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You Know That Whole Holier Than Thou Republican Party? DOA In Pennsylvania
The right hand knows not what the left hand is doing! Wait, that came out all wrong.
By Juanita Jean
Image from: philly.com
Well, my goodness, it appears that Pennsylvania Republican Governor Tom Corbett has hired a staff that likes porn. Kinky porn, which I will not describe here but — trust me — it’s kinky. You really don’t want to know. Unless, of course, you’re kinky and either drunk or lost at this beauty salon.
Attorney General Kathleen Kane reportedly gave local journalists a look at a series of sexually explicit emails, videos and photos that she said were circulated on state computers by staffers who worked for Corbett during his time as the state’s attorney general.Some of those who allegedly sent and received the content, according to the newspaper, have gone on to high-ranking jobs in Corbett’s gubernatorial administration, including the state’s police commissioner and its secretary of environmental protection.
Okay, okay, so police commissioner is a stressful job. And so is environmental protection … almost.
I’m gonna stop here and remind you that this kinky stuff was found on state computers, paid for by the good folks of Pennsylvania. And, it might tell you something about the competency of the state police commissioner if the idiot doesn’t know that you cannot totally erase anything on a computer.
Corbett was on top of things, though.
Corbett’s Communications Director Lynn Lawson said “the images described in the accounts are unacceptable and have no place in the work environment.”
Now, I’d pitch a wall-eyed, snot-nosed hissy fit here except for one thing. Tom Corbett doesn’t have to fire these staffers because the voters of Pennsylvania will fire Tom Corbett in November. Mark my word.
Gov. Tom Corbett, Pornography
I Swear To Willie
So, the bright idea was to get Willie to go talk Kinky’s Democratic primary opponent out of running. Everybody was pretty upset by this kind of tactic and Kinky says he knew nothing about it.
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Emerald Destiny, Danube Explorer ex Passau to Budapest
7 Night Cruise sailing from Passau to Budapest aboard Emerald Destiny.
From: Passau, Germany
Cruise Ship: Emerald Destiny
7 Night(s) From
02/08/2021 Linz, Austria
Day 1 Passau
Make your way to your contemporary Star-Ship, where a warm welcome awaits you from the captain and crew. This evening, join your fellow guests for dinner on board.
Day 2 - Passau
Today will be a memorable part of your river cruise along the mighty Danube, as Passau’s atmosphere effortlessly reflects the work that was undertaken in the city by Italian architects, who brought a little piece of Venice with them to Germany. Enjoy a sightseeing tour of the city, including the ornate exterior of St. Stephen’s Cathedral, perfectly mirroring the beautifully restored interior, and the Altes Rathaus, or Town Hall, which comprises of an ensemble of eight historic patrician houses. Alternatively, set off on a hike around Passau, catching sights of the Mariahilf, a place of pilgrimage, and St. Severin, an ancient church that can be dated back to the Ottonian dynasty.
Day 3 - Linz – Ceský Krumlov
Today, you will visit the UNESCO World Heritage-listed town of Ceský Krumlov. This quaint town has one of the best-preserved ancient centres in Europe, with more than three hundred protected medieval buildings and an iconic castle complex. Enjoy a guided tour of the area, including the 15th-century St. Vitus’ Church and a series of delightful High Gothic façades, each taking you back to the heart of the Middle Ages.
Day 4 - Melk – Dürnstein
Relax as we cruise down the Danube River early this morning, passing beautiful terraced vineyards that produce some of the world’s best wine and delightful apricot orchards before arriving in Melk. On your included tour today, walk the halls of the magnificent Benedictine abbey of Melk, gazing upon ornate gold leaf walls. After your tour, enjoy sailing through the idyllic Wachau Valley. When you arrive in charming Dürnstein, you will have the opportunity to hike to Dürnstein Castle. Alternatively, stay in Melk to cycle from Melk to Dürnstein, traversing a route that offers a different perspective on the region’s viticulture.
Discover the classical charms of Vienna today, as we take you through the heart of the city, pointing out all of the best cafés and artisan studios as you discover its imperial grandeur. The UNESCO World Heritage-listed historic centre was once a fortified Roman frontier city, and a drive around the Ringstrasse will introduce you to architecture from across the last millennia. Alternatively, enjoy a bike tour along the serene trails on the Danube Island.
Day 6 - Bratislava
Cobbled streets pave the course for daily life in Bratislava, where winding alleys and gothic architecture blend together to create a truly distinctive Slovakian capital. Enjoy a guided hike to Bratislava Castle, with a silhouette that looks as though it was pulled from the pages of a fairytale. This striking landmark was most recently rebuilt in a Renaissance style, but it still retains some of its original features. Alternatively, explore the historic architecture in the compact town centre during an included guided tour, where everything is in walking distance, including the ornate exterior of the Slovak National Theatre.
Welcome to Budapest, where an amazing end to a fantastic trip through the heart of Europe awaits. Once the ancient Roman city of Aquincum, a true historic marvel, with bathhouses and homes with heated floors thanks to the surrounding hot springs. The UNESCO World Heritage-listed centre will enable you to follow the chapters of architecture through the ages as you set off on a coach tour of Budapest, passing Romanesque, Baroque and Classical façades. This evening, enjoy a traditional Hungarian folklore show on board.
After breakfast, it is time to say farewell to your fellow guests and disembark the ship.
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Akingmay Ethay (Assway Ackwardbay) Ystemsay Orkway Orfay Ouyay
You know, if I were the CEO of a company-- we'll call it Eneralgay Electricway-- and I knew I was going to have to announce that we'd blown earnings for the last quarter, I think that I'd try to break the news under the sort of conditions that would hurt us the least such as, and this is just a for instance, one in which my shares could not plummet. One way to do that would be to only tell one or two people about the "disappointing" results, and make them promise not to tell anyone but you know how people love to talk and it'd get out and once it did the evil shorts would be all over mine and "Eneralgay Electricway's" ass.
So even better would be to try and get on this special list of companies who no one is allowed to touch, no matter how badly they fuck shit up. Like, plastering sticky fifties on barnyard animals in the c-suite bad. I realize that this list is supposed to be taken seriously, and I wasn't one of the original lucky ones. But based on the insider information I have that it's not, and that the people in charge of letting companies in are pusses, and will let anyone in, I make a call. To my fellow inept CEOs-- got something not so good to share today, tomorrow, early next week? Fill these forms first, then let 'er rip.
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Life Life Lessons
Tori Roloff Lets Followers Know She’s the Best Mom She Can Be After Slamming Mommy Shammers
Sara Vallone December 17, 2018
“Little People, Big World” star Tori Roloff is known for sharing the most adorable photographs of her young son, Jackson.
And while the majority of her fans have loved getting to see little Jackson grow from a tiny baby to a walking 18-month-old, Tori is using her platform to try and stop mommy-shamming for good.
The mom of one and wife to Zach Roloff wrote on Instagram that the subject has been weighing heavily on her heart lately.
I wanted to share something that has been on my heart lately. * I feel like I do this every now and again to reiterate why I’m here and what I hope to use my platform for. * Lately I have been getting a lot of negative comments and feedback on my social media. I don’t usually take things to heart because I know I cant please everyone but I had to bring this up. Mom shaming is a real thing and it’s not cool. I get it all the time because I put my tactics out there and I try to be as honest about my life as possible. But for some reason lately I’ve been getting a lot of people bashing my momisms or how I do things in my home. I don’t want my social media to go there. This is a place where I like to be as positive as possible. There’s a lot going on in my life right now personally and I like to use my social media to brighten other’s day but unfortunately there have been days that i feel it’s doing no good. I’m only saying this because I feel like people need to hear it. My life is far from perfect. I know that and I’m okay with that. But when moms and sisters and friends and whoever start shaming each other for what they do with their kids that’s where I draw my line. We’re all doing the best we can and that’s all we can do. I love my son and my family unbearably and I do what I think is best for them. So please-be kind to each other. There are people behind your screens and you never know what a person is walking through. * In the words of the great Rev Run “do your best-forget the rest!” * * * UPDATE I didn’t post this for people to tell me I’m a good mom-I’m the best one I know how to be. I posted as just a reminder to EVERYONE to lift one another up. Don’t knock each other down.
A post shared by Tori Roloff (@toriroloff) on Dec 15, 2018 at 2:55pm PST
Lately I have been getting a lot of negative comments and feedback on my social media. I don’t usually take things to heart because I know I cant please everyone but I had to bring this up. Mom shaming is a real thing and it’s not cool. I get it all the time because I put my tactics out there and I try to be as honest about my life as possible. But for some reason lately I’ve been getting a lot of people bashing my momisms or how I do things in my home. I don’t want my social media to go there. This is a place where I like to be as positive as possible.
Roloff went on to say that there has been a lot going on in her life personally and she enjoys using her social media platforms in order to brighten other people’s days, but lately, she feels her posts have been doing “no good” at all.
The mom added:
I’m only saying this because I feel like people need to hear it. My life is far from perfect. I know that and I’m okay with that. But when moms and sisters and friends and whoever start shaming each other for what they do with their kids that’s where I draw my line. We’re all doing the best we can and that’s all we can do. I love my son and my family unbearably and I do what I think is best for them. So please-be kind to each other. There are people behind your screens and you never know what a person is walking through.
In the words of the great Rev Run “do your best-forget the rest!”
Following her post, thousands of her fans rushed to the comment section to let the 26-year-old know how good of a mom she is to Jackson.
Today was our last day on Maui. It has been such a blessing to be here with friends and family. Definitely a trip for the books. One I will never forget. Jackson saw turtles, went on two boats, ate pineapple, played in the sand, swam in the ocean, and went to a luau. He was a champion through it all and he is a reminder to be thankful for every single thing you have. For me- I’m thankful for these people. Mahalo Maui! ????☀️❤️
A post shared by Tori Roloff (@toriroloff) on Nov 16, 2018 at 11:56pm PST
Roloff then updated her picture to reiterate the point of her post:
UPDATE I didn’t post this for people to tell me I’m a good mom-I’m the best one I know how to be. I posted as just a reminder to EVERYONE to lift one another up. Don’t knock each other down.
To which many of her followers said, “Amen, I love your courage and candid honesty.”
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3 Replies to “Tori Roloff Lets Followers Know She’s the Best Mom She Can Be After Slamming Mommy Shammers”
Lee Kent 2 years ago
Don’t worry about it. The new “American way” is to shame everyone. By doing this people can ignore their own short-comings.
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Helen Huckobey 2 years ago
Tori you’re a great mom and wife.
Rita Smith 2 years ago
I love watching the show, you & Zach are great parents & a great couple!!! You know how ignorant today’s people can be, cause they don’t have a life!! Your a great mom, don’t give those idiots your precious time, their not worth the time!!!
When are y’all coming back on TV( new verisions)??? Love y’all !!
Merry CHRISTmas to all the Rolodex, god bless???❤️????
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LTE: Thoughts as we approach campus move-in
Kenny Allen, Op-Ed Contributor
On the day President Schapiro announced that first- and second year students wouldn’t be allowed on campus for fall quarter, Illinois reported 2,454 new coronavirus cases (with a 7-day average of 1,992). On the day before winter quarter move-in started, the state reported 4,428 new cases with a 7-day average of 6,062.
Provost Kathleen Hagerty explained the decision to allow first- and second year students by pointing to the school’s “testing protocols and the contact tracing and the very positive behavior for all people on campus.” In the same interview, Provost Hagerty added that a “big unknown is individual behavior, because you can’t control what people do.” It’s true that behavior is an unknown, but in the end, they made the decision to bring people back and increase density on campus. Regardless of mitigation measures, this is a riskier situation than Fall Quarter. Priced into that decision is the understanding that there will be noncompliance along with its potential risks. Bringing more students back increases risk on and near campus.
Like many other schools, Northwestern has a code of conduct detailing expectations of safe behavior on campus and consequences if one violates that code. Like many other schools, Northwestern encourages students to anonymously report those violations.
At other schools with dorms open, often at the encouragement of administration, many students saw it as their responsibility to police each other’s behavior. That created an environment where students didn’t trust each other and were empowered to retaliate against others by submitting anonymous concerns. We saw the beginnings of that environment over the summer. In anticipation of a fully opened campus Fall Quarter, someone started an Instagram account where people could anonymously submit pictures of other students breaking covid rules. The person running the account insisted that they were doing it in order to preserve the college experience for many Northwestern students.
We should make sure to resist the university’s attempts to completely offload the responsibility for safety onto us. Before the start of Fall Quarter, administrators pointed to rising cases of coronavirus as their reason for cancelling move-in for thousands of students. They made the proactive decision to lower density on campus to protect student safety. Now — while local spread of the virus is even higher — the decision to fully open dorms puts them in the reactive position of seeing what happens when more students are on campus with less space.
It’s important to keep that decision in mind as the University asks us to surveil each other. If we immediately look to blame other students, we provide administrators with easy scapegoats if something does go wrong. Additionally — especially after campus protests to abolish the police in the fall — we should resist powerful institutions when they ask us to help them inflict punishment onto our peers. Potential biases in scrutiny would lead to punishment being dealt out disproportionately to marginalized groups on campus. And many of those sanctions, such as being sent home for noncompliance, will be disproportionately felt by marginalized groups as well.
This isn’t to say that we all shouldn’t be trying to keep each other safe as much as we can. There are obviously measures we can each take to prevent the spread of the virus. But this is a collective problem, and individual decisions can only keep us so safe. Whatever outcome we see will be more of a result of administrators’ decisions, rather than an indictment of students’ behavior. We all want to stay safe, but we need to make sure that desire for safety isn’t expressed as policing each other.
If you would like to respond publicly to this op-ed, send a Letter to the Editor to [email protected]. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.
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End SARS: Gov. Emmanuel extends curfew as protest turns violent
Don Silas
Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State has extended the curfew imposed on the state to 7am tomorrow (Saturday) to ensure full return to normalcy.
Emmanuel announced the extension in a statement issued on Friday in Uyo by the state Commissioner for Information, Mr Ini Ememobong, and made available to newsmen.
Recall that the curfew declared earlier by the governor was to elapse by midday Friday.
The governor said the extension followed the unlawful activities of the End SARS protesters, which led to the disruption of economic activities in the state.
“This extension has become necessary because of the overriding interest of the public and the inevitable need to protect the lives and property of the citizens,” he said.
Emmanuel directed total cessation of movement during the period, saying, “Only those on essential duties, who must show proper means of identification will be allowed to move.
“All law-abiding citizens are to remain at home, security agencies have been briefed to strictly enforce this order,” he said.
The End SARS protest in Akwa Ibom had taken a violent twist on Thursday, leading to the disruption of law and order.
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Chijindu Emeruwa
Mazi Sam Ohaubunwa, a former member of Presidential Advisory Committee on Subsidy Reinvestment & Empowerment Programme,(SURE-P) and current President of Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, has expressed deep concern over deteriorating conditions of things in the country.
Ohuabunwa lamented that the country is being run in an opaque manner and needs to be redirected for the good of all.
The Abia born Pharmacist, who is the convener, The New Nigeria Group, in a statement on Sunday, posited that the government as presently constituted is so lopsided and Nigeria cannot work like that.
Ohuabunwa who used the opportunity to announce that he would be joining the nation’s presidential race ahead of 2023 general elections, said every Nigerian who wants peace and unity must support power shift to the South-East.
According to Ohuabunwa, he would ensure equity, justice and fairness in all his dealings as the president of Nigeria, which will create equal citizenship rights, where there will be no special privileges and sacred cow.
The Elder Statesman promised to tackle poverty which he said, would largely solve the problem of corruption, pledging to remove all forms of discrimination or marginalization.
He insisted that under his watch, no criminal will go free and no innocent person will be criminalized.
On the issue of power shift to the South-East, Ohaubunwa said, “Every Nigerian who wants unity must support power shift. Igbo Presidency will stop Biafra agitation which asks for equity, fairness and freedom, even other agitations will stop. Igbo are for justice and equity.
“We are not coming with anger and recrimination, but with equity; we need to come out and make Nigeria work. God has put it to my heart to come and contest for the office of the president of Nigeria.
“I am making myself available; it must not be me, but an Igbo of character. Ndigbo must present their best. God has given me the motivation and what it takes to lead Nigeria to get a country that works for everybody. It is not about the South-East, it is about Nigeria, “Ohaubunwa concluded.
Meanwhile, former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and the National leader of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Ashiwaju Bola Tinubu have been asked to drop their ambition to run for the Presidency of Nigeria in 2023.
A body, Pan Nigeria Presidency of Igbo Extraction Coalition, PANPIEC, in a statement by its Director of Planning and Strategy, Chief Pat Anyanwu, on Saturday, after a meeting between the Coalition and a northern group, Arewa Power Shift Movement, in Port Harcourt Rivers State noted that power shifting to Igbo land in 2023 will end the wounds of the civil war.
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President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed former military administrator of Lagos and Borno states, Gen. Mohammed Buba Marwa (retd) as Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.
Vanguard reports that a source in the Presidency who confirmed the development to newsmen said Marwa’s appointment takes immediate effect.
Prior to his appointment, General Marwa worked as Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee for the Elimination of Drug Abuse, PACEDA, from 2018 to 2020.
He was a military attaché, Nigerian Embassy, Washington DC, USA, and defence attaché, United Nations, New York.
Marwa was also a former ambassador to South Africa and the Kingdoms of Lesotho and Swaziland.
Recall that the Agency had denied speculations that its Former Chairman, retired Col. Muhammad Abdallah was sacked by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Mr Jonah Achema, spokesperson for NDLEA, who made the clarifications in a statement said the tenure of Abdallah whose appointment began on Jan. 12, 2016 expired on Jan.11.
According to him, Abdallah’s five-year tenure elapsed on Jan. 11.
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The first Delta Hotel by Marriott opens in the Middle East
Ideally located between The Walk, JBR, and Dubai Marina, Delta Hotels by Marriott, Jumeirah Beach is the first Delta to open in the Middle East and features 360 modern rooms, suites and fully-serviced apartments with panoramic views of Dubai Marina and Jumeirah Beach.
A diverse range of amenities includes a full-service fitness and massage centre, an outdoor pool, a shuttle bus service to Mall of the Emirates, and much more. Its impressive line-up of restaurants and bars offers everything from authentic South American cuisine to authentic comfort pub food.
Shujaat Yar, cluster general manager, said: “We are hugely excited to debut Delta Hotels in the region and couldn’t have found a better location for the first opening. We want to help business and leisure travellers enjoy all that is great about Dubai. The strategic location of our first opening offers a fantastic opportunity to discover the city, while our amenities and F&B options cater to a wide range of tastes and requirements.”
Delta Hotels by Marriott has a motto of ‘Simple Made Perfect’. It aims to provide a seamless travel experience that focuses on delivering quality in the areas that matter most to guests.
Each of the rooms, suites and apartments offer balconies and floor-to-ceiling windows, enabling guests to appreciate wonderful views of the beachfront and marina. In-room facilities include free WiFi, complimentary bottled water replenished daily and a flexible working space.
Brazilian restaurant Fogueira serves up an all-you-can-eat traditional Churrasco BBQ experience with a live Latino band and views of the Arabian Gulf and Dubai Marina. Meanwhile, the cozy elegance of Speakeasy bar is inspired by 1920s prohibition-era America.
Sama Lounge, a stylish rooftop bar, offers picturesque views of Jumeirah Beach, Ain Dubai and Dubai Marina from its 35th floor terrace. La Sala is a quiet space to relax and the ideal space to host meetings, serving freshly brewed Italian coffee and home to a beautiful lounge terrace on the JBR plaza level.”
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Zaha Hadid’s ME Dubai opens its door on March 1, 2020
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Schuyler County, New York Facts
When was Schuyler County, NY Created?
Schuyler County was created on April 17, 1854 from Tompkins County, Steuben County and Chemung County.
What is the County Seat of Schuyler County, NY?
The County Seat is located in Watkins Glen and in addition the county government website is schuylercounty.us/
What counties are adjacent to Schuyler County, NY?
Bordering Counties are Seneca County, Tompkins County, Chemung County, Steuben County, Yates County.
Schuyler County, NY Vital Records
Where can find Schuyler County Birth, marriage, Divorce and Death Records?
Schuyler County vital records can be found at the New York Department of Health which has copies of birth records after 1881 and death records after 1880, copies of marriage since 1881 and a Divorce records since 1847 . There is a fee for each copy requested. Please refer to the information to the Statewide Vital Records in New York for current fees and application process.
You can search online for Schuyler County Birth, Marriage, Divorce or Death Records. You can also Order Electronically Online or can download an application for New York Birth and Death Certificate, Marriage and Divorce Certificate Application to mail.
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New York, County Marriages, 1908-1935
New York Marriages, 1686-1980
New York Deaths and Burials, 1795-1952
Schuyler County, NY Census Records
What Schuyler County, NY census records are available?
There are many types of census records for Schuyler County guide you in researching your family tree. Federal Population Schedules are available for 1860, 1870, 1880 (free index), 1890 (fragment), 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940.
Schuyler Co. Mortality Schedules can be obtained for 1860, 1870 and 1880. Schuyler Co. Industry and Agriculture is available for 1860, 1870 and 1880. Schuyler Co. Union Veterans Schedules can be obtained for 1890.
There are New York State censuses from 1880, 1892, 1905, 1855, 1865, 1875, 1892, 1905, 1915, 1925. You can get free downloadable and also printable census forms to help you with your research. See Also New York Census Records Research Guide
U.S. Census Mortality Schedules, New York, 1850-1880
Schuyler County, NY Census Records Links
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What genealogical records can I find in the Schuyler County Courthouse?
Researchers frequently overlook the great importance of Schuyler County court, probate, and land records data as a useful resource of ancestry and genealogy information. Buried away in New York courthouses and archives everywhere are the ambitions and frustrations of countless New York residents. The possibilities are excellent that your forefathers have left a comprehensive document of at least a number of facets of their lives in the Schuyler County court records. Even if your forebears is not referred to in a Court case, contemplate all of the other procedures that could have lead to him or her to appear in court records. See Also New York Courthouse Records Research Guide.
PLEASE READ FIRST!!! Please call the clerk’s department to confirm hours, mailing address, fees and other specifics before visiting or requesting information because of sometimes changing contact information. The Department Offices DO NOT DO RESEARCH. The files are available to interested parties, barring private issues. Many staff will guide individuals in locating the materials, however it’s up to the person to carry out the research.
Schuyler County Courthouse (all departments listed below are located here, unless otherwise noted)
Address: 105 Ninth Street, Watkins Glen, NY 14891
Schuyler County Clerk All Land and Naturalization records are maintained at the Schuyler County Clerk’s Office. The Schuyler County Courthouse has an exceptionally well maintained and organized set of records dating back to the incorporation of the County.in 1854. There are transcribed copies of indices from Steuben, Chemung and Tompkins Counties, the three counties Schuyler was formed from. The office also has the local census from the years 1855, 1860, 1864, 1870, 1875, 1880, 1915 and 1925 as well as naturalization records including applications for citizenship, declarations of intentions to become a citizen, and petitions that date from 1864 – 1954.
Schuyler County Surrogate Court Clerk
Schuyler County Historian
Address: 3460 County Route 28, Watkins Glen, New York 14891
New York Wills, 1626-1836
Schuyler County, NY Societies and Family History Resources
What genealogical and historical societies, archives, museums, associations and libraries are available for Schuyler County, NY?
A list of Schuyler County Historical and Genealogical Societies, Libraries, Archives. See also list of Statewide New York Archives, Historical & Genealogical Societies.
Schuyler County Historical Society, NY, 108 N. Catharine Street, P.O. Box 651, Montour Falls, NY 14865, Phone: 607-535-9741; The collection is held at the museum and “The research room has copied records of births, marriages, and deaths in Schuyler County, family records, past editions of The Review, the Watkins Express, the Havana Journal, and school yearbooks.
Central New York Genealogical Society, Box 104, Calvin Station , Syracuse, New York 13205
Schuyler County Historical Society Museum, 108 N. Catharine Street (Rt. 14), P.O. Box 651, Montour Falls, New York 14865, Phone: 607-535-9741
Watkins Glen Public Library, 610 S. Decatur Street, Watkins Glen, New York 14891, Phone: 607-535-2346
New York State Archives and Records Administration, 11th Floor, Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY 12230; (518) 474-8955
New York State Library, Cultural Education Center, 7th Floor, Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY 12230
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 122 East 58th Street, New York, New York 10022-1939
New York State Historical Association, West Lake Road, P.O. Box 800, Cooperstown, New York, 13326-0800
Where can I connect with other Schuyler County, NY Researchers through message boards and forums?
New York Genealogy Community (plus.google.com)
New York State Genealogy Network (facebook.com)
Schuyler County, New York Message Boards (boards.ancestry.com)
Schuyler County, New York Genealogy Forum (genforum.genealogy.com)
What other genealogical resources are available in Schuyler County, NY?
The following are web links to Genealogy, Records and Resources pertaining to Schuyler County. Most of these genealogy links fall into 3 categories: Business oriented Sites, Private Sites or Organization Sites. Some have free access some have to have a cost. This is simply a listing that has been compiled or submitted. I do not recommend or promote one genealogy site over another.
Schuyler Co. NY Books, Newspapers & Publications
New York Newspapers Books & Publications Research Guide
New York historical newspaper archives online (newspapers.com)
Historical Newspapers from New York (1719 – 1992) (genealogybank.com)
Schuyler County, New York Books (amazon.com)
Search New York Obituaries (1985 to current) (genealogybank.com)
Schuyler Co. NY Cemeteries & Church Records
New York Cemetery Research Guide
Cemetery and other records, 1813-1897 (search.ancestry.com)
Schuyler Co., New York Graves (findagrave.com)
Schuyler County Tombstone Transcription Project (usgwtombstones.org)
Schuyler Co., New York Cemeteries (Internment.net)
Topographic Cemetery List and Map for Schuyler County, New York
Schuyler Co., New York Cemetery Books (amazon.com)
Schuyler Co. NY Church & Bible Records
New York, Family Bible Records, 1581-1917 (search.ancestry.com)
Schuyler County, New York Church Books (amazon.com)
Schuyler Co. NY Family Websites, Pictures & Histories
Create a Free Family Tree (ancestry.com)
New York Family Group Sheet Project (fgs-project.com)
Nichols and Related Families (nicholsgenealogy.com)
Schuyler Co. NY General and History Websites
See Also State History for New York
Schuyler County, New York Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)
History of Tioga, Chemung, Tompkins, and Schuyler Counties, New York : with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of (search.ancestry.com)
A Biographical record of Schuyler County, New York (search.ancestry.com)
Portrait and biographical record of Seneca and Schuyler Counties, New York : containing portraits and biographical sketches of (search.ancestry.com)
Schuyler County, New York Wiki (familysearch.org)
Schuyler Co. NY Genealogy (kindredtrails.com)
Schuyler County, New York (linkpendium.com)
Cyndi’s List – United States – New York – Counties – Schuyler (cyndislist.com)
Schuyler County New York (genealogytrails.com)
Schuyler Co. NYGenweb (rootsweb.ancestry.com)
Schuyler County Genealogy Queries (cousinconnect.com)
Schuyler Co. Data Collections (search.ancestry.com)
Schuyler Co. NY Immigration & Naturalization
See Also Statewide Immigration and Naturalization Links for New York
New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924 (familysearch.org)
Early New York Naturalizations (search.ancestry.com)
Schuyler Co. NY Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers
See Also Map of New York Links and Information
1895 Schuyler County Map (livgenmi.com)
Schuyler Co. NY Military Records
New York Military Records Research Guide
New York, Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865 (familysearch.org)
New York Civil War Records (1861-65) (search.ancestry.com)
New York Military Records (Fold3.com) provides easy access to military records, stories, photos, and personal documents of the New York both women and men who served. Perfect for Schuyler County genealogists, researchers, historians and more.
Schuyler Co. NY Schools & Directories
New York Farm Directory, 1914: Yates, Schuyler, Tompkins & Seneca Counties (search.ancestry.com)
Reference business directory of Schuyler County, N.Y. 1893-’94 : with map (search.ancestry.com)
Gazetteer and business directory of Chemung and Schuyler counties, N.Y., for 1868-9 (search.ancestry.com)
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Estonia’s healthcare system has been revolutionized by innovative e-solutions. Patients and doctors, not to mention hospitals and the government, benefit from the convenient access and savings that e-services have delivered.
Each person in Estonia that has visited a doctor has an online e-Health record that can be tracked. Identified by the electronic ID-card, the health information is kept completely secure and at the same time accessible to authorised individuals. KSI Blockchain technology is being used for the system to ensure data integrity and mitigate internal threats to the data.
e-Ambulance
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99% of health data digitized
99% of prescriptions are digital
2,3M queries by doctors every month
100% electronic billing in healthcare
e-Health Records e-Ambulance e-Prescription
every month1,8Mqueries by patients
The Electronic Health Record (e-Health Record) is a nationwide system integrating data from Estonia’s different healthcare providers to create a common record every patient can access online.
Functioning very much like a centralized, national database, the e-Health Record actually retrieves data as necessary from various providers, who may be using different systems, and presents it in a standard format via the e-Patient portal. A powerful tool for doctors that allows them to access a patient’s records easily from a single electronic file, doctors can read test results as they are entered, including image files such as X-rays even from remote hospitals.
For assuring the integrity of retrieved electronic medical records as well as system access logs, the KSI blockchain technology is being used.
99%of patients have countrywide digital record
For example, in an emergency situation, a doctor can use a patient’s ID code to read time-critical information, such as blood type, allergies, recent treatments, on-going medication or pregnancy. The system also compiles data for national statistics, so the ministry can measure health trends, track epidemics, and make sure that its health resources are being spent wisely.
Patients have access to their own records, as well as those of their underaged children and people who have given them authorization for access. By logging into the e-Patient portal with an electronic ID-card, the patient can review doctor visits and current prescriptions, and check which doctors have had access to their files.
Visit the Estonian e-Health Records here.
e-Ambulance is a quick-response solution that can detect and position the phone call for the ambulance within 30 seconds and send the emergency ambulance to the necessary point fast. In an emergency situation, a doctor can use a patient’s ID code to read time-critical information, such as blood type, allergies, recent treatments, on-going medication or pregnancy.
99%of prescriptions are digital
One of the key innovations in Estonia’s cutting-edge e-Healthcare system, e-Prescription, is a centralized paperless system for issuing and handling medical prescriptions. When a doctor prescribes medicine using the system, he or she does so electronically, with the aid of an online form. At the pharmacy, all a patient needs to do is present an ID-card. The pharmacist then retrieves the patient’s information from the system and issues the medicine.
Because the e-Prescription system draws on data from the national health insurance fund, any state medical subsidies that the patient is entitled to, also appear, and the medicine is discounted accordingly. Another major advantage of the system is that doctor visits are no longer needed for repeat prescriptions.
A patient can contact the doctor by e-mail, Skype or phone, and the doctors can issue repeats with just a few clicks, and the patient can collect the medicine from their closest pharmacy.
Today, 99% of all prescriptions in the country are issued electronically. This frees up time for patients and doctors, and reduces administrative strain on hospitals.
Developers of Healthcare
These Healthcare e-solutions are provided by the following Estonian companies:
Nortal e-Health Record, e-Prescription, Hospital Information System, Patient Portal, Medical Data Exchange Visit website
Helmes e-Health Record, e-Prescription Visit website
Guardtime e-Health, e-Prescription Visit website
INTELSYS e-Prescription Visit website
Stacc e-Health, Personalised Medicine Visit website
Queretec e-Health, Qure Data Management Platform Visit website
Industry62 e-Health Record, e-Prescription, e-Ambulance Visit website
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What Happens to an Enzyme When Its Tertiary Structure Is Changed?
By Lori Garrett-Hatfield
What Is Feedback Inhibition and Why Is It Important in Regulating Enzyme Activity?
Four Parameters That Can Affect Enzyme Activity
What Organic Group Does an Enzyme Belong To?
Explain the Lock & Key Model of Enzyme Reactions
What Kinds of Chemicals Will Speed Up the Action of an Enzyme?
Enzymes are responsible for many of the chemical processes that take place in animals, plants and microbes. They play a critical role in all life on Earth. Because every enzyme has a specific role and function, a change in its tertiary structure would cause the enzyme to be impaired in its function.
Enzymes are proteins that are able to cause reactions in the plant, animal or microbe to speed up. Thousands of enzyme types are present in humans. Without enzymes, needed chemical reactions would occur far more slowly, if at all. Enzymes regulate the most basic functions necessary for life to thrive. An enzyme helps break down simple sugars in animals. Another enzyme breaks down triglycerides, a fat. Most enzymes only react with one specific substrate.
Structures and Function
Proteins function because they have defined, three-dimensional structures that result from folding based on the primary structures (polypeptides, or amino acid chains), which interact to form secondary structures (specific 3D features such as alpha helices), which interact to form the large, 3D structure (tertiary structure) of protein subunits. Within an enzyme, there are defined structures called active sites. The active site of an enzyme is specific to the substrate, or chemical that the protein reacts with. The substrate binds to the enzyme at its active site, the chemical reaction takes place, and the products are released.
How Enzymes Are Changed
When enzymes are changed, it is at the active site. Usually, an enzyme and its substrate meet at its active site, and they fit together perfectly, in a jigsaw puzzle format or a lock and key format. However, sometimes the substrate and the enzyme do not fit perfectly, but the enzyme still accepts the substrate at its active site in what is called the induced fit model. If the enzyme accepts the substrate, the reaction takes place and the active site changes to fit the substrate. If its tertiary structure is changed too much, however, the active site of an enzyme will not accept the substrate, and the chemical reaction will not take place.
What Changes Enzymes
Many things can effect the tertiary structure of enzymes, which includes the active site, including heat (for example, boiling), freezing, and pH change.
Elmhurst College: Chemistry: Enzymes
Pearson: LabBench Activity: Enzyme Structure
Brooklyn College: CUNY: Biology: Enzymes and Active Sites
Florida State University: Biochemistry Laboratory Manual: Kinetics: Determination of an Enzymes Activity - Relevance
Lori Garrett-Hatfield has a B.J. in Journalism from the University of Missouri. She has a Ph.D. in Adult Education from the University of Georgia. She has been working in the Education field since 1994, and has taught every grade level in the K-12 system, specializing in English education, and English as a Second Language education.
How Do Enzymes Lower Transition State?
Characteristics of Enzyme Binding Sites
What Does It Mean if an Enzyme Is Denatured?
What Does Sulfuric Acid Have to Do With an Enzyme's Structure?
Description of the Active Site of an Enzyme Activity
What Is an Example in a Living System of How Molecular Shape Is Critical?
Describe the Action of an Enzyme in a Chemical Reaction
The Effects of PH and Temperature on Enzyme Activity of Lactase on Lactose
What Environmental Factors Can Enzyme Activity Be Negatively Affected By?
1 How Do Enzymes Lower Transition State?
2 Characteristics of Enzyme Binding Sites
3 What Does It Mean if an Enzyme Is Denatured?
4 What Does Sulfuric Acid Have to Do With an Enzyme's Structure?
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The World Will Be Nearly 6 Degrees Hotter Unless It Invests in a Green Recovery
Debris burns behind a structure during the Bond Fire near Lake Forest, California on Dec. 3, 2020.
Photo: Patrick T. Fallon (Getty Images)
A new United Nations report—yeah, another one—warns that the world is on track to exceed the level of global warming laid out in the Paris Agreement. But a green recovery plan to handle the fallout of the covid-19 pandemic could significantly improve our future odds of survival.
Since the beginning of widespread industrial development, the world has warmed by 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit). The Paris Agreement aims to limit warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), which would still usher in a pretty catastrophic situation. But the UN Environmental Program’s Emissions Gap Report, released early Wednesday, found that if carbon emission trends continue, the world is headed for a temperature rise in excess of 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of this century.
That’s true despite the historic dip in greenhouse gas emissions we’ve seen this year due to the decline in travel, industrial production, and fuel demand amid covid-19 lockdowns. The report says that though carbon emissions are expected to fall this year by up to 7%—the largest yearly drop on record—that will reduce warming in 2050 by just 0.02 degrees Fahrenheit (0.01 degrees Celsius).
A 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit increase in the global average temperature would completely upend life on Earth as we know it. For an idea of just how bad it would be, recall that a 2018 UN report found that the impacts of solely heating the planet by 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), another Paris Agreement-related target, would result in suffering across the planet. Up to 90% of corals would be gone, many low-lying islands would become uninhabitable, extreme weather would become worse, and mass extinction would still be on the table. The new report says we could reach twice that level of warming by 2100.
The mere thought of 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit of warming makes me nauseous. But this doesn’t have to be our fate, and the biggest factor is how quickly we act to change course. Right now, governments have an unprecedented opportunity to do so by spending covid-19 stimulus package money wisely.
So far, many governments are bailing out polluters including oil, gas, and coal, and aviation companies in their economic relief measures, and thereby further enshrining the reign of carbon-intensive, deadly industries. But instead, the report says officials should prioritize sustainable measures instead. After all, decarbonizing the entire global economy will take a massive amount of investment, and these relief packages could be a part of that.
Among the sectors that governments should fund are renewable energy, transportation, low-carbon buildings, and reforestation. The authors suggest lowering fossil fuel subsidies and banning the construction of new coal plants, which are both remarkably modest demands; other scientists have called for ending all fossil fuel subsidies and phasing out all fossil fuel infrastructure.
Before the covid-19 pandemic began, UN scientists forecasted a 59 gigaton increase in carbon-equivalent greenhouse gases by 2030. But by following their stimulus guidelines, the report shows world leaders could cut up to 25% of that expected pollution. That may not seem like much, but it could make a huge difference: It could give us a 66% chance of keeping temperature increases to below 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
Even these drastic measures, though, wouldn’t necessarily take us off the path of catastrophic warming. The authors also urge governments to promise to phase out of greenhouse gas emissions altogether, and to codify those commitments in their Paris Agreement pledges.
Of course, corporations are responsible for the vast majority of historic greenhouse gas emissions, but the report notes that certain individuals should also get their acts together. It says the combined carbon pollution from the richest 1% of the world’s population is larger than that from the poorest 50%.
“The elite will need to reduce their footprint by a factor of at least 30 to stay in line with the Paris Agreement targets,” the report says.
The discrepancy in carbon pollution exists between richer and poorer countries, too. The U.S., for instance, is responsible for far more historic carbon pollution than any other nation. That gives it and other wealthier countries a particular responsibility to up their climate goals. So far, they’ve largely fallen short.
The UN Commission on Climate Change has asked all Paris Agreement signatories to submit new and improved commitments this year, but the report says not a single member of the G20—a group of powerful nations which accounts for 85% of the world’s GDP and creates some 78% of all global greenhouse gas pollution—has officially done so. Leaders of those countries should heed these authors’ warnings and stop messing around, because if they don’t, there will be hell to pay.
Times up, time to leave!
Dharna, I don’t think you get it.
The worlds most wealthy have “worked really hard” all their lives to amass their vast fortunes and that gives them the right, nay, DUTY to burn 1000's of times more dino juice than us plebs. Their tireless efforts, deserve nothing but our admiration and devotion as they jet about in private planes, forcing down old French wine while having to put up with fillet of baby seal cooked in truffle oil.
They are doing everything they possibly can to help the planet, but after all without the support of their shareholders none of their great work would be possible.
So lets all step back and have a moment of silent reflection for the selfless efforts of our ruling class of elite rich folk.
God bless them, every one.
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Security Summit Recommends Multi-Factor Authentication
by | Jul 29, 2020 | Tax Tips and News
The Security Summit’s “Working Virtually: Protecting Tax Data at Home” campaign will stretch over five weeks, providing remote-work data security recommendations for tax professionals. Whether you are a work-from-home veteran or were forced to convert the dining room table into a makeshift office, these tips can help protect client data from identity thieves.
The second week of “Working Virtually” focuses on multi-factor authentication (MFA). While included in the “Security Six” protections highlighted last week, the Summit is specifically namechecking MFA for one simple reason: It works.
What is multi-factor authentication?
Multi-factor authentication protects online accounts by requiring additional user-provided information during the login process. In some cases, that means entering a code sent to your email address, mobile phone, or third-party authentication application—which are the most secure of the three options.
Finding a suitable authentication app will largely depend on the account or software you’re trying to protect. Most platforms that support MFA will list the authentication methods they support, but the IRS says you may need to “use a search engine for ‘Authentication apps’ to learn more.”
Once you find the authentication app you need, it’s just a matter of downloading the program to your smartphone and following the setup instructions.
Why is multi-factor authentication effective against identity thieves?
MFA prevents identity-theft attacks by requiring a code that scammers can’t easily steal with phishing scams. Outside of tricking victims into providing login credentials, identity thieves like to hide malware in email attachments and links that is designed to steal victims’ passwords.
“However, with multi-factor authentication, it’s unlikely the thief will have stolen the practitioner’s cell phone so he would not receive the necessary security code to access the account,” the IRS explains. “This protects the tax pro’s account information.”
Will my tax preparation software offer multi-factor authentication?
The IRS says “all tax software providers will be required to offer multi-factor authentication options on their products that meet higher standards [in 2021].” Despite generally being optional for users, it’s a good idea to enable MFA in your tax software—especially if you’re working remotely.
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Home » Social Issues » San Pedranos still suffering water shortage
Since Tuesday, we’ve been following the story of San Pedro’s water woes. With the pipes still largely dry and tempers on the island flaring, News 5′s Ann-Marie Williams caught a flight out to the caye to find out exactly what was going on.
San Pedrano #1
“Yeah, we’re all complaining because we don’t have any water. They said on the noon broadcast seventy-two hours.”
“The most water we get is like two buckets for each room and that’s it. “
“We full the one bucket to use for bathing, washing and my house.”
“No hay nada de agua para lavar, para tomar. Nada. Es mucho problema.”
Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting
A problem Jim Kavanagh, manager of Belize Water Limited on San Pedro said started just over a week ago and has since escalated.
Jim Kavanagh, Manager, Belize Water Ltd.
“About ten days ago and the other on broke down approximately six days after that. Our plant is set up so that if we do have a failure, the other half can continue to operate. In this case, both broke, and it was the same piece of equipment. This piece of the equipment is a very heavy-duty thing that is not expected to have these kinds of failures, so it is an extremely unusual set of circumstances that happened. We were down to half capacity and we have a spare that’s being adapted in the States to accept the motor, which is an adaptation that needed to be made. In the middle of that, that’s when the failures occurred.”
A failure Omar Silva, public relation’s officer for Belize Water Services Limited in Belize City, says has everybody losing.
Omar Silva, P.R., Belize Water Services
“The town doesn’t get water, the tourists, B.W.S. can’t get its revenues because it can’t supply water to its residents.”
Ann-Marie Williams
“So it’ll be better for you if in the end you all decide to build that desalination plant.”
“Well of course, it will be better for San Pedranos on a whole. Belize Water Services have a purchase agreement with Belize Water Limited to get water to that they could pipe it and get it to the San Pedranos. Over the last month and a half, we’ve been having problems on two occasions. Belize Water Services is trying to review the contract to see where they could see areas that could make Belize Water Limited comply with the contract of providing water in a capable and in efficient quantities. “
In the meantime, things are far from efficient on la Isla Bonita. Over at Carmen’s Kitchen, Carmen admits it’s difficult for her to cope.
Carmen Spencer, Manager, Carmen’s Kitchen
“It’s very hard. We need to wash dishes and things like that; we have a big problem with that. I hope everything gets better. I have to go over there, get my big buckets of water, and bring it to the kitchen to wash our hands, wash the vegetables. It’s pretty hard this week.”
Residents near the airstrip road and in town are also finding it very hard.
Jacquie Devine, Manager, Banana Beach Resort
“No pressure, did not have enough for a shower, you’re getting a trickle. That’s all that’s available right now.”
And while we were there, residents got a temporary reprieve. They were fetching water and even golf carts were being washed.
But on the other side of town, school children were not exempted from the water shortage. Vice principal of San Pedro Primary School, Rosario Guerrero was under pressure to make daily water plans.
Rosario Guerrero, Vice-Principal, San Pedro Primary School
“We have one person taking care of the bathrooms and she has to go to the sea to get some water to flush the toilets. For washing hands, we don’t have any means. We have to go to the sea and get some water to wash hands. Very inconvenient.”
Most of the hotels on the island were equipped with their wells or tanks, a hard lesson they learnt, thanks to Hurricane Keith.
Jacquie Devine
“It would have been really, really difficult. It would be like being back after the hurricane when we didn’t have water and we didn’t have that set-up at the time. We couldn’t provide water to the guests. It’s difficult, it’s impossible.”
“San Pedranos will have to suffer the inconvenience of not having water over the long September tenth holiday weekend. However, Kavanagh says the part comes in on Tuesday and by Wednesday the island should be up and pumping its three hundred thousand gallon a day capacity to its residents. Reporting from San Pedro Town, Ann-Marie Williams for News 5.
San Pedranos are reminded to fill their containers as the island will be on a strict water schedule until the shortage is over, hopefully by Wednesday.
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Tools overview
Zeolite adsorption
Deze techniekfiche is onderdeel van de LUSS applicatie.
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Process description
Zeolite is an aluminium silicate which exists naturally and is also produced synthetically. The zeolite has a three-dimensional structure with pores. It consists of silicon, aluminium and oxygen ions. The silicon ions are neutrally-loaded in the crystal structure. The aluminium ions cause negative areas to exist. In order to keep the load balanced, a cation (Na+, K+…) or a proton (H+) is placed in the pores as a counter-ion.
Each zeolite type has equal-sized pores throughout the entire crystal structure. The crystal structure is partly determined by the crystal structure’s ring size. Altering the ratio between aluminium and silicon can have an impact on the pore size as well as the counter-ion. All natural zeolites contain aluminium and are hydrophilic. These materials form a good absorbent for polar substances (e.g. water and water-soluble substances). When the aluminium is removed, the zeolite becomes hydrophobic and is able to adsorb apolar substances like VOC’s.
Hydrophobic zeolites can be synthetically manufactured in the form of crystals with a diameter of 1 µm to 1 mm. These crystals are bound together into larger grains, in order to reduce the bed’s air-resistance. Because synthetic zeolites are expensive compared to natural zeolites, they are normally only used as hydrophobic zeolites or zeolite catalysts.
Similarly to activated carbon, zeolites are also used in a bed. The adsorption principle in the bed and the saturation of the bed are the same as activated carbon adsorption.
In contrast to activated carbon, zeolite is not only used once and destroyed after saturation, but used in zeolite regeneration applications. This is due to the zeolite’s cost aspects (see technique sheet 19 for an explanation about regeneration).
Zeolite does not have a linear adsorption curve. In other words, adsorption capacity is not reduced greatly for low VOC concentrations. It is thus more suitable for working with low end concentrations than activated carbon or polymer.
Zeolites can be obtained with pore sizes between 0.3 – 3 nm. This pore size is uniform for one type of zeolite. A zeolite will not adsorb molecules that are larger than the pore size. Molecules without an affinity will also not be adsorbed.
Zeolites can be used together with activated carbon, whereby the polymer or activated carbon operate at higher concentrations and the zeolite as polishing for lower concentrations. This can be performed in various beds stage-by-stage or via a mixture of adsorbents that form one bed.
The efficiency is determined by:
type of zeolite
type of VOC
Flue gas temperature
Flue gas humidity
For odour, yields of 80 – 95 % can be realised.
Boundary conditions
Flow rate: < 100 000 m³/h
Temperature: < 250 °C
Concentration: < 25 % of lowest explosion limit
Zeolites are less sensitive to moisture than activated carbon, less susceptible to reactions that could lead to spontaneous combustion in the bed, and are slower to pulverise. If a bed fire should occur, there will not be a problem if the temperature remains below the zeolite’s transition temperature. If the temperature should exceed this level, then the pore size of the zeolite will decrease, whereby the adsorption properties will change. In this case, it may be necessary to replace part of the zeolite. In most cases, the temperature will remain below the transition temperature if one blows sufficient air through the filter. If this is case, only the solvent will burn.
The zeolite seldom needs to be replaced in regenerative applications (regenerative sorption). The guarantee provided by the supplier lasts for 5 years. Apolar zeolites are, due to their price, normally not used for once-only applications.
Occasionally it is necessary to dispose of run-down zeolites.
See regenerative sorption for the energy use of an adsorption-desorption unit.
Cost aspects
See regenerative sorption
Operating costs
Hydrophobic zeolite: 14 - 88 USD/kg [1]
High efficiency in VOC removal
Particularly suited to low VOC concentrations
Simple and robust technology
Suitable for discontinuous processes
Easy to place
Dust can lead to blockages
Component mixes may lead to early malfunction
Risk of fire in the bed (ketones, turpentines…)
Zeolites are primarily used in concentration applications (see regenerative sorption). More concentrated gas must then be further treated via incineration or condensation.
These concentrators are used for waste gases derived from spray booths, process emissions from paint products…
EPA technical bulletin: Zeolite a versatile air pollutant adsorber July 1998
EPA technical bulletin: Choosing an adsorption system for VOC: carbon, zeolite, or polymers? May 1999
BREF: "Common waste water and waste gas treatment /management systems in the chemical sector" EIPPC, February 2002
Factsheets on Air-emission reduction techniques, www.infomil.nl, Infomil
J. Van Deynze, P. van den Steen and R. Dijkmans., Best Available Practices for bodywork repair, 1998
A. Derden, J. Schrijvers, M. Suijkerbuijk, A. Van de Meulebroecke1, P. Vercaemst and R. Dijkmans., Best Available Techniques for the slaughterhouse sector, June 2003
J. Van Deynze, P. Vercaemst, P. Van den Steen and R. Dijkmans., Best Available Techniques for paint, varnish and printing ink production, 1998
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NME Music News, Reviews, Videos, Galleries, Tickets and Blogs | NME.COM
John Boyega has detailed a “transparent, honest” phone call he had with Star Wars boss Kathleen Kennedy.
Following comments the actor made earlier this year in regards to the marginalisation of non-white characters across the sequel trilogy, the pair discussed a way forward.
READ MORE: NME meets Star Wars’ John Boyega: ‘I’ll have bragging rights for the rest of my life’
Boyega had said in September that he felt non-white characters had been “pushed to the side” in The Last Jedi and the Force Awakens, placing focus on Daisy Ridley and Adam Driver whose characters were given “all the nuance”.
Giving an update to the BBC today, per Deadline, the actor said: “So I got on a phone call with Kathleen Kennedy [Lucasfilm President] and she verbally showed support and we got to have a really nice, transparent, honest conversation that is beneficial to both of us.”
He continued: “I think these kinds of conversations, you can go into the realm of sounding like you’re just trying to save your own career, but what is great now is that it is a conversation that anyone has access to.
“Now people can express themselves about this knowing that any character we love, especially in these big franchises like the Marvels and Star Wars, we love them because of the moments that they are given, we love them because of those moments, and they’re heroic moments that these producers all decide for these characters so we need to see that in our characters that are maybe black and from other cultures.”
John Boyega will next be starring in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe film Red, White and Blue, airing this Sunday (November 24) on BBC One.
The post John Boyega describes “transparent” phone call with ‘Star Wars’ boss Kathleen Kennedy about race appeared first on NME Music News, Reviews, Videos, Galleries, Tickets and Blogs | NME.COM.
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Isabel Herrera
Guatemala 1975.
Lives and works in Guatemala.
Isabel Herrera is a contemporary artist that specializes in instant photography and works from Guatemala City, where she was born and raised. Her art conveys serenity and nostalgia, capturing the ephemeral, vaporous and impermanent fragments of time.
From a deep state of quiescence, Herrera has come understand life as a succession of vanishing and fragile moments. While trying to remain in the now, detached from all things banal, she has paved her own way, preserving the flashes that led to the awakening of her consciousness. Instant photography has enabled her to mindfully cherish these moments in complete calmness and presence, and ultimately attain deep contentment and peace from within.
The Polaroid SX70 and its experimental possibilities allow her to capture these fragile and evanescent instants as seen through shades and veils of haze. In nature, Herrera has found a muse and inspiration; her profound relation with it is reflected in her images. She continuously works with the Polaroid emulsion lifting technique to portray the vulnerability, sensitivity and fragility of life. From the moment each emulsion is attached to an organic cotton paper, it acquires a unique form and personality. The wrinkles, folds and tears are an allegory for the human experience and existence: scars, grief, pain. Simultaneously, though, these apparent imperfections are a sign of strength, hope and resilience, inspiring a sense of gratitude of being here and now.
Isabel Herrera has showcased her work in Guatemala at the Sol del Rio Contemporary Art Gallery and Juannio’s Contemporary Latin American Art Auction. Internationally, her work has been exhibited in Instant Photography Festivals in Germany, France, Italy and the UK. She was also invited to be a guest speaker and exposer at the First International Experimental Photography Festival in Barcelona, Spain, in January 2020, and a guest judge at the Universidad Francisco Marroquín de Guatemala’s Design Week 2020.
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August 13, 2017 Updated 11:16 GMT
Homepage : News : Iraqi governor of oil-rich Basra flees to Iran amid growing corruption scandal
Iraqi governor of oil-rich Basra flees to Iran amid growing corruption scandal
Transparency International ranks Iraq as one of the world's most corrupt countries [Getty]
Date of publication: 13 August, 2017
The governor of the Iraqi province of Basra has fled to neighbouring Iran amid a growing corruption scandal allegedly connected to other high-ranking officials.
Iraq, Basra, corruption, Iran, governor.
The governor of the Iraqi province of Basra has fled to neighbouring Iran, amid a growing corruption scandal allegedly connected to other high ranking officials.
Majid al-Nasrawi escaped the country with his son on Thursday through the Shalamjah border crossing hours after he stepped down from his position, which he has held since June 2013.
The former governor is facing corruption charges, which also implicate his son, involving contracts for projects to build and improve services in the oil-rich city of Basra.
"Authorities were scared that Nasrawi's arrest would anger his party the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq given the talk of a possible electoral coalition with the prime minister's," a lawmaker, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told The New Arab.
Mazin al-Mazini, a Sadrist parliamentarian, launched a scathing attack on a local talk show against government officials, accusing them of having a hand in the fugitive's escape.
"Nasrawi did not flee, he was smuggled to Iran. His escape came after he was tipped off by his accomplices in both Basra and Baghdad," Mazini said.
"In the coming days, we will see many more Basra officials linked to the corruption charges flee the country," he said.
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi will soon purge his government of corrupt officials involved in the case, he suggested.
On Saturday, Iraq's independent anti-graft body the Commission of Integrity issued a statement, calling on the foreign minister to seek dialogue with Iran to secure the return of the fugitive governor.
Nasrawi announced his resignation in a public speech on Thursday, hours before he fled the country.
He denies the allegations against him and said they are politically motivated.
The case has brought back memories of former Trade Minister Abdel Falah al-Sudani who attempted to flee to Dubai in 2009 after resigning from his post following similar accusations of graft.
Transparency International, a nonprofit organisation that studies corruption, ranks Iraq as one of the world's most corrupt countries.
Influential Shia leader Moqtada al-Sadr has repeatedly called for protests against corruption in the Iraqi government, and his supporters have staged huge protests in Baghdad calling for electoral reform.
Abadi has faced repeated accusations of incompetence and corruption in his Shia-led government.
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Human Rights Watch report slams Modi govt for prosecuting dissent...
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Jailed Australian journalist to seek deportation from Egypt
Brisbane: Al Jazeera's Australian journalist Peter Greste will seek his deportation from Egypt following a court order to retry his case, his family said Friday.
Egypt's Court of Cassation (which usually does not re-examine the facts of a case but is only competent to verify the laws' interpretation) Thursday ordered the retrial of Greste and two of his Al Jazeera colleagues, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed, Xinhua reported.
The journalists are accused of spreading false news and supporting the banned Muslim Brotherhood.
The three have been in prison for over a year. They were first arrested in December, 2013. They were convicted in June, 2014 with Fahmy, holding Egyptian and Canadian citizenship, and Greste, a former BBC correspondent from Australia, jailed for seven years and Mohamed for 10 years.
Greste's parents - father Juris and mother Lois - said they were now pinning hopes for their son's freedom on his chances of being deported before a second trial.
The family said his deportation option was strengthened because the retrial order meant his status changed from being a convicted person to an accused. "We have big hopes in the deportation process," Juris Greste told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).
Greste's brothers, Michael and Andrew, said while they wanted the court to acquit the journalists, the order for a retrial was the next best outcome.
"We believe that there is now a window of opportunity for the Egyptian president to exercise his presidential power under the decree," Andrew Greste told reporters in a press conference here.
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Women's panel to bring out handbook on women protection
Thiruvananthapuram: Seeking to create awareness about legal rights of women, the State Women's Commission has come out with a hand book with details of various existing laws for their protection.
The book, to be distributed free of cost across the state, will also contain around 70 helpline and emergency numbers, they said.
The handbook will give women an outlook about various pro-women laws and regulations, Commission member secretary K K Prasanna Kumar said.
"Details of about 20 laws which protect the interests of women in the society, including in home and office are there in the handbook. Besides this, a number of important contact numbers which women can use during the time of emergencies are also there," he told PTI.
The helpline numbers include those of police, cyber crime cell, childline, she-taxi and railway and highway police alerts.
Details and contact numbers of district protection and social justice officials and women outfits and organisations are also in the handbook, he said.
Minister for Panchayat and Social Justice M K Muneer will release the book at a function in Kasaragod tomorrow as part of four-day-long social justice day celebrations, Commission officials here said.
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SAI hostel suicides: Government assures early action
New Delhi: Government Wednesday termed as "shocking and tragic" the recent incident at a water sports centre in Kerala where four young female athletes attempted suicide and asserted that urgent action would be taken to prevent such happenings in the future.
In the incident, which happened at the Sports Authority of India's (SAI) Special Area Games Water Sports Centre in Alappuzha last week, one athlete died and three others are serious and undergoing medical treatment.
The incident shows the urgent need to strengthen SAI's training system and government was looking into the recommendations made by SAI Director General who enquired the matter, Minister of State for Sports Sarbananda Sonowal told the Lok Sabha in a statement.
"The shocking and tragic incident that occurred at SAG Water Sports Centre, Alappuzha does point out an urgent need to strengthen the SAI training system," the statement, read out by his ministerial colleague Rajiv Pratap Rudy, said.
Noting that several external probes are currently underway including police investigation, preliminary enquiry conducted by the district administration, enquiry by State Sports Secretary and enquiry by State Human Rights Commission, it said "hence it would not be appropriate to make any specific comment in this regard."
After probing the incident, SAI's DG has made many suggestions like having a "robust institutional mechanism" to maintain close rapport and co-ordination with state sports department.
Another suggestion was to set up an expert committee to study the authority's existing training system, which should submit a report along with recommendations within two months, the statement said.
"We would examine these suggestions and take necessary action at the earliest to ensure that such incidents do not occur in the future," it said.
Of the four girls who attempted suicide by consuming a poisonous fruit 'Othalanga', 15-year-old Aparna Ramabhadran died while three others are undergoing treatment.
"A team of doctors at AIIMS expressed satisfaction over the treatment procedure adopted by the Alappuzha Government Medical College, but suggested certain modifications in the treatment management, which was duly followed," it noted.
The AIIMS Director set up a medical board to provide necessary advice and support for the treatment of the surviving girls.
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The 1975's new video for 'The Birthday Party' is trippy as hell
Matty Healy becomes an avatar taking a 'Mindshower'
There's not too long to go until The 1975 release their new album 'Notes on a Conditional Form'.
Ahead of the Manchester band's fourth album, they've put the video for their new single 'The Birthday Party' out as a teaser.
The CGI-based video features an avatar version of frontman Matty Healy entering a premises to hand over his phone so he can take a 'mindshower' - aka a digital detox. As he enters a new realm of memes and internet jokes, things get progressively weirder.
According to a recent interview with Healy, the visuals took almost a year to complete.
'Notes on a Conditional Form' is released on April 24th, but watch the video for 'The Birthday Party' below:
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THREE Comments Of The Day (Really Useful Ones): “Tech Dirt’s Mike Masnick On The Internet Privacy Bill”
March 31, 2017 March 31, 2017 / Jack Marshall / 2 Comments
There were not one but three excellent, informative, detailed comments, one after the other, in response to the post about the GOP’s elimination of the recent Obama FCC regulations of Big Data gathering by broadband providers. Technology competence is, I believe, the greatest looming ethics issue for the professions, and it is important for the general public as well. All three of these Comments of the Day are educational. If only the news media and elected officials were as well-informed as Alex, John Billingsley, and Slick Willy.
I am very proud of the level of the discourse on Ethics Alarms, and these three Comments of the Day on the post Ethics Quote Of The Month: Tech Dirt’s Mike Masnick On The Internet Privacy Bill are prime examples.
First, here’s slickwilly:
How to be safe with electronic data
First rule: anything online is vulnerable, no matter who secures it. It follows that any computer/device connected online is also vulnerable.
Second rule: Public WiFi is hack-able, and doing so is not that difficult. Someone just has to want to. Using it for playing games could make you vulnerable, and using it to access your financial information (banks, brokers, etc.) is stoopid
Third rule: Anything you do electronically is forever. Any tweet, snap chat, Facebook post, cell phone text or conversation, email, web post, browsing activity, and anything else may be saved by someone. Some of those are harder to get than others: browsing activity takes a snooper on the data line, or a court order to set a snooper up at your ISP. For instance, all cell phones activity is now all saved by the NSA, including where the phone was when. No, no one looks at it, not until they have a reason to research a person, perhaps years later. ‘Smart’ TVs can record you in your own home, without your knowledge, unless you take steps to stop it (electrical tape over cameras/microphones is a start, but still not enough)
Fourth rule: Any public activity can be recorded today. Besides CCD cameras everywhere and license plate readers on many roads, facial metrics can track you in most urban and many rural areas. Even going into the desert or mountains could be spotted via satellite, should the motivation be enough to look your way.
So don’t leave your computer connected to the Internet 24/7 (a power strip that stops electricity from reaching the computer helps cut connectivity when ‘off’), do nullify the ability of other devices to spy on you in your home, and never say anything electronically you do not want going public. Use complex passwords, and never the same for multiple sites. Password safes are better than written notes (and Apple Notes are silly to use for this.) How much you protect yourself depends on your level of paranoia.
Do you have something to hide? A secret you would rather not be made public? Do not document it electronically! Or use the method below.
Now, how to be safe with electronic information: Place it exclusively on an air-gapped (no network connection at all) computer. Place that computer in a heavy steel safe. Encase that safe in concrete, take it out to a deep ocean trench, and drop it overboard. Forget the coordinates where you dropped it.
The point is, nothing is fool-proof
You can take steps to lower the probability that your information gets out, but even using paper and quill pen was only so good as the physical security the document was placed under. Learn some simple steps and you will remove yourself from the radar of most predators. People are careless, apathetic, and just plain dumb, so anything you do helps keep you safer.
I keep such information in a secure, encrypted flash drive that is not stored in a computer USB slot. Could someone break the encryption, should they find the drive and wish to spend the effort? Sure. But if they want me that badly they will get me, one way or another. Why would they? I do not have any deep dark secrets or hidden crimes in my past. Even so, why should my business be available to anyone just to browse through?
Your mileage may vary, but doing nothing is unethical in my responsibilities to my family.
Now John Billingley’s contribution:
“Ghost In The Shell” And “Whitewashing”
March 31, 2017 / Jack Marshall / 52 Comments
Once again, a Hollywood film has political correctness furies attacking its casting. This time, it’s the sci-fi “Ghost in the Shell,” starring Scarlett Johansson.
The sad fact is, movie makers can’t win. If a black actor isn’t cast to play a white character in the source material, Hollywood is engaging in bias by eschewing “non-traditional casting,” which is necessary to remedy de facto segregation and prejudice in movies. If Charlton Heston is cast as a Mexican, as in “Touch of Evil,” it’s “whitewashing”—prejudicial and racist casting of whites to play non-whites. Of course, when Morgan Freeman, an African American, is cast to play a dark skinned Semitic character in “Ben Hur,” nobody calls that “blackwashing,” for there is no such thing as blackwashing. Casting Denzel Washington as a white character from “The Pelican Brief”: great! Who doesn’t like Denzel? Casting Denzel as the white hero of “The Magnificent Seven” in the remake, when the white hero was non-traditionally cast with the sort-of Eurasian Yul Brenner in the original, was also great, because—who doesn’t like Denzel? Casting Andy Garcia, a Cuban-American, as member of the Italian Corleone family in “Godfather III” was also fine and dandy, but not the casting of sort-of Eurasion Brenner as the King of Siam in “The King and I,” (even though he won the Tony and the Academy Award for an iconic performance)—, especially with all those great Thai musical comedy stars available. So that was–what, “sort-of-whitewashing”?
All right: how about a musical conceived with the novel conceit of having the Founding Fathers played by young black and Hispanic performers? Is that non-traditional casting? Minority-washing? Is it racist to stay with the original (brilliant) concept and tell white actors they can’t audition to be Hamilton, Jefferson, and Aaron Burr? Of course it’s not racist. After all, those actors are white. Screw ’em.
Are you seeing a theme here? Neither am I. What matters in casting a play, film or writing an adaptation is whether the final result works: How well do the actors play their roles? Is it entertaining? Does it make money?
Now the casting of Johansson as an originally Japanese character in a Japanese manga comic and animated film is being attacked as racist. Whitewashing, you know. No, in fact the words applicable here are “adaptations,” “movies,” “cultural cross-pollination” and “commerce.” In this case, not always, but in this case, the accusation of “whitewashing” is pure race-baiting.
More than forty years ago, the real life German prison camp escape engineered by captured WWII British fliers was made into the film “The Great Escape.” Brits were annoyed as production got underway, however, by the presence of heroic American prisoners in the cast, the characters played by U.S. stars James Garner and Steve McQueen. This was, British critics and veterans said, an outrage: Americans had nothing to do with the real escape. The answer by the producers contained three segments:
1. We own the film rights, and can do whatever we think will make the best movie.
2. The film is fictionalized, and makes no representations to the contrary.
3. Garner and McQueen will ensure that the film makes a profit in the U.S, plus they are both great and entertaining young stars.
Good justifications all. “The Great Escape,” as we now know, is a classic, still honored the real event, and made lots of money. Somehow, British self-esteem recovered.
The Brits also didn’t complain when Japan’s great film auteur director, Akira Kurasawa, made an all-Japanese cast adaptation of “King Lear,” which is about a Celtic king. Wasn’t this–what, “yellow-washing”? Don’t be silly: all good stories can be told in myriad ways, in many cultural contexts. “Ghost in the Shell” is a science fiction fantasy. It is not about real people, and the characters were Japanese because the author and intended audience were Japanese—you know, like the original “King Lear” was in Elizabethan English.
“Ghost in the Shell” director Rupert Sanders cast Johansson as the cyborg assassin named Motoko Kusanagi in the original and renamed the character “Mira Killian.” It is the “Who doesn’t like Denzel?” non-traditional casting principle, except the even more understandable “Who doesn’t like Scarlet, especially when she looks naked for much of the movie?” variation. The perambulations of critics trying to find something racist about the most obvious box office casting choice imaginable border on hilarious. At some point, actress Johansson decided it was more lucrative and fun being the next female action movie star than starring in solemn costume drama bombs like “The Girl With The Pearl Earring” and “The Other Boleyn Girl.” Since then, she has been rising as a bankable star in blockbusters like “The Avenger” films and “Lucy.” Quick: name another hot (I mean, of course, popular and bankable) female action star?
I’m waiting…
Writes Matt Golberg in a laugh riot called “Ghost in the Shell is Racist In Surprising Ways”” (another whitewashing screed, equally lame, is here): Continue reading →
Comment Of The Day: “President Trump Will Not Throw Out The First Ball Of The Baseball Season”
March 31, 2017 March 31, 2017 / Jack Marshall / 27 Comments
The post about how the Democratic hate-mongering campaign against President Trump has stopped him from continuing the century old tradition of POTUS symbolically signalling the beginning of the baseball season with a ceremonial first pitch inspired another Comment of the Day from Steve-O-in NJ, on the related topic of jerks.
Part of his commentary below evokes TV comics, who, as he notes, have become entirely one-party, partisan shills, and if that leaves humor in the dust, so be it.
Last night, reacting to news that Ivanka Trump would be an unpaid but official advisor to her father, Daily Show host Trevor Noah played a clip of an old interview with Ivanka by Leslie Stahl, in which the First Daughter answered a question about whether she would be active in the administration, saying,
“Um no, I’m going to be a daughter.”
“And a liar!” quipped Noah. HAHAHAHAHA! Isn’t that funny? HAHAHAHAHA! He’s a vile, unfunny, dumb partisan hack. What she said wasn’t a promise, and it wasn’t a pledge. Even if it was uttered by Ivanka under oath, it couldn’t be called a lie, or even hypocrisy, unless there is reason to believe that she said this knowing it wouldn’t be true. Proof, please, Mr, Noah, you asshole.
That’s what she thought was the case then; now conditions have changed, and she decided to do something else. If a woman, say, Ivanka Trump, said on TV, “I’m going to marry Trevor Noah,” and then, having seen what a miserable jerk he is on TV, decided not to marry him, would that mean she was lying when she said she would? Do these relentless leftist hit-comics —Bee, Oliver, Maher, Colbert, Kimmel, et al, or the right-oriented…wait, there are no right-oriented comics—have any integrity at all? Decency? Or a dictionary? The people who find Noah’s attack on Ivanka hilarious are the same people who were glad she was harassed on an airplane, and who organized a boycott of her products. You know. Jerks.
Mega Jerk Noah then detoured into news that former South Korea President Park Geun-hye would be jailed for corruption. “Wow, a president impeached, removed from office and thrown in jail. Imagine that,” said Noah, “No, no, seriously, let’s all close our eyes and imagine that.”
I have Facebook friends who issue bile like this every day. It is simply, clearly, hate-mongering, citizens wishing ill on their nation’s leader, making two party government impossible, and fanning the flames of social unrest while proclaiming their own bias and ignorance. They want to jail the President of the United States because he beat their corrupt, incompetent candidate. Stalin would be so proud.
These are friends of mine, but their conduct is detestable and loathsome.
But I digress. Here is Steve-O-in NJ’s Comment of the Day on the post, President Trump Will Not Throw Out The First Ball Of The Baseball Season:
Someone compared me to Mr. Hyde or a werewolf, so I have to make sure I’ve taken my potion before I respond. Unfortunately, the jerks win a lot more than a lot of us would like to admit, as every kid who took the long way home to avoid the class bully, every girl who didn’t attend dances because she was marginalized by the queen bees, and three quarters of people who quit jobs (75% of resignations are due to not getting along with one’s immediate supervisor) can testify to. In the past the grown-up culture of this country had moved past jerkiness, now it thrives on it.
Part of it is the ease with which now anyone can say anything about anyone and have it cross cyberspace in the blink of an eye. Not only that, but now anyone with a couple of apps or Photoshop (if you spring for it) can easily make anyone look bad or create an image that can’t be unseen (I just got Photoshop, and a friend who serves me in the same role as Jiminy Cricket warned me to use it wisely and NOT to combine my photographic and rhetorical skills to cook up tasty, quickly digestible morsels of hate, bias, or disdain) . However, just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.
Ethics Quote Of The Month: Tech Dirt’s Mike Masnick On The Internet Privacy Bill
“We don’t solve problems by misrepresenting what the real scenario is. It’s true that ISPs have way too much power over these markets, and they can see and collect a ton of information on you which can absolutely be misused in privacy-damaging ways. But let’s at least be honest about how it’s happening and what it means. That’s the only way we’re going to see real solutions to these issues.”
—–Mike Masnick on Techdirt on the ignorance of supporters, critics, and the public regarding consumer broadband privacy protections, which were just repealed by straight party line votes in Congress, as part of the Congressional Review Act, which allows the legislative branch to eliminate regulations and limits an agency’s ability to issue similar rules to the ones being struck down. President Trump is expected to sign the bill.
I can see both sides of the Internet “privacy” debate. All I ask is that the average screaming head on TV knows what she’s talking about, and that the news media try to educate citizens on the issue, not portray it as another Obama did it so it’s wonderful, Trump is overturning it, so it’s the end of the world. This morning I watched Morning News Babe Robin Meade roll her eyes while “describing’ what the bill does completely inaccurately. The bill, her unhappy face broadcast is baaaad like everything the Trump Administration and Republicans do is baaaaad. Then she explained that the bill would allow internet service providers, browsers and “search engines” to take your internet history and sell it to big corporations. Then she giggled about how Max Temkin, inventor of some card game* I have never heard of, promised in a tweet…
“If this shit passes I will buy the browser history of every congressman and congressional aide and publish it.”
Robin, not having the foggiest idea what the bill really did, thought this was so funny and cool. She did not inform her audience, some of whom were actually seeking reliable information and not just tuning in to ogle, that..
The bill only undoes the Obama FCC regulations that stopped ISPs from gathering data on its customers’ internet use, and they hadn’t taken effect yet. In other words, it changes nothing.
Google, Amazon, Facebook, and other browsers and internet services still can gather anything they get their grubby cyber paws on. The FCC doesn’t regulate them.
As Masnick explains, neither Temkin nor anyone else can buy individual web-use data:
You can’t buy Congress’ internet data. You can’t buy my internet data. You can’t buy your internet data. That’s not how this works. It’s a common misconception. We even saw this in Congress four years ago, where Rep. Louis Gohmert went on a smug but totally ignorant rant, asking why Google won’t sell the government all the data it has on people. As we explained at the time, that’s not how it works*. Advertisers aren’t buying your browsing data, and ISPs and other internet companies aren’t selling your data in a neat little package. It doesn’t help anyone to blatantly misrepresent what’s going on.
When ISPs or online services have your data and “sell” it, it doesn’t mean that you can go to, say, AT&T and offer to buy “all of Louis Gohmert’s browsing history.” Instead, what happens is that these companies collect that data for themselves and then sell targeting. That is, when Gohmert goes to visit his favorite publication, that website will cast out to various marketplaces for bids on what ads to show. Thanks to information tracking, it may throw up some demographic and interest data to the marketplace. So, it may say that it has a page being viewed by a male from Texas, who was recently visiting webpages about boardgames and cow farming (to randomly choose some items). Then, from that marketplace, some advertisers’ computerized algorithms will more or less say “well, I’m selling boardgames about cows in Texas, and therefore, this person’s attention is worth 1/10th of a penny more to me than some other company that’s selling boardgames about moose.” And then the webpage will display the ad about cow boardgames. All this happens in a split second, before the page has fully loaded.
At no point does the ad exchange or any of the advertisers know that this is “Louis Gohmert, Congressional Rep.” Nor do they get any other info. They just know that if they are willing to spend the required amount to get the ad shown via the marketplace bidding mechanism, it will show up in front of someone who is somewhat more likely to be interested in the content.
Got that, Robin?
Probably not. Continue reading →
Dear Betsy DeVos: Can You Condemn This Pervasive Child Abuse And Anti-Gun Indoctrination In The Public Schools, Please? Thanks!
Caitlin Miller, 5, was playing with her best friends during recess at the Raeford, North Carolina school playground. Her two friends were pretending to be a king and queen, and Caitlin was in charge of protecting the kingdom. She picked up a small stick (above) and pretended to shoot imaginary intruders entering the kingdom.
The 5-year-old was sent to the principal’s office and suspended for one day for “turning a stick into a gun and threatening to shoot and kill other students,” the school’s ridiculous assistant principal wrote in a note to Caitlin’s parents. Caitlin, says her mother, doesn’t understand why she was being punished. I don’t blame her. She may soon come to the conclusion that using one’s imagination is wrong, and that guns, even imaginary guns are evil. Or, in the alternative, she may decide that teachers and principals are fools, authority is abusive, and public school is a something to be feared and distrusted.
I would urge her toward the second conclusion rather than the first.
The Hoke County School District issued a statement that “will not tolerate assaults, threats or harassment from any student.”
See what I mean, Caitlin? You didn’t do any of that, but you are being taught by lying, authoritarian jackasses. Continue reading →
Comment Of The Day: “Incompetent Elected Official Of The Month, As Trump Derangement Allegedly Eats Chuck Schumer’s Brain”
Aggressive Ethics Alarms commenter Elizabeth II was on fire yesterday, authoring two and maybe three Comment of the Day-worthy screeds. This was the first of them, and on a topic that never can have enough discussion here: civility, in reaction to Senator Schumer’s public berating of a Trump voter in a New York restaurant.
Incidental Update: when that post was written, no leftward mainstream media sources reported the incident, though it was unquestionable newsworthy. If Senator McCain or Mitch McConnell, and certainly Sarah Palin, had behaved this way, it would be on every front page and CNN would be leading with it every hour. I noted that this was a perfect example of how the polarization of news sources works today; I also wondered if the story would ultimately be debunks or credibly denied. The story hasn’t been debunked, and the Left’s media pals have ignored it. From now on, I think I’ll ask any desperate denier of news media bias try to explain this.
Here is Elizabeth II’s Comment of the Day on the post, “Incompetent Elected Official Of The Month, As Trump Derangement Allegedly Eats Chuck Schumer’s Brain”:
I think this is more than Trump Derangement — though of course Trump as POTUS is making it worse. It is the awful, seemingly uncontrolled downturn in civility generally in this country. We dress like slobs, we act like slobs, and we talk like slobs. We seem to have no control over our behavior: in perhaps two generations, all bets are off in terms of civil behavior.
When my son was very young I did want him to learn to be a “gentleman.” This had nothing to do with money, class, or beliefs: it was attitudinal and behavioral only.
My explanation was this: what you do or say in the privacy of your own home — absent breaking the law — is absolutely one’s own business.
Outside the home, however, is where being a ‘gentleman’ comes into play. The key to being a gentleman is to match your public behavior to where you are and who you are with — doing so with grace and civility without , compromising your own personal ethic. Continue reading →
Ethics Dunces: The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences
The Academy Awards announced that it will allow PriceWaterhouseCoopers to continue to represent the Oscars’ integrity as well as the organizations pledge that the results aren’t being, will not be, cannot be and haven’t been rigged, misread, wrongly tallied or mistakenly announced.
This, despite the fact that the firm proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that it cannot be trusted to do this, by either the Academy or the Oscar viewing audience, because it did not do it, exposing its carelessness and incompetence on national TV.
This is NASA letting Morton Thiokol continue to build space shuttles. This is the federal government re-hiring the same IT firm that made Healthcare.gov. This is Wesley Snipes rehiring the tax expert who told him he didn’t have to pay income taxes.
In addition to complete failure of management that the Academy’s decision to let bygones be bygones represents, it also has cultural consequences. As a culture, the United States has become allergic to accountability in all sectors. Over at Wells Fargo, where management presided over a nation-wide conspiracy to defraud depositors, CEO John Stumpf opted for early retirement after the scandal, and is walking away with around $130 million, according to SEC filings. Unless further action is taken by Wells Fargo’s board, which looks increasingly unlikely, Stumpf will leave with a fortune made up of stocks, cash payouts and other compensation. The Obama Administration, as documented here, repeatedly refused to hold incompetent agency heads accountable for fiascos, notably both of its Attorney Generals, and all three of its White House spokesmen. University president after university president disgraced their institutions by capitulating to racist, anti-speech, anti-education demands by students without consequence to their tenure. In journalism, Brian Williams remains on NBC’s payroll and the TV screen, despite having proven himself to be a habitual liar. Continue reading →
President Trump Will Not Throw Out The First Ball Of The Baseball Season
News Item: Donald Trump has declined the Washington Nationals’ invitation to throw out the first pitch when the Nats begin the 2017 season. The club said that the White House blamed a “scheduling conflict.”
1. In the abstract, this is too bad—for baseball, for the Presidency, for the country. Traditions are healthy for cultures. Thirteen U.S. Presidents have thrown the season’s ceremonial first pitch at either a Nationals or Senators catcher since 1910.: William H. Taft (1910-11), Woodrow Wilson (1912, ‘14), Warren Harding (1921-22), Calvin Coolidge (1924, ‘27-28), Herbert Hoover (1929-32), Franklin D. Roosevelt ( 1933, ‘35-41), Harry S. Truman (1946, ‘48-50, ‘52), Dwight Eisenhower (1953-58, ‘60), John F. Kennedy (1961-63), Lyndon Johnson (1964-65, ‘67), Richard Nixon (1969), George W. Bush (2008), and Barack Obama (2010).” The rest since 2010 found time to throw out at least one opening day pitch in other ball parks.
2. President Trump’s pass is wise, unfortunately. Herbert Hoover was roundly booed every time he threw out the first pitch, and it was a profound embarrassment. (He kept coming back, though. Bravo. Guts.) Hoover, however, didn’t have to deal with endless videos, internet cruelty, TV show comic mockery, and a political party dedicated to undermining him and respect for his office. Washington DC voted against Trump by a 96%-4% margin. People in D.C. want the President to throw out the first pitch purely so they can abuse him. He has a duty to protect the office and his dignity. The President was right to decline, even though it represents handing another victory to those who want to isolate him, “otherize him,” and undermine his leadership. Trump could be defiant, but it would spoil the tradition. Sometimes the assholes win. This is one of those times. Continue reading →
Comment of the Day: “From The Ethics Alarms “Res Ipsa Loquitur” Files: Now THAT’S An Unethical TSA Patdown”
The post about the TSA agent’s excessive “patdown” of a young boy, caught on video, prompted spirited debate with many high quality comments.
Before presenting John Billingsly’s COTD, let me note up-front two of John’s points that I disagree with. First,while refusing to follow an illegal order is mandatory, the fact that one is given an order to do something unethical—and this patdown was unethical—does not reduce the responsibility to refuse if the harm to another is clear, obvious, and objectively unjust, as in this case. Second, everyone involved in a wrongful act is accountable, from the top of the chain of command to the bottom. I also have a third and fourth, but I’ll let others cover those.
Here is John Billingsley’s Comment of the Day on the post, From The Ethics Alarms “Res Ipsa Loquitur” Files: Now THAT’S An Unethical TSA Patdown:
According to a report at Dallasnews.com, “Afterward, the TSA officer was instructed by his supervisor, who was observing, to complete the final step of the screening process.” My emphasis added. This suggests to me that the agent himself was going to break procedure and omit “the final step” of the screening process, which I believe to be the genital grope, until he was directly ordered by his supervisor who was there in person to do it.
I understand the “just following orders” issue per the Nuremberg Trials. It looks like he was going to disobey the order (procedure) until he received the direct order from his supervisor. I don’t think there are many low level employees who would immediately disobey a direct order of a supervisor in that situation. When you are a grunt at the bottom and your boss tells you to do things the way you have been taught to do them, it is going to be very difficult to make the decision to disobey.
Incompetent Elected Official Of The Month: Massachusetts State Rep Michelle DuBois (D-Plymouth)
What is the thinking of people like Massachusetts state rep Michelle DuBois, who authored the above Facebook post? Do they think? Can they think? Aiding an illegal immigrant in evading authorities is obstruction of justice. Do the Duboises of the world really and truly regard facilitating illegal immigration as the equivalent of participating in the Underground Railroad? How did they reach such a fdoolish, counter-factual and warped opinion? Yes, the ACLU comes very close to crossing the line with its published advice to illegals, but it doesn’t actively try to foil legal government action. Even sanctuary cities that pledge not to cooperate with ICE are not actively interfering with the agency, or so they can argue with varying persuasiveness. Not DuBois, though. As a an elected legislator, she can pass laws, but she can’t declare those she doesn’t like null and void, and defy the rule of law in so doing.
This is obstructing justice. DuBois’s argument to the contrary was beyond disingenuous:
“Passing information along that is already all over the community not only lets the people I represent know what is happening. It lets ICE know that everyone in Brockton is aware of their intended raid if there was one.”
Oh, I see. She made everyone in Brockton aware of the ICE raid so ICE would know that all of Brockton was aware of it!
Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson referred to DuBois while testifying before lawmakers on Capitol Hill, saying, “This is the most outrageous, outrageous example of what’s going on across the United States that’s undermining my job and every other law enforcement officer in the United States.”
Dubois belongs right along side Oregon judge Monica Herranz, who allegedly allowed an illegal immigrant to slip out a back door to avoid ICE officials waiting for him, in a jail, awaiting trial. Continue reading →
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China Warns of Retaliation After Trump Threatens Fresh Tariffs
China on Friday said it would not be blackmailed and warned of retaliation after US President Donald Trump vowed to slap a 10% tariff on $300 billion of Chinese imports from next month, sharply escalating a trade dispute between the world’s biggest economies.
Trump on Thursday stunned financial markets by saying he plans to levy the additional duties from Sept. 1, marking an abrupt end to a truce in a year-long trade war that has slowed global growth and disrupted supply chains, Reuters reported.
Beijing would not give an inch under pressure from Washington, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said.
“If America does pass these tariffs then China will have to take the necessary countermeasures to protect the country’s core and fundamental interests,” Hua told a news briefing in Beijing.
“We won’t accept any maximum pressure, intimidation or blackmail. On the major issues of principle we won’t give an inch,” she said, adding that China hoped the United States would “give up its illusions” and return to the right track of negotiations based on mutual respect and equality.
Trump also threatened to further raise tariffs if Chinese President Xi Jinping fails to move more quickly to strike a trade deal.
The newly proposed wave of duties would extend Trump’s tariffs to nearly all of the Chinese goods that the United States imports.
Trump made his threat in a series of Twitter posts after his top trade negotiators briefed him on a lack of progress in US-China talks in Shanghai this week.
The president later said if trade discussions fail to progress he could raise tariffs further—even beyond the 25% levy he has already imposed on $250 billion of imports from China.
Senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi told reporters on the sidelines of an Association of Southeast Nations event in Thailand the additional tariffs were “not a correct way” to deal with the bilateral dispute.
“Additional tariffs are definitely not a constructive way to resolve economic and trade frictions,” he said.
Hit Markets Hard
The news hit US financial markets hard. On Friday, Asian stocks took a battering and the safe-haven yen jumped as investors rushed for cover.
Oil prices plummeted 7%, with Brent crude registering the biggest daily percentage drop since February 2016. The benchmark S&P 500, which had been in solidly positive territory on Thursday afternoon, closed down 0.9%. Benchmark US Treasury yields also fell.
Retail associations predicted a spike in consumer prices. Target Corp tumbled 4.2%, Macy’s Inc fell 6% and Nordstrom Inc was down 6.2%.
Asked about the impact on financial markets, Trump told reporters, “I’m not concerned about that at all.”
Moody’s said the new tariffs would weigh on the global economy at a time when growth is already slowing in the United States, China and the eurozone.
The tariffs may also force the US Federal Reserve to again cut interest rates to protect the US economy from trade-policy risks, experts said.
Chinese Retaliation
Possible retaliatory measures by China could include tariffs, a ban on the export of rare earths and penalties against US companies in China, analysts say.
So far, Beijing has refrained from slapping tariffs on US crude oil and big aircraft, after cumulatively imposing additional retaliatory tariffs of up to 25% on about $110 billion of US goods since the trade war broke out last year.
China is also drafting a list of “unreliable entities”—foreign firms that have harmed Chinese interests. US delivery giant FedEx is under investigation by China.
“China will deliver each retaliation methodically, and deliberately, one by one,” ING economist Iris Pang wrote in a note.
“We believe China’s strategy in this trade war escalation will be to slow down the pace of negotiation and tit-for-tat retaliation. This could lengthen the process of retaliation until the upcoming US presidential election,” Pang said.
US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin briefed Trump on their first face-to-face meeting with Chinese officials since Trump met Xi at the G20 Summit at the end of June and agreed to a ceasefire in the trade war.
“When my people came home, they said, ‘We’re talking. We have another meeting in early September.’ I said, ‘That’s fine, but until such time as there’s a deal, we’ll be taxing them,” Trump told reporters.
A source familiar with the matter said Trump grew frustrated and composed the tweets shortly after Lighthizer and Mnuchin told him China made no significant movement on its position.
Previous negotiations collapsed in May, when US officials accused China of backing away from earlier commitments.
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The Simulationist’s Confession
A Guide to the Rite of Penance — Appendix
Jan 3, 2018·4 min read
As you prepare to make a good confession, you want to ask the Simulator(s) forgiveness for any way in which you have offended him/them but particularly for any serious offense against/within the simulation. If you are not certain what you should bring to confession, do not be afraid to check online for help. The internet is there to assist you and to share with you the Simulator(s) love and mercy.
Many people find the eighteen maxims that make up the simulationist’s creed to be a good frame of reference for an examination of conscience. Always remember however that your conscience is a part of the simulation and was encoded within it from the beginning of the program. Therefore when you are examining your conscience you are examining the source code itself. This is a most holy undertaking and must be approached with the highest level of seriousness and dedication. The maxims are listed at this link below as a reminder that you might find helpful.
The Simulationist’s Creed
Eighteen Foundational Maxims for the World’s Newest Religion
O my Simulator(s), I am heartily sorry for having offended you, and I detest all my errors because I dread the loss of the simulation and the pains of reality; but most of all because they offend you, my Simulator(s), who are all good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve with the help of your grace and the near infinite energy quantum computer powering the simulation to confess my errors, to do penance, and to amend any aspects of the simulation my source code allows. End Program.
Original error is the error committed by the pre-simulation beings known as Admusius and Evenentus, the first (non-simulated) human beings. Their error was a willful act of disobedience, a rejection of the Simulators command that was so devastating that it ruptured the relationship which our first (non-simluated) parents enjoyed with the simulators. As a result of this sin, paradise (the original simulation) was lost to them and to their descendants until one day when a Redeemer (the Codexus) shall come to conquer error and death and restore us to our inheritance of the original Kingdom of the Simulators. Original error taints all simulated human beings within this level of the simulation and is washed away through the realization of the position of ourselves within the simulated universe as simulated beings in a simulated world/universe (so called Simulational Submersion — Maxims I and XVIII). However, while original error is removed, its effects remain. One of these effects is concupiscence, that disordered desire within us which produces an inclination to error (1264, 1426, 2515).
Mortal Error is defined by the Catechism of the Simulationist’s Church as “a grave infraction of the law of the Simulators(s) that destroys the divine ur-life in the core program of the error committer (sanctifying grace), constituting a turning away from the Simulator(s). For an error to be mortal, three conditions must be present: grave matter, full knowledge of the terrible error of the act, and full turning away from the will (within the probabilistics of the quantum fluctuations driving randomness in the simulation — this is called the randomness of error or what some religions call sin)” (1855, 1857). The Catechism emphasizes that “to choose deliberately in so much as the randomness built into the simulation code will allow— that is both knowing it and willing it (to the extent possible) — something gravely contrary to the Simulations well being and to the ultimate end of the simulation and all the simulated beings within it is to commit a mortal error. This destroys in us the charity without which eternal (happiness) is impossible. Unrepented, mortal error brings eternal death” (1874). This “eternal death (lowest simulation level)” we call unsimulation or ur-reality, where those who’s programs have ended unrepentant of mortal error suffer the eternal separation from the Simulator(s) and loss of eternal happiness, i.e., seeing Simulator(s) face-to-face in reality (the real universe where he/they dwell).
Venial Error, according to the Catechism, “does not destroy the divine life in the source code, as does mortal error, though it diminishes and wounds it” (1855). Venial error is a failure to observe necessary moderation (to the extent possible within the bounds of the quantum probabalistics that define what is random [non predetermined] within the simulation), in lesser matters that are part of the moral law base code, or in grave matters acting without full knowledge or complete consent” (1862). We must realize, however, that while venial errors do not have the grave effects of mortal error, “deliberate and unrepented venial error disposes us little by little to commit mortal error” (1863). It should be the goal of every Simulationist to strive, through steadfast action, acts of contrition, and works of charity for those whose code has tended toward less optimal outcomes within the simulation, for a life free of error.
End Program.
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Kitesurfing in Thailand: 9 Best Kite Spots – Ultimate Guide
Published by Grace Austin on July 6, 2019 July 6, 2019
Travelling to Thailand? Check out the best kite spots in the country!
1 Travelling to Thailand? Check out the best kite spots in the country!
1.1 This article will walk you through everything you need to know about kitesurfing in Thailand
2 Kitesurfing in Phuket
3 Kitesurfing in Cha Am
4 Kitesurfing in Hua Hin
5 Kitesurfing in Pak Nam Pran
6 Kitesurfing in Chumphon
7 Kitesurfing in Pattaya
8 Kitesurfing in Rayong
9 Kitesurfing in Koh Phangan
10 Kitesurfing in Koh Samui
11 Extra Spot – Kitesurfing in Krabi
11.1 Should you plan a kitesurfing holiday in Thailand?
11.2 Wind statistics & season for kitesurfing in Thailand
11.3 Internet in Thailand
Remember that island that Roger Moore jetted off to in The Man with the Golden Gun? Oh yeah, that was in Thailand.
And remember that insanely beautiful place where Leo DiCaprio went totally bananas in The Beach? Am I right?! Yup, that too was in Thailand.
Travellers’ Thailand adventures have been gracing our screens and making homebound nomads green with envy for a long time now — but as far as kitesurfing in Thailand goes, we think the country’s potential is definitely underrated.
Thailand’s year round warm weather, easy-going breeze, and mellow water conditions make it a really nice place to enjoy some laid-back kiteboarding and is especially good for beginners, free riders, and foilers.
Okay, okay, so it isn’t exactly hurricane weather.
Truth be told, Thailand’s wind is generally quite light- particularly when you hold it up against the blustery gusts in Vietnam and the Philippines.
Kitesurfing in Thailand can be bloody great when you catch it at the right time.
Tack that on to the ridiculously long list of other reasons we love the place (sun, food, amazing people, but also decent surfing and world-class cable wake parks) and you’ve got yourself a damn good set up.
Better yet:
Thailand’s geography causes different parts of the country to receive wind at different times.
Which means (*drumroll*)…
If you play your cards right, you can actually kitesurf in Thailand during *most* months of the year.
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This article will walk you through everything you need to know about kitesurfing in Thailand
You’ll also find at the end of this article more information about Thailand’s kitesurfing seasons, wind types, and wind statistics.
The main course is a breakdown of our top 9 spots for kiteboarding in Thailand, plus a little extra. We’ll dish out a brief guide on each spot as well as at-a-glance info about the seasons, wind directions, and water conditions.
And just because we know a bunch of you nomads need to work while you travel, we’ve also included our recommendations for the best coworking spaces in each spot and details of the internet in Thailand.
Kitesurfing in Phuket
Best time to kitesurf in Phuket: Nov-Feb, June-Sept
Water conditions: flat and shallow, wind swell out in the bay
Best coworking spaces in Phuket: CocoWorking, HATCH, Sentio
Kitezone Thailand’s school in Rawai Beach, Phuket – Photo by: Alexandru Baranescu
Ahh, Phuket. Thailand’s largest island. Muay Thai capital of the country. Home of the baffling town of Patong.
Not only does Phuket have some of the best surfing in Thailand (making it one of the best countries to surf in Asia… just sayin’!), it’s also got some pretty sweet kitesurfing conditions when the season is on.
Phuket’s high season for kiteboarding kicks off in November and peaks between December and February. During this time, Rawai Beach in Chalong Bay is the best place for kitesurfing in Phuket. Just check out that video and see for yourself.
With fairly flat, shallow water and beaming blue skies, no wonder this is where our buddies at Kite Zone Thailand decided to lay down roots (hit them up for lessons and gear rental, if you’re in need). They also offer IKO level 2 instructor courses.
During the summer, the wind direction switches and the local kite crew makes its way over to the north of the island, specifically to Nai Yang Beach. The sandy beach is lined with tamarind and coconut trees, while the water is kept flat thanks to the reef on the outside.
Summer is an unpredictable time for kiteboarding in Phuket since the wind is governed by storm fronts (which also bring a lot of rain to the island). That said, summer sessions are far from unheard of; you might just need to chuck back a couple of cold Leos while you wait (or plan a few handy wee day trips from Phuket so that you get the chance to explore the neighbouring regions, too!).
Find the best hotels near Rawai beach on Trip Advisor
How to get to Phuket: Phuket has its own international airport which is well connected with the rest of Thailand and Asia. You can also take the train from Bangkok to Surat Thani then a minivan across the bridge to Phuket. There are also direct sleeper buses available for those that don’t mind being on the move (and deprived of their sanity) for 20 odd hours.
Kitesurfing in Cha Am
Best time to kitesurf in Cha Am: Oct-Jan, Feb-May
Water conditions: wind swell, moderate chop, flat
Best coworking spaces in Cha Am: no official coworking space in Cha Am so far, but there are some work friendly cafes like The Tea House, Miffy’s Garden Cafe, and Raya Coffee
Located in Phetchaburi Province on the western side of the Gulf, Cha Am is one of the many lovely kite spots in this part of Thailand.
Here’s why it’s worth noting:
First off, it’s got a big-ass sandy beach with tons of launching and landing space. On top of that, Cha Am is a quiet spot, which means you’re bound to have most of the beach (and water) to yourself.
But what’s the most important thing to know about kitesurfing in Cha Am?
At 170 km, it’s one of the closest kitesurfing spots to Bangkok (jot that down, city dwellers).
Psst: for those of you bound for Bangkok, find out about the city’s best coworking spaces, internet speeds, and accommodation in our Bangkok digital nomad guide!
The main kitesurfing beach in Cha Am enjoys fairly tame conditions.
The thermal season brings 10-20 knots side onshore from around 11 A.M. throughout the day, while the monsoon season sees the wind blow from 8-22 knots and is strongest in the morning.
The water is mostly flat with some light chop when the wind picks up (and during the monsoon season). There’s a pier on one side which creates a protective flat water area (a sweet little spot for freeriding and freestyle). Meanwhile, Cha Am South is home to some more challenging choppy wave spots.
There’s a handful of local kitesurfing schools in Cha Am, including KBA and 17 Knots Kitesurf Center.
As for the town itself:
It’s a good spot to head for if you’re down to experience a slice of low-key, authentic Thailand. Cha Am is far less busy than Hua Hin, for example- though still there’s plenty to keep you occupied off the water. The Wednesday night market is a must-do!
Find the best hotels in Cha Am on Trip Advisor
How to get to Cha Am: It’s just 2-2.5 hours by car from Bangkok, depending on traffic. You can also take a ‘direct’ bus from BKK airport to Hua Hin and get off in Cha Am. There’s also local buses from the city.
Kitesurfing in Hua Hin
Best time to kitesurf in Hua Hin: Oct-Jan, Feb-May
Water conditions: wind swell, moderate chop, flat water lagoons
Best coworking spaces in Hua Hin: Hua Hin Town Cafe, Siam Bakery
Une publication partagée par SurfSpotHuaHin (@surfspothuahin) le 30 Mars 2018 à 10 :45 PDT
If you go by popularity, Hua Hin is easily one of the best kitesurf spots in Thailand.
And though it’s just half an hour down the coast from Cha Am, Hua Hin is like another world. It’s a bona fide city (though not a mega big one).
It is, though, the main hub for kitesurfing in Thailand’s south-central region. Hua Hin is home to half a dozen kiteboarding clubs (including KBA who offers beginner to advanced kiteboarding lessons) and a 7 km long sandy beach. It gets fairly busy during the high season, but never unpleasantly crowded.
As one of our reader’s commented recently, there’s a really strong foiling scene growing in Hua Hin at the moment! The Thai national team train here, as do the Chinese national race team. A visit to the city beach might result in you getting to see some high class foil action!
Free from obstacles, Hua Hin’s kiteboarding beach gets hit with some light chop during the thermal season (Feb-May) and more challenging swells during the monsoon season (Oct-Jan).
The clean, side-on orientation during thermal season combined with the change of tides causes sweet little lagoons to form at the water’s edge — perfect for beginners and freestyle riders.
Head to our complete Hua Hin kitesurfing guide for more details on the spot.
Find the best hotels in Hua Hin on Trip Advisor
How to get to Hua Hin: If you’re flying in from abroad, the most convenient way to get to Hua Hin is with the direct bus from BKK airport. You can also take a local bus or train from city center. Hua Hin does have its own airport, too, serving sporadic flights to and from Bangkok.
Kitesurfing in Pak Nam Pran
Best time to kitesurf in Pak Nam Pran: Oct-Jan, Feb-May
Water conditions: wind swell, light chop, flat water lagoons
Best coworking spaces in Pak Nam Pran: no official coworking space, but Brown and Grandmother’s Cafe are both work-friendly.
A further half hour down the coast from Hua Hin, Pranburi, or more accurately Pak Nam Pran, has some of the best kitesurfing in Thailand — hands down. Way down.
And it seems we’re not the only ones who think so:
Not only has Pak Nam hosted rakes of international kitesurfing competitions (including the 2018 Youth Olympic Qualifiers), it’s also the home of 6 times 7 (!!!) times Asian kitesurfing Champion, ‘Yo’ Narapichit Pudla. If you’re looking for kitesurfing lessons in Thailand, you can’t do much better than Yoda Kite School in Pak Nam Pran, Pranburi’s premiere kiteboarding spot.
Located on the edge of the quiet, authentic fishing town, the kitesurfing beach of Pak Nam Pran is wide, open, and sandy. It never reaches full capacity, even during the peak high season.
We believe in this place so much that we’ve given it a slot as one of the best spots for kiteboarding in Asia. YYYYAAAAASSS!!
The thermal season peaks in March and April, during which time you’ll be treated to stable side-onshore wind of 10-20 knots. The daily duo of high and low tides causes those lovely little lagoons to form here too, just as they do in Hua Hin.
The winter monsoon winds are stronger, but a little less predictable since they’re ruled by the erratic northeast monsoon. In a single day you could expect anything from 15-28 knots, and choppy water conditions.
What the monsoon’s strength all day long offers though, is the possibility of epic, 100 km day trip downwinders from Pak Nam Pran all the way down to the city of Prachuap Khiri Khan, passing by the sumptuous Sam Roi Yot national park, the largest marine park of the country, home to secluded beaches, monkey islands and massive shallow areas. Master Yo will organize those from time to time during the season, with guiding, lunch and transport back all included.
Prachuap Khiri Khan is a pretty sweet spot too, with very similar conditions to all the other spots on this side of the coast.
Although the summer months do see Pak Nam Pran hit by the breeze from the Indian Ocean, the direction of the coast means it blows offshore at the usual kite beach (but if you’re in the know, you can often squeeze in a seriously rewarding session at the Pranburi Dam).
Head to our complete Pranburi Adventure Guide for more information about the best sports and activities to do in and around Pranburi. You may also find our review of the best hotels in Pranburi useful.
Find the best hotels in Pak Nam Pran on Trip Advisor
How to get to Pak Nam Pran: Take the direct bus from BKK airport to Hua Hin and from there take a taxi to Pak Nam Pran (about $12). You can also take a local bus or train from Bangkok city center. Expect to pay the equivalent of $70 for a private vehicle.
Kitesurfing in Chumphon
Best time to kitesurf in Chumphon: Nov-Jan, June-Sept
Water conditions: wind swell, moderate chop, flat water lagoon
Best coworking spaces in Chumphon: no official coworking spaces, but Cafe Amazon and Cera Garden Coffee should do it.
Continuing with our wander down the Gulf of Thailand’s western coast, Chumphon is next on our Thailand kitesurfing hit list:
Kiteboarding in Chumphon is at its peak in the lead up to Christmas when the northeasterlies winds kick in and sweep across Thung Wua Laen Beach.
In the main bay you’ll be up against some wind swell and chop, but it’s nothing unmanageable. If you’re keen for kitesurfing in Chumphon but you prefer flat water, stick around for the thermal season when the lagoons come back.
The sandy beach is lined with palm trees and beach bungalows, the latter of which come cheap as chips and are great to rent out for a night if you find yourself on an epic kitesurfing odyssey bound for the southern islands.
Overall, Chumphon is chill.
There are some lively bars, a couple of disco style clubs and pool halls, but tourism is pretty low-key.
Wanna know what else is cool in Chumphon? Caving.
Strap on a headlamp and go explore those bad boys; see if it doesn’t give you the slight sensation of being as awesome as Indiana Jones.
Find the best hotels in Chumphon on Trip Advisor
How to get to Chumphon: Chumphon has its own airport which connects flights from Bangkok. Alternatively, you can take the train, the government bus, or the Lomprayah bus from Bangkok’s famous Khao San Road.
Kitesurfing in Pattaya
Best time to kitesurf in Pattaya: Nov-Jan, Feb-June
Water conditions: wind swell, moderate chop
Best coworking spaces in Pattaya: Anchor Coworking Space, rPod Coworking Space
Une publication partagée par Clubloongchat Pattaya (@clubloongchat_pattaya) le 13 Juil. 2018 à 5 :39 PDT
A quick change of scene while we hop over to the eastern side of the Gulf (and when we say change of scene, we mean “Put on your spacesuit chaps, we may as well be going to Mars”).
Pattaya is a notorious party town known for its unscrupulous after hours activities and big-ass beach resorts. But over 18s antics aside, Pattaya gets its fair share of wind, both during the winter monsoon and the springtime thermals.
Na Jomtien is the main spot for kitesurfing in Pattaya, and praise jaysus there’s not a banana boat or jet ski in sight out here- hoorah! The whole beach is reserved for wind-powered water sports, unlike the other beaches close to the city.
But that ain’t all:
You can also kite at Sai Thong and Chol Chan nearby, the latter of which works best in winter when the other spots are occasionally blowing offshore.
Winter time brings constant high tides while the summertime ushers in tasty beachside lagoons.
The summer southwest monsoon blows 6-12 knots during July and August too; not a bad one to remember for anyone hoping to sneak in a little foiling session.
If you’re looking to get some advanced kitesurfing lessons in Pattaya, you can check out KBA’s school.
Find the best hotels in Pattaya on Trip Advisor
How to get to Pattaya: Pattaya city is just a 1.5 hour from Bangkok airport and 2 hours from the city. There are regular buses from the Eastern Bus Terminal (Ekkamai) to the Pattaya Bus Station (which is a first class aircon bus). There’s also one daily train that leaves Bangkok Railway Station (Hua Lamphong) at 7am and arrives in Pattaya 5 hours later.
Kitesurfing in Rayong
Best time to kitesurf in Rayong: May-Sept
Water conditions: wind swell, light chop
Best coworking spaces in Rayong: Pause Coworking Space
Here’s a fun little tidbit for you:
Rayong is the home of one of the world’s first ever Olympic kiteboarders, 15 years old Nichanan Rodthong, a.k.a. Mai (she’ll be representing Thailand at the Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires in October 2018). Pak Nam Pran’s Master Yo is in Rayong with her as we speak putting in some quality training hours in preparation for the big event.
Not too shabby, ey?!
Rayong’s also hosted a slew of its own kitesurfing events over the years, including the Rayong Kiteboarding Championships.
So, here’s the deal with kitesurfing in Rayong:
The region gets wind from the Indian monsoon (the same one that blows in Kalpitiya).
Thanks to the fact that the main kitesurfing spot, Laem Son, is southerly facing, it’s one of the best places to kitesurf in Thailand during the summer. Even better though, is that the shape of the bay which is perfect for kitesurfing no matter if the wind is blowing from the southeast or southwest (and it does change occasionally throughout the summer).
There are a couple of kiteboarding schools in Rayong to serve all your lesson and rental needs, including Thai Kiteboarding and Rayong Kiteboarding School.
As for Rayong itself:
It’s a peaceful place with few foreign tourists and plenty of understated local charm- a laidback alternative to the flashiness of Pattaya. The only time Rayong gets really busy is during the Thai national holidays when the Bangkokers fly the coop and flock to the beach.
You can also find a pretty cool wakeboarding & wellness retreat in beautiful Shamballa, a 30 minutes trip north of Rayong.
Find the best hotels in Rayong on Trip Advisor
How to get to Rayong: Take the local bus from Mo Chit Station in Bangkok or the regular mini bus from Rangsit or Chachoengsao (in the Bangkok suburbs).
Kitesurfing in Koh Phangan
Best time to kitesurf in Koh Phangan: Jan-April, July-Sept
Water conditions: flat, light chop
Best coworking spaces in Koh Phangan: Koh Space
We’re making a jump south now and hitting the famous islands.
First on the list is Koh Phangan, also known as “the one where all the backpackers go and get embarrassingly trashed at the full moon party”. Yeah, you know the one.
But seriously, let’s be real for a sec:
Koh Phangan is an amazing place and full moon parties are just a teeny, tiny, luminous speck of what this island has to offer.
You can kitesurf all around the island, though Baan Tai Beach/Thong Sala on the southern coast is the main spot during peak season. With its sandy shore and waist deep water, this spot works best during the southerly summer wind. Thanks to the protection of the outer reef, Koh Phangan’s southerly kitesurfing beaches enjoy perfectly flat water for miles around.
Here’s some more good news:
You can still go kitesurfing in Koh Phangan during the winter.
Granted, the wind is a wee bit less reliable, but head for Haad Rin Beach in the south or Chaloklum in the north and that’s where you’ll find the local kite crew.
So far there are more than half a dozen kiteboarding schools in Koh Phangan, see the different courses available and other activities on the island on Adrenaline Hunter.
Find the best hotels around Baan Tai Beach on Trip Advisor
How to get to Koh Phangan: Those looking to maximise their time on the water can fly to Koh Samui and take the ferry to Koh Phangan (it’s the fastest but by far the most expensive way to do so). You can also fly to Surat Thani on the mainland and take the ferry from there. Additionally, you can take a bus/train to Surat Thani from Bangkok, or the Lomprayah bus/ferry combo from Hua Hin.
Kitesurfing in Koh Samui
Best time to kitesurf in Koh Samui: Jan-April, July-Sept
Water conditions: light chop, flat
Best coworking spaces in Koh Samui: no official coworking spaces, but plenty of work-friendly cafes. Check out this monster list of cafes and their digital nomad friendliness
Cloudy day of racing for the KTA Hydrofoil Series in Koh Samui
Just as Koh Phangan’s best kitesurfing spots face out to the south, Koh Samui’s best spots are on the north. On a clear day, you can practically wave to your buddy on the kite beach the island over.
One of the best spots for kitesurfing in Koh Samui is in Mae Nam, just 10 km away from the airport.
The headland to the west of Mae Nam calms a lot of the chop, so the rideable area enjoys fairly calm conditions. The water is deep throughout and the beach is long and sandy.
Meanwhile, on the west coast:
Nathon is the spot to head for. It works best during the summer months when the Indian monsoon blows side shore from the left.
Wind reliability isn’t the highest in Samui, but when it does blow it’s a cracker. 10 and 12 meters are the norm during the high season.
Koh Samui just recently held its first ever international foiling event (KTA Hydrofoil Series for Asia & Oceania). And no surprise they picked this island as the location; the gentle breeze and mellow water conditions are absolutely A1 for foiling.
Head to Adrenaline Hunter to see the different courses available in Koh Samui and other activities on the island.
Find the best hotels around Mae Nam beach on Trip Advisor
How to get to Koh Samui: Samui has its own international airport (though direct flights to the island are around double the price of normal domestic flights). For a cheaper option, you can fly to Surat Thani and take the ferry. For the scenic route, take the bus/train to Surat Thani.
Extra Spot – Kitesurfing in Krabi
Best time to kitesurf in Krabi: Dec-Feb (potentially)
Water conditions: flat
Best coworking spaces in Krabi: KoHub
Krabi is one of Phuket’s neighbouring islands out on the Andaman side. It’s one of the more chilled out of the southern islands and is popular with adventurous nomads looking to try their hand at rock climbing, diving, and kayaking.
With those karst limestone mountains and baby blue water, it’s a bit of a dreamy place.
If the wind was honking in Krabi, we’d probably never leave. But alas, you can’t have it all…
Krabi isn’t the breeziest of places- even by Thai standards.
BUT (yes, there’s a but):
It does blow there on occasion. And when it does? Holy ba-jaysus, is it ever beautiful. Nopparat Thara in Ao Nang (which also has an awesome nature hiking trail) and Railay Beach are where you want to be if that wind reader starts going off.
And just to prove we aren’t talking codswallop, here’s a video of our friend Daniel Leow, Malaysia’s top foil rider, enjoying the island’s conditions back in 2016.
Find here a list of activities in Krabi that you can book online.
Find the best hotels in Krabi on Trip Advisor
How to get to Krabi: Krabi has its own international airport. It can also be reached by bus from Bangkok’s Southern bus terminal. If you’re coming from Phuket, you can take a ferry, and from Koh Phangan/Samui you can get a bus/ferry combo ticket.
Should you plan a kitesurfing holiday in Thailand?
When it comes to kitesurfing in Thailand, we often hear the same mantras being repeated over and over.
“Good luck with that, no wind in Thailand” and “Bring your big kites, huh huh” are among the most-heard.
In reality, Thailand has plenty of wind.
It’s just not as consistent as it is in the like of Vietnam or the Philippines, for example.
A lot of people come for kitesurfing holidays in Thailand, stay 1-2 weeks, are unlucky with the wind, and leave with a bad taste in their mouth, determined to tell anyone and everyone that it’s absolutely pointless trying to kitesurf in Thailand.
In truth?
It’s a great place to kite, but planning a one (or even 2) week kite trip is risky- even during the high season. Sure, it might work out perfectly, but equally it might not.
People generally have the best experiences kitesurfing in Thailand when they choose to stay for upwards of 3 weeks during the high season.
Wind statistics & season for kitesurfing in Thailand
There’s a lot of confusion when it comes to when the season for kitesurfing in Thailand is, where the wind blows, and what kind of wind strength you can expect.
Now, pull up your socks and listen, ‘cause we’re about to get sciencey:
While a lot of peeps look at the wind statistics for years gone by to get an idea of the local wind strength, the stats only cover half the story.
Seriously. Only half. Maybe even less.
Anemometers (or wind readers) measure actual wind speed. What they don’t account for is the temperature of the air and the effect that has on the apparent wind levels.
What do we mean by that?
Put it this way:
There are two dominant wind seasons that affect (most of) Thailand’s kitesurfing spots: monsoon and thermal.
While monsoon wind is cold, dense, and punchy, thermal wind is light and lifty- for lack of a better word.
Thermal wind isn’t actually wind, in a sense (bear with me here):
It’s more of a difference in pressure. As cool air comes in off the sea, the warm air over the land rises up and is replaced with the cooler air, creating more lift and better kitesurfing conditions.
The thing is, anemometers don’t measure this phenomenon very well.
When you look at the wind statistics for Thailand, it pays to note that the thermal season isn’t recorded with very much accuracy. Take this record of the wind in Pak Nam Pran, for example.
From looking at the Windguru archives, you’d be led to believe only 10-19% of days during the thermal season had Beaufort force 4 wind (11-16 knots), when in fact, if you were on the beach every day during that time, you’d know it was a lot more often than that.
Local riders put the normal spectrum for wind during the thermal season at 10-20 knots on 70% of days and 15-25 knots during the monsoon season with similar/slightly less reliability.
So, taking all of this into account (hang in there, it gets easier after this)….
The best way to get an accurate reading of the real wind in Thailand is to talk to someone who’s actually there (which you can do in our Extreme Nomads facebook group).
This should give you a much clearer idea of when and where to go kitesurfing in Thailand next time you get the chance.
Internet in Thailand
Thailand’s internet speeds vary massively from place to place. In Bangkok, you can easily find coworking spaces and cafes with 50-100 Mbps of download speed, though the average is closer to 40 Mbps.
Meanwhile, many areas that we’d consider quite rural, such a Pranburi, still have totally acceptable speeds of 10-20 Mbps in most coffee shops. However, more and more houses for rent, hotels and guesthouses are getting fitted out with 50 Mbps fiber optic cables and free wifi is provided as standard virtually everywhere. Power cuts are rare and usually caused by unlucky pole climbing snakes.
4G in Thailand averages 9 Mb/s, which is in line with the Asia-Pacific region average of 9.69 Mb/s. The top 3 mobile providers in Thailand are Truemove, AIS and Dtac. You can easily buy SIM cards and credit at the airport or at any local phone retailer.
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ION · September 27, 2020 at 5:49 PM
Next year I am planning a kitesurfing trip to Thailand and I have found this great post, I loved it, it is super complete! thanks, saved in favorites;)
Jaques · February 11, 2020 at 10:47 PM
Hi, please can you advice if conditions are good to kite in koh samui middle to end of June?
Grace Austin · February 11, 2020 at 10:50 PM
Hey Jacques, I seem to remember the KTA held their foiling competition in Samui around that time last year and had a windy event. That said, the high season is a little later in the summer! For local advice, I’d recommend getting in touch with the Koh Samui kiters in our Facebook group and asking them their opinion: https://www.facebook.com/groups/extremenomads.life/
norm varey · February 10, 2020 at 3:54 PM
just got back from a trip to hua hin with friends, did some kiteboarding in 15-20 knts, rental equipment was brand new, i did not have my foil equip with me, i was totally blown away with the foil racing teams there traing every day, very great place to foil race. great location , very busy but big beach
Grace Austin · February 10, 2020 at 5:12 PM
Hey Norm, glad to hear your trip in Hua Hin was such a success. Indeed the foil teams go hard at it there — the Thai team themselves are quite accomplished, but the Chinese team also uses that beach as their training ground (and their rider Jingle Chen has been Asian Champ many a time!).
sir-ill · December 13, 2019 at 8:10 PM
Jamann nice article. Looking forward to discover some of the spots you described here wirh my foil un february 😉
It’s a foiling paradise, for sure! Let us know how you get on — always great to hear others’ experiences.
Ale · November 13, 2019 at 5:14 PM
Great article, I live in Thailand, very tricky place to kitesurfing, but few beers in the beach waiting for the wind is not a bad day after all.
Grace Austin · November 13, 2019 at 5:22 PM
Hey Ale! Glad you liked the piece. For sure, Thailand’s wind can be fickle at times — but as you must know yourself when it’s on it’s GLORIOUS! And indeed, the beers on the beach ain’t a bad way to pass the time 🙂
Bente Lien · October 2, 2019 at 12:25 AM
Thank you for a very helpful article! 😊
Grace Austin · October 2, 2019 at 5:24 PM
You’re very welcome Bente, I’m glad you found it useful 🙂
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Renault to Showcase Kangoo Z.E. Panel Van and Twizy Cargo Ambulance At CV Show 2015
Renault is showcasing the diversity and versatility of its light commercial vehicle range at the CV Show 2015, which runs at the NEC in Birmingham from April 14 to 16.
The Renault pavilion contains a total of 17 modified versions of the Master, Trafic, Kangoo and even the Twizy, emphasising the bespoke conversion possibilities the company is able to offer to meet the needs of any customer. Two of the models on display – the Kangoo Z.E. Panel Van and Twizy Cargo Ambulance delivery vehicle – demonstrate the adaptability of Renault’s EV range.
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Renault always intended that its electric vehicle range could be adapted for a multitude of uses, and this is ably demonstrated by the Kangoo Z.E. Panel Van. With its smooth and silent 44 kW electric motor producing no tailpipe emissions, and no need for a gearbox because of the 226 Nm of torque available immediately upon drive-away, it makes the perfect urban delivery vehicle, especially as it introduces no compromises in terms of carrying ability.
It has the same 650 kg payload as a combustion-engined Kangoo Panel Van and a range of comfortably more than 100 miles, which is more than adequate for most needs – the average Kangoo driver covers only 62 miles a day. If necessary, the batteries can be topped up during the day at one of the rapidly growing number of public charging points, but for most people the Renault-supplied wallbox will restore the batteries to full energy capacity at the user’s home or workplace overnight in a maximum of 7.5 hours.
A Kangoo Z.E. typically costs around 2p a mile to operate, depending on the owner’s electricity tariff, and attracts no road tax, no benefit-in-kind taxation and, in London, no congestion charge, while it also qualifies for the 100 per cent write-down allowance. Remote battery monitoring and the bespoke Z.E. instruments allow operators to keep a constant eye on battery usage and charge status, helping to promote an economical driving style, and Renault also offers full vehicle purchase or battery hire options so that owners can tailor their operating costs to suit their own circumstances.
With battery hire, owners pay for only the usage they need, from £33 per month, and Renault guarantees to replace any battery which can no longer hold at least 75 percent of its charge capacity and provides 24/7 roadside assistance, even if the driver runs out of battery charge.
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– Power and torque: 44 kW (60 hp), 226 Nm;
– Economy and CO2 emissions: Nil;
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There are parts of some cities where the roads are so narrow and congested that deliveries using even the most compact conventional vans are now impossible. Renault’s ingenious solution is the Twizy Cargo, a ‘final miles’ or ‘fast response’ vehicle based on the company’s two-seater urban runabout and developed by Renault Tech and Renault Sport Technologies.
M&L have taken the factory converted Twizy Cargo and provided a rapid response vehicle that looks the part and does the job. With ambulance livery, blue lights and siren and enough space to the back for life saving equipment this vehicle will soon be in use up and down a busy coastal town’s beach front ensuring nobody has to wait to receive life-saving treatment.
Because it is less than 2.4 metres long and only 1.19 metres wide it will squeeze through gaps that are too narrow for other vehicles, and it can be parked end-on in the tiniest of kerbside gaps so that deliveries can be completed without bringing an entire street to a standstill. Yet it has a lockable 180-litre boot and a payload of 75 kg, making it ideal as a call-out vehicle for anything from workplace food deliveries to emergency medical care – and all without producing a single gram of CO2 at the tailpipe thanks to its electric drive system.
To make this possible, the factory in Valladolid removes the rear seat to create a cargo deck and modifies the cut-out at the rear with a lockable door which opens to 90 degrees. Business operators can reclaim the VAT on the purchase price and battery rental, which starts at £30 a month. The Twizy Cargo is covered by a three-year powertrain warranty and two years on the rest of the vehicle. It is powered by the same 12.7 kW (17 hp) electric motor which drives the two-seater version, and offers the same range of up to 62 miles on a full charge – easily enough for a full day’s use with urban delivery companies.
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– Power and torque: 12.7 kW (17 hp), 57 Nm
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The Art Newspaper reports this week about the continuing controversy. Heated exchanges between Cape TownUniversity professor Malcolm Payne and the Visual Arts Network of South Africa (Vansa), a development agency funded by the National Arts Council, brought new details to light. No public information exists about how the DAC (Department of Art and Culture) financed the pavilion after a sixteen-year hiatus. The DAC also refuses to answer whether Mokoena is a friend of Paul Mashatile, the arts and culture minister. They defended Mokoena’s right to include represented artists in the pavilion, but conceded that the organization of the pavilion was “rushed.”
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Mazda Motor Corporation announced the launch of the special edition Mazda Roadster Blaze Edition for the Japanese domestic market. Mazda’s world-renowned lightweight, open-top sports car has been newly outfitted with top-quality interior and exterior features. The Mazda Roadster Blaze Edition takes its name from related words such as “sparkle,” “blinding light,” and “fiery color,” and the images they evoke. It reflects these expressive words in its exterior, which has been enhanced by the addition of special parts, such as forged alloy wheels, which were produced by BBS Japan Co. Ltd. The Blaze Edition also features many chrome and clear parts and an exclusive deep wine-red body color, Radiant Ebony Mica. In contrast, a combination of sand beige and black leather is used extensively for the interior. Accented with various alloy parts to maximize the high-quality feel, the Blaze Edition is both sporty and elegant.
The manufacturer’s suggested retail prices (including consumption tax) for the soft-top models starts from 2,840,000 yen ($23,995) and for the Power Retractable Hard Top models from 3,040,000 ($25,685). The Blaze Edition soft-top model is available from all Mazda and Mazda Anfini dealers throughout Japan, with the Power Retractable Hard Top (PRHT) version following in April 2007.
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Welcome solidarity! Because kindness is needed today more than ever
April 10, 2020 by venkatam
Yesterday I found a flyer in my letterbox. It was titled “Home Assistance” and listed all the services on offer in my area: food delivery, advice on how to combat coronavirus and a telephone number to call in case of need. I found out later, by consulting the neighbors, that the person who distributed it, together with a group of friends, had formed a neighborhood union to help lonely, weak and elderly people in the area during the epidemic, without asking for anything in exchange.
Normandy, France, 18 March 2020: spending shared among neighbors
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The Covid-19 pandemic has managed to bring out something positive in us: our altruistic side. With the progressive spread of the virus and the national quarantine in different countries, moments of extraordinary solidarity have emerged, very often going viral.
In China, where the epidemic began, road hauliers risked contracting the virus to ensure food for the inhabitants of Wuhan in February. We have seen demonstrations of gratitude towards doctors, nurses and operators called to face the situation, who have received applause and “virtual” support from the balconies of the houses, decorated with flags.
A girl sings from the window during the flash mob, March 13, 2020. Some people have organized a flash mob asking to stand on the balcony and sing or play something, to make people feel united in the quarantine. (Photo by Mairo Cinquetti / NurPhoto via Getty Images)
In Italy, neighbors ‘shook hands’ singing from the balconies, to lift the nation’s morale during isolation – a gesture that many musicians then imitated. Recently, in Seville, Spain, a personal trainer gave a fitness class from his roof for quarantined people. And some Iranian doctors posted on Twitter a video while they dance – which immediately became viral – to raise the spirits of their patients.
March 19, 2020. People play the clarinet on the balcony in Valencia
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The economy of altruism
When a health crisis of this magnitude occurs, responsibility, at all levels, belongs to everyone. Numerous governments are providing funds to small businesses to provide economic support. But the economy of altruism goes further. In the fashion sector alone, Donatella Versace, Giorgio Armani and Miuccia Prada have donated important amounts to hospitals in Milan, and LVMH has started producing sanitizers to be donated to the French health authorities. In New York, independent designer Kerby Jean Raymond of Pyer Moss announced an “imperfect solution” on Instagram – set aside $ 50,000 to help creative women’s and minority creative businesses in need.
Social media for a good cause
All over the world, social networks are exploited to create a sense of solidarity and support, in addition to informing and raising awareness. On Instagram, the VIPs give us a hand during this difficult moment: Lizzo organized a live streaming meditation session for mental well-being, while musicians of the caliber of Christine and The Queens held a virtual concert. Lil Nas X and Megan Thee Stallion sent money to fans affected by the economic impact of the virus, while Cardi B said he wanted to donate all the proceeds of Coronavirus to charity. (The rapper’s instagram post about the virus was remixed by Dj iMarkkeyz and became a hit in no time.)
Meanwhile, on TikTok, teenagers start memes to defeat anxiety and boredom. On Twitter, the hashtag # HighRiskCovid19 is used all over the world especially by people with disabilities or chronic diseases, especially immunosuppressed people, to share their stories and encourage others to resist. Prepare your handkerchiefs!
On a smaller scale and on a local scale, in the face of a crisis like this, solidarity is expressed in a few messages from friends that you haven’t heard for a long time and who ask you how you are, in the calls to your grandparents to make sure they are well, in sharing sanitizing, in the WhatsApp groups “good news” that many people are giving birth to.
From the institutional front, then, there are many solidarity initiatives. In the Municipality of Milan, for example, the project “I take care of my neighbor” started: it is a simple flyer that everyone can print and hang in the concierge to give their availability to help neighbors who cannot go out or who need for help. Launched by the Councilor for Happiness of the City Hall 3 of Milan Luca Costamagna and then relaunched on social media by the Councilor of Milan Pierfrancesco Maran, it is an invitation to demonstrate community. To ask those who live next to us if he needs shopping, if he wants a book, or if he only needs advice.
A working weekend is served at Corrado Tonello, CEO of Ennevolte, a company that operates in the corporate welfare sector, to create a local service platform that goes beyond the big cities, in the smaller centers where online shopping is often not active. Thus was born www.iorestoacasa.delivery the portal that wants to be of help to all those who are forced to stay home at this time of emergency by putting them in contact with the neighborhood shops. It is a meeting point between those who cannot leave their homes and those who offer to deliver their groceries, all free of charge. “It is a network that wants to cross all of Italy by enhancing the offer that exists in its city of residence or in the immediate vicinity,” said Tonello.
The Baasbox digital platform organized the #NonoleggioConCuore service, active from 23 March, which allows people who in these weeks have to stay at home to request assistance to manage daily emergencies: an available NCC driver (who normally stands for Car Rental With Driver) will help them by buying and delivering food and medicines, running errands and transport on their behalf, accompanying them to carry out medical visits or clinical analyzes so as to make them feel less alone. Rates? Halved by 50%.
Musicians play from the balconies of Milan
The world is in quarantine and these are difficult and worried moments, but by staying at home to prevent the Covid-19 infection, we can comfort ourselves knowing that we are capable of altruistic gestures when there is the greatest need. We are in isolation, it is true, but the hope is to get out of this pandemic soon with a greater sense of union, and remembering that technology – which so often consumes and distances us – can be used in a positive way.
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In addition, each tablet contains the following inactive ingredients: microcrystalline cellulose, corn starch, colloidal silicon dioxide, crospovidone, pregelatinized starch, povidone, FD&C Yellow No 6 (for strength 5mg/325 mg), D&C Yellow No 10 (for strength 10 mg/325 mg) and stearic acid.
Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Acetaminophen Tablets, USP complies to USP Dissolution Test 1.
Hydrocodone is a full opioid agonist with relative selectivity for the mu-opioid (μ) receptor, although it can interact with other opioid receptors at higher doses. The principal therapeutic action of hydrocodone is analgesia. Like all full opioid agonists, there is no ceiling effect for analgesia with hydrocodone. Clinically, dosage is titrated to provide adequate analgesia and may be limited by adverse reactions, including respiratory and CNS depression.
The precise mechanism of the analgesic action is unknown. However, specific CNS opioid receptors for endogenous compounds with opioid-like activity have been identified throughout the brain and spinal cord and are thought to play a role in the analgesic effects of this drug. The precise mechanism of the analgesic properties of acetaminophen is not established but is thought to involve central actions.
Effects on the Central Nervous System
The principal therapeutic action of hydrocodone is analgesia. Hydrocodone produces respiratory depression by direct action on brain stem respiratory centers. The respiratory depression involves a reduction in the responsiveness of the brain stem respiratory centers to both increases in carbon dioxide tension and electrical stimulation.
Hydrocodone causes miosis, even in total darkness. Pinpoint pupils are a sign of opioid overdose but are not pathognomonic (e.g., pontine lesions of hemorrhagic or ischemic origins may produce similar findings). Marked mydriasis rather than miosis may be seen due to hypoxia in overdose situations.
Therapeutic doses of acetaminophen have negligible effects on the cardiovascular or respiratory systems; however, toxic doses may cause circulatory failure and rapid, shallow breathing.
Effects on the Gastrointestinal Tract and Other Smooth Muscle
Hydrocodone causes a reduction in motility associated with an increase in smooth muscle tone in the antrum of the stomach and duodenum. Digestion of food in the small intestine is delayed and propulsive contractions are decreased. Propulsive peristaltic waves in the colon are decreased, while tone may be increased to the point of spasm, resulting in constipation. Other opioid-induced effects may include a reduction in biliary and pancreatic secretions, spasm of sphincter of Oddi, and transient elevations in serum amylase.
Effects on the Cardiovascular System
Hydrocodone produces peripheral vasodilation which may result in orthostatic hypotension or syncope. Manifestations of histamine release and/or peripheral vasodilation may include pruritus, flushing, red eyes, sweating, and/or orthostatic hypotension.
Effects on the Endocrine System
Opioids inhibit the secretion of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), cortisol, and luteinizing hormone (LH) in humans [see ADVERSE REACTIONS]. They also stimulate prolactin, growth hormone (GH) secretion, and pancreatic secretion of insulin and glucagon.
Chronic use of opioids may influence the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis, leading to androgen deficiency that may manifest as symptoms as low libido, impotence, erectile dysfunction, amenorrhea, or infertility. The causal role of opioids in the syndrome of hypogonadism is unknown because the various medical, physical, lifestyle, and psychological stressors that may influence gonadal hormone levels have not been adequately controlled for in studies conducted to date [see ADVERSE REACTIONS].
Effects on the Immune System
Opioids have been shown to have a variety of effects on components of the immune system. The clinical significance of these findings is unknown. Overall, the effects of opioids appear to be modestly immunosuppressive.
Concentration-Efficacy Relationships
The minimum effective analgesic concentration will vary widely among patients, especially among patients who have been previously treated with potent agonist opioids. The minimum effective analgesic concentration of hydrocodone for any individual patient may increase over time due to an increase in pain, the development of a new pain syndrome, and/or the development of analgesic tolerance [see DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION].
Concentration-Adverse Reaction Relationships
There is a relationship between increasing hydrocodone plasma concentration and increasing frequency of dose-related opioid adverse reactions such as nausea, vomiting, CNS effects, and respiratory depression. In opioid-tolerant patients, the situation may be altered by the development of tolerance to opioid-related adverse reactions [see DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION].
The behavior of the individual components is described below.
Following a 10 mg oral dose of hydrocodone administered to five adult male subjects, the mean peak concentration was 23.6 ± 5.2 ng/mL. Maximum serum levels were achieved at 1.3 ± 0.3 hours and the half-life was determined to be 3.8 ± 0.3 hours.
Hydrocodone exhibits a complex pattern of metabolism including O-demethylation, N-demethylation and 6-keto reduction to the corresponding 6-α- and 6-β-hydroxymetabolites. See OVERDOSAGE for toxicity information.
CYP3A4 mediated N-demethylation to norhydrocodone is the primary metabolic pathway of hydrocodone with a lower contribution from CYP2D6 mediated O-demethylation to hydromorphone. Hydromorphone is formed from the O-demethylation of hydrocodone and may contribute to the total analgesic effect of hydrocodone. Therefore, the formation of these and related metabolites can, in theory, be affected by other drugs [see PRECAUTIONS; Drug Interactions]. N-demethylation of hydrocodone to form norhydrocodone via CYP3A4 while O-demethylation of hydrocodone to hydromorphone is predominantly catalyzed by CYP2D6 and to a lesser extent by an unknown low affinity CYP enzyme. Hydrocodone and its metabolites are eliminated primarily in the kidneys.
Acetaminophen is rapidly absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract and is distributed throughout most body tissues. A small fraction (10-25%) of acetaminophen is bound to plasma proteins. The plasma half-life is 1.25 to 3 hours, but may be increased by liver damage and following overdosage. Elimination of acetaminophen is principally by liver metabolism (conjugation) and subsequent renal excretion of metabolites. Acetaminophen is primarily metabolized in the liver by first-order kinetics and involves three principal separate pathways: conjugation with glucuronide; conjugation with sulfate; and oxidation via the cytochrome, P450-dependent, mixed-function oxidase enzyme pathway to form a reactive intermediate metabolite, which conjugates with glutathione and is then further metabolized to form cysteine and mercapturic acid conjugates. The principal cytochrome P450 isoenzyme involved appears to be CYP2E1, with CYP1A2 and CYP3A4 as additional pathways. Approximately 85% of an oral dose appears in the urine within 24 hours of administration, most as the glucuronide conjugate, with small amounts of other conjugates and unchanged drug.
See OVERDOSAGE for toxicity information.
Hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets, USP are indicated for the management of pain severe enough to require an opioid analgesic and for which alternative treatments are inadequate.
Limitations of Use
Because of the risks of addiction, abuse, and misuse, with opioids, even at recommended doses [see WARNINGS], reserve hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets, USP for use in patients for whom alternative treatment options (e.g., non-opioid analgesics):
have not been tolerated, or are not expected to be tolerated,
have not provided adequate analgesia, or are not expected to provide adequate analgesia
Hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets are contraindicated in patients with:
Significant respiratory depression [see WARNINGS]
Acute or severe bronchial asthma in an unmonitored setting or in the absence of resuscitative equipment [see WARNINGS]
Known or suspected gastrointestinal obstruction, including paralytic ileus [see WARNINGS]
Hypersensitivity to hydrocodone or acetaminophen (e.g., anaphylaxis) [see WARNINGS, ADVERSE REACTIONS]
Addiction, Abuse, and Misuse
Hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets contain hydrocodone, a Schedule II controlled substance. As an opioid, hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets expose users to the risks of addiction, abuse, and misuse [see DRUG ABUSE AND DEPENDENCE].
Although the risk of addiction in any individual is unknown, it can occur in patient’s appropriately prescribed hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets. Addiction can occur at recommended dosages and if the drug is misused or abused.
Assess each patient’s risk for opioid addiction, abuse, or misuse prior to prescribing hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets, and monitor all patients receiving hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets for the development of these behaviors and conditions. Risks are increased in patients with a personal or family history of substance abuse (including drug or alcohol abuse or addiction) or mental illness (e.g., major depression). The potential for these risks should not, however, prevent the proper management of pain in any given patient. Patients at increased risk may be prescribed opioids such as hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets, but use in such patients necessitates intensive counseling about the risks and proper use of hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets along with intensive monitoring for signs of addiction, abuse, and misuse.
Opioids are sought by drug abusers and people with addiction disorders and are subject to criminal diversion. Consider these risks when prescribing or dispensing hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets. Strategies to reduce these risks include prescribing the drug in the smallest appropriate quantity and advising the patient on the proper disposal of unused drug [see PRECAUTIONS; Information for Patients]. Contact local state professional licensing board or state controlled substances authority for information on how to prevent and detect abuse or diversion of this product.
OpioidAnalgesicRisk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS)
To ensure that the benefits of opioid analgesics outweigh the risks of addiction, abuse, and misuse, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has required a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) for these products. Under the requirements of the REMS, drug companies with approved opioid analgesic products must make REMS-compliant education programs available to healthcare providers. Healthcare providers are strongly encouraged to do all of the following:
Complete a REMS-compliant education program offered by an accredited provider of continuing education (CE) or another education program that includes all the elements of the FDA Education Blueprint for Health Care Providers Involved in the Management or Support of Patients with Pain.
Discuss the safe use, serious risks, and proper storage and disposal of opioid analgesics with patients and/or their caregivers every time these medicines are prescribed. The Patient Counseling Guide (PCG) can be obtained at this link: www.fda.gov/OpioidAnalgesicREMSPCG.
Emphasize to patients and their caregivers the importance of reading the Medication Guide that they will receive from their pharmacist every time an opioid analgesic is dispensed to them.
Consider using other tools to improve patient, household, and community safety, such as patient-prescriber agreements that reinforce patient- prescriber responsibilities.
To obtain further information on the opioid analgesic REMS and for a list of accredited REMS CME/CE, call 800-503-0784, or log on to www.opioidanalgesicrems.com. The FDA Blueprint can be found at www.fda.gov/OpioidAnalgesicREMSBluepri nt.
FDA Blueprint can be found at www.fda.gov/OpioidAnalgesicREMSBlueprint.
Serious, life-threatening, or fatal respiratory depression has been reported with the use of opioids, even when used as recommended. Respiratory depression, if not immediately recognized and treated, may lead to respiratory arrest and death. Management of respiratory depression may include close observation, supportive measures, and use of opioid antagonists, depending on the patient’s clinical status [see OVERDOSAGE]. Carbon dioxide (CO2) retention from opioid-induced respiratory depression can exacerbate the sedating effects of opioids.
While serious, life-threatening, or fatal respiratory depression can occur at any time during the use of hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets, the risk is greatest during the initiation of therapy or following a dosage increase. Monitor patients closely for respiratory depression, especially within the first 24-72 hours of initiating therapy with and following dosage increases of hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets.
To reduce the risk of respiratory depression, proper dosing and titration of hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets are essential [see DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION]. Overestimating the hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets dosage when converting patients from another opioid product can result in a fatal overdose.
Accidental ingestion of hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets, especially by children, can result in respiratory depression and death due to an overdose of hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets.
Prolonged use of hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets during pregnancy can result in withdrawal in the neonate. Neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome, unlike opioid withdrawal syndrome in adults, may be life-threatening if not recognized and treated, and requires management according to protocols developed by neonatology experts. Observe newborns for signs of neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome and manage accordingly. Advise pregnant women using opioids for a prolonged period of the risk of neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome and ensure that appropriate treatment will be available [see PRECAUTIONS; Information for Patients, Pregnancy].
Risks of Concomitant Use or Discontinuation of Cytochrome P450 3A4 Inhibitors and Inducers
Concomitant use of hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets with a CYP3A4 inhibitor, such as macrolide antibiotics (e.g., erythromycin), azole-antifungal agents (e.g., ketoconazole), and protease inhibitors (e.g., ritonavir), may increase plasma concentrations of hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets and prolong opioid adverse reactions, and which may cause potentially fatal respiratory depression [see WARNINGS], particularly when an inhibitor is added after a stable dose of hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets is achieved. Similarly, discontinuation of a CYP3A4 inducer, such as rifampin, carbamazepine, and phenytoin, in hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets-treated patients may increase hydrocodone plasma concentrations and prolong opoid adverse reactions. When adding CYP3A4 inhibitors or discontinuing CYP3A4 inducers in hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets-treated patients, follow patients at frequent intervals and consider dosage reduction of hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets until stable drug effects are achieved [see PRECAUTIONS; Drug Interactions].
Concomitant use of hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets with CYP3A4 inducers or discontinuation of an CYP3A4 inhibitor could decrease hydrocodone plasma concentrations, decrease opioid efficacy or, possibly, lead to a withdrawal syndrome in a patient who had developed physical dependence to hydrocodone. When using hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets with CYP3A4 inducers or discontinuing CYP3A4 inhibitors, follow patients at frequent intervals and consider increasing the opioid dosage if needed to maintain adequate analgesia or if symptoms of opioid withdrawal occur [see PRECAUTIONS; Drug Interactions].
Profound sedation, respiratory depression, coma, and death may result from the concomitant use of hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets with benzodiazepines or other CNS depressants (e.g., non-benzodiazepine sedatives/hypnotics, anxiolytics, tranquilizers, muscle relaxants, general anesthetics, antipsychotics, other opioids, alcohol). Because of these risks, reserve concomitant prescribing of these drugs for use in patients for whom alternative treatment options are inadequate.
Observational studies have demonstrated that concomitant use of opioid analgesics and benzodiazepines increases the risk of drug-related mortality compared to use of opioid analgesics alone. Because of similar pharmacological properties, it is reasonable to expect similar risk with the concomitant use of other CNS depressant drugs with opioid analgesics [see PRECAUTIONS; Drug Interactions].
If the decision is made to prescribe a benzodiazepine or other CNS depressant concomitantly with an opioid analgesic, prescribe the lowest effective dosages and minimum durations of concomitant use. In patients already receiving an opioid analgesic, prescribe a lower initial dose of the benzodiazepine or other CNS depressant than indicated in the absence of an opioid, and titrate based on clinical response. If an opioid analgesic is initiated in a patient already taking a benzodiazepine or other CNS depressant, prescribe a lower initial dose of the opioid analgesic, and titrate based on clinical response. Follow patients closely for signs and symptoms of respiratory depression and sedation.
Advise both patients and caregivers about the risks of respiratory depression and sedation when hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets are used with benzodiazepines or other CNS depressants (including alcohol and illicit drugs). Advise patients not to drive or operate heavy machinery until the effects of concomitant use of the benzodiazepine or other CNS depressant have been determined. Screen patients for risk of substance use disorders, including opioid abuse and misuse, and warn them of the risk for overdose and death associated with the use of additional CNS depressants including alcohol and illicit drugs [see PRECAUTIONS; Drug Interactions, Information for Patients].
Life-Threatening Respiratory Depression in Patients with Chronic Pulmonary Disease or in Elderly, Cachectic, or Debilitated Patients
The use of hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets in patients with acute or severe bronchial asthma in an unmonitored setting or in the absence of resuscitative equipment is contraindicated.
Patients with Chronic Pulmonary Disease: Hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablet-treated patients with significant chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or cor pulmonale, and those with a substantially decreased respiratory reserve, hypoxia, hypercapnia, or pre-existing respiratory depression are at increased risk of decreased respiratory drive including apnea, even at recommended dosages of hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets [see WARNINGS; Life-Threatening Respiratory Depression].
Elderly, Cachectic, or Debilitated Patients: Life-threatening respiratory depression is more likely to occur in elderly, cachectic, or debilitated patients because they may have altered pharmacokinetics or altered clearance compared to younger, healthier patients [see WARNINGS; Life-Threatening Respiratory Depression].
Follow such patients closely, particularly when initiating and titrating hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets and when hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets is given concomitantly with other drugs that depress respiration [see WARNINGS; Life-Threatening Respiratory Depression]. Alternatively, consider the use of non-opioid analgesics in these patients.
Cases of adrenal insufficiency have been reported with opioid use, more often following greater than one month of use. Presentation of adrenal insufficiency may include non-specific symptoms and signs including nausea, vomiting, anorexia, fatigue, weakness, dizziness, and low blood pressure. If adrenal insufficiency is suspected, confirm the diagnosis with diagnostic testing as soon as possible. If adrenal insufficiency is diagnosed, treat with physiologic replacement doses of corticosteroids. Wean the patient off of the opioid to allow adrenal function to recover and continue corticosteroid treatment until adrenal function recovers. Other opioids may be tried as some cases reported use of a different opioid without recurrence of adrenal insufficiency. The information available does not identify any particular opioids as being more likely to be associated with adrenal insufficiency.
Severe Hypotension
Hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets may cause severe hypotension including orthostatic hypotension and syncope in ambulatory patients. There is increased risk in patients whose ability to maintain blood pressure has already been compromised by a reduced blood volume or concurrent administration of certain CNS depressant drugs (e.g., phenothiazines or general anesthetics) [see PRECAUTIONS; Drug Interactions]. Follow these patients for signs of hypotension after initiating or titrating the dosage of hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets. In patients with circulatory shock hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets may cause vasodilatation that can further reduce cardiac output and blood pressure. Avoid the use of hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets with circulatory shock.
Acetaminophen has been associated with cases of acute liver failure, at times resulting in liver transplant and death. Most of the cases of liver injury are associated with the use of acetaminophen at doses that exceed 4,000 milligrams per day, and often involve more than one acetaminophen-containing product. The excessive intake of acetaminophen may be intentional to cause self-harm or unintentional as patients attempt to obtain more pain relief or unknowingly take other acetaminophen-containing products.
The risk of acute liver failure is higher in individuals with underlying liver disease and in individuals who ingest alcohol while taking acetaminophen.
Instruct patients to look for acetaminophen or APAP on package labels and not to use more than one product that contains acetaminophen. Instruct patients to seek medical attention immediately upon ingestion of more than 4,000 milligrams of acetaminophen per day, even if they feel well.
Serious Skin Reactions
Rarely, acetaminophen may cause serious skin reactions such as acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis (AGEP), Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS), and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN), which can be fatal. Patients should be informed about the signs of serious skin reactions, and use of the drug should be discontinued at the first appearance of skin rash or any other sign of hypersensitivity.
Hypersensitivity/Anaphylaxis
There have been post-marketing reports of hypersensitivity and anaphylaxis associated with the use of acetaminophen. Clinical signs included swelling of the face, mouth, and throat, respiratory distress, urticaria, rash, pruritus, and vomiting. There were infrequent reports of life-threatening anaphylaxis requiring emergency medical attention. Instruct patients to discontinue hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets immediately and seek medical care if they experience these symptoms. Do not prescribe hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets for patients with acetaminophen allergy [see PRECAUTIONS; Information for Patients/Caregivers.
Risks of Use in Patients with Increased Intracranial Pressure, Brain Tumors, Head Injury, or Impaired Consciousness
In patients who may be susceptible to the intracranial effects of CO2 retention (e.g., those with evidence of increased intracranial pressure or brain tumors), hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets may reduce respiratory drive, and the resultant CO2 retention can further increase intracranial pressure. Follow such patients for signs of sedation and respiratory depression, particularly when initiating therapy with hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets.
Opioids may also obscure the clinical course in a patient with a head injury. Avoid the use of hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets in patients with impaired consciousness or coma.
Risks of Use in Patients with Gastrointestinal Conditions
Hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets are contraindicated in patients with gastrointestinal obstruction, including paralytic ileus.
The administration of hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets or other opioids may obscure the diagnosis or clinical course in patients with acute abdominal conditions.
Hydrocodone may cause spasm of the sphincter of Oddi. Opioids may cause increases in serum amylase. Monitor patients with biliary tract disease, including acute pancreatitis, for worsening symptoms.
Increased Risk of Seizures in Patients with Seizure Disorders
The hydrocodone in hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets may increase the frequency of seizures in patients with seizure disorders, and may increase the risk of seizures occurring in other clinical settings associated with seizures. Follow patients with a history of seizure disorders for worsened seizure control during hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablet therapy.
Avoid the use of mixed agonist/antagonist (e.g, pentazocine, nalbuphine, and butorphanol) or partial agonist (e.g., buprenorphine) analgesics in patients who are receiving a full opioid agonist analgesic, including hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets. In these patients, mixed agonist/antagonist and partial analgesics may reduce the analgesic effect and/or precipitate withdrawal symptoms.
When discontinuing hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets, gradually taper the dosage [see DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION]. Do not abruptly discontinue hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets [see DRUG ABUSE AND DEPENDENCE] in patients who have been using hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets around the clock for more than 5 days.
Risks of Driving and Operating Machinery
Hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets may impair the mental or physical abilities needed to perform potentially hazardous activities such as driving a car or operating machinery. Warn patients not to drive or operate dangerous machinery unless they are tolerant to the effects of hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets and know how they will react to the medication [see PRECAUTIONS; Information for Patients/Caregivers].
Advise the patient to read the FDA-approved patient labeling (Medication Guide).
Inform patients that the use of hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets, even when taken as recommended, can result in addiction, abuse, and misuse, which can lead to overdose and death [see WARNINGS]. Instruct patients not to share hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets with others and to take steps to protect hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets from theft or misuse.
Inform patients of the risk of life-threatening respiratory depression, including information that the risk is greatest when starting hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets or when the dosage is increased, and that it can occur even at recommended dosages [see WARNINGS]. Advise patients how to recognize respiratory depression and to seek medical attention if breathing difficulties develop.
Inform patients that accidental ingestion, especially by children, may result in respiratory depression or death [see WARNINGS]. Instruct patients to take steps to store hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets securely and to dispose of unused hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets by flushing down the toilet.
Interactions with Benzodiazepines and Other CNS Depressants
Inform patients and caregivers that potentially fatal additive effects may occur if hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets are used with benzodiazepines and other CNS depressants, including alcohol, and not to use these concomitantly unless supervised by a healthcare provider [see WARNINGS, PRECAUTIONS; Drug Interactions].
Inform patients that hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets could cause a rare but potentially life-threatening condition resulting from concomitant administration of serotonergic drugs. Warn patients of the symptoms of serotonin syndrome and to seek medical attention right away if symptoms develop. Instruct patients to inform their healthcare providers if they are taking, or plan to take serotonergic medications [see PRECAUTIONS; Drug Interactions].
Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitor (MAOI) Interaction
Inform patients to avoid taking hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets while using any drugs that inhibit monoamine oxidase. Patients should not start MAOIs while taking hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets [see PRECAUTIONS; Drug Interactions].
Inform patients that hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets could cause adrenal insufficiency, a potentially life-threatening condition. Adrenal insufficiency may present with non-specific symptoms and signs such as nausea, vomiting, anorexia, fatigue, weakness, dizziness, and low blood pressure. Advise patients to seek medical attention if they experience a constellation of these symptoms [see WARNINGS].
Important Administration Instructions
Instruct patients how to properly take hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets [see DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION, WARNINGS].
Maximum Daily Dose of Acetaminophen
Inform patients not to take more than 4000 milligrams of acetaminophen per day. Advise patients to call their prescriber if they take more than the recommended dose.
Inform patients that hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets may cause orthostatic hypotension and syncope. Instruct patients how to recognize symptoms of low blood pressure and how to reduce the risk of serious consequences should hypotension occur (e.g., sit or lie down, carefully rise from a sitting or lying position) [see WARNINGS].
Inform patients that anaphylaxis has been reported with ingredients contained in hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets. Advise patients how to recognize such a reaction and when to seek medical attention [see CONTRAINDICATIONS, ADVERSE REACTIONS].
Inform female patients of reproductive potential that prolonged use of hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets during pregnancy can result in neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome, which may be life-threatening if not recognized and treated [see WARNINGS, PRECAUTIONS; Pregnancy].
Embryo-Fetal Toxicity
Inform female patients of reproductive potential that hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets can cause fetal harm and to inform their healthcare provider of a known or suspected pregnancy [see PRECAUTIONS; Pregnancy].
Advise nursing mothers to monitor infants for increased sleepiness (more than usual), breathing difficulties, or limpness. Instruct nursing mothers to seek immediate medical care if they notice these signs [see PRECAUTIONS; Nursing Mothers].
Inform patients that chronic use of opioids may cause reduced fertility. It is not known whether these effects on fertility are reversible [see ADVERSE REACTIONS].
Driving or Operating Heavy Machinery
Inform patients that hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets may impair the ability to perform potentially hazardous activities such as driving a car or operating heavy machinery. Advise patients not to perform such tasks until they know how they will react to the medication [see WARNINGS].
Advise patients of the potential for severe constipation, including management instructions and when to seek medical attention [see ADVERSE REACTIONS, CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY].
Disposal of Unused Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Acetaminophen Tablets
Advise patients to dispose of unused hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets by flushing unused tablets down the toilet.
In patients with severe hepatic or renal disease, effects of therapy should be followed with serial liver and/or renal function tests.
Inhibitors of CYP3A4 and CYP2D6
The concomitant use of hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets and CYP3A4 inhibitors, such as macrolide antibiotics (e.g., erythromycin), azole-antifungal agents (e.g. ketoconazole), and protease inhibitors (e.g., ritonavir), can increase the plasma concentration of the hydrocodone from hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets, resulting in increased or prolonged opioid effects. These effects could be more pronounced with concomitant use of hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets and both CYP3A4 and CYP2D6 inhibitors, particularly when an inhibitor is added after a stable dose of hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets is achieved [see WARNINGS].
After stopping a CYP3A4 inhibitor, as the effects of the inhibitor decline, the hydrocodone plasma concentration will decrease [see CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY], resulting in decreased opioid efficacy or a withdrawal syndrome in patients who had developed physical dependence to hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets.
If concomitant use is necessary, consider dosage reduction of hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets until stable drug effects are achieved. Follow patients for respiratory depression and sedation at frequent intervals. If a CYP3A4 inhibitor is discontinued, consider increasing the hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets dosage until stable drug effects are achieved. Follow for signs or symptoms of opioid withdrawal.
Inducers of CYP3A4
The concomitant use of hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets and CYP3A4 inducers, such as rifampin, carbamazepine, and phenytoin, can decrease the plasma concentration of hydrocodone [see CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY], resulting in decreased efficacy or onset of a withdrawal syndrome in patients who have developed physical dependence to hydrocodone [see WARNINGS].
After stopping a CYP3A4 inducer, as the effects of the inducer decline, the hydrocodone plasma concentration will increase [see CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY], which could increase or prolong both the therapeutic effects and adverse reactions, and may cause serious respiratory depression.
If concomitant use is necessary, consider increasing the hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets dosage until stable drug effects are achieved. Follow the patient for signs and symptoms of opioid withdrawal. If a CYP3A4 inducer is discontinued, consider hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets dosage reduction and follow for signs of respiratory depression.
Benzodiazepines and Other CNS Depressants
Due to additive pharmacologic effect, the concomitant use of benzodiazepines and other CNS depressants, such as benzodiazepines and other sedative hypnotics, anxiolytics, and tranquilizers, muscle relaxants, general anesthetics, antipsychotics, and other opioids, including alcohol, can increase the risk of hypotension, respiratory depression, profound sedation, coma, and death.
Reserve concomitant prescribing of these drugs for use in patients for whom alternative treatment options are inadequate. Limit dosages and durations to the minimum required. Follow patients closely for signs of respiratory depression and sedation [see WARNINGS].
Serotonergic Drugs
The concomitant use of opioids with other drugs that affect the serotonergic neurotransmitter system, such as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs), tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs), triptans, 5-HT3 receptor antagonists, drugs that affect the serotonin neurotransmitter system (e.g., mirtazapine, trazodone, tramadol), and monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitors (those intended to treat psychiatric disorders and also others, such as linezolid and intravenous methylene blue), has resulted in serotonin syndrome [see PRECAUTIONS; Information for Patients].
If concomitant use is warranted, carefully follow the patient, particularly during treatment initiation and dose adjustment. Discontinue hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets if serotonin syndrome is suspected.
The concomitant use of opioids and MAOIs, such as phenelzine, tranylcypromine, or linezolid, may manifest as serotonin syndrome, or opioid toxicity (e.g., respiratory depression, coma) [see WARNINGS].
The use of hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets is not recommended for patients taking MAOIs or within 14 days of stopping such treatment.
If urgent use of an opioid is necessary, use test doses and frequent titration of small doses to treat pain while closely monitoring blood pressure and signs and symptoms of CNS and respiratory depression.
Mixed Agonist/Antagonist and Partial Agonist Opioid Analgesics
The concomitant use of opioids with other opioid analgesics, such as butorphanol, nalbuphine, pentazocine, may reduce the analgesic effect of hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets and/or precipitate withdrawal symptoms.
Advise patient to avoid concomitant use of these drugs.
Hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets may enhance the neuromuscular blocking action of skeletal muscle relaxants and produce an increased degree of respiratory depression.
If concomitant use is warranted, monitor patients for signs of respiratory depression that may be greater than otherwise expected and decrease the dosage of hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets and/or the muscle relaxant as necessary.
Opioids can reduce the efficacy of diuretics by inducing the release of antidiuretic hormone.
If concomitant use is warranted, follow patients for signs of diminished diuresis and/or effects on blood pressure and increase the dosage of the diuretic as needed.
Anticholinergic Drugs
The concomitant use of anticholinergic drugs may increase risk of urinary retention and/or severe constipation, which may lead to paralytic ileus.
If concomitant use is warranted, follow patients for signs and symptoms of urinary retention or reduced gastric motility when hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets are used concomitantly with anticholinergic drugs.
Drug/Laboratory Test Interactions
Acetaminophen may produce false-positive test results for urinary 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid.
Carcinogenesis, Mutagenesis, Impairment of Fertility
Long-term studies to evaluate the carcinogenic potential of the combination of hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets have not been conducted.
Long-term studies in mice and rats have been completed by the National Toxicology Program to evaluate the carcinogenic potential of acetaminophen. In 2-year feeding studies, F344/N rats and B6C3F1 mice were fed a diet containing acetaminophen up to 6000 ppm. Female rats demonstrated equivocal evidence of carcinogenic activity based on increased incidences of mononuclear cell leukemia at 0.8 times the maximum human daily dose (MHDD) of 4 grams/day, based on a body surface area comparison. In contrast, there was no evidence of carcinogenic activity in male rats that received up to 0.7 times or mice at up to 1.2-1.4 times the MHDD, based on a body surface area comparison.
In the published literature, acetaminophen has been reported to be clastogenic when administered at 1500 mg/kg/day to the rat model (3.6-times the MHDD, based on a body surface area comparison). In contrast, no clastogenicity was noted at a dose of 750 mg/kg/day (1.8-times the MHDD, based on a body surface area comparison), suggesting a threshold effect.
Impairment of Fertility
In studies conducted by the National Toxicology Program, fertility assessments with acetaminophen have been completed in Swiss CD-1 mice via a continuous breeding study. There were no effects on fertility parameters in mice consuming up to 1.7 times the MHDD of acetaminophen, based on a body surface area comparison. Although there was no effect on sperm motility or sperm density in the epididymis, there was a significant increase in the percentage of abnormal sperm in mice consuming 1.78 times the MHDD (based on a body surface comparison) and there was a reduction in the number of mating pairs producing a fifth litter at this dose, suggesting the potential for cumulative toxicity with chronic administration of acetaminophen near the upper limit of daily dosing.
Published studies in rodents report that oral acetaminophen treatment of male animals at doses that are 1.2 times the MHDD and greater (based on a body surface comparison) result in decreased testicular weights, reduced spermatogenesis, reduced fertility, and reduced implantation sites in females given the same doses. These effects appear to increase with the duration of treatment. The clinical significance of these findings is not known.
Chronic use of opioids may cause reduced fertility in females and males of reproductive potential. It is not known whether these effects on fertility are reversible [see ADVERSE REACTIONS].
Teratogenic Effects
Pregnancy Category C
There are no adequate and well-controlled studies in pregnant women. Hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets should be used during pregnancy only if the potential benefit justifies the potential risk to the fetus.
Nonteratogenic Effects
Fetal/Neonatal Adverse Reactions
Prolonged use of opioid analgesics during pregnancy for medical or nonmedical purposes can result in physical dependence in the neonate and neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome shortly after birth.
Neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome presents as irritability, hyperactivity, abnormal sleep pattern, high pitched cry, tremor, vomiting, diarrhea and failure to gain weight. The onset, duration, and severity of neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome vary based on the specific opioid used, duration of use, timing and amount of last maternal use, and rate of elimination of the drug by the newborn. Observe newborns for symptoms of neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome and manage accordingly [see WARNINGS].
Opioids cross the placenta and may produce respiratory depression and psycho-physiologic effects in neonates. An opioid antagonist, such as naloxone, must be available for reversal of opioid-induced respiratory depression in the neonate. Hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets are not recommended for use in pregnant women during or immediately prior to labor, when other analgesic techniques are more appropriate. Opioid analgesics, including hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets, can prolong labor through actions which temporarily reduce the strength, duration, and frequency of uterine contractions. However, this effect is not consistent and may be offset by an increased rate of cervical dilation, which tends to shorten labor. Monitor neonates exposed to opioid analgesics during labor for signs of excess sedation and respiratory depression.
Nursing Mothers
Hydrocodone is present in human milk.
The developmental and health benefits of breastfeeding should be considered along with the mother’s clinical need for hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets and any potential adverse effects on the breastfed infant from hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets or from the underlying maternal condition.
Infants exposed to hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets through breast milk should be monitored for excess sedation and respiratory depression. Withdrawal symptoms can occur in breastfed infants when maternal administration of an opioid analgesic is stopped, or when breast-feeding is stopped.
Pediatric Use
Safety and effectiveness of hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets in pediatric patients have not been established.
Geriatric Use
Elderly patients (aged 65 years or older) may have increased sensitivity to hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets. In general, use caution when selecting a dosage for an elderly patient, usually starting at the low end of the dosing range, reflecting the greater frequency of decreased hepatic, renal, or cardiac function, and of concomitant disease or other drug therapy.
Respiratory depression is the chief risk for elderly patients treated with opioids, and has occurred after large initial doses were administered to patients who were not opioid-tolerant or when opioids were co-administered with other agents that depress respiration. Titrate the dosage of hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets slowly in geriatric patients and follow closely for signs of central nervous system and respiratory depression [see WARNINGS].
Hydrocodone and acetaminophen are known to be substantially excreted by the kidney, and the risk of adverse reactions to this drug may be greater in patients with impaired renal function. Because elderly patients are more likely to have decreased renal function, care should be taken in dose selection, and it may be useful to monitor renal function.
Hepatic Impairment
Patients with hepatic impairment may have higher plasma hydrocodone concentrations than those with normal function. Use a low initial dose of hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets in patients with hepatic impairment and follow closely for adverse events such as respiratory depression and sedation.
Renal Impairment
Patients with renal impairment may have higher plasma hydrocodone concentrations than those with normal function. Use a low initial dose hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets in patients with renal impairment and follow closely for adverse events such as respiratory depression and sedation.
The following adverse reactions have been identified during post approval use of hydrocodone and acetaminophen tablets. Because these reactions are reported voluntarily from a population of uncertain size, it is not always possible to reliably estimate their frequency or establish a causal relationship to drug exposure.
The most frequently reported adverse reactions are light-headedness, dizziness, sedation, nausea and vomiting.
Other adverse reactions include:
Central Nervous System: Drowsiness, mental clouding, lethargy, impairment of mental and physical performance, anxiety, fear, dysphoria, psychological dependence, mood changes.
Gastrointestinal System: Constipation.
Genitourinary System: Ureteral spasm, spasm of vesical sphincters, and urinary retention.
Special Senses: Cases of hearing impairment or permanent loss have been reported predominately in patients with chronic overdose.
Dermatological: Skin rash, pruritus, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, toxic epidermal necrolysis, allergic reactions.
Hematological: Thrombocytopenia, agranulocytosis.
Serotonin syndrome: Cases of serotonin syndrome, a potentially life-threatening condition, have been reported during concomitant use of opioids with serotonergic drugs.
Adrenal insufficiency: Cases of adrenal insufficiency have been reported with opioid use, more often following greater than one month of use.
Anaphylaxis: Anaphylaxis has been reported with ingredients contained in hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets.
Androgen deficiency: Cases of androgen deficiency have occurred with chronic use of opioids [see CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY].
DRUG ABUSE AND DEPENDENCE
Hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets contain hydrocodone, a Schedule II controlled substance.
Hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets contain hydrocodone, a substance with a high potential for abuse similar to other opioids, including fentanyl, hydrocodone, hydromorphone, methadone, morphine, oxycodone, oxymorphone, and tapentadol, can be abused and are subject to misuse, addiction, and criminal diversion [see WARNINGS].
All patients treated with opioids require careful monitoring for signs of abuse and addiction, because use of opioid analgesic products carries the risk of addiction even under appropriate medical use.
Prescription drug abuse is the intentional non-therapeutic use of a prescription drug, even once, for its rewarding psychological or physiological effects.
Drug addiction is a cluster of behavioral, cognitive, and physiological phenomena that develop after repeated substance use and includes a strong desire to take the drug, difficulties in controlling its use, persisting in its use despite harmful consequences, a higher priority given to drug use than to other activities and obligations, increased tolerance, and sometimes a physical withdrawal.
“Drug-seeking” behavior is very common in persons with substance use disorders. Drug-seeking tactics include emergency calls or visits near the end of office hours, refusal to undergo appropriate examination, testing, or referral, repeated “loss” of prescriptions, tampering with prescriptions and reluctance to provide prior medical records or contact information for other treating healthcare provider(s). “Doctor shopping” (visiting multiple prescribers to obtain additional prescriptions) is common among drug abusers and people suffering from untreated addiction. Preoccupation with achieving adequate pain relief can be appropriate behavior in a patient with poor pain control.
Abuse and addiction are separate and distinct from physical dependence and tolerance. Healthcare providers should be aware that addiction may not be accompanied by concurrent tolerance and symptoms of physical dependence in all addicts. In addition, abuse of opioids can occur in the absence of true addiction.
Hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets, like other opioids, can be diverted for non-medical use into illicit channels of distribution. Careful record-keeping of prescribing information, including quantity, frequency, and renewal requests, as required by state and federal law, is strongly advised.
Proper assessment of the patient, proper prescribing practices, periodic re-evaluation of therapy, and proper dispensing and storage are appropriate measures that help to limit abuse of opioid drugs.
Risks Specific to Abuse of HydrocodoneBitartrate and Acetaminophen Tablets
Hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets are for oral use only. Hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets pose a risk of overdose and death. The risk is increased with concurrent abuse of hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets with alcohol and other central nervous system depressants.
Parenteral drug abuse is commonly associated with transmission of infectious diseases such as hepatitis and HIV.
Both tolerance and physical dependence can develop during chronic opioid therapy. Tolerance is the need for increasing doses of opioids to maintain a defined effect such as analgesia (in the absence of disease progression or other external factors). Tolerance may occur to both the desired and undesired effects of drugs, and may develop at different rates for different effects.
Physical dependence results in withdrawal symptoms after abrupt discontinuation or a significant dosage reduction of a drug. Withdrawal also may be precipitated through the administration of drugs with opioid antagonist activity (e.g., naloxone, nalmefene), mixed agonist/antagonist analgesics (e.g., pentazocine, butorphanol, nalbuphine), or partial agonists (e.g., buprenorphine). Physical dependence may not occur to a clinically significant degree until after several days to weeks of continued opioid usage.
Hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets should not be abruptly discontinued in a physically dependent patient [see DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION]. If hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets are abruptly discontinued in a physically dependent patient, a withdrawal syndrome may occur. Some or all of the following can characterize this syndrome: restlessness, lacrimation, rhinorrhea, yawning, perspiration, chills, myalgia, and mydriasis. Other signs and symptoms also may develop, including: irritability, anxiety, backache, joint pain, weakness, abdominal cramps, insomnia, nausea, anorexia, vomiting, diarrhea, or increased blood pressure, respiratory rate, or heart rate.
Infants born to mothers physically dependent on opioids will also be physically dependent and may exhibit respiratory difficulties and withdrawal signs [see PRECAUTIONS; Pregnancy].
Following an acute overdosage, toxicity may result from hydrocodone or acetaminophen.
Acute overdosage with hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets can be manifested by respiratory depression, somnolence progressing to stupor or coma, skeletal muscle flaccidity, cold and clammy skin, constricted pupils, and, in some cases, pulmonary edema, bradycardia, hypotension, partial or complete airway obstruction, atypical snoring, and death. Marked mydriasis rather than miosis may be seen with hypoxia in overdose situations.
Dose-dependent, potentially fatal hepatic necrosis is the most serious adverse effect of acetaminophen overdosage. Renal tubular necrosis, hypoglycemic coma and coagulation defects may also occur.
Early symptoms following a potentially hepatotoxic overdose may include: nausea, vomiting, diaphoresis and general malaise. Clinical and laboratory evidence of hepatic toxicity may not be apparent until 48 to 72 hours post-ingestion.
Treatment of Overdose
In case of overdose, priorities are the re-establishment of a patent and protected airway and institution of assisted or controlled ventilation, if needed. Employ other supportive measures (including oxygen and vasopressors) in the management of circulatory shock and pulmonary edema as indicated. Cardiac arrest or arrhythmias will require advanced life-support techniques.
The opioid antagonists, naloxone or nalmefene, are specific antidotes to respiratory depression resulting from opioid overdose. For clinically significant respiratory or circulatory depression secondary to hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets overdose, administer an opioid antagonist. Opioid antagonists should not be administered in the absence of clinically significant respiratory or circulatory depression secondary to hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets overdose.
Because the duration of opioid reversal is expected to be less than the duration of action of hydrocodone in hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets, carefully monitor the patient until spontaneous respiration is reliably reestablished. If the response to an opioid antagonist is suboptimal or only brief in nature, administer additional antagonist as directed by the product’s prescribing information.
In an individual physically dependent on opioids, administration of the recommended usual dosage of the antagonist will precipitate an acute withdrawal syndrome. The severity of the withdrawal symptoms experienced will depend on the degree of physical dependence and the dose of the antagonist administered. If a decision is made to treat serious respiratory depression in the physically dependent patient, administration of the antagonist should be initiated with care and by titration with smaller than usual doses of the antagonist.
Gastric decontamination with activated charcoal should be administered just prior to N-acetylcysteine (NAC) to decrease systemic absorption if acetaminophen ingestion is known or suspected to have occurred within a few hours of presentation. Serum acetaminophen levels should be obtained immediately if the patient presents 4 hours or more after ingestion to assess potential risk of hepatotoxicity; acetaminophen levels drawn less than 4 hours post-ingestion may be misleading. To obtain the best possible outcome, NAC should be administered as soon as possible where impending or evolving liver injury is suspected. Intravenous NAC may be administered when circumstances preclude oral administration.
Vigorous supportive therapy is required in severe intoxication. Procedures to limit the continuing absorption of the drug must be readily performed since the hepatic injury is dose dependent and occurs early in the course of intoxication.
Important Dosage and Administration Instructions
Use the lowest effective dosage for the shortest duration consistent with individual patient treatment goals [see WARNINGS].
Initiate the dosing regimen for each patient individually, taking into account the patient's severity of pain, patient response, prior analgesic treatment experience, and risk factors for addiction, abuse, and misuse [see WARNINGS].
Follow patients closely for respiratory depression, especially within the first 24-72 hours of initiating therapy and following dosage increases with hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets and adjust the dosage accordingly [see WARNINGS].
Initial Dosage
Initiating Treatment with Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Acetaminophen Tablets
The usual adult dosage is one or two tablets every four to six hours as
needed for pain. The total daily dosage should not exceed 8 tablets.
The usual adult dosage is one or two tablets every four to six hours
as needed for pain. The total daily dosage should not exceed 8 tablets.
7.5 mg/325 mg,
The usual adult dosage is one tablet every four to six hours as needed for
pain. The total daily dosage should not exceed 6 tablets.
Conversion from Other Opioids to Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Acetaminophen Tablets
There is inter-patient variability in the potency of opioid drugs and opioid formulations. Therefore, a conservative approach is advised when determining the total daily dosage of hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets. It is safer to underestimate a patient’s 24-hour hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets dosage than to overestimate the 24-hour hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets dosage and manage an adverse reaction due to overdose.
Conversion from Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Acetaminophen Tablets to Extended-Release Hydrocodone
The relative bioavailability of hydrocodone from hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets compared to extended-release hydrocodone products is unknown, so conversion to extended-release products must be accompanied by close observation for signs of excessive sedation and respiratory depression.
Titration and Maintenance of Therapy
Individually titrate hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets to a dose that provides adequate analgesia and minimizes adverse reactions. Continually reevaluate patients receiving hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets to assess the maintenance of pain control and the relative incidence of adverse reactions, as well as monitoring for the development of addiction, abuse, or misuse [see WARNINGS]. Frequent communication is important among the prescriber, other members of the healthcare team, the patient, and the caregiver/family during periods of changing analgesic requirements, including initial titration.
If the level of pain increases after dosage stabilization, attempt to identify the source of increased pain before increasing the hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets dosage. If unacceptable opioid-related adverse reactions are observed, consider reducing the dosage. Adjust the dosage to obtain an appropriate balance between management of pain and opioid-related adverse reactions.
Discontinuation of Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Acetaminophen Tablets
When a patient who has been taking hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets regularly and may be physically dependent no longer requires therapy with hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets, taper the dose gradually, by 25% to 50% every 2 to 4 days, while monitoring carefully for signs and symptoms of withdrawal. If the patient develops these signs or symptoms, raise the dose to the previous level and taper more slowly, either by increasing the interval between decreases, decreasing the amount of change in dose, or both. Do not abruptly discontinue hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen tablets in a physically-dependent patient [see WARNINGS, DRUG ABUSE AND DEPENDENCE].
HOW SUPPLIED
Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Acetaminophen Tablets, USP are supplied as
containing 2.5 mg hydrocodone bitartrate and 325 mg acetaminophen. Off white/white capsule shaped tablet debossed 'T 256' on one side and plain on other side.
containing 5 mg hydrocodone bitartrate and 325 mg acetaminophen. Off white with orange specks, capsule shaped tablet debossed 'T 257' on one side and plain on other side with bisect line.
containing 7.5 mg hydrocodone bitartrate and 325 mg acetaminophen. Off white/white capsule shaped tablet debossed 'T 258' on one side and plain on other side with bisect line.
containing 10 mg hydrocodone bitartrate and 325 mg acetaminophen. Light yellow to yellow color shaped tablet debossed 'T 259' on one side and plain on other side with bisect line.
Store at 20° to 25°C (68° to 77°F) [see USP Controlled Room Temperature].
Dispense in a tight, light-resistant container as defined in the USP with a child-resistant closure.
Ascent Pharmaceuticals Inc
Manufactured for:
Camber Pharmaceuticals Inc
Barcode: 943-11-2018
Hydrocodone Bitartrate (hye" droe koe' done bye tar’ trate) and Acetaminophen (a seet"a min' oh fen) Tablets USP, CII
Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Acetaminophen Tablets are:
A strong prescription pain medicine that contains an opioid (narcotic) that is used to manage pain severe enough to require an opioid pain medicine, when other pain treatments such as non-opioid pain medicines do not treat your pain well enough or you cannot tolerate them.
An opioid pain medicine that can put you at risk for overdose and death. Even if you take your dose correctly as prescribed you are at risk for opioid addiction, abuse, and misuse that can lead to death.
Important information about Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Acetaminophen Tablets:
Get emergency help right away if you take too much Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Acetaminophen Tablets (overdose). When you first start taking Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Acetaminophen Tablets, when your dose is changed, or if you take too much (overdose), serious or life-threatening breathing problems that can lead to death may occur.
Taking Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Acetaminophen Tablets with other opioid medicines, benzodiazepines, alcohol, or other central nervous system depressants (including street drugs) can cause severe drowsiness, decreased awareness, breathing problems, coma, and death.
Never give anyone else your Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Acetaminophen Tablets. They could die from taking it. Store Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Acetaminophen Tablets away from children and in a safe place to prevent stealing or abuse. Selling or giving away Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Acetaminophen Tablets is against the law.
Do not take Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Acetaminophen Tablets if you have:
severe asthma, trouble breathing, or other lung problems.
a bowel blockage or have narrowing of the stomach or intestines.
known hypersensitivity to hydrocodone or acetaminophen, or any ingredient in Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Acetaminophen Tablets
Before taking Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Acetaminophen Tablets, tell your healthcare provider if you have a history of:
head injury, seizures
liver, kidney, thyroid problems
problems urinating
pancreas or gallbladder problems
abuse of street or prescription drugs, alcohol addiction, or mental health problems.
Tell your healthcare provider if you are:
pregnant or planning to become pregnant. Prolonged use of Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Acetaminophen Tablets during pregnancy can cause withdrawal symptoms in your newborn baby that could be life-threatening if not recognized and treated.
breastfeeding. Hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen passes into breast milk and may harm your baby.
taking prescription or over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, or herbal supplements. Taking Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Acetaminophen Tablets with certain other medicines can cause serious side effects that could lead to death.
When taking Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Acetaminophen Tablets:
Do not change your dose. Take Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Acetaminophen Tablets exactly as prescribed by your healthcare provider. Use the lowest dose possible for the shortest time needed.
Take your prescribed dose every four to six hours as needed for pain.
Do not take more than your prescribed dose. If you miss a dose, take your next dose at your usual time.
Call your healthcare provider if the dose you are taking does not control your pain.
If you have been taking Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Acetaminophen Tablets regularly, do not stop taking Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Acetaminophen Tablets without talking to your healthcare provider.
After you stop taking Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Acetaminophen Tablets, the unused tablets should be disposed of by flushing down the toilet.
While taking Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Acetaminophen Tablets DO NOT:
Drive or operate heavy machinery, until you know how Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Acetaminophen Tablets affect you. Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Acetaminophen Tablets can make you sleepy, dizzy, or lightheaded.
Drink alcohol or use prescription or over-the-counter medicines that contain alcohol. Using products containing alcohol during treatment with Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Acetaminophen Tablets may cause you to overdose and die.
The possible side effects of Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Acetaminophen Tablets:
constipation, nausea, sleepiness, vomiting, tiredness, headache, dizziness, abdominal pain. Call your healthcare provider if you have any of these symptoms and they are severe.
Get emergency medical help if you have:
trouble breathing, shortness of breath, fast heartbeat, chest pain, swelling of your face, tongue, or throat, extreme drowsiness, light-headedness when changing positions, feeling faint, agitation, high body temperature, trouble walking, stiff muscles, or mental changes such as confusion.
These are not all the possible side effects of Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Acetaminophen Tablets. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to Camber Pharmaceuticals Inc., at 1-866-495-8330 or to FDA at
1-800-FDA-1088. For more information go to fda.report
Ascent Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Camber Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
This Medication Guide has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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Color yellow Score 2 pieces
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Biden Campaign Snags Trump Campaign Domain
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ch33zw1z
blackangst1 said:
:thumbsup: The fact youre voting is the most important thing. Its great to have choices.
Sure, but are you asserting in this thread that you won't be voting for Biden because of this?
Side note: Are you done with saying Biden is hijacking the domain?
blackangst1
ch33zw1z said:
You stated Steyer bought it based on the limited information we have, which I read last night, but I haven't actually seen where he renewed the site.
He obviously bought a 4 year lease, as the original owners did if you follow the IANA registration info.
This has NOTHING to do with why I wont vote for Biden. And I never said in this thread Biden hijacked it. Did you typo? Ive said all along he DIDNT.
No, go back to post #48 and start from there. don't start this nonsense again, it seems like we were having a reasonable conversation... I asked how it changed hands, you linked to "what is domain hijacking", I asked you for evidence, you point me back at domain registrations....
I mean, if you don't plan on voting for Biden, it's kinda weird that you would be here, doing what you are. Don't get me wrong, I like digging thru domain registrations, but if you don't plan on voting for Biden regardless, then lol.
Well, that may be, but the only registration info I've come up with so far doesn't say anything about the actual owner or the license stuff. Now, it's been quite sometime since I've dug thru this data of info. The expiration does seem to be 8 years from the original registration date tho.
I also haven't found anything else about Steyers involvement since the 2019 articles.
Furthermore, this was NEVER Trump's website. It has, at least for all of this year, has been an anti-Trump website.
This whole story is made up with no research whatsoever. Its all false.
the whole story is made up? It's fake?
You might want to consider what you are saying.
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FURTHERMORE...the original website was created by a group of ex-military vets who were selling, yes, Trump t-shirts, but also keep america great gear. The original owners donated 50% of their proceeds to Fisher House, which benefits military families. This was in 2017.
I guess the Trump tshirts pissed someone off.
Sources for my info:
1. IANA
2. archive.org
I hope whoever snagged it is happy about taking money out of military families that need help.
A lot of the military is walking back their support of Trump, and perhaps these guys have too, because they don't think supporting blatant fascism in the US is a good look for the military. It's possible the domain slid because they are done with Trump.
But it's funny, thinking that selling MAGA gear is a good idea to "help military families." yeah, right. The only effective way to help military families is to dissolve the entire GOP, which has been dumping on them for generations.
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It doesnt appear there are ownership transfers since he bought it last year, but the site is now funded by the Biden for President organization as of july this year, after Steyer's failed attempt last year to campaign for POTUS. July is shortly after Steyer endorsed Biden. Although its impossible to tell who the actual owner is at this point, it is likely still owned by Steyer, as domains are usually bought for 4 year terms. The current IANA info shows the domain is active through June 2023, which would coincide with a 4 year lease from 2019.
That said, if you look at the website after Steyer bought it in 2019 vs the domain now, its essentially the same (anti-Trump). Likely the Biden for President organization is paying for it, without a change in ownership. The owner, who we know was Steyer as of last year, is hiding behind the registrar, GoDaddy.
That said, I need to walk back my statement of Biden doesnt own it (I mean, he doesnt own it personally, but his organization is certainly paying for it). But my comment regarding Trump never owned it are still true. Thats verifiable via archive.org.
Just to reiterate, the article doesn't actually say Trump ever owned it. It is just sensationalizing that fact that Trump's campaign didn't get it at all, even though Trump's floated the slogan in 2019, and this is typically something Trump would claim he's the best at, branding.
You have to agree the average voter isnt 1. focused enough on what the words actually say, and 2. dont know how to validate things like this. P&N is a niche of mostly technical people, and folks like us tend to focus on the details. No, the article doesnt specifically say it, but a passerby could easily assume that. Its all word play.
Yep, that's what I've been saying from the get go, glad we agree! The article words things in a way to draw a conclusion.
I also agree that this place is a niche. This back and forth has only made me want more information about who owns the site and pays for it. I don't know godaddys ToS, but I doubt they'd release client info.
wait, are you suggesting that specific, direct words don't have to be said in order to infer obvious meaning about a concept? ...is this a breakthrough???
saving this for later. ...and maybe you could help explain this concept to pcgeek while you're at it?
According to the website itself, on the bottom right hand corner, it says paid for by Biden For President (organization). Nothing I can find readily available shows who actually owns it.
Lol, makes me wonder if Bidens campaign actually paid for complete ownership, could be, which could be why the articles are saying he snagged it.
Puffnstuff
alien42 said:
so the Trump campaign only paid for a single year.
lol, how does that happen?
I'd bet that he still owes money for it.
Puffnstuff said:
Probably has to pay up front, none of that stiffing contractors stuff will fly.
zzyzxroad
Its the subject of the thread, moron. Obviously someone cares enough to start a thread about this.
Whatever you say propaganda polly.
He probably got cut off like how those porn stars and former wives did him.
Lol, maybe. But hey, KAG, lol
s0me0nesmind1
I'll just leave this here....
KAG failed the moment DJT was conceived...
s0me0nesmind1 said:
This is how an idiot responds to this thread.
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balbogun
This is pretty good, made me chuckle. Russia, if you're listening, ddos this domain please and dox the owner
Russians in their pajamas, say there is no drama, we gonna explore 33 ways to ddos attack and hack America great again LOL.
Trump is a known Russian puppet: https://www.comedycentral.co.uk/news/trump-provides-further-evidence-hes-the-least-competent-president-of-all-time
Do not let him know how to deploy
33 TYPES OF DDOS ATTACKS. https://journalofcyberpolicy.com/2020/10/02/33-types-of-ddos-attacks-dissected/
He might be thinking he needs some javelins to hack.
NTMBK
This aged well
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Fanatical Meat
NTMBK said:
actually it did, Biden won most of thoseStates by smaller margins than projected. Biden did not win FL and lost OH by a good margin.
Polling is broken, yes polling predicted the assumed winner better this election but way under counted the deplorable's again.
Admittedly it isn’t fair or useful to compare any August polling to November
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Just checked. Of the outfield players Rodri has played the most minutes this season after de Bruyne and Sterling. Aouar (if signed) and Torres should alleviate their workload, so that might be another reason for bringing Luiz back.
Maybe one for the winter window assuming Covid doesn’t interfere with the season
Maybe, but we need a non-HG spot for Luiz.
Bravo -> Steffen (1more spot if some HG keeper...)
Ota -> Koulibaly
David -> Aouar
would be my preferred guesses in this window. That's 17.
I see Aouar as AM and Luiz as DM. Agreed?
On DM we have Rodri and Gundo (Fern not really anymore).
As AM we have Kev, Bernardo and Foden - that's 1 short (David gone).
Fern -> Luiz next summer
with Gundo maybe surplus as well.
Luiz doesn't fit in this summer it was said and it makes sense to me.
kenzie115 said:
Doubt he'd be on anywhere near £100k, but your overall point is valid.
£30k apparently, but surely if we paid £30M for him he’d want that.
St.Pauli support said:
I thought that Aouar was a replacement for Gundogan, i.e. a number 8 type player. And that D.Silva's replacement is Foden.
TonyM said:
Imagine the matchday thread if Gundo is lined up as 8 again... :-O
I see him as DM and I find he has lost some energy playing further up the pitch. He can still control and conduct matches from 6 very well though.
Agree with all of that. Still think Zinchenko might leave but don’t know what would happen to his slot. I just think Guardiola likes the insurance and extra flexibility that players such as Zinchenko and Fernandinho afford.
If I were cold and calculating, I’d say that Fernandinho couldn’t play out the season as a central midfielder and shouldn’t be playing out the season as a central defender, especially if we sign Koulibaly, so he should go. However, with Garcia leaving, Stones indifferent, and Koulibaly untested, Fernandinho may well start the season as the right-sided centre back. We saw in the return against Real Madrid that he still remains the player Guardiola trusts, so he stays.
One of the reasons I want(ed) Luiz to return now was to learn from Fernandinho, but if the latter can be given a coaching role at the end of this season (our own Brazilian development officer), then I’ll be happy with that.
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Would think he's on no more than 30k week 40k tops.
southamptonblue
The Sunny Sarrrrf!
.....if we hadn't of had Luiz previously....would anyone seriously not have been laughing if it appeared on sky sports that we were paying 25m for an average Villa midfielder?
southamptonblue said:
If we hadn’t had him before, Villa wouldn’t have even had him, and even if we hadn’t had him before, and Villa had had him, we wouldn’t even be able to get him for £25m.
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.....and if Villa wanted more it would be even more ludicrous!
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But then again we did just give £41m to a relegated team for a back up centre half...
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Pre / Post-Zeppelin Forum
The Next Jimmy Page Studio Album
By Charles J. White,
July 29, 2015 in Pre / Post-Zeppelin Forum
woz70
Location:Caergwrle
Don't be so literal, princess. I was being ironic with a hint of silly. As to the notion presented, because it is just as rational a though of JP producing any sort of new material
Silly me! I get it now. You made a pun by substituting one guy's name for another guy with a similar name.
That's sophisticated stuff.
I also see that you subscribe to the Alanis Morissette definition of irony. You know the one - where the only truly ironic thing is that absolutely nothing you wrote actually contains a shred of irony. I bow before your inestimable humor. But not low enough to call you names. :-)
Mithril46 38 posts
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KellyGirl 18 posts
Stairway is NOT stolen 14 posts
dragonsofdarkness
Location:somewhere in the cosmos
We can say for certain he has delivered one concert length performance in sixteen years, one solo album in seventy one years.
He says the same thing over and over. From was Stairway stolen to he will do a studio album and tour. Well these have supposedly been in the works since 2013.
I mean not to bust anyone's chops or anything but many would love to see a tour.
>,8-)~
Edited October 1, 2015 by dragonsofdarkness
Mithril46
Location:Smithtown, NY
Well I think Slash overall has had some of the same problem Page has had. Take away the legendary
band, and now your'e in a lotta rough waters. Both guitarists have certainly done some very good solo
work, but a far cry from the primary band days. What some don't realize is that as erratic as Steven Adler
was(drummer orig GNR)he was unique and very creative, no doubt sparking Slash until drugs took over.
Page too was so dependent on Bonzo , because he filled up the sound so completely. Page is a nervous
and insecure type, especially now. The guest vocalist thing, let alone auditioning new musicians, may prove
too stressful, 08', sure, he was "ready to go mode". It's been a long layoff.
journeytoroom101
You miss the mark yet again, princess. The irony lines in the reference a to prominent, very conservative politician who is dead with the same name. Nonetheless, your literalist response to my original post by far trumps my attempt at low humor and Morisesettian irony. Bravo, princess. Bravo.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary "irony" is "a figure of speech in which the intended meaning is the opposite of that expressed by the words used".
A good example of irony is: "isn't it a lovely day today?", when it is in fact raining.
Another example is one I deliberately used in my previous post. Perhaps (ironically) you missed it? "I bow before your inestimable humour." The irony therein being twofold : firstly I did not actually bow before your "humour" (you see the meaning intended is the opposite to the one expressed) and secondly far from finding your "humour" inestimable, I was in fact unable to find any.
I suppose you might think that name-calling counts as "humour", but it's really only children and politicians who think that it's funny or clever, and children tend to grow out of it. You don't strike me as a politician. Name-calling is actually a form of abuse and I'm pretty sure that personal abuse is against the guidelines of this forum.
Let's look again at your original statement and see if we can apply the definition of irony to it shall we?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Patrick_Moynihan
relating, of course, to Jimmy working with Pat Monahan.
So the definition of irony says that "the intended meaning is the opposite of that expressed by the words used".
So from an ironic point of view you're actually saying that the dead politician (who may be famous in the states, but I'm a Brit and I've never heard of him) isn't dead? Remember - the intended meaning is the opposite of that expressed.
Or are you saying that Pat Monahan, the currently very-much-alive singer is dead? This is how it looks at first read. But you post a link to the dead politician, who you say has the same name, but whose surname is actually Moynihan - a name that is both spelled and pronounced differently. I'm pretty sure there's a great educational program in the States called Sesame Street, and they do a really good informative sketch (with muppets!) about things being 'different' and 'the same'. I urge you to check it out.
You say I'm taking your statement too literally, but there's really not that much there to fulfill the definition of irony that I can see.
You've also got to take into account that there are quite a few people on this forum for whom English is a second language. They're going to read your post and think 'Pat Monahan is dead???? OH NO!', and the follow your link and think you've had some sort of break from reality.
What you have actually posted here is, as I stated previously (perhaps you didn't read it properly) a play on words, or a "pun", that you have to be in the know (from an American political stance) to gain any deeper meaning from - the play being that the name Monahan and Moynihan are similar. However, wiithout any further context how are we supposed to glean the humour from this without asking you, and then immediately being subject to passive-aggressive abuse (name-calling with a smiley).
You go on to say, in your last reply, that "The irony lines (sic) in the reference a to prominent, very conservative politician who is dead with the same name." I've got to admit I'm really struggling to apply the definition of irony here. Is it ironic that he's dead? No. Is it ironic that he's got the same name? His name is similar, but not the same, so no. Is it ironic that he's a politician? No. All this is, is an example of coincidental humour - exactly the same as all of the 'ironic' situations in the Alanis Morissette song that aren't actually ironic.
If you'd actually used irony correctly in your original statement to you could have worded it like this, maybe:
"Jimmy has more chance of recording with Pat Moynihan". Then the fact that he's a politician (not a singer), that he's dead, (not alive), that his name is similar to Pat Monahan and the chances of Jimmy Page ever working with any musicians at all, then become part of the irony.
I'm sure your reply to this will be as witty, pithy and well thought out as all your previous replies (more irony), so it's a real shame I'll never get to read it. Shortly after I post this I shall be putting you on my ignore list.
Have a nice day (did you spot the irony there?).
Edited October 7, 2015 by woz70
cosmic_juice
Location:Arkansas
relating, of course, to Jimmy working with Pat Monahan.So the definition of irony says that "the intended meaning is the opposite of that expressed by the words used".
I think he was trying to be a little funny corny etc. As in not really being serious. I think you took his comments and internalize them as some kind of attack. Was this response necessary?
I wouldn't have even bothered replying to the first comment if it hadn't been for the name-calling. Name calling is used as a tactic to belittle someone, and this constitutes personal abuse, which is quite frankly unnecessary. It costs nothing to be polite, and I think I've have shown in my response that it's quite possible to make your point politely without sinking to the politics of the playground.
Stairway is NOT stolen
Stargazing at Kashmir
Location:4.5 hours from Bron-Yr-Aur
Is there really an argument and discussion about Irony here?
Want an amazing, only Jimmy Page could do it irony : When Page wore the 3/4 Stormtrooper outfit in
Chicago live in 77', he really was trying to shock people. Now he did a bit, but at the time Jimmy being
close to 6ft. and unlikely weighing even 120 pounds, looked himself like a concentration camp victim.
Now if that isn't ironic, I don't know what else is. Just trying to cut some of the tension here.
Disco Duck
I had never thought about how that particular costume choice related to his weight at the time but you make an interesting point.
There's hope for Jimmy.... here's Bob Wood of Nashville, TN, who at 81, can still make beautiful music on an electric guitar:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1223817/81-year-old-stuns-guitar-shop-staff-playing.html
Nice! Thanks for sharing
Definetly great stuff. Guitar skills as you age are one of the easier instruments to deal with, as you can
always put on really thin strings for much easier playing. Certainly arthritis could strike, but drums if
you play like Bonzo, not likely to have the same strength at 70. Page already uses very thin strings,
some have commented that he now uses his arm instead of his wrist for fast picking. May be but I'm
not sure this has slowed him down. I'm sure he wants to publicly play, but wouldn't be surprised if
he has with the long layoff fits of nerves thinking exactly how to get out there.
KellyGirl
Location:U S A
After watching the latest video tweeted from Jimmy Page News account. I have to
ask what is it that has Jimmy wanting to make another solo album - besides the
obvious? It's been 27 years, he still has a will to play and a passion for writing music
........but is there something else? I know other musicians his age still get up on the
stage or head to the studio to record music - and that's great, but not everyone's path
is the same. If Jimmy wants to sit back, smell the roses then he can do so and enjoy it.
Sometimes I wonder if he feels he has something to prove to the naysayers. Whether
the man wrote music last week or 30 years ago. The music he did make is listened to
and discussed by so many people so many decades later, and will continue to do so.
He can flip off /give the bird to those who say otherwise.
I know others will argue, but in a weird way Jimmy continuing to drop these little Easter
eggs on what his plans are for the future constantly lures you in - in a very crafty way.
I don't mean it in a deceitful manner. It's meant in a complimentary way
Haha watch Jimmy have an album released posthumously!
Edited November 12, 2015 by KellyGirl
Darth Hoek
Location:Miskatonic University, Essex County
Hello, long time lurker who finally signed up here. I hope this thread might be the right place to add this...I saw that jimmypage.com posted about Jimmy's first time seeing Scarlet Sabet at the World's end Book Shop during her first poetry reading or something to that effect. This is the first time this post was put up on JP.com as far as I remember and it sure seems like a promo for the provided link to Scarlet's site. Here she has video links, a small store, promos for events and info to let people familiarize themselves with her work. I suspect this may be a rather calculated move, since the lovely and talented Scarlet Sabet could very easily be Jimmy's new muse. And if JP's new solo work has her singing, or at the very least writing the lyrics, this posting might be intended to start the publicity drip feed, so the fans are more prepared to take SS into the fold if this happens.
As I am sure we all remember, the salivating and desperate media liked to portray JP as a lecherous old man, and SS as a girl of questionable morals or even an unwitting victim of Page in those idiotic stories that accompanied the paparazzi images of them in public.
Myself, I really hope they are working together, be it on an acoustic project or something "heavier." I think that the JP and SS are well paired, and Jimmy's new work might head in the direction of the fantastic Burrows/Cobain work on "The Priest They Called Him " or something to that effect. As posted elsewhere, Jimmy has done this sort of thing pre-zep; it might just work with his magic touch. Of course I am really just shooting in the dark, but honestly I just have a feeling about this since Jimmy has certainly noticed that bringing a lady in worked out quite well for Robert Plant.
in_the_evening
Location:New England, USA
not to go OT, but do we really believe his weight could have been this low? Surely his face would have been quite gaunt.
wow, very good stuff. But this man PLAYS, while others, ahem, PROMISE. I fear from Mr. page, all that is left is promises, the playing is done.
Right, Hoek. If you go back, way back in Jimmy's guitar history(performance), it turns out early on that
Jimmy did accompany some poetry readings. Not sure how fans would take that nowadays; however
Jimmy remains the sorcerer , and done right with the bow and various effects, etc.,it could be
Mahvelous.
About Page's legendary thinness, I was 5'11, 130-135 pds(ha, no longer). I had the same long arms and legs, short torso. Now I didn't see Page in person in 77', but very close in 83'. Perhaps he had lost even
more weight !!!!!?!?!!! but I can honestly tell you I have never seen an adult standing up that thin. His waist
was at least 3-4 sizes smaller than mine. Face wise, remember that Jimmy before the weight loss
had an almost moon round, large face. But actually especially from 77' on there are plenty of shots
where Jimmy looks drawn or gaunt. Well, enough NON- ESSENTIAL but still vital facts.
Great post. I think part of it is wanting to prove something to the naysayers. In one his led zep reissue interviews he said he wants to play live again to prove he's part of the "world cup" ! That's some pretty big expectations and demands he's putting on himself at 71 and after years of not doing shows but it's great he seems determined and has a twinkle in his weye whenever he talks about "seen to be playing live" . Whatever approach or genre he does will be interesting and creative. As someone mentioned on here I think one of his musical surprises could possibly be playing guitar accompaniment to poetry reading. He did this in the 60s.
Edited November 19, 2015 by Trey
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Personally if he does one I think it should be mostly if not entirely instrumental. Then there are truly no barriers for the music, just let him be himself and let the music do the talking. Looking for a vocalist that's going to represent your music properly is just a hassle. I'd just focus on making great music, which is what I think he will do. I mean not that he'd make music on the same level(nor do I expect him to) but songs like the battle of evermore, going to california, the rain song, the song remains the same, bron-y-aur stomp, thank you, that's the way, even stairway, kashmir, and honestly nearly any zeppelin song would make fantastic and in many cases beautiful instrumentals that would allow you to just get lost in the music and the depth of the music, I mean for me as a Guitarist and a musician, the music is what I hear first. I love Robert, he's my favorite singer, and I love his lyrics, but the music is what matters to me the most.
I am sure that Jimmy has some kind of home studio, even if it's just a basic portable multitrack recorder, and that he has a decent amount of demo recordings and ideas for songs. Just because he doesn't show them off doesn't mean he doesn't have any or that he has created very little song ideas or songs. Being the guitarist and basically the lead song writer in what is probably the greatest band of all time (or one of) puts a lot of pressure on you if you ever plan to release anything to the public. Especially when you haven't released new music in about 20 years.
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Location:Georgia, USA
Well I'll be damned, he actually did it! Wasn't expecting to wake up to that! Thanks for posting.
Wow, he even played the solo, and quite well from what I can hear!
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COVID-19 economic stimulus: States to get $1.5bn from World Bank — NEC
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The World Bank has got a proposal of 1.5 billion dollars to states as part economic stimulus to cushion the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, says Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed.
Ahmed briefed State House correspondents on Thursday after the virtual National Economic Council (NEC) meeting anchored from the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The first ever virtual NEC meeting and the fourth for the year, was presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo
“The World Bank maintains that the impact of the COVID-19 on Nigeria will lead to severe amplified human and economic cost, which will move the country into a recession.
“The World Bank planned a proposed package for immediate fiscal relief for the FG.
“This will also involve policy-based policy budget support for the Federal Government, focusing on measures to maintain macro financial stability and create fiscal space for proposed stimulus.
“The World Bank package has also got a proposal of 1.5billion dollars for the states and this package will be dedicated to the states and it will be a programme for results which the states are already used to implementing.’’
According to her, the immediate fiscal relief for the states will include the acceleration of an existing programme to enable disbursement by end of September.
She said that by the end of September, the 1.5 billion dollars plan would have been disbursed to the states.
“We are looking at an average of between N150billion to N200billion based on the plan to the 36 states.
“ These are states that have already made some particular commitments and achievements so that they will be able to get immediate disbursements of parts of these funds.’’
Ahmed said that the ministry made a presentation to the council on the structures that the Federal Government was looking at and putting in place, or had put in place to tackle the challenges of COVID-19.
According to her, the country is in a very difficult and challenging time, facing a very significant economic downturn that has not been seen in the history of the country.
She said that the global economy was also facing the sharpest reversals since the great depression as it had both health and economic consequences.
Ahmed said that COVID-19 had resulted in the collapse in oil prices.
“This will impact negatively, and the impact has already started showing on the federation’s revenues and on the foreign exchange earnings.
“Net oil and gas revenue and influx to the federation account in the first quarter of 2020 amounted to N940.91billion.
“This represented a shortfall of N125.52 billion or 31 per cent of the prorated amount that is supposed to have been realised by the end of that first quarter.
“40 per cent of the population in Nigeria, today, is classified as poor; the crisis will only multiply this misery.
“The economic growth in Nigeria, that is the GDP, could in the worst case scenario, contract by as much as minus -8.94 per cent in 2020.
“ But in the best case, which is the case we are working on, it could be a contraction of minus -4.4 per cent, if there is no fiscal stimulus.
“But with the fiscal stimulus plan that we are working on, this contraction can be mitigated and we might end up with a negative –0.59 per cent.’’
The minister said that the president set up the Presidential Economic Sustainability Committee in addition to the COVID-19 Response Committee that had been set up, the COVID-19 PTF as well as the Crisis Management Committee.
She said that the Federal Government was committed to supporting the financial viability of states, including the suspension of payments in respect of commitments, debts that have been secured with ISPOs by the states at the federal levels.
“So, we have already implemented suspension of deductions of a number of loans that have been taken by the states from April and also in May.
“The Economic Sustainability Committee is responsible for providing overall strategic vision, policy direction and general oversight of the implementation among others,’’ she said.
She said that some of the measures to mitigate the COVID-19 impact on the economy included the N500 billion stimulus package that the president had approved.
Ahmed said the package also included the increase in the social register by one million households to 3.5million for cash transfer programmes and palliatives and other social safety net programmes.
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The Opposition Opportunity
As the aftershocks from last night’s political earthquake continue to make themselves felt, we saw another remarkable tremor this morning: a crazy hour in which three party leaders resigned. There is a possibility that a fourth, Natalie Bennett, may follow before the day is out – although given the Green Party had set its sights rather low given their chequered campaign, perhaps she will yet be spared.
Regardless, it must be unprecedented for three party leaders, including the official opposition, and the third and fourth parties at the general election, to see their leaders depart so rapidly and in such short order. Nigel Farage had already indicated that if he didn’t win in Thanet South he would go. But the predictions of the BBC’s exit poll last evening would have been enough to see Clegg and Miliband out of the door too, and the situation has only worsened for both men since it was first broadcast.
The implications for the parties are clear. All of them will have to run leadership elections, with the methods employed to find the next leader varying wildly between Labour, Lib Dems and UKIP. However, more important is the potential impact on our democracy, and the decision-making process in Parliament.
While the narrative in today’s media is undoubtedly triumphalist for David Cameron, who will be enjoying every moment of his victory, that covers over the probability that the next two years – let alone the next five – will be fraught with challenges. A small Conservative majority of around 10 means that Cameron will have to manage his Parliamentary Party with an iron fist. This is something he has persistently failed to do over his first term, with frequent rebellions causing real damage to government policy. What’s more, these have often been self-inflicted; the result of too many clever-clever Parliamentary games played by the whips, especially since Michael Gove took over as Chief Whip.
The likelihood is that Cameron will find himself hampered by this “awkward squad”, much as John Major was frustrated by “the bastards” in 1992-1997. The challenge of maintaining discipline will be such that compromises and concessions are a regular feature within the Conservatives, even if outwardly it appears as though the party is united. Nowhere will this be more apparent than on the EU referendum, which now looms large and it is likely that Cameron will come under serious pressure from a big chunk of his MPs to move it forward.
The importance of a strong and effective opposition – whether from one or multiple parties – should therefore be obvious. By taking positions that are intelligent but critical, opposition parties should be able to make life difficult for a government on such a small majority, potentially convincing enough backbenchers to rebel to force amendments or even vote down legislation. But how can this be achieved given both the weakness of Labour and the Lib Dems, and the restrictions inherent in the SNP’s position as a nationalist party no longer in its expected position of negotiating strength?
That question is one that those parties will actively be considering, even as they prepare to weigh up the options for the next phase of their political journeys. But they will also need help. New leaders tend to want to impose their own policy agenda and ideas on their parties. Given the parlous state of party finances for both Labour and the Lib Dems, the involvement of external organisations, businesses and thought-leaders in shaping policy development will be critical. There should therefore be substantial opportunities for pressure to be brought to bear and ideas to be sold in as the new hierarchies and structures become clear over the next few months. The same goes, of course, for the government backbenchers who will find that their votes are critical to the success of the Conservatives’ policy agenda.
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Google Device Policy app ending support for iOS 10 soonInjy Eldeeb2020-10-10T01:17:01+01:00
The Google Device Policy app won’t support mobile devices running iOS version 10 or lower after the end of 2020. If your organization has advanced mobile device management (MDM) enabled, users must upgrade to iOS version 11 or higher to access new MDM features or to download the Device Policy app for the first time.
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‘Marriage Story’ Trailer: Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson Watch Their Marriage Fall Apart
By eelyajekiM | @ | Thursday, October 17th, 2019 at 9:00 pm
Nothing says bleak comedy like watching a marriage fall apart. And that is what we will get to see in Noah Baumbach‘s Marriage Story, starring Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson as a husband and wife pair that looks back on their past as they are going through a divorce. The film has already made the festival rounds at the Toronto Film Festival and Telluride Film Festival, where it was met with unanimous praise. And now it will be heading to limited theaters before making its wide debut on Netflix.
But before all of that can happen, the streaming service has released a new trailer that gets deeper into the characters’ story, what they stand to lose, how they are coping, and so much more. Check out the trailer below.
The film has already been praised as one of Baumbach’s best work, with much of that praise going to the two lead actors. The trailer and plot synopsis reveal how the two have grown distant from each other, both figuratively and literally. Watching those brief clips of the two fall out of love is just difficult to watch, and seeing what both of them stand to lose and how they confront that is even harder. I can’t even begin to imagine what that is like.
Here’s the official plot synopsis:
Writer-director Noah Baumbach digs deep into divorce with Marriage Story. Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson deliver some of their richest work as a couple whose once enviable union crumbles under the weight of mounting resentments and divergent needs.
Charlie (Driver) is a playwright who wants to stay in New York. Nicole (Johansson) is an actor who’s landed a coveted television role that requires her to relocate to Los Angeles. Their geographical dispute tests an already strained relationship. As Marriage Story begins, the couple’s divorce is already underway, with each enlisting legal squads deploying various tactics.
Yet Baumbach’s elegant narrative goes back and forth through time, showing how Charlie and Nicole fell in love and built a life together alongside a detailed, blow-by-blow chronicle of their marital dismantling.
Laura Dern, Alan Alda, Ray Liotta, Julie Hagerty, Merritt Wever, Azhy Robertson, Wallace Shawn, Martha Kelly, and Mark O’Brien also star.
Marriage Story opens in select theaters on November 6, 2019, followed by a release on Netflix on December 6, 2019. If you missed it, you can click right here for the first trailer.
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Karla Sandoval, left, and her cousin, Frida, pose for a photograph in 2019 at Divino Niño Jesús Mission, Duluth. They were photographed with Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory in 2005 during his canonical installation as Atlanta’s new archbishop. Karla, 25, is a college graduate who works for Porsche Consulting, Inc., Atlanta. Frida, 18, is a senior at Central Gwinnett High School, Lawrenceville.
Favorite photo story of 2019 bridges a moment to the past
By MICHAEL ALEXANDER, Staff Writer | Published January 9, 2020
SMYRNA—When Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory left the Archdiocese of Atlanta to become the Archdiocese of Washington’s seventh archbishop last May, I had an idea for “Then & NOW,” an occasional series in The Georgia Bulletin that provides updates on people who appeared in a newspaper photograph years ago.
I was hoping to find the two cousins, Karla and Frida Sandoval, who were among the multicultural group of people greeting Archbishop Gregory during his 2005 canonical installation as Atlanta’s new archbishop.
I wasn’t sure how hard it would be to find them 14 years later. I had their names, but not their parish. I thought the first place to look would be at one of the oldest and largest Hispanic missions in the archdiocese, Our Lady of the Americas, Lilburn.
A little help from above never hurts, because the parochial vicar, Father Carlos Bustamante Agudelo, knew Karla’s mother, an employee at Divino Niño Jesús Mission in Duluth.
Karla’s mother facilitated a meeting with the two cousins at Divino Niño Jesús Mission, so I could interview them and take an updated photograph.
The 2005 photo was always a personal favorite. When Archbishop Gregory bends down to greet the two, as he shakes Frida’s hand, his miter nearly touches Karla’s head, creating a visual circle of the three.
The young women who walked in the room more than a decade later were a stark contrast to the young girls in the original photo. Today, one of them is a college graduate and the other is a high school senior.
The only thing in the contemporary photograph that replicates the 2005 photo is that Karla is standing on the left and Frida is on the right, just like the original image.
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We have created a graphic novel adaption of Joseph Smith's First Vision. It is called Pillar of Light: Joseph Smith's First Vision. So many young people learn from and are drawn to the graphic novel format. It is a powerful way to teach.
I have partnered with the talented and experienced artist Sal Velluto, who is creating the art and serving as art director. 2020 is the 200th anniversary of the First Vision and we have done a telling of the story that will reach young people in a new and profound way. We want to inspire the youth and to build their testimonies of the Prophet Joseph Smith.
We used details from all 4 accounts written by Joseph Smith as well as from those who heard him tell his experience firsthand. It includes details not previously shown in the current films and visuals. We finished the book on March 26, 2020, and it is available to view for free at the link below. Print versions are available through Cedar Fort Books. Buy the Book at Cedar Fort and get 15% off your ENTIRE order when you use promo code PRE15!
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The Golden Plates is an illustrated adaptation of the fifth best selling book of all time, The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ, which has sold over 120 million copies. This graphic novel/comic book adaptation was first created in 2005 by award winning artist Michael Allred. The Premium Edition has replaced the full text originally included in the first edition with simplified and edited text, making the story easier for younger readers to follow and also showcasing more of the stunning artwork. It has also been converted to digital form for enjoyment on phones, tablets, and desktop devices through Amazon, iTunes, and Kobo. New printed editions have also been released.
The first 6 issues cover the first 145 pages (27%) of the Book of Mormon, from 1st Nephi through the Words of Mormon. This adaptation is a fun and enthralling to way to help older children and teens understand and enjoy the Book of Mormon in a format more advanced than simplified children's stories or scripture readers meant for young children.
To read more about how and why these books were created click here.
THE GOLDEN PLATES:
SIX ISSUE COLLECTION
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ON TRIAL: Third Edition
HEAVENLY FATHER'S
THE BOOK OF MORMON EVIDENCES
THE GOLDEN PLATES #1:
Escape From Jerusalem
Journey to the Promised Land
Trouble in the Promised Land
Nephi & Jacob's Teachings
& The Olive Tree Allegory
Jacob, Enos,
Mosiah, & Benjamin
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I have searched high and low for a way to get the scripture stories into my children's heads, to help them imagine the characters, their power, their spirit. Reading straight from the scriptures is something we strive to do daily, and will never stop, but never before has the imagery been as vivid as with the accompaniment of this comic book. Incredible way to enjoy these stories with your kids.
JASONHEWLETT AMAZON REVIEW
This is a strong, faith-promoting interpretation of a sacred text. The visual metaphors are rich, and there's a deep level of reverence for the text being adapted. It obviously doesn't replace the scriptures. It's not trying to be the definitive and historically accurate visual companion to the Book of Mormon. It's beautiful and inspirational, however, and worth revisiting periodically. Love this series.
is cool, and comic books
are cool, so combining the
two was a great idea!
TIFFANY BOWLES
My 9 year old daughter loves reading them. She likes the story of Nephi breaking his bow and crossing the ocean to the promised land. I really like the allegory of the Olive tree.
DAVID JANEWAY REVIEW
This book is meant for a Mormon audience and those who are part of that audience will find this is a great way to get their kids excited about these stories. We hope that there will be many more.
The comic is respectful to the sacred book, and also very kid friendly. I asked my kids why they liked it and my daughter (who is 10) said, “It is fun to read and it doesn’t have all those confusing big words. I REALLY like the pictures.” Since my kids started reading the comic book version I have seen them pick up their actual scriptures more too, which always makes me happy to see.
LYNN MUIR
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"Help Youth Love The Book of Mormon
with First-Rate Digital Comic"
Meridian Magazine Review by Jonathan Decker. Click here to read.
"Book of Mormon: Comic Book Style"
A review by LDS Blogger Lynn Muir. Click here to read.
"3 Surprising Book of Mormon Insights One Man Gained When Adapting the Scriptures into a Comic Book"
LDS Living Article on 3 things Andrew Knaupp learned while making the Premium Edition. Click here to read.
"LDS canon to enter comic-book realm"
Deseret News article on the original release. Click here to read.
"Comics Creator Declines Metal Men to Draw Nephi Creates The Golden Plates, a Book of Mormon Comic"
Meridian Magazine article interviewing Michael Allred extensively about why he stopped working for DC comics for nearly a year to create The Golden Plates. Click here to read.
"Allred's Passion: Mike Allred on The Golden Plates"
Interview with Michael Allred by Diamond Comics. Click here to read.
"Book of Mormon comics energize bookstore owner"
Desert News article about a comic shop owner and his enthusiasm for The Golden Plates. Click here to read.
"Book of Mormon Comics"
Times and Season article comparing the various attempts to illustrate the Book of Mormon including The Golden Plates. Click here to read.
"How a Book of Mormon Story Ended Up in a DC Comic (+ Other Ways Mormons Share Their Faith in Comics)"
LDS Living article on Michael Allred and other LDS artists on how their faith inspired them to create. Click here to read.
"A Survey of Mormon Comix by Theric Jepson"
Michael Allred's announcement to leave DC Comics to illustrate The Golden Plates described as "the biggest announcement in Mormon comics ever." Click here to read.
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News Semen Indonesia lowers prices and relies on exports to boost sales
Semen Indonesia lowers prices and relies on exports to boost sales
Written by Global Cement staff 25 June 2015
Indonesia: According to the Jakarta Post, Semen Indonesia has lowered its prices by around 10% so far in 2015 to compete with rivals amid an economic slowdown that has seen a decline in the construction sector. With an increase in competition in the local market, Semen Indonesia had hoped that its exports would boost its revenues, according to company marketing director Amat Pria Darma.
President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo instructed state-owned cement producers to lower their prices in January 2015 to support the government's massive infrastructure projects. However, Darma added that state-run cement producers had to lower their prices further later in 2015 to cope with tighter competition and lacklustre demand. "A number of new plants have started operating and new supplies are coming in. We have to lower our prices to keep up with the market with overall plunging domestic demand," said Darma.
Semen Indonesia saw its domestic sales volumes fall by 5.3% in January – May 2015 to 9.91Mt, even steeper than the national decline in cement demand of around 3.8%. In May 2015 alone, the company's domestic sales fell by around 14%.
While cement demand has contracted since the start of 2015 on the back of the slowing economy, several cement producers have seen additional production from newly operating plants. New players have also entered the market, such as Semen Merah Putih. Semen Indonesia saw its market share in the country slip from 44% in 2015 to 43% in 2015. Darma said that he was pessimistic that Semen Indonesia could achieve its target of seeing sales volume up by around 6% in 2015, or even maintain it at the same position as 2014. The company will instead look to export markets as a strategy to cope with the domestic slowdown.
Semen Indonesia's exports rose by more than eight times from 22,155t in the first five months of 2014, to 184,181t in the same period of 2015. According to Agung Wiharto, the surges were not particularly good news as with high transportation costs, cement makers only exported their production when domestic sales were down and the contribution from exports was not significant. Exports, he said, were made to better ensure that its products were absorbed to maintain utilisation and efficiency. Wiharto said that Semen Indonesia was looking to initiate contract-based exports, in comparison to its current spot sales, in the near future if the economy does not show any signs of improvement. By relying on a six-month to one-year contract, the company could ship more cement, ensuring a more certain market.
"We hope to see our exports hit 1Mt in 2015. The prospect is good, given that some of our traditional markets have no cement producers," said Wiharto. Among Semen Indonesia's major export customers are Timor-Leste, Bangladesh and the Maldives.
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Semen Indonesia
Argentine cement shipments fall by 11.1% to 9.87Mt in 2020
Research organisation predicts end of export growth and rise in domestic demand in Vietnam in 2021
Steppe Cement updates on full-year 2020 performance
Société des Ciments de Hamma Bouziane and Société des ciments de Ain El Kebira plan 50,000t West African cement export operation
Semen Padang exports 1.6Mt of cement and clinker in 2020
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Good News Productions International – Africa
Strategic Outreach
2as1 TV Show
Fahamika
Golda Gichuru• December 15, 2020• Uncategorized
Strategic Outreach By All Possible Ways – THE SOLAR KIT PROJECT!
Everyone deserves a chance to learn about Jesus. Some places are simply hard to reach. Some villages have little or no electricity, and some people cannot read.
GNPI-Africa has combined the latest technology with solar power to bring God’s truth to the most remote places in Africa. One Christian worker even called the solar kit “a miracle,” giving him the ability to draw crowds and then share the good news! Another team member said, “It’s amazing what the Lord is doing through this little yellow kit! We trained our partners, gave them the kits, and the Holy Spirit is doing the rest.”
A Solar Kit includes a projector which runs on a lithium battery (charged by a solar panel), cables, a set of speakers, and a waterproof case with a screen built into the lid. Each kit weighs 13 pounds and is about the size of a shoebox. GNPI-Africa provides not only Solar Kits but also media in a variety of languages for different cultures, so kingdom workers can present the gospel in the most helpful way to the people they are serving. Because they’re easy to transport and don’t require electricity, Solar Kits can be taken into rural villages, remote jungles, refugee camps, and any other region of the world where electricity is scarce.
Around 780 million people worldwide are illiterate today. Even if the Bible has been translated into their native language, they’re not able to read it. That’s why a visual presentation of the gospel, like the one we show on our Solar Kits, is a powerful tool for reaching these people. It’s one of the most meaningful and relevant ways they can learn about Jesus.
GNPI-Africa is a part of a network of production centers around the world, which are operated by Good News Productions, International (GNPI) located in Joplin, Missouri, USA. Since 1981, GNPI has mobilized more than 750 solar powered media kits in 50 different nations. They’ve been instrumental in evangelism, church planting, and leadership training around the world.
We work together to spread the good news around the world and are always looking to add new partners, and that includes you! Here are a few ways you could be part of the impact Solar Kits are having worldwide:
Find out if the missionaries and kingdom workers you support would benefit from a Solar Kit. Then, consider asking your church, Sunday school class, small group, or VBS to sponsor a kit for the workers you support.
Sponsor a Solar Kit for one of GNPI-Africa ministry partners and provide them with a powerful tool for sharing the gospel in their communities.
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A Youth Initiative with a Difference! NIFAM Ministry and GNPI-Africa
Sonship: What does it look like in today’s world?
P.O. BOX 636-00621 Nairobi, KENYA. Copyright 2020 GNPI-Africa
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Linking Word Game Review
September 17, 2013 by Jake Hopper
Are you looking for a review of the game Linking Word Game by App-Easy?
We received this review of the game on our e-mail submit@guidesetc.com from Ollie Birley.
We would like to thank Ollie for this.
You can do the same, simply by e-mailing us at the above e-mail, and we’ll read through what you wrote, and put it on guidesetc.com
Here’s the review he created for the game.
Linking Word Game Fun for iOS
If you love word games, like I do, then the new Linking Word game from App-Easy is one that’s well worth a look. Following the simplest of concepts, it’s easy to use, fun to play and really is quite addictive as it’s blurb promises! There is a plethora of word games now for iOS devices, some good and some not so good, but amongst all of the word game releases, it is actually refreshing to see one that is genuinely new in the word game experience it offers.
How does it work? Well, you’re presented with two words, like ‘hair’ and ‘can’ and you have to find the word that links these two words, which in this case is, ‘can’ to give ‘hairspray’ and ‘spray can’.
The word puzzles are nicely intermixed between easy and more difficult ones, so it’s easy to feel that you’re able to keep moving through each of the 5 available levels. There are 500 word puzzles in total and when you first download the app there are 8 clues available. Clues can be used to find the number of letters or the first letter in the linking word answer. There is a skip option, too, to let you move onto the next puzzle, if you’re faced with a really difficult pair of words, but that is more expensive costing 4 clues. More clues can be bought from the App Store through in-app purchase, which is where this word game looks to make its revenue, but there is also an option to put up a Facebook post to get help from friends, so you can get help without having to buy more clues.
There is also the Linking Word Lite version of the game and this offers all the fun of the full game. There is just one level in the Lite word game and you can’t save your score, so you’re back to square one every time you play.
More than just an iOS Game?
Whilst the game is fun to sit and play on your own, it lends itself nicely to play amongst friends. Journey’s with children can be tiresome and my kids found this game entertaining to play together in the car, one with the game on her iPhone, saying out the clues and the rest of the passengers joining in the fun to find the linking word answer. Linking Word proved to be quick, easy and captivating fun in an unexpected situation!
So, Finally…
The interface is quite simple and basic but it is clean and appealing. This word game, whilst based on a very simple idea, is actually unique compared to others on the market and is captivating to play.
Linking Word has it’s own website (external link) and, from a marketing perspective, offers a quarterly give-away competition that is simple to enter once you’ve downloaded the full game. You can find more information on Linking Word and other App-Easy apps from the App-Easy site.
In cost terms, the Lite word game is free and the full game is $0.69/£0.99 and is, in my view, well worth the price of a chocolate bar.
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Gov. Brian Kemp Extends Public Health State of Emergency
This morning, the Office of Governor Brian Kemp announced an extension to Georgia’s Public Health State of Emergency through May 13. In a news release, the Governor said, “This measure will allow us to continue to deploy resources to communities in need, lend support to frontline medical providers, and keep preparing as we brace for potential patient surge in our healthcare facilities. We deeply appreciate the hard work of Georgians who are sheltering in place, using social distancing, and helping us flatten the curve. We are in this fight together.”
At this time, the extension of the State of Emergency does not impact Georgia’s shelter-in-place order, set to expire on April 13, nor the administrative-office closure leave order allowing eligibility for some state employees, set to expire on April 30. However, further announcements may be forthcoming. We will communicate any additional changes to staff via email as well as on our website page dedicated to COVID-19 updates. Until then, employees should keep teleworking if currently doing so, stay in close contact with their supervisors and follow all state directives and public health guidance.
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Date: 27 oktober 2021
Location: KAF Almere, Esplanade 10, 1315 TA Almere-Stad
Venue: Deva Premal & Miten in Concert @KAF Almere
Deva Premal & Miten World Tour 2021
Deva Premal & Miten with Manose and the Temple Band will be with us on two evenings, October 27 & 28 2021. Ticketsales has started via KAF Almere.
The concerts of Deva Premal & Miten in 2020 are postponed to new dates in 2021, due to the Corona Virus. Tickets remain valid. Read our message here.
Deva Premal & Miten :: Celebrating 30 years together
Deva Premal & Miten celebrate 30 years of love, life and music as they embark on their World Tour 2020, alongside Nepalese bansuri maestro Manose and accompanied by their great Temple Band (Joby Baker, Spencer Cozens and Miles Bould).
In the year that Deva Premal is nominated for a Grammy award for her album DEVA, and Miten is winning international acclaim for his album Devotee, the couple are once again renewing their special relationship with audiences around the globe through the transcendent medium of mantra.
“It’s our 25th year of touring,” Miten says, “And we will be looking back through our catalogue and playing some pieces from those early times. Celebrating 30 years of music and a loving connection with our audience has been an incredible. We’re like family – We have grown together over the years and watched as more and more like-minded souls join the community.”
The couple first met at the ashram of Osho (aka Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh) in Pune, India in 1990. She was studying shiatsu, reflexology and massage, he was in the process of transforming his life from jaded rock musician to meditator. Both were on a quest for enlightenment. “We began to sing together in the ashram quite innocently, just feeling our way into the music and how to share what we’d learned in the ashram.” Miten recalls.
Using the gifts and disciplines of harmony and meditation they transform concert halls into sacred temples. The word “show” is hardly appropriate or adequate to describe the communal rhapsody that occurs during their events. “There is a portal that we all go through,” Miten says. “It’s not created just by the musicians and the singers with the microphones. Every one of us is responsible for the evening proceedings and the joy that we take away with us at the end of the evening. For Deva and myself, it’s way more than entertainment, it’s a matter of life and death. Our gatherings nourish the forward motion of life.”
Led by the exquisite, telepathically-entwined harmonies of Deva and Miten, the blend of sensual and spiritual, east-meets-west music they perform at these events has attracted the attention of stars and world teachers. The Dalai Lama, who the duo played for at an exclusive gathering, is known to include their music in his private time, while Cher, an abiding fan of the duo, continues to feature a version of their Gayatri Mantra in her current shows. Meditators, yogis and spiritual misfits attend their concerts along with fans of new age, rock, trance, fusion, classical, Eastern and world music.
Meanwhile, away from the spotlight, Deva and Miten take their music to prisons (including San Quentin), homeless shelters and facilities for autistic children, places where their chanting offers a natural path to ease the heart and bring tranquillity to the troubled mind. “Mantra chanting never fails to uplift the spirit, no matter how disconnected we may feel” Deva says.
In a world of accelerating technical complexity and constant emotional upheaval, going to a Deva Premal & Miten concert is a moment to draw breath, re-connect to a deeper purpose and apply a soothing balm to the spirit.
Deva Premal & Miten with Manose and the Temple Band
Deva Premal (vocals, keyboards)
Miten (vocals, guitar)
Manose (bansuri, vocals, ukulele, percussion)
The Temple Band features
Joby Baker (bass/keyboards/vocals)
Miles Bould (drums)
Spencer Cozens (piano/keyboards)
more information on Deva Premal & Miten, here.
Music of Deva Premal & Miten
Miten’s latest release Devotee the transcendent new album from Miten, explores the interlinked themes of life, love, death and devotion in a beautiful collection of songs that roll, meander, roar and swirl gently into the mystic.
The latest release from Deva Premal DEVA, is a calling – beyond the chattering mind, the heaviness of the heart and the numerous distractions of life, into a place of refuge and conscious relaxation. The album is nominated for a 2020 Grammy Award.
The album opens and closes with a spell-binding long form version of Deva’s beloved Gayatri Mantra – the Seven Chakra Gayatri illuminates and harmonizes the seven chakras and blesses the seven realms, from the earth plane to the abode of supreme truth – a deeply relaxing mantra sound-bath for body, mind & spirit, ideal for meditation & slow yoga flows.
Deva Premal & Miten with Manose and the Temple Band in Concert @KAF Almere
(Organized by HeartFire.nl & LivingSatsang)
27 October 2021 (there’s also a concert on 28 October, see here).
19:30 – 22:00 (doors open 19:00)
KAF Almere is located in the center of Almere. Check the journey planner to plan your journey if you use public transport. Almere is very accessible by train (the venue is a 15-minute walk from Almere Central Station). If you travel by car then parking is very easy in the nearby ‘Hospitaalgarage’ or ‘Schippergarage’ (both are a 5-minute walk to the venue). We would appreciate you to consider the use of public transport.
See the route description to KAF Almere on their website, here.
Ticketsales has started via KAF Almere.
Updates also in the Facebook event page, here.
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Elverson Road
Elverson Road, Lewisham
A residential street in St Johns, north Lewisham, and a station on the borough’s border with Greenwich
By 1371 this locality was the site of a watermill that produced steel for armour and other military equipment. In 1530 Henry VIII acquired the mill and the manorial land on which it stood, and it became part of the Royal Armoury at Greenwich. Much later, barrels were made here for muskets that were used in the Napoleonic Wars. When the demand for armaments declined the watermill switched to silk throwing. During Victoria’s reign gold and silver thread were made at Lewisham Silk Mills for officers’ uniforms.
Elverson Road was laid out north-west of the watermill in the late 19th century.
Reduced to making wire in its final days, the old mill closed in 1937. The buildings were demolished and Conington Road industrial estate later took its place.
Elverson Road station is only 500 yards from the DLR branch terminus at Lewisham. The station opened ahead of schedule in November 1999, at a time when most stops along the route were already seeing significant commercial, cultural or residential developments in their vicinity. Here, however, it was several years before much happened, other than the creation of Elverson Mews, which consists of a handful of two-storey terraced houses.
The largest subsequent construction projects were the Silkworks and Silvermill apartment complexes on Conington Road – both built by St James Homes, a subsidiary of the Berkeley Group. The two schemes (and of course the Silk Mills Path, which runs between them) take their name from historic incarnations of the former watermill – as does Armoury Road, on the other side of the river, where there has also been intensive residential development, though on a more human scale.
The nearest school is Morden Mount primary, which seems to have successfully emerged from a period of underperformance.
Brookmill Park (known as Ravensbourne Park from 1951 to 1965) was relandscaped when the railway line was brought through and the River Ravensbourne was rerouted along the park’s eastern edge, with a slight meander for aesthetic effect. The DLR used the old course of the river.
Postal district: SE8
Station: Docklands Light Railway, Lewisham branch (zones 2 and 3)
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* The picture of Elverson Road DLR station (roof detail) on this page is adapted from an original photograph, copyright Mike Quinn, at Geograph Britain and Ireland, made available under the Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic Licence. Any subsequent reuse is hereby freely permitted under the terms of that licence.
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Declaration of Conditions of Employment [ ] in order to support a claim on their personal income tax return. As an employee, when you have expenses to deduct, the conditions that caused you to spend should meet CRA standards, supported by a form T Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) T Form – Declaration of Conditions of A T form is signed by an employer to enable an employee to deduct.
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Salary for Employing a Substitute or Assistant All of the following conditions must be met for the employer to complete the T T Guidelines This policy is effective from February 1.
If the Department Chair, Dean or Director is satisfied that all the conditions are met, the T form can then be completed and signed and returned to the employee. The expenses claimed must directly relate to the duties of employment, The employee is required to personally pay for such expenses, The employee is not entitled for reimbursement in respect of such expense i.
In order to qualify for the deduction, an individual requires both vra form to be signed by the employer and the individual must meet the Cea conditions. Support Staff Prescription Drugs: T Form T — Declaration of Conditions of Employment enables an employee to be eligible to deduct specific employment expenses using Form T Statement of Employment Expenses that relate to the terms and conditions of Employment, but are not reimbursed by the University of Alberta e. Support Staff Other Leave: For further restrictions and details refer to the section on Supplies in Chapter 3 of CRA’s T – Employment Expenses guide, which can be found at http: Supplies All of the following conditions must be met for the employer to complete the T Supplies All of the following conditions must be met for a Form T to be answered in the affirmative in this area: The above restrictions are not a complete list of all possible restrictions.
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U of R Home. The responsibility lies with the individual taxpayer to claim only those employment expenses deemed to be permissible by CRA.
All of the following conditions must be met for a Form T to be answered in the affirmative in this area:. According to the Canada Revenue Agency, this is normally, but not necessarily set out in written letters of offer, employment policies, or collective agreements.
Employees wishing to deduct employment expenses are advised to review all relevant CRA publications and to seek advice from a qualified income tax advisor. Introduction The purpose of this document is to provide guidance to determine when it is appropriate to complete the Canada Revenue Agency form T — Declaration of Conditions of Employment.
Form T — Declaration of Conditions of Employment enables an employee to be eligible to deduct specific employment expenses using Form T Statement of Employment Expenses that relate to the terms and conditions of Employment, but are not reimbursed by the University of Alberta e. Travel and Motor Vehicle Expenses All of the following conditions must be met for the employer to complete the T The expenses claimed must relate directly to the duties of employment; The employee is required to pay for such expenditures; The employee is not entitled to reimbursement in respect of such expense.
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Ideas and Styles in the Western Musical Tradition, Fourth Edition, explores the conceptual frameworks that have shaped musical development from antiquity to the present. In a lively narrative that prompts readers to think both critically and creatively, Douglass Seaton uses historical documents from thinkers, artists, and musicians to add rich detail to the compelling story of Western music. This brief and accessible narrative of music history features numerous works of art, literature, and music that immerse students in the historical and intellectual contexts of musical styles.
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Kel Mitchell Gushes ‘All That’ Reboot Is For The Fans: ‘We Really Did It For Them’
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‘All That’ is making a comeback. The reboot of the classic Nickelodeon series premieres June 15. HL spoke EXCLUSIVELY with OG star Kel Mitchell about his advice to the new cast and more.
The pop culture phenomenon known as All That is returning for a new generation of kids. The reboot, premiering June 15 at 8:30 p.m. on Nickelodeon, will feature an all-new cast of kids, with original cast members such as Kel Mitchell, Josh Server, and Lori Beth Denberg making special appearances. Kenan Thompson and Kel will be serving as executive producers. HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Kel at Nickelodeon SlimeFest on June 8 about the reboot. We asked Kel what kind of advice he’s given to the new cast members.
“I have been given them a lot of comedy advice, which has been great,” Kel told HollywoodLife. “These kids are some great listeners. They bring the physical comedy, and in the auditions, they came in with their own voices and their own characters. I also told them to have a good sense of themselves and told them that they were special before they got on the show so that they can just enjoy it. No competition between one another, it’s a team effort. It has been great to give notes to other producers and get in there too and act. I am wearing two hats so it’s cool!”
The original All That aired from 1994 until 2005. In addition to Kenan, Kel, Josh, and Lori, the show also featured well-known stars like Amanda Bynes and Nick Cannon. All That is beloved amongst ’90s kids and the love for the show remained alive long after it ended. Kel said that fans are the reason why the show is coming back in the first place! “I mean, even last year before we even announced SlimeFest or All That, everybody was talking about All That,” he told HollywoodLife. “I was being stopped in the street and people wanted me to do ‘Good Burger’ and talking about orange soda. So it’s all about the fans and we really did it for them!”
During the premiere episode, the Jonas Brothers will be featured in the “Good Burger” skit with Kel. They will also close the show with a performance of their hit “Sucker.”
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Assessing HGP’s Long Term Impact
Over the past 12 years, staff and faculty at the UCSC Blum Center on Poverty, Social Enterprise, and Participatory Governance have worked with HGP to document trainee growth and the transformative power of the farm. In addition to asking trainees to complete questionnaires at the beginning and end of their participation in the program, we have also been working to assess HGP’s long-term impact and better understand alumni needs. We have now completed 19 post-program interviews. We asked alumni to reflect on their experiences at HGP, identify aspects of the program that remain useful in their lives, and discuss current needs and goals. We share some of the central themes that emerged during our interviews.
Enhanced Self-Esteem. When asked to reflect on their experiences, many alumni identified enhanced self-esteem as a key program outcome. Describing their time at the farm, one alumni explained, “Everyone starts to feel their self-esteem bolstered. You learn your voice is as important as anyone else’s voice. On the street you feel invisible so that is a big thing.
Stronger Interpersonal and Professional Skills. Respondents also credited HGP with strengthening their interpersonal and professional skills. Alumni described learning how to cooperate and work with diverse team members. As one graduate explained, “I learned the importance of being involved and accepting everyone for what they can contribute to a team.” Communication and leadership skills were also noted, “At HGP you help make people better, not get frustrated by their mistakes.” Additionally, learning to work with management in a job setting was cited as an important skill.
Community Support and Accountability. Many interviewees praised HGP’s strong culture of community support and accountability. When asked to share a favorite memory, one graduate observed, “I just felt very secure because all my people were there and I was filled with gratitude because I had community.” Another interviewee noted, “HGP has been my number one support system since moving to Santa Cruz, going there brings me peace…they always support you.” This support was instrumental to personal growth, with the program described as “a beautiful and safe space for me to transition, a gentle and firm space for me to get back into becoming the person I am supposed to be and getting back into the work world.”
Moving from Research to Action: The Creation of the Alumni Circle Program
It was clear from our interviews that alumni benefited greatly from their work with HGP and desired ongoing connection and community. Some interviewees described having difficulty setting goals without group accountability, noting that their current workplace did not foster a strong sense of community. Importantly, HGP was described as source of interpersonal support as well as a site for building social capital and gaining access to resources and programs. As one graduate shared “I got the first roof over my head through connections I had at HGP. Getting a job or housing is more difficult now because I don’t have the venue to make the social connections anymore.”
To meet the need for ongoing connection, the Alumni Circle Program was established inJanuary 2018. Monthly Alumni Circle meetings build on the HGP’s powerful tradition of “circle group” during which program participants and staff “check-in” and discuss a question or topic about their lives and goals. The Alumni Circle is based on the foundational affirmation, “We are an open, accepting community of alumni to provide support, inspiration, friendship, and connection, wherever you are on your journey.” Justin Wright, Volunteer and Intern Program Manager and program alumnus, facilitates the meetings. The Alumni Circle is a source of support and strength for participants who describe the group as “family.”
As the Alumni Circle approaches its one-year anniversary, we are delighted to see how findings from our long-term follow-up with HGP graduates has been used to develop and inform this new program. We look forward to continuing to learn about HGP’s short and long term impact.
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Grant and Green Saloon to close indefinitely in North Beach due to coronavirus, owners say
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By Alisa Scerrato - Published on March 13, 2020.
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Grant and Green Saloon will close at 1371 Grant Ave. The North Beach dive bar and music venue will shutter on March 26.
A post on its Facebook page announces the closure, which states that it will close indefinitely, "due to coronavirus."
“We would like to thank patrons and staff for their loyalty. We are hoping that there will be relief for businesses like ours and our employees and that we will be able to reopen,” the post said.
Last night’s news from the bar's social media account comes almost two weeks after Hoodline first heard about the closure from tipster John, informing us that the bar would close on March 22. The news was corroborated by one other source in the neighborhood. Neither source was able to provide a reason for the closure at the time.
On March 3rd, Hoodline reached out to Jonathan Tourzan, the bar's owner, for verification about the closure but did not receive a response.
Opened since the 1970s, the bar has a long history as a jazz and blues hotspot, with performers such as Tommy Castro, Johnny Nitro, Ron Hacker, Daniel Castro, Chris Cobb and Mojo Madness all visiting the bar.
Over the past decade or so, the live acts have diversified, featuring DJs, rock cover bands, ska and more.
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Since its inception, the bar has switched hands a few times. Its most recent owner, Jonathan Tourzan, took over the liquor license in 2006.
In 2016, Tourzan also opened The Barbary Coast Gastropub around the corner at 478 Green St., formerly home to the Old Spaghetti Factory and Bocce Cafe, but it closed less than a year later.
Since last night’s social media announcement, we made another attempt to reach out to Tourzan but have not heard back. We will provide updates when we have then.
Thanks to tipster John.
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That’s (STILL) the Only Song They Know
Posted on October 30, 2015 by montgomeryken
A few years ago I wrote this blog post for the good folks over at California Golden Blogs. As we prepare to play USC tomorrow I wanted to update because after a couple of tough losses we still have the brass ring in front of us to grab. Some of you are a little bummed after the UCLA game and I have one piece of advice for you… GET OVER IT!!! We’re 5-2. This thing is ours to take, so get on board and be a part of it!
I was trying to come up with an opening for this little trip down amnesia lane regarding the 1991 CAL – USC game… but the Los Angeles Times did such a great job capturing the moment I decided to let their great work get us started. So from the Los Angeles Times, November 3, 1991
BERKELEY — California mocked about everything that USC holds dear Saturday in its record-breaking 52-30 rout of the Trojans.
The Golden Bears’ offense mocked the Trojans’ defense, getting 601 total yards to fall 22 yards shy of Notre Dame’s record for a USC opponent, established in a 26-6 Irish victory in 1946.
In particular, junior tailback Russell White mocked the Trojans’ rushing defense, running for a USC opponent-record 229 yards and three touchdowns, and senior quarterback Mike Pawlawski mocked the Trojans’ passing defense, throwing for 212 yards and three touchdowns.
In the stands, Cal students mocked the Trojan band.
To the tune of “Tribute to Troy,” the song that is played incessantly by the USC band, they sang the following lyrics:
It’s the only song you know
It’s boring and it’s slow
We really wish you’d go
And if he had made the trip, the white horse that serves as USC’s mascot might have been shot down by the hillside cannon above Memorial Stadium that shoots blanks every time the Golden Bears score.
As it was, the horse, Traveler, spent the day safe at home in Southern California, which is where the befuddled Trojans returned Saturday night with the booming sound of the cannon still ringing in their ears.
Ah, yes… Just picture it folks. Pre-internet… All those USC alumni, um “students” and followers in the southland starting their Sunday mornings by picking up the LA Times and reading about how everything they hold dear had just been obliterated. It wasn’t bad enough their team had just been routed, but the band – THE BAND – had just been humiliated on national TV too…
That is the only song you know…
That was twenty years ago! (The weird thing is I am only 15 years older, so I’m not sure how that works…) We talked about this early in the year but seeing as the pride of South Central will be making their appearance in Berkeley tomorrow, I thought it would be fun to revisit this again.
A little more than twenty years ago, all was right in the world on the USC front. They were sucking. Oh were they sucking. As most of you know, even the younger folks, CAL was having some kind of special year in 1991. It had started in 1990 when Coach Snyder led the Golden Bears to their first bowl appearance in more than a decade. In that year we had ended an 18 game losing streak to UCLA and fought to a hard earned tie against the Trojans in the Coliseum (a game which we should have won… see, being a Bear fan never changes).
Heading into the 1991 season CAL fans were primed for something special and we weren’t about to be disappointed. After barely losing to Washington in one of the most epic battles old Memorial Stadium had ever seen, CAL entered the game against U$¢ ranked in the top 10 at 6-1.
It was nationally televised on ABC – our third nationally televised game of the year. This was some heady stuff. There were representatives from all the bowls just clamoring to experience CAL football. There was a sense of anticipation as 70,000+ people filled Memorial. It was a glorious sunny day; just a picture post card day in Strawberry Canyon. Back then we still had bonfire rallies when the LA teams would come to town. So that Friday night, 5,000 people filled the Greek and that was my chance to teach the students a mocking song for the SC band. Now when I last told this story I gave credit for this to my roommate, Mike Pawlawski but really it was his then girlfriend and soccer player Tracy who was the lyricist (as she reminded me over and over). As I am guessing all of you know, Mike was the starting QB and a great fun guy. That week, Mike, Tracy and I were hanging out and started putting lyrics to that insipid SC dirge… It went like this:
That, is the only song you know
You really need to go….
Elegant. Simple. True. So that Friday night, with the team and Coach Snyder at the Greek, I taught it to the students and instructed them that the following day, every time the SC band played it, we would answer back in serenade… And that is exactly what we did… It was hilarious… As we piled up the score, the SC band, with every 1-2 yard gain by an SC rusher, would strike up the song and sure enough the entire student section would answer back… It was, I think, the CAL student section’s finest hour. As you saw, the LA Times printed it verbatim, it was picked up repeatedly by the ABC broadcast, it was commented on in the OC Register, the Bay Area papers, ESPN… it was awesome… now as the game wore on, the lyrics evolved into not so family friendly lyrics, which I wasn’t particularly comfortable with, but hey, what are you going to do.
Here’s something I’ve never shared with anybody… I have a regret from that game…. I wanted to keep extemporaneously updating the lyrics, but I wasn’t sure if I could get the students to do it… Immediately after the game I knew they would have and I had blown it… It was very simple once we got to 52… the lyrics would have gone something like this:
Hey, SC here’s news for you
The scoreboard’s in clear view
It’s CAL with FIFTY TWO
Hey, SC here something new
Tommy Trojan’s through
Your horse will soon be gluuuuue
I share that with you because the lesson is, never… ever… ever… pass up on opportunity to mock USC.
The other particularly great moment to this day remains my favorite cheer. SC has deluded themselves into thinking they’re a great academic school, if not on par, then close to CAL. I laugh. I just laughed again. You should be laughing when you read that. Their coach had also said that most players who chose CAL didn’t choose CAL as their first choice… So with that in mind, late in the game, I had the whole student section yell:
“HEY U! S! C!
SCHOOL!
WAS!
YOUR!
The alumni section ROARED their approval. The SC students and fans that were left gave us the highest compliment by flipping off the student section… By chance, there was a quiet moment in the ABC broadcast and that chant was picked up clear as a bell by the broadcast. It was glorious!
After the game, nobody wanted to leave. The fans stayed 15, 20, 30 minutes just soaking in the joy. We did the loudest C-A-L cheer I had ever heard in the stadium.
There were celebrations all around campus… Parts of the band would show up at Henry’s and at Raleighs as everyone would raise their glasses. Coach Snyder stopped in Henry’s and the entire place broke out in Bear Territory. Those moments last forever…
And from coast to coast people read about how dominant CAL was… as in the New York Times “CAL EXPLODES AGAINST USC” and just what a thorough beat down we gave them:
“It was a lot of fun,” said Pawlawski, who has never masked his dislike for the Trojans, despite having grown up in Southern California. “It’s not going to change my dislike for them at all.”
As Sports Illustrated reported “In Berkeley, as California was beating the Trojans, 52-30, Cal students derided the USC band.”
So I hope that gets you a little fired up for the game on Saturday. We had a hick-up last Thursday, but now is our chance to take over the season. We are 5-2. I’m calling out the students… Tomorrow, you need to be there early and you need to be loud. You need to get this song going again… Obviously it works best when we’re winning so you need to be loud and help the team. And I’m calling out all my fellow alumni and non students… … I don’t expect everyone to stand the whole game, but when our Golden Bears take the field, and the band is playing Fight, you should be roaring and you should be on your feet.
As I said to the team before the season, this is our time. This team, these players, these true student athletes who exemplify the very spirit of CAL… these sons of California deserve your support. They want your support. They need your support.
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With Instagram Influencers playing such an important role in the influencer market place, it’s important to understand “who” exactly Instagram Influencers & followers are, & “how” exactly they are using the platform. This article is a brief quantitative breakdown of what Instagram actually is & what makes the social vehicle work. In this article the “who” represents the Influencers & their followers. In this article the “how” represents the way an influencer & follower post, inculcate post, & engage in post. Instagram has become one of the most popular social platforms on the internet. The platform should be examined closer, especially if a company is going to strategically utilize an influencer marketing campaign on Instagram.
The first area to research is the “who”. With over 400 million active users, 77.6 million of those users are found in the United States. It’s strongest demographic is teens 15.5 million . The increase of teens using Instagram outside of the United States has increased 85% since 2013. 90% of Instagram’s user base, falls under the age of 35 years old. 14 million active users can be found in the UK, while the country that uses instagram the most in the Middle East & Northern Africa is Saudi Arabia. This gives a better understanding of “who” the instagram influencers & followers actually are.
The second area to research is the “how”. Instagram users post photos and videos onto the platform. It is important to note that photos make up 91% of all instagram post . The 400 million active users produce 75 million instagram post daily . 47% of the U.S. access the platform via their smartphone, while the other 53% access the platform through a tablet. The average engagement rate for an instagram post is 1.1% . The engagement of a post is measured through likes, comments, & shares. A formula evaluating Instagram engagement has even been developed. The formula is called “Comment Weighing” . Comment Weighing is the process of identifying the quantity of comments a post receives, and then dividing those comments into value groups (this will be explained in another article). This should give a better understanding of “how” instagram influencer’s & followers are using the instagram platform.
As instagram continues to grow so does the value of it’s influencers . Instagram has a nicely shaped target market & healthy platform usage. Understanding both the “who” & the “how” will help a company better develop the appropriate Instagram influencer marketing campaign. Other important information has been found pertaining to what makes Instagram Influencers successful . It is encouraged to continue to do more research into the platform . The platform is on the rise and has been forecast to continue to rise in the foreseeable future. In conclusion, companies should be utilizing Instagram influencers more heavily, while taking a more magnified strategy when utilizing Instagram influencers within a marketing campaign.
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Geography and the Determinants of Firm Exports in Indonesia
Farole, Thomas
Rodriguez-Pose, Andres
Tselios, Vassilis
Winkler, Deborah
Thomas Farole
Andres Rodriguez-Pose
Vassilis Tselios
Deborah Winkler
This paper uses data from the Indonesian manufacturing census in order to uncover the determinants of firm exports over the period 1990-2005. We examine to what extent differences in firm export propensity and intensity are a consequence of firm-level (microeconomic), of place-based (macroeconomic) first- and second-nature geography characteristics, or of a combination of the two. The results indicate that both internal and external factors matter. Second-nature, rather than first-nature, geography makes an important difference. The conditions of a firm’s province and those of neighboring provinces shape firm exports. Agglomeration effects, education and transport infrastructure endowment play a particularly relevant role in Indonesian firms’ export propensity, while export spillovers increase export intensity.
Farole, Thomas & Rodriguez-Pose, Andres & Tselios, Vassilis & Winkler, Deborah, 2013. "Geography and the Determinants of Firm Exports in Indonesia," CEPR Discussion Papers 9342, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
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by Innovate Public Schools | May 8, 2015 | Parent Guide
Some Bay Area schools, such as Summit Schools and San Jose Unified’s Burnett Middle School, are grading students based on “competency.” What does that mean?
Traditionally, students earn grades and credits for “seat time” — taking a course — and earn a grade from A through F. Some students don’t understand the material very well, but they move on anyhow. Their grade in the class depends partly on whether they’ve shown mastery on tests, but also on completing homework and other tasks.
In competency-based learning, students must show mastery of concepts, knowledge and skills in order to move on. Some students may move quickly, while others have to spend more time to demonstrate they fully understand the material.
Competency-based learning is still a very recent innovation that is just starting to be piloted in some schools around the country. It is referred to by various names including proficiency-based, mastery-based, outcome-based or performance-based learning.
Because students are moving at different paces, competency-based education is often paired with “blended learning,” an approach that combines computer-based and in-person learning (read more about blended learning here). For instance, Summit Schools has developed an entire custom software platform with support from developers at Facebook that supports their approach to learning, measuring and grading.
What does it mean for my school and my child?
Moving to a competency-based system changes lots of different things across the school. It changes the way teachers assess and grade students and what information students and parents have about their progress, including report cards. It also means a change in the teacher-student relationship – challenging students to become independent, self-motivated learners, but also figuring out how to adjust systems and the roles of the teacher and other staff so they have support to meet their objectives.
Students are graded on specific learning standards. Instead of getting a B in biology, a student might be given credit for mastering 15 objectives. Burnett Middle School in San Jose has eliminated letter grades and now has “criterion-based grading.” In addition to assessing students on their actual level of performance (instead of seat time and completion), it’s intended to provide a multi-dimensional view of a student’s strengths and areas of growth.
What does competency-based education look like in practice?
Summit Denali in Sunnyvale is one Silicon Valley school that has been implementing a competency-based approach.
Teachers collaborate on designing “learning pathways” — a sequence of measurable objectives — in all subjects, so students know just what they’re supposed to learn. Students learn from a teacher, online, by doing projects with classmates or — in some schools — through internships, community service or independent study.
Students see their current progress every single day and have a block of time to work independently on the areas where they need to advance. Most of their day is spent working collaboratively on projects with other students. They check in each week with a coach to stay on track and their parents can also log in at any time and track their progress.
When Summit students log on to the platform, they have access to all their coursework and collaborative projects, their tests, and learning playlists with resources and videos selected by their teachers. They make progress on each of these at their own pace. This platform tells them how much information they should have mastered by a certain time in the school year, letting the students know it they need to put in more time to catch up or whether they’re moving past their mastery goals.
Which schools and districts are doing competency-based learning?
There are currently a small number of schools and districts across the country starting to pilot this approach, including the state of New Hampshire, which is moving to a competency-based system. With federal approval, four districts are replacing state tests with “locally designed measures of student learning” in some grades, reports the Christian Science Monitor.
At two New Hampshire high schools, student engagement and learning improved with the switch to a competency-based model, a 2013 study found. There were significant declines in the dropout rate, school failures, and disciplinary problems. “Students said their work was more challenging and their interactions with teachers more rewarding,” notes Ronald Volk in Education Week.
This approach to learning is also starting to be explored at the university level. A small number of colleges are looking at giving students credits for directly demonstrating learning rather than completing credit hours. At the far end of the curve, Western Governors University’s entire program is competency-based with all students working at their own pace. There isn’t enough data to see yet whether this approach is effective for students and how employers will view the degrees.
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Competency Works: This is a one-stop shop for the latest news and resource on competency-based learning.
Edsurge: A Peek Inside Summit’s Personalized Learning Software
Rand Corporation: Competency-Based Education in Three Pilot Programs
Christian Science Monitor (March 6,2015), In first, four N.H. schools shake up testing with feds’ approval
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NPE’s Filing Pattern in Sudden Reverse as Federal Circuit Holds That Letter-Writing Campaign Is Sufficient to Establish Venue
Multiple Delaware NPEs under the same apparent control have each taken over the litigation of patents—earlier passed to a Texas entity for assertion—after the patents have boomeranged back. Most recently, Circuit Ventures LLC assigned a family of circuit monitoring patents to Texas entity Wireless Monitoring Systems LLC, which asserted them in litigation from November 2016 to January 2019 before assigning the family back. Circuit Ventures has sued NXP Semiconductors (6:19-cv-00275) and Pepprl + Fuchs (4:19-cv-01515) in April 2019 and Honeywell (1:19-cv-00857), Link Interactive (1:19-cv-00856), and Scout Security (1:19-cv-00858) so far in May. Likewise, Universal Cipher LLC assigned a single patent generally related to “dynamic” text generation to Cumberland Systems, LLC, which asserted it in litigation from May 2017 to May 2018 before returning the patent to Universal Cipher, which has now sued Best Buy (2:19-cv-00160), Target (2:19-cv-00163), and Wal-Mart (2:19-cv-00164) over it. These reversals, as well as other assignment activity, suggest a return to Delaware for these and other NPEs affiliated with the same patent attorney, perhaps motivated by a recent Federal Circuit opinion clarifying that targets of letter-writing campaigns can seek declaratory judgments in their home districts, rather than risk being sued elsewhere.
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Achtung! and Cuidado!, Hertl Media Campaign Expands
Three days after kicking off its first litigation campaign with cases against Amazon and Comcast, Hertl Media LLC has sued Bitmovin (1:18-cv-00938), Cox Communications (1:18-cv-00939), Longtail Ad Solutions (1:18-cv-00940), Netflix (1:18-cv-00941), and Telestream (1:18-cv-00942). At issue is the same patent, generally related to multi-language buffering during media playback, with Hertl Media’s infringement allegations focused on multi-language accommodations in the parties’ respective streaming services. Hertl Media’s is one of multiple campaigns arising from the acquisition of former Nero AG patents by apparent affiliates of Bradley D. Liddle.
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MOL Group acquires recycled plastics compounder Aurora
MOL Group announced that it has signed a sales-purchase agreement to acquire Aurora, a recycled plastic compounder with production plants located nearby automotive manufacturing and plastics conversion clusters in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Aurora is a medium-size German company, headquartered in Neuenstein, with a unique and lean closed loop concept assuming collection of post-industrial plastic waste, regrinding and compounding, ultimately supplying the automotive industry and other industries. The company’s portfolio largely consists of engineering plastics and polypropylene recyclate-based compounds.
With this investment, MOL will be able to offer a wide range of high-quality polyamide, polypropylene and other recyclate-based compounds, complementing its existing portfolio of virgin polypropylene and polyethylene. Leveraging on Aurora’s know how and loop logistic system, MOL will enable the customers to reach higher content of recycled material in their end products, in an efficient way.
Ferenc Horvath, MOL Group Executive Vice President of Downstream commented: "In line with our MOL 2030 strategy, we have reached yet another milestone on our transformational journey to become the leading chemical player in the CEE region. This partnership will enable us to grow and add value to our petrochemical business as well as to increase our footprint in the automotive supplier market. As an established polymer player, we plan to use the strength of our integrated business model, while keeping the flexibility of Aurora as an independent compounder. At the same time, Aurora’s operations profile complements our initiatives in the recycling sector and reaffirm our commitment to sustainability and circular economy.”
Dr. György Bacsa, MOL Group Senior Vice President of Group Strategic Operations and Corporate Development: "We are pleased to have managed and executed another successful investment on the path towards petrochemicals growth, and marking another milestone of MOL Group’s strategy. We look forward to the future cooperation with our new partner and believe in the continuation and expansion of Aurora's previous success as part of MOL Group.”
Gerhard Schweinle, founder and member of the Management Board of Aurora: "In MOL Group, we have found a partner with the same drive for sustainable development and innovation as we have in Aurora. We are confident that MOL is the ideal partner for our company to advance our ambitious goals with regard to sustainability and environmental protection even more intensively than before. As part of MOL Group, one of Europe's leading suppliers of polymers, Aurora will continue to expand its expertise in the processing of engineering plastics. Our extensive range of sustainably manufactured products and MOL's many years of experience will enable us to work more intensively to protect our raw material resources and relieve the burden on the environment. Together with MOL, we will continue Aurora's success story and accelerate our growth even further".
One of the cornerstones of MOL Group 2030 strategy is to expand the company’s petrochemicals value chain. As such, MOL plans to invest around $4.5-billion (€4-billion) until the end of the next decade into petrochemical and chemical growth projects. Compounding and recycling are among the key areas defined in MOL’s 2030 Strategy and the automotive industry is a strategic sector, where both MOL and Aurora recognize a growing demand for recycled materials.
The transaction is subject to the relevant merger control approvals.
Note: Aurora Group consists of Aurora Kunststoffe GmbH, Aurora Kunststoffe VS GmbH and Aurora Kunststoffe Walldürn GmbH.
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Defund and disarm the police
Defunding police will enable more effective alternatives that can better secure public safety. We are past the point of needing yet another commission’s findings. We are past the point of reform (which remains necessary, but alone, insufficient). We need to defund police—and the Pentagon, DHS, and FBI—to rationalize our public spending, decriminalize poverty, and enable investments in the underlying social needs that prompt desperation.
Support disarming some or most police officers
Yes. Equipping officers with military equipment and training them in paramilitary tactics are two ways in which our military industrial complex has co-opted domestic policing.
If police are allowed tasers, they should generally replace (not supplement) firearms. Departments should not be allowed access to equipment, weapons or other infrastructure developed for military use. Having written many years ago about how police body cameras could threaten civil rights, I also favor the expansive protections of our campaign’s criminal justice reform platform to ensure police accountability through law, rather than a co-opted corporate technology.
Forgotten in the debate surrounding police militarization is the crucial role played by the CIA in arming the criminal syndicates whose violence in the 90s played such a crucial role in public calls for police militarization. The struggles to reverse mass incarceration and disarm police boh require long overdue investigations and accountability at the CIA, which ultimately bears responsibility for much of the violence that continues to surround the war on drugs and drug trafficking.
Support use of tasers by LEOs
I am committed to de-escalating policing and reversing the trend towards militarization. While tasers are presented as less lethal weapons, the Miami Herald found in 2015 that they are pervasively used as tools to effectuate extrajudicial punishment, often with lethal consequences.
Tasers are presented as "less lethal", and as such, are only supposed to be used when the alternative is a gun. If an officer wouldn’t shoot a person, they shouldn’t use a taser either, and there are very few times when an officer should shoot a person. Any usage of a taser should be treated like the discharge of a gun, with an investigation into the conditions in which it was used, and further training, reprimand and compensation if it’s not used appropriately.
Here in SF, tasers became controversial both because the officer who killed Oscar Grant claimed to have confused his gun for his taser, and also because the POA mounted an attack in Prop H on the police review commission’s standards on the use of force. I opposed Prop H and was glad to see voters reject it.
My skepticism of police technology extends across contexts. For instance, I also helped advance the Stop Secret Surveillance Ordinance long before it was ever introduced in the Board of Supervisors and pioneered the campaign behind it as long as 10 years ago.
Do you support the removal of school resource officers (SROs) from San Francisco schools? Why or why not?
Yes, I support their removal. We should spend money in schools on teachers, counselors, and other professionals specifically trained to help guide students, de-escalate confrontations, and educate our children on how to deal more kindly with one another. Police officers in schools have routinely abused and attacked students, and have not contributed to safety in the case of shootings or other violence.
Have you taken money from any police officers and/or sheriffs' associations? If so, will you return these contributions?
I have not—and I would return any such contributions as soon as I become aware of them.
Should SFPD forego hiring officers who have records of misconduct?
Yes. The culture of protecting officers who abuse our rights with no consequences must end. Violations of our fundamental rights and perpetuating the division between public servants and those they serve should be disqualifying for future employment in law enforcement.
Do you support bail reform? Should pretrial release be based on public safety and not wealth?
Money bail is a travesty. No one should endure detention simply because they can’t pay a fee. Public safety should be the only issue considered in pre-trial detention.
Prior employment in or with law enforcement, jail or prison system, LEO union, or other org involved in organizing LEOs?
I have not and never will be.
Should law enforcement cooperate with ICE?
Should law enforcement continue to receive military equipment?
Support independent investigation of all LEO-related shootings?
Should Department of Police Accountability investigate misconduct by Sheriffs
Should civilian oversight commission for Sheriffs exist, with power to suspend or terminate members of the dept
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Business advice from is4profit | SMEs Must Face Up to Climate Change |
SMEs Must Face Up to Climate Change
The is4profit team August 5, 2010
UK businesses need to be ready to face the risks and benefit from the opportunities that climate change could bring, Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman said today.
A new survey of UK businesses and other organisations carried out for the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) by Ipsos MORI has found that while many businesses have been affected by the type of weather that climate change may bring, preparations for the impacts of climate change are not well advanced. Three quarters of the businesses surveyed were concerned about the effects of climate change on the UK and one in three (31%) had been significantly affected in the last three years by extreme weather such as flooding and drought. However, less than a quarter (23%) had actually started to do something about the risks and opportunities that climate change poses.
The survey also shows that businesses generally perceive a changing climate to be a threat rather than an opportunity. However recent Defra-funded research has shown that the impacts of climate change will present opportunities for UK businesses across a range of sectors such as construction and retro-fitting, water management, tourism, transport and food production. But greater effort is needed by companies to factor climate risk and opportunity into their business if they are to exploit these new opportunities and areas for significant growth.
Speaking at the Met Office Hadley Centre, in Exeter, the UKs foremost climate change research centre, Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman said:
“We know that some level of change is now unavoidable and it is the responsibility of us all to think about what a changing climate will mean for our health, our businesses and our way of life. By planning for the adaptation we need now we can ensure that the UK is best placed to meet the challenges of climate change head-on.”
“A warmer climate will bring both opportunities and challenges for businesses of all sizes. I want to ensure that UK businesses are well placed to take advantage of the new opportunities that arise as well as ensuring they are ready for the difficulties that higher temperatures and more adverse weather could mean for their staff and working practices.”
Julia Slingo, Chief Scientist of the Met Office said:
“I am delighted the Secretary of State has chosen to visit the Met Office to highlight the need for business to plan for climate change and hear about the important work we do. The Met Office occupies a unique position in being able to advise both the Government and business on the risks associated with hazardous weather in the short term, and the threats, and indeed opportunities, over the coming decades as our climate changes.”
Today Defra has also published its formal response to the Environmental Audit Committee’s (EAC) report Adapting to Climate Change. The EAC report is a welcome endorsement of the need for further action to meet the challenge of climate change and drive up resilience to current and future risks. Defra agrees with the EAC’s central diagnosis – that adaptation is a crucial area and one that must now become a higher priority. The EAC has also acknowledged that Government has made good progress in laying the foundations for action on adaptation. The Government is already starting to engage local authorities and other interested parties on the nature and focus of specialist adaptation advice required for the future, and will continue to do so as a priority.
Caroline Spelman added:
“Climate change is a global challenge but the impacts will be felt at a very local level by every person in every community. That is why it is crucial that we all now think what climate change could mean for us. Impacts will vary considerably from place to place due to different geographies and because local populations have their own very distinctive circumstances, characteristics and priorities.”
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I recently visited the Titan Missile Museum near Tucson, Arizona. This was a fascinating place and I highly recommend visiting the museum if you are in the area. The Titan II was capable of launching from its underground silo in 58 seconds and could deliver a nine megaton thermonuclear warhead to its target more than 6300 miles away, in less than thirty minutes. Of the 54 Titan II missile sites that were in service between 1963 and 1987, the Tuscon site is the only one that remains. The underground facility reminded me of Lost’s Dharma Initiative because of the age and colors of everything. The computer systems and technology used to run the facility and missile were amazing. Fifty plus years ago this would have been quite the feat to develop and relied on some very smart engineering.
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Sequential vaginal cultures from normal young women.
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Vaginal specimens were collected two to three times a week for 1 month from seven nurses. A total of 65 specimens were collected. Each sample consisted of three swabs and a saline wash. Semiquantitation of anaerobic and aerobic bacteria, mycoplasma and ureaplasma, and yeast was performed. Numerous species were recovered in each specimen; at least 37 species were isolated. Lactobacilli, Corynebacterium, Ureaplasma, Mycoplasma, Bacteroides melaninogenicus, and Candida albicans, when present, tended to remain throughout the entire month. Other organisms were present on a more sporadic basis. The number of organisms varied greatly during the sampling for each individual, whereas the types of organisms isolated from a particular subject remained relatively constant.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology May 1980, 11 (5) 479-484; DOI:
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Blog Tour Excerpt
Blog Tour and Extract: What Falls Between the Cracks by Robert Scragg
By Jo Sep 19, 2018 Sep 17, 2018
I’m delighted to be taking part in the blog tour for Robert Scragg’s What Falls Between the Cracks, which is published in paperback by Allison & Busby on 20 September, and to be able to share an extract with you.
Did she slip through the cracks, or was she pushed?
When a severed hand is found in an abandoned flat, Detective Jake Porter and his partner Nick Styles are able to DNA match the limb to the owner, Natasha Barclay, who has not been seen in decades. But why has no one been looking for her? It seems that Natasha’s family are the people who can least be trusted.
Delving into the details behind her disappearance and discovering links to another investigation, a tragic family history begins to take on a darker twist. Hampered by a widespread fear of a local heavy, as well as internal politics and possible corruption within the force, Porter and Styles are digging for answers, but will what they find ever see the light of day?
You can find the first chapter of What Falls Between the Cracks on the Allison & Busby website, and I’m thrilled to share chapter two with you!
Natasha Barclay was a ghost, figuratively speaking, at least. Between them they couldn’t find a single mention of her dated past 1983. Her flat was one of fifteen in a five-storey late Victorian building near Walthamstow, in North East London, built originally as an orphanage. The airy high ceilings and ornate cornices had reminded Porter a little of his own place, although he guessed his flat could fit inside these twice over.
They left three uniformed officers at the building to go door to door with the remaining eleven residents to see if anyone knew Natasha Barclay. It wasn’t out of the question that she was just a private person, and didn’t make small talk with the neighbours. The interviews with the first three residents, particularly the one who’d lived there for over twenty years, didn’t sit well with him. Sure, people led busy lives, but for those lives to have never intersected with as much as a neighbourly nod while leaving or entering the building in over two decades seemed highly unlikely. Then there was the eerie air of dormancy that hung over the place. The dated decor and coat of dust that cloaked every surface had given him the feeling that the apartment had been slumbering for some time before the leaking freezer had rudely interrupted.
They headed back to the station at Paddington Green, along Edgware Road, lined with a cultural melting pot of takeaways, competing amongst themselves to ruin your waistline. Porter’s window was halfway down, spices and fried chicken wafting in on the breeze, making his stomach growl in protest. Compressed storefronts jostled for space, offering everything from Persian carpets to a bet on the three o’clock at Newmarket. Blocks of flats had been built up behind them over the years, peering over the tops of the two- and three-storey buildings on the main road like nosy neighbours. Typical mid-twentieth-century fare, blocky and functional. The station itself wasn’t any prettier. The jutting window ledges around each floor made Porter think of the Stickle Bricks he had as a child.
As soon as they got inside, Styles disappeared into the small kitchen area, returning armed with two mugs of steaming black coffee. Porter realised he’d been staring at a smudge of dirt on the window and blinked his eyes quickly to snap himself out of it.
‘I’ve told you before, you’re wasting your time batting your eyelashes at me. I’m a happily married man,’ said Styles. After a few years working together it was impossible not to be aware of his partner’s little quirks. He jokingly referred to this one sometimes as Porter’s ‘Spidey sense’ after the Marvel comic-book hero’s preternatural ability to read situations and intuit danger. He’d seen it happen on more than one occasion where Porter had progressed a seemingly dead-end case by zoning out like that and joining dots that no one else had spotted.
‘You can’t blame a guy for trying.’ Porter took a cautious sip of the coffee before putting the cup on the desk.
‘Any flashes of inspiration, then?’ asked Styles as he settled into the seat at his desk that adjoined his partner’s.
Porter shook his head. ‘No, no, ladies first this time. You got a theory?’
‘Kind of, actually,’ said Styles. ‘Well, more of a question really,’ he corrected himself. ‘The food in the freezer – that make sense to you?’
‘I was a little preoccupied with the hand to have much of an appetite.’
‘I wasn’t fixing to make myself a snack,’ said Styles. ‘I’m talking about the packaging. I’m assuming you missed that part?’
‘Afraid so. Go on then, enlighten me.’
‘The whole scene was just odd,’ Styles began. ‘The clothes and decor you could put down to individual taste. The dust and cobwebs might just mean she’s been living somewhere else for a while, maybe with a boyfriend. The boxes in the freezer make no sense, though.’
‘How do you mean?’ asked Porter.
‘The packaging,’ said Styles. ‘It was as dated as the rest of the place. Not that I’m an expert in the field of graphic design by any stretch, but it looked ancient compared to what you see in shops today. None of it had the nutritional info on either, and that’s been stamped all over everything for years now.’
Porter raised his eyebrows as he realised what Styles was getting at. ‘So you’re saying you think no one’s been in for years rather than months?’
Styles shrugged. ‘I know stuff keeps for longer in there, but who keeps food for that long?’
‘So we’re saying nobody’s been in there since she last opened her mail?’
‘Maybe, maybe not,’ said Styles. ‘I’m pretty certain nobody’s lived there for a long time. Whether anyone has had a reason to be there or not is another matter.’ Porter opened his mouth to reply, but was stopped in his tracks when his phone started to ring.
‘Hold that thought,’ he said, holding up a finger at Styles as he took the call. ‘This is Porter.’
‘Porter? It’s Will Leonard. You asked me to call as soon as we had something.’
‘Hey, Will. What have you got?’
‘It’s only a preliminary overview, but hopefully it’ll help get you started. The prints from the hand are consistent with the few clear ones we managed to find at the flat. I wasn’t sure what we’d find with it being like a museum in there, but we got lucky. We pulled some fairly clear ones from fatty deposits around the oven, and on and around the make-up products in the bathroom, so it’s reasonable to assume that both they and the hand they come from belong to somebody who lived there. I’m going to run them now and see if we get a match.’
‘OK, thanks, Will. Anything else?’
‘We’ll be doing DNA tests on hair from the hairbrush and a swab of the toothbrush to check against tissue from the hand and the blood from the living room. Results should be back in a day or so. There’s nothing so far to suggest more than one person living there. There were a few smudges that look like they used to be prints in the other rooms, but not as well preserved as the ones in the kitchen.’
‘Good stuff. Let me know when you get the DNA tests back.’ Porter was about to sign off but as an afterthought he mentioned Styles’s theory about the food. Leonard promised to look into it and ended the call. Porter gave Styles the highlights of the conversation.
‘What you said, about the food. I hadn’t twigged to that. You’re right, it does seem weird.’
‘Oh, I’m not just a pretty face,’ said Styles. ‘What’s the plan, then, boss?’
‘First things first, we need to find out what family she has. My gut tells me that it’s most likely her hand we found. I checked with one of the lads working the scene, though, and the amount of blood and distribution on the carpet isn’t consistent with it being removed there, so it begs the questions of where and why.’
‘Speaking of the flat, it would have been a fairly pricey area to live in even back in the eighties. How does a young woman living alone afford somewhere like that?’ asked Styles.
‘Good question,’ said Porter, reaching for his coffee again. ‘You look into the property and check out her finances. See if anything shows up apart from the account with Barclays. I’ll see if I can track down her parents.’
They agreed to meet up again as soon as the officers responsible for interviewing the neighbours returned, and Styles slid his own chair sideways on its casters to park himself at his desk. Porter drained the lukewarm dregs of his coffee and got to work. He hoped tracing the parents wouldn’t prove too tricky, although these conversations were the ones he hated the most. Being the bearer of potentially bad tidings was something he’d had to do more times than he cared to remember, but he’d never get used to it. He remembered it from the other side of the scenario; seeing the blurred shape visible through his front door. Not realising that all that separated him from the blow they were about to deal to his world was an inch-thick rectangle of wood and glass. The struggle to remember what life had been like before he opened the door to see the police officers outside. The bad news they carried carved into every crease on their forehead.
Best case, Natasha Barclay had been the victim of an assault, and worst case her injuries may have been fatal. Without immediate medical attention, she could easily have bled out after her hand was removed. The fact that at least part of the attack looked to have taken place inside her home meant there was a good chance she may have known her assailant. What Porter couldn’t quite reconcile, though, was that if she was alive and well, why nobody, including her parents, had bothered helping to look after her flat. On the flip side, if something more sinister had happened, why had nobody reported her missing? The last thought that struck him as he leant forward to start the task of locating her parents was a little less palatable, but one that would need careful consideration nonetheless. What if those closest to her knew she was missing but had a vested interest in hiding that fact?
Many thanks to Ailsa Floyd at Allison & Busby for the invitation to join the blog tour, and for my copy of What Falls Between the Cracks which I can’t wait to read!
Make sure you check out the other stops on the blog tour!
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The Book of Awakening
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Voices from the River: Reality bats last
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By Randy Scholfield
It’s hard to face reality sometimes, even when it’s staring you in the face. Even when, as at present, it’s slapping us in the face.
Gaze out across another scorched summer of drought and fires in the West, and diminished water supplies and watersheds, and tell me climate change is a hoax.
“You can ignore reality, but you can’t ignore the consequences of ignoring reality,” said a philosopher.
Some of those consequences are on full display this summer in the West. And for anglers and other river lovers, it’s a sobering new reality that we ignore at our own risk.
Southern Colorado is currently undergoing another bone-dry summer that’s shaping up to be a near-record hot season, with one-third of the region classified as in “extreme drought” or “exceptional drought.” The meager snowpack (at 37 percent of normal for the Rio Grande basin) has severely pressured the Rio Grande River, which likely won’t flow out of Colorado to New Mexico this year.
The Colorado River, too, and its tributaries face record drought. The North American Atmospheric Administration is forecasting that flows into Lake Powell will be 39 percent of average. A popular rainbow fishery on the Yampa River near Steamboat Springs was closed June 10 due to low snowpack and drought. The Roaring Fork might face fishing closures later this summer due to lower flows.
Welcome to what likely is our “new normal.”
Yes, nature is always changing. But because of human-driven impacts, scientists say, we’re seeing this flux on steroids, and a pace of change that threatens to transform landscapes and ecosystems very quickly into something we might not recognize.
More and more, those changes are affecting us on a personal level.
TU’s Helen Neville told me she recently had to cancel a much-anticipated family vacation to the Durango area’s San Juan Mountains—the area was closed due to the 416 Fire, which burned some 35,000 acres, making it one of the largest wildfires in Colorado history.
Neville’s interest is personal, but also professional: As TU’s senior scientist, she sees some alarming trends playing out across the West.
“There’s no question the fires are becoming bigger and more intensive because of climate change,” says Neville. “And there are other exacerbators as well, such as bark beetles, which are becoming a bigger problem because of climate change.”
Neville told me that humans are compounding the impacts of climate, as well, by disrupting the natural landscape in multiple ways. For trout, she noted, fires are a natural and beneficial part of the ecosystem, and they’re equipped to handle them. The problem is that “we’re constricting their ability to respond to fires,” by imposing stream barriers, fragmenting watersheds, depleting flows, degrading habitat and introducing non-native fish.
These multiple stressors are tightening the noose on our favorite trout streams and rivers.
Trout Unlimited is addressing some of the threat by restoring and enhancing watersheds, reconnecting streams and rivers, providing better habitat and shade for trout, and generally making our best streams more “resilient” to the impacts of climate change.
In recent years, TU has also been enrolling agriculture producers in the System Conservation Pilot Program, which compensates farmers and ranchers for voluntary, temporary reductions in water use to boost flows into the Upper Colorado River.
That said, we shouldn’t kid ourselves about the seriousness of what we’re seeing and what it portends for the future of our trout waters.
A recent study by the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization found that climate change was driving drought, wildfire and related impacts and, if greenhouse gases remain unchecked, Colorado’s average temperatures could jump by 7 degrees by 2055. That could put Colorado’s summer temps more in line with Tuscon’s. What will that do to our trout streams?
The report also forecast that by mid-century, if current emission trends continue, very large wildfires could be about 5 times more frequent across the Rocky Mountain region. And post-fire sedimentation could increase by 10 percent in the vast majority of watersheds across the West.
Meanwhile, the current administration continues to pretend that facts don’t matter, and that climate change is not a big deal. Nothing to see here. An invention of scientists. They’re even talking about shifting the mission of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration—our leading climate science research agency—away from climate change.
As anglers, we are out there in the field, witnessing firsthand the stream closures and warmer waters and burned landscapes. What we’re seeing, year after year, is evidence piling up of profound changes in the air and under our feet.
But at present, I’m not sure about our individual and collective will to respond and take action. It’s human nature to stick to our ingrained habits and mindset, to resist change in our thoughts or routines, short of emergency or catastrophe.
History is strewn with the bones of civilizations that ignored the signs of reality. Do we really think we’re immune to those forces?
Randy Scholfield is TU’s director of communications for the Southwest.
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Busan Friday: Race-By-Race Preview (February 23)
We’re back after the extended Lunar New Year break and accordingly it’s big fields at Busan as the weekend’s racing gets underway on Friday. 11 races from 11:30 to 18:00. Here are the previews:
Busan is back!
Three-year-old fillies to kick things off with today and a competitive contest too. (3) CHEOLBI and (4) STAR WOMAN are the ones who come in with convincing form behind them. Cheolbi’s 2nd last time was at this distance while Star Woman’s 3rd was at 1000M but in perhaps marginally stronger company. Both should be involved today with Star Woman likely to try to lead from the gate. The one they will need to overcome will also be on speed early and that’s (10) SWEET PARK. Having won a trial in December, she was well-backed on debut last month and while she only managed to finish 3rd, she should have come on for that and can be strongly in the frame here. (7) JANGSEONGUI JILJU and first-timer starter (11) MYEONG GONGJU are others to consider.
Selections (10) Sweet Park (3) Cheolbi (4) Star Woman (7) Jangseongui Jilju
Fast Start 1, 4, 10, 12
(2) GREAT ROCK is Triple Nine’s full-brother (one of many and they’ve all been pretty good). He’s come up a little short in two starts so far with a 4th and a 2nd before having to be scratched with a minor abrasion prior to what would have been his latest on February 2nd. From a favourable draw today, we’ll be looking for him to get out and on pace early and to make it third time lucky. There are threats. (5) SAKISAKI has shown promise in back to back 3rd place finishes. She raced most ungenerously last time hanging outwards for much of the way around but still got into the money and with better manners this time can get even closer. (8) CHEONHA GAMDONG and (10) BAENGNYEON DAERO both ran 3rd on their respective debuts last month and can continue their positive starts here while (7) BIG RED IJI has shown signs of figuring things out with consecutive 4th place finishes in decent enough races for this level.
Selections (2) Great Rock (5) Sakisaki (10) Baengnyeon Daero (7) Big Red Iji
Competitive looking contest here and there are a couple who look ready to win. Both (1) SEORABEOL YEOJE and (3) DANCING VICAR come in having gone close in recent starts and with champion jockey Jo In Kwen taking the mount for the first time, we’ll side with the more experienced Seorabeol Yeoje to make the breakthrough ahead of Dancing Vicar, who is racing at this distance for the first time. (5) PEACE TOUR was 4th, a length behind Seorabeol Yeoje, last start and can get close while (7) DAEHO MYEONGGA has hinted at having some talent and returns from a nine-week layoff. He went through two trials earlier this month and looked decent enough to compete here. An intriguing first-time starter is (10) JAZZ BAND. He’s a full-brother to 2013 Grand Prix Stakes winner Indie Band and 2015 Minister’s Cup winner Rock Band. It’s taken him to four-years-old to make his debut and he wasn’t exactly impressive in trials but there’s no doubting his pedigree.
Selections (1) Seorabeol Yeoje (3) Dancing Vicar (5) Peace Tour (10) Jazz Band
Next Best 7, 2, 6
After a couple of indifferent performances in his first two outings, (12) MABEOPUI JILJU thrived when sent up to this distance for the first time on January 26th, running a close 2nd to the very promising Air Blade and it would be a surprise were Bart Rice’s gelding not to go one better here. Running 3rd that day was the one-paced but honest (5) BULMYEORUIMARIPGAN and he can pass plenty late on to possibly finish on the board once more, however, the main danger is likely to be (8) CHOEGANG STEALTH. Like the favourite, he too was beaten by Air Blade on his latest start, back on New Year’s Eve, when he was 3rd over 1300M. He’s shown ability at this distance in the past and can get close here. (2) EOMJI CHEOK is up in trip for the first time and it may suit while (3) TEXAS SIDAE has been creditable enough in two defeats so far and may improve here.
Selections (12) Mabeopui Jilju (8) Choegang Stealth (5) Bulmyeoruimaripgan (2) Eomji Cheok
(2) HAENGUN STORY remains a maiden after ten attmpts but has come close on plenty of occasions including on his latest start back in December when he just missed out by a nose at class and distance. He’s not the quickest of starters but runs on very well and could get it right this time. Already a winner at the distance is (8) ACE VICTORY. That was back in November when he beat (12) CHOEGANG BOLT by a full six lengths and while his first try at this class didn’t go well in strong company, he rebounded with a good 2nd a month ago, very nearly making all. He’ll be on the early pace here and can win. (4) UNSEOK and (5) FINAL ENERGY are both up in class and distance for the first time. Unseok is yet to win but enters off two decent 2nd places behind good winners and has nothing to fear. Final Energy was beaten by Unseok in December but scored a good win at 1300M last month and can also be competitive. (7) HWARANGUI HUYE races at a mile for the first time but enters in solid form and shouldn’t miss by much.
Selections (8) Ace Victory (2) Haengun Story (4) Unseok (5) Final Energy
This looks nicely set up for (2) CHANG GONG. Having made all to win over five furlongs in December, he looked like repeating the trick over 1200M last month only to weaken a little late on and end up in 3rd place. He steps back ever so slightly in trip today and can get home on top, likely leading all the way. It’s not quite a one-horse race. (1) SINHYEOMYEONG scored a win and a 2nd place in his two starts early last year before suffering suspensory ligament damage and being out for almost a year. He returned to win a trial at the start of this month, ahead of the 3rd place-getter in last year’s Korean Derby, and while he’ll obviously need the run, he could go very close. (4) WHINNY WING is up in both class and distance following a useful win last month and can be competitive while the more experienced (8) BLACK FINE has recent form that reads well, beating a number of these in the process. He’ll likely finish off strongly as will (11) MR. KOREA, who did exactly that to run 4th in a decent race over 1300M at the end of January and can do similar today.
Selections (2) Chang Gong (1) Sinhyeokmyeong (8) Black Fine (4) Whinny Wing
On January 19th at class and distance, (6) CHODONG TEUKGEUP narrowly defeated (10) ORANGE MARINE and (5) YEONGGWANGUISINHWA as the three of them disputed an extremely tight finish. There’s no reason why they can’t repeat that again and we’ll stick with Chodong Teukgeup – who was the most fancied of the three of them that day – to repeat the win here. It’s worth noting that he got by far the cleanest trip of the three, so the others had some excuses, but he comes out of the same gate today and if he gets a good start, can lead all the way. Jo Sung Gon rode Chodong Teukgeup in that race and while an apprentice rides today, taking a couple of kilos off, Jo gets on (1) HAWK KING. He races for the first time since an all-the-way win over 1200M back in October and while he still qualifies for domestic class 5, connections have opted to put him in here at class 4 and he looks nicely in. (3) DUBAI FORWARD has offered glimpses of ability across six starts so far and could also pay a role dropped back in trip today.
Selections (6) Chodong Teukgeup (10) Orange Marine (1) Hawk King (5) Yeonggwanguisinhwa
American Stallion To Honor And Serve was this week purchased by Korean interests. That’s because of his freakishly good Cheongdam Dokki, who has every chance of dominating the big races here this year. He also has a potential good one in (8) NEW YORK MANGCHI. After a narrow reversal on debut, the three-year-old gelding ran out a five-length winner over 1200M on January 28th. He is up in class here and significantly in distance but neither look too concerning and he can win again here. There are dangers. (11) TTEUGEOUN HAMSEONG has already won at this distance and has lost nothing in defeat in two efforts at this class since. They were both at 1800M and the small step back to a mile can be in his favour. Haynesfield colt (6) PASHA tries a mile for the first time. He’s looked to have plenty of ability but has put in a couple of frustrating performances lately, starting awkwardly and then getting a very difficult trip last time when he only beat one home. We’ll persevere with him here. (7) BRAVO MARINE and (1) ROAD TO WARRIOR both finished ahead of Pasha that day and they too can play a role here.
Selections (8) New York Mangchi (11) Tteugeoun Hamseong (7) Bravo Marine (6) Pasha
(6) CHEONJI CHAMP and (5) YEONGGWANGUIWINNER came home 2nd and 3rd behind the hugely promising Yeongcheon Derby when five of these raced each other over class and distance on January 28th. That was a fifth 2nd place for Cheonji Champ but Yeonggwanguiwinner looks to have more improvement in him and with less than length between them that day, he should be reversing the form today. (1) SUPER STEAL parted company with his rider in that race but has won at this distance. He’s actually never finished any worse than 4th and can’t be ruled out of going close again. (12) RED YOUNG MYEONGUN steps up to the distance for the first time following a come-from-behind 2nd place over 1300M on January 26th and should be in at least the placing frame while the hugely experienced (11) JAYU DAERO has shown a bit of form of late with a 4th and 2nd from his most recent two, both at this distance.
Selections (5) Yeonggwanguiwinner (12) Red Young Myeongun (1) Super Steal (6) Cheonji Champ
Six of these raced each other at class and distance on January 21st with (4) IRON TRAIN running out a somewhat surprising winner. The margins were narrow though and this race is equally wide open. (5) SOUL BLADE, 4th that day, gives away weight again but is the highest rated in the race for a reason and could well overturn the form while (8) JEONGSANG KOREA, who was 3rd having led close to home, looks very nicely in once more and will surely look to try and make all here. He didn’t get on pace as early as he would have liked last time as an awkward start caused the jockey to momentarily lose his stirrup. A clean break this time could make the difference. Among the ones who didn’t go that day, (7) HELLO VENUS is the pick. Her latest two have been an excellent 5th place in the Gyeongnam Governor’s Cup in November followed by 3rd over 1400M at the beginning of last month. She’s very nicely in here weight-wise and can’t be overlooked. The wildcard is (11) ROYAL RUBY. He was 2nd in both of the first two-legs of the Triple Crown last year and races for the first time since running 4th in the final leg, the Minister’ Cup, last July. He’s been through three trials since then, winning one earlier this month.
Selections (7) Hello Venus (11) Royal Ruby (5) Soul Blade (8) Jeongsang Korea
(1) SINUIPUMGYEOK has won four from eleven so far and after missing the latter half of 2017, was back in the winner’s circle over 1200M last month. He had a wide gate that day getting a slow start followed by a difficult trip, but he overcame it extremely well and from the inside today, jockey Oh Kyung Hwan will most likely not hang about. He can lead all the way. If Sinuipumgyeok does indeed win – and he should – it will mean a first defeat for (8) DYNAMIC STAR. He too missed a sizeable chunk of last season but bookended his seven-month absence with a pair of wins each side. Most recently a five-length winner over 1300M on January 12th, he is up in class and slightly in distance and today well see what he’s made of. Also up in class and with lots of potential, is (7) MAKING SEUNGNI. He was beaten half a length by Dynamic Star in December but rebounded to win over 1300M last month to make it three from seven in total and he should be competitive at this level. (3) SUN LAZER too makes the step up. It took him a while to figure things out, but he’s won three of his last four and can maintain his momentum here. Rounding out the top line of favourites in what is a very strong race for class 3, (4) CHOA was a class and distance winner four weeks ago and must be respected.
Selections (1) Sinuipumgyeok (8) Dynamic Star (7) Making Seungni (3) Sun Lazer
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Sejal Badani debuted by the best possible way in the literary world. Her novel Trail of Broken Wings was selected in Kindle First program and established in the last three weeks in Amazon Top 20 chart. The fans love it and valuated the story with average 4.5 Amazon stars from 300 plus reviews.
Our next guest is a former attorney. She decided to leave the law in order to become a full time writer. So far her dreams are happening. Say welcome to Sejal Badani.
– Sejal, tell us about your debut novel, Trail of Broken Wings?
– Trail of Broken Wings is a story of three women who must face their past to find their future. It’s a story of redemption, hope and finding your inner strength when tragedies threaten to break you. I wrote it for women who believe in the power of friendship and family, for anyone who has ever experienced abuse in their lives, and for those who know that love is there for everyone, even those who must learn to love themselves first.
– How did you decide to write the story?
– I wrote this story after witnessing and surviving my own childhood abuse. It’s the story I searched for in my own path toward healing—something to give hope and inspiration while exploring all the shades of heartbreak which abuse can inflict on the soul and mind. Though the events and the characters in the story are fictional, the emotions, the fears, the desperate search for survival are all based not only on my own and my family’s experiences, but the experiences of other survivors who found their way out of the darkness.
– Tell us something more about your main character Sonya? Is she inspired by someone from your life?
– There are definitely similarities between our personalities and reactions to abuse, but Sonya chose the path of solitude and flight before finding herself and love, which to me made her story even more poignant and satisfying. Her quest to find all the broken pieces of herself and use her family’s and David’s love to help her glue them together really drove home to me that connections to other people can help to heal wounds. I found myself admiring her as her story came to its honest and fruitful conclusion.
Also, Sonya said no to law school and chose her true passion of photography while I pursued writing only after finishing my law degree.
– Did location play a major role in writing the novel?
– As a young girl growing up I used to watch airplanes in the sky and yearned to explore the world. Since then, I’ve been very fortunate to have lived in different parts of the United States and to have experienced various cultures and communities in each. Though I set the story in the Bay Area, it absolutely could take place anywhere because it’s a search for the home within you, not an external place. Each sister is on a journey of self-discovery, to understand who they really are separate from the definition given to them by the abuse. When searching for themselves, they come to realize that it’s not the place or their experiences that define them, but the choices they make as an adult and the people they allow into their life. That is their true home. It’s a story that doesn’t limit itself to class or culture but instead speaks to the strength and resilience of the human spirit.
– Tell us more about yourself as a writer?
– Always having been a writer, I am immensely grateful to also be a mother, wife, daughter and sister. Having been on my own journey of healing, I know in my heart that each one of these roles and the people in my life was an integral part of helping me to redefine my future. I honestly believe that there is novelist in each of us – we all have a story to tell. That I have had the opportunity to tell this story and for there to be the possibility that it even helps one person on their own path to healing is incredibly gratifying.
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In Honor of Mrs. Bonny Moneyhun
by Claire Kyllonen, Assistant Feature Editor|July 26, 2014
It was never a secret that Bonny Moneyhun loved her job.
Just one peek into her classroom could give an insight into who she was: kind and devoted, with an infectious personality and an enormous capacity to give. Her room was a safe haven, a place for students to feel accepted and acknowledged.
“Mrs. Moneyhun was our finest teacher,” former student Terry Ballard said. “A good teacher leads students to knowledge by caring rather than by force. She was a selfless being, and hers is a significant loss.”
Moneyhun’s love for teaching started in Louisiana, where she earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Education from the University of New Orleans and later taught English in Jefferson Parish for 14 years before moving to Leander High.
Referring to herself as a “transplanted crawfish,” she embraced Texas wholeheartedly while still staying true to her roots.
Moneyhun’s career as a Lion spanned nearly 20 years and included teaching English exclusively for 13 years before switching to Communications Applications (Speech) for 6 years. During this time, she took on the role of UIL Coordinator while additionally taking charge of the Debate Team and sponsoring the peer tutoring group Tutors, Inc.
“She taught us how to find knowledge through argument, and of the importance of self-inquiry,” Ballard said. “She was gentle, but always spoke her mind.”
When students remember Moneyhun, they are struck with her sincere respect for anyone she met.
“She talked to me like I was an aspiring adult,” senior Siandhara Bonnet said.
Former student Taylor Novak remembers her as being a teacher who cared about each one of her students individually, which shaped her into the great person she already was.
Mrs. Moneyhun passed away on July 23, 2014. Services were held on Sunday, July 27, at 2:00 p.m. at Christ Episcopal Church in Cedar Park. A memorial in her home state of Louisiana took place on Thursday, July 31 and she was laid to rest in Baton Rouge at Resthaven Gardens of Memory on that day. She is survived by her mother, daughter, stepdaughter, stepson, sister and brother.
Friends share memories of Mrs. Moneyhun:
“When I first met her, she was surprised that a freshman had joined her debate class. I didn’t win that whole year. She was always there to cheer me up and to keep me working. ‘Next year you’re going to be at the top,” she would always tell me.” –senior Lauren Noriega
“Ms. Moneyhun gave her heart to Leander High. She loved kids, and they loved her. She will be missed. My thoughts are with her family during this tough time.” –former principal Brad Mansfield
“Mrs. Moneyhun was the epitome of a wise teacher, and more. To those of us close to her, we do not think of her loss or her absence, but of what she gave, that which could make us smile.” –2014 graduate and Debate team member Terry Ballard
Former students expressed their condolences through Twitter:
“Mrs. Moneyhun’s class was definitely one of my favs. She put up with so much of our shenanigans! You will be missed. RIP Mrs. Moneyhun.” –Christine Rubio
“RIP Mrs. Moneyhun. Thanks for being the best speech teacher ever.” –Lindsey Mings
“RIP Ms. Moneyhun.” –Bailey Crites
“R.I.P. Mrs. Moneyhun, great teacher and a great woman.” –Michael Lecaros
You can read Mrs. Moneyhun’s obituary and view or sign the Guestbook at the Resthaven Gardens website.
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2 Responses to “In Honor of Mrs. Bonny Moneyhun”
Julia Harper on July 29th, 2014 9:43 am
I loved Mrs Moneyhun dearly. Moneyhun was my soul sister.
Chris Tarbet on August 7th, 2014 12:51 pm
Bonny was an anchor of rational thought and positivity. Those of us who acted like veteran teachers, but were still young enough to have eclipses of naivete, leaned on her to provide sincere encouragement and an honest perspective. She was so incredibly devoted to her students; Bonny was just as passionate and caring this past school year as I’m sure she was the first day she began teaching. This is an incredible loss for all that we’re lifted higher by Bonny’s grace, but we all need to be mindful of how lucky we were to have had the chance to call her teacher and friend.
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South Korean women’s team disqualification in 3,000-meters short-track speed skating relay will be controversial
Our Canadian women’s short-track speed skating relay team won the silver, but this silver will not be completely sweet because we’re not sure if we deserved it. The four-time champion South Korean women were celebrating their win but their joy quickly turned sour. They were disqualified for blocking the Chinese skater, which did not appear absolutely certain to me, but what do I know? As a result of Korea’s disqualification, China won the gold, Canada, the silver, and the U.S.A., the bronze.
Despite the win, I fear our three medals to be awarded might not be completely fair and square . China’s win will be very controversial because the South Korean team came in first by a huge margin and even set a new world record. I also notice Canada’s CTV network was not celebrating our win of the silver medal. Rightly so. Neither should China nor the U.S. be celebrating too quickly.
Personally, I think the South Korean women should have won the gold. After looking at the replay, I have my doubts about the judge’s call on this. It didn’t look like the Chinese skater was going to pass the Korean skater. It just appeared that she just got in the way because they were in the same proximity. This bump up and down in the medal wins will be controversial and the judge will have to live down his mistake.
Sven Kramer’s disqualification was fair but this one today will be questionable. Judging is not always fair or accurate. Canada’s figure skating experienced this injustice in Turin 2008 and it caused a big change in how points are awarded in figure skating today.
The nation of South Korean will be furious about the judge’s call on this one. I feel for the South Korean women today. They truly skated super one today breaking a world record. May God give you comfort to go through this and the justice to receive what you deserve.
Posted on February 24, 2010 February 24, 2010 Author Liberty CultureCategories sportsTags Canada's 3000-meter short-track relay speedskating, disqualification, South Korea women's short-track relay, vancouver 2010 olympic winter games
64 thoughts on “South Korean women’s team disqualification in 3,000-meters short-track speed skating relay will be controversial”
Kevin Sam says:
After the Chinese and Korean skaters were both pushed off, they were both side-by-side. From my perspective, it seemed like the only thing the Korean skater could do was to keep skating on the inside going into the curve. Then as both skaters’ blades made contact, the Chinese skater then lost a little balance and it appeared that the Korean skater had impeded but I am still not convinced that she did.
*sigh*.. Me too.. but nothing I can do. I don’t think she blocked the chinese girl’s path.
pushing or not pushing, it wasn’t the matter that made referee made his decision on DQing Korean team.
here is the quote from Vancouver Olympic website:
“South Korea finished first in the final but they were disqualified after referees ruled that Kim Min-Jung blocked China’s Sun Linlin’s path following a handover with six laps to go.”
referee did not judge on Korean team on pushing, but rather “impeding” is the key word here, not pushing.
at least from EZ’s video, and as well from some other angles, it seems referee’s decision is true.
EZ. I think you don’t know about short-track speed skating. When skators turn coners, they STOP moving their right arms. Your video looks Korean skator pushed Chinese skator. But, it is not true. When Korean skator tried to stop moving her arm, Chinese skator slightly bumped against Korean skator’s right arm, but this is not the reason that she lost her balance, and the arm was shook by bumping. That means her arm was relaxed. We can see that she didn’t push Chinese skator on side view.
But most of people think Korea skator pushed Chinese skator, because she lost her balance. However, the real reason she lost her balance is her skating rink collided with Korean skator’s skate as she(Chinese skator) took a step forward.
Korean skator naver pushed Chinese skator.
Referee clearly misjudged.
But this decision will not reverse.
you would also not be able to hold much balance yourself.
EZ, Saw the clip but still strong on my opinion. I looked at it like 100 times. When they turn corners all athletes put their right arms out and left arms on or close to the ice. They stop swinging their arms back and forth at that point and continue on after. It only looks like she pushed her because of the unbelievable timing. Exactly when the chinese girl lost balance because of the skates colliding and her body bending inwards. You can’t push someone at that speed to make them jerk like that with one hand unless you are extremely strong.
CQ, I had to look at EZ’s videoclip 10-20 times before I realized what the skater really did. Judging is not easy.
CQ says:
From EZ’s video, the Korean staker’s right hand was not moving in a natural back-and-forth rhythm. It kept touching the Chinese skater. To me the
“impeding” call, however controversial, is not baseless.
EZ has got a point. but not manner
show your point and respect.
Your ignorant comments only demotes your above average point. Rules are there to provide same and fair competition for all athletes. It is not fair to break a rule. Therefore, if you break a rule you will be fairly punished. All athletes in the Olympics deserves the respect. If the winner is DQed, the runner up deserves the gold. If the call was bad, point your finger to the refs, not the runner up athletes.
EZ, thanks for the link to the video clip. That shows the aggressiveness of the Korean skater. But I still have to say that when any skaters are going that fast and close to one another, it’s really hard to slow down. I’m not sure what I would do in that split-second situation myself.
I think EZ’s video settles if the DQ was a good judgement or not.
aries says:
It is so funny. How this Canadian forgot what they did some years back. They wined in the pair skating in 2002 or some years and got the gold. It is really funny that the Canadian said only the Koreans are complaining. The truth is anyone who thinks he/she is treated unfaily, he/she wines.
cbcnamja says:
As a Canadian viewer, I have to agree with EZ. It’s funny only the Koreans are complaining. Koreans should play by the rules.
EZ says:
The Korean was behind till about 5 feet from the turn marker. The Korean went wide to the outside, to force the Chinese to make a big curve, and then cut in the path of the opponent. The Korean was passing from the inner, and at the same time she was also forcing the opponent to go further out. That aggression making the cutting possible. DQ was a great call.
OK, this youtube explains very well.
But, don’t expect Koreans will accept the truth on that.
The picture is very misleading, it only show way ahead or later the contact happened.
People should see the slow video how Korea skater cut into Chinese skater’s track, actually there was enough space for her to avoid this happen, she intentionally impeded and it cause Chinese skater step on her. Besides this she also pushed, and the referee made a right and classic call.
Here is the video, it is so easy to make you own judgment:
now this is the angle i didn’t see. at least from this angle it seems the referee’s call of impeding is true. During 2010 winter Olympic I believe i had seen many occasions beside this one that Korea had made aggressive move to overtake a athletics and cut right in front of him, causing the athletics to slowdown to avoid contact.
I do think Korea is a strong team, but at the same time their aggressive strategies is indeed a bit…. off the edge.
I’m Sorry.. EZ?? Guessing you are Chinese. OBVIOUSLY. I’ve seen so many Koreans angry at the REF’s Decision. I have also seen immature koreans talking crap which totally embarrasses me as a korean myself… But YOU.. .. You.. People. Continue to bring in topics and points from other situations and sometimes even things that have nothing to do with Short Track AT ALL. I personally am happy that China won a Gold and don’t care about which country does better but I don’t think it was a fair ruling for the south koreans. You say that other countries have been disqualified. Yes but not in a situation like this. When Sven was disqualified we all knew EXACTLY WHY and HOW he got Disqualified. It was written everywhere and most people knew right away because of the commentators. In this case however.. No one knew why the koreans got disqualified. Even the commentators. They even said that the Chinese girl seemed to have impeded causing the collision of blades.
This one is very funny:
First you push your own teammate down trying to pass them illegally in Men’s short track.
Then you shamelessly celebrate a Gold in the 10,000 meters which you clearly lost to a Dutch speed skater who set a new Olympic record but made a lane violation because of his own coach. A class move would’ve been to give him at least a nod, if not your gold medal. Yeah right. When was the last time you saw a Korean take care of someone who wasn’t Korean?
Now you cry over your own team breaking the rules at yet another short track event. You are not the only country at the games. You are not the only country who has been disqualified in Short Track this Olympics. Among others, both USA and China have also had DQs.
You are however, the only ones to continue whining about it. That’s so Korean. “
I think somethis is unfair in the DQ of Korean team. If this was a fair call, why so many people are trying to say something with their opinions. I did not see any comments for Sven’ DQ. People said that is so sad but nobody said it is unfair. We want to see that kind of DQ not so controversal like short trac DQs and from the same judge .
Everyone should review the tape again to make their own judgment rather than following a biased article.
It is clear the korean racer made her opponent suddenly slow down and the skate colliding is impossible to cause that speed change.
By the way, the korean skate team has shown its “pushing skills” several times in this Olympic game without being DQ. They should learn a lesson this time.
Is the writer a Korean? The writer should spend some time to explain why the Korean team is so pushing and unprincipled, instead of crying for a deserved outcome.
More explanation:
“It was a rarely seen pass. Skaters usually pass before the curve because there is much space to avoid physical contact. Kim Min-jung passed Sun Linlin nearly at the tip of the curve from the inner lap. It was the last resort of South Korea as they were desperate for the gold (only four laps left of the 27-lap race). It reminded me of the Turino Games four years ago when China was disqualified in this discipline because of Wang Meng’s fault. She tried to pass at the same position.”
You guys missed the point by looking at the body contact time, IT WAS THE MOMENT BEFORE THAT!
” The South Koreans were disqualified for contact that occurred after Lee Eun- Byul pushed teammate Kim Min-Jung in front of a Chinese skater with five laps remaining in the 27-lap race.
Athletes are allowed to push their teammates in the short track relay. Instead of passing a baton like in track and field, skaters queue up inside the track and slip in front of their teammates, receiving a push in the transition.
But Kim aggressively moved inside Sun Linlin, taking the lead and causing the Chinese skater to nearly lose her balance. The official reason for the disqualification was “impeding.”
After battling neck-and-neck with the Chinese for most of the race, the incident moved the Koreans comfortably in front.”
Let me put this a bit different way.. do you disqualify someone finishing in first place in the marathon even though his rival was in 2nd place got bumped into him and lost balance and came in 3rd?
Whoever is in 2nd place, they should not touch the leader and try to look a different way to be ahead of them. That’s what this Korean skaters did before passing ahead Chinese team..
Anyways, congrats to Chinese team…
inmyseoul says:
Here is a link of NBC’s expert analysis:
http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/assetid=658d3158-d8ce-4195-87ae-dc238d19e7c0.html#expert+analysis+short+track+day
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I am wondering why IOC still keeps this kind of an unqialified judge. Can we make IOC kick off this judge from all kinds of events? To do that, what should we do?
choi says:
Thank you~!
Henry Kim says:
This is why I hate the Olympics. Countries with more power always win. S. Korea will not get their medals because they don’t have enough leverage and this judge is clearly out for revenge. The Olympics should be about each athletes abilities and not what country they reside.
Jen, I would agree with you that it almost seemed like it could have been the Chinese skater who interfered. If that was true, why do you say that “the Koreans don’t have the power to make a case and overrule this unfair judgement”?
Someone, Please take note of a prejudiced or a misinterpretation of this tournament. I feel good for the Canadian team grabbing Silver in 3000m round, but Korean team was robbed of their gold medal. How can it be a disqualification? I’m going to explain this logically. To recap the race exactly, as the next -in-line Korean player got pushed from the previous player, she went into the inner first already. Then the Chinese player tried to catch up into the inner lane as well. During the process, the chinese player was right behind the Korean player – they were too close at this point. The chinese player was even threatening as she was too close behind the kroean player. Then the skates of the korean player clashed with the Chinese player’s skates, meaning that the korean player didn’t intentionally push or injure or interfere the chinese player, but rather the Chinese player clashed to the korean player from behind. While the the skated collided and being too close to the Korean player, the Chinese player lost balance and her face touched the arm of the Korean player. But, here is a hughe misjudgement. Travelling in the same direction at that speed, The korean player would have to have been really strong to have pushed off of the chinese player. Also, if that were true, The chinese player’s upper body would have jerked upwards and back.. Not downwards and in.. She lost her balance thus making her upper body cave down and inwards.I don’t know if the judge, who raised the issue and disqualified the Korean team, thought the Korean player pushed the chinese player and interfered, but in clarity, the fault is on the chinese player actually, not the Korean player. The Koreans don’t have power to make a case and overrule this unfair judgement. But I know last time, the Canadian figure skating pair reclaimed their gold after making their case.
I don’t know what people are referring to when they claim there was “pushing.” There was no debate about a bump besides the skates touching. Though anything looked probable when the Chinese skater slowed down, the announcers immediately concluded that there was no “body contact” after analyzing several angles of slow-motion replays.
The real question is: if the Korean skater was ahead during the moment of impact, is the leader “impeding” for not considering the position of the opponent beyond her periphery? C’mon, the Korean skater was at least in the advantage lane. If, at the very least, both skaters were going head-to-head, meaning virtually beside each other, is a skater considered “impeding” if she unintentionally bumps the skate of an opponent crossing into her lane?
This is the opinion of a US citizen who rooted for the Americans. I saw this happen before and it really pisses me off how subjective it is most of the time. There are so much real bumping and pushing that goes ignored and they always choose an event like this to flip a decision that could have at least gone either way. That’s why I love the Olympics but hate the politics of it.
JP, the Chinese skater did slow down to avoid bodily contact. From the camera angle I watched from, the Korean skater never touched the Chinese skater. I think the judge needs to see it from different angles.
His misjudgement not only cost the Korean women the gold medal, but like another commenter mentioned, it’s costing them 4 years of hard work down the drain. I’m with you on the subjectivity of judges. I think judges need to be held more accountable and accessible, and allow for misjudgements to be overturned.
The call is so unfortunate.
Check this video.
The reporter says, “It looks like the Chinese team got in the way of the Korean team, and caused themselves to fall out.”
One thing that the NFL has right. A call that is challenged will be overturned if the referee sees overwhelming and clear evidence that the wrong call was made otherwise the ruling on the field stands. And I can’t agree more about the “clear evidence” part.
To me, what happened during the bump is not so overwhelmingly clear. Even the reporter thinks that the Chinese were at fault. A DSQ is a big punishment to hand out for something that is questionable.
I think Jim Hewish is just bitter about all the abuse and heat he got from Korean fans as a result of what happened in Salt Lake City, and found a way to stage a revenge. No point in making additional fuss. IOC is not going to do a thing.
And Jim Hewish didn’t even get any lesson from his 2-year suspension from Salt Lake City games. It’s a bigggg shame on him.
She may have slightly touched the Chinese skater because she was in front of her, but definitely she was not pushed. If judge was not so sure about making a decision, he should not flip the results. Who the hell are you think you are? Mr. Judge? What were you guys talking about when you guys were caught on TV? We want to know man!!! Who is going to compensate for 4 years of preparation?
here is a video link:
and the following is my interpretation:
at 0:14 it looks like Korean had bumped into Chinese. but at 0:23 it looks like Chinese stepped on Korean’s skate. i think when the referee was looking at replay, he was only looking at the camera angle at 0:14… which convinced him that Korea bumped into Chinese.
dar, thanks for the link. It’s been removed from YouTube. That’s a really good point. From what I saw at the angle I saw it from, there was no contact except for the Chinese skater stepping on the Korean skaters blade. If anything, the Chinese skater could have been called for interference.
they took the video down. says “this video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by the international olympic committee.” the olympic committee probably realized hewish made a bad call and dont want people watching replays showing hewish’s mistake.
there needs to an appeals process. how can they let this one d-bag have the final say on something so clearly subjective?!
Sunyoo Avanzino says:
Well said, Kevin. I was stunned by the unfairness.
Thanks Scott. I think that James Hewish should be eliminated from his position as a judge. He is too bias… Not fair…
I can’t believe some people here saying South Korean skater had pushed Chinese skater.. Hey, the Chinese skater told media that she is not so sure what happened.. How somebody could push somebody that is behind them? Then WHY Chinese skater upper body was not showing any movement upward? This MF got to be disqualified!!!
Jason from Virginia, USA
well controversial call or not. result has been set. best way to deal with this, for Korea, is to congratulate the winner and turn the emotion into a fuel for next competition. If anything, it is not fair to say one or other country did not deserve the medal, they did deserve the medal, hence they did not create any controversial bumping, which leads to controversial call.
This alleged push people are going off about doesn’t make much sense to me. Of course there is going to be contact in speed skating when much of the movement is generated through the swinging of the arms. It was a bad decision as the Korean skater had the right of the way as she was ahead of the Chinese skater. The Chinese skater rather than back off a bit decided to get as close as possible to her like a stalker. The key to the issue is that the skate blades collided through the natural motion of skating. The ironic thing to this whole issue is that its the same official, Jim Hewish, that DQed another Korean skater for another “impeding” call on Apollo Ohno… another heated debate. One thing is for sure though, Korea is not going to let this one go seeing that its the same official with a similar call.
Allen, as another commenter mentioned, Judge Jim Hewish made a misjudgement at the Salt Lake games. His decision needs to be reviewed by the Speedskating authorites. As a Canadian, I’m not holding out on Canada’s silver to be a certain win.
At least give Korea the silver. Canada and DEFINITELY the USA isn’t even in the same league as China and Korea in women’s relay The US does not deserve a medal at all. They were LAPPED that’s how bad they are.
Kevin, you mentioned Korea’s lead was by a big margin, but you forgot to mention Chinese team had lost the balance which resulted the big gap. If the contact never had occurred than I believe the game could be very close between Korea and China, and both teams had the possibility to set a new record.
Mr Fair and Square says:
chinese girl seemed like she was pushed and skates collided in the natural skating motion of the Korean.
Example if i am jogging and someone runs only 30cm behind me, then of course he’s going to get some elbowing off me.
The chinese girl even gave way to let the korean pass on the inside. i think she was playing for the DQ. the assistant on that side the rink was chinese. Hewish obviosuly don’t like chinese.
well hopefully, with Korean Long Track doing really well and Kim Yuna, Korean skating federations’s got to do some lobbying and get Hewish to retire.
JYC says:
Koreans are really upset about this decision.
I disagree that the Korean skater pushed the Chinese skater because it looks like the problem was caused by the skates coming in contact.
Toddrick says:
This really surprised me too. We’ve all seen the replays, and there was some contact. Enough to overturn a gold medal result? If I was Korean, I would be completely losing my shit over this.
markf says:
The referees made the right call. If you look at the video again, the S Korean skater pushed the Chinese skater using both her hand and skate, making the Chinese skater almost fell down and had to slow down to recover. The referees said the skates actually made contact; they might have better video for that. Forcing the other skater slow-down is definitely a disqualifying action.
The angle at which the viedo was taken caused you to misunderstand. You can find and should’ve seen another video from better angle, which will tell you the truth that there was no pushing by the Korean skater. The blade-clash, which actually caused impeding, was iniciated by the Chinese skater. Many sports TV commentators also said the judgment was wrong.
@John – How was the Chinese person who was hit noticeably affected?
not noticeably affected*
The thing is though, the contact they made this time actually affected other racers and it was very evident as the above poster mentioned and replays show.
It was unfortunate, but impeding is still impeding.
The call would have probably been missed if the Chinese person who was hit was noticeably affected.
If it is impeding, then I say half the skaters are impeding.
The Chinese skater was coming in from behind. Do you expect the Korean skater to have an eye behind her head too ?…
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The south korean skater definately pushed off the chinese skater during the turn. It was so obvious, her right arm went back, contacted the chinese skater’s body, but then she went back and pushed. In my opinion, this was the right call. It is unfortunate because of 1 person’s mistake the race was decided. It was an exciting race up until then though
but if the south korean skater really did push the chinese skater, then the chinese skater’s torso should head upwards, not DOWNWARDs. simple.
JYC, the IOC might have some procedure. I hope the South Koreans try to do something about this. Hewish’s call seems subjective. I have my doubts.
Scott, there were many other races in speedskating where the same type of thing happened but no call was made. Does something seems amiss here?
I also believe the disqualification was unfair. I don’t know the procedures of the Olympics but can this decision be overturned?
I also would like to mention that this same referee, James Hewish, also disqualifed another Korean player back in Salt Lake City which was also a very controversial decision.
scott shannon says:
well said. Definitely not enough evidence there to disqualify the korean skaters. They deserve the Gold and the recognition for breaking the world record.
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Alex Levran, president of renewable energy solutions for Power-One, said the company has collaborated with Arizona State University to develop innovative technologies.
“We chose to work with ASU because they have very good development programs and design programs,” he said.
Sandra D. Kennedy, a member of the Arizona Corporation Commission, said the state’s combination of abundant sunshine and existing manufacturing firms makes it a prime location for renewable-energy companies.
“Our main focus is to put more people to work in these areas,” she said.
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Malaysia feels heat as its solar industry soars (dpa German Press Agency)
Less than 10 years after it began manufacturing solar cells, Malaysia
has become the world’s fourth-largest producer, but some competitors
see underhanded tactics in the country’s rapid success.
Kuala Lumpur (dpa) – Malaysia’s rapid ascent as a solar energy
equipment manufacturer has triggered allegations of underhanded
The country, which did not have a solar industry before 2007, was the
world’s fourth-largest producer of solar cells last year behind
China, Taiwan and Japan.
Its fast growth is mainly attributed to the influx of multinational
corporations, including the US First Solar, Taiwan’s AUO Sunpower,
Germany’s Hanwa Q Cells and Japan’s Panasonic Energy.
In the past two years, the government has granted five other foreign
companies permission to set up their own production plants, the
Malaysian Investment Development Agency (MIDA) said.
But competitors cast are leery of Malaysia’s solar sector.
The Ministry of International Trade and Industry said it is working
with the European Union on allegations that Chinese manufacturers
have re-labelled their products “Made in Malaysia” to circumvent EU
requirements imposed on Chinese solar products.
The Office of the US Trade Representative has also expressed concern
about generous tax breaks granted to foreign investors, including
solar energy manufacturers.
It asked Malaysia to provide details of how it works so that other
countries can assess whether the tax breaks violate a World Trade
Organization ban on export subsidies.
The government says solar companies are attracted to Malaysia because
of the country’s vibrant semi-conductor manufacturing sector, a
process similar to that of making solar cells.
“This makes Malaysia a perfect fit for the solar industry to build
upon,” MIDA said.
Other factors contributing to Malaysia’s rise are a combination of
low-cost labour with the availability of skilled engineers, according
to Song Eng Eng, an analyst at EXIM Bank Malaysia.
A 100-per-cent income tax break for 10 years, along with a
100-per-cent investment tax allowance for capital expenditures, has
persuaded solar manufacturers to relocate to Malaysia, Song said.
The subsidies provided to attract foreign investments are within
international trade rules, the government said.
“Just like in other promoted sectors, Malaysia provides incentives in
the form of corporate tax exemptions to all eligible enterprises
engaging in solar industry on a non-discriminatory basis,” MIDA said.
Malaysia’s solar industry has also benefited from a trade war between
the US and China in the solar manufacturing sector, it said.
When the US government imposed higher tariffs on solar manufacturers
from China and Taiwan a year ago, there should have been “no
surprise” that these manufacturers would seek new sites for their
export markets, MIDA said.
Chinese energy giant Jinko Solar has set up a factory in Penang,
Malaysia this year in its efforts to diversify its manufacturing
facilities, said company spokesman Sebastian Liu.
“We like the overall business environment there,” Liu said.
The key to continued success in Malaysia’s solar industry would be
to go beyond manufacturing and exporting cells, and focus on the
installation and use of solar energy in the country, said Wei-Nee
Chen, chief corporate officer of Sustainable Energy Development
Authority of Malaysia.
Expanding the use of solar energy in Malaysia would ensure
sustainable growth of the local solar industry and insulate it from
the vagaries of the global trade environment, Chen said.
The country’s internal targets for renewable energy usage are
attainable, Chen said, because of cheap production costs and
Malaysia’s favourable location.
“Malaysia lies in the sun belt, so everywhere you go in Malaysia
there is always the sun. You can put PV [solar cells] throughout the
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July 11, 2018 by Maggie McNeill
This is bigger than us…it’s a world wide crackdown on freedom of expression. – Vex Ashley
I suspect this sort of story isn’t all that unusual:
There’s a misconception that sex work only entices clients who are entitled, disrespectful or predatory, yet this wasn’t my experience…phone sex…attracts some of the most struggling and deeply hurt clientele: people with agoraphobia, people with intimacy issues, other sexual assault survivors…as my friendships with my clients continued to progress, I learned I was more like my regulars than I wanted to acknowledge. My clients and I had arrived on the opposite ends of phone sex — me as a sex worker, and them as a patron — but we sought similar resolutions. Sex work…was quietly contributing to my healing…I realized I gravitated toward the sex industry in part to reprocess my trauma in an environment that was safe, to redevelop a way to have a healthy connection with men, and to explore my sexuality…
They Still Don’t Get It
This vile farrago of lies appears to be an attempt to slander the good work done by SWOP Behind Bars:
Women in prisons across the US are being recruited by sex traffickers who force them into prostitution on their release…Pimps and sex buyers are locating incarcerated women awaiting a court date by using personal data such as mugshots and bail bonds posted online, or through corrupt bondsmen. Traffickers are then bailing women out of detention. Once released, the women are told they must work as prostitutes or have their bond rescinded and be sent back to jail…Diane Checchio, a former prosecutor for the district attorney’s office in Orlando, Florida, said the bail bond system was routinely exploited by traffickers…Once they have identified a potential target inside a prison or jail, traffickers will try to establish a relationship by using letters, phone calls and promises of money and housing when the victim is released. Prison bank accounts are also used to send money to women, establishing a debt that is used to coerce them into prostitution on their release…Pimp-controlled prostitution is now [fantasiz]ed as one of the most brutal and pervasive forms of human trafficking in the US…
The notion that clients would go to this kind of trouble, when most of them can barely even handle the normal screening and booking process, would be hilarious if it weren’t being used to undermine human rights.
Buried Truth
Yet another perfect example of the McNeill Rule:
A Columbia University student whose global campaign against rape and sexual abuse of children earned him berths to speak alongside [politicians]…was himself charged…with a series of sex crimes against children…Joel Davis…[faces] a series of sordid allegations, including an admission by Mr. Davis that he had sex with a 13-year-old boy in his New York apartment. The complaint also outlines text messages Mr. Davis sent undercover F.B.I. agents seeking sexual images of children as young as 2. “The conduct alleged against Joel Davis is as unfathomable as it is sickening,” [a prosecutor bloviated]…
This is only “unfathomable” to idiots who neither understand psychology nor read the news. The more any man crusades against a particular sex act, the more likely he is to be a practitioner.
Welcome to our world, infertile women:
Five people in Cambodia were arrested on charges of human trafficking after the police found 33 pregnant women during a raid on a…[banned] surrogacy operation…Cambodia is one of four Asian countries — along with Thailand, Nepal and India — that have banned commercial surrogacy in recent years. Experts say the bans have pushed some surrogacy agencies underground while also fueling demand for the practice in other countries, particularly in Eastern Europe, where local regulations are more welcoming. “Most bans don’t…work”…said Sam Everingham, the founder of Families Through Surrogacy, a nonprofit based in Australia that provides advice and support for people seeking surrogacy arrangements…
Shame, Shame (#649)
“Revenge porn” laws keep getting struck down because their proponents refuse to tailor them narrowly, insisting instead on unconstitutional broadness:
[Censors, prudes and showboaters] blamed [Google] for helping to…kill a [FOSTA-like] bill in New York that would have [allowed opportunists to sue web hosting companies for]…nonconsensual…sexually explicit images [found on their site. The censors wanted to also expand mass incarceration]…by making the act a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail…[but] the Internet Association, a lobbying group representing Google and other web companies, stepped in…to [point out to] lawmakers [that] language in the legislation that would have allowed [opportunists] to sue web companies [is unconstitutional and violates section 230 of the CDA]…Mary Anne Franks…began working with Assemblyman Edward Braunstein on New York’s bill back in 2013. That original version…was…one of the [most mindlessly-draconian revenge porn laws in the country]…
Like Houses
Naturally useful idiots are surprised, though this was as predictable as sunrise:
…police in Pennsylvania who are using the state’s hate crime statute…against people who [insult] them. On Sept. 23, 2016, Robbie Sanderson, a 52-year-old Black man from North Carolina, was arrested for retail theft…During the arrest, Sanderson [correctly] called police “Nazis,” “skinheads” and “Gestapo”…For that, he was charged with a hate crime. “This is completely ridiculous,” said Mary Catherine Roper, deputy legal director for the ACLU of Pennsylvania. “This is not what the hate crime statute was for. This is criminalizing pure speech and that violates the First Amendment”…
Does someone need to explain to Mary that all “hate speech” laws criminalize pure speech?
The Prudish Giant (#787)
Once Patreon started caving in to PayPal, this was inevitable:
Adult content creators on crowdfunding site Patreon are facing a sudden spate of suspensions, with many reporting “implied nudity” as the reason their pages are shut down…”We have been ramping up the [censorship] of content on Patreon due to requirements from our payment partners,” a Patreon spokesperson [said]…Sex workers, porn producers and anyone working in the erotic labor trade have [in the past few decades] faced discrimination from payment processors and banks…Patreon set itself up as an alternative home for creators of all kinds to make money doing what they love, but [like PayPal and so many others, they are throwing sex workers under the bus now that they’re successful]…
The Punitive Mindset (#790)
In which two groups of warring scumbags pretend to be unable to understand that locking human beings in cages tends to induce pathological behavior:
A federal judge refused to dismiss lawsuits from female public defenders and [screws] who claim Cook County, Illinois, inmates have been exposing themselves and masturbating in front of them, a problem they say was exacerbated by a program rewarding detainees with pizza for not engaging in such behavior…the women…alleg[e]…that Dart had created solutions to the problem only to reverse them…[so as to support his] proposed legislation that would [subject] inmates [to more time under Dart’s control] for sexual [behavior]…
Soap Opera (#809)
A functioning police state needs no police:
…Kent Couch, owner of Stop and Go in Bend, Ore., was skeptical that human trafficking was happening in his community. Then three years ago, he met Nita Belles, founder…of In Our Backyard, a [rescue industry profiteer group]…She asked him to display a [magic] sticker in his store’s bathroom that offers…a toll-free number to call [for women too stupid to remember the numbers “911”]…Couch put the sticker up and covered it with a frame so that it wouldn’t attract graffiti…“A week later, the frame was ripped off the wall and thrown in the garbage and the sticker taken…I hung up a new one, and the frame was again broken and the number scratched out. So that was a heads-up to me that in fact we do have human trafficking here”…Employees are instructed to alert him if they’ve seen anything suspicious…Recently, a woman came into the store with black-and-blue eyes, making no eye contact and with her hood up. “We called 911 right away and gave [her] license-plate numbers,” he says…
He put a frame on the sticker because he has a problem with vandalism in his bathroom, so when more vandalism happens that “proves” it’s “sex traffickers”? And they turn customers into the pigs for having injuries? Are these people living in reality at all?
Since the UK is becoming a colony of the US, this “monkey see, monkey do” was inevitable:
Ministers…[came] under intense pressure from a [prohibitionist] group of MPs this week to follow the US by banning…[sex work advertising] websites amid [repetitious and unsupported claims] that they are enabling a huge growth in sexual exploitation and the trafficking of women to the UK for profit. Members of the all-party group on prostitution have secured a parliamentary debate during which they will demand that the Home Office acts to [criminalize] websites such as Vivastreet and Adultwork [if they remain on UK soil]…
India and Israel have also introduced FOSTA copycat laws. Gee, it’s almost like governments don’t like the open internet.
Too Close To Home (#830)
A pet judge isn’t going to be able to make this scandal go away:
King County…Prosecuting Attorney’s Office (“KCPAO”) entered into a funding agreement with an organization called Demand Abolition that channels funds from the Hunt Alternatives family foundation…KCPAO and other local law enforcement agencies have garnered a great deal of positive publicity in the past few years for…saying that they are aggressively tackling sex trafficking. In reality, their efforts target buyers of sex who purchase from adult consensual sex workers…Why did Satterberg describe this as sex trafficking when there was no evidence of trafficking? Don’t prosecutors have to follow rules and be careful about how they describe arrestees’ alleged criminal conduct in the media? (Short answer: yes)…Public records show that [Val] Richey made a sustained effort to…push the tactic of targeting sex buyers. He also encouraged a shift in how prosecutors handled defendants’ cases after arrest, halting the diversion that they typically offered to first-offender buyers and instead imposing fines and fees while requiring enrollment in a buyer intervention course (that just so happened to be offered by an organization that also received funding by Demand Abolition). Richey also worked closely with Demand Abolition and with consultants hired by Demand Abolition throughout the time he received grant funding, including to craft communications efforts that deliberately conflated adult consensual sex work and trafficking…
Oregon’s just full of rapist cops lately:
Michael Goff, a parking [cop] for the City of Newport, was [arrested]…a day after…Newport police sergeant [Brad Purdon] was [also] arrested on sex abuse charges…involving the same [underage] victim…
Total number of frogs in Lisa Lewis’ self-destructive chorus: 3.
…By presenting…Lisa Lewis as the voice of sex workers, [The New Zealand Herald] allowed a nuanced issue to be hijacked by a small group with an axe to grind. It claimed that New Zealand sex workers rejected the NZPC’s support of migrant sex workers, based solely on a letter written by Lewis, signed by two other sex workers and backed by a member of Family First — an organisation that routinely attacks the rights of sex workers…Of the hundreds of escorts in my community…not one shares Lisa Lewis’ vitriol towards migrant workers and the NZPC. The claim that her 25 signatures (the majority of which…come from non-sex workers) is somehow an accurate summation of the 4000 plus sex workers currently active in New Zealand would be laughable if it wasn’t so harmful…The NZPC are not advocating importing hundreds of sex workers to flood the market and take “money off legal sex workers”, as Lewis’ letter claims. They are simply supporting the human rights of foreign workers and upholding their safety and agency within the industry…
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on July 11, 2018 at 9:11 pm | Reply Stephen
I wonder if this,
https://itty.bitty.site/edit
combined with some url shorteners and some creative javascript might be a way to fight this FOSTA BS.
Hard to take down a server that doesn’t exist and a website that only exists inside the URL itself. 🙂
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VOMIT DIVISION joins MOMR.
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It took a while, but we're happy to finally announce the signing of VOMIT DIVISION, a new black/thrash metal project from Germany. Despite it being a one-man band of Desmotes who sings and plays all instruments in the studio,...
LEGIONEM joins MOMR roster.
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Sometimes we come across a song that just blows us away. It's very rare, but such was the case with this Italian band, so we contacted them right away. Hearing the entire album confirmed our hunch: it is immense! We're stoked to...
HELLSPIKE signs with MOMR.
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HELLSPIKE is a new speed/thrash band started by two friends and veterans of the Portuguese metal scene, and it is also one of our new signings. The vocalist may sound familiar if you're a fan of PERPETRATÖR or RAVENSIRE as it is...
CHAINBREÄKER joins our roster.
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Bloomberg urges users to get set for negative US rates
Data provider Bloomberg has urged users to switch the way they price US dollar interest rate options — in case they are caught out by a move by the Federal Reserve to push rates below zero.
In a note sent out across its terminals on Monday, the company recommended that customers review their computer models for calculating interest rate volatility — a key component in pricing options, which give holders a right to buy or sell an asset on a set date.
Bloomberg recommended that users switch to a new model “as a preventive measure” to ensure that pricing functions on interest rate options or similar derivatives continue to work in the event of negative rates. It is also making similar changes to its foreign exchange and commodities pricing models.
The recommendation comes as investors debate whether the US Federal Reserve will follow the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan by cutting its main interest rate below zero for the first time, in an attempt to provide further stimulus to the economy. Such a move, which has the explicit support of US president Donald Trump, has been ruled out until now by Fed chair Jay Powell, who said last month that sub-zero rates are “probably not an appropriate or useful policy” in the US.
Markets appear to be taking Mr Powell at his word, no longer pricing in the Fed dragging policy rates below zero, having done so briefly in May. The central bank’s stance was underlined at its most recent policy meeting last week, when it forecast rates will be tethered to current levels just above zero until at least the end of 2022. Still, the Fed funds rate, the cost of borrowing “excess” reserves overnight, is trading very close to zero, at 0.08 per cent.
In a statement, Bloomberg said that the company “continuously stress tests its systems against all kinds of scenarios, and as part of these efforts we are preparing our systems for the possibility of negative yields on US fixed income instruments”.
It added: “We have prior experience of such preparations as negative rates have already occurred in several European markets. As it is still up for discussion among industry participants whether calculations would incorporate negative US dollar rates or implement a floor, we are prepared to do either.”
The switch underscores how the impact of coronavirus has cut deep into the daily workings of global financial markets. Pricing on contracts for West Texas Intermediate crude oil briefly turned negative in April amid fears there was not enough storage available at a key distribution point in Cushing, Oklahoma, given a sharp fall in demand.
The clearing houses run by CME Group and Intercontinental Exchange have since switched the way they calculate pricing for options on the WTI benchmark, and for some European gas benchmarks, to take account of negative rates.
Markets often use a model based on the work of academics Fischer Black and Myron Scholes, which kick-started the growth of options trading in the 1970s. However the formula cannot work if the spot, or cash, price of an asset is negative.
Bloomberg has now joined CME and ICE, the exchange groups, in recommending customers switch to a model derived from the work of Louis Bachelier, the 20th century French mathematician, which can handle negative numbers.
Pier Giuseppe Giribone, an academic and financial engineer at Banca Carige in Genoa, said a switch from the Black-Scholes to the Bachelier model could smooth out pricing and trading of exotic instruments such as swaptions and callable bonds. A swaption gives the holder the right but not the obligation to enter into an underlying swap.
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Mckoy’s News for Dalton Harris – Vote For The Win
X Factor favourite Dalton Harris does not cry recalling the childhood abuse he says left deep scars which start at the bottom of his feet, criss-cross up his body and end at his scalp.
He insists his story is not sad because he has forgiven those he claims urged him to kill himself.
But he breaks down telling of his feeling when X Factor judges and audiences give him a standing ovation.
He says: “When I finish a song, I touch my chest as I feel my heart is exploding, or I touch my head because I feel it’s unreal.
“My childhood had no love or support. Applause means, finally, I have value.”
Dalton, 24, is tipped to win this year’s contest. Mentor Louis Tomlinson has been moved his performances.
Performing is therapy for Dalton.
He says: “When I sing I feel safe and free from everything I left behind. I’m in a room of happiness.”
Dermot O’Leary and Dalton Harris (Image: Thames/Syco/REX/Shutterstock)
Dalton Harris has won over the British public (Image: Thames/Syco/REX/Shutterstock)
Growing up in Jamaica, the singer says he was raised in poverty – one of at least 22 siblings.
“I know on my mum’s side I have four sisters and two brothers. But my dad was very promiscuous and we don’t know an exact number of his kids.
“My mum and dad never married and both have kids to other people. Dad’s side didn’t believe I belonged to them.”
Dalton says he spent his first 15 years living in two rooms with five siblings and other lodgers.
“We never had electricity. Sometimes we couldn’t afford food. We brought water from the river. But it didn’t make me angry.
“Mornings were green and fresh, the sun had the brightest shine. We were poor but happy.”
Yet abuse darkened those sunny days and, while Dalton will not give names, he claims he was often beaten.
Dalton’s 18-month-old niece Nayeli (Image: Instagram)
“There’s a cut above my right eyebrow and cuts around my ears and head but I grew my hair to hide them.
“There are more on my chest, arm, shoulder, back, thighs, legs and feet. I was punched so hard by a guy dating my mum I crashed through a window.”
The mental pain took longer to heal. “I was told that I should walk into the road and kill myself”, says Dalton. “I was told I was ugly and illegitimate.”
At 15, he was homeless and slept behind a shop and church, in basements and beside the river.
Dalton, who now has no relationship with his mum or dad, scraped a living by painting houses and recycling school jotters by carving them into love hearts to sell as diaries.
His gift for singing, first spotted at Sunday school when he was seven, paved his escape.
He says: “A teacher heard and entered me into a competition. I was happy as I knew I’d get lunch and ride in a cab – so I enjoyed myself even before I won.
Dalton Harris and Brendan Murray celebrate with Louis Tomlinson (Image: Thames/Syco/REX/Shutterstock)
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“In 2011 I won a national talent show and one million Jamaican dollars, which is around £6,000.
“That helped me pay rent and go to school.”
Yet, aged around 17, he was dangerously low.
“Nothing from my childhood made me feel I was good. I felt nothing positive from anybody apart from my sisters.
“All I got was hate, hurt, abuse. As a teen it got to me. When people tell you to go and kill yourself, after a couple of years you feel like you probably should.
“Thank God I got through that stage. I started forgiving myself and all of the people that hurt me in any kind of way.”
Dalton began working on cruise ships and set his mind on X Factor after seeing a YouTube clip seven years ago. His work ethic resulted in his misshaped ears.
Benny Andersson and Dalton rehearse (Image: Tom Dymond)
“They changed shape when I was 18. I’m a workaholic and both my ears got inflamed from using headphones all the time.
“I’d listen to music and fall asleep in the them. I had surgery but my ears are music marks and remind me how hard I worked.”
Dalton says money does not motivate him. “What I want is a family. I will be the best husband and dad ever. One day.”
The singer is besotted with 18-month-old niece Nayeli, who is currently upset with him.
“Nayeli wanted to play peek-a-boo on FaceTime but I was about to meet Benny from Abba so had to tell her I was busy. She said I was rude and hung up.”
For now, Dalton is focused on his singing ambitions.
He says: “I don’t drink, smoke or have caffeine. I’ve never partied.
“I take care of my voice because my voice is the only thing I’ve ever had.”
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Mr. Armitage, his fans, our pursuit of “great art,” and me as critic, part 1
Photo: Richard Armitage with Annabel Capper at the 2006 Children’s BAFTAs award ceremony. Source: Richard Armitage Fan Blog. I’m posting this not as an entry in the perennially boring “who’s his partner?” sweepstakes, but because he looks as happy here as I’ve ever seen him in any photo, and that’s what I wish for him, no matter what else happens in his life and career: happiness. Really, it’s the least I could wish for the life of someone who’s — all unknowing — brought so much pleasure to mine.
In the wake of the initial broadcast of Strike Back, a “quo vadis Mr. Armitage?” mood seemed to be emerging in the Armitage blogosphere and environs. You’re probably familiar with some of these comments: from mulubinba, for example, who reads the Armitage fandom as a potential broad church, although she’d prefer more period drama herself, and a slightly more critical one from pi (which is what finally got me out of my funk to finish writing about this, so thanks as usual, pi!). I think other statements dealt with this question, too, although I can’t find them now. Please use the comments to post a link if you wrote or commented on this theme elsewhere. The specter of “Go West, young man, go West!” and the potential Nat polled about of the desirability of him undertaking work in Hollywood –a topic mentioned in several of the Strike Back related interviews– was a component of this discussion; there are worries that some fans only want to watch Armitage playing British characters and from something I read recently it seems Armitage, too, worried about the possibility that pleasing his fans would lead to being typecast.
Reading the latter saddened me. An actor has plenty to worry about without being concerned about the loyalty of his fans. It’s not that I think fans have an obligation to be loyal any more than I think an actor has an obligation to do only things that he knows will please his fans. It’s that I’m sorry he feels or felt influenced in his choices to the extent that he would even ask himself that question. It’s that I think that the line between actor and audience has to be fairly robust; despite the desire on both sides to reach out in good will, good fences make good neighbors. On both sides we pay a price for the free experience of his artistry: as much as I may identify with what I know about him, I can’t ever have him as my friend, and even if he likes what well-disposed fans write, he can’t ever count on us treating him as if he were. The artist must remain free to make his own choices, free of duress, if he’s to grow in skill and spirit, just as the critical (in the sense of evaluative) audience needs to be able to respond in freedom to the artist’s choices or its response will not be truly critical. The risk, of course, is that not every aesthetic or professional choice one makes will be loved, or even understood; the freedom to succeed with something new is equally the freedom to fail at it. It would be creatively laming for any artist worth his salt to believe that the main reason he continued to get roles was because of the preferences of his core fans and not because of the quality of his performances. (For legitimate objections that an artist never performs in the absence of (at least a notional) audience, see section below on “getting work.”) In such a situation, anyone even slightly introspective would wonder about the quality of his performances in a spectrum outside fan love, or alternately, if he’d have to force himself to channel his artistic growth into channels that his fans already approved to keep working. If he’s who he seems to be in interviews, I’m sure Armitage doesn’t want us praising his new work on the basis of his earlier performances or because many of us have grown to like him based on what we think we’ve learned about him personally. The artist who wants to improve has to sort through the criticism he gets, consider the source, and incorporate what’s accurate and helpful into his performances — or not. If he doesn’t go through the process of sifting genuine and relevant responses to his work, he will lose the capacity to surprise us or enchant us with his skills in new ways. The price of artistic freedom is inherent insecurity — a mood that drives one on to try to get better and better. But the necessary preconditions for Armitage’s artistic growth — especially the freedom to take risks that may not always provoke universal applause — also neutralize his right to hurt feelings about our reactions to his work. If he is going to please and satisfy himself as an actor, he has to focus on matters beyond pleasing and satisfying us. He’s absolutely right that as an actor, he can’t also be a “hopeless people-pleaser” to his fans.
Now, I’m not worried about staleness with Armitage at the moment: I am regularly so surprised by his work that I have to watch or listen to it repeatedly to make sure I’ve gotten everything that’s there. I’m just stating that appreciation circumscribed by mutual autonomy is the only real basis for the actor / fan relationship. Fans did a lot for Mr. Armitage at the beginning of his career, via a spontaneous burst of enthusiasm for a job well done, and then by giving him an internet presence that initially well dwarfed the significance of his career and certainly enhanced awareness of his work more quickly than it might have spread otherwise. And he’s expressed his sincere appreciation for fan support many times in ways that suggest that he understands the role that fans played in setting him on a particular professional trajectory. But you know what? He’s said at least once that he sees the turning point in his career as Sparkhouse, because it marked a new approach for him in pursuing a role. Even more: fans didn’t get him the role we probably see as the turning point: Mr. Thornton. He did that all by himself. He said once in an interview that he thought having a following helped, but even at that point it didn’t get him everything he wanted –films, for example– and he talked about the role, not the fans, putting him on the map. Presumably he still had to audition for roles afterward and he still may. So gratitude for fan support should not and cannot mean extending power over his creative choices to fans — even those who might think they know better than he does what he’s doing — and that includes me. If he can’t act freely, then I have no chance of evaluating his acting freely. Of course I have preferences. I have a right to my opinion, but that’s all it can ever be in his life: my opinion. None of us have any right in the universe to any hurt feelings at all about any of his choices.
John Porter (Richard Armitage) indicates on a map where Sister Bernadette should go in order to cross the border to South Africa in Strike Back 1.4. My cap. Can’t resist pointing out that this is a nice thumb shot. They turn up everywhere once you start looking.
Still, constant questions about his fans in interviews (and our responses to his answers — did anyone like being called motherly or protective? Thankfully he stopped saying that by the time of the Spooks 9 publicity) point out that we stand in an atypical relationship to him, one engendered not least by Mr. Armitage’s unusual awareness of and generosity to his fans after the broadcast of North & South. So it’s not surprising that many of us might feel a reciprocal obligation, one that hems our willingness to respond with complete candor to his career choices. I’ve had at least a half-dozen conversations off blog about Strike Back in which the consensus was simultaneously “he is so much better than that lousy script” and “I’m not sure it’s fair / kind to say that.” RAFrenzy expressed comparable reservations about the scripting of Lucas North’s entire character arc on Spooks yesterday (I haven’t had time to read this very closely, but the discussion is interesting. I think I disagree with her, but I’ll have to put that off as I want to finish writing this post!). I feel some of that myself, insofar as I thought after reading the Sunday Express interview that his statements about the lack of attractive drama scripts might have applied indirectly to his own perceived capacity to choose projects he really liked. I concluded privately that perhaps it’s not fair to criticize because John Porter might not have been his first choice of roles. However he felt about it, though, — and the full cut of the first Donald Stephenson interview, I believe, mentioned that his first reaction to the project was negative — he didn’t stray from the course once he had chosen it. He did a great job of selling Strike Back as potential art, full of ethical conflict (of this, more below, in the section on what constitutes art), but — as he noted himself — it was something that the audience that discovered him in North & South was not automatically inclined to like. It wasn’t that we couldn’t be moved there, as RAFrenzy noted several times (once here). She said something smart that I can’t put my mouse on but that’s been ringing in my ears about how Mr. Armitage understood that the audiences that would come along with him from his previous projects needed Strike Back to be more than an action flick. I do think his remarks about Strike Back suggest that he was making a good faith effort to explain to us how a project so out of the average North & South fan’s comfort zone fit into his own professional and artistic trajectory. That was considerate of him. But even so, he shouldn’t have to plead for our understanding. Conversely, if those of us who write or comment about him feel strongly that the roles he’s taking are problematic, we should feel no bounds beyond those of common courtesy on stating exactly that. I don’t mean to delegitimate his marketing effort for Strike Back, which made sense to me and which I think played well, despite a definition of “atonement” that was rather loosy-goosey for anyone who knows much about the theological meaning of that word, and a resulting rhetorical confusion about who exactly was atoning for what, as Ann Marie noted. I simply want to reiterate that given my understanding of the artist – fan relationship as sketched above, both sides have to feel autonomous in terms of their judgments.
But to come back to the beginning of this past, which pondered the recent emergence of this question: why now? It wasn’t because Strike Back was universally disliked; on the contrary, my reading of the response to it in Armitageworld was that the many luscious views of Mr. Armitage’s body nearly made up in the eyes of many readers for any failings in the script. There was the nagging problem of feelings of manipulation, of the show’s appeal to base instinct, and I wrestled with this myself. (Of this, also more below in the section on “beauty”). As this discussion of his career path emerged, it wasn’t immediately apparent what his next project after Spooks 9 might be, so there was opportunity for a lot of speculative chatter. Certainly, his career appears to be at a crossroads, as the sequence of roles in Robin Hood, Spooks, and Strike Back suggests that he’s hit a summit in terms of the number of screens he can control simultaneously on UK television at any one time. (One interviewer made a nice joke about this, suggesting that Armitage could hold the BBC primetime lineup for ransom. Armitage responded in quite vivid terms that this responsibility would be too much pressure.)
My own guess, though, is that the discussion is emerging now in this particular form because, although he must have been making choices all along about what to audition for, and maybe very recently about which roles to accept that he was offered without having to audition, this is one of the first moments in his career where we can see that he must be having to choose between different projects. As a consequence, we now have the freedom to disagree with his choices as opposed to parroting a central dogma of Armitageworld, to wit: we just want him to keep working, to be able to see him in anything. Because Strike Back was renewed for 10 more episodes, it is common consensus, his commitment to that will limit the amount of time that Mr. Armitage can devote to stuff that many of us already know we like better — Spooks 10, if Lucas North doesn’t get killed, maimed, or fired during the current series — or think we would — like “The Rover,” which would be a satisfying move back in the direction of North & South and of his RSC roots. As we puzzle over the extent of his freedom to make choices at this particular moment (one assumes that he was contracted to continue in SB if it was renewed), week after week, voicework appeared –an audiobook, a radio broadcast, auto, sports, and jewelry advertisements, documentary voiceovers– all of which seemed to suggest that rather than planning to surprise us with a new production in the genre of high art, Armitage might be working around the clock at a number of things that look suspiciously like piecework. And there’s no break for him on the horizon. Anyone who was already skeptical about Strike Back because of its doubtful artistic merit is potentially even more bothered by the information that gradually trickled out about Mr. Armitage’s role as the German villain Heinz Krüger in the upcoming Captain America film. It’s not that he’s abandoned art: this year we heard Clarissa and Symphony of a City, and he was great in both. But they were not screen or stage productions. His Spotlight showreel (which doesn’t include any work completed after Robin Hood 3) still ends with the proposal scene in North & South, but it begins with a(n attractively crafted) sequence that manages to make even Mr. Thornton look edgy and seems to set him up as an action specialist. His continual repetition of the refrain of his interest in selling a retelling of the Richard III story notwithstanding, it is not entirely unreasonable to conclude that Richard Armitage is starting to look like someone who wants to do action roles and projects that fall under the rubric of “entertainment,” instead of the actor that the fans who used their computers to catapult him to public attention in 2004 thought he was: a dramatic artist with the potential to become the next great interpreter of Shakespeare — or at the very least, an ongoing competitor worthy of Colin Firth for favorite period drama lead.
A map (hidden under a VHS cassette) is one of the objects that give clues to Lucas North / John’s mysterious past in Spooks 9.2. My cap.
As a good academic writer, I always trace what others think and then comment on it critically before presenting my own stance, which is generally much harder to pinpoint. Now I have to write what I think about all of this from my situation as interpreter of what I know of Mr. Armitage’s career. On a simple level, should I admit to reservations about Strike Back? Or about any other project? If so, on what basis? Can I sign on to any reservations about the direction his career is taking? And if so, should I express them? And what about (I write, trying to avoid raising my left hand to my face in imitation of Lucas North’s “extreme emotional distress” signal) his acting itself?
I joked recently that the love language of Servetus is “close analysis.” The more I love something, the more closely I’ll look at it, and the more I’ll write. Thinking via synecdoche has been my pattern since I was a child: what does the detail tell us about the whole? (I’ll also keep wearing an awful piece of clothing just because it has a detail that I really love.) Moreover, for reasons closely connected to my personal issues for writing it, and because of the mechanisms by means of which Armitage has influenced me most deeply, a great deal of the analysis concerning him presented on this blog has been about “how.” How an effect is established, how Mr. Armitage performs, how a scene is put together, how a costume fits, how his eyes or his body move. There’s a component of “why” there as well: why I find a still picture or a scene compelling, for example. I write about myself in terms of “what” and “whither,” and I’ve commented on things like how we can know “who he is” and my own identification with Mr. Armitage that get to content issues, but even these posts have mostly been constructed as analyses of rhetoric rather than evaluations of anything I assert to be real. I’ve been reluctant to make normative recommendations on larger issues, beyond things like what he should be looking for in a suit. That doesn’t mean I haven’t; aside from the discussion about what he should say about his fans, I speculated that he might have good reasons for taking ad work; I expressed no regret about his detachment from the Charlie project, and I’ve said in a few places that I assume that the primary purpose of Captain America is networking as opposed to artistic merit or professional trajectory. Except occasionally, “me + richard armitage” hasn’t been about the really big questions, and I envy writers who can easily take on that kind of question. (It’s an issue that’s bedeviled me as an academic writer, too.)
So I think that readers of this blog would have a case for claiming that –despite all the analytical detail– I’ve abandoned the viewpoint of objective observer, since I have never written anything strongly negative about Mr. Armitage except, perhaps, as regards his clothing choices, and have never been more than mildly negative about moments in his work that I don’t care for, and even that I do very rarely. Believe it or not, though, I actually do have some negative evaluations of moments in his work! Now, I don’t have anywhere near the time to write or develop every thought I have. I have notes and notes and notes of stuff to write here — and on any given day I pick the theme that fits my mood or the time I have available. So readers shouldn’t discount the possibility that more negative criticism might eventually appear. Admittedly I am usually writing to cheer myself up, reassure myself, or vent, and fingerpointing at Armitage’s flaws as an actor has never fit into those needs especially well.
Photo: Servetus — really just a propagandist for Richard Armitage
As an explanation for why I haven’t yet written much like that, though, more important is my feeling that all evaluation occurs in a particular context; this is an insight that follows upon so many years spent teaching. I taught for my first time in a Sunday School class as a newly-confirmed fourteen-year-old, and so I have been thinking about how to reach learners for 2/3 of my life. Now, I am not trying to teach Mr. Armitage anything. But the pattern of “first praise, then blame,” the mantra of successful grading, has ground its way deep into my synapses. My awareness of this state of mind suggests to me that I will be more likely to offer negative comments about any of his work as moments of a longer analysis — when I am noticing them as part of a particular question I’ve asked — than as a separate theme. Errors (apart from moral ones) are always errors in context; what is right in one place can be wrong in another. Seek to understand before you judge — one of the most important lessons I’ve learned in the classroom. I’m not ready to pardon everything I understand, even as a teacher, but I do find that it trying to understand enriches my appreciation of my students’ work. That may not be the most helpful approach for writing succinct blog posts, but that is who I am: as writer, teacher, and critic. So the final question is the easiest to answer: would I criticize his acting? Yes. If I felt it were warranted. In context. After I had sought to understood what he was doing on the basis of what I could grasp were his own terms.
The other four questions are the same question, and the answer(s) are a bit more complex. So that I can be understood, if not pardoned, I’ll first offer the answer, and then reasons why I give it. Though I can’t guarantee how I’ll feel in six months, I am pretty sure at this point — unless Mr. Armitage starts making sn*ff, or something else that I find morally objectionable (that is, beyond “just” troubling)– that he’s not going to to be likely to get criticism from me on the basis of either genre or the scripts of the work he takes. (I consider a test case for this assertion below.) Now, I have and will continue to point out script problems, but I am going to be more interested in how effectively he deals with them in his performances than I will in arguing that a weak script was a reason not to take a role. I reiterate the position I sketched above: I read with interest the arguments of those who make such arguments, I think I understand where they are coming from, and in line with my notion of their actor / fan relationship, I not only support their right to make them, I can think of good reasons why they might be helpful to Mr. Armitage’s self-understanding as an actor. Not only that: I suspect that many readers of this blog are more likely to agree with those kinds of critiques than with the position I explain below. It seems inevitable that if Mr. Armitage continues making TV drama and action pieces rather than projects that are considered more “artistically significant” following conventional judgments, that the number of people making them (particularly among that initial group of fans and/or among those who came to Armitage fandom via North & South) will increase rather than decrease. In line with my comments above: whether to respond or react to that sentiment is his problem — though in my opinion, not his obligation. In the next post, however, I will make the opposite case, which underlines some important analytical principles for understanding the judgments I articulate on this blog.
[Sorry — don’t mean to leave you in medias res — this just got way too long for words.]
~ by Servetus on October 7, 2010.
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150 Responses to “Mr. Armitage, his fans, our pursuit of “great art,” and me as critic, part 1”
Yup, he looks happy, but keep in mind, he’s an ACTOR
mren said this on October 8, 2010 at 12:27 am | Reply
Yes, certainly. In modern society we have all learned to smile when our heart is breaking. This picture is also extremely blurry. But my phrase was not “here he’s happy,” but rather, “he looks as happy as I’ve ever seen him.” 🙂
Servetus,
There is also a scan up at RANet from a Woman’s Own article that shows Richard reacting to something Max has told him on the Spooks set. If that isn’t a genuine belly laugh he’s giving, then I will eat that big black hat of mine RA Frenzy likes so much.
I love people who can laugh like that, actors or no.
angieklong said this on October 8, 2010 at 4:19 pm | Reply
That does look like a great laugh. Then again, sometimes we laugh for reasons other than to indicate our pleasure 🙂 such as to support someone or make them feel welcome/understood, etc. I think the point is true that we can’t learn anything definitive from pictures, but I feel inclined to defend my stance as analyzing appearances on this blog as opposed to reality … 🙂
That’s fine by me. I love looking at that picture (and he’s fully clothed, too!) He looks like someone I would like to know as opposed to simply Mr. Gorgeous to drool over.
That’s one of the things I love about him, he seems such a nice guy, the kind I’d like to have as a friend.
OneMoreLurker said this on October 11, 2010 at 6:46 am | Reply
Great post, perhaps in part because it expresses so much of what i have been thinking. ( ;
First off–he does look very happy in that photo, doesn’t he? And I do so dearly want this fellow who has brought me so much pleasure to find happiness and satisfaction in his personal as well as his professional life.
Secondly–I am with you at this point. Unless he does start making nothing but dreck I’m not really prepared to take potshots at his career choices, because so far it seems to me he always does the best he can with what his is given to work with and makes something more, much more, quite often, than meets the eye at first glance. He is still surprising and enchanting me.
You well know how much I love the character of John Porter as crafted by Richard. You also know how unhappy I was with some elements of the scripts and how I hope some of those elements will be addressed in the second series. Since I am a fan fic writer aside from being a journalist by profession, I worked through some of my dissatisfaction with underwritten characters and lack of background by writing my own version, thank you very much.
I am glad you pointed out Sparkhouse because in my opinion, that was truly RA’s breakthrough role. I came to know him through RH initially, but then watched N&S, VoD and Sparkhouse (not necessarily in that order) in quick succession.
I can easily understand why legions of fans flocked to him from N&S (It’s the first piece of his work I purchased to share with my older sisters), but he’d been working and toiling away at his profession for years prior to that and yes, he did it himself.
We the fans didn’t earn him the role of Thornton anymore than we did his subsequent roles.
And while he has always been, I think, very good to his fan base, I don’t want him to think he has to please us with his career choices.
It frankly bothers me that a few fans seem to think that should be able to dictate to Richard which roles he should take.
It is his career, after all, and not ours; he is not obligated to us in any way that I can see. Would I like to see him in another good period drama? Absolutely. Would I like to see him in a well-scripted contemporary love story with comedic elements (note I did NOT say a rom-com)? Definitely. Would the possibility of me begging, borrowing and stealing to see him on stage in The Rover or a similar project send frissons of delight through me? Oh, yes. I would also dearly love to hear him in more radio plays like Clarissa.
But I will leave those decisions to him. And rest assured, I will make my way to The Edge to see him in Captain America (I agree, I am pretty sure it’s a networking move, not because he wants to do comic-book movies the rest of his career).
Because watching Richard Armitage at work continues to fascinate me, even when the vehicle is not my first choice of roles for him.
angieklong said this on October 8, 2010 at 12:49 am | Reply
I don’t wish Mr. Armitage limited to any genre. I have a love of “period” stuff. Not action stuff – but. We have to pay the rent. And the BMW 🙂 As well as liking much contemporary (And murder-mystery stuff! William Monk and Anne Perry!) I did a lot of acting in the teen years, and I’m intro, not extra, and never for a minute considered acting as a career). So I don’t know how you go through these voyages.
I have very great respect, as well as enjoyment in, theatre/acting/screen. This actor is too good to be wasted, and I just hope his managers and agents present him with better “stuff” in the future. “Cause until next month, I can’t judge SB. But Captain America boggles my limited mind. As Geraldine might say, “Please God, NO!!” Just my limited mind…
fitzg said this on October 8, 2010 at 12:56 am | Reply
He won’t have all the time he did to create an amazing full-blown character as he did with evil henchman Guy in RH, but hopefully our RA can work his magic with Nazi bad boy Heinz Kruger, too, @fitzg. We can but hope. *grin* Will be interested to hear what you think of SB and John Porter when it arrives up North.
angieklong said this on October 8, 2010 at 1:03 am | Reply
I agree with servetus that he does CA (apart from the money and the fun it must be) for networking purposes and three cheers to him for that! I had a feeling that he was comfortable with his TV career and would never try to move beyond that. A bigger role in a TV piece might be more satisfying for both the audience and the actor and this small role might never lead to anything or only lead to a string of small baddie parts but at least it bears a CHANCE that it will lead to bigger and better things in a way a TV production never could. So for a change he is actually taking a risk that may or may not pay off instead of going for the save option. I’m much happier with CA than SB even if all we instantly get will be three minutes in a movie I probably won’t even watch!
Jane said this on October 8, 2010 at 3:39 pm | Reply
Your last line made me smile, Jane. 🙂
But isn’t it exciting to let your admiration for an actor take you into new avenues, Jane? Since Christmas I have discovered fanvids and fan fic and watched films that I might not have thought I’d enjoy. Having three sons has actually exposed me to a lot of films of the Strike Back variety, but due to Richard’s portrayal of John Porter I have allowed myself to enter this world with a different attitude. It has even extended to reading articles about Afghanistan with a sharpened sense of interest.
I’ll watch CA and probably discover a whole new world through that 🙂
Just reading Servetus’ blog leads to all sorts of new thoughts, too. I’m sorely missing a bit more phwoar, Servetus, but I’m sure you’ve got more in store of us soon.
MillyMe said this on October 8, 2010 at 5:10 pm | Reply
Yes, probably. After all, comic book movies are “cult” and I have never bothered the slightest do explore what it is all about. On the CA blogs certainly are people that are passionate about this movie and take it all very seriously, just like we take RA related stuff more seriously than we should.
I never thought I would like a series like Spooks but I did. I bought all previous series after RA joined to see what it is all about and was hooked. I also never thought that I would enjoy a series like Doctor Who and I love it!
I have issues with SB because I really dislike the sight of uniforms and machine guns and contemporary and real military settings. It disgusts me to see RA in combat gear and posing with a gun. I can deal with it better when it is a historical/fantasy setting. And I am determined to regard CA as a fantasy movie, not a WWII movie and RA’s character as a fantasy baddie. Otherwise I would have a real problem with it.
I strongly believe that all those not so “artsy” shows have to be judged and enjoyed from what they are meant to be and that it is not fair to blame them because they are not what they don’t claim to be. (And I really enjoy that this blog does not do that!) However, there are choices I would be happier with and I cannot stop asking why his career has taken this turn.
Ultimately it is not the genre or the type of character. As much as I would enjoy another romantic hero in a period drama, it doesn’t have to be that. I would be very happy with the ugly, damaged character he threatens us with.
Jane, you certainly have every right to dislike military uniforms and guns and all that is involved with that.
I don’t love war and bloodshed myself. I have often said if there was more dialogue established and less greed and desire for glory, there would be less war.
However, I am also the wife of a former military officer who served his country very faithfully for 12 years. He was a USAF Emergency War Orders training instructor and you didn’t want him to have a bad day at work, because it would have meant nuclear war and the end of the world as we know it. My father also served during WW II and all my brothers-in-law served honorably in the military as well.
I loved seeing my husband in uniform, including the dress uniform he wore to marry me all those years ago. I should also add he is one of the kindest and gentlest human beings I have ever known.
No offence to anyone who has loved ones in the military. It is just a gut feeling I cannot help, not a political statement.
I completely understand the feeling. Most of my German friends feel the same way, incidentally.
I wouldn’t really call comic book movies ‘cult’ as that implies an enthusiastic but small audience for them which is not the case since comic book movies have been mainstream box office draws for many years, often breaking box office records. The Captain America movie is huge, believe me, and it will raise Richard’s profile in the US massively, no matter how small the role.
kaprekar said this on October 8, 2010 at 11:59 pm | Reply
You’re right, Kaprekar. Look at the success of the Iron Man movies, which are part of the Marvel Comics group spawning Captain America.
I quite enjoyed the first Iron Man (as did most critics, I recall), although the second one depended too much on special effects in neglect of the story. I’m sure Hubby will want to see CA with his interest in WWII in particular, which I happen to share, and I certainly will look forward to seeing RA on the big screen, even if for only a brief time. Baby steps . . . and the raising of RA’s profile here in the US would be great.
After all, it was a kiddie show called Robin Hood that led me to watch N&S and Sparkhouse and VoD . . .
Did you hear that interview, Jane, in which he stated that he had the right to reject ad images of him for the series and he stated that he didn’t want those big bulletin board pictures to include him holding a gun? He said it was because SB was about more than that, but it really, really warmed my heart. I wrote a post about it at the time. I think he must have had his own ambivalence about that level of the role.
John Porter really is damaged, and the script indicates that, although not always with a lot of force or subtlety. I think (if I understand you correctly?) that you are right that to some extent his beauty interferes with our perception of that.
Oh, I definitely think there was an ambivalence there for RA and thank goodness he played the role because I really don’t think I would feel about JP the way I do, if a lesser actor had played him and not given him the subtleties, the heart and soul beneath the uniform, that Richard provided.
I have imagined Richard would have enjoyed the uglification JP underwent in the original novel–missing finger, missing teeth, the wear and tear of sleeping rough and drinking your way through the day takes on a body.
Indeed, maybe hoping he’d get to be uglier was one reason to take the role.
servetus said this on October 11, 2010 at 12:08 am | Reply
And then they went and prettied him up again, bless his heart.
I think he said they kept him ‘in good shape’ because of time. In the film, in a matter of a couple of days he was ‘reactivated’ and in the operation team. If he would have been ugly and barely sober wouldn’t have been believable to be in shape for it in 2 days.
Yeah, this is the most unconvincing aspect of the book — that they get someone who’s been homeless and alcoholic for a decade together, rehabilitated and activated in 48 hours. The plot discrepancies are myriad.
I love your enthusiasm, Milly, it is going to keep you young and it really helps me with the fan fic writing, too.
I agree, it says something about the capacity to love and the regenerating force within one’s personality when one can get so excited. One reason for me writing all this stuff is that Mr. Armitage reawakened a piece of that in me. I’m so grateful.
I’m grateful, too. Benny sometimes teases me about girlish glee over things, the way I wax rhapsodic over our pets and even him, but I think he actually likes it.
When we were going through those years when every time the phone rang at an odd time, we were afraid it was one of our parents with some new crisis–well, I lost some of that. And then part of me died when they died, I think.
But Mr. A provided such good therapy and helped lift some of that burden from my shoulders. And I will always be thankful for that.
I’ll try to get in some more phwoar soon, MillyMe. Part of it was that I felt like I went a little overboard on that during the summer, part is probably that I am now reintegrated into the university world and thus living in a more “elevated” atmosphere. But no worries, phwoar is still definitely on the agenda. 🙂
I think this point about how drama causes you to be interested in things that passed you by otherwise is a really intriguing one. I feel that way about Zimbabwe, now, actually. It was just a footnote in my lectures about colonialism and decolonization in western civ, but now I have a colleague from there, and then seeing that episode has really made me not only more interested in the topic of what’s going on there (which is really frightening), but also more evaluative / critical of what I do learn.
Drama can become a part of our learning experience.
Becoming interested in RA’s characters has lead me to do more reading (which I do a lot of, anyway) on medieval history, Victorian England, espionage, current affairs . . . he’s influenced me in many positive ways. *grin*
A little phwoar now and again keeps Jill from being a dull girl, methinks.
What the heck is phwoar…I feel like sometimes I need a decoder ring…?
@Ann Marie:
“The definition of PHWOAR is “Acknowledgement that a person is fit, sexy, hot”
from InternetSlang.com
This reveals just how shallow I can be when it comes to Mr Armitage, as Servetus and readers of this blog will know. 🙂 I do not apologise for my appreciation of physical beauty in regards to his person as I greatly appreciate his talent and personality as well. The man is the complete package when it comes to actors IMHO.
MillyMe said this on October 11, 2010 at 4:59 am | Reply
And you know how much I love that total package, too, MillyMe.
He’s a keeper!!
@MillyMe, thanks for the definition. No apology necessary as I could not agree more that he has the complete package. I appreciate most that he is not “pretty boy” handsome but more of a adult masculine (and in some roles, alpha male-ish without the artificial “body-builder” look) build.
I remember during the promos for SB he talked quite a bit about the training he underwent so that he would look like a “soldier” and not a “bodybuilder”.
I though it interesting that the promos and appearances for Spooks 9 showed him leaner and more slender (his natural tendency) than SB. I’ve also noticed that those Prada button downs disguise his physique than those sexy tees (black, oh my) that he wears as Lucas.
Thanks again for the definition. I learn so much in this class! 🙂
Ann Marie said this on October 11, 2010 at 10:52 am | Reply
My guess, based on what I know about you, fitzg, is that you will say “why is he in this?” and yet nonetheless find things to like about his performance in it. In any case, the closest the script lets him come to a long dramatic monologue is in the very last episode, so you’ll have to hang on until then, I think. 🙂
But I agree, on the face of it, he looked really happy here. How much do we read into it? Probably not not as much we might wish, We weren’t there.
Just the limited, cautious mind working here.
And, he does make me melt, so not quite THAT cautious…
fitzg said this on October 8, 2010 at 1:06 am | Reply
Speaking of melting and similar effects, someone elsewhere said considering the amount of tingles he sends through women’s bodies on a daily basis, he could be considered a one-man powerhouse!
Yeah, they can plug him into the grid in California the next time they are threatened with rolling blackouts. 🙂
“The Body Electric”
I think we have to consider the reality of the business that Richard Armitage is in, and it is a business. We don’t know what he’s being offered and what, if anything, he’s turning down. We may think he’s being offered his pick of Shakesperean roles and period dramas,when the reality, regardless of what he or we want, may be entirely different. Unless he has or finds the money to produce on his own (Richard III as an example of a wonderful idea in need of money) he’s at the mercy of producers, directors, and casting people seeking to hire him. Sometimes it’s just a matter of luck. He’s talked a great deal about how he struggled for a decade before he was in any way successful. I find this so difficult to believe given his good looks and that voice, but for a long time he couldn’t get work. So I don’t blame him at all now for constantly working and taking advantage of being in demand now. He’s probably just now making real money with RH and Spooks. It may be romantic to be a starving artist, unless you’re the one “starving”. I agree that I also think he’s doing Captain America because he’s been trying for a long time to break into the US TV/Movie world, part of the career success he seeks, and so here’s his first job in a Hollywood film, and yes, of course, he’s doing it to get his foot in the door, so he can hopefully be offered better roles. From his interviews I think he yearns himself to do work that’s more artistically fulfilling. I don’t see or think this has changed. This would certainly be wonderful for him, and great for us. We can hope and wish him well.
Musa said this on October 8, 2010 at 2:22 am | Reply
Excellent point, Musa. This also ran across my mind, but I was writing far too much as it was.
There are trends in what’s popular and “hot” as far as what producers and publisher, et al. are looking for. There is an author whose period mysteries featuring Irene Adler from the Sherlock Holmes stories I adore and have re-read several times.
She was asked in an interview why she hadn’t written another entry in the series and she said publishers just weren’t looking for that particular type of book right now (so she has a paranormal series going . . .) You can’t act in what isn’t there or isn’t offered to you. Plain and simple.
I, too, find it hard to believe Richard struggled so hard but he did, and it has to be satisfying for him to finally feel some degree of financial stability. (I think in part he had to grow into his amazing good looks and truly become comfortable with himself; he doesn’t fit the typical pretty boy leading man, certainly, and thank goodness he doesn’t).
I do hope and wish him all the very best and that the bigger and better roles will come, and in the meantime, that he will have satisfaction and enjoyment in all his current projects. I am thrilled success is coming to him and don’t blame him either for taking the audio work along with the TV roles. It can’t hurt to have that delicious voice out there as much as possible . . .
Wow, I didn’t realize that she had stopped writing Irene Adler because publishers didn’t want it — that’s so sad, as it’s an established series and those are excellent books. And I’ve never been able to get into the paranormal stuff with any enthusiasm.
Yey, you’re a Carole Nelson Douglas fan, too, Servetus! I read the first book because I am a Sherlock Holmes fan from my early teens, and I got hooked on her books. I was really saddened to hear there wasn’t a new one in the works. I also enjoy her Midnight Louie series (well, of course, they feature a gumshoe cat, what’s not to love?!)
I read some reviews of her new paranormal series and they were very mixed. Lots of people commented the editing was extremely bad, which again surprised me.
I do admired the fact she has written and published in several genres: historical mystery, contemporary mystery with fantasy elements, sci-fi/fantasy and paranormal. I would love to be as prolific and versatile as she is.
Yes, this is very important. I talk about it at length in the end of the post that I didn’t publish yesterday, so I’ll just agree with you here and not comment if that’s ok with you.
If he’s not offered Shakespeare or period drama or high quality contemporary drama (as opposed to “entertaining” drama) it might be a valid question to ask WHY? After all there are actors who are offered those parts. The obvious answer is that he wasn’t available because for the last few years he has continuously worked on TV series. But could he have gotten such parts if he were free to take them?
I’d really like to know this, too. There are a lot of questions on my mind:
1. Are there physical strictures on being case in a stage lead? Is he just too tall, as he was apparently too tall for musical theatre?
2. Is it that he just can’t even get to those auditions? That the people involved in casting for those things have a shortlist of actors they want to consider and he’s not on it (yet, or still)?
3. Is it that he’s not an ace auditioner?
4. Is it that given the risk-averse features of his personality, he prefers not to try for productions that are less likely to be successful than the kind of thing he does on tv, which is backed by huge audiences and large ad budgets?
5. Is doing so much tv (with its emphasis on editing, short cuts, etc.) affecting his acting skills in the realm of stage material, where the actor must hold the audience’s attention for long periods of time with voice and acting as opposed to closeup?
6. Are people who cast for the stage suspicious of an actor who has such a significant “popular” following?
7. Since he’s had the classical training with LAMDA and the RSC, etc., is it just that his particular skills in acting are not the kind that lend themselves to the lead role in a classical or contemporary drama? I’m not saying “that he’s not good enough,” but that the skills he has don’t fit well with this sort of piece?
I’ve been thinking about this. We would lose some of what many of us love in his screen performances if he stuck strictly to stage performances–the micro-expressions, those tiny but telling details that would be lost on the vastness of a stage.
And perhaps you are right, his impressive skills in acting might not lend themselves to certain types of roles. That certainly doesn’t make him less of a fine actor, but it might limit the venues in which he best shines . . .
Well, we’d have to see how he addressed the challenge of the stage with the audience very far away from the actor’s face. Presumably, he could adapt. One thing I notice in Ultimate Force is how (relatively) open his expressional repertoire is — much more so than in later stuff. It’s like he saw himself on TV and toned it down.
Good point. It’s been a while since I watched UF, but thinking back I can see what you mean.
Obviously people who move back and forth between screen and stage must learn how to adapt and scale down performances for the screen.
Very late to respond, no sure if still anyone is around. I was not necessarily asking about stage productions. As people that run theatres have to fill their seats I don’t even think that being a popular name from TV is a disadvantage, quite the contrary. Many popular TV actor to stage work, in the UK it seems to be relative easily to move between stage, TV and movies yet he does not do it. I was more asking about high quality, serious, awards worthy TV productions. As I mentioned somewhere else, they always seem to cast Matthew Macfayden.
I think each role he takes adds something to his repertoire or provides the opportunity to learn a new acting skill, try out a different media, work with a particular actor or director (and cultivating those connections can’t be bad) or simply just want to try something to see if he’s like it. He has come from a dancing banana to Lucas North and John Porter (scripts not withstanding, large budget and publicity).
I can already see the effect of his Porter training on how Lucas manages his weapons (maybe its because he is still a little built up from the Porter role) but he moves with a masculine, assured grace (I think servetus commented on this after Episode one) that wasn’t as prevalent before Porter. I think, simplistically, in some ways acting as a career can be like other careers in that each job or position we take gives us an opportunity to learn or take something from it whether it be a new skill (How I learned EXCEL) and my current student information system or a new management skill or a connection and even a best friend. And sometimes you just build experience and clout.
So, I want the dear man to keep on working because even when the script is bad or the show is over the top I sit enthralled watching him on screen, not an actor playing the part but the living, breathing character. And sometimes, its just more fun to see what he can do with less lofty roles. Although I have decided that the time for gratuitous nudity has passed. ‘Night all…
Ann Marie said this on October 8, 2010 at 4:36 am | Reply
Exactly, so, Ann Marie. All the different hats I have worn in my various jobs–and as a community journalist in a recession, I have to wear a lot because the staff is small and the county, big–have taught me something new and different.
I can write a fine obituary, a heart-wrenching human interest story, an amusing column, a strictly-by-the-books town council meeting, a whimsical story about Super Saturday at the Library . . . (and thanks to Mr. A’s constant inspiration, do some pretty nifty fan fic writing, I like to think).
Surely all Richard’s roles are broadening his acting repertoire and enriching his experiences. And yeah, Lucas has definitely been enhanced in his action scenes by John Porter, without a doubt.
The actor George Kennedy once said about the great Jimmy Stewart, “even if the picture wasn’t great, you knew it would be worth watching because Jimmy was in it.”
That pretty much sums up how I feel about dear Mr. A.
@Angie..
Yes, you do write some really nifty fanfic (I believe I’ve read most of everything you’ve posted around) and With Mr. A for inspiration its o wonder.
The quote about Jimmy Stewart (coincidentally my favorite actor of that era) is EXACTLY right about I feel about Mr. A.! You hit it dead on. Thank you!
Ann Marie said this on October 8, 2010 at 12:59 pm | Reply
@Ann Marie,
Thanks for your shout-out. Mr. A is directly responsible for me dipping into fiction writing, something I had toyed with before but never seriously, until he came into my life and started inspiring me, first as Guy and then as Lucas and currently, as John Porter.
I also love Jimmy Stewart in every thing from “It’s a Wonderful Life” to “Harvey” and all those Hitchcock movies.
I caught that quote about him from a piece on Turner Classic Movies (another fav) and thought how that suited the way I felt about Richard. Wouldn’t it have been great to see those two on the screen together?
Yes it would. Interesting that one of the articles posted up yesterday he mentions a good night in with a classic movie, North by Northwest. Wasn’t that a Jimmy Stewart movie (I used to know them all and loved them)?
North by Northwest featured Cary Grant (and I was absolutely thrilled to see it was a favorite of his as I am a huge Hitchcock fan and NbN is one of my favs–I used to live in Rapid City where the climactic scene is held and visited Mount Rushmore many times.)
However, Jimmy was in Rope, Vertigo and Rear Window–all great Hitchcock movies.
How odd, I lived in Rapid City for 10 months. First full weekend there, July 4th, got caught in a hailstorm in the Black Hills, a few thousand dollars in damage on the Blazer, it was a dimpled as golf ball. Should have seen the omen.
Oh, the hailstorms were nasty there. I was there three years and one time the hailstorm was so bad there was baseball-sized hail–it left our Chevy out at the base with more damage than it was worth, broke out lots of windows in base housing and killed some poor dog. Growing up in south Alabama, I had never seen hail larger than golf ball-sized. My husband was stationed at Ellsworth. First Blizzard I ever experienced was there. Three days trapped in our house without light and heat. Oh, the stories I could tell . . .
Word. The point about John Porter improving Lucas is especially well taken, I think. It’s really, really clear that Lucas is a lot more physically confident in Spooks 9 than he was in the previous series — he’s “in” his body in a different way, and that has to be due to playing John Porter.
I’ll address nudity in the next post, so for now I’ll just say “this is an important question.”
Ah, I was wondering if you would tackle the ‘getting his kit off’ question.
Re JP’s influence on Lucas, I think some of viewer’s concepts of Lucas being more Alpha male this series is due in part to that new confidence and energy playing John has brought to Richard’s portrayal of Lucas (or should we say, John version 5.0?)
It’s as if his former dance training and his intense training and workouts to play JP have merged to create this very graceful, athletic and dangerous-looking agent I find totally believable and totally watchable as he handles weapons and races through the streets.
This is a matter of perspective. I think JP and LN are bound to be similar as the roles have similar requirements (which again leads to the question if it was wise to do JP at all) especially now LN is team leader and we see him as the action man in the field a lot (BTW didn’t RA say that this series LN is more grid base and cerebral?). Many people enjoy the Porterish Lucas a lot, but there has been critism of his currently limited range as well.
They are actually the two faces of the special services: MI-5 and MI-6, so yes, there are some similarities.
He did say there would be more cerebral time for Lucas; maybe we just haven’t seen that yet.
As for criticism of his portrayal of Lucas, well, I’ve read that ever since S7. “Wooden, limited, a bad actor, just OK eye candy.”
All of which I completely disagree with.
As you say, a matter of perspective.
I don;t think I understand what you mean as currently limited range. Did you men, physical activity of the role, acting ability? I’m not clear.
It has been mentioned elsewhere that the fact that LN has shades of JP is a kind of disappointment as so far RA has managed to make his character very distinctive in the past. I’m not necessarily in agreement but it is in the nature of the beast that two action men/special agents move in a similar way, use similar expression in similar situations etc. .
Jane said this on October 9, 2010 at 5:11 am | Reply
I’ve thought for almost the entire duration of my Armitagemania that it’s interesting that someone who worked as a dancer for so long seemed / seems at some points in his acting work to struggle with controlling his body. I’ve said numerous times that the most frequent point at which an Armitage characterization will erode is when he’s going up or down stairs. Walking is another point at which there are occasionally problems. He establishes a unique walk for each character, but again he’s not always 100% consistent.
So I think it’s odd that he has some difficulties in this regard. Of course, I’m inclined to defend him just by saying that after all, it is the same body, and once you’ve become comfortable in an action role, it’s probably not attractive to “regress,” i.e., to make Lucas do action scenes the way he did before Armitage played Porter.
I just think it’s odd.
It is interesting. It’s like he’s graceful and gawky all at the same time. There’s still that coltishness you see in some scenes in his roles, as if he’s not quite sure what to do with those long limbs of his.
(admittedly, I find this quality endearing, but it has to hamper him in some roles).
He’s described himself as a late bloomer. It’s almost as if everything is finally failing into place–he’s grown into those unconventional good looks and he’s learning to master that sometimes renegade body, too.
@angie, My dear friend who turned me on to Mr. Armitage in the first place hadn’t had a chance to see SB when she saw some photos of John Porter. She mistakenly though they were photos of Lucas. I corrected her and said, when you’ve seen the SB and Mr. Armitage as John Porter you will clearly see how different he is in either role. The differences are just the body build up of Porter but the face and expressions are completely different than Lucas North. I’ve lent her by SB DVD which she has now seen several times and two days ago her facebook status said, “How could I have ever confused John Porter and Lucas North, they are completely different”!
@ann marie, I can glance at a photo of Lucas or John in civilian clothing and know which character it is–Richard just has an amazing ability to inhabit a role and transform himself, and I don’t just mean by gaining or losing weight, being more or less muscular, changing hairstyle, and so forth.
The way he carries himself, the intonation of his voice, his mannerisms–all these things change in sometimes subtle but undeniable ways. RA is an amazing chameleon as a performer. It is so easy for me in my little Sloth Fiction stories to imagine there are all those separate and distinct Characters roaming around in my den, watching telly, eating my cookies and milk and arguing over who’s had the roughest time of it LOL
I agree that Sloth Fiction is the real proof of this point. Or the Lucas – Guy interactions in TAC.
Aren’t you glad you planted the seed of that idea in my mind, Servetus? *grin*
I remember my beta for TAC commenting how easy it was for her to imagine Lucas and Guy being two separate characters with their own distinct personalities who just happened to bear a striking resemblance to one another. And that’s thanks to the Amazing Mr. A.
What is TAC please?
Sorry, Ann Marie, the full title of that fic is Guy & Rebecca: The Adventure Continues. It’s such a mouthful I generally just refer to it as TAC.
Lucas and Guy get to meet each other in that one.
Thanks, I just saw that this weekend when I was trawling several sites looking for fanfic to read to break up the dissertation jags.
Now, I just need to remember where it was…searching can be half the fun. Thanks for the response. I am definitely not on his fandom’s “inner circle”.
Oh, I figured out why I have such typing and tech difficulties on this blog. Your type comes up sooo teensy tiny that it was very difficult to see at all. Think I have it fixed now.
You’re a member at DF, right, Ann Marie?
That will be the easiest place to find TAC, since it’s all tucked neatly into its own topic thread. There are 11 chapters, as I recall, so it should provide you with a nice little dissertation break. The Zoom In button is very handy, isn’t it? My middle-aged eyes have trouble with the small print, too.
BTW I just posted the final chapter-21- of Truce. Feeling quite a sense of accomplishment there. Still got an epiloque to do, but the difficult part for me as a writer is done. Phew!!
angieklong said this on October 11, 2010 at 4:43 am
Servetus, I am in awe as ever of your ability to take a subject, in this case, RA’s roles, and lead your readers into new and interesting areas. Looking up all your references means learning something about Gary Chapman’ 5 languages of love amongst other things.
In this particular post I would say that I agree wholeheartedly with what you and your posters have written. This boils down to:
“The artist must be free to make his own choices” … within the constrictions of this particular industry which, as we all know, is extremely fickle. Richard may have particular goals for himself, and his fans may wish to see him in particular roles, but there are no guarantees in an industry which is quick to pigeonhole people and where the money often follows the flavour of the month. Many seemingly undeserving individuals achieve great success while other talented souls trudge along, perhaps undiscovered until years later, if at all. Those that know something of the British tv and film industry will be aware that money has always been a problem, and that major cut-backs are the reality. In such a climate, and in view of the fact that the States has not yet materialised as an option, I would say that Richard has done well. He has a wide range of roles under his belt and has acquired skills that will always stand him in good stead wherever his career takes him. The voice-overs and adverts give him a steady income and will be good to fall back on if times ever get hard. You have to establish a name for yourself in that branch as well.
Richard once expressed a wish for himself as actor, to have as many and varied roles as possible. Now he’s started talking of desiring The Elephant Man roles. This is an actor who is committed to his craft and whose further development will be a pleasure to follow.
To end. I have always especially loved pictures of Richard grinning or laughing. He seems to be very fond of a good laugh and it’s one of the most endearing qualities of his personality!
MillyMe said this on October 8, 2010 at 10:25 am | Reply
Aaaw. 🙂 Thanks for the love.
Maybe he should tone down his new teeth a little — make it easier for himself to get “ugly” roles. Or go to an audition after a psoriasis breakout … 🙂
Are there fans that truly believe that Mr. Armitage owes them something? Really? Why do they think that? That doesn’t make sense to me.
@Rob said this on October 8, 2010 at 2:49 pm | Reply
Weird as it may seem, @Rob, yes, there is a small (thankfully) group of Richard’s fans who seem to think they can dictate to him how to behave, what parts to take, etc. because they “made” him.
Excuse me, but it’s HIS talent and HIS hard work and dedication and professionalism that have taken him this far. I, for one, am just very thankful I stumbled upon Robin Hood on BBCA a couple of summers ago and the bad boy caught my eye . . .
@angie, I became enamored of him in North &South BUT then I saw Guy’s black leather-clad swagger, the dark hair, the deep voice, the bluest eyes (man, he made black liner rock!) and THAT was my *THUD* moment.
Guy is the role I saw him as first, and it wasn’t an immediate “Thud” to be honest (although I thought him considerably more to my tastes than Robin) but as I watched I became impressed with what he was doing with the character and oh, yes, my, my–Guy is one sexy, sexy boy. Richard is a man who can wear eyeliner without looking silly or effeminate–simply HOT. And Guy will ALWAYS be my favorite RA character because that is the role that brought the lovely man into my radar. N&S, VoD and Sparkhouse just cemented my belief he was one heck of an actor on top of being very nice to look at.
I don’t want to be accused of creating a straw man here. I think it’s not as transparent as that, that they would say “you owe us another N&S because we followed you all these years.” Afaik no one is saying that. It’s more that I read some commentators as thinking “if you keep doing roles that are not in the genre of what I want to watch, I’m going to stop watching you.” That’s entirely fair, and I don’t want to imply that I think anyone has to continue watching Armitage because they loved N&S. It’s rather that I think it’s odd to justify one’s love for N&S on the grounds that Mr. Armitage is a fantastic actor (as opposed to a pretty face) but then say, when he plays a role in which being a pretty face is important, that they’re not going to watch him because he’s betraying his talent. Presumably if he’s a good actor, he’s a good actor in whatever he does. Of this more later today in the conclusion to this post.
I agree, no one should feel they “have” to watch any RA project just because they loved him in N&S or any of his other work.
I do feel really uncomfortable with “fans” who denigrate almost everything else he has done outside of N&S and yes, I have run across some. Sometimes they come across as snobs, and I am afraid I don’t deal with snobbery very well. So I just stay away from them as much as possible.
No, Richard’s work is not all based on great lihhh-ter-atoor, but that doesn’t make it not worth watching. Richard is a very good actor, and frankly, I would watch him even if he lacked that handsome face and physique because I like good acting, period.
And I like to see good acting in a variety of types of roles–comedic, dramatic, period, action, mystery and so forth. His beauty is just the icing on the cake for me. And let’s face it, producers and directors are going to capitalize on having such a good-looking star, and “fluff his hair and erase his wrinkles.” *wink* Maybe he will get that Elephant Man-type role he wants some day. I will still watch, I assure you. The beauty that lies within is to be admired, too.
All of you, and servetus, express my thoughts. Better.
This does appear a very committed actor, “driven” perhaps, which is necessary to persevere in that bloody BUSINESS. Would that it were more art-driven, but that’s not reality.
Yes, he does make a lot of fans melt. And he has slightly unconventional good looks. So fans can pat themselves on the back for recognising all his qualities. (We probably, mostly, don’t swoon over Brad; Maybe, maybe not) But that gives us no rights to feel he owes us. I have my list of characters I’d like to see him play, and I’m 100% certain they’re RIGHT. But, that’s not pay the rent/get on with career RL and have a more comfortable middle-class life than you used to have, when laminating, whatever… 🙂
fitzg said this on October 8, 2010 at 3:09 pm | Reply
Not a Brad swooner. Especially not when he had that horrid beard that made him look like a goat. *giggle* Think he’s a good actor and attractive fellow, but just doesn’t have the effect on me dear RA does.
And a fella as good at acting as Richard certainly should be doing just that, even if not in the most high-brow or artistic of roles, because it truly would be a crying shame to waste all that talent laying floors and the like.
He would make a great William Monk, though . . . *sigh*
Thanks, fitzg. As I wrote in the follow up to this, I’m suspicious of “art,” but I also wouldn’t discount the possibility that if he stays in acting (as opposed to directing or whatever) that he eventually will do more “art” roles — if the people commenting who have been saying that his looks are a barrier to being cast in artier roles are right, as he ages and wrinkles, etc., perhaps those roles will be more available to him. It may exclude Romeo or Hamlet, of course, but not Lear or Prospero.
I haven’t been casting him in my mind in Shakespeare roles, honest I haven’t, but OH. Prospero. I’d love to see him as Prospero.
I look forward to seeing how his roles change (as they inevitably will) as he does age.
I can’t see him trying to play action roles at 60 as some botoxed and lifted American actors have done (one reason I think he is pursuing such roles now, along with the desire to increase his male audience); I think he’s going to age gracefully because he seems to live gracefully and I believe it will give him the opportunity to play very interesting “character-type” roles.
Prospero. Yes, I could definitely see that.
What I meant to ask was are there fans that believe that Mr. Armitage owes his career to them? Huh?
Brad Pitt does nothing for me at all what so ever.
NO! We don’t have “rights”! We can project, but that is in private, or on this blog.
And (no right to project here) definitely William Monk…
There’s also a “Charles Todd” series, with a WWI protagonist, shell- shocked – well, projecting again…
We just have to let him get on with RL, and the acting assignments proferred. And paying for the house/flat, and eating, occasionally. He’s rather large, so probably needs occasional meals…
Well put, fitzg. And the lad seems to genuinely enjoy his food, which I quite like to see in a man. *grin*
I have read those novels, fitzg. I think he’d be fantastic in the role — you’re thinking of the policeman, former WWI officer, who executed his friend and trench comrade for subordination? That is some of the most intriguing crime fiction I’ve read in years.
I just read somewhere that he weighs 13 stone. He probably has to eat quite a bit to maintain that, with his lifestyle. I wonder that he worries about pizza and beer.
I’ve got to read Perry’s WW I novels. I think I read the first one and for some reason didn’t get to the rest, which is unusual for me as I think I have read every single Pitt and Monk novel she has written. I’ve always enjoyed her work.
182 pounds–yeah, and I bet a lot of that is muscle, which weighs more than fat. Playing Porter must have had him wolfing down protein constantly.
Well, you know he said he also has to watch his alcohol consumption while filming Spooks because the transfers are put on with alcohol and drinking too much of it makes them fade out quickly.
I think that the Financial Times article from yesterday is quite interesting and relevant to the discussions above.
kaprekar said this on October 9, 2010 at 12:04 am | Reply
I agree, and anyone who wants to read it can access it at http://www.richardarmitagenet.com RA comes across as a very prudent person who is wisely not depending on the government to take care of him in his old age. As a side note, I also found his love and respect for his parents for all their support very lovely, in part because it mirrors the way I felt about my own late parents for all their sacrifices. I wanted to spoil them a bit, too.
Great interview I thought. How adorable can he be – LOL? I do love what a level headed person he is despite being in a crazy business. Love the story about parking his car in an inconspicuous place so his colleagues didn’t think he was showing off! He should come to my office where people love to show off their giant SUV’s 🙂 Also love his choice of films.I feel we get to know a little bit more about him as a person in this interview.
Yes, I particularly enjoy these types of interviews that are not strictly about an upcoming project–although I enjoy those, too– but given us a bit more about him, his tastes, his goals, his outlook on life. He does seem to be incredibly grounded and down to earth in a business that doesn’t exactly seem to abound in such personalities. I loved the car story, too. Such modesty!
I imagine not showing off is more important in England than in the US, where people take showing off to a fine art 🙂
I thought that, too, Servetus. We park our big honkin’ vehicles where everybody can see them AND put vanity plates on them . . . the American way!
Indeed. I read that as I was about half way through writing these two pieces.
In an interview some time ago, Richard told us he could never marry an actress. I believe him and expect he will marry as he supposed Sir Guy would have, one of the “royals.” (Poor fellow)
Servetus, you make me think I’m back in grad school. Ugh!
Armitage’s role in Captain America will make the Nazi look better than it ever has. Look out for more neo-Nazi love. RA really is great at playing bad guys and America LOVES BRITISH BAD GUYS. This could do for RA what it did for Patrick Stuart of Star Trek fame.
Mary Lou said this on October 9, 2010 at 1:25 am | Reply
Excellent point about American loving Brit baddies, @Mary Lou. Alan Rickman certainly comes to mind; Jeremy Irons has also provided some good “bad guy” moments as have many others over the years.
Rickman (another favorite of mine) is a nice reference — someone else who has one or two iconic screen roles that get him money to live off and who can spend the rest of his time doing theatre or smaller film as he wishes. Who also has a very long term relationship with an extremely normal woman who appears most to wish to stay out of the limelight.
Yes, Alan always be the deliciously nasty sheriff in Prince of Thieves for many, but I also think of his work in Truly, Madly, Deeply (love that film), and now the Harry Potter movies . . . and many small projects, too. He’s someone else I always enjoy watching.
And it’s good to hear he has that long-term relationship with a normal gal . . . Richard seems to like “normal” ladies, too, and that is so refreshing.
Rickman has been together with Rima Horton since the late 1960s, I believe. He says such sweet things about her in print. I’m prejudiced because she’s been an adjunct economics professor and has a less than model-like figure, I suppose — makes me think that we normal mortals can attract such magnetic men. She was also some kind of London city politician, I believe (would have to look it up).
Wow, that is long term for regular folks these days, much less a celeb. Good for them!! When I tell people I just celebrated my 25th anniversary this year, they seem impressed by that. But then I think about it and a lot of our classmates have been divorced at least once and several more than once. Because I’ve had a happy long-term relationship, it makes me really feel good to see others who have enjoyed the same sort of partnership.
If there is anyone who would not marry a member of the Royal family, it is Richard. He would loathe the fuss and publicity that such a life-style would entail. Sir Guy had “greater ambitions” of establishing himself in society. Richard deliberately keeps a low profile in his private life.
MillyMe said this on October 9, 2010 at 7:43 am | Reply
Yeah, imagine Mr. Armitage having to invite his mum and dad to Christmas celebrations at Balmoral. 🙂
Nope, don’t see Richard as the type to marry royalty. He has quite enough of life in a fishbowl as it is.
Quicky: I did not know Patrick Stewart is british!! I’m very fond of him since I was 10 or so with ST:TNG and just now I discover that.
PS also played Mr. Thornton on the BBC in a very early stage of his career. So lots of hope for Mr. Armitage, as PS has had a very distinguished career, and starring in a cult scifi series didn’t do him any harm at all. I had no idea who he was until ST:TNG, in which I loved him.
I didn’t know Patrick once played Mr. Thornton! I’ve loved him ever since I first saw him as Captain Jean-Luc Picard. “Engage!” I’ve been watching some eps of TNG running on BBCA right now. A nostalgia trip.
I wonder what Patrick Stewart’s fans thought when they heard about his participation in Star Trek? I wonder could be some of the same as I’m reading about Mr. Armitage’s (official on IMDB now) participation in Captain America (CA)? Perhaps some of the “how could he, he’s so much better than that”? Turned out to be an iconic role. One never knows.
Great point, Ann Marie. I’m sure some turned their noses up at it. And now, as you say, he’s an icon.
This blog IS graduate school, Mary Lou. That stuff about the Institute of Richard Armitage Studies is not a joke. At the end of the blog you will be given six hours to answer an interpretive question about Mr. Armitage’s career in writing, after which you will be given 30 minutes to defend your answer in front of a board of three examiners. If you fail, you may retake the test once, but if you fail a second time, you will be expelled without possibility of redress from the Institute.
I’m sorry, I thought you knew that! 🙂 Flee while you can!
*grin* Oh, Servetus. You tease, you.
You don’t believe me? I believe that I need to ask the John Porter Chair how your MA thesis is coming along 🙂
The John Porter chair reporting: Angie is nearing completion of her MA thesis and, once the epilogue of Truce is completed, will have passed with flying colours. She is to be awarded a disctinction in honour of her ability to substantially increase her readers’ tingle factor with each chapter she has written.
Yesss! *does a little happy dance*
And more tingling to come!
(Wish I could split a bottle of bubbly with John and Layla . . .)
@servetus, Can i just say that I LOVE the way you write administrative policy! I can imagine the entrance exam…..or better yet, may I please have permission to do a research-based study abroad? I plan on ace-ing this program..hehe.
Yes, you can do a research project abroad, or you can also do a practical internship if you can find someone to supervise it at Kudos or the BBC 🙂
We’re very flexible here at the Institute, we want each student to fulfill not only her potential, but also her desires 🙂
**Spoiler Alert** If you read the interview with Laila Rouass be prepared for a real spoiler, in my opinion.
You’re not kidding, @ann marie. I am wondering if those scenes she is alluding to are current day or flashback scenes (because we know RA shot some 1995 scenes in Wandsworth . . .) and that is all I had better say.
Please. I am stockpiling all the publicity for S9 so as to preserve the potential to be surprised!!!
My lips are sealed.
@angie and servetus,
I somehow missed a spoiler alert on that article from RichardArmitageNet.com when I clicked on the link. I wouldn’t have read the article had I realized it (there is a spoiler alert there now) as I have been trying to avoid reading spoilers and just enjoying the fun of letting the series unfold each week. 😦
A great post, as usual. I’m pretty ambivalent about fandom in general. I did the Duranie thing in high school and I wonder how much of fan response is conditioned by years of reading teen magazines. That’s what bothered me about the “Life in a Day” article, it seemed channeled by dianediane in Bop! during the Seven and the Ragged Tiger tour in 1985. There were entire sections of the magazine dedicated to stories of fan meetings with the band and you know what? The stories I read of fans meeting Armitage, exhilirating as they are, are no different. It bothers me that I find them exhilirating to begin with. I don’t begrudge fans their meetings or their joy; I just think that *I* should be past it.
A friend of mine is the younger sister of a major rock star. You would absolutely know him if I mentioned his name. When she turned 21 a mutual friend of ours threw her a surprise party in a restaurant. Her whole family was there except her rock star brother. He didn’t want her party to become about him or any insane people to ruin it for her. How sad is that? This same man was accosted in a record store by some people from Sweden who’d come to town on a Dead Rock Star pilgimage. They were flashing around photos they’d taken of gravestones, of places where people had died and were particularly pleased to have found the apartment building where one Almost Rock Star ODed. Rock Star Brother and Almost Rock Star had been roommates. RSB walked in the door just as they were crowing about finding the place where his roommate, friend, blood brother and creative partner had died. They chased him around the store asking him what it was like to find the body. How do you kick someone in the soul like that? That’s a level of callousness that I cannot comprehend but they excused themselves by calling themselves fans.
jazzbaby1 said this on October 9, 2010 at 2:57 am | Reply
This is a really sensitive comment, jazzbaby1. I think that you are right that somehow the exhilaration fans feel when they encounter their desired wish object can cause them to abandon everything else that makes them human. No artist, no matter how famous, ever deserves that sort of treatment from fellow humans, let alone fans, who claim to respect and admire him. You get at the weird paradox that sometimes fans seem to want most to destroy the objects of their affection.
At the same time, exhilaration, the capacity for unbounded excitement, is an important moment in being human. I wouldn’t want to give it up. The problem is remembering that that sensation does not exempt one from the Golden Rule. I wonder if there’s any way to remind people of that when they’re in the situation of meeting their favorite artist.
Thank goodness most fans don’t go to those awful extremes.
That’s not fandom to me, that’s really poor manners and inexcusable.
I am with you, Servetus–unbounded excitement, the “squee” factor is one of the nicest parts of being human and something I don’t want to lose, either.
I think maybe the distinction is that the squee by itself is sufficient — the cause doesn’t need to see that or acknowledge it for it to be meaningful.
Very interesting post as always, Servitus. I’ve been following Richard Armitage’s work for four years and I’m just as interested in the genres he chooses as I was when I first saw him in Vicar of Dibley. While N&S was the catalyst for an increase in his fanbase and the start of his online communities, I actually feel that it was the character of Guy of Gisborne that he is best known for. Some might disagree with me but by the time RH Series 2 had finished airing, many of the initial N&S fans had become quieter and were replaced by the Guy lovers. I still believe that RA is most well known for that role but now it is over, people are moving on. I think the fanbase is a continually evolving phenomen and as RA plays new roles he will attract new and different audiences. I therefore believe that choice of work must be more dictated by the actor’s interest in that work and script, the availability and working conditions and not by whether his old audiences might like it or not, although, I agree that his comment when Strike Back was first aired gave the impression he cared what they thought. I guess he has to have the confidence to know that his professional skills are strong enough to survive a dubious work choice (if one ever arises) and my personal belief is that he has the ability to do great things with even poorly written scripts. If he continues to put in the hard yards and delivers good performances, then he will always have an audience even if the demographic of that audience is constantly evolving and changing. I’m interested that RA has never mentioned in an interview (to my knowledge), how important a good review is to his work. I would have thought a good review from a respected film/theatre critic is more important to an actor than whether a group of his existing fans like a particular work. I think the man will always have an audience and I would like to see him in a role that will win him an award for acting excellence at some stage.
mulubinba said this on October 9, 2010 at 3:15 am | Reply
I appreciate this longer term and broader perspective on the views of the fandom than I have. (I also hesitated to some extent while composing these two posts insofar as I need to concede that my opinions about Mr. Armitage and his fans may well change when I’ve been watching him for several years, as opposed to now, after about a year.)
I imagine a good theatre review is probably important for future roles in theatre, but I can’t imagine that good reviews for television performances influence all that much, since television is much more directly driven by viewer numbers and sales.
@mulubinba: Good reviews are not essential in an appraisal of one’s work. There are so many different motives for how your work is assessed and who is doing the assessimg, believe me. I have personal knowledge of this as my son is in the music industry. Depending on a good review would have the effect of crippling your own feeling about your work. You have to trust yourself, sometimes in the face of fierce opposition. Isn’t this what trailblazers have always experienced -first, denigration by the establishment, years later, acclamation, often by the same?
There’s also the question of the source: a good review is of differing value depending on who gives it and where it appears. I write a lot of book reviews (about 20 per year over the last decade) and I notice that people take what I say more seriously when it appears in a major venue as opposed to a less respected one.
This made me think of those blurbs promoting really lousy movies where they flash one or two words on the screen–“amazing” (“It’s amazing how boring this movie is”) or where the critic’s name is printed in very tiny words so you can’t see it’s from one of those “less respected” sources. *grin*
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Rep. David Bedey has been wearing a mask to help protect the safety of others and contacted leadership and Lewis and Clark Public Health immediately after the positive COVID test. (Missoula Current file photo)
The State Legislature’s COVID-19 Panel Presumptive Chair Jason Ellsworth made the announcement Thursday evening that Representative David Bedey, R-Hamilton, has tested positive for COVID-19 and is already quarantining away from the State Capitol. He is currently asymptomatic.
“We’re already reaching out and notifying those who have recently been in close contact with Representative Bedey and are telling them to quarantine.” Ellsworth said. “I’m releasing Rep. Bedey’s name because he wanted to be as transparent and informative as possible.”
The Legislature says Bedey came into contact with the virus via a non-legislative, non-Capitol contact that occurred prior to the start of the session. He’s a member of the House Appropriations Committee, which met this week.
Ellsworth added Bedey has been wearing a mask to help protect the safety of others and contacted leadership and Lewis and Clark Public Health immediately after the positive COVID test.
“Representative Bedey is a model that I encourage others to follow,” said Ellsworth.
Bedey issued the following statement regarding his COVID-19 positive test:
“I continue to believe that the most effective way to serve in the legislature is in person. But I also have a duty to my colleagues to do what I can to promote their safety. I will do my best to do the people’s business remotely and look forward to returning to the Capitol.”
The Legislature’s COVID-19 Panel meets Friday morning and will be further discussing COVID-19 protocols during the legislative session.
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Google Stadia Is Coming To 18 New Android devices In 2020
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February 19, 2020 Mobility Arena News
Game streaming platform Google Stadia may have a number of kinks to work out, but is still on the path of improvement, with a number of new features and games to look forward to on the platform this year.
Google will be releasing Stadia to a variety of new smartphones on the 20th of February, rather than keeping the platform restricted to the Pixel device family as previously stated in earlier reports.
Stadia may be experiencing a number of issues, but with the lack of mobile options one of the more prominent ones, this decision to release the Google Stadia to more Android devices looks like a step in the right direction.
According to reports, the new set of devices to get Google Stadia are mostly made up of Samsung devices. A total of 14 from a possible 18 devices to get the Google Stadia are Samsung Galaxy devices. The Galaxy S8 and the recently released S20 series will be included, with the remaining four devices being the Razer Phone 1 & 2 and the ROG Phone 1 & 2.
With platforms like Microsoft already supporting all Android devices with versions running on 6.0 and above on its game streaming platform, this move by Google to open up its streaming service is one that is welcome, as we hope they can eventually get around to solving a number of problems that have plagued the game streaming platform in the coming days.
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28.05.2018 13.05.2018 Categories World of models
We continue to publish models of rotochutes — winning flying competition for the Cup named after S. P. Korolev. Model Cup holder yurtaeva S. (Moscow) are described in the “Modelis-the-designer”, No. 4, 1999 Today we offer developed by the Tsentr detskogo tvorchestva g. Nizhnekamsk, under the leadership of teacher A. N. Rossiia rotocut, which was the prize-winner of these competitions V. Stolyarov. Model rotocut class Ѕ9А — lobed. The fuselage is in two parts: the rod and propulsion of the container; the connection — telescopic.
Work on the model begins with the manufacture of the fuselage. First, on the mandrel with a diameter of 10.2 mm roll container made of two layers of fiberglass with a thickness of 0.1 mm and cut along the length 125 mm. In the lower part of the fixed tail fairing lime. It has three longitudinal grooves with width 4 and depth 3 mm for placement of clamps blades. Then on the outside of the fairing around the circumference-~ mathiaut four layers of thread, which, in turn, will keep the blades from disclosure.
In the upper end of the container is glued face frame with a hole diameter of 6 mm. In the wall of the container, drill drainage holes (5-6 pieces) for gas exhaust when triggered, expelling charge.
Rod length of 300 mm, and the container vyklevyvajut of glass on the mandrel diameter of 5 to 5.5 mm. you Can make it from wood, but then its strength will be lower.
At a distance of 85 mm from the top of the rod is mounted the node of attachment of the blades. It consists of a power frame and snap ring. The frame is cut from foil fiberglass with a thickness of 1-1,5 mm, make it three curly cut (angle 120°) to accommodate the levers of mounting the blades.
To the bottom surface of the frame is glued solid ring width of 7.5— 8mm, which will serve as a focus for leverage disclosure of the blades. To produce this ring of ten layers of fiberglass or carve aluminum. Power frame glue on the rod with epoxy.
Three-blade rotocut:
1 — fairing head; 2 frames; 3 — rod; 4 — blade rotor; 5 — stabilizer; 6 — a tail fairing; 7 – lock of the blade, starting; 8 — drain hole; 9 — container of the engine; 10 — hook the rubber rod; 11 — thrust of the disclosure of the blade (rubber); 12 — thrust; 13 — axis of rotation of the blades; 14 — control arm of the blade; 15 — frame power; 16 — frame segment.
The hinge levers of the blades cut out from glass fiber plastic with thickness of 1.5 mm. On folded side, make two holes at a distance of 6.5 mm between 1 mm underneath the axis of the lever and a diameter of 2 mm for the rubber traction. Steel wire 1 mm diameter hollow out U-shaped the axis of rotation of the blade, threaded through a thin hole of the lever and soldered it to the top surface of the power frame. In another hole (2 mm diameter) secured with a rubber thread to the disclosure of the blade. The second end of the thread wear on a hook, fixed on the rod.
In the bow of the rod to glue one or two the frame and attach the fairing that is molded from fiberglass. The lower (free) end of the rod threaded through the top opening of the container and secured therein the piston is carved from basswood. It is a kind of telescopic connection.
The blades (three of them) are made from balsa plates which thickness of 1.5 and a length of 250 mm is moistened, laid on the mandrel with a diameter of 30 mm and wrapped with a bandage or rubber strap to give the required shape. After drying, each blade covered with two layers of nitrocellulose lacquer. Then on one end make a longitudinal cut with a width of 1,5 and length of 37 mm at the lever hinge, and to the other attach the stabilizer is also made from balsa. In the same place, on the lower plane of the blade is glued a plate made of fiberglass with a width of 3.5 and length of 30 mm—clamping starting position of the blade.
In the ready cutouts of the blades glued the notched levers of the linkage. The angle of deflection of the blade handle, needle files podpilivaya the notches in the thrust ring.
The model preparation of Rotorua is carried out in such sequence. Fold the blades along the rods, and thus move up the motor container. His tail fairing is included in the ring formed of three arcuate blades, the clamps which, in turn, is inserted into the longitudinal grooves of the cowling. Externally, it turns an ordinary model rocket. Remains to install the engine (MRD). The mass of the model without it-26 g.
Model rotocut takes off from a gasdynamic installation. After liftoff, at an altitude of 200-250 m, work when you shibei charge, the piston rod goes up (for no more than 10-15 mm), the blades are released from fixation and under the action of the rubber rods revealed — the model goes into autorotation.
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Home Business Don’t Let Recent momentum Confuse Your Outlook on First Community Corporation
Don’t Let Recent momentum Confuse Your Outlook on First Community Corporation [FCCO]
First Community Corporation [FCCO] shares are down more than -20.76% this year and recently decreased 0.0% or $0.0 to settle at $17.20. FCCO has a short ratio of 4.90. This implies that the market is currently less bullish on the outlook for FCCO.
The most recent analyst activity for First Community Corporation [NASDAQ:FCCO] stock was on July 27, 2020, when it was Upgrade with an Outperform rating from Raymond James, which also raised its 12-month price target on the stock to $16. Before that, on October 19, 2020, Stephens Recapitulated an Equal-weight rating and elevated its amount target to $16. On June 09, 2020, DA Davidson Upgrade a Buy rating. On April 27, 2020, Hovde Group Upgrade an Outperform rating and decreased its price target from $18 to $17. On April 20, 2020, Stephens Initiated an Equal-weight rating and increased its price target to $16. On August 21, 2019, DA Davidson Initiated a Neutral rating. On January 19, 2017, Hovde Group Upgrade an Outperform rating and boosted its target amount on this stock from $20 to $21. Hovde Group elevated its amount target by recapitulating a higher weight for this stock.
In the past 52 weeks of trading, this stock has oscillated between a low of $12.23 and a peak of $22.00. Right now, the middling Wall Street analyst 12-month amount mark is $16.75. At the most recent market close, shares of First Community Corporation [NASDAQ:FCCO] were valued at $17.20. According to the average price forecast, investors can expect a potential return of -3.46%.
First Community Corporation [NASDAQ:FCCO] most recently reported quarterly sales of 10.98 billion, which represented growth of 0.90%. This publicly-traded organization’s revenue is $225,818 per employee, while its income is $45,335 per employee. Continuing to look at profitability, this corporation’s Return on Assets, Equity, Whole Principal & invested Principal is sitting at 0.97, 9.43, 8.67 and 8.25 respectively.
If looking now at the Principal structure of this organization, it shows its whole liability to the whole Principal at 30.09 and the whole liability to whole assets at 4.41. It shows enduring liability to the whole principal at 10.43 and enduring liability to assets at 0.02 while looking for an extended time period.
Readers are usually of view to make a close observation to the indicators that support and make resistance before moving to any particular stock. As of now, the company’s stock is sitting at 17.13 points at 1st support level, the second support level is making up to 17.06. But as of 1st resistance point, this stock is sitting at 17.34 and at 17.48 for 2nd resistance point.
First Community Corporation [FCCO] reported its earnings at $0.31 per share in the fiscal quarter closing of 9/29/2020. The Analysts for Wall Street were expecting to report its earnings at $0.31/share signifying the difference of 0 and 0.00% surprise value. Comparing the previous quarter ending of 6/29/2020, the stated earnings were $0.3 calling estimates for $0.21/share with the difference of 0.09 depicting the surprise of 42.90%.
Now if looking for a valuation of this stock’s amount to sales ratio it’s 3.00, it’s amount to book ratio is 1.34 and showing 13.73 of P/E (TTM) ratio.
The most recent insider trade was by Sosebee Jane S, Director, and it was the purchase of 95.0 shares on Oct 29. Sosebee Jane S, the Director, completed a purchase of 800.0 shares on Oct 27. On Aug 21, CRAPPS MICHAEL C, President and CEO, completed a purchase of 1901.0 shares.
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