthodox FBI agent must be cunning enough to bring them down."
This makes it sound cheesy - whoever did this synopsis for the jacket needs to meet the "sadistic Russian mob."
For a long time the movie wasn't even distributed in the U.S. I just happened to pick it up at Blockbuster and, after watching it, bought an import from amazon.com. Now there's an American version out there, but I'm not sure how it differs from the original. I do know there's an "R" rated version and a "NC-17" rated version.
Check it out, it's excellent (just overlook that part about it being available at Blockbuster. . .) ::
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I know that whenever I need a good laugh all I
need to watch is "Dumb and Dumber."
Loyd: "So why you goin' to the airport...flyin' somewhere?"
Mary: How'd you guess?
Loyd: "I saw your luggage...then when I saw the airline
ticket and put two and two together"
Loyd: So where you headed?
Mary: Aspen.
Loyd: MMmmmm...Californina...beautiful.
Loyd: This isn't my real job ya know?
Mary: No?
Loyd: Nooope, me and my friend Harry are saving our
money to open our own pet store...
I GOT WORMS!
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Costellogirl75 0
Harold and Maude. Very off beat love story about a death obsessed young man who falls in love with a 79 year old woman. GREAT soundtrack, which comes mainly from Cat Stevens Tea For the Tillerman album.
XXX 4
Eraserhead: Seen it.
Brazil: Own it
El Topo: Just got it a couple of days ago along with Holy Mountain.
Pink Flamingos: Ew! Seen it.
Un Chein Andalou: Good Surrealist flick.
The Exterminating Angel: Better than the other Bunuel stuff I've seen.
Crumb: I don't like his comics, so I never had interest in this film...
Here's what I'd recommend to film lovers. If you've seen it - watch it again!
The Nights Of Cabiria by Federico Fellini
The 400 Blows by Francois Truffaut
Liquid Sky by Slava Tsukerman
The Bird With The Crystal Plummage by Dario Argento
Malizia by Salvatore Samperi
Flesh by Paul Morrissey
Blow Out and Dressed To Kill by Brian DePalma
Slacker and Before Sunrise by Richard Linklater
Let me see millions. I dont think I know 5 people that have saw these movies and I go to FullSail a school that has thousands of future film directors.
That's a sad statement for a school full of future film directors.
This is generally true for crap being rented out at Lackluster Video and DVDs sold at Wal-Mart. They will rent and sell you the censored versions of a lot of films.
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Dear Readers: So Long, My Love
Don't call it a game over.
Contributed by Paul Franzen on April 22nd, 2013 in Categories ColumnsWith content involving Tags Dear Readers, dreams, farewell, GameCola, GameCola's birthday, Paul Franzen
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I’ve done my fair share of inappropriate navel–gazing here at GameCola over the years, but you can indulge me one last time, right?
When I started GameCola back in 2002, I was a sophomore in high school, looking for a way to develop my skills as a writer so I could one day write for a gaming magazine (this was of course back when there were magazines), or even—this was the ultimate dream—actually write for videogames themselves. I was inspired by my older brother’s movie review newsletter, then called MovieMansion, now called Frothy Ruminations. What better way to become a writer than to, well, start up my own website and actually become a writer? Even at age 16, I knew my goals. I had places to go.
Little by little, the site grew. As reserved as I am in real life I’ve always enjoyed collaborating with friends, and early on I got some of my best bros (not to mention some of the most talented people I know to this day) to help out—people like Jenna Ogilvie, Brian Wolf, and Lianna Gaughan—and of course, Neal Iannone and Matt Gardner. I’ve made jokes about it before, but in those days, we really did plot out each and every issue of GameCola’s newsletter in after-school meetings in Shawnee’s cafeteria. I still have the minutes recorded on cassette tape somewhere.
Then we graduated—both me, and GameCola itself. The site made new friends. Your Brian Vaneks; your Stuart Gipps. Your Captain Erics. GameCola evolved. It wasn’t just localized to the area immediately surrounding…well, me, anymore; it was national. Global. We had writers in other countries. Can you imagine? This dumb thing I put together in high school—this little website where I was waxing nostalgic about Super Nintendo games while still practically a baby myself—was attracting writers from around the world. (And considering what the site looked like at the time, I can guarantee you it wasn’t just our whiz-bang layout.) Readership was stagnant, sure, but it’s not like we ever really cared about that before. We were building a community within ourselves, and by the time college was finished and I was moving into the real world, GameCola wasn’t just a collection of writers who popped in for a few months until they got bored. Jeddy joined our family. Colin. Christian. Nathaniel. The Michaels. Matt Jonas. All of our friends who shaped GameCola into what it is today—a place where people can make fun of games, in every sense of the phrase.
Which brings us to today. GameCola’s 11th birthday. This site has been with me through every major milestone of my life, from high school to honeymoon. It’s been my thing through most of my teenage years and all of my adult life so far. It’s been my hobby, my creative outlet. What I’m known for. My baby. Nothing I can say can put into words how important this site and everyone who’s ever written for it, read it, or even posted some jerky comment on it has meant to me, and leaving it now feels like I’m cutting out my own appendix.
But it’s time. See, I’m one of the lucky few whose childhood dream has actually come true. I’m not just an aspiring games developer anymore; I’m a games developer, period. I wrote and designed my own little adventure game in the form of Life in the Dorms last year, and now I’ve got another one on the way, hopefully by the end of this year (but probably sometime next). I’ve been doing a lot of freelance work for companies small and—well, slightly less small. I even got to work with Daedalic, who developed one of my all-time favorite adventure games.
And it happened much the way I started GameCola—I wanted to be a games developer, so I got out there and found a way to develop games. If I can leave you with anything, it’s the advice to stop being an “aspiring” anything and just become that thing.
But don’t consider this a game over. It’s not even a reset; it’s a New Game+. I’m leaving GameCola, but I eagerly welcome the new man in charge. You know him as the three-time Staff Member of the Year, podcast master, writer, artist, and noted Jaleel White impersonator Alex “Jeddy” Jedraszczak. May he, and everyone else who’s a part of the GameCola family, now and in the future, be so lucky as I’ve been these past 11 years.
Paul Franzen
Former Editor-in-Chief
GameCola.net
P.S. If you wanna keep in touch, you know where to find me.
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Stefano Wohsdioghasdhisdg says:
Faretheewell, Mr. Franzen. The Mystical Llama of Power wishes you all the luck in the world on you new endeavors.
A job well done.
Alan Morris says:
farewell great bearded one, and though i will miss you greatly i wish you the best of luck in your game designing endeavors. also, my congratulations to Jeddy on his new promotion. but before you sign off, i do have one final question that i hope you will be kind enough to answer. will you still finish up the recording of your commentary of Zero Escape before you leave, or will some else take your spot?
Alas! My contributions to the VLR playthrough have come to an end. It’s up to my fellow Pony Pros whether they want to bring on a newbie or continue the recording as-is.
oh well, still, best of luck to you man. but the fact the you used the words pony pros has forced to me to ask you the most important question of all.
Who is your favorite pony princess?
I’m ashamed to admit that–and this is a BIG GameCola secret, so don’t start spreading it around–I’ve never actually seen a single episode of My Little Pony. I don’t even know what friendship is.
FOR SHAME!
just kidding. but if you get the chance sometime you should check it out, and if turns out it’s not your cup of cola (see what i did there?) that’s perfectly fine.
but i feel that i should at least give you some kind of exposure to the show before i leave.
let’s see… (one compilation video watch later)
ah, here we go. have a fan made video that took the audio (and some video) from another pony fan video as well a dragon ball z kai parody and a short little clip from what i believe is yu gi oh abbridged.
i now give you the plot of dragon ball z kai explained by ponies in under 10 minutes.
p.s. you of all people should know that friendship is having nothing better to do on a december night and riffing on a horrible excuse for an awards show while having people listen to you riff it and simultaneously have matt call one of them a liar and then have you favorite all of their comments.
those 3 comments you favorited were mine by the way, so thanks for that.
no hard feelings toward Matt either, if anything he made me laugh harder.
Diana Gray says:
If you go and become a drunken hobo and not talk to any of your friends, I will be very upset.
Best of luck to you, O Captain My Captain.
I take offense to your insinuation that becoming a drunk hobo who doesn’t talk to anyone is a bad thing.
Bye Paul! It has been great reading your site
Anna Bryniarski says:
http://gifsoup.com/view/4611383/bumbie-s-mom.html
Ignore everything but the gif itself. Good luck Paul.
Smallgirl23 says:
Will you came visit us here sometimes?
Anyway, with what you’ll do in the future, I wish you the best of luck.
I don’t have any definite plans to, but it’s not impossible. Particularly for any live podcasts, because those are the best.
Also, thanks!!
Also, thank you. Thankyouthankyouthankyou for being the first person to tell me what Hatoful Boyfriend is. Without you and GameCola I would’ve never heard of it. Now it’s one of my favorite games.
Kay Leacock says:
But I guess one of us Shawnee-ans needs to stick around…
I’ll still make sure you’re a bonus unlockable character in the GameCola hentai dating sim.
Daniel Castro says:
I already said my farewells to you, mister… Also, we all know you’ll be around making sure the bunch of maniacs don’t start setting the house on fire…
I swear it wasn’t me. *Throws box of matches to the side*
And you got trusty fans like me to keep an eye out for any suspicious activity. 🙂
*Hides propane tank*
Au revoir, O most wonderfully magnificent/magnificently wonderful beard-with-man-attached.
Adios Paul. I wish you the best.
So, who thinks he’s going to start leaving negative comments on all the new articles claiming they aren’t as funny now that he’s gone?
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Tennis in the Face (iPhone)
Tennis star Pete Pagassi gets addicted to energy drinks and seeks his revenge on clowns and hipsters.
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Read My Chemical Mountain Online
Authors: Corina Vacco
My Chemical Mountain (15 page)
BOOK: My Chemical Mountain
“I’m almost out of gas!” Cornpup shouts to me.
I look at my own gauge, and it’s low. I catch up with my friends, and park my bike next to Cornpup. I ask him what’s wrong with his eye.
“A bug flew in it,” he says.
Charlie’s teeth are so white they almost glow in the dark, and this makes the spaces where his teeth are missing seem really obvious. He says, “I’m dying of hunger. When we get home, I’m gonna make myself a big old pot of macaroni and cheese.”
Cornpup jumps the fault line first. I can’t bear to watch. His dirt bike barely has enough power to lift off the ground, but he makes it up and over somehow. Me and Charlie go crazy cheering for him, laughing.
Charlie goes next. He borrows Cornpup’s knit hat and pulls it down over his eyes. “I’m gonna jump this blindfolded,” he says, and that’s exactly what he does.
“Wow,” says Cornpup. “That was stupid. And great.”
I go last. I’ve jumped the fault line a hundred times, before Charlie even knew it was here. I’m not scared at all.
But when I take off, my back tire gets caught on a machine lever. One-tenth of a second is all it takes. My front tire makes it to the other side, spinning like a round saw into the dirt, and for a second I think I might live through this, until I feel the back half of my bike drop sharply down, a sudden dip that turns my stomach, my body sliding into the black canyon. I catch hold of a rock and grip it so tightly that my fingernails lift and bleed, and still my hands are slipping.
A dark part of me is whispering,
Let go of that rock. It feels good to fall. Stop fighting
. And memories start blinking through my mind like little bursts of light. I see Valerie bringing me a note on pink paper, Viper chewing a bone, me and Charlie and Cornpup running to the creek with our shoe boxes and jars. I see Randy on the porch steps teaching me guitar chords. I see Dad onstage at a festival by the river.
There is no adrenaline rush, no fear. I just feel … tired.
My right leg feels impossibly heavy. I think my dirt bike is caught on my jeans somehow, pulling me down. I wonder what I’m supposed to do about that.
I really do consider letting go. I think about falling to the center of the earth and never having to face freshman year or a fence around the creek, never having to fight Kevin Thompson, never having to be around all the people who secretly believe Dad deserved to die. I think about never again having to watch Mom wolfing down cheesecake. It would be so easy.
But I don’t want to fall. I don’t want this to be the end. I have
things to live for. Charlie. Cornpup. Valerie. Viper. A sketchbook full of monsters. The Freak Tour. Revenge.
Two seconds have passed, maybe three, and I’m still thinking there might be a way to live, except I’m not strong enough to pull myself up. Never was. I take a deep breath of air, the way Charlie does, because I want to be a fighter like him, immortal. I breathe in the night smog, the gas fumes.
Charlie grabs my wrists. “I’ve got you,” he says. His face is calm and focused. I don’t think he even sees me right now. I think he sees fourth and twenty-seven, his team down by three, one second left on the clock. “And I’ve got your bike.”
“What are you talking about?” Cornpup shouts. “He could
. Forget the bike!”
“No!” Charlie shouts. “I’ve got this.”
He pulls me up with one arm. He pulls my bike up with the other. His strength is like an explosion. Suddenly I’m on the ground, safe and alive.
“Are you all right?” Cornpup asks me.
Charlie is running his hands along the body of my dirt bike, checking for scratches. It’s like he cares about the bike more than anything else. “I don’t see any major damage,” he reports. “I don’t see anything that can’t be buffed out.”
We ride toward home until Cornpup runs out of gas. Then we walk.
Charlie tells a funny story about our old PE teacher, who wears Windbreaker pants and farts when demonstrating how to do a proper sit-up. We snort with laughter. His observations about people are always so true. I love it when he turns on someone else. But I hate it when he turns on me.
Charlie used to rip on me a lot, used to say I had “girl arms.” I actually tried to cut off our friendship because of it. I was done with
him. He started calling my house every two seconds, throwing rocks at my window. “You
have girl arms,” he said, “but I can help you. I can fix it.” Eventually he wore me down. Three days later, we were friends again. He gave me his barbell and his jump rope. He taught me boot camp exercises. I’m still a lot skinnier than he is, a lot weaker, but my arms and back are cut, and my abs feel like a sheet of metal. It’s hard to hate Charlie when you can see that he is making you stronger.
But it goes even deeper than that.
Charlie is honest. You always know where he stands. And he is generous. I’ll hide my favorite movies so he won’t ask to borrow them. I’ll tell him I don’t have any money because I don’t want him to ask me to chip in for pizza when I’m not hungry. Then he’ll lend me his new Bills T-shirt, before he’s even had a chance to wear it, because he doesn’t want me showing up at Valerie’s pool party dressed in my stupid clothes, and I wonder who I’d be if Charlie wasn’t here to influence me, to insult me, to toughen me up.
I would be a total loser without him. I would be an absolute nerd.
“We should go home,” Cornpup says. “I feel like tonight’s one of those nights when bad things are gonna just keep happening, and we should just cash it in. We can ride Chemical Mountain some other time, tomorrow even.”
“This is what I mean about your endless negativity,” says Charlie. “I saved his life. I saved the dirt bike. Couldn’t that mean tonight is one of those nights when
things are gonna just keep happening?”
Cornpup looks at me.
“It’s on the way home,” I say. “It’s not like we’re going really far out of the way or anything.”
At the base of Chemical Mountain, we are silent, offering up a prayer, I guess—
We come in peace, holy mountain. Don’t kill us today
—except Cornpup is an atheist and would go off on us if we
used the word
. I lose my breath every time I stand at the foot of this landfill. It towers over us, a steep incline with a deep, muddy base. The city has covered the slopes in stunning green sod and scattered patches of purple flowers, and even now, at close to midnight, the effect is beautiful. It feels like this isn’t a landfill at all, like the chain-link fence and
NO TRESPASSING
signs were put here by mistake. But we know that’s just not true. Cornpup says decorating a landfill is nothing but a public relations move. He says a group of people called “they” want this mountain to be beautiful so we forget what’s inside. “People are retarded half the time,” he always says. “They only remember stuff they see in commercials, and even then it can’t be more than thirty seconds of information and there has to be a catchy little song.”
“It always seems so much taller in person,” I say. “Like in my memory I see a big hill, but in person, it’s really a mountain. They should build ski lifts.”
“I feel like it’s alive,” says Charlie. “Like it’s growing. I want to be here the day it explodes.”
We lug our bikes up the mountain. The view from the summit is breathtaking—lights from the Grand Island Bridge, gridlocked traffic on the 990, Two Mile Creek glistening in the moonlight, vast and empty industrial complexes. These things are all below us and feel so far away.
“Look down there.” I point to an incinerator that’s been boarded up since we were in fifth grade.
“So it’s operational again,” says Charlie. “So what?”
Cornpup laughs out loud. “It reopened between now and when we rode through here a few hours ago?
likely.”
I count the white vans. There are twelve. “I didn’t know the incinerator still had power.”
“They’re using a generator,” says Cornpup.
We coast down the dark side of the landfill, motors off, and
stash our dirt bikes behind a steel drum at the edge of the railroad tracks. We creep closer to the incinerator. We can’t take our eyes off the unmarked vans, the men in white coveralls, the spotlights and smoke. These men have waited until dark on purpose. We are witnessing a secret, something that shouldn’t be happening.
“It looks like an invasion,” I say.
“There’s the ringleader.” Cornpup points to a man wearing a black turtleneck and cargo pants. He is standing a hundred paces away from the incinerator and grips a walkie-talkie. He is looking out into the night, like a watchman, and none of the other men approach him.
I can barely choke out the words. “That’s the guy from …”
“That night at the grain mill,” says Charlie.
“The town meeting,” says Cornpup.
Dad wasn’t kidding when he told me Dan Benecke kept a close eye on every aspect of Mareno Chem operations. “He’s everywhere,” I say. “He’s like a bad rash.”
The incinerator is fired up like a carnival, with lights, movement, and a feeling of mystery.
Cornpup stands. “I’m gonna walk right up to that guy and ask him what they’re doing.”
“What?” I give him a weird look. “We’re all muddy. I’ve got blood on my shirt. You’re wearing
, for chrissakes. We look stupid. You think we’re going to intimidate these people?”
“I’ll intimidate them,” says Charlie.
Revenge. Maybe tonight’s the night. Three of us against one.
Cornpup is already walking toward the lights.
about Cornpup charging through the muddy grass strikes me as the funniest thing I’ve ever seen. His hands are balled into fists. He’s walking with his butt cheeks squeezed together. He has a leaf stuck to the back of his head. This confrontation—it is something he has wanted to do all his life. He has hated this landfill for such a long time. He has been angry at chemical companies and rogue polluters for such a long time. But Cornpup likes to fight by the rules. He uses words. He tries to reason with his opponent. Last time I checked, no war in the history of wars has ever been won with words.
Your enemies have to take you seriously. You need violence.
Cornpup knocks on Dan Benecke’s back like he’s knocking on a door. Dan Benecke turns around calmly. He sees me and Charlie
first. Then he looks down at Cornpup, who waves. “Wow, kid,” he says. “What are you supposed to be?”
I give Charlie a look. “Why didn’t we at least force him to lose the dishwashing gloves?”
Cornpup points toward a row of houses at the edge of the industrial park. “I live over there.”
I search Dan Benecke’s face for a look of recognition. Does he remember us from the town meeting? Charlie questioning him about the chunky stuff in the creek. Cornpup showing off photographs and lumpy skin. Me, the quiet one, son of a dead man. Does he know I smashed up his office?
“Well,” Dan Benecke says in his smooth, professional voice. “If you live over there, then that’s where you should be right about now. This is private property. I’m sure you know how to read. I’m sure you know the definition of the word
.” He keeps his eyes on us as he brings the walkie-talkie up to his lips. “Take a five-minute break. I have company. Just some boys. I’ll take care of it. Over.”
“Take care of us how?” says Charlie.
Dan Benecke hooks his walkie-talkie onto his belt. “It’s time for you kids to go on home.”
Cornpup doesn’t budge. “I think you should tell us what you’re doing here.”
The fake smile is gone. “Get out of here. I’m not asking.”
“Your men,” says Cornpup. “They’re wearing hazmat gear. You’re burning chemicals here. You’re poisoning our neighborhood.”
“Let’s get something straight.” Dan Benecke glares at us. “This is not a
. This is an industrial complex. You see those railcars over there? They’re not playhouses. You see those metal drums? They’re not picnic tables. You see that chain-link fence around the perimeter? It’s not a decoration. You boys aren’t supposed to be playing back here.”
Interesting choice of words,
. He thinks we’re little kids. He’s not scared of us.
“Dumping at night,” says Cornpup. “You aren’t supposed to be playing back here either.”
Dan Benecke doesn’t fit my typical villain profile. He is not an ice monster. He’s not a creek serpent. He is strong, self-assured, a little bit like Charlie, but without the blood and bruises. When he puts his hand on Cornpup’s back and starts escorting us off the premises, I almost feel like he’s protecting us.
“Get your hands off me.” Cornpup whips around. “I said I’d bring your whole company down, and I meant it. But especially you. I want to ruin you personally, because you’re the one signing off on all this. You think because you’re rich you can get away with things, but you should’ve watched out for me. I’ve got nothing to lose.”
It’s funny how we all hate this guy, but for different reasons. Cornpup wants the dumping to stop. He thinks Mareno Chem is out to poison us all. Charlie doesn’t care about the dumping; he just wants it to be less obvious. He’s pissed that Mareno Chem has done things to draw attention to our creek, our
. I hate this man because he reached inside my family and took Dad away from me. He took Mom away from me too, if I really stop and think about it.
“You need to leave. Now, or I’m calling the police.” Dan Benecke’s lip is twitching so wildly, I want to reach out and touch it, make it stop.
Cornpup smirks. “I dare you to call the police. When they see what you’re dumping here, they won’t arrest us. They’ll arrest
I’m not sure that’s true. Mareno Chem owns this town. I bet every cop in Poxton has at least one family member working in the chemical manufacturing plant.
Dan Benecke holds up his flashlight, like he wants to beat us, like we’re dogs. He had that same look on his face when he scared
Mom into signing a stack of legal papers. If I don’t hurt him now, I’ll regret it for the rest of my life.
The Chinese star Cornpup found at the dump is so sharp, it’s cutting through his back pocket. I grab the circular weapon, and it burns in my hand.
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Francie Again by Emily Hahn
Highland Wolf by Hannah Howell
Omens of Death by Nicholas Rhea
Anarchy and Old Dogs (Dr. Siri Paiboun) by Colin Cotterill
Did You Ever Have A Family by Bill Clegg
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Read Second Chance Sister Online
Authors: Linda Kepner
Tags: #romance, #historical
Second Chance Sister (7 page)
BOOK: Second Chance Sister
“Thank you for noticing,” Bishou agreed, “I think so, too.”
“Are you excited about marriage?”
“This is a first marriage for both of you?”
Good thing Denise wasn’t here,
Bishou thought,
she would be offended by now
. “My first, his second. My fiancé is a widower.”
“How sad for him, how happy for you both.”
Bishou had kept Louis in the corner of her eye, and now saw him raise his hand to motion to her. She excused herself to
Cantrell’s group, turned, and walked to him. For some reason, the gazes of the group she was approaching made her very conscious of her looks — her high-heeled shoes, her jewels, her body, her walk, the blue dress.
Louis reached out to take her hand, and said, “
Monsieur le Prefect
, allow me to introduce my fiancée, Bishou Howard. Ma Bishou, this is the Prefect of Réunion Island, Monsieur Jean-Pierre Masson.” She had not imagined it. The island governor was Louis’s parole officer!
Bishou’s eyes lit up with her smile. She held out her hand. “
, it is a great honor to meet you. Thank you so much for all you have done for Louis.”
The Prefect had the perfect little French goatee. Now, at closer quarters, she could also see his French governmental ribbons and badges of office. There was a twinkle in his eye. A slim woman beside him could only be his wife, and proved so upon introduction. She clung to Bishou’s hand, and released it gently.
“Why, Louis, she’s lovely!” said Madame with a smile, then to Bishou, “You are American?”
“Oui, Madame, from Boston, Massachusetts.”
“Boston!” said the Prefect, “I have been there once. Shortly after the museum was robbed. Such a tragedy. Have they found the villains yet?”
“No, Monsieur, not yet, but they are still looking.” That had been ten years ago.
“What do you think of our island?” his wife asked.
“I like it very much. I think I will be happy here,” Bishou replied. “It is very like Virginia, where I studied.”
“That’s right,” said the Prefect sheepishly, “you gave a lecture tonight, which — ahem — I skipped.”
Bishou laughed. “I imagine the opportunity to skip a meeting is a great luxury for you,
, so you must enjoy this little vacation.”
“You are a good sport, Mademoiselle,” the Prefect grinned, “or should I say Docteur? Or Professeur?” He seemed like an alert and capable politician.
“All are correct — for a few more days,” Bishou replied. “Then it will no longer be Mademoiselle.”
“So will you be Docteur Dessant, then?” his wife asked.
“There is paperwork to change, for my diploma and my contract, so it may be a while before I can use that name in my work,” Bishou replied, “but that is the name I intend.”
“The contracts for the university system run through government channels,” said the Prefect. “Let me know if you need any help.”
“Ah, Monsieur,” Louis demurred, “as long as the wheels of government are turning, we will not disturb you with our petty problems. I am grateful for the assistance you have already given me. I wouldn’t wish to pester you.” He patted Bishou’s hand.
Other men and women had been standing nearby. Bishou had not focused on them, with her attention on Louis and the Prefect. Now she realized that the man standing beside
Masson had the same comfortable presence as the Prefect himself. Dr. Serge Michelin, the President of this fledgling university system, said, “Jean-Pierre, there shouldn’t be any problem with Dr. Howard’s name change. We’re very excited about having her here.”
Monsieur le President
,” Bishou replied, “you are kind.”
Next to him was the Humanities department chairman, which also hadn’t registered. He wore a wry smile. “Nonetheless, I feel like the man who has had news broken to him by degrees, Professeur. First, I learned that you were not a man. Then, I learned that you were American. Now, I learn that you are to be married. And, I learn you plan to change your name! You have toyed with me.” Dr. Rubin was almost teasing.
“I admit, I did toy with you a bit, Dr. Rubin,” she said, smiling up into his face. “But I knew when we both spoke at the same time, stood at the same time, and shook hands at the same time, that we would get along well. This will be a very enjoyable place to work.” Department heads lived for employees who spoke that way about them, so he was easily appeased.
“You are a brave man, Louis,” said the Prefect seriously. “Many men would be unable to stagger back to their feet to fight again, as you have done.”
Vous êtes très gentil, Monsieur le Prefect
.” Louis shook his head. “I have made a profound number of mistakes in but a few years. I am very fortunate to have the chance to put things right.” Bishou, still holding his elbow, realized that he was very calm and realistic about the past. Their gazes met.
The Prefect saw. “Perhaps a little love matters, too,” he observed. “You’ll come to dinner some night, Louis, and we’ll talk.”
“I would be honored, Monsieur.” Louis turned to escort Bishou in another direction, as the Prefect turned his attention to another conversation.
The head librarian introduced himself, and asked Bishou about getting a copy of her dissertation for their collection. She promised him one. They made small talk with various other people until, at last, Bishou said to Louis, “Are you ready to leave?”
, if you are.”
They paid their respects to the librarian, the host of this event, and departed.
Outside, in the fresh air, Bishou said, “That wasn’t so bad, was it?”
Embrace-moi,
” said Louis. She turned to him and put her arms around his neck. He wrapped his arms around her body. They kissed in the moonlight. “Non. This part, especially, is very good.”
Gently, Bishou kissed him again. “You look so nice tonight.”
! Regard her, this beauty, telling
I look nice.
“Well.” She kissed him again. “You do.”
. Back to the car.” They walked to the parking area, holding hands. Louis saw her into the car, got into the driver’s seat, and drove out of the area.
He drove past the turn for her street. “Louis, you’ve missed the pension.”
“I am taking you home,” Louis said calmly and determinedly.
She wasn’t ready to fight about his definition of “home.” Instead, she closed her eyes and enjoyed the ride.
“You are not arguing with me,” Louis said.
“I don’t want to argue with you,” Bishou replied.
He reached over and stroked her leg. They were silent all the way to Rue Dessant. Louis was getting impatient, and she was weakening. Bishou didn’t know what she was going to say to him if he tried to take her upstairs, to bed. Probably yes.
Then, they saw a car in the drive — an elderly gray Ford sedan.
Puzzled, Bishou asked, “Whose car is that?”
“I know I’ve seen it before.” Louis searched his memory. “Ah!” he said at last, “I know where I’ve seen it. At Garros.”
“The airport? I don’t understand.”
“We have guests.” Louis pulled up behind the gray car, and turned off the engine. His mood had changed. He hurried around the Mercedes, and opened Bishou’s door. “Come in and say hello to them.”
Bishou accompanied him to the house. She was surprised to see Louis open the door himself, rather than Bettina. Inside, they could hear voices from the kitchen, and laughter. The voices sounded familiar.
Louis led her to the kitchen and opened the door.
Bettina and Madeleine rose from the kitchen table, startled, smiles still on their lips. The man seated opposite them, with two boys eating a late supper, certainly needed no introduction.
“Oh, my Lord,” said Bishou, in English. “Bat, you’re here!”
Her brother stood, grinning. His eyes, as gray as hers, took in the nice clothes. “Wow.” Then he held out his arms. They embraced. “Hello, little sister, we’re here,” said Jean-Baptiste ‘Bat’ Howard.
From the other side of the table, Andre and Gerard came around, too, for their hugs and kisses. Bat shook Louis’s hand, but Louis reached out and hugged a younger boy with either arm. “Andy. Gerry.” He had thought this out in advance, and had the right name for the right boy. “I am glad you could make it here. Welcome.”
“Louis, it’s good to meet you.” Bat switched back to French, out of courtesy for the housekeepers.
“How did you get here?” Bishou asked.
“I told you, Garros.”
“I recognized the rental car from the airport,” Louis explained to her, “and realized the Howards had driven themselves here.”
Bat nodded. “We got directions to Rue Dessant, then got here and found out you were gone. Good thing you’d told the ladies that we’d be staying upstairs, because I didn’t know what the arrangements would be.
, Bishou, you look gorgeous. You didn’t do this for a lecture, did you?”
“Non, non,” said Louis, “we attended another reception afterward. But now,
knows the beautiful woman
at Université Français de l’Océan Indien. And her escort.”
Bat grinned. “That is as it should be.”
“Then come in to the salon with us,” said Louis. “Bettina, some tea for Mademoiselle Bishou and me.”
“Oui, monsieur,” said the housekeeper happily, as Louis led the way out of the kitchen back to his own comfortable sofa. Bat took the easy chair while Louis pulled Bishou onto the couch beside him.
In answer to her questions, Bat replied, “We left Logan and flew to Orly, it seems like days ago. Then Orly to Garros. The boys were thrilled with all the foliage and the jungle animals. They could just wander around your backyard until dawn.”
“But you look sleepy,” she told the boys. “The
décalage
is finally getting to you. You need to try to sleep, even though your bodies say it is daytime.”
“I’m not tired,” protested Andy.
“Come,” Bishou said, taking him in her arms. He leaned against her on the couch, while she leaned against Louis.
Bat commented to Louis, “I’ll bet you didn’t plan to take on an entire family.”
“I will take that bet,” said Louis good-naturedly. “They don’t call you ‘les jumeaux’ for nothing. It is the whole family, not just you two.”
“Well, that is true,” Bat admitted. “Any two of us are ‘the twins,’ really.”
“I have figured out that part,” Louis replied, his arm around Bishou’s shoulders.
Andy looked up at him, past Bishou. “What do we call you? You’re even older than Bat. Calling you just ‘Louis’ doesn’t seem right.”
“The Campard boys call me Oncle Louis, and I’m not truly their uncle,” Louis replied seriously. “Would you rather call me that, too, even though it is not quite accurate?”
Andy consulted Gerry, beside him on the couch, with a look, then looked back again at Louis. “Sure. That would be good.”
“Bon. Oncle Louis it is, then.” He drew Bishou closer. “And what do you think of your sister? A beautiful woman,
? Did you ever notice before?”
“Not really.” Andy nestled against her.
“But Bat said we’d see her differently now, because you did,” Gerry contributed.
“Oh, he did,” said Bishou. Bat grinned and said nothing. “Did he tell you I would always love you as much as I do?”
“Yes, he did,” said Andy, eyes closed.
“Good,” she said softly, kissing the top of his head. “I’m glad he realized that part. I will always love you.”
,” said Louis, just as softly. “Now. Did Bettina show you the room upstairs where you boys will stay?”
“Yes. We took our suitcases up.”
“Good. Now, Bat. You take them up and put them to bed, and come back to us.”
“Yes, sir. Come on, boys.”
After they left the room, Bishou said to Louis, “You are handling them just the right way. They need a commander-in-chief.”
“I rather thought so. Besides, I am being selfish.” Louis kissed her. He placed his hand under her breast, and kissed below her throat. In her ear, he said, “I may be acquiring your family, but you are
She sighed, put her arms around his neck, and kissed him. “Oh,
“What do you say?” he prompted with a smile.
“Ah, oui.”
She slipped off her shoes and lay on the couch, her head in his lap. His hand rested on her breast and stomach.
“Go to sleep,” he said. “I will get you back to the
, I promise.”
She closed her eyes.
Bettina’s voice. “Is she asleep, monsieur?”
“Not yet,” he replied. “But she had a very strenuous day, between teaching and this reception.” She heard the clink of a teacup and saucer. “Merci. Leave the other here, in case she wakes.” His tone changed. “What?”
“Oh, she is so beautiful, Monsieur. And kind. I am so happy for you.”
“Oui. And kind. Now scat.”
Bettina giggled. “Oui, Monsieur.”
A few minutes later, she heard Bat sit down again in the other chair. “Is she asleep?”
“I’m glad. She’s been overdoing it again.”
“There are so many things she wants,” said Louis.
“Not really,” said Bat. “Only one thing she wanted. And she got him.”
“You flatter me.”
“Non,” Bat insisted. “She wrote me months ago, from Virginia, and said, ‘I have seen him, the only man I want.’”
“And listed all the reasons why there was no hope in hell of it happening.”
Louis’s hand stroked her body. “To think I never noticed her there, caught up as I was in my own problems.”
“When did you decide she was the one?”
“Back here, without her. I argued with Etien. You know, I love the Campard family; they have stood by me through thick and thin. But whenever I mentioned my first wife’s name, they suppressed me firmly. In Virginia, Bishou and the others let me mention Carola, and saw nothing wrong with it. She had been part of my life. I said her name here, thinking no more of it than that, and Etien grew angry. He told me I must not speak of her again. And damn it, no matter how horrible it became toward the end, there was a time that I loved her and she was my wife. I could have grown furious with him — but Bishou was at my shoulder, saying, non, non, he is your best friend, state your reasons for your anger. Work this through. And I did. I told Etien I was
un veuf
, I had a right to live as one. Bishou was there, saying, work this reasonably. We did. I realized I wanted her here, helping me with my life. I had begun wondering what I could do to bring her here, just my little dreams, when she showed up at the Campards’ doorstep. Even she admits it was as if I summoned her.” He stroked her hair. “Now, we are doing what other people have seen in us, all along.”
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By Jesse La Tour on August 15, 2019 • ( 5 Comments )
For many years, cities like Fullerton had one primary (legal) tool for dealing with the visible presence of homelessness in the form of encampments—anti-camping ordinances that prevented people from sleeping overnight on public or private lands. Last year, a court decision, Martin v. Boise, essentially took that tool away from many cities, including Fullerton.
Under Martin v. Boise, cities may not criminalize sleeping in public places if there are not adequate shelter bed spaces in the city. According to the court, “the government cannot criminalize indigent, homeless people for sleeping outdoors, on public property, on the false premise they had a choice in the matter.”
As of today, Fullerton does not have a permanent year-round homeless shelter, and thus may not enforce its anti-camping ordinance.
The legal precedent established by Martin v. Boise grew out of an interpretation of the Eighth Amendment of the US Constitution and its prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment—in this case—criminalizing poverty.
In the past several months, a fairly substantial homeless encampment has been established along Gilbert St. in west Fullerton, adjacent to St. Philip Benizi Catholic Church.
Homeless encampment along Gilbert St. in Fullerton.
At the August 6 Fullerton City Council meeting, a few residents of west Fullerton expressed their concern about the homeless encampment that exists in their neighborhood.
One resident said that kids in the area don’t feel safe with the encampment, and spoke of drugs, trash, feces, and urine.
“What happened to the enforcement that was going to be happening—the street sweeping, the cleaning? I don’t see any of that,” she said.
Another resident named Laura, who lives near the Gilbert encampment, said, “We have three kids under 5 and it’s been a really big issue. We have to call the police pretty often…We feel unsafe just in our own front yard now…We’re just hoping that you guys can help right now.”
Another resident blamed St. Philip Benizi church for “bringing” the homeless to the area when they opened their grounds to let homeless folks sleep there. For two years, Father Dennis Kriz allowed a certain number of homeless people to sleep on his church grounds. Now, those folks are sleeping on the sidewalk adjacent to his church, next to a large sign declaring to the city, “Build a Shelter.” Recently, hundreds of members of the faith community packed city council chambers, successfully encouraging the city to declare an “Emergency Shelter Crisis”—with the intent of making it easier to build shelters.
Sign on St. Philip Benizi church fence near the encampment.
“There needs to be more [shelter] capacity,” City Manger Ken Domer said. Currently two shelters are being built in Buena Park and Placentia, with state funds in coordination with 13 cities of north Orange County.
Domer said that CityNet, the city’s contracted homeless outreach services, has increased their outreach in that area to five times a week.
He said that one challenge to getting folks into shelters is the lack of mental health services, and that now, through the court, CalOptima is getting involved, which is the delivery system for mental health and services—MediCal.
Mayor Protem Fitzgerald requested that the mayor send a letter to the CalOptima Board, requesting their assistance.
“CalOptima has charge over programs for the mentally ill, who need to get out here on the streets with us to assess the people who are out there so that they can get the help they need,” Fitzgerald said.
Fitzgerald said that local churches, under a recent city ordinance, have the ability to provide shelter for up to 12 homeless people, so long as the church meets certain requirements (the shelter must be indoors and have bathroom facilities).
“I know quite a few churches in town who have that ability, and tomorrow this could be solved if the churches would quit telling the government we need to solve this problem, and take up the mantle to provide the hope that these people need to get off the street. So I encourage you to look to the faith community in this town to step up to the plate here and help our residents and help these people get the help they need,” Fitzgerald said.
Council Member Whitaker said, “What I’m hearing from residents is they really want to see some actions. They want to see when they put in a call, when they feel threatened, when there is a hazard that needs dealing with…When that happens, we need to, as a city government, respond rapidly. We have safety issues, clearance issues, sidewalks being blocked completely bleeding out into streets and creating hazards there as well.”
Whitaker said, “I understand that people have rights, but those rights shouldn’t supercede our ability to transit streets and sidewalks safely throughout the city.”
Domer said that the city recently cited a couple homeless folks for blocking the sidewalk and preventing disabled persons accessibility. However the city’s ability to “clear” the camp is constrained by Martin v. Boise, and the recently-settled Orange County Catholic Worker case.
The city manager added that homelessness itself is not a crime, so people cannot simply be arrested for sleeping on the streets, although if there is a criminal act associated (drugs, etc.), then they can enforce that.
I visited the encampment, and St. Philip Benizi church, on August 15th to see things for myself. I first met with Father Dennis, to ask him why his church doesn’t open up 12 shelter beds, as is allowed under city ordinance.
He said that, according to the most recent Point in Time count, there are around 370 homeless folks in Fullerton—thus sheltering 12 people would put a small dent in the problem, when the city has the ability to open a shelter that would help hundreds.
Regarding the upcoming shelters in Buena Park and Placentia, the city has 35 slots in each of those, so even those will be inadequate to meet the total need.
“In this, our main role is advocacy. We can help with volunteers. But when you have a problem where there’s 370 people…This is where government is useful—you build one thing that takes care of all of them, and perhaps you can assign the churches to volunteer,” Father Dennis said.
I headed out to the encampment, and noticed that Fullerton’s Homeless Liaison Team, along with CityNet, were doing their regular outreach, offering a connection to existing services.
A homeless liaison officer speaks with a man at the encampment who was caught smoking meth.
Two men were seated on the sidewalk, and an officer told me they had been caught smoking meth.
I spoke with a couple other men, who were minding their own business on the sidewalk next to a tent. One man named Scott said he’d been homeless for two years due to work gaps and alcoholism.
He said he needs a steady job and a bus pass so he can get to the places he needs to get back on his feet.
Another man named Dave was working on a drawing. He said he’s been homeless for three months because he could no longer afford the $1800 rent on his $14/hour wage.
He said his wife is paralyzed and he couldn’t make enough to house her and their two kids.
“They evicted us. My wife and kids are staying in a motel. We don’t have anywhere to go right now—we bounce around from place to place. I go to work every day from right here,” he said.
It turns out Dave has a job for a publishing company but doesn’t make enough to pay for rent.
I tell him about the Armory shelter opening in October, and ask if he has stayed there before.
“I’ve never been in a shelter in my life. Never been homeless [until now],” he said.
The Armory emergency shelter will re-open on October 15. The Buena Park shelter is set to open in December. There are currently no plans to build a permanent shelter for Fullerton’s approximately 370 homeless.
CityNet employees work on outreach forms while homeless liaison officers deal with a drug issue.
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I live a couple houses down the church and no longer allow my kids to walk the dog. One time when I was with my toddler daughter I had a homeless man come out of the church to get my daughter attention. I also am a Realtor and when I try to show property in Fullerton I get so much negative comments about what side of Euclid they won’t bother to look at houses at because of the homeless. Lived here in Fullerton for 30 years and live ot here but lately it’s been looking ugly. So sad.
Jesse, thank you for your continuing advocacy for homeless folx.
Having been homeless myself briefly, I feel that this is a highly misunderstood population of people that house owners love to see as a “threat” and feel “unsafe” and make the neighborhood “ugly”.
Are people that heartless and vapid?
Even if a homeless person is doing meth, nobody asks *why* , yet the opiod addiction is an “epidemic” and “crisis” because the face of that is a white, working class man.
I spend most my time in fullerton and Anaheim and people should be ashamed of themselves for not only judging this population but even thinking that sleeping on the street and then punishing a person for that is okay (yet you go to prison for leaving a dog out for a night or two ). Even in the most oppressive regimes, there are at least beds provided for regime prisoners in camps (DPRK, Chinese Muslim camps, US internment camps for Japanese Americans and so on) That says a lot about how we as a society treat the most vulnerable of folks
Since most of my time is spent on public spaces, and I sometimes do get confused for homeless because of my backpack and bags .. .I’ve befriended many many many folks , and they are the smartest, usually nicest and faith filled people I’ve come across. Many times I’ve said “God bless” to homeless folk and they say it back
I’ve said “God bless” to well dressed office workers in downtown Anaheim and get angry glares, if anything at all. Many times I’ve panhandled there for small change or for a cigarette, and all the well dressed suits got angry
Guess who not only gave me a cigarette , but also shared their food when I ran out of food stamps?
Certainly not the middle class people who always comment “think of the children” “i don’t feel safe”, “my house is on the wrong side of Euclid” (booohooohoo).
Truly those who have nothing have a soul, a heart, empathy..
I’ve never had a place to call my own since turning 19 , led a very transitory life…and time and time again all I experience from home owners is hate , suspician and judgement if not indifference.
Much rather would spend some time smoking a cigarette with a homeless person than drink with the ta tas at DTF.
What that pastor did in opening up his plot….God bless him. I hope other churches take note.
I have to agree with the anonymous reader that homeowners themselves are a victim in this. You become a prisoner in your own home because you’re afraid to step out near the encampment. Your property value goes down, not of your wrongdoing, but because homeless people decided to camp near your home. You sometimes drive to nicer neighborhood just to walk your dogs. You talk about homeless folks are victims of society. Well, so are middle class families that work hard to pay their bills, provide food for their family and pay their taxes to contribute to society.
The article talked about 2 men smoking meth and you want me to feel sorry for these people and help them? Why would I help anyone that doesn’t want to help themselves get out of their current situation? Studies have shown that homelessness brings drug use, vandalism, public urination and defecation, prostitution and public intoxication. Why would I want to invite that to my neighborhood.
Gimme a break…
Yeah it must be really hard for you that these people have no where to live, you poor thing.
Dennis Zdenek Kriz says:
Excellent and quite comprehensive article. The ONE POINT that would need to be clarified would be the statement that “CityNet, the city’s contracted homeless outreach services, has increased their outreach in that area to five times a week.” If “that area” is to mean the GIlbert Street encampment, then this would be false. CityNet generally comes there once a week, including this past week.
The only week that CityNet has come to St. Philips (or since June to the encampment on the sidewalk just off of our grounds) _every day_ was the last week that the encampment was on our grounds. THAT ONE WEEK both CityNet and the County came every single day, stayed pretty much the whole morning each day AND WERE ABLE TO MOVE NINE PEOPLE or 1/3 of the encampment into shelters. They have not done so either before or since, despite the clear effectiveness of that one week’s intensive presence.
And to explain to Readers why this is important: Because of the OC’s coordinated entry system into the county’s shelters (in itself not a bad idea as there needs to be some order / triage to prioritize who gets into the county’s still very limited shelter space), THE ONLY WAY INTO THE SHELTERS in Fullerton is through CityNet and the County Health Services. There is simply no other way. So if CityNet (or County Health Services) don’t come, then the people sleeping on the sidewalk on Gilbert St. can not hope to get off of the street.
Now to be fair to CityNet, until recently CityNet was only paid by the City to do outreach in Fullerton two days a week, of which one of those days was by the Library / St. Mary’s. So one can’t blame them for not being by St. Philip’s everyday, when they are only being paid for two to cover the entire city.
But these are things that the citizenry ought to know. If the City’s outreach is being conducted on a shoestring, then it can not be as effective / successful as most of Fullerton’s citizens would hope / expect it to be.
But this is then the whole point of building the needed shelter space: If the needed shelter space were present, then “outreach” could be done _within the shelters themselves_ (that’s why these shelters are now called “navigation centers”) and much time and even money would be saved by sparing even the outreach workers the necessity of talking with clipboards in hand to people responding to them out of tents on the street.
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European Parliament passes strong net neutrality law, along with major roaming reforms
David Meyer Apr 3, 2014 - 3:10 AM CDT
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European fans of the open internet can breathe a sigh of relief: the European parliament has passed a major package of telecoms law reform, complete with amendments that properly define and protect net neutrality.
The amendments (PDF) were introduced by the Socialist, Liberal, Green and Left blocs in the European Parliament after the final committee to tweak the package – the industry committee – left in a bunch of loopholes that would have allowed telcos to start classifying web services of their choice as “specialized services” that they can treat differently.
It’s a good thing the net neutrality argument didn’t sink the whole package, as it also includes new laws to eliminate roaming fees within Europe, creating a truly single market for telecoms services. Now the whole package gets passed through to the next Parliament (elections are coming up in May), then the representatives of European countries for final approval.
Thanks to Greens, Socialists, Liberals and Leftis in European Parliament #netneutrality has now a good chance to be protected in the #EU!
— Jan Philipp Albrecht (@JanAlbrecht) April 3, 2014
In a statement, Amelia Andersdotter, the Swedish member of the European Parliament (MEP) who heads up the Pirate faction in the European Parliament, said:
“Thankfully, a majority of MEPs has seen sense today and voted to uphold the principle of net neutrality in the EU. The proposals by the Commission, which would essentially have given large providers the all-clear for discriminating against users as they see fit, have been revised. Today’s vote would explicitly provide for net neutrality and will hopefully ensure a level playing field for all online services and users, providing for a more open internet environment in which innovation is encouraged.”
Not all the amendments were passed by members of the European Parliament (MEPs) but the big ones got through. Amendment 234 gave a strong definition for net neutrality:
“Net neutrality” means the principle according to which all internet traffic is treated equally, without discrimination, restriction or interference, independently of its sender, recipient, type, content, device, service or application.
Amendment 235 gave a strong definition of specialized services, making it clear that ISPs can’t simply decide Netflix(s nflx), for example, is no longer a standard internet service:
“Specialised service” means an electronic communications service optimised for specific content, applications or services, or a combination thereof, provided over logically distinct capacity, relying on strict admission control, offering functionality requiring enhanced quality from end to end, and that is not marketed or usable as a substitute for internet access service.
And Amendment 236 hammered that point home:
Providers of internet access, of electronic communications to the public and providers of content, applications and services shall be free to offer specialised services to end-users. Such services shall only be offered if the network capacity is sufficient to provide them in addition to internet access services and they are not to the detriment of the availability or quality of internet access services. Providers of internet access to end-users shall not discriminate between functionally equivalent services and applications.
According to the pro-net neutrality lobby group Access, this is all a major win except for the defeat of an article that would have clearly set out how to enforce net neutrality.
“The Council representatives are expected to adopt a final position on the Telecoms regulation later in 2014,” Access said, referring to the representatives of member states. “Access urges the Council not to deviate from the position adopted today by the European Parliament. The Council must maintain the necessary safeguards to protect net neutrality and prohibit network discrimination in Europe. This includes ensuring that this principle can be effectively enforced.”
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The whole package had originally been proposed by Neelie Kroes, the European Commission’s digital agenda chief. The roaming elements built on work she’s done over recent years to drive down the cost of using your phone while crossing intra-European borders, and will hopefully create a much more unified market for digital services in Europe. If you’re a startup building location-based services, for example, it will be much cheaper for people to use those services as they move between European countries.
As for the net neutrality elements, Kroes claimed her proposals were strong, with some reason — for example, those proposals explicitly outlaw the widespread practice of mobile carriers blocking or throttling services like Skype(s msft) in order to protect their own voice revenues. However, the proposals also said that ISPs would be able to strike deals with content providers that would allow a degree of prioritization of their services over other web services.
This was a complex matter that came down to what should or should not be a “specialized service” that’s exempted from the general net neutrality provisions. Of course certain services need to be treated differently because of their technical requirements — ISP-provided IPTV is the classic example — but net neutrality advocates say such things should be managed and delivered through a separate channel that can’t be confused with the normal “internet” that consumers consume, such as standard web video.
In effect, those advocates — and the MEPs voting on Thursday — were calling for safeguards that mean ISPs can’t just take a normal web service and say it’s “specialized” because they’ve struck a deal with the content provider, allowing them to prioritize it over rival services.
Unfortunately, some (including Kroes’s office) followed the telco lobby line and were until Wednesday still trying to argue that net neutrality advocates wanted to ban specialized services altogether:
Hokmark: no govt or company should block content – Internet must be free. Blocking specialised services reduces freedom #netneutrality
— Ryan Heath (@RyanHeathWriter) April 2, 2014
That was a straw man argument. Net neutrality advocates wanted a clear line to be drawn between specialized services and the normal internet, fearful that a pay-for-prioritization scenario would kill innovation by disadvantaging new startups and giving ISPs a level of control over the internet that they currently lack.
The advocates got what they wanted, unlike in the U.S. where a massive legal blunder by the FCC meant no net neutrality laws are in place. When that debacle occurred a few months back, Kroes argued that Europe could therefore offer startups a better deal on net neutrality.
Ironically, Kroes’s words finally ring true today after her defeat on the specialized services issue. Not that she’s calling it a defeat, of course:
Couldn't be happier!! Great result in EU Parl in favour of #ConnectedContinent !! #roaming #netneutrality
— Neelie Kroes (@NeelieKroesEU) April 3, 2014
Naturally, the carriers are deeply unhappy. In a statement, mobile carrier industry body the GSMA said it “recognises the efforts of Rapporteur Pilar del Castillo to develop a constructive response to the Commission’s Connected Continent proposals but believes that the overall package fails to address the key challenge of stimulating growth and investment.”
“Network operators must be able to develop services that meet the needs of consumers and charge different prices for differentiated products,” GSMA director general Anne Bouverot exclaimed.
This article was updated at 00.30am PT on Friday to insert a missing “s” into the name of Amelia Andersdotter.
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Marcus Svensson April 8, 2014
Enjoy your government … That always work out well..
fabrica64 April 5, 2014
US readers, please keep in mind “liberals” in Europe doesn’t mean the same as in the US. European’s liberal parties are generally for the free market and against big government intervention, while US liberals translate approx. in Europe’s socialist-democratic’s parties.
vivekpatel34 April 4, 2014
A move in the right direction for Europe. The USA has poor communications services within the country and hopefully this will push them towards more open and competitive markets for more of their citizens.
peterinseattle April 4, 2014
“[I]n the U.S. … a massive legal blunder by the FCC meant no net neutrality laws are in place.”
Who says it was a blunder?
Net Neutrality regulators now high-paid lobbyists | BGR
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” * * * The very men holding the most powerful government regulatory positions when net neutrality was fatally wounded in the United States landed high-paying jobs funded by the cable industry.”
Dave Burnett April 3, 2014
Good news indeed.
Just hope there are no loopholes the Telcos can exploit
marsanyi April 3, 2014
Bits are bits. Why won’t this just encourage providers of ‘specialist services’ to map them in such a way that they fall under the legal definition of ‘Internet services’ to leverage the law, in the same way arbitrary traffic is tunneled over SSH, for example? It’s all about carrying capacity, isn’t it?
Ric April 3, 2014
I think this is a good compromise to keep the providers in business but keeps them from getting greedy or monopolistic! Too bad this is occurring in the good ol USSA. I am tired of service price gouging and illegal monopolies. Great job David.
Richard Edwyn Mccallum April 3, 2014
@David Meyer; Could this legislation be tossed aside as a result of the TPP laws that are currently being created?
milliamp April 3, 2014
It’s my understanding that nobody is blocking Netflix the are simply charging them for data yet the author of the article specifically gives Netflix as an example of being protected by the ruling when that doesn’t appear to be true.
ISP’s couldn’t set out to explicitly harm their traffic but legally I don’t see anywhere where it says charging for data agnostic of what the data is is prohibited under the new ruling.
Someone please point me to where it says ISP’s are prohibited from charging for connectivity because I’m pretty sure it means they would all have to shut their doors as everything they do is now illegal.
David Meyer April 3, 2014
Sorry, I don’t follow – where in the article do I say that ISPs won’t be able to charge for connectivity? Regarding Netflix, the situation I was referring to was one where a carrier might partner up with Netflix to give it preferential treatment (either by putting it in the “fast lane” or by making it not count towards usage caps when rival services do). Nobody is blocking Netflix, at least not on fixed-line services.
Lars April 3, 2014
I pay about 70 euros for internet connectivity already. Surcharges because I might want to use said connection are preposterous (and criminal).
aderojas April 3, 2014
Reblogged this on Andrés de Rojas and commented:
Such good news from the old continent!
Nowhere in the law does it say connectivity must be provided for free.
rtoolstechnology April 3, 2014
pacus April 3, 2014
Thanks neelie
Owen Smyth April 3, 2014
This legislative breach of the free market will only damage innovation in the delivery of internet content.
Howard Locke April 3, 2014
Either you’re a corporate shill or your understanding is deeply flawed. Regulation of a market to keep it from harming small producers rather than favouring existing oligopolies is beneficial to innovation, because it lowers barriers to entry and allows more disruption in the marketplace.
Either you’re a corporate shill or your understanding of how the “free market” works is deeply flawed. Regulating a market to allow small providers to compete with entrenched oligopolistic interests increases competition and encourages innovation. This is good for the market, good for consumers, and good for content providers – network neutrality leads to a more open content marketplace by restricting the anti-competitive rent-seeking behaviour of the network providers.
Tobias Andersen April 3, 2014
Actually, Net Neutrality will improve competition.
Amelie April 3, 2014
Does include Switzerland too, or just MS without ELSA?
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In historical move, Kansas City drops ‘interim’ tag and makes Donna Maize city’s first female fire chief
Posted 11:54 am, November 20, 2019, by FOX 4 Newsroom
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — For the first time in the department’s 151-year history, a woman will be the chief of Kansas City’s firefighters. City Manager Troy Schulte said Wednesday that acting fire chief Donna Maize now has the permanent position. She had been in the interim role since September 8.
“I thrive on the positivity I receive daily from the department and see a renewed sense of purpose in our responders,” Maize stated in a news release.
She has more than 27 years of experience with the city, most recently as assistant city manager for public safety. She graduated from National Fire Academy Executive Fire Officer Program, and progressed through KCFD from firefighter to assistant fire chief. She also graduated from the University of Central Missouri with a bachelor’s in public relations and the University of Kansas with a master’s in public administration.
Maize has bloodlines within KCFD; her father had a distinguished career with department. She began her service in 1992, her last assignment was commanding the Technical Services Bureau, which includes fleet, facilities, IT, logistics and other core internal functions.
She then accepted Schulte’s invitation to transition from the fire service to work as assistant city manager for public safety.
“Chief Maize is clearly a great leader, and has proven her abilities in every job she’s had,” Schulte stated in a news release. “As a second-generation KCFD firefighter, she understands the legacy and tradition, while bringing modern management skills to the department.”
Maize succeeds Gary Reese, who stepped down as fire chief in August.
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Kanban: Driver's Edition
"Kanban" — or 看板, the Japanese word for billboard — is a term for the visual cues that might be used in a lean, efficient assembly line in order to expedite and smooth workflow. These signals get the workers what they need, where they need it, when they need it to create a just-in-time (JIT) production system.
The setting for the game Kanban: Automotive Revolution is an assembly line. The players are ambitious managers who are trying to impress the board of directors in order to achieve as high a position as possible in the company and secure their careers. With promotions come advantages at the factory, such as more space to store precious materials and greater prestige to accelerate your ascent. Through solid management, you must strive to shine next to your peers. You need to manage suppliers and supplies, improve automobile parts, innovate — anything to stay on the cutting edge, or getting your hands greasy on the assembly line in order to boost production. You must exercise wisdom in choosing which projects you should start, selecting only those that will give you the upper hand and shunning those that will bog you down or cause the unthinkable — failure — which would diminish you in the eyes of the board.
Over the course of the game, you persuade the board and the factory tender to help you develop and improve automobile parts. You make shrewd use of the outside suppliers and the limited factory supplies in order to appropriate needed part when the suppliers come up short. Because the factory must run at optimum efficiency, production doesn't wait for you or for mistakes.
Like the process itself, Kanban: Automotive Revolution proves to be both innovative and rewarding. Game mechanisms tightly tied to the automobile manufacturing theme include:
The factory manager is a game-driven non-player character with two modes of play ("nice" or "mean") to offer a friendly or more competitive gameplay environment.
Two independent player-influenced game timers — the factory production cycle and work week clock — provide timing tension to the game, trigger intermediate scoring phases, and factor into the game end conditions.
A simulation of the factory assembly line with spatial point-to-point movement adds an element to the game that requires optimal timing.
A design and innovation department, leveraged to manipulate the value of the various car models and component upgrades produced within the factory, drives the economy of the game.
Departmental training and certification tracks provide players a means to operate more efficiently.
If you want a seat on the board someday, you need to show that you can keep a complex machine running smoothly, efficiently, with everything happening just at the right time. Kanban: Automotive Revolution is a pure Eurogame focused on economics and resource management that puts you in the driver's seat of an entire production facility, racing for the highest level of promotion.
90 - 120 minutes
Genre(s):Strategy Games
Theme(s): Economic,
Mechanics: Action Point Allowance System,
Commodity Speculation,
Variable Phase Order,
Publisher: Stronghold Games
Playing Time: 90 - 120 minutes
Designer: Vital Lacerda
View Kanban: Driver's Edition on BoardGameGeek
Galaxy Trucker: The Latest Models
Galaxy Trucker: Latest Models consists of new game boards for 2-5 players with model C spaceships. Class 1C and 2C come on the same game board with color denoting spaces that can be used in 2C but not in 1C. Asteroids that approach the spaceship from the front or from behind sometimes swoop around to hit the ship on the side, and asteroids that approach from the side sometimes split in half and hit the ship twice! A structural rift down the center of the spaceship requires universal connectors to connect only with other universal connectors when bridging this rift. So much for their universality!
Class 3C is a toroidal spaceship with the top of the 6x6 tile grid wrapping around to the bottom and the left side wrapping around to the right. Class 4C has space to build four separate spaceships, but players may be able to connect some of the ships when the sand timer is flipped.
Smash Up: Science Fiction Double Feature
Smash Up is back with even more wild factions in the mix! Science Fiction Double Feature brings four new decks to the base-smashing business with abilities unlike those seen before!
Smash Up: Science Fiction Double Feature can be played on its own as a two-player game or combined with other Smash Up titles to allow for up to four players to compete at the same time.
Arkham Horror: The Card Game – The Depths of Yoth
The Depths of Yoth is the fifth Mythos Pack in The Forgotten Age cycle for Arkham Horror: The Card Game.
Following the events of The City of Archives, your team of investigators find yourselves trapped deep in the of the Earth and the only way out is...down. Your mission to protect humanity continues, but the threats to your life increase with each level of the descent. There is no telling what monsters have grown in these dark caverns and now pursue your team, but you cannot look back, or you are surely lost.
This Mythos Pack features new player cards to customize your investigators' decks and treacherous encounter cards to immerse you in the peril of your investigation.
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THE PAINSLEY CATHOLIC ACADEMY
Establishment St John's Catholic Primary School
School Lane, Great Haywood, Stafford, Staffordshire, ST18 0SL
Staffordshire (860)
Mrs MT Cornes
The Painsley MAC (Staffordshire)
Requires improvement (Last inspection: 01 February 2019)
John Pennington Not recorded Appointed by GB/board 20/11/2019 20/11/2023
Jessica Johnson Not recorded Elected by school staff 01/09/2019 01/09/2023
Helen Barnes Not recorded Persons who are appointed by the foundation body or sponsor (if applicable) 01/09/2018 31/08/2022
Julian Booth Not recorded Persons who are appointed by the foundation body or sponsor (if applicable) 01/09/2018 31/08/2022
Marie Therese Cornes Not recorded Appointed by GB/board 01/09/2018 31/08/2022
Owain Antcliff Antcliff Not recorded Elected by parents 01/09/2018 31/08/2022
Susan Ridge Not recorded Persons who are appointed by the foundation body or sponsor (if applicable) 01/09/2018 31/08/2022
Vince Owen Not recorded Persons who are appointed by the foundation body or sponsor (if applicable) 01/09/2018 31/08/2022
Terence McWilliams Chair of local governing body Appointed by GB/board 01/09/2018 19/11/2019
Lyndsey Grant Local governor Elected by school staff 01/09/2018 31/08/2019
These establishments are linked with St John's Catholic Primary School, URN: 142213. For example, they may be predecessor or successor establishments.
124353 St John's Catholic Primary School Predecessor 01/08/2015
Haywood & Hixon
Rural town and fringe
Stafford 008
Stafford 008E
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Singer v. City of Newton
Massachusetts District Court Finds Portion of Local Drone Ordinance Preempted by FAA Regulation.
Bundled Systems and Better Law
Against the Leflar Method of Resolving Conflicts of Law
Despite Preemption: Making Labor Law in Cities and States
Article by Benjamin I. Sachs
124 Harv. L. Rev. 1153
The preemption regime grounded in the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) is understood to preclude state and local innovation in the field of labor law. Yet preemption doctrine has not put an end to state and local labor lawmaking. While preemption has eliminated traditional forms of labor law in cities and states, it has not prevented state and local reconstruction of the NLRA’s rules through what this Article terms “tripartite lawmaking.” The dynamic of tripartite lawmaking occurs when government actions in areas of law unrelated to labor – but of significant interest to employers – are exchanged for private agreements through which unions and employers reorder the rules of union organizing and bargaining. These tripartite political exchanges produce organizing and bargaining rules that are markedly different from the ones the federal statute provides but that are nonetheless fully enforceable as a matter of federal law.
By describing the phenomenon of tripartite lawmaking, this Article allows for a more complete understanding of the local role in contemporary labor law. But the existence of tripartite lawmaking also reveals important characteristics of federal preemption more generally. In particular, the potential for tripartite lawmaking within the confines of formally preemptive regulatory regimes points to the limits of preemption’s ability to allocate regulatory authority among different levels of government and deliver a uniform, national system of law. State and local lawmaking that occurs through the tripartite dynamic also has a number of distinctive features that become visible once we recognize the existence of this form of lawmaking. As this Article suggests, moreover, tripartite lawmaking is likely not limited to the labor context but may occur wherever federal preemption coexists with the possibility for private ordering.
Mar ’11 Vol 124 No. 5
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5 Reasons Why Arsenal Needs to Sign a Full Back in January
In recent seasons, Arsenal Football Club has been haunted by bad luck, squad indiscipline, poor officiating decisions and of course, mysterious injuries.
This season, Arsenal has had its fair share of bad luck and one can’t look further than the surprising 4-3 defeat in the hands of Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park. Gervinho opened the scoring after receiving a delightful through ball from Alex Song. Yakubu Aiyegbeni scored two goals (one offside) and that was where the scoring stopped for the home side.
Despite leading at halftime thanks to an emphatic Mikel Arteta finish, Arsenal somewhat connived to concede two own goals and Marouane Chamakh’s late header wasn’t enough to give Arsene Wenger’s men a point.
Regarding squad indiscipline, the regular culprit Alex Song has done time after receiving bans from the FA and youngsters like Carl Jenkinson and Emmanuel Frimpong have already been brandished red cards in their short Arsenal careers.
I can open up a blog to write about the amount of officiating decisions that have gone for and against the Gunners this season alone and games like Liverpool (Suarez’ offside), Tottenham (van der Vaart’s handball), Blackburn (Yakubu’s offside) and many more will come to light.
Injuries have become an essential part of football because of its unpredictability and the way teams handle them goes a long way in reshaping the ‘destiny’ of the club for that season at least. Manchester United for instance, have lost their inspirational captain Nemanja Vidic to a knee injury that will sideline him for the rest of the campaign but they have the likes of Jonny Evans, Chris Smalling and Phil Jones to provide support for the aging Rio Ferdinand.
Arsenal is a club that’s renowned for having a formidable squad that challenges for honors every season but Arsene Wenger’s team has been hit very hard by the demons of injury as all four recognized fullbacks are currently on the sidelines nursing injuries.
Bacary Sagna suffered a leg fracture in October when Arsenal visited White Hart Lane to play rivals Tottenham, Jenkinson has back issues, Andre Santos went for a surgery to solve an ankle problem and Kieran Gibbs recently suffered a set back in his groin injury.
Arsene Wenger has been forced to use his center backs as make-shift full backs and they haven’t been half bad in those positions. He’s still waiting on the return to fitness of these players but the fans are calling for emergency full backs to hold the fort at least.
Here are five reasons why Arsenal needs to sign a full back in January:
Injury Worries
This is the principal reason why a full back has to be signed in January because Arsenal is lacking personnel in those positions. Arsenal’s primary left fullback Andre Santos, is sidelined till Spring and Kieran Gibbs is a player that has become consistent in getting injured so Arsenal is in dire need of a new left back.
Bacary Sagna on the other hand is a player that’s renowned for his stamina and natural fitness but he fractured his leg in October and his replacement Carl Jenkinson, is also out of action.
A new full back needs to be signed to provide adequate cover for these injured players till they return.
Thomas Vermaelen Needs to Return to his favored position
In Thomas Vermaelen’s first full season at Arsenal, he scored eight goals and won a place in the PFA Team of the Year for 2009 thanks to his valiant and commanding stellar performances all season long. Unfortunately, he couldn’t build on his blistering form in his second season as he suffered an Achilles tendon injury that sidelined him for seven months.
Injuries to the full backs have forced Arsene Wenger to deploy the Verm as a left back and I’m pretty sure he’s not happy with it but he picks the team above self. If a new full back is signed, Vermaelen will go back to his favored center back position.
Johan Djourou Offers Little or No Attacking Threat
His assist to Aaron Ramsey in the match against Olympique Marseille was a peach of a cross but it’s fair to say that Johan Djourou has been the weakest link of the make-shift full backs deployed by Arsene Wenger. Defensively, he has been solid in some games and very shaky in others but upfront hasn’t really done that well to provide adequate support to the right winger.
When Arsenal hosted Everton in the game that marked the club’s 125th anniversary, I can’t recall anytime Djourou sent in a cross from the right hand side. Theo Walcott was more than a match for Leighton Baines but the game will be forever remembered for Robin van Persie’s “Van-tastic” finish that was more than enough to seal the points for Arsenal.
A new right back has to be signed to relieve Djourou of his services to say the least.
Lack of Service from the Flanks
Arsenal has played three matches (Manchester City, Aston Villa and Wolves) with its make-shift full backs and it’s obvious that no clear cut goalscoring chances have been provided from the full back positions. However, they’ve added solidity to Arsenal’s defensive play though.
Bacary Sagna and Andre Santos are full backs that maraud the flanks and they contribute immensely to Arsenal’s attacking play. Arsenal has to search for a new full back that will pick up were Sagna and Santos left off with quality crosses into the box as well as proper support for the wingers.
At this point in time, Andre Santos and Bacary Sagna are sure of their first team berths and it has led to a bit of complacency from Andre Santos at least. When Arsenal played Chelsea in that enthralling encounter that saw Robin van Persie smash in an impressive hattrick, Chelsea scored their third goal after a bit of sloppy play from Andre Santos.
The Brazilian full back dallied on Wojciech Szczesny’s simple throw and the buildup led to a brilliant Juan Mata shot that went past Szczesny to level the tie at 3-3. If Andre Santos played as if every game was his last, I’m sure that Arsenal wouldn’t have conceded such a cheap goal.
Arsenal needs to sign a left full back that will give Andre Santos a run for his money because I’m sure that Kieran Gibbs will still spend more time in the physio room as the season progresses.
I can’t recall many right backs presently better than Bacary Sagna in world football with the exception of probably Dani Alves, Maicon and Sergi Ramos but Arsene Wenger needs to sign a right back that can deputize in Sagna’s stead when he needs a breather.
That’s supposed to be Carl Jenkinson’s job but…he’s out injured.
Feel free to share your comments on these reasons because its quite a debatable topic.
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Posted in Arsenal, Football, Injury News, Premier League
Tags: Arsenal, Football, Premier League
The Wolves aftermath and more speculations about Thierry Henry’s loan move
The first half of the Premier League season has painted a vivid picture for football fans all over the world.
We’ve learnt that Bolton, Wigan and Blackburn are presently in hot soup and they stand a chance of playing npower Championship football next season.
We’ve also learnt that the destination of this season’s Premier League title is odds on to be in the city of Manchester, as the clubs from London continue producing inconsistent performances.
Arsenal had a big chance to cement their stay in the top four for a week as well as put their fierce rivals Tottenham under some pressure but the disappointing draw against Wolves has raised a few eyebrows yet again.
Funnily enough, it wasn’t like the Everton or Aston Villa performance where Arsenal played crap but had enough in the gas to get all three points.
In Arsene Wenger’s newsletter to Arsenal fans worldwide, he reiterated that he couldn’t fault the attitude, commitment or desire of his players to win the game. Wayne Hennessey had the game of his life and will probably go back to being mediocre when Wolves take on an opponent of ‘equal stature’.
Down the years, many goalies pick the game against Arsenal to make the media Vultures sing their praises all week long. Ben Foster was a goalkeeper that conceded an 85-yard punt from Paul Robinson but he became a colossus in the Carling Cup final and we all know how that result ended.
It was expected that a few words would emanate from the Arsenal camp and Mikel Arteta has said that Arsenal needs to be more ruthless at home. In the Premier League, home form is an important attribute that goes a long way in shaping the destiny of a club in a season.
Stoke City is a club that has a very dismal away record but the Britannia Stadium has become a fortress for them. This has been one of the key reasons why their Premier League status has been intact since their promotion in 2008.
I don’t even want to write about Manchester United’s home form last season. 18 wins in 19 home games with a shaky away form was more than enough to hand Sir Alex Ferguson and his hordes a history 19th title.
Per Mertesacker is another player that has said a thing or two to the media Vultures. He said that the draw against Wolves was a missed opportunity but he still believes that Arsenal can break into the top four.
Arsenal is within touching distance of Tottenham and Chelsea and with the form Andres Villas-Boa Constrictor’s side is showing, they’ll be the likeliest candidates to be usurped by the Gunners.
Moving over to everyone’s favorite section of the news, the media Vultures are at it again linking Arsenal to many forwards in the business.
Give Me Football reports that Arsenal is considering a January bid for AC Milan’s Alexandre Pato. It’s reported that the duck from Pato Blanco isn’t really in good terms with his boss Max Allegri and he could be seeking a move away from San Siro. It’s believed that a bid of £25m could be enough to seal the deal.
Pato is a proven talent that has bags on pace as well as good dribbling skills and a clinical finishing ability. He’ll add a lot to Arsene Wenger’s side because he could be deployed as a center forward or in the wings.
Mirror Football has also reported that Arsenal is linked with Montpellier Herault SC’s Oliver Giroud and the striker currently has an audacious price tag of £40m. Giroud has been in good form this season with 13 goals in 18 appearances but the £40m price tag will make him beyond Arsenal’s reach.
Still sticking with transfer news from Ligue 1, Arsene Wenger has ruled out a move for Lyon’s Yoann Gourcuff because the midfield is too crowded for the French playmaker.
Lyon has to understand that Arsene Wenger is no Harry Redknapp or Roberto Mancini that can afford to get the Steven Pienaars, Nico Kranjcars and Owen Hargreaves to hand them warm and cozy spots in the bench.
Besides, Arsenal has more than enough personnel in the midfield this season so Gourcuff will have to wait till the summer.
Thierry Henry has been training with Arsenal for a while since the close of the MLS season and has been linked countless times with a move to the Emirates.
With Gervinho and Marouane Chamakh leaving the club next month for the African Cup of Nations, some firepower will be needed upfront and the fans have pleaded with the manager to get Lukas Podolski among others.
Arsene Wenger is getting frustrated with the barrage of questions asked regarding Henry’s possible arrival and it seems as if some Arsenal fans will get their wish because the Daily Mail has reported that Arsenal has finally offered Thierry Henry a two-month loan deal.
I gave five reasons why Arsenal shouldn’t re-sign Henry and it didn’t go down well with most of the Gooners reading the article.
As a true Arsenal fan, I hope Thierry Henry does well again in his second coming because Arsenal needs a lethal finisher to support Robin van Persie and a clinical free kick taker.
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Posted in Arsenal, Football, Premier League, Transfer Gossip
Tags: Football, Premier League, Transfer Gossip, Wolves
Arsenal 1 Wolves 1: Wayne Hennessey Puts Up a Goalkeeping Clinic
Arsenal had the chance to continue its good form with a win against Wolves that would have propelled Arsene Wenger’s men into the top four for only the second time this season. The Gunners had won seven of their last eight games at home and they come up against opponents that had not scored an away goal in Arsenal’s home ground since the inception of the Premier League.
Wenger made four changes to the squad that won Aston Villa in the midweek fixtures. Johan Djourou was deemed fit enough to replace Francis Coquelin at right back. Alex Song returned from his one-match suspension while Tomas Rosicky and Yossi Benayoun came in Aaron Ramsey and Theo Walcott’s stead.
Wolves had a quick break when Steven Ward’s through pass went beyond Johan Djourou leaving Matt Jarvis the threat of Per Mertesacker to shove off but the big German made a decent block to break up play.
Jarvis tried to launch another move from the left hand side but a swift counter attack by the home side was enough to create the game’s opener. Rosicky did very well to hold up the ball upfield beofre teeing up Benayoun that sliced in a magnificent through ball for Gervinho.The Ivorian shimmed past Wayne Hennessey in goal before slotting the ball home.
All eyes were on Robin van Persie as the forward was just two goals shy of breaking Alan Shearer’s Premier League record for most goals scored in a year that currently stands at 36. Gervinho and van Persie linked up well in attack but the Dutchman had a quick lash at the ball when he had enough time to take an extra touch or two.
Van Persie worked hard to win the ball off Karl Henry in defense before fashioning a chance for Rosicky. As expected, the goal-shy Rosicky sent a pass to Mikel Arteta that blasted his effort off a Wolves defender. Rosicky was in a better position to shoot but when you’re a player that has scored only one goal in 2011, what would you expect?
Rosicky created another chance for van Persie that was manhandled by a Wolves defender but Arsenal’s captain still tried his best to send a shot in that was saved by Hennessey in his near post. Van Persie was laying siege to the Wolves defense and was fouled right on the edge of the 18-yard box but Arteta’s excuse for a free kick was very tame to say the least.
Out of nothing, Wolves won a fictitious corner kick off Per Mertesacker. Jarvis swung the ball in but it was cleared out of the box before the ball arrived at Stephen Hunt’s feet. The Irish winger fired a shot goalwards and the ball ricocheted off Laurent Koscielny’s body but Steven Fletcher was on hand to score a real poacher’s effort with his head.
At the start of the second half, Arsenal continued to barrage the Wolves defense and Koscielny fired a shot that went off a defender’s arm. The Emirates erupted with shouts for a penalty but their pleas fell on deaf ears. Rosicky used the outside of his boot to swing the ball and Mertesacker rose the highest to head the ball goalwards but the goalie was equal to the challenge.
Andrey Arshavin came in for Benayoun while Aaron Ramsey replaced Alex Song that was in danger of losing his discipline after picking up a yellow card for a rash challenge on Fletcher and Hunt. Arsenal’s chances of getting the match winning goal were bolstered when Nenad Milijas picked up a straight red for a lounge on Arteta.
Ramsey flicked the ball to van Persie who was onside but his shot couldn’t go past the impressive Hennessey in goal. Arshavin attempted a neat one-two with van Persie but his left-footed effort just missed by a lick of paint.
The onslaught on the Wolves goal continued but Wayne Hennessey was in inspired form. Van Persie had a free kick that was destined for the net but the Wolves goalie stepped up again to pull another save from the top drawer. Ramsey sent another through ball to van Persie that drilled an effort to Hennessey’s near post but the goalie’s legs stopped the ball.
Marouane Chamakh came on for Djourou and his major involvement in the game was to clash heads with his captain following a corner kick from Arteta. Van Persie was concussed while Chamakh had to leave the pitch to dress the wound he sustained following the clash.
The 4th official raised his board and Arsenal had only six more minutes to get that goal that was needed to move them to the top four and Hennessey stepped up again when Thomas Vermaelen was unmarked inside the box to make another impressive block.
At the sound of the whistle, the Wolves players celebrated with their hero in goal whose one-man show kept Arsenal at bay. In this corresponding fixture last season in November, it was the Arsenal players that created with Lukasz Fabianski as he put up his best ever performance in an Arsenal shirt that night.
Szczesny (6.5) was faced with only one attempt on goal and it went past him.
Djourou (7.0) was solid in defense and ventured forward a few times.
Vermaelen (7.0) put up a good performance and was unlucky not to score Arsenal’s winning goal.
Koscielny (7.0) was rock-solid in defense.
Mertesacker (7.0) almost scored his first Arsenal goal with a header but the goalie came to Wolves’ rescue.
Song (6.5) did okay in midfield and was lucky not to see red.
Arteta (7.0) worked hard in midfield and swung many dead balls in.
Rosicky (6.5) showed some spark in his play but lacked that cutting edge.
Benayoun (6.5) gave an assist but was a bit disappointing in my opinion.
Gervinho (7.5) used his trickery to score Arsenal’s goal.
Van Persie (7.5) gave his all to score but the goalie was more than a match for him.
Arshavin (7.0) showed good movement and was unlucky not to score.
Ramsey (7.5) sent in a lot of through balls that cut the defense like hot knife through butter.
Chamakh didn’t play long enough to get a rating.
In one of the most mysterious weekends were points were dropped faster than Usain Bolt’s 100m record for Jamaica, Arsenal had the chance on a platter to get a win that would have been enough to add to Andre Villas-Boa Constrictor’s woes but Arsene Wenger’s men picked the right game to be plofligate.
Posted in Arsenal, Football, Match Report, Premier League
Tags: Arsenal, Football, Premier League, Wolves
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Storms Nudge Most of California Out of Dry Category
Locals Gear Up to Keep Kings River Water
A Tattoo at a Time, Afghan Woman Takes on Society’s Taboos
The Debate: Can Politicians Block You on Social Media?
Tagged bankruptcy
Power Outages Begin in California Amid Hot, Windy Weather
SAN FRANCISCO — Pacific Gas & Electric shut off power to more than a million people Wednesday for what could be days on end, in the most sweeping effort in state history to prevent wildfires caused by windblown power lines. The utility plans to shut off...
Controlled Outages May Be on the Way as PG&E Settles Cases
SAN FRANCISCO — Pacific Gas & Electric may cut power to try to head off wildfires as fall arrives in California and brings with it the most dangerous fire conditions that over the past two years have produc...
After Bankruptcy Filing, Purdue Pharma May Not Be off Hook
Purdue Pharma filed for bankruptcy in the first step in a complex, multibillion-dollar plan by the maker of OxyContin to settle thousands of lawsuits brought against it by state and local governments over the n...
PG&E Reaches $11B Deal With California Wildfire Insurers
SAN FRANCISCO — Pacific Gas & Electric and a group of insurers announced Friday they reached an $11 billion settlement to cover most of the claims from Califonria's wildfires in 2017 and 2018. "Today's settlement is another step in doing what's right fo...
OxyContin Maker Negotiating Settlement Worth a Reported $12B
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Purdue Pharma and the thousands of state and local governments suing the maker of OxyContin over the nation's deadly opioid crisis are negotiating a $10 billion to $12 billion settlement under ...
How Much Could PG&E’s Rates Rise? What You Need to Know.
Pacific Gas and Electric’s customers were warned about the cost of massive wildfires that it may have sparked. Even before California’s largest utility filed bankruptcy proceedings at the start of the year, law...
As Hedge Funds Fight for Control of PG&E, Here Is How Workers See It
As the elected leader of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1245, which represents approximately 12,000 frontline utility workers at Pacific Gas & Electric Co., I have paid careful attention both to legislative activity in Sacramento...
PG&E to Pay $1 Billion to Local Governments for Wildfire Damage
SACRAMENTO — A California utility agreed Tuesday to pay $1 billion to 14 local governments to cover damages from a series of deadly wildfires caused by its downed power lines. "There is some relief and hope ...
PG&E Power Lines Triggered Deadly Paradise Fire, State Officials Say
Jody Murray
SAN FRANCISCO — Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. power lines caused a fire that killed 85 people — the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in state history, California fire officials said Wednesday. Cal ...
San Francisco Can Pursue Legal Fight With PG&E, Judge Rules
SAN FRANCISCO — A judge has allowed San Francisco to renew its stalled legal fight with Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. over power delivery costs. The city has been fighting with PG&E for years, arguing the utility requires it to install unnecessary an...
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Goodbye Forefront, it was nice knowing you
Posted on September 15, 2012 by halberenson
My last job at Microsoft was as the “Chief Architect” of the Identity and Security Division (and briefly its successor organization, DAIP) and General Manager for Forefront UAG, Forefront TMG, Rights Management Services, Certificate Services, Windows NAP, and some other odds and ends. The odds and ends are always amusing. Project Sydney reported to me for a short time. And after RMS started working for me I was shocked to discover I was now responsible for the aging software and infrastructure used for Microsoft Reader DRM. Funny how no one mentioned that before I took the job! There has been a lot of news about all these items over the last year, but this posting is specifically about Forefront.
As you may know this week Microsoft killed off the Forefront brand, killed some of the Forefront products, and renamed others to reflect their real strategic alignment. This is the natural outcome of a process that started about four years ago, and most specifically two and half years ago, as the economic downturn and resulting budget cuts at Microsoft collided with its ambitions in the security products space.
In the early years of the last decade (2000-2002) two factors came together at Microsoft that would lead it into the security products business. The first was the recognition that the Internet had changed the game in terms of the security required of Microsoft’s software and ecosystem (and that Microsoft was failing miserably at it), and second was a search for new revenue streams to complement the maturing Windows business. The former people are quite familiar with as Microsoft pursued Trustworthy Computing, took a hiatus from development on many of its products to do a security cleanup, created the security development life-cycle, replaced manual updates with automatic updates across its product lines, etc. But what of its ambitions for a new revenue stream?
Step back to the 2000-2002 period and look at the really strong IT growth businesses and you find Storage Management and Security at the top of the list. In 2004 Symantec would go as far as to combine these two by acquiring Veritas for $13.5 Billion (which is what Symantec’s market cap is today, hmmmm)! Microsoft created two new businesses pursue these markets, a Storage Management business under Bob Muglia and a Security Business under Mike Nash. Neither worked out as expected, though the Security Business came close.
The problem for Microsoft in the early days of its security products business was where to prioritize protecting the Windows ecosystem from malicious activity and where to seek revenue. In one of the earliest moves they made (and I was not an employee at the time, so only have second or third-hand knowledge of what was happening) they introduced a free Anti-Spyware offering called Windows Defender. At the time the Anti-Virus business was well established but mainstream vendors such as Symantec had not yet addressed the growing category of Spyware. A complicating factor for Microsoft was its (then very active) anti-trust issues, where introducing anything free (or worse, packaged with Windows,) was a lightning rod for regulators. So while to those of us on the outside it seems like introducing a free anti-virus product would have made sense, Microsoft instead chose to introduce the paid OneCare service (of which anti-virus was one component). I don’t know how much of this decision was due to its revenue ambitions and how much was due to its anti-trust concerns, but nonetheless the Windows ecosystem did not gain the protection it really deserved. Later, as third parties such as Avast! had success with free anti-virus offerings, Microsoft would introduce the free Microsoft Security Essentials. And with Windows 8 it would (finally!) upgrade the built-in Windows Defender to have full anti-malware capability.
But the real story here is, of course, products for enterprises. Enterprise security products is where the real money is. There is also less conflict with the notion of ecosystem protection versus selling products because enterprises want far more than the basic protection capabilities. No medium to large enterprise is likely to rely on Windows Defender (or Microsoft Security Essentials), not because of any perceived lack of protection but because they don’t offer the centralized reporting and control that enterprises require. Likewise edge protection, that is protecting the corporate network, is something that enterprises have extensive control and reporting requirements on. So this is where Microsoft’s product business focus went, leading to the Forefront brand and products.
Creating Forefront initially is a typical story of pulling together unrelated, even competing, products and acquisitions. For example, Microsoft made three attempts at addressing the SPAM problem. First, the Exchange team took the Microsoft Research developed SmartScreen technology and incorporated it into Exchange as the Intelligent Message Filter. This was a very basic capability that was heavily used by smaller Exchange installations, but was inadequate for larger enterprises. Meanwhile the Exchange team was looking for a solution to high availability and archival requirements and acquired Frontbridge. Frontbridge also offered anti-SPAM as part of its service. At the same time the security business acquired Sybari so that it could offer an anti-SPAM product. This became Forefront Protection for Exchange (FPE). Eventually Frontbridge would be split in two, with the archival offering moving to the storage management business and the anti-SPAM service moving to the security business and becoming Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE).
Anyway, Microsoft ends up with a bunch of security products for the enterprise. Its ambition is to be a full-line security products vendor and build another $Billion business. A major project is initiated to re-engineer the entire product family and integrate it under a truly unified management umbrella. The group, at this point the Identity and Security Division (ISD), hires a lot of people and embarks on this major undertaking. It turns out to be an over-reach that is very late and is perceived by some to be both lost in the woods and to have made some poor technology choices. A new management team is brought in to get ISD on track.
At the same time this is happening Microsoft’s first set of budget cuts and large-scale layoffs hits, and ISD is hit hard. Two more rounds of cuts would occur over the following 18 months. The first round didn’t really change ISD’s ambitions, it just added to the need to do a reset on the Forefront product plans and re-think tactics and priorities for addressing the market. The second round lead to a re-think about competing across the security product space and to a few areas being declared non-strategic with dramatically pared investment levels. The third round put back into play the question of what’s important, having a security products business per se or having security products that support the needs of other strategic Microsoft initiatives.
External observers saw the first results of our decision in a reorganization about two and half years ago. ISD was dissolved with some products moved to the groups they aligned with and the remained becoming a new Directory, Access, and Information Protection (DAIP) division. In particular end-point security, as well as the general protection technology responsibility, was moved into the management division and the email (and related) filtering technologies were moved to the Office Server organization. Forefront retained a business organization and umbrella, but with the products split over three Microsoft divisions and two Presidents it is no wonder that the other shoe dropped this week.
Forefront as a business is gone. The offerings within Forefront have either been absorbed into the Microsoft offerings they were aligned with, into the businesses they were aligned with, or where neither made sense been declared end-of-life.
Forefront TMG (previously known as ISA) was one of the casualties. This one strikes close to home because it was one of “mine”. TMG was victim to a changing landscape in which the vast majority of the network edge security business had moved to network appliances. And so TMG was the leading product in the software-only category, but it had become an insignificant factor in the overall market. In addition, the general view was that the network boundary was going to disappear as the trends toward BYOD, IPv6, and IPsec accelerated. As such TMG had lost its strategic value before TMG 2010 (which was the major revamp and rename from ISA) even shipped. It’s demise was inevitable, and I knew it couldn’t be far off when I saw an article in which Microsoft made available a SNORT rule that Microsoft IT had created. That meant Microsoft IT had abandoned TMG in favor of a SNORT-based solution.
While Microsoft’s moves with Forefront over the last few years will no doubt cause many customers pain, one has to ask if in the end customers will be better off for them. I think so. Security is being better built into Microsoft’s products and management of security is more fully integrated into Microsoft’s overall management tool set. The focus is on “your email is protected”, “your computer is protected”, “you can centrally manage the security of all your systems” and less on “how do we compete with security vendor X”. I’m actually quite pleased with where things are ending up.
There is a lot more that can be said about why an effort like Forefront was so difficult to pursue inside Microsoft. Comments I’ve made in other blog postings about Microsoft’s sales model apply, for example. But I’ll stop here. Forefront is gone. Hopefully it won’t be missed.
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38 Responses to Goodbye Forefront, it was nice knowing you
Kev Burke says:
Excellent Post – nice to get a thorough insider view of the why’s and wherefores. Obviously Microsoft is willing to sacrifice TMG to a hardware vendor. Doesn’t help us people “in the real” who are currently using it! Any idea of a timeframe for End Of Life?
Dates are in the announcement at http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2012/09/12/important-changes-to-forefront-product-roadmaps.aspx
How can MS continue support for UAG but not TMG – UAG installs and uses TMG at the moment! There is a very good comparison article here; http://www.isaserver.org/tutorials/Microsoft-Forefront-TMG-UAG-feature-comparison.html
Describing what is “supported”.
It will be interesting to see what MS do here!
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re66 says:
if MS where more engineering U would know that U would end-up
” The focus is on “your email is protected”, “your computer is protected”, “you can centrally manage the security of all your systems” and less on “how do we compete with security vendor X”. I’m actually quite pleased with where things are ending up.”
All business people don’t have the know how to think about it causing then to do stupid things,
Maelstrom says:
Nice lecture, loved it!
I was always interested in why did Windows do so bad in virus / spyware protection.
I’m a very lazy user, as most windows users are 😀 So I never cared about viruses. I always just installed some crappy free anti-virus once windows was (re)installed (usually after a serious case of viral infection 🙂 ) and made sure I always put a copy of my important data on some email server or external hard drive.
Because of the lack of transparency from Microsoft, I always thought that bad virus protection was was pure ignorance, indolence and end-user abuse from the “only” OS provider for the lazy masses… and maybe a marketing strategy to make some partner anti-virus software sell more. Norton was incredibly slow at some point in its evolution, so it was only natural that a follower of the conspiracy theory, I simply assumed MS may have just blocked one anti-virus and made a new partnership with someone else. (the closed source code could only enforce this belief at that time).
It never hit me it was simply bad management and MS’s cross-eyed perspective of virus protection. However, this does not surprise me, as I eventually came to hate multinational companies exactly because of their lack of transparency, and the idiotic penalties applied to the ordinary programmers instead of their bosses, who usually have no f******* idea what the project has to cover, and are keeping their positions because the company sent them to time-wasting workshops where to learn agile, scrum or time management skills. The dumbest paradox in managing management positions, don;t you think?
An interesting but worrying post.
It points to a lack of corporate integrity, misunderstandings and absolutely no strategic thinking.
Goalposts seem to be changed almost daily, no properly instituted distinction between the “company’s profile” as seen by the public and what they (Microsoft) see as their profile.
Looks like marketing statistics are ruling the roost, a dangerous model indeed.
This all stems from lack of leadership, focus and understanding… at the very top.
Actually quite the opposite.
Malestrom
You are wonderful writer.
memosk says:
Suicide ideas are ending like this…
Why would’nt be improveved internal safety of MS products ?
I don’t understand why creator of IE, are not itegrated security into IE ?
Why external “antivirus” when I am “The big Creator” ?????
That same think depends to Windows .
A said before long long long long long time ago , that application should have rights like user .
This is now a reality. But in “small” system Android . And Android aplications are runing in virtual Java machine .
Android is safer than Windows????? 😯
Where is “MS virtual machine” .net Silverlight ????
This and .net self was eat from bad C++ programers ????
:oD
Yw@ says:
The last sentence of your post leave me puzzled…
TMG will be miss, if not by all probably by many. I’d like to know what you think we should replace TMG to kkep the same level of efficency (Reverse Proxy, Publication, Malware detection,..) but with the support of IPv6,…
TMG specifically has had a very loyal customer base and I suspect that out of all the Forefront products being discontinued it will be missed the most.
I would start with Gartner’s Magic Quadrant in terms of investigating alternatives. I don’t know if this is the latest version, but there is one at http://www.websense.com/assets/reports/report-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-security-web-gateway-2011-en.pdf
Dan Jackson (@danj2k) says:
My workplace was planning to use Forefront TMG as a key component of an upcoming project, but then we just got an email from one of our software suppliers saying Microsoft had announced in a blog post that it was being discontinued. There doesn’t seem to be any direct replacement for TMG either, so are there any suggestions or recommendations for a product which can do web filtering, RRAS and network-level antivirus on a Windows server system? For this particular project endpoint security software will not be possible which is why we need to do this stuff at the network level, but now TMG is gone there is a big hole in our plans!
You may need to use more than one product
srdjanstevic says:
You can still use Forefront TMG 2010. It will be on the pricelists until December 1st 2012. It will be supported for 8 more years. Currently, there is no product like Forefront TMG 2010 that you can put on the edge of your network and do the job you want to. My advice is to use TMG 2010 like everything is normal – in the years that come, we will have a clearer picture on the secure web gateway market and you will have plenty of time to do the migration to a new product once you decide which one is best for you.
Srđan
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Muris Saab says:
Great post, thank you for sharing this information. Pardon my ignorance, what does SNORT stands for?
I have no idea :-). It is an open source alternative to TMG.
Caio Ribeiro Cesar says:
snort-solution I think he is talking about the IDS technology from UNIX
Chui Tey (@teyc) says:
Hal, do you think today’s MS would be more prepared to venture into building and selling appliances? Secondly, is MS’s approach to investment wrong? Would MS be better off committing these type of projects to a 3 year committed funding plan, more like venture capital rather than year-on-year review? Are there any examples of recent MS acquisitions that has achieved some measure of success post-integration?
Yes, I do think an appliance proposal would get a more favorable reception these days.
I don’t think the 3 year model works because no business could become material in that timeframe. Microsoft gives things it believes in much more time.
Skype is already a huge success for them
Great review and alternatives at SC Magazine group test:
http://www.scmagazine.com/email-security–content-filtering/grouptest/273/
So, in easy English (pls. pardon my language as English is my 5th language), free essential seucirty tools built for critical products i.e. Operating Systems (Windows) are replacing the expensive and usually cumbersome antivirus/anti-malware products i.e. Forefront? If that was the case, Norton, McAfee or other huge antivirus companies would be out of business already. At the bottom of every system (whether a corporate user or an individual user), they all need basic anti-virus, anti-spam and anti-malware protection. How would you make your case (of Forefront) in front of an IT Manager about their corporate needs for security in presence of free security tools i.e. Microsoft Security Essentials?
Free security tools have not impacted IT yet because they do not include the monitoring and control capabilities that IT desires AND because licensing prohibits use of the free tools in enterprises.
Rob Pomeroy says:
“Free security tools have not impacted IT yet”
As both an open source evangelist and a fan of TMG, having some knowledge in this area, may I offer a few counter-factuals (and possible alternative to TMG when used in some combination):
Mod Security
Snort (not an acronym, as far as I know)
Dans Guardian
Many of these have commercial support offerings if required, while making available free enterprise-grade solutions. I’m leaning towards Squid+Dans Guardian+Snort.
If monitoring/management is required, there are a few dedicated open source products for that.
I should have been more precise about this referring to endpoint security.
Zachary Loeber says:
What tics me off about this decision is the absolute lack of MS supported alternatives. Yes, I have the ability to implement an apache reverse proxy but is that supported by MS in any way? What semi-affordable alternative is supported? And UAG is far from affordable for the general cost-conscious business. TMG (or UAG) are the staple recommendations for implementing a secure Exchange environment. It is actually a requirement for a Lync environment as well. The Forefront brand was far more than anti-spam after all. You are tooting this decision as some sort of over all awesome MS directional change instead of what it actually is, obtuse and greedy.
Putting TMG on the chopping block but leaving UAG kills the per-proc licensing which made maintaining a company internal infrastructure (while also following best practices) affordable. Forcing MS partners to push UAG also forces cloud based deployments on the table as they become far more desirable due to cost factor alone.
Some general math for you; 1 TMG Std. server costs about $1500 per cpu socket, 1 UAG server costs about $15 per user. So I can implement 2 TMG virtual machines with external DNS round-robin load balancing (not the best solution, but a fully supported one) for an infrastructure of a thousand users with TMG for 3K. That same infrastructure with just one UAG server costs 15k for just the licensing alone.
Lets just call it as it is instead of making a bunch of lofty fan-boy statements, Cutting TMG is very clearly a concerted decision to force businesses into the cloud as MS has heavily invested themselves into the cloud market. There is nothing wrong with that as a business decision, but say it is anything else is really silly and almost misleading. Now clients across the board are forced to question sound infrastructure designs which include TMG in their implementation. I literally just had a client the other day with the most insecure edge I’d ever seen question me on implementing TMG because of this announcement. And because of this they are opting to still directly publish Exchange 2010 cas servers on the internet.
I didn’t write it as a “fan-boy”, I wrote it as one of the participants in making the decisions that lead to this.
Greedy? No. Microsoft will take a revenue hit by dropping TMG. Any resulting increase in UAG revenue will be immaterial.
Is the cloud influencing these decisions? Definitely. But in TMG’s case I can say with absolute certainty that the strategic decisions occurred while the cloud was still a side-show at Microsoft. The tactical decisions (i.e., drop it now) are no doubt influenced by the cloud. For example, most people were probably licensing UAG CALs as part of one of the CAL suites. But the page for the eCal suite, where UAG CALs were present, now redirects to Office 365.
Can’t reply to your “endpoint security” comment above for some reason (nested too deep, perhaps?). I have to concede that point, absolutely – I don’t know of any commercial grade options. That’s not to say that you’re completely out of options: http://www.utoronto.ca/security/UTORprotect/ESP/index.htm
But for my business, we will almost certainly be deploying McAfee Endpoint Security (heaven help up).
*us
Crand says:
Cloud. Feh! The trends at Microsoft to enter into new markets at the expense of old ones doesn’t allow them the option of maintaining revenue streams in the event that the new expedition is a fad or a flash in the pan. Seems everything they are doing these days isn’t expanding their offerings to customers, only changing them. The Start Menu is a good example. Rather than present the modern UI in the OS as a better method of using a computer than the Start Menu, they FORCED you into it. Now Stardock comes in and makes a program to keep people using what they used to use. Server 2012, Hyper-V, VHD compaction. This process has new steps FOR NO REASON. I grew up on Microsoft software but the trends these days leave me looking elsewhere. TMG was one of the best products MS ever made and it was by a very large margin the leading product in its market. Killing it makes no sense and never will.
Killing TMG and going all-in on “cloud” software is a mistake.
ITGrouch says:
JQuest says:
3x!!
Clarence Assey says:
Completely agreed!!!
Dan Sichel says:
This is why I NEVER use Microsoft for strategic software projects. Flip a coin, heads you will be overcharged for increasingly granulated CALS, tails your product is orphaned by the latest Microsoft brain fart that is labeled “New Strategic Vision”. I have used the same boundary device for ten years. It does VPN, authentication, traffic and application security. The architecture has changed, the quality varied, but the features have always been supported, never orphaned. I am in a small shop and cannot afford the time for these shenanagins. Sorry, Microsoft. File and print services, yes; security, vpn, or cloud stuff, no. Wait, make that Hell no.
Lawrie Boarer says:
So, what should we get instead of this product
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by Boyd Jay Petersen
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1. A Scottish Heritage, 1810–1930
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The Book of Mormon as Prophecy for Our Day
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The Incredible Burt Wonderstone by Don Scardino
When a street magician’s stunts begins to make their show look stale, superstar magicians Burt Wonderstone and Anton Marvelton look to salvage on their act and their friendship.
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, for a lack of a better comparison, is akin to a by-the-numbers Will Ferrell comedy, that it is about a cocky professional at the top of his game, who falls from grace and must learn to be humble again. Character act dumber than they would realistically seem. Unlike many Will Ferrell comedies, this film actually focuses more on character, even though they often act inconsistently to serve the comedic gags. I don’t have a big problem with this, but it’s that kind of movie.
It’s important when showing a magic trick onscreen, unless there’s something more interesting going on in the plot (i.e. The Prestige), that it includes the audience to be a part of the spectacle as well. The film does this with by presenting a few magic tricks in-camera which genuinely give the “Hey, how did he do that?” sensation. But again to serve the random comedy, some of the tricks don’t make sense. It’s the kind of thing you laugh at when you see it, but the moment you think about it again, it completely falls flat. The awe of the in-camera tricks fare better in comparison.
Steve Carell is funny in his over-the-top theatrical voice and bleached bombastic wigs and carries the film well. Jim Carrey is a fun antagonist but I am scratching my head about his role. I wonder what drew Jim Carrey to the role as it seems he’s played similar roles before. . Carrey’s magician is reminiscent of Fire Marshall Bill from In Living Color. It seems too small of a part to really explore anything acting wise and they could have gave him something more special to do. Watching Carell and Carrey’s scenes, they all seem to be following the script and I wonder how much they were allowed to veer off from script. Steve Buscemi is a central role to the arc of the story and the film unfortunately forgets this. They could have used more of him as well.
The script was shopped around for many years before it was produced. Unfortunately, the material is a little out-of-date. Comedy does rot after all. Celebrity magicians just do not seem relevant now as they were years ago. I am semi-aware that the three lead magician characters are meant as a parody of actual real-life magicians, but I don’t know who they are specifically drawing from. So unless you are a magic fan, it feels like there’s a layer of humor that we all do not have access to.
The final resolution to Burt Wonderstone’s conflict is funny, but it is a politically incorrect cheat that also betrays the heart of the protagonist. The antagonist is also done away in a deus ex machina fashion that feels too easy. This would be acceptable for a short comedy sketch, but for a theatrical film it feels lazy. To think about it seriously, the ending actually betrays the integrity of magic and stage performance.
Do I care? Not really. If The Incredible Burt Wonderstone didn’t star Steve Carell, Jim Carrey, Steve Busemi and Alan Arkin, I probably would have turned it off. But lying down watching it on my laptop for 100 minutes was the right way to experience it. I laughed, but probably would never watch it again. It’s not incredible, but good enough.
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Conditions InDepth: Alzheimer Disease
by Cynthia M. Johnson, MA
Living With Alzheimer Disease
Alzheimer disease is a disorder of the brain. It leads to a loss of the ability to think, reason, and remember. Symptoms can change from day to day, but over time the disease worsens. Alzheimer dementia is when a person is no longer to care for him or herself.
Areas of the Brain Affected by Alzheimer Disease
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The cause is not clear. Brain cells stop working and begin to die. It may be due to a mix of genes, environment, and overall health.
Two known things that play a role are:
Neurofibrillary tangles —twisted fibers of a protein called tau fibers inside nerve cells
Neuritic plaques —a protein called beta amyloid builds up between nerve cells
These changes often begin in areas of the brain that store memory. This damage may start several years before the first symptoms appear.
What are the risk factors for Alzheimer disease?
What are the symptoms of Alzheimer disease?
How is Alzheimer disease diagnosed?
What are the treatments for Alzheimer disease?
Are there screening tests for Alzheimer disease?
How can I reduce my risk of Alzheimer disease?
What questions should I ask my doctor?
What is it like to live with Alzheimer disease?
Where can I get more information about Alzheimer disease?
Alzheimer dementia. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at:https://www.dynamed.com/condition/alzheimer-dementia. Updated August 9, 2019. Accessed October 8, 2019.
Alzheimer's disease medications fact sheet. National Institute on Aging website. Available at: https://www.nia.nih.gov/alzheimers/publication/alzheimers-disease-medications-fact-sheet. Updated April 2, 2018. Accessed October 8, 2019.
Atri A. The Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Spectrum: Diagnosis and Management. Med Clin North Am. 2019 Mar;103(2):263-293.
What is Alzheimer's? Alzheimer’s Association website. Available at: http://www.alz.org/alzheimers_disease_what_is_alzheimers.asp. Accessed October 8, 2019.
Last reviewed September 2019 by EBSCO Medical Review Board Rimas Lukas, MD Last Updated: 10/8/2019
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Final talks begin for new Indian civil aviation policy
Business . Difficult
Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday chaired a high - profile meeting to discuss the proposed aviation policy, amid hectic lobbying by domestic carriers for a level - playing field vis a vis foreign players, and demands for continuing the norms to fly overseas.
The specifics of the discussions, however, were not immediately available, even as Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju, who was also present at the meeting, declined comment to reporters on the margins of a seminar that he attended later, organised by PHD Chamber.
One of the most contested proposals, purportedly in the draft policy, is to discontinue what are called the 5/20 norms, that permit only those passenger carriers that have been in operation for five years and have a fleet of 20 aircraft to fly abroad.
The Federation of Indian Airlines (FIA), among other associations, had demanded that the matter regarding effective control of domestic carriers be settled first before the government decides to change or alter the 5/20 international flying norms.
Among the seven main scheduled airlines in the country, only four meet the requirements - - Air India, Jet Airways, SpiceJet and IndiGo. The three others - - GoAir, Vistara and AirAsia India - - are not eligible under the present norms.
At the same time, several aviation research institutions such as the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation, have described the 5/20 rule as being damaging, discriminatory and anti - competition, besides preventing carriers from optimal fleet utilisation and expansion.
At the meeting of the group of ministers, those present included Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Road Transport Minister Nitin Ghadkari, Power Minister Piyush Goyal, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, Skill Development Minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy and Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu.
On Wednesday, top executives of Indian aviation met Minister of State in Prime Minister's Office Jitendra Singh and said the government must not discriminate against domestic carriers, when the new policy is unveiled.
Those who met the minister included Aditya Ghosh of Indigo, Narayan Hariharan of Jet Airways, Ajay Singh of SpiceJet and Jeh Wadia of GoAir.
"No other country in the world allows substantial ownership and effective control of its airlines to be taken over by foreign airlines. India has permitted some airlines to operate, despite being effectively controlled by their foreign parent, " the organisation's memorandum said.
The memorandum of the FAI, which claims to represent 90 percent of the Indian airline industry, also expressed reservations about the proposal to auction bilateral rights. No country allows auction of its sovereign rights to others, it said.
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Berkshire Family Fun: February 2018
January 31, 2018 at 8:00 am (Berkshire County, Berkshire Family Fun, Hilltown Families)
Tags: Berkshire County, Berkshire County Family Events, Berkshires, central berkshire, Community Based Education, Family Activities in Western Massachusetts, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, New England, North Adams, northern berkshire, place-based education, south berkshire, Stockbridge, Things to do in Western Massachusetts, Western MA, western massachusetts, Williamstown
Berkshire County Highlights for Families:
Find out about community events and learning opportunities happening throughout Berkshire County for the month of February. We’ll be adding to this list as the month progresses, so be sure to check back each week. Do you have an event you’d like to include in this list? Email us at info@hilltownfamilies.org.
North Berkshire
Central Berkshire
South Berkshire
To find out what’s happening throughout the four counties of Western MA, check our comprehensive list of Weekly Suggested Events, published every Thursday!
There you will also find our list of ongoing weekday playgroups, storyhours and events both in Berkshire County and throughout the region.
Berkshire Family Fun, a project of Hilltown Families, is sponsored in part by MASS MoCA:
Berkshire Family Fun is also supported in part by a grant from the Hinsdale/Peru, Mount Washington, Sandisfield, and Windsor Cultural Councils, local agencies which are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
Adams | Cheshire | Florida | Hancock | Lanesborough | Monterey | North Adams | Williamstown | Windsor
Central Berkshire | South Berkshire
Support Hilltown Families!
Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum. 413-743-7121. 67 East Road. Adams, MA.
Abbot School — 56 North Country Road.
Hancock Shaker Village. 1843 W Housatonic St. 413-443-0188
Friday, February 23, 9am-4pm
OWLS/NATURE STUDIES
There are few sounds more haunting in the woods at night than the tell-tale cry of an owl: “who cooks for you?” These mysterious creatures have inspired and fascinated human beings for thousands of years. This Owl Appreciation Day is a day long celebration of owls! Come learn about how owls can rotate their heads, how their ears work, and lots more. Participants will also be able to make their own owl hand puppet. This event is suitable for children of all ages. Mount Greylock Visitor Center. 30 Rockwell Road, Lanesborough, MA (FREE)
Saturday, February 24, 1-2pm
NATURAL HISTORY/HIKE
The geology of our region has a rich and intriguing history. As recently as fifteen thousand years ago, after the end of the last ice age, the entirety of the Connecticut River was a massive lake, known as Lake Hitchcock, which existed for around three thousand years. Before that the Laurentide ice sheet dominated the entire northern United States, including New England. As this massive glacier receded it carved enormous valleys and deposited gargantuan boulders. To this day, we can still see evidence of the glacier’s retreat all around us. Join photographer and boulder enthusiast Christy Butler for a discussion of the natural history of our region, followed by a short hike. For more information call 413-499-4262. Mount Greylock Visitor Center. 30 Rockwell Road, Lanesborough, MA (FREE)
Bascom Lodge 413-743-1591. 30 Rockwell Road.
Lanesborough Library — 413-499-5981. 83 North Main Street.
Mt. Greylock — 413-499-4262. 30 Rockwell Road.
Bidwell House Museum – 413-528-6888. 100 Art School Road.
Ashintully — 413-298-3239. Sodom Road
Friday, February 2, 4-6pm
NATURE APPRECIATION/SUNSET HIKE
Come experience the natural beauty of the Mohawk Trail! This historical area was once used by the indigenous people of the Hudson River Valley as a path to the Connecticut River region and to the coast beyond. Sunset Rock is a beautiful natural cliff along the Hoosac Range. These stunning cliffs were formed by the geological process known as ‘glacial plucking.’ This process refers to the creation of cliffs and valleys by the gradual erosion and movement of glaciers over thousands of years. This moderate hike will follow a 1.5 mile loop up to Sunset Rock. Hot apple cider will be provided but feel free to bring snacks and dress warm! Hoosac Range Trail. North Adams, MA (FREE)
Saturday, February 17, 10am-4pm
PLACEMAKING/WINTER FESTIVAL
This saturday and sunday, North Adams becomes transformed into a magical winter wonderland with events and activities for the whole family, celebrating community and winter fun! There will be ice sculptures all over town, a free movie screening, horse drawn wagon rides, and you won’t want to miss the chowder cookoff! The day ends with free ice skating at the Memorial Ice Skating Rink. For more details and a full list of events, please visit North Adams Winterfest. North Adams, MA (FREE)
Monday, February 26, 7pm
HISTORY/MARTIN LUTHER
On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther made history when he nailed his 95 Theses to the Castle Church Door in Wittenberg. This single act changed the course of European history and indeed, the history of the world. Five hundred years after the beginning of the Protestant Reformation, Joseph Molleur, PhD, is offering a four-session mini-course, where he will explore three of the most important figures of the Protestant Reformation, the movements associated with them, and their possible continuing significance for us today and tomorrow. This session will focus on Martin Luther himself. For more information and reserve your spot contact 413-664-9656 or email allsaintsberkshires@gmail.com. All Saints Berkshires. 59 Summer Street, North Adams, MA (FREE)
North Adams Farmers’ Market 413-664-6180. St. Anthony Drive & Route 8.
Western Gateway Heritage State Park 413-663-6312. 115 State Street.
North Adams Public Library 413-662-3133. 74 Church Street.
MASS MoCA 413-662-2111. 1040 MASS MoCA Way.
Haskins Community Center 413-664-4821. 210 State Street.
Natural Bridge State Park — 413-663-6392. McCauley Road..
Sunday, February 4, 1-4pm
ART STUDIES/DRAWING
Drawing has always occupied an important role in the history of art. Independent, to a certain extent from the limitations of painting, drawing as a medium has always been about pushing the boundaries. From Francisco Goya’s macabre sketches detailing the grotesqueness of war to Honore Daumier’s hilarious and topical caricatures, drawing is able to capture something ineffable and profound about the human condition. Odilon Redon once said: “My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.” Come celebrate the Clark Art Institutes new exhibit of drawings with a series of short lectures on Goya, Daumier, Redon, Cezanne, and other artists who added to the development of drawing as a medium. First Sundays Free. The Clark Art Institute. 225 South Street, Williamstown, MA (FREE)
DIVERSITY/HUMAN LIBRARY
The human library project is a truly unique approach to fostering greater connection and understanding between people. The concept is simple: just like a library, you can go into the card catalog and browse for books on subjects that you are interested in learning more about. The twist is that in this case, the books are actual people! At the human library, you can check out a ‘book’ for 30 minute, one-on-one conversation. You can ask the book questions about their experience and they can ask you questions too. The human library project was founded in Denmark in 2001 and has since spread all around the world as a model for appreciating diversity and overcoming prejudice. Paresky Student Center. Williams College. Williamstown, MA (FREE)
Monday, February 19, 7-9pm
FILM STUDIES/WORLD WAR I
Come attend this free screening of the 2004 film A Very Long Engagement by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the visionary filmmaker behind the beloved Amelie. This touching and bizarrely beautiful film tells the story of a woman searching for her fiancee who mysteriously disappeared on the frontlines of World War I. Beyond all hope, she seeks her love among the ruins. The film dramatically showcases the absurdity of war and the strangeness of a world turned upside down in its wake, told with Jeunet’s unique aesthetic sensibility that will be immediately recognizable to his fans. Part of Williams College French Film Festival, focusing on stories about the experience of World War I. Hopkins Hall. 880 Main Street, Williamstown, MA (FREE)
Tuesday, February 20, 11-11:45am
YOGA/MUSEUM ADVENTURES
Yoga is a wonderful way to recharge your batteries, build flexibility and strength, and decrease stress. This free yoga class at the Clark Art Institute is designed for adults and children ages 3 and above. Bring your yoga mat and refocus during this February vacation week. Clark Art Institute. 225 South Street, Williamstown, MA (FREE)
Sunday, February 25, 3pm
ART STUDIES/FILM SCREENING
David Hockney is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century. Hockney was a key figure in the pop art movement of the 1960 and has continued to develop new techniques and styles as the years have gone on. Currently in his 80s, Hockney has been producing hundreds of portraits using the ipad app “Brushes.” For Hockney’s contributions to British art, he was awarded the prestigious Order of Merit by Queen Elizabeth II in 2012. This award is restricted to 24 members for their exemplary work in art and science. If you are a fan of Hockney’s work or passionate about contemporary art, you won’t want to miss this screening of the film “David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts.” This film focuses on Hockney’s work on two major installations in 2012 and 2016 at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, as well as intimate interviews with the author himself. Clark Art Institute. 225 South Street, Williamstown, MA ($)
Tuesday, February 27, 5:30-6:30pm
ART STUDIES/GRAPHIC DESIGN
Are you interested in graphic design or art history? You won’t want to miss this lecture on the history of graphic design! Professor Renzo Baldasso will discuss the origins of graphic design in such early modern texts as the Gutenberg Bible and the works of Nicolas Jenson, creator of one of the early Roman fonts. Professor Baldasso will analyze pages of revisions that illustrate the creative process that went into early graphic design. The Clark Art Institute. 225 South Street, Williamstown, MA (FREE W/MUSEUM ADMISSION)
Milne Public Library 413-458-5369. 1095 Main Street.
Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation 413-458-2494. 671 Cold Spring Road.
Clark Art Institute 413-458-2303. 225 South Street.
Images Cinema. 413-458-5612. 50 Spring Street.
Sweet Brook Farm — 413-884-4246. 580 Oblong Road.
Williams College Museum of Art — 413-597-2376. 15 Lawrence Hall Drive.
Williamstown Youth Center — 413-458-5925. 270 Cole Avenue.
Notchview Reservation 413-684-0148. Route 9. Windsor, MA.
Becket | Dalton | Hinsdale | Lee | Lenox | Peru | Pittsfield | Richmond | Stockbridge | Tyringham | Washington | West Stockbridge
North Berkshire | South Berkshire
Dalton Free Public Library 0 413-684-6112. 462 Main Street.
Thursday, February 8, 3:30-4:30pm
STEM/MUSEUM ADVENTURES
Do you have an aspiring scientist in your family? STEM fields can be a fascinating way to learn about the world that we live in. Now your favorite science and STEM programs from Berkshire Museum come right to your own neighborhood with South County STEM! These programs are designed for children ages 2 to 8. Space is limited so please call 413-464-5095 to RSVP. Lee Library. 100 Main Street, Lee, MA (FREE)
Spectrum Playhouse – 413-394-5023. 20 Franklin Street.
South Berkshire Kids – 413-464-5095. 100 Main Street.
Lee Library – 413-243-0385. 100 Main Street.
Wednesday, February 7, 10am
SHAKESPEARE/SELF DIRECTED LEARNING
Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream has always been one the bard’s most enigmatic and divisive plays. In 1662, Parliament member Samuel Pepys wrote that it was “the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.” Though he added that it had “some good dancing and some handsome women, which was all my pleasure.” In recent years, the play has enjoyed a much better reception and coincidentally, has been heavily analyzed in terms of its powerful feminist sentiment. Come check out this special performance of the play by member of the illustrious Shakespeare and Company! To order tickets and for more information, please contact Jonathan Croy at education@shakespeare.org. Tina Packer Playhouse. 70 Kemble Street, Lenox, MA ($)
Thursday, February 22, 3:30pm
PERFORMANCE ART/FAIRY TALES IN TRANSLATION
One of the Brothers Grimm’s most well-known stories, “The Frog Prince,” in fact drew its inspiration from the ancient Roman satirist Petronius, whose novel The Satyricon mocks the notoriously decadent emperor Nero by comparing him to a frog. It is also important to note that while most contemporary iterations of this classic tale end by the princess kissing the frog to turn him back into a man, in the Grimms’ original she actually is so disgusted by him that she throws him against a wall, which apparently does the trick. Come see this immortal story come to life with the world-class puppeteering of Carl Sprague. Shows on Thursday the 22nd and Friday the 23rd, at 3:30. Ventfort Hall. 104 Walker Street, Lenox, MA ($)
Lenox Library — 413-637-0197. 18 Main Street.
Lenox Historical Society — Main Street.
The Mount – 413-551-5111. 2 Plunkett Street.
Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary – 472 West Mountain Road.
Shakespeare and Company – 413-637-3353. 70 Kemble Street.
Ventfort Hall – 413-637-3206. 104 Walker Street.
Saturday, January 27, 11am-12pm
FAMILY CONCERT/FOLK MUSIC
David Grover is a beloved local musician, who has played with legendary folk musicians Arlo Guthrie and Pete Seeger! Now come listen to Grover playing his popular children’s music at this free concert at the Berkshire Theatre Group. This is a great opportunity to build a love for music in young children. Exposing children to music has been found to benefit cognitive and social skills. It even can boost literacy, by helping children become more aware of words and sounds. To order tickets call 413-997-4444. Berkshire Theatre Group. 111 South St, Pittsfield, MA (FREE)
Saturday, January 27, 6-8pm
PLAY/NERF
Playing with nerf is a great way to get kids off the couch and running around! This is especially important in the cold winter months, when it’s hard to get outside. Nerf games can be a fun way for children to get exercise and learn to work with others. This special Kids Night Out! event features 5,000 square feet of play space, including obstacles. Please bring your own nerf equipment. This event is appropriate for children ages 5-12. The Infield Home of the Berkshire Baseball Academy. 10 Lyman St, Pittsfield, MA ($)
Sunday, January 28, 6am-2pm
PLACEMAKING/ANGLING
For indigenous communities in the northern parts of the world, ice fishing has always been an important way to find food in the winter. Indigenous peoples of North America set up tents on the ice and chipped away until there was a hole large enough to spear fish through. These are the origins of modern ice fishing. Here in Western Massachusetts, ice fishing is an important part of our regional winter tradition. Communities of ice shantys pop up in favorite fishing spots and there is a special kind of camaraderie that forms out on the ice. Ice fishing derbies have existed in our region for generations. Come try your hand at the Onota Lake Ice Fishing Derby. Cash prizes and trophies, muffins and coffee! Lake Onota 388 Lakeway Dr, Pittsfield, MA ($)
PLACEMAKING/ART WALK
One of greatest treasures of our region is the abundance of amazing local art! Come take a lovely evening stroll around downtown Pittsfield and enjoy exhibits and art shows by over two dozen regional artists. This popular event is a great way for the community to come together and celebrate art and creativity. Additionally, most of these artists will be present at their shows so visitors can ask questions and learn more about the creative process. This event would be an opportunity for aspiring artists to learn about local art and the venues that exist in our area for displaying it. Downtown Pittsfield, Pittsfield, MA (FREE)
SUSTAINABILITY/SEED LIBRARY
As agriculture becomes increasingly homogenized and technological, many local heritage and heirloom species are at a high risk of going extinct. Seed saving has been a vital part of local farming communities since time immemorial. Preserving seeds of local breeds and species maintains biodiversity, builds resilience, and gives farmers access to seeds that are best suited to the unique bioregions they live in. Come join the Berkshire Athenaeum and other local groups to celebrate the grand opening of the Berkshire Seed Library. Learn about how to start your own garden and take home some great local seeds! Berkshire Athenaeum. 1 Wendell Ave, Pittsfield, MA (FREE)
Saturday, February 24, 11am
THEATER/CINDERELLA
Did you know that the origins of the popular folk tale “Cinderella” date back to the ancient Greek geographer Strabo in 7 BCE? Strabo records the popular story of a young girl named Rhodopis (“Rosy-Cheeks”), whose sandal is stolen by an eagle while she is bathing. The eagle carries the sandal to the king who, compelled by the beautiful shape of the shoe, sends his men throughout the kingdom to find the wearer of the shoe. When she is found, Rhodopis is brought to the king, who promptly marries her. Come see this timeless tale of virtue rewarded with this performance of “Cinderella” by the Berkshire Children’s Theater. Berkshire Museum. 39 South Street, Pittsfield, MA ($)
Wednesday, February 28, 7-9pm
TEENAGERS/OPEN MIC
While legendary singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman was living in Boston as a student, she went to every open mic night she could. Since then she has won four Grammy awards and holds a multi-platinum album and has become one of America’s most beloved performers. Open mic nights are an ideal way for young artists and musicians to get some experience performing and who knows, maybe you’ll get discovered! Come on down to this open mic night and share your gifts with the world. Whitney Center for the Arts. 42 Wendell Ave, Pittsfield, MA ($)
The Berkshire Athenaeum 413-499-4809. 1 Wendell Avenue.
Berkshire Humane Society 413-447-7878. 214 Barker Road.
Berkshire Lyric Theatre – 413-499-0258
Berkshire Museum – 413-443-7171 x10. 39 South Street.
Berkshire Music School — 413-442-1411. 30 Wendell Ave.
Colonial Theatre — 413-298-5576. 111 South Street.
Downtown Pittsfield Farmers’ Market. First Street.
First Friday Artswalk — Downtown.
Hancock Shaker Village – 413-443-0188. 1843 West Housatonic Street.
Herman Melville’s Arrowhead. 413-442-1793. 780 Holmes Road.
Hilltop Orchard — Route 295.
ART STUDIES/HISTORY
As New Englanders, the town meeting is a valuable part of our regional history. This direct democracy form of local government has been a staple of New England life since the Puritan era and in 1854 Henry David Thoreau described the town meeting as “the true Congress, and the most respectable one that is ever assembled in the United States.” Come celebrate the tradition of the town meeting, immortalized in Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms paintings with this special event at the Norman Rockwell Museum. Local commentators will discuss important social issues with the community, followed by refreshments. Norman Rockwell Museum. 9 Glendale Rd/Rte 183, Stockbridge, MA (FREE)
Berkshire Botanical Garden 413-298-3926. 5 West Stockbridge Road.
Chesterwood — 413-298-3579. 4 Williamsville Road
Norman Rockwell Museum – 413-298-4100. 9 Route 183.
The Stockbridge Library, Museum, and Archives – 413-298-5501. 18 Main Street.
Ashintully Gardens. 413-298-3239. Sodem Road.
West Stockbridge Public Library – 413-232-0300 x308. 21 State Line Road.
Alford | Great Barrington | Housatonic | Monterey | New Marlborough | Sheffield
North Berkshire | Central Berkshire
Thursday, February 1, 7-9pm
FILM SCREENING/PHILOSOPHY
Harold Ramis and Bill Murray’s beloved 1993 film may seem to be a simple comic tale about a narcissistic weatherman who realizes the nature of kindness, after becoming stuck in a time warp in a little Pennsylvania town. Over the years, however, the film has been seen as a philosophical allegory by many spiritual teachers and philosophers. Clearly, there is a strong buddhist element in the film’s insistence that the way to become free from suffering lies in kindness and selflessness. But there is also a deep resonance with Nietzsche’s concept of the eternal return: the film asks, how would choose to live if you knew that the same day would repeat endlessly for all time? Come experience this lovable, hilarious, and deeply thoughtful film at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center! 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington, MA ($)
NATURE STUDIES/MUSTELIDS
Animals in the family Mustelidae include fishers, stoats, weasels, otters, and many others! These beautiful and fascinating creatures have enchanted human beings around the world for thousands of years. It is thought that the word “stoat” derives from the Dutch word meaning “naughty” due to their reputation for thievery and because their saliva allegedly contained poison (it does not). In northern Europe it is said to be bad luck to encounter a stoat at the beginning of a journey, though this effect can be mitigated by courteously greeting the stoat as a neighbor. Another folk tradition holds that ermines are so fastidious that if they are being hunted they would rather turn and present themselves to the hunters to avoiding spoiling their beautiful white coats with blood. Come learn all about these charming animals, many of whom scamper and scurry right in our own backyard, at this talk by famed naturalist Sue Morse. Monument Mountain High School. 600 Stockbridge Road, Great Barrington, MA (FREE)
Berkshire South Regional Community Center — 413-528-2810. 15 Crissey Road.
Great Barrington Historical Society — South Main Street.
The Guthrie Center — 413-644-9288. 2 Van Deusenville Road.
Great Barrington Riverwalk — Church and River Streets.
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center — 413-528-0100. 14 Castle Street.
Mason Library — 413-528-2403. 231 Main Street.
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Does Ramanujacharya believe that inhabitants of Brahmaloka attain Moksha when they die?
As I discuss in the this question, by far the most popular school of Hindu philosophy is the Vedanta school, which bases its tenets on the doctrines laid out in the Brahma Sutras, a work by the sage Vyasa which summarizes and systematizes the philosophical teachings of the Upanishads. You can read the Brahma Sutras here. In any case, in Adhyaya 4 Pada 3 of the Brahma Sutras, one of the topics discussed is the journey of souls described in this passage from the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad:
Those who thus know this, and those who in the forest worship faith and the True, go to light (arkis), from light to day, from day to the increasing half, from the increasing half to the six months when the sun goes to the north, from those six months to the world of the Devas (Devaloka), from the world of the Devas to the sun, from the sun to the place of lightning. When they have thus reached the place of lightning a spirit comes near them, and leads them to the worlds of ... Brahman. In these worlds of Brahman they dwell exalted for ages. There is no returning for them.
The ancient thinker Badari believed that the passage is about souls who meditate upon the god Hiranyagarbha, i.e. Brahma, and thereby go to Brahma's world, known as Satyaloka or Brahmaloka. The ancient thinker Jaimini, on the other hand, believed that the passage is about souls who meditate upon the supreme Brahman and thereby attain the supreme Brahman, i.e. attain Moksha. In Ramanujacharya's commentary on the Brahma Sutras, he argues that Vyasa favors a middle view, where both those who meditate on the supreme Brahman and those who meditate upon their own soul as having Brahman as its inner Self (in the Visihtadvaita view) will attain Moksha using the path described in the text.
But before Ramanujacharya discusses his own view, he first spends time presenting the views of Badari. Badari argued that the reason the passage says "There is no returning for them." is that the inhabitants of Brahmaloka attain Moksha when he dies. In support of Badari's view, Ramanujacharya cites a passage from the Mundaka Upanishad:
This is known from the texts declaring that he who proceeds on the path of light reaches immortality and does not return; and is further confirmed by the text, 'They all, reaching the highest immortality, become free in the world of Brahman (Brahmâ) at the time of the great end ' (Mu. Up. III, 2, 6).
And he cites some Smriti text:
This follows from Smriti also, which declares 'when the pralaya has come and the end of the Highest, they all together with Brahman enter the highest place.'--For all these reasons Bâdari holds that the troop of the conducting deities, beginning with Light, leads the souls of those only who meditate on the effected Brahman, i e. Hiranyagarbha.
But my question is, does Ramanujacharya agree with Badari's view that inhabitants of Brahmaloka attain Moksha when they die? The reason I ask is because Ramanujacharya says this:
But, if the soul advancing on the path of the Gods reaches Hiranyagarbha only, texts such as 'This is the path of the Gods, the path of Brahman; those who proceed on that path do not return to the life of man' (Kh. Up. IV, 15, 6), and 'moving upwards by that a man reaches immortality' (VIII, 6, 6), are wrong in asserting that that soul attains to immortality and does not return; for the holy books teach that Hiranyagarbha, as a created being, passes away at the end of a dviparârdha-period; and the text 'Up to the world of Brahman the worlds return again' (Bha. Gî. VIII, 16) shows that those who have gone to Hiranyagarbha necessarily return also.
In this passage, is Ramanujacharya presenting his own view, or someone else's? If he's advancing his own view, then it seems he believes that the inhabitants of Brahmaloka are reborn rather than attain Moksha. If so, how does he reconcile his view with the scriptural quotes he cited earlier?
And these aren't the only such scriptural quotes; Srimad Bhagavatam seems to also say that inhabitants of Brahmaloka attain Moksha, as I discuss in this answer. So what's going on here?
Do any later Sri Vaishnava Acharyas shed light on this?
sri-vaishnava vedanta brahma-sutras lokas ramanujacharya
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Keshav Srinivasan♦Keshav Srinivasan
Bramhaloka is where Bramha Resides, and there above the bramhaloka is gnaya loka or something with similar name where Sanath kumars live and above them is abode of shiva and then comes the goloka of krishna and radha then comes the vaikuntha?? – Yogi Sep 20 '15 at 6:06
@Yogi The order of the material Lokas is Bhuloka, Bhuvarloka, Svarga/Devaloka, Maharloka, Janaloka, Tapoloka, and Satyaloka/Brahmaloka, as I discuss here: hinduism.stackexchange.com/a/7262/36 (This should remind you of the Pranayamam mantra). Tapoloka is where the Sanatkumaras live. But Brahmaloka is the highest material Loka. – Keshav Srinivasan♦ Sep 20 '15 at 12:23
@Yogis Beyond the material lokas is the loka or lokas where souls who have attained some form of liberation or Moksha go. What those Lokas are is something the different sects of Hinduism have different beliefs about it. Shaivites believe Shivaloka is the supreme destination, Gaudiya Vaishnavas (e.g. ISKCON members) think Goloka is the supreme destination, and Sri Vaishnavas think the supreme destination is Vishnu's abode of Paramapadam, aka Vaikunta. (This is different from Vishnu's ocean of milk, which is located in Shwetadwipa in Bhuloka. See here: trsiyengar.com/id268.shtml) – Keshav Srinivasan♦ Sep 20 '15 at 12:30
@Keshav - Not just Srivaishnavas all vaishnavas belonging to madhva, Vallabha, nimbaraka, Swami Narayana etc believe in Paramapada called Vaikuntha. ISKCON and Gaudiyas consider Vaikuntha to be outer precints of Goloka....But, even they fully accept the eternity of Vaikuntha... – user808 Sep 20 '15 at 13:43
@Krishna Yeah, I think Gaudiya Vaishnavas say "Goloka is the highest of the Vaikunta planets". – Keshav Srinivasan♦ Sep 20 '15 at 13:49
Ramanujacharya is not stating his own view. Rather, he is stating a Purvapaksha argument which Badari refutes in the next Sutra (Sutra 9). Here is how this PDF presents Ramanujacharya's commentary on Sutra 9.
With the dissolution of the of the world of HiraNyagarbha along with him the soul of the one who has reached there goes beyond . So it is stated.
There is a further objection that if the individual soul goes to the world of HiraNyagarbha the texts that state the attainment of immortality such as 'thayOrDhvamAyAn amrthathvamEthi, (Chan.4-15-6) will have no meaning as according to the statement of the Lord in the Gita 'AbrhambuvanAllOkAh punarAvrtthinO arjuna, the worlds upto that of Brahma are subject to return.' Also because the scriptures state the dissolutin of HiraNyagarbha at the end of the period known as dviparArDHa.
To this BAdhari replies...
The portion in bold is what Ramanujacharya says at the end of his commentary on Sutra 8. And Badari's refutation of it is that although the inhabitants of Brahmaloka may be subject to rebirth, they do not actually get reborn because they will acquire knowledge of Brahman and thus attain Moksha at the end of the Mahakalpa.
For further confirmation, we can examine Adi Shankaracharya's commentaries on these same Sutras, and see that they have the exact same structure. Here is Adi Shankaracharya's commentary on the equivalent Sutra 8 (his numbering is different:
The word 'but' indicates the setting aside of the doubt.--As the lower Brahman is in proximity to the higher one, there is nothing unreasonable in the word 'Brahman' being applied to the former also. For when the higher Brahman is, for the purposes of pious meditation, described as possessing certain effected qualities--such as consisting of mind and the rest--which qualities depend on its connexion with certain pure limiting adjuncts; then it is what we call the lower Brahman.--But with the assumption of the lower Brahman there does not agree what scripture says about the souls not returning; for there is no permanence anywhere apart from the highest Brahman. And scripture declares that those who have set out on the road of the gods do not return, 'They who proceed on that path do not return to the life of man' (Kh. Up. IV, 15, 6); 'For them there is no return here' (Bri. Up. VI, 2, 15); 'Moving upwards by that a man reaches immortality' (Kh. Up. VIII, 6, 5).
To this objection we make the following reply.
And then he makes the same refutation in his commentary on the following Sutra:
When the reabsorption of the effected Brahman world draws near, the souls in which meanwhile perfect knowledge has sprung up proceed, together with Hiranyagarbha the ruler of that world, to 'what is higher than that i.e. to the pure highest place of Vishnu. This is the release by successive steps which we have to accept on the basis of the scriptural declarations about the non-return of the souls. For we have shown that the Highest cannot be directly reached by the act of going.
I discuss about the use of the term "place of Vishnu" in my question here, by the way.
In any case, now that we know that Ramanujacharya is not actually stating his own view in the passage I quoted, it follows that the only positions of Badari's and Jaimini that Ramanujacharya disputes are the ones he discusses in his commentaries in Sutra 14 and Sutra 15, where he discusses Badarayana's views.
So here is what Ramanujacharya actually believes:
If someone meditates on Hiranyagarbha (Brahma), then when they die, they don't go along the path of the gods outlined in the Panchagni Vidya. Rather, they just go to Brahmaloka. Then they attain knowledge of Brahman, and at the end of the Mahakalpa they attain Moksha along with Brahma.
If someone meditates on the supreme Brahman, then when they die, they immediately attain Moksha, by ascending along the path of the gods outlined in the Panchagni Vidya.
So everything makes sense after all! It's similar to how I thought I found an inconsistency in the work of Adi Shankaracharya here, and there turned out to be an explanation. It is a testament to these great thinkers that the coherence of their work stands up to such scrutiny.
You mean to say that only those who acquire the knowledge of brahman in brahmaloka attain supreme brahman after Mahakalpa. Is there any possibility of not acquiring the knowledge of brahman in brahma loka? If, yes, then they be subjected to rebirth. If, no, then why panchagni vidya, worship supreme brahman etc just worship chaturmuka brahma and salvation is guaranteed though after a long period, but without rebirth i.e after Mahakalpa. – user808 Sep 26 '15 at 8:23
Yeah, the Srimad Bhagavatam makes clear that all the inhabitants of Brahmaloka attain knowledge of Brahman, and they merge with Brahma's body and attain Moksha along with him. The reason why you wouldn't want to do this, though, is that you have to wait an entire Mahakalpa to attain Moksha, rather than just getting Moksha immediately. – Keshav Srinivasan♦ Sep 26 '15 at 14:34
Does Ramanuja explicitly say so?...Because there instances in BG and other scriptures etc where Brahma to blade are subjected to dissolution and those go to other gods, return back...? How is this dichotomy resolved? – user808 Sep 26 '15 at 15:15
@Krishna I think it means that they are subject to rebirth, in the sense that if they didn't attain knowledge of Brahman then they would be reborn, but that possibility never comes to fruition because they all attain knowledge of Brahman. In any case, I think Ramanujacharya thinks that both Badari and Jaimini are right about everything they're saying except for the parts that are contradicted by Badarayana in Sutras 14 and 15. – Keshav Srinivasan♦ Sep 26 '15 at 15:22
@Ikshvaku No, the guy's name is V.K. Ramanujachari. Diwan Bahadur is a title: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewan_Bahadur – Keshav Srinivasan♦ Nov 8 '17 at 4:36
I think you should read more carefully the passage that you have quoted from the Ramanuja's commentary on Vedanta Sutra:
... if the soul advancing ... reaches Hiranyagarbha only, texts such as ... ... are wrong in asserting that ... ... for the holy books teach that ...
In the above passage of text a simple concept of statement is applied under the scheme:
if X ... then it is Y ... for the holy books teach that Z ...
Here Z is the Bhagavad gita 8.16 verse that those who have gone to Hiranyagarbha necessarily return also.
Y is "texts such as Chandogya Upanishad ... are wrong in asserting that ... "
X is "the soul advancing ... reaches Hiranyagarbha only"
So Ramanuja simply says that if X is true, then Chandogya Upanishad would be wrong (see above Y) because Z teaches ...
Of course Ramanuja does not think X is true, he actually thinks X is false! And then he thinks Chandogya Upanishad is not wrong but is correct, and he thinks Bhagavad gita 8.16 is also correct.
Now, although Ramanuja thinks Bhagavad gita 8.16 is correct, yet he thinks X is false! He thinks that souls advancing on the path of the Gods do not reach Hiranyagarbha (Lord Brahma) only, but they reach something higher than that, ie they reach immortality and the Lord Vishnu in Vaikuntha eventually!
This is the meaning.
brahma jijnasabrahma jijnasa
First of all, the word "only" doesn't necessarily have the meaning you think it does; the sentence "My cousin got a chocolate bar, but I only got a lollipop." doesn't imply that my cousin also got a lollipop, it just implies tha a chocolate bar is better than a lollipop. Similarly, saying "Attaining Moksha would be fitting for someone who meditated on the supreme Brahman, but only going to the world of Hiranyagarbha would not be fitting." doesn't imply that meditators on the supreme Brahman go to the world of Hiranyagarbha, just that Moksha is superior to the world of Hiranyagarabha. – Keshav Srinivasan♦ Sep 22 '15 at 16:25
Second of all, Ramanujacharya definitely doesn't think that souls on the path of the gods go to Brahmaloka; Ramanujacharya makes clear exactly how the soul proceeds in his commentaries on Sutras 1-5 of this same Pada. Also, in his commentary on a subsequent Sutra he says this: sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe48/sbe48547.htm "The argument that the specification implied in the text which mentions Brahman-worlds clearly points to the effected Brahman, i.e. Hiranyagarbha, is equally invalid. For the compound 'the Brahman-world' is to be explained as 'the world which is Brahman'" – Keshav Srinivasan♦ Sep 22 '15 at 16:33
In any case, regardless of whether meditators on the supreme Brahman pass through Brahmaloka or not, my question isn't about meditators on the supreme Brahman, it's about people who have meditated on Brahma (Hiranyagarbha) and have thus become inhabitants of Brahmaloka. When Ramanujacharya says "those who have gone to Hiranyagarbha necessarily return also", he's clearly not talking about people who have meditated on the supreme Brahman, because there is no return for them. He's talking about people who have meditated on Brahma. – Keshav Srinivasan♦ Sep 22 '15 at 16:40
The purpose of my question is to understand Ramanujacharya's statement "those who have gone to Hiranyagarbha necessarily return also". I want to know if he is expressing his own view here, or someone else's view. And if he is expressing his own view, I want to know how he reconciles his view with the Mundaka Upanishad quote and the quote from the "Smriti" (which I found out is from the Kurma Purana). – Keshav Srinivasan♦ Sep 22 '15 at 16:43
@KeshavSrinivasan You're just trying to complicate things where there's no need to complicate things, where things are simple and clear. At least to me it is simple and clear. I updated my post, see above. – brahma jijnasa Sep 24 '15 at 4:21
First, I think the interpretation of Gita 8.16 is not the best. The verse refers first to lokah, 'worlds', and then to abrahma-bhuvanat, 'together with the world of Brahma' (the root bhuva refers to the place where creatures are born, i.e. earth); not the world of Brahman.
In his intro to his translation of the Sri-Bhasya, Swami Vireswarananda says:
‘With whatever thought he passes away from this world’, etc. says Satapatha Brahmana (X. 6.3.1). Such a thought, which fixes the course of life hereafter cannot be had at the moment of death without lifelong practice. Hence such meditations should be practiced till death. But Bhaskara, Ramanuja and Nimbarka connect the Sutra with the meditation on Brahman; for according to them even after the rise of knowledge one has to go after death by the path of the gods, at the end of which path one gets disembodied completely and attains Brahman, while Sankara holds that on death he becomes one with Brahman.
So Ramanuja does assert that the soul goes to Brahmaloka. Vireswarananda says further:
The soul of a knower of saguna Brahman goes by the path of the gods to Brahmaloka (the region of Brahma), i.e. it attains the conditioned Brahman—which is the view of Badari and is also endorsed by Badarayana. On the dissolution of Brahmaloka the soul along with the ruler of that world attains the supreme Brahman (Sri-Bhasya IV. iii. 7-11).
Vireswarananda states further Ramanuja's view of Moksha:
Souls are really effects of Brahman and form Its body, but they are said to be not created because at creation there is no essential change in them as in the elements. The soul is a knower, atomic, an agent and a part of Brahman in the sense that the body is a part of an embodied being, or a quality a part of the substance qualified. As qualities are not different from the substance, so also souls are not different from Brahman. The soul on release manifests its’ true nature, which consists in freedom from sin etc. which was obscured in the state of bondage by ignorance and Karma. It attains all the auspicious qualities of Brahman, but not identity with It, for It continues to have a separate existence. In the released state it experiences itself as non-different from Brahman, being but Its mode—that Brahman is its self, and that it is the body of Brahman.
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Swami VishwanandaSwami Vishwananda
Ramanuja doesnt accept the Badari's view of Kraya brshman etc. On the contrarary, Jaimini says contradicts badari and says that those who meditate on brahman they reach para brahman through archis. Badarayana clearly disagrees with Badari's view. Jaimini also he agrees to some extent, but gives his own view saying that both Badari's and Jamini's views have defects. – user808 Sep 21 '15 at 6:56
Apratikalamban nayati badarayana ubhayayatha ca dosat tatkratusca" this sutra introduced by badarayana for the purpose of offering his own view on subject of what kind of meditation leads to brahman against the defective and partial views of badari and Jaimini. – user808 Sep 21 '15 at 6:57
As @Krishna said, Ramanujacharya definitely does not agree with Vireswarananda's statement that "it attains the conditioned Brahman—which is the view of Badari and is also endorsed by Badarayana". Ramanujacharya does not think that Badarayana agrees with Badari here. Vireswarananda refers to Sri-Bhasya IV. iii. 7-11, but that's just Ramanujacharya's summary of what Badari says; he's not endorsing Badari's view. It is in his commentary on Sutras 14 and 15 that Ramanujacharya states Badarayana's viewpoint; Ramanujacharya believes that Badarayana disagrees with both Badari and Jaimini. – Keshav Srinivasan♦ Sep 22 '15 at 15:33
In any case, your answer doesn't address the purpose of my question, which is to understand Ramanujacharya's statement that "those who have gone to Hiranyagarbha necessarily return also." I want to know whether Ramanujacharya is stating his own view when he makes that statement, and if so how he would reconcile that view with the quotes he provides in support of Badari's view (that inhabitants of Brahmaloka attain Moksha at the end of Brahma's life). – Keshav Srinivasan♦ Sep 22 '15 at 15:36
By the way, can you take a look at my question here about Adhyaya 1 Pada 3 of the Brahma Sutras: hinduism.stackexchange.com/q/8682/36 – Keshav Srinivasan♦ Sep 23 '15 at 4:27
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Top Dawg Entertainment’s owner Anthony Tiffith calls the new RIAA certification rules “BS.” The association announced today (February 1) that official audio and video streams will now be used as part of the tally to determine how many sales an album has totaled.
Because of this reconfiguration, Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly and Big Sean’s Dark Sky Paradise are now certified platinum. Lamar’s project was released by Top Dawg Entertainment in conjunction with Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records.
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Cary Sherman, Chairman and CEO of RIAA, says that the change in its system is the result of the way music is currently consumed.
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Beneath the surface of the Surface Design Show 2019
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With less than one month before the Surface Design Show 2019, Hotel Designs identifies what to look out for at this year’s event…
From February 5 – 7, Surface Design Show 2019 will take place at London’s Business Design Centre to provide a platform for architects, designers and specifiers to explore the best in interior and exterior surface materials, lighting design, development and innovation.
For more than ten years Surface Design Show has been the place where industry professionals immerse themselves in the latest materials for the built environment, gain new insights and network with like-minded designers, architects and suppliers. More than 150 exhibitors will showcase an exciting range of products including natural stone, acoustics, recycled materials, living walls and architectural lighting.
Exhibitors returning to the Show include ColourGrain Surfaces, Soundspace and Pixalux UK, whilst amongst those making their debut are Artistic License, Ober Surfaces, Trocellen and Greenlam.
Surface Design Show 2019 also features some 40 talks from over 50 industry professionals, all designed to engage and inspire.
Image credit: Anne Kyyro Quinn
The Opening Night Debate returns from 6.30pm on the first day of the Show, Tuesday February 5. Organised in association with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) and New London Architecture (NLA) it will discuss whether factory-made housing can provide Londoners with better places to live. The panel will be chaired by Peter Murray of NLA, with Ben Derbyshire of HTA Design and RIBA President, Carl Vann of Pollard Thomas Edwards and Hazel Rounding of shedkm debating the topic ‘Factory-made Housing: is this the solution to building better homes long term?’. The debate is sponsored by Bruceshaw.
Also returning for 2019 is the ever popular PechaKucha Evening, hosted by Chris Dyson of Chris Dyson Architects on February 6 from 6.30pm, sponsored by Parkside. Speakers include Nigel Ostime of Hawkins Brown; Soraya Khan of Theis and Khan Architects; Alex Scott-Whitby of ScottWhitbyStudio; Stuart Piercy of Piercy and Co; Simon Fraser of Hopkins Architects; Alison Brooks of Alison Brooks Architects; Lucia Berasaluce of Haptic Architects and Ben Cousins of Cousins & Cousins Architects. Presenters will discuss ‘Identities and Boundaries: site specific responses to modern architecture’ in an exciting and inspiring format using 20 images, each discussed for 20 seconds. Sponsored by Parkside.
Stone Gallery, which is officially supported by Stone Federation GB whose Stone Knowledge Hub forms a focal point for the event, will also be returning to Surface Design Show 2019. Stone Gallery, which is also supported by media partner Tomorrow’s Tile & Stone, is an industry-leading event for architects and designers to meet and specify natural stone. The Stone Hub stage will host a series of presentations curated by Arup.
Now in its fifth year, Light School is the home of architectural lighting, allows architects and designers to touch, compare and learn about innovative lighting and technology products. The Light School arena, Light Talks, will return once again supported by the Institution of Lighting Professionals and LED Linear.
Since 2013 the show has hosted the Surface Design Awards, now recognised as one of the most respected events in the design calendar. The awards distinguish the best and most interesting exterior and interior surfaces for different sectors of design. The 2019 awards received entries from across Europe, the USA, Australia, China, Korea and India. The shortlist consists of an impressive 43 projects across seven categories. A multi-category Finalist is the Morpheus Hotel by Zaha Hadid Architects and Isometrix Lighting Design. The hotel, which is in China, was praised by all judges, with James Soane commenting: “I can’t help but admire the mastery, it is extraordinary, I am drawn to it.” The awards presentation at #SDS19 will take place on the morning of Thursday February 7.
Free registration to #SDS19 is available via this link.
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Saudi Fighter Jets Break Yemen Ceasefire*
Members of a Yemeni family stand outside their house, which was damaged in a Saudi airstrike in the capital, Sana’a, March 12, 2016. (AFP)
Saudi warplanes have targeted a number of areas across Yemen for the third day since a U.N.-brokered ceasefire went into force.
Yemen’s al-Masirah television network said Saudi jets bombarded the Dhubab district of Ta’izz Province as well as the Sirwah and Jebel Hilan districts of Ma’rib Province early on Wednesday.
According to the report, Saudi-backed militants also launched mortar attacks on the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, and in the province of Jawf.
Pro-Saudi forces further carried out missile attacks in the Yemeni provinces of Shabwah, Lahij and Dhale despite the truce that took effect at midnight (2100 GMT) on Sunday.
Yemenis inspect a damaged building hit by a Saudi airstrike in the capital, Sana’a, February 27, 2016. (AFP)
The truce was announced by the U.N. special envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed as a step to calm the situation ahead of negotiations between the warring sides scheduled to be held in Kuwait on April 18.
The Houthi Ansarullah movement on Monday recorded 39 violations of the truce by the Saudis and their allies, including attacks in Ta’izz and the central province of Baida. They said Saudi warplanes also flew sorties over several areas of Yemen.
Saudi officials responded by describing the breaches as “minor,” accusing the Houthis of carrying out attacks on forces loyal to Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, Yemen’s resigned president who enjoys support from Riyadh.
Saudi Arabia has been waging a war on Yemen since late March 2015 in a bid to reinstate Hadi and undermine the Houthi movement, which took over state matters after Hadi resigned.
Over 9,400 Yemenis, including 4,000 women and children, have lost their lives in the deadly military campaign.
Yemenis, in return, have been carrying out retaliatory attacks on the pro-Saudi forces deployed in the country as well as targets inside Saudi Arabia.
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TMC's Subrata Mukherjee: If any community hasn't got the fruits of my work, then don't vote for me
TMC’s Subrata Mukherjee: If any community hasn’t got the fruits of my work, then don’t vote for me
In a freewheeling chat with The Indian Express Bangla, Subrata Mukherjee shares his thoughts on BJP's prospects in Bengal and why he is not an outsider in Bankura.
Written by Joyprakash Das , Edited by Abhishek De | Kolkata | Updated: May 9, 2019 6:24:35 pm
Bankura TMC Lok Sabha candidate Subrata Mukherjee. (Express photo by Shashi Ghosh)
Among the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal, one of the most keenly watched contests will be Bankura, where the Trinamool Congress has fielded veteran leader and state minister Subrata Mukherjee. As a Congress candidate in 2009, the former Kolkata mayor came runners-up in the land of the red soil, as Bankura is famously known as given that it was once a CPI(M) fortress.
However, a lot of water has flown under the Kangsabati and Dwarakeswar river since. With the change in regime, the political scenario in Bankura has here has undergone a sea change. Mukherjee has replaced TMC’s actor-turned-politician Moon Moon Sen, who defeated nine-time CPI(M) MP Basudeb Acharya in 2014.
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While the Left has ceased to be a force to reckon with, Mukherjee will be up against a surging BJP, which has already created a formidable base in the Jangalmahal region. In a freewheeling chat with The Indian Express Bangla, Mukherjee shares his thoughts on BJP’s prospects in Bengal and why he is not an outsider in Bankura.
What do you recall of the 2009 Lok Sabha elections in Bankura?
When I contested in 2009 from Bankura, the organisational strength of the Congress was not noteworthy. The votes that I got was due to my image. There was no one beside me, except Kashinath Mishra. But still, I gave a good fight to the CPM when the party was at its prime and came runners-up. While I campaigned by going around the length and breadth of Bankura, Basudeb Acharya was already a “myth” in the area. Maybe if CPM had fielded some other candidate, I could have won.
What do you are your advantages in Bankura this time?
My plus-point is that I have been associated with Bengal’s politics for a long time and have been an MLA for 49 years. None of my rivals has such kind of experience and are seasonal politicians. Naturally, people of the constituency will have an idea who will work for them better.
As a Congress candidate in 2009, Subrata Mukherjee came runners-up to CPI(M). (Express Photo Shashi Ghosh)
What do you think of your opponent candidates this time?
CPI(M) candidate Amiya Patra has been away from politics for some time now. In 2016, when Patra contested the Assembly elections from Taldangra, where he resides, he lost to TMC by 14,000 votes. The BJP candidate, Subhas Sarkar, is a greenhorn in politics. He is a doctor by profession.
Do you think you have an advantage just because you are a veteran politician?
I am ahead if one judges me by the work I have done. If any community has not received the fruits of my work, then please do not vote for me. I have worked hard on 13 pilot projects here. Bankura has ranked first among 412 districts in the Open Defecation Free (ODF) contest organised by the Centre. It was part of Mission Nirmal Bangla started by the TMC government.
You last fought elections in Bankura in 2009. But you have continued to work for the constituency. Why?
I believe in working for the people not just during elections. Bankura had drinking water problem due to high fluoride content. I took up the project to provide clean drinking water in Bankura and Purulia. After 2009, I have visited Bankura several times to improve the living conditions of the people and see that they have access to basic amenities. Elections will come and go, but we need to be beside the people at all times. I have never sought acclaim for my work.
BJP has taken a grip over Jangalmahal region.
Has BJP ever visited every block or region of the constituency to feel the pulse of the people. I have campaigned around Bankura for 10 hours in this heat per day from March 13. Have conducted roadshows in most villages and held meetings with grassroots-level workers in every block. Has BJP done this kind of campaigning?
Have tribals tilted towards the BJP?
Before the panchayat elections, some tribal communities had tilted towards the BJP but now the situation has changed. They will back Mamata Banerjee this time around.
Bankura has always been plagued by the water crisis.
Most of the ponds in Bankura are running dry. There is an acute water problem here and in neighbouring Purulia district. The TMC government has installed water pipes in most villages. Panchayat leaders have also been told to arrange water supplies for every household.
How did the drinking water project help Bankura?
We received funds for the project from abroad. In West Bengal, water in 83 blocks has high arsenic content. Arsenic is a major cause of cancer. Water in Bankura has high fluoride content, which results in tooth decay at a very early age. My priority is to see that drinking water in Bengal is arsenic free. Moreover, we are also working on the development of Mejia village. About 600 km roads are also being constructed in rural areas which have poor connectivity.
Will any industries be set up in Bankura?
There is considerable potential for setting up industries in the district. There is enough land. There is no lack of power here. There is also good rail connectivity. However, there is no port. We have a blueprint ready for setting up of industries.
How sure are you about your chances of winning from Bankura this time?
People of Bankura are politically aware of the situation in the ground. The CPI(M) is no more a force here. The CPI(M) and the BJP will play spoilsport for each other here and end up dividing opposition votes. Moreover, I will receive all the Congress votes too. I am 100 per cent sure of my victory from Bankura.
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■ The 2019 results show that most of the world's largest corporations are not strategically engaged with climate policy, clustered around the Carbon Policy Footprint Score=0 mark in the graph on page 9 of this report. These include many (e.g. in the retail, tech and healthcare sectors) with strong climate goals for their own companies. Many of these corporations (UPS, Pfizer, Microsoft, Coca Cola) also remain funders of some of the most oppositional and influential trade groups opposing climate policy, such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. This may effectively undermine any positive impact the companies might have in their own climate policy engagement.
■ The analysis, drawn from a universe of the world's 250 largest industrial companies, combines metrics representing (a) corporate climate policy positions (b) its level of engagement (lobbying) and (c) a company's economic and political clout, into a Carbon Policy Footprint Score. This score ranges from -100 (highly influential and climate-oppositional) to + 100 (highly influential and climate-positive).
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■ Automotive companies also feature prominently in the list of negative influencers, led by Fiat Chrysler, Daimler and BMW. This is the result of a strategy to control and delay the regulatory agenda on vehicle emissions and electric vehicles (EVs). This may now hinder their ability to adapt quickly to any acceleration of emissions and EV rules with a sudden shift in climate politics globally (e.g. in the US following the 2020 elections). Tesla remains the only auto company in the list of 50 who is supportive of climate policy, perhaps not surprisingly given its EV-based business model.
■ The analysis found lobbying from companies within the coal value-chain to be highly impactful, although in isolated regions globally. US utility Southern Company has continued to throw its weight behind the fight to remove and replace stringent Obama-era greenhouse gas emission standards for the US power sector in 2017-2019. Glencore has been highly impactful in steering Australia and South Asia towards coal-based energy policy.
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Relay Conversation The Reading Room #23 & #24 – Time in the Age of Algorithms
Relay Conversation with Yvonne Förster (YF), Jaime del Val (JdV), Flora Reznik (FR), Warrick Roseboom (WR), Joel Ryan (JRy) & Jonathan Reus (JRe)
Illustration by: Sissel Marie Tonn
The Reading Room is an event series produced in collaboration with Stroom Den Haag and the Instrument Inventors Initiative. Since 2015 we have been organizing this series with the intention of creating a platform for close-readings and discussion of theoretical texts among an ever-growing diverse community of artists, cultural practitioners and individuals interested in intellectual discourse. For every session we invite guest readers to share their knowledge and guide the community through texts and themes within their field of expertise. The Reading Room is made possible with financial support from Stroom Den Haag and the Creative Industries Fund NL.
As discussions in The Reading Room are so ephemeral, since 2017 we have been looking into ways of recording traces of these events. The ‘Relay Conversations’, are created in collaboration with the guest readers. These interviews are conducted as conversational relays between the three organizers; artists Jonathan Reus, Flora Reznik and Sissel Marie Tonn, and the guest readers.
The Reading Room #22 and #23, Time in the Age of Algorithms, took place on the 4th and 22nd of May with guest readers Yvonne Förster, Jaime del Val, Joel Ryan and Warrick Roseboom.
For the first session, to which this Relay Conversation part 1 refers, we read the Introduction to Erin Manning’s The Minor Gesture, the Introduction by Mark B. N. Hansen to Bernard Stiegler’s book Memory and Timothy Barker’s “Media In and Out of Time: Multi-temporality and the technical conditions of contemporaneity”.
For the second session, to which the Relay Conversation part 2 refers, we read “Effects of the Neuro-Turn: The Neural Network as a Paradigm for Human Self-Understanding” by Yvonne Förster, “Microtimes, Towards a Politics of Indeterminacy” by Jaime del Val and “Time without Clocks: Human time perception based on perceptual classification” by Warrick Roseboom, Zafeirios Fountas, Kyriacos Nikiforou, David Bhowmik, Murray Shanahan, & Anil K. Seth.
Time in the Age of Algorithms
The temporal structures of reality have become far more complex since digital technology has become present in everyday life. Clearly the notion of ‘human’ time perception cannot exist without the times also hidden within the tools and technologies that co-construct our lived experiences. Lived ‘human time’ is never a given, is multiple and idiosyncratic; however, the current algorithmic age is one dominated by universalizing models – normalized databases, lossy information encodings, and algorithms optimized for efficiency – leaving our diverse and plastic minds to brave a potential Cartesian jungle.
This cluster of The Reading Room looks to better understand the transformation of ‘human time’ in the age of algorithms – taking a broad range of examples from the arts, media, artificial intelligence and neuroscience. Besides considering the mechanisms by which the experience of time is co-created through digital technologies, and the socio-political ramifications of this construction, we will discuss how certain algorithmic representations of time and models of the mind, such as those based on recent neural-network based topologies, could potentially liberate digital systems from their efficiency dogmas towards more diverse and fluid temporalities.
Relay Conversation part 1
FR- Yvonne, during our discussion in the Reading Room session, a participant (Darien Brito) asked that we clarified what we meant by “algorithmic time”. What ways do you see for unpacking this term? What part interests you and what is problematic about it?
YF: Algorithmic time in the current theoretical discourse is a very vague concept. It can cover everything from measured, or ‘objective’, time to the more rhythm-like and cyclical structures of computational processes. Generally, algorithmic time stands in for any kind of temporal structure that is not qualitative, has no felt intensity. The time we experience as fleeting, standing, slow or quick is subjective time, experienced time. In analytic philosophy this subjective time would be called A-Series, which is a time structured by a past, present and future, yet anchored in the here and now of the experience of a subject. Algorithmic time, on the other hand, is either time that plays out via computational rhythms, or is objectified time that is somehow measurable, and thus reducible to numbers. This can be associated with another concept from analytic philosophy, the B-Series of time, which is structured purely by before-after relations and has no tense, because the B-series notion of time is observable and depends on an outsider
who is situated in some external here and now. This objective, or technical time, however, constitutes to a huge extent what we experience via the computationally-mediated content that digital devices and infrastructures generate for us. In this sense, structures of time which are what we might call algorithmic preempt what we experience through their mediations. For example, a computational system might generate content through an algorithm that predicts what the user would find interesting, before the user searched actively for it.
It is necessary to understand and be aware of the temporalities of these preemptive processes in order to engage with technology in a productive and critical way. In my view philosophical theories that stop at the mere fact that experience is constituted by digital, connected technologies make the mistake of implicitly or explicitly turning technology into a black box. We need to open the black box, which is difficult, because we have to find ways to render these imperceptible processes sensible. This is where art comes into play: art can to a certain extent generate experiences that are otherwise non-accessible and thus enable us to take a critical or playful stance toward technologies that are designed to function as order-and-control systems.
There is an important debate in analytical philosophy about which of the time-series, A or B, is more fundamental, a question that famously started with John E. McTaggart and his article on the Unreality of Time (1908, Mind). Today this debate is still locked in a paradoxical situation. On the one hand, our perception is constituted (pre-empted) through temporal processes beyond our perception, such as computational processes governing smartphones and digital media (B-Series). On the other hand, we can experience qualitative changes in our perception of time without being able to get to the source of that change in perception. What remains unchanged though is the structure of subjective time-experience: past, present and future (A-series). This structure might become more complex and entangled with other processes and technologies, but still situatedness in a form of present is still the existential form of time-perception.
McTaggart’s conclusion was that the A-series is more fundamental to time, because only through the tenses we can account for change. However, the A-series also contains a contradiction, because the present cannot be qualified as present without using tensed sentences: The present is present now, has been future before and will be past very soon.
Put like this, every tense, be it past, present or future contains simultaneously all three tenses and is therefore contradictory in McTaggarts view (for the complete argument see his article Unreality of Time). Therefore he concluded, that time is unreal, since the perception of change cannot be accounted for without a contradiction.
My question is: why is it important to decide what kind of temporal ontology is the most fundamental? If we conclude that it’s algorithmic time, then we have to concede that past, present and future are illusions. This would mean we have no foundation from which one could build a critique of time-politics established through machinic structures. If only subjective temporal experience was taken to be real, the problem arises of how to give an account of diverse and changing experiences of time from an ‘objective’ standpoint. Given Timothy Barker’s idea of the con-temporality or multiplicity of times we could conclude that a choice between A- or B-series being more fundamental is not necessary. What needs to be understood is the ways in which algorithmic time and subjective time intertwine that accounts for intensities and qualities of experience.
Jaime, what points of entry do you think we could consider to begin to account for these intensities and qualities?
JdV: Alternative forms of time can be found in internal bodily rhythms and in perceptual rhythms. I don’t mean biological clocks, but much more diffuse temporalities of nearly-conscious experience that we can elaborate and build upon. My favourite example is proprioception, which can be mobilised in excess of the rational subject, as non-conscious resistance to equally non-conscious modes of time control.
Let us take the idea that time emerges from movement, that time is a ‘becoming measurable’ of movement that happens in particular circumstances where some aspects of the field become fixed in geometric relations that afford measurement. Then the movement of water, of bacterial bodies or the climate, like the internal proprioceptive movement of the body also create alternative forms of time. They create fields with peculiar spatio-temporal conditions (what I call microsingularities) and it makes little sense to measure them from the outside following a pre given and standardized cartesian timeline. The swarming movement of water currents, bacteria, clouds, nebulae, flocks or proprioception is perhaps irreducible to timelines they are not linear movements, thus these movements open up the question of non-linear times. These are also not simply reducible to ideas of circular or spherical time that reference cycles of nature.
We have yet to invent appropriate notions of time. Swarming time could be a new kind of notion of temporality to explore in these phenomena which may then open up new dimensions of experience for us, where infinite/indefinite quantum-like histories and times are swarming around in changing fields of elasticity, in multiple potential vectors across a diffuse intentional arc of movement.
YF: We likely do not even have to go so far as to think completely different concepts of time to consider these intensities and qualities, but rather we can do much by establishing practices and spaces to experience diverse forms of perception and cognition (like dance, new social architectures…). Modelling new forms in the abstract would be just as preemptive as the structures that the software of smart watches project us into. Experience should guide the development of new spaces and practices, not models.
Jon, how can we reflect on technology if we cancel out the experiential subject (not the strong cartesian one, a weak subjectivity)?
JRe: Let me try to paraphrase your question. What basis do we have to reflect on technology without an observer who contains some experiential frame,
Experience should guide the development of new spaces and practices, not models.
one whose sensation is not preempted by the technological world they are trying to observe? This seems to relate to the question from analytical philosophy you brought up…Can B-series time be real without an A-series observer?
You traced McTaggart’s argument to its conclusion, as I understand it: time is unreal because to reconcile the A- and B-series leads to a paradox. Perhaps the issue with reflection on preemptive technological processes is that this way of imagining technology is unreal. An alternative would be to consider time as something that’s co-constructed by the observer and the potential within the technological system to include past, present and future.
Just thinking of an example… the Turing Machine is a conceptual invention that gives a formal, generalized way of describing algorithms. Essentially the Turing Machine is a way of describing computational processes so that they become a measurable, and analyzable, thing. The Turing Machine itself is based on the process by which one would do a mathematical calculation on a piece of paper, sketching out intermediary values as you go through the process that leads to a solution. Alan Turing literally imagined this ‘machine’ as a person following a set of instructions.
If you were to really take the Turing Machine at face value, a person mindlessly following a method of note taking and stepwise instructions, it does seem very much like a sequential sort of time with only before and after relations. But the person is there, is doing and is fully part of the calculations, is working through and with and in the measurement system. What emerges from this interaction is technology. This idea of technology I think gives a lot more room for critical reflection while letting the experiential subject be a little less of a monolith.
Most modern software that we would say ‘preempts’ experience carries with it many potentials to be tensed through encounters with the world. For example, the Turing machine’s ‘sketchpad’, all software has the equivalent of this intermediary sketchpad in the form of its state, represented by specific pieces of data that change throughout the execution of the program. In a sense these pieces of data partly answer the question where am I at? ~ which could also be read when is now?. Every step is the logic of a complex program is preceded by a non-arbitrary and potentially non-linear sequence of previous steps. So the current step in the process also contains inside it some memory of where in the process it has been previously, as well as a possibility space of pathways into the future.
This one goes to anyone who would like to answer. Where do you identify the source of the concept of linear time? Why is it so problematic?
JdV: The source of linear time is in the invention of linear space, happening in Greece between 600 and 300 bc. i.e. in linear geometric organisations of movement and perception culminating in Euclidean geometry. It’s very problematic because it’s highly reductive, it has been the main mode of algorithmic time control and reduction until the emergence of information systems in the XXth century that enacted “real time” as the dissolution of time. Linear time reduces the diffuse or multidimensional character of movement/temporality to a single measurable timeline, it thus related to causality and mechanism.
YF: Linear time in itself is not problematic. It probably came to bear on reality with the onset of modernity and it’s continued tale of progress. At that point it turned into ideology and this is where things get problematic. Now we face a plurality of times, from individual biographies, daily routines, digital real time and hidden computational processes (see text by Tim Barker). The idea of progress in time (of the individual self as perfectible entity to society and cultural processes) covers this deep plurality in a way that can be problematic,
because it hides the preemptive forces of technology. It should be a goal to actively engage with digital technology in order to understand how our perception is shaped by it and uncover the creative and democratic potential in it.
FR: I would like to pause for a moment and go back to a pair of terms that have been used so far and that I think need some clarification: the pair objective/subjective. Is algorithmic, linear time even objective? Of course we would need to define what objective means first. If by objective we mean that it is something not ideal, not completely imaginary or subjected to individual feelings (like the feeling of “that time went fast while I was having fun”), that it has some material support and can affect our experience, I agree. But many times when we say that something is objective we mean that it is by nature like that, that it is a fact, and, as it came up in a conversation with the participants during the session, that “has been proven by science” (even though the comment aimed to point precisely the opposite: that time is actually not continuous and linear).
This is why I think the sort of archeology of the notion of algorithmic time that Jaime presented in the Reading Room session is so valuable. This archeology was a tracking back of the notion of algorithmic time paying special attention to the artifacts that were created over time to shape our experience of time. Archeology stands for a history of the construction of the dispositives that slowly constituted what now exists -in this case, as technologies of time. The focus is on the material aspects of this historical construct:
what exists now is a condensation of a slow and long history of “making time” in a certain way, and whether we have a representation of it or not, meaning whether we are conscious of it or not, indeed affects our experience. These are artifacts, a series of techniques and machines built by people in specific historical contexts that constitute the narrative of linearity that has grown strong over time. I think this historical account, even while acknowledging that any “history of” is a form of fiction inhabited with a certain political and ethical programe, is really helpful to understand the imbrication of that which affects us and us today.
To address your question, Jon, what I can add to what Jaime and Yvonne have already said, is this brilliant moment of the history of philosophy that in my opinion ended Modernity and opened the door to Contemporary Philosophy: Heidegger’s critique of what he calls “the vulgar notion of time”. To put it simple, Heidegger is observing the success of the Industrial revolution and how science has overthrown God. The model of the scientific method has expanded into a generalized, vulgar common sense: we treat reality how scientists treat their objects in the lab.
Science needs to operate with a notion of linear time, at least when it is experimental science: an experiment counts on the principle of cause-consequence (B series) in a time that is a continuum of causes-consequences. The repeatability of an experiment by a community of scientists aims to create an non-subjective approach, an “objective” scientist standing on the here and now.
But this repeatability of an experiment in different contexts, all practical scientists know, is a reduction: namely, of what makes a context specific. Any experiment in science operates under a ceteris paribus method: an experiment starts by specifying the conditions under which the experiment will work (for example, normal temperature and pressure of the environment), while excluding all other factors that may interfere.
Heidegger states that this expanded to a mode of thinking about reality or experiencing reality in general and it is no coincidence: it happens at a historical time when a driving force of society needs to have things “at hand”, within our horizon of expectations, under control. This generalized perspective or ideology considers Men as the one that can rule reality from a pure present, where even other men fall into the category of predictable objects. This, of course, is a very poor tool to cope with a reality that is in fact way more complex than a lab, but it doesn’t mean that this ideology doesn’t have very real effects up until today.
Yvonne, I know you work from a phenomenological perspective so perhaps you can go much deeper into this issue that I have just very schematically presented. In your text you mention ‘the notion of flesh’, described by Merleau-Ponty, as a possible path towards a deeper understanding of experience in relation with time. Could you expand on this notion and why you think the Husserlian notion of experience leads to problems?
(…) tracking back of the notion of algorithmic time paying special attention to the artifacts that were created over time to shape our experience of time.
YF: The notion of the flesh in Merleau-Ponty is meant to describe a generalized sensibility, that is not centered on human intentionality. Perception according to Merleau-Ponty is rooted in a deep relation of observer and the observed. The observer can be observed, touched, sensed just like a thing. Things also have a common ground with perceiving subjects.
They stand in perspectival relation to one another and the perceiver and thus fulfill the first condition to be potentially sentient, namely having a perspective that relates them to anything else in the environment. The world of perception in Merleau-Ponty is understood as a tight net of relationalities and potentialities. Sensing cannot be localized in the mind of the observer, rather it is dispersed in the environment. This tight net of relationalities is what Merleau-Ponty calls the flesh, a generalized sensibility. With regard to time this means that there is no pure present, the present is always infiltrated by past and future as a well as different relations can have different temporalities. Perception according to Merleau-Ponty is always situated (in a certain time, environment and limited grade of attention). Everything that escapes the view has the potential to come into view and thus to change the set of perceptual relations completely.
Perception takes place within an arc of intention, that is not caught in the here and now, but opens possibilities to proceed, come back, re-interpret and see anew. This dynamic view of perception can be a model to research human-machine relation with respect to experience of time. Experience and material, quality and measurement can be viewed as interchangeable dimensions that give rise to new configurations and situations, adding a playful perspective to the regime of everyday life.
Interesting more artistic examples can be found on Jaime’s project website metabody.eu. He uses for example small surveillance cameras attached to the body to project moving images of tiny body parts in large size to walls etc. These peculiar images of body-movement alienate standard body schemas as well as open up new technology-mediated creative movement experiences.
JRe: Jaime, During the Reading Room session you mentioned a “cartesian anxiety” and linked it to the birth of prediction technologies and to the “algoricene”. Could you explain this?
JdV: The Cartesian anxiety, or as N. Katherine Hayles put it in How We Became Posthuman “liberal subjectivity imperiled”, is the fear experienced by the subject that emerged with Renaissance perspective
(the fixed, disembodied, rational, autonomous, categorically split subject of humanism) when faced with an unpredictable world, once physics in the 20th Century has recognised that the world is not Newtonian or deterministic, that it is ontologically chaotic and unpredictable, a fear intensified by the World Wars and the atomic bomb. Cybernetics could be a response of the Cartesian subject to the anxiety generated by an unpredictable world, in the attempt to retain order, control, and itself as bounded entity.
During the Reading Room session I proposed to the participants that they tried to think of experiences that were not aligned with the clock time, and it was quite disturbing to notice that it was very hard to imagine such a thing. Is it an alternative to the algorithmic time even thinkable? Do we really live that aligned, or are there perhaps everyday experiences that are not aligned? Can you think of a way of understanding experience or perhaps certain specific experiences that are at the same time in and out of that algorithmic time?
JRe: I remember that. You asked if anyone could think of a temporal experience not experienced as clock time and nobody was really able to come up with something. I think it was probably too early for a question
like that, because we were still picking apart what kind of a thing ‘algorithmic time’ is. To then throw in the idea of ‘clock-time’, and conflating the two, seemed to throw the group for a loop.
Given the texts we read, and I’m especially thinking of Tim Barker’s text here, I think it would have beneficial not to have asked the question so generally, without mentioning the scales and processes of interest. Barker specifically describes two temporal situations that algorithms co-produce. The first being that algorithmic processes and their media infrastructures, such as search engines and social media networks, provide contact with the events of the world at nearly instantaneous temporal speeds. The second process is the one by which the technicity of the media draws people into its own logic and structures, which creates totally new types of temporal experience within which the events of the world play out.
‘Clock-time’ I understand as the type of experience that emerges from a very specific technicity, a co-creation of experience and method that is focused on measurement and synchronization. Prior to clocks, this technicity would emerge in a different way with phenomena that provided a semi-regular rate of change and could be observed by different individuals over distances. Solar, lunar and astronomical
time-keeping systems, for example, filled this technicity. What is different in algorithmic time? Well, the stars don’t accelerate at any rate we can perceive. There’s no overclocking, efficiency improvements or Moore’s law to the motions of the universe. So there is an absolute temporal/cyclical reference frame there that one could make an argument for being fundamental to life on earth. Is it like clock time? Yes, in its instrumentalization, and no, in its ontology.
Jaime, you’ve described some historic examples of what you referred to as ‘algorithmic’ techniques, such as the urban grid developed by Hippodamus of Miletus in the 5th century B.C., or the mechanical perspectival drawing machines of the Renaissance. Do you see any salient danger in the way these kinds of algorithmic approaches are propagating?
JdV: Algorithmic technology is becoming more opaque and centralised than ever, epitomized in Google’s or Facebook’s Big Data algorithms, which are not only opaquely designed by the corporations, influencing planetary scale processes of unprecedented dimensions and depth, but whose emergent nature can become unknowable even for the programmers. Hyper-algorithms, as hyperconnected, emergent algorithms with an all-encompassing will to control,
focus on preemption of emergence, futurity and potentiality, not just of the already known or categorised, while operating in microseconds that by far exceed the slow algorithm of rational consciousness.
Flora, what do you think of Stiegler’s approach (as presented in the introduction by Hansen) to the problem of memory aids and the opposition between mnemotechniques and mnemotechnologies?
FR: Towards the end of Hansen’s introduction there seems to be a gloomy panorama: we live in the aftermath, subjects are alienated from the technology they have created, leaving people helpless in hands of corporations, -only to jump into a hyper-optimistic turn in the last two pages where he states that the emergence of Internet brings the promise of the end of the dissociation between producers and consumers and hence “memory [can] once again become transindividual”. All this sounds very old-fashioned to me.
Neither tv and broadcasting were so evil nor will the Internet save us. It is not that techniques are “individual exteriorizations” as opposed to technologies on hands of corporations which can only be fought by means of comprehension of its internal logic by their users. I don’t want to say that I don’t see the dangers that Jaime has just mentioned as something to be considered;
There’s no overclocking, efficiency improvements or Moore’s law to the motions of the universe. So there is an absolute temporal/cyclical reference frame there that one could make an argument for being fundamental to life on earth. Is it like clock time? Yes, in its instrumentalization, and no, in its ontology.
I’m just pointing out that this dichotomous approach leaves us hopeless and without effective theoretical tools to think of actual alternatives.
The key to the problem I find in this text can be found in this excerpt: “To the excent that participation in these new societies, in this new form of capitalism, takes place through machinic interfaces beyond the comprehension of participants, the gain in knowledge is exclusively on the side of producers”. Here the term “participation” immediately made me think of our discussion in a previous cluster of the Reading Room: “Technologies of survival, Postcolonial Perspectives on Computation”, where our guest Nishant Shah gave a refreshing postcolonial take on the problem of participation. The colonial model tells the individuals what they have to learn, and if they fail to know this or that, their way to emancipation is closed, they will never participate in the society of knowledge. But the experiences of the community that Nishant evaluates in his text teach us that there are mis-uses, such as piracy for example, which can generate alternative knowledges and communitarian emergences that can even contribute to building new infrastructure that can encourage social development in unexpected directions.
I was surprised Hansen uses Derrida as almost his main reference, but never gets to the point of dissemination. Dissemination is the nature of all of technology, it is the intrinsic capacity of things to be misused, to generate practices that are unexpected and creative. Furthermore, since we are immersed in a phenomenological discussion, we must say that since Husserl the object is not opposed to the subject and therefore we cannot talk about alienation. A weaker notion of subject is actually a great theoretical thread to start thinking politics differently.
JRe: Jaime, in Erin Manning’s text she presents the figure of the neurodiverse. How is this useful to think a different notion of subjectivity? How does this relate to our topic of time and algorithms? How can we mobilize the nonconscious cognition in favor of plasticity (vs flexibility)?
JdV: I think subjectivity is a limited notion inherited from perspective, that presupposes a somewhat bounded inside. We need to shift to a notion of ecologies and look into the degrees of indeterminacy/openness, or of alignment/closure of the ecologies we are always already part of. Neurodiversity gives a chance to consider ways of relating to others and the environment that don’t take
the radical split of perspective and rationalism for granted. What we need is to see how to generate sustainable ecologies across neurodiverse modes of experience, ecologies that are continually open in their perceptual-cognitive ratios, plastic ecologies, as opposed to the flexible adaptive ecologies of hypercontrol society where we have to constantly re-attune to the affordances of smart environments where algorithms redirect our attention continually.
The neurodiverse seems to be a model to think of collective subjectivities as well. Jon, since you have worked on the Undercommons in a previous Reading Room session, and this figure reappears in Manning’s text, could you reflect on how this mode of collective subjectivity seems to escape the logic of the cartesian anxiety? Is there room for “political urgency” in digital, hyper-scheduled time? What is the potential you see in digital time?
JRe: This might actually be another approach to the technicity of measuring and synchronization. How do we be together as a whole body, without measure, messy and frightened. In The Reading Room #16 we read chapter 6 from The Undercommons, entitled ‘Fantasy in the Hold’.
This chapter introduces a few concepts relevant to our discussion. One is a concept of ‘logistics’, which The Undercommons treats in a very broad way to encompass orchestrated human activities of transport and movement. There’s already a strong link there to what we’ve been talking about. Logistics of this type prioritizes efficiency, repeatability and inter(intra)operability ~ in Moten and Harney’s poetically charged writing, which connects logistics to the Atlantic slave trade, these priorities come at the expense of the consideration of human lives, and in current times does so through highly complex algorithmic systems that attempt to predict and preempt problems, redirecting shipping lines or airplane flight paths in near realtime when new information enters the system. The Undercommons asserts that the modern goal of logistics is to dispense with the subject altogether. Which makes sense as much as any other massive-scale human effort across space and time demands sophisticated systems of inscription, operation and protocol, if only because human memory is too limited and subjective experience too much of a risk. A logistical system, just as an algorithm, must result in a solution no matter who the operator. However there is also a uniquely contemporary anxiety of logistics
founded in survival. When one realizes how much the global world populace’s existence depends on these logistical systems to be efficient and adaptable at extra-human scales and speeds, and to become increasingly so each year.
What are the conditions of being without measure? Chapter 6 of the Undercommons introduces another concept in its final section, hapticality ~ a kind of feeling together that is not collective but something else that is outside description but is felt if you’re in it. Here’s a passage from that chapter which describes it:
“Previously … feeling was mine or it was ours. But in the hold, in the undercommons of a new feel, another kind of feeling became common. This form of feeling was not collective, not given to decision, not adhering or reattaching to settlement, nation, state, territory or historical story; nor was it repossessed by the group, which could not now feel as one, reunified in time and space. No … he is asking about something else. He is asking about a way of feeling through others, a feel for feeling others feeling you. This is modernity’s insurgent feel, its inherited caress, its skin talk, tongue touch, breath speech, hand laugh. It is the feel that no individual can stand, and no state abide. It is the feel we might call hapticality.”
Moten and Harney relate this feeling to the experience of being a being in shipping, as a slave in the hold of a ship on the Atlantic. Being together outside of one’s own volition, without any space-time frame of reference. Could this be one way of describing the unbearable anxiety of immeasurability?
In relation with the notion of The Undercommons as an ever moving entity, never fixed in one given site, is movement interchangeable with the concept of change? Which is prior?
JdV: Movement is prior to change since change implies something that changes, at least in our current understanding. Radical or pure becoming is instead not the becoming of something but of movement.
Relay Conversation (part 2)
FR: Dear Warrick, could you roughly explain how the artificial neural system that you and your team built works? Was there a primal hypothesis that led to the construction? Did you confirm that hypothesis or not? What new knowledge did you get from your experiments? And also: What motivated you to come up with such a thing? Is the machine imitating human perception or is it a model to understand how humans perceive?
WR: A lot to unpack in the question… I will start from the end: my job was to build a model of human-like time perception with the goal of using it in a humanoid robot. I guess the basic idea there would be that if the robot has a better idea of how the human is experiencing the passage of time, then it can more naturally interact – imagine you are involved in a collaborative act with the robot, such as preparing a meal (this is the core demonstration scenario in the project), you might make a natural language request of the robot to bring you some ingredients in a few minutes. The robot could take this literally and bring the ingredients in 3 minutes, or it could understand based on the content of your experience when you would think that period of time might have elapsed.
So that was the goal. But foremost, I am a researcher on human perception, so my goal is mainly about building models that reproduce the widest variety of human behavior, with biologically reasonable foundations, regardless of their applicability.
When starting the project, it was clear that human time perception is most characterised by its deviations from clock time – we have lots of intuitive cases that describe this: “time flies”… etc. These situations are all related to the content of experience. So it seemed silly to me to aspire to have a model of time perception that starts from an assumption of regularity (like the traditional ‘internal clock’ approach) and then has to deviate in many ways in order to accommodate what is intuitively true – that experience is content dependent. An alternative would be to build a model based on the dynamics (change) of content of experience, from the outside (simply the change in the world). But people had already tried this to some degree and it obviously ignores that there is some level of interpretation that happens to produce perceptual experience. So we needed a proxy for the kind of processing that is the foundation of perceptual experience when humans are faced with dynamic input. For this we used a deep convolutional image classification network.
The model is based on tracking the amount of change that occurs in the classification network (acting as proxy for human perceptual classification) based on the input to the network (video) during a to-be-timed epoch. Change is given by the difference in activation pattern across the network between samples. If the difference exceeds a threshold, it is determined that a salient change had occurred -that the world now is meaningfully different from what it was. The model just accumulates how many of these changes occur in an epoch and this gives a kind of arbitrary unit of time – less of it would feel like a shorter interval had elapsed and more like a longer interval. This is equivalent to a basic sense of time. We then need the model to output this time sense into standard units so it can be compared with other things, like clock time and human estimation. The conversion of this arbitrary unit into a standard label is a regression problem (mapping one set of values onto another set as closely as possible), so we used a simple regression technique called support vector regression (we tried many, it isn’t really that important which one we used except that it works). This then provides model estimates in seconds to be compared with other estimations.
Imagine you are involved in a collaborative act with the robot, such as preparing a meal…
This is the background for building the model and then the hypothesis is simply an array of questions about how well it captures these deviations in human time perception. So we tested the model by inputting the same videos as we showed to human participants and had both give estimates in seconds of how long the videos were. Both the human and the model estimates differed by the type of scene they observed and in general the model estimates matched human estimates well across these scenes. So we would say that the model is doing a good job and, on the basis of its construction, is a reasonable approximation of how humans might perceive time. This needs further validation, using neuroimaging and other experiments, and we are currently engaged in doing so.
Yvonne, in relation to a conversation we had after everyone else had left – as described in your text, there is a bias in popular culture towards seeing artificial intelligence as powerful, other, and eventually superseding the human realm in some way. This contrasts with the way that many people using basic versions of current AI (such as in our model) see things, which is as very dumb, limited machines that can sometimes be used to make somewhat difficult problems easier – they are just a hammer to a nail for the problem of image classification,
in our case. It is interesting because the extent to which these dumb AIs are in people’s lives now is huge – many people have interacted with Siri or Alexa or other personal assistant systems. These systems are amazing in that they can do things like natural language recognition very well, but are enormously frustrating to interact with. They have extremely poor contextual knowledge and interacting with them shows just how unintelligent they are. What is the source of this gap between aspiration and casting AI as god-like and the reality of what we have? Is it anything more than trying to salvage our dualist intuitions from the scrap-heap via ‘Singularity’?
YF: It is true that there is a huge discrepancy between the actual existing artificial intelligence, the things machines can accomplish in comparison to what we imagine them to be able to do in the future. Science fiction as well as popular science and tech-celebrities like Elon Musk or Ray Kurzweil all make use of our imaginations of future technologies running wild.
The ambivalence I see at the moment is that most of the people are not aware of the extent to which our daily lives make use of artificial intelligence in the sense of information technologies driven by
self-learning algorithms, the countless connected devices and appliances in households and public spaces. On the other hand they overestimate the actual intelligence of digital technologies by far. The reasons for this tendency are manifold.
One of them surely is a certain scepticism toward new technologies, changing business cultures and emergent ways of communication. More important in my view is a particular “Zeitgeist”, the contemporary conditio humana if you will. This is the way humans see themselves and think of themselves in relation to machines. Why would we be afraid of being superseded by machines that can’t even digest irony? This is because people tend to limit their idea of human intelligence to measurable, predictable and objectifiable abilities. Basically what is measurable and can be put in use to maximize output speed is associated with intelligence: like analysing huge amounts of information in a short amount of time or memorizing facts. In this regard computers have outrun humans already for some time.
In my view this idea of human intelligence is far too limited to a logic of production and economic success. One can observe this already in the vast and unfortunate employment of the standards dictated by the Pisa study to school education.
What is measured there will be performed much quicker and easier by machines. Intelligence seen from this perspective will easily give the impression that humans might be doomed to become an outdated species.
Instead it would make sense to focus on creativity, empathy and the potential of human-machine-relations beyond efficacy and explore new ways of interaction as for example the painter Liat Grayver does by collaborating with AI driven robots in order to understand and open up new horizons of the art of painting. She also questions the strong notion of the artist by understanding robots as collaborators rather than means to an end.
With regard to time one could say that we live in a strange simultaneity of a present that is underestimated in its novelty while the presence of a precarious future is felt as if it was already reality. This problem arises because we subject the human image to a norm of efficacy that is barely human and first and foremost not productive for creating positive forms of interaction in diversified life-worlds, that house all kinds of intelligences and abilities.
YF: Warrick, what consequence you think your research can have in medical practices, for example how people with depression or other psychological conditions are treated. After all, not everything seems to be in the head. Can we make use of the insight of the importance of embodied experience in the way we treat and speak about certain conditions?
WR: There is a great pressure for basic research to be directed towards application. When it involves humans, more often than not the pressure is towards medical applications. I could make a story about how this work might inform the cases you are talking about, but I think it would be a stretch at this point. Certainly, moving away from ‘clock models’ to try to retrieve something more interesting about how human experience is pieced together (and how this at the same time is time as well as informing different ways of viewing time in experience) will hopefully drag some people away from the more simplistic way of viewing how humans interact with their environment to generate the content of experience.
This certainly comes with the constraint of being embodied, but it is not clear to me yet whether the embodiment aspect is anything more than constraint of the problem.
I recall there was some discomfort (particularly from Flora, I vaguely remember, but I ask this to anyone who would like to answer) as I was going through explaining my work with the idea of trying to work within a naive physicalist framework as relates to time. The idea that comparing to a clock or some metric at all, as we do to both utilise computer-based models and in comparing human versus model generated estimates, is a problematic starting point. Joel also mentioned that time from the point of view of modern physics (as with all things in modern physics) is no longer consistent with the naive physicalist point of view (and hasn’t been for at least a century now).
Am I misremembering this point or would anyone like to expand on why they feel this discomfort? Or if they feel there is an irreconcilability somewhere here.
We live in a strange simultaneity of a present that is underestimated in its novelty while the presence of a precarious future is felt as if it was already reality.
FR: Dear Warrick, thanks for your question. It is always confronting to meet researchers who are working from a different discipline. It would be very easy to just talk with people that speak your language. My discomfort had a lot to do with me having a really hard time understanding your language. First of all, from what I managed to grasp, I think that your research that points at that experience of time is based on content is valuable, and I appreciate the effort to discredit a model that makes us more similar to robots. But I must admit that I do have a certain general skepticism towards the use of computational methods to articulate models of the human mind or experience. One main issue I see is precisely what you were tackling just now: the pressure to make applications in medicine, for example. This pressure is political and economical, and it requires political thought to deal with it.
I just feel that there is a big risk of science taking over and rendering philosophy virtually useless, which was indeed the project of the anti-metaphysical movement of the early philosophy of science. But philosophy is much more than an auxiliary tool (which ultimately could be discarded all together): philosophy is the discipline that can maintain criticality and produce speculation towards creating models that are not contrastable, that are perhaps
utopian and absolutely counter common sense. Philosophy doesn’t create ex-nihilo: it is always a conversation with the history of the philosophical tradition, and there is a necessity -a historical and political necessity, in that process. Following on what Yvonne said, there is much about experience that is not computable.
Affect is by definition not computable. I’d like to think of experience as that excess (if I have to go into this it will take forever, but in short, I’d like to think of experience as something that is exceeded by the other of what it can conceive, which is beyond its horizon of expectations. And this concerns our notion of time as well and the accent we put in what is unexpected, what can surprise us, rather than on what we can quantify and manipulate). You explicitly mentioned that you are aware of that, but still focus on working with what can be translated or modelled computationally. It is just a matter of accents, of where to put the attention.
I am sure that we all have thought about how science, all our technological tools and fundamentation systems are biased and that they have come to be considered valuable “tools” through historical processes that have a lot to do with power. But I never stop to be amazed and also very much frustrated when talking with some friends and bumping into a total trust towards science, a certain “common sense”
that has indeed replaced God with Science (or “or human instincts”, “nature” and so on) as touchstones of truth. And I see this as a great danger. So I choose what kind of discourse I bring to the front. It’s like in politics: sometimes one agrees with parts of what one party is proposing and not with other parts, but ultimately one needs to decide where one stands and whose game one is playing (liberals for dialogue in the “public sphere” will disagree with this take on politics, but I am not one of those).
Finally, I don’t think there is one naive physicalist notion of time – against a more advanced and true physics: newtonian mechanics versus quantum mechanics. This very linearity is what I would love to discuss when thinking about time. Perhaps there are overlapping various modes of experience based on different notions of time according to what activities we are carrying out and what goals we are pursuing.
Joel, you asked a question during the RR session that was left unattended, and I’d love to go back to it. If I remember correctly you asked if we (artists) “submit to synchronizing to this dominant mechanical time”? What did you have in mind when asking that? Could you explain what you mean by mechanical time? And what alternatives do you see to this?
JRy: I was wondering where is subjective, user-dependent time authentic and valid. Time is now defined by its measure rather than its experience. Surveyors and astronomers don’t confuse space with their instruments, tape measures and theodolites, but most of us confuse time with clocks. The definitiveness of number and the objectivity of clocks allow us all to share time without prejudice: we catch a plane and get to work “on time”. But does the singular human experience of time remain valid?
There is no evidence for one universal all embracing time. Physics embraces a manifold character for time. Time runs at different rates from different points of view, different locations and paths in gravitational space. This simultaneous overlapping infinity of time perspectives is mind boggling to imagine (cf. differential geometry). The man on the street (especially those in monotheist traditions) has yet to take this in, making every discussion belabor the idea of “objective time”.
There are two issues here. One philosophical about the true nature of time. The other is about how we share time.The problem, if it is a problem, of the subjectivity of time perception seems to go away when we are singing and dancing together. We know we could collide but mostly we don’t. Music is a place where we join to imagine and enact temporal experiences of endless variety from fretted to figured.
This time is central to human perception and existence. Do we submit to the clock to make music, to dance, sport, cinema, to ride a bike, play ball or play of any kind? These are the most quantitatively accurate and refined moments of our perception. Not lab time but my time and your time. I can sing a little and know how bad I am, but I can listen to another great singer like Omm Kulturm and know how wondrous is the time she makes.
On the other hand, the time of music is direct personal experience. You don’t have to ask anyone if is this fast or slow, awkward or graceful. Of course there are caveats, we have been warned of the dangers of music. It is the most familiar scene of our unmediated judgement. Like King David dancing half naked around the ark of the covenant to the disgust of the royalty. Music is where we play with our relation to time as we perceive it, not merely as number or abstractions.
So in music we prefer to make time. No one wants to hear us chat about it, they want to use their ears to join the flow, feel beats, tune into arcs of passing time. Clocks ignore us, count with or without us. Instead of waiting for the current “measured” (but otherwise unknown) period to pass we can join the dance.
JRe: Joel, we share very similar artistic values when in comes to feeling out what it means to be a musician, and more specifically a player, intervening through computing technologies.
When I came to Amsterdam ten years ago on a research trip to Steim, I came to see you as a pioneer for your work using real-time computer music systems, practically as soon as “real-time” performance with computing machines was even a technical possibility.
Can you tell a bit more about your own experiences as a musician relating to the timing of computation?
JRy: Really when I started out programming music I was seriously disappointed with the time that came out of the software I wrote. This was only solved when I accepted that using my hands to compensate for awkward computer timing was a good thing, not “cheating”, not a failure of programming.
In other words I always knew when things should happen when the computer didn’t. This is not to say that machines can’t be better at time but simply that it’s far easier to play time than to describe it. The medium of logic and ordinary language are not suited to the description of fluid expressive time.
JRe: There seems to be something ontologically problematic about describing flow using any logical or system of natural language. I think it has to do with the categorical nature, categories and universalisms that are so basic to mathematical, computational descriptions not doing right by musical gestures.
Music is a place where we join to imagine and enact temporal experiences of endless variety from fretted to figured.
Or at least, developing an intuition for description as sophisticated as the intuition of our hearing is a tall order, although certainly not impossible.
JRy: The awkwardness and inadequacy of descriptive approaches to time in music is not a popular topic at universities because language and description are the game there. The refinements of music apparently all belong to the text, the mistakes belong to musicians. It is rather the other way around.
In conservatories composition is often taken to “be” a linguistic act: Mais où est l’écriture, as Pierre Boulez used to say back in the lab. I sympathize with his yearning for lost times, but music is not lost just moving on with a new form of notation. In computer science wherever you are, the point is not actually to make music but to get code to make music. Subtlety is, I would argue, necessarily lost.
JRe: Or even, subtlety is pushed outside of the problem domain. You make the tool and then it’s the musician’s job to think about subtlety.
JRy: At MIT I got a demo of synthetic blues, at IRCAM virtual castrati. If this “works”, what is the point? Certainly not an ironic critique of AI. If the point is music making and mechanical time doesn’t make it, there are other options.
You can say that musicians make time or that musicians color time, I prefer the former. I spoke of submitting to mechanical time because there is a choice. I know this because music is a place where direct experience is always in the foreground.
YF: I like the expression of making time. I think that is precisely the point in my idea of what time is about. Most certainly there is no unified, homogeneous cosmic time. Time is always becoming. Merleau-Ponty would say that it springs from the contact of subject and the world just like a fountain springs from its source. In that sense we might even speak of a direct experience, even if this is unintelligible from an epistemological point of view. When time as experience originates from being engaged within an environment, then there is something very direct about that. The experience of rhythm for example is characterized through resonance and resonance establishes a connection, in which subject and object resonate. Rhythm thus has a unifying material power that doesn’t distinguish between instrument and musician, sender and receiver or subject and object for that matter. It is much more like a generalized sensibility, the flesh of time, as Merleau-Ponty puts it. The flesh in Merleau-Ponty’s writing is a concept that makes palpable how categorial differences like subject and object emerge from a common ground,
how they come to be differentiated because they are simply variation in perspective. In that sense time is not intentionally being made, but it emerges from concrete relations and thus can also be generated through changes in perspective, something that art always does.
FR: What does ‘playing “makes” time’ mean to you, Jon?
JRe: For me it’s about music as an experimental medium. Not meaning experimental as a genre, but really in the laboratory sense of probing at the stuff of reality. When you make music you’re always experimenting with different kinds of time, half-time, double-time – does this time fit inside this time, how far can I stretch this out?
“Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting”, was Gottfried Leibniz. I’m counting without knowing, and you’re listening to me count and also counting. We create an expanding manifold while walking across it, experiencing those timings and durations, and others can plug in or out of it.
JRy: Much of my favorite contemporary music is made by people who improvise, all kinds, all genres. These performers make complex figurations of time that defy description yet are perceived and enjoyed
by listeners. To me this implies the intuitive knowledge of timing I call “knowing when”. This knowledge is not the habitus of specialists, it cannot be -how otherwise account for the fact that amateurs, mere listeners, get music? In conservatories this is too often described as matter of “reflexes”, the previous century’s knee jerk image of the richness of our neural complexity and 20th Century modernist deprecation of musicianship.
Prof. Dr. Yvonne Förster is currently research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Cultural Sciences at University of Konstanz, Germany. Until 2016 she held a position as junior professor of philosophy of culture and art at Leuphana University Lüneburg, dept. of Philosophy and Art and was a senior research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies MECS (Media Cultures of Computer Simulation) at Leuphana University in 2017. She did her PhD in philosophy at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena in 2009 and was appointed visiting professor of aesthetics at the Bauhaus University Weimar in 2009/10. Her research focuses on posthumanism, theories of embodiment, phenomenology, aesthetics and fashion theory.
Warrick Roseboom is a computational neuroscientist and cognitive science researcher focusing on human perception. His research is most generally interested in how usually coherent perception can result from varying and sometimes incoherent sensory input, with a particular focus on human temporal perception. In his research experiments he uses a combination of human behavioural, computational modelling, neuroimaging, and artificial systems approaches. Roseboom completed a PhD under the supervision of Dr. Derek Arnold in the Perception Lab at the School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Australia and earlier worked in the Synaptic Plasticity Lab at the Queensland Brain Institute. He is currently leader of the Time Perception Group at the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex, UK and is part of the six-partner EU project Timestorm, which aims to equip artificial systems with human-like temporal cognition.
Joel Ryan is a composer, inventor and scientist. He is a pioneer in the design of musical instruments based on real-time digital signal processing. He currently works at STEIM in Amsterdam, tours with the Frankfurt Ballet and is a teacher at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague. Starting from a scientific rather than a musical education, he moved into music by degrees from physics via philosophy. Ryan seeks to bring concreteness to digital electronic media through the intelligent touch of the performer. Taking time as an epitome of music making, Ryan’s work looks to zoom in on the innate capacity for perceiving its quantity, outside of language and analytic thinking.
Jaime del Val is meta-media artist, philosopher, activist, promoter of theMetabody Forum, project and Institute, and the non profit organisation Reverso. Since 2000 Jaime develops transdisciplinary projects in the transvergence of arts (dance, performance, architecture, visual and media arts, music), technologies, critical theory and activism proposing redefinitions of embodiment, perception and public space which have been presented with over 100 performances and installations in over 50 cities of 25 countries. The recent evolution of these projects led to the European project Metabody with a network of 38 partners from 16 countries where Jaime has organised over 33 international Forums and coordinated over 60 research projects. Jaime’s philosophical work has been published in over 30 essays in journals such as Performance Research – Routledge, Leonardo and others. Jaime has edited the Journals Reverso and Metabody, is member of the organizing committee of the Beyond Humanism Conference series, and has given over 100 lectures in Universities like U.C Berkeley, Stanford, MIT MediaLab, Duke University, Yale, Cambridge and others. As an activist Jaime has been active for the last 20 years in queer, environmental and Occupy movements and now promotes ontohacking politics in the Algoricene.
Jonathan Reus is an American musician, researcher and curator whose work blends machine aesthetics with free improvisation. His broader research is into instruments and instrumentations, and their potential to bring new insight into knowing the world. Jonathan is associate lecturer of Computing and Coded Culture at the Institute for Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media in Leuphana University, Lüneburg, where he has created teaching methods for hybrid coursework blending science, mathematics and cultural studies. He is also a lecturer in performative sound art at the ArtEZ academy of art in Arnhem.
Flora Reznik is an Argentinian artist based in The Netherlands. She studied in Universidad del Cine (FUC), obtained a diploma in Philosophy (University of Buenos Aires), while she worked as a video editor in film and TV, and co-funded the contemporary arts magazine “CIA”. In The Netherlands she graduated from the ArtScience Interfaculty department, in The Royal Academy of Art, and currently co-curates the artist initiative Platform for Thought in Motion, while she develops her work as an artist in the fields of video, performance, installation and text. She is busy with the notions of physicality, territory and time.
From the curators of the Reading Room: Thank you again to Jaime del Val, Yvonne Förster, Warrick Roseboom and Joel Ryan for their insights both in The Reading Room and in this piece! We hope to welcome you both back in Den Haag. And special thanks to all the participants that joined in this gathering.
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Totally Unfair and Completely Unbalanced
An Anniversary Nobody Really Cheered About
Please Note: the Anniversary Cake is Yellow
Last week, we saw the passing of the 10th Anniversary of the Iraq war—ooops, excuse me, Congress never declared war, so, ummmm, what do we call it?
When the airplanes struck the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, somewhere amid the horror of what I was seeing rose an additional realization, “Oh, my God, we’ve just had our Reichstag Fire.” I could see with horrifying clarity that this would be the defining moment that turned the United States from its democratic principles to something totally antithetical to the dreams of our nation’s Fathers. We have resisted the impulse of creating concentration camps for Moslems–we incarcerated many, but mostly exiled them for visa transgressions. We have created gulags where we gathered a mostly hapless group of alleged terrorists whose major crime seems to have been being in the wrong place at the wrong time when the wrong person wanted to collect a reward. We HAVE built massive PRISONS, but these are privately run camps to provide slave labor and corporate profit and anyone can enter. We passed the grossly obscene “Patriot” act through which almost any crime can be considered to be an act of terrorism–when the need arises.
Our incursion into Afghanistan almost looked legitimate. We claimed the head of, what was his name, Osama bin Laden? Yes, he was there, later on he claimed credit for “9/11″, which our government was already doing within minutes of the tower falls–since it had pointedly ignored the warnings from the intelligence community of terrorist actions inside the US. He was there, but the Taliban government had the nerve to ask for evidence before they would consider handing him over. So like a western posse, we went in and cleaned up the corruption in Rock Ridge and hunted down bin Laden until we were just yards from his hiding place in the mountains when…
Wait, what? The real danger is from Iraq? The country which had been under UN sanctions for a decade? Whose dictator, Saddam Hussein, couldn’t even afford to buy shoes for his army? HE had weapons of mass destruction? Yes, we had the ominous YELLOW CAKE requests–which turned out to be forgeries. We had George Bush and Tony Blair smirking their way into war. We had Dick Cheney and Condi Rice promising us mushroom clouds of doom if nothing was done immediately. We had a mountain of evidence that Colin Powell presented at the UN. I remember listening to him and being absolutely convinced by the man’s sense of sincerity… until the next morning, when I realized that all that evidence had no context. That if you believed it was something bad it was, but those conversations about hiding things could have just as easily been hiding the porn when the inspectors arrived.
And so we went off and destroyed a country within weeks. Killed several thousand Americans and maimed 10s of thousands. Killed 100s of thousands Iraqis and destroyed the infrastructure of the country. Wasted around two trillion dollars (when asked about the loss of a trillion dollars from the Pentagon budgets, Donald Rumsfeld remarked, “I’ll have to look into that,” and didn’t) which the Tea Party is now trying to collect from the poorest among us. For which sinful errors of judgment or outright acts of war-mongering for profit no one has been held accountable.
Many of us felt powerless to do anything to stop it. Only after the deed was done did I decide that I could do a political cartoon series against these criminals. I was scared too–protesting the war COULD have been considered an act of terrorism according to the Patriot Act.
HAPPY F$%^&*G ANNIVERSARY.
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Couldn’t Have Happened To A Nicer Guy
Headdesk, headdesk, headdesk...
Much as I normally hate to do a subject two weeks in a row, the swift financial retribution against Rush Limbaugh is worthy of an exception. Seems Rush has lost about 90% of his sponsors over the controversy caused by his deliberate slander of an innocent bystander, at least temporarily. As you will remember, Rush called Georgetown student Sandra Fluke a slut and a prostitute for the horrendous crime of wanting to testify to the all-male committee fulminating over contraception about her friend who was denied contraceptives when she needed them for hormone therapy. Rush leapt to judgment on the girl, in an ass-brained show of ignorance of how contraceptives work, saying she was having so much sex she needed government assistance to pay for her pills. The rightwing ditto heads have repeated these charges ad nauseam and no amount of facts can ever dissuade them from the opinions given them by the Pope of Clear Channel.
This is the way free speech works in the free market. Rush Limbaugh was, is and will be free to make any ass-brained statement he wants to make. The question is whether or not anyone has to pay to allow those statements to be broadcast to the nation and world at large. With sponsors, he can shout it loud and clear to the entire radio audience. Without sponsors, he’s still free to shout them–but unless he or Clear Channel pay for it themselves, his soapbox might be … a soapbox. Seems Clear Channel has had to run Public Service Announcements on many of the commercial spots during Rush’s show this week. Dum da dum dum!
Bill Maher has weighed in on the proceedings and has tried to argue that Rush ought not be censored by the free market. Piffle. Bill is still smarting because HIS former TV show Politically Incorrect got dumped when he expressed an unforgivable truth: that the perpetrators of the cowardly attack on the Pentagon and World Trade Center were not themselves cowards. This was in the middle of US war-drum fever. Come on Bill, Americans won’t be ready for that kind of nuance before 2102, the year AFTER the 9/11 centennial. We still have people who said the Japanese deserved the earthquake-tsunami-nuclear meltdown tragedy because of PEARL HARBOR! And besides, what you said was true, just unpopular. That’s a fair distance from maliciously maligning someone by misrepresenting what they’d said or done.
Free speech doesn’t mean we have to subsidize hate speech. As long as someone’s willing to pay for the plug in the socket, Rush will have a platform. But, if no one wants to pay to have a person with that much bile representing their company, screw it. Let him try to get a gig on NPR
And speaking of Japan, this weekend marked the anniversary of that horrible series of misfortunes. Compounding the tragedy was that although Japan is one of the most prepared nations against earthquakes, the government had let down its guard on tsunami preparedness and had dropped the ball on nuclear safety measures AND spent more time CYAing and following procedures instead of reacting swiftly enough to contain the nuclear danger. But the Japanese people have shown incredible resilience and courage in their recovery. Last year, I did a short video to Yoko Kanno’s song for the survivors and I’d like to post its URL here againhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na60p1P22rg. Links are there for several organizations that were involved in the recovery effort at the time. I’m sure they will accept more donations.
How Dare They Publish These Documents Without Clearing It With HQ?
Sticking his finger in the dyke...
Well, Wikileaks has done it again. Not being content with having shown video of a turkey shooting in Baghdad–oh, wait a moment–those weren’t turkeys, those were REUTERS NEWS MEN!–they now have had the effrontery to publish 92,000 documents concerning our wartime activities in Afghanistan. 92,000! This makes the 4100 pages of the Pentagon Papers look like small potatoes. You couldn’t do this before the Interwebs! Let’s hear it for technology!
As for what’s in those documents, God only knows. WhoTF has even read them yet? I mean, this makes the last couple of Harry Potter books look like Victoria’s Secret flyers! Wikileaks founder Julian Assange tells us that there is evidence of war crimes there. The Guardian–the British newspaper given advance looks at the stuff–says there no such thing. But one thing, they and the NYTimes and Der Spiegel agree on–it’s worse than we were told.
The White House is making sure that everyone knows that the bulk of these documents deal with things that happened B.O.–Before Obama! But if this was the situation B.O., WTF are we still doing there now? The Pentagon, sharp as ever, wants to remind everyone that no one vetted these documents. Hell, back in the good ol’ days when Stan McChrystal was in charge, the Army vetted all leaks!
As for the reaction of the American public, who knows? The loudest shouters are so far, and have always been, the people who think we’re at war in Afghanistan because THEY ATTACKED US! Wait a minute, that war was over seven years ago–and WE WON! But perhaps these documents may convince more people that the reason for being in Afghanistan vanished a long time ago and–like the guy at last call who hasn’t left yet–the reason we’re still there is because we’re too drunk to see where the door is.
But I doubt it–the size of the leak is too vast for anyone to get a handle on it and its sheer weight will dull its own impact. As for war crimes–hey, there’s only a couple of them in there and they’re just little ones anyway! Besides, it’s war! You can’t make an omelet without breaking a couple of eggs!
I’m afraid we’ll be eating that Afghan Omelet for some time. And it will be about as appetizing as eating my Aunt Margie’s Afghan.
No cartoon next week–I’m taking time off and going to Otakon! Have fun y’all and try to stay out of the heat!
We Send Troops, We Send Troops Not, We Send Troops, We Send Troops Not
Barry 'The Flash' Obama On the Court
Yesterday was Veterans’ Day and as all Presidents do, Barack Obama went to Arlington to pay respect to our nation’s heroic dead. He seem to have surprised everyone by actually walking among the Iraq and Afghanistan war graves–although why that should have surprised anyone can only be ascribed to just how unexpected a noble gesture is after the Bush years. George Bush made the typical patriotic noises on each of his Veterans’ Days, but he always took care not to greet bodies at Andrews Air Force Base or visit the gravesites lest lightning come suddenly out of the sky. Instead he asked us to support our troops by going out and spending money like it was 1997. Very few of us could actually do that after the FIRST Bush recession–unless we were employed by Goldman Sachs and doing God’s work to make ourselves rich. God helps them that help themselves and gosh darnit, those superproductive workers at Goldman Sachs have done nothing but help themselves!
But I digress–I do that a lot since the Bush years, which seem to have kicked up my ADHD several notches. I think it’s because ADHD characterized our leadership in those days. Bush managed to send out troops into Afghanistan–where they were charged to find Osama bin Laden and were called away to go fight in Iraq when they were on the verge of actually finding him. In Iraq, our troops were charged to take away Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction–which have been forgotten ever since we got tired of looking for something that wasn’t there. We DID manage to find Saddam Hussein–or at least, we found him when somebody handed him over to us in a drugged stupor. If that hadn’t happened, I’m sure we’d have forgotten about that also–like we did about several billion dollars for rebuilding Iraq which managed to disappear unaccounted for. Donald Rumsfeld managed to mislay 2.3 TRILLION dollars somewhere in the Pentagon–which is quite an accomplishment. And of course, we forgot that the levies in New Orleans weren’t up to standard, and at last, we gave away 350 billion dollars to bail out financial companies without asking anyone what they did with the money.
But to return to the veterans. Back in those heady days of fantasizing that we would conquer the entire Middle East so that another 9/11 would never happen again, it was practically a mark of treason to suggest that our military adventures in Sand-flea-istan were ill-advised. But finally, most of the country has come to believe that sending troops on missions with no good reason is not exactly the best use of the armed forces. While most of the country still believes however that the “troops should be supported no matter what,” some of us are still trying to make the argument that the best support you can give the troops is to get them the hell out of someplace they aren’t supposed to be. We’ve declared victory in Iraq so we can skedaddle at the most auspicious time–has anyone heard much news out of there in a while–must be our national ADHD again! And now we turn our attention back to Afghanistan, where the Pentagon, bless their pointy little heads, is telling us we can win if we only nearly double our troops there by sending in 40,000 more. The question is, what are we supposed to win? Al-Qaeda did a little mountain climbing and now lives in Pakistan. The Taliban are trying to wrest power from the corrupt Karzai government–which WE put in place. What the hell are we doing there anyway?
So–now it’s on Barry’s plate. President Obama has at least 4 options of what to do about our military presence in Afghanistan. The option that makes sense–getting us the hell out of there–has been taken off the table–like the single payer health care option had been–leaving us with four different ways we can lose American lives and waste its money in order to achieve some nebulous victory. If we don’t do it, we are told, then all the American lives already lost will be meaningless. That kind of reasoning is like the horseplayer on a losing streak who has to keep betting or else he won’t make back the money he’s lost. DUHHHH! If you can see how stupid the one is–why can’t you see how totally dumbass stupid the other is?
Anyway, Obama has these four options and as always, he’s acting as coy as Miss Scarlett when she’s deciding which beau she’s going to let bring her some barbeque. He’s acting as coy as Steve Jobs when he’s about to introduce the iVibe. You’d think the White House had turned into a backyard fish pond filled with big carp! Which BAD move will Obama decide to take? Just this week, our ambassador to Afghanistan came back and said–DON’T DO IT! But, we can’t let out boys down or the wingnuts will come out and say Obama has no guts for a fight because he’s a socialist fascist and a secret Muslim to boot. Which trying to make sense of makes my head hurt! Obama says he will announce his decision after Thanksgiving. How much you wanna bet he’s trying to find some middle ground solution that neither withdraws troops not sends enough in to do anything? We’re taking bets. Stay tuned for more information!
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William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe
The 1960s’ and ’70s most famous, rabble-rousing and radical defense attorney is put on the witness stand and cross-examined by two of his daughters in this riveting and complex portrait. For Sarah and Emily Kunstler, making this film is not an exercise in hagiography. It’s an effort to understand and find reconciliation with a man who defended not only civil rights activists, the Chicago 7 and the Catonsville Nine Catholic antiwar campaigners, but also accused rapists, cop killers, terrorists and assassins. “Justice, Justice shalt thou pursue,” says the Torah, but Kunstler’s daughters ask, “At a certain point, was he standing for anything worth fighting for?” Had celebrity gone to his head? Was he, as Alan Dershowitz says, “a hypocrite”? With amazing archival footage, intimate home movies and the participation of many leading ’60s activists, this film revives the conflicts and injustices that stoked a generation, with Kunstler always on the frontlines—helping to prevent a massacre of American Indian militants at Wounded Knee, but failing to prevent one at New York’s notorious Attica State Prison. The sisters show us a charming crusader always ready to serve his clients with a higher sense of justice. He’s the kind of lawyer any revolutionary would want not just for the defense but for the cause. —Alan Snitow
Emily Kunstler, Sarah Kunstler
SFJFF 2009
Sarah Kunstler
Brett Wiley
Emily Kunstler
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Multiple cavernous malformations presenting in a patient with Poland syndrome: A case report
Karlo J Lizarraga1 &
Antonio AF De Salles1
Poland syndrome is a congenital disorder related to chest and hand anomalies on one side of the body. Its etiology remains unclear, with an ipsilateral vascular alteration (of unknown origin) to the subclavian artery in early embryogenesis being the currently accepted theory. Cavernous malformations are vascular hamartomas, which have been linked to a genetic etiology, particularly in familial cases, which commonly present with multiple lesions. Our case report is the first to describe multiple cavernous malformations associated with Poland syndrome, further supporting the vascular etiology theory, but pointing to a genetic rather than a mechanistic factor disrupting blood flow in the corresponding vessels.
A 41-year-old Caucasian man with Poland syndrome on the right side of his body presented to our hospital with a secondary generalized seizure and was found to have multiple cavernous malformations distributed in his brain, cerebellum, and brain stem, with a predominance of lesions in the left hemisphere.
The distribution of cavernous malformations in the left hemisphere and the right-sided Poland syndrome in our patient could not be explained by a mechanistic disruption of one of the subclavian arteries. A genetic alteration, as in familial cavernous malformations, would be a more appropriate etiologic diagnosis of Poland syndrome in our patient. Further genetic and pathological studies of the involved blood vessels in patients with Poland syndrome could lead to a better understanding of the disease.
Poland syndrome is a congenital disorder of unknown etiology characterized by ipsilateral hand and chest wall anomalies, including hypoplasia or absence of the breast and pectoral muscles [1]. Accepted theories point to an early deficit of blood flow to the distal limb, the pectoral region, and even the brain stem via the subclavian artery during week six of gestation [2]. Its etiology to date has involved two hypotheses. One proposes that the underlying ribs on the affected side grow too quickly in a forward growth plane and thus reduce blood flow in the arteries. Another proposes that a malformation of the embryonic blood vessel serving the pectoralis muscle and the arm and/or hand on the same side of the body limits blood flow to these structures. Final proof is lacking, and no genetic evidence exists [2–4].
One case report described a patient with Poland-Möbius syndrome (which includes bilateral abnormalities of the oculomotor and facial cranial nerves) who presented with one cavernous malformation (CM) that was causing generalized seizures, which resolved after its surgical resection [5]. CMs are low-flow vascular hamartomas characterized by endothelium-lined sinusoidal chambers that lack the other mural elements of mature vascular structures and a distinctive multi-lobulated, "multi-berry" appearance on MRI scans [6, 7]. They can be asymptomatic in up to 40% of patients or may manifest as seizures or neurological deficits [6, 7]. Sporadic and familial forms of CMs have been described, with the latter comprising at least 6% of all cases [6, 8]. Multiple lesions are common in familial forms [8, 9]. Hereditary forms of cerebral CMs are caused by mutations in one of three genes, KRIT1 (CCM1), CCM2 (MGC4607), and PDCD10 (CCM3), that may have a role in the genesis of vascular endothelial cells. Their critical importance to lesion development is underlined by the observation that at least one of the CCM genes is mutated in most familial CMs [10–12]. The association of Poland syndrome with multiple CMs described in our patient offers support to the vascular theory as the underlying mechanism for this pathological entity, but pointing to a genetic rather than a mechanistic origin of the proposed vascular disruption.
A 41-year-old Caucasian man was sleeping when he suddenly experienced tonic movement of the right upper limb followed by loss of consciousness and clonic movements of his four extremities, all of which lasted approximately one minute and was self-limited. Our review of his symptoms was negative, including headaches and other neurologic symptoms or signs. His medical history included hypertension and Poland syndrome. His mother had had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and had a heart attack at age 64, which caused her death. The rest of the patient's family history was negative for neurologic or vascular alterations.
A physical examination revealed the absence of his right breast and right pectoralis major muscles (Figure 1A) and right-handed symbrachydactyly, status post-multiple corrective surgeries (Figure 1B), corresponding to Poland syndrome. His neurological examination results were within normal limits. MRI studies showed multiple cerebral CMs, with the largest one, measuring 15.8 mm × 9.3 mm, located in the left frontal pole cortical region, with evidence of recent hemorrhage (Figure 2). Two other CMs located in the right and left parietal lobes also showed evidence of bleeding (Figures 3A and 3B). The majority of the CMs were located in the left hemisphere (Figure 3B). Multiple other cerebellar and brain stem CMs were also noted (Figures 3C and 3D).
Features corresponding to Poland syndrome in our patient. (A) Absence of right breast and right pectoralis major muscles. (B) Right hand symbrachydactyly.
The patient’s largest cavernous malformation is shown in the left frontal pole. This lesion has classic signs of hemorrhage (white arrows). More lesions compatible with cavernous malformations in other areas of the brain can also be observed (arrowheads).
Multiple cavernous malformations in our patient. (A) and (B) Cavernous malformations in both parietal lobes showing signs of hemorrhage (white arrows). Other multiple cavernous malformations in the brain, predominantly in (B) the left hemisphere (black arrowheads), (C) the cerebellum (black arrow), and (D) the brain stem (black arrow).
The patient presented to our hospital to discuss the possibility of undergoing stereotactic radiosurgery for treatment of the CMs. He had already been started on levetiracetam 75 mg twice daily, which led to good seizure control. Thus, electroencephalographic monitoring and/or telemetry to detect the seizure origin localization, continuing medical therapy, and observation were recommended at that point.
While the pathogenesis of cerebral CMs on a genetic basis is starting to be better understood, the etiology of Poland syndrome remains uncertain, with an ipsilateral vascular alteration (of unknown origin) to the subclavian artery in early embryogenesis being the currently accepted theory [2, 3]. We present the first case report in the literature describing a patient with multiple CMs associated with Poland syndrome, providing further evidence in favor of a vascular disruption during early angiogenesis as its possible etiology.
Our patient presented to our hospital with a secondary generalized seizure, and the corresponding imaging studies showed multiple CMs in his brain, brain stem, and cerebellum. Three CMs showed signs of hemorrhage and it could not be ascertained which one caused his seizure. Thus, we suggested that specialized imaging studies be obtained for seizure localization. If the superficial frontal lesion correlated with the seizure origin, the patient would benefit from its surgical resection; meanwhile, since the seizures were being appropriately controlled with medication, observation was recommended.
Interestingly, the majority of lesions in our patient were found to be located in the left cerebral hemisphere, contralateral to his chest wall and hand defects. A mechanistic external factor could not explain our patient's presentation, because it would not be able to cause an alteration in blood flow to the right upper limb and right chest wall and at the same time to the left cerebral hemisphere. On the other hand, this particular distribution of lesions might be explained if a genetic alteration of the vessels, which occurs in familial CMs, were responsible. The possibility of a coincidental presentation of Poland syndrome and multiple CMs is also worth considering, but it would be more plausible if a single CM were present rather than the multiple and diffuse cerebral vascular compromise in our patient. Any of these proposals, and therefore a better understanding of the disease, could be addressed by conducting pathological studies of the affected limb blood vessels in patients with Poland syndrome and comparing them with anomalies already found in CMs.
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Lizarraga, K.J., De Salles, A.A. Multiple cavernous malformations presenting in a patient with Poland syndrome: A case report. J Med Case Reports 5, 469 (2011) doi:10.1186/1752-1947-5-469
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Irish Myths Retold by Karina Tynan
Mythological Cycle
The Fenian Cycle
The Ulster Cycle
Short Stories and Poems
Posted on July 22, 2018 December 1, 2019 by karinatynan
The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne a Retelling by Karina Tynan
Introduction : The beautiful Gráinne, daughter of King Cormac Mac Airt was promised to be the new wife of the ageing Fionn mac Cumhaill, the leader of the band of warriors called *The Fianna. At their betrothal feast Gráinne slipped a sleeping potion into the drinks of the guests so she could ask Diarmuid Ua Duibhne to come away with her. Diarmuid though loyal to Fionn has a *geis on him that he must never say no to a woman. He goes with Gráinne but is painfully torn between his love and his loyalty.
We did well to spite our start. Pursuit and exile held us tight and we made a good life after too. Five children, four sons and a daughter, hardy cattle, light on their feet, so black they were nearly blue with udders of brilliant white, so we would never thirst at night. Nearby was a river so crowded with fish they jumped into our hands and the fields lavished us with plenty.
I had come from a different way of seeing the world than the world we made in Kerry with our children. I was born the daughter of the high king of Ireland where many worthy suiters came and went from my high home at *Teamhair. I refused them all until the day my father King Cormac Mac Airt said to me,
“The man called Fionn Mac Cumhaill, leader of the Fianna of Ireland wants you to be his wife.”
Well I can safely say that sent a ripple right through me and into me in places I had never felt before. I had heard the stories and there were many. I said to my father, hoping to hide my thrill.
“If he is good enough to be your son in law you then he’ll be good enough for me.”
I trusted my father; that he would want what was best for me. I knew nothing about the bad blood between king and warrior, nor did I know that my consent would be what would heal it. He gave me his blessing but blessing that day was but a word. Now I know a real blessing goes a much longer way than that word, on that day.
When the day came for the Fianna to arrive, strange clouds hung like omens before the cantering beasts came thundering into our castle’s yard. Horses, pacing and prancing, riders circling them into a stand while their turbulent reek took over the day.
“The myth is real. The myth is real” was sung as they marked the ground with their names, Luadaidh, Oisin, Oscar, Caoilte, Diorraing, and Diarmuid who made holes in my back with his eyes.
And Fionn Mac Cumhaill, their leader rode in on the largest piebald stallion I had ever seen; black mane almost touching the ground, steam rising from the mood of man and beast taking the castle, the sky, even the day out of the limelight. And oh the man was old and magnificent at the same time, carved into his horse making them seem like a centaur.
They said he was a poet; what kind of poet was this, dwarfing his men even the one I thought must be Oisin, his son, who has long blonde hair flowing into the mane of his steed. Beautiful man, but a boy compared to this animal man. I was frightened out of my skin. I am still frightened out of my skin.
Later on that day I saw them looking almost human to the eye but only in the sense that they were down from their horses. They still looked animal in their difference to ordinary men, even kings of men. They were shining like the Gods I had only seen in my imagination. My father’s kingdom looked small and senseless. I wondered how my beauty fared. What beauties had they seen before. Did I compare? Did any of them see? I looked for that and yes, there was one. The one I had seen before and when I turned away I could feel his stare land on my back.
How was I to know when the great Fionn Mac Cumhaill would come for me that he would bring so many young men, each and every one of them, a better match for me than him. I was horrified at his age. I mean how could it be that I would be expected to lie with him. How could my father not have warned me that he was as old and savage as the mountains. How could my father not remember that I never did a thing I didn’t want to do. How did he not foresee from knowing me that I would not marry that grandfather of men when there were so much youth and handsomeness to choose from.
I went to find a sleeping potion. I poured a drop into almost every cup at my betrothal feast and bid them all to drink to my happiness. The ones who drank it went to sleep. Diarmaid stayed awake. Oisin, Fionn’s own son stayed awake and Oscar, his grandson and Caoilte, and Diorraing and Goll.
“Diarmuid follow me” I said as I lifted his hair from his white forehead.
“for now that I have taken up your hair I know you won’t refuse me because you know as well as your comrades know what I have done by revealing your love spot that is the geis given to you by the maiden of youth herself. Diarmuid I am young and he is old so pity me. Isn’t everyone in love with youth so why not us? Why must I kiss an old man when I could be kissing you?”
And so he was bound to come with me and he knew it and his comrades knew that even if I had looked at him only once, love would have taken hold of me and so he came with me with tears in his eyes, with doubt and a heavy heart torn between his loyalty and me.
When Fionn rose from sleep and realised that I had gone with Diarmuid out the front door of my father’s kingdom he knew it was youth herself who had cheated him. Still he gave in to rage even though he knew that Diarmuid’s bind was one he could not break. Even though he knew the size of the pain that would sit in Diarmuid’s heart, he gave in to rage and jealousy to keep himself from the truth of his own old age. And so, began the pursuit for the King’s daughter to be returned, to restore the dignity of the leader of the Fianna: the mighty Fionn Mc Cumhaill.
We went without knowing a way on horses until the first river and there Diarmuid said,
“We must leave our horses here and walk for the footprints of a horse can be followed too easy.” And so we walked and I soon became tired.
“Please carry me for a while.” I said. “You are strong and my feet are stuck with thorns and blisters and my shoes are lost in that bog behind us.”
He stopped dead in his track.
“I will never carry you Gráinne. You asked me to go with you. You asked me to betray my leader Fionn Mac Cumhaill and that is terrible for me, for a part of me will always run with him and the Fianna. The love we have now must be made strong and it will not be made strong if I carry you. You must come with me on the feet that you have.”
“Diarmuid you think I am a boy. How will I go as fast as you who are running along with the wind himself all your life. You are cruel”
“Who knows” he said “Maybe fate will carry you.”
And we went on and I could hear the gallop of the Fianna and the baying of their hounds behind us and I was wet and sore and in love with a man who walked stoically ahead of me so that I could only see the back of him.
It was a mean twist for Diarmuid to be pursued by his best friends who were loyal to both himself and to their leader. It was something never seen nor foretold on the day when they swore their loyalty over to Fionn that they would ever be torn like that. They knew as did Fionn that Diarmuid had been called upon by his geis and so it wasn’t his own making to be taking me away from him as he was. But still Fionn pursued with a vengeance he only held for his worst enemies up to that day. And so it was, the divided hearts of Oisin, Oscar, Caoilte, Diorraing and Goll did all they could to help us as they rode through the many turns of this tale.
They sent us warnings. Fionn’s own hound Bran came to warn us of their approach. They bid Caoilte’s serving man Fearghoin to give three of his loudest shouts. But Diarmuid wasn’t content with running. He was too well renowned for that. He led me into a wood that was called Doire-da-Bhoth and there he made a hut from straw and twigs with seven doors so that when he looked out he would see by whose hand he would die. When he was finished building we heard the ground shudder with their approach and at the same time we felt *Aonghus’ light touch. Aonghus, the god of lovers touched us so that we looked into each others eyes and made love with them for a moment. I thought, Is he saying goodbye. Are we to die and if we are, have we loved each other enough so our deaths will not be waste. But Aonghus the champion of the love that was the opposite to the hate on its way came to take us to safety. But Diarmuid would not go with him and said,
“I will stay and meet my fate. Take Gráinne with you and mind her and if I am alive after this I will come and if I am not give her safely back to her father.”
And when he spoke I could see I hadn’t won his love enough for him to be happy with the choice that was me. I could see that the moment we had just shared wasn’t enough for him to love me without the tear in his heart. But Aonghus had pitied us and so I felt sure then that I had enough love for the two of us for our plight. Diarmuid had yet to learn that though he was still resisting my love because of his loyalty to Fionn that Fionn’s wound was done and nothing would heal it but to seize me and to kill Diarmuid and as I was being lifted away by Aonghus he said,
“Gráinne you have used my weakness and now my life has changed forever for I have betrayed my leader and I will never run with my friends again.” And I hung my head in shame for a moment and then I looked up and felt again that thrill at the sight of him and I said,
“I have qualms with what you say Diarmuid because you know too well that fate is working her mysteries on the two of us.”
Then I went with Aonghus as they came upon Diarmuid who opened each of the seven doors to see who would be the one to kill him. Out of four doors he found his friends who had all sworn the same oath as members of the Fianna. But he knew that four would turn on Fionn for Diarmuid if the need arose and so he said to each of them them,
“You will not fight for me. I would not wish this feeling of betrayal that I have on you that I love so much.”
Through the next two doors he found Fionn’s trackers who would kill him in a heart beat and through the last he found Fionn himself and he thought, he would die happily by his sword there and then but for the vision that came to him. For it was not Fionn’s face but that of a wild boar that he saw. The very same boar that was to be the death of Diarmuid in a prophesy. And so with anger and a fresh sap of understanding Diarmuid stuck his two swords into the earth and they sprung him back into his life and over the heads of Fionn and all that were there and he got away and came to where I was with Aonghus, where we made some comfort for him after his ordeal. I will never forget my happiness at the sight of him coming as if he were coming home to me.
When Aonghus left he slept and so did I with my head tilted toward his face because I had fallen asleep that way. The next morning I woke before him and went to bathe in the lake and when I was coming out of it I saw Diarmuid sitting on a large rock looking at me. I walked to him and I said,
“That drop of water there, running down my leg is braver than you are.”
He smiled and held my hand and carried me to his rock and we lay down on the moss that was our mattress under a rowan tree that was almost falling down with seeds.
It wasn’t long after that before we happened upon a man who was looking for a master and stories to make for his life. He said he would like to help us out. But Diarmuid with a pride that he carried too far, told him to go away until I said,
“How do you think we will be if you say no to every bit of help along our way?” and we argued a while until Diarmuid agreed with me.
Muadhán was strong as a bull and gentle as a kitten. He carried us through a river flowing too fast for our tired legs. He was a fisherman who could catch a salmon with a little berry and so in the evenings we would eat our fill of salmon sweetened by the berries they had eaten. At night we slept peacefully while he watched over us. But our rest was not to last long because one day as we were enjoying the sunshine on a hilltop Diarmuid spotted an army coming to shore from the direction of the Channel Islands.
“What army is that” I said.
“Army is not a name for them. Hirelings I would call them brought here by Fionnn Mac Cumhaill” said Diarmuid
And I thought, Will the man never stop and I said.
“What have I done to you Diarmuid?”
“I can say back to you Grainne that I am happy you did for I love you now with all my heart.”
“I love you too” I said.
Fionn’s hirelings called themselves the Green Champions. With them they brought three deadly hounds along with a thousand men. Diarmuid greeted them and they asked him for sightings of the man called Diarmuid Ua Duibhne. He told them he had seen him and he sent them here and there until they discovered it was Diarmuid making fools of them. That awakened rivalry in them in the way of those who have not practiced sense nor wisdom. Diarmuid went on then to make fools of them showing off his downhill barrel riding so they would try it and they did and they died. He showed them how he could jump on to a pointed spear and walk on a sword edge. They tried these too and they died. And it went on that way until he tied up the three leaders in bonds so tight that only his friends Luadaidh, Oisin, Oscar, Caoilte, Diorraing would be able to open them and so Fionn would find them and see what had happened to his plans. He killed the three hounds too, by casting his sword into their throats.
Muadhán said goodbye to us at the edge of the Wood of Dubhros happy that he had enough stories to last him his whole lifetime. Inside that wood there was a *Quicken tree ripe with berries that had the reputation of bringing youth, good health and a sweet temper on all who ate them. It was said, The first seed that made the tree had come from so sweet a place there was no death in it. The tree was so famous a guard was appointed to mind it. A giant surly man called Searbhán with only the one eye who stayed lonely in the wood minding that tree for so long that his reputation was terrible. Minding the tree had become the whole content of his heart so he was known to be unreasonable preferring actions to words. Diarmiud however conversed with him and opened up his heart a little to our plight. After that Searbhán allowed us to come to live and hunt in the woods with only one condition: that we would never touch one berry from that tree.
I didn’t know what was wrong with me. The urge in me was strong. I had to have a berry from Searbhán’s quicken tree. I reached out for one, placed it thoughtfully on to my tongue and as its sweetness burst into my mouth I knew I was with child. Then, just as that thought was baring itself Searbhán found me and realised my crime. He went into a rage so terrible that Diarmuid had to defend my life by sending the ogre to his death. And when that was done, if Diarmuid had wanted to lament again the promise he had set aside because of me, he had no time, because the Fianna had surrounded the forest. But love was on our side again for Aonghus came once more. He took me again with his invisible cloak while Diarmuid leapt as he had done before over the heads of all the Fianna that were chasing him in Fionn’s name.
No More War
Great council came from Aonghus after that. He was sick of intervening in our never ending plight and so he parleyed with Cormac and Fionn to set us free and leave us alone and that came to be and that is how we went to live in Diarmuid’s great county of Kerry where we had peace and harmony made by ourselves and our children grew up into good people. And peace and harmony might have lasted forever except for the idea I had. I wanted to show off the way we lived. I wanted our life to be smiled upon by my father for my own sake and by Fionn for Diarmuid’s. If I had given up on those smiles of pride I might have my beloved with me still but I had a notion of how things should be. I had lived three lives. One as a child whose safety was ignorant to walls and the strong men who guarded it. In my second live I was hunted to save an old man’s face and third and best was the love and respect of a husband who saw me as equal. I wanted my father to look at how well we had done. I wanted Fionn to realise the error of his ways. I wanted real blessings.
I sent out the invitations. The would come. Preparations began, I was so happy to greet them all, to show them our children, how well we all were. Then Fionn suggested a boar hunt. I went cold. I watched Diarmuid slowly dress him self into his old armour like a man who was getting ready for war.
“Gráinne, come here to me and let me look at you.” Our eyes met like they had once when we were at the beginning of our great love. I looked back at him to see the depths of love we had sunk our hearts into.
“Smile for me.” I smiled for him with tears streaming down my eyes. He kissed my tears and then my lips and he held me tight and strong.
“Promise me something.”
“No more war.”
My love fought the boar and killed him but only after the animal had opened his stomach so that his insides were falling out. And when Fionn and his son and grandson come upon him to see him dying in that state. Oscar said to his grandfather,
“We know you can heal him. Give him water from that well to drink from your healing hands.”
Fionn walked slowly to the well and let the water spill through his fingers on his way back and Oisin said,
“Please save our friend Diarmuid that we love.”
Fionn walked slowly to the well and let the water spill through his fingers again.
Then Oisin and Oscar said,
“Fionn Mc Cumhaill do not let our friend die when you have the power to save him.”
Fionn walked slowly to the well and brought the water in his healing hands to Diarmuid’s blue lips just a second after he had breathed his last breath.
Fionn Mac Cumhaill killed my lord as true as if he did it with his own hands and I was left with a rage in me that wanted to send my children on a mission of revenge. But it wasn’t long before I remembered my promise to Diarmuid. Fionn had let my beloved’s life leave him to save his twisted jealous face but I would not allow him to kill our children. And so I returned to the place where I started out. That time I made myself the pawn. I shook the hand I would like to sever. In sacrifice and infiltration I married Fionn Mac Cumhaill to save my children from war. I did that so when my own death came it was not like death for me because from that day on I did not live. I was a bird without wings. I was woman no more. I was legend.
The retellings on this site (though true to the myths them selves) are my own work and copyrighted to me so please ask before using elsewhere.
*Fianna: A band of mythical warriors ruled by their own codes that include cutting ties to land and family, extraordinary in battle, hunting, oratory and poetry.
*Geis : Is a is like a vow mixed up with a taboo. Diarmuid acquired his from the maiden of youth and so he could never say no to a woman.
*Teamhair : Tara, the seat of the high king of Ireland
*Aonghus : Son of the great Irish god of plenty, Daghda and the Goddess, Boann (associated with the river Boyne). Often seen as the inspirer of love.
*Quicken tree : Rowan Tree
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It was so amazing, honestly the best love story out, thanks for uploading that. Perfect example of 2 legends trying to express unlimited emotion of love.
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Thank you very much Ella. I’m delighted you enjoyed it.
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Young Turks’ Hasan Piker: “America Deserved 9/11,” Mocks Dan Crenshaw’s War Injury
I think Hasan Piker and I should have a beer summit in Manhattan sometime soon.
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In a Twitch livestream on Tuesday night, Hasan Piker, reviewing a clip of U.S. Military veteran Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) talking to podcast host Joe Rogan, mocked Crenshaw’s lost eye, a wartime injury, and said America “deserved” 9/11.
Piker said, “This guy has the understanding of foreign policy of, like, a 12-year-old. What the f***. What the f*** is wrong with this dude? Didn’t he go to war and like literally lose his eye because some mujahideen — a brave f***ing soldier — f***ed his eye hole with their d***?”
Cenk's Nephew called the man who took @DanCrenshawTX's eye a "brave fucking soldier" This is what happens when you're gifted a job by your Uncle you know you didn't earn & it eats away at your mental state. pic.twitter.com/BohESrbvJ6
— Sean Fitzgerald (@IamSean90) August 21, 2019
During the same stream, he said “America deserved 9/11, dude.” Referring to the attacks on the Twin Towers that killed 3,000 innocent people.
Twitch Streamer who’s (Far Left) says “America deserved 911” @Twitch has NOT banned him #DramaAlert pic.twitter.com/N0ZpcJ90Ia
— KEEM 🍿 (@KEEMSTAR) August 21, 2019
I think Hasan Piker and I should have a beer summit in Manhattan sometime soon. I will even make sure and bring the eyepatch he’ll be wearing later that day. Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL, lost his eye in an explosion during deployment in Afghanistan. His campaign website described the incident thoroughly:
On Dan’s third deployment in 2012, his life changed forever. After six months of combat operations, Dan was hit by an IED blast during a mission in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was evacuated and awoke from his medically induced coma learning that his right eye had been destroyed in the blast and his left eye was still present, but badly damaged. Dan was completely blind and the doctors did not believe he would ever see again. Tara stood by him every day and night, keeping faith and praying he would see again. After several difficult surgeries, he eventually regained sight in his left eye, a miracle according to the head surgeon.
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Dr. Tech: Women Rock Physics
January 21, 2016 in Dr. Tech, Education, Physics | Tags: employment, equity, future, Physics, women | Leave a comment
My first impression on entering the room was immediate awareness of the ample collective brain power.
The room was LaSelles Stewart Center last weekend on January 16-17, the event was a Conference on Undergraduate Women in Physics (CUWIP) and the participants were more than 100 physicists from the Northwest.
The attendees gathered to learn about opportunities in the professions of physics, discuss their research and share experiences about the opportunities and challenges of navigating through a discipline long dominated by men.
The atmosphere was markedly optimistic and collegial; sentiments that I shared at the vision of so many bright minds setting forth to change our world.
After the conference I met with some of the OSU organizers – Dr. Janet Tate (Professor of Physics), Allison Gicking (3rd year PhD student in Biophysics) and Kelby Peterson (1st year PhD student in Solid State Materials Physics).
They were tired because running a successful conference is a massive undertaking and I appreciate their generosity in time and thoughts.
There are about 20,000 professional physicists in the US and Dr. Tate told me that about 20% of those are women.
From the OSU Physics Department page I see that there are 17 tenure-line faculty members 5 of whom are women, which is 30%.
This is problematic because employment in physics typically requires a PhD or beyond and the number of women pursuing physics degrees is nearly equal to men doing the same.
Gender equity is working among students in higher education. Yet if the employment numbers stay as they are, the majority of women with physics degrees will end up in careers different from their degree focus.
It is not the case that success with a physics degree leads solely to working at a University or Federal lab. There is growing demand for physics majors in sectors working with energy technology, medicine, information technology, semiconductors, space, environmental technology, among other applied research-and-development fields.
The key question is not “what can I do with a physics degree?” but rather “what can I do with a mind that is capable of succeeding at a physics degree?” That is true of every degree focus.
What accounts for the low ratio of women employed as professional physicists?
It is not that women are less interested in science than men. Women are entering and completing degree programs at all levels across the sciences including physics.
Dr. Tate hypothesizes that the cultures of physics departments and research organizations work against women who have or plan to have children.
Gicking and Peterson point out that the rarity of female role models in professional physics is a barrier to women entering the field.
These explanations are supported by a 2013 Nature article by Helen Shen, “Inequality quantified: Mind the gender gap.” Search for that article on the web because the interactive data presentation there is fascinating and tells the story in ways that my words cannot.
Does it matter whether physics research and teaching is conducted by women? Yes it does.
For one, the physics of reality – such as gravity – does not differentiate between genders. There is one physics for us all, so bringing diverse perspectives to a common topic increases the potential for shared knowledge. As Gicking put it; “the domain of the unknown is getting smaller.”
My observation is that the domain of ignorance may not be getting smaller and many people are increasingly distant from the world of science.
Human knowledge need not be scientific but it should not anti-scientific. The more our population understands science the better for our culture.
Making way for more women who like science, including those who are able to pass that on to their kids, to participate professionally confers a general benefit.
The corollary is that it would be beneficial for more men to maintain an interest in the sciences. I am philosopher and I read something about physics and other sciences every day. That’s one way to keep current with our fast changing world.
The human species currently faces some very large-scale wicked problems including environmental shift and social fragmentation.
A “wicked problem” is one that is hard to solve because of its extreme complexity and dynamic requirements.
Traditional approaches to problem-solving may not be adequate to these big issues.
Dr. Tate notes that a benefit to more women working as professional physicists is an increase in collaborative modes of research.
Gicking and Peterson observed that women in physics often seek an interdisciplinary focus and that “interdisciplinary science is the way of the future.”
I hypothesize that the human species has a kind of group intelligence that manifests as social change in response to large-scale pressures.
Rats do this; when they overpopulate an area the individuals spontaneously stop mating.
Pressure on the whole population results in modifications of individual behaviors.
Perhaps the recent influx of women into science through education and the professions is our species intelligence transforming the way that we construct knowledge and approach issues in ways more appropriate to the wicked problems. Note: those who dislike “intelligence” may just as readily read this as a bottom-up evolutionary process.
It is good for women to want to be in physics and it is good for plenty of professional scientists to be women. Our institutions should reciprocate this movement by developing family supportive policies including maternity leave, family leave and daycare.
Some physicists are taking the lead in making the change happen.
This is the 11th year of CUWIP sessions and the first time the conference has been held at OSU, thanks to Dr. Janet Tate, Allison Gicking, Kelby Peterson, and a group of dedicated students on the conference planning group.
This is how intentional change happens my friends and I urge you to seek out further opportunities to increase awareness and participation within this amazing place that is our academic home.
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Dr. Tech: Sci Fi and Other Realities (Part I)
April 27, 2015 in Dr. Tech, Emerging, Technology | Tags: fiction, film, future, literature, science | Leave a comment
Technology Across the Curriculum (TAC), my OSU home, has the charge to explore how changes in technology may affect the pursuit of knowledge by students and instructors.
This effort is called “futurecasting” and is based on forms of analysis that I’ve taught in my ALS199 course “FutureTech”; what I offer here owes much to what I have learned from the remarkable students of that course (hi you guys)!
Futurecasting is not merely guessing or a form of science fiction, though I think it fair to say that science fiction is not merely guessing either.
Science fiction is a literary genre that uses speculation about possible derivations of science and technology to comment on the human condition.
Quality science fiction does more than merely imagine some fantastic new technology, it connects the imagined technology to our present condition through extrapolations from existing science.
Writer Arthur C. Clarke’s third law of literary speculation is; “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
I take this to mean that magic in literature is sheer imagination and needs no explanation, while the speculative technologies of science fiction require some plausible relation to known reality.
The technologies in science fiction films vary between the speculative and magical.
We may distinguish these in retrospect depending on how closely actual changes in culture maps to past representations of the future.
Judge for yourself as I briefly survey the history of science fiction film from its onset through the 1960s.
Le Voyage Dans la Lun [A Trip to the Moon] (1902): French artist Georges Méliès started the science fiction film genre with his fanciful adaptation of a novel by Jules Verne.
Melies’ technology is almost wholly inaccurate although he did introduce space travel and a moon landing to the public imagination at a time when the existence of motion pictures alone was a mind-bending technology.
Robert Goddard launched the world’s first liquid-fueled rocket in 1926 and 43 years later a rocket did send people to walk on the moon, which much of the world watched live on television.
Metropolis (1927): The first great science fiction film is by Fritz Lang whose vision of occult robotics and mechanized society driven by vast social inequality anticipates the digital divide that faces us today.
The Jetsons (1962): I grant that this goofy cartoon series was not intended as serious social commentary, but watch a few episodes and you will see remarkably approximate representations of video chat, tablet news readers, flying cars, dog walking treadmills, robot chefs, a medical pillcam, and the smart watch; all of which are with us now in some functional form (as demonstrated by the links in this post).
The Jetsons was a spinoff of the popular cartoon series, The Flintstones (1960), which depicted a fantasy stone age world in which modern machine technology was accomplished by uses of imaginary animals; for instance a can opener operated by a living bird with a long beak.
Both The Flintstones and The Jetsons provide a mid-twentieth century view of society by substituting everyday processes with imaginary methods – in one case magical and in the other science fiction.
I point this out because for some people the fact that we are talking about cartoons and movies designed for entertainment rules out any serious meaning to be derived.
I disagree with that exclusion because all reality has some meaning and often the significances that are hard for us to recognize occur in the form of the seemingly trivial; in history the jester has often been the sole agent who may reveal undesired truths to the powerful.
If one approaches the task of understanding from a position of already knowing what is and is not meaningful, then the effort will be short and simple, but not more truthful.
Alphaville (1965): Technocratic totalitarianism is a modern anxiety that continues to inspire depiction in film and most follow the lead of the film by Jean Luc Goddard which presents a society dominated by an artificial intelligence that outlaws emotion and the irrational.
Star Trek (1966): The relatively obscure TV series which became a phenomenon is a gold mine of speculative technology which anticipated applied science such as the cloaking device, the medical tricorder, the communicator and the replicator.
Most remarkable aspect of the original Star Trek was its premise that the human species would survive to thrive in the 23rd century.
In the 1960’s most of us assumed that the human species was on track to annihilate itself through nuclear war or some other apocalyptic technology.
Star Trek’s creator Gene Roddenberry showed us a human future that had not committed species suicide, transcended racism, sexism and nationalism, succeeded in peaceful collaboration with alien species (except for Klingons and Tholians), progressed with an economy without money but based on human excellence and operated by consensus with a moral principle of universal respect.
The original Star Trek may look comical by current production values, but it presented a unique conception of hope in humanity at a time when the human prospect appeared dim to many and the stories of the series are better than much of what is sold as science fiction today.
Fahrenheit 451 (1966): François Truffaut adapted Ray Bradbury’s novel about a future where books are banned “firemen” are a kind of SWAT team who find and burn the hidden libraries of resisting bibliophiles (451F being the burning point of paper – sort of).
The film ably depicts a world without reading, even the film titles and credits are spoken, and human relationships are mediated via ubiquitous room-sized flat-screens.
If we stripped all text from YouTube it would look a lot like the world of this film and given the contemporary push for video over text in education, the issues raised in this story about the future of cognition remain relevant.
The film music is by Bernard Hermann who asked Truffaut why he had not chosen a “modern” composer and was answered; “They’ll give me music of the twentieth century but you’ll give me music of the twenty first!”
Planet of the Apes (1968): The idea of non-human apes supplanting humans is a popular culture phenomenon that started with a film based on the 1963 novel by Pierre Boulle.
The film script was written by Rod Serling, creator of the Twilight Zone (which itself is a wealth of futurecasting), and at center is a reversal of evolutionary science in which chimpanzees and gorillas progress to the dominant species while homo sapiens devolves to non-sentient brutes.
The concept continues to flourish via remakes, sequels, tv series, and more because the story confronts viewers with the problem of: what does it mean to be human?
This month a federal judge rules that two chimpanzees caged in NY have the legal right of habeas corpus (the right to legally challenge one’s imprisonment), which is remarkable in a decade where some human beings have been officially denied that same right.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968): A milestone for science fiction film as art was Stanley Kubrick’s enigmatic masterpiece which futurecast a rich environment of emerging technologies including the space shuttle, the space station, artificial intelligence, artificial gravity, video conferencing, digital photography, smartpens, zero gravity meals and zero gravity toilets.
Consider that the film fairly accurately shows a moon landing and walk which in fact occurred a year later when Neil Armstrong stepped onto the lunar surface in 1969.
2001 remains a great science fiction film because it raises vital questions about interrelations of humanity, history, technology and the scope of human understanding.
2001 contains magic as well, as defined by Clarke’s Law, so that separating the technically plausible from the merely imaginable remains a present challenge for interpretation.
Science fiction does not predict the future, it describes possible futures and explores the implications of them.
How the possible near futures of technology may impact learning is the area of concern in Technology Across the Curriculum at OSU and you are welcome to write to us and visit for exploration of these matters – tac@oregonstate.edu.
Next week this column will overview SciFi films of the 1970s to present and you are invited to make additions, comment and corrections below!
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Germanwings A320 Crashes in Southern France
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An Airbus plane operated by Lufthansa's Germanwings budget airline crashed in southern France on Tuesday en route from Barcelona to Duesseldorf, police and aviation officials said. (www.reuters.com) さらに...
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Er.A.K. Mittal 4 年前 9
Sad , very sad . Let's see what the black box says ?
May the souls R I P
preacher1 4 年前 3
Well, there are several key questions that seem to be surfacing and they are not really speculation. While a little aggressive, the rate of descent was not anything to get excited about as a cause, per se. It appears controlled hence CFIT. The question there is why? A comparison to an L-1011 crash in Florida back in the 70's has been drawn. In that case, all 3 in the cockpit got involved trying to handle a gear problem, failed to notice that autopilot had kicked off and that they were losing altitude. By the time it was noticed, it was too late to recover. The other thing noted is that there was no impact fire and explosion. CFIT and lack of fire are not really speculation. The boxes will tell us why.
Frank Harvey 4 年前 1
But what was in Control of the FIT, computer/autopilot or humans ?
sparkie624 4 年前 1
The FDR will have to answer that question... I hope that they find the memory card...
Wolfgang Prigge 4 年前 2
According to Agence France Presse the voice recorder did give usable information:
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http://www.lapresse.ca/international/europe/201503/25/01-4855321-vol-4u9525-des-donnees-extraites-de-la-premiere-boite-noire.php
Good deal.. the last I heard it was damaged too badly.. >Glad they got some info.
allench1 4 年前 1
Wayne I just now have info that the cockpit recorder had been reviewed and they have ruled out decompression, also no communication from either pilot was heard!
Wayne new info: one of the pilots, probably the captain was locked out of the cockpit and was heard banging on the door. good news for the 320 and terrorist, bad news for the world.
I had heard that this morning. So far, media is saying it's a leak and they are waiting on officialdom, but generally where there is smoke there is fire.
That leak is starting to become a flood. By the time officialdom gets around to confirming it, it will be old news. If it turns out to be suicide, all this will disappear PDQ. If something else, speculation will run a pretty good while.
Wayne just talked to john in London he heard direct from thief insider that there were voices but not from the crew and that they were believed to be incapacitated.
Apparently the aircraft did a lot of short flights in its 24 years of service, with an average of 5.3 flights per day. That might have caused structural problems, but, as you say, the black boxes will tell the story.
This series and the 737's are short flight, multi hop experts. That is actually what they are made for.
Wasn't there something several years about an aircraft used for short hops in Hawaii that had developed structural problems? I remember vaguely something about a huge hole.
There problem was a high number of cycles and low time in a corrosion rich environment. The main and biggest problem with that particular incident was differential metals corrosion and that flight alone is why we have the Aging Aircraft Program...
Jose Fonseca 4 年前 1
Aircraft are made after several hours and cycles a big maintenance inspection. Even X-ray are made in its structure. Corrosion are treated. Everything is like "new".
Yes and no... Once an a/c reaches a certain number of cycles then they can no longer fly in the US. It is different for different aircraft.. I know some a/c time out after 80,000 hours or 80,000 cycles, which ever comes first.
A technical/engineering necessity followed up by legal compulsion . For safety sake ! Right ?
You could say that... It is to prevent a similar fate of "Aloha Airlines Flight 243" where they blew their top... These planes can only be pressurized and depressurized so many times before they pop... Just like a balloon... It is fact that stretching the metal continually over time it is going to eventually get weaker and blow its top so to speak... When this happens, very rarely is there a good ending... That is today why we have an "Aging Aircraft Program"
bentwing60 3 年前 1
Think about it Sparkie, the rivets were designed for tension, not shear! All the stretchy, contracty stuff causes more shear than tension stress on the rivets. When was the last time one didn't fail at a rivet line?
Actually there are both types Shear and Tension. Most however are shear. Depends on the application.
Joe Birts 4 年前 1
Aloha Airlines. Section peeled off due to metal fatigue and cracks; Craft survived but I believe a Flight Attendant was literally sucked out of the aircraft.
Yeah, it was an Aloha Air Boeing 737. Turns out, I think it was way above recommended cycle count. Here is what Wiki says about that. There is more that you can just Google.
"While the airframe had only accumulated 35,496 flight hours prior to the accident, those hours were over 89,680 flight cycles (a flight cycle is defined as a takeoff and a landing), owing to its use on short flights.[1]"
Dear friend , please allow some space for my quarter cent . Like you wrote about A320 earlier also using the word "sturdy" . We all know and understand that this simple but important word is to be use in a relative way . A/C 380/747 are as sturdy as 320/727 ! But we all know the difference of this "sturdiness" . Long haul A/C if put on continuous hopping flight or if hopping type A/C are put on long haul with continuous hops both may shorten their lives . Reasons are better known to and better understood by you all , past masters of your subject . And some of you have reiterated some of these factors also so vividly and so candidly . I hail you all .
Well, in generalities, I see where you are coming from. In reality, AC are certified for hours as well as cycle count(landings/takeoff is a cycle) and in that respect, it makes no difference on long or short haul. The U.S. has put an upper limit now on older aircraft, known as the Aging Aircraft Act. I have attached a link for you and we can go from there.
http://libraryonline.erau.edu/online-full-text/books-online/AgingAircraftSafetyAct.pdf
Phil Springer 4 年前 7
http://ad.easa.europa.eu/blob/easa_ad_2014_0266_E.pdf/EAD_2014-0266-E_1
I think this link might be a strong clue. There was an A321 that experienced something similar but was able to pull out and land safely. The cause in that airplane and the reason for this EASA AD was the Angle of Attack tubes froze up giving the airplane false information.
Obviously, there are no concrete facts to suggest this airplane experienced the same issues as the one in November, but there are some similarities.
I am no expert in any of this, but based on what was published and a similar event happened within the last 6 month, this seems to me a pathway to go down.
SWEATINTHSWAMP 4 年前 1
How did the crew on that A-321 overcome the problem?
http://www.aeroinside.com/item/4946/lufthansa-a321-near-bilbao-on-nov-5th-2014-loss-of-4000-feet-of-altitude
Ian Narita 4 年前 1
Interesting. According to Flight Aware tracking logs the aircraft made a left turn from a heading of. 43° to 26° on crossing the Mediterranean coast. At about that time the aircraft began its descent.
I haven't looked at it myself but somewhere on here someone has said that they did and that was pretty well standard, as that most of the previous flights did the same. I think it is just coincidental that it came about the same time.
mariofer 4 年前 1
We need to go back to hydraulic assisted cables and pulleys before HAL has a REALLY bad day. Maybe he already did on this one.
HAL already seems part way there, look at Tony Smith's post below (from about 15 hours earlier than this post) on the override procedure for humans to regain control. Simple in a simulator when you know how but what about in a gale swirling around a locked, depressurizing cockpit when your window just busted out and the FO is bleeding all over you from being hit in the head by debris.
Its not just in aviation; some years ago one of the US Navy's latest anti-aircraft cruisers, which is supposed to protect an entire aircraft carrier battle group, had to be towed back to Norfolk when the engines quit and refused to restart. The cold water intake sensor had broken and in the absence of a cooling water signal the computer had decided that they couldn't run the engines without cooling else they might be damaged. The actual cooling system was functioning properly, only a sensor was down, but there was no way to override the computer. In a combat situation the group would have lost its primary AA protection. I think there was also a similar case for a cruise ship full of kids off the coast of Alaska or Washington State in a storm a few years ago, which left the ship rolling around in bad conditions, and the Chief Engineer having to rip out wiring to bypass the computer, but I can't remember the exact details of that one.
We need to build in simple bypasses or overrides to anything controlled by silicon, and with the hydraulics you suggest run a redundant system through the ceiling (L-1011) and not just the floor (DC10).
They were conscious.
Mathias Böttcher 4 年前 7
Schlichtweg Trauer für alle Opfer dieses Fluges, Mittgefühl für alle Angehörige, aber auch Mittgefühl gegenüber den Mittarbeitern von Garmanwings - sprachlos über die Tatsache und Machtlosigkeit gegenüber dieser Tragödie in den Alpen - Hoffnung auf volle Aufklärung -
ein Schreckenstag für mich als Fan der Luftfahrt - in Trauer Mathias Böttcher
Google translate: Simply sorrow for all the victims of this flight , Mitt feeling for all members , but also mid- feeling towards the mid workers of Garmanwings - speechless about the fact and powerlessness over this tragedy in the Alps - Hope for full enlightenment -
a dreadful day for me as a fan of aviation - in mourning Mathias Böttcher
David Webb 4 年前 13
Three comments:
1.The sad, but possible truth to the Germanwings fiasco is that even if the Captain had been able to bash his way back into the cockpit of that A-320 he may not have been able to save the airplane.
If the Airbus "computer" decided the Captain was, let's say, commanding a three G pullup to clear the mountain tops it would not have let him do it and the aircraft would have impacted the top of the mountain instead of the valley mountain side.
A Boeing, on the other hand, would have been over-G'd with a three G pullup, a wing spar might have been bent and the aircraft would certainly have required an inspection, but the Captain would have had complete control of the aircraft instead of some "computer" and 150 lives may have been spared.
2. That Germanwings co-pilot would NEVER have been hired by any US carrier, period. Too little experience, "experience" that quite possibly would have weeded him out of the gene pool way before he even had an opportunity to apply for an airline job.
3. In my thirty-seven year airline career I flew with plenty of guys who were probably "clinically depressed." Guys going through divorce, guys with wives with cancer, guys with kids with severe drug problems or in jail for one thing or another, married guys whose girlfriends were pregnant. You name it. Airline pilots are no different than any other cross section of professions.
The huge difference was that those guys knew how to separate their personal lives from their professional lives.
They always few the jet.
Peter Steitz 4 年前 6
Dave, Dave, Dave, you're my man. Your #3 is right on. Don't bring your personal life into the cockpit. You have to "compartmentalize" and leave it at home. One scenario I have used in class during CRM (I have taught recurrent and newbys) is......you're on a 4 day trip. On the second day, your spouse tells you that she's filing for divorce. What do you do? I actually relished in my flying because it took me out of the mundane world and into a place that I loved. I retired with 14000 hours of love and hate but I really loved every minute. Fly the jet! It's a vacation sometimes.
Most cogent assessment of the 300 some odd on this thread, and I concur with Peter on the love hate thing after 35 aviating years, but one thing I will tell you that I believe is, They don't make em like they used to, and I ain't talking about the equipment!
bentwing60, this is a generation of teach me quick. Just tell me what I need to know and make me a pilot. Cram and pass the FAA exam and presto you're a pilot. I don't think so.
TWA55 4 年前 5
Yup, today, fly a 172 for few hours, get sim training and next thing you know your flying as a co-pilot on a complex jet, makes sense to me. There is no substitute for experience, and w/ or w/out a mental problem, this guy as w/ many others does not belong in a complex jet w/ his obvious lack of experience. Still in shock
David Webb 4 年前 1
Peter, Bentwing and Vince,
Foreign carriers, with the possible exceptions of NO ONE, do not have the quality of pilots that US carriers have. They simply do not have a source for them and with the surge of airline flying this problem will get more critical.
They do not have extensive Air Forces, Navies or Armies with pilots who then go the airlines to fly. They do not have charter operators, commuter carriers or any of the other myriad of other means by which pilots in the US gain the experience to advance to the cockpits of major carriers.
The philosophy of Airbus (and it was a conscious, corporate decision), therefore, was to design their airplanes to cater to these very low time, inexperienced pilots. The Bus is meant to be flown on autopilot -- as much as possible. Therefore, these low time pilots, then, never gain any real stick and rudder time throughout their careers unless they fly on the outside -- which is very expensive due to the high price of fuel. That's why many fly gliders...better than nothing, I guess.
They get hired by the guys who trained them and then, theoretically, get OJT while in the right seat being tutored by a Captain (who came from the same background) who may, or may not be capable of mentoring a neophyte pilot. My guess is that a lot of them are simply "gear raisers and radio operators."
In the US, many new airline pilots (as well as many not-so-new pilots) are still flying in the Air Guard or Reserve and sharpening their skills outside of airline flying. Many fly on their days off in other aircraft sharpening their skills. I flew F-84F's and F-100C's in the Guard for a number of years early in my airline career and built and flew a bi-winged aerobatic plane to hone those stick and rudder skills. None of this is available to foreign pilots, or only available to a very, very few.
With the retirement of older pilots -- who always had "hand flying" experience due to the fact that aircraft were not designed during their days to be computer dependent -- we are running into a new generation of pilots (this is now occurring in the US as well) who really have little stick and rudder experience. That may be all well and good when things go the way they should. But, when it turns pear-shaped and a pilot has to rely on basic flying skills he has BIG problems.
Also, years of experience prior to gaining a seat at a major carrier exposes a pilot to peer and superior review and weeds out the weak dicks along the way, either by natural attrition or simply being fired due to any number of causes, ie. lack of ability, instability or the greatest equalizer of all -- impact with the ground, etc.
This self policing situation generally does not exist in other countries.
In addition, their training slots and subsequent airline jobs, in many cases, go to the son's of the "privileged" classes, the son's of the wealthy, the son's of the "connected." Kids who really have, generally speaking, no concept of what it is to work and sacrifice for anything; entitled kids who believe they are "owed" the job.
Their whole system is fraught with failure from their pilot training to their airplanes...but, welcome to the new world of foreign airline flying.
So what, as a passenger do you do to insure survivability?
1. Never fly on an Airbus unless you have absolutely no other choice.
2. Never fly on a foreign carrier unless you have absolutely no other choice.
Mr Webb,
While I have some sympathy with your perspective on the Airbus, I totally disagree with a couple of your statements :
1. "That's why many fly gliders...better than nothing, I guess."
Please don't disparage glider pilots. British and German glider pilots have to learn a lot more about all aspects of aviation than US powered-flight pilots. Glider pilots don't have an engine to climb them out of trouble and when they run out of lift they have to land. So they have to be much more situationally, and locationally aware during all stages of flight. One example is take-off emergencies : it had been my experience that cable breaks on winch launches were far more common than powered-flight engine failures (which I've never experienced). From the take-off roll onwards glider pilots have to be planning where and how to put it down safely, and on a winch take off and climb, its from a nose high attitude part way down the runway. Weather knowledge and awareness is far more critical, gliders can't just turn around and head the other way. The only unsafe glider operations I've witnessed have been towed operations in the USA. One particularly dangerous US tow pilot started his roll on the grass beside the runway where I was just about to flare a Warrior. I had called position on unicom thoughout the pattern, including a direct reference to "tow pilot at New Garden", but he was not listening to the radio and the American wingholder had never been instructed in his responsibilities.
It was my experience that glider clubs in the UK were frequently populated by relatively unwealthy but extremely knowledgeable enthusiasts who spent all day on the field sharing the work on the winch operation so that they could get a few launches. Many Americans just show up and pay a tow pilot.
I witnessed some "professional" US pilots who didn't even learn the rules where they were operating. In the Persian Gulf in the late 1970s some TWA pilots were not aware there was no night VFR and would argue with ATC when their call to cancel their flight plan was denied.
2. You said "Never fly on a foreign carrier unless you have absolutely no other choice".
It has been my experience that British Airways flight and cabin crew are far more professional, and adhere much more rigidly to safe practices, than some US airline personnel. In one case I was a pax on a Northwest 727 from KMSP to KFAR where the stews were clustered together at the rear, chatting, all the way from pushback to takeoff roll, not checking seatbelts and completely ignoring the PA, including the instruction to "prepare for takeoff". As the roll started a couple of them frantically ran through the cabin slamming the overhead bin doors. We were airborne before they got to their seats. While some BA flight and cabin staff may have appeared somewhat arrogant I have never seen them display unprofessional or dangerous behavior.
Whenever possible I choose to fly BA over any US carrier.
I will withhold my perspectives on the demonstrated incompetence of (some) US National Guard pilots, but they do seem to periodically shoot up their own Marines, and allied ground forces, strafe a column of tractors pulling refugees on trailers because they "resembled BTRs", shoot down a Blackhawk they positively identified as a Hind, and even discard an A10 canopy while reaching for their sunglasses.
What was that about glass houses ?
As someone else says...Just sayin'
Cole Parsons 4 年前 2
Going off on that tangent, I think that as far as passenger experience quality goes, foreign airlines do it best. In the United States, airlines are too concerned with making a large profit, and as long as they are able to keep a pretty consistent monopoly on the market, they will continue to do whatever they please.
This being said, U.S. airlines certainly do have a superior flight record comparatively to international carriers. This is due to many things, but mainly because the airline/aviation infrastructure in the U.S. has been around longer, and therefore, has had time to adjust to what government officials feel are the best, safest operating standards. The whole "two crew members in the cockpit at all times" thing has been around since at least 9/11 in the US, but in Europe, there hasn't really been a strong motivation to implement this policy until now. Hopefully, airlines in Europe will catch onto the policies in the United States that allow it to consistently come out on top for airline safety, having the least amount of air-to-air incidents, and the most rigorous application process for becoming certified to operate on the flight deck.
Whenever they do, if they do, switch over to U.S. styled policy-making, hopefully it won't have a lasting impact on their impeccable customer experience. :)
RIP to those who passed away in the accident, and good luck to them as they move on to the next hurdle of the universe.
Had an interesting conversation today with a young guy I met at the cigar store I own. He is thirty four years old and just hired on with Delta Airlines.
Fifteen years ago he joined the local Air Guard unit and was a wrench on the F-16's here while he completed his education. Ten years ago he went to USAF pilot training through the ANG program but with another Air Guard unit flying KC 135's.
The past ten years he has been flying the KC-135 all over the earth AND flying a Bombardier Global Express for a private family out of Chicago -- again all over the world.
You could not find a more qualified airline new hire -- remember, he is thirty four years old.
He said that all the majors were averaging 70-75% ex-military pilots in their new hire programs and the rest were coming from regionals with years of experience.
When I hired on in '66, 100% of my new hire class was ex-military.
Absolutely no one would have the balls to show up at any US carrier today with two hundred and fifty hours of flying time and expect to be shown anything but the door.
As for sailplane experience? I would imaging that would be a bit like going to bed with a hooker; fun while your are doing it, but not something you would want to tell your friends about.
Keep in mind that Scully of USAir had Float Plane and Glider experience.... It sure paid off in the Hudson !!
Sparkie,
Not to in any way diminish the accomplishments of Sully and his event. But, I seriously doubt that any competent airline pilot would have anything other than the same result. The "float plane and glider experience" was not an issue.
After all there was really no other real alternative but to land in the river.
I instructed, during my thirty seven year career, as a pilot check airman and simulator instructor (among other things like FAA designee, etc), hundreds of pilots for my airline. One of the exercises I always gave them was to snap shot them in a simulator to a position 100 miles east of LAX at 31,000 in VFR conditions and shut down their engines (unable to restart) and tell them to land at LAX, any runway, their choice.
I never had one man fail the exercise, ever. Were they all pretty? No, but they were all survivable and stopped on the runway.
LAX runways are 200 feet wide and roughly 10,000 feet long (don't remember exactly). The Hudson river was five miles long at that point and a half mile wide, albeit wet. Rescue craft were there in minutes.
Any of the men I trained, with or without glider experience, should have been able to do the same thing.
Airliners are not gliders with glide ratios of 40 to 1, but they will glide when slowed to their best lift/drag speed a long, long way. The secret is the speed and even that can be played with to the pilot's advantage depending on conditions.
David, that may very well be so as we all know that normally a plane, contrary to popular opinion, just does not fall out of the sky when unpowered. That said, Sully himself gave credit to that experience being able to help him land as he did.
Very true, and also other pilots in a simulator were unable to make that landing and survive it.
??? Where did you hear or read this?
Show me a link or substantiate your claim.
I know some gamers came out with a simulation online where people could try to land on the Hudson and some people succeeded and some failed. But, I have never heard of any test situation of real pilots in a real simulator trying to duplicate Sully's landing and fail, or otherwise.
joel wiley 4 年前 2
That subject has been discussed in a number of forums. That it has not come to your attention yet in no way detracts from that.
A quick google search "pilots fail Simulation of hudson airbus landing" found the following in short order.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703612804575222482042335978
http://www.wired.com/2010/05/ntsb-makes-recommendations-after-miracle-on-the-hudson-investigation/
The first is interesting that pilots expecting the scenario did a successful RTB. As they say, the first one is genius, the rest are engineeering.
I do not know where this statement was, but I know that USAir ran pilots through this scenerio and none got it.
William McIntosh 4 年前 0
I believe we Americans can safely (generally) differentiate between British airmanship and that which is found in Germany. Like US carriers, British carriers have not suffered an accident in some time. While Lufthansa had a sterling reputation until now, Mr Webb is correct that the ab initio aspect of Lufthansa, followed by transition into line work, does result in some experiential gaps in pilot portfolios. Mr harvey makes Mr Webb's point in that many UK pilots, himself included, do have American experience, which , because of its subjection of pilots to a rich ( and, yes, sometimes dangerous) variety of experiences which does produce a far more versatile pilot than mere ratings can provide.
However, i stand with Mr Webb in that it cannot be denied that foreign cArriers outside of the English-speaking world simply do not have the safety record recently that US-UK-Canadian-Australian-New Zealand-South African operations have. As for the United States, yes, the seats are too small, the cabin crew sometimes giggles and gossips, and you get a soda, but---when it's 400 feet and 1/2 in Denver in blowing snow, put me in the back of one of those regional jets any time, because you can be sure that those airmen ( and women)---- who fly them for nothing and live from crash pad to crash pad---damn well know what they are doing and will get you there safe and sound
David Webb 4 年前 -1
Mr. Harvey,
1. My intention was not to disparage gliders and I apologize if I offended your sensitive nature on that subject. My point was that sailplane flying was better than no flying...I guess.
2. Sorry, but I must disagree with your BA statement. BA has the same problem as all other foreign carriers -- no pool of qualified new hires. So they also have ab initio programs that take people from zero to a couple of hundred hours and put them in the right seat of a jet transport and left to be "trained" by the Captains they fly with. This is no different than Germanwings.
Also, I never mentioned anything about "professionalism" with foreign carriers. Many of them are very professional. Professionalism, however, does not equate to "proficiently."
Your anecdotal example of a flight on Northwest means nothing, really, and you are talking about Flight Attendants, not pilots. I have ridden in the jumpseats of BA 767 and 777 cockpits and can tell you that their cockpit crews are nothing to write home about.
As for the competence of "some US National (sic) Guard pilots" it is obvious that you understand nothing about war in regards to how it is fought from the cockpit of a fighter. Mistakes are unfortunate, but they have always been a thread thinly woven in the tapestry of battle. At least the US is fighting, something I see little of from our "great ally," Britain.
What you should worry about is your country and its obvious bend on self destruction in regards to the Muslim problem you have internally. There is no doubt, sir, why Britain lost its empire...
I would like to see this discussion stick to the piloting of modern jets. However, it now has sunk into the political. I guess, now days this can be expected. When I was in USAF flight school, I had two classmates who were Iranian. We trained them in our Air Force. In Vietnam, I flew alongside Australians. This Germanwings event could have occurred right here in the US. Where do we draw the line? I flew with crews where I wondered if we should be here today. However, I could not question and then judge until I really saw something I could prove. They were all "qualified" and "certified" to fly. Were they really? Actually, was I?
Great Points Mr Webb!
1. Gliders have little utility and are not that useful as a primer to powered flight, except in the matter of the selection of a suitable landing area in the event of an engine failure. However, with its exagerrated glide ratio, a glider does not duplicate the gliding performance of a light general aviation aircraft
2. i've learned something...i had always supposed that BA flight crews were among the very best in regard to proficiency...I do think it's interesting that most foreigners cannot differentiate between 'professionalism" and 'proficiency' with regard to the quality of a pilot's operations.
3. While I am sure that RAF crews would love to be more actively in the fray, Europeans generally and european politicians especially, want America to do their fighting for them, while they tut-tut America as the land of the gun-toting Cowboy, which they have of course risen above...and I couldn't agree more about their Mslim problem...Mr Obama joins them, unfortunately, in his inability to see Radical Islam as trhe defining challenge to Western Civilization that it is and has been for centuries.
Al Palmer 4 年前 2
While everyone is entitled to their opinion, I take issue with your third statement. I understood WWII, in particular, was fought as an allied effort. Am I mistaken, but didn't the RAF hold back the enemy advance under Churchill's courageous leadership during the Battle of Britain when she stood alone, using home built Spitfires and Hurricane aircraft?
As someone mentioned above, Just sayin'...
World War II was then...modern European free riding on American defense is now...i actually think we Americans are far too rude in this world for Europeans and we should withdraw from NATO... However I do feel the Norwegians, the Danes, the Irish, the French, the Dutch, the Italians, the Scots, and especially the Swedes, are worth defending...Just sayin' 2
No one here is talking about WWII, when, if the US had not entered the war, the results would have been quite different and German would now be the language of Europe.
The RAF recognises seven aircrew personnel who were from the United States of America as having taken part in the Battle of Britain. American citizens were prohibited from serving under the various US Neutrality Acts; if an American citizen had defied strict neutrality laws, there was a risk of losing their citizenship and imprisonment. Even so, it is believed that another four Americans misled the British authorities about their origins, claiming to be Canadian or other nationalities.
As I mentioned previously, everyone is entitled to their opinion. It's now easy to understand why certain citizens from certain nations are considered 'rude' in the world...
Yes Al,
At least in this country, everyone is entitled to their own opinion and it is guaranteed by the 1st Amendment of our Constitution.
However, everyone is not entitled to their own facts... Huge difference...
I'm sorry, but didn't I say 'arrogant' as well?! And besides, who mentioned names? I guess the old proverbial applies, "If the shoe fits.."
Btw, I am an American Citizen whose father was a G.I. and stationed in Britain during the war. However, I'm not going to stand idly by and see my country of birth being insulted by the likes of you two!
"The likes of you two"...??? Please, Mr Palmer, don't be a crybaby...and we Americans routinely endure overseas insults...BTW, I happen to really like the Brits, despite their arrogance and the FACT that they drive on the wrong side of the road...:))))...if you can show demonstrable evidence that modern European aviation is in some ways NOT seriously DEFICIENT in the formation of PROFICIENT airmen that are VERSATILE under all operating scenarios, then by all means please do so...the fact that they are safe in the carefully controlled EUROPEAN environment and on well-worn long haul routes is no real evidence, in my view...and I grant you that there are always individuals who are exceptions
So, please wear your American citizen hat and chill out
jusgt sayin'5
Also, please accept my apology to both you and Mr. Webb, for saying certain things regrettably, in the heat of the moment. It would help to have an edit option on these posts, at least for me anyway..
The edit function is covered my the checklist item:
Be sure brain is in gear before engaging mouth
(or in this case, the send key).
Alas, the item is overlooked my many, myself included at times.
You might be surprised to hear this, but I agree with the majority sentiments here. I'm also pro-Boeing, and have been practically all my life. My very first flight as a passenger was on a BOAC 707 back in the summer of 1961. Today, Boeing also has the advantage of being technically superior over Airbus with their 787 program. The A350 uses old technology (pneumatics and hydraulics), while the Dreamliner is all electric, state of the art. Even Forbes refers to the latest Airbus as a 'white elephant'. No contest there!
IMHO, that is part of what's wrong with our current generation. As we do and act today, may just not line up with 50 years ago. We have some dark spots back there. Some today want to deny or change those spots but it is what it is and they must accept it.
There is nothing wrong with our current generation, sir. I grew up in the '60s when another generation went to war in Vietnam on the lies and notions of an earlier generation, and accomplished nothing...it was a fiasco and I am so sorry for all of those who had to participate in it...I'm especially sorry for about 500 women, children, and babies in the town of My Lai, and all we did about the monster that did it was "lights on for America"....so no, the current generation is an improvement, in my view...harsh, but true
just sayin' 4 and always glad and proud to be an American and what we really stand for
I grew up in the same generation and as you say, we cannot do anything but apologize for the likes of Bill Calley. That said, what I spoke of about generation is that while we remember it and now abhor/ apologize for it, there are some, not all, members of that generation that would just flatly like to deny that that and other atrocities did not occur at all, taking a naïve look and hoping they see a rosy world out there, then sadly disappointed when reality does set in.
i totally agree with what you are saying and the present generation cannot escape its obligation to serve a cause higher than itself...I was a jet mechanic in the US Air Force and i was damned glad to throw my sharpest salute at those who taxied away and put their lives on the line for our country.
Well, I was Stationed at the bottom end of South Korea and a couple times a month a taker crew would drop by and pick us up as the had to have a flight medic on board to hit a combat zone. This undoubtedly would mean a nite at DaNang or Cam Rhan Bay, sortying in and out. Let's just say there were times when the boys out of the North ran short on gas before they could get back to a safe zone. Everybody talks about the BUFF's that got shot down over there but you don't hear anything about dumbo. Had it not been for a damn good pilot, we could be pushing up daisies over there as well.
Guess my two hundred and fifty combat missions in an F-100 in Nam in '68-'69 ain't chopped liver after all...
We may have won the war, but when I was an Army brat in the late 60's, all the Germans did cusss you behind your back and talk about how inferior you were, but the sure didn't mind taking your money. Later on as a young man and in USAF myself, Southeast Asia wasn't much different. From what I saw before I retired, not much change.
Didn't they find a similar comment on a wall in Pompeii?
yes it's very similar to the one on the wall here in El Paso
Unfortunately we all have our stereotypes, which i suppose is why British villains are a staple in American cinema...however, we do find the British to be particularly intolerant of our 2nd Amendment, for example, and our 2nd Amendment really is our affair, isn't it? Americans largely do not return the favor by flooding your media with disparagement of your monarchy, so please count that, if you will, as one small courtesy we extend to you, even in the face of our rude behavior...er, behaviour
That said, there is no doubt that an American duplication of the Germanwings SITUATION (which really was an invitation for abuse by by an unstable, low-time disturbed pilot) would not occur here. The Germans dropped the ball, period, and it's time they admitted it and moved on, rather than trying to hide behind a silly discussion about American manners and what used to be done "globally"
Just sayin' 3
Hear, hear
Mike Rsx 4 年前 1
Some evidence of pilot skill,from both manufacturers,with crew from different nations to restore your confidence perhaps
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_38
I think some of these posts were harsh on the Bus. I have never flown it but would still like to have total command of the flight. Having said that, I used autopilot almost all the time in the larger aircraft that had it. It was smooth and relieved me from constant stick and ruder flying. However, I grew up in the Jetstream J-31--no automation and like trying to stand on a beachball. Hand flying 100%. Maybe this is what we need now.
Well, I cut my teeth on a 707 and it will suffice to say that the 757 was a hellacious improvement, and at the last a newer 767 and CRJ. As far as the Airbus, I have not flown one, but I am told that without going through the process of one of their flight law changes, that you cannot go outside the flight envelope on the aircraft. I guess that is a good idea in theory, but every upset I have ever been involved in there has literally been no time to do anything other than handle the problem. Everything has a safety margin built in and sometimes you may have to use it, even if it damages the AC or requires an inspection later. As one poster said here, if the pilot had gotten back in, he might have had to over G the aircraft and the computer would not have let him. He would have crashed into the mountaintop instead of in that valley. The computer was a factor in AF447. It has not reared it's head in the last few years but I don't think anything has been done to correct it. The other thing that came into play was non-linked sidesticks. New manufactures like Bombardier and Gulfstream are linking them but Airbus has never corrected to my knowledge. Computers and FBW are a fine thing in place of hydraulic, but as the hydraulic, should be only an assist and not thinking for themselves. There is even talk now of a redundant hydraulic system for the FBW so who knows where it will all end.
There is a lot to be said for the 707 that in some places is still flying today..... 60 plus years of service... I doubt and who here has the gonads to take an A320 and do a barrel roll.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KNbKFMBsQE
Sparkie, if you do a barrel roll correctly, the aircraft will only get maybe 2-4 G's. Over the top and backside, you float--might be a fuel and oil problem for a non acro plane.
A properly executed barrel roll is a "1G" maneuver. If you get anywhere near 2G's you have screwed up the roll. Almost any certified aircraft can be barrel rolled, no matter if it is a C-172 or a B-777.
You should be able to put a cup of coffee on the glare shield, perform the barrel roll, and not spill a drop of coffee. Fuel and oil systems would not know if they are right side up or upside down.
Sustained negative G's might require a flop tube in the fuel tank to keep from starving a reciprocating engine from being fuel starved. Oil systems in aerobatic aircraft that are designed to maintain sustained negative G's have specially designed oil systems to do the same.
David, in the pull up to the top of the barrel, you HAVE to pull more than 1G. The pull up is not a steady state, 1G climb. Likewise, after floating down the backside, more than 1G is required to arrest the descent back to where you started. Don't confuse a barrel roll with an aileron roll.
Watch this. Bob Hoover for the res of you who are correct.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMWxuKcD6vE
I beg to differ with you. I have flown hundreds of barrel rolls in my Christen Eagle II as well as other aerobatic aircraft. A perfect barrel roll can be flow at 1G -- it is all dependent on the rate of your roll maneuver. And, I do know the difference between an aileron roll and a barrel roll.
You have a point here. It does depend on the size and rate of roll. The larger the barrel the longer it takes, rate of roll is slow and unless you have lots of power you will runout of airspeed and have to float over the top and down the backside in order to have a perfect circle. The object is not to do it fast but to scribe a perfect circle while G's and airspeed are constantly changing. Remember your Chandel practices?
Check this out... A Perfect Barrel Roll in a Kingair - Pouring a drink during a barrel roll... Check it out... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGprpxA0Q8M If they can do this, the oil will stay where it is supposed to, and so will the fuel.
I think you are incorrect.... 1G maneuver and the 1G would be pointed to the bottom of the aircraft not the ground... The oil would have stayed where it was supposed just as the fuel would... You did not watch the video.. Tex him self talks about it.
Seems to me,the 'correct' way to barrel roll the A320 is not at all.
Which leads to the question of whether the A320 computer system is programmed to deal with inverted.
If it is outside the flight envelope, it is either not programmed/or just flat won't let you.
Exactly... So if something were to get it into that position, how would it get itself out... If the programming is not tre.. it is not going to happen...
I wouldn't be crazy about barrel rolling anything. LOL
But on the other hand the safety record of the A320 is second only to your beloved 757. I understand you reluctance to fly anything you can't control 100%, but there must be something Airbus is doing right, otherwise the safety record would show it with such a mass produced aircraft.
I still don't like a machine that thinks for itself. That's what a pilot is for. You are correct about the safety record but I think that it is just luck that it hasn't reared its head somewhere. I think the mistake in all the FBW, regardless of mfg, is that the computer and electronics can be an assist rather than a primary function. I think that Boeing is set up this way, not sure. I know the 777 had some FBW and the 787 is all FBW but they kept the stick/yoke rather than go sidestick.
Agreed... Pilot should have the final authority over the plane when it is in the air... France Airshow low fly over was an excellent example.... Computer over road the crew.... The fact that Bus thinks that airplanes should have authority over the captain is my main problem with the entire series of planes.
I understand perfectly what you mean preacher & sparkie, and I agree. But the present level of safety in aviation is so high, at least in most countries, that I have no problem to do my job as self-loading cargo. In the last three years I've parked my butt in an Embraer, an ATR, a Dash 8, and several Boeings and Airbusses, from 737 to A380, with Air Canada, Air France, Lufthansa, Bulgaria Air, Royal Air Maroc, SAA and Swiss. I've never had the slightest hesitation to get on board, simply because the chances of anything going wrong are lower than being hit by lightning in my own bed. And I'd rather have several large suppliers of aircraft than only one, simply because they will push each other to be better, with different approaches.
"And I'd rather have several large suppliers of aircraft than only one, simply because they will push each other to be better, with different approaches"
As long as the competition pushes innovation and safety forward, I agree
David, I believe your remarks to be very true and on the mark. When I look at acrft accidents involving foreign carriers what seems to stand out is the pilots are fine until they run into a situation in which they are totally unprepared to handle. and in so many cases do not understand.
I have worked for a lot of airlines and in the case of the smaller carriers flying smaller acrft, the auto pilot was not an option, hand flying in all cases. Airbus makes a fine product, but the automation makes clear that the human factor is being ignored w/ a justification that as you have said caters to low experienced pilots, but this automation is removing the most important factor, hands on experience, and this is where so many would be pilots can and do get weeded out.
Europe indeed suffers from all you have said, what is ironic here is a lesson that carriers should have learned from the early years of the space program. You had test pilots, aviators who came to the program and were pilots. They were being asked to fly in complex craft that indeed required a high degree of automation due to complexity, but like the first lunar landing Apollo 13 for example it came down to those skills which these guys came in with over years of experience. They understood their situation and took control.
When QANTAS suffered their A380 engine malfunction they were very fortunate they had not only two experienced pilots flying, but I think just as important and maybe more so, they had two other qualified individuals which took so much off the mental stress of those pilots. Another example United DC-10 crash in Iowa. I am a strong believer that 3 in the cockpit should be a requirement for crews w/ a first officer and or capt. with little experience, and even for crews w/ experience when operating very large acrft, 747,777, A380 etc.
This whole event has exposed some serious issues which should not be ignored and go well beyond the ill pilot, and the accident itself. You are right, we have some dire days ahead.
David: I can kinda sympathize with where you are coming from regarding foreign pilots, but knowing a lot of them, I'd have to put Speedbird and Lufthansa pilots right up there at top with the rest of us, and that is not slighting anyone else, but these 2 are coming to mind quickly. As to this particular happening, the 2 person cockpit rule might have been a deterrent but I don't know if it would have prevented this, regardless of carrier nationality.
Preacher,
Possibly the "old school" guys you knew. I do not know any Lufthansa guys but do know plenty of old school Speedbird guys. They are a different breed of cat than the "new school" foreign pilots altogether.
The ones in the right seats are a very weak link in the chain and only luck and the odds keep them out of trouble.
As for the two-person cockpit rule when someone has to leave their seat, we will never know if, in this case, a flight attendant up there would have made a difference. My gut feeling is that it would have.
Well, regarding the 2 person thing, the fact that he put it in a controlled descent, rather than just nosing it over and sticking it in the ground, tells me that he wanted to do it his way. That might have been a deterrent, idk, but if he would have been hell bent on it, ala the FedEx guy a few years back, I don't know how far anybody could have gone.
Preacher, all the FA would have to do is flip the switch and let the Captain back in and then there would have been a struggle. I don't fly much anymore but I have seen the FA put the beverage cart in front of the CP door when a pilot got out. I have no idea where this idea came from. In a single FA airplane, I don't know it is prudent to leave the cabin unattended. In a multiple FA aircraft it makes sense.
FA posted a video of the new AB door lock mechanism and procedure. It indicated that there was a 30 second delay after entering the override code the door would unlock for 5 seconds. Could this be countered by an action on the flight deck such as reflipping the lock switch?
If flipping a switch was all there was to it, no big deal, but one thing none of the EXPURTS or Talking heads hit on very much was the fact that the is a manual bolt on that door as well. kinda like a deadbolt
just hire a 2nd FA
William, the regionals can't. Only one FA is required up to 50 seats. They say the cost is prohibitive and of course, the airlines only do as much as the FAA dictates. Fortunately, the 50 seaters are going away. All the larger regional aircraft--ERJ 175/190 and CRJ 700/900 have two FA's.
Sad but true. Well said.
I guess we'll leave the nationality out of it but in none of these response did I see any disagreement about the Airbus. I never have flown one but I will not fly a machine where I cannot in total control. That should be enough said, other that I am old school and believe in stick and rudder skills or you don't belong in a cockpit.
paul trubits 4 年前 3
Preach: Didn't Sully land a Bus in the Hudson? As my golf buddies say: It is not the arrow, it is the Indian.
Yeah, I think it was an A320, just like this one
Sully did land an A320 in the Hudson, however, Sully did not ask that A320 to do anything that the computers disagreed with. If he had had to it may have ended up quite differently.
But even the best stick and rudder skills mean nothing when used with malicious intend. Andreas Lubitz learned to fly gliders at age 14, so he probably had sufficient skills.
http://heavy.com/news/2015/03/andreas-lubitz-copilot-germanwings-flight-4u9525-plane-crash-french-alps/
responses -------- cannot be in total control
Speaking on stick and rudder in general about this younger generation of pilots and Airbus's computer control theory. I am well familiar with the glider/sailplane pilots and winch takeoffs. Used to watch them at Mannheim all the time when I was an Army Brat kid about 10 years old. You are totally correct about a deranged person. You cannot protect for everything. As with the hardened cockpit door, we kept out the very one that might've saved the day.
T Economou 4 年前 2
They don't make them like they used to?? Unfortunately true.
It would be very interesting to see PIC time routinely listed as time hand flying and time on AP.
I concur, and what makes it worse is Lufthansa now admits they did indeed know about the FO's mental state, of which their CEO denied several days ago. This, of course, opens them up to a potential massive law suit..
Signing off this thread. Thanks for the discussions as well as the food for thought.
Dave Webb
I going.
matt jensen 4 年前 1
#1. But if he had been able - the outcome might have been different, but at least he tried.
#2. He was trained in Phoenix like all Lufthansa pilots. And, if he were hired - it would be on a CJ or regional carrier.
After 17000+ hrs in jets, I'm back to flying turboprops and damn glad to do it.
Dee Lowry 4 年前 1
David- So true. Pilots these days say, "Am I automated yet"? Very few "hands on" hours in the "sim"...or outside, for that matter. Emergency scenarios that would require a mind and not a computer. Very disturbing and sad.
Hans58 4 年前 1
Too little experience?
In the USA the pilots were born with 2.000 hours of experience, probably!!!!
Perhaps that's why it's called the land of opportunity and this is what the American Dream mean ! ha ha ha
That Germanwings co-pilot would NEVER have been hired by any US carrier, period. Too little experience, "experience" that quite possibly would have weeded him out of the gene pool way before he even had an opportunity to apply for an airline job.
You are soooooooo right here. German Wings and DLH have a lot to answer for, this is one time I hope the lawyers clean house.
Even minus the 1500 hr/ATP rule, most weren't hiring until the 800-850 range
As far as I know Lufthansa has their own flight school, maybe that is why they have FOs with few hours.
BaronG58 4 年前 2
They train them in Bremen and Phoenix, AZ
I think Bremen is primarily hiring and orientation phase. Phoenix is the primary flight School. Back in the day it was at Tucson. Not sure when it moved or why, but they use AZ because of 363 flying days in the year. That said, in my mind, this goes back in my mind that if they are going to fly in U.S. airspace, their pilots especially, and themselves as a carrier, should be subject to all requirements as a U.S. 121 carrier. We found out in the 214 crash at SFO that they were not. It seems that centered more on maintenance and operations but not on pilot qualification. Apparently it should have.
Agree on the 121 requirement for foreign carriers. The way it is today it is the equivalent of foreign drivers coming here and driving by the rules of their country.
It would be interesting to find out about the number of flight hours of the Lufthansa pilots that actually fly into the US. Perhaps only senior staff gets these routes?
If it is, it only by seniority and/or pure luck; I doubt anything regimented, but as you say, it would be interesting to know, not only Lufthansa but on the other foreign carriers as well.
Anyway, Lufthansa does seem to have a very good safety record, nothing substandard about it.
I will agree to that and they seem sincere about handling the aftermath in a responsible way. As with anything, there will be a lot of hindsight about things that should have been done. I just hope there is not some kind of knee jerk reaction to this thing that somebody says will fix it all because there isn't. Many will point to a low time pilot. I personally would rather have a low time pilot and train them in type rather than some of these banner pulling CFI wonders that waltz in the door with 1500 hrs. and an ATP.
You are so right about the knee jerk reaction danger. More technology is always the easy answer, it brings money to the well-connected that can in return help their politician friends in the next election, but any technology can be misused to conter its intended purpose. Better psychological screening and better supervision seems to me the answer, and also fine tuning of privacy laws, like in this instance the doctors were not allowed to warn Germanwings about the problems of the co-pilot. There should be exceptions for pilots or other jobs with public safety more important than individual privacy.
There might be an out here for an AME but I think he went to a private physician who would have had no obligation to anyone except the patient. Most physicians give a work excuse at request of the patient, so they don't have to work. I really can't figure this out unless physician just gave it as a standard thing or he requested it and then changed his mind. We'll never know.
Hey, Preach, you are absolutely correct. My family doctor really relied on me for the flight job. He really had no training on anything except ground based people who go to work everyday, drive cars and sit in an office in a building. My AME only did eyes, hearing, urine and a short interview. Then we signed the complicated FAA medical form. Many of us went back to the same AME because he had our records and he knew we had to fly for a job. I'm choosing now to not renew my medical and airmanship. I just love the classroom and teaching. I'm 71 and hope to pass on some experience.
I have let mine go so far. I turned 65 last November and that killed the ATP anyway, but I had been on waivers for Diabetes & Afib on my heart. That was OK but in December, I had to start insulin so I think that kills anything. That said, my AME was telling me that the LANTIS insulin, which is just taken daily like a pill once per day, may soon be allowed for waivers as well. We'll see. Let's just say I'm taking some "familiarity flights to keep up on things. LOL
Preach: It should be. The route of adminstration should have nothing to do with it. If you are OK to drive, you should be able to fly.
Yeah, but it was like when I had the truck line. As long as it was labeled insulin and had to do with a needle, you were out of it. I had some aces that were in there 40's that were on minimum dosage as well and this stuff killed them as drivers. It is just another case of our law not keeping up with our technology. I was waivered on type 2 forever it seems like. The erractic up & down is with type 1. Type 2, while a pain, is not near as bad.
Government tax dollars at work. Still stuck in the 20th century.
Some info of the handling of the aftermath here:
http://www.dw.de/searchers-forced-to-build-road-to-germanwings-crash-site/a-18349443?maca=en-CB_en_TheNamibian-13322-html-cb
Bulldozer as 'specialty equipment'? No EIR or site mitigation plan before starting.
If I read correctly the bulldozer was brought in to make an access roead.
You would really have to understand our EPA to appreciate all the humor in that.LOL
Looks like the French EPA is less dogmatic than yours then... :)
preacher1 4 年前 12
What I have a problem with is WOLF, trying to read things into something just not there on something he doesn't know a damn thing about. Kudos to Les & Mary for putting him in his place. Damn fearmonger.
William McIntosh 4 年前 -9
I suggest that commenters leAVE POLITICAL BIASES out of their postings...WOLF is a JOURNALIST doing his job. As a pilot myself, I would say that the record and flight control system of the A320 is NOT above scrutiny and I find myself in frequent disagreement with LES as well...for example his personal opposition to firearms in the cockpit, which i support....
At this point I would say the accident appeard to be a CFIT for reasons unknown
I would agree on the cause. I stand by my feelings on Wolf. Yes, I will occasionally disagree with Les but Wolf is a continual teeth grit. He tries to be a lot more than your average journalist. Just Sayin'
bartmiller 4 年前 11
(I'll repost this at the top level:)
If you look at the flight track data (http://flightaware.com/live/flight/GWI9525/history/20150324/0835ZZ/LEBL/EDDL), you'll see:
Time Lat Lon Course KTS MPH Alt Rate
05:30AM 43.0412 5.5936 43° 476 548 38,000 Level
05:30AM 43.1105 5.6674 31° 479 551 38,000 -316
05:31AM 43.1845 5.7177 26° 475 547 37,600 -1,455
You expect an airliner descent rate typically in the 1500-2000 fpm rate. 3000-4000 is excessive, PDQ as a previous responder noted.
spatr 4 年前 2
While it is an aggressive descent rate, it isn't uncommon. I have routinely done 3000+ to make a crossing or when told to expedite. The A320 can handle it and maintain a safe Mach/IAS.
Jeremy Kudlick 4 年前 3
But have you maintained 3000+ fps for several minutes? That is what is so striking here.
At least one of the black boxes have been found, and I will return to yelling at the television "experts" giving their knee-jerk interpretations of what may have happened. The final report is likely to take quite a long time to produce.
I think we all have been there at one time or other, for various reasons, in various AC types. I think, as Jeremy says here, what is unusual, is for the length of time that it was sustained. Until the FDR/CVR is recovered, I don't think we have head any speculation yet. I will go back to hollering at the "EXPERTS" as well.
capstar362 4 年前 0
"experts" huh?
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/24/europe/france-plane-crash/index.html
click on the video Titled:
Analyst: Airspeed declined before France
show me in the logs where this guy says the speed "Declined"
"Experts" <-- yeah, experts at making complete fools of themselves.
Chris B 4 年前 3
That jumped out at me when I saw it. Outside of normal operation specifications.
There was another Lufthansa that experienced a similar sudden drop last year after the computer responded to faulty data and put the aircraft into a dive of similar severity. The crew recovered.
Bryan Nethery 4 年前 1
Do you have links to reports of that incident? It would be useful information in this thread.
Tony Smith 4 年前 4
From the incident report:
"When Alpha Prot is activated due to blocked AOA probes, the flight control laws order a continuous nose down pitch rate that, in a worst case scenario, cannot be stopped with backward sidestick inputs, even in the full backward position."
So even of with functioning flight controls, the plane thinks it should be able to overrule the pilots and fly the plane the way it sees fit. Nice systems design (sarcasm).
That's the Bus for ya. Just sayin'. Some guys on here will swear by them though, and I can't do anything but offer secondhand feelings as I have never flown one.
Martin Haisman 4 年前 1
Hopefully an A320 pilot can verify but I understand procedure for 330 models up is to turn off two ADIRU units to gain control but the 320 has a different system?
http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=171411
Today's event has a different flight profile. It had not "just" completed its climb as in the earlier event. Rather it had reached and maintained cruising altitude for some time.
Craig Cornett 4 年前 1
I thought the data says it reached FL380 and cruised for only a few minutes before descending?
I believe there is a corresponding link somewhere here that shows same AD and procedure for the 320.
Is this an A320 at LEBB Bilbao in November 2014 ?
netti161 4 年前 2
Yes. This was just in the German news last week...
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/lufthansa-airbus-computerpanne-schickte-maschine-in-den-sturzflug-a-1024652.html
https://www.google.co.nz/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=jWISVYXDMqLu8we1zIDgDw&gws_rd=ssl#q=translate+german+words+to+english+free&revid=447289866
Francesco Marziale 4 年前 0
That rate can be normal, an Airliner doesnt des at 1500 ft/min if they can choose, with the a320 if you pull idle open des in Mach your rate will be much more, i have been flying for 7 Airlines two of them were major And nobody wants you to des earlier
Paul Gooding 4 年前 5
Sorry 2-person fans, that scheme is not going to prevent the Germanwings event. The two person rule is there to protect the pilot in the cockpit, not prevent a bad act by the pilot in the cockpit. A lunatic intent on destroying the plane, who happens to be one of the pilots, is not going to be deterred by a flight attendant in the cockpit. The rule is useless in the present case. The entire subject of cockpit security will have to be reengineered to prevent a crazy pilot from crashing the plane. Parking a flight attendant in there is not going to do the job.
StarFlyr 4 年前 2
It may cause other security problems, but the only way to fix one pilot leaving the cockpit and guarantee access back would be to have an "overide" switch that would guarantee the pilot leaving, access to return WITHOUT having the pilot remaining to push a button to let him in.
Even that may not prevent a similar incident/accident. I think when the Egypt Air dive that was caused by the copilot happened about 10 years ago, the Captain did gain access back into the cockpit, but couldn't stop the dive into the Atlantic.
Maybe, at the end of the day, we must acknowledge that we cannot prevent every possible adverse event ( a set larger than every conceivable event) and that we live in an imperfect world. Screening of individuals for 'trusted' positions will never be perfect.
Well said my friend.
Well, it may be our good fortune but we haven't had one since 911. While it may not be a stopper, to someone teetering on the idea, it may be a deterrent, just the fact that the can't get alone
Roger Curtiss 4 年前 1
How about giving the pilots bottles to pee in so they don't have to leave the cockpit.
pie che 4 年前 2
And for a woman, what do you suggestion?
Depends with the company logo?
carlpickin 4 年前 5
The FlightAware graph for the flight is interesting:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/GWI9525/history/20150324/0835Z/LEBL/EDDL/tracklog
All of the data was generated by ADS-B. This means that the data came from the plane's on board sensors.
The first obvious point is that the plane appears to have descended rapidly while maintaining airspeed. This is what is being reported in the media and on this forum.
I'm not an expert, but in addition to the above, the airspeed line on the graph shows 2 interesting things.
1) It could be corrupt Flightaware data, but there seems to have been a glitch in the airspeed at about 12 minutes into the flight. This could indicate a problem with the airspeed instrumentation. Note that the same chart on FlightRadar24 does not show the glitch.
2) About 4 minutes after the plane started to descend, the airspeed on the graph starts to reduce. However the rate of reduction tapers off in a very smooth curve. Is this what we would expect from the proposed scenarios, or could it be a pitot tube problem?
I welcome any thoughts on this observation. As I said, I am not an expert & haven't flown anything bigger than a C172.
I just realized that the speed in the graph is ground speed, so the pitot is unlikely to be involved. What I don't know is whether the ground speed in the graph is generated from the ADS-B provided Lat / Long by FlightAware, or whether it comes from the on-board instruments. Either way, it is likely GPS based, so the speed glitch could just be a GPS error.
erisajd 4 年前 1
the reduction of airspeed could be expected from a reduction in true airspeed as the airplane descends. Most commercial pilots assume that they need 210kits indicated for a glide - the speed over the ground should decrease as they descend because the difference between true airspeed and indicated/calibrated airspeed, given a standard atmosphere the ground speed will decrease if you are trying to maintain a fixed indicated airspeed.
Also - you could just be seeing a reduction in tail wind component as the aircraft descends out of the jetstream . . .
Quackers 4 年前 1
Pitot issue sprang to mind too. (But granted, I am just speculating and am not a pilot). Could be a combination of bad data being fed to pilots (ie pitot iced up), bad reaction to the bad data, and a little snowblind / loss of spatial awareness as they got low... by the time GPWS comes out its too late...
GitseBase 4 年前 4
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/GWI9525/history/20150324/0835ZZ/LEBL/EDDL
You know...I just think everyone on this forum is in an "ozone" after the recent developements concerning the Co-Pilot. Just doesn't seem possible that the commication between the "Flight Surgeon", who grounded him...or put him on sicklist, didn't communicate his mental state to "Flight Ops" and notify notify the Crew Desk that this Crew Member was not fit to fly. If they were notified they would have a Reserve in to replace him in the "right seat". No Communication. No one knew he was on "sicklist". Red flag!! Nobody knew. This "event" will definitely unite the "world" carriers. Aviation regulations will all be on the same page. I hope that another 149 "souls" won't have to perish because of a "true professional", who had everything going for him, who had a mental problem. What more can I say. To the Passengers and Crew Members of "Germanwings" Flight 9525, who paid the ultimate price...GOD SPEED.
Sue Jillings 4 年前 3
Depression still has stigma attached to it and I'm wondering how many people reading this have had depression or know someone in their family with this illness. It is very common nowadays and very sad for suffers and their families. They can present as stable and settled when assessed and hide their symptoms so maybe after a few episodes of depression a job in caring for people's safety should be looked at and scrutinised perhaps given other duties and monitored on the ground for a long period even though the person is saying they are well .Risks can not take place when people's lives are at stake. My heart goes out to every person aboard that plane and their families and friends. Also we must not forget the co-pilots parents ! They have to live with what their son done, took his own life with 150 innocent people who wanted to live.
Yeah, authorities are now backing away from any religious connotation and are now laying the whole thing on mental illness of some type, hiding it from employers.
bartmiller 4 年前 3
A bit of data analysis. The descent started just offshore, about 10 NM DE of Marseille. If an emergency was noted at the time and the crew was able, they were in glide range of a major airport.
Also note the course change from 043 deg to 031 deg right at the start of the rapid descent. It's not a terribly constructive course change, as it didn't steer them towards any useful destination. Might just be a coincidence (a flight planned course change), but could show that some loss of attention of the crew or loss of control.
After 0530 there is no heading change and even with the high rate of descent there is no appreciable speed change for the first half of the dive and after that they're bleeding off speed and reducing the descent rate. If the dive is under pilot (not computer) control they're not deviating heading looking for a place to put her down. Can the spoilers/brakes partially deploy on a 320 at 400 knots ?
The flight path of previous days overlay very closely with the route of this flight, including the heading change just before crossing the coast. At least it appears that way to me.
jay perkins 4 年前 1
Note the speeds listed are ground speeds. Airspeed in rapid descent are higher.
The speedbrakes operate fine in cruise descent. If the autopilot is engaged on an A320 (the normal case), then they are limited to 1/2 extension. The designed failure mode for something wrong with a speedbrake is for it to retract.
They were far from their destination, and it is a very unlikely failure mode for the speedbrakes to spontaneously extend.
Thanks very much Bart. I'm just an elderly amateur trying to understand the limited amount of data I'm seeing. I feel for the poor buggers who were involved, both in the cockpit and the pax, and what they were experiencing for the 8 minutes after 0530.
I was speculating on what the pilots were trying to achieve (if they were concious)after 0530. The AF447 CVR transcripts really make sad reading. They were so overwhelmed but didn't give up trying what they knew, even if it was grossly inadequate.
Many thanks for answeing my speedbrake question. I asked because I wondered if there was some effort being made to regain control. In sailplanes in the 1970s we used brakes to control rate of descent and stick to control airspeed. In this instance the airspeed seems to have not been a problem.
As for unsafe failures in critical components, it can happen if you recall for example the Flight Director failure in the Air India 747-200 on climb out from Bombay back in the 1970s which caged itself advising continuing to raise the nose in a climbing turn, advice which was being followed by the pilots until it completely lost airspeed and rolled on its back. That example was cited as the reason to continually scan the whole panel and not fixate on a single instrument.
that 400 Kts is GS, not IAS, the speed is showing in relation to Ground. when up at that level its indicating to the aircraft more around 2-300 partial deploy is capable for any aircraft within its normal envelope.
what gets me on this is, i see several instances of over 2K rates in the history of this aircraft.
i see a few instances of the same route.
that 3-4k rate is either going to be duress or control loss.
also, can the 320 maintain cabin pressure regulation at that kind of rate? did they pass out and just wind up in the mountain side unconscious?
sad though, yet ANOTHER aviation incident, involving mass loss.
Thanks Andrew, I was thinking IAS, not GS.
a lot of people above are making some interesting speculation.
though a pertinent question still remains.
can a 320 sustain cabin pressure during a 3-4k rate sustained dive?
John Bartels 4 年前 1
Manuel Gomes 4 年前 1
I don't know the A320's cockpit layout, but it is possible that the pilots, as they insert 031 deg in the autopilot wrongly inserted 031 in the descent rate? descent rate does hover about -3100 from that point on...
("DE" should've been "SE" (southeast))
A) speed was far in excess of that needed to glide.
B) if they lost power and were gliding why no turn around and head out of the alps?
C) if they were gliding why didn't the speed go down as they descended [true airpseed would have trended downward as the speed necessary to glide at 210kias comes down with increaseing air density]
D) Not ANOTHER bad info to the computers causing an Airbus crash and poor stick and rudder skills?
E) A descent at that rate is necessary for loss of cabin pressure- could there have been a Loss of Cabin Press and ENER DSNT keyed in and then everyone lost consciousness - airplane flew itself into the mountains?
Well, we have a 24 year old aircraft so mechanical is an option, but more important, as bad as the rivalry may be at times, why do we have to lead a story with the aircraft type, like we are tickled to death that it is one type rather than the other, instead of leading with the fact that in this case, there were 142 souls probably lost.
I think they lead with the aircraft type because it immediately satisfies the publics curiosity. First question most people ask is " what type of plane was it?" It helps us to pre-determine the possible gravity of the situation.
Yeah, just bloodlust, I guess.
Timothy McDonnell 4 年前 1
which may explain why the 1st report I saw on Cable news said A380.... even while showing an A320 on screen...
During the press conference, Germanwings said that the aircraft had routine maintenance yesterday and the last C-check was in summer 2013. PIC had over 6,000 hours in type, but no information was given on the First Officer's experience.
The 1500 hour rule and an ATP is just a recent law in the US thanks to Colgan at BUF. I remember flying with FOs who only had 500 TT in Cessnas. Most were competent but still it was OJT. On The Job Training. We made it happen. None were mentally or physically impaired. Todays world is not your grandfather's. Now you're expected to step into a regional jet like a CRJ-900 or Embraer-175 with 70+ pax. These are big aircraft. Not too many years ago USAir and Northwest (old names) flew the DC-9 and Fokker-100 at the mainline level. These newer, glass cockpit, same size aircraft are much more complex and ATC is also. I opposed the 1500 hour rule at first but now after reconsidering, it might be needed.
I opposed the 1500 hr rule and still do, primarily because if you take a low time FO and train him up, you know what type training he has going into his ATP. It is totally a crapshoot and should be a gut feel from the employer rather than arbitrary. There is nothing sure anymore. There may have to be some medical privacy given up in the event of sick leave or unfit as in the company being notified, but again, that can probably only come from an AME / FS type and most folks will go to their personal physician for treatment such as this, so IDK the answer. There is not a one size fits all here.
Peter...When they passed the 1500 hour rule didn't they also pass a "restricted privileges ATP certificate" allowing pilots with fewer than 1500 hours to fly as co-pilot as long as they met certain educational requirements? Going from memory here, so I could be wrong. Just remember reading something,
Yes, with a 4 year degree or training at a school like Embry Riddle. I still think you have to be 23 to get the ATP.
Seems like there was a military exemption in there too and I think you are correct on the age limit.
Benjamin Bray 4 年前 2
The preliminary information reminded me of Helios 522. I wonder if we will learn of any passenger communications that were sent.
It is sorta similar except that 522 did not dive. It stayed at cruise, then had a flame out just as a crewmember that was still conscious got in the cockpit. That said, that is one good reason not to just gloss over something because a captain has a gazillion hours. This guy had had 16000+ and he made a mistake. I could happen to any of us. Some we catch and live to fly another day. Some we don't and it leaves the rest of the folks wondering how in the Sam Hill they could have done something that stupid.
Richard Lefleur 4 年前 2
It is presumptuous to say that if the FO wanted to destroy the aircraft......therefore he should have gone into a steep dive to do so.
It is looking obvious he wanted to die and he did it in his way that his mind and planning was dictating. For what ever reason, he wanted a controlled crash in the mountain. I am a retired trauma surgeon, and I have seen how terribly sick, irrational, and confused the mind can be.
Credit to the authorities letting important info out as they find it.
Granted something things may be misinterpreted but I feel the current technology both from airlines, controllers, and medical revelations, this will be shown to be a deliberate act.
Crash site images: Tragic.
http://www.ledauphine.com/haute-provence/2015/03/24/un-a320-s-ecrase-dans-la-zone-de-barcelonnette
News reports saying plane was obliterated weren't kidding.... horrifying stuff.
Some more photos here:
http://www.lapresse.ca/international/europe/201503/24/01-4854922-ecrasement-dun-airbus-a320-en-france-il-ny-a-aucun-survivant.php#Slide-15-box-1
They do have some boots on the ground but they had to rope down off the helicopter as the choppers could not land. This is gonna be a tough one. All parties have indicated that there are no indications of terrorism
I just now have info that the cockpit recorder had been reviewed and they have ruled out decompression, also no communication from either pilot was heard!
Source??
That is weird. I was never a part of any upset where there wasn't at least an expletive of some kind. That leads back to even more wondering and speculation.
I retrieved this from Fox news GB office from a college in London. They did say that they recovered some information but were waiting to review the flight parameters and other info from the other black box. Best guess is either fire/smoke or complete electrical failure, very disturbing either way. One other point, i could not define an impact point or evidence of a fire on the ground
Leonardo Jones 4 年前 1
I do not quite understand what they were new facts in this video. The reporter said only that "the black box can help you understand why there was no radio communication during the fall," and we already knew. But the researcher who gave a press conference today was very clear in stating that heard the content, and that "it is too early to say who were the voices". Which means had voices. He also said he did not seem to have had any decompression, but that does not rule out any possibility.
Arrg...sorry guys. I forgot to correct the google translate before publish that comment. Researcher->investigator, and so on...
Don't worry about it and I think Allen will agree, this thing ain't gonna be over for a good while. There is a difference between what the media, and it matters not which one, is saying and what officialdom is saying. Even the French President and his Safety board guru were not on the same page, so until something gets out there and stays awhile, we can start to accept it.
start at 1:30 http://video.foxnews.com/v/4133608095001/recordings-extracted-from-germanwings-black-box/?#sp=show-clips
I heard what he said. Dang that just really throws the stuff on it.
sure does Wayne.
No audio from either pilot, but they have enough info to know it was not decompression.... They would by now have had plenty of time to rule out smoke, and if the crew had passed out for some reason the chances of both of them are negligible. I hope they have enough left of the crew bodies to do an autopsy as that may bring some evidence.... Never saw a crew that got that close to the ground without saying something, even if it is off topic. The specifically say "from either pilot"... I wonder what was heard as the CVR's not only tap both crew mics and headsets, but also an area mic that can hear beyond the cockpit... As much as I hope it is not true, I hope it was not Crew Premeditated Suicide. It would appear that the CVR has created more of a mystery instead of solving them.
I agree sparkie I retrieved this from Fox news GB office from a college in London. They did say that they recovered some information but were waiting to review the flight parameters and other info from the other black box. Best guess is either fire/smoke or complete electrical failure, very disturbing either way. One other point, i could not define an impact point or evidence of a fire on the ground
kenish 4 年前 2
The flight log data is being misinterpreted. The rates of descent aren't as dramatic as they seem because they are instantaneous values between data points. The average rate from 37600 to 11400 feet is 2911fpm....an "agressive" descent but not too unusual. I believe an uncommunicated deviation from an airway requires a 10 degree left turn, the track log shows a 12 degree turn, then another 7 degrees. But this could be pure coincidence.
There's an unusual, momentary drop in airspeed climbing through 23,200 feet that doesn't seem to affect the climb profile.
Rich Hill 4 年前 1
37,600 at 2:31 to 11,400 at 2:38 is 26,200' in 7 minutes -- that's an average of -3,740 fpm which is consistent with the data shown.
felipe gomez 4 年前 1
still the v/s values are pretty consistent and achievable in an emergency descent.
robert rennard 4 年前 2
The unfortunate fact is that this disaster was not caused by lack of the right type of flying experience.
RAJENDRA KHAIRNAR 4 年前 2
Not to have assumptions till we hear complete dissection/deciphering of Black box signal.
mary susan watkins 4 年前 2
as many on this site have aviation experience,it is a normal thing to speculate about the pilot,co pilot,the circumstances and the aircraft itself..i have listened to the reports and also the speculation from experts in the field on cnn,fox,msnbc and the regular networks,who have worked with crashes,the faa,the ntsb,or have flown this particular aircraft..i have watched video clips of the door operation,and the control used to have the plane descend and override the computer..what I am trying to say is listening and waiting for the evidence is far better than comparing this tragedy to other crashes,or accidents such as the hawaiin jet whose top ripped open, or the eastern airlines l1011 from back in the 70s,as some here have mentioned..the tragedy is the loss of life due to the deliberate actions of one person,as per the evidence so far...
Mary Susan Watkins--the computer on the bus is referred to as "fifi". She is Ok as long as you are in the envelope. 99.9999% of flights are in the envelope. The envelope is where all aircraft are certified to operate within. Get out of it and all is test pilot stuff. This FO could have easily eased the jet into a descent that took them into the rocks. I want to hear the cockpit recorder screaming "terrain. terrain" as they went down. How about "pull up, pull up"? Why didn't that wake this guy up and tell him that death was imminent? Because he didn't care.
A lot of old people have had experiences young people might not have had. Years ago we used to sit around smelly old chairs at the FBO and bull and in a way sites like this supplement such times. Sometimes things old people experienced never made it into the manuals or training programmes, things which young pilots may never have thought of, such as occasionally looking out of the windscreen. On EA401 there were 3 people looking at a light bulb and no one was looking at how close they were getting to the ground.
There were young pilots on AF447 who didn't seem to comprehend the attitude of their aircraft in relation to the warnings they were receiving. Maybe if they had had the opportunity to learn about the relationship between attitude, airspeed and a stall the outcome might have been better.
Sticking to the checklist IAS can be hazardous. On short finals at 40 knots IAS in a Blanik, losing height, and going backwards, away from the runway, in a 45 Kn headwind, if you wait too long to stick the nose down, you don't make it to the threshold. It may be counter-intuitive to stick the nose down rather than pull back to stretch the glide, but you have to understand and recognise the situation so that you can increase airspeed.
In a tight turn your inside wingtip travels much slower than the outside wingtip and with a large wingspan sailplane (or a U-2) even though you may have an IAS of 40 Kn, well above a placarded 33 Kn stall, the inner wing can stall while the lift still being generated by the outer wing slams you over violently into a spin. Entering a spin at 600 foot AGL in the pattern you won't have a lot of time to recover. In gusty situations, and tight turns you may want to add airspeed to that in "the book".
Old people's speculation based on their experiences might not help explain a situation which has already happened, especially in Papa-Xray, but it might one day help young people get out of one or even induce young people to try some highly improbable event in a simulator, such as how long they can stretch a glide in a 767, which one day might save a hundred or more lives.
In a sailplane you're usually looking for a place where it might be safe to land. Not so with reliable Pratt and Whitneys and ample fuel. But then one day ....for an improbable series of events, take a look at : hawaii.hawaii.edu/math/Courses/Math100/Chapter1/Extra/CanFlt143.htm
And how does the FAA and NTSB determine causes of tragedies such as this...By comparing their knowledge gathered from all past accidents and incidents.
certainly they use past evidence and accidents as a reference..my point is the 2 accidents i referred to (which people on this site mentioned) are in no way similar to this one by comparison of circumstances,type of aircraft or even the actions of the crew..every crash that happens boils down to a mechanical malfunction of some system or pilot error..in this case,it is proving to be not pilot error,but a pilots deliberate actions..one more chapter to add to the knowledge gathered from past accidents and incidents...
Mary Susan Watkins, I have spent a good part of my life analyzing accidents and I learn from every one. I teach young and old pilots the benefit of learning from other's misfortunes. We all can learn to not repeat the same mistakes over and over and expecting different results. This crash is very different. The FO has a real life issue and decided to take his own life.
All totaled, I flew 41 years, til my certificate and health crapped out in November and my philosophy during that time was that if I didn't learn something new every day, no matter how big or small, then it was a wasted day. That said, each accident is a tad different. Though they may be similar, there is always some small difference. Just like this one. Why did he set the descent and hold the speed where he did rather than just kick the nose over and speed like heck to the crash scene. That raise questions about his mental state by itself. Was he actually wanting somebody to get in there and stop him? We'll never know but we must take whatever precautions we can to keep it from happening again.
JOhn LEe 4 年前 1
Does anyone one remember a French/Swiss movie about a plane crash with lots of rich people in the Alps that got swallowed up by glaciers. In the spring or later it was exposed and the locals took jewelry etc. before it got lost again. There was a lot of melodrama.
Craig Lounsbury 4 年前 1
Maybe a good reason to go back to 3 pilots, always 2 in the cockpit?
Hels1 4 年前 1
The flight deck titles are as follows: Captain and First Officer, for flight duties related to the aircraft manual, they are referred to as Pilot Plying and Pilot Not Flying. Both are, for the mostpart, equally trained in the aircraft, swap flying and non-flying responsibilities every other leg, at least in the US. An A320 in a 3000-4000 ft/min descent is nothing unusual. The aircraft, in stabilized cruise speed in a controlled descent, would still only have a negative deck angle in descent of approx 7-10 degrees nose down. Not nearly the "dive" the media is portraying. And think about this, the media is also judge and jury to the FO as well. If he were truly trying to "purposely destroy the airplane," wouldn't he have a descent rate of more like 10,0000 ft/min, or a deck angle resembling a true dive, or at least more like 30 degrees nose down??? Come on Media, stop sensationalizing the story. To me,this is like comparing the portrayed actions of the FO to trying to outrun a police officer doing the speed limit down a city street. The media has not learned that premature speculation is dangerous. Once again, they probably have it all wrong. I will chooose to wait for the final and offical avaiation investigative findings.
The media speculation was in there at first but now, most everything seems to be coming from the French prosecutor. I too question the dive speed and angle but they seem pretty solid that he was NOT incapacitated.
Ever heard the term "Armchair QB"?
or hindsight is 20-20 or shoulda, coulda, woulda
As a former airline pilot, I find it so incrediby frustrating that global media can get a fraction of truth in their detail, mixed in with almost total complete inaccuracies when it comes to aviation. They suddenly become experts on the subject. That would be like me trying to report on brain surgery. And people believe it, that's crazy.
Martin Cooper 4 年前 2
This is the same for any kind of tech problem. A fact or two and then vapid quotes and guesses.
So true, but not just for tech problems.
Richard Shaw 4 年前 1
You guys are the experts but I guess you could calculate airspeed based on the ground speed (reported) and rate of discent. Anyway, what is the rate of desent of the A320
without power?
Dale Ballok 4 年前 1
Are you freakin' kidding me that Lufthansa and other airlines have no policy, like in the US, to have TWO bodies in the cockpit at all times? Of course, it took 150 people to lose their lives, some of which were employees, for that policy to be put in place. That move took no time at all!
Even I can figure out that anything could happen in the few minutes that the second crew member is off the fight deck...medical issue, errant aircraft, suicidal pilot, etc. We'll probably never know how this atrocity was planned out. What if the Captain never vacated his seat? Would the FO still have tried to bring the plane down?
God bless all the passengers and crew members that were aboard, and damn the responsible owners for their complacency.
I hope the surviving families sue the shit out of them! IDIOTS
sonia santos 4 年前 1
My God. God save your souls.
I ask once more, was the pilot dumping fuel as I see there was no burning wreckage?
I don't think the A320 has fuel dumps. Think it is certified to land at MTOW. Could be wrong.
william pryor 4 年前 1
I wish we could allow for time to grieve and give the experts time to analysis and digest the possible causes before coming to a conclusion. Alas, its not possible so we must live with the moment.....
There is no other cause. Gimme a reason to believe that the Captain would step out and then not be let back in. What are the chances the 28 YO FO had a medical emergency and would not be able to flip a switch?
One reason referencing back to Jet Blue when the capt left the flight deck and basically went crazy, basically telling people they were going to die and so forth.. The FO locked him out of the cockpit. From the article: "A JetBlue pilot arrested after an apparent meltdown aboard a March flight has been found not guilty by reason of insanity.", "Unruly JetBlue pilot found not guilty by reason of insanity". However, I do not think that is the case in this situation, and I cannot think of another situation.
Richard Dulyea 4 年前 1
I recall an incident in either the late '80s or early '90s where a PSA pilot had a meltdown and nosed the aircraft over reaching super sonic speed before crashing
Saskia Priscilla Oberholzer 4 年前 1
My best wishes for the parents of the victims.
I find it incredible that the voice recorder can pickup the sound of the co-pilot breathing. The A320 MUST be a very quiet cockpit if that is true. My cockpit experience is with the C-135, C-130, C-121, C-141, Boeing 707, 727, 747 and Lockheed 1011. In none of these plane could I hear other crew members breathing even bring a foot or two away.
I don't think the cockpit is any quieter, but it shows you the sensitivity of the microphones.
Hadn't thought of that. Hot mikes! In every ship I flew, we only used hand mikes for outside communications and spoke to the other pilot without a hot mike.
Those CVR mikes are really something. Even in a fairly new 767, you can't really crosstalk unless you got a headset on, without having to yell. You really wouldn't think it but the cockpit is a noisy place.
From my observations, Buses have much louder cockpits than Boeings, but an interesting observation a CRJ 700/900 Next Gen plane is much quieter than many of their larger relatives. Not being a pilot, but flying Jump seat as a Company Mechanic.
Would it possibly be due to closer engines, i.e. under wing vs. tail mounted. idk, just asking
Talking about the CRJ's here
My experience has been that the air system was the loudest in the cockpit. Shut it off and everything becomes silent. There's a lot of heat in the CP that has to be cooled. That being said, rear engine aircraft are inherently quieter in the cockpit.
Very true, and particular to the CRJ, the cooling fans for most of the avionics is not within Hearing Distance of the cockpit, even though you can hear the air, you cannot really hear the fans.
Crew headsets have mics on all the time tied to the CVR... PTT and Intercom features only make it hot when used, but the recording continues. Not to mention the area mic in the cockpit is VERY sensitive and as we have seen here picks up many sounds... ALso keep in mind that once downloaded the sounds can be filtered out by computer so that they can hear only what they want to hear, or to remove what they do not want to hear... IE: Wind Noise passing the windows.
Sparkie, I'll defer to you on this one. You are the mx guy here
Now that we know it was not a Bus problem......Only the Captain signs the release verifying he/she is fit to fly and is qualified. I have flown with some crews where I had doubts. However, you can't prejudge everybody. I just took it into my "situational awareness" and pressed on. In the United States, a CFR 121 pilot takes a physical every 6 months (Captain) and FO's every year. We sign the medical form, under penalty, stating we are complying and are fit to fly. There is almost nothing you can take or be on or program to be in if it will have any effect on your ability to fly. If we lied, we could lose our medical and license and maybe even serve jail time. Say good by to your career. OTC meds are routinely taken when they really shouldn't. You have to keep flying. The FAA and company knows this. There's a fine line between reality and legality. It's a legal thing where the company cannot be held liable because in the Ops Manual it clearly states their position--comply with the regs. Lufthansa is scrambling now to justify their hiring and screening practices.
Probably a lot of other jobs tightly regulated too but this is one where you not only have your company standing there but also the government. Pilots are only human and not perfect, but they are expected to be,
Yeah, we are now going into the GoPro video everything era. I know some truck drivers have a camera on them and one on the road to video all events. They have GPS to track every mile. I don't even want to address the police. I believe this is insurance driven. Liability is more important then getting the job done.
A cockpit area cam could help with accident investigation. In cases of deliberate malice, a piece of tape over the lens will literally mask all the evidence.
I'm a design engineer... backups, interlocks, failsafes, redundant systems, procedures, etc. are excellent protection against mistakes and stupidity. And almost no protection against malicious intent.
Goes back to an earlier comment of mine, a lock will only stop an honest man.
ALPA can fight and squeal but I figure that somewhere down the line, there will be cameras in the cockpit. I am glad I am retired and out of the hassle.
Me too, old preach.
Yes worth reading Ev. Very informative! I think all pilots who go off sick for more than the usual 7 days should have to get their GP to send the sickness certificate to the company, what ever airline they are working for. This should be written and insisted upon in their contracts when flying commences with the company. If the airline doesn't receive the certificate then the pilot should be grounded and be assessed by the airline Doctors and psychologists. This will stop future pilots throwing their " not fit for work" in the bin!
Ev Butler 4 年前 1
This link from Reuters is interesting: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/27/us-france-crash-idUSKBN0MN11N20150327
Note from Physician destroyed by FO.
Pierre these comments are not pointless. Yes we know a lot more now but what are the air lines going to do about it? Mental illness is not always visual to colleagues, it's not a transparent illness. Remember the cockpit door system was only invented and managed this way due to terrorist!! We now have to look at a pilots stability but this is going to be a very difficult task. I agree with the airlines so far who are already having 3 people in the cockpit due to this horrific event!
Just FYI, it is 2, not 3, in the cockpit
Pierre Sprumont 4 年前 1
How pointless can nearly all these comments be, now that we really know the cause of the disaster. Mental health of cockpit personnel must be, if possible, better checked.
And peace to all the victims, including the mad author of the mess.
Dan Klees 4 年前 1
I noticed on the flight log that they were only at FL380 for about 3 minutes before whatever happened. Wonder if that is a clue or just random.
Germanwings CEO just said that they were at cruise for only about 1 minute. R I P
Many reports surfacing this morning..3/27..
Copilot respirations perfectly normal down to impact. (open mike). Not one word spoken.
Captain tried to break down door with Axe from emergency kit.
Lock to cabin intentional in lock position so keypad and emergency code inactive.
Of course have to wait for final official statements. All indications point to planned suicide.
Reports now there were psychiatric issues with CP .... never relayed to parent company.
Was not supposed to be flying that day.
Gaetano Uccella 4 年前 1
Lufthansa should never have let her fly an airplane to a person who had stopped for depression the training course , even though he had passed the disease and it was brilliant result in the completion of course.Strange that none of the friends and family has never noticed anything. I believe that depression is a latent evil that may come up suddenly after having apparently overcome, sometimes with some signs that those close should perceive. If the first driver had known depression ( perhaps for privacy did not know ) , should not have left only the co-pilot who , apparently , after a first flight seems " quiet " has proved " laconic " with the commander , before they came out of the cabin .
David French 4 年前 1
Could loss of cabin pressure explain such a rapid descent?
At this stage of the game, anything is possible but there is generally no loss of control on an emergency depress, besides leveling at 10000. Something happened here that turned bad ugly.
...by which I mean could the descent have been deliberate but under the duress of a cabin decompression situation the pilots misjudged it?
Certainly a rapid descent is a standard procedure when there is a loss of cabin pressurization. That leaves a couple of things unexplained, though.
First, the descent rate was too high. Second, it doesn't explain the course change (which wasn't towards any airport or away from higher terrain). Third, there was no subsequent mayday call.
If the decompression was explosive (sudden due to a major structural failure or loss of door, there will be noise and, for a short period, dense fog. At 35,000' the time for useful consciousness for a sitting person is only 45 seconds (they were at 38,000), so the crew has to respond quickly. When a decompression happens, the first task is to grab a quick-donning oxygen mask. These are always within reach of the flight crew for aircraft that operate at these high altitudes. This task is extensively practiced in the simulator.
Once the masks are on, the descent is a rapid but controlled maneuver.
mangoju bhanuchander 4 年前 1
very sad.......
latteju 4 年前 1
Eye witnesses saw the plane 30 seconds before impact. "There was no smoke coming from the plane, but it was so low it was clear it was going to crash".
Another witness reported the plane making "a strange sound, as if something was wrong with the engine" .
Honestly, I think that every plane flying at low altitude at 400 kts sounds strange.
http://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20150324_01595933
I saw mention of this also. It sounds like (definitely only an inference based on second reporting from a non-trained observer) that the plane was under some control and wasn't spiraling in.
Excessive sudden descent, no communications, significant change in course, but then the appearance of (somewhat) controlled flight into terrain
These accidents are so often puzzles that take time. Hopefully the data recorders will give more insight. The voice recorder should be really informative.
'strange sound' could have been the RAT too . . .
Does it deploy automatically ? If they lost engine generated power and manually deployed it wouldn't they have had time for (a brief) emergency communication ?
John Morris 4 年前 1
I am an aviation enthusiast, certainly not a pilot nor an expert in aviation. However, I haven’t seen any mention in this thread of a possible decompression.
Patrick Smith in his book Cockpit Confidential talks of the procedures that should be taken in such a case. They seem to fit what happened in the Germanwings crash. He says standard procedure is, after dealing with Oxygen masks, to initiate a controlled but fast dive. From 35,000 feet to not less than 10,000 feet probably taking eight or nine minutes. He adds that things are more complicated in mountainous regions but even here there are supposedly “escape paths” for airplanes at lower altitudes.
It's in here somewhere.
Kevin Brown 4 年前 1
CNN is reporting that a distress call was received from the doomed aircraft
"The President of France says the conditions of the crash does not appear clear but it doesn't appear that there will be any survivors"
Pankaj Verma 4 年前 1
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The second black box, containing technical data on the aircraft has been found.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/02/germanwings-crash-second-black-box-found
Agence France Presse talks about 148 souls on board, no survivors.
http://www.lapresse.ca/international/europe/201503/24/01-4854922-ecrasement-dun-airbus-a320-en-france-il-ny-a-aucun-survivant.php
Deborah Beasley 4 年前 1
When I try to sort this list to "newest", nothing happens. What's up with that?
Edison Antunes 4 年前 1
uma tragedia;nossa sugestão - 3 pessoas na cabide sendo oãcomandante,co-piloto e engenheiro de hard and softaware com nossos de pilotagem , como havia antes nos aviões a pistão - um de cada vez ao deixar a cabine
Edison - Porto Seguro - Bahia
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one tragedy , our suggestion - 3 people in the hanger being oãcomandante , co- pilot and engineer softaware hard and with our pilot , as he had before the piston airplanes - one at a time to leave the cabin
Does anyone know if opening any or all the doors could have affected the speed of the plane or caused a less catastrophic accident. What about jumping out? Throwing baggage out? anything in addition to useless pounding on a door built to resist.
btweston 4 年前 1
A guy flew a plane into a mountain on purpose.
Restart thread.
william peers 4 年前 1
its not very good news.
jose yapur 4 年前 1
Loe airline errors are frequent cassis what ay to lower the incidence of these unfortunate events Germanwings flight, 1 st the expert and technical security of aerial lines must find a more direct method in the search for a more workable solution open door where are the pilots in aircraft passenger-reaching
Loe errores aereos son casis frecuentes lo que ay que bajar es la incidencia de estos hechos lamentable del vuelo Germanwings, 1 ero los experto y tecnicos de seguridad de las lineas aereas deben buscar un metodo mas directa en la buscar una solucion mas viable de abrir la puerta donde estan los pilotos en los aviones de gran calado de pasajeros
Please reply in English. I can piece together but my Spanish is weak.
catherine micol 4 年前 1
terrifiant d'être dépendant d'un personnel naviguant qui n'a plus toute sa tête !!!!!!!!!!!!
This chart shows altitude and speed.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CA3B54uUQAAPG39.png
You can see that they descended in about 10 minutes from 38.000 to 6.800 feet.
I can't match the chart with a distress call at 9:47; that would be after the crash. Probably the distress call was just before the crash.
"Distress call" or ELT ?
stiri 4 年前 2
latest news say there wasn't any distress call from the plane at 9:47, it was the emercency call from the flight controllers
this is an excerpt from the link below (in french)
"La Direction générale de l'aviation civile (DGAC), qui avait indiqué dans un premier temps que le vol s'était déclaré en état de détresse à 10 h 47, est revenue sur ses propos. « L'équipage n'a pas émis de “mayday”. C'est le contrôle aérien qui a décidé de déclarer l'avion en détresse car il n'avait plus aucun contact avec l'équipage et l'avion », a-t-elle expliqué."
http://www.lemonde.fr/crash-germanwings/article/2015/03/24/crash-d-un-airbus-a320-de-germanwings-dans-la-region-de-barcelonnette_4600118_4600138.html
Thanks. This is a more plausable explanation. It matches with the missing flight date after 9:42.
"The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), which had initially indicated that the flight had declared in distress at 10 am 47, is back on his words." The crew did not issued "mayday." This is the air traffic control that has decided to declare the aircraft in distress because he had no contact with the crew and the aircraft, "she has said."
Thanks for this chart, very very interesting.
One thing I always did like about our 135/91 operation was coming to work with the same people all the time rather than having to size somebody on the fly. At least with a steady partner, you could tell if they were having a bad day. A lot of the time you might wind up being an intermediary, but in my case, the flying was an escape and just put people more on their game.
alberto blanco 4 年前 1
Realmente yo no soy experto en aviones, pero por lo regular los accidentes en la aviación, ocurren por errores en la fase de revisión final en virtud de que los mecánicos que revisan o los que cierran las puertas de equipaje no entienden el idioma en que esta escrito la ADVERTENCIA y ahí es donde se comete el ERROR.
Por otra parte están haciendo leña del árbol caído en virtud de que siempre se lleva un período largo en el análisis de las cajas negras y que casualidad que ahora fue de inmediato.
Posiblemente este dictamen es el mal menor sobre todo en lo referente a lo económico o sea pago de seguros
This is google translate, please address any further comments in English:
I really am not an expert on aircraft, but usually in aviation accidents occur due to errors in the final review under the mechanics who review or closing the doors of luggage do not understand the language in which this WARNING written and that's where the mistake.
Moreover they are beating a dead tree under a long period always takes on the analysis of the black boxes and accident that was far away.
Possibly this opinion is the lesser evil especially regarding either economically or insurance payments
A credit to the authors of this article. They did their homework
http://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2015/mar/24/path-of-germanwings-flight-4u9525-interactive
ilikerio 4 年前 1
D-AIPX, here's the most recent picture of the aircraft..
http://www.planespotters.net/Aviation_Photos/photo.show?id=522351
Lot's of questions without answers here and either I missed something or something is being withheld. Since they haven't recovered the FDR yet, how do they know, as some have reported, that the altitude was set to 100'?
Maybe in ADS-B transmissions?
Claudia Santos 4 年前 1
I was on an A-320 last July on a domestic flight in Brazil, where I live. Already on the tarmac computers onboard shut down and the pilot had to move back to the gate for an it operator restart the system. If the same happens during a flight, what might happen? That is the question I ever wanted to know. I know nothing about those adorable modern jetliners, have no idea on what happened up there on flight 4U 9525. As far as I am concerned to fly today is safer than never. I am, like everyone, very interested in knowing what happened up there.
Computers are part of our daily lives now and have been for awhile. That said, the program that Airbus has out there has been under much scrutiny for doing just a bit too much. It is one thing for Fly By Wire and a computer assist rather than a hydraulic assist. It is another for the pilot to be locked out of the loop and not be able to control the plane. When Mr. Murphy walks in to a cockpit and upsets things, that pilot is paid to correct that upset to the best of their ability and doesn't need anything in the way that he has to get out of the way before he can deal with the problem. Most of the computer program is written with logic and not flight experience and there is one hellacious difference.
A question for the experts:
Would the size of the debris pieces have a bearing on whether the plane was still pressurized at the time of impact?
Not really... That would play a very small roll I believe... Breaking up in flight or on the ground is the big item.. If breakup in flight, then it would have been spread for miles.
Paul Schiesser 4 年前 1
The FDR is missing it's microchip? Well then it's essentially useless. I thought FDR's and CVR's were designed to withstand high velocity, high energy impacts like a jet slamming into a mountain at high speed? First MH370 and now this. The aviation industry and government regulating agencies need to make a whole new commitment to flight safety no matter what the cost.
bad info they have not found the second box as yet
Alon Gross 4 年前 1
BBC now reporting from French authorities that the cockpit voice recorder has usable "information" an that the flight data recorder has not been recovered.
Fantastic info... I heard they found the FDR, but the memory was missing.... Hope they get that as well.
Latest reports are that the cockpit voice recorder is so badly damaged that the information may be irretrievable, and that the memory card is missing from the flight data recorder....this may be a hard one to solve.
I Heard that as well, and the crash site is not exactly the easiest place to access either... Bad all the way around. Hope they find the memory card... In Tact.
Matt Lacey 4 年前 1
Reports saying it had just been inspected yesterday. Maintenance didn't close something out that manifested itself once they switched to cruise? What would not be used during climb that would be used once it got to cruise?
I was thinking maybe something on pressurization after being reminded about 522, but I would have thought that the FD would have taken it on at altitude if that was the case. I just think something real ugly came into the cockpit and they tried to deal with it, running out of airspace in doing so. For the what, we'll have to wait for the boxes.
Wayne I have a few thoughts to bring to the tabletop discussion: 1. I am absolutely puzzled by the lack of communication from the cockpit, three seconds to repeat mayday. 2. it bothers me that there are no fire or impact points on the ground which seems odd considering the fuel on board. Other than that my only guesstimate would be a froze AoA indicator commanding a descent by the flight director whereas the pilots could not work the many check list items in order to get the system into alternate law in order to regain control.
Well, that lack of communication is a big point in about any thought or discussion on this crash. As you say, 3 seconds to holler mayday and not much more to hit a transponder. I just can't believe that no matter what, that in the space of 14 minutes, that they couldn't find a few seconds to let somebody know something. That is what is fueling all the talk about pilot incapacitation, so idk.
no fire or impact points on the ground is equally mystifying considering the speed of impact
Yeah, they said it looked like 2 scatter points, meaning there was like impact on a ridge and then scattered down a couple of ravines.
no fire or impact points on the ground is equally mystifying
Not a good sign, NYT reporting problems w/ recorders:"But the search for clues about what caused the crash was dealt a setback Wednesday afternoon, as investigators said they had so far been unable to retrieve any data from the plane’s cockpit voice recorder. The inquiry has been hampered further, an official said, by the discovery that the second black box, which was found on Wednesday, was severely damaged, and its memory card was dislodged and missing."
Other sources saying the Black Box analysis indicates structural failure involving windshield failure.
Too much speculation running around for me to believe anything.
Pictures attributed to the aircraft's black box reveal very badly crumpled pieces of metal.
Anyone else wishing that instant telemetry available?
And if little or nothing can be retrieved, it will be endless speculation for a real good while. I am still inclined to believe it was a case of CFIT. Why is going to be the question. There are a lot of folks that would like to start Airbus bashing about now but whether you are a fan or not, until there is some firm evidence, they will just be guessing
I almost do not want to speculate on this subject, but, I have seen other recorders with this much and more damage and the info for the most part were retrieved which leads me to the thought that if it was a pilot induced descent liability goes up exponentially. just saying.......
If it was a LH rep that found the FDR, check his pockets...
LH ??
Lufthansa, the parent firm.
That makes since... Just did not put the 2 together
Looking at the debris field, reconstructing the accident from the wreckage will be like solving a jig-saw puzzle whose pieces were run thru a shredder.
As Allen says in another comment here below, the lack of fire or explosion on impact gives cause for concern as well. So many things, a cause will be impossible if the can't get something off the recorders. I guess those recorders aren't as indestructible as thought. I still haven't heard anything final off that Indonesian plane that went down in the water last month or whenever.
It really gives you an idea of how had they hit...
Derek Thomas 4 年前 1
Yes, the level of damage on the box(es) is appallingly real. And thank you to you, Sparks, and Preacher, as well as a few others for some common sense. Listening to the press briefing this morning, I was amazed at the stupid journalists repeatedly asking "why, how, when, where.." just, really, within hours of the crash. Sounded like, "well...maybe if I ask the same questions with different inflection they will answer differently..." DOH!!!!!
Yeah.. I agree.. I think the pattern of debris will give them more information that the debris itself.
rhhardin 4 年前 1
If you wanted to descend as fast as possible to low altitudes, how would you do it?
What with going supersonic and limits on speed brake deployment at high speed, wouldn't it be about what they did?
In effect the speed brakes support some fraction of the weight of the airplane, and they're limited in what they can support.
Say and then they passed out from whatever it was and the descent continued into the ground.
If not depressurization, then perhaps noxious fumes. Some DC-9 went into the Everglades from that.
david hocde 4 年前 1
Choosing FL380 as first FL cruise is quiet high, isn't it ?
38K is pushing the limit for the A320,I believe the certified ceiling for the A320 is 39k and change. Don't know if this would be a factor. Some of the "Heavy Metal"jockeys would know more than me.
I haven't never flown a Bus, but on a Boeing, you have an unpublished play factor above the certification.
Alysha Angel 4 年前 1
Hello gentlemen of our global friendly skies. I have been paying close attention to this disaster since my friend first pointed it out to me earlier yesterday afternoon. Now I am not a pilot or even a stewardess for that matter, im here for self education purposes .
What i find interesting about it all are the eye witness reports right before the plane in question crashed. a lot of unanswered questions . yet its way too soon for any of them to be properly answered.
would sudden fuel loss shortly after cruise altitude be a factor in the cause of the overall accident ? because according to eye witnesses on the ground pointed out that the plane was NOT in flames as she crashed into the mountain and no smoke either . or im just a fool asking stupid questions about something i know nothing about ...
Anything is possible at this stage of the game, Alysha. What is really unusual but has really not been called into question is the lack of explosion or fire on impact.
Surprised the media hasn't spewed the words "terrorist attack", or have they.
Andrew Johnson 4 年前 0
Oh, plenty of people online (mostly on the right) have been saying that.
I'm...not gonna comment further on that...
Is anyone reminded of the ValuJet crash? That said, those guys were able to radio the tower.
vincenzo caruso 4 年前 1
il cavallo di battaglia di molte compagnie aeree
translated: the workhorse of many airlines
A320, the European 737
I think loss of cabin pressure and or loss of elevator control. Pilots unconscious, no comms and loss of elevator control.
I've heard in a media report that the descent was programmed into the FMC. Could that be known this early into the investigation?
I think that is speculation. I don't think the box is in possession of authorities yet. If it is, it's still bad early.
jamescagney2000 4 年前 1
Catherine Soubzmaigne 4 年前 1
Now we know : depressed suicidal copilot ! How could we imagine this....
paulo santana da silva 4 年前 1
dieses Mal von Traurigkeit hier lasse ich mein Bedauern Familie , dass Gott segne Sie alle
this time of sadness here I leave my regret family that God bless you all
I tend to over obsess on these crashes, trying to visualize how I would handle a similar situation (there but for the grace of god go I).
One last observation is that the airspeed reported was pretty darn consistent from FL380 down to below FL180. This would seem to indicate that the aircraft was under some control. As Frank Harvey points out in his comments below, the crew of AF447 was totally overwhelmed by a sequence of failures and the Airbus' barrage of information presented to the pilot. But that plane had just flown into am major thunderstorm.
If the crew of 9525 was overwhelmed, what got to them? Multiple flame outs (engine failures)? If they kept up there airspeed but had no power, could that explain the descent rate? (need to see the performance tables for the A320 to confirm ... just a guess) If the autopilot was engaged, then should not have changed course.
Sorry for all the musings. Just frustrated.
Multiple reports indicate no report from the plane of problems.
Com's failure?
Ralph Wyman 4 年前 1
One quick note: dual flameout is urgent but should not cause a rapid descent. Heck, a Transat A330 flew close to 100 miles as a glider once.
Flightglobal is now indicating that the craft may have started descent as soon as one minute after leveloff at FL380.
Actually, that report came from Germanwings at least an hour ago.
Thanks for tolerating my uninformed speculation, Bart
One time I was a pax on a very early morning Easyjet 737 sitting on the tarmac at EGGP-Liverpool listening to the all sorts of bells, klaxons and "pull up...pull up" coming from the cockpit where a couple of mx bods were trying everything to stop the various confusing and overlapping noises. Listening to the cacophany made me wonder how anyone could concentrate and aviate with a clear head without being distracted by all these "warnings".
Additionally the mx people were getting very frustrated and voices were being raised between them and the flight crew who seemed to be under the impression that they had been told by dispatch that the problem(s) had been "cleared up" and signed off the night before. From the discussion it appeared that at EGGP, Easyjet mx was contracted and the contractors felt that Easyjet were not the quickest, or happiest, at paying their bills and wanted to be certain they'd be paid expeditiously. The discussion and debate made interesting pre-flight entertainment. I was sitting next to dead-heading company personnel who were scheduled as crew for another flight and which was now going to be late and were getting increasingly frustrated themselves. The cabin crew looked embarrassed but couldn't close the cockpit door because of the mx' toolbags and the coming and going on the stairs.
I got the impression that there might still have been some u/s equipment on our flight when we did eventually depart.
Then enroute a baby projectile vomited over his mother's shoulder onto a well dressed pax on the seat behind. That pax, wearing a really nice suit, was travelling to EGAC-Belfast for what he said was an important meeting. The smell of baby-milk vomit throughout the cabin made the flight even more memorable.
But at least no one was killed, or injured.
If anyone is offended by my rambling I apologise, but there's no nearby FBO for me to go and sit for a chat.
Were they dumping fuel - I saw no evidence of fire?
What bothers me about this whole thing is why the dive on autopilot. Why not just shove the nose over and firewall the throttles and stick it in the dirt. Matt, there is no evidence of fire, but like the 737 and most of the smaller jets, the A320 has no fuel dumps.
Saying prayers?
For the families.
My guess the selfish bastard was only praying for his own soul.
I have no idea about him but I am speaking of what I am doing.
That is one thing that has buffaloed me in this whole thing; in all the pictures there is no real impact point and no evidence of fire/explosion at all.
And some other folks as well.
Too cold
Very good possibility.. Once they find the FDR that question will be answered.... They may have been just lucky.. Good chance of it as I do not remember any notations in the news of the smell of jet fuel... Just no fire.
Walter Demel 4 年前 1
A general question about the flight-by-wire/flight computer logic: shouldnt the flight computer be able detect that the programmed descent will lead to a crash at some point and overrule? It probably would not help in the case when you are headed into mountains but even that could theoretically be considered if the computer has terrain information and GPS location to plot his trajectory..
tim mitchell 4 年前 1
I always try to be the optimist ....maybe there was smoke and the pilot in the cockpit was trying to make it to El Prat and just passed out....seems a lil fishy with one being locked out of the cockpit and the other can't get back in...This seems to be happening more and more..There needs to be a remote way that operations can open the door.
There used to be a way before 911... As a Line Mechanic prior to 911 I carried a cockpit key... Many times I would respond to an anonymous call from a captain needing to see maintenance only to open his door because he is locked out. One time I was at an outstation with no maintenance headed home from Vacation.. The flight was being delayed and I talked to the captain and asked him what was going on.. He said they were locked out of the cockpit... I pulled out my key ring, and said "Whats The Problem"... No delay, was about to call maintenance, and he got me a free upgrade to first class...
I am thinking more on the line of by satellite...Kinda like you can wireless start your car by cell phone or lock your front door or garage....The request would be sent through operations kinda like On-star.
Hi, where is showing that the flight change the course? Everywhere i looked, today's flight was following exactly the same course of yesterday. The same turns and everything. Thanks!
Look at the table of location, speed, course and altitude below. The colum with the degree symbol is the flight course. It goes from 43 deg to 31 deg to 26 deg and they stays at or near 26 deg. This chance is contemporaneous with the descent.
Tks! =)
You beat me to it. That's how it is when you get old and slow. LOL
You beat me...if that makes you feel any better. 8-)
LOL, but i just checked, and that change of course is normal in that airway. Exactly around 30 minutes after takeoff (some difference maybe because of wind), the course of yesterday flight changed from 42º to 25º~24º. So for me, the plane didnt change course beside of what was expected.
If you're replying to my comments, you're correct. I didn't compare headings to previous flights. It does appear to be a planned heading change. That said, it's interesting (but hardly conclusive of anything) that the turn was at the same time the descent began. The previously mentioned airspeed dip on climbout is unusual...although is simply could be an ATC-requested speed reduction for spacing or traffic.
Brian Bough 4 年前 1
Looks like the New York Times is all but saying the pilot flying the plane intentionally crashed it after locking the other pilot out of the cockpit...
AONeal79 4 年前 1
They're being sensationalist, I think. More likely the pilot flying was hypoxic.
Bruce Ford 4 年前 0
If that was the case, the entire plane would be hypoxic, including the hypoxic other pilot trying to get into the cockpit door... assuming the source is correct. We shall hear sooner rather than later.
I'll wait for the CVR transcript
Even the media is saying that is a leak and not official. I'll wait too.
Gary McMath 4 年前 1
I've never liked the idea of a fly-by-wire computer sending signals to servos or solenoids and jackscrews for controlling any movable control surface for which my life depends in any vehicle. That is the method these days in newer jet airliners, and it has usually proven safe.
However even with older style solid mechanical linkups to movable flight control surfaces, if the airplanes auto-pilot was set in error by dialing in the altitude preset, to descend at 3500-4000 FPM, the auto speed adjustment not to exceed 400 knots, and left unattended for awhile, the 8-minutes to descend through the clouds from 38,000 feet altitude into a mountain could easily go unnoticed by the hapless crew and busy passengers.
Everyone was likely getting adjusted for the short trip at cruise altitude and also perhaps getting acquainted, 8 minutes of distraction is not really that long of time.
Sava Lopiano 4 年前 1
There should always be 2 people in the cockpit, then this disaster would not have happened. ..RIP apart from Co pilot he will rot in hell.
So sad. So unfair.
I hate it when my suspicions are right... Pilot (or in this case Co-Pilot Suicide).... I would have rather it had been a structural failure than murder... My condolences to the families.
Suicide is never good by itself. Problem here is there are 149 souls here that probably did not agree with him.
I agree... That is why I used the term Murder :) My prayers go out to the families.
Well, from this point, I think we can accurately deduce there was nothing mechanically wrong with this aircraft.
Everyone will have a million questions, but I have one nagging one at this point: Was this young German pilot being laid-off by Germanwings? We will find the answer soon I'm sure.
Lufthansa pilots have engaged in several strikes recently. Is this perhaps an escalation of job actions by the union? I don't think so.
offcial news conference reported by CNN. http://edition.cnn.com/2015/03/26/europe/france-germanwings-plane-crash-main/index.html
it was done on purpose by the copilot, Marriage problems? major family problems ? in either case , its really incomprehendeable to even think about.
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/GWI9525/history/20150324/0835Z/LEBL/EDDL
Emmanuel KING 4 年前 1
L’Égoïsme de l’être humain, il aurai put le faire tout seul chez lui.
Condoléance à toues les familles.
English please!
Kevin Brown 4 年前 -1
This is very sad and shocking. It would appear at this point in time that all 142 souls on board have been lost. It's almost inconceivable that this could happen to a subsidiary of Lufthansa. I think that terrorism will be high on the list of causes.
I'm not sure why this comment is getting down-voted so much. The A320 is an extraordinarily safe plane. While it is not unthinkable, mechanical failures are fortunately unlikely to be the cause.
We like to think of dramatic hijackings or bombings when it comes to terrorism, but given where we are technologically, why not hacking? That would be truly terrorizing -- computer code is much easier to conceal than weaponry, and you don't even have to be on the affected aircraft to ensure its destruction.
Was it a distress signal or distress call?
Very strange to give distress call and no contact afterwards, even though the crash was 45 minutes later.
I'm like you..have heard it reported both ways. Possibly made initial call then squawked 7700. Then got busy dealing with problem.
Well, CBS just reported that it went fromFL400 to 6k PDQ.
Wow! Descent like that explains lack of communications.
Yeah, I forget the actual time frame but it was basically a dive.
It went off radar at 5:38...which isn't surprising as that's pretty close to terrain altitude.
That is definitely PDQ.
Carlisle Landel 4 年前 1
That works out to a descent rate of 40 - 45 mph. Not free-fall (I think), but certainly PDQ.
Thanks jacob
3k to 4k fpm ? In a 320 ?
from looking at all this, a consistent dive around 3-4K is looking to be duress descent or failure of controls.
he started the descent @ -316, then it surged to -1455 that is nearly a 5 fold increase in rate, then surged again at almost DOUBLE the 1455 rate. at one instance i see a less than 3k rate.
the turn started during the dive, and remained constant.
at that rate though, could the 320 maintain cabin pressure?
i went back, and checked the history, there are SEVERAL instances of 2k rates of descent. this is something they do frequently.
several routes clone the one for this incident. and there are a few other routes taken.
A 2,000 fpm descent is quite normal. If you fly, you've almost certainly been in a standard descent at that rate, and 2.500 is not all that unusual for a couple of minutes if a fairly quick altitude change is needed (ATC advising quicker descent for traffic, for example). But multiple minutes above 3,000 fpm, and up to 4,000 might only be called for if there was a severe fire situation or other very major emergency.
Though if that's the case, then a course change would typically also be directed, especially 1) knowing the Alps are approaching and 2) Marseilles and other airports are nearby the flightpath. Unless the crew was so focused on the emergency that they failed to aviate as first priority.
(non pilot here)
Dive... but speed is not going up dramatically.
And what is PDQ ?
Thanks for helping us understand.
PDQ...: " Pretty Damn Quick"
This is pure speculation:
They got to cruise and relaxed. Its a bread-and-butter milk run. CAVU at FL 380.
Suddenly - Bang Junk flying everywhere, hitting the pilots, zero visibility.
What happens if the cause of explosive decompression is the sudden loss of a cockpit window or windscreen at FL 380 ? What are the conditions on the flight deck in a 400 Kn airstream with locked cockpit doors ? What happens if the debris incapacitates one (or both) pilots (I understand the window debris leaves but what about the cockpit contents such as metal-edged Jepp cases) ? How robust is the flight deck emergency oxygen delivery system to flying debris ? What happens on a messed up, fogged up, flight deck if injured or incapacitated pilot(s) manage to start descending to 10000 with zero visibility but terrain is at 11000 ? What was terrain ltitude where the incident started ? Eight minutes at 400 Kn covers a lot of ground.
Situational Awareness : EA401 in Florida.
Frank...your speculation reads like a rough draft for a made for TV movie. I would watch it. 8:)
I would watch it.. Sound interesting... All jokes aside, there is already too much evidence to suggest parts did not come off the a/c prior to the crash.
Understood no parts came off this particular a/c. The reality of this incident is terrifying. Imagine you're the pilot locked out of the flight deck trying to break in and realizing the descent profile. Eight minutes can be a very long time.
Baron- As a kid I was a pax in a DC3/C47 flying in rain and I remember that the windows leaked quite a lot. Those rides around the Islands and the Guianas could be really bumpy. But there were benefits, back then we were allowed to ride in the cockpit.
Thanks for the perspective on my speculation, it comes from my nightmares. Sometimes I used to wake up covered in sweat.
Flew through a number of rainstorms on TTA back in the late 60's; just about every window leaked on the DC-3's. But of course you were only a few thousand feet above the ground. I don't remember a door to the cockpit, just a curtain across the aisle.
Whoa!...TTA..that brings back memories as a kid in the 60's riding my bike to Hobby (KHOU), going too the observation deck and watching the TTA DC-3's.
I was a Johnny Come lately to them in the late 60's I guess. They were already up to the early DC9's by the time I started flying them.
Yeah...when I was making my bike trips to Hobby in the late 50's early 60's TTA was flying DC-3s then Convair 240s...600s...DC9-10s in the late 60's.
Seems like some of the convairs may have still been around. This was 68-69.
Too early to answer those questions, but the fact is that most of the plane is in one general area... If a window did blow out, it will be somewhere else.... If a plane brakes up in air, parts are usually spread for miles. Once they get all the parts if it is a window, then they will be one short when they sort things out, but for right now, it appears that everything is in one single crash site... Note the rudder on the American Airlines in Queens NY where "Abrubt rudder inputs broke off the rudder" the rudder was found in Jamaica Bay miles from the crash site.
Single crash/impact site but a lot of relatively small pieces. Just getting them out will take weeks or months and putting the jigsaw puzzle together will take months or years. Hopefully the recorders will provide some answers.
Loss of windscreeen is a biggy. Total chaos, really, and really hard to have any forward viz. The quick-don oxygen masks are each separate, self-contained units on a bracket within reach of the pilot. If you could reach them, they'd work.
Then again its got to be about negative 52 centigrade up there. Even at lower altitudes over the alps at this time of year its cold on the ground and with DALR about 3 degrees per 1000 pilots could be incapacitated by cold instead of hypoxia.
Thanks again Bart, that scratches my speculation that the pilot(s) might have both passed out after setting autopilot for descent to 10,000 due to inoperable or damaged O2 equipment.
3 in the cockpit might have saved Airfrance 447 also.
Apparently not. There were 3 in the cockpit after the captain came back in and they still could not figure out what was happening.
I don't think he got back in there in time.
Lufthansa jet crashes in the Alps after transmitting distress signal
A plane carrying 142 passengers and six crew has crashed in the southern French Alps en route from Spain to Germany.
The Airbus A320 disappeared from radar in the Alpes de Hautes Provence after sending a distress signal at 10.47am local time (9.47am GMT).
Debris from the jet, operated by Lufthansa's Germanwings budget airline, has been found scattered over a wide area near Barcelonnette.
French president Francois Hollande said that he did not expect there to be any survivors.
He said: It's a loss, a tragedy which has happened on our soil.
'I am seeking information about homes in the area it came down. It's difficult place to access. In the meantime solidarity must prevail.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3009151/headlines-news-Germanwings-plane-crash-french-alps-crash-Airbus-A320-Barcelonnette-Barcelona-Dusseldorf-francois-hollande-Lufthansa-4U9525.html#ixzz3VIqnAi6j
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3009151/headlines-news-Germanwings-plane-crash-french-alps-crash-Airbus-A320-Barcelonnette-Barcelona-Dusseldorf-francois-hollande-Lufthansa-4U9525.html
Emmanuel KING 4 年前 -1
L’Égoïsme de l’être humain, il aurait pu le faire tout seul chez lui.
Condoléance a toute les Familles.
Gaetano Uccella 4 年前 -1
Lufthansa non avrebbe mai dovuto far pilotare un suo aereo ad una persona che aveva interrotto per depressione il corso di formazione, anche se aveva superato la malattia ed era risultato brillante nel completamento del corso.Strano che nessuno degli amici e dei parenti non si sia mai accorto di nulla. Credo che la depressione sia un male latente, che può venir fuori improvvisamente dopo averla apparentemente superata, talvolta con alcuni segnali che chi è vicino dovrebbe percepire. Se il primo pilota avesse saputo della depressione (forse per la privacy non lo sapeva), non avrebbe dovuto lasciare solo il copilota che, pare, dopo una prima pare del volo "tranquilla" si sia dimostrato "laconico" col comandante, prima che questi uscisse dalla cabina.
micieli giovanni 4 年前 -2
Il serait intéressant d'avoir le chronologie à partir du moment exact ou le commandant de bord est sorti du cockpit ...du verrouillage et la fermeture volontaire de la porte de la cabine de pilotage et de récupérer, hélas, sur le lieu du crash le maximum de téléphones car il pourrait y avoir des personnes qui auraient pu filmer... l’intérieur de l’avion… le comportement et la réaction du commandant avant l'impact…..
Paix aux malheureuses innocentes victimes…MG
Please speak english
You are a dickhead.
Google translate to PC English "You are a[n] <expletive deleted>"
It would be interesting to have the timeline from the exact moment when the captain came out of the cockpit ... locking and voluntary closure of the door of the cockpit and recover, unfortunately, the scene of the crash the maximum phones because there might be people who would have been able to film ... inside the plane ... the behavior and reaction of the commander before impact ... ..
Peace to the unfortunate innocent victims ... MG
Ralph Addison 4 年前 -2
So when will airlines spent a few bucks and transmit flight data via satellite. Why Airlines, cut some funds from the overpaid CEO and stop the black box foolishness. Airlines needs to reconsider why they are in business. In 2015 they are so outdated in key safety areas.
Great idea. Just ground every plane on the planet for months, spend the billions required to install and connect all of the devices, ensure secure, uninterrupted links, assume there won't be any technical "kinks" to work out.
It takes time. And these incidents aren't as common as the media makes them out to be.
piper348 4 年前 0
Lloyd Boyette 4 年前 0
German Wings A320 crashes in the Alps.
A German airliner crashed near a ski resort in the French Alps on Tuesday, killing all 150 people on board, in the worst plane disaster in mainland France in four decades.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/airbus-a320-crashes-in-french-alps-security-source/ar-AA9VxqS?ocid=ansnewsafp11
Glen England 4 年前 -1
German Airbus A320 plane crashes in French Alps
A passenger plane for the airline Germanwings flying from Barcelona to Dusseldorf has crashed in southern France, officials have confirmed.
The Airbus A320 making the flight for Lufthansa’s lowcost arm, Germanwings, crashed near the small mountain village of Barcelonette in the southern Alps. It had made a distress call at 10.47am then disappeared off the radar at around 11.20am, Le Figaro reported.
The French TV station iTele said there had been at least 142 passengers and six crew-members on board.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/24/german-a320-airbus-plane-crashes-french-alps
Jan F 4 年前 0
German plane crashes into Alps
Nearly 150 people were ki
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A Car Nerd's Guide To Japan
Up Garage Is the Auto Parts Store of Your Dreams
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A Car Nerd's Guide To JapanAn insider look at car culture in Japan.
Have you ever woken up and told yourself you need the instrument cluster cover from a Honda CR-Z? Have you ever walked into an auto parts store with a front bumper of a Mustang hanging from the wall? What about the rear wing from an RX-7, the seat from an Alpine A310, and a headlight from a Fiat 500? That’s just a single headlight, not a pair. This is Up Garage, the used auto parts giant of Japan, and it is fascinating.
One of the best things about the Japanese car culture is its diversity. I’ve said it time and time again, there’s quite literally something for everyone here. That’s what keeps everyone on their toes when going to events and meets. You’ll never know what you’ll find. Each weekly meet at Daikoku and Tatsumi is a new experience because you’ll never know what you’ll find there and what could show up at any time.
There’s a sort of ‘thrill of the hunt’ aspect when it comes to these meets and events. By now you’ll be aware of how varied the car scene is in Japan with everything from Citroen 2CVs to the latest Modenese supercar, lowriders and cars so slammed a snail literally has more ground clearance. Of course, most of the enthusiast cars you see driving around are never left stock. The aftermarket scene in Japan is still very much alive, if not as busting as it once was. But there’s still no where quite like it which also means there’s no where else to search for car parts.
There are several ways going going about it. The most obvious would be on the internet but that can be hassle. You have to go to a bunch of different sites, crashing your computer with all the tabs you have opened. Then scouring through hundreds and thousands of pages to find the right part. Then when you do you can’t be a hundred percent sure it’ll fit or if it’s legit. There’s also the hassle of waiting for it to be sent in the mail to wherever you live. Then if something does go wrong what are you going to do, send it back? Argue for a refund online? Luckily there’s a shop that makes searching for that one part a little bit easier.
Up Garage was founded by Makoto Ishida in Tokyo in 1999 as a place where people can buy and sell car parts and goods. Ishida thought if they bought parts for cheap and sold them for cheap, it’d “enrich the lives of enthusiasts.” Stores cater more towards the hands-on enthusiast, unlike Autobacs which is more for average consumer.
You could see Up Garage as a response to Autobacs which was more about the casual consumer and making one’s “car life” happier. Up Garage is all about “getting closer and intimate with car parts.” It’s also involved with motorsports, backing a Super GT team. One employee also runs in Formula Drift over in the States, Kazuya Taguchi
Each Up Garage location sells different stock, so that aspect makes the hunt more exciting. Of course, staff from one store can find out if a part is in another store to save you from wasting time. They can also help with shipping overseas. The best bit is if you’re a tourist, you can purchase items tax free. Because Up Garage is now Japan’s largest source of used auto parts, with over 150 stores in the country and recently expanding in South East Asia, it’s not your Average Joe used parts store. All its items come with a one week warranty which gives you that extra piece of mind if a part is faulty or doesn’t fit. You don’t get that if you buy something off a random guy on Craigslist.
Walking in the Nerima locaton had a feel of what Autobacs must’ve felt like in the early days. This Up Garage wasn’t the newest or the flashiest. Clustered displays of tires and wheels greeted customers on the first floor. Familiar OEM wheel designs came into view with BMW M4 Competition wheels catching my eye straight away. It was interesting to see random wheels from more mundane cars mixed with with aftermarket designs. Optional wheels for cars like the Alphard, Crown, and Elgrand were being offered for reasonable price and explains why some low-spec cars can sometimes be seen with the higher trim level wheels.
Upstairs there was a little play area to keep the kids distracted while you ventured off on the second floor. It was here where it felt like a second hand shop, a bit like a thrift store but instead of vintage jackets you get second-hand exhausts. The floor was split into various sections for the different parts available. This didn’t really make things easier to find parts because while there’s a lot of stock in each Up Garage store, there’s not necessarily a lot of space. It’s all clustered which makes finding something in particular a bit of a challenge. Think of it as a bit of scavenger hunt sifting through boxes and crates of various bits and pieces. Luckily each item is labelled with the part and compatible car and whether or not an item is OEM or from a third-party brand. All of this is written in Japanese of course but Google Translate is your friend. Or better yet, bring a friend with some comprehension of Japanese.
As most of the stores are outside the city centre there’s little chance the staff there will speak English. Regardless, it’s still a lot of fun trawling through decades old parts and imagining what cars they came out of what use people would have for them. Does anyone today really want it need a Chrysler head unit, or three? Do they even work? Who care because it was only 990 yen ($9) each. Standing there for about 15 minutes contemplating my life and whether I needed or wanted it myself. Or what about the hardtop roof from a Toyota MR-S or the steering wheel from an Audi A4 S-Line?
Up Garage is just as good of a source for tuning parts as it is for OEM stuff. There’s a lot of used springs, exhausts, seats, and navigation systems. A lot of these would’ve come from cars that perhaps got upgraded with newer items or perhaps they were sold and had the modified parts sold separately. One man’s trash is another man’s affordable used part, or so they say. Up Garage buys a lot of these sort of parts from dealers, wholesalers, and individuals coming in with their stuff. It’ll go direct to a seller’s house to inspect their parts and will buy on the spot. It’s all about that convenience and affordable prices.
It was interesting to observe the people at the store on this particular day. It was around mid-afternoon on a Friday yet there were families in here, mom and dad browsing through aisles while the kids followed behind seemingly uninterested in the whole thing. There were a few older guys around too, most of them talking to staff members. Most surprising where the younger guys, probably early 20s who came in as a group of friends.
In a way, places like Autobacs and Up Garage are helping keep these young guys interested in cars. Sure, there might be cheaper ways of sourcing parts if money is an issue, but Up Garage’s affordable items means people can keep going back and adding more to their cars. We all know once you start adding bits and pieces to your car, you can’t stop. Because Up Garage is constantly buying new inventory, going to a particular location is a bit like the Daikoku meet; you’ll never know what you’ll come across each time.
As with Autobacs, the era when all anyone did was physically go into a store are long gone. Most of the stock in this store was also available online at Up Garage’s online portal Croooober. However, some aspects of shopping in a store can’t be replaced. Up Garage provides installation on items purchased there as well as consultation. While I was there, a man was discussing which wheels and tire combos would be best for his car and driving needs. Michelins on a minivan might be overkill but the customer is always right.
Think of it as eBay but more fun with the thrill of the hunt. If you go in there without a specific thing in mind it’s more fun. You’ll never know what you’ll find and what you’ll walk out with. Of course it’d be easier to shop online for what you specifically want but Up Garage might be the place to go to find those rare, nostalgic bits and bobs that’s a little too left field even for some online sites.
I don’t see Up Garage going anywhere anytime soon. Sure it has its online store but its physical stores are still expanding. They have a charm to them that just can’t be replaced by clicking a mouse in front of a computer screen. Certainly, with the older enthusiasts, there’s a bit of nostalgia here too. Up Garage, much like the rest of the Japanese car scene, shows that sometimes the old fashioned way still has its merits.
At the very least it’s a great place to get closer and intimate with car parts.
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Day 14 - Pumpkin Springs to Mile 241
Tuesday, September 30th would be another long-mile day, and sadly, it would be our last night on the river. Traveling 28 miles (mile 213 to mile 241) we would run 13 rapids (half of which were very small), go through a bunch of riffles, and take a hike.
The day began at the Pumpkin Springs campsite.
Pumpkin Springs, aptly named, has the shape, color and striations of a pumpkin.
As pretty as it looks on the outside, drinking the water in Pumpkin Springs could be hazardous to your health! It is the only water in Grand Canyon that the National Park Service advises people not to drink. It contains high levels of arsenic as well as other chemicals that contribute to its colorful exterior. We had a view of the water in the spring from the groover and it looked pretty nasty with a lot of green slimey stuff on its surface.
Before leaving Pumpkin Springs, someone (one of the paddle boat rafters, I think) decided that we needed to take a group photo. Great idea!
This was taken by KJ with Patrick's camera. (I cropped it and made some adjustments to the brightness and contrast.)
back row, from left: Tom, Nancy, DJ, Fred, Sue, Jason, Sarah, Russell, Dar, Becky, Tony and Carrie
front row, from left: Patrick, Dave, Mary, Tana, and Jim.
Also before leaving camp, we each packed our lunch for a hike later in the day. Apparently, the spot where we would be landing for the hike was not suitable for preparing lunch as usual.
Going through "224 Mile Rapid" with Diamond Peak up ahead. By this time we had already gone through five rapids.
Dar taking a turn at the oars. When she finished, I took a turn at them too. The guides make it look so easy, but it takes a lot of coordination and strength! It's much more difficult to "push" with the oars going forward than it is to "pull" when going backward.
We're still in the "lower gorge" where the canyon walls tower above us.
We stopped at Travertine Canyon, at about mile 229, for a hike to the Grotto. (Photo taken after we returned from the hike. I didn't think to take one from the raft as we approached.) We had to climb (practically crawl) over these boulders before we could even start on the hike. For those of us whose raft was on the far end, it was a little challenging since the hill was a little steeper and there were more boulders. Getting back into the rafts was just as challenging. And now, it made sense as to why we had to pack our lunches before leaving camp!
I was standing in the middle of the stream when I saw Sue and Fred and some of the other hikers returning from the Grotto. When we arrived at this spot earlier, I was advised not to go any further. I had already had problems negotiating my way over and/or around some of the larger boulders and was quite agreeable to staying behind. I played in the stream and it's numerous little waterfalls (bathing sans soap) and ate my lunch listening to the flow of the water over the rocks. It was a brief, soothing interlude, they returned all too soon.
Travertine Falls, at mile 230.5
Matt (with Sue and Fred in front, and Sarah and Jason in the rear) begins his run through 231 Mile Rapid (rated 4-7 on the Grand Canyon scale).
Like ducks in a row, floating toward yet another rapid. I don't know which rapid it was, just that it was about half an hour after 231 Mile Rapid. Starting at mile 231 and ending at mile 236 we ran five rapids (rated at either 4-6 or 4-7). It was almost as amazing as Day 8 when we ran the "Gems."
It was in one of those rapids, from mile 231 to mile 236, that we would have the only swimmers of the trip. By their own admission, the paddle boat crew had become complacent and a bit cocky, after all they had made it safely through Lava Falls Rapid as well as all of the other rapids in the Lower Canyon.
We watched, as if in slow motion, as their raft was carried up by a wave on the right. The right side of the raft went up further, nearly to the tipping point, and the three paddlers on that side simply dropped down, hitting the three paddlers on the left side and throwing all of them into the river. Somehow, Tom, guiding from the rear, managed to stay in the raft. The swimmers recovered quickly and made it back to the raft safely with only a few bruises and a good story to tell all of their friends and family.
Matt and the gang dropping into the rapid mentioned in the previous photo.
Follow the line of Matt's oar and you'll see Sue, just barely visible on the left side of the raft!
We're approaching the end of the journey. Though still within the borders of Grand Canyon National Park, we officially enter Lake Mead a short distance around the bend.
At about mile 240, the rafts gathered and were tied together. We were officially in Lake Mead. We drifted like this for a while then it was time to move on to our campsite.
Pulling in to our last campsite, at mile 241.
For some of us, our sleeping area was this stretch of beach. My spot is between the first two tents. I'm using the paco pad to try and dry the clothes I wore in the raft. There was another section of the beach off to the left that curved on around where others set up for the night. (Above photo courtesy of Sue Elliott)
The blue boat on the right is a jet boat that had brought a motor and other gear needed to take the rafts out later that night. It would return for us, our personal gear, and the rest of the camping gear the next morning.
After supper, the air was let out of the paddle raft and it was bundled up and put into one of the bigger rafts. The remaining rafts were then tied together. A big outboard motor was hooked up and they were driven off to the take-out point at Pearce Ferry, 40 miles downriver. Matt and Tom stayed in camp with us, but the other guides went with the rafts so everything could be unloaded by morning.
It was really sad to see KJ, Allison, Justin, and Chelly leave. Even though we knew we would see them again tomorrow, it brought home the fact that this trip was actually over. And most, if not all of us, truly did not want it to come to an end.
Note: The page Grand Canyon Raft Trip lists all of my posts published about this Grand Adventure!
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Becky Wiseman, "Day 14 - Pumpkin Springs to Mile 241," Kinexxions, posted November 13, 2014 (http://kinexxions.blogspot.com/2014/11/day-14-pumpkin-springs-to-mile-241.html : accessed [access date])
Labels: 2014 Raft Trip, 2014 Travels, Grand Canyon
Day 13 - Hell's Hollow to Pumpkin Springs
Monday, September 29th would be our longest day on the river. Traveling 30 miles (from mile 183 to mile 213), we would go through six rapids (two good sized and four small ones). Much of the day would be spent floating in calm waters.
Taken as we were leaving Hell's Hollow campsite.
The darker areas in the canyon wall are remnants of ancient lava flows.
The same lava flow as we passed by.
That group of scientists that we saw back on September 21st studying the Humpback Chub had completed their research and were heading to their take-out point at Diamond Creek (at mile 226). There were at least half a dozen boats/rafts of various sizes, all with motors, that zipped past us and were soon out of sight.
As a side note, Diamond Creek is the only place in Grand Canyon National Park, aside from Lee's Ferry, where there is vehicular access to the river. However, Diamond Creek Road is a 20+ mile long, non-maintained, dirt and rock road through the Haualapai reservation that starts at Peach Springs. There are some raft trip concessionaires that end their trip at the Diamond Creek take-out.
I don't know if the formation on the right has a name, but we dubbed it "The Cathedral" and we named the formation to the left "The Organ."
To us, the basalt columns beneath the overhang looked like the pipes of a pipe organ.
A huge lava rock in the middle of the river. (Taken about 10:30 a.m)
Ocotillo Cactus were prolific in this area. Taken about 2 p.m.
Just some more interesting formations.
This was most likely Kolb Rapid, at mile 205, since the photo was taken mid-afternoon.
It had a heck of a drop to it.
Jim took a turn at the oars for a while.
If you've been following along on this journey, by now you probably realize that I was totally captivated by the reflections on the river!
Matt's raft dropping backwards into 209 Mile Rapid, the last one of the day.
Holes in blue-gray colored canyon wall...
Getting close to our campsite at Pumpkin Springs and bringing to a close another magical day on the Colorado River.
Becky Wiseman, "Day 13 - Hell's Hollow to Pumpkin Springs," Kinexxions, posted November 12, 2014 (http://kinexxions.blogspot.com/2014/11/day-13-hells-hollow-to-pumpkin-springs.html : accessed [access date])
Day 12 - Part 2 :: Lava Falls Rapid
Caution. Graphics intensive. Way more than usual!
Sunday, September 28th... continued.
It was after 3 p.m. when KJ, Dar, Jim and I pulled into the scouting point for Lava Falls Rapid. We were the last to arrive. Some of the group had already gone to take a look and returned to their rafts.
I wish that I had thought to take a picture of where we tied up, it was a rocky shoreline that required climbing up and over big boulders. I started to get out of the raft with Jim and Dar, but KJ said no, I was to stay in the raft. Time was of the essence and the others were waiting for him and it would have taken me much longer. So I stayed.
He seemed to be in a hurry when he came back. He told us to remove our hats and sunglasses then stashed them in one of the waterproof storage bins. That's when I started getting really nervous. Then he reminded us how we were to sit - lean forward into the raft, not backward. The fact that he thought he had to remind us made me even more nervous. Then he said we're going first! Good grief, we almost never go first!
And then we were on our way...
Sue, Fred, Jason, Sarah, and Allison were laughing as we pulled out. And, they still had hats and sunglasses on. What's up with that? I wondered, so why did KJ make us take ours off?
This was our view of Lava Falls Rapid before we dropped down into it. Once through, we would be stationed way down on the right, on the other side of those last boulders - the ones just before the river disappears out of view. Our job would be to retrieve any swimmers who happened to get tossed overboard. Of course, we didn't know that until after we had run the rapid. And now I wonder, Who would have caught us if we had flipped?
This shot is zoomed in and cropped drastically, Chelly is standing by as the paddle raft crew successfully maneuvers through Lava Falls Rapid.
This was actually our view of the rapids. If I had my druthers I would have been stationed where that other raft is, so yeah, I was a little disappointed. However, that disappointment was alleviated considerably by the fact that Patrick, who was in Matt's raft - the last to go through - was stationed up on the rocks about midway through the rapid and would be shooting video of the runs, which he would later share with us.
Patrick had his GoPro camera and took standard-motion video of every raft (except his, of course). But he also had another digital camera with which he shot slow-motion video of several rafts! I asked, and he gave me permission, to use some screen shots of KJ's raft (the one I was in) going through. The images below are courtesy of Patrick Grelier, and used with his permission. Thank you, Patrick!
Patrick didn't capture our entrance into Lava Falls with the slow-motion camera so the first two images are wide-angle shots from the GoPro. They also show how small the raft is compared to some of those waves. Huge waves. Tiny, tiny boat.
We were going in straight just like he planned, then the current grabbed the raft, and turned us sideways. Definitely not part of the plan.
Then it kept turning us...
Uh Oh, not supposed to be going backwards into Lava Falls Rapid! Was it luck or skill on KJ's part that we weren't running in the roughest waters, rather alongside them?
It was still pretty darned rough.
Then we got clobbered. Hard. Oh, my. Looks like Dar was slipping out of the raft! (She didn't.)
Maybe we should be thankful that we were going backward...
Nearly through that wave... but totally drenched.
The wave was powerful enough to knock KJ off his seat and it filled the raft with water, which quickly drained.
Control regained. Sort of.
Approaching the 4th wave...
And over. Whew! Just like you're supposed to! I thought sure we were going to get hit again but the wave broke before we got to it.
A bit of a splash on the 5th wave and then we're through. All's well that ends well. Elapsed time? Less than 30 seconds. Probably the most exhilarating 30 seconds of my life! It was Awesome!
Once everyone was through, we gathered together on the river for a little celebration as we always did after safely "conquering" a major rapid. Then it was three more miles down the river to our campsite at Hell's Hollow.
At camp that night, we all got to view the slow-motion videos on the tiny screen of Patrick's camera and were even more psyched about the run through Lava Falls Rapid. About half-way through the run, Tom and the paddle raft had gotten turned around too and went backwards for a while. Allison, Chelly, Justin, and Matt all had nearly flawless runs; they made the run look easy. It wasn't. It was a combination of skill and good fortune that got us all through safely.
Becky Wiseman, "Day 12 - Part 2 :: Vulcan's Anvil to Lava Falls Rapid," Kinexxions, posted November 11, 2014 (http://kinexxions.blogspot.com/2014/11/day-12-part-2-lava-falls-rapid.html : accessed [access date])
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Dallas ISD Trustee Mike Morath named to state’s top education position
By Keri Mitchell|2015-12-14T14:01:20-06:00December 14th, 2015|Dallas ISD, Education, News|25 Comments
Breaking news from the governor’s office: Trustee Mike Morath, who lives in Lakewood and represents schools in the Woodrow Wilson and Hillcrest high school feeder patterns, has been named the commissioner of the Texas Education Agency. He will oversee the Texas Education Agency (TEA) and the state’s 1,200 school districts and charter schools, according to Governor Greg Abbott’s office.
“The State of Texas is exceptional, and our education system must be too,” Abbott says in a press release. “A proven education reformer, Mike Morath will not accept the status quo in our schools. He is committed to innovative solutions that will empower Texas principals, teachers, and students to strive for the highest in education excellence. Mike Morath has led climbs up Mount Rainier and climbed the 20,305 foot Island Peak near Mount Everest. Now he will help Texas education reach new heights.”
Morath has served on the Dallas ISD board since being elected in 2011. We’ve called him to learn more about this appointment and what it means for his role in the district and with neighborhood schools.
About the Author: Keri Mitchell
KERI MITCHELL is an Advocate editor and reporter. Email kmitchell@advocatemag.com or follow twitter.com/thequotablelife.
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