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Mother Jones guest blogger Mark Armstrong is the founder of Longreads, a site devoted to uncovering the best long-form nonfiction articles available online. And what better time to curl up with a great read than over the weekend? Below, a hand-picked bouquet of five interesting stories, including word count and approximate reading time. (Readers can also subscribe to The Top 5 Longreads of the Week by clicking here.)
1. My Ex-Gay Friend | Benoit Denizet-Lewis | New York Times Magazine | June 16, 2011 | 14 minutes (3,585 words)
The writer visits his old friend, a onetime leader in the gay community who renounced his former life and now lives as a straight Christian man in Wyoming:
“He looked the same as I remembered — tall, lean, blond, boyish and handsome in a Nordic ski instructor kind of way. I was nervous, but as he approached I decided to lean in for a hug. Michael, though, pre-emptively stuck out his right hand. ‘Hello, Benoit,’ he said, standing stiff and upright, clutching what I could now see was a Bible.
“Though Michael had agreed to let me visit and write about him, he was skeptical about my motivations. ‘Why are you here?’ he asked minutes after we sat down in the cafe, which was decorated with Christmas lights and staffed by a young waiter attending the Bible school.
“It was a good question. Had part of me come to ‘save’ my old friend from the clutches of the Christian right? Though I don’t doubt that sexual attraction can evolve, I was skeptical of Michael’s claim of heterosexuality — and I rejected his argument that ‘homosexuality prevents us from finding our true self within.'”
More Denizet-Lewis: “Coming Out in Middle School” (September 2009)
Books by Denizet-Lewis (Amazon)
2. The Brain on Trial | David Eagleman | The Atlantic | June 15, 2011 | 27 minutes (6,992 words)
The more we understand how the brain works—and how changes to its chemistry can cause people to commit horrible acts—the murkier things might get when trying and convicting criminals:
“The crux of the problem is that it no longer makes sense to ask, ‘To what extent was it his biology, and to what extent was it him?,’ because we now understand that there is no meaningful distinction between a person’s biology and his decision-making. They are inseparable.
“While our current style of punishment rests on a bedrock of personal volition and blame, our modern understanding of the brain suggests a different approach. Blameworthiness should be removed from the legal argot. It is a backward-looking concept that demands the impossible task of untangling the hopelessly complex web of genetics and environment that constructs the trajectory of a human life.
“Instead of debating culpability, we should focus on what to do, moving forward, with an accused lawbreaker. I suggest that the legal system has to become forward-looking, primarily because it can no longer hope to do otherwise.”
Eagleman, profiled: “The Possibilian” (Birkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, April 2011)
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3. Life After Zionist Summer Camp | Allison Benedikt | The Awl | June 14, 2011 | 14 minutes (3,624 words)
A journey tracing the writer’s changing beliefs (and the people who influenced them)—from youth summer camp with other Jewish kids in Wisconsin, to adulthood with a husband who’s not Jewish and combative with her family:
“I do well on my LSATs but have not actually applied to law school, so clearly I am not becoming a lawyer. Through sheer force of will and also nepotism, I get a magazine job. I start flirting with John, one of the few staffers who isn’t Jewish (after flirting with another of the few). He flirts back! My sister visits New York and I blow off a Shabbat dinner in her honor and instead get drinks with John. This time it lasts.
“John fills my head with allllllllllllll kinds of bullshit. Stuff about the Israelis being occupiers, about Israel not being a real democracy, about the dangers of ethnic nationalism—a term I really hadn’t heard applied to Israel before. (Okay, fine, I hadn’t heard it at all.) My parents worry that I’m being brainwashed. We get in huge fights on the same topic over and over again and have terribly awkward dinners where John insists on bringing up Israel and pissing off my Mom. I act as moderator and it is the worst. John buys every book about Israel that’s ever been published, and then reads them all so he can win any argument with my family. What he doesn’t realize is that my parents don’t do facts on this issue. They do feelings. Israel is who they are. Gradually, and then also all of a sudden, it’s no longer who I am—and I am angry.”
More from The Awl: “Gordon Likes to Think He is the Most Underrated of All Mythical Heroes” (Paul Hiebert, Dec. 2010)
4. Maltreated and Hazed, a Soldier Is Driven to Take His Own Life | Megan McCloskey | Stars and Stripes | June 7, 2011 | 16 minutes (4,232 words)
An Army investigation into the hazing of Army Spc. Brushaun Anderson concluded that he was subjected to “cruel, abusive and oppressive treatment” before he committed suicide New Year’s Day 2010. But his commanding officers remain in leadership positions:
“The colonel recommended that they all get General Officer Memorandums of Reprimand, a form of administrative action that would likely keep them from being promoted to the next rank. He also recommended Bruckner and Devos be relieved of duty for cause, and they were reassigned to different positions within the battalion while the unit was still deployed to Iraq.
“But the memos of reprimand didn’t stick for Fisher and Amaral. Although the reprimand was ordered by Maj. Gen. Terry Wolff, the battalion commander worked to get the men off the hook. Lt. Col. Heyward Hutson said he went to bat for Fisher and Amaral because he ‘didn’t think they were culpable enough to end their careers over it.’
“The memos of reprimand were downgraded to more minor letters of concern and weren’t filed in their permanent records. Since they have each moved on to new assignments, their records are unblemished, and both can move up the chain of command without anyone knowing about their misconduct.”
See also: “The Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Wellbutrin, Celexa, Effexor, Valium, Klonopin, Ativan, Restoril, Xanax, Adderall, Ritalin, Haldol, Risperdal, Seroquel, Ambien, Lunesta, Elavil, Trazodone War” (Jennifer Senior, New York Magazine, Feb. 2011)
5. The Kingdom and the Power of David Carr | Tom McGeveran | Capital New York | June 17, 2011 | 27 minutes (6,882 words)
An examination of Carr’s work, his personality and his true role at The New York Times, coinciding with the release of the new documentary Page One:
“In his memoir, Night of the Gun, in which Carr reports out through secondary sources the period in his life when he was under the influence of drugs, he talks about his current status in the universe: “I now inhabit a life I don’t deserve, but we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn’t end any time soon.”
“This is one version of David Carr, which he endorses: a veteran of the alternative newsweekly scene, and the media-focused Web 1.0 craze; a former crack addict and single father on welfare who has written a memoir all about it without sparing himself, who tweets with abandon, moves comfortably among the paper’s enemies at dinners, parties and media events; a journeyman reporter who is content to have the ear of the executive editor and the cub reporters alike on an informal basis, grateful as he is to have the job he has.
“It’s not wrong, but it’s not complete. It doesn’t begin to hint at his influence, and the way in which he projects the power of his institution. I don’t think it’s too much to suggest that to the industry, David Carr is the battle-hardened face of The New York Times, that kind of zealous convert every clerical magisterium (and the top of the Times masthead is a sort of Vatican) wishes for but could never intentionally create. He is its most important champion.”
More on Carr: “Me and My Girls” (Carr, New York Times, July 2008)
Featured Longreader: Jim Kelly
Jim is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair
“As cranks go, Joseph Epstein is unsparing and amusing, and both traits are on display in his review of the latest book by Stanley Fish, no mean crank himself. The review is a takedown of the first order, though I believe the book is better than Epstein says it is. The real subject of the piece is what makes a good writer, and on that front Epstein’s advice is pithy, subtle and delicious.”
Heavy Sentences Joseph Epstein | The New Criterion | June 2011 | 14 minutes (3,424 words)
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'Bringing up Bates' Star Josie Bates Is Pregnant 5 Months After Suffering Miscarriage
By Victoria Moghaddami - January 5, 2021 03:39 pm EST
Josie Bates and husband Kelton Balka are expecting their second child together and could not be more thrilled. Sadly, the two experienced a miscarriage last year following the birth of their daughter Willow Kristy, which naturally brought on a lot of heartache and tears. However, they are so excited to be a family of four now.
"OH BABY," she started her lengthy, exciting post. "Our hearts are filled with gratitude, and we couldn't feel more blessed and more in love with the thought of being parents again! 2020 was a difficult year for everyone, and it was especially difficult for our little family after suffering a heartbreaking miscarriage." In the photos, Bates showed she and Balka kissing in the first photo, while confetti was falling while Balka holds the ultrasound photos. There's also silver balloons hanging on the wall that spell out "Oh Baby."
A post shared by Josie (Bates) Balka (@josie_balka)
"It seemed to be a tumultuous and trying year for all, but our faith in God is ultimately our source of comfort and joy, gave us hope that brighter days are ahead. We couldn't be more excited to share that we have our rainbow due in June! Though there are still fears, concerns, and uncertainties, we are taking extra precautions and praying diligently for the safety of our little one." She ended with, "So far, we are all healthy and Baby is developing perfectly. We are overjoyed to end 2020 with such happy news and are beyond thrilled to become a family of four early summer!"
Several fans took to the comment section to congratulate the sweet pair with one writing, "SOOO EXCITED!!!! So, so happy for you guys!! love y'all!!!" while someone else said, "Soooooooo over the top excited!!!!!!! We can hardly wait!!!!" Several others couldn't contain their excitement either, with one of her other followers posting, "YAYYY!!! How wonderful. Congratulations. Will be praying for you & your little one!" while another echoed, "OH MY GOODNESS!!!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!! SOOOOOOO HAPPY FOR YOU!!!!!!!!"
In September, Bates told her followers that she had suffered a miscarriage, relaying to fans how heartbroken the couple was after being so thrilled to be pregnant again. In a lengthy caption, she said, "Sometimes you have to walk through experiences you never thought you would have to," adding that they were "filled with anticipation." However, after a visit to the doctor, they received the news that no parent wants, but have found a way to stay positive through it all.
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World Cup in Guatemala City from April 20-26 canceled.
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World half marathon championships in Gdynia, Poland on March 29 postponed to Oct. 17.
World race walking team championships in Minsk, Belarus from May 2-3 canceled.
Hong Kong Marathon on Feb. 9 canceled.
Asian indoor championships in Hangzhou from Feb. 12-13 canceled.
Tokyo Marathon on March 1, restricted to elite runners.
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Rome Half Marathon on March 8 canceled.
New Taipei City Marathon in Taiwan on March 15 canceled.
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New York Half Marathon on March 15 canceled.
Queensland Track Classic in Brisbane on March 20 postponed.
Australian championships in Sydney from March 21-29 canceled.
Seoul Marathon on March 22 canceled.
Chongqing International Marathon in China on March 22 canceled.
Wuxi Marathon in China on March 22 canceled.
Mersin Marathon in Turkey on March 22 postponed.
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Rome Marathon on March 29 canceled.
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Asian cross-country championships in Hong Kong on March 29 postponed.
Grenada International Invitational in St. George on April 4 postponed.
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Paris Marathon on April 5 postponed to Oct. 18.
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Rotterdam Marathon in the Netherlands on April 5 postponed.
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Two Oceans Marathon in Cape Town, South Africa on April 11 canceled.
Wuhan Marathon in China on April 12 canceled.
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Yangzhou Jianzhen International Half Marathon in China on April 12 postponed.
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Boston Marathon on April 20 postponed to Sept. 14.
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Warsaw Half Marathon on May 23 postponed.
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Stockholm Diamond League in Sweden on May 24 postponed.
Edinburgh Marathon on May 24 postponed.
Ottawa Marathon in Canada on May 24 canceled.
Gala dei Castelli in Bellinzona, Switzerland on May 25 postponed.
Naples Diamond League (Golden Gala Pietro Mennea) on May 28 postponed.
Trond Mohn Games in Bergen, Norway on May 30 canceled.
Hypo Meeting in Götzis, Austria from May 30-31 canceled.
Dalian International Marathon in China on May 31 postponed.
Rabat Diamond League (Mohammed VI International) in Morocco on May 31 postponed.
Pfingstsportfest International in Rehlingen, Germany on May 31 canceled.
Venizeleia in Chania, Greece on May 31 canceled.
FBK Games in Hengelo, Netherlands on June 1 canceled.
Challenge Cup in Niigata, Japan on June 5 postponed.
Aliann Pompey Invitational in Georgetown, Guyana on June 6 postponed.
Paavo Nurmi Games in Turku, Finland on June 9 postponed to Aug. 11.
Iberoamericano Meeting in Huelva, Spain on June 10 canceled.
Racers Grand Prix in Kingston, Jamaica on June 13 postponed.
United States Olympic trials in Eugene, Oregon from June 19-28 postponed.
British championships in Manchester from June 20-21 postponed to Aug. 8-9.
Jilin City International Marathon in China on June 21 postponed.
10KM de Port-Gentil in Gabon on June 21 postponed.
African championships in Algiers, Algeria from June 24-28 postponed.
Canadian Olympic trials in Montreal from June 25-28 postponed to June 24-27, 2021.
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Formula One: Vietnam Grand Prix in Hanoi on April 5 postponed.
Formula One: Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai on April 19 postponed.
Formula One: Dutch Grand Prix in Zandvoort on May 3 postponed.
Formula One: Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona on May 10 postponed.
Formula One: Monaco Grand Prix in Monte Carlo on May 24 canceled.
Formula One: Azerbaijan Grand Prix in Baku on June 7 postponed.
Formula One: Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal on June 14 postponed.
IndyCar: St. Petersburg Grand Prix in Florida on March 15 canceled.
IndyCar: Alabama Grand Prix in Birmingham on April 5 canceled.
IndyCar: Long Beach Grand Prix in California on April 19 canceled.
IndyCar: Austin Challenge in Texas on April 26 canceled.
IndyCar: Indianapolis 500 on May 24 postponed to Aug. 23.
IndyCar: Detroit Grand Prix on May 30-31 canceled.
IndyCar: Honda Indy 200 in Lexington, Ohio on Aug. 16 rescheduled to Aug. 9.
IndyCar: St. Louis 500 on Aug. 22 rescheduled to Aug. 30.
WRC: Rally Mexico in León from March 12-15, shortened by one day.
WRC: Rally Argentina in Villa Carlos Paz from April 23-26 postponed.
WRC: Rally Portugal in Matosinhos from May 21-24 postponed.
WRC: Rally Italy in Sardinia from June 4-7 postponed.
12 Hours of Sebring in Florida on March 21-22 postponed to Nov. 11-14.
24 Hours of Le Mans in France on June 13-14 postponed to Sept. 19-20.
NASCAR: Atlanta 500 on March 15 canceled.
NASCAR: Miami 400 on March 22 canceled.
NASCAR: Texas 500 in Fort Worth on March 29 postponed.
NASCAR: Bristol 500 in Tennessee on April 5 postponed.
NASCAR: Richmond 400 in Virginia on April 19 postponed.
NASCAR: Talladega 500 in Alabama on April 26 postponed.
NASCAR: Dover Race in Delaware on May 3 postponed.
Rally: Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge in the United Arab Emirates from March 20-26 postponed.
Rally: Merzouga Rally in Morocco from May 25-29 canceled.
Rally: Silky Way Rally stages in China and Kazakhstan canceled; in Russia from July 3-11.
Formula E: Sanya E-Prix in Japan on March 21 canceled.
Formula E: Rome E-Prix on April 4 canceled.
Formula E: Paris E-Prix on April 18 canceled.
Formula E: Seoul E-Prix on May 3 canceled.
Formula E: Jakarta E-Prix on June 6 canceled.
China Masters in Hainan from Feb. 25-March 1 postponed.
Asian team championships in Manila from Feb. 11-16: China and Hong Kong withdrew.
German Open in Mulheim from March 3-8 canceled.
Portuguese International Championships in Caldas da Rainha from March 5-8 canceled.
Swiss Open in Basel from March 17-22 suspended.
North Harbour International in Auckland, New Zealand from March 19-22 canceled.
India Open in New Delhi from March 24-29 suspended.
Orleans Masters in France from March 24-29 canceled.
Vietnam International Challenge in Hanoi postponed from March 24-29 to June 2-7.
Waikato International in New Zealand from March 26-29 canceled.
Polish Open in Krakow from March 26-29 canceled.
Malaysia Open in Kuala Lumpur from March 31-April 5 suspended.
Canadian International Challenge in Fort McMurray from March 31-April 5 suspended.
Osaka International Challenge in Moriguchi from April 1-5 suspended.
Finnish Open in Vantaa from April 2-5 suspended.
Singapore Open from April 7-12 suspended.
Dutch International in Wateringen from April 8-11 postponed.
Croatian International in Zagreb from April 16-19 suspended.
Peru International in Lima from April 16-19 suspended.
Asia championships moved from Wuhan, China to Manila on April 21-26 suspended.
European championships in Kyiv, Ukraine from April 21-26 suspended.
Pan American individual championships in Lima, Peru from April 23-26 suspended.
New Zealand Open in Auckland from April 28-May 3 suspended.
Denmark Challenge in Farum from May 7-10 suspended.
Slovenia International in Medvode from May 13-16 suspended.
Thomas and Uber Cup Finals in Aarhus, Denmark from May 16-24 postponed to Aug. 15-23.
Mongolia International Challenge in Ulanbataar from May 26-31 canceled.
Latvia International in Jelgava from May 28-31 suspended.
Australian Open in Sydney from June 2-7 suspended.
Vietnam International Challenge in Hanoi from June 2-7 suspended.
Lithuanian International in Panevezys from June 4-7 suspended.
Thailand Open in Bangkok from June 9-14 suspended.
Indonesia Open in Jakarta from June 16-21 suspended.
White Nights in Gatchina, Russia from July 1-5 suspended.
Russian Open in Vladivostok from July 7-12 suspended.
MLB: Preseason from March 12 canceled. Regular season due to start on March 26, postponed. St Louis vs. Chicago Cubs in London from June 13-14 canceled.
Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan: Preseason from Feb. 26-March 15, no spectators. Regular season due to start on March 20, postponed.
KBO League in South Korea: Preseason from March 14-24 canceled. Regular season due to start on March 28, postponed.
Americas Olympic qualifying tournament in Arizona from March 22-26 postponed.
Final Olympic qualifying tournament in Taichung and Dou Liu, Taiwan from April 1-5 postponed to June 17-21. From March 25 postponed.
Women’s World Cup in Mexico from Sept. 11-20 postponed.
NBA from March 11 suspended.
Women’s Olympic qualifying tournament moved from Foshan, China to Belgrade, Serbia from Feb. 6-9.
Men's Olympic qualifying tournaments in Belgrade, Serbia; Split, Croatia; Kaunas, Lithuania; and Victoria, British Columbia from June 23-28 postponed to June 22-July 4 2021.
Asia Cup qualifiers: Philippines vs. Thailand on Feb. 20; Japan vs. China on Feb. 21; China vs. Malaysia on Feb. 24, postponed. Matches scheduled for Hong Kong moved to opponents’ homes. Asia Cup from Aug. 3-15, 2021 postponed to Aug. 17-29, 2021.
Afrobasket in Rwanda from Aug. 17-29, 2021 postponed to Aug. 24-Sept. 25, 2021.
EuroBasket from Sept. 2-19, 2021 postponed to Sept. 1-18, 2022.
AmeriCup postponed to Sept. 2-11, 2021.
Women’s AmeriCup postponed to June 20-27, 2021.
KBL in South Korea: All games from Feb. 25, no spectators. From Feb. 29, suspended.
Women’s KBL in South Korea from March 1 suspended. From March 19 canceled.
Serie A in Italy: Games on March 7, no spectators. From March 8 postponed. From April 7 canceled.
NBL in Australia: From March 13, no spectators. Finals from March 17, after Game 3 of 5, canceled.
B-League in Japan from Feb. 26 postponed. From March 14 no spectators. From March 20 suspended. From March 27 canceled.
EuroLeague: Milan vs. Real Madrid in Milan on March 3; Valencia vs. Milan in Valencia on March 5. Competition from March 12 suspended.
EuroLeague Women: Famila Schio vs. Sopron on Feb. 26; Reyer vs. Riga on Feb. 26; USK Praha vs. Famila Schio on March 11; Ekaterinburg vs. Montpellier on March 11, canceled. Competition from March 13 suspended.
EuroCup: Brescia vs. Reyer on March 3, Monaco vs. UNICS Kazan on March 4, Darussafaka vs. Bologna on March 5, no spectators. Competition from March 13 suspended.
EuroCup Women: Castors Braine vs. Valencia on March 12; Reyer vs. Girona on March 12, canceled. Dynamo Kursk vs. Avenida on March 12 canceled. Competition from March 13 suspended.
Basketball Africa League due to start on March 13 delayed.
VTB United League in Belarus, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Poland and Russia from March 13 suspended. From May 27 canceled.
ASEAN Basketball League from March 16 suspended.
WNBA due to start on May 15 postponed.
Asia Cup in Changsa, China from March 13-17 postponed to Sept. 9-13.
Olympic qualifying tournament in Bengaluru, India from March 18-22 postponed.
Doha Masters in Qatar from April 2-3 postponed.
Universality Olympic qualifying tournament in Budapest, Hungary from April 24-26 postponed.
Manila Masters from May 2-3 postponed.
Chengdu Masters in China from May 30-31 postponed to Aug. 15-16.
Mexico City Masters from June 20-21 postponed to Oct. 17-18.
Utsunomiya Masters in Japan from July 11-12 postponed.
Olympic test event in Zhangjiakou, China from Feb. 27-March 2 canceled.
World Cup in Nove Mesto, Czech Republic from March 5-8, no spectators.
World Cup in Kontiolahti, Finland from March 12-14, no spectators.
World Cup in Oslo, Norway from March 20-22 canceled.
World championships in Gold Coast, Australia from May 26-June 7 postponed to May 25-June 6, 2021.
Jose Carlos Ramirez vs. Viktor Postol for Ramirez’s WBC-WBO super lightweight titles in Haikou, China on Feb. 1 postponed to Fresno, California on May 9. From March 31 postponed.
Asia-Oceania Olympic qualifier moved from Wuhan, China, to Amman, Jordan, from March 3-11.
Shakur Stevenson vs. Miguel Marriaga for Stevenson’s WBO featherweight title in New York on March 14, postponed.
Mairis Briedis vs. Yuniel Dorticos in World Boxing Super Series cruiserweight final in Riga, Latvia on March 21 postponed to May 16.
European Olympic qualifier in London from March 16, Day 3 of 11, canceled.
Americas Olympic qualifier in Buenos Aires, Argentina from March 26-April 3 suspended.
Artur Beterbiev vs. Fanlong Meng for Beterbiev’s WBC-IBF light heavyweight titles in Quebec City, Canada on March 28 postponed.
Jamal James vs. Thomas Dulorme for interim WBA welterweight title in Minneapolis, Minnesota on April 11 postponed.
David Morrell vs. Lennox Allen for interim WBA super middleweight title in Minneapolis, Minnesota on April 11 postponed.
Andrew Moloney vs. Israel Gonzalez for Moloney’s WBA ‘regular’ junior bantamweight title in Tulsa, Oklahoma on April 17 postponed.
Luke Campbell vs. Javier Fortuna for vacant WBC lightweight title in Oxon Hill, Maryland on April 17 postponed.
Cecilia Braekhus vs. Jessica McCaskill for Braekhus’ WBC-WBA-IBF-WBO women’s welterweight titles in Oxon Hill, Maryland on April 17 postponed.
David Benavidez vs. Roamer Alexis Angulo for Benavidez’s WBC super middleweight title in Phoenix, Arizona on April 18 postponed.
Terri Harper vs. Natasha Jones for Harper’s WBC women’s super featherweight title in Doncaster, England on April 24 postponed.
Naoya Inoue vs. John Riel Casimero for Inoue’s WBA-IBF and Casemiro’s WBO bantamweight titles in Las Vegas on April 25 postponed.
Patrick Teixeira vs. Brian Castano for Teixeira’s WBO junior middleweight title in Indio, California on April 25 postponed.
Rene Alvarado vs. Roger Gutierrez for Alvarado’s WBA ‘regular’ junior lightweight title in Indio, California on April 25 postponed.
Wanheng Menayothin vs. Marco Rementizo for Wanheng’s WBC strawweight title in Indio, California on April 25 postponed.
Felix Alvarado vs. DeeJay Kriel for Alvarado’s IBF junior flyweight title in Indio, California on April 25 postponed.
Josh Taylor vs. Apinun Khongsong for Taylor’s WBA-IBF super lightweight titles in Glasgow, Scotland on May 2 postponed.
Billy Joe Saunders vs. Canelo Alvarez for Saunders’ WBO and Alvarez’s WBA super middleweight titles in Las Vegas on May 2 postponed.
Katie Taylor vs. Amanda Serrano for Taylor’s WBC-WBA-IBF-WBO women’s lightweight titles in Manchester, England on May 2 postponed.
Dillian Whyte vs. Alexander Povetkin for interim WBC ‘regular’ heavyweight title in Manchester, England on May 2 postponed to July 4.
Claressa Shields vs. Marie-Eve Dicaire for Shield’s WBC-WBO and Dicaire’s IBF women’s super welterweight titles in Flint, Michigan on May 9 postponed.
World Cup in Cologne, Germany from June 17-20 canceled.
Anthony Joshua vs. Kubrat Pulev for Joshua’s WBA-IBF-WBO heavyweight titles in London on June 20 postponed.
Tyson Fury vs. Deontay Wilder for Fury’s WBC heavyweight title in Las Vegas on July 18 postponed.
African Olympic canoe slalom qualifier in Basel, Switzerland from March 14-15 canceled.
Pan American canoe slalom championships (Olympic qualifier) in Rio de Janeiro from April 3-5 canceled.
Asian canoe slalom championships in Pattaya, Thailand from April 22-24 canceled.
Asian Olympic canoe sprint qualifier in Pattaya, Thailand on April 26 cancelled.
European Olympic canoe sprint qualifier in Racice, Czech Republic from May 6-7 canceled.
Pan American canoe sprint championships in Curitiba, Brazil from May 7-10 canceled.
World Cup canoe sprint (Olympic qualifier) in Racice, Czech Republic from May 8-10 canceled.
European canoe slalom championships in London from May 15-17 canceled.
World Cup canoe sprint in Duisburg, Germany from May 21-24 canceled.
European canoe sprint championships in Bascov, Romania from June 4-7 postponed.
World Cup canoe slalom in Ivrea, Italy from June 5-7 postponed.
World cup canoe slalom in Pau, France from June 12-14 postponed.
Super Cup canoe sprint in Oklahoma City from Aug. 22-23 canceled.
World canoe sprint non-Olympic championships in Szeged, Hungary from July 10-12 postponed to September.
World canoe marathon championships in Baerum, Norway from Aug. 27-30 canceled.
World canoe polo championships in Rome from Sept. 8-13 postponed to April 2021.
Africa championships in Cape Town, South Africa from March 19-22 postponed.
European Championships in Moscow from March 20-27 postponed to June 15-22. On April 4 suspended.
Oceania championships in Sydney from March 28-29 postponed.
Asian Championships in Chongqing, China from April 25-May 3 postponed.
Olympic test event in Tokyo on March 6, no athletes and spectators.
World Cup in Meiringen, Switzerland from April 3-4 postponed.
World Cup in Wujiang, China from April 18-19 postponed.
World Cup in Chongqing, China on April 22 postponed.
World Cup in Seoul from May 8-10 postponed.
World Cup in Munich from May 23-24 postponed.
World Cup in Salt Lake City, Utah from June 12-14 postponed.
World Cup in Innsbruck, Austria from June 23-27 postponed.
India-South Africa 2nd ODI in Lucknow on March 15, 3rd ODI in Kolkata on March 18, postponed.
Australia-New Zealand 2nd ODI in Sydney on March 15 and 3rd ODI in Hobart on March 20, canceled.
Sri Lanka-England 2 tests from March 19-31 postponed.
Pakistan-Bangladesh ODI on April 1, 2nd test from April 5-9 postponed.
World XI-Asia XI matches in Dhaka, Bangladesh on March 21-22 postponed.
South Africa-Australia Women 3 ODIs, 3 T20s from March 22-April 4, postponed.
New Zealand-Australia 3 T20s from March 24-29, canceled.
Zimbabwe-Ireland 3 ODIs, 3 T20s from April 2-12 postponed.
Ireland-Bangladesh 3 ODIs, 4 T20s from May 14-29 postponed.
Bangladesh-Australia 2 tests from June 11-23 postponed.
Indian Premier League, due to start on March 29, postponed to April 15.
English County Championship, due to start on April 12, delayed.
Pakistan Super League matches from March 13, no spectators. Final brought forward from March 22 to March 18. From March 17, postponed,
India, all matches from March 14 suspended.
West Indies, all matches from March 16 suspended.
South Africa, all matches from March 16 suspended.
Men’s Cricket World Cup Challenge League A between Canada, Denmark, Malaysia, Qatar, Singapore and Vanuatu in Malaysia from March 16-26 postponed.
Men’s Cricket World Cup League 2 triseries between United States, Scotland and United Arab Emirates in Florida from April 1-8 postponed.
Men’s Cricket World Cup League 2 triseries between Namibia, Nepal and Scotland in Windhoek from April 20-27 postponed.
Men’s Cricket World Cup League 2 triseries between Papua New Guinea, Nepal and United Arab Emirates in Port Moresby from June 9-16 postponed.
Men’s T20 World Cup Qualifier Asia A in Kuwait from April 15-21 postponed.
Men’s T20 World Cup sub-regional qualifier in South Africa from April 27-May 3 postponed.
Men’s T20 World Cup Qualifier Europe A in Spain from May 16-22 postponed.
Men’s T20 World Cup Qualifier Asia B in Malaysia from June 26-July 2 postponed.
Men’s T20 World Cup Qualifier Europe C in Belgium from June 10-16 postponed.
Men’s T20 World Cup Qualifier Europe B in Finland from June 24-30 postponed.
Everest Premier League in Nepal, due to start on March 14, postponed.
Sheffield Shield in Australia from March 15 canceled.
Plunket Shield in New Zealand from March 16 canceled.
Dhaka Premier League in Bangladesh from March 16 suspended.
Pakistan Cup ODI tournament from March 25-April 24 postponed.
Women’s ODI Quadrangular between Thailand, Ireland, Netherlands and Zimbabwe in Chiang Mai, Thailand from April 3-11 canceled.
Women’s world championships in Prince George, Canada from March 14-22 canceled.
Men’s world championships in Glasgow, Scotland from March 28-April 5 canceled.
World mixed doubles and senior championships in Kelowna, Canada from April 18-25 canceled.
Giro d’Italia in Hungary and Italy from May 9-31 postponed.
Tour of Hainan in China from Feb. 23-March 1 postponed.
UAE Tour from Feb. 23-29, after 5 of 7 stages cancelled.
Strade Bianche in Siena, Italy on March 7 canceled.
Paris-Nice from March 8-15: Mitchelton-Scott, Ineos, Astana, UAE Team Emirates, CCC, Movistar, Jumbo-Visma teams withdrew. From Stage 2 of 8, no spectators. On March 14, Stage 7 of 8, canceled.
GP Larciano in Pistoia, Italy on March 8 canceled.
Tirreno-Adriatico in Italy from March 11-17 canceled.
Istarsko Proljeće in Croatia from March 12-15 canceled.
Drentse Acht van Westerveld (women) in the Netherlands on March 13 canceled.
Bevrijdingsronde van Drenthe in the Netherlands on March 14-15 canceled.
Ronde van Drenthe (women) in the Netherlands on March 15 canceled.
Popolarissima in Italy on March 15 canceled.
Paris-Troyes on March 15 postponed.
Danilith Nokere Koerse in Belgium on March 18 canceled.
Volta ao Alentejo in Portugal from March 18-22 canceled.
Olympia’s Tour in the Netherlands from March 18-22 canceled.
Milan-San Remo on March 21 canceled.
Omloop van de Westhoek (women) in Belgium on March 22 canceled.
Trofeo Alfredo Binda (women) in Cittiglio, Italy on March 22 postponed to June 2.
Tour de Normandie in France from March 23-27 canceled.
Volta a Catalunya in Spain from March 23-29 canceled.
AG Driedaagse Brugge-De Panne in Belgium from March 25-26 postponed.
Settimana Coppi e Bartali in Italy from March 25-29 canceled.
E3 BinckBank Classic in Belgium on March 27 canceled.
Gent-Wevelgem in Belgium on March 29 canceled.
Cholet-Pays de La Loir in France on March 29 canceled.
Dwars door Vlaanderen in Belgium on April 1 canceled.
Giro di Sicilia in Italy from April 1-4 canceled.
Joe Martin Stage Race in Arkansas from April 2-5 postponed.
Tour of Flanders in Belgium on April 5 canceled.
Roue Tourangelle in France on April 5 canceled.
Tour of the Basque Country in Spain from April 6-11 postponed.
Sarthe-Pays de la Loire in France from April 7-10 canceled.
Scheldeprijs in Belgium on April 8 canceled.
Circuit des Ardennes in Belgium from April 10-12 canceled.
Paris-Roubaix on April 12 postponed.
Tour of Turkey from April 12-19 postponed.
De Brabantse Pijl in Belgium on April 15 canceled.
Amstel Gold Race in the Netherlands on April 19 canceled.
Tour of the Alps in Italy and Austria from April 20-24 postponed.
Fleche Wallonne in Belgium on April 22 postponed.
Tour de Bretagne in France from April 25-May 1 canceled.
Liege-Bastogne-Liege in Belgium on April 26 postponed.
Tour de Romandie in Switzerland from April 28-May 3 canceled.
Tour of the Gila in New Mexico from April 29-May 3 canceled.
Tour de Yorkshire in England from April 30-May 3 postponed.
Eschborn–Frankfurt in Germany on May 1 canceled.
Vuelta Asturias in Spain from May 1-3 postponed.
4 Jours de Dunkerque in France from May 5-10 canceled.
Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid from May 7-10 postponed.
Tour of Chongming Island (women) in China from May 7-9 postponed.
Festival Elsy Jacobs (women) in Luxembourg from May 8-10 canceled.
Trofee Maarten Wynants in Houthalen-Helchteren, Belgium from May 9-10 canceled.
Tour of Zhoushan Island in China from May 12-14 postponed.
Tour de Hongrie in Hungary from May 13-20 postponed.
La Classique Morbihan (women) in France on May 15 postponed.
Grand Prix de Plumelec Morbihan in France on May 16 postponed.
Boucles de l’Aulne in Châteaulin, France on May 17 canceled.
Tour of Japan from May 17-24 canceled.
Mercan’Tour Classic Alpes-Maritimes in Valberg, France on May 18 postponed.
Durango-Durango Emakumeen Saria (women) in Spain on May 20 postponed.
Circuit de Wallonie in Charleroi, Belgium on May 21 postponed.
Vuelta a Burgos Feminas (women) in Spain from May 21-24 postponed.
GP Marcel Kint in Zwevegem, Belgium on May 24 postponed.
Thüringen Ladies Tour in Germany from May 26-31 postponed.
Tour of Estonia from May 28-30 postponed.
Boucles de la Mayenne in France from Mat 28-31 postponed.
Tour of Taiyuan in China on May 31 postponed.
Critérium du Dauphiné in France from May 31-June 7 postponed.
Tour of Slovenia from June 6-14 canceled.
Tour de Suisse in Switzerland from June 6-14 canceled.
Women’s Tour in Britain from June 8-13 canceled.
Sea Otter Classic in Monterey, California from Oct. 1-4 postponed.
Six Day Manchester in England from March 13-15 canceled.
South Africa championships in Pietermaritzburg from March 21-24 postponed.
Australia championships in Brisbane from March 25-29 postponed.
Spain championships in Tafalla from April 8-12 postponed.
Olympic test event in Tokyo from April 10-12 postponed.
Venezuela championships in Valencia from April 21-26 postponed.
Brazil championships in Maringa from April 22-26 postponed.
Eliminator World Cup in Dubai on March 6 canceled.
Cape Epic in South Africa from March 15-22 canceled.
UCI World Cup in Lousa, Portugal on March 21-22 postponed.
Eliminator World Cup in Barcelona on March 28 canceled.
Cross-country World Cup in Ascona-Locarno, Switzerland from April 17-18 postponed.
UCI World Cup in Maribor, Slovenia from May 2-3 postponed.
UCI World Cup in Losinj, Croatia from May 9-10 canceled.
European championships in Graz, Austria from May 14-17 postponed.
UCI World Cup in Nove Mesto na Morave, Czech Republic from May 22-24 postponed.
Cross-country World Cup in Bologna, Italy from June 5-6 postponed.
UCI World Cup in Fort William, Scotland from June 6-7 canceled.
World championships in Albstadt, Germany from June 25-28 postponed.
South American championships in San Juan, Argentina on March 22 postponed.
Oceania championships in Launceston, Australia on March 25 postponed.
Pan American championships in Lima, Peru on April 4 postponed.
Asian championships in Banyuwangi, Indonesia on May 11 postponed.
Supercross World Cup in Manchester, England from April 18-19 postponed.
Supercross World Cup in Papendal, Netherlands from May 2-3 postponed.
Supercross World Cup in Rock Hill, South Carolina from May 15-16 postponed.
World championships in Houston from May 26-31 canceled.
Longines Masters of Hong Kong from Feb. 14-16 canceled.
World Cup Finals in Las Vegas from April 15-19 canceled.
Kentucky Three-Day Event in Lexington from April 22-25 canceled.
Badminton Horse Trials in England from May 6-10 canceled.
Dressage Nations Cup in Compiegne, France from May 14-17 canceled.
World Equestrian Festival CHIO Aachen in Germany from May 29-June 7 postponed.
Dressage Nations Cup in Aachen, Germany from June 2-7 postponed.
Dressage Nations Cup in Rotterdam, Netherlands from June 18-21 canceled.
Longines Masters of Lausanne, Switzerland from June 18-21 canceled.
Anaheim Grand Prix in California on March 13-15 postponed.
Men’s Saber World Cup in Budapest, Hungary on March 20-22 postponed.
Men’s Epee World Cup in Buenos Aires, Argentina on March 20-22 postponed.
Women’s Saber World Cup in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium on March 20-22, postponed.
Women’s Epee World Cup in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on March 20-22 postponed.
Junior world championships in Salt Lake City, Utah on April 3-11 postponed.
African Zonal Olympic qualifier in Cairo on April 15 postponed.
Asian Zonal Olympic qualifier in Seoul on April 15-16 postponed.
European Zonal Olympic qualifier in Madrid on April 18-19 postponed.
American Zonal Olympic qualifier in Panama City on April 18-19 postponed.
Hockey Pro League: China vs. Belgium women from Feb. 8-9 postponed. League from March 13 suspended.
India women’s tour of China from March 14-25 canceled.
Ireland women’s tour of Malaysia in March-April canceled.
Canadian Football League due to start on June 11 postponed.
Players Championship in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida on March 12, Day 1 of 4, canceled.
Valspar Championship in Palm Harbor, Florida from March 19-22 canceled.
WGC-Match Play in Austin, Texas from March 25-29 canceled.
Corales Puntacana Championship in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic from March 26-29 postponed.
Texas Open in San Antonio from April 2-5 canceled.
Masters in Augusta, Georgia from April 9-12 postponed to Nov. 12-15.
Heritage in Hilton Head, South Carolina from April 16-19 canceled.
Zurich Classic in Avondale, Louisiana from April 23-26 canceled.
Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina from April 30-May 3 canceled.
Byron Nelson in Dallas from May 7-10 canceled.
U.S. PGA Championship in San Francisco from May 14-17 postponed to Aug. 6-9.
U.S. Open in Mamaroneck, New York from June 18-21 postponed to Sept. 17-20.
British Open in Sandwich, England from July 16-19 canceled.
Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina from Aug. 6-9 postponed to Aug. 13-16.
Northern Trust in Norton, Massachusetts from Aug. 13-16 postponed to Aug. 20-23.
BMW Championship in Olympia Fields, Illinois from Aug. 20-23 postponed to Aug. 27-30.
Tour Championship in Atlanta from Aug. 27-30 postponed to Sept. 3-7.
US LPGA Tour
Honda LPGA Thailand in Pattaya from Feb. 20-23 canceled.
HSBC Women’s World Championship in Singapore from Feb. 27-March 1 canceled.
Blue Bay LPGA on Hainan Island from March 5-8 canceled.
Founders Cup in Phoenix, Arizona from March 19-22 canceled.
Kia Classic in Carlsbad, California from March 26-29 postponed to Sept. 24-27.
ANA Inspiration in Rancho Mirage, California from April 2-5 postponed to Sept. 10-13.
Lotte Championship in Hawaii from April 15-18 postponed.
LA Open in Los Angeles from April 23-26 postponed.
Mediheal Championship in Daly City, California from April 30-May 3 postponed.
Pelican Women’s Championship in Belleair, Florida from May 14-17 postponed to Nov. 12-15.
Pure Silk Championship in Williamsburg, Virginia from May 21-24 canceled.
ShopRite Classic in Atlantic City, New Jersey from May 29-31 postponed to July 31-Aug. 2.
Meijer Classic in Grand Rapids, Michigan from June 11-14 postponed.
U.S. Women’s Open in Houston, Texas from June 4-7 postponed to Dec. 10-13.
Evian Championship in Evian-les-Bains, France from July 23-26 postponed to Aug. 6-9.
Portland Classic in Oregon from Sept. 10-13 postponed to Sept. 17-20.
Kenya Open in Nairobi from March 12-15 canceled.
Indian Open in New Delhi from March 19-22 postponed.
Maybank Championship in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from April 16-19 postponed.
China Open in Shenzhen from April 23-26 postponed.
Andalucia Masters in Sotogrande, Spain from April 30-May 3 postponed.
GolfSixes in Cascais, Portugal from May 9-10 canceled.
Made in Denmark in Farso from May 21-24 postponed.
Irish Open in Thomastown from May 28-31 postponed.
Trophée Hassan II in Rabat, Morocco from June 4-7 postponed.
Scandinavian Mixed in Stockholm from June 11-14 canceled.
Czech Masters in Prague on Aug. 20-23 canceled.
Royal Cup in Pattaya, Thailand from March 12-15 postponed.
Bangabandhu Cup in Dhaka, Bangladesh from March 25-28 postponed.
Asia-Pacific Diamond Cup in Chiba, Japan from May 7-10 canceled.
Shinhan Donghae Open in Nara, Japan moved to Incheon, South Korea from Sept. 10-13.
Saudi Ladies International in King Abdullah Economic City, Saudi Arabia from March 19-22 postponed.
Jabra Ladies Open in Evian-les-Bains, France from May 7-9 postponed to June 18-20.
La Reserva de Sotogrande Invitational in Spain from May 14-17 postponed.
Belgian Ladies Open in Wanxe from May 29-31 postponed.
Lalla Meryem Cup in Rabat, Morocco from June 4-7 postponed.
Artistic World Cup in Melbourne, Australia, from Feb. 20-23: China team withdrew.
All-Around World Cup in Milwaukee on March 7: Russia team withdrew.
Artistic World Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan, from March 14, Day 3 of 4, canceled.
Artistic World Cup in Doha, Qatar on March 18-21 postponed to June 3-6.
All-Around World Cup in Stuttgart, Germany on March 20-22 canceled.
Aerobic World Cup in Cantanhede, Portugal on March 27-29 canceled.
All-Around World Cup in Birmingham, England on March 28 canceled.
Rhythmic World Cup in Pesaro, Italy on April 3-5 postponed to June 5-7, postponed.
Acrobatic World Cup in Sofia, Bulgaria on April 3-5 postponed.
All-Around World Cup in Tokyo on April 4-5 canceled.
Artistic Jesolo Cup in Italy on April 4-5 canceled.
Rhythmic World Cup in Sofia, Bulgaria on April 10-12 postponed.
Acrobatic World Cup in Puurs, Belgium on April 10-12 canceled.
Rhythmic World Cup in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on April 17-19 postponed.
Aerobic World Cup in Tokyo on April 18-19 canceled.
Trampoline World Cup in Brescia, Italy on April 24-25 postponed to June 19-20.
Rhythmic World Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan on April 24-26 postponed.
Artistic women’s European championships in Paris on April 30-May 3 canceled.
Trampoline European championships in Gothenburg, Sweden on May 7-10 canceled.
Rhythmic World Challenge Cup in Portimão, Portugal from May 8-10 postponed.
Aerobic world championships in Baku, Azerbaijan from May 14-16 postponed.
Artistic World Challenge Cup in Varna, Bulgaria from May 14-17 postponed.
Rhythmic European championships in Kyiv, Ukraine on May 21-24 canceled.
Artistic men’s European championships in Baku, Azerbaijan on May 27-31 canceled.
Acrobatic world championships in Geneva from May 29-31 postponed.
Trampoline World Cup in Arosa, Switzerland on July 3-4 canceled.
Rhythmic World Challenge Cup in Minsk, Belarus from July 3-5 postponed.
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Gunboat Economics: China Seizes Japanese Ship — As Payment for Pre-World War II Debt
Posted: April 21, 2014 | Author: Pundit Planet | Filed under: China, History, Japan, War Room | Tags: Beijing, China, Japan, Kyodo, Kyodo News, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Shanghai, World War II, Yoshihide Suga |1 Comment
(AFP) — Tokyo warned Monday that the seizure of a Japanese ship in Shanghai over pre-war debts threatened ties with China and could undermine the very basis of their diplomatic relationship.
Authorities in Shanghai seized the large freight vessel in a dispute over what the Chinese side says are unpaid bills relating to the 1930s, when Japan occupied large swathes of China.
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The move is the latest to illustrate the bitter enmity at the heart of Tokyo-Beijing ties, with the two sides embroiled in a dispute over the ownership of a small archipelago and snapping at each other over differing interpretations of history.
Mr Suga said Japan was “deeply concerned” about the seizure of a cargo ship in China
Shanghai Maritime Court said Saturday it had seized “the vessel Baosteel Emotion owned by Mitsui O.S.K. Lines… for enforcement of an effective judgement” made in December 2007.
“The arrested vessel will be dealt with by the law if Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. still refuses to perform its obligations,” the court said.
Chinese and Hong Kong media said the seizure was related to a verdict by a court in Shanghai that said Mitsui must pay about 2.9 billion yen ($28 million) in relation to the leasing of two ships nearly 80 years ago.
Reports said that in 1936, Mitsui’s predecessor Daido Shipping Co. rented two ships on a one-year contract from Zhongwei Shipping Co.
However, the ships were commandeered by the Imperial Japanese Navy and were sunk during World War II, reports said.
A compensation suit was brought against Mitsui by the descendants of the founder of Zhongwei Shipping, and in 2007 a Shanghai court ordered Mitsui to pay about 2.9 billion yen in compensation.
Mitsui appealed against the decision but in December 2010 the Supreme People’s Court turned down their petition for the case to be retried.
Mitsui has argued that it is not liable to pay compensation given that the ships which Daido rented were requisitioned by the Japanese military during the war, according to Japan’s Kyodo News.
On Monday Japan’s chief government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said the seizure undermined the 1972 joint communique that normalised ties between Japan and China, in which Beijing agreed to renounce “its demand for war reparation from Japan”.
“It could also intimidate Japanese companies doing business in China as a whole and hence Japan is deeply worried and strongly expects China to take appropriate measures,” he said…(read more)
Breitbart.com – (AFP)
From BBC News Asia:
China’s seizure of a Japanese cargo ship over a pre-war debt could hit business ties, Japan’s top government spokesman has warned.
Shanghai Maritime Court said it had seized the Baosteel Emotion, owned by Mitsui OSK Lines, on Saturday.
It said the seizure related to unpaid compensation for two Chinese ships leased in 1936.
The Chinese ships were later used by the Japanese army and sank at sea, Japan’s Kyodo news agency said.
“The Japanese government considers the sudden seizure of this company’s ship extremely regrettable,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said on Monday.
“This is likely to have, in general, a detrimental effect on Japanese businesses working in China.”
Shrine row
The owners of the shipping company, identified by Kyodo as Zhongwei Shipping, sought compensation after World War Two and the case was reopened at a Shanghai court in 1988, China’s Global Times said.
The court ruled in 2007 that Mitsui had to pay 190 million yuan ($30.5m, £18m) as compensation for the two ships leased to Daido, a firm later part of Mitsui, Global Times and Kyodo said.
Mitsui appealed against the decision, but it was upheld in 2012, Kyodo said.
Kyodo said this appeared to be the first time that a Japanese company asset had been confiscated as war-linked compensation….(read more)
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During WWII, which of the following scientists did the U.S. Army deny a security clearance?
The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada.
From 1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Nuclear physicist Robert Oppenheimer was the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory that designed the actual bombs.
In 1939, Einstein wrote to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt to warn him that the Nazis were working on a new and powerful weapon: an atomic bomb. Fellow physicist Leo Szilard urged Einstein to send the letter and helped him draft it.
In July 1940, the U.S. Army Intelligence office denied Einstein the security clearance needed to work on the Manhattan Project. The hundreds of scientists on the project were forbidden from consulting with Einstein, because the left-leaning political activist was deemed a potential security risk.
Although he never worked directly on the atomic bomb, Einstein is often incorrectly associated with the advent of nuclear weapons. His famous equation E=mc2 explains the energy released in an atomic bomb but doesn't explain how to build one.
He repeatedly reminded people, "I do not consider myself the father of the release of atomic energy. My part in it was quite indirect."
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Richard D. Boyle
For all of you talking about Oppenheimer, get your facts straight. The hearing that revoked his Q clearance didn’t take place until June of 1954, nearly 10 years after the end of WW II. The question clearly specified “during WW II”. He was never considered to be a security risk at any time DURING the war. He developed a conscience AFTER the use of the “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” on H and N and began to speak out against the development of the H Bomb. This was during the McCarthy era and eventually resulted in the 1954 hearing which revoked his Q clearance. Einstein is the only correct answer to the question. I taught this period to USAF officers at Air University at Maxwell AFB during the latter portion of my 12 years of active duty from 1957 to 1969.
larrywagner
I learned of this when I worked at Los Alamos, but have also heard that Einstein was at the lab during the finial stages of construction. He also stated later in life that if he knew the Germans would fail, he would have done nothing. Oppenheimer stated Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds. There's a lot of history if you were to look for it. Much has been declassified. Oh my security clearance was a Q. Hey Irma I'm number one again, come Tesla catch up.
Cheryl McMeekin
In my opinion they should have given him permission, Einstein would've been a big asset.
Terry Cannon
Mark Belfus, Looks like some people have a problem reading questions. The questions is DURING WWII, and the ONLY correct answer was AE. The fact that Robert Oppenheimer had his Q Clearance revoked 10 years later has no bering on the question.
Richard D. Boyle, Thank You for your service :-)
Missed it
Apr 2, 2020 12:19PM
Camille Curran
Richard D. Boyle, Thank you.
Mar 19, 2020 6:15AM
dsneed
I appreciate intelligent people. I would probably have enjoyed Albert's company. Yay me.
Colin Payne
larrywagner, The the thing about I am become death is a quote from the Hindu Bhagavad Gita. He didn't make it up.
Feb 29, 2020 11:37AM
Rockin' D (See Tagged Profile for Images photos)
ERROR OPENHEIMER HAD CLEARANCE ISSUES AS WELL....The Primary issue was the clearance Yeah or Nay? Should the year BE AS IMPORTANT??
Criona Walsh
Majority Vote helped me get it right
Feb 2, 2020 10:22AM
Mr.LaFaye
Mark Belfus, No read the question you are wrong, now sit down
Feb 2, 2020 1:20AM
stormejohn
Carrie Arnold-Marsh, Oppenheimer's clearance wasn't taken from him during WW 2, it was taken nearly 10 years after the war ended. Please read the question, simple question and simple answer.
Lori S. Jansen
I don't think Einstein would have been a willing participant even if he was permitted to work on the project. Given that no one knew what would happen that first time - they thought quite possible they were about to ignite the atmosphere and send the planet up in flames, Oppenheimer had every right to be very worried at the time. Also, for those going Oppenheimer was dirty, etc., no secret project is ever truly that secret. Humans are, after all, human.
L Lh Adams
Carrie Arnold-Marsh, Question asks who was denied,not revoked.
Mark Belfus, The question asks who was denied,not revoked.
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Govt introducing laws to toughen penalties for rapists, sex offenders: Law Minister
10:50 PM | November 24, 2020
Federal Minister for Law and Justice Barrister Dr Muhammad Farogh Naseem Tuesday said the government was introducing laws to meet out tough penalties to those who were guilty of rape and sex offenses.
Talking to reporters here at the law ministry, he said since the parliament was not in session, an ordinance would be promulgated to toughen the laws against the rapists and sex offenders.
The penalties include death penalty, life imprisonment, 10 to 25 years imprisonment and chemical castration, he added.
He said chemical castration of the offender could be for some time or for life. He said similar laws were in place in the United States and other countries. The chances of chemical castration would increase for the habitual offenders.
He said a registry of sex offenders would be maintained by NADRA to help apprehending the perpetrators of sex crimes.
He also said the people needed to play an important role by pointing out sex offenders and rapists around them.
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It all started in 1958 when Jean Bousquet, born in Nîmes, and just qualified as a tailor, came to Paris to launch a small business making women’s trousers. In March 1962, he named his society after a bird from the Camargue: Jean Cacharel, and the year after that he obtained his first great success when the photographer Peter Knapp took a picture of the now legendary crepe pink shirt that ended up on the cover of the magazine Elle. The shirt was then called: Le Cacharel.
Emmanuelle Khan and Corinne Sarrut are quickly hired to design the collections. In 1968, Sarah Moon, a young unknown photographer, met Jean Bousquet. It was the beginning of a happy collaboration strengthened with the arrival of publicist, Robert Delpire. The four of them give birth to the Cacharel universe: a romantic one, immortalized through unforgettable, poetic pictures.
In the late 60’s, Liberty blouses first appeared, and Cacharel have become a flourishing brand and benchmark of fashion since then, with Liberty dresses taking off in popularity among the 70’s generation.
Having launched his first menswear, womenswear and childrenswear collections, and having been awarded the Oscar for exportation in 1969, Jean Bousquet diversified his activities by branching out into perfumery: Anaïs Anaïs, his first perfume, remains today one of the world’s best-selling fragrances; Loulou, Noa, Amor Amor and Scarlett will follow. The latest one came out this year: Amor Amor Forbidden Kiss.
At the beginning of 2000, Cacharel undertook a serious change to find again the creative energy of its beginnings: the talented designers Clements-Ribeiro allowed Cacharel to participate to the Parisian Fashion Week and once again meet with success.
It was then the turn of English kings of prints Eley Kishimoto to draw the collections of the Tronchet House for three seasons. In 2009, the Belgian designer Cédric Charlier designed romantic collections with precise cuts for four seasons.
In November 2009, Cacharel signed a license contract with Italian Group AEFFE (Alberta Ferretti, Philosophy, Moschino, Pollini…), whereupon the French House, the strongest, really opened out internationally.
Nowadays Cacharel is sold in a network of multibrand stores and concept stores in France and worldwide (Barneys, Saks, Harvey Nichols, le Printemps, …) as new designers Dawei Sun and Ling Liu present the new spring-summer 2012 collection and get back to the traditional house codes: freshness, romanticism and femininity.
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Blake Bortles Vic Fangio Kyle Shurmur Jeff Driskel Brett Rypien Pat Shurmur Von Miller Drew Lock Bryce Callahan Shelby Harris William Parks John Elway Sports Coronavirus Infectious diseases Diseases and conditions Health Lung disease NFL football Professional football Football 2019-2020 Coronavirus pandemic Athlete injuries Athlete health
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Lock returns to practice, apologizes again for COVID-19 slip
By ARNIE STAPLETON - Dec. 02, 2020 08:21 PM EST
FILE - Denver Broncos quarterback Drew Lock, center, jokes with backup quarterbacks Jeff Driskel, left, and Brett Rypien during an NFL football practice in Englewood, Colo., in this Monday, Aug. 31, 2020, file photo. The Broncos activated three quarterbacks—starter Lock and backups Rypien and Blake Bortles—from the COVID-19 list Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020, to insure that the team will not be without quarterbacks on the roster for the game against the Chiefs in Kansas City on Sunday as the Broncos were last Sunday when hosting the New Orleans Saints. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Many viewers cringed at Denver’s ugly loss to the Saints behind a rookie receiver pressed into duty because every Broncos quarterback was barred by the NFL over coronavirus concerns.
Among them was Drew Lock.
“It hurt my heart, hurt my soul,” the Broncos starter said Wednesday. “It was tough. It was really tough. It wasn’t something that I enjoyed doing. I would much rather have been out there on the field helping my teammates out.”
Lock and backup Brett Rypien returned to the practice field about an hour later, but veteran practice squad QB Blake Bortles was isolated in case the Broncos run into another quarterback quandary this season.
The trio served what was essentially a one-game banishment for not wearing their masks last week around QB Jeff Driskel, who tested positive for the coronavirus on Thanksgiving.
In addition to isolating Bortles, the Broncos began putting QB Kyle Shurmur, son of offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur, through COVID-19 protocols to possibly be signed later in the week. A three-year starter at Vanderbilt, Shurmur spent last season on the Chiefs’ practice squad.
The Broncos’ four QBs went into work on their day off last Tuesday to watch film, but they didn’t have their masks on the entire time. After Driskel’s positive test, a league investigation deemed Lock, Rypien and Bortles as high-risk close contacts and ordered them into quarantine Saturday.
The QBs were pulled off the practice field Saturday and the Broncos scrambled to get Kendall Hinton up to speed on a truncated playbook that mostly involved hand-offs.
Hinton, who played quarterback at Wake Forest, was promoted from the practice squad shortly before kickoff and completed just three passes, two of them to the Saints in Denver's 31-3 loss.
Hinton returned to catching passes, not throwing them, when he went back to the practice squad Wednesday.
Coach Vic Fangio, who fined his QBs this week for violating COVID-19 rules, called out his quarterbacks after the game for putting the team and the league in a precarious position, something that upset Lock’s mother, Laura, who defended her son on social media.
Lock said he had no problem with anything Fangio said.
“He’s my boss. He’s the leader of this team and whatever he says goes,” Lock said. “I feel like we were taking a little bit of leadership by coming in and getting ready by ourselves and doing that by ourselves on a day when everyone else was at home. So, that shows leadership.
“But again, we didn’t do the right thing, we didn’t have them on the whole time we were in there.”
As for his mother coming to his defense, Lock said, “Moms will be moms. That’s just a fact. They’re going to back up their kid. They’re going to stand up for their kid regardless of the situation, and my mom is a fiery human. There’s never a game where I played bad and wasn’t more scared of her than my dad.”
Lock praised Hinton for stepping in on very little notice and making his NFL debut at the league’s toughest position — against the NFC’s top team, no less.
“Gosh, he had to go out there, not take a rep at quarterback, play against one of the best defenses in the league. What else can you ask this guy to do?” Lock said. “I mean, he went out and he played his butt off.”
Lock said he was sitting in his vehicle Monday awaiting results of his rapid COVID-19 test when he saw Hinton and told him, “It takes a lot of guts and a lot of heart to go out there and do what you did in the circumstances you did.”
Fangio said he was disappointed the events of last weekend “overshadows all the good work everybody has done here, starting with the players” to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus.
“That part bugs me a little bit, but hey, it is what it is," Fangio said. "We had that mistake with the quarterbacks and we have to own it.”
Team president Joe Ellis, who battled the coronavirus last month, met with Fangio and general manager John Elway on Monday and said, “While it’s easy to point fingers, all of us must take responsibility and work together to prevent it from happening again.”
NOTES: DC Ed Donatell is back part time after COVID-19 sidelined him all last month. ... Fangio said Von Miller hasn’t been cleared medically to return to practice. Miller has made it his goal to play this season after a freak ankle injury six days before the opener. ... The Broncos claimed S Will Parks off waivers from Philadelphia, activated DE Shelby Harris from the reserve/COVID-19 list and placed CB Bryce Callahan (foot) on IR. Callahan started all 10 games this season after missing all of 2019 with a foot injury.
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Cartoonists Gagged again
July 20, 2019 in Events, General, News
Media crews filming the Gagged exhibition wall.
Our GAGGED exhibition on the suppression and censorship of cartoonists around the world had another outing last week. It was displayed at the international conference ‘Defend Media Freedom’ in London. The conference was instigated by the UK and Canadian governments.
Media freedom is in decline worldwide. It was reported that the number of journalists jailed for their work is at the highest level since the 1990s. We’ve seen an increase of cartoonists around the world being harassed, imprisoned and censored.
Amal Clooney with Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland and UK’s Foreign Secretary (at time of going to press) Jeremy Hunt.
One of the main speakers was human rights lawyer Amal Clooney who said ‘journalists are under attack like never before’. She added that after the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in the Istanbul Saudi Arabian embassy last year, world leaders responded with ‘little more than a collective shrug’. She went on to single out Donald Trump and commented that ‘the country of James Madison (one of America’s founding fathers and a champion of a free press) has a leader today who vilifies the media.’ There have been a number of cases recently where cartoonists in the States (and Canada) have had their work censored and lost long-standing work.
Jeremy Hunt spoke of meeting Malaysian cartoonist Zunar who suffered years of persecution and restrictions but is now enjoying more freedom since the regime change in his home country.
A powerful and colourful mural being painted live by ArtLords a street art collective from Afghanistan. Here’s an Index on Censorship film about them.
Every plaque on the wall names a media worker killed over the past years, 99 died worldwide in 2018 alone.
PCO member Alex Hughes from Drawnalism was transcribing the talks in cartoon form (he produced more work in two days than I do in a year)
Terry Anderson (Cartoonist & Deputy Exec Director, CRNI) with Jodie Ginsberg (Chief Executive, Index on Censorship)
A gagged Marshall
In September GAGGED is moving on to the Saint-Just Cartoon Festival in France.
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Review: The Sensorites - DVD
Manufacturer: BBC DVD / 2|Entertain
Written By: Peter R. Newman
Release Date: 23rd January 2012
Reviewed By: Dale Who for Doctor Who Online
Review Posted: 26th January 2012
The original TARDIS crew land aboard a spaceship in this latest single disc release from the BBC / 2|Entertain stable. The Doctor (William Hartnell), his granddaughter (Carole Ann Ford) and that remarkably cool pair of school teachers Barbara (Jacqueline Hill) and Ian (William Russell) walk into a mystery of reanimatng corpses and strange atmospheres. Prevented from leaving by the theft of the entire TARDIS lock mechanism, the travellers must join forces with an Earth crew to do very quiet battle with a species that really don't like it when you shout...
As always, the print is fresh and sharp, and the audio quality excellent, and this often overlooked and undervalued story is a tight, claustrophobic and clever tale that's highly enjoyable - and is now backed up by a series of great extras.
Commentary - Toby Hadoke is once more in the Captain's Chair for this commentary with William Russell (Ian Chesterton), Carole Ann Ford (Susan Foreman) and designer and Dalek co-creator Ray Cusick as they gather together to discuss the story, the sets and the atmosphere. There's many giggles and laughs from Carole and William, with a little more serious talk from Mr Cusick. Always interesting, and informative - a really well brought together team enrich the release with ease. Very nicely done.
Looking For Peter - The always engaging Toby Hadoke (yes, him again!) embarks upon a hunt for the Doctor Who writer Peter R Newman. Not going to be easy, considering there's not a lot written online - or aywhere else about the man. Calling in everyone from Rob Shearman (Dalek) to the mighty Doctor Who Magazine, Toby turns detective to look at this enigma in the Doctor Who world... Their results... well, you'll have to watch it and find out! Little visual treats include a few Daleks and the occasional TARDIS in Toby's place, a split second glimpse of the Doctor Who scarf (sans moths) from his one-man show, and visual proof that he needs to clean his DVD remote control...
Vision On: Clive Doig - he of Jigsaw, and the aforenamed Vision On, talks about his time as a vision mixer on Doctor Who in the 1960s. With mentions on fluffed lines and things that didn't work (we're looking at you, TARDIS doors!) and producers' quirks to discussing Who's successes with the late, great Verity Lambert. A fun little piece on early Doctor Who, with possibly the best title music available. If you ever sent in a piece of artwork to The Gallery from Vision On or Take Hart; or if you remember Morph or the wonderful, much-missed Tony Hart, you'll recognise the music instantly!
Secret Voices of the Sense Sphere - A very short piece on a mystery voice talking behind Susan in The Sensorites, and what caused the technical blunder that let us hear her... quite interesting for a two minute featurette, really. Also lets you know just what the equipment was like in the studio during the early years of Who. Hardly vitally important information we all need to know, but like all the best little snippets of Doctor Who infomation, it sheds light on something fromt he show's past in a fun, entertaining way.
Coming Soon Trailer - Not one story, but three! Revisitions Box 3: The Robots of Death, The Three Doctors, and The Tomb of the Cybermen all get a refreshed release with new extras and new techniques of restoration applied to them; and from the clips shown, all three look amazing!
Info Text - The usual on-screen text during the story gives facts, figures, biographies and trivia whilst the drama plays out; including in Episode One, a breakdown of a visually stunning and unique piece of camera trickery and scene cutting in classic Doctor Who, that lends a huge amount of credence to the idea of the TARDIS' dimensional properties.
Photo Gallery - The usual selection of publicity shots and behind the scenes shots of the cast, crew and sets from The Sensorites, all looking sharp and wonderful, and sets to a variety of strange and wonderful noises from the BBC Radiophonic Workshop that sound like a mix of the TARDIS going haywire mixed with a Hoover heading for a breakdown. The pictures also show how wonderfully daft the Sensorites' costumes are...especially their feet!
The usual Subtitles and Audio Navigation for those who may want or need it, and the PDF Radio Times clippings and programme segments finish off this release nicely.
The Sensorites DVD does a lot to redress the various injustices thrown at the story over the years, giving it a smart new makeover so it looks and sounds great, and some solid backup featurettes. It may never be the huge fan favourite it deserves to be, but there's a lot of love about this story, and indeed this release. A great addition to the First Doctor stories, and a worthwhile purchase for any fan of Doctor Who and it's early years.
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Review: U.N.I.T Files - DVD
Written By: Malcolm Hulke & Terry Nation
Release Date: 9th January 2012
Review Posted: 8th January 2012
Invasion Of The Dinosaurs
Disc One:
The TARDIS arrives back in present day London, bringing The Doctor (Jon Pertwee) to a deserted capital city. However the TARDIS isn't the only time machine operating in the area; and it's up to the Time Lord and his companion Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) to work out who's responsible for the rather large stegasaurus in the middle of Pall Mall in this two disc release from the BBC / 2|Entertain stable; forming one of the two stories making up the U.N.I.T Files Box-set.
Disc One is almost entirely devoted to the six part story, but there are a few little buttons to press that do things...
Episode One in Colour - Episode one is now presented in both formats - both the black and white version that existed in the archives, and now, a re-coloured version. It's a very nice feeling being able to see the story entirely in colour, and even though the restoration can be a little patchy in parts, it serves well as an option for viewing. Having said that, the black and white version does lend a touch more credibility to the programme's dinosaur shaped co-stars.
Commentary - One of the highlights of recent Doctor Who DVDs is listening to the very smooth tones of Toby Hadoke introducing the commentary; and this time we hear more of him, as well as Paddy Russell; the director of this six part story. The pair work very well together, and Paddy is never less than entertainingly honest and forthright. A welcome addition to the story as it diverts the attention from some of the less successful elements featured, and a great extra.
Coming Soon Trailer - The original TARDIS crew have to keep their cool, their wits, and their voices down when the Sensorites steal the lock of the time machine. Can the Doctor save the Humans, broker peace, and get the TARDIS restored? The Sensorites DVD is the next release.
Production Notes - Behind the scenes information, actors careers and of course those all-conquering dinosaurs are discussed in the on-screen trivia text featured on the disc. As usual with these notes, they're informative, entertaining and always good for raising a smile or two.
Easter Egg - The Doctor vs the Floor Manager in an entirely boring ten second extra... find the hidden light up green Doctor Who logo!
Disc Two:
Special Featres:
Power, People and Puppetry - A half hour look back at the people and production of the story, featuring both cast and crew. Particularly entertaining are Barry Letts and Paddy Russell - especially when it comes to the introduction of the Whomobile. Also with previously taped interview excerpts of interviews with the late, great Jon Pertwee, including a riotously funny account of the Police vs Doctor Who in his super space car.
The featurette, for all it's great interviews, isn't presented that well, and you're really never sure whether the host of the piece is for or against the story - if he's for, then his choice of launguage used to describe the story is lacking. One of the major plusses however is that it doesn't dwell on the dinosaurs too long - we all know they weren't the greatest models ever used in Doctor Who, and it's good that the documentary doesn't linger unnecessarily over this fact. It's touched upon honestly and with humour, but it never overshadows the rest of the featurette.
Doctor Who Stories: Elisabeth Sladen: Part One - Culled from "The Story Of Doctor Who", this featurette does two things: it makes you remember just how great Sarah Jane Smith was, and it breaks your heart when you think that Lis Sladen is no longer with us to reprise that great character. Featured in part one are her experiences with the Third Doctor, from her meeting with Barry Letts and Jon Pertwee, through her memories of Daleks, Exxilons and Whomobiles. It's hardly new material, or in most cases new stories and anecdotes, but it's just great to see such a wonderful Doctor Who legend on screen looking so full of life, even if knowing there'll be no more new stories adds a piquancy to the featurette.
Now And Then - A guide to the various London shooting locations used in the story as they appeared in 1973, and as they are now. Some very nice footage comparison via picture in picture and some great clips used from the show, but with a voice over that sounds like the narrator would rather be elsewhere... and he can't say the word "nuclear", opting instead for "new-kew-lar".
John Levene Commentary - A ten minute featurette of Sergeant Benton's alter ego - John Levene - giving his thoughts on this story. Not terribly long, but if you're a fan of Levene you'll probably enjoy this short piece.
Billy Smart's Circus - There are very few programmes in television history where the star's minute long cameo could send thousands of children into paroxysms of delight. Doctor Who is definitely one of those programmes, as this brief clip of Jon Pertwee [turning up in the Whomobile at this televised circus extravaganza] shows. Jon is clearly amused by his child hosts and their inability to remember their lines or stage directions; but there are few things quite as memorable to a child as hearing the Doctor Who theme start up and the Doctor himself arriving a few feet away from you. Great little piece of telly trivia and nostalgia. Nice of the BBC to caption Jon as "Dr. Who" onscreen, too...
On Disc Two the usual Photo Gallery of cast and production stills and the PDF Radio Times listings are included, and on Disc One there are Subtitles and Audio Description Facilities for those who may want or need them for the main story.
Invasion of the Dinosaurs, whilst not being the most obvious choice for a UNIT story is nonetheless very entertaining, and the recolourisation of episode one is especially welcome. The extras are for the most part well thought out and devised. It's a great DVD release overall, and works well when twinned with the other story in this set, The Android Invasion starring Tom Baker's Doctor.
The Android invasion
In the second part of this two story set, the errant Time Lord (this time Tom Baker in the title role) lands the TARDIS in Devesham, not far away from the Space Defence Station. However as the Doctor and Sarah (Elisabeth Sladen) explore their surroundings, it becomes increasingly obvious that all is not what it seems; with fake trees, people and a set of grumpy space rhinos out to conquer the Earth.
Long before the Judoon, there were the Kraals. The original grumpy space rhino in a manic string vest/1960s dress combo - no wonder they were so annoyed! In a story that borrows rather a lot from Invasion of the Bodysnatchers there's a lot of tension and drama that plays out well. It's a great story, well-plotted, paced and acted, and the extras on this release really support that theme well.
Life After Who: Philip Hinchcliffe - Presented and perfectly pitched by BBC News presenter and daughter of the interviewee Celina Hinchcliffe; this featurette shows just what a versatile producer Philip Hinchcliffe was, and showcases some of the work that kept us glued to our screens away from the TARDIS. A very well paced segment that's interesting and convivial, Life After Who showcases the career of a talented witty man who, although mostly remembered for working on Doctor Who, had a hand in many other memorable programmes. Great piece!
Commentary - Toby Hadoke is in the command chair once more, this time with Philip Hinchcliffe (producer), Milton Johns (Guy Crayford in the story) and Marion McDougall, the Production Assistant on this story. Quite a gentle commentary but always interesting and amusing to listen to. Hadoke is, as always, a very engaging host and the commentary on this story is never forced and strung out. Very nicely done.
Weetabix Advert - John Scott Martin inside what looks like a repainted Supreme Dalek from Planet of the Daleks, and sounding like the voice is his too! Made to promote the range of cut out and keep figures, this entertaining short piece of televisual fluff from the 1970's diverts the attention for a minute or so, and leaves you wondering where a Dalek found a red plunger...
The Village That Came To Life - Nick Briggs; the voice of everything these days - presents this behind the scenes look at the origins, filming and story behind The Android Invasion. Some locals in a pub are interviewed (one of whom has a worryingly prophetic name...) and Hinchcliffe et al provide their thoughts and opinions on what worked, what didn't, and... Tom Baker. There's a very nice bit in this retrospective from Hinchcliffe about a lacklustre episode ending he spiced up into one of the Classic Series' most frightening and remembered cliffhangers. Very well put together and a lot of interesting talking heads.
Photo Gallery - Set to a bizarre mix of incidental music and weird Kraal noises, the sets, actors and locations for The Android Invasion captured in photographs. Black and white and colour photos, publicity shots, and a particularly charming picture of the late Lis Sladen, signing autographs for kids on location, with Tom Baker behind her doing the same. Lis looks very happy and content, and it's a lovely picture to remember her with.
Info Text - The usual on-screen subtitle trivia section. Facts, figures, audience shares and suchlike are paraded across your screen in a friendly and accessible format. As always, the trivia text even comes up with what the Radio Times was saying about each episode. Frivolous fun that holds the attention well.
Easter Egg - Yes, there's another one on this disc, and it's marginally more interesting than the one on the Invasion of the Dinosaurs disc...Marginally.
With the usual Subtitles for those who may want or need them, and the PDF Radio Times excerpts included on this disc, The Android Invasion is a fantasitc story and the disc can still easily engross the viewer, many years later from the original showing.
The U.N.I.T Files Box-set as a whole works well, even if the stories chosen (especially The Android Invasion) aren't what you'd usually expect for a set about the Doctor's friends and allies in the Armed Forces. However, on a different level, the stories do work very well as tributes for two of the Whoniverse's most-loved and much-missed actors, who passed away in 2011. Nick Courtney and the glorious Elisabeth Sladen are both showcased by this set, and that alone would be reason enough for buying it - even if the rest wasn't up to scratch. Happily, the extras on U.N.I.T Files do both stories proud, and make a great addition to the explanding Doctor Who library available on DVD.
Review: Colony in Space - DVD
Written By: Malcolm Hulke
Release Date: 3rd October 2011
Review Posted: 17th October 2011
The Doctor (Jon Pertwee) manages to get the TARDIS working... almost, and he and his companion Jo Grant (Katy Manning) arrive on the planet Uxarieus in the middle of a feud between a band of Colonists and a division of the Interplanetary Mining Corporation. En route to sort out the dispute is an Adjudicator from Earth, who may not be all he seems either. Can The Doctor overcome killer robots, giant lizards, primitive tribesmen, prune headed priests and Gail from Coronation Street, save the day and get Miss Grant safely back to Earth, or will an old adversary win the day? You can find out on this new single disc DVD release from BBC DVD / 2|Entertain, out now. With all six episodes looking sharp and sounding great and some entertaining and fun extras to compliment the story, it's time to step inside the TARDIS for her first flight of the Pertwee era...
Commentary - It's a very busy commentary this time round as Toby Hadoke guides his six guests through the story. Katy Manning (Jo), Bernard Kay (Caldwell), and Morris Perry (Captain Dent and no relation to Arthur Dent) join up with script editor Terrance Dicks, director Michael Briant and assistant floor manager Graeme Harper to relive their memories of the adventure. Vey enertaining, and Katy is always very entertaining to listen to.
From The Cutting Room Floor - Annotated edits and trims from the filming of the story; location filming and model filming trims are used. You do get the idea of just how appalling some of the conditions on locations actually were. Mud, anyone? There's almost thirteen mintes of trims and edits and shots, and it does tend to drag on somewhat, unless you're a real fan of these things.
IMC Needs You! - As an extra, this deserves prizes for keeping you entertained and giggling at the behind the scenes view. From seas of clay in freezing temperatures, via very unusual TARDIS landings and a spectacular and funny animation inviting you to grow a moustache. Most of the same crew as in the commentary are here on-screen giving life to the trials and tribulations of IMC robots and the problems of getting them through an average doorway...
By far the funniest revelation from director Michael Briant is why the TARDIS behaves so oddly when she materialises; an effect that has sparked many a fan debate over the decades. Was the landing due to the Time Lords controlling the TARDIS, or because of the shaky rebuilt dematerialisation circuit the Doctor's put together? Nope. To find out what it is... you'll have to watch.
A very light, fun, and well handled twenty five minute look back at Colony In Space, and it tackles the problems of the shoot without crossing over into regret or bitterness. Great stuff. And kust when you think it can't get any better, Briant re-appears on screen to talk about realising the diminutive alien hidden inside the wall, and the poor actor trying to give a performance with his neck almost breaking...
Photo Gallery - A selection of stills in colour and black and white, featuring the story's production, design and some well known publicity shots set to some background music/atmospheres, and the noise of that battered old blue box arriving. Some very interesting pictures in there, no mater how much you know about the serial!
Coming Soon Trailer - Dinosaurs! Styggron! More dinosaurs! Dopplegangers and replica pubs! Two Doctors, one amazing assistant (tip of the hat to the glorious, and much much missed Lis Sladen), an irreplaceable and also greatly missed Brigadier (another hat tip to the wonderful Nicholas Courtney) and UNIT soldiers. Lots of UNIT soldiers. But then this is... The UNIT Box Set. Out in January! Oh, and there's dinosaurs. Did I mention there's dinosaurs? And UNIT soldiers.
With the usual production notes filling you in on trivia and factoids via their onscreen subtitles, subtitles for anyone who many want or need them, and the Radio Times listings for the story presented in PDF format for those on computers to peruse, Colony is a slightly long, but very rewarding story with a wealth of great performances, and the ever watchable Roger Delgado as the first incarnation of The Master. The characters are well rounded, and The Doctor, Jo, and a TARDIS exterior that had definitely seen better days have a blast. Well worth buying.
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Review: Day of the Daleks - DVD
Written By: Louis Marks
Release Date: 12th September 2011
Review Posted: 31st August 2011
The Doctor (Jon Pertwee) is called on by UNIT to investigate a particularly murderous ghost; and from there he and his assistant Jo Grant (Katy Manning) are drawn into a web of time paradoxes, guerilla warfare and history changing events, all sponsored by those persistent perambulating pests...The Daleks! Can our intrepid hero, aided by UNIT, save Earth from World War Three and invasion by the cantankerous Kaleds?
Every now and again, something very special comes along on a Doctor Who DVD that stops you in your tracks and leaves you slack-jawed as to it's brilliance. This is one of those instances. This story has one of the most ambitious, well-done and ridiculously brilliant extras you could ever wish for...more of that in a moment.
The two disc set, from the BBC / 2|Entertain stable has the usual hallmarks of Classic Who as it is now presented; the original programme has been cleaned up and looks pin sharp and sounds clear and crisp, and there's a raft load of extras that really should not be missed. Incidentally, for those of you who like inane trivia, the original version of the story is the only one in Who history that keeps the sting (that's the electronic howl from the cliffhanger into the Who theme) on the recaps of episodes two and three.
Commentary - Anna Barry and Jimmy Winston (Anat and Shura respectively) talk us through the story with the late, great Barry Letts, and script editor Terrance Dicks. Also on hand to talk technicalities is vision mixer Mike Catherwood. The whole commentary is nicely paced, fun, and very entertaining to listen to.
Blasting the Past - Cast and crew old and new look back at the original story, it's strengths and weaknesses and what made it so successful. On hand are Katy Manning, Anna Barry and Jimmy Winston who were there at the time, being menaced by Rick Newby, who was inside one of the Daleks. Also contributing to this look back are Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks, John Friedlander (maker of monsters), and with further commentary from Dave Owen from DWM, new series writer Paul Cornell, Classic Series writer Ben Aaronovitch, and voice of pretty much everything these days Nicholas Briggs. Again, this half hour documentary has been handled with a lightness of touch that makes it flow very easily, and is very enjoyable to watch. It happily wallows in nostalgia without getting bogged down in it.
A View From The Gallery - Mike Catherwood and Barry Letts talk about the changing way Doctor Who was filmed and vision mixed over the years, as well as the technology then compared with now. This twenty minute piece shows just how well the two men know their craft, and can talk about it without getting monotonous. An illuminating little feature, that gives a clue into just how much technical expertise went into producing television in the 1970s.
Nationwide - A short piece from the BBC's flagship magazine programme of the time about a junior school that made the silly, silly mistake of winning the Radio Times writing competition...first prize: one working, crabby, angry Dalek. This report shows the somewhat smaller than expected pepperpot arriving at the school and the kids' reactions to it. Amusing nostalgia...you'll see the Dalek and nearly die laughing.
Blue Peter - Peter Purves is joined in the BP studio by the original TARDIS prop (looking in an absolutely terrible state!) and three Daleks to look back on his time during Doctor Who. Again, it's all amusing nostalgia, and a rare glimpse of how BBC Children's TV communicated to their audience over thirty years ago. Do wear sunglasses whilst watching this, as some of the fashions on display could easily burn out your eyes.
Coming Soon Trailer - Courtesy of the Time Lords remotely steering the TARDIS, The Doctor and Jo pitch up on the planet Uxarieus to face off with Reverend Magister, a walking prune, a rather violent IMC robot and some terribly unhappy miners. Colony In Space is next month's Classic Doctor Who release!
With the usual Info Text (which this month tells you where to spot edits and bloopers and gives an exhaustive rundown of Dudley Simpson's score for the show), a Photo Gallery and Subtitles for those who may want or need them, it's a great DVD...but wait...that's JUST Disc One!
Day of the Daleks: Special Edition - New FX! New scenes! New Music! More Daleks! More Ogrons! More UNIT troops! New Dalek Voices! It's Doctor Who, Jim, but not as we know it!
Now although it's obviously the same story, it really doesn't feel like it. The team have done a stunning job in fixing things that could have been done better with more time and money (e.g: the Daleks' floating monitor has been stabilised, so it no longer looks like the start of "Victoria Wood As Seen On TV"), and they've tackled the big issues people have had with the show over the years - they've also addressed in the extras on the second disc.
The Making of Day of the Daleks: Special Edition - The producer of this Special Edition shows us what prompted the upgrade, what's been done, and how. Very entertaining and clever, this documentary showcases the level of love and interest that's gone into the package - even to the extent of making a brand new Day-era Dalek for help with filming some scenes! With contributions from all those involved, this is a must see, and gives a great insight into the level of dedication given to this revamp of a Classic story.
Now And Then - The latest in the series of "How much has it changed since we filmed Doctor Who there?" gives us an overview of what became Auderly House, and the tunnel, to see what, if anything, has changed. Toby Hadoke narrates the short piece.
The UNIT Family: Part Two - In the second part of this series, we get to see the strong "family" that was UNIT. Featuring contributions from the three UNIT regulars (including the much missed Nicholas Courtney), as well as Barry Letts, Katy Manning, and Derek Ware amongst others, this goes a long way to explaining the logic and thought into giving the Third Doctor a decent backup team. It also has some rather entertaining admissions and anecdotes from the cast and crew, which endears it no end to the viewer - Richard Franklin in particular being remarkably entertaining and witty.
The UNIT Dating Conundrum - Apparently, there are some people in fandom who want to know the dates/time frame of UNIT's involvement in Doctor Who. Why they would want to know such a thing is a matter for discussion somewhere else, but in case you are one of those people, Toby Hadoke tries to piece it all together using the very few dates there are to go on. Terrance Dicks, Ben Aaronovitch, and Dave Owen don't help at all, and by the end of it poor Toby is being carted off in one of those special dinner jackets with the wrap around arms.
The Cheating Memory - Steve Broster goes on a journey to try and find out why Day of the Daleks was so different in reality from the memory of his six year old self. A fascinating extra, with input from a psychologist as well as the usual talking heads featured on this DVD; namely Nicholas Briggs and Ben Aaronovitch. It is something that most Doctor Who fans can relate to, having memories of something being insanely epic, scary, and frightening when you were little, only to watch it again and feel yourself deflate as the second viewing doesn't live up to your memories of the first. A wonderfully worthwhile piece, and very enlightening.
Day of the Daleks: Special Edition is a masterpiece. With both the original and the frankly amazing redux of the story on the release, it's bound to keep all parties happy. The new version is simply stunning, and well worth the time, money and effort spent on the release. This is a must buy, a simply-cannot-miss DVD, and bears repeated watching to find just what's been changed and updated. It's not all CGI Dalek rays, there's some very subtle tiny touches as well that make the release even more enjoyable when you discover them.
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Review: The Sun Makers - DVD
Written By: Robert Holmes
Release Date: 1st August 2011
Review Posted: 16th July 2011
The Doctor (Tom Baker) lands the ever unreliable TARDIS on Pluto, a dwarf planet on the outermost reaches of our solar system, where he finds it isn't the cold, barren, lifeless rock he was expecting. Someone's been very busy; Pluto now has a breathable atmosphere, it's warm and very humid, and has six suns. It also has an overly efficient taxation system, oppressed work units who live underground, and public executions. Can the Time Lord, Leela (Louise Jameson), and a small robot dog free the people and bring down the sinister Collector and his Internal Retinue? This single disc release from the BBC and 2|Entertain will let you find out... all praise the Company!
The Sun Makers is an enjoyably daft romp; a satire on taxation and bureaucracy. Two characters steal the show from start to finish; Leela, as played by fan favourite Louise Jameson, and Henry Woolf's delightfully odious and fiscally-obsessed Collector. Leela has all the best heroic lines - including a beautifully withering put-down of the less than brave rebels - and The Collector has all the best villainous lines, backed up with a characterisation that's hard not to warm to. It's all small fry by Whoniverse standards, and isn't an especially memorable story for plot reasons, but it's diverting and fun. The K-9 prop is so noisy it's untrue, the TARDIS door doesn't want to lock, and The Doctor no longer knows what a jelly baby looks like.
Annoyingly, the DVD is let down by a lack of decent extras, with only a few things holding the interest for any length of time; mostly because the rest of the extras are very, very short.
Commentary - This time, the commentary boasts both main cast members sitting in as both Tom Baker and Louise Jameson join Michael Keating and The Sun Makers director Pennant Roberts to talk about the story, the production and life during and after Doctor Who. Tom is always great fun to listen to, and teamed up with Louise again, the commentary provided is both entertaining and informative.
Running From The Tax Man - Louise Jameson is one of those people you instantly adore. She's very gentle and calm, witty and warm. She's also honest - but in a nice way that doesn't tread on people's toes. She's easily the best reason to watch this retrospective of The Sun Makers, and she reveals why this story above any other is her particular favourite. Also in the mini-documentary discussing the story are Michael Keating, (best known as "Vila" from "Blake's 7"), director Pennant Roberts, and an astronomer and a historian have been drafted in as well, partially to explain about Pluto and it's new status as a dwarf planet rather than a planet. It's an odd extra as it seems to repeat the same information several times, especially when it comes to the astronomy parts; but it's entertaining enough for that.
Outtakes - Citizen Cordo's gun fails to go off twice...No, really, that's it. Hardly an interesting or justifiable extra in itself, but would have been better used hidden away as an Easter Egg on the DVD, perhaps.
Trailer - The original BBC1 trailer for The Sun Makers. Again, nothing else, just the one trailer.
The Doctor's Composer: Part Two - The second and final part of the series on one of Doctor Who's most prolific composers, the fantastic Dudley Simpson. This segment concentrates on his Doctor Who work from the seventies with the man himself talking us through much of his work and utilising many examples of his famous compositions through a wealth of clips. It's a delight to watch, as you try and figure out which music came from what story. A nice piece, with a genuine affection for one of Doctor Who's often unsung but most deserving behind the scenes heroes. This brilliant featurette gives a warm nostalgic glow and it's hard not to be drawn down memory lane for an enjoyably exciting jaunt.
Coming Soon Trailer - This one will blow your socks off. The Doctor (Jon Pertwee) and his assistant Jo Grant (Katy Manning) team up with UNIT to help save a peace conference being hosted by Sir Reginald Styles. However, those tinpot terrors The Daleks have other ideas... With new Dalek voices, and a wealth of new special effects and CGI, the Day of the Daleks Special Edition is out in September.
With the usual Photo Gallery of production and publicity stills, the Radio Times Listings in PDF format, and Subtitles available for those who might need them, and the usual information text on hand with trivia and viewing figures, The Sun Makers is a worthy enough story, rather badly supported by the extras available on the disc, and it all feels a bit empty as a result.
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Review: Paradise Towers - DVD
Written By: Stephen Wyatt
Review Posted: 23rd June 2011
Mel, as played by Bonnie Langford, wants to go for a 453 appendix 1 subsection 6 swim. If this were everyday drama, she would, and that would be that. However this is Doctor Who and things rarely go according to any sort of plan the main characters have, in this 1987 story, remastered and released on this single disc DVD from the BBC / 2|Entertain team of Caretakers.
The Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) pilots the TARDIS to Paradise Towers - a "remarkable architectural achievment" promising a clean, lovely, comfortable living experience, and with a swimming pool on the roof. Accordingly, Mel can paddle whilst the Time Lord can have a (512 appendix 2 subsection 9) look around and investigate things. However upon exiting the now materialised time machine they discover a much different world of uncared for spaces, unexplained disappearances, and unfriendly inhabitants in all shapes and sizes… and something truly horrific in the basement.
Paradise Towers is one of those stories that you may remember as being not terribly good; but happily it's not the case at all. Despite a few cases of acting so wooden it puts the section 9/41, subsection 12c props to shame, it's a clever tale of high-rise horror and society meltdown in a confined area. It manages to feel tight and claustrophobic, and the script and wordplay used are first rate. Cleaned up and remastered in a way the Towers never were, this first season McCoy story manages to succeed on many levels - probably due to the Kangs pressing the buttons for all the floors on the alleviator again..
The special features on this release are well thought out and worthy of a 178 appendix 13 subsection 7 round of applause:
Horror on the High Rise - Mark Ayres takes a look at the making of the story, with contributions from writer Stephen Wyatt, script editor Andrew Cartmel, incidental music composers Keff McCulloch and David Snell, and actors Richard Briers, Catherine Cusack, and Howard Cooke. Clever, insightful and revealing, it shows the story's roots, along with the strengths and weaknesses of the tale. Entertaining and informative, with some accurate and amusing views on the way some of the actors chose to protray their characters.
Girls! Girls! Girls!: The Eighties - Presented by Doctor Who stalwart Peter Purves, this riotously funny and entertaining featurette has Sophie Aldred, Sarah Sutton and Janet Fielding discussing the highs and lows, the trials and tribulations, and the ins and outs of being a Doctor Who assistant. Fielding especially is brilliantly funny, her acidic humour never crossing the line into nastiness, but still demonstrating some of the slightly less eviable things the 80s female companions were expected to put up with, from high fabshion disasters to stereotyping after leaving the show. Defintely a winner, and a team that should be assembled again to discuss all things Who.
Deleted and Extended Scenes - From the first edit of the story, some trims and edited sequences that never made the transmitted version of the show; and there are some very good scenes in there too.
Audio Options - Not only does this DVD have the usual available 304 subsection 12 commentary, hosted by Mark Ayres again, with Judy Cornwell, Stephen Wyatt and Dick Mills, it also has something of a rarity - an entire second incidental music score.
The original score by David Snell was vetoed by showrunner John Nathan-Turner back in the day, and Keff McCulloch was commissioned to do a very quick replacement. Both of these versions are available on the DVD, with Snell's score in particular giving a dark, more menacing feel to the story.
Continuity - The linking announcements for the BBC1 transmission, together with plugs for some of the Doctor Who VHS tapes avaialbe at the time. Notable for an announcer getting the name of one story wrong, and for one link cutting off a mere second before being exposed to the "hilarity" that was "Hi-De-Hi".
Casting Sylvester - A very short piece from Clive Doig explaining his working relationshop with Sylvester McCoy and how he helped with Sylvester being chosen to play the seventh incarnation of The Doctor.
Coming Soon Trailer - The Coming Soon section itself has had a 915 appendinx 8 subsection 2 makeover. Gone is the vworping TARDIS, and in it's place is a slick little end sequence after a great trailer for the next release.
The TARDIS arrives on Pluto, to find Citizen Cordo about to take a header off the roof as he can't pay the taxes levied by Gatherer Hade and a small venomous leech called "The Collector". Can the Fourth Doctor, Leela and K-9 lead a work unit revolution, or has the Time Lord's life expectancy overdrawn? The Sunmakers DVD is out in August.
With the usual Photo Gallery, Radio Times listings, Subtitles for those who may need them and the Production Notes and Info Text giving you facts and trivia along the way, Paradise Towers is an enjoyable Doctor Who story well worth watching again, on pain of a 327 appendix 3 subsection 9 death.
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Review: EarthStory - DVD
Written By: Donald Cotton & Eric Pringle
Release Date: 20th June 2011
Review Posted: 16th June 2011
The Gunfighters
Disc One of the EarthStory double release from the BBC and 2|Entertain is this 1966 adventure, in which the TARDIS materialises in Tombstone, Arizona; so The Doctor can find a dentist. Unfortunately, the dentist is one Doc Holliday and not far behind him are the Clanton brothers, Wyatt Earp, and Johnny Ringo. It's time for the gunfight at the OK Corrall...
The Gunfighters is a very difficult story to judge. The series regulars all put in smashing performances - Hartnell in particular having some great moments and lines; his constant renaming of Wyatt Earp to "Mr Werp" is guaranteed to raise a smile, and his reaction to his introduction to the Clanton brothers is simply priceless. The rest of the story is actually fairly enjoyable if a little pedestrian; and boasts some nifty camerawork and ideas, and, for a 1960s television serial, a great set with a great cast inhabiting it. Marred only by the incessant caterwauling of "The Ballad of the Last Chance Saloo n" at every given opportunity. It's a very different view of how historical events played out, with large portions of the show seemingly lifted from a number of Western films, but it's no less enjoyable for that.
As usual, the DVD version has been cleaned up considerably, and the qual ity of the presented material is top rate. The DVD also has some great extras, although it is sadly lacking a mute function to save you from the constant high pitched wailing of Lynda Baron singing that wretched ballad.
The End of the Line - An honest, truthful and sometimes uncomfortable documentary about the end of William Hartnell's time as the First Doctor. Fascinating to watch, it's a tale of constantly changing writers and editors, forced cast changes and Bill Hartnell's deteriorating health as ateriosclerosis took a toll. With contributions from Donald Tosh, Maureen O'Brien, Peter Purves and Anneke Wills, "End of the Line" shows just how much of a complete slog it was getting Doctor Who out every week on an almost impossibly long production run.
If you're a strong fan of William Hartnell it can be a tad unsettling to listen to the less than glowing remarks made of his irascibilty due to illness, but happily Maureen O'Brien and Peter Purves share the other side of the original Time Lord, a deeply passionate and caring man who was very protective of the show itself. It also sheds a somewhat harsh, if truthful, light on Vicki and Dodo's departures from Doctor Who and just how much of an impact The Daleks had on the production of the show.
Tomorrow's Times - Mary Tamm adds a great deal of effortless glamour to the First Doctor edition of "Tomorrow's Times", which shows the the brief flirtation the British Press (notably the Daily Mail) had with Daleks and the earlier days of Doctor Who. Very reminiscent of an episode of Points of View in styling, this fun little extra begins the story - already continued on other DVDs for other eras of the show - of the love-hate relationship between journalists and The Doctor and his trusty TARDIS.
Commentary - Toby Hadoke sits in the captain's chair once more; as Peter Purves, Shane Rimmer, David Graham, Richard Beale, and production assistant at the time Tristan de Vere Cole talk us through The Gunfighters. Always fascinating to listen to anecdotes and gems from a production made forty five years ago, this entertaining and useful extra on the DVD serves double duty; as switching on the commentary drowns out a great deal of the Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon.
Photo Gallery - An amazing selection of vintage photographs of the set, cast, and production of The Gunfighters. The photo's have been cleaned up amazingly and there's some glorious views of the whole, from the TARDIS sans lamp to the camera tower erected in the middle of the studio to give some innovative camera angles to the production. Set to the full length version of The Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon. Brilliant if you know where the mute button is.
Coming Soon Trailer - The death of Caretaker 345/12 Subsection B informs us that the TARDIS will soon be arriving at Paradise Towers, home of the Kangs, the Rezzies, and Pex (who puts the world of Paradise Towers to rights...). There's something nasty and very hungry in the basement... and on most other floors of the high rise building as well. Can The Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) and Mel (Bonnie Langford) find their way to the swimming pool without being put to a 327 appendix 3 subsection 9 death?
The Gunfighters DVD also has the listings from the Radio Times in PDF format, subtitles available, and the usual production notes are also included.
A great package and well worth watching for some excellent performances and moments of genuinely funny comedy in a competent and well made Who story; if you can get past the singing.
In the second of the 2|Entertain / BBC two disc DVD release EarthStory, the Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Turlough arrive in Little Hodcombe to visit Andrew Verney the local historian - also Tegan's grandfather. However something's affecting the locals and their re-enactment of the local War Games is getting rather too realistic...
The Awakening is a short, punchy story that's a deserved fan favourite in the history of Classic Who. The cast are superb, the locations and sets stunning, and The Malus is one of the most memorable Doctor Who monsters for several reasons; notably because it works so well and it really does look creepy. Everything from the incidental music to the costumes seem to fit together seamlessly, and make a thoroughly enjoyable two part adventure.
Stealing the show are Polly James as Jane, and Keith Jayne as Will Chandler, both of whom work so well in the story. Jane is the single voice of reason before The Doctor arrives, and Will is simply one of the most endearing and innocent supporting characters in Who's long history. And of course, The Awakening does have one of the most iconic monsters on hand in the shape of the Malus - even more remarkable when you consider it was only onscreen for a couple of minutes in total.
The DVD release also has a number of very well thought out and produced extras that seem to exude a warm, happy glow about the story; and as always, sound and vision throughout the DVD are crisp and bright.
Return to Little Hodcombe - A twenty minute look at the area, as Little Hodcombe was a gestalt of three villages, with the director Michael Owen Morris, script editor Eric Saward, and Janet Fielding (Tegan) and Keith Jayne (Will). From the outset of this piece, Morris brings senses of warmth and fondness to proceedings that are hard to ignore. He obviously enjoys his work - both on Doctor Who and his other projects - and it clearly shows.
There's some fun snippets of locals talking about when Doctor Who came to their village, an event that still seems to be a subject of local pride, and Janet Fielding remembers the cast being quite protective of the new director on his first TV work. Keith Jayne discusses Will Chandler, and Eric Saward chimes in on how the story was re-written and whether Will would have made a good addition to the TARDIS crew. A nice sweet old lady tells us about lame horses on set, and her husband tells us how to spot Doctor Who fans on location...
Making the Malus - A fun look at the giant face in the wall, with designer Tony Harding and model-maker Richard Gregory. A short piece on how the Malus was conceived and built, with a rare look behind the face to see how the different parts of the monster were controlled. To finish, there's a short interview with Paul Burrows who bought the Malus at auction and what happens when utilites workmen find giant stone monsters mounted on your living room wall... Another fun and entertaining short, and again, with some warmth and affection for the subject matter leaving you with a very positive feeling.
Commentary - Toby Hadoke once again chairs the commentary team, this time with director Michael Owen Morris and Eric Saward as their share knowledge and opinions of the serial as an audio option on the DVD. Again, Morris' obvious fondness for his work shows through easily and keeps the mood light.
Now & Then - The three villages used as locations in The Awakening are revisited to find that not a lot has changed. There's still thatched cottages and farm buildings, and there's still a ford across the road, even if it is now somewhat waterless... clips and photographs are used effectively, and the linking narration fills in any blanks nicely.
From the Cutting Room Floor - Some extended and deleted scenes from the story, including an appearance by Kamelion. There's also some of the film rushes from the location shoots, and some timecoded VHS sequences that were trimmed.
The Golden Egg Awards - Taken from another BBC1 staple of the time, this excerpt from The Late Late Breakfast Show hosted by Noel Edmonds shows the now infamous outtake featuring a horse, a cart, and a prop lychgate being unexpectedly demolished. Peter Davison is on hand to collect the trophy from Noel Edmonds.
Isolated Music - The Awakening has some excellent incidental music, and this option of the DVD gives you a chance to view the story with the isolated music score. Well worth a listen if you're a fan of the somewhat under-appreciated composers on Classic Doctor Who.
As usual, the DVD also features a photo gallery of production and publicity shots, the Radio Times listings from the story in PDF format, subtitles for those that may need them, and the Production Notes Info Text available to have onscreen as the story plays out.
The Awakening is a great addition to Classic Doctor Who on DVD, and if you're a fan then the EarthStory DVD set is a must-have for your collection.
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Review: Frontios - DVD
Written By: Christopher H. Bidmead
Release Date: 30th May 2011
Reviewed By: Dale Who for D octor Who Online
Review Posted: 18th April 2011
Let's get something straight and out in the open right from the outset... There is a type of creature that is made scarier by making it larger. In Doctor Who's long history, they would be giant maggots and giant spiders. They work with an already present fear or revulsion of the creatures to produce a memorably scary Doctor Who monster. In the not scary bracket are giant ants and butterflies (the Zarbi and Menoptera from 1965's "The Web Planet")... and woodlice. Woodlice are not scary. Not even remotely.
Frontios is a polarised story. Some parts of it work brilliantly, and some parts of it really don't; and this new BBC / 2|Entertain DVD showcases both these aspects and examines them in the special features on the single disc release.
Starting with the story itself, Frontios is a fairly low budget studio bound Doctor Who, coming towards the end of Peter Davison's tenure as The Doctor. The regular cast continue to shine, with Davison and Janet Fielding especially stealing every scene they're in; and there are some brilliant guest stars in Jeff Rawle as Plantagenet and Lesley Dunlop in the role of Norna. There are some great lines and jokes along the way, and the Doctor is in one of those "grouchy professor" moods that suited his young persona so very well.
Sadly for Frontios, that's about where the good ends. The sets - although you can see an awful lot of effort and thought went into them - don't work in convincing that the studio is the surface of an alien planet, some of the performances really aren't great, and then there's the Tractators. Giant flapping woodlice that fail in just about every way possible to be even remotely thrilling.
This story will be remembered for two main reasons; firstly this is the one where the previously indestructible TARDIS was destroyed (albeit briefly!), and secondly for the unpleasant infestation of some particularly large and rubbish woodlice that hung around for two (and a bit) episodes. Its failures certainly aren't for the lack of trying: the direction, the handling and the production all work well with what they've got. However it looks cheap and rushed and all a little too hurried to carry off what still wouldn't have been a great story with a budget ten times larger.
It is also worth noting that several of the concepts shown in this story (the colonists being pulled down through the ground, and witnesses referring to this as the Earth being hungry) were re-used and utilised to much better effect in the 2010 series of Doctor Who, in the Silurian episode "The Hungry Earth"... now where did they get that title from?
Driven To Distractation - There are many reasons to love this half hour featurette; it has a lot of frank honesty, a lot of humour, and gives a robust defence of the story itself. It almost succeeds in making you like the story more. Almost. What it definitely succeeds at is showing the rush-job that the Doctor Who cast and crew faced to get the story in the can, in the face of several tragedies and setbacks; and it shows the thought processes behind the writing of the serial. It's nicely put together, uses relevant footage from the time and is decidedly non-judgemental and supportive in what comes across in quite a sweet way. The writers and stars do admit where there were mistakes made, and it's very brave of them to do so, even if Christopher H. Bidmead neatly places the blame on everyone but himself.
Extra / Deleted Scenes - Minor trims and one or two scenes that play rather well but didn't make it into the final cut of the programme. There's a brilliant bit about the Doctor's spectacles, and Tegan being an android that really should have been aired; they're funny, clever, and give Tegan and the Doctor some great lines.
Commentary - Peter Davison, Jeff Rawle, Dick Mills and Eric Saward sit around a red table and give opinions, anecdotes, memories and an overall view of how the show holds up for them twenty seven years on. It's all quite pleasant and jovial and Rawle and Mills especially give some new angles on how the guest stars, and the "special sound" on Doctor Who were used.
Info Text - The usual trivia packed information is available on this disc as well, although most of it seems obsessed in pointing out where anything over two seconds of cuts were made to trim episodes down from over running. It also points out a couple of continuity errors and the careers and times of the guests stars that appeared in Frontios.
Coming Soon Trailer - The next absurdly themed boxed set: Earthstory, in which William Hartnell's Doctor lands in Tombstone in search of a dentist and gets rather caught up with "The Gunfighters", and Peter Davison's Doctor lands in Little Hodcombe and discovers a centuries old evil lurking in the local church in "The Awakening".
With the usual fripperies as well, such as the Radio Times PDF files, and the Photo Gallery from Frontios, these features help buoy a story that's not as strong as it might have been; however it's certainly not for the lack of trying.
Review: Mannequin Mania - DVD
Release Date: 9th May 2011
The Classic Series Auton stories get a paired release in this two disc set from the BBC / 2|Entertain.
Spearhead from Space: Special Edition
Starting off the Third Doctor's era is Spearhead From Space; and with the show now in colour and set on Earth in contemporary Britain, the whole feel of the programme changes radically.
As with previous older releases, it looks like the recording has been cleaned up considerably, and the print is fresh, sharp, and looking and sounding first class. Spearhead from Space also benefits from being on location and film, as opposed to the studio based scenes and with the usual videotape recordings. The story looks more expensive and runs more smoothly as a result.
A swarm of meteorites land on Earth drawing attention from UNIT and a new and deadly alien menace emerges; and at the same time an old blue Police Box lands in the middle of Oxley Woods, and a strange man with an odd metabolism emerges and passes out...
Featuring an amazing debut from the unstoppably charismatic Jon Pertwee, a perfectly pitched and suitably sceptical Liz Shaw arriving on the scene with Hugh Burden being amazingly creepy as the not-quite-what-he-seems Channing. Also missing shoes, overly sticky blood platelets, and a Hoover 913 Commercial...
The Spearhead from Space Special Features focus, understandably, on the changes that Doctor Who as a programme was going through.
Down To Earth - A clever look at the problems facing the show at the end of the Troughton era, how it narrowly avoided being cancelled, and how a new team in front of and behind the camera and the advent of colour television turned the show's fortunes around. It's easy to see the level on love and passion for Doctor Who here, especially from Terrance Dicks and the late - and much missed - Barry Letts. A smart set up to keep the narrative flowing, Down To Earth works very well indeed.
Regenerations - A closer look at the introduction of colour and how it affected Doctor Who. From colour test transmissions to getting round the tricky problem that colour cameras didn't replicate the show's "howlaround" title sequence effects, this enlightening little documentary demonstrates all the changes behind the scenes that the entertained Who viewer never knew anything about.
UNIT Recruitment Film - Serving as a timely, if unintended tribute to the recently deceased Nicholas Courtney, this spoof film about the life of a soldier in UNIT now mixes the humour with a twinge of sadness. Narrated by Adam Woodyatt (EastEnders' Ian Beale) and the aforementioned Brigadier himself, it's a short, warm tribute to the Earth-bound Pertwee years with the UNIT family.
Trailers - The BBC Two trails for the mid 1990s repeats for Spearhead From Space, and one for BBC Two's Doctor Who Night; the latter featuring a traumatised child on the sofa and evil possessed goldfish. Fun fluff, if nothing else, good for raising a smile.
Commentaries - With this release there are two commentaries available, one with Caroline John (Liz Shaw, who debuts in this story) and Nicholas Courtney, and one with story producer Derrick Sherwin and script editor Terrance Dicks.
Trailer - The TARDIS, with the Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Turlough on board, is heading for a rather bumpy arrival on the planet Frontios.
Terror of the Autons:
It's the return of the Plastic People! In a story with another few firsts, smart and sassy Liz Shaw has been replaced by small and screaming Jo Grant (Katy Manning), as Terror of the Autons heralds the debut of one of Doctor Who's major player villains; the only person who's managed to cause the Doctor to regenerate not once but twice... fellow Time Lord and all round bad egg; The Master. Here played by the absolutely glorious Roger Delgado, this incarnation was impeccably mannered, unstoppably suave... and as black hearted as they come. UNIT has also expanded with Mike Yates (Richard Franklin) on the crew, and there's some memorably monstrous moments from the Nestenes causing pandemonium once more.
Doctor Who stalwart (and later to be Davros), Michael Wisher puts in a great performance alongside the major cast members, but the scenes are stolen by the ingenious ways in which the writers came up with to kill people... notably scarily faceless Policemen and murderous clammy black plastic sofas…
In a step beyond its coloured VHS release, the BBC / 2|Entertain release has been fully restored so the colour looks a lot more natural this time around. Again the restoration looks pin sharp, with top quality sound and visuals. The story justifies the amount of love and attention given to the release, and it's all top quality entertainment paired with its earlier Auton outing.
Life On Earth - Another, wider look at Doctor Who being set on Earth and its implications. This time around there's talk around the newer, post-2005 Doctor Who as well as the influences and origins of the Russell T. Davies era Autons. It's a very interesting and entertaining documentary, with a really clever visual style, some really honest interviews, and again, it all goes to show the level of commitment shown to Doctor Who past and present.
The Doctor's Moriarty - A look at The Master, who turns up to meddle in the Doctor's affairs for the very first time in this story. Quite naturally this little retrospective focusses mostly on Roger Delgado's era of The Master, but mention is made of the Master's later incarnations as well, right up to John Simm's recent outings as the character. A decent featurette looking at the origins of the character, uses and overuses, and what made Roger Delgado so good as the Doctor's Nemesis.
Plastic Fantastic - A short look at the Autons, their creation, uses and the society they were unleashed upon, with writers and historians shedding some light on the Nestenes' favourite substance to inhabit.
With a highly entertaining Commentary from Barry Letts, Nicholas Courtney and Katy Manning, the usual info text option to divulge trivia, audience figures and bloopers and the same Coming Soon Trailer for Frontios, this rounds off an appallingly titled, but absolutely stunning Auton double feature that should feature in anyone's collection. Brilliant.
just remember DVDs are made of plastic...
Review: Planet of the Spiders - DVD
Written By: Robert Sloman and Barry Letts
Review Posted: 20th March 2011
The epic, six part conclusion to Jon Pertwee's era of Doctor Who arrives with this double disc DVD from BBC DVD / 2|Entertain. Disc one is the episodic version of Planet of the Spiders, complete with an optional commentary from Elisabeth Sladen, Richard Franklin and the now sadly passed away and much loved and missed Nicholas Courtney. All the info usual text is available and it's a great romp; one hundred and fifty minutes of classic science fantasy television. The giant spiders of Metebelis Three are after the blue crystal The Doctor removed from the planet back in The Green Death, and will stop at nothing to get it back in their webby little legs...
Pertwee's swansong adventure is a long, but very entertaining affair. It features every form of transport you can think of, and even some dashing about in the TARDIS - something or a rarity for this incarnation of the Time Lord. The UNIT family are all together one last time, and it's a celebration of the Third Doctor, and all handled in precisely the way that had made the first colour season of Doctor Who work so well. It's fun, exciting and worth every second. You'll never look at those big spiders in your bathroom the same way again...
On disc two there's the extras, and something quite surprising. There's a really nicely put together look back over Pertwee's time as the Doctor, and an equally warm feature with Barry Letts looking back on his time with Doctor Who; both of which show just how much work and love went into the show from start to finish. Both featurettes have contributions from a variety of sources, including Jon Pertwee, Terrance Dicks, and of course Barry Letts himself. There are also some great anecdotes from people like Mat Irvine on the spider props and the lesson of telling people what you need in good time; and from John Kane, the immensely likeable and gentle Tommy in the story, on his memories of Who and what he's done since.
Then there's the longest television trailer ever for a repeat run of Planet of the Spiders shown as one long story on a Saturday afternoon in December on BBC1 - the trailer just rambles on and on and on, with clips upon clips; it looked like the BBC had a lot of time to fill that Christmas!
And then, the surprising thing is... they included the abridged story itself! The unrestored and very long edited together version is here too for your enjoyment, which slightly mystifies me, as there's no extra material as there was with the Battlefield release for example, but if you're a completist it's all good for the collection.
The story gets 10/10 for being suitably epic and wrapping up the UNIT years with panache and style, and the extras get 10/10 for leaving you with a warm glow that Doctor Who was genuinely loved and cared for during Pertwee's tenure as the Time Lord.
Review: The Ark - DVD
Written By: Paul Erickson and Lesley Scott
Reviewed By: Doctor Who Online
Right from the off, The Ark is a story that grips the viewer, owing to the magnificent jungle set that gives us a sense of scale - not to mention the striking sight of the eventual villain, all within the first 60 seconds.
But all is not what it seems in this serial, that packs some shocking twists and suspenseful builds, to what turns out to be an incredibly intelligently constructed adventure.
The twist that comes at the end of Episode Two in particular is a direct example of the intelligence in the script. Throughout the first two episodes, the viewer simply accepts the fact that the Monoids are essentially slaves to the humans of the Ark. And only when the situation is flipped in Episode Three, do you suddenly realise the poignancy of this acceptance and how actions have consequences.
There are several morals within the story, but perhaps the most painstakingly obvious one is never time travel if you have a cold!
The DVD is rounded off with some connecting features that compliment the story.
The 'Commentary' is moderated by Toby Hadoke and features Peter Purves (Steven) & Michael Imison (Director). Toby does an excellent job of guiding the guests, of which both contribute evenly with some great stories and memories. One such story tells us how unaccommodating the BBC was to the Elephant (seen in Episode One) at the time, and how the director had to keep it in a van outside of his house, overnight.
'All's Wells That Ends Wells' looks at Doctor Who's connection to H.G. Wells, and the inspiration taken from his work. In particular looking at the similarities between The Ark, and H.G. Wells' The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The Sleeper Awakes and The War of the Worlds. It includes interviews with Matthew Sweet (Historian & Writer), Kim Newman (Novelist & Critic), Dominic Sandbrook (Historian & Writer), Tony Keen (Research Associate, Open University) & Graham Sleight (Editor, "Foundation").
Even fans of Wells' work will be surprised at just how much influence he appears to have given to this story.
'One Hit Wonder' casts a light on why some Doctor Who monsters only appeared once, with a spotlight on The Monoids, in particular. The feature includes interviews with Jacqueline Rayner (Author), Dominic Sandbrook (Historian & Writer), Kim Newman (Novelist & Critic) & Matthew Sweet (Writer & Historian).
This feature could have been a little longer, perhaps focusing on some of the other 'one hit wonders' such as The Zygons, The Sensorites or The Axons.
'Riverside Story' is a 20-minute feature that looks at London's Riverside Studios; Doctor Who's temporary home from 1964-1968.
Presented by Matthew Sweet as he brings Peter Purves back to the location, we learn about some of the challenges that The Ark faced, not to mention, how to build a Jungle within a spaceship!
The documentary also features sit-down interviews with Peter Purves and Michael Imison (Director).
Apart from the main story itself, this documentary is the set piece in The Ark DVD, adding newfound respect for a building that was instrumental in one of Doctor Who's most important periods.
The 'Coming Soon Trailer' is for the Mara Tales box-set. It's a terrific trailer, cut perfectly together with a slick soundtrack and CGI titles that will have you counting down the days until its release. The final spoken line in the trailer sums up the imminent release perfectly... "The Mara's waited a long time for this return, I think it plans to be spectacular".
As with previous releases, there are the usual 'Radio Times Billings', 'Photo Gallery' and 'Production Information Subtitles'.
Overall another solid release from 2|Entertain, with some excellent value added material. If the DVD could benefit from one thing, it would be a feature on the costume and make-up behind the visually stunning Monoids.
A more than worthwhile purchase for any fan of Doctor Who, H.G Wells or big wigs and one-eyed monsters!
Review: Meglos - DVD
Written By: John Flanagan and Andrew McCulloch
Release Date: 10th January 2011
Meglos, despite some of its negative points, is, in essence, a Doctor Who story that was before its time. It is a story that, at its heart, deals with the struggle between religion and science.
As a viewer, you can't help feeling a struggle off-screen as well. You almost feel the tug of war between the writers, the script editor and the director, as they fight it out to gain their own narrative. And what we're left with, through sheer luck, is a melding of the three, that essentially benefits the story in a way that no single party could have done on their own.
Once you get past the dodgy wigs, and the tiresome time loop scenes, there are many elements that make this a rather enjoyable story.
Tom Baker, nearing the end of his tenure as The Doctor, puts in a sterling performance as Meglos, not to mention the welcome return of Jacqueline Hill as Lexa who bookends her Doctor Who career here.
Then there is the truly fantastic make-up which makes the characterisation of Meglos even more villainous and believable. There are also some great FX shots in the story, combined with highly detailed models, that work together using the new Scene Sync technology - yet another example of the story being ahead of its time.
The DVD is rounded off with some excellent features that compliment the story.
The 'Commentary' features Lalla Ward (Romana II), John Flanagan (Writer), Christopher Owen (Earthling / Meglos) and Paddy Kingsland (Composer). John and Lalla seem to take turns guiding, but understandably, Christopher Owen tends to get lost in the background, and doesn't really seem to contribute much until the final episode. Peter Howell (Composer) joins the commentary for Episode Three and offers an insight into some of his cues, as well as providing a refreshing critique to his own work. All in all, a fairly run of the mill commentary, that could have really benefited from Tom Baker's presence.
'Meglos Men' is an 18-minute documentary that follows Writers; Andy McCulloch and John Flanagan as they retrace their steps into the past, into the genesis of Meglos. Checking out their old haunts, through to a modern-day meeting with Script Editor; Christopher H. Bidmead.
It's a fantastic little feature that is written, produced and directed by the fabulous Chris Chapman, who has risen the calibre of Doctor Who DVD documentaries to a whole new level.
'The Scene Sync Story' looks at how the pitfalls and limitations of Chroma Key gave way to research into the newly discovered Scene Sync technology - a process that ties two cameras together to pan in unison.
The eye-opening documentary shows us how Meglos was a test run for the process, which has evolved and can now be seen in many modern day film and television productions. The feature includes Interviews with Peter Leverick and Roger Bunce (Cameramen) and Stephen Drewett (Visual Effects Designer).
'Jacqueline Hill: A Life in Pictures' looks at the life of Doctor Who Actress, Jacqueline Hill (Barbara, Lexa). It's a wonderful tribute to the woman whom we all know from Doctor Who, but paints the wider, and to most of us, unknown picture of her life through to her untimely death. It was surprising to learn that Jacqueline was responsible for Sean Connery getting his first leading role, thanks to a suggestion to her Director husband, Alvin Rakoff. The feature includes interviews with William Russell (Actor), Verity Lambert (Producer), Alvin Rakoff (Director / Husband) and Ann Davies (Friend / Actress).
'Entropy Explained' is presented by Dr. Phillip Trowoga from the University of Westminster, and takes a scientific look at the running theme through Season 18 of Doctor Who - Entropy; the measure of disorder of a system. Picking through the laws of thermodynamics, it breaks down the technical speech into easy to understand explanations and situations.
The 'Coming Soon Trailer' features The Mutants, and isn't as well put together as previous trailers, too many fast cuts and no real energy behind the trailer music leads to it failing to really sell the story.
As with previous releases, there are the usual 'Radio Times Billings', 'Photo Gallery' and 'Production Information Subtitles', as well as an 'Easter Egg' that gives us a clean version of the final Fourth Doctor title sequence.
The extra content that we have here, is certainly of a high quality, but going on past form, it does feel a little feature-light. It was surprising to find no feature on the stunning make-up that gave this story such a visual impact, and Tom Baker's involvement, apart from the story itself is non-existent - despite being a Baker-heavy serial.
It is most definitely worth its retail price, with both 'Meglos Men' and 'Jacqueline Hill: A Life in Pictures' taking the main stage.
Review: The Masque of Mandragora - DVD
Release Date: 8th February 2010
Review Posted: 14th February 2010
The Masque of Mandragora takes us to 15th Century Italy, where part of the Mandragora Helix (unbeknownst to The Doctor) has hitched a lift aboard the TARDIS and poses a threat to human civilisation. It's a great story that takes the deadly cult plot device to a new level, whilst incorporating history and a simple, yet, terrifying alien menace.
The features included on the disc, are quite varied, and even though not all are specific to the story, they fit right in and offer excellent value to the release.
The 'Commentary' features Tom Baker (The 4th Doctor), Chris D'Oyly-John (Production Unit Manager), Philip Hinchcliffe (Producer) and Gareth Armstrong (Giuliano). Unusually, Tom seems to take a bit of a back seat, allowing for Philip to take the role of moderator for the commentary. There's a great juxtaposition between Philip and John's informative take on the story, with Tom's hilarious observations and side stories.
'The Secret of the Labyrinth' is an informative and vibrant behind-the-scenes look at the making of The Masque of Mandragora. Set in the Welsh village of Portmeirion, which doubled for the filming of the story, it starts off with Philip Hinchcliffe (Producer) explaining his reasons for the filming at the location.
All aspects of the production are covered, from casting and costumes to set design, giving a well-rounded understanding for the serial. It's backed up with interviews from Gareth Armstrong (Giuliano), Rodney Bennett (Director), Antony Carrick (Captain Rossini), Chris D'Oyly-John (Production Unit Manager), Jon Laurimore (Count Federico), Barry Newbery (Production Designer), Tim Piggott-Smith (Marco), Steve O'Brien (Writer, SFX Magazine) and Jim Sangster (Film and TV Historian). Kudos to Rob Semenoff for the fantastic CGI introduction to the feature.
'Bigger on the inside' is totally unconnected to The Masque of Mandragora, but provides a thoroughly detailed, yet concise history of the TARDIS. Featuring interviews with Tom Baker (The 4th Doctor), Robert Shearman (New Series Writer), Francesca Gavin (Art Writer & Editor), Matthew Savage (New Series Designer), Barry Newbury (Classic Series Designer) and Christopher H Bidmead (Writer & Script Editor 1980-81).
'Now and Then' looks at the locations of The Masque of Mandragora, showing original shots to the modern day comparisons. It feels a little different to previous Now and Then documentaries, as this time, we follow the locations through a map of Portmeirion. As a result of the style and nature of the location, there are very few actual changes that can be noticed, but it's interesting to see where all the action happened in context.
'Beneath the Masque' offers Clayton Hickman (Ex Doctor Who Magazine Editor) and Gareth Roberts' (New Series Writer), rather amusing take of the events surrounding and including the production of The Masque of Mandragora. The pair are clearly a double-act to be reckoned with. Even Hickman's Cathy come home impersonation which also resembled a 1980's Dot Branning, can't fail to resound a palpable hit amongst the hugely entertaining feature. It's pretty much utter nonsense, but who cares? It's produced with such sheer brilliance, and will have you chuckling away at the subtle and not-so-subtle digs at the show. Oh, and Gareth Roberts as a Blue Peter presenter was...priceless. Here's to future offerings from the pair!
The 'Coming Soon' trailer is for The Space Museum / The Chase DVD release, and is a clever twist on the usual trailers by incorporating a viewscreen from one of the episodes to promote the box-set. Definitely one of the most original trailers to date.
As with previous DVD releases, there are the usual 'Trails and Continuity', 'PDF Material', 'Photo Gallery' and 'Production Subtitles' included.
Overall, it's another tidy and well-thought-out package from 2|Entertain, and although there could have been room for one or two more extras, you can't help but feel totally satisfied with the finished package.
Review: Peladon Tales - DVD
Written By: Brian Hayles
Release Date: 18 th January 2010
Review Posted: 9th February 2010
The Curse of Peladon
The Curse of Peladon, for many, is a textbook Doctor Who adventure. With a healthy mix of mystery, deception, villainy and suspense, the story is as entertaining as any new series offering, and has held up well to the test of time. With secret passages, allies who are villains and villains who are allies, there are more twists and turns than the underground tunnels of Peladon itself.
The selection of features for this release is adequate, and compared to previous DVD releases like 'Black Orchid', you can't help feeling there is more distance for extra content.
The 'Commentary' is moderated seamlessly by Toby Hadoke, who also provides some informative facts connected with the story. Joining Toby is Barry Letts (Producer), Terrance Dicks (Script Editor), Katy Manning (Jo Grant) and Chris D'Oyly-John (Production Assistant). It proves to be a rather amusing commentary, with all parties contributing equally, together with a great selection of amusing and revealing stories.
'The Peladon Saga - Part One', is by far the highlight of the extras on this disc, providing a behind-the-scenes look at the making of The Curse of Peladon. Although it's not as in-depth as previous 'making of' documentaries, it looks at the production of the adventure as well as putting it in political context with the time.
'Warriors of Mars', gives us a history of The Ice Warriors. There's a chronological look at their appearances in Doctor Who, as well as the different classes of Ice Warrior. Narrated by Donald Gee, the feature provides interviews with Sonny Caldinez (Ice Warrior), Bernard Bresslaw (Ice Warrior), Sylvia James (Make-Up Supervisor) Michael Ferguson (Director), Terrance Dicks (Script Editor) Alan Bennion (Ice Lord), Barry Letts (Producer) and Brian Hodgson (BBC Radiophonic Workshop).
'Jon and Katy', looks at the pairing of Jon Pertwee (The Doctor) and Katy Manning (Jo Grant), with interviews from Katy Manning, Terrance Dicks and Barry Letts. In the feature, Katy looks back with genuine love for both her character, and John as an actor and friend.
The 'Storyboard Comparison' compares design sketches with the final shot, together with soundtrack excerpts that lead up to the clips.
As with previous DVD releases, there are the usual 'PDF Material', 'Photo Gallery' and 'Production Subtitles' included.
The Monster of Peladon
The Monster of Peladon heralds the second (and final) chapter in the Peladon Saga - albeit a slightly long-winded story, weighing in at six episodes. There's a wonderful sense of continuity mixed with enough fresh elements to rejuvenate the settings and situations, and with a rather feisty Sarah Jane Smith, helps add another level to the Doctor / Companion dynamic.
As with The Curse of Peladon, this release is a little feature light - even though there is one disc for the story and another for the features, that being said, the quality of the extras is in no way compromised, and adds value to an already worthwhile box-set.
The 'Commentary' is again moderated by Toby Hadoke, and features Terrance Dicks (Script Editor), Barry Letts (Producer), Nina Thomas (Queen Thalira), Donald Gee (Eckersley), Ralph Watson (Ettis) and Stuart Fell (Alpha Centauri). Once more, Toby does a great job with the direction coupled with his Doctor Who knowledge, and both Terrance and Barry add some entertaining memories, but it can't help feeling a little overshadowed by the Curse commentary, owing to vacancy of Katy Manning and her boundless energy.
There's also a 'Fan Commentary' for episode Four of the story, featuring Rob Shearman, Mark Aldridge, Kate Du-Rose and Philip Newman. The commentary is well placed as it breaks up the pace and dynamic of the commentary thus far, and it's nice to hear a take on the story from a fans perspective - or in this case four!
'The Peladon Saga - Part Two', follows on from the previous part with additional interviews from Donald Gee (Eckersley), Nick Hobbs (Aggedor), Stuart Fell (Alpha Centauri), Sonny Caldinez (Ice Warrior) and Ralph Watson (Ettis the Miner). The second installment goes more into the production of the story, and we also learn from cast and crew what it was like working with Jon Pertwee. The crowning moment, though, has to be Terrance Dicks' hilarious breakdown of Alpha Centauri's physical appearance.
There's a 'Deleted Scene' in the form of photos and off-air recordings featuring Eckersley trying to convince Gebek to get the miners to continue mining for the trisilicate.
'Where are They Now?' features an interview with Ysanne Churchman, conducted by David Jacobs. Ysanne is asked about providing her voicework for the Hermaphrodite exopod; Alpha Centauri, before treating us to a rather alarming Birmingham accent!
'On Target: Terrance Dicks', offers an in-depth look at the writer's work off the screen, with the Doctor Who Book range. Featuring interviews with Alan Barnes (Ex Doctor Who Magazine Editor), Paul Cornell (Writer), as well as input from Terrance himself. This is the most significant feature on The Monster of Peladon disc, as everything about it from the titles, down to the concise information and text readings from Katy Manning, smacks of sheer quality.
Peladon Tales is a great box-set, well worth the £29.99 RRP, but with 2|Entertain's previous history of quality extras, the bar has been raised so high, that the viewer is spoiled, and can’t help feeling a little deflated with anything less than two screens of features per story.
That being said, the quality of the features for both stories are as high as ever, and act as a great companion to the Peladon saga.
Review: The War Games - DVD
Written By: Terrance Dicks & Malcolm Hulke
Release Date: 6th July 2009
The War Games is firmly regarded as a favourite amongst many Doctor Who fans, and the announcement earlier this year of the proposed DVD release was fuelled with much excitement, hype and expectation.
But with so much riding on what could arguably be one of the most important DVD releases from the Classic Series so far, could the BBC / 2|entertain deliver?
The answer, quite simply, is a big resounding YES!
The War Games presents Doctor Who's first and only 10-part adventure. Although a lengthy story, totaling over 4 hours, the storyline, cast, pace and suspense keep you entertained all the way through, and watching in straight succession is by no means a chore.
It contains some of the best villainy in Doctor Who history, with some truly engaging performances from Philip Madoc (The War Lord), Edward Brayshaw (The War Chief), David Garfield (Captain von Weich) and James Bree (Security Chief).
It is also clear from this story that the chemistry-fuelled partnership between Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines and Wendy Padbury was coming to a close, as the adventure marks the end of The Second Doctor's tenure on the show. But what better way to bow out than on the high that this story provides.
The War Games succeeds on so many levels. From the underlying message of War and its consequences, the gripping cliffhangers (which count for some of the best seen in Doctor Who), to the amazing way in which the cast and crew worked together to pull off a thoroughly entertaining piece of Science Fiction Television history.
The DVD package is rounded off with a cavernous collection of Special Features that each compliment and support the story.
The 'Commentary' features Frazer Hines (Actor 'Jamie'), Wendy Padbury (Actor 'Zoe), Philip Madoc (Actor 'The War Lord'), Jane Sherwin (Actor 'Lady Jennifer'), Graham Weston (Actor 'Russell'), Terrance Dicks (Writer) and Derrick Sherwin (Producer). Although, as commentaries go, there are a lot of guests, they are spread out over the 10 episodes, giving balance whilst coming and going fluidly. Terrance and Frazer, in particular, offer some extremely entertaining anecdotes.
'War Zone' looks at the genesis of the story, together with some of the cast and crew's stories from filming. With interviews from Terrance Dicks, James Moran (Writer), Paul Cornell (Writer), Tom Spilsbury (DWM Editor), Graham Weston, Frazer Hines, Wendy Padbury, Jane Sherwin, Bernard Horsfall (Actor 'Time Lord), Derrick Sherwin, David Maloney (Director), Roger Cheveley (Production Designer) and Joseph Lidster (Writer).
Paul Cornell's input in the documentary, is particularly worthy of note, due to his accurate and thought provoking dissection of some of the plot points in the story.
'Shades of Grey' focuses on the limitations and considerations of black and white television. The documentary casts a light on Producing, Designing, Graphic Designing, Performing and Sound Design for monochrome television production and features interviews with Frazer Hines, Wendy Padbury, Jane Sherwin, Terrance Dicks, Derrick Sherwin, Timothy Combe (Director), Roger Cheveley, Bernard Lodge (Graphic Designer) and Brian Hodgson (Sound Designer).
'Now and Then' offers a look at the locations used in The War Games, and compares the locations as they were used 40 years ago, with footage recorded recently. This is quite possibly one of the best Now and Then features produced to date, owing to the accuracy of location positioning coupled with the informative narration and supporting music.
'The Doctor's Composer' gives us a long-overdue and well-presented look at Dudley Simpson's musical contribution to Doctor Who. The documentary provides a chronological look at stories and scenes from the Classic Series that Dudley provided music for, connected with interview footage of Dudley himself.
'Sylvia James - In Conversation', offers a chronological look at the Make-up Designer's work during the Patrick Troughton era of Doctor Who, with clips from episodes as well as stills of her work, as she describes the processes involved.
'Talking about Regeneration' does exactly what it says on the tin! It's a clear, concise, and informative guide to The Doctor's regenerations to date. Featuring interviews with Kate O'Mara (Actor 'The Rani'), Peter Davison (Actor 'The 5th Doctor'), Gareth Roberts (Writer), Rob Shearman (Writer), Joseph Lidster and Clayton Hickman (former DWM Editor).
'Time Zones', kicks off with a neat little CGI sequence, and focuses on the historical truth behind The War Games, with detailed information on some of the major points surrounding the First World War, Roman Warfare and The American Civil War. The feature adds a good grounding behind the story, and includes interviews from Martin Farr (Political Historian), Crispin Swayne (Military Historian), Lindsay Allison-Jones (of Newcastle University) and Susan-Mary Grant (Author).
'Stripped for Action - The Second Doctor', looks at the Second Doctor comics, and how some of the companions and villains changed from the TV episodes to the comic strips, not to mention some of the bizarre storylines. The feature includes contributions from Gary Russell (former DWM Editor), Alan Barnes (former DWM Editor), John Ainsworth (Comics Historian) and Jeremy Bentham (Comics Historian).
'On Target - Malcolm Hulke'; shows us how the cherished Doctor Who Writer got into writing for the show, as well as his impact on some of the other members of the production team associated with the show, such as Terrance Dicks and Gary Russell. The documentary includes interviews with Terrance Dicks, Gary Russell, Alan Barnes, David J Howe (Author) and Chris Achilleos (Illustrator). Terrance Dicks' memories in particular, make up some of the best moments in this feature.
'Devious' is a Fan film that attempts to bridge the 'alleged' gap between The War Games and Spearhead from Space with 'The 2nd and a half Doctor', played by Tony Garner . The film includes scenes recorded with Jon Pertwee (playing The 3rd Doctor) as well as Peter Tuddenham and Hugh Lloyd (playing Time Lords). There's also a commentary option featuring the cast and crew that offers some behind the scenes tidbits, including an explanation of how Jon Pertwee was persuaded to take part.
This feature was a real surprise, and makes a genuinely pleasant and bold (on the BBC's part) addition to the DVD.
The 'Coming Soon Trailer' features a trailer promoting the forthcoming Black Guardian Trilogy DVD box-set. Although it's not one of the best trailers to date, it certainly packs a lot of energy and seems to sell the main plot points. One can't help feeling though, after a release such as The War Games, that the DVD features should also be highlighted in the trailers.
As with previous DVD releases, there are the usual 'Easter Eggs', 'PDF Material', 'Photo Gallery' and 'Production Subtitles' included.
It's easy to get swept away with positive comments when reviewing a DVD like this, especially when it contains a story as successful as The War Games, but the variety and quality of the supporting features are what help to make this package shine with utter brilliance. Well... that and Clayton Hickman's vividly eye-catching cover!
Overall, this is quite clearly, and most definitely the finest Doctor Who DVD release thus far, and will surely take some beating.
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High school S.E.T. students prepare for The Great Divide
By meridiantimes | November 5, 2013
By Jennifer Swanchara
The rivalry between Michigan State University and the University of Michigan is no longer only on the football field, as the Great Divide is between the Okemos and Pittsfield Home Depots’.
Pat Hepfer and his S.E.T student prepare for The Great Divide.
The event includes a DeWalt drilling contest, appearances by the MSU cheer team, East Lansing and Williamston High School marching bands and a car-cutting contest performed by the Meridian Township Fire Department.
What the audience of the Okemos competition may not realize is the event is furnished by Ingham County high school students enrolled in the Students in Entertainment Technology program.
S.E.T instructor Pat Hepfer said his students could set up the event better than The Home Depot used to and has been doing it ever since.
“For us to work with substantial national companies such as DeWalt and The Home Depot on a pretty personal level through this event we’re able to see as a client what they need,” said Hepfer.
“Going up to the event the students don’t know what to expect, so I try and lay it all out for them but this is one of their favorite things they do throughout the year.”
As one of the two second-year S.E.T students, Emily Fulton said she has been trying to encourage everyone because they have a lot of work to do.
Matt Washburn and Kyle White fix The Great Divide stage.
“We set up the staging so they can bring people on stage, we set up the sound system so they have fantastic music and we set up all the lighting for the stage,” said Fulton.
First-year S.E.T student Cailey Sanchez said she is most looking forward to, “Setting up and then sitting back and watching people go ‘Wow, that’s really cool that high school students did that’.”
According to Hepfer, the S.E.T program allows Meridian Township students to receive 13 credits and a certificate of completion through Lansing Community College for free.
Hepfer said the community often doesn’t know the program exists, so it is nice to receive positive feedback for their work during The Great Divide.
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SAP Recertifies with EDGE to Drive Gender Equality in Tech
October 8, 2018 by SAP News
WALLDORF — SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced that it has recertified on the Economic Dividends for Gender Equality (EDGE) global standard, recognizing its strategic commitment to creating a gender-equal workplace that benefits employees, customers and partners.
The company’s worldwide recertification process began March 2018, two years after it became the first multinational IT company to achieve EDGE certification. The recertification was awarded after a third-party review of SAP’s company data, gender practices and employment policies, and employee survey results represented by 80 percent of the organization in 12 countries including Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Ireland, the Philippines, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.
“Our vision to help the world run better and improve people’s lives can only be fully realized when our workforce represents the beautiful diversity of the world we live in. While there is still work to do, we stand proud of the progress we’ve made with EDGE — a pride felt by SAP colleagues everywhere,” said Bill McDermott, CEO, SAP.
The EDGE Certification is the premier standard and methodology for evaluating corporate commitment to gender equality. Launched at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in 2011, the EDGE assessment is distinguished by its rigor and business impact. Global EDGE recertification every two years sends a clear and holistic message of SAP’s commitment to the equal treatment and well-being of employees, potential employees, investors, consumers and all external stakeholders.
“Since it first broke ground two years ago by being the first globally certified technology company, SAP has now turned the tide on industry norms by demonstrating unprecedented progress towards achieving workplace gender equality,” said Aniela Unguresan, co-founder, EDGE Certified Foundation. “This success was due to unwavering top leadership support, accountability and transparency, and the use of the certification to drive strategic transformation. One country in the group has moved from the first level of certification, EDGE Assess, directly to the third level of certification, EDGE Lead — a global first. Meanwhile a third of all countries assessed progressed to the second certification level, EDGE Move. This proves where there is a will there is a way.”
Gender equality is a core company value and a strategic priority for SAP’s comprehensive human resources strategy. In June 2017, SAP met the Board-level goal of having 25 percent of management positions filled by women globally, with a continued commitment to increasing this number each year by 1 percent, to reach 30 percent by 2022.
Additionally, SAP offers several programs to empower and educate employees, including the Leadership Excellence Acceleration Program (LEAP), a four-month-long leadership development program aimed at helping women at SAP rise into management positions; a monthly Women’s Professional Growth Webinar Series, which has reached more than 6,800 employees in more than 40 countries; and a Business Women’s Network (BWN), which offers numerous opportunities for women to meet new colleagues, engage with leaders and connect on key topics of interest. Besides offering these significant opportunities for women, SAP actively engages men to participate in the gender discussion.
“Gender equality is an essential part of our organization’s ability to innovate as well as retain and attract top-level talent,” said Stefan Ries, member of the Executive Board of SAP SE and chief human resources officer (CHRO). “It is linked not only to better employee engagement and customer satisfaction but also to the ability to innovate and drive revenue. We are proud of our continued commitment to foster a gender-equal workplace and encourage other organizations to follow suit as we make a positive impact for our employees, customers and partners.”
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Transporter 3 DVD Review
Kam Williams
Thu March 5, 2009
DVD Features Jason Statham Again as Daredevil Driver
Transporter 3 unfolds like a variation of Speed, establishing an urgent motif which keeps you on edge for the duration of the high-octane adventure. At the point of departure, we find Frank Martin (Jason Statham), chauffeur nonpareil, being “hired” at gunpoint by mobsters to drive a secret package to an undisclosed location. The catch is that to insure his allegiance the thugs have strapped a bomb to his body which is set to detonate if he wanders more than 75 feet from the vehicle.
Another complication is that Frank has a raccoon-eyed passenger coming along for the ride, Valentina (Natalya Rudakova), a pill-popping, vodka-swigging party girl he saved from the same goons. What our hero doesn’t know is that the freckle-faced femme fatale just happens to be the kidnapped daughter of Leonid Vasilev (Jeroen Krabbe), a powerful Ukrainian politician presently being pressured to sign a government contract as ransom by the creep (Robert Knepper) who attached the explosives to his arm.
Fair warning, the storyline won’t hold up well to close scrutiny, as the point of the picture is the incessant visual capture provided by all the pyrotechnics and gravity-defying stunt sequences featuring carefully-orchestrated gunplay, hand-to-hand combat, and car, bike and train chases. Is the plot plausible? No, but it hurtles along at such a breakneck pace you don’t have a chance to pause to contemplate its preposterousness.
From Frank’s successfully running a gauntlet of bloodthirsty foes, to driving his souped-up sports car off an overpass and landing safely onto a speeding locomotive, to tipping the auto onto its side to negotiate a narrow passageway between a couple of 18-wheelers, this is an overindulgence in pure escapist fantasy. Mix in a little charm and romance, and you have all the fixins for the most dashing and debonair British character around, including James Bond.
Very good (3 stars)
Rated PG-13 for violence, intense action, sexuality and drug use.
Studio: Lionsgate Home Entertainment
2-Disc DVD Extras: Behind the scenes bonus footage, digital copy of the film, director’s audio commentary, “The Making of” featurette, and a theatrical trailer.
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J&K Situation Ideal To Hold LS Poll But Not Assembly Poll
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News Frontliner Web Desk, 11 March 2019: As per the announcement of the Election Commission, on Sunday evening, the Jammu & Kashmir Assembly elections are not to be held simultaneously with the Lok Sabha polls, though the state will vote in the Lok Sabha elections on April 11, April 18, April 23, April 29 and May 6.
The Election Commission cited constraints over availability of central forces and other logistics, as the chief reason for not holding assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir along with Lok Sabha polls.
Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora confirms that such a decision, has been arrived at after consulting the state administration and the officials of the home ministry.
National Conference Vice President Omar Abdullah , sarcastically tweeted questioning Rajnath Singh’s assurance given earlier to the Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha as well as to the all party meeting regarding availability of all forces for simultaneous polls. According to him, the decision to not hold assembly elections in the state is equivalent to, “surrendering to Pakistan, to the militants and to the Hurriyat.”
He said that, this is the first time since 1996, that Assembly Elections in the state are not being held on time. It is to be noted that the tenure of the assembly is of 6 years in the state as compared to that of 5 yrs in the other states.
CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury tweeted, “It is perplexing how the security situation in J&K is good enough to conduct Lok Sabha elections but not for assembly elections which are also due. Is there a diabolical motive?”
PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti also expressed her dissatisfaction over EC’s decision and said that the move only confirms the “sinister” designs of the BJP government.
Jammu and Kashmir is currently under President’s Rule after the six-month-long governor’s rule ended on 19 December 2018.
Meanwhile, the commission has appointed three senior bureaucrats as observers to assess how conducive the situation in Jammu and Kashmir is for holding assembly elections. They three senior bureaucrats entrusted with the job are Noor Mohammad and Vinod Zutchi, both ex-IAS officers, and former CRPF Inspector General AS Gill. They will send their reports to the poll panel, following which a decision will be taken on the matter, afterwards.
The Election Commission will have the toughest assignment in the state owing to the relentless violence in the form of regular encounters. The Pulwama attack is like a fresh wound in the memory of the people. It will be a huge challenge to let the people of Kashmir come out and vote peacefully.
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Microscopic drying behaviour of a paper sheet in a multi-cylinder dryer
W.J. Coumans, B.J. Ramakers
Chemical Reactor Engineering
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic
Proceedings of the 12th International Drying Symposium, IDS 2000 : 28 - 31 August 2000, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands
P.J.A.M. Kerkhof, W.J. Coumans, G.D. Mooiweer
12th International Drying Symposium (IDS 2000), August 28-31, 2000, Noordwijkerhout, The Nederlands - Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands
Duration: 28 Aug 2000 → 31 Aug 2000
12th International Drying Symposium (IDS 2000), August 28-31, 2000, Noordwijkerhout, The Nederlands
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Coumans, W. J., & Ramakers, B. J. (2000). Microscopic drying behaviour of a paper sheet in a multi-cylinder dryer. In P. J. A. M. Kerkhof, W. J. Coumans, & G. D. Mooiweer (Eds.), Proceedings of the 12th International Drying Symposium, IDS 2000 : 28 - 31 August 2000, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands [paper 404] Elsevier.
Coumans, W.J. ; Ramakers, B.J. / Microscopic drying behaviour of a paper sheet in a multi-cylinder dryer. Proceedings of the 12th International Drying Symposium, IDS 2000 : 28 - 31 August 2000, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands. editor / P.J.A.M. Kerkhof ; W.J. Coumans ; G.D. Mooiweer. Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2000.
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August 24, 2019 September 8, 2020 ~ Matt Vetrano
Ready or Not and all the images you see in this review are owned by Fox Searchlight and Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett
Has it been a bad year for horror films? There have certainly been quite a few misses like the Child’s Play remake, Ma, and whatever the heck Brightburn was supposed to be, but we also had fun stuff like The Intruder and even a genuinely great horror film like Us, so the year isn’t a TOTAL miss as far for these kinds of films. Still, we could always use a few more quality flicks here and there since it’s becoming one of the few reliably bankable genres now that Disney Remake has become its own ginormous slice of the pie and pretty much everything else is heading towards the streaming model to stay afloat. Wait a minute… this is a Fox Searchlight movie which means it’s STILL DISNEY! HORROR SHOCK!! Anyway! Does this grotesque spin on the children’s game of Hide and Seek end up being a new classic for the genre, or will we regret ever looking for it in the first place? Let’s find out!!
Grace (Samara Weaving), who I can only assume plays a professional Margot Robbie impersonator in this movie, is getting married to Alex Le Domas (Mark O’Brien) who is an heir to the VAST Le Domas fortune which was made through board games and other such ventures. The family seems pleasant enough despite being a collection of old money weirdos, but things take an… interesting turn when on their wedding night at the gigantic Le Domas estate, the family requests that Grace take part in a tradition of their where the newest member of the family has to play a game at the stroke of midnight. The head of the family Tony (Henry Czerny) explains that this MYSTERIOUS box given to his great grandfather by their original benefactor will spit out a card with a game printed on it, and they will play that game which will officially bring her into the family. Will it be chess? Parcheesi? Do the Urkel? No, the game turns out to be Hide and Seek which seems a bit childish, but Grace is up for it if it means getting along with her new family who mysteriously went quiet just now. Anyway, she runs and hides, gets bored and starts wandering the halls, and then Alex brings her into a room to explain that the rest of those mo-fos are going to kill her if they find her because of reasons that… well he doesn’t quite explain there and I’m not about to spoil it here. The point is that she’s got to find a way to avoid detection and even fight back if the need arises while Alex tries to find a way for them to escape, and as the night goes on the family starts to get more and more desperate as there seems to be quite a bit at stake here. Can Grace manage to escape this house with her internal organs, as well as her marriage, intact? What is the family hiding that could possibly explain why a game of hide and seek has turned into the home version of The Most Dangerous Game? Is it just me, or do these rich jerks seem WOEFULLY unprepared for this?
It’s good! Great even! I don’t think there’s a better horror movie like it this year, especially since we didn’t get another Purge sequel, and it’s the kind of movie I bet Blumhouse is kicking themselves about not making! It’s got a great look to it, there’s plenty of tension throughout, and there’s real effort to make this funny and humanizing despite its ludicrous premise. I don’t quite love it as there are a few issues here and there that persist through most of its run time, but I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if everyone who would like this kind of movie ended up LOVING it and aren’t bothered by what ended up being rather minor sticking points for me. Then again, what else am I going to point to this year as far as gory action thriller nonsense? Escape Room? Heck that had like FIVE different games of death in it, and NONE of them are as memorable as good ol’ Hide and Seek!
“I wanted to play Boggle, BUT NOOOOO!!”
If you didn’t know already, this is a film made by Radio Silence who are a trio of filmmakers (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett, and Chad Villella with him serving as an Executive Producer) who were part of that boom period in the early 2010s for horror filmmakers which is rather fitting because this film reminds me a lot of one of one particular film from that time; You’re Next. The general premise, the big house, and even some of the plot turns are almost exactly the same as in that film, but I wasn’t the BIGGEST fan of it and saw places that it could definitely improve upon which I think this film does and getting a better version of a film I only somewhat like isn’t a bad thing in my book; just look at Searching from last year which came out right after Unfriended: Dark Web. So what exactly makes this better? Well it’s got a much broader and colorful aesthetic where everything seems just a bit goofier than you’d expect it to be in such a dire situation. The weapons that everyone is carrying are intentionally anachronistic, the haircuts are quite silly on a few characters, and the house basically looks like a dank dungeon at night without going so far as to make it unbelievable that someone would live there. It’s kind of a cliché at this point to describe something as LOOKING LIKE A COMIC BOOK, but I think the description is apt here with just how much the movie’s strengths are in its style and attitude.
THAT’S a heck of an attitude right there!
What really sets this movie apart (and feels somewhat like an extension of what they did in their short 10/31/98) as the characters and their dialogue feel much more natural and therefore ripe for comedy. Now writing horror movies has improved in recent years to be sure, but there’s a certain awkward humanity to their dialogue, behaviors, fears, and wanton desires which is what drives the narrative and is the basis for the film’s humor. It reminds me a bit of It’s Always Sunny or even Tim & Eric where the mundanity of the characters are juxtaposed by the evil they are committing and also how decidedly uncool they are under pressure; all of which makes the situations much more ridiculous to watch unfold. The performances are what really sells it as everyone is clearly aware of the tonal balancing act that the movie relies on, and while it doesn’t ALWAYS succeed at maintaining it which we’ll get to soon enough, they do an admiral job of keeping everything on track. Adam Brody as the alcoholic “Bad Son” is perhaps the standout here with a surprisingly nuanced performance throughout, and I really liked the father played by Henry Czerny who has some of the funniest lines throughout. He’s the one who’s unraveling the most throughout and does a great job of mirroring the desperation that everyone else is experiencing and the increased tension that goes along with it. Sadly I think that Samara Weaving gets a bit of the short shrift here as her role is almost exclusively reactionary and we barely know anything about her before as the movie goes along; just that she’s REALLY good at surviving in absurd situations. Similarly there are a few family members who aren’t really on hand for rich characterization but are just there for a few cheap laughs. Not BAD laughs mind you, but not especially inspired when the rest of the movie puts in that little extra bit of effort in the humor.
“I don’t think this show is REALLY about how to get away with murder…”
The only real problem I had with the movie is something I JUST go through explaining was actually pretty good; namely its tone and its humor. Reflecting on it now that I’ve seen the WHOLE movie, I do think that it will work better for me on a second viewing but it could have been helped somewhat if the film laid a few more of its cards on the table in the first act. We don’t have a full grasp of the situation until just about halfway through the movie, and the uncertainty of key details made it a bit hard for me to really laugh at everything that was going on. I doubt that everyone (or even anyone other than myself) is gonna have THAT specific issue, but maybe pushing certain revelations earlier would have made it easier for me to relax a bit sooner (it really is a stressful situation as it initially unfolds) and I don’t think it would have had any negative impact on the pacing itself. Then there are things I just didn’t find funny even when I have the full context, but your mileage is always going to vary with stuff like that. All I’ll say is that it doesn’t have the refined thematic underpinnings of the Purge films, so the swipes at the billionaire class don’t have much teeth to them. One more thing I have to mention which is something I usually wouldn’t bother shining such a narrow spotlight on, but I’m making an exception here. There is a kill in this that is just AWFUL. I won’t spoil it and for all I know it IS somehow plausible for a person to die this way, but it looks about as ridiculous as someone getting their arm in a closing elevator door and it somehow severing it.
“I guess you had to be there to find it funny!”
Look, I can gripe about pretty much anything and horror movies can often trip over pet peeves for me that are pretty unique to my tastes. What little I can actually complain about in this is not only minor but also feels mostly resolved by the time the movie ends which will only make it better upon subsequent viewings. I absolutely recommend checking this out if you have the chance; especially if you’re like me and am waiting for another Purge movie to come out. It’s the kind of bloody fun that you look for on a movie night and seeing it with a crowd will only make the experience all the more authentic. Radio Silence have made quite a splash with this one and I can only hope that it leads to bigger and better things down the road; probably involving Marvel since everyone eventually ends up there. Seriously, Disney; can we PLEASE still get movies like these now that Fox is under your umbrella? Heck, make a sequel to this about the Disney family; only with Walt’s head in a mecha suit or something. Hey, you’re the ones who acquired a slew of R rated nastiness with that Fox merger so you might as well embrace it!
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ASUS unveiled its latest flagship mainstream notebook ‘Vivobook S15’ at ‘Beyond The Edge’. The latest ZenBook and VivoBook thin-and-light laptops push the boundaries of design and technology to deliver ultimate mobile computing experiences.
On the sidelines of the event, Mr. Peter Chang – Regional Head – South Asia & Country Manager said, “Today, the consumers want their everyday laptop to be stylish, slim, ultra-portable and yet a powerful performer for their daily tasks. With a set of unprecedented features, our latest VivoBook goes beyond the edge to ensure our users stay ahead of the curve. We believe that it will redefine the ‘Everyday’ laptop category in India.”
A 15.6-inch laptop designed for those constantly on the go, featuring a 17.9mm profile and weighing just 1.7 kg. The ASUS VivoBook Series is renowned for offering outstanding value and performance, but the new VivoBook S Series pushes the boundaries to deliver levels of style and performance normally only found in higher-end laptops. The thin and lightweight VivoBook S is the latest and most stylish model in the VivoBook Series. It has a metallic Icicle Gold finish for a quality feel and features a NanoEdge display with a 7.8mm-slim bezel that provides a larger display area for more immersive viewing. This stylish laptop is powered by up to 8th Generation Intel Core i7 processor with up to 16GB DDR4 memory and feature NVIDIA MX150 graphics.
ASUS VivoBook features a Full HD (1920 x 1280) display with 178° wide-view technology for astonishing visuals, even when viewed from extreme positions. It’s the first laptop in its class to feature the slim-bezel NanoEdge display — the bezel is just 7.8 mm thin and gives VivoBook S15 an 80 percent screen-to-body ratio.
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ASUS VivoBook S15 is powered by an 8th Generation quad-core Intel Core i7-8550U and i5-8250U processor with up to 16GB DDR4 2133Hz memory for super-smooth multitasking performance and features NVIDIA® GeForce® MX150 graphics. It has dual storage drives, with a 1TB hard disk drive (HDD) to give users ample space to store music and media libraries, and a 128GB solid-state drive (SSD) to reduce boot-up and app loading times. The reversible USB Type-C™ (USB-C™) port makes it easier to connect devices, with USB 3.1 Gen 1 providing superfast data transfer speeds — making it possible to transfer a 2GB movie to a USB drive in seconds. For maximum convenience and compatibility, ASUS VivoBook S15 also features one USB 3.0 ports and two USB 2.0 ports, one HDMI port, and Bluetooth 4.2. Its dual-band 2×2 802.11ac Wi-Fi provides up to 6X-faster data speeds over the previous 802.11n standard.
ASUS VivoBook S15 laptops feature a Lithium polymer battery that offers up to 8 hours battery life and a 3x longer lifespan than standard Lithium-ion cylinder batteries. The new ASUS Battery Health Charging Technology prolongs battery lifespan, decreases battery expansion rate and helps ensures the battery stays in a good condition. Fast-charge technology also charges the battery to 60 percent in just 49 minutes. If a laptop is constantly plugged in and the battery stays at 98% to 100% of its maximum capacity for long periods, this will significantly decrease its lifespan and may cause it to expand physically.
ASUS VivoBook S15 will be available from October 01, 2017 across all online and offline retailer and partners at a starting price of INR 59,990/-. Asus Zenbook UX430 is available across all online and offline retailer and partners at a starting price of INR 74,990/
The ASUS VivoBook S15 has two technologies that prevent this and extends the battery’ operational life:
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Achieve a total of over 900 charge cycles compared to 300 for a conventional notebook’s batteries
Rapidly charge the ASUS VivoBook S15 from 0 to 60% of the capacity in only 49 minutes.
The Asus Battery Health Charging App – This allows users to manually set the Relative State of Charge (RSOC) to 60%, 80% or 100%. Limiting the laptop charging in this way helps to further increase its battery’s operational life
ASUS ‘Beyond The Edge’ also showcased ZenBook UX430, the thinnest ever ZenBook with discrete graphics. Weighing only 1.25kg, the Full HD 14″ Windows 10 laptop features 7.18mm NanoEdge bezel providing an 80% screen to body ratio. Offering a 178-degree wide view with a matte non-reflective surface, ZenBook UX430 is powered by up to Intel 8th Generation Core i7 processor with the main memory of 16GB DDR4 (2133MHz) and up to 512 GB Storage. Offering a 9-hour long battery life & performance benefits of NVIDIA® GeForce® graphics up to MX150, for work or entertainment, the ZenBook UX430 is best suited for people on-the-go who want to take more in less space!
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The mighty Blackburn Buccaneer was one of the most capable low-level strike aircraft of the Cold War period, originally entering Royal Navy service in 1962 to counter the significant threat of a massive Soviet Naval expansion programme. Rather than face the crippling cost of building new ships of their own to meet this threat, British thinking at the time was to use their new strike jet to destroy the Soviet ships with a combination of conventional and nuclear weapons. Capable of extremely high speeds at low level, the Buccaneer proved to be the ideal aircraft to keep the Warsaw Pact countries on their toes, even though the performance of the first Buccaneers to enter service was affected by a lack of power from their two de Havilland Gyron Junior engines.
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Just 1.3% of NYC COVID Cases Are Coming From Restaurants. Why Has Cuomo Banned Indoor Dining?
The order is killing businesses and isn't rooted in science.
Nancy Rommelmann | 12.14.2020 2:35 PM
(Nancy Rommelmann)
I was walking down Greenwich Avenue in New York City's West Village last week when I saw something poignant: dining tables at the curb, set with white linen and electric candles. It was only 5:30 p.m. but already dark, which might have added to the romance, and I guess it did, if you don't mind eating outside when it's 35 degrees out.
The restaurant was one of nine open along a two-block stretch of Greenwich between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, each trying to navigate Gov. Andrew Cuomo's edict, set in September, requiring New York City restaurants to operate at only 25 percent indoor capacity. Last week he took it even further: As of December 14 and until further notice, there will be no indoor dining permitted whatsoever. His reasoning? With COVID-19 hospitalization rates rising, any potential source of transmission must be eliminated.
This would appear not to be very educated guesswork. The latest transmission data show that 74 percent of new COVID-19 cases come from private in-home gatherings, and only 1.3 percent from bars and restaurants. Seeing as they cannot (yet) prevent individuals from being inside their own homes, officials instead press on with a series of decisions that have battered the restaurant industry since March, when eateries were first ordered to close. At that time, establishments got creative: They pivoted to takeout, they sold cocktails on the street, anything to keep some money coming in until they could reopen. Such tactics were not enough. As reported by Eater NYC, more than 1,000 restaurants permanently closed between March and November.
Restaurateurs' main gambit, however, has been to erect curbside dining structures. While a source of irritation for anyone looking for a parking spot, they've been a welcome sign of normalcy in a not-normal time. They also make the streets look festive, especially at night, all lit up and ready for patrons. And yet, when I started my walk down Greenwich, every table at every restaurant was empty.
"This has been the biggest challenge that we've ever had, I think," said Rick Salas, manager at Elephant & Castle, which installed curbside dining a few months ago. "We do have heaters out there but of course, when it gets really cold, I don't know how effective it's going to be. I mean, it's amazing that there are brave souls that don't mind the weather."
A mainstay on the New York dining scene––he worked at Keens Steakhouse in midtown Manhattan before coming to Elephant & Castle 28 years ago––Salas showed admirable forbearance at the city's restaurants being used as a test balloon, if not a punching bag.
"I can understand that this has been a stressful situation, for every agency in the city," he said. "I know that they're lacking in not enough people, so we're trying to be as understanding as possible. It's difficult. We're basically staying open to keep ourselves out there and making money, obviously, and keep as many people employed as possible."
New York state does not appear to share these concerns, instead instituting new requirements that would seem to have little to do with preventing the spread of COVID-19. In July, for instance, state officials required bars to start serving food. This seems both arbitrary and cruel, to require businesses barely hanging on to invest in cooking equipment and learn how to use it. Last month came the order that any "roadside seating" must be tricked out by December 15 with "sandbags, reflector tape, snow sticks, and plastic barriers," which the city would provide free of charge. Thoughtful, except one restaurateur friend last week spent half of Wednesday and Thursday waiting at city dispersal sites, only to have them run out each time. Finally, on Friday, he trucked out to Staten Island to get the sandbags, the same day he was ordered to shutter his Manhattan restaurant to indoor dining. How did he feel about this?
"Cuomo is an asshole," he texted. "Maybe evil is a better word."
It is hard to understand Cuomo's logic when the closures apply only to New York City and not other areas in the state, where transmission levels are most recently and for the most part higher. He's previously stated the reasoning has to do with population; that "There is a density level in NYC that is destructive," a charge his critics might level at him.
There has been and will continue to be the ingenuity that comes with needing to survive. For instance, the oyster bar down the street from me recently transformed itself into a wine and provisions shop. Handy if you want to pick up a bottle of red or some fancy salt, but no way for the owner to meet the bottom line.
What does Cuomo expect people to do? Cocoon themselves and emerge resplendent once there's a vaccine and/or the commands from Albany stop? While some restaurants do plan to go into hibernation mode, the majority will not be able to survive without income; what industry could? Yes, COVID-19 is legitimately scary. Also scary: eradicating that which allows an ecosystem to function. Imagine a city as a board game of interlocking pieces. Take away the schools, the gyms, the bars, the restaurants. Cut back on services like the subway, which New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority says might need to slow by 40 percent. How long before New York City no longer fits together? And what develops in the chasms?
"You walk up Bleecker and some of the other streets [in the Village] and it's all empty storefront after empty storefront after empty storefront," says Dov, waiting for friends at a café table at Greenwich Avenue's Le Baratin. "I think this city is going to have a dip of pretty high crime at some point."
Sitting in front of the bistro, Dov says he "doesn't mind the cold." Plus, as a customer of ten years, he feels some loyalty and wants to do what he can.
"They're closing indoor dining anyway," he says. "I was just talking to the owner. Because there's the hydrant [at the curb], they can't put in the permanent [structures]—which are basically indoor anyway. You have three, almost four walls and a roof, it's hard to make the argument that that's outside. I'm waiting for those to get shut down."
Or fall down. While some of the newly-installed structures along Greenwich appeared solid and commodious, with heaters and even big-screen TVs, others looked like no more than something one might bivouac in. It was heartbreaking to see one small greenhouse-shaped plastic tent, maybe the only edifice the owner could afford, being blown sideways in the icy wind.
"It's been challenging but we are trying to navigate these challenges and come up with ways to beat it," says Adil Fawzi, director of operations at American Bar. "We stay very close to what the customers need. I feel there is more drinking than eating. If someone wants a special drink, we'll try to get it on the menu."
As the sound system played Stevie Nicks' version of "Silent Night," Fawzi enumerated what the restaurant has done to keep the doors open.
"Be very present on social media, on Instagram; that we are here and surviving and we are open. And we took the roadside, obviously," he says. "In the summer it was easy. Easier. All the restaurants, as you see, they try to be creative and build some enclosure that cuts the wind. In the winter obviously, when it starts to get cold, people will be [less inclined] to sit outside; they will not [want] to sit outside but they will have no choice."
Fawzi says the neighborhood has been supportive, locals still coming in to dine—but it hasn't. "Instead of understanding us as a restaurant that is struggling, and not only us but the staff is struggling because we're cutting hours, they call [the authorities]," he says. "And the city has been tough on us, to be honest with you. They won't give us breaks. Every moment of every day I feel like we're on their radar. The radar is the city, and every move you do, they're on you. Which I get. There are guidelines that we follow, obviously. We follow all the guidelines, but sometimes, like the ten o'clock curfew, they won't even give you fifteen minutes to bring the chairs and tables inside. It's just very hard."
An hour into my walk and I saw only four people eating outside, including two young women for whom the new outdoor-only rule will be business as usual.
"We don't sit inside," one told me. "I don't think it's comfortable. I feel like this is safer."
Fair enough. But New York has yet to get really cold, and with the exception of a dusting, there's been no snow. It remains to be seen how alluring the $48 strip steak at Quality Meats will be, and how often, when you're shivering in your winter coat.
One innovation through all this appeared to be the number of food deliveries made on electric bikes, which are now everywhere in the city, including one in front of me on the corner of Greenwich and Sixth. Maybe, I thought, the service was proving to be a win-win-win, a way to move products and keep people employed and get customers that steak at home. I asked the rider, laden with a delivery box, whether he was being kept busy.
"Not busy," he said.
Slow?
"Slow."
"No worries," he said.
I worry.
NEXT: You Don't Need To Believe Andrew Cuomo's Accuser To Think He's a Terrible Governor
Nancy Rommelmann is a journalist and author based in New York City.
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How about this: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2923-3
Is that high enough priest?
tl;dr A lot of cases come from folks eating in restaurants.
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Georgia had no lockdowns and our restaurants are open. You can sit anywhere you want. No masks requirements by the state.
Georgia is doing great since we all need to be exposed to kungflu anyway.
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100% of Georgia restaurants that want to be open are.
We dont have mask mandates and we are just fine.
this can’t be true. Georgia was an experiment in human sacrifice. Are you telling me that experiment was a failure?
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Smoker’s logic.
mad.casual
Logic is faulty based on the personal foibles of the source? Sounds like a there’s a flaw in logic-based reasoning somewhere.
No one is telling you that you can’t cower in fear if you choose.
We’re Libertarians here.
> We’re Libertarians here.
It’s been a while since you’ve been here, I take it.
You are not a libertarian. Fuck off.
JesseAz
LOL. You aren’t either sweetie. You are a leftie who wants people to placate themselves to their betters. See covid, see smokers apparently.
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“Cuomo is an asshole,”
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So you want to bottle up smokers too huh. Totes libertarian. Who else do you despise that you want removed from common communities?
Poor lefties ignore georgia being just fine after no lockdowns and no masks requirements.
They tried to ignore Georgia until their massive democrat spending here failed for ossoff, Warnock, and Biden
Georgia sets new record for most confirmed COVID-19 cases in single day
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/georgia-sets-new-record-for-most-confirmed-covid-19-cases-in-single-day
Just keep telling yourself it’s all good here. In fact, don’t you have a rally or two to attend? Maskless, of course.
Do you also freak out about flu cases every year?
As compared to LA, which just set a “record” for hospitalizations in a day. After being locked up all year.
[your name here]
The highest incidence of cases is among the age cohorts at least risk of dying, or even going to the hospital.
shawn_dude
According to the numbers found here (Dec 14) , Georgia is in the upper 50% of states with the most cases per 100,000 residents. You’re at 5,113 per 100K, just barely better than Florida at 5,242. For comparison, California–the most populous state–is at 4,016, New York 3,985, and Vermont at 922. North Dakota is at 11,531 with South Dakota just below.
In death rates, Georgia is much higher at 18th in the list with 95 per 100K dying from the disease. California is at 53. Vermont 15. New Jersey tops it out at 200.
You have an interesting definition of “just fine.” More people are dying each day of the virus than died in New York on 9/11. Only this is happening in every state on every day. That isn’t “just fine.”
Heaven’s to Betsy!
They are also living freer than New Yorkers or Californians.
Why do you think that is a problem?
n00bdragon
95 per 100k?
NINETY-FIVE PER ONE-HUNDRED-THOUSAND!?
Someone stop the presses, grab the body bags, bring out yer dead because this disease is killing 0.01% of people! Wait, no, that’s not right. It’s not killing 0.01% of people, 0.01% of people are dying while they have the disease.
Mama mia, oy vey, ara ara, dios mio, what ever will we do? Clearly, the only logical course of action is to lock people in their houses indefinitely while they wear cheap paper dust masks. That should fix that in a quick, oh, maybe nine more months?
And they’re all middle aged adults and twenty-somethings and children.
Oh wait…
Everyone should just commit suicide so they don’t get it. The progtards should go first, and tell us how it works out.
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Ajsloss
Nine months? They told us two weeks to slow the spread.
Lawification
Note the complete lack of association between lockdown states and death rates???
And how many die of heart disease? Looked at the other way, how many are immortal?
Connor Macleod?
There can be onlyONE.
Less than 10,000 kungflu deaths in 12 months for Georgia. Even with the wuhanvirus bump due to lying as to cause of death.
650,000 Americans died of heart disease this year.
mapol
I disagree with you here, loveconstitution1798. Georgia is part of the reason that the Covid 19 virus pandemic is running so rampant and out of control right now.
Your citation fell off.
Georgia has low deaths and has no lockdowns and no masks requirements. Businesses are booming here.
We are living proof that democrats are fucking lying.
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This is a very complex question which requires a nuanced response:
Because Cuomo’s an asshole.
Because Cuomo is a fascist asshole.
The intent is to eliminate small businesses, typically owned by individuals, who often think for themselves.
The goal is to have only large corporate franchises, easier to manipulate, and much more likely to support the large government edicts. (Not to mention large corporate donations)
All Restuaruants will be owned by Taco Bell
Only the use of the three seashells will prevent COVID-19 transmission.
A fasc-hole, if you will
Il Douche.
Because capping occupancy is successful at reducing the spread of the disease. If occupancy wasn’t capped, this number would be far higher.
Red Rocks White Privilege
Magnificent circular reasoning there.
Thus banning it entirely will have no effect. But you keep right on bowing to your government.
bevis the lumberjack
Why has Cuomo banned indoor dining ?
Same reason a dog licks its balls.
bignose
Doesn’t explain why Cuomo licks dog balls, though. But then, maybe not all questions have answers.
Cuomo licks dog ball because they’re there.
It’s an old joke.
Q; Why does a dog lick his balls
A: Because he can.
That’s why Cuomo banned indoor dining. Because he can. It’s the only reason assholes like that need.
Yes, I got the joke. Not sure how mine about a man licking a dog’s balls fell flat, but they can’t all be zingers, I suppose.
There was at least a tiny zing to it.
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tangy zing
I didn’t take yours that way. My mistake, not yours.
And I didn’t want to leave it hanging too long because I didn’t want Ms Rommelmann to think I was trying to rude.
Cuomo banned indoor dining for a reason: That people who refuse to wear masks and social distance, especially while they’re indoors have contributed to why the Covid-19 pandemic has not been reined in. Too many people pretty much everywhere here in the United States have been emboldened and encouraged by Donald Trump, and are therefore acting like him. It’s disgusting, imho.
Too many people are acting like Trump… and surviving infection. How dare they?!!
Poor unreason. Your citations always fall off or dont support your claims.
Commie propagandists always have that problem.
Nancy Kozikowski
How does boot taste you pathetic piece of shit?
Michael S. Langston
You rabid anti-Trumpers give him way too much credit for things like whether people wear masks. As I’ve noted on other threads, the vast majority of people don’t pay attention to the president, any of them, at all. The vast majority don’t know who Barret is.
Yet according to those who hate Trump the most, he has god like power to control every aspect of people’s lives.
That people who refuse to wear masks and social distance, especially while they’re indoors have contributed to why the Covid-19 pandemic has not been reined in.
No, that’s not it. No data sets have shown that restaurants and bars have been a significant contributor to outbreaks. They’re roughly 10% of the numbers in prisons and nursing homes.
Hey remember in the other thread posted an hour before this one where you genuflected like a pathetic pussy to mask mandates?
DaveSs
The answer is obvious – FYTW
I’m waiting on DeWine to do the same soon. I’ve been working 6 days a week during all this, going to the store, Menard’s, Walmart, Kroger and Harbor Freight. Have lunch out each one day a week with a friend. I’m 60, I’ll take my chances. I do need some more whiskey for the holidays though,
Risk increases the longer you stay in single place. Walmart, Kroger, and other stores are fairly quick visits. Restaurants can easily be an hour in a single sitting.
So don’t go. Leave everyone else alone. Why is that such a hard concept to grasp?
A progtard cannot separate their personal woes from public policy. Its beyond their primitive inferior brains.
Feel free to cite any data that shows lowering restrictions in restaurants has led to increased outbreaks in restaurants.
Georgia is living proof that no lockdowns or mask requirements does not increase death rates.
Even if they ban dining altogether, people can still get sick from their takeout if the person preparing the food is sick. Therefore, the only way to eliminate the risk is to shutdown the restaurants entirely. And because I’m scared, everyone else should be subject to my risk threshold… or something like that.
I suspect covid is most often spread by people getting together with friends and extended family, especially indoors.
But if you’re a politician, you can’t tell the voters THEY’RE the problem. Hell no. And you can’t legislate them short of full state and home quarantine.
So you close businesses. “See, I’m doing something! Vote for me!”
But if you’re a politician, you can’t tell the voters THEY’RE the problem.
Gathering with friends and extended family indoors spreads the virus but sitting indoors with a bunch of nearby strangers in a restaurant does not… um… Why not, exactly? Is the ‘roni able to magically differentiate friend and family from a stranger at the table next to you? No. Indoors is indoors.
Transmission indoors by people you have a direct connection with during a shelter-in-place is more likely because people aren’t congregating in restaurants due to existing shelter-in-place orders.
Except small gatherings are minuscule in their outbreak numbers.
Not if the people involved in such gatherings, although small, who refuse to wear masks and keep the six-foot distance apart from each other.
Citations fell off.
You have no data, therefore you’re making shit up.
In Colorado, small gatherings have totaled 605 outbreaks for the ENTIRE YEAR. By comparison, prisons have had over 11,000 and nursing homes over 16,000.
Small gatherings are not where COVID tends to spread.
Is the ‘roni able to magically differentiate friend and family from a stranger at the table next to you?
Sure, same way the ‘roni is able to differentiate race riots from Trump rallies you pathetic piece of shit.
In georgia we have huge family get togethers. No masks. Food. Indoors. Outdoors, extended family.
Not a single person got the kungflu.
Ive been trying to get kungflu for months just so I dont have to smell how shitty unreason has gotten.
The order is killing businesses and isn’t rooted in science.
What’s political science, chopped liver?
It’s not rooted in science, it’s rooted in “science.”
some guy
“We don’t sit inside,” one told me. “I don’t think it’s comfortable. I feel like this is safer.”
Being young women means they are almost certainly at a very low risk from this virus. I don’t like to question other peoples’ comfort zones, but I’m sure nonstop news and press conferences that are irrationally panicky isn’t helping people to make informed decisions.
What you’re saying about young women and young people in general being at low risk for Covid-19 is not altogether true, some guy. In fact, even younger, healthier people, with no underlying chronic medical conditions, including children, have become seriously ill from, suffered permanent cardiac, pulmonary, and neurological damage from Covid-19, and even died from it.
Don’t kid yourself into thinking that younger people, both women and men alike, have not become seriously ill from or even died from Covid-19
What? It’s entirely true.
As of today in Ohio, there have been 68 deaths claimed among people aged 39 and younger… out of 7,551. But nearly half of all confirmed cases are among the same age group.
Stop lying.
Do you know what “risk” means? Yes, there are rare serious complications. Same thing happens with flu and other coronaviruses. Maybe they are a bit more common with this, but I really don’t know. They are still quite rare. There is always some risk that if you go out in the world you will catch something with the potential to make you very sick.
Fat Mike's Drug Habit
There have been a handful of cases where that’s true out of hundreds of millions of people who have contracted the virus.
I still like my odds.
wreckinball
Covid is spread mostly by existing. Cuomo’s lockdowns are npt lockdowns. Just selected business closures. So it spreads when you go to Walmart? who’d a thunk it!
And my old T shirt mask doesn’t work? Who knew?
I, Woodchipper
the answer to your question is he’s a petty tyrant and a scumbag.
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This of course won’t stop the usual suspects from babbling “why don’t you crazy selfish people listen to THE SCIENCE!!!”
Anarcho Bassist
Follow the “science” which you’re absolutely not allowed to question!
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Oh good Nancy you’re back in NY. I was worried you were gonna be attacked by BLM or Antifa. Sorry about your husband’s business. I mean former business. I guess Oregonians don’t like shitty coffee made by non-Oregonians who look down on the majority of Oregonians. Who knew?
Anyway don’t come back to Oregon you stupid right wing cunt!
There’s no good coffee in Oregon. There’s just leftards like you who *think* that over roasted shit is good coffee cuz Seattle
“overroasted” I can’t speak for others but I prefer light and medium roasts. I like breakfast blends.
Nancy’s husband’s coffee was overroasted raw sewage tasting shit.
Good riddance to that stupid cunt. Been
Good riddance to that stupid cunt.
What SelfLoathingHicklib’s mother said when she dumped him off at the police station.
Look I know you’re super fucking inbred so that’s why you can’t understand this, but I’m nothing like a goddamn hick. You’re the far right, Trump cock sucking, hookworm carrying hillbilly dude.
You support Donald Trump for Christ sakes. I know most the shit kicking inbreds on here do, but people with a brain don’t. That’s why he lost.
I’ll let you get back to fucking your sister ya hick.
God this shtick is hilarious. Have you ever considered a career in professional comedy?
Leave your personal life out of this, hicklib.
Sorry your BFF lost you filthy fucking hillbilly.
Hahahaha president Biden
Hahahaha Biden won you stupid hick.
I hate Biden but I just love the Trump loving inbred morons exposing what fascist traitors.
Leave MY COUNTRY you traitor hick!
Spiritus Mundi
I’m sure Reason’s preferred candidate, Joe Biden, will get this all sorted out post haste.
Reportedly Cuomo is under consideration for Attorney General in Biden’s cabinet. Just what we need in that position: an incompetent tyrant. He has had a sexual harassment allegation, so maybe that will be enough to dissuade Biden from appointing him.
No, that gives him street cred.
Good thing Biden will never be president.
The constitution strikes again.
0f2b3c8
I have no love for draconion lockdowns, nor do I think they are effective, but consider that maybe its SCOTUS that doesn’t give a shit about science.
Let’s not forget, the Black Robes imposed their own scientific opinion when they overturned Cuomo’s TARGETTED ban: “Stemming the spread of COVID–19 is unquestionably a compelling interest, but it is hard to see how the challenged regulations can be regarded as ‘narrowly tailored.’ “
SCOTUS shouldn’t give a shit about science. The question was whether the orders were legal.
NM Dave
I don’t believe it’s up to the courts to interpret science. Their job is to interpret what the constitution and existing law say. That’s all.
And I don’t believe the case you cited wasn’t about science at all, it was about the broad, sweeping nature of Cuomo’s idiotic edicts, which were inconsistent with established law.
It’s a good thing you capitalized TARGETED, it makes a persuasive legal case out of an otherwise utterly unconstitutional capricious and arbitrary diktat you fucking piece of shit.
If just 100-200 business in NYC simply refused to comply, these bullshit orders would be unenforceable.
ValVerde1867
These types of decisions are rooted in Marxism and the destruction of property rights and ownership. And Biden and the liberals will play right along providing humongous subsidies of debt dollars to support state governments whose very decisions to destroy their economies have rendered them insolvent. This is the corruption wrecking the country…planned, precise and evil in intent.
Robert Ore
It may very well be a corruption wrecking the economy, but it’s a timely wrecking.
Come January 21 or thereabouts, COVID will be over.
Restaurants will be open an at full capacity. No lockdowns and no mask mandates.
It’ll be the largest economic and employment boon since the last, last great economic downturn.
Just like the vaccine was announced about a week after the “election”, they’ll be a timely recovery from COVID.
p4madeus
I would say the reason it’s at 1.3% now is because of the reduction in capacity. But yes moving to a total shutdown doesn’t seem to make sense based on the numbers. If anything, it will drive up the at home number even more as there will be even less out of home options.
People have to get the virus from someone at some point before they can spread it at home. If people truly followed the shelter-in-place requirements and stopped breaking the rules, we’d not have nearly 300K dead Americans. The at home numbers only went up relative to the total because places like restaurants and gyms were capped at a fraction of capacity, as you correctly noted.
‘If people truly followed the shelter-in-place requirements and stopped breaking the rules, we’d not have nearly 300K dead Americans.’
hate to break it to you, shawn old dude, but we don’t have 300k dead from your precious virus; you know as well as everybody else those are bogus numbers meant to drive a lazy media agenda…also, how long do you propose we ‘shelter in place’? till the end of time…? if we see rising cases (another bogus term) every time we crack the door a little bit, then we’ll have to lockdown indefinitely, lest you lose your beauty rest over it…
Sorry to burst YOUR bubble, Irishman12, but I have to totally agree with shawn_dude here. He’s absolutely right. It’s people like YOU who’ve caused the Covid-19 pandemic to run so rampant and so out of control. Donald Trump has emboldened and encouraged people like you.
Hey look, shawn’s sock has an assertion!
Sorry to burst YOUR bubble, but I have to say that you’re a subhuman piece of shit who should kill yourself.
Gee, look at that authoritative statement. You had better do it! It’s science!
Yeah, but if everybody followed the shelter-in-place requirements how would those dumb niggers that Biden says are stocking the grocery shelves keep you fed you retarded pathetic cunt?
How the hell could you know that. You are just assuing that the rules work as intended with very little evidence to support the claim. Models are not reality. There is lots of data now. Show me a place where you can clearly show that following the rules made a clear difference.
damikesc
If people TRULY sheltered in home, you’d starve because farmers and truckers wouldn’t do their job nor the grocery employees do theirs.
Yeah, that’s the thing. It was never even plausible in the first place to actually lock down and isolate everyone. It’s just evil and perverse that our supposed leaders think that’s even a possibility.
Rev. Arthur L. Kuckland
Who cares if they go out of business. If you vote for the pros and the socialists then you sceed your right to liberty, self ownership, and individual rights
You don’t know who they voted for.
Karl F
In most cases the source of a Covid infection is not known. The author cites a study of contact tracing on 46,000 new cases in NY state between September to November. However, there were 213,224 new cases in NY state during this time period. So almost 80% of new cases have an unknown source. That fact makes this essay useless.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109721/new-york-state-covid-cumulative-cases-us/
It is called extrapolation.
Sorry. But this is basically an example of home made garbage analysis based on someone out to prove a point, rather than a trained professional analyzing data with no particular agenda.
Lets start with the fact that indoor dining and drinking has been closed for some time to some extent in NY. OF COURSE they would represent a smaller percentage of proven transmissions. You know how many transmissions have happened at indoor movie theaters in the same time? None! What a discovery!
Next is the fact that these data points are percentages of the small minority of cases where a source is known. 80% are unknown. Of those few cases where one can contract trace, it makes sense that it is in a home gathering among friends and family that would be in the vast majority, opposed to some crowded bar where most people in close proximity don’t know each other.
dougwesterman
From Business Insider:
“Japan didn’t enforce shutdowns or social-distancing orders, but it encouraged people to avoid closed spaces with poor ventilation, crowded places with groups of people, and close-contact settings like one-on-one conversations. The method, which leaves decisions about where to go and what kind of risks to take up to individuals, is designed to help minimize the spread of the virus while allowing life to continue, albeit with limits.”
Their death rate has been way below ours, despite a crowded setting and lots of old people. So the voluntary “3-C’s” approach is much better than arbitrary edicts.
This tells us a lot about how Japanese and Americans differ in how we listen to scientific/medical authorities. One of these cultures behaved more responsibly and the other is still babbling about “marxists” and “it’s a hoax” and “freedom” with nearly 300K deaths to show for it.
You’re such a goddamned moron. Lock yourself into your hoke home, forever.
That’s correct Shawn! Liberty only works in Japan and Sweden because of magic soil. It could never work in America because Americans are not sufficiently obsequious to state authority. This is so self evidently correct that the conclusion is actually embedded right there in the premise. You can’t refute that logic!
You are more than free to hide under your bed forever.
Japan kept sick people from entering the country.
Lefty judges screamed when Trump tried to do the same.
Anyone else realize that trump tried to keep kungflu from spreading into the UsA with china restrictions. Democrats prevented that. Democrats impeached trump. Democrats used kungflu as an excuse to change election rules.
Its almost like the commies had a plan to destroy america.
Either that or they had pre-existing immunity from more exposure to similar viruses. Or they have healthier old people.
First, some additional facts via a story published in November in the journal Nature called Mobility network models of COVID-19 explain inequities and inform reopening.
This study out of Chicago uses pre-March lockdown data to help track mobility patterns to places of interest like restaurants and its correlation with the spread of the coronavirus. The reason using pre-lockdown data is important is because as soon as people started sheltering-in-place, the infection rates at certain businesses dropped because people stopped going. If you use those sorts of post-shutdown numbers to inform the risk of catching the disease at a restaurant, you’ll be misinformed. 1.3% of infections happening at restaurants post-shutdown tells us nothing about what would happen if we opened them up wide. But this study in Nature avoids that problem and has some insight.
As you can infer from the title, it’s not all bad news. While indoor dining is one of the biggest spreaders of the disease (lots of people in a confined space with poor air movement talking over ambient noise), capping capacity at 20% resulted in an 80% drop in transmission of the virus.
I leave you to read the full article. Just be careful to remember that if we stop going to places then the number of infections at those places drops accordingly while other places where we still congregate, like our homes, will start to pick up the larger number of infections. Further, if one person gets infected at a restaurant and brings that home to infect 5 persons in their household, that’s a 1 mark for “restaurant” and a 5 mark for “household” infections in the statistic but without the restaurant visit it would have been 0 and 0.
So no matter what, the virus wins.
Nihilism?
The virus loses when we get vaccinated. The goal is to not kill people with irresponsible behavior before the vaccine is widely distributed.
Let me fix that for you…
The goal is to not allow some healthy people to perform some activities that have a small chance of creating an even smaller chance of creating a 0.01% risk to <.1% of the population, but allowing dozens of other arbitrarily selected activities that have a higher risk.
Mass suicide seems like an extremely poor solution to a problem.
Rufus The Monocled
Stop testing then? Like the flu.
Average flu in the US kills about 30K in a year. This disease has killed about 300K since March and it’s not close to being done.
It’s “like the flu” like ebola is “like the flu.”
Are you saying that COVID is like ebola? One disease has a fatality rate of around 50%, the other has a fatality rate so low and dependent on the presence of other conditions that it is difficult to pin down as a primary cause of death in most cases. Care to guess which one is which?
No, he’s saying the deaths from flu, which actually include children, don’t matter. He’s good with those.
He’s also good with traffic fatalities. We need cars, but we don’t need to leave our houses, apparently.
He’s ALSO good with “Essential employees” being forced to work to keep people like him alive.
Shut down groceries and see how long this desire for shutdowns lasts
I think you need to rethink what you just wrote.
If we counted flu deaths the same way we count Covid deaths the fatality of the seasonal flu would be very similar.
Covid also hasn’t killed anywhere in the ballpark of 300,000 people. The bullshit number peddled by the CDC which admittedly includes everyone displaying respiratory symptoms even if they did of a heart attack or a fucking car accident hasn’t even reached 300,000, and if we restrict our analysis to Covid as a primary cause of death you can shave 50% off of that.
But sure, a respiratory virus in the same family as the common cold that causes the exact same symptoms of the flu and has 0.01% fatality rate is more like hemorrhagic fever with a 50% fatality rate.
Hide under your bed like the pathetic pussy that you are. Or better yet kill yourself before the ‘rona gets you. The rest of us will be living our lives and laughing at you.
And it looks like we are going to continue to get the running tally of Covid, even though we are into a new season. If we kept counting flu deaths forever it would be pretty huge number too.
No, it’s like the flu. It has similar symptoms and means of transmission and similar death rate. If we didn’t have a test for this virus most cases would be diagnosed as flu.
Georgia has no lockdowns and never did. No masks requirements. Businesses are booming.
Georgia is doing well and low deaths while infected.
Oh good, a new model. 2 million deaths and counting from our last model. If the reality doesn’t comport with the model, obviously reality is the problem.
Union of Concerned Socks
So, to summarize comments so far:
Cuomo is a petty incompetent tyrant fascist asshole fuckface dickhead who licks dog balls and needs to die in a grease fire.
Personally, I hope someone pounds the misogynist fuck’s balls flat with a wooden mallet on national TV.
Before he dies in a grease fire.
And I ditto that for every son of a bitch criminal public official across the continent that has destroyed our common sense.
Piece of shit rotten cunts all of them.
Minadin
To be sure, they could also use a culinary meat tenderizing hammer, spiky end down.
On the other hand, they could use both sides.
One would think Sandra Lee has packed up her tenderizer and taken it with her.
Stay masked up!
It saves….well….something?
It saves political careers, the most important jobs.
Very highly correlated with smugness, a leading indicator.
Not to worry folks, this will all be over soon.
Just like a vaccine was announced a week after the “election”, come January 21 or so, COVID will be over.
No lockdowns, restaurants open to full capacity and the largest economic and employment boon since the last, last large recession.
this will all be over soon.
What is “this”? I keep hearing how nobody knows how long the vaccine protects one or if it prevents spread.
It doesn’t matter what the vaccine actually does, only what it stands for.
The vaccine will “work” as advertised and the MSM will make sure Joe public knows it.
Suddenly, everything will be “under control” come late January/February.
Do you really think the MSM is going to allow Joe to fail at combating COVID? Fail at rebuilding the economy? Fail at providing jobs?
Nope. The MSM will declare COVID done and over with and allow the economy to roar back to life.
Gradually, but with a timeline soon after Joe is sworn it…”looks like our numbers are improving”…..”looks like the hospitals are seeing a reduction”……”looks like the vaccine is really taking hold”…”man, Joe really knocked this COVID thing out of the park”
If the CDC/MSM/ et. al. are really cooking the COVID books, it’s for Trumps sake. For Joe’s sake, they’ll reverse directions pretty fast.
mpercy
The journey will be difficult. The road will be long. I face this challenge — I face this challenge with profound humility and knowledge of my own limitations, but I also face it with limitless faith in the capacity of the American people.
Because if we are willing to work for it, and fight for it, and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that, generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless…
… this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal…
… this was the moment when we ended a war, and secured our nation, and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth.
This was the moment, this was the time when we came together to remake this great nation so that it may always reflect our very best selves and our highest ideals.
How’d that work out for everyone?
“ How’d that work out for everyone?”
“Everyone”? I don’t know about “everyone” but my taxes were lower and my 401k was doing better under trump. Unemployment was low and the economy was coming back.
COVID hit and the MSM made sure that it took the economy and trump down with it.
With Joe in, the MSM will make sure COVID, Hunter’s emails, and Joe’s business dealings as VP are non-news. They will make sure he is as much of a success as possible.
Watch for the FDA to – quietly – change their guidelines for PCR testing shortly after Biden is sworn in. Currently they recommend a Ct threshold of 40 cycles to establish positives. By way of comparison, Portugal uses 25 cycles. Even dropping it from 40 to 33 (which is what the people most familiar with the test suggest as the maximum reliable limit) would bring the positivity rate down, the case count, and the death from/with COVID down dramatically.
Alan@.4
Why is Cuomo pulling the crap he is pulling. Simple Answer, Because He Can. Will his draconian, misdirected scams mitigate existing problems, real or imagined, NO, or Hell No, take your pick. I grew up in NYC, lived there for quite a while too. Left in 1967, for reasons I will not bother to discuss, as they have nothing to do with current goings on. I guess that The Old Homestead, my favorite restaurant, next to Pete’s Tavern on Irving Place is closed. Will it survive, who knows. As to Cuomo, who is in his third term as governor, an old saying comes to mind. People usually get the sort of government they didn’t vote against. Enough said.
On March 24th, Cuomo forced New York City hospitals with covid patients to be sent to local area nursing homes. As a result, more than 6,000 of the nursing home patients died from the covid. Heinrich Himmler would be proud of this guy.
These orders ignore the reality of human behavior. Despite admonitions not to socialize, humans are social animals and will find ways to do so. Removing public places like restaurants and bars results in people meeting up at friends’ houses. Restaurants & bars have invested untold millions of dollars to become hygienic and safe places with the addition of ventilation, sanitizing procedures, enough room for distancing both inside and out, along with commercial grade disinfection equipment. This is not the case in homes which are smaller, have harder to sanitize surfaces and no staff to maintain germ free conditions. So I would argue that you are safer meeting people outside of your immediate home environment in these obviously safer locations. The “scientists” have it wrong because they have not factored in normal human behavior. And if you’re going to argue that people must stay in their homes, good luck with that. The only way that can be enforced would be with martial law.
Georgia restaurants dont have plexiglass or table restrictions or any of that nonsense.
Were doing great.
BrianL.
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“…Why Has Cuomo Banned Indoor Dining?”
You’re kidding, right?
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Sincere thanks to everyone for pointing out the statistics, track and trace issues, etc. I hadn’t considered that to be as big a factor, but the numbers and uncertainty demonstrate it.
No one likes lockdown, except for the benefits of not spreading the disease (and some psychological benefits of not being worried about spreading it or getting it).
Watching from the UK, I see that many jurisdictions have the problem of not wanting to shut down the economy completely, and having only a few knobs to turn.
For instance, there’s some evidence that schools are strong spreading venues, except that mostly the cases are mild, and a good portion of the infected are asymptomatic. Locking down schools would greatly impact the economy though, as many parents would have to stay home with their kids, including parents who can’t work from home — many in the transport or physical goods industries, including food, clothes, and auto garages.
Restrictions on restaurants, especially things like take-away or outdoor dining, while not good for the restaurants, have little impact on everyone else. Sure, you can’t sit down inside, but few are going to be more than just inconvenienced (except the restaurant workers).
There are also the psychological issues. Completely shutting down churches, funerals, and weddings can severely impact mental health. Jurisdictions have to strike a balance between the numbers, the economy, and mental health.
They often get it wrong, because there is no right answer.
Meanwhile, many groups and populations chafe at the restrictions, and openly defy them, common sense- and science-be-damned. This only prolongs the damage, and delays the recovery.
We’ll be talking about this for years to come, and there will still be hurt and division, even after most people are vaccinated, and new cases are about as rare as hurricanes.
But yes, keep railing against all restrictions. Don’t cooperate with any rules or advice. I hope that Darwin takes only the offenders, and spares the innocent, but it doesn’t work that way — the innocent suffer much more than the rule breakers.
“there’s some evidence that schools are strong spreading venues”
According to WHO:
There were few outbreaks reported in schools since early 2020
In most infections or COVID-19 cases reported in children, infection was acquired at home
•More outbreaks were reported in secondary/high schools than in primary/elementary schools
Studies suggest that children < 10 years are less susceptible and less infectious than older ones
•In school outbreaks, it was more likely that virus was introduced by adult personnel
Transmission staff-to-staff was most common; among staff and students was less common; and student-to-student spread more rare
•Early modelling studies suggested that closing schools reduced community transmission less than other social distancing interventions
“Closure of schools should be considered only if there is no other alternative”
gurujobalert
Cuomo pulling the crap he is pulling. Simple Answer, Because He Can. Will his draconian, misdirected scams mitigate existing problems, real or imagined, NO, or Hell No, take your pick. I grew up in NYC, lived there for quite a while too. Left in 1967, for reasons I will not bother to discuss, as they have nothing to do with current goings on
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Liberty Lover
1. Because he can.
2. Because he is a sadistic bastard.
3. Still trying to make Trump look bad.
4. He hates small business, only wants large chains to succeed, they donate more to his campaigns.
He should make a great AG!
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It’s as if, completely coincidentally, Covid cases went down during a stretch when the Yankees won ball games, so the Mayor orders that the Yankees must will all ball games, to curb the spread of Covid.
Science!!
…but if you don’t have a ticket, or the YES network, you might go to a sports bar to watch the game and…superspreader!
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“If it saves even one life!”
But they don’t really believe in that mantra. Otherwise there’d be bans on cars, ladders, bathtubs, stairs…
WC46
Think “IF IT SAVES ONE CHILD!” THE SAME EXACT FEAR-DRIVEN TYRANNY. No one listened when it was “just sex offenders” being destroyed by hate and fear-driven disabilities and restraints imposed by the registry and now the very ones who champion such rules for that population are whining and crying like a bunch of babies now that it’s on THEIR DOORSTEPS. Maybe now science and proven fact can have a chance to end the tyranny so many people have been callously and maliciously crippled with for DECADES. It’s not so nice when fear and hysteria-driven life-destroying restrictions are on the other foot, is it?!?!
Folks finding their lives destroyed by fear-driven, unscientific disabilities and restraints related to COVID-19 lock-downs are getting a partial glimpse at what life has been like for those listed on the various sex offender registries for the last several decades. They’re seeing what it’s like to live under arbitrary rules that destroy them and their quality of life when there is NO SCIENCE to justify it. Maybe now folks will have a little more EMPATHY for those who have been utterly destroyed by fear and hate-driven legislation.
jimc5499
It is very simple. Democrats have their heads so far up the Union’s asses that they taste their food before they do. Unions such as the SEIU want the destruction of the “tipped industry”. They can’t unionize restaurant workers unless dues can be taken from their paychecks. This is one of the main reasons behind the $15 per hour minimum wage.
The curfew is even dumber. As if the virus spreads quicker at night or something…
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Reason acknowledging that these mitigation measures are not justified by “science?”
Welcome to the party, pal.
It’s really ironic that folks are now whining and crying about life-crippling restrictions that are in no way based on sound science, but rather on fear and hysteria. In a way, I’m tickled people are experiencing what it’s like to have their lives dictated and destroyed by such fear-driven rules. People who have been treated to the same unscientific, hate and fear-driven rules for decades by the sex offender registry have presented peer reviewed, empirical scientific proof that registries and the attached disabilities and restraints do NOTHING.. N-O-T-H-I-N-G to enhance public safety and yet the call to heed the science and the evidence have both been devoutly and maliciously ignored by the public and courts at large. Maybe now this sudden demand to embrace the science over the fear will start to resonate with more people! I say in many ways it’s a fair comeuppance to society. Even a court in CA has overturned county outdoor dining restrictions due to lack of basis in sound science with empirical, peer reviewed evidence to back them up. Let’s see the hypocrisy end and start demanding the same scientific foundation for the registry.
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REST substitution petitions will be accepted electronically. Send completed form to curricula@mit.edu.
Through Restricted Electives in Science and Technology (REST) Requirement subjects, you will broaden and deepen the educational foundation in basic science begun during the first-year program and further your understanding of scientific inquiry. The MIT Bulletin contains a complete description of the REST Requirement and the subjects that have been approved to fulfill it. To make a substitution for a REST subject, you must submit a petition to the Committee on Curricula (CoC). You are strongly encouraged to submit petitions before the end of your sixth semester.
Some key points to remember:
CoC rarely approves substitutions because the list of subjects that fulfill the REST Requirement is intentionally very specific, and because you are advised to complete this requirement early in your academic career.
The Committee will only consider a REST petition that has been approved by your advisor, the department that offers the REST subject, and the department that offers the proposed substitution.
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Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Spends Seventh Birthday in a Row in Jail
Ross Ulbricht turns 36 years old today. This will be his seventh birthday in incarceration.
Ulbricht is the convicted felon serving two life sentences plus 40 years for his role in creating the Silk Road, the online contraband market notorious for its associations with cryptocurrency. Ulbricht says Silk Road was initially envisioned as a libertarian paradise, but it eventually went sideways:
“Silk Road was supposed to be about giving people the freedom to make their own choices, to pursue their own happiness, however they individually saw fit. What it turned into was, in part, a convenient way for people to satisfy their drug addictions.”
This free market utopia lasted about two years from Ulbricht’s founding it in 2011. He was arrested by the FBI in October 2013 and has been in custody ever since. At trial he was found guilty of money laundering, computer hacking, and conspiracy to traffic narcotics. His double life sentence comes without any chance of parole.
Since Ulbricht’s arrest and sentencing, many of the biggest names in the crypto community have spoken out in support of Ulbricht, suggesting that the legal system treated him with prejudice. Billionaire venture capitalist Tim Draper has consistently voiced support for Ulbricht, and an online petition to the White House calling for Ulbricht’s release gathered its 275,000th signature this week.
Published at Fri, 27 Mar 2020 23:30:00 +0000 Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Spends Seventh Birthday in a Row in Jail
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Facebook And The Fake News Monster
November 28, 2016 Samuel Hooper
The mainstream media looks to Facebook and technology to solve the problem of “fake news”, while utterly ignoring their own starring role in driving readers into the arms of more disreputable news outlets
Jeff Chiu has an interesting rumination in Newsweek on the way that Facebook tacitly encouraged the monster of “fake news” which it is now being ordered to help slay.
Chiu writes:
Think back just a couple of years, before the 2016 election cycle and before Facebook set itself up as the world’s newswire. Facebook grew to a billion users by being a social network. It’s where you found old friends and kept up with family. I just looked back at my 2014 Facebook timeline. Almost zero politics! And that’s how most people liked it. Many users back then even beseeched friends to avoid political posts, or muted the violators if they persisted. In real life, most of us don’t want to argue politics with our friends and family, so why would we want to do it online?
Then, over the past two years, Facebook aggressively morphed into a media site. It set up deals with publishers to populate all our timelines with stories. It subtly encouraged users to post stories and to “like” and comment on them. Facebook, of course, did this with its own goals in mind. To maximize profit, Facebook needs to keep users engaged and on the site as long as possible, and to get those users to create or interact with all the content in their feeds. That thrum of activity helps Facebook’s algorithms more deftly target ads to more people, which makes Facebook even more attractive to advertisers.
Since politics is traditionally news, of course that topic started to slip into our feeds, and Facebook’s setup encouraged sinister practices. As users zip through their news feeds, scanning only the headlines, they are more likely to click on and share stories that are outrageous or stir emotions. In other words, Facebook—unwittingly, from what I hear—incentivized clickbait “news” over more serious news, and the success of clickbait opened the way for fake news. “We’re more likely to share inflammatory posts than non-inflammatory ones, which means that each Facebook session is a process by which we double down on the most radical beliefs in our feed,” writes Mike Caulfield, an expert in learning environments. “Marketers figured this out and realized that to get you to click, they had to up the ante. So they produced conspiracy sites that have carefully designed, fictional stories that are inflammatory enough that you will click.”
It’s hard to say whether Facebook is the chicken or the egg in this wave of political propaganda—whether it helped create the acidic and divided politics around the world or if the ugly political environment merely found an accommodating home on Facebook. No doubt it was some of both, and the result is that our feeds are now overwhelmed with wingnut political content that gets amplified even if it’s crazy. During the election, a lot of Facebook users just didn’t care if something was true, says Paul Mihailidis, a media literacy professor at Emerson College. “They saw it as a way to advocate,” he says. “They see a catchy headline, and the default is to share.” If you look globally—the U.S., the U.K., France, Colombia, the Philippines—politics are getting more caustic, not less. In this kind of environment, all the media outlets that now rely on Facebook’s audience are driven to flood us with click-worthy headlines that play to our fears and anger. Every trend line points to more of what we’re growing to hate on Facebook.
The perverse incentives created by Facebook’s dominance and algorithms cannot be overstated. At peak times, when I am actively promoting Semi-Partisan Politics during newsworthy events, up to 50 percent of total traffic can come from Facebook alone, some days even more. Other sites have an even greater dependency on Facebook as a source of traffic.
And for media professionals, with this dependency on Facebook comes the temptation to generate extra precious pageviews by pushing the boundaries of acceptable journalistic practice, whether as a ploy to increase web ad revenue or merely for the supposed prestige of more clicks. All other ways of generating extra traffic – like, say, producing better content – are far more arduous and time intensive than simply being a bit more provocative on Facebook. And the returns are nowhere near as good. It would take a media organisation of exceptional poise and integrity to withstand these temptations. And as we know, there are few publications where the words “poise” or “integrity” come naturally as descriptors.
Compounding the problem is the fact that this Facebook traffic is both fickle and disloyal. One can win the passing attention of their eyeballs for a few brief passing seconds with a catchy headline (and often a provocative picture), but the moment your articles stop appearing in the Facebook feed, the vast majority of users will not go seek you out independently as a publisher of content – as a publisher, you are utterly replaceable by the swarm of other sites churning out often superficially similar-looking stuff.
This leads to an arms race of hysteria in terms of online political coverage, with some of those outlets now shouting loudest about pro-Trump “fake news” being themselves the worst offenders. Many of the headlines or Facebook post descriptions published by left-leaning sites like Huffington Post or MotherJones sound like the breathless, hysterical reactions of a high school student as opposed to sober, reasoned analysis, and of course the same goes for the likes of Breitbart on the right. Every utterance by Donald Trump is “scary”, every pronouncement by Hillary Clinton a “threat to America” – and these people dare to accuse others of generating a toxic climate for political discourse.
Chiu goes on to ponder the implications for Facebook:
Despite recent statements by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about his efforts to rein in fake news, he won’t be able to do that easily. Zuckerberg hit on the reason when he said it would be problematic to set up Facebook editors or algorithms as “arbiters of truth.” Because—what’s truth? Centuries ago, it was true that the world was flat. When I was a kid, a mom would sit in a car’s front seat and put her baby on her lap and not wear a seat belt. If someone said that was insanely unsafe, you probably would’ve blinked quizzically and said, “That’s not true.”
Facebook apparently is working on software that would flag or block fake news. Last year, Google published research on a knowledge-based trust algorithm that would sort for truth. Some college kids recently got attention for creating a Google Chrome extension they called FiB that automatically labels allegedly iffy sources. British technologist Peter Cochrane recently talked to me about developing software he called a truth engine. These might succeed in banning certain sites or identifying stories likely to be fake because they come from a single source, and yet software solutions can probably never overcome the problem that truth to me might not be truth to you, and truth today won’t necessarily be truth tomorrow.
[..] One constant about the technology industry is that every seemingly bulletproof superpower at some point has a Waterloo. It happened to IBM, AOL, Microsoft, Intel; and it will happen to Apple, Amazon and Google. You might be witnessing Facebook’s moment of truth, in a very literal sense. If Facebook turns into a bottomless cesspool of competing political “truths,” a lot of us are going to soil ourselves and escape to something else.
Frankly, I am a lot less worried about the future of Facebook than I am about the future of political journalism. In Britain, the EU referendum and surprise Brexit vote exposed the mainstream media as horribly glib, superficial, biased and lacking in basic understanding of the topics that they were covering. While the shining ones in Westminster write their articles in prestige publications or pontificate in the TV news studios, one frequently has to turn to the independent political blogosphere – largely strangled in its crib by the big media companies over the course of a decade – for anything approaching serious, granular analysis.
Yet many of these writers are unpaid, doing what they do as a labour of love rather than as a viable career. Many of them could vastly increase their audiences by adopting the same clickbait tactics as practiced by the likes of Buzzfeed, HuffPo or InfoWars. From a medium term career perspective, the best thing that many of these writers and journalists could do for themselves would be to sell out, start trotting out establishment talking points wrapped up in the kind of hysterical catastrophisation which prospers under the Facebook algorithms.
The problem is partly one of human nature: there will always be a much bigger market for sensationalist partisan fluff than serious, sober analyis. But also important is the fact that there is not a neat dividing line between real news and “fake news”. Fake news can incorporate false facts, but also correct facts which have been deliberately misinterpreted or spun. And far more insidious than any one fake news story, no matter how egregious, is the way in which language is often used to subtly change public perceptions over time – note how we now speak about “undocumented” rather than “illegal ” immigrants, a change adopted by nearly all of the mainstream media in America, and now in Britain too.
When the media is secretly complicit in ideologically-driven agendas, trust in the more reputable media is rightly weakened. But this leaves people more vulnerable to peddlers of deliberately fake news, as they search for alternatives. The obvious answer is for mainstream prestige outlets to rediscover their integrity and stop forcing readers away with ideologically skewed coverage, but they will not desist, and so they fuel the exodus of readers away to the fringes of the internet, a place where the more outrageous a story sounds, the more people will read it.
We present this as a crisis of technology – or at least those who work for mainstream publications, unwilling to examine their own culpability, present it that way. If only Facebook could stop people falling prey to the great evil of fake news, they cry in anguish, utterly ignoring the role that they themselves play in driving people toward fake news.
But this is not a crisis of technology. It is a crisis of human integrity, and the prestige mainstream media need to examine their own consciences long and hard before finding fault in other people.
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Politicians draped in kente cloth take a knee for George Floyd
By A.R. Shaw | June 8, 2020 | 0
(Photo source: Screenshot via ABC News)
Democratic leaders in the U.S. House and Senate came together to pay homage to George Floyd.
On Monday, June 8, 2020, lawmakers including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, Sen. Kamala Harris, and others were in attendance inside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., according to The Washington Post.
Before unveiling their proposed police reform bill, the “Justice in Policing Act,” the politicians, each wearing a kente cloth stole, took a knee, a la Colin Kaepernick in Emancipation Hall, named in honor of the contributions of enslaved laborers who helped construct the Capitol building.
“We are here to honor George Floyd,” Pelosi told reporters. “You see how long it was to have that knee on his neck.”
For eight minutes and 46 seconds, the politicians knelt in silence as a reminder of how long former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin held his knee on Floyd’s neck.
Congressional Democrats take a knee as they observe a nearly nine minute moment of silence for George Floyd at Emancipation Hall at the U.S. Capitol. https://t.co/JnqDlzMFDq pic.twitter.com/8CBdgtLUjz
— ABC News (@ABC) June 8, 2020
The “Justice in Policing Act,” which is supported by 200 Democrats, seeks to reform police departments across the nation and hold them accountable. If passed, police departments would have to send data regarding when they use force to the federal government. Moreover, there would be an independent process to investigate police misconduct.
However, while the “Justice in Policing Act” is a step forward, some social media users viewed the use of kente cloth and kneeling as a tone-deaf effort to pay homage.
View reactions on social media below:
I need to know who passed out the kente cloth?? pic.twitter.com/6aoM42DNk2
— “Scottie Beam” (@ScottieBeam) June 8, 2020
White people are doing the most while still somehow refusing to do the bare minimum.
The Kente cloth has sent me to the upper room.
Exhibit A: pic.twitter.com/bDJQHycges
— David Dennis Jr. (@DavidDTSS) June 8, 2020
My ancestors did not invent Kente cloth for them to be worn by publicity-obsessesed politicians as “activism” in 2020.
— jade bentil (@divanificent) June 8, 2020
A lot of memes will be made of the politicians kneeling in Kente cloth, but I want people to take it seriously. We pay elected officials to politically represent and execute a vision. That hollow symbolism is disrespectful when you think about state violence against Black people.
— Charles Preston (@_CharlesPreston) June 8, 2020
I admit that I did not have congressional delegations draped in Kente cloth on my bingo card.
— Ida B. Wells’s Burner Account (@goldietaylor) June 8, 2020
I can’t believe Pelosi wearing Kente Cloth right now. It’s blowing my mind, I can’t even watch this press conference!
— Ja'Mal Green (@JaymalGreen) June 8, 2020
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As drug makers seek approval for emergency use of two vaccines for COVID-19, Colorado is poised to implement its plan to disseminate and store the serum and inoculate priority populations, starting with health care providers.
The sheer logistics of distribution pose challenges, including securing frozen storage and persuading people to get the two-shot course, when polls show more than half of Coloradans might be resistant.
But the advent of vaccines that promise to be at least 90 percent effective amid the worst pandemic in 100 years doesn’t mean people can set aside the precautions public health officials have advocated for since March.
Because not everyone will be vaccinated immediately, officials with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) said in a statement, “Even with a vaccine, we all have to continue to follow public health guidance closely now and for the foreseeable future.
That includes wearing a mask in public, maintaining at least six feet of physical distance from others not in your household, avoiding crowds, washing hands often and staying home when sick.
On Nov. 9, news broke that pharmaceutical company Pfizer’s vaccine was said to be 90 percent effective in preventing COVID-19 transmission.
According to UCHealth Today, an independent safety and data monitoring board reported Nov. 16 that early results from the Moderna Phase 3 clinical trials show that company’s vaccine is 94.5 percent effective.
Emergency approval for the vaccines from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration could come in mid- to late-December, experts say.
Pfizer’s website notes the company expects to produce globally up to 50 million vaccine doses in 2020 and up to 1.3 billion doses in 2021. Since it’s a two-phase shot, an initial vaccine followed by a booster 28 days later, the initial production could protect 25 million people.
The Moderna vaccine also requires a booster shot. The company expects to have about 20 million doses ready to ship within the United States by year’s end; next year, it plans to manufacture 500 million to 1 billion doses globally.
Both vaccines must be kept extremely cold: Pfizer’s at minus 70 degrees Celsius and Moderna’s at 20 degrees Celsius, which is more like a standard freezer. That poses a problem for rural areas, which may not have adequate storage.
However, CDPHE has identified 16 locations that could receive the first shipment of the vaccines. “Several of these locations are already equipped with existing ultra low temperature freezers,” the agency said in an email. “CDPHE has purchased and will distribute an additional 10 ultra low temperature freezers.”
UCHealth, which operates city-owned Memorial Hospital, currently has ultra-low freezers and is purchasing more.
UCHealth spokesperson Cary Vogrin says via email plans call for staging the freezers at several hospitals through coordination with CDPHE. “Though we do not know when or how much vaccine we may receive, we are staging the freezers and organizing logistics so we’ll be ready to begin vaccinating certain health care workers and high-risk individuals,” she says.
CBS4 Denver reported that Colorado’s allotment of vaccines will be based on percentage of population, meaning the state initially will receive about 670,000 vaccines, which would serve 335,000 people.
In its 100-page Covid-19 Vaccination Plan, dated Oct. 16, CDPHE spells out how distribution will occur.
The first shipment will be directed at “initial critical populations.” Those include, in order of priority and with the estimated number of people: inpatient health care personnel likely to be exposed to or treat people with COVID-19 (182,884); outpatient health care workers, including home health workers and outpatient pharmacists, as well as EMS, firefighters, police, public health personnel and corrections workers (101,708). Rounding out the top priorities are those living in assisted living, long-term care and nursing homes (46,941).
That totals 331,533, roughly the number of vaccines the state expects to receive in the first round.
The second-highest priority will include congregate housing workers, such as those in homeless shelters, group homes and students living in college dorms, along with essential workers, such as grocery store workers, teachers, child care providers and meat packing employees. Those are estimated at 669,063.
Next in line will be 2,343,851 higher-risk people, including adults over 65, adults with obesity, diabetes, chronic lung disease, heart disease and other immunocompromised status. Last in line will be the general public, adults 18 to 64 without high-risk conditions, which the state estimates total 1,937,711.
A timeline for vaccinating the second, third and fourth priorities is unclear. Some experts estimate vaccines won’t be widely available until mid-2021.
Public agencies and private companies will partner to administer the vaccine, CDPHE says. Hospitals and public health agencies will administer the vaccines first.
“As the vaccine becomes more widely available, the network of COVID-19 vaccine providers will expand to include doctors’ offices, pharmacies, homeless shelters, colleges/universities, senior centers, school-based health centers, and other health and medical locations,” the state says.
Also, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will partner with CVS and Walgreens to set up on-site COVID-19 vaccination services for residents of nursing homes and assisted living facilities once vaccination is recommended for them.
Because the CDPHE isn’t considering a COVID-19 vaccine mandate, that means it’s possible thousands of Coloradans won’t be vaccinated.
The Colorado Sun reported in September that polls show reluctance on the part of state residents to partake of the vaccine.
The American Medical Association’s House of Delegates announced a policy Nov. 17, to educate doctors speaking to patients about COVID-19 vaccines. Calling such education an “urgent priority,” the AMA vowed to help physicians “address patient concerns, dispel misinformation, and build confidence in COVID-19 vaccination.”
People can’t expect a sudden change in COVID.
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But Dr. Kelly Moore, associate director for immunization education with the nonprofit Immunization Action Coalition, says those polls might not reflect the public’s sentiments now.
“A lot has changed in the last week about two vaccines that are showing much better early effectiveness with COVID-19 than we had projected,” she tells the Indy by phone. “That may change the calculus for people.”
But with the vaccine likely going into use in December, that doesn’t leave much time to educate the public. Moore hopes that health care providers will be able to effectively convey urgency to the public about taking the vaccine. Meanwhile, she warns, “It’s going to take awhile, months, before a large percentage has a chance to get the vaccine. So people can’t expect a sudden change in COVID. It will take months. People should be prepared to keep up good health habits in the meantime.”
Phoebe Lostroh, a microbiology professor at Colorado College, warns that if enough people refuse the vaccine, some risk groups might have to limit where they go and wear masks indefinitely.
Moreover, she notes, shunning the vaccine could have long-term consequences, “because the virus will continue to evolve when it infects those [unvaccinated] people and the outcome of that evolution is not possible to predict with our current knowledge.”
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Why are polls getting it wrong?: Brexit and Trump
By Brendan Moyle • 11/11/2016
There seems to be a fair bit of bashing of Pollsters of late. This is not surprising given that Brexit was expected to vote remain, and Clinton was expected to win the US presidential vote.
The naive criticism is that the Pollsters got it wrong. I’m going to call this naive as in the case Brexit the polls were saying the vote was going to be close, not that ‘remain’ was a shoe-in. As late as June some polls were saying that leave would win. The Economist had the vote tied. If some polls are saying that remain will win, and some that leave will win, and everything is in the margin of error, then there’s no sure-bet. It’s easy to overlook, that the margin of error also needs to be reported. A poll that says option A is preferred by 48% and option B by 47%, will predict option A. Suppose the margin of error is 2%. We should have a lot less confidence of that outcome than polls that report say, A is preferred by 60% and B by 38%.
In short, we are very good at reporting poll predictions, but we don’t emphasise the uncertainty attached to these. There are things that do increase that uncertainty. If polls are volatile and show wide swings in support, if there is a lot of disagreement between polls, if there are a lot of undecideds, these are all signals that we need to be more cautious at interpreting polls.
Even in the case of Clinton versus Trump, the polls got a fundamental point right. Clinton was more popular. She got more of the popular vote. The margin we’re seeing at the moment is around 1.2%. That would normally be large enough to win an election, but for the quirks of the US electoral system. Each state gets a fixed number of votes in the electoral college. The electoral college, elects the president.
Each stat’s votes aren’t calculated as a fixed-ratio based on population. So population dense states like California or New York, get relatively fewer votes than say, Wyoming. A Democrat voter is not equal everywhere, and neither is a Republican. This is why pollsters like 538 were more bullish about Trump’s chances (sitting at roughly 25% chance in last month of election). Clinton was much weaker in the electoral college where her popularity in say, California had less weight.
Many of the tipping point states (Florida, Pennsylvania, North Carolina) were also predicted to vote for Clinton, but with margins were very thin. Within margins of error. Given the uncertainty of this election (high percentage of undecideds, volatile polls) we should have seen some of these flipping towards, and against Clinton. They weren’t a sure bet. In the end if we look at a state like Pennsylvanian (with 20 College votes), nearly 6m people voted. Trump’s margin was a mere 68,000 ahead. The margins here are small. That’s mostly what the polls were saying.
Nonetheless, there was a big polling failure at the state-level. Instead of seeing the votes flipping almost randomly, the traffic was largely one way- it was biased toward Trump. And this was especially the case in the battleground states of Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan etc. Some of this may be down to the polling methods. US polling companies like to sample a group that is representative of the general, voting public. With more registered Democrat voters than Republican, polls try to capture more Democrats in their samples. This introduces a potential bias if fewer Democrats decide to vote in the election. The representative sample, is no longer representative. A lower participation rate means we should see a shift in actual voting to Republican candidates. In other words, the polling companies didn’t screen their samples well enough to get a representative sample of actual voters.
This may carry forward, perhaps in the rust-belt states that flipped to Trump, to voters without previous voting experience. By trying to get voters who have already voted in previous elections to poll, pollsters omit people who participate infrequently. This is a hidden group of voters, of potentially significant size. With roughly only half the eligible US population voting, there’s probably enough out there to swing a few percentage points if they participate. Normally these non-voters may not make a difference, but with two polarizing candidates, Trump may have tapped into these. Pollsters didn’t identify them, and that’s another significant polling failure.
Another potential problem is the polls may influence voting behaviour. Some of this has been reported anecdotally in the UK following Brexit. Voters opted to vote for leave because they expected remain to win, then experienced remorse. If Clinton’s reported poll-margins before the election prompted more Democrats to stay home, or to vote for 3rd party candidates as a protest, then crucial margins would be pulled back.
So basically, the US polling companies failed to screen for confounding factors at the state level. Which given the US electoral system, isn’t an easy task. In the more general sense, they did predict correctly Clinton would end up with more of the popular vote. Not that that matters as much for determining who the president will be. And media needs to perhaps emphasise the uncertainty of polling data better, much more so than reporting the margin-of-error as some kind of footnote.
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Andrew Fenemor says:
It could be that many Americans when polled are pathological liars, or ashamed to admit they’d vote for Trump. That’s not accounted for in the margins of error.
Brendan Moyle says:
I don’t know about the pathological part. The popular lead Clinton has seems to be growing as the final ballots are counted. So the unpopularity of Trump didn’t flip. There’s also the FBI director Comey-effect, that occurred really too late for most pollsters to take into account. The failure really was more at the state-level, which the peculiarities of the US electoral system inflated.
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How Facebook could really fix itself
By Guest Author • 05/02/2018
Bhaskar Chakravorti, Tufts University
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.
Facebook has a world of problems. Beyond charges of Russian manipulation and promoting fake news, the company’s signature social media platform is under fire for being addictive, causing anxiety and depression, and even instigating human rights abuses.
Company founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he wants to win back users’ trust. But his company’s efforts so far have ignored the root causes of the problems they intend to fix, and even risk making matters worse. Specifically, they ignore the fact that personal interaction isn’t always meaningful or benign, leave out the needs of users in the developing world, and seem to compete with the company’s own business model.
Based on The Digital Planet, a multi-year global study of how digital technologies spread and how much people trust them, which I lead at Tufts University’s Fletcher School, I have some ideas about how to fix Facebook’s efforts to fix itself.
Face-saving changes?
Like many technology companies, Facebook must balance the convergence of digital dependence, digital dominance and digital distrust. Over 2 billion people worldwide check Facebook each month; 45 percent of American adults get their news from Facebook. Together with Google, it captures half of all digital advertising revenues worldwide. Yet more people say they greatly distrust Facebook than any other member of the big five – Amazon, Apple, Google or Microsoft.
In March 2017 Facebook started taking responsibility for quality control as a way to restore users’ trust. The company hired fact-checkers to verify information in posts. Two months later the company changed its algorithms to help users find diverse viewpoints on current issues and events. And in October 2017, it imposed new transparency requirements to force advertisers to identify themselves clearly.
But Zuckerberg led off 2018 in a different direction, committing to “working to fix our issues together.” That last word, “together,” suggests an inclusive approach, but in my view, it really says the company is shifting the burden back onto its users.
The company began by overhauling its crucial News Feed feature, giving less priority to third-party publishers, whether more traditional media outlets like The New York Times, The Washington Post or newer online publications such as Buzzfeed or Vox. That will leave more room for posts from family and friends, which Zuckerberg has called “meaningful social interactions.”
However, Facebook will rely on users to rate how trustworthy groups, organizations and media outlets are. Those ratings will determine which third-party publishers do make it to users’ screens, if at all. Leaving trustworthiness ratings to users without addressing online political polarization risks making civic discourse even more divided and extreme.
Personal isn’t always ‘meaningful’
Unlike real-life interactions, online exchanges can exacerbate both passive and narcissistic tendencies. It’s easier to be invisible online, so people who want to avoid attention can do so without facing peer pressure to participate. By contrast, though, people who are active online can see their friends like, share and comment on their posts, motivating them to seek even more attention.
This creates two groups of online users, broadly speaking: disengaged observers and those who are competing for attention with ever more extreme efforts to catch users’ eyes. This environment has helped outrageous, untrue claims with clickbait headlines attract enormous amounts of attention.
This phenomenon is further complicated by two other elements of social interaction online. First, news of any kind – including fake news – gains credibility when it is forwarded by a personal connection.
And social media tends to group like-minded people together, creating an echo chamber effect that reinforces messages the group agrees with and resists outside views – including more accurate information and independent perspectives. It’s no coincidence that conservatives and liberals trust very different news sources.
Users of Facebook’s instant-messaging subsidiary WhatsApp have shown that even a technology focusing on individual connection isn’t always healthy or productive. WhatsApp has been identified as a primary carrier of fake news and divisive rumors in India, where its users’ messages have been described as a “mix of off-color jokes, doctored TV [clips], wild rumors and other people’s opinions, mostly vile.” Kenya has identified 21 hate-mongering WhatsApp groups. WhatsApp users in the U.K. have had to stay alert for scams in their personal messages.
Addressing the developing world
Facebook’s actions appear to be responding to public pressure from the U.S. and Europe. But Facebook is experiencing its fastest growth in Asia and Africa.
Research I have conducted with colleagues has found that users in the developing world are more trusting of online material, and therefore more vulnerable to manipulation by false information. In Myanmar, for instance, Facebook is the dominant internet site because of its Free Basics program, which lets mobile-phone users connect to a few selected internet sites, including Facebook, without paying extra or using up allotted data in their mobile plans. In 2014, Facebook had 2 million users in Myanmar; after Free Basics arrived in 2016, that number climbed to 30 million.
One of the effects has been devastating. Rumor campaigns against the Rohingya ethnic group in Myanmar were, in part, spread on Facebook, sparking violence. At least 6,700 Rohingya Muslims were killed by Myanmar’s security forces between August and September 2017; 630,000 more have fled the country. Facebook did not stop the rumors, and at one point actually shut down responding posts from a Rohingya activist group.
Facebook’s Free Basics program is in 63 developing countries and municipalities, each filled with people new to the digital economy and potentially vulnerable to manipulation.
Fighting against the business model
Facebook’s efforts to promote what might be called “corporate digital responsibility” runs counter to the company’s business model. Zuckerberg himself declared that the upcoming changes would cause people to spend less time on Facebook.
But the company makes 98 percent of its revenues from advertising. That is only possible if users keep their attention focused on the platform, so the company can analyze their usage data to generate more targeted advertising.
Our research finds that companies working toward corporate social responsibility will only succeed if their efforts align with their core business models. Otherwise, the responsibility project will become unsustainable in the face of pressure from the stock market, competitors or government regulators, as happened to Facebook with European privacy rules.
What can Facebook do instead? I recommend the following to fix Facebook’s fix:
Own the reality of Facebook’s enormous role in society. It’s a primary source of news and communication that influences the beliefs and assumptions driving citizen behavior around the world. The company cannot rely on users to police the system. As a media company, Facebook needs to take responsibility for the content it publishes and republishes. It can combine both human and artificial intelligence to sort through the content, labeling news, opinions, hearsay, research and other types of information in ways ordinary users can understand.
Establish on-the-ground operations in every location where it has large numbers of users, to ensure the company understands local contexts. Rather than a virtual global entity operating from Silicon Valley, Facebook should engage with the nuances and complexities of cities, regions and countries, using local languages to customize content for users. Right now, Facebook passively publishes educational materials on digital safety and community standards, which are easily ignored. As Facebook adds users in developing nations, the company must pay close attention to the unintended consequences of explosive growth in connectivity.
Reduce the company’s dependence on advertising revenue. As long as Facebook is almost entirely dependent on ad sales, it will be forced to hold users’ attention as long as possible and gather their data to analyze for future ad opportunities. Its strategy for expansion should go beyond building and buying other apps, like WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger, all of which still feed the core business model of monopolizing and data-mining users’ attention. Taking inspiration from Amazon and Netflix – and even Google parent company Alphabet – Facebook could use its huge trove of user data responsibly to identify, design and deliver new services that people would pay for.
Ultimately, Zuckerberg and Facebook’s leaders have created an enormously powerful, compelling and potentially addictive service. This unprecedented opportunity has developed at an unprecedented pace. Growth may be the easy part; being the responsible grown-up is much harder.
Bhaskar Chakravorti, Senior Associate Dean, International Business & Finance, Tufts University
Image: Under fire: Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. AP Photo/Jeff Roberson
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Yes, it's time for a re-think – by people trying to deflect charges of sex crimes by their friends
An item in a Mumbai tabloid on Thursday said that journalist Tarun Tejpal, who is facing rape charges, had merely committed a 'grave error'.
Kalpana Sharma
Jun 09, 2016 · 03:17 pm
Normally, the dozens of ill-informed and vacuous comments that find space in the “diary” sections of some newspapers are best ignored. Yet sometimes a response is needed.
I am referring to an absurd diary item in the Mumbai tabloid Mid-Day on June 9. As I said, it could be ignored as the newspaper is published only in one city, Mumbai, and has a limited circulation. Yet, in these days of Internet and social media, the reach of such publications is amplified.
So Malavika Sanghvi, in her column “Malavika’s Mumbai: The Daily Dish” (last item) that appears on page 8 of Mid-Day has taken up the case of Tarun Tejpal, former editor of Tehelka, who was charged with rape by a colleague, is currently facing trial in a court in Goa and is out on bail.
Under the headline, “Time for a RE-THINK?” Sanghvi refers to the serious rape charge against Tejpal as “a grave error”. And because this so-called error apparently gave “his detractors ammunition to demolish him” through an “excessive” and “relentless media campaign”, she suggests that it is time for “strong liberal voices” to speak out.
As Tejpal was not in a position “to fight the good fight”, says Sanghvi, “liberal voices” had to intervene at a time when “regressive thoughts and actions seem to rule.”
She then goes on to inform us that Tejpal’s rehabilitation is underway and that he might well resurrect the ThinkFest, an event that featured several leading thinkers and writers, which stopped after he was charged with rape during the 2013 edition of the festival.
Sanghvi is also clearly in favour of rehabilitating this “once darling of the intelligentsia” because “everyone makes a comeback in India”.
Why should it matter if some people want to rehabilitate Tejpal? After all, the so-called excessive media campaign that Sanghvi finds so troubling was countered not long ago by some of Tejpal’s friends who found space in mainstream media to project him as the victim, rather than the perpetrator of an alleged crime.
It matters because first, comments like this remind us that this is how those with power, or connections, can get away with crimes.
It is precisely this attitude that allowed someone like RK Pachauri, the former head of The Energy and Resources Institute, charged with sexual harassment by a colleague, to continue in his position for many months. People of his class simply refused to accept the gravity of the crime with which he was charged.
The second reason for concern is the attempt to link liberalism with accepting and tolerating a crime. This is a strange twist to the concept of liberalism.
We do live in a time when “strong liberal voices” need to be heard. But not to defend a person, irrespective of his celebrity credentials, who has been charged with a crime.
These voices are needed to speak up for those who have no voice. People like the family of Mohammed Akhlaq, who was beaten to death in Dadri for allegedly eating beef. Today, his family is being targeted by the mahapanchayat of Dadri that demands that they be prosecuted for consuming beef.
They need to speak up for men like Mohammed Amir Khan, who was picked up in 1998 and charged with being a terrorist, tortured, denied bail, kept in jail for the major part of his growing up years, only to be released after 14 years after he was proved innocent.
There are many more instances where “strong liberal voices” need to be heard because those paying the price for the “regressive thoughts and actions” at work today are not the Tejpals or the Pachauris, but people like Akhlaq and Khan.
Yes, a “RE-THINK” is needed. Not to rehabilitate Tejpal or anyone else like him. But in the class of people to which he belongs, who justify grave crimes as grave errors.
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Air Force's hypersonic test fails
By Mike Mount
A hypersonic aircraft launched by the Air Force Tuesday spiraled out of control and was destroyed before it could reach its goal of speeding to 4,600 mph, Pentagon officials said Wednesday.
The third test of the X-51A Waverider was launched Tuesday off the California coast from a B-52 modified bomber aircraft and was to fly for 300 seconds, reaching hypersonic speeds of Mach 6, but only flew for 16 seconds, according to the Air Force.
Officials said a problem with a tail fin caused the missile-like vehicle to fly out of control before the main engine could be ignited, leading researchers to destroy it early.
"A fault was identified with one of the cruiser control fins. Once the X-51 separated from the rocket booster, approximately 15 seconds later, the cruiser was not able to maintain control due to the faulty control fin and was lost," said a statement issued by the Air Force.
It's unclear what, if any, information was gleaned from the test. According to the statement, "Program officials will now begin the process of working through a rigorous evaluation to determine the exact cause of all factors at play."
The Air Force plans to go public with details of the failed test in a few weeks, after researchers are able to analyze the data from the flight.
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"It is unfortunate that a problem with this subsystem caused a termination before we could light the Scramjet engine," said Charlie Brink, X-51A Program Manager for Air Force Research Laboratory. "All our data showed we had created the right conditions for engine ignition and we were very hopeful to meet our test objectives."
The Air Force had four X-51A Waveriders and has tested three. Officials said they do not yet know when or if the fourth Waverider will be tested.
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Filed under: Air Force • DARPA • X-51A Waverider
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Soooo. The F-22s aren't fast enough-we need something that will go 4600 mph....Units are struggling due to budget cuts to make sure their people have proper SAFETY equipment but thats not important-–we need to focus on 4600 mph hyper supersonic crap that makes absolutely no sense....quite simple if you ask me
That's just it...it's not simple...so nobody asked you. Just because you don't understand the difference between a manned supersonic aircraft and an unmanned hypersonic missile doesn't mean everyone else is equally dense.
I thought tail fins generally were bad at high mach speeds, they usually cause some flight anomalies. It would be nice to be provided with the design of the fin to determine at what speed the anomaly occurred at, ie. subsonic, supersonic, or transonic speed. My bets are sock waves and wave drag due to improper design, meaning design was based on highly supersonic flight, but didn't fully account for enhanced maneuverability at transonic or subsonic conditions.
Wow, thanks for the input. I guess all the hypersonic specialists in the AIr Force don't know as much as you do about designing tail fins. It must have been dumb luck that they worked for the first two flights, huh? Maybe the wind just blew it the right way and they got lucky...twice. If only you'd offered to give them your boundless knowledge before, you could have saved the taxpayer millions of dollars!!!!
(or maybe, something just broke, and you have no clue what you're talking about. I'm thinking the latter is more likely).
matt you are right next to me in computer apps shut up
How many more days will CNN be reporting this ?? Move on to current new please on your header.
Adrian your threw
Well, you spelled ONE word right out of three. Might want to skip computer class and go back to English. Sigh...
Why is it so bad that it failed?
ALL uh
The numbnuts in the Air Force should get some engineers from NASA that just landed a vehicle on Mars.
Horsesrunwild
Good coment...Makes you wonder...Where does all of our tax dollars go......
Not to your school, apparently.
Landing a vehicle on Mars has been done before, multiple times now, although there were some failures too. Scramjets have not. That's why they are testing. Oh, and NASA doesn't have a perfect record. Consider Apollo 1, Apollo 13, Liberty Bell 7, Gemini 8, Challenger, Columbia, NOAA-19, MCO, Deep Space 2, MPL, SBIRS, Genesis, Hubble (later fixed), Helios, DART, and OCO.
Everett Wallace
you space-x mf are real dumb
What does Space X have to do with this test?
retractable tail fin anyone, iq 157 and I know what has to be done, pay me half what you pay ur guys please. ps ur stabilizer
is off, ur figuring it for mach 4 speeds not mach 6 which cause increase "water vapour" build up on a certain section(different extreme temp. plus speed ice catch a fin anyone.) Good luck guys
Correction...IQ 15.7
Wes Scott
Considering that the flight was lost 15 seconds after launch and BEFORE the scramjet engine could be ignited you are merely speculating, trying to sound knowledgeable, about things that did not happen. Since the vehicle never got anywhere near Mach 1, much less Mach 4, 5 or 6, there is no evidence that you are correct, which is probably why the USAF has not hired you even at the reduced labor rate.
well, it seems that we can figure how the marine life dies during the tests. maybge
manyote
After all the big bucks spent on this puppy and it fails because of a faulty tail fin. Give us a break!
michael el
just looking at the lack of stabilizing wings it seems obvious this thing would lose increasing amounts of ability once it started wavering. What idiocy. And what would be the use of such a thing? To deliver murderous payloads in the blink of an eye? What? We aren't killing people overseas fast enough?
Thanks for the objective and creditable assessment "michael el".. Mr Aerospace Engineer and Rocket Scientist.
To kill "bad guys" with greater efficiency and speed that are fighting and sometimes killing my fellow servicemembers? ABSOLUTELY...if thats what this project's objective is. Maybe in your spare time, you're also a military affairs journalist with access to some of the details of this project and your speculation is actually creditable.
I'll bet good money you're none of the above and therefore you're "critque" of this project has ZERO relevance...do you enjoy looking foolish?
Hay Trevor. You and your fellow servicemen should not be there in the first place. Wake up.
And where are all of your tax dollars spent??? Or are U in the top 1% like Mittens????
Trevor, I think you are right about Michael el. I have no personal knowledge about this particular project, but my guess is that the X-51A is merely a test bed to prove up the concept and engine design which will probably be enlarged for use on MUCH larger aircraft, not necessarily all of which will be for military purposes. The concepts for hypersonic commercial aircraft that can do transoceanic flights in a few hours have long been on the drawing boards of aeronautical engineers here and abroad.
CRP- "over there in the first place"? Deflection from the topic by taking this very specific issue about possibly giving servicemembers an advantage on the battlefield to save their lives and you turn it into a "political" one? How proud you must be...
HighNtellect
It's funny how it's bad for the government to try and spur innovation in the energy industry by providing loans for alternative energy research, the findings of which would be beneficial for all of human kind. But it's ok for the government to spend $100+ million for each vehicle, that will be destroyed (so far 3), to test what is essentially a better missile that would only benefit our military in the near to mid-term future or until our "ENEMIES" develop a similar technology.
You telling me that they would ever be able to fly civilians at mach 6 for commercial purposes?! LMAO!!!
Our priorities are so screwed up it's comical!
Wow, I didn't know that the military "protected and served" itself... If this project produces weapons that benefits me and my fellow servicemembers and gives us an advantage on the battlefield this is a waste? I do really appreciate your support and everything you've done your country...
A least he's not out there killing women and children like your fellow servicemen. Do you feel big when you call in a jdam strick on a family?
CRP- INTENT is huge isn't it? Or do you just assume folks like us do this without discrimination? You have no idea of the ROE and restrictions placed on us to minimize civilian casualities over here pal...continue to call us "baby killers"...the vast majority of the American people have our support, you can continue with your assumptions about what really goes on over here from the safety of your home, we'll continue to defend your right to "mouth off" about things you know nothing about...
Well, LowNtellect, the very idea of hypersonic commercial space travel has already been widely promoted for a couple of decades, and a few wealthy individuals have already been able to experience speeds well beyond Mach 6, so yes, the idea of hypersonic commercial aircraft travel across oceans is very real and reasonable to expect in the near future.
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I am amazed that they were able to recognize a fault and abort the shot within sixteen seconds. They must have just launched it, focused their eyes on the screen and hit abort. A tail fin problem? You would think they would have gone over that potential and eliminated it after wind tunnel experiments with the form......that seems like negligence and is hard to believe. Same thing with that "lunar lander" that just blew up....I have sympathy for the designers and engineers for both these projects, in light of the Glorious Success of the Mars Curiosity Rover these guys must feel like they have egg all over their faces and they do.....they went off half baked. It shouldn't be allowed, they should be denied funding for future projects and be taken off these ones before they waste more precious time and money....a tail fin problem, and it took all of sixteen seconds in flight to determine that? Have they never heard of Quality Control? NDE testing of welds? Wind tunnel would tell about the fin's aerodynamic form and position, x ray or phased array would have told about the structural integrity of the fin......I don't believe this, not really. I may be just an uneducated old fool but I am observant of the testing that goes on when I am at work and while I know problems arise, this tail fin problem should never have arisen, due to the simple fact that it's a basic component of the flight capability.....how could it be problematic and them not know?
a teleporter wouldn't have any of these problems. sure, people may not rematerialize with all of their limbs and organs in the right place, but we could use Occupy Wall Street protesters as guinea pigs promising to teleport them all over the world each day to whatever the latest, greatest protest that is going on, until we get it right.
Exactly what kind of waves are you guys planning to ride? Electromagnetic waves, by chance?
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Another 7.7 million down the drain.( I looked it up)So where's the tea bagger's and their government waste argument?
They were probably waving the flag as it crashed
Because waste due to a lack of oversight or by beaucratic design is something that shouldn't be tolerated...if you can point to where this project has either one of those characteristics let us know...
You are the one who said Lack of oversight and beaucratic design not the poster. Do you even read the comments befor you mouth off?
CRP- when the poster talks about the the Tea Party and alludes to money "down the drain", I'm telling him EXACTLY what their argument is and if he can point to "waste" with this project then do so...what EXACTLY is your point?
can't we act like North Korea and pretend everything went off without a hitch and we're now super-loaded with hi-tek space gizmos?
yeah, and then we'd be called Russia
Lol! Flew for 16 seconds. You mean fell out of the sky for 16 seconds. Faling is not equal to flying.
It did not fall thy blew it up reread the article
Why can't they just skip this missile stuff and bring back the Teleporter from Star Trek, that was way quicker, easier and didn't use so much fuel. There is the risk that a Klingon could attack you, but I'd rather deal with him than the fin coming off my rocketship at 4,600 miles per hour.
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Meanwhile nearly 1 in 4 American children live in poverty; the second worst child poverty rate in the developed world, only slightly better than Romania's, and the United States ranks 49th in infant mortality, slightly ahead of Croatia.
Stopping R&D, like this test that failed is not going to stop poverty. The US spends about 40% of its budget on social programs, maybe better use of the money already allocated or better yet US citizens can get up and do something about it ,adding more money will not solve the problem.
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Well, if you're smart, you probably aren't poor. And if you were smart, you'd know better than to have children that you cannot support.
You do the math.
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. Medicare
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5. Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (Food Stamps)
6. Aid to Dependent Children
7. Foster care
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9. CalWorks, the state’s welfare to work program.
10. Unemployment compensation
11. K-12 education state funding
12. Section 8 housing
13. Supplemental Security Income/State Supplemental Payment (SSI/SSP
14. Refugee Cash Assistance (RCA)
15. Cash Aid for Families with Children
16. California Food Assistance Program (CFAP)
17. County Medical Services Program
18. Food Stamp Employment and Training Program (FSET)
19. Employment Development Department (EDD)
20. CalWORKS
21. Kin-GAP
22. Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program
23. Emergency Food Assistance Program (EFAP)
24. Emergency Welfare Services' Mass Care and Shelter Program
25. In-Home Care
26. In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS)
27. Adoptions Assistance Program
28. BabyCal, Breast and Cervical Cancer Programs
29. The Assistance Dog Special Allowance Program
30. The Access for Infants and Mothers (AIM)
31. Healthy Families Program
32. AVID Advancement Via Individual Determination
Okay, I'll play your game. You want to take $140 million (pick any number) from this program and give it to the poor. Right?
Then, we'll have $140 million spent on feeding people unable to feed themselves, or otherwise contribute to the economy. They'll sit around doing nothing...well, other than having kids they can't support. More money we'll need to spend.
In the meantime, you have $140 million worth of salaried people (about 1000 people) unemployed, since you just pulled their funding.
And you've lost incidental benefits from their research.
So, you rob Peter to pay starving Paul, and end up with a starving Peter and two Pauls who need continual feeding. Seems pretty obvious to me that it's a LOSING PROPOSITION!
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johnoldridge
I guess this won't be the test flight that gets noticed by the Vulcans.....
It's the size of a missle...How it this any help to transportation? or daily life...it's not, it's great for destroying pre-emptive strikes agains the US using ICBM's or maybe other more traditional military hardwares. IDK...does anyone else think this?
We have ICBMs that go faster. If you want to carry more weight, like people or freight, you need to have an air-breathing engine that can go fast. This is an attempted proof of that concept. If it can be made to work, you can scale from there.
It is called R&D , this is how we learn, educate ourselves. The technology my be used in the future to power aircraft, missiles,or spaceships, etc......To learn....
Will this failure effect any of the upcoming 'flight's to the International Fake Station?
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You have to be in the air for more than 30 seconds to fly from LA to NYC
Tell me how this is an improvement on the X-15 (which was successful and set world speed records) , which was launched form a B-52 decades ago. Are they trying to re-invent the wheel? Sure seems like it to me.
Gene Wright
.... way different engine type.
Blookerman
The X-15 was manned and rocket-powered. The X-51 is unmanned and scramjet powered. Different engine technology that has great potential to change how you live.
@Blookerman, the vehicles in test are unmanned. The technology supports crew flights as well. @Tim, the X-15 traveled at maximum speeds of Mach 6. That's the maximum output performance capable of jet engines. The technology used in the new X-51A scramjet engines hold the potential of exceeding speeds of Mach 20 and is more environmentally friendly because it's engines run solely off oxygen instead of carbon based jet fuel.
Uh..no Matt....the scramjet doesn't just run on oxygen.
http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/14/imagine-flying-from-new-york-to-london-in-under-an-hour/?iref=allsearch
@Huh, unless you have some sort of insider knowledge, I can only go by what's reported. Try paragraph 12. 😉
Engin101
It uses oxygen from the atmosphere for its engines, as opposed to carrying large fuel tanks that rockets require, making it a more efficient vehicle for military or commercial purposes...... This does not mean " because it's engines run solely off oxygen". Please research a bit more.
Very different type of engine.
usor
It's funny how they try to hype up the mission's targeted flight time of 5 minutes with "300 seconds." Seems like a grossly misappropriation of the peoples tax dollars to destroy the $140 million vehicles after every test flight. The cost of search and recovery efforts can't possibly exceed that of building new ones.
eat your waffles
amphiox
Um, these kinds of flights are ALWAYS timed in seconds. And for good scientific reasons. If you are recording data by the second, then you measure your flight time in seconds.
This being top secret military technology, probably it is destroyed to ensure that the technology doesn't get out. Whether you think that is a wise use of resources or not, you'll have to take it up with the military planners.
sw6blues
You and I have no clue how many untold millions and billions of taxpayer dollars were spent on military research since (random year) 1935. There is no progress without research and no research without money.
there goes another 140 million dollars down the drain. meanwhile our infrastructure crumbles. Some expensive 16 seconds.
dirty Joe
Instead of the Air Force, perhaps NASA should be in charge of projects like this. They seem to have a better record of doing technological things right (and spend less money as well).
Nighthhaawk
NAW! Why do that .. the Air Force wants to keep its' secrets ..not share them with NASA!
Please provide data on this better record and expenses. They both have had successes and failures. Here are some failures for NASA: Apollo 1, Apollo 13, Liberty Bell 7, Gemini 8, Challenger, Columbia, NOAA-19, MCO, Deep Space 2, MPL, SBIRS, Genesis, Hubble (later fixed), Helios, DART, and OCO.
jinji
it's primarily dealing with the force of the air, hence "air" force.
anyone going to the grocery store today?
Our rockets always blow up.
UHH, NO, they don't. Spend a little time actually researching a topic before you insert the foot.
Francisco was referring to Italy's rockets....not the USA. Take in the whole picture before reviewing.
You may want to read a book before replying and proving your ignorance.
It's a quote from a book. Google it and learn something.
Hooray! More of tax dollars gone! WOOOO!
experienceensolo
Right, because it is much better to not try to advance our defense technology. Good call, Me.
What are we defending, the crumbling infastructure or miserable economy?
Defend against what? We spend more on our defense than the next 25 countries (the vast majority of whom we are allies with) COMBINED.
me = stupid
zon and experienced man – harsh on' ME.' Relax.
Defense spending should be as focused on anti-terro tactics as anything else. And NASA could do what the AF is trying. And by golly, there are times when our armed forces procurement system wastes lots of money...
Seeing as the prototype would have been destroyed regardless, and the purpose was the collection of data, then what we have here is instead of 300 seconds of data, we have 16 seconds of data, with that data, being from a failure, usually much more valuable in the long run than data from a success (as we always learn more from failure than from success).
So it certainly isn't tax dollars "gone". You could think of it as an unforeseen budget overdraft....
the military will just raid the social security trust fund to fund the next hypersonic flight. If that's not good enough they will just cannibalize other programs for funding.
maybe we all can set up a bake sale to fund the next hypersonic USAF flight.
QullVideo on May 19, 2010 Waking up on a cruise is part of the exirnpeece because you never know what the view outside your window will be. Although I can't say any of the place I've been in the Med or Carribean have been as nice as Alaska. It's cold there though, no? I do like the cold
Timmy Suckle
I kissed my way up to VP at a health insurance company. Now I take over $500,000 of your health care dollars for NO VALUE ADDED to your health care. And that’s just me. Now think about how many other VPs, Directors, Managers, etc. are at my company alone. Now multiply that by thousands of others at hundreds of other health insurance companies. From 10 to 25% of your health care dollars go towards administration that adds NO VALUE to your health care. But my company’s PAC dollars will continue to fool you little people into thinking that a single payer system will be bad. Little people like you are so easy to fool. Little people also don’t realize that a single payer system is the ONLY system that would allow little people (as an entire country) to negotiate better health care prices. Little people don’t realize that the Medical Cartels already know that. And that is the reason why the Medical Cartels spend so much PAC money from the hospitals and doctors lobbying against a single payer system. Some little people say that a single payer system would cost you little people more. But if that were true, then wouldn’t the hospitals and doctors WANT that extra money? Yes they would. So why do the Medical Cartels lobby against a single payer system? It’s because the Medical Cartels know it would allow little people to negotiate better health care prices. And that’s what the Medical Cartels are afraid of. Period.
But us big wigs at insurance companies, hospitals, and pharmacy companies don’t ever need to worry about health care no matter what it costs. We get our health care paid for one way or another by you little people. And we get the little people that work at our companies to contribute to our PACs. And us big wigs say it’s to protect the little peoples’ jobs. But in reality it would be in the little peoples’ best interest to NOT contribute to the PAC. Again, little people are so easy to be fooled. I won’t ever have to worry about losing my job with so many little people being brain washed by the Medical Cartels’ PAC money. Not only that, the Medical Cartels’ PAC money is used to elect so many republicans that will never allow a single payer system. Republicans have always fought against any meaningful health care reform. But that’s what our Medical Cartels’ PACs pay them for. Politicians can be bought so easily.
Pretty soon the only people that will be able to afford health care is us big wigs. And that’s the way it should be. We don’t want you little people using up the resources when we need them. And once again, I thank you little people for capping my SS tax at the $106,800 level. Now I only pay 1.3% SS tax and you little people pay 6.2%. Also, thank you for extending my tax breaks. I’m using the extra money on my vacation houses.
admiralbrown
Timmy, what are you talking about? This is a story about a crashed test plane.
Retired RN
Your tongue-in-cheek comment is spot-on, and would be funny if it weren't so sadly true. Thanks!
a "little people" person
Love Rhino
A little pre-luv stuff just started dripping from my you-know-what
Perhaps the X-51A Waverider would have fared better if its wings were slightly larger than that of a dolphin's dorsal fin.
MarkinFL
Its not the size of your wings, its how you use them.
You learn from your mistakes and try again.
I saw this movie where Julianne Moore gave hand to her son
now we know how North Korea feels..
Good thing some Republican congressman secured this contract for his ol' buddy and wasted our tax dollars. Yea Paul Ryan, lets increase military spending some more so that useless contractors can blow some more of our money.
goodasyours
i have come to expect this idiocy from the fringe looney left lib - my only hope is that one day you will wake up
This is technology for the future, research learns from both success and failure. This test program is not really a waste as the F22 is. The F22's radar absorbing paint doesn't like to be exposed to abrasive conditions like desert sand or rain. Yes we bought a fighter that can only be used in clear skies. So lets hope we don't have to fight during April showers.
You should all think about this in the following light. What USA needs is a cheap way to get to space. In space we have minerals and no animals. Which means mining without enviormental costs. We have a sun that shines 100% of the time and is not diluted by the atmosphere. That means nonstop solar power. Space is the solution to much of our planetary problems. We can then create energy without CO2. So everytime you decide to like or dislike a project think about weather it will help us get to space. What I just laid out here is forward thinking and not short term thinking.
You misspelled "whether."
Necromorph
Clearly you have never seen/played Dead Space.
Alright! Made in the USA!
What has your thirld-world dirt farm produced?
This vehicle cost 140 million. For anyone who cares it would have been relatively fuel effecient because most of the fuel would have been oxygen directly out of the atomosphere. The biggest thing that angrys me is that they never had any plan to recover the waverider. They were always planning on having it crash it just crashed prior to firing the engine.
Oxygen is the oxidizer, not a fuel. But yes this was a very fuel efficient Mach 6 vehicle. This test plane was designed to provide flight data, it wasn't feasible to add landing gear and there was no way to slow this bird down enough to land. Also there is the level of security in not wanting this technology to fall into another country's hands in case it landed somewhere it was not supposed to go.
Dan Bednarik
Should have contracted the job to Space-X.. [more] government waste
USAForever
Magnetism Over Combustion...
I don't know why America with all of its knowledge keeps supporting the CH chainers anyway.
Move Along Please.
#ImJustSaying
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Diversity in the workplace statistics show that most companies need to desperately consider aspects of inclusivity to create a diverse workforce.
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Mention diversity in the workplace and you’ll generally get a positive response from executives.
That’s because most of them understand the many benefits of a diverse workforce. They know 1) innovation and 2) terrific customer service are two key ways any company can stay competitive in tough markets and show consistent revenue growth.
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And execs know a diverse workforce (in age, race, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, and gender) brings diverse viewpoints and perspectives to the company; these elements can help you develop great new products and great new ways to cater to customers. A recent Medium article (The Top 5 Diversity Workplace Statistics) shows the benefits of diversity include higher revenue, more innovation, better decision making, higher rates of job acceptance when you make offers to qualified candidates, and better performance than competitors.
Therefore many execs have no problem embracing policies, initiatives, and tools designed to increase levels of diversity among employees. A diverse workforce, however, is just the first step.
That’s because diversity in the workplace does not necessarily mean inclusivity in the workplace. Yes, making diversity a priority is important; but so is the next logical step: creating a culture where people from all backgrounds feel included. Inclusivity is the key to actually maintaining (not just creating) diversity in the workplace.
When it comes to establishing and following through on a commitment to diversity and inclusion, however, you can have a big impact. Here are the top 15 ways you can support inclusion and diversity in your workplace.
1. Use the “Inclusive Workplace Model”
What’s the difference between diversity and inclusion in your workplace? If your company doesn’t score high inclusivity marks, you risk alienating some of your workforce.
For example, consider the employee who’s a native Spanish speaker but doesn’t feel entirely comfortable to speak any language other than English in workplace common areas. Or the breastfeeding mother just returning to work who has no space to pump her breast milk. Or the Muslim employee who feels insecure about maintaining his daily prayer routine on company grounds.
When your employees feel they have to hide or mask core parts of themselves at work because they feel unsure, unsafe, or invisible, it can take a toll on motivation, engagement, and (ultimately) employee retention and turnover rates.
Diversity in the workplace statistics show that most companies desperately need to consider aspects of inclusivity as part of their efforts to create a workforce that reflects a variety of backgrounds and experiences.
When your employees feel they have to hide or mask core parts of themselves at work because they feel unsure, unsafe, or invisible, it can take a toll on motivation, engagement, and (ultimately) employee retention and turnover rates.Click to Tweet
2. Evaluate your executive team – Do they portray diversity and inclusion?
How diverse is your executive team?
The makeup of your executive team is a huge signifier to the rest of your workforce (not to mention your customers, partners, and other stakeholders). The top management of a company speaks volumes about your culture.
Accordingly, it is essential to have diversity among top management that is diverse. Are men and women equally represented? What about people from various cultural and religious backgrounds?
A survey report from Boston Consulting Group (BCG) found among the Fortune 500 companies, only 24 CEOs are women, which represents just 5% of the total number of CEOs. The same report pointed out that, among the 500 CEOs, only three are black, another three are openly gay, and one identifies as a lesbian.
As an HR professional, you may not have much control over your executive team; but if you do have the means to make a case about diversity and inclusion to the C-suite, you should. And you can help your executives communicate with employees authentically and transparently.
A survey report from Boston Consulting Group (BCG) found among the Fortune 500 companies, only 24 CEOs are women, which represents just 5% of the total number of CEOs.Click to Tweet
3. Acknowledge and honor multiple religious and cultural practices.
Introduce a policy for honoring a variety of cultural and religious practices.
You can do this by focusing on holidays and celebrations. This Forbes article suggests designating a special refrigerator to keep Kosher food items separate, for example. And the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) notes some companies still give Christmas Day off, but also offer “floating holidays” to accommodate the religious preferences of all employees. (Speaking of Christmas, make your holiday party nondenominational.)
Again when employees feel satisfied with and supported in their work environment, the company benefits from higher employee retention.
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4. Foster a company culture where every voice is welcome, heard, and respected.
Most often employees quit jobs when they feel that their authentic self and uniqueness is not appreciated or valued. As such, it is vital to create an environment where they feel a sense of connectedness to the company and its people.
Employees need to feel free to express themselves based on their unique perspectives. Companies must make sure employees feel included and respected regardless of their
age,
physical conditions,
cultural background or
When it comes to supporting diversity and inclusion in the workplace, don’t play favorites, practice basic courtesy, and pay special attention to how you can embrace non-discriminatory practices and policies. Employees feel included when they feel “safe” to voice their concerns and opinions without fear of victimization. The freedom of expression without fear also empowers companies to not just listen to but also actively embrace diverse viewpoints.
One great way to do this is to invest in a workforce communications platform. By integrating all your communications channel into one platform, you will reach each worker on their preferred channel. You will truly help your workforce feel connected and included in larger company initiatives and goals. Also, you will gain insights from unified analytics to understand how best to meet their needs and help them thrive. And you’ll provide a personalized employee experience that is inclusive and allows all voices to be heard.
5. Open a dialogue about gender pay inequality.
Want a culture of inclusion built on trust and transparency? Get ready to talk about gender and potential pay disparities, and possibly reveal some of the company’s data points around compensation.
Gender pay equity is a big point of contention at many companies. Workforce trust and a sense of inclusion are built around a company’s transparency in its policies and communication about those policies. For companies that have gender pay imbalance, it is important to open the communication channels so that employees can give their feelings and opinions. Additionally, present to them with clarity, the strategy the company is or will be using to address the gap. That way, they will feel safe knowing that the company is committed to taking action to bridge the gender pay gap.
It is crucial to avoid being defensive in presenting your company’s data around such policies. If data is skewed for a variety of factors (such as maternity leave vs. untaken paternity leave, for example), explain this the employees in a straightforward, clear way.
Gender pay equity is a big point of contention at many companies. Workforce trust and a sense of inclusion are built around a company’s transparency in its policies and communication about those policies.Click to Tweet
6. Welcome a multilingual workforce.
Imagine being part of a working environment where almost everyone regularly speaks a language not native to you?
If you truly want everyone to feel included, make sure you take into account language barriers and preferences. Global companies deal with this sort of thing all the time; let’s say they have different teams, working in different countries, speaking the same language … but they want to invite all those teams to participate in a virtual event. What language should be spoken by the person who introduced that event? What language will your CEO make her speech in?
Global companies know to offer translation services so that everyone can understand what’s being said and also feel included. (If the CEO speaks multiple languages, she might opt to leverage that in her speech as well.) But just as important in small companies is simply to make sure everyday employees feel secure and comfortable communicating in whatever language they find most suitable for them, especially in common areas or during company-sponsored or sanctioned events.
As a long-term approach, having a multilingual workforce may call for educational opportunities for workers to learn other languages. This might sound prohibitively expensive but think of it as an investment that yields returns in due time.
It is also a good idea to consider applicants’ language skills during the recruitment process. For example, with the same qualifications, it might make more sense to hire an individual who speaks more than one language.
7. Foster diverse thinking.
When you make an effort to hire for diversity, you put your company in a good position to think in culturally diverse ways. But for diverse viewpoints to really stick, you must account for inclusivity.
This is important because different people from different backgrounds and generations sometimes have vastly different perspectives on all sorts of issues, from what they choose to wear to work, to how they compose an email, to the kind of feedback they give on employee reviews, to what kinds of ideas they pitch in meetings. So it’s not just important for an individual employee or even a small team or department to understand thinking patterns; it’s also important that they know and understand how other people at the company think.
Embracing diverse thinking is useful in generating ideas and getting useful feedback while at the same time creating an environment where everyone feels relevant and part of a shared mission.
8. Build a multigenerational workforce.
Today, millennials make up the vast majority of the workforce. Having a workforce that recognizes and accommodates multiple generations is essential in building a diverse and inclusive workforce. And while millennials are generally known for being tech savvy, bear in mind this generation encompasses ages 22 to 38. The older millennials might not have the same proficiency with tech tools as their younger counterparts.
You can really see this at work in communications practices. Sometimes certain employees are more comfortable using social channels, for example, or group chat functions. On the other hand, employees of older generations might not embrace such communications channels so readily.
Again, communications professionals can invest in a workforce communications platform to easily and efficiently create and send messages via channels that employees prefer; this will help communicators craft messages that will appeal to all generations, and encourage engagement.
Having a workforce that recognizes and accommodates multiple generations is essential in building a diverse and inclusive workforce.Click to Tweet
9. Reflect everyone’s needs and preferences at everyday gatherings.
In addition to holiday parties, many offices celebrate minor holidays (like Halloween) or events like birthdays. Whenever you have even a casual company event, be sure to include food and beverages that everyone can eat and drink. For instance, include both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks during events, and you may want to avoid hosting offsite events at bars. (Happy hours can be held in bar/restaurant spaces.)
Also, not everyone likes to celebrate birthdays, so be sure to ask the employee what he or she prefers (and never reveal the employee’s age or year of birth). Make sure employees know such events are optional. For example, some employees may suffer from intense shyness and would panic at the thought of having to attend a work-sponsored karaoke event.
This doesn’t mean you have to forgo small, ordinary celebrations altogether. But asking proper questions about preferences and offering a variety of food and drink options will go a long way in making such experiences more inclusive.
10. Strengthen anti-discriminatory policies.
A Harvard Business Review survey found that 75% of respondents found that superficial policies and language was insufficient to truly institute real change. They believed that leadership commitment and strengthening anti-discriminatory policies were critical. Also, every organization is different, so a tailored approach makes sense for success.
11. Make your workspaces inclusive.
You can establish gender-friendly bathrooms and restrooms and also set up dedicated nursing rooms for mothers. (Mothers should not have to book a conference room or hide in the bathroom.) A nursing room needs a door that locks, a comfortable chair, covered windows, proper ventilation, and a special refrigerator to store the pumped milk.
12. Eliminate bias in the evaluation process and promotion opportunities.
A large body of research shows that the hiring process is unfair and full of bias. Much of it is unconscious sexism, racism, and ageism. If left unchecked, it can harm your company. Iris Bohnet, director of the Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School and author of What Works: Gender Equality by Design explains, “Seeing is believing… If we don’t see male kindergarten teachers or female engineers we don’t naturally associate women and men with those jobs, and we apply different standards” when we hire, promote, and evaluate job performance. “Managers have to learn to de-bias their practices and procedures.”
Some strategies to combat bias include:
Rewriting job descriptions so they are gender neutral and use words that strike a balance of gendered descriptors and verbs
Create a blind system of reviewing resumes so you don’t see “demographic characteristics”
Set diversity goals as an organization, which will help you track your progress
13. Segment employee engagement surveys by minority groups.
The annual pulse survey is common among companies, but many neglect to segment that data according to gender, generation, ethnicity, geography, and others. By only looking at total numbers, HR pros may miss the whole picture and an opportunity to identify issues pertaining to those groups.
14. Use independent groups to conduct focus groups.
Focus groups are a good way to collect qualitative data and gain deeper insights into employees. By using an outside facilitator, employees may be more comfortable speaking freely, and the outside company will maintain a neutral position.
15. Personalize one-on-one discussions.
One of the best ways to learn what employees care about is one-on-one talks with their manager. In order for these discussions to truly be effective, managers must have an “open door” policy. Workers need to feel comfortable in speaking their mind honestly and openly.
Managers (and leaders in general) can do this with authentic executive communications. By showing they too are human, employees will feel comfortable speaking up and trusting their leadership.
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Giant ancient sharks had enormous babies that ate their siblings in the womb
Megalodons are the biggest predatory sharks ever discovered. from www.shutterstock.com
Made famous by the 2018 blockbuster The Meg, the largest predatory shark ever discovered, the megalodon, is a bit of a mystery. We know it lived between 15 and 3.6 million years ago and it reached at least 14 metres in length, more than double the size of an adult great white. But learning any more about the giant shark requires a bit of detective work.
Because of its soft cartilaginous skeleton, only a few parts of the shark’s body are mineralised and preserved, including its teeth, skull and spine. This means the fossil record is very poor for this animal. Unsurprisingly, the predator’s 17cm teeth have received a lot of attention from researchers. But in a newly published study, Professor Kenshu Shimada of DePaul University and colleagues sought clues elsewhere.
By examining the spine of the now extinct megalodon, the team found it gave live birth to babies two metres long, larger than an average adult human. Exactly how the babies got so big was likely down to cannibalism, eating their unhatched siblings in the womb.
Secrets in the spine
Like humans, sharks have a spine made up of lots components called vertebra, which grow as the animal gets older. The researchers measured the vertebra of a megalodon from the Miocene epoch, which lasted from five to 23 million years ago.
By comparing it to modern great white sharks, the team estimated that the megalodon it came from was around nine metres long when it was alive, but they didn’t stop there. Sharks deposit rings of hard tissue on their vertebra each year, and like the trunk of a tree these can be used to estimate age.
To count these rings inside the scientists would have had to cut through the fossil, damaging it forever. The solution was to use detailed X-ray scanning to study the internal structures, without causing any harm to the priceless specimen, revealing this shark died when it was 46 years old.
Megalodon babies grew bigger than adult humans by eating their siblings in the womb. DePaul University/Kenshu Shimada
Looking down through the layers, the team could see how large this vertebra was when the shark was born. Astonishingly, the size estimate at the first growth ring imply the shark was two metres when born, meaning it was larger than an average adult human at birth.
Some sharks lay eggs, while others give birth to live young. In most sharks, however, the eggs hatch inside the mother, where the young feed on the egg yolk and fluids that she secretes until they are born fully formed.
The enormous birth size estimate for this particular megalodon provides strong evidence that this species had the same reproductive mode, with a great deal of investment in a smaller number of huge offspring. The dark secret of the megalodon is that to achieve this size in the uterus, the developing young must have been eating a lot.
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Eating their siblings
It is very likely, this new study argues, that the babies’ growth was fuelled by cannibalism of their unhatched siblings, a sinister conveyor belt of high protein snacks for hungry pups.
It is unknown exactly how many megalodon embryos were produced. In basking sharks today, millions of eggs are created and sent to be fertilised. The hatched embryos begin to eat the surrounding eggs and in some cases, like the sand tiger shark, they eat other embryos too. Sharks can hold one or more pups in each of their two uteri, so it is likely at least two megalodons were born at a time.
This grim survival mechanism is not unique. All living sharks of the lamniform order, a group which includes great white, mako, and thresher sharks, use this strategy, which has existed for at least 70 million years.
This study also conservatively estimates the life expectancy of the species at 88-100 years old, using their spine data and well-established growth patterns of the teeth. This is in line with estimated ages for great white and whale sharks, only falling short of the record breaking 500-year-old Greenland sharks, known to live life in the slow lane of cold northern seas.
It seems the start of a megalodon’s life was a tale of two halves. They were protected by a wonderful mother sacrificing time and energy to her pups, while they wrought havoc in the womb.
Tom Fletcher does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
Source: The Conversation: Giant ancient sharks had enormous babies that ate their siblings in the womb
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COVID-19 Revealed As Biggest Psyop In Human History
Written by: Mac Slavo
COVID-19 is rapidly being revealed as the biggest psyop in human history, while the mainstream media and the ruling class desperately try to cling to the narrative to force the New World Order upon us.
In fact, in the CHAZ (Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone) which is anything but founded on the principle of voluntary cooperation, they have already instituted a government, for all intents and purposes, and have begun taxing people. The police chief in Seattle even admitted that what they are doing is extortion. Yes, they are finally coming out and admitting it: taxation is wrong, it’s theft, and it’s a violation of a human being’s right to the fruits of his labor:
The mainstream media working for the government have attempted to put the public under mass hypnosis, but it’s coming undone at the seams. More and more people are waking up and seeing the invisible chains they’ve put themselves in, and it could be a wonderful time for humanity going forward.
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As Jeff Berwick says in the above video:
“One of the funniest things, kinda just to laugh at, this has been, like, for a century now, is commies. They always create the worst disasters. It’s actually not even all that funny when you think about it….people like Mao in China, killing like 100 million people. Stalin in the Soviet Union. But now in CHAZ, which is a 6 block area in Seattle that has been taken over by what they call themselves ‘anarcho-communists’ but they’re not even anarchists at all, they’re just commies. And, it’s just fun to watch. It’s just hilarious watching them just run out of food in like two days.”
Anarchists reject a ruling class. (‘An’ meaning without, ‘Archos’ meaning rulers) There is now a warlord ruling over the people in the communist state. This brings Berwick to the point that this is just one gigantic psyop from the beginning. This is meant to brainwash the public into wanting a ruling class to control them, extort them, and “save them” from warlords who will control them, and extort them. The irony is simply incredible.
“It’s all staged. It’s all Hollywood scripts basically. Most people haven’t figured it out yet. They actually think a lot of this stuff is real.”
This entire situation is all scripted and not organic at all. Berwick says to look out for the number 33 as a way to recognize a psyop. They tend to always use that number as a way to make it known what they are doing without coming out and saying it.
We should also recognize that all central banks are tenants of communism. It’s the control of the money supply centralized in the hands of a few people. This is why so many who are promoting freedom (such as Robert Kiyosaki) have suggested unplugging from the Matrix by removing your consent to use their fiat money. If you don’t like cryptocurrencies, buy gold and silver. There are ways around using their money and it’s a gigantic vote AGAINST your enslavement that actually holds weight, unlike an actual vote at a ballot box for the current system.
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It’s a complete and total psyop and it’s unbelievable that some people are still falling for it. The United States has become a communist nation. As Berwick points out, the USSA is anything but a free country. “They’ve got about 20 different agenda with this lie,” adds Berwick. “You’d think people would start to catch on to this stuff!”
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'Alien Intruder' Spotted by UFO Chaser in Security Camera Footage
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While the person who originally uploaded the video didn't appear to suggest that it features some extraterrestrial phenomena, Scott Waring alleged that it might depict an instance of an "alien visitation".
Conspiracy theorist and UFO hunting enthusiast Scott C. Waring recently stumbled upon a peculiar incident which he touts as a potential alien encounter.
A video (whose veracity couldn't be immediately confirmed) uploaded on YouTube by user "Charlene Cox", titled "Video Security camera at the back door of the farm house", shows some unclear shape which quickly scurries (or perhaps flies) away along the edge of the frame.
But while the original uploader simply wrote "ghost; angel; spirit" in the video's description, Waring suggested that it is "actual raw footage" of an instance of "alien visitation on farms and ranches".
"I am wondering...is this footage of the alien leaving happen after it abducted a member of her family or not?" the conspiracy theorist mused. "Most abductees do not remember the events because their memory is erased. This may be the case here. Lost time can't be noted since they were sleeping and would not be aware of time passage."
One person who commented on the video, however, has brought forth a much more mundane explanation, venturing a guess that the entity in the video could be "a frog".
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Expedia CruiseShipCenters International Inc:
Expedia® CruiseShipCenters® Sails Ahead; Signs 300th Franchise Agreement
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Cruise Industry Leader Makes Waves in Franchising with Strategic Multi-unit Growth
September 09, 2019 // Franchising.com // Bellevue, Wa. – Expedia CruiseShipCenters, a leading cruise travel agency franchise, announced the awarding of its 300th franchise agreement, reaching a major milestone for the rapidly expanding retail travel agency franchise. The milestone was achieved as a result of two multi-unit agreements that will bring Centers to Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee. Expedia CruiseShipCenters signed its first multi-unit agreement in 2018 and the multi-unit franchise opportunity has proven to play a strong, strategic role in the brand’s rapid expansion.
This milestone only builds momentum for the brand as it works toward an overall growth vision of reaching 500-locations in North America over the next five years. As the cruise industry continues to surge with 30 million passengers expected to cruise by 2027 – a 34 percent increase from five years prior – Expedia CruiseShipCenters is poised to capitalize on the growing industry. The cruise industry has made tremendous waves this year with a $69B investment that will debut 24 new ocean liners and 20 new river ships by year-end.
“The industry is hot and as we continue to grow and innovate, we aim to become the number one retail cruise agency in North America,” said Matthew Eichhorst, President of Expedia CruiseShipCenters. “This 300th signed agreement milestone is a true testament to the strong Franchise Partners we’ve grown with and our incredible corporate team. It is a time to celebrate and continue to build as we march toward our next growth goals.”
This milestone was achieved on the foundation of a strong 2018 as Expedia CruiseShipCenters awarded 26 new franchises and achieved over $790 million in gross bookings. Most notable, Expedia CruiseShipCenters was ranked on Entrepreneur Magazine’s annual Franchise 500 ranking. The prestigious ranking is a testament to the brand’s ability to grow its footprint across North America while continuing to provide unparalleled franchisee support and customer service.
At Expedia CruiseShipCenters, customers can choose from numerous vacation possibilities over land, sea and air, including customized trips, coach and rail tours and insurance – all at Expedia Group prices. Centers offer personal vacation consultations in person, through email or over the phone, so customers have the freedom to book when, where, and how they choose. As part of the Expedia Group family of brands, customers get to enjoy the best of two worlds; competitive pricing on a wide range of travel products and expert, personalized advice from a real person connected to a locally owned business.
With plans to open 35 new franchise locations throughout 2019, Expedia CruiseShipCenters continues to provide business opportunities for driven team leaders who want to build income, equity, and a great lifestyle with a retail business they are passionate about. The brand has eyes set on key development markets including Florida, Texas, California, Georgia, Illinois, and Washington.
About Expedia CruiseShipCenters
Expedia CruiseShipCenters provides exceptional value and expert advice for travelers booking cruises and vacations through its network of over 291 retail travel agency franchises. As part of the Expedia Group family of brands, the company’s more than 6,400 Vacation Consultants facilitate the booking of a wide range of vacation products including cruises, flights, hotels, vacation packages, tours, excursions and more. The company has been navigating spectacular vacation experiences for customers across North America for 30 years.
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Paid livestreams: a vulnerable future (2020)
It's no secret that artists are struggling right now. Thanks to Coronavirus/COVID-19 and the "new normal", all performances have to move online. To make matters worse for artists, most of these performances are free. The future of shows may lie in the world of paid livestreams - something services like Twitch are no stranger to. Recently, Facebook announced that they will also include paid livestreams in their services. This sets the music world up for a pivot in a new direction - the world of paid online music performances.
"It's possible that bookings will move online soon and that DJs will have to charge for their livestreams; or, they will have to stream on 3rd party pages. "
Artists will eventually have to monetize their livestreams in the future since they have to make ends meet. Soon, the novelty of seeing a DJ set from a canceled show will wear off. Artists will need to find ways to make their livestreams more appealing so they can monetize them. This is a model that video game streamers have proven works. The question now is, can the music world apply this model as well?
Music audiences have high expectations, especially when they pay for tickets. It's tough to match the experience of an actual event with a livestream. Artists have to innovate and involve their audience in their show to make up for the lost revenue. Artists have to entertain the audience, but also have to incentivize them to come to their next online show. This requires a delicate balance of creativity, artistry, and musicianship.
If the COVID-19/Coronavirus situation doesn't improve, artists have no choice but to move to this model. It's possible that bookings will move online soon and that DJs will have to charge for their livestreams; or, they will have to stream on 3rd party pages.
Regardless of the uncertain future ahead, Stagent, the next artist management software, is right there by your side if you are an artist or if you work for one. We'll make sure that your bookings and payments are organized, and that you'll be able to focus on putting on a stellar show for your audience. Whether the future of the music business is online, or if the situation gets resolved faster than expected, Stagent is ready to be your partner in these uncertain times and to help artists succeed.
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Every word's a winner in this revamped digital version of everyone's favourite word game!
Scrabble for DS, PSP and DSi features several variants of the game that range from the familiar classic rules to the new SCRABBLE Slam! Additionally, the game includes several practice exercises that will help improve the players' game and increase your level - to become the ultimate scrabble wonk! New In game Help means you can have access to hints and tips – such as viewing the best word available, refer to a dictionary or even peek at all the two letter words! This remastered classic includes pass and play multiplayer options (Single card) as well as connecting up to other DS devices (Multicard).
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Delta 2 launch from California halted for second day in a row
November 15, 2017 Stephen Clark
The Delta 2 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 2-West at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, awaiting liftoff with the JPSS 1 weather satellite. Credit: ULA/Walter Scriptunas II
Brisk upper level winds blowing from the west thwarted a second try to launch a new NOAA weather satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket Wednesday, likely postponing the liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California until at least Saturday.
High-altitude were measured at more than 110 knots (126 mph) by a weather balloon sent aloft from Vandenberg during Wednesday’s early morning countdown. Safety officials from the U.S. Air Force’s Western Range were concerned the winds might blow debris from the rocket, such as nozzle covers on the Delta 2’s air-lit solid rocket boosters, back over populated areas on land as it climbs south over the Pacific Ocean.
Six of the Delta 2’s nine strap-on solid-fueled motors will ignite on the launch pad to boost the 128-foot-tall (39-meter) rocket skyward, along with the first stage’s liquid-fueled RS-27A main engine. Once the six ground-lit boosters burn out, three air-lit boosters will fire about a minute into the flight, ejecting plugs from their nozzles when they ignite.
Similar strong upper level winds are predicted Thursday and Friday. ULA is expected to target the Delta 2’s next launch attempt Saturday at 1:47 a.m. PST (4:47 a.m. EST; 0947 GMT).
The scrubbed launch attempt Wednesday came 24 hours after ULA aborted a countdown when boats ventured into an offshore safety exclusion zone near the Delta 2’s flight path, and a technical problem cropped up a few minutes before liftoff.
The launch of the JPSS 1 weather satellite will mark the 154th flight of a Delta 2 rocket since 1989, and the 378th mission by the Delta family of launch vehicles since 1960. One more Delta 2 mission is on the books for late 2018 with NASA’s ICESat 2 mission to measure the shrinkage of Earth’s ice caps.
Built by Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp., the 5,025-pound (2,280-kilogram) JPSS 1 satellite is the first of new NOAA polar-orbiting weather observatories. The Joint Polar Satellite System, succeeding from a precursor series of weather satellites, will ensure data on atmospheric chemistry, clouds, fog, smoke, temperature, humidity, and Earth’s ozone layer reach scientists and weather forecasters through at least 2038.
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2022 Acura Ilx Type S Release Date Redesign
The 2022 Acura ILX should go on sale next year. Based on the information we’ve received, Acura is ready to make drastic changes to the upcoming model. As you probably know, the current sedan was updated last year and the manufacturer introduced a new look to the A-specification that will become a favorite in a short time. It includes a sporty design, as well as a diamond-shaped front grille to match the rest of the Acura lineup.
This luxury sedan offers good value for money. In addition, it comes with a nice design and even a luxurious cabin that not many competitors have.
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2022 Acura ILX comes with an all-new design
We don’t know much about the design of the 2022 Acura ILX. From what we heard, this model will have a new grille. This means that the reliable Diamond Pentagon grille will not appeal to this model anymore. Last year’s makeover made this model very competitive. In fact, the manufacturer added several updates to the front.
However, as the A-Spec continues to be novel, we can expect the same treatment on the new model. Models wearing this upholstery give a sporty look thanks to the exclusive 18-inch wheels, a dark chrome front grille, a high-gloss black spoiler on the tailgate and dark exterior parts such as the headlights and taillights. Additionally, expect the new 2022 model to bring sharper lines and bolder size compared to previous Acura sedans.
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2022 Acura ILX Cabin changes
The upcoming 2022 Acura ILX is a five-passenger sedan that offers luxury styling. As before, one of the highlights of this model is the comfortable and well-reinforced front seats, excellent driving position and comprehensive adjustments. We should also mention that ILX comes with great color options including Ebony, Espresso, and Ebony-and-Red on the sporty ILX A-Spec variants.
We also received information that the base models will receive a new 8-inch infotainment system. If you remember, this screen has been a part of the premium version so far. Other standard features include Apple or Android phones, dual zone climate, better sound system, and more.
2022 Acura ILX Powertrain Specification
The latest 2022 Acura ILX of many speculations will be a transmission model. By that we mean it runs the same powertrain as its predecessor. The ILX luxury compact sedan from Acura uses a 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine that delivers 201 horsepower and 180 lb-ft of torque.
However, we believe that there are some improvements that could occur and that the upcoming 2022 Acura ILX will receive an increase in production. We also think the manufacturer will be using the same 8-speed dual clutch transmission. Unlike models from the same class as Audi and Mercedes-Benz, ILX is offered only with front-wheel drive. The current model offers an EPA city / highway fuel economy of 24/34 mpg, which is very acceptable for such an interface. However, it is very likely that the new model would include a start / stop system that would significantly improve efficiency.
2022 Acura ILX release date and cost
The upcoming 2022 Acura ILX will come with an updated design. Depending on the level of parts and equipment, the price of the new model varies. For example, the entry-level model that comes with basic equipment starts at $ 27,000. However, if you move up to the recommended premium trim price, it would increase to roughly $ 29,000.
Tech’s most equipped model crosses the $ 30K mark. Compared to models like Audi A3, Lexus IS, Mercedes-Benz A 220 and CLA-Class coupe, ILX’s interchange values are better.
2021 Acura ILX Type S
That’s what the 2021 Acura ILX Type S actually is, a completely innovative type for any stylish car or truck that will be available in the highest quality. Make sure ILX is getting the best upgrade right now, just make changes. Creating S Ceramic Porcelain Tile provides an active system along with styling not to mention heightened versatility around the nozzle. The exterior variants of this vehicle will likely be restored, along with the sleeker styling. The stage implemented as part of this truck or vehicle was a related stage with the use of Acura’s latest showroom. The body of this vehicle or pickup truck is made of drastically lower amounts of good-sized materials that can protect a much greater abundance of excess grease. Inside the entrance door in addition to the rear, an element of the car could be developed in new types.
2021 Acura ILX Type S redesigned
The grille has been changed with the help of LEDs that can increase the proximity of the vehicle’s director. When this happens, the country’s independence can be even brutal. Within the weather perspective, the taillights will come with the new section, which is a lot better when compared to its off-product calculation. Throughout the car, the lodges will be more impressive. In addition, more natural properties will be accomplished that can be well combined with new mechanical know-how. They are mostly when it comes to happiness and infotainment features as well as safety and security.
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2021 Acura ILX Type S interior design
Car seats seem to get new details like having new fabrics usually routinely arranged by Mother Nature herself from the typical calf leather she should really add. Overall, changes to the outdoor environment ensure that you can see your car or your own vehicle after reviews inside or with the vehicle making it more effective for motorists and vacationers to drive this arduous work experience with the 2021 Acura ILX Type S.
2021 Acura ILX Type S Engine
Sure, the 2021 Acura ILX Type S, at first, may be related to the current unit, which I have to build despite the fact. This design made by the “ Gem Eyesight ” passing lights underneath with the help of a lot of changes, because with the initial solar energy in the part that has what and without more focus on products like RLX, only MDX. About that, they offer with new, lower-than-A-spec instructions, and sportier operating options purchased here, for example, everyone outside and inside your electric vehicle. By 2021 the ILX Type S should have a monster disc unlike the restored clear display. You can find a brand new engine. The 2-liter compressor might get the job done in this version; Correctly configures the excellent, very precise use of the R grid. This 6-speed manual engine or 8-speed inlet automatic transmission with 2, it also requires over 300 HP of other power at the same time.
2021 Acura ILX Type S Price and release date
The release slated for 2021 pushed Acura ILX Type S into the car engine companies of the future. Under the premise, given the fact that the latest version has now been released we found that it is built early this next year (insiders to the field), drivers of all ages and girls can get or receive the car in the first quarter of the following calendar year. It was pointless if you appreciated your small car price.
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Champions League: Olivier Giroud Scores Four As Chelsea Thrash Sevilla To Top Group
Sports Home Football News Champions League: Olivier Giroud Scores Four As Chelsea Thrash Sevilla To Top Group
Olivier Giroud scored four goals as Chelsea romped to an impressive 4-0 victory at Sevilla on Wednesday to secure top spot in Champions League Group E.
Updated: December 03, 2020 08:17 AM IST
Chelsea thrashed Sevilla 4-0 on Wednesday in their Champions League tie.© AFP
Chelsea thrashed Sevilla 4-0 in their Champions League tie
Olivier Giroud scored four goals against Sevilla on Wednesday
Giroud became first since Ronaldo to net four goals in Champions League
Olivier Giroud scored four goals as Chelsea romped to an impressive 4-0 victory at Sevilla on Wednesday to secure top spot in Champions League Group E. The 34-year-old striker is the oldest player to score a hat-trick in the competition since Hungarian great Ferenc Puskas in 1965 for Real Madrid against Feyenoord. He is also the first player to net four times in a Champions League match since Cristiano Ronaldo against Malmo five years ago. "Amazing solo performance from Olivier. Delighted with him, delighted with the team. This is a difficult place to come," Chelsea manager Frank Lampard, the last Chelsea player to score four goals in a game against Aston Villa in 2010, told BT Sport.
Both teams were already qualified for the last 16 before kick-off, but Giroud made the most of a rare start, scoring with his left foot, his right foot and his head to see Chelsea through as group winners, also slotting in a penalty.
"I didn't know until two years ago that you called it a perfect hat-trick, when I scored (a treble) against (Dynamo) Kiev in (the) Europa League, I said 'What do you mean?' It was good, I had good assists though," Giroud said.
"I will try to carry on like that -- to finish the good job of the team and it's always nice to be in the club history and we play football to mark our history, so I'm pleased to help the team to win and to score the four goals."
The France international sent out a message to Lampard, with Timo Werner and Tammy Abraham seemingly above him in the pecking order, by making the absolute most of only his second start of the season.
"Let me enjoy the night and that great win and after that we will rest and we will see what the gaffer's plan is," Giroud said when asked if he was now expecting to start against Leeds United in the Premier League on Saturday.
Lampard will now be able to rest players for the final group game against Krasnodar at Stamford Bridge, with his side looking to improve on last season's run to the last 16, where they were well beaten by eventual winners Bayern Munich.
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Giroud wasted little time in putting Chelsea ahead, collecting Kai Havertz's clever pass before cutting inside and bending a fine finish into the far corner in the eighth minute.
Sevilla were left frustrated as they saw two penalty appeals for handball turned down.
In the 20th minute, claims that Christian Pulisic handled were waved away by referee Artur Soares Dias after he checked the pitchside monitor.
The hosts had another penalty shout turned down following a lengthy VAR delay after an Ivan Rakitic free-kick struck the Chelsea wall.
Aside from those nervy moments, Lampard's Blues were the more threatening, with Antonio Rudiger seeing a header cleared off the line before Alfonso Pastor kept out Pulisic's low drive.
The home side started the second half brightly, as Jesus Navas picked out Nemanja Gudelj with a clever pass, but the Serbian international fired narrowly over.
Chelsea doubled their advantage in the 54th minute, though, as Giroud boosted his case for more game time further by latching onto Mateo Kovacic's pass and clipping the ball over the Sevilla goalkeeper.
But he was not finished there, completing his first Champions League hat-trick since a treble against Olympiakos for Arsenal in 2015 with a looping header from N'Golo Kante's cross.
Giroud rounded off a virtuoso display from the spot with seven minutes to play, scoring a spot-kick he had won himself.
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· Published May 11, 2020
Report: NFL season could begin on Oct. 8
By Matt Johnson
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Even before the NFL released its schedule for the 2020 season, the league was confident it would play a full 16-game schedule on time despite the COVID-19 pandemic. However, with a second wave of the coronavirus looming, the NFL could be forced to change its schedule.
While the league released a full 2020 schedule this past week, officials crafted it to make the schedule portable. As a result, if the COVID-19 pandemic worsens or team owners decide they don’t want to play in empty stadiums, the NFL could make a major adjustment to the upcoming season.
According to NBC Sports’ Peter King, the NFL’s portable schedule would move the first four weeks of the season into January. As a result, the 2020 season would start on Thursday, Oct. 8 with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers set to face the Chicago Bears on Thursday Night Football.
League officials have already discussed delaying the season by a month to buy additional time during the COVID-19 pandemic. By delaying the season a month, teams in states with bans on mass gatherings through September, could potentially start their season with fans in attendance.
It’s worth watching, given some of the league’s most popular teams are at risk of playing in empty stadiums. A recent statement by California Governor Gavin Newsom hinted that teams like the Los Angeles Chargers, Los Angeles Rams and San Francisco 49ers would need to start the 2020 season in empty stadiums. Meanwhile, the New England Patriots could face similar restrictions based on recent comments from Boston’s mayor.
The NFL is at risk of taking a massive revenue hit if games are played in empty stadiums this year, so owners and players are willing to push the season back to avoid it.
If the NFL pushes the 2020 season back a month, Week 17 could take place on Jan. 31 with the NFL Playoffs beginning in February. From there, the league could eliminate the Pro Bowl and have Super Bowl LV played on Feb. 28.
For now, the NFL remains hopeful that the COVID-19 pandemic will improve across the country by September. If that doesn’t happen, fans will be waiting even longer for football to return.
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Characteristics of Logos
By Eirik Ott
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A great logo can express everything a company represents in the most simple and effective terms, creating an instantly emotional connection with potential consumers and strengthening the bond with loyal customers. Poorly designed logos, however, can sink a company that is otherwise doing everything right. When crafting new logos or redesigning old ones, graphic designers must keep the key characteristics of strong and effective logos in mind.
Before the first pencil touches the first sketch pad at the very beginning phase of logo creation, a good designer must always remember to create a logo that can be scaled to an infinite number of sizes, from tiny 72-DPI website buttons to letterheads to full-page magazine ads to wall-sized banners to fully wrapped city buses. A good logo looks good whether it's the size of a postage stamp or blown up and stuck to the side of a jet, and this idea of scalability needs to be at the forefront of a designer's mind from the beginning. Using a raster program like Photoshop might be fine for sketching out ideas at the start of the design process, but rasterized graphics turn jagged when scaled and make for enormous file sizes that are difficult to handle or transmit. Using a vector program like Illustrator is a must to ensure full scalability.
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Once a logo is designed, approved by the client and delivered as a final product, the graphic designer has zero control over how the logo is used, so all possibilities should be explored before the logo is finalized. Beautiful full-color logos look great on websites or on expensive letterhead, but how would they look as a fax or low-resolution photocopy? How would a logo that looks great when rendered in high-quality CMYK turn out as a black-and-white rubber stamp or as a T-shirt decoration? The message a logo is designed to express should never be solely delivered with color, because so many applications of that logo could strip away the vibrancy and leave only the form and pure design of the logo. Clients will use the logo for websites, print runs, brochures, pamphlets, billboards and a hundred different things you haven't foreseen, so make sure it looks good no matter how expensively or cheaply it is reproduced.
A logo doesn't need to be complicated to convey the ideas that are crucial for a business that ties its entire identity to your work as a graphic designer. In fact, the simpler, the better. Think of the Nike Swoosh. That arching shape instantly conveys grace, power and speed in the simplest and boldest form, and the Nike logo is instantly recognizable the world over no matter the language. Good logos are clean, simple and bold. A good method for judging a strong logo is giving it "the squint test," which means looking at the logo while squinting your eyes. If large portions of the graphic become illegible or confusing, chances are the same will happen while someone is flipping through the pages of a magazine or whizzing past a billboard at 65 mph. Use strong contrast between elements of the logo, and avoid having different parts of the logo compete for attention. A logo should be bold, simple and direct.
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Eirik Ott is a professional performance poet, freelance writer, graphic designer, Apple Computer enthusiast and photographer. Since graduating from Chico State University with a degree in journalism in 2000, he has written for newspapers and magazines such as "The Reno Gazette-Journal," "The Austin American-Statesman," "Bust Magazine" and "Poets & Writers Magazine." He is based in Austin, Texas.
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How to Convert Google Apps to Not for Profit
By Ken White
Is Interest Income Subject to Tax in a Non-Profit Corporation?
Net Asset Deficiency for a Non-Profit
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Liquidation & Gain of a Nonprofit C Corporation
How do I Write a Business Plan for a Nonprofit Corporation?
Google provides online applications such as Gmail, Google Talk, Google Docs, Blogger, Picasa and Google Reader through its Google Apps tools. Google offers a free version of Google Apps for personal use as well as a paid version for business, which includes extra email storage, additional business apps and an uptime guarantee. If your organization is nonprofit, you can convert your Google Apps account to the Google for Nonprofits program and get a per-user discount on a Google Apps for Business account or a free Google Apps for Nonprofits account, based on the number of users in your organization.
Open a browser and go to the Google Nonprofit contact form.
Enter your name, the domain name of your Google Apps account and the email address associated with your account.
Enter the name of your nonprofit organization in the “Organization” text box and the domain or URL you want to use with Google Apps in the “Domain/URL to Be Used With Google Apps” text box.
Enter your request to have your Google Apps account changed to Google Apps for Nonprofits in the “Comments” text box. You must include your Employer Identification Number, or EIN, issued by the Internal Revenue Service and state that your organization is a registered 505(c)(3) nonprofit in the United States. You should also include the total number of users in your organization to indicate whether you are applying to convert your account to a free Google Apps for Nonprofits account or a discounted Google Apps for Business account. Click “Submit.”
Google: Google Apps - Stay Connected and Be More Productive
Google: Google for Nonprofits - Apply for the Google for Nonprofits Program
Google: Nonprofits - Can Organizations Based Outside the U.S. Apply for the Google for Nonprofits Program?
Google: Nonprofit Contact Form
Google: Google Apps for Nonprofits
Google Apps for Nonprofits is only open to nonprofit organizations based in the United States; Google Grants and YouTube for Nonprofits are available in additional countries.
If you do not have a Google Apps account and want to apply for a new Google Apps for Nonprofits account, you can apply through the Google Apps for Nonprofits website.
Ken White began his writing career in 1972 as a reporter for a local Florida newspaper. With a career in public safety as a police officer, firefighter and emergency manager, his fiction has also been published in magazines such as "Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine." White studied history and psychology at Mercer University.
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2 How to Obtain Tax Reports on a Nonprofit
3 How to Establish Business Credit for Nonprofits
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Nurse Practitioners: A Boon For Underserved Areas:
Let nurse practitioners in California have almost all the authority that doctors now possess, urges the state Senate via a proposed law it has already cleared.
If this bill passes the Assembly unchanged and then is signed by Gov. Jerry Brown, warns the doctors’ lobby, what would be the point of spending 10 to 12 years studying and training to become a physician? MDs and their supporters also wonder how many patients with potentially serious ailments will prefer to see someone who studied and trained six or seven years instead of a full-fledged doctor.
But, say supporters of full empowerment for nurse practitioners, many of them already perform the basic functions of primary care physicians, things like giving physical exams, providing diagnoses, ordering laboratory tests, prescribing most drugs and referring patients to specialists. They now work under supervision from MDs, but they’re still performing those tasks and many get only cursory oversight because doctors trust them.
While this debate rages in Sacramento and around the state, some parts of California are currently far underserved on the medical front. Recent numbers from the California Health Care Foundation (http://www.chcf.org/~/media/MEDIA%20LIBRARY%20Files/PDF/C/PDF%20CaliforniaPhysiciansSurplusSupply2014.pdf) show huge disparities between various regions in the numbers of both primary care doctors and specialists.
Example: While the San Francisco Bay area has 78 primary care physicians and 155 specialists for every 100,000 residents, the Inland Empire region of Riverside and San Bernardino counties has but 40 primary care doctors and 70 specialists for every 100,000.
This is because medical school graduates increasingly prefer to live in the state’s largest urban areas, in and near San Francisco, San Diego and Los Angeles. Which suggests a compromise solution to the debate over the powers of nurse practitioners: Give them full authority in underserved areas, including the San Joaquin Valley and counties like Del Norte, Siskiyou, Modoc and Humboldt, where physicians are relatively scarce.
In fact, the chief legislative advocate for more nurse practitioner authority, Democratic Sen. Ed Hernandez of West Covina, uses these scarcities as a chief argument. “About one-third of our counties…have huge shortages,” he said in an interview. “Nurse practitioners could fill that void.”
Giving them increased authority in the most medically underserved areas makes sense. For one thing, it would be strong motivation for more nurse practitioners to settle in those areas, while also providing dependable basic service for their residents. Nurse practitioners have a solid record in the 21 states where they now have full authority, with few malpractice actions against them.
The move to beef up responsibilities of nurse practitioners is part of a general shift toward empowering health care professionals who are not replica watches uk physicians. Last year, a Hernandez bill authorized pharmacists to administer drugs and other products ordered by doctors, as well are providing contraceptives and some other drugs without a physician’s prescription. They also can give vaccinations and evaluate tests that monitor the efficacy of prescribed drugs. So far, no problems.
Hernandez, a longtime optometrist, also tried last year to win passage of similar increased authority for his own colleagues and full powers for nurse practitioners.
“We just don’t have enough primary care physicians to do these kinds of things anymore,” he said, “because medical school graduates increasingly want to become specialists.”
Hernandez opposes granting nurse practitioners authority to operate independently only in underserved areas, but said he would back incentives encouraging more doctors to move into those places.
But he’s already accepted one compromise, amending his bill to require that nurse practitioners operating with full authority must be affiliated with a medical group or hospital.
Giving them added powers in underserved areas would help solve shortages in those regions, while leaving in place most current incentives to become an MD.
It’s the sensible way to go in an era of increased patient loads under the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare.
By mirrormmg June 7, 2015
in Health, Opinion
"Between crafting COVID-era return-to-school plans, fine-tuning Distance Learning, developing major district-wide campus improvements, giving fair process to the Santa Monica High School History Building (slated to be bulldozed this summer along with the cafeteria, main administrative building, a gym, and a wide swath of mature trees and greenspace), and appointing a new member to fill the SMMUSD School Board vacancy, our School Board has a lot on its plate." Photo: Sam Catanzaro.
Education, News, Opinion, Santa Monica
January 7, 2021 SM.a.r.t
Between crafting COVID-era return-to-school plans, fine-tuning Distance Learning, developing major district-wide campus improvements, giving fair process to the Santa Monica...
“Without a comprehensive and realistic plan, our goose, as the saying goes, will be cooked, and the ever-expanding infrastructure costs will impose an increasingly heavy burden on our residents and businesses. The denser the city gets, the less room we have for mistakes in planning,” writes SMa.r.t. their latest column. Photo: Sam Catanzaro.
Development, News, Opinion
[We wrote this article 6.5 years ago. Today, the issues it raises continue to bedevil the city, and with more...
"Wishes can be realized only if our community stands together and the new City Council does what's required in order to move our city back to common sense solutions, directions and sustainable goals." Photo: Sam Catanzaro.
December 24, 2020 SM.a.r.t
It’s that time of year again, but tragically this year so many things are staggeringly different and difficult on many...
"This City Council vote signals a City that is moving toward meeting the real needs of its residents instead of the needs of developers. It represents the residents flexing their muscles to take back their City and preserve its beach side charm," writes SMa.r.t. on the ending of The Plaza at Santa Monica development.
SMa.r.t. Column: Citizen Victory!
Tuesday night Santa Claus brought Santa Monica a gift that we have waited 7 years for. That evening the City...
“In reality the City does not have a housing problem. It permits annually about twice the amount of housing it needs to absorb its natural growth, but it cannot produce enough AFFORDABLE housing for the full spectrum of its current residents’ incomes,” writes Mario Fonda-Bonardi in the latest SMart Column. Photo: Sam Catanzaro.
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Santa Monica Under SCAG’s Boot
As most of you know the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) is now forcing Santa Monica to permit 8873...
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PIQUE Health is the very first comprehensive mens health center in Beverly Hills. With highly personalized treatment plans that fit...
"We want our ship to stop taking on water. We need to act with the utmost urgency as we bring residents back to the seat of power in the City of Santa Monica," writes councilmember-elect Phil Brock in the latest SMa.r.t. Column. Photo: Sam Catanzaro.
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SMart Column: A Better Ship of State
December 3, 2020 SM.a.r.t
On Tuesday, December 8th, shortly after 5:30 PM, Oscar de la Torre, Christine Parra, and I will be among the...
December 3, 2020 mirrormmg
There comes a time when a loved one needs some help to stay safe, which is when a retirement home...
The hospitals in Santa Monica feature the latest in technology and equipment; from a healthcare management perspective, they also provide...
5 Tips for Camping in the Santa Monica Mountains
The Santa Monica Mountain Range offers several pristine campsites that provide an escape from the hustle and bustle of Los...
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COVID-19 Vaccine Reports Spark Hope For Americans
December 2, 2020 wpengine
After nine grueling months of chaos, confusion, and grief, the FDA just approved the first COVID-19 vaccination. Just days ago,...
SMa.r.t. Column: Our Brave New World: How the Residents Can Help Realize Their Goals
November 27, 2020 SM.a.r.t
As the weather chills, we enter a Holiday Season like no other that the City of Santa Monica has seen...
Santa Monica High School’s History Building, circa mid-century. Photo: National Archives and Records Administration.
SMa.r.t. Column: Saving Our History Building
SMart has always looked for ways to do more with less and to live within our means on our way...
by Juliet Lemar
Today on Westside Cribz, Check on these top things for a safer home, Mohammed Hadid’s $50M dollar estate on sale...
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Studentavtaler | Rettigheter og plikter - Student
Your intellectual property rights are not protected by any particular act of law. As a rule, therefore, you will be deemed to be the owner of the results of your contributions to research projects and project assignments, unless otherwise agreed.
OsloMet's student agreements
OsloMet has four different templates for standard agreements that you can use and adapt to your own situation:
Standard agreement for imlemenation of academic work (PDF). (Version in word).
Supplementary agreement on financial exploitation (PDF). (Version in word).
Standard agreement with no transfer of ownership (PDF). (Version i word).
Standard agreement with transfer of ownership (PDF). (Version in word).
Simple collaboration agreement template (PDF). (Version i word).
More information about the four different standard agreements
You should consider the following:
Issues related to the standard agreement templates.
Confidentiallity agreement when it exchanges information to be treated confidentially (PDF).
Confidentiality agreement when company/institution serves as an advisory body (PDF).
Which agreement shall be used?
1. "I will join an ongoing research project at OsloMet."
Standard agreement for imlemenation of academic work (PDF)
2. "I will join an ongoing research project at OsloMet and the data I collect will be used by other students."
3. "I will join an ongoing research project at OsloMet in collaboration with other enterprises/institutions, and the enterprise/institution plans to exploit the results commercially."
4. "I will undergo a period of practical training in an enterprise."
Simple collaboration agreement template (PDF)
5. "I will undergo a period of practical training in an enterprise, where I will participate in an ongoing project and write a project assignment."
6. "I will cooperate with a large company/enterprise and work independently on my own project."
Standard agreement with no transfer of ownership (PDF)
7. "I will cooperate with a large company/enterprise, where I will participate in an ongoing project."
Standard agreement with transfer of ownership (PDF)
8. "I will be part of a student-initiated entrepreneurial partnership, pro bono, royalties."
9. "I will collaborate with a small enterprise/company and the student project is of limited scope."
10. "I will enter into an unpaid collaboration with an enterprise seeking to commercialise."
11. "I will be presenting my work at a meeting with external enterprises/institutions or others, in which it is important that the information I provide is kept confidential."
Confidentiality agreement when it exchanges information to be treated confidentially (PDF)
12. "I receive advice from an enterprise which I will be using in a student project, but the information I take aboard is confidential."
Confidentiality agreement when company/institution serves as an advisory body (PDF)
For help on agreements
Anne Bjørtuft
Anne.Bjortuft@oslomet.no
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The Stewart Society
Membership is open to all who bear the name of Stewart (Stuart, Steuart or Steward),or who are Stewarts by birth or descent as well as those septs or families associated with the Stewarts. The objects of The Society are philanthropic, historical, genealogical, and to further kinship.
The Stewart Society is currently closed. This will mean a delay in answering your emails but they will be dealt as soon as possible.
email the Secretary
St Andrews Bursars 2019/2020
We were very pleased to meet the St Andrews Bursars for 2019/20 in an informal ceremony on the 19th of November 2019 at the Student Union. The Stewart Society was represented in force, from left to right - Aubyn Stewart-Wilson, the President, Lord Stewart, Lady Stewart and John Lansley.
Unfortunately, due to Covid 19 the Society is unable to have a normal award ceremony for the 2020/21 bursars however we are pleased to say that the Stewart Society Benevolent Fund will be awarding bursaries to the St Andrews Students as normal.
If you are a student elsewhere and you wish to apply for a busary please email info@stewartsociety.org to discuss your application. Please note that, although bursaries are rarely granted on the grounds of hardship alone, hardship will be considered as a factor in any application.
Members' Downloads
Available for download - is the Index of the Magazine volumes 1-21.
The library catalogue and a list of the family trees and other family information that we hold are also available
The winter newsletter has now gone out all members. If you have not received it the please contact the Secretary.
Bannockburn Genetic Genealogy Project
The University of Strathclyde have provided some very interesting results relating to individuals who share the same common ancestor - including Walter, the High Steward. Read more about the Bannockburn Genetic Genealogy Project and how to go about your own DNA test.
Marker for male line descendants of King Robert III (1337-1406):
The results of the Big Y test for a documented male line descendant of Sir John Stewart of Blackhall & Ardgowan, d. c.1412, an illegitimate son of King Robert III, have now been received and analysed. Alex Williamson, author of The Big Tree http://www.ytree.net/ has identified a new SNP carried by this individual, which has been given the name ZZ52. Our two other Big Y test results, that is one for Earl Castle Stewart, a descendant of Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany, and the other for a documented descendant of Sir John Stewart, Sheriff of Bute, do not carry this SNP. Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany, and Sir John Stewart, Sheriff of Bute are both brothers of King Robert III. This means that ZZ52 must have occurred in Robert III or one of his male line descendants. In other words, ZZ52 is a distinct marker identifying descendants of Robert III.
Stewart Gathering 2021
It is planned to hold the Stewart Gathering 2021 at Abbotsford House on 3-5 September (Covid permitting of course). Further details in your newsletter or from the Secretary.
Booking will open in the New Year.
The next meeting of the Council of Stewart Society
The meeting of the Council of the Stewart Society will be held virtually on Monday 26th April 2021
Highland Games and other Scottish festivals
The New York Commissioner, Ann Stewart Burns and Stewarts from that area hope to represent Stewarts and the Society at the New York Tartan Parade on Saturday 10 April 2021, If you would like to join them (Covid-19 permitting of course) please contact Ann Stewart Burns via the officials page
http://nyctartanweek.org/
Sadly most of the events planned for 2020 have had to be cancelled.
Why not join us virtually on Facebook or on instagram?
The Stewart Society on Facebook
The Stewart Society on Instagram
Maclean Burns Supper - cancelled
It is hoped that the Burns Supper of the Clan Maclean Society of England and Wales will be able to take place 5 February 2021
This event has been cancelled.
We would love to see you! But please contact us in advance to make sure we will be in - Jenn sometimes works from home or has meetings etc. Drop her an email on info@stewartsociety.org or call 0131 2204512 - if you can do so at least a day before you want to come
Due the Corona Virus situation the library is currently closed, We wil let you know when it is possible to open the library again, Researchers if you have an urgent query do get in touch I will try to help you
Want help looking for your Stewart ancestors?
Try these links first. All helpfully gathered together in one place. Updated regularly so keep checking
Family Lines - useful links
Want to know more about the real history of tartan? Who wore what and when? How the Stuarts used tartan to help them with the Jacobite cause?
The history of tartan
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Wainwright Calls Velcro The Future of Baseball CleatsHe once was tripped up in a game by his shoestrings, and has vowed to never again wear cleats with laces.
Ask An Expert: How To Visit China On A BudgetCecilia Minges lived as an expat in Shanghai, China for four years.
Elon Musk Says Some Tesla Cars Will Be Built In ChinaTesla CEO Elon Musk says his company will eventually start making some of its electric cars in China.
5 Of The Best New Year's Eve Celebrations In The WorldA look at five of the best New Year's Eve celebrations from around the world.
How To Look Like A Local When Dining AbroadThe good folks at The Restaurant Choice cooked up these handsomely designed infographics to get you through your next international dining adventure.
Overnight America: March 22nd, 2013 - Dimitri Martin, Dave White, Cheffy Baby, Ed Bark
Opinion: Romney's Desperation Showing In Final Days Of CampaignAs the campaign draws to a close it has become very apparent that Obama will return to the White House and that Harry Reid will lead a Democratic Senate.
Opinion: Auto Manufacturing Is Back In America. Obama Was Right, Romney Was Wrong.Auto manufacturing is back in America – especially in Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania because President Obama made the politically risky decision to bailout the auto industry after bailing out the banks. It was a decision that worked. Obama was right, Romney was wrong. So Romney is now in full lying mode. He is trying to retroactively re-write the wrongs in his writings.
Opinion: The Auto Bailout Wasn’t A Safe Financial Deal For AmericaYes, it’s great that all turned out well for the auto workers, but it is absolutely horrendous to know that the American taxpayers via President Obama’s actions could have been left standing for billions of dollars – and still might.
Opinion: With Economics Intertwined With Foreign Affairs Romney Will Win The Final Presidential DebateRomney’s ideas – if presented fresh and enthusiastically hopeful for America’s future – can be the final bump he needs to win this election.
Opinion: Romney Must Answer Tough Questions On His Questionable Foreign Practices In Debate TonightIt is unprecedented for a presidential candidate to have as many conflicts when it comes to foreign business ties as Mitt Romney.
Opinion: Romney's China Attacks On Obama Show Breathtaking HypocrisyRomney looks to come back from 47% don't pay taxes remarks and attacks on China trade. But Romney has so many vulnerabilities on China it is hard to understand why he would pick this issue.
Opinion: Romney Talks Tough On China But Romney And Bain Bought Chinese FactoryMitt Romney and Bain Capital purchased a factory in China that took on the demand from outsourcing from other US companies. So they profited by increasing profits from companies they owned by shipping jobs overseas and they profited from other companies shipping jobs overseas by doing the work that used to be done in cities and towns across America.
Opinion: Why Is China's Largest Foreign Investor Spending So Much Money On Our Elections?Sheldon Adelson, the largest foreign investor in China, has invested tens of millions of dollars in influencing the 2012 election and has vowed to spend $100 million to put his thumb on the scale for Mitt Romney in November.
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The Met Essay Research Paper 1 The
Sample donated: Joanna Johnston
The Met Essay, Research Paper1. The museum I visited was The Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, New York.
The museum contains plants of art from antediluvian all the manner to modern times.2. The museum was founded or incorporated on April 13, 1870, and began constructing on 1874 and completed on 1888. The museum since so has gone through uninterrupted building, enlargement, and reconstructing.
The two original designers were Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould, and in 1971 when the museum was expanded the designers were Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates. The manner of the architecture is Gothic Revival-Style. Since 1888 the museum has expanded twenty times from its original size. The present entryway and fa fruit drink construction along 5th avenue were completed in 1926.
3. The flying the art work is exhibited in Lila Acheson Wallace wing.4. The piece of art I chose was Modern Art, the creative persons name was Dona Nelson. The rubric is Daily News, the medium is Oil on canvas. It was created in 1983 and the approximative dimensions are 84 Ten 60 in.5.
This peculiar picture has many formal ocular elements used to make it. The most obvious component is its usage of position. If you look at the tabular array in the picture it looks like everything should merely skid off the tabular array on to the floor, but everything else looks like it could be in a one-point position with the top of the edifices as a skyline line. The forms in the picture expression really natural, nil truly has right angles or true angles. The edifices outside the window are the lone objects with consecutive line and right angles and have some sort of shadowing around them unlike anything in the room. The coppice shots are really seeable bespeaking that they were long and travel in fickle waies, as seen on the wall.
The pigment looks really thick particularly outside the window and around the Moon. As you can besides see it is really colourful inside the room with orangish-red for the walls making a really bright consequence, and the exterior is really dark with black and bluish colourss except for the Moon light reflecting off the edifices. The picture besides seems to resemble a exposure or still painting because nil is in gesture, its still like a intermission in clip.6.
I think the thought behind the work is about a individual adult male life in the modern-day universe. He has his small flat in New York City up on a high edifice, and we know this because of the Daily News newspaper on his tabular array. It is clearly seen that he s individual adult male because of the jacket seen on the chair and the muss on the tabular array.
On the newspaper is says Nuclear Arms Buildup, and on the wall there is a small picture with doves on it. This could intend that the adult male is worried about the universe interrupting out into a atomic holocaust, but he merely wants peace in the universe. The clip of twenty-four hours is nighttime with merely the Moon as the beginning of visible radiation. This could possible intend that is a clip of fright or sadness.
This picture could picture the fright of a possible atomic eruption from the grounds we have seen. All of the objects on the tabular array could stand for other states. The cock could be the Soviet Union because the cock is a symbol on their flag. The teapot and home base could stand for European states like England or France.7. The properties of this work may include that people want peace in the universe, they do non desire to populate in fright.
The whole image seems to be dark and dull doing it experience as if it is a clip of fright and darkness. The picture could besides be a impression to the authorities or universe that people fear the worst can go on with all these states with atomic arms. We besides notice that the topographic point is New York City, if a bomb were to assail, New York would likely be one of the first topographic points it would hit.8. What attracted me to this picture was that it seemed as though a kid could hold painted it. The tabular array has no position in relation to everything else including outside the window. The pigments that were used, the objected drawn, and the feel seemed a spot infantile excessively.
This is why it took me a piece to calculate what the creative persons hidden significance of the picture could be, even though I could be incorrect. I stared and stared at the picture until eventually I came up with some sort of thought. The fact that it seemed to be about a atomic eruption. This might be a small pathetic, but at 1983 it could hold been a menace at the clip. I am certain that there are many different readings, but my sentiment, I think, has much contention.
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Algorithm improves fairness of search results
by Melanie Lefkowitz, Cornell University
When you search for something on the internet, do you scroll through page after page of suggestions—or pick from the first few choices?
Because most people choose from the tops of these lists, they rarely see the vast majority of the options, creating a potential for bias in everything from hiring to media exposure to e-commerce.
In a new paper, Cornell researchers introduce a tool they've developed to improve the fairness of online rankings without sacrificing their usefulness or relevance.
"If you could examine all your choices equally and then decide what to pick, that may be considered ideal. But since we can't do that, rankings become a crucial interface to navigate these choices," said computer science doctoral student Ashudeep Singh, co-first author of "Controlling Fairness and Bias in Dynamic Learning-to-Rank," which won the Best Paper Award at the Association for Computing Machinery SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, held virtually July 25-30.
"For example, many YouTubers will post videos of the same recipe, but some of them get seen way more than others, even though they might be very similar," Singh said. "And this happens because of the way search results are presented to us. We generally go down the ranking linearly and our attention drops off fast."
The researchers' method, called FairCo, gives roughly equal exposure to equally relevant choices and avoids preferential treatment for items that are already high on the list. This can correct the unfairness inherent in existing algorithms, which can exacerbate inequality and political polarization, and curtail personal choice.
"What ranking systems do is they allocate exposure. So how do we make sure that everybody receives their fair share of exposure?" said Thorsten Joachims, professor of computer science and information science, and the paper's senior author. "What constitutes fairness is probably very different in, say, an e-commerce system and a system that ranks resumes for a job opening. We came up with computational tools that let you specify fairness criteria, as well as the algorithm that will provably enforce them."
Online ranking systems were originally based on library science from the 1960s and '70s, which sought to make it easier for users to find the books they wanted. But this approach can be unfair in two-sided markets, in which one entity wants to find something and another wants to be found.
"Much of machine learning work in optimizing rankings is still very much focused on maximizing utility to the users," Joachims said. "What we've done over the last few years is come up with notions of how to maximize utility while still being fair to the items that are being searched."
Algorithms that prioritize more popular items can be unfair because the higher a choice appears in the list, the more likely users are to click on and react to it. This creates a "rich get richer" phenomenon where one choice becomes increasingly popular, and other choices go unseen.
Algorithms also seek the most relevant items to searchers, but because the vast majority of people choose one of the first few items in a list, small differences in relevance can lead to huge discrepancies in exposure. For example, if 51% of the readers of a news publication prefer opinion pieces that skew conservative, and 49% prefer essays that are more liberal, all of the top stories highlighted on the home page could conceivably lean conservative, according to the paper.
"When small differences in relevance lead to one side being amplified, that often causes polarization, where some people tend to dominate the conversation and other opinions get dropped without their fair share of attention," Joachims said. "You might want to use it in an e-commerce system to make sure that if you're producing a product that 30% of people like, you're getting a certain amount of exposure based on that. Or if you have a resume database, you could formulate safeguards to make sure it's not discriminating by race or gender."
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More information: Marco Morik et al. Controlling Fairness and Bias in Dynamic Learning-to-Rank, Proceedings of the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (2020). DOI: 10.1145/3397271.3401100
Provided by Cornell University
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AI taught to rapidly assess disaster damage so humans know where help is needed most
by Hiroshima University
A comparison of the damage scales used by the Architectural Institute of Japan or AIJ scale and the European Macroseismic Scale or EMS-98. Hiroshima University researchers trained the AI to classify D0-D1 damage as non-collapse while D5-D6 is interpreted as collapsed. Credit: Hiroyuki Miura
Researchers at Hiroshima University have taught an AI to look at post-disaster aerial images and accurately determine how battered the buildings are—a technology that crisis responders can use to map damage and identify extremely devastated areas where help is needed the most.
Quick action in the first 72 hours after a calamity is critical in saving lives. And the first thing disaster officials need to plan an effective response is accurate damage assessment. But anyone who has seen aftermath scenes of a natural catastrophe knows the many logistical challenges that can make on-site evaluation a danger to the lives of crisis responders.
Using convolutional neural network (CNN)—a deep learning algorithm inspired by the human brain's image recognition process—a team led by Associate Professor Hiroyuki Miura of Hiroshima University's Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering trained an AI to finish in an instant a task that usually requires us to devote crucial hours and personnel at a time when resources are scarce.
Previous CNN models that assess damage require both before and after photos to give an evaluation. But Miura's model doesn't need pre-disaster images. It only relies on post-disaster photos to determine building damage.
It works by classifying buildings as collapsed, non-collapsed, or blue tarp-covered based on the seven damage scales (D0-D6) used in the 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes by the Architectural Institute of Japan.
A collapsed building is defined as D5-D6 or major damage. Non-collapse is interpreted as D0-D1 or negligible damage. Intermediate damage, which was rarely considered in previous CNN models, is designated as D2-D3 or moderate damage.
The distribution of damage estimated by the convolutional neural network model for Mashiki town in the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake (L) and Nishinomiya City in the 1995 Kobe earthquake (R). Hiroshima University researchers created a post-disaster damage assessment CNN model that does not need pre-disaster images to make an evaluation. Credit: Hiroyuki Miura
Researchers trained their CNN model using post-disaster aerial images and building damage inventories by experts during the 1995 Kobe and 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes.
The researchers overcame the challenge of identifying buildings that suffered intermediate damage after confirming that blue tarp-covered structures in photos used to train the AI predominantly represented D2-D3 levels of devastation.
Since ground truth data from field investigations of structural engineers were used to teach the AI, the team believes its evaluations are more reliable than other CNN models that depended on visual interpretations of non-experts.
When they tested it on post-disaster aerial images of the September 2019 typhoon that hit Chiba, results showed that damage levels of approximately 94% of buildings were correctly classified.
Now, the researchers want their AI to outdo itself by making its damage assessment more powerful.
"We would like to develop a more robust damage identification method by learning more training data obtained from various disasters such as landslides, tsunami, and etcetera," Miura said.
"The final goal of this study is the implementation of the technique to the real disaster situation. If the technique is successfully implemented, it can immediately provide accurate damage maps not only damage distribution but also the number of damaged buildings to local governments and governmental agencies."
Amateur drone videos could aid in natural disaster damage assessment
More information: Hiroyuki Miura et al, Deep Learning-Based Identification of Collapsed, Non-Collapsed and Blue Tarp-Covered Buildings from Post-Disaster Aerial Images, Remote Sensing (2020). DOI: 10.3390/rs12121924
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Three Brothers: Memories of my family
Yan Lianke
‘Full of love, sorrow, and tenderness, Yan Lianke’s memoir offers a deeply heartfelt account of his family in the 1960s and 70s. Three Brothers is a must read for anyone who wants to understand post-Mao China and a new opportunity to experience more of what this extraordinary author conveys to us with his vivid and poetic style’ Xiaolu Guo
In this heartfelt, intimate memoir, Yan Lianke brings the reader into his childhood home in Song County in Henan Province, painting a vivid portrait of rural China in the 1960s and ’70s and chronicling the extraordinary lives of Yan Lianke’s father and uncles, as well as his own. Yan’s parents could only afford to use wheat flour on New Year and festival days, and as a child he dreams of fried scallion buns, and once steals from his father to buy a sesame seed cake. Yan yearns to leave the village, however he can. He resolves to become a writer himself after reading on the back of a novel that its author was given leave to remain in the city of Harbin after publishing her book. In the evenings, after finishing back-breaking shifts hauling stones at a cement factory, sometimes sixteen hours long, he sets to work writing. A career in the Army ultimately allows Yan to escape village life, but he is filled with regrets as he recalls these years of scarcity, turmoil, and poverty. A powerful portrait of the trials of daily life, as well as a philosophical meditation on grief, death, home, and fate, and gleaming throughout with Yan’s quick wit and gift for imagery, Three Brothers is a personal portrait of a politically devastating period, and a celebration of the power of the family to hold together even in the harshest circumstances.
This memoir is full of wisdom, humour, humility and love for the family to whom the author owes everything.
‘[A]n elegiac tribute to his father’s generation, who laboured for a lifetime to build traditional houses for their sons and provide dowries for their daughters . . . This is also Yan’s story, a story of opportunity seized, of physical escape and the discovery of a world beyond the village, but without escaping the emotional and spiritual attachments to rural life.’ Financial Times
‘Yan Lianke’s Three Brothers is a tender, frank and philosophical memoir of growing up in a rural family cursed by “constant poverty” but blessed with “boundless grace”… These are rich and intimate portraits, full of humour and pathos’ The Saturday Paper
‘A leading Chinese novelist, famous for sharp satire, tells the story of his family’s hardscrabble life with surprising tenderness. . . Most of this memoir is filled with stories of Yan’s father and uncles . . . Yan admires their selflessness, and their persistence in the bleakest of times, and renders their portraits in loving detail . . .[b]ut Yan also admits wanting to flee . . . It is this tension, together with Yan’s unadorned prose, that leavens a sentimental account of peasant life into something complicated and powerful.’ Booklist, starred review
‘A memoir steeped in metaphor and ultimately tremendously moving.’ Kirkus
‘Told episodically, Yan Lianke’sThree Brotherstells a moving story of family, loss, and self-discovery. This memoir spans several decades and offers a moving take on the generation of relatives that preceded its author—including their connections, their flaws, and their presence in his life. Lianke also explores his own path toward becoming a writer, which makes for some of this book’s most memorable moments.’ Words Without Borders
‘After decades of glimpsing autobiographical hints in his always intriguing, often surreal novels and short stories, Anglophone audiences get access to Yan Lianke’s real life. Haunted by the passing of the men in his father’s generation, Yan–one of China’s most awarded, lauded authors–transforms his anguished loss into Three Brothers: Memories of My Family. ’ Shelf Awareness
‘Three Brothersis a warm and engaging look at life in China before and after the Cultural Revolution. The contrast between city and country, the ways that people face death and the hardships of life are ideas readers across the world can understand. While the culture might be unfamiliar to some, the book’s universal themes make it well worth reading.’ Winnipeg Free Press
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Anti Standard #1-Introducing Lyncara Beshirs
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Welcome to the wonderful, whimsical world of Lyncara Beshirs, aka Virgie Whisler.
Despite my growing hatred for social media platforms, including, but not limited to, Instagram, I can thank the platform for housing Lyncara’s world, and also pointing me in its direction.
About 2 months ago, I asked to interview artists plain and simple, no requirements, no-nonsense. I am thrilled today to give you a glimpse of Lyncara and her work, as well as launch Anti-Standard, a place on Thrifts and Prints where all art is welcome and explored.
Q. Tell us a little bit about yourself, where’d you grew up, what’s your favorite food, and what song are you usually listening to?
A. I grew up in a small southern town in Oklahoma, close to the borderline of Texas and Oklahoma. Not much to do then in the 90’s around my town, so I usually was outside exploring nature and making houses out of junk I found by digging through dumpsters and molded food (mostly bread) to play house with. I was eccentric starting out, even then haha. I love all sorts of food. I’ve enjoyed learning to cook since my late 20’s and I love the hard yet skillful art of making bread, cooking meat, making pasta from scratch, etc.
Since I discovered music at a very young age, believe it or not, I loved composed music like classical or orchestra composed soundtracks for movies the most. I find music with lyrics to be distracting for me, and I can create imagery in my mind better, with just music alone, which I prefer it that way. I do occasionally listen to lyrical music too though, don’t get me wrong, it just feels magical to create something in my head with just rhythm alone.
Q. Your art is very unique, where do you draw most of your inspiration?
A. I started out experimenting with natural environments, like landscapes of nature and abandoned buildings when I was 19. Then gradually over the years, I became in love with thrift stores more so than I was in early high school. I think it was more of the fact I could escape my personal struggles in life and extreme boredom I had going on at that time, with weird nostalgic Kitsch, and the thrill of searching for the overlooked treasure, no one dared take home. I found I got settled in fast, with the unusual items I would find, take them home to collect, and started seeing this strange pattern of behavior within myself for the desperate need to use them in art. It felt like this surreal alienated sensation, of a calling from each item, to direct me to make this otherworldly creation; almost like this mystical or ghostly being from another realm, is telepathically directing me to create this message from another place, and watching it manifest in this realm. Even to this day, it’s an ongoing effect.
“It felt like this surreal alienated sensation, of a calling from each item, to direct me to make this otherworldly creation…”
Q. When photographing, do you use color intentionally, or does it just find its way into your work? What does color mean to you?
A. I’m extremely attracted to bright, bold colors, unconsciously. It just seems to flood my ideas more clearly and precisely, then there are some days a more muted color, has this elegance and richness to it, that just makes sense.
Q. What got you interested in photography and film? Have you tried out any other mediums of art?
A. I was first attracted to film because of my mother.
When I was growing up, I stayed in mansions in the countryside of town, while my mother cleaned these mod contemporary gothic architecture mansions. She was a maid for doctors with peculiar style. So to pass time for me while she worked, she would turn on VHS movies for me to watch, like Batman movies or just dark, and strangely bizarre movies. It felt natural to me—the colors, imagery, acting, sounds, composed soundtracks, the whole works. But I found mostly I loved the sounds, so I wanted to be a foley and soundscape artist.
But as I like to say, even if you can’t have that as a full-time profession, you can still carve a time and way to adopt it into your hobbies. I have a love for sounds—so I make soundscapes for my short films by being the Foley artist—I have a love for making faux diner food—so I’m learning to make that for my photo shoots. I love voice acting—so I’m learning to act emotionally and record my voice while I read my old story books for future audiobooks I want to make. It’s boundless what you can learn, as long as you’re ambitious.
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Q. What does the future look like for you as an artist?
A. The future is such a vast wormhole in unpredictable directions that I could take for the path of my life. I’m seeing this different direction in making my art as of late, like primitive skills—such as woodwork, culinary, and home remedies, especially during the 17th-19th century. The art in surviving was a horrific struggle for them during that time, yet was still so enriched in beauty and learning to tap into the powers of the human mind in surviving, that it’s such a fascinating thing for me to want to learn, the older I become.
Q. Tell us one fact about yourself you’d consider being the most fascinating, doesn’t have to be art related!
A. I love walking around old downtown historical buildings and pretending to roam the streets like a ghost, lost in an endless residual haunting; touching the bricks and glass while I smell restaurants cooking—which soars my senses and makes a powerful concoction of imagery in my head, of what history might have felt like in the past where I am walking around. Of course, I don’t act it out physically, just imagine it in my head while I walk around.
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Drive approximately 90 minutes east of Chicago, round the bend of Lake Michigan, and Southwestern Michigan offers vacationers an alternative world to the city. It is one where you’ll find quiet beach towns packed with antique stores, boutique art galleries and family-run restaurants; where the lights in the sky are created by nature not neon; and where the farms and orchards invite you to pick-your-own fruit from the bumper crops of peaches, plums, apples and blueberries. You'll find miles of sandy beaches along the shores of Lake Michigan, inviting you to lie back and relax in the summer. For more active pursuits, though, you can choose from about 250 inland lakes to play around on.
Once you’ve armed yourself with a mandatory fishing license, available from most sports outlets and bait shops, the rivers and lakes of southwestern Michigan are your oyster. Or rather your bass, brown trout, walleye and catfish, for that’s what you’ll find in fishing spots like the Berrien Springs Dam on the St. Joseph River. Charter boats, meanwhile, can take you on to Lake Michigan to haul chinook and coho.
With a choice of 9-, 18-, 27- and 36-hole public golf courses, southwestern Michigan is a golf lover’s haven. The tee-time fun ranges from the sloping greens of Hampshire Country Club’s gentle Hampshire Course, to a Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf Course at Harbor Shores (harborshoreslife.com) overlooking Lake Michigan. Boasting a full practice range, putting greens and golf lessons, you can practice your swing before hitting the course proper, which lovingly hugs the banks of the Paw Paw River and undulates through wetlands designed to challenge your handicap to the full.
Michigan is famous for its cranberry bogs and cherry trees, but add to this bounty about a dozen wineries and you’ll see why southwestern Michigan is a top wine-producing region. The vineyards stretch from the Harbor Country Lemon Creek Winery and Fruit Farm (lemoncreeekwinery.com) at Berrien Springs, where you can sample wines and pick fruit in season, to the oldest wineries in the state at Paw Paw. These include St. Julian’s Winery, where tours of the vineyards are available year round, and Warner Vineyards (warnerwines.com), known for its champagnes.
Whether you want to swim, fly a kite, or simply bury your feet in the sand, southwest Michigan’s beaches can provide. In addition to the beaches and dunes that line Lake Michigan, the region boasts about 250 inland lakes and a ribbon of rivers where you can try your hand at water tubing or kayaking. The Fernwood Botanical Garden (fernwoodbotanical.org) on the banks of the St. Joseph River is an ideal place for spotting aquatic wildlife, and has nature trails that wind through forests of oak and wetlands full of warbling frogs. Model railroads evoke the region’s heritage in the delightful Railway Garden. Muskegon, on Lake Michigan, is popular with families, both for the beaches within the 1,165-acre Muskegon State Park, and for the rides at the amusement and water park, Michigan’s Adventure (miadventure.com).
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Trump at rally vows to supporters no name change for 'Thanksgiving'
By Aris Folley - 11/26/19 11:00 PM EST
President Trump Donald TrumpCIA chief threatened to resign over push to install Trump loyalist as deputy: report Azar in departure letter says Capitol riot threatens to 'tarnish' administration's accomplishments Justice Dept. argues Trump should get immunity from rape accuser's lawsuit MORE claimed at his rally Tuesday night that some people want to rename Thanksgiving, telling supporters "we're not changing it."
"You know, some people want to change the name Thanksgiving," Trump told the crowd in Sunrise, Fla., without offering specifics. “They don’t want to use the term 'Thanksgiving.'”
“And that was true also with Christmas, but now everybody’s using Christmas again. Remember I said that?” he continued, echoing a common refrain from past rallies.
In the early months of his 2016 presidential campaign, Trump promised supporters to push back against the so-called war on Christmas and pledged to “say ‘merry Christmas’ again.”
“I’m a good Christian. If I become president, we’re going to be saying ‘merry Christmas’ at every store,” Trump said in 2015.
Since taking office, the president has continued to voice his support for the holiday, and he extended his remarks to the Thanksgiving holiday as well.
“Now we’re going to have do little work on Thanksgiving,” Trump said later in his remarks on Tuesday night. “People have different ideas why it shouldn’t be called Thanksgiving.”
“But everybody in this room, I know, loves the name Thanksgiving, and we’re not changing it,” he added.
Shortly after the rally on Tuesday evening, the hashtag #WhatLiberalsCallThanksgiving surged to the top of Twitter’s trending items, with critics using the remark to knock the president.
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Satan’s School for Girls (1973) – By Baron Craze
Satan’s School for Girls (1973) – By Baron Craze April 30, 2019 BaronCraze
Aaron SpellingChery LaddHorror ReviewOccult ThemesRoy ThinnesTelevision Horror
Once more it’s time to revisit the television horror, namely this campy production which first aired on September 19, 1973 from the skilled hands and mind of producer Aaron Spelling through the distribution of the American Broadcastings Company (ABC) from director David Lowell Rich, who earlier that same year did The Horror at 37,000 Feet another TV-movie. Now, it’s important to recall that this film was made during the 70s, and hence camp and sleaze went hand-in-hand, then layer on thick schema occultism and you get a slew of basic horror (alright less horror and more chilling) suggestive tales. Although, this one did have producers interested enough to remake it in 2000 once more for television with Shannen Doherty starring, and Spelling producing it too. Obviously not a classic, fairly sure most don’t even recall it, very tame for them, once again television censors on one hand and then advertisers to fill the slots on the other, but screenwriter Arthur A. Ross known for working on both Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) and the sequel The Creature Walks Among Us (1956), handled the task measuring out some entertainment.
The film starts with Martha (Terry Lumley), driving madly fleeing from something or someone, arriving to her sister’s Elizabeth Sayers (Pamela Franklin (Necromancy [1972])) home and suddenly commits an apparent suicide, the police consider the case closed. Elizabeth believes something not quite right a covertly enrolled at Martha’s school, The Fallbridge College For Girls, (a Salem Academy) so she can investigate. She arrives and meets head mistress (Jo Van Fleet) who runs the house where Martha lived, but at times appears in a weird trance, as if summoned by a higher power. Meanwhile, the staff and students all seem a tad off, such as Delacroix (Lloyd Bochner (Crowhaven Farm [1970]), who plays a professor obsessed with his mice and playing with instincts and mazes, while Clampett portrayed by Roy Thinnes (The Norliss Tapes [1973]) , has more powerful intentions on the female student body. Elizabeth works to discover the secrets of the academy, including searching the residence (dorm) in her nightgown and with a lamp in the middle of the night, locating a secret room and painting of her sister. Fret the satanic and occult shenanigans make their way into the film, among them learning most of the girls have no family, Debbie (Jamie Smith-Jackson (House of Evil [1974])) does a silly writhing collapse before succumbing to more sinister results. Needless to state there’s plenty of other worst things one could watch, but the film contains some atmospheric moments hidden in the forgotten unpolished dirty little gem.
Franklin’s portrayal comes across a tad too mature for the role, and perhaps even a bit prudish with her attempt to go undercover with her classmates. In addition, there’s a bit of Dark Shadows tie-ins for those fans, first Kate Jackson who plays the role of Roberta, starred as Daphne Harridge on the original series from 1970-1971; and Roy Thinnes appeared in the reboot version in 1991 as Roger Collins. Though some of the readers and viewers likely make the connection that Jackson and Chery Ladd both starred on Charlie’s Angels tv-series. Another aspect of the made for tv movie, it contains n blood and definitely no nudity, which again makes all more difficult, including the aspect of trying to generate suspense when there were required commercial breaks, thereby breaking any momentum, tight filming schedules and tighter budgets all of it a far greater challenge, than possibly realized.
While the movie contains no chilling moments, barely any thrills, a tinge of atmospheric elements, and yet is a fun time-waster, the predictable factors rank very high. Therefore one should take the time to view it, that depends, if you want Black Masses, and blood splattering the nope, skip this one immediately, and if using today’s measuring stick, this film isn’t horror rather in the genre of a mystery. It does have the nostalgia factor working for it, and those interest trivial connects work well together, even countless years later.
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A special shoutout to davidglennrecording.com for inspiring this video. This is going to be about expanders. Dave was doing a live chat, and the subject came up, and I thought that I would add my own two cents into the conversation.
So what is the purpose of an expander, say, as opposed to a gate?
Well, and expander is basically a gate, except for it’s a lighter version of a gate. So if there’s compressors, and then the extreme version of a compressor is a limiter, this is the other way around. You’ve got an expander, and the extreme version of an expander is a gate.
So what it’s going to do is make a quiet sound even quieter. Well, why would we want to do that?
Well, sometimes we’ve got excess quiet sounds in a signal that we don’t want to totally eliminate, but we just need to tame down. One common area where you might run into that is the shaping of drums. Sometimes you will have drums that don’t have the right sustain. Maybe the tail goes on a little bit too long, or maybe it doesn’t decay quite fast enough.
We can adjust that a little bit. So, I’m going to play this example. I’m going to play it with my expanders on, and then I’m going to show you just the settings and a quick little solo of what it’s really doing.
So here’s the before.
[mix, before expander]
[mix, after expander]
So I’m going to play it again, and I want you to listen with this in mind.
The sound is going to change in a way where you don’t hear a humongous change, but it suddenly sounds more organized and clean, and you can kind of pick everything out a little bit better.
So keep that in mind as you hear the before and after. Think cleanliness and organization.
[mix, before and after expander]
I haven’t changed any kind of EQ or anything like that. All I’m changing is the tail dynamics. The sustain and release of the drums.
So here’s what’s going on. I’ll pull up one example. Let’s take a listen to this deep snare here.
[snare]
You hear that this snare sample has a very long reverb tail. Now, I don’t want to totally kill that tail, because that’s going to give depth and character to this deep snare that I like.
But, it is a little bit long for the track, and it’s also going to create a clash between the drier snares that exist in a different space.
So what I’m going to do is pull up this C1 gate and put it into expander mode, and instead of going down to a negative infinity noise floor, I’m going to go down to a negative 17 decibel noise floor, which is significantly quieter, but isn’t going to totally eliminate the sound 100%.
So before, then after.
[snare, before and after expander]
Right? So we still feel that sort of fatness to the snare. We still have a good amount of decay and sustain in there, we just don’t have that forever trailing release that sounds washy and maybe doesn’t totally get along with the record.
Then we’ve got similar things going on with the hi-hat.
[hi-hat]
Right? It’s much tighter. Suddenly, we don’t have that reverb — excess reverb in the samples. So while these don’t make huge, profound changes, as we start adding this up, as we start doing this through the course of multiple snare layers, it actually does make a pretty sizable difference.
So one more time, before and after.
[mix, before and after expanders]
So that’s one example of where you might use an expander, and there’s certainly others, but this is just a common one that I run into that I want to show you guys. It’s really great for tightening things up, getting things to feel organized together in like, one solid thing, and also good for sort of unmasking other elements.
You know, when I do this the vocal becomes clearer, so I get a punchier, tighter snare sound, I get a clearer vocal, and I don’t have to do any EQ that’ll change the balance of things, because maybe I don’t want to change the EQ balance of things.
So alright guys, I hope that you learned something. Until next time.
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"/>Take your cue from mountaineering this winter and invest in a puffer jacket, an outerwear style that’s served its time in the military and was pioneered by Italian luxury brand Moncler.
How Moncler Made the Puffer Jacket Cool Again
Take your cue from mountaineering this winter and invest in a puffer jacket, an outerwear style that’s served its time in the military and was pioneered by Italian luxury brand Moncler.
by Josh Sims
Explorers in the 1970s wearing vibrant red Moncler puffer jackets.
Much of the male wardrobe takes its inspiration from more practical ends: horse-riding or aviating, sailing or fighting. But if you were really in the wilds, really in trouble and really wanted a piece of clothing that genuinely might be more than useful - it might really save your life - then take a cue from mountaineering, specifically the puffer jacket.
Yes, the onomatopoeic name may have a comedic strain to it, and lovers of a sharp silhouette might baulk and its perceived bulk, but this duvet with arms and pockets - which is effectively what it is, comprising a goose down-filled layer, evenly distributed using quilting - was created after a close call with death. Shopkeeper and keen outdoorsman Eddie Bauer was on a mid-winter fishing trip in Washington State when the weather took a nasty turn and, his heavy wool mackinaw frozen stiff with ice, he almost expired from hypothermia. Having survived, he knew what was needed next time...
His “blizzard-proof”, “wind tunnel-tested” Skyliner - the first puffer jacket, partly inspired by tales his uncle had told him of the experimental, feather-lined gear he’d worn during his time in the Russian Army - was produced in 1936 and patented four years later. Bauer would go on to develop the US Air Force’s first down-insulated flight jacket too, the B-9, and outfit the American ascent of Everest in 1963 with a jacket so warm - rated to -85 degrees F - that the team found it too warm to climb in.
Perhaps it was the garment’s no-holds-barred functionality that prevented the puffer jacket from finding a foothold in men’s fashion for 40 years, while womenswear periodically explored the form, from American couturier Charles James’ self-described “pneumatic jacket” of 1937, to Norma Kamali’s ‘sleeping bag’ coats during the 1970s, inspired by her own chilly camping trip. Certainly it was ironic that it would finally be adopted by men in Italy, not a country known for its extreme cold.
For this we can thank that youthful Milanese style tribe the paninari - so named for hanging out around the Al Pacino cafe. It was this group’s love of both heavily branded clothing and inherently practical clothing - all the better for scooting in - that helped brands the likes of Fiorucci and Armani, but also Timberland and Moncler, gain international recognition.
It was Moncler that made the puffer attractive to the paninari by designing the style in suitably arresting colours - this time to catch the attention of people in the know rather than people in search and rescue helicopters. Sixty-five years old this year - and created by three other outdoorsmen, a champion Alpine skier, ski pole manufacturer and sports equipment merchant - it was Moncler that outfitted serious expeditions but also later gave the kind of product more typically seen on the backs of Chris Bonington and Dave Hahn a certain cool, via collaborations with the likes of Junya Watanabe, Pharrell Williams and Thom Browne.
Come the 1990s and rappers’ love of the bulky silhouette saw Ice T rock the style and Notorious B.I.G. flowing praise for his “bubblegoose”. Rumours that Sean Combes took his ‘Puffy’ moniker from the jacket may not prove accurate.
Indeed, the puffer jacket is now more a heritage product – loved for its tradition and utility, even though outclassed by modern technical fabrics offering the same balance of warmth, waterproofing and weight but without, well, all the puffiness; what’s more, it’s getting increasingly hard to find the good feather down that so effectively, so naturally, keeps the wearer toasty.
Bernard Muller in the Himalayas wearing Moncler, 1981.
And that’s especially so if you insist – and you really should – on down that’s both been ethically sourced and is traceable as such (goose down sourced as a by-product of meat production; eider down collected by hand from nests after the duck has shed it). If you buy a cheap puffa jacket there may be a good, and indefensible reason, why it’s priced as such.
Certainly, part of the puffer jacket’s later evolution – a Moncler innovation – has been a matter of using smaller quantities of down than might have been found in earlier examples, as well as using mathematically precise amounts per square centimetre of garment, to give the same levels of warmth but with much less weight. Weight, in fact, is the constant battle of the modern puffer jacket manufacturer.
That’s all in keeping with the puffer jacket’s first principle of course: to be as functional, as performance-minded as possible. That was Bauer’s mantra too, when he started his hunting, fishing and sporting goods shop: if he didn’t trust the equipment, he didn’t stock it. And, if he couldn’t find what he wanted, he developed it himself. That’s including the shuttlecock still used in badminton. It wasn’t ever a life or death situation, of course, but he designed and patented that too.
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The Jewel in the Claw – Spring 2018
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Intrigue ⦿ Magic ⦿ Religion ⦿ Science
Four faces of a Elizabethan jewel that will become Britain… and one deadly enemy – hidden deep in the inner workings of an age.
1586, and our story begins… The reign of Elizabeth I, the ‘Virgin Queen’ of the house of Tudor.
A time when England stood virtually alone amongst its neighbours, surrounded by hostile political and religious forces set in motion by the reign of Elizabeth’s father Henry VIII. A plot has just been discovered to assassinate the now-established Queen of England and Ireland. The man who uncovered it is Francis Walsingham, her celebrated and loyal spymaster, who is intent on establishing a network of agents outside and inside England to protect her.
By the 1580s, this small island, with its ‘virgin’ Queen, had become a hotbed of intellectual and magical insight, with leading thinkers, such as the Queen’s astrologer, John Dee, driving forward the knowledge of the age under the banner of what we now call alchemy… and at the same time producing the world’s first standard work on international navigation – a true scientist, and a man hard to evaluate by today’s coldly judgmental standards… But, in our story, his devotion to Elizabeth is never in doubt.
None of this ‘magic’ is seen to be at odds with religion – it is seen as the science of the day. Dr John Dee’s most passionate work is developing a system whereby he may communicate with angels. The greater problem is that the religion of England – bequeathed by Henry – is Protestant; and most of England’s neighbours are strongly Catholic. Elizabeth has been excommunicated by the Pope, and it is open season on her life by any who wish to gain his favour…
The Jewel in the Claw, our story for the 2018 Spring Weekend, is told in five ritual dramas, from Friday night to Sunday morning, and weaves a fictional but historically-set tale of a conspiracy to destabilise the Queen’s power and re-align England, religiously and politically, with mainland Europe. At the heart of this dark strategy is the use of Dr John Dee as a pawn in a much larger battle of will, wits and magic.
Our ritual dramas will follow a trail of intrigue outwards from the tumultuous relationship between Elizabeth, her senior ministers and the helpless Dr John Dee, trapped in the flames of engineered disrepute.
The whole drama is told through the memories of the leading playwright of the age. England is portrayed as a microcosm of what is happening in the expanding world of the sixteenth century, where religion, science and politics vie for control of the future.
Only change is inevitable… and change has its own magic in the way it unfolds.
Through all of this, gentle John Dee is revealed as a most resourceful man of learning, reluctantly using his skills as strategist to supplement his alchemical knowledge of man’s relationship with the divine. Around them are such famous figures as Sir Francis Drake and Sir Walter Raleigh, real figures from history who masterminded the defence of the realm and the eventual expansion of empire. There are others, many others, such as Philip Sidney and Fulke Greville, some of them close to the Queen’s heart… but can she afford to be so open with those who may have darker motives? And then there is Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, favourite of the Queen and growing in power by the day…
Discerning the truth is becoming harder and harder… in a startling parallel with today.
In a little-known but key part of England’s history, the Queen reaches out to the Islamic world – for trade and alliances, seeking to build a political wall of power against the might of Catholic Spain. London hosts the first ever visit of an Islamic ambassador, Al-Anouri, and Shakespeare writes Othello, telling the tragic story of the Moor… But will any of this help the Virgin Queen to survive a hostile world? If anyone in history spent a life on the brink of extermination, it was Elizabeth I.
Can we put ourselves into the mind of that age?
There are always two threads to these workshops – one temporal, one spiritual. This time, the inner theme will be the spiritual and psychological exploration of what is means to be truly vulnerable, and the importance of that state to the evolving human soul. England emerged from the Tudor era to view it, in hindsight, as a Golden Age. But the stories of many of those closest to the Queen describe a struggle involving considerable personal sacrifice.
Although we will be using historically accurate settings, with their religious perspectives, our purpose is to show the inherent magic in mankind’s potential for self-transformation, regardless of nationality, race or religious beliefs.
The Jewel in the Claw is the Silent Eye’s spring workshop for 2018, weekend of April 20-22. We will be returning to the lovely Nightingale Centre, in the heart of the Derbyshire hills and dales, for our celebrated rites of Spring.
There is already considerable interest in the workshop so please book early to reserve your place. All you need to do is register your interest at this stage: send us an email to Rivingtide@gmail.com. Use the words ‘Jewel in the Claw’ in your subject header and we’ll get back to you with more information.
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Vodacom Stormers chase third successive away win
The Vodacom Stormers will face the sternest test to date on their 2008 Vodacom Super 14 tour when they meet the Blues at Eden Park in Auckland on Saturday (06h30 SA time).
After a disappointing start to the campaign, the Stormers have shown great improvement to win the opening two matches of their tour, against the Reds and the Chiefs, meaning they will be chasing a third straight win on the road when they face the Blues.
The Stormers and the Blues have been involved in some memorable clashes down the years with the New Zealanders having won six of the last 10 encounters between them since 1998. Significantly, the Stormers have won twice in five visits to Eden Park in the same period.
The most memorable away win was in 2004 when a big hit by flanker Hendrik Gerber on Blues flyhalf Carlos Spencer changed the entire flow of the game and saw the Stormers run in eight tries for a famous 51-23 victory.
Winger Tonderai Chavhanga, who will be in action on Saturday, and number eight Adri Badenhorst each got a brace of tries on the day. The 51 points and the 8 tries scored remain Stormers records in the competition.
The Stormers’ previous win in Auckland was in 2000 when they beat the hosts 39-18. The result was revenge for their 74-28 defeat in 1998 in which the Blues ran in 11 tries – the most ever conceded by the Stormers.
On their last visit to Eden Park in 2006, the Stormers were disappointing in losing 15-32 but they made amends in Cape Town last year with a 33-20 win against a Blues side that reached the semi-finals.
The Blues will go into Saturday’s encounter staring a third consecutive loss in the face. After a blistering start they have lost their last two against the Sharks and the Western Force and will be determined to rectify matters.
The Stormers should be prepared for a Blues backlash.
Last 10 meetings in Super Rugby: Blues vs Stormers
Blues have won: 6 Stormers have won: 4
2007 Blues 20 Stormers 33 in Cape Town
2006 Blues 32 Stormers 15 in Auckland
2003 Blues 36 Stormers 8 in Cape Town
2002 Blues 25 Stormers 6 in Auckland
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2015, Environment - 43 min 82 Comments
In the opening moments of Our Rising Oceans we learn that global catastrophe lies beneath the awe-inspiring pale blue skies and ghostly white icescapes of West Antarctica. The scientific data regarding the effects of climate change on the ongoing process of glacial melting is overwhelming. Yet according to the many subjects featured in the film, a staggering percentage of the public remains doubtful, and our politicians and other policy influencers remain hesitant to act due to ill-informed skepticism and corporate interests.
In response to those naysayers, VICE founder and host Shane Smith ventures to the epicenter of the crisis to discover firsthand the science by which these changes are being observed, and the dire consequences of inaction.
"Antarctica is starting to melt," warns expert glaciologist Dr. Eric Rignot. Over the past twenty years, Dr. Rignot has analyzed reams of carefully procured data, and his discoveries indicate a rapidly deteriorating environment which could forever alter the fate of mankind. Here, in the midst of the Antarctic plains, wind is circulating at an unprecedented rate and pushing warm waters underneath the massive sheets of ice. This dynamic effectively melts these sheets from the bottom up, and has a profoundly distressing impact on rising sea levels.
Over the course of the film, Dr. Rignot is joined by a host of additional scientists who dedicate their lives to bearing witness to these calamitous changes, and pursuing solutions against the opposition of politicized stagnation. But even in the absence of this opposition, the disastrous effects of climate change may be too far gone to rectify. Dr. Rignot contends that even the strictest emission regulations cannot reverse the tides of a redefining global landscape. Others testify that additional environmental protection policies may slow the process, but will by no means guarantee the sustainability of future generations.
But even the slivers of hope which do exist seem impossible to realize given the gridlock of governmental leadership within the United States, as its representatives remain sharply divided on the mere existence of climate change. "I think it's almost like denying gravity now," says Vice President Joe Biden in an interview which closes the film. Our Rising Oceans paints a powerful portrait of a planet on the brink of ruin, and the political dysfunction which continues to push it over the edge.
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W Hoami - 10/22/2019 at 20:09
Please watch NASA The "Mystery" of Antarctic cooling for more knowledge and scientific facts regarding climate warming.
Barry Bozeman - 08/10/2016 at 09:39
Knowing what we've known and know a pathetic futility looms lurching unstoppable toward rage and inevitable eventual revenge. Our earth and nature - mother nature of the natural world and human nature -collide with catastrophic consequence. Share holders, corporate captains, bankers with investors who purchase lawmakers blind to the destruction of short term gain. Wealthy mercenary assassins and world destroyers these lost souls forever damned. Deniers of science their ill-gotten gains piled high in vaults and empty mansions mute testimony to their poverty of spirit and Godless greed.
The indigenous peoples might have taught us how to live forever in harmony with creation but for the Christians of Dominion and their deregulated capitalist creed.
Once the last animal is slain and the last tree felled the fire that never dies will rage across the earth for centuries to come as a carbon filled sky surrounds the dead seas covering a ruined world we wrought and brought upon ourselves and our children. A Hell on Earth our legacy of ashes.
God - 02/22/2016 at 16:03
So i let you'all run loose on my favorite planet, and you've totally broken it !!! and for what? So a tiny number of you can own everything and everyone. You shame me.
And before you start shooting off your mouths about free will - no one made you have sex with neanderthals and sheep. Its your own fault so many of your are dumb.
The next flood will be your own doing. Oh the irony...
Pladi K - 03/25/2015 at 23:54
People dont even care about their own health never mind the earth. Food is LIFE and in US all people eat is GARBAGE. That in itself says alot about humans.. especially the ones blinded after industrial age, greed and power.
go2green - 03/24/2015 at 01:43
The film seemed to make sense to me. Actually I read and watch a lot of stuff on global warming. I always read the comments too and the disturbing thing is that I have seen the exact same word for word comments denying the data in several other places.
Tri Minh Huynh - 03/22/2015 at 00:59
I do not want to argue with your stated facts (probably from felon scientists?), just like to ask you the basic question: If what you said was true, what would the governments or people who were behind this "scare campaign", like myself - benefit from their actions? Very little if anything, except trying to make the Earth greener and a much better place to live. Only the greedy and powerful people who are against this "scare" would continue to benefit hugely from their hiding or twisting the truth of global warming. We have got to stop them, my friend, for the good or ourselves and our future generations.
Faded Joke - 05/20/2015 at 07:43
It's human vanity that allows us to take all the credit on climate change. That being said I will continue to drive everywhere, kinda have to, USA is a joke with Public Trans. But at the same time I don't use much electricity which is really the bulk of co2 comes from. All those factories pumping out carbon just so we all can be "patriotic consumers" are the culprits. Think about that with your next purchase ie... the newest must have gadget or piece of gear. Fortunately I am powered by nuclear so no co2 but, it comes at a cost as well. Pres. Carter banned spent fuel recycling so we have tons of radioactive waste sitting in overfilled cooling tanks. Gotta ship it overseas for recycling although we don't do that either. If we really hunkered down on a new manhatten project scale venture towards moving over to thorium based energy and finally started seeing all these great new battery discoveries over last 5yrs be pushed out on market, or wait till patents expires on 'em. Then we would be pretty golden, Although climate change would still naturally happen as our planet moves through the cosmos.
I do not want to argue with unproved or falsified facts, but just like to ask you the basic question: If what you say was true, what would governments or people who were behind this "scare campaign", like myself - benefit from their actions? Practically nothing, except trying to make the Earth greener and a much better place to live. Only people who are denying this "scare" would continue to benefit from hiding or twisting the truth. They will go on damaging our Earth environments, just to fatten their wallets. That is a sad reality of capitalist societies. We have got to stop them, my friend, for our future generations.
S de Vere - 03/21/2015 at 23:02
errrrr….this "science" has long ago been shown to be fabricated and false. The Antarctic ice has increased to record levels and there is no "ocean rise" measured anywhere. The Seychelles are still tourist traps as are the Islands of the South Pacific. Polar bears abound in the Arctic; fewer tornados/hurricanes in the USA and here in Australia the dams are full (we were told by our 'climate experts' that drought would be the norm and our dams would soon be dry. Well, the desalination plants built for billions have never been used and water still falls from the sky and the rivers continue to run).
Whilst governments continue to give "climate scientists" hundreds of millions of dollars to produce yet more discredited studies, the big scare will continue. Leftist politicians will push along the scare and the mainstream media will boost it further. Unfortunately, for the climate frauds, nature refuses to cooperate with the scare campaign. No matter how often the "science" has been proven to be fraudulent, exaggerated or just plain wrong, the expensive climate change farce will continue because of the politics now behind it and because of the hatred of the warmists for those who have so often and easily exposed them as charlatans and criminals.
Fabien L'Amour - 03/22/2015 at 00:53
That's nonsense, the NOAA has records for stations all over the shores of the planet and the vast majority show an increase in mean sea levels for the last century.
The 2011 report of the Pacific Climate Change Science Program published by the Australian Government concludes: "The sea-level rise near Tuvalu measured by satellite altimeters since 1993 is about 5 mm per year." That's a 11 cm (4.3") rise in 22 years.
The exodus from Tuvalu has already begun with 4000 Tuvaluans now living in New Zealand and plans for evacuation of the 10 000 remaining inhabitants are being made.
Word of caution to you : "If an argument depends on skipping certain observations or emphasizes uncertainty while ignoring an obvious trend, that's a clue you're being steered as opposed to informed. Don't be mislead by only a carefully-selected portion of the available evidence being disclosed."
Where exactly have the oceans risen, and by how much over what period ? The reality is this: oceans have always risen & fell due to natural causes over millennia, just as ice has increased, spread and decreased and retreated over millennia. Man cannot alter this or cause it . You'd have to be a government-funded 'Climate Scientist' to claim otherwise.
I didn't provide the cause, I contradicted your wrong affirmation which was the following : "there is no "ocean rise" measured anywhere".
I am not a government funded scientist and even if I was the data exists to prove your affirmation is wrong.
I can't post links here but you can google :
sea level trends NOAA
Of course if your point is that all scientists paid by governments are part of a global conspiracy, just let me know and I will not debate further as that is absolutely crazy. Some of these records go back 100 years so these measures weren't made to support a "climate conspiracy".
For example, here is the info for Halifax, Canada.
The mean sea level trend is 3.12 mm/year with a 95% confidence interval of +/- 0.13 mm/year based on monthly mean sea level data from 1895 to 2011 which is equivalent to a change of 1.02 feet in 100 years.
So, with all this irrefutable 'scientific' evidence, the Climate Change brigade cannot account for 20 years of non-warming, and the confounding of their wrong "scientific" predictions. These same scientists were predicting Global Cooling back in the 1970s & 1980s. Seems that they were either just making it all up, rather than using scientific methods, or their science was full of holes….and still is.
Science will always have holes. The day it won't it will mean there are no more scientific experiments and observations to be done as everything is 100% understood.
Would you please provide the names of the scientists that predicted global cooling back in the 70s and 80s? I'd like to check their peer reviewed scientific papers.
i love all these frilly people and their records. NOAA has been keeping records for 100 years. it was created in the 70's. Officially recorded temps are about 100 years now, but why discredit ice core samples so frivolously? Temps have been rising for decades, yet from the end of WWII till the late 70's "climatologists" where scaring people with global cooling from temp drops year after year at a time where you couldn't see further than a few city blocks in heavy industry areas. Now its the in thing to speak about rising temps although few mention about when the Vikings could grow there own crops in Iceland during the medieval warm period. What about the little-iceage what happened there? Was there a lack of CO2 during the industrialization of Europe for 150-250 yrs? Or how about the glaciation period that occurred for over 1 million yrs during the late ordovician when CO2 was 4000ppm, 10x what we have now and great portions of the Earth froze. Don't get me wrong data points are great, just don't get carried away with the ones that only support your point of view.
I wrote "NOAA has records for stations all over the shores of the planet", not that NOAA has been recording them. If you are going to quote me at least use the text I typed. Also, I never mentioned temperatures but ocean levels.
Lucifer Christ - 04/25/2015 at 13:06
Scientists were never calling for Global Cooling. That was a college paper written in the 70s that you Neocons refer to as if it were gospel. Funny that you believe a book written thousands of years ago about a Magical Daddy Figure that lives in the sky, but thousands of scientists with mountains of evidence just isnt enough proof for you.
No one is going to believe you when you say "natural causes" what does that even mean ? Speak fact and have an open mind because science is all about having an open mind if you REALLY want to find out the truth.
Greg Cox - 03/27/2015 at 07:16
You are misinformed. The Antarctic OCEAN ice is at a record level but the western fresh water glaciers are receding at an unprecedented rate. This is the spin that special interests use to dupe people lacking scientific aptitude into believing their bull****.
The amount of ocean ice has absolutely no bearing on sea levels, just as ice cubes melting in your drink to do not cause the liquid to overflow. The western glaciers will continue to melt, dumping massive amounts of NEW water into the ocean and it will result in the largest instance of sea level rise since the Laurentide outburst 8,000 years ago.
While I agree that governments can not be trusted for the most part, you have chosen to side with the most corrupted faction of it. In time this trail of comments you leave on the Internet will become the evidence of your utter ignorance on the subject.
I think just by looking at the facts, without any bias or prejudice, anyone with a fair mind would agree that global warming is a harsh reality caused by human greed (industries, cars, extensive animal farming, tropical forests destruction, etc.). The future of our Earth looks very bleak if governments fail in time to initiate and sustain drastic changes in our detrimental ways of life. Of course the greedy big heads (industrialists, corrupt governmental agencies, felon scientists, etc.) will try by any means to deny global warming for their own benefits. For those greedy people who are blindfolding themselves, it is no use to keep arguing with them. We need ourselves to contribute something meaningful and useful, even small, to help fix this huge problem - before it is too late for all of us. For example, walking or using our bicycle more often, instead of our car.
HugoPorta - 03/22/2015 at 06:17
We got rid of our motor vehicle and use public transport. I wonder how many folks out there that love our earth are willing to be less independent from private transport! It's a hell of a challenge, believe me, but we have to start somewhere and it's not governments that will make a difference, but the masses!
I totally agree with and appreciate very much your constructive view and real action toward fixing our global warming problem. If many people can think and act positively like yourself, the Earth would surely be a much better place to live in. Sadly we are still living in the dense fog of misinformation caused by those felon scientists and corrupt government agencies - so quite a few people cannot fully realize the extent and the urgency of this potential global disaster.
FERENC CSICSERI - 03/18/2015 at 17:57
the beauty of the Human ignorance,human beings are the only species who destroying every other species on this earth.also destroying nature as well why would they care about sea level rising? their nature is alter everything and change everything to their needs all these issues we hear about Mother nature telling us something is wrong but we are like kids don't listen to our mother
Steeve Girard - 03/17/2015 at 02:10
I am going to be nasty! Be warned!
First of all... you bunch of prophet weiner's worshippers.... You are all wrong and right at the same time! You cannot predict the future properly and precisely, because of the chaotic nature of reality. The factors that are in the equations that determines the reality of Global Warming are squandered by the special interests of wealthy, influent, powerful individuals and groups in both camps. Which I am glad to not be totally part of, but not estranged to. I say this, because we are ants. We are part of the dynamic of this world, we do not dictate it, and will never be able to. The skeptics are right to say that some scientists will lie to keep their grants comming in. And the scientists are right to say that the skeptics are either incompetent and/or too worried about their own well being to have a clear sense of what is happening. So the choice we are faced is do something on a guess and kick the can further along the road, or do nothing and adapt or die... but both of these approaches are economically and sociologically insane, because of the sheer scale of the problems. So what we need is some judge who will either flip the coin, or have the sufficient clarity to tell what is truely happening. But that would have to be either divine in Nature, or a civilization that had previous experience with this. Both of which are not present on Earth. My hint is Nature will solve the problems itself, and if we are the problem, it will find a way to diminish our influence, or it will find a way to erase us. We are utterly powerless to address the issue. That is my conclusion.
arcot - 03/18/2015 at 14:51
spot on,
Love it. I believe humans in nature were nomads in sync with nature but from the moment we settled in one place we started to change our environment in accordance to our needs, way out of sync with nature. Thats where hoarding and materialism started to come in a major way I think. Just a thought in a nutshell, so dont clobber me! :) Your reasoning is good Steeve, well thought out.
"You cannot predict the future properly and precisely, because of the chaotic nature of reality."
Global warming due to co2 WAS predicted over 150 years ago. Just a coincidence?
Sorry man that reasoning of yours is incomplete, CO2 is only a proven heat retainer, it is only a term in the equation... How about methane? Sun heat? Earth axis? Earth orbit around the Sun? precession? aerosols? nitroxides? water vapor? and more? they are all part of the equation... so many that we cannot make a complete reasoning. It's in the hands of Natural chaos in the first place. Each time we think we got it... we learn that we are wrong.
Attilashrugs - 03/16/2015 at 21:18
It isn't warming. Manbearpig is not wearing any clothes. Who are you going to believe, those who have been trying to destroy Liberty, Capitalism and the Middle Class since its inception, or your lyin' eyes? Suckah!
I'll believe recorded temperatures across the globe.
Who needs an opinion when hard facts are available?
The green house theory says the heat trapping gases will cause the atmosphere to gain temperature nearer to the edge of space, without end and without respite. Yet I wonder why it has been shown that the surface of our planet is far warmer than the outer reaches of the atmosphere. Also another recent study has shown that the geo engineering efforts being employed through chemtrails are actually trapping in the heat and moisture which would other wise be released back into space overnight.
Geo engineering with chemtrails, that joke of a conspiracy will never fade it seems.
FadedJoke - 03/16/2015 at 23:11
Yes a conspiracy much like project northwoods, electrogravitics on the b-2, gulf of Tonkin incident, and the Tuskegee expirements. All of these and more are conspiracies until brought to the light of day (which since have become known) usually at great cost to the whistleblowers who should be protected under federal laws.
Listing other conspiracies doesn't make your Chemtrails conspiracy true.
look at the time stamp it was held up. don't jump to conclusions so quick as I said I am done.
rngfarrell - 03/18/2015 at 15:35
No it doesn't, but it does mean that you should keep an open mind as mainstream knowledge has been proven wrong in the past. I have no horse in this particular race but it does bother me when an otherwise intelligent person can act in such an ignorant way. Guaranteed that if this particular 'conspiracy' is confirmed, you would be one of the first on the bandwagon.
It's not a small conspiracy, we are talking adding chemicals in all the jet fuel used on the planet. These chemicals need to come from somewhere and get delivered to the jet fuel refineries or airports.
Jets have been used for decades. At this point, someone would have at least some proof these chemicals are added to jet fuel at some point.
The previous real conspiracies were exposed much faster than that one and that one is much easier to prove.
Unless, you believe only some planes have chemicals added to their fuel, but then how do you explain that those that don't, exhibit the same contrails?
In any case, all you need to do is sample the trails and you have your proof. It wouldn't be very expensive to fly a plane in trails and sample them to prove the conspiracy. Alex Jones could easily finance several flights with all the money he makes.
Actually all those "conspiracies" took decades to come out as fact. That's why I chose them. Nice try though. The biggest ones even after they are founded as accurate are still actively suppressed. Not that it really matters when more people are apt to believe what is said by the PTB over and over again. Its simple psychology. The more you hear the same lie the more likely you are to believe it.
"The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history."
A lot of words that don't help a bit prove the conspiracy.
Sheeple make me Laugh... loud. Don't Ask questions about why, just follow the shepherd. His crook will keep you in tow. I for one don't watch television. so I am not encumbered by popular opinion, or the feeling of having to be inline with the social norm. I would rather be an outcast than to follow the plan of people who only care to justify themselves by any means. Rather I am free to view all angles of a given situation and decide for myself. Although I am sure all the sheep feel safe and protected from the misdeeds of the shepherd.
More words that prove nothing.
No, just proving a point. Those who need to have the last word on everything do it from a stance of weakness. All it takes is a look at this thread. Who has the last word when your involved? no one but you. Grow up young man, there a big world out there.
You proved no point, you only went on a rant about people not believing your nonsensical conspiracy as being sheep controlled by a PTB that doesn't exist.
point proven
Need I compile a vast list of conspiracies which since have come to light as fact. Most at great cost,whom should obviously be protected under federal whistleblower laws rather than persecuted under the espionage act.
There is a conspiracy section on TDF, I am pretty sure they are all listed there. If you want to do something, explain how adding chemicals in the atmosphere to ruin the climate is advantageous to the conspirators. (excluding being an illuminati Lizard man)
Rather than continuing in endless banter with a person who feels the need to first try to discredit another through personal opinion rather than fact I chose to let this thread be as it was intended a discussion to better aid in ones personal understanding of the matters at hand. I am done. Good day sir
Sorry, I can't come up with facts proving Chemtrails are anything else than water vapor.
Kahn - 03/17/2015 at 00:41
When previously good farming land has now turned into unsuitable land for more sensitive vegetation even in backyard gardens it only leads to ask why. and when that land is contaminated with aluminum and barium where it was never before it may lead some to question why. just saying. Why would monsanto want to patent aluminum resistant plant seeds at the same time donating to the geo engineering think tanks. Just becuase Fabien may think the facts are evident you must as a wise person not only except the status quo but to ask why something is rather than take the word of the PTB that the sky is falling. After all questioning the ones who rule is probably why slavery around the globe isn't as wide spread as it once was.
Aluminium has always been in the soil. Clay minerals are hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates. Aluminum (Al) is the most abundant metal in the earths crust, comprising about 7% of its mass.
When soils are too acidic, aluminum that is locked up in clay minerals dissolves into the soil as toxic, electrically charged particles called ions, making it hard for most plants to grow.
In fact, aluminum toxicity in acidic soils limits crop production in as much as half the world's arable land.
So a Monsanto patent would be to make crops available for growing in arable soils where they wouldn't naturally grow because of the pH, not part of some conspiracy.
I might not be wise but I studied soil chemistry and my job is growing plants.
According to the EPA, the normal levels of Barium in soils are 100 to 3000 ppm. It's a regular component of any soil and occurs naturally in 99.4% of surface waters examined.
This is another post that shows up in many other places. What's up with that? Beginning to look like a pay for posting hot spot here.
Judging that I can just look up on any day and see dozens of Chemtrails is proof enough for me. The sky looked nothing like this when I was a kid. I still remember the first Chemtrail I ever observed, it was 1991 and we all though the jet was on fire because we'd never seen a lasting trail that stretched across the entire horizon. Now, that trail is the norm.
So seeing a trail in the sky is sufficient for you to know what is in it? I dearly hope you don't go by the same standard for potable water analysis.
This exact same post can be found in several other places.
I've seen this exact same post in a couple of other places.
Msdcs - 03/16/2015 at 14:07
To think it is man made is to give man far more power than they can really have, bit like saying an ant can pick up a battleship, but mans vanity knows no bounds, the climate is changing but for other reasons, the whole solar system is in a 25000 year orbit of a red star 4 light years away, do the maths, 600,000 speed at a radius of 4 light years = 25000 years, we can measure the speed(we have its 600,000) and the shift of the stars(we have which is 1 degree every 72 years), so that makes the thing we orbit 4 light years away, and wow guess what, at that exact point is a red star called proxima centauri our closest star. so clear to anyone with a basic understand of things going round each other, clearly NASA don't understand these things, so this means we pass through the galactic plane every 12,500 years, (you can see the plane as that dark line in the stars and we have just entered it), last time we entered it the ice age ended, in fact go back at 12500, 25000 year intervals to can see the whole planets climate changed every time and man didn't have cars.
But the worst events were 25000 years ago and 75000 years ago, so suggest there is a 50000 cycle, well that could be accounted for if this red star had another sun in its orbit, and wow guess what, there are 2 other yellow stars near the red star as well, alpha and beta, so these to must be in orbit of this red star to and suggest that when 3 line up that there is a bigger change, so from that we should be able to work out their orbits, I have, alpha centauri has an orbit of 3600 years and beta 9000 years and that suggest a 4th with an orbit of 50000 years (the culprit), this cant be seen so must be a brown dwarf and as we are at least 25000 years away from its affects suggest it is between 10 and 16 light years away and wont be our side and near us for another 25000 years.
Now I am just an electrician with a 5 inch telescope and cant see these stars as they are over the south pole, so the best place to see these is over the south pole, so a telescope is needed there, there is one there but the USA have made it super secret and no one is allowed to look at the pictures, shoemaker did use his telescope in NZ to look and got very excited but he died( a truck ran him over) as he bought photos to show and they are lost and at the same time his telescope caught fire so every thing was lost.
But that is not the most worrying thing, I have been looking at the affects on our solar system of us passing through the galactic plane as all these bad things seem to only happen then and why there are these 12500, 25000 and 50000 year cycles, it would appear that the atmosphere is compressed as we enter and decompressed as we leave, bit like sitting on a spinning office chair, put your legs out and you slow, pull them in and you speed up, and that is what is happening to the weather, so clearly the atmosphere is being compressed, this will heat it and speed up the winds including making the jet streams speed up and tilt, hence the polar vortex.
But that is not the worst, I have been looking at the orbit of the moon and that may while we pass through the plane move off centre, so making it come close at one point and further away at the opposite point, this will create higher tides and floods and if it gets to close could cause tides of over 100 feet and wipe out all coastal cities, but mans vanity is such that he would prefer to believe it is the power of man causing it and not the power of nature so will ignore all of the above. cant tax nature but can tax man.
Thinker - 03/16/2015 at 19:40
"last time we entered it the ice age ended, in fact go
back at 12500, 25000 year intervals to can see the whole planets climate
changed every time and man didn't have cars.But the worst events were 25000 years ago and 75000 years ago, so suggest there is a 50000 cycle"
Did you know about the comet impact 12,500-12,900 years ago?
It's generally accepted now that it was a comet impact that was responsible for bringing about the sudden end to the ice age, by crashing into - and breaking up - the north Atlantic ice sheet, causing the Younger Dryas deep freeze period, sea level rises, and the mass extinction event that killed off the mega fauna.
WTC7 - 03/21/2015 at 18:16
It is my understanding that the comet impact theory, which at one point may have been the favorite among quite a few others indeed, is being seriously challenged in the last few years. Recent researches indicate, among other discrepancies in this theory, that the extinction of the megafauna did not take place simultaneously on different continents but with sometimes even thousands of years difference. For example, the extinction of megafauna in Australia is estimated to have taken place some 30000 years before the Younger Dryas period. Also, the extinction of the wooly mammoth in Siberia happened later than in North America.
That aside, the comet, even if it did hit the Earth some 12800 years ago, certainly did not bring the "sudden end to the ice age". According to the comet impact theory, the comet had quite the opposite effect - it caused a sudden cooling that lasted for over 1000 years (the Younger Dryas) before the climate warmed up again.
The impact hypothesis may not be as "generally accepted" as I described it, it may be more controversial/up for debate than that. But I believe the case for it is still pretty strong and I that it has the majority of the scientific community leaning towards it.
The mega fauna may not have all been wiped out at the same time around the world, but there was a mass extinction event around that time period that had a huge effect on a lot of them.
It is thought that the impact would have helped to end the glacial period that was the last ice age, because it would have hit the northern ice sheet in N.America, causing it to break up.
Following the impact theory, the younger dryas extreme cold/dry period (which occured between 12,800 and 11,500 years ago) is thought to have been created by the massive amounts of dust that would have been ejected into the atmosphere, blocking out the sun for a period of time.
It is a pretty well supported theory as far as I know, but you're right in that it may not be as "accepted" as I originally portrayed it.
It's very interesting stuff to me, I enjoy researching it. =)
And I sincerely wish you to fully enjoy your continued research! Cheers!
forbes mag - 07/02/2015 at 16:21
Where do you get your "facts"? It is NOT "generally accepted" that there was a comet impact 12,500 years ago. It's merely a "sexy" idea floated with no real evidence to support it. Your thinking about science is as fuzzy as your thinking on race. Obviously you should be smoking less of that marijuana you tout so much since it's made you st***d.
I've already addressed this if you took the time to read the comments bellow:
"The impact hypothesis may not be as "generally accepted" as I described
it, it may be more controversial/up for debate than that. But I believe
the case for it is still pretty strong and I that it has the majority of
the scientific community leaning towards it."
So screw NASA and all the astrophysicists around the globe because that electrician with a 4" Newtonian? Please provide some links to support this premise that contradicts hundreds of years of scientific observation.
RedMagnolia - 03/16/2015 at 07:40
To the climate change deniers, so you say you have proof that human greed hasn't caused the problems facing us.
Can you know explain to me how we are not running out of clean drinking water around the world and why it is OK to pump clean ground water into wells for fracking?
We might figure out how to live with climate change but we aren't going to be able to figure out how to supply the world with clean drinking water. Of course to Guest below I guess we can just let all those Bangladeshis (not Indian or is it that all brown skin people look alike to you?) people that don't survive rising sea levels can just drop dead for lack of clean water.
I gave up on this documentary when they had the Indians running off at the mouth.
Polar Jo - 03/16/2015 at 05:13
To deniers I can only ask that they look more closely at 'who' they are following. What is the history of these people? Do they have special interests beyond human good? Have they (and they have) been paid in the past to LIE to the public and create doubt? For the rest of us, I know I need to demand more of myself, and of the so called leaders I help to elect or approve to local and regional office. I think it's true that if we have a care for who we elect locally, and do something about sustainability and divestment in our own communities, it will get easier to impact larger governments and industries.
Polar Jo, beware wolves in sheep's clothes! Altruists are extremely dangerous. Their willingness to sacrifice much (of other people's wealth, health and happiness) is never questioned because they are focused on a more "lofty" plane.
The Americans (and English) unlike Europeans have never been creatures of ideology. We are practical, pragmatic and solve our problems ad hoc without recourse to grand theories.
We once had a healthy skepticism to the Ism's. Time we got back to being sharp-dealing Yankees.
British, not English.
Kansas Devil - 03/15/2015 at 21:28
We are past the point of reversal, so now it's time to figure out how to invest in the inevitable effects of climate change.
If you can't beat climate, join it.
I suspect that investing in beach front real estate would be the first to be sold off or heavily insured to take the money and run when the loss arrives.
It would probably be a better idea to invest in safe real estate where people would move after. I am sure the value of seaside land after Katrina plummeted and demand was at an all time low. The population of New Orleans in 2012 was 76% of what it was in 2000.
Katerina was a weakening Cat-4 when it reached NO. It was not some massive storm on a biblical scale! Corruption was and remains a major feature of New Orleans municipal, parish and state governments. It was the failure of the LEVEES that caused the disaster.
Hurricanes have long ravaged the gulf coast and the southeastern Atlantic coast. It is significant that unlike the rest of North America, Native American communities were sparsely settled, there were no complex social structures like the Mississippian, the Iroquois, the Puebelos..... It is my theory that hurricanes were once more frequent and more severe.
It is also notable that the Mississippian mound-builders may well have been adapted to life upon a great floodplain with Nile-like annual floods. Thus the floods along the river of late, might be merely regression towards the mean.
If the level of the oceans rises, most of the damage will come during storms. I was not justifying global warming with Katerina.
I only used it to illustrate that buying seaside properties to try to make a quick financial gain is probably a bad idea in a rising oceans scenario.
I would like to know what is not talked about in this debate. Why are the bodies in our solar system also heating up.
Joe Laherty - 03/15/2015 at 22:35
THE SUN is causing this through very tiny heat changes, just fractions of a percent. It is not much, as a 1% difference either hotter or cooler, would wipe out life on Earth.
The Earth rotates around the Sun, the Solar System rotates around the Galaxy, and the Galaxy rotates around the Universe. The cosmic dust encountered in this movement affects the Sun's output.
Megatons of dust periodically intersects our Sun's path. The Sun cools initially due to mass ingestion, and then burns a little hotter due to the added fuel. This is on a long time-scale, and is a known astronomical fact, and I believe THE major cause of climate change.
If we study geologic history we see times of drought, and times of Ice ages. We need to look at these changes over the long term and realize that this happened before man was even here.
** Another thing, get a glass and put ice in it. Fill it so the water comes right to the rim. Now just leave the glass at room temp until all the ice is melted. SEE FOR YOURSELF if the water spills over. I think you will be surprised at the result!!
a_no_n - 03/16/2015 at 00:16
because a glass of water is comparable to all the worlds oceans *rolls eyes*
Now add big rocks in the middle of a pool, fill it with liquid water and put a 1 meter high ice block on top of those rocks above the surface. Let the ice melt and see if the water spills over. Yours was the most ridiculous example to deny possibility of the raise of the level of the oceans I ever read. The Antarctic ice sheet is not in the water, it's above it on land and will definitely raise the level of the oceans if it melts.
you right everybody thinks the ice isn't melting because they see new ice every year but we not talking about the ice what covers the ocean we have to worry about the ice what covers Antarctica itself.the wind system pushing warmer ocean water under the Glaciers inland so in time those ice melt into the sea and it is freshwater and it diluting the sea,so Country like Sri-Lanka will be in trouble.what I' don't understand they know that is a problem but somehow the International Conferences still debating if this is real or not.
Your analogy is bunk. An accurate one would be to fill a barrel with water and place a block of ice on a sloped surface leading to the barrel... and then grab a mop.
Claude Jones - 03/21/2015 at 20:41
No one who stayed awake in grade school science class would fail to understand this.
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Posted on January 7, 2013 by TV Gal
By Amy Amatangelo, TV Gal ®
Hello and Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a great holiday season. I’m pretty sure I spent 50% of my time between Christmas and New Year’s doing dishes. How about you?
After taking a long winter’s nap, TV is back in the full swing of things this week so let’s get to it.
Bunheads returns tonight at 9 p.m. on ABC Family. As you know, I can’t decide if I love or hate the fact that the series is basically Gilmore Girls Redux. When The Newsroom premiered, someone clever put together a video clip of how Aaron Sorkin often uses the same dialogue. I’m fairly confident someone could do the exact same thing with Amy Sherman–Palladino. Whole scenes from Bunheads seem directly lifted from Gilmore Girls. The series gives me a sense of déjà vu every time I watch it.
On Bunheads, Michelle is Lorelai. Fanny is Emily Gilmore (she’s even played by the same actress). Paradise is Stars Hollow. Sasha, Boo, Ginny and Melanie are Rory and her friends. (With Boo being my favorite. I love her.) I understand Sherman-Palladino’s desire to recreate the magic of Gilmore Girls and not veer too far outside her comfort zone. (Anyone remember The Return of Jezebel James?) The acting on the show is terrific. I like that, like Gilmore Girls, it’s a show that can play to multiple generations. We really don’t have enough of that on TV. (ABC Family really excels in this area. Switched at Birth, which also returns at 8 p.m. tonight, is another show multiple generations can watch together).
I also like that the show has teenage characters who aren’t vampires and aren’t behaving older than they should be for their age. And like Gilmore Girls, Bunheads does a great job of making even the show’s secondary and tertiary characters fantastic. I’m particularly fond of Truly (Stacey Oristano, who played Mindy Riggins on Friday Night Lights) and Boo’s mother Nanette (Jennifer Hasty).
However, Bunheads is missing any real conflict. The entire premiere is spent with Michelle back in Vegas living with her friend and performing with a cheesy magician in Henderson. But here’s the thing: We all know there’s no way Michelle is staying in Vegas. We all know she’s going to return to Paradise. There wouldn’t be a show if she didn’t. So despite the enjoyable performance and fun banter (seriously I would watch the fabulous Kelly Bishop have a tete-a-tete with anyone), the whole hour feels like we’re just biding our time until Michelle makes her inevitable return. The trick on a TV show is to make something the audience knows is going to happen interesting (see what How I Met Your Mother did with Barney’s proposal to Robin) and the Bunheads premiere doesn’t pull that off.
Bunheads is also missing its Luke. I enjoy still getting to see Alan Ruck in flashbacks but with Hubbell dead, Michelle needs a romantic interest, one that the audience can root for. What do you think about Bunheads? Are you going to watch tonight’s premiere? Talk about it below.
NBC premieres Deception tonight at 10 p.m. The hour long drama plays out like someone said “Hey, you know how ABC has a hit on its hands with Revenge? We should totally do that.” The series is a blatant, but not at all clever, attempt to capitalize on Revenge’s popularity last season. Detective Joanna Locasto (Meagan Good) returns to place she grew up to investigate the death of her former best friend Vivian Bowers. The FBI has been investigating the Bowers family and is convinced that Vivian’s death wasn’t an accidental overdose.
There are plenty of bad shows on TV but I always get particularly upset when I don’t like a show that features so many actors I do like. Deception stars Victor Garber (Alias), Tate Donovan (Damages) and Marin Hinkle (Once & Again). That’s a lot of great talent to waste on such a boring show. And the kicker is that the series gets even more dull in next week’s episode. My official review is: BOOOOOO!
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5 thoughts on “On ‘Bunheads,’ Boo and Booooooo”
Jen on January 7, 2013 at 6:18 pm said:
I will be watching — but not until later On Demand. I hear there’s some big college football game on tonight. 🙂 I don’t care if Bunheads is a poor man’s Gilmore Girls. I’ll take it over no Gilmore Girls at all.
Erynn on January 7, 2013 at 8:38 pm said:
“Bunheads” is just ok. It’s on my Series Manager, but if I don’t watch it right away, I’m not upset. “Pretty Little Liars,” “The Lying Game,” and “Switched at Birth” are much more entertaining shows. I think you’re right, Amy, Michelle definitely needs a love interest. Something to spice up the show just a little bit. Oh, and it doesn’t help that half the cast was on GG. It totally makes me long for Rory (and Logan!) and Loralei.
Angella on January 7, 2013 at 10:42 pm said:
I enjoy Bunheads and agree that a love interest is needed. The show is a little charming thing I can enjoy I don’t feel I need to watch it right away. Great for Saturday afternoons when there is nothing else on. I was going to check out Deception but based on your review have removed the recording set up from my DVR. If you don’t like it chances are I won’t and I can’t take disapointment so close after the holidays.
Mike Jasenak on January 8, 2013 at 8:05 am said:
I, too, removed Deception com my DVR. Based on the tease for the show, I thought it looked intriguing. But, the two TV critics I follow, you and Rob Owen of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, both gave it a big Thumbs Down. So, off it went from my DVR.
vivian on January 23, 2013 at 4:47 pm said:
Bunheads really grow on me, the first half of the season was off and seem like most of the “SH” gang appearance was force, they had nothing to do with the plot line. In the last three episodes, I notice a change in tone and the kids seem less annoying.
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Posted on November 10, 2017 by Michael Napier
It may be just the first game, but the Chargers took a step toward establishing their presence they have missed at Von Braun Center.
UAH opened its home season with dazzling plays and timely goals, entertaining a homecoming and Military Appreciation Weekend crowd of 3,128, in a 5-1 victory over Alaska Anchorage on Friday night.
UAH (3-6-0 overall, 2-1-0 WCHA), which had won only two games at home last season, got two goals from Brennan Saulnier as the Chargers had 40 shots on goal against the Seawolves (1-7-1, 1-2-0).
“That’s as complete a game that we’ve played since I’ve been here,” said UAH head coach Mike Corbett, now in his fifth season. “It was nice to see. Power play, penalty kill, 5-on-5 … we dominated the first half of the game. We were able to get our shot totals and put some by their goalie.”
The first period was all Chargers, who dominated puck possession and were making plays that got the crowd into it. UAH had 24 shot attempts, and 19 were on net. UAA only had 10 attempts with four on goal.
Saulnier was seemingly everywhere, and he got UAH on the board early at 2:18 on the power play. He found a spot from the slot to beat UAA goaltener Olivier Mantha for his fifth goal of the season. He was assisted by Austin Beaulieu and Kurt Gosselin.
Mantha, a senior who known for his ability to keep the Seawolves in any game, was a big reason the Chargers’ lead wasn’t larger.
Saulnier struck again in the second, with a wrister from the left circle for a 2-0 UAH lead with 15:08 left. At six goals, Saulnier matches his season high in just nine games.
“For myself, our power play has really been clicking,” Saulnier said. “I’ve been finding the open areas and getting my shots off.
It was also the first time the Chargers scored the first goal of the game this season.
“It was nice to get the first one tonight and I felt like we were just rolling after that,” Saulnier said.
“That first goal was a big one for him, because he shows the poise,” Corbett said. “He outwaits the goalie and then he scores the goal.
“Our best players have to be the best players and he was one of them tonight.”
The Seawolves answered at 7:06 when UAA’s leading scorer Austin Azurdia fired a shot past Jordan Uhelski high from close range.
But any momentum the Seawolves may have gained did not last long. UAH regained its two-goal advantage at 10:30. Cam Knight’s doorstep shot led to a scramble in the UAA net. Beaulieu got a shot in, then Christian Rajic put in a rebound for a 3-1 lead. It was Rajic’s third goal of the season.
“We eliminated the big mistake tonight,” Corbett said. “Even when we made a mistake and they scored their goal, we were able to come right back with our third goal.”
UAH took a 4-1 lead when John Teets made a beautiful centering pass to Levi Wunder, who fired it from the slot for his first collegiate goal.
In the third period, Anchorage came out stronger and made Uhelski work a bit more. But he was up to the task, making saves and recovering rebounds. He finished with 16 saves on UAA’s 17 shots on goal.
“It’s tough when you don’t really get a lot of action during the game, you kind of lull a little bit,” Uhelski said. “Honestly, it’s just staying even keel the whole game, making sure I don’t get too high or too low, and when it was time to step up and do my part for the team, I was ready.
“It was just a battle in front. Obviously, I’m not the biggest guy, so I’ve got to be looking around, I’ve got to be moving, I’ve got to be really active as far as locating that puck and jumping on it. But my ‘D’ made it really easy for me because anytime there was a scrum they were clearing the guys out, and I just cover the puck.”
“We tried to play a little more cautious and sometimes that can be our Achilles’ heel when you let off and let them back in the game,” Saulnier said. “U-Haul played really well in that third period for us. He was our best player in the third period.”
Madison Dunn put in an empty-netter with 1:52 to go for the final 5-1 score and another eruption from the crowd, which was larger than any crowd last season.
“The crowd was amazing tonight. It was electric in there,” Saulnier said. “It was like having an extra guy on the ice all night. We fed off that.
“I really like our team this year. We work hard, got a good group, and I think we showed it tonight that we’re going to contend in the WCHA.”
Game two of the series is Saturday night at 7:07 p.m. at the VBC as homecoming an Military Appreciation Weekend continues.
Three stars of the game:
1. Brennan Saulnier, UAH (2 goals)
2. Austin Beaulieu, UAH (2 assists)
3. Connor Wood, UAH (2 assists)
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By Ian Williams • September 24th, 2019
This is an excerpt of a feature from Unwinnable Monthly #119. If you like what you see, grab the magazine for less than ten dollars, or subscribe and get all future magazines for half price.
Among my group of videogame playing friends, the simple word “dwarves”, when sent via private message on Steam or Discord, has turned into a sort of Bat Signal cast into the internet ether. I send it to Dave or Ben sends it to me and everything stops. No context is needed. The word is received, and we assemble in a quirky, endlessly fun and deceptively important game about the gig economy called Deep Rock Galactic.
Deep Rock Galactic (or DRG henceforth) is not, of course, outwardly about the gig economy. It’s a game about dwarves. Plucked from their Tolkienesque underground fortresses and transferred to the lonely surroundings of a space station, you play one of the doughty fantasy standbys. Once some friends join (you can play it solo, but it’s a far richer experience with other people), you proceed to stand around the sterile environs of the space station until you pick a mission and descend to the underground tunnels of Hoxxes IV, a nearby planet infested with aliens and home to a wealth of natural resources. Your missions all consist of retrieving minerals or items from the surface, whereupon you get money and experience.
All of this sounds like a bog-standard shooter romp, but DRG is quite a bit more subversive than a quotidian run ‘n’ gun. It begins in the station. In your home base, you are constantly surveilled. Barrels pepper the main room – kick enough of them and the disembodied voice of your boss scolds you. There’s a jukebox, but you have no control over what song is played and it costs your precious money, despite being in your “office.” A bar, staffed by a mute robot, dispenses beer at outrageous prices: the parallels to the hollow perks of the modern tech industry office, with its Beer Fridays and foosball tables, are clear.
The surveillance extends to the actual work you and your team do. The disembodied voice follows you to the surface, warning you of alien bug attacks or wryly reminding you that your equipment is more valuable than your life. You, after all, are replaceable, part of an invisible army of dwarven labor we never see but know is there. As if by magic, your work career is cataloged back on the base, parsed in “Key Performance Indicators.” You’re being reviewed, pervasively and without end, every move stuck into a spreadsheet by the boss you never see.
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Russell Westbrook and the Thunder host the Lakers in Oklahoma City on Friday night. [Image via Flickr Creative Commons]
After recent trades, Los Angeles and Oklahoma City meet up for NBA action.
by Matthew Couden (article) and Milos Kitanovic (video)
February 24, 2017 at 2:35 PM Updated on May 23, 2019 at 6:07 AM
Friday night will feature the Lakers vs. Thunder live stream and televised matchup from Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City. The latest basketball matchup features one of the top NBA MVP favorites in Russell Westbrook, but OKC Thunder fans will be anxious to see if his new teammates show up and a recent trade pays off. After dealing away their top scorer this past week the Los Angeles Lakers will hope that their young trio of stars continues their improvement towards the future.
OKC's new roster members
Just ahead of Thursday's NBA trade deadline, the Oklahoma City Thunder pulled off a deal with the Chicago Bulls.
In the transaction, OKC sent Cameron Payne, Anthony Morrow, and Joffrey Auvergne to the Chicago Bulls. In exchange, the Thunder not only got a 2017 second-round draft pick, but the Bulls' talented front court player Taj Gibson and sharpshooting forward Doug McDermott.
Unfortunately for fans, ESPN is reporting that it's unlikely Gibson or McDermott will suit up for tonight's game or appear on the court. However, the team returns to action on NBA TV this Sunday for a matchup with the New Orleans Pelicans and their newest star DeMarcus Cousins. It's possible OKC fans will finally get a look at Gibson and/or McDermott for this game.
At 32-25 overall, the Thunder are second in the Northwest Division and are No. 7 in the Western Conference. The Denver Nuggets are about seven games back at the No.
8 spot as of this report, with Sacramento, Portland, New Orleans, and Dallas all hoping to surge into the top eight for the West.
Oklahoma City has gone just 4-6 over their last 10 and with less than half the season remaining, they'll look to get every win they can to improve their postseason chances.
New-look Lakers?
A new era has officially started for a young Lakers roster.
Not only did the team trade away their top scorer, veteran Lou Williams, but they also brought in former Lakers star Magic Johnson to guide the ship. This will be the team's first game without Williams, giving Magic and the L.A. faithful a look at what to expect.
With Williams' departure, the team will now look towards their young future stars. Among them will be point guard D'Angelo Russell who averages 14.2 points, 4.7 assists, and 3.8 rebounds per contest.
Russell has just a year of experience in the league but seems to be improving each campaign. In addition, big man Julius Randle and last year's lottery pick Brandon Ingram will look to pick up slack on the team going forward.
At 19-39 this team isn't expected to make the NBA Playoffs. However, they are considered one of the potential teams to land a top three draft pick this summer. That could mean a talented guard such as UCLA's Lonzo Ball, or Markelle Fultz, or small forward Josh Jackson from Kansas.
Tonight's Lakers vs. Thunder game gets started at 8 p.m. Eastern Time from Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City. The game will be televised on Fox Sports Net in the Oklahoma City region or Spectrum Sportsnet in select other regions of the country.
Radio coverage includes WWLS 98.1FM in OKC and 710 AM ESPN for fans who want to hear the play-by-play.
To watch the Lakers vs. Thunder live stream online, fans in those regions can check out their Fox Sports Go website or compatible apps. There's also NBA League Pass subscription service. This service offers fans a chance to buy a pass to watch games for their team, all teams, or even individual games each night to watch live streaming online. More information is available at the NBA.com website.
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Ding Dong! Summer Reruns and Better Call Saul?
Posted on September 13, 2013 by Mike
How does that song go? Well, no time to gloat, but in case you’ve missed the news, Simi Valley finally took action with regard to long standing issues involving City Attorney Baxter. The City issued a press release on Monday announcing that Baxter was voluntarily resigning, and that the City would be paying Baxter a severance of close to $100G’s.
So, how is it that one can “resign” from the City and receive walking change close to One Hundred Big Ones? Well, you can’t. It doesn’t happen that way.
What does happen is that sometimes a contracted employee, like the City Manager and the City Attorney, have contracts that define the relationship between the employee and the employer. Sometimes, those contracts have clauses which pertain to termination. Such as the contract between Baxter and the City. Take paragraph 1.a., which reads in part, “City may terminate this Agreement without notice or cause at any time . . ., any termination pursuant to this subjection (a) shall require the payment by the CITY to BAXTER of 50% of BAXTER’s annual salary and benefits.”
So, if Baxter was making $177,00 per year, half that is $88,500. Now keep in mind, there is no provision for a payout if Baxter merely resigns. She must be terminated to get her payday.
And, when you combine the reported $7,600 settlement Baxter appears to have negotiated as a part of her “just go away” deal, it looks like she gets to walk with a check for over $96,000 combined. And yet, it gets better, because the above figures to not calculate 50% of her annual “benefits.”
My “in box” has been overflowing with outrage that Baxter gets to resign and get paid to go away, but to this casual observer, it looks like characterizing her termination as a resignation was just part of the deal.
Either than, or the City just gifted public funds to sweeten a retirement package. But I don’t think that’s what happened.
Summer is the time for reruns, and this summer seems to be no different than any other.
For some that have followed my infrequent columns, you would know that I have taken up the task to represent K & J Auto, corner of Tapo and Cochran here in Simi Valley, in its fight against local political “stuff” stirrers who wanted to create trouble where there was no trouble to find. To encapsulate, last year about this time there was a local City Council election. Opponents of one of the candidates raised an ethical issue regarding a renovation grant issued by the City to K & J Auto. The grant was in the amount of $70,000. The money was not issued by the City until K & J Auto had provided documentation to the City’s satisfaction. Nothing to see here, right? Except that the opponent of one of the candidates had mistakenly identified the owner of K & J Auto as the campaign manager for said candidate, which was not true, and then the fun began as the opponents threw mud and “stuff” at the K & J people. Things got so cantankerous that a former City Council member and a current City Council member held a press conference demanding that the City investigate the K & J Auto grant, implying all sorts of nefarious misdeeds.
Then on December 4, 2012, a committee of concerned citizens, including Barbra Williamson, Ted Mackel, Tom Mackel and Louis Pandolfi met with City officials, complete with pitch forks and torches, demanding that the City investigate this grant!
And, it turns out, the City did do an investigation into the K & J Auto grant and it found that there was nothing to see here folks.
But wait, us here folks were never told that the City found no wrong doing! Wha, wha, what!!!
That’s right. On March 5, 2013, Connie Henes-Baird, Interim Director, Administrative Services, sent a memo to Brian Gabler, then Acting City Manager, regarding the “Review of K & J Auto Payments.” This memo came after the February 28, 2013 meeting K & J Auto reps met with the City wherein all requested financial records were reviewed, discussed and explained. The City concluded that of $108,869.05 work of records the City requested to review, all but cash payments amounting to $4,625 were accounted for, and of the $4,625 in cash payments, K & J was unable to secure contact with one particular vendor to provide a declaration re payment.
The bottom line was, upon review by the City K & J would have still been eligible for the $70,000 grant that he did received and then returned due to the harassment of the local “stuff” stirrers.
So, nothing to see, right? You would think that the local “stuff” heads would be satisfied, right?
Nope. In response, the City did NOT publicize its finds, and “someone” made a call to the District Attorney’s “Public Integrity Unit” to re investigate the issue. This, too seems to be going nowhere. Then again, how many times does one need to be exonerated before everyone gets that there is nothing to see here?
And yet, once again, the “stuff” heads decide to stir up the same “stuff,” as exemplified by the September 5, 2013 Public Record Act request submitted by Tom Mackel to the City, requesting (get this),
1) “All direct written email, fax and letter correspondence between the City Clerk’s department and Mitchell Green from October 1, 2012 to present;
2) Copy of all claim for damage to person or property filed by or on behalf of Kelly Kolarek and/or Kelly Kolarek dba K&J Auto Exchange from October 1, 2012 to present;
3) All summons and complaint for damages documents and any other documents naming Kelly Kolarek and/or Kelly Kolarek dba K&J Auto Exchange as a plaintiff;
4) All meeting agendas for closed session or executive meetings related to Kelly Kolarek and/or Kelly Kolarek dba K&J Auto Exchange from October 1, 2012 to present – All public reports related to actions taken in closed session or executive meetings related to Kelly Kolarek and/or Kelly Kolarek dba K&J Auto Exchange from October 1, 2012 to present – Copies of any contracts, settlement agreements or other documents that were finally approved or adopted in closed session related to Kelly Kolarek and/or Kelly Kolarek dba K&J Auto Exchange from October 1, 2012 to present;
5) All K&J – Memo and Documents related to an email from Mary Berns to Brian Gabler dated 3/19/2013 9:44 a.m.; and,
6) A copy of all documents, reports, notes and communications related to an independent audit performed on the grant administration with a report prepared on the results from November 1, 2012 to present.
Now, that’s a lot of requesting from the “stuff” heads, and it begs the question, why now?
How many times do the “stuff” heads need to be reminded that there is nothing to see here?
Now, just to make it sporting, perhaps Mr. Kolarek needs to submit an endless tide of Public Record Act requests addressed to the City regarding the business Mr. Mackel runs? Maybe that would be interesting, huh?
What’s new is that on Tuesday, September 10, 2013, I had a chance to speak to the Simi Valley Unified School District about the contract renewal the district was entertaining to engage in with the its counsel, Robert Thurbon of Gold River, California. That’s up somewhere around Sacramento. (Nothing like making your attorney accessible, huh?) Mr. Thurbon had his contract up for renewal with a 20% pay raise buried in the details. Had I not spoken about the contract, it would have been approved on a “consent” calender, where matters are all approved without discussion.
I, however, wanted to talk not so much about the pay raise in times of fiscal red ink, but rather the surprising admonishments received by this attorney from a sitting federal judge in a matter called Lynn v. Gateway Unified School District, United States District Court, Eastern District of California, Case No. 2:10-CV-00981-JAM-CMK.
In the Lynn case, United States District Judge John A. Mendez outline numerous and severe ethical violations by Mr. Thurbon, such as “possibly violated California Penal Code Section 496, receiving stolen property;” “possibly violated California Penal Code Section 502, a felony, for use of information from a computer base without permission;” ““Thurbon’s conduct arguably suppressed evidence of a crime in violation of his ethical duties;” and, “violated his ethical duty of confidentiality owned to his client [name omitted] in order to try and assist his other client, [name omitted].” Thurbon was ordered disqualified as counsel in the Lynn matter.
Thurbon was also, apparently, disqualified as counsel from another case, Jody Thulin v. Gateway Unified School District, also for ethical breaches, such disqualification upheld on appeal in an unpublished decision on August 14, 2012 by the Court of Appeal of the State of California, Third Appellate District.
When I brought up the ethical challenges surrounding the district’s attorney, Mr. Collins, the Board President, agreed to take the issue off the consent calendar and table it for further discussion re renewal or possible rejection of the renewal of the contract.
But will the people ever get to hear a discussion on why the Board continues to use Mr. Thurbon?
Perhaps not. It seems that on Thursday September 12, 2013, Superintendent Scroggin sent out an e-mail that reads in part,
“Regarding Mr. Thurbon’s contract…
Mr. Thurbon has agreed to leave his rates as they were for last year and for about five years previous to that.
There will be no change in the contract other than the year(s) it covers.”
Does that mean no discussion? Just sweep ethical and/or potential criminal issues of the district’s counsel as noted by a sitting federal judge under the rug?
Better Call Saul?
Have a great weekend Simi Valley!
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An exploration of '80s horror movies through the perspective of the actors, directors, producers and SFX craftspeople who made them, and their impact on contemporary cinema.
Genre: Documentary, Horror
Actor: John Carpenter, Doug Bradley, Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Cassandra Peterson, Nick Castle, Keith David, Kane Hodder, Bill Moseley, Joe Dante
Director: David A. Weiner
Tagged: #In Search Of Darkness
Ted 2 HD
Newlywed couple Ted and Tami-Lynn want to have a baby, but in order to qualify to be a parent, Ted will have to prove he's a person in a court of law.
Director: Seth MacFarlane
Actor: Mark Wahlberg, Seth MacFarlane, Amanda Seyfried, Jessica Barth, Giovanni Ribisi, Morgan Freeman, Sam Jones, Patrick Warburton, Michael Dorn, Bill Smitrovich
HD Eps 13
Prison Break - Season 3
Prison Break - Season 3 HD
The two brothers escape prison in the first season, but are hunted down during the second season and ultimately Michael is recaptured and sent to a Panamanian..
Director: Paul Scheuring
Actor: Wentworth Miller, Dominic Purcell, Sarah Wayne Callies, Paul Adelstein, Rockmond Dunbar, Robert Knepper, Amaury Nolasco, Inbar Lavi, Augustus Prew, Mark Feuerstein
Perfect Plan HD
As the real estate market is in a downward spiral, beautiful young realtor Lauren Baker gets the listing of a lifetime: a mansion on Chicago's exclusive Gold ..
Director: Tristan Dubois
Actor: Emily Rose, Lucas Bryant, Cristina Rosato, Jonathan Watton, Nicole Leroux
The Legend of 5 Mile Cave
The Legend of 5 Mile Cave HD
A mysterious drifter bonds with a boy with tales of the West. Past and present collide when a lawman appears seeking long-lost gold.
Actor: Adam Baldwin, Jeremy Sumpter, Jill Wagner, Jet Jurgensmeyer, Alexandria DeBerry, Randy Wayne
Cinderella II: Dreams Come True
Cinderella II: Dreams Come True HD
Jacques and Gus tell the story of how Cinderella becomes a princess but loses touch with herself.
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Director: John Kafka
Actor: Jennifer Hale, Rob Paulsen, Corey Burton, Andre Stojka, Russi Taylor, Susanne Blakeslee, Tress MacNeille, Holland Taylor, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Frank Welker
HD Eps 2
Vida - Season 1
Vida - Season 1 HD
Emma and Lyn, two Mexican-American sisters from the Eastside of Los Angeles, couldn’t be more different or distanced from each other. When circumstances for..
Director: Tanya Saracho
Actor: Melissa Barrera, Mishel Prada, Ser Anzoategui, Maria-Elena Laas, Carlos Miranda, Chelsea Rendon
Rowdy Romeo
Rowdy Romeo HD
Varun Sandesh (Jai) is an innocent young man who always gets cheated by girls. One fine day, he meets Mahalakshmi(Haripriya) in a train and falls for her duri..
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Hindi-Dubbed
Director: Ramana Mogili
Actor: Varun Sandesh, Haripriya
The Smurfs HD
When the evil wizard Gargamel chases the tiny blue Smurfs out of their village, they tumble from their magical world into New York City.
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Director: Raja Gosnell
Actor: Hank Azaria, Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays, Sofía Vergara, Tim Gunn, Jonathan Winters, Katy Perry, Fred Armisen, Alan Cumming, Anton Yelchin
Step Brothers HD
Two aimless middle-aged losers still living at home are forced against their will to become roommates when their parents marry.
Director: Adam McKay
Actor: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenburgen, Richard Jenkins, Adam Scott, Kathryn Hahn, Andrea Savage, Lurie Poston, Logan Manus, Shira Piven
My Little Pony: The Movie HD
After a dark force conquers Canterlot, the Mane 6 embark on an unforgettable journey beyond Equestria where they meet new friends and exciting challenges on a..
Director: Jayson Thiessen
Actor: Uzo Aduba, Ashleigh Ball, Emily Blunt, Kristin Chenoweth, Taye Diggs, Andrea Libman, Michael Peña, Zoe Saldana, Liev Schreiber, Sia Furler
The Ugly Truth HD
A romantically challenged morning show producer is reluctantly embroiled in a series of outrageous tests by her chauvinistic correspondent to prove his theori..
Director: Robert Luketic
Actor: Katherine Heigl, Gerard Butler, Eric Winter, Bree Turner, Nick Searcy, Jesse D. Goins, Cheryl Hines, John Michael Higgins, Noah Matthews, Bonnie Somerville
The Smurfs 2 HD
The Smurfs team up with their human friends to rescue Smurfette, who has been abducted by Gargamel, since she knows a secret spell that can turn the evil sorc..
Actor: Hank Azaria, Neil Patrick Harris, Brendan Gleeson, Jayma Mays, Jonathan Winters, Katy Perry, Christina Ricci, J.B. Smoove, Anton Yelchin, George Lopez
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Baume and Mercier have drawn on their pioneering heritage to continue designing and manufacturing some of the finest timepieces within the industry. The current men’s range showcases this striving for horological excellence while holding both traditional and contemporary design elements in paramount importance. With a range of timepieces to suit every occasion, there is no doubt that Baume and Mercier can satisfy all tastes.
Blending sophistication and style, this men’s watch has a blue dial featuring guilloché styling, small seconds sub dial at 6 o’clock and applied indices & classic Roman numerals. Powered by a decorated Swiss automatic movement, it comes mounted on a black alligator strap and an adjustable tri-folding buckle.
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Classima 10480
This automatic watch balances urbane style with excellence in watchmaking. It comes with 21 internal jewels and 38 hours of power reserve. The sleek rectangular stainless steel case is complemented by an opaline and grained silver coloured dial. It comes with an interchangeable black alligator strap with fine grey stitching.
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Hampton 10522
This 2020 interpretation of the Hampton Small Seconds wristwatch features a fully polished stainless steel rectangular case measuring 31mm x 48mm, small seconds and date functions on the dial at 6 o’clock. Powered by an in-house Baume and Mercier decorated ETA 2895 self winding Swiss movement, this timepiece promises enduring accuracy. The Hampton Small Seconds is mounted on a black alligator strap with contrasting grey stitching.
Blued steel hands sweep around the opaline silver-coloured dial, styled with line guilloché décor, rhodium plated indices and Roman numerals, in this Swiss-made timepiece. The Classima 10333 is a men’s automatic watch designed with masculine refinement in mind. The blue leather strap with an alligator pattern perfectly balances the clean lines and smooth appearance of the watch face. Glimpse the mechanical self-winding movement from behind the clear sapphire case back.
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Designed with clean lines and understated elegance, this self-winding watch for men is perfect for the modern professional. It comes with a round 40 mm case, constructed from stainless steel, and pink gold-toned Roman numerals to mark the hours. Gilt hour, minute and second hands sweep over the centre guilloché line décor. A date aperture sits on the dial at 3 o’clock. To complete the classic feel of this iconic timepiece, a brown leather strap fits seamlessly with the steel case. The case back is made from scratch-resistant sapphire crystal.
The 2020 Clifton Baumatic epitomises a refined classic case combined with subtle and attractive dial design. Pair these attributes with a state of the art inhouse manufactured movement boasting a five day power reserve and you have the perfect watch for the demanding gentleman that will exceed in any situation of daily wear.
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Clifton Baumatic 10467
A sophisticated men's wristwatch, the Clifton Baumatic 10518 is an automatic date watch for men, manufactured with an in-house mechanical self-winding movement. Its balanced aesthetic pairs a timeless black alligator strap with a white dial, featuring both hour and minute time markers and the date aperture at 3 o’clock. The steel case is finished with a transparent sapphire case back, through which the COSC automatic movement can be observed.
The 2020 Clifton Baumatic epitomises a refined classic case combined with subtle and attractive dial design. Pair these attributes with a state of the art in-house manufactured movement boasting a five day power reserve and you have the perfect watch for the demanding gentleman that will exceed in any situation of daily wear.
The 10451 is an automatic chronograph that features a polished bezel, crown and push buttons. The middle case is a sandblasted stainless steel with an ADLC coating. The black dial features rhodium-plated indexes with Superluminova coating and an orange seconds hand. With machined silver-coloured sub dials and a sleek black calfskin strap with an exclusive sailcloth pattern, this chronograph offers a sophisticated sporty design. The swiss automatic movement offers a 42 hour power reserve.
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Capeland 10451
This all black watch features two horizontal black machined counters, a black textured calfskin strap with orange rubberized lining, and a polished stainless steel crown and push buttons. The case is sandblasted stainless steel with black ADLC coating. Powered by an automatic Swiss movement it offers a 42 hour power reserve, as well as ensuring high-level precision.
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This fine automatic watch features a thoughtfully-designed silver-coloured dial with guilloché line decor in the centre, and a visible open balance and escapement function at 12 o’clock. The 42 mm case is polished stainless steel.
A Swiss automatic watch for men with a polished stainless steel bracelet and matching case, the Classima 10483 features a blue dial with “grain d’orge” guilloché décor, Roman numerals, and the central hand dual time function.
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Baume and Mercier men's watch collection
Through hard work and impeccable customer service, 1010 Boutique has been afforded the opportunity to become an online retailer of Baume and Mercier. At 1010, we stock a large selection of men's watches from Baume and Mercier that includes the full range, currently comprising Clifton Baumatic, Hampton, Classima and Capeland, with more ranges to be added in the future. No matter what the circumstance, we will be able to assist and guide you through making the correct choice of a timepiece, whether it be your first Baume and Mercier, or you are looking to add to an existing collection, it may be a gift, the marking of an occasion or you might simply feel like treating yourself! No matter, 1010 Boutique are at your disposal.
You may be looking for a men's dress watch to fulfil a specific role, in which case we’d like to introduce you to the Clifton Baumatic range. With the Clifton line you will find classic looking timepieces with a definite air of modernity and masculinity showcasing a variety of in-house manufactured movements and complications including date and time, chronograph, complete calendar with moon phase and perpetual calendar. Complemented with a range of dial colours including sunburst blues and greys as well as more traditional and understated black and white. The Clifton models also have bracelets or leather straps that can be easily interchanged to offer yet more versatility.
Should you be looking for more of an everyday watch you might like to consider the Baume and Mercier Hampton. With its unique rectangular case, the Hampton steps outside of the constraints of ‘normal’ watch design. It’s undeniable inspiration comes from a period in time known as the Art Deco movement in which objects strove to be uncomplicated, pared down and simplified yet maintaining a level of beauty rarely matched. The straight edges giving way to subtle and gentle curves allow a case design like no other, housing Swiss-made movements to power a range of complications set in with stunning opaline and blasted silver dials. The Hampton could easily be worn across a broad range of activities including sport, dress and office but it is surely most suited to a relaxing lifestyle similar to that after which it is named!
If you are looking for a men's watch that has an outright sporting feel, then we would like to present you with the Capeland range. The Capeland’s case comes in at 42mm which has good heft and is coated with ADLC (amorphous diamond-like carbon) which is not only aesthetically stunning but also offers an extremely hard yet extraordinarily smooth finish, almost impervious to scratches and fingerprints. The uncluttered dial is airy and easy to read, featuring a date and chronograph complications powered by a swiss movement seen through the display case back. Despite the Capeland's sporting prowess, at just over 13mm tall, it will happily reside under a shirt cuff during a day at the office.
Of all the men’s watches that Baume and Mercier manufacture, it is perhaps the Classima range that spans the genres the most effectively. Drawing on the design cues from the brands rich heritage the Classima keeps the traditional style of case with more defined lugs, while incorporating traditional decorative methods of guilloché infused with modern finishes and colourways. A range of options, including dual time, chronograph and complete calendar complications are available on steel bracelet or leather strap which allows a versatility to the Classima unrivalled by other brands.
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June Diane Raphael is a, multi-talented personnel who has worked as an actress, comedienne as well as a screenwriter. She has worked in many movies as well as TV shows; some of her movies as well as shows have been enlisted as all time favorite by her fans. She has currently claimed her flame from some of her Films such as The Wedding Weekend, Zodiac, Bride Wars, Year One, Batchelorette and many more.
Talking about her early years, she was born as well as raised in Rockville Center, New York on 4th January 1980. She was born as a daughter to Diane and John Raphael and as a sibling to her two elder sisters, Lauren and Deanna Raphael. She started her career in the industry first in the comedy line then carried on to the starring line.
About her affairs there were news of her having an affair with Paul Scheer, which was just thought out to be a rumor, but later on it turned out to be the truth. Thus currently there has been no news of her having an affair with or dating any one except her accounted partner to be her boyfriend. Neither has there been any news of her getting married to some as her husband, nor has there been any info of her having children i.e. of her getting pregnant. No such news about their relation such as divorce has been popularized through any sources of media.
She stands tall with the height of 5 feet 9 inches i.e. 1.75 when converted in meters. She has currently been estimated to carry the net worth of above $ 1 million (USD). There has been no other info available on her personal life. But there are many pictures of her available on some of the famous magazines as well as many web sites in a sexy dress with her smooth legs and her very feminine body figure exposed to add a hint of sexy character to it. She has maintained her body measurements so as to attain as well as retain her hot and sexy body figure. She currently is in her 30s but she seems to look as if she were below 30 in age. She has also accumulated many fans in social sites such as Instagram, Facebook and has numerous followers in Twitter. A short biography of her is available on some of the popular wiki sites such as Wikipedia and IMDb.
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11-year-old Pennsylvania Boy Scout called for jury duty
WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — One Pennsylvania resident has been called to perform his civic duty a few years earlier than expected.
Luke Fox
Jeanette Fox says her son came running to her with a summons from the Chester County court to appear for jury duty in March. Her son, Luke, is only 11 years old.
Fox says she tried to go online to request an exemption, but there was no option to select for those too young to serve. She says she made multiple phone calls, and a person who answered said the county had recently changed companies that pull the list for people who receive summonses.
The error was eventually fixed, but Fox says her son was excited to go. Luke is a Boy Scout, and he toured the Chester County Courthouse last year.
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Aston Martin first introduced the engine that will be used on the Valhalla Review
November 24, 2020 admin Supercar 0
To get ready for the third supercar using Formula 1 racing technology, Aston Martin and Red Bull Racing have jointly developed a completely new V6 engine block. This engine block has recently made its debut with an extremely impressive first sound.
This 3.0 liter V6 engine block is codenamed TM01, taken from the legendary engineer name of the company in the 50s and 60s of the previous century, Mr. Tedek Marek. Aston Martin uses this name because it is the first engine block developed by the company itself since 1968. Previously, Aston Martin’s cars often used engines provided by Mercedes-AMG, while super Valkyrie cars use V12 engines developed by Caterham.
The new engine block equipped by this sports car company on Valhalla will be supported by a hybrid drivetrain and has a capacity of about 1,000 horsepower. Detailed specifications will be announced when the car is ready to be sold.
On this engine block, Aston Martin uses a “hot” V design with dual turbochargers placed between two rows of cylinders. Aston Martin said this new engine block will weigh less than 200 kg and did not announce the detailed configuration of the hybrid system. However, the company revealed that this will be one of the most powerful engine blocks in the Aston Martin segment.
“Investing in your own drivetrain is a difficult requirement and our team has had to rise to overcome this challenge. Moving forward, this dynamic block is an indispensable result of what we do and those first signs of what this engine will achieve are extremely promising ”, Chairman and CEO Aston Martin Group, Mr. Andy Palmer talks about the TM01 engine.
Aston Martin Valhalla is the third project to be implemented in partnership with Aston Martin and the Formula 1 team Red Bull Racing. The car will be positioned above the Vanquish Vision Concept and below the Valkyrie senior. Similar to the Valkyrie, the car uses the same design as the LMP1 supercars, but is slightly more commercial than the Valkyrie. Valhalla owns a FlexFoil spoiler system designed by aerodynamic expert Adrian Newey. Inside, the car uses a very simple interior design, the seats are attached to the floor while the steering wheel and the screen and buttons are minimized.
Aston Martin said the car will compete with successors Mclaren Elva, Porsche 918 and Ferrari LaFerrari. The British sports car company will only make 500 AM-RB 003 units and the price per unit will be around 1.3 million USD and will be sold in 2022.
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About the AEA
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Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession
CSWEP: Programs
CSWEP: Annual Meeting
CSWEP: Mentoring Breakfasts
To encourage peer networking among mid-career and senior female economists and to foster communication between junior and senior members of the economics profession, CSWEP typically sponsors three mentoring breakfasts during the AEA Meetings. Mentoring Breakfasts for Junior Economists are customarily held on the first and third mornings of the meetings and a Peer Mentoring Breakfast for Mid-Career Economists is held on the second morning of the meetings. For the 2021 annual meetings our mentoring events will be held virtually.
Participants at the 4th Annual Mentoring Breakfast for Junior Economists speak with Wilbert van der Klaauw,
Federal Reserve Board of New York, about the life of a non-academic economist.
Mentoring Breakfasts for Junior Economists
At these informal meet and greet events, senior economists (predominately senior women) are pre-assigned to one of a variety of topical tables to provide mentoring advice to junior economists in areas such as research and publishing, tenure and promotion, non-academic careers, grant writing, teaching, work-life balance and the job market. Senior economists who have already committed to attend one or both of breakfasts represent a wide variety of institutions, including, but not limited to, Boston University, Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Emory, Furman, Georgia Tech, Harvard, Michigan, Texas A&M, UC-Berkeley, UC-Davis, UC-San Diego, UC-Santa Barbara, US Air Force Academy, UT-Austin, Wesleyan, Yale, the Federal Reserve, the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.
Male and female junior economists who have completed their PhD in the past 6 years and graduate students who are on the job market are invited to register. Participants are provided with a list of senior mentors and their topics in advance (click here for a sample Senior Mentor Roster). At the breakfast, junior participants rotate between tables at 20-minute intervals based on their own interests. With three senior mentors per table each hosting a conversation with up to three junior participants, the breakfasts typically average a mentor-mentee ratio of 1:3. Breakfast is provided.
The 9th Annual Mentoring Breakfasts for Junior Economists will be held at the 2021 Virtual AEA Meetings. Registration is now open. You can register through Eventbrite.com or click the link above.
Male and female senior economists who are interested in serving as mentors are asked to express their willingness to serve by sending an email to info@cswep.org and include 9th Annual Mentoring Breakfast for Junior Economists in the subject line.
Peer Mentoring Breakfast for Mid-Career Economists
In 2015, in response to the interest expressed by many more senior economists, CSWEP began organizing a peer mentoring breakfast for mid-career economists. This mentoring experience is intended for female economists who are tenured academics at either associate or full rank or non-academics who are 10+ years post-PhD. Breakfast tables are organized around common interests with each table moderated by two senior facilitators. The event opens with brief talks from two senior mentors. Then each table comes together to network and have its own Q&A session. The event concludes with participants engaging in a full group Q&A session. Click here for a sample Agenda. Breakfast is provided.
The 7th Annual Peer Mentoring Breakfast for Mid-Career Economists will be held at the 2021 Virtual AEA Meetings. Registration is now open. You can register through Eventbrite.com or click the link above.
Senior women interested in serving as a mentor are asked to express their willingness to serve by sending an email to info@cswep.org and include 7th Annual Peer Mentoring Breakfast for Mid-Career Economists in the subject line.
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Zurich Airport News Flash No. 10 / Zurich Airport Key Figures - May 2013
Diese News ist nur auf englisch verfügbar.
Traffic Figures
2,173,806 passengers were handled at Zurich Airport during May 2013, a gain of 2.1% versus May 2012. The year to date passenger growth stands at 0.0%.
O&D or local passengers (originating or departing from Zurich) increased by 3.8% to 1,489,019 compared to previous May (YTD +1.3%). Transfer passengers decreased by 1.7% to 675,658 in May (YTD -2.4%). The transfer rate which was at 32.3% last May is currently at 31.1% (YTD 34.0%).
Air traffic movements (ATM’s) decreased by -2.6% to 22,948 in May versus previous year (YTD -4.5%). The decrease divides into a decrease of 0.7% for airlines (YTD -2.8%) and a decrease of 13.7% for general aviation (YTD -14.5%).
The average passenger per movement figure (airline passengers only) currently is at 108.7 (105.8 previous year) or 104.7 YTD (101.8 previous year). The average seat load factor saw an increase of 1.4 percentage points to 74.8% (YTD 72.8%).
Total turnover (net sales to consumers) during May was CHF 46.8m (+6.1% versus previous year). Turnover per departing passenger in May was CHF 43.0, which is 4.0 percent higher than last year. Year to date May, total turnover saw an increase of 4.2% to CHF 211.5m and turnover per departing passenger increased by 4.3 percent to CHF 44.0.
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Gianni Arone
Art, Artist Quotes, Events, Interviews
Review of “Unknown Saints”
By: Andrea Bogdan
Artist: Gianni Arone
Location: Echo Park
A slow reveal of Gianni Arone’s “Unknown Saints” materialized over the last 12 months. Like royal guests at the servant’s quarters, they are unexpected reminders of something more important than us. An early triptych in the series hung at Gabba Gallery’s, “Kool Layed” mixed media show last year, each piece showing a seated man in a fine suit, face obscured, every man distinct from the other but carved from the same 1936 portrait. Concentric color and lines radiating from their head and shoulders did not “read” as halos at first blush. These saints were different.
A portrait of a woman in black, white hands lightly touching her pearls, a swath of yellow surrounding her nobel face, hung boldly with those of five other unknown saints at Arone’s May “33” show on South Los Angeles Street. Their presence seemed to command obeisance from all who entered, though not for vanity. They were dignified and separate, yet unencumbered by celebrity.
The “Unknown Saints” appeared again on August 28 in a loft space in Echo Park with new, larger and more complex works in the series. Some hung larger and more loosely, sans frame, their figures adorned by lines, patterns and colors on a field of undivided color. Arone’s use of fabric and paper in the works adds to their richness and beauty, with torn and uneven edges that remind us of our imperfection, even when we’re at our best.
“The saints are ‘unknown’ because it takes away the ego,’’ explained Arone. “It’s about doing unto others as you would have them do unto you, about acts of kindness, and not have to telegraph each one – humanity helping humanity without the desire for reciprocation.” Each of the saints faces the viewer head one, their features obscured, but seemingly less so over time. In following the works through their chronology there is a sense that they are becoming more assertive. A medieval gauntlet thrown in a contemporary setting.
Arone, who is also a gifted poet, is accessible and engaging, and is highly articulate about his work, intent and process. His emphasis of conversation, however, is typically not on himself, as he is more absorbed with ideas and concepts of the mind. This particular show had an array of mixed media pieces that are playful, tender, and thoughtful, incorporating word values such as “freedom” or thoughts about the mysteries of the universe.
The evening was punctuated by both live and electronic music in beat with spectacularly colored video abstractions. Visitors were invited to do their own scratch board drawings, and an assortment of small Arone works were philanthropically distributed. Arone is already planning his next show “Unknown Cosmic Formations And Elements” which will include paintings, drawings and visual animations.
When we asked Arone why he chooses art he stated:
“To Speak What Cannot Be Spoken, To See What Cannot Be Seen, To Hear the Choir of The Cosmos.”
There is an “easy joyfulness” that accompanies Arone’s shows that stems from his genuine gratitude for life and his connections within it. Experience it by going to a show – you won’t be disappointed. To stay on top of dates, follow him on Instagram at GIANNI_ARONE. To view his various series of visual works, or explore his poetry, visit gianniaronestudio.com.
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Football League Betting Preview & Tips: Royals too good to ignore
By Matthew Kirby on Nov 8, 2020 Football League Tips, Tips
FOOTBALL LEAGUE fan Matthew Kirby (@M_Kirby95) oversees Wednesday night's EFL action, picking out his favourite fancy.
Reading vs Birmingham | Wednesday 9th December 2020, 19:45 | Sky Sports
Before I dig into Wednesday’s game of interest from the EL, here’s a few surprising things:
Reading’s start under Veljko Paunović
The odds-against quotes on the Royals to win this one
Birmingham’s away record – P8, W2, D5, L1
Reading start this round of fixtures in third place, a point behind leaders Norwich. It’s not often you’ll find an odds-against price for a team that high coming up against a side in the bottom half (16th).
The fans have returned to the Madjeski Stadium, so the Royals will have the backing of 2,000 fans. And so far, only Watford (19) have picked up more points at home than Reading’s 18. Saturday’s 2-0 win over Nottingham Forest made it six wins in eight on home soil, with five clean sheets in those games. They’re impressive numbers if some of the others aren’t.
That said, their expected goals for (xGF) has improved in recent weeks and is more sustainable than their first few games where it seemed that every shot led to a goal, while defensively, their expected goals against (xGA) has been consistently strong.
Paunović is getting the best out of forwards Lucas João and Yakou Meïté, while youngster Michael Olise is playing a starring role, earning plenty of plaudits and potential suitors.
Even though Aitor Karanka’s Birmingham have lost just once on the road so far, this will be a tough task. They’ve scored five goals in their eight away games, including one in their win over Bristol City on Saturday, which I’m taking as the reason the bookies have priced it up as they have.
Only Luton and the bottom three in the table have a worse xGF than Birmingham, so for them, it’s about creating chances and being clinical because they don’t make a hatful every game.
They rank lowly for shots (173) and have had the joint-second fewest shots on target (47), which highlights their lack of creation, although Jérémie Bela and Mikel San José are doing their best to change that. Despite a strong away record, they’ve allowed the fourth-most shots at 208, so Reading could well fill their boots making it a busy night for Neil Etheridge.
I can’t ignore the price on a home win all things considered (11/10), but I like to eek as much out as I can, so adding Under 4 Goals into the mix boosts that to a nice 8/5 play with the Bet365 Bet Builder.
Reading’s home games average 2.4 goals per game, with five of their six wins seeing three or fewer goals. While Birmingham’s away games average a measly 1.13 goals per game – their highest-scoring road trip was a 2-1 visit to Preston.
So, with a strong home team who don’t concede many facing a team that doesn’t score many makes this 8/5 a great bet.
Reading vs Birmingham: Reading to win and Under 4 Goals (8/5 Bet365)
Matthew Kirby
Matt is a graduate in sports journalism and is currently plying his trade as a content editor for a major betting company. He was bitten by the betting bug when backing horses and continues to do so. His main sporting interests are football, horse racing and darts. Matt is a Stoke season ticket holder and enjoys going to gigs.
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THE HAMILTON PSR REVIVES THE DESIGN OF THE VERY FIRST DIGITAL WATCH, A SPACE AGE CLASSIC THAT CHANGED THE WAY WE TELL TIME
The original digital wristwatch is back. The Hamilton Pulsar was one of the emblematic creations of the space-age era. Its groundbreaking technology disrupted the market, and its futuristic looks made it a favorite of forward thinkers and style leaders including Jack Nicholson, Joe Frazier, Elton John and Keith Richards. With the Hamilton PSR, we’re proud to bring back the unmistakable style of the digital watch that changed the world.
May 6, 1970 stands as one of the most significant moments in wristwatch history. At a press conference in The Four Seasons restaurant in New York City, Hamilton revealed to the world the very first digital electronic wristwatch. Named the Pulsar after the pulsating neutron stars that emit beams of radiation at ultra-precise frequencies, this seemed an object straight out of science fiction, with no moving parts, no ticking sound, and unmatchable durability and accuracy.
But the science was real. This ingenious ‘solid state wrist computer’, developed by Hamilton in its hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, would change the way we tell time.
The public received its first glimpse of the Pulsar prototype on the US TV program The Tonight Show, when host Johnny Carson demonstrated its unique functionality: pushing a button on the side of the watch made the time flash in red LED numerals on the dark screen, while holding the button for longer revealed the passing seconds. The watch could be set via a unique magnetic bar hidden in the bracelet.
The inaugural Hamilton Pulsar, the P1, launched to market in 1972, with an original, space-age design to match its groundbreaking technology. With an avant-garde cushion case and bracelet in 18 ct yellow gold, it was an unmistakably elite product, with a $2,100 price tag that matched the cost of a family car. Elvis Presley was among the pioneers who snapped up one of 400 models.
By the following year, the wrist computer was ready for the general public. The stainless steel Pulsar P2, with a more rounded case design and an improved chip module, launched in 1973, pioneering the nascent market for digital watches. Produced in large volume, it was a colossal success. Among those to wear it were Keith Richards, Joe Frazier, Elton John, Giovanni Agnelli and U.S. President Gerald Ford. It was the epitome of cool.
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20m ago / 8:40 PM UTC
Face masks required in all Texas polling locations, federal judge rules
A federal court judge in San Antonio, Texas, mandated face masks at all state polling locations for all voters, poll workers and poll watchers.
U.S. District Court Judge Jason Pulliam struck down Texas Gov. Abbott’s order that exempted polling locations from a statewide mask mandate Tuesday night. In his opinion, the judge called Abbott’s order a direct violation of the Voting Rights Act because it “creates a discriminatory action against Black and Latino voters.”
Polling places were among 11 exemptions that Abbott’s July 2 executive order granted.
Mi Familia Vota, a Latino voting outreach organization, the Texas NAACP and a Texas voter filed a voting rights suit against Abbott and Ruth Hughes, the Texas secretary of state on July 16, which included the mask exemption. Pulliam dismissed the case on Sept. 20 but an appellate court brought it back to court under a separate claim in violation of the Voting Rights Act. Tuesday’s ruling comes after a plaintiff’s motion for a preliminary injunction.
“This is a major victory for democracy,” Héctor Sánchez Barba, the executive director and CEO of Mi Familia Vota said in a news release. “Voters should not have to choose between protecting their health and exercising their fundamental right to vote.”
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Trump jokes about not paying his microphone vendor
Trump has had some audio issues at his first campaign rally of the day in Bullhead, Arizona, partly to do the wind.
“Whoever did this microphone, don’t pay him. You know I have a reputation for not paying. And it’s a false reputation,” Trump said.
“Its probably a RINO that’s operating it,” Trump joked. Earlier in the event he called RINOs the “lowest form of human life.”
Trump will host a second rally in Arizona later this afternoon.
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Maryland man arrested after allegedly refusing to wear mask at polling place, sheriff says
A Maryland man faces charges after refusing to wear a mask at an early voting site after election workers and law enforcement asked him to put a mask on or leave, authorities said.
Daniel Swain, 52, was charged Monday with violation of the governor’s orders and trespassing charge after refusing to leave a voting site or comply with the location’s mask policy, the Harford County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan expanded the state’s mask order in July, requiring face coverings in most indoor locations and made violation of the order a misdemeanor offense.
Deputies were told that the Harford County Board of Elections had a designated area for voters who were unable or unwilling to wear a mask, but that Swain and another man allegedly refused to vote in that area.
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Trump returns to law and order attacks on Biden following Philadelphia unrest
President Donald Trump responded to the unrest in Philadelphia following a police-involved shooting there Monday by blaming Democratic officials in the state. He said his administration was also looking into the shooting of Walter Wallace, but didn’t offer any specifics when asked what he would do to prevent police shootings, particularly those involving the mentally ill.
Wallace, whose family said was bipolar and experiencing a mental health crisis, was shot and killed while holding a knife during a confrontation with police.
“We are watching it very closely,” Trump said of the protests in Philadelphia where there has been looting and injuries. “We’re waiting for a call. If they want help we will be there within one hour, we’re ready to go within one hour.”
Before taking questions from reporters, Trump announced several endorsements from local industry groups, including the Nevada Trucking Association and the Retail Association of Nevada. Trump stopped overnight in the state where he stayed at his Trump International Hotel before going to Arizona for two rallies. Trump had no public events in Nevada, where polls show him running behind. Joe Biden had a 6-point lead in the most recent poll.
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Workers add protective wood boards to the windows of a Wells Fargo bank, a CVS store and the McPherson Building on Wednesday as they prepare for possible demonstrations following next week’s presidential election.Sarah Silbiger / Getty Images
Pennsylvania election officials ordered to keep late mail ballots separate
WASHINGTON — Pennsylvania officials have notified the U.S. Supreme Court that the Secretary of the Commonwealth issued guidance to county boards of election directing them “to securely segregate all mail-in and civilian absentee ballots received between 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, and 5:00 p.m. on Friday, November 6, 2020, from all other voted ballots.”
The cutoff under Pennsylvania law for receiving mail in ballots to count is 8 p.m. A state Supreme Court ruling extended that to 5 p.m. on Nov. 6 but that extension is under court challenge. Republicans are asking the Supreme Court to declare that order unconstitutional.
Republicans asked that, at a minimum, late ballots be kept separate. The state took the action today on its own.
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Florida man arrested for allegedly altering governor’s voter registration online
Police in Florida have arrested a man they say changed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s address in the state’s voter registration database.
DeSantis noticed when he tried to vote in person Monday and was told by a poll worker his address had been changed by an unknown party, according to a report from the Collier County Sherriff’s office.
The internet protocol address used to make the change helped police track down the suspect, a 20-year-old Floridian who had recently Googled DeSantis’s Wikipedia page for his age so that he could make the change, the report said.
Florida voters whose addresses appear wrong when they go to vote can still cast a provisional ballot.
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305,000 unregistered Asian American swing state voters still have time to register, study finds
Thousands of eligible Asian American voters in seven crucial swing states could define the course of the 2020 election if they utilize the same-day voter registration options available to them.
The Research group New American Economy found that there were almost 305,000 currently unregistered Asian Americans living across the seven states in question. Three of the biggest populations live in Nevada (77,400), Michigan (63,800) and Minnesota (58,700).
The study found that because seven out of 13 swing states have same-day registration, Asian immigrants and other potential voters of color in those areas would have an outsize influence on the outcome of the Nov. 3 presidential contest if they decide to head to the polls.
New American Economy defined the swing states with same-day registration available as Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Wisconsin.
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Biden hammers Trump over Covid-related consequences of gutting Affordable Care Act
Joe Biden on Wednesday drilled down on President Trump over his attempted gutting of the Affordable Care Act, saying that the law’s dismantling would result in thousands of people who’d been sickened with Covid-19 also, possibly, not being able to have access to insurance or a free vaccine
Referring to the Trump administration’s efforts to ask the Supreme Court to overturn the Affordable Care Act, Biden said Trump “is on a single mind crusade to strip Americans of their healthcare.”
“That would only create another enormous crisis in the public health system,” he said during a brief speech to reporters in Wilmington, Delaware.
The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments on Nov. 10 in a case challenging the health care law.
“If you have diabetes, asthma, or even complications from COVID-19, you’re going to lose the protection,” Biden said, noting also Obamacare mandates that insurers cover many vaccines. “Overturning the ACA can mean the people have to pay to get a COVID-19 vaccine, once it’s available.”
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Casual marijuana use may damage your brain
If you thought smoking a joint occasionally was OK, a new study released Tuesday suggests you might want to reconsider.
The study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, is the first to link casual marijuana use to major changes in the brain. And according to the researchers, the degree of abnormalities is based on the number of joints you smoke in a week.
Using different types of neuroimaging, researchers examined the brains of 40 young adults between the ages of 18 and 25 who were enrolled in Boston-area colleges. Twenty of them smoked marijuana at least once a week. The other 20 did not use pot at all.
The marijuana smokers were asked to track their cannabis use for 90 days. All were given high-resolution MRIs, and users and non-users' results were compared.
Researchers examined regions of the brain involved in emotional processing, motivation and reward, called the nucleus accumbens and the amygdala. They analyzed volume, shape and density of grey matter - where most cells in brain tissue are located.
"I think the findings that there are observable differences in brain structure with marijuana even in these young adult recreational users indicate that there are significant effects of marijuana on the brain," says Dr. Jodi Gilman, lead author and a researcher in the Massachusetts General Center for Addiction Medicine. "Those differences were exposure-dependent, meaning those who used more marijuana had greater abnormalities."
More than a third of the group - seven of the 20 - only used pot recreationally once or twice a week. The median use was six joints a week, but there were four people who said they smoked more than 20 joints a week. None of the users reported any problems with school, work, legal issues, parents or relationships, according to Dr. Hans Breiter, co-senior author of the study and a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
"There's a general idea out there that casual use of marijuana does not lead to bad effects, so we started out to investigate that very directly," Breiter said. "This research with the other studies we have done have led me to be extremely concerned about the effects of marijuana in adolescents and young adults and to consider that we may need to be very careful about legalization policies and possibly consider how to prevent anyone under age 25 to 30 from using marijuana at all."
Researchers have long been concerned about the effects of marijuana on the developing brain - teens and adolescents under the age of 25. Preliminary research has shown that early onset smokers are slower at tasks, have lower IQs later in life and even have a higher risk of stroke.
Dr. Staci Gruber, director of the Cognitive and Clinical Neuroimaging Core at McLean Hospital in Boston and a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, has conducted numerous studies on marijuana use and brain function.
"This data certainly confirms what others have reported with regard to changes in brain structure," she said. "When we consider the findings of the Gilman ... study with our own and other investigations of marijuana use, it's clear that further investigation is warranted, specifically for individuals in emerging adulthood, as exposure during a period of developmental vulnerability may result in neurophysiologic changes which may have long-term implications."
Gruber says we need to take a closer look at all pot users whether they smoke once or twice a week or four or time times a week.
And she had this advice for adolescents: "Don't do it early–prior to age 16. That's what our data suggests, that regular use of marijuana prior to age 16 is associated with greater difficulty of tasks requiring judgment, planning and inhibitory function as well as changes in brain function and white matter microstructure relative to those who start later."
According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, in 2012 nearly 19 million Americans used marijuana. It's the most-used illegal drug in the country and use is increasing among teenagers and young adults.
Results of the new study match those of animal studies, authors say, showing that when rats are given tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC - the ingredient in marijuana the gets you high - their brains rewire and new connections are formed.
Gilman thinks when people start to become addicted to substances, their brains form these new connections too.
"The next important thing to investigate is how these structural abnormalities relate to functional outcomes," she said. "Currently we don't know how much marijuana is safe and I think this study shows that we should be cautious about marijuana use in adolescents and young adults whose developing brain may be even more susceptible to cannabis-induced changes."
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The Oxbridge sex workers
Laurie Penny 11 May 2008
Laurie Penny considers why so many Oxbridge students are going into prostitution and stripping, and the impact the media coverage of their stories has on women in less privileged positions
Teacups are tinkling in outrage as an army of Oxbridge-educated prostitutes terrorises the Home Counties. Maths prodigy Sufiah Yusof has been outed as the latest Oxbridge girl-genius to exchange her blue stockings for suspenders and a push-up bra, while literary ‘happy hooker’ Ruth Fowler becomes the latest in a tired line of well-educated ‘young beauties’ to land a book deal for her racy autobiography. The story, of course, is an old favourite just screaming to be partnered with extensive photographs of the scholars in various states of graphic undress. And the story is an old favourite precisely because of what it seems to say about women: even the highest-achieving and most privileged are still just whores who only really want to be fucked roughly for money after very expensive dinners.
The blogging revolution has led us to expect to get into our hookers’ heads as well as their knickers, but it’s still a tacky fantasy, far removed from the reality of prostitution for most women. Fowler and Yusof are not saying anything new. After the News of the World ratted Yusof out as a fallen child, she had the temerity and strength of character to stand up for her choices and declare herself more than a hapless victim of circumstance. Good for her. The message that she and Fowler have been complicit in sending, though, is neither groundbreaking nor feminist. ‘This is all we’re good for’ – that’s the only subtext, every time a well-heeled young woman decides to rent her ‘pert little academic arse at a hundred for hire. Johns everywhere must be rubbing their hands with glee: even the clever ones, the posh bitches who think they’re better than you, will turn into the willing nymphettes of your stickiest wet dreams at the flash of a fiver, is the implication. We’ll let them into our elite universities, but under their scholar’s gowns they’ll always be slappers.
Pandora Blake*, an Oxbridge humanities MPhil who prefers to keep her personal and private lives separate, became a porn actress and model in her final year. “When I first started out, I needed the money,” she says. “But now I try to limit my work to projects I’ve found sexually exciting and creatively rewarding. I’ve had a couple of unpleasant experiences. As a model you learn to trust your instincts, you develop street-smarts.”
Vulnerable young women who lack the maturity, university education, support network, self-possession and financial safety net may read the media coverage of these ‘happy hookers’ and buy into the idea of stripping or prostitution as a viable career prospect
Most little girls daydream occasionally about growing up to do something that would really shock their mum and dad. As an undergraduate at Oxford two years ago, I was briefly a stripper in a cabaret show, peeling off my clothes and shaking my teenage breasts for a hooting crowd. Despite my mother’s disapproval, though, I knew that I wasn’t being rebellious. I didn’t feel like a bad girl at all – I was a good little girl, doing no more than what was expected of me. I’d proved that by whipping out my taut 18-year-old curves I could make people want to sleep with me, and that felt good – something to take pride in as much as the results of my first-year exams. I’m not ashamed of that choice, but I’m not proud of it either. I was a messed-up child, not an empowered young rebel. Sex work is a little bit naughty, but there’s nothing at all subversive about it: escorting, stripping and porn work are merely more outright ways of doing what high-achieving girls of my generation have been trained to do since we were in nappies. We are taught to market ourselves as end-products, rather than develop ourselves as human beings. We learn to pimp ourselves out, if there’s no-one to do it for us.
Education is seen as just another saleable quality to add to our market value. “A lot of avuncular old gents appreciate an educated young lady and a smart accent,” says Pandora. Girls are trained to sell themselves physically, emotionally and intellectually from a young age, explaining not only why they are running rings around the boys in market-based attainment systems, but why sex work seems like a natural and lucrative career progression for so many high-achieving young women.
“There’s huge demand for sex workers with class. Much of the English spanking scene is about seeing spoilt little upper-class wenches getting it where they deserve it,” said Thomas Cameron, a porn artist. A girl’s education and upbringing are now qualifications as vital to the lucrative end of the sex industry as a pair of creamy thighs and a collection of pretty thongs.
As the high-class ‘happy hooker’ becomes an aspirational stereotype for some pretty young women, it’s not hard to see Yusof as simply another bright British young woman making good in every teen’s dream profession. She knows quite literally how to sell herself, and she earns far more by doing so than she would have had she remained an impoverished academic. The sad fact is that many Oxbridge graduates find that their academic qualifications aren’t valued on their own merits, and sex work looks like a very easy way to pay the bills as a nubile and desperate young genius in the big city.
Both Fowler and one of her prototypes, Belle De Jour, now have successful literary careers. Sex work earned them a lot more after graduating than any career that would have made use of their degrees. Even I have considered returning to the trade if the student loans company ever finds me, but stripping necessitates prohibitive levels of personal shaving.
The promotion of the ‘high-class hooker’ fantasy is, in fact, uncomplicatedly irresponsible. The concept is over-hyped, plays into worn-out misogynist cliches and unequivocally glamourises and misrepresents the dangerous world of prostitution. That these are individual stories will probably have little effect on the many vulnerable young women – young women without Fowler’s university education, support network, self-possession and financial safety net – who may, however briefly, read the media coverage of these women and buy into the idea of stripping or prostitution as a viable career prospect.
In terms of the way we treat women in this culture, the roles may have changed, but the value judgments have not. Our greatest attainments merely serve to raise our market value. If we’ve been an Olympic athlete, a successful entrepreneur or a child maths prodigy, all it means is that we can charge more for a night’s hire of our body – which remains our baseline stock in trade.
Even those torturous hours of middle English I slaved over for my literature degree (Oxon, 2:1) weren’t irrelevant to the business of self-marketing. In fact, Geoffrey Chaucer’s Wife of Bath summarises the whole situation most neatly:
And therefore every man this tale I tell,
Win whoso may, for all is for to sell.
*names have been changed.
Photo by Image Zen, shared under a Creative Commons license
A version of this feature originally appeared at Liberal Conspiracy
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Fruits Basket 2×24 Review: “Here You Are”
by Jamie Sugah | Posted on September 18, 2020
With only one episode of Fruits Basket remaining in season 2, “Here You Are” is very subtly moving pieces into place for the final arc of the story. However, a mistranslation in the subtitles may lead some anime-onlies to inaccurate conclusions, so let’s break down what hints have been dropped and where they might lead.
For starters, I have to immediately point out a huge mistake in the English translation in “Here You Are”. Near the end of the episode, after everything, Shigure says something along the lines of wishing that Akito would teach them all a lesson. This is a complete mistranslation of the line in the manga and absolutely changes the context of the scene. What he actually says is closer to something like, “It would be better if [Akito] would realize quickly.”
I’m not sure how such an incredibly inaccurate translation made the official subtitles, but I hope it’s something Crunchyroll corrects. Shigure is meant to come off as a bit sinister at points, and it’s clear he has his own agenda and isn’t above using the kids in order to achieve his goals. But this scene in the anime makes him seem downright evil, especially considering this is in direct response to Akito nearly taking Yuki’s eye out. This is a total reversal from his previous behavior, where he’s obviously wanted Akito to learn a lesson.
“Here You Are” is such a big episode for Yuki. He skipped last year’s banquet so that Tohru wouldn’t be alone, but this year he not only he attended, he also forgave Akito. This is a huge thing for him, because he has been terrified of Akito for years, and by refusing to blame Akito for being abusive, Yuki is moving on from the past and taking charge of his own destiny. I still think Akito totally deserves every bit of blame, but Yuki is recognizing that holding onto those feelings is holding him back, and he is therefore choosing to let those go. Good for him.
Kureno, set apart from the rest of the Zodiac, doesn’t even get a seat at the banquet. But also look at how everyone is gathered around Ayame.
However, something about this moment makes Akito lash out, stabbing at Yuki with a broken bottle. Yuki here is compared to a younger Kureno. We know something is up with Kureno, from how he’s allowed himself to be submissively by Akito’s side to how he’s isolated from the rest of the Zodiac. There has been some indication that Kureno knows how to break the curse, and I think this scene is our biggest clue. Akito recognizes something in Yuki’s eyes and worries that Yuki will leave like Kureno. But Kureno hasn’t left at all. Kureno is the Soma who is most entrenched in the Zodiac, as he is at Akito’s beck and call. Could Kureno have tried to leave at one point, and that is what made Akito snap?
While we’re still sort of on the subject, I love the scene with Yuki and Hatori. I get so excited when various members of the Zodiac interact, particularly those who don’t often spend time together. No doubt Hatori is remembering what happened to him as he patches Yuki up, and them apologizing to each other is extremely touching.
Likewise, I love Yuki and Machi’s interactions. The scene where Yuki recognizes the maple leaf bookmark and Machi tries to act like it’s no big deal was one of my favorites of the episode. But more importantly, Machi realized quite possibly before anyone else how lonely Yuki was, that he was putting up a front and doesn’t like all of the attention he gets. Yuki, in turn, is slowly helping Machi come out of her depression. Through him, she is learning more about herself – such as her favorite color – and being included in things when others just brush her off.
I like the way they portray Machi’s depression – with her messy apartment, the broken window, not changing her clothes, and the way she feels empty. It was extremely relatable. Depression drains you and slowly robs you of your life and hobbies and things that make you happy, so Machi feeling like she lives a blank existence is something that a lot of people can sympathize with.
It’s also very similar to how Yuki was at the beginning of the series. I remember being surprised to see how messy Yuki’s room was, with how well put together he comes across. But also, Kakeru had explained how he and Machi were pitted against each other to be the heir; Kakeru’s mother removed him from the situation, but it seems Machi “failed” and was discarded. Her mother is still demanding and doesn’t realize what this is doing to her daughter. This is just like the way Yuki was cast aside by everyone for not being “perfect”.
Honestly, there’s very little I don’t like about Fruits Basket. (Except Akito. F— Akito.) But in terms of “Here You Are”, I enjoyed the little moments we saw between Tohru and Kyo. Her playfully hitting him with the pompom on her scarf after he said she was adorable. His overblown reaction to her mentioning Hanajima and Kazuma was hilarious. I also love that they’re spending the New Year with Kazuma rather than alone.
It’s these little moments that serve to show how much their relationship has developed in the past year. They are so comfortable around each other in a way they weren’t before. This comfort level has been growing throughout the season, and it’s scenes like this that highlight that quite well.
Other things that I liked about this episode:
Hatori being absolutely done with dancing, and also being noticeably upset at the idea that Shigure is dating Mayuko again.
On the subject of Hatori, he removed the photo of Kana from his desk!
Ritsu! I really wish Ritsu was in the series more. I love how he’s so in awe of Ayame.
Speaking of Ayame, I mentioned this in the caption of one of the photos, but I think it’s interesting to see how naturally everyone gravitates towards Ayame when they’re all together, leaving Akito mostly alone.
Ayame in general. He’s just too much at all times, but I particularly loved him dramatically appearing just as Yuki and Hatori were talking about him.
Kazuma for father of the year.
Author: Jamie Sugah
Jamie has a BA in English with a focus in creative writing from The Ohio State University. She self-published her first novel, The Perils of Long Hair on a Windy Day, which is available through Amazon. She is currently an archivist and lives in New York City with her demon ninja vampire cat. She covers television, books, movies, anime, and conventions in the NYC area.
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The Soul of Economics Is the Market Process
Vincent Geloso
– November 18, 2019 Reading Time: 3 minutes
Transaction costs are a big deal in economics. A really big deal. First discussed formally by Ronald Coase, who won the Nobel in economics in 1991, these costs are basically barriers to trade. They invoke the idea that markets are costly to use and that the institutional arrangements that we devise (e.g. laws, firms, families, organizations, charities, etc.) are meant to generate the most wealth net of these costs. The very idea of transaction costs has had a profound effect on the economics profession as, according to some, it spoke to why seemingly “inefficient” arrangements could persist and actually be the best available arrangements.
However, they also entail something else that is probably of greater importance. Transaction costs are barriers to trade that make us poorer than we otherwise would be (as they constrain our choices). But, because they are barriers to trade, transaction costs generate incentives for their own reduction. If they are reduced, they unleash new potential exchanges that increase wealth. This is why Ronald Coase once said that “the provision of markets is an entrepreneurial activity and has a long history.”.
Notice a subtlety here. Rather than taking transaction costs as the endpoint of analysis, we take transaction costs as the starting point. When this is done, we can observe entrepreneurs at any point in time find the most efficient solutions available to them while they also look for equally efficient (but less constrained) arrangements at later points in time. That, at the very least, is the case that we lay out in a recent article in the European Journal of Law and Economics.
At first glance, this may seem like a trivial point to make. However, first glances can be deceiving. This point speaks to the heart of what defines the craft of the economist.
When economics is taught at more advanced levels in colleges and universities, the bulk of the emphasis goes to explaining how people maximize under constraints and how this creates equilibriums. The mathematics involved with those teachings are used largely for pedagogical purposes. They are necessary for students to deal with theoretical abstractions so that they can train their minds to reason with “all else being equal” Absent these theoretical foundations that are rooted in pedagogical purposes, one will struggle to master the craft of economics.
This is what Ronald Coase called “blackboard economics” to refer to the imaginary world that we create for pedagogical purposes. The danger with “blackboard economics” is that it becomes easy to simply take the assumptions for granted rather than do “applied work” that tests their relevance.
This latter sort of work is crucial in forcing economists to ground themselves in the real world to assess the relevance of what was drawn on the blackboard. Going too much in the direction of doing applied work without theory offers a downside too. When it happens, one begins to operate without theory which makes his findings ungeneralizable and, by definition, without relevance.
The balance to strike between the two is what we are trying to argue for. By starting from existing transaction costs, we assume that people found the best possible arrangements given those costs. However, by arguing that economic actors are forward-looking, we are also making the case that these actors are finding ways to unlock previously unavailable exchanges by reducing these costs. This is what economist Israel Kirzner called the “entrepreneurial market process”.
The study of the “market process” is the very essence of what it means to do economics. It means that one must wield the tools of economics without being afraid to do applied work (either through empirical work, analytical narratives, economic history or experimental settings). This ties the theory to real-world relevance which, simultaneously, gives relevance to empirical work.
However, and most importantly, this study of the market process is the study of how humanity got richer. Long periods of stable income or stagnant living standards are simply prolonged equilibriums. They are not without interest. However, they pale when compared with the skyrocketing increase in living standards that began circa 1800. The process of economic change is about how economic actors invest to alleviate the constraints they face by reducing transaction costs in order to grow richer.
The study of the process of creating markets is the soul of economics.
Rosolino Candela is the co-author of this piece
Vincent Geloso, senior fellow at AIER, is an assistant professor of economics at King’s University College. He obtained a PhD in Economic History from the London School of Economics.
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Sheriff Alex Villanueva
LA Sheriff Villanueva’s Perplexing Views on Violence in the County Jail System Concerns Experts & Causes 2 Department Commanders to Be Relieved of Duty
Written by Celeste Fremon
As most readers know by now, last Wednesday morning Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva, who has now been in office for almost exactly two months, held a “State of the Department” press conference, at which he told members of the LA media and everyone else who watched the event via the LASD Facebook page, that LA County’s jails are far, far more dangerous today than they were five years ago, before his predecessor Jim McDonnell arrived on the scene.
To strengthen his claim, the sheriff referred to a series of large, dramatic charts.
According to Villanueva, in 2013, force inside the jails was at a reasonable level, and the numbers for deputy force and inmate force were in close correlation. When inmates used force, deputies used force back. All was in balance.
But after 2013, said the sheriff, force began to rise, and kept rising stratospherically due to what he said were a series of ill-thought-out jail reforms.
He pointed to the fact that 2013 was the year when former sheriff Lee Baca hired Terri McDonald to take over the department’s custody division, and McDonnell, he said, put into place a grand “social experiment,” after which time “no one paid attention to the outcomes” that all this experimenting wrought.
As Villanueva explained it, the “social experiment,” along with additional policy changes he said were instituted in 2015 by then newly elected sheriff Jim McDonnell, caused violence to skyrocket, precipitating a 99 percent rise in force by deputies on inmates, between the years of 2013 and 2018, and a staggering 204 percent increase of violence by inmates on deputies during that same period—with inmate on inmate violence, also on the rise.
“Someone literally thought it was a good idea to tell the deputies to put their hands in their pockets,” said Villanueva. “And it backfired massively.”
Meanwhile, the department wasn’t “measuring what’s important,” said Villanueva, “which is the safety of the jails.”
Villanueva also told the audience that, under his predecessor’s administration, “staff weren’t allowed to defend themselves.” And if they did defend themselves, “it would be at the cost of their careers.”
He said that a certain kind of force by inmates against staff known as “gassing,” was not even being counted by the department at all anymore, a statement that the Office of the Inspector General and others disputed.
“Gassing” is the term used to describe an unpleasant form of assault used increasingly by some inmates (most particularly those who are mentally ill), which consists of throwing liquid and the like, often urine, on deputies or other jail staff.
The sheriff’s statements and his charts illustrating the rise in violence in the jails were unquestionably dramatic and provocative.
But did they accurately reflect the facts of the matter?
According to various sources WitnessLA spoke with, a number of the things Sheriff Villanueva said last Wednesday about violence in the county’s jail system were curiously off base.
Yet, to understand why those most familiar with jail violence reform in Los Angeles County were so baffled by the new sheriff’s statements, it helps to take a quick look back at some of the bad old days at the LA County jail system.
A brief historical review
In the fall of 2011, a difficult to ignore report from the ACLU, plus a string of investigative news stories (including those by WitnessLA), plus some other factors, like the December 2010 brawl between factions of deputies who worked at Men’s Central Jail, finally persuaded the powers that be in Los Angeles County, along with much of the public, to conceded that there might be a problematic “culture of violence” inside the nation’s largest jail system.
This admission resulted in the appointment of a blue ribbon Citizens Commissions on Jail Violence (CCJV), which—as its name suggested—was created to examine the issue of violence in LA County’s jails.
After months of hearings, in September 2012 the CCJV released a long and scathing report, which described a “persistent pattern of unnecessary and excessive use of force,” in the jails, particularly in Men’s Central Jail.
“Multiple witnesses,” the CCJV commissioners wrote, “both inmates and non-inmates, described numerous instances in which LASD personnel used force when no threat was present, used force disproportionate to the threat posed, used force after the threat had ended, or enabled inmates to assault other inmates.”
Furthermore, the commissioners wrote, most of the force used by deputies in the five years previous to their report was “Significant Force.”
In the year 2011 alone, 81% of all force incidents at Men’s Central Jail were categorized as “Significant Force,” which often meant broken bones or other injuries in the inmates on the receiving end.
Yet, despite the troubling force stats, the commission also made it clear that force incidents in custody were alarmingly under-reported by the department, that inmates were frequently threatened or put into isolation, to keep them from filing complaints, and that force incidents that were written up, were often stashed unread on shelves and in drawers until it was too late for an investigation.
At the end of their 194-page report, the CCJV made a series of recommendations, which included the strong suggestion that the county’s board of Supervisors create an “independent Inspector General’s Office” to provide “comprehensive oversight and monitoring of the department and its jails.”
But, although the members of the county’s board of supervisors were able to institute a few of the recommendations of the CCJV—including the appointment of Inspector General Max Huntsman, who began work on January 2, 2014–none of commissioners’ suggestions were compulsory.
At least that was the case until April 2015, when the settlement of a massive federal class action lawsuit, Rosas v. Baca, resulted in a list of legally mandated reforms and oversight having to do with force and violence inside the jails.
Then a few months later, in August 2015, the LASD and the County of Los Angeles were collectively shoved into a second settlement, this time with the Department of Justice, which alleged that LA County “deprived” inmates in its jails of “rights, privileges or immunities” protected “by the Constitution of the United States.”
The DOJ settlement mandated a significant list of additional reforms that the sheriff’s department had to institute.
To make sure the department complied, the DOJ folks also required the appointment of a monitor to help keep an eye on the required reform.
Attorney Richard Drooyan was named as the federal monitor, and his team has been doing the job ever since.
(Drooyan was the former head of the Los Angeles police commission, a former chief assistant U.S. attorney and—most relevantly—the general counsel for the CCJV.)
The mandated reforms, “were developed in close consultation with national experts,” said Assistant Inspector General Cathleen Beltz. They are also “evidence-based and based on national best practices in corrections. Tremendous progress has been made in the five years we have been monitoring the Department,” Beltz added.
Thus, with all of the above and more in mind, it was unsettling to hear the new sheriff describe the evolving jail reform as an arbitrarily instituted “social experiment” put into place by executives of previous administrations at the expense of deputies.
Even more mystifying was Villanueva’s contention that no one among those monitoring LA County jail reform was measuring what was “important” to him—aka “jail safety.”
Apples and artichokes
Peter Eliasberg, chief counsel of the ACLU of Southern California, was one of those who was startled by the sheriff’s press conference claims.
According to Eliasberg, there are a couple of reasons why the stats the sheriff put on display on Wednesday might be viewed, he said, as “grossly misleading or wrong .”
For one thing, said Eliasberg, Villanueva charted increases in jail force based statistics from a period of time when it was quite well established that “the sheriff’s department was doing a very bad job of reporting force, and tracking uses of force.”
Thus, comparing data from today, said Eliasberg, “when the sheriff’s department is doing a pretty good job of tracking force,” to 2013 stats, when the department was notoriously lax, “will not create a true picture.”
The sheriff, Eliasberg said, “isn’t comparing apples to apples” because, among other reasons, “as a matter of policy the department wasn’t tracking certain kinds of minor incidents of force back in 2013. But those minor kinds of force “are tracked now,” he said, thus pushing up force numbers.
For instance, said Eliasberg, there is a weirdly-named category of minor force now tracked called “wiggle force,” which can be something as harmless as grabbing an inmate’s arm if he or she trips.
Eliasberg also took issue with Villanueva’s statement that deputies aren’t allowed to defend themselves.
“If this is what the sheriff is saying it’s extraordinarily troubling,” he said. “I know the Rosas decree very well, and there’s not a single thing in there that suggests deputies can’t defend themselves. In fact it’s made very clear that they can.”
What deputies can’t do, and they used to do, he added, “is to take an inmate who is immobilized and on the ground, and just wail on him, then lie about it, and try to put a case on the inmate.”
There used to be a lot of those incidents, he said, “a lot—some of which provided the basis for members of the sheriff’s department going to federal prison,.
But, the idea that either consent decree—Rosas or that of the DOJ—prevents deputies from doing good policing in custody “is just ridiculous,” Eliasberg said.
Other experts on the topic of LA County jail reform were similarly perplexed by many of the sheriff’s statements—and by his numbers.
“The types of problematic, serious uses of force and physical abuse that characterized the jails in the past, have reduced significantly,” said Cathleen Beltz of the IG’s Office.
And while most conceded that there is definitely evidence of incorrect and inconsistent data gathering by the department when it comes to measuring all three types of force, (inmate on inmate, inmate on staff, and staff on inmate), this is hardly news, as the issue was documented in detail in the Inspector General’s 2017 report on the matter.
Founded allegations and otherwise
Although certainly Sheriff Villanueva talked about other less inflammatory topics at the press conference last Wednesday—such as the costly effect on staffing shortages and deputy morale of too many relieved-of-duty personnel, and the measurable public safety reasons behind his policy of not allowing sheriff’s deputies to become an extension of ICE—it was his discussion of violence in the jails, and a new set of statements about the controversial rehiring of Deputy Carl Mandoyan, that drew the most fire from critics.
Then it was time to talk about Mandoyan, the sheriff invited Steve Gross, Chief of the LASD’s South Patrol Division, to the podium.
Gross told the crowd that he and others reviewed all the facts of Mandoyan’s case, and “analyzed the civil service findings.”
An “ad hoc committee” then determined that some the findings in the case were “founded,” said Gross, and “we upheld those findings.” Whereas, some of the other findings the group “found to be ‘unresolved.”
Interestingly, Chief Gross did not say that the “ad-hoc” group determined any of the civil service findings against Mandoyan to be “unfounded.”
The group simply concluded, said Gross, that the “allegations” against Mandoyan, “did not rise to termination in our opinion.”
As WitnessLA reported last week, Deputy Mandoyan will not wave his rights to privacy in order that the board of supervisors can examine the files of his case.
Sheriff Villanueva blamed the members of the board of supervisors and what he called their “grandstanding,” for Deputy Mandoyan’s decision not to cooperate.
Yet, the controversy around Mandoyan shows no signs of abating.
On Saturday, Supervisor Sheila Kuehl’s weekly message to constituents included the observation that to let deputies such as Mandoyan back on the force “sends a horrific message to victims who have finally summoned the courage to file a report, as well as all the women serving in the department, women in the custody of the Sheriff in our jails, and the public as a whole…”
Post Script: shooting the messenger
In the days since the press conference, four separate sources have confirmed to WitnessLA that, in the last week, Sheriff Villanueva has caused two commanders in the custody division of the department to be relieved of duty at his request. At least one of the two commanders was reportedly ROD because he did not produce the kind of dramatic jail force data the new sheriff wanted for his recent press conference, much of which has been subsequently disputed
Word on The Yard... says:
First, let’s not glance over or try to down play “gassing”, which is defined as “means intentionally placing or throwing, or causing to be placed or thrown, upon the person of another, any human excrement or other bodily fluids or bodily substances or any mixture containing human excrement or other bodily fluids or bodily substances that results in actual contact with the person’s skin or membranes.” This is one of the worst kinds of attacks against custody staff due to the infectious disease risk and indignity it brings.
There has been an increase in these types of attacks. In response, the Department went to re-writing force policies and using threats as a means to deter the staff from using force. These policies were zeously enforced by the last two regimes against the staff to reduce force at the expense of the staffs safety, well being and morale. The Department put in place such restrictive modifications to the force policy, and coupled with it’s over zealous interpretation by executives has left low level members unprotected and prone to punitive disciplinary action.
So, Sheriff AV is on the right track. It’s just that his view is a realistic one versus the narrative that DOJ, ACLU and anti-law enforcement types want you to believe. Why do you think recruitment is so difficult, especially in the jails?
Joe Nobuckles says:
The crooked media and pseudo journalist fail to mention gassing is a serious offense, an assault punishable by incarceration:
California Code, Penal Code – PEN § 243.9
(a) Every person confined in any local detention facility who commits a battery by gassing upon the person of any peace officer, as defined in Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 830 ) of Title 3 of Part 2, or employee of the local detention facility is guilty of aggravated battery and shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail or by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three, or four years.
(b) For purposes of this section, “gassing” means intentionally placing or throwing, or causing to be placed or thrown, upon the person of another, any human excrement or other bodily fluids or bodily substances or any mixture containing human excrement or other bodily fluids or bodily substances that results in actual contact with the person’s skin or membranes.
(c) The person in charge of the local detention facility shall use every available means to immediately investigate all reported or suspected violations of subdivision (a), including, but not limited to, the use of forensically acceptable means of preserving and testing the suspected gassing substance to confirm the presence of human excrement or other bodily fluids or bodily substances. If there is probable cause to believe that the inmate has violated subdivision (a), the chief medical officer of the local detention facility, or his or her designee, may, when he or she deems it medically necessary to protect the health of an officer or employee who may have been subject to a violation of this section, order the inmate to receive an examination or test for hepatitis or tuberculosis or both hepatitis and tuberculosis on either a voluntary or involuntary basis immediately after the event, and periodically thereafter as determined to be necessary by the medical officer in order to ensure that further hepatitis or tuberculosis transmission does not occur. These decisions shall be consistent with an occupational exposure as defined by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The results of any examination or test shall be provided to the officer or employee who has been subject to a reported or suspected violation of this section. Nothing in this subdivision shall be construed to otherwise supersede the operation of Title 8 (commencing with Section 7500 ). Any person performing tests, transmitting test results, or disclosing information pursuant to this section shall be immune from civil liability for any action taken in accordance with this section.
(d) The person in charge of the local detention facility shall refer all reports for which there is probable cause to believe that the inmate has violated subdivision (a) to the local district attorney for prosecution.
(e) Nothing in this section shall preclude prosecution under both this section and any other provision of law.
Um says:
What “kind” of data was the sheriff looking for? Is there more than one “kind?” No one was ROD for not providing stats. We are debating two different kinds of issues re the jail use of force. One issue was Baca’s total indifference to the corruption of use of force by a number of violent and misled deputies. This had to be addressed as all those in charge, when Baca was in office, refused to enforce department policies. Please note that had it not been from A/S Bob Olmsted none of these abuses would have come to light. Second, has use of force risen against deputies? Since HOJJ was built in 1926 the Grand Jury would routinely condemn the jails. Why aren’t they fixed, we’ve had plenty of time. There are 1, 500 vacancies and would it help to fill these spots?
The first issue has been corrected as the old regimes have been put in jail, retired or voted out. Second issue, there’s a disconnect between the consent decree and the true polices that are in place. Perception V. Reality is the problem. We are debating two basic truths. Sheriff AV is correct that the use of force against deputies has gone up and this obviously made it dangerous for everyone. And second, the consent decree has not caused the rise in force. GET THIS IN YOUR HEADS!
True that the consent decree does not imply that deputies cannot defend themselves; so why do deputies feel that they cannot defend themselves or lose their jobs? This would be a great opportunity for those who set policy that what is set, in policy, is being carried out. We all want a safe jail environment but, once again, there’s a disconnect. Note: Mr. Eliasberg needs to put on a uniform and work inmate reception or with the mentally criminal violent and have fecal and urine thrown on him. It’s an experience that you don’t forget! Celeste, you failed to describe “gassing” in its true form. Does having urine and fecal thrown on you affect the deputies emotionally? Just part of the job? No, it’s not! It’s a hazard of the job and policies must be put in place to protect everyone. BTW: Who cleans up the crap? Who lives with this crap(literally) day in and night out? Why isn’t this counted in stats? Sounds like the commission is trying to fix the stats, doesn’t it?
Good that wta has accurately reported that Mandoyan will not forego his rights. We can guess as to the reason but have you spoken to him? This ad-hoc committee should help with making a decision. Once again giving people back their jobs is not new. Block gave a guy back his job that was DUI in a patrol car and Baca promoted him to Lieutenant. I could go on and on. We need to enforce consistent application of policy.
It will take six months to a year to determine how force is being used. If Sheriff AV is correct we will give a sigh of relief. If not we can always go back to the past administration’s misrepresentation of stats.
Bill Dough. says:
Thank you Carl. Hope you’re having a blessed day as righteously persecuted Deps are still at home and you, the stalker, are on your way back. Maybe we should look into your donation gathering Carl.
Come on, bro, the hate is not going to help, let’s stick to the facts…
Sour Grapes says:
Celeste, please manage this blog and delete comments such @Bill Doug’s personal attacks as its obvious he’s got a personal issue with the individual. It’s not related to the article, work related or even constructive. His/her comments are strictly attacking and disperaging in nature and uncalled for.
These comments take away from the purpose of this blog.
Tattle much?
@Bill Dough
I’d respect you more if I thought you were man/women enough to tell the individual to their face as apose to writing demeaning comments about them behind several different screen names.
I would venture to guess and most likely be accurate to assume that you wouldn’t have the gumption or courage to do either. Therefor, your slanderous, demeaning and disrespectful childish comments are not warranted anywhere.
Remember, Karma is not a fun experience. Please have some consideration before demeaning anyone. I would defend you the same if the roles were reversed.
Whophantom says:
Here’s a suggestion for truth & transparency, let the suits and reporters work the jail for a few months while deputies watch and report.
Cronyism Prevails says:
Anyone else notice that Steve Gross was promoted from Commander to Chief around the time he brought Villanueva-campaign-supporter-and-driver Mandoyan back with over two years’ back pay?
Who would you promote or bring back to help you if you were the sheriff? Your enemies, your critics, the deputy who would not show up to back you up when requesting back up? The guy who would routinely front you off challenging your plan of action? So, who would you promote?
When I read “UM’s” comments it is truly scary. This is Alex’s writer and this is how Alex thinks. What you see is union thug mentality and a complete lack of care for the citizens of Los Angeles including our inmates who are in our custody and care. No matter their crimes, they are not our adversaries. This is the same mentality of a former Undersheriff now in federal custody. I’m sure some deputies read your comments and look forward to policing with no oversight. We have all heard your new direction that the handcuffs are now off. But most deputies and the public see this as a serious problem and we fear what is to come next. Your attempt at trying to redirect the focus of the article shows your juvenile understanding of the real issues. This is a crisis and burying your head in the sand with political babble is not going to stop the inevitable. This administration is in big trouble if they don’t get some common sense real soon. Very well written article Celeste.
I really doubt you are a deputy working on the sheriff’s department, if you were you would understand, yet, you may be one of those who were riding the train and drinking McBuckles cool-aid. So now the bus crashed against Alex Villanueva fortress you are angry, that I can understand.
That’s Alex writing that
I know who you are 924, you cross the line with your personal attacks, stick to the facts that you know, than you can prove should you ever be called upon..
You were almost interesting!
Pat Rolman says:
@SMH…re: post on 02/24/19, 0939 Hrs. Not sure of your affiliation, whether LASD or not. Nonetheless, if you have not worked a custody facility or patrol, you are clueless as to what we go through. Evidently, you are scared by someone’s comments? Can I venture to state that you are a SJW and prefer to have a “touchy feely” environment where, “can’t we all just get along” is the focus? It is not union thug mentality or a lack of care for the citizens of L.A., nor a way of “policing with no oversight.” It is however, trying to establish a path for Deputy personnel to work within the SOP’s, while also being given the latitude to defend /perform their duties, against assaultive inmates, whether they are our adversaries or not. The previous administration created a hostile, non-conducive, “walking on egg shells” environment. Further, the necessary tools and or support system was anemic at best. Furthermore, a divide & conquer (Art of War), approach was initiated (i.e., removal of station insignia). While also promoting a harsh disciplinary system for line personnel, while executives (i.e., stating falsehoods) were immune from the aforementioned. Moreover, the fiscal management was atrocious. For example, $300k to replace the silver keepers / belt buckles to brass and the justification was “to provide a command presence.” Moreover, bypassing the procurement process to purchase an SUV etc., etc. I can continue, however I am sure you get the picture SMH.
It is very interesting to see how all the people who were against Alex Villanueva for sheriff are still fighting him, along with the political class, aided by the corrupt, dishonest pseudo journalist, the type of LA Times. No wonder the LA Times has been losing ground and soon will be a distant memory.
Alex Villanueva was elected by the people, and he is widely supported by his deputes, who are now doing what it takes to support him. I routinely hear lots of deputies saying they are excited about the sheriff’s vision and want to support him by policing themselves to prevent another Jim McDonnell, Terry McDonald, or Diana Teran from ever coming to destroy their lives.
Who are the 2 Commanders?
The laughing policeman says:
I believe one is Elihu Morejon
Maj Kong says:
Celeste doesn’t do the whole “unbiased reporting” thing very well, I guess in all fairness not too many do anymore, it seems to have gone out of fashion. At least you can see where she’s coming from a mile away, and it’s pretty obvious she doesn’t like the new Sheriff very much. Celeste is in tune with an old-timey kind of classic liberal ideology that she shares with the current Los Angeles establishment. This is a good indicator that the Sheriff can expect a lot of hostility from the likes of the BOS and LA media going forward.
I find myself rooting fore the new Sheriff as he kicks a few political insider snouts out of the public trough. Constitutional policing “experts”, compliance attorneys, and the like, it’s fun to watch them squeal when they get booted from their phoney-baloney jobs. Unfortunately they do tend to be well connected politically and will no doubt make as much trouble as possible for our new Sheriff.
Right on Maj Kong…
The hypocrisy, the cherry picking when it suits this political hacks: “For instance, said Eliasberg, there is a weirdly-named category of minor force now tracked called “wiggle force,” which can be something as harmless as grabbing an inmate’s arm if he or she trips.”
This is an example of the disconnect this so-called justice warriors suffer from. Alex Villanueva has criticized this type of use force, which has had the negative effect of scaring deputies from touching an inmate as it will be considered use force, forcing deputies to put their hands in their pockets. A deputy with too many “wiggles” uses of force would be a detriment to himself and to the sheriff’s department, and when suitable, it would be used against a deputy, as being overly assaultive and aggressive.
Now this ACLU hack thinks that “wiggle” force should be discounted. Why don’t you make up your mind Mr. Elias Berg……?
...With My Own Eyes.... says:
How presumptuous to think he (Mr. Eliasberg) should be endowed with the authority to decide what is and what is not force. Who died and appointed him the all knowing use of force expert and “decider in chief”.
Oh..if this “wiggle force” is in fact dismissed, I can see the lawsuits flowing against the Sheriff’s Department. Who can prove or disprove the inmate, aka client, did not in fact suffer at the hands of big bad deputies causing him to be emotionally and physically scarred for life? We all know, if it was not documented the law and county will err on the side of the inmate and issue a big fact tax-payer funded payout. Mr. Eliasberg and Mrs. Lim who are ACLU attorney’s must surely know all of their fact finding, exposure and finger pointing has led us to this point.
Deputy Sheriff says:
Sheriff Villanueva is doing a great job! The local Media is saying he is reverting back to old ways, this completely false! Perhaps we should have News reporters work these jails for a day and see how the Mcdonnell restrictive policies hinder Deputies and custody assistants! I hope you reporters can come feel how disruptive inmates make our work alot harder and how dangerous it is to walk these tiers now! COME WORK THE JAILS!! SEE FOR YOURSELF
Just tired of the Mess says:
I would say Yes! But not the time you’re referring to. Take it back farther to the Block Days. A day when Deputy’s we’re protected by the liberal wolves, but also received consequences when they were wrong. You notice a lot of the stats talked about were post Block.
Hit ‘em up says:
Yes, especially South! Didn’t an inmate escape a couple days ago. Yes! blame the stupid person who thought having an open facility is a good idea for murderes. Oh wait let’s also give them school to pass dope!
Well said Deputy Sheriff
Ya mama says:
So dramatic. Obviously a newbie to the dept.
McDonnell = Anti Rank and File
Villanueva = Pro Rank and File
“Journalists “ praise McDonnell and vilifiy Villanueva. journalists do not exist anymore, it’s turned into who can create the most drama. It’s a shame that having someone support and actually believe his employees has turned into front page stories.
Reality v. Perception says:
You nailed it. The issue as it relates to the use of force in the jail concerns the proper use and analysis of data. AV gets what McDonnell, the BOS, the LA Times, and others fail to grasp. The attached link leads to a law enforcement article that expands on your points about data. Ironically, it was written by an LASD member and published during the McDonnell administration.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0032258X16678422?journalCode=pjxa
Los Angeles County Taxpayer says:
It would be nice to hear from the public citizens in addition to what the Board of Supervisors had to say.
Funny how the internal brouhaha in LASD reigns supreme on this blog with many of you who want to crucify the messengers, especially the local one’s, i..e L.A. Times and WLA.
The same whiners here condemned the messengers when Pandora’s Box was exposed instead of saying “thank you very much”.
This too, shall pass.
Honored says:
All Patrol, custody and court deputies on the front lines all support Sheriff Villanueva. The locker room talk is insane. So much positive feedback. Deputies are actually happy coming to work. The people putting AV down on this thread are either to high up in the chain of command that they are just bitter that he’s changing things. He’s going against them and the media. People who don’t actually know what we go through day in and day out on the line will never understand. People become out of touch and forget what it’s like to work and make split second decisions that can affect your entire career. Civilians writing policy and putting in their two cents about force. SMH. Let a K-10- Level 9, Level 8 inmate (repeat violent offenders) assault you and see what you would do. Walk a day in our shoes. We have families too and would like to go home to them at the end of shift. Thank you again AV for helping the custody line guys. AV has been Sheriff for 2 months and they want him to make a miracle. Give it time guys. The truth and all the evidence against the bad apples will come to light. Believe that! Continue to operate on FACTS Sir, not allegations and assumptions.
“All patrol, custody and court deputies on the frontline all support Sheriff Villanueva”.
Wow! With all due respect to Alex, you covered every deputy on the department to approve the Sheriff, which is a first. You stated what ALADS could never do with a 100% deputy participation culminating in with ALL deputies humming “Oh Do Da Day”.
You Sir, get the trophy for due diligence in researching the opinion of EVERY frontline deputy in LASD. Amazing!
Ha! says:
Speak for yourself.
He doesn’t have all of our support.
Read between the lines and totally grasp it relates to the post above mine by “Honored”.
Your response should be directed to him.
LASD Apostle says:
Ownership, the two commanders are Elier Morejon and Dan Dyer.
They were also told to retire ASAP so as not to be disciplined and damage their reputation. And I’m sure AV doesn’t want them fighting any discipline at Civil Service either.
Thanks for the info.. the best part on these stupid articles was missing…
Gone says:
This is sad news. I wish them the best and hope it all works out!
I agree, this is terrible. The Rams didn’t score one touchdown. Can’t believe it
It was rigged..lol
Circus says:
Clowns.
From the top all the way down to the bottom. Get hired by the LASD and get a job under the circus tent. How far such a proud organization has fallen.
All these super smart execs pandering to the next person who can further their career instead of just doing their job regardless of who has the fifth star. Embarrassing.
Dos Centavos says:
Si Senor,
Correctamundo!
Hola y adios says:
I agree that circus show ended in dec. 2018. There is a new sheriff who is for the department and the people, great point
Sgt Bilko says:
Watched the video of the news conference. As a former Academy D.I., I could not get my eyes off the Sheriff’s collar. WTF happened to Spiffy Spring Collar Stays? His collar points looked like they would start flapping in the wind.
Not in my platoon Buster!
Found out they don’t make Spiffy’s any more (showing my age), but http://www.reliable-world-trade.com/product/uecs2201s-collar-stay-spring-type/
It’s funny, the times once a very well respected news paper has fallen to its lowest, they only report a 1/4 of the truth, for some of us who saw the video not only once but three times to pick apart all statements given by sheriff Villanueva, all I can say is that MCD command has been the worst ever, and what’s funny the times backed MCD so they will never report anything positive the sheriff has done, the LA times should not take sides, but they have no shame, they have been become an embarrassment.
Charlie Unit says:
For a brief moment let’s get back to the article, “Perplexing Views.” And as independent journalists and writers go, most will concede that Ms. Fremon has a superb journalistic record. Which makes the “Perplexing Views” article a disappointment from a technical and substantive perspective.
For example, one plain way to detect tilt in writing is to look out for over-the-top verbs, adverbs, and adjectives in sentences. Ms. Fremon’s article detonated a number of them in characterizing Sheriff Villanueva’s approach to data in custody facilities, including: “dramatic… stratospherically…grand…skyrocket…staggering…off base…inflammatory…mystifying.” These were her terms, not the sheriff’s. Of course we all do this, but not all of us are journalists. I’m uncertain where in the mind the tilt originates, but it occurs in the Times’ reporting on the new sheriff as well. There is some kind of visceral, emotional reaction people are working up in themselves. It’s odd. Anyway, the effect of this writing is subtle on the eye but its cumulative effect is often to mischaracterize a person’s argument or perspective as extreme, outrageous, even shocking. It doesn’t treat the subject of journalistic reporting fairly and charitably. In some cases, it represents bad faith and carries water for other non-neutral interests.
Second, there are substantive issues around the “Perplexing Views” article. Ms. Fremon writes in relevant part,
“According to various sources we spoke with, a number of the things Sheriff Villanueva said last Wednesday about violence in the county’s jail system were curiously off base. Yet, to understand why those most familiar with jail violence reform in Los Angeles County were so baffled by the new sheriff’s statements, it helps to take a quick look back at some of the bad old days at the LA County jail system.”
First, the few sources she did cite obviously have a direct interest in continuing the data model they created, and appear to assume with utter ontological certainty that their position is not merely the politically and legally correct solution, it is morally superior to any competing position the new sheriff could be proposing. (That the sheriff might have some good ideas is absurd, regressive, and a non-starter.) Remember, the few sources cited from the article are among the citadels of professional rectitude in Los Angeles and, as Ms. Fremon concedes without challenge, no one is more familiar with these jail reform issues than her sources: Cathleen (“evidence-based”) Beltz, Peter (“wiggle force”) Eliasberg.
May I suggest that a problem here is having the discipline or energy to conduct a proper research investigation, like working a forensic case. This involves not taking very much for granted and going out to think through the flaws of the positions of the arguments being provided, not swallowing hook, line, and sinker the entirety of the data-driven philosophy (in fact, there has been a raging debate in this area). There was virtually no skepticism within the “Perplexing Views” article that one might expect from a seasoned, independent, gumshoe journalist of Celeste Fremon’s stature. No interviewing of LE agencies successfully employing Sheriff Villanueva’s constitutional policing equilibrium theory in custody situations. No interviewing the sheriff. No interviewing skeptical philosophers of social science or economists explaining how what the LASD is doing under Ms. Beltz and Mr. Eliasberg are creating a host of non-trivial alternative costs in productive activities, not least is health and safety. What is more astounding is that no deputies or citizen inmates were interviewed for first-person accounts of the (ahem) success of Ms. Beltz’ and Mr. Eliasberg’s data policy. Indeed, the notion of alternative costs imposed on law enforcement personnel and the public in tracking Mr. Eliasberg’s “wiggle force,” and other phenomena, was not even referenced probably because the assumption is that there are zero costs to Ms. Beltz’ and Mr. Eliasberg’s scheme, or they are trivial. They would not be alone in this view. But they are wrong in their assumption as several posts have already alluded. And any good economist would point that out. (btw, I am using the term ‘cost’ here in a technical sense that I won’t define here.)
A more thorough review and analysis could be provided of the article but piling on is not my gig. This is a friendly post. From my years of reading and analyzing her work, Ms. Fremon is a fine journalist. I think however in this case she allowed her independence and intellect to be influenced (maybe even captured) by establishment interests. Due diligence and journalistic fairness were not provided to Dr. Villanueva. But he is a big boy, and I suspect he and his team will just keep on advancing the reform agenda. As the people of Los Angeles elected him to do.
Amén Charlie unit, right on…
Ok Charles, your dialogue tells us that your major and minor for college education was in English and Political Science, hooray.
Your format is awfully similar to someone else who contributed to this blog not so long ago presumably under another screen name, no biggie.
Just my humble suggestion by throwing this out there, which is by apppealing to Sheriff Villanueva, maybe he could use you as his Press Secretary and if you’re not connected, the Los Angeles Unified School District could use your assistance or perhaps Sandra Huckabee, Good luck.
The Past says:
@Charlie Unit, while I agree with your observation that Witness LA & Celeste have a slant, it’s hardly a revelation. I found your post wholly pendantic, I was exhausted after reading it, a primer for the next high school debate contest. Sheriff Villanueva could have offered a jail violence critique far short of his standard vilification of those from the past. Unfortunately he does this while ignoring substantial historical facts which make him look very awkward at the very least. Celeste’s written observations are neither overtly inflammatory or unfair, simply statements of history & context.
Starlight Scope says:
Agreed to @ The Past
Past, at least I got him/her to break it up in to a few paragraphs this time!
I call BS on your claims. Celeste’s article unfortunately lacked any effort to elicit a response or opinion from someone who supports the sheriff’s efforts. Predictably, those she interviewed have an enormous self interest in propping up the failed status quo and alternative “facts” peddled by the failed M & M crew (McDonald and McDonnell). Villanueva correctly diagnosed and identified the elephant in the room, and those who spent years pretending it didn’t exist are now aghast – no surprise here.
Since the history issue is raised, let me speak to it. Recently re-read the documents referred to in the article (Rosas, 85pp; CCJV 22pp; and IG 13pp). These are of course appropriate docs for the article, and two of them in particular document some of the troubling history during a period of time when the LASD was misled—had bad and corrupt leadership. The public needs only to review the heroic testimony of then commander Bob Olmsted to understand what was at stake in that era (e.g., see Rosas, pp. 59-63).
However, history has a Janus-like aspect. One aspect is what was presented in the article and in the testimony of Ms. Beltz and Mr. Eliasberg. They, and presumably Ms. Fremon, are offering us Santayana’s warning about history: those who cannot (or choose not to) remember the past are condemned to repeat it. It is a fair warning. But there is another aspect of history that some (Beltz, Eliasberg, the Times, and others) are failing to pay attention to: What people remember about the past can radically inhibit or warp their judgment about the present or future, cloud the imagination, prevent the ability to see new variables at work, paralyze them in non-productive ways (see the work of Tversky and Kahneman). In general terms, there is a model of production in the jails that may not fit the current circumstances or those in the near future. Yet when the sheriff makes this claim, when he wants more information, not less information around productive activities, in order to restore a plausible equilibrium, he is basically accused of operating outside of the normal curve of rationality. This is an error in thinking on the part of some of his present adversaries. I see nowhere where he is advocating for less accountability, the chief goal of Rosas. Were he or anyone else to somehow turn into a Baca, Tanaka, etc., then I would be arguing the other way.
Beltz, Eliasberg, and many others are to be commended for their original work. It was good and necessary work. But there comes a time, years later, when corrupt leaders have gone and serving time, and after an election such as this last one where the people of Los Angeles get a say. And resistance without concessions to new realities, new leaders, and the rising costs to deputies, staff, and the public born in the over-correction, at that point begins to look like rent-seeking behavior. Fed Up makes this observation below.
Time 4 Change says:
It’s about time the sheriff R.O.D.s those 2 P.T. BOYS Commanders. They have always been in the middle of P.T.s request. They were promoted way above their abilities if it were not for their dirty deeds.
Dear Bill Dough,
I’m so over this. Find a new topic, or I’m no longer going to delete your comments, I’m blocking you.
Block him Celeste! He’ll pop up with another screen name. I commented about him on an earlier post which is up.
Superduty says:
I was at personnel (Block Bldg) today as an old retired man and saw a young man reclaim his Badge/Identity again as a full status deputy, my thought was good for you partner! AV is helping Morale, I have heard more deputies are coming back. This is a truth.
Good for him and we wish him well and God speed.
And 1 says:
Nice, does anyone know how AV is picking these cases.
NoMoreBrassBuckles says:
Sounds like SMH’s comments could have been written by MCD. Now dont be ridiculous. The former sheriff made a true mess of things. Unfortunately, it now falls to the Sheriff to straighten it all out- all while protecting and caring for all. No longer will political correctness and virtue signaling take priority over the rule of law.
MCD was a fraud. His penchant for dishonesty and outright corruption completely undermines any legitimacy of the CCJV. First he identified a problem that didnt really exist, and then he sold the voters on the notion that he was the right man to fix the “problem”. Never mind that he committed serious violations of the law (many even criminal) solely for the purpose of fluffing his own ego and pretending to be a reformer in any true sense of the word.
Now Sheriff Villanueva has pulled back the curtain and revealed the truly dismal state of the department.
And I support Our SHERIFF!
Just Say'n says:
I had hoped for a better start for Sheriff Villanueva, so I am disappointed. The joy of having a home-grown running the organization after the complete internal failings of McDonnell was very uplifting. But in my opinion his missteps have been quite concerning. First, he promotes clearly unqualified people to executive positions. This is compounded by the fact that these people are his cronies. This is despite the fact that one of his main platforms was being against “cronyism.” I also thought it was unwise to dismiss 18 executives saying he was ridding the organization of the “corruption” that had previously existed. Sorry folks, I don’t believe all those folks were “corrupt” – he wanted to make a big splash and make room for all his pals. BUT what he did was loose a lot of institutional knowledge in the process. I think an incremental approach would have been wiser. Dump the real offenders (if you want to say you were ridding the corruption say it then) and then piecemeal out the individuals who he did not want as part of his “team” in favor of those who he did want. In the meantime he could have used the knowledge of the leftovers and incrementally promoted his “preferred” (I use the term in lieu of pals – although certainly not all of his promotees have fallen in to that category) and groomed them for further promotion.
But Sheriff Villanueva seems like the proverbial bull in a china shop – not unlike our president. He just charges in, apparently unaware or uncaring of the consequences of his actions. His initial actions with these promotions set the tone – full speed ahead, damn the torpedoes.
He followed the promotions up with the “meeting” with the lieutenants and above. That was certainly an attention getter for the organization but probably a good introduction to the notion that “There’s a new Sheriff in town.” Good or bad, and he lost a lot of folks that day who felt insulted (perhaps they needed a slap in the face), the bull was on the loose and if you were an unwanted piece of china you were going to get broken. The question still hangs though – did he follow-up with what he preached or is it business as usual????????
Then we have Mandoyan affair. The bull just knocked over a very fine piece of china. Good God, what was he thinking? He was thinking, like Lee Baca, “I’m the Sheriff, I can do anything I want.” and he did. He thought it was no big deal, no one will even know anyway. Well, people DO pay attention and someone blew the whistle. It IS a big deal! And just on the heels of the #MeToo movement! SMDH!
And then the Sheriff doubles down by going to the BOS and confronting them over the issue. Can’t he just leave well enough alone? Instead of helping his case in the issue, he blew it up bigger than it was before. And he later calls THEM grandstanding! The bull is on the run.
In looking at the video of his news conference, Sheriff Villanueva admits that in the FIRST WEEK of his administration he ordered that the wheels start rolling to bring Mandoyan back. Then in the next breath he says this was no sort of pay-back for him being a volunteer/driver/butt boy in his campaign. Oh wait, I’m confused because he said there is many more who have been fired, some much more egregiously. Maybe they should have had all their relatives contribute to his campaign.
I felt for Chief Gross, a dear in the headlights. He couldn’t wait to get away from that podium. How about a few questions from the reporters. Like: What part of the investigation did you find founded? Stalking ?(with the video of Mandoyan trying to climb in her window – maybe he was trying to fix her screen), Domestic violence? (with the photos of bruising). How about: At what point did your “committee” conduct your review? Before or after he was rehired? Before or after you and all the members were promoted? No wonder he exited stage right asap.
And now we have two Commanders ROD. Interesting from a number of perspectives. First I doubt as the article suggests that they were relieved because they did not come up with the stats the Sheriff wanted. More likely they had stats that they did not share or disregarded. In the news conference A/S Olmsted said he found some stats the day of the news conference that were somewhat contradictory to those cited. That may be at the root of the issue. However, it is odd that the Sheriff had just said that folks in the previous administration were too quick to pull the ROD trigger, and then he pulls it on two Commanders? Why relieve them if they screwed up, intentionally or otherwise? What does that accomplish? I don’t know them or their background, but this seems over the top. Perhaps trying to make a statement, but this is rather childish if that is the case. We should ROD for good cause, not political reasons. Reassign them to night duty as a roving eyes and ears like Harper used to do – something where the taxpayers get their money’s worth.
Finally, these threads have been dominated by folks backing Sheriff Villanueva’s actions, apparently blindly. I can’t do that even though I do want him to succeed. Like I hope for the President, I hope the Sheriff can change his ways and can/will succeed. Like both of them, they have many great ideas. Sheriff Villanueva is pro getting the job done. He is obviously pro Deputy, which is good – as long as both he and Deputies realize there are limits. And he understands the Department. All good. I just believe he needs to think twice about some of his decisions and listen not so much to his inner circle of helpers – most of who are yes men, but to those in his administration who are NOT his yes men. They are the one’s who will be giving him the most honest input.
Seriously Folks says:
@ Just Say’n,
Your post in plain speak hit the nail on the head, unlike the eloquence of blah blah blah by Charlie Unit who parades as a blog primadonna, geez.
I agree with your assessment which includes the fact that you are in favor of Alex but against his methodology with questionable reasoning.
I’m also pro Alex, however the bun boys and yes men do or say whatever it takes to remain in the camp to oblige whomever the Sheriff is.
A close inspection of who our new sheriff has promoted and who he has turned down reveals a far more deliberate process then all the Lindsey cronies hating away on this thread care to admit. All those details reveals you to be an angry insider who doesn’t care about POBAR and are bent on making the sheriff look bad for your own personal gain, shame on you.
The simple fact that if we eliminate all the Tanaka clones, the Baca boys, and McDonnell’s sellout groupies, there would be no one left to run the department. Of course the lieutenants and above who resent being called to the carpet for a career spent kissing ass instead of serving the community will be unhappy. Villanueva said he was breaking up the empire building and the “batting order,” and it looks like he meant it.
Just Sayin’ every single ranking member of the department under McDonnell by definition is a yes man. They deliberately looked the other way while the LASD was destroyed, so exactly what value do they have for Villanueva? Any idea?
Those two should be demoted. They were promoted way above their abilities by the Tanaka Clan.
La Opinion says:
Dan Dyer is an upstanding guy! I really mean that. He batted for me when no one else would. There is more than meets the eye on the case of the CMDR’s ROD. Maybe they did not want to play ball.
AS Olmstead embarrassed himself or was not listening to what the Sheriff was saying as the Sheriff had to think on his feet with revising the answer to the questions asked.
Either way, that would be a petty reason to relieve 2 commanders from their positions.
Dan promoted from LT to CMDR quickly but look at everyone else who is wearing bars and stars. Once you get passed LT it’s all about the politics. You can’t blame anyone for furthering their career. Look at AS Gutierrez. That will put it into perspective for you.
I have asked myself that question over and over how do they get to the top so fast and it boils down to who you know and who likes you and how well you play politics and maneuver the system.
I see no one has stepped up to say Morejon should not be ROD. He has always been self serving.
He was in the middle of the hide the inmate FBI informant operation but stepped back and let others go down for his doings.
Time, not so sure I agree with your second comment. As for the first the short time I knew him I saw exactly the opposite.
Pandoras Box was deeply, and I mean deeply investigated and if the DOJ had a rope to hang around someone’s neck they did so. (Not saying it was right, just saying that’s what they did. )
Was he supposed to run into federal court and say it was his doing?
I did that at my Skelly, said it was my responsibility but not necessarily my fault, but accepted responsibility. Saved a few folks. They know who they are. They lost their memories.
I don’t hate, but do believe in Karma.
Oyaji says:
I’m loving how WitnessLA, ACLU and all of these other ‘guardians’ and ‘watch groups’ have been suckered, lied to and sold a bill of goods for a long time by the previous Sheriff(s). Now, when the new Sheriff gives them new information, he’s the bad guy. Nobody likes to be the dumbass, and it is quite clear that Witness LA, et.al., are not willing to admit that they are the doofs. “Not My Sheriff”, Trumpism and RESIST clearly exist and are alive – even in a Sheriff’s election. There are just some people who would rather see the world burn, the new Sheriff fail, and the people of LA County be short-changed than admit they’ve been taken for a ride and let the new Sheriff do the job he was elected to.
NoMoreBrassBuckles. Just to be clear. I voted for Alex and encouraged many others to do the same. I agree, McDonnel made many mistakes, including too many ROD’s and unnecessary terminations. But most of all he wasn’t one of us.
I only express my opinions in the hope that Alex will eventually realize his mistakes and start to realize his responsibilities are multifaceted, not just with the deputies. Dont get me wrong, I love the deputies and admire their hard work in the worst conditions I can remember, which is quite a long time for this old man.
My point is Alex is heading down a path that will end poorly. Many of us are watching this incoming train wreck praying he will change course. Unfortunately, he appears to be surrounded by yes men that are telling him he is doing a great job and the press is wrong. I’m sorry to tell you, the press has been right on this one and the earlier you accept it the better chance Alex has of surviving two months of back to back missteps.
I have to add, which I’ve said before, shame on the executives not telling Alex the truth. We have seen this for several administrations now and I personally was hoping for better. SMH
Not Again! says:
The Tanaka boot lickers Alex has surrounded himself with will no more speak up to Alex than they ever would to Paul. These clowns have their own agenda and they are carrying it out right under Alex’s nose with manipulation, backslapping and a their “keep doing what you are doing boss, the troops love it,” encouragement. The sooner Alex wakes up and smells the coffee and dumps these charlatans, the sooner he will start “acting” like a Sheriff. So far with their “yes men” mentality, they have shoved him right into a meat grinder.
Don’t worry Mr. Not Again, Alex is a man of his own, he has never surrounded himself with the in crowd. He does not need validation or encouragement from anyone to do what he knows is right. Just remember how he was rediculed and attacked just a few short months ago right here on this blog. He knows very well who is fake and now licking his boots to get something in return. Just give him so time to get all the pieces together.
Alex will not change the world, because there are many people who just cannot be helped nor changed, but he will make a positive difference.
Just to make it perfectly clear, I do know that there is a difference between a deer in the headlights and a dear in the headlights. I meant the former. I needed Sgt Bilko to go over my work, as he does for Charlie Unit.
Okay, coolaid drinkers, have at it.
Just: Coolaid is with a K. Kool-aid
Damn that Bilko, he was suppose to proof read that. I think he was in the sauce again.
Curious says:
Who are the Tanaka bootlickers you’re referring to? Just curious.
DOE INC says:
Not Again – You are spot on. That is exactly what is happening. Again.
Like you know!!!
Real Talk says:
I laugh when I think of non LASD people who read the comments and opinions of the Sheriff Department. If nothing else, it’s pure entertainment and drama in one neverending episode.
Laterals and Law Enforcement applicants beware.
ANOTHER unforced error by AV. Sometimes being a politician and choosing your words carefully IS the best course of action. Accusing the DOJ of “cooking the books” in a press conference….NOT the best course of action:
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/investigations/Federal-Monitor-Wants-Proof-of-Jail-Violence-From-LA-County-Sheriff-505386031.html
One of three things is happening in this administration.
He’s NOT ASKING his advisors how his new clothes look.
His advisors are telling him he’s NAKED and he’s not listening.
His advisors are telling him his new clothes look GREAT.
Factoid says:
Regarding your reference, unless an onslaught is inevitable, one must pick and choose their battles.
Time to fact-check a hater, LASD Apostle. I read through your link, I listened to the conference, and I can’t seem to find the part where the sheriff was “accusing the DOJ of cooking the books” in a press conference. He correctly stated that his predecessor concealed the information from the public. You are right, what you claim would not be the best course of action, but your problem is it didn’t happen.
One of three things is happening to LASD Apostle.
He can’t fathom how Villanueva won the election.
He received an email indicating his services were no longer needed.
He can’t fathom how his meal ticket lost the election.
Curiously Seeking says:
Fed Up – maybe I’m missing something but it appears to me that everyone who brings something to light concerning AV is automatically from the McDonnell administration.
My question to you is, can one point out discrepancies without hating said subject?
No Sheriff in LASD has been without fault or questionable acts, however you and several others look at AV as the LASD golden child whom we all know is not.
Alex is not everyone’s choice but the same was said about Baca when he was elected and look what happened.
Addressing moves in the wrong direction by someone does not make them the enemy and for anyone who feels infallible I remind you of this:
Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Talk about being stuck between a rock and a hard place. Our custody A/S is going to have to come up with these new numbers. Does he cook the books to make Alex happy? Or does he tell the truth and get ROD like his Commanders who told the truth.
This is called Karma, he should have stuck up for the correct stats and his Commanders to begin with. Maybe he can get whistleblower protection…
Fed Up, he definitely said that….but now you have me questioning if it was the press conference or when he was before the board. Of course…it doesnt matter. When I get time, I’ll find it for you.
I love your comments about me (wrong though they are)!
I know why he won….Latino last name, lackluster McDonnell campaign, running as a Democrat, ICE promises and ignorant voters.
Still gainfully and happily employed. Unlike a lot of deps, I’ve loved every job I’ve ever had on this Department.
MEAL TICKET? My rank and work assignment prove I’ve NEVER had a meal ticket!
Apostle. Good for you. I loved every day of my career too and I am glad to see deputies loving the lords work. Just FYI, Alex has directed several people to blog for him. They probably dont even believe in what they write. It is their job to try and spin things as much as they can. Although we can all see through his failed attempts. He trys to discredit any sources that point out the obvious. And he claims he wants TRANSPARENCY! LMAO
This new directive from AV is clearly transparency, or is it???
“All information requests from outside agencies including other County Departments shall be forwarded to the Sheriff’s office who will route the request to the appropriate person’s, units, bureaus, etc…”
FACTS MATTER says:
The federal monitor’s request for clarification on the information presented by the Sheriff on jail violence is a reminder that statistical data is always subject to interpretation and manipulation. Poor reporting and data collection methods by Custody Division were well documented by the OIG in its 2017 report. The report was extremely critical of the Department and the variations in reporting jail violence information to different stakeholders. However, the blame was primarily directed at the Department’s IT structure used to collect and analyze that data and the variety of units/datasets contributing to the process.
In direct contradiction of the Sheriff’s statements of intentional misreporting by the prior administration, the OIG report stated, “The Department maintains that it has not intentionally misled stakeholders in releasing inaccurate data, and the OIG review did not reveal information to suggest otherwise.” As reported by NBC news, federal monitor Richard Drooyan agrees; “I do not believe that anyone in the Department has intentionally misled us,” wrote Richard E. Drooyan…
Mr. Drooyan also stated in a recent interview with LAIST that he believes data collected prior to the past two years is questionable and suggested its use may be problematic.
With the heads of the County and Federal oversight entities questioning his statements, it is now on the Sheriff and his staff to demonstrate with facts that the prior administration did intentionally mislead the stakeholders and that the alternative data that he presented was accurate and verifiable. In any event, the data collection methods and the accompanying analysis must be rectified immediately. There are important decisions that are being made about the current and prior administrations of the LASD and the future of the organization.
Mr. Huntsman and Mr. Drooyan’s resumes speak for themselves.
https://oig.lacounty.gov/
ttps://ccjv.lacounty.gov/richard-e-drooyan/
Jim Dandy says:
I think the Sheriff is doing a fine job
“As reported by NBC news, federal monitor Richard Drooyan agrees; “I do not believe that anyone in the Department has intentionally misled us,” wrote Richard E. Drooyan…”
It is obvious there are some people that it does not matter what the truth is they will pretend it does not exist. Many personnel on the department were the victims of malicious prosecutions, firings and heavy-handed discipline under McBuckles, by misleading, twisting facts, concealing evidence etc. to create stats to show a false reform.
So, whoever says McBuckles staff did not create false jail stats to pretend reform and change in the jails, must be in McBuckles’ camp. We all know firsthand or have learned from someone we know that McBuckles did all that, so pretending McBuckles was honest it is like saying the sun is pink.
Mr. TRUTH, to say Alex is telling me to blog it is a ludicrous preposition, but I would encourage anyone on the department, specially the line deputies to stand up and speak up for the sheriff. The sheriff is placing himself on the line to speak truth, while the entire establishment is trying to cover up the truth.
The McBuckles regime, the BOS, the OIG, the Civilian Oversight Panel, the media, all covered for McBuckles, and my friends, it is what scary.
Recently a member of the general public, who was the victim of a crime by a well politically connected citizen, explained how the sheriff department covered up the crime for “the politically connected” citizen. The entire justice system worked against the affected citizen, including BARGER, DA’s office, and Mr. OIG Huntsman. That is how the justice system works. I advised the affected citizen to contact Sheriff Villanueva, he may give it a new fresh look at her situation.
Socrates says:
One should not remain in the kitchen if they can’t endure the heat.
Ad hominem attacks and conspiracy theories are not facts.
Stop Looking Back says:
AV should be concerned with moving forward and not slamming the previous administration, even though McBuckles administration was screwed up. Be positive and move forward.
Retired LASD says:
@ SLB: Absolutely correct.
You can never focus on moving forward when more time is spent looking in the rear view mirror than the front windshield.
IOD Stats says:
One of Sheriff’ Villanueva’s points that no one has touched on is the IOD stats. LASD loses a lot of hours ($$$) because Deputies can’t get treatment approved quick enough. They wait around at home with their condition getting worse because they don’t get the needed treatment in a timely manner. Therefore, it takes longer to heal. They don’t stay home because of bad morale. They stay home because they can’t get good and timely care.
If Sheriff Villanueva wants to help his personnel, he needs to correct the problem with York.
Moving forward says:
I agree it is time to move forward. We all despised Buckles and his merry band of misfits. Most of them are gone. Thank you AV. We realize there are Tanaka Clowns left to deal with please kick them out of your camp so we can move forward. There are many leadership positions available that need to be filled. The Captain vacancies in the patrol Stations need to be filled. There are some Captains IOD for serious reasons, while others are out doing their 924 thing and others that just suck when it comes to leading. The Department is looking for direction and most could care less about Custody let alone statistics. Make amends with the media and the BOS and lets kick start this Department back to the forefront of all Law Enforcement.
2kin says:
Can we focus on a real problem? Jail violence is terrible but the jails are the jungle’s that belong to the la deps. Can someone tell me why semen from deputies is being found in females immates body? I mean…let’s talk about a real problem.
...HMMM.. says:
Yeah…riddle me this, let’s talk about LGBTQxyz inmates who are identifying as females with intact male genitalia being housed at a female facility, and how their semen gets inside of female inmates? Let’s not forgot about female CO’s abusing female (and male) inmates either. It happens both ways too.
In this politically correct era of “they”, and gender “X”, anybody can feel, be or do anything they want I guess.
AV looks a little irritated,,, Ray seems to listen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiPbqkrZ3O8
Super: Yeah and so what!!!
That was like a Wally George episode.
Stand By! says:
All of you are underestimating Sheriff AV. From knowing him first hand, there’s going to be a lot more information and data released that the old guard who is now freaking the f$ck out and doing what they can to throw smoke screens, have lied about and kept from the BOS and the public. Remember, the department is HIS now and he’s go the same access to the information the old guard had. Though the old guard was not transparent and they’re re the ones that “cooked” the books.
If I were them, meaning the fired Execs, attorney’s and those retiring soon, I’d be running for the hills. All I can say is, Stand by to Stand By.
I’m not even talking about the purgery under oath, wrongfull terminations, concocted investigations and compelling individuals to lie on the record incidents committed by those still in power and those hiding out. The day of reconinng is coming. Keep pushing the man and see what he delivers. If I was in their shoes, I’d be concerned… Juuuuuuuust sayin!
Finally, I’ve never been more excited to be wearing the tan and green uniform and am happy as a clam everyday I go to work.
My popcorn is set on a timer and I’m awaiting the next big move and announcment by OUR Sheriff. He’s got the support and the backing from every deputy from north to south.
Bring it sir… These old f$cks need a chin check. Also, please don’t let them off the hook because they’re retiring. Karma is a bitch!
Haven’t posted in a while, but “Stand by” caught my attention. Alex made reference to it at his presser last week and he really raised my eyebrows. If he has the goods on executives lying, fabricating or directing the same against employees resulting in their discipline or discharge, that is worthy of a methodical press release and letter to the BOS, OIG, COC and Civil Service, laying it all out. But it has to be airtight! If this is all factual, this did not happen in a vacuum. Individuals of rank allowed it to happen or facilitated it, or both. Talk about injustice, this is exactly why Alex should proceed with his Truth and Reconciliation process, but do it the right way. Open, appropriate and unbiased review and recommendation process from inside/outside the Department, solid procedure. Start with terminations, then onto suspensions. NO employee, I don’t care who they are, should be victimized by their employer. Right the wrongs!
Calling a spade, you are right, Maya Lau in the LA Times pretended the sheriff did not say that because Maya Lau has hard evidence the former Sheriff McBuckles and Diana Teran caused some executives and some ICIB to fabricate cases against deputies. As in the Pandora caper, they obliged to do that and some.
The media is as crooked and rotten as the politicians, god bless google and the internet.
Calling it a Spade, I will tell you the following, it did not happened in a vacuum, there are several outrageous cases, where deputies were framed, Rampart style, to get the stats and because Diana Teran thought it would really look great politically speaking.
The Sheriff, the DA, the BOS the OIG knew, but they did not care, they thought McBuckles was going to be in power for a few decades, so now they are panicking. Their shenanigans, their dirty laundry they were not able to wash is about to be exposed. They all conspired to hurt deputies to send a message, same as framing citizens in the street for crimes they did not commit to send a message to the criminals.
So yes, stand-by….
AV just promoted a lieutenant to chief over technical services so all the data is now controlled and manipulated by AV. Another LT gets a triple bump! Must have been well earned. Still no published org chart, I will be interested in seeing that.
And what is your issue Nancy Drew, are you hating because it was not you who got promoted to help him with the data?
And The Truth Will Set You Free.
Only when exposed……
@Factoid that is exactly what needs to be done by all those who have been wronged. AV should have an open meeting for those who have been wrongfully accused and allow these criminals to be exposed. I know of a few that are tryna to scurry n hide, but be aware.
“The Truth Is Coming”………you need to feel what deputies are going through as they sit and wait. Start saving your money, because it’s a long ride and fortunately my ride is coming to an end.
AV next stack please. Deps need to get back to work.
1029FD says:
@Calling It a Spade & @ Stand By, I am victim…yes VICTIM of a concocted investigation by McBuckles and his goons!! Some of them, from rank of Commander down to LT are still working, and working in key administrative capacities, I hope AV fine tooth combs some of the ROD cases SOON because he’ll able to see the BS! Plus the resources being COMPLETELY wasted.
I hope his realignment and moving of Captains & above happen REAL SOON.
What union are you with, ALADS or PPOA?
Did they assist you with legal representation?
@1029FD Agreed…..Stay Patient My Brutha. There’s a lot of us who are VICTIMS Of Political Infused Discharge….There Day Is Coming.
“I’m sorry, Mr. Drooyan. My transition team is working to find proof my press conference charts weren’t bogus. You’re absolutely right…I won’t make ANY policy changes without running it by you first, sir. I’ll send a message (see below) out to the troops pronto.”
How many hours were spent producing those charts and prepping for the press conference? How many hours will now be spent providing the Federal Court Monitor with proof to back up his claims? This is getting ridiculous….it reminds me of the Trump investigation into proving his inauguration crowds were bigger than Obama’s.
Many of you have said we should just move on, but it’s becoming clear AV CAN’T because he’s still bitter about not being promoted under McDonnell and wants to undo and destroy every last vestige of the man.
I WANT AV to look into any wrongfully terminated personnel (I know of at least one) and hold accountable anyone who screwed up…..but stop making this a media circus.
Sheriff Villanueva’s Statement Regarding Custody
Data and Standards
On January 30, 2019, I conducted a press conference to discuss the current state of the Department. During this press conference, I presented statistical data compiled by the previous administration related to violence within the Los Angeles County jail system. Statistics regarding jail violence were developed by Custody Division utilizing several data systems, some of which have been in use by the Department for decades. The transition team utilized the derived statistics to create charts in order to graphically display the information.
The Department is conducting an analysis of numerous facets within the organization’s operations. Concurrently, the Department is evaluating the impact of all current and proposed policies to ensure they are in compliance with all ethical and legal statutes. Any suggestions that existing policies have been rescinded, or modified in any way, is incorrect. The organization will continue to evaluate and augment Department policies, in order to address the threat of growing violence within the jail system.
I have reiterated to all employees that they have the right to defend themselves when they are attacked within our jail system, and they are expected to act within all legal, ethical and policy guidelines.
We will continue to work with federal monitors to ensure all mandates and provisions are implemented in a manner to ensure full compliance. The Department will continue to provide critical information to the public, which underscores my commitment to transparency.
Apostle: Love how you put fire to the feet for those still in La La Land.
LASD Apostle is a bitter deputy himself, and he knows of at least one case where a deputy was wrongfully terminated, I know of more than one, and it is not the same deputy. I got the feeling LASD Apostle is a deputy who got fired on red Tuesday….So if you know one deputy was wrongfully terminated, one is too many, and the sheriff needs to continue digging to find all the evidence and some.
Just imagine what this new Chief of Data Systems will find, the emails of TERAN, telling ICIB how to manufacture cases, how to circumvent the UNINTED STATES CONSTITUTION, as she was supposedly an expert. All the deleted reports and memos that would show you conspiracy among themselves on the 8th floor.
Stand by, stand by….
I get it, Joe. If you can’t attack the message, attack the messenger. I have a GREAT life and owe it all to LASD. Unlike a lot of people, I don’t feel I should have promoted higher….heck, I’m surprised I survived the academy! I have a while before I’m “terminated” aka retired, so no, I wasn’t part of Red Tuesday.
Re-read my comment. I want these cases looked into. However, don’t you think it would be wise to review them, come up with irrefutable findings, THEN release it to the media? Are the campaign donations and promotions/assignments just coincidence? Do you really think it’s a GOOD idea to go to war with the BOS? Say it ain’t so, Joe….
There you go again, LASD Apostle. Last time you attributed comments to the sheriff you came up dry when Fed Up fact-checked you. At any rate, the bitterness motivation just doesn’t hold water. Justice and putting things back in equilibrium is a better explanation. You, and Facts Matter, and the rest of the McDonnell tribe keep pounding that table because that’s what people do when they don’t have the facts or rational arguments. And Joe Nobuckles, Stand By!, Calling it a Spade, and others will keep sending you fellas/gals back to the shop to learn why going back may be the fastest way to move forward. The costs of not doing so, of not clearing the air, would continue to negatively affect the Department for another 10-15 years, maybe longer. Let’s see where the administrative/criminal investigation leads. It’s the reasonable position.
Thanks for the reminder, Charlie Unit. I was visited by AVs Truth and Reconciliation team and I have some reconciliatin’ to do.
I was wrong. AV did NOT say the DOJ “cooked the books.” He suggested it at his press conference and it was Supervisor Barger who said he said that. It was during this interview with Conan Nolan. It’s hard to believe these comments are coming from the 5th Distict, traditionally very conservative and LASDs biggest supporter:
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/NewsConference-LA-Supervisors-Condemn-New-Sheriff_Los-Angeles-505276302.html
If you listen to AVs response when Nolan asks him directly about Mandoyan, you’ll see what the new tactic is. He won’t deny Mandoyan roughed up the female dep, broke into her place or stalked her. He just thinks it didn’t rise to the level of being fired:
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/NewsConference-LA-County-Sheriff-Responds-to-Criticism_Los-Angeles-505276942.html
Self-editing: “You, and Facts Matter, and the rest of the McDonnell tribe keep pounding that table because that’s what people do when they don’t have the facts or rational arguments.”
Meant to read: “You, and Facts Matter, and the McDonnell tribe keep pounding that table because that’s what people do when they don’t have the facts or rational arguments.”
Due apologies to LASD Apostle for linking him to McDonnell tribe. On to the next story, thread, and discussion!
Charlie Unit, having Alex as the sheriff is a true blessing, he has the fortitude and courage to face off the crooked and rotten establishment. Alex is not perfect, and I am sure he will do things some may disagree, however, his mind and heart are in the right place.
He is not like the coward previous sheriff McBuckles who hid behind the attorneys and the deputies with stars on their collars, to the point he would not sign off on questionable prosecutions, terminations, and heavy handed discipline. He would be busy and direct his under-sheriff to sign for him, to later excuse himself by plausible deniability.
So I thank you for questioning the haters here defending McBuckles and speaking up for those who were wronged by the previous crooked regime.
My pleasure, Joe.
Joe Nobuckles and Charlie Unit, I know it doesn’t fit your narrative, but I had NO faith in McDonnell for a number of reasons.
Criticism of AV doesnt make someone a McDonnell-lover. As I’ve said before, I WANT him to succeed….not for him, but for the Department. But with so many mistakes and lapses in judgement, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to support him.
I’ve heard that he feels he’s always the smartest one in the room and doesn’t listen to his advisors. I hope it’s not true, but this also is becoming harder to deny.
LASD Apostle, don’t go by rumors, speculation, innuendos, and flat out gossip, have the courage and fortitude to go and talk to Alex personally, ranting against him, when he has not done evil to you, or anyone you know, is cheap.
I speak against McBuckles, Teran and CO because I have the evidence, and in due time, I will be glad to share it with you, so you understand why I say what I say.
No hard feelings at all, Apostle. I take nothing personally. I understand your position. It has been a terrific debate, enjoy immensely. Ms. Fremon is a civic hero for curating an environment such as this one, though I have expressed defendable concerns over her article. Obviously, a lot is at stake for a lot of people. What motivates me is not a narrative. But as I said earlier, I’m motivated when I see very powerful political, media interests, very sophisticated people (LA elites), directly or using proxies to mob a new guy who was elected by the people of Los Angeles county in what was a historic election. I don’t care for mobbings. However, the difference between a mobbing (which is unjust) and a throttling of some one or group whose conduct demands a public intervention (e.g., Baca, Tanaka, McDonnell, Teran), can be clear when we are operating in good faith. I happen to believe Sheriff Alex Villanueva is operating in good faith, which affords him some early benefit of the doubt when trying to get its sealegs. Others disagree. And disagreement is fine. Let’s hash it out.
You two need a room.
Continue to stand your ground “Apostle” as you keep the administration of Wave Riders, Palace Guards and Eunuchs at bay
You made a altruistic point by stating that anyone noticing the loose strings on AV doesn’t automatically make them pro McDonnell.
Mr Deputy Sheriff, if being evil by spreading hate against Alex, doesn’t make you a pro McBuckles what are you?
Can you share here what evil act Alex has done to you, a deputy friend you know or your family??
Because just as Apostle knows of one deputy who was illegally fired by McBuckles, I know of many more. I am sure you know some as well.
The fact that Alex fired al McBuckles’ water carrying deputies, was not an evil act, we all agree it was needed and they had it earned.
Hey Joe, first and foremost I personally know Alex and I admire his fight for reform which spoke volumes beginning in custody and as a former ALADS Representative calling them out on their bullshit.
I am for ALEX but I question among others, the rehire of Mondayan especially with other deputies being first in line and the constant blaming McDonnell for all of LASD woes, which is understandable to a point and after that point, it gets old, real fast.
Many bloggers automatically assume that to point out mistakes by Alex which needs improvement makes them a AV hater, which is not the case.
Let’s just agree that Alex is the person that voters chose without help from the Russians and those with constructive criticism should not be ostracized.
I agree with “Apostle” very much and would like to see LASD make an “about face” and return to being a premier law enforcement agency, externally & internally.
Read Steve Lopez’ opinion piece on LA corruption in the LA Times (L.A. City Hall’s real rat problem: Corruption). On his list Lopez offers this beauty of a sentence: “And recently elected L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva is trying his best to roll back reforms instituted by his predecessor after Sheriff Lee Baca and others were convicted in a long-running corruption probe.”
The choice of “roll back” and not ‘correct’ is instructive. Notice that the unsaid implication he leaves is that Sheriff Villanueva is going back to Sheriff’ Baca’s policies. Lopez is not to be faulted for following the herd. The standards have changed. Many journalists these days seem to be involved in a descent of practice. He hears that the sheriff is moving a set of new reforms that, the sheriff and his team argue, counterbalance the extreme injustices brought about by the McDonnell-Teran administration, and of course this is necessary and sufficient for Sheriff Villanueva to make it on Lopez’ list of LA “rats”, a corrupt guy.
Apparently, Mr. Lopez doesn’t make an effort to understand the news reforms, why they are necessary, because his sentence implies that he never took the time to study why the McDonnell-Teran medicine was almost worse than the disorder it sought to cure (many deps, staff, and inmates would argue it was worse, and an investigation may give us a public airing). Mr. Lopez probably doesn’t need a refresher course in what constitutes corruption. He knows very well corruption is like rust: it decays, spoils, destroys; it is a ‘turning of the head’ of the decision-maker away from duty and virtue and toward self-interest. One explanation then is that Mr. Lopez is simply riding the McDonnell love train because that’s where his friends are. Preserving those McDonnell-Teran reforms is seen as vital to keeping the LASD in a state of functional disequilibrium. So much easier to control (through externalities) an organization not working well. Were Mr. Lopez a genuine journalist, opinion or otherwise, he would be an independent, provocative, energetic, iconoclastic, tough-as-nails, skeptical, Hitchens-like bastard, as the old-style journalists were before the unfortunate media consolidations. Instead, Mr. Lopez is a very conventional operator, a mere back-slapping conformist who likely fancies himself as a standard-bear of a noble tradition. Meanwhile, the sheriff and his folks will have to fight through the noise of lazy-minded corporate pseudo-journalists. You play the hand you are dealt. So far, on many things, the hand our new sheriff is playing is pretty good.
There's no Santa? says:
(Note: Readers of WitLA may recall that Santa had previously discovered a database at the Federal Building in which the FBI had recorded conversations with microphones placed during the “Pandora’s Box” investigation at the Block Headquarters Building and the HOJ (during the remodeling process). Santa had dutifully reported some of these conversations to WitLA readers but has not done so once Neal Tyler had retired to get his hair “styled” on his own time. However, recent developments within the LASD has caused Santa to quarry the Fed’s database to ascertain if certain microphones are still active, only to discover that indeed they are. He/She therefore feels it is his/her civic responsibility to pass along certain excerpts of conversations currently under review by our friendly Feds.)
Recorded in the office of Chief of Staff Larry Del Mese
Del Mese: So where did you take Alex this morning?
Deputy Mandoya : To some Viva La Immigration meeting in China Town.
Del Mese: China Town?
Mandoya: Those people like fucking Chinese food!
Del Mese: I’ve heard everything now.
Mandoya: For breakfast!!!!
Del Mese: (laughing) I can just see a bunch of Mexicans eating chop suey with chop sticks.
Mandoya: Alex wouldn’t think that is funny!
Mandoya: Well, maybe he’d think the chop sticks part is funny.
Chief Ely Vera: I can just see a bunch of Mexicans slurping noodles like a little kid does with spaghetti!
Mandoya: Actually they had some sort of wheat noodles. I was watching Alex and he tried to use chop sticks, then he switched to a spoon, then a fork. The noodles just kept slithering back in the bowl. Finally he just gave up. I started cracking up – it was so fucking funny I had to turn around so no would see me lauging. (laughter in the room) When I turned back around Alex was looking right at me with this look like “I’m going to beat your ass if you tell anyone!” (more laughter)
Vera: What the fuck did you eat? Those little white rolls with the pink faces on it?
Del Mese: Yeah, probably 30 or 40 of them…………(laughter)
Mandoya: Nothing! (angry) I stayed in the back. I was afraid someone would recognize me from being on tv and all that bullshit.
Vera: You’re lucky to have a fucking job.
Del Mese: If Alex had listened to fucking Leyva and Olmsted you’d be driving for Uber instead of driving for Alex.
Vera: Those fuckers are a pain in our ass.
Del Mese: And then they almost screwed up our decoy plan.
Mandoya: What do you mean.
Del Mese: Decoy. You know like in those submarine movies when the bad guys are shooting torpedoes at the good guys, the good guys drop these decoys to confuse the incoming torpedoes.
Mandoya: I haven’t seen any submarine movies.
Vera: You’ve never seen a submarine movie? You know, like the Hunt for Red October or something like that?
Mandoya: Well I saw 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, I think maybe they used decoys in that movie.
Del Mese: JEEEESSSSUUUUUSSSSS! What a dope!
Vera: Carl! Decoys! Like we wanted to have the incoming “torpedoes” chasing after something else – rather than you. So we relieved Dyer and Morejon over the jail shit. THEY are the decoys and the press is the torpedoes! We wanted the press to be wondering what them being ROD is all about and then asking questions about what THEY did. That way they aren’t chasing after YOU – we call the plan “Red October.”
Mandoya: Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Like in the movie when Nemo is playing the organ at the end and he says “Enough is enough” – it fools everybody in to thinking he dies but he doesn’t. Got it.
Vera: Uh,…..yeah. Fuck! I give up.
Del Mese: Carl, don’t you get it?
Mandoyan: Yeah, you mean Dyer and Morejon take the fall and I’m home free. They die and I don’t.
Del Mese: Well, they don’t really take a real “fall” – they still have civil service protection so we actually have to have some sort of a case against them. BUT some humbug is enough to relieve them of duty. AND that, Grasshopper, is enough smoke to draw the press – and maybe the Board – away from you until this all blows over.
Mandoyan: Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, like a dog barking up the wrong tree?
Vera: Well I guess. Maybe we should’a boiled it down to the basics for you. Look, we need you to understand Leyva and Olmsted were bending Alex’s ear against that plan. And they just about got through to him.
Del Mese: So Carl, just remember those guys are NOT your friend. They tried to fuck you over by fighting Alex when he first started to hire you back and then again when we wanted to spring “Red October”.
Vera: He means when we wanted to have the press like dogs barking up the wrong tree.
Mandoya: Got ya’. But they seem like such nice guys.
Vera: Don’t trust them. If Alex listens to them, he’s not listening to us. It’s them or us and so far we’re winning the battle but that could always change.
Del Mese: So Carl, you spend more time with Alex than anyone, we want you to keep an eye on him for us. Let us know if Leyva or Olmsted get to him when we aren’t around and especially if they are talking shit to him.
Vera: And reinforce anything we say to him. Kind’a like “You know boss, those guys make sense. Those guys have a good idea. That kind of shit.
Mandoya: I got it. I know whose side I’m on, don’t worry guys. I need to get going. I’m taking the boss out in the Valley in a little while and need to figure out how to get there.
Del Mese: Look it up? Don’t you know the address?
Mandoya: Well, yeah but I need to figure out the route in my Thomas Guide.
Vera and Del Mese: THOMAS GUIDE????
Vera: No one uses a Thomas Guide any more. Do they still make them?
Mandoya: Yep, I have the newest one at my desk and one in the car.
Del Mese: Don’t you have a GPS in your phone?
Mandoya: Uh,…. no.
Vera: Why not? Everyone uses the one in their fucking phone!
Mandoya: I have a flip phone but…….
Vera and Del Mese: A FLIP PHONE!!!
Mandoya: Uh…… I can’t figure out how to use an iPhone
Del Mese: Get the hell out of here!
(sound of door opening and closing)
Santa, welcome back! I thought I’d piss my pants I was laughing so hard. Keep reviewing those tapes
Oh crap. There is no competing with that. I tap out for now.
Cowboy says:
Good obs, Santa!
Hopefully all those who are in denial can laugh at the truth.
Have to admit this is one of the funniest posts I’ve read in a while.
On the serious note, this sounds like friends of Dyer and Morjon trying to shed light on their friends being ROD.
As much as I think it’s funny, you pretty much just stuck a fork in your friends.
It’s all fun and games until people and families get hurt. I’ve always been against naming people and laying out anyone on any blog. After all, they are our partners and have families.
I come in peace and am not soliciting rebutle or a counter. Just asking you folks, my partners to be considered to what you say.
I read a quote sometime back, and I think it was attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt: Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
TsBS says:
if you think the department is bad now, wait a few years. The Sheriff is trying to keep his campaign promise to hire more deputies, but to fill that promise, he is allowing a lot of people to get hired that have no business being a Deputy. We have returned to the Tanaka and Baca years where if you know someone, you’re going to get hired. All he cares about is hiring 1000 deputies and doesn’t care what type of recruit he is hiring. You’ll see in a few years when deputies are getting ROD or will be in the news for getting hired with very questionable pasts.
“…he is allowing a lot of people to get hired that have no business being a Deputy.” You are making a pretty bold claim, do you have any facts to back it up? I try to keep up with all the changes, but I can’t seem to find any policy lowering standards. I did find one, however, RAISING standards. It seems the new guy wants to raise entry level educational standards to a minimum of an AA degree versus the old HS diploma. I call that a good move forward, not backwards.
Yes, I do have facts and info. However, this isn’t really the place to be airing confidential info. Like I said, there is going to be people hired on that somehow get through that would have been disqualified from every other agency in so cal and most likely this department, before the new Sheriff. The Sheriff needs to get better data, do you know what percentage of applicants that have AA degrees? So he wants to hire a bunch of deputies, but he’s going to disqualify more than half of the candidate pool because they don’t have a degree… yeah, that’s a real smart move.
Call it! says:
@TsBs
“Yes, I do have facts and info. However, this isn’t really the place to be airing confidential info. ” Hahahaha GTFOH!!!
That’s the problem, when you work at a place where you have nothing better to do other than think of conspiracy theories and self developed paranoias, people like you are the ones who despise the Sheriff’s direction of getting lazy slugs like yourself being held accountable and made to work.
Time to earn your keep buddy!
I wish AV would be legally allowed to post arrest stats per deputy publicly on the department website. Now that’s transparency for all you haters.
Good job making assumptions. You added nothing to this conversation. By the way, I never worked TSB and that is not what my screen name means. However, let me take a guess. You’re a deputy who thinks they are better than everyone else because you worked a fast station, right? Stats are available, all you have to do is go on the intranet and run arrests per deputy. I’m satisfied with what I did in patrol and I know I have arrested more people than many Deps from region 2.
If you’re going to blindly support the sheriff, that’s your perogative. Just be ready when sh*t hits the fan and LASD is in the news again for the wrong reasons.
This is why I can’t wait until I retire. 10 more years and I won’t have to deal with idiots like you. So if I’m a coward, what does that make you? I don’t see your name either.
Again, you make a lot of assumptions which makes you come off as kind of a douche. I’m sure you get that a lot, right? I have plenty of time on, I just have no desire to promote. I know you or your buddies were probably done wrong by McDonnell at some point, but why this blind allegiance to Villanueva?
Hiring more qualified personnel by raising the standard is fine but keep in mind that applicants having a minimum A.A. Degree doesn’t guarantee anything.
Let’s not rule out Veterans whom are high school graduates, wise beyond their years along with training & responsibilities accrued while in the military.
” I know I have arrested more people than many Deps from region 2.” Hahahaha GTFOH Nerd!
You keep proving yourself how idiotic you are. Go ahead and hide behind your BS screen name you coward.
Go ahead and hate on our Sheriff… You must be one of the slugs who don’t meet the criterias of promoting because your lack of patrol time and experience. You’re also frustrated because your gravy train coat tail you rode on got fired in November. Hahaha… You’re a complete ass clown.
Are you kidding me says:
Welcome back Santa, it has been a long time!
forgot my name2 says:
I love reading Wit. LA ’cause the humor is never ending. When I need a good laugh, I just read on.
One thing that never changes (unlike Sheriff ….in-out personnel) is the ‘comedy writing’ ………..
carry on, been a bit depressed today
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Vast global spy network discovered!
March 30, 2009 June 6, 2009 david coxoncybercrime, ghost net, hacktivism, John Markoff, maleware, Munk Centre for International Studies, Nart Villeneuve, Phishing, Ross Anderson, security, Shishir Nagaraja, spy network, The Snooping Dragon, University of Toronto.Ronald Deibert, Wenqi Gao1 Comment
Sounds like the stuff of fiction doesn’t it? Covert networks and unknown organisations, spying on hundreds of government offices, embassies, news/media organisations and personal computers around the world. But apparently its true. Unlike in the movies though this was discovered by a group of researchers based in a basement office at the University of Toronto.
Self confessed computer geeks Ronald Deibert and Nart Villeneuve were asked by the office of the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan leader, to examine its computers for signs of malicious software, or Malware. Using a combination of fieldwork, technical scouting, and laboratory analysis, during a ten month investigation, they not only found evidence of Maleware, but discovered a far reaching network, spanning 1,295 infected computers in 103 countries, 30% of which could be described as high-value targets.
The Canadian researchers have been practicing what some term ‘Hacktivism’ from the Citizen Lab, part of Munk Center for International Studies at Toronto University for some time. Citizen Lab has a reputation for using technology to combat corporate and governmental attempts to control cyberspace, and say that the Malware found is remarkable both for its sweep and for its Big Brother-style capacities. What they’re referring to is, that it is not been merely “Phishing” for random information, but has the ability to turned on the camera and audio-recording functions of an infected computer enabling them to see and hear what is going on in a room. The researchers were able to manipulate the code and infect a machine in their office, allowing them to monitor the commands given to the infected computers, to see the names of documents retrieved by the spies.
A 53 page report into Ghost.net was published on-line under the ‘Information Warfare Monitor’ banner yesterday (29/03/09). The report is careful not to make any claims, as to who is behind the operation and in fact is quick to say that the investigation has raised more questions than answers.
Two computer researchers at Cambridge University, Shishir Nagaraja and Ross Anderson, also worked with the Tibetans, and released released their report “The Snooping Dragon: Social Malware Surveillance of the Tibetan Movement” yesterday (29/04/09). The British report went much further in its accusations against the Chinese, and warned that other hackers could adopt the tactics used in the Malware operation.
While it has long since been assumed that various governments are running these kind of operations, this is by far the largest yet to be discovered, and its still currently active infecting around 14 new computers a day.
John Markoff of the New York times reports that a spokesman for the Chinese Consulate in New York dismissed the idea that China was involved. “These are old stories and they are nonsense,” the spokesman, Wenqi Gao, said. “The Chinese government is opposed to and strictly forbids any cybercrime.”
Like with any other piece of Maleware, machines can be infected when users either click on an email attachment or a website which installs code onto the client device, allowing commands to be sent to the machine remotely, temporarily taking control of it. As an IT manager, i am only too familiar with Maleware and have some idea of just how hard it can be to spot and remove, But i think i must watch to much TV, in that i assumed that embassies and such high profile organisations as NATO, and the office of the Dalai Lama would be running enough anti maleware and network intrusion software to prevent this type of attack.
Sources: Tracking Ghost net Report, Snooping dragon Report, The New York Times, The Toronto Star
Related:FBI Honeytrap Darkmarket.ws is sprung, FBI protect us from terrorism by watching Warcraft?
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The Friends of APD presented the Executive Director of the Multi-Specialty Clinic, Dale Vidal, MD, MS. She discussed the philosophy behind the design and construction of the 44,000 square foot building, which is on schedule to be complete in late 2017. Dr. Vidal covered functional highlights of the physical space, described the sense of community and social dynamic the people and building will provide, and detailed the improvements in care coordination the space will afford. She also sought input from audience members on their ideas for the space. View the discussion.
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One of the busiest musicians in jazz today, Lewis Nash is the first-call drummer for some of the greatest artists in this music. Since moving to New York in the early '80s, the Phoenix, Arizona native has appeared on more than 400 recordings, from his earliest dates with the late great Betty Carter to his decade as a member of the Tommy Flanagan trio to his recent effort as a member of the Blue Note 7. Nash's work ...
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Throughout a rendition of Thelonious Monk's composition “Monk's Dream, Lewis Nash's drumming is a study in contrasts wrapped in a smooth, calculated exterior. During the “A section (played 3 times) of Monk's 32-bar tune, Nash puts himself on equal footing with the other instrumentalists (pianist Mulgrew Miller, vibraphonist Steve Nelson, and bassist Peter Washington), without ever forsaking the drummer's traditional role as a timekeeper. He establishes an unwavering pulse but never rides a cymbal for more than a bar or ...
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An introduction to the Iain Fraser Cytometry Centre
by Raif Yuecel
Flow cytometry is a very powerful quantitative cellular analysis technique for the complex characterization of cells and cell populations on single cell level. Data collected by flow cytometry allows statistical analysis of cellular populations as well as quantitative assessment of various features of acquired objects. Flow cytometry is widely used in basic and clinical research including: GFP expression analysis, ploidy analysis, immunophenotyping, cell sorting, and autoimmune and cancer diagnosis, or combined with imaging techniques, termed Imaging Flow Cytometry.
The Iain Fraser Cytometry Centre (IFCC) at the University of Aberdeen represents a key component of our Core technology facilities in the Institute of Medical Sciences (IMS). The IFCC was established with funding from Dr Iain Fraser, who founded Saving Sight in Grampian in 1988 to raise funds to research blinding diseases of the eye. Since then more than £3.2 million has been raised to fund several projects, including major contributions towards the purchase of state-of-the-art equipment for the Cytometry Centre.
The Cytometry Centre supports researchers and students at our Foresterhill and King’s College Campus and more than 50 principal investigators across all main research programmes in the IMS alone. IFCC currently houses multiple, unique, state-of-the-art cytometry technologies for research, training and teaching in different research programmes. Our most recent purchase was the Imaging Flow Cytometer Amnis ImageStream and the Acoustic Flow Cytometer Attune (kindly donated by The Gordon and Ena Baxter Foundation).
The Cytometry Centre staff not only support researchers by providing advanced cytometry technologies expertise, but also offer advice on project aims and design, offer continual training and teaching to students and research staff, perform their own cutting-edge cytometry research, ensuring the sustainability of the expertise in the Iain Fraser Cytometry Centre in the longer term.
Cytometry technologies are in big demand and interest in these technologies is growing. The IFCC is highly active in many public engagement activities organised by the University of Aberdeen including:• Aberdeen Doors Open Days: we actively participate in the Aberdeen Doors Open Day events and demonstrate flow cytometry to groups of interested people.• Work Experience for Secondary Schools: we offer work experience activities in collaboration with local secondary schools, e.g. The Gordon Schools Huntly, Robert Gordon’s College, Aberdeen Grammar School, Cults Academy and Albyn School. IFCC has also provided summer placement projects for pupils from The Gordon Schools Huntly, in cooperation with Nuffield Research Placements, Scotland.• Local Charity Lab Tours: we actively organise lab tours and presentations for local charities, such as Friends of Anchor.• Scientific Society meetings: we are heavily involved in both hosting and running scientific meetings to provide networking opportunities for students and researchers to exchange scientific knowledge. Such activities include our Scottish Society of Cytomics (SSC) conference, flowcytometryUK, and International Society for Cytometry (ISAC).
Dr Raif Yucel, Flow Cytometry Core Facility Manager
Published by The School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition, University of Aberdeen
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June 25, 2020 • Creating the Conditions for Long-Term Capitalism
What We’re Reading is a roundup of current news and commentary on the challenges and opportunities of aligning business decisions with the long-term health of society. This month, a world reeling from the pandemic was also rocked by global demonstrations over racial injustice. Protests have been both widespread and decentralized, with pressure exerted from many different directions. These events are ongoing, but how can we think about this transition and what it may mean for business and society?
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The Queen of Hearts has summoned Alice to rebuild Wonderland, which has been devastated by an invasion of Nothing, which is devouring the dreams of all in the land — but the Queen has mistakenly summoned whole armies of Alices! Dozens of Alices abound, and now they're taking sides and forming teams to see who can put the land back together best.
In Alicematic Heroes, you take charge of one of these teams, and you'll have a handful of Alices to use in your efforts. Alices come in five colors, with each player having a set of player boards in these five colors. On a turn, you first summon an Alice to your kingdom, playing that card from your hand onto the player board of the same color, but only if you can pay the cost in dream power; each Alice has a cost, and you must have at least this many dream cards (yellow) or be able to make up the difference by paying dream tokens. If you can, you immediately use the power — or Megalomania — of that Alice; if you can't, choose another card or lay an Alice face down as a commoner. Playing a commoner doesn't cost anything, lets you draw another card, and builds up the power of one of your five colors, but you don't get a Megalomania bonus and your turn ends immediately.
If you played an Alice, you can then invade a territory in the playing area, which is composed of modular hex tiles. To conquer the territory, you need enough military power (red cards) or supplemental military (red) tokens, and if the territory is not on a hex where you occupy a city, you must have enough food (green cards) or food tokens to reach that space. If you conquer it, you receive a bonus based on the territory's color: military, food or dream tokens; Alice cards; or points. If you conquer a city, you score points and now have a foothold on that hex.
If you lack enough military and food, you can still place the territory under attack and finish it off on a later turn, but another player can potentially conquer it in the meantime.
Mystic forests cannot be conquered until they're surrounded by player-controlled territories, and only the player(s) with the most controlled surrounding territories can then capture the forest, which has a toughness and point value equal to the number of surrounding territories.
The game ends after fourteen rounds, then players score points for having the most or secondmost territories controlled in each hex and for having the most Alices in any of the five colors. Players can also score points for Alice Megalomania effects, and whoever has the most points wins!
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