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MT-ND6 gene
URL of this page: https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/gene/mt-nd6/
mitochondrially encoded NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase core subunit 6
The MT-ND6 gene provides instructions for making a protein called NADH dehydrogenase 6. This protein is part of a large enzyme complex known as complex I, which is active in mitochondria. Mitochondria are structures within cells that convert the energy from food into a form that cells can use. These cellular structures produce energy through a process called oxidative phosphorylation, which uses oxygen and simple sugars to create adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the cell's main energy source.
Complex I is one of several enzyme complexes necessary for oxidative phosphorylation. Within mitochondria, these complexes are embedded in a tightly folded, specialized membrane called the inner mitochondrial membrane. During oxidative phosphorylation, mitochondrial enzyme complexes carry out chemical reactions that drive the production of ATP. Specifically, they create an unequal electrical charge on either side of the inner mitochondrial membrane through a step-by-step transfer of negatively charged particles called electrons. This difference in electrical charge provides the energy for ATP production.
Complex I is responsible for the first step in the electron transport process, the transfer of electrons from a molecule called NADH to another molecule called ubiquinone. Electrons are then passed from ubiquinone through several other enzyme complexes to provide energy for the generation of ATP.
Several mutations in the MT-ND6 gene have been identified in people with Leber hereditary optic neuropathy. Each of these mutations changes a single protein building block (amino acid) in the NADH dehydrogenase 6 protein. One common MT-ND6 mutation is responsible for about 14 percent of all cases of Leber hereditary optic neuropathy, and it is the most common cause of this disorder among people of French Canadian descent. This genetic change, written as T14484C or Met64Val, replaces the amino acid methionine with the amino acid valine at protein position 64. The T14484C mutation is associated with a good long-term prognosis; affected people with this genetic change have a 37 percent to 65 percent chance of some visual recovery.
Researchers are investigating how mutations in the MT-ND6 gene lead to Leber hereditary optic neuropathy. These genetic changes appear to prevent complex I from interacting normally with ubiquinone, which may affect the generation of ATP. MT-ND4 mutations may also increase the production within mitochondria of potentially harmful molecules called reactive oxygen species. It remains unclear, however, why the effects of these mutations are often limited to the nerve that relays visual information from the eye to the brain (the optic nerve). Additional genetic and environmental factors probably contribute to the vision loss and other medical problems associated with Leber hereditary optic neuropathy.
Leigh syndrome
MedlinePlus Genetics provides information about Leigh syndrome
Mitochondrial complex I deficiency
MedlinePlus Genetics provides information about Mitochondrial complex I deficiency
A mutation in the MT-ND6 gene also has been identified in a small number of people with Leigh syndrome, a progressive brain disorder that typically appears in infancy or early childhood. Affected children may experience vomiting, seizures, delayed development, muscle weakness, and problems with movement. Heart disease, kidney problems, and difficulty breathing can also occur in people with this disorder.
The MT-ND6 mutation that can cause Leigh syndrome, written as G14459A or Ala72Val, replaces the amino acid alanine with the amino acid valine at protein position 72. This genetic change also has been found in people with Leber hereditary optic neuropathy and a movement disorder called dystonia, which involves involuntary muscle contractions, tremors, and other uncontrolled movements. This mutation appears to disrupt the normal assembly or activity of complex I in mitochondria. It is not known, however, how this MT-ND6 gene alteration is related to the specific features of Leigh syndrome, Leber hereditary optic neuropathy, or dystonia. It also remains unclear why a single mutation can cause such varied signs and symptoms in different people.
mitochondrially encoded NADH dehydrogenase 6
MTND6
NADH dehydrogenase 6
NADH dehydrogenase subunit 6
NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase chain 6
NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase, subunit ND6
NU6M_HUMAN
Tests of MT-ND6
COMPLEX I, SUBUNIT ND6
Baracca A, Solaini G, Sgarbi G, Lenaz G, Baruzzi A, Schapira AH, Martinuzzi A, Carelli V. Severe impairment of complex I-driven adenosine triphosphate synthesis in leber hereditary optic neuropathy cybrids. Arch Neurol. 2005 May;62(5):730-6. Citation on PubMed
Carelli V, Ghelli A, Bucchi L, Montagna P, De Negri A, Leuzzi V, Carducci C, Lenaz G, Lugaresi E, Degli Esposti M. Biochemical features of mtDNA 14484 (ND6/M64V) point mutation associated with Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy. Ann Neurol. 1999 Mar;45(3):320-8. Citation on PubMed
Chinnery PF, Andrews RM, Turnbull DM, Howell NN. Leber hereditary optic neuropathy: Does heteroplasmy influence the inheritance and expression of the G11778A mitochondrial DNA mutation? Am J Med Genet. 2001 Jan 22;98(3):235-43. Citation on PubMed
Fauser S, Leo-Kottler B, Besch D, Luberichs J. Confirmation of the 14568 mutation in the mitochondrial ND6 gene as causative in Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy. Ophthalmic Genet. 2002 Sep;23(3):191-7. Citation on PubMed
Gropman A, Chen TJ, Perng CL, Krasnewich D, Chernoff E, Tifft C, Wong LJ. Variable clinical manifestation of homoplasmic G14459A mitochondrial DNA mutation. Am J Med Genet A. 2004 Feb 1;124A(4):377-82. Citation on PubMed
Huoponen K. Leber hereditary optic neuropathy: clinical and molecular genetic findings. Neurogenetics. 2001 Jul;3(3):119-25. Review. Citation on PubMed
Kirby DM, Kahler SG, Freckmann ML, Reddihough D, Thorburn DR. Leigh disease caused by the mitochondrial DNA G14459A mutation in unrelated families. Ann Neurol. 2000 Jul;48(1):102-4. Citation on PubMed
Lenaz G, Baracca A, Carelli V, D'Aurelio M, Sgarbi G, Solaini G. Bioenergetics of mitochondrial diseases associated with mtDNA mutations. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2004 Jul 23;1658(1-2):89-94. Review. Citation on PubMed
Mitchell AL, Elson JL, Howell N, Taylor RW, Turnbull DM. Sequence variation in mitochondrial complex I genes: mutation or polymorphism? J Med Genet. 2006 Feb;43(2):175-9. Epub 2005 Jun 21. Citation on PubMed or Free article on PubMed Central
Tarnopolsky MA, Baker SK, Myint T, Maxner CE, Robitaille J, Robinson BH. Clinical variability in maternally inherited leber hereditary optic neuropathy with the G14459A mutation. Am J Med Genet A. 2004 Feb 1;124A(4):372-6. Citation on PubMed
Valentino ML, Avoni P, Barboni P, Pallotti F, Rengo C, Torroni A, Bellan M, Baruzzi A, Carelli V. Mitochondrial DNA nucleotide changes C14482G and C14482A in the ND6 gene are pathogenic for Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy. Ann Neurol. 2002 Jun;51(6):774-8. Citation on PubMed
The MT-ND6 gene is found on mitochondrial DNA.
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Comic collections
Star Trek: Assignment: Earth (omnibus)
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1968–1972, 1974, 2008
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Star Trek: Assignment: Earth is the omnibus collection of the IDW Publishing miniseries of the same name.
The 1968 TV episode "Assignment: Earth" had been the Season Two finale for the original Star Trek series, and was intended by Gene Roddenberry as the pilot for a spin-off series that never came to pass. Now, John Byrne delivers the series 40 years after it would have debuted, recounting the adventures of interstellar agent Gary Seven and his Earth-born assistant as they covertly confront threats to the past so that they can save Star Trek's future. Byrne writes and draws the series, which steps one year forward with each installment, beginning with 1968, the year that the spin-off series would have appeared.
Excerpts of copyrighted sources are included for review purposes only, without any intention of infringement.
"Brighter Than a Thousand Suns"
"Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow"
"My Name Is Legion"
"We Have Met the Enemy..."
"Too Many Presidents"
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Chris Mowry
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Collection edited by:
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Federation starships
USS Archer
NCC-44278
The USS Archer (NCC-44278) was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
In 2379, the Archer was assigned to Star Fleet Battle Group Omega. This battle group was redirected by Starfleet Command to sector 1045 for a rendezvous with the USS Enterprise-E, which was returning from Romulan space with the Reman warbird Scimitar, under the command of Shinzon, in pursuit. The Enterprise was forced to face the Scimitar without the support of the fleet, however, when Shinzon ambushed the Enterprise in the Bassen Rift. (Star Trek Nemesis)
According to the Star Trek Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 1, p. 41), the Archer was an Excelsior-class starship, which was named for Captain Jonathan Archer.
Battle Group Omega starships
USS Archer • USS Aries • USS Enterprise-E • USS Galaxy • USS Hood • USS Intrepid • USS Nova • USS Valiant
USS Archer (NCC-44278) at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
USS Archer (NCC-44278) at Memory Omega, the wiki for licensed Star Trek books, audiobooks, and comics
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Three-Cornered Moon
from It's Heavy In Here (20th Anniversary Reissue) by Eric Matthews
Limited Edition Deluxe CD
Limited to 300 copies worldwide, this deluxe expanded CD reissue comes in a 6 panel gatefold jacket. The CD comes with an instant download of the album, plus 5 bonus tracks and a rough cut of the "Fanfare" music video.
Includes unlimited streaming of It's Heavy In Here (20th Anniversary Reissue) via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Limited Edition Deluxe Splatter Vinyl
Limited to 100 copies worldwide, this pressing of "It's Heavy In Here" is a Lo-Fidelity Records exclusive. Your purchase comes with an instant download of the album, plus 5 bonus tracks and a rough cut of the "Fanfare" music video. ***Please note, unless your record arrives broken and unplayable, we cannot exchange or accept returns for vinyl damaged by the USPS during shipping. Please contact us in advance of your purchase if you wish to add shipping insurance to the cost of your order. Thank you.***
Limited Edition Deluxe White Vinyl
Originally limited to 100 copies worldwide, these 25 copies are the remainder of the pressing otherwise being sold at SubPop. Your purchase comes with an instant download of the album, plus 5 bonus tracks and a rough cut of the "Fanfare" music video. ***Please note, unless your record arrives broken and unplayable, we cannot exchange or accept returns for vinyl damaged by the USPS during shipping. Please contact us in advance of your purchase if you wish to add shipping insurance to the cost of your order. Thank you.***
edition of 25 5 remaining
Limited Edition Deluxe UltraClear Vinyl
Originally limited to 100 copies worldwide, these 16 copies are the remainder of the pressing originally released in November 2015 for Record Store Day. **Please note, the lower right corner of each of each record jacket has a slight bend from shipping. It does not effect the vinyl in any way, and the records are all sealed and new. However, they are being sold at a discount since they are not "mint."** Your purchase comes with an instant download of the album, plus 5 bonus tracks and a rough cut of the "Fanfare" music video.
***Please note, unless your record arrives broken and unplayable, we cannot exchange or accept returns for vinyl damaged by the USPS during shipping. Please contact us in advance of your purchase if you wish to add shipping insurance to the cost of your order. Thank you.***
from It's Heavy In Here (20th Anniversary Reissue), released November 27, 2015
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The Era Of Condolence
Caught In An Unguarded Moment
Little Red Riding Hood (VINYL)
Little Red Riding Hood + Big Bad Wolf
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What a year it has been... For many of us, 2020 was supposed to be a year to be awaiting and achieving great things with our hearts wild open and filled with plans, aspirations and hopes. Yet it turned out quite differently which no-one has foreseen. If there is one thing we all have learnt this year is that we will never ever take anything for granted again; not traveling or our own and our loved ones’ health, nor family gatherings or our daily cup of coffee at our favourite local coffee shop. And hence we have learnt another level of appreciation towards the small things in life. Along with gratitude in our hearts, we are keen to celebrate occasions like Christmas even if it will look slightly different this year. Whether we will be able to reunite with our friends and family as usual or not, we are seeking for different ways to celebrate on Zoom or outdoors whether the feeling of togetherness is physical or not. In the midst of all the sadness and uncertainty in the world we shall embrace the things that nourish our mind, body and soul especially in the festive season. Amongst these things we have found the act of gentle kindness, cherishing memories and human connections but also nature.
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she she Retreats: Contemporary wellbeing for Her
Nature heals and so are connectivity, inner peace, rituals, movement, nourishment, creativity or even adventure. If you are seeking for such experiences in one place, look no further — she she retreats may offer it all. "Our retreats offer daily movement, delicious food, art workshops, essential oils and time for relaxation, without a strict schedule or enforced detoxing - because we know that many women arrive on our retreats needing a break from their demanding professional and personal lives. Both of us like to live well and enjoy daily pleasures - like a glass of organic wine or fresh baked sweets - and so we want our retreat guests to feel right at home with us, that they can really let their hair down and indulge in a magical retreat experience." This year's been different for obvious reasons, yet developing healthy routines to support our own wellbeing has become top priority. Join one of the she she retreats in 2021. The retreats are for her, who seeks adventure. And if you've been wondering too, we've asked Albertine and Steph, the lovely founders to explain; who is she? Read on!
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Would you like to have the feeling of staying in a mysterious villa along one of Europe’s most beautiful lakes? At Ipoly Hotel Boutique Rooms & Suites by Lake Balaton you certainly will. The semi-luxury boutique hotel just a stone-throw away from Lake Balaton with a modern, one-of-a-kind appeal and approach. Ipoly Hotel is not only a boutique hotel, but also an imposing historical building in the centre of Balatonfüred. Since the beginning, the owners of Ipoly Hotel strived to combine the comfort and services of hotels with the intimacy and tranquility of apartments. Ipoly Hotel offers the possibility of real relaxation by utilising the unique features of the hotel, the perfect harmony of the location and the calm, extraordinary environment close to the lakeshore (with a balcony facing the lake, if you’re lucky).
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A farm-to-table culinary pilgrimage: PAJTA
Leaving behind our urban lifestyles for peaceful tranquility has never been more desired or rather cherished than it is today. Whether chasing an intimate culinary experience or a long stroll in the realm of untouched nature, being actually able to slow down and be present seems to be the one thing we all strive for. Even if it’s a long journey to come to the ultimate slow-life, yet there are places that can give us the feeling of timelessness — even if just temporarily, such as the hidden countryside restaurant called Pajta (means barn). Pajta is the embodiment of the owners’ passion for the Őrség National Park close to the Austrian and Slovenian borders in Őriszentpéter, Hungary. The whole restaurant concept was made with care and respect towards reserving traditions, both in terms of architecture and cuisine, in order to fit Őrség’s landscape and Zeitgeist. Welcome to Pajta!
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Take us to Venice, CA - Interview with Alyssa Ponticello
Guys, meet Alyssa, a formerly LA, now Venice based content creator, storyteller, photographer and the founder and editor of Runway Chef! We had the pleasure to interview Alyssa about her passion; cooking, which she calls a second language of her and her favourite hotspots around Venice and LA. Alyssa believes that food and fashion play integral intertwining parts in creating a beautiful and balanced life. She believes in things that are easy and undone, rustic yet clean, achievable yet luxe, stress-free yet inspiring, humorous yet real. She believes in living a life well loved. Get a glance to her life in Venice, CA and prepare to have serious travel and food cravings!
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The Ultimate Budapest View: Toprum SkyBar & Restaurant
Have you ever played tourist in your own city? Have you ever considered staying at your beloved hotel for a night and let it be your home away from home? What would be your most treasured local places to visit? For locals in Budapest, Hotel RUM and the hotel’s SkyBar, TOPRUM would undoubtedly be on the TOP of their lists. The bar-slash-restaurant offers a scenic view over the city while serving you the best of the flavours in terms of cocktail, brunch and dinner choices. Let's have some vacay moments in the heart of the city with the unmistakable TOPRUM vibe and Hotel RUM’s “ONE NIGHT RUMING” or “BUDAPEST AFFAIR” special offer. Have dinner or brunch at the top of the city or at the sister units of RUM and spend a night at Hotel RUM for half price!
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Own way of Inspiration: Interview with Simon Schmidt
In the midst of the overwhelming world of social media, there are still quite a few true treasures to find and Simon Schmidt is definitely one of them. Every project he approaches or caption he puts out there makes Instagram a better place. We couldn't wait to have a conversation about his creative processes, living in London and the importance of global union, especially in these challenging times. Simon is a German-born media curator and director based in London with a skill-set ranging from photography, styling to graphic design. Simon is hugely passionate about using social media as a voice to elevate conversation and evoke a narrative that represents the psyche of the young generation. Read on, every word is golden.
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Summer Escape with Hannah Gabrielle More
We invite you to sit back and enjoy the journey through the lenses of Hannah Gabrielle More, a travel and interiors photographer based in London. Hannah's photography is not only beautiful, but her signature earthy tones and minimal compositions are just as calming for the eye as they're for the soul; they make us want to live in the world she is capturing. We've talked about her recent trips to Tokyo and Sri Lanka and also about living in London and her favourite hotspots in the city. "I shoot a lot of interior portfolio’s when I’m in London, which means I get to explore different neighbourhoods, so it’s nice to play tourist in a new area for the day and means I can stay inspired by the things on my doorstep. I feel most inspired when exploring new places so find travelling affects my practice more than anything else but as much as I love leaving London, I always love returning home." Hannah’s also in the midst of building THIS IS ELSEWHERE, an online journal featuring design-led hideaways and launching her own print collection of dreamy places. Enjoy this sweet summer escape with Hannah!
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Cape Verde Photo Journal: Aylaan Moodysson
Thanks to our friend and photographer muse; Aylaan Moodysson, we've been taken to the untouched island of ocean blues, wind and sodade; Cape Verde. Sodade or saudade, is a deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for an absent something or someone that one cares for and/or loves. "Cape Verde really is a place that rewards doing some research upfront. The islands are fairly diverse, and I think each of them has its own sweet spot." Are you ready to escape and switch the urban vibes for breathtaking natural landscapes? Take a closer look at Aylaan's personal photo diary she took in Cape Verde just before the pandemic.
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Floyd Mayweather Says Pacquiao Rematch On For December"I'm coming back to fight Manny Pacquiao this year. Another nine-figure pay day on the way."
Manny Pacquiao Banned From The Grove For Anti-Gay Comments"A lot of people from the gay community come to the Grove and they have a right not to feel uncomfortable," Grove owner Rick Caruso told TMZ Sports.
Nike Drops Manny Pacquiao In Wake Of Anti-Gay StatementsManny Pacquiao's latest disparaging comments about gays have cost him a contract with Nike.
Manny Pacquiao Apologizes For Saying Gay Couples 'Worse Than Animals'Boxing star and Philippine Senate candidate Manny Pacquiao apologized on Tuesday for saying on Filipino TV that people in gay relationships are "worse than animals."
Manny Pacquiao Insists He'll Retire After Bradley RematchWith a beatific politician's smile on his face, Manny Pacquiao calmly insisted he'll step out of a boxing ring for the final time on April 9 after his third fight with Timothy Bradley.
Mayweather-Pacquiao Lawsuits Sent To California CourtPlaintiffs who say the May 2 Las Vegas fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. was a fraud and they deserve their pay-per-view money back will argue their cases in front of a federal judge in California.
Mayweather Stripped Of WBO Title Belt Over Sanctioning FeeFloyd Mayweather Jr. has been stripped of his WBO welterweight title after it was announced he declined to pay a $200,000 sanctioning fee.
Mayweather-Pacquiao Sets Pay-Per-View Record With 4.4M BuysFloyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao proved a box office smash, obliterating the pay-per-view record with 4.4 million buys for their welterweight title fight.
Pacquiao Faces $5M Lawsuit By Fans Over Undisclosed Shoulder InjuryThe so-called "fight of the century" appears to be impacting the sports world well after its conclusion.
Keidel: Pacquiao Should Pack It InPacquiao was no match for Mayweather In this career-defining fight. What will he do next?
Mayweather Takes His $100M Check And RunsThe check was for $100 million, a payday so mind boggling that Floyd Mayweather Jr. couldn't help but show it to a few reporters when the night was done.
Mayweather vs. Pacquiao: A Twitter Recap Of The Fight Of The CenturyHere were some of the highlights from before and after the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight.
Mayweather Jr. Defeats Pacquiao By Unanimous DecisionAs everyone expected, Floyd Mayweather Jr. defends his title by defeating Manny Pacquiao in unanimous decision.
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How First-Person Shooter Games Affect Our Kids
Louisa December 29, 2018 Politics, What The Matriarch SeesLeave a Comment
My media psychology professor is an awkwardly charming, middle-aged white man with thick rimmed glasses who ocassionally disrupts our facebook browsing during his class by pointedly saying 'I can't tell you what's in the exam but this is Very Important. But I was already paying attention, not just because I'm a mature student with too much coffee in her blood, but because we were examining The Effects of Media Violence.
As a Mum of three, I confess. The iPad is Mummy's Little Helper. Quarter of an hour screen time may have been allowed to slip past the thirty minute mark on occasion. Or further. But with Minecraft and Magic being their main obsessions, I'm hopeful that the divide between reality and fantasy is an easily recognisable chasm. Yet too many bemused parents--maybe just like me--cry in the wake of horrific tragedy; he was just a regular kid who did regular kid things, like video games. In this they are correct. Playing video games of all sorts, is a regular kid activity, at least in my house.
First person shooter games are always brought up after every school shooting and mass murder (as long of course, as the shooter is white). I am not yet in the land where the violent, uncanny-valley first-person shooters reside. I'm navigating suitably feminist Pixar movies and I don't have to make these choices for a few years. But maybe I won't have to. Because as it turns out that the scientific proof so far concludes the effect of violent video games is very weak indeed.
Peter Langman has researched and sourced more research, to provide deeper insight into the question "Why Kids Kill"(2009 New York, NY, Palgrave Macmillan). The absence of evidence for first person shooter games being a factor is difficult to ignore. As my lecturer summarized, first-person shooters are used by some perpetrators, however the diffusion for young men is close to full coverage, meaning that there is no scientific evidence. Most young men play first person shooter games but only a select few become shooters.
(They're not angry birds, they're naughty birds. Also they're forming a boyband, and the black one will leave first)
A Meta-Analysis is:
A research method based on many individual studies in which the average effect or 'effect size' between virtual violence and actual aggression is measured.
In a fabulously named meta-analysis 'Do Angry Birds make Angry Children? 1A meta-analysis of Video game influences on Children's and Adolescents' Aggression, Mental Health, Prosocial behaviour, and Academic Performace Christopher Ferguson also presents his findings of an unremarkable correlation between video games and increased aggression or reduced prosocial [positive and helpful] behaviour. If I were to hazard a guess, I'd say being a teenager had a fair amount with being more aggressive and more emo. I'm not dissing the teenage experience, but I may dispute any implied causality.
Langman concluded his work by citing three main factors as to "Why Kids Kill":
Personality (including disorders and depression)
Everyday Problems
Weapons Ownership
We know this. But you can't eradicate every day problems or personality...
Langman's research was published in 2009. Ferguson's research--a good extrapolation I think--was published in 2016.
Where 'r'=correlation coefficient in the table below, the first line reads the more video games were sold in the United States, the slightly less the rate in youth violence. It could mean there's a causality, but more likely it means that the comparison of the two is irrelevant.
There were other positive correlations however--to name just the top five--between genetic influences, cruelty to animals and later people, self-control, opportunity and firearms ownership (oh look, there it is again).
Maybe it's because I'm a Brit--home to the policeman's truncheon. But I was shocked how simple the solution was and how surprisingly accurate my intuition had been. Why don't they ban guns?
I've never seen a gun. Never wanted a gun. But I also know I have the privilege to be born in a place and time which doesn't require this knowledge for my survival.
There are so many battles we have to fight on a daily basis. And we need to focus where we can be the most effective. I'm a mother writes stories about things others don't have time to research. On family dynamics, abuse structures and also plastic-free beauty. And right now at this very second, violent video games and guns (they're not coming in my house, like ever).
I'll be reading this book soon to review. But I warn you, despite my attempts to love myself, I'm not pre-disposed to like Mothers. (Yes, I need to work on that).
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Class of 2019 Student Speakers Leave UC Merced with Messages of Gratitude
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NASA Interns Return With New Prospects, Realized Dreams
Zach Petrek, a second-year doctoral student in chemistry and chemical biology, can usually be found running experiments in the laboratory of his advisor, Professor Tao Ye. But this summer, he did something different — he went to NASA. Petrek was...
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Manuel Meraz transferred to UC Merced with a mission: to revive what had once been an award-winning, student-led robotics scene on campus. Meraz had just completed a robotics internship at the University of New Mexico, where his advisor introduced him to...
MACES Hosts Big Bash to Highlight Tiny Technology
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NASA Astronaut to Share Space Flight and Science Experience with Campus
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Brazil's president said he would accept $20 million from the G7 to tackle the Amazon fires, but only if Emmanuel Macron apologizes for calling him 'extraordinarily rude'
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has appeared to backtrack on his refusal of $20 million in G7 aid to help fight the Amazon fires, saying he'll consider accepting the money on one condition.
Bolsonaro, who is locked in a war of words with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, wants Macron to apologize to him for calling him rude earlier this week.
Macron's comment came after Bolsonaro appeared to endorse a Facebook post mocking the 25-year age gap between Macron and his wife, Brigitte.
The Amazon is losing the equivalent of three football fields a minute.
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Brazil's president has appeared to backtrack on his refusal to accept $20 million in G7 aid to help fight the Amazon fires, saying he would consider accepting the money if French President Emmanuel Macron were to apologize for calling him rude.
President Jair Bolsonaro refused the money in a Monday tweet, saying the G7's offer of help to "save" the Amazon made Brazil seem "as if we were a colony or no man's land."
His chief of staff also suggested that the G7 aid was "colonialist and imperialist" and singled out Macron, who has been at the forefront of Western condemnation of Brazil's response to the fires.
Brazil's refusal of the G7's money came as Bolsonaro and Macron — who hosted this year's G7 summit in Biarritz, France — exchanged personal barbs amid their disagreement over how to handle the fires.
After Bolsonaro appeared to endorse a Facebook post mocking the age gap between Macron, 41, and his wife, Brigitte, 66, over the weekend, the French president called his Brazilian counterpart's actions "extraordinarily rude" and "sad."
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Bolsonaro is now demanding that Macron retract those comments and apologize before he would consider accepting the G7 aid.
"First of all, Mr Macron must retract the insults he gave me," he told reporters in Brasilia on Tuesday, according to the Financial Times.
"First, he called me a liar," he continued, referring to Macron's accusation last week that Bolsonaro had lied about his country's climate commitments.
"Then, the information I had is that our sovereignty is up for grabs in the Amazon," Bolsonaro continued.
"So, before talking or accepting anything that comes out of France's best possible intentions, he will have to take those words out and then we can talk."
The Élysée Palace has not responded to Business Insider's request for comment.
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Here's the full rundown of Bolsonaro and Macron's feud:
On Thursday, Macron tweeted an image of the Amazon fires, saying: "Our house is burning. Literally."
On Friday, he publicly opposed a free-trade deal between the European Union and a bloc of South American states including Brazil over Bolsonaro's inaction over climate change. (The EU's ambassador in Brasilia has since told Euractiv that the deal will not be affected.)
On Sunday, Brazil's education minister called Macron an "opportunistic cretin seeking the support of the French farm lobby."
That same day, Bolsonaro appeared to endorse a Facebook post containing two photos — one of Macron, 41, and his wife, Brigitte, 66, and the other of Bolsonaro, 64, and his wife, Michelle, 37.
The caption of the post said: "Now you understand why Macron is persecuting Bolsonaro?" To which the Brazilian president responded: "Do not humiliate (him)... man, ha ha."
On Monday, Macron called Bolsonaro's comments "extraordinarily rude," adding: "I have great respect for the Brazilian people and can only hope they soon have a president who is up to the job."
Bolsonaro refused the G7's offer of $20 million in aid that same day. Both he and chief of staff, Onyx Lorenzoni, likened the gesture to colonialism.
Lorenzoni added in a statement to Brazil's G1 news site: "Macron cannot even avoid a foreseeable fire in a church that is a world heritage site," in reference to the Notre-Dame blaze in April. "What does he intend to teach our country?"
Fernando Azevedo e Silva, Brazil's defense minister, claimed on Monday that the country had the fires "under control," without giving further details. Some of the fires had been extinguished as of Tuesday, but many remain.
Read more: Brazil has angrily attacked offers to help it put out the huge fires in the Amazon — here's why it is pushing back against global outrage
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The fires are so severe that the Amazon is losing the equivalent of three football fields a minute, according to data from Brazilian satellites. Brazil has deployed its military to help fight the fires.
Read more: The 'lungs of the planet' are burning at a record rate. If too much of the Amazon disappears, that 'dieback' could turn the land into a savanna.
The fires are predominantly caused by deliberate human activities, with businesses like farms and logging companies burning land to clear space for commercial activities.
Bolsonaro's election campaign last year focused heavily on characterizing the Amazon as a resource to be exploited for Brazil's economic gain.
Brazil's refusal of the G7 funds may also be linked to the country's long-standing fear that other nations will try to seize it and deny Brazilians from using its natural resources, Business Insider's Sinéad Baker reported.
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Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
Andreessen is honored with the inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering alongside other Internet pioneers, including Robert Kahn, Vinton Cerf, Louis Pouzin, and Tim Berners-Lee. The announcement is made at London’s Royal Academy of Engineering. In a blog post, Andreessen writes:
I am humbled and grateful to be a co-winner of the 2013 Queen Elizabeth Prize. Thank you to the judges, and congratulations to Robert, Vint, Louis, and Tim…I would first like to acknowledge my partner in creating Mosaic, Eric Bina. Eric co-wrote the original code for Mosaic with me — specifically all the difficult parts…I would also like to acknowledge Larry Smarr, Joe Hardin, and all of my colleagues at NCSA and the University of Illinois at the time…
He adds that he will donate the prize money to charitable programs that help spread the culture and foundational knowledge of engineering — such as scholarships and summer programs for engineering students.
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What Is Direct And Inverse Proportion?
What is the example of direct proportion?
What are the types of proportion?
How do you identify direct and indirect proportions?
Can a direct proportion be negative?
What is difference between direct and inverse proportion?
What is an inverse proportion?
What is K in inverse proportion?
What is a direct proportion?
When can we say a proportion is direct?
What is the formula of inverse proportion?
What is the formula of direct proportion?
Two values x and y are said to be directly proportional to each other when the ratio x:y always remains the same.
Example : If we buy two pen for 50 Rs.
It will cost us 100 Rs for four pen.
Two values x and y are said to be inversely proportional to each other when the ratio x:y1 always remains the same..
There are two types of proportions.Direct Proportion.Indirect Proportion.
They are also mentioned as directly proportional or inversely proportional. The symbol used to denote the proportionality is’∝’. For example, if we say, a is proportional to b, then it is represented as ‘a∝b’ and if we say, a is inversely proportional to b, then it is denoted as ‘a∝1/b’.
Two quantities that are in direct proportion will always produce a straight-line graph that passes through the origin. If the constant of proportionality is positive, the graph will have a positive gradient. If the constant is negative, the graph will have a negative gradient.
In a direct proportion, the ratio between matching quantities stays the same if they are divided. (They form equivalent fractions). In an indirect (or inverse) proportion, as one quantity increases, the other decreases. … In an inverse proportion, the product of the matching quantities stays the same.
Inverse proportion occurs when one value increases and the other decreases. For example, more workers on a job would reduce the time to complete the task. They are inversely proportional.
Inverse Proportion (HIGHER TIER) If a and b are inversely proportionally to one another, a ∝ 1/b. therefore a = k/b. In these examples, k is known as the constant of variation.
: a proportion of two variable quantities when the ratio of the two quantities is constant.
Sometimes a change in one quantity causes a change, or is linked to a change, in another quantity. If these changes are related through equal factors, then the quantities are said to be in direct proportion. Or one would say that the two quantities are directly proportional.
Answer:The equation for inverse proportion is x y = k or x = k/ y. Therefore, for finding the value of the constant k, you can use the known values and then use this formula to calculate all the unknown values.
Direct Proportion In mathematical statements, it can be expressed as y = kx. This reads as “y varies directly as x” or “y is directly proportional as x” where k is constant in the equation.
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Fans Ask CDPR for Next-Gen Update to Include Third-Person Mode for Cyberpunk 2077
admin 1 week ago News Comments Off on Fans Ask CDPR for Next-Gen Update to Include Third-Person Mode for Cyberpunk 2077
We don’t know yet when the next-gen patches will come out, but fans are asking CDPR that the next-gen update include a third-person mode for Cyberpunk 2077. In 2019, CD Projekt Red announced that Cyberpunk 2077 would no longer support third-person mode. This was very disappointing for fans who were excited about the 2018 demo, featuring a scene from V in his apartment from a third-person perspective.
It seems that, at least in part, the initial plan included a third-person mode for Cyberpunk 2077 that was planned with the third person in mind, at least in the cutscenes. CDPR has since denied that large amounts of content were removed from Cyberpunk 2077 to coincide with the December 10 release date. Still, the company has plans to mimic a No Man’s Sky-like redemption for Cyberpunk with upcoming updates and DLC packs. For now, CDPR has managed to double the performance of the game on Xbox One.
Recently, modder Jelle Bekkar released a mod that allows Cyberpunk 2077 to run in the third person. This encouraged players who expected to experience the action from another perspective, or at least, did not want to experience first-person kissing. However, it quickly became clear that Cyberpunk wasn’t designed with a third-person mode in mind. While the Jelle Bekkar mod is still a work in progress, it will be some time before it is able to work stably.
The onus of enjoying a third-person mode for Cyberpunk 2077 may fall on the fans. This is why CDPR has been asked to include this mode in the next generation update. CDPR will most likely ignore this request because the first person will be part of how the end game experience was planned. Unlike what was shown in the E3 2018 game demo, the only time players can experience a third-person mode for Cyberpunk 2077 is in cutscenes at the end of the game.
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Tag: sex testing
2 Steps Backwards for Female Athletes
2 Steps to Nowhere are Better Than 2 Steps Back
Today I came across two articles in the New York Times related to female athletes and women’s sport. Neither contains good news and in fact both articles highlight that despite gains made in the post Title IX era, female sport participation is still constantly under attack.
Sport sociologists term the participation of females in sport and the conflicts that arise over who will play and under what conditions as “contested terrain.” Contested terrain means both oppression and resistance exist simultaneously and that existing power dynamics and social inequalities are both reinforced and challenged in and through sport.
Katie Thomas wrote a piece titled College Teams, Relying on Deception, Undermine Gender Equity about how many college athletic teams are padding the number of female athletes on their rosters in order to make it appear the school is in compliance with Title IX.
update 4/29/11: Read the Women’s Sports Foundation response to these deceptive Title IX practices here. In the response Kathryn Olson, CEO of the WSF, said, “If an athletic department is willing to manipulate its sports programs by creating an artificial veneer of fairness among its male and female students with these laws on the books, one must wonder what would happen without Title IX.”
Alice Dreger wrote a piece titled Redefining the Sexes in Unequal Terms about how a new rule pertaining to the level of functional testosterone in female athletes is a sexist form of biochemical policing that male athletes do not endure.
The ‘New’ Look of Caster Semenya
Much has been written about the controversy regarding the sex verification testing of Caster Semenya following the IAAF Championships in August 2009 (to read more go here, here, here, here, & here).
Given all Semenya has endured, I can’t say I was surprised (albeit saddened) to see an article today titled, “Embattled track star Caster Semenya gets new coach, new look” which also featured the cover of You magazine (pictured here).
It also got me thinking…When a man outperforms his competition by a large margin—such as sprinter Usain Bolt for example—no one asks “Is he really a man?” No one says, “He is so fast, he might be a woman. He should be tested.” But when a woman wins by a lot—such as sprinter Caster Semenya—her sex is immediately questioned, “Is she really a woman?” This appears to be a clear example of marginalizing female athletic performance, homophobia, and sexism. Unfortunately Semenya’s ‘new’ look is not a new phenomenon for female athletes who have fallen under scrutiny as a result of outstanding sport performances.
Sex Testing “Idiocy”
Following South African Caster Semenya’s 800m win at the Track & Field (IAAF) World Championships, a storm of opinions and commentary erupted over her subsequent sex testing/gender verification.
Some of the best I’ve seen is The Nation piece written by Dave Zirin and Sherry Wolf, an MSNBC video exposing the “Twisted, Sexist, Racist, & Heteronormative” Track & Field History, and two blogs by After Atlanta (here and here).
One sport sociology colleague on Facebook asked pertaining to most of the existing media coverage…”Are we in the 1950’s?” As Zirin and Wolf write, this issue is a “minefield of sexism and homophobia”….but thankfully the critical perspective has emerged.
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July 26, 2018 NZTech
NZTech reports phenomenal annual growth
NZTech, the national non-governmental, not-for-profit organisation for tech, has reported phenomenal growth of the New Zealand tech ecosystem in the last 12 months.
At last night’s annual meeting in Auckland, chair Mitchell Pham said NZTech now has an alliance of 20 tech communities and more than 800 organisations across the New Zealand technology landscape who collectively employ almost 10 percent of New Zealand workforce.
“Technology is critical for the future prosperity of New Zealand and is the fastest growing segment of our economy generating eight percent of our GDP and nine percent of our exports.
“Our members are startups, local tech firms, multinationals, education providers, financial institutions, major corporations, network providers, hi-tech manufacturers and government agencies that work closely with the tech ecosystem to generate economic growth.
“We work to stimulate an environment where technology provides important productivity and economic benefits for our country so that all New Zealanders can prosper.
“We connect tech ecosystems, organisations, people and policy makers with each other and to the world. We are helping advance the foundations for a successful digital nation including digital education, connectivity, cybersecurity, digital inclusion and access and digital trade.
“In a world first this year, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern opened Techweek’18, appearing as a hologram.
“NZTech will continue to stimulate an environment where technology provides important social and economic benefits for New Zealand and enable this country to be more relevant to and affect more impact on the rest of the world,” Pham said.
NZTech chief executive Graeme Muller said in 2016 New Zealand had 21,411 tech firms that contributed over $16 billion to the gross domestic product.
“Last night’s annual meeting is the ninth for NZTech and our relevance continues to grow. The importance of technology is no longer a debate and we continue to see our membership expand beyond traditional technology firms.
“We are promoting the importance of technology to the New Zealand public and successful New Zealand technology to the world by showing off our best and our up and coming tech firms,” Muller said.
Two new board members join the NZTech board following elections at the AGM. They are Angela Nash, chief information and operating officer at REANNZ and Mike Jenkins, founder and chief executive of The Instillery.
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3 Subtle Attacks Against Modern Marriages
6:00PM EDT 7/16/2014 Lisa Nixon Phillips
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In 1987 I was a new Navy wife–straight from the land of Oz. And I didn't know the first thing about the Navy lifestyle; no warships existed in Kansas! So, when I moved to California and met and later married my husband, Ray, I became a member of the larger military family, and Uncle Sam became my father-in-law. Thanks to my friend, Vernel, a Navy wife I met at my new job upon arriving in California, she offered a quick lesson one Saturday afternoon in Navy life 101.
I learned to expect occasional squalls between my husband and I brought on by rotational deployments with following seas of emotional anxieties. I realized there would be repeated adjustments, unique challenges unlike traditional marriage, intermittent miscommunication, with large doses of trust a certain requirement. On the up side, moments of well-deserved joy at homecomings would be the pinnacle of pride and honor in our beloved military member, all to say this lifestyle is worth it. Either way, I embraced my new role as a supportive Navy wife, determined not to throw up the white surrender flag when the stormy seas crashed in.
Marriage is hard in the 21st century, but a military marriage is not for those with one-sided expectations or a casual commitment. Like a warship undergoing sea trials to test the limits of the workings and maneuverability to determine its seaworthiness, there are also difficult hardships inherent in a military marriage to show whether or not your own marriage is seaworthy. Three of the top concerns for today's military marriages are outlined below.
Selfishness. Last year while driving to work one morning I heard that selfishness is the number one destroyer of relationships. John Paul II said, "The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish." In any marriage, selfishness is a deterrent to a lasting relationship, but in a military marriage, its tolerance is short-lived, potentially sinking your marriage soon after it departs the pier. Other than infidelity, selfishness left unaddressed is the fastest channel to sabotaging your marriage, deeming it unworthy for a sea-faring relationship.
There is a new viewpoint out there in our marital culture. Dr. Brad Wilcox, the director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, has written about this new perspective of marriage and its enemy, selfishness. "In the new psychological approach to marriage, one's primary obligation was not to one's family but to one's self; hence, marital success was defined not by successfully meeting obligations to one's spouse and children but by a strong sense of subjective happiness in marriage–usually to be found in and through an intense, emotional relationship with one's spouse."1
This new view, contrary to the Christian belief of marital love, which highlights Christ's love for the church, involves freely giving of one's self to his or her spouse, is short on roots of generosity but deep in self-serving motives and entitlement. One way to stop or prevent selfishness is to focus on spiritual readiness. Instead of asking, "what will make me happy and fulfilled in my military marriage?" ask, "what will make us blessed and fulfilled in our military marriage?"
Unwarranted Expectations. Like selfishness, having idealistic expectations will send tempests into your marriage. Young military marriages in particular will benefit from recognizing that your military spouse has a job unlike most civilian jobs. Even on shore duty, he or she can't be expected to always be available for wedding anniversaries, children's birthdays or even funerals for in-laws. Although the military understands the importance and value of these milestones and events, they can't appease every request, nor can they be expected to. They must continually balance the needs of the military with military morale and sensitivity to family. I recall halfway into my husband's military career, he was underway three consecutive wedding anniversaries. I was disappointed, but when I reflect back, was there really anything he could do about it? Try the following to increase the sea-worthiness of your military marriage:
Focus on the purpose and value of faith and discuss together whether or not your expectations are warranted and fit the example of faith Christ modeled.
Resist the urge to punish your spouse for what he or she can't change or control.
Refuse the impulse to blame your spouse for being in the military.
Comparing your military marriage and family's rhythm and schedule to that of civilian marriages only creates discontentment and plants negative thought patterns that the military lifestyle isn't honorable service. Even in the civilian sector, there are unattractive job requirements.
Albert Einstein once said, "There are two ways to live; you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle."
Deception and Distrust. These two undesirable traits are linked. If there's deception, distrust soon follows. In a military marriage, getting to the first base of trust between you and your spouse is a must. Trust is a raw material that has to be cultivated. Trust is the cornerstone of marriage. It is what binds and links the other walls–unconditional love, commitment, transparency, communication and honesty together.
Conflict is inevitable in marriage. And our jobs as marriage partners is to navigate through trust issues, with sound resolutions, not around them, believing they will fade away on their own. Otherwise, the same storm returns over and over again, threatening to shipwreck your marriage.
For trust issues related to infidelity, a couple can't go wrong with biblical counseling. It may be a needed first step. Doing so will take hard work. There are no easy fixes, but if you're committed it can lead to necessary discovery and growth. Pastor Chip Ingram, author, and radio host of Living on the Edge said about marriage, "conflict is an opportunity to grow." Other ways to build trust are:
Be transparent—While on deployment or even short underway periods, be emotionally responsible with your spouse to maintain trust. Share your day, the good and the bad. If you're the spouse at home, tell your husband or wife what you did that day or week, where you went, people you met with, the money you spent, the bills you paid as well as those you forgot to pay. If you're the spouse underway, do the same. If on a port call, share the places you went to, venture out in groups with the same sex, how much money you spent, and interesting events you encountered.
Forget being right or wrong. We've all been there, but there comes a time when this mindset has to end if what is truly wanted is a healthy and working marriage. Strive for solutions that steer you in the direction of unity.
Reconfirm your commitment to your spouse throughout the deployment. Think of ways that honestly convey emotional trust. Start with "I appreciate that you ________________ (fill in the blank)."
When failure happens, don't give up. If trust was breached, it's normal to feel hurt and want to shut the offending spouse out. However, if you're willing, let your spouse know he or she can earn your trust back, but genuine changes that bear results must happen. Put accountability steps in play.
Lisa Nixon Phillips is a retired Navy wife, mother, author and business owner with her husband, Ray. In 1986, she left Kansas and started a new life in California where she met and married her husband of 27 years. A passionate supporter of her husband's military service, Phillips volunteered for various military family events during the span of his 21 years of service. While stationed on the island of Guam, she served as an Ombudsman to the Navy's ship repair facility.
Like every military family, Phillips and her husband experienced difficult times during training missions, deployments and PCS moves, but she attributes her resiliency as a military wife to her faith. She and her husband currently reside with their two pugs in Arlington, Washington.
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Secrest Arboretum Plants 1,000th Tree Since Tornado
Home // Home // Secrest Arboretum Plants 1,000th Tree Since Tornado
WOOSTER, Ohio -- Secrest Arboretum, which lost 1,600 trees to a tornado last year, recently dug in replacement No. 1,000 -- exactly one year later.
Shovels in hand, friends and officials of the Wooster facility planted a new tupelo tree in a short ceremony on Sept. 16.
Ken Cochran, the arboretum’s program director, said the tree, an especially tall-growing variety, “will grow straight up -- a tower. It’ll get knocked around by the wind.”
“No thanks,” joked Bill Ravlin, an associate director of the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, the arboretum’s home. “Been there. Done that.” The OARDC campus itself suffered an estimated $25 million to $30 million in damage from the twister.
Joining them were OARDC Director Steve Slack; Dave Benfield, an OARDC associate director; Bobby Moser, Ohio State University’s vice president for agricultural administration and dean of the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences, of which OARDC is a part; and Kevin Thompson, executive director of the Ohio Nursery and Landscape Association. Many ONLA members have donated labor and trees to repair the arboretum.
OSU Extension horticulture educator Jim Chatfield spoke to the crowd, quoting the poet Robert Frost:
A tree’s leaves may be ever so good,
So may its bar, so may its wood;
But unless you put the right thing to its root
It never will show much flower or fruit.
“You’re putting the right thing to the root today,” said Chatfield, who has helped to document details on all the trees that were lost in the storm -- their age, type, size, and the value of their environmental services.
Some 200 tree seedlings -- dawn redwoods, katsura trees and umbrella magnolias -- were given away too. All were grown from seeds that came from trees that fell in the storm.
The program was part of a day of activities to celebrate the campus’s recovery from the tornado and to dedicate an advanced new biosecure research facility.
Workers and volunteers continue to replant the arboretum, which saw about 30 of its 120 acres virtually leveled.
Details on the arboretum’s tornado renewal fund are at http://go.osu.edu/Ex3.
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Ballon D’ Or 2019: Liverpool’s Van Dijk responds to Cristiano Ronaldo’s sister attack
Liverpool star, Virgil van Dijk has responded to criticism from Katia Aveiro, the sister of Cristiano Ronaldo.
GhanaMotion had reported on Tuesday that Katia blasted Van Dijk after the Dutch centre-back jokingly questioned if Ronaldo was really a rival to him (Dijk) winning the 2019 Ballon D’ Or award during his interview.
When Van Dijk was being interviewed by Dutch television station RTL7 before the Ballon d’Or gala, the interviewer asked if Ronaldo’s absence meant that he had one less rival to contend with for the 2019 Ballon d’Or award and the Reds defender replied: ‘Was he a rival then?’
This did not go down well for Ronaldo’s sister Katia, who took to her Instagram page blasting Van Dijk in a lengthy post.
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She wrote as part of the post: “You see, my dear Virgil, that Cristiano Ronaldo was a tri-champion in the country where you have been playing for years and you still haven’t got your hand on the trophy.”
But reacting to the development, Van Dijk wrote on his official Twitter page:
“Firstly I’d like to congratulate Lionel Messi on winning your historic sixth Ballon d’Or.
“As I also said last night at the ceremony, it’s important to sit back and admire greatness when it’s in front of you. Congratulations on another incredible year.
“On a personal level it was an honour to be nominated and I’m extremely proud to have come second and in the same company as two of the greatest players to ever play the game in Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
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“We’ve enjoyed some good battles this year and I hope there will be many more to come.
“I am proud of my journey and I hope that my route in the game can help inspire others to always believe in yourself and never give up on your dreams.
“I am hungry for more success on the pitch and will be working as hard as I can to keep improving and to continue to strive to be the best that I can be.
“It’s been an incredible 2019 so far but none of this would have been possible without the love and support of my family, thank you for always being there.
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“I must also say a huge thank you again to all of my team-mates at Liverpool and the national team.
“Finally thank you to everyone in the football world for all of your messages of support, it means a lot to me and my family.”
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Snapshots: SZA @ The Fillmore Silver Spring — 2/5/18
Posted on 02/07/2018 by chriscastilloweb in Live Review and tagged alt R&B, neo-soul, R&B, SZA, The Fillmore Silver Spring, Top Dawg Entertainment.
SZA performs at The Fillmore Silver Spring on Feb. 5, 2018. (Photo by Chris Castillo)
SZA dropped Ctrl, her debut album, via Top Dawg Entertainment/RCA Records last year, and she undertook her first headlining tour, which finally made it to The Fillmore Silver Spring for a sold-out show on Monday. Chris Castillo was there to photograph the action.
In concert, the alt-R&B singer-songwriter, born Solána Imani Rowe, drew from her 14-track album to perform songs like “Supermodel,” “Anything,” and “Broken Clocks.” You may have seen SZA sing “Broken Clocks” at the Grammy Awards on Jan. 28.
The crowd at The Fillmore were particularly appreciative as SZA made up the date after rescheduling it from August 2017 due to health problems. SZA will next perform locally as part of the Top Dawg Entertainment: The Championship Tour in a lineup that includes Kendrick Lamar! See them at Jiffy Lube Live in Bristow, Virginia on Friday, June 1. Buy your tickets online.
Meanwhile, here are some pictures of SZA performing at The Fillmore Silver Spring on Monday, Feb. 5, 2018. All photos copyright and courtesy of Chris Castillo.
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Music Park: Albert Hammond Jr. @ U Street Music Hall — 3/27/18
Interview: Chris Kamsch of Dingleberry Dynasty (@ The Fillmore Silver Spring, 3/30/18)
Music Park: Lucius @ Lincoln Theatre — 3/23/18
Music Park: Grace VanderWaal @ 9:30 Club — 2/7/18
Music Park: Broken Social Scene @ 9:30 Club — 9/19/17
Music Park: Prophets of Rage @ 9:30 Club — 9/14/17
Music Park: The Districts @ 9:30 Club — 8/18/17
Music Park: Little Dragon @ 9:30 Club — 8/9/17
Live Review: STOMP @ National Theatre — 4/23/19
Live Review: Anita Baker @ MGM National Harbor — 12/29/18
Music Park: Jill Scott @ MGM National Harbor — 7/14/18
Music Park: Melanie Fiona @ Howard Theatre — 2/13/18
Music Park: Eric Benét @ The Birchmere — 1/17/18
Music Park: Dru Hill @ Howard Theatre — 8/18/17
Music Park: Al B. Sure! @ Howard Theatre — 6/28/17
Music Park: Vanessa Williams @ Howard Theatre – 3/10/17
Music Park: Jazmine Sullivan @ The Fillmore Silver Spring — 2/14/17
Music Park: Ginuwine @ Howard Theatre — 1/27/17
shedrickpelt
Live Review: Young Dolph and Key Glock @ The Fillmore Silver Spring — 3/1/20
Live Review: Cam’ron @ Howard Theater — 2/20/20
Live Review: Jasiah @ Songbryd Music House — 2/15/20
Live Review: EarthGang and Mick Jenkins @ The Fillmore Silver Spring — 2/12/20
Live Review: DRUM TAO @ Strathmore Music Center — 2/7/20
Live Review: Lupe Fiasco @ The Kennedy Center — 11/14/19
Live Review: Yelawolf @ The Fillmore Silver Spring — 11/5/19
Live Review: Maxo Kream @ U Street Music Hall — 10/25/19
Live Review: Young Thug & Machine Gun Kelly @ The Anthem — 10/22/19
Live Review: Wale @ The Fillmore Silver Spring — 10/9/19
theeternalname
Live Review: Spirit Adrift @ Songbyrd Music House — 6/13/19
Live Review: Sick Of It All @ Rock and Roll Hotel — 6/6/19
Live Review: HATE @ Baltimore Soundstage — 6/4/19
Matt Ruppert
Book Talk: How to Write One Song by Jeff Tweedy
Live Review: Calexico and Iron & Wine @ The Anthem — 2/7/20
Live Review: Hozier @ The Anthem — 11/18/19
Live Review: Angie McMahon @ The Anthem — 11/18/19
Live Review: The New Pornographers @ 9:30 Club — 11/5/19
Live Review: Built to Spill @ 9:30 Club — 10/4/19
Live Review: The Head and the Heart @ The Anthem — 10/3/19
Live Review: Shakey Graves @ The Anthem — 9/13/19
Live Review: The Wallflowers @ Rams Head Live — 8/23/19
Live Review: Deer Tick @ Wolf Trap — 6/20/19
Will Colbert
Interview: iNTeLL (of GFTD and 2nd Generation Wu)
Best of the Year: Top 10 Moments of 2019 by Will
Live Review: Bad Bunny @ EagleBank Arena — 11/1/19
Live Review: Big Freedia w/ Low Cut Connie @ 9:30 Club — 10/29/19
Live Review: Buddy Guy @ State Theatre — 10/14/19
Live Review: Los Lonely Boys @ The Birchmere — 9/30/19
Live Review: Burna Boy @ The Fillmore Silver Spring — 9/15/19
Live Review: Gary Clark Jr. @ Merriweather Post Pavilion — 8/25/19
Live Review: Santana @ Jiffy Lube Live — 8/14/19
Live Review: Nas @ Wolf Trap — 7/14/19
Live Review: Dead Kennedys @ 9:30 Club — 3/11/20
Live Review: The Bouncing Souls @ The Fillmore Silver Spring — 12/18/19
Live Review: Twin Peaks @ Black Cat — 12/11/19
Live Review: Culture Abuse @ Black Cat — 12/4/19
Preview: Twin Peaks @ Black Cat, 12/11/19
Live Review: Plague Vendor w/ No Parents @ DC9 — 10/11/19
wefoughtthebigone
Interview: David Nicholas of Spectrums (@ We Fought the Big One — 11/3/17)
Don’t Miss: Sansyou @ Black Cat, 10/06/16
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10 Ways to open File Explorer in Windows 10
Patricia Sonnenstuhl
About Computers, Computer Operating Systems, How To Articles, MS File Explorer, Software and APPs, Windows 9-10
File Explorer is one of the most used apps from Windows 10. Whether you need to copy or move files, or delete some, there’s always one thing you need to do first: open the File Explorer. So, we thought it would be a very good idea to write this roundup article, which contains all the ways in which you can open File Explorer in Windows 10. They involve everything from search, to keyboard shortcuts, to using speech and so on. Let’s get started:
The Complete Article
How to make Windows 10’s File Explorer start in any folder you want
Computer Related Education Programs, MS File Explorer, Windows 9-10
Windows 10 offers an easy way of changing the start location for File Explorer. However, it only gives you two starting locations to choose from: Quick access and This PC. But what if you want File Explorer to start in another location? What if you’d like your File Explorer to start in your OneDrive folder, your Dropbox folder, one of your Libraries or any other folder from your Windows 10 computer or device? Unfortunately, there is no easy way to do that in Windows 10. Because of that, we started to scour for possible solutions. In the end, we managed to find one hack that works well. Read on to learn how you can set Windows 10’s File Explorer to start in any location you want:
NOTE: If you want to change the start location for File Explorer to one of the default choices you have in Windows 10 – Quick access or This PC – we recommend you to read this guide: How To Set The Start Location For File Explorer In Windows 10
Windows 10 Anniversary Update: The new features heading your way
Computer Operating Systems, How To Articles, Windows 9-10
Microsoft is marking the first birthday of Windows 10 by giving the OS a major upgrade.
The Windows 10 Anniversary Update will add a variety of features to the OS, as well as extending and fixing what’s already there.
The detail of what will be included in the free update — due to drop on August 2nd — is already known, as early versions have been available to testers for some time under the Windows Insider program.
A gallery version of this article is available here.
Here are the major new additions to Windows 10 due in the Anniversary Update.
How to set when Windows 10 is allowed to install updates and restart your PC
About Computers, Updating your computer, Windows 9-10
Up until now, Windows 10 users had no control over how and when their computers or devices chose to reboot in order to automatically install operating system updates. That’s not exactly what you’d call a friendly approach and, even more, it can be quite unhelpful for people using Windows 10 at work. Just imagine what would it mean for you to have a meeting on Skype with an important client and your Windows 10 computer decides to restart and install updates. Not to mention those apocalyptical situations when updates encounter errors: all your work is on that Windows 10 computer and troubleshooting takes forever. Starting with Windows 10 Anniversary Update, Microsoft finally took some steps towards correcting these issues with the help of two small and helpful features: Active hours and custom restart times. Read on to see where you’ll find these settings and how to configure them:
NOTE: The features shared in this article apply only to Windows 10 with Anniversary Update or to Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14367 or newer. Windows 10 Anniversary Update will be available for free, to all Windows 10 users, as of August 2, 2016.
How to get the Linux Bash in Windows 10, in 3 steps
About Computers, Computer Operating Systems, Linux Information, Open Source and Ubuntu, Windows 9-10
It’s been a while now since Microsoft declared its love for Linux and, at first, it felt strange to see Windows 10 embrace the Tux penguin. However, the fact that Windows 10 is able to run native Linux applications directly, without having to resort to using virtual machines, is a proof of Microsoft’s new strategy of embracing other ecosystems. Microsoft teamed up with Canonical and now you can install the Ubuntu software subsystem in Windows 10. That allows you to run Bash directly from Windows 10. Strange times we’re living in, right? They are also interesting times, so let’s see how to enable the Linux Bash in Windows 10:
NOTE: The features shared in this article apply only to Windows 10 with Anniversary Update or to Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14367 or newer. Windows 10 Anniversary Update will be available for free, to all Windows 10 users, as of July 2016.
Enabling the Linux Bash on Windows 10 is not very hard and it implies changing just a few settings. However, working with Bash might be something that’s not quite for everybody. If you are a developer, if you love running commands in a text environment, or if you have some experience in working with Linux, then you’ll probably be very excited with the love Windows 10 how shows to Linux users.
Ubuntu’s bash and Linux command line coming to Windows 10
About Computers, Linux Information, Open Source and Ubuntu, Windows 9-10
Microsoft built a Linux subsystem for Windows for Project Astoria, its system for running Android apps on Windows 10 Mobile.
But in February the company confirmed that Astoria was dead, as it rather undermined the Universal Windows Platform concept. At the time, we speculated that portions of Astoria might live on, as portions of it had mysteriously started showing up in Windows Insider Previews. And today, that has come to pass, with Microsoft saying that the Windows 10 Anniversary Update will include the ability to run the popular bash shell from Unix, along with the rest of a typical Unix command-line environment.
We’re still trying to get the inside story on what Microsoft has done here, but what we’ve known for several months now is that the company has developed some Windows kernel components (lxcore.sys, lxss.sys, presumably standing for “Linux core” and “Linux subsystem,” respectively) that support the major Linux kernel APIs. These components are not GPLed and do not appear to contain Linux code themselves; instead, they implement the Linux kernel API using the native Windows NT API that the Windows kernel provides. Microsoft is calling this the “Windows Subsystem for Linux” (WSL).
A kernel API is one thing, but to be useful you need user mode applications. For Astoria, this would have been a version of the Android Open Source Project, Google’s mostly BSD-licensed code that provides a Java-like runtime and various applications and system services. For WSL, however, Microsoft is turning to Canonical, creators of Ubuntu, for help. Canonical has provided a system image containing the Ubuntu versions of the various command-line tools that are typically found in a Linux distribution.
How to use the Contact Support app from Windows 10 to get help from Microsof
About Computers, Software and APPs, Windows 7, Windows 8-8.1, Windows 9-10
Microsoft has included a brand new app dedicated to helping it’s customers get fast tech support when theyencounter problems. It’s a new universal app that works both in Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile. The app is named Contact Support and acts as a portal for reaching the appropriate support service for the specific problem that you are having. As you will see in this guide, it helps you get to the right place faster and more easily, depending on your need. Let’s see how the Contact Support app works:
Be prepared: Create a Windows 10 Recovery Drive
About Computers, Computer Operating Systems, Windows 7, Windows 8-8.1, Windows 9-10
A Recovery Drive lets you boot your system and easily access a number of recovery and troubleshooting tools to revive a failing Windows 10 system. If you haven’t done so yet, you need to create a Windows 10 Recovery Drive. That way, you’ll be prepared should you encounter a problem with your Windows 10 installation.
In Windows 10, you can create a Recovery Drive on a USB flash drive as well as on an optical disc. While both procedures produce the same recovery tool, they are created from different user interfaces. The USB flash drive version is created using a stand-alone tool; the optical disc is created from the Backup And Restore (Windows 7) user interface. Why Microsoft didn’t unify the process under one roof, I don’t know. In this article, I’ll show you both ways to create a Windows 10 Recovery Drive.
Has your Windows 10 Start menu stopped working? Here are four ways to fix it
About Computers, Computer Operating Systems, Web Tips and Tricks, Windows 8-8.1, Windows 9-10
I had this issue after my latest update from Microsoft and I Tunes. Lynda found this link, and i found it quite helpful.
I had already rebooted and this start menu returned, magically. But, these would have been simpler solutions….
The Windows 10 upgrade hasn’t been smooth sailing for everyone, and one common complaint is that the Start menu stops working for no apparent reason. Here are some ways to reactivate it.
How to share a printer with the network in Windows
About Computers, On Line Networking, Windows 7, Windows 8-8.1, Windows 9-10
If you have a network where multiple devices and operating systems are used, you might not be able to use the Homegroup for easy network sharing. In such scenarios, you need to share your folders and devices using different procedures. For example, sharing a printer with the network involves a different and lengthier set of steps. Here’s how it works in Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and in Windows 10:
NOTE: Sharing a printer works the same way in Windows 7, in Windows 8.1 and in Windows 10. Thus, for simplicity reasons, in this tutorial, we will use screenshots taken only in Windows 10. Some visuals might be slightly different in previous versions of Windows, but the essentials are the same.
How to share a printer with the network, in Windows
First, open the Devices and Printers panel. There you will see a list with all external devices installed on your PC. Go to the Printers section and select the printer that you want to share
OMUG Calendar
OMUG General Meeting
January 2, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Olympia Center, 222 Columbia St NW, Olympia, Room 206
The OMUG General Meeting has been changed to the first Saturday of the month. All are welcome. Please check our website for the topic of the month: http://www.olymug.org/
Linux and Raspberry Pi User Group
Olympia Senior Center, Room 206
Check our website for further information: http://www.olymug.org/
Join us for some of the other SIGs : http://www.olymug.org/omug-sigs/ (http://www.olymug.org/omug-sigs/)
Meets Monthly, Second Tuesdays, 6:30 PM, Olympia Center Room 206
For more info contact Tim Hilliard (tim2@timshome.com; 360.556.6842)
Join us at the Olympia Linux Users Group, a special interest group of the Olympia Microcomputer Users Group.
Get info, help installing, help using, or show off your setup…
Bring a computer in and we can help you install Linux!
If you are a hobbyist interested in the Raspberry Pi system, this is the right place as well.
All skill levels from “I’ve heard of Linux” to advanced user are welcomed in this friendly environment.
Linux is an easy to use, free, open source operating system for the smallest to largest computers in existence, but we are mainly focused on desktop or laptop computers running desktop systems filling the same role as Windows or Apple’s OSX. Wikipedia has a good general intro to Linux.
The Olympia WordPress Meetup is a free, non-judgemental place for people of any skill level, interest, or background to come and learn, share, and participate in our amazing WordPress community.
We meet in room 206. Usually we will have a short presentation followed by a general discussion and problem solving.
There is a Meetup announcement made by Olympia Microcomputer Users Group (OMUG) as the sponsor of the event. You may register your attendance at the OlyWP Meetup site https://www.meetup.com/Olympia-WordPress-Meetup-OlyWP where we describe the meeting in more detail.
OMUG Lunch Bunch
El Sarape Restaurant, 955 Black Lake Blvd. SW 98502
This social interest group is a gathering of fellow OMUGers who just want to spend some quality time getting to know each other. They also enjoy the freedom to discuss the world of personal computing, OMUG, world politics and the current plight of the stock market. As Loren Freeman used to say, we’re at the picket fence of OMUG.
The OMUG Lunch Bunch meets on the 4th Tuesday of each month at 11:30 a.m. at El Sarape Restaurant, 1200 Cooper Point Road near Staples in West Olympia.
OMUG Learning Python SIG
Olympia Center, 222 Columbia N, Olympia, WA, Room 206
Self paced learning - various Python computer language topics
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About OMUG
The Olympia Microcomputer Users Group (OMUG) is an volunteer, non-profit organization proudly serving the needs of the computer user community in the south Puget Sound area of western Washington since 1986. We now spend time on other devices as well as basic computers.
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In Case You Missed It, Industry Insights
Top 10 OnTheRegs Takeaways 2020
At the outset of 2020, I suggested that it would be a year defined by clarity and precision. How wrong I was! No one could have reasonably anticipated the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic and the impact it’s had to all areas of life across the globe. With that said, while COVID-19 has been central to all, due to its resilience- global asset management continued to evolve this year including in the policy and regulation space. Here, we’ll look at some of the biggest shifts we have seen in 2020:
10. Financial Inclusion
It is increasingly obvious that the global asset management industry is a more and more
cut-throat, competitive environment resulting in a fee war leaving managers with no choice but to axe fees to attract new investors or retain existing clients. However, another path to the continued vibrancy of asset management would be to “Grow the Pie”. If global participation rates increased, this would mean more customers with different views, profiles, and appetites, meaning more choice for both the supply and demand side. Financial inclusion is an area that policymakers are also interested in. In Europe, the Capital Markets Union revamp is underpinned by a deep desire to have more EU citizens actively investing with ELTIF and PEPP at the center. Studies show that EU retail investors are very much under invested when compared to the US for example.
The US has a better investment culture but has also moved to open the range of investment opportunities available to retail through its accredited investor revisions. The revisions allow US retail investors easier access to illiquid investment such as private equity funds. Across the globe, policymakers want to increase demand through financial literacy education and increase supply using technology and distribution barriers.
We are also seeing a trend towards the democratization of illiquid funds globally with appetite growing among pension investors, wealth managers, and mass affluent distribution channels for higher yielding products with longer investment horizons.
9. Irish Investment Limited Partnership
The Irish Investment Limited Partnership (ILP) legislation remains unfinished at the time of writing, however it’s very close. It’s a significant development as it fills in a gap in the Irish funds’ toolkit at a time when private funds are experiencing increasingly high degrees of investor demand. It is evident that there is a lot of activity in the private equity and debt space with much of that deal flow currently utilizing Luxembourg RAIFs or Cayman vehicles to deploy capital. Therefore, the timing is perfect for Ireland to join the private fund party.
8. Greater Bay Area Wealth Management Connect
While certain events such as an unprecedented global pandemic have slowed down some China developments a little in 2020, the emerging Greater Bay Area (GBA) Wealth Management Connect program has many people very excited, and with good reason. It has a readymade mass affluent audience waiting with significant appetite for investment funds. The demographics and affluence of the GBA area includes Hong Kong, Macau, and Guangdong Province. The fact that UCITS as master feeders or fund of funds play a role here make it very compelling for global asset managers.
7. Value for Money
While the FCA have led the charge on this topic for many years now, other global regulators have taken up the value for money baton in earnest. This has head on impacts to product manufacturers and distributors. In Europe, fund value assessments are coming for UCITS and in the US we expect the SEC’s Regulation Best Interest to continue to drive both product suitability and the cost of investing to the forefront with investors and distributors for the foreseeable future. It is also possible that under the Biden administration, Regulation Best Interest could be revisited after its bumpy ride in 2020.
6. Global Delegation and Outsourcing
COVID has drawn focus on global supply chains and the asset management industry is no different. Global supra national regulator bodies like IOSCO, FSB, EBA, and others have published papers and consultations on the theme in 2020. The AIFMD review in Europe has drawn UCITS into its delegation debate and will be a keen area of focus in the post-Brexit world. In Ireland, within the CP86 debate specific focus, has been drawn to use of global resources for UCITS fund management companies located there and on what functions and activity should reside in Ireland and what may be conducted elsewhere globally. A lot has happened in 2020 but this will remain a key issue in 2021.
5. Digital Assets and Cryptocurrency
So, Crypto gets lots of press attention both good and bad, but in the grand scheme of things it remains quite niche when compared to the total addressable investment universe. It is also largely unregulated, but that could be about to change with actions taken in 2020. What’s has gone a bit under the radar in recent times is that the EU recently released its Regulation on Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) and three Democratic members recently proposed the Stable Act in the US Congress. Some commentators have suggested that both proposals will act to stifle innovation and growth of cryptocurrency and digital assets generally, however these are huge foundation stones for creation of scalable regulated markets for crypto, stable coins, central bank digital currency, and digital assets. Often, it takes solid foundations of law and regulation to underpin confidence and institutional participation in market activities. We may now have such policy pillars in place.
4. Fund Liquidity
Despite no widespread significant issues being evident, global regulators seem keen on keeping fund liquidity high on their agendas. It’s a hot button issue still across the global fund universe. Money market funds regulations look like they will be formally revisited in both the US and Europe. While both the US and EU have already moved to home in more on fund liquidity, it appears that supervisory focus will remain intense. Fund liquidity stress testing is something that is here to stay and is making many managers think about the type of fund vehicle they use to deliver certain strategies and asset classes particularly to retail investors.
3. ESG is Everywhere
Lead by the EU, ESG policy making is a very noticeable global trend and it really jumped to near the top of global asset manager agendas throughout 2020. While issues remain, the trend is very obvious. Many feel the new US presidential administration under Joe Biden will see the US align more with the ESG agenda, and that could include revisiting the Department of Labor ESG rule. In practice this rule made ESG investing more difficult for US retail investors; perhaps the ESG pendulum might swing in the other direction in the US in 2021? Either way, ESG appears to be one of the few policy issues that industry generally agrees on.
2. Brexit
The many deadlines and headlines made it an exciting year, but Brexit has also disrupted many asset managers business models and created uncertainty where there was once confidence. Brexit is far from finished, so regardless of Deal or No Deal, we will need to continue to factor in Brexit impacts for the foreseeable future. In 2020, many asset managers took action to ensure they could curb certain elements of the UK leaving the EU. Regulators too have moved to smooth the path as best they can, however not all areas have been fully dealt with and Brexit is likely to remain an area of focus past the end of the temporary transition period. We will also need to look for certain actions in the UK as they look to recast parts of the UK asset management industry for its post Brexit future.
1. COVID-19 Global Pandemic Effects
The onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic was unquestionably the biggest single influence on asset management in 2020. Regulators moved to act as a result with delays and forbearance on certain regulations and increased focus in other areas such as fund liquidity, cybersecurity, and business continuity processes. The global asset management industry has successfully dealt with the remote working environment and generally has proven itself notably resilient throughout 2020. However, regulators are likely to come back to testing items like BCP, operational contingencies, and cybersecurity more intensely than ever before in 2021. Regulators too, had to adapt and evolve also as a result of the remote work environment. Also, a focus on remote work force and return to office protocols are likely to remain, having been a huge factor in 2020.
Personal Take Away from 2020 – Silver Lining
The addition of our video series was one we discussed and planned for anyway, but one of the very few personal upsides of the pandemic and remote working is that it gave us an opportunity and incentive to utilize short videos to convey thoughts on the market and regulation through the OnTheRegs channel throughout 2020. It’s been a very enjoyable addition to the OnTheRegs repertoire. I’ve been proud of the quality and the cadence of output, but also not surprised as I work with a brilliant marketing and video team. It’s been a pleasure to have so many great diverse contributors participate through the year as well.
If you’d like to come on and discuss a topic on the OnTheRegs video series in 2021, please do get in touch to discuss.
In the meantime, the entire OTR team would like to thank you for the continued support, feedback, and contributions throughout 2020 and wish you and your families a happy festive season and a Happy New Year, surely 2021 will be less chaotic, right?
December 22, 2020 December 21, 2020 Adrian Whelancryptocurrency, Digital Assets, ESG, Financial Inclusion, Fund Liquidity, Global Delegation, Greater Bay Area Wealth Management Connect, Irish ILP, Irish Investment Limited Partnership Bill, Outsourcing, Value for Money
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Possible survival benefits from zoledronic acid treatment in patients with bone metastases from solid tumours and poor prognostic features - An exploratory analysis of placebo-controlled trials
Robert E. Coleman, Allan Lipton, Luis Costa, Richard J. Cook, Ker Ai Lee, Fred Saad, Janet E. Brown, Evangelos Terpos, Pierre P. Major, Norio Kohno, Matthew Smith, Jean Jacques Body
Background: Zoledronic acid (ZOL) is an important component of therapy for patients with metastatic bone disease (MBD) to reduce the risk of skeletal-related events (SREs). We evaluated overall survival (OS) in patients with MBD secondary to solid tumours included in placebocontrolled ZOL trials. Patients and methods: Exploratory analyses were performed using databases from three randomised trials of ZOL versus placebo. 1126 patients (ZOL, n=731; placebo, n=395) with complete baseline data for 18 predefined parameters were evaluated for OS. Relative risks (RRs) with 95% confidence intervals were assessed using stratified and adjusted Cox regression models. Baseline covariates defining patient populations with significantly different effects of ZOL treatment on OS (identified by stepwise backward elimination) were included in multivariate models. Results: Although OS was similar between the overall treatment groups, ZOL significantly improved OS in the subset of patients (n=423; 38%) with elevated baseline NTX (Z100 nmol/mmol creatinine; RR, 0.692; P=.0028). Notably, this effect was independent of SRE prevention. Additional covariates associated with OS benefits with ZOL (e.g., low albumin, SRE history, elevated lactate dehydrogenase, shorter cancer duration) were characteristic of advanced disease. Conclusion: These exploratory analyses suggest a beneficial effect of ZOL on OS in patients with highly aggressive or advanced MBD.
Journal of Bone Oncology
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbo.2013.01.002
10.1016/j.jbo.2013.01.002
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Coleman, R. E., Lipton, A., Costa, L., Cook, R. J., Lee, K. A., Saad, F., Brown, J. E., Terpos, E., Major, P. P., Kohno, N., Smith, M., & Body, J. J. (2013). Possible survival benefits from zoledronic acid treatment in patients with bone metastases from solid tumours and poor prognostic features - An exploratory analysis of placebo-controlled trials. Journal of Bone Oncology, 2(2), 70-76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbo.2013.01.002
Coleman, Robert E. ; Lipton, Allan ; Costa, Luis ; Cook, Richard J. ; Lee, Ker Ai ; Saad, Fred ; Brown, Janet E. ; Terpos, Evangelos ; Major, Pierre P. ; Kohno, Norio ; Smith, Matthew ; Body, Jean Jacques. / Possible survival benefits from zoledronic acid treatment in patients with bone metastases from solid tumours and poor prognostic features - An exploratory analysis of placebo-controlled trials. In: Journal of Bone Oncology. 2013 ; Vol. 2, No. 2. pp. 70-76.
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abstract = "Background: Zoledronic acid (ZOL) is an important component of therapy for patients with metastatic bone disease (MBD) to reduce the risk of skeletal-related events (SREs). We evaluated overall survival (OS) in patients with MBD secondary to solid tumours included in placebocontrolled ZOL trials. Patients and methods: Exploratory analyses were performed using databases from three randomised trials of ZOL versus placebo. 1126 patients (ZOL, n=731; placebo, n=395) with complete baseline data for 18 predefined parameters were evaluated for OS. Relative risks (RRs) with 95% confidence intervals were assessed using stratified and adjusted Cox regression models. Baseline covariates defining patient populations with significantly different effects of ZOL treatment on OS (identified by stepwise backward elimination) were included in multivariate models. Results: Although OS was similar between the overall treatment groups, ZOL significantly improved OS in the subset of patients (n=423; 38%) with elevated baseline NTX (Z100 nmol/mmol creatinine; RR, 0.692; P=.0028). Notably, this effect was independent of SRE prevention. Additional covariates associated with OS benefits with ZOL (e.g., low albumin, SRE history, elevated lactate dehydrogenase, shorter cancer duration) were characteristic of advanced disease. Conclusion: These exploratory analyses suggest a beneficial effect of ZOL on OS in patients with highly aggressive or advanced MBD.",
author = "Coleman, {Robert E.} and Allan Lipton and Luis Costa and Cook, {Richard J.} and Lee, {Ker Ai} and Fred Saad and Brown, {Janet E.} and Evangelos Terpos and Major, {Pierre P.} and Norio Kohno and Matthew Smith and Body, {Jean Jacques}",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported by Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation. As the sponsor of the studies included in the meta-analysis, Novartis made the data available to the authors. All analyses were conducted by the independent statistician (RJC). The corresponding author initiated and directed all analyses, had access to all data in the study, and took final responsibility for the decision to submit for publication. All authors were responsible for the content of this review. Funding Information: REC has served as a consultant/advisor to Novartis, and has previously given expert testimony on behalf of Novartis. AL has participated as a consultant for Amgen, Novartis, Acceleron Pharmaceuticals, Monogram Biosciences, and GlaxoSmithKline; received honoraria from Amgen, Pfizer, Acceleron Pharmaceuticals, GlaxoSmithKline, and Novartis; received research funding from Novartis, Monogram Biosciences, and Oncogene Science; and has given expert testimony for Novartis. LC has received honoraria from Novartis and Amgen, and speaker fees from Novartis. RJC has received honoraria and consulting fees from Abbott, Amgen, GlaxoSmithKline, and Novartis. FS has received research funding, attended advisory board meetings, and received honoraria for speaking on behalf of Novartis. JEB has received a travel grant and honoraria from Novartis; she has also received a travel grant, honoraria, research funding, and speaker fees from Amgen, and has participated in advisory boards for Bristol-Myers Squibb. ET has received honoraria and research funding from Novartis and Janssen-Cilag, and has participated in advisory boards and served on steering committees for Amgen. PPM has received consultancy fees from Novartis for participating in advisory boards and FDA meetings. NK has received honoraria from Pfizer and Novartis. JJB has received consultancy fees and speaker fees from Novartis and Amgen. MS reports no disclosures relevant to this manuscript. KAI reports no conflicts of interest. Funding Information: This work, including medical editorial assistance, was supported by Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation. Funding Information: We thank Shalini Murthy, PhD, ProEd Communications, Inc. {\textregistered} , for her editorial assistance with this manuscript. Medical editorial assistance was supported by Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation. ",
doi = "10.1016/j.jbo.2013.01.002",
journal = "Journal of Bone Oncology",
publisher = "Elsevier GmbH",
Coleman, RE, Lipton, A, Costa, L, Cook, RJ, Lee, KA, Saad, F, Brown, JE, Terpos, E, Major, PP, Kohno, N, Smith, M & Body, JJ 2013, 'Possible survival benefits from zoledronic acid treatment in patients with bone metastases from solid tumours and poor prognostic features - An exploratory analysis of placebo-controlled trials', Journal of Bone Oncology, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 70-76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbo.2013.01.002
Possible survival benefits from zoledronic acid treatment in patients with bone metastases from solid tumours and poor prognostic features - An exploratory analysis of placebo-controlled trials. / Coleman, Robert E.; Lipton, Allan; Costa, Luis; Cook, Richard J.; Lee, Ker Ai; Saad, Fred; Brown, Janet E.; Terpos, Evangelos; Major, Pierre P.; Kohno, Norio; Smith, Matthew; Body, Jean Jacques.
In: Journal of Bone Oncology, Vol. 2, No. 2, 06.2013, p. 70-76.
T1 - Possible survival benefits from zoledronic acid treatment in patients with bone metastases from solid tumours and poor prognostic features - An exploratory analysis of placebo-controlled trials
AU - Coleman, Robert E.
AU - Lipton, Allan
AU - Costa, Luis
AU - Cook, Richard J.
AU - Lee, Ker Ai
AU - Saad, Fred
AU - Brown, Janet E.
AU - Terpos, Evangelos
AU - Major, Pierre P.
AU - Kohno, Norio
AU - Smith, Matthew
AU - Body, Jean Jacques
N1 - Funding Information: This work was supported by Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation. As the sponsor of the studies included in the meta-analysis, Novartis made the data available to the authors. All analyses were conducted by the independent statistician (RJC). The corresponding author initiated and directed all analyses, had access to all data in the study, and took final responsibility for the decision to submit for publication. All authors were responsible for the content of this review. Funding Information: REC has served as a consultant/advisor to Novartis, and has previously given expert testimony on behalf of Novartis. AL has participated as a consultant for Amgen, Novartis, Acceleron Pharmaceuticals, Monogram Biosciences, and GlaxoSmithKline; received honoraria from Amgen, Pfizer, Acceleron Pharmaceuticals, GlaxoSmithKline, and Novartis; received research funding from Novartis, Monogram Biosciences, and Oncogene Science; and has given expert testimony for Novartis. LC has received honoraria from Novartis and Amgen, and speaker fees from Novartis. RJC has received honoraria and consulting fees from Abbott, Amgen, GlaxoSmithKline, and Novartis. FS has received research funding, attended advisory board meetings, and received honoraria for speaking on behalf of Novartis. JEB has received a travel grant and honoraria from Novartis; she has also received a travel grant, honoraria, research funding, and speaker fees from Amgen, and has participated in advisory boards for Bristol-Myers Squibb. ET has received honoraria and research funding from Novartis and Janssen-Cilag, and has participated in advisory boards and served on steering committees for Amgen. PPM has received consultancy fees from Novartis for participating in advisory boards and FDA meetings. NK has received honoraria from Pfizer and Novartis. JJB has received consultancy fees and speaker fees from Novartis and Amgen. MS reports no disclosures relevant to this manuscript. KAI reports no conflicts of interest. Funding Information: This work, including medical editorial assistance, was supported by Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation. Funding Information: We thank Shalini Murthy, PhD, ProEd Communications, Inc. ® , for her editorial assistance with this manuscript. Medical editorial assistance was supported by Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation.
N2 - Background: Zoledronic acid (ZOL) is an important component of therapy for patients with metastatic bone disease (MBD) to reduce the risk of skeletal-related events (SREs). We evaluated overall survival (OS) in patients with MBD secondary to solid tumours included in placebocontrolled ZOL trials. Patients and methods: Exploratory analyses were performed using databases from three randomised trials of ZOL versus placebo. 1126 patients (ZOL, n=731; placebo, n=395) with complete baseline data for 18 predefined parameters were evaluated for OS. Relative risks (RRs) with 95% confidence intervals were assessed using stratified and adjusted Cox regression models. Baseline covariates defining patient populations with significantly different effects of ZOL treatment on OS (identified by stepwise backward elimination) were included in multivariate models. Results: Although OS was similar between the overall treatment groups, ZOL significantly improved OS in the subset of patients (n=423; 38%) with elevated baseline NTX (Z100 nmol/mmol creatinine; RR, 0.692; P=.0028). Notably, this effect was independent of SRE prevention. Additional covariates associated with OS benefits with ZOL (e.g., low albumin, SRE history, elevated lactate dehydrogenase, shorter cancer duration) were characteristic of advanced disease. Conclusion: These exploratory analyses suggest a beneficial effect of ZOL on OS in patients with highly aggressive or advanced MBD.
AB - Background: Zoledronic acid (ZOL) is an important component of therapy for patients with metastatic bone disease (MBD) to reduce the risk of skeletal-related events (SREs). We evaluated overall survival (OS) in patients with MBD secondary to solid tumours included in placebocontrolled ZOL trials. Patients and methods: Exploratory analyses were performed using databases from three randomised trials of ZOL versus placebo. 1126 patients (ZOL, n=731; placebo, n=395) with complete baseline data for 18 predefined parameters were evaluated for OS. Relative risks (RRs) with 95% confidence intervals were assessed using stratified and adjusted Cox regression models. Baseline covariates defining patient populations with significantly different effects of ZOL treatment on OS (identified by stepwise backward elimination) were included in multivariate models. Results: Although OS was similar between the overall treatment groups, ZOL significantly improved OS in the subset of patients (n=423; 38%) with elevated baseline NTX (Z100 nmol/mmol creatinine; RR, 0.692; P=.0028). Notably, this effect was independent of SRE prevention. Additional covariates associated with OS benefits with ZOL (e.g., low albumin, SRE history, elevated lactate dehydrogenase, shorter cancer duration) were characteristic of advanced disease. Conclusion: These exploratory analyses suggest a beneficial effect of ZOL on OS in patients with highly aggressive or advanced MBD.
U2 - 10.1016/j.jbo.2013.01.002
DO - 10.1016/j.jbo.2013.01.002
JO - Journal of Bone Oncology
JF - Journal of Bone Oncology
Coleman RE, Lipton A, Costa L, Cook RJ, Lee KA, Saad F et al. Possible survival benefits from zoledronic acid treatment in patients with bone metastases from solid tumours and poor prognostic features - An exploratory analysis of placebo-controlled trials. Journal of Bone Oncology. 2013 Jun;2(2):70-76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbo.2013.01.002
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Off The Greens and In The Air
ALEX SMITH Staff Writer
While most 16 year-olds were getting their drivers license, parent’s old cars, and new found freedom, Davis Cook was high above learning to fly a plane, a type of freedom that can’t be matched.
“When your in the air there’s a freedom that you can’t describe. When I was a kid I always like to drive things like electric toy cars, so that interest translated into flying for me,” said Cook.
Cook is a junior on the PC men’s golf team. Last season, he appeared in 6 tournaments for the Lion and had an average score of 77.83 over 13 round. Cook posted his best finish at the Piedmont College Fall Invitational taking sixth place out of 34 players, but his best rounds were at Jekyll Island Invitational with a scoring of 72 in a round, according to the Piedmont Athletics website.
While being successful on the green is something that he works at constantly, flying came much more naturally. Cook’s father and grandfather are both pilots and passed this skill on to him as soon as he was of age to start the process of getting his pilot’s license.
“When I turned 16, my dad asked if I wanted to pursue being a pilot. You have to start young to become a pilot, because of the hours you have to log for your license. It will probably take until I’m 23 to become a commercially licensed pilot,” said Cook.
In order to become a commercially licensed airline pilot, you must go through different ratings, starting as a private pilot, then the instrument rating, then multi-engine commercial, and finally airline transport pilot (ATP), which is flying airliners.Not only was this something he was able to share with his father and grandfather, he soon found of why they enjoyed flying so much.
“When it’s nighttime, you’re in the air with good weather, you look outside and its so peaceful. There’s lights for miles, stars, and you can see other planes going by,” said Cook.
Even though sometimes Cook may hit a golf ball in the bunker, he says that he has never had something go wrong with his plane midair.
“When I was getting my pilot’s license, my instructor would pull out the engine power to idle, so that it acted like I had lost an engine in midair. He would make me go about 50 feet about the ground and act like I’m landing in a field,” said Cook.
So as his golf score goes down, his pilot rating goes up. He says it would be fun to fly his teammates to a tournament sometime, though at the moment his license is for four-seater planes. “I would love to fly Piedmont, as long as they trust me,” joked Cook.
After Cook graduates from Piedmont, he hopes to pursue being a commercially licensed pilot. So even though the turbulence of being a college-student athlete may get rough, he will always enjoy the view from above.
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Category: Arbitration
Arbitration Award Vacated Because Arbitrator Hid Ownership Interest In Arbitration Service
by: Peter J. Gallagher (LinkedIn)
Arbitration awards are rarely overturned. The standard to vacate an award is high, and judicial review of awards is often unexacting. So when a court overturns an award, it is usually worth a closer look. And one recent decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Monster Energy Company v. City Beverages , LLC, is definitely worth a closer look. In Monster, the court vacated an arbitration award based on the “evident partiality” of the arbitrator. The main evidence of the arbitrator’s “evident partiality” was his ownership interest in JAMS, a fact he did not disclose before the arbitration. At the risk of revealing my own ignorance, I did not know that JAMS is owned, at least in part, by some of the neutrals who mediate/arbitrate cases through JAMS. But it is, and after Monster, those owners should disclose that relationship to the parties before beginning an arbitration.
The defendant in Monster was a beer distributor. In 2006, it signed an agreement with plaintiff to be the exclusive distributor of plaintiff’s energy drinks for 20 years in a specific geographical territory. But the agreement contained an out for plaintiff – it could terminate the agreement without cause if it paid a severance fee to defendant in an amount agreed upon by the parties in the agreement. Eight years after signing the agreement, plaintiff exercised this clause, paid the severance fee, and terminated the agreement. Defendant objected, arguing that the termination violated Washington’s Franchise Investment Protection Act.
The agreement between the parties contained an arbitration provision, requiring that any dispute be resolved by JAMS Orange County. After plaintiff served its arbitration demand, JAMS provided the parties with a list of seven neutrals. The parties chose their arbitrator from this list. The chosen arbitrator then provided a disclosure statement, which included the following: “I practice with JAMS. Each JAMS neutral, including me, has an economic interest in the overall financial success of JAMS.” The arbitrator also disclosed that he had arbitrated one matter for plaintiff in the past five years, and that he had ruled against plaintiff in that case, which involved a dispute between plaintiff and another distributor.
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gallagpj Arbitration, Civil Litigation, Commercial Law, Commercial Litigation, Ethics, Litigation Leave a comment January 8, 2020 January 7, 2020 4 Minutes
Three Contracts, But Only One Arbitration Provision, Means Arbitration Cannot Be Compelled
by: Peter J. Gallagher (@pjsgallagher) (LinkedIn)
What happens when the same parties enter into three contracts, all related to the same underlying services, the first two of which require the parties to litigate any disputes while the third provides that the parties “may” settle any disputes through binding arbitration? When a dispute arises, do you have to sue in court, can you arbitrate instead, if one side chooses arbitration, is the other side stuck with that choice? These were the issues in the Appellate Division’s recent decision in Medford Township School District v. Schneider Electric Building Americas, Inc.
In Medford Township, plaintiff contracted with defendant to “design and implement upgrades to several of [plaintiff’s] schools and its transportation and operations center.” The initial contract between the parties did not contain an arbitration provision. To the contrary, it contained a provision requiring that any disputes be resolved under the law of the state where the services were provided, and in the “federal, state, or municipal courts serving the county in which the services [were] performed.”
Some time later, plaintiff issued a request for proposals (RFP) for a related job. The RFP did not contain an arbitration provision. Instead, it required the winning bidder to agree that “any action or proceeding that [arose] in any manner out of performance of the RFP [or the resulting contract] . . . shall be litigated in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Burlington County.”
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gallagpj Arbitration, Civil Litigation, Commercial Law, Commercial Litigation, Litigation, Local Government Leave a comment May 1, 2019 May 1, 2019 3 Minutes
Supreme Court : Classwide Arbitration Unavailable Under Ambiguous Agreement
Keith Richards once said: “I look for ambiguity when I’m writing because life is ambiguous.” This would probably be number one on the list of things a lawyer would never say. Lawyers generally do not like ambiguity. Courts don’t like it either, including the U.S. Supreme Court, and including when it evaluates the availability of class arbitration under an arbitration agreement. Several years ago, in Stolt-Nielsen S.A. v. AnimalFeeds Int’l Corp., the Supreme Court held that courts could not compel class arbitration when the underlying agreement was “silent” on the issue. In Lamps Plus, Inc. v. Varela, the U.S. Supreme Court extended this holding to ambiguous agreements, holding that class arbitration is not available under an arbitration agreement that is ambiguous about the availability of such arbitration.
Plaintiff in Lamps Plus was a company that sold, you guessed it, “lighting fixtures and related products.” In 2016, the company suffered a data breach that revealed the tax information of approximately 1,300 of its employees. Soon after, a fraudulent tax return was filed in defendant’s name. He sued in California federal court on behalf of himself and a putative class of employees whose tax information had been compromised. But, like most of plaintiff’s employees, defendant had signed a broad arbitration agreement when he started working at the company. Thus, in response to defendant’s complaint, plaintiff moved to compel arbitration on an individual, not classwide, basis. The district court granted the motion to compel arbitration, but rejected plaintiff’s request for individual arbitration. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed.
The Ninth Circuit determined that the arbitration agreement was ambiguous on the issue of classwide arbitration. So it applied the state law doctrine of contra proferentem – an equitable principle under which any ambiguities in a contract are construed against the drafter – and construed this ambiguity against plaintiff. The Ninth Circuit held that Stolt-Nielsen was not controlling because the arbitration agreement in that case was silent on classwide arbitration, while the arbitration agreement in Lamps Plus was ambiguous on the issue. The Ninth Circuit used contra proferentum to resolve that ambiguity.
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Words Matter! “Acknowledgement” Of Company Policy Is Not “Agreement” To Be Bound By It
“This case exemplifies an inadequate way for an employer to go about extracting its employees’ agreement to submit to binding arbitration for future claims and thereby waive their rights to sue the employer and seek a jury trial.”
If you are an employer, and a court begins its decision this way, it is probably not going to be a good day for you. Such was the case for the defendant in Skuse v. Pfizer, Inc.
I know I have been writing a lot lately about arbitration agreements, and Skuse deals with this same topic. But it is different from other recent cases, and in an interesting way. In most of the cases I have written about, the question was whether a plaintiff’s claims fell within the scope of an arbitration agreement and, if so, whether the agreement adequately informed plaintiff that he or she waived the right to have those claims heard in court, by a jury. In Skuse, plaintiff did not argue that the text of defendant’s mandatory arbitration policy insufficiently explained the policy itself or the rights being waived. Instead, plaintiff challenged the the manner in which the policy was delivered to employees.
In Skuse, defendant sought to “extract[ ] its employee’s agreement” to arbitrate (as the Appellate Division characterized it) through what the company called a “training module.” Employees were sent an email with a link to a presentation that described the company’s mandatory arbitration policy. They were “assigned” the task of “reviewing” the presentation, which was comprised of four slides. The first slide explained that agreeing to the policy was a requirement of continued employment with the company, and indicated that employees would be required to “acknowledge” receipt of the policy in a later slide. The second slide contained a link to a “Resources” tab that contained the company’s five-page, single-spaced arbitration policy, which could be reviewed and printed by employees. The third slide contained a paragraph stating that the employee understood that agreeing to the policy was a requirement of employment and requiring the employee to click on a “rectangular box with rounded corners,” next to which was printed: “CLICK HERE to acknowledge.” This slide also indicated that even if employees did not click the acknowledgement, they would be deemed to have acknowledged the policy if they remained with the company for 60 days after receiving the presentation. The fourth and final slide thanked the employees for “reviewing” the arbitration policy.
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gallagpj Arbitration, Commercial Law, Commercial Litigation, Litigation Leave a comment January 31, 2019 January 30, 2019 6 Minutes
Where Are We Arbitrating Again? Parties Must Identify Forum And Process For Arbitration Provision To Be Enforceable
New Jersey courts frequently invalidate arbitration provisions that do not clearly and unambiguously explain that plaintiffs are waiving the right to seek relief in court and have their claims decided by a jury (see here, here, and here for examples). In Flanzman v. Jenny Craig, Inc., the Appellate Division invalidated one for an even more basic reason — the provision did not identify any arbitration forum or any process for conducting the arbitration.
In Flanzman, plaintiff worked for defendant. After she was terminated, she sued, alleging age discrimination. Defendant moved to compel arbitration under an agreement with plaintiff that provided:
Any and all claims or controversies arising out of or relating to [plaintiff’s] employment, the termination thereof, or otherwise arising between [plaintiff] and [defendant] shall, in lieu of a jury or other civil trial, be settled by final and binding arbitration. This agreement to arbitrate includes all claims whether arising in tort or contract and whether arising under statute or common law including, but not limited to, any claim of breach of contract, discrimination or harassment of any kind . . . [Plaintiff] will pay the then-current Superior Court of California filing fee towards the costs of the arbitration (i.e., filing fees, administration fees, and arbitrator fees).
Plaintiff did not agree to this when she began her employment with defendant. Instead, defendant presented it to her 20 years after she was hired, and plaintiff signed it to keep her job.
The flaw in the provision is that, even if it adequately advised plaintiff that she was giving up her right to a jury trial, it says “nothing about what forum generally replaced that right.” The trial court recognized this shortcoming, but instead of declaring the provision unenforceable, simply allowed plaintiff to choose the forum. Plaintiff appealed, arguing that the arbitration agreement lacked mutual assent and was therefore invalid.
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gallagpj Arbitration, Civil Litigation, Commercial Law, Litigation, Transactions Leave a comment January 15, 2019 January 14, 2019 3 Minutes
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Is Apple in denial about the iPhone 6 camera bump?
The new iPhones have raised lenses: this is a fact. So why is Apple obscuring the iPhone 6 camera bump on its own site’s imagery?
Published 16 September 2014, 15:56 EDT
Being the smartphone-obsessive types that we are, we’ve seen more than a few cameras in our day that stick out from the handset’s body. Those range from the exaggerated, like the old Nokia 808 PureView, to the minimal, like on the Nexus 5. This year, the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus both sport some cameras that protrude a bit from the phones’ back panels. On the grand scale of things, the bump is minimal – much more in line with the Nexus 5 than the 808. So why, then, does Apple appear to be going to some lengths to obscure the presence of that raised lens?
Looking at most of the imagery Apple has made available on its own site, the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus are clearly depicted with that camera bump – so long as the phone is being viewed from the back. But in every single one of the profile views we’ve come across, Apple is showing these phones as completely flat – not even a hint of bump.
As much as we enjoy smartphones that look sleek, we know that manufacturers aren’t giving their phones raised cameras on a whim – this is the sacrifice you make to cram-in all that advanced imaging hardware – so why not embrace it? The bump generally means you didn’t settle for a second-rate camera, so there’s little shame in acknowledging its presence. On the contrary, seeing Apple attempt to edit the iPhone 6 camera bump out of existence is only drawing negative attention.
Only in rear views like this one does Apple emphasize the iPhone 6’s raised camera.
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4.7 inches is the world’s most popular mobile screen size, Full HD leads resolution chart
Thanks mainly to the iPhone 6 and 6s, 4.7 inches is the world’s most popular mobile screen size, ahead of 5, 5.1, and 5.5 inches.
Published 20 November 2015, 07:11 EST
Adrian Diaconescu
G4,
Galaxy S5,
Tired of the same smartphone market reports reiterated over and over again, showing this manufacturer on the rise this quarter, that other one no longer doing very well, and the OS duopoly strengthening by the day?
A web statistics analysis firm called DeviceAtlas has a special and interesting outlook of the mobile industry for the year’s third quarter, tracking things like OS, vendor, diagonal screen size, and smartphone model diversity in general, then going into great detail as far as footprints and resolutions are concerned in 10 selected countries from around the globe.
The main takeaway is Apple remains a phenomenal trend-setter, making the 4.7-inch form factor the most popular worldwide after just two larger-than-4-inch iPhone generations. But 5.5 inches isn’t the second screen size favored in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK, Australia, India, Japan, Nigeria, and USA once you add up all the numbers, trailing both 5 and 5.1 inches.
Stateside, the iPhone 6 and 6s apparently account for a massive 41.5 percent slice of the pie combined, with the 6 Plus, 6s Plus and probably LG G4 helping 5.5 inches narrowly beat the 5.1-inch size of the Samsung Galaxy S6 and S5. But it’s actually the “other” category that snatches the US silver medal, proving how eclectic people’s tastes are in the land of the free.
In regards to pixel counts, the very unique 1,334 x 750 res of smaller iPhones leads the American pack, yet across the 10 markets surveyed, 1,920 x 1,080, aka Full HD, prevails, with 1,280 x 720, or HD, in third place, and 800 x 480 in fourth.
Wait, where are all the Quad HD (2,560 x 1,440) Android flagships? Well behind lower resolutions overall, and perhaps most surprisingly, essentially tied with 720p stateside. Clearly, it’s still going to take a while until the masses are convinced of the real-life benefits of 2K displays, let alone 4Ks.
Source: DeviceAtlas
Adrian has had an insatiable passion for writing since he was in school and found himself writing philosophical essays about the meaning of life and the differences between light and dark beer. Later, he realized this was pretty much his only marketable skill, so he first created a personal blog (in Romanian) and then discovered his true calling, which is writing about all things tech (in English).
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Google rolls out January update, improves auto-brightness on its 2020 Pixel smartphones
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An Activity-Based Dissolution Model for Solute-Containing Microdroplets
Deborah L Bitterfield, Anders Utoft Madsen, D. Needham
Institut for Fysik, Kemi og Farmaci
When a solute is present in an aqueous droplet, the water activity in the droplet and the rate of droplet dissolution are both decreased (as compared to a pure water droplet). One of the main parameters that controls this effect is the dynamically changing solute concentration, and therefore water activity and chemical potential, at the droplet interface. This work addresses the importance of understanding how water activity changes during solution droplet dissolution. A model for dissolution rate is presented that accounts for the kinetic effects of changing water activity at the droplet interface during the dissolution of an aqueous salt solution microdroplet into a second immiscible liquid phase. The important underlying question in this model is whether the dissolving component can be considered in local equilibrium on both sides of the droplet interface and whether this assumption is sufficient to account for the kinetics of dissolution. The dissolution model is based on the Epstein-Plesset equation, which has previously been applied to pure gas (bubble) and liquid (droplet) dissolution into liquid phases, but not to salt solutions. The model is tested by using the micropipet technique to form and observe the dehydration of single NaCl solution microdroplets in octanol or butyl acetate. The model successfully predicts the droplet diameter as a function of time in both organic solvents. The NaCl concentration in water is measured well into the supersaturated area >5.4 M, and the supersaturation limit at which NaCl nucleation happens is reported to be 10.24 ± 0.31 M. © 2016 American Chemical Society.
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b03126
Export Date: 22 March 2017 CODEN: LANGD
10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b03126
Bitterfield, D. L., Madsen, A. U., & Needham, D. (2016). An Activity-Based Dissolution Model for Solute-Containing Microdroplets. Langmuir, 32(48), 12749-12759. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b03126
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Danny, Silvio dropped, Vieirinha, Eliseu Called
November 7, 2011 / Sam Biggers
Due to injuries, Silvio and Danny have withdrawn from the Portuguese training camp ahead of the team’s crunch play-off games against Bosnia. Silvio had been slightly injured while on duty for Atletico Madrid, and appears to not have recovered in time. Danny also has had similar problems, so he was also withdrawn. Called up as replacements for the attacking midfielder and the wing back are Vieirinha and Eliseu. This is Vieirinha’s first call for the Portuguese National team, and it is one that is thouroughly deserved. The winger/attacking midfielder has been a revelation in Greece over the past few seasons after leaving Porto. Many have called for his inclusion in the squad, so his inclusion is a welcome one. Eliseu’s inclusion is a welcome one too. The left winger-cum-left back has excelled in his new position, most notable during the team’s 5-3 win over Iceland, where he recorded one goal and two assists. Though neither of these players will most likely see playing time, they are assets for the team coming from the bench.
bento, called, danny, dropped, eliseu, football, futbol, paulo, portugal, silvio, soccer, vieirinha
← Bruno Varela Recieves Call
Tiago Ilori Debuts for Sporting →
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Lightning Round Reviews: November 10-19, 2018
On November 19, 2018 November 19, 2018 By kruekuttIn pop, progressive rock, Rock and Roll
Capsule reviews of what I’ve listened to since the last installment follow the jump. Albums are reviewed in descending order on my Personal Proggyness Perception (PPP) scale, scored from 0 to 10.
Rikard Sjöblom‘s Gungfly, Friendship: Building on last year’s brilliant On Her Journey to the Sun, Sjöblom’s done it again! Lyrically, Friendship is a heartfelt reflection on how time and change forge, then dissolve even the deepest relationships; musically, it’s an engrossing, organically grown listen. Assisted by bass and drum brothers Rasmus & Petter Diamant, with David Zackrisson providing occasional lead guitar, Sjöblom shines throughout on vocals, guitars and keys; without breaking a sweat, he patiently shapes bibs and bobs of folk, rock, jazz and prog into homespun suites — rootsy, spacey, gutsy — that effortlessly carry and reflect the poignant narrative of love and loss. Genuinely moving and thrilling by turns, one listen made Friendship a major contender for my album of the year.
PPP Scale: 10/10 (a genuine concept album/labor of love; tracks ranging from 5 to 14 minutes; Sjoblom’s well-earned prog credentials with Beardfish and Big Big Train). First Listen Rating: 10/10. Check out the bonus tracks version of Friendship here:
Rush, Hemispheres (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition): Alex, Geddy and Neil bid farewell to side-long science-fantasy epics, parachuting the lost astronaut of “Cygnus X-1” into a battle between Greek gods — or are they Nietzschean sides of the brain? Since I didn’t hop aboard the Rush bandwagon until Permanent Waves, I’m probably not the best judge of “Hemispheres'” effectiveness; but the rest of the album is all gravy, with the ominous build of “The Trees'” and the dada jumpcuts of “La Villa Strangiato” (including Looney Tunes soundtrack quotes!) sounding particularly tasty on this new remaster. The bonus disc is a sturdy uptempo Dutch festival show from 1979, paired with a live “2112” from the year before.
PPP Scale: 10/10 (do I really have to justify this?). First Listen Rating: 6/10. Listen here:
Sonar, Live at Moods: This Swiss quartet bills itself as “the Minimal Groove Band”; this fine Zurich concert captures them at their immersive best. With guitars tuned in tritones (three whole steps between strings) for unique harmonic resonance, Sonar’s music spins long arcs of interweaving melodic cycles, undergirded by equally repetitive (usually deliberately off-kilter) drum polyrhythms. The overall effect is spacious, hypnotic, obsessively engaging — think King Crimson’s 1980s sound, stripped to bare essentials and honed to a razor’s edge. Guitarist David Torn (David Bowie, Bill Bruford, etc.), who produced and collaborated with Sonar on their latest album Vortex, floats in and around the band’s constructions with atmospheric loops and skronky solos (as well as an entire improvised solo piece, “For Lost Sailors”). I thought Vortex was an admirable, Apollonian achievement, but Live at Moods is more immediate; it relentlessly builds to Dionysian frenzy — then pulls you onto the dance floor to party like it’s 2099.
PPP Scale: 10/10 (the band is conceptual in and of themselves, Torn is an utterly unique musical voice, and the album’s out on Crimson alumnus Trey Gunn’s label). First Listen Rating: 7/10. Hear and buy Live at Moods and the rest of Sonar’s catalog on Bandcamp.
Steven Wilson, Home Invasion Live at the Royal Albert Hall: After a year, I still dig To The Bone. However, Wilson and his crack ensemble come off a bit flat tackling its shorter tunes here, even with the incandescent Ninet Tayeb pitching in on vocals and a capacity crowd cheering them on. Ah, but the longform stuff … “Refuge” and “Detonation” (plus “Home Invasion”, “Ancestral” and Porcupine Tree’s “Arriving Somewhere But Not Here” from the back catalog) stretch out and sizzle, with vivid playing and unstoppable momentum. The video version is the best option, capturing Wilson’s droll stagecraft, the ambitious efforts of his video collaborators, and the jittery energy of the night.
PPP Scale: 10/10 (the genre’s most famous current face; a great multi-media show; a virtuoso band; all at the iconic British concert venue). First Listen Rating: 8/10. Check out the audio here:
Muse, Simulation Theory: I’ve listened to this compulsively for a week, partially because I was trying to figure out if I actually liked it. Matt Bellamy, Chris Wolstenhome and Dom Howard aim straight for mainstream success, adding EDM bass growls and percussive stomps (“Propaganda”, “Dig Down”) to their usual superfuzzed rock riffs (“Pressure”) and bedrock prog cliches (the synth drone that kicks off “Algorithm,” then morphs into full-blown strings). The lyrics aim for the top 40 too, abandoning Bellamy’s barmy conspiracy theories in favor of good old relationship-based paranoia. Still, the whole thing is deliriously catchy — less rocky and challenging than Black Holes and Revelations, The Resistance or Drones, but with gleaming sonics and grandiose pop appeal.
PPP Scale: 6/10 (as noted above, widescreen eclecticism throughout; Chopinesque piano and Queen-y harmonies icing the cake. Plus, art by a Stranger Things designer – nearly as good as getting Roger Dean!) First Listens Rating: 6/10. Hear the Super Deluxe Edition here:
Fernando Perdomo, Zebra Crossing: You’re Dave Kerzner’s live guitarist (and his right-hand man on the New World and Static albums). What to do with your day off on Kerzner’s British tour? Lay down basic tracks for your next album at Abbey Road’s historic Studio One, of course! (Full disclosure: I chipped in on Perdomo’s GoFundMe campaign for the project.) And, following up: make sure your new batch of songs evoke the best intelligent pop across the decades (The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Big Star, ELO, multiple et ceteras); collaborate with fine young songwriters and players from Britain and America’s West Coast; sing your heart out from start to finish — with both your warm, casually inviting baritone voice (“I’m Here”, the delightful “We Were Raised with Headphones On”) and spacious, thoroughly tasty lead guitar work (“Not Meant to Be”, “Zebra Crossing”). Smile after smile crossed my face hearing this one!
PPP Scale: 5/10 (great Phil Spector/Brian Wilson production; the extended, Abbey Road-channeling title instrumental) First Listens Rating: 7/10. Hear it and buy it at Bandcamp, and watch the video for “We Were Raised with Headphones On”:
— Rick Krueger
David TornFernando PerdomoGungflymuseRikard SjöblomRushSonarSteven Wilson
Tillison’s track-by-track commentary on The Tangent’s new album, Proxy
Video preview: Soen – “Rival”
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Home Dispatches U.S. Marine Makes First 'Legal' Marijuana Purchase
U.S. Marine Makes First 'Legal' Marijuana Purchase
by Stephen C. Webster
An Iraq War veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) became the first American to purchase "legal" marijuana on Wednesday morning.
Coloradoan Sean Azzariti, a U.S. Marine who campaigned for legalization in his home state, bought an eighth of an ounce of Bubba Kush from the 3D Cannabis Center as dozens of cameras captured his stunned reaction. In addition to the Bubba Kush, Azzariti purchased a marijuana-laced truffle for a grand total of $59.74.
The receipt from Colorado's 1st recreational marijuana purchase, in the hands of customer Sean Azzariti. #canabistco pic.twitter.com/GverNC5KVq -- John Ingold (@john_ingold) January 1, 2014
"Today I was fortunate enough to be the first recreational cannabis purchase in the world," he later wrote on Twitter. "We did it!!"
Azzariti, who served two tours in Iraq, suffers from a symptom of PTSD called hypervigilance, which is alleviated by marijuana. He appeared in an especially hard-hitting ad for legalization, telling fellow Coloradans: "Marijuana helped me from the moment I started using it. It calmed me down, slowed my heart rate down. My anxiety was almost gone immediately."
The drug is now available at 37 different licensed shops in the state.
"Millions of adults use marijuana in the United States, but only in Colorado will they be purchasing it from regulated businesses instead of in the underground market," Marijuana Policy Project spokesperson Mason Tvert said in an advisory. "Marijuana is objectively less harmful than alcohol, and Colorado is the first place in the country to start treating it that way. Making marijuana legal for adults is not an experiment. Marijuana prohibition is the experiment, and the results have been abysmal."
This video is from Colorado Springs-based KKTV, aired Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2014.
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F1 Subwoofer
With 1,000 watts of power, the Bose® F1 Subwoofer packs all the performance of a larger bass box into a more compact design that’s easier to carry and fits in a car. A mounting stand for the Bose F1 Model 812 Flexible Array Loudspeaker is integrated right into the body of the subwoofer, so you always know where it is, making setup fast and easy. The stand even includes cable channels to neatly hide the wires, giving your system a clean, professional look. And now getting your unit to the venue is easier, too. The F1 Subwoofer features strategically placed handles for easy transport.
1,000 watts allow the Bose F1 Subwoofer to pack all the performance of a larger bass box into a more compact design that’s lighter and easier to carry than conventional subwoofers.
Two high-excursion drivers, each measuring 10 inches, are built into a compact enclosure that is light and easy to transport
Polarity switch to adjust polarity of subwoofer. Selections are NORM and REV. Reversing polarity allows for easy correction of low-frequency overlap between the main loudspeaker and subwoofer
Line output EQ sets the F1 Subwoofer’s output to a high-pass filter or full range, which allows for easy crossover selection when used with a main loudspeaker
F1 Model 812 extension bracket is a unique bracket integrated into the subwoofer. This bracket can be raised and lowered by the end user, allowing the F1 Model 812 loudspeaker to be safely mounted to the subwoofer. The bracket eliminates the need for a conventional pole mount or tripod stand
Live music performances
Bands of all styles
Resorts and hospitality venues
Setup/Tear Down
FOH Testimonials
Frequency Response (-3 dB)
40 Hz - 250 Hz
Frequency Range (-10 dB)
Maximum SPL @ 1 m
130 dB SPL (peak 6 dB CF)
1,000 W (500+500)
Mechanical Diagrams
Mechanical Files
F1 Subwoofer travel bag
What is the F1 Model 812 system?
The Bose F1 Model 812 flexible array loudspeaker is the first powered loudspeaker that delivers the benefits of an adjustable array in a portable system package. Its unique flexible baffle allows you to tailor the loudspeaker’s vertical coverage to a wide variety of listening environments. Simply push or pull the array into position to create “Straight,” “C,” “J” or “Reverse J” coverage patterns. Once set, the system automatically updates the EQ to maintain optimum tonal balance for each coverage pattern. So whether you’re playing at floor level, on a stage, or facing raked seats or bleachers, you can adapt your PA to the room.
Engineered with an array of eight high-output drivers, a high-powered 12-inch woofer and a lower crossover point, the loudspeaker delivers full-range, high-SPL performance while maintaining vocal and midrange clarity that’s dramatically better than conventional loudspeakers.
The Bose F1 subwoofer packs all the power of a larger bass box into a more compact design that’s easier to carry and fits in a car. A mounting stand for the loudspeaker is stored right in the body of the subwoofer, making setup fast and easy. The stand even includes cable channels to neatly hide wires.
The loudspeaker and subwoofer combined deliver 2,000 watts of power, so you can fill nearly any room with sound.
And now getting there is easier, too. The loudspeaker and subwoofer feature strategically-placed handles for easy transportation.
How is the F1 Model 812 different from a conventional PA?
Current popular powered loudspeakers are standard two-way designs consisting of a single horn-loaded compression driver for high-frequency reproduction and a single woofer for mid- and low-mid-frequency output.
Since the Bose F1 Model 812 loudspeaker has an array of eight high-output drivers, mid/high-frequency response is much cleaner and less harsh sounding when compared to a traditional horn.
Characteristically, horns have a fixed output pattern that isn’t adaptable to typical performance spaces. These fixed-pattern loudspeakers are commonly positioned on pole mount stands where high-frequency content is projected over listeners’ heads, making vocal intelligibility difficult.
The Bose F1 Model 812 flexible array is quite useful for quickly and easily adjusting the loudspeaker’s coverage for a variety of performance and listening spaces, ensuring quality reproduction without the need for complex placement.
How does the flexible array work?
The eight drivers on the F1 Model 812 flexible array are mounted on a specially designed flexible baffle that is hinged in two locations. When the array position is changed, the loudspeaker’s internal EQ automatically changes according to the array’s position: “Straight,” “C,” “J” or “Reverse J.” This allows the loudspeaker to maintain tonal balance no matter which position is used.
Does the F1 Model 812 have a woofer?
Yes. The high-output 12-inch woofer is mounted behind the flexible array.
Can I use the F1 Model 812 with a standard speaker stand?
Yes, there is a pole cup on the bottom of the enclosure that accepts common tripod speaker stands.
What is the recommended subwoofer?
For best performance, we recommend using the Bose F1 subwoofer. However, other powered subs can be connected to the F1 Model 812 loudspeaker.
What is the F1 subwoofer?
The F1 subwoofer is a compact bass module designed for use with the F1 Model 812 loudspeaker. Its powerful amplifier and dual drivers produce bass as much as subs nearly double its size.
The F1 subwoofer features:
2 X 10" high-excursion drivers
1,000 watts
2 x input channel with XLR, 0.25-inch combo connector
2 x XLR balanced line out
Polarity reverse switch
HPF enable
How many F1 subwoofers can you connect to an F1 Model 812 loudspeaker?
We recommend one sub per F1 Model 812 loudspeaker. However, you can connect as many as needed.
Can the F1 systems be used with Bose L1® systems?
Yes. Bose L1® systems can be used in conjunction with the F1 Model 812 loudspeaker as a supplemental fill or stage monitor.
Are the T4S and T8S ToneMatch® Mixers compatible with the F1 system?
Yes. The T4S/T8S is available for purchase separately or may be used with an L1 Model 1S/II system, S1 Pro or F1 System. When the T4S/T8S is fused with one of the products, the ToneMatch settings are optimized for the loudspeaker. The T4S/T8S can be connected analog to any number of amplifiers or loudspeakers. A power supply is required to run the mixer which is available through Bose or authorized dealers of Bose products.
What sources can I plug into the mid/high?
The rear panel of the F1 Model 812 loudspeaker is equipped with XLR/TRS combo jacks, a 0.25-inch instrument jack and stereo RCA inputs. When an external mixer is not used, a wide variety of instruments or sources can be connected directly. Common sources include:
A dynamic microphone
An acoustic instrument with a pickup system
CD or MP3 player
What are the weights and dimensions of the F1 Model 812 system?
F1 Model 812 loudspeaker
44.5 lbs. (20.18 kg)
26.1" H x 13.1" W x 14.6" D (664.66 x 334.3 x 372.5mm)
Shipping Weight: 54.5 lbs (24.72 kg)
55 lbs. (24.9 kg)
27" H x 16.1" W x 17.6" D (688 x 410.16 x 448.5mm)
Shipping Weight: 65 lbs (29.4 kg)
F1 system stack
99.5 lbs (45.7 kg)
73.5" H x 16.1" W x 17.6" D (1868 x 410.16 x 448.5mm)
Does the F1 Model 812 Flexible Array loudspeaker ship with carrying bags/covers?
The F1 Model 812 loudspeaker ships without carry bags included, however a highly durable carry bag accessory is available.
Are hard shell cases available for the products?
Bose does not offer any hard shell cases, but there are some available through third-party companies.
What is included in the F1 Model 812 box?
F1 Model 812 Owner’s Guide
What accessories are available?
The following accessories are available for the L1 Model 1S system:
B1 bass module
B1 bass module with slip cover and NL4 cable (PC 351964-0010)
B1 cable 5.5" (1.7m) (PC 035404)
Standard B1 carrying bag (PC 351517-0010)
B1/B2 cable 5.5" (1.7m) (PC 035404)
Standard B2 carrying cover (PC 354529-0110)
A1 amplifier
PackLite® power amplifier Model A1 (PC 351971-0010)
Model A1 amplifier carry pouch (PC 351513-0010)
Model A1 ¼" TRS cable 18-in (0.5m) (PC 039861)
T1 ToneMatch® audio engine
T1 ToneMatch audio engine (PC 351971-0010)
T1 ToneMatch audio engine power supply (PC 042533)
ToneMatch audio engine microphone stand bracket (PC 042535)
T1 cable (PC 042536)
T1 carrying bag (PC 351509-0010)
Can the F1 Model 812 system be used outdoors?
Yes. The system can be used inside or outside. However, it must never be exposed to precipitation or extended periods of direct sunlight. In cases of light rain, take precautions to cover the back panel of the loudspeaker. Water must not get into the air inlet slits inside the back I/O panel, handle recess or front grille.
The system has been tested to operate in temperatures from 0° – 50° C (32° – 122° F), and be stored in temperatures from -30° – 70° C (-22° – 158° F).
Where can the F1 Model 812 system be used?
The F1 Model 812 loudspeaker and F1 subwoofer combination is suitable for bands of all musical styles, DJs and voice-only applications. Due to the versatility of the flexible array, the system also can be used in a wide range of locations.
What kinds of musical performers (singers, bands, DJs, etc.) can use the new technology?
There are no restrictions in this regard. Any single voice, instrument and group size will benefit from the advantages of hearing themselves better, of being in complete control of their performance, of having audiences hear them better and of being able to set up and perform in just minutes.
Can DJs use this system?
Yes. The F1 Model 812 loudspeaker and F1 sub are ideal for DJs that want high power and sonic clarity in a portable system. The F1 subwoofer’s compact design and high capability eliminate the need for transporting subwoofers twice their size. Plus, the integrated stand eliminates ugly tripod bases that expose hanging wires and create tripping hazards.
Can acoustic instruments be amplified with the F1 Model 812 system?
Yes. When an external mixer is not in use, an acoustic instrument equipped with a pickup system may connect directly into the F1 Model 812 system.
Where can I purchase F1 flexible array systems in the United States?
You can purchase F1 flexible array systems directly from Bose through one of the following methods:
Call our Sales Solutions Team at 800-444-2673
Purchase on the web at Bose.com.
Visit select Bose Stores that carry the F1 system.
All Bose direct purchases include a 45-day Better Music Guarantee. This means you can test any F1 flexible array system in your own environment and return it for a credit within 45 days of purchase. You are only responsible for the return shipping to Bose.
You can also purchase F1 flexible array systems at Bose authorized resellers, such as:
Specialty dealers
What is the warranty period on the F1 Model 812 system?
The F1 Model 812 and F1 sub both carry a two-year limited warranty on electronics and a five-year warranty on transducers. Both warranties are transferable with the product even if the ownership changes.
What is the 45-day Better Music Guarantee?
At Bose, we recognize that customers may want to experience the F1 flexible array system in their own environment with their specific gear. That is why we allow you to purchase and use the system in your specific application for up to 45 days. If for any reason you are not satisfied, you may return it for a refund. This offer is exclusive to Bose direct sales channels.
Where can I collaborate with Bose staff and existing owners to learn more about how the F1 Model 812 system can work for my specific application?
We host a public forum that allows our helpful user community to share their experiences and collaborate in real time on topics that are important to them. You will find extensive, application-specific documentation and helpful hints. The forum is fully searchable and can be accessed at http://Bose.infopop.cc.
You may also contact our product support team and speak with our knowledgeable staff of musicians. They may be reached at 877-335-2673.
Are the products repairable? What are the replacement costs?
Yes. Certain products are replaceable or repairable to an extent. U.S. customers may call 877-335-2673 or email support@Bose.com for further details. Customers outside of the U.S. should refer to their local Bose website.
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Odell Beckham Jr. Kareem Hunt Amari Cooper Jarvis Landry Ezekiel Elliott Andraez Williams Myles Garrett Zack Martin Nick Chubb Denzel Ward Aldon Smith Anthony Brown Tyron Smith CeeDee Lamb Cedrick Wilson Dak Prescott Chidobe Awuzie Baker Mayfield Sports Athlete injuries Athlete health NFL football Professional football Football
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Browns visit Cowboys with 1st winning record since late 2014
By The Associated Press - Oct. 01, 2020 01:12 PM EDT
CLEVELAND (2-1) at DALLAS (1-2)
Sunday, 1 p.m. EDT, Fox
OPENING LINE — Cowboys by 4 1/2
RECORD VS. SPREAD — Browns 1-2; Cowboys 0-3
SERIES RECORD — Browns lead 17-14
LAST MEETING — Cowboys beat Browns 35-10, on Nov. 6, 2016, in Cleveland
LAST WEEK — Browns beat Washington 34-20; Cowboys lost to Seahawks 38-31
AP PRO32 RANKING — Browns No. 18; Cowboys No. 17
BROWNS OFFENSE — OVERALL (20), RUSH (3t), PASS (30).
BROWNS DEFENSE — OVERALL (9), RUSH (5), PASS (22).
COWBOYS OFFENSE — OVERALL (1), RUSH (11), PASS (1).
COWBOYS DEFENSE — OVERALL (26), RUSH (23), PASS (28).
STREAKS, STATS AND NOTES — The Cowboys have won four straight in this series, matching their longest string; the Browns haven't won on the road in this series since a playoff game in 1969. ... Cleveland's first trip to Dallas since 2012 is a homecoming of sorts for QB Baker Mayfield and star DE Myles Garrett, native Texans and former No. 1 overall draft picks. … The Browns are over .500 for the first time since late 2014. They are off to their best start since opening 2011 at 2-1. They haven't been 3-1 since 2001. ... Mayfield didn’t throw an interception for the first time in nine games against Washington. .… RB Nick Chubb rushed for 108 yards and scored two TDs last week, becoming the first Cleveland player to rush for more than 100 yards and score multiple TDs in consecutive games since Hall of Famer Leroy Kelly in 1967. … Chubb (292 yards rushing) and Kareem Hunt (204) are the only teammates in the NFL with at least 200 yards rushing. They have combined for seven total touchdowns. ... WR Odell Beckham Jr. had just four catches against Washington, but all four were for first downs. Beckham had five TDs in seven games against his former NFC East rival when he was with the Giants. … WR Jarvis Landry has caught at least two passes in 98 straight games, the league’s current longest streak. … Cleveland’s defense forced five turnovers — three interceptions — against Washington. … The Browns' secondary hasn’t been at full strength all season because of injuries. Starting CB Greedy Williams has yet to play because of a shoulder injury. CB Denzel Ward was limited to a half last week with a groin issue. … Garrett had two sacks last week, including a game-sealing strip sack and recovery in the fourth quarter. Garrett has 33½ sacks in 40 career games. ... The Cowboys have allowed 77 points in consecutive games, their most since allowing 81 in a pair of losses in 1988, the last of 29 seasons for the franchise’s first coach, Tom Landry. The Cowboys split those two games, beating Atlanta 40-39 two weeks ago. ... Cowboys QB Dak Prescott had a franchise-record streak of 291 passes without an interception stopped against Seattle. Prescott has the most 400-yard passing games in Cowboys history with six. He and Jameis Winston (last year with Tampa Bay) are the only QBs with consecutive games of at least 450 yards passing. ... RB Ezekiel Elliott is tied for third in the NFL with four total touchdowns and has at least one TD in each of the first three games for the first time in his five seasons. ... WR CeeDee Lamb leads NFL rookies with 16 catches and is second with 230 yards. ... WR Cedrick Wilson had the first two TDs of his career against Seattle on his first two catches of the season. ... Pro Bowl LT Tyron Smith's status could be up in the air with a neck injury that sidelined him the past two games. Injuries at tackle forced four-time All-Pro RG Zack Martin to play RT in the second half against the Seahawks. Martin says the plan calls for him going back to RG against the Browns. ... The Cowboys are still without two starting CBs in Chidobe Awuzie and Anthony Brown. They rank 28th in the NFL in pass defense. ... DE Aldon Smith had three sacks against the Seahawks and leads the NFL with four after missing all of the previous four seasons because of suspensions for off-field issues. ... Fantasy tip: Cowboys WR Amari Cooper has two straight games with at least eight catches and 125 yards against the Browns, both with Oakland.
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News | Social Affairs
Diversity Reduces Community Fears – Study
Lina Caneva
People living in more diverse suburbs are less likely to express or experience Islamophobia, according to new RMIT research.
Lina Caneva | 16 August 2017 at 11:43 am
The study led by Associate Professor Val Colic-Peisker and Associate Professor Karien Dekker examined whether the religious visibility of Muslim residents had an impact on local community cohesion and Islamophobia.
“The data, collected through a survey of residents and follow-up in-depth interviews suggest that the significant presence of ‘visible Muslims’ does not predict Islamophobia in areas where Muslim residents daily rub shoulders with non-Muslims,” Colic-Peisker said.
“The study confirms the suggestion of the ‘contact theory’: that direct social interaction with minority groups leads to the diminishing of prejudice against them.”
A team of researchers, including seven bi-lingual interviewers, focused on the neighbourhood experience of people living in Fawkner and Broadmeadows, two relatively disadvantaged suburbs in Melbourne’s north where many Muslims live.
“Low socio-economic indicators for an area seem to be a stronger predictor of prejudice against Muslims than their visible local presence,” Colic-Peisker said.
“On the individual level, respondents with lower socioeconomic status and older respondents tended to be more Islamophobic, which confirms findings of other Australian and overseas studies.”
The report said respondents with more diverse local social networks expressed significantly lower levels of Islamophobia.
Overall, the neighbourhood experiences of Muslim and non-Muslim residents in both localities were positive. This was especially so for local Muslims, who liked their suburbs, interacted with their diverse neighbours and felt accepted and safe in their local areas.
“Despite a generally positive sentiment, we found that ‘visible’ Muslim women often felt at risk outside their suburbs, where there was a higher likelihood of Islamophobic incidents,” Dekker said.
Public transport has been identified as a threatening setting for Muslim women.
The report said public transport and car parks were the most common places where abuse was directed at visibly Muslim women.
These were also places Muslim women were most fearful about.
The data indicated that most non-Muslims in the two suburbs considered Muslim visibility unremarkable. However, two-thirds of non-Muslim respondents and 28 per cent of Muslim respondents were uncomfortable about face covering worn by some Muslim women.
Rather than being an expression of Islamophobia, this was an expression of concern that the “veil” precluded interaction with the women, the report said.
“While local governments successfully run community development and other programs, it seems that focusing the efforts on further strengthening English language and employment programs for migrants in the diverse, relatively disadvantaged areas, may be the most beneficial for the wider community,” Dekker said.
The study called Religious Visibility, Disadvantage and Bridging Social Capital, was conducted in collaboration with the Islamic Council of Victoria and Moreland and Hume city councils.
Lina Caneva | Editor | @ProBonoNews
Lina Caneva has been a journalist for more than 35 years. She was the editor of Pro Bono Australia News from when it was founded in 2000 until 2018.
Tags : diversity, RMIT research,
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NewsReports say Apple already has 1,000 engineers working on Augmented Reality
Reports say Apple already has 1,000 engineers working on Augmented Reality
IN March 1, 2017 BY spsdev 1162 views Leave a comment
We are now nearly six months from the unveiling of iPhone 8. There have been a lot of rumors hinting at the next generation iPhone’s specs and compelling features including long-range wireless charging technology, biometric scanner, enhanced camera and much-improved Touch ID.
According to the latest sources, Apple may launch a pair of glasses that boasts AR technology that will be seen in the next iPhone 8. Tech experts say that Apple has been working on VR products in recent years and Cupertino-based Company is said to have up to 1.000 engineers working on Augmented Reality.
Apple has been showing their interest in Augmented Reality segment rather than virtual reality recently. Basically, Augmented Reality allows you to “hold up your phone with images superimposed onto the real world view as seen through the camera” According to tech experts, Apple will equip its current products like iPhone and iPad with the AR technology.
According to rumors, the next generation iPhone 8 will feature a revolutionary camera that could boast 3D mapping capabilities. Other rumors say that the new camera on the next iPhone may be used for facial recognition and creating 3D selfies.
Apple’s new Augmented Reality products will compete directly with Microsoft’s HoloLens. Last year, Apple was granted a patent for augmented reality technology that would allow users to see streets and business names, and identify important landmarks and buildings.
Aside from an iPhone 8, Apple is expected to release three iPad models including a refresh of the current 12.9 inch iPad Pro, an inexpensive 9.7 inch iPad and a brand new bezel-free iPad Pro model that boasts a 10.5 inch display. According to the latest reports, the new 10.5 inch iPad Pro will feature a resolution of 2224×1668 pixels, while maintaining the same pixel density as the current iPad Pro.
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Jessica Simpson having a boy: report
Jessica Simpson captioned her tweet: "Bumpin' and Proud!" Splash News / Twitter
Jessica Simpson is about to welcome a little man in her life.
According to reports, the singer-reality star will be giving birth to a baby boy this summer. She her fiancé Eric Johnson are said to be “excited” and are already thinking of names.
“She was so happy that Maxwell is getting a little brother because that’s something she always wanted when she was growing up,” said the source to RadarOnline. “It’s just a pity their favorite boys name went to their daughter first!”
The 32-year-old allegedly found out the sex of the baby after a check-up at the doctor.
The “Fashion Star” mentor confirmed she was expecting her second child on Christmas Day when she tweeted a photo of her eight-month-old daughter Maxwell sitting on sand with the words “BIG SIS” scrawled in front of her.
The new mom told Jay Leno that her current pregnancy has been very different from when she was carrying Maxwell.
“I’ve been really, really sick so I can’t wait to actually be able to crave something like I did in my first pregnancy,” she revealed during an appearance on Leno’s talk show. “I’m due in the summer so I still have a ways to go — hopefully I start feeling better.”
As for when she’ll tie the knot with her fiancé, Simpson said the couple’s wedding was postponed due to her surprise second pregnancy.
“We’ve had two different wedding dates, but he keeps knocking me up,” she joked. “I’m doing it very backwards, I know! I’ll just keep my legs crossed this time.”
In addition to having her second baby, Simpson will star in a comedy pilot for NBC.
Page Six reached out to Simpson’s rep but has not received an immediate response.
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THQ Tentatively Schedules Red Faction 4, Darksiders 2
April 1, 2009 Ben-Dutka — 8 Comments
THQ already has a couple of big releases for 2009 in Red Faction: Guerilla and Darksiders: Wrath of War , and while their financial position isn't fantastic, they're still looking far into the future.
As GameSpot reports, THQ has "slipped a mention" of the upcoming sequels into a slide from a February investor's presentation, and they're set to launch during the company's 2012 fiscal year. Obviously, nothing is cemented just yet, but THQ plans to release Red Faction 4 and Darksiders 2 at some point, despite the fact that neither of 2009's entries in these franchises have succeeded just yet (we have high expectations, though). THQ has also tentatively slated Saints Row 3 for a 2011 launch, and you may remember that Volition wants to take this third installment in a whole new direction. For our part, we think they're going to lean more towards authenticity and realism so as to better compete with Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto franchise, but you never know. As is, you can certainly expect to see the previous three names from this publisher continue on into the future, although we assume such projects will be highly dependent on consumer reaction to Guerilla and Wrath of War this year. At the very least, though, it's good to see a publisher that has faith in its products, and we're all hoping for some great experiences. We kinda miss Red Faction , you know?
Perhaps when the economy gets rolling again, THQ and other publishers will experience more of an upswing and then they'll be able to solidify future projects. Cross your fingers!
SarahPalinMILF
Saints Row 3 in 2011?
How do we know that GTAV or some other installment will not hit then…personally I think GTA is a better series all around
Economy is doing better, DOW was up again!
Wow those releases are far out into the future.
BeezleDrop
Red Faction is going to be soooo good.
slayerkillemall
"sigh",i miss Red Faction too,but im not buying anymore games (starting with the one currently out),until they go back to the First Person View.
BTNwarrior
I seriously miss rpg tunneling from the first red faction. Was seriously disapointed that they destroyed that feature in the second game, and now they are making it in third person. Hopefully they will bring back the ability to dig holes in anything.
I pray to the God of gaimz that Guerilla Wars is great in 3rd person
I'll probably get it even though IGN gives it an undeserved 4.0 like Sonic SERIOUS
DIsmael85
Im going to pass on Darksiders, since my crappy ass Ex-girlfriend of 8 years left me for one of the guys that works with her there. Yeah call me a sour puss, but the game had value till she did that to me, on the other hand, I may check out Red Faction, maybe.
I had a girl ruin Invader Zim for me, don't feel too bad.
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Research Study: Just About All Teens Play Video Games
June 7, 2009 Ben-Dutka — 35 Comments
Well, it's the secret of the week: video games are kinda popular amongst teens. No, really.
Now, when I was in high school, I'd estimate that maybe 1/3 of the students played video games, and every last one of them were male. But now, according to a PewResearch Center study , 97% of teens play video games "of some sort," and that includes 99% of boys and 94% of girls (yep, 94%). Of course, the realists will point out that "of some sort" can translate to 15 minutes of Bejeweled before bed, but nevertheless, it's a very impressive statistic considering the industry's past. In addition, it was revealed that 86% of those who play enjoyed their interactive entertainment on a console, while 73% had their fun on a computer. Lastly, we learn that "your civic outcomes aren't affected by how much you play video games," but at the same time, certain types of games can make you more "civic-minded." For the record, playing offline leads to more civic-minded thoughts and behavior while we have to say "not so much" in regards to those who only play online. Hey, we've always said the solo experiences were a bit more in-depth in terms of…well, everything!
So anyway, if you hadn't already guessed, games are a cornerstone of the teen lifestyle these days. …damnit, how come I couldn't have been in high school during this time? 🙁
Bo0mKiiD
I was a stat, cool.
Ben, at least we don't have homework every night – unlike those poor high-school students.
Last edited by TheHighlander on 6/7/2009 10:23:57 PM
kevinater321
ughhh essay due tomorrow (N)
Ben Dutka PSXE
You got that backwards, I think. 😉
Hmmm….too true…
And it's not over 'till you finish college :*(
College is truly the worst of 'em all since they don't teach you anything…
Anyway just one semester
somethingrandom
Work is so much better than high school. You get to look forward to the next pay check. School is just listening to boring teachers who don't know what they are talking about. Not only that, but there's also the fact that it's mandatory and you always have to get up at 7:00 (varies based on distance from school). EDIT: Plus, how many jobs require you to take your work home with you? That is the most criminal thing ever invented.
P.S. Ben, I'm pretty sure the only people who play Bejeweled are 30-50 year old women.
Last edited by somethingrandom on 6/9/2009 10:28:44 PM
Oyashiro
I like how you used a picture of two people that are defiantly not teens. 🙂
Definitely*
Edit button disappears once you reload the page… -_-
Midris7
Yeah, I remember when I was in high school and the next gen consoles just came out. I think I was a sophomore. But back on topic, people were bringing in their 360 controllers showing them off as they were the first ones to get it, haha.
MadKatBebop
I didn't know that many of us played video games(then again I can't name anybody I know in my school who dose not play video games)
LimitedVertigo
I was a freshman in high school when FF7 came out.
Banky A
Yeah, hardly any 'nice' girls in New Zealand play games ^_^
Which is soooo sad 🙁
*videogames
That's so true…
Ya but most of em are halo twitchers or wii havers.
WolfCrimson
What's a halo twitcher?
"Halo Twithchers", LMAO, instant classic
Cunn8780
I was 6 when the NES came out, and I haven't stopped since. I just wish I was part of that statistic. Man, I'm old. 🙂
Back in the days 1990s it was rare to find babes playing games…
Funny how some of them do play games now
Still, they're not hardcore enough, that's the problem.
Beamboom
The problem… For who? 😀
All of us 😀
You could say it's a problem for these so called girl gamers since they're missing the greater games.
Vivi_Gamer
Well schools certainly changed since i was there then and that was only 3 years ago. and back then in my school it seemed 50/50, possibly below that.
Jalex
Man, when I started school, it was mostly only the so-called 'nerds' that played video games.
Now nearly every kid or young adult I know either plays a Wii (and not much) or plays some form of online game or portion of a game for hours on end. -sigh- Gamers-wise, I miss the pre-PS2 years…..but thank God I'm betrothed to an RPG-loving Girl! 🙂
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CH1N00K
Yeah, my friends and I played video games, but it wasn't as advertised as it is now. We didn't sit around at school and talk about what games we played. We did it after school where no one could see us. The ones that did advertise that they played video games were the same group of guys that played Dungeons and Dragons and Magic in the library at lunch. They weren't exactly high up the social standings…but looking back, I wish I'd spent more time with them then some of the people I did hang out with…lol.
At least they had an imagination and a sense of humour. But my religious mother would have nailed me to a cross if she found out I was hanging around Dungeon and Dragons people..that game is the spawn of Satan!…ah religion..promotes understanding and open mindedness…
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Troy Powers
Good to see the return of the two happy gaming negroes.
BikerSaint
Guess that makes me an antique!
I started with a Tandy computer, when there really weren't very much games other than a few little funny looking black & white screen blips on the machine.
Damn, I can't even remember the game anymore.
Ice Hockey and table tennis on a monochrome TV using a Binatone game console. I had no idea that those moving blips on screen would ever become the HD glory we have today.
In middle school they would make us play Oregon Trail in our computer class but now video games are bad for you and not to be played. Ha, what a joke.
Been playing since Atari.
tlpn99
When I was in school we all played video games. I seem to be the only one that does so now on a regular basis still.
My cousin tries but with him having the baby and a wife now he gets about 30 mins a night if that. He manages to play a few games of Fifa before crawling to bed to start the day all over again.
Man so glad that's not me lol.
I'm in that boat. With the kid, I just don't have the time I used to. The last game I actually FINISHED was Heavenly Sword.
shaydey77
86% of those who play enjoyed their interactive entertainment on a console, while 73% had their fun on a computer.
SO there is 159percent of gamers out there..thats gud to know!!ha
Been gaming since the Sega Mega Drive. Blue hedgehog stole my heart..and mind…and time..and i dont care!!
Robochic
I have been playing video games for a while, but what stole my heart for me to be a big gamer was Conkers bad fur day i dont' care what people say I love that little squirrel LOL
I have 2 kids, once they go to bed bam i throw a game in i play about 3 hours per night then go to bed. But once i'm off mat leave i know that'll change cause then i have to work the night shift Booo for night shift.
Kangasfwa
Super Metroid is the first game I ever played.
Insomniac's Spyro games are the reason I still play today.
Insomniac is still my favorite developer, by the way.
Been playing video games since 5 years old.
My first console is SNES. Then, i moved to Genesis, PSX, PS2 and the last is my lovelly PS3:)
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Resumption of menses in anorexia nervosa
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 1997 Jan;151(1):16-21. doi: 10.1001/archpedi.1997.02170380020003.
N H Golden 1 , M S Jacobson, J Schebendach, M V Solanto, S M Hertz, I R Shenker
1 Department of Pediatrics, Schneider Children's Hospital, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New Hyde Park, NY, USA.
DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.1997.02170380020003
Objective: To determine factors associated with resumption of menses (ROM) in adolescents with anorexia nervosa.
Design: Cohort study with 2-year follow-up.
Setting: Tertiary care referral center.
Patients: Consecutive sample of 100 adolescent girls with anorexia nervosa.
Interventions: Body weight, percent body fat, and luteinizing hormone, follicle-stimulating hormone, and estradiol levels were measured at baseline and every 3 months until ROM (defined as 2 or more consecutive spontaneous menstrual cycles). Treatment consisted of a combination of medical, nutritional, and psychiatric intervention aimed at weight gain and resolution of psychological conflicts.
Main outcome measures: Body weight, body composition, and hormonal status at ROM.
Results: Menses resumed at a mean (+/-SD) of 9.4 +/- 8.2 months after patients were initially seen and required a weight of 2.05 kg more than the weight at which menses were lost. Mean (+/-SD) percent of standard body weight at ROM was 91.6% +/- 9.1%, and 86% of patients resumed menses within 6 months of achieving this weight. At 1-year follow-up, 47 (68%) of 69 patients had resumed menses and 22 (32%) remained amenorrheic. No significant differences were seen in body weight, body mass index, or percent body fat at follow-up in those who resumed menses by 1 year compared with those who had not. Subjects who remained amenorrheic at 1 year had lower levels of luteinizing hormone (P < .001) and follicle-stimulating hormone (P < .05) at baseline and lower levels of luteinizing hormone (P < .01) and estradiol (P < .001) at follow-up. At follow-up, a serum estradiol level of more than 110 pmol/L (30 pg/mL) was associated with ROM (relative risk, 4.6; 95% confidence interval, 1.9-11.2).
Conclusions: A weight approximately 90% of standard body weight was the average weight at which ROM occurred and is a reasonable treatment goal weight, because 86% of patients who achieved this goal resumed menses within 6 months. Resumption of menses required restoration of hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian function, which did not depend on the amount of body fat. Serum estradiol levels at follow-up best assess ROM.
Adipose Tissue*
Amenorrhea / blood
Amenorrhea / etiology
Amenorrhea / physiopathology*
Anorexia Nervosa / blood
Anorexia Nervosa / complications
Anorexia Nervosa / physiopathology*
Anorexia Nervosa / psychology*
Body Weight*
Estradiol / blood
Exercise*
Follicle Stimulating Hormone / blood
Luteinizing Hormone / blood
Menstruation*
Follicle Stimulating Hormone
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Interview with THN’s Adam Proteau
Posted on June 2, 2012 by RoseTintedVisor
Hey guys, your humble Isles scribe checking in again.
Today, I sit down with everyone’s favorite THN writer, Adam Proteau. Adam has been with The Hockey News since 1999, and serves as the radio host for their show on XM. This interview is a follow-up on Adam’s book that came out this year, Fighting the Good Fight, which is available for purchase here. This interview also serves as a counterpoint to my trilogy on fighting, the first part of which is available here. Without any further adieu, here we go!
VP: Your most recent book, Fighting the Good Fight, is it fair to view this as a symbolic response to Ross Bernstein’s The Code?
AP: You can interpret it any way you like, but I didn’t intend it as a rebuttal of The Code, which I haven’t read. I wrote it as a polemic intended to challenge the core assumptions and what I believe to be the dogma of the hockey world. Much of that includes the so-called Code, something I just don’t believe in. But other elements of the book deal with the hockey culture surrounding visors and concussions, which obviously aren’t Code-connected.
Bertuzzi – Moore “On Ince Depravity”
VP: As a mere pup at the time, the Bertuzzi-Moore Assault which you discussed in-depth literally changed the way I viewed the sport’s issues with player control. Is it fair to describe that as a watershed moment in the way the league regarded the severity to which on ice incidents could escalate?
AP: No, to be honest, I don’t think NHL management and ownership has arrived at that moment. The nonsense between the Isles and Penguins in 2011 showed how things can still escalate, yet the league more or less shrugs its shoulders. That said, the Bertuzzi/Moore incident could still have an influence on policy, as Moore’s court case this fall will bring the league and game under an unforgiving and unsympathetic light.
VP: In my response to your book, I labeled Don Cherry a War Profiteer given his good old hockey game mentality and the substantial income he made off fights while he now bashes the fighters who want to see reforms. Do you feel that’s an accurate portrayal of Cherry and his ilk? Your thoughts on their demonization of former enforcers who have spoken out, i.e., Grimson, Thompson and Laraque?
AP: I don’t know I’d use that exact term, but I agree with the overall characterization of him as someone who profits immensely off the style of hockey he so fervently touts. He has to be credited for being a savvy businessman, but as an ambassador to the sport some people claim him to be, he’s been an abject disaster. Good ambassadors don’t scapegoat entire groups of people simply to build themselves up in the eyes of one particular group of people. And the fact he lashes out at anyone who dissents from his views is an indication of how much he must fear having them seriously questioned. He has been more of a hindrance than help to the overall game.
VP: You talked quite a bit about your rough and tumble past in the sport, and I get the notion of being a “changed man”, but are you going to tell me that if someone recklessly boarded one of your friends in a game tomorrow you wouldn’t want to drop the gloves? That’s where the problem lies for me. I have no problem with a clean, honest fight in response to something that occurs during the flow of the game. I left with the impression you don’t either. You’ve been on the bench after a fight. Can you deny it gets everyone going? Do you think even ‘hockey reformists’ accept it as part of the game?
AP: Hey, there’s no denying the visceral thrill of sticking up for a teammate. But you could say the same in any sport, if those sports allowed it. Who wouldn’t want to smack around Ron Artest after his elbow to the back of an opponent’s head? But the NBA draws a line, and that doesn’t mean that fights don’t still happen there. But they are punished appropriately, it is a means of last resort. And that’s what I’d like to see more of in hockey.
Right now, it’s institutionalized as a first resort, partly because leagues refuse to do their duty and curb dirty play overall, and partly because there’s a financial industry built around it. So if, one day, we get to a point where pro hockey players can still fight, but only if it’s really worth it, because a game misconduct will follow, as will increasing suspensions for repeat offenders I’ll be happy.
VP: Fighting aside, I come down on the league for It’s failure to look “big picture” at its subtle evolutions. We now have faster players,stronger players, more imperviously equipped guys flying around without a redline slamming into each other at full speed. All these factors have led to a staggering uptick in concussions as the league has moved to a speed/offense dominated game. Is it time to rein it in? What should be done? Are we looking at the restoration of the red line, no touch icing, the removal of the trapezoid, and wholesale equipment reforms? Which of these things (or something else) do you think we’ll see implemented out of the next CBA?
AP: I think there’s an argument to be made for slowing the game down a little, and I’m all for that, so long as obstruction standards (that continue to slide) get back to where they were in 2005-06. But overall, there has to be more emphasis placed on player safety: visors, increased sit-out times for concussion victims, perhaps independent team doctors. There are lots of choices and options that I explore in more depth in my book. But until that is made more of a priority than money (which will be by far the biggest priority in the next labor deal), we’ll see NHL team owners continue their long pattern of putting profit before the talent on the ice.
Matt Martin NHL’s leading Hitman
VP: In the opening few chapters of your book, you really slammed my team, the New York Islanders for their role in the fracas of February 11, 2011. What would you say to my assessment that (NHL hits leader) Matt Martin is a hard-nosed but mostly clean player and the same goes for Mike Haley (who is basically a reincarnated Steve Webb). Furthermore, it has been my contention that the league’s failure to get the Pens in line in games and seasons prior was a contributing factor to that brawl (with the Talbot hit on Comeau and the Ponikarasky board on Bailey just two examples at my disposal), would you agree with that notion of the league’s culpability?
AP: I think both Martin and Haley are aggressive players who wouldn’t be NHLers prior to the last round of expansion. That’s not to say they’re horrible people, or that they can’t rise above their station, but let’s not try to paint them as saints, either. But yes, I would say the league could have stepped in at any point early in the developing feud and nipped things in the bud. That they chose not to says it all. They want these kinds of things happening, but their definition of “too far” is nebulous.
VP: I contend that Shanahan’s transparency is the most important thing about his administration. He has a thankless job, but explaining to players and fans the rationale for his decisions is the best thing for the league, as it demystifies supplemental discipline. Do you see this as an important step in getting players to trust the league to “handle things” more?
AP: After the roasting Shanahan has taken in the playoffs, I’d argue that his transparency has only made it clear how terrible the NHL’s supplemental discipline policies really are, and why it doesn’t really matter who is in that role so long as owners don’t commit to a tougher stance on acceptable player behavior. After the Shea Weber non-suspension, players went batty for a while, precisely because it showed the league would do nothing to stop egregious actions. That’s why, on one level, I don’t blame these guys for the vigilante justice culture. Clearly, the NHL doesn’t care about justice, which is why the decisions are as baffling under Shanahan as they were under Colin Campbell.
Kerry Fraser “The Hair!”
VP: I felt that ‘holy shit’ metric described by Kerry Fraser is the easiest example to relate to I’ve ever seen described by an official. With the increased scrutiny, do you feel officials are doing a good job enforcing rule 48? Do players (e.g., Travis Hamonic for a phantom elbow on Letang) who get ejected on a dive just have to suck it up and accept the league is going to call anything borderline, or should they still finish their checks?
AP: No, as I said, I think the overall officiating standards have slipped yet again. It’s undeniable if you’re talking playoff hockey, and the regular-season penalty numbers strongly suggest the same. But I don’t fault the officials, either. They take their direction from Terry Gregson, who takes his from Gary Bettman, who takes his from the owners. It all starts at the top.
VP: It is my contention the Bruins and Flyers don’t hoist their Broad Street and Big Bad Cups without their toughness. And that the Isles don’t roll past them without Clark Gillies. Is it accurate that team toughness and having a guy that can mix it up (Not necessarily an enforcer per se) is still an essential component for a Cup run?
AP: Depends what you mean by a guy who can mix it up. Who would that be on the Red Wings’ last Cup-winning team? I think it all depends on what the league allows to happen on the ice. If they reward the Bruins and other aggressive teams for their play, of course it makes sense. But if the game is more about skill and the rulebook is interpreted that way, maybe other teams win out.
VP: If you were in charge for a day, how many “reckless players” would you exile from the game? Would there be a set “this many transgressions and you are gone” criteria?
AP: The changes I’d want wouldn’t work for just a day. I’d put all players on notice that dirty play won’t be tolerated, intent or no intent, and that the head was off-limits. From there, I’d establish clear penalties for headshots and discretionary but severe penalties for other wanton acts. Unfortunately, that would mean examples would have to be set and new precedents created, but that’s the only way players will know change is here and here to stay.
In terms of numbers, I don’t have anything specific, but I do think eight games, or roughly 10 percent of the regular season, is a good starting point for first-time offenders (not fighters). But I would say repeat fighters would have a sliding scale of suspensions that increases drastically after, say, the fifth fight. More than nine or 10 fights means you won’t be playing for the rest of the season.
VP: I’m the Isles writer here, so I’ll ask this in closing: The history of the market, the potential of this young core, a passionate (they are still there, trust me) fan base – is Long Island a hockey market worth saving?How much of a black-eye for the NHL would it be if the franchise responsible for one of the great dynasties in sports history ceased to be?
AP: I do recognize there’s a vocal and proud group of Isles fans and that it would serve the league well to maintain as large a presence in the greater NYC market, so I do hope the franchise stays. My biggest problem with the team has been the dubious decisions made by its ownership and management, as well as the arena that hinders its ability to bring in free agents. What will have to come first for this team to get a new building – the threat of relocation, or winning? Unfortunately, Charles Wang and Garth Snow haven’t made winning part of the equation.
That was fun.Thank you so much for your time, Adam! Follow him on twitter @Proteautype.
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RoseTintedVisor says:
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Thx Scott!
markdavidnorman says:
Great interview! I like that you and Adam weren’t afraid to (respectfully) mix it up a bit and disagree on some issues. That’s when interesting dialogue happens. I thought Proteau’s book was a great read and put in very simple and accessible terms some complex ideas.
Thank you for the feedback, Mark!
hoser14 says:
Great interview. I agree with Adam Proteau that Chairman Wang hasn’t made winning part of the equation. Wang values personal loyalty over competence or winning, which explains Mad Mike Milbury the Reign of Error and the paranoid Regime of the Back-up Goalie as GM of Garth Snow. The Isles are the North Korea of Sports (A unaccountable, closed and paranoid standings bottom feeding losers).
As for Adam Proteau’s slamming of the Isles in his book about the Friday Night beat down of the Penguins two seasons ago, I have a bone to pick. The main reasons for the was the disrespect heaped on by Penguins (along with the rest league’s media, teams and the Refs), all the un-penalized cheap-shots along with the laughing after Johnson’s one-punch re-arranging of DiPietro face. I am not going to lie, I did enjoy seeing a milquetoast team like Wang’s Islanders dishing out a big time beat down on a team that’s been crapping on them for years. For one night, the worm turned.
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Getting to Know the New RSAC Advisory Board Members: Joyce Brocaglia
Posted on Jan 25, 2019 by RSAC Editorial Team
Name: Joyce Brocaglia
Title and company:
CEO, Alta Associates;
Founder of the Executive Women’s Forum on Information Security, Risk Management & Privacy;
CEO, BoardSuited
Number of years in the information security industry: 25
RSAC: What was your first job in the infosec industry?
Brocaglia: I founded Alta Associates, an executive search firm in 1986. The Russians hacked into Citibank in 1994 and Steve Katz, their first ever CISO, reached out to me and engaged Alta Associates in building the first ever information security organization. Fast forward 25 years later, Alta Associates has placed over 100 CISOs, IT Risk Officers, technology leaders and the teams that support them. I’ve had the amazing opportunity to work with corporations throughout the U.S. as an industry insider assisting them in elevating the role of the CISO and creating innovative workforce solutions. Interacting with exceptional women in our field inspired me to found the Executive Women’s Forum on Information Security, Risk Management and Privacy (EWF) in 2002. Today, we are the largest member organization dedicated to engaging, developing, and advancing women in our field. With over 45 Corporate Benefactors, we are positively impacting women at all levels through our executive, mentorship, and millennial programs, National Conference and regional meetings. Both Alta and the EWF allow me to follow my passion of building world class teams and developing women leaders in our field.
RSAC: If you weren’t working in the infosec world, what would you be doing?
Brocaglia: I am an entrepreneur, I like creating companies that are aligned to my passions. I am an advocate for those who are underrepresented and strongly believe that by increasing diversity, access and opportunities for everyone, we will create a better world. For that reason, the next company I’m launching in 2019 is BoardSuited, a comprehensive e-learning course for all professionals who aspire to be on board of directors. BoardSuited will increase the pipeline and the quality of diverse and underrepresented candidates for Board of Director roles by taking the mystery out of the workings of a Board and providing access to and insights from seated board members. Through BoardSuited, learners gain a clearer understanding, vision, and personal roadmap of the path to advisory, non-profit, or corporate board service. I’m excited by this opportunity to prepare a broader audience for their first seat at the table.
RSAC: What does the RSA Conference 2019 theme of “Better” mean to you?
Brocaglia: Given all of the chaos in the world right now, I firmly believe it is up to each and every one of us to make not only our workplace but also our world a better place. Communities like RSAC and EWF provide people with all that they need to fully step into their power and have a positive impact on society. At this year’s EWF National Conference, I asked this question of all the women attending: “If not us then who?”
If not us then who will reach out and lift the next generation of leaders as we rise in executive ranks?
If not us then who will not only speak up, but act out, on behalf of ALL women in the workforce and in our industry? If not us then who will ensure that we will continue to move positively forward in gaining equal access, equal opportunities, and equal pay for women in our field? As a leader in the cybersecurity field, regardless of our gender, I believe we have an obligation, a responsibility, and a duty to improve not only the security of our companies and our country, but to make our workplace better for everyone.
RSAC: What is the biggest challenge facing the infosec industry right now?
Brocaglia: In the world of people, process and technology there’s a reason why people come first. The biggest challenge in the infosec industry today is the workforce gap. All of the technology in the world doesn’t matter if there isn’t proper leadership to create strategies and solutions and teams to implement them. Diversity of all kinds -- gender, race, sexual orientation, age, skillsets and education -- is necessary to meet the complex challenges we face. That means all cybersecurity professionals have to take an active role in ending conscious and unconscious bias, considering candidates with broader skill sets, and experiences and working with internal and external recruiting organizations to actively recruit diverse candidates. Hiring managers need to take control of the process and require their internal recruiting teams to present a slate of diverse candidates for all openings and select executive search firms to partner with who have established a track record of placing qualified underrepresented candidates.
RSAC: Complete this sentence: 2025 will be the year of the millennials.
Brocaglia: In 2025 three quarters of the workforce will be millennials. I believe it’s important that we as leaders provide strong mentorship and development opportunities for today’s millennials who are our future leaders of industry and government. I am witnessing millennials rising in the ranks more quickly than the generations before them.
According to the 2018 Deloitte Millennial Survey, “Young workers are eager for business leaders to be proactive about making a positive impact in society—and to be responsive to employees’ needs. Our respondents are imploring business leaders to take the lead in solving the world’s problems, to shift organizations’ motives from inordinately focusing on making profit to balancing social concerns, and to be more diverse, flexible, nurturing of and generous with its employees. Those organizations that are able to deliver likely will attract and retain the best millennial and Gen Z employees and potentially strengthen their prospects for long-term success.” I believe that millennials’ common values and beliefs will have a positive impact on reshaping corporations in the future.
RSAC: You’ve been helping companies fill infosec jobs for three decades. What skills and/or capabilities are your clients looking for in candidates now that they weren’t when you founded Alta in 1986?
Brocaglia: In terms of leadership roles, organizations are searching for professionals who are not just technically competent but have more traditional executive skills. A common theme in CISO searches is that companies are prioritizing a candidate’s ability to articulate complex technology issues in business terms, have a holistic understanding of risk and the ability to utilize cybersecurity as a value add and business enabler. Another big difference is that companies increasingly looking for assistance in elevating the role of their CISO requiring candidates to have the ability to present to the board of directors.
RSAC: What piece of advice do you have for young women interested but hesitant to enter a career in cybersecurity?
Brocaglia: I would tell them if they would like a career that they can solve complex problems, collaborate with other smart people, and feel as though what they are doing is contributing to the good of many others, then they should consider a career in cybersecurity. As the world becomes more connected through the internet of things cybersecurity impacts the lives of everyone. Most people have a myopic view of the desired skill set of cybersecurity professionals. They don’t realize that sales, marketing, psychology, music and many other disciplines that require both creative and analytic thinking are a good foundation for a career in cybersecurity.
There are many brilliant women who are extremely technical both currently in and entering the field. It’s important for them to also understand the value of business acumen and becoming well-rounded. For those women with non-technical degrees, it’s important for them to understand that the technical skillsets of cybersecurity professionals are only crucial for certain roles. There are an enormous number of roles that are incredibly impactful and challenging in the field that don’t require technical expertise but still have an executive level career track.
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TyDi Showcases Musical Expertise With Brand New Summer Hit "Nerve"
Australian songwriter, composer, record producer and DJ tyDi, also known as Tyson Illingworth, has seen, heard and done it all. Through his extensive discography, which includes five full-length albums, countless singles and remixes, and numerous EPs across diverse genres, he’s topped global charts, he’s toured the world and continues to make an indelible mark on the music world.
tyDi is no stranger when it comes to trying new things and is constantly experimenting with his sound. His most recent and highly anticipated single, “Start Again” is a country influenced track highlighting life during lockdown and features country vocalist, Brennley Brown. While, his most recent album “Collide” is a beautiful fusion of orchestra and EDM featuring 2 x Grammy award-winning Composer and seasoned vet Christopher Tin which received high accolades from Dancing Astronaut, DJ Mag, The LA Times and more. Now, tyDi once again proves he is not bound by genre with his latest pop infused single, “Nerve” featuring American Idol finalist Geena Fontanella. Take a listen down below!
TyDi is able to effortlessly bridge the worlds of electronic and pop music using bright analog synthesizers and punchy 808 drums for his latest single. TyDi manages to blend elements from the 80’s dance era with an attitude-laden performance conducive to today’s pop to create an uplifting dance pop track just in time for summer. TyDi enlisted American Idol finalist and songwriter, Geena Fontenella for “Nerve” to help bring the lyrics to life. “Nerve” is a beautifully balanced dance pop track that’s easy on the ears and a radio ready track just in time for summer! The vocals are bright, energetic and emotionally evoking while the lyrics are thought provoking and so easy to resonate with during these times of civil unrest and life under quarantine. TyDi’s “Nerve” is also accompanied by a fun and easy to follow colorful lyric music video to sing along too. You can view the music video down below:
“As songwriters we sometimes speak for other people and what they might be feeling. We wrote this song for people who don’t always stand up for themselves. The ones who might feel taken for granted. The people who are the loudest say they’ve “fallen on their sword”. But the people who are the loudest shouldn’t be the only voice in the room. We added the line “I know that we want the same” as a nod to our shared humanity — sometimes it helps to remember we’re all just human in the end.”
“Nerve” is a song bound to resonate with the masses during these unprecedented times while giving a voice to those who cannot always stand up for themselves.
About tyDi:
Through his extensive discography, which includes five full-length albums, countless singles and remixes, and numerous EPs across diverse genres on various labels from Republic to Armada, tyDi has topped global charts, toured the world and made an indelible mark on the music world. Last year, the prolific Australian producer/DJ made waves with his acclaimed collaboration with Grammy-winning composer Christopher Tin, resulting in the epic album Collide, ‘a masterful navigation of orchestral and electronic elements’ according to Dancing Astronaut. The album also received accolades in DJMag, The LA Times, and hit both the Billboard dance and classical charts. tyDi’s tracks have received placement in the New Music Friday, Chill Tracks, Young Wild & Free, Dance Rising and Cratediggers Spotify playlists, as well as Apple’s Trance & Progressive playlist. 2019 has found tyDi going from strength to strength, collaborating with the Grammy-nominated singer JES, progressive sensation Mat Fax, and remixing trance legend Andy Moor and Norwegian pop sensations Rat City, with a track that received airplay on Sirius XM BPM, Music Choice and C89-Seattle.
tyDi has also contributed his own reimagined arrangements of some Disney most beloved anthems for the current ‘Disney on Ice’ world tour. He has also composed music for Stella Artois (for a Webby Award winning ad), Quickbooks (their 2019 Oscars ad) and Swarovski. He’s composed music for an acclaimed PSA campaign for The Make-A-Wish Foundation and his music has appeared in Fox’s ‘Almost Family’ TV series. For his film/TV/ad work, tyDi is represented by Fortress Talent Management. tyDi has over 1 million aggregate social followers, over 25 million Spotify streams and over a million YouTube views.
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2019 Bounce Backs: Oh Danny Boy
February 22, 2019 | 2019 Fantasy Baseball, Fantasy Baseball Buy/Sell | 17 Comments
by: The Real Joey Bart
Welcome fantasy baseball aficionados to my first Razzball article. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be going over things like streaming strategies and how to win a Yahoo Pro League but we’re going to start by introducing some bounce-back candidates. Finding bounce-backs is one of the keys to being successful in fantasy baseball, as that can make an average team an elite one. That’s one of the major reasons why I drafted Trevor Story last season. Looking at his peripheral statistics from a disappointing 2016-17 season and factoring that in with his ballpark and price made him one of the best values (RD 8-9) in drafts last year. He’s all the way up to the second round this season and finding a guy who can have that sort of jump is critical in building your team. The main goal here is to draft someone who will outplay their price tag and these candidates are all in fantastic situations to do just that.
Daniel Murphy, COL (1B/2B)
This batting average upside is impossible to overlook, as Murphy could be in for one of the best seasons of his career in Coors Field. Not only does Coors Field have a BABIP north of .300 year-after-year, but it also has the most hits of any ballpark in 11-straight seasons. Coors actually laps the field in total hits, as it’s easily the friendliest ballpark in the majors. That’s something many of you probably know already but it adds some serious spunk to Murphy’s value. The reason for that is because he’s an efficiency beast, with Murphy posting a .320 career BABIP and a 6.3 percent career K-rate. Those stats are enough incentive to use him but the fact that he’s ranked top-10 in total hits in four of the last five years only adds to his value. This is a guy who owned the best SLG and OPS percentages in the NL in 2016 before a down 2017, as he should exploit this beautiful ballpark. All this doesn’t even take into consideration his price, as Murphy is going 92nd in drafts right now. Someone who’s one of the favorites to land the batting average crown while having the ability to provide 100 runs, 25 home runs and 80 RBI should be going in the top-50.
Chris Archer, PIT (SP)
Archer has been inconsistent over recent years but there’s reason to believe he’s ready to have a bounce-back season. One of the major reasons why is his move to Pittsburgh, as that alone should increase his value exponentially. Ray Searage is the pitching coach for the Pirates and he could use his voodoo magic to turn Archer back into an ace. The famed pitching coach got special seasons from pitchers like Francisco Liriano and A.J. Burnett, who both appeared to be zombies at that point of their careers. Searage is just a small piece of this puzzle though, as PNC Park should become Archer’s friend too. Not only did PNC Park rank top-10 in fewest runs scored last season, but Archer also got out of that nightmare known as the AL East. The fact that he doesn’t have to face those stacked, DH-filled lineups is a huge plus but it’s also those little league ballparks he was pitching in. In fact, Archer had an 8.53 ERA at Fenway Park, 7.20 ERA at Camden Yards and 5.63 ERA at Yankee Stadium across the last three years. Avoiding those ballparks and facing a pitcher one out of every nine at-bats should benefit a strikeout-king like Archer, who currently sits ninth all-time in strikeout rate among starters (9.73 K/9). His xFIP indicates he has some positive regression headed his way too, as his xFIP has been 3.70 or below in six-straight seasons despite his ERA sitting north of 4.00 the last three years. Any pitcher projected with a 3.50 xFIP while providing 10 K/9 is worth a shot, especially when you consider his price tag. Archer is currently going 121st in most drafts according to FantasyPros, as he’s ranked 36th among pitchers according to Grey. This is a guy who was approaching the top-10 among starting pitchers just a few years ago and he very well may be in the best situation of his career right now. Pitchers like Cole Hamels, J.A Happ, Miles Mikolas and Luis Castilo are going in the same range and Archer is easily the best value of those five. The end of the 2017 season is another reason why we should be encouraged, with Archer averaging a 2.70 ERA, 1.07 WHIP and 10.8 K/9 across his final five starts.
Miguel Cabrera, DET (1B)
Is this noob really gonna recommend Miggy in his first Razzball article? Yeah, I am. While this is one of the riskiest bounce-back candidates, Cabrera has way too much upside to be drafted this late. The old guy, injury-prone narrative is obviously worrisome but a bat like this should not be overlooked so easily. Cabrera is currently going 182nd in drafts right now according to FantasyPros and 21st among first basemen. This is a hall-of-fame bat who has consistently gone in the top-five throughout the last decade, as he’s definitely worth a shot in this price range. The last two years are what’s scaring fantasy owners off but no one is the same when they’re unhealthy. Prior to those injury-riddled two seasons, Cabrera’s floor was a .313 average and an .895 OPS across his previous eight seasons. Yes, I know that’s not the same Miggy that we see today but this is a guy who’s talented enough to recapture some of that form. His peripheral numbers from last season indicate he’s been better than his actual statistics would say, as his 14 percent walk rate, 17 percent strikeout rate and .390 OBP shows that he’s got the same plate discipline left in those aging eyes. It’s not just the discipline though, as his 55 percent groundball rate last year is an outlier statistic, especially considering he’s got a 42 percent groundball rate for his career. The hard-hit rate is the icing on the cake though, as he posted a career-high 46.3 percent hard-hit percentage last season. That would indicate that there’s still some serious power in those string-cheese hammys, as he should have no problem surpassing value as the 182nd-ranked player. I know that the haters are going to say that this is playing with my eyes on the past but when a guy is pretty much free like Cabrera is at this price, there’s really no risk involved.
Tyler Glasnow, TB (SP)
After going with a couple of old guys, we’re going to give you a young stud in Glasnow. Post-hype prospects are always players that I’m focusing on in drafts, as Glasnow is not far removed from being one of the top prospects in baseball. A major reason for that is because of his absurd AAA numbers, as Glasnow posted a 1.91 ERA, 1.07 WHIP and 12.1 K-rate in his final two years at AAA across 2016-17. Many people jumped ship when he joined the Pirates in 2017 and posted a 7.69 ERA and 2.02 WHIP but those are immature fantasy owners. He did get a little better last year when he posted a 4.27 ERA and 1.27 WHIP but there’s still not enough hype around him. Glasnow’s 3.47 xFIP last season shows us that he was much better than his ERA would indicate, as he also provided 11 K/9. Joining the Rays sucks in terms of the teams he’ll have to face but that ballpark should be a haven for Glasnow. In fact, Tropicana had the fifth-fewest hits and the seventh-fewest runs last season. In his 11 starts with the Rays last year, Glasnow allowed three runs or fewer in nine of them, with the only two duds coming at Boston and at Toronto. If you take out that one ugly Toronto game where he allowed seven runs in less than an inning, Glasnow posted a 3.11 ERA and 0.98 WHIP in the other 10 starts. What really changes the tide for Glasnow was adding some more pitches to his arsenal, as he was just a two-pitch pitcher at the start of his career. Glasnow added a slider last season at an 11.4 percent rate and a small change like that just gives the hitters even more to think about with the nasty stuff Glasnow possesses. All this potential comes from a guy who’s ranked 45th among pitchers while going 181st in drafts according to FantasyPros.
Thanks for reading fellas. If you have any comment or questions please comment here or contact me @BartilottaJoel on Twitter
Chris Archer, Cole Hamels, Daniel Murphy, J.A. Happ, Luis Castillo, Miguel Cabrera, Miles Mikolas, Tyler Glasnow
MARK e Penn says:
February 22, 2019 at 11:47 am (link)
Tyler Glasnow is the real deal. As a life long ‘Burgh Fan I was sorry to see him go.
The Real Joey Bart says:
February 22, 2019 at 2:35 pm (link)
@MARK e Penn:
I’m in love with Glasnow this season. He’s honestly not so much a bounceback as much as a breakout but I had to get him in on my first article. Thanks for reading!
Robert Glade says:
February 22, 2019 at 12:01 pm (link)
Welcome to the Razzball writing crew. Nice article. Looking forward to your future contributions. On the subject of bouncebacks, what are your thoughts on Jose Abreu?
@Robert Glade:
Thanks, Robert. Ya know, I’m actually a fan of Abreu. I mean if you can land him around 80 like I’m seeing in drafts, he’s definitely worth a shot. The HR environment has caught up with him a bit but he should still be a batting avg stud and provide plenty of RBI.
nice job,im in on murphy this year
Agreed, I didn’t really think much about him until I saw Rudy drafted him in his LABR Mixed draft…
@Count de Monetball: @AL KOHOLIC:
I look forward to watching Murphy here in Denver. I think he could have a career year
TRJB, welcome to Razz-Nation; I really liked this one and look forward to your take on all things FBB. I agree on your bounce-back candidates, although I think in my “home league” Miggy will still go too early for my taste.
One interesting thing about your article, Chris Archer get’s a nod for going to Pittsburgh, while Glasnow get’s a bump for leaving the Pirates (not really why, I know), but it is interesting that those two were both discussed above. Again welcome Joey and I look forward to having you aboard!
@Count de Monetball:
Thanks Count, It’s funny that you mention that with Glasnow and Archer because during my final edit, I was thinking the exact same thing. It’s a great point too but the only other thing that I can add is the fact that I’m likely to bench Glasnow when he’s at Yankee Stadium or Fenway Park. I’m also not as concerned with the Orioles and Blue Jays lineups as I was when Archer was there and they had a bunch of stud bats.
Hope that helps. Thanks for reading!
So would you move Glasnow if it would land you Clevinger? I could keep either as long as I wanted in a standard scoring ESPN league. My staff already consists of Scherzer, Cole, and Bauer. Thanks.
I’d want Clevinger
Oops, sorry, didn’t realize I was in a different post
@TC:
Im with Grey here, I have Clevinger ranked a couple rounds ahead of Glasnow
aklang says:
February 23, 2019 at 1:56 am (link)
Welcome! So, do you prefer Braun or MCab?
@aklang:
Cabrera for sure. I dont trust Braun at all.
Post hype types, Sano and Buxton and bounce back? Schoop. What’s the odds 1-2-3 of those Twinkees outperforming their projections?
@Chucky:
I might be the wrong person to ask about those guys because I think they’re all fantastic values. In fact, Buxton and Sano were both on my initial list in terms of players I wanted to cover in this article. The fact that you get them for pretty much free is worth it in my opinion with the upside they present. I think the Twins could be a sneaky team this season
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Review: For 100 Reasons (A 100 Series Novel) by Lara Adrian
For 100 Reasons by Lara Adrian
Series: 100 Series
Published by Lara Adrian LLC on July 31st 2017
Genres: Erotic Romance
For 100 Days she deceived him. For 100 Nights, he demanded her complete surrender. Now, after all of the secrets and lies and heartbreak, they'll have to decide if their love is strong enough to try again...For 100 Reasons.
Billionaire Dominic Baine stepped into Avery Ross's life when it was at its lowest. Obsessed with the beautiful, struggling artist, Nick was determined to have her. What began as a scorching seduction soon burned out of control, exploding into a white-hot passion neither of them could deny.
Yet Nick and Avery are two damaged people, both haunted by dark secrets with the power to destroy them. And for Nick, the ugly past that shaped him cannot compare to the unforgivable deception that drives Avery from his arms, from his life. Now the man accustomed to having everything he desires must find a way to redeem himself to the only woman he has ever loved.
Avery Ross has known heartbreak. She has known betrayal and loss, but nothing like the pain that loving Dominic Baine has brought into her life. Reeling from the aftermath of his devastating revelation, instead of allowing despair to break her, she builds herself into something stronger--the fearless woman and gifted artist that Nick's passion has taught her to be. Yet her heart is in pieces, and despite everything she has, the one thing she needs is the man whose possessive desires and consuming love holds the power to either save them both or shatter her forever. . . .
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REVIEW: For 100 Reasons if the final book in the A 100 Series by Lara Adrian. In this final installment, readers get to experience Avery & Nick break up and reunion.
As the story begins we are fast forward to almost a year, Avery is conquering the art world and now she is popular and starting to be well known. She has moved on, and Nick while he is not out of her mind & heart she has tried to focus on her future. The story picks up pace and we are re-introduced to these characters. Avery doesn’t regret her time with Nick, but she regrets all the secrets and lies they both hid from each other.
As her mind and heart still ache for the man she fell in-love with – she is trying to live past her failures and focusing on her new future. As she come face to face with Nick once again, and in almost the same manner in which they first met, Avery can’t deny the attraction and the need is still as raw and intense and it ever was. It is fascinating to see these two very different characters come to terms with their demons. At times the author portrait a very vulnerable yet strong characters that we didn’t get to see in the first two installment.
This time around Avery seems to be the anchor in the story, the one that is pulling things together while Nick is the one trying to come to terms with a past that does not allow him to move forward. I enjoyed the story and the way things developed. Avery as well as Nick had a lot of unsolved issues and they knew that they couldn’t move on without facing them. Adrian did a superb job bringing to light Nick’s demons and she beautifully exploit them in order for the reader to understand his past actions. While the story doesn’t purposely try to justify Nick’s actions, it is hard as a reader to not see the reason behind it, his failures served as a base for his desire to see Avery triumphant by becoming that who he could not be. Lara Adrian does a great job showing us a very insecure and vulnerable Nick, while his fears do not supersedes his need for Avery, they certainly make an impact on his ability to come forward about his past.
I enjoyed how Avery and Nick found each other again. While their story is filled with angst, raw emotions and very painful situations these characters found strength is their tragedy and by doing so their love and story meant so much more. For 100 Reasons is a great way to bring this series to an end, these characters found closure on each other and the support and love. Lara Adrian once again proves to be on top of the game, she delivered a story that fulfill the need for love, passion, sensuality, sexuality and erotism without taking away the importance the suffering of these characters tragic past. The 100 Series will forever stay in my heart and will be as one of the 2017 most romantic stories.
Do I recommend this book? YES YES
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Lego Jurassic World – 3DS, PS3, PS4, XBox 360, XBox One, PC
Posted on January 4, 2016 by jplaj
Clever meme…
We here at RetroCookie pride ourselves in our preservation of vintage games, which compels us to give credit to game makers who do the same (although don’t ask us what compels us to speak in the Royal We, as we still have much evidence to support the idea that we only have one body and very little control over household pets, let alone entire nations). To that end, I’ve covered modern 3DS games such as the Majora’s Mask remake, the Ulitmate NES remix, and even newer games based around the charm of the classics, such as the Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds. With that spirit at heart, I’d like to introduce a new 3DS game to the notches on my belt, Lego Jurassic World, which falls under the retro gaming category for reasons I will expound upon now.
A needlessly huge cast of characters in which more than one person will routinely dive up to their ankles in shit deeper than Spielberg’s first plan for Jurassic Park 4!
(Don’t rush me! I’m still thinking!)
Okay, you caught me. I just don’t have a PS4 or a WiiU. But with games like Bravely Default and Link Between Worlds on the horizon, and all my other NDSs worn almost to the breaking point, I figured a 3DS would be a wise purchase. Plus it doesn’t have creepy, voyeuristic tendencies like the XBox One. So to tell the truth, I own that one modern game system, and I do occasionally play it, and I struggle to get through games quickly enough to write a weekly entry with enough time left over that I don’t have to give my students lessons on metaphor and character development in Bubble Bobble. So this week, I give you Lego Jurassic Park, a coincidentally perfect game for playing in the ten minute breaks between classes.
…whassaaaa!!
If you read my review on the Lego Star Wars games, you’ll know the series has one or two issues with originality in game play. Inevitably, the games degrade into a process of collecting studs to purchase unlockable characters which help you collect more studs, and I strain to think of anything that such a cyclical experience might augment other than a walk down a moebius strip or a finely tuned, professional relationship with a prostitute. However, like the prostitute, Lego games may need to offer something other than a sense of humor and playing fast and easy if they want to keep my interest and coax me out of 20 bucks for cab fare. (Ah, comparing Legos to professional sex workers. It’s times like this that I wish anyone actually read this blog.)
I want a good clean fight. No bites below the…uh…belt?
Don’t get me wrong, though, there is something very zen about the act of romping through tropical environments, smashing everything into a zillion tiny lego bricks at the slightest touch, especially considering that realistically your characters would spend five minutes prying each piece loose with a butter knife that won’t fit into the crack and walking away with sore hands. Lego Jurassic World takes this stud collection (and as I say that I resist the urge to continue making sex worker jokes) very seriously. Traveller’s Tales games has always treated combat in their Lego series as more of an irritating formality, like renewing your driver’s license, waiting for a waiter before eating at Old Country Buffet, or telling your friends that their newborn babies don’t look at all like someone dipped George W. Bush in a bathtub full of Nair. In Lego Jurassic World, though, they have almost eliminated combat entirely, save for a few levels in Jurassic Park II and III where you punch a few compies and trample a few InGen workers with a stegosaurus.
Goin’ down to Nublar, gonna eat a lot of people.
That last bit, though, adds a much needed touch of originality to the series. In addition to wandering around as your choice of any of a million worthless characters (When the novelty of playing as Dino Handler Bob loses its lustre, spice it up by having an affair with Dino Handler Vic!) , the game also lets you control most of the movies’ animals. Furthermore, you can unlock access to the Hammond Creation Lab, where you can play with genetic coding to mix and match different features into custom dinosaurs, thus proving that Traveller’s Tales missed the point of all four movies about as much as those people who think Harry Potter promotes devil worship. Certain secrets actually require this genetic Frankensteinery, as do two bonus areas that allow players to take full control of hungry dinosaurs as they eat, trample, gore, or hawk poisonous loogies at unsuspecting park staff.
Must drive faster…must escape terrible addition to poorly adapted Michael Crichton novel…
Lego Jurassic World has more of a puzzle-oriented design than other Lego games. Normally, puzzles would earn the game a black mark by its name, followed by a swift hammer blow to the cartridge and, if I feel especially generous that day, a steady stream of urine. However, puzzles in this game simply means picking the right character to activate whatever interactive element might block your path at any moment, more of a formality than a puzzle: “Hello, there, Jake. Do you have a character willing to dive head first into this steaming pile of triceratops shit? Oh, I’m sorry. Here, fill out these forms and pay a small fee to unlock a character with a severe hygiene deficiency, then come back on a later playthrough.” Now, my regular readers (almost typed that with a straight face) might remember my Twilight Princess review where I described such mechanics as needlessly enforcing a developer mandated sequence of events without actually giving the player anything fun to do. Well…okay, so I have a point, and that point still stands here.
However, I played this game through to completion, so it must have some strong points. Earlier, though, I mentioned that Traveller’s Tales previously treated (and other companies still do) combat as a requirement for games, as though making a game without some type of fighting would create a vacuum that would implode, sucking the console, player, and northern hemisphere into oblivion. And since there’s no combat in oblivion, they’d like to avoid that. But as it turns out, games don’t need violence (I know…crushing news to all those bloodthirsty Tetris fans.), and Lego Jurassic World seems to have figured out how to replace that. Stud collecting, for one–simple, yet fun, and for whatever reason human beings have brain signals that light up on hearing a pleasing sound and watching dozens of small objects transmogrify into a score total ratcheting ever upwards. The humor, of course, makes us wait for the next cheeky thing the game will do–I’d recommend the game entirely based on the talking raptor scene from JP3. Also, did I mention you get to rampage as dinosaurs? Those segments might feel short and underdeveloped, but it does include a minigame that lets you target-spit at Newman from Seinfeld.
Hello, Newman!
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Jurassic Park – SNES
Posted on June 21, 2015 by jplaj
All right. This will show up that smug bastard from Duck Hunt. Look at my retriever!
So I had originally planned to post about Skyward Sword today, but something came up: Jurassic World. Not only has Hollywood finally realized that they don’t have to write sequels by running the original screenplay through a shredder and then taking a dump on what comes out, but they chose Jurassic Park to learn this lesson! Back in 2007, they had announced plans for a movie about genetically engineering raptor-human hybrids for use in Iraq; then Michael Crichton died (*sad*) and Spielberg said, “Why not make a good movie instead?” And Jurassic Park! The movie that gave 10-year-old me more thrills than Michael Jackson at a boy scout convention. Every night, lying in bed, I’d watch my door knob, waiting for it to jiggle, and for the raptors to come in and find me.
Uh, sorry to wake you Miss Raptor, but, uh…I need to kill you.
Naturally, Jurassic World brought me back to my ten-year-old self, and since I doubt Spielberg will hire me to write JP5 (I have some ideas, Steven, and I’ll work for free, if you want to talk!), I decided to go back to some old Jurassic Park video games, in no way intending to capitalize off the recent surge of people searching for the movie, mosasaurus, velociraptor, indominus rex, Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Owen, Claire…have I missed any? Uh…cool Indian helicopter guy…meh. I’ll get them in there somehow. Anyway, since I didn’t plan this at all, and since I’d like to do occasional videos (watch out, JonTron!), I went to the game I had played most often and, of course, actually own.
In 1994, Ocean Software released Jurassic Park for the SNES to…well, to stores willing to sell the game. It didn’t make huge news. It didn’t develop much of a fan following. Developed at the tail end of the NES life span, versions for the NES, Game Boy, and several Sega systems all came out together. For all practical purposes, this game appeared as nothing more than another licensed video game cash grab. Gameplay involves…(what? Did you expect me to disagree with that? Say that critics vastly underappreciated it? Honestly, I think it earned the reception it deserved.)
Gameplay involves wandering around the park, blowing up the absurdly high population of predators, accomplishing missions to restore the park to order so you can evacuate and let nature reclaim it. Yeah, that doesn’t make a lot of sense to me, either, but I guess you need something to do. These missions include harvesting raptor eggs, fumigating the raptor nest, blocking raptors from entering the visitor center, and clearing raptors off a ship bound for the mainland (and also giving it orders not to sail, just in case). The game derives most of its disproportional hatred of raptors from the book, rather than the film, and even contains some animals, like the compies, that only appeared in the novel.
This mission assigned by Dr. Flintstone.
The film’s characters all issue hints and commands to you (as Dr. Grant) from a safe distance, presumably already off the island. Of course, none of them bothered to give you their ID cards before they left, and instead scattered them around the island, often in dark, claustrophobic rooms filled with dinosaurs and behind locked doors. Thanks guys. Furthermore, Dennis Nedry appears with deliberately malicious advice; obviously because an underappreciated, disgruntled computer nerd engaged in industrial espionage clearly cast his lot with the dinosaurs and wants all good humans dead.
Yeah. That stuff can make you go blind. Wouldn’t it suck if I couldn’t see the dinosaurs jumping out of the trees at me?
For all the messages you get from people, they never clarify any details, making them less helpful than Miss Cleo and an army of psychic friends. Block raptors from entering the visitor center? Maybe you could have told me that, in a game where you don’t interact with the environment, you gave me one piece of furniture that moves! A lot of times, their unsolicited advice pops up right over a dinosaur ambush. Tim pops up to say, “Don’t shoot the gallimimus! They might stampede,” and ten seconds later when the message vanishes from the screen, I find a raptor flossing with my intestines. (Almost as though she waited for just the right moment…clever girl!)
Giant beakers full of bubbling liquids. Because science.
While most of the game gives you an overhead view of Dr. Grant, it switches to first-person when entering buildings. Grant doesn’t have a lot to fear here, as the only damage comes from looking left/right when entering a room, only to find the dinosaur on his right/left. Raptors walk back and forth or charge straight at you, and dilophosaurs stand there and spit. Unlike their outdoor counterparts, they take significantly higher damage, and usually explode if you so much as look at them disapprovingly. Any challenge in the first-person segments comes from the labyrinth of identical rooms with no reasonable floor plan, map, or distinguishing features to help you figure out where to go. Most buildings have multiple floors linked with elevators, the largest of which–the ship–has five stories to explore and get lost in. Apparently they decided that skyscrapers have excellent buoyancy.
The computer interface makes up for its obnoxiousness by offering user settings, like desktop backgrounds. Because what can model chaos better than a Bush? (I think Jeb may have discarded that slogan…)
With no saves or passwords, the game can take upwards of four or five hours to finish, so make sure you don’t have anything going on that day. I first beat this game in 8th grade, staying up late, tag-teaming the game with friends. Jason had just got a dial-up internet connection and I guess game walkthroughs seemed like the best thing for people to upload at the time. Six hours after starting, Jason had control of the characters, I relayed information from ol’ dial-up Bessie, and Chadd sprawled out on the floor with a migraine from focusing on the screen. But we made it. At roughly 2:00 am, we finally got to the helipad and evacuated the island…only to find out that the game’s ending just played the introductory booting animation in reverse.
Uh…so…can I assume this means game over?
Meh. Whatever. I love Jurassic Park. I read the novel at least sixteen or seventeen times, and recently started reading it to Anne, who as a former researcher, occasionally stops me to explain that she used to do what Crichton wrote about, and how he accurately described science a quarter century ahead of his time. She has a thing for the compies, so one of these days I expect to come home to a herd of chicken dinosaurs. But while not all of the franchise’s installments live up to the novel or the original movie, I still get excited about dinosaurs in my thirties. Chris Pratt made an excellent Alpha raptor, indominus rex proved surprisingly effective as a villain, and while I like that the T-Rex came back for a cameo at the end, we all know that the mosasaur really saved the day. So I hope you enjoyed today’s entry; if not as funny as some of my others, hopefully you’ll appreciate the gushing over Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Jurassic Park 3, Jurassic World or, if the Mario trend in naming continues, the upcoming Jurassic Park 64 and Jurassic Galaxy.
I’ll let you know if Spielberg asks for my script ideas.
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Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis – PS2, XBox, PC
Posted on May 26, 2014 by jplaj
If you follow my blog regularly, rather than flip through in disappointment after your search for “sex” and “video game” turns up nothing but a wall of text with a few irreverently captioned images, you’ve probably found more than one review complaining about game series that sold out by porting a downgraded version of their original to a same-generation console just to make a few bucks (or a few thousand yen). While I do love to put on my big, black sanctimonious robes and pound my gavel in condemnation for these cash-grab attempts, I would disgrace the dignity and sex appeal of my big, curly powdered wig if I didn’t admit I can’t really make a general rule out of that practice. Fortunately, another sell-out genre of video game lets me keep up the pretence of blanket hatred on a much more regular basis: movie-based games.
Because Spielberg thought people would prefer an obscure species of predator to the historical favorite for the third film. Yeah. Smart move there.
I loved Jurassic Park. It came out the summer before fifth grade, and I never remember a movie scaring me more than that. Give me a chair moving very slightly in a ghost story and I’ll pucker my naval in boredom. On the other hand, give the shark from Jaws a pair of lungs, legs, the intelligence to open doors, and a plausible-sounding explanation of how scientists might make them a reality, and I’ll lie awake at night, terrified, unable to sleep until eighth grade. Granted, some of that stemmed from the fear that the sun would go supernova and incinerate me in my sleep, but still…raptors! So you can imagine that after years of games like the weird top-down/first-person SNES adaptation or the Sega version where you play as a raptor, when I found a copy of Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis for $3 at my local Savers, I reacted with an emphatic WTF (and not just because I found out later that the game sells for upwards of $80 on ebay).
As the game simulates an alternative reality where John Hammond succedes, capitalism seeps into every aspect of the game, including visitor deaths.
Operation Genesis shows an odd sense of self-awareness, showing the main characters from the film selling out their principles to make piles of cash. John Hammond apparently has made a full recovery from his lesson in human endangerment for the sake of capitalism (or if we follow the book’s plot, his death by compies) and puts himself to the task of opening another park and profiting off tourists, despite the occasional fatality. Rather than advising about ethical ramifications of cloning a long-extinct ecosystem, Dr. Grant now digs fossils for the explicit purpose of extracting DNA for use by the park (however, the fact that they manage to obtain DNA from solid rock, which has completely replaced any organic material, causes me to question the validity of the cloned animals). Dr. Sattler has apparently renounced her paleobotanist ways and now works as a nurse for sick dinosaurs. And John Arnold, no longer holding a grudge against the dinosaurs that dismembered and devoured him, returns as the park’s operations manager.
Gameplay resembles sim games, with construction mechanics similar to Sim City, but with tourists walking through the park, apparently completely incapable of finding things like restrooms, restaurants, and the dinosaurs standing right on the other side of viewing enclosures. Oh yeah, and the game also includes dinosaur cloning. Although the game drops you right onto the island with no instructions after a paltry five-minute loading time, if you’ve ever played a sim game in your life, it doesn’t take too much effort to pick up the tasks. The park needs an entrance, fences, and at least one dinosaur before you can open, at which point park admissions becomes your primary source of revenue, along with charges for viewing, eating, and for the serious dick players, using the bathrooms. Restaurants, cleaning stations, ranger stations, and other buildings help tourists leave to spread the word about how satisfied they felt after wandering, eating, peeing, and not getting gored to death in your park, raising your rating and by extension, your potential to profit.
Most of the amenities and attractions require research before you can build them because apparently your staff simply can’t grasp how a gift shop might work without someone writing a dissertation on the subject first. I know why they include this mechanic in the game–it lets the player prioritize, adding variety to each play through, and insuring that the park could, theoretically, fail. It also adds some credibility to the scientific aspects of the game. I just fail to see how developing a vaccine for previously unknown diseases that will work on species whose biology we’ve only ever known through rocks shaped like their bones takes the same amount of time to figure out as how to drive a jeep through a field of duck-billed hadrosaurs.
They call this building the hatchery. I think it looks suspiciously like a raptor pen.
The process of cloning dinosaurs from DNA adds a layer of complexity to the game, requiring just about every step actually involved in real-life cloning except for the applications and approval from ethics boards. You start by digging fossils from a randomly selected dig site which, props for authenticity, coincides with real-life locations where each dinosaur species lived. You can purchase extra dig teams to make the excavation faster, but each team costs twice as much as the one before it and the process still feels like it takes sixty-five million years to get anything you can use. Also, sometimes they’ll dig up gold, silver, or opals, which have no use, but you can sell them. I usually use the money on store-bought fossils. You know why? Because I’d rather have fossils than gold, silver, or opals. Once you have fossils, you have to extract DNA from them. Each sample gives you a small portion of DNA for a single species. You need 55% or more to clone a dinosaur. Yeah. It takes a while. And at 55%, they die off rather quickly. I like to imagine mixed characteristics of dinosaurs and frogs. Slimy, amphibious raptors hopping around their pens, or T-rexes trying to catch flies with their tongues. Anyway, once you have enough, and pay a hefty fee, your dinosaur hatchery (which you need to build) will start incubating and raising your park’s attractions: one animal at a time.
Allosaurus, a member of the Tyrannosaur family, struts for the camera. See, even T-Rex has relatives that embarass him at Thanksgiving.
While at thirty years old, I still love the idea of dinosaur cloning and hope for the possibility to visit a real Jurassic Park one day, I don’t really know if the main focus of the game should force players to watch the research in real-time. While you start with enough material to produce at least one dinosaur species, it can take years of in-game time to get a second. Each dig site has only three species, and the fossils put up for sale only match the species of fossils you’ve found. Furthermore, out of the nine sites available, you can only access three per save file, so you can’t actually get all the dinosaurs in the game for your park. The game moves at the speed of fish climbing out of the ocean, but it only takes four or five hours of gameplay before you realize that, even though the game itself has other options, it won’t let you do anything to make your establishment more awesome.
Theoretically, disasters can add some panic into the game. Apparently tropical storms and disgruntled employees shutting off the power don’t quite match up with the excitement of the occasional twister (what, did you just copy and paste the coding from Sim City?), which can either add mild amusement in the need to follow along behind it immediately repairing fences, or it can game over you if it happens too early on. Dinosaur rampages–supposedly–cause more trouble, but I’ve never had an animal break out of its fence, even when I had the T-rex in minimum security pens.
Nausea mode: where the camera jiggles, and the vomiting player simulates shooting dinosaurs on the ground below.
The game also offers a mission mode, with some alternative gameplay. The first mission asked me to drive a jeep around an island, photographing various species to prove to investors that the park really did clone dinosaurs–or knows how to use Photoshop. The second mission put me in a helicopter, gunning down rampaging carnivores. The game lost me on that one–for a vehicle designed with the ability to hover, it handled like a gift shop balloon in a strong breeze. Again, if they intended to nauseate their players, mission accomplished, but I just couldn’t live up to the task of operating a helicopter, machine gun, and vomit bucket at the same time. The reward for completing ten missions lets you release all your dinosaurs onto an island without disease or people and just watch. No thank you.
You know what I’d rather do? Go read the damn book.
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Microsoft Planning To End Support for EMET Security Tool
Microsoft will be throwing in the towel on its Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) solution, which was designed to offer protections against common malware attack scenarios and exploit methods.
Microsoft today admitted that EMET is just not up to the task of blocking potential zero-day software exploits. A zero-day exploit is a software flaw that's unknown by a software vendor. Microsoft also indicated that EMET has interfaces into Windows that weren't part of the original Windows design, and that issue has caused performance and reliability problems for some users, according to an announcement today.
The last release of EMET, version 5.5, was designed to protect Windows 10, but "its effectiveness against modern exploit kits has not been demonstrated," Microsoft indicated.
Consequently, Microsoft is planning to stop supporting EMET after July 31, 2018. That date is actually an 18-month extension from the product's original lifecycle support end date. Microsoft extended EMET's life in response to customer feedback, the announcement explained.
Microsoft sees Windows 10 as having better built-in protections against exploits than EMET. It's also touting Windows 10's faster update releases as a security improvement for organizations. Some of EMET's protections are currently built into Windows 10.
"Windows 10 includes all of the mitigation features that EMET administrators have come to rely on such as DEP, ASLR, and Control Flow Guard (CFG) along with many new mitigations to prevent bypasses in UAC and exploits targeting the browser," Microsoft's announcement explained.
EMET's product lifecycle was extended from an original end date of Jan. 27, 2017, but Microsoft still prefers that organizations to move to Windows 10. "For improved security, our recommendation is for customers to migrate to Windows 10," the announcement stated.
At some point, EMET users wanting to move to Windows 10 will be getting a "detailed guide for administrators," Microsoft promised. However, it didn't say when that guide would arrive.
Microsoft touted a bunch of its Windows 10-associated technologies as adding improved security for organizations. The Microsoft Edge browser has a better focus on security, Microsoft claimed. Microsoft also has some virtualization-based security protections for Windows 10 to ward off exploits, such as "Device Guard, Credential Guard, and Windows Defender Application Guard (coming soon)."
Getting these protections typically requires having licensed the Enterprise edition of Windows 10. Device Guard lets organizations specify which applications can run on a device, but it requires having the Enterprise or Education editions of Windows 10. Credential Guard protects credentials against "pass-the-hash" or "pass-the-ticket" types of attacks, but it also requires having the Enterprise or Education editions.
Windows Defender Application Guard, announced during Microsoft's Ignite event, is an Edge browser protection scheme against malicious Web links. Application Guard will run malicious Web sites in a "temporary and isolated copy of Windows" so that personal and corporate data can't be accessed. This protection scheme is designed for use with the Windows 10 Enterprise edition. A preview of Windows Defender Application Guard is coming this year, and product rollout is expected next year.
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If That Was Cosmic . . .
If 2011’s corruption figures for the armed forces were cosmic, what are 2012’s?
We usually get various prosecutors’ reports about this time. This year’s no different.
Newsru.com picked up some of Main Military Prosecutor Sergey Fridinskiy’s comments on military corruption from the GVP’s web site.
The biggest issue, of course, is Oboronservis, 25 related criminal cases, and more than five billion rubles in damages to the state. But those future facts and figures don’t play into Fridinskiy’s 2012 report.
In 2012, Fridinskiy said crimes by officers, as a share of the armed forces total, reached their highest level in 10 years — 30 percent. The share of crimes by contract servicemen increased by 14 percent.
The overwhelming motive, said Fridinskiy, was greed, and losses to the state tripled to 11 billion rubles.
According to GVP data, every fifth crime involved corruption. Losses from corruption exceeded seven billion rubles. Bribery cases rose by a third. Embezzlement and misappropriation by two times. And fraud by almost 20 percent.
Three higher [general] officers and 210 senior officers, including 64 military unit commanders and chiefs of various facilities, were convicted of corruption-related offenses.
Posted in Crime and Corruption
Tagged Bribery, Fraud, GVP, Oboronservis, Sergey Fridinskiy
Cosmic Corruption
Sergey Fridinskiy
Main Military Prosecutor Sergey Fridinskiy gave Interfaks an interview several weeks ago in which he described generally improved crime statistics in the Armed Forces. But he also called the scale of corruption in the military nothing short of “cosmic.”
Fridinskiy told the news service the army’s crime situation is stable and even improving. Crimes by servicemen are down 16 percent, and there are fewer crimes committed by officers. There’s a constantly growing number of military units where no legal violations law are registered. Last year fewer soldiers suffered violence at the hands of their fellow soldiers. But the army’s top law enforcer doesn’t think he’ll run out of work any time soon:
“In particular areas, for example, like saving budget resources allocated for military needs, or corrupt activities, the crime level, as before, is significant. And we’re still far from ridding ourselves of nonregulation relations.”
More than 1,000 military officials were prosecuted for corruption, including 18 general officers — one-third of whom received jail time. Since January 2011, the GVP’s prosecuted 250 bribery cases, many more than in 2010. Fridinskiy singled out the GOZ and commercial firms outsourcing for military units as areas where problems are “not small.” He puts annual Defense Ministry losses to corruption at 3 billion rubles.
This is, interestingly, the same figure he cited in early 2010.
Asked about the types of corrupt schemes in the military, Fridinskiy responded:
“Mainly untargeted use of budget resources, violating the rules and requirements of conducting auctions, competitions, and contractor selection, paying for work not really performed, significant inflating of prices for military products. There are also multifarious kickbacks, bribes, and misuse. Generally, the banal sharing out of budget resources. Devotees of living on state funds especially go for violations of the law. Their scale now is simply stratospheric, I would even say, cosmic.”
Fridinskiy said the GVP’s been active in checking high-level Defense Ministry officials’ asset and property declarations. He said called the scale of violations here “impressive.” More often, he continued, the GVP finds evidence of servicemen and officials engaged in illegal entrepreneurship and commercial activity. He mentioned an unnamed deputy Northern Fleet commander who failed to disclose his wife’s assets, and a Rosoboronpostavka bureaucrat who simultaneously serves as general director of a corporation.
The GVP Chief then shifted gears to talk about barracks violence which he said was down by 20 percent in 2011, with cases involving “serious consequences” declining a third.
Lastly, Interfaks asked about military police, of which Fridinskiy’s skeptical. He emphasized military prosecutors will continue supervising army investigations, but he doubts MPs are ready to run criminal inquiries. He repeated his familiar assertion that they aren’t a panacea; their existence won’t change the social factors behind crime among servicemen.
Would have been interesting if the news agency had asked if this year’s higher pay for officers will cut army crime in 2012.
Posted in Crime and Corruption, Law, Order, and Discipline
Tagged Bribery, Dedovshchina, GOZ, GVP, Main Military Prosecutor, Nonregulation Relations, Outsourcing, Sergey Fridinskiy
Military Medicine Gets an Unsat
Valentina Matviyenko
We’ve seen reports of what reforms have done to Russian military medicine, but what follows is the first comprehensive review of its condition. Cuts and reorganizations are on Defense Minister Serdyukov, but, to be fair, infrastructure deficiencies long predated him. Military medicine is an area where he deserves some criticism. But it’s unclear why it was the weak point chosen for an attack on his management, or why Valentina Matviyenko was the one to deliver it. In any event, with the most recent chief of military medicine now in prison awaiting trial, it’s easy to conclude there are some pretty significant systemic problems.
Nezavisimaya gazeta reported Monday that a Federation Council panel on the social defense of servicemen has, not surprisingly, given military medicine an unsatisfactory evaluation. It came despite a positive self-assessment from the Main Military-Medical Directorate (GVMU). NG’s Sergey Konovalov said Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko, who conducted the session, repeated everything critical about military medicine heard recently from social organizations, parties, and the media.
Responding to the main report given by acting GVMU Chief, Colonel Anatoliy Kalmykov, Matviyenko said:
“You gave a positive assessment, you said that military medicine is coping with its missions. And at the same time your own slide shows a growth in illnesses among servicemen . . . . It’s higher than illnesses in the civilian population . . . . Is it forbidden to evaluate yourself more critically? Stop with this nonsense, comrade Colonel . . . .”
Konovalov notes for readers that Kalmykov’s only been at his temporary post for three weeks. He’s taking the spot of General-Major Aleksandr Belevitin who’s in jail awaiting trial on corruption charges as well for an alleged attempt to arrange the murder of a witness.
He continues with Matviyenko’s remarks:
“. . . today we face an imbalance between the state’s obligations in the military medical sphere and the real financial resources allocated for this purpose. Cuts in military hospitals, polyclinics have created problems in giving medical assistance. In 17 regions, military-medical departments are lacking, in 30 military units, they are deployed very remotely from them, and the great distance is becoming an insurmountable obstacle to treating military service veterans.”
Matviyenko expressed concern about cutting officers and replacing them with civilian workers in military medicine.
An Audit Chamber auditor told the FC panel more than 1,000 Defense Ministry medical units and departments (38 percent of the total) occupy buildings and spaces which don’t meet technical and sanitary norms. And 735 medical facilities (27 percent) need capital repair. New medical equipment the Defense Ministry languishes because there aren’t medical buildings and centers in which it’s possible to treat patients.
The military’s representatives apparently claimed a lack of money. But the Finance Ministry’s Director of the Department for Budget Policy in Military and Law Enforcement Services and State Defense Order, Aleksey Kaulbars rejected this:
“Just purely for health care, on the order of 39 billion rubles are allocated for the Defense Ministry. A little more than 60% has been expended according to the situation as of today. And what kind of grievances that it is insufficiently financed are possible in connection with this? For health care facility construction, the assimilation is 30%. Colleagues, what are we talking about?”
First Deputy GVP Andrey Nikulishchin is afraid unfinished construction and other military medical problems are connected with corruption. He suggests that military medical units get only 20-50 percent of the medicines they require. He blames elevated prices and “nontransparent” trade in them (presumably in addition to corruption).
Posted in Crime and Corruption, Military Budget, Military Medicine
Tagged Aleksandr Belevitin, Aleksey Kaulbars, Anatoliy Kalmykov, Andrey Nikulishchin, Audit Chamber, Federation Council, Finance Ministry, GVMU, GVP, Main Military-Medical Directorate, Valentina Matviyenko
The Ayderkhanov Case (Part I)
Posted on October 31, 2011 | 2 comments
Ruslan Ayderkhanov
Here’s what looks like a case where the beating death of a conscript is being passed off as another suicide in the ranks. We addressed this here, and the tragic Ayderkhanov case broke into the news just 11 days later. This sad story deserved attention sooner than your author was able to give it.
Thursday Newsru.com reported Ayderkhanov’s body has been exhumed for additional medical examination to determine the cause and circumstances of his death. Official examiners as well as one independent expert, Aleksandr Vlasov, will take part in the process which, according to RIA Novosti, should take two weeks.
Newsru recapped the basic facts. On August 31, the 20-year-old Ayderkhanov went missing from V / Ch 55062, part of the Yelan garrison, located in Poroshino, Chelyabinsk Oblast. His body was found hanging from a tree in nearby woods on September 3.
The military authorities were quick to label this an obvious suicide, but his relatives were suspicious about injuries all over Ayderkhanov’s body. He had teeth knocked out, a broken leg, a missing eye, a knife wound in his chest, and burns, bruises, and abrasions.
The Yelan garrison’s military prosecutor opened an Article 110 “Incitement to Suicide” investigation, but just as quickly announced there were no facts indicating violence or the “violation of the regulations on mutual relations” [i.e. abuse] against Ayderkhanov. The prosecutor concluded the soldier was simply depressed about the death of his mother last winter.
The Main Military Prosecutor stated categorically there was no evidence of a beating, and any injuries on Ayderkhanov’s body were from banging against the tree on which he hung himself. The GVP categorically rejected the idea of exhuming and examining the body again.
Radio Svoboda quoted GVP directorate chief Aleksandr Nikitin:
“There is evidence that his death was not a result of violent actions.”
RIA Novosti continued from Nikitin:
“A close examination of the place of death and Ayderkhanov’s body was conducted. The investigation established that there are not any traces of violence which could have caused the serviceman’s death on the body.”
Nakanune.ru quoted a Central MD spokesman:
“According to preliminary data, no facts of nonregulation relations have appeared. But if the guilt of officials is proven, they will be punished in the most strict way.”
According to Radio Svoboda, after the GVP proved no help, Chelyabinsk’s human rights ombudsman approached Aleksandr Vlasov. Vlasov has stated his professional opinion that Ayderkhanov was struck at least 18 times while he was still alive.
Part II tomorrow.
Posted in Civil-Military Relations, Conscription, Crime and Corruption, Hazing, Law, Order, and Discipline
Tagged Araslanovo, Central MD, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Dedovshchina, GVP, Main Military Prosecutor, Murders, Nonregulation Relations, Ruslan Ayderkhanov, Suicides, Yelan
Latest on GOZ Woes (Part II)
To review this week . . . Prime Minister Putin’s current deadline for completing GOZ contracts is August 31, but it’s unlikely to be met, even by loyal Deputy PM and OSK Board Chairman Igor Sechin. Deputy Finance Minister Siluanov said Defense Ministry contracts are being made on credits and government-backed financing rather than cash. Putin said the price tag for GOZ-2011 is 750 billion rubles, but 30 percent of projected procurement still isn’t covered by contracts as the final third of the year begins.
How did the government, Defense Ministry, and OPK arrive at an August 31 deadline that’s unlikely to be met?
The latest round of this year’s GOZ woes started in early July when MIT General Designer Yuriy Solomonov told Kommersant that GOZ-2011 was already broken, and Russia’s strategic missile inventory is not being renewed as necessary. He said there’s no contract for the RS-24 / Yars ICBM, and the late arrival of money makes it impossible to salvage 2011.
President Dmitriy Medvedev responded by calling Defense Minister Anatoliy Serdyukov on the carpet. According to RIA Novosti, he told him:
“Sort out the situation. If there’s information that the state defense order is broken, it’s true, organizational conclusions are needed in connection with those who are responsible for this, regardless of position or rank.”
“If the situation is otherwise, we need to look into those who are sowing panic. You know how according to law in wartime they dealt with panickers — they shot them. I’m allowing you to dismiss them, do you hear me?”
RIA Novosti reported Serdyukov’s opinion on the “wild growth” in the price of military products, especially from MIT and Sevmash. He said MIT is asking 3.9 billion and 5.6 billion rubles respectively for Topol-M and Yars ICBMs. Serdyukov put GOZ-2011 at 581 billion rubles [different from Putin’s figure!], and added that only 108 billion, or 18.5 percent, was not yet under contract. He said everything would be done in 10 days.
At virtually the same time, Deputy PM and VPK Chairman, Sergey Ivanov told ITAR-TASS 230 billion rubles were not yet contracted out. OSK piled on Serdyukov, claiming contracts for 40 percent of the Navy’s share of the GOZ weren’t finalized.
In late July, it looked like Northern Wharf (which reportedly produces 75 percent of Russia’s surface ships, and is not part of OSK) might be made into an example for other “GOZ breakers.” While prosecutors talked vaguely about the misuse of GOZ money, the shipbuilder’s representatives apparently mounted a vigorous defense, asserting that the enterprise has been right on time, even though it’s underfinanced by the Defense Ministry.
Main Military Prosecutor Sergey Fridinskiy said prosecutors uncovered 1,500 GOZ-related legal violations during the preceding 18 months. He indicated there were 30 criminal convictions, and state losses amounted to millions of rubles in these cases. The most egregious example was the theft of over 260 million rubles given to OSK’s Zvezdochka shipyard to repair Kirov-class CGN Petr Velikiy. Fridinskiy indicated the enterprise director and his close associates apparently had 40 million of the money in their own names. Recall Fridinskiy earlier said 20 percent of defense procurement funding is stolen.
According to Rossiyskaya gazeta, Defense Minister Serdyukov claimed he was on the verge of signing contracts with MIT for Topol-M and Yars production. Once again, he said all contracting would be finished in two weeks.
In mid-August, OSK enterprises Sevmash, Admiralty Wharves, and Zvezdochka said they would soon be forced to cease work unless the Defense Ministry signed contracts with them. Putin, Sechin, and Serdyukov met and launched a special interdepartmental commission to set prices for the Navy’s remaining 40 billion rubles in GOZ contracts. And, according to Kommersant, everyone was once again reassured that all contracts would be completed in two weeks.
And it’s not just all ICBMs, ships, and submarines . . . Kommersant wrote that the Defense Ministry eschewed contracts for 24 or more MiG-29K and more than 60 Yak-130 trainers at MAKS-2011.
So what does the mid-year GOZ picture look like?
The president and prime minister have fumed and set a series of deadlines, not met thus far. And the defense minister and deputy prime ministers have assured them they would meet each deadline in turn.
More interesting, and somewhat unnoticed, is the fact that the prime minister and defense minister (among others) seem to be consistently working from different sets of numbers on the size of the GOZ, and how much has been placed under contract. The GOZ hasn’t captured this kind of leadership attention at any time in the past 20 years.
Producers are being honest when they say late state contracts mean they can’t do anything (or at least what the Defense Ministry wants them to) in what remains of the year.
Picking up the pieces of GOZ-2011, and trying to put GOZ-2012 on a better footing will occupy the rest of this year.
Lost in everything is what will the Russian military get eventually by way of new hardware, and when will they get it? And how good will it be?
Posted in Defense Industry, Force Modernization, Strategic Forces Modernization
Tagged Admiralty Wharves, Anatoliy Serdyukov, Dmitriy Medvedev, Gosoboronzakaz, GOZ, GVP, ICBMs, Igor Sechin, MiG-29K, MIT, Northern Wharf, OSK, Petr Velikiy, Procurement, Sergey Fridinskiy, Sergey Ivanov, Sevmash, Topol-M, Vladimir Putin, VPK, Yak-130, Yars, Yuriy Solomonov, Zvezdochka
Some Cracks in Air Forces’ Stonewall (Part II)
Returning to the latest on Igor Sulim . . . in a late July Nezavisimoye voyennoye obozreniye article, Oleg Vladykin summarized the GVP’s various recent press releases about rising crime in the Armed Forces. He provided insight into how senior officers view Sulim and premium pay extortion at Lipetsk.
A colonel, a deputy formation commander speaking anonymously told Vladykin:
“Almost the entire service of many senior officers came to twenty years in which they constantly humiliated, deprived the army whenever possible, and generally kept it in a miserable state. But at the same time they used it regularly. Senior officers carried all this gloom on their shoulders. And here now, as if in gratitude, they promise to raise their pay three times! Colonels will receive the same as junior managers in some public company, whose peaceful labor the army successfully defended in spite of everything. Many have only a year or two left to serve, then dismissal in connection with reaching the age limit. And what then? And then also an increased, but still laughable pension. It will be two times less than a lieutenant’s pay. Therefore, senior comrades confidently tell younger officers: ‘Boys, you still have everything ahead of you. Somehow, you’ll manage to make a more or less decent living. We here won’t…’ You know the majority understand this. And those like Senior Lieutenant Sulim from the Lipetsk Center are the exceptions. I’m not judging them, no, but I’m sure that after 1 January the prosecutors won’t easily locate those who’ll agree to talk about their contributions to their senior colleagues.”
Vladykin says he can’t agree with this argument, but it’s impossible not to note some logic in it. He concludes:
“The psychology of men in shoulderboards has changed very powerfully in the course of recent Armed Forces transformations.”
In his Moskovskiy komsomolets blog Friday, Sulim highlighted an article posted on Lipetsk’s Gorod48.ru. The article reviewed the shady, semi-criminal past of Hero of the Russian Federation, General-Major Aleksandr Kharchevskiy.
Then Sulim asks (rhetorically) how Kharchevskiy can be silent, and how could he not know about the criminal activities of his deputy, of his cousin, or of his subordinates who extorted money from their subordinates. He sums it up:
“It’s shameful and disgusting that in the space of twenty years they’ve turned an elite flying unit into an elite business for stuffing pockets, hiding all this under a mask of love for the Motherland and swearing on officer’s honor.”
Perhaps there’s some kind of behind-the-scenes three-way struggle between the Defense Ministry, Air Forces, and military prosecutors over premium pay extortion. Or maybe it’s a negotiation to agree on how, and how far, to pursue the Lipetsk case and ones like it.
But the Defense Ministry seems paralyzed. The unit checks ordered by Serdyukov rather improbably failed to turn up similar crimes in services or branches besides the Air Forces. As the colonel quoted above says, the Defense Ministry may believe the scandal will die down after the new, higher military pay system goes into effect.
The cracks in the Air Forces’ stonewall on the Sulim case are only tiny fissures. Those immediately involved in extorting money and pressuring officers at Lipetsk are finally in trouble with the law, but no one above that immediate level. As an institution, the VVS appears unworried for now.
The prosecutors apparently can’t even name the officers they “hold accountable” in the VVS Glavkomat. This isn’t to belittle Sergey Fridinskiy, his organization, and their efforts. He and his prosecutors sometimes seem to be the only people looking honestly at the state of the Russian military. There are clearly only so many battles they can fight.
And preoccupied as they are with their own positions, skirmishes, and the fast-approaching election season, Russia’s political and government leaders aren’t likely to devote more time or attention to untangling what’s happened at Lipetsk.
Posted in Air Forces, Crime and Corruption, Officer Corps, Serdyukov's Reforms
Tagged Aleksandr Kharchevskiy, Glavkomat, GVP, Igor Sulim, Lipetsk, Pay, Premium Pay, Sergey Fridinskiy, VVS
Some Cracks in Air Forces’ Stonewall (Part I)
An update on the Igor Sulim case . . . on Tuesday, Moskovskiy komsomolets’ Olga Bozhyeva reported there may finally be some pressure on the alleged extortionists. Colonel Kovalskiy and one Captain Artemyev decided (in fine Russian tradition) to go the hospital to avoid arrest, but a former 4th squadron chief of staff and Kovalskiy relative, Mikhail Zakurdayev was arrested on July 30.
Bozhyeva wrote about related crimes at Lipetsk including forgery and extortion from civilian workers receiving premiums to the tune of 10 million rubles.
She reported that, despite the Defense Ministry’s promise to check all units, systemic extortion of premium pay was only found in Lipetsk, Sevastopol, Syzran, and Michurinsk.
The case at the Syzran generated some media attention starting on July 29. The press reported the chief of the helicopter pilot training center, Colonel Nikolay Yartsev, and a former training regiment commander have allegedly been “taxing” pilots five percent of their premium pay, taking a total of four million rubles from 43 officers last year. The Saratov garrison commander has opened a criminal case against them.
According to Bozhyeva, military prosecutors say the command in Lipetsk is still creating obstacles instead of establishing order in the ranks. It transferred a primary witness and Sulim ally — Major Anton Smirnov — to Chelyabinsk. Another officer whose wife complained in a letter to the president was removed from flight duty for “poor morale.”
Bozhyeva ends with an excerpt from Sulim’s blog where he says officers are quizzed several times a day on the most obscure military topics. Failing the tests justifies not paying their premium pay.
According to RIA Novosti, on Wednesday, Sergey Fridinskiy announced that unnamed VVS Glavkomat officers have been held to account for violating the rights of Lipetsk pilots facing extortion from their own commanders.
The Main Military Prosecutor apparently responded to queries from Duma deputies interceding on behalf of Senior Lieutenant Sulim. Fridinskiy indicated his prosecutors checked on Sulim’s complaint that his rights were violated during the initial [Air Forces] investigation.
The head prosecutor claimed, as a result of these checks, several criminal cases were launched, and steps were taken to prevent further violations. The GVP also announced that:
“The officials, including those in the VVS Glavkomat, who committed them have been brought to account on the GVP’s demand.”
The GVP found that, in the investigation, no active steps were taken, and conditions were created for continued illegal activity by dishonest officers. They obstructed the investigation, and pressured officers prepared to cooperate with investigators.
According to RIA Novosti, Sulim’s main antagonists, Colonels Kovalskiy and Sidorenko, were removed from duty, but continued to have regular, unfettered access to the base. But the pilots and navigators who gave evidence were removed from flight duty and given menial duties. Several times the command’s given Sulim tasks without informing him to provide the basis for reprimands for not fulfilling assigned duties.
The Duma deputies who went to Fridinskiy think the Lipetsk command’s dragging out the case and using “administrative resources” to pressure those who spoke out. The deputies believe the Tambov garrison military prosecutor isn’t interested in closing the case, and to them, this means higher-ranking officials will have to be made accountable.
More tomorrow.
Tagged GVP, Igor Sulim, Lipetsk, Main Military Prosecutor, Nikolay Yartsev, Pay, Premium Pay, Sergey Fridinskiy
More on the Retiring General Troyka
In yesterday’s Nezavisimaya gazeta, Sergey Konovalov followed up the story of the retiring generals — Andrey Tretyak, Sergey Skokov, and Oleg Ivanov.
Konovalov held to the main line of his earlier report. He maintains the retirement of these Defense Ministry central apparatus officers has been “frozen.” Without addressing the various explanations and denials in the media, he asks why three promising generals would want out early. Finally, he repeats his earlier contention that the resignations could be a sign of “military opposition” to Defense Minister Serdyukov’s reforms.
Konovalov cites a highly-placed Defense Ministry source saying:
“Soon representatives of the Presidential Administration’s cadre organs will talk with the generals who requested discharge to find out the real reasons why young, promising leaders are retiring from the army.”
A law enforcement source tells NG that the Main Military Prosecutor has long questioned the Defense Ministry’s cadre policy:
“Competent officers are dismissed, meanwhile every kind of lawbreaker who’s had a run-in with military justice gets moved up to higher duties.”
One general told NG that General-Lieutenant Sergey Surovikin — slated to head Russia’s new military police force — got one year of probation for trying to sell a pistol while attending the Frunze Military Academy. The paper then lists some other, less prominent, cases of officers with shady or criminal backgrounds who’ve advanced through the ranks to higher posts.
NG’s sources claim the Defense Ministry’s cadre policy will soon undergo an analysis and evaluation by the PA’s cadre department.
The Defense Ministry’s PR blitz (as well as independent reporting) in the wake of the resignations blunted Konovalov’s assertion that the generals were quitting over disagreements with military reforms. This article answered his question from earlier — his sources say the PA will investigate recent Defense Ministry personnel moves. But one wonders how much time and attention President Medvedev’s people can devote to this with an agenda already full of political and domestic policy issues.
Posted in Military Leadership, Serdyukov's Reforms
Tagged Cadres, GVP, Main Military Prosecutor, PA, Personnel, Presidential Administration, Sergey Surovikin
Military-Theft Forces
Prosecutors Rate the Most Corrupt Service Branches
40-50 Percent of State Defense Order Simply Stolen in Recent Years . . . no wonder large-scale procurement hasn’t happened. Serdyukov supporter Korotchenko tries to paint opponents of military reforms as people trying to protect their corrupt schemes. This surely goes on, but there also have to be people opposing them for reasons other than greed. Finally, it’s at least conceivable that, if Serdyukov doesn’t make progress against corruption, it could cost him his job (if he stays that long, he is approaching the four-year mark). Thus endeth the precis for this post . . .
This week Profil investigates military corruption. The magazine notes the number and scale of Defense Ministry corruption cases is growing by leaps and bounds, reaching losses of 2.2 billion rubles for the first ten months of 2010. It concludes, despite a significant cut in the officer corps and Defense Minister Anatoliy Serdyukov’s battle against “thieves in broad stripes [generals],” the number of corruption crimes is not only not declining, but has substantially increased. Profil obtained an analytical report compiled by the Main Military Prosecutor (GVP) showing who has stolen how much this year.
The GVP presented its report to a closed session of the Duma Defense Committee. It says its analysis shows “efforts to counteract corruption in the troops are insufficiently effective.”
Profil’s first graphic . . .
Growth of Corruption Crimes in the Army (First 10 Months of 2010)
Troops/Military District/Fleet 2009 2010 Growth (%)
North Caucasus MD 184 311 69
Moscow MD 94 152 61.7
Air-Assault Troops (VDV) 34 119 250
Siberian MD 76 117 54
Strategic Missile Troops (RVSN) 59 93 57.6
Northern Fleet 50 59 18
Space Troops 27 44 63
Caspian Flotilla 5 7 40
Black Sea Fleet 2 6 200
Profil suggests the recent wave of military retirements signed off by President Dmitriy Medvedev could have been sparked by corruption charges. While possible, there’s no evidence to support this thesis.
A Profil source in the Defense Ministry says, not surprisingly, officials responsible for the State Defense Order (GOZ or ГОЗ), capital construction, and the disposition of military property (first and foremost real estate) inflict the greatest losses on the budget. The article quotes Igor Korotchenko:
“In the course of recent years, 40-50% of resources allocated for the State Defense Order were simply stolen. This happened, for example, when money was directed at the fulfillment of some concrete work, but there were no real results. Write-offs appeared in the end or a weapons system was developed that simply didn’t meet its technical requirements.”
Profil suggests that many officers are rushing to get one last bite of military money before Serdyukov’s reforms completely derail their schemes. It cites Ruslan Pukhov offering two different explanations for rising military corruption:
“Feeling an impending dismissal, officials are probably trying to take the maximum from their positions. However, it can’t be ruled out that the prosecutor has really reinforced his work in different areas. Corruption is an acute issue for the prosecutor.”
Pukhov thinks that, although the percentage increase in corruption looks really bad for the VDV, “corruption in the armed forces is spread equally and the growth in corruption crimes in separate branches or districts is connected only with where they are being investigated.”
A very good point, Mr. Pukhov. Yes, the results of this little anticorruption experiment are very much influenced by where and how it is being conducted. One should also pay much more attention to the absolute numbers of corruption cases than the percentage changes, and nothing has been said about the relative size of the various parts of the armed forces . . . no per capita figures are provided. Are 44 crimes in the relatively small Space Troops more significant than 152 in the larger Moscow MD?
Korotchenko, a fairly strong Serdyukov proponent, says the Defense Minister and his tax service colleagues are beginning to break existing corrupt ties, institute financial transparency, and deprive the generals of the right to conclude any contracts. Dividing the Ministry into military and civilian halves will keep military men out of financial expenditures, and this “process of shifting generals out of the feeding trough” will continue until 2012. The generals will provide requirements, and civilians will allocate the financing.
A second graphic with some absolute figures on losses due to corruption . . .
Troops Loss Amount Annual Growth
(millions of rubles) (times)
Strategic Missile Troops (RVSN) 59.8 15
Air-Assault Troops (VDV) 57.5 12.2
Space Troops 47.6 2.2
Korotchenko claims:
“The campaign against Serdyukov is mainly heated up by those people who’ve been deprived of the feeding trough. So, the director of a large defense enterprise has for many years sawed off rubles by the billion every year in the transfer of money that comes to fulfill the Gosoboronzakaz. When Serdyukov deprived this director of such a trough, he began to finance any actions directed at discrediting and, possibly, even removing the Defense Minister.”
So, Korotchenko asserts most conflicts over army reform are banal conflicts of interest for those who can’t steal like they used to. But didn’t the GVP just say they’re doing a better job of stealing than ever before?
Korotchenko continues:
“Of course, Serdyukov is not an angel, and many of his actions on the military reform plane call forth questions, but it’s another thing that before he arrived, corruption in the Defense Ministry had achieved such a level that he was forced to cut to the bone. Many scandals proceed only because their financial-economic interests were affected: the meetings of the airborne guys is just one in this series.”
Then Profil turns to Vitaliy Shlykov, who says:
“Broad publicity for corruption scandals in the Defense Ministry cannot but affect the minister.”
But he believes the Kremlin knows no one can fight corruption like Serdyukov, therefore the GVP report isn’t a real blow to him.
Profil concludes, so far, Serdyukov hasn’t squandered the trust placed in him, but the struggle against corruption only strengthens him as long as it’s a success. If corruption keeps growing, it’s possible the Defense Minister himself could wind up on the “shot list.”
Posted in Crime and Corruption, Defense Industry, Force Modernization, Law, Order, and Discipline, Officer Corps, Serdyukov's Reforms
Tagged Anatoliy Serdyukov, ГОЗ, Гособоронзаказ, GOZ, GVP, Igor Korotchenko, Main Military Prosecutor, Ruslan Pukhov, SDO, State Defense Order
Fridinskiy vs. Serdyukov on Dedovshchina
Barracks violence in Russia has risen by at least 50 percent thus far in 2010; this isn’t exactly news since the Main Military Prosecutor announced the same thing back in July. But his comments on the situation provide an interesting contrast with what Defense Minister Serdyukov said in his interview this week.
ITAR-TASS reported on Main Military Prosecutor (GVP or ГВП) Sergey Fridinskiy’s statement that increasing the number of conscripts in Russia’s armed forces has led, as he predicted, to a rise in ‘nonregulation relations.’ And some 3,000 servicemen have suffered from hazing and other violence in the barracks.
Fridinskiy said:
“If we’re talking about nonregulation manifestations, then, of course, they worry everyone – both society and military prosecutors – since they infringe on the life and health of servicemen, and therefore we view them in the most severe way. Amid a reduction in general criminality, the quantity of cases of barracks violence rose by almost a third over nine months of this year.”
Among the 3,000 victims, Fridinskiy reported:
“Nine men died, and another 96 suffered serious harm to their health.”
“Our joint efforts – both with commands and with civil society institutions – really allowed us not only to stop negative processes in the army environment, but even to prevent many serious consequences. The curve of nonregulation manifestations certainly went lower. However, since last year, the situation began to change again. Since the fall [of 2009], we felt that the sharp increase in conscript soldiers could lead to a deterioration in legal order among the troops. And we talked about this. And so it happened.”
“There’s no need to fear. And I will say that, on the whole, the crime level among the troops is declining. Based on the results of the first eight months, the number of registered crimes fell almost 10 percent. There are a lot of military units where there are practically no legal violations.”
Fridinskiy called the doubling of the draftee contingent one of the reasons for the growth in ‘nonregulation manifestations.’ He said more than 1,400 soldiers and sergeants were convicted of assault and battery through August. Then Fridinskiy added a second reason – great negligence in the work of officers.
GVP data shows approximately one-third of the victims of violence are draftees in their first 2-3 months of service, and the offenders, on the other hand, have served 8-9 months. So, Fridinskiy concludes, the informal division of conscripts into ‘seniors’ and ‘juniors’ in the barracks hasn’t gone away.
Fridinskiy noted that instead of ‘youthful boldness,’ barracks violence is now more often motivated by baser motives. The number of ‘nonregulation manifestations’ connected with theft and extortion has grown more than 50 percent. And he said:
“They steal mobile phones and money most often – just exactly like it happens on city streets.”
So, let’s go back to Defense Minister Serdyukov’s analysis of barracks violence. Asked whether one-year conscription is having any effect on dedovshchina, he said:
“There are more nonregulation instances in absolute terms. But this doesn’t scare me, because there are more conscripts. The situation has to level out with time. And the statistics will begin to fall perfectly precisely. Particularly when you account for our methods: we are very demanding with commanders on this, even up to dismissal in cases with deadly consequences. Human rights advocates have already begun to criticize me for dismissing many of them for nothing.”
So Serdyukov and Fridinskiy agree there are more, and they surely know if there are more in relative terms as well. Say incidents per 1,000 soldiers. But they aren’t saying.
And the argument that there’s more violence because there are more conscripts doesn’t necessarily hold water either. Before the shift to 1-year conscription, about 130,000 guys were inducted every six months in 4 cycles over 2 years, for a total of roughly 520,000 conscripts at any given time. The only thing that’s changed is that they’re taken in two large tranches now . . . if it’s 260,000 guys, that’s still 520,000 soldiers at any moment.
In late 2009, Serdyukov called hazing and other violence a major unresolved problem, and clearly the situation will be even worse by late 2010. Don’t forget that dedovshchina and other violence remains the number one reason why Russian men don’t want to serve, and it’s significant it’s rising at the very moment the army’s trying to put ever-expanding numbers of guys [280,000 this fall] in uniform. It certainly doesn’t make the job easier.
Serdyukov’s answer above really sounds like soft-peddling an intractable problem. He thinks this will magically “level out” by itself. And he’s counting on commanders to rectify it, the very people Fridinskiy says are to blame.
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Naploean Complexity – Ryan Spiritas will be appearing in the NYC Opening Reception
September 24, 2016 /in News /by Ryan Spiritas
November 3rd – 30th, 2016 New York & Las Vegas
Ryan Spiritas will be appearing in the NYC Opening Reception Saturday, November 5th, 6:00-8:00 PM
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Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties for any other purposes than those listed above. We will only pass on your data to third parties when you have expressly granted your consent in accordance with Art. 6 Par. 1 Sent. 1 letter a GDPR, the disclosure is necessary in accordance with Art. 6 Par. 1 Sent. 1 letter f GDPR for the enforcement, exercising or defence of rights and there is no reason to assume that you have a predominant interest worthy of protection in the non-disclosure of your data for the event that there is a legal obligation for disclosure in accordance with Art. 6 Par. 1 Sent. 1 letter c GDPR and this is legally allowed and necessary in accordance with Art. 6 Par. 1 Sent. 1 letter b GDPR for the handling of contract relations with you. Insofar as third parties are contracted by us with a contract processing, this will take place in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR.
When you place an order in our Online-Shop, any contracts will be concluded with us or the foreign REMS GmbH & Co KG branch office or REMS GmbH & Co KG affiliate responsible for your location as specified within the scope of the respective order. We will pass on the data necessary for conclusion or performance of a contract to the branch office/affiliate responsible for your order where necessary.
In certain countries, you have the possibility of choosing a dealer who will be at your disposal as a direct local contact within the scope of your order through our Online-Shop. If you do so, we are entitled to inform the dealer chosen by you and to pass on your data.
We work with external carrying companies, e.g. DPD, DHL for the collection and shipment of orders. The following personal data are passed on to the carrier for the purpose of providing the service:
First name, surname
Delivery address, any supplementary data
Mail number (for the purpose of delivery to a DHL packing station)
The legal basis for this is the necessity of fulfilment of a contract in accordance with Art. 6 Par. 1 Sent. 1 letter b GDPR.
If you have consented to disclosure of the data:
E-mail address (for the purpose of notification of delivery)
The legal basis for this is your voluntarily granted consent in accordance with Art. 6 Par. 1 Sent. 1 letter a GDPR.
If you have not consented to the disclosure of your personal data, no data will be transferred to the carrying company. In this case, may we point out that no notification of delivery or change in the delivery by the carrying company is possible.
To prevent notification of delivery by external carrying companies, your revocation must be sent directly to the carrying company.
We only process personal data in countries in which the data privacy laws offer the same security level as in the EU/EEA. Insofar as data are passed on in the necessary scope to recipients based outside of the EU/EEA, this takes place based on standard contract clauses of the EU Commission.
§16 PayPal payment
On our websites, we offer the possibility of making payments by PayPal. PayPal is an online service provider for handling payments and is operated by PayPal (Europe) S.à.r.l et Cie., S.C.A., 22-24 Boulevard Royal, 2449 Luxembourg, Luxembourg. You can handle orders directly through your PayPal account by the selecting the PayPal payment type. In addition, it is also possible to make payments by credit card via PayPal even if you have no PayPal account.
We pass on the data that you have entered with us and the data of your order to PayPal for collection of the invoiced amount. This is usually your name, address, e-mail address, phone number and IP address as well as other data necessary for handling the payment. These are used especially for identity checking and credit assessment, payment administration and prevention of fraud. The legal basis for this is the necessity of fulfilment of a contract in accordance with Art. 6 Par. 1 Sent. 1 letter b GDPR.
We have no influence over the type, scope and purposes of processing or erasure of the elicited data of the service provider. You are entitled to object to the processing of your personal data, albeit to PayPal directly. The objection does not extend to the personal data that are obligatory for handling of the payment.
Further information on the type and scope of data processing can be found in the data privacy declarations of PayPal. These can be found under https://www.paypal.com/de/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full
§17 Linking of YouTube videos
We have linked YouTube videos to our website which are saved and viewable on the YouTube platform. YouTube is a platform of Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. After selecting one of the YouTube videos filmed and embedded by us, it is played in “extended data privacy mode”. This represents electronic consent in accordance with Art. 7 GDPR. Otherwise it will not be played.
Google receives the data named in §3 when you select the YouTube video. This happens regardless of whether or not you have a Google user account. If you have a Google user account and are logged in with your Google user account when you visit our website, these data will be assigned directly to your Google user account.
If you do not want the data to be merged with your Google user account, you must log out from the Google user account before selecting the YouTube video. Google uses these data to create user profiles but also for advertising purposes, market research or requirement-based design of their websites. You are entitled to raise objection to the creation of such user profiles. However, this objection must be made directly to Google.
The legal basis for processing these data is our legitimate interest for the presentation of our company in accordance with Art. 6 Par. 1 Sent. 1 letter f GDPR.
Google complies with the legal data privacy requirements of the European Economic Area and Switzerland regarding the elicitation, use, transfer, storage and other processing of personal data from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland. All transfers of personal data to third countries or an international organisation are subject to suitable guarantees such as described in Article 46 GDPR. The legal basis for this is the necessity of fulfilment of a contract with Google in accordance with Art. 6 Par. 1 Sent. 1 letter b in conjunction with Art. 46 Par. 2 letter c GDPR.
Further information on the type and scope of data processing by Google is available under https://privacy.google.com/businesses/controllerterms/
Setting possibilities and other information on the protection of your data is available under https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/ or https://privacy.google.com/businesses/compliance/?hl=de#!?modal_active=none.
§18 Linking of Google Maps
We use Google Maps on our website. Google Maps is a service of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043, USA. With this service we can show interactive maps and enable the user to use the map function conveniently. This function is blocked as standard. The function is only activated when you use it actively. This represents electronic consent in accordance with Art. 7 GDPR.
Google receives the data named in §3 when you use the map function. This happens regardless of whether or not you have a Google user account. If you have a Google user account and are logged in when you visit our website, these data will be assigned directly to your Google user account.
If you do not want the data to be merged with your Google user account, you must log out from the Google user account before using the map function. Google uses these data to create user profiles but also for advertising purposes, market research or requirement-based design of their websites. You are entitled to raise objection to the creation of such user profiles. However, this objection must be made directly to Google.
§18 Linking of BING Maps
We use Bing Maps on our website. Bing Maps is a service offered by the Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399, USA. With this service we can show interactive maps and enable the user to use the map function conveniently. This function is blocked as standard. The function is only activated when you use it actively. This represents electronic consent in accordance with Art. 7 GDPR.
Microsoft receives the data named in §3 when you use the map function. This happens regardless of whether or not you have a Microsoft user account. If you have a Microsoft user account and are logged in when you visit our website, these data will be assigned directly to your Microsoft user account.
If you do not want the data to be merged with your Microsoft user account, you must log out from the Microsoft user account before using the map function. Microsoft uses these data to create user profiles but also for advertising purposes, market research or requirement-based design of their websites. You are entitled to raise objection to the creation of such user profiles. However, this objection must be made directly to Microsoft.
The legal basis for processing these data is our legitimate interest in showing business partners in the online map service in accordance with Art. 6 Par. 1 Sent. 1 letter f GDPR.
Microsoft complies with the legal data privacy requirements of the European Economic Area and Switzerland regarding the elicitation, use, transfer, storage and other processing of personal data from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland. All transfers of personal data to third countries or an international organisation are subject to suitable guarantees such as described in Article 46 GDPR. The legal basis for this is the necessity of fulfilment of a contract with Microsoft in accordance with Art. 6 Par. 1 Sent. 1 letter b in conjunction with Art. 46 Par. 2 letter c GDPR.
Further information on the type and scope of data processing by Microsoft is available under https://privacy.microsoft.com/de-de/privacystatement.
Setting possibilities and other information on the protection of your data is available under: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/product-licensing/products#OST.
§20 Linking of ipstack
We use ipstack on our website. ipstack is a service offered by apilayer GmbH, Elisabethstrasse 15/5, 1010 Vienna, Austria. With this service, we provide the user with a convenient display possibility when using the map function. This function is blocked as standard. This service is only activated when you use the map function actively. This represents electronic consent in accordance with Art. 7 GDPR.
When you use the map function, apilayer receives the data named in § 3. apilayer uses these data to create user profiles but also for advertising purposes, market research or requirement-based design of their websites. You are entitled to raise objection to the creation of such user profiles. However, this objection must be made directly to apilayer.
Further information on the type and scope of data processing by apilayer is available under https://ipstack.com/privacy.
We reserve the right to adapt the current actual and legal requirements. You can open and print out the respective latest data protection declaration on our website at any time.
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November 2 2016, 10:00 AM
Matt Dillon Is Serial Killer Jack In Von Trier's THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT
Founder and Editor; Toronto, Canada (@AnarchistTodd)
(UPDATED: in Deadline's original article, it was implied that the titular Jack was Jack the Ripper, but this is apparently not true and has since been corrected).
Danish maverick Lars Von Trier has announced the first cast in his upcoming feature The House That Jack Built and the cast announcement has brought quite a few plot details along with it.
Matt Dillon will star as notorious serial killer Jack in the film with Bruno Ganz starring opposite as a character referred to only as Verge at this point, who sounds like a sort of confidant to Jack - or at least the mechanism that we're told the story through as Verge engages Jack in a series of conversations about his actions. Here's how Deadline sums it up:
The House That Jack Built follows the highly intelligent Jack over a span of 12 years and introduces the murders that define Jack’s development as a serial killer. We experience the story from Jack’s point of view, while he postulates each murder is an artwork in itself. As the inevitable police intervention is drawing nearer, he is taking greater and greater risks in his attempt to create the ultimate artwork.
Production is set to begin soon with further cast announcements to follow.
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Wandering from screen to screen…
7 best World War I video games
The First World War is often forgotten when it comes to representation in popular media. Most video games picked The Second World War over this one, but there are a few great game that you shouldn’t be missing out on. As it turns out the greatest and most brutal war of them all didn’t get that much attention when it comes to video games. Here’s the top 7 World War I games! Continue reading
This entry was posted in Blog, Listicles, Retro, Video Games and tagged Battle of Empires: 1914-1918, Battlefield, Battlefield 1, Battlefield series, Civilization, DICE, EA, Electronic Arts, First Person Shooter, First World War, FPS, Hogs of War, Manfred von Richthofen, Multiplayer, Necrovision, Real Time Strategy, Red Baron, Sid Meier's Sky Patrol, Snoopy Flying Ace, Strategic Command: World War 1, Tannenberg, Toy Soldiers, Valiant Hearts: The Great War, Verdun, Victoria II, World War I, Xbox 360, Xbox 360 Arcade, Zoomin Games. Bookmark the permalink.
11 Coronavirus-like outbreaks in popular media
With the Coronavirus outbreak happening at this moment, a little part in us is curious about potential ‘what if’-situations. This is proven by the recent popularity of Contagion (2011) in the Apple iTunes movie store. Let’s have a look at some other examples of popular media like movies, video games and even board games which use a virus outbreak as their main theme. (You won’t find any extraterrestrial viruses or zombiepocalypse movies in here by the way.)
This entry was posted in Listicles, Movies, Uncategorized, Video Games and tagged Android, Apple, Blindness, Contagion, Corona, Corona Virus, Coronavirus, Deranged, Doomsday, Dustin Hofman, Flu, Gamgi, Gwyneth Paltrow, iOS, iTunes, julianne moore, Michael Crichton, Morgan Freeman, Netflix, Outbreak, Pague Inc Evolved, Pandemic, Pandemic Board Game, Pandemic: How to prevent an outbreak, Plague Inc, Pontypool, Rene Russo, Smallpox, Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon, Steven Soderbergh, The Andromeda Strain, Virus, Wolfgang Petersen. Bookmark the permalink.
10 times Santa appeared in video games
Christmas is here and apart of seeing our families, we get the chance to dedicate some time to our favorite activity: Gaming! But how do you stay in the christmas spirit? Easy all you need to do is play Christmas Video games! Here are 10 games in which you can meet Santa. Continue reading
This entry was posted in Listicles, Video Games and tagged Boogerman, Christmas, Clayfighter 63 ⅓, Daze Before Christmas, Disney, DLC, Dreamcast, Earthworm Jim, Elf Bowling, Elf Bowling 1 and 2, Frosty, Funcom, GTA, Halloween Town, Hideo Kojima, Jack Skellington, KIngdom Hearts 2, Metal Gear, Nintendo 64, Playstation, RPG, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Ryo Hazuki, Saints Row IV, Saints Row IV: How the Saints saved Christmas, Sam and Max, Sam and Max Season 2: Beyond Time and Space, Sam and Max: Ice Station Santa, Santa, Santa Claus, Santa Claus is coming to town, Santa Claus saves the earth, Secret of Mana, SEGA, SEGA CD, SEGA Dreamcast, SEGA Megadrive, Sega Saturn, Shenmue, Snatcher, Square, Sumo Santa, Super Nintendo, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Toejam and Earl, We wish you a merry christmas, X-mas. Bookmark the permalink.
8 times Super Mario jumped on other platforms
Mario Kart Tour and Dr Mario World are almost coming to iOS and Android! Though Super Mario being considered a Nintendo-exclusive character, this won’t be the first time he’ll appear on a third party platform. Here are 8 cases of Super Mario starring on Non-Nintendo systems. Continue reading
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9 amazing local multiplayer video games
With modern video games mainly focussing on online multiplayer, local multiplayer slowly fades into oblivion. However during the good old days there were a few awesome titles that deserve some attention and are still incredibly fun to play. Here are 9 amazing classic couch multiplayer games you should play right now! Continue reading
This entry was posted in Blog, Listicles, Retro, Video Games and tagged Bomberman, Four Swords Adventures, Gameboy Advance, Gamecube, Goldeneye, Halo, Local Multiplayer, Mario Kart, Mario Kart 64, Mario Party, Mario Party 3, Micro Machines, Micro Machines 2: Turbo Tournament, Microsoft Xbox, Nintendo, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo 64, Nintendo Gamecube, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii, Nintendo Wii U, Saturn Bomberman, SEGA Megadrive, Sega Saturn, Super Smash Bros., Super Smash Bros. Melee, Switch, The Legend of Zelda, The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventure, Timesplitters 2, Wii Sports, Wii U, Worms, Worms Armageddon, Xbox, Zelda. Bookmark the permalink.
GTA remakes incoming!!! (Let’s hope so, right?)
Over the last three gaming generations you could safely state that the Grand Theft Auto franchise is one of the most popular ones around. With GTA V still selling like hotcakes, it wouldn’t be a crazy idea to bring the older GTA games as remakes to modern console, right? Millions of gamers probably wanna play these games again, so why shouldn’t we be able to. Continue reading
This entry was posted in Blog, Retro, Video Games and tagged backwards compatible, Chinatown Wars, engine, expansions, Franchise, Grand Theft Auto, Grand Theft Auto V, GTA, GTA 3, GTA Chinatown Wars, GTA San Andreas, GTA V, GTA Vice City, HD, LA Noire, Liberty City Stories, Nintendo Switch, Playstation 2, PS4, Remake, Remaster, Rockstar Games, San Andreas, The Ballad of Gay Tony, The Lost and Damned, trilogy, Vice City, Vice City Stories, Xbox One. Bookmark the permalink.
Remaster, Remake, Reboot or just a port?
Remastering or remaking a video game is kinda hot nowadays. We see a lot of these classic video games getting a second chance and by a lot I mean like … a lot! But people seem to be confused about whether a game is called a remake, a reboot or a remaster. Or something completely else of course. In this article I will try to settle the debate. I will explain once and for all in which category your newly released old video game belongs to.
This entry was posted in Blog, Retro, Video Games and tagged Demake, HD Port, HD Remaster, Port, Reboot, Reimagining, Remake, Remaster, Rerelease. Bookmark the permalink.
Nintendo! Stop teasing me and give me my F-zero!
It’s been a while. Actually, it has been more than ten years now since we have seen a new entry in the F-Zero series. A shame if you ask me, because Nintendo fans all over the world can’t wait to play a new game in the franchise. It bugs me that Nintendo doesn’t listen to its fans. They just keep their mouth shut about the continuation of the series. It also bugs me even more that Nintendo is constantly teasing their fans with nods to the futuristic racing series in other games. C’mon guys! Continue reading
This entry was posted in Blog, Retro, Video Games and tagged 64DD, Burnout, Captain Falcon, Criterion Games, F-Zero, F-Zero AX, F-Zero Climax, F-Zero GX, F-Zero X, Majora's Mask, Nintendo, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, Ocarina of Time, Starfox 64. Bookmark the permalink.
Why Wii U owners should feel cheated by Nintendo
The Nintendo Switch is great and all. With in a little over a year in we’ve seen tons of ‘old’ Wii U games getting the new Switch treatment. It’s cool to see Nintendo giving players who missed out on the Wii U a chance to play these games. However, it also feels as a stab in the back for gamers who did own Nintendo’s ill-fated system. Here’s why! Continue reading
This entry was posted in Blog, Video Games and tagged 1-2-Switch, 2014, 2015, Animal Crossing, Breath of the Wild, Exclusives, Fire Emblem, Mario Kart 8, Mario Tennis, Nintendo, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii U, Pokemon, Pokemon RPG, Smash bros., Snipperclips, Splatoon 2, Srms, Star Fox, Super Mario Odyssey, Switch, Wii U, Yoshi, Zelda. Bookmark the permalink.
Kirby: The Good and the Bad and Ugly…
During my time as a gamer I’ve been an avid Nintendo gamer. Almost all of the video games ‘Big N’ releases are of stellar quality and deliver an experience like no other. Also Nintendo’s second party companies like HAL Laboratory manage to create games of high quality. HAL’s biggest franchise is of course the Kirby-one. This article will feature two of the games from that particular franchise. One which is pretty good and the other which is pretty bad, while both games are more or less execute the same concept on a different platform. Wanna find out what I am talking about? Continue reading
This entry was posted in Blog, Retro, Video Games and tagged Big N, HAL, HAL Laboratory, Kirby, Kirby Canvas Curse, Kirby Rainbow Curse, Nintendo, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii U, platform game, Power Paintbrush, Rainbow Paintbrush, stylus, Wii U. Bookmark the permalink.
Duel; Steven Spielberg’s magnificent debut
The Very Best of Pixar’s Toy Story
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Downtown Dirt by Manhole: Handicapping August 17th’s Bloodbath
Posted on August 13, 2013 by Preservation Pub Standard
So we’re back here again, and summer’s already half-gone. Or two-thirds, or three-quarters, or some damn thing. The point is that time has passed, events having rushed in upon us like so many stones in the kinghell mad spill of a monster avalanche…
And there is much to report. Including that a goodly portion of early- and mid-summer events hereabouts were devoted to setting up the mid-August dogfight that is the Band Eat Band competition at our very own Preservation Pub.
That Aug. 17 final will consist of seven mean, hungry local bands vying for supremacy, studio time, $3,000 cash, and bragging rights after months of good music, bad drugs, and brutal fighting in the trenches.
It all started back in the halcyon days of 2012, when 40 or so, fresh-faced, naïve young rock outfits entered B.E.B. with exalted visions of stardom, immortality, and filthy lucre.
By the end of July 2013, the endless rounds of ruthless competition had reduced that initial army of spirited newbies to a small platoon of scarred and battle-hardened warhorses, grim, savage men with dead eyes and harrowed souls…
Okay, no. So most of that is a big load of mulch. But we’ve got a story to tell, Jake, and one should never let the truth get in the way. It is rarely a matter of any real consequence.
But really, the tales that came out of B.E.B. have been manifold, and compelling. Such as that of our very own Preservation Pub doorman John Colquitt, who has morphed like Bruce Banner on a Glenn Miller kick into an unlikely 250-lb. trombone rock star, and in the doing has led no less than two bands—the Jojax, and Grandpa’s Stash—into the B.E.B. finals.
Which is no slight to the rest of the members of the units in question, both of which are filled with aces, and both of which redlined their way into championship round with sets so over-the-top they almost hit bottom on the other side.
But there’s something about seeing this burly man-mountain with his fountain of blond tresses; singing; bellowing; wheedling lead trombone; slinging hair; often acting as a de facto frontman, sometimes forcibly commandeering the center of attention with a cetacean charisma that seems to defy all established rock convention.
In B.E.B.’s last and most gripping semi, Colquitt and the Stash stole sure victory from the formidable clutches of Dave Bowers and his King Super. That’s King Super and the Excellents, to be sure, and they’d been on some kind of roll since their inception scarcely two years past, taking top honors in some other, third-rung version of a band competition, like seasoned confidence men dealing on half-wits for spending cash.
And they nearly steamrolled into the finals with yet another win, staking their claim to that hot July semis night with a bravura set featuring a scorching double-axe attack potent enough to annihilate small rodents at 50 paces.
But it ain’t over ‘til it’s over, Jake, and there’s a reason why they play the game, and a whole lot of other @#$-head clichés that usually run straight up my sweet pink ass and die, yet seem somehow apropos in this particular instance. And when the Stash took the stage somewhere close to 1 a.m. that night and played possibly the most blisteringly fabulous and frenetic set of their nearly decade-long career, the Gawds of Rawk would not deny them their just due.
Super acquitted themselves well enough to earn a wildcard into the finals, but this result surely does not sit well with the Excellents’ brain trust. Dave Bowers may seem like a temperate and reasonable fellow, but do not be fooled; he is an evil bastard, and a cunning one. It is no simple accident that his lewdly coiling moustache is that of a classic silent-film scoundrel.
Truth be known, Bowers would just as soon stick a shiv in your floating ribs and carve out your liver as give you the time of day. And rest assured that whatever he has planned for Aug. 17, it will surely be depraved and terrible, and more than worth any price of admission.
And then there is the strange saga of Backup Planet—whom we didn’t know from goat shit this time last year—who stormed their way into the finals with a combustible mix of bell-bottom funk and rock, tinged with contemporary EDM. And the bug-eyed kids in the Crumbsnatchers, who came off like some kind of weirdly exuberant speed freaks while blazing through a set of spastic indie rock that cast a wicked spell on judges and crowd alike.
But there is so much more I have neglected to mention, Jake—the madcap stoner sex caravans of Vagabond Philosophy; Baseball’s incantory raising of elder jazz spirits; the worthy few who came within one thin sour note of making the finals themselves…
Best be here yourself for the Finals on Aug. 17, Jake; it won’t be pretty. There will be blood, and not all of those who enter will walk away. Until we speak again, Godspeed, and stay off my goddam lawn.
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ChannelCon: Vendors debut partner-focused IT security services
At ChannelCon 2015, vendors targeted MSPs and other channel companies with IT security services and software offerings.
John Moore, Senior Site Editor
A number of vendors announced channel-oriented products and services this week at CompTIA ChannelCon 2015, with much of the activity geared toward partners looking to bolster their IT security services.
Security is a growing services sector. Technavio, a London-based technology market research firm, forecasts the global security services market will expand at a 10% annual growth rate through 2019. The company's report, published in May, considered Managed security services, security consulting services, software as a service (SaaS) security services and threat intelligence security services.
While the prospect of double-digit revenue growth sounds appealing, partners may find it difficult to assemble a unified security offering or hire and maintain in-house security expertise. At ChannelCon, vendors aimed to address those issues.
CharTec, which provides hardware as a service and managed service provider (MSP) training, launched a new division that offers a vetted security stack for MSPs. The division, dubbed Relyenz, rolled out its CentralPoint security platform, which incorporates cloud-based security offerings from a number of vendors. Those vendors include Sophos Ltd. for unified threat management and endpoint security; Axcient and StorageCraft Technology Corp. for disaster recovery; Passportal Inc. for password management; and Reflexion, a Sophos company, for email security.
Leonard DiMiceli, vice president of sales and marketing at Relyenz, said the division offers MSPs the ability to source multiple security components through one source.
"They don't have to go to five security vendors to buy five security products," he said.
In addition to technology acquisition, Relyenz also offers support and a platform through which partners can provision and monitor the core suite of services. DiMiceli referred to the new division as a value-added SaaS distributor.
DiMiceli also assembled a cloud security portfolio as general manager at Nuvotera, a company acquired in February by Excel Micro LLC.
CentralPoint security platform integrates with the ConnectWise business management platform and its ticketing system. DiMiceli said additional integrations are on tap for the future, with professional services automation one direction. The company will also invest development dollars in ties to remote monitoring and management (RMM) software, DiMiceli said. LabTech Software's RMM will be on the list, due to its tight integration with ConnectWise.
IT security services for the channel
Vijilan Security LLC, meanwhile, said at ChannelCon that it has met its first-year objective for signing channel partners in its first two months of operations in North America. The company, a spinoff from a Brazilian managed security services provider, offers cyber threat monitoring and support service to MSPs and IT service providers.
Gary Mullen, chief marketing officer at Vijilan, said the Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based company, which launched June 1, has signed 30 partners -- which was its original 12-month objective. Vijilan sells exclusively through the channel, which, in turn, will target small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) as the ultimate end customer for the company's services.
SMBs don't have the resources or expertise to really manage cyber threats in in their environment.
Gary MullenCMO, Vijilan
"SMBs don't have the resources or expertise to really manage cyber threats in their environment," Mullen said. "They are turning to their partners increasingly to be a trusted provider of security for them."
But partners have a similar problem, according to Mullen. He said channel companies lack the operational capabilities and the deep expertise required to detect and remediate cyber threats.
Vijilan's cyber threat monitoring and support services include event log data collection at the customer's location, automated parsing and correlation in its cloud-based security information and event management (SIEM) system, human review of potential threats in its 24/7 security operations center, and remediation guidance from the company's security engineers. MSPs deliver those services on a white-label basis, Mullen said.
Mullen said the company's service can suit partners whose IT security services are at varying levels of maturity. Some MSPs, he said, provide traditional firewall monitoring and remote management of intrusion detection systems, for example.
"Our service is designed to overlay on top of an MSPs's model and give them the security intelligence they need to do cyber threat detection," he said.
Tom Fitzpatrick, vice president of marketing at Vijilan, said the company's services are priced on a per-device basis, noting that competitors price their services based on log volume. Vijilan's multi-tiered channel program offers discounts based on the number of customer devices partners have under coverage.
Mullen said Vijilan's partner portal integrates with partners' ConnectWise instances, so they can transfer tickets back and forth. Partners can also handle provisioning through Vijilan: A partner's prospect pipeline can populate in the portal and, when a deal closes, it populates Vijilan's back-end system.
Mullen also envisions integration with LabTech, Autotask and sales force automation/partner relationship management products.
Ingram Micro launches chip-and-pin offerings
Ingram Micro on Tuesday said it now offers channel partners the ability to load new software and secure key encryption data directly to customer's payment terminals and devices. The service is part of the distributor's EMV-compliant offerings. EMV, which stands for Europay, Mastercard and Visa, is a payment standard that first took root in Europe and is now arriving in the U.S.
Major credit card companies have set an October 2015 compliance deadline for retailers and other organizations in other industries that accept credit and debit cards. EMV cards are sometimes referred to as "chip and PIN" cards since they are equipped with a microchip, rather than a magstripe, and may be used with a PIN, rather than a signature. The technology's advocates say EMV provides greater security than traditional swipe-and-sign credit cards and reduces the risk of credit card fraud.
Greg Richey, director of Ingram Micro Professional Services, said the company can provide end-to-end EMV-related services on a channel partner's behalf. An engagement could begin with a wireless technology assessment to determine whether a partner's customer infrastructure can securely support the rollout of chip-and-PIN payment devices. From there, Ingram can offer key injection services, technology deployment and IT asset disposition services for outmoded payment devices, Richey explained.
Also at ChannelCon
Intronis Inc. debuted an Executive Summary feature as an addition to its ECHOplatform data protection product, which it sells to MSPs. The Executive Summary lets channel partners document for customers how many systems they are backing up, the backup status of systems and the number of restores they have conducted, among other information.
Read about the expansion of the managed security market.
Mullen calls time on her spell as Dell channel chief
Coronavirus: Dell makes moves to ease channel finances
Dell Technologies partner strategy reaps steady growth
By: Spencer Smith
Cohesity storage program extends to managed services providers
Why the Citrix-Microsoft Relationship Will Enhance Digital Workspace Solutions ... –Citrix
One of the Keys to Digital Transformation Success: Enhancing the Customer and ... –Dell Technologies
Optanix to sell IT operations management services via... – SearchITChannel
Cybersecurity services: MSPs look to expand portfolios – SearchITChannel
Pulse Secure stresses partner competency in new ... – SearchITChannel
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Evaluating channel programs
Partner program news
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Document technology giant Xerox plans breakup
Xerox joins the list of large technology vendors that have moved to split their operations into separate organizations in recent months.
Lynn Haber, Senior Writer
Giant document technology company Xerox -- the brand that became a verb -- announced today that it would split into two independent publicly traded companies, one that focuses on document technology and the other on business process outsourcing.
Also announced today was an agreement between Xerox and Carl C. Icahn that when the business process outsourcing (BPO) company separation is final, Icahn gets to select three of the nine members on the board of directors.
Like other big technology firms -- IBM, HP, and EMC -- splitting into two smaller and more focused organizations will allow each entity to be more nimble and responsive to its customers as well as more efficient economically, according to statements made by Xerox.
"Xerox's move mirrors similar restructuring efforts by HP, IBM and other major technology companies that have recognized over the past few years that rapidly changing market requirements demand a more focused set of solutions and go-to-market strategies," said Jeffrey Kaplan, managing director at THINKstrategies Inc.
The separation of the company that was founded in 1906 and reported in excess of $19 billion in revenue in 2014, is expected to be completed by the end of the year. At that time the split will result in an $11 billion document technology company and a $7 billion BPO organization -- which would be largely made up of Affiliated Computer Services, a $6.4 billion acquisition made by Xerox in 2010.
In a public statement, Ursula Burns, chairman and CEO of Xerox said, "These two companies will be well positioned to lead in their respective rapidly evolving markets and capitalize on the opportunities that now exist to expand margins and increase market share."
"I am confident that the extensive structural review we conducted over the last few months has produced the right path forward for our company. We will now position the companies for success and execute our plan to separate them in the shortest possible timeframe while continuing to focus on achieving our 2016 goals," she added.
Kaplan said Xerox's reorganization also shows the increasing importance of the company's services business. But the key to Xerox's success, he added, will be its ability to transform that aspect of its operations to better leverage the growing array of cloud alternatives to more cost-effectively satisfy its customers' changing needs.
Currently, Xerox is a global business with a presence in 180 countries and more than 130,000 employees.
The Xerox Global Partner Program is made up of agents, concessionaires, document technology partners, solution providers and volume partners, who participate in a tiered membership structure consisting of registered, silver, gold and platinum partners.
In July 2015, Xerox in an effort to expand its footprint in the small and medium-sized business markets, expanded its managed print service portfolio and efforts through its partner channel.
Read about Xerox's effort to hit back against counterfeiters
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Photo: Surina Shukri, CEO of MDEC, speaking at the launch of the State of the Global Islamic Economy 2019/20 report in Kuala Lumpur on Nov 13, 2019. Photo courtesy DinarStandard.
Halal Industry Islamic Finance Islamic Lifestyle
Internationalisation ‘our agenda from here on’ as global Islamic economy expands - Malaysia’s digital agency chief
BY Richard Whitehead
KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian tech companies should look beyond Malaysia as the global Islamic economy expands, said Surina Shukri, CEO of MDEC, the government agency charged with promoting the country’s digital economy.
Surina was speaking at the launch of the State of the Global Islamic Economy 2019/20 report in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday (Nov 13), that said Muslims spent 5.2% more in 2018 to $2.2 trillion across the food, pharmaceutical and lifestyle sectors.
The annual report, produced by Salaam Gateway’s parent, DinarStandard, forecasts Muslim consumption to reach $3.2 trillion by 2024.
“33% of the Islamic diaspora now doesn’t live in Islamic countries. The whole world is waking up in terms of the Islamic digital economy’s potential,” Surina told Salaam Gateway.
“This lends itself to e-commerce, not just in Malaysia but internationally. Our agenda from here on is going to be internationalisation of all our companies, not just our digital start-ups but our SMEs as well,” said the CEO.
“Malaysia has a huge export agenda, it’s a huge opportunity.”
According to the report, investments have been playing an important role in driving growth across the Islamic economy. It tracked $1.2 billion invested globally in Islamic economy companies for the 12 months to end-July, reflecting an increase of 399% compared to 2017.
This figure reflects a broad span of corporate-led acquisitions, venture investments in halal-tech start-ups and private equity investment. Halal products garnered the lion’s share of investments, accounting for 54% of deal value, followed by Islamic finance at 42% and 4% in Islamic lifestyle, mainly in modest fashion and Muslim-friendly tourism.
The report identified a handful of sectors, including Islamic fintech and umrah travel tech as being “hot sectors” for growth in 2020.
Baiza Bain, a Kuala Lumpur investor in halal start-ups and founder of Ficus Venture Capital, said this year’s figures stacked up well for the investment community as they will help inform investors on market sizes and growth levels.
“As VCs, we look at the addressable market. Reports like this are always useful because they go in depth and they actually show the addressable market for companies we have our eyes on in terms of investment,” Baiza told Salaam Gateway.
“For halal technology, you wouldn’t know what is the addressable market in normal circumstances when you meet a company, because they try to extrapolate a general number,” he said.
In addition to the halal and lifestyle sectors, the report said Islamic finance assets increased by 3.5% to $2.5 trillion in 2018. It forecasts assets to reach $3.5 trillion by 2024.
While this growth is “encouraging”, Dr Liza Mydin, head of corporate strategy at Maybank Islamic, said there are still areas where Shariah-compliant finance still needs to catch up.
“When one speaks about the halal economy, Islamic finance should be a given, but that’s not the case at the moment,” Dr Liza told Salaam Gateway.
“The fact is that a number of investments still lag: we aren’t putting out our investment offerings and capturing the market. That we only account for about 0.1% of overall investment globally shows what must be done in terms of providing Shariah investments to the market.”
Islamic fintech also needs a boost. While DinarStandard lists 93 start-ups globally, “recent growth is still solidly based more on traditional banking services and products,” it says, adding: “Islamic banks can unlock substantial growth and profitability through digitisation.”
“The fintech space is very much a closed community. There needs to be more cross-sector collaboration: fintech needs to talk to the halal economy and food segments,” said Dr Liza.
“At policy level and industry level we need to have more cross-sector engagement of fintech. Partnerships will need to be more central,” she added.
Muslim expenditure on pharmaceuticals continues to grow and is expected to increase from $92 billion last year to $134 billion in 2024, according to the report.
Muslim-majority countries are net importers of pharmaceuticals, with exports predominantly in the hands of non-Muslim countries led by Germany and France, says the report.
“Even the concept of halal pharmaceuticals is poorly understood in Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) countries, not having gained the same traction as other Islamic economy sectors, such as halal food and modest fashion,” it says.
Seri Azalina Mohd Ghazalli, halal and government relations manager at Duopharma Biotech, the first Malaysian pharmaceuticals company to have halal certification, acknowledged there are misconceptions among Muslim consumers.
“We always want to correct their understanding as to how halal is bringing a value proposition to the pharmaceutical industry,” Seri Azalina told Salaam Gateway.
“Regardless of whether our products are halal or not, we are still selling our products and we know that the halal component gives them a plus factor.”
Companies could “generate substantial growth” by pursuing halal gelatin, nutraceuticals and vaccines, according to DinarStandard.
“It’s a realisation of the state of the economy and where we should take up the opportunity further with new product categories. In Malaysia we are looking at how we expand further,” said Seri Azalina.
(Reporting by Richard Whitehead; Editing by Emmy Abdul Alim [email protected])
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Report of the 4th International Conference Gathering of the Elders of Ancient Traditions and Cultures
Ph D conferred to Grand Chief Stan Beardy - Canada, Mohan Bhagwat also seen
Dr. Mohan Bhagwat, Sarsanghchalak of RSS, delivered the Keynote Address where he stressed the need to nourish the balance of nature. He praised the efforts and resolve of the Elders in preserving their traditions and cultures. He recalled the priceless treasures of Indian thought like ‘Live and Let Live’, ‘Unity in Diversity’, ‘World is one family’ & ‘Let us ennoble the world’ and remarked that these have extreme relevance today. Universal outlook is the hallmark of Indian thought and the happiness and well-being of everyone is always sought, he reminded. Dr. Bhagwat stated that it is only through integral view and not compartmentalized view that we can bring about the change in attitude. He also felt that it is our responsibility to show to the world that the age old traditions have solutions to modern problems. We have to become the instruments of change and for this we need to organize ourselves for the benefit of everything in this creation he concluded
Haridwar, a holy city known for the Kumbh Mela where over 100 million devotees had gathered last year, saw a Kumbh with a difference this year. Over 400 delegates belonging to 50 traditions from all over the world assembled from 4-7 March 2012 for the 4th International Conference and Gathering of the Elders of Ancient Traditions and Cultures at Dev Sanskriti Vishwa Vidyalaya. There were Maoris from New Zealand, Mayans and Navajos from the Americas, European Pagans, Balinese Hindus, Romuva from Lithuania and many others. These delegates discussed the ways and means of preserving the priceless ancient traditions and cultures inherited from their ancestors and share their experiences.
Damai dance by Nepal group
Since its inception at Nagpur in 1994 the International Center for Cultural Studies (ICCS) has been active in reaching out to all the ancient traditions of the world, exploring the commonalities in them and bringing them together to foster the sense of oneness in humanity. It promotes the preservation of these traditions and cultures and engages in academic research. From 2003, it organizes an international gathering every three years which is now established as a platform for all such traditions to exhibit their heritage, find similarities existing in other parts of the world and resolve for efforts to sustain these traditions.
The first international conference was held at Mumbai in 2003 with the theme “Mitakuye Oyasin – We are all related”. It was attended by delegates from more than 30 countries. The second conference was in 2006 at Jaipur with the theme “Spirituality beyond Religions”, attended by delegates from more than 40 countries. The third conference was held in 2009 at Nagpur with the theme “Renaissance of the Ancient Traditions: Challenges and Solutions” where more than 357 delegates attended from 32 countries. The theme of this 4th Conference was ‘Nourishing the Balance in the Universe’. The event was jointly organized by International Center for Cultural Studies (ICCS), Dev Samskruti Vishwa Vidyalaya (DSVV) and co-sponsored by the Council of Elders Mayas, Xincas and Garifunas, European Congress of Ethnic Religions (ECER) and Children of Mother Earth. A total of 458 delegates from 33 countries including 178 from overseas participated in the conference.
Procession and Inaugural Session
The conference started with a colorful procession by all the delegates in their traditional attires accompanied with rhythmic dances to the tunes of trumpets and beating of drums. The procession went around the campus of Dev Samskriti Vishwa Vidyalaya (DSVV) and culminated at the spacious and modern Mrutunjaya Auditorium. Latvians with their baritone prayers, Maoris in colorful attire and dancing Damais from Karnali – Nepal were the attraction throughout the procession.
Maori group New Zealand in traditional attire
The inaugural session started with the welcome song by the students of DSVV. Prof. Dr Radhey Shyam Dwivedi, President ICCS, USA welcomed the delegates to the Conference. He mentioned that we are all a large family and this was a gathering of relatives. This was followed by prayers by 23 representative individuals and groups of various traditions like, Mayan, Maori, Druid, Navajo, Cham, Romuva, Ramava, Pagan, etc from different parts of the world. These prayers invoked the Universal Spirit but in a variety of ways and languages.
Latvian group Musical prayer
Swami Dayanand Saraswati founder of Arsha Vidya Gurukulam delivered the Keynote Address. He said that as ‘managing trustees’ of the indigenous traditions and colorful cultures we need to protect all that we have inherited from our ancestors. Every one of us should be able to contribute in these efforts and nourish our cultures and traditions. Dr. Pranav Pandya, Chancellor, DSVV thanked the organizers for providing his university a chance to host such a wonderful conference at its premises. He observed that it is our duty to preserve the precious diversity. A souvenir magazine was released at the hands of the dignitaries. ICCS representative and Vishwa Vibhag Samyojak Shri Saumitra Gokhale and Professor S. C. Bagri representing Indian Hospitality Congress also addressed the inaugural session. Shri Suresh Soni, Joint General Secretary, RSS, Dr.S D Mishra Vice Chancellor DSVV and Dr.Chinmay Pandya, Pro VC – DSVV were among those present on the dais along with various dignitaries.
Poojya Swami Dayanand Saraswati & Shraddheya Dr.Pranav Pandya releasing the souvenir
The typical daily schedule started with the demonstration of ceremonies and rituals of the different cultures. Several similarities like use of fire, water for their performance was quite evident. There were also many that were unique. The rituals performed by the delegates exhibited the harmony of cultures, traditions and customs of different groups. Worshipping Nature was the underlying principle of these cultures and traditions. Though in different ways, they all worshipped the five basic elements of Nature i.e. Earth, Air, Water, Fire and Sky. “Love Mother Earth” was the message that emanated from all these rituals and religious ceremonies.
Traditional ritual - Kirzygstan
After breakfast was a plenary session in which scholars from various traditions spoke on topics and issues relevant to all. This was followed by three parallel sessions that included paper presentations on various sub-themes by speakers from various traditions. Many papers generated a lot of interest and lively interaction as well. Just to quote some paper headings; ‘Lasting World Peace for Every human being’ – Nina Meyerhof, ‘Finding Balance in a Chaotic World’ – Rev Patrick McCollum , ‘Yoga’s Approach to Universal Balance’ – Rajen Narayanan etc.
From 6 to 6.15 p.m. there would be a nada yoga and meditation session with total silence and tranquility. On 6th March, four parallel workshops were conducted in which practical topics that needed more hands-on participation were included. Some topics were, ‘Elemental approach to Conflict resolution – theEastern Way’ by Deidre Combs, ‘Native Indian Story telling’ by S. D. Young Wolf.
The much awaited event used to be the colorful and spectacular evening cultural programs that were held from 8 to 10 p.m. These were put on by the delegates on the first and the third day. The students of DSVV provided an assortment of folk dances and shows on the second evening. These were most entertaining and the performers would always amaze the audience by their talent and skills. The pulsating activities of the day would come to a close with the recitation of the shanti mantra after which the delegates would silently retire to their quarters.
Valedictory function
The Valedictory function was held from 3.30 to 5 p.m. on the 7th of March. Dr. Pranav Pandya, Chancellor, DSVV and P. P. Sarsanghchalak of RSS Dr. Mohan Bhagwat, started the proceedings by the lighting of the lamp. Shri Shyam Parande, Zonal Coordinator of ICCS, Bharat welcomed the gathering and gave a brief account about the conference. This was followed by a geet – ‘Vishwa Hamara, Dharati Apani’, rendered by the students of DSVV that portrayed the vision of Late Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya, the founder of Gayatri Pariwar.
Five dynamic and promising young elders namely Inra of Vietnam, Cholponai of Kyrgyzstan, Katrina Pihera of New Zealand, Ghulam Asgar Zaidi of DSVV, Haridwar and Lyla Johnston of USA spoke about their dreams, ideas, aspirations and expressed their feelings that they have experienced in the 4-day conference. Each of them confessed that the four days of interactions have been their finest experience in life and a great learning opportunity.
Awarding of Hon. Ph. D
Setting a new precedent, University of World Ancient Traditions and Cultural Heritage, USA (UWATCH) awarded Honorary Ph. D. degrees to five eminent personalities for their knowledge of the tradition, distinguished leadership and outstanding social service to their respective traditions. Dr. Pranav Pandya and Dr. Mohan Bhagwat conferred the degrees to the recipients. Brief introduction of the five recipients is as follows. The awardees were Kenneth Kennedy of New Zealand – a Kaumatua (Elder) of the Te Arawa tribe and an acknowledged expert in Maori Language and culture, Alejandro Cirilo Perez Oxlaj of Guatemala – a Grand Elder of the National Council of Elders of Mayas, Xincas and Garifunas of Guatemala, Jonas Trinkūnas of Lithuania – a father figure in the revival and popularization of the ancient Baltic faiths of the Lithuanians and chairmen European Congress of Ethnic Religions (ECER), Grand Chief Stan Beardy of Canada – Grand Chief of Nishnawbe Aski Nation and Shri Jagdeo Ram Uraon – President of Akhil Bharatiya Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram. This was followed by soul stirring traditional prayers by Pat McCabe a Navajo from USA and Solyomfi Nagy Zoltan of Hungary representing White Horse tradition of the Huns.
Zoltan - Hungary offering prayer European Pagan tradition
Dr. Pranav Pandya, Chancellor, DSVV, in his Presidential Address remarked that incomprehensible damage has been done to ancient cultures and traditions by a few groups who could not appreciate the diversity. He recalled the Mayan belief that a New Era is due in 2012 and proclaimed that the DSVV would be the epicenter of the same and hoped that differences would melt and future is sure to be of humanity seeking welfare and wellbeing of everyone.
Dr. Mohan ji Bhagwat, P. P. Sarsanghchalak of RSS, delivered the Keynote Address where he stressed the need to nourish the balance of nature. He praised the efforts and resolve of the Elders in preserving their traditions and cultures. He recalled the priceless treasures of Indian thought like ‘Live and Let Live’, ‘Unity in Diversity’, ‘World is one family’ & ‘Let us ennoble the world’ and remarked that these have extreme relevance today. Universal outlook is the hallmark of Indian thought and the happiness and well-being of everyone is always sought, he reminded. Dr. Bhagwat stated that it is only through integral view and not compartmentalized view that we can bring about the change in attitude. He also felt that it is our responsibility to show to the world that the age old traditions have solutions to modern problems. We have to become the instruments of change and for this we need to organize ourselves for the benefit of everything in this creation he concluded.
The 4-day event had transformed the delegates who arrived as strangers but returned as relatives. They felt empowered with the new connections and network. They could communicate with each other not with the help of a language but by their love, warmth, respect and affection for each other. The delegates returned with a renewed vigor and a greater clarity as to why the revitalization of their traditions is the need of the hour for the welfare of the world through a balanced and holistic approach.
Like Inra Jaka, who represents the small community of native Cham Hindus of Vietnam, convincingly stated that his struggle to retain everything that he finds closer to nature including arts, clothing, and philosophy is strengthened through this conference. His conviction for preservation of his tradition has grown thousand fold now.
Dr. Gulnara Aitpaeva attended such Gathering in Bharat for the first time and before setting off for her group’s journey back home to Kyrgyzstan said, “we would be attending the next conference in larger number and would also try to get representation from our neighboring countries. This conference has bolstered our self confidence.”
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Part #10 of The Sullivans series by Bella Andre
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"Although I do have one question for you. " He braced himself for her to say all the usual things people did, such as asking him for exciting stories that he hadn’t felt like telling for a long time. "Can you teach me to pick a lock, too?"
Feeling like it would be corrupting her to teach her something like that, he said, "You don’t need to know how to do that, Brooke. "
Strangely, she looked a little disappointed by his answer, but instead of pushing him on it, she asked, "How long do you think you’ll be able to be away from your office?"
"A few weeks. I’ve got a half-dozen great employees who will be running the place for me while I’m here. "
She gave him an expectant look, as if she was waiting for him to tell her more about his P. I. career, but Rafe didn’t feel like talking about it. He hadn’t told anyone about his discontent with his career. Not his employees. Not his friends. Not even his family. He’d simply continued doing his job, even though he could no longer remember why he’d ever wanted to do it in the first place.
Fortunately, instead of asking him questions he didn’t want to answer about why he hadn’t gushed about his job, she said, "I was so surprised when your family sold the house. I missed you all so much. "
It suddenly hit him that she must not know what had happened. "That winter after our final summer here, my father lost his job. He couldn’t find another job that paid anywhere close to what he’d been making. "
He didn’t tell her the bank had actually taken the house. . . and that the stress of barely being able to keep them afloat on savings and then loans from friends had turned his father completely gray.
"I’m sorry to hear that. I hope it wasn’t too long until things turned around for your family. "
"Eventually Dad got another job. " At lower pay for a boss he didn’t see eye to eye with. "And Ian started working while he was in college, which helped. " His oldest brother had walked away from the chance to play pro football to help out their family, but Ian had done it without a word of complaint.
Brooke didn’t seem surprised to hear it. "Ian was so much older, but he always made sure that the bigger kids on the beach weren’t messing with me and Mia. "
That was his oldest brother to a T. He took care of the people he loved—no matter the cost to himself.
"What is he doing now?"
"Ian has pretty much singlehandedly taken over the business world with his venture capital fund. He’s brilliant at picking which businesses to get behind. ”
“Is he in Seattle, too?”
“No, he’s living in London right now. "
"I so wish I hadn’t fallen out of touch with all of you. What about everyone else?"
"Mom and Dad retired a ways back. " Again, because Ian had pretty much forced them to. Not that they minded working in the garden and going out sailing with the club on one of Dylan’s boats.
"Are they still blissfully in love?"
From the way she asked the question, Rafe could guess that Brooke was a believer. Not only that love was possible. . . but that it could also last a lifetime. What would she think if he told her stories from his job about men and women who promised each other forever, and then split at the first sign of trouble?
Still, for all of his cynicism, Rafe had to admit, "They are. "
She looked extremely pleased to hear it. "I can still remember the way they would walk down the beach holding hands and kiss when they thought no one was looking. And how they would sneak off to be alone while you guys were busy roasting marshmallows over the campfire. It was so romantic. "
"What was romantic to you was gross to their own kids," he informed her, but he didn’t disguise the affection in his voice when he spoke about his parents.
She laughed at that, but said, "I never saw my parents kiss. The only time they ever seemed truly passionate around each other was when they were debating legal cases or supply-and-demand curves. I don’t think I would have minded seeing a little romance now and again. Speaking of romance," she said, before pausing for a moment in which her cheeks flushed slightly, "what about you and your siblings?" Her smile seemed a little too bright as she asked, "Are any of you married? Kids?"
"Well, Ian was married for a short while, but right now we’re all wild and free. "
"Wild?" She almost seemed to choke on the word.
"Mia has half the men in Seattle wrapped around her little finger, and she doesn’t give a damn about any of them. "
Brooke frowned. "But is she happy?"
"I think so. " Although that flash of emotion in her eyes when she’d come to see him in his office the day before had made him wonder if that were true. "She’s the go-to person in Seattle for swanky estates. "
"I’d love to see her again. "
"As soon as I tell her you’re here, I’m sure she’ll drop everything to come visit. "
Which, he figured, would be a really good thing. Because if his sister was here, then there was no way he could accidentally slip up with Brooke by stripping her clothes off and using them to tie her to her bedposts.
"What about Adam? No, wait," she said, "let me guess. Is he an architect?"
Rafe was amazed by how perceptive she was, especially considering she’d only been a child the last time she’d seen his family. "Close. He rehabs historic homes. "
She nodded as if it made perfect sense. "He was always building things when we were kids. I’d find him working with Grandpa fixing a broken pipe or putting on a new section of siding or trying to make a canoe by hand. "
"Good thing he’s better at fixing up houses than he is at building boats. That thing must still be at the bottom of the lake. "
"Wasn’t he going steady with that girl from across the lake?"
Had Brooke had a crush on Adam when they were younger? And if she had, why did it matter? It wasn’t like Rafe was going to lay claim to her, regardless of how much the caveman inside of him wanted to do just that.
"He was, but that ended when we left the lake. "
"All of you are so good looking, I just don’t get wh—" She seemed to realize what she was saying a beat too late, her cheeks flushing with embarrassment. "I just mean that I would think women are beating down your doors, so. . . " Her flush deepened. "Ugh. I should stop talking already. I’m just making it worse. "
Damn, she was cute. And sexy. Who knew that would be such an irresistible combination?
And the truth was that he was just as surprised about her. He’d have thought she’d be married by now to some perfectly nice guy, with one kid holding on to her leg and another, smaller one in her arms.
Strange how easy it was to see her with those kids, and to know what a great mother she’d be. The guy, on the other hand, he couldn’t quite picture. Not when he knew there weren’t many guys out there who would be good enough for Brooke.
"You remember my eight cousins in San Francisco?"
She grinned. "Boy, was that a crazy week when they all came to visit. I always thought it would be amazing to have all those other kids to play with—five in yours and eight in theirs. "
Rafe sometimes forgot that everyone didn’t have a big family like he did. Brooke only had her parents and grandparents.
Knowing it would please her, he said, "Every last one of them is paired off now. "
He’d never personally been with a woman he could fully trust, but he’d managed to suspend disbelief for his charmed cousins in San Francisco. Along with his parents, they were the exception. But at the same time, he couldn’t understand how they’d all decided to take such a massive risk. Because if there was anything he’d learned during the past seven years, it was that even if one person wanted to be steadfast, odds were the other person wouldn’t be. He sure as hell hoped his cousins could keep proving him wrong.
"All eight? That’s wonder
ful. " Just as he’d expected, she looked extremely pleased by the thought of so many happy couples in one family. "What about Dylan?" She scrunched up her nose. "Although I’m still not sure I’ve forgiven him for making me go sailing with him that day when the winds were at twenty knots, and he told everyone I barfed over the side of the boat. "
"If it makes you feel any better, he’s still taking women out on boats until they barf, which probably explains why he’s still single. " She was laughing as he told her, "Only difference now is that he’s building the sailboats. "
Brooke was still grinning as she drained the water from the pot and added butter, cheese, and a dash of pepper to the pasta. "And on that fantastically appetizing note, dinner is finally served. "
When Rafe took a bite of her pasta, he nearly groaned with pleasure. "This is damn good, Brooke. "
She looked like he’d just told her she’d won the lottery. "Thank you. "
They ate in companionable silence while enjoying the sound of the frogs and the crickets outside. Finally, she pushed away her half-full plate and yawned. "Sorry, I had to get up early this morning to finish boxing some orders to deliver before the stores opened today. "
"What time did you wake up?"
"Five a. m. "
"I’ve kept you up too late. You need to go to bed. " He stood and took their plates into the kitchen. "I’ll take care of cleaning up. "
"You rode all the way here from Seattle on your motorcycle. " She moved next to him to turn on the water and start the dishes. "You must be tired, too. "
His first mistake was putting his hands on her waist to pull her away from the sink.
His second was not letting go.
And his third was almost lowering his mouth to hers.
Somehow, he managed to take a step back. "Thank you for dinner. It was great. " He forced himself to look away from her gorgeous face and those curves that wouldn’t quit. "And thanks for giving me a place to stay. Now I’m going to wash your dishes, and you’re going to bed. "
Alone, damn it.
"You haven’t had one of my truffles yet. Don’t you want one for dessert?"
Hungry for something he knew would be a hell of a lot sweeter than chocolate, he said, "I’d love one. "
"I wonder which flavor I should give you?" She licked her lips as she stared at him, and he couldn’t keep his gaze from dropping to her full lower lip and then the beautiful bow at the center of her upper. "How hot do you like your spices?"
"Hot. "
Her beautiful lips curved up. "I had a feeling you’d say that. " She took a piece of chocolate with a red swirl across the top from a clear plastic container on the counter. "Try a bite of this one. "
She didn’t hand him the chocolate, but lifted it to his mouth instead. He leaned down and bit into it. Spice and steam instantly hit his tongue, followed by the smooth, rich flavor of dark chocolate.
"You like it, don’t you?"
With his mouth full, he could only nod.
"Have the rest. "
Her voice was husky, and though the truffle was amazing, he wanted to bite into her instead the next time. When she moved just a little bit closer to feed him the other half of the chocolate, the sweet scent of her hair and skin had him swaying toward her just enough that his tongue slicked over the pad of her forefinger.
Her pupils dilated, and he could have sworn he heard a small gasp fall from her lips at the tiny contact.
Somehow, he convinced his feet to take a step back from her again. "Your truffles are delicious, Brooke. "
"Thank you. "
They stared at each other for several heated moments. "I’ve kept you up too late. Go to bed. " Before I do more than lick your fingertip.
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An Open Letter to Dr. Al Mohler and The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Board of Trustees Regarding Honoring the Founding Slaveholders
July 13, 2020 by Dwight McKissic
Dear Dr. Mohler and Board of Trustees,
Greetings in the Name of our Triune God, “in whom we live, move and have our very being” (Acts 17:28).
The impact you have made on the SBC and the nation will be felt for generations to come (Psalm 145:4).
The purpose of this correspondence is to humbly and respectfully request that the President and Board of Trustees at SBTS remove from SBTS campus, any memorabilia of the founders: James Pettigru Boyce, John Broadus, Basil Manly, and William Williams.
Why? The founders should be acknowledged and appreciated for their role in the establishment and development of SBTS. However, it is biblically inappropriate to celebrate them though, due to the following reason(s): Because of the patriarchy, prejudice, and the promotion of “putrid exegesis,” practiced and preached by the founders of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, their names need to be removed from the Seminary as memorabilia; this includes the names of Boyce College, Broadus Chapel, and any other places where the names of the founders are displayed, including coffee mugs.
The founders’ stated motivations to relocate SBTS from Greenville, South Carolina, to Louisville, Kentucky, in 1877 was to escape the presence of freed slaves in Greenville, which they viewed as an “incubus and plague.” They expressed their desire to relocate the Seminary “in a White Man’s country.” Pastor Steve Bezner, who holds a Ph.D. in history, recently tweeted: “Boyce helped found the school because the SBC was founded on a pro-slavery hermeneutic and needed a seminary which would support that hermeneutic.” Those scathing words alone merit revisiting this matter.
The founders should be acknowledged and appreciated for their role in the establishment of and development of SBTS. However, it is simply inappropriate and unbiblical to hallow and honor these men in a prominent and celebratory manner.
By allowing the names of the founders to continue to be plastered on walls and memorialized publicly as men of high moral character—you are in effect upholding their legacy of being theological and practical proponents and defenders of White Supremacy and Black inferiority. Furthermore, you are stuffing it down the throats of those of us who find their actions incompatible with their faith and Baptist orthodoxy. As ministers of reconciliation, we can and ought to do better than this (II. Corinthians 5:18-20). When you build a monument or highlight names of people in significant places, you are telling people, “they did good.” When you build a monument to evildoers, you are telling people, “These evildoers did good!”
The Bible says, “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil” (Isaiah 5:20). Honoring slaveholders by naming a college, chapel, library, and attaching their names on other high-profile places on campus is honoring them. By having done so, you have effectively called “evil good and good evil.” To defend and honor slaveholders is to defend and honor slavery.
It is a slap in the face of God’s people, and an affront to the Kingdom of God to keep saying slaveholders were theologically right but morally wrong. You cannot divorce theology and morality.
Currently, the BFM2K is the standard for doctrinal orthodoxy in the culture and life of the SBC. The founders of SBTS could not and would not meet the qualifications of being classified as orthodox, because they could not affirm the BFM2K, Section III, “Man.”
The first three sentences in this section read, “Man is the special creation of God, made in His own image. He created them male and female as the crowning work of His creation. The gift of gender is thus part of the goodness of God’s creation.”
The final sentence in Section III, “Man,” reads: “The sacredness of human personality is evident in that God created man in His own image, and in that Christ died for man; therefore, every person of every race possesses full dignity and is worthy of respect and Christian love.”
Boyce, Broadus, Manly, and Williams did not believe that “every person of every race possesses full dignity and is worthy of respect and Christian love.” These men also opposed the suffrage movement and women voting as messengers in SBC annual sessions. These two positions were evidence of misogyny and patriarchy, which is counter-culture to the spirit and the letter of the BFM2K, Section III, regarding “Man.”
Therefore, based on SBC’s doctrinal statement, these men cannot be classified as orthodox. To label these men as “orthodox” radically redefine the historic meaning and usage of the term.
Defending their beliefs and behaviors by suggesting that they were mere men of their times, simply do not justify their heterodoxy or practices. The Quakers, Wilberforce, Spurgeon, James Madison Pendleton, and the Sandy Creek Baptists, all were spiritual leaders during the era of slavery, but they chose to honor Scripture and the fact that man was made—male and female—in the image of God—the Imago Dei.
Throughout biblical and cultural history, God has often chosen to hit straight licks, with crooked sticks, to accomplish His will. That statement would fit all of us to a certain extent, certainly me. Men and women who engaged in a multitude of sins are listed on the Hall of Faith (Hebrews 11). I am grateful that God has more grace than we have sin (Romans 5:20). All of the names in Hebrew 11 were repentant sinners. The Founders of SBTS either left no record of their repentance or in the case of Broadus, later in life, there is a record of him having changed his tune on practicing slavery, but I am yet to read where he changed his tune regarding his beliefs about the inferiority of the Negro.
When did the founders of SBTS face accountability for their racial and gender sins? They did not! When did the founders repent of their racial and gender sins? They did not!
I am aware that President Mohler and SBTS faculty have released a 71-page, well-researched document in recent years. This document acknowledges the Seminary’s complicity in participating and contributing greatly to the diabolical institution of American chattel slavery—which, by the way, was radically different than biblical slavery. One was much more brutal and degrading than the other.
I applaud and appreciate SBTS for releasing this brutally honest document on SBTS slavery report. However, acknowledging their heinous sins, while leaving their celebratory memorabilia intact is shortsighted and incongruent. “If a person kidnap, steal and sell your child, where do you want to place the statues [memorabilia] of that person?” Absolutely nowhere! (Rev. Joel Bowman’s quote) Yet, that is exactly what SBTS has done.
We would all agree that the four founders of Southern Seminary could not imagine or fathom that a day would come, that sons and daughters of their slaves would be admitted as students and serve on the faculty. They did such a good job of instilling the sin of White Supremacy and Black inferiority into the fabric, theology, policies, and image of the school until it was almost 100 years later before a Black student was admitted to SBTS. Is it really fair to ask this generation to honor these men in light of their heterodoxy and immoral lifestyles? If the founders had been drunkards and adulterers, rather than being men stealers and kidnappers, would you honor them? No! Why then are you honoring them? Is it because you don’t see the sin of slaveholding as wicked as drunkenness or adultery?
If there is one major takeaway to recent protests of police brutality and systemic racism, it is—this generation is not going to tolerate, accommodate, or defend the racial hypocrisy and sins of the forefathers. Black students and faculty currently have to walk the halls of SBTS always remembering and being asked to appreciate the captives of their ancestors. That’s a tall ask. Again, future generations will not tolerate what previous generations have accepted. Take note of the departure of Pastor John Onwuchekwa and the Cornerstone Church, Atlanta, from the SBC, if you don’t believe me.
One pushback to my request may be: shouldn’t we extend grace, forgiveness, forbearance, etc., toward the founders? Absolutely! Beyond a shadow of a doubt; and I do. But I can forgive you, and be gracious toward you, without hanging your pictures and memorializing your name in a celebratory fashion around my home.
You are honoring men who never repented of their rebellion and treasonous acts against the United States by serving in and supporting the confederacy. Why then honor them?
The founders were felons while engaged with the Confederacy. Why then honor them?
You are honoring men, who never recanted or repented for teaching and modeling White Supremacy. Why then honor them?
You are honoring men whom according to Dr. Mohler, engaged in “putrid exegesis” of the Scripture in order to justify the enslavement of descendants of Africa. Why then honor them?
You are honoring men who would not have allowed T. Vaughn Walker, Curtis Woods, or Jarvis Williams to have taught at SBTS. Why then honor them?
You are honoring men who would not have allowed Martin Luther King, Charlie Dates, or HB Charles to have preached in chapel at SBTS. Why then honor them?
You are honoring men who would not have allowed your wives to cast a vote for President Mohler’s choice for President, Donald J. Trump. Why then honor them?
You are honoring men, who some were praised for being benevolent slaveholders. That is tantamount to honoring a person for being a benevolent kidnapper. Who would do that? No one, in their right mind. Why then honor them?
The founders were also child abusers. It is impossible to be slaveholders and not simultaneously be child abusers. Why honor them?
You are honoring men, who dishonored Black people and women of all colors. Black people and women had no say so in the decision to honor them. Why honor men who were elected to be honored by other men who essentially found no fault with their beliefs and behaviors?
To say that it is permissible to honor the founding slaveholders of SBTS because they were not primarily known as slaveholders is simply an inaccurate statement. The slaves knew them exclusively as slave masters. Shouldn’t they count? The slaves did not call the founders “Professor”; they called them “Massa.” Do you really want to continue honoring them? And one can’t study the history of the founders, without soon discovering that they were slaveholders and their wealth derived from slave labor helped to subsidize SBTS, mightily. To ignore the reality of the slaves’ relationship to the founders is to abuse them posthumously. To downgrade the prominence of the founders being well known as slaveholders is being dishonest.
Do you want to continue the legacy and sins that were passed down to you, by passing over this God-given, perfect moment to “remove the stain of racism” from SBTS campus? Why continue to honor them?
Being slaveholders was very much their identity. They were also known as being providers of a theological license to the church and larger society to justify slaveholding. Why then honor them?
Christ should be honored above culture. This is your opportunity to redeem SBTS’ slavery legacy, for the Kingdom of God.
Please don’t let this moment pass. Please make the right decision for the health of the school and for future generations to not have to wrestle with the question: Why is our college and seminary buildings named after “putrid exegetes,” White Supremacist and misogynist, and men who were not orthodox according to the BFM2K and the Bible?
I am formally requesting that Dr. Mohler and the SBTS Board of Trustees, prayerfully and deliberately take up this matter in the 2020 Fall Trustee meeting, and publicly report their findings. Future generations will honor you and hold your great legacy even higher, if you will make a wise decision, in the best interest of the SBC, SBTS and the nation’s health—that so desperately needs racial healing. Dr. Mohler, to paraphrase President Ronald Reagan, “Tear Down Those Names.”
Wm. Dwight McKissic, Sr.
About Dwight McKissic
William Dwight McKissic, Sr. is founder and senior pastor of the Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington, TX. He's the author of three books: Beyond Roots: In Search of Blacks in the Bible, Beyond Roots II: If Anybody Asks You Who I Am, and Moving from Fear to Faith. Cornerstone Baptist has started eight churches in the U.S. and one in South Africa. Dwight has spoken at churches and universities all over the country. His goal in ministry was to be a "country preacher", just as his father was, the late Rev. J. E. McKissic. Dwight and his wife Vera have four children and twelve grandchildren. Website Twitter
Dwight continues to build a case for this action, and I believe this is the strongest case I’ve seen in one place. These points should be seriously considered by Dr. Mohler & trustees in consultation with Dwight and other African American Southern Baptist leaders.
It’s difficult for me to see a case being made for “keeping” the names in place that’s stronger than what Dwight has argued here.
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Brent and Dwight, With great respect to Dwight, I am less then convinced by the article – because I see the premise as faulty – that the naming of the buildings as racist or advancing racism/slavery. I would simply say the men mentioned are not being celebrated FOR what Dwight argues against. *No one today at SBTS argues for or supports that*. The founders and thier actions are celebrated for something all together different – much nobler and godly things. Just like MLK, Hamilton on money, the guys on mount Rushmore….on and on. Men with feet of clay repected and… Read more »
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Dr. Al Brodbent
Well written and researched.
Greg Roberts
I would imagine the only thing that would satisfy some would be to dig up thier bones and burn them. If the entire SBC was built upon a putrid biblical interpretation,why not call for the dismantling?
Timo Aranjo Jr
Using your logic, Philemon should be removed from his honored place in the Bible. After all, this book is read many times per year, and we can’t have a slave-owner so predominantly and importantly displayed. While you are at it, you might also take a look at Paul for holding him in such regard. Please stop this divisive foolishness and instead unite us.
Reply to Timo Aranjo Jr
Why is it that an opinion YOU disagree with is divisive?
Brother McKissic addressed this issue in his post,
“This document acknowledges the Seminary’s complicity in participating and contributing greatly to the diabolical institution of American chattel slavery—which, by the way, was radically different than biblical slavery. One was much more brutal and degrading than the other.”
Smarter men than me discuss biblical slavery: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/why-wrong-say-bible-pro-slavery/
Mary Well
I agree with Timo.
I see Dwight’s premise as faulty – so his argumemts in furtherance of that premise, in my view, are unconvincing.
But, I reject the idea that he is being foolish. I think you should apologize. Dwight is a good man. I understand where he is coming from – but disagree. I further did not see him being divisive or over the top – just passionate in his views.
Scotty Karber
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I agree with this completely. I am in sympathy with Bro. Dwight, but cannot agree.
James G Ellis
Based on several interactions, I do not believe Pastor McKissic to be attempting to divide. He sees things from a different vantage point than many here at Voices, but it always is seasoned with a love for God’s church and a desire for it to move in a more Christlike direction. I agree there is some logical inconsistency, but it doesn’t diminish the fact that Pastor McKissic raises points of history that are admitted within SBTS’ own report on its founders. That history is troublesome at best. Personally, I don’t subscribe to scrubbing history from every institution, but if Southern… Read more »
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Adam Blosser
Dwight, you’ve presented a well-reasoned argument here. I found this argument especially convincing: “If the founders had been drunkards and adulterers, rather than being men stealers and kidnappers, would you honor them? No! Why then are you honoring them? Is it because you don’t see the sin of slaveholding as wicked as drunkenness or adultery?” You are right. We would not honor an unrepentant drunkard or adulterer with his name on a building at one of our seminaries. We shouldn’t honor slaveholders in that way either. Especially those who made theological arguments in support of slavery. I agree. Tear down… Read more »
Reply to Adam Blosser
We would however, have an ERLC of the SBC conference held in the honor of an adulterer. Whose theology would not be aligned with the BFM2000.
#Just sayin’
Many of those who opposed the naming of that conference in honor of such a man on the basis of his heretical theology and immoral life were dismissed and derided as racists or racially insensitive.
I argued then and now MLK should be honored for his noble work re: civil rights…..he, a man with feet of clay, achieved and worked for good things despite his clear and obvious sims, shortcomings and faults.
Many were whiskey-drinking, cigar-chomping Baptists. Boyce, in particular, appears to have been opposed to temperance societies, at least on political grounds. So we do praise them, even though some of them were unrepentant consumers of alcohol — and likely in levels we’d consider intemperate today.
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#1 – He complains about these men not supporting suffrage. The women at the time didn’t support suffrage either. They didn’t want the vote because they didn’t want to be forced to serve in the military (Selective Service).
#2 – He complains that these men wouldn’t allow MLK to preach there. No church or seminary should have allowed MLK to preach there. The guy was an unashamed adulterer. (Wasn’t that part of the argument for not honoring someone?)
#3 – The patriarchy? The use of the word “men”? I guess we have to ban the Bible.
David was an adulterer and a murderer and Jesus was named in praise in honor of him. History includes the sins. Leave it be.
James Drickamer
It is difficult to present sarcasm over email. However, I shall try. In the same spirit as those who wrote this open letter, I respectully request that any epistles or references to Peter and Paul be removed from the Scripture. It is inappropriate to include the words and actions of someone who denied Jesus Christ three times. It is even more grossly inappropriate to include words, actions, and mentions of someone who persecuted the Christian Church, imprisoned believers, and murdered Stephen, the first Christian martyr. Not only should Scripture be sharply edited but all references to the teaching of Peter… Read more »
The statement implying these men are celebrated because of their support of slavery is flawed ….they are celebrated because it is their fortunes and money that built SBTS. Broadus was quoted after the Civil War he enjoyed preaching more to Black congregations more than White. A formidable fact if indeed a “racist” he would have not have done so. As Dr. Roger was quoted “when you have half of the truth you have none of the truth”. No one teaches the theology alleged in this request. It is “cancel culture” at best……popular these days…..
Reply to Rudd
“celebrated because of their fortunes and money that built SBTS”…That’s my point! Should we celebrate people whose income was derived from acts clearly displeasing to God, which is sin. The money’s given Southern was derived from forced labor, of fellow human beings, that the founders redefined & falsely classified as sub human in order to justify their evil actions. You can’t honor these men without sanctioning their evil actions.
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With respect….most of SBTS was established after slavery had been abolished during the Reconstruction era that punished the South for the war…however applying your sin definition consistently ….why is the request silent on the Democrat Party history in your social and moral argument?
Gina Lewis
Help me document MLK’s repentance of using prostitutes and conniving with communists…I know he did it publicly but I can’t find the documentation.
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And I can’t find the documentation that shows your charges written here are true. J Edgar Hoover was not a fan of MLK and was the most diabolically unscrupulous FBI director in history. He was known to taint information, to spread unfounded rumors in order to destroy anyone he chose. MLK was someone he definitively wanted to destroy. Since the records are now sealed until the future, I think the use of this unfounded and I believe inaccurate information to shut someone like Dr. McKissic up is a horrible use of anyone’s time. It’s also very unoriginal to do so.… Read more »
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Michael Burgos
As an SBC pastor, I think the author’s case is indefensible and is born of secular cancel culture. Both Luther and Calvin would have had baptists imprisoned or worse. Should we remove all recognition of those men too? McKissic seems to be under the impression that slavery is the unpardonable sin and that any slave holder ought to be viewed as an unregenerate pseudadelphos. This, however, is neither biblical nor reasonable. Ought not we be pleased that the prophetic voice of Spurgeon and his abolitionist views prevail at the institutions which once rejected him? Recognizing these flawed men is not… Read more »
Ned L. Mathews
Well written and argued by Dwight McKissic but where is the line to be drawn? Billy Graham got a speeding ticket. Paul the apostle was guilty of assisting in the killing of deacon Stephen. An Egyptian was murdered by Moses. King David committed adultery and had a general put her husband in a place it was certain to be killed. The disciple Peter lied in denying he knew Jesus. On and on it goes. moreover, not only must we know where to draw the line but also who is qualified to draw it?
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Reply to Ned L. Mathews
Ned, you are comparing individual sin, to corporate & systemic sin that SBTS founders participated in, and developed and promoted the false doctrine to give to SBC churches to “justify, rationalize, & defend” the maltreatment of the slaves.” Old apples to oranges analogy, comes to mind.
Your argument when applied would surely consider the men attacked were all Democrats…..as was the support for the Confederacy…..it was the Democratic Party who opposed Civil Rights…following the same “corporate application”….any person supporting Democrats should also be called out because of association (note the letter referenced politics)….if not the logic is inconsistent
Your question is the right one, Ned. Where do we draw the line? The simple fact is that for most of SBC history drinking a glass of wine has been a FAR greater sin than racism. I have not formed an opinion on renaming buildings, but I do think there is one thing we MUST do. We must see slavery, racism, segregation, and all such sins as heinous. Many want to cancel over a woman speaking on Mother’s Day but see racism as a nothing offense. My guess (and I’ve not discussed this with him) is that Dwight and other… Read more »
Reply to Dave Miller
believe that and i am not sure you really do either
Reply to greg roberts
Not sure what you are saying, but I am not in the habit of saying things I don’t mean.
for most of SBC history drinking a glass of wine has been a FAR greater sin than racism
https://baptistnews.com/article/baptist-history-on-alcohol-not-totally-teetotaling/#.Xwz6lxOSlRY
first resolution i found
http://www.sbc.net/resolutions/42/report-on-temperance-and-prohibition
The issue here seems to be clear. Anything other than a complete erasure of these men and the buildings bearing their names is equal to full throttled racism. Clearly it has to be one or the other. You simply must be a racist unless you agree both with premise and conclusion. It is shocking to me the way in which this conversation abandons orthodoxy in terms of the doctrines of sin and redemption. All are guilty in the heart of racism until they prove otherwise through an external libation at the demands of ones who know not their hearts. Oh,… Read more »
Reply to Mark
Honestly, I think you need to work harder on comprehending what people are saying.
Not even close Mark.
Mark: I understood what is being said, why can’t you?
Bill Mac
Unfortunately I don’t think we (as a whole) fully comprehend the unspeakable evil of slavery and all it entailed. I think many see it as an mere unfortunate lapse of morals.
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Question for Dr. McKissic: You are a Southwestern graduate as I understand your biography. How and why did you become interested in the buildings at a Seminary you haven’t attended that is over 800 miles from your home? I ask out of curiosity as I personally have no idea what the building names are at schools I haven’t attended and I would be interested to know how this came to your attention and how you got involved with this subject. Did you have students from your church who went to Southern? Did some Southern students bring it to your attention?… Read more »
Reply to Scott H
It dawned upon me, watching the name & statue removals, legally & illegally, primarily in response to George Floyd’s murder, that SBTS was founded & funded by White Supremacist, & men who’d profited mightily from slave labor. That’s a moral outrage & it needs to be redressed from my perspective. No longer honoring the kidnappers & men stealers is a substantive way to redress this scandalous episode in SBC history.
Thank you for responding.
I read the report Southern issued that documented the slave ownership of the original faculty etc. I note that many are mentioning “man stealing.” So the OT condoned slavery, but not man stealing. And the NT did not mention slavery but did instruct a runaway slave to return and his master to accept him. And the NT gave various instructions applicable to servants and masters 2 questions for you theologues: 1. Isn’t every person who owned a slave the beneficiary of the initial enslavement? If Rome conquered a territory and enslaved 5000, and sold them off at various places such… Read more »
Reply to Louis
Louis, the slaveholding business was dependent upon kidnapping, stealing, bartering, or by any means necessary, securing men & women against their will to sale to others as slaves. The cost of the slave inevitably included the cost of the kidnapping/man stealing aspect of it. The Bible is clear that with regard to the sin of homosexuality, those who engage in the act will be judged, but also those who give approval to same-sex encounters(Romans 1: 32). The slaveholders would surely be complicit with the approval of stealing the slave from Africa, thus granting approval, thus guilty of being an accessory… Read more »
Isn’t that therefore true of slavery generally?
Do you have a thought as to why the OT would condone slavery and the NT would be silent?
Your logic would condemn every one I think.
This is academic for me, but I am interested in the theology of this.
Louis: I don’t see where the OT condones slavery, which btw slavery in scripture and the slavery of the Black men and women, children was apples and oranges. Two different birds. I think you have been told this many times before and I ask where you think the Bible condones it. I do not.
Dear Dr Mohler and The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Board of Trustees, Please do not give into the cancel culture call of Pastor McKissic and the administrators of SBC Voices. While it might be momentarily expedient for you to do whatever they say, given the pressure and outrage that he and those who think like him will undoubtedly bring upon you if you do not give into this “humble” and “respectful” request, removing the names of Boyce, Broadus, Manly, and Williams is not the way forward. Are these men laudable? Absolutely! In all areas of their life? No way! You see, these historical giants suffered… Read more »
Jesse Lott
Reply to Ben Simpson
Tony Caldwell
Southern can remove all these names that offend, but it will not change the hearts of racists. The worst bondage to be in is not to earthly masters, but the bondage of sin, “But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you” (Romans 6:17). From what I have observed in my 52 years, it seems many believers rejoice more when any physical injustice is corrected, than when a spiritual problem is corrected. Until the gospel is obeyed from the heart, the sin problem… Read more »
Honest question: is it not true that the most significant memorabilia of these men is the seminary and even the SBC itself? And would not consistency require that those who want to abandon more trivial memorials abandon these too? Corporate guilt is continually assumed; but all that ties us to the sins of SBC past is the name & memorabilia at present. I’ve been a Southern Baptist for about 21 years. Am I guilty of corporate SBC racism of the past? If so, all I need do is change membership to an indy baptist church and–voila!–no longer corporately guilty. So… Read more »
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Pastor McKissic, do you honor the name of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr and support his name being used in memorial on schools, buildings, streets, and such? Although he did so much good, he was theologically heretical, denying fundamentals of Christianity such as the divine sonship of Christ, the virgin conception of Christ, and even the bodily resurrection of Christ. Furthermore, he was repeatedly unfaithful to his wife. His close friend wrote wrote that even the night before King’s assassination, he had committed adultery with multiple women. Is this man laudable? Absolutely! In all areas of his life? Absolutely not!… Read more »
Well said, but for McKissic to suddenly regain his consistency and call for the removal of any reference to the grossly immoral Christ-denier MLK would mean an immediate loss of any stature or respect that McKissic currently enjoys with the black and woke-white communities…a bridge too far. MLK made the list of American heroes, not through the content of his character, but through the color of his skin…our first Affirmative Action Hero. Yay!
No, Gina, I really do believe that MLK made the list of American heroes because of the content of his character, but so did Boyce, Broadus, Manly, and Williams in the Southern Baptist context. MLK and the Founders of SBTS were all great men who had some great flaws.
Pastor Dwight,
The only thing I can say to this article for certain is this: our great God took profits from horrid behaviors and put them to use at an institution that has done a tremendous job for many years providing theological educations to the SBC.
Clearly, what men did that was evil but God turned for our good.
Grace and Peace.
Let’s forget comparing slavery to wine. What if the founders had owned and operated legal brothels? What if if the founders had been child abusers? What if they tortured people (even if it was legal)? What about rapists? Would their “correct” theology have seen them through to honors and memorials? Can anyone claim with a straight face that slavery was a lesser sin than any that I have mentioned? In fact, other than brothels, slavery incorporated all the other sins I mentioned and more. I don’t care about building names or statues frankly, but it just seems like we pooh… Read more »
Reply to Bill Mac
Which is worse…..slavery that ended in 1865 or abortion that exists today?
Do we have to choose one?
Yes…one you have the opportunity to impact, the other not so much.
You question speaks volumes…
Reply to Chap
Yes. We CAN impact racism. We CAN show our Black brothers and sisters that we are serious. We can take serious action.
This “stick our head in the sand and pretend racism isn’t real” reaction will lead to more unfortunate situations like John Onwuchekwa’s church and will kill the SBC as America becomes less white. We cannot love our white heritage more than a gospel future.
Ad Hominem response…
You cannot affect/effect 1865 slavery as was addressed in the original reply.
Your response is insinuating character traits that I do not exhibit…
“Preachers” today rail against a history that cannot be changed. It should be evaluated and called out…absolutely. However, why we focus our energy and resources against something that we cannot change when millions of unborn are being murdered in our midst is appalling. Which do think is the “greater” sin? (I understand the evaluation of a sin hierarchy, so no need). The thing is, if people are being held accountable for something they had no part in.. what will be our reward as ministers of the Gospel when we force the removal of names on a building while innocent perish…… Read more »
I appreciate the comments & feedback. What Bill Mac said, would in a sense also be my answer to most questions I haven’t had the time to answer yet. If the founders owned a brothel, even a legal brothel, or to push a bit further…if they had been practicing homosexuals, or as Bill Mac said, if they had been pro-choice…there names would not be honored on the hallowed walls at Southern. However, because they were simply practicing racist, philosophical racists, & racist & slavery apologists….no big deal, we’ll give them a pass. It really hurts to see Dr Mohler &… Read more »
Tim Overton
Just thought I would point out that Roy Honeycutt has a building named after him. He didn’t believe the Bible. Check out his Holy War sermon. Where does his sin rank on your list? Should his name be removed too?
The flaw there seems to be the idea that we cannot oppose BOTH racism and abortion. We do not have to abandon the gospel either.
There is no flaw in the reasoning as it is not a debate… Current culture (this woke cancel culture) is removing resources from the battle ground. Preachers are leading churches to battle against history when they should be advocating for the current (as in today/right now) loss of life. Take SBCV for instance…all the “chatter” is about what? Show me a current example of how the ADMIN of SBCV is currently advocating for the loss of innocent life (that too, is made in the image of God). My stance is not in opposition to racism and anyone that reads that… Read more »
if you can point to solid evidence of racism – really?
If you can’t see evidence of racism in America today, you are sticking your head in the sand. No amount of evidence will convince you. George Floyd. I watched a video of a police officer pulling over a black man for doing 5 miles an hour UNDER the speed limit in North Carolina. That was suspicious he said – going under the speed limit. “Driving while black.” The justice system. I talked to a black man in our church and listened to what he suffered through the years. But, no. Stick your head in the sand. Anyone who denies the… Read more »
You are throwing around insult-terms like “Woke” (which is telling) and then questioning the very existence of racism by demanding more evidence than what our eyes see and our ears hear. You need to spend time with Black brothers and sisters and listen to them. Instead of just trying to BATTLE what Dwight has to say, why not listen to it. Hear his heart. He has a great heart. What evidence will satisfy you that racism exists and is a real problem in America today? Systemic mistreatment of Blacks by police? Systemic injustice in courts? Systemic economic injustice? Segregation in… Read more »
So good Dave. Many of these comments trouble me so much that addressing them isn’t possible as I would say “unChristian” words.
Since you are the one downplaying racism and its impact on America, it would be helpful if you would give specifics about what evidence you demand and what evidence would convince you that America has a racism problem.
I deleted your comment because its purpose was to insult and demean. Engage in conversation, fine. Insult? No.
You have been insulting and aggressive in almost every comment, but you complain if I respond. Not sure how to do this. Evidently, you can insult, demean, and question my integrity, but if I respond, it is a character flaw.
Again, what evidence would you like to prove the reality of the problem of racism in America today?
Your first comment started with “woke and woke-leaning” insult. Then, you made a bunch of false assertions about us, casting us in a bad light. Accusing us of making racism worse, not better.
Your second comment (ignoring all the pejoratives you were throwing out) accused me of liking to throw out pejoratives like candy. All I did was express amazement that you didn’t see evidence of racism.
Your third comment said I assumed the worst in you, something you’d been doing since the first word you wrote!
I deleted the truly insulting comment.
Does that seem fair?
Stop Ethan. Just stop. Stop.
Standing ovation on the inside for this comment Dave.
Which is worse, being a murderer or a racist? Moses, David, and the Apostle Paul are all murderers. Yet God in His grace did not cancel their names from history. In fact, two of these men are honored in the hall of faith found in Hebrews 11. God says “Be holy as I am holy” and “If you forgive men their trespasses, your Heavenly Father will forgive you.” By God’s grace all men can be more than their sin. By the author’s logic, Washington, Jefferson, and every other unrepentant sinner should never be honored. I fail to remember MLK repenting… Read more »
YOU started out with insult-terms like woke. You come in with an aggressive and demeaning tone, then wonder why someone responds? You accuse me of “attacking?”
You demanded evidence of racism, something that boggles my mind. But I will ask again.
WHAT EVIDENCE do you need?
Are you denying you use it in an insulting way? I agree. Coming to realize the reality of racism was kind of like waking up, realizing that I’d walked through life uncomprehending. I needed to see things in a new way.
It was a lot like waking up. Dwight helped me do that.
But you guys use the term as an insult. Am I wrong?
I’m old enough to remember when it was just Cal v. Trad. Now it’s the enlightened vs. the head in the sand. It seems odd to me that most conversations are framed as “attacks” or non “attacks”. The world sees the church’s disagreement with them on moral issues such as sexuality as hatred. Does this blog follow suite now? Are disagreements all just examples of hateful attacks? Are disagreements merely a result of one not being awakened yet? Are disagreements possible? To be clear this is not an “attack”. This is not me being “aggressive.” At least not the way… Read more »
Ethan, what makes the woke “left”?
Ask Dave Miller why is a bad term
Specifically, what is the belief, practice, or worldview that qualifies one to be called “woke”? If you are going to label people in that manner as a pejorative term, u need
at least state the qualifications for one to be labeled as such.
SBTS as an entity & the SBC as an entity are responsible for the corporate sins, the
entity has committed or affirmed others in doing so. They must also bring fruit worthy of repentance. Removing the names & replacing them with more noble names, is the fruit I’m requesting that SBTS as an entity bring.
So we change the building names, and for consistency tear down all memorials to slavers. What comes after that DM? Cash reparations?
Dwight , I have often heard it stated that the difference between bible slavery and American slavery is that one is raced based the other. Would this be considered raced based ” 7 As for all the peoples who remained of the Hethites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not from Israel— 8 their descendants who remained in the land after them, those the Israelites had not completely destroyed—Solomon imposed forced labor on them; it is this way today. 9 But Solomon did not consign the Israelites to be slaves for his work; they were soldiers, commanders of his captains, and commanders of his… Read more »
Charles L
My comments are certainly not thorough enough for an essay or paper. Greg’s question, and various other threads touch on slavery in Scripture. The slavery in the OT was primarily economic, at least that is addressed in God’s Law. God made limits on economic slavery. He provided a way of freedom. Slavery was to be temporary state, and no one should be treated as property. Every person, slave or free, made in the image of God That’s a vast difference from the slave trade and the enslavement of Africans in our American history. The passage in 2 Chronicles 8 refers to forced work,… Read more »
Rob Ayers
There is a building at our State Fair grounds named after the State Senator who got the funding for it. The man was fairly corrupt, a womanizer, talked out of one side of his mouth and did another. I don’t think of him walking into that facility however. What a building is named has little impact on the current use of it in my opinion. As Jesus said it matters not what goes into a man, it is what comes out that is the issue. With respect to Dwight of whom I have never met but would love to, I… Read more »
Shannon Skidmore
Dr Martin Luther King spoke at the SBTS chapel in April, 1961. His sermon was entitled “The Church on the Frontier of Racial Tension.” See SBTS Archives online.
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Effects of diabetes mellitus in patients with heart failure and chronic kidney disease: A propensity-matched study of multimorbidity in chronic heart failure
Background: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) and diabetes mellitus (DM) are common comorbidities in heart failure (HF) and each is associated with poor outcomes. However, the effects of multimorbidity related to having both CKD and DM compared to CKD alone have not been well studied in a propensity-matched population of chronic HF patients. Methods: Of the 7788 ambulatory chronic HF patients in the Digitalis Investigation Group trial, 3527 had CKD, of whom 1095 had DM. Based on the absence or presence of DM, patients were categorized CKD-only and CKD-DM, respectively. Propensity scores for CKD-DM were calculated for each patient and were used to match 987 pairs of CKD-only and CKD-DM patients. Hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) comparing CKD-DM patients with CKD-only patients were estimated using matched Cox regression models. Results: All-cause mortality occurred in 47.0% (rate, 1783/10,000 person-years of follow-up) of CKD-DM patients and 39.6% (rate, 1414/10,000 person-years) of CKD-only patients (HR when CKD-DM is compared with CKD-only, 1.25; 95%-CI, 1.07-1.46; p = 0.006). All-cause hospitalization occurred in 75.4% (rate, 5710/10,000 person-years) and 67.8% (rate, 4213/10,000 person-years) of CKD-DM and CKD-only patients respectively (HR, 1.32; 95%-CI, 1.15-1.52; p < 0.0001). Respective HR and 95%-CI for other outcomes were: cardiovascular mortality (1.27; 1.06-1.52; p = 0.009), HF mortality (1.34; 1.04-1.72; p = 0.025); cardiovascular hospitalization (1.29; 1.12-1.49; p = 0.001) and HF hospitalization (1.37; 1.16-1.63; p < 0.0001). Conclusions: Compared with comorbidity due to CKD alone, multimorbidity with CKD and DM was associated with poor outcomes in chronic HF patients.
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Preliminary screening of acetylcholinesterase inhibitory and antioxidant activities of Anatolian Heptaptera species
Fatma Sezer Senol , Gulderen Yilmaz , Bilge Sener , Mehmet Koyuncu and Ilkay Orhan
The ethyl acetate and methanol extracts prepared from the fruits, aerial parts, and roots of Heptaptera anatolica (Boiss.) Tutin, (Umbelliferae), H. anisoptera (DC.) Tutin, H. cilicica (Boiss. & Balansa) Tutin (endemic), and H. triquetra (Vent.) Tutin were tested for their acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibitory and antioxidant activities. AChE inhibition was evaluated using ELISA microplate reader at 500, 1000, and 2000 μg mL−1. Antioxidant activity was determined by 2,2-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radical scavenging test and Fe+2-ferrozine test system for metal chelating power at the same concentrations. Total phenol contents of the extracts were determined using Folin-Ciocalteu reagent. At 2000 μg mL−1, only the aerial parts and fruits of H. anatolica showed moderate anti-AChE effect (61.97% and 49.80%, respectively), while the aerial parts and fruits of H. triquetra had the highest DPPH scavenging effect (80.48% and 86.19%, respectively). All of the methanol extracts exhibited significant ferrous ion-chelating effect varying between 72.97% and 92.36%, whereas only four of the ethyl acetate extracts exerted chelating effect over 70%. These results indicate that Heptaptera species could be a good source for antioxidant compounds.
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Wildlife Blog 2nd June 2011
Good evening all,
Events at the nest over the past two days:
Our osprey pair has continued to incubate the eggs determinedly over the past two days with both birds taking turns at duties as usual. The male has spent his time bringing in the occasional stick, and more importantly, the odd fish.
The following gives a slightly more detailed account of the events of the past two days to compensate for the webcam being down and may repeat some details from yesterday’s blog.
At 12:37pm on Wednesday 1st of June, he brought in a small pike with which to feed his mate. Then again at 02:08pm he arrived with another fish, this time headless.
At 04:18pm, another osprey was spotted flying close to the nest. This prompted the male to leave the nest and give chase. He then returned around five minutes later having successfully seen off the interloper.
At 04:09am today our male brought in half of a fish to the nest. The female takes it eagerly and leaves, allowing him to take over incubation duty. Then at 01:00pm our female chased away an interloper from the vicinity of the nest. At 04:39pm, our male osprey brought in another fish to the nest. This time however, the female began to eat it while still on the nest, but left with it soon after.
Other Wildlife at Loch of the Lowes:
Species seen on the loch today were similar to those recorded yesterday. At the feeders were the usual group of pheasants, along with great spotted woodpeckers, blue tits, great tits, coal tits, chaffinches, greenfinches, siskins, yellowhammers and the occasional bank vole. Other species of note were two carrion crows, three jays, three red squirrels, three long tailed tits and a spotted flycatcher. A bullfinch was also seen in the area which was a rare treat.
We apologise for the lateness of this post and once again we thank you for your patience while our webcam has been down. We hope that you have enjoyed this update for the events of the past two days.
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Good evening all, Events at the nest over the past two days: Our osprey pair has continued to incubate the eggs determinedly over the past two days with both birds …
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Finder and keeper: two family memoirs reviewed
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Sam Mills, author of The Fragments of My Father
All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir of Adoption Nicole Chung
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The Fragments of My Father: A Memoir of Madness, Love and Being a Carer Sam Mills
Fourth Estate, pp.320, 16.99
What can we ever know about our family’s past? How do we love those closest to us when doing so brings us to the edge of insanity? Nicole Chung’s All You Can Ever Know and Sam Mills’s The Fragments of My Father explore both of these questions.
Chung’s memoir takes on a sleuth-like quality as she describes the process of uncovering her birth family. Born weeks premature, she was put up for adoption by her Korean-American parents, who feared she wouldn’t survive. Throughout her childhood, the reasons behind her adoption were presented as solid and comforting: ‘The doctors told them you would struggle all your life. Your birth parents were very sad they couldn’t keep you, but they thought adoption was the best thing for you,’ her mother told her. Chung’s response was always: ‘They were right, Mom.’
By the time she was six, Chung could recite the tale of her selfless birth parents by heart. But something else lurked behind the thought that this ‘may be all you can ever know’. Despite a loving upbringing, being the only Korean in small-town Oregon had its challenges. The racism she experienced as a child was difficult to convey to her white parents, and she kept the playground slurs to herself. The stress of dealing with frequent taunts finally became apparent when Chung’s parents and teachers noticed a ‘tiny bald spot’ — the result of Chung twisting her hair so tightly around her forefinger that she couldn’t free it without ‘yanking a few strands out’.
This urge to know more increases until Chung, pregnant with her first child, sets off to discover where she came from. Writing had always been a way for her to make sense of her life as an adoptee:
We are wanted, found or saved, but never grown, never entirely our own. As a child, writing became my way to look ahead to the unknowable future, the one adoptees in stories so rarely get to have.
While Chung’s deftly economical narrative clocks in at a modest 245 pages, Mills presents us with a larger and more sprawling canvas. The Fragments of My Father, at 416 pages, details with humour and candour the slide into a rare form of catatonic schizophrenia experienced by Mills’s father. She comes to realise he has been suffering from mental illness for most of his life. When her mother dies, Mills takes on the role of full-time carer — a term she reluctantly accepts. ‘I remember telling a friend of mine that I was worried being a carer might be seen as a boring topic to explore,’ she writes. ‘Unglamorous. I said that I ought to choose a sexier subject. He replied that this was exactly why I ought to write it.’
In looking after her mother and then her father, Mills experiences the conflict between caring and creating — one felt by many women:
Not having the peace or space to write was the hardest thing. It wasn’t just my way of earning a living: it was my daily drug… But writing is not a profession that is particularly compatible with caring, because it involves shutting the world out; writers are notorious for neglecting their loved ones.
Yet Mills is the opposite of neglectful. She tends to her father and her writing with devotion.
She also takes her readers on wonderful detours through the history of schizophrenia, Foucault’s ideas on madness, critiques of social care in an age of austerity, the vicissitude of her love affairs, the poems of Emily Dickinson, the trials of bereavement, while stopping to reflect on the letters and diaries of other carers, most notably Virginia Woolf’s husband Leonard, who declares himself ‘in service’ to Virginia. ‘It’s touching that Leonard’s adoration isn’t at all diminished by her illness,’ Mills writes. Scott Fitzgerald, on the other hand, dealt with his wife Zelda’s mental illness by relying on expensive sanatoriums, ‘affairs and alcohol’. Mills’s interweaving of stories, both historical and contemporary, displays the complexity of the bonds of familial and romantic love and how they can enrich one’s life and work if we allow them to.
Chung does not veer far from her personal journey — nor does she need to. An adoptee, much of her life has been spent thinking about the decisions made by others that have affected her life profoundly. All You Can Ever Know is her chance to fill out her own story. Mills takes the opposite route, lining her nest, magpie-like, with tales from other lives and centuries. Both Chung and Mills beautifully expose the grains of an author’s life through the exploration of their place in a family. Both show us there are many ways to move towards our unknowable futures via the stories of our past.
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Stockholm syndrome: The Family Clause, by Jonas Hassen Khemiri, reviewed
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Poise and wit: The Collected Stories of Shirley Hazzard reviewed
The attraction of repulsion: The Disaster Tourist, by Yun-Ko Eun, reviewed
Claire Kohda Hazelton
Gardening books for Christmas — reviewed by Ursula Buchan
Ursula Buchan
A brutal education: At Night All Blood is Black, by David Diop, reviewed
Suzi Feay
Masculinity in crisis: Men and Apparitions, by Lynne Tillman, reviewed
Kate Womersley
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The Information Content of Corporate Governance Ratings
Faraz, Zunaira (2013) The Information Content of Corporate Governance Ratings. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
Faraz_MSc_F2013.pdf - Accepted Version
Several corporate governance rating agencies in recent years have introduced quantitative measures of corporate governance rating for publicly traded firms. Firms invest significant resources to be rated by such agencies as they anticipate potential benefits for investors. One potential benefit is the reduction in information asymmetry between firms and investors. We examine the cross-sectional relation between commercial corporate governance ratings of firms and their contemporaneous information asymmetry proxies. We use two leading governance rating agencies; Governance Metrics International (GMI) and Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and six information asymmetry proxies and find a significant relation between the ratings and several measures of information asymmetry. We, however, find no significant impact on information asymmetry level of firms around the first time they get rated. In addition, contrary to our expectations, we find a negative significant relation between highly rated firms and the cumulative abnormal returns around the announcement date but insignificant relation for low or moderately rated firms. Overall, our results suggest that governance ratings are related to the information environment surrounding a firm.
Concordia University > John Molson School of Business > Finance
Faraz, Zunaira
M. Sc.
Administration (Finance option)
Bhabra, Harjeet
governance, ratings, information
ZUNAIRA FARAZ
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Social Trends 2020
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This Week Social Media Trends
We are going to tell you about the social media hastags and news that are at the top in 2020. In this list, 2020 social media will discuss about the topic on trending hash tags and news.
Social Media Trends 2020
1. Covid-19 News
2. China India Dispute
3. CAA NRC Bill
4. CAA NRC Protest
5. Delhi Danga 2020
6. Sushant Suicide Case News
7. Lockdown In India
8. Real-Life Hero! Sonu Sood
9. Carry Roast Amir Or Tiktok
10. Youtuber Vs Tiktok Memes
11. Tik Tok Ban in India
12. Boycott China Products
13. Ram Mandir News
14. Dhoni Retirement
2020 Social Trends India
Covid-19 News: The 2019 novel coronavirus, originating from the city of Wuhan in China, is an example of the same group of viruses, whose infection is spreading rapidly throughout the world in 2019-20 as the outbreak of the 2019-20 Wuhan Corona virus.
Coronavirus Figure Update In The World
Coronavirus Cases: 22,000,000
Deaths: 800,000
Caa Nrc Bill: The NRC is primarily implemented to exclude intruders from Bangladesh while the CAA is designed to grant citizenship to illegal migrants from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. 5. NRC is implemented only in the state of Assam, while the provisions of CAA will be applicable throughout the country.
China India Dispute: Tensions continue between China and India on the border. Both countries have withdrawn their forces from different locations. However, it is being said that despite the retreat, the Chinese army is still in places it never claimed. Looking at the record of negotiations between India and China to resolve the border dispute in 1960 shows that PLA Pongong So and Galvan Valley have PLA troops outside Beijing’s old claim.
Sushant Suicide Case News: Significantly, Sushant Singh Rajput committed suicide in his Mumbai flat on 14 June. It was alleged that he was under pressure and he was under depression. In this case, apart from Mumbai, a case has now been registered in Patna and Patna Police is investigating it.
Real-Life Hero! Sonu Sood: Actor Sonu Sood has been campaigning to send migrant laborers to their homes amid the lockdown. He has been in discussion for a long time. Explain that this Bollywood actor is popular for playing the villain in films. He has emerged as a real-life hero due to sending migrant laborers, students and needy from Maharashtra to his home. He has spent lakhs of rupees to send thousands of migrants to his home. People all over the country are praising his work.
Tik Tok Ban: Tick Talk cannot be downloaded in India, as Google Play Store and App Store have blocked it. … TikTok has 12 crore monthly active users in India. Following the Madras High Court order, now this app has been removed from Google Play Store and Apple App Store. That is, now new users will not be able to download it.
Dhoni Retirement: Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the captain who won the World Cup title to India, has announced to retire from international cricket on the day of August 15. Mahendra Singh Dhoni has announced to retire from international cricket. Dhoni retired from Test cricket in 2014, but now he has retired from the limited overs format. Dhoni played his last international match in the World Cup against New Zealand in July 2019. India lost the match played in the World Cup semi-finals.
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Bulgarian PM Borissov congratulates Boris Johnson on sweeping UK election victory
Written by The Sofia Globe staff on December 13, 2019 in Bulgaria - Comments Off on Bulgarian PM Borissov congratulates Boris Johnson on sweeping UK election victory
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has congratulated Boris Johnson on the UK Prime Minister’s decisive victory in the December 12 parliamentary elections.
“Congratulations to Boris Johnson and to the Conservatives,” Borissov said in a message on Twitter on the morning of December 13.
“I believe that we will continue to work well together and maintain high-level cooperation between Bulgaria and the UK,” Borissov said.
At the time Borissov tweeted the message, with two constituencies still to declare, the Tories had won 364 seats, gaining 66, while Labour had 202 seats, losing 42. The Conservatives were set for their largest majority in the House of Commons since 1987, while Labour was heading for its worst result since 1935.
Borissov sent the message from Brussels, where along with other leaders of European Union countries, he was attending a European Council meeting on December 13 to discuss Brexit and preparations for the negotiations on future EU-UK relations after the withdrawal.
Bulgarian PM on Brexit trade deal: ‘A good day for Europe’
Brexit: UK govt writes to Brits in Europe, including Bulgaria, to prepare for end of transition period
Government proposes Brits who apply for Bulgarian passports by end-2020 need not renounce UK citizenship
Brexit: Bulgaria’s Parliament to vote changes to ID documents laws in February
Bulgaria to start second phase of Covid-19 vaccinations on January 18
Covid-19: Dozens fined over illegal parties at restaurants in Bulgaria's Plovdiv
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Tag Archives: vermouth
The Starving Artist Toasts Ernest Hemingway with a Daiquiri Recipe
“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
~ Ernest Hemingway
Starving artists know that birthdays mean free drinks at the bar. Today we toast to Ernest Hemingway, who would’ve turned 115 years old yesterday.
Hemingway had a bit of a reputation as a drinker. “I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure,” he wrote to the Russian translator and critic Ivan Kashkin. He and James Joyce used to toss back drink after drink together, though in that same 1935 letter to Kashkin he said alcohol wasn’t beneficial to writing. He was always a drinker, but after getting injured in a plane crash he drank even more heavily.
More than a few articles have been written about Hemingway’s drinking:
7 Things You Didn’t Know About Ernest Hemingway’s Drinking Habits (via Food Republic)
The Passionate Affair Between Alcohol and Ernest Hemingway: The Paris Years (via Modern Drunkard)
How to Drink, the Hemingway Way (via Salon)
Why Do Writers Drink? (via The Guardian)
Hemingway and Me, at the Bar (via The Washington Post)
Being an alcoholic is probably not the reputation anyone wants. No one wants to be dependent on alcohol. It can destroy your life and the lives around you. If you drink, drink responsibility. But there’s no shame in not drinking either!
Hemingway’s favorite drink was a martini, but he was also closely associated with mojitos and daiquiris. I thought a daiquiri would make a great summertime drink, so here’s the Starving Artist Hemingway Daiquiri recipe:
2 ounces white rum
¾ ounces lime juice
½ ounce grapefruit juice
¼ ounce maraschino liqueur
Blend these altogether with a cup of ice. Who has time and money for fancy garnishes like maraschino cherries and lime wedges? Drink this sucker from whatever glass you have clean as you sit on your stoop, defining your own generation.
You might also like these other posts from my blog:
A Manhattan in Big Sur: Cocktail Recipe for Jack Kerouac’s Big Sur Manhattan
The Coffee Habit of Jack Kerouac
First Sips of Alcohol
The Quotable Greek: Quick Bring Me Wine
Road Trip: Wine Tasting at Bargetto Winery
Orange Wine at Brooklyn Winery
Tags: alcohol, cherry, daiquiri, Ernest Hemingway, food and drink, grapefruit, Martini, mojito, recipe, rum, Starving Artist, Tasty Tuesday, vermouth
Categories Food and Drink
Big Sur tells the story of Jack Kerouac’s alter ego escaping the pressures of fame brought on after the publishing success of On the Road by hiding out at the desolate cabin owned by his friend, City Lights Bookstore owner Lawrence Ferlinghetti (called Lorenzo Monsanto in the novel). Kerouac had a notorious sweet tooth, perhaps most noticeably evident by all that delicious apple pie a la mode he writes of eating in On the Road. In Big Sur, his friends point out his taste for a sweet of a different sort—sweet drinks!
Kerouac’s drink of choice in Big Sur is the classic cocktail the Manhattan, which gets its sweetness from vermouth, orange bitters, and a maraschino cherry. The Manhattan has been called “the drinking man’s drink,” though, probably because of all the whiskey in it.
Here’s the history of the Manhattan, as told by That’s the Spirit!:
Samuel J. Tilden was elected Governor of New York in 1874, and to celebrate, socialite Jenny Jerome threw a party at the Manhattan Club in New York City. Jerome asked the bartender to create a drink for the occasion. The bartender mixed 1 1/2 ounces bourbon, 1 1/4 ounces each of sweet and dry vermouth, and a dash of bitters. It met with Jerome’s approval and she named the drink the “Manhattan,” after the club. Jenny Jerome later earned her place in history as she later became Lady Randolph Churchill, mother of Sir Winston Churchill, one of England’s most famous Prime Ministers. The Manhattan became a classic cocktail that has survived a number of changes over the years and is presently enjoying a comeback alongside its cousin, the Martini.
That’s the most popular version of the story, but of course, like most cocktail history, there are other versions of the story as well.
That said, there are also variations of Manhattans. It can be made with rye whiskey or bourbon. Although Big Sur doesn’t specify, Kerouac would probably have preferred the bourbon variety, since rye whiskey is more on the bitter side. Likewise, there are different types of vermouth: sweet and dry. The bitters can either be traditional Angostura bitters or Angostura Orange. Some people add a lemon peel for garnish.
On almost any given page of Big Sur there is a reference to alcohol, as the book documents Kerouac gripped by the disease of alcoholism. While many culture critics have accused Kerouac of promoting a nefarious lifestyle, Kerouac makes the dangers of alcohol quite plain in Big Sur as he portrays himself in deplorable states of breakdown. In addition to the maraschino cherry, some bartenders will even add a bit of the cherry juice to the drink. Yum!
Big Sur also describes Kerouac drinking a lot of port wine. A Manhattan made with port instead of vermouth is called a Ruby Manhattan. Since he frequented the famous Nepenthe in Big Sur, though, I’m going to go with their recipe. It’s quite possible the restaurant has changed its cocktail recipe since Kerouac’s autobiographical novel was published in 1962, but their current Manhattan ingredients includes Makers Mark, sweet vermouth, and blood orange bitters.
Nepenthe doesn’t include the ingredient breakout, but based on other general Manhattan recipes, this is my take on Jack Kerouac’s Big Sur Manhattan:
3 oz. Makers Mark
2 oz. sweet vermouth
dash of blood orange bitters
a Maraschino cherry as garnish, but while you’re at it add a splash of cherry juice to sweeten
Stir the ingredients over ice, then strain into a cocktail glass (the Martini glass) to serve straight up. Garnish with the cherry.
Tags: alcohol, Beat Generation, Big Sur, blood orange, bourbon, California, cherry, City Lights Bookstore, cocktail, food and drink, Jack Kerouac, Jenny Jerome, Lady Randolph Churchill, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Makers Mark, Manhattan, Manhattan Club, Martini, Nepenthe, On the Road, orange bitters, port, recipe, Ruby Manhattan, Samuel J. Tilden, Sir Winston Churchill, Tasty Tuesday, vermouth
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here's what stlya and other local young adult groups are up to
Notice of Cancellation for In-Person Events
Until further notice, all in-person Archdiocesan events are cancelled through Wednesday, April 22. Please check your event’s details to see if it is being offered online as an alternative.
Group Name All Groups Abide ablaze Anima Christi Archdiocese of St. Louis Assumption YACHT Awaken! Becoming One – Marriage Speaker Series Catholic Charities Young Professionals Catholic STL Running Club Catholic Student Center (Washington University) Communion and Liberation Contemplative Leaders in Action Cor Unum Crossroads St. Charles Discipulus Institute Emmaus Groups Fiat House Frassati Sports Happy Hour Ignatian Young Adults Juventutem STL Kenrick Glennon Seminarians Nazareth Nights Office of Young Adult Ministry Our Lady’s Inn Preaching Friars Retreats SHAPE SMMA YACHT Club Spirit and Truth St. Louis Sports St. Charles Borromeo Young Adults St. Gabe’s Young Adults St. Joseph’s Young Adults St. Louis IX Dinner St. Luke the Evangelist Young Adults St. Monica Young Adults St. Vincent De Paul Young Adult Chapters STL Pro-Life Future STLYA Sts. Peter and Paul Homeless Shelter Sursum Corda Taizé The Way STL Theology on Tap Theology on Tap SG UMSL Catholic Newman Center Via World Youth Day Young Adult Mass Young Adults in Mission Young Adults of St. Clare of Assisi Young Catholic Professionals St. Louis
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Cor Unum: Homeless Outreach
Where: Cathedral Basilica, St. Louis MO
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6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Our Lady's Inn Service Night
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6:30 pm - 9:00 pm Anima Christi - Cathedral
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7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Abide - Talk & Teaching by Fr. George Staley
Where: St. Margaret Mary Alacoque Catholic Church, St. Louis MO
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6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Young Adult Holy Hour
Where: St. Monica Parish, Creve Coeur MO
Presented by: St. Monica Young Adults
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Bid committees lay out environmental plans ahead of the 13 June verdict.
A zero waste and carbon neutral FIFA World Cup has been promised by the bid committee hoping to bring the 2026 edition to North America, while competitor Morocco has revealed an innovative modular stadium strategy and eco-friendly transport plan.
After bid documents were submitted in late-March, the two-horse race to host the showpiece football event will come to a conclusion on 13 June when one will be selected.
Environmental sustainability featured heavily in both the bid documents, and whoever gets the chance to host the World Cup in eight years time – Morocco, or the joint bid between the US, Mexico and Canada – will have a lot of work to do to fulfil those promises.
While both bid committees pledged to meet the ISO 20121 sustainable events guidelines required by FIFA to host the tournament, it’s clear that neither wants to give up any ground by downplaying the importance of an environmentally friendly World Cup.
The US, Mexico and Canada have made concrete pledges about carbon and waste. Carbon neutral and 100% zero waste leaves little margin for error. Morocco has distanced itself from hard an fast targets, but has still presented a plan that includes a green economy blueprint and carbon offsetting initiatives.
Here, The Sustainability Report looks at both sustainability plans in detail:
Stadium infrastructure
The US, Mexico and Canada have made it clear: no new stadiums will be built specifically for the 2026 World Cup. All building work planned for will go ahead anyway, regardless of whether the bid is successful. All stadiums are currently being used, and all new facilities will be used following the tournament, so there is little potential for white elephants.
Among the host stadiums being proposed by the bid committee is the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, the HOK-designed home of the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons franchise and MLS club Atlanta United – the first stadium to receive LEED Platinum certification.
Other LEED certified venues being put forward are Baltimore’s M&T Bank Stadium, the Montarry Stadium in Mexico, Camping World Stadium in Orlando and San Francisco’s Levi’s Stadium.
Building work will have to be completed in Morocco for its bid to stand up to scrutiny. Stadium infrastructure is not as mature as in North America, but the bid committee has presented a plan they think will keep environmental impacts to a minimum.
In total, 14 stadiums will be built or renovated, six of which will be Legacy Modular Stadiums. Legacy Modular Stadiums will save on construction costs (an average price of around $150m to build), and materials from the venues will be able to be reused for other projects once the tournament is over.
The six cities preparing to construct the Legacy Modular Stadiums are: Casablanca (at the heart of its Zenata eco-development), El Jadida, Marrakech, Meknes, Nador and Ouarzazate.
A commitment has also been made to develop all new build stadiums, training facilities and redeveloped venues to at least a ‘Good’ level of BREEAM certification, with bioclimatic designs, natural ventilation systems, LED lighting and water recycling options to be investigated.
The Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta – a LEED Platinum facility – will be one of the venues if the North America bid wins
Morocco has identified 2.3 million tonnes of CO2, 80% of which will be generated by travel, as the carbon impact the World Cup will have. Morocco’s central geography (minimising air traffic), a compact tournament plan and a low-carbon transport policy (public transit, bicycle path networks and eco-responsible vehicle fleets) will mitigate the effects, says the bid document.
A “carbon neutral tournament” is what the US, Mexico and Canada bid team will “strive” to deliver. Their plan to hit this target is three-fold: reducing all energy consumption, delivering energy more efficiently and supplying energy via renewable generation sources.
Zero waste is the name of the game for the US, Mexico and Canada bid, and its bid document has revealed five steps to the strategy: 1. Prevention; 2. Preparing for reuse (linked to the principles of the Circular Economy); 3. Recycling; 4. Other recovery; and 5. Landfill as a last resort.
The development of advanced waste sorting and reclamation systems in the 12 proposed host cities will be a “major legacy” of hosting the 2026 World Cup in Morocco. The programme will be developed by the North African nation’s Sustainable Development and Human Rights Committee alongside the Secretary of State for Sustainable Development.
If a supplier wants to work with Morocco 2026, their practices have to be in line with ISO 20400 standards – as well as ISO 20121. US, Mexico and Canada have pledged to source environmentally and socially sustainable materials for all operations, from the construction of overlay and upgrading existing stadiums, to food and beverages, cleaning and waste management, and apparel.
Both bid books reveal the commitment to offer sustainably sourced food to spectators. Morocco will make sure all food and drink suppliers will adhere to the strict environmental standards it will enforce for all procurement partners (see above), while the US, Mexico and Canada have the added pledge that excess food will be donated.
The Green Sport Alliance, the US-based body that promotes the power of sport as a catalyst for sustainability, will support the North America bid, while Morocco has created a Sustainable Development Committee. It will be headed up by bid president, Moulay Hafid Elalamy, and include sustainability experts Abderrahim Ksiri, of the Moroccan Alliance for Climate and Sustainable Development, and WWF Morocco’s Yousra Madani.
Morocco has chosen 12 host cities for its World Cup 2026 bid
Additional plans
As part of its bid, Morocco has promised to preserve its status as the second richest nations when it comes to biodiversity in the Mediterranean basin. It claims to be one of the “few countries in the world to reverse the trend of deforestation” and wants to make sustainable development a “lever for the development of a green and inclusive economy”.
The construction of the Grand Stade de Casablanca will result in the unavoidable felling of eucalyptus trees, but this will be compensated with the plan to plant two eucalyptus trees for every one that is destroyed.
The US, Canada and Mexico have revealed the host cities for the tournament, if their bid is successful
US, Mexico and Canada will undertake an extensive monitoring, measuring and feedback process for environmental impacts. A “smart system” will be developed to collect real-time data across venues to “aid accessibility and transparency” and “support proactive decision-making around energy, waste, water, transport choices and other operations”.
See the full contents of both bid books here
US, Mexico and Canada: https://bit.ly/2uhoBZK
Morocco: https://bit.ly/2DWR0nh
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The Jonas Brothers came together to wish graduating college seniors of 2020 a happy virtual graduation. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the graduating class of 2020 is having online graduations in lieu of the usual in-person ceremonies.
The band of brothers teamed up with HER Campus Media’s “I’m Still Graduating” virtual graduation ceremony for exclusive videos dedicated to women who are in the graduating class of 2020. Billboard received the exclusive videos and were the first to report on them.
Kevin Jonas says, “Congratulations on your virtual campus graduation. I have yet to graduate myself, so you are one step ahead. Congratulations! Enjoy your day — we love you.”
The youngest Jo-Bro, Nick Jonas, additionally voices his support, saying, “Congratulations to all the incredible women graduating virtually. I hope it’s awesome, congrats!”
New music is officially here people!! X featuring @karolg and 5 More Minutes are both out now 🥳🥳🥳 #JonasBrothersXV
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Joe Jonas is joined by his wife, Sophie Turner, in his video shout-out. “So proud of all of you. You have done an amazing job and look at you now. Here we are, virtually graduating. We’ll always remember this one. Well done, ladies!” Turner piped in by adding, “We don’t have college degrees so we’re really impressed with you.”
The virtual graduation videos coincided with the band’s brand new single releases, “XV,” which includes “X, featuring Karol G, and “Five More Minutes.”
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Indian, Russian navies begin drills in Bay of Bengal amid emerging security challenges
September 5, 2020 | By: Nair N.B. Bangla
Indian and Russian warships began a two-day drill in the Bay of Bengal on Friday to bolster their interoperability amidst emerging security challenges.
Titled "Indra Navy", the scope of the exercises on Friday and Saturday (4-5 September) includes diverse activities across the spectrum of maritime operations.
The exercises involve surface and anti-aircraft drills, firing exercises, helicopter operations, and seamanship evolutions, said a spokesman for the Indian Navy.
India’s guided missile destroyer Ranvjiay, frigate Sahyadri, and fleet tanker Shakti, along with their integrated helicopters are participating in the drills. Meanwhile, Russian Navy destroyer the Admiral Vinogradov and the Admiral Tributs along with fleet tanker the Boris Butoma of the Pacific Fleet have joined the exercise.
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Togetherness, Notes on Outrage Exhibition, Shaun C Badham, Felicity Hammond, Polly Tootal
Preview, 9th September, 2.00pm to 5.00pm
Exhibition: 9th September - 4th November
Location: Kestle Barton, Cornwall
If you feel like working up a head of steam about the shortcomings of English architects, engineers and town planners, the South-West is a good place to go. – Ian Nairn, 1967
Togetherness: Notes on Outrage celebrated the pioneering work of the architecture critic Ian Nairn whose 1955 edition of Architectural Review, entitled Outrage, revolutionised architectural criticism. For Outrage, Nairn travelled across England observing and documenting the urban sprawl and ubiquitous civic architecture. Broken into 25-mile segments, Outrage proposes an audit of every facet of subtopian aesthetics, covering subjects ranging from wire fencing, telegraph poles and street lights, to military installations and power stations, culminating in a manifesto and checklist of planning malpractices.
Togetherness: Notes on Outrage at Kestle Barton represented the continuation of South Kiosk’s ongoing research project that first began at our London space in 2016. Having initially explored Nairn’s writings within an urban context in London, Togetherness moved to Kestle Barton to focus on Cornwall and Nairn’s writings on the ‘wild’ environment. For the show, photographer Felicity Hammond presented a new large-scale collage work, Lands End in reference both to the Turner painting of the same name and the potential change in the landscape of the area. Polly Tootal’s large format architectural photographs referenced a number of site visits made to new residential and business developments across Cornwall, the South-West and wider England across 2017. A recent graduate from Goldsmith’s MFA programme, Badham presented MORNING. A long term research project, MORNING explored the correlation between a series of ‘space race’ influenced climbing frames and the post-war New Towns movement. The frames, their design a reflection of the optimism of the period, subsequently fell into a state of near disrepair epitomising the stagnancy of the New Towns movement across England.
Togetherness: Notes on Outrage also included temporary and film works by artists Catherine Yass, Joseph Townshend, Jason Wood & Simon Barker, Mark Jenkin, Matthew Burgess and Jamie George.
Togetherness: Notes on Outrage was presented by South Kiosk in collaboration with Kestle Barton and was made possible with funding from Arts Council England.
Kestle Barton is an ancient Cornish farmstead situated above the Helford River. Opened in 2010, the gallery has a programme of four exhibitions each year working with artists based in, or with strong connections to, Cornwall.
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Wide Audiences and the Visual Arts from 1950 to the Present: Agencies, Politics and Discourses
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Six Contradictions and the End of the Present
This seminar of public lectures, film screenings and research workshops explores how contemporary capitalism, in its galloping escalation and capacity to assimilate and produce aspects of private life, works through contradiction as a mechanism of regulation and adaptation.
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Six Contradictions and the End of the Present. Paul Mason
Postcapitalism. A Guide to the Present Future
Theories on the crisis of capitalism have swamped social, political and economic analyses in recent years, with all interpretations, although hugely relevant, generally lacking a proposal for the future. Paul Mason, however, has formulated a theory about the transition to an alternative and impending system — a guide to postcapitalism.
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“Dear, Ela, dear”. Affective Affinities and Power Relations in the Epistolary Archive of documenta, Kassel
The programme Documents reflects on different thematic spheres in the Museo’s Library and Documentation Centre: artist publications, platforms, publishing networks, independent publications, and archive as a place that articulates and reinvents narratives about art and its ecosystem. In this, the sixth activity in the series, Mela Dávila, a contributor with documenta, Kassel, and an expert on its holdings, addresses power relations and affective affinities that reveal the institution’s epistolary archive.
Wednesday, 17 October 2018 - 7pm
Towards a Socialism of Creation
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Inside the framework of the retrospective Luis Camnitzer: Hospice of Failed Utopias (17 October 2018 to 4 March 2019) and the launch of the studies, residencies and cultural productions programme the Perturbable School, this encounter sees the artist touch on his conception of critical artistic pedagogy, not only in schools and universities but also museums, and on where this work of reflection fits into his own artistic career.
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Raciality and Care in the Dispute Over Other Lives
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Beneath the Paving Stones, the Beach: Otto Muehl’s Commune in the Canary Islands
This lecture leads into an annual series which explores the relationship between tourism imaginaries and the visual arts from the 1960s onwards. Once a year, an innovative case study will be presented which reflects on how mass tourism, as an industry of experience, has been linked to the search for experience characterising art since 1960.
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Six Contradictions and the End of the Present. Franco Berardi Bifo
Subversion or Barbarism. The End of the World as We Know it
Franco Berardi Bifo is a philosopher, writer and media theorist.
For this session of the programme Six Contradictions and the End of the Present Bifo will conduct three activities in the Museo: a public lecture, a research workshop and the presentation of the film Comunismo future (2017). In the lecture, the philosopher explores new forms of power and domination; the workshop will be set up as a work session with writings chosen specifically by the author and, as a coda to the session, Bifo will present, with Andrea Gropplero di Troppenburg, the film Comunismo futuro.
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To End Up in a Book
This third session culminates the program "Pessoa: brief history of modern art", a series of three talks in which some of the theoretical keys of modern art are reviewed from the writings of Fernando Pessoa. This last intervention will be carried out by the novelist and essayist Tom McCarthy. The author of Satin Island or Remainder is one of the most debated and acclaimed contemporary experimental writers.
26 and 27 March - 7pm and 12 noon (consult programme)
Six Contradictions and the End of the Present. Evgeny Morozov
Digital Capitalism and Discontent
The meteoric rise of digital giants worldwide has posed a raft of unsettling questions on the concentration of political, economic and social power in the hands of tech brokers.
This session will analyse and discuss the possible alternatives to this invisible and all-powerful government of the algorithm and Big Data, ranging from the design of new data ownership models to algorithms being subjected to audits, via the creation of cooperate platforms or the comprehensive nationalisation of technology platforms.
1 March, 2018 - 7pm
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Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture
The Jorge Oteiza Foundation and Museo Reina Sofía present the book Oteiza. Catálogo razonado de escultura (Oteiza. Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture), a critical survey of the work of the artist which compiles and analyses 2,752 pieces from public and private collections, including those which hold a prominent position in the Museo Reina Sofía’s Collection 2: Is the War Over? Art in a Divided World (1945–1968). The book also sets forth a reflection on the notion of “cataloguing”, or “normalising”, an artist who forever evaded all normalisation.
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all grounds AUS: Adelaide Oval AUS: Bellerive Oval, Hobart AUS: Brisbane Cricket Ground, Woolloongabba, Brisbane AUS: Cazaly's Stadium, Cairns AUS: Exhibition Ground, Brisbane AUS: Manuka Oval, Canberra AUS: Melbourne Cricket Ground AUS: Perth Stadium AUS: Sydney Cricket Ground AUS: TIO Stadium, Darwin AUS: W.A.C.A. Ground, Perth BDESH: Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka BDESH: Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium, Fatullah BDESH: MA Aziz Stadium, Chattogram BDESH: Shaheed Chandu Stadium, Bogra BDESH: Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium, Khulna BDESH: Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur, Dhaka BDESH: Sylhet International Cricket Stadium BDESH: Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chattogram ENG: Bramall Lane, Sheffield ENG: Edgbaston, Birmingham ENG: Headingley, Leeds ENG: Kennington Oval, London ENG: Lord's, London ENG: Old Trafford, Manchester ENG: Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street ENG: Sophia Gardens, Cardiff ENG: The Rose Bowl, Southampton ENG: Trent Bridge, Nottingham INDIA: Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi INDIA: Barabati Stadium, Cuttack INDIA: Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow INDIA: Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai INDIA: Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, Visakhapatnam INDIA: Eden Gardens, Kolkata INDIA: Gandhi Stadium, Jalandhar INDIA: Green Park, Kanpur INDIA: Gymkhana Ground, Mumbai INDIA: Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamsala INDIA: Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore INDIA: JSCA International Stadium Complex, Ranchi INDIA: K.D.Singh 'Babu' Stadium, Lucknow INDIA: Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad INDIA: M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru INDIA: MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai INDIA: Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune INDIA: Nehru Stadium, Madras INDIA: Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh INDIA: Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Dehradun INDIA: Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad INDIA: Sardar Patel (Gujarat) Stadium, Motera, Ahmedabad INDIA: Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot INDIA: Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur INDIA: Sector 16 Stadium, Chandigarh INDIA: University Ground, Lucknow INDIA: Vidarbha C.A. Ground, Nagpur INDIA: Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Jamtha, Nagpur INDIA: Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai IRE: The Village, Malahide, Dublin NZ: AMI Stadium, Christchurch NZ: Basin Reserve, Wellington NZ: Bay Oval, Mount Maunganui NZ: Carisbrook, Dunedin NZ: Eden Park, Auckland NZ: Hagley Oval, Christchurch NZ: McLean Park, Napier NZ: Seddon Park, Hamilton NZ: University Oval, Dunedin PAK: Arbab Niaz Stadium, Peshawar PAK: Bagh-e-Jinnah, Lahore PAK: Bahawal Stadium, Bahawalpur PAK: Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore PAK: Ibn-e-Qasim Bagh Stadium, Multan PAK: Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad PAK: Jinnah Stadium, Gujranwala PAK: Jinnah Stadium, Sialkot PAK: Multan Cricket Stadium PAK: National Stadium, Karachi PAK: Niaz Stadium, Hyderabad PAK: Peshawar Club Ground PAK: Pindi Club Ground, Rawalpindi PAK: Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium PAK: Sheikhupura Stadium PAK: Southend Club Cricket Stadium, Karachi SA: Buffalo Park, East London SA: Ellis Park, Johannesburg SA: Kingsmead, Durban SA: Lord's, Durban SA: Mangaung Oval, Bloemfontein SA: Newlands, Cape Town SA: Old Wanderers, Johannesburg SA: Senwes Park, Potchefstroom SA: St George's Park, Port Elizabeth SA: SuperSport Park, Centurion SA: The Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg SL: Asgiriya Stadium, Kandy SL: Colombo Cricket Club Ground SL: Galle International Stadium SL: P Sara Oval, Colombo SL: Pallekele International Cricket Stadium SL: R.Premadasa Stadium, Khettarama, Colombo SL: Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo SL: Tyronne Fernando Stadium, Moratuwa UAE: Dubai International Cricket Stadium UAE: Sharjah Cricket Stadium UAE: Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi WI: Antigua Recreation Ground, St John's, Antigua WI: Arnos Vale Ground, Kingstown, St Vincent WI: Bourda, Georgetown, Guyana WI: Daren Sammy National Cricket Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia WI: Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados WI: National Cricket Stadium, St George's, Grenada WI: Providence Stadium, Guyana WI: Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad WI: Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica WI: Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, North Sound, Antigua WI: Warner Park, Basseterre, St Kitts WI: Windsor Park, Roseau, Dominica ZIM: Bulawayo Athletic Club ZIM: Harare Sports Club ZIM: Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo
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England in Australia Test Series, 1876/77 England in Australia Test Match, 1878/79 Australia in England Test Match, 1880 England in Australia Test Series, 1881/82 Australia in England Test Match, 1882 The Ashes, 1882/83 England in Australia Test Match, 1882/83 The Ashes, 1884 The Ashes, 1884/85 The Ashes, 1886 The Ashes, 1886/87 The Ashes, 1887/88 The Ashes, 1888 England in South Africa Test Series, 1888/89 The Ashes, 1890 The Ashes, 1891/92 England in South Africa Test Match, 1891/92 The Ashes, 1893 The Ashes, 1894/95 England in South Africa Test Series, 1895/96 The Ashes, 1896 The Ashes, 1897/98 England in South Africa Test Series, 1898/99 The Ashes, 1899 The Ashes, 1901/02 The Ashes, 1902 Australia in South Africa Test Series, 1902/03 The Ashes, 1903/04 The Ashes, 1905 England in South Africa Test Series, 1905/06 South Africa in England Test Series, 1907 The Ashes, 1907/08 The Ashes, 1909 England in South Africa Test Series, 1909/10 South Africa in Australia Test Series, 1910/11 The Ashes, 1911/12 Triangular Tournament, 1912 Australia v South Africa Test Series, 1912 South Africa in England Test Series, 1912 The Ashes, 1912 England in South Africa Test Series, 1913/14 The Ashes, 1920/21 The Ashes, 1921 Australia in South Africa Test Series, 1921/22 England in South Africa Test Series, 1922/23 South Africa in England Test Series, 1924 The Ashes, 1924/25 The Ashes, 1926 England in South Africa Test Series, 1927/28 West Indies in England Test Series, 1928 The Ashes, 1928/29 South Africa in England Test Series, 1929 England in New Zealand Test Series, 1929/30 England in West Indies Test Series, 1929/30 The Ashes, 1930 West Indies in Australia Test Series, 1930/31 England in South Africa Test Series, 1930/31 New Zealand in England Test Series, 1931 South Africa in Australia Test Series, 1931/32 South Africa in New Zealand Test Series, 1931/32 India in England Test Match, 1932 The Ashes, 1932/33 England in New Zealand Test Series, 1932/33 West Indies in England Test Series, 1933 England in India Test Series, 1933/34 The Ashes, 1934 England in West Indies Test Series, 1934/35 South Africa in England Test Series, 1935 Australia in South Africa Test Series, 1935/36 India in England Test Series, 1936 The Ashes, 1936/37 New Zealand in England Test Series, 1937 The Ashes, 1938 England in South Africa Test Series, 1938/39 West Indies in England Test Series, 1939 Australia in New Zealand Test Match, 1945/46 India in England Test Series, 1946 The Ashes, 1946/47 England in New Zealand Test Match, 1946/47 South Africa in England Test Series, 1947 India in Australia Test Series, 1947/48 England in West Indies Test Series, 1947/48 The Ashes, 1948 West Indies in India Test Series, 1948/49 England in South Africa Test Series, 1948/49 New Zealand in England Test Series, 1949 Australia in South Africa Test Series, 1949/50 West Indies in England Test Series, 1950 The Ashes, 1950/51 England in New Zealand Test Series, 1950/51 South Africa in England Test Series, 1951 England in India Test Series, 1951/52 West Indies in Australia Test Series, 1951/52 West Indies in New Zealand Test Series, 1951/52 India in England Test Series, 1952 Pakistan in India Test Series, 1952/53 South Africa in Australia Test Series, 1952/53 India in West Indies Test Series, 1952/53 South Africa in New Zealand Test Series, 1952/53 The Ashes, 1953 New Zealand in South Africa Test Series, 1953/54 England in West Indies Test Series, 1953/54 Pakistan in England Test Series, 1954 The Ashes, 1954/55 India in Pakistan Test Series, 1954/55 England in New Zealand Test Series, 1954/55 Australia in West Indies Test Series, 1955 South Africa in England Test Series, 1955 New Zealand in Pakistan Test Series, 1955/56 New Zealand in India Test Series, 1955/56 West Indies in New Zealand Test Series, 1955/56 The Ashes, 1956 Australia in Pakistan Test Match, 1956/57 Australia in India Test Series, 1956/57 England in South Africa Test Series, 1956/57 West Indies in England Test Series, 1957 Australia in South Africa Test Series, 1957/58 Pakistan in West Indies Test Series, 1957/58 New Zealand in England Test Series, 1958 West Indies in India Test Series, 1958/59 The Ashes, 1958/59 West Indies in Pakistan Test Series, 1958/59 England in New Zealand Test Series, 1958/59 India in England Test Series, 1959 Australia in Pakistan Test Series, 1959/60 Australia in India Test Series, 1959/60 England in West Indies Test Series, 1959/60 South Africa in England Test Series, 1960 Pakistan in India Test Series, 1960/61 The Frank Worrell Trophy, 1960/61 The Ashes, 1961 England in Pakistan Test Series, 1961/62 England in India Test Series, 1961/62 New Zealand in South Africa Test Series, 1961/62 India in West Indies Test Series, 1961/62 Pakistan in England Test Series, 1962 The Ashes, 1962/63 England in New Zealand Test Series, 1962/63 The Wisden Trophy, 1963 South Africa in Australia Test Series, 1963/64 England in India Test Series, 1963/64 South Africa in New Zealand Test Series, 1963/64 The Ashes, 1964 Australia in India Test Series, 1964/65 Australia in Pakistan Test Match, 1964/65 Pakistan in Australia Test Match, 1964/65 England in South Africa Test Series, 1964/65 Pakistan in New Zealand Test Series, 1964/65 New Zealand in India Test Series, 1964/65 The Frank Worrell Trophy, 1964/65 New Zealand in Pakistan Test Series, 1964/65 New Zealand in England Test Series, 1965 South Africa in England Test Series, 1965 The Ashes, 1965/66 England in New Zealand Test Series, 1965/66 The Wisden Trophy, 1966 West Indies in India Test Series, 1966/67 Australia in South Africa Test Series, 1966/67 India in England Test Series, 1967 Pakistan in England Test Series, 1967 India in Australia Test Series, 1967/68 The Wisden Trophy, 1967/68 India in New Zealand Test Series, 1967/68 The Ashes, 1968 The Frank Worrell Trophy, 1968/69 England in Pakistan Test Series, 1968/69 West Indies in New Zealand Test Series, 1968/69 The Wisden Trophy, 1969 New Zealand in England Test Series, 1969 New Zealand in India Test Series, 1969/70 New Zealand in Pakistan Test Series, 1969/70 Australia in India Test Series, 1969/70 Australia in South Africa Test Series, 1969/70 The Ashes, 1970/71 India in West Indies Test Series, 1970/71 England in New Zealand Test Series, 1970/71 Pakistan in England Test Series, 1971 India in England Test Series, 1971 New Zealand in West Indies Test Series, 1971/72 The Ashes, 1972 England in India Test Series, 1972/73 Pakistan in Australia Test Series, 1972/73 Pakistan in New Zealand Test Series, 1972/73 The Frank Worrell Trophy, 1972/73 England in Pakistan Test Series, 1972/73 New Zealand in England Test Series, 1973 The Wisden Trophy, 1973 New Zealand in Australia Test Series, 1973/74 The Wisden Trophy, 1973/74 Australia in New Zealand Test Series, 1973/74 India in England Test Series, 1974 Pakistan in England Test Series, 1974 West Indies in India Test Series, 1974/75 The Ashes, 1974/75 West Indies in Pakistan Test Series, 1974/75 England in New Zealand Test Series, 1974/75 The Ashes, 1975 The Frank Worrell Trophy, 1975/76 India in New Zealand Test Series, 1975/76 India in West Indies Test Series, 1975/76 The Wisden Trophy, 1976 New Zealand in Pakistan Test Series, 1976/77 New Zealand in India Test Series, 1976/77 England in India Test Series, 1976/77 Pakistan in Australia Test Series, 1976/77 Australia in New Zealand Test Series, 1976/77 Pakistan in West Indies Test Series, 1976/77 Centenary Test, 1976/77 The Ashes, 1977 India in Australia Test Series, 1977/78 England in Pakistan Test Series, 1977/78 England in New Zealand Test Series, 1977/78 The Frank Worrell Trophy, 1977/78 Pakistan in England Test Series, 1978 New Zealand in England Test Series, 1978 India in Pakistan Test Series, 1978/79 The Ashes, 1978/79 West Indies in India Test Series, 1978/79 Pakistan in New Zealand Test Series, 1978/79 Pakistan in Australia Test Series, 1978/79 India in England Test Series, 1979 Australia in India Test Series, 1979/80 Pakistan in India Test Series, 1979/80 The Frank Worrell Trophy, 1979/80 England in Australia Test Series, 1979/80 West Indies in New Zealand Test Series, 1979/80 Golden Jubilee Test, 1979/80 Australia in Pakistan Test Series, 1979/80 The Wisden Trophy, 1980 Centenary Test, 1980 West Indies in Pakistan Test Series, 1980/81 New Zealand in Australia Test Series, 1980/81 India in Australia Test Series, 1980/81 The Wisden Trophy, 1980/81 India in New Zealand Test Series, 1980/81 The Ashes, 1981 Pakistan in Australia Test Series, 1981/82 England in India Test Series, 1981/82 The Frank Worrell Trophy, 1981/82 England in Sri Lanka Test Match, 1981/82 Australia in New Zealand Test Series, 1981/82 Sri Lanka in Pakistan Test Series, 1981/82 India in England Test Series, 1982 Pakistan in England Test Series, 1982 Sri Lanka in India Test Match, 1982/83 Australia in Pakistan Test Series, 1982/83 The Ashes, 1982/83 India in Pakistan Test Series, 1982/83 India in West Indies Test Series, 1982/83 Sri Lanka in New Zealand Test Series, 1982/83 Australia in Sri Lanka Test Match, 1982/83 New Zealand in England Test Series, 1983 Pakistan in India Test Series, 1983/84 West Indies in India Test Series, 1983/84 Pakistan in Australia Test Series, 1983/84 England in New Zealand Test Series, 1983/84 England in Pakistan Test Series, 1983/84 The Frank Worrell Trophy, 1983/84 New Zealand in Sri Lanka Test Series, 1983/84 The Wisden Trophy, 1984 Sri Lanka in England Test Match, 1984 India in Pakistan Test Series, 1984/85 The Frank Worrell Trophy, 1984/85 New Zealand in Pakistan Test Series, 1984/85 England in India Test Series, 1984/85 Pakistan in New Zealand Test Series, 1984/85 New Zealand in West Indies Test Series, 1984/85 The Ashes, 1985 India in Sri Lanka Test Series, 1985 Sri Lanka in Pakistan Test Series, 1985/86 Trans-Tasman Trophy, 1985/86 India in Australia Test Series, 1985/86 Trans-Tasman Trophy, 1985/86 The Wisden Trophy, 1985/86 Pakistan in Sri Lanka Test Series, 1985/86 India in England Test Series, 1986 New Zealand in England Test Series, 1986 Australia in India Test Series, 1986/87 West Indies in Pakistan Test Series, 1986/87 The Ashes, 1986/87 Sri Lanka in India Test Series, 1986/87 Pakistan in India Test Series, 1986/87 West Indies in New Zealand Test Series, 1986/87 New Zealand in Sri Lanka Test Series, 1987 Pakistan in England Test Series, 1987 West Indies in India Test Series, 1987/88 England in Pakistan Test Series, 1987/88 Trans-Tasman Trophy, 1987/88 Bicentenary Test, 1987/88 England in New Zealand Test Series, 1987/88 Sri Lanka in Australia Test Match, 1987/88 Pakistan in West Indies Test Series, 1987/88 The Wisden Trophy, 1988 Sri Lanka in England Test Match, 1988 Australia in Pakistan Test Series, 1988/89 New Zealand in India Test Series, 1988/89 The Frank Worrell Trophy, 1988/89 Pakistan in New Zealand Test Series, 1988/89 India in West Indies Test Series, 1988/89 The Ashes, 1989 India in Pakistan Test Series, 1989/90 Trans-Tasman Trophy, 1989/90 Sri Lanka in Australia Test Series, 1989/90 Pakistan in Australia Test Series, 1989/90 India in New Zealand Test Series, 1989/90 The Wisden Trophy, 1989/90 Trans-Tasman Trophy, 1989/90 New Zealand in England Test Series, 1990 India in England Test Series, 1990 New Zealand in Pakistan Test Series, 1990/91 West Indies in Pakistan Test Series, 1990/91 The Ashes, 1990/91 Sri Lanka in India Test Match, 1990/91 Sri Lanka in New Zealand Test Series, 1990/91 The Frank Worrell Trophy, 1990/91 The Wisden Trophy, 1991 Sri Lanka in England Test Match, 1991 India in Australia Test Series, 1991/92 Sri Lanka in Pakistan Test Series, 1991/92 England in New Zealand Test Series, 1991/92 South Africa in West Indies Test Match, 1991/92 Pakistan in England Test Series, 1992 Australia in Sri Lanka Test Series, 1992 India in Zimbabwe Test Match, 1992/93 New Zealand in Zimbabwe Test Series, 1992/93 India in South Africa Test Series, 1992/93 The Frank Worrell Trophy, 1992/93 New Zealand in Sri Lanka Test Series, 1992/93 Pakistan in New Zealand Test Match, 1992/93 England in India Test Series, 1992/93 Trans-Tasman Trophy, 1992/93 Zimbabwe in India Test Match, 1992/93 England in Sri Lanka Test Match, 1992/93 Pakistan in West Indies Test Series, 1992/93 The Ashes, 1993 India in Sri Lanka Test Series, 1993 South Africa in Sri Lanka Test Series, 1993 Trans-Tasman Trophy, 1993/94 Zimbabwe in Pakistan Test Series, 1993/94 West Indies in Sri Lanka Test Match, 1993/94 South Africa in Australia Test Series, 1993/94 Sri Lanka in India Test Series, 1993/94 Pakistan in New Zealand Test Series, 1993/94 The Wisden Trophy, 1993/94 Australia in South Africa Test Series, 1993/94 India in New Zealand Test Match, 1993/94 New Zealand in England Test Series, 1994 South Africa in England Test Series, 1994 Pakistan in Sri Lanka Test Series, 1994 Australia in Pakistan Test Series, 1994/95 Sri Lanka in Zimbabwe Test Series, 1994/95 West Indies in India Test Series, 1994/95 The Ashes, 1994/95 New Zealand in South Africa Test Series, 1994/95 Pakistan in South Africa Test Match, 1994/95 Pakistan in Zimbabwe Test Series, 1994/95 West Indies in New Zealand Test Series, 1994/95 Centenary Test, 1994/95 Sri Lanka in New Zealand Test Series, 1994/95 The Frank Worrell Trophy, 1994/95 The Wisden Trophy, 1995 Sri Lanka in Pakistan Test Series, 1995/96 South Africa in Zimbabwe Test Match, 1995/96 New Zealand in India Test Series, 1995/96 Pakistan in Australia Test Series, 1995/96 England in South Africa Test Series, 1995/96 Pakistan in New Zealand Test Match, 1995/96 Sri Lanka in Australia Test Series, 1995/96 Zimbabwe in New Zealand Test Series, 1995/96 New Zealand in West Indies Test Series, 1995/96 India in England Test Series, 1996 Pakistan in England Test Series, 1996 Zimbabwe in Sri Lanka Test Series, 1996 Border-Gavaskar Trophy, 1996/97 Zimbabwe in Pakistan Test Series, 1996/97 South Africa in India Test Series, 1996/97 New Zealand in Pakistan Test Series, 1996/97 The Frank Worrell Trophy, 1996/97 England in Zimbabwe Test Series, 1996/97 India in South Africa Test Series, 1996/97 England in New Zealand Test Series, 1996/97 Australia in South Africa Test Series, 1996/97 India in West Indies Test Series, 1996/97 Sri Lanka in New Zealand Test Series, 1996/97 Pakistan in Sri Lanka Test Series, 1996/97 The Ashes, 1997 Sri Lanka in West Indies Test Series, 1997 India in Sri Lanka Test Series, 1997 New Zealand in Zimbabwe Test Series, 1997/98 South Africa in Pakistan Test Series, 1997/98 Trans-Tasman Trophy, 1997/98 West Indies in Pakistan Test Series, 1997/98 Sri Lanka in India Test Series, 1997/98 South Africa in Australia Test Series, 1997/98 Zimbabwe in Sri Lanka Test Series, 1997/98 The Wisden Trophy, 1997/98 Pakistan in South Africa Test Series, 1997/98 Zimbabwe in New Zealand Test Series, 1997/98 Border-Gavaskar Trophy, 1997/98 Pakistan in Zimbabwe Test Series, 1997/98 Sri Lanka in South Africa Test Series, 1997/98 New Zealand in Sri Lanka Test Series, 1998 South Africa in England Test Series, 1998 Sri Lanka in England Test Match, 1998 Australia in Pakistan Test Series, 1998/99 India in Zimbabwe Test Match, 1998/99 The Ashes, 1998/99 West Indies in South Africa Test Series, 1998/99 Zimbabwe in Pakistan Test Series, 1998/99 India in New Zealand Test Series, 1998/99 Pakistan in India Test Series, 1998/99 Asian Test Championship, 1998/99 South Africa in New Zealand Test Series, 1998/99 The Frank Worrell Trophy, 1998/99 New Zealand in England Test Series, 1999 Australia in Sri Lanka Test Series, 1999 New Zealand in India Test Series, 1999/00 Southern Cross Trophy, 1999/00 South Africa v Zimbabwe Test Series, 1999/00 Pakistan in Australia Test Series, 1999/00 Sri Lanka in Zimbabwe Test Series, 1999/00 England in South Africa Test Series, 1999/00 Border-Gavaskar Trophy, 1999/00 West Indies in New Zealand Test Series, 1999/00 South Africa in India Test Series, 1999/00 Sri Lanka in Pakistan Test Series, 1999/00 Trans-Tasman Trophy, 1999/00 Zimbabwe in West Indies Test Series, 1999/00 Pakistan in West Indies Test Series, 2000 Zimbabwe in England Test Series, 2000 Pakistan in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2000 The Wisden Trophy, 2000 South Africa in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2000 New Zealand in Zimbabwe Test Series, 2000/01 India in Bangladesh Test Match, 2000/01 England in Pakistan Test Series, 2000/01 New Zealand in South Africa Test Series, 2000/01 Zimbabwe in India Test Series, 2000/01 The Frank Worrell Trophy, 2000/01 Zimbabwe in New Zealand Test Match, 2000/01 Sri Lanka in South Africa Test Series, 2000/01 England in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2000/01 Border-Gavaskar Trophy, 2000/01 Pakistan in New Zealand Test Series, 2000/01 Sir Vivian Richards Trophy, 2000/01 Bangladesh in Zimbabwe Test Series, 2000/01 Pakistan in England Test Series, 2001 India in Zimbabwe Test Series, 2001 The Ashes, 2001 Clive Lloyd Trophy, 2001 India in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2001 Asian Test Championship, 2001/02 South Africa in Zimbabwe Test Series, 2001/02 India in South Africa Test Series, 2001/02 Trans-Tasman Trophy, 2001/02 Zimbabwe in Bangladesh Test Series, 2001/02 West Indies in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2001/02 England in India Test Series, 2001/02 South Africa in Australia Test Series, 2001/02 Bangladesh in New Zealand Test Series, 2001/02 Zimbabwe in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2001/02 Pakistan in Bangladesh Test Series, 2001/02 Pakistan v West Indies Test Series, 2001/02 Zimbabwe in India Test Series, 2001/02 Australia in South Africa Test Series, 2001/02 England in New Zealand Test Series, 2001/02 India in West Indies Test Series, 2002 New Zealand in Pakistan Test Series, 2002 Sri Lanka in England Test Series, 2002 New Zealand in West Indies Test Series, 2002 Bangladesh in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2002 India in England Test Series, 2002 Australia v Pakistan Test Series, 2002/03 West Indies in India Test Series, 2002/03 Bangladesh in South Africa Test Series, 2002/03 The Ashes, 2002/03 Sri Lanka in South Africa Test Series, 2002/03 Pakistan in Zimbabwe Test Series, 2002/03 West Indies in Bangladesh Test Series, 2002/03 India in New Zealand Test Series, 2002/03 Pakistan in South Africa Test Series, 2002/03 The Frank Worrell Trophy, 2003 South Africa in Bangladesh Test Series, 2003 New Zealand in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2003 Zimbabwe in England Test Series, 2003 Sri Lanka in West Indies Test Series, 2003 Bangladesh in Australia Test Series, 2003 South Africa in England Test Series, 2003 Bangladesh in Pakistan Test Series, 2003 New Zealand in India Test Series, 2003/04 Southern Cross Trophy, 2003/04 South Africa in Pakistan Test Series, 2003/04 England in Bangladesh Test Series, 2003/04 Clive Lloyd Trophy, 2003/04 England in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2003/04 Border-Gavaskar Trophy, 2003/04 Sir Vivian Richards Trophy, 2003/04 Pakistan in New Zealand Test Series, 2003/04 Bangladesh in Zimbabwe Test Series, 2003/04 Australia in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2003/04 South Africa in New Zealand Test Series, 2003/04 The Wisden Trophy, 2003/04 India in Pakistan Test Series, 2003/04 Sri Lanka in Zimbabwe Test Series, 2004 New Zealand in England Test Series, 2004 Bangladesh in West Indies Test Series, 2004 Sri Lanka in Australia Test Series, 2004 The Wisden Trophy, 2004 South Africa in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2004 Border-Gavaskar Trophy, 2004/05 New Zealand in Bangladesh Test Series, 2004/05 Sri Lanka in Pakistan Test Series, 2004/05 Trans-Tasman Trophy, 2004/05 South Africa in India Test Series, 2004/05 India in Bangladesh Test Series, 2004/05 Pakistan in Australia Test Series, 2004/05 Basil D'Oliveira Trophy, 2004/05 Zimbabwe in Bangladesh Test Series, 2004/05 Zimbabwe in South Africa Test Series, 2004/05 Pakistan in India Test Series, 2004/05 Trans-Tasman Trophy, 2004/05 Sir Vivian Richards Trophy, 2005 Sri Lanka in New Zealand Test Series, 2004/05 Bangladesh in England Test Series, 2005 Pakistan in West Indies Test Series, 2005 West Indies in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2005 The Ashes, 2005 New Zealand in Zimbabwe Test Series, 2005 Bangladesh in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2005 India in Zimbabwe Test Series, 2005 ICC Super Series Test Match, 2005/06 The Frank Worrell Trophy, 2005/06 England in Pakistan Test Series, 2005/06 Sri Lanka in India Test Series, 2005/06 South Africa in Australia Test Series, 2005/06 India in Pakistan Test Series, 2005/06 Sri Lanka in Bangladesh Test Series, 2005/06 England in India Test Series, 2005/06 West Indies in New Zealand Test Series, 2005/06 Australia in South Africa Test Series, 2005/06 Pakistan in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2005/06 Australia in Bangladesh Test Series, 2005/06 New Zealand in South Africa Test Series, 2005/06 Sri Lanka in England Test Series, 2006 India in West Indies Test Series, 2006 Pakistan in England Test Series, 2006 South Africa in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2006 West Indies in Pakistan Test Series, 2006/07 The Ashes, 2006/07 Sri Lanka in New Zealand Test Series, 2006/07 India in South Africa Test Series, 2006/07 Pakistan in South Africa Test Series, 2006/07 The Wisden Trophy, 2007 India in Bangladesh Test Series, 2007 Bangladesh in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2007 Pataudi Trophy, 2007 South Africa in Pakistan Test Series, 2007/08 Warne-Muralitharan Trophy, 2007/08 New Zealand in South Africa Test Series, 2007/08 Pakistan in India Test Series, 2007/08 England in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2007/08 Border-Gavaskar Trophy, 2007/08 Sir Vivian Richards Trophy, 2007/08 Bangladesh in New Zealand Test Series, 2007/08 South Africa in Bangladesh Test Series, 2007/08 England in New Zealand Test Series, 2007/08 Sri Lanka in West Indies Test Series, 2007/08 South Africa in India Test Series, 2007/08 New Zealand in England Test Series, 2008 The Frank Worrell Trophy, 2008 Basil D'Oliveira Trophy, 2008 India in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2008 Border-Gavaskar Trophy, 2008/09 New Zealand in Bangladesh Test Series, 2008/09 Bangladesh in South Africa Test Series, 2008/09 Trans-Tasman Trophy, 2008/09 England in India Test Series, 2008/09 West Indies in New Zealand Test Series, 2008/09 South Africa in Australia Test Series, 2008/09 Sri Lanka in Bangladesh Test Series, 2008/09 The Wisden Trophy, 2008/09 Sri Lanka in Pakistan Test Series, 2008/09 Australia in South Africa Test Series, 2008/09 India in New Zealand Test Series, 2008/09 The Wisden Trophy, 2009 Pakistan in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2009 The Ashes, 2009 Bangladesh in West Indies Test Series, 2009 New Zealand in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2009 Sri Lanka in India Test Series, 2009/10 Pakistan in New Zealand Test Series, 2009/10 The Frank Worrell Trophy, 2009/10 Basil D'Oliveira Trophy, 2009/10 Pakistan in Australia Test Series, 2009/10 India in Bangladesh Test Series, 2009/10 South Africa in India Test Series, 2009/10 Bangladesh in New Zealand Test Match, 2009/10 England in Bangladesh Test Series, 2009/10 Trans-Tasman Trophy, 2009/10 Bangladesh in England Test Series, 2010 Sir Vivian Richards Trophy, 2010 MCC Spirit of Cricket Test Series, 2010 India in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2010 Pakistan in England Test Series, 2010 Border-Gavaskar Trophy, 2010/11 New Zealand in India Test Series, 2010/11 Pakistan v South Africa Test Series, 2010/11 West Indies in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2010/11 The Ashes, 2010/11 India in South Africa Test Series, 2010/11 Pakistan in New Zealand Test Series, 2010/11 Pakistan in West Indies Test Series, 2011 Sri Lanka in England Test Series, 2011 India in West Indies Test Series, 2011 Pataudi Trophy, 2011 Bangladesh in Zimbabwe Test Match, 2011 Warne-Muralitharan Trophy, 2011 Pakistan in Zimbabwe Test Match, 2011 Pakistan v Sri Lanka Test Series, 2011/12 West Indies in Bangladesh Test Series, 2011/12 New Zealand in Zimbabwe Test Match, 2011/12 West Indies in India Test Series, 2011/12 Australia in South Africa Test Series, 2011/12 Trans-Tasman Trophy, 2011/12 Pakistan in Bangladesh Test Series, 2011/12 Sri Lanka in South Africa Test Series, 2011/12 Border-Gavaskar Trophy, 2011/12 Pakistan v England Test Series, 2011/12 Zimbabwe in New Zealand Test Match, 2011/12 South Africa in New Zealand Test Series, 2011/12 England in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2011/12 The Frank Worrell Trophy, 2011/12 The Wisden Trophy, 2012 Pakistan in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2012 Basil D'Oliveira Trophy, 2012 New Zealand in West Indies Test Series, 2012 New Zealand in India Test Series, 2012 South Africa in Australia Test Series, 2012/13 West Indies in Bangladesh Test Series, 2012/13 England in India Test Series, 2012/13 New Zealand in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2012/13 Warne-Muralitharan Trophy, 2012/13 New Zealand in South Africa Test Series, 2012/13 Pakistan in South Africa Test Series, 2012/13 Border-Gavaskar Trophy, 2012/13 England in New Zealand Test Series, 2012/13 Bangladesh in Sri Lanka Test Series, 2012/13 Clive Lloyd Trophy, 2012/13 Bangladesh in Zimbabwe Test Series, 2013 New Zealand in England Test Series, 2013 The Ashes, 2013 Pakistan in Zimbabwe Test Series, 2013 New Zealand in Bangladesh Test Series, 2013/14 Pakistan v South Africa Test Series, 2013/14 West Indies in 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Takes on College Football: Against the Spread, Championship Week
by TD Wood
We are not experts (though our percentages are better than some of the experts, god dammit). If you go by these picks, you’re bound to be lose money. Though you never know! It’s entirely possible that you’ll be able to pay off all those student loans that you owe from going to these universities! Each week, two crazy, lazy writers at The Alabama Take give their best guess at the best bets with the lowest stress. It’s our college football picks of the week!
2018 ATS Record
Blaine Duncan: 21-17-1 (Week Thirteen: 1-1-1)
T.D. Wood: 18-21-1 (Week Thirteen: 2-2)
Here we are. The end of the season. Looking back, only a few of us got these championship games right. Let’s close this out with a final set of picks.
Stanford (-3) at Cal: Stanford has a better coach, better team, and better chance at this one. They’ve also been in big games more so than Cal. Now how does that play out? Does that make Cal want it more? Or is the Cardinal ready for this match up, which may feel more like a consolation prize? I like Stanford by a touchdown here. They’ll cover.
Georgia at Alabama (UNDER: 64): Bama’s explosive offense gets the nod here in this over/under of 64, but Bama’s defense has really stepped up its game late in the season. Saban and co. will keep Georgia under seventeen points, and an angry, hard-scrabble, revenge-seeking Georgia team will keep Tua and the Tide from going completely ballistic. This one will end on a 45-17 note, with Alabama getting its (amazing) 27th SEC Championship. Bet the under.
Memphis at Central Florida (-3): I’ve railed on UCF all year, and it’s been deserved. Don’t get me wrong. They’re (still) a joke when it comes to a comparison of the upper echelon of football programs in this 2018 year of our Lord (Saban). But there’s no doubt in my mind that they’ll beat these Tigers by 12 points or more, even with a back-up quarterback, who will add a new dimension to the run game for the Knights. This game is the best bet of the Championship Week. Lock it up!
Pittsburgh at Clemson (-27.5): I’m not sure how high this line could get for me to back off of Clemson, but I think that team is ready for the Playoffs and ready to shine. That QB of theirs is solid, if not great. I think these Tigers win by 35 points and makes this one another boring ACC title game.
T.D. Wood
Fairly disappointed in my performance this year, but maybe I can salvage a .500 record with a strong final weekend.
Memphis (+3) vs. UCF: The Tigers almost ended UCF’s winning streak earlier this year, and they might smell blood against a wounded UCF squad.
Texas (+8) vs. Oklahoma: This game should be a lot different than last time around, but that doesn’t mean it won’t be a close affair. The Longhorns don’t get blown out, and the Sooners have a knack for pulling out squeakers. Expect another tight one.
Georgia vs Alabama (-12.5): Georgia, moreso than any other team in the country, matches up well with the Tide. However, Bama is on an unreal level this season, and the Bulldogs are a bit shaky against the run. Bama pulls away late.
Pitt vs. Clemson (-27.5): Pitt will try to slow this game down. They will make it ugly. They will try to grind and grind the Tigers into mistakes. It will not work.
Northwestern vs. Ohio State (-14.5): As much as I want to see the Wildcats pull it off, it ain’t gonna happen. Too much talent on the Buckeyes.
Note: All games are Against the Spread. Odds are taken from the Westgate Las Vegas Superbook.
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The ‘Sunnah Prayers’ on Jumu’ah
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Questioner: As regards the Jumu’ah prayer, the mu’addhin gives the adhaan, then one prays the two rak’ah Sunnahs of Jumu’ah, is that allowed or not?
Al-Albaani: [You said], ‘Is it allowed?’ what are you referring to?
Questioner: The two rak’ahs …
Al-Albaani: There are no Sunnah [rak’ahs] for Jumu’ah [prayer], Yaa akhi. The Jumu’ah Sunnah prayers which are well-known today amongst many people have no basis in the Sunnah, why?
I will relate a hadith from Sahih Bukhaari to you, the most authentic book after the Book of Allaah, with an authentic chain of narration from as-Saa’ib ibn Yazeed who said the adhaan in the time of the Prophet ﷺ was the first adhaan only, when the Prophet ﷺ would ascend the minbar the mu’addhin would give the adhaan, when he finished the Prophet ﷺ would stand up and deliver the sermon. There was no room for Sunnah prayers before Jumu’ah …
… the Sunnah on Jumu’ah that a Muslim must stick to is to go to the mosque early, the earlier the better, due to his saying ﷺ, “Whoever goes during the first hour, then it is as though he has offered a camel as a sacrifice to seek the Pleasure of Allah, and he who goes at the second hour is like one who offers a cow to win the Pleasure of Allah, and he who comes at the third hour is like one who offers a ram with horns (in sacrifice) and he who comes at the fourth hour is like one who offers a hen, and he who comes at the fifth hour is like one who offers an egg,” so the earlier he is the better.
[So when he does finally] enter the mosque, whether it is early or later, he prays two rak’ahs, four, six, eight, without a limit, because these are called optional prayers [naafilah], these are not Sunnah prayers which the Prophet ﷺ specified, no, and that’s why he ﷺ said in an authentic hadith, “Whoever takes a bath on Friday, and bathes completely, and goes early, arriving early, and then prays as much as he wants, then sits close to the Imaam, and listens to him … except that he is forgiven whatever was between that Jumu’ah and the one after it.”
So this person who enters the mosque on Friday can pray as much as he is able to and according to how much energy he has, and how much time.
But as for what happens nowadays then that has no basis in the Sunnah at all. And that which happens nowadays … how did two adhaans come about?
In the time of ’Uthmaan ibn ’Affaan, Medinah expanded as its residents increased. When the Prophet ﷺ first migrated to Medinah it was like a village/small town naturally, Islaam spread and the Companions started to come and take up residence there bit by bit. In the time of ’Uthmaan, may Allaah be pleased with him, ya’ni, during his khilaafah, Medinah, maa shaa Allaah, became a city, the capital of the Islamic state, and an idea came to him, and how good an idea it was, considering that even until today, as you know, Jumu’ah is only prayed in the Prophet’s Mosque, [this has changed now], they were like that in the time of the Prophet ﷺ, and Abu Bakr and ’Umar and ’Uthmaan … but due to the the expansion of the buildings in Medinah the people who were outside Medinah and in the market called Az-Zawraa couldn’t hear the adhaan in the Prophet’s Mosque, so he made an adhaan there, so let us now [for argument’s sake] call this, ‘The second adhaan.’
… the first adhaan is the one which the Prophet ﷺ established, and this [other] one is called the second adhaan because ’Uthmaan brought it after the first but he didn’t do so except for the people in the market to be able to hear that Jumu’ah prayer’s time has arrived, and that yallah, ‘Come to prayer,’—[so to reiterate] where did ’Uthmaan place this second adhaan? In the market, a well-known place in the books of hadith called, ‘Az-Zawraa.’
It carried on like this up until the time of Hishaam ibn ’Abdul-Malik al-Amawi, it seemed an idea to him to move the adhaan from Az-Zawraa to the mosque, and from that day the situation changed.
And as time passed, a gap appeared between the two adhaans and the people filled it with what they call, ‘The Sunnah prayers anterior to Jumu’ah,’ and these Sunnah prayers done before Jumu’ah have no validity, because in his time, the Prophet, as I told you occurs in Saheeh al-Bukhaari, used to leave his home and ascend the minbar and Bilaal would give the adhaan and when he would finish the adhaan the Prophet ﷺ would start the khutbah, there was no place for two Sunnah rak’ahs let alone four …
Al-Hudaa wan-Noor, 3.
Questioner: … but today I prayed in a mosque in Al-Ashrafiyyah by my father’s house, everyone got up to pray except me, I stayed sitting, I stayed sitting and everyone else got up to pray, I had [already] prayed six rak’ahs … ya’ni before Jumu’ah and then sat down, [but] when they gave the adhaan all of them stood up and prayed [what they incorrectly think are the two Sunnah rak’ahs that one does after the adhaan] except me, they found what I did strange …
Al-Albaani: Inshaa Allaah, you’ll have been added to the strangers [al-ghurabaa] …
Al-Hudaa wan-Noor, 253.
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March 19, 2018 Austin C.
Lupin’s First Movie! (Podcast)
Before Miyazaki waved his hands over the Lupin franchise, there was one particular film that started the onslaught of Lupin films and specials that have gone for decades even to this day.
That films is Lupin the Third: The Mystery of Mamo!
Released in 1978, the film is a wild trip showcasing the weirder, more experimental side of Lupin, before Miyazaki injected his signature whimsy into the franchise forever in The Castle of Cagliostro a year later.
It focuses a lot more on Lupin’s sleaze-ball nature, much in line with Monkey Punch’s vision of the character. The film also plays up the romance between Fujiko and Lupin and dives into some quite strange visual sequences that reference things from 16th century painter Hieronymus Bosch, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and even a cameo from….. uh…. Hitler?
The movie is weird, but it’s really good and totally worth watching if you’re interested in a fun adventure, strange imagery, political jabs, and some great pulpy fun.
Listen to our full review here on our podcast!
Available on most every service where podcasts are typically found.
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Ricardo Cantoral says:
In my opinion, there is Mamo and then there is the rest of the Lupin series. The film is a work of genius that is not only a great political commentary but also a great character driven drama.
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Opinion: King Harry, the Washington lobbyist ‘godfather’ (w/video)
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When Sen. Harry Reid rose to his leadership position in 2005 one of his first acts at the helm was to hold a meet and greet with prominent D.C. lobbyists. The meeting was described by one lobbyist as, “it was like a scene out of ‘The Godfather.’ . . . He was in the back room and people were lined up to greet him and pay homage.” The lobbyist contributions flowing into Reid’s campaign to fund his negative ads represent the lobbying community paying back “the godfather” for his years of hard work fighting for the D.C. special interest groups.
Now one day after Politico reported on Reid’s reliance on Washington lobbyists to fund his nasty smear campaign on Sharron Angle, Reid has decided to go back to the K Street trough for more money. With Nevada’s unemployment rate at 14.2 percent and the foreclosure rate at the highest in the country, Reid has decided again to turn his back on Nevadans and have breakfast with his well-heeled friends at the posh Charlie Palmer Steakhouse on Capitol Hill to raise more money for his campaign.
“Only in Reid’s kingdom would Senator Harry Reid wake up at the Ritz-Carlton and then stroll down to the posh Charlie Palmer’s Steakhouse–where a porterhouse steak costs a mere $84–and dine with his lobbyist friends,” said Jerry Stacy, Spokesman for Angle. “Meanwhile there are over 193,000 Nevadans who are unemployed, because Senator Reid is working to please his liberal base and expand the role of the federal government, instead of focusing on creating an economic environment that will create real jobs. It is time to elect Sharron Angle who will not be beholden to the elite lobbyist community and will always stand up and fight for Nevada.”
Reid Attended A Fundraising Breakfast At The Fancy Capitol Hill Charlie Palmer Steakhouse
Senator Reid Hosted A Fundraising Breakfast This Morning At Charlie Palmer’s Steakhouse On Capitol Hill Soliciting Donations From Special Interest Groups. “Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has his inside-the-Beltway fundraising down to a formula. Pick a venue, host a breakfast at 7:45 a.m., spend 45 minutes with paying guests and then head for the door. And that’s exactly what the Nevada Democrat is expected to do Thursday morning at Charlie Palmer Steak. The event will bring in as much as $2,500 per political action committee and $2,400 from individual hosts, according to a copy of the private invitation.” (Anna Palmer, “Fundraisers Showcase Personalities,” Roll Call, 8/3/10)
Examples Of Dishes On The Charlie Palmer Menu Consist Of A $61 Butter Braised Stuffed Maine Lobster Or A $78 Iced Shellfish Platter. (Charlie Palmer’s Menu, www.charliepalmer.com, Accessed 8/4/10)
Senator Reid Has Accepted Big Money From The Lobbying Community
Reid’s Latest Campaign Finance Report Showed That He Racked Up $56,000 In Contributions From Registered Lobbyists In Just A Few Week Span. “K Street has placed a big bet in the Nevada Senate race, putting a bundle of cash behind Harry Reid. During just a few weeks, the Senate majority leader racked up $56,000 in individual contributions from registered lobbyists, according to an analysis of his latest campaign fundraising records, which cover the final days before the Nevada primary through the end of June.” (John Bresnahan and Manu Raju, “K Street Bets On Reid,” Politico, 8/4/10)
“Indeed, Federal Election Commission Records Show That Reid Is Blowing Away Angle In Lobbyist Money: Since The Start Of 2009, Lobbyists And Political Action Committees Have Bundled An Additional $519,000 To Reid, While Angle Has Yet To Report Any Similar Donations.” (John Bresnahan and Manu Raju, “K Street Bets On Reid,” Politico, 8/4/10)
“Through The First Quarter Of 2010, Reid Has Raised Nearly $640,000 From The Lobbying Industry, Making It The Fourth Biggest Source Of Funds For His Campaign Coffers, According To The Center For Responsive Politics.” (John Bresnahan and Manu Raju, “K Street Bets On Reid,” Politico, 8/4/10)
Reid Has Accepted $1,108,255 Over His Career From The Lobbying Industry. (Center For Responsive Politics, www.opensecrets.org, Accessed 8/4/10)
Reid Has Accepted $9,236,160 From PACs Over The Course Of His Career. (Center For Responsive Politics, www.opensecrets.org, Accessed 8/4/10)
In 2005, When Reid Became The Senate Democrat Leader, One Of His First Acts Was To Meet With A Team Of K Street Lobbyists
In 2005, Hours After Becoming The Senate Democratic Leader, Reid Was Greeted Lobbyists At A Capitol Hill Steakhouse. “Hours after Sen. Harry Reid was sworn in for a fourth term on Jan. 4, many of these same lobbyists descended upon a Capitol Hill steak house to congratulate the Nevada Democrat for being chosen by his peers as the new Senate Democratic leader. Daschle lost his own bid for a fourth term in November, and lobbyists immediately began to reach out to the Nevadan, a quiet Westerner who had mined lobbyists for campaign donations but rarely sought their legislative counsel.” (Mark Preston, “Reid To Enlist K Street,” Roll Call, 1/24/05)
“‘It Was Like A Scene Out Of ‘The Godfather,’ Said One Lobbyist At The Reception. ‘He [Reid] Was In The Back Room And People Were Lined Up To Greet Him And Pay Homage.’” (Mark Preston, “Reid To Enlist K Street,” Roll Call, 1/24/05)
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Wonder// September 18, 2018
THIS Is How You Find Your Joy
According to science, you can find happiness in unexpected places.
Ingrid Fetell Lee, Founder of The Aesthetics of Joy
Photo Credit: Lennart Navarrete / EyeEm?Getty Images
How do tangible things create an intangible feeling of joy?
At first, the answer seemed unequivocal: They don’t. Sure, there’s a certain pleasure in material things, but I’d always been led to believe that this is superficial and short-lived, not a meaningful source of joy. In all the books on happiness that I’d consulted over the years, no one had ever suggested that joy might be hiding inside my closet or kitchen cabinets. Instead, countless experts agree that the kind of joy that mat- ters is not around us but in us. This perspective has roots in ancient philosophical traditions. The teachings of Buddha, for example, advise that happiness comes only from letting go of our attachments to worldly things, while in ancient Greece the Stoic philosophers offered a similar prescription, rooted in self-denial and rigorous control over one’s thoughts. Modern psychology likewise embraces this inward lens, suggesting that the way to a happy life is to change how we look at the world and our place in it. From mantras and meditation to therapy and habit change, true joy is an exercise of mind over matter, not matter over mind.
Yet in the weeks and months that followed my review, I noticed many moments when people seemed to find real joy in the material world. Gazing at a favorite painting in an art museum or making a sandcastle at the beach, people smiled and laughed, lost in the moment. They smiled, too, at the peachy light of the sunset and at the shaggy dog with the yellow galoshes. And not only did people seem to find joy in the world around them, but many also put a lot of effort into making their immediate environment more delightful. They tended rose gardens, put candles on birthday cakes, and hung lights for the holidays. Why would people do these things if they had no real effect on their happiness?
A body of research is emerging that demonstrates a clear link between our surroundings and our mental health. For example, studies show that people with sunny workspaces sleep better and laugh more than their peers in dimly lit offices, and that flowers improve not only people’s moods but their memory as well. As I delved deeper into these findings, joy started to become less amorphous and abstract to me and more tangible and real. It no longer seemed difficult to attain, the result of years of introspection or disciplined practice. Instead, I began to see the world as a reservoir of positivity that I could turn to at any time. I found that certain places have a kind of buoyancy — a bright corner café, a local yarn shop, a block of brownstones whose window boxes overflow with blooms — and I started changing my routines to visit them more often. On bad days, rather than feeling overwhelmed and helpless, I discovered small things that could reliably lift my spirits. I started incorporating what I learned into my home and began to feel a sense of excitement as I put my key into the lock each evening. Over time, it became clear to me that the conventional wisdom about joy was wrong.
Joy isn’t hard to find at all. In fact, it’s all around us.
The liberating awareness of this simple truth changed my life. As I started to share it with others, I found that many people felt the impulse to seek joy in their surroundings but had been made to feel as if their efforts were misguided. One woman told me that buying cut flowers lifted her spirits for days, but she felt like it was a frivolous indulgence, so she only did it on special occasions. It had never occurred to her that for the price of one of her weekly therapy sessions, she could buy a bunch of flowers every other week for a year. Another described how she had walked into her living room after repainting it and felt an “ahhh” feeling — a sense of relief and lightness that made her wonder why she had waited so long to do it. I realized that we all have an inclination to seek joy in our surroundings, yet we have been taught to ignore it. What might happen if we were to reawaken this instinct for finding joy?
Excerpted from JOYFUL Copyright © 2018 by Ingrid Fetell Lee.
Used with permission of Little, Brown and Company, New York. All rights reserved.
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Ingrid Fetell Lee is a designer and the founder of the blog The Aesthetics of Joy. She has been featured as an expert on design and joy by outlets such as the New York Times, Wired, PRI's Studio 360, CBC's Spark, and Fast Company, and her 2018 TED talk received a standing ovation. Lee was formerly Design Director at global innovation firm IDEO, and was a founding faculty member in the Products of Design program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She holds a Master's in Industrial Design from Pratt Institute and a Bachelor's in English and Creative Writing from Princeton University.
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Generality of points of view and of methods, precision and elegance in presentation, have become, since Lagrange, the common property of all who would lay claim to the rank of scientific mathematicians. And, even if this generality leads at times to abstruseness at the expense of intuition and applicability, so that general theorems are formulated which fail to apply to a single special case, if furthermore precision at times degenerates into a studied brevity which makes it more difficult to read an article than it was to write it; if, finally, elegance of form has well-nigh become in our day the criterion of the worth or worthlessness of a proposition,—yet are these conditions of the highest importance to a wholesome development, in that they keep the scientific material within the limits which are necessary both intrinsically and extrinsically if mathematics is not to spend itself in trivialities or smother in profusion.
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In Die Entwickdung der Mathematik in den letzten Jahrhunderten (1884), 14-15.
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No part of Mathematics suffers more from the triviality of its initial presentation to beginners than the great subject of series. Two minor examples of series, namely arithmetic and geometric series, are considered; these examples are important because they are the simplest examples of an important general theory. But the general ideas are never disclosed; and thus the examples, which exemplify nothing, are reduced to silly trivialities.
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Remember When they Argued that the Schoolgirl was in Love With Jeremy Forrest?
I said it from the beginning and it has turned out to be the case – the schoolgirl that ran off with her teacher to France was not in a healthy relationship. Not only did I maintain that a teacher who is involved in a sexual relationship with their student deserves prison time, but that those that defended it on the grounds that this was “true love” would soon see their theory unravel.
That’s why I am not surprised that the schoolgirl has a. found another partner and b. found another teacher:
The teenage schoolgirl who was abducted to France by her teacher has begun a relationship with another teacher, it has emerged.
The girl sparked an international search in 2012 when, aged 15, she fled to France with Jeremy Forrest, a maths teacher at Bishop Bell school in East Sussex.
Forrest, 31, was jailed for five-and-a-half years for child abduction and five charges of sexual activity with a child at Lewes Crown Court in June.
The teenager, who is now 16 and cannot be named for legal reasons, is now “ridiculously happy” in a relationship with a 20-year old teaching assistant, the Sun on Sunday reported.
Her mother told the newspaper: “He is really nice and we have welcomed him into the family and I am very happy for my daughter. We would now appreciate that they are left alone.”
The man is reportedly a PE assistant who lives in a different town and has no connection with the girl’s school, so there is no suggestion of any wrongdoing. The man also works part-time in security. The girl posted a photograph on the internet of the two together and has exchanged publicly-visible messages with him.
The girl had previously told newspapers she wanted to marry Forrest when he was released from prison. However, she was banned from visiting him in jail because of his child sex conviction.
She also claimed she had instigated the relationship with the maths teacher and that it had been her suggestion to run away together to Bordeaux after their relationship was uncovered.
Please click on the links to read two related posts on the same story:
Jeremy Forrest Found Guilty!
You Don’t Warn Teachers Not to Have Sex With Their Students
Is Anybody Still Defending Jeremy Forrest?
Now that Jeremy Forrest is Arrested …
The Court System Should Deal Severely with Teachers Like This
Make an Example out of Jeremy Forrest
School Allegedly Turned a Blind Eye to Peter Forrest’s Relationship with Schoolgirl
Why Jeremy Forrest is Foolish and Megan Stammers is too Young
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Jeremy Forrest Dumped by Schoolgirl: Anyone Surprised?
This is the ultimate morality tale for any teacher stupid enough to go down the unprofessional and highly unethical path of starting a relationship with a student:
The schoolgirl who ran away with married teacher Jeremy Forrest last year when she was just 15-years-old has dumped him for a boyfriend her own age, it has been reported.
The girl, now 16, sparked an international hunt last year when she fled to France with 31-year-old Jeremy Forrest.
Forrest was arrested by French police when he turned up for a job at a bar owned by a British woman who had recognised him from television appeals and was jailed for five-and-a-half years.
The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had vowed to wait for him ‘for ever’ for him and also said she wanted to have his baby.
She had been in regular contact with his parents and had reportedly made several attempts to contact him in prison.
But Social workers stepped in and banned him from having any contact with him until she is at least 18.
According to a report in the Sunday Mirror, the girl now has a new boyfriend who is a sixth-form student her own age.
She reportedly phoned Forrest’s parents in tears to explain and his father Jim broke the news to his son in prison yesterday.
A family source told the Sunday Mirror: ‘Jeremy is naturally devastated. He’s really upset, but at the same time he’s a realist.
‘He half expected this to happen while he was in prison, I think.’
She is now said to be back living with her mother.
The pair had fallen out over her relationship with Forrest but they have now made peace.
The schoolgirl first kissed Forrest in his classroom when she was 14. He took her virginity one week after her 15th birthday in the marital home while his wife was away.
They fled to Bordeaux when their affair was uncovered by her mother after someone reported seeing text messages on her phone.
Police had failed to find the messages when they examined the phone the day before the girl and Jeremy fled.
She claimed that the pair were only caught because she had been jealous of a ‘flirty barmaid’ who lured him to an interview with offers of work.
In front of his weeping teenage girlfriend, Forrest was arrested and returned to the UK to stand trial.
At Forrest’s trial, the court heard that the schoolgirl turned to her teacher during a tumultuous period in her life. She was upset over the break-up of her parents’ marriage. Both had gone on to meet new partners.
Her mother was pregnant with a new baby by her fiance, and her father had fallen in love and was busy planning a wedding.
Jeremy Forrest was all ears, but crucially failed to stop her growing infatuation in its tracks.
He posted tortured blogs about the moral dilemma he was facing, exchanged explicit photos with the girl via mobile phone and told bare-faced lies when warned over his behaviour by suspicious colleagues.
He even had the cheek to complain to the girl’s mother about the rumours threatening his reputation.
The former maths teacher is currently incarcerated in Ashfield Prison, near Bristol, one of five controversial new jails designed to house only sex offenders.
Built to cope with the dramatic increase in the number of people being convicted of sexual abuse, they have faced a barrage of criticism, with many people fearing that keeping abusers together could reinforce their behaviour.
If You Care About Your Students, You Don’t Do as Jeremy Forrest Did
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Was it Love or Just a Conquest for Jeremy Forrest?
Many are astounded at the severity of the sentence handed down to Mr. Forrest, the maths teacher convicted of child abduction. They claimed that the girl willfully traveled with him to France and voluntarily allowed herself to become sexually involved with him.
Putting aside the fact that teachers should never be allowed to enter into such relationships with school children and ignoring the fact that she was underage at the time, I ask, was this relationship really about love for Mr. Forrest, or was it about the recruit that succumbed to his advances?
Recent evidence suggests that had she not entered into a relationship with him, his focus may well have shifted to other schoolgirls:
A teenager told last night how shamed maths teacher Jeremy Forrest targeted her when she was just 13.
Chloe Queen said he sent her Christmas and birthday cards, asked her to watch him perform with his band and made her stay after class for extra lessons.
‘I thought he wanted to teach me more, not realising he possibly had other ideas,’ she said. ‘He would invade my personal space and make me feel uncomfortable. He would routinely cuddle me.’
Chloe, now 17, is one of a string of girls Forrest, 30, tried to groom before he ran away to France with a 15-year-old last September.
He was jailed for five and a half years yesterday at Lewes Crown Court and admitted five further counts of sex with a child after already having been convicted of child abduction on Thursday.
With time spent on remand he could be free in two years, at around the time the schoolgirl, who has vowed to wait for him, turns 18.
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News just in: The jury unanimously found Mr. Forrest guilt of abducting an underaged student and taking her to France:
TEACHER Jeremy Forrest has been found guilty of abducting a 15-year-old pupil, who he took to France when their sexual relationship was about to be revealed.
The 30-year-old was today convicted by a jury at Lewes Crown Court, following an eight-day trial.
A court heard the prosecution label Forrest a “paedophile”, who had “groomed” the vulnerable teenager.
Jurors heard how the schoolgirl had just turned 15 when she started a sexual relationship with Forrest.
The teen had developed a crush on him at Bishop Bell C of E School in Eastbourne, East Sussex.
Fearing they were about to be exposed, Forrest booked them on a cross-Channel Ferry from Dover to Calais on September 20 last year.
They then spent seven days on the run in France.
Update: Both schoolgirl and Mr. Forrest mouth “I love you” post verdict:
Runaway teacher Jeremy Forrest and his teenage pupil mouthed ‘I love you’ to each other as he was found guilty of child abduction today.
The schoolgirl, now 16, broke down in tears as Forrest, 30, was convicted by a jury at Lewes Crown Court after less than two hours of deliberating.
The maths teacher and his 15-year-old pupil fled to France after their relationship was about to be exposed in September last year.
Forrest booked a cross-Channel ferry from Dover to Calais with the schoolgirl, from Bishop Bell C of E School in Eastbourne, East Sussex, before spending seven days on the run.
Scots-born Forrest, of Chislehurst Road, Petts Wood, Kent, was convicted by the jury following an eight-day trial at Lewes Crown Court.
He was labelled a “paedophile” by the prosecution, who said he “groomed” the vulnerable teenager and his actions were a gross breach of trust.
Sitting 8ft behind Forrest in the public gallery as the jury filtered into court, Forrest turned to the teenager and mouthed “I love you”.
As the foreman of the jury announced the verdict, the girl put her head in her hands and burst out crying.
He remained stony-faced as the verdict was given, while the schoolgirl mouthed “I love you”.
Forrest then turned and said “I’m ok”, to which she replied “I’m so sorry”.
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Can someone explain to me how a school invested with the responsibility of looking after the welfare of its students chose to warn a teacher 6 times not to be romantically involved with his student? Surely he should have been suspended straight away. Warnings are for late submissions of lesson planners or making a thoughtless comment in the classroom, not for having sex with your student!
Teacher Jeremy Forrest said a 15-year-old schoolgirl was lying about a sexual relationship when he spoke to his bosses, a court heard today.
The married teacher was challenged by assistant head Alicja Bobela, after pupils had raised suspicions with her, the jury heard.
Miss Bobela, responsible for child protection, said two schoolboys claimed the schoolgirl had told pals Forrest, 30, had been picking her up from work experience at another school.
Forrest was warned on six occasions about his relationship with the girl before being challenged by Miss Bobela Bishop at Bell CoE school, Eastbourne, East Sussex, on July 12 last year.
And he had twice been told to keep his distance and was banned from messaging her privately on Twitter, Lewes crown court heard.
Ms Bebola said: “He came to find me and he talked to me.
“He said that he did not know where this was coming from, ‘why was she telling people these lies,’ and what could he do, ‘why is she doing this to me?
“He meant the schoolgirl telling friends about what he was doing.”
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I received a great deal of backlash for criticizing the motives and actions of Jeremy Forrest. In part the criticisms were founded, as he deserves to have a fair trial and the opportunity to defend himself. What may not have been founded were those that argued they were in love and that she was of legal age. The first argument is irrelevant and the second seems false as the latest revelations reveal that she may have been only 14 when Mr. Forrest first kissed her:
A schoolgirl who was allegedly abducted and taken to France by her teacher when police found out about their relationship has told how they first kissed in a classroom.
The girl was 14 at the time of the clinch with married 30-year-old Jeremy Forrest, which took place after they had been tweeting and texting regularly, a court heard.
In the days leading up to the kiss, the teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said she attended Bishop Bell Church of England School in Eastbourne, East Sussex, early specifically to see him.
In a videoed police interview played at Lewes Crown Court in East Sussex today, the girl, now 16, said: ‘I do remember being in his room and it was just me and him. He said “I really want to kiss you” and I said “I really want to”.
‘It got to the point where there was only so much of a friendship you could have before it developed into something else.’ She went on: ‘It ended up being in his classroom.’
As the relationship turned sexual two months later after she had turned 15, the girl said Forrest knew what the consequences would be for him – and that he could face prison.
She said in the interview, dated October 3 last year: ‘He told me that he didn’t want to take advantage of me, and I just didn’t have a problem with it any way.
‘It was what I wanted to do because of how much I liked him. I didn’t give it a second thought. Obviously I was worried about it and I spoke to my friends about it.’
She added: ‘He knew he would go to prison, lose his job and not work with children again, so he was aware and that made me feel better.
‘There was no naivety about it and it was what I wanted, and I probably encouraged it. We would bring it up and I would say ‘Yeah, I really want to’.’
The court has heard that police were alerted to their relationship following a tip-off.
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A number of readers have disagreed with, my stance on the Jeremy Forrest/Megan Stammers relationship. They believe that a 15-year old girl should be able to decide who she wants to form a relationship with and be able to act on those impulses in any way she chooses. Likewise, they believe that while it is not ideal for a teacher to be having a relationship with a student, he should be treated leniently, because one should not be punished for falling in love.
I disagree slightly with the first contention and vehemently with the second.
Lawmakers have to use generalisations when considering laws. Megan Stammers may be the most mature 15-year old on the planet, but the average 15-year old relies greatly on a parent/parents to fund their lifestyle, organise their daily events, counsel them during vulnerable times and help make important decisions in their life. As much as the public seems to enjoy a ‘love conquers all story’, a child of 15 is more likely than not going to be safer and better looked after by parents than a married math teacher double her age.
As for Jeremy Forrest, I feel that this is the time to let the public see loudly and clearly that teachers under no circumstances should be allowed to get involved with a student. The first thing a teacher who has designs on a student should do is resign immediately. The second thing he should do is to wait until that child is of legal age. There is a significant level of trust given to a teacher of children. This trust is slowly being eroded thanks to the daily news cycle of teachers who act without professionalism and integrity.
It is the task of the courts to determine whether or not Jeremy Forrest acted properly. If, as it seems, he didn’t, I hope the judge acts ruthlessly. It is time for our teachers to witness what happens when a fellow teacher abuses the trust that is handed to him in good faith.
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Let me start off by saying how surprised I am with the sympathy Peter Forrest is getting from readers. Not only did he cheat on his wife Emily, but he broke the number one commandment of teaching by behaving inappropriately with a student. I am stunned that there are people who consider a relationship between a teacher and a student is healthy. I am equally stunned that they have no issue with the fact she is only 15. Would it be alright if she was 13, 10 or 5?
Now lets turn our attention to a school that seemingly refused to act when they had the chance. Bishop Bell C of E School allegedly allowed Peter Forrest to work for seven months after his relationship was brought to their attention. How can a school in today’s age be so inept?
The police were told as Bishop Bell C of E school in Eastbourne, the school Forrest taught at and Megan attended, also investigated their relationship.
Huge questions have been raised about how they dealt with the warnings after the Mail revealed they were warned seven months ago that something inappropriate was going on between the pair.
Students had seen them holding hands on a school trip to Los Angeles.
Headteacher Terry Boatwright has revealed that the school, the council, Megan’s parents and Sussex Police were working together when they went missing.
‘The school, in conjunction with the local authority, Megan’s parents, and the police had been addressing and investigating those concerns, in line with procedure, when this happened,’ he said.
The authorities involved are remaining silent on what exactly they were doing about the relationship.
The school, county council and police will not give details about their investigations, so it is not clear what action they were taking against Forrest or what Megan’s parents were told before they went on the run.
It has also been revealed that a child protection expert wrote to Education Secretary Michael Gove expressing concerns about the school’s protection policy.
Lucy Duckworth said they were ‘extremely hostile’ when she began asking questions about the issue but the school maintains it had a ‘robust’ safeguarding policy in place.
‘The policy does not commit to informing parents or the local authority of any suspected or known abuse. If there was a robust policy in place, the parents would be informed,’ she said.
‘What we found was there was a whole section on safe recruiting but very little on how to effectively protect children. I’m convinced that, had that policy been in place, the parents would have been able to make a decision on their prolonged contact and Megan would be with us.’
With a reaction as astoundingly pathetic as that, should we be surprised that this has happened before?
Parents at Megan Stammers’ school demanded an inquiry into its child protection procedures last night as more under-age sex scandals emerged at the Church of England comprehensive.
Incredibly, another teacher at Bishop Bell C of E School in Eastbourne was jailed three years ago for preying on teenage girls after grooming them on a social networking site.
In addition, a former chairman of governors at the same school is due to stand trial on alleged child sex offences next month. Some parents said their children were too scared to attend class after it was revealed how staff failed to remove married maths teacher Jeremy Forrest despite warnings that he was having a relationship with Megan seven months ago.
Robert Healy, a supply teacher at the school, was jailed in 2009 for sleeping with two girls aged 15 and 16 after grooming them on a social networking site. In a striking similarity to the Megan Stammers case, other pupils knew what was going on before he was caught.
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Catch him, and if he is found guilty, throw the book at him. His jail sentence should be long enough to serve as a deterrent for the entire teaching community:
Police hunting for runaway teenager Megan Stammers have released an image of her boarding a ferry to Calais in a car driven by her married maths teacher.
The 15-year-old schoolgirl, who has not been seen since last week, was caught on camera in the passenger seat of a dark Ford Fiesta, as she caught a ferry to the Continent with Mr Forrest, 30, from Dover last Thursday.
This afternoon, as Megan’s anxious mother and step-father made an emotional appeal for her safe return, it emerged that the schoolgirl had been receiving after-school tuition from Mr Forrest prior to her disappearance.
She is said to have arrived in France with Forrest after it was disclosed she had sent a message to a friend, but police conducting a cross-Channel search fear the pair could have travelled further into Europe.
Estranged Danielle Wilson and Martin Stammers tearfully told a press conference of their shock that Megan fled the country in secret with Forrest – who had said online their forbidden love had ‘hit me like heroin’.
Detectives have admitted they do not know the pair’s current location, but today released the image of the teacher and pupil boarding a ferry last week.
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I want the courts to be ruthless on teachers that misuse their position and have relationships with their students. How dare they take a position of trust and use it to lure impressionable children!
The devastated family of a schoolgirl who ran away to France with her married teacher yesterday pleaded with her to ‘come home safe’.
Megan Stammers, 15, boarded a Channel ferry with maths teacher Jeremy Forrest, 30, after he spent months grooming her on Twitter to escape on an ‘adventure’ with him.
As British and French police launched a hunt for the pair, Megan’s father Martin Stammers last night told the Daily Mail: ‘It’s been hell. We have no idea where she is.
‘The whole family has been rallying together and we’ve been working closely with the police. We just want her home safe.’
Mr Stammers, who teaches at the sister school of Forrest’s, pleaded on his Facebook page: ‘Come home safe my beautiful daughter xx.’
His plea came as neighbours of Forrest claimed he was prone to aggressive outbursts during domestic disputes with his wife.
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At Decameron Hotels it has always been our priority to protect the health, safety and well-being of all our guests, affiliates and employees. Under the current circumstances, we have strengthened our protocols and implemented practices and processes of the highest level that will be continuously verified by our operations team.
We are aware that the world has changed, and we are adapting to this new reality. With this objective, we will continuously monitor the recommendations and guidelines of the World Health Organization (WHO), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the World Travel and Tourism Council and local and national authorities, to adapt our facilities and operational processes to ensure a clean and safe environment for our guests and employees.
With the support of specialized external consultants, we are reinforcing the health and safety certifications that our hotels already have, with continuous audits and controls to guarantee the best practices and processes in handling the current situation.
When we open our doors, we will be offering a renewed service, developed to provide unique and memorable experiences to our guests, and conceived specifically to guarantee the attention to health and safety that these times require.
We have designed new limits for occupancy and use of common areas such as swimming pools, beaches and recreation areas, which will allow us to facilitate and maintain social distancing between people, so that you and your family can be together and safe. In the restaurants, for example, we will limit the number of seats and implement new biosafety standards for the peace and protection of everyone.
Under these recommendations, we made investments in both equipment and technology and reviewed, one by one, all the operational procedures. With this in mind, and incorporating the recommendations of local and national authorities, we developed a comprehensive biosafety plan that we called "Decameron Health Inclusive", which contains rigorous and detailed protocols that cover all aspects of the guest and employee experience.
Decameron Health Inclusive is based on the five pillars that have shown the greatest effectiveness in preventing and mitigating the pread of COVID-19 and includes the following elements:
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We will implement measures to evaluate symptoms, such as taking temperatures, and we will ask guests and employees to fill out a form on their health status, within the parameters of confidentiality and secure information management.
Our employees will also have a biosafety program, which includes, in addition to symptom monitoring, changing clothes when entering and leaving the facility, to protect them, their families and of course our guests.
We are reviewing the feasibility of conducting quick tests for workers under a protocol based on evidence reported in the scientific literature.
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We will promote constant hand washing and facilitate access to special devices to achieve it. We will install antibacterial gel stations around all areas of the hotels to increase the frequency of hand disinfection by guests and employees. Handwashing will be required at the entrance and exit of restaurants.
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We will ensure that our guests and staff maintain the physical distance established by international standards.
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With our new "online registration" we will speed up the check-in process and avoid crowding at the receptions, where there will also be protective barriers and new signage to maintain the social distance in the check-in lines.
You will also find this signage in the common and entertainment areas, as well as in elevators, corridors and stairs.
Reservations for our a la carte restaurants will be made online or by calling reception to avoid queues and crowds. In our buffets, new rules will be implemented by our staff, to continue offering the gastronomic variety characteristic of our hotels but with better conditions for biosecurity.
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Our employees will receive comprehensive training on biosafety protocols and will be required to use personal protective equipment such as mask, safety glasses, gowns, and gloves, according to their role and responsibility.
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True to our commitment to the health and safety of our guests, we will increase the frequency of cleaning and disinfection in all areas of the hotels and in company vehicles, before and after each tour. We will clean the luggage and hand out keys and bracelets completely disinfected in sealed envelopes.
In addition to the daily cleaning of the rooms, we will carry out a thorough disinfection before the arrival of each guest and will remove the elements that cannot be easily disinfected.
All prevention measures of 'Decameron Health Inclusive' will be continuously updated and adapted to the health reality of each country, always seeking to reduce the possibility of transmission of Covid-19.
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By wtomicki October 16, 2017
The Italian boutique tour operator Luxo Italia now offers travelers a bevy of exclusive privileges and insider experiences at iconic Italian sites in Rome, the Amalfi Coast and Capri with its new Signature Tour. The tour includes private behind-the-scene tours of historic favorites including the Sistine Chapel, a sunset yacht cruise along the Amalfi Coast, private culinary experiences at historic sights, drinks at the Pope Summer Residence, helicopter transfers, luxury hotels and more.
The experience begins for guests in Rome where a Mercedes-Benz S-Class transports guests to Vatican City to experience two thousand years of history, art, influence, beauty and spirituality and a private tour of The Sistine Chapel. Led by one of the most knowledgeable and passionate guides, the visit starts from the doors inaugurated for the 2000 Jubilee, and then moves through the Octagonal Courtyard to admire the impressive Laocoon statue, followed by the ancient Gallery of the Candelabra and the Gallery of the Tapestries inspired by Raphael and surfaced with tromp l’oeil artistry. Next, the tour proceeds to the most comprehensive collection of maps of Italy ever frescoed in the 16th century. Finally, entering the Sistine Chapel in privacy and solacing silence, the visit presents an opportunity for contemplation originally reserved for Renaissance Masters and the Papal Clergy and concludes by going through the frescoed halls of the Vatican Library. The whole experience offers a unique view of one of the most extensive art collections of the world, with great Renaissance masterpieces by Michelangelo, Raphael, Perugino and Ghirlandaio. Following a day of history, aperitifs are served at the Apostolic Palace of Castel Gandolfo, the Pope’s summer residence, before a private dinner at Palazzo Colonna, one of the oldest and largest private palaces of Rome originally built in the 14th century, where a curated menu with wine pairing curated by a top Italian Chef greets guests. While staying three nights in the heart of Rome at the Fendi Private Suites, guests will also enjoy a private tour of the Palazzo Fendi, the renowned company’s flagship boutique that combines its commitment to creativity in all forms, from fashion collections and architecture to ever-changing installations created in collaboration with emerging artists.
For the second part of the tour, a luxury helicopter will transport travelers from Rome to Amalfi where they will enjoy 6 nights at the Grand Hotel Convento di Amalfi. From here, guests will board on an once-in-a-lifetime sailing excursion along the Amalfi coast during sunset. Cocktails aboard are followed by a unique dinner set alongside the sea paired with a distinctive Italian wine tasting. Day getaways to the architectural and historic wonderlands of Ravello and Pompeii to visit the 11th-century Villa Cimbrone, famous for its intoxicating gardens and panoramic views over the Mediterranean, and cobbled streets of the Roman city preserved by the lava of Mount Vesuvius, are also included. As are a private yacht cruise to Capri with lunch and behind-the-scenes visits to both the Mozzarella di Bufala (Buffalo Mozzarella) and Limoncello factories. Additional time in Amalfi can be spent strolling the narrow cobbled paths that lead travelers up and around pastel-colored houses nestled between the craggy mountains, looking down onto pristine waters that sparkle in deep blue and emerald green.
The Signature Tour Experience from Luxo Italia begins at €55.000 ($65,000 USD) per couple. For more information or reservations, email info@luxoitalia.com or visit http://www.luxoitalia.com.
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Luxo Italia is a boutique tour operator based in Milan, Italy. Founded by hotel expert Andrea Degasperi and culinary connoisseur Paul Lewis, the company specializes in tailor made travel experiences throughout Italy and Monaco. With a meticulous attention to logistics and details, Luxo Italia has an eye for matching each traveler’s personality with the perfect “sense of place.” From arts, culture and wellness to gastronomy, wine and fashion, Italy’s secret pleasures are uncovered for travelers through custom designed itineraries. For more information, visit http://www.luxoitalia.com.
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Sudan: Yellow Fever Casualty Reported in Central Darfur Camp
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Darfur — A Zalingei camps coordinator, in Central Darfur, announced that one person died and another five were infected by yellow fever in the past weeks, Radio Dabanga has learned on Tuesday, 27 November.
The fatal victim is Abdul Rezek Abdel Mawla, the coordinator said, explaining that infected patients are being transferred from health centers in Hamidiya and Hassahissa camps to Zalingei hospital.
According to him, yellow fever cases are only appearing now in camps as a result of the spraying campaigns carried out by health authorities. He appealed that these campaigns are intensified in camps, towns and villages of Central Darfur.
‘Not true’
The Minister of Health from Central Darfur, Issa Mohamed Musa Yusuf, assured that the declarations made by the Zalingei camps coordinator are not true. He stressed that there are no cases of yellow fever in the Hamidiya camp.
He declared that only one person died of yellow fever in camp Hassahissa, but that the victim actually contracted the disease in a farm in Tululu area, and not in the camp.
Yusuf also announced that four cases of yellow fever were registered at the El-Salam camp, but that also these victims contracted the disease elsewhere, namely around the El-Sreji area.
Speaking to the legislative council in Khartoum, Sudan’s Federal Minister of Health, Bahr Idriss Abu Garda stressed that no cases of yellow fever have been reported in displaced camps in Darfur. On the same occasion, he acknowledged the weak potential of the state to fight the disease, despite ‘major’ efforts from state health ministries.
‘Questionable’
Abdel Jabbar Adam, council member from West Darfur, rejected the statement by the federal minister asserting that that no cases of yellow fever have been reported in displaced camps in Darfur.
Adam said the situation in Darfur is a lot more serious than what the minister indicated. He added that the disease first emerged in August and continued spreading until November, even reaching the ‘presidential palaces’.
The council member called for the formation of an investigative committee to visit Darfur and check the reports and numbers presented by the minister about the yellow fever epidemic.
Central Darfur: 78 deaths
Issa Mohamed Moussa Ahmed, minister of health from Central Darfur, told Radio Dabanga that a total of 78 people died and 362 were infected with yellow fever in the state by Tuesday.
On Monday, Ahmed said that about 195.178 citizens had been vaccinated since the campaign started three days before. He pointed out to the intense presence of tribes’ members in health centers and called for a larger turn out among the rest of the population.
West Darfur: one death
West Darfur, considered a stable state regarding the emergence of yellow fever cases, witnessed another fatal victim in the last few days, according to the state’s Minister of Health Ahmed Ishaq Yaqub.
He said the latest death brought the amount of fatalities in the state to 49, adding that 177 people were diagnosed with the disease so far.
In addition, three new cases have been reported in the area of For Baranga, the minister revealed. He stressed that ‘all arrangements are now underway to immediately deliver vaccines to the population of the whole area’.
Yaqub told Radio Dabanga that the vaccination rate in West Darfur reached 49 percent in the last five days, noting that this figure does not include mobile units. He expected that in seven days, by the end of the campaign, 100 percent of the population will have been vaccinated.
Sudanese Doctors Union U.K.
The Sudanese Doctors Union U.K. from the United Kingdom and Ireland called for an immediate action from the federal ministry of health.
It asked that the ministry raises awareness and explains the cause of the disease to the public, as well as ways to prevent yellow fever from spreading following the instructions provided by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
In a statement, the union requested the ministry to commit and work hard to develop public hospitals in Darfur and to ensure that the vaccine against yellow fever is actually reducing its spread.
The union also requested that international humanitarian organizations be allowed to carry out their tasks because of their expertise in dealing with such crises. The Sudanese doctors expressed their willingness to provide any kind of assistance to mitigate the epidemic.
The statement read that the deteriorating health situation in villages and towns across Darfur will require a tremendous effort from all parties in Sudan and the rest of the world to contain the deadly disease.
Also, it was pointed out that the policy of ‘sticking your head in the sand’, which the current regime is accustomed to, will not work in such crises as ‘an epidemic knows no borders’.
Lastly, the doctors warned that failure to address the epidemic will allow it to spread to all towns and cities in Sudan, according to the statement.
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By David Erickson | September 30, 2020 | 0
Remember when QR Codes were all the rage? They kinda fell by the wayside because they weren’t super easy to use.
You had to install a specialized QR code reader app and then launch the app and point your camera at it when you saw one on a product or a magazine.
Too much trouble.
That is no longer the case since the technology is built into Android and iPhones. And it appears the COVID-19 pandemic may be giving them new life.
The Verge reports that transaction service provider Square is offering QR codes for restaurants to offer contactless ordering.
When using the feature, a restaurant can print a QR code out and leave it on a table. A customer would then scan the QR code, browse a menu, place their order, and pay from their phone. The restaurant would know what table placed the order, and then bring their food out when it’s ready. Square says the system is flexible, so a coffee shop, for example, could have a single QR code in its window that people would scan and then wait for their drink.
Square launches QR codes that let you order from your table at a restaurant
The Verge piece cites a Restaurant Business article that claims:
Nearly a third of consumers said disposable or single-use menus would make them feel safe as restaurants reopen, according to Restaurant Business sister company Technomic. QR codes take that one step further by putting menus on guests’ phone screens.
All of a Sudden, QR Codes are Everywhere
QR Code Awareness
There’s been a massive change in understanding of QR codes from the early adoption days.
According to February 2011 research from agency MGH, awareness of QR codes is high among smartphone owners: 65% have seen a QR code, and about half that number, or one-third overall, had used one.
They were most likely to have seen one on a product, indicating where marketers may get the most mileage out of using barcodes.
A high number of US consumers demonstrated a significant lack of understanding as to what QR codes were or how they work, according to an October 2011 survey from strategic marketing firm Russell Herder. Results from “The QR Question” indicate 72% of consumers say they have seen a QR code, but nearly 30% do not know what it is.
In addition, nearly one in five consumers who regularly use the internet via mobile phone do not know what a QR code is. Read the rest at Marketing Charts.
According to the 2012 Chadwick Martin Bailey survey cited below, just 21% of the respondents said they had heard of QR codes, although 81% recalled seeing one when presented with an image.
Do People Use Information From QR Code Scans?
Not according to a 2012 survey by Chadwick Martin Bailey.
57% of consumers who have scanned a QR code say they did nothing with the information, compared to 21% who shared the information with someone and 18% who made a purchase.
Of those who have scanned a QR code, just 41% said that they found the information they received useful, while 42% had mixed feelings and 18% said the information was not useful.
Though the information these people got from a scan proved meh, 70% of them found QR codes easy to scan, compared to just 7% who found them difficult.
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QR Codes Generate 50,000 Likes From Glamor Magazine
Glamour’s September, 2011 issue generated 50,814 Facebook “likes” for its advertisers by including 2-D barcodes incorporating the social network, according to the magazine and SpyderLynk, which created the new Social SnapTags that Glamour used.
Readers are encountering 2-D barcodes in magazines and elsewhere more and more often, but Glamour wanted to see whether codes invoking Facebook would spur more readers to action — and round up Facebook fans in the process.
Glamour ran the program to answer advertisers who were asking how to get more ‘likes,’ said Jenny Bowman, executive creative services director at Glamour, which is published by Conde Nast. “This seemed like a logical solution,” she said. “We loved what SpyderLynk had to offer with a Facebook logo in the circle that was different from other 2-D barcodes.”
The codes were activated by over 100,000 readers, or 4.2% of the issue’s paid circulation as filed with the Audit Bureau of Circulation’s Rapid Report service and 0.8% of the magazine’s average total audience according to GfK MRI’s most recent round of research. Read the rest at AdAge.
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Mike Wehrs, chief executive of Scanbuy, the mobile bar code platform that works with Home Depot, said more than 25 million people in the United States already had the ability to scan with their mobile phones. He expected the number to increase as more people acquire smartphones.
“Mobile bar-code scanning experienced a 1,600 percent increase in traffic last year,” he said.Read the rest at New York Times.
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And Thus Completes Our Robert A. Caro Coverage
Nick Moran May 13, 2012 | 1
Even if you read and watch all of these pieces about Robert A. Caro, it’ll still amount to only a fraction of the time necessary to read one of his books. So here goes: a typical Sunday for Mr. Caro; not one but two fake Caro Twitter accounts (plus a real one); Mr. Caro stops by The Daily Show; and The Passage of Power gets reviewed by us, NPR, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and The Wall Street Journal.
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NAB makes corporate history
Finance Finance News NAB makes corporate history
9:55am, May 7, 2015 Updated: 10:02am, May 7
The National Australia Bank has announced a $5.5 billion capital raising – the biggest in Australian corporate history.
The rights issue is designed to bolster NAB’s balance sheet and to meet tougher regulatory requirements imposed in the wake of the global financial crisis.
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The raising will be fully underwritten by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and Macquarie Bank.
“A strong balance sheet has always been a priority at NAB,” chief executive Andrew Thorburn told reporters.
NAB shares will be suspended from trade on the stock exchange until close of business on Monday as the bookbuild gets underway.
The $5.5 billion capital raising overshadows NAB’s half-year after tax statutory profit of $3.44 billion up $584 million or 20.4 per cent.
NAB’s preferred cash profit measure, excluding some accounting items, was up 5.4 per cent to $3.32 billion.
The bank’s key driver of profitability, its net interest margin, fell slightly to 1.92 per cent which is the thinnest in about a decade.
NAB’s capital raising exceeds Rio Tinto in 2009, which raised $4.4 billion at the depths of the downturn.
Mr Thorburn said the capital raising will help NAB exit from its troubled UK banking business which will be sold by the end of the year.
NAB has also confirmed that its chairman Michael Chaney will retire at the bank’s annual general meeting this year.
He will be replaced by former Commonwealth treasury secretary Ken Henry, who joined the NAB board in 2011.
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My Husband Makes Love All Night, Demands for Weird Positions — Wife Tells Court
A 19-year-old woman in Ndola, Zambia, has run away from her matrimonial home because of her husband’s excessive sexual drive which goes on throughout the night and his demands for weird positions.
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According to The Zambia Observer, Yoram Lungu, 32, sued his wife Charity Lungu for divorce due to marital disputes. Charity told the court that her husband would make love to her, demand for weird positions even when she was on her periods and would not give her a break.
She complained that she could not stand his excessive sexual drive and that he would make love to her on a daily basis, hence she bolted from home.
The case was before senior presiding magistrate, Agnes Muswema, sitting with Mildred Namwizye and Evelyn Nalwizya.
“My husband cannot just do it once but many rounds, he demands for weird positions and when I try to talk to him, he tells me that this is what marriage is all about and needed to endure,” Ms Lungu said.
“I get tired and bruised expecially after weird positions. I am tired because of too much sex, but I am ready to go back to him if he reduced on sex and his demands. When I complained to him at some point he told me that if I can eat every day then I was able to have sex every day. He can’t relax all he wants is sex throughout the night,” she lamented.
But Mr Lungu in his testimony, said he was fed up because his wife displayed a bad attitude towards him when she got a job and stopped respecting him. He told the court that when he was not doing well his wife decided to get a job in town but later discovered that it was just a way of staying away from home so that she could have enough time with her boyfriend.
He said his wife would leave home to drink beer with her sisters and at some point he had found condoms in her handbag. “One day I came home early from work and found my wife with a man and only told me that the young man was her friend. I have tried to talk to my wife but she doesn’t listen. I just want a divorce,” he said.
The court granted the couple divorce and ordered the man to compensate his wife K5, 000 (N104,000) with the first payment of K500 followed by monthly instalments of K250.
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Butler’s school of music presents holiday show, Rejoice!
Rejoice! is an annual holiday tradition at Butler. Photo courtesy of Butler Arts Center.
KIRAN BRAR | STAFF REPORTER | kbrar@butler.edu
Rejoice! is a holiday show presented by Jordan College of the Arts. Every year, the Butler University Wind Ensemble and the Butler Symphony Orchestra alternate in performing in the show. This year, the show will include the Butler Chorale, University Choir, Butler University Wind Ensemble and Chamber Singers.
Senior music major Rowan Squire-Willey will be singing with the choirs and reading one of the poems in the show.
“I think listening for the more intimate quiet moments of acapella or even softness within the wind ensemble are really special,” Squire-Willey said.
Associate Director of Choral Activities and an Associate Professor of Music John Perkins, conductor of the University Choir, will be one of three conductors in Rejoice!
“When we come together everyone is on the same page, people want to help each other, and there’s this real intentional sense of community,” Perkins said. “That comes out in the sound.”
Perkins said the holiday show has been a tradition for around 35 years, so new aspects have been added over time. The audience will be able to sing along with some holiday music to enforce the theme of welcome and celebration.
The show is known for intertwining the voices and music together to create this production.
“I’d say that the whole program is really varied,” Perkins said. “I think the whole flow of it is really beautiful. The sounds of the voices in the choirs, orchestra and ensembles together is just wonderful.”Rejoice! will run from Dec. 13-14 in Clowes Memorial Hall. This event will also count as a Butler Cultural Requirement for students. Tickets can be purchased online.
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Some Of Our Fans Have A Flare For Harming The Club. Celtic Will Not Tolerate This.
On Monday morning we heard that Celtic was being charged by UEFA for the same old nonsense.
I wanted to leave it a couple of days before I wrote about that; I wanted to enjoy the aftermath of the game at the weekend and keep track of some of the madness of the transfer window and the stuff happening across town, which I knew would be hilarious.
Today I come back to this almost reluctantly, because I’m sick writing about it.
When I referred to the “same old nonsense” in the opening paragraph that was not a dig at UEFA; it was a dig at the people in our support who simply will not pay heed to the club or to the regulations when it comes to bringing pyrotechnics into football grounds.
The club’s position is clear. UEFA’s position is clear.
Here in Scotland, it is a crime.
There is no ambiguity over this.
Most fans do not want this stuff near them.
It is manifestly dangerous. Independent studies confirm that there is no safe way to handle a firework, flare or smoke bomb within a confined area like a football stand.
This stuff is straightforward.
With all that in mind, the arrogance of these people, to think they can continue to behave like this, until it has real consequences for Celtic or fellow fans, is difficult to credit.
This the same mind-set that fuels the Union Bears defence of sectarian singing.
Hold up a mirror to one and see the other clearly.
I am not comparing pyro with bigotry, but the blind refusal from both to toe the line, their insistence on their own “rights” and to Hell with what anyone else says, makes it clear that the same egotism drives both.
And Celtic will not – because Celtic cannot – tolerate it. Celtic has spelled this out over and over again, and those who aren’t listening will sooner or later be brought to book for it.
Those who want to “normalise” the use of pyrotechnics at games are disengaged from reality if they believe that this will ever happen; it will not, not as long as UEFA is making the rules.
I said I would hold fire on talking about the events of that night; I meant those involving the police and our supporters and whether there were Hammarby fans in the Celtic end.
I still want clarity on those things but believe I have established, to my own satisfaction, that Hammarby fans were present and that the police were heavy handed.
But there is no doubt that Celtic fans had flares and smoke bombs.
There is no doubt therefore that the club has to hold up its hands on that.
Yet the club is not responsible for it.
Those who brought those things into the ground are.
These people will not stop until they are made to pay for their own actions.
Before long that’s exactly what Celtic will do.
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La ronde (1964)
November 30, 2016 · by The Thorn · in Film, Literature. ·
Synopsis: Adapted by Tony winning playwright Jean Anoulih (Becket), Roger Vadim’s La Ronde deftly transplants Arthur Schnitzler’s famous amorous cycle from 19th century Vienna to a lavishly recreated widescreen Art Nouveau Paris.
Jane Fonda and Roger Vadim’s auspicious pre-Barbarellea collaboration yielded a charming, smart and decorous sex farce. From a delightful credit sequence by Bond film title artist Maurice Binder to the bed-hopping close of the romantic roundelay, La Ronde is as sweet as it is erotic.
La ronde (1964) 7.75
eyelights: its original concept. the lovely women. its subtle sexiness.
eyesores: its lack of plot. its length.
“That was very naughty.”
How times have changed. In 1903, when Arthur Schnitzler first published his play ‘Reigen’, on which ‘La ronde’ is based, it created quite a stir. It was censored soon after publication and wasn’t even brought to the stage until 1920, after having been published in a few other languages.
But even though the play was controversial, eliciting such extreme reactions that Schnitzler decided to curb it in German-speaking countries. It took thirty years before Max Ophüls produced his award-winning ‘La ronde’, which was the first motion picture based on Schnitzler’s play.
In 1964 came Roger Vadim’s own interpretation of ‘La ronde’. By then, Vadim had a reputation for making sexy films with some of the world’s most desirable actresses, such as Brigitte Bardot, Catherine Deneuve and Annette Stroyberg – all of whom he was either married to or was involved with.
‘La ronde’ is a plotless motion picture that strings together brief romantic encounters, starting with a prostitute and a soldier, then the soldier and a maid, then the maid and her employer, and so forth, making its way back to the prostitute with yet another male character in the end.
Although the original play’s intention was to challenge Austrian sexual mores and class boundaries, Vadim’s sex comedy, which transposed the setting to Paris, seems to be more about the eye-candy than content: every scene is meticulously staged and dressed, as were the fetching actresses.
In fact, Jane Fonda, who stars in the centrepiece segments, recalled that she “discovered tremendous sexual excitement in having him place me in positions he wanted”. It wasn’t long before the pair had a love affair and were married, a relationship that lasted into the early seventies.
‘La ronde’ wasn’t Fonda’s first motion picture, but it was the one that made a sex symbol of her. It was also her first flirtation with controversy: rebranded ‘Circle of Love’ in English-speaking countries, it featured one of the first nude scenes by an American actress on the silver screen.
While it pales in comparison to anything that followed, it does show a lean and lovely Fonda barebacked, barely draped by bed sheets. It is memorably sexy, as is the rest of the picture – though, with the exception of a shocking fondle, it is actually quite discreet, more suggestive than explicit.
And yet, I found it far sexier than many more erotic films, because of its restraint: it has a playful, nearly flirtatious quality about it that is infectious; it’s as though Vadim purposely teased his audience, letting its imagination unfold, but never quite giving it what it wanted.
He leaves you right on the edge.
The picture is also quite whimsical in its delivery, something which made me chuckle regularly, even though it’s not overtly comical. It’s all in the dance of seduction between men and women as they try to bed each other, sometimes pretending to protest though their ultimate goal is to give in.
‘La ronde’ was a lot of fun. Though it eschews plot for concept, it’s always entertaining, deftly taking us from one encounter to the next in such a way that the picture never truly lilts. Add to this its light-heartedness, naughtiness, sexiness and eye-candy and it’s a delight to watch.
I’ll no doubt give it another spin someday.
Story: 7.0
Acting: 8.0
Production: 8.0
Nudity: 2.0
Sexiness: 4.0
Explicitness: 2.0
Date of viewing: November 10, 2016
Tags: Comedy, Drama, Foreign films, Period piece, Romance, Sex
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The Most Scenic Places to Go Camping in Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan mountains | © mshehan/flickr | Flickr
Orana Velarde
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The island of Sri Lanka is home to many national parks and natural areas where travelers can go camping. Camping in Sri Lanka will give you first hand views of wild elephants, leopards and many species of birds. There are plenty of spots around the island suitable for camping, but the most scenic are Yala, Wilpattu, Gal Oya and the Knuckles Mountain Range. With choices from ranging from classic camping sites to more comfortable glamping setups, camping in Sri Lanka can be unforgettable experience.
Yala National Park
Yala National Park is located on the southeast corner of the island. Before it was named a national park in 1938, the area was used as a hunting ground by the elite during the British Rule. Yala National park is home to 44 varieties of mammal and over 200 species of birds. This part of the country has the greatest concentration of leopards, elephants and spotted deer. Plenty of companies over camping in Yala National Park. But Leopard Trails and Sri Lankan Expeditions get our vote.
Leopard caught on camera at Yala National Park | © Leopard Trails | Own Stock
Campsite at Yala National Park | © Leopard Trails | Own Stock
The shoreside at Yala National Park | Flickr
Setting up the bonfire for dinner with Leopard Trails at Yala National Park | Own Stock
A wild elephant walks along the lake shore in Gal Oya National Park | © Wild Hawk Safari Sri Lanka / Flickr
On the eastern shore of the island, right up top of Yala lies the Gal Oya National Park. This park was funded in 1954 but was closed to tourists during the Sri Lankan Civil War. Gal Oya opened to visitors shortly after the war and tourists can now visit the area. The biggest attraction in Gal Oya is the Senanayake Samudraya Lake and all the birds that flock yearly to the island that sits in the middle.
Visitors can take boat safaris on the lake to see the wildlife. Camping in Gal Oya can be done on your own with your own equipment along the river bank, or with a company like Sri Lanka Expeditions. There is a place in Gal Oya that is a bit different to the usual camping or glamping fare. Gal Oya Lodge is a boutique lodge with bungalows in the middle of the wilderness for those that love the wilderness but can’t handle the camping!
Wilpattu National Park is on the west coast of the island, close to the historical city of Anuradhapura. The best way to visit the site is by jeep safari preferably between February to October. The most notorious animals to be spotted in Wilpattu National Park are the Sri Lankan sloth bear and the spotted deer. Of course leopards are always the main animal attraction in all Sri Lankan National Parks and there are plenty of those in Wilpattu as well. Overnight camping in this park can be done with Leopard Trails and Wilpattu Safari Camps.
Sneak a peak at a wild spotted deer in Wilpattu | Flickr
A Tent set up in Wilpattu with Leopard Trails | Company Stock
Leopard caught on camera in Wilpattu National Park | Own Stock
Knuckles Mountain Range
Camping in the Knuckles Mountain Range is a bit different to the National Parks along the coast. This area is more about hiking along a beautiful mountain range than about wildlife spotting. The Knuckles Mountain Range sits between Kandy and Matale in the center of the island, northeast of Colombo. From a few vantage points, the peaks look like the knuckles of a hand, therefore the range got its name.
The Knuckles Forest Reserve was named a World Heritage Site in 2009. The area is quite varied in terms of climate and ecosystem, from lowland valleys to highland rainforests. To hike and camp in the Knuckles Mountain Range, contact Sri Lankan Expeditions
View of the Knuckles Mountain Range | Flickr
Tents at a Knuckles Mountain Range Campsite | © NH53 / Flickr
Other areas in Sri Lanka where visitors can camp are Udawalawe, Mahiyanganaya Sorabora Lake, Kitugala, Minneriya and Sinharaja Forest.
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The DNA Exchange
Tag Archives: genetic testing
by Robert Resta | August 5, 2019 · 11:36 PM
How Much Is That DNA Test In The Window, The One With The Waggely Price?
The recent stories about Medicare fraud and genetic testing have been pretty awful. Taking advantage of older people in order to scam the government…. well, what can you say? There’s a cheater born every minute and they are doing their best, or, really, their worst, to turn honest people into feeling like suckers.
Moral outrage aside, the stories got me to thinking about how unsure I am about the costs of genetic testing and how it gets billed to patients and insurers. Important point – I am not suggesting that reputable labs are flimflammers or hucksters. I am forever grateful to labs for their efforts in working with patients’ health insurers to determine coverage. I understand that pricing structure and billing are complicated even for professionals who spend their whole life doing it. Labs should make as much legitimate profit as they can. Sometimes the eligibility and testing guidelines are not so clear. I was born – but not yesterday.* I just don’t know how it gets done and how the rules and regulations are navigated, at least in my narrow world of cancer genetics, though I suspect it is a problem in other specialties too. I’ve tried to become an informed user but it is a dense subject. I feel as clueless as Buzz Lightyear (or, as Woody sometimes calls him, Buzz Light Beer). Genetics is easy in comparison. So I have questions.
I understand that each lab negotiates prices with each private health insurer and that the specifics are sort of Top Secret. But why are the negotiated prices for essentially the same test so different for each lab and insurer? Surely insurers are not so incompetent that they don’t realize this. They too are looking to be as profitable as they can be. All else being equal, shouldn’t insurers negotiate about the same price with Labs A, B, and C? And if Lab D doesn’t like the price, well tough on them and they can be relegated to the dreaded status of “nonpreferred lab.”
Then there’s Medicare. Medicare rules vary a bit by region and are potentially negotiable in particular instances. But Medicare guidelines make it clear that usually patients must have a diagnosis such as breast or ovarian cancers (and in some situations also need to meet family history criteria) for testing to be covered. Some labs will not bill Medicare for patients who do not meet criteria and charge patients an out of pocket amount consistent with what they would have charged Medicare if it was a covered service. Other labs will bill Medicare and appear to eat whatever Medicare does not cover. Is it all a matter of different interpretations of ambiguous bureaucratic wording? And is it an illegal inducement if a lab offers free genetic counseling along with testing?
When insurance is bypassed and a patient pays out of pocket how is it that the charge to the patient for more or less the same gene panel across labs can range from $250 to ~$2,000? Depending on which lab you use, patients can even get a panel for fifty bucks if they are “fortunate” enough to have a pathogenic variant segregating in their family. Or the patient at risk for a specific familial pathogenic variant could get the gene in question sequenced, but not a panel, for free, if testing is ordered within 90 days of the relative’s test. Or that same patient could just be tested for the specific variant and pay around $400-$500 out of pocket. If you have prostate cancer, or certain other genetic conditions, you can get a panel test at no charge because the testing is “sponsored” by a separate lab, usually from Pharma, with whom de-identified data may be shared (is it still possible to deidentify DNA anymore?).
I am all for removing financial and other barriers to genetic testing and counseling. I work hard at making sure my patients pay the lowest possible price for a quality test. I understand the need for research and cooperation between labs to develop new treatments. And it can be cut-throat competition out there where everyone’s trying to hack off a big chunk of market share. For sure, many of these issues are symptoms of the crazy health care system and spending in the US. At the same time, I wonder whether my pursuit of making sure that my patients get coverage for their genetic testing is blinding me to problems with billing and charging. I do not want to cross any ethical or legal lines and I don’t want put my patients in financial jeopardy.
Perhaps the Good Readers of this blog are willing to share their insights and stories. Please don’t name names or try to vilify a particular lab; keep it de-identified. We can air it out collegially and constructively.
– I admit that I stole this great line from Season 2 of the Showtime series The Chi.
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Tagged as cost fo gene panels, cost of genetic testing, Genetic counseling, genetic testing
by Robert Resta | April 23, 2018 · 12:12 AM
Is Test Uptake A Good Measure of Genetic Counseling Effectiveness? I Don’t Think So
The last few years have seen a growing trend for patients to undergo genetic testing without first seeing a genetic counselor or other genetic specialist. As I have commented before, genetic counselors are no longer the gatekeepers of genetic testing. Anyone can obtain DNA analysis through non-genetics specialists or any health care provider, on Amazon.com and other internet sites, and at their workplaces (which, honestly, makes me very uneasy; it is going to be awfully difficult for some employers to keep their noses out of their employees’ genetic information and it may provide an opportunity to chisel away at the protections afforded by GINA). Many genetic counselors have accepted this as a fact of life, even if we are not altogether comfortable with it.
Historically, the genetic counseling profession has done a poor job of demonstrating its value to the health care system. Our importance seemed pretty obvious to us and because we didn’t have much in the way of competition we were never strongly motivated to undertake large scale studies to prove our worth.
Comparative studies are starting to address the value of pre-test counseling by a genetic counselor, particularly in the field of hereditary cancer genetic testing. This as a good thing. Still, it bothers me if studies claim that genetic counseling is failing patients because fewer people undergo genetic testing if they need to see a genetic counselor first. Sure, genetic testing should be readily available to those who need it, and barriers need to be removed. If seeing a genetic counselor turns out to be one of those barriers, then we need to do something about that. But test uptake may not always be in the best interests of patients.
For example, the most common reason an unaffected patient declines genetic testing after seeing me for hereditary cancer counseling is that, for the moment, they are the “wrong” person to test to most accurately determine their hereditary cancer risks. Even though the patient may technically meet standard criteria for genetic testing, they may still not be the best person to test within the context of their specific family history. Not undergoing genetic testing is not due to a lack of timely access to me, the cost of my services, or me somehow talking them out of testing. Instead, after reviewing their family history, it turns out that testing their mother with breast cancer or their brother with colon cancer is the most appropriate person to test before deciding if the patient and other unaffected relatives should undergo testing. If that affected relative has a normal genetic test result, then testing my patient and other relatives is usually a waste of money.
It is also difficult to interpret a negative test result in a family where a mutation has not already been identified. Now, I am a grizzled veteran of the Family Dynamics Wars, and I realize that sometimes that affected relative is deceased or just not willing to undergo testing, and you have to make do with the realities of the situation at hand. And, of course, this argument does not apply to testing patients who have been diagnosed with cancer (although it may apply in situations where patients meet NCCN guidelines but not their insurer’s criteria for coverage, but an affected relative does meet their insurer’s criteria). Still, testing an affected relative should be utilized whenever feasible because it is clinically and economically the most effective strategy. Therefore, if a study finds that test uptake is increased when patients do not first see a genetic counselor, the researchers are obliged to demonstrate that this is not simply due to more cases of the “wrong” person being tested or the providers not willing to take the time to work with the extended family.
Along these same lines, in many situations, even genetic test results of an affected relative are often uninformative for risk assessment. Such families may still need to be followed as high risk, with screening and risk reducing protocols based on family history and clinician judgment. Effectiveness studies therefore need to investigate whether there are differences in clinical recommendations provided to patients who see a genetic counselor compared to those who do not.
Studies of genetic counseling vs. no genetic counseling also need to provide data on patient adherence to screening and other risk reduction guidelines. Increased test uptake is not particularly helpful if patients do not have the motivation or wherewithal to undergo breast MRI, salpingo-oophorectomy, join the Annual Colonoscopy For Life Club, or whatever else is recommended. Other outcomes that effectiveness studies should address include communication of test results to family members, interpretation of variants of uncertain significance, and patients’ psychological adaptation to their risk status. I imagine many of you reading this posting can suggest additional outcomes that need to be addressed.
My other concern about reduced genetic counselor involvement with pre-test counseling is that “counseling” will eventually be reduced to a pamphlet or a brief video, perhaps provided by the testing lab itself. This is already a major concern with how NIPT is presented to pregnant women, and I can see it becoming a problem in other areas of genetic testing. No matter how earnestly labs may claim that their educational material is not a subtle sales pitch, they are only human and can easily be blinded by their business needs. This is an area where GCs can develop better and less biased educational materials.
If research demonstrates that other genetic testing delivery models are more effective than, or at least non-inferior to (non-inferior sounds like a back-handed compliment,doesn’t it?), the traditional approach of First See A GC Before Your Test, then the genetic counseling profession should re-focus itself and use our many other skills to work towards improving patients’ lives and the medical care system. Besides, I have never liked conflating genetic counseling with genetic testing.
I do worry, though, that either the research will not be conducted, or that, even in the face of evidence to the contrary, market forces will dictate testing strategies. I am not concerned that it would portend the end of the genetic counseling profession. Genetic counselors are forever expanding their professional roles, and in fact have continually reinvented themselves since, well, we first invented ourselves in the 1970s. Like David Bowie, we never stood still and as soon as you had us pinned down as Ziggy Stardust, all of a sudden we were Aladdin Sane, and already sprouting within him are the seeds of The Thin White Duke (well, okay, it’s a stretch comparing genetic counselors to David Bowie, but you get my point). What matters is that all patients affected with or at risk for hereditary disorders receive the most competent and compassionate care delivered effectively, equitably, and timely.
Bobbin Sane
(Graphic by Emily Singh)
Tagged as genetic counseling effectiveness, genetic counseling practice, genetic counselling, genetic testing, pre-test genetic counseling, value of genetic counseling
by Robert Resta | July 4, 2017 · 10:42 PM
Genetic Counseling ≠ Genetic Testing
I know that I am old and curmudgeonly. I acknowledge that my musical tastes and my concept of genetic counseling are hopelessly stuck in the 20th century. I sense in a frighteningly helpless way that my generation of genetic counselors is becoming increasingly irrelevant to the profession. It is like watching the air slowly leak out of my inflatable raft in the middle of a swift flowing river and realizing I don’t have a lifejacket. If you press me on it and buy me a few drinks, I will let slip out an admission that DNA analysis technologies like ion semiconductor sequencing and pyrosequencing are incomprehensible magic to me. I feel like I have become a visitor in my home country and I can barely speak the native tongue anymore.
So this paradox might sound like a useless warning flare fired from a sinking vessel before it goes under, a futile attempt to alert my younger upstream genetic counseling colleagues who are new to navigating these tricky waters: I love genetic testing; I hate genetic testing.
Genetic counselors and genetic testing have grown hand in hand since the early 1970s. At least in the US, one would not have flourished without the other. Amniocentesis, CVS, carrier screening, maternal serum screening, ultrasound, DNA sequencing, microarrays, and other genetic testing advances have all been ushered into medical practice by the genetic counseling profession. The tests generated a need for our unique skill sets along with the security of employment and the financial wherewithal to support our positions. Without genetic testing, we wouldn’t be where we are today. So what’s to complain about, even for a complainer like me?
Well, I have two related complaints. My first complaint is the ever-expanding list of genetic tests that we feel obliged to offer our patients in prenatal, oncology, and other settings. Don’t get me wrong – I think genetic testing can be incredibly valuable from both a medical and a psychological perspective. But I wind up spending way too much valuable counseling time highlighting the differences between Panel A and Panel B and the relative merits of this lab versus that lab. And, oh, by the way, many of the genes included on these panels are largely irrelevant to your particular clinical concerns. I hear similar plaints from some of my colleagues in prenatal – this carrier test for 75 conditions or that one for 200 conditions, or this prenatal screen versus that prenatal screen.
It is often not clear to me why some of these tests are part of clinical practice to begin with. Probably a variety of forces are behind it – the push from labs to offer more tests and to compete with other labs; the common trait of genetic counselors to be early adopters of new technologies; trying to show that we are at the cutting edge of genetics; our obsession with offering ALL options to ALL comers; demands from patients and referring physicians; worry that if we don’t offer the shiniest, newest products our patient population will go shopping at the next medical center down the road, or Heaven forbid, shop online; and a nagging fear of being sued or at the very least of providing sub-standard care. As I have written about previously, sometimes genetic tests became standard of care before they were thoroughly vetted, evaluated, and debated.
Which leads me to my second complaint. There is a tendency, sometimes overtly and sometimes silently, to conflate genetic testing and genetic counseling. Yeah, sure, genetic testing is an important part of what many of us do, but my job title says counselor, not tester. For some genetic counselors, testing is not even part of their job. We educate, provide clinical expertise to other care providers, and participate in research. There are other services we provide to our patients, not the least of which should be an intense psychological, personal, and occasionally angst-filled exploration of why patients might even want testing to begin with, never mind which test they want. We are there to support and work with them when no testing was done, when testing is irrelevant, or when testing was done in the past and we are helping them adapt to their new medical and emotional status. Let’s look at what your worries and fears are, and why you are in my office to begin with. What has it meant for your life that you or your child or your sister have this condition? What resources do you need? How have your loved ones been supportive or not of you? What are your health care and life goals? Or bigger picture questions such as what are the medical, economic, and social impacts of genetic disease?
At times I think that genetic counseling for psychiatric conditions is the last pure form of genetic counseling – reliable genetic testing is not available for most psychiatric conditions, so you are “forced” to rely on your counseling and clinical skills. Okay, so perhaps I exaggerate a bit, but you catch my drift. I remember my long time colleague Vickie Venne once saying to me that cancer genetic counseling became a lot less interesting to her once BRCA testing became available. While not denying the many benefits of BRCA testing and how it has helped save lives, there is a measure of wisdom in Vickie’s statement.
As a profession, we should extol and support our role in ordering and interpreting genetic testing. But we, or at least I, don’t want testing to be our defining activity. Yes, as one of our skill sets, we are pretty damn good at it. But let’s not forget that it is a counseling session, not an Informed Consent session or a sales pitch. We should boast more about our abilities to help patients make sense of genetic disease for their lives in a psychologically meaningful way, and testing is only one means of achieving this goal. Genetic counselors are not Genetic Testers; Genetic Counseling is not Genetic Testing.
Tagged as counseling skills, genetic counseling goals, genetic counseling practice, genetic counselling, genetic testing
by laurahercher | November 21, 2016 · 8:23 AM
Summing Up the Consequences of Election 2016: 3 Things That Could Change the Practice of Genetic Counseling
It’s been two weeks, and everyone is sick of hot takes on Life in Trump’s America and What Is the Worst Thing That Could Happen? (um, I’m going with nuclear war, but take your pick). I know, I’m sick of it too. But elections have consequences, and, like climate scientists and immigration lawyers, we need to put some thought into what this could mean for our field.
The potential repeal of the Affordable Care Act is a concern for everyone working in health care, as is the threatened dismantling of Medicare. Possibly, critics of the ACA will discover that it is easier to campaign than to govern, and that voting to take away health care from tens of millions of people isn’t as much fun as it was in the good old days when they had the safety net of a presidential veto. But hey I’ve always been a Pollyanna. Too cheerful, that’s me.
Point one: prepare to practice in a climate where there is more inequality of access.
Chances are, prenatal genetics will be affected by an empowered and emboldened anti-abortion movement. A president has some limited ability to make access to abortion more difficult through executive orders – President Bush signed regulations that gave everyone in the hospital, including orderlies and cleaning staff, the right to decline to do their job in cases involving abortion – but the main issue is the Supreme Court, where as president Trump will get an opportunity to redefine the balance of right and left if and when any of the reliable supporters of reproductive rights leaves the bench. Ruth Bader Ginsburg turns 84 on March 15th and I know millions of people join me in wishing her a happy birthday and many, many happy returns. The Court’s other octagenarian, Anthony Kennedy, has been behind decisions that chipped away at abortion rights, but has also declined several opportunities to overturn Roe v Wade, and anyone replacing him would almost certainly be more explicitly anti-abortion.
When asked last week on Sixty Minutes what would happen if Roe v Wade were overturned, Trump said that control of abortion law would then revert to the states, and that women who wanted an abortion might have to “go to another state.” This is correct (shocking but true) and you can make your own determination about the relative impact that would have on affluent and educated women versus poor women, and teenagers, and other vulnerable parties.
The more complicated truth is that Roe v Wade is not going to disappear overnight, although there is a real and important long term threat. Should further changes create a Supreme Court majority ideologically opposed to abortion, they will have to wait until an appropriate case arises to make any changes. State lawmakers would no doubt be happy to present them with a test case, but making laws takes time, and then there are challenges and lower court decisions and demonstrations and pundits talking on the news before SCOTUS makes an actual decision. Even then, there is the hope that one or another of the anti-abortion faction hesitates to overturn 40+ years of precedent (See? You thought I was joking when I said I was an optimist).
A recent Supreme Court decision disallowing TRAP laws (targeted restriction of abortion providers) will stand, and so does the coalition that voided them, at least for now. For the moment, this should limit the chronic deterioration of access to abortion in Southern and Midwestern states that we have seen over the past decade. I believe it remains important to monitor changes that adversely affect our patients’ ability to obtain an abortion related to genetic findings, including decreased coverage, increased cost, logistical obstacles and changes that necessitate travel.
Point two: be vigilant about the threat to reproductive rights, but don’t expect dramatic changes in the near term.
Here’s something we don’t talk about enough: there is evidence to suggest that prenatal testing itself is likely to be a target of the anti-abortion movement. In fact, it already is. The National Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a directive in 2009 that forbids prenatal diagnosis “if undertaken with the intention of aborting an unborn child with a serious defect.” This decree limits the use of prenatal testing in some Catholic hospitals, a growing segment that includes one in six hospital beds in the country today. Many Catholic institutions including schools and hospitals refuse to pay for insurance plans that cover prenatal testing, restricting availability for all their employees, regardless of their own beliefs. Other employers with an anti-abortion agenda could do the same thing.
More evidence that prenatal testing is on the radar screen of the anti-abortion movement: state laws have been advocated, and in two instances passed, that specifically forbid women from seeking a termination for reasons of genetic defect. These laws don’t get a lot of ink because they are a) unconstitutional (under Roe) and b) virtually impossible to enforce, since they require a prosecutor to prove motivation. This doesn’t mean they are not important. They were written by people whose agenda it is to limit abortion by any means, but they were chosen as a vehicle because they tap into a larger uneasiness about prenatal diagnosis.
The laws may not be enforceable, but they are chilling. Abortion is already medicine’s stepchild. Why would doctors or hospital administrators be eager to offer a procedure where they have to think twice about whether or not they could get in legal trouble? And the laws show an intent that could be more fully realized through other means. You may not be able to prove a woman’s intent in seeking an abortion, but you can certainly document a counselor’s intent if he or she offers the option of termination after a prenatal diagnosis. Will we see attempts to limit what can say to our patients? If this seems impossible to you, consider that 35 states currently have script laws detailing what a woman must be told before she can have an abortion, and a number of those require providers to give inaccurate and misleading information. In 6 states, women must be ‘informed’ that personhood begins at conception. In 5 states, women must be ‘informed’ that there is a link between abortion and breast cancer. If they can require us to lie to patients, don’t rule out the possibility that they can forbid us to speak.
Advances in prenatal testing are revolutionary. NIPS is the fastest growing medical test in the history of medical tests. We will continue to see changes that widen the scope of what we can diagnose prenatally and improve our ability to predict outcomes more accurately, and at an earlier phase in pregnancy. This is going to reduce the incidence of a whole range of genetic conditions — for those who use the test. But improvements in prenatal diagnosis don’t improve access; in fact, improvements in prenatal diagnosis are fueling the debate over what types of prenatal testing are acceptable. If the courts and the politicians and the public don’t accept the idea that pregnant women have a right to prenatal testing as a part of normal prenatal care, then laws and limits to insurance reimbursement may put it out of reach of many Americans.
If prenatal testing is only available people who have enough money, or the right education, or live in certain parts of the country, it is not just unfair to individuals but fundamentally changes the societal impact of offering the tests. The necessary consequence of offering prenatal diagnosis and the option to choose only to some people, is that the birth of a child with a genetic defect or disease will gradually change from being something that can happen to anyone to something that only happens to ‘some people’. Don’t we already see this happening to some extent with Down syndrome? People are right to think hard about the potential consequences of prenatal diagnosis, but restricting prenatal testing so that access is unequal doesn’t limit the harm, it multiplies the harm.
Point three: we need to make the case that genetic testing is a part of good prenatal care and that every pregnant woman has a right to it, if she chooses.
There are other issues to consider but these three jump out at me as points of concern for genetic counseling practice as we move forward with a new administration. What can we do? Hope for the best. Make our own spaces – schools, clinics, workplaces – into welcoming and inclusive environments for those who don’t feel safe in the current climate. Be vigilant, and bring changes that affect patient care to public attention. Talk to other counselors. Talk to me; I would love to hear your take and your stories.
Filed under Laura Hercher
Tagged as abortion, Genetic counseling, genetic testing, prenatal testing
by Robert Resta | February 1, 2015 · 10:55 PM
Make Me Wanna Holler
Oh, make we wanna holler
And throw up both my hands
They don’t understand
Inner City Blues, written by Marvin Gaye and James Nyx, Jr
Multigene panels have perked up the world of hereditary cancer testing. After 15 years of Myriad-dominated BRCA testing as pretty much the only testing option for at-risk families, cancer genetic predisposition testing has been reinvigorated by a whole slew of labs offering a bewildering array of testing options – panels focused on a specific type of cancer, panels limited to highly penetrant genes only, multi cancer gene panels, panels that include moderately penetrant genes, and even design-your-own panels. This isn’t a perfect world and the pick-up rate of new mutations is a bit disappointing. Still, sunshine and fresh air are starting to flow through some of the dark and musty corners of hereditary cancer risk testing.
But all of a sudden health insurers are starting to rain on the parade of new tests. Over the past year, a number of health insurers – local and national – have backed off from covering multigene panel tests after having previously provided coverage. Regence Blue Shield, First Choice, HMA, CIGNA (with a few rare exceptions), BlueCross BlueShield of Kansas, and now Federal Blue Cross and Aetna (which doesn’t even cover large genomic rearrangement testing!), among others, have put policies in place that specifically exclude coverage of multigene panels. What’s going on here?
I don’t want to stereotype health insurers as amoral profiteers looking to cut a few corners to increase their bottom lines by denying recommended medical care (though admittedly the temptation to do so was strong). That is foolish name calling that gets us nowhere. The policy changes are presumably based on a lack of data on our part rather than a lack of conscience on the part of the insurance industry. Why should insurers cover multigene panels if care providers can’t demonstrate that they improve patient outcomes or make for more economical use of medical resources? Health care costs are expanding at a quicker rate than the visible universe and any new tests should have clear-cut medical or economic benefits.
The problem lies in the very nature of genetic disease. Genetic conditions are rare. Even with the BRCA genes, the most common highly penetrant cancer risk genes, it took nearly ten years to accumulate convincing data on clinical utility and cost effectiveness. All of the other cancer risk associated genes are far less common. It is impossible to conduct clinical and cost-effectiveness studies on each gene, especially for the moderately penetrant genes. Simply put, we will never be able to provide the data that insurers are demanding.
But enough kvetching. Let me offer some ways to address this problem.
Insurers need to understand that this is a whole new world in genetics and therefore they must use different standards for determining coverage for testing for uncommon conditions. An alternative way of thinking is to look at genetic diseases as defects in pathways rather than as isolated genes. Given what we have learned about the BRCA/Fanconi pathway, it is reasonable to assume that many genes in the pathway – NBN, PALB2, ATM, etc. – will have some impact on cancer risk. If research can demonstrate the benefits of testing for one gene in a pathway, this should provide solid ground for assuming that testing other genes in the pathway will likely be beneficial as well. Adding more genes to a testing panel should result in greater medical benefits, though admittedly to varying degrees. Sure a few genes in a pathway may eventually turn out to have little clinical value, but those can be discarded along the way.
Insurers must realize that adding more tests to a panel does not substantially increase the costs. Thanks to massively parallel sequencing, it costs no more to run four genetic tests than it does to run forty genetic tests. While the greater number of positive genetic test results may result in greater indirect costs because more patients will test positive for a mutation and will be undergoing screening and risk reducing procedures, this will be partially offset by eliminating the need for screening and prophylactic measures in family members who test negative for familial mutations. In a high risk family where no mutation has been identified, everyone in the family needs testing. However, if a mutation is found in the family, on average only half as many people will be high risk.
Insurers should make multigene panel testing contingent on genetic counseling with a qualified professional to help assure that patients are provided with the most accurate and up to date information about the clinical implications of the test results.
Clinical guidelines of professional organizations such as the NSGC, ACMG, NCCN, ASCO, should endorse multigene panels. Not necessarily specific gene panels, but rather the concept of multigene panels in general. Insurers will have a harder time denying coverage for a test if is widely recommended by groups that help set standards of care.
We must continue to conduct clinical and economic studies to help determine the utility of multigene panels. The studies will require broad cooperation among labs, research institutions and individual researchers, patient organizations, and international consortia. And genetic counselors should be at the forefront of these studies. We are the boots on the ground for almost every new genetic test and are in a prime position to lead research efforts. We should be driving this mule team, not sitting in the back of the wagon hoping that we don’t fall off at the next bump.
As I have discussed previously, there is reason to believe that some labs may be engaging in deceptive billing practices if they do not let insurers know that a panel is being but the insurer is only billed for BRCA analysis. This, in my view, is frankly unethical and creates an atmosphere of distrust. I would not be surprised if this has partially contributed to insurers’ reluctance to cover multigene panel testing. Such practices, if they are taking place, must be discontinued. Honesty and openness are sine qua non in any relationship.
Patients have the potential to benefit greatly from advances in genetic testing. But new technologies also create new challenges and require new ways of thinking about the care that we provide and how we justify paying for it.
Tagged as Genetic counseling, genetic testing, insurance coverage, insurance coverage for genetic testing, multigene cancer panels, multigene panels
by laurahercher | August 11, 2014 · 2:05 PM
NEW PROPOSED REGULATIONS ON TESTING FROM THE FDA ARE LONG ON INTENTION AND SHORT ON DETAIL
On July 31st, the FDA announced its intention to regulate both laboratory developed tests (LDT”s) and in vitro diagnostic (IVD) companion devices, and it will soon be asking for public comment on the proposed regulations. Should genetic counselors be among the people commenting? Well yes, as the new rules are likely to affect genetics practice, since many of the tests that look at genetic susceptibility are LDT’s and could be subject to a premarket review by the FDA that will delay or deny the clinical availability of new tests, and a mandatory process of adverse result reporting. The impact will be felt most immediately in cancer settings, where genetic tests that look at tumor DNA for purposes of choosing targeted therapies or predicting prognosis are likely first candidates to draw FDA scrutiny, but eventually the new rules should affect a range of clinical specialties. At stake is finding the balance between too much regulation, wherein it becomes prohibitively difficult and expensive to introduce new tests that can help diagnose patients and personalize recommendations for screening and treatment, and too little regulation, wherein we suspect that our information on the accuracy and reliability of new tests is not adequately accurate or reliable (an ongoing issue, by the way, with non-invasive prenatal testing. See Katie Stoll’s post here and a study, new this week, suggesting that the dreaded false positive result may be more common than test makers have led us to believe).
A little background on the two closely related entities that are the focus of new regulations. LDT’s are what used to be called “home-brews”: tests that are used by a single lab and not marketed as a kit or a device. Somewhat by historical accident, LDT’s have come to exist in a regulatory grey area, effectively exempt from FDA oversight. The assumption behind this was that what went on in an individual lab affected only that lab’s patients and that no agency could track every one-off solution engineered by a mom-and-pop lab. As with everything else in 2014, the status quo has been disrupted by new technology – but in this instance the new technology isn’t the magic of Google or whole genome sequencing but overnight shipping. Yes, the world of genetic testing has been turned on its ear by the likes of UPS and Fed Ex.
In brief, now that the Pony Express has picked up its game, laboratories can test samples from all over the world in centralized locations with sophisticated and expensive testing capability that isn’t available back on the farm. At the same time, lab tests, including genetic tests and biomarkers like measures of gene expression, play an increasingly important role in making diagnoses and determining treatment. For this reason, the FDA has moved in its determined yet glacial manner to regulate a subset of tests that are considered high or medium risk – those tests which have the potential to alter medical care, and therefore have significant implications if the information they provide is incorrect. This risk-based approach is a measured step – it allows the FDA to continue to use discretion when tests are low risk or experimental or involve a rare disease for which there is no other test.
IVD companion diagnostics are tests developed to be used in conjunction with a drug or other therapy – tests that can be used to refine dosages or identify good candidates for a given therapy. Obviously pharmacogenetics is a subset of this broader category of companion testing. Again, the proposed regulatory framework would stratify the tests as high risk, moderate risk, low risk – requiring pre-market approval for higher risk tests, and allowing the agency to exercise “discretion” in low risk situations (discretion is FDA-speak for a wink and a nod). With regard to IVD diagnostics, the FDA intends not just that the tests on offer be confirmed as reliable, but is instituting the requirement that companion testing be included in the development of new therapies as a matter of course. In effect the government is mandating that all new therapies be individualized to the greatest extent possible: “When an appropriate scientific rationale supports such an approach, FDA encourages the joint development of therapeutic products and diagnostic devices that are essential for the safe and effective use of those therapeutic products.” The age of personalized medicine is upon us, and the FDA is ON IT.
If all this sounds familiar, it only means that you have been paying attention. Since 2010, the FDA has been asserting publically that it has both the intention and the authority to regulate LDT’s and IVD’s. Going back even further, the Genomics and Personalized Medicine Act of 2006, introduced by then Senator Barack Obama, emphasized the development of companion diagnostics, calling on the National Academy of Sciences to recommend incentives and requiring the Institute of Medicine to improve “oversight and regulation of genetic tests.” While the bill was never passed, it is not surprising to see a similar emphasis under the current administration.
So, genetic counselors, are we for or against the proposed regulations? Probably the answer to that question is — yes. Like the FDA, most people seem to be in favor of some middle option – regulating everything is virtually impossible and regulating nothing is an appealing libertarian fantasy, but in fact it would put counselors in the uncomfortable position of having to rely on figures supplied by the companies who manufacture the tests. Careful observers like the Genetics and Public Policy Center have been calling for increased oversight for genetic testing for years. Their 2006 summary of a genetic testing quality initiative sums it up this way:
“assessment of public attitudes shows that the public widely believes that the government regulates genetic tests to ensure their quality and, moreover, that the government should play this role. In fact, however, genetic tests are subject to very little governmental oversight when compared to other health care products. There is no formal approval procedure a laboratory has to go through before offering a new genetic test, and government requirements to ensure that genetic testing laboratories are getting the right answers to patients are minimal. Moreover, there is no government requirement that a test must be clinically valid – i.e., actually relate to a particular disease or risk of disease – in order to be sold.”
However, both the American Clinical Laboratory Association and the American Medical Association have reacted negatively to the proposed FDA regulatory strategy. The ACLA pushback comes as no surprise – few entities welcome idea of FDA regulation – and the organization has submitted a petition claiming that only CLIA and not the FDA had authority over LDT’s (the FDA rejects this). The more measured response of the AMA reflects the concerns of clinical care-givers, and may align with the attitude of many genetic counselors:
The draft FDA Framework for Oversight of Laboratory Developed Tests (LDTs) announced today, outlines a risk-based approach that raises a number of questions and concerns.
The FDA proposal adds an additional layer of regulatory requirements which may result in patients losing access to timely life-saving diagnostic services and hinder advancements in the practice of medicine.
The AMA is committed to ensuring that the proposal that is ultimately adopted by the FDA preserves rapid access to care and medical advancements.
What makes it difficult to respond to the FDA is that there is a lot of wiggle room left in the regulations as written. High and moderate risk tests will be required to report adverse results and apply for pre-market review according to separate timetables – but the FDA will not define those terms for up to 2 years after the regulations are finalized (Policy and Medicine has a useful chart if you are looking for specifics on timelines). In other words, the FDA has designed a system that gives them room to maneuver – and is asking for respondents to give feedback on the plan without knowing where the agency plans to draw the line. For example, breast cancer susceptibility panels probably aren’t low risk; they are medically actionable and complicated to interpret. Are they high risk or moderate risk? The somewhat hyperbolic letter from the FDA to 23andMe last fall* suggested that the agency believes the fallout from breast cancer risk prediction done badly might be unnecessary mastectomies. That sounds pretty high risk – but is that the perceived reality of counselors who work with these tests?
The rare disease exemption in the FDA plan means that whole exome or whole genome sequencing would not be affected, in those cases where the patient presents with an apparently genetic condition that has eluded diagnosis. WES for those with no apparent disease, who wish to use the information prophylactically? I have literally no idea what risk the FDA would assign to clinical versions of genome scanning. What about the genetic testing done for children with autism? These supplement rather than point to a diagnosis and would rarely change treatment but may have a big impact on the parents reproductive choices – is that consequence enough to bump a test from low risk to high risk?
I might sound like I am criticizing the FDA, but in fact I am sympathetic to the difficulties inherent in a modulated approach and appreciate that they are attempting to tread that knife’s edge. I do think it makes it difficult to provide feedback, and I would suggest that their policy be reopened for public comment at critical junctures, such as the point at which high, low and moderate risk categories are more carefully defined. Useful commentary now, I would suggest, will need to be far more granular than the FDA regulatory language itself. What tests do you feel work well for you and your patients? Are there tests in use or in the pipeline that concern you? Which ones? Why? Share your concerns here, and I will write up a response incorporating reader response when the draft regulations are posted for public comment.
*Note: don’t bother telling the FDA that you are concerned about direct-to-consumer testing, because the agency has already noted that this applies only to testing in a clinical context. No DTC testing will be exempt from review – a footnote to the FDA’s announcement that had DTC advocates screaming foul – for details see Jennifer Wagner’s irritated response at the Genomics Law Report.
Tagged as companion testing, FDA, genetic testing, IVD's, LDT's
by laurahercher | November 29, 2013 · 7:31 PM
THE FDA CALLS A PENALTY ON 23andMe
IS THIS THE GAME WE WANT TO PLAY?
On Monday, the FDA celebrated the start of the holiday season by sending a letter to 23andMe, informing the direct-to-consumer personal genomics service that they must cease and desist offering their signature test. The proximal cause of this action, as described by the FDA and not disputed by the company, was that 23andMe had ceased to participate in a process of establishing their PGx test as “validated for its intended uses.” They had, the FDA suggested, dropped the ball – well, not just dropped the ball, but kicked it out of bounds, an old soccer trick for delay of game, which Mya Thomae and Dylan Reinhardt suggest might have been exactly what the company had in mind, playing for time while they attempted to accumulate better data than what-all they have right now.
The FDA move prompted a vast twitterlanche of commentary, ranging from indignant outrage to smug satisfaction (Dietrich Stephan, founder of the erstwhile DTC competitor Navigenics, said, “Engaging the FDA as a partner to bring the most robust and safe new type of test to market is diagnostics 101”). Genetic counselors might be suspected of indulging in a bit of schadenfreude, since the relationship between 23andMe and the GC community has inclined in the direction of mutually suspicious, if not downright frosty. The company, which advocates for access to one’s DNA information with almost a religious fervor, sees GC’s as gatekeepers, as a self-anointed coterie of priestesses guarding the oracle at Delphi. Genetic counselors, for their part, tend to perceive the very existence of 23andMe as an affront, as though the possibility that a subset of people might benefit from genetic testing without access to counseling was insult and injury — an existential threat.
To be fair, nobody reacts well to the suggestion that their chosen profession is a cabal that threatens the freedom and well-being of fellow citizens – not even investment bankers, and at least they get to soothe their wounded souls with lots of material goods. But pettiness is unbecoming and unproductive, and we would all do well to remember that a groundbreaking organization like 23andme is a part of the energy and excitement of the field – an expression of an explorer’s mentality that draws people to the potential of genetics in 2013. That’s not only fun and sort of cool but also incredibly powerful because it attracts the kind of intelligence and curiosity that makes big new ideas possible (David Dobbs does a thoughtful and balanced job making the case for 23andMe in this piece for the New Yorker).
So minus any animus toward 23andMe, was this a reasonable move by the FDA? There are two main questions that have been raised: 1. can they regulate? and 2. should they regulate? (a third question, HOW DARE THEY?, has also gotten a lot of play but I am going to ignore that one because, c’mon guys get over yourselves this isn’t ONE STEP FROM TOTALITARIANISM). The first one takes up the issue of whether or not a personal genomics test falls under the FDA jurisdiction. I am going to say yes, but will not rehash those arguments here, since they have been more ably covered elsewhere – I particularly recommend this piece by Hank Greely at the Stanford Law School Center for Law and the Biosciences blog.
So, should they regulate? The rationale for regulatory action in the letter to 23andMe is a risk of harm to customers, including the possibility that a customer might alter his medication without medical advice or misunderstand her risk for breast cancer and have an unnecessary prophylactic mastectomy. While theoretically true, it seems wildly unlikely that very many people would insist on a mastectomy without getting more information than mail-order genetic results – and those cases might be more indicative of out-of-control anxiety issues and irresponsible medical practice than the power of a PGx report. More commonly, misunderstanding the limits of the test in terms of risk reduction might empower a customer to skip out on appropriate preventative measures. Either way, this is nothing new — a rehash of concerns genetic counselors have had about DTC testing since its inception. In practice, perhaps the best summary of the clinical impact to date comes from Anders Nordgren, who called it “Neither as harmful as feared by critics nor as empowering as promised by providers.” Having spent hours poking through the generally well-written and thorough 23andMe reports, and spoken to some of their customers, I would suggest that misunderstanding the results that come from 23andMe could pose some risk — real risk, to be sure, but limited risk.
However, it is possible to envision a scenario where a genetic testing sold DTC did pose a significant danger to consumers, with inaccurate results, irresponsible advice, tests used to market scam treatments or preventatives. None of this is farfetched, and some of it has already been documented. For this reason alone, the possibility of FDA action is an important deterrent. A company like 23andMe, which makes real efforts to be thoughtful and responsible, will ultimately benefit from the restraint on less scrupulous entities. And of course, it is possible that 23andMe would have been less thoughtful and less responsible if they had not been motivated by the threat of FDA action. So arguments against regulation in general based on the fact that 23andMe is well-intentioned are misguided.
But despite a bias in favor of showing some muscle, I have questions about how much time and energy the FDA should spend cracking down on the likes of 23andMe. Is it, I wonder, the best use of resources? For one thing, attempts to stop the free flow of information in 2013 are fingers in the dike. Razib Khan at Slate expands on this argument, suggesting that companies pushed by the FDA could simply move offshore, away from any regulation.
And more importantly from my point of view, the emphasis on negative action diverts us from the possibility of doing something positive. Rather than keeping consumers away from tests we think are insufficiently documented, how about providing a resource to the general public that endorses tests that are ready for prime time? After all, a few bold individuals may be excited at the prospect of downloading Promethease to query their own exome data but most people would rather not, thank you very much. Most people would be happy to have some guidance. They can get that guidance from the company, but even the classy companies have a vested interest in hyping the significance of their results – that’s what they’re selling, right? There is an opportunity here for the government and the genetics community to create a trusted source of information that is neutral, unbiased and supports a best-case scenario use of genetic testing by those eager to take the plunge. Hell, you could imagine tying in such a resource to something like ClinVar or GenVar, so that early adapters could contribute to publically accessible databases rather than giving it to 23andMe to sell.
After years of running up and down the pitch, the FDA has demonstrated that it knows how to blow the whistle – that’s good. I’m pretty sure 23andMe will be back – and that’s good too. But if we really want something great to come out of this discussion, let’s stop doing color commentary on the FDA action, and imagine what it could be like if we changed the game.
Tagged as 23andMe, David Dobbs, Dylan Reinhardt, FDA, genetic testing, Hank Greely, May Thomae, personal genomics, Razib Khan
by laurahercher | June 22, 2013 · 6:25 PM
When Numbers Do Not Tell The Tale: A Tribute To My Friend
Holly Osman 1959-2013
There is an emotional toughness one must have, working with cancer patients. Oncologists tend to be pretty well-armored. You don’t, for example, expect the head of Clinical Genetic Services at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center to get emotional when a student asks a question about surveillance after prophylactic mastectomy. So it was a surprise when Dr. Robson paused, and raised his eyes, with a blank expression that might have been masking tears. “I used to say no more surveillance was necessary,” he said. “But then I had a patient who rocked my world.”
Sitting in the audience, a chill ran down my spine. You see, I knew her too. Not as a counselor but as a friend. A BRCA 1 mutation ran in her family. She had tested positive for it years earlier, so after she had her beloved Sarah and Eric she did the surgery – smiled her way through it, no problems, no complaints, no second guesses. “No big deal,” she said, with a smile that dared you to doubt her. She was going to get the gift her own mother was denied: a little more time. Time to watch her kids grow up, get married, have children of their own.
It’s never an easy business telling women to cut off their healthy breasts and put themselves into an early menopause. No matter how deeply you believe in what you are offering, these are hard conversations to have. But it wouldn’t have been hard with Holly. She would have smiled from ear to ear and waved away all the negatives with a flutter of her left hand. She was brave like that, and certain.
If your prior risk of breast cancer is 85%, and a mastectomy removes 98% of the breast tissue, your posterior risk should be approximately 3%. That’s a risk reduction of 96.5%. Wonderful numbers — but only numbers. Numbers didn’t matter when Holly was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004. Or when it came back in 2006 (stage four, incurable). I spoke to Dr. Robson and one of the genetic counselors from MSKCC after the lecture. “I know Holly too,” I said. There was pain in their faces. “She did everything right. It’s so unfair.”
“It’s not just that,” said the counselor. “She is the nicest person. Whenever someone really needs support we have them talk to Holly. She never says no.”
What can I tell you about Holly Osman? She would not forgive me if I did not describe her as happy and successful. A great family. A husband who adores her. Two wonderful kids – almost adults now. Her daughter looks just like her, but with a hell of a lot more attitude, and Holly loved that. She loved it when her kids were independent and she loved it when they needed her. Her son is ridiculous: handsome, smart, poised and kind. ‘Screw up a little,’ you want to say. Stop making the rest of us look bad.
If I had to pick one word for Holly it would be effortless. Some of us clean up nicely, but Holly looked great all the time, in a classic way that required no adornment. Roll her out of bed at 3 AM, and she would still be beautiful. And effortless wasn’t just her style, it was her way of being – ask her how things were going and she said “great!” You could try and empower her to complain a bit — good luck with that. Holly wasn’t very interested in complaining — which was annoying for me. I myself would have whined. Not Holly. Her life was SO fabulous. Her doctors were SO great. If you asked her about how treatment was going she would look blank for a moment, as though she didn’t remember what you were talking about. She had this look that seemed to say, ‘Oh yes, chemo – I had forgotten.’ Did she need anything? Could I drive carpool for her this week? “Why?” Holly said.
She was the luckiest person in the world. She insisted on that right until the last moment, until last Friday, the day she died, in Holly-fashion, quietly and without drama, nestled in the heart of the family she had nurtured on every level imaginable. I don’t know; maybe she was the luckiest person in the world. I can tell you that the rest of us left behind feel a little bit less lucky now.
She did have a lot of luck, it’s just that some of it was bad. As a friend who happened to be a genetic counselor, I always felt a little guilty, as though we had let her down. We counselors love the safety of numbers, of facts, of things we know. We told her the truth, it just wasn’t her truth. As predictive testing goes, BRCA analysis is one of the best. It has, as we say, clinical validity and clinical utility. Holly understood that too; even after her own diagnosis she counseled a much-adored younger sister to have the same surgery, the one that had failed to save her. Holly’s story is not a repudiation of what we have to offer. It is a reminder of the limitations of the fortune-teller’s art. Percentages are true only for epidemiologists, while people live out their lives as a series of n=1 experiments. There is an arrogance in the certainty of numbers that will always be undone by the stochastic process that is life.
Here’s how I know: I had a friend who rocked my world.
Rest in peace, Holls. Rest in peace.
Tagged as BRCA 1/2, genetic testing, Holly Osman
by laurahercher | March 13, 2013 · 10:54 PM
VARIATIONS IN A MINOR KEY: SOME THOUGHTS ON PRENATAL TESTING IN AN ERA OF WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING
James Watson is many things – geneticist, Nobel laureate, agent provocateur – but in the realm of psychiatry he is first and foremost the parent of a son with schizophrenia. So when he spoke in 2007 at the World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics, it was as a family member, albeit a family member with an unusually good grasp of the science. And it was as a family member that he exhorted the scientists in the audience to keep up the good work, so that “someday we could identify those individuals destined to suffer from mental illness in utero, and weed them out.”
How often do you hear an audible gasp in the midst of a plenary talk? The dismay and the indignation were palpable. Researchers throughout the day interrupted their talks on GWAS to express in the strongest possible language that the goal of their work was to understand the pathophysiology of the disease and perhaps to aid in diagnosis – not to provide pre-symptomatic risk assessment and not – no, never – not to be used prenatally.
“But if this is what families want,” I asked one speaker later that day. “How do you propose to restrict testing, once the means to test is available?”
“They can’t,” he replied. “They must not.”
Ah. Of course. They must not – I will pass that along.
Five years later, it is not GWAS but whole exome sequencing and whole genome sequencing providing all the buzz at conferences. Solving the diagnostic odyssey! Revolutionizing cancer treatment! Ushering in an era of personalized medicine! It’s very exciting. Prenatal testing is rarely mentioned, and then only in passing – while prognosticators sing happy songs of a not-so-far-off day when every baby will be sequenced at birth.
Sequenced at birth? Will it even be necessary? Maybe Mom and Dad have baby’s DNA already, on a hard drive or a memory stick or downloaded onto their cell phones along with the ultrasound pics.
This is not the genome sequencing story you are seeing in the papers or the blogs. It’s not what researchers are excited about. The ones we hear are all about science journalists getting their DNA decoded and setting off on odysseys of self-discovery that involve hours of consultation with clinical and academic superstars who donate their time. We hear about kids with strange constellations of symptoms finding answers after years of disappointment. Those are heartwarming tales: anecdotal and difficult to imagine at scale, but hopeful and exciting nonetheless. But there is another theme playing, in a minor key, and I hear it faintly, hidden beneath the violins and the trumpets.
I hear it, an unspoken question, when we debate the utility of genomic information. What does to mean to say that information is actionable? (Prevention? Treatment? Cure? Prenatally, there is only Yes or No.) Can patients handle uncertainty? (And what will we lose, when pregnancies are terminated just to be on the safe side?) Doesn’t everyone have the right to know what is in their own DNA? (The information is available – why not use it? What could possibly go wrong?)
Whatever tests are available postnatally will find their way into prenatal use. The gateway technologies – PGD, cell-free fetal DNA testing – are in place. And there is no use saying, “they can’t, they won’t, they shouldn’t” because they can and they will – and sometimes they should. There will be good uses too: success stories and disasters averted. A blanket “no” is not an option, and granting anyone authority to pick and choose which uses are worthwhile vests altogether too much power in the hands of any one person, or profession, or bureaucratic entity.
The same tests can be done before or after birth, but the experience is entirely different. Uncertainty after birth is an opportunity. The least useful information is that which will absolutely come true, no matter what you do. Uncertainty before birth is a crisis. Anyone who has ever discussed a variant of uncertain significance with a pregnant mother can tell you that. But what are the chances there will be developmental delay? Are you certain that the heart will be affected? How sure are you that this means anything? Not nearly sure enough. Please understand that.
In general, notions of genetic determinism increase the likelihood that genomic testing will have negative consequences. Fatalistic attitudes about the power of genes could lead people to overestimate the meaning of elevated risks and underestimate the meaning of reduced risks. Anxiety, stress, missed mammograms – you have heard this before. Shrug. People are grown ups. They will figure this out. Information is power.
But we are in a whole new universe trying to reconcile underpowered and often misunderstood predictive testing in the context of prenatal use. So please, in telling tales of all the wonderful things that genome sequencing will do, save space for a mention of what it cannot do. Make sure they understand that there are great wide cracks in our crystal ball. Do not oversell the value of genotype in the absence of phenotype. Remember that in the end neither researchers nor physicians nor genetic counselors will dictate how this new technology will be used. Others will make that call, and we will be in the choir, singing songs of praise laced with sorrow.
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Tagged as eugenics, genetic testing, prenatal testing, whole genome sequencing
by Robert Resta | November 11, 2012 · 4:43 PM
Resistance Is Futile: A New Paradigm for Genetic Counseling?
For with this detection there arises new lines of approach in the field of preventive medicine, and the sociological consequences may be far-reaching.
– James V. Neel, from his 1948 plenary lecture, “The Detection of The Genetic Carriers of Hereditary Disease”, delivered at the first annual conference of the Human Genetics Society of America (which eventually changed its name to the American Society of Human Genetics)
The technical advances in genetic testing over the last 5 years have been stunning. Much of what I thought of as Not Going To Happen For A Long Time has now happened yesterday. Along with these breakthroughs is the unstated but increasingly common suggestion that everyone should taste the fruit of testing in Gregor’s Genetic Garden of Eden.
In the old days (like a year or two ago) only a small portion of the patient population were thought to be candidates for genetic testing, those for whom it made medical sense and who were emotionally ready for the ramifications of the knowledge. Genetic counselors used their skills to help patients select the appropriate test and to guide them through the clinically, emotionally, and financially complicated decision-making process. Some chose to undergo testing while others delayed or declined it. We did not really care what patients chose to do; our role was to go through the wringer with them.
Now, though, this model of genetic testing only for the select few may be replaced in the near future by the idea that everyone – healthy, sick, high risk, low risk – should have genetic testing. Population scale genetic testing, with its promises of personally tailored medical care and better health outcomes, assumes that everyone – except for a handful of Luddites, people who do not own mobile phones or have Twitter accounts, Flower Children, and conspiracy theorists – will incorporate DNA into their routine medical care. Genetic testing becomes a foregone conclusion, not an ethically and emotionally weighty matter to be carefully explored and considered. If everyone has a genetic test and everyone carries gene mutations, doesn’t that make everyone a patient?
Think I am overstating my case? Perhaps. Then again, recall the many professional and popular articles you have read that are variations on this theme: The time is near when you will walk into your doctor’s office with an inexpensive DNA Chip that contains your entire genome and that will guide your doctor in choosing the best medications for you and select the most effective screening tests. You will live to be 100, enjoy a lusty sex life, and have healthy children. While the $1000 genome may not be a shining example of truth in advertising, affordable genetic testing is upon us.
A second case in point is the introduction of cheap carrier testing for a huge number of mostly obscure genetic conditions, what has come to be called Universal Carrier Screening. I will risk stating the obvious and point out that the word “universal” implies that the test is for everyone. At $99, it is hard to say no.
A third case in point is newborn screening, which is as close as it gets to universal genetic testing. The conditions screened for with those heel sticks continues to increase but the primary justification is not “treatment before symptoms develop.” Rather, testing is predicated on reducing the number of families caught in The Diagnostic Odyssey, that emotionally and financially draining parental journey to find out what medical disorder their child may have. Based on this premise, there is no logical stopping point for including disorders in a newborn panel. Every genetic disease is a potential source of a diagnostic odyssey. In fact, the rarer the syndrome, the better it is for inclusion in newborn screening since uncommon conditions are less likely to be diagnosed by most practitioners.
Another area of pervasive genetic testing is the recommendation for universal fetal aneuploidy screening during pregnancy, made even more tempting by high detection/low false positive non-invasive tests.
Genetic screening is offered to everyone prior to conception, during pregnancy, and at birth. Testing all adults allows the rest of the camel into the tent.
Genetic counselors are not the driving force behind universal genetic testing, although undoubtedly we have some complicated role. As I have discussed elsewhere, we probably have less influence on patients’ decisions than we think. Larger social, economic, and ethical forces are at play, in much the same way that the introduction of amniocentesis, newborn and carrier screening, and the birth of the genetic counseling profession were all products of their times.
The role of genetic counseling when it comes to genetic testing, then, may no longer be primarily to help patients make decisions. Instead, genetic counselors may become Phenotype Counselors who interpret and integrate results of genetic tests that were run – and possibly chosen through online services – before patients walked into our offices.
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If I am right, genetic counselors are likely to encounter controversies and dilemmas. Ethical values like nondirectiveness and autonomy become less forceful if individually tailored health strategies can help prevent or attenuate serious illness. Think of how many oncologists consider their high risk cancer patients crazy for not having BRCA testing or believe that known BRCA mutation carriers are making poor choices for not undergoing risk-reducing surgeries.
Eugenic concerns, the voice and dignity of the disability community, the psychological sequelae of coping with test results, and worries about the other downsides of genetic testing may be pushed to the wayside by the power of the still unproven assumption that medical spending will become more cost-effective, clinical decisions will be wiser, and everyone will be healthier if their genomes are analyzed. In fact, people with disabilities themselves will likely see some treatment and diagnostic benefits from genomic testing. And because laboratories and lab-based counselors will likely play critical roles, defining and protecting against conflict of interest becomes even more critical and complex.
Both good and bad will come out of universal DNA testing, though it is difficult to predict what measure of each. But so much genetic information available on so many people must give one pause. The history of genetics demonstrates that every advance in genetics is fraught with social complexity and dangers. We may have a more sophisticated knowledge of genetics than our predecessors, but we are neither wiser nor more ethical.
I close by reminding you that knowing our past helps us better understand why we are here and what may happen if we go there. To that end, let me bring to your attention two recently published books about the history of genetic counseling and the history of medical genetics: Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America by Alex Stern (The Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2012) and The Science of Human Perfection: How Genes Became the Heart of American Medicine by Nathaniel Comfort (Yale Univ. Press, 2012). The authors, my good friends and colleagues, provide an informed and critical historical understanding of genetic counseling and genetic medicine. Everyone should read these books. It will do your souls – and your counseling philosophy – good.
Tagged as carrier screening, conflict of interest genetic counseling, Genetic counseling, genetic counseling paradigm, genetic testing, genome testing, newborn screening, prenatal testing, universal carrier testing, universal genetic testing
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(L to R) Three executive members of the Williams Lake Refugee Sponsorship Group: Sharon Taylor (communications), Kirsten Konge (vice-president), and Sherry Yonkman (treasurer) Photo: Rachel Taylor
By Sharon Taylor–
You wake up in the morning, acrid smoke already making your throat hurt. You glance out the window as you get ready for work. Every time a plane flies over, you look up and calculate how near it is and what direction it is going in.
At work, everyone is talking nervously. The computers are down—no Internet means no work. But lots of time to share news and not-quite-news: “My brother heard…” and “My boyfriend’s boss says…”
Then the daycare calls. “Come pick up your baby. We are being evacuated.” But you don’t have a car and you can’t contact your partner. A co-worker drives you to the daycare, where you meet up with a friend and then it is all rush and run and get to this place only to be told to keep moving, keep moving…
And it is 3 o’clock in the morning and you are sleeping in your car. Five hours to get 30 kilometres. It doesn’t feel safe at the rest stop surrounded by dozens of others, but it feels safer than on your own on a lonely stretch of highway. Two women and a baby are not going to feel safe anywhere.
Hours more on the road, hours waiting at a gas station for a delivery to arrive and fill all the empty cars. People are trying to be good, to be helpful, but tempers are short and the stress makes it as hard to breathe as the smoke does. And when the gas tank is full, and you get back on the road, you still don’t know where you are going…
You are a refugee.
And it all happened in hours.
As the settlement worker for Immigrant and Multicultural Services Society in Williams Lake, I have talked to people in Williams Lake, Tatla Lake, and 100 Mile House about the plight of refugees worldwide. Canadians have watched in horror as over-crowded boats tip passengers in the unforgiving ocean and seen the masses of people carrying their children and everything they have left on their backs. We have praised the volunteers and questioned the politicians. We have raised money through soup dinners and school bottle drives; numerous groups have set up sponsorship programs to bring people from all over the world to Canada.
And we have done all that with a kind of careless grace: it’s who we are. It’s what we do. Canadians in general are generous and caring people who understand that no one survives through winter’s cold, summer’s drought, and spring’s floods without their neighbours’ help.
Sixty million people around the world displaced. Twenty million of those have left their home country. Most left with nothing. They go to a nearby country offering help, or to a camp, where volunteers and workers from the UNHCR, Red Cross, Medicines sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), and hundreds of smaller or local organizations try to help with daily needs, with stress and trauma, with planning for the future.
In Kenya, one of the world’s largest refugee camps houses over 500,000 people. It has operated for over 25 years.
Last week, I was on my cell more than not – texting, talking, comforting, questioning – as my two daughters and grandson fled the forest fires in Fort McMurray. They are safe now, waiting to make the next plan. But as I talk to them, I hear this in my head, “They are always moving. Even when they are sitting still in a camp, in a tent, and there is nowhere to go back to, they keep moving.”
Patrice Gordon, a nurse-practitioner in Tatla Lake, has travelled all over the world with the International Red Cross, working through medical crises such as the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone. At a recent refugee sponsorship meeting in Tatla, she told us about Nepalese refugees whose village had been washed down a mountain. “They would go back if they could, even if there is nothing left. All the refugees I have met would go back if they could. They are always moving…”
The image was striking as we watched people evacuate Fort McMurray—88,000 people safely moved out of harm’s way in only hours. Highways jammed with cars, moving achingly slowly, or abandoned when the gas tank ran empty; fire-fighters, first responders, and police going towards what everyone else fled from. As someone pointed out on social media, if you had to evacuate a city safely, one in which the majority of workers are trained in emergency procedures is a good place to start. And the damage, while enormous, is less than it could have been. Fort McMurray is already starting to re-build.
But not all places in the world are so lucky. Sometimes everyone has to run – no one can return to save what is left. Sometimes the road is filled not with helpful strangers, but with people without conscience or heart. Sometimes, instead of offering emotional support and practical assistance, the country turns on its own people and chases them further into the wilderness. Sometimes the enemy at the gate drives people from bad to worse—from bombs dropping from the sky to guns pointed at vulnerable bodies.
In her stunning poem “Home,” Kenyan-born Somali poet Warsan Shire says,
i want to go home,
but home is the mouth of a shark
home is the barrel of the gun
and no one would leave home
unless home chased you to the shore
unless home told you
to quicken your legs
leave your clothes behind
crawl through the desert
wade through the oceans
be hunger
forget pride
your survival is more important
Canadians are good at opening their hearts and homes to their neighbours. But we need to re-think the term ‘neighbour.’ The fact is that we are now dependent on other countries for our inexpensive clothing, our furniture, and in many cases, our food. The people who supply us with things that make our lives easier and more pleasant are no longer on “the other side of world”—they are as close as our grocery stores, as our big box stores. When they are affected by extreme weather conditions, our supply lines are cut. When floods and fires and warmer oceans and nuclear incidents and civil wars occur in one place, the ripples are felt across the world.
Refugee support groups are forming in Quesnel and 100 Mile House. There are two groups in Williams Lake and one in Tatla Lake that are preparing for families to be re-settled within the year. Our Cariboo winters may be cold, but our welcome is warm. We are all neighbours now. And if we do not take care of each other, the mouth of the shark is open and waiting.
For more information about getting involved in the Williams Lake Refugee Sponsorship Group, the Sacred Heart Refugee Sponsorship Group, or the Tatla Lake Initiative for Refugee Sponsorship group, contact Sharon at (778) 412-2999 or sharont@imss.ca.
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