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Policy Alert: Rebels Surrendering in Eastern Congo – Time for Feingold and Robinson to Act
Posted by Timo Mueller ⋅ December 30, 2013 ⋅ 6 Comments
Filed Under Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, MONUSCO, North Kivu
On December 10, rebel leader Paluku Hilaire Kombi, commander of roughly 280 rebel troops, surrendered to the Congolese army. He reportedly turned himself in, along with five officers to the Congolese army in the village of Mbwavinywa in southern Lubero territory, North Kivu. Earlier on November 26, Governor of North Kivu Julien Paluku urged him and other groups in Beni and Lubero territories to give up on their insurgent activities. This stunning development is part of a larger defection trend that escalated after the army, along with the United Nations Force Intervention Brigade, defeated the M23 rebel group in early November. While this is a very promising trend, the U.S. and U.N. Special Envoys Russ Feingold and Mary Robinson should quickly urge the Congolese government to act now to implement a new robust demobilization, disarmament, and reintegration, or DDR, program. Without this more robust program, the trend is at risk of reversing.
After operating in Congo for more than a decade, the U.N. peacekeeping mission, MONUSCO, has taken on a more vigorous mandate. Following a decision in March 2013 by the Security Council, the U.N. tasked the Force Intervention Brigade with carrying out targeted operations to neutralize armed groups and contribute to civilian security and political stability.
Since the demise of the M23, elements of over 20 rebel groups across eastern Congo have either surrendered to the Congolese army or offered to lay down their weapons. For example:
November 14, Maï-Maï Totye surrendered in Manono territory, Katanga province.
On November 19, elements of several groups such as APCLS, APCLS Bord du Lac, and Nyatura factions including FDDH, MPA, as well as FODP handed in their weapons in Bweremana, 54 km southwest of the provincial capital of Goma.
On November 20, Raïa Mukombozi offered to surrender.
On November 22, 60 combatants of the Raïa Mutomboki faction led by Foka gave up in Chulwe, Kabare territory.
On November 24, the mayor of Beni city in North Kivu province announced the surrender of Maï-Maï Kavawaseli and Maï-Maï Jean-Marie.
On November 24, elements of FDP led by Mai-Mai Shetani and FDLR capitulated in Kibuko, Lubero territory.
On November 25, MRP surrendered in Kibua, Walikale territory.
On November 26, FDP led by Shetani together with its ally FDIPC surrendered in Kiwanja, Rutshuru territory.
On November 27, the armed group NDC led by the infamous Ntabo Ntamberi Sheka vacated its former stronghold of Pinga and is now reported to be in the gold village of Angowa, Walikale territory.
On the same day, FDC-Guides surrendered in Kiteya, Walikale territory. Maï-Maï Lafontaine is currently negotiating his surrender with the Congolese army.
During a speech in Goma on November 29, President Joseph Kabila asserted that over 4,000 rebels have already entered demobilization camps in eastern Congo. In contrast, on December 13, the U.N. peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous said some 2,300 rebels had surrendered their weapons in the past two months or so.
In other developments, the rebel group ADF-NALU is also reportedly fleeing from locations in Beni territory towards Orientale Province since early December. But while on the run, the group allegedly slaughtered 21 civilians including women and children in the village of Musuku in Rwenzori, Beni Territory, North Kivu.
Meanwhile, on December 8, MONUSCO stepped up its pressure on armed groups, offering rebel groups present in Ituri the chance to surrender. The groups include Cobra Matata’s FRPI, Morgan’s Maï-Maï Simba, FLPC, and the Ugandan Islamist group, the ADF. A day later, five officers of the rebel group MAC conceded in Walikale. On the same day, MONUSCO launched its first operations against the FDLR in Masisi and Walikale territories. Meanwhile, on December 10, the Governments of Congo and Burundi pledged to strengthen their efforts to neutralize the rebel group FNL.
The surrender of Hilaire Kombi and the pledge of other rebel groups to lay down their arms is a promising development. However, it must be accompanied by a robust and better designed DDR program from the Congolese government. While the Government of Congo announced a new plan in late November, it has yet to be publicized and operationalized (for earlier concept papers, see here and here; MONUSCO had urged the government to finish its plan earlier on November 13). Any DDR program must offer long-term support for ex-combatants and their home communities, real security guarantees, and sustainable livelihood alternatives without inducing others to join rebel groups to reap the DDR benefits.
After a two-week visit in Goma, DRC’s defense minister Luba Ntambo highlighted on December 4 the lack of funding and logistics. “Old DDR programs have benefited substantially from U.N. support, and this one won’t be an exception,” he told reporters. “There are still some issues [re: implementation and financial management] between GoDRC and MONUSCO that we need to settle,” he added.
On December 10, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, or OCHA, deplored the conditions in the temporary disarmament camp in Bweremana, Masisi territory. According to a MONUSCO representative, there are 1,933 ex-combatants with 958 dependents in the Bweremana demobilization camp, all expecting to benefit from DDR packages. Similarly, further north in Beni territory, North Kivu, civil society spokesperson, Lawyer Omar Kavota told Enough Project earlier on Friday:
“[Congolese] army troops are sharing the same camp with the [surrendered] rebels. Their living conditions [in these camps] don’t encourage other defections.”
In addition, an army commander in Beni shared his concerns with the Enough Project:
“[w]e’re concerned the [surrendered] rebels would possibly leak strategic information to the ADF [a rebel group the army is considering to launch operations against in due time] because they can see our equipment and operation movements.”
To reiterate, the recent surrenders are a very positive development but if the Congolese government together with international partners including MONUSCO do not act swiftly and put in place a robust DDR plan, the momentum might wane so quickly.
Additional resources on this topic:
For more on armed groups, see Enough Project’s table detailing 28 armed groups and reports by the Rift Valley Institute. In addition, PhD student Christoph Vogel provides a comprehensive map of armed groups.
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Below is a non-exhaustive digest of recent events in Congo.
FARDC reportedly sustained 217 deaths and 444 wounded when fighting ADF, who allegedly lost at least 516 cbts.
Morgan:
Despite Morgan’s death (for more see here), his group continues to be active. On 9 May, they attacked the army in Orientale Province (Muchacha, Bandegaido, Mambasa). They reportedly killed 1 soldier and wounded 3 others.
Mai Mai Yakutumba:
As of 8 May, the army (1004th regiment) continued to fight MM Yakutumba in South Kivu (Fizi territory, Ngandja).
A new rebel group:
MONUSCO reports the birth of a new armed group, the PPH (Protection of Hutu People). They’re composed of FDLR-FOCA, FDLR-RUD, and Nyatura elements. They are reportedly based in southern Lubero territory (120 km north of Goma), Masisi, and Rutshuru. We’ll inquire further.
Weaponry:
IRIN News with a feature on the availability of weapons in Congo.
Domestic politics:
Here’s an excellent infographic of a who-is-who in Congolese politics.
SGBV:
Spokesperson of the GoDRC repelled criticism of the Minova verdict, arguing that “nobody has a right to judge our lawyers.”
China on Sunday signed a deal to build a $3.8-billion rail link between Kenya’s Indian Ocean port of Mombasa and Nairobi, the first stage of a line that will eventually link Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan.
WWF reported to authorities today that staff members have received death threats linked to the organization’s opposition to oil exploration in Virunga National Park.
Rwanda:
“In Rwanda, finding echoes of Germany” by NYT’s Nicholas Kulish.
Uganda:
Uganda expects the bulk of its commercial oil production to start by the end of 2017 as it awaits a pipeline to export crude oil and a refinery to be built, the minister of energy and mineral development said.
500 members of the political wing of the M-23 have unanimously agreed to seek asylum after the Congolese government promised them a safe passage to the country that if they denounced rebellion. Some of them who spoke to Press TV say they were encouraged by the recent agreement between Kinshasa, the UNHCR and Kampala to repatriate Congolese refugees, who’ve been trapped in Uganda for months.
FDLR:
“The top priority is going after the F.D.L.R.,” Mr. Feingold said. “The planning has been done. But President Kabila needs to give the green light to say it is time to take them on militarily.”
“The people of this country have a right to have their Constitution respected,” Mr. Feingold said. “The Constitution here provides for two terms.”
Kerry said the United States would contribute $30 million to help Congo hold elections. Much of the money will be provided to NGOs, but some $2 million will probably be provided to the nation’s electoral commission.
Full remarks with Congo’s FM Tshibanda.
VOA State Department Correspondent Scott Stearns reported that Kerry urged Kabila not to seek a third term. But Information Minister Lambert Mende said there is no way Kerry could have made such a remark because Kabila has not indicated whether he will stand in the 2016 elections.
A US official stated: “I can say categorically that we’re ready to support them,” the official said when asked if Washington was ready to back the government’s demobilisation plan. “We are looking in our own budget for where we can provide additional funding for DRC,” the official said on condition of anonymity. “And we’ve identified some additional funding that we hope to be able to share with them.”
Rwanda’s government paid contract killers to assassinate opponents and critics of President Paul Kagame, according to the Globe and Mail.
The government granted amnesty to another 100 people, incl. 25 rebels from Bakata Katanga, and five from M23. (See also Jeune Afrique‘s commentary).
Sheka
More than 4,000 people reportedly fled Walikale territory (Oninga, Rama, Pinga) to seek refuge in Lubero territory (Kasugho, Mabombi, Fatua).
Following the launch of an investigation into Morgan’s death, authorities reportedly arrested FARDC Major Enock Kinzambi, commander of the FARDC battalion in Mambasa, Orientale Province, on 29 April. He’s the first suspect. Radio France International reports he was arrested because he had lied that Morgan had been disarmed. For background and analysis of his death, see my earlier blog post.
APCLS
Two days ago, APCLS killed six FARDC soldiers, wounding another peacekeeper in Nyabondo in Masisi territory (45 miles north of Goma). For a good analysis of the attack and APCLS, see African Defense Review.
Orland von Einsiedel – director of the new documentary about the Virunga National Park in eastern Congo – gave an interview to National Geographic, discussing his film, the park and activities by the British oil company SOCO.
Sexual Violence:
Global Post highlights the upcoming verdict in the Minova rape trials due May 5th.
Humanitarian:
Uganda will begin repatriating as many as 184,000 DRC refugees after a large number of them asked to go home, a junior minister told Reuters on Tuesday.
Sheka:
Governor of North Kivu calls on Sheka to surrender.
New video about the circumstances about rebel leader Morgan. See also my earlier blog post on his death.
ADF:
Some ADF hostages reportedly returned to Beni town. TBC.
MONUSCO:
Général Ramadhan Abdoul Kimweri is the new chief of FIB.
ICGLR’s Joint Verification Mechanism faces financial difficulties. Let’s keep that in mind for our forthcoming AG research.
Buffett, Tutu and Branson published an op-ed in the HPost “New Troubles at the Gates of Virunga.” When we hear of an outside investor claiming that this time will be different and “the people” will benefit from their country’s riches, forgive us if we disagree, especially as these explorations are illegal according to DRC and international law.
The opposition has now collected 50,000 signatures for its petition to have the controversial chief of the electoral commission sacked.
Main opposition leader Tshisekedi (UPDS) rejects the holding of local elections in its current contours.
SSR:
The UNSCR will adopt today the first stand-alone resolution on SSR.
Energy experts from Burundi, DR Congo and Rwanda are meeting in Kigali to fine-tune details in agreements that will see a mega joint hydro power project on River Rusizi start delivering 147MW of electricity in the next four years.
New map of IDPs in Congo.
Introspection by @MSF about the Rwandan genocide.
Using Twitter as a means to gather defence intelligence in DRC.
Amnesty law:
Who will benefit from the amnesty law in Congo? Here’s a list of 271 lucky ones. More here.
MONUSCO said it’s ready to assist with the return of grantees of amnesty.
Op-ed by former head of ICTJ: “How to tackle the DRC’s complex anti-impunity agenda.”
Goma-based think tank Pole Institute released a new report on DDR III (French only).
Armed groups, security:
Security situation in Rutshuru territory remains fragile. Police commander admits inability to provide security, saying army needs to come back.
The South Sudanese army entered DRC b/t 18-22 Apr in Orientale Province (Bitima, Dungu). They reportedly killed 2 Mbororo pastoralists and nearly thirty cows. Map here.
Regional Economic Integration:
The World Bank approved $100 m grant for Burundi to fund 2 hydropower projects; will almost double electricity output.
The Economist argues “Burundi shows how African countries can reduce their dependence on aid [via taxation].”
Human rights:
On 29 April, the Human Rights Council’s in Geneva will examine human rights records of the GoDRC.
WWF condemns Soco seismic testing in Virunga
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Erik Johannessen was born July 22th 1975 in Oslo, Norway. Grew up on Lambertseter in the suburbs.
Started playing trombone at eight and piano at ten, and decided early to be a musician. Started playing jazz at sixteen, and played in his early twenties in bands like [Soundslashnoise] and The Beauties & The Beast with norwegian pop star Bertine Zetlitz. Soon he joined the Norwegian/Polish collaboration Loud Jazz Band and toured Poland many times, and has to date released five CDs.
Studied music at high school at Foss (1991-1994), and studied at University of Oslo with a degree in music (1995- 1996) and literature (1996-1997), went on to study jazz at the conservatory of Trondheim (2001-2005), with trombone teacher Helge Førde and other teachers like John Pål Inderberg, Erling Aksdal and m.m. Started there playing in bands like Big Spirit People, Happy House, and Magic Pocket.
Joined Trondheim Jazz Orchestra for a number of projects with soloists and composers like Eirik Hegdal, Maria Kannegård, Joshua Redman, Terje Rypdal, Bednik Hofseth, Jon Balke, Kobert m.m. He got the JazZtipendiat award (2009) with the brass quartet Magic Pocket and composed music and played at Molde International Jazz Festival 2010 with Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, which resulted in the CD Kinetic Music(2011). Magic Pocket has also released the CD Katabatic Wind (2011).
Moved back to Oslo starts playing in Jaga Jazzist in 2005 (still going) touring Europe a number of times. They have also played in Singapore, Japan and USA with great success. Released their album One-Armed Bandit in 2010, and won a norwegian grammy (Spellemannsprisen).
He started working as a freelance musician and has participated in many projects and played on a lot of pop songs, with artists like Susanne Sundfør, Dum Dum Boys, Jim Stärk, Thom Hell, Jonas Alaska, Maria Mena, Jens Carelius, Raga Rockers, Lindstrøm & Christabelle and many more.
Started the trio Lord Kelvin who has released two CD’s, Dances In the Smoke and Radio Has No Future.
Johannessen joined Ensemble Denada and won a German grammy with the CD Finding Nymo released on ACT 2009.
In 2009 he started a trio in his own name with Erik Nylander on drums and Jon Rune Strøm on Double bass, and released the album Inkblots (2012) on the label Gigafon.
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Aristotle, on the contrary, was of opinion that no conviction of the understanding was capable of getting the better of inveterate habits, and that our good morals arose not from knowledge but from action. It is no easy matter to trace its history.
thesis english quotes. Every step of its progress from a merely scholarly institution to a widely popular one has been marked by the introduction of more red blood, more real life, into its organism. While he was uttering some of the finest observations (to speak in compass) that ever were delivered in that House, they walked out, not as the beasts came out thesis quotes english of the ark, by twos and by threes, but in droves and companies of tens, of dozens, and scores! They are more affected by the overturning of a plate of turtle-soup than by the starving of a whole county. He is diminutive in person, like the others. This at least their words seemed to import, and thus they are understood by Cicero, and by all the other writers of earlier antiquity, though some of the later Platonists have interpreted them differently. One can pick out duplication and omission in the stock of a single institution. I freely own to the Reader, that I know no other Tongue besides my Native, except_ French, _in which I am but very moderately skill’d. What they would scout in a fiction, they would set about realizing in sober sadness, and melt their fortunes in compassing what others consider as the amusement of an idle hour. 20. All that is not accounted for in this way, either from general conformation or from physiognomical expression, is a heap of crude, capricious, unauthenticated trash. The infant, however, feels only the uneasiness of the present instant, which can never be great. It is well that there should be a little mystery between the librarian and his public–a consciousness of problems yet to solve, of service yet to be rendered. Unusual and unexpected Sound alarms always, and disposes us to look about for some external substance or thing as the cause which excites it, or from which it proceeds. The true method, I am convinced, is to insist on cash payment of fines, and if this is done promptly their character as penalties will be more generally recognized. Such comic representation of type will always have in it something of the nature of exaggeration. The agreeable passions of love and joy can satisfy and support the heart without any auxiliary pleasure. You can scarcely get a word out of him for love or money. may all have great knowledge and ingenuity in their several vocations, the details of which will be very edifying to themselves, and just as incomprehensible to their neighbours: but over and above this professional and technical knowledge, they must be supposed to have a stock of common sense and common feeling to furnish subjects for common conversation, or to give them any pleasure in each other’s company. In the middling and inferior stations of life, the road to virtue and that to fortune, to such fortune, at least, as men in such stations can reasonably expect to acquire, are, happily, in most cases, very nearly the same. I have been astonished that some writers should bring up the primary meaning of a word in an American language in order to infer the coarseness of its secondary meaning. Each one then took a similar piece of stick and made a private mark upon it; these were rolled up as before, placed on the altar, taken up one by one, and unwrapped, each man claiming his own. Every library, of course, must have some plan of service, more or less systematic. But such “laws” will also be independent of the moral imperatives and written codes, for they are independent of volition–of the will to obey them. One special kind of time-waster is the assistant who comes to her chief with a request. I have added little to my stock since then, and taken little from it. With these true _terr? I was sent for to dress her and lay her out. Various causes were at work to extend the application of the judicial duel to all classes of cases. In order to enforce the observation of justice, therefore, Nature has implanted in the human breast that consciousness of ill-desert, those terrors of merited punishment which attend upon its violation, as the great safeguards of the association of mankind, to protect the weak, to curb the violent, and to chastise the guilty. Probabilities! This, however, is the way of our world with its multiple connections. It is of the lucky kind that the world’s geniuses are made–inventors like Bell, Edison and Marconi, captains of industry like Carnegie, Rockefeller and Henry Ford, soldiers like Napoleon, Grant, and Moltke, statesmen like Lincoln, Gladstone and Bismarck, poets like Shakespeare, Dante and Goethe. In 1368 Casimir III.
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No Coal in Oakland is a grassroots organization campaigning to stop the threat of coal being transported by rail into Oakland for export overseas. Though the Oakland City Council, the city’s Mayor, and politicians at the state and local levels are on-record opposing coal passing through Oakland, the proposal to build a massive coal terminal at the foot of the Bay Bridge remains tied up in both Federal and California lawsuits, and decidedly on the table.
The project, known as the Oakland Bulk and Oversized Terminal (OBOT), is being built by a group of developers operating under a series of corporate shells including Oakland Global Rail Enterprise, LLC (“OGRE”) and, previously, Prologis CCIG Oakland Global LLC (“CCIG”). After years of assurances that coal would not be transported through the bulk terminal, community members learned in April 2015 that developers had secretly cut a funding deal with four Utah counties to export coal through Oakland. In exchange for $53 million in project funding, the developers promised the Utah counties shipping rights to at least 49% of the bulk terminal’s 9-10 million ton annual shipping capacity.
Utah officials have stated that they intend to use this capacity to export coal to overseas markets. This revelation followed a number of statements to the contrary by Oakland developer Phil Tagami, CCIG’s President and CEO. Tagami stated that the company had “no interest or involvement in the pursuit of coal-related operations at the former Oakland Army Base,” in a newsletter and in private assurances to Oakland City Councilmember Dan Kalb.
Oakland has long been a center for highly-polluting transportation activity, resulting in disproportionately high health impacts for the residents of West Oakland. Our community has made some progress toward systematic reduction of pollution caused by these activities, but Oakland can’t and won’t allow toxic coal dust to erode modest gains and further threaten our health. Coal is the dirtiest fossil fuel on Earth, imperiling the health of workers, endangering communities along rail lines that transport it, and contributing greatly to global warming and climate change.
Although we support the construction of the Oakland Global Trade and Logistics Center and all the jobs it will bring, we reject the developer’s claim that coal shipment is needed to sustain the Center, and we reject the claim that there will be fewer jobs if coal is excluded from the project. Environmental justice and protection of the climate can go hand-in-hand with redevelopment of Oakland’s waterfront.
A filmmaker from Germany, associated with “Hambacher Forst” activists, visited Oakland to learn about No Coal in Oakland’s issues and campaign. The video is a quick and excellent introductory overview of the campaign to stop construction of infrastructure for shipping and handling of coal at the foot of the iconic San Francisco Bay Bridge. You can view the video on the Internet Archive.
April 2015: Community members learn developers had secretly cut a funding deal with four Utah counties to export coal through Oakland.
July 2015: After months of delay, Oakland’s City Council agrees — on the day before activists hold a large demonstration outside City Hall demanding a ban on coal — to hold a hearing on the coal terminal.
September 2015: Hundreds of residents testify or support speakers at a public hearing before the Oakland City Council. The entire hearing can be viewed online. At the conclusion of the lengthy meeting, the council unanimously passes a resolution directing the City Administrator to request additional information, evaluate evidence submitted, and provide options (including an ordinance, a temporary emergency ordinance, a temporary moratorium, or other measures to protect health and/or safety) no later than December 8, 2015.
December 2015: Upon learning there would be an administrative status report at the City Council’s December 8th meeting, but no options would be presented or discussed, the No Coal in Oakland campaign organizes a teach-in on the coal issue and related social justice concerns in Oakland. Panelists speak from No Coal in Oakland, the Oakland Citywide Network (fighting displacement), Black Lives Matter, and the Fight for Fifteen (campaigning for a livable minimum wage). Several hundred attend.
February 2016: A Sierra Club poll finds that 76% of Oakland voters oppose the coal export proposal. California State Senator Loni Hancock introduces a four-bill package to restrict coal exports through the state.
March 2016: The Utah State Legislature approves a bill to invest $53 million of public funds in OBOT in exchange for the right to ship millions of tons of Utah coal through Oakland for 66 years, ratifying the secret funding deal Oaklanders discovered a year before. No Coal in Oakland posts evidence that the company slated to operate the proposed coal terminal, though representing itself as Oakland-based and minority-run, is actually controlled by Bowie Resource Partners, a major coal company (now renamed Woverine Fuels); this conclusion is later verified by documents obtained through legal discovery in Oakland Bulk & Oversized Terminal, LLC vs. City of Oakland.
April 2016: Mayors of 11 East Bay cities urge Oakland’s Mayor and City Council “to take action to reject the coal plan and protect the health and safety of our communities.”
May 2016: California State Senator Loni Hancock’s constituent poll finds 92% of respondents oppose the proposed coal-export terminal in Oakland.
June 2016: The Oakland City Council hears report summaries and community testimony, then votes 7-0 “to prohibit the storage and handling of coal and coak at bulk material facilities or terminals throughout the City of Oakland.”
July 2016: The Oakland City Council unanimously confirms June’s ban on coal in a second vote required by the city’s rules.
August 2016: A report summarizing the No Coal in Oakland campaign’s origins, strategy, tactics, organization, and key documents is completed and published.
December 2016: Oakland would-be coal developer Phil Tagami files a federal lawsuit seeking to overturn the city’s coal ban ordinance.
April 2017: In the first major court skirmish, US District Judge Vince Chhabria signals he will issue a mixed set of rulings on motions brought by the City of Oakland and would-be intervenors, the Sierra Club and SF Baykeeper.
June 2017: Sierra Club and SF Baykeeper are granted intervenor status in the federal lawsuit, but Judge Chhabria denies two separate motions to dismiss coal-developer Tagami’s claims.
October 2017: No Coal in Oakland publishes an open letter to Phil Tagami in East Bay newspapers. Over 1,800 individual signers and over sixty-six organizations call on Tagami to dismiss his lawsuit against the people of Oakland, and give up plans to build a coal export facility.
November 2017: Tagami files a motion for summary judgment in the United States District Court case Oakland Bulk & Oversized Terminal, LLC vs. City of Oakland.
December 2017: The City of Oakland and intervenors Sierra Club and SF Baykeeper move to dismiss Tagami-fronted coal industry lawsuit, and OBOT files its reply brief. The Center for Biological Diversity files an amicus brief for itself and four other environmental groups in support of the motions filed for summary judgment in the City of Oakland’s favor. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra files an amicus brief in support of the City of Oakland’s coal ban.
January 2018: A three-day trial is held on Oakland Bulk & Oversized Terminal, LLC vs. City of Oakland in US District Court, ending Friday, Jan 19th.
March 2018: No Coal in Oakland and allies launch a campaign targeting the Bank of Montreal for arranging financial backing of the proposed Oakland coal terminal, releasing a background paper on the coal terminal project and the bank’s involvement (the background paper is also available in Spanish: traducción al español: Datos pertinentes sobre la terminal de carbón propuesta en Oakland, California).
May 2018: Judge Chhabria rules in favor of coal-developer Tagami; community groups commit to continuing the fight against an Oakland coal terminal. No Coal in Oakland issues its comments on the decision on May 16th.
June 2018: Oakland files an appeal of the US District Court ruling to invalidate application of the city’s coal ban to the OBOT coal terminal project.
July 2018: No Coal in Oakland publicizes pledges secured from nearly two dozen officeholders and primary election candidates to refuse financial or other support from would-be coal developer Phil Tagami.
August 2018: The Bank of Montreal responds with posturing and evasion to No Coal in Oakland’s letters demanding the bank withdraw from its role in arranging financing for the Oakland coal terminal project.
October 2018: U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Lee joins No Coal in Oakland’s pledge to refuse support from coal developer Phil Tagami.
November 2018: Oakland cancels coal terminal lease for failure to meet critical construction milestones; in response, developer Phil Tagami threatens a second lawsuit.
December 2018: Would be coal developer Tagami launches a second lawsuit against the City of Oakland, this time in Alameda County Superior Court. A first round of briefs are filed in the appeal of Judge Chhabria’s May ruling in Federal Court.
March 2019: Utah’s largest coal producer signals it may have its sights set on building a coal shipment terminal in Ensenada, Mexico, should plans to build in Oakland fail.
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Opinion: We need cli-fi novels and movies to fight climate change
Sen. Kamala Harris was half right in her speech launching her 2020 presidential campaign in January 2019, when she said Americans need to address climate change based on “science fact, not science fiction.” She wasn't talking about the literary genre of ''science fiction'' but rather she was talking about the fictional science "facts" that climate denialists and Donald Trump use to try to attack climate scientists and climate activists.
When the California Democrat’s statement about climate change went out on social media, a number of people pointed out that the rising new literary genre of cli-fi novels and movies has in fact been helping us to prepare for a world of potentially disastrous climate upheaval for years. Sadly, many right wing denialists took issue with Harris’ warnings about climate change, because in our post-truth era, the scientific consensus about what humans are doing to our planet is still somehow a matter of ''opinion.'' But it's no longer a matter of opinion. Climate change is science fact.
And that’s why cli-fi novels and movies are so very important today, as Harris herself knows. No amount of scientific evidence will convince climate deniers - or the vast number of people who merely live in a state of denial. We live in an era in which facts and fiction are blurring into an indistinguishable mess and power belongs to whoever can tell the best story, true or not.
Nobody can even tell what’s real anymore, and what matters is just how something makes us feel - which is why we need good and compelling cli-fi stories and movies.
Cli-fi movies? Think “The Day After Tomorrow,” “Geostorm” and “Waterworld.” \
Also think cli-fi authors such as Kim Stanley Robinson, Margaret Atwood, Barbara Kingsolver, Paolo Bacigalupi, Megan Hunter and Nathaiel Rich who have been writing powerful works that depict the effects of climate change, and how we might mitigate it.
Stories about climate change might can help to sway people’s hearts and minds in a different way than a government charts and statistics. That's where the power of cli-fi storytelling comes in.
Cli-fi novelists and film directors have been doing some soul-searching that includes looking for ways we can do more to restore people’s faith in the future.
When the truth becomes near-impossible to distinguish through the fog of disinformation and “alternative facts,” people tend to feel powerless to change the world. Veteran activist L.A. Kauffman (author of “How to Read a Protest”) says people need to be reminded that they “have more collective power than they realize." Adds Kauffman, “There are truths we can get to through the imagination that are hard to get to through purely factual accounts.”
Again, that's where the power of cli-fi storytelling comes in.
And listen: because cli-fi is the literature and cinema of problem-solving, our stories about science and innovation can play an important role in helping us to regain our faith in our own ability to create change. So as Harris goes out and campaigns for decision-making based on science facts, she will also be talking about how we can harness the awesome power of cli-fi storytelling, the most important literary genre of the 21st century.
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Title Slide: Customizing the Future
Mel Choyce | @melchoyce
Hey! I’m Mel Choyce. I’m a Product Designer at Automattic.
Customization design lead
I’m also the current Customization design lead for WordPress. This past year, I worked a lot on 4.8, and co-lead the 4.9 release.
Worked on the WordPress.com Customizer
Before that, I also worked on the WordPress.com Customizer, so I’ve been thinking about this topic for a while.
Before I talk about exciting future possibilities, let’s start by looking back a bit on the history of the Customizer.
WordPress 3.4 “Green”
The Customizer, then known as the Theme Customizer, was released in WordPress 3.4 “Green” in June of 2012.
The new Theme Customizer duplicated some basic site settings like your title and tagline, along with your homepage settings. It also included theme options like header images, background colors, whatever else your theme supported. It brought these features into a live preview context, which was great, because previously you had to toggle back and forth between editing and previewing everything live on your site. For example, you wouldn’t know how your new header image would actually looked until you saved, which obviously isn’t ideal. With the Theme Customizer, you could finally preview those changes before pushing them live.
WordPress 3.9 "Smith"
In 3.9, widget management was added to the Customizer. This was pretty controversial, especially with the insinuation that it would eventually replace the wp-admin widget management screen. Here we are ten releases later with both interfaces still kickin’ around, so I guess that didn’t end up being an issue. I personally really love this feature because it helps streamline the process of building a site in one place, and in general I just find it faster to use.
WordPress 4.3 "Billie"
A couple versions later, menus were added to the Customizer as well. I love this interface way better than the wp-admin one which is sooo slow, so I was really stoked when it came out.
WordPress 4.7 "Vaughan"
At the end of last year, we added a couple new features. First of all, we launched new edit icons to the preview pane of the Customizer. This was a feature I’d worked on with my team at WordPress.com, and after it received some community interest, we proposed it as a core feature. It’s very much a bandaid solution for direct manipulation in the Customizer, but I think it’s been helpful.
WordPress 4.7 "Vaughan" (Slide 2)
We also added a way to create new pages from the Customizer, which is great for when you’re first setting up a site and want to stub out your menu.
Lastly, we added Custom CSS so anyone can customize their site’s styles. This is a feature offered by tons of themes and plugins, so it was a way for us to create a standard way to provide a CSS editor they could hook into or use in place of their home-grown solutions. It’s also a really useful solution for anyone who would normally make a child theme just to add some custom styles.
This brings us to 2017, and last year’s Customization focus. At the beginning of the year, Matt Mullenweg announced a couple core focuses, one of which being Customization. Weston Ruter and I were named co-leads. We spent the first half of the year focused on low-hanging fruit and minor improvements, and the second half of the year taking a look at some bigger features.
WordPress 4.8 “Evans”
One of the improvements we that shipped in 4.8 was the addition of new media widgets. We had originally conceptualized these as one widget that could do anything, but eventually decided to pivot towards separate widgets for each media type. Not only does this make each individual widget more discoverable, but it’ll be easier for us to make them Gutenberg compatible in the future. We’ll talk a little bit more about Gutenberg later.
WordPress 4.9 "Tipton"
In 4.9, we did an iteration on Menus in the Customizer. We took a look at the flow of creating a new menu, and addressed some usability concerns that kept coming up in both user tests and support requests.
WordPress 4.9 "Tipton" (Slide 2)
We also finally launched a way to browse and install new themes from the Customizer. Previously, you could browse and preview your installed themes, but now you’re able to search through the WordPress.org theme directory. It was another feature aimed at making it easier and faster to set up a new site.
Lastly, we created an interface for drafting and scheduling changes directly in the Customizer. This came with a whole slew of additional improvements. You can now share a live preview of your changes with your team or your clients before publishing them. If someone else is working in the Customizer and you start editing the same thing, we lock changes so you can’t accidentally overwrite the other person’s work. We also created a UI for restoring or dismissing autosaved changesets. These features were inspired a lot by the WordPress editor.
This was also fun because it’s maybe one of the first non-controversial features we’ve launched in the Customizer. People were actually looking forward to it, which was pretty nice.
We also made a ton of improvements to the code quality and developer experience of building in the Customizer. My co-lead Weston gave a really good talk at WordCamp US last year about building features with JavaSCript that you should check out if you’re interested in learning more. If you like reading documentation, you can check out the post he wrote about the API changes on make.wordpress.org/core.
https://weston.ruter.net/2017/12/11/building-with-javascript-in-the-customizer-at-wcus-2017/ https://make.wordpress.org/core/2017/11/01/improvements-to-the-customize-js-api-in-4-9/
Live preview everything
In the past couple years, the Customizer has really evolved from the "theme customizer,” to more of a framework for live-previewing any change in WordPress. This has been the driving point behind all the recent features we’ve worked on. You shouldn’t be able to make a visual change without previewing it first.
That brings us to now. What does the future hold in store for the Customizer?
To understand the future is to first understand Gutenberg, the new editor coming to WordPress later this year.
Everything's a block
The core principle behind Gutenberg is simple: everything’s a block. It’s a complete unification of content types under a single umbrella. Paragraphs? Those are blocks. Images? Blocks. Embeds? Those are blocks, too. Shortcodes? Turn that sucker into a block. One you learn how to work with one block, you know how to work with all blocks.
Blocks have placeholders
Blocks come with placeholders. Placeholders take up physical space within your post and infer the kind of content they accept. For example, an image placeholder block shows an upload button, and a button to open the media library. A text placeholder block shows a writing prompt. It’s a quick way to tell someone, “Hey, you can add this kind of content here. All you need to do is fill in the blanks.”
Directly editable
All blocks are directly editable. You can click into a text block and type, or move blocks around the page with just a tap.
As developers, you can use core patterns to create custom blocks for your clients that are WYSIWYG. This is a huge usability win, and the block possibilities are pretty endless. The… blockabilities? Okay yeah that was pretty bad.
More intuitive for clients and customers
What previously required using complicated markup, shortcodes, or lots of custom fields, becomes easier and more intuitive for your clients and customers. You can create dynamic blocks that automatically show your clients’ content without needing to be directly edited, but maybe provide a couple layout options they can switch between if they wanted to promote something in particular. And you can also add your theme styles and render your site’s layout inside the Editor. That means THEY get a WYSIWYG experience where they can’t accidentally break some markup, like they can with shortcodes, for example. But they CAN easily update text, swap images, reduce the number of columns, etc. That means YOU don’t get frantic 1am phone calls or support tickets after your clients or customers break something by accident.
Content, layout, and design
Okay, so what’s this all mean for Customization?
When you look at it, a website consists of three things: content, layout, and design.
Content = Editor
The first part, content, is handled by the editor. You get some very minor layout and design editing in Gutenberg as well, but it’s currently constrained to your individual post or page.
Layout and Design = Customization
But the layout and design of your whole site? That’s customization. That’s what we’re focusing on next: extending Gutenberg, and the block paradigm, to cover both of these areas.
Let’s start off by talking a little bit about layout.
Page templates in WordPress are currently a disaster. You can’t actually preview them — if you want to change your template, you need to actually update your page before you’re able to see what the new template looks like. Your choice of template doesn’t change how the editor appears, either. It’s totally mystery meat. But the idea has the potential to be so powerful.
You can see this power in action on other site builders like Weebly, Wix, and GoDaddy’s Site Builder, all of which are light years ahead of us in terms of site building usability.
Site Builders (Slide 2)
It is way easier to fill in placeholders than it is to create something from scratch. It’s something we’ve experimented with on WordPress.com, with various levels of success — but with not nearly as much ease as Gutenberg already has baked in.
Providing pre-built layouts with placeholders solves a big part of the "I just want it to look like the demo" problem that almost everyone building their own site runs in to.
Imagine you’re a theme developer. Instead of an XML file full of demo content, that your customer will have to manually import and set up themselves, wouldn’t it be great to provide your customers with a template like this, full of placeholder blocks they can easily fill out? Suddenly, the chore of setting up a new website becomes almost effortless — the layout itself guides you through the content you need to put together. Most of this is already possible with Gutenberg. The hard parts are pretty much done. I think it’s amazing how quickly and easily you can set up a new site using curated block layouts in Gutenberg like this.
Page layouts (Slide 2)
You can also do this for Custom Post Types. Here we have a Book post type with a template that takes a title, author, description, and image. Your CPTs can have a unique and structured interface. This functionality has already bene merged — you can make CPT templates right now.
This is all well and good, but what if you want to offer multiple layouts for people to choose from? You need to have some way to select a layout.
Recently I’ve been working on a flow for selecting and filling out layouts. Now, I need to note that everything I’m about to show you is a draft. It’s untested.
When you start a new page, you’d have the option of selecting a layout. This layout picker would appear inline, probably the height of your viewport. You’d be presented with all the available page layouts offered by your theme and plugins. If you don’t have any layouts, you’d get a blank editor, like you do now. I’m also thinking it would make sense for developers to be able to set default layouts.
Once you’ve selected a layout, your page is filled with a bunch of placeholders. You can fill them out, delete the ones you don’t need, add new blocks, and rearrange however you’d like. This is a feature you currently see in a lot of page builder themes and plugins, and it’s very handy.
This work is currently focused within the_content(), but what about the rest of your site? What if you want to edit your site title, or tagline, or control the different template parts that you currently need some PHP skills to update?
Global blocks (Slide 2)
We need a set of shared blocks that render template parts. I’ve recently started looking at how these could potentially work in a customization context.
A couple weeks ago, some developers got together and built out an experimental spec for these kinds of blocks. Not only did they make a bunch of template blocks, but they also experimented with a way to create new page layouts directly from wp-admin. That’s pretty exciting for the large swaths of WordPress designers and builders that want to create custom sites for their clients, but only know enough PHP to be dangerous. Being able to create new page layouts in the WordPress admin using blocks means they never have to to touch code.
The speed at which this group of developers were able to conceptualize global blocks was pretty ridiculous and makes me feel confident about how fast we’ll be able to build out Customization over the next year. At this past State of the Word, Matt mentioned that with the groundwork for Gutenberg in place, the rest should come pretty quickly — and I didn’t really believe him until I saw these developers spin up a template spec in a couple days. A really great user experience is going to be the main blocker moving forward, not the technology.
That’s it for layout. Lots of movement already. I’m not expecting to have anything user-facing that I’m working on polished for Gutenberg’s initial release in 5.0, but the groundwork will be there so people can experiment.
Let’s talk a bit about design next. When I say “design,” what I mean are the visual styles that make up the look and feel of your site. Your fonts, color scheme, spacing, any ornamentation, etc.
Design in the Customizer
This is the stuff that’s usually handled inside the Customizer. For colors, we have the Iris library, but there’s a ton of UI patterns that theme and plugin developers have to custom code, which makes for an incredibly inconsistent experience.
Design in the Customizer (Slide 2)
These base UI patterns should be handled by WordPress.
Design in Gutenberg
We’re starting to see some design-related UI patterns in Gutenberg, but they’re only currently applied to individual blocks. We still need an approach for handling global site styles.
The future of the Customizer in WordPress
Which leads us to, of course, the future of the Customizer in WordPress. What form it’s going to take, I’m not sure, but here’s an idea of what it could look like to adapt the Customizer to Gutenberg’s design patterns. I picture an interface similar to the current Gutenberg editor, but with a live preview of your site instead of one that’s more abstracted. You could work from a blank template and fill in elements like your logo, navigation menus, and header image, or you could edit an existing site.
This concept is actually quite similar to how the Customizer works now, but unlike the current Customizer, you’d be able to click directly into your page to make adjustments. Instead of having to close the Customizer and open up the page you’re working on to rearrange some elements, you could actually click on a block in the Customizer and move it around.
Global site styles
Also like the current Customizer, you’d be able to control your global site styles. But we’d provide you with a UI pattern library to use, rather than having to struggle through designing and developing your own custom design patterns.
Once again, this is all exploratory. You’re actually the first group of people seeing this. But I wanted to give you all an idea of how global site styles could potentially be edited in the future.
Gutenberg gif
There are still a whole bunch of questions to be answered: whether layout and design, and maybe even content, should be controlled from one central interface, or whether it makes more sense to keep them separated… There’s a bunch of pros and cons to both approaches. For example, one obvious issue to controlling everything in one interface is permissions and user roles. You likely don’t want your clients touching their page layouts or global site styles. But as an admin, it could be really handy to control everything in one central location instead of having to jump in and out of a bunch of different screens. If you have thoughts and opinions on how to approach this, I’d love to hear them.
There’s a ton of cool customization-related stuff you’ll be able to do in Gutenberg in the future. Some of it’s already possible. I want to show you some inspiration other people and companies are exploring, along with some ideas of my own.
Full-page ad block
I’m sure most of you have seen that pattern where a full-page ad appears on the background of a website. I know Pandora does this a lot. They essentially inject a background image into the page that links off to whatever product or service is being advertised. You can do this in WordPress using custom fields, but like much of WordPress, you suffer from a lack of live previewing. Imagine being able to preview this background ad and tweak it to your liking before pushing it live.
10up Ad block
Speaking of advertising, WordPress Lead Developer Helen Hou-Sandi recently posted an interesting concept for ads on the 10up blog. Her idea is to turn Ad Units into blocks that you could include within your posts or pages in a couple different ways. For example, you could curate your ad placement based on the flow of an article.
https://10up.com/blog/2017/ads-in-a-gutenberg-world/
10up Ad block (Slide 2)
Or, you could have an ad automatically placed in your article after every couple paragraphs.
How about a predefined layout that contains ads in specific places? The possibilities are endless, and I think this creates a great opportunity to intersperse ads in a more natural and less intrusive manner than most platforms currently support.
Breaking news block
Let’s say you’re building a news website. Often, you’ll want to showcase some breaking news at the top of your homepage, and you want it easy for your clients to be able to update as articles are written. Imagine turning that into a block. Your clients could have some basic control over the layout of the block, depending on how they want to feature the news, along with the ability to add and remove stories. I know that many agencies have already built custom solutions similar to this using the Customizer — this would be a natural evolution.
Author block
If you build websites for publishers, you’re also probably familiar with showing an author biography at the end of every article on a site. This is a feature begging to be made into a block. Grab your authors’ gravatar and biography from their user profile, add some custom fields, and boom — a dynamic way to showcase authors, which automatically appear on every post.
Gutenberg on HumanMade.com
Matt Haines-Young over at Human Made recently wrote about reimagining the Human Made website using blocks. It’s a great case study that explores both the design and the technical decisions he made. If you’re also starting to think about how you can use Gutenberg for your sites, you should definitely give it a read. Watching him fill out the website in real time in this demo video was super fun.
Since Matt published this, a couple of the pain points he cites in his article have been solved. For example, you can now nest blocks, which has been a highly requested feature since Gutenberg started. This is going to make creating custom websites so much easier and more consistent in the future.
https://humanmade.com/2018/01/22/gutenberg-on-humanmade-com/
Events Calendar block
Recently, the Events Calendar plugin from Modern Tribe has been exploring converting their existing plugin, which relied heavily on metaboxes, to a block-based approach. The resulting concept mirrors the final structure of the event much more than meta boxes could convey. They’ve also identified a number of places where Gutenberg could be improved. This kind of exploration not only is a smart move for companies, but also gives back to the community by putting Gutenberg through its paces.
Worth noting, that much like my own concepts, the Events Calendar designs are subject to change.
Events Calendar block (Slide 2)
https://theeventscalendar.com/going-gutenberg-chapter-ii/
WooCommerce Product Block
WooCommerce has also been exploring Gutenberg. They have some very early work around product layouts, but have been focusing their attention first on creating a Product Block you can drop onto any page. It’ll make creating custom shop pages super easy. You’ll be able to choose between a bunch of different parameters to make sure you can showcase the products you want, and you have full control over the number of rows and columns and what kind of fields appear. It’s on GitHub, so you can already take it for a spin if you want to see how the Product Block works.
https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce-gutenberg-products-block
Now, you might be wondering, what can you do to prepare for the future? Carl Hancock offers some great advice — you need to start preparing your themes and plugins for Gutenberg now.
Learn how to make a block. Read the design principles in the documentation. Start looking at how you can covert your widgets and shortcodes to Gutenberg now, not after it merges. You don’t want to get left behind. I personally predict that the early adopters and the products first to market are going to see a lot of financial success. You want to get in on that.
Thanks! ✨
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Always Ask for More: The History of a Pleasure Seeker
1907, Amsterdam, erotic, historical fiction, novelty, picaresque, pleasure, Richard Mason, social class, twentieth century
Review: History of a Pleasure Seeker, by Richard Mason
Piet Barol, a young man from Leiden who appreciates the fine things he can’t afford, has everything and nothing going for him. He has no accomplishments or talents, save an ability to draw and a decent singing voice; no bloodlines to boast of; and his meager wardrobe consists of more-or-less presentable finery he’s bought second-hand (from university students in hock up to their eyeballs). These are rickety assets on which to build one’s fortune in 1907, but Piet won’t settle for less than the life to which he plans to become accustomed. And he figures that he’ll win the day through charm, manners, good looks and, most important, his conceit that he can get anyone to like him.
Photocrom print of Nieuwmarkt en Waag, Amsterdam, between 1890 and 1905 (Courtesy Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons).
Accordingly, when Mr. and Mrs. Vermeulen-Sickerts, pillars of Amsterdam merchant wealth, interview Piet in their sumptuous home as a prospective tutor for their young son, Piet boldly (but with proper deference and discretion) acts as if he belongs. He has no other prospects, and if he’s turned down, has no idea what he’ll do. On the other hand, he has no experience dealing with children, was himself a mediocre scholar, and, what’s more, the Vermeulen-Sickerts are deliberately vague when describing Egbert, their son. Through tactful questioning, Piet learns that the boy never goes outside and has a particular way of relating to others. Nevertheless, the Vermeulen-Sickerts expect that Piet will “cure” Egbert, which the young man from Leiden promises to do. So they hire him–upon which he asks for, and receives, a raise.
Naturally, the situation presents other perils. The Vermeulen-Sickerts have two beautiful, marriageable daughters, spoiled young women who immediately set upon Piet’s destruction. The younger, Louisa, cold and devious, suspects him as a fake and invents ways to trip him up, starting with the first meal he shares with the family:
Piet took in the handwritten menu in front of him, the four crystal vases of orange roses that decorated the table, the two silver dishes piled high with blood oranges on the sideboard, and felt wonderfully proud of himself. If Louisa had expected him to be confounded by the oysters or the langoustines or the quail à la minute, she was disappointed–because [his mother] had foreseen just this eventuality and twice a year had served Piet the delicacies of her youth so that he might dine in sophisticated company one day, without shame.
The elder daughter, Constance, flirts with him for the pleasure of rousing an attraction that she can then reject (and for which he’d be fired, should he pursue her in any way). The butler and footman would like to cozy up to him too–his looks attract both men and women–and the lady of the house seems available as well. What’s a fellow to do? Win them all over, but without compromising himself or his ambitions.
Rest assured that in this picaresque, often hilarious tale, our hero has plenty of erotic adventures, all graphically described, and sexual tension hums in the background, even–especially–when everybody’s fully clothed. But if Piet Barol were merely a hedonist on the make, The History of a Pleasure Seeker would be far less interesting than it is. Rather, Mason has thought about how being surrounded by exquisite sculptures, eating foie gras off Sèvres china, and soaking in a hot bath for the first time can change a person’s outlook.
In doing so, he’s underlined a forgotten point about the modern age: It wasn’t so long ago that the simplest luxuries were beyond any but the very rich. We take that for granted, because today, they’re commonplace. But have we deadened ourselves to the real pleasure they give, and does that mean we have to seek greater and greater novelty to arouse our senses?
Moreover, Piet’s presence changes his employers’ lives too, because he’s a reminder of the physical and emotional intimacy they’ve cast away in exchange for creature comforts. As such, The History of a Pleasure Seeker examines social class and how the need to be superior exacts a price from those who fall victim to it, a theme reminiscent of novels by Edith Wharton and Henry James.
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Ballot papers to be used in Panchayat polls: SEC
Edited By Odishatv Bureau Published By Odishatv Bureau Last updated Feb 13, 2017 - 8:44 AM
Bhubaneswar: With the first phase Panchayat elections in Odisha scheduled to kick off tomorrow morning, the State Election Commission (SEC) today briefed voting method to the new voters and those who have not fully understood the method of exercising their franchise.
Talking to media persons here, SEC secretary Rabindranath Sahu said unlike the voting which is usually conducted through Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) in General and Assembly elections, polling would be conducted through the ballot box in the Panchayat polls.
“People coming to the polling booth to exercise their franchise must have any one of the 23 proofs like the voter card, voter ID, Aadhaar Card and driving license etc which they will have to show to the First Polling Officer for verification. After the verification, they will collect the folded ballot paper from the Second Polling Officer who will put indelible ink on their forefinger,” Sahu said.
He also informed that there are different colours of ballot papers for different posts. “The blue ballot paper is for the Ward Member, yellow ballot paper for Sarpanch and violet ballot paper for Samiti Member. Except poll symbols, there would be no mention of the name of the candidates in the ballot paper. However, for the Zilla Parishad, there will be white ballot paper with the name of the candidates and their party symbols with the Sarpanch, Ward Member, Samiti Member and Zilla Parishad Member mentioned serially. The voters have to give their signature or fingerprint on the ballot paper and put the ballot paper inside the ballot box after putting a stamp on a blank box to the right of the name of the candidate they have preferred to vote,” the SEC secretary pointed out.
According to Parthasarathi Rath, Presiding Officer, no one will be allowed to enter into the polling booth after the polling is completed at 12 PM. But those who are in the queue before 12 PM will be allowed to vote. After the polling is over, the counting of votes would begin at 1 PM in presence of the agents of different political parties. After the counting is completed, a list mentioning the number of votes of the candidates, will be handed over to the Section Officer.
The official announcement of the names of the winning Ward Members and Sarpanches will be made on February 23 and Zilla Parishad members and Panchayat Samiti members on February 25.
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Home FEATURED NEWS Okorocha, Wife, Daughter Forfeit Properties To EFCC
Okorocha, Wife, Daughter Forfeit Properties To EFCC
Orsu24news TeamSeptember 4, 20190
Nigeria’s leading anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday, revealed that it has obtained orders for the interim forfeiture of assets traced to a former Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, and his wife.
The Head, Enugu Zonal Office of the commission, Usman Imam, made this known in Enugu while briefing reporters on the activities of the commission in the last eight months.
Imam said that the commission also obtained a similar order on a property traced to a former aide to Okorocha, Paschal Obi, and the former governor’s daughter.
According to him, the commission had established prima facie cases against the suspects which they would answer to.
Imam said that the commission would like to know how the Rochas Foundation and other accomplices acquired and or converted some of the property for personal use.
He listed some of the property to include a 16-block cum 96 flats and an eight-bungalow multimillion naira estate, hotel, two schools, shopping plaza, supermarket, hospital, and four vehicles.
The EFCC chief said that while the hospital was traced to Obi, the remaining property were traced to the former governor and his family, including his wife and daughter.
“We hope to get permanent forfeiture orders on the property in order to return them to the people of the state,” he said.
Imam said that all the facilities, including the schools, would remain functional as the commission would not like to shut them down for the sake of the students and other users.
“Other recoveries were made and are awaiting forfeiture, but for the court vacation. They include a twin three-story building with a three-bedroom bungalow and a duplex, both in Enugu.
“The property were recovered from cyber fraudsters,” he said.
Imam said that the commission, within the period, recovered N213.85 million and 10, 600 US dollars.
“In one of such recoveries, one Augustine Ejimokor, who defrauded his victim of the sum of 5,000 US dollars and used it to acquire a Mercedez Benz C300 was ordered to forfeit the vehicle.
“So far, the zone has arrested 88 suspected fraudsters since 2015, with 70 of them in 2019. This underscores the efforts of the present zonal head in conformity with the acting chairman’s directives,” he said.
Imam said that the zone also obtained 59 convictions out of whom were the 51 arrested and prosecuted in 2019.
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Manga Morsels: School of Horns – A Devilishly Sweet Story Where Size Really Does Matter!
Hey guys! It’s been quite a long while since we last got to feast on a delicious Manga Morsel, and I’m sure that you must be starving! So, to remedy this, I thought for this week’s trip down the Otaku Rabbit Hole, why don’t we treat ourselves with a deliciously more-ish Manga Morsel. This week’s pick is the gorgeous School of Horns by Mito Aoi and published by Yen Press. Without further ado, buckle up everyone and let’s get right into it!
In a world in which demons and humans coexist, there is an academy responsible for training the next generation of demons, honing their magical potential and preparing them for their future as an important member of the demon/ human populace. The demons that attend this academy are divided according to their horn shapes – hearts, diamonds, clubs and spades – each of which with their own unique specialty magic or trait, ranging from alchemy to powerful and destructive battle magic. However, not only are these horns a sign of a person’s magical aptitude, but the size of a person’s horns is also an indicator as to the strength of that individual’s magic, with larger horns equating to greater power. Enter Eru, the protagonist of this tale, who possesses a set of small horns due to his half-human, half-demon parentage, which leaves him the victim of bullies and the mockery of the school at large. On his first major assignment, Eru is paired with the “Ace” of Spades Rihito. Aces are the most powerful and highest-ranking demons in each year group, with one student selected for each horn type from each year group. After arguing with Rihito regarding his apparent uselessness, both Eru and Rihito come face-to-face with an elite monster, far stronger than what they can naturally handle. In a moment of desperation, Eru grabs Rihito and, in an explosive burst,the monster is vanquished! It is then revealed that Eru is, in fact, a rare anomaly within the land of demons: a class of demon known as a Joker, whose abilities vary from individual to individual, but in the case of Eru, allow him to amplify the magic/ power of anyone he touches!
From here, the story truly begins, where Eru and friends go about their daily school lives, facing their worries and insecurities, while trying to grow not only in power, but as people. A sweet and relaxing read, School of Horns covers the insecurities that plague teenagers, only with a slightly demonic twist. Will Eru finally grow to accept himself? Will any romance bloom in the halls of this magical school? What darkness looms just around the corner? Well, to find out, you need only start reading!
While a little cliché and predictable, the first volume possesses a sense of calming relaxation that keeps the pages turning. While never truly breaking the mould, this story is still solid and will undoubtedly be a home-run for existing fans of bubble-gum shoujo and slice-of-life manga – even if it will do very little to draw new fans to the genre.
Art style and characters
School of Horns’ art style leans heavily on the soft and sweet art style synonymous with shoujo and slice-of-life manga, never really straying far away from convention, often just adding horns to set characters apart. Individual characters hold a sense of identity reflected in their designs that are both interesting and fun. However, many of the characters found in this manga feel uncannily familiar to pre-existing characters from other franchises, both in their designs and their personalities. For this, you need look no further than the identical twins Mao and Reo, a pair that draw immediately apparent inspiration from the Ouran twins Hikaru and Kaoru. While nothing overtly negative, it is a small but significant detracting feature due to that fact that these characters lack a true sense of individuality, feeling more like personified tropes and not-so-subtle tributes to characters that have come before. Don’t get me wrong, while the characters and designs are nothing ground-breaking, the soft, dreamlike art of this manga is genuinely beautiful and makes for a relaxing journey from start to finish, lending itself splendidly to building a low-stakes, relaxed affair, with the occasional dramatic moment dotted throughout.
While School of Horns is a relatively fun ride that I personally enjoyed, I can’t say that it rocked my world. From the adorable, if forgettable, character designs to the fun yet predictable story, this manga isn’t one that sets out to redesign the wheel, instead being content to coast comfortably on many conventions set forth by its predecessors – and honestly, that’s absolutely fine. This first volume sets up a relatively dramatic cliff-hanger and I will say that I’m honestly looking forward to checking out Volume 2. This isn’t a manga that I could recommend to everyone, but for fans of cute, low-stakes romance manga, you won’t go far wrong by picking up School of Horns. With all of that said, I hope you enjoyed this week’s trip down the Otaku Rabbit Hole, and if you did and decide to check this manga out for yourself, please let me know what you think! Thanks once again for joining me and, as always, keep it weeby everyone!
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Ottawa drug dealer killed to launch hip hop career, says Crown
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Jennifer Leigh Stewart, victim of fatal stabbing in 2010. File photo
Adrian Daou was working as a dishwasher and drug dealer when he hatched a murder plot in the summer of 2010 with the hopes that killer status would launch his dream career as a hip hop star, court heard Tuesday.
“He believed that murder would open up that world. He thought murder would reach his goal,” prosecutor Louise Tansey told a hushed courtroom at Daou’s first-degree murder trial.
The prosecutor detailed the accused’s murder plot for stardom that left Jennifer Stewart, 36, axed to death in a darkened parking lot on Alice Street in Vanier on Aug. 20, 2010.
Earlier that summer, Daou, 25, went on what the prosecutor called a shopping trip for murder at Canadian Tire, where he bought an axe, protective eye gear, mask and gloves.
But it would be two more months before he found “the perfect score” for his killing plot, the prosecutor told the jury.
And his perfect target was Stewart, a drug-addicted sex-trade worker, the court heard.
It was under the pretext of a bogus drug deal that Daou was able to kill Stewart, said the prosecutor, adding that Stewart tried in vain to defend herself. When her body was discovered, Stewart’s wrists were almost severed and her skull was shattered.
The accused went undetected for almost three years until he stepped forward in February 2013 and confessed to police. Daou was serving time at the Innes Road jail on an unrelated case when he told a guard he wanted to confess to an unsolved murder, the jury heard.
Daou later confessed to the killing in a videotaped police interview and accompanied detectives on a drive-thru of the crime scene, the prosecutor told the jury. The accused laid it all out for the detectives, right down to his shopping trip.
Tansey told the court that Daou has also confessed to another murder, one she said he didn’t commit. But in this case, she said Daou gave details only the killer would know — including the choice of weapon, which was never revealed publicly.
Earlier on Tuesday, the court heard from Sarah Watson, who discovered Stewart’s body while walking her dog on the morning of Aug. 20, 2010. She testified that she thought the person lying face-down in the parking lot was either sleeping or homeless.
She went home and told her husband about the discovery. When he went out and took a closer look, he realized that the person was dead and called 911.
The trial, before Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Maranger, continues Thursday.
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By Terry Trucco
At a glance: The Greenwich Hotel, a one of a kind with 88 rooms and an independent attitude, has a lot to recommend it.
Step inside this unassuming brick building with an industrial air, and you’re enveloped in a Tuscan-inflected villa with a patina of Tribeca cool.
It’s comfortable. The spacious living room boasts velvet sofas and leather club chairs where you can plop down and survey the artfully mismatched surroundings — Tibetan silk rugs here, towering potted plants there. Gaze up, and you’re looking at a stained glass skylight that replicates a starry night.
It’s clubby. The public rooms, which also include a drawing room warmed by a wood-burning fireplace and an adjoining courtyard, are off limits unless you’re a guest, the ultimate 21st-century luxury hotel perk.
And parts of the hotel are drop-dead gorgeous, notably the moody spa that incorporates a 250-year-old farmhouse shipped from Kyoto. The pool is lighted by lanterns.
But to me, what summed up the spirit of the Greenwich was the avalanche of nostalgic nibbles that greeted me in my room. Besides a plate of homemade moon pie cookies, there was Fiji water, a basket brimming with Cracker Jack, Twizzlers, Jujifruit and Tates Cookies and a bowl of trick-or-treat booty: bite-size Snickers, Milky Ways, Reeses Peanut cups and jawbreakers, all comp. A small gesture, but it announced that the Greenwich understands that true luxury is not being nickel-and-dimed for a bag of pretzls.
Opened in 2008, the Greenwich appears timeless, a testament to its quiet, trend-free beauty and the decorating skill of Christian Garnett and Ian McPheely of Grayling Design. I like its mix of quirks — leathery comforts like the big, enveloping sofas and dark, masculine woodwork, softening details like fresh flowers and personal touches the colorful abstract sitting room paintings by Robert De Niro, Sr., a student of German-born colorist Josef Albers and father of the actor, who owns the hotel.
Given its cultivated privacy, heady price tag and movie star pedigree, the Greenwich is a magnet for celebrities who want to stay under the radar. Photography is prohibited in public spaces. (Yes, we took the pictures you see here but didn’t photograph guests, celebrated or otherwise.)
But thanks to Locanda Verde, the hotel’s rustic Italian restaurant, the hotel is also a neighborhood hangout. The Greenwich reminds me of a classic townhouse hotel with a singular vision, a homey feel and an exotic quirk or two . London is full of them. New York isn’t. That alone makes the Greenwich special.
Rooms: My room overlooked a brute brick apartment on Greenwich Street, but inside we were in country Tuscan mode. A long hall passed a spacious Carrera marble bathroom and an ample closet (curtains backed the windows on its doors) before opening onto the main event, a sleep space that was comfortable but not large. A curvaceous sofa in front of the window and a small desk tucked under a built-in bookcase served as back-up to the showpiece, a handsome wood-framed queen-size bed backed by a brown leather headboard and outfitted with a heavenly Duxiana mattress. With a high ceiling, unpolished wood floor, architectural moldings and fresh paint, the room evoked the 1920s without 90 years of wear and tear.
Compared to the sleeping area, the bathroom seemed huge. It contained a soaking tub with a French shower, a stall shower behind a paned glass door and plenty of space to just walk around. The toilet also stood demurely behind a paned glass door.
Service was silky. Just before six, a housekeeper in black pajamas arrived for turndown. She turned on the bedside lights, deposited a large glass bottle of the house water on each night stand and placed a white cotton bed mat and a pair of slippers tied with green Greenwich Hotel ribbons on each side of the bed. I had a broken wrist, and when I asked for a plastic bag to cover it in the shower, she gave me a thick roll of bags. “Take it,” she said. “And take care when you go outside.”
Food and drink: Locanda Verde, chef Andrew Carmellini’s airy Italian establishment paneled in rustic wood, serves breakfast, lunch and dinner and calls itself a relaxed neighborhood restaurant. It’s not Jean-George formal, but it’s hardly the corner pizzeria. The dining room is atmospheric and cleverly delineated, making a big barn-like space seem warm. It’s popular, so dinner reservations are a must.
Surroundings: Named for the street where it stands, the Greenwich is in the beating heart of Tribeca, convenient to a mix of stylish restaurants, boutique shopping and the paved path that follows the Hudson, ideal for a scenic walk or run. SoHo, Greenwich Village and the Financial District are all nearby. So are subway stations and bus stops. And Ubers, Lyfts and taxis are easy to come by.
Back story: Built from the ground up in 2008, the Greenwich replaced a parking garage on the corner of Greenwich and North Moore streets. It rounds out a block of Tribeca properties that include Tribeca Film Center and Tribeca Grill owned by actor Robert De Niro, a partner in the hotel with his son Raphael and Ira Drukier and Richard Born of BD Hotels, whose properties include the Mercer, the Bowery, the Maritime and the Pod chain budget. The public spaces were designed by Christian Garnett and Ian McPheely of Grayling Design. Samantha Crasko of BD Hotels created the guest rooms. After an early restaurant misfire, Andrew Carmellini’s Locanda Verde took up residence in 2010, offering the Tribeca version of an easy-going neighborhood Italian restaurant (think meticulous/casual affluence).
Keep in mind: Being a guest doesn’t automatically get you a table at Locanda Verde on a Saturday night.
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Tag: Sacha Jenkins
The White Mandingos – The Ghetto Is Tryna Kill Me album review
Post author By Leland Gill
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Despite the effort of the Civil Rights Movement and the President being half African, race identity is still a hot-button issue alive and well in America. Not only is racial intolerance persistent, it is pervasive in almost every aspect of our society from politics to dating. More often than not, these conversations are either ignored or blown out proportion by mass media which results in a lack of honest dialogue about the problem.
This is where The White Mandingos step in. Made up of rapper Murs, bassist Darryl Jennifer and Sacha Jenkins SHR of ego trip, the trio come together to address both the racial tension we see today and the stereotypes that arise in music as a result of this tension. This isn’t a hip hop album. It isn’t a rock album either. The Ghetto Is Tryna Kill Me is built from both genres but qualifies as more than the sum of its parts.
The Mandingos don’t waste time easing the audience into the new sound either. The first song (which shares the name of the album) is fast-driving track with ripping guitar instrumentation and rapid rhymes from Murs. From there, listeners are put on a rollercoaster of music and emotion as the group lay down tunes of different tempos and subject matter. As the main voice of the group, Murs utilizes his crystal clear delivery to speak frankly about everyday race clashes and conceits. ‘Black and White’ is about the stigma and stereotypes that come with being White, Black or any other race and how Murs has no intention of letting people’s pre-conceived notions cramp his style. He speaks about the perils and emotional confusion that comes with interracial relationships in ‘My First White Girl’. ‘Wesley Snipes’ is a discussion on blacks being targeted by the law while ‘Guilty of Being White’ is about the blame that is placed on Caucasians today for sins of the past.
The common theme between all of the songs above and with the rest of the album is honest. Murs presents these topics as bluntly as possible and refuses to beat around the bush on touchy subjects. These insecurities lie in all of our minds and it is a nice breath of fresh air to hear another speak on these common doubts and beliefs (all while listening to some kicking rock in the backdrop).
The Ghetto Is Tryna Kill Me is quite the experiment by a trio of guys out to kick down the stereotypes of society and music track by track. If you can get down with the message and the sound then this is definitely an album to listen to.
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The White Mandingos (Murs, Darryl Jenifer of Bad Brains, and Sacha Jenkins) have lent some visuals to the title track of their debut album “The Ghetto Is Tryna Kill Me” . The Jason Goldwatch directed clip sets the stage for the concept album’s sociologically acute narrative about Tyrone White, a rock frontman living in Harlem’s Polo Grounds housing project.
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Matthew R. Argall
Research Scientist III
Room 348, Morse Hall
Electron-scale measurements of magnetic reconnection in space
Burch JL, Torbert RB, Phan TD, Chen L-J, Moore TE, Ergun RE, Eastwood JP, Gershman DJ, Cassak PA, Argall MR, et al. Electron-scale measurements of magnetic reconnection in space. Science [Internet]. 2016;352 (6290).
Magnetic reconnection occurs when the magnetic field permeating a conductive plasma rapidly rearranges itself, releasing energy and accelerating particles. Reconnection is important in a wide variety of physical systems, but the details of how it occurs are poorly understood. Burch et al. used NASA\$\backslash$textquoteright\s Magnetospheric Multiscale mission to probe the plasma properties within a reconnection event in Earth\$\backslash$textquoteright\s magnetosphere (see the Perspective by Coates). They find that the process is driven by the electron-scale dynamics. The results will aid our understanding of magnetized plasmas, including those in fusion reactors, the solar atmosphere, solar wind, and the magnetospheres of Earth and other planets.Science, this issue p. 10.1126/science.aaf2939; see also p. 1176INTRODUCTIONMagnetic reconnection is a physical process occurring in plasmas in which magnetic energy is explosively converted into heat and kinetic energy. The effects of reconnection\$\backslash$textemdash\such as solar flares, coronal mass ejections, magnetospheric substorms and auroras, and astrophysical plasma jets\$\backslash$textemdash\have been studied theoretically, modeled with computer simulations, and observed in space. However, the electron-scale kinetic physics, which controls how magnetic field lines break and reconnect, has up to now eluded observation.RATIONALETo advance understanding of magnetic reconnection with a definitive experiment in space, NASA developed and launched the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission in March 2015. Flying in a tightly controlled tetrahedral formation, the MMS spacecraft can sample the magnetopause, where the interplanetary and geomagnetic fields reconnect, and make detailed measurements of the plasma environment and the electric and magnetic fields in the reconnection region. Because the reconnection dissipation region at the magnetopause is thin (a few kilometers) and moves rapidly back and forth across the spacecraft (10 to 100 km/s), high-resolution measurements are needed to capture the microphysics of reconnection. The most critical measurements are of the three-dimensional electron distributions, which must be made every 30 ms, or 100 times the fastest rate previously available.RESULTSOn 16 October 2015, the MMS tetrahedron encountered a reconnection site on the dayside magnetopause and observed (i) the conversion of magnetic energy to particle kinetic energy; (ii) the intense current and electric field that causes the dissipation of magnetic energy; (iii) crescent-shaped electron velocity distributions that carry the current; and (iv) changes in magnetic topology. The crescent-shaped features in the velocity distributions (left side of the figure) are the result of demagnetization of solar wind electrons as they flow into the reconnection site, and their acceleration and deflection by an outward-pointing electric field that is set up at the magnetopause boundary by plasma density gradients. As they are deflected in these fields, the solar wind electrons mix in with magnetospheric electrons and are accelerated along a meandering path that straddles the boundary, picking up the energy released in annihilating the magnetic field. As evidence of the predicted interconnection of terrestrial and solar wind magnetic fields, the crescent-shaped velocity distributions are diverted along the newly connected magnetic field lines in a narrow layer just at the boundary. This diversion along the field is shown in the right side of the figure.CONCLUSIONMMS has yielded insights into the microphysics underlying the reconnection between interplanetary and terrestrial magnetic fields. The persistence of the characteristic crescent shape in the electron distributions suggests that the kinetic processes causing magnetic field line reconnection are dominated by electron dynamics, which produces the electric fields and currents that dissipate magnetic energy. The primary evidence for this magnetic dissipation is the appearance of an electric field and a current that are parallel to one another and out of the plane of the figure. MMS has measured this electric field and current, and has identified the important role of electron dynamics in triggering magnetic reconnection.Electron dynamics controls the reconnection between the terrestrial and solar magnetic fields.The process of magnetic reconnection has been a long-standing mystery. With fast particle measurements, NASA\$\backslash$textquoteright\s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission has measured how electron dynamics controls magnetic reconnection. The data in the circles show electrons with velocities from 0 to 104 km/s carrying current out of the page on the left side of the X-line and then flowing upward and downward along the reconnected magnetic field on the right side. The most intense fluxes are red and the least intense are blue. The plot in the center shows magnetic field lines and out-of-plane currents derived from a numerical plasma simulation using the parameters observed by MMS.Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental physical process in plasmas whereby stored magnetic energy is converted into heat and kinetic energy of charged particles. Reconnection occurs in many astrophysical plasma environments and in laboratory plasmas. Using measurements with very high time resolution, NASA\$\backslash$textquoteright\s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission has found direct evidence for electron demagnetization and acceleration at sites along the sunward boundary of Earth\$\backslash$textquoteright\s magnetosphere where the interplanetary magnetic field reconnects with the terrestrial magnetic field. We have (i) observed the conversion of magnetic energy to particle energy; (ii) measured the electric field and current, which together cause the dissipation of magnetic energy; and (iii) identified the electron population that carries the current as a result of demagnetization and acceleration within the reconnection diffusion/dissipation region.
Electron heating and energy inventory during asymmetric reconnection in a laboratory plasma
Electron Scattering by High-frequency Whistler Waves at Earth's Bow Shock
The nonlinear behavior of whistler waves at the reconnecting dayside magnetopause as observed by the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission: A case study
Drift waves, intense parallel electric fields, and turbulence associated with asymmetric magnetic reconnection at the magnetopause
Hodographic approach for determining spacecraft trajectories through magnetic reconnection diffusion regions
Multipoint MMS observations of fine-scale SAPS structure in the inner magnetosphere
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Patricia Santos Marcantonio
The Weeping Woman and Other Things Scary
Writing at your own pace: It takes as long as it takes
Posted on August 15, 2015 by Patricia Santos Marcantonio
When I was a reporter facing a deadline, I had to learn to write well, accurately, and fast. I had to see the story in my head and do it.
As a fiction writer, I’ve kept that mode. That doesn’t mean I don’t research, edit and rewrite, and rewrite and edit. But often, I felt bad that could write so fast because aren’t all writers told it takes years and years if your project is going to be good. Of course, some of my projects did take years. But some didn’t and that made me feel like a hack. Writing was starting to feel like work, which it is, but it should also be damn fun and fulfilling or why the hell are we doing it?
Then at a conference, authors Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch spoke about how they write quickly. And they are successful writers. Indeed, they have great credentials.
To me this was one of those ah-ha moments that made me extremely happy.
It was okay that I wrote quickly. But writers still wrestle with this.
Recently on the Stage 32 network, of which I am a member, there was a long discussion about how long it takes to write a screenplay. The opinions were all over the place.
My only opinion: It takes as long as it takes.
Scott Fitzgerald wrote “The Great Gatsby,” considered to be one of the best American novels, over a summer and fall in 1924 with revisions the following year, when it was published, according to a University of Southern Carolina website.
It takes as long as it takes.
Weeks, months or years. No matter how long it takes, the thing we shouldn’t give up is telling a good, well written story.
Time is relative, after all.
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pat in Books August 15, 2010 812 Words
Arkansas: 3 Novellas by David Leavitt
It’s not just presumptuousness that leads to the belief that when you’ve read, seen or heard one gay love story, you would have experienced them all already. Read about Reinaldo Arenas’s life and you’re done. You have your coming out of the closet stories, your AIDS stories, and your conflicted, complicated gay guy stories. And no one could ever have enough of them, just ask the exhibitors at Robinsons Galleria’s Indie Cine. Not that that’s bothersome, because wouldn’t you choose to reread, rewatch and rehear things with gay subject matter when their straight counterparts are just as repetitive and predictable? I would, but maybe not all the time. Plus there’s the familiarity of the situations being told which you can find more relatable, although once in a while, really good stories come, where the genders of the lovers are almost totally irrelevant, like Enis and Jack or Wall-E and Eve.
In Arkansas, David Leavitt creates three brisk novellas that cover the entire gay story templates. The first, The Term Paper Artist, tells of an author named David Leavitt, supposedly a fictional characater who does something so exciting to the willing, failing boys of the neighborhood university. It makes you realize that Bret Easton Ellis isn’t the only bisexual/gender-unspecific person who can do modernish things on their works of fiction like that (ie, make fiction, deny its being autobiographical, but still use own name, like Bret Easton Ellis writing himself in but not as himself in Lunar Park). A once successful novelist gets into trouble for inserting allegedly stolen ideas into his novel, so he ends up slumming in his parents’s home where he meets the first sexy boy which he, David Leavitt, the meta-author, will begin with what will turn out to be a lucrative venture of selling English term papers in exchange for blow jobs. And then suddenly, a conscientious, also doing badly in English, troubled boy approaches him for a Jack the Ripper essay. Things get shaken up when the engaged to his girlfriend Mormon conservative throws himself to David, smooches him hard and appears to really like the arrangement and, for added measure, turns out to be well-hung. Needless to say, everybody gets to be happy in the end.
The Wooden Anniversary deals with the heartache of the stock female character in most gay anthologies. It’s not that I’ve read that many, I just feel like the females are almost always hags or devastated, clueless women who gets in the midst of these fictional gay people’s lives who always end up falling for the wrong (read: gay) guy. Although stuff like that, females like these really do exist. In this, think Grace Adler in Will & Grace minus the humor. The humor in fact in this tale is only in the gay guy’s description of the Italian/European guy’s used underwear as smelling like eternity, which turns out to be Calvin Klein Eternity and not the masculine musky sort which would have approximated what is for the after-workout-odor fetishist as eternity. Throw in an ambiguously-gendered hot native in the mix and you have a fun mix of hags, gay playas, clueless husbands suddenly arriving in a pretty Italian rest house and you have yourself a treat.
The last and best, Saturn Street, is the AIDS story. Directionless gay bachelor Jerry goes to LA to look for direction and meets the gay of his life. It is of course not as simplistic as meeting in a Starbucks, let’s hump next kind of meet. The of course writer Jerry plans to map out a life in LA as a screenwriter and decides to bring lunches to really sick AIDS-afflicted patients and stumbles into the life of an adorable and dying man. The adorable man is in a constant state of confusion, illness and emotional ambiguity which is unsurprising since he has AIDS, and normally, when you read AIDS tales, you will already know where it’s headed (nowhere, most of the time), but Leavitt does something else. He builds up a plausible seeming relationship between aimless bachelor and dying adorable that when the story hits its climax, where AB finds out something about DA that is hard to see coming, the emotional tug is not gratuitous but rather well-earned.
All in all, the novellas were good reimaginings of the gay life. Actually, it’s a good reimagining of a life. With the exception of #3, I find almost all three’s endings slightly unsatisfying. But that’s where the author might have hit the bulls-eye: that the gay life isn’t always satisfying, and as the AIDS story serves to remind, being gay doesn’t equate to gay as in happy-gay life and that it can in fact be very tragic. If it was the intended effect then bravo. If not, I’m sure our brethren will come up with something else and we will happily, gaily consume.
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4 thoughts on “Arkansas: 3 Novellas by David Leavitt”
kiel says:
gay is not equal to happy. hmmm.
i have yet to read this book but i followed leavitt’s work. i particularly like the lost language of cranes. you should read it, if you still haven’t.
yes, but it’s supposed to be synonymous to happy. hehe.
i think he’s referring to that novel, lost language of cranes, the one he got into trouble for.
He got into trouble for “While England Sleeps”, in which the central character was loosely based on Stephen Spender.
It was cheeky of him to inject that into the narrative of the first novella. Thanks.
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Community / Forums / Pathfinder / Pathfinder First Edition / Advice
Help Me Kill An NPC (Disagreement with DM)
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Sleep-Walker Sep 6, 2012, 08:33 pm
I must say that all the attacks against my DM are getting a bit annoying; attack me fine, agree with me GREAT, but saying he is a sh*tty DM is just wrong and unfair especially when only based on one situation. Especially when he is not reading this thread. he is probably the best DM I have ever played with. He does not play favourites. He does prepare well. He does think things through. being too in love with an element of your own story is incredibly difficult to get over as a DM and it is something i have done myself in the past.
The people saying they think I am terible player and they would never play with me are welcome to their opinion.
Harry Potter is a bad example.
DrDeth Sep 6, 2012, 08:44 pm
Sleep-Walker wrote:
Your DM seems like a great guy. He even admits he has become too attached to this NPC. I think he's working on his issues. This is actually a major step forward.
I think he has a fantastic imagination. Nor do i mind that he has developed relationship between his wife and the NPC. This can be a fun way to get some romance in during a game. However, there needs to be limits.
So really, I think you two are working forward to a reasonable compromise. What we have been suggesting is that he "de-villianizes" the NPC, so that you don't feel that your PC needs to kill the NPC.
He does have a bit of a blind spot, but he is working on the problem. So are you. Good!
Spiral_Ninja Sep 6, 2012, 08:56 pm
I do appologize if I inadvertantly insulted your DM.
And you're probably right about Harry, it was just the first thought (not the best) I had about the NPC.
It's not that I think you're a terrible player thats bugging me, it's the trust issue. You've been playing with this group for how long? I think I read that the campaign has been going on 3 years?
Yet, you seem to be going behind their backs, in secret, to do this and asking the DM to alter the group dynamic because you think - what?
Try other options. If lead blocks the transmissions, get her a lead helm, sealed on with magic. Lots of 'cursed' items can't be removed, after all.
How many PCs are there? How do the other PCs feel about the NPC? What do you think will happen if/when they find out, before or after the big final fight?
And, sorry, but that's just my opinion. If I'd been gaming with you for years and had played out the loss of a lover who seemingly betrayed me, only to find out that another PC had conspired with my husband to slay the NPC/lover or trap said lover in a soul gem, I'd feel betrayed. I'd never trust a PC of yours in game afterwards, either.
And why should I?
You are basically saying to the group and the DM that the plot doesn't matter, it's dumb, and you're going to force a change. Your call, you're the PC. But so is the GM's wife and everyone else in the game. IMO, you are backstabbing them, not the NPC.
After all, unless your PC is killed somewhere along the way, 9in which case the NPC is traped forever, thank you) there is eventually going to come the point where you pop her out of the gem/rez her/whatever, and the rest of the group is standing there with their moths hanging open going 'what?'.
And that's what I'm asking. Pretend I'm a PC in the group. Justify your act. Then justify it to me as the player as well.
Namelessone Sep 6, 2012, 09:13 pm
What you have here is a golden opportunity not a burden, players always forget that there is always a flaw with their plan. Now I have a question how does this summoner know what your weakness is well obviously you showing it. What would happen if you faked having a weakness that you don't have? Well since she is looking for weakness and all you have too do is fool the summoner and for a rogue that sounds too easy.
Stubs McKenzie Sep 6, 2012, 09:40 pm
Like leprosy, or a lice infection... or that you can only sleep if you keep a stuffed dino by your pillow at night... all horrible horrible weaknesses, to fake....... (horrible weaknesses to fake?) :P
So I just got off the phone from about an hour long convo with my DM.
I have known this group of people for about three or four years.
In the campaign before this one the rogue (not me) pretended to be working with the villain for the longest time and then pulled the double cross at the moment to take the title of god of Undeath from the BBEG. This was something that the DM and PC knew about but none of the players did.
I believe that the big reveal is worth everything. I believe that one player plotting against the party. I believe that every player other than pne plotting against one party is mean, so I cannot include all the party bar one in my plot.
When the reveal occurs:
1) It happens when I want it to, at the end of the campaign. My character leaves. He says, Im sorry that my actions hurt you, but I believe I did the right thing. Assuming they stay pissed he simply moves across the world. I always have isues with the end of a campaign anyway, I mean what is stopping the adventures why couldn't they keep playing forever. This gives me an ending which separates me from the party.
2) The players manage to cast a divination spell which reveals her location and confront me before the end of the campaign. The manure hits the windmill. It would not come to blows, I would disapear. That might mean my character leaves before the campaign ends. The DM has said I may then end up playing the very same summoner I worked so hard to un-do.
Stubs McKenzie wrote:
Well kinda but lets say you tell her I hope we don't fight any zombies because I'm scared of them and most of the time I just run away.
But in the end I hate too say I would be ticked off if I was being handicapped in this way I really see no incentive too keep her alive or around unless she was useful. It already brings up red flags when you are being told that you can't do something by every person in your group for different reason especially your DM. For example why shouldn't you kill the king of the land because then you would be branded outlaws and if the dm had your campaign made around helping the kingdom then he would have too either make a new campaign or make you create new characters. Now why would you not be allowed too kill this npc well I think we can use the same logic as before.
Journ-O-LST-3 Sep 6, 2012, 11:19 pm
Depends on how well you and the other players get along. As long as you guys are fine with PCs plotting against eachother then there shouldn't be a problem.
In my experience, if the other players decide to latch on to finding her they will eventually. There are spells that someone will find or you'll flub a roll or the high level caster will have some form of warning or whatever. Then they will kill you, but my groups are much more horrible/PVP than most.
Coraith Sep 7, 2012, 02:23 am
I dunno about soul trapping this NPC.
I assume she must have a group of friends/compatriots she hangs around with on a regular basis other then your group of PCs. That means there might be some unaccounted difficulties in abducting, soul trapping, and whatever else. She may have some kind of prepared defenses against getting screwed over again by kidnapping/abduction to be a clone super brain.
Pay mind to the fact her other friends may come looking for her.
The PC who has a relationship with the NPC will not believe the NPC has gone over to the dark side. I know as a DM I would give a HUGE bonus to the romantic PC's sense motive check to disbelieve that lie, after all, love is a powerful emotional force.
It will cause a delay(in my mind) while everyone stops for a day to grieve, Swear vengeance, get drunk... whatever.
It could have complications in combat if you run across a clone of the NPC and the PC involved with said NPC tries to diplo instead of actually fighting.
I of course do not know all the particular details behind how the lady is linked with the baddies. Have you considered talking to the NPC(the DM roleplaying it out) about your concerns and putting forth the plan and seeing if she will do it willingly in the interest of world preservation, if she says no then you do it against her will and its an evil act. No Biggie.
I mean the NPC could very well be the Proverbial Kryptonite to the ruler of the bug people, without whom you cannot actually kill it. In which case your plan just ends up ruining the campaign for everyone. I wish you goodluck with it!
Spiral_Ninja Sep 7, 2012, 05:46 am
Stupid post monster; let's try this again:
I have been thinking about this and about your comment on what the DM is there for.
One: the DM is there to tell a story. He/she has gone to a great deal of effort to work out this story. He/she is willing to let the PCs help tell the story, realizing (hopefully) thatthe PCs amy very well alter his story based on theirs.
Two: And that's the rub. In any game, the PCs each have an individual story they want to tell/play out. The DM needs to be able to work those stories into his/her story. Conversely, the PCs need to be able to work their stories into the DM's plot. If I decide to run Carrion Crown and the PCs all make up stories for Skull & Shackles, it isn't going to work. If all but one of the players make up stories for Carrion Crown knowing what I'm doing and that last one makes up a story for Jade Regent, that PC is the odd one out.
Three: In addition, the players also have to make sure their stories blend to a degree. Example: Jade Regent; PC 1 wants to set NPC on the throne because it's the right thing to do, PC 2 wants to set NPC on the throne and marry them, taking over the country by proxie, PC 3 believes they are the true heir and wants to destroy NPC, PC 4 is working for the bad guy and PC 5 is playing to Carrion Crown...this game isn't going to go well.
What story are the other PCs trying to tell? There was a comment made that the DM riffed off of coments like 'what if she is the bbg?'. What sort of stories were being proposed with those comments? Whose story are you trampling on to make your story the most important one? This is why 'It's what my character would do' has destroyed so many games and gaming groups.
I'm sure your DM can work around your plan to continue to tell his part of the story. That gives you your tale and fulfills your enjoyment of the game. But at the cost of the other player's stories.
I repeat; what do the other PCs/players want? Work with them. Because otherwise, your 'big reveal' is likely to go over like a lead balloon. And given the comment, from you, that you've done this sort of thing before, possibly damage the group as well.
It may be 'what your character would do', but it's still a stupid move, IMO.
Capt_Phoenix Sep 7, 2012, 06:13 am
Is this an evil game? Do the other players know that your character is evil? If they chose to hang out with an evil rogue, they have to expect that he is gonna off their loved ones when it's convinient for him. I've played evil groups - if you value something; money, property, or your NPCs, you protect them. Victory goes to the guy who gets the last "Big Reveal". If this is an evil group, I don't see the problem.
If it's not an evil group, then you are a traitor and they should try to expose you and kill you, of course. You attack my friends (PC or NPC is irrelevant - if I say they're my friends, they're my friends)you are an enemy. If you pretend to be a friend while really being an enemy (see above definition) then you are a traitor. This isn't rocket science. I don't care how you rationalize it. All traitors rationalize their actions. It's part of being a traitor. We hang them anyway. The girl never did anything to hurt you. If she was used by an enemy, that's not her fault. I just need to find a way to help her. The same way I would help you, if it was you. The same way I wouldn't sacrifice you, if it was you. The same way I'd protect you if someone attacked you, or avenge you if they succeed. Especially a traitor.
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Spiral Ninja,
Wow. That was really well written. I totally agree with your points, and really admire how you phrased them. I posted a comment in the DM's thread. I'd love to hear your take on it.
Ughbash Sep 7, 2012, 06:41 am
Capt_Phoenix wrote:
I don't see his character as evil necesarrily.
You say you hang traitors, then I am suprised you are not agreeing with him. He is trying to hang the traitor in a way she will get better. The NPC is the traitor currnetly (though I am sure the NPC rationalizes that it is not her fault she is mind controlled).
Sleep-Walker Sep 7, 2012, 07:10 am
My character is CN. I was wondering how long before alignment would raise its ugly head.
My characters prime objective right now is saving the town the characters live in as we are about to come under siege from aforementioned insectoid monsters. If I fail hundreds of people get consumed by the aforementioned insectoid aliens. If this NPC remains alive then defense is impossible and we should flee leaving her behind. What is the point of a door if someone is guaranteed to open it for them?
Trap The Soul is not an evil spell.
Killing a traitor is not evil it is a sensible thing to do.
Whoever said that she hadn't done anything to attack us isn't reading the thread properly.
In this groups last campaign the rogue had a big reveal at the end. I wasn't playing in that campaign and I wasn't that rogue.
@Coraith: If she is the kryponite without whom we cannot win then I open the trap the soul gem and get her out again. Btw if an NPC is the magic tool to win a campaign then I disprove, Players should win the campaign not a DMPC.
zrandrews Sep 7, 2012, 07:57 am
My character is CN. I was wondering how long before alignment would raise its ugly head...
Killing a traitor is not evil it is a sensible thing to do...
Dude...You're planning to Kill your friends Wife and trap her soul. How can that be anything but evil? Something can be a sensible idea and still be evil. I'm working on the assumption that she is not willingly providing information to the bad guys, if she's doing it willingly and the PCs know it, then get them all in on the plan.
As to how to actually do it:
Use that fact that you are supposed to be friends with the NPC, lure her to an area that has been anti-magicked. Slip the stone in her pocket, knife her, drop the stone in the lead box and the box in the bag of holding. I think the Anti-Magic area would protect from the scrying and divination, but I'm not sure.
Something else to consider:
If you successfully trap her, and leave no clues, what might that do to the game when the PCs wife disappears with no clues to what happened? Just, poof, gone. and the can't find anything when they try to look. Do you think that it might cause the other players to think the DM just removed her and is railroading them from finding what happened? I'd be a little irritated if a major NPC that was connected to my PC vanished without a trace and I could do nothing to find her, and then couldn't discover why the sudden plot hole appeared until the game ended (which might take months?).
First, I appolgize and withdraw that part of my comments. With everything that's been said in both threads, I was confused over who did what.
Second: I agree about the Kryptonite comment - for a blatant example of such, see Oblivion, which is the other thought I had hearing of this plot.
Third, just an extension on my multiple reasons in Jade Regent; a good DM could even make that work, depending on the group dynamics, as long as said DM doesn't let one PCs story overwealm the others. Or be suppressed because of the others. The DM shoudn't favor his spouse's PC, but he shouldn't discount that character just to avoid seeming to show favoritism either.
What I'm saying is don't do this in secret! As an in game secret it works with potential PC v PC issues later, but out of game, it's just rude.
magnuskn Sep 7, 2012, 08:52 am
Yeah, as the player whose character has a relationship with that NPC, I'd have huge problems with such an action. Your deed takes away part of my enjoyment of the game. Extremely rude and self-centered, from what I can see.
AnnoyingOrange Sep 7, 2012, 09:27 am
You have to realize that a campaign where other players do alot of sneaky things is infact not fun for many players or the GM.
I am sure there are other ways to work with to get rid of the liability, maybe you should look into that or rather discuss it with the other players instead of bypassing them. If you really want to create a sideplot involve your GM and work with him to INVOLVE the other players. A great reveal two months down the line will probably not get the grand response you are hoping for.
Edit: woah! totally made a post in the wrong forum. sorry.
Snorter Sep 7, 2012, 09:46 am
Alternatively, you could actually read the thread.
"If you pretend to be a friend while really being an enemy, then you are a traitor."
You mean, like the NPC?
"I don't care how you rationalize it. All traitors rationalize their actions."
"It's part of being a traitor. We hang them anyway."
You mean, you would act against the NPC? Make up your mind.
"The girl never did anything to hurt you."
Except for the hundred times she did exactly that.
Nebelwerfer41 Sep 7, 2012, 10:06 am
Lets look at this another way. Say you kill/polymorph the NPC, then what? Do you win the game? Does the infestation solve itself? The bugs are the main problem.
I'm guessing there is a lot more going on than you know about and instead of forcing some action that would clearly disrupt the game and/or other players, you roll with it or find another way to stop the NPC from inadvertently feeding them info. What about something as simple as a ring of mind shielding?
In the end, you want to be friends with these people AFTER the game is done.
Illydth Sep 7, 2012, 10:22 am
Spiral_Ninja wrote:
I repeat; what do the other PCs/players want? Work with them. Because otherwise, your 'big reveal' is...
And, I guess, I have to respectfully disagree with your position on this.
First, if the DM is there to TELL the story not to FACILITATE the story then the party actions are pre-ordained...you can't kill the characters because they have to be at the end of the story to see it through...unless you determined that the characters WILL die in which case you have the reverse.
A DM Simply cannot write a story past a certain point. In my current Campaign I have a DMPC and that DMPC IS the central character in the story. That said, I'm not nieve enough to have that DMPC be immortal to the story line. He CAN and MAY die through events or faults not his own...the story goes on. Does my ending work if he's not there? YES, YES it does! Because I don't have the final battle scene all constructed blow by blow in my mind...it's a fleshed out concept that flows regardless of who happens to be there. The "final reveal" plot point works regardless of who happens to be in the room at the time.
Again, all DM's have to be VERY careful about writing a book for a story. Look through any pre-printed module from TSR, WotC, Pathfinder, etc...you can't find an "ending" in any of them. You get a general concept about what happens, you may even have a "what happens if it goes wrong" section in the module, but you'll never read "At this point the players should be able to corner the BBEG and..."
It's NOT the DM's story. It's their concept, it's their world, it's their characters, but it's not entirely their story.
I'm all for a DM that has a campaign planned out, and I’ve got to admit I'm REALLY curious about this particular campaign: 5 minutes of reading and I'm hooked on how this thing turns out. I appreciate a good COHESIVE story start to finish, which requires a DM to have a plan all the way through the game. It becomes a HUGE problem, however, when that plan becomes less a plan and more a set of "on the rails" events that players simply have to live through. I've made that mistake, my players have corrected me SEVERAL TIMES on it.
Regarding "Two" above, again, I disagree. You seem to be under the impression that the Rogue in this scenario had decided that his story should converge from the DM's story. This is entirely not the case. The Rogue is reacting TO the DM's story, in what I personally consider to be an ENTIRELY LOGICAL way to the limited information that I have. While there MAY BE other ways of handling it (and there are many good ways pointed out on this thread) there is a difference between suggesting ALTERNATE actions and saying that the OP's posted action is INVALID.
That's something we have to be careful with here, the OP has a perfectly valid action based upon the information he's posted here. There may be other ways to handle it, but it doesn't make the action he's doing wrong.
As to "evil" the action he's talking about performing is NOT evil. An action designed to save a larger portion of the populace at the cost of a smaller group is NOT evil, it's actually more Good/Neutral. There've been a multitude of stories and movies dealing with exactly this situation: what IS the morality of sacrificing a small group for a larger cause?
All this said I am starting to get disturbed by the attitude of the OP.
While I don't object to the action, the motivation is starting to bother me. When I originally read this, I was looking at it as a PC choice to uphold what he felt was the best for the party...protecting the party against it's own inability to see reality for reality.
The further I read the OP's posts about "the big reveal" the more selfish this action seems to become. While I still believe the action to be justified based upon how the DM has setup the NPC to the party, I can't help but start feeling a bit uneasy at the OP's focus on this glorious "surprise" moment at the end of the campaign where a single player gets to identify himself as a mastermind at the cost of everyone else.
That motivation does, indeed, bother me...it's quite anti-social in nature. While I have a problem with the DM who puts his campaign on rails and pushes the PC's only through the events as the DM wants them, I also have a problem with a PC who decides he's the hero and everyone else should revel in his own fortunes.
OP: If your motivation behind this action is that you feel the party has grown too attached to what you are VASTLY considering to be a liability to the party, I'm all for your actions. The one visionary sacrificing his honor for the group of sheep being led to the slaughter is a heroic act. PKing or NPKing for the sake of "Look at me, I'm awesome! Bow before me party members I played you all for FOOLS!" is group destroying...I certainly wouldn't be interested in playing with that person again.
D&D (and it's variants) is a cooperative game, not a competitive game. The stories flow best when players work together and with the DM to create a challenging campaign that everyone enjoys. There are times where players HAVE to go against other players for the story to be successful, and this is one case where the DM seems to have inadvertently created this situation. So long as the *player's* motivation is larger than his own glory, I'm all for the action and I'm against a DM who arbitrarily denies those actions because it doesn't fit some pre-built scenario for his or her campaign.
This one, however, is starting to stink a bit more than it did when I first read it. There's just a bit too much "player ego" creeping into the motivation for this action.
OP Here's a point to consider: What you're talking about is YOUR "big reveal" not the STORY'S "big reveal"...that's where the problem comes in. Look at the ending of the campaign and ask yourself:
* Is this action facilitating the end of the story so that the campaign comes to a close on a high note?
* Or is this action facilitating the end of the story so that YOUR CHARACTER comes to a close on a high note?
If this "big reveal" overshadows the real end of the story I caution you against it.
I and my character believe that removing the NPC is best for the good of all. This is not petty and I don't want to kill her.
I believe that revealing something to players that their characters don't know is bad storytelling.
Meta-gaming happens in many ways, for one we only play once a month or so, so keeping knowledge separate can get confusing.
When you know the answer to a riddle it is really easy to figure out the method which breaks the riddle.
If we tell the other players, but not the PCs then some level of meta-gaming is bound to occur.
I for one LOVE books and movies with unexpected twists and when someone tells me the twist in advance I get frustrated because I want to experience that twist with the main character Telling the PCs is a SPOILER to the reveal. I don't see a difference between a spoiler for a DND campaign and a spoiler for a movie. I believe that characters affect the campaign world and their secrets should be revealed by players and their characters at the same time. You should also think that this is a long term project not a one session bluff.
The last time this NPC was kidnapped the party did X, Y, and Z. My plan covers those eventualities, however, my plan also has holes. If the players know what I did they will see what those holes are. Add that to the fact that there are clones of this NPC out there so if the players go off hunting the NPC they will find clones. The clones are what makes this whole thing so ingenius.
Would the clones know what happened to the original?
Illydth Sep 7, 2012, 02:22 pm
It's not about whether or not you want to kill this NPC, it's about the foreseen disagreement between you and the rest of the players of this game.
As identified by several people in this thread, you are stepping on toes IRL. If you're the only person in the party who believes as you do, that either means you have better information than anyone else, or have jumped to difference conclusions than anyone else.
There's something to be said for being more tactically and mysteriously minded than the rest of your gaming group. There's something to be said for "I believe I'm one step ahead of everyone else in the group based upon how I've put the information I have together." Unlike many here, I fully believe you when you say you feel you're doing the right thing within the confines of the information you have.
There's a wider perspective you're being cautioned in this thread to take and it harkens back to a concept of life: Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
You have my 100% support that you should be allowed to kill this NPC if you so choose to do so. Your DM has absolutely 0 support from me if he decides to metagame anything you've told him as the DM to do anything to hinder your character from performing the action you've talked about here.
The caution you're being given I will echo: An action of this calibre has the distinct possibility of royally pissing off your gaming group. While plot twists may be something you like and are very cool with, your gaming group may not be so approving...especially not with plot twists enacted by a CHARACTER and not by the DM. A character being removed from a story by a DM is part of the plot, a character being removed from a story by another player is not part of the plot, it's the caprecious whim of the other player...and that doesn't always sit well with the rest of those who join you week to week.
Has this kind of character against character thing happened within your group before? How did it go over then?
I'm pretty sure every shred of advice you could be looking for has already been provided in this thread by many of the excellent posts. Other than further ideas of "Cast this spell or perform this action", all of which would be metagaming by your standards if you used them in game, I'm not sure what further the community here could give you.
Can you perform the action you suggested? Probably, it's a matter of rolling the dice and finding out.
Should you be allowed to perform the action you suggested? Absolutely.
SHOULD you perform the action you suggested? There's some pretty strong cautions against it coming from this thread...instead of discussing the GM's role in this scenario, perhaps you'd be better off turning the conversation to how the GM feels about what the fallout of this action will be, not within the campaign, but with the group in general.
Ughbash Sep 7, 2012, 02:32 pm
To the OP, you have said you are very much against Metagaming wielding that as a sword for why not to talk to the party.
Do you have enough Spellcraft and Knowledge Arcanum to know about trap the soul and understand the magical link that the creature is using to get information from her? Most rouges do not so you yourself may me metagaming a little.
I absolutely do have enough spellcraft to know that.
I though it was a good balance for my UMD.
Capt_Phoenix Sep 7, 2012, 05:08 pm
Snorter - I did read the thread. Give the OP himself a little credit; he doesn't say she is evil. He says the DM has used the baddies link to her to screw over the party and he's tired of it. He doesn't say she ever did anything to him - that's why he wants to trap her soul rather than destroyed it Elric style. She's not bad; she's just inconvienient.
Illydth - I think you summed it up well. He should be allowed. Most of the cautions here involve RL fallout. We've all lost groups (and sometimes friends) because of something that happened in game. We don't want it to happen here. In spite of all the heated exchanges, the people here really do care. I like that. It is, however, his call; and it sounds like he made it.
Sleep-Walker - It sounds like you've made up your mind. I will respect you enough to accept your decision even though I disagree with it. At this point there isn't more to say about your disagreement with the DM. I offered him ideas on his thread that he could use to offer you alternatives to your plan that might be a lot more in harmony with the party. It's up to you guys, if you want to be open to changes like that. But, if he's fixed on his plot, and you are on yours, there is little to do but roll the dice and deal with the consequences.
So let's look at the consequences:
1) You may fail spectacularly. She has been kidnapped and tortured once (at least) and she's a 16 level sorceress, I think you said? With some witch levels? She's likely to be paranoid as all get out and have lots of defenses that you know nothing of. She may even have developed paranoid habits - like scanning her treasure for traps from the baddie. The DM isn't being bad to set this kind of thing up. In fact, he'd be remiss if he didn't modify her behavior based on what happened to her. Example: I had an adventure in Greyhawk where the characters were going to help the mayor find out why a group of assassins were trying to take him out (clumsily). One character decided (on his own) to kidnap the mayor and use him as bait for the assassins. Unfortunately, I had planned to have the players help the mayor fight off an attempt on his life, so I already had the mayor's office defenses planned out. The character was dead in three rounds. The player stormed off yelling that I was being unfair and I'd made that stuff up just to "protect my precious gay mayor". I know you're not that immature, but remember the mythbusters motto: "Failure is always an option." The Dm is under no obligation to make it easy for you - or even fair. My player had no more chance than a bug on a windshield. I didn't even try to give him one.You're on your own here. You may succeed spectacularly and get the big reveal, or you may end up trapped in your own soul gem.
2) You may find a success worse than a failure. You know nothing about her soul-link. You don't even know if your soul gem will work - the baddie may have a prior claim on her soul. You could just be damning her to torment at the hands of the baddie - who will promptly tell all your friends about it (because he's bad). Of course, if he consumes her soul and all of her power, you could end up making her the BBG after all. Perhaps it works perfectly and really pisses the BBG off. Up to now, he was complacent about you; tormenting you, stealing your stuff, etc. He thought he had an edge, so he underestimated you - which you could have used for your advantage. Advantage gone. He didn't think he needed to send a big army since he had an "inside man" to open the gates. You could have stopped that army. The three times bigger one he sends to bash down the gates, you can't stop. You escape with your lives and the town gets eaten. GJ. Or you find you need her link to find the BBG. He's tormented you with it, but now you use it against him. You pull out her soul gem and ressurect her according to plan. "I'm sorry I killed you and trapped your soul, but we need your help now". At this point the sorceress (who doesn't agree that killing her and trapping her soul was a "not evil" act - women, who can figure em?)promptly blasts you with every spell she has - concentrating on ones that hurt. Remember how mad your wife got when you forgot to do something she asked? Try knifing her and locking her soul in a gem for three months. Make your bluff check. Now make a saving throw. Roleplaying gold.
3) You may be OK with lying to the other players for months, but the DM might not be. I don't like lying to my friends (and wife), and I really don't see why I should do it for you. This isn't in game or metagaming. He may just say, "No. I don't want to play that game." You make your choice, he has a right to make his. I've left games because I didn't like them. Players have left mine because they didn't like it (only that one time yelling, though). We play the game to have fun. If he wouldn't have fun because of your act; you need to accept that, or one of you needs to leave the game. Bottom line.
4) Even if everything works perfectly and you get your "Big Reveal", it might not be all you hope for. One player is likely to be hurt. The others will be shocked, but I hope they politely compliment you on your "plot twist". Then when the next game starts they show their "big reveal" - they don't invite you. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't. No offense meant. I am just happier in games where PCs don't kill my love intrests. Completely a personal choice. I don't sacrifice the girl to save the world; I save them both. Even if it's harder. Thet's why they call me a hero. I like the extra challenge of winning while not abandoning the waif. Or even losing valiantly. It's my thing, baby. I accept that you disagree. It really does sound like your friends want to win with the girl too, though. You are denying them that arbitrarily and without consulting them. You don't have to play with me and I don't have to play with you. No hard feelings. Just make sure that your friends won't end up feeling like me. That's too high a price for pride. Really.
P.S. If anybody is curious. The party did a lot of fast talking and kept their freedom. They just had to find out who the baddies were quick if they wanted to keep it. It worked out as a great "hero needs to clear his name" trope without any railroading or setting up on my part. It changed the adventure into one that was even better. The player who stormed out, never came back, but he did get over his pique. He became a fine roleplayer and a great DM. He admitted to using that very scenario and set up later. Happy endings.
Weirdo Sep 7, 2012, 07:27 pm
The problem is that the other players might not appreciate the surprise. Playing in a D&D/PF campaign is not like reading a book or watching a movie. It is an active process and a collaborative one; you are not putting on a solo performance. As Spiral_Ninja said, all the other players have stories they are trying to tell with their characters, and if you are trying to tell a different kind of story, no matter how justified your actions, there is a high risk of hurt feelings.
I just finished a campaign in which for some time two characters had drastically different goals from the rest of the group and one of them performed actions that aided a villain, believing it was for the greater good. Through some clever manoeuvring by the DM it turned out all right in the end. The villain that the errant player aided turned out to be redeemable, and enough hints were dropped to that end that the other players got on board with the redeeming effort. The redeemed villain encouraged the errant PC to abandon fruitless attempts to make friends with the remaining villains, who the united party then happily smote. However, this whole thing caused a lot of drama among the players. Some of this was exacerbated by the fact that the errant PC performed two particularly antisocial actions without first informing the other players. Some was broken trust. Some was a result of the fact that a cooperative game was slipping into PvP. This drama affected OOC relationships.
I have seen PvP work very well in D&D/PF, but it's always been when all players involved were aware of the potential for PvP and agreed that this was something they were comfortable with. For example, I told a fellow player that I was going to figure out his character's most embarrassing secret. He said go for it. I enacted the plan in secret, thus allowing for a surprise when he saw the results, but the player was aware that some plot would be afoot and was therefore able to enjoy it. If you are going to plot, you should at least mention to the other players that some plot would be afoot, especially since the DM does not appear comfortable with keeping your plotting secret.
If the players are not aware that you are planning PvP action, such action is likely to hurt them - OOC. I highly recommend that your first course of action be to find an alternate plan of eliminating the threat, one that the other players will accept. Scanning both threads, I saw mention of a quest to de-villainize the NPC by cutting her connection with the Big Bad or by turning that connection against the Big Bad. It's a very good idea to work with the DM on pursuing this course of action. This will satisfy your/your character's desire to eliminate the threat as well as the other players' desire to protect the NPC. If that doesn't work, would sending her away from the main action be effective?
Mikaze Sep 8, 2012, 12:10 am
Time to check the social contract with the rest of the group, GM included.
Player character vs player character antagonism is not something to be entered into lightly, and certainly not without touching base with the player you are, directly or indirectly, targetting.
Player vs player antagonism should go die on a saltflat anthill.
S'mon Sep 8, 2012, 09:28 am
WHAT WOULD YOU DO.
I wouldn't hide info from the other players. That's a really bad idea. I wouldn't use 'metagaming' as a shield to defend my bad behaviour, either.
DrDeth Sep 22, 2012, 12:55 am
What was the end resolution here?
Sleep-Walker Oct 15, 2012, 02:57 pm
This game is a once a month kind of game. We have played one game since and I have not acted yet. I have however, had an interesting roleplay by email discussion with another player in which I included him in my plans. It was a good discussion and he ended up agreeing with me.
I think I am going to do it, but I am going to delay until the last moment to do it.
Derfelcadarn Nov 5, 2012, 08:31 am
Update, damn your black hide!
lemeres Nov 5, 2012, 01:53 pm
While the meta politics are a serious concern, I also want to imagine recourse the GM might have. Since they were able to use the NPC to spy on you, the GM has all the right to tailor his plans specifically to the skills, resources, and tactics of your party without metagaming. I also assume that while your plans might prevent the enemy from knowing the specifics, since you said you did something like this before, and they might have seen enough clues before their link got cut off to connect this to you, it would not be unreasonable for the bugs to make an educated guess.
So since the bugs can tailor their troops in just about any fashion they wish, and you will make this NPC into a MacGuffin for all intents and purposes, well, do not be surprised if one evening there is a tiny sized bug with a lot of ranks in stealth and sleight of hand. This might actually help propel the story forward though, advancing her inevitable capture, and giving a chance to do the reveal before the end of the story.
"Hey....you guys, remember how she disappeared last week? Well....she was stolen. Yeah, not kidnapped, but stolen. Long....and 'funny' story."
This might seem like railroading, but hey, you are dealing with a major resource of an invasion by intelligent, ruthless aliens. Things happen, and there is enough justification for them to happen.
Sleep-Walker Nov 5, 2012, 02:24 pm
Update....
That game is progressing.
One other player engaged me in a discussion about whether or not we could trust another PC. I steered that conversation to this topic and we discussed my plan. He ended up agreeing with me.
Ishpumalibu Nov 5, 2012, 04:58 pm
My DM IS NOT INVITED TO READ THIS. NOR ARE OTHER PLAYERS IN CAMPAIGN
The title is provocative, I am not looking for advice on killing a specific NPC more for a discussion about the role of the DM. My DM has started another thread called Help Me Save An NPC, which I have not read at his request, but I can see that there are a lot of posts.
In the homebrew campaign we are playing, an alien semi insectoid menace is taking over the world. The enemies are a mix between 40K Tyranids, Aliens from the movie franchise, and aliens from Starship troopers. They adapt to become the worst threat they can be and come in all sorts of shapes and sizes.
There is a NPC in the campaign, she is somehow linked to these creatures. She is a special variant summoner and is as linked to these creatures as a summoner is linked to their Eidolon. She can sense when they are near and her special brand of magic is tied to them. The creatures are using her mind to spawn new specific monsters based on our weaknesses, they are also using her to gather information about the party.
She recently disappeared and it was revealed that the monsters could use her soul to create special vat grown clones of her. We have specifically been told that if we control the soul of the individual they cannot make new clones. The clone with the soul is referred to as the Prime. By Using Trap The Soul we could prevent them from making new clones and close their method of gathering information about us. Another PC has currently taken possession of the soul of another NPC in a similar situation.
We are in the final run of the campaign when an infected Tarrasque is going to attack. We are also in the process of fortifying a town to ward off a full attack from hordes of these monsters. The campaign is about to end and then we can resurrect the NPC, she just needs to be out of the loop for a few months.
My character (Level 17 Rogue) has decided that this NPC is a liability. She is consciously or unconsciously feeding information to our...
As someone who dms a bit, I have to say I'm disappointed when I heat about anyone trying to railroad...why would your character leave clues...he's a rogue...if anything he'd go back with them to investigate/cover up any evidence. Personally I've always wanted to have a campaign where the dm takes one of the PCs to the side and asks them to be the bbeg. O know that's not what you're doing but unless your character is being played grossly out of character for no reason, I can't see went he would tell you how to play it, or make you gimp your niche of the sneak...
KHShadowrunner Nov 6, 2012, 08:56 am
While I agree, It is a very interesting debate. I mean, using the same logic, a DM could go to an inn, sleep for the night, wake one of the members up and lure them out, kill them by some horrible means, and invent this convoluted means with which to elude the idea that the PC had been killed (OC it's obvious, because the guy would probably be making a new character).
Players would, for the sake of story(?), like to know how their friend died, or seek revenge for it. So the DM would be instinctively forced to create means to determine who did it, or even to find the body.
But a PC doing so... wouldn't. It's all skill based and question based. I guess if the players were curious enough they could try to investigate but given enough skills a PC can hide the fact just as well as the DM, but not have the obligation to find the clues.
Where is the fair balance as to what's allowed versus what's not?
IMO - the DM actually does reserve the right to kill off anyone without any other players knowing, and have enough clues or means to make it simply not possible to find.
Icyshadow Nov 6, 2012, 09:10 am
Vicon wrote:
Atarlost wrote:
Seriously, do not do this. Although the leadership feat may not be involved the NPC is a cohort in all but name. Do not PVP. Especially do not PVP the GM's wife.
If the GM is plotting against you it's because you're being a jerk to his wife. If you try to push this you will either get kicked out of or cause the complete break up of the gaming group because the GM is rightly going to put his real world marriage first.
If you can't handle this leave the group.
If a GM sets up a campaign so that months of collective story-telling amounts to a mental-masturbation exercise for his spoiled wife, he's a s+*#ty GM... no matter how good the stories are. NO PLAYER... SHOULD EVER... have to sit on their hands and sacrifice all agency because the GM has rigged the story to hinge on a pet NPC... that belongs to his wife is even worse.
Yeah, summed up all that I wanted to say quite nicely.
Antimony Nov 6, 2012, 10:06 am
I will only say this.
The player here seems to discuss (on more than one occasion) his "big reveal" as if that is an important consideration. In my opinion, (and I may be wrong) that's the worst kind of dillholery. "The DM is a great story-teller, but I can make his story even better by doing X, and then the game will always be remembered for my big moment."
If that's the case: stop it.
If that's not the case, then keep selling your idea to the other characters/players, and when you (as a group) decide on the right course of action, do it. It's not up to any one PC to serve as the group's conscience, or determine what the "right thing" for all of them to do might be.
Out of curiosity: if her finger is the crux of their power over her, why not just infiltrate their ubercamp and steal it back? And, in the process, stick a necklace of fireballs under an empty cloning vat and wait for someone to fill it, crushing the necklace and blowing $#!* up?
Blowing $#!* up is always the best option.
Ishpumalibu Nov 6, 2012, 10:26 am
KHShadowrunner wrote:
The fair balance is the dm can make anything happen, whenever, the characters have very limited power/resources. most importantly the characters are the main characters of the story. The whole concept of this game is for them to overcome challenges and be some of the most powerful if not the most powerful people of the world. Who are we catering to the npcs? Who really don't even exist, no then the whole game just becomes an ego exercise.
In the end, I assume that this has to be handled OOC, amongst all party members.
The action has the potential of ruining the story for someone, or completely derailing the story. If my character had beyond invested interest in something and it "disappeared" (which I plan on actually doing for my PC as it leaves that extra little bit of madness in an otherwise ordnary person), I would lose my mind and focus my sole efforts into finding what was lost. I could easily see it being a member-disbandment situation, from a character perspective (the missing NPC means the 'world' to them, so what is saving the world when the 'world' is already gone?). That's just how some characters roll.
So now you are in deadlock. The rogue (rightfully) wants to OKO the NPC in some way in order to save the world. This is in the character's interest. Another player wants the NPC to be their world. This is in the character's interest. OOC we're keeping everything a surprise.
Steps I would take:
As the rogue, I would ask the PC with the affection to the NPC (OOC) what kind of reaction they both OOC and IC they would have to that NPC disappearing for whatever reason. If the rogue wants to keep it a surprise, he'll go to the DM who will go to the other PC. If there is a conflict of interest, the DM becomes the mediator and resolves the matter.
Both people seem very respectful. The only issue I'm seeing is how the OOC issues play as a mystery when it could, in fact, cause some severe conflict in the IC party. When these kinds of things turn up, it pretty much needs to be discussed. If the Rogue sticks to his word, and really wants it to be a surprise, it'll depressingly be a matter of consequences.
As for the DM and the means to find the body, that's his own decision. the PC is right in that if he does a good enough job it should not be discoverable. But if the other PC's true enjoyment is to solve the mystery of the missing NPC, the story would need to turn somehow so that that person is satisfied.
Either way, I simply do not see how this could continue without discussion between the three.
Krome Nov 7, 2012, 08:08 am
Mikaze wrote:
If another player, regardless of who it is, GM's wife or not, has a special relationship with an NPC and would be upset with my action against the NPC, then I will find another way around the problem.
This situation has nothing to do with roleplaying, the story, or the game. It has everything to do with being a friend.
The point is FRIENDS get together and have a GOOD time.
Use this as an opportunity to be a friend, and find a more creative and mutually enjoyable way to deal with the situation.
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A Thousand Words: Aftershocks in Balochistan
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These pictures from the Associated Press need no commentary. They demand our attention. Our empathy. And, wherever we can, our action.
20 responses to “A Thousand Words: Aftershocks in Balochistan”
I hope these people get help soon, otherwise it’s the same things as what happened to the Bengalis of East Pakistan when the floods hit them. May Allah(SWT) help us all. Ameen.
Zubeida says:
These pictures bring tears to my eyes. These people really did not have to suffer like this. We all have a responsibility to help them. Thank you for keeping or conscience alive and reminding all of us of the plight of those less fortunate than us.
Aamir Ali says:
To Ali:
Actually the insurgency in Balochistan is limited to Marri and Bugti tribe areas. These areas hit in earthquake are mostly Pakhtun populated, and did not join the Akbar Bugti-led rebellion.
So if the insurgency is your hangup, then dont worry about it as these areas remained loyal to Pakistan, and now they need your help. Go to the next pages and I have listed some private charities which are helping. Donate!
the tragedy is that this tragedy did not need to happen. It’s really poverty that made a quake of this size cause 300 deaths and 70000 people homeless. Mud houses fall even in small quakes. That is the rebuilding that is needed.
auk says:
Yes, we are an emotional bunch. Before we start imploring everyone for help, we need to look at the big picture. While the area impacted by this earthquake may be large, it was sparsely populated. According to numbers that I have heard, the number of displaced, who lost their homes, stands at 70,000. This is minuscule compared to the earthquake of 2005. Without sounding callous here, I just want to point out that enough help in the form of tents, blankets, and food rations has already made its way into the affected area, thanks to the help of the Army and some international donors.
For all those who still want to donate money, there is no lack of deserving causes especially when the economy is presenting such a bleak picture, and when we are looking at the IMF’s recipes to fix that. So please donate all you can, to all those deserving causes, and remember that we don’t need to come alive and come together only when there is a natural calamity at hand.
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Cricket World Cup 2011: Is Pakistan A Contender?
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Part of me thinks that I should wait until the current World Cup match against host and co-favorites Sri Lanka ends. But another part insists that no matter what the result of the game, the point is made: Pakistan is indeed a contender. Mercurial, unpredictable, sometimes spectacular, often its own worst enemy (and that could happen in this game too), but never shy of upsets and surprises (in its own favor and against!).
So, what do you think: Is Pakistan a contender? And now two two games done and every team already having played, how do you evaluate Pakistan’s chances in the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup? Is our readers’ assessment of the team’s chances the same it was two weeks ago, or has it changed. Have your say.
Of course, one game does not change the course of a tournament. And even this game is not done at the time of writing this post. But this is no ordinary game. Along with India, Sri Lanka is being talked about as the other favorites. But more importantly, this is the first serious test of Pakistan in quite a while and at least till this point in the game, Pakistan has made quite a game of this. Is this a flash in the pan or indicator of things to come? And that, before we even know how the flash will end!
I use the word ‘contender’ to mean a team that one should seriously consider as a possible winner. Not just because it can surprise, but because if it would pull off a win it would not necessarily be a surprise. Are we there yet? Can we get there?
Enough said. Now, you have your say.
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shining pearl says:
pak eil ein world cup 2011.inshahAllahh……………………………..
Muhammad Abu Bakar says:
In their last match of the world cup 2011 Zimbabwe inflicted a heave defeat of 161 runs on Kenya.
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Indian T.v Serials says:
Obviously, Tim Ellis, you wrote this before the game against England….guess what?, WI collapsed again, and turned a victory into defeat……so that would rule them out of contention as well. Maybe NZ who did not get a mention, will lift the cup? Any thing is possible in this WC. Let’s hope though, that most of the QFs are actionpacked.
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CES 2019: Tape and Digital | Nagra elevates our listening experience
Posted on January 23, 2019 by Mohammed Samji in CES // 1 Comment
Nagra‘s rooms are always on, and dialed to 11. They sneak up on you, and deliver a different something special each time. A must visit room at any audio show, Nagra always brings together three elements: a great system, fantastic music, and René Laflamme. René has a double role as Sales and Marketing Manager for Nagra America in addition to being a recording and mastering engineer at 2xHD.
René always treats us to something special that he mastered on a sexy Nagra reel to reel deck. I had to hold back sharing the 50 photos I took as I oozed over it. They Nagra IV-S deck used at CES is still in production and you can buy a modern version for about $20,000 USD. I’ll be setting up a gofundme campaign shortly, we can timeshare use of it in listening room.
Earlier at AXPONA 2018, we had an opportunity to listen to the Nagra HD Preamp, a two box system, with the power supply in a separate chassis.
At CES 2019, the Nagra room was showcasing the new Nagra HD DAC X, a follow-on to the Nagra HD Preamp.
Nagra HD DAC X
Taking cues from the Nagra HD Preamp, the HD DAC is a monster. The two box chassis enjoys having parts machined at the same facility that Rolex uses in Switzerland. René tells me they have such high quality standards that many pieces from that high end facility get rejected as they strive for perfection.
The HD DAC X is built as a dual mono design with one tube per channel and constructed with separate boards for analog and digital. At the back of the unit, you will see that they are powered by separate power supplies. This isolates the ground between the two boards and further reduces the noise floor. Another advantage of their architecture is that all digital components and connectors are on an isolated board that can be replaced. This allows owners of the HD DAC X to future proof themselves and upgrade the digital portion of the DAC for any future standards or connectors.
The digital board in the HD DAC X is shared with the prior Nagra HD DAC, allowing existing customers of a Nagra HD DAC to upgrade their current DACs to the same digital board as the new HD DAC X. The digital board upgrade for existing HD DAC owners is available now for a cost of $5000.
Mechanical isolation is similar to the feet used on the HD Pre-amp.
Listening to Digital
The Nagrastack of gear was driving the new Wilson Audio Sasha DAW speakers in Obsidian Black, and showcasing the new Nagra HD DAC X. We featured a detailed first listen to the Sasha DAW earlier in November.
As I eased into my seat, the first thing we listened to was Shirley Horn’s album, “You Won’t Forget Me” on a Nagra CD transport into the Nagra HD DAC X. René’ hit play on track four, “Beautiful Love”.
I was taken back by the reproduction of Shirley Horn’s silky smooth voice over a guitar in the background. My colleague Vineet who sat beside me, leaned over smiling ear to ear and commenting that he could feel every instrument. It was the perfect tonality of the guitar gliding behind her smoky voice. I generally don’t love CDs, but a true test for me are DACs that take those shiny 44.1discs and make them engaging.
Following Shirley Horn, René had another treat in store for me. He told me the story of a recording he made in 2001 in Montréal Quebec using just two B&K microphones. It features the strongest organ in Canada at the time, that could produce a 16Hz organ tone. It was a recording of “The Last Seven Words of Christ” by Theodore Dubois (Fidelio Audio FACD008). The recording was made on a battery powered Nagra IV-S recorder and using Nagra’s Master EQ. René explained that the recorder was shaking during the recording as it memorized those deep organ notes on tape.
In all of the show room visits I have experiences, I have never heard a system go so deep and wide as the organ emerged and conquered from the potent Wilson Audio Sasha DAW speakers. I am going to find a copy of that CD….
Although the original recording was on tape, we were only able to hear the CD version. We can only imagine if it played it from an original master. A testament of the new HD DAC X.
Listening to Reel to Reel
Closing our listening was the star of the show, playing tape on the Nagra IV-S.
As part of Rene’s work for 2xHD, he is working on an upcoming re-issue of Shirley Horn’s, “Softly” album. It was recorded in 1980 in a living room in Woodshell near Chicago. It was originally released on CD, but Rene has been working to remaster it from the original analog tapes. Rene brought a copy of the master tape to CES, and the high resolution version will be available in March 2019 from 2xHD.
The original recording engineer recorded Shirley using just two Crown PZM microphones mounted to plexiglass. The two pieces of plexiglass were arranged at 45 degrees in front of Shirley. I remember those microphones vividly, using them as a teenager for high school drama productions as they are made to be played on a surface like a stage.
When the re-mastered album was played on the Nagra T, it is much smoother than they had on the original. Now it sounded like a really good microphone and not the traditional Crown PZM microphone sound. A recording like this makes me rethink not having reel to reel at home.
Building a great sounding room inside a hotel is an art, but Nagra seems to have perfected the recipe. No matter if they played tape, streamed digital or CDs the sound was intoxicating. I wish I could have cancelled all my meetings and camped out in Nagra room.
Without a doubt, our Best in Show at CES 2019 as selected by Part-Time Audiophile.
-Mohammed
hi-resolution
sasha DAW
tube amp
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Premature baby found in Texas Border Patrol prison
June 14, 2019 2:44 PM CST By Astrid Galván And Garance Burke
The Central Processing Center in McAllen, Texas. Advocates were shocked to find an underage mom and her tiny, premature newborn daughter huddled in a Border Patrol facility the second week of June 2019, in what they say was another example of the poor treatment immigrant families receive after crossing the border. | David J. Phillip / AP
The teenage girl with pigtail braids was hunched over in a wheelchair and holding a bunched sweatshirt when an immigrant advocate met her at a crowded Border Patrol facility in Texas.
She opened the sweatshirt and the advocate gasped. It was a tiny baby, born premature and held in detention instead of where the advocate believes the baby should have been—at a hospital neonatal unit.
“You look at this baby and there is no question that this baby should be in a tube with a heart monitor,” said Hope Frye, a volunteer with an immigrant advocacy group who travels the country visiting immigration facilities with children to make sure the facilities comply with federal guidelines.
Frye and other advocates said the case highlights the poor conditions immigrants are held in after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border as the government deals with an unprecedented number of families and children arriving daily.
The mother, a 17-year-old from Guatemala, had an emergency cesarean section in Mexico in early May and crossed the border with the baby June 4, Frye said.
She was in a wheelchair in extreme pain when legal advocates found her this week. The girl told advocates she crossed the border through the Rio Grande River but needed people to carry her, and that she also needed help getting into a Border Patrol car when she was apprehended.
The mother and daughter were expected to be transferred to a privately-run facility for underage immigrants without parents on Thursday after outcry on social media.
They were held in an overcrowded McAllen processing facility that holds hundreds of parents and children in large, fenced-in areas and gained international attention last year when it detained children separated from their parents. Advocates describe them as cages and say they are extremely cold. The converted warehouse is the same place where a flu outbreak caused authorities to shut down the facility last month.
The Trump administration has faced daily criticism over conditions in migrant detention facilities.
Five children have died since late last year after being detained by the Border Patrol. Immigrants have been kept outside for extended periods near a bridge in El Paso in conditions that a professor who recently visited the location told the Texas Monthly magazine was like a “human dog pound.”
And an Inspector General report last month found severe overcrowding inside an El Paso processing center, with 76 migrants packed into a tiny cell designed for 12 people. Investigators saw immigrants standing on top of toilets to make room and find space to breathe because the cell was so cramped.
Customs and Border Protection said its agents are overwhelmed and don’t have the funding or resources to handle the influx. Health and Human Services, the governmental agency in charge of caring for unaccompanied children after they’re released from Border Patrol custody, said it is past capacity with over 13,000 kids in its care at the moment. The agency plans to add new facilities for children in New Mexico, Texas and a military base in Oklahoma.
Families and underage migrants who cross the border are held in Border Patrol facilities meant to be temporary and designed primarily for single adult men—not mothers, newborns, and sick toddlers. Families are regularly kept in them for much longer than the allowed maximum of 72 hours.
Frye first met the teenage girl at the McAllen facility on Tuesday. The girl said border authorities made her throw away a backpack with the baby’s clothing and not given her anything else, so the baby was in a dirty onesie bundled in a sweatshirt that another migrant mother gave her.
At one point, the baby got sick and was listless and unresponsive, Frye said.
Frye said the baby and her mother should never have been kept there. She said she not sure how premature the baby was born but described the baby as “minuscule,” with a head was “the size of my fist or smaller than my fist.”
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By Myrna M. Velasco – August 9, 2019, 10:00 PM
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The operator of the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) has been directed to refund P1.774 billion to its trading participants; due to “miscalculation” in the net settlement surplus (NSS) allocations and settlements in the spot market.
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) said the market operator (MO) or the Philippine Electricity Market Corporation (PEMC) shall carry out adjustments in its billed NSS or do a refund to the trading participants.
Considered trading participants are the generation companies (GenCos) that have been offering their capacities in the WESM; as well as the directly registered distribution utilities and electric cooperatives that have been purchasing part of their supply from the spot market.
The miscalculations in NSS, according to the regulatory body, had accrued from the billing months of June 2018 to May this year.
The ERC emphasized that based on its findings, it was able to flag “inconsistencies in the share of generators and customers in the NSS allocations issued by PEMC or the market operator (MO).”
The Commission further noted that “upon validation, PEMC/MO reported to the ERC that the miscalculations were caused by its erroneous applications of the formula in its software that is used to determine NSS allocations.”
From that, the regulatory body specified that it has applied the necessary corrections, hence, it is now directing PEMC or the MO to enforce corresponding refund or billing adjustments to its customers.
“As a result of the corrections in the NSS allocations ordered by the Commission, WESM trading participants are expected to either be entitled to a refund or will be made to return excess allocations,” the ERC said.
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April 21, 2017 /in Amy Gray, PEN Blog /by Amy Gray
Why your cancer-creating habits can affect your children (and we’re not talking about second-hand smoke).
It’s hard enough being a parent. There are no “Parenting for Idiots” books out there. We just bumble along, trying our best to inoculate our children from our worst selves and influence them with our best.
But like many humans, we may hit the potato chips a bit hard, make exercise the last task on our ever-lengthening “to do” list, and find ourselves doing things we know may not be good for us.
But the science of epigenetics is now telling us that we’re not only influencing our own health but those of our children – genetically.
Here’s how it works. Epigenetics looks at the way genes express or don’t express themselves as we age. Those gene changes are thought to be influenced directly as a result of our nutrition and behavior, as well as exposure to toxins in our environment. In a sense, it’s a hybrid of hereditary disease and lifestyle choices.
An experimental study was done by Stanford University scientist Anne Brunet and colleagues. They noticed that nematodes (a type of worm) had varying lifespans. Some were exceptionally long-lived and passed that trait through three generations. Others lived much shorter lives. Yet all the worms, both the old sages and the early departers, were genetically identical.
How is this possible?
The answer lies in epigenetics. Some of the worms had experienced a change during their lifetimes that affected certain gene expressions that regulated lifespan. They passed that gene expression through reproduction, even though it had not been part of their initial DNA makeup.
A human version of this can be found in the cases involving the synthetic estrogen compound diethylstilbestrol (DES). This was given to women in the 1950’s to prevent miscarriages. Later it was discovered that DES mothers gave birth to DES affected daughters, increasing their risks for vaginal, breast, and ovarian cancers. Ironically, it also made DES daughters more prone to miscarriage. The mechanism for this phenomenon is now believed to be epigenetics which facilitated the altered maternal DNA to be passed down to their daughters.
It must be noted the study of epigenetics is in its infancy. Clear-cut examples of it, like noted above, are rare. But scientists now have a new understanding that our lifestyle choices and exposure to environmental toxins can affect sperm and egg DNA, and thereby set up new generations for cancer risk in ways that cannot be explained through traditional genetic pathways.
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http://www.bu.edu/news/2014/09/15/epigenetic-drugs-a-hope-to-treat-cancer-resistance-and-reduce-cancer-relapse/
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PIPS Research Digest May 2016
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CONCEPT: Expenditure side of the Budget Page 01 Secretary General CPA recognizes PIPS Excellent Work Page 09 PIPS Team Welcomes its new Team Leader Page 11 PIPS Pre-Budget Seminar Budget Proposals Page 13 CONCEPT: Economic Indicators-Facts and Figures of Pakistan Page 17
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Pakistan Institute for Parliamentary Services (PIPS) takes pride in the fact that it commenced the tradition of celebrating official Constitution Day on 10 April 2014 in line with the vision of its all-party dynamic Board of Governors, which has guided PIPS outreach to not only university but school and college going youth. This year the tradition was celebrated as a National Day with events at the National Parliament, PIPS and all provincial assemblies. (See report on Third annual PIPS Constitution Day event). This issue of PIPS Parliamentary Research Digest Comprises articles related ...
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The Pakistan Institute for Parliamentary Services (PIPS) commenced 2015 with renewed zeal to provide legislative, research and training services to Members of the Parliament. This May 2015 has been a month of pro-active services and landmark new initiatives. In March 2015, the Honorable Chairman Senate/PIPS President Board of Governors guided PIPS to enhance its outreach to school and college youth in addition to its existing engagement with university youth since 2012. Accordingly PIPS held memorable series of Seminars on Constitution, Parliament and State-building –role of youth Model Colleges in Islamabad which were participated ...
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The Pakistan Institute for Parliamentary Services (PIPS) has commenced 2015 with renewed zeal to provide legislative, research and training services to Members of the Parliament. This February 2015 issue of the PIPS Research Digest comprises an opin-ion piece on US President’s much trumpeted India’s visit and a conceptual article on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). Besides as per vision of PIPS Board of Gover-nors, we are starting a series of articles by field experts in every month’s digest. Dr Saleem Ullah has contributed an absorbing analytical article on Enforcement of ...
Pakistan celebrated its independence day on 14th August, 2015 with unwavering unity and traditional fervor witnessed almost more than a decade across all four provinces as well as the beautiful valleys of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Gilgit Baltistan and FATA region. Pakistan Institute for Parliamentary Services held significant events to celebrate the theme, which included organizing two day National Youth Conference in commemoration of International Youth Day celebration on August 11-12, 2015 that was participated by around 300 youth, members of civil society, diplomat corps, members of Parliament and experts on governance and ...
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Mennock Pass (SW #63)
All the cycling data and info you'll need to climb Mennock Pass (SW #63)
Mennock Pass Climb Summary
This is the southernmost of the GCC 100 climbs that are located in Scotland. This one is special. In addition to its scenic beauty, we pass through the highest village in Scotland on our way to the summit.
This is a gorgeous, bucket list-worthy climb that winds its way through a canyon which was covered by heather in purple bloom when we rode through and up it in September, 2018.
Share the road; purple blooms of heather on the hillsides (km 9)
The first 5 ½ kilometers of this climb are close to flat at 1.4%, but we respect Simon Warren’s start point because the beauty of those kilometers are worth the wait for the tough stuff.
The end of the initial 5.5 km flats - net 4 km at 5%
The climb begins with a very gradual slope (5.5 km @ 1.4%) followed by 4 km @ 5%, a brief descent then another 2.2 km at 5.6%, another descent (500m @ -4%) and a final 900m push to the top at 6.7%
180m to go at 7%
Steepest ½ kilometer begins at kilometer 5.7 (8.6%)
CyclingUphill.com:
“A long steady climb in Scotland. This goes up hill for 7 miles. THe first half is really quite gentle, like the approach up a valley to a mountain climb. After 3 miles, the gentle gradient of 2-3% kicks up to 12% – breaking the rhythm from the gentle approach. There are then two false flats, which reduce the average gradient and make the climb look easier on paper than it is. With a long exposed climb like this the wind direction will be important. But, with a more difficult second half, it is not a climb to be under-estimated.” More
CyclingWeekly.com:
“Five 'hidden' British climbs that are worth you seeking out - and conquering by bike . . . If great Dun Fell is England’s Mont Ventoux, then Lowther Hill is Scotland’s Great Dun Fell, although not as steep as its English counterpart it’s every bit as spectacular. If you combine the climb with the ascent of the Mennock Pass, from base to summit you get close to 15km of climbing; that’s longer than Alpe d’Huez.
“Surely not, not in Britain,” you cry. Oh yes! The first 11 kilometres out of Mennock rising to the village of Wanlockhead are relatively mild, but these steady, beautiful slopes are just the warm up, the starter for the following main course.
It’s when you leave the B797 that the real fun begins taking a right turn into splendid isolation on a silky smooth road to the sky. Following negotiation of the heavily padlocked gate (don’t worry it’s perfectly fine to ride up) you can begin your journey, twisting, and rolling across the silence of the empty hill sides high above the world below.
The further you climb the more Alpine it feels as you rise from the surrounding hills searching out the huge spherical radar at the summit. Never too steep but always epic this final four kilometres are a pure joy to experience and if the organisers of our national Tour are listening, would make the perfect stage finish, we reckon.” More
Simon Warren’s 100 Greatest Cycling Climbs in Britain passes through Wanlockhead at kilometer 10. Wanlockhead is the highest town in Scotland:
“Wanlockhead is a village in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, nestling in the Lowther Hills and one mile south of Leadhills at the head of the Mennock Pass, which forms part of the Southern Uplands. It is Scotland's highest village at an average height of around 410m and can be accessed via the B797, which connects it to the A76 near Sanquhar and the A74(M) motorway at Abington.
The village was called Winlocke until 1566, derived from the Celtic Cuingealach (the narrow pass).
Wanlockhead owes its existence to the lead and other mineral deposits in the surrounding hills. These deposits were first exploited by the Romans, and from the 13th century they began to be worked again in the summer. The village was founded permanently in 1680 when the Duke of Buccleuch built a lead smelting plant and workers' cottages.
Lead, zinc, copper and silver were mined nearby, as well as some of the world's purest gold at 22.8 carats, which was used to make the Scottish Crown. Wanlockhead became known as "God's treasure house" from the richness of its mineral resources.
William Symington, Engineer.
Despite a branch railway (see Leadhills & Wanlockhead Railway), also the highest in Scotland, which served the village from 1901 to 1939, lead mining declined in the 20th century and finished in the 1950s. From 1850 the Glasgow and South Western Railway had provided sidings at Mennock Lye Goods Depot for the use of the Wanlockhead and Leadhills mines.
The village had a curling club which was formed in 1777 and there were also quoits, bowling clubs, a drama group and a silver band which had instruments purchased for them by the Duke of Buccleuch.
William Symington was from Leadhills, but lived and worked in Wanlockhead. His fame lies in the fact that he designed the engine used to power the world's first steamboat. This boat was successfully tested on Dalswinton Loch near Ellisland on 14 October 1788. Dalswinton was the home of Robert Burns's landlord, Patrick Miller.” Wikipedia - Wanlockhead
Top 10 things to do around Wanlockhead
Mennock Pass is the first 100 Greatest Cycling Climbs in Scotland Just shy of the pass we travel through the Wanlockhead, the highest village in Scotland.
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Michael Walsh • 2018-12-03 19:57:19 chat 0 comments
How awful is Angela Merkel? This awful:
The founding director of the European Coalition for Israel in Brussels,Thomas Sandell, announced in a shocking video message on Thursday that German Chancellor Angela Merkel waged a campaign to prevent Central and Eastern European countries from moving their capitals to Jerusalem to preserve the Iran nuclear deal. Sandell said The Jerusalem Post exclusive report in November stating that Merkel called Romanian president, Klaus Iohannis, an ethnic German, to convince him to not relocate his country’s embassy to Jerusalem prompted him to go public.
Speaking from the European parliament, Sandell said “what we have found out, something I heard for quite some time already, from Central and Eastern European countries, that would have an have inclination to move their embassy to Jerusalem, this is the natural thing for them to do, is that they have received phone calls from Berlin, from Angela Merkel, the chancellor, basically, this cannot happen under any circumstances.”
He said, "I have spoken to many Germans these last few days in Brussels. They are not aware of this. And all of them would be shocked that all of the countries in the European Union today that would want to block an embassy move to Jerusalem, not only for your own country, but for other countries that have the conviction this is the right thing to do, the only country to do would be Germany--this is a big shock."
Then again, maybe not.
I got to see communism/socialism up close and personal between the years 1985 and 1991, during my long sojourn in East Berlin, Moscow, Leningrad, Warsaw and other garden spots. Among the things I best remember -- in addition to the unmistakable olfactory stench of all communist countries -- were the dilapidated buildings and the shoddy construction standards, especially in the Soviet Union.
So this story hardly comes as a surprise:
Rafael Álvarez was up at 6:30 a.m. to warm milk for his baby daughter when he heard the sound of pebbles falling. “That’s when the floor below us came loose. We were left hanging in the air, then fell into the abyss.” Álvarez, 41, a baker, was buried in rubble to his waist. His mother, daughter and two others were killed when the 101-year-old building collapsed. “Save the babies!” were his mother’s last words, he said.
In Havana, some of the same architectural gems that draw tens of thousands of American tourists crash to the ground every year. Causes range from weather and neglect to faulty renovations and theft of structural beams... Some 3,856 partial or total building collapses were reported in Havana from 2000 to 2013, not including 2010 and 2011 when no records were kept. The collapses worsened an already severe housing shortage. Havana alone had a deficit of 206,000 homes in 2016, official figures show.
Officials estimate 28,000 people live in buildings that could collapse at any moment. Some residents refuse to leave structures that authorities have declared unsafe. “Of course we’re scared but what are we going to do?” said Yanelis Flores, 42, who rejected a government offer to move into a shelter. “I will wait for a house,” said Flores from the eighth floor of the former Hotel Astor, which had American management and 200 rooms in the 1930s.
Today, daylight shines through terrifying cracks in the walls. “This is worse than a pig pen,” Flores said. “It’s rotting.”
Really, it's impossible to have any sympathy for the Cubans. Anybody with an IQ above 85 got out years ago, when the getting was good, and what's left are the descamisados, who will never rise up against their communist dictatorship -- until it, too, finally collapses.
Pig pens are what you get when you make the Faustian bargain with the socialist devil: pig pens and then forcible relocation to a "government shelter," aka prison. But nobody tell Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez!
Tyler O'Neil • 2018-12-03 17:17:28 chat 0 comments
Bernie Sanders is a 2020 "front-runner," campaign manager says.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) hasn't yet decided if he's going to run for president in 2020, but if he does, he'll be off to a strong start. The Associated Press' Steve Peoples reports:
“This time, he starts off as a front-runner, or one of the front-runners,” Sanders’ 2016 campaign manager Jeff Weaver told The Associated Press, highlighting the senator’s proven ability to generate massive fundraising through small-dollar donations and his ready-made network of staff and volunteers.
Weaver added: “It’ll be a much bigger campaign if he runs again, in terms of the size of the operation.”
Some liberals have insisted it's not "Bernie or bust," and it doesn't have to be.
Instead, a new generation of outspoken Democrats such as Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and California Sen. Kamala Harris are expected to seek the Democratic nomination. All three have embraced Sanders’ call for “Medicare for All” and a $15 minimum wage, among other policy priorities he helped bring into the Democratic mainstream in the Trump era.
The further Left candidates get, the more likely they are to win the Democratic primary, and the less likely to defeat Donald Trump.
Paula Bolyard • 2018-12-03 16:05:41 chat 0 comments
Mueller filed an indictment just as the President left for https://t.co/8ZNrQ6X29a July he indicted the Russians who will never come here just before he left for Helsinki.Either could have been done earlier or later. Out of control!Supervision please?
— Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) November 30, 2018
That hyperlink Rudy inserted leads to this page:
(The site is not secure, so don't click on it.)
The tweet was posted at 1:30 EST and currently has more than 10k retweets.
Is this passive-aggressive Rudy or "I have no idea how Twitter works" Rudy? https://t.co/lkU4PH9bTo
— Paula Bolyard (@pbolyard) December 3, 2018
Macron says he will impose a #StateofEmergency against the #gilletJaunes. The firefighters turned their backs. Now the police remove their helmets to show solidarity with the French people AGAINST Macron.
Vive la révolution. Macron démission.
pic.twitter.com/XHmW6OvuRE
— Katie Hopkins (@KTHopkins) December 2, 2018
As Paris burns, foreign policy "expert" and never-Trumper Max Boot is really taking it on the chin.
The Federalist's Sean Davis this morning retweeted a number of Boot's old articles promoting "moderate" President Macron.
Everyone has a unique gift. @MaxBoot's is being a truffle pig for foreign policy idiocy. https://t.co/vWICLIE6LK
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) December 3, 2018
There's a vacancy for leader of the free world and Macron is submitting his application. https://t.co/cXsVUSvTGF
— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) July 31, 2017
Macron's win is good news for the EU--and that's good news for the peace & prosperity of Europe. My take: https://t.co/GUGpJKFwR4
— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) May 8, 2017
You declared Macron would make France great again, not that he would make the French revolt again. Maybe you should find another line of work. https://t.co/8dwM28Br87
The funny thing is, if the rioters were anti-American Islamists in, say, Egypt or Libya, Lil’ Maxie would support arming them. pic.twitter.com/8W6FnPOPYi
— David Reaboi (@davereaboi) December 3, 2018
During the Obama years, I occasionally read Commentary Contentions for Jennifer Rubin because in those days she actually resembled a conservative. But I've never read a single thing from Max Boot that I could recommend to anyone.
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Obama's Elitism, Careerism Now Campaign Issues
By Rick Moran 2008-04-12T04:00:58
Until today, Barack Obama was something of a cipher - a sphinx-like candidate who was so new to the national spotlight that the press, the pundits, and the voters had little to go on as far as the true nature of the man and his attitudes toward America, its traditions and history, as well as its citizens.
Obama assisted in keeping this mystery deliberately. His carefully crafted speeches were, at first, little more than "change and hope," pep talks delivered with the practiced care and calculated effect of a master propagandist. Never saying anything offensive about anyone, never going "off message" in an attempt to appeal directly to the anger and unease Democrats feel about the direction of the country, Obama's rhetoric soared and touched the deepest longings of the American soul for unity, community, and most of all, change.
The fact that he has never given more than a thumbnail's description of how he intends to achieve these miracles didn't matter to the press or his adoring supporters. It was a tonic to hear an American politician so optimistic about the future, so capable of arousing in even the most cynical of breasts feelings of hope and happiness. Obama had a gift that allowed people to believe in him despite scant evidence that he had the ability or even the temperament to battle the special interests and reform Washington, or ram national health insurance legislation through a reluctant Congress, or bring prosperity to all.
But the campaign season is long and a candidate is tested as for no other elective office in the world. Eventually - finally - there would be some kind of reckoning; a revelatory episode that would show the press and the voter the man behind the pretty words, silken voice, and bountiful charisma.
The realization that Obama is an elitist who lacks a basic understanding of how the majority of Americans live and what is important to them will no doubt have far reaching consequences for his candidacy. But beyond the immediate problem for Obama's disconnect from ordinary people is the seeming contradiction between his rhetoric on the campaign trail and how he has conducted himself throughout his career in seeking to achieve high office. Ultimately, it goes back to the fundamental question we ask of all candidates.
Who is Barack Obama?
We have had hints of the man who resides within Obama - the inner voice that talks to him, shapes his thoughts, animates his view of the world. But these hints have been from those close to him, those the candidate himself has relied on for advice, friendship, and mentoring. His wife, whose comment about her husband's candidacy making her proud about America for the first time in her adult life as well as her contention that America is a profoundly "mean" country inhabited by "cynics, sloths, and complacents" was shocking because it opened up a line of questioning into Obama's own beliefs.
Michelle Obama's casual confession about lacking pride in America was the first time people paused in mid-jump on the Obama bandwagon to ask themselves some serious questions about the tangle of thoughts in the candidate's mind. Just what does this guy really believe? What is the core of his personal, most intimate thoughts about America and her people?
Then along came Reverend Jeremiah Wright and suddenly, the questions started to pile up. Along with revelations about his relationship with unrepentant domestic terrorists William Ayers and Bernadine Dorhn as well as a shady Chicago Machine fixer Tony Rezko, people were starting to ask "Will the real Barack Obama please stand up?"
How could this bright, optimistic, sincere youngish politician be associated with these characters who represented the worst of America when the candidate himself was appealing to the best in all of us?
It is a mystery until you examine the contours of Obama's life and see a man who for a very long time has had his eyes on high office. There's nothing wrong with that, of course - unless the ambition takes over and your principles are tossed out the window, your life becoming a slave to career advancement.
This is the seeming disconnect between Obama on the stump and Obama the careerist. Where the Obama on the stump preaches racial healing, the careerist Obama embraces a Reverend Wright whose church was one of the most visible in the African American community in Chicago and Wright himself a nationally renowned minister. For more than 20 years Obama sat in the pews of a church run by an admirer of Louis Farrakhan and believer in AIDS conspiracy theories. And yet, his attendance also brought him respect in the African American community - as it was fully intended to do.
The episode with Wright is instructive: the idea that the Obama we see on the stump could believe in anything the wild eyed, bigoted, America hating Wright believed in was so farfetched, that all it took to dispense with Wright as a campaign issue (temporarily anyway) were some soothing words about race delivered before a nation willing to forgive the initial falsehoods the candidate told about not knowing of Wright's bigotry. Other, more troubling questions about why anyone who loved this country continued to attend services at a church whose statement of beliefs was so at odds with what most of the rest of us believe were answered with the incredible notion that the candidate believed Wright was dispensing a message of hope.
More disconnect from the speechifying Obama came from the continuing revelations regarding his long time friend and political patron Tony Rezko. Obama on the stump talked of reforming politics, of being a champion against special interests. But Obama the careerist shunned the political reform movement in Chicago to lie down with the likes of Rezko, who not only raised more than a quarter of a million dollars for his campaigns but introduced him to other fat cat donors who would prove valuable when the time came to run for the US senate.
How can someone spouting political reform on the stump be tied up with Rezko, Mayor Daley, and others while endorsing for office proven crooks like Cook County Commissioner the late John Stroger and other Chicago Machine politicians?
A similar "What was he thinking" question could be raised when discussing his association with perhaps the most grotesque of all the characters that have emerged this campaign season; former Weather Underground bombers William Ayers and Bernadine Dorhn. One can only shake the head in disbelief that the potential next president of the United States is on a first name basis with someone who is proud of bombing the Pentagon.
Again, it isn't so much what Ayers stood for as much as what Ayers could do for an ambitious liberal seeking his first public office. Ayers was very well respected in the far left circles of the Senate district Obama was running in. An introduction to Ayers from the retiring incumbent was necessary if Obama were to win the seat.
If the relationship had stopped there, no one would blame Obama for doing what was necessary to win. But over the years, Obama kept up with the association by appearing in forums with Ayers and even serving on the board of a left wing foundation with him.
Again, it seems impossible that the Obama of the stump could find anything about Mr. Ayers remotely appealing. But Ayers has a certain cachet with the far left in this country - the shock troops who promote and work for liberal causes and staff the campaigns of liberal Democrats. The careerist Obama found that Ayers name opened doors that may have been normally shut to a young African American politician positioning himself for a US senate run.
Obama has clearly been an opportunist in his political career. All good politicians are. And the best ones seize their opportunities without hesitation and run as far as luck and brains can take them. Obama has been lucky. He has also been as calculating a politician as we have seen since Lyndon Johnson ruled the senate. Both men proved to have towering ambition and enormous political gifts.
But Johnson also suffered from this apparent disconnect - a down home country politician who played hardball on the Hill as well as it can be played. Johnson had problematic associations and connections also, men that made one wonder what kind of a man was this whose friends wheeled and dealed their way through Washington while Johnson railed against their kind on the Senate floor.
In the end, the answer to the riddle is that both men set a goal early in their careers and never let anything get in the way of achieving it. This includes principles espoused in their public speeches which for both men had a nasty habit of contradicting what they were doing in the political trenches. We are just finding this out about Obama - as we are discovering that the candidate is also an elitist of the first order.
Last Sunday in San Francisco, in off-the-cuff remarks before a group of rich donors, Obama let his true feelings about average Americans be known:
But -- so the questions you're most likely to get about me, 'Well, what is this guy going to do for me? What's the concrete thing?' What they wanna hear is -- so, we'll give you talking points about what we're proposing -- close tax loopholes, roll back, you know, the tax cuts for the top 1 percent. Obama's gonna give tax breaks to middle-class folks and we're gonna provide health care for every American. So we'll go down a series of talking points.
But the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there's not evidence of that in their daily lives. You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
By trying to diagnose what is wrong with the Rust Belt middle class, Obama reveals a shockingly cartoonish understanding of white people - in its own way as ignorant as Reverend Wright's clownish demonizations of whites. This is an Obama out of touch with regular folks, speaking in disparaging tones about people who take their religion seriously or have an abiding love of the outdoors represented by their owning a firearm (hunting being a second religion in Pennsylvania). It was a dumbfounding moment, showing a candidate who views about half of America as victims of their own bitter frustrations.
Obama later issued a "clarifying statement" after his campaign tried to plead ignorance about what he said:
“Senator Obama has said many times in this campaign that Americans are understandably upset with their leaders in Washington for saying anything to win elections while failing to stand up to the special interests and fight for an economic agenda that will bring jobs and opportunity back to struggling communities. And if John McCain wants a debate about who’s out of touch with the American people, we can start by talking about the tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans that he once said offended his conscience but now wants to make permanent,”
Trying to shift the focus to McCain is a weak move. He did not address what has everyone up in arms - the disconnect between Obama on the stump who would never denigrate working people as he did, and the Obama talking to liberal elitists - apparently like himself - explaining his understanding of how the rubes live and what's wrong with them.
This revelation has a chance to do more damage to his candidacy than 10 Reverend Wrights. It is doubtful that Obama could find a venue to give a speech trying to explain the naked elitism he revealed in just a few sentences to a group of mega rich contributors. Even if he did give a speech, what could he say? Just about anything he came up with would sound even more condescending.
The more we learn about Obama, the wider the gap grows between the messianic character on the stump whose golden voice and pitch perfect rhetoric has inspired millions of people and the coldly calculating careerist politician whose elitism has blinded him to the struggles and hopes of ordinary people.
The two Obamas are irreconcilable. And the confusion felt by many will almost certainly translate into a loss of support for the candidate in these final primaries that will determine the Democratic nominee for president.
Rick Moran is PJM Chicago editor; his own blog is Right Wing Nut House.
[Correction: the article initially misstated the city where the fund-raising event took place; it was San Francisco, not Los Angeles]
https://pjmedia.com/blog/obamas-elitism-careerism-now-campaign-issues/
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lonelyalien
Do you think Prince's music will age well?
Do you think prince's music will be listened to in a couple of hundred years like beethoven and mozart do you think his music has that lasting appeal? Was just wondering how history will look back on prince and his musical output.
I'm just like everybody else I need love.....and water.
thedoorkeeper
Seahorsie
I think they he will be an assignment in the study of American music. (Oh yeah, he already is!) His blending of Minnesota rock, funk, jazz, and dance music was...wait for it..Revolutionary. Not to mention the evolution of the music itself as Prince himself aged. In the beginning it was all about the sexy, goodtimes, later on it was more introspective and explored faith and continued questions about why we are really all here.
We haven't even gotten to his extraordinary piano and guitar playing! Oh yeah, did I forget the part where he writes the lyrics as well?
His legacy of music will be discussed for years to come, but what most of us will always remember is that the music just made us feel good.
Good morning children...take a look out your window, the world is falling...
OperatingTheta
I can only forsee his influence and recognition growing.
There is such a complex, varied wealth of released music that casual fans and those unfamilar have never heard, let alone the vault material.
Prince will ultimately always be with us because he changed the cultural landscape.
He was also ahead of his time on many perennial issues and themes and those connections are already being traced in various circles.
jaawwnn
Highly unlikely, doesn't matter how good he is he'll be forgotten before Elvis, Dylan, Bob Marley, The Beatles, Chuck Berry, James Brown and Michael Jackson are. He's probably around the same level as Queen and the Rolling Stones based on my completely unscientific analysis of "do they have 3 or 4 big songs that transcend them as artists and a visual gimmick that sticks in your mind".
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yes many of his songs are about timeless issues like love, loss, and loneliness...
TheFman
Perhaps SOTT will age best.
nextedition
Just as any other big artist, I think he will be remebered for a couple of songs.
Even Mozart and Bach are remembered for just some pieces of music.
But if Billy Jean will be rememberd, so will Kiss.
littlemissG
Most of his catalog is unknown to causal fans. He will always be new to the majority who will discover Crystal Ball,the Madhouse albums, Lotusflow3r, etc.
No More Haters on the Internet.
I think his 80s music will stand the test of time, because the music spoke of the time period and culture. Parade is probably the most 'date-less' timeless album. After the 80s the music existed but did not really speak of it's time period like the 80s music.
Purple Rain music 2 me still seems so futuristic. Like we haven't caught up to the year that it would be made... 2030 maybe?
jaawwnn said:
Wow. You name so many acts that it's hard to know why you think some will last longer than others. How many people know more than 3-4 famous James Brown songs? Sexmachine, I Feel Good, It's a Man's World... There's many more famous Rolling Stones songs and they have a pretty big following in South America... I remember talking to some people before a Bob Dylan concert and somebody said, "my kids like The Stones, The Beatles not so much."
Bob Marley is famous throughout the world, you hear him everywhere in a way Dylan or The Beatles aren't. (I never heard them in Africa, but you will surely hear Bob Marley there.)
So how exactly did you come to your conclusion (which is as unscientific as mine)?
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purplethunder3
OldFriends4Sale said:
I think many of his songs have a timeless quality and will be remembered long after we are gone...
"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
I think his 80's music will age well. It still sounds fresh to me especially the 1984-1988 period.
Part of his 90's music already sounds dated to me, so I don't think so.
00's and 10's it is too soon to tell, but it could be that some songs will be more popular in the future then they are right now. Prince was also famous and well known for his live concerts, so probably some concerts will be favourites in the future as well.
stpaisios
lonelyalien said:
It would because as a stand alone individual he is second to none. History will look at him probably as one of the most complete artist in pop. I doubt that we have witnessed something similiar in last 70yrs...Bowie is up there, Dylan maybe, Elvis? I think Prince represents embodiment of R.Wanger's term Gesamtkunstwerk aka 'total work of art' or 'universal artwork'... or at least he is one of the finest examples of that in pop world.
https://www.last.fm/user/...rchOfTruth
stpaisios said:
I think in terms of musical ability stevie wonder but then stevie could'nt dance through now fault of his own of course. Prince is the most complete there ever was possibly ever will be.
lion88 said:
Yes, the 80s stuff has such freshness to it. so blended that time periods and genres cannot pin it so easily.
Yes the concerts over his lifetime, for sure will have a wide span hold in the future.
purplethunder3121 said:
Yes, many of his song do. I always find the stuff that sounds closest to 'purple music' ...that Prince style from the 80s, found in the 90s and 2000s have a timeless quality
mynameisnotsus
It will certainly last my lifetime - I've been listening for 30+ years and hope to have at least another 30+ in me. I think his legacy is comparable to Hendrix, with people still interested in his creativity more than 40 years after his death.
Fronk
Yes and no depending on the album or song. At the end of the day good songs are good songs even if they sound ‘of a time’. Picking one song of the top of my head, When Doves Cry - it may sound 80s but it’s utter genius and that won’t change.
StrangeButTrue
His music will forever be tied to the 80s, where it deserves to be alongside MJ and Madonna. As with those two, the future humans who are adventurous enough to dig in will be pleasantly surprised.
if it was just a dream, call me a dreamer 2
mynameisnotsusan said:
Especially if the legacy/family is preserved via merch and message in due time.
luvsexy4all
when his so-called better music is released ....
namepeace
nextedition said:
But if Billy Jean will be remembered, so will Kiss.
I'll buy that take, which is very plausible.
Good night, sweet Prince | 7 June 1958 - 21 April 2016
Props will be withheld until the showing and proving has commenced. -- Aaron McGruder
jcurley
StrangeButTrue said:
Oh dear poor Prince...look what youve been reduced to. All those side albums
Concept albums.As good as Like a virgin and Bad. How depressing. Surelthe song Crystal Ball is not as good as I just cant stop loving you. The depth, the scope, the vision. How could prince compete with that
Hey ya can't win 'em all. Elvis had a huge career but all I really think of is Hound Dog.
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42Kristen
Prince's music has been aging well. Way before he died on April 21, 2016
luvsexy4all said:
in the next generation when NO ONE will have anything worthwhile to listen to
brokenhearted1
To me, his music will have a long lasting appreciation to those wanting “real music”. With very few exceptions, today’s radio offers nothing “new” in terms of sound and originality. New artists seem to be chasing trends, much like P appeared to be doing off and on in the 90s with his own product, but at least he had his own spin on it.
Technology seems to be taking the place of real instruments, so I see his music becoming more and more important in teaching the importannce and beauty of an actual instrument as opposed to samples and computer generated rhythms.
Elvis had a number 1 hit 25 years after he died. I don't see that happening for Prince.
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A Crack and a Relief
It happened. The crack, when “you can no longer stand what you put up with before, even yesterday” (Deleuze & Parnet quoted in Jackson & Mazzei, 2013); when “one can no longer think things as one formerly thought them, [and] transformation becomes both very urgent, very difficult and quite possible” (Foucault, quoted in St. Pierre, 2014).
For the past several months, I’ve been trying to understand epistemology and ontology — what they mean, what they mean for me, and what they mean for my research. I read “The Foundations of Social Research” by Michael Crotty. I read “The Body Multiple” by Annemarie Mol. I read other articles, mostly from communication, science and technology studies, and cultural studies.
I continued to analyze quantitative and qualitative data and write papers, but I felt increasingly perturbed, as if this work wasn’t adequately capturing what the research team said we were studying. I kept spouting my one-line summary of my dissertation research: “I study how parents post pictures of their kids online and what that means for kids’ identity development, sense of self, and understanding of privacy,” even after realizing that I’m not actually studying parents or kids or online or identity.
Epistemologically, I sensed that I wasn’t a positivist, but I couldn’t figure out whether I was a constructionist or a subjectivist. Theoretically, I didn’t think I was an objectivist, and I sensed that I might be an interpretivist who could one day become a critical scholar. I could be doing phenomenology, or potentially hermeneutics, or maybe symbolic interactionist work. I remained unsure of aligning myself with any methodology besides “qualitative,” which I do primarily through the methods of interviews and textual analysis.
Today, all of that fell apart and also came into sharp relief, thanks to readings on “New Materialism” and a conversation at the weekly journal club of my university’s physical cultural studies program.
I realized that I’ve been using what St. Pierre (2016) calls “conventional humanist qualitative methodology” — interviewing people and coding the data as a way to capture some aspect of their lived experience. I thought I’d sidestepped positivism because I don’t offer “hypotheses,” don’t calculate “inter-rater reliability,” and don’t purport to “predict” behavior. But I do define “research questions,” collect “data,” and code it to fill a “gap the knowledge” — all trappings of logical positivism.
And this would be fine, except that I’m also discussing Foucauldian analysis and Actor-Network Theory and assemblage. And I dig it. It resonates with me and it’s informing how I approach my dissertation. So no wonder the conventional research process I’m using feels stale — it does not align with the new (to me) theory/methods that are shaping the way I understand the world and the research that occurs in it.
But doing research from a Foucauldian or ANT or assemblage (or feminist or queer or post-structuaralist or post-colonial or post-humanist or…) perspective requires more than rethinking methods. It means letting go of a belief that any research, no matter how rigorously or reflexively it is done, can capture what is “going on.” It means accepting that research, and the production of knowledge, is always partial, always incomplete. It means that no matter how precisely or evocatively we write about our research, it remains a semblance.
But nevertheless, I feel this work is urgent. I know this work is difficult. And yes, I believe that it is possible.
(And while I will continue doing research in the conventional humanist qualitative vein, because learning new things takes time, Jackson & Mazzei show how to use these theories to think with typical interview data “within and against intepretivism.”)
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On Assuming Mental Paralysis
A fellow graduate student recently asked me how I approach literature reviews. This question of how to find, read, and synthesize a body (or more) of research is central to producing good academic work. Yet it brings to mind Bellatrix Lestrange’s vault in Gringotts, where every paper you read yields six more until you’re neck deep with no foreseeable way out.
When I first started studying parents and social media use, I was content with Irwin Altman’s definition of privacy as controlling access to the self. Digging deeper, I learned to think of privacy as contextual integrity (thanks to Helen Nissenbaum) and as boundary management (thanks to Sandra Petronio). As I continued studying privacy over the years, I learned that lawyers, psychologists, communication scholars, economists, and computer scientists all conceptualize privacy in different ways. During my first year in the PhD, I considered creating a disciplinary map of privacy for a class project but quickly realized that was a much bigger undertaking than I imagined.
I’ve grown familiar with the feeling. I took a seminar with Jason Farman on “Place, Space, and Identity in the Digital Age,” and saw that entire careers can (and have) been built around each of these concepts. Place isn’t just a label on a physical space, it’s objects and bodies and relationships and memories and information flows and more coming together in a particular arrangement at a particular moment. Identity isn’t just a list of demographic characteristics, it’s the facets, fragments, memories, experiences, beliefs, roles, imaginaries and more that constantly intersect and intertwine into you. And this morning, while reading John Law’s “Objects and Spaces,” I realized that we can’t even take physical, 3-D, Euclidean space as a given.
It’s easy to see moments like these as overwhelming, paralyzing even. Especially when you do interdisciplinary research and plan to borrow theories and methods from other disciplines. Or to see these moments as challenges, as piles of reading to conquer so that you can one day claim the prize of “knowing” something.
But these moments keep happening. So the options are to feel constantly overwhelmed or to see grand quests pile up, neither of which is healthy (nor encouraging). I’ve come to an alternate response after starting a daily meditation practice: Let it go.
Let go of the overwhelm. Let go of the fear. Let go of the burden. Worried you don’t have time to read everything? Let it go. Concerned that you might overlook something? Let it go. Dreading the moment another scholar tells you, “Yeah, but what about [totally separate body of work that may or may not be relevant to your topic]?” Let it go.
It sounds simple, I know. But these three words, combined with the acknowledgement, acceptance, and even embrace of the vast, unimaginable, and ultimately unknowable amount of prior work out there is freeing.
I spent all day brainstorming the verb for this post’s title. When I do literature reviews, and when I do research in general, I want to assume mental paralysis. Meaning, I want to assume that I will experience moments of mental paralysis, of viewing the work ahead as a sheer, insurmountable rock wall I somehow have to climb, as a tangled thicket in dark jungle through which I have to chop my way out.
But I also want to take up the mental paralysis, to wear it as a badge, to make it part of me. Because even after I climb this wall or chop through those vines, there will be another wall, another tangle. And by accepting that, I hope to take greater joy in those moments when I DO learn something, when a concept finally DOES click in my head, even if it falls apart again a moment later. By acknowledging and expecting the complexity, I release the sense that I need to master it, to someday “figure it out.”
And that, I suppose, is how I approach literature reviews.
(Oh, and for anyone who wants actual advice on how to do a literature review, Raul Pacheco-Vega has a series of relevant blog posts.)
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Designing Resources to Help Kids Learn about Privacy Online @ IDC 2018
What types of educational resources would help elementary school-age children learn about privacy online? Below I share findings and recommendations from a paper I co-wrote with Jessica Vitak, Marshini Chetty, Tammy Clegg, Jonathan Yang, Brenna McNally, and Elizabeth Bonsignore. I’ll present this paper at the 2018 ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC).
What did we do? Children spend hours going online at home and school, but they receive little to no education about how going online affects their privacy. We explored the power of games and storytelling as two mechanisms for teaching children about privacy online.
How did we do it? We held three co-design sessions with Kidsteam, a team of children ages 7-11 and adults who meet regularly at the University of Maryland to design new technologies. In session 1, we reviewed existing privacy resources with children and elicited design ideas for new resources. In session 2, we iterated on a conceptual prototype of a mobile app inspired by the popular game Doodle Jump. Our version, which we called Privacy Doodle Jump, incorporated quiz questions related to privacy and security online. In session 3, children developed their own interactive Choose Your Own Adventure stories related to privacy online.
What did we find? We found that materials designed to teach children about privacy online often instruct children on “do’s and don’ts” rather than helping them develop the skills to navigate privacy online. Such straightforward guidelines can be useful when introducing children to complex subjects like privacy, or when working with younger children. However, focusing on lists of rules does little to equip children with the skills they need to make complex, privacy-related decisions online. If a resource presents children with scenarios that resonate with their everyday life, children may be more likely to understand and absorb its message. For example, a child might more easily absorb a privacy lesson from a story about another child who uses Instagram than a game that uses a fictional character in an imaginary world.
What are the implications of this work?
First, educational resources related to privacy should use scenarios that relate to children’s everyday lives. For instance, our Privacy Doodle Jump game included a question that asked a child what they would do if they were playing Xbox and saw an advertisement pop up that asked them to buy something.
Second, educational resources should go beyond listing do’s and don’ts for online behavior and help children develop strategies for dealing with new and unexpected scenarios they may encounter. Because context is such an important part of privacy-related decision making, resources should facilitate discussion between parents or teachers and children rather than simply tell children how to behave.
Third, educational resources should showcase a variety of outcomes of different online behaviors instead of framing privacy as a black and white issue. For instance, privacy guidelines may instruct children to never turn on location services, but this decision might differ based on the app that is requesting the data. Turning on location services in Snapchat may pinpoint one’s house to others — a potential negative, — but turning on location services in Google Maps may yield real-time navigation — a potential positive. Exposing children to a variety of positive and negative consequences of privacy-related decision making can help them develop the skills they need to navigate uncharted situations online.
Read the IDC 2018 paper for more details!
Citation: Priya Kumar, Jessica Vitak, Marshini Chetty, Tamara L. Clegg, Jonathan Yang, Brenna McNally, and Elizabeth Bonsignore. 2018. Co-Designing Online Privacy-Related Games and Stories with Children. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC ’18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 67-79. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3202185.3202735
Parts of this entry were cross-posted on the Princeton HCI blog.
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Co-designing Mobile Monitoring Applications with Children @ CHI 2018
What do children think about mobile apps that allow their parents to monitor children’s technology use? How would children re-design such apps? Below, I share findings and recommendations from a paper I co-wrote with colleagues from UMD’s Human Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL). Today, lead author Brenna McNally presents this paper at the 2018 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).
What did we do? Children use mobile devices every day, and mobile monitoring applications enable parents to monitor or restrict their children’s mobile use in various ways. We explored to what extent do children consider different mobile monitoring activities appropriate and what other mobile monitoring solutions do they envision?
How did we do it? We held two co-design sessions with Kidsteam, a team of children ages 7-11 and adults who meet regularly at the University of Maryland to design new technologies. At both sessions, children filled out a survey about their opinions on various features of a commercially available mobile monitoring app, noting whether they felt parents should or should not be able to control each one. They then drew mock-ups that redesigned the features they felt parents should not be able to control. The second session included a design activity where our child design partners created a mobile interface to help children handle two common mobile risk scenarios: a content threat in which a child accidentally saw inappropriate material and a contact threat in which a child experiences cyberbullying via instant messaging.
What did we find? Most children were comfortable with various monitoring features, including letting parents see a child’s location or contacts. Comfort with parents seeing a child’s search/browsing history, social media posts, and text messages varied, with some noting that this information could be taken out of context. With regard to restriction features, most felt comfortable with parents seeing what apps are downloaded on a device, but fewer wanted parents to be able to restrict a child’s internet access or camera use. Child partners re-designed these features to support more active mediation, for example, creating “Ask Child” or “Consult Kid” buttons to prompt conversations between parents and children before a parent unilaterally restricts or blocks something on a child’s device.
In the activity on helping children handle common mobile risk scenarios, children’s designs emphasized automatic technology interventions, such as filters that would block “bad” text messages or contacts who used bad language. Their designs also included features that provided children immediate assistance when they encountered a concerning situation. These focused on helping the child feel better, for example, by showing cat videos or suggesting that the child play with a sibling.
What are the implications of this work? By incorporating children’s perspectives into the design process, this work suggests how mobile monitoring applications meant for parents to oversee their children’s technology use can be designed in ways that children find acceptable and beneficial. The children we worked with understood and even welcomed certain types of parental oversight, especially related to their physical safety. However, they questioned other types of parental monitoring and restriction of their mobile activities, re-designing these features so that the tools supported children through automated means or by helping children develop their own strategies for handling negative situations. Most mobile monitoring technologies emphasize the role of parental control, but this study suggests that children are eager for tools that help them learn about online risks and develop skills to navigate and cope with risky situations as they experience them.
Read the CHI 2018 paper for more details!
Citation: Brenna McNally, Priya Kumar, Chelsea Hordatt, Matthew Louis Mauriello, Shalmali Naik, Leyla Norooz, Alazandra Shorter, Evan Golub, and Allison Druin. 2018. Co-designing Mobile Online Safety Applications with Children. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Paper 523, 9 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174097
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Kids and Privacy Online @ CSCW 2018
How do elementary school-aged children conceptualize privacy and security online? Below I share findings and recommendations from a paper I wrote with co-authors Shalmali Naik, Utkarsha Devkar, Marshini Chetty, Tammy Clegg, and Jessica Vitak. I’ll present this paper at the 2018 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW).
What did we do? Children under age 12 increasingly go online, but few studies examine how children perceive and address privacy and security concerns. Using a privacy framework known as contextual integrity to guide our analysis, we interviewed children and their parents to understand how children conceptualize privacy and security online, what strategies they use to address any risks they perceive, and how their parents support them when it comes to privacy and security online.
How did we do it? We interviewed 26 children ages 5-11 and 23 parents from 18 families in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. We also walked through a series of hypothetical scenarios with children, which we framed as a game. For example, we asked children how they imagined another child would respond when receiving a message from an unknown person online.
What did we find? Children recognized how some components of privacy and security play out online, but those ages 5-7 had gaps in their knowledge. For example, younger children did not seem to recognize that sharing information online makes it visible in ways that differ from sharing information face-to-face. Children largely relied on their parents for support, but parents generally did not feel their children were exposed to privacy and security concerns. They felt such concerns would arise when children were older, had their own smartphones, and spent more time on social media.
What are the implications of this work? As the lines between offline and online increasingly blur, it is important for everyone, including children, to recognize (and remember) that use of smartphones, tablets, laptops, and in-home digital assistants can raise privacy and security concerns. Children absorb some lessons through everyday use of these devices, but parents have an opportunity to scaffold their children’s learning. Younger children may also be more willing to accept advice from their parents compared to teenagers. Parents would benefit from the creation of educational resources or apps that focus on teaching these concepts to younger children. The paper explains how the contextual integrity framework can inform the development of such resources.
Read the CSCW 2018 paper for more details!
Citation: Priya Kumar, Shalmali Milind Naik, Utkarsha Ramesh Devkar, Marshini Chetty, Tamara L. Clegg, and Jessica Vitak. 2017. ‘No Telling Passcodes Out Because They’re Private’: Understanding Children’s Mental Models of Privacy and Security Online. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 1, CSCW, Article 64 (December 2017), 21 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3134699
Parts of this entry were cross-posted on the blogs of UMD’s Privacy Education and Research Laboratory (PEARL) and Princeton HCI.
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Privacy Policies, PRISM, and Surveillance Capitalism in MaC
I recently published my first journal article in a special issue of Media and Communication (MaC) on Post-Snowden Internet Policy. (Unfortunately, the editors misgendered me in the editorial).
In my article, Corporate Privacy Policy Changes during PRISM and the Rise of Surveillance Capitalism, I analyzed the privacy policies of 10 internet companies to explore how company practices related to users’ privacy shifted over the past decade.
What did I do? The Snowden disclosures in 2013 re-ignited a public conversation about the extent to which governments should access data that people generate in the course of their daily lives. Disclosure of the PRISM program cast a spotlight on the role that major internet companies play in facilitating such surveillance. In this paper, I analyzed the privacy policies of the nine companies in PRISM, plus Twitter, to see how companies’ data management practices changed between their joining PRISM and the world learning about PRISM. I drew on my experience with the Ranking Digital Rights research initiative and specifically focused on changes related to the “life cycle” of user information — that is, the collection, use, sharing, and retention of user information.
How did I do it? I collected company privacy policies from four points in time: before and after the company joined PRISM and before and after the Snowden revelations. Google and Twitter provide archives of their policies on their websites; for the other companies, I used the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to locate the policies. I logged the changes in a spreadsheet and classified them into substantive or non-substantive changes. I then dug into the substantive changes and categorized them based on how they affected the life cycle of user information.
What did I find? Seventy percent of the substantive changes addressed the management of user information and data sharing and tracking. The changes related to management of user information provided additional detail about what companies collect and retain. The changes related to data sharing and tracking offered more information about companies’ targeted advertising practices. These often appeared to give companies wider latitude to track users and share user information with advertisers. While these policy changes disclosed more details about company practices, the practices themselves appeared to subject users to greater tracking for advertising purposes.
What are the implications of this work? Collectively, these privacy policy changes offer evidence that suggests several of the world’s largest internet companies operate according to what business scholar Shoshana Zuboff calls the logic of surveillance capitalism. Participating in PRISM did not cause surveillance capitalism, but this analysis suggests that the PRISM companies further enmeshed themselves in it over the past decade. The burgeoning flow of user information into corporate servers and government databases exemplifies what legal scholar Joel Reidenberg calls the transparent citizenry, where people become visible to institutions, but those institutions’ use of their data remains obscure. This analysis serves as a reminder that public debates about people’s privacy rights in the wake of the Snowden disclosures must not ignore the role that companies themselves play in legitimizing surveillance activities under the auspices of creating market value.
Read the journal article (PDF) for more details!
Citation: Kumar, P. (2017). Corporate Privacy Policy Changes during PRISM and the Rise of Surveillance Capitalism. Media and Communication, 5(1), 63-75. doi:10.17645/mac.v5i1.813
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When I was 13 or 14, my parents gave me “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens” by Sean Covey for Christmas. I devoured the book, re-reading it for the next several years. It was the first book in which I highlighted, dog-eared, and wrote notes directly on the pages.
Habit 2 encouraged readers to write a personal mission statement. I loved the idea but never wrote anything of consequence. Now, having accumulated several more years of life experience, I feel more equipped to write that statement.
The sentiment of my mission coalesced largely over the past six years. The transition from college to work to graduate school to now was difficult and enlightening. I finally have a sense of what I want to accomplish, yet I feel secure enough with myself to accept that may evolve.
So, what’s my mission?
I examine the forces that shape our lives and share that knowledge with the public.
This mission highlights what fascinates me and what I want to do with that knowledge. I am a writer, researcher, and storyteller at heart, and I aspire to write a book one day. In the interest of focusing on systems rather than goals, I aim to write pieces that people can point to and say, “I learned something from that.”
My professional and amateur interests span astronomy, psychology, Internet studies, and history — disparate disciplines bound by a common thread of humanity.
Like many people, I’m struck with awe every time I look up at the night sky. So much exists out there, and while science has enabled us to learn a tremendous amount about what’s up there, it’s impossible (for now) to travel across light years or stand on the event horizon of a black hole. So, why does astronomy matter?
Because every particle that makes up every human being on the planet comes from the stars in that sky. The universe began with hydrogen, a smattering of helium and a smidgen of lithium. All other elements in the periodic table, including the carbon that forms the basis of life as we know it, emerged from nuclear fusion occurring in the cores of stars and in the aftermath of star explosions. Everything that’s inside you comes from up there.
What goes on inside us, particularly our brains, also captivates me. While we don’t have to think about telling our body to breathe air, pump blood, or digest food, our thoughts drive so much of our behavior. And while thought processes may feel automatic, they’re malleable and well within our control. Figuring out how to change the way we think and implementing those changes isn’t easy. But I take comfort in the paradoxical notion that while I can’t control anything outside my own mind, taking control of my own mind grants me boundless potential to construct a fulfilling life.
Nowadays, that life is not just experienced; it is increasingly documented by digital technology that creeps deeper into our daily lives. Personal and sensitive communications, ranging from text messages to financial transactions to data points about our physical activities flow through privately owned networks and sit on servers operated by companies that have wide latitude to use that data as they see fit. We as individuals must ensure that this emerging ecosystem of networked digital technology benefits, rather than restricts, us.
To do so, I think it’s important to put this moment in historical context. The human race has advanced tremendously over its existence on this planet. Look around you. So much of what you see and feel was designed or affected by humans. Buildings, roads, cars, books, families, music, math, elections, and the disease-resistant tomatoes in your fridge are the result of human activity.
Even if you’re sitting in middle of an ocean, forest, desert, or glacier, the device (or perhaps piece of paper) on which you’re reading these words was invented by humans. The language you’re reading right now, the shapes of the letters and the grammatical rules that render these words meaningful were developed by humans.
This point reverberated while I recently read Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City. As author Russell Shorto described how the philosopher Baruch Spinoza first posited that church and state could exist as separate entities, it hit me in my gut that values, principles, and norms change. That there was a time when people truly believed that dark-skinned humans were inferior. That 100 years ago, women in the United States had no right to vote. That the notion of “this is just how things are” is simply not true. History is not facts and timelines; history is about moments and people who seize those moments and make them matter. History is learning how people have harnessed their potential and applying those lessons to the present day.
As I move through life, I want to understand more about these forces, the physical, internal, societal, and historical forces that have brought me, you, and those around us to this particular moment in time. And if in that process, I say something that makes you go, “Hmm, I never thought of that,” well then, mission accomplished.
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Diversifying Music Academia 2018
Panelists, Presenters, and Discussants
Project Spectrum is a graduate student-led coalition of music theorists, musicologists, and ethnomusicologists with a two-fold mission. One part of the mission is to shift the large-scale culture of North American music academia toward equity by confronting racism, sexism, ableism, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, settler-colonialism, and other forms of discrimination and injustice. The other is to bolster community, share resources, and hold space for those academics who are marginalized by the academy. These missions are fundamentally intertwined, and taken together, they serve to diversify and strengthen music academia.
Our approach toward increasing social equity in music studies involves both education and direct action. We aim to provoke and foster difficult conversations about the various overt and covert forms of discrimination and exclusion endemic to our fields and institutions. We work to amplify the voices of those music scholars working toward diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion in academic life. We work as a coalition to demand that those with power in our professional institutions address issues of exclusion and inequity head-on.
To bolster community among underrepresented music academics, we work to coordinate workshops, foster relationships between scholars dedicated to equity, and create safe spaces for free self-expression and mutual support among marginalized scholars. We do this work with the knowledge that our fields cannot truly be diverse and equitable if marginalized scholars do not feel safe and supported as human beings within their academic spaces.
Project Spectrum is a growing and changing initiative. We believe in and rely on the collective power of our scholarly community to continuously learn about, grapple with, and take action against all forms of injustice within academic music studies. We strive hand-in-hand for true and radical diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion.
For a catalogue of Project Spectrum’s past and upcoming events and activities, visit our Events page.
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Arizona Selects New Test to Replace AIMS
Will asses students in alignment with state's College and Career Ready Standards, known as Common Core. by Fernanda Echavarri TWEET SHARE
The State Board of Education has selected a new test for assessing Arizona's public school students in alignment with the Common Core teaching standards.
The board chose a Washington-based organization to provide AzMerit, Arizona’s Measurement of Educational Readiness to Inform Teaching, to replace the current exam, known as AIMS.
The board announced Monday that students in Arizona’s public schools will begin taking the new test next spring.
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“This assessment will provide reliable and timely information to parents, teachers and policy makers to support our schools, as they help prepare Arizona students for success in life, in career and in college,” said Thomas Tyree, board president.
The test will be used to asses students' comprehension of reading, writing and mathematics, according to the Arizona Department of Education.
AzMerit’s role in schools' overall A-F grades is still being discussed, state officials said.
A group of seven volunteer experts from Arizona’s education community, all of whom are employees of local schools and organizations, selected the test out of six proposals, according to the State Board of Education.
The evaluation team unanimously recommended the nonprofit American Institutes for Research to administer the test.
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Arts & Vine: White Rabbit building a faithful following
Date: May 1, 2014Author: RantEditor 0 Comments
ANGIER — Each one of Kenneth Ostraco’s craft beers has a personality, much like the Alice in Wonderland-inspired characters assigned to each brew.
Alice herself represents the blonde ale, for obvious reasons. Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum are the images associated with Ostraco’s Belgium dubbel ale. And the Mad Hatter is symbolic of the tea party porter, a dark, flavorful beer with a twist of vanilla.
These and nine other flavors make the lineup for White Rabbit Brewing Company, the Angier-based craft brewery launched in 2012 that has already developed a growing and devoted following. White Rabbit will be one of three Central North Carolina breweries represented under the wine tent at this weekend’s Sanford Arts & Vine Festival at the Dennis A. Wicker Civic Center.
WANT TO GO? The Sanford Arts & Vine Festival runs this Saturday and Sunday at the Dennis A. Wicker Civic Center. General admission is $5 for adults (children are free), and admission to the wine tent is an additional $10. For more information, visit www.sanfordartsandvine.com.
The brainchild of Ostraco — a U.S. Air Force veteran and software engineer — and business partner Anthony DiBona (who has since handed things over to Ostraco), White Rabbit has faithfully followed a “slow and low” business plan from its bar and warehouse in rural Harnett County. Open to the public Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings and nights, White Rabbit has become a popular “brewery tour” destination — the tours are most popular in April, which is officially North Carolina Beer Month — and has steadily grown its body of regulars, who range from older beer enthusiasts to grad students at the nearby medical school.
“We’re a little off the beaten path, but I think that adds to our allure,” said Ostraco, standing in the dimly lit bar area that’s a stone’s throw away from the warehouse where his beer is crafted. “Once people come here and experience our product and our atmosphere, they often become a regular. We have a product they’re interested in and can’t get anywhere else.”
That product has been a hobby of Ostraco’s for several years. In 2011, that hobby became an investment, and White Rabbit was incorporated on Jan. 2, 2012. Phase I has been laying the concrete and slowly building a following, and Phase II will eventually be getting the brand out to more stores and restaurants (his beers can currently be found at the County Seat restaurant in downtown Lillington and the Applebee’s in Fuquay-Varina).
Aside from its colorful cast of characters/flavors, White Rabbit beers are popular among fans because they aren’t brewed in what Ostraco calls the “American style.” Like the origins of Alice in Wonderland, these are crafted in the English style, which Ostraco calls a “mellower, smoother and more drinkable” type of beer.
“American beers are a single note, and they’re in your face,” he said. “Craft brewers today seem to be competing to see how much hops they can add to a beer until it’s undrinkable. It’s like drinking a bale of hay … that’s just not my thing. And there are lots of people who are just not into that. We subdue the hops presence in our beers. Our beer has a different feel.”
Other flavors include Gryphon’s, a California common lager; Jabberwocky, a tripel Belgian style ale; Absolom’s, a lighter ale; the Queen’s red ale; and Rabbit’s nutbrown ale. Seasonal flavors include the Dunkin Dormouse Octoberfest ale, a blackberry hefferveisen for spring and the Cheshire pumpkin ale.
Learn more about White Rabbit Brewery at http://whiterabbitbrewery.com/
Ostraco has made back his original investment, and he says White Rabbit has been “running in the black” since last May. It will remain a part-time hobby until the demand is enough to sustain full-time salaries and his full-time attention.
“When that time comes,” he said, “then I’ll be living the dream. Until then, I’ll just feed it my time and continue to let it grow.”
White Rabbit will be making its second appearance at the Arts & Vine Festival, which is also entering its second year. The May 3-4 event will include more than 80 potters and other artists, plus 10 North Carolina wineries and two other breweries — Railhouse Brewery in Aberdeen and Bear Creek Brewery of Chatham County.
The festival’s wine tent organizer David Nestor said the wineries and breweries represent the artistic side of North Carolina just as much as the potters and painters.
“Not all wine needs to come from the Napa Valley, and not all beer comes from Budweiser,” Nestor said. “We hope Arts & Vine shows the classier side of our area and our state.”
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These works in the 1818 Godmersham catalogue have been located, but alas! they reside in Libraries the world over. Please click on the title to see more details (forthcoming) – search each title on the website for details and images).
Akenside, Mark. The Poems of Mark Akenside, M.D. London : Sold by J. Dodsley, 1772 . [Stanford University].
The American gazetteer : containing a distinct account of all the parts of the New world ; their situation, climate, soil, produce, former and present condition ; commodities, manufactures, and commerce ; together with an accurate account of the cities, towns, ports, bays rivers, lakes, mountains, passes, and fortifications.London : Printed for A. Millar and J. and R. Tonson, 1762. [McGill University Library] .
Bradley, Richard, 1688-1732. [New improvements of planting and gardening. Part 1] / New improvements of planting and gardening : both philosophical and practical. Explaining the motion of the sap and generation of plants: … / By Richard Bradley, … London : printed for W. Mears, 1717. [Library Company of Philadelphia].
Cumberland, Richard. An accurate and descriptive catalogue of the several paintings in the King of Spain’s palace at Madrid : with some account of the pictures in the Buen-Retiro / by Richard Cumberland. London: Printed for C. Dilly … and J. Walter …, 1787. [University of Melbourne].
Cumberland, Richard, 1732-1811. Anecdotes of eminent painters in Spain, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; with cursory remarks upon the present state of arts in that kingdom / by Richard Cumberland. London, J. Walter, 1782. [Yale Beinecke].
Ficoroni, Francesco. Le vestigia e raritá di Roma antica. Rome: 1744. [Stanford University].
Gibbs, James, 1682-1754. Rules for drawing the several parts of architecture, in a more exact and easy manner than has been heretofore practised, by which all fractions, in dividing the principal members and their parts, are avoided. 2d ed. London: Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch [etc.] 1738. [Harry Ransom Center, University Texas at Austin].
Harris, Moses. The English lepidoptera, or, The aurelian’s pocket companion : containing a catalogue of upward of four hundred moths and butterflies, the food of their respective caterpillars, the time of changing into chrysalis, and appearance in the winged state : also, the places where they frequent and are usually found, with a concise description of each, and their dimensions / by Moses Harris, author of The Aurelian, or History of English insects.London : Printed for J. Robson, bookseller in New Bond Street, MDCCLXXV [1775]. [National Gallery of Art Library].
Hodges, William. Travels in India during the years 1780, 1781 & 1783 / by William Hodges, R.A. London : Printed for the author and sold by J. Edwards, Pall-Mall, MDCCXCIII [1793]. [UCLA Clark Library].
Hole, William. The Ornaments of Churches. (1761). [Stanford University].
Jago, Richard. Edge-Hill, or, The rural prospect delineated and moralized : a poem : in four books / By Richard Jago. London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1767. [Smith College Library].
Johnson, Samuel. A journey to the western islands of Scotland. London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1775. [Amherst College].
[Layer’s Trial]. The Whole Proceeding Upon the Arraignment, Tryal, Conviction and Attainder of Christopher Layer for High Treason: In Compassing and Imagining the Death of the King. In the Court of King’s-Bench at Westminster, in Michaelmas Term; In the Ninth Year of the Reign of Our Soveraign Lord George, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, 1722. Perused by the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice, and the Rest of the Judges of the Court of King’s-Bench, and by the Counsel for His Majesty, and for the Prisoner Layer, Christopher; Great Britain Court of King’s Bench. / London, Printed by S. Buckley, 1722. [University of Virginia Special Collections].
Lesseps, Jean-Baptiste-Barthélemy, baron de, 1766-1834. Travels in Kamtschatka, during the years 1787 and 1788. Tr. from the French. London, printed for J. Johnson, 1790. [Harry Ransom Center, University Texas at Austin].
Molesworth, Robert Molesworth, Viscount, 1656-1725. An account of Denmark, as it was in the year 1692 … London, 1694. [Harry Ransom Center, University Texas at Austin].
Webb, Daniel, 1718 or 1719-1798. An inquiry into the beauties of painting, and into the merits of the most celebrated painters, ancient and modern / by Daniel Webb, Esq. London : Printed for R. and J. Dodsley …, 1760. [The Getty].
Wood, Robert, 1717?-1771. An essay on the original genius and writings of Homer: with a comparative view of the ancient and present state of the Troade … By the late Robert Wood … London, Printed by H. Hughs for T. Payne and P. Elmsly, 1775. [Harry Ransom Center, University Texas at Austin].
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International Law in Action: A Guide to the International Courts and Tribunals in The Hague
Universidade de Leiden
International Law in Action explains the functions of each international court and tribunal present in The Hague, and it looks at how these institutions address contemporary problems. On the basis of selected cases, and through interviews with judges and lawyers, you will explore the role of these courts and tribunals and their potential to contribute to global justice. The first module of the course will investigate how judicial settlement is different from other more political forms of dispute settlement, such as negotiation and mediation. It offers a brief historical overview and introduces the judicial and arbitral bodies based in The Hague. In the remaining modules you will learn about the functions of these courts and tribunals, and some of the challenges and prospects that they face. Three cross-cutting themes tie together all of these modules: (i) The interaction between law and politics; (ii) The continuing role of State consent; and (iii) The ability of international courts and tribunals to protect the public interest and global values. This course offers you an opportunity to gain a better insight into the functions and features of the courts and tribunals present in The Hague. You will gain a familiarity with each court or tribunal. You will develop realistic expectations of their capacity to address contemporary problems and an awareness of their limitations. You will also be able to discuss some of their most prominent cases. If you would like to have a better understanding of international law in action in The Hague, this is definitely the course for you! This course is free to join and to participate in. There is the possibility to get a verified certificate for the course, which is a paid option. If you want a certificate, but are unable to pay for it, you can request financial aid via Coursera
Legendas: Inglês, Francês, Holandês
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JusticeCriminal JusticeInternational LawArbitration
An introduction to the International Courts and Tribunals in The Hague
Welcome to this first week in which we will enter the world of the international judiciary with you. We will discuss the evolution of international dispute settlement in our international legal order. The leading question is: why did people start thinking about creating international courts? We will also introduce the community of international courts present in The Hague today.
7 vídeos (Total 35 mín.), 7 leituras, 1 teste
Trailer2min
Introduction to the Course2min
The History of International Dispute Settlement in The Hague7min
Diplomatic versus Judicial International Dispute Settlement8min
Overview of the International Courts and Tribunals in The Hague6min
The Course Themes: Law and Politics, State Consent, Global Values4min
Meet the instructor & her team5min
Leiden University: Facts & Figures10min
Tips for studying online5min
Community Guidelines 5min
What is your learning path?5min
Required Reading1h
Recommended Reading1h
An Introduction to the International Courts and Tribunals in The Hague20min
The International Court of Justice (ICJ)
This week we are going to explore the principle judicial organ of the United Nations—the International Court of Justice. This Court has dual functions as an institution that settles disputes between States, and as an advice giver within the UN system. We will explore the limitations that the Court faces in its fulfilment of these functions as well as its potential as an institution, particularly in the context of disputes involving the protection of the environment. From this week onwards, you will also be able to start working on the peer assignment. All relevant information with regard to the peer assignment can be find below. We look forward to reading how you view the future of the international courts and tribunals in The Hague!
An Introduction to the International Court of Justice11min
The ICJ's Contentious Jurisdiction8min
Advisory Opinions of the International Court of Justice8min
The International Court of Justice and the Protection of the Environment7min
Interview with Judge Christopher Greenwood16min
The International Court of Justice20min
The Arbitration of International Disputes
This week, we will explore the world of international arbitration. More specifically, we will focus on the Permanent court of arbitration, inter-state arbitration and investor-state arbitration. Through our videos, you will discover the history and characteristics of arbitration and you will understand how its functioning is impacted by the dynamics at play within the international and domestic societies. You will also come to realize the importance of public interests in the disputes settled through arbitration and you will learn how they are taken into account in international arbitration.
Arbitration and the Permanent Court of Arbitration6min
Introduction to Inter-State Arbitration5min
Introduction to Investor-state Arbitration7min
Investment Arbitration and Public Interests: Human Health7min
Interview with Brooks W. Daly16min
The Arbitration of International Disputes20min
International Criminal Courts and Tribunals
This week examines a relatively new type of international courts, namely international criminal courts, with a focus on the ICC. We will discuss ongoing cases and debates, including sensitive issues such as the prosecution of sitting Heads of States. We will also inquire whether the international community is in need of a new dedicated international terrorism tribunal.
From Nuremberg to The Hague: The Renaissance of International Criminal Law10min
The International Criminal Court13min
Interview with ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda41min
International Criminal Courts and Global Values: The ICC and Democracy10min
Towards an International Terrorism Tribunal?8min
Documents for Reference1h
International Criminal Courts and Tribunals20min
Conclusions of the three Course Themes
This week, we will directly focus on the three course themes that have structured our discussions in the previous modules: law and politics, state consent and global values. For each of these themes, the videos of this module will give you the opportunity to synthetize the knowledge that you have acquired over the course and to compare the various courts and tribunals that have been analyzed through the lenses of the course themes. The videos in this module will also offer you some concluding observations and insights which will stimulate you to continue to reflect on these three themes and the international courts in The Hague more generally. This week, you will also take the final exam of this course; good luck on this!
Course Theme I: Law and Politics7min
Course Theme II: State Consent5min
Course Theme III: Global Values6min
Final Exam40min
Principais avaliações do International Law in Action: A Guide to the International Courts and Tribunals in The Hague
por MV•Apr 29th 2019
It was good overview course about three main international courts in The Hague. The lectures were good structured and clear. Interviews were impressed and made international court practices "real".
por TD•Mar 24th 2019
Very informative and quite challenging\n\nThis course has provided me with material and resources to be able to think about larger ideas and the extent to which International Law is important.
Larissa van den Herik
Professor of Public International Law
Grotius Centre, International Law, Leiden Law School
Cecily Rose
Assistant Professor of International Law
Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, Leiden Law School
Yannick Radi
Sobre Universidade de Leiden
Leiden University is one of Europe's foremost research universities. This prominent position gives our graduates a leading edge and prepares them for careers both within and outside of academia. Leiden University is the oldest university in the Netherlands, founded in 1575. Our motto is: Praesidium Libertatis (Bastion of Liberty) - Freedom of spirit, thought and expression. Leiden University has a campus in Leiden and The Hague, with 7 faculties, 47 Bachelor Programmes, 79 Master Programmes and nearly 30,000 students....
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Tips for Using eLua? 5777Front MatterFront coverTitle PageCopyright PageContents PageElectronic ResourcesAbout the AuthorsPrefaceGuide to TransliterationsGuide to Symbols and ConventionsJewish Commemorations 5777–5780About the Year 5777HEBREW CALENDAR 5777Elul 5776Rosh ?odesh Elul — Day 2Shabbat ShofetimShabbat Ki tetseShabbat Ki tavoLeyl Seli?otShabbat NitsavimTishrey 5777Rosh Hashanah — Day 1Rosh Hashanah — Day 2Tsom GedalyahShabbat Vayelekh? Shabbat ShuvahYom KippurShabbat Ha'azinuSukkot — Day 1Sukkot — Day 2Shabbat ?ol Hamo'ed SukkotHosha'na RabbahShemini AtseretSim?at TorahShabbat BereshitRosh ?odesh ?eshvan — Day 1?eshvan 5777Rosh ?odesh ?eshvan — Day 2Shabbat Noa?Shabbat Lekh lekhaShabbat VayeraShabbat ?ayyey sarahKislev 5777Rosh ?odesh KislevShabbat ToledotShabbat VayetseShabbat Vayishla?Shabbat Vayeshev?anukkah — Day 1?anukkah — Day 2?anukkah — Day 3?anukkah — Day 4?anukkah — Day 5Tevet 5777Rosh ?odesh Tevet ?anukkah — Day 6Shabbat Mikkets ?anukkah — Day 7?anukkah — Day 8Shabbat VayiggashAsarah BetevetShabbat Vay?iShabbat ShemotShevat 5777Shabbat Va'era Rosh ?odeshShabbat BoShabbat Beshalla? Shabbat ShirahChanting Shirat HayamShabbat YitroChanting Aseret HadibberotShabbat Mishpatim Shabbat ShekalimRosh ?odesh Adar — Day 1Adar 5777Rosh ?odesh Adar — Day 2Shabbat TerumahTa'anit EsterShabbat Tetsavveh Shabbat ZakhorPurimShushan PurimShabbat Ki tissa Shabbat ParahShabbat Vayak·hel + Pekudey Shabbat Ha?odeshNisan 5777Rosh ?odesh NisanShabbat VayikraShabbat Tsav Shabbat HagadolBi'ur ?amets Destruction of the ?ametsTa'anit BekhorimPesa? — Day 1Pesa? — Day 2?ol Hamo'ed Pesa???—??Days 1 and 2Shabbat ?ol Hamo'ed Pesa??ol Hamo'ed Pesa???—??Last DayPesa? — Day 7Pesa? — Day 8Shabbat SheminiYom Hasho'ah VehagevurahRosh ?odesh Iyyar — Day 1Iyyar 5777Rosh ?odesh Iyyar — Day 2Shabbat Tazria + MetsoraYom HazikkaronYom Ha'atsma'utShabbat A?arey Mot + KedoshimPesa? Sheni — The 2nd Pesa?Shabbat EmorLag Ba'omer — Day 33 of the OmerShabbat Behar + Be?ukkotayYom YerushalayimSivan 5777Rosh ?odesh SivanShabbat BemidbarShavu'ot — Day 1Shavu'ot — Day 2Shabbat NasoShabbat Beha'alotekhaShabbat Shela? lekhaShabbat Kora? Rosh ?odesh Tammuz — Day 1Tammuz 5777Rosh ?odesh Tammuz — Day 2Shabbat ?ukkatShabbat BalakShiv'ah Asar BetammuzShabbat Pine?asShabbat Mattot + Mas'eyAv 5777Rosh ?odesh AvShabbat Devarim Shabbat ?azonTish'ah Be'avShabbat Va'et·?annan Shabbat Na?amuChanting Aseret HadibberotTu Be'avShabbat EkevShabbat Re'ehRosh ?odesh Elul — Day 1Elul 5777Rosh ?odesh Elul — Day 2Shabbat ShofetimShabbat Ki tetseShabbat Ki tavoLeyl Seli?otShabbat Nitsavim + VayelekhSECULAR CALENDAR 2016–2017Sep 2016Sat 3 Sep (evening)Sun 4 SepSat 10 SepSat 17 SepSat 24 Sep (daytime)Sat 24 Sep (night)Oct 2016Sat 1 Oct (daytime)Sat 1 Oct (evening)Sun 2 Oct (morning)Sun 2 Oct (evening)Mon 3 Oct (morning)Mon 3 Oct (evening)Tue 4 Oct (morning)Tue 4 Oct (evening)Wed 5 Oct (morning)Wed 5 Oct (evening)Thu 6 Oct (daytime)Thu 6 Oct (evening)Fri 7 Oct (daytime)Fri 7 Oct (evening)Sat 8 Oct (morning)Sat 8 Oct (evening)Sun 9 Oct (daytime)Sun 9 Oct (evening)Mon 10 Oct (daytime)Mon 10 Oct (evening)Tue 11 Oct (morning)Tue 11 Oct 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(morning)Thu 29 Dec (evening)Fri 30 Dec (morning)Fri 30 Dec (evening)Sat 31 Dec (morning)Sat 31 Dec (evening)Jan 2017Sun 1 JanSat 7 JanSun 8 Jan (morning)Sat 14 JanSat 21 JanFri 27 Jan (evening)Sat 28 JanFeb 2017Sat 4 FebFri 10 FebSat 11 Feb (morning)Sat 18 FebSat 25 Feb (morning)Sat 25 Feb (evening)Sun 26 Feb (morning)Sun 26 Feb (evening)Mon 27 FebMar 2017Sat 4 MarThu 9 MarSat 11 Mar (morning)Sat 11 Mar (evening)Sun 12 Mar (morning)Sun 12 Mar (evening)Mon 13 MarSat 18 MarSat 25 MarMon 27 Mar (daytime)Mon 27 Mar (evening)Tue 28 MarApr 2017Sat 1 AprSat 8 Apr (morning)Sat 8 Apr (evening)Sun 9 Apr (evening)Mon 10 Apr (morning)Mon 10 Apr (afternoon)Mon 10 Apr (evening)Tue 11 Apr (morning)Tue 11 Apr (evening)Wed 12 Apr (daytime)Wed 12 Apr (evening)Thu 13 Apr (morning)Thu 13 Apr (evening)Fri 14 Apr (morning)Fri 14 Apr (afternoon)Fri 14 Apr (evening)Sat 15 Apr (morning)Sat 15 Apr (evening)Sun 16 Apr (morning)Sun 16 Apr (evening)Mon 17 Apr (morning)Mon 17 Apr (evening)Tue 18 Apr (morning)Tue 18 Apr (evening)Wed 19 Apr (daytime)Wed 19 Apr (evening)Thu 20 AprFri 21 AprSat 22 Apr (morning)Sat 22 Apr (evening)Sun 23 AprMon 24 Apr (morning)Mon 24 Apr (evening)Tue 25 Apr (daytime)Tue 25 Apr (evening)Wed 26 Apr (morning)Wed 26 Apr (evening)Thu 27 Apr (morning)Thu 27 Apr (evening)Fri 28 AprSat 29 Apr (daytime)Sat 29 Apr (evening)Sun 30 AprMay 2017Mon 1 May (daytime)Mon 1 May (evening)Tue 2 May (daytime)Tue 2 May (evening)Wed 3 MayThu 4 MayFri 5 MaySat 6 May (morning)Sat 6 May (evening)Sun 7 MayMon 8 MayTue 9 May (daytime)Tue 9 May (evening)Wed 10 May (daytime)Wed 10 May (evening)Thu 11 MayFri 12 MaySat 13 May (daytime)Sat 13 May (evening)Sun 14 May (daytime)Sun 14 May (evening)Mon 15 MayTue 16 MayWed 17 MayThu 18 MayFri 19 MaySat 20 May (morning)Sat 20 May (evening)Sun 21 MayMon 22 MayTue 23 May (daytime)Tue 23 May (evening)Wed 24 May (morning)Wed 24 May (evening)Thu 25 May (daytime)Thu 25 May (evening)Fri 26 May (daytime)Fri 26 May (evening)Sat 27 May (morning)Sat 27 May (evening)Sun 28 May (daytime)Sun 28 May (evening)Mon 29 May (daytime)Mon 29 May (evening)Tue 30 May (daytime)Tue 30 May (evening)Wed 31 May (morning)Wed 31 May (evening)Jun 2017Thu 1 Jun (morning)Thu 1 Jun (evening)Fri 2 JunSat 3 JunWed 7 JunSat 10 JunSat 17 JunFri 23 JunSat 24 (morning)Sat 24 Jun (evening)Sun 25 JunJul 2017Sat 1 JulSat 8 JulTue 11 JulSat 15 JulSat 22 JulSun 23 Jul (daytime)Sun 23 Jul (evening)Mon 24 JulFri 28 JulSat 29 Jul (morning)Sat 29 Jul (evening)Mon 31 Jul (daytime)Mon 31 Jul (evening)Aug 2017Tue 1 Aug (morning)Tue 1 Aug (evening)Sat 5 Aug (daytime)Sat 5 Aug (evening)Sun 6 Aug (daytime)Mon 7 Aug (daytime)Sat 12 AugSat 19 AugMon 21 Aug (daytime)Mon 21 Aug (evening)Tue 22 Aug (morning)Tue 22 Aug (evening)Wed 23 AugSat 26 AugSep 2017Sat 2 SepSat 9 SepSat 16 Sep (daytime)Sat 16 Sep (evening)Sat 16 Sep (night)Wed 20 Sep (daytime)HOLIDAY OBSERVANCESSeli?ot — Penitential PrayersRosh HashanahLooking Ahead to Rosh HashanahTeki'at Shofar — Hearing the Sounds of the ShofarPreparing to Celebrate with a New Fruit or with New ClothesBefore Rosh HashanahPreparing a Flame for Yom TovRosh Hashanah — Day 1 and Day 2Candle Lighting — Day 1Candle Lighting — Day 2Rosh Hashanah Meals — Day 1 and Day 2TashlikhCandle Lighting for Yom Tov — Day 2Celebrating with a New Fruit or New ClothesYom KippurBefore Yom KippurLast Meal before the FastMemorial CandleResting CandleYom Kippur Prohibitions and PracticesBefore Leaving for the SynagogueCandle Lighting for Yom KippurBlessing the ChildrenBefore Kol NidreySukkotLooking Ahead to SukkotBuilding a SukkahAcquiring Lulav and EtrogPreparing for SukkotThe Lulav AssemblyPreparing a Flame for Yom TovMitsvot throughout SukkotEating in the SukkahTaking the Lulav (not on Shabbat)Sukkot — Day 1 and Day 2Candle Lighting for Yom Tov — Day 1Candle Lighting for Yom Tov — Day 2Kiddush — Day 1, Day 2, and Shabbat ?ol Hamo'edYom Tov Meals — Day 1 and Day 2Waving the Lulav during Hallel (not on Shabbat)Circling the Sanctuary with Lulav and Etrog?ol Hamo'edWearing Tefillin during ?ol Hamo'edHosha'na RabbahHosha'na Prayers and ProcessionsAravot — The 5 Willow BranchesShemini Atseret and Sim?at TorahPreparing for Yom TovPreparing a FlameYom Tov — Day 1 and Day 2Candle LightingYom Tov Meals — Day 1 and Day 2Mashiv Harua?Celebrating with the Torah on Sim?at TorahAttah Hor'eytaHakkafotReading the Torah on Sim?at Torah MorningThe 1st Scroll: Completing the Reading of the TorahThe 2nd Scroll: Beginning the Reading of the Torah Anew?anukkahGeneral Instructions for Candle Lighting at HomeCandle Lighting TimesSetup for the ?anukkiyyah (Menorah, Candelabra)Lighting and BerakhotSpecial Instructions for the SynagoguePurimThe 5 Mitsvot of PurimProcedure for Chanting Megillat EsterBefore Chanting the MegillahChanting the MegillahAfter Chanting the MegillahPesa?In PreparationSearching for ?ametsDisposing of ?ametsFast of the FirstbornSiyyum and Se'udat MItsvahPreparing a Flame for Yom TovPesa? — Days 1 and 2Candle Lighting for Yom Tov — Day 1Candle Lighting for Yom Tov — Day 2Shabbat and Yom Tov Meals — Day 1 and Day 2Morid Hatal?ol Hamo'edWearing Tefillin during ?ol Hamo'edPreparing a Flame for Yom TovPesa? — Day 7 and Day 8Candle Lighting for Pesa? — Day 7Candle Lighting for Pesa? — Day 8Pesa? Meals — Day 7 and Day 8Yom Ha'atsma'utShavu'otBefore Yom TovPreparing a Flame for Yom TovShavu'ot — Day 1 and Day 2Arvit — Day 1: Completing 7 Full Weeks of the OmerCandle Lighting for Yom Tov — Day 1Candle Lighting for Yom Tov — Day 2Yom Tov Meals — Day 1 and Day 2Tikkun Leyl Shavu'otRosh Hashanah 5778Seli?ot — Penitential PrayersLooking Ahead to Rosh HashanahTeki'at Shofar — Hearing the Sounds of the ShofarPreparing to Celebrate with a New Fruit or with New ClothesBefore Rosh HashanahPreparing an Eruv TavshilinPreparing a Flame for Yom TovOTHER COMMEMORATIONSTsom GedalyahAsarah BetevetTa'anit EsterYom Hasho'ah VehagevurahYom HazikkaronLag Ba'omerYom YerushalayimThe 3 WeeksShiv'ah Asar BetammuzThe 9 DaysRestrictionsThe 10th of AvTish'ah Be'avThe Afternoon before Tish'ah Be'avTish'ah Be'av ProhibitionsProcedures in the SynagogueCreating the Tish'ah Be'av MoodChanting Megillat EykhahReciting KinotSPECIAL SHABBATOTShabbat ?anukkah — Day 7Shabbat ShirahChanting Shirat HayamShabbat ShekalimShabbat ZakhorShabbat ParahShabbat Ha?odeshShabbat ?azonShabbat Na?amuAppendixesSefirat Ha'omerBirkat KohanimDetermining the Date of a Yortsayt
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Research Article| August 01, 2009
Hybrid Wireless Underground Sensor Networks: Quantification of Signal Attenuation in SoilAll rights reserved. No part of this periodical may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
H. R. Bogena
H. R. Bogena *
Agrosphere Institute, ICG-4, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52425 Jülich, Germany
Corresponding author (h.bogena@fz-juelich.de).
J. A. Huisman
H. Meier
Central Institute for Electronics, ZEL, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52425 Jülich, Germany
U. Rosenbaum
A. Weuthen
Vadose Zone Journal (2009) 8 (3): 755–761.
https://doi.org/10.2136/vzj2008.0138
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Research Article| January 01, 2014
Sensitivity of Vadose Zone Water Fluxes to Climate Shifts in Arid Settings
H. Pfletschinger
Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute (BAW), Karlsruhe, Germany
Technical Univ. of Darmstadt, Institute of Applied Geosciences, Germany
K. Prömmel
Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Meteorology, Germany
C. Schüth
M. Herbst
Agrosphere (IBG-3), Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
I. Engelhardt
I. Engelhardt *
Corresponding author (i.engelhardt@fz-juelich.de).
Vadose Zone Journal (2014) 13 (1): vzj2013.02.0043.
https://doi.org/10.2136/vzj2013.02.0043
H. Pfletschinger, K. Prömmel, C. Schüth, M. Herbst, I. Engelhardt; Sensitivity of Vadose Zone Water Fluxes to Climate Shifts in Arid Settings. Vadose Zone Journal ; 13 (1): vzj2013.02.0043. doi: https://doi.org/10.2136/vzj2013.02.0043
Vadose zone water fluxes in arid settings are investigated regarding their sensitivity to hydraulic soil parameters and meteorological data. The study is based on the inverse modeling of highly defined soil column experiments and subsequent scenario modeling comparing different climate projections for a defined arid region.
In arid regions, groundwater resources are prone to depletion due to excessive water use and little recharge potential. Especially in sand dune areas, groundwater recharge is highly dependent on vadose zone properties and corresponding water fluxes. Nevertheless, vadose zone water fluxes under arid conditions are hard to determine owing to, among other reasons, deep vadose zones with generally low fluxes and only sporadic high infiltration events. In this study, we present an inverse model of infiltration experiments accounting for variable saturated nonisothermal water fluxes to estimate effective hydraulic and thermal parameters of dune sands. A subsequent scenario modeling links the results of the inverse model with projections of a global climate model until 2100. The scenario modeling clearly showed the high dependency of groundwater recharge on precipitation amounts and intensities, whereas temperature increases are only of minor importance for deep infiltration. However, simulated precipitation rates are still affected by high uncertainties in the response to the hydrological input data of the climate model. Thus, higher certainty in the prediction of precipitation pattern is a major future goal for climate modeling to constrain future groundwater management strategies in arid regions.
EMSL, Environmental Molecular Science Laboratory, GHG, greenhouse gas
In most arid countries groundwater is the primary freshwater source since surface water resources are limited and temporally extremely variable, resulting from highly temporal fluctuations in precipitation patterns at annual scale (Littmann and Berkowicz, 2008; Scanlon et al., 2006). With increasing population and industry causing an increase in water demand, groundwater resources are prone to depletion, and water scarcity is a severe issue for arid regions (FAO, 2003). To evaluate groundwater availability in the future, one major task is to estimate groundwater recharge. Strategies to estimate groundwater recharge in arid regions include isotope fractionation due to seasonal variability in precipitation and evaporation, water balance modeling, chloride-mass balancing (Subyani and Şen, 2006), the quantification of infiltration by lysimetry, tracer tests, and empirical approaches (see overviews given in, e.g., Gee and Hillel, 1988; de Vries and Simmers, 2002; Flint et al., 2002). Generally, groundwater recharge by direct infiltration and percolation is assumed to be low in the case of high evaporative losses. Nevertheless, especially in regions covered with highly permeable dune sands, precipitation can rapidly percolate to depths not affected by evaporation, and contribute to groundwater recharge (Dincer et al., 1974; Scanlon et al., 2006). As the unsaturated dune sands vertically can extend up to hundreds of meters, vadose zone processes governing the up- and downward movement of the infiltrating water have to be considered for estimating direct recharge rates in these areas (Scanlon et al., 1997). Efforts have been made to better understand and quantify vadose zone processes and water fluxes by improved measurement techniques of water content (e.g., Dahan et al., 2003; Jones et al., 2005), observation of scale effects (e.g., Hendrickx and Flury, 2001; Hopmans and Schoups, 2006; Mattson et al., 2004), and numerical modeling (e.g., Dong et al., 2003; Saito et al., 2006; Sakai et al., 2009). However, especially for arid regions, there are still many uncertainties due to difficult field conditions, such as highly variable or sporadic precipitation events, extreme evaporation rates, and high temperature variations between day and night, as well as coupled processes of water, vapor, and heat transport (Heitman et al., 2008).
In numerical investigations, the influence of temperature gradients as well as ambient soil water contents close to residual saturation have to be considered carefully if nonisothermal water fluxes are simulated in the vadose zone under arid conditions. Additionally, accurate calibration data obtained under nonisothermal conditions, including transient soil moisture variations, may help to reduce model uncertainties (Inoue et al., 2000). However, soil hydraulic characteristics governing unsaturated water flow are often measured under multistep equilibrium and isothermal conditions (Wildenschild et al., 2001) and are not appropriate under nonisothermal conditions at field scale. Inverse modeling strategies, including sensitivity and uncertainty analyses, and parameter estimation procedures of large-scale soil column experiments under controlled boundary conditions can notably improve the reliability of model predictions (Finsterle, 2004).
Besides the hydraulic soil parameters, ambient climatic conditions are relevant to analyze infiltration and percolation processes in the vadose zone of arid regions. Due to improved and enhanced climate modeling strategies, recent research studies have focused especially on scarce groundwater systems that result from decreased infiltration, which is driven by changes in temperature and precipitation during the past 100 years (e.g., Bou-Zeid and El-Fadel, 2002; Kundzewicz and Döll, 2009; Taylor et al., 2012). Climate change modeling concepts are based on greenhouse gas emission scenarios as proposed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2001). For many semiarid and arid regions, and specifically for North Africa and large parts of the Arabian Peninsula, increased temperatures and decreasing precipitation amounts during the summer months are expected for 2100 (Ragab and Prudhomme, 2002). The dependency of groundwater recharge on these climate projections can provide valuable information about long-term changes in the renewability of freshwater resources in regions that are already under severe water stress. Studying the impact of climate changes on groundwater recharge was recently the focus of large-scale hydrological and agricultural studies (e.g., Goderniaux et al., 2011; van Roosmalen et al., 2009). A specific focus of groundwater resources under climate change pressures in arid regions was set by Engelhardt et al. (2013a,b) and Engelhardt and Prömmel (2012). Nevertheless, such large-scale studies do not investigate the processes specific to the vadose zone. Reasons for neglecting vadose zone processes in large-scale groundwater recharge models are mainly increased computational requirements and the difficulty of inferring the soil hydraulic parameters for unsaturated zone flow calculations and the subsequent parameter estimation requirements (Vrugt et al., 2004). Currently, investigations coupling long-term regional shifts in climate with process-orientated, small-scale vadose zone models are still lacking (Candela et al., 2012). This may be attributed to the challenge of downscaling the results of climate model projections suitable for simulations of up- and downward water and water vapor fluxes at the more local scale of the vadose zone. Thus, not only climate and regional hydrological patterns have to be considered to study recharge in arid regions properly, but also, water, vapor, and heat fluxes in the context of hydraulic and thermal soil properties must be specified.
In this study, we present an inverse model of infiltration experiments accounting for variably saturated nonisothermal water fluxes and subsequent scenario modeling linking the results of the inverse model with projections of a global climate model. A study area in the eastern and currently arid to hyper-arid part of Saudi Arabia was selected. The goals of our research were (i) to identify physical soil parameters of primary importance regarding groundwater recharge in arid regions, (ii) to determine the most important atmospheric parameters for direct groundwater recharge, and (iii) to quantify the effect of different climate change projections based on greenhouse gas (GHG) emission scenarios on groundwater recharge in nonvegetated sand dune areas in an arid environment. The inverse model estimates hydraulic and thermal parameters and assesses their sensitivity for simulating heat, water, and vapor fluxes under transient arid climate conditions. The scenario modeling couples global climate model projections with regional recharge estimates. This allows insight into the influence of changing climatic conditions, as well as to derive threshold values for infiltration, evaporation, and percolation rates. Three GHG emission scenarios (A2, A1B, and B1) (Nakićenović and Swart, 2000) that give global climate projections for 2100 were investigated. They were simulated with the coupled atmosphere–ocean model EGMAM (Huebener et al., 2007). This allows transferring the influence of expected greenhouse gas emissions into future changes in groundwater recharge. Thus, a holistic analysis of hydraulic processes in deep vadose zones in response to shifts in climate in a present-day arid setting is obtained.
Investigated Arid Setting
The investigated arid setting is located in the eastern part of the Arabian Peninsula and is bounded by the latitudes 29°75′ and 22°25′ N and longitudes 46°88′ and 54°38′ E (Fig. 1). The boundaries of the study area were chosen (i) to capture one of the biggest aquifer systems of the world, the Upper Mega Aquifer System, (Margat, 2007), (ii) to investigate an arid environment with thick vadose zones above the aquifers, and (iii) to extend the research area over several grid cells of the climate model.
The climate of the investigated setting is mainly arid with low precipitation and high inter-annual variability in rainfall (NOAA, 2010). Generally, precipitation only occurs during the winter months and dry and hot summers prevail. In the investigated region, the long-term average annual precipitation measured from 1978 to 2012 ranges between 90 110 mm yr−1, whereas in the southern parts annual precipitation can decrease to zero. In the northern part of the study site in particular, single precipitation events can amount up to 200 mm (Engelhardt et al., 2013b). Nevertheless, on an annual basis, potential evapotranspiration by far exceeds precipitation in the whole region, with values up to 4000 mm yr−1 due to the dry and hot summer climate (ElNesr et al., 2010). In the study area, average annual temperatures vary about 25°C, with maximum daily values of up to 47°C during summer, dropping down to 3°C in winter (Engelhardt et al., 2013a,b).
Due to the low precipitation, large parts in eastern Saudi Arabia show a reduced soil development without a clear soil structure within the profile (Shadfan et al., 1984). In large parts of the region above the aquifer thick unconsolidated Quaternary sediments are deposited, forming extensive sand deserts and gravel sheets (Shadfan et al., 1984). The large dune regions offer a high potential for infiltration and direct groundwater recharge (Dincer et al., 1974, Engelhardt et al., 2013b).
For the numerical investigations, small column experiments of hydraulic properties from repacked soil cores were used to determine initial estimates of hydraulic parameters for inverse modeling studies. The parameter calibration and a sensitivity analysis were performed with drainage and evaporation data collected from large column experiments with 1-m length. Additionally, long-term predictive modeling was conducted to assess the effect of different GHG emission scenarios and corresponding predicted changes in climate on downward water fluxes in the deep vadose zone of the investigation area in south-eastern Saudi Arabia.
Soil Column Experiments
Large column experiments (1-m length) were conducted with repacked homogenous red dune fine sand (100% sand content) that was sampled near Riyadh (25°13′ N and 47°61′ E). Hydraulic and thermal properties of the dune sand were determined before the large column experiments in small column experiments at the Environmental Molecular Science Laboratory (EMSL, Richland, WA, USA). These measurements were performed on repacked 100-cm3 samples. The samples were packed to a bulk density of 1700 kg m−3 as measured in the field. Saturated hydraulic conductivity was measured with a constant head permeability test (Wietsma et al., 2009). The experimental water retention curve was obtained by a hanging column apparatus with a 100-mL probe and 15 measurement levels (10, 20, 30, 40, 45, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 125, 150, 175, and 200 cm). The measured water retention data was used to estimate the soil hydraulic parameters of the Brooks and Corey (1964) model with the program SWRC Fit (Seki, 2007) (Table 1). The Brooks and Corey model was chosen due to its validity for coarse grained material (e.g., Schaap et al., 2001). The derived parameters were used as initial parameter estimates for inverse modeling using discharge and evaporation data from large column experiments. Retention measurements were performed up to a suction of −200 cm. Fitting the Brooks and Corey model to the measurements resulted in an estimated residual water content of 0.067 cm3 cm−3. Nevertheless, residual water content can be better defined as remaining water content at high capillary pressures. Thus, another fitting of the Brooks and Corey model to the retention data was performed with the residual water content restricted to zero and the capillary pressure to 104.2 cm, resembling wilting point (Groenevelt and Grant, 2004). High capillary pressures are expected to occur under arid conditions, and setting the residual water content to zero was expected to reflect particularly dry conditions better. This was also expected to provide more suitable initial hydraulic parameters for the inverse modeling.
Thermal conductivity was measured by a transient line heat source method with a KD2 thermal analyzer (Decagon Devices) for five steps from dry to fully saturated conditions. The 30-mm needle sensors were installed in the 100-cm3 repacked samples. The sample was homogenously desaturated for each measurement step. Nevertheless, measurements of thermal conductivity are linked to several uncertainties, especially when relating them to low saturated conditions under variable temperatures. Uncertainties are due to differences in sample temperature, influences of the measurement device, and nonequilibrium conditions caused by diffusive effects (Smits et al., 2013).
For the large column experiments, the dune sand was packed with a bulk density of 1700 kg m−3 and a water content of 0.07 m3 m−3 was adjusted. In the column with a diameter of 0.19 m and a height of 0.98 m, including a 0.05-m controlled air head space at the top and a bottom suction plate, measurements were made for changes in water content and temperature. The air-filled head space at the top of the column was used to generate a flow of air, which was controlled in velocity and relative humidity applying a flowmeter and forcing the air flow along a specific saturated salt solution to constrain the humidity. By measuring the relative humidity and the temperature of the inflowing and the outflowing air, evaporation and soil water uptake were calculated. The suction plate enabled column outflow with adjustable pressure head conditions that were set lower than atmospheric pressure to prevent water accumulation at the column bottom. Discharge passing the suction plate was measured continuously. Irrigation, which was controlled in intensity and total amount, was applied at the column top. Additionally, capillary spirals, which were heated or cooled by circulated water, controlled the temperature both on top and at the bottom of the column. Water content and temperature profiles, as well as water fluxes at the column boundaries, yielding evaporation and discharge, were measured at high temporal resolution of up to 1 min.
The inverse modeling of soil hydraulic and thermal properties using large column experiments was based on the measurements of transient water contents and temperatures at depths of 0.04, 0.14, 0.24, 0.34, 0.44, 0.60, 0.70, and 0.84 m, as well as transient flux measurements of evaporation at the top of the column and discharge at the bottom with a temporal resolution between 1 and 30 min, respectively. Total duration of the experiment was 300 h. The experiment included two irrigation events: an initial period of 5 h with a total of 170 mm until discharge was obtained followed by 120 h without irrigation and a second irrigation period of 2 h with 25 mm. These irrigation patterns were chosen (i) to have an initial percolation throughout the whole column for analyzing wetting processes and (ii) for analyzing percolation and infiltration depths of lower irrigation amounts. The temperature at the top of the column was set to 40°C during the first 200 h to simulate hot summer events and decreased to 35°C for the remaining 100 h to evaluate small temperature changes for soil surface water fluxes. At the bottom of the column temperature was fixed to 18°C to mimic the neutral temperature zone. The laboratory column experiments are described in detail in Pfletschinger et al. (2012).
Global Climate Model Predictions for Southeastern Saudi Arabia between 1860 and 2100
To take into account the changing climate in Saudi Arabia until the end of the century, global simulations of future climate were analyzed. The global climate simulations used in this study were performed within the EU-project ENSEMBLES (http://www.ensembles-eu.org) with the global climate model EGMAM (ECHO-G Middle Atmosphere Model; Huebener et al., 2007), which is a vertically extended version of the coupled atmosphere ocean model ECHO-G (Legutke and Voss, 1999). It consists of the atmosphere model ECHAM4 (Roeckner et al., 1996) and the ocean model HOPE-G (Wolff et al., 1997). In the EGMAM setup ECHAM4 supports a horizontal resolution of approximately 3.75° × 3.75°. The troposphere and stratosphere up to approximately 80 km are represented by 39 levels. HOPE-G has 21 layers and a horizontal resolution of approximately 2.8° × 2.8° with a grid refinement near the equator up to 0.5°. For coupling, a flux correction is applied for heat and freshwater exchange. The orography of the grid cells is based on a digital elevation model that is averaged for the grid cells of the climate model to a horizontal resolution of 3.75° × 3.75°.
Future climate strongly depends on past and future emission of greenhouse gases, which is used as forcing for the climate simulations. For the spin-up, from 1860 to 2000, a 1% yr−1 CO2 increase experiment, called dCO2, is used. This simulation starts in 1860 with a CO2 concentration of 280 ppm that increases each year by 1%. A doubling of the initial CO2 concentration is reached in 1930. Afterward the concentration is kept constant until 2000.
Different scenarios of future greenhouse gas emissions were developed for the IPCC Third Assessment Report, the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, and described in Nakićenović and Swart (2000). The scenarios are based on various storylines describing the possible developments of economy, population growth, energy use, technology development, land-use, and policy strategies. For this study, three scenarios were chosen that represent the possible range of future greenhouse gas emissions, but without being borderline scenarios. Scenario B1 describes a convergent world with emphasis on global solutions to economic, social, and environmental sustainability (Nakićenović and Swart, 2000). Scenario A1B describes a world with economic and cultural convergence and capacity building, with a substantial reduction in regional differences in per capita income, and the rapid introduction of new and more efficient technologies with a balance across fossil and non-fossil energy sources (Nakićenović and Swart, 2000). Scenario A2 describes a heterogeneous world with a strengthening of regional cultural identities, with an emphasis on family values and local traditions, high population growth, and less concern for rapid economic development (Nakićenović and Swart, 2000).
For each GHG scenario three realizations were simulated that describe similarly probable conditions (Huebener et al., 2007). We randomly selected one realization from each scenario to preserve the day-to-day variability. The use of the ensemble mean over the three realizations would have resulted in an underrepresentation of the climate variability and therefore in a loss of extremes such as intense precipitation events or dry periods. To convert the climate simulation results into input data for the simulation of vadose zone fluxes, grid boxes covering the study area have to be extracted. The corresponding three selected grid boxes (48.75°E–27.83°N, 48.75°E–24.12°N, 52.5°E–24.12°N, Fig. 1) represent the low-lying arid to hyper-arid areas in eastern Saudi Arabia. For the vadose zone scenario modeling, daily values of precipitation, surface temperature, minimum and maximum temperature, relative humidity, wind speed 10 m above the surface, and surface solar radiation are averaged over the three grid boxes and assigned as upper atmospheric boundary conditions.
Simulation of Vadose Zone Water Fluxes
Governing Equations of Vadose Zone Processes
Simulations were performed with Hydrus-1D (Version 4.14) (Šimůnek et al., 2009), which had previously been applied for studying water, vapor, and heat flux in arid conditions (e.g., Walvoord and Scanlon, 2004). Hydrus employs a modified Richards equation to simulate one-dimensional water, vapor, and heat flow in variably saturated porous media as given in Saito et al. (2006):
where x is the spatial coordinate position (m), θ is the volumetric water and vapor content (m3 m−3), h is the pressure head (m), T is the temperature (K), KLh and KLT (m s−1) are the isothermal and thermal hydraulic conductivities of the water phase, and Kvh and KvT are the isothermal and thermal hydraulic conductivities of the vapor phase due to gradients in h and T, respectively. The thermal hydraulic conductivity accounts for two effects: (i) the temperature dependence of the soil water retention curve and (ii) the temperature dependence of the surface tension of soil water (Nimmo and Miller, 1986).
The water retention curve and the unsaturated hydraulic conductivity function of Brooks and Corey (1964 and 1966) were used to describe the isothermal soil water retention curve:
where Se is the effective saturation (-), θr is the residual volumetric water content (m3 m−3), θs is the volumetric water content at saturation (m3 m−3), hb (m) is a fitting parameter that can be physically related to the air-entry pressure, and λ (-) is a fitting parameter that can be physically related to the pore size distribution (Hillel, 2004).
The isothermal unsaturated hydraulic conductivity is defined according to:
where Ks is the saturated hydraulic conductivity of the water phase (m s−1) and l is the tortuosity (-).
For describing thermal conductivity k (W m−1 K−1) as function of volumetric water content the equation of Chung and Horton (1987) was used:
where b1, b2, and b3 are empirical parameters (W m−1 K−1).
The governing equations for heat transport consider the conduction of sensible heat, convection of sensible heat by liquid water and water vapor, and the convection of latent heat by vapor flow (Šimůnek et al., 2009). The hydraulic and thermal equations are solved in a fully coupled way.
Inverse Modeling to Estimate Vadose Zone Soil Properties
The inverse model was set up to estimate the hydraulic soil properties from column experiments (Fig. 2). The 0.93-m soil column was spatially discretized with 931 nodes at a constant distance of 0.001 m. Temporal discretization was set to 3.6 s.
The hydraulic boundary on top of the column accounted for hourly changes of precipitation and potential evaporation. The measured transient temperature function was assigned to the top of the column for the soil temperature in daily resolution. At the top, the system switches between a flux and a head boundary condition, constrained by the minimum head at the uppermost node, until which potential evaporation equals actual evaporation. As soon as this maximum head, which was set to −2 m, is exceeded, the actual evaporation rate decreases and is constrained by the availability of water in the soil (Šimůnek et al., 2009).
At the bottom, the temperature was fixed to 18°C. A suction plate was installed at the bottom of the column, which was represented in the model by defining hydraulic properties different from the soil material for a 0.1-m-thick bottom layer. Hydraulic properties of the suction plate were initially defined as given in the manufacturer’s data sheet (Soil Moisture Equipment Corp., 2009), but later adjusted in a joint inversion with the hydraulic parameters of the dune sand. Thermal properties of the suction plate were set equal to the dune sand as the heating element was placed above the suction plate. In the experiments, the pressure head was set to −0.6 m at the suction plate to enable downward flow. A seepage face was assigned to the column bottom to mimic the suction plate. The seepage face boundary implies that zero-flux boundary conditions prevail as long as the local pressure head at the bottom of the profile is below the fixed seepage face pressure head value. As the local bottom pressure head reaches the defined seepage face value, the boundary discharge is constrained by the prescribed pressure head. Due to uncertainties in maintaining the pressure head exactly at −0.6 m at the bottom of the column during the experiments, this value was included in the parameter estimation process of the inverse model.
Initial conditions were specified in terms of the measured water content and temperature distribution at the beginning of the simulation due to the experimental setup with a homogenous water content of 0.07 m3 m−3 and a homogenous temperature of 20°C. In the experimental setup homogenous initial conditions were ensured by stepwise packing and water content and temperature monitoring during and after packing (Pfletschinger et al., 2012).
Automated model calibration was performed with the nonlinear parameter estimator PEST (Doherty, 2010) through an inverse procedure based on the Gauss–Marquardt–Levenberg method. The parameter optimization process in PEST uses model outputs and corresponding observation measurements by minimizing the weighted sum of squared differences. Weighting factors were assigned to increase the impact of the water and temperature breakthrough on the model calibration and to capture possible measurement errors. Weighting factors of breakthrough measurements were set to 10. Generally, weighting factors for temperature measurements were reduced to 0.1, which accounts for the higher numbers of temperature values compared to the small numbers of water content and fluxes. PEST optimization includes computing sensitivities of all observation points, providing a measure of how much a simulated value changes in response to the perturbation of an adjustable parameter. Composite sensitivities are obtained for all observation data and estimated model parameters. In the automated calibration 762 observation data were included, given by measured discharge at the bottom of the column; evaporation at the top of the column; temperature continuously measured at 0.04, 0.14, 0.24, 0.34, 0.44, 0.60, 0.70, and 0.84 m with a temporal resolution between 1 min and 10 h; and volumetric water content continuously measured at 0.04, 0.14, 0.24, 0.34, 0.44, 0.60, 0.70, and 0.84 m with at temporal resolution between 1 min and 20 h.
With the inverse model the following hydraulic model parameters of the dune sand and the suction plate were estimated: the residual volumetric water content θr, the saturated volumetric water content θs, the Brooks and Corey parameters hb and λ (Eq. [2]), and the saturated hydraulic conductivity Ks (Eq. [3]).
Due to their low sensitivity and to avoid an overparametrization the tortuosity l of the hydraulic properties of the dune sand and suction plate and the three empirical parameters describing thermal conductivity of the dune sand as function of volumetric water content were fixed to the value derived from the laboratory measurements of the soil retention curve and thermal conductivities, respectively.
Prediction of Present-Day and Future Groundwater Recharge
For the scenario modeling, the model domain was extended to 30 m to resemble a vadose zone above the groundwater surface. Spatial discretization was changed to a resolution of 0.05 m, and the temporal discretization ranged between 0.05 and 1 d. At the bottom, a free drainage boundary condition was defined to account for a deep groundwater surface beneath the vadose zone. The bottom temperature was fixed at 18°C to mimic groundwater temperature.
A spin-up period was run before the future scenario modeling to create initial conditions that resemble the effect of long-term arid conditions on the soil water profile. For the spin-up period, monthly varying climate data obtained from the EGMAM simulations for the period 1860 until 2000 based on the dCO2 experiment were assigned to the top of the model. The initial water content at the beginning of the spin-up period was set to 0.06 m3 m−3 to account for an initially wetted profile. Temperature distribution was set homogenously to 18°C.
For the scenario modeling of the vadose zone water fluxes from 2000 until 2100, boundary conditions at the top of the model were defined with daily variable input data. Atmospheric boundary conditions were extracted from the EGMAM simulations and captured precipitation and mean air temperature. The potential evaporation is calculated in Hydrus with the Penman–Monteith combination equation (Monteith, 1981; Šimůnek et al., 2009). For this, daily input data for minimum and maximum air temperature, relative air humidity, wind velocity, and monthly averaged solar radiation, also extracted from the EGMAM simulations, were assigned as climate conditions between 2000 and 2100.
The calculation of the evaporation rate E0 (mm d−1) combines a radiation term Erad (mm d−1) and an aerodynamic term Eaero (mm d−1) (Eq. [5]) (Šimůnek et al., 2009).
where λ is the latent heat of vaporization (MJ kg−1), Rn is the net radiation at surface (MJ m−2 d−1), ρ is the atmospheric density (kg m−3), cp is the specific heat of moist air (kJ kg−1 °C−1), (ea − ed) is the vapor pressure deficit (kPa), ea is the saturation vapor pressure at temperature T (kPa), ed is the actual vapor pressure (kPa), ra is the aerodynamic resistance (s m−1), Δ represents the slope of the vapor pressure curve (kPa °C−1), and γ the slope of the psychrometric constant (kPa °C−1) (Šimůnek et al., 2009).
Vadose Zone Hydraulic and Thermal Parameters and Sensitivity Analysis
Mean residuals for water content were 0.02 m3 m−3 (0.63 m depth), 0.025 m3 m−3 (0.23, 0.33, 0.43, 0.53, 0.73 m depth), 0.03 m3 m−3 (0.13 m depth), and 0.035 m3 m−3 (0.03 m depth). The higher residuals at the top of the column resulted from the first measurements after the beginning of the irrigations. Despite single high residuals between measured and calculated discharge at the beginning of the experiment, overall discharge volumes and evaporation amounts showed a good match indicated by mean residuals of 0.005 and 0.0003 m, respectively (Fig. 3). In the experiments, some fluctuations in the applied suction at the bottom, as well as in the incoming air relative humidity at the top of the column accounted for small variations within the measured evaporation that were not simulated, giving residuals for single evaporation measurements of up to 0.1 m. For the temperature measurements, maximum residuals were up to 8°C for single values at 0.04 and 0.14 m depth during initial heating. To avoid overparameterization of the inverse model, thermal parameters that were assessed by PEST with very low sensitivities were excluded from the final optimization runs.
For the dune sands, the highest dimensionless scaled sensitivity coefficients were calculated for air-entry pressure. The air-entry pressure defines the pressure head at which the water content drops below θs and hydraulic conductivity drops below Ks as air enters the pores that are formerly completely filled with water. This high sensitivity could probably be explained by the fact that the air-entry pressure shifts the entire retention curve and the unsaturated hydraulic conductivity function. Especially in sandy soils, water retention and hydraulic conductivity significantly decrease after air enters the porous structure, indicated by the steep slope of the retention curve (Fig. 4). For the fine dune sand used in our study a rather high air-entry pressure of 50 cm was measured in the small column experiments (Fig. 4) compared to investigations analyzing retention data of other dune sands (e.g., Toride et al., 2003; Sakai et al., 2009). The inverse modeling confirmed the range of the air-entry pressure for the large column experiments with an optimized value of 31.5 cm. For the large column experiment, the air-entry pressure is of high importance, as it defines the change from fast downward water drainage to capillary driven decreasing water fluxes. Compared to small-scale retention measurements, in the large column experiments the air-entry pressure controls the water movement in the whole column given by up- and downward fluxes that are influenced by this decrease.
The residual and saturated water contents were assessed as medium sensitive. Low sensitivities were calculated for Ks and the pore size distribution coefficient λ of the Brooks–Corey soil model. The low sensitivity of both parameters probably reflects the rather dry conditions that prevailed during the experiments whereas most of the studies which detected a high sensitivity of Ks and λ rather focus on the wet part of the retention curve. For the suction plate, dimensionless scaled sensitivity coefficients were at least one third lower compared to the dune sand parameters. Highest sensitivities were also calculated for the Brooks–Corey parameter hb, while the other parameters obtained sensitivity coefficients near zero.
Overall, the retention curve obtained from the inverse model of the laboratory experiments shows a shift along the water content line due to an increased saturated water content (Fig. 4). At volumetric water contents below 0.08 (m3 m−3) the pressure head measured with the small columns rises to infinity and water flow is disabled, while the pressure head derived from the parameter estimation with PEST increases at low volumetric water contents more smoothly, and water flow is still possible. Thus, distinct differences between the retention curve derived from the small column and large column experiments are obtained close to the residual water content. These differences mainly result from the different imposed boundary conditions. The small column experiments were performed under stationary and isothermal conditions, whereas the large columns were performed under nonisothermal and highly transient boundary conditions.
Regarding observation data used in the calibration process, sensitivities were highest for water content observations at the time of breakthrough of the infiltration water in the corresponding depths, whereas top observations had higher sensitivities with respect to deeper observations. During gravitational flow, sensitivities declined, and increased again when fluxes decreased. For these two stages, bottom observations had higher sensitivities than top observations. During the drying phase, where water fluxes converged to zero, sensitivities decreased again, whereas sensitivities at the top were higher presumably due to upward evaporative fluxes. Therefore, if monitoring campaigns are designed after precipitation events, shallow parts of infiltration fronts are most important to monitor and will give highly sensitive data for numerical investigations. However, in an arid environment, many days without precipitation prevail. During these periods, deeper parts of the soil water profile will also provide sensitive and valuable data sets to simulate vadose zone water fluxes in an arid setting.
Groundwater Recharge with Respect to Shifts in Climate
Estimated Shifts in Climate for 2100
The climate models compute an overall increase in temperature in the study area by approximately 2°C, with the highest temperature increases by 4 to 6°C for the A2 scenario and the lowest temperature increases of 1 to 2°C for scenario B1 (Fig. 5). Lowest total cumulative precipitation within the 100-yr scenario period was obtained for the selected A1B realization with 8942 mm, whereas highest total precipitation was given for the selected realization of scenario B1 with 10,108 mm. The total difference of the cumulative precipitation between the three realizations remains only minor at 1166 mm. The frequency distribution of daily precipitation is very similar in all scenarios, showing highest frequency of no precipitation at all, and quickly decaying frequencies with growing precipitation amounts. However, Scenario B1 tends to have fewer days without precipitation and fewer days with very high precipitation amounts, but more days with medium precipitation amounts compared to Scenarios A1B and A2. This leads in total to the slightly higher cumulative precipitation amount. In all scenarios the annual variation in precipitation is quite strong with highest annual sums of 160 to 220 mm yr−1 (Fig. 5). This is also visible in the time-series of daily precipitation sums with highest single precipitation events in all scenarios of 40 to 55 mm d−1. The analysis of the different realizations of each scenario demonstrates that the occurrence of these high precipitation events is randomly distributed over time without favoring a special period. Additionally, there is no significant trend in precipitation. Therefore, changes in the GHG concentration do not strongly force precipitation over Saudi Arabia, but mainly temperature.
The strong variation in daily as well as annual precipitation and the differences between the realizations for all three scenarios illustrate the high internal variability, and therefore the high uncertainty and noise, of simulated precipitation over Saudi Arabia. There is also no common trend identified comparable to that of temperature. This is valid for all widely used global climate models due to uncertainties in hydrological response (Christensen et al., 2007).
Impact of Greenhouse Gas Emission on Water Resources under Arid Climate
During the spin-up period, from 1860 to 2000, the water content in the 30-m-deep profile converged to steady-state conditions with a water content of 0.047 m3 m−3 which deceased to lower water contents down to 0.02 m3 m−3 in the upper 2 m. The water content below 2 m reflects field capacity conditions, where water is held against gravitational potential. In the upper 2 m, water content is additionally influenced by the atmospheric conditions. Here, depending on precipitation amounts and atmospheric pressures that influence evaporation, water fluxes are either directed down- or upward. At the end of the spin-up period, the discharge reached steady-state conditions with 13 mm yr−1. With respect to groundwater recharge derived for the study area from hydrological simulations at catchment scale by Engelhardt et al. (2013b), resulting in about 5% of the precipitation acting as recharge, the obtained recharge value seems to be relatively high, showing that 12 to 18% of the annual average precipitation contributes to groundwater recharge. Limiting factors such as soil cover, spatial variation of precipitation, land types, and topography are disregarded in the numerical analysis of the soil column experiments and potentially decrease recharge volume.
For all three GHG emission scenarios, in 2100 the mean soil water storage was around 1500 mm in the whole 30-m soil profile and mean recharge rates varied around 22 to 29 mm yr−1. Soil water storage and bottom flux, and thus recharge rates, are highly affected by precipitation pattern. The peaks in soil water storage are driving higher discharge rates and can be related to high annual precipitation values (Fig. 6) mainly resulting from high single precipitation events or a fast sequence of following precipitation events. The highest recharge peak was observed for the B1 scenario with 55 mm yr−1 emerging from a high annual precipitation of more than 250 mm in the year 2037. Several periods with small recharge rates of 13 mm yr−1 were also observed for the B1 scenario. For the A1B scenario, maximum and minimum recharge rates were 51 and 13 mm yr−1 in the year 2045 and 2030, respectively. In the A2 scenario, maximum recharge was obtained in 2075 with 51 mm yr−1, resulting from a high annual precipitation in 2071 of around 140 mm with one high precipitation period of 70 mm within 5 d (Fig. 7). Minimum recharge during the A2 scenario was calculated with 15 mm yr−1 for 2025. In all scenarios, maximum recharge is driven by single precipitation events occurring between 2037 and 2075. Nevertheless, as the precipitation patterns of the climate scenarios are highly variable for different realizations, attributing future recharge patterns to time or years rather than to precipitation amounts, is quite vague. All scenarios also predict that future minimum recharge rates will only slightly decrease below current recharge rates. Cumulative recharge during the 100-yr simulation time is highly similar for all the three scenarios. Total cumulative recharges in the year 2100 are 2200 mm for A1B, 2310 mm for A2, and 2320 mm for B1, accounting to 25, 29, and 23% of the cumulative precipitation of the whole 100-yr simulation period.
In terms of cumulative recharge values, the soil water storage is rather similar within the whole 30-m-deep profile for all three scenarios. The absolute value of soil water storage gradually increases from around 1.4 m3 to around 1.55 m3 in the whole soil profile from 2000 to 2100. This is contributed by the daily precipitation values that account for lower evaporation losses due to deeper infiltration used in the predictive modeling from 2000 to 2100, compared to averaged monthly precipitation values assigned during the spin-up period. This emphasizes the need of climate prediction at high temporal resolution if groundwater recharge should be estimated as a response to future climate changes.
Water content changes in the whole soil profiles for all three scenarios basically show similar percolation patterns as a response to high precipitation events, even though the timing of the single events differs. Percolation fronts of a fast sequence of high precipitation events can be traced in all three scenarios down deeper parts of the vadose zone. However, probably due to lower precipitation intensities the infiltration fronts in A1B only reach down to a depth of 15 m, while in in B1 and A2 high precipitation events are retrieved down to a depth of 30 m (Fig. 7).
When zooming in to the upper 5 m of the soil profiles, an evaporation depth of less than 3 m can be observed for all three scenarios. Even the larger increase in temperature in the A2 scenario does not show significant increases in evaporation depth at the end of the simulation period (Fig. 8).
Comparing water and vapor fluxes in summer and winter show different flux patterns driven by temperature (Fig. 9). In summer time, in the deeper part of the vadose zone, both water and vapor fluxes are mainly directed downward. Only in the upper few centimeters of the soil profile, vapor flux is directed upward, contributing to evaporation. During winter, the vapor flux is directed upward down to 1 m soil depth, which is driven by thermal vapor fluxes, as the thermal gradient is negative and thus directed upward. Water fluxes during winter are directed downward in the whole soil profile, as precipitation mainly occurs in the winter time leading to gravitationally driven downward water flow. Below the first centimeter of the soil profile, both summer and winter water fluxes are directed downward. In the deeper part of the soil profile (blow 2 m depth) summer water fluxes approach zero, while winter water fluxes reach steady-state conditions. Thus, only during winter month infiltrated precipitation will reach deeper parts of the vadose zone in higher amounts and thus can enable groundwater recharge.
The inverse modeling based on sensitivity coefficients revealed that highly relevant parameters for groundwater studies in arid regions are air-entry pressure and residual water content, rather than saturated hydraulic conductivity. Thus, measurements of the retention curve near residual saturation can be more helpful for characterizing water flow patterns in arid regions than for conducting infiltration tests. Nevertheless, measuring retention curves in the small columns still might not reflect the retention curve valid under field conditions. Transferring the results obtained by soil column experiments to field scale still lacks in taking heterogeneities, as well as other environmental factors like vegetation, for example, into account. Thus, additional experiments employing large-scale lysimeter setups under real field conditions, including event-based soil moisture monitoring are highly recommended for future research.
The predictive modeling studies based on GHG emission scenarios showed an increase of the mean recharge by 7 to 25 mm yr−1 in 2100. However, obtained values only account for homogenous high permeable sand profiles and effective recharge rates are expected to be under field conditions distinctively smaller. Regarding climate, highest influences for groundwater recharge are driven by precipitation oscillations that occur in all three climate predictions, A1B, A2, and B1. Even the high temperature increase in Scenario A2 does not affect groundwater recharge rates. For groundwater recharge predictions in arid regions, reliable precipitation predictions, especially on a daily basis, are most relevant to reduce uncertainty in numerical investigations.
Due to the uncertainty and noise of the precipitation in the climate simulations it is not possible to predict the particular time of high precipitation events. However, the simulations with the climate model indicate for all GHG scenarios that there will be periods in future with higher precipitation events leading to increasing soil water storage, probable groundwater recharge, and a refreshing of the groundwater resources.
The study showed that groundwater recharge is mainly governed by precipitation rates, in which single high precipitation events, which can deeply infiltrate, are the main source for direct recharge in an arid environment. Different climate scenario studies corresponding to different GHG emission scenarios showed only marginal effects on recharge rates, and thus cumulative groundwater recharge rates until 2100 vary only minor for different climate predictions.
We highly acknowledge the soil hydraulic and thermal property measurements of the dune sand performed at the Environmental Molecular Science Laboratory (EMSL, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA) with special thanks to M. Oostrom and T. Wietsma. The work was founded by the BMBF (German Federal Ministry of Education and Research) within the IPSWaT (International Postgraduate Studies on Water and Technologie) program. Climate simulations were performed and founded within the EU project ENSEMBLES (http://ensembles-eu.metoffice.com/).
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Location of the investigated area including (yellow) sand dune areas, and grid cells of the climate model with model orography of the single grid cells.
Conceptual model setup with initial and boundary conditions for the inverse model corresponding to soil column experiments, and adjusted boundary conditions for the scenario modeling.
(top) Measured versus simulated water content at 14 and 64 cm and (bottom) measured versus simulated cumulative discharge and evaporation.
Retention data from small column experiments, together with fitted Brooks and Corey model with optimized θr and θr that equals zero. Retention curve obtained through inverse modeling of drainage and evaporation from large column experiments is also shown.
Simulated annual sum of precipitation and averaged temperature for the three greenhouse gas emission scenarios A1B, A2, and B1 until 2100 obtained with the climate model EGMAM. The realization used for the predictive vadose zone modeling is given in continuous lines (temperature) and solid bars (precipitation), dashed lines (temperature) and empty bars (precipitation) show two additional climate model realizations.
Simulated annual recharge, cumulated recharge, and changes in soil water storage with respect to the three greenhouse gas scenarios A1B, A2, and B2.
Simulated contour plots for water content changes and corresponding recharge over the whole simulation time for the A2 scenario realization.
Simulated contour plots for water content changes within the upper 5 m of the soil profile for the GHG emission scenario A2 during the years 2800 and 2100.
Water (solid lines) and vapor fluxes (dashed lines) for summer and winter period (negative = downward, positive = upward) with temperature distribution in the upper 3 m of the soil profile.
Hydraulic parameters of the dune sand obtained by fitting the Brooks and Corey model (1964) to small-scale retention measurements and from the inverse model of the large column experiments. Scaled dimensionless parameter sensitivity coefficients of the estimated model parameters are calculated with PEST. θr, residual water content; θs, volumetric water content at saturation; hb and λ , Brooks and Corey parameters; Ks, saturated hydraulic conductivity.
Hydraulic parameters of the dune sand
θr θs hb λ Ks
cm3 cm−3 cm – m s−1
Hydraulic parameters (small column) 0.067 0.31 42.1 2.91 7.2e-5
Hydraulic parameters with θr set to zero (small column) 0 0.31 38.22 1.27 7.2e-5
Hydraulic parameters of the soil column (inverse model) 0.005 0.367 31.5 1.19 1.3e-5
Dimensionless sensitivity coefficient 1.57 1.71 9.38 0.31 4.44e-3
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Here we are, at the beginning of a new year and the end of an era. After a 32-year run (1987-2018), Kawasaki has ceased production of the KLR650. After tens of thousands of units sold and millions of miles ridden around the globe, the legendary dual-sport has been retired. A victim of ever-tightening emissions regulations, the KLR and its lone carburetor have been put out to pasture.
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In the October 2013 issue of Rider, Clement Salvadori wrote his Retrospective column about the 1993-1996 Kawasaki KLX650, a more powerful, more off-road-oriented spin-off of the KLR, and he summed up the icon’s early history:
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Read about the first-gen KLR in “Re-Cycling: 1987-2007 Kawasaki KLR650”
Rider’s first test of the Kawasaki KLR650 was a three-bike tour test comparison published in the April 1989 issue.
Salvadori was on hand for the KLR650’s first test in Rider, a three-bike tour test comparison with the Honda Transalp and BMW R100GS published in the April 1989 issue, two years after the KLR650 was introduced. (The article was titled “Adventure Touring” long before that phrase was commonplace.) With Editor Mark Tuttle and Technical Editor Bob Price in tow, Clem led the gang through Death Valley–up Goler Wash, out to Aguereberry Point and through Emigrant Canyon–back when the area was still a national monument (it became a national park in 1994). The KLR proved to be the best off-road bike of the three thanks to its generous low-end torque, 9.1 inches of suspension travel and comparatively low weight. On the road, however, its 651cc single was buzzy (despite having dual counterbalancers) and its front brake was woefully underpowered. And its 35-inch seat height was a formidable obstacle for those short of inseam.
In the years that followed, Rider selected the KL650 Tengai as the “Top Adventure Touring Motorcycle” (May 1990 issue) and published touring features in which the KLR650 played a leading role (“Dirty Duo,” August 1993; “A KLR in Color Country,” May 1995). The KLR soldiered on, selling well and building a loyal following.
Rider published its first solo test of the KLR in the November 1997 issue, written by Arden Kysely. Having gotten the formula right out of the gate, the KLR underwent few changes during its first two decades. A rare round of updates for the 1997 model year were limited to a lighter flywheel, an extra clutch plate and a more conservative color/graphics package. About the KLR’s brakes, Kysely penned this memorable line: “…the front and rear discs muster all the enthusiasm of a teenager cleaning his room.” Weak brakes aside, he praised the KLR for its affordable price, good midrange power and torque, nimble handling, ample range, comfortable seat and ability to carry lots of gear.
Arden Kysely poses with his 1987 KLR650 among the rocks of California’s Mojave Desert on his way home from a 1995 Utah adventure ride.
With fond memories of his years, miles and adventures on KLRs (he put 40,000 miles on his 1989 KLR and 25,000 on his 1997 KLR), Kysely had this to say: “The KLR is no beauty queen, lacks modern electronic rider aids and won’t win many drag races, but there’s no better bike for newbies and veterans on a budget to take exploring. The KLR is for riders who want to enjoy the country they’re riding through, not just blast through to check another route off the list. And it’s the ultimate workhorse–just keep it shod and fed and a KLR will be your faithful companion on many adventures. Compared to more modern bikes, this one-lung adventurer may seem lacking, but it’s simplicity and ruggedness are virtues not found in the high-dollar machines.”
Read Arden Kysely’s “The Arrival: A Tale of the Sierra Madre on KLR650s”
With so many KLRs on (and off) the road–by some estimates, nearly 150,000 were produced–the venerable dual-sport fueled a veritable cottage industry in the aftermarket. In the May 1999 issue of Rider, EIC Tuttle wrote a project bike feature called “King KLR.” Starting with a stock 1998 KLR650, he upgraded the suspension (including an Öhlins shock), handlebar, seat, exhaust, clutch, tires and various odds-and-ends, such as the infamous “doohickey,” the name the KLR community gave to the notoriously failure-prone “balancer chain adjuster lever.” He also swapped the steel gas tank for a lighter plastic one (being translucent, it also provided a low-tech fuel “gauge”) and added hand guards, a taller windscreen, cleated footpegs, a centerstand, a skid plate and soft luggage.
EIC Tuttle’s extensive KLR650 upgrade project was summarized in his feature “King KLR” in the May 1999 issue of Rider.
Having turned the KLR into a more comfortable and versatile adventure tourer, he bought the bike from Kawasaki and kept it in his garage for more than a decade, occasionally using it for two-up camping trips with his wife, Genie. Looking back, Tuttle muses: “Since 1987 the primary benefit of the KLR650 has also been its biggest weakness: size and comfort. Though far lighter than contemporary liter-class ADV bikes, compared to most dual-sport 650 singles the KLR is heavy and has less ground clearance, so it can be a handful in sand and on big hills. At a Jeep-like pace it tackles moderate single-track trails and fire roads just fine, though, and its bigger seat, road-hugging weight and liquid-cooling make it a far better companion on long road rides than its air-cooled competitors.”
Rider EIC Mark Tuttle and wife Genie embarking on a camping trip on the 1998 “King KLR” replete with Acerbis front disc and hand guards, IMS tank and Happy Trails panniers. No one ever told said you can’t ride off-road two-up, so they often did on that trusty KLR, though sometimes Mark asked Genie to dismount and hike some of the gnarlier bits.
Tuttle continued: “My most memorable KLR650 experience was road-racing one on a 150-mile white-knuckled sprint from Ensenada to San Felipe in Baja, Mexico, a La Carrera homage probably put on by the late great Loyal Truesdale. Even though the road was closed and the bike topped out at the ton, I lost count of the close calls after the fifth burro encounter….”
When I joined the Rider staff in 2008, I convinced EIC Tuttle to let me borrow his kitted-out KLR for an adventure-bike ride with a group organized by our local BMW dealer. After borrowing it a couple more times, scratching it up and developing a genuine fondness for the KLR, I pestered Tuttle for months to sell it to me. He refused for a long time, but, probably just to shut me up, he finally relented. Most of my buddies rode expensive BMW GSs, but I loved my low-tech KLR.
Senior Editor Greg Drevenstedt is all smiles during his first ride on King KLR in California’s Los Padres National Forest.
Thanks to the KLR, I learned how to ride a big dual-sport/adventure bike, tackling sand washes and technical hill climbs, crashing more times than I’d care to admit. I referred to my KLR as the Mountain Goat because it would go just about anywhere…not particularly fast, but it was a trooper. And riding the KLR wasn’t “work.” I didn’t have to worry about damaging a test bike or evaluating the bike I was on, so I could just ride for riding’s sake. Riding the KLR on national forest roads and trails throughout the Angeles, Los Padres and Sequoia national forests and all over the Mojave Desert reminded me of my high school days, when I would explore trails on my mountain bike. And I met a lot of great people on group rides, several of whom are some of my best friends to this day.
Providing access to views like this, from atop Cameusa Peak in California’s Los Padres National Forest, is what makes the KLR650 such an endearing motorcycle.
King KLR and I had eight good years together, but the reality was that it spent much more time parked in the garage than it did out on adventures, and today’s ethanol-blended gas (and my neglect) took its toll on the fuel petcock and the tiny jets in the carburetor. With a twinge of sadness, I sold it to a good friend–the very same guy who led the first and many of the best rides I had on the KLR. It’s still in the family, so to speak, and I think of that bike every morning when I drink coffee out of my KLR650 mug.
Read our 2007 Kawasaki KLR650 vs Honda XR650L vs Suzuki DR650S comparison review
The KLR got its first and only major update for the 2008 model year, with engine tweaks for smoother and stronger power delivery, better suspension and brakes, a more supportive seat and new switchgear and bodywork. Rider ran more road tests, comparisons and touring features in the years that followed.
Read our 2008 Kawasaki KLR650 road test review
This tricked-out 2009 KLR650 carried Managing Editor Jenny Smith (in her pre-Rider days) on many adventures, including two trips to the Overland Expo outside Flagstaff, Arizona (shown here). As Marketing Director for Twisted Throttle, she outfitted it with full crash protection, soft waterproof luggage, auxiliary LED lights and a custom seat by Steve Gowing.
Managing Editor Jenny Smith, who joined the Rider staff in 2016, owned a second-gen KLR: “As a dedicated sport rider, dual-sport motorcycles were never on my radar–until I moved to Colorado. Suddenly I found myself and my Honda RC51 left behind while my new group of friends hit the myriad of forest roads and trails on weekends. When I expressed interest, they were nearly unanimous: buy a KLR650. I found a bone-stock, low-mileage 2009 at the local dealership and will never forget my first foray off-pavement. We pulled to a stop at the open gate to ‘air down’ (what in the world??), then I followed them into the forest and onto a rollercoaster of a jeep trail, laughing in amazed, unbridled joy as we splashed through puddles, clawed up rocky hills and paused regularly to soak in the scenery. I was hooked, and for the next four years the KLR (soon outfitted thoroughly with crash protection, lights and luggage) was my ticket to some of the most challenging and beautiful rides I’ve ever experienced. I saw what was at the end of those dirt roads, camped in the wilderness, fell down (a lot), picked the bike back up, learned to carry a quart of oil on any long trip and fell back in love with motorcycling.”
Read our 2012 Kawasaki KLR650 vs BMW G 650 GS Sertão comparison review
Playing around in Death Valley on the 2014.5 Kawasaki KLR650 New Edition. (Photo by Alfonse Palaima)
One of my fondest memories of the KLR was a two-day ride through Death Valley for the press launch of the 2014.5 KLR650 New Edition, which got firmer suspension, a new seat and new color options. Twenty-five years after the KLR first appeared in Rider, a group of us covered some of the same terrain on bikes that, apart from minor updates, had essentially the same liquid-cooled 651cc single, same frame, same 35-inch seat height and same 6.1-gallon fuel tank. KLRs made in the final years of the production run were certainly better than the early models, but in some ways the KLR has been timeless. And it’s even cheaper now than it was three decades ago.
Read our 2014.5 Kawasaki KLR650 New Edition first ride review
Back in 1989, when we published our first comparison test featuring the KLR650, its MSRP was $3,499 ($7,164 in 2018 dollars). MSRP for 2018 KLR650s that remain on dealer floors is $6,699, a savings of $465 in current dollars from the 1989 model. But on the Cycle Trader website there are scads of new, 0-mile KLR650s going for less than $6,000, with some even listed for less than $5,000. And if you’re in the market for a used KLR, the possibilities are nearly as limitless as the aftermarket products designed specifically for the crowd-pleasing dual-, er, triple-sport.
Read Clement Salvadori’s exploration of California’s Lost Coast
on a 2014 Kawasaki KLR6750 New Edition
Officially it may be the end of the KLR, but the adventures will continue for many years to come.
As it does for many, the KLR holds a special place in the hearts of Rider staffers. Hearing the distinctive tweet from the exhaust of a KLR riding by immediately transports us back to memorable adventures, carefree days and campfire nights.
Will we see the KLR return in a year or two, minimally updated with fuel injection and an emissions-compliant exhaust system (like the KLX250 did)? Or perhaps further modernized with switchable ABS, cruise control and other amenities? Whether or not Kawasaki revives the venerable KLR, its legend is secure as one of the most affordable, reliable, versatile and enjoyable motorcycles ever produced.
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Jim Cunningham January 23, 2019 at 3:09 pm
Great article! I have had 14 different motorcycles in my long riding history. Two of those were KLRs (1988 and 2014.5) I have had some epic bike tours and none better than on the KLRs. Magruder Corridor, Lolo Motorway, 12 Colorado Passes in one day. I will probably have the 2014.5 until I no longer ride. Truly the end of an era in motorcycling. The KLR goes into the sunset with head held high and a job well done.
Carl Hoobler January 23, 2019 at 3:14 pm
Well Heck!! Sorry to see it go. I was hoping that it would receive a fuel injection at some point. I think that would have been great. I had a 1996 model I wish I had kept. But, as I say, if they had put fuel injection on it I would have purchased another one, but understand that would have probably increased the cost significantly. Oh well, bye bye KLR..
Greg Gibson January 23, 2019 at 4:23 pm
I used to ride the early LA-B-V dual sports on an ’83 XL350 followed by a plated ’86 XR600. I recall Damon Powell (who was big in dual sports then and later published Dual Dogs magazine) had a KLR 600 in which he’d transplanted a KX500 two-stroke engine. Holy sh*t he was fast on that thing, often two-up.
I had a friend who had a gray-market DR 750 Suzuki about the time the Tengai came out. That Suzuki was about 20 years ahead of it’s time as it turns out. The KLX 650 was a cool bike but it was tall and had limited fuel range. I did a bike trade once and ended up with a KLR650 as part of the deal. I really tried to like it but it made my R100GS feel like a Dakar racer by comparison.
So Kawasaki, can you beat Yamaha to the market with their much delayed T-7? Versys engine in an updated chassis and sturdy subframe? We’re all waiting….
I Ride January 23, 2019 at 7:42 pm
My sentiments also. Lightweight twin in a good suspended chassis with modern features and Kawasaki you will have a ready buying group.
kenny moore January 25, 2019 at 8:38 am
I’ll stand in line for a 2020 KLR 650 (MODERN) TWIN!😳🤔😁! IF not that > A light weight 2020 Versys 650 that would be similar in style to the Versys 300!
westerling travel January 24, 2019 at 8:25 pm
Why no official press release? Writers seem to get informed from someone in Kawasaki who called at 11:56pm with whispered voices?
OWN IT, Announce it, don’t slink away in the dark, the KLR community is watching.
You are not working hard to keep my next purchase a Kawasaki.
But wait, here’s a teaser……a 2020 Kawasaki KLR850 with bluetooth, TFT screen, Electronic Suspension Adjustments, 6 rider riding modes, @$18k, cruise, efi, maintenence every 120 hours, euro 7 compliant,
Kevin Powers January 25, 2019 at 4:15 pm
Fond memories of my KLR – El Burro Rojo! Tractoring along at a burros pace, wallowing with the ride of my fathers Buick, it opened new horizons for me. I learned a lot about riding and wrenching with that bike. First order of business was a 320mm front rotor. When I set out to replace the doohickey I drained the oil only to find the broken doohickey stuck to the magnetic drain plug.
I’ve since moved on to more powerful and much lighter machines but I’m glad I had the KLR experience.
Brian Howard January 26, 2019 at 2:35 am
I have a lot of respect for Kawasaki and the fact they kept this bike going for 32(!) years. Ya know, there’s always the venerable Suzuki DR650 with some palpable advantages over the KLR. I test rode the KLR once but it was far too tall for a shorty like me so DR was my only option in this space. Air-cooled simplicity just like we all enjoyed in the 1970’s in our youth. I have a bright yellow 2005 DR650 and I will never sell her, ever. Only 6,000 kms from new now in 2019 and I baby her like a mother. She is precious to me. Still looks brand new. Gotta say, the DR looks a whole lot more ’70’s fun bike than the KLR too. I will say I am sad to see KLR leave us though. It has many strengths and also some advantages over DR. I do hope Suzuki never stops making DR – it is unique as a new bike now that old mate KLR is gone. Thanks for the story ‘Rider’.
Mike Strozewski January 26, 2019 at 10:22 pm
I have had a 1994 KLR since 1997. I have been to 35 countries with my KLR. This includes going from tip of South America,
Terra del Fuego to Dead horse Alaska. My longest trip was when I shipped it to England and went to Russia. On this trip I did 14000 miles and went through 22 countries. My KLR never let me down. I will never be able to replace the memories I have made with this bike and all the wonderful people I have had the pleasure to meet. I don’t ride as much because I’m getting older, but I will not sell my KLR. For my funeral I want my ashes in the urn duct taped on the seat of my KLR and a keg of beer on each side of the bike and party down.
Robin Richards January 27, 2019 at 2:14 pm
Switched from ’06 KLR to Honda NC700X, primarily due to 200 miles of slab to favorite USFS roads. Hoping Kawasaki will put a 270 degree crank in a Versys 650 motor, hang it in the KLR chassis and add a driveshaft. I suspect they’d sell a bunch of ’em; one of the very first to me.
Gin Shear January 28, 2019 at 2:08 pm
There are two KLRs in our garage. WHat a wonderful dual sport!Sorry to see it be discontinued. We had hoped for another update with fuel injection. Alas.
Mike Fawkes January 28, 2019 at 8:18 pm
I’ve ridden lots of big dual sports ,including a couple of klrs before 08 and after…and ..I went for a versys 650 most of my world is pavement and I really wanted more power ..not tons like my Gixxer just some more ..now if they would blend the klr and versys I’m in!…gotta love fuel injection..thanks
John Balazek August 18, 2019 at 3:38 pm
I call mine a Dirtwing. I added an ATV lounge to the back and I made my own dash and windshield. It has a throttle lock cruise control and Ram phone and drink holders. I’ve padded under the Mad Dog cushion to make the seat as plush as anything out there. The suspension is done as well as the KLX kit and Lmod. The bike is so perfectly modified to me that I am looking at the Versys/Ninja engine mod!
Greg October 1, 2019 at 7:32 pm
Bought a 2018 Camo KLR just because they were coming to an end. Former mtb & dirtbike racer who loves a big thumper. Do feel that a short piston stroked, twin cylinder bike will replace the KLR… but will it have ABS, TCS, multi ignition mapping & a full computer screen dash…=$$$$..?
James November 10, 2019 at 12:06 am
I just got a 2018 blacked out KLR becaused I realized how much I missed road riding but still wanted to play in the dirt. This was truly the best choice out there. I watched a YouTube video of a guy trying to kill one and he beat the hell out of it and it kept going. That video made my mind up.
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The application of sequential state theory to the measurement of perfomance on three delayed-response tasks by capuchin monkeys
Lentz, James Lee (The University of Arizona., 1978)
Evaluation of an instructional program for breast self-examination (BSE)
Vargas de Robles, Perla Amalia, 1955- (The University of Arizona., 1989)
Two hundred and three patients participated in a study designed to evaluate a structured learning package for teaching competent breast self-examination (BSE) at a Screening Center. The package consisted of modeling, practice without feedback on a breast model, and limited practice and feedback on the patients' own breasts. Performance proficiency was evaluated by an observer as the number of BSE's steps correctly practiced during pre and post-training evaluations. A questionnaire to gather information about patients history, knowledge, and attitudes toward BSE and breast cancer was also used. Results show that more than 80% of the patients who could improve did so in most steps of both components, visual inspection and palpation. In addition, only 31% of the patients performed a perfect and complete BSE immediately after the teaching session. The two steps patients failed the most were checking the axillary-tail and covering the complete breast. A corrective procedure to improve the teaching package is discussed.
Effects of a model's reward and donation magnitudes on children's altruistic behavior
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Cortical evoked response and the mach effect
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The effect of variant attitudes on the standardization of Thurstone's scale of attitude toward the church
Zazeckis, Thomas Michael (The University of Arizona., 1981)
Effects of modeling on female competition against males
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Self help book versus standard therapy in assertiveness training: an empirical investigation of the effectiveness of bibliotherapy
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Continuance in psychotherapy as a function of expectations and socioeconomic status
Foote, Janis Elaine, 1949- (The University of Arizona., 1975)
Nonverbal recall and omission errors in normal aging
Valdiserri, Michael (The University of Arizona., 2002)
Omission errors made by 186 older adults were compared to those of 96 younger adults on a nonverbal delayed recall task, the Wechsler Memory Scale - Revised Visual Reproduction II subtest (WMS - R VR 2, Wechsler, 1987). Older subjects failed to reproduce both figures A and B significantly more often than younger subjects, with the greatest between--group variance occurring on figure A. The results suggest that age-related declines in nonverbal memory and delayed recall may have contributed to this pattern of performance. Furthermore, inattention and retroactive interference effects may have also been particularly relevant. Suggestions are made for subsequent research to rule out order effects by reordering the presentation of VR2 subtest stimuli and employing other measures of visual memory, visuoconstructive performance, and interference. Further understanding of older adults' performance on the WMS - R Visual Reproduction subtest would prove valuable, since it is used extensively in a variety of research and clinical settings.
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Caregiver characteristics and their relationship to health service utilization in minority patients with first episode stroke
Allison N. Clark, Angelle M. Sander, Monique Pappadis, Gina L.evans, Margaret A S Truchen, Faye Y. Chiou-Tan
The purpose of the current study was to investigate the contribution of caregivers' characteristics to health service utilization by minority persons with first episode stroke. Participants were 61 primary caregivers of minority persons (41% African American; 59% Hispanic) with first episode symptomatic stroke consecutively admitted to an inpatient rehabilitation unit at a county hospital. Caregiver characteristics included resources for daily living, general health, social support, and health beliefs. Health service utilization was defined as the percentage of medical and therapy appointments attended for the first 6 months following discharge from inpatient rehabilitation. There was no difference in percentage of appointments attended between African American and Hispanic caregivers. There was a significant difference between caregivers on the External Control by Powerful Others subscale of the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control Scale (MHLC), with Hispanic caregivers reporting a greater belief that powerful others exerted control over their health. There was a trend for Hispanics to score higher on the External Control by Chance subscale of the MHLC. Results of logistic regression analyses indicated that persons with stroke were less likely to attend appointments if their caregiver believed that health was related to chance factors. These results suggest that caregiver health beliefs play an important role in patient adherence to medical recommendations. Education of caregivers may result in improved follow-through with medical recommendations.
https://doi.org/10.3233/NRE-2010-0584
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Clark, A. N., Sander, A. M., Pappadis, M., L.evans, G., Truchen, M. A. S., & Chiou-Tan, F. Y. (2010). Caregiver characteristics and their relationship to health service utilization in minority patients with first episode stroke. NeuroRehabilitation, 27(1), 95-104. https://doi.org/10.3233/NRE-2010-0584
Caregiver characteristics and their relationship to health service utilization in minority patients with first episode stroke. / Clark, Allison N.; Sander, Angelle M.; Pappadis, Monique; L.evans, Gina; Truchen, Margaret A S; Chiou-Tan, Faye Y.
In: NeuroRehabilitation, Vol. 27, No. 1, 2010, p. 95-104.
Clark, AN, Sander, AM, Pappadis, M, L.evans, G, Truchen, MAS & Chiou-Tan, FY 2010, 'Caregiver characteristics and their relationship to health service utilization in minority patients with first episode stroke', NeuroRehabilitation, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 95-104. https://doi.org/10.3233/NRE-2010-0584
Clark AN, Sander AM, Pappadis M, L.evans G, Truchen MAS, Chiou-Tan FY. Caregiver characteristics and their relationship to health service utilization in minority patients with first episode stroke. NeuroRehabilitation. 2010;27(1):95-104. https://doi.org/10.3233/NRE-2010-0584
Clark, Allison N. ; Sander, Angelle M. ; Pappadis, Monique ; L.evans, Gina ; Truchen, Margaret A S ; Chiou-Tan, Faye Y. / Caregiver characteristics and their relationship to health service utilization in minority patients with first episode stroke. In: NeuroRehabilitation. 2010 ; Vol. 27, No. 1. pp. 95-104.
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Mappa - is closer collaboration really the key to effectiveness?
Professor Michael Nash
L. Walker
Institute of Criminal Justice Studies
This article considers ways in which the police operate with other agencies under the Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements (Mappa). It takes a slice of opinion from Responsible Authorities (RAs) and Duty to Cooperate (DTC) agencies in a discrete geographical area. The research aimed to explore the extent of cooperation and barriers to it. Aside from the traditionally identified factors such as poor information exchange, it also attempted to discern if issues around values and agency identity lingered some eight years after the arrangements were formalized in law under the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000. The research revealed that despite cooperation being extensive, there remained problems not only with agencies traditionally viewed as resistant to sharing (health, social services) but also among the core members themselves.
https://doi.org/10.1093/police/pap007
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/police/pap007
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Monster Confidence Launches in London to Boost STEM Confidence in Girls
Home Page Original Content Press Room
Chris McColgan , 27th November 2019
Jobs site, Monster.co.uk, and social enterprise, Stemettes, are taking Monster Confidence on the road to show the next generation that girls do Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) too, and give them the tools and confidence needed to secure a job. The first event launched earlier this week in London and was a huge success.
Since launching the events in 2016, over 2,000 young women have attended to receive encouragement and guidance from industry experts on how to pursue careers and qualifications of their dreams within STEM fields. Monster Confidence will be hosting two further events this year across the UK where unemployment and is at its highest and social mobility at its lowest – Teesside and Peterborough.
The girls, aged between 14 and 18, will get to experience the following:
Speed mentoring with inspirational women within STEM who will give the girls confidence to enter their dream careers
CV advice from the pros to land that interview
Mock interviews with HR experts to learn how to smash their first interview and get the job they wan
Tips on presentation skills so they can present with total confidence
Support on how to create a professional online presence
Lightning talks where volunteers will be giving a seven minute talk on their specialist industry to inspire young women to consider it as a career path
To give young women confidence and inspiration, they will also hear from some of the UK’s most influential women in technology. This year’s speakers range from GCHQ and Westfield, as well as Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE co-founder of Stemettes and Professor Kerensa Jennings, Member of the IoC Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Board. Jacinda Fahey, Head of Project & Programme Management at G-Research, will also be giving a talk, as will Eve Lee from The Digital Fairy.
The next two events will be taking place at the following locations:
Teeside on 26th November at Middlesbrough Football Club, TS3 6RS
Peterborough on 28th November at CDW, 1 Cyrus Way, PE7 8HP
Students from The Buckingham School who attended the London event spoke about their experience at the event:
“I was inspired by learning how to write a CV, talking about interviews and how to do them correctly.”
“I’ve been helped today by getting to learn about writing my CV and what to include in my online career profile.”
Lou Goodman, EU Product Marketing Director at Monster UK, comments:
“The Monster Confidence bootcamps have always been huge successes inspiring thousands of young women to enter the world of STEM. Only 5% of leadership tech roles are held by women, so these events provide a fantastic way for young women to be exposed to the jobs available to them and inspire them to be the leaders of tomorrow. This year’s roadshow is expected to be the best one yet, and we can’t wait to help the next generation of women feel confident and empowered to enter these industries.”
Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE, Head Stemette and co-founder of Stemettes, comments,
“We’re delighted to be partnering with Monster.co.uk for the fourth year in a row to motivate and inspire today’s generation of young women to enter the world of STEM.
“We know from previous attendees the significant impact that Monster Confidence events have had on them. I can’t wait to encourage more young women to enter these exciting industries with the right mindset.”
Lindsay Witcher, Vice President, Practice Strategy, Randstad RiseSmart, says,
“Randstad RiseSmart is honoured to be a part of an event that promotes the important role women play in STEM. We truly believe that everyone can benefit from programs that are focused on the unique value women bring to the workplace. This event encapsulates how confidence, networking, mentorship, and planning can empower more women to excel in the workplace. I look forward to seeing where this next group of talented women go in their careers and what they can accomplish with these tools at their fingertips.”
Jacqueline de Rojas CBE, President of techUK and Co-Chair of the IoC’s Governance Board, says, “The industry needs more diversity and inclusion, and whether your passion lies in gaming, fashion, activism or beyond, there is a learning pathway for you.
“At the IoC, our mission is to encourage learners from diverse backgrounds to build their tech and digital skills. Teaming up with the Stemettes and Monster.co.uk is an opportunity to signpost accessible ways into the industry through higher education.”
For more detail on Monster Confidence events, from how to register or to get involved as a volunteer, please visit the website.
Nearly Three in Five of Us Have Given up Hope of Landing Our Dream Job
Free Workshops will Help Employers Deal with Looming Contractor Law Changes
Chris McColgan
Chris is a digital marketing and publishing whizz by trade, having worked alongside the Automotive, Information Security and Software Asset Management sectors.
Specialising in data analysis and social media, he combines an analytical approach with a creative flair to achieve the best results. With a keen interest in Technology and Politics, Chris is constantly on the look-out for the latest stories around change and innovation.
As a lover of all things innovative, he has developed a keen eye for spotting the latest trends and hot topics. He sources and reads the latest news and thought-leadership articles from the world of recruitment before sharing them with the social media population.
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Awake discography: A comparison study with magnetic resonance imaging
James W. Simmons, Stephen F. Emery, John N. McMillin, Dan Landa, Sara J. Kimmich
This study was undertaken to determine the correlation between awake discography findings and magnetic resonance imaging in the evaluation of symptomatic lumbar disc disease. The study included 164 consecutive patients who underwent evaluation with discography and magnetic resonance imaging for lumbar disc disease from August 1987 to September 1989. Chronic low-back pain, with or without radicular symptoms, was the pre-senting complaint in each case. Each patient had previously failed conservative treatment. The average age was 36 (range, 19-66 years). Magnetic resonance images were performed before discography in each case. Discography was performed with patients minimally sedated and under local anesthesia. A lateral approach was used. Magnetic resonance imaging and discography correlated in 90 cases (55%) and differed in 74 (45%). Considering disc levels, discography and magnetic resonance imaging correlated in 371 discs (80%). There were 172 normal discs and 199 abnormal discs. Of the abnormal discs, 151 (76%) reproduced symptoms. In 60 discs (13%), magnetic resonance images showed abnormal findings and the discogram normal findings. Discs levels classified as abnormal on magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated that 108 discs (37%) were asymptomatic. Magnetic resonance imaging showed normal findings and the discogram abnormal findings in 34 discs (7%), of which 21 (5%) recreated exact symptoms and 13 (2%) caused no pain. Magnetic resonance imaging is a static test and discography the only available dynamic test for disc evaluation. Awake discography is a diagnostic study that can determine which abnormal discs are symptomatic via the pain response.
Simmons, J. W., Emery, S. F., McMillin, J. N., Landa, D., & Kimmich, S. J. (1991). Awake discography: A comparison study with magnetic resonance imaging. Spine, 16(6S), S216-S221.
Awake discography : A comparison study with magnetic resonance imaging. / Simmons, James W.; Emery, Stephen F.; McMillin, John N.; Landa, Dan; Kimmich, Sara J.
In: Spine, Vol. 16, No. 6S, 1991, p. S216-S221.
Simmons, JW, Emery, SF, McMillin, JN, Landa, D & Kimmich, SJ 1991, 'Awake discography: A comparison study with magnetic resonance imaging', Spine, vol. 16, no. 6S, pp. S216-S221.
Simmons JW, Emery SF, McMillin JN, Landa D, Kimmich SJ. Awake discography: A comparison study with magnetic resonance imaging. Spine. 1991;16(6S):S216-S221.
Simmons, James W. ; Emery, Stephen F. ; McMillin, John N. ; Landa, Dan ; Kimmich, Sara J. / Awake discography : A comparison study with magnetic resonance imaging. In: Spine. 1991 ; Vol. 16, No. 6S. pp. S216-S221.
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Meteorological Instruments
How the Totable Tornado Observatory Worked
The earliest recorded tornado in history was described by Irish villagers as a "steeple of fire." See more storm pictures.
Richard Olsenius/National Geographic/Getty Images
Being a natural phenomenon, tornadoes have likely plagued humankind for as long as we've dwelt on the planet. But it wasn't until the 11th century that the earliest account of a tornado was recorded. On April 30, 1054, a twister struck the village of Rosdalla, Ireland [source: TORRO]. That twister was later described by one observer as a "steeple of fire" in the sky [source: Hare and Hamlin]. The debris field circling this "steeple" looked to the villagers like a flock of birds, with one particularly giant dark bird -- likely a distinct funnel cloud. One can imagine the villagers' surprise when this giant bird uprooted an oak tree and "carried it off in its talons" [source: Joyce].
Storm Image Gallery
Over time, scientists took the burden of understanding tornadoes from the backs of villagers and onto their own. We know more about tornadoes than before; we know now they're not steeples of fire, for example. But science still has a great many questions about how and why tornadoes form. Tornadoes are known to form from supercells -- thunderstorms that possess mesocyclones (rotating updrafts). It's these updrafts that can birth tornadoes. Exactly how this happens, and why only some supercells produce tornadoes remains a mystery.
This less-than-full understanding isn't from a lack of trying. The problem is, to truly understand a tornado, you have to see inside of it. Only two people are known to have witnessed the inside of a tornado and lived to tell about it. Neither, unfortunately, owned any measuring equipment.
Putting a person laden with weather-sensing instruments in the path of a tornado is unethical, even if it does produce results: Humans are fragile. Fifty-five gallon drums, on the other hand, are much sturdier. It was just this kind of reasoning that gave birth to TOTO, the Totable Tornado Observatory.
In this article, you'll find out how TOTO worked, why it didn't work ultimately and some of the technology it gave rise to. Find out on the next page about TOTO's creation.
How Tornadoes Work
Top 5 Tornado Videos
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Recombinant Origin of the Retrovirus XMRV
Tobias Paprotka1,*,
Krista A. Delviks-Frankenberry1,*,
Oya Cingöz3,4,*,
Anthony Martinez5,
Hsing-Jien Kung5,6,
Clifford G. Tepper5,
Wei-Shau Hu2,
Matthew J. Fivash Jr.7,
John M. Coffin3,4,
Vinay K. Pathak1,†
1Viral Mutation Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
2Viral Recombination Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
3Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, School of Medicine, Tufts University, 150 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
4Genetics Program, School of Medicine, Tufts University, 150 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
5Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA.
6Department of Urology, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA.
7Data Management Services, Inc., National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
↵†To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: vinay.pathak{at}nih.gov
Science 01 Jul 2011:
Vol. 333, Issue 6038, pp. 97-101
Tobias Paprotka
Viral Mutation Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
Krista A. Delviks-Frankenberry
Oya Cingöz
Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, School of Medicine, Tufts University, 150 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA 02111, USA.Genetics Program, School of Medicine, Tufts University, 150 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
Anthony Martinez
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA.
Hsing-Jien Kung
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA.Department of Urology, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA.
Clifford G. Tepper
Wei-Shau Hu
Viral Recombination Section, HIV Drug Resistance Program, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
Matthew J. Fivash
Data Management Services, Inc., National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
John M. Coffin
Vinay K. Pathak
For correspondence: vinay.pathak@nih.gov
The retrovirus XMRV (xenotropic murine leukemia virus–related virus) has been detected in human prostate tumors and in blood samples from patients with chronic fatigue syndrome, but these findings have not been replicated. We hypothesized that an understanding of when and how XMRV first arose might help explain the discrepant results. We studied human prostate cancer cell lines CWR22Rv1 and CWR-R1, which produce XMRV virtually identical to the viruses recently found in patient samples, as well as their progenitor human prostate tumor xenograft (CWR22) that had been passaged in mice. We detected XMRV infection in the two cell lines and in the later passage xenografts, but not in the early passages. In particular, we found that the host mice contained two proviruses, PreXMRV-1 and PreXMRV-2, which share 99.92% identity with XMRV over >3.2-kilobase stretches of their genomes. We conclude that XMRV was not present in the original CWR22 tumor but was generated by recombination of two proviruses during tumor passaging in mice. The probability that an identical recombinant was generated independently is negligible (~10−12); our results suggest that the association of XMRV with human disease is due to contamination of human samples with virus originating from this recombination event.
You are going to email the following Recombinant Origin of the Retrovirus XMRV
By Tobias Paprotka, Krista A. Delviks-Frankenberry, Oya Cingöz, Anthony Martinez, Hsing-Jien Kung, Clifford G. Tepper, Wei-Shau Hu, Matthew J. Fivash Jr., John M. Coffin, Vinay K. Pathak
Science 01 Jul 2011 : 97-101
Analysis of the origin of XMRV suggests that links between the virus and human disease are due to laboratory contamination.
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Tag: Eric Merola
CancerClinical TrialsHealth Fraud
The Texas Medical Board lets Stanislaw Burzynski off lightly: A cautionary tale of the failure of regulating medicine
After three years and countless twists and turns, the final decision by the Texas Medical Board on the sanctions to be imposed on Houston cancer quack Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski were announced on Friday. Sadly, they were not enough. The Burzynski saga should serve as a cautionary tale that the regulation of physicians and medicine is too lax, not too strict.
David Gorski / March 6, 2017
Book & movie reviewsPolitics and RegulationScience and the Media
Reviewing Andrew Wakefield’s VAXXED: Antivaccine propaganda at its most pernicious
Antivaccine "hero" Andrew Wakefield has recruited Del Bigtree to help him make a movie about the "CDC whistleblower" manufactroversy and anti vaccine conspiracy theories in general. The results are so ham-fisted that they would make Leni Riefenstahl shout, "Zu viel!" ("Too much!")
David Gorski / July 11, 2016
CancerClinical TrialsPolitics and Regulation
Stanislaw Burzynski’s propaganda victory on antineoplastons: The FDA caves
Sadly, it looks as though Stanislaw Burzynski is going to win his latest round with the FDA. Same as it ever was.
David Gorski / March 24, 2014
Basic ScienceCancerClinical Trials
Eric Merola and Ralph Moss try to exhume the rotting corpse of Laetrile in a new movie
Note: Some of you have probably seen a different version of this post fairly recently. I have a grant deadline this week and just didn’t have time to come up with fresh material up to the standards of SBM. This left me with two choices: Post a “rerun” of an old post, or recycle something. I decided to recycle something for reasons...
David Gorski / February 24, 2014
CancerClinical TrialsScience and the Media
The Burzynski Empire strikes back
You might have noticed that I was very pleased last Friday, very pleased indeed. Given the normal subject matter of this blog, in which we face a seemingly-unrelenting infiltration of pseudoscience and quackery into even the most hallowed halls of academic medicine, against which we seem to be fighting a mostly losing battle, having an opportunity to see such an excellent deconstruction...
David Gorski / November 18, 2013
CancerScience and the Media
Doing Eric Merola a favor…
Believe it or not, I’m going to do Eric Merola (who doesn’t particularly like me, to the point of thinking, apparently, that I’m a white supremacist who doesn’t like evidence but does like to eat puppies) a favor. Having been away at TAM and otherwise occupied hanging out with fellow skeptics and, more stressfully, getting ready to give a talk in front...
Stanislaw Burzynski: A deceptive propaganda movie versus an upcoming news report
Well, I’ve finally seen it, and it was even worse than I had feared. After having heard of Eric Merola’s plan to make a sequel to his 2010 propaganda “documentary” about Stanislaw Burzynski, Burzynski The Movie: Cancer Is Serious Business, which I labeled a bad movie, bad medicine, and bad PR, I’ve finally actually seen the finished product, such as it is....
David Gorski / June 3, 2013
Eric Merola’s conspiracy-mongering and more of Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski’s cancer “success” stories
About a month ago, Eric Merola screened his second movie about “brave maverick doctor” Stanislaw Burzynski, Burzynski: Cancer Is A Serious Business, Part 2 (henceforth referred to as “Burzynski II”), a screening that Brian Thompson and an unnamed colleague from the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) attended, took notes, and even managed to ask a question. At the time, I took advantage...
David Gorski / April 15, 2013
Burzynski: Cancer Is A Serious Business, Part 2: Like the first Burzynski movie, only more so?
Film producer Eric Merola seems to think that there is a conspiracy of skeptics (whom he calls The Skeptics) who are fanatically hell-bent on harassing his hero, Brave Maverick Doctor Stanislaw Burzynski. According to his latest film Burzynski: Cancer Is A Serious Business, Part 2 (henceforth referred to as Burzynski II, to distinguish it from part 1, to which I will refer...
Three myths about Stanislaw Burzynski and The Skeptics
As I finished last week’s post, I promised myself that I wouldn’t write about Stanislaw Burzynski again this week. After all, counting this post I will have done 13 posts so far in 2013, and, counting this one, four of them will have been about Burzynski, and three out of the last five posts (three out of four, really, if we eliminate...
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Home > Employers > What is different about registered scientists? > Technician workforce
Science technicians play a vital role in our society, delivering the skilled technical support our increasingly complex infrastructure requires.
Registered Science Technician (RSciTech) status is a first step to recognising this role and the other Science Council registers are available for all science technicians that progress through their careers, from Registered Scientist to Chartered Scientist, which recognises senior technicians on an equal and distinguished footing with other scientists.
Professional registration for science technicians will help raise their profile and encourage the next generation into pursuing a science career.
“The technicians of the 21st Century will be key to the decommissioning of our ageing nuclear power stations and the construction and maintenance of new ones; to ensuring that the switchover to digital television occurs on schedule; and to manufacturing the high-tech products we will need to sell to the rest of the world in the future.”
Lord Sainsbury, Technician Conference 2010
The Science Council is working closely with the Gatsby Charitable Foundation to support this vision.
Gatsby Charitable Foundation (link)
Defining Skills Need: The Role of Recognition of Technician Status (PDF)
Registration leaflet for science technicians
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Tags: AI ( 38 ), MIT Technology Review ( 54 ), MIT's Sertac Karman and Vivienne Sze developed the new chip, New chips
From M.I.T. Technology Review: “This chip was demoed at Jeff Bezos’s secretive tech conference. It could be key to the future of AI.”
From M.I.T. Technology Review
Photographs by Tony Luong
On a dazzling morning in Palm Springs, California, recently, Vivienne Sze took to a small stage to deliver perhaps the most nerve-racking presentation of her career.
MIT’s Sertac Karman and Vivienne Sze developed the new chip
She knew the subject matter inside-out. She was to tell the audience about the chips, being developed in her lab at MIT, that promise to bring powerful artificial intelligence to a multitude of devices where power is limited, beyond the reach of the vast data centers where most AI computations take place. However, the event—and the audience—gave Sze pause.
The setting was MARS, an elite, invite-only conference where robots stroll (or fly) through a luxury resort, mingling with famous scientists and sci-fi authors. Just a few researchers are invited to give technical talks, and the sessions are meant to be both awe-inspiring and enlightening. The crowd, meanwhile, consisted of about 100 of the world’s most important researchers, CEOs, and entrepreneurs. MARS is hosted by none other than Amazon’s founder and chairman, Jeff Bezos, who sat in the front row.
“It was, I guess you’d say, a pretty high-caliber audience,” Sze recalls with a laugh.
Other MARS speakers would introduce a karate-chopping robot, drones that flap like large, eerily silent insects, and even optimistic blueprints for Martian colonies. Sze’s chips might seem more modest; to the naked eye, they’re indistinguishable from the chips you’d find inside any electronic device. But they are arguably a lot more important than anything else on show at the event.
New capabilities
Newly designed chips, like the ones being developed in Sze’s lab, may be crucial to future progress in AI—including stuff like the drones and robots found at MARS. Until now, AI software has largely run on graphical chips, but new hardware could make AI algorithms more powerful, which would unlock new applications. New AI chips could make warehouse robots more common or let smartphones create photo-realistic augmented-reality scenery.
Sze’s chips are both extremely efficient and flexible in their design, something that is crucial for a field that’s evolving incredibly quickly.
The microchips are designed to squeeze more out of the “deep learning” AI algorithms that have already turned the world upside down. And in the process, they may inspire those algorithms themselves to evolve. “We need new hardware because Moore’s law has slowed down,” Sze says, referring to the axiom coined by Intel cofounder Gordon Moore that predicted that the number of transistors on a chip will double roughly every 18 months—leading to a commensurate performance boost in computer power.
This law is increasingly now running into the physical limits that come with engineering components at an atomic scale. And it is spurring new interest in alternative architectures and approaches to computing.
The high stakes that come with investing in next-generation AI chips, and maintaining America’s dominance in chipmaking overall, aren’t lost on the US government. Sze’s microchips are being developed with funding from a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program meant to help develop new AI chip designs (see The out-there AI ideas designed to keep the US ahead of China).
But innovation in chipmaking has been spurred mostly by the emergence of deep learning, a very powerful way for machines to learn to perform useful tasks. Instead of giving a computer a set of rules to follow, a machine basically programs itself. Training data is fed into a large, simulated artificial neural network, which is then tweaked so that it produces the desired result. With enough training, a deep-learning system can find subtle and abstract patterns in data. The technique is applied to an ever-growing array of practical tasks, from face recognition on smartphones to predicting disease from medical images.
The new chip race
Deep learning is not so reliant on Moore’s law. Neural nets run many mathematical computations in parallel, so they run far more effectively on the specialized video game graphics chips that perform parallel computations for rendering 3D imagery. But microchips designed specifically for the computations that underpin deep learning should be even more powerful.
The potential for new chip architectures to improve AI has stirred up a level of entrepreneurial activity that the chip industry hasn’t seen in decades (see The race to power AI’s silicon brains and China has never had a real chip industry. AI may change that).
Big tech companies hoping to harness and commercialize AI including Google, Microsoft, and (yes) Amazon, are all working on their own deep learning chips. Many smaller companies are developing new chips, too. “It impossible to keep track of all the companies jumping into the AI-chip space,” says Mike Delmer, a microchip analyst at the Linley Group , an analyst firm. “I’m not joking that we learn about a new one nearly every week.”
The real opportunity, says Sze, isn’t building the most powerful deep learning chips possible. Power efficiency is important because AI also needs to run beyond the reach of large datacenters and so can only rely on the power available on the device itself to run. This is known as operating on the “edge.”
“AI will be everywhere—and figuring out ways to make things more energy efficient will be extremely important,” says Naveen Rao, vice president of the Artificial Intelligence group at Intel.
For example, Sze’s hardware is more efficient partly because it physically reduces the bottleneck between where data is stored and where it’s analyzed, but also because it uses clever schemes for reusing data. Before joining MIT, Sze pioneered this approach for improving the efficiency of video compression while at Texas Instruments.
The mission of MIT Technology Review is to equip its audiences with the intelligence to understand a world shaped by technology.
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Actors, Season 1 Cast, Females
Name Chelah Horsdal
Birthplace Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Role on Haunting Hour Christopher's Mom
Link http://www.chelah.com/
Chelah Horsdal played Christopher's Mom in the season 1 episode Afraid of Clowns.
Chelah Horsdal (born June 19, 1973) is a Canadian actress and model.[1]
She grew up in the Kitsilano neighbourhood of Vancouver with her mother, Lindsay. Her father is the folk singer Valdy. Horsdal first appeared as a model in local television commercials.[2]
She moved to the Caribbean and returned to Canada in 2002 where she then began her acting career.[3] Horsdal has since appeared in over 75 commercials, multiple films and TV series. She recently[when?] wrapped lead & supporting roles on "Three Weeks, Three Kids" "On Strike For Christmas," "Marley & Me; The Puppy Years." & Lifetime's The Client List, co-starring Jennifer Love Hewitt & Cybil Sheppard,[4] Plus back-to-back lead roles in Lying To Be Perfect and Mrs. Miracle.[5] Additional credits include leads on the feature Burning Mussolini, Nickelodeon's Gym Teacher: The Movie, co-starring Christopher Meloni & Amy Sedaris, Flirting With Forty with Heather Locklear and the FOX TV pilot The Virgin of Akron, Ohio.[6] Supporting leads include AVP2: Requiem for 20th Century Fox and Possession alongside Sarah Michelle Gellar, as well as Elegy with Ben Kingsley & Penélope Cruz and Rise of the Planet of the Apes with John Lithgow & James Franco. Her performances in the short films Dark Room (2006) and "The Hostage" (2010) both earned Leo nominations for Best Performance. Recurring roles include the critically acclaimed Battlestar Galactica, Exes & Ohs, The L Word, Stargate: SG1, Saved, DaVinci's Inquest, Whistler, Blackstone, and, most recently, "Clue."
Horsdal appeared in a lead role in the American-Canadian revenge thriller film The Tortured.
"The Hostage," for which Chelah was nominated for Best Actress at the 2011 Leos, co-starred and was produced by her close friends Tahmoh Penikett & Aleks Paunovic.
Horsdal studied acting at Lyric School of Acting in Vancouver. She remains in classes whenever her work schedule permits. Teachers, mentors & coaches include Larry Moss, Ivana Chubbuck, John Cassini, Ben Ratner & Gina Chiarelli.
Level Up (2011-2012)- Barbara (5 episodes) (filming)
The Cabin in the Woods (2012)- Demo Girl
Clue (2011)- Headmistress Kroger (2 episodes)
Everything and Everyone (2011)- Amanda (completed)
Supernatural (2005-2011)- Cute Librarian/Bobby's Mother (2 episode)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)- Irena
Marley & Me: The Puppy Years (2011)- Carol Grogan direct-to-dvd
Donovan's Echo (2011)- Doctor
Three Week's, Three Kids (2011)- Mandy (TV Movie)
Iron Invader (2011)- Deputy Jenny (TV Movie)
Fairly Legal (2011)- Brooke Keller (1 episode)
R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour (2011)- Chris's Mom (1 episode)
Blackstone (2011)- Prosecutor Angie Gold (2 episodes)
Endgame (2011)- Olivia (1 episode)
Life Unexpected (2010)- Prosecutor (1 episode)
On Strike for Christmas (2010)- Sharon (TV Movie)
The Tortured (2010)- Liane Strader
Altitude (2010)- Mrs. Taylor
The Client List (2010)- Doreen (TV Movie)
Lying to be Perfect (2010)- Nancy (TV Movie)
Birth Day (2010)- Patricia (short)
Betwixt (2010)- Vanessa (TV Movie)
The Hostage (2010)- The Lover (short)
Mrs. Miracle (2009)- Kate Preston
SGU Stargate Universe Kino (2009)- Inman (1 episode)
Blackstone (2009)- Angie Gold (TV Movie)
Defying Gravity (2009)- Dr. Tina Winkler (1 episode)
Eureka (2009)- Mary-Beth Curtis (1 episode)
The Guard (2009)- Kathy (1 episode)
Come Dance at my Wedding (2009)- Nancy Reed (TV Movie)
Helen (2009)- Kara
Burning Mussolini (2009)- Cheryl Witherspoon
Exes and Ohs (2007–2009)- Lauren Brooks (3 episodes)
Alien Trespass (2009)- Betsy's Mother
Possession (2009)- Miranda
Flirting with Forty (2008)- Anne
Passengers (2008)- Janice
Stargate: Atlantis (2008)- Erran (1 episode)
Gym Teacher: The Movie (2008)- Winnie Bleeker
Every Second Counts (2008)- Mrs. Alcotr (TV Movie)
The L Word (2006–2008)- Sally/Psychic (5 episodes)
Robson Arms (2008)- Shaina (1 episode)
Elegy (2008)- Susan Reese
Past Lies (2008)- Danielle (TV Movie)
Vice (2008)- Woman in Elevator
Inseparable (2008)- Sara
Alien vs. Predator: Requiem (2007)- Darcy
Bionic Woman (2007)- Suicidal Women (1 episode)
The Perfect Child (2007)- Jen (TV Movie)
Crossroads: A Story of Forgiveness (2007)- Cindy (TV Movie)
Nightmare (2007)- Molly's Mother (TV Movie)
Battlestar Galactica (2007)- Didi Cassidy (2 episodes)
Ashes Fall (2007)- Joanna (short)
A Decent Proposal (2007)- Cynthia Lewis (TV Movie)
Psych (2006)- Beth (1 episode)
The Virgin of Akron, Ohio (2006)- Juliet (1 episode)
Three Moons Over Milford (2006)- Mom (1 episode)
Men in Trees (2006)- Pretty Redhead (1 episode)
Saved (2006)- Gail Esterbrook (2 episodes)
Whistler (2006)- Janet (3 episodes)
Stargate SG-1 (2004–2006)- Lt. Womack (5 episodes)
Fallen (2006)- Lori Corbett (TV Miniseries)
Hollow Man II (2006)- Blind Secretary (direct-to-dvd)
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)- Minivan Mother
The Evidence (2006)- Ivy Beckman (1 episode)
Godiva's (2006)- Weather Girl (1 episode)
The Pink Panther (2006) Security Guard
Smallville (2005)- Dr. McCann (1 episode)
Seeking Fear (2005)- Hooker
Masters of Horror (2005)- Frances Elwood (1 episode)
Reunion (2005)- Jane Kelsey (1 episode)
Criminal Minds (2005)- Heather Woodland (1 episode)
Dark Room (2005)- Alice (Short)
The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)- Asst. DA #3
The 4400 (2005)- Jeanine - Carrie's Mom (1 episode)
Marker (2005)- Parker Mother (TV Movie)
Renegradepress.com (2005)- Mrs. Annie Tropek (1 episode)
Cold Squad (2004)- Doctor Walker (1 episode)
The Life (2004)- Female Cop #2 (TV Movie)
Stephan King's Dead Zone (2004)- Janet Miller (1 episode)
5ive Days Till Midnight (2004)- Stefani the Rental Car Woman (TV Movie)
Pursued (2004)- Sharon
The Truth About Miranda (2004)- Jan
Connie and Carla (2004)- Botox Friend
Da Vinci's Inquest (2003–2004)- Police Constable #1 / Police Constable #3 (2 episodes)
Still Life (2004)- Tammi (1 episode)
Human Cargo (2004)- Female RCMP #1
Paycheck (2003)- Young Mother
Tru Calling (2003)- Admissions Officer (1 episode)
Andromeda (2003)- Misabo Ahm (1 episode)
Mysterious Ways (2000–2002)- Female Paramedic / Reporter #2 (2 episodes)
The Hat Squad (1993)- Call Girl (1 episode)
^ Aveleyman – Chelah Horsdal
^ Chelah Horsdal > Commercial
^ Chelah Horsdal > Television
Chelah Horsdal at the Internet Movie Database
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Modulation and Multiplexing
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multiplexing and modulation introduces different multiplexing techniques such as FDM, TDM, WDM characteristics strengths and limitations.
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Modulation and Multiplexing Technologies
In fiber-optic communications, wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) is a technology
which multiplexes a number of optical carrier signals onto a single optical fiber by using
different wavelengths (i.e., colors) of laser light. This technique enables bidirectional
communications over one strand of fiber, as well as multiplication of capacity.
The term wavelength-division multiplexing is commonly applied to an optical carrier (which
is typically described by its wavelength), whereas frequency-division multiplexing typically
applies to a radio carrier (which is more often described by frequency). Since wavelength and
frequency are tied together through a simple directly inverse relationship, in which the
product of frequency and wavelength equals c (the propagation speed of light), the two terms
actually describe the same concept.
WDM systems
WDM operating principle
As there are three different WDM types, whereof one is called "WDM",
WDM systems are popular with telecommunications companies because they allow them to
expand the capacity of the network without laying more fiber. By using WDM and optical
amplifiers, they can accommodate several generations of technology development in their
optical infrastructure without having to overhaul the backbone network. Capacity of a given
link can be expanded simply by upgrading the multiplexers and demultiplexers at each end.
This is often done by use of optical-to-electrical-to-optical (O/E/O) translation at the very
edge of the transport network, thus permitting interoperation with existing equipment with
optical interfaces.
Most WDM systems operate on single-mode fiber optical cables, which have a core diameter
of 9 µm. Certain forms of WDM can also be used in multi-mode fiber cables (also known as
premises cables) which have core diameters of 50 or 62.5 µm.
Early WDM systems were expensive and complicated to run. However, recent
standardization and better understanding of the dynamics of WDM systems have made WDM
less expensive to deploy.
Optical receivers, in contrast to laser sources, tend to be wideband devices. Therefore, the
demultiplexer must provide the wavelength selectivity of the receiver in the WDM system.
WDM systems are divided into three different wavelength patterns,
WDM, DWDM and CWDM are based on the same concept of using multiple wavelengths of
light on a single fiber, but differ in the spacing of the wavelengths, number of channels, and
the ability to amplify the multiplexed signals in the optical space. EDFA provide an efficient
wideband amplification for the C-band, Raman amplification adds a mechanism for
amplification in the L-band. For CWDM, wideband optical amplification is not available,
limiting the optical spans to several tens of kilometres.
Normal (WDM),
A WDM system uses a multiplexer at the transmitter to join the several signals together, and
a demultiplexer at the receiver to split them apart. With the right type of fiber it is possible to
have a device that does both simultaneously, and can function as an optical add-drop
multiplexer. The optical filtering devices used have conventionally been etalons (stable solid-
state single-frequency Fabry–Pérot interferometers in the form of thin-film-coated optical
glass).
Coarse (CWDM)
Coarse wavelength division multiplexing (CWDM) uses increased channel spacing to allow
less sophisticated and thus cheaper transceiver designs. To provide 16 channels on a single
fiber CWDM uses the entire frequency band spanning the second and third transmission
window (1310/1550 nm respectively) including both windows (minimum dispersion window
and minimum attenuation window) but also the critical area where scattering may occur,
recommending the use of OH-free silica fibers in case the wavelengths between second and
third transmission windows are to be used. Avoiding this region, the channels 47, 49, 51, 53,
55, 57, 59, 61 remain and these are the most commonly used. With OS2 fibers the water peak
problem is overcome, and all possible 18 channels can be used.
Dense (DWDM).
Dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) uses the C-Band(1530 nm-1560 nm)
transmission window but with denser channel spacing. Channel plans vary, but a typical
DWDM system would use 40 channels at 100 GHz spacing or 80 channels with 50 GHz
spacing. Some technologies are capable of 12.5 GHz spacing (sometimes called ultra dense
WDM). New amplification options (Raman amplification) enable the extension of the usable
wavelengths to the L-band, more or less doubling these numbers.
Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier (EDFA)
An erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) is a device that amplifies an optical fiber signal. It
is used in the telecommunications field and in various types of research fields. An EDFA is
"doped" with a material called erbium. The term "doping" refers to the process of using
chemical elements to facilitate results through the manipulation of electrons.
The EDFA was the first successful optical amplifier and a significant factor in the rapid
deployment of fiber optic networks during the 1990s.
EDFA provide an efficient wideband amplification for the C-band, Raman amplification adds
a mechanism for amplification in the L-band. For CWDM, wideband optical amplification is
not available, limiting the optical spans to several tens of kilometres.
Series of SFP+ transceivers for 10 Gbit/s WDM communications
Originally, the term "coarse wavelength division multiplexing" was fairly generic, and meant
a number of different things. In general, these things shared the fact that the choice of channel
spacings and frequency stability was such that erbium doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) could
not be utilized. Prior to the relatively recent ITU standardization of the term, one common
meaning for coarse WDM meant two (or possibly more) signals multiplexed onto a single
fiber, where one signal was in the 1550 nm band, and the other in the 1310 nm band.
In 2002 the ITU standardized a channel spacing grid for use with CWDM (ITU-T G.694.2),
using the wavelengths from 1270 nm through 1610 nm with a channel spacing of 20 nm.
(G.694.2 was revised in 2003 to shift the actual channel centers by 1 nm, so that strictly
speaking the center wavelengths are 1271 to 1611 nm).[1] Many CWDM wavelengths below
1470 nm are considered "unusable" on older G.652 specification fibers, due to the increased
attenuation in the 1270–1470 nm bands. Newer fibers which conform to the G.652.C and
G.652.D[2] standards, such as Corning SMF-28e and Samsung Widepass nearly eliminate the
"water peak" attenuation peak and allow for full operation of all 18 ITU CWDM channels in
metropolitan networks.
The 10GBASE-LX4 10 Gbit/s physical layer standard is an example of a CWDM system in
which four wavelengths near 1310 nm, each carrying a 3.125 gigabit-per-second (Gbit/s) data
stream, are used to carry 10 Gbit/s of aggregate data.
The main characteristic of the recent ITU CWDM standard is that the signals are not spaced
appropriately for amplification by EDFAs. This therefore limits the total CWDM optical span
to somewhere near 60 km for a 2.5 Gbit/s signal, which is suitable for use in metropolitan
applications. The relaxed optical frequency stabilization requirements allow the associated
costs of CWDM to approach those of non-WDM optical components.
CWDM is also being used in cable television networks, where different wavelengths are used
for the downstream and upstream signals. In these systems, the wavelengths used are often
widely separated, for example the downstream signal might be at 1310 nm while the
upstream signal is at 1550 nm.
An interesting and relatively recent development relating coarse WDM is the creation of
GBIC and small form factor pluggable (SFP) transceivers utilizing standardized CWDM
wavelengths. GBIC and SFP optics allow for something very close to a seamless upgrade in
even legacy systems that support SFP interfaces. Thus, a legacy switch system can be easily
"converted" to allow wavelength multiplexed transport over a fiber simply by judicious
choice of transceiver wavelengths, combined with an inexpensive passive optical
multiplexing device.
Passive CWDM is an implementation of CWDM that uses no electrical power. It separates
the wavelengths using passive optical components such as bandpass filters and prisms. Many
manufacturers are promoting passive CWDM to deploy fiber to the home.
Dense WDM
Dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) refers originally to optical signals
multiplexed within the 1550 nm band so as to leverage the capabilities (and cost) of erbium
doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs), which are effective for wavelengths between approximately
1525–1565 nm (C band), or 1570–1610 nm (L band). EDFAs were originally developed to
replace SONET/SDH optical-electrical-optical (OEO) regenerators, which they have made
practically obsolete. EDFAs can amplify any optical signal in their operating range,
regardless of the modulated bit rate. In terms of multi-wavelength signals, so long as the
EDFA has enough pump energy available to it, it can amplify as many optical signals as can
be multiplexed into its amplification band (though signal densities are limited by choice of
modulation format). EDFAs therefore allow a single-channel optical link to be upgraded in
bit rate by replacing only equipment at the ends of the link, while retaining the existing
EDFA or series of EDFAs through a long haul route. Furthermore, single-wavelength links
using EDFAs can similarly be upgraded to WDM links at reasonable cost. The EDFA's cost
is thus leveraged across as many channels as can be multiplexed into the 1550 nm band.
DWDM systems
At this stage, a basic DWDM system contains several main components:
WDM multiplexer for DWDM communications
1. A DWDM terminal multiplexer. The terminal multiplexer contains a wavelength-
converting transponder for each data signal, an optical multiplexer and where
necessary an optical amplifier (EDFA). Each wavelength-converting transponder
receives an optical data signal from the client-layer, such as Synchronous optical
networking [SONET /SDH] or another type of data signal, converts this signal into
the electrical domain and re-transmits the signal at a specific wavelength using a
1,550 nm band laser. These data signals are then combined together into a multi-
wavelength optical signal using an optical multiplexer, for transmission over a single
fiber (e.g., SMF-28 fiber). The terminal multiplexer may or may not also include a
local transmit EDFA for power amplification of the multi-wavelength optical signal.
In the mid-1990s DWDM systems contained 4 or 8 wavelength-converting
transponders; by 2000 or so, commercial systems capable of carrying 128 signals
were available.
2. An intermediate line repeater is placed approximately every 80–100 km to
compensate for the loss of optical power as the signal travels along the fiber. The
'multi-wavelength optical signal' is amplified by an EDFA, which usually consists of
several amplifier stages.
3. An intermediate optical terminal, or optical add-drop multiplexer. This is a
remote amplification site that amplifies the multi-wavelength signal that may have
traversed up to 140 km or more before reaching the remote site. Optical diagnostics
and telemetry are often extracted or inserted at such a site, to allow for localization of
any fiber breaks or signal impairments. In more sophisticated systems (which are no
longer point-to-point), several signals out of the multi-wavelength optical signal may
be removed and dropped locally.
4. A DWDM terminal demultiplexer. At the remote site, the terminal de-multiplexer
consisting of an optical de-multiplexer and one or more wavelength-converting
transponders separates the multi-wavelength optical signal back into individual data
signals and outputs them on separate fibers for client-layer systems (such as
SONET/SDH). Originally, this de-multiplexing was performed entirely passively,
except for some telemetry, as most SONET systems can receive 1,550 nm signals.
However, in order to allow for transmission to remote client-layer systems (and to
allow for digital domain signal integrity determination) such de-multiplexed signals
are usually sent to O/E/O output transponders prior to being relayed to their client-
layer systems.
Often, the functionality of output transponder has been integrated into that of input
transponder, so that most commercial systems have transponders that support bi-
directional interfaces on both their 1,550 nm (i.e., internal) side, and external (i.e.,
client-facing) side. Transponders in some systems supporting 40 GHz nominal
operation may also perform forward error correction (FEC) via digital wrapper
technology, as described in the ITU-T G.709 standard.
5. Optical Supervisory Channel (OSC). This is data channel which uses an additional
wavelength usually outside the EDFA amplification band (at 1,510 nm, 1,620 nm,
1,310 nm or another proprietary wavelength). The OSC carries information about the
multi-wavelength optical signal as well as remote conditions at the optical terminal or
EDFA site. It is also normally used for remote software upgrades and user (i.e.,
network operator) Network Management information. It is the multi-wavelength
analogue to SONET's DCC (or supervisory channel). ITU standards suggest that the
OSC should utilize an OC-3 signal structure, though some vendors have opted to use
100 megabit Ethernet or another signal format. Unlike the 1550 nm multi-wavelength
signal containing client data, the OSC is always terminated at intermediate amplifier
sites, where it receives local information before re-transmission.
The introduction of the ITU-T G.694.1[3] frequency grid in 2002 has made it easier to
integrate WDM with older but more standard SONET/SDH systems. WDM wavelengths are
positioned in a grid having exactly 100 GHz (about 0.8 nm) spacing in optical frequency,
with a reference frequency fixed at 193.10 THz (1,552.52 nm).[4] The main grid is placed
inside the optical fiber amplifier bandwidth, but can be extended to wider bandwidths.
Today's DWDM systems use 50 GHz or even 25 GHz channel spacing for up to 160 channel
operation.[5]
DWDM systems have to maintain more stable wavelength or frequency than those needed for
CWDM because of the closer spacing of the wavelengths. Precision temperature control of
laser transmitter is required in DWDM systems to prevent "drift" off a very narrow frequency
window of the order of a few GHz. In addition, since DWDM provides greater maximum
capacity it tends to be used at a higher level in the communications hierarchy than CWDM,
for example on the Internet backbone and is therefore associated with higher modulation
rates, thus creating a smaller market for DWDM devices with very high performance. These
factors of smaller volume and higher performance result in DWDM systems typically being
more expensive than CWDM.
Recent innovations in DWDM transport systems include pluggable and software-tunable
transceiver modules capable of operating on 40 or 80 channels. This dramatically reduces the
need for discrete spare pluggable modules, when a handful of pluggable devices can handle
the full range of wavelengths.
Wavelength-converting transponders
At this stage, some details concerning wavelength-converting transponders should be
discussed, as this will clarify the role played by current DWDM technology as an additional
optical transport layer. It will also serve to outline the evolution of such systems over the last
10 or so years.
As stated above, wavelength-converting transponders served originally to translate the
transmit wavelength of a client-layer signal into one of the DWDM system's internal
wavelengths in the 1,550 nm band (note that even external wavelengths in the 1,550 nm will
most likely need to be translated, as they will almost certainly not have the required
frequency stability tolerances nor will it have the optical power necessary for the system's
EDFA).
In the mid-1990s, however, wavelength converting transponders rapidly took on the
additional function of signal regeneration. Signal regeneration in transponders quickly
evolved through 1R to 2R to 3R and into overhead-monitoring multi-bitrate 3R regenerators.
These differences are outlined below:
Retransmission. Basically, early transponders were "garbage in garbage out" in that
their output was nearly an analogue "copy" of the received optical signal, with little
signal cleanup occurring. This limited the reach of early DWDM systems because the
signal had to be handed off to a client-layer receiver (likely from a different vendor)
before the signal deteriorated too far. Signal monitoring was basically confined to
optical domain parameters such as received power.
Re-time and re-transmit. Transponders of this type were not very common and
utilized a quasi-digital Schmitt-triggering method for signal clean-up. Some
rudimentary signal-quality monitoring was done by such transmitters that basically
looked at analogue parameters.
Re-time, re-transmit, re-shape. 3R Transponders were fully digital and normally able
to view SONET/SDH section layer overhead bytes such as A1 and A2 to determine
signal quality health. Many systems will offer 2.5 Gbit/s transponders, which will
normally mean the transponder is able to perform 3R regeneration on OC-3/12/48
signals, and possibly gigabit Ethernet, and reporting on signal health by monitoring
SONET/SDH section layer overhead bytes. Many transponders will be able to
perform full multi-rate 3R in both directions. Some vendors offer 10 Gbit/s
transponders, which will perform Section layer overhead monitoring to all rates up to
and including OC-192.
Muxponder
The muxponder (from multiplexed transponder) has different names depending on
vendor. It essentially performs some relatively simple time-division multiplexing of
lower-rate signals into a higher-rate carrier within the system (a common example is
the ability to accept 4 OC-48s and then output a single OC-192 in the 1,550 nm band).
More recent muxponder designs have absorbed more and more TDM functionality, in
some cases obviating the need for traditional SONET/SDH transport equipment.
Reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer (ROADM)
Main article: Reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer
As mentioned above, intermediate optical amplification sites in DWDM systems may allow
for the dropping and adding of certain wavelength channels. In most systems deployed as of
August 2006 this is done infrequently, because adding or dropping wavelengths requires
manually inserting or replacing wavelength-selective cards. This is costly, and in some
systems requires that all active traffic be removed from the DWDM system, because inserting
or removing the wavelength-specific cards interrupts the multi-wavelength optical signal.
With a ROADM, network operators can remotely reconfigure the multiplexer by sending soft
commands. The architecture of the ROADM is such that dropping or adding wavelengths
does not interrupt the "pass-through" channels. Numerous technological approaches are
utilized for various commercial ROADMs, the tradeoff being between cost, optical power,
and flexibility.
Optical cross connects (OXCs)
When the network topology is a mesh, where nodes are interconnected by fibers to form an
arbitrary graph, an additional fiber interconnection device is needed to route the signals from
an input port to the desired output port. These devices are called optical crossconnectors
(OXCs). Various categories of OXCs include electronic ("opaque"), optical ("transparent"),
and wavelength selective devices.
Enhanced WDM
Cisco's Enhanced WDM system combines 1 Gb Coarse Wave Division Multiplexing
(CWDM) connections using SFPs and GBICs with 10 Gb Dense Wave Division
Multiplexing (DWDM) connections using XENPAK, X2 or XFP DWDM modules. These
DWDM connections can either be passive or boosted to allow a longer range for the
connection. In addition to this, CFP modules deliver 100 Gbit/s Ethernet suitable for high
speed Internet backbone connections.
Transceivers versus transponders
Transceivers – Since communication over a single wavelength is one-way (simplex
communication), and most practical communication systems require two-way (duplex
communication) communication, two wavelengths will be required (which might or
might not be on the same fiber, but typically they will be each on a separate fiber in a
so-called fiber pair). As a result, at each end both a transmitter (to send a signal over a
first wavelength) and a receiver (to receive a signal over a second wavelength) will be
required. A combination of a transmitter and a receiver is called a transceiver; it
converts an electrical signal to and from an optical signal. There are usually
transreceiver types based on WDM technology.
o Coarse WDM (CWDM) Transceivers: Wavelength 1270 nm, 1290 nm,
1310 nm, 1330 nm, 1350 nm, 1370 nm, 1390 nm, 1410 nm, 1430 nm,
1590 nm, 1610 nm.[6]
o Dense WDM (DWDM) Transceivers: Channel 17 to Channel 61 according to
ITU-T.[7]
Transponder – In practice, the signal inputs and outputs will not be electrical but
optical instead (typically at 1550 nm). This means that in effect we need wavelength
converters instead, which is exactly what a transponder is. A transponder can be made
up of two transceivers placed after each other: the first transceiver converting the
1550 nm optical signal to/from an electrical signal, and the second transceiver
converting the electrical signal to/from an optical signal at the required wavelength.
Transponders that don't use an intermediate electrical signal (all-optical transponders)
are in development.
Synchronous Optical NETwork (SONET)
SONET Basics
SONET defines optical signals and a synchronous frame structure for multiplexed digital
traffic. It is a set of standards that define the rates and formats for optical networks specified
in ANSI T1.105, ANSI T1.106, and ANSI T1.117.
A similar standard, Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH), is used in Europe by the
International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T).
SONET equipment is generally used in North America, and SDH equipment is generally
accepted everywhere else in the world.
Both SONET and SDH are based on a structure that has a basic frame format and speed. The
frame format used by SONET is the Synchronous Transport Signal (STS), with STS-1 as the
base-level signal at 51.84 Mbps. An STS-1 frame can be carried in an OC-1 signal. The
frame format used by SDH is the Synchronous Transport Module (STM), with STM-1 as the
base-level signal at 155.52Mbps. An STM-1 frame can be carried in an OC-3 signal.
Both SONET and SDH have a hierarchy of signaling speeds. Multiple lower-level signals can
be multiplexed to form higher-level signals. For example, three STS-1 signals can be
multiplexed together to form an STS-3 signal, and four STM-1 signals multiplexed together
to form an STM-4 signal.
SONET and SDH are technically comparable standards. The term SONET is often used to
refer to either.
SONET Transport Hierarchy
Each level of the hierarchy terminates its corresponding fields in the SONET payload, as
such:
A section is a single fiber run that can be terminated by a network element (Line or Path) or
an optical regenerator.
The main function of the section layer is to properly format the SONET frames, and to
convert the electrical signals to optical signals. Section Terminating Equipment (STE) can
originate, access, modify, or terminate the section header overhead. (A standard STS-1 frame
is nine rows by 90 bytes. The first three bytes of each row comprise the Section and Line
header overhead.)
Line-Terminating Equipment (LTE) originates or terminates one or more sections of a line
signal. The LTE does the synchronization and multiplexing of information on SONET
frames. Multiple lower-level SONET signals can be mixed together to form higher-level
SONET signals. An Add/Drop Multiplexer (ADM) is an example of LTE.
Path-Terminating Equipment (PTE) interfaces non-SONET equipment to the SONET
network. At this layer, the payload is mapped and demapped into the SONET frame. For
example, an STS PTE can assemble 25 1.544 Mbps DS1 signals and insert path overhead to
form an STS-1 signal.
This layer is concerned with end-to-end transport of data.
Configuration Example
The optical interface layers have a hierarchical relationship; each layer builds on the services
provided by the next lower layer. Each layer communicates to peer equipment in the same
layer and processes information, and passes it up or down to the next layer. As an example,
consider two network nodes that are to exchange DS1 signals, as shown in this figure:
At the source node, the path layer (PTE) maps 28 DS1 signals and path overhead to form an
STS-1 Synchronous Payload Envelope (SPE) and hands this to the line layer.
The line layer (LTE) multiplexes STS-1 SPE signals and adds line overhead. This combined
signal is then passed to the section layer.
The section layer (STE) performs framing and scrambling and adds section overhead to form
an STS-n signal.
Finally, the electrical STS signal is converted to an optical signal for the photonic layer and
transmitted over the fiber to the distant node.
Across the SONET network, the signal is regenerated in optical regenerators (STE-level
devices), passed through an ADM (an LTE-level device), and eventually terminated at a node
(at the PTE level).
At the distant node, the process is reversed from the photonic layer to the path layer where
the DS1 signals terminate.
GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications, originally Groupe SpécialMobile), is a
standard developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to
describe the protocols for second-generation (2G) digital cellular networks used by mobile
phones, first deployed in Finland in July 1991.[2] As of 2014 it has become the de facto global
standard for mobile communications - with over 90% market share, operating in over 219
countries and territories.[3]
2G networks developed as a replacement for first generation (1G) analog cellular networks,
and the GSM standard originally described a digital, circuit-switched network optimized for
full duplex voice telephony. This expanded over time to include data communications, first
by circuit-switched transport, then by packet data transport via GPRS (General Packet Radio
Services) and EDGE (Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution or EGPRS).
Subsequently, the 3GPP developed third-generation (3G) UMTS standards followed by
fourth-generation (4G) LTE Advanced standards, which do not form part of the ETSI GSM
"GSM" is a trademark owned by the GSM Association. It may also refer to the (initially)
most common voice codec used, Full Rate.
The structure of a GSM network
The network is structured into a number of discrete sections:
Base Station Subsystem – the base stations and their controllers explained
Network and Switching Subsystem – the part of the network most similar to a fixed network,
sometimes just called the "core network"
GPRS Core Network – the optional part which allows packet-based Internet connections
Operations support system (OSS) – network maintenance
Base station subsystem
GSM is a cellular network, which means that cell phones connect to it by searching for cells
in the immediate vicinity. There are five different cell sizes in a GSM network—macro,
micro, pico, femto, and umbrella cells. The coverage area of each cell varies according to the
implementation environment.
Macro cells can be regarded as cells where the base station antenna is installed on a
mast or a building above average rooftop level.
Micro cells are cells whose antenna height is under average rooftop level; they are
typically used in urban areas.
Picocells are small cells whose coverage diameter is a few dozen metres; they are
mainly used indoors.
Femtocells are cells designed for use in residential or small business environments
and connect to the service provider’s network via a broadband internet connection.
Umbrella cells are used to cover shadowed regions of smaller cells and fill in gaps in
coverage between those cells.
Cell horizontal radius varies depending on antenna height, antenna gain, and propagation
conditions from a couple of hundred meters to several tens of kilometres. The longest
distance the GSM specification supports in practical use is 35 kilometres (22 mi). There are
also several implementations of the concept of an extended cell, where the cell radius could
be double or even more, depending on the antenna system, the type of terrain, and the timing
Indoor coverage is also supported by GSM and may be achieved by using an indoor picocell
base station, or an indoor repeater with distributed indoor antennas fed through power
splitters, to deliver the radio signals from an antenna outdoors to the separate indoor
distributed antenna system. These are typically deployed when significant call capacity is
needed indoors, like in shopping centers or airports. However, this is not a prerequisite, since
indoor coverage is also provided by in-building penetration of the radio signals from any
nearby cell.
GSM carrier frequencies
GSM networks operate in a number of different carrier frequency ranges (separated into
GSM frequency ranges for 2G and UMTS frequency bands for 3G), with most 2G GSM
networks operating in the 900 MHz or 1800 MHz bands. Where these bands were already
allocated, the 850 MHz and 1900 MHz bands were used instead (for example in Canada and
the United States). In rare cases the 400 and 450 MHz frequency bands are assigned in some
countries because they were previously used for first-generation systems.
Most 3G networks in Europe operate in the 2100 MHz frequency band. For more information
on worldwide GSM frequency usage, see GSM frequency bands.
Regardless of the frequency selected by an operator, it is divided into timeslots for individual
phones. This allows eight full-rate or sixteen half-rate speech channels per radio frequency.
These eight radio timeslots (or burst periods) are grouped into a TDMA frame. Half-rate
channels use alternate frames in the same timeslot. The channel data rate for all 8 channels is
270.833 kbit/s, and the frame duration is 4.615 ms.
The transmission power in the handset is limited to a maximum of 2 watts in GSM 850/900
and 1 watt in GSM 1800/1900.
Voice codecs
GSM has used a variety of voice codecs to squeeze 3.1 kHz audio into between 6.5 and
13 kbit/s. Originally, two codecs, named after the types of data channel they were allocated,
were used, called Half Rate (6.5 kbit/s) and Full Rate (13 kbit/s). These used a system based
on linear predictive coding (LPC). In addition to being efficient with bitrates, these codecs
also made it easier to identify more important parts of the audio, allowing the air interface
layer to prioritize and better protect these parts of the signal.
As GSM was further enhanced in 1997 with the Enhanced Full Rate (EFR) codec, a
12.2 kbit/s codec that uses a full-rate channel. Finally, with the development of UMTS, EFR
was refactored into a variable-rate codec called AMR-Narrowband, which is high quality and
robust against interference when used on full-rate channels, or less robust but still relatively
high quality when used in good radio conditions on half-rate channel.
Subscriber Identity Module (SIM)
One of the key features of GSM is the Subscriber Identity Module, commonly known as a
SIM card. The SIM is a detachable smart card containing the user's subscription information
and phone book. This allows the user to retain his or her information after switching
handsets. Alternatively, the user can also change operators while retaining the handset simply
by changing the SIM. Some operators will block this by allowing the phone to use only a
single SIM, or only a SIM issued by them; this practice is known as SIM locking.
Phone locking
Sometimes mobile network operators restrict handsets that they sell for use with their own
network. This is called locking and is implemented by a software feature of the phone. A
subscriber may usually contact the provider to remove the lock for a fee, utilize private
services to remove the lock, or use software and websites to unlock the handset themselves. It
is possible to illegally hack past a phone locked by a network operator.
Multi-Carrier Code Division Multiple Access
(MC-CDMA) is a multiple access scheme used in OFDM-based telecommunication
systems, allowing the system to support multiple users at the same time.
MC-CDMA spreads each user symbol in the frequency domain. That is, each user symbol is
carried over multiple parallel subcarriers, but it is phase shifted (typically 0 or 180 degrees)
according to a code value. The code values differ per subcarrier and per user. The receiver
combines all subcarrier signals, by weighing these to compensate varying signal strengths
and undo the code shift. The receiver can separate signals of different users, because these
have different (e.g. orthogonal) code values.
Since each data symbol occupies a much wider bandwidth (in hertz) than the data rate (in
bit/s), a signal-to-noise-plus-interference ratio (if defined as signal power divided by total
noise plus interference power in the entire transmission band) of less than 0 dB is feasible.
One way of interpreting MC-CDMA is to regard it as a direct-sequence CDMA signal (DS-
CDMA) which is transmitted after it has been fed through an inverse FFT (Fast Fourier
Transform).
Vestigial sideband (VSB) is a type of amplitude modulation ( AM ) technique (sometimes
called VSB-AM ) that encodes data by varying the amplitude of a single carrier frequency .
Portions of one of the redundant sidebands are removed to form a vestigial sideband signal -
so-called because a vestige of the sideband remains.
In AM, the carrier itself does not fluctuate in amplitude. Instead, the modulating data appears
in the form of signal components at frequencies slightly higher and lower than that of the
carrier. These components are called sidebands . The lower sideband (LSB) appears at
frequencies below the carrier frequency; the upper sideband (USB) appears at frequencies
above the carrier frequency. The actual information is transmitted in the sidebands, rather
than the carrier; both sidebands carry the same information. Because LSB and USB are
essentially mirror images of each other, one can be discarded or used for a second channel or
for diagnostic purposes.
VSB transmission is similar to single-sideband (SSB) transmission, in which one of the
sidebands is completely removed. In VSB transmission, however, the second sideband is not
completely removed, but is filtered to remove all but the desired range of frequencies .
Eight-level VSB ( 8-VSB ) was developed by Zenith for inclusion in the Advanced
Television Systems Committee ( ATSC set of digital television ( DTV ) standards.
Quality of Service is the level of performance (or ‘quality’) that a service provider provides
to its subscribers. In telecommunications, this relates to the ability of a service provider to
give reliable, accessible and easy to use services. The provider should also offer reliable and
effective customer service
Before a consumer purchases communications products or services, there are some aspects
that should be taken into consideration besides the price. Some service providers may at some
point even limit the number of subscribers that they accept concurrently and not every service
provider has an easy process for consumers to subscribe to their services. Consumers are also
faced with the fact that the services that they subscribe to are sometimes not satisfactory for
example, instances when the network is inaccessible making it impossible for one to make a
phone call or when the call is disconnected during a conversation due to some fault of the
network or when one cannot hear the other party on the phone.
Consumers should be aware of the fact that some of the communication networks may lack
the capacity to handle all traffic or simultaneous requests for services from the various users.
In most cases applications with very different characteristics and requirements compete for
scarce network resources. For such networks, where the capacity is a limited resource, the
consumer cannot expect to always get the highest possible level of service but must accept a
certain level of degradation.
Consumers are entitled to the following basic levels of service;
Value for money
Accurate billing
Ease of use of the service or product
Professionalism, on the part of the service provider, in the provision of the service
Flexibility in the use of the service on the part of the consumer – for instance; the ease
with which the consumer is able to switch from one operator to another; from one
resource to another; one piece of equipment to another – or even in the requirement
for the change of a telephone number
That the product or service should perform according to specified expectations
That the service be reliable and fulfill the needs of the consumer as specified
That the service be secure in terms of privacy of ALL data sent and received.
Power control
Power control is the intelligent selection of transmitter power output in a communication
system to achieve good performance within the system. The notion of "good performance"
can depend on context and may include optimizing metrics such as link data rate, network
capacity, outage probability, geographic coverage and range, and life of the network and
network devices. Power control algorithms are used in many contexts, including cellular
networks, sensor networks, wireless LANs, and DSL modems.
Increasing transmit power on a communication link has numerous benefits:
In general, for any particular set of channel conditions, a higher transmit power translates into
a higher signal power at the receiver. Having a higher signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the
receiver reduces the bit error rate of a digital communication link.
A higher SNR can also allow a system that uses link adaptation to transmit at a higher data
rate, resulting in a system with greater spectral efficiency.
In a wireless fading channel, using higher transmit power provides more protection against a
signal fade. In a cellular network, for example, this results in a lower dropped call probability.
Using a higher transmit power, however, has the following drawbacks:
Overall power consumption in the transmitting device is higher. This is of particular concern
in mobile devices, where battery life is reduced correspondingly.
Interference to other users in the same frequency band is increased. In cellular spread-
spectrum systems such as CDMA, where users share a single frequency and are only
separated by different spreading codes, the number of users that a cell can support as well as
the size of the cell are typically limited by the amount of interference present in the cell;
increased interference therefore results in decreased cell capacity and size. Even in FDMA
systems such as GSM where each user in a cell uses a different frequency, interference is still
present between different cells and reduces the amount of frequency reuse the network can
support. In wireline networks such as DSL, lines from many subscriber homes are often
bundled together, and interference between signals on different lines manifests itself as
crosstalk and reduces the achievable data rate to each home.
Typically, there is no simple answer to the problem of power control, and a good algorithm
must strike a balance between the benefits and drawbacks associated with targeting a
particular transmit power based on the performance criteria of most importance to the
designer.
Transmit Power Control
Transmit Power Control is a technical mechanism used within some networking devices in
order to prevent too much unwanted interference between different wireless networks (e.g.
the owner's network and the neighbour's network).
The network devices supporting this feature include IEEE 802.11h Wireless LAN devices in
the 5 GHz band compliant to the IEEE 802.11a. The idea of the mechanism is to
automatically reduce the used transmission output power when other networks are within
range. Reduced power means reduced interference problems and increased battery capacity.
The power level of a single device can be reduced by 6 dB which should result in an
accumulated power level reduction (the sum of radiated power of all devices currently
transmitting) of at least 3 dB (which is half of the power).
Because of the interference in the WCDMA system, power control plays a very important
role in the quality control for the different services in the UMTS system. Power control is
executed 1500 times per sec. whereas in GSM system it is ~2 times per sec.
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Airbus inaugurates ‘highly automated’ assembly line in Germany
October 3, 2019 by Sam Francis
Airbus has inaugurated its “highly automated” fuselage structure assembly line for A320 Family aircraft in Hamburg, showcasing an evolution in Airbus’ industrial production system.
With a special focus on manufacturing longer sections for the A321LR, the new facility features 20 robots, a new logistics concept, automated positioning by laser measurement as well as a digital data acquisition system.
These will further support Airbus’ drive to improve both quality and efficiency while bringing an enhanced level of digitalisation to its industrial production system.
Michael Schoellhorn, Airbus chief operating officer, says: “By embracing some of the latest technologies and processes, Airbus has begun its journey to set new standards in A320 Family production.
“This new fuselage structure assembly line is an essential enabler for the A320 Family ramp-up. Increasing the level of automation and robotics enables faster, more efficient manufacturing while keeping our prime focus on quality.”
The Flextrack robot used at the Airbus facility
Schoellhorn adds: “Given the enormous success of the A320 Family and the order backlog, we are taking the necessary steps to ensure our production system can match the excellence of our products and that we are able to satisfy our customers’ needs for our single-aisle aircraft.
“A high level of trust and investment has been placed in our people and factories in Hamburg. We now need to deliver in line with our commitments made to customers while ensuring overall competitiveness.”
For the initial section assembly, Airbus is using a modular, lightweight automated system, called “Flextrack”, with eight robots drilling and counter-sinking 1,100 to 2,400 holes per longitudinal joint.
In the next production step, 12 robots, each operating on seven axes, combine the centre and aft fuselage sections with the tail to form one major component, drilling, counter-sinking, sealing and inserting 3,000 rivets per orbital joint.
Besides the use of robots, Airbus is also implementing new methods and technologies in material and parts logistics to optimise production, improve ergonomics and shorten lead times.
This includes the separation of logistics and production levels, demand-oriented material replenishment as well as the use of autonomous guided vehicles.
The Hamburg structure assembly facility is responsible for joining single fuselage shells into sections, as well as final assembly of single sections to aircraft fuselages.
Aircraft parts are equipped with electrical and mechanical systems before eventually being delivered to the final assembly lines in France, Germany, China and the US.
Featuring the widest single-aisle cabin in the sky, the efficient A320neo Family which includes the A321, incorporates the very latest technologies including new generation engines and Sharklets, which together deliver more than 15 per cent fuel and CO2 savings from day one and 20 per cent by 2020 as well as a 50 per cent noise reduction.
To date, the A320neo Family has received more than 6,500 orders from over 100 customers.
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Oregon: Crater Lake, Bend, Eugene, Oregon Coast, Portland, Columbia Gorge
If you can’t afford to travel to Ireland, Oregon might just be the poor man’s alternative. Assuming you’re not interested in the warm, hospitable, reasonably linear conversations you’d get in Ireland. Or the rest of the world. Oregon’s got something in the water.
To reach one of Oregon’s most prized goodies — Crater Lake — we first had to pass through Klamath Falls. There are a few towns across this great nation where we’ve experienced the same eerie trait: kids walking around town aimlessly, in places people shouldn’t be walking, at times when they should be with their moms. Redding, CA was one such town just a week or so prior. Klamath Falls is the latest.
And yet, not a single adolescent patronizing the local picture house! As has now become customary for Rogue Trip movie-going, Hailey and Mitch went to separate theaters and endured Hollywood’s latest craptacular iterations of “Two Drunk Ladies Getting In Way Over Their Heads” and “Alien Mega-Army Defeated By One Gun-Toting American”, respectively.
Klamath Falls also had the worst McDonald’s ever, in keeping with the Foursquare tip which made precisely that claim. We grabbed breakfast the following morning at the surprisingly decent Gathering Grounds Cafe, and high-tailed it to Crater Lake.
Ever since our April 2015 Pacific Northwest trip, Hailey has been whining that we skipped out on Crater Lake. Well, here we are in June, with a huge portion of the park still closed due to snow… which means taking a three-hour detour two Aprils ago would have resulted in major disappointment.
This is the first of several future humbling experiences with western America’s climate — there are some roads you just can’t trust to be open outside of a tiny two-week period in early August. Nevertheless, we saw enough to confirm its status as a natural icon.
Crater Lake is the result of a volcanic eruption almost 8,000 years ago. In other words, it used to be a mountain, and now it’s this. No rivers flow into it; all the water is rain and snowmelt, leading to world-class purity.
Our puny smartphones failed to ingest the full scope of this thing, as you can see. So, some words of support:
It’s nearly six miles wide
It’s the deepest lake in the U.S. and top ten deepest in the world
If the Empire State Building were built at the bottom of this lake, you’d have to dive about 500 feet before you could even touch the tip of it
It’s surprisingly warm at the surface, which is to say you would only die slower than expected if you fell in
Well worth the trek, and a great introduction to Oregon’s magnificent water features. Let’s see another one!
Driving up from Crater Lake en route to our next Pit Stop in Bend, we took in the two-tiered Toketee Falls:
You can almost feel the air clearing up around your computer screen right now, ya?
Well, don’t get too comfortable. By the time we got to the next stop (Clearwater Falls), the mosquitos had taken over. As we parked to begin our hike, an older couple emerged from the trailhead looking like circus freaks covered in bugs. We thought making a run for it might work, and it did — but even the five seconds we took to attempt a photo resulted in being swarmed. “Just one more reason to bring a beekeeper’s suit along in the van”, Hailey said. Mitch wasn’t aware there had been any reason confirmed prior to that.
We say it’s good luck to let your homeless friends stay over in the house you just bought seven days ago. Well, Drew and Torri must be awfully superstitious, because they went for that bait, and became victim Pit Stop #22!
These two are about as well-traveled as a couple can get, and their twin black beauties — Poe and Cole — get to take part in the adventures as well. Between craft beer swigs and delicious eats, we all soaked up the best that Bend had to offer. Mitch soaked up some other stuff as well, during our float down the Deschutes River.
This town is extremely high on the hip kids’ list of places to move, with good reason. An evening in Drake Park is one of the many great ways to spend your Bend days, and Hailey captured it so well that we’ve been asked if the photo was actually a painting.
Here’s the other thing about Bend: it’s a practical homebase for exploring some of America’s most majestic wilderness. The drive from Bend to Eugene passes over the McKenzie River, through the Willamette National Forest, and is so damned enchanting that even our Garmin had to gush:
Stop #1: Clear Lake. Hailey stared into it for fifteen minutes, then sang, “water so clear, you can see Will Smith at the bottom.” Fun fact: Will Smith refuses to use toilet paper. Only bidets and baby wipes can touch his bottom. Ask us how we know.
Stop #2: Sahalie Falls. Yes, it’s that blue, and yes, it’s that green.
Stop #3: Tamolitch Pool. Listen, before we show you this pool — which you aren’t ready for — let’s get into the whole Ireland comparison. We jigged all over Ireland in 2016 and its green hues left us in awe. But guys… Oregon might be more impressive. Perhaps it’s cheating a bit by throwing that “Clorox Toilet Bowl Cleaner” blue water into the picture, but the depth of these greens is simply astonishing. It’s like walking around in a fairy tale.
Also there are banana slugs.
Mitch has said that he doesn’t actually enjoy hiking unless it’s heading to a worthwhile destination, but he admits Oregon is the one place he’d be willing to hike around aimlessly in.
Luckily for Mitch, he only had to test his pansy-footed patience for about two miles before reaching the Tamolitch Pool:
If this ain’t a worthwhile destination, we should just hang up our blogging spurs right now.
It’s hard to tell how deep this body of water is, because everything at the floor is completely visible. Should you decide to get a closer look, be prepared for a fairly steady 37° temperature year-round. Which is to say, you’re not prepared for that.
Stop #4 (yes, all this scenery is along the same two-hour drive): Terwilliger Hot Springs. Nevermind the fact that this is just one of several hot springs you can locate along the McKenzie River — what’s notable here is the atmosphere. Terwilliger may as well be in Tahiti, or some other far-off paradise that $6 definitely should not get you to.
It’s a clothing-optional, five-pool cascade of pools ranging from about 105° to high 90s as you descend them. Very much natural, though the individual pool boundaries were formed with nearby rocks to make it a more people-friendly venture. Given the nudity present (of both adults and babies), we didn’t want to ruin the vibe by snapping a good photo. So we just half-ruined it with a half-good photo. You’ll have to head there yourself for the whole picture.
That drive from Bend to Eugene is a tough act to follow, so let’s be kind to Eugene. It’s a nice place, and home to the University Of Oregon. Can’t go wrong with a college town, especially when it includes an outpost of the famed Voodoo Doughnuts bakery, which Mitch pretended to stumble upon but had clearly bookmarked on his map weeks ago.
We dealt with some of your standard peculiar Oregon personalities at the Jiffy Lube, then got our spirits back up in every sense with a trip to Blairally Arcade Bar. The Jurassic Park machine gave us free replays, like, twenty times in a row. Life should always be this way.
Thoroughly full from good fun, we steered out to the Oregon coastline — a forgotten but no less impressive leg of Pacific Coast cruising.
You know you’re living high on the experiential hog when you can turn down the opportunity to see a cave full of sea lions. The dealbreaker here was the $14/person fee to peep animals we’d previously been ogling for free up the coast of California… and the reminder that a cave full of sea lions would stink to high heaven. But you go ahead. You go in that cave.
Cape Perpetua was just a shot up the road, famous for the crashing surf against some particularly interesting rock formations, which make for an incredible soundtrack. You can walk around this entire area and find different sonic examples, but one of the attractions — Thor’s Well — is close enough to the break that you might be hearing your swan song if you venture out too far.
We decided to duck ever so briefly back into civilization and see what Oregon’s capital city of Salem was like, given all the good fortune we’d had traveling through neighboring Bend and Eugene. The sky sent an ominous signal that we’d regret our decision.
That’s the trouble with ominous signs though… they’re not specific enough. We would’ve preferred if the sky used the clouds to write out, “Salem Sucks.”
So here we are in Salem anyway. This is a picture of the Capitol. Now you’ve seen everything you need to see in Salem.
Back to the coast, and then, onto Portland.
On our way out to re-see the sea, we stopped in the Tillamook Cheese Factory for a taste of the good life. Note the guy wearing a Rogue t-shirt and sitting in a VW bus — how serendipitous, we thought, as we stuffed cheese curds in our craws.
The northern Oregon coast has some notable features, but for the most part, is tough to discern from the NorCal and Washington coastlines. That’s certainly not an insult; more of an insight, as we’d wager it’s the brutally cold water and jagged rocks which prevent a lot of the heavy commercial and residential development you might see in SoCal by comparison. The number of days you might find yourself frolicking in the surf along these beautiful beaches is roughly zero, unless you’re equipped with a wetsuit. Much like Ireland again, in that sense.
Pictured below: Hug Point State Park and Haystack Rock.
We’ve been to Portland four times in the past two years, for reasons even we can’t explain. But for those who have never been, for the most part, and for better or worse: it lives up to the reputations.
Only once before has Rogue Trip been forced to stoop to plebeian laundromat facilities, but luckily and predictably, Portland has a laundry lounge complete with booze, grub, and arcade games.
Feeling so fresh and clean, we hustled over to Portland’s famous International Rose Test Garden — a sight we’ve missed due to seasonal conditions on our first three trips through PDX.
They’re pretty, of course. Unfortunately, most of them only come in one size: face-sized.
By the by, this test garden isn’t the only place roses abound. For a more peaceful and less crowded experience, just waltz on over to Peninsula Park and have yourself a picnic.
What about that whole “weird” side of Portland? Yeah, they’ve got that, though locals may be dismayed to learn we’ve seen just as much weirdness in a handful of other cities. Still, weird = good. Keep it weird, for sure. Here’s a bicycle gang taking up the full width of the road:
Here’s a tiny, Nintendo-themed ice cream truck:
Here’s this thing:
Here’s Hailey either sucking fluid out of her ear, or blowing candy into it:
Here’s a wishing tree, monitored closely by the lady in the window. The wish-stealer, they call her.
They don’t call her that. She seemed friendly.
One of the best things about Portland is leaving, and we mean that in the nicest way. Just a few minutes east of town, you hit the Columbia River and surrounding Gorge — basically the western terminus of the historic Lewis & Clark trail, and ditto for every ’80s kid’s favorite computer game: Oregon Trail.
Historic Columbia Highway 30 is the route to take, winding you up to Crowne Plaza at the top of the gorge before dropping you down into waterfall country. No joke, this is the place to be in the continental U.S. if you love waterfalls. The map below is even missing a few we’re aware of:
Crowne Plaza atop Highway 30:
Again, we’ve done this drive and this waterfall alley several times already, so hopefully the lack of photo evidence doesn’t undersell you on how wondrous this area is. The uber-popular Multnomah Falls is a big tourist draw, and makes some kind of asterisky claim about being the tallest two-tiered waterfall in the U.S. or something. Looking a bit muddier than usual today, big fella!
Next up was Ellowa Falls and Upper McCord Falls; two plunges along the same trail. Ellowa was closed due to a walking bridge being washed out, but Upper McCord appeared to be out in full regalia. These falls were new to us.
Also new to us was Spirit Falls, though in the interest of transparency, it’s technically in Washington State just over the Bridge Of the Gods. Still, there’s really no practical reason you’d ever get here from the Washington side, so let’s lump it in.
Spirit Falls is easily in our Top 5 Falls of Rogue Trip so far… it’s a delicious cocktail that goes as follows:
One part difficult to find and super-secluded
One part crashing, swirling crystal blue waters surrounded by a rainforest-like environment
One part Hailey doing not one, but two face-plants in the dirt
One part sad human phenomenon wherein your brain believes the harder something is, the better it must be
We’d tell you to bring the kids, but depending on your family, either you or your kids will have trouble with this hike. Maybe send the kids, and wait in the car.
We drove back into Portland to see a visiting friend and polish off the fine state of Oregon, and eventually crossed the line into Washington State — nearing the halfway point in the Rogue Trip journey! Can you believe it? Can you tolerate the lack of blog updates? If you said no to both, you’re in luck. We’ll be making believers out of you at a faster pace over these next couple months. If that’s not fast enough, there’s always Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/roguetripusa/. See you around, cowboy…
← NorCal: Fremont, San Jose, Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Tahoe, Reno, Mt Shasta
Washington: Snoqualmie, Seattle, Olympic National Park, Cape Flattery, Spokane →
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¡Ay, qué lindo! - The end of the Wojtyla-Ratzinger "conservative" gap:
On Liberation Theology, and everything else, Church rolls back to 1978
Now that the "reactionaries" are gone, we are at last free to move back to where we were just 35 short years ago: it's morning again in the Vatican.
(The Last Supper, Liberation-Theology-style)
"The Latin American ecclesial and theological movement known as 'Liberation Theology', which spread to other parts of the world after the Second Vatican Council, should in my opinion be included among the most important currents in 20th century Catholic theology." This authoritative and glorifying historical evaluation of Liberation Theology did not just come from some ancient South American theologian who is out of touch wit the times. The above statement was made by Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith which Ratzinger headed in the 1980’s, after John Paul I appointed him to the post. [Source: Vatican Insider; tip: several readers.]
Now, strictly for argumentative purposes (that is, assuming as such that it could be placed within the limits of orthodoxy), we are willing to understand the actual influence of Liberation Theology. The evidence seems strong that, regardless of its many intrinsic problems, Liberation Theology "politicized" Catholicism in Latin America at the exact moment in which it needed to be more "spiritual" and liturgical than ever - and the new Liberationist Church was abandoned in droves in favor of those groups (particularly Pentecostal communities) that offered the faithful the spiritual solace they wanted. On the other hand, those who wished to be "political" just abandoned the Church in favor of real political groups. The result was the collapse of Catholicism throughout the region. The strong attempt to resurrect Liberation Theology in recent years begs the question of how on earth this could do any good to the Church in Latin America in its current situation when it only led to disaster in the past. On the resurrection of Liberation Theology, the question is cui bono?...
Considering our broad and strong readership in Latin America, we would like to ask our friends in the region or from the region: did Liberation Theology achieve a true strengthening of the Church in Latin America, or in your country in particular, following the Council? In other words, did its deep influence in the region, in particular following the Medellín Conference, increase the Church's ability to reach souls and save them? Please, feel free to articulate your thoughts in Spanish or Portuguese if you so prefer.
Labels: Müller, The resurrection of Liberation Theology
And so begins the move from Roman Catholic, with a universal unity secured by and grounded in tradition and apostolicity, to Latin American/Neo[psuedo]catechumanate Catholicism. Just because that is where the present Holy Father is from and because there more people than anywhere else call themselves Catholic.
Joj! To have the most self-professed Catholics in the world today in this period of the Church's history is almost something to be ashamed of.
A hard new day for committed Catholics the way things seem to be going.
I repeat the first thing I said with the election of Bergoglio:
Eight years forward - fifty years back.
- adulescens
Saturday, June 22, 2013 at 3:47:00 AM GMT
Alphonsus Jr. said...
Of course the upcoming "clarification" will say that judging it as important isn't approval of it.
Only a hispanic dicho: "Llegaron los sarracenos, y nos molieron a palos, si así es Dios con los buenos, ¿cómo será con los malos?"
Well, I can hear the cheers at the former exPUCP in Lima. Like in the old days. With corn beer and Silvio Rodriguez.
Now that Bertone is practically gone and Müller is a moderate we can expect a "call to Rome" to Cardinal Cipriani.
dominic1962 said...
I say its high time for another "devotio moderna" of sorts. We need to start focusing on prayer and holiness and let the rest of this nonsense blow over. If that's what Archbishop Muller really said, just ignore the clown and focus on holiness. Pray for him, but ignore him.
Brennis said...
I live in the US but I'm from Rio. I remember walking out of church during the sermon when the priest said that we should vote for Lula and PT (Labor Party), known for its communist ideology and Cuban connection. It was clear already to me as a teenager that the clergy were strongly left leaning always speaking about land reform and 'rights.' Back then, we were told that John Paul II was a conservative but the clergy was disobedient.
Little bit little some protestant tendencies started to creep into the liturgy like clapping, arm waving, singing aloud, etc...some noticeable changes even for me. In our neighborhood, a upscale one, there was the 'Beach Mass,' on Dec. 31 around 8 pm. Anyone that has been to Rio is well aware that 'Reveillon' is a mini carnival but this mass would take place by the water surrounded Iemanja worshipers (African/vodoo type of practices dedicated to the 'goddess of the sea') and ocean front bars and so on. Fortunately, my parents my sister and I had the sense to avoid it but it was an event not to be missed for many.
Nowadays, I often read on Facebook posts from Novus Oreo family members with an extremely over the top tone like in a charismatic fashion. The TLM is virtually unkown in most circles and my family there thought that I had abandoned the Faith when I started attending the TLM back in 2006. It is easy to find those LT inspired paintings in churches but nothing remotely traditional in outlook. The CNBB (Bishops Conference) is the 'social justice arm' of Lula's (and current present Dilma Roussef) Labor Party. Only known apostates like Frei Betto speak on TV about Catholic matters. Protestant Evangelicals have a much stronger voice in the public sphere and will likely become the majority in 1-2 decades.
Fortunately there's this thing called the internet that prevents cats from being put back in bags. So no matter what they say the truth will be alive and kicking and this time liberation brouhaha won't have a silent opponent. Thank God we can never really go back to 1978.
I wish I could find the clip of John Paul II, in one of his finest moments, berate the living hell out of that airport tarmac. I saw that and said, "now there's a man."
Saturday, June 22, 2013 at 10:45:00 AM GMT
My three younger brothers were brought up under the influence of that theology in Lima. Two of them lost the Faith. One of them became an agnostic and the other is an evangelical. The youngest had no clue and became a communist. Both of us live in the States now, and I am trying to bring him back to the Faith. Thank God he is responding. The pain in my heart is great, but we must keep fighting for TRUTH, and pray, pray, pray.
I see that today is the optional memorial of martyrs St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More.
I pray the day will never come that we have to say:
"I die the Pope's good servant, but God's first."
Saturday, June 22, 2013 at 1:29:00 PM GMT
Spartan Warrior said...
Who appointed Muller in the first place?
It scares me to think what the Church will look like in five years. By then, Francis will have appointed his people to all of the positions of importance and his vision of humility and emancipated formation will be set in stone. I wonder what will become of Burke, Ranjith, Pell, and some of the others who attempt to stick to the traditional line? Regardless, I think we'll see, in a few years, what the Church would have looked like had JP I not died so soon.
Tom Policinski said...
Did Muller say that recently, or in 1980?
Just click on the link, Tom, come on... It's all quite recent, 2004 and 2012, already after his appointment. Also click on our label, The resurrection of Liberation Theology.
Beefy Levinson said...
"When the Church opted for the poor, the poor opted for the Pentecostals" - old Latin American joke
@Alexander:
"I repeat the first thing I said with the election of Bergoglio:
Eight years forward - fifty years back."
I think you got it a little wrong there my friend. I just think the accelerating pedal leading us to the much acclaimed "civilization of love" just got a little less pressed on during those eight years. Although I will probably get a lot of frowns from other rorate readers for saying this - I think Benedict's alleged "traditionalism" is often exaggerated. Remember it is BENEDICT who appointed MOST of the Cardinals that ELECTED Bergoglio to the pontificate. Remember it was Benedict who proudly celebrated Assisi III, who prayed with an imam in Istanbul in a Mohameddan fashion, and most importantly, who chose the current head of the CDF etc.
Anyway, it would be interesting if rorate covered someday that other plague of pseudo-Catholicism which has befallen Spain - the "Neo-Catechumenal Way" led by Kiko Arguello. In Spain (my home country) the decay of Catholicism has taken a different tone than in South America. While in S. America people have apostatized from Catholicism to Protestantism in droves, there seems to be some kind of inherent disgust with protestantism with the Spanish people, so that either people stop believing in Christianity altogether, or they join one of these pseudo-Catholic groups such as the "Neo-Catechumenal Way" but I haven't seen a mass apostasy into Protestantism. Probably the Spanish people's strong devotion to Our Blessed Mother (Nuestra Senora del Pilar above all) is one of the leading reasons for this. Perhaps the South American people have gradually lost love for their spiritual Mother over the years?
Danilo said...
Many people think that Liberation Theology just went away and it is no longer part of our church context. It is not true!
The Brazilian Conference of bishops is just marxist as it was back in the 70's. The only difference is that now we have a marxist government with a marxist agenda. A government that was build along side the "church's" political agenda.
For example, the Conference of bishops issued a note supporting the recent riots wave.
The poor catholic people are now, after so many years of spring time and liberation theology, a protestant people or they simply lost their faith completly. No vocations in the dioceses, only on so called "new communities" (charismatic renew) and in the more conservative seminaries (tridentine Campos, Legionary of Christ, etc). My diocese has ordained 5 priests in 8 years, one has left the priesthood to get married with a protestant woman. My bishop hates the TLM, ofcourse.
We are an institution, only that. Very caritative and nice but only a NGO. Here we are not the church anymore.
The defense of life is made by pentecostal protestants. They are the real heroes of family and life because they are not affraid of saying the truth about the project of God. The catholics? Well they are more concerd about earth, ecology, political reformation, economics...And what about the tradi-catholics? They are only virtual catholics, working and protesting on-line where is safe and confortable. They love on-line foruns, virtual petitions, etc.
The liberation theology caused a real disaster. It paved the way for a long term revolution.
Now we have a pope and a prefect for the faith saying: It is not all that bad! It is a good and catholic theology.
GOOD HEART OF JESUS!
This theology destroyed the faith of the vast majority of catholics, including bishops and priests.
With JPII and B16 we were sure that LT was an evil. Now we are not sure anymore. Dark times, very dark.
If this is the current agenda at the apostolic palace, we can expect bad things to come. The LT will not only get a new breath but it will spread through Africa, Asia and Middle East. USA and European people think they are not living a church reality inffected with LT but they are. It's not a third world phenomenon or a latin american theology, no! It was born in Europe, after all.
Our only enemy is the Devil. Communism is the way the Devil thinks, Socialism is the way the Devil speaks and LT is the way the smoke of the Devil enters the sanctuary.
Siobhan said...
"Communism is the way the Devil thinks, Socialism is the way the Devil speaks and LT is the way the smoke of the Devil enters the sanctuary."
What a fabulous quote! And right on the money.
Liberation Theology, developed mostly by Latinamerican Jesuits, has been a disaster. It hit in the early seventies and helped promote Marxist movements such as the Tupamaros in Uruguay and the Peronistas known as Montoneros in Argentina. In Brazil it served to agitate the Campesinos. Currently the President of Uruguay is a Tupamaro leader, the one of Argentina a Peronista ( as was Fr. Bergoglio although of a different branch, just Google Bergoglio Peronista ), and the Brazilian liberationist bishop Helder Camera has has an main avenue named after him in Rio de Janeiro.
Liberation Theology was converted to Black Liberation Theology in the USA. Reverend Wright begat Barack Obama and this option for the poor spread to the world. Now the Catholic Church will spread this ideology too. We have a problem.
Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller said:
"'Liberation Theology'...should in my opinion be included among the most important CURRENTS in 20th century Catholic theology."
HUN-ey
CAN’T SHRINK
Forward in reverse
Tradition is perverse
The German states he's first
Among his equals immersed.
Except the one true one
Detested by this Hun
He is the Rhine's own son
Where Luther took his nun.
His father is the land
The land of heretics' stand
His master race has planned
Again to take command
And bring across the sea
A Liberation Theology
Concentrating you and me
In a Peter-less kind of ecology
But in a catacomb
Deep under Peter's Dome
There are men true to Rome
Though Hun denies them home.
Young Priests they're cassock strong
A universal growing throng
Four corners they belong
The Credo is their song.
From Seminary's grave
They rise for souls to save
Men brown, white, black and brave
Real men for us Christ gave.
The Rhine they will reverse
While Hun lies in his hearse
Tradition's Truth traverse
And take back Our Lady's purse!
Here's the JPII video, but why he is berating him I don't know. It appears he's the only man to take a knee, hope that wasn't the reason:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiE-DMjIUjA
Dr. Timothy J. Williams said...
Liberation Theology liberated us from oppressive things like... theology.
I cannot help but be amazed that there are still Caholics around, like those of you that visit and contribute at this blog. With all the maladies that are cropping up into the Church, beginning with the mass infiltration of the Lavender Mafia up to the Vatican itself, the destruction of the liturgy, the abuse of minors, the apostacy inside the clergy, etc, is it not small wonder that there are still Catholics that love the Church, the Mass of Ages, who pray the Rosary and follow the precepts of the Church, in spite of the apostasy of the Clergy? That is why I appreciate you very much and am very thankful for helping me keep the Faith. I specially thank Long Skirts, whose poems and posts are so inspiring. This is not to say that I am sometimes pessimistic about the future of Catholicism, surrounded by secular and ecclesiastical enemies, those inside the Church hierarchy who are the most dangerous. Add to that the fact that when we expected to have a Pope sympathetic to Tradition, here comes Bergoglio, who appears to be a joke, and a bitter one at that. He flaunts such style as to make it seem that he can dispense with every kind of formality, as a sort of intent to revolutionize the Papacy. At times he seems to be ashamed with the dignity of the Office and at other he basks in his independence from the duties of state. He acknowledges the "gay lobby" lightly en passing, but immediate states that he is not going to tackle the issue, but due to the fact that he is a poor administrator (??), he is going to govern by committee, which means that nothing shall be accomplished. Not only that, but he appoints 8 members to this committee
headed by Oscar Rodríguez Maradiaga, the Honduran Cardinal, who in the past protected a fugitive Costa Rican priest who was sought by the authorities on charges of abuse of minors.
When I look back to the past century, even in the 90's, and what has happened at the 2000's, it seems as if we had lost the innocence, and arrived at a different age, quite distant from the past.
May the Lord have mercy on us, especially on the Catholic Church, that is going through the worst period in modern history.
Charles Dupuy
Saturday, June 22, 2013 at 10:57:00 PM GMT
Thanks Adfero, the priest was Ernesto Cardenal, a jesuit who accepted a position in the nicaraguan government, "minister of culture." JP II had ordered him previously to resign (like Drinan in the USA) but Cardenal ignored him. So the airport tarmac was where JP II let the hammer fall. He was shouting "you must regularize your situation with the Church! you must regularize your situation!" Whatever his faults, JP II was no member of the LM.
Sunday, June 23, 2013 at 12:40:00 AM GMT
Liam Ronan, well said---your paraphrase of St. Thomas More.
Danilo, your whole letter should be studied by those who doubt the insidious nature of L T.
I appreciate hearing from all who wrote, although the big picture is no more encouraging than the little one. Except we know that these stories are seen, thanks to RC and the internet.
Prayers for you all,
Sunday, June 23, 2013 at 3:09:00 PM GMT
Victoriano said...
On the role of the Catholic Church in the Guatemalan civil war: Excerpts from the book Unfinished Conquest, the Guatemalan Tragedy, by Victor Prera (1993). University of California Press, Berkeley. Page 67.
"In Nebaj I spoke with numerous Ixils who are convinced Father Xavier [Gurriaran] is still fighting with the guerrillas. I also met with active and former militants who reproached the Gurriaran brothers [Missionaries of the Sacred Hearth] for having abandoned them when they were most needed".
"But the army was unable to prevent the emergence of a peasant labor movement in the towns and numerous aldeas, or villages, of the Ixil Triangle and Uspantan. Propelling this movement was a strain of reform Catholicism that grew out of the Second Vatican Council and the Latin American Bishops' Conference held in Medellin, Colombia, in 1968. In Nebaj in particular, militant Accion Catolica catechists, encouraged by their Spanish pastors, often initiated contacts with the guerrillas and invited them to attend their consciousness-raising sessions".
Liberation Theology though sounds nice, if examined is really a remarked form of communism. Was asked to research on Alfa and found at it's roots was Liberation Theology. This was also pushed by Cardinal Bernidine of Chicago in the form of Alinski. Have I lost anyone yet? Just connected the dots. Also know a priest who was in South America at the time it came into the church. He argued against it, but was out numbered. Once the head of the Carmelites saw things start to fall apart, it was too late.
Josemaria Paulo Jeromino Martin Carvalho-Von Verster said...
This Above Painting was done by a Claretian Priest,I wonder what St. Anthony Claret(a certified reactionary)would say about this?
Monday, June 24, 2013 at 9:19:00 AM GMT
Thank God Pope Francis is dead opposed to LT!
Monday, June 24, 2013 at 1:25:00 PM GMT
El Cid said...
I am hoping and praying that the generation of orthodox priests inspired to the priesthood by JPII and BXVI will rise through the ranks and one day reestablish the Church. Of course, that's based on an assumption that the current generation of aging leftist bishops and prelates will not have taken us too close to the River Styx by then.
The Church will become much smaller and there will be older liberal priests in power and younger orthodox priests in the trenches, but the liberal priests in power will have their younger minions, before its all over, there will be a serious spat in the Church, unfortunately for the liberal ones, their laity will abandon them in the middle of the spat, the tradies will prevail, (in my life time)
There is my prediction
Monday, June 24, 2013 at 10:33:00 PM GMT
I have been Catholic all my life and my faith in God has been steady, I have watched the world decaying through liberalism, but I have not always lived up to my church teachings either. But recently things seem out of control. I just found this web site (rorate caeli)in my further investigation into faith and am pleased to see a wealth of knowledge. However I ask you for help! Can somebody put into perspective for me how Maria Divine Mercy might fit into this?
She is considered the final prophet of God, but most people know nothing about these messages and of the few that do a significant portion rejects these messages as false. I personally read them very carefully and find them believable. However I conclude it is ok to believe them or to not believe them but that it is not advisable to claim them true or false. I hope you distinguish the subtle difference here. They claim to be God's word and final plan of salvation for mankind, thus they deserve respect if daring to be judged. I warn you if they are new to you and you give them a chance just walk away if you begin to feel they are false!
Anyway, I have been debating with people who are condemning them which I disagree with, and have noticed distortion and lies from their side.
It seems to me this web site is full of people much more informed and knowledgeable in the faith than me. I do not however want to bring a problem here.
Additionally tonight I found a video on youtube titled Welcome angel of death from a site called churchmilitant tv. This is a frightening video about the church, which too is beyond my imagination. I ask your opinion about this too.
Can somebody shed some light on these matters. But please keep responses gentle like you do not think such and such is or is not valid, and why you draw that conclusion.
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December 2, 2014 – Theodore H. White Seminar on Press and Politics with Jill Abramson, former executive editor of The New York Times and visiting lecturer at Harvard University; Kristen Soltis Anderson, IOP Fellow and co-founder of Echelon Insights; Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, Theodore H. White lecturers and managing editors of Bloomberg Politics, and David Rogers, Nyhan Prize winner and reporter for Politico. Moderated by Alex S. Jones, director of the Shorenstein Center.
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CIO Matters: Leveraging big data for big business value
Leveraging data for business value represents a fundamental shift in the way we conduct business, interact with customers and exchange information.
Harvey R. Koeppel, Pictographics Inc.
Despite the fact that there is no commonly accepted definition of big data, there is growing evidence that, when approached in the proper manner, there is big business value in big data.
Industry publications are filled with articles that deliberate, sometimes even pontificate, around whether big data is hype or reality. The good news is that the trend is toward case studies that demonstrate how leveraging big data has created significant business value. This is somewhat encouraging, but acceptance of big data still falls short, as does understanding and institutionalized concepts, facilities, tools and methodologies that we have come to expect from our "big" technologies.
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Some people talk about big data in terms of size -- e.g., petabytes (1,024 terabytes), exabytes (1,024 petabytes) and zettabytes (1,024 exabytes). To put these terms into a context that we mere mortals can understand, an exabyte is equal to two to the 60th power (that is, 1,152,921,504,606,846,976) bytes.
Still not clear? Can't imagine why. Here's a comparison that is perhaps a bit more comprehensible. If you were to stack an exabyte of regular Oreo cookies (not the Double Stuf kind) into a neat tower of pleasure, the height of the tower would be the equivalent of 19,041,819 round trips to the moon. Still unimaginable? How about 48,938 round trips to the sun?
According to IDC's 2012 Digital Universe Study:
In 2012, only 0.5% of the world's data was being analyzed;
In 2012, 2.8 zettabytes of data will have been created and replicated;
Projected growth in data is largely attributed to the worldwide proliferation of PCs, smartphones and the Internet, especially in emerging markets; and
Data from machines, such as surveillance cameras and smart meters, has contributed to the doubling of the digital universe within the past two years alone.
The IDC study offers the following predictions for where big data will be by 2020:
The digital universe will reach 40 zettabytes, a 50-fold growth from the beginning of 2010;
40 zettabytes will be 5,247 gigabytes per person worldwide;
Emerging markets will supplant the developed world as the main producer of the world's data; and
The investment in spending on IT hardware, software, services, telecommunications and staff that could be considered the "infrastructure" of the digital universe will grow by 40%. Investment in targeted areas like storage management, security, big data and cloud computing will grow considerably faster.
Whether you believe these numbers or not, there seems to be an emerging, inescapable conclusion: Size does matter. But even considering that we are living in the age of 16-plus-ounce soft drinks, 2,700-plus-foot skyscrapers, 7-plus-pound tomatoes and 8-plus-foot tall people, size alone does not seem to account for what's so big about big data.
The real issue here is not about the technologies and big data. It is about the notion that these technologies -- and all of the big data that they are generating -- are also enabling and driving fundamental shifts in the way we work, play and interact with each other.
According to a recent study performed by the TechAmerica Foundation, Demystifying Big Data: A Practical Guide to Transforming the Business of Government, big data is defined by "the rapid acceleration in the expanding volume of high velocity, complex and diverse types of data." Here, we find reference to factors beyond size, including speed, complexity and diversity of data.
The TechAmerica study tells us that 15% of the information in existence today is structured -- i.e., the traditional data fields within records within data files, and rows and columns within relational databases and spreadsheets. That means that 85% of information in existence is unstructured -- i.e., contained within social media sites, recorded conversations, videos and email. Understanding the nature and meaning of unstructured information presents significant challenges that far exceed the capabilities of typical business intelligence tools that were, for the most part, designed and built for handling the 15% that is structured.
Even a casual review of any respectable business or technology publication makes it obvious that much of the expected growth in information will come from mobile devices, sensor-based devices and social media, making it likely that the 15% will shrink by comparison as the 85% grows, creating more and more diversity and complexity.
But the real issue here is not about the technologies and the big data. It is rather about the notion that these technologies -- and all of the big data that they are generating -- are also enabling and driving fundamental shifts in the way we work, play and generally interact with each other. Being constantly connected almost demands real-time interaction models. It means that "it's in the mail" is no longer an acceptable response. I've sent you a text message and I expect an immediate response. As my 20-year-old son likes to remind me on a regular basis, "C'mon Dad, email is for old guys."
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Business models used to be based on looking at historical data to determine what to do during the next 12 to 24 months. Business models are now based on looking at what happened during the past few minutes (or seconds) to determine what to do during the next 12 to 24 minutes (or seconds). Marketing used to be based on abstracting segments or population samples in order to predict the propensity or responsiveness of individuals within the segment to targeted products and services offered in campaigns that lasted weeks or months. Marketing is now based upon the analysis of each individual's behavioral and experiential information and providing tailored offers to that individual in real time at the point of contact -- call center, website, mobile application, and so on. Conceivably, no two individuals will ever receive the same offer, and once an individual receives an offer, that same offer may never be repeated again. This is the big deal -- it's the real "big" in big data.
In thinking through the implications of this big data stuff and what all this means to us as IT executives and to the enterprises that we serve, a few important considerations and next steps become apparent:
If you're not already, engage your leadership in conversations around what is happening and why it's important to the enterprise, to your shareholders and to your customers;
Support your leadership in evolving their enterprise business strategy to adapt to and exploit these new business models and technologies and the big data capabilities that enable them;
Ensure that your information and data strategies and governance processes are aligned with your business strategies and models;
Manage these efforts as you would an agenda that supports innovation -- small, short-term, incremental efforts that are manageable and that yield measurable and meaningful business results; and
Accept the fact that there will be failures along the way. Learn to recognize and learn from them so that the probability of success increases with subsequent iterations.
If, for whatever reason, you or your enterprise remain unconvinced about big data's potential, perhaps you might want to consider the following from the recent book The Human Face of Big Data by Rick Smolan and Jennifer Erwitt: "During the first day of a baby's life, the amount of data generated by humanity is equivalent to 70 times the information contained in the Library of Congress." One can't imagine how many Oreos that would be.
Harvey Koeppel is the president of Pictographics Inc., a management and technology advisory and consulting services firm. He is also vice chairman of the World BPO/ITO Forum. From May 2004 through June 2007, Koeppel served as the CIO and senior vice president of Citigroup's Global Consumer Group. Write to him at hrkoeppel@aol.com.
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Texas Republican Representative Will Hurd appears on CNN with Wolf Blitzer January 9, 2019. (CNN)
President Donald Trump repeatedly claims only Democrats oppose his multi-billion dollar border wall. He also claims Republicans are completely unified in supporting it and back his decision to shut down portions of the government—including the Department of Homeland Security—until he gets the billions of dollars he wants for his wall.
But Texas Republican Representative Will Hurd stated otherwise in an interview with CNN.
Hurd represents a district on the southern border with Mexico. In fact, Hurd's district covers 820 miles of the border, well over a third of the 1,954 mile border with Mexico.
When asked for his thoughts on the wall, Hurd—a member of both the House Homeland Security and Intelligence Committees—stated:
"I think building a concrete structure sea to shining sea is the most expensive and least effective way to do border security."
Watch his remarks here.
Hurd's assessment reflects the thoughts of experts on border security who point out advancements in technology that are utilized more effectively than a wall and could be purchased with a fraction of the money Trump wants for his wall. The Department of Homeland Security budget requests to Congress never included a wall—prior to Trump appointing Kirstjen Nielsen to the post—as experts within the department also understand actual border security and immigration statistics.
The majority of undocumented immigrants who enter the United States still come in legally on a variety of visa types—student, tourist, work—then simply stay after their visa expires. Their arrivals are through legal points or entry on planes or in other types of vehicles, not by walking across the southern border.
Hurd went on to comment on the President's threat to declare a national emergency if he did not get his border wall billions.
Hurd said:
"It would be an amazing misuse and abuse of power."
So why—if every expert in border security and immigration statistics indicate a wall is ineffective and a waste of billions that could be better used by Homeland Security in upgrading technology and increasing staffing—does Trump insist he get his multi-billion dollar wall or else?
Conservative media pundits like Ann Coulter and hosts on Fox News mock him about his campaign promise and popular Make America Great Again rally chant of "build a wall."
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Some pointed out flaws in the Trump one-size fits all multi-million dollar prototypes that were already constructed and failed in testing.
Others voiced support for Hurd's assessment.
Others suggested the GOP listen to their member of Congress who represents a border district.
However a few Trump supporters failed to understand the points Hurd made but were corrected.
As Trump's government shutdown tactic to gain his border wall funding approaches the third week, the President heads to the border for a photo-op to try to gain the support his presidential address on Tuesday failed to garner. If all other attempts to force Congress to give him the billions he wants fail, Trump stated he would likely declare a national emergency to bypass Congress.
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Domain stealing, also known as domain theft, is a common criminal activity on the Internet. It consists in transferring your domain name illegally to another registrar, without you knowing about it.
As you know, 99.9% of online-based businesses depend on their domain names, so when this happens their entire online business can suffer as a result.
What would happen if you went to work one morning to discover that your email, webpage, and the rest of your web-based services were no longer working? Then you asked your web hosting technical support for help and was told that the web-server was working just fine?
You might eventually realize that it’s a domain name problem. Digging into the domain details you’d find that your DNS no longer points to your nameservers, and even worse, your domain name was transferred to a new registrar, and now belongs to a new person.
That could be your worst nightmare.
Someone hacked you, it’s as simple as that. That’s the only reason anyone can steal your domain name right before your eyes.
Most of the time, attackers try to hack the email address associated with your domain name, which is often not protected and publicly available by simply fetching a WHOIS query.
Once they gain access to your email they can try logging in to your email registrars, and it won’t be your lucky day if you’re using the same password for both services (email and domain name registrar).
Their next step is to unlock the domain name, get the EPP code, and transfer your domain name to another registrar.
Let’s look at this problem from a different perspective.
Buying stolen domain names
What would happen if you were on the other side? Let’s say you were a domain names buyer — and someone announced a very good deal for a short (3 to 5 letters) domain name.
Before purchasing, you’d try to find all the possible details about the person you were buying from, and it looked like a solid profile (most of these sales are done over domain forums). At the end, the auth code was passed, everything looked good, and you had your brand-new domain name.
But suddenly, hours or days later, the real owner of that domain name gets in touch with you telling you he or she is the legitimate owner of the domain name, and that it was stolen by a hacker.
What should you do in that situation?
Looking at a similar case described in this thread at NamePros, the next step is to file a dispute with the payment processor who was used in the money transfer, so you can get your money back.
Most of the person-to-person domain selling and purchases are done using Paypal, so filing a dispute with your payment processor will be the wisest thing to do at this time.
And of course, think about giving that domain back to the original owner, as using a stolen domain name is not legal.
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How to avoid getting tricked by domain thieves
Here are a few tips to help you avoid getting involved in illegal domain-selling activities:
Run intelligence research about the person or company that is selling the domain name. Ask for opinions in specialized domain forums like NamePros, DNForum, etc.
How trustworthy is his profile? Has he had any other suspicious domain-selling activity before? Any trouble with other members? Keep all of this in mind.
Use 3rd-party intermediate services like Escrow, who are excellent in handling these kinds of situations and have the right tools to help you immediately whenever you report something wrong with your business.
If possible, do this using a bank transfer, that traceable by legal authorities in case you need help.
Investigate the WHOIS history, name server and DNS changes, and IP details about the domain using the SecurityTrails free API tier; or with the powerful SurfaceBrowser, look for anomalies or anything that looks weird to you, especially about the last update date, contact details, etc. If domain ownership has changed recently, contact the prior owner to make sure the domain hasn’t been stolen.
In the case reported in NamePro’s forum, the stolen domain name was nwx.com, which had an NS update between December 6th and 8th, as you can see by exploring the NWX.com name server historical records:
One interesting thing to mention about this case (and most domain and DNS hijacking cases) is that the transfer date is not always the date when the attackers got access to your domain details or registrar account. So it’s always useful to start digging into these details days or weeks prior to the domain transfer.
Ask yourself: Is it too good to be true? If the domain name you are buying has a good 3-letter combination, then it would never be sold for less than 20k. Start digging to get more details about this person, because that looks suspicious.
Now, let’s get back to the root of the problem if you are the legal owner of the domain name.
How can you prevent domain stealing from happening to you?
Let’s see what can be done to protect your domain names from being illegally transferred to another registrar.
Use two-password authentication on your domain contact email. As we’ve said before, most domain thieves will target the email associated with your domain names. That is the one used to approve domain changes, especially when you need the authentication code to start the domain transfer.
When you use a weak password, the probability your email will be hacked is really high. In this case, the best you can do is set a stronger password, and after that, activate 2FA protection.
This way, even if the crackers get your email password, they won’t be able to log in to your inbox, and you’ll be notified about the attempt.
Remember that the really useful and safe 2FA protection method is the one integrated with popular apps like Google Authenticator or Authy apps. 2FA using text messages is every bit as vulnerable as using an unprotected email address.
Never use ISP-based email addresses or legacy email providers. AOL, Verizon, Comcast, Yahoo and other popular providers use old and vulnerable email systems that have been targeted by password data leak attacks in the past, exposing your login details to the entire Internet.
This is easily verifiable by using sites like Have I Been Pwned? Start using Gmail or ProtonMail with two-factor authentication enabled.
Never host your email in your own infrastructure, unless you have really intelligent and strict authentication mechanisms (such as 2FA or limited logins by country or region with geoIP technologies) that are always up to date.
Using your own email servers will be never as good as using popular 3rd-party ones like Google’s G Suite, Office 365 Business Premium accounts or ProtonMail.
Use a password manager like LastPass or 1password. It will help you increase your password security by generating random complex password combinations, keeping all your passwords secure in one single place, under your full control, and outside normal password attacking techniques used by crackers.
Do not click on that suspicious link in an email coming from your “domain registrar,” it could easily be a fake email. Double check first, make sure the email is coming from the right domain or service, and that it isn’t a spoofed email address that will redirect you to a phishing page.
Security answers to default security questions in email services or domain registrars should never be real ones (this was mentioned in the forum thread mentioned before). Crackers know how you think — they will probably run intel research about you, and can easily guess your most common security answers.
Instead, it’s best to generate a random password using your password manager. Attackers will try to find your security answer and will never imagine it’s a hard-to-guess password.
Domain stealing is a very common Internet crime. It can affect an entire company and cause you to go offline for several weeks or even months. And that’s if you’re lucky enough to get this resolved in time.
Part of keeping your domains secure is to apply general best security practices like using strong passwords, never repeating them for your registrar login, enabling 2FA and avoiding the use of old ISP-based email providers.
If this problem is happening to you right now, you now know where to launch complaints against this kind of activity: go to NamePros or any other popular domain name forums and start a thread as soon as possible, get advice from professionals, and of course, file a dispute with ICANN and your own domain registrar.
Remember to use SecurityTrails free API access to investigate WHOIS history, as well as new name servers and general information to see if anything has changed.
If you want to move forward, book a demo with our sales team to discover the hidden power of SurfaceBrowser, our all-in-one security and domain investigation platform that will help you gain deeper insights into any of your domain names, DNS and IP addresses.
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This is a rush transcript from "The Ingraham Angle," December 4, 2019. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
Laura Ingraham: All right, I'm Laura Ingraham. This is The Ingraham Angle from Washington, tonight. The Democrats thought that this spectacle was going to help? Well, our legal eagles will be here in moments to break it all down, just how damaging it was for the Democrats today. And, Henry, he has new reporting about potential cracks forming in Pelosi's caucus. Also, tonight, he is only -- I think is one of only two sitting congressmen who was front and center in the last impeachment of a president, James Sensenbrenner, is here to sound the alarm over the current sham proceedings. Plus, Raymond Arroyo reveals how the style of today's witnesses could actually hurt their arguments. And the media attacks Melania's holiday wardrobe. All of that in scene and unseen. But, first, "you know it's over when," that's the focus of tonight's angle.
Okay, as I was just saying to Hannity, if you or anyone you love is thinking of applying to law school, you must be having major second thoughts today. Three professors prattled on about how Trump must be impeached 11 months before an election. Their delivery was alternatively angry, dismissive, and tedious. Despite the wall-to-wall coverage and relentless hype by the Democrats, today's soporific symposium cratered any hope that they're going to coax Americans into supporting impeachment. Here are the top five reasons you know it's over. First, today's legal experts tried to pass of as facts flimsy theories and unsupported inferences. And they used those theories and inferences to conclude that the President should be basically removed from office.
[begin video clip]
Male Speaker: The phone call, itself, of July 25th if extraordinarily clear to my mind, in that we hear the President asking for a favor that's clearly of personal benefit, rather than acting on behalf of the interests of the nation.
Male Speaker: And acting on his -- for his own personal benefit, and not for the benefit of the country.
Pamela Karlan: He invited the Russians who are long-time adversaries into the process the last time around, because he has invited the Ukrainians into the process, and because he suggested he would like the Chinese to come into the process. [end video clip]
Laura Ingraham: [laughs] "Into the process." Well, Stanford law grads should demand refunds for any class taught by Karlan without corroborating evidence. Well, she's presuming malign motives on the part of President Trump, when an equally plausible motive could be that President Trump, as the nation's chief executive, has every right to want to know whether Ukraine meddled in the last election, and it's for that theory that the President somehow was trying to personally benefit from his dealings with Zelensky? Joe Biden wasn't and still isn't Trump's political opponent in the next election. He's one of several. So how can they so definitively claim that this was President Trump's guiding sole motivation? Answer, "They cannot." Second, you know it's over when three out of four legal eagles were Trump-hating partisans. Pam Karlan, she was basically Elizabeth Warren's supporter, gave $1,000 to her last summer, and Trump's rapid response team dug this up when Karlan admitted she was triggered by the mere site of the Trump Hotel building in Washington.
Pamela Karlan: I got off the bus from Dallas down at Lan Fan Plaza [spelled phonetically], and I walked up to the hotel. And, as I was walking past what used to be the old post office building and is now the Trump Hotel, the -- which I had to cross the street of course. But –
The Press: Are you staying there?
Pamela Karlan: God, no.
[end video clip]
Laura Ingraham: Triggered, and she was in the Obama DOJ as well. Michael Gerhart, formed from UNC law school, he once ran media efforts for Al Gore. He also worked for the Bill Clinton presidential transition team in the 1990s. Noah Feldman, a professor at Harvard Law School, has been arguing for impeaching Trump for years. He even once speculated that Trump could be impeached over a Tweet that he said, "Claiming Obama, you know, had wiretapped his campaign." But, beyond their bias, there was a nasty, bitter undercurrent that bubbled to the surface, again, from Professor Karlan.
Pamela Karlan: While the President can name his son, "Barron," he can't make him a baron.
Laura Ingraham: She later apologized, but still couldn't resist taking a jab in her apology at the president. Now, contrast those partisans with the GOP witness, Professor Jonathan Turley. He’s not a Trump supporter; he voted for Clinton and Obama. But that made his methodical takedown of the impeachment sham all the more convincing.
Jonathan Turley: The record does not establish obstruction in this case. If you accept all of their presumptions, it would be obstruction. To impeach a president on this record would expose every future president to the same type of inchoate impeachment. If you make a high crime and misdemeanor out of going to the courts, it is an abuse of power. It’s your abuse of power.
Laura Ingraham: Third, you know it’s over when even the Democrats’ press fawners are admitting this thing is a hard sell.
Female Speaker: The notion of having four academics in the broader goal that Democrats have to pull the public along on the idea of impeachment -- I can’t see it changing.
Laura Ingraham: Fourth, you know it’s over when the Democrats are straining to invoke the Founders.
Sheila Jackson Lee: The Founding Father George Mason asked, “Shall any man be above justice?” And Alexander Hamilton wrote that high crimes and misdemeanors mean the abuse or violation of some public trust.
Jerry Nadler: Adams wrote to Jefferson –
Hakeem Jefferies: John Adams once wrote to Thomas Jefferson –
David Cicilline: James Madison said that impeachment was needed –
Pamela Karlan: Hamilton got a whole musical, and William Davie is just going to get this committee hearing.
Laura Ingraham: Aren’t you just devastated that Obama didn’t put her on the Supreme Court? You’ve heard of the School of Rock, right? Well, she, Feldman, and Gerhardt were starring in Law School of Crock.
Doug Collins: I think we just put in the jury pool the Founding Fathers. I don’t think we have any idea what they would think.
Jonathan Turley: If you were going to make a case to George Washington that you could impeach over a conversation he had with another head of state, I expect his hair -- his powdered hair would catch on fire. It’s a form of necromancy that academics do all the time.
Laura Ingraham: Nice use of the word “necromancy.” Fifth, you know it’s over when Democrats, after all of their outlandish claims, still won’t say how or even if they’ll vote.
Male Speaker: I’m going to reserve any kind of a public judgment --
Male Speaker: I think that it’s important that we reserve judgment.
Male Speaker: No decision has been made as to whether or not we go forward with impeachment –
Laura Ingraham: [laughs] Maybe they’re even -- they’re lying. I don’t know. But a better explanation is that they want to give themselves an out, or at least some wiggle room, perhaps. Got to see what those latest polls are looking like. They say, “The Founders,” but what they’re really relying on are focus groups. This thing has gone south, and they all know it. But this has been a great 24 hours for Trump. Now, yesterday he was dominating the agenda over at the NATO summit, pushing for more member nations to pay their fair share. We all love that. Last night, he was mocked by foreign elites in London. Today, he was mocked by academic elites on Capitol Hill. Chalk up another win for the White House. Is there any way, by the way, we can get that lady from Stanford to come back and lecture us some more tomorrow? And that’s the angle.
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All right, joining me now, our legal power panel, Sol Wisenberg, former Whitewater deputy independent counsel; Harmeet Dhillon, former student of Pam Karlan; and Trump 2020 advisory board member and attorney John Eastman, constitutional scholar and senior fellow at the Claremont Institute. Sol, they’re all very palsy walsy up there on that panel. The three Democrat lawyers are all friends -- the law professors are all friends; they were kind of citing each other. “You know, I agree with Pam.” “I agree with Noah.” Did the Democrats help themselves today?
Sol Wisenberg: No, I don’t think so. I thin it was a really bad mistake, first of all, to have three against one, because Turley is very good. He’s been doing this a long time, and he’s --
Laura Ingraham: He’s a liberal. That’s why he’s really good. A liberal is actually standing up for the Constitution.
Sol Wisenberg: An old-fashioned liberal. And he’s very --
Laura Ingraham: Yeah, a real liberal.
Sol Wisenberg: And he’s very quotable. And you know, the fact that there was only one -- they only let the Republicans have one person -- particularly at the beginning when they were being questioned, the scholars, for 45 minutes, the other three were kind of -- even aside from the substance of what they were saying, they were getting broken up. They each had to have a certain amount of time, whereas Turley, who was very articulate, was just allowed to talk on and on and on, and he made a tremendous amount of sense. So, I think he definitely got the better of them.
Laura Ingraham: I mean, Harmeet, being mocked by Trudeau, or kind of chided -- poked by Trudeau and Macron yesterday in London, most of all, that’s great for Trump. They’ve been trashing American presidents since I worked for Reagan, that’s for sure, over in Europe. And then today he’s being mocked by the the academic elites. How does that play in flyover-state America and all these battleground states? How is that going to play?
Harmeet Dhillon: Well, I think the president thrives on it, first of all, and that's sort of his superpower. And I think that you're absolutely right. Middle America -- normal people do not kowtow and just love what these foreign leaders are saying, or disrespecting our president is really going to backfire on them. And I -- you know, I and many Americans love the fact that he's demanding accountability from these foreign -- the wealthy foreign powers who are refusing to pay their fair share, which is [unintelligible] all along.
Laura Ingraham: And that’s what he was doing in the beginning --
Harmeet Dhillon: Exactly right.
Laura Ingraham: In the beginning of that phone call with Zelensky, which gets overlooked, they were talking about the missiles and the Javelin missiles, and he said, “Well, and I’ve got to get those European countries -- they’ve got to be ponying up some more money,” the proximity of Ukraine to Europe obviously much closer than the proximity of the United States. John, one Democrat witness today compared Trump to a king, that tired old analogy, and -- can you imagine -- it wasn't in a complimentary way. Watch.
Pamela Karlan: When the president said, “Do us a favor,” he was using the royal “we” there. It wasn't a favor for the United States. He should have said, “Do me a favor,” because only kings say “us” when they mean “me.”
John Eastman: You know --
Laura Ingraham: John, was Trump acting like a monarch on the July -- by the way, she seems extremely angry all the time, okay?
John Eastman: Probably because, you know, she --
Laura Ingraham: Angry, angry, bitter, bitter, angry, angry, bitter. That’s what she sounds like.
John Eastman: Because if Hillary had won the election she might have been on the Supreme Court. Who knows? But, look, this was almost as bad as her ridiculous comment about Barron Trump. The president's statement was, “Do us a favor because our country has been through a lot lately, and Ukraine knows something about it. We'd like to get to the bottom of that.” That has nothing to do with royal “we” or anything else. Maybe she didn't read the whole transcript; it’s short [laughs]. But what they're coming in there with is such a bias and an animosity and a venom against the president that they can't even think straight. I was invited to be a witness by the Republicans several weeks ago, and it got blocked, and I'm glad that they went with Jonathan Turley because he's been opposite me on -- he's been the Democrat go-to guy for decades on -- I testified with him at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing back in the Bush administration. He was on the opposite side to me. He did a tremendous job just kind of analyzing the legal analysis without the political bias in this thing. Kudos to him.
Laura Ingraham: I want to play something now -- this is also from Karlan, and we're going to skip forward. Excuse me, to my producers, because we’re going to go to something they're not expecting. She was asked about the timing of all this all, Sol, and if indeed it's so important, why the rush? Why are they rushing this forward? Didn’t have fact witnesses today; you had academic witnesses today. And she basically waved off any concern about rushing because of next year's election. Watch.
Pamela Karlan: I think the evidence to this point shows that the president is soliciting foreign involvement in our election. You need to act now to prevent foreign interference in the next election like the one we had in the past.
Laura Ingraham: It's urgent; must act, because apparently Ukraine and Russia and China are all now helping Trump.
Harmeet Dhillon: Yeah.
Sol Wisenberg: This is a real -- one of the real problems they have, which I thought Turley did a very good job with, is the rush. You know, they don't even know -- they haven't even written the articles of impeachment yet. The Intelligence Committee report that all of these three professors had read was not even prepared until 24 hours before the testimony. That's just unheard of, and I just think it hurts them, and they don't have a good explanation for it.
Laura Ingraham: AP reporting tonight that, though no date has been set, the Democrats are charging toward a Christmastime vote on removing the 45th president. That's going to go over well as people are stuffing stockings; coal for them, by the way. It's a starkly partisan undertaking, a situation Pelosi had hoped to avoid, Harmeet, but now seems inevitable. And by the way, they're throwing in Mueller. They might go back and throw Mueller into the mix as well. They must have watched my impeachment stew angle last night.
Harmeet Dhillon: Well, these are the wages of desperation, Laura. They don't have enough of any one theory, and even put together, they don’t have enough.
Laura Ingraham: It’s a grab bag. This is a grab-bag impeachment.
Harmeet Dhillon: It’s absolutely a grab bag, and the desperation shows. Look, as a trial lawyer, I could say in a real court these people would not be allowed to testify even as expert witnesses. They had no knowledge; we don't know what the facts are. They are unable to get beyond their bias; they are unable to cite the law that supports their positions, and it really shows. And Turley took the right approach, which is stepping back from their myopic vision and pointing out what harm these people are doing to the Constitution and to future Democratic presidents, by the way, because if these are the new rules, this is going to happen to every future president.
Sol Wisenberg: And I think, importantly, Turley says -- and I agree with him, by the way -- this was not a perfect phone call to him; he's disturbed by the phone call, as I am too. But guess what?
Laura Ingraham: I'm not at all disturbed by it.
Harmeet Dhillon: I'm not disturbed by it in this light.
Sol Wisenberg: I know -- I know you're not.
Laura Ingraham: In this light.
Sol Wisenberg: -- you're not. But -- but I am. And people -- the point is, people can disagree about that and still realize that this is not -- that you can't impeach a President of the United States a year before the election based on this event.
Laura Ingraham: [unintelligible]
Harmeet Dhillon: Well, they can vote him out if they don't like it, but there's still 11 --
Laura Ingraham: Yeah, 11 -- 11 months from now.
Laura Ingraham: As I mentioned just a few moments ago, John, Nadler laid the groundwork -- you listen closely -- for resurrecting -- and people are going to think I'm -- this is ridiculous, like a fantasy -- the Mueller report from the grave. Watch.
Laura Ingraham: John, Adam Schiff said this investigation is ongoing, by the way, over in the House Intel. So, this may be [unintelligible] rolling investigation. Maybe they'll get -- you know, keep it rolling until maybe not Christmastime. I'd kick it over to the new year and see how that works out for them.
John Eastman: Maybe we ought to look into Adam Schiff's actually digging out the phone records of ranking member Nunes and reporter John Solomon. I mean, this is an extraordinary violation of Constitutional rights that Adam Schiff has now admitted to. Look, Nadler and also Professor Carlin made this point, and it's a laughingstock point, that Trump invited Russia hacking when he said, "Hillary's destroyed the emails on her private server. Maybe we should ask the Russians for them." The notion that that -- they're making this into the big lie that he somehow invited the Russian hacking, which is just utter nonsense. He was making a laughable joke about Hillary keeping emails on a private server that every foreign government in the world had access to because it was unsecured. I mean, this is -- it's such -- it's -- it would be laughable if it wasn't so deadly serious. And what they're doing undermining this country. The president is over at a NATO meeting, and they're pulling this crap. I mean, this is -- this is stunning to me.
Laura Ingraham: But I think -- I will state again, anytime the president of the United States can be mocked the way he was by academic elites, one who looks he's right out of Nicholas Nickelby from like 1947, other who just seems really angry, and the other one is kind of flat and boring. I think most people watch this going, "Wait, how are the patriots doing?"
Harmeet Dhillon: That's right.
Laura Ingraham: What's going on with -- what's going on with that Saints game.
Harmeet Dhillon: Just the appearance of this, they did themselves no favors politically. Setting aside the content, who wants to hear professors prattle on with their --
Laura Ingraham: I mean, and, Sol, what I love is they're always undermining the framers or the founders, "a bunch of old dead white guys." And then like today, "Well, as George Washington --"
Harmeet Dhillon: It was a seance.
Laura Ingraham: " -- said in his farewell address."
Sol Wisenberg: Well, they're all originalists today.
Laura Ingraham: Yeah.
Sol Wisenberg: And so, I thought that was -- that was refreshing. But, look, politics aside, ideology aside, just the utter stupidity of the bringing Baron Trump in is just mind-boggling to me. I --
Laura Ingraham: Let me tell you, that's who she is.
Harmeet Dhillon: Yep, that's how she --
Laura Ingraham: That's who she is. That was a planned and choreographed line.
Laura Ingraham: That was a setup question. She knew she was going to say it. That was --
Harmeet Dhillon: She got lost, too. There were --
Laura Ingraham: She got applause on that.
Harmeet Dhillon: -- a lot of Democrats who thought it was a good idea.
Laura Ingraham: Absolutely.
Harmeet Dhillon: Of course, she did.
Sol Wisenberg: She rehearsed it at the --
Sol Wisenberg: -- Stanford Law faculty room.
Laura Ingraham: Yeah, exactly. Counselors --
Harmeet Dhillon: [unintelligible] back home.
Laura Ingraham: Thank you very much. Real legal eagles. Up next, two key moments from today's testimony that could have hurt the Democrats. A member of the Judiciary Committee and a manager during the Clinton impeachment will be here to respond. And cracks are forming in Pelosi's party over impeachment, and Henry says yes. He's here with exclusive reporting next.
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Laura Ingraham: Democrats are preparing to take the plunge. Sources telling Fox that Pelosi asked her caucus, "Are you ready? If you have a problem with impeachment, now is the time to speak up." Well, The Washington Post is reporting her caucus -- this is before the hearing today -- erupted with shouts of, "Yay, approval," when she said this. But are moderate Democrats really onboard? Joining me now with exclusive insight, Fox News chief national correspondent Ed Henry. He's also host of America's News Headquarters with Ed Henry. All right, Ed.
Ed Henry: Laura, good to see you.
Laura Ingraham: What are you -- what are you hearing from your sources tonight?
Ed Henry: Well, I talked to several senior Republicans tonight, and they told me they think this hearing went so poorly for the majority. The GOP leaders are now hopeful they're going to get even more Democrats voting no on actual articles of impeachment beyond the two Democrats who voted no on opening this inquiry last month. The only two Democrats to break with their party and vote no on opening the inquiry, remember, Colin Peterson of Minnesota, Jeff Andrew of New Jersey. Now, Peterson told Minnesota Public Radio at that time, "What I've said all along is that you can't do this with one party. It's not smart, it's not going to work. I think if this is handled incorrectly, it will re-elect Trump. That's what I think."
Well, Republicans tonight, including Jim Jordan, who I spoke to a few moments ago, think even more moderate Democrats from Trump-leaning districts will agree with that sentiment from Peterson and vote against articles because chairman Jerry Nadler today opened the door to drafting at least one article of impeachment based on the Mueller report. That article would be based on obstruction of justice charges that were never proven. Remember, Mueller decided to not even make a recommendation one way or the other. Jonathan Turley today also raised questions about the legitimacy of the impeachment probe by noting how quickly Democrats are rushing through it. He's called it "the shortest investigation producing the thinnest record of wrongdoing ever."
Peter Baker of the New York Times noted today that the House impeached President Bill Clinton 101 days after receiving the Starr report. We are now just 71 days after Speaker Nancy Pelosi opened up the inquiry. So, it’s likely to go faster than the Clinton inquiry. Interesting that even some in the mainstream media are raising questions today about the fairness of this. Major Garrett of CBS News said the image of three of the four witnesses being so strongly anti-Trump and then the Democrats largely skipping over Jonathan Turley, the fourth witness, because he didn’t agree with their narrative, Garrett said it’s something that may stick with independent voters, wondering why Democrats decided to stack the witness table. That if they’re so sure of their narrative, they’re so sure that they have the president on impeachment, they would be willing to test it before dissenting voices. Instead, it seems like Democrats are sticking to their narrative, Laura.
Laura Ingraham: Ed, fascinating. It did look like a bit of a pig pile and it was three against one. And I think people always like the underdog there. But he came across as very credible, I thought. Thanks so much, Ed.
Male Speaker: Good to see you.
Laura Ingraham: All right. There was an important moment involving GOP witness Jonathan Turley that did expose how impeachment norms recognized during past inquiries have been just completely abandoned. Turley made a distinction between this impeachment effort and those involving Nixon and Clinton.
[begin video clip] Jonathan Turley: Those were not just proven crimes. They were accepted crimes. That is even the Democrats on the Judiciary Committee agreed that Bill Clinton had committed perjury. In the case of Nixon, the crimes were established. No one seriously disagreed with those crimes. [end video clip] Laura Ingraham: Joining me now is Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner of the Judiciary Committee. He also served as a House impeachment manager. I remember this well because I was interviewing him then when I was on another network during all that -- all those shenanigans back then. Congressman, now, you’re one of the few sitting members of Congress who can speak to the last two impeachment efforts. What are your thoughts on what we saw today?
Jim Sensenbrenner: It was a farce and a sham. The Democrats keep on re-defining what a high crime and misdemeanor is. Remember, this all started out with the president asking President Zelensky, “Will you do me a favor?” Now, that, now, has become abuse of power, asking somebody to do them a favor. Now, you compare that with the Nixon impeachment and the Clinton impeachment where there are actual crimes that were alleged. And both Kenneth Starr and the independent counsel in the Nixon impeachment outlined what crimes there were. Donald Trump has committed no crime. And they want to impeach him because he asked Zelensky to do him a favor. What a joke. Laura Ingraham: Pam Karlan, professor at Stanford University Law School, one of the top law schools in the United States, made this comment about abuse of power. Watch.
[begin video clip] Pam Karlan: Drawing a foreign government into our elections is an especially serious abuse of power because it undermines democracy itself. [end video clip]
Jim Sensenbrenner: Undoing an election a year before the next election undoes democracy. Sixty-three million people voted for Donald Trump. He was duly elected. And this cabal, which includes Nadler and Schiff, right from the time took his hand off the Bible and started his speech saying, “The impeachment starts now.” And the lawyer for the so-called whistleblower called it a “coup.” Well, democracies don’t have coups. And I think we’re protecting democracy by saying, “Hey, a high crime and misdemeanor has got to mean something rather than this moving target based on focus groups that the Democrats are using.” Laura Ingraham: But she keeps saying, as you heard in the sound bite, that the president was drawing foreign powers into the U.S. election. At one point, as I played in the angle, she’s referencing the Chinese, the Russians, and the Ukrainians. So, to draw foreign interference into an American election, that’s a classic definition of abuse of power.
Jim Sensenbrenner: Well, I don’t think the president was doing that. With Ukraine, we have a mutual legal assistance treaty. And Joseph Biden -- and he was bragging about the fact that he held up a billion dollars of aid to Ukraine unless they fired the prosecutor within six hours. You know, he was doing something that was more abusive when he was vice president than Donald Trump has ever been alleged to. Now, we have this MLAT with Ukraine, which means that if Ukraine has evidence of any violation of law by a U.S. citizen, they are to cooperate with us and vice versa. Now, it’s not just, again, the prosecutor fired. You know, there are questions about Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations and Frauds Act --
Laura Ingraham: Well, apparently, the Democrats want to throw all that out the window now. That we’re supposed to just write checks to foreign governments of foreign countries regardless of corruption, despite the fact that Fiona Hill is supposed to be the be all and end all of stopping corruption in any foreign country. So, that’s the thing that’s amazing. If you’re running for office in a future presidential election, and you do something that is perhaps not kosher when you were vice president, then you can never be investigated. Apparently, you can never have questions asked about you. It’s full immunity. That’s what’s amazing to me.
Jim Sensenbrenner: Well, it is amazing. And if Joe Biden were not running for vice president, he better lawyer up because he’d be in big trouble. Laura Ingraham: Noah Feldman from Harvard Law School had clerked for Justice Souter. I clerked for Thomas, my little -- in my view, a better justice. But he was up there saying that the fact that the White House would not turn over a single document, or email, or text message, or appear demonstrates obstruction of Congress, obstruction of justice that is very, very serious. Let’s watch.
[begin video clip] Noah Feldman: A president who says, as this president did say, “I will not cooperate in any way, shape, or form with your process,” robs a coordinate branch of government; he robs the House of Representatives of its basic constitutional power of impeachment.
Jim Sensenbrenner: Why should anybody turn over documents to a group of people that have wanted from day one to kick you out of office and to reverse what the voters decided in the 2016 election? You know, there’s lots of occurring prior [spelled phonetically] privilege. There is lots of executive privilege involved in that.
Laura Ingraham: But did you hear that he says it “robs you in the House of your constitutional prerogative?”
Jim Sensenbrenner: Well, the president has constitutional prerogatives, too. But Jerry Nadler and Adam Schiff really don’t care about them. Laura Ingraham: When I watched this today, it reminded me of why law school should have been, like, one year, okay [laughs]? Because --
Jim Sensenbrenner: [laughs]
Laura Ingraham: -- you had to sit there and be lectured by people. What was it like in the room?
Jim Sensenbrenner: Well, what it was like in the room?
Laura Ingraham: Nadler was dozing off at one point. We caught him. We caught him on camera.
Jim Sensenbrenner: Well, this was, like, an eight-and-a-half-hour law school lecture. Now, I graduated from law school over 50 years ago and was admitted to the Wisconsin bar. I didn’t expect going to Congress would send me back to law school. I went to law school today and the, at least, the three Democrat witnesses, you know, simplified everything on major constitutional issues. Laura Ingraham: Do you think there's buyer’s remorse from some of the moderate Democrats? You probably speak across party, you know, across a partisan aisle every now and then with them. What’s your sense?
Jim Sensenbrenner: Oh, there sure is buyer’s remorse. Because the 31 Democrats who represent districts that Trump carried in the ’16 election think that because Nancy Pelosi is leading the lemmings off the cliff, you know, they’re going to be ones that are not going to be re-elected. Because I think that the defining issue in the 2020 election is the overreach that Pelosi, and Schiff, and Nadler have done on impeachments. We need to have Adam Schiff appear. You know, he wrote the report that the Democrats are using. Nadler had Robert Mueller appear to present his report. If Mueller can do that, why can’t Schiff?
Laura Ingraham: Congressman, have a good holiday if I don’t see you and --
Jim Sensenbrenner: And Merry Christmas to you.
Laura Ingraham: All right. Merry Christmas. All right, coming up, a revealing analysis of how the witnesses’ style might have impacted their arguments today. And the First Lady under fire yet again for her wardrobe. I kid you not. Raymond Arroyo joins me next with all the details, seen and unseen.
Laura Ingraham: It’s time for our Seen and Unseen segment, where we expose the big cultural stories of the day; the style of the impeachment witnesses; and it must be Christmas, because the media -- they’re hitting the First Lady again. Joining us with all the details, unsavory as they are, Raymond Arroyo, FOX News contributor. Raymond, you notice the style of today’s impeachment witnesses?
Raymond Arroyo: I did.
Laura Ingraham: Why is that so important with all the Founders being cited?
Raymond Arroyo: Because this impeachment is basically a political exercise, Laura.
Laura Ingraham: It’s a performance.
Raymond Arroyo: It is, and the Democrats are trying to win over the American people, the viewers, and they will never get to your substance if they can’t get past your style. Look at Harvard professor Noah Feldman, who adopted what I like to call the Charles Dickens fop approach.
Noah Feldman: My job is to study and to teach the Constitution from its origins until the present. The words “high crimes and misdemeanors” referred to abuse of the office of the presidency. Again, the words “abuse of office” are not mystical or magical. They are very clear. Shall any man be above justice?
Raymond Arroyo: He desperately needs to reach out to Masterpiece Theater. There -- somewhere there’s a Jane Austen villain just waiting for him to essay the role.
Laura Ingraham: Like Nicholas Nickleby from --
Raymond Arroyo: [laughs]
Laura Ingraham: -- [unintelligible] --
Raymond Arroyo: From the ’40s.
Laura Ingraham: Yeah. It’s --
Raymond Arroyo: But he does favor that actor, Laura. But you can’t be that imperious and win people over sitting home, getting home from work in the afternoon.
Laura Ingraham: I’ve never liked --
Raymond Arroyo: That doesn’t work.
Laura Ingraham: -- a spread collar. What are those called?
Raymond Arroyo: Well, he just had a little --
Laura Ingraham: A little bit.
Raymond Arroyo: -- kind of odd demeanor. Then Stanford professor and liberal legal icon Pamela Karlan got indignant when Doug Collins questioned whether she read the 30-page Schiff report. She tried the “Can you hear me? I’m talking” approach.
Pamela Karlan: I’m insulted by the suggestion that as a law professor I don’t care about those facts. I’ve been giving a lot of money to charity recently because of all the poor people in the United States. I spent all of Thanksgiving vacation sitting there reading these transcripts. I don’t think --
Matt Gaetz: Show of hands?
Pamela Karlan: -- we’re obligated to say anything about how we cast --
Matt Gaetz: No, just show of hands. Pamela Karlan: -- our ballots.
Raymond Arroyo: You know, pleading yaps never work. That is a man’s idea of an audio nightmare watching that. I thought that today. Nobody likes to be yelled at --
Laura Ingraham: Hectored at.
Raymond Arroyo: -- and she kind of yelled and yapped through the whole proceeding.
Laura Ingraham: She was just very -- she’s unhappy.
Raymond Arroyo: But, Laura, this is not a fact-based inquiry. This is speculative legal reasoning. You’d better have a damn compelling style [unintelligible].
Laura Ingraham: You said 30-page Schiff report.
Raymond Arroyo: I meant 300.
Laura Ingraham: If only it were 30 pages.
Raymond Arroyo: Right?
Laura Ingraham: But, oh, she was -- “How dare you question me?”
Raymond Arroyo: Okay, we’ve got to get to Professor Michael Gerhardt of North Carolina Law. He perfected the tired insurance salesman pitch [snoring].
Michael Gerhardt: Our Framers’ generation pledged their lives and fortunes to rebel against a monarch whom they saw as corrupt, tyrannical, and entitled to do no wrong. The House Judiciary Committee in 1974 approved three articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon, who resigned a few days later. [end video clip]
Raymond Arroyo: Okay.
Laura Ingraham: What do you have? Oh, we’re back.
Raymond Arroyo: Jack --
Laura Ingraham: Sorry.
Raymond Arroyo: Oh, we’re back. I’m sorry.
Laura Ingraham: Well, it’s nearly Christmas, and the First Lady unveiled the White House Christmas decorations this year, and, well, amazingly, the media is not attacking the decorations as they have in the years past, but they are attacking --
Raymond Arroyo: Her jacket.
Laura Ingraham: [laughs]
Raymond Arroyo: Yeah, the Washington Post fashion critic Robin Givhan called the jacket ridiculous, writing, “But more than a silly fashion folly, the coat is a distraction. It’s a discomforting affectation taken to a ludicrous extreme. That simple flourish exudes cold, dismissive aloofness.” This --
Laura Ingraham: Oh, she’s such a hater. She’s such a hater, that Robin Givhan.
Raymond Arroyo: We are now politicizing a jacket thrown over the First Lady’s shoulders. What -- this -- by the way, Laura, the political venom that they hurl at this First Lady --
Laura Ingraham: I know. Barron Trump --
Raymond Arroyo: -- it’s unbelievable.
Laura Ingraham: Today, it was Barron Trump by Karlan, and I’m sorry, her apology is not accepted. Barron Trump, and then Melania’s coat. They’ve been hating on Melania the whole time.
Raymond Arroyo: At least they left the decorations alone.
Laura Ingraham: But it’s the same writer -- I think we wrote about it in the Obama Diaries.
Raymond Arroyo: This is --
Laura Ingraham: What did she say?
Raymond Arroyo: -- the same writer, Laura, who praises Michelle Obama. She could show up in a shower curtain; she’d get Karlan’s [unintelligible].
Laura Ingraham: Cargo shorts.
Raymond Arroyo: During her recent book tour, Obama wore this, and Givham wrote, “Michelle Obama can wear whatever she wants now,” that “what she wants now is sparkly thigh-high boots. It wasn’t just an eye-catching ensemble. It was fashion, fashion” –
Multiple Speakers: Fashion.
Raymond Arroyo: Okay, I’m not going to comment on this. I’m not going to -- I’m not a fashion expert --
Laura Ingraham: Neither am I --
Raymond Arroyo: -- I’m not a fashion critic.
Laura Ingraham: -- Lord knows.
Raymond Arroyo: But I’m going to let the audience decide. What looks more fashion to you, and what looks like a silly fashion folly? Go.
Laura Ingraham: Well, I’m not a fashion expert, but I'll let the viewers decide.
Raymond Arroyo: I just -- I resent the idea, and I think Rachel Campos Duffy had it right earlier this week when she said, “Where are the other First Ladies coming out and defending” --
Laura Ingraham: Yeah, where’s Laura Bush?
Raymond Arroyo: -- “this sisterhood” --
Laura Ingraham: Why isn’t Laura Bush speaking out?
Raymond Arroyo: Well, Laura Bush; Mrs. Carter. Any of these women should come forward and say, “You know what? First Ladies are off limits.” This woman spent from July to now decorating the White House.
Laura Ingraham: How many magazine covers has Melania been on? Michelle Obama --
Raymond Arroyo: I think one --
Laura Ingraham: -- was on everything.
Raymond Arroyo: I think one, and it was --
Laura Ingraham: People.
Raymond Arroyo: -- like -- I don’t know what it was. It was some -- you know, “Melania is leaving Trump” was probably on the cover --
Laura Ingraham: No, no, no.
Raymond Arroyo: -- because they love to --
Raymond Arroyo: -- you know, pitch that narrative.
Laura Ingraham: But that Robin Givhan is such a partisan hater [laughs] on -- she can’t stand Trump.
Raymond Arroyo: You know, but when you spend that time at the White House, there’s a gold -- there’s a tree for the Gold Star families.
Laura Ingraham: It’s beautiful.
Raymond Arroyo: It’s in the spirit of patriotism. Salute the holidays. Have a laugh.
Laura Ingraham: How the liberals have become --
Raymond Arroyo: Leave the First Lady alone.
Laura Ingraham: -- the killjoys of all time.
Raymond Arroyo: It’s --
Laura Ingraham: They are un-fun; they are un-funny. They take themselves so seriously, and all you people who obsess all day long about Trump, G-A-L. Get a life, okay? Raymond, thank you so much.
Raymond Arroyo: You’re welcome.
Laura Ingraham: And up next, the elites versus Trump, both at home and abroad. Dan Bongino and Chris Hahn debate it next.
Laura Ingraham: Now, we first played that for you last night. But since then, it's gotten even better. A fantastic 24 hours for this president. First, he infuriated foreign elites for making them late to a cocktail party. That's why they were really mad. And then he was attacked by these unhinged partisan bitter, angry academics who think he should be impeached for a phone call.
Laura Ingraham: Mm. I wonder whom the American people will side with. Here to debate, Dan Bongino, former secret service agent, Fox News contributor, author of "Exonerated," and Chris Hahn, former aide to Senator Chuck Schumer, host of The Aggressive Progressive podcast. Dan, I think this probably goes down as one of the top three or four best 24-hours for the president in the last six months.
Dan Bongino: Yeah, I mean, seriously, if it was legal, the president should cut a check to these three. I mean, they were like central casting characters out of like a movie about snobs like Bonfire of the Vanities really. I mean, Jerry Nadler -- I didn't think anybody could get more incompetent than Adam Schiff. But Jerry Nadler has rapidly proven me wrong. Let me make another point. Let's get away from the three snobby law school professors who thought it was funny to attack the president's teenage child. But, Laura, just on the other front, do you actually believe Democrats out there, that -- that Justin Trudeau and Macron, their dislike of the president is a negative for a mechanic in Pennsylvania or a coal miner in West Virginia? Good luck with that approach.
Laura Ingraham: All right.
Dan Bongino: You're making the same mistake you made in 2016.
Laura Ingraham: Dan, they hated Reagan. They called him Ronnie Ray Gun. They showed up by the hundreds of thousands in Germany when he made his final trip. I mean, these people couldn't stand Reagan. They can't stand most Republican presidents. Chris, looking at that panel today, okay, three against one. Now, that was -- that was cute. But do you really think -- take your -- take your Democrat hat off. Just visually, getting lectured by three liberal law professors is really what was going to tip the balance for the Democrats today?
Chris Hahn: Well, this is part of the impeachment process. It happens during Nixon's impeachment, it happened during the Clinton impeachment. In fact, two of these professors were on the panel during the Clinton impeachment to talk about the Constitutionality of impeachment.
Laura Ingraham: Yeah, that was after. But that was after Starr.
Chris Hahn: And it went so bad --
Laura Ingraham: Yeah, that was after the Starr report came out, though.
Chris Hahn: Well, it went -- it went -- well, there is no Starr report. This is after the Schiff report.
Laura Ingraham: Right.
Chris Hahn: Right?
Laura Ingraham: That's the whole point.
Chris Hahn: So we're at the same moment in time. So -- so, it went so bad for Doug Collins, the ranking member today that the governor of Georgia appointed a woman whose husband donated to Hillary Clinton to the Senate seat that he wanted and the president wanted. That's how badly --
Laura Ingraham: No one can follow that.
Chris Hahn: -- he looked today at that hearing.
Laura Ingraham: All right. Nobody --
Chris Hahn: It's amazing.
Laura Ingraham: Nobody can follow that. Alright, let me tell you what -- what some of those in the Democrat party are saying about getting back to the -- the look of this spectacle today. Watch.
Laura Ingraham: Dan, that's what Al Sharpton was saying about the next Democrat debate. There's going to be no person of color. About the debate, he said that. We played that last night on the show. Now Al Green saying this about the hearing today.
Dan Bongino: Well, first let me say Chris' point about Doug Collins was idiotic. I mean, Chris, you're usually smarter. That was the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
Chris Hahn: Sure.
Dan Bongino: But secondly, why --
Dan Bongino: -- warn Democrats --
Chris Hahn: [unintelligible] be there a hearing?
Dan Bongino: Now, far be it for me to give advice to Democrats. But, identity politics -- I've warned them a long time ago, my show and elsewhere, is inherently cannibalistic. It eventually eats itself in this endless search for new victims. And you're seeing it now, Laura. You're seeing the implosion in Hollywood. You're seeing Democrats now attack each other because you didn't have either a black or an Asian or a Hispanic law professor who was as snobby as the white law -- I mean, this is just absurd. It's ridiculous. This has been a total disaster for the Democrats.
Laura Ingraham: This was Major Garrett CBS talking about what the candidates are finding and what they're finding in going out into middle America asking voters what they care about. [begin video clip] [end video clip]
Laura Ingraham: Get back to work, Chris. Any concerns there that this may be one big, huge backfire?
Chris Hahn: Well, the House has passed 400 bills, including 250 or so that were bipartisan bills, that are sitting on Mitch McConnell's desk. So, if anybody should get back to work, it's Mitch McConnell and the Senate who are just the graveyard to the legislation that the House of Representatives in a bipartisan fashion has passed. So, I agree. The Senate should get to work right now.
Laura Ingraham: Okay. So, you're fine with --
Chris Hahn: Call Mitch McConnell today and get him to work.
Laura Ingraham: -- USMCA. You're fine -- okay, you're fine with USMCA being stalled out, right? You're fine with that. Pelosi used to be for that, but you're fine with that. And by the way, the Senate is back to work. They confirmed four new federal judges today.
Chris Hahn: Yes. That's it. That's all they do.
Laura Ingraham: Yeah. Trump dominates the federal courts.
Chris Hahn: All they do is what the Federalist Society wants them to do.
Laura Ingraham: Yeah. That's -- well, guess what?
Chris Hahn: It's like the Federalist Society of the Senate.
Laura Ingraham: We're better -- we're better at it. Our White House --
Dan Bongino: Chris has all the talking points tonight.
Laura Ingraham: -- counsel is better at it than your White House counsel was, and so that's why they're dominating on the federal courts.
Chris Hahn: Look --
Laura Ingraham: Gentlemen, thank you so much.
Chris Hahn: -- I am -- I am not going -- I'm not going to argue with that.
Laura Ingraham: Okay, good. Okay. Chalk one up to Cipollone. Alright, don't go away. I'll be answering your emails in tonight's Ingraham Inbox when we return.
Laura Ingraham: Don’t you love that graphic? So catchy, “Ingraham’s Inbox.” Well, the first email tonight is from Jody. “My fear is that the Horowitz Report is going to a Comey/Clinton repeat, mistakes were made but no laws were broken. More deep state mumbo jumbo and no one held accountable. We’re really getting tired of this routine. Am I wrong, Laura?” I don’t know if you’re wrong. It probably won’t be everything you hoped for, but I bet there will be some choice nuggets within. Remember, he can’t prosecute, he can only kind of lay it at the feet of Durham. This from John and Andy. “Laura, politics did eventually find their way into our Thanksgiving dinner table and our conversations, as a result, I have fewer names to buy for on my Christmas list.” See? It works out for you. And finally, Ken writing, “Stop using the word, ‘great.’ Every Sean Hannity show is not ‘great,’ every guest is not ‘great,’ every panel is not ‘great.’ I implore you to stop.” That is a great idea. That’s all the time we have tonight. Send your thoughts to Ingraham Angle at foxnews.com. And Shannon Bream with the Fox News at Night team, take it from here and we’ll have a terrific show. Shannon?
Shannon Bream: [laughs] Listen, I heard what you said at the top of the show. Every time someone asks me about going to law school, I say, “Don’t do it.” Is that bad?
Laura Ingraham: [laughs] Shannon Bream: I’m just trying to save them. Laura Ingraham: Think long and hard about it. Shannon Bream: Yeah. Laura Ingraham: That’s what I will tell them.
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The Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS) is a small space telescope about the size and shape of a family-size Cheerios box.
It is built of six cubical units, each about four inches on a side. These are joined to make a spacecraft two units wide by three long in what is termed a 6U spacecraft; solar power panels extend like wings from one end.
The mission which SPARCS will undertake is monitoring the flares and sunspot activity of M-type stars, also called red dwarfs, in the far- and near-ultraviolet. The purpose of this is to assess how habitable the space environment is for planets orbiting them.
The principal investigator for SPARCS is astrophysics professor Evgenya Shkolnik of the School of Earth and Space Exploration. Other professors from the School on the SPARCS project are Judd Bowman (Mission Operations System Lead), Daniel Jacobs (Systems Engineer), and Paul Scowen (Payload Systems Engineer).
The stars that SPARCS will focus on are small, dim, and cool by comparison to the Sun. They have less than half the Sun's size and temperature, and they shine with barely one percent its brightness.
While this might seem to make them a poor choice for hunting extrasolar planets, these stars are extremely numerous in our Milky Way galaxy. Roughly 75 billion M dwarf stars host at least one small planet in their habitable zones. This is the potentially life-friendly region close to the star where temperatures are neither too hot nor too cold for life as we know it, and liquid water could exist on a planet's surface.
However, ultraviolet radiation from M dwarf stars is strong and highly variable. This would erode a planet's atmosphere and would affect its composition and habitability.
Knowing the ultraviolet environments of planets orbiting M dwarf stars will be crucial to understanding the planets' atmospheric composition. It will also be key factor in discriminating between biological and abiotic sources for any observed biosignatures.
The stellar modeling is being led by Travis Barman of the Lunar and Planetary Lab at the University of Arizona and the planet modeling by Victoria Meadows of the Virtual Planet Laboratory at the University of Washington.
SPARCS Science and Technology
(Click the image for the full-resolution graphic in PDF format; 18 MB)
The spacecraft will contain three major systems — the telescope, the camera, and the operational and science software. ASU astronomers will oversee the development of the telescope and camera, plus the software and the systems engineering.
The telescope uses a mirror system with coatings optimized for ultraviolet light. Together with the camera, the system can measure very small changes in the brightness of M dwarf stars to carry out the primary science of the mission. The instrument will be tested and calibrated at ASU in preparation for flight before being integrated into the rest of the spacecraft.
For each targeted star, SPARCS will observe continuously over at least one complete stellar rotation (5 to 45 days).
SPARCS will also advance ultraviolet detector technology by flying high quantum efficiency, UV-optimized detectors developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, led by Shouleh Nikzad. These Delta-doped detectors have a long history of deployment demonstrating greater than five times the quantum efficiency of the detectors used by the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) mission.
SPARCS will pave the way for their application in missions like the Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR) or the Habitable Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx) missions, including interim UV-capable missions. SPARCS will also be capable of "target-of-opportunity" ultraviolet observations for the rocky planets in M-dwarf habitable zones soon to be discovered by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission. This will provide the needed ultraviolet context for the first habitable planets that the James Webb Space Telescope will characterize.
SPARCS Timeline
SPARCS is aiming to be ready for launch by the end of 2021 to a Sun-synchronous orbit.
SPARCS Team
David Ardila (JPL)
Payload Scientist
Travis Barman (UA)
Stellar Atmospheres Lead
Matthew Beasley (SwRI)
Payload Team
Judd Bowman (ASU)
Mission Operations System Lead
Mary Elliott (ASU)
Varoujan Gorjian (JPL)
Daniel Jacobs (ASU)
April Jewell (JPL)
Camera Team
Mary Knapp (MIT)
CubeSat Development
Joe Llama (Lowell)
Victoria Meadows (UW)
Planetary Atmospheres Lead
Shouleh Nikzad (JPL)
Camera Lead
Tahina Ramiaramanantsoa (ASU)
Postdoctoral Student
Sarah Peacock (UA)
Paul Scowen (ASU)
Payload Systems Engineer
Evgenya Shkolnik (ASU)
Connie Spittler (ASU)
Mark Swain (JPL)
JPL Lead
Robert Zellem (JPL)
• ASU Astronomers to Build Space Telescope to Explore Nearby Stars
• On the Verge of an Astronomy CubeSat Revolution (PDF)
• Monitoring the High-Energy Radiation Environment of Exoplanets Around Low-Mass Stars with SPARCS (PDF)
• Ultraviolet Detectors for Astrophysics Missions: A Case Study With the Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (PDF)
• The Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS): A Mission to Understand the Impact of Stars in Exoplanets
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Man Killed In Oakland While Pushing His Son In A Stroller
A man was shot and killed in broad daylight yesterday in East Oakland. The victim, identified as 24-year-old Tyrell Omar Smith, was pushing his 1-year-old son in a toy car around 3:15 yesterday afternoon when he was shot by an unknown assailant who fled the scene in a car.
According to police, a neighbor came in to scoop up the boy, who was unharmed in the incident.
The shooting took place in the Lockwood Gardens housing complex at 65th Avenue and Eastlawn Street, near the Coliseum BART station. No arrests have been made yet.
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12th International Color Awards 2019, Photographer of the Year - 2nd place & Outstanding Achievement Award (1st) Americana Category & 2 further nominations
AOP (Association of Photographers, London) Awards 2019, Finalist
International Photography Awards 2018, Silver & Honourable Mention in 2 categories
International Photography Awards 2017, Honourable Mention in 4 categories
AOP (Association of Photographers, London) Awards 2017, Finalist in 2 categories
Shortlisted for the National Gallery of Ireland Hennessy Portrait Prize 2015
Outstanding Student of the Year Award 2014 for MFA Fine Art Photography, given by the Royal Ulster Academy
8th International Color Awards 2014, 2nd Place (Merit of Excellence) & Honourable Mention
Imaging Donegal Residency - Per Cent for Arts Residency, Co. Donegal, Ireland 2010
AOP (Association of Photographers, London) Awards 2004, Silver
AOP Awards (London, UK) 2019
Royal Ulster Academy (Belfast, Northern Ireland) 2017
Glebe Gallery (Co. Donegal, Ireland) 2017
Higher Bridges Gallery (Enniskillen, Northern Ireland) 2017
Dali International Photography Festival (China) 2015
Dunamaise Arts Centre (Co. Laois, Ireland) 2015
Remote Photo Festival (Co. Donegal, Ireland) 2015
Artists' Collections (Co. Donegal, Ireland) 2015
Royal Ulster Academy - invited artist (Belfast, Northern Ireland) 2014
14th Pingyao International Photography Festival (China) 2014
Gallery of Photography (Dublin, Ireland) 2014
Laois Arthouse (Co. Laois, Ireland) 2014
University of Ulster, School of Art and Design Gallery (Belfast, Northern Ireland) 2013
Belfast Exposed (Belfast, Northern Ireland) 2013
Royal Hibernian Academy (Dublin, Ireland) 2012
Golden Thread Gallery (Belfast, Northern Ireland) 2011
Irish Cultural Centre (Paris, France) 2010
Circulo de Bella Artes (Madrid, Spain) 2010
Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny (Co. Donegal, Ireland) 2010
Thessaloniki Museum of Photography (Thessaloniki, Greece) 2010
Paul Kane Gallery (Dublin, Ireland) 2008
Habitat & candyculture.com (Dublin, Ireland) 2005
RUA Red Arts Centre (Dublin, Ireland) 2011
Centre Culturel Irlandais (Paris, France) 2010
McKenna Gallery, Riverbank Arts Centre (Co. Kildare, Ireland) 2010
Tullamore Regional Offices (Co. Offaly, Ireland)2009
Letterkenny Arts Centre (Co. Donegal, Ireland) 2005
Selected Literature and Press
Carville, Justin. (2011) Photography and Ireland. London:Reaktion Books Ltd. p.89
Colberg, Joerg. (2010) Contemporary European Photography, Conscientious Blog
McDonnell, Ross. (May 2010) Milky Blacks Blog
Aletti, Vince. (March 2010) Out of the Darkroom, Phillips de Pury 'Now', .p44-7
Dunne, Aidan. (Dec 2009), A Quintessentially Irish Exhibition, Irish Times
Butler, Kate. (2009) Sunday Times Culture Magazine
Source Magazine. (2009), Issue 60, p.44-53
The New Yorker. (2009) June 8th 2009, p.56
6 One News (2009) TV, RTE1 Interview with Kathy Burke. Oct 2009, 18:00 hrs.
'Under a Grey Sky' (2009). Dublin: Gallery of Photography
Visiting Artist Lecture Venues
Griffith College, Dublin, Ireland
Texas Tech University, TX, USA
University of East Tennessee, TN, USA
Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland
University of Ulster College of Art, Belfast, Northern Ireland
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Motorsport Formula One
Daniel Ricciardo edges Red Bull team-mate Max Verstappen to Mexico Grand Prix pole
Philip Duncan 00:26 28/10/2018
Daniel Ricciardo denied Max Verstappen the chance to become the youngest man in Formula One history to claim pole position after beating his Red Bull team-mate with a sensational flying lap in Mexico.
The rampant Red Bulls locked out the front row in a thrilling qualifying session, while Lewis Hamilton, who needs to finish only seventh on Sunday to claim the world championship, qualified third.
Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel, who must win here to stand any chance of stopping Hamilton from claiming this year’s honours, finished behind his rival in fourth.
Verstappen, 21, had dominated all weekend at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, but he was beaten in the dying moments by Ricciardo, the Australian claiming his first pole at a track other than Monaco and only the third of his career.
Verstappen was clearly frustrated by the result, bumping the second-place board as he arrived on the start-finish straight.
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Hamilton, who wants to see out the title which will draw him level with Juan Manuel Fangio with a victory, is in striking range of the Red Bulls but, crucially, ahead of his sole rival.
“I am really happy with it,” Hamilton said after his Mercedes team had been well off the pace in practice on Friday.
“We had a difficult day yesterday and today was a big improvement. Being behind the Red Bulls is not a bad thing.”
The 800-yard dash to the opening bend is the longest on the calendar and last year Vettel collided with Hamilton at the third bend.
“We saw what happened last year with the red car behind, so I don’t know what will happen at the start tomorrow,” he added.
“It depends how we get away, but I am going to be fighting to gain a position. I am wary of the Red Bulls ahead.”
Ricciardo, who edged out Verstappen by just 0.026 seconds, was ecstatic with the result.
The lap was spectacular, and so was the reaction 😂
Priceless, @danielricciardo, priceless...#MexicoGP 🇲🇽 #F1 pic.twitter.com/2YTmSVP1j5
— Formula 1 (@F1) October 27, 2018
“I knew it was in there somewhere,” he said moments after roaring over the radio in delight.
“I knew putting the lap together would be crucial as always, and Max showed the pace was in the car all weekend.”
Verstappen was rather less excited.
“The whole qualifying was c**p,” the deflated Dutchman said. “We had the same problems from practice yesterday.
“We tried to make the best of it and I thought it was going to be enough for pole with the problems we had.”
Valtteri Bottas was fifth for Mercedes ahead of Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen.
Fernando Alonso had been eliminated from Q1 at the previous three races, but the soon-to-be-departing double world champion provided some respite for McLaren by qualifying 12th. “Good job,” the Spaniard was told.
His team-mate Stoffel Vandoorne, also leaving at the end of the year to be replaced by British teenager Lando Norris, finished 17th.
Home favourite Sergio Perez, whose laps through the unique stadium section were greeted with rockstar-like cheers, could manage only 13th, two places off Esteban Ocon in the sister Force India.
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beIN SPORTS LAUNCHES NEW APPS FOR ON-THE-GO SPORTS FANS IN CANADA.
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New beIN SPORTS apps just launched across Canada bringing the global sport network’s content directly to Canadian fans. The beIN SPORTS and beIN SPORTS CONNECT mobile apps are free to download in English and Spanish for iOS and Android devices. Fans can access premium beIN content, exclusive videos, real-time scores, highlights, stats, and news, wherever they are, whenever is convenient, thanks to their innovative mobile technology. The exclusive content and live streaming service via the network is delivered in real-time throughout the country. The Sports Techie community blog continues to scour North America and the world for the latest sports tech related stories.
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Fans in Canada and around the world want instant and robust content delivered to their smartphones, tablets and desktops no matter where they are located in the provinces. Delivering data-driven content, editorial coverage and streaming video needs to happen fast and seamless. Meeting those needs are critical for businesses such as beIN SPORTS Media Group, LLC located in Doha, Qatar.
“The launch of the beIN SPORTS and beIN SPORTS CONNECT apps enhances the viewing experience of our loyal fans in Canada, increasing their access and reinforcing their passion for sports—allowing them to consume the content they crave anywhere and anytime on their mobile devices and tablets,” said Antonio Briceño, beIN SPORTS Deputy Managing Director. “At home or on the move, beIN SPORTS is the gateway to the best live sports content, videos, news, scores and stats for the true sports fan.”
Live sports broadcasts continue to drive viewership numbers even though the NFL and Premier League have seen recent drops in viewership, according to the Washington Post. Leagues, cups, tournaments, and races, all have built in fanbases that require sports technology assets to help keep them glued to their screens. No longer are real-time scores and kick-off times notifications enough to satisfy hardcore fans. Casual fans also need more localized and personalized content.
In steps beIN SPORTS.
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The beIN SPORTS app provides updated content, a custom TV Guide and other key features to any device. Canadian fans can enjoy LIVE matchday coverage of international football matches. College sports fans have access to the likes of Conference USA college football, men’s and women’s basketball and soccer, baseball, softball and volleyball. Viewers can also watch motorsports, boxing and tennis, rugby, mixed martial arts (MMA) and more.
Any beIN SPORTS CONNECT app subscribers can watch the live action and stream over flow matches offered in HD on your computer, tablet or smartphone.
Live coverage of the most exciting soccer leagues and tournaments includes UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1, LaLiga2, South America (CONMEBOL) and North America, Central America and the Caribbean (CONCACAF) World Cup Qualifiers, SkyBet Championship, EFL Cup, Copa del Rey, Coupe de la Ligue, Coupe de France, Copa do Brazil and Real Madrid TV.
Users simply log in and authenticate with their participating TV provider giving them live streamed events and original programming available in both English and Spanish languages. The beIN SPORTS CONNECT app distributes beIN SPORTS and beIN SPORTS en Español, while beIN SPORTS CONNECT offers nine other exclusive channels.
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Sports Techie, The beIN SPORTS app is designed to understand what sports fans want: scores, standings, schedules, stats, news, highlights, and exclusive analysis, as well as the best information and entertainment from all of the sports leagues, tournaments and events. I am a little shocked to find out the French language was not part of the Canadian application rollout.
Apps are becoming a standard tool for distribution of content. They also give providers a way to drive revenue and allow sponsors the ability to engage with fans.
The good news is, beIN SPORTS in now in Canada and have a fan friendly sports tech software product ready for on-the-go.
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The capstone project would simulate a grant or research proposal. If you need help identifying the names of students who graduated in specific years, the archives staff maintains a collection of commencement programs to facilitate your search. As a general rule, SOURCE bases its work on community-identified need, and establishes partnerships with students who have identified an interest in a particular topic area or population. Master’s theses are not included in the ProQuest database, so they are not available in any form from ProQuest. We support both full service-learning courses and courses that provide community exposure in the form of guest speakers, course content related to urban health, or topics around community engagement and research. Without javascript some functions will not work, including question submission via the form. Click here to find out more!
By responding to community-identified concerns and learning about the context in these issues arise, students are able to fully explore the connection between community involvement and their academic coursework. We support both full service-learning courses and courses that provide community exposure in the form of guest speakers, course content related to urban health, or topics around community engagement and research. When combined with preparation and reflection, community service can be a powerful component to academic learning. There are a number of options available to students who are Federal Work-Study eligible and wish to work part-time with a community-based organization. SOURCE works closely with two courses that provide practical experiences with the state health department, community-based organizations, and local health departments. As a general rule, SOURCE bases its work on community-identified need, and establishes partnerships with students who have identified an interest in a particular topic area or population.
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As you will recall, at the beginning of last week, while Google was creating the buzz around its forthcoming Google+, Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook was going to announce something awesome next week.
Mashable, one of the most followed news portals around new tech and social media, yesterday announced the “awesome” news was about the integration of the Skype Video chat with Facebook. While surely this would definitely be a good improvement for Facebook, I don’t see it being that “awesome”. So I decided to investigate a bit further.
This is why I believe it may not be just that:
Facebook and Microsoft started a long-lasting relationship back in August 2006, when they signed an exclusive agreement which made Microsoft the exclusive advertising platform for Facebook. This deal was worth 900M$ and it was for 3 years. In 2007 Facebook and Microsoft Corp. announced that the two companies were expanding their advertising partnership till 2011 and that Microsoft was taking a $240 million equity stake in Facebook’s next round of financing at a $15 billion valuation.
In 2008 Facebook implemented Microsoft’s Live search in its pages and in 2009 the two companies announced a further integration with Bing. While Facebook was integrating search with social network, Google launched its first OS: Chrome (2008). In 2009 Facebook purchased FriendFeed, somehow similar to twitter, but not as “followed” as the original.
Big things happened in 2010.
Bing search service started to mine anonimized data from consumer usage of Facebook’s (recently introduced) Like buttons, and Microsoft signed a partnership with Bing, and then added Facebook into Outlook. [Question to self: will Google use anonimized data for our searches while we are logged in on G+?]
In the meantime, some other partnerships didn’t go through: Apple and Facebook didn’t find any agreement for Ping, Apple’s music-social-network on iTunes, and Microsoft and Twitter didn’t partner on Bing (Twitter recently announced an agreement with Yahoo Japan). Apple made it to Twitter though, and the next iOS will have Twitter already integrated. And still during these times, Google had again social network troubles, with Buzz (its first attempt was Orkut, only successful in Brazil).
2011, so far, seems an year of surprises, or at least the year of the truth:
– Facebook hires: starting with Orkut’s business development person, and going to Microsoft’s global ad sales head Carolyn Everson – which was about to turn into a possible legal action, till the most recent hacker who jailbroke the iPhone and PS3 seem actually going to mark another milestone in the Facebook story. Facebook also buys some software companies, such as Sofa.
– Microsoft buys Skype for 8.5B$. Definitely a big thing for Facebook, after the integration with Live Messenger, definitely Skype would have been the next one. So not really awesome I would say- at least not such a surprise, we all knew it was coming. It would be awesome if we could share videos in real time – a true real live feed and video, from our mobile – which is the most used way to upload pictures on Facebook- made possible through the integration of Skype and Facebook. This would also make sense if we keep in mind the Seattle-based team who developed this “awesome” thing is definitely focused on mobile-related technologies and applications.
(Click to enlarge- this has been adapted from http://www.flickr.com/photos/michperu/3702942040/ )
– In the meantime, Google launches updated profiles in February and then more recently Google +, integrating and enhancing its previous unsuccessful social attempts and its successful apps, and tapping into common users for gathering feedback, while creating great expectations by limiting the access to a few users only. [I’m one of the lucky ones- see my preliminary thoughts here]
So now, what shall we expect as forthcoming awesome announcements? Surely the Skype one is a big thing, but let’s try and think about what we could really call awesome (and surprising):
– Not sure you noticed, but LinkedIn is looking more and more like Facebook. I just noticed in the past couple of days how comments on LinkedIn and Facebook look so incredibly similar in terms of shape, colors and available links (Like-Comment-Share). And not sure you noticed, while Facebook was testing quietly its own LinkedIn app (BranchOut) since a while using LinkedIn API with no issues, as soon as Monster announced its own Facebook app (BeKnown) quite loudly, LinkedIn closed its API quickly – to both apps. What if the “awesome” announcement was an integration of Facebook and LinkedIn? After all, they are the two big ones in the social space.
– Another big thing could be a “Triangle”, with Facebook, Microsoft and Apple all together.
I would definitely call awesome an announcement about Facebook being implemented into the next iPhone5. After all, each of them has a good reason for competing with Google this hard battle -and a triangle, on a funny note, would be the perfect opponent to Circles 😉
Google’s Chrome OS didn’t make Microsoft its best friend
Google’s Android apps are Apple’s apps biggest enemy
Google’s “Plus” social network now seems a much serious obstacle to Facebook’s growth
While waiting for the announcement to become official and for the next big things coming to our browsers and our phones, it’s good to consider that all that happened during these past 4 years of strategic partnership between Facebook and Microsoft, and all that Google and Apple made during these past 4 years, are depicting an interesting scenario for a number of markets, not only the social networks one:
– the advertising market – think about how Facebook has changed it and how Google+ can add our personal habits to all already know information about our searches, all company websites traffic and all other G-apps that we use every day- and don’t forget about related implications on all those sectors who are increasingly “socializing” their marketing strategies. A lot has been said about Facebook and privacy: shall we worry about Google and privacy? Google may know too much about us: our circles, how we influence them, what we look for, how we purchase, where we click, how our websites are performing and what are our Internet habits, other than our life habits, what are the files we share for work and for fun, what we like to play and what we want to read. Think about applying advertising to Sparks and to Circles we influence. G+ may be 1984.
– the mobile phones market – once upon a time there was RIM’s Blackberry, whose aim was to increase workers’ productivity, and today the mobile war is moving to Apple’s OS and Android, with Microsoft gaining shares, with less focus on productivity and more on internet traffic (on social networks… somehow killing productivity). Don’t forget about mobile carriers and their increased revenues coming from data. Here the battle is more interesting between Google and Apple.
– the OS market, with Google launching its Chrome OS in 2008 and openly declaring war to Microsoft (and Apple)
– the app development and gaming market – just think about Facebook’s revenues with Zynga and about the recent announcement that Google+ will soon launch games on its platform, not to mention Microsoft’s Live meeting gaming platform. Did you know people on Facebook install 20 million applications every day?
– the social networks market – just think about MySpace. Or just about Facebook’s revenues. Then add Google and Apple’s Ping. And don’t forget about LinkedIn and Twitter.
– the cloud: Google did not invent it, but definitely contributed to make it become one of the biggest thing under the spotlight. Apple recently spoke about the iCloud. Microsoft’s Office 365 is there too.
Whatever it will be, we will surely be impacted. Not sure about you, but I am happy I am here witnessing these happenings.
These are my thoughts. What’s your take?
Published by C.R.
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Here you’ll find some of the first rockabilly recordings made on Event Records, a small record company from Westbrook, Maine, where country star Dick Curless and future jazz guitar legend Lenny Breau joined the singer Curtis Johnson to produce some of the hippest rockabilly recorded on Maine.
Curtis was born in Arkansas, but he grew up in Loxley. His love for music led him to be part of the band of Sleepy Willis and country star Hal Lone Pine, The North Kountry Karavan, where he played steel guitar. In this band the 14 years old son of Hal Lone Pine, christened as Leonard 'Sonny' Breau, was in charge of the guitar being an awesome and skilled player, true heir of the Chet Atkins’ picking style. Years later Leonard would become the renowned jazz guitarist Lenny Breau, but he made his recording debut in Event Records, backing his father in some recordings and becoming a regular studio musician there.
In the summer of '56 Elvis Presley was the new musical sensation world wide, and Curtis Johnson was an Elvis fan. Soon The North Kountry Karavan stage show would include a part leaded by Curtis singing rock 'n’roll and backed on guitar by the young Lenny Breau.
Al Hawkes, owner of Event, tried to take advantage of it and that same summer he prepared a session with Curtis, to record two songs taken from the old Elvis´ 45´s on Sun: BABY LET'S PLAY HOUSE and I DON'T CARE IF THE SUN DON'T SHINE. In both tracks Lenny Breau's guitar flies unbeatable, close to Scotty Moore´s work on both songs. Those tracks should have integrated Curtis' first single and also the first approach of Event to rockabilly, but they remained in the can until 1978, when they were legally released by the owners of the Event vaults.
By the summer of '57 Curtis returned to the studio, again backed by Lenny on guitar, with two original songs. This time Al Hawkes decided to try on rock´n´roll, and the first single of Curtis Johnson saw the light with BABY BABY / TEENAGE LOVE AFFAIR (Event Records - E4268). With Lenny on guitar playing Scotty Moore style and The Windjammers on vocal chorus both songs sound like a good approach to Elvis Presley and the Jordaniers. The following year Curtis would return to Event several times, but never with Lenny. Those tracks rested in the can until the 70's and even some of them until the 21st century.
Curtis Johnson would remain active in music, although never full time. Lenny Breau would become a prestigious jazz guitarist until his mysterious death in 1984. Al Hawkes would hold Event Records until 1961, when a fire in his warehouse destroyed most of the masters and about 10,000 copies ofthe Event singles produced until then.
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Entrepreneurial Spotlight: The Center for Koru Mindfulness®
Technology for Health & Wellness: Celebrating the successful launch of the Koru Mindfulness Mobile Companion App v2.0, The Center for Koru Mindfulness® team shares their journey to first-time tech entrepreneurship.
About The Center for Koru Mindfulness®: Founded in Durham, NC in 2013, The Center for Koru Mindfulness® offers a unique, evidence-based curriculum and teacher certification program specifically developed for teaching mindfulness, meditation, and stress-management to college students and other young adults.
About Koru Mindfulness Companion App v2.0:
The app–developed in partnership with Smashing Boxes–provides support, guidance, and encouragement for the student’s journey towards mindfulness. Every screen and every interaction is intentionally designed to enrich the practice of mindfulness and lower the barriers to adoption.
New and Improved v2.0 Features:
Simple Breathing exercises
Updated flow to Daily Practice
Improved presentation of logbook
Stay motivated with features like the Gratitude River, inspirational messages, and collective goals.
Class Progress featuring the “community garden” (an animation that slowly unveils throughout the course)
Updated guided meditations
Entrepreneurial Spotlight featuring Holly Rogers, M.D., Libby Webb, and Gigi Burkhalter of The Center for Koru Mindfulness®
1. What was the inspiration behind for The Center for Koru Mindfulness®?
Holly: I was in New Zealand and just committed to returning to the U.S. for a fellowship training program in the Department of Psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center. Feeling stressed about this transition, I found a book called Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Gunaratana. I’d never heard of mindfulness, yet I was immediately captivated by the essence of this book. The premise: It is a normal part of human life to struggle and suffer. To find joy and contentment depends on how we relate to our suffering. The practice of mindfulness is mastering the skill of awareness. It’s about learning to pay attention—without judgment—to your present-moment experience. It’s a pathway to well-being and contentment.
This book inspired me to start my own journey towards mindfulness. Like any beginner, as I started to meditate, I couldn’t sit still. My mind was always busy and distracted. It wasn’t easy, but what helped me the most was my teacher and mentor Dr. Jeff Brantley.
Around the same time, I started working with students at the counseling center at Duke University. The life stage of early adulthood, along with the academic pressures of college, comes with its own challenges and stressors. Among college students, there are alarming levels of anxiety and depression, which can sometimes lead to serious problems including suicidal behavior.
What an opportunity to help these students reduce their stress and anxiety by introducing them to the practice of mindfulness. Teaching mindfulness meditation would be easy, so I thought at the time, but I was wrong. It wasn’t easy. After several attempts, I found that students just weren’t interested; they’d signup, then poof! Disappear.
How weird, I thought. So a colleague of mine, Margaret Mayan and I put our minds together to explore what would make the training more meaningful, accessible, and sticky.
The way I’d been teaching was really geared to older adults struggling with aging, chronic pain, and loss. This didn’t resonate with college students worried about classes, careers, and dating. They have short attention spans and want immediate results. On the flip side, they’re also curious and open-minded. With this in mind, we created a program based on the ‘lowest effective dose of teaching and practice.’ Students attended class, practiced for 10 minutes-a-day, and by practicing, they soon experienced the impact.
The program went from almost zero signups to a waiting list of more than 80 students. The feedback was incredible. Several students told us it changed their lives. As a result, we decided to write a book, Mindfulness for the Next Generation: Helping Emerging Adults Manage Stress and Lead Healthier Lives
“I am worrying less and enjoying myself more since starting Koru. I’ve gotten better at staying focused in the present and I don’t feel so stressed all the time.”
The Center for Koru Mindfulness® opened in 2013 and the first teacher-training course took place in 2014.
2. At what point did you decide to incorporate technology into the program?
Holly: We didn’t set out to be technology entrepreneurs. But the young adults we’re trying to help tend to use technology and mobile devices to organize their world. We wanted to meet them where they’re at.
The first Koru app evolved from a paper-and-pen-based daily log that students submitted as part of the course. We kept hearing the same request over and over: Isn’t there an app for this? We thought, how hard could it be to develop an app?
Libby: We don’t have a background in tech, but we came up with an idea unique to the Koru program vs other meditation apps. It’s almost universal for any beginner to experience frustration and setbacks when it comes to mediation. What makes the Koru Mindfulness companion app different is that it serves as an extension of this community. Through the mobile app, students share daily journal entries, receive teacher feedback, counsel, and encouragement.
The app also serves as a practice tool for practice during the week, outside of the classroom, while also providing as-needed support, motivation, and encouragement from the teacher and fellow classmates.
Gigi: We created v1.0 on a shoestring budget. It was pretty “buggy” and it couldn’t handle the demand. But it served as a proof of concept for how a true companion app could enrich, expand, and support the experience of students during the Koru program and beyond.
The next step was to find a partner with deep digital product expertise to help us develop Koru Mindfulness v2.0 with the end-user in mind; a mobile app where every screen, every interaction, supports the principles of mindfulness and lowers the barriers to adoption.
3. What insights can you share with other aspiring entrepreneurs?
Koru was self-funded and started out of our home(s). The business grew on its own through word-of-mouth. What I’d tell an aspiring entrepreneur: Try to find a way to grow the business on your own. Do what you can, at least until you feel like your feet are on the ground, before seeking investment from others. Even now, we’re a small but powerful team. We support and respect each other, and we have a willingness to do what needs to be done because we all want our customers to be successful.
That being said, we understand we have to build the business. And we’ve now reached a tipping point where we have more work than we can manage on our own.
4. What’s in the future for The Center for Koru Mindfulness®?
Our teachers are the ones driving our growth. Today there are more than 600 Koru teachers from 12 different countries representing 200 colleges, universities, secondary schools, and treatment centers. It’s even included in some military training programs.
We see tremendous possibility for scaling Koru as it applies to corporate America and start-up businesses where stress levels run high. If we find an investor who shares our values, we would most likely be open to accepting partners.
5. How do you personally integrate mindfulness into your daily lives?
We are committed to meditating. We find the time to almost every day with different practice times. Holly is the morning, Libby at night, and Gigi during her kids’ naptimes.
We are committed to our values. Our work is mission-driven, but it’s not driven by a life-or-death-sense of urgency. It’s not an emergency room. This keeps things in perspective. The business will either succeed, or fail. Either way, life is good but short. Our teachers, their students, and our customers, they are all kind to support us.
6. What are your favorite inspirational, motivational quotes, or mantras?
Holly: Buddha said it well. “The purpose of our practice is to abandon ill will and hatred, and abide with a mind compassionate for the welfare of all beings.”
Libby: “Good or bad… Who knows? We shall see.”
Gigi: “Breathe In. Breathe Out. Smile.”
7. What books are on your nightstands?
Holly: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Libby: The Overstory by Richard Powers
Gigi: Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation by Sharon Salzburg
Holly Rogers, M.D. co-founder of The Center for Koru Mindfulness® and developer of Koru, an evidence-based program for teaching mindfulness and meditation to college-age adults. Holly works as a psychiatrist at the student counseling center at Duke University where she helps students integrate the practice of mindfulness into their lives in a meaningful way. She is a clinical associate in the department of psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center. She is the co-author with Margaret Mayan of Mindfulness for the Next Generation: Helping Emerging Adults Manage Stress and Lead Healthier Lives. Her latest book, The Mindful Twenty-Something: Life skills to handle stress… & everything else, is a guide for young adults who wish to learn about using mindfulness and meditation to enhance their journey through emerging adulthood.
Amazon Review of The Mindful Twenty-Something: “This is a good little book with lots of good ideas, lessons, and thoughts. Use it with the app to get the best out of it.”
Libby Webb co-founder of The Center for Koru Mindfulness® & Koru Trainer, MSW. Before retiring in 2016, Libby was a licensed clinical social worker at Duke University’s Counseling and Psychological Service, and a Clinical Associate on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center. She has been working with emerging adults for the past 28 years and finds great significance in helping them explore the question of meaning at a time of life filled with such ambiguity. Libby came to the practice of mindfulness through her early participation in the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Program. Her interest in mindfulness expanded to include the integration of present moment awareness skills taught in the practice of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. In addition to her interest in mindfulness, she also has a strong belief in the restorative benefits of small group work to illuminate the humanness of struggle. Libby lives with her family in Durham, NC and loves her adopted hometown.
Gigi Burkhalter Director of Brand & Digital Technology. Gigi is a queer, white, Latinx, first-generation child of an immigrant. She enjoys wearing many hats at the Center for Koru Mindfulness® including designing and building the brand as well as developing and managing the technology that makes the program so special. If you end up needing technology support with Koru, you’ll most likely be talking directly with Gigi. Outside of work, Gigi is learning how to be a mindful parent with guidance from baby Santi.
This is your life. Don’t miss it.
Four ways to start your mindfulness practice today:
Find a certified teacher near you
Get a copy of these books
Mindfulness for the Next Generation: Helping Emerging Adults Manage Stress and Lead Healthier Lives
The Mindful Twenty-Something: Life skills to handle stress… & everything else
Sign up for a Teacher Training Workshop
Download the Koru Mindfulness Companion App v2.0
This entrepreneurial spotlight was authored by Nick Jordan, founder of Smashing Boxes, and Shannon Rentner, senior director of marketing.
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Unusual WW2 finds – Part 3
Two down in this mini series, three more to go.
As I’ve said in previous posts, context is important when trying to identify relics as they emerge from the ground. Not only is this down to the age of the relics you find at certain depths, but also what weapon they are from, as they give you a basis on which to start trying to identify items.
Take for example this lovely trigger mechanism…..
Besa mg trigger mechanism
A big old lump, this was readily identifiable as the trigger from a Besa MG. The wooden pistol grip is missing, (long since rotted away), but the double finger pull trigger was a dead give away.
In the same hole, these little items kept appearing…..
Certainly too flimsy to be a weapon part, but it was reasonable to think these too were from a Besa. But what exactly?
Well, during use inside British tanks, the one thing you don’t want is the floor awash with spent 7.92mm cartridge cases. So, the crews were all issued with case catcher bags.
Besa case catcher bag
the bracket on the right hand side……there it is! Those little metal items were from a Besa case catcher bag!
Not only that, but in among these parts was a combination tool……
Besa mg combination tool
…..which was again attributed to the Besa. To be precise, a Besa combination tool, (doh!).
Another trigger mechanism recovered from this site also helped identify a similar kind of relic.
There isn’t much left of this pistol grip and trigger, but enough to identify it.
Lewis MG pistol grip and trigger
This one is from a Lewis MG
This diagram shows a slightly different version of the pistol grip, but there are enough similarities to tie it down positively to a Lewis mg.
And with this pistol grip were a lot of these strange hinged brackets.
Was there such a thing as a Lewis case catcher bag? And if there was, was this bracket from one of them?
Well, there was, and they were!
Lewis mg case catcher bag
So, this just goes to show that having a knowledge of what the site has yielded in the past, helps identify future finds.
However, sometimes context doesn’t help at all.
To finish this thread are these very well made brass frames.
As you can see, all of them have ‘P14’ stamped on them, and some even had the remains of a threaded steel bolt and brass wingnut. They were obviously made to clamp onto something, and the ‘P14’ indicated the rifle of the same name. But what were they used for?
The Lee-Enfield rifle had a grenade discharger cup that fitted onto the end of the No 1 rifle and enabled the launching of a grenade a considerable distance. The P14 rifle didn’t have such an adaptor but the British army obviously wanted to use the rifle to launch grenades. So instead of developing a whole new discharger cup, they developed this little frame to fit over the barrel of a P14 rifle to enable a Lee-Enfield grenade discharger cup to be attached to it!
Part 4 in this series to follow soon…..
Next WW2 Treasure Hunters – Episode 7 ‘Bomb factory’
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Franjo’s Short Stories
The Non-FM-Related Stuff
The Perks Of Being Human
Another poem.
The perks of being human seem plentiful on the face,
We’ve brains and thumbs and no-one eating us. It’s pretty great.
Intelligence breeds empathy, science and philosophy,
Dexterity’s brought tools, precision grip and origami.
Our lack of natural predators has allowed us all to thrive,
So if you add up all these virtues, it’s no wonder we’ve survived.
But is it though? Just think on that. Are humans really best?
Have we used all these advantages to rise above the rest?
Our smarts seem only to have made us sneaky and conniving,
And we’ll step right over others if we know it means surviving.
Our thumbs were first militarised millennia ago,
We use tools and guns to wipe out habitats and people both.
It’s sad to think in some parallel World we’ve done no damage.
The ice caps are all fine and rainforests haven’t been savaged.
And in that World the only difference you or I can reason,
Is that humans still are thick, four fingered apes that might get eaten.
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Walt Awakens
“You’ve been cryogenically frozen for almost 1500 years, Mr Disney.”
“What… What year is it?” Muttered Walt, his bleary eyes adjusting to the bright laboratory lights.
“3462.” Came the curt reply. A wide smile broke across Walt’s face. It’d worked. It’d actually worked. “You’ve been cryogenically frozen for almost 1500 years, Mr Disney.”
As his blurry visions were slowly brought into sharper focus, Walt stepped out weakly from the tube that he’d called home for almost a Millennium and a half. He looked around the lab, marvelling at all of the incredible, unthinkable equipment that surrounded him, like props from a work of science fiction. His head swum as he looked from impossible contraption to impossible contraption, jaw agape as they blinked and hummed and hovered and glowed in sequence. They’d done it. They’d actually brought him back.
Walt’s heart hammered in his chest. What had he missed? What remarkable feats and developments had been made? What strides had his species taken, while he had lain in a state of suspended animation? He beamed in turn at each of the scientists gathered around him. What would they teach him? What would they show him? What… Wh… Why did they look so angry?
Walt’s smile began to fade. Poor Walt. He wasn’t to know of course that in the late thirtieth century, after thousands of years of War, argument and debate, Judaism had finally been confirmed as the one true religion and had subsequently been adopted across the Earth and throughout the off-world colonies that littered the Galaxy. He wasn’t to know.
It was at this point that Walt started to really ponder the functions of all of these futuristic machines surrounding him. He also started to wonder why he had been awakened in the first place. More to the point, did he even want to know?
Probably not, he decided.
The gang of scientists really fucked him up. I mean they really fucked him up. Probably serves him right though, doesn’t it.
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The Chaos Of Dom – Part Eight (Finale)
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“You stink, mate.” Said Neil.
“Yup.” Dom agreed. “I’ll quit eventually.” He placed his cigarettes down onto the table next to his pint as he sat back down. “Can barely afford it anymore anyway.”
“What’s the pay like at your place?” Asked Neil, before raising the pint glass back into its default state.
“About as bad as it is legally allowed to be.” Dom replied, before following suit. There was a short silence while they drank, before he continued: “But it’s OK. I have a backup plan. A secondary income.” Neil lowered his pint, clearly intrigued, then raised it again as Dom pulled the £1 scratcher out of his back pocket. “I’m about to be a hundred-thousand-aire, mate. Got a coin?” Neil once again raised his fist and showed him a thumbs down.
Dom had forgotten just how often Neil gave this kind of response. If he had a pint in front of him, which he did more often than not, conversation was very much a secondary priority. Thumbs down was his most frequently used signal, then thumbs up. Then of course there was the middle finger. A classic. Those three tended to cover the bases.
Then Neil did lower his pint. “Ask one of them”, he grinned, gesturing towards a group of girls sat at the next table. Dom grinned too. As if.
“You ask them.” He replied, sounding slightly too casual.
“Last to finish their pint asks them.” Said Neil.
“Well that is clearly not a fair contest.” Dom laughed. “You’ve got a massive head-start on me.” It was true. Neil had basically inhaled most of his beer while Dom had only drunk about a third of his pint. Neil thought for a moment, then replied.
“You start supping, then I’ll join in once we’re level.” He reasoned. Shit, that did sound fair. Neil would definitely still win though.
Dom started to down the two thirds of a pint he had left, with Neil watching on carefully. Then, when the amounts of beer left looked pretty much identical, Neil lifted his glass once more and downed his. He downed it very quickly indeed. Much, much quicker than Dom.
Dom swallowed the last of his beer and disappointedly banged his glass back down onto the mat. “Fine.” He muttered, as Neil beamed. He turned to look at the group of girls. There were four of them sat around the table: The blonde on the left sat holding what he assumed was a gin and tonic. On the far side was a girl with red hair, who’d barely touched her coke, or rum and coke or whatever it was. This was in contrast to a second blonde on the right side of the table, who had almost finished her… Probably rum and coke too. Dom wasn’t sure. The fourth girl was sat closest to him facing the other way, so he couldn’t see what she looked like. He could just see her long, wavy brown hair that flowed down the back or her head and disappeared behind the back of the chair.
Dom mustered all of his courage. He hated this type of situation. He braced himself to be laughed out of the pub or humiliated in some other way. “Excuse me”, he ventured, voice trembling. The three girls that he’d already clocked looked abruptly towards him, their faces impossible to read. He’d interrupted a conversation. He momentarily wondered whether they’d be annoyed. But then she turned around.
Dom knew instantly that he was in trouble. The fourth girl was impossibly beautiful, with her deep brown eyes that perfectly matched the shade of her long, flowing hair, her delicate nose, her soft pink lips. He was painfully and almost certainly irreversibly infected by her. He’d already forgotten that he was supposed to ask for a coin for the scratcher. But then she delivered the finishing blow. She smiled.
Dom knew then that he was done for. That smile. That smile that seemed to bring the entire room into sharper focus. That smile that seemed to make the colours around her become brighter and more saturated. She didn’t so much have a face that would launch a thousand ships, but a face that could and should start a global nuclear conflict. A face that given the chance, Dom himself would start a global nuclear conflict for without hesitation.
Dom suddenly made a number of realisations. He realised that his jaw was hanging open and had been for a number of seconds. He realised that he was supposed to ask her something. Something to do with words. He realised that he had forgotten what words were.
Dom realised that the best he could do at this moment, his best chance of not messing this up was to smile back and hope for the best.
So that’s what he did.
I could probably say that Dom and the girl ended up together. That he said something funny and she threw her head back and laughed. That they dated, fell in love, got married and moved to that small rural cottage somewhere far away. That they cooked together, started a family together, were happy together and spammed all of their Facebook friends with pictures of their many healthy children.
I could say that Dom quit smoking and then his job, throwing it in Mary Jane’s face as dramatically as he’d always dreamed and that Sabrina had stood and applauded, tears streaming down her face as he walked out of the “Computer Guys!” building for the final time. That Dom and Homeless John won big on their scratchers, or that Neil got himself a job, whether with Dom’s former employers or not and was then the best man at the wedding, floppy blonde mop reinstated and hanging lazily over his eyes as he handed them the rings.
But does it matter?
None of that is the point. The point is that none of this, not Dom and the girl meeting, not he and Neil reconnecting, not one part of the story so far and not one of those possible future outcomes would have happened or for the most part even been possible were it not for that fire alarm. Those drunken arse holes that set off the fire alarm and in doing so set in motion a chain of events that lead us here and beyond. At three in the morning. As a prank. A funny, funny, hilarious, funny one at that.
And who’s to say that it was even them? Maybe I set off the fire alarm. Maybe you did. Maybe it was Johnny Bravo or a hawk that swooped in through an open window. None of it matters. We all set off fire alarms every day. We all do things that spiral off in different directions through the people around us, setting off chains of consequences that are perfectly and gloriously impossible to predict.
That’s the beauty of chaos.
And that’s the chaos of Dom.
Author wtfranjoPosted on September 14, 2018 September 19, 2018 1 Comment on The Chaos Of Dom – Part Eight (Finale)
The Chaos Of Dom – Part Seven
The Scratcher
< Part Six
Dom stepped aboard the number one bus. It was emptier than usual, to the point where he could actually get a seat on his way to work. Wouldn’t this be a luxury, he thought. His Majesty wouldn’t be standing this morning. Nor would he be swaying and bouncing as the bus creaked around corners, no Sir. Dom usually got on the number one bus at about 7:20am, but considering the events of the last couple of days, he’d decided to get in early today. Maybe he’d try to have a friendly pre-work chat with Graham before his shift started, or maybe it’d be enough that he was there early, showing willing even on a Friday morning. That’d get him back in Graham’s good books and at least make his horrible job slightly more bearable. That’s why Dom boarded the nearly empty bus at 6:50am.
Once the driver had scanned the ticket that Dom showed her on his phone, the doors closed and the bus pulled away from the pavement, leaving Dom to do his Bambi impression, walking shakily down the central aisle of the bus as it stuttered and rumbled along the road. He took the first seat behind the “Priority” ones. He felt uncomfortable taking the priority ones, especially when there were others available. For similar reasons he’d never followed the example of his colleagues at work in using the disabled toilets. Dom was a decent person in this regard.
As he sat, he noticed a scratch card on the window seat next to him. Dom had only bought about two scratchers in his life, partly because he wasn’t that interested in gambling, aside from the odd quid on a football match he was watching and partly because he never had any coins on him. Yes he could scratch them with his fingernail, but then your nail goes a different colour and gets all of the top layer gunk under it. Dom wasn’t a fan.
He picked up the scratcher on the off chance that he’d stumbled across a winner. He hadn’t. All of the scratching had been completed by its previous owner, revealing the symbols and numbers beneath. There were a few symbols that repeated twice, but none that repeated three times, as was the win condition described under the panel. Dom folded the scratcher up and pocketed it. He was also a decent person in regard to the fact that he didn’t litter, unlike the scratch card’s original owner.
When Dom disembarked on Sovereign Street half an hour later, he was greeted by the familiar croaky voice of Homeless John. “Spare any change, Sir?”
“Sorry mate,” came the sympathetic reply in their daily game of call and response. But then Dom stopped in his tracks and after a moment of deliberation, turned ninety degrees and marched into an off license behind Homeless John. Dom went straight to the counter and bought two £1 scratchers with his debit card. One for him and one for Homeless John. One Hundred Thousand Pound Jackpot! The front of the scratch cards boasted. If you say so, he thought.
Dom stepped out of the off license and handed one of the scratchers to Homeless John. “Here you are, mate.” He said. “Good luck.” Homeless John took the gift silently before looking up at Dom.
“Got a coin to scratch it with?” He asked.
“Uh, no. Sorry mate.” Came the sympathetic reply. Homeless John gave him a weak smile, showing a few yellow teeth and nodded in thanks as Dom walked on towards the “Computer Guys!” building.
Just as he had the day before, Mary Jane clocked Dom as soon as he arrived on the second floor and just as he had the day before, he dragged him straight into a meeting room. Initially, Dom wondered what he’d done to earn a second red-faced one-sided screaming match in such quick succession, but was surprised to find that Graham wanted to apologise.
Dom wasn’t to know, but Graham had received a bit of an earful himself from his floor manager, who had told him that if someone would rather drink away their day than go to work, odds are there’s something wrong and it was Graham’s job to find out what that was. Was Dom depressed? Was he stressed? Like actually medically suffering from stress? Had there been a bereavement that they should take into consideration? Yes, Graham had received quite a bollocking, so he pulled Dom into a meeting room and apologised.
After assuring Graham whole-heartedly that he was not suffering from depression or stress, not that a doctor had verified anyway, nor had there been a bereavement, he headed for the door. “Go get ‘em, tiger.” Said Graham, hilariously straight faced. Dom had his back to his team leader, so allowed himself a quick smirk.
From there, Dom’s day got better and better. The customers that phoned him were polite and cordial, allowing him to build a rapport and even… Dare he even think it… Have fun helping them? He was happy. He was confident. He was in a great mood. A fantastic mood, even. So when Dom received a text from Neil at lunchtime, enquiring about his availability for a few cheeky after-work pints, Dom’s answer was an enthusiastic yes.
Thank fuck it was Friday.
Part Eight (Finale) >
Author wtfranjoPosted on September 14, 2018 September 19, 2018 2 Comments on The Chaos Of Dom – Part Seven
The Chaos Of Dom – Part Six
< Part Five
“Spare any change, Sir?” Asked the hoarse voice of Homeless John as Dom came within earshot. Homeless John was, as you might expect, a homeless man that frequented the hundred yard stretch of Sovereign Street between the bus stop where John would alight each morning and his work building. Because of this, he was pretty well known amongst Dom and his colleagues.
“Sorry mate”, Dom replied sympathetically, as he had pretty much every morning for the last two years. Dom wasn’t against giving Homeless John money. He knew he wasn’t an addict or anything that’d blow all his takings on heroine. Dom just practically never had any change to give. He didn’t see the point in this day and age, when you can use contactless cards pretty much everywhere. He’d suggested to Homeless John that he invest in a contactless card reader about a year ago, but received a blank stare in reply, so had quickly dropped the idea. He sometimes bought Homeless John a drink or something to eat when he asked, but he was barely ever able to give him change.
Dom estimated that his heart was beating at twice its usual rate as he stepped through the revolving door of the “Computer Guys!” building. He walked past reception, through the foyer, held his lanyard to the sensor to get past the metal barrier and pressed the lifts’ call button. He pressed it just the once as he was in no rush to get up to the second floor and see Graham.
The man was pure evil, Dom thought as he stepped into the lift. Graham had stared at him in the pub the day before for just long enough to make sure that Dom saw him see him, but then turned around and started laughing and joking with his cohorts, acting as if nothing had happened. Dom pressed the small circular button emblazoned with the number two. But that was why he was so certain that Graham was pure evil. He’d obviously wanted Dom to stew on this all through the previous afternoon, evening, night and now this morning too. He’d obviously wanted him to imagine all of the possible consequences that could result from having been caught partaking in a crafty lunchtime pint when he was meant to be ill.
Dom had considered quitting on the spot. He’d imagined it over and over since yesterday: He would’ve marched over to Graham, who would’ve looked so shocked as he watched his plan to rattle Dom backfire and Dom would’ve said: “Graham, I quit. Fuck your job. Give it to this lad here.” He would’ve gestured to Neil at this point. “He needs it. He’s desperate. But I am so sick of your shit. I’m fed up of that depressing hole we all pile into every day, getting shouted at down the phone just because we work for such a ridiculous little joke of a company. And what do you do to earn your wage? Sit on your arse down the pub, laughing with your little friends over the fact that you made Sabrina cry again, you pathetic little wanker.”
It would’ve felt good. Very good. Dom especially liked the bit at the end about Sabrina. He didn’t really give a shit about Sabrina and didn’t know her at all, but Graham did shout at her until she cried on quite a regular basis because of, as far as Dom could tell, her tendency to be a decent person and help the customers who phoned up instead of pushing them towards the sales team, so it seemed like good ammunition. But Dom had chickened out. He’d bottled it. He’d supped up, told Neil that he had to go for some non-specific reason and they’d swapped numbers. Then he’d walked right out of the pub and spent the rest of the day imagining all the things he would’ve said to Graham if he’d had the balls.
Graham did indeed bring Dom straight into a meeting room upon his arrival on the second floor and subjected him to one of his patented red-faced, one-sided screaming matches. Dom just tuned out though. He’d figured out that this type of employee discipline gets less and less effective as you get less and less invested in the job that you’re actually doing and Dom was currently about as uninvested as an employee could be.
In appearance, Graham reminded Dom of Doctor Phil from one of those American TV shows. He was middle aged, practically bald but clung desperately to the little hair he did have around the back and sides of his head, which seemed to cling to him just as desperately. He even had the little greying moustache. Dom had to stop himself from thinking about this comparison while he was receiving such a earful, as if he let the thought enter his mind he was in very real danger of interrupting Graham’s shouting with a fit of uncontrollable giggles.
Once Graham gave the telltale sign of wrapping up his rant, Dom knew he was in the clear. Each and every time he had a member of the team in here he would sigh, run his fingers through an imaginary head of hair, then place both hands on the table in front of him and lean forwards towards you. “Just sort it out.” He’d say quietly, then he’d wait for you to start heading for the door before adding, for no discernible reason, “Go get ‘em, Tiger.”
The first time Dom heard him say this, he’d thought it was a joke. He’d turned and laughed, thinking Graham was lightening the mood with a quick joke to raise his spirits before heading back to work. The look on Graham’s face that time had said it all though: Surprise, confusion with a hint of anger. For this reason, his nickname among the team, when his back was turned of course, was Mary Jane.
Dom checked his phone after leaving the meeting room to see that he’d received a text from Neil, saying to let him know the next time he fancies a pint. Dom raised his eyebrows. Today could have started a lot worse.
Part Seven >
Author wtfranjoPosted on September 14, 2018 September 19, 2018 2 Comments on The Chaos Of Dom – Part Six
The Chaos Of Dom – Part Five
The Pint
< Part Four
“How’ve you been then?” Asked Neil, before lifting his pint and beginning to drink.
“Yeah, fine.” Dom lied reflexively. “You?” Neil, still gulping down his ale, raised his fist and gave Dom a thumbs down. Neil looked much more familiar with half his face covered by a pint glass. Dom took a swig of his beer too.
“Shit.” Gasped Neil, finally stopping for breath. “3 months unemployed.” He started to drink again. Dom winced. That was shit. And also probably explained why Neil was available for a pint at lunchtime on a Wednesday. Dom felt a pang of guilt for sacking off his own job for the day after… Why was it? Sleeping in and getting wet? He took another swig.
Neil could handle his alcohol. He had always been the first one to suggest a trip to the pub or a few clubs and once those trips had inevitably happened, he had always been the last one standing. He was a big bloke. Not particularly overweight, just very broad and quite stocky. Yes he’d put on a bit of weight since uni, but hadn’t they all. Neil’s face was rounded and usually quite red and he had a mop of blonde hair that hung lazily down over his eyes. Or he used to. It seemed that the mop had fallen foul of an electric razor since Dom had last seen him.
It was a shame. The blonde mop, combined with Neil’s large frame, had used to remind Dom of a cartoon show he used to watch when he was little about a couple of dogs. One was big and quite slow, with hair that came down over his eyes and the other other was small, skinny and excitable. Dom used to suppose that the other dog was him, although he was no longer quite as skinny or as excitable as he had been back then. They had been a bit of a double act back in uni actually. The thought made Dom quite sad, so he took another swig of beer.
With Neil still unable to talk due to the almost empty pint glass he still held to his lips, Dom considered mentioning the loss of the mop, but as he absent mindedly glanced towards the bar, he saw something that made his heart stop. There, sat on a bar stool, was Graham. He was sat with a couple of team leaders that Dom recognised from the office and although they seemed to be in the middle of a light hearted conversation, he could tell that Graham wasn’t paying all that much attention to his colleagues.
Dom could tell this because Graham was staring directly at him.
Part Six >
Author wtfranjoPosted on September 14, 2018 September 19, 2018 2 Comments on The Chaos Of Dom – Part Five
The Chaos Of Dom – Part Four
The Sickie
< Part Three
Dom called in sick. He knew there was no way that Graham, his unreasonable team leader, would believe him. He knew that Graham, or “Mary Jane” as Dom’s team called him, had seen him as the team’s ‘boy who cried wolf’ for a long time now, so Dom ringing in sick at quarter to eleven on a Wednesday morning? There was absolutely no chance Mary Jane would believe that he had actually fallen ill. He’d almost certainly be dragged into a meeting room the second he stepped into work tomorrow, but that was tomorrow’s problem. Dom was only half an hour into today and he’d had already had more than enough of it.
He spent the next half hour or so doing nothing much at all. Just messing about on his laptop, watching Facebook videos he didn’t care about that were posted by people he didn’t know. The baby photos were the worst part of Facebook for Dom. He knew it was a cliché, but they really were. They’d started becoming a regular feature of his news feed a few years ago. He was now 33 years old, so many of the people he didn’t bother to keep in touch with from school and uni were also around 33. A lot of them were married, many had started families and a seemingly disproportionate number he thought were posting pictures of their babies with startling regularity.
This had become a regular reminder that Dom subjected himself to. A reminder that his life was going nowhere. He had no children, no wife and no girlfriend. 10 years ago he and his mates were all going into town and getting drunk together like young people do, but one by one they’d all seemed to have grown out of it. At some point over the last 10 years or so, he had fallen far behind the other people that made up his age group. Only in small, incremental steps, but they all added up and now the gap between them was as clear as day: There they all were, owning houses, earning promotions, taking their children to school in the daytime and snuggling up next to their spouses at night. And here was Dom. In a supposed luxury but actually suspiciously tiny flat. That he rented. Alone.
As soon as he’d completed this thought however, Dom was surprised by a small “Ding” from his laptop. It was a Facebook message from an unlikely source. It was Neil, a lad that he’d been very good mates with at Uni and for a fair few years afterwards. They’d not spoken in quite a while though.
“Surprised to see you online during the day!” Said the message. It was true, Dom never really went online during the day. Social Media was banned at work, as were phones, so he never really got the chance.
“Off sick from work.” Dom replied instantly.
“Haha.” Came Neil’s quick reply. Dom wasn’t sure how to take that. Then Neil continued: “You ill?”
“Nah, just had a pretty shit morning.” He admitted. There was quite a long pause after Dom sent this message, which prompted a thought to flash across his mind – What if Neil was working for Graham, trying to get an admission that he wasn’t ill after all? Had he just been caught out? He berated himself for being paranoid as the word ‘Typing’ appeared under Neil’s name.
“Fancy a pint in town then?”
Dom did fancy a pint in town. Very much so.
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Movies of Time Long Gone
10 To Midnight (1983)
A Touch Of Class (1973)
Abduction (2011)
Across 110th Street (1972)
Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe (1954)
Audrey Rose (1977)
Bad Girls (1994)
Basic Instinct 2 (2006)
Beware Of Mr Baker
City Of The Living Dead (1980)
Cross Of Iron (1977)
Did You Heart About The Morgans? (2009)
Dr Phibes Rises Again (1972)
Eyes Of Laura Mars (1978)
For Your Consideration (2006)
From Noon Till Three (1976)
Ginger & Rosa (2012)
Halloween II (1981)
Hanky Panky (1982)
How To Train Your Dragon (2010)
Ladder 49 (2004)
Leap Year (2010)
Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella) (1997)
Lifeforce (1985)
Lockout (2012)
New Jack City (1991)
Only God Forgives (2013)
Ping Pong (2012)
Piranha 3DD (2012)
Poseidon (2006)
Royal Flash (1975)
Scary Movie 5 (2013)
She (1965)
Some Kind Of Hero (1982)
Starting Over (1979)
Summer Of Sam (1999)
Tenebrae (1982)
The Abominable Dr Phibes (1971)
The Big Bus (1976)
The Black Hole (1979)
The Car (1977)
The Delta Force (1986)
The Gambler (1974)
The Heroes Of Telemark (1965)
The Inglorious Bastards (1978)
The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)
The Out Of Towners (1970)
The Pit And The Pendulum (1961)
The Seven Year Itch (1955)
The Wild Geese (1978)
Timecrimes (Los cronocrímenes) (2007)
Victory At Entebee (1976)
Wild Geese II (1985)
Wonder Man (1945)
X-Men: First Class (2011)
My Favourite Films
Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette) (1948)
Body Heat (1981)
California Suite (1978)
Empire Records (1995)
Miller’s Crossing (1990)
Richard Pryor Live In Concert (1979)
Sharky’s Machine (1981)
Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan (1982)
That Sinking Feeling (1978)
The Birdcage (1996)
The Cannonball Run (1981)
The Fisher King (1991)
The Long Good Friday (1980)
The Man In The White Suit (1951)
The Princess Bride (1987)
The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Theatre Of Blood (1973)
Thunderbolt And Lightfoot (1974)
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With the release of The Great Gatsby, here are ten great American novels that were turned into movies.
10. Catch-22
Joseph Hiller’s classic anti-war novel following the exploits of Yozarian was made into an all-star film in 1970 to catch in on the success of M*A*S*H. Unfortunately, Hiller’s novel was so in-depth and complex that a 2 hour film couldn’t do it justice. Even though Alan Arkin is manic, it was a bit of a mess.
There were so many Stephen King novels that I could have chosen but The Shining was a perfect example of an okay book that was turned into a classic, even though King hated Kurbrick’s vision so much, he produced his own version that, quite frankly, leaves a lot to be desired. Who could hate Jack Nicholson going bonkers? Still a terrifying and atmospheric horror.
8. Moby Dick
Another classic novel that didn’t quite make it as a film but John Huston’s adaptation is a decent enough stab at Herman Melville’s sprawling epic about obsession as Gregory Peck goes hunting for the White Whale. Peck over acts likes crazy but it still has plenty to enjoy.
A personal favourite of mine. William Goldman’s off-kilt fairy tale was read to me in installments while I worked in a London theatre. I was hooked by the constant jumping from narration to narrative and the fun, adventure and romance came out of the page and was brilliantly transformed to the screen by Rob Reiner. Now a cult fav for many, it’s just a joy from start to finish.
6. The Wizard Of Oz
L. Frank Baum’s 14 book series has fascinated many, right up to the recent Oz, The Great And Wonderful. But it was The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz that was snapped away from Disney by MGM and turned into one of the most popular film musicals of all time, as Judy Garland takes the trip down the Yellow Brick Road.
5. The Grapes Of Wrath
What would a list like this be without a John Steinbeck? Of Mice And Men was an obvious choice but I plumped for this, mainly for Henry Fonda’s pitch perfect performance in the tale of a family’s journey through America’s depression. A story that captures a mood and a time brilliantly and one of John Ford’s finest non-westerns.
A massive best-seller, helped, no doubt, by Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster movie. Heaped with technical problems and going over budget, it still has the power to shock and scare. As Spielberg often says, it’s not a film about a shark.
3. Gone With The Wind
Margaret Mitchell’s novel set during the American Civil War is one of the biggest and most successful films of all time, with Clark Gable at his smoothest but Vivien Leigh stealing it as the heroine. Not one of my favourite films but I appreciate the workmanship that was put into it and the burning of Atlanta is still a high point.
2. To Kill A Mockingbird
A near perfect novel/movie transformation as a town is brought to its knees by a murder and accusations of racism. Gregory Peck deservedly won an Oscar as the all-fair Atticus Fitch. Even more surprising that Harper Lee only wrote the one book. There could have been hundreds of stories about the lawyer.
Mario Putz’s story of Italian immigrants who became a force to be reckoned with is still a powerhouse of a film series. Francis Ford Coppola’s films (1 and 2) captured the tale of family and pride superbly and both films walked off with Best Picture Oscars. If you have never seen The Godfather or The Godfather Part II, find a day to watch them.
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Explore Neural mechanisms underlying heterogeneity in the presentation of anxious temperament
Neural mechanisms underlying heterogeneity in the presentation of anxious temperament
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Alexander J. Shackman (Author), Andrew S. Fox (Author), Steven E. Shelton (Author), Richard J. Davidson (Author), Ned H. Kalin (Author)
Abstract: Children with an anxious temperament (AT) are at risk for developing psychiatric disorders along the internalizing spectrum, including anxiety and depression. Like these disorders, AT is a multidimensional phenotype and children with extreme anxiety show varying mixtures of physiological, behavioral, and other symptoms. Using a well-validated juvenile monkey model of AT, we addressed the degree to which this phenotypic heterogeneity reflects fundamental differences or similarities in the underlying neurobiology. The rhesus macaque is optimal for studying AT because children and young monkeys express the anxious phenotype in similar ways and have similar neurobiology. Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) in 238 freely behaving monkeys identified brain regions where metabolism predicted variation in three dimensions of the AT phenotype: hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) activity, freezing behavior, and expressive vocalizations. We distinguished brain regions that predicted all three dimensions of the phenotype from those that selectively predicted a single dimension. Elevated activity in the central nucleus of the amygdala and the anterior hippocampus was consistently found across individuals with different presentations of AT. In contrast, elevated activity in the lateral anterior hippocampus was selective to individuals with high levels of HPA activity, and decreased activity in the motor cortex (M1) was selective to those with high levels of freezing behavior. Furthermore, activity in these phenotype-selective regions mediated relations between amygdala metabolism and different expressions of anxiety. These findings provide a framework for understanding the mechanisms that lead to heterogeneity in the clinical presentation of internalizing disorders and set the stage for developing improved interventions.
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Buffalo Bulls Win National Championship!
Bull's QB Drew Willy was 24 - 36 for 342 yards and 3 touchdowns in the win over the Gators
In what will go down as the most bizarre play in the history of college football, Buffalo Bulls linebacker, Justin Winters stripped the ball from Gator’s quarterback, Tim Tebow on the Bulls five yard line and ran the ball 95 yards for the winning score, making the University at Buffalo’s Bulls the improbable national champions in college football. What makes the play so bizarre is that it came about as a result of what may be Tebow’s biggest mistake in his illustrious college career. With the ball on the five and up by four points, with eight seconds on the game clock and three seconds on the play clock, all the Gator’s quarterback had to do was take a knee and the game was over. The ball was snapped. Tebow took the ball from center, motioned as if he was taking a knee and then started walking to the sidelines with the ball raised high in the air with one hand. Unnoticed by the Gator’s quarterback, the referees did not blow the whistle to signal that play was dead. Winters broke through the line, stripped the ball from Tebow and ran it in for what was ruled a touchdown on the field. A stunned crowd waited in silence as the replay booth took 15 minutes to review the play. The question was whether Tebow actually took a knee. The officials could find no conclusive evidence to overturn the ruling, giving Winters the touchdown and The Bulls the national championship. Final score: 37-35
Reality note: This was fun and I thank everyone who participated in the Mythical (Yet More Real Than The BCS) College Football Playoff. In particular, the University at Buffalo Bulls fans. You guys love your Bulls. In total, you cast 6,507 for Turner Gill’s team throughout the playoffs. In the championship alone, you voted 4,287 times. Congratulations! You literally willed your team to victory. You actually got me interested in the watching the Bulls take on the University of Connecticut today.
BTW – a total of 9,020 votes were cast throughout the entire playoffs. Go BULLS!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you know the address for the University at Buffalo’s athletic department, let me know and I’ll send them an official plaque.
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The National Championship – The Florida Gators vs. The Buffalo Bulls
The Buffalo Bulls continue their miracle season with a win over the Alabama Crimson Tide. The game was a back and forth affair that had Alabama leading late in the fourth quarter. With the game seemingly over, the Bulls mounted a three minute, 80 yard drive that put them ahead with less than 39 seconds on the clock. The Crimson Tide mounted a quick drive of their own and moved into position to kick a game-winning 23 year field goal. Mike Newton, outstanding DB for the Bulls, maneuvered around the left side untouched and blocked the kick, sending a shocked crowd of Alabama fans to the exits with just 3 seconds remaining on the clock. The final score was 30-28. Next up for the Bulls, the National Championship and another SEC powerhouse.
The Florida Gators relied on a heavy pass rush and their secondary to dismantle Colt McCoy’s much heralded passing attack. The Gators gave up a lot of yards between the twenties, but managed to pick McCoy off five times in the red zone. Meanwhile, Tebow had some troubles of his own. The Gator’s version of the wildcat formation faltered for the first time this season. It seems Superman found his kryptonite in the Texas front four. The points on this night belonged to Percy Harvin and his incredible athletic ability. Harvin had 315 total yards and four touchdowns. The final score in this one was 42-31.
So our national championship features a team that was on nobody’s radar at the beginning of the playoffs and another team that many thought had the best chance of winning the national championship.
Points per Game Margin (points for minus points against): +32.31
Most Points Scored in a Game: 70
Most Points Allowed in a Game: 31
RPI Power Ranking: 1
Conference Champion: Yes
Points per Game Margin (points for minus points against): +1.7
RPI Power Ranking: 53
VOTING CLOSED! LAST PLAY UNDER BOOTH REVIEW!!!! OUTCOME DETERMINES WINNER!
Third Round of Playoffs – Alabama vs. Buffalo
Not a college football expert in the country expected the Buffalo Bulls to make it this far. Their miracle play is exactly what makes the playoffs so exciting. The entire country seems to be Buffalo fans at the moment. Today they run head on into a team that is built on folklore and history. When you think of college football, you think of the University of Alabama. From the Bear to Saban, the University of Alabama plays hardnosed, fear-inducing football. The odds are stacked against the Bulls in this one, but then again, the odds have never been in their favor in these playoffs. No one is writing off Buffalo anymore. The Tide knows they are in for a fight.
Conference Champion: No
BUFFALO WINS!!!!!!
Voting closes on January 1, 2009
Third Round of Playoffs – Florida vs. Texas
The SEC Champions, Florida Gators take on the Longhorns from Texas in this powerhouse matchup. No big surprises here. Both teams are capable of scoring a lot of points. Both teams are lead by future NFL quarterbacks, and both teams are capable of bone crunching defensive performances. This one is a toss-up. A slight edge goes to Florida because they are playing in the swamp.
RPI Power Ranking: 1 (tie)
FLORIDA WINS!!!!!!
Voting closes January 1, 2009
Alabama and Florida Complete the Playoff Semifinals’ Picture
Alabama took advantage of USC’s inconsistent offense and advances to play the Cinderella team of the playoffs, the Buffalo Bulls. Buffalo took advantage of a mistake prone Penn State team in their quarterfinal game, and won by an impressive 10 point margin.
Florida had no problem with Ohio State in their quarterfinal matchup. The same can also be said of Texas’ win over Utah.
So our semis are set. Alabama will meet the most improbable team to make it this far, the Buffalo Bulls. While Florida and Texas will square off in the second semifinal game.
The games kick off tomorrow, and voting will be open until Jan 1.
Texas and Buffalo Advance
The Texas Longhorns and the Buffalo Bulls advance to semis in playoffs. Updates and highlights tomorrow!
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Second Round of Playoffs – Florida vs. Ohio State
What exactly is a Buckeye? Well, in today’s matchup, a Buckeye is Gator bait. Ohio State has a pretty good defense, but unless they have some kryptonite, they are in for a long game against superman, Tim Tebow and his Florida Gators. All indications are this going to be a one sided affair. But Tressel has brought his magic sweater vest to the party to try and even the score. Who knows, he may be able to conjure up a miracle or two and give the Gators a ticket out of the playoffs.
Voting Closes on December 28, 2008
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A Finding Aid to the José de Rivera Papers,
, in the Archives of American Art
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De Rivera, José Ruiz, 1904-1985
The papers of sculptor José de Rivera date from 1930 to 1991 and measure 5.6 linear feet. Found within the papers are biographical materials, letters, scattered personal business records, commission files, art work including four sketchbooks, printed material, and photographs. One of the commission files includes a motion picture film.
Biographical material consists of a biographical account, resumé, military service records, an interview transcript, certificates, addresses, and miscellaneous notes and writings.
Twenty-nine folders of letters are primarily from de Rivera's patron, attorney Howard Goldsmith, but also include single letters from Marcel Breuer, John Canaday, Emlen Etting, Dag Hammarskjold, and G. Vantongerloo.
Scattered personal business records include rental records, sculpture inventories, a contract, receipts, and miscellaneous records.
Commission files contain letters, contracts, receipts, clippings, blueprints, miscellaneous printed material, and photographs concerning several of de Rivera's commissions, including Brussels Construction for the Brussels Universal and International Exhibition, his sculpture for the 1964 New York World's Fair, and Infinity, commissioned for the Smithsonian. A file for Construction #73 completed for the American Iron and Steel Institute also contains a reel of 16mm motion picture film.
Art work consists of four sketchbooks, drawings, and geometric collages including detached cut out shapes.
Printed material includes primarily clippings and exhibition announcements and catalogs. There is also a copy of the book José de Rivera Constructions by Dore Ashton and Joan M. Marter. Photographs are of de Rivera, miscellaneous art-related events, his studio, his art works, and of miscellaneous exhibition installations. Commission files also contain photographs.
The collection is arranged as 7 series:
Series 1: Biographical Material, 1942-1984 (Box 1; 11 folders)
Series 2: Letters, 1938-1988 (Box 1; 29 folders)
Series 3: Personal Business Records, 1947-1984 (Box 1; 11 folders)
Series 4: Commission Files, 1955-1977 (Box 1-2, 6-7, OV 10, FC 13; 1.1 linear feet)
Series 5: Art Work, 1960-1984 (Box 2, 6, OV 8; 0.9 linear feet)
Series 6: Printed Material, 1931-1991 (Box 2-4, 6; 1.5 linear feet)
Series 7: Photographs, 1930-1985 (Box 4-7, OV 9-OV 10; 1.7 linear feet)
José de Rivera (1904-1985) worked primarily in New York as an abstract expressionist sculptor known for twisting steel or bronze bands into space-defining three-dimensional shapes.
José A. Ruiz was born on September 18, 1904 in West Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the son of Joseph and Honorine Montamat Ruiz. He would later take the surname of his maternal grandmother, de Rivera. Early in his life his family moved to New Orleans where his father was a sugar mill engineer on a plantation. De Rivera became adept at repairing machinery and doing blacksmith work with his father. Shortly after completing high school in 1922, de Rivera moved to Chicago where he was employed in foundries and machine shops as a pipe fitter and tool and die maker. His 1926 marriage to Rose Covelli ended in divorce.
Beginning in 1928 de Rivera attended night drawing classes conducted at the Studio School by painter John W. Norton. De Rivera was impressed by the Egyptian collections at the Field Museum. The work of Mondrian, Brancusi, and Georges Vantongerloo also exerted a strong influence on him. In 1932, he traveled through southern Europe and North Africa visiting Spain, Italy, France, Greece, and Egypt. Upon his return to the United States he decided to become a sculptor.
From 1937-1938, de Rivera was employed by the Works Progress Administration-Federal Art Project and created the sculpture Flight for the Newark, New Jersey airport. During World War II, he first served in the U.S. Army Corps from 1942 to 1943. For the following three years, he designed and constructed ship models used as training aids in the U. S. Navy.
De Rivera's first solo exhibition was in 1946 in New York at the Mortimer Levitt Gallery. In 1953, de Rivera taught sculpture at Brooklyn College. For the following three years, he was a critic in sculpture at Yale University and taught at the School of Design at North Carolina State College from 1957 to 1960. De Rivera married Lita Jeronimo in 1955.
In 1961 de Rivera was given a retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. One of his most notable works Infinity was commissioned by the Smithsonian Institution for the front of its newly built Museum of History and Technology in 1963.
José de Rivera died on March 19, 1985 in New York City.
Separated Material
The Archives of American Art also holds microfilm of material lent for microfilming (reel N70-32) including biographical material, correspondence, writings, drawings, printed material, and photographs. Loaned material was returned to the lender and are not described in the collection container inventory.
The collection was processed by Jean Fitzgerald in March 2011. Motion picture film reels were inspected and re-housed in 2017 with funding provided by the Smithsonian Collections Care and Preservation Fund.
Material lent for microfilming is available on 35mm microfilm reel N70-32 at the Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
Jean Fitzgerald
In 1970, José de Rivera loaned the Archives of Amrican Art material for microfilming. The artist and the Grace Borgenicht Gallery donated additional papers in 1982 and De Rivera's son, Joseph A. Ruiz II, gave more material in 1998.
José de Rivera papers, 1930-1991. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Use of original papers requires an appointment. Use of archival audiovisual recordings with no duplicate access copy requires advance notice.
Ownership and Literary Rights
The José de Rivera papers are owned by the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Literary rights as possessed by the donor have been dedicated to public use for research, study, and scholarship. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
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Images (132560)
Electronic resource (3239)
Archival materials (512566)
Photographs (199779)
Postcards (9773)
Manuscripts (documents) (2749)
Texts (1985)
Stereographs (1175)
Clippings (information artifacts) (1165)
Advertisements (894)
Motion pictures (visual work) (884)
Narrative cycles (480)
Music parts (449)
Reproductions (407)
Photocopies (398)
Sketches (355)
Short scores (338)
Video recordings (324)
Gardens (17093)
Rites and ceremonies (14934)
Animals (11290)
Cultural landscapes (10961)
Houses (5859)
Lawns (4951)
Shrubs (4912)
Portrait photography (4106)
Mountains (3642)
Mammals (3260)
Headdresses (3215)
Monuments (3116)
Garden borders (3053)
Boats and boating (2909)
Masks (2885)
Scurlock, Addison N. (79212)
Rice, Moses P. (79208)
Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.) (79208)
Custom Craft (79207)
Scurlock, George H. (Hardison) (79207)
Scurlock, Robert S. (Saunders) (79207)
Elisofon, Eliot (39956)
Underwood & Underwood (27281)
Garden Club of America (15185)
Drewal, Henry John (13576)
Drewal, Margaret Thompson (12323)
Larrabee, Constance Stuart (10202)
Pullman Palace Car Co. (8790)
Pullman-Standard (8758)
H.C. White Co. (8241)
National Museum of African Art (U.S.) (8094)
Ayer (N W) Incorporated. (8048)
Schiedt, Duncan P. (7154)
Herzfeld, Ernst (7067)
Desind, Herbert Stephen. (6837)
United Shoe Machinery Corporation (6231)
Yoruba (African people) (14075)
South Africans (3431)
Dogon (African people) (2888)
Bambara (African people) (1566)
Hausa (African people) (1426)
Kuba (African people) (1225)
Mangbetu (African people) (868)
Pende (African people) (733)
Lega (African people) (688)
Sotho (African people) (653)
Genya (African people) (621)
Mbuti (African people) (529)
Ashanti (African people) (513)
Bini (African people) (398)
Maasai (African people) (353)
Tuaregs (335)
Afrikaners (324)
San (African people) (320)
Fon (African people) (314)
Kenyans (306)
Swazi (African people) (304)
Senufo (African people) (302)
Bororo (African people) (293)
Akan (African people) (289)
Wodaabe (African people) (288)
United States of America (21944)
Congo (Democratic Republic) (19900)
Egypt (6122)
Washington (D.C.) (2811)
Ghana (2772)
Tanzania (1913)
Niger (1550)
Côte d'Ivoire (1498)
Ethiopia (1417)
Great Britain (1228)
Massachusetts (1215)
New York (State) (952)
Johannesburg (South Africa) (708)
Archives Center, National Museum of American History (260582)
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art (106834)
Archives of American Art (40708)
Archives of American Gardens (26621)
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives (10865)
National Museum of the American Indian (6236)
Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections (2969)
Anacostia Community Museum Archives (1934)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Research and Scholars Center (1696)
National Museum of African American History and Culture (555)
Human Studies Film Archives (335)
Smithsonian Libraries (139)
National Portrait Gallery (11)
Query: Photographs
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Archival materials (2788)
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Stereographs (25)
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Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox (54)
Rites and ceremonies (52)
Creek (Muskogee) (36)
Physical anthropology (30)
Ethnic relations (28)
Clothing and dress (27)
Excavations (Archaeology) (26)
Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton) (103)
Michelson, Truman (101)
Swanton, John Reed (71)
Mooney, James (57)
Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel) (46)
Holmes, William Henry (38)
Powell, John Wesley (32)
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology (29)
Curtin, Jeremiah (25)
Gibbs, George (24)
Jackson, William Henry (23)
Boas, Franz (20)
Cushing, Frank Hamilton (20)
National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Anthropology (20)
Smithsonian Institution (20)
Stevenson, Matilda Coxe (20)
Stirling, Matthew Williams (20)
Collins, Henry B. (Henry Bascom) (19)
Henshaw, Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee) (19)
Hrdlička, Aleš (19)
Fewkes, Jesse Walter (18)
Hough, Walter (18)
Stewart, T. D. (Thomas Dale) (17)
Hillers, John K. (14)
Frachtenberg, Leo Joachim (13)
Judd, Neil Merton (13)
Bushnell, David I., Jr. (David Ives) (12)
Iroquois Indians (118)
Fox Indians (105)
Ojibwa Indians (76)
Cherokee Indians (72)
Apache Indians (59)
Kiowa Indians (55)
Zuni Indians (53)
Creek Indians (51)
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Shoshoni Indians (44)
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Teton Indians (36)
Oglala Indians (35)
Seneca Indians (35)
Osage Indians (33)
Seminole Indians (33)
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art (26)
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Smithsonian Institution. Office of Computer Services
This accession consists of correspondence with domestic and foreign universities concerning the SELGEM computer system. The Office of Computing Services (OCS) files were maintained by S. A. Kovy, Director of OCS, and consist of correspondence, printouts, reading files, and reports.
Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
June 29-July 10, 2016
Smithsonian Institution, Office of the Secretary
This accession consists of the official records of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Ira Michael Heyman and includes reports, correspondence, subject files, and other materials. Listings in bold and capital letters indicate both the topic of folder contents and major subheadings from the Secretary's Office file plan.
Grant Records
Smithsonian Institution, Office of International Relations
These records include accepted Smithsonian Foreign Currency Program grant records, which document international funding requests for development in museum collections, scholarly research initiatives, and public programs. The material consists of correspondence, memoranda, and notes; grant applications; applicant proposals; financial reports; ...
Smithsonian Institution. Archives. Smithsonian Photographic Services
1927, 1957-2002, 2008
This accession consists of a variety of administrative records related to the operations and functions of SPS and includes records from when the office was known as the Office of Printing and Photographic Services (OPPS); the Office of Imaging, Printing, and Photographic Services (OIPPS); the Office of Imaging and Photographic Services (O...
Smithsonian Institution, Office of the Coordinator of Public Information
4.5 linear meters.
These records consist primarily of administrative files of Lawrence E. Taylor as Coordinator of Public Information, 1977-1984. Also included are copies of the minutes of the Board of Regents, 1977-1983.
Smithsonian Institution, Office of the Treasurer
This accession consists of records documenting the functions of the Office of the Treasurer as they relate to a variety of topics/subjects discussed or acted upon during the date span of the records.
Website Records
This accession consists of Twitter accounts maintained throughout the Smithsonian Institution (SI). Twitter is a third-party site used for public micro-blogging by SI staff. In addition to general SI-wide accounts, this accession includes accounts maintained by individual museums, research centers, and administrative and programmatic unit...
National Portrait Gallery, Office of the Registrar
5 cu. ft. (5 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
These records consist of the files created by the Office of the Registrar in the course of their work on fifteen exhibitions shown between 1982 and 1991, including "Peace and Friendship: Indian Peace Medals in the United States," on view from January through July 1985; "Charles Willson Peale and His World," November 1982 through January 1...
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Carleton E. Watkins photographs, 1861-1885, 55 results 55
Washington (State), 55 results 55
Skamania County (Wash.), 24 results 24
Fort Cascades, 2 results 2
Port Gamble, 1 results 1
Seattle (Wash.), 1 results 1
Dallesport, 1 results 1
Kitsap County (Wash.), 1 results 1
King County (Wash.), 1 results 1
Columbia River Gorge (Or. and Wash.), 47 results 47
Oregon Steam Navigation Company, 9 results 9
Rivers, 4 results 4
Mountains, 2 results 2
Steamboats, 2 results 2
Fortification, 2 results 2
Cascades (Or. and Wash.), 1 results 1
Schools, 1 results 1
Carleton E. Watkins photographs, 1861-1885 Washington (State) With digital objects
"Cape Horn, Columbia River" (Stereograph 1229)
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Part of Carleton E. Watkins photographs, 1861-1885
Stereograph of Cape Horn viewed from the west, 1867
Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Stereograph of Cape Horn viewed from the east at John Stevenson's property, 1867
"Nimrod, Columbia River" (Stereograph 1235)
Stereograph of Nimrod O'Kelly, Jr. on John Stevenson's property at Cape Horn, Skamania County, Washington Territory, 1867; Additional version: OrHi 76384
"In the Orchard, Columbia River" (Stereograph 1236)
Stereograph depicting John Stevenson in his orchard on his property at Cape Horn, Skamania County, Washington Territory, 1867
"Castle Rock, Columbia River" (Stereograph 1247)
Stereograph of Castle Rock (also known as Beacon Rock) and an Oregon Steam Navigation Co. steamship on the Columbia River, 1867
"A foggy morning in the Cascades, Columbia River, Oregon" (Stereograph 1250)
Stereograph of a foggy morning of near the Lower Cascades, Skamania County, Washington Territory, 1867
"Betsey Baker, Columbia River" (Stereograph 1251)
Stereograph of an Oregon Steam Navigation Co. employee standing on one of the company's Vulcan steam engines, the "Betsey Baker," at the Lower Cascades, Skamania County, Washington Territory, 1867
"J. S. Ruckle, Cascades, Columbia River" (Stereograph 1252)
Stereograph of the Oregon Steam Navigation Co. steam locomotive "J. S. Ruckle" at the Lower Cascades, Skamania County, Washington Territory, 1867
"S. G. Reed, Cascades, Columbia River" (Stereograph 1253)
Stereograph of the steam locomotive "S.G. Reed" at the Oregon Steam Navigation Co.'s station at the Lower Cascades, Washington Territory, 1867. Joseph Bailey, superintendent of the Oregon Steam Navigation Co.'s Oregon Portage Railroad and the company's sawmill at Eagle Creek, is sitting on top of the wood pile. ; Additional version: OrHi 76383
"Lower Cascades, Columbia River" (Stereograph 1255)
Stereograph of the Oregon Steam Navigation Co.'s railroad yard at the Lower Cascades, Skamania County, Washington Territory, 1867; Additional version: ba021091
"The Garrison, Cascades, Columbia River" (Stereograph 1257)
Stereograph of former army garrison at Fort Cascades, Skamania County, Washington Territory, 1867; Additional version: ba021096
"The Middle Block House, Cascades, Columbia River" (Stereograph 1260)
Stereograph of the Middle Block House, also known as Fort Rains, Skamania County, Washington Territory, 1867; Additional version: bb003927 and bb003804
"View on the Columbia River, Middle Block House, Cascades" (Stereograph 1264)
Stereograph of Oregon Steam Navigation Co.'s railroad tracks west of the Middle Block House (also known as Fort Rains) on the Columbia River, Skamania County, Washington Territory, 1867. Additional version: OrHi 38496
"The Upper Cascades, Columbia River, from the Block House" (Stereograph 1266)
Stereograph of the Oregon Steam Navigation Co.'s railroad tracks at the Upper Cascades, Skamania County, Washington Territory, looking west down the Columbia River from the Upper Block House (also known as Fort Lugenbeel), 1867
"Salmon Fishing in the Cascades, Columbia River" (Stereograph 1267)
Stereograph of Indian man salmon fishing at the rapids of the Columbia River near the Upper Cascades, Skamania County, Washington Territory, 1867
"Steamer Oneonta, Upper Cascades, Columbia River" (Stereograph 1269)
Stereograph of the Oregon Steam Navigation Co.'s steamship "Oneonta" on the Columbia River near the Upper Cascades in Skamania County, Washington Territory, 1867
"Upper Cascades, Columbia River" (Stereograph 1270)
Stereograph of Oregon Steam Navigation Co. steam locomotive heading west out of the Upper Cascades, Skamania County, Washington Territory, 1867
"Islands in the Columbia, from the Upper Cascades" (Stereograph 1272)
Stereograph of islands in the Columbia River, south of the Upper Cascades, Skamania County, Washington Territory, 1867
Stereograph of islands in the Columbia River near the Upper Cascades, Skamania County, Washington, 1867; Additional version: ba021101
Stereograph of the Oregon Steam Navigation Co.'s steamship "Oneonta" on the Columbia River, 1867. The Upper Cascades in Skamania County, Washington Territory is in the background. Additional version: OrHi 11854
"View on the Columbia River, from the O. R. R., Cascades" (Stereograph 1281)
Stereograph view of Columbia River looking east from the Oregon side toward the Middle Block House (also known as Fort Rains) on the Washington Territory side, 1867
"A Country School at the Garrison, Cascades, Columbia River" (Stereograph 1335)
Stereograph of teachers and children at the school at the former garrison building at Fort Cascades, Cascades, Skamania County, Washington Territory, 1867; Additional version: ba021093
Stereograph of Castle Rock (also known as Beacon Rock), Washington Territory, 1867
"Residence of John Stephenson, Esq., Columbia River" (Stereograph 1234)
Stereograph of John Stevenson and Nimrod O'Kelly standing at the door to John Stevenson's house at Cape Horn, Skamania County, Washington Territory, 1867. Stevenson's name is misspelled "Stephenson" in the title that Watkins gave to this photograph.
"Lone Rock, Columbia River" (Stereograph 1233)
Stereograph of John Stevenson's house at Cape Horn, Skamania County, Washington Territory, showing the Columbia River Gorge to the south, 1867
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Kaio Almeida Joins Pereira, Borges as 4-Time Olympians
2016 MARIA LENK TROPHY OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS Friday, April 15th – Wednesday, April 20th Olympic Aquatics Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil... Current photo via Satiro Sodre/SS Press
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2016 MARIA LENK TROPHY OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS
Friday, April 15th – Wednesday, April 20th
Olympic Aquatics Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Prelims 9:30am local/8:30am EDT; Finals 5:30pm local/4:30pm EDT
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Maria Lenk Start List
Meet Schedule
Real-Time Results
Full day 3 recap here
Olympic qualifiers after 3 days
Brazil’s Kaio Almeida doesn’t own the same Olympic hardware as his countrymates Thiago Pereira and Gustavo Borges. In fact, the short course specialist Almeida doesn’t have a medal from either the Olympics or the long course World Championships.
What he does share in common with them, however, is that after the 200 fly final on Sunday evening in Rio, he has qualified for a 4th Olympic Games – matching his aforementioned compatriots as Brazilian swimmers to have done so. They trail only Rogerio Romero, who competed in 5 Olympic Games from 1988-2004.
Swimming out of the center lane in the men’s 200 fly final at the 2016 Maria Lenk Trophy, Almeida placed 2nd in the 200 fly in 1:56.21, which was under the 1:56.97 FINA “A” standard, and despite placing 2nd to Leonardo de Deus, Almeida’s time was enough to place him on the Olympic squad that will be back in this same pool in August chasing Olympic hardware.
For the 31-year old Almeida, who was formerly a World Record holder in the 50 and 200 fly in short course, this is a spot in history that is a worthy mention for a swimmer who’s been so good in the 25 meter pool but has been unable to break through over the longer course.
Pereira, whose 4th Olympics will also be in August in front of a home crowd, is the defending Olympic silver medalist in the 400 IM. Borges, the second-most-decorated Brazilian Olympian in any sport, owns 2 silver and 2 bronze medals while competing from the 1992 through the 2004 Olympics.
Almeida’s Olympic history:
2004: 100 fly, 53.22, 17th
2004: 200 fly, 1:59.23, 19th
2008: 200 fly, 1:54.71, 7th
2012: 200 fly, 1:56.99, t-17th
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Talking Feather
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Native Book Awards for Young Adults
O’siyo. In the past we’ve posted about children’s literature. Now it’s time to review Native books in the young adult category. Here are some great reads selected for The American Indian Youth Literature Awards for 2014.
Excerpt: Sci-Fi, Mysticism and Tragedy Indian Youth Literature Awards…ICTMN
“Mysticism, science fiction and tragedy mark the 2014 American Indian Youth Literature Awards from the American Indian Library Association, with Tomson Highway, Joseph Bruchac and Tim Tingle all winning honors this year. The American Indian Youth Literature Awards, presented every other year, seek “to identify and honor the very best writing and illustrations by and about American Indians,” the library association said in a media release. “Books selected to receive the award will present American Indians in the fullness of their humanity in the present and past contexts.”
The beautiful Award medallion Seal designed by Corwin Clairmont (Salish) Beaded by Linda King (Salish). Flickr- htomren.
Caribou Song by Tomson Highway and illustrated by John Rombough.
Caribou Song, Atihko Oonagamoon, written by Tomson Highway and illustrated by John Rombough (Fifth House, 2012) won for best picture book;
“Joe and Cody are young Cree brothers who follow the caribou all year long, tucked into their dog sled with Mama and Papa. To entice the wandering caribou, Joe plays his accordion and Cody dances. They are so involved with their dancing and music that they don’t hear the roaring of the approaching herd of caribou. Bursting upon the boys, ten thousand animals fill the meadow. Joe is surrounded and can barely see Cody a short distance away. And neither of the boys can see their parents. And yet what should be a moment of terror turns into something mystical and magical, as the boys open their arms and their hearts to embrace the caribou spirit.”
How I Became a Ghost- A Choctaw Trail of Tears Story by Tim Tingle.
Tim Tingle’s How I Became a Ghost: A Choctaw Trail of Tears Story
(The Roadrunner Press, 2013) won in the Middle School category, and Bruchac’s graphic novel Killer of Enemies (Tu Books, 2013) received the Young Adult award.
“How I Became a Ghost is a tragic tale that gives life to Choctaw walking the Trail of Tears, and then takes it away. Its protagonist is Isaac, a Choctaw boy who does not survive the long walk.”
Danny Blackgoat, Navajo Prisoner by Tim Tingle.
Danny Blackgoat, Navajo Prisoner, also by Tingle (7th Generation, 2013) was noted in the Middle School category.
“Danny Blackgoat is a teenager in Navajo country when soldiers burn down his home, kill his sheep and capture his family. During the Long Walk of 1864, Danny is labeled a troublemaker and given the name Fire Eye. Refusing to accept captivity, he is sent to Fort Davis, Texas, a Civil War prisoner outpost. There he battles bullying fellow prisoners, rattlesnakes and abusive soldiers until he meets Jim Davis. Jim teaches Danny how to hold his anger and starts him on the road to literacy. In a stunning climax, Jim–who builds coffins for the dead–aids Danny in a daring and dangerous escape. Set in troubled times, “Danny Blackgoat” is the story of one boy’s hunger to be free “and” be Navajo.” Goodreads.
If I Ever Get Out of Here, by Eric Gansworth.
If I Ever Get Out of Here, by Eric Gansworth (Arthur A. Levin Books, 2013), was highlighted in the Young Adult category.
“Lewis “Shoe” Blake is used to the joys and difficulties of life on the Tuscarora Indian reservation in 1975: the joking, the Fireball games, the snow blowing through his roof. What he’s not used to is white people being nice to him — people like George Haddonfield, whose family recently moved to town with the Air Force. As the boys connect through their mutual passion for music, especially the Beatles, Lewis has to lie more and more to hide the reality of his family’s poverty from George. He also has to deal with the vicious Evan Reininger, who makes Lewis the special target of his wrath. But when everyone else is on Evan’s side, how can he be defeated? And if George finds out the truth about Lewis’s home — will he still be his friend?” Goodreads.
Killer of Enemies by Joseph Bruchac
“Killer of Enemies is a graphic sci-fi novel set in a future in which technology has stopped working, plunging the world back into a new steam age. A 17-year-old girl, Lozen, finds herself a hero.”
Kudos to the gifted writers, the American Indian Library Association, and to all of the wonderful people who support and encourage reading.
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” ~Charles William Eliot~
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The REAL story behind the 104-Year-Old who joined Twitter
Mike Butcher @mikebutcher / 11 years
Dear reader, TechCrunch owes you an apology. We thought the “104-Year-Old joins Twitter” story last week was Digg bait created by the media. It turns out it was all just old fashioned re-hashed PR. But at least we are apologising – unlike the many news outlets that ran with this manufactured story.
To explain…
On May 15 two UK newspapers ran the story about 104 year old woman “Ivy Bean” / @ivybean104 joining Twitter. Both The Daily Telegraph and The Sun ran with the story, which was followed up and “celebrated” by The Next Web blog.
What none of these stories told you, however, was that poor old Ivy had not joined Twitter just because it was suddenly the talk of the old peoples home. No. She joined because home PC maintenance company Geek Squad signed her up, propped her up for a photo opportunity and press-released the hell out of it. And frankly I hope they paid her, or at least donated to her favourite charity because this is one of the most self-serving, cynical PR stunts I can remember.
And to prove it, here’s the pictures all the news outlets ran (when they all have the same picture, it’s a sure sign it’s a press release). Is that a Geek Squad guy just behind her head?:
And here’s the incriminating Twitpic, clearly taken by Geek Squad of their man Martin Dix, hovering behind Ivy, having just signed her in to Twitter and presumably explained the service. (Dix also blogs for Geek Squad). It was even taken on Ivy’s own Twitpic account and frankly I seriously doubt she knew what was going on.
Note also that her first ever Tweet is clearly related to the PR shenanigans going on around her:
“I’m enjoying Twitter for the first time and having my photo taken.”
Now, she Tweeted that Tweet at “10:02 AM May 14th from web”. That’s important, because this was only one day before the story went live on the Sun, and Telegraph site at 8:20am May 15. In other words, cynical Geek Squad had already targeted Ivy as being the oldest person they could find and convince to go on Twitter. The fact it was a day before the story went live speaks volumes.
Ivy also Tweeted:
“I’m on Twitter! Come and follow my feed at IvyBean104.”
Since when did a 104 year old suddenly start using words like “feed”?
In fact, only The Sun newspaper actually indicated that this might all be PR-nonsense cooked up by Geek Squad, referring to its “Silver Surfers’ Day” campaign to “encourage more elderly people to get online”. Classic PR-guff.
However, TechCrunch’s (and here’s our apology) MG Seigler decided this whole thing was a ruse to get The Telegraph onto Digg. And admittedly, The Telegraph has been gaining a reputation for using Digg quite substantially lately. It gets a lot of traffic from social sites, and the UK press has a sneaking suspicion Tele sub editors have all taken courses in headline writing for Digg.
However, we’re happy to point out that the story wasn’t just cooked up by the Telegraph to get onto Digg – but lots of journalists and bloggers fell for Geek Squad’s PR.
Compounding the issue however is The Next Web which seems to think TechCrunch’s non-scoop was itself an attempt to get on Digg – and predictibly did a post on it in a slightly bizarre tirade. Clearly, The Next Web did not realise it was a Geek Squad press release the first time round and still hasn’t. They sign off their story with “This is clearly not a completely fabricated story.” Instead it attacks TechCrunch for not celebrating the fact a 104 year old is on Twitter, a story which “made people smile”.
Come again? Since when were independent bloggers supposed to just celebrate things – instead of getting the facts right?
My view is that WHERE stories come from is at least as important as what they are about. I hope we can all learn from this episode. In the race to feverishly post about Twitter, sometimes the facts are starting to get lost in the hype.
Oh, and to complete this ridiculous circle, feel free to Digg this post.
Update: As commenters below point out, Ivy was two years ago signed up to Facebook by her care home to be the “oldest person on Facebook”, presumably after they were incensed that a 97-year old French youngster had laid claim to the title. I look forward to the day Ivy is signed up by Digg as their “oldest user” and to her actually getting something out of being used in this way, simply because of her age.
Update II: A few people have inferred that I think @ivybean104 is actually fake – that she’s not tweeting herself. Frankly unless someone videos her doing it it’s going to be hard to absolutely verify, though her Tweetstream (e.g. “just had my tea now its a game of dominos with my friends”) looks plausible. What is slightly odd however is the fact she is following 94 people, many of whom, like @barclayjen in Columbia, SC, (Geek Squad was the first account she followed btw) she is unlikely to know personally. Unless 104 year olds are a lot more socially networked than I previously thought…
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Xiaomi Himo H1: The A3-sized Electric Bike
Xiaomi Himo H1
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Xiaomi has products in many different fields through its subsidiaries. Himo is one of them and stands out right away for its electric bikes. The new product of this company is called Himo H1 and is, in fact, the most portable bicycle in the world. In fact, it can be folded to a compact size no larger than an A3 sheet. At the weight level count on 13kg. All this for about 700 Euros.
When you buy this bike you get the vehicle, an instruction manual, charger, carrying case and other accessories. Please note that this electric bike comes fully assembled. All you have to do is unfold, upload and use. To understand how it can be the size of an A3 sheet, the entire frame is foldable, including the steering wheel.
Speaking of the steering wheel, it has a non-slip pad that is soft. However, it is possible to adjust the height to best suit the driver. This steering wheel also houses an instrument panel containing the headlight switch, an error warning, the driving speed, and the power switch.
Meanwhile, the Himo H1 folding electric bike adopts a rear-wheel-drive design. It uses a 180W DC brushless low-speed motor with a rated voltage of 36V. Also noteworthy are the retractable pedals, located next to the front tires. They work only for the footrest while on the move.
However powering this vehicle is a removable lithium-ion battery, which is located under the seat cushion. The battery can be easily removed for charging. It is compact and weighs only 1.8 kg. The maximum battery capacity is 6000mAh and requires only 5 hours to charge full capacity. The battery supports up to 500 charge cycles with 2-year service life. However, the top speed the bike reaches is 18 km / h, which is quite fast for such a small device. It also comes with a range of 30 km.
The Himo H1 can be purchased for about 700 euros here.
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Written by Lovejeet• August 13, 2015• 6:38 pm• Android, iOS
Camfind turns your Phone into a Visual Search Engine
Android powered smartphones have come very close to replace our desktops. The mobile operating system has turned our phones into much more than a device that is used to make and receive calls. Thanks to the fast paced improvement in mobile hardware, our phones are now capable of running 3D games. Something like this was just a dream down 10 years from today, but we have finally achieved this and many more things in the recent years.
At the moment we rely very much on Google for finding information about anything on this planet and beyond. In the present scenario, a majority of our searches on the internet are performed via text based queries, but in the future this might be completely different. Google has introduced an image search engine to help people search the internet based on images. While Google’s image search engine has been there for years, but it still has a small user base. The adoption of image search has been slow due to very less awareness about it. But in the the feature, when everything gets digital, it might be able to garner more interest.
Camfind
If you are interested in image search, you should take a look at an app called Camfind. Developed by Image searcher, Camfind is an visual search engine for Android and iOS phones that can help you to identify almost any object by just taking a photograph of it.
Well it’s hard to believe that an app is capable of doing something like this, but it is in fact much more powerful than all the image search engines and apps available right now. When most other image search engines provided roughly vague information about an object in a photograph, Camfind on the other hand was able to identify the object and even the manufacturer. In some cases it wasn’t able to identify the manufacturer of few objects but it was correctly able to identify what the object was.
Its astonishing that camfind brings Google’s own Goggles app to shame when it comes to identifying objects in a photograph. I can’t stop praising the app, but its upto you to install the app on your phone and try it for yourself to believe what it is capable of.
Apart from identifying objects in an photograph it can also help you to search for the product on the internet and if the object is on sale online, the app will provide you price comparisons for the products from online shopping sites. Here’s a list of features for Camfind.
Internet Search Results
Related/Similar Images
Price Comparisons and Online Shopping
Related Places and Address Finder
Film Poster/DVD Recognition
Instant sharing to Facebook, Twitter, Email, and Text
Camfind is available for both Android and iOS smartphones. Using it is very easy, just click an photo of any object using the app and within a few seconds the app will identify the object and also search for the object on the internet. If the product is available for sale on the internet, the app will provide a price comparison for it from major online shops.
Here are a result comparison between Camfind and the Google Goggles app. The images on the left are begin identified with the Google Goggles app and the images on the right with the Camfind app.
Identifying the Playstation 4’s Dualshock 4 Controller.
Identifying the Western Digital My Passport ultra portable Hard Drive.
Identifying a Pen.
Identifying a Dlink 3G WiFi Dongle.
As you can Google’s goggles app pathetically fails in identifying all the three objects. But the Camfind apps successfully identifies the objects even when there’s no mention of the prodcts name.
Download Camfind
You can download Camfind from the links provided below.
Download Camfind for Android
Download Camfind for iOS
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About Contract Surety
A surety bond is a written agreement where one party, the surety, obligates itself to a second party, the obligee, to answer for the default of a third party, the principal.
Contract Surety Bonds provide financial security and construction assurance on building and construction projects by assuring the project owner (obligee) that the contractor (principal) is qualified to perform the work and will pay certain subcontractors, laborers, and material suppliers.
Contract surety bonds include:
bid bonds, which provide financial assurance that the bid has been submitted in good faith, and that the contractor intends to enter into the contract at the price bid and provide the required performance and payment bonds.
performance bonds, which protect the owner from financial loss should the contractor fail to perform the contract in accordance with its terms and conditions.
payment bonds, which guarantee that the contractor will pay certain subcontractors, laborers, and material suppliers associated with the project.
maintenance bonds, which normally guarantee against defective workmanship or materials for a specified period.
subdivision bonds, which guarantee to a city, county, or state that the principal will finance and construct certain improvements such as street, sidewalks, curbs, gutters, sewer, and drainage system
How are surety bonds obtained?
Surety bonds are issued through surety bond producers, also known as agents and brokers, who are knowledgeable about the surety and construction industries. Surety bond producers usually work in agencies that specialize in surety bonds or in insurance agencies that have a sub-specialty in surety bonds.
The professional surety bond producer usually maintains a business relationship with several surety companies, which enables the producer to match a contractor with an appropriate surety company. A good surety company and surety bond producer will help a contractor maintain and increase its surety capacity. Names of producers specializing in surety bonds can be obtained from the National Association of Surety Bond Producers (NASBP). NASBP members adhere to professional standards that demonstrate professionalism, expertise, and innovation in surety bonding.
NASBP is the international organization of professional surety bond producers and brokers. NASBP represents over 5,000 personnel who specialize in surety bonding, provide performance and payment bonds for the construction industry, and issue other types of surety bonds for guaranteeing performance, such as license and permit bonds. NASBP’s mission is to strengthen professionalism, expertise, and innovation in surety and to advocate its use worldwide.
What is a surety company?
Most large property and casualty insurance companies have surety departments. In addition, there are some companies for which surety bonds make up all or most of their business. In either case, in order for a company to write a surety bond in the United States, it must be licensed by the insurance department of one or more states. Although there are some exceptions, generally a surety company must be licensed by the state in which it is doing business or by the state where the obligation guaranteed by the bond is being performed.
Surety companies are represented by The Surety & Fidelity Association of America (SFAA), a District of Columbia non-profit corporation whose members are engaged in the business of suretyship. Member companies collectively write the majority of surety and fidelity bonds in the United States. SFAA is licensed as a rating or advisory organization in all states, as well as in the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, and it has been designated by all state insurance departments except Texas as a statistical agent for the reporting of fidelity and surety experience. SFAA represents its member companies in matters of common interest before various federal, state and local government agencies.
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