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ATO Tax 2019: How long does it take to get your tax return back?
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Published: 26/06/2019 Updated: 1 July 2019 9:47 AM
What you can and can't claim at tax time
Gemma Acton explains what you need to know so you don't get caught out on tax claims this financial year.
The new financial year is here which means one thing - it's time to get your tax in order.
Our Finance Editor Gemma Acton explains what we need to be careful of and what the ATO is cracking down on this year.
Watch the full story above.
Rental properties targeted
"Rental properties are a good example of somewhere where there was a lot of suspicious activities in previous years - so there's a lot of focus on it this year," Acton said.
"It's legitimate to claim expenses for a rental property when you are really trying to rent it out.
"This is not when you are staying in your rental property or giving it to friends and family for free.
"You will need to provide evidence that you have really made an effort to advertise it, at a price that's reasonable, at a time of year when people actually want to rent and stay in it."
Gig economy warning
"More and more people are driving Ubers, renting out rooms on Airbnb, doing tasks on Airtasker - and this is all income," Acton said.
"People are not often reporting this income - and this income is taxable."
What can you claim?
Essentially, you can claim for anything which legitimately helps you to earn income.
"There are some strange ones - if you work outside all day, you can claim on sunscreen," Acton said.
How to get the most out of your tax return
ATO to snoop on social media accounts as part of claim crackdown
"If you work on a farm, you can claim costs associated with animals.
"It just needs to legitimately relate to your job."
What can't you claim?
"Where people really need to be careful is home office expenses," Acton said.
"If you use the phone and internet for your job from home, you can claim the portion that relates to your job. You can't claim the entire thing if you're also using the internet for personal use.
"Another mistake a lot of people make regards to clothing.
"You can claim on expenses related to a uniform. But people think that definition is a lot broader than it is.
"A uniform is not dark trousers and a white shirt. Think of it as clothes you wouldn't ordinarily have if it weren't for that job."
Understanding audits
When the ATO is looking at your return, they might see something that raises a red flag - and they might elevate that to an audit process.
"This is a formal process," Acton said.
"They'll call you up, invite you in for a meeting, and work with you through a formal plan and tell you exactly what you need to collect for them, which can be quite a lot of material.
"A key rule is to make sure you keep copies of everything - receipts, source documents - because they're going to be asking for it.
"They'll also tell you how long the process will take, and there will be written communications back and forth.
"They're essentially digging deeper into issues that look suspicious to them."
How long does it take to get your tax return back?
It usually takes 2-3 weeks to get your tax return back if there are no issues, but, but it can take up to 30 days depending on ATO processing times.
For more finance news, click here.
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Top 10 Posts of the Week (8/2/14 – 8/8/14)
August 9, 2014 by Kyle Dillon 0 Comments
This post is part of a weekly series in which we list the top ten posts from across the blogosphere. If you come across a post that you think should make our list, please let us know!
Dave Bohon, “Iraq: ISIS Terrorists Still Killing Christians, Beheading Children,” The New American. The genocide of Iraqi Christians has officially begun, and the reports are as bad as they can be. ISIS terrorists are crucifying their victims, and even beheading children. They have also apparently overrun Qaraqosh, the largest Christian community in Iraq. Meanwhile, the US has authorized airstrikes against these terrorists.
Ruth Moon, “Acts 29 Removes Mars Hill, Asks Mark Driscoll to Step Down and Seek Help,” Christianity Today. This has not been a good year for Pastor Driscoll. In the latest news, Acts 29 leaders, including Matt Chandler and Darrin Patrick, have issued a letter in which they have asked Driscoll and his Seattle-based church to leave the church-planting organization that Driscoll himself founded.
Derek Rishmawy, “Stealth Calvinist Ninjas (Or, Throw Me a Bone Here),” Reformedish. Dr. Roger Olson, perhaps America’s foremost Arminian theologian, has been quite vocal about his disdain for the Calvinist conception of God. But now it appears that he is bordering on conspiracy theories when it comes to Calvinists’ alleged tactics. Derek has a thought-provoking response here.
Rick Phillips, “Union with Christ and Sanctification,” Reformation 21. Phillips continues his series on the affirmations of the Gospel Reformation Network. In this post, he addresses the fourth affirmation: “We affirm that both justification and sanctification are distinct, necessary, inseparable and simultaneous graces of union with Christ through faith.” This is Calvin’s famous duplex gratia (double grace), according to which sanctification is neither an optional add-on to justification nor a mere consequence of justification. Rather, both justification and sanctification are rooted in our union with Christ.
Fred Sanders, “Well, Your Last Theologian Was an Idiot,” The Scriptorium Daily. Sanders draws a connection between the strategies of home repairmen and those of theologians: they have this repeated tendency to trash-talk the last guy. Sanders encourages us to step outside our own skin and see what effect this tendency has on the perspective of outsiders. Rather than elevating the superiority of our own tradition, we just make all traditions look unreliable. A more constructive approach is needed.
Dylan Pahman, “Defining Social Justice,” Juicy Ecumenism. The term “social justice” has become a somewhat polarizing issue recently. But according to Pahman, much of the division may be due to misunderstandings over what social justice actually means. His definition is “each societal member, group, and sphere rendering to each other member, group, and sphere what is due.”
Joe Carter, “9 Things You Should Know about Hamas,” The Gospel Coalition. Hamas is an Arabic acronym, which stands for Harikat al-Muqawama al-iSlamiya (“Islamic Resistance Movement”). It’s a democratically elected Palestinian terrorist organization, and it refuses to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist. In my opinion, they are one of the chief stumbling blocks to a peaceful resolution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
James K.A. Smith, “Cracks in the Secular,” Cardus. “The secularist’s doubt is faith; what counts as “temptation” for the nonbeliever is belief. If the believer is haunted by an echoing emptiness, the unbeliever can be equally haunted by a hounding transcendence.” What we are witnessing in public life today may not be the final stage of secularism’s slow triumph over religion, but rather secularism’s final death cries, as that historical detour which began in the Enlightenment approaches its end.
Charles Chaput, “Law and Morality in Public Discourse: How Christians Should Rebuild Our Culture,” Public Discourse. In this post, Roman Catholic Archbishop Charles Chaput reflects on Christian engagement with culture. I think he’s right about the priority of culture over politics, and the need to engage in society’s subsidiary structures (schools, families, etc.). But I’m not quite sold on the idea of natural law as the basis for public policy. Still very worth reading.
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A teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), assistant pastor of theological instruction at Riveroaks Reformed Presbyterian Church, and theology/languages teacher at Westminster Academy in Memphis, Tennessee.
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It didn’t take long for Bobby Bradley to endear himself to Cleveland fans. In the top of the first inning of his big league debut on Sunday, the first baseman from Gulfport made a nice catch going back on a foul pop. In the second inning, on the second pitch he saw, Bradley stroked a deep fly ball to left field that hit near the corner and bounced into the Progressive Field stands for a run-scoring ground-rule double. On SiriusXM radio, Indians broadcaster Tom Hamilton screeched with excitement. Bradley later scored on a throwing error as the Indians bolted ahead en route to an 8-3 win over Detroit. Fans gave Bradley an ovation when he was lifted for a pinch runner after drawing a walk in the eighth inning to cap his 1-for-3 debut. “Just unreal,” Bradley told mlb.com. “I think it’s gonna kick in for me at some point today that today actually happened. I mean, it’s a day I’ll never forget.” Bradley, 23, has been a highly rated prospect in the Indians’ system since he was drafted in the third round out of Harrison Central High in 2014. He won three minor league home run titles as he rose through the system and was leading the International League at the time of his call-up. Family and friends were in the stadium for his debut. He is the 16th Mississippi high school product to play in The Show in 2019. P.S. Bradley wasn’t the only Mississippian to produce a highlight or two on Sunday. Richton High alum JaCoby Jones led off the Tigers-Indians game with his ninth homer of the year and then added another hit. Wheeler High product Brandon Woodruff notched his ninth win of the year and struck out a career-high 12 as Milwaukee beat Cincinnati. Ex-Taylorsville High star Billy Hamilton went 2-for-3 with a run and two steals in Kansas City’s victory. Brookhaven Academy alum Corey Dickerson and Mississippi State product Adam Frazier had pinch hits for Pittsburgh and Tupelo High alum Chris Stratton tossed a scoreless inning in the Pirates’ amazing 11-10, 11-inning win against San Diego. Former Copiah Academy standout Hunter Renfroe went 2-for-3 with an RBI for the Padres. Itawamba AHS alum Brian Dozier had a pinch hit in a losing cause for Washington, and East Central Community College product Tim Anderson went 1-for-4 with an RBI in a loss for the Chicago White Sox.
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Joan Lebold Cohen Archive
Overview of Slides (46)
01 North and South Vietnam (30)
Artists in Hanoi (North) (15)
Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) a.k.a. Saigon (South) (13)
Miscellaneous Images (2)
02 Sichuan Art (30)
03 Regional Artists: Zhejiang, Anhui, Hangzhou, and Suzhou (30)
Artists in Anhui (7)
Miscellaneous Images in Anhui (1)
Artists in Hangzhou (18)
Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (3)
Artists in Suzhou (1)
04 China Photography (19)
April Society (9)
Photographers, Photo Festival, Exhibitions, Studios, and Vintage Photos (10)
05 Art Groups in Beijing in 1979 and Early 1980s (29)
The Contemporaries (Tongdai Ren) (8)
Oil Painting Research Association (OPRA) (6)
1980 National Youth Art Exhibition and Chun Cao Tang Studio (3)
06 Hugh Moss Collection, CCIC (Hong Kong) Collection, 1982-1983 Painting the Chinese Dream Exhibition Tour (Massachusetts and New York) (13)
Hugh Moss Collection (3)
CCIC Collection (2)
1983 Painting the Chinese Dream — Brooklyn Museum (2)
1982 Painting the Chinese Dream — Boston City Hall (4)
1982 Painting of Chinese Dream — Smith College (1)
K.S. Lo Collection (1)
07 Regional Art: Northeast China, Shenyang, Xi'an, Dalian, Shandong, Inner Mongolia, Harbin, and Xinjiang (20)
Dalian (1)
Shenyang (1)
Harbin (1)
Inner Mongolia (2)
Xinjiang (2)
Xi'an (10)
08 1986 Central Academy of Art and Design Exhibition (Beijing), 1987 Harkness Exhibition (New York), 1985 Sixth All China Exhibition, 1995 Women’s Conference (Beijing) (28)
Central Academy of Art and Design Show (10)
Robert Hefner Exhibition at Harkness House (9)
Lu Xun Memorial Exhibition and Sixth All China Exhibition at the National Gallery (3)
Women Related Exhibitions and Events (6)
09 Images of Chairman Mao, Art in Office Places, Art Factories, Slogans, Posters, Billboards, and Art for Sale in Early 1980s (25)
Advertising Posters and Billboards (4)
Miscellaneous Propaganda Paintings (1)
Art Decorating Public Spaces (3)
Statues and Portraits of Mao (5)
Images of Zhang Zhixin, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, and Zhao Ziyang (3)
Manufacturing Arts and Crafts for Sale (7)
Art Supplies and Books for Sale (2)
10 Hong Kong Art, and 1989 Tiananmen Conference at Brandeis University (7)
Hong Kong Public Sculpture (1)
Tiananmen Conference at Brandeis University (1)
11 Exhibitions Outside China, Including 1994-1995 Between East and West (Bridgeport) (15)
1988 Krannert Museum of Art at the University of Illinois (3)
1983 Exhibitions in New York, 1987 Hong Kong Art Center, and 1994-1995 Discovery Museum in Bridgeport (2)
Representative Paintings from 1978-1994 (1)
12 Individual Artists W, X, Y (51)
13 Individual Artists J-P (28)
14 Art in PRC 1940-1950, Chinese Artists Working and Exhibiting Outside China, and Other Material (34)
Chinese Artists Working and Exhibiting Outside China (25)
Woodblock Prints/ Etching/ Graphic/ Cartoons (5)
Modern Period Paintings and 1996 Oil Painting Exhibition at the National Gallery of Fine Arts, Beijing (4)
15 Individual Artists Q-U (33)
16 Overseas Artists (Chinese, Filipino, Indonesian, Korean, Japanese) (41)
18 Beijing Art Events in 1979 - Early 1980s, Everyday Life in Shanghai and Other Cities, and Slides of Western Modern Art (50)
Art Events and Everyday Life in Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou, Dalian, Guangzhou and Other Cities (23)
Joan Cohen's Lecture on Western Modern Art (27)
19 Regional Art: Nanjing (43)
Nanjing Art Organizations and Schools (5)
20a Yuan Yunsheng — University Murals (22)
Tufts University Mural Painting (5)
Studies for Silk Tapestry for Harvard School of Public Health (2)
Studies for Murals for City University of Hong Kong and Radcliff College (3)
20b Yuan Yunsheng — Water Festival Airport Murals, Paintings, and Plates (25)
Water Festival Murals (3)
Studio, Oil Paintings, and Self Portraits (5)
21 Socialist Realism, Propaganda Painting, Western Influenced Academic Realism, Folk Art, and Design (21)
Socialist Realist Sculpture and Painting (10)
Ink Painting and Calligraphy (3)
Poster Design and Cartoons (3)
22 Sculpture, Public Art, and Museum Exhibitions (39)
Dunhuang (1)
Fujian and Kunming (1)
Guilin (1)
Lanzhou and Xi'an Sculpture (1)
23 Individual Artists Z (36)
24 Regional Art: Shenzhen and Fujian (23)
Artists in Shenzhen (6)
25 Regional Art: Beijing and Wuhan (52)
Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) (10)
1979-1996 Exhibitions in Beijing (8)
Artists in Wuhan (34)
26 Wall Painting, Airport Artists, and Murals (30)
Yuan Yunfu: Mural (8)
Yuan Yunfu: Paintings (7)
Mural Artists in 1979 Beijing Capital Airport (8)
Mural Artists in Various Hotel Projects (7)
29 Guangzhou: Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, South China Normal University, and Big Tail Elephant (53)
Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (6)
South China Normal University (Institute of Fine Arts) (6)
Big Tail Elephant (5)
30 Shanghai Art Groups, Art Academy, and 1996 Avant Garde Exhibition (38)
The Grass Society (6)
Shanghai Art Artist Association (1)
Shanghai Art Academy Artists (23)
Shanghai Art Academy: Artworks, Exhibitions, and Education (5)
1996 Shanghai Avant-garde Exhibition (In the Name of Art: Chinese Contemporary Artistic Exchange Exhibition) at Liu Haisu Museum (3)
31a Shanghai Artists A-L (34)
31b Shanghai Artists L-Z (57)
Kaohsiung Art Museum, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, and Taroko National Park (2)
32a Women Artists A-L (23)
32b Women Artists M-X (21)
32c Women Artists Y-Z (7)
33 Qiu Deshu (30)
Family and Friends (2)
Ink Wash Paintings (1)
34a No U Turn Artists (Artists from 1989 China Avant-Garde and 1991 I Don't Want to Play Cards with Cezanne) (123)
34b No U Turn Artists (Artists from 1989 China Avant-Garde and 1991 I Don't Want to Play Cards with Cezanne) (32)
1993 Venice Biennale (1)
35 Individual Artists A-H (58)
36 Post 89 Individual Artists A-K (52)
37 Post 89 Individual Artists L-V (70)
38 Han Xin and Kong Baiji (24)
Han Xin (8)
Kong Baiji (16)
39 Post 89 Individual Artists W-Z (83)
40 Yunnan School (31)
1982 Heavy Color Exhibition and Everyday Life in Xishuangbanna (2)
41 Miscellaneous Artists A - Z (28)
42 Miscellaneous Slides — Smith College Exhibition, JLC Beijing Lecture Beyond Illusion, Women Artists, and Photos of Artists with Work (26)
1990 Smith College Exhibition (3)
1979 Beyond Illusion Slides Lecture at CAFA (2)
2003 Millennium Monument Museum in Beijing (1)
Women Artists (4)
Photos of Joan Lebold Cohen (1)
Artists with Joan Cohen and Jerry Cohen (6)
Fo Shan, Beijing and Xi'an City View (1)
1996 1st International Fax Exhibition and Other Exhibitions (5)
43 Everyday Life in Late 1970s to Late 1980s (21)
People at Work, Industry and Trade (5)
Leisure and Street Scenes (5)
Medicine and Public Health (1)
Education and Law (4)
Government, Military and Police (2)
04 China Photography
2 Folders, 19 Records
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Coronavirus News: New York City protests haven't caused spike in COVID-19 cases
NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- Despite warnings from medical professionals and public officials about the dangers of large gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic, roughly a month after protests against the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis began, major US cities including New York City have not seen a significant increase in COVID-19 cases.
Initially, medical professionals described the demonstrations involving thousands of people in cities around the country as potential "super spreading events" that could significantly impact the population.
Public officials in New York asked protesters to take precautions like wearing a mask and practicing social distancing and largely encouraged them to stay home.
"We have heard you. We don't want to spread this disease. Stay home," Mayor Bill de Blasio said during a press conference June 1, following several days of demonstrations.
On that same day, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo offered similar warnings.
"How many super spreaders?" Cuomo asked during his press conference. "We won't know the consequences of this right away."
7 On Your Side Investigates tracked daily new coronavirus cases in New York City from May 28 to June 23 and didn't see an ongoing increase in cases.
While there were certain days that experienced temporary jumps in new cases following the start of protests, the number of new cases in the city generally trended down to just 10 new cases on Tuesday, June 23, a roughly 98% decrease in new daily cases since May 28.
The National Bureau of Economic Research also looked at protests and infection rates in major cities around the country and found that "protests had little effect on the spread of COVID-19 for the entire population."
Dr. Jijoe Joseph, who specializes in emergency medicine and has served on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic, addressed our findings.
"The evidence is showing us that outdoor spaces and wearing masks are effective," Dr. Joseph said. "Studies out of Italy are showing us that indoor spaces are what's causing transmission of the disease. And if we look at the uptick in Florida, we can see that is correlative to indoor dining."
Many protesters in New York City and other major cities wore masks during demonstrations, and doctors speculate those masks were highly effective at preventing transmission.
Mike Marza has more on the thousands of peaceful protesters who marched across the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan following the memorial service held for George Floyd on Thursday.
Mayor Bill de Blasio expressed similar sentiments.
"I was impressed that most of the protesters seemed to be wearing face coverings. That's a good thing," de Blasio said. "But the more I've talked to health folks and the more I've looked, the real focus should be on Phase 1. Phase 1, you know, was a couple hundred thousand people going back to work every single day for a whole workday."
De Blasio said the extended hours of employees together could have a much greater impact on COVID-19 cases than protests that lasted for a matter of hours outdoors.
Dr. Joseph added that it's important to remember COVID-19 is a new disease that doctors are still learning about.
"There is really no expert," he said. "We are at the front lines. I am an ER doctor, and even ER doctors and epidemiologists, we clash. So the only thing we know is that we don't know much, but what we can do is look at anecdotal evidence, follow the anecdotal evidence, and hopefully it takes us to an answer. All the information is evolving, but I think it is a statistical fact that wearing masks protects you."
Dr. Joseph said because individuals can be asymptomatic carriers for about 14 days who could pass the disease on to other asymptomatic carriers, it's possible it could take up to 40 days to see the real impact of protests on public health. But he said it's doubtful the protests will wind up having the impact health experts feared.
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BrahMos Supersonic Cruise Missile Successfully Test Fired from INS Chennai
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On October 18, 2020, the supersonic cruise missile, “BrahMos” was successfully test fired from Indian Navy’s indigenously-built stealth destroyer INS (Indian Naval Ship) Chennai to a target in Arabian Sea. This 290 KM (Kilometer) missile range has a top speed of Mach 2.8 nearly three times the speed of sound.The range of the new land attack version of the missile has been extended to 400 km from the original 290 km.
It should be noted that the BrahMos, a prime strike weapon has been jointly designed, developed and produced by BrahMos Aerospace Pvt Ltd that can be launched from submarines, ships, aircraft, or from land platforms.
BrahMos Aerospace is a joint venture (JV) between India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and NPO Mashinostroyenia-NPOM (formerly Federal State Unitary Enterprise NPO Mashinostroyenia of Russia).
About INS Chennai:
Commissioned into the navy in November 2016, the 7,500-tonne INS Chennai is the third ship of the Kolkata-class stealth guided missile destroyers of the Indian Navy constructed at Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL) located in Mumbai (Maharashtra).
This warship can carry 16 BrahMos missiles in two eight-cell vertical launch systems, besides other sophisticated weapons and sensors
Other Recent Missile Testing:
i.On September 30, India test-fired an extended-range Surface-to-Surface BrahMos supersonic cruise missile with a strike range of over 400 km from integrated test range (ITR) at Chandipur, Odisha. Click Here to Read
ii.On October 3, 2020, India also test fired a new version of the nuclear-capable hypersonic Shaurya missile with a range of 750 km through a canister launch from Abdul Kalam Island test range off Dharma, Odisha to a target in Bay of Bengal. Click Here to Read
iii.On October 9, 2020, the first anti-radiation missile “Rudram”, an air-to-surface missile was also test fired successfully from Sukhoi-30 Fighter aircraft from ITR Balasore, off the coast of Odisha in Bay of Bengal. Click Here to Read
Recent Related News:
i.On September 22, 2020 Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully test fired the Indigenously developed Laser Guided Anti-Tank Guided Missile (ATGM) from Main Battle Tank (MBT) Arjun at the Armoured Corps Centre and School (ACC&S), KK Ranges in Ahmednagar, Maharashtra.
ii.On September 23, 2020, as a part of routine trail India successfully conducted the night testfire of its indigenously developed nuclear capable surface-to-surface Prithvi-II missile which was carried out from a mobile launcher from launch complex-3 of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur, Odisha.
About Brahmos Aerospace:
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) & Managing Director (MD)– Dr Sudhir Mishra
Headquarters – New Delhi
About Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO):
Chairman – Dr G. Satheesh Reddy
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Food Fusion: Professional sector employees to compete in United Way cooking challenge for charity
By Apartment613 on March 28, 2017
Post by Lisa Xu
Teams of individuals from the professional sector will put their cooking skills to the test in a competition to raise funds for charity. Food Fusion will be held at Le Cordon Bleu Ottawa Culinary Arts Institute on Thursday March 30 from 5:30pm to 9:30pm
The event is being organized by United Way Ottawa, a local charity that invests in programs to support community members.
“We invest in everything from getting kids ready for school all the way up to seniors and making sure that they feel comfortable in their community and they can stay at home as long as possible, and everything in between,” says Melissa MacIsaac, the manager of donor relations at United Way.
Food Fusion is open to the public, and tickets are available online. At the event, guests will receive complimentary drinks and appetizers made by Le Cordon Bleu, sample dishes created by the teams, and get to mix and mingle with people from the professional sector.
Proceeds will be going towards strengthening the mental health and addiction supports in existing programs in which United Way invests.
“This is in response to the crisis going on in Ottawa right now with fentanyl. United Way is doing a lot in response to that current issue, and this is going to help strengthen that,” says MacIsaac.
Various companies registered teams to compete, such as Nelligan O’Brien Payne, a local law firm, and Edelman, a public affairs and communications company. Ryan Clarke, a government relations consultant at Edelman, is the captain of his team. Clarke is also a volunteer at United Way, and he helped organizers come up with the event, drawing inspiration from the growing foodie scene in Ottawa.
Chef Kyle Fewtrell leads Team Edelman Canada in a training session ahead of the big day.
“It’s sort of interesting because it’s kind of a layered event, with all these different things that will be happening,” says Clarke.
There’s a competitive angle from the cooking competition, and a social side that brings people from different industries together.
Six local celebrity chefs are volunteering their time to train a team of five to cook a high quality dish. Julie Vachon, a pastry chef at Le Cordon Bleu Ottawa, is one of the six participating chefs, and will be training her team to make macarons. Vachon says she is excited for the event.
“It’s a break in the routine, a little bit. So it’s a little challenge, meeting new people, and meeting people in the industry,” says Vachon.
For the competition, her mentee’s task will be to replicate the dish without her professional help, and it will be judged by the six chefs and the audience on various criteria. Winners will receive a trophy created by a local artist.
Chef Joe Thottungal with members of Team Gowling WLG Canada.
Alongside Vachon, participating chefs include Jon Svazas (Fauna, Bar Laurel), Jesse Bell (The Albion Rooms), Joe Thottungal (Coconut Lagoon), Kyle Fewtrell (Tulips & Maple Catering) and Ilan Dagan (freelance).
This is the first year United Way is launching Food Fusion, and they are expecting a full house. MacIsaac says that the goal is to make it an annual event.
“I think it’s gonna be a ton of fun, and I’m really looking forward to it,” says Clarke.
Food Fusion is happening at Le Cordon Bleu (453 Laurier Ave E) at 5:30pm on March 30. Tickets cost $45 and are available online via Eventbrite.
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No, Canada doesn’t spend more on refugees than on retirees
November 19, 2015 December 13, 2015 amp Leave a comment
November 19, 2015 – Anna Mehler Paperny, Global News
Maybe you’ve seen it. Maybe your uncle forwarded it to you or someone you know posted it on Facebook.
The meme, infographic, status update, chain email you received is false. It was debunked years ago but continues to be circulated.
@globalnews is this true?if this is why support refugees while our elderly are not taken care of equally.pic.twitter.com/gMAKfqNejp
— Carole De Lorenzi (@caroledodd) November 19, 2015
Canada doesn’t spend more on refugees than on retirees. Not even close.
Some government-assisted refugees get a small monthly amount in their first year in Canada — about $800 for a single person — and a one-time set-up allowance of about $900. They may also get a loan of a few hundred dollars for rental or other deposits. There are sometimes small one-time allowances for pregnant women, newborns, young children in school.
But government-assisted refugees are required to pay back the cost of their trip to Canada and their initial medical exam — with interest.
Many argue that these “transportation loans” saddle families with thousands of dollars in debt before they’ve even arrived in Canada, making it tougher for them to integrate economically and support themselves — hurting Canada’s economy in the long run.
Asylum-seekers in Canada get no social assistance until they’re permanent residents, at which point they’re eligible for provincial social assistance just like anyone else.
Privately sponsored refugees aren’t eligible for any social assistance: They’re the financial responsibility of their sponsors for the duration of the sponsorship, which is usually about a year.
Single older Canadians in the lowest income bracket, on the other hand, get at least $1,300 a month through Guaranteed Income Supplements and Old Age Security pensions.
Are there poor seniors in Canada? Absolutely. But as Carleton University economist Frances Woolley points out, Canada’s rate of elderly poverty in 2013 was less than a third that of the United States and about one-sixth that of Australia. The rate of elderly poverty is well below that of children or working-age adults.
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And studies have shown refugees find their feet relatively quickly: A 2004 study indicates the vast majority of refugees‘ income is earned from employment, not social assistance, within seven years of their arrival in Canada. They sometimes perform better than business-class or family-class migrants.
A Statistics Canada study published last month found that while the majority of refugees received some form of assistance on first arriving in Canada, that proportion dropped significantly within the first years of their residence.
But the myth persists. Incarnations have sprung up in the U.S. and Australia.
It drives Janet Dench nuts.
“It is such a virus. It’s incredible,” she said.
Dench is executive director of the Canadian Council for Refugees. The highest-traffic page on the group’s website is consistently the one that debunks the refugee-pensioner myth.
“One of the things that is the most disturbing is the pitting of one vulnerable group against another.”
People send them to Dench herself, she said — people who “should know better.”
“It’s people who have university educations or people who you wouldn’t expect to fall for absolute crass falsehoods of this sort,” she said.
But there’s an impact to rumours of “bogus” refugees trying to scam the system, Dench said: It means institutions and service-providers treat refugees differently or might not fund refugee groups.
“We’ve got a lot of work to do to undo that damage.”
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By Anthony Lopez
Written by anthonylopeztv May 15, 2017 May 15, 2017
Game of Thrones “Baelor”
Game of Thrones S1E9 “Baelor”
Alright ladies and gentlemen, there was quite a dramatic event that took place in this penultimate episode of the first season of Game of Thrones and we may as well start the review by addressing the elephant in the room. King Joffrey went back on his promise to show mercy to Eddard Stark who now finds himself without his head. If Game of Thrones wasn’t based off a book, this would probably be the boldest original move in television history. Even still it comes as a shock to almost every newcomer to the series and shows you that this show does not play by the rules of other television shows. Season one has painted Ned as the closest thing we have to a hero and we are now seriously lacking in that department. Luckily for us, there’s an amazing cast of characters and several enthralling plot lines to pick up the slack. We’ve got a lot to talk about with the happenings outside of King’s Landing and obviously some more on Ned so let’s get this recap underway.
When one looks back at “Baelor”, one would probably realize that Tyrion gets the lengthiest bit of the episode out of anyone on the cast. To start, Tyrion enters Tywin’s tent for dinner with his father and other important people and some bad news is confirmed. Tyrion and the Hill Tribes will fight in the vanguard, the very front of the battle. Distraught that his time on this planet is likely at its end, he leaves the tent and heads back to his own. Before attending dinner, Tyrion enlisted Bronn’s help in acquiring a prostitute for the night and Bronn succeeds in this endeavor as the prostitute Shae has been waiting in Tyrion’s tent. Tyrion tells the bad news to Bronn of their role in the battle to come and Bronn decides to go find a prostitute for himself.
Later on, Bronn returns and the three partake in a drinking game, with Tyrion looking to learn more about his mysterious foreign concubine. Ironically, we don’t learn much about Shae but we do get a better look into the pasts of Bronn and Tyrion. Bronn was beat by both his parents, has been north of the wall for work and killed his first person at the age of twelve (a women who was swinging an ax at him). On Tyrion’s end, we see just why his relationship with his father isn’t particularly a good one. At the age of sixteen, Jaime felt that it was time for Tyrion to lose his virginity so he set up an elaborate scheme in which the two would come to a girl named Tysha and rescue her from rape and Tyrion would woo her afterwards. The plan worked too well in fact, Tyrion actually fell in love with Tysha and the two got married. It was a short marriage that ended upon Tywin’s discovery of the scheme. Tywin made Jaime confess to his brother that the whole thing was a set up. What follows next is cruel as to prove the point that Tysha was just a paid prostitute, Tywin has all his guards have sex with Tysha, a silver per person and she got so much silver that it was falling out of her hands, all the while Tywin made Tyrion watch. Messed up indeed.
The following morning, the battle that we’ve been waiting on for a few episodes now, finally has arrived. Bronn wakes Tyrion up and tells him to get ready. After doing so, Tyrion rallies the Hill Tribers and gives quite the motivational speech to get them ready for battle as chants of “Half Man!” break out. All amped up, Tyrion and friends run into battle, only Tyrion doesn’t make it very far. Due to his short stature, a club that was waist level on one of the Hill Tribers hits Tyrion right on his head and he passes out before he can get into battle. The battle happens off screen and when Tyrion awakes, Bronn tells him that they won and Tywin tells him that there were only 2,000 Stark soldiers at the fight. Where did the rest go?
Whether Robb decided to attack Jaime or Tywin, he needed to cross a river by the name of the Trident. The only crossing that is remotely convenient is a bridge and dual castle called The Twins, held by Walder Frey. Upon their arrival to The Twins, Cat warns that Walder isn’t the most trustful guy so it would be rather stupid for Robb to negotiate with Walder himself. Since the Frey’s are banner men for House Tully, Cat volunteers herself to go negotiate with him and Robb approves. The excellent David Bradley plays Walder Frey, showing us just how creepy this guy is. He’s got more children than you can count and has been married over a dozen times, his newest wife being fifteen years old while he himself is over ninety years old. Knowing the Lannisters will punish him if he helps the Starks, Walder needs some serious motivation to allow the Starks to cross. He decides to allow them to cross, and commit his men to the Stark cause. In return, Robb needs to take on a Frey boy as a squire, Arya needs to marry a Frey and Robb himself has to marry one of Walder’s daughters. Robb accepts and Walder opens the gates to allow Robb and his men to cross the trident.
Remember when Robb told that Lannister scout to tell Tywin that 20,000 men were coming his way? I correctly guessed that this was actually a bait and switch. 18,000 men went along with Robb on a surprise attack on Jaime and it turns out to be a massive success as they capture an extremely valuable hostage, Jaime himself. It was greatly needed with Tyrion no longer theirs. Varys even pointed out when they did have Tyrion that they had “the wrong brother”. Not anymore. For now, Robb holds Jaime as a prisoner but who knows what will happen to Jaime after this episode.
What of the other two thousand men who went as a decoy to distract Tywin? The episode does address that as Robb learns about the sad truths of war. War often comes down to a numbers game, who has more people. It can get lost that we’re talking about human lives. Robb doesn’t forget as he feels guilty about sending those 2,000 men to their graves. Theon tries to cheer him up by saying bards will sing of their sacrifice. Robb says that they’re dead, so they won’t be able to hear these songs anyway. Death won’t be going away anytime soon though so Robb may as well win this war while he’s at it.
Up at the Wall, Mormont rewards Jon for saving his life. He gives Jon his Valyrian steel sword, Longclaw. The pommel was a bear as Mormont’s sigil is a bear but he has it changed to a wolf for Jon. In the mess hall afterward, Sam delivers the news to Jon that Robb is at war. Jon is conflicted as he feels he should be down south helping his brother and trying to save his father. In a way, Jon has the same conflict his father does, is honor or family more important? Aemon has this conversation with Jon and Jon tells him that Ned would always put honor first. Aemon says he’s one man in a million and the overwhelming majority of men would pick family over duty, explaining why members of the Night’s Watch cut all ties and have no lovers. Aemon also mentions that he too had to struggle with this dilemma, revealing that he is actually Aemon Targaryen. Aemon picked duty over family as he stuck with the Nights Watch as King Robert and his men killed or exiled all the Targaryen’s, even the children. Aemon doesn’t try to convince Jon to pick one or the other but tells him that whatever his choice is, there will be consequences and he’s just going to have to live with it.
Things get much bleaker across the Narrow Sea. Drogo’s wound seems to have gotten very infected and Drogo even falls off his horse while riding. Jorah tells Dany that they are best off leaving now. Drogo’s wound appears fatal and there will be a fight over who the next Khal is. Whoever wins will kill Dany and her child to protect their claim from any threats. Dany refuses to listen though and yet again enlists the help of Mirri Maz Duur. She tells Dany what Jorah said earlier, the wound is fatal. Dany in desperation asks if she will use blood magic to save him. Mirri warns her that it is a brutal ritual and the humane thing to do would be to give Drogo a clean death. Dany insists that she try the blood magic. Only death can pay for a life though, so Drogo’s horse is brought in for sacrifice and Mirri asks for the tent to be cleared, as no one can be there while the ritual is taking place.
Nobody except Dany liked Mirri to begin with so when the rest of the Dothraki see that blood magic is taking place, that is simply too much. Qotho, a man who has been skeptical of Mirri the whole time has had enough and tries to enter the tent to stop the ritual but Jorah kills him before he can halt the proceedings. Before the fight, Qotho pushed Dany and this unfortunately caused her to go into premature labor. None of the Dothraki midwives will touch her though, thinking she is cursed. Having no other choice, Jorah brings Dany into Mirri’s tent as we cut away before we can see what all those demonic noises were coming from. I’m not too optimistic this will turn out well for Dany.
And now, the main event. Back in King’s Landing, Arya has been living her days undetected as a beggar. Everyone seems to be heading towards one place and upon asking, she learns that her father is being brought before the Sept of Baelor to be judged. She makes her way over and climbs the statue of Baelor to get a good look at the proceedings. Enter Ned who has a choice to make. Varys told him earlier that Cersei has agreed to let Ned live out his days with Jon up at the wall if he bends the knee and confesses his treason. Ned refuses, saying honor is more important but has to reconsider when Varys says that Sansa’s life is at stake as well. It turns out Jon was wrong up at the wall, Ned wouldn’t pick honor over family every time as he decides to confess to treason in order to save his daughters. If you didn’t realize that Joffrey was a jerk by now, well now you know. Dismissing the begging of Sansa and suggestion of Cersei that Ned go to the wall as the weakness of women, Joffrey promises that treason will never go unpunished as long as he’s king. The shock of the sentence would be enough to carry the scene but Game of Thrones goes above and beyond here. Everything after the sentence is masterful. The chaotic feel of Cersei and the rest of the council as they realize Joffrey is about to ruin everything, Sansa going hysterical as Joffrey ignores his promise to show mercy, Ned spotting Arya on the statue and asking Yoren to keep Arya from looking, the silence during the moment of execution itself. It’s all perfect. I’ll say it again, the shock value would have been enough to carry the scene, but the execution of the final scene makes an already great episode of Game of Thrones, a near perfect one.
Jaime tried to bait Robb into fighting him one on one. Robb has enough smarts to decline that invitation. Things look bleak for Jaime, I can guarantee you he won’t be able to put his fighting skills to use for a while.
Bronn is a real bro. No complaints on his end when Tyrion and Shae go at it, he just exits with class.
I think I’m most excited to see Tywin’s reaction to the news of Ned’s death. He’s the most calculating guy on the show and his efforts are being undermined by his hotheaded grandson who most likely just secured him a whole lot more fighting with the Starks.
We lose our third starring cast member in “Baelor”. Sean Bean’s Ned Stark leaves us via beheading by his own sword, Ice. It would have been awesome to see Ned go up to the wall and kill some white walkers with Jon. We’ll miss you Ned. You’d be the hero in any other show, just not this one. Good guys don’t win in Game of Thrones just because they’re the good guys.
Quote of the Day is chant of the day today. I really liked the big bad Hill Tribers chanting “Half Man!” and rallying behind Tyrion, only to knock out Tyrion before they actually get to the battle.
“Baelor” shows us that Game of Thrones doesn’t play by regular television rules as a shocking event dramatically changes everything.
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Research into changing trends in social media is nearly as old as social media itself. Two new studies, however, reveal never-before-seen shifts in user habits that hint at changing realities for social media marketers.
Last month saw the release of the 2018 Pew Research Center’s study of social media use, the latest in an annual series, and The Infinite Dial, a well-established study of consumer behavior in the digital space published each year by Edison Research and Triton Digital. Perhaps the most interesting finding was that collective use of three major platforms—Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter–is down overall among individuals age 12 and older–from 80 percent in 2017 to 77 percent today. The primary cause is a downturn in Facebook use. At a time when the platform is making headlines for all the wrong reasons, 62 percent of individuals 12 and older say they use Facebook, a drop of five percentage points from 2017. Among younger consumers, the news gets even worse for Facebook, with usage dropping 12 points, from 79 percent to 67 percent. While Facebook is still the only conventional social media platform to reach a majority of Americans 12 and older, it is showing signs of decreasing influence–likely resulting in part from declining trust in Facebook and other social media sites. According to the Pew Center, more than half (51%) of us do not trust social media companies when it comes to protecting our data.
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Quick Answer: How Is Ismene Different From Creon?
What is the role of Ismene in Antigone?
What does the sentry tell Creon has happened to Polyneices body?
What did haemon try to do to Creon?
How is Ismene a foil to Creon?
What type of character is Ismene?
How are Creon and haemon different?
How does the sentry act when he comes before Creon?
Why did Eurydice kill herself?
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What does Creon say is the greatest evil?
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Character Analysis Ismene As Antigone’s sister and Oedipus’ daughter, Ismene is an especially important character in the drama.
In Antigone, Ismene’s fear of challenging Creon and the laws of the state prevent her from sharing in her sister’s bold plan and, ultimately, her fate..
The sentry tells the Chorus that Antigone is the culprit in the illegal burial of Polynices and calls for Creon. When Creon enters, the sentry tells him that after he and the other sentries dug up the rotting body, a sudden dust storm blinded them.
At first, Haemon flatters the absolutist king Creon by declaring his complete loyalty to him and by extension the state. This was a smart move as it puts the king at ease and hopefully in a better position to listen to good counsel. Haemon is not questioning the king’s authority but his wisdom in this matter.
Haemon (Put this in your My Notes section): Haemon serves as a character foil to Creon by pointing out Creon’s unreasonableness and disrespect. Ismene considers Antigone’s side and changes her opinion about the burial of Polyneices while Creon refuses to consider anyone else’s opinion.
Ismene. Blonde, full-figured, and radiantly beautiful, the laughing, talkative Ismene is the good girl of the family. She is reasonable and understands her place, bowing to Creon’s edict and attempting to dissuade Antigone from her act of rebellion. As in Sophocles’ play, she is Antigone’s foil.
Haemon tries to reason with his father with true compassion and respect, but Creon only wants control over his son, ignoring the logic behind Haemon’s words. Creon ends up having a change of heart, but it’s too late. His choices keep him in power, but his niece, his son, and his wife take their lives as a result.
How does the sentry act when he comes before Creon? … The sentry says someone has sprinkled dust and done the burial ritual on Polyneices creon. Creon suspects a man bribed one of the sentries to do it.
She appears briefly in Sophocles’ Antigone (as an “archetypal grieving, saddened mother” and an older counterpart to Antigone), to kill herself after learning, from a messenger, that her son Haemon and his betrothed, Antigone, have both committed suicide.
In a sense, Antigone and Ismene are foils. While Antigone demonstrates power and control over her own fate, Ismene shows weakness and the inability to take her life into her own hands. Ismene, unlike her sister, constantly gives in to the stronger wills around her. Grow a backbone, Is.
What does Creon say is the greatest evil that society faces? Anarchy is the greatest evil that society faces.
At the urging of the Chorus, Creon eventually relents on executing Ismene. The girl ends the play with her life intact, but her self-worth in shreds. Before we close the book on Ismene, we’d just like to recognize that the strong will that her sister is often praised for is also the thing that causes three suicides.
Antigone, moved by love for her brother and convinced of the injustice of the command, buried Polyneices secretly. For that she was ordered by Creon to be executed and was immured in a cave, where she hanged herself. Her beloved, Haemon, son of Creon, committed suicide.
Creon survives at the end of the play, retaining rulership of Thebes, gaining in wisdom as he mourns the death of his wife and son. Haemon, Creon’s son, commits suicide after Antigone’s death.
Why does Ismene change her mind about her brother’s burial? She does not want to abandon her sister and wants to protect her. Is Antigone justified in rejecting Ismene’s support, or is she being too hard on her sister?
Creon reveals his rigidity and insecurity when he tells his son Haemon “the way to behave: subordinate / Everything else, my son, to your father’s will.” Creon demands blind obedience and filial devotion from his son simply because he is Haemon’s father.
Creon refused to bury Polyneices because Polyneices started a war with his native city, Thebes after he was exiled to spill blood and sell his people into slavery. Creon thinks that the only punishment acceptable for this deed is to leave Polyneices unburied.
The 7th-century BC poet Mimnermus accounts that Ismene was murdered by Tydeus, one of the Seven. In this account, Ismene and her lover Theoclymenus met outside of the city during the siege. Tydeus had been told their whereabouts by Athena, and apprehended Ismene while Theoclymenus escaped.
The relationship between Creon and Antigone in the play written by Sophocles was that they were uncle and niece to each other.
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A national collection of Communist-era musical posters.
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During the 1950s and 1960s, communist Poland was a grey and gloomy place. So it makes sense that the Polish people were naturally drawn to the vibrant colors and thematic artistic works (in addition to low cost) of movie, play, and musical posters hung up outside of the government approved cinemas and theaters.
The popularity of the medium sparked the annual Warsaw Poster Art Competition, the world famous Biennale, in 1966, and led to the opening of the Poster Museum two years later upon the donation of 13,000 items from the National Museum in Warsaw. At its opening the Poster Museum became the first museum in the world dedicated to the art and presentation of this art medium.
The museum is still growing, with over 61,000 posters in its collection; 36,000 representing the history of poster art in Poland, and 500 preserved pieces from World War II. The small space is constantly rotating through its massive collection by way of temporary exhibits with interactive displays and multimedia presentations and is bound to be a different tract from the normal national art museum and quite the contrast to the stuffy Royal Palace just 50 meters away.
Several different buses can take one to this place. Get off at the Wilanów Palace stop. Crossing the street and entering the outside palace gardens you'll pass the ticket office for the palace and turn right, before the gate to the main courtyard.
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Marny Finally Gets A Feyguard Book
Posted on January 15, 2016 January 15, 2016 by Amethyst
If you’ve been following my reviews of indie YA author Anthea Sharp’s Feyland and Feyguard books, you might remember this aside from my review of Royal:
Marny continues to be everything. I really hope she gets her own Feyguard book complete with a worthy love interest, because she’s one of my favorite things about this series. Although one of the best things about her is that she’s happy and confident without a boyfriend, I want to see someone love Marny as much as she loves herself.
Well, dreams do come true! Now that the holiday madness has died down, I am happy to bring you a review of the third Feyguard book, Marny. (Disclosure: Anthea sent me a free advance review copy, which I was not able to follow up on nearly as soon as I’d hoped.)
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Royal: Return to Feyland
Posted on August 2, 2014 by Amethyst
Last year I reviewed Anthea Sharp‘s Feyland trilogy and the first book in her Feyguard spinoff series. Last month, Anthea sent me an advance review copy of the second Feyguard book, Royal. I unfortunately wasn’t able to finish it before the release date, but I enjoyed it as much as the rest of the series, and am now happy to recommend it to my readers.
Royal (Feyguard #2), by Anthea Sharp. Click for Amazon listing.
Royal “Roy” Lassiter didn’t figure much into my review of the original trilogy, so here’s a recap. Roy is the son of the CEO of VirtuMax, the gaming company that developed Feyland. He’s first introduced in The Bright Court (Feyland #2) as a spoiled, entitled little bitch. A glamour spell makes him the most popular and intriguing student at his new school. He’s the guy all the guys want to be and all the girls want to be with. Until he loses the glamour spell, and the rest of the school sees him the way protagonists Jennet and Tam do – a mediocre person with a lot of style and little substance. I don’t know if this was intentional on the author’s part, but I saw him as a parody of Edward Cullen.
The Twilight Kingdom (Feyland #3) left the readers with the impression that Roy did have some substance after all; he’d just lacked the opportunity (both on- and offscreen) to develop it. He gets that opportunity in Royal. As the title implies, this time Roy is the protagonist, with Jennet and Tam in supporting roles.
Roy is now a member of the Feyguard and of Jennet, Tam, and Marny’s inner circle. He’s happier with this small group of friends than he ever was with throngs of followers. But Jennet and Tam’s happy couplehood is a constant reminder that he’s struck out with every romantic prospect he’s had since moving to Crestview. The reader can guess that he’ll get a chance with Brea Cairgead, an emissary from the Dark Queen disguised an exchange student from Ireland.
Brea and Roy are particularly well-suited for each other. They were both brought into the world as tools for a narcissistic creator’s own purpose, and they’re both trying to discover and cultivate identities beyond that origin. Roy is the only child of a materialistic corporate mogul who’s been grooming him to take over her empire from birth, right down to naming him Royal. Brea was just a fish (no, really) living a simple, carefree life in the waters of the Unseelie Realm until the Dark Queen remade her as a naiad and sent her to the human world to lure people into Feyland. Neither queen accounted for her creation having a will of its own. Roy doesn’t care about business or technology, and would rather develop his hidden talent as an artist. Brea would rather befriend humans than feed on their mortal essence. They both long to be seen for who they really are, but continue to hide it because they’re legitimately terrified of the consequences.
While Royal probably has the least actual gameplay out of the Feyland and Feyguard books, it keeps all the factors I’ve loved about the series so far. What gameplay there is shows a familiarity with real fantasy RPGs. Roy, Jennet, and Tam are all learning alternate characters in this volume, and they play them like competent gamers unused to a new class with new powers. There’s still no femmephobia or catty girl-hate. Brea is as literal a Manic Pixie Dream Girl as possible (a trope that can be handled positively imo), and neither Jennet nor Marny is threatened by her wispy fey mystique. Gender stereotyping is ignored in-universe. No one thinks twice about a girl playing a knight or a boy playing a caster who draws with light. Roy’s mother does have a meltdown when she finds he’s been drawing flowery pictures of faeries, but it’s not because the pursuit is insufficiently masculine; it’s because she doesn’t see any money in it. (One has to wonder how much she paid her graphic designer.) The fact that Brea has never played video games isn’t brushed off as “Meh, she’s a girl”. Instead, it tips Jennet off to the fact that she isn’t human.
Ultimately the focus on the characters is what makes Royal worth the read. It’s great to see Jennet and Tam’s relationship, officially established at the end of the Feyland trilogy, progress with little angst or drama. Marny continues to be everything. I really hope she gets her own Feyguard book complete with a worthy love interest, because she’s one of my favorite things about this series. Although one of the best things about her is that she’s happy and confident without a boyfriend, I want to see someone love Marny as much as she loves herself. And, of course, the heart of the book is Roy and Brea finding the truth about themselves and each other. The end of their story is bittersweet without being tragic, and hopeful without being easy.
If you’re already a fan of Feyland, click here to add Royal to your collection. If you have yet to enter the Realm, click here for the Feyland trilogy, and here to continue the story of the Feyguard with Spark.
Spark: Faerie Queens and Gamer Girls, Part Deux
Posted on December 11, 2013 December 13, 2013 by Amethyst
Back in October, I reviewed Anthea Sharp’s Feyland trilogy. I’d gotten the first two Feyland books as part of Story Bundle’s young adult bundle, and enjoyed them so much that I got the third one from Amazon. This month, Ms. Sharp offered to send me an advance review copy of Spark, the first book in her new spin-off series, Feyguard. I tore through it in three days, loved it, and now as per my word, I am reviewing it.
Spark, by Anthea Sharp. Image via Goodreads
Superstar gamer Spark Jaxley’s life might look easy, but she’s part of an elite few who guard a shocking secret; the Realm of Faerie exists, and its dark magic is desperate for a foothold in the mortal world.
Aran Cole hacks code and sells his gaming cheats on the black market. It’s barely a living, and one he’s not proud of. But when he turns his skills to unlocking the secrets behind Feyland—the most exciting and immersive game on the market—he discovers power and magic beyond his wildest dreams.
Spark’s mission is clear; pull Aran from the clutches of the fey folk and restore the balance between the worlds. But can she risk her life for someone who refuses to be rescued?
~ Spark (Feyguard #1) on Goodreads
The elements I loved from the Feyland trilogy continue in Feyguard. Even at the professional level, Spark’s gender is never made an issue in regard to her gaming ability. Sure, Spark is every male (and many a female) gamer’s celebrity crush, but the fact that she’s a pro gamer girl isn’t treated as unique or unusual. She’s one of four top gamers, two male and two female, backed by her corporate sponsor. I thought it was particularly smart of Sharp to make Spark’s main human antagonists a team of boy/girl twins. Roc Terabin by himself would’ve made the rivalry seem like a battle of the sexes. Cora Terabin by herself would’ve come across as stereotypical catty girl-hate. Together, they’re just plain horrible people. We want to see Spark come out on top not because Roc is a boy or Cora is a Mean Girl, but because Spark is good and the Terabins suck.
Femmephobia continues to be absent, too. Spark’s trademark is her bright magenta hair. Her personality is more assertive and tomboyish than Jennet’s, but this isn’t portrayed as meaning Spark is stronger. Although Spark is more of a jeans and t-shirt kind of girl on her own time, she sucks it up and wears garish spandex costumes and theatrical makeup for public appearances because it’s part of her job. I really like the way Spark’s attitude toward her rockstar life as a pro gamer is handled. She sometimes acknowledges feeling fatigued, overwhelmed, lonely, and rootless , but it doesn’t come across as whining. She takes these feelings in stride as part of a very rewarding package deal that she willingly signed up for.
Like Jennet and Tam, part of Spark and Aran’s attraction to each other is their mutual love of gaming. But unlike Tam, the noble knight in shining armor, black hat hacker Aran falls for Spark while trying to hack the game she was hired to promote. They meet again after he opens the breach she fought to close in the last book. Their inevitable conflict still avoids Battle of the Sexes and Strong Female Character Who Doesn’t Need A Man’s Help territory. While Spark and Aran’s goals start out at odds, their personalities are a perfect match. When they can fight for a common goal, they’re a perfect team. Made up of believably imperfect gamers.
Feyland itself, both the game and the faerie land it borders, remains as engaging and well-developed as in the first trilogy. Which brings me to the only real weakness I’ve noticed in these books: the human world in this fictional future universe isn’t nearly as well-developed. It’s more noticeable in this book than in the first three since Spark is actually traveling this world as part of her corporate sponsorship gig. Aran’s descriptions of his home city are about as generic as possible. Overall, though, this isn’t too distracting since the human world isn’t the focus here. This story is about characters who live for escaping into a computer-generated fantasy world. In other words, the kind of people who devour urban fantasy novels, faerie folklore, and RPGs like Feyland. And as I mentioned in my review of the first trilogy, I like that this future is neither a utopia nor a dystopia. It’s basically the present, but with better cars and gaming systems.
Spark is due for release on December 15th, 2013. If you like fantasy, video games, and YA novels with characters who aren’t a carbon copy of every other YA cast, add this one to your Christmas list!
Feyland: Faerie Queens and Gamer Girls
Posted on October 14, 2013 by Amethyst
Cover of Feyland:the Dark Court, book 1 of 3. Image via Amazon.
I discovered Anthea Sharp’s Feyland books in Story Bundle’s young adult bundle. The excerpt from the prologue of Feyland: The Dark Realm piqued my interest in that it avoided a lot of cliches that annoy me. Its futuristic setting didn’t suck significantly more or less than the present. The teenage heroine, Jennet Carter, wasn’t described as a misunderstood outsider. There was no femmephobia to be seen. The narrative didn’t talk about how Jennet wasn’t pretty and then describe her as a conventionally attractive white girl. (It describes her as a conventionally attractive white girl and acknowledges that she’s pretty. Which I have no problem with.) And most of all, Jennet being both a conventionally attractive girl and an awesome gamer was completely taken for granted. I wanted to read more.
Okay, that wasn’t all that made me want to read more. Jennet was portrayed as an awesome gamer without being a perfect gamer. The story opens with Jennet having almost completed an unreleased immersive virtual reality game called Feyland. She’s facing the final boss. And then she loses, which, in a touch of realism, she expected to happen. Because everyone loses to the final boss the first time. Jennet expects the game to load last save and let her fight the boss again.
But no such luck. The final boss, the Dark Queen, isn’t just a video game character. She is the actual fey Queen of the Dark (or Unseelie) Court, and she’s using the game as a portal to the human realm so she can feed off of humans’ “mortal essence”. Humans like Jennet. Who is now doomed to die in the real world unless she can meet the Queen’s demand for a “champion” and face her in battle again.
This leads Jennet to classmate and fellow gamer Tam Linn. If you’re familiar with Scottish ballads (I wasn’t), you know where this is going. Either way, you know Tam is going to be Jennet’s love interest. I like the way Sharp writes their relationship as characters and even more as gamers. In-game, Jennet is a mage and Tam is a knight. There are no straw feminist moments when Tam puts himself between Jennet and whatever is attacking them. Both of these experienced gamers recognize that Tam is just playing a tank, while Jennet’s squishy wizard stays safely out of range and does damage and crowd control from a distance. Tam messes up sometimes. Jennet messes up sometimes. Both of them have each other’s backs. And while their shared love of gaming is a big part of their mutual attraction, at no point is a cute girl who likes fantasy and video games given unicorn status.
In fact, it’s established early on in the book that Jennet is one of several female gamers at her new school, including Tam’s best friend Marny. Marny is another favorite thing about this series. First, she’s tall and plus-sized (the third book implies Samoan ancestry) and is proud of her body. We first meet her when she’s trying to design an avatar and is upset that the game won’t let it be fatter. Second, while she’s initially suspicious about wealthy Jennet’s motives for hanging out with ghetto kids like her and Tam, she isn’t catty or insecure about the difference in their appearance. We never get any indication that Marny resents Jennet’s thinness or blondeness. Third, Marny’s combination of gaming skills and femaleness is taken for granted as much as Jennet’s. And possibly the thing I love most about Marny’s character…she is not romantically interested in Tam. At all. That’s right, ladies and gentlemen, a young adult series with no love triangle! A guy and a girl are like brother and sister and neither wants to be anything else! And the girl develops a genuine friendship with her best friend’s girlfriend! This dynamic continues throughout the two sequels, Feyland: The Bright Court and Feyland: The Twilight Kingdom.
I can’t talk much about this aspect of Feyland’s awesomeness without giving too many spoilers: the way the series draws on real British Isles mythology. Tam’s name and a major plot point in the first book come from “The Ballad of Tam Lin,” which Sharp includes in Feyland: The Dark Realm‘s appendices. Feyland itself is divided between the Seelie and Unseelie Courts. Archetypical fey folk like Puck, the Wild Hunt, and changelings appear throughout the series in pivotal roles.
The first of a new series in the Feyland universe, Feyguard, is due for release on November 30, 2013. Spark centers on Spark Jaxley, a female professional gamer who’s introduced in Feyland: The Twilight Kingdom. If Anthea Sharp continues her winning combination of great characters, great use of folklore, and great depictions of gaming, I’m sure I’ll love her new series as much as the first.
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Avenged sevenfold critical acclaim
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Texas Tech Running Back Armand Shyne Out for 2019 Season With Broken Ribs
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Paul Roberts, KKAM.com
During the weekly Texas Tech football press conference, head coach Matt Wells announced that running back Armand Shyne would miss the rest of the season with broken ribs.
Coach Wells said the injury to Shyne happened during the Kansas game. However, Shyne could be back if Texas Tech reaches a bowl game.
The senior grad transfer from Utah played in all eight games for the Red Raiders this season, totaling 374 yards rushing on 65 carries, with three touchdowns.
With Shyne out, the Red Raiders will rely heavily on the tandem of SaRodorick Thompson and Ta'Zhawn Henry out of the backfield for the remainder of the year.
The Red Raiders look to come off their bye week rejuvenated when they take on the West Virginia Mountaineers this Saturday (November 9th) at 11 a.m. in Morgantown, West Virginia.
Talk 1340 will be live Saturday morning with Countdown to Kickoff from 9-11 a.m., featuring Rob Breaux, Karson Robinson and Michael McDonald.
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The North East to Experience Nirvana
Oct 19, 2019 | LifeStyle
Fat Dog Spirits, LLC today announced expanded North East distribution with SG World Wide for Nirvana Spirits Cannabis Infused Vodka and Gin throughout NJ, NY, MA, and CT, with RI to follow.
NEW YORK, NY, October 19, 2019 /24-7PressRelease/ — Fat Dog Spirits Distribution Manager Robert Bode is super excited about this opportunity with SG Worldwide. “We are looking forward to be working with Bobby Garg of SG Worldwide.” Robert states that “these larger as well as smaller states play an important role in expanding Nirvana, especially in places like NY and MA where influence and social acceptance goes a long way for the rest of the country. We look forward to expanding our relationship with SG Worldwide and their distribution partners. We greatly appreciate their commitment to helping to grow the Nirvana Spirits Brand in the regions that they work in.”
“Like I have said many times before, it took us 17 months to perfect our final product,” but according to Dr. Ram Ramcharran, “having a great product that no one knows about is pointless. Our main focus going forward is to find distribution partners that believe in the Hemp and Cannabis FMCG market space and want to help grow the category.” Chief Scientist, Dr. Abdul Ally, and Dr. Ram P. Ramcharran came up with the proprietary formula. “This is not just a vodka and gin, it’s science in the bottle.” According to Dr. Ally, “the Nirvana Spirits aim is to provide a blissful, relaxing feeling and experience.” “We made Vodka and Gin that just happens to have Cannabis in it,” says Dr. Ramcharran. The 40% alcohol, 80 proof Nirvana Vodka just recently won Silver at the Fifty Best Domestic Vodka Competition, held July 15, 2019 in New York.
Just this August, Nirvana Spirits and Fat Dog Spirits have been written about by Orian Research in their CBD research report, listing them as among two of the top ten key players in the market space. Nirvana Spirits was also in Wine Enthusiast Magazine as one of the market leaders in this category and a brand to watch. Nirvana Spirits was also featured in Beverage Media Magazine as one of the New Breed of Beverages in the Cannabis spaces. “Nirvana Spirits continues to differentiate itself from the others in the Cannabis beverage category,” says CEO Dr. Ramcharran: “We created a clean non-earthy taste and smell in our Nirvana Vodka and Gin which makes it easy to mix and drink just like traditional spirits, while at the same time providing an entirely different experience.”
About FAT DOG SPIRITS
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1 March 2015 The Distribution of Larval Sea Lampreys, Petromyzon marinus, and Their Nutritional Sources in the Hudson River Basin
Thomas M. Evans, Karin E. Limburg
Thomas M. Evans,1,* Karin E. Limburg1
11State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY 13210.
*Corresponding author - tevans03@syr.edu.
Northeastern Naturalist, 22(1):69-83 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1656/045.022.0107
We studied the distribution and food sources of larval Petromyzon marinus (Sea Lamprey) in the Hudson River basin, NY, and found ammocoetes of Sea Lampreys in four tributaries of the Hudson River: 1) Cedar Pond Brook, 2) Catskill Creek, 3) Roeliff Jansen Kill, and 4) Rondout Creek. The largest numbers of Sea Lampreys in the Hudson River basin appears to come from Catskill Creek. Sea Lampreys could increase their range in the Hudson River basin in the near future as barriers to migration are removed. Isotopic analysis demonstrated that Sea Lamprey larvae depended on both terrestrial plant material (i.e., allochthonous) and aquatic primary production (i.e., autochthonous), but that site characteristics influenced the importance of each to nutrition. Larval lampreys from the Kaaterskill Creek depended on allochthonous sources for about half of their nutrition, while those at Cedar Pond Brook obtained only ∼1% of their nutrition from these same sources. Gut contents of larval Sea Lampreys were isotopically distinct from filter-feeding macroinvertebrates, suggesting that they exploit food resources differently.
Thomas M. Evans and Karin E. Limburg "The Distribution of Larval Sea Lampreys, Petromyzon marinus, and Their Nutritional Sources in the Hudson River Basin," Northeastern Naturalist 22(1), 69-83, (1 March 2015). https://doi.org/10.1656/045.022.0107
Published: 1 March 2015
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Thomas M. Evans, Karin E. Limburg "The Distribution of Larval Sea Lampreys, Petromyzon marinus, and Their Nutritional Sources in the Hudson River Basin," Northeastern Naturalist, 22(1), 69-83, (1 March 2015)
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Shingeki No Kyojin / Attack on Titan Season 3 : Decent
May 29, 2019 Luc Leave a comment
“Kōrin” (光臨)
We are back with at least some shows being caught up.
It only took 52 episodes for probably the best bloody episode they’ve ever made to show up.
What this did was prove a lot of things right for me. When the story goes away from Eren who is a annoying as hell character it is actually interesting, when Mikasa packs the hell up the fights and military part of the show shines and when it wants to be it can be the most terrifying, dramatic and sad show you’ll ever watch.
When it wants to be.
Most of the time it just wants us to feel sorry for Eren and Mikasa as they sulk and make things worse for people. Thankfully this is the last time I’ll mention that hopefully because it seems that Eren has learnt his lesson.
This episode started as the story of Bertholdt, Reiner and Annie, it didn’t answer most of the questions we had but it shows that we are actually missing the majority of the puzzle pieces we thought we originally had. Their stories make little to no sense in the way that it is being told which means there is something hidden out of sight that none of us know about yet. It is all tied in with the Beast Titan and obviously whatever this mission is but Bertholdt seems to have said it best when he said that they didn’t have a choice in all of this because the world is just cruel.
I really like having Armin in control, whilst he’s super smart and good at all of this stuff naturally it is nice to see that he panics. He needs people behind him, believing in him and his talents, for him to actually kick into gear and get things done which is natural. He’s been put into a situation that is foreign to him and given probably the most power ANY of the group could possibly ask for and he has to think on his feet.
Which he does.
Pretty much all the time.
Armin has always been the one of the three that I tolerated the most and to be fair I’ve grown to really like him. Unlike the other two who have far too much clout just because Eren he actually looked at times like he probably didn’t belong but he’s proven that he’s exactly what the Scouts need.
His attempt to talk to Bertholdt in this episode actually really upset me because it proved that of all the characters Armin is the only one that isn’t selfish.
He isn’t out for revenge, he isn’t out to protect one person to keep themselves happy. He actually wants what is best for everyone, he wants to bring the biggest amount of people home safe whilst at the same time securing the life for everyone in the walls.
Armin is actually a hero compared to Eren and Mikasa.
This episode was fantastic on many fronts but I guess the most important thing was that it made me care more then any of the other episodes did.
I started reviewing Attack on Titan mainly because it was super popular and me and Anna decided SOMEONE had to cover it on here whether we like it or not. A negative opinion isn’t going to hurt a show like this so we just carried on. Both of us enjoyed the story behind the Titans and the mysteries but got fed up of the whining and character stories of characters that had no real interest. We noticed very fast that every character bar the two we had thrown at us were interesting with their own stories and personalities unfortunately most of the time the stories had to come back to Eren and his shadow but those characters made sure we never gave up. Anna gave into temptation and caught up with the manga so knows a little of what will happen in this story, I’ve seen some of it but to be honest it was so long ago now I can’t remember much, I do know one thing that is coming that I might complain about but I think the anime has made me feel different about it.
Whatever happened to the characters I didn’t really care for.
Battles, drama, politics and relationships meant nothing to me.
I came into every episode just there to watch it, enjoy the small moments and get ready to complain about how annoying it was.
THIS episode made me want to watch the next one. It made me want to see how this ends. It made me feel like I had been invested in the series the whole time.
That was because of back characters though.
I want to know what is making Reiner and Bertholdt do the things they are doing, I want to see if Hange found a way to survive. How is Levi, Arwin, Armin and everyone else going to defeat the now duel threat of the Beast Titan on one side of the wall and the Colossal Titan on the other?
What about Reiner? He has put everything he is into his Titan form now, he’s nothing more then his Titan’s shell. What is going to happen to him? He can’t be taken out of the shell because he’s rolled over now.
Do they ever find a way of getting Annie out of her crystal shell?
This obviously took a toll on them, they came here to destroy this city, this civilisation but it was obvious that they bonded with the Scouts and this ended up being much harder for them.
Why did they do it? Why did they continue?
NOTHING of that I felt for any of Eren’s story. In one episode they made me forget about the whiny brat that they shoved down our throats week in week out and gave us the true story that we really want answered.
What the hell is going on?!
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Houston Audubon Update
From the Houston Audubon website:
October 12 Update: Help us restore habitat on the Bolivar Peninsula! Hurricane Ike decimated many Purple Martin houses and old buildings where Barn Owls nest. Houston Audubon is stepping up with an important recovery effort for these species on the Bolivar Peninsula. We are looking for donations of martin houses as well as owl boxes that will be set up throughout the peninsula in the upcoming months. More information on the nestbox program. We hope to start a program to provide trees and shrubs for the Peninsula. Members are encouraged to dig up and pot hackberries, oaks, mulberries and other suitable plants. Please contact Flo Hannah for more information.
High Island: Once again, High Island's woods were impacted by a hurricane; trees are down, trails blocked, boardwalks damaged, and branches and leaves are everywhere. Several of our ponds were inundated with salt water and we are not sure what the long term impact of that will be. Most of the vegetation in those ponds is already dying. Hopefully we will soon have adequate rain to dilute the salt. Claybottom Pond where the Rookery is was not inundated with salt water but all of the trees on the island are gone. The cypresses on the east end of the pond did not appear to be damaged.
Bolivar Flats Shorebird Sanctuary: At Bolivar Flats the roadside and marsh are in good shape, although there are a lot of plastic bags on the fences. The beach looks very different. When you get to the end of Rettilon Rd., there is a large hole caused by water running out of the marsh. The beach has been moved back to the vehicular barrier that was parallel to the beach, and this barrier is pretty well destroyed. Much of the sand from the beach was pushed inland along with some debris, really not much compared to what is everywhere else. The vehicular barrier where everyone parks is still there but will need some work. The observation tower is gone, but we may have found it in Horseshoe Marsh. I don't think we can get it back to Bolivar Flats. There is a large empty Del Monte shipping container in the grass, and there appears to be another shipping container back in the marsh.
Horseshoe Marsh Sanctuary: The part of the sanctuary closest to the ferry landing is a mess. Debris from the houses in Port Bolivar washed into the sanctuary, and it will be a big job to clean it up. Fortunately most of the fences are still up.
Mundy Marsh Sanctuary: From a preliminary assessment, the sanctuary appears to be in good shape except that the sign and fences were down. From our vantage point we did not see a lot of house debris in the marsh.
Dos Vacas Muertas: This sanctuary on Galveston Island was named after the two dead cows which had been found there after Hurricane Carla, and it has survived Ike as well. Preliminary reports that the trees are still standing are reassuring.
Read more about conditions at the coastal sanctuaries in our Sanctuary Blog. We need lots of help with coastal cleanups. Work day dates have been scheduled through December. Please refer to the volunteer page for sign up directions.
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not one word about the 300+ missing humans?
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I'm very concerned about the missing humans, as are the members of Houston Audubon, who live right there. But this blog is primarily about birds, you see.
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February 23, 2020 Providence Women's Health Team
Do you find it impossible to relax because you can’t stop yourself from endlessly rehashing every decision, action and thought?
Do you have difficulty quieting your churning thoughts to focus on the task at hand?
Does your mind kick into high gear just as you attempt to sleep and interrupt your rest with constant thoughts of “what if” and “if only?”
Although everyone experiences stress, women can face a unique set of challenges and responsibilities that raise their stress levels well past those of their male counterparts. If you’re like a lot of women, you’re juggling about a million responsibilities and it requires an immense amount of effort and thought to keep them all afloat. Meditation can help you be in the present, help you focus and improve your mood.
"Meditation is the process of being fully present and paying attention to the present moment. It helps heighten awareness of your emotions, thoughts and experiences through techniques like quiet contemplation, inspirational readings, prayer and self-reflection," according to Glen Komatsu, M.D., chief medical officer, TrinityCare Hospice and Providence Southern California Regional Palliative Care.
“The point of mindful practices is to ground us in the present moment—to be fully present in the here and now. It’s the anti-multitask,” said Dr. Komatsu.
“The point of mindful practices is to ground us in the present moment—to be fully present in the here and now. It’s the anti-multitask,” said Dr. Komatsu. “Mindfulness meditation changes the brain’s anatomy and structure in a positive way, thickening areas of the brain that govern compassion and happiness while downregulating areas that govern the fight-or-flight response.”
For women struggling for balance among all the components of their life, meditation can be a game changer.
“We know that if you allow it, mindfulness works,” said Dr. Komatsu.
Here’s a closer look at how meditation addresses many of the health issues women face regularly.
The team of experts at Providence understands that the average woman is far from average. Our mental health specialists listen to your health concerns and develop a comprehensive strategy that takes your individual needs into account. You can find a Providence that understands women’s health issues using our provider directory. Or you can search for a primary care doctor in your area.
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This Week in Fintech: TFT Bi-Weekly News Roundup
25th August 2020 25th August 2020 The Fintech Times The Worldamp39s Fintech Newspaper digital currencies, Doing Business Overseas, Trade & Industry
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The Fintech Times Bi-Weekly News Roundup takes a look at the latest international fintech stories. In this Tuesday’s edition, we feature the latest moves across the industry, plus plans for a financial super app.
Mastercard and TransferWise say they are making it faster, cheaper and easier to move money around the world after expanding their partnership. TransferWise currently partners with Mastercard across the European Economic Area, US, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand, with Japan due to launch later this year. As a result, the fintech can issue cards in any world market where Mastercard is accepted and TransferWise is licensed.
Nordic challenger bank Lunar picks open banking from Nordic API Gateway
Challenger bank Lunar is joining the Nordic API Gateway roster of Nordic banks. In the coming months, multi-banking features and payments across Denmark, Sweden and Norway will be activated by Lunar. It says the open banking partnership is part of its ambition to create a ‘financial super app’.
To accelerate joint innovations, Nutanix and Intel are collaborating on a ‘first-of-its-kind joint innovation lab’. The Nutanix-Intel Joint Innovation Lab will dedicate both products and engineering resources to developing new Intel technologies on Nutanix architecture.
Meanwhile, fintech Paysend is hooking up with Alipay – China’s largest mobile payments business – to offer a cross-border money transfer. Paysend says the partnership is significant because it will create a more inclusive and accessible global money transfer market.
This week’s movers
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NDA beats UPA, rolls out roads faster
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NEW DELHI: The government’s work order for highway expansion has shot up by 122% during the first three years of Modi government and the pace of construction has gone up by 25%, according to data released by the road transport and highways ministry.
During 2011-2014, daily highway construction was about 13 m in comparison to 17 m during the three years’ of Modi government.
The acceleration in award of works to road builders — over 11,000 km on an average in the past three years against only 5,000 during UPA’s corresponding period — has significance considering that this will translate into actual construction of roads by April 2019 when the government faces election.
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Keith Marshall, Bulldog historian →
February 6, 2012 · 12:10 PM
Stats are for LOOSERS.
[Ed. note: Yes, I know that’s a typo in the header… which is more than I can say for about a quarter of the people who post on message boards.]
In today’s edition of “I Blame Bobo”, Patrick Garbin painfully tracks a comparison of Mark Richt’s and Mike Bobo’s terms as offensive coordinator in twelve different statistical categories, scores it overwhelmingly in Bobo’s favor, notes that Georgia has won at a far lower rate with Bobo as OC and concludes:
… It’s no secret that many in the Bulldog Nation (including yours truly on occasion), during Georgia’s last few seasons of mediocrity, have been quick to point the finger at Bobo’s play calling as a major issue. However, at least comparatively speaking, I’m beginning to believe that Bobo isn’t necessarily a problem but maybe a scapegoat, and something else besides his play calling, or lack thereof, should be focused upon.
BWAHAAHAHAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH… wait, what? … he was serious about that?
Filed under Georgia Football, Stats Geek!
86 responses to “Stats are for LOOSERS.”
What is wrong with what he wrote?
Seriously, you’re going to have to spell it out to me b/c I don’t get it. But I will admit that I’m dense sometimes.
There’s nothing wrong with what he wrote. Go tell that to the folks who want Bobo canned or demoted because… well, because.
I blame Bobo for Jason not understanding.
Gravidy
Now THAT was funny! 🙂
I don’t understand why pointing out that Bobo as OC has been statistically better than Richt as OC is reason for saying that it’s ridiculous to can Bobo. What if you didn’t think Richt was that great as an offensive coordinator to begin with? Is it crazy to want to can Bobo and bring in someone from outside the program to be OC?
What makes you think Richt would do better the next time around?
I don’t think he’d do better. That’s why I’m talking about bringing in someone from outside the program to run the offense.
I meant with the next hire, not him taking the reins back. If Richt won’t change his overall coaching philosophy, what difference would a new hire make?
Well, 2 out of his 3 defensive coordinator hires have been successful. I think he does a pretty good job when hiring from outside the program.
As far as his coaching philosophy goes, if he brings in someone from outside and gives them what I’ll call “almost autonomy” (like what Grantham has), then his philosophy doesn’t matter as much anymore. He’s more of a CEO at that point.
ummm, Richt is a head coach with an OFFENSIVE background. It’s pretty plain that his preferred offensive philosophy is to run a pro-style offense. If you want a head coach who’s just going to toss the keys to the offense to his OC and let him run the spread, or the west coast, or the wishbone, you’re probably never going to be happy with Mark Richt.
What the numbers show, in a pretty clear fashion, is that the offensive production at UGA is as good as ever, probably better than ever. I suspect if one charted out the defensive stats over the Richt era, the reason UGA has less wins during Mike Bobo’s tenure as OC than under CMR’s turn as playcaller would be pretty obvious.
81 Dawg, This Old Dawg thinks that you are right on target.
Agree. Wonder what would happen if we had a kick ass defense like in 03. Oh, yeah, we’d win the East and lose to LSU in the championship game.
Richt is an offensive-minded coach. He approaches the hiring of his two coordinators differently. I don’t think your assumption is realistic.
That’s very possible. He may hire someone who is similar to him. But similar doesn’t necessarily have to mean Richt II or Bobo II. The new guy could still run a pro-style offense but have a different philosophy on how to utilize it. Think about how many variations of offense there are in the NFL.
But I get your point that he may not be willing to hire someone even as different from him as what I describe above. But it doesn’t mean we can’t analyze it and call it necessary as fans. Hell, for the longest time a LOT of people thought he wouldn’t fire Martinez and that he’d go down with that whole in his ship. People can change…even Mark Richt.
* hole
geez, bad typo!
DawgFaithful
Moron.
DawgFaithfull
Totally agree. I have argued on this post before about how Bobo is certainly the scapegoat as is the OC in many other programs when things start to go south and I got ripped. Bobo calls the game the way Richt wants him to. Bringing in another guy wont change that. Richt is an offensive guy and this is his philosophy. He calls games like an NFL coordinator. People who dont know shit about football aren’t worth arguing with. You know like the people who cant figure out why Bobo calls a run on 2nd and 10 after an incomplete pass on 1st down. People, it’s very common to make that call. 3rd and 7-8 is alot easier to convert than 3rd and 10. Its not so much conservative as it is good football sense. NFL coordinators make this call all the time. Then there is the 3rd and 17 from our own 16yrd line situation where Bobo calls a draw. Again, very commom. We do not have a lot of plays in the playbook for 3rd and 17. You’ve got a young QB and you are backed up in your own territory. Good football sense says to call a conservative run and set up a good punt, play defense. LIVE TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY. Better than a pick in your own redzone. It happens all the time. ITs smart. I love it when this happens and the guy sitting next to me starts cussing Bobo. I just want to reach over and slap him because he is such a retard and probably never played football. ITs pepole like this that blame Bobo for everything. Bottom line… If our defense keeps improving on last year, it almost doesnt matter WHO is OC. We’re gonna have success. Stop blaming BoBo people. Look at his numbers as OC. The proof is in the pudding
Edawg
How about a draw play on 3 and 15 from our own 45? I saw that little gem dialed up this year. They (Bobo and Richt) are not beyond criticism. Not even close. So get down off your soapbox, Johnny Knowitall.
Edawg,
I’ll say it again. We dont have many plays for 3rd and 15. In this instance from our own 45 you call a conservative play for the same reason. You dont want to turn it over at mid field when you have the 3rd ranked Defense in America and your QB has struggled with throwing picks. You live to fight another day by pinning them in their own redzone and trusting your Badass defense. It puts pressure on them. Dumbass. You sound like that retard who has never played a down of football.
Hey DawgFaithful/Knowitall,
This was in the second game of the season. You know, the one where we gave up 45 points? The game following the game where we gave up 35? Ring a bell? We didn’t exactly have the 3rd ranked defense at that point.
You’re a clown.
Also, how much do you stand to gain by moving up the 5 yards that you typically get on a long draw? You move from the 45 to the 50. At the 45, you can tell Butler to just boom it. You can’t really do that at the 50 b/c if he catches it clean, it’s in the end zone.
Again, you’re a clown.
Yes the SC game. I was there. They had 3 defensive TD’s(picks and fumbles by inexperienced QB) and a special teams TD, Blair walsh missed 2 Fg’s and we lost by 3 pts. I’d say the defense did a great job of keeping us in that game until the 4th quarter when Lattimore finally broke a couple of runs. Dumbass. Im not saying that you should run a draw on every 3rd and long idiot. Nobody does that. There are many factors in the decision like, the score, time left in the game, the way your defense is playing, or they way your QB has handled situations like this in the past in games and in practice. These decisions are all calculated. Bobo never just calls a draw up the middle because he cant think of anything else to call. Sometimes we get aggressive in that situation. I dont remember the specific play you are referring to but there was definitely some logical reasoning behind it. Its not about trying to get 5 more yards and then punt. Its about TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY. Also there are other options rather than booming it into the endzone. Have you ever heard of a directional punt? Did you watch the punter for the Giants last night? You are the epitomy of the ignorant ass UGA fan that I was refering to in my original post. Maybe you should be alling the plays. Me… I’ll leave it to the experts. And if I dont really understand something, I dont go around sharing my opinion like its Gospel. Long live Bobo and Richt. To hell with Tech and ignorant fans like you
The defense gave up 24 points that day. Not terrible but not great. Oh, and they gave up 400 total yards.
Again, this is the week after we gave up 35 to Boise.
One final time, you’re a clown. Keep trying to convince yourself otherwise though.
They gave up 24 pts but 7 of those came on a QB sneak after a fumble was returned to the 2 yd line. Technically 24 but In my eyes they actually scored 17 pts on our Def. It shows your ignorance that your 1 example of Bobo’s bad play calling came from Georgia’s 2nd best offensive output of the entire season. 42 pts. and we missed those 2 Fg’s. How many pts should Bobo’s Offense be scoring? That draw didnt hurt us to bad did it?
42 pts on the 6th ranked pass Defense in the country. Great game to reference there buddy. Youre making a strong case
You’re a real piece of work. You can’t justify the one specific play that I brought up, so you put words in my mouth telling me that I’m complaining about scoring 42 points.
You’re a clown. You’ve proved it. There’s nothing left for me to say. But go ahead and respond about 5 more times making crap up if it makes you feel better.
I didn’t get it either. And I’m not dense.
Re: the Bobo situation… I think you can make a case that Bobo’s situational play calling is where the problem lies, not on it’s overall effectiveness. But I’m not one that’s on the blame Bobo bandwagon.. for no other reason than I just don’t believe it would be any different if Richt were calling plays. I think the problem has been more of a lack of an effective defense.. which we got back this year after several years absence. I’m just saying that I get the argument against Bobo, but I do think the notion that things would be different if he were removed or left is ridiculous.
Agreed…unless Richt brought in an outside guy to run the offense. Then I think things would be different.
She says no, things would not be different,
that it’s time to get on the bus and
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I firmly believe that’s what needs to be done. The best way I can think to articulate my position is that right now in Richt’s mind Richt IS the offense, even with Bobo at OC. Like when Richt decided to roll the dice to set up a FG during the Michigan State game, he told the press he believed in his kicker. What that tells me is that it never occurred to him to believe in his offense. And that’s because he IS the offense. He needs a separation. Richt needs an advocate there who’s pushes Richt to keep his foot on the opponent’s neck offensively. He needs someone who will push him to think of the offense as its own separate entity. I still think Bobo’s play-calling is where it probably should be for a decent SEC OC, but he’s too much of a protege to get in Richt’s face and demand respect like a proper OC should. I think they would both be better coaches apart from each other.
I doubt it. As others have said, Richt’s philosophy is to play great defense, good enough offense, and rely on your kicker to win games. If we have a lead late in the game, we start milking the clock rather than trying to score.
This philosophy comes up short when you play mediocre defense, or have a mediocre kicker. This year, our defense was really good, but our kicker was mediocre. But the only game that Richt recognized that was the Florida game.
Whether his philosophy is right or wrong isn’t the point. It is what it is. We could bring in Petrino as OC, but if Richt tells him to start milking the clock in the third quarter, we won’t be scoring as many points as possible. If Richt tells him to play for the field goal, then a mediocre kicker can end up costing us a game.
Jason, i don’t see Richt ever doing that. He’s an offensive coach, he’s always going to handle some portion of that. Any O.C. under him will not have complete autonomy to do what they want… Richt will gameplan with whoever he hires, he’s just not hands off like that. Maybe one day he’ll get to his mentor Bobby Bowden’s style of ‘CEO head coach’, but I don’t like that approach because when coordinators get hired away for other jobs, you have to rebuild (like when Richt and Amato left FSU) almost from scratch. If Bobo left, Richt could replace him with little disruption.
What I find so great about this is that it’s so logical. The numbers are right there in front of you. I am no Bobo apologist but it blows my mind sometimes how much is put on him. I mean just absolutely reaching for straws to somehow find a way to put whatever is wrong with the team on him. I just have to laugh sometimes. I guess blaming Bobo is the trendy thing to do.
come on, Ginny. Why let actual facts get in the way of how some people feeeeeeeeeeel about Mike Bobo? If the other facets of UGA football (defense and special teams) had done their job the last few years as well as the offense…..and last year, the defense was the strength of the team….we’d have a few more wins. Bobo may not be the best OC who ever lived, but he’s pulling his weight.
I’m guessing the Senator forgot to use the Sarcasm button on his key board?
The disconnect between perception and reality is Bobo’s fault.
The Lone Stranger
Something like what Huxley wrote about cleansing the doors of perception so that Man would see everything as it is, infinite? Sorta like the last nearly infinite 20 years vs. the Gatahs. I like the other reality where the Dawgs run roughshod in Jacksonville and generally make a nuisance of themselves!
Ah, the ’70s and ’80s.
Simply put, it’s because people don’t know football, especially as a whole. Bobo is our best recruiter and it’s not even close.
We simply forgot to play defense most of those years. Is he perfect? Heck no, but no one is. I’m hard-pressed to watch CFB games and find offenses I want to run more than ours. I like what okie St and Stanford do, but I’m not convinced it would work in our league. What bobo did with our o-line and train wreck of a running game this year was nearly a miracle. Sadly, mo’s UGA fans just don’t get it. He dialed up some doodies in the first QTR versus the best team in the land and our guys dropped the ball. It’s football. That’s the way it goes, but people want to blame someone.
Okay, okay, okay. I give up. I’ll stop blaming Bobo. At least publicly. I reserve the right to blame him in my heart of hearts even if I know it isn’t fair, isn’t true and makes no logical sense whatsoever. Bourbon does that to me. See what I did there? Someone or something must be blamed. Bourbon or Bobo, it makes no difference to me. Either way, I promise to stop doing here on your site.
bulldawgy
we have won less with bobo because the defense has sucked most of the time he has been oc.
I Wanna Red Cup
I am amazed at how fans critisize single plays. You can always second guess, particularly when the play does not work. The other team is trying too, and many times a good play call does not turn out right because of execution.
I’ll never forget when the Dawgs beat then # 1 ranked Florida 21-3 by running Henderson and Worley up the middle for about 300 yards. The next Saturday when we opened with the same play against our opponent (I am thinking it was Auburn) some moron behind me started booing and lambasting CVD for running the play. Luckily I had friends among me who prevented a fight when I told the guy he ought to just wear orange and keep his mouth shut.
The other night I watched the FLA game again, and what struck me was what a good game Bobo called, Many of the plays that were successful were runs up the middle. The great calls he made that did not turn out well was mostly because of lack of execution ( i e Orson Charles running wide open for TD and Murray just missed him ). And I recommend watching that game again to remind yourself of how good Crowell played when he was well.
Bobo is not perfect, but alternating booing and cheering depending on the success of a play is ridiculous. We have way too many fans who have their heads up their asses about this.
But it is notable that UGA predominantly ran the traditional I formation (with the tailback deep) in that game. Then reverted to running mostly from the shotgun the rest of the season.
I expected someone to have a “see the light” moment from the UF game with respect to alignment of the TB’s.
you are welcome sir
JaxDawg
Bobo’s offense is going to look a whole lot better paired with Grantham’s defense.
***DINGDINGDING*** We have a winner!
Although better special teams play wouldn’t hurt, either.
come on, Senator. You know it’s Bobo’s fault the punt coverage team let a 275 pound DL run 75 yards for a score on a fake punt.
Bobo was close enough to make the tackle, I mean come on!
I would deeply appreciate it if we could NEVER discuss that play again…NEVER
think 2008.
If he (and/or Richt) continues to shut the offense down to sit on a lead when the defense is playing well, then Bobo’s numbers may actually look worse. That could be the difference. When Richt ran the team, we didn’t score as much and didn’t have to to win.
This is not me arguing numbers or trying to discredit Bobo though. It would be interesting though if his numbers went down and our win percentage went up, just like when Richt was calling the plays. The big difference was they Richt could count on the defense and never had to score 40+ to win.
“the big difference was *that*”
Odd typo…
SRQDawgs15
The problem with this is that a halfway decent OL/RB combo turns your “shutting the offense down” into controlling the ball and shortening the game. As was mentioned earlier in this thread, we beat LSU if not for a couple of dropped passes on great play calls from Bobo and we beat Mich St and probably SC if our OL could have blocked even a little bit. I know these are kids but the players should also be held accountable.
PS…..we also beat Mich St and SC if Blair Walsh doesn’t completely lose his (previously) AA kicking game and Mike Bobo has absolutely nothing to do with that
“Hijo”? Care to leave a comment here?
There is one potential issue here with the comparison, and that is the overall surge in offense in the latter half of the decade as compared to the early half of the decade. I seem to recall something along those lines being discussed with the Willie Martinez debacle — that overall scoring went up so he got some slack in the 2006-2008 timeframe. So, I would want to see statistics that “normalize” these results to a baseline of apples to apples — essentially, solving for the overall scoring/defensive context in each year — before I stop saying that Mike Bobo is a problem.
So, call me not convinced.
Skeptic Dawg
Is it possible that Garbin is claiming the Richt and his offensive philosophy is the problem? Many claim there would be no added advantage to hiring a new OC simply because that person would still run Richt’s play book.
I don’t think he’s blaming a specific target. He’s just arguing that the numbers suggest we should be looking beyond Bobo to figure out why the record has been disappointing over the past few seasons.
Fair enough. But it did seem like he was attempting to go somewhere with this other than a poor D (see Willie) and/or unspecial teams play.
The real problem is that someone has been making really bonehead decisions at the end of games. This problem probably existed going back for years but was covered up by superior personnel (particularly on D years ago and on O in later years) performing in the clutch and getting the win anyway. But starting in 2009 and accelerating to train wreck speed in 2010 someone’s bonehead calls at the end actually started costing the Dawgs wins. I don’t know exactly who made the calls as I was not standing on the sideline next to the staff when the calls were made but I do know who is ultimately responsible. The “F/U” factor cannot and should not be ignored. CMR needs to get somebody onto the staff to fix this problem or it will raise its ugly head again at the worst possible time.
Have not read the comments yet.
Richt is hands on with every aspect of the offense.
Richt works with the QBs & attends the QB meetings. He helps develope the O Game Plan.He wears a head set during the game. He also helps evaluate the players after a game or after a practice. I believe he also evaluates the coaches after a game & after a practice.
If he is satisfied with the job Bobo is doing, then so am I.
Personally I thought Bobo’s best job results, marginally better, was the year Cox was QB & the D was terrible. 24 TD passes & 8 wins.
Finally after watching a game , I check out the criticisms that I know are coming about Bobo & the play calling. I then rewatch the game using those criticisms as a guide line. Basically I never agree with what the critics are complaining about Are we watching the same Games?. I have to again agree with Richt that Richt & Bobo are combining to do a very good job with the Offense. I Blame Bobo..
I think the Senator actually does get it right with his headline. Garbin rightfully notes that the Richt led offense has a definitive advantage in the ultimate statistic…wins / winning %.
Sure, poor D, poor execution, etc. can be pointed to in the CMB losses (but not CMR’s?!). But some of the specific team readiness and play calling in our key losses over the past 4 – 5 seasons permit reasonable minds to ask a reasonable question…is Mike Bobo the best OC we can get?
Ok…to avoid the wrath of Cojones and others who will now question my “Disney” credentials, can we phrase the off-season debate this way…”What would we like CMB to learn to become a premier OC as measured by his peers?” For me, this starts with game management and not just development of plays that frustrate a defense, but the wisdom to keep using them until the D shows it can adapt. (See BSU for examples.)
And maybe I can follow up your post by surmising that Bobo ought to be prepared to deploy his offensive players to best advantage since he did the recruiting. By almost all accounts, he knows the recruiting side of the game and if he knows his players as best he can then creating viable gameplans should flow from that insight.
Maybe my point is that since nothing stays the same (trends, conditioning, even player dispositions from day to day), an OC has to be willing to recreate his philosophy a bit. It seems UGa has done that on D; why can’t the O shake up some more diversity.
If Bobo is really a great recruiter (as many people say he is), we really should start getting him to focus his recruiting ability on gettin us some amazing offensive linemen every year.
True dat…well, there is ONE in for 2012, so I suppose the Dawgs will build on that momentum.
Jeez,maybe I’m missing something but it seems to me that the complaint about not sticking with something that is working has been the one ongoing and consistent complaint that you can find on the site. I’m not inclined to go back that far but I recall that was one of the areas the Senator wanted to see improvement in at the beginning of the year was to see if Bobo would stop going away from plays at the end of the game that the defense has seemingly not figured out yet.. Your right ,I think that Bobo could be criticized for that in the Boise State game but I didn’t see it the rest of the season..
I’ll also mention that until our OL can block tier 1 DL’s like Michigan State’s, Bobo’s play-action offense isn’t going to anywhere of significance.
…which makes the continual unpreparedness/flimsy nature of the OL all the more stupefying.
When’s the last time we had a good offensive line?
Have we ever had a line at UGA comparable to the recent Bama lines?
No to that, though between ’07-09 the running game averaged over 4.5 tpc which is very healthy for the SEC. And outside of 2003 when Greene was on his back like 47 times, the OLine has not been shabby in protecting the QBs. Of course, the flood of negative plays this season was ludicrous and who knows what ’12 holds with two starters returning.
charlottedawg
I think in general Bobo does a better job than his crtics suggest and think that he is an overall decent OC. I think he’s different than willie in that willie was consistently getting worse as opposed to Bobo who’s at worst inconsistent because he intermingles great moments with WTF moments. However let me play devil’s advocate for a minute. 1) Richt vs Bobo is a false comparision. Richt as UGA OC wasn’t that great. real question is can our offense do better if we brought in an outside OC? 2)why has nobody else come around looking for Bobo as an OC? In my humble opinion until the NFL or another school poaches away CTG the biggest thing Bobo amd special teams need to do is “first do no harm”. It doesn’t matter if you score 42 points against the gamecocks if you also score 28 FOR them via special teams and turnovers. take care of the damn ball and make sure that if our opponenets do score it’s after they had to drive the length of the field against a top 5 defense. do that and we’ll be fine.
I have absolutely no inside knowledge into UGA football, but I simply don’t believe that no other program has ever expressed interest in Bobo. If Neil Callaway and Steve Addazio can get head coaching jobs, then there is some other factor besides job performance keeping Bobo in Athens.
Likely it’s his !19! children under the age of five!
Is the Richt/Bobo offense just too predictable? 10 years is a lot of film.
Also, I wonder how great Bobo would look with a decent Oline?
If it is executed a D has trouble stopping it but if we screw up even one play per possession we have to punt. Sometimes I think our O is just too complicated for 20 hour a week guys.
One thing that amazes me is the assumption some people have that it would be the easiest thing in the world to hire someone as OC who would automatically be better than Mike Bobo. If it was so easy to replace productive coordinators with better, or at least, EQUALLY productive coordinators, explain how we regressed after Brian VanGorder left town.
When the great Norm Chow called a brilliant game to begin Fulmer’s downfall a few years back he was called a genius. When the remainder of the Bruin’s season went south Chow became an idiot. I suspect Coach Chow is neither an idiot or a genius, its just easier to look smart with USC’s athletes as opposed to UCLA’s.
Richt doesn’t run a pro style O he runs an FSU O. He always has and always will. The only change he made to the FSU style was to somewhat utilize the TE. FSU never used a TE except to block. We hire FSU’s TE coach and the TE’s disappear for games. If this team ran a New England stlye O with the TE’s we have we would have been unstoppable. Richt makes Bobo run the 1980-90’s version of FSU. Our O works best when our O has better players but the scheme breaks down against good D’s then the D has to save us over and over.
given the productivity of New England’s offense, and the fact that the skills needed to run it would seem to match up nicely with the type of offensive players UGA recruits, I have wondered if maybe we shouldnt be trying to learn from them. I know the pro game is different (hash marks, time between plays, more practice time), but it sure seems like we could find something useful there. I guess you could call it a freshening of our offensive approach, rather than a wholesale retooling.
Dovedawg
The one thing that Richt had as a play caller that seems to be missing is the knack for calling the unexpected play at the right time and having it work. E.g. the Haynes play 2001…the AU 4th and 12 in 2002…the David Greene fake handoff and long bomb v. LSU 2004…I miss those unexpected delights. We saw some in the FL game this past year when we went for it on 4th down 2x…but maybe because Richt was forced to gamble in a situation where everything was on the line…and I believe it was Richt who called those plays himself. Maybe Bobo can develop that knack this year
I remember Coach Richt saying that Bowden used to leave him alone for almost the entire game, but would out of no where interject the unexpected play.
Really, this boils down to OL play, coaching and recruiting. Bobo operates within the criteria the HC wants, what has been frustrating is the lack of o-line depth, and the resulting competition for playing time. Injuries, poor evaluations, lack of numbers have contributed, along with a coach that didn’t seem to have the right stuff. I think we will be satisfied in the future.
NC Dawg
For the past decade, UGA has displayed the best sustained offensive production in my considerable memory. Has there been a REALLY bad year, offensively? There have been some sputters, sure, and some times we didn’t have a top QB at the ready, but on the whole …
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A high density of ancient spliceosomal introns in oxymonad excavates
Claudio H Slamovits1 &
Patrick J Keeling1
BMC Evolutionary Biology volume 6, Article number: 34 (2006) Cite this article
Certain eukaryotic genomes, such as those of the amitochondriate parasites Giardia and Trichomonas, have very low intron densities, so low that canonical spliceosomal introns have only recently been discovered through genome sequencing. These organisms were formerly thought to be ancient eukaryotes that diverged before introns originated, or at least became common. Now however, they are thought to be members of a supergroup known as excavates, whose members generally appear to have low densities of canonical introns. Here we have used environmental expressed sequence tag (EST) sequencing to identify 17 genes from the uncultivable oxymonad Streblomastix strix, to survey intron densities in this most poorly studied excavate group.
We find that Streblomastix genes contain an unexpectedly high intron density of about 1.1 introns per gene. Moreover, over 50% of these are at positions shared between a broad spectrum of eukaryotes, suggesting theyare very ancient introns, potentially present in the last common ancestor of eukaryotes.
The Streblomastix data show that the genome of the ancestor of excavates likely contained many introns and the subsequent evolution of introns has proceeded very differently in different excavate lineages: in Streblomastix there has been much stasis while in Trichomonas and Giardia most introns have been lost.
One of the prominent features that distinguishes eukaryotic genomes from those of prokaryotes is the presence of spliceosomal introns. Introns are intervening sequences that are removed from expressed RNAs, in the case of spliceosomal introns through a series of transesterfications mediated by a large riboprotein complex called the spliceosome [1]. Spliceosomal introns are only known from eukaryotic nuclear genomes, and were the subject of intense controversy over their potential role in early gene origins and evolution, the so-called introns early versus late debate [2–4]. One of the interesting features of intron evolution that came to light during this debate was the large range in intron density. At one extreme, introns appeared to be lacking in several protist lineages that were, at the time, thought to be the earliest-branching eukaryotes. These lineages included diplomonads (e.g., Giardia) and parabasalia (e.g. Trichomonas).
The early-branching status of these organisms has since been undermined by a variety of data, and now diplomonads and parabasalia are thought to be part of a large assemblage of protists called excavates, which also includes trypanosomes, euglenids, and a number of parasitic and free living flagellate or amoeboflagellate lineages [5]. However, despite the accumulation of a considerable quantity of molecular data from both Giardia and Trichomonas, as well as the identification of proteins involving splicing in Trichomonas [6], evidence for introns in their genomes remained intriguingly elusive. Indeed, only recently were introns finally characterized in these organisms [7–9], and remain extremely rare. Only three introns have been found in G. intestinalis among thousands of known genes [8, 9] and forty-one introns were identified in the T. vaginalis genome after exhaustive searches [7]. Information from excavates other than Trichomonas and Giardia is scarce, but overall there seems to be a generally low density of introns (with the possible exception of Jakobid flagellates based on one family of genes[10]). Moreover, other instances of non-canonical introns and splicing are known in excavates [11–13], as are systems where splicing machinery is put to a slightly different use such as trans-splicing [14–16].
One of the excavate groups about which we know very little are the oxymonads. Oxymonads are anaerobic flagellates found almost exclusively in association with animals, many in the guts of termites and wood-eating roaches [17]. This is the only group of amitochondriates for which secondary loss of mitochondria has not been yet demonstrated, but they are closely related to the flagellate Trimastix, which has a vestigial organelle, so a primary lack of mitochondria in oxymonads is unlikely. Mostoxymonads are not available in culture because they live in complex communities with other protists and prokaryotes. As a result, there are few molecular data available from any oxymonad, and no introns have been identified [18]. The oxymonad Streblomastix strix is asymbiont of the dampwood termite Zootermopsis angusticollis from North American Pacific coastal region. This species has a number of unusual morphological characters, including a peculiar long slender cell shape with deep longitudinal vanes which is apparently maintained by intimate association with epibiotic bacteria [19], So far, many copies of four genes (alpha-tubulin, beta-tubulin, HSP90, and elongation factor-1 alpha) have been characterized from S. strix [18], and the complete absence of introns from all sequences (a total of 19,888 bp) suggests the oxymonads might share low intron densities apparently common to excavates. Here, we have used the recent documentation of a rare non-canonical genetic code in Streblomastix [18] to identify 17 oxymonad genes from an environmental expressed sequence tag (EST) pool from the hindgut of Zootermopsis. The genomic DNA sequence for each mRNA was determined and we found that, in contrast to other amitochondriate protists and the limited data previously available for Streblomastix, a relatively high density of canonical spliceosomal introns. Moreover, a large proportion of these introns are shared in position with other distantly related eukaryotes, suggesting that they are ancient intron positions retained in oxymonads but lost in other excavates such as Giardia and Trichomonas.
Identification of oxymonad sequences from ESTs
A total of 5,337 ESTs from a Z. angusticollis termite hindgut cDNAlibrary were sequenced and found to form 2,595 clusters of unique sequences. Overall, the sample was dominated by sequences of parabasalian origin (transcripts encoding parabasalian actin and actin-related proteins alone represented 32% of all ESTs). Moreover, there are few oxymonad sequences known outside this sample, so Streblomastix cDNAs could not be identified based on similarity to known genes (only 2 ESTs, corresponding to known Streblomastix alpha- and beta-tubulin sequences, were identified by BLASTX searches). Accordingly, we used the presence of a rare non-canonical genetic code in Streblomastix as a filter to identify at least those genes where non-canonical codons were sampled. In Streblomastix, TAA and TAG encode glutamine (Q) rather than stop as in the universal code [18], so all clusters were compared to public databases using BLASTX and examined individually for in frame stop codons, in particular at positions normally encoding glutamine. No other protist known to exist in Z. angusticollis has been shown to possess a non-canonical genetic code. The other prominent protists in this insect are parabasalia, which are not known to deviate from the universal genetic code and whose sequences are also easy to identify with BLASTX searches given their high similarity with T. vaginalis genomic sequences.
Using the non-canonical code as a filter, we were able to identify 17 protein-coding genes (Table 1), representing a major increase in the available sequence data from oxymonads. Formerly partial sequences of 4 protein coding genes were known from Streblomastix, and a handful of cDNAs were known from other species [18, 20, 21]. From this sample we recovered 8 complete protein-coding genes, an additional 5 genes missing only 1 to 30 codons at the N-terminus, and another three lacking from 100 to 160 codons at the N-terminus. In addition, a short fragment encoding 258 codons of the large protein UPF1 was severely truncated, but we failed to obtain more sequence. Complete or near-complete sequences included five ribosomal proteins (RPS7 and 9, RPL4, 18 and 21), alpha- and beta-tubulin, the nuclear transporter Ntf2, cyclophilin, a peptidyl-isomerase involved in assisting protein folding, and NAD-dependent glutamate dehydrogenase. Also, two versions of the cystein-protease Cathepsin B were obtained. Although related, these sequences exhibited several differences at the amino acid level, so they are likely to represent multiples copies of the gene. We also identified two copies of the carbon metabolism enzyme pyruvate phosphate dikinase (PPDK), the functional and evolutionary significance of which are discussed elsewhere [22]. One conserved hypothetical protein was also found to use the Streblomastix genetic code. This protein has homologues in diverse eukaryotes (e.g. Arabidopsis thaliana AAM67532), buthas no assigned function. UPF1 is a key member of nonsense-mediated decay (NMD). This protein may be of interest in Streblomastix because it is involved in a mechanism of mRNA surveillance devoted to eliminating defective transcripts, such as those carrying premature stop codons [23]. NMD has been described and studied in animals and yeasts, but not yet found in protists [24]. The presence of UPF1 in Streblomastix suggests NMD is used by oxymonads, and in organisms where stop codons are reassigned to encode amino acids. Finally, UAP56 is a member of the DEAD box family of RNA helicases that is associated with the spliceosome and intervenes in early steps of pre-mRNA splicing in mammals and yeasts, but is also linked to mRNA export [25, 26]. Even in the absence of introns, the presence of UAP56 indicates the likely presence of the spliceosome in oxymonads, and therefore by extension introns as well.
Table 1 S. strix genes identified in this study. Streblomastix genes recovered from the Z. angusticollis hindgut RNA sample. For incomplete sequences, the number of missing amino acids were estimated from homologues from Giardia and/or Trichomonas. UPF1 shows extensive size variation among eukaryotic lineages (between 800 and 1600 amino acids, approximately), so it is difficult to determine how much sequence this fragment is lacking. ND: not determined.
Introns in Streblomastix genes
Genomic DNA sequences were obtained for all Streblomastix coding regions identified from the cDNA library. Despite the fact that many alleles and loci representing four proteins were previously found to contain no introns, we found that most of the genes encoding these transcripts were interrupted by introns. In total, we found 21 introns in our sample of 17 genes with genes having as many as 5 introns (Table 1). Including previously known intronless EF-1 alpha and HSP90 genes (alpha and beta tubulin are included in our sample) [18], the overall density is 1.1 introns per gene. However this is likely to be an underestimation since some of our sequences are truncated and could contain further introns, and there is a bias favouring genes that are more often intronless (e.g. HSP90). This density is less than that observed in the relatively intron-rich mammals and plants, but comparable to many other eukaryotic genomes, and certainly much higher than Giardia and Trichomonas where only 3 and 41 introns have been detected despite very large quantities of genomic data [7, 9].
Overall, the Streblomastix introns were found to exhibit characteristics typical of eukaryotic spliceosomal introns. Introns ranged from 46 to 229 bases (Table 2), but most were between 60 and 100 bases long, and the AT content was markedly higher than that of the coding sequence (Table 2). Spliceosomal introns are flanked by GT and AG dinucleotides in the vast majority of known introns, while about 0.1% are U12 AT-AC introns[27] and a very small proportion of known introns use other non-canonical splice boundaries. Interestingly, however, the first of only three introns from G. intestinalis to be discovered has CU-AG boundaries [8]. Of the twenty-one introns from Streblomastix, 20 featured canonical GT-AG boundaries, but one intron in rps9 was flanked by AC-AG splice sites. However, the Streblomastix intron is located very close to the start of the transcript, so we cannot exclude the possibility that this intron sequence is incomplete and a canonical boundary lies upstream.
Table 2 Basic features of the S. strix introns. Characteristics of 21 introns found in 17 Streblomastix genes analysed. Size and base composition are shown. GC% mRNA shows base composition of the coding sequence (excluding introns).
We also inspected intron sequences to look for conserved features that may correspond to functional motifs. Although signals important for intron recognition and removal are not very well understood, some have been studied in certain detail, especially in mammals and yeasts. The branch-point is a sequence element required for lariat formation during splicing [28]. The mammalian branch point consensus sequence has been determined to be CURAY, where the A corresponds to the actual branching point. In yeast, the branch point sequence is more strictly defined as UACUAAC [29]. The plant branch point appears to be similar to that of mammals [30]. In all cases, the branch point is located near the 3' splice site, but the exact location varies. In contrast, the putative branch point found in the three introns of Giardia (ACURAC) is located directly adjacent to the 3' splice site [9]. Likewise, the potential branch points in Trichomonas are invariably ACUAAC and are also adjacent to the 3' splice site [7]. The apparently strict requirement for proximity between the branch point and 3' splice site is rare in metazoa and yeast, but common to Trichomonas and Giardia. This led to the suggestion that the branch point and 3' splice site recognition could be combined in these species [7]. Aligning the regions around the 5' splice site of all Streblomastix introns (Figure 1) reveals highly conserved A, U and G residues at positions +3 to +5, respectively. This is in good agreement with the first 5 positions of the yeast 5' splice site (typically GUAUGU), suggesting that interaction with U1 snRNA is conserved. At the 3' splice site no branch point motifs like those of Giardia or Trichomonas were observed, although the -1 position (adjacent to the AG dinucleotide) was invariably a pyrimidine and the region is T-rich. Overall, branch point specification in Streblomastix introns is probably different from that of Giardia or Trichomonas. Under the assumption that these lineages are related it is possible that the peculiar features observed in Giardia and Trichomonas may be a consequence of secondary implification in their spliceosomal apparatus.
Examples of conserved intron positions between Streblomastix and other eukaryotes. In each case a section of the gene is shown aligned at the amino acid level, and the position of the intron found in all aligned sequences is indicated above by a triangle with a number indicating the phase (0, 1, or 2). Aligned sequences are from three unikont groups, animals (H. sapiens and P. troglodytes), fungi (S. pombe, U. maydis and A. fumigatus), and slime molds (D. discoideum), from one chromalveolate group, the ciliate (P. tetraurelia), and from three plantae groups, land plants (A. thaliana), green algae (Bigelowiella natans nucleomorph), and red algae (Guillardia thet a nucleomorph).
Conservation of intron positions in oxymonad genes
Streblomastix intron-containing genes were compared to homologues from other eukaryotes, and surprisingly more than half of the Streblomastix intron positions were shared with members of at least two different eukaryotic supergroups, unikonts and plants (where the best sampling of intron-containing genes exists), and in one case also with a chromalveolate (for six examples, see Figure 2). This suggests these are relatively ancient introns and perhaps date back to the last common ancestor of all eukaryotes. This degree of conservation is high, taking into account data such as those of Rogozin et al., who calculated that approximately 20% of the introns in Plasmodium are shared by at least one of the other genomes analysed (Human, Anopheles, Drosophila, Caenorhabditis, Arabidopsis, Schizosaccharomyces and Saccharomyces), and that 25% of the human introns are shared by Arabidopsis [31]. It is also possible that shared intron positions are due to independent gains, but it is very unlikely that the observed level of shared positions (about 50%) resulted from parallel gains, in particular in the many cases where the intron is found in several of the major lineages of eukaryotes. Whether intron gains or losses predominate in eukaryotic evolution is still a subject of controversy. Recently, several studies using different analytic approaches and datasets addressed this question with varied results, but in all cases, they show that ancestral conservation accounts for the large majority of shared positions [32–36]. The degree of conservation observed in Streblomastix intron positions suggests two things. First, it suggests that the ancestor of excavates was relatively intron rich and retained a large number of ancient introns, many of which were subsequently lost in the genomes where we have the most information, such as trypanosomes, Giardia and Trichomonas. This assumes the relationship between oxymonads and other hypothesized excavates is correct, but this is not certain and oxymonads lack the morphological trait used to define excavates (the ventral groove). However, other ultrastructural characters [37] as well as molecular phylogenies have shown a close affiliation between oxymonads and Trimastix [38], a free living flagellate that does have excavate characteristics [5, 39]. Multi-gene phylogenies also lend additional support for a common origin of the lineages leading to oxymonads, diplomonads and parabasalia [21]. The second implication of this data is that intron gain and loss have taken place very slowly in the lineage leading up to Streblomastix: if intron turnover were rapid, then we would expect a low proportion of ancient introns to remain unless ancient intron positions were under some selection to be retained. While this is probably true in a few individual cases where introns have acquired some function in the control of gene expression, there is presently no evidence either for or against this as a common feature of ancient introns. None of these shared introns are known from either Giardia or Trichomonas, so any potential function is clearly dispensable, although it is interesting to note that the rps9 intron 1 has been retained by the G. theta nucleomorph, which is very intron poor, having kept a total of only 17 introns [40].
Sequence logos showing conservation at intron borders. Top: 5’ splice site (position 1) and surrounding sequence. Bottom: 3’ splice site (-1) and surrounding sequence. Logos were made using Weblogo (http://weblogo.berkeley.edu).
The present sampling of protein-coding gene sequences from Streblomastix suggests that oxymonad genomes contain a relatively large number of canonical splicesomal introns, many of which are at ancient conserved positions. This is in contrast to the better studied excavate genomes such as those of kinetoplastids, Giardia and Trichomonas where canonical spliceosomal introns are either rare or have been co-opted in specific ways, such as the spliced leaders in euglenozoa. The fact that many Streblomastix introns are ancient shows that the genome of the ancestor of these organisms, and indeed probably all extant eukaryotes, contained many introns and that the intron-poor state found in Giardia and Trichomonas is more likely independently derived.
cDNA library construction and EST sequencing
Termites were collected from a rotten log in Point Grey, Vancouver, Canada. The whole hindgut content of about 60 individuals of Zootermopsis angusticollis from a single colony was collected and total RNA was extracted using TRIZOL (Invitrogen). A directionally cloned cDNA library was constructed (Amplicon Express) and 5,337 clones were sequenced from the 5' end. ESTs were trimmed for vector and quality, and assembled into clusters by PEPdb http://amoebidia.bcm.umontreal.ca/public/pepdb/agrm.php.
Identification and genomic characterisation of Streblomastix genes
Streblomastix sequences were recovered from EST data by identifying protein coding sequences containing in-frame TAA and TAG stop codons. Putatively stop-coding containing mRNAs were re-sequenced in both strands. In cases where cDNA clones were truncated, the sequences were extended by means of 3' and 5' RACE (Ambion) using total termite hindgut RNA. The genomic sequence for each mRNA was amplified using specific primers corresponding to the ends of each complete or partial cDNA and PCR-amplified using genomic DNA purified from the termite hindgut content. All PCR products were cloned using TOPO and sequenced both strands. Accession numbers for new sequences are [genbankDQ363664, genbankDQ363665, genbankDQ363666, genbankDQ363667, genbankDQ363668, genbankDQ363669, genbankDQ363670, genbankDQ363671, genbankDQ363672, genbankDQ363673, genbankDQ363674, genbankDQ363675, genbankDQ363676, genbankDQ363677, genbankDQ363678, genbankDQ363679].
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This work was supported by a grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and EST sequencing was supported by the Protist EST Program through Genome Canada/Genome Atlantic. We thank A. de Koning for help isolating termite gut RNA, and N. Fast for critical reading of the manuscript. PJK is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and a New Investigator of the Canadian Institutes for Health Research and the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research.
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Claudio H Slamovits & Patrick J Keeling
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Patrick J Keeling
Correspondence to Patrick J Keeling.
CHS analysed the EST data, performed PCR and sequencing, and examined conservation of intron positions in other organisms. PJK collected the termites and purified RNA for library construction. Both authors participated in the writing and editing of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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Boataffair was featured in Forbes Magazine in August 2019 as 'The yacht experience company' and has won the prestigious award 'Best Luxury Yacht Charters Europe 2019' by Luxury Lifestyle Awards. This award is supported by established brands such as Audi, UBS, Etihad Airways and PwC among others. We are happy that our mission to deliver quality experiences aboard our yachts has been heard and honoured. We love to create unforgettable memories for you!
We're a boutique yacht experiences company. Established in Switzerland, we understand excellence, it's in our DNA. You can trust us to deliver exceptional and authentic experiences. We offer professionally managed, insured and carefully vetted yachts for charter in over 60 countries around the globe.
If you are looking to rent or charter a premium yacht, with or without crew, or are simply looking for some inspiration, our team of experts are on hand to help. We hand pick our charter yachts from all around the world, ensuring they are first class boats and are of the highest quality.
Our concierge service also gives you unrivalled access to authentic local experiences, that have been designed by our boat owners. We promise adventures that you will not find in any guidebook. We look forward to a conversation with you around your next holiday aboard a yacht!
Boataffair was founded in 2017 by husband and wife Adrian and Natalya.
The founders’ passion for boats and for designing authentic and beautiful experiences led them to found Boataffair. As boat owners themselves, they realized how this beautiful experience should be shared among holiday makers. Adrian and Natalya wanted to build and establish a secure process and be a trusted partner for creating experiences of a lifetime on the water.
For this reason, they created a boutique platform with an emphasis on quality above all things. The company has grown fast since and now has a passionate and professional team of 8 and a vibrant community of thousands of clients, holiday makers and passionate boaters worldwide.
Within our team, we speak eight languages fluently and have an extensive network in the yacht industry and the travel space. It is our belief that we open up opportunities for professional yacht owners and managers as well as holiday makers by connecting them on Boataffair via our trusted platform.
Natalya Walker
Natalya is the COO of Boataffair, responsible for managing operations. Natalya has extensive experience in Business Development, E-Commerce and Marketing. Prior to Boataffair, Natalya was the Head of Business Development for several start ups for 2 years, and Managing Partner of Strategy Council, which she exited in March 2017. Natalya gained executive experience as a Business Development Executive for FTSE company Informa Plc in London for 7 years. Natalya holds a MSc in E-Commerce from University of Westminster and an MBA from Imperial College London.
Adrian Walker
Adrian is the CEO of Boataffair. Prior to Boataffair, Adrian has worked as an Investment Manager for a Venture Capital Fund, and thereby assumed the role of the CEO for 18 months for one of its investments. Adrian gained management experience as an Internal Auditor for the Sika Group and Auditor and Consultant for PwC Zurich, and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2011. Adrian holds a Business degree from the Zurich University of applied sciences and an MBA from Imperial College London.
Sergey Kosse
Sergey is the chief architect and the software developer of the Boataffair platform. He has over 20 years of experience in software engineering. His experience in designing and developing corporate projects ranges from payment systems and billing systems to CRM and full cycle software development. Sergey holds a bachelor’s degree in Information communication networks from the Odessa Academy of Communications in Ukraine.
Reto Kaufmann
CIO & Head of Experiences
Reto is the driving force behind our experiences and fosters innovation as Chief Innovation Officer in the Boataffair group with his constructive view on matters. Prior to Boataffair, Reto has worked for 6 years as a commissioning engineer and 2 years as the head of commissioning for gas- and steam turbines in Brazil, including support of a customer at one of the largest combined-cycle power plants in South America. Reto gained extensive engineering experience as an expert in control software and in operation and maintenance of power plants in various countries. Reto holds an engineering degree from the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland.
Andrew Sutherland
Andrew is responsible for Strategic Partnerships at Boataffair. Andrew has spent 8 years working as a General Manager for an International Marine Tourism Operator, Bali Hai Cruises. During this time Andrew oversaw the expansion of its Asian operations through vessel acquisition, mergers and more general business development. Andrew gained experience working with high profile clients and tourism partners such as Cunard line and Four Seasons. His work promoting Marine Tourism was recognised in 2017 with Google Choice Brand award for Tourism in Asia. Andrew holds a degree in Marine Science and Technology from Newcastle University, UK, and an MBA from Imperial College London.
Carlo Zanon
Manager Business Development
Carlo is a Manager at Boataffair, responsible for Business Development in Europe. Carlo spent his summers working for yacht charter agencies in Italy, gaining extensive knowledge of the sector. His passion for yachting, combined with his knowledge and determination allow him to work with precision and joy. Carlo holds an undergraduate degree in Management and a Master's degree in Maritime Operations and Management.
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The life of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Together with the lives and ...
By John Fleetwood
a stranger to the great Redeemer of man himself. The rest of the evangelists are kind, we shall find that the love of the careful to mention the honour of bis apoworld had possessed his heart.
But not stleship, but speak of his former sordid, diswithstanding this, no sooner did Christ call honest and disgraceful course of life, only him, than he abandoned, without the least uuder the name of Levi ; while he himself scruple or hesitation, all his riches ; nay,
sets it down with all the circumstances, he not only renounced his lucrative trade, under his own proper and common name. but ran the greatest bazard of displeasing A conduct which at once commends the the masters who employed him, for quitting prudence and candour of the apostle, and their service without giving them the least suggests to us this useful reflection, that the notice, and leaving his accounts in coafu. greatest sinners are not excluded from dision. Had our blessed Saviour appeared vine grace ; nor can any, if penitent, have as a secular prince, clothed with temporal i just reason to despair, when publicans and power and authority, it would bave been sinners find mercy at the throne of grace. no wonder for him to have gone over to his service; but when he appeared under all The last thing we shall remark in the the circumstances of meanness and disgrace, life of this apostle, is his gospel written at when he seems to promise his followers no the entreaty of the Jewish converts, while thing but misery and sufferings in this life, he abode in Palestine ; but at what time and to propose no other rewards than the is uncertain ; soine will have it to have been invisible encouragements of another world, written eight, some fifteen, and some thirty his change appears truly wonderful and years, after our Lord's ascension. It was surprising ; but divine grace can subdue originally written in Hebrew, but soon after all opposition.
translated into Greek by one of the disciples. His contempt of the world appeared in After the Greek translation was admitted, his exemplary temperance and abstemious the Hebrew copy was chiefly owned and ness from all delights and pleasures ; nay, used by the Nazaræi, a middle sect between even from the ordinary conveniences and Jews and Christians : with the former, they accommodations of it. He was mean and adhered to the rites and ceremonies of the modest in his own opinion, always preferring Mosaic law, and with the latter, they beothers to himself ; for whereas the other lieved in Christ, and embraced his religion ; evangelists, in describing the apostles by and hence this gospel has been styled " The pairs, constantly place him before st. gospel according to the Hebrews," and Thomas, be modestly places bim before “The gospel of the Nazarenes."
Saint Thomas.
Event with regard either to the country
cannot miss the way, if you follow my ex
ample. The Transactions of St. Thomas, from
his Birth to the Ascension of our bles After the disciples had seen their great sed Saviour.
Master expire on the cross, their minds were distracted by hopes and fears, concern:
ing bis resurrection, about which they were
country not then fully satisfied'; which engaged him or kindred of Thomas. It is, however, cer the sooner to hasten his appearance, that tain that he was a Jews, and in all probability by the sensible manifestations of himself, he a Galilean.
might put the matter beyond all possibility
of dispute. Accordingly, the very day in He was, together like the rest, called to which he arose from the dead, he came into the apostleship ; and, not long after, gave
the house where they were assembled, while an eminent instance of his being ready to
the doors about them were close shut, and undergo 'the most melancholy fate that might gave them sufficient assurance, that he was attend him. For when the rest of the apo
risen from the dead. stles dissuaded their Master from going into Judea, at the time of Lazarus's death, be. At this meeting Thomas was absent, havcause the Jews lately endeavoured to stone ing probably never joined their company him, Thomas desired them not to hinder his since their dispersion in the garden, where journey thither, though it might cost them every one's fears prompted him to consult all their lives. “ Let us go, said he, that his own safety. At bis return, they told we may die with him ;!” concluding that, him that the Lord had appeared to them ; instead of Lazarus being raised from the but he obstinately refused to give credit to dead, they should all, like him, be placed what they said, or believe that it was really in the chambers of the dust.
he, presuming it rather a spectre or appa
rition, unless he might see the very print of When the holy Jesus, a little before his the nails, and feel the wounds, in his hands sufferings, had been speaking to them of and side. the joys of heaven, and had told them that he was going to prepare mansions for them, But our compassionate Saviour would not that they might follow him, and that they take the least notice of his perverse obstiknew both the place whither he was going,
Bacy,
but on that day seven-night came and the way thither ; our apostle replied, again to them, as they were solemnly met at that they knew not whither he was going, their devotions, and calling to Thomas, bade much less the way that would lead them him look upon his hands, put his fingers into thither. To which our Lord returned this the prints of the nails, and thrust bis hand into short but satisfactory answer, I am the way; his side, to satisfy his faith by a demonstration I am the person whom the Father! 13 sent
Thomas was soon con. into the world to shew ma:biad i ben
vinced of his error and obstinacy, confessing that lead to eternal life; and iscretio! that he now acknowledged him to be his Lord
and Master, saying, My Lord and my God. . that St. Thomas came first to Socotora, an Our Lord answered, that it was happy for island in the Arabian Sea, and then to him he believed the testimony of his own Cranganor, where having converted many senses; but that it would have been more from the error of their ways, he travelled commendable in him to have believed with farther into the East; and having successfulout seeing, because it was foretold that the ly preached the gospel, returned back to the Son of God should burst the chains of death kingdom of Coromandel, where, at Maliaand rise again from the dead,
pour, the metropolis of that kingdom, not far from the mouth of the Ganges, he began toerect a place for divine worship, till prohi.
bited by the idolatrous priests, and Sagamo, CHAP. II.
prince of that country. But after perform
ing several miracles, the work was suffered The Transactions of St. Thomas, from the to proceed, and Sagamo himself embraced Ascension of the Son of God to his Death. the Christian faith, whose example was soon
followed by great numbers of his friends and OUR great Redeemer having, according subjects.
to an extraordinary effusion of the Holy Ghost This remarkable success alarmed the upon the disciples, to qualify them for the Brachmans, who plainly perceived that their great work of preaching the gospel, Saint religion would be soon extirpated, unless Thomas, as well as the rest, preached the some method could be found of putting a gospel in several parts of Judea ; and after stop to the progress of Christianity: and the dispersion of the Christian church in therefore resolved to put the apostle to Jerusalem, repaired into Parthia, the pro death. At a small distance from the city vince assigned him for his ministry. After was a bomb, whither St. Thomas often retirwhich, as Sempronius and others inform us, ed for private devotions. Hither the Brachhe preached the gospel to the Medes, Per mans and their armed followers pursued sians, Carmanians, Hyrcani, Bractarians, him, and while he was at prayer, they first and the neighbouring nations. During his shot at him with a shower of darts, after preaching in Persia, he is said to have met which one of the priests ran him through with with the Magi, or wise men, who had taken a lance. that lony journey at our Saviour's birth to worship him whom he baptized, and His body was taken up by his disciples, tuok with him as his companions and assist and buried in the church he had lately erectants in propagating the gospel.
ed, and which was afterwards improved in
to a fabric of great magnificence. Leaving Persia, he travelled into Ethiopia, preaching the glad tidings of the gospel, St. Chrysostom says, that St. Thomas, healing their sick, and working other mira. who at first was the weakest and most increcles, to prove he had his commission from on dulous of all the apostles, became, through high. And after travelling through these Christ's condescension to satisfy his scruples, countries, he entered India.
and the power of the divine grace, the most
active, and invincible of them all; travelling When the Portuguese first visited these over most parts of the world, and living countries, after their discovery of a passage without fear in the midst of barbarous naby the Cape of Good Hope, they received tions, through the efficacy of that almighty the following particulars, partly from con power, which can make the weakest vessels stant and uncontroverted traditions presery to perforin acts of the greatest difficulty and ed by the Christians in those parts; namely, moment. No. 23.
sess such extraordinary endowments. The Jews looked for a Messiah invested with all the pomp and splendour of an earthly potentate; well then might they ask, when they beheld the display of his power, Whence then hath this man these things?
I [T has been doubted by some whether this
was the was afterwards bishop of Jerusalem, two of this name being mentioned in the sacred writings, namely, St. James the Great, and St. James the Less, both apostles. The ancients mention a third, sirnamed the Just, which they will have to be distinct from the former, and bishop of Jerusalem. But this opinion is built on a sandy foundation, for nothing is plainer than that St. James the apostle (whom St. Paul calls our Lord's brother, and reckons, with Peter and John, one of the pillars of the church) was the same who presided among the apostles, doubtless by virtue of his episcopaloffice, and determined the causes in the synod of Jerusalem. It is reasonable to think that he was the son of Joseph, afterwards the husband of Mary, by his first wife, whom St. Jerom styles Escha, and adds, that she was the daughter of Aggi, brother to Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist. Hence he was reputed our Lord's brother. We find indeed several mentioned as the brethren of our Saviour in the Evangelical history; but in what sense, was greatly controverted by the ancients. St. Jerom, St. Chrysostom, and some others, will haye them to be called, from their being the sons of Mary, cousin-german, or according to the Hebrew idiom, sister to the Virgin Mary. But Eusebius, Epiphanius, and many others, tell us, they were the children of Joseph by a former wife. And this seems to be more natural, and best agrees with what the evangelists say of them, when they enumerate the questions of the Jews: evidently implying their astonishment, that a person descended from, and related to, not the opulent and the mighty, but those of a humble sphere, as his parents and brethren were known to be, should pos
After the resurrection, he was honoured with the particular appearance of our Lord to him, which, though passed over in silence by the evangelists, is recorded by St. Paul.
Some time after this appearance, he was chosen bishop of Jerusalem, and preferred before all the rest for his near relation to Christ; for the same reason we find Simon chosen to be his immediate successor in that see, because, after St. James, he was our Lord's next kinsman; a consideration that made Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, though they had been peculiarly honoured by our Saviour, not to contend for this high and honourable station, but freely chose James bishop of Jerusalem.
When St. Paul came to Jerusalem after his conversion, he applied to St. James, and was by him honoured with the right hand of fellowship. And it was to St. James that Peter sent the news of his miraculous deliverance out of prison. “Go, said he, shew these things unto James and to the brethren;" that is, to the whole church, especially to St Jaines the pastor of it.
He performed every part of his duty with all possible care and industry, omitting 10 particular necessary to be observed by a diligent and faithful guidle of souls, strengthening the weak, instructing the ignorant, reducing the erroneous, reproving the obstinate; and by the constancy of his ser
mons, conquering the stubbornness of that trine of Jesus who was crucified ; tell us what perverse and refractory generation he had is the instruction of the crucified Jesus?" to deal with, many of the nobler and better To which the apostle answered, with an ausort being persuaded to embrace the Chris dible voice, “Why do you enquire of Jesus tian faith.
the Son of man? He sits in heaven, at the
right hand of the Majesty on bigh, and will But a person so careful, so successful in come again in the clouds of heaven.” The his charge, could not fail of exciting the people below hearing this, glorified the spite and malice of bis enemies; a sort of blessed Jesus, and openly proclaimed, men to whom the apostle has given too true Hosanna to the Son of David. a character, that they please not God, and are contrary to all men. They were vexed The Scribes and Pharisees now perceived to see St. Paul had escaped their hands, by that they had acted foolishly; that instead appealing unto Cæsar; and therefore turn of altering, they had confirmed the people ed their fury against St. James: but being in their belief: and that there was no way unable to effect their design under the go left but to dispatch' him immediately, in vernment of Festus, they determined to at order to warn others by his sufferings not to tempt it under the procuratorship of Albi believe in Jesus of Nazareth. Accordingly nus his successor, Ananus the Younger, of they suddenly cried out, That James himthe sect of the Sadducees, being high priest. self was seduced, and become an impostor,
and immediately threw him from the pinna. In order to this a council was summoned, cle on which he stood, into the court below: and the apostle, with others, arraigned, and but not being killed on the spot, he recocondemned as violators of the law. But vered himself so far as to rise on his knees, that the action might appear more plausible and prayed fervently to heaven for his murand popular, the Scribes and Pharisees, derers. But malice is too diabolical to be masters in the art of dissimulation, endea- pacified with kindness, or satisfied with voured to ensnare him ; and at their first cruelty. coming told him, that they had all placed the greatest confidence in him ; that the Accordingly, his enemies, vexed that they whole nation, as well as they, gave him the bad not fully accomplished their work, pourtitle of a just man, and one that was no re ed a shower of stones upon him, while he specter of persons; that they therefore de was imploring their forgiveness at the throne sired he would correct the error and false of grace; and one of them, dissatisfied with opinion the people bad conceived of Jesus, this cruel treatment, put an end to his whom they considered as the Messiah, and inisery with a fuller's club. take this opportunity of the universal confluence to the paschal solemnity to set them Thus did this great and good man finish right in their opinions in this particular, his course in the ninety-sixth year
-of his age; and would go with them to the top of the and about twenty-four years after our blestemple, where he might be seen and heard sed Saviour's ascension into heaven. His
death was lamented by all good men, even
by the sober and just persons among the The apostle readily consented, and being Jews themselves, as Josephus himself conadvantageously placed on a pinnacle of the fesses. temple, they addressed him in the following manner: “ Teil us, for we have all the rea He was a inan of exemplary piety and son in the world to believe, that the people devotion, educated under the strictest rules are thus generally led away with the doc and institutions of religion. Prayer was his
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The Very Best Story
Christmas has all the best stories (and OK, to be fair, some of the worst schlock. If in doubt, sample some of the unknown Christmas movies on Netflix this year — you’ll see.) There’s a little bit of everything in a Christmas flick: magic, longing, delight, sometimes tragedy, always wonder, more often than not hilarity. Will Farrell and Chevy Chase will surely be playing on a continual loop all December, competing for the stupid hat prize and making us spew hot chocolate out of our noses.
One of our family’s favorite Christmas movies is The Polar Express. I have to admit, when it first came out I wasn’t enamored with the weird Tom-Hanks-as-cartoon thing they have going on, but the original Chris Van Allsburg book was brilliant, and the story is great. Against a backdrop of classic train and frosty snow, we meet this skeptical kid at the “critical age.” Is this the year he gives up on the whole idea of Santa?
Our young hero meets a hobo on the train, if you remember, and they have the following conversation on the speeding locomotive’s rooftop:
Hobo: What exactly is your persuasion on the big man, since you brought him up?
Boy: Well, I – I want to believe.
Hobo: But. But you don’t want to be bamboozled. You don’t want to be led down the primrose path… Seeing is believing, am I right?
Is it a dream? Everything about the scene is dream-like — from the leering hobo to the midnight train itself. It can’t be real, right?
But it is real, at least in the context of a Christmas movie. And the journey continues over mountains and frozen seas, all the way to Santa himself. Seeing Santa is the main event, the reason for the kids’ frenzied excitement. And our little skeptic wants to see him. But while all the other children cheer, our boy can’t see. Try as he may, he can’t catch a glimpse. And when an elf shakes the sleigh bells, he can’t hear it, either.
Finally, he takes a deep breath. It flickers across his face — he is making a choice that flies in the face of logic. Tentatively, he picks up a bell, whispers, “I believe.”
WE ALL WANT TO BELIEVE.
The Kindly Conductor sums it up: Sometimes seeing is believing, and sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can’t see.
So what’s the most real? Not, certainly, Santa Claus. But the most real story, the most important one, is sometimes the hardest to believe.
Of all the stories, this one’s the best. It’s achingly beautiful. Like all the others, it has a pinch of tragedy, a sprinkle of hilarity, a huge dose of wonder. It has a crazy cast of characters:
A pregnant teenager with a wild story
Her skeptical fiancé
Some scruffy shepherds
A trio of foreign astrologers
And even a heavenly choir
It’s chock full of impossibilities, every bit as farfetched as a magical toy workshop at the North Pole. For Pete’s sake, it has a virgin birth, a huge new star, supernatural messengers and ancient prophecies.
How could a story this crazy possibly be true?
by Leonid Afremov
A few years back Sara Groves put out a great Christmas album with a mix of old carols and some new tunes. In one of the new ones, she sings,
In your heart you
Hope it’s true
Though you hold no expectation
In the deepest part of you
There’s an open hesitation
We all want to believe. It’s hardwired in us, the desire to connect with something bigger. Humans have this ridiculous capacity for wonder (it gets us into all kinds of wide-eyed trouble, but it’s also what makes us great storytellers.) Across the ages, across all cultures, we love a good tale. It’s like we’re meant to thirst for what is beautiful and true.
Do you ever stop to wonder why we want that kind of faith? I believe it is because God wants us to want Him.
It was the mathematician Blaise Pascal who famously said we all hold a God-shaped void in our hearts, and C.S. Lewis who said that our desires point to what can logically fulfill them. So we hunger because we need food. We lust because we need love. And ultimately all of our unrequited desires point to God.
There is a phenomenon among pregnant women called pica. It’s a curious craving to eat things which aren’t edible. Pregnant ladies have been known to crave mud, clay, laundry starch, burnt matches, stones, charcoal, moth balls, coffee grounds, soap, baking soda… Weird, right? They crave these illogical things because they actually have an iron deficiency. What they really need is spinach, beef, raisins, but somehow they’ve got their wires crossed, and they’re hiding in the closet eating paper.
Maybe we all have pica. Maybe the longing that shows up again and again in Christmas stories — for Santa, elves, romance — is really a signal that we were made for something more, something that (unlike a gingerbread house) can really meet a need.
We want to believe. But there are some major obstacles.
Sara Groves again:
Heard it told you
Think it’s odd
The whole thing fraught with complication
The play begins with
Baby God
And all His blessed implications
But it’s true
Kingdoms and crowns
The God who came down to find you
Angels on high
Sing through the night Alleluia
How could this possibly be true? Maybe it’s the very impossibility of the story that makes it so believable. If you were going to write a story about God coming to earth, well, you’d make it spectacular, right? The fairy tale version would surely have palaces, princesses, a royal ball. Sleeping Beauty, you know? Instead we’ve got a stable full of stinky animals, a feeding trough for a cradle, an unwed teenaged mom. Who came up with this story?
You know, the Wise Men seem to make sense. At least they smack of royalty, and they come bearing gifts. Gold seems fit for a king. Frankincense, for a religious scene. But myrrh? Myrrh was used for burials. Who brings myrrh to a baby shower? Well, it’s a great gift to honor sacrifice. A great gift for a Savior – not so much for a baby.
What kind of crazy story is this, that it evokes so much wonder and delight and longing in our hearts? What child is this?
Could it be Christ the King?
As the Christmas carol goes on to say:
So bring him incense, gold and myrrh, come peasant, king, to own him;
The best thing about the Christmas story — the real story, the best story — it’s not just for kings. It’s for peasants. That is to say, it’s for all of us: pregnant teens and old ladies and migrant workers. Not just to listen and wish, but to own!
This king, who left palaces and crowns behind to be born in a stable and laid in a manger — for ME.
In The Polar Express, the little boy’s friend sings, “I’m wishing on a star, and trying to believe that even though it’s far, he’ll find me Christmas Eve.”
My prayer for all of us is that even though it seems impossible, He’ll find you this Christmas, with room in your heart for the wonder, and the hope, and the faith it takes to believe.
It’s True, by Sara Groves
Photo by DominusVobiscum on Visualhunt / CC BY-NC-SA
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2 thoughts on “The Very Best Story”
littlepete919 says:
Thank you, Catherine, for a beautiful story.
Cyndy Little says:
Such a lovely reminder of where the focus should be. As always, beautifully written.Thanks, Catherine!
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GALLERY MODE READING MODE
Letter by John Cavafy to C. P. Cavafy
GR-OF CA CA-SF02-S01-SS02-F20-SF001-0001 (376)
[Alexandria] 7 August 1882
My dear Constantine,
I have just time to scribble these few lines in accordance with my promise to you before leaving. From my letter to mother you will see that I am unable to execute your request given in your “Park and Grounds and royal residence and demesne in Cadikeuy.” I sincerely feel for your loss. You cannot imagine what a sad sight the old house was to me when I saw it for the first time! ―
But you must take courage and start afresh ― you have a good memory, and the restoring of old manuscript will be, comparatively speaking, an
easy task to you. By next opportunity I will write you a lengthy letter; in the meanwhile pray send me a line when you have time.
With love to all
Your affectionate brother and fellow-sufferer
P.S. The papers I left in the office are safe ―
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Pewdiepie is a Swedish web-based comedian, video producer, and web star. He is well known for his commentaries on video gaming and vlogs on YouTube. He is the second most subscribed YouTuber with more than 91 million subscribers and more than 21 billion video views. Here are a few details about his personal and professional life.
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Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg was the original name of PewDiePiew and his nationality is Swedish. He was born to Swedish parents Lotta Kristine Johanna and Ulf Christian Kjellberg and was raised in the same place he born. He also has a sister named Fanny. From childhood, he was interested in learning the entertainment field with the ultimate goal of being an eminent gamer and comedian. Moving to his education he joined the Chalmers University of Technology but he dropped out of that university for his interest personality.
PewDiePie with his family
He first started his YouTube channel named “PewDIE” in the year 2006 where “Pew” means the sound of laser gun firing. He uploaded his 1st
YouTube video on 29th June 2012, “Pewdie plays: Skyrim-part 1- I’M Not A Freaking ‘Lizard! For that, he earned over 3.1 million views. Later he lost his YouTube channel password and he was forced to form a new channel in 2012 named that as “PewDiePie”. On 27th July 2012, he posted his first video on his new channel as “BARRELS KEEP ARRIVING IN MY MAIL” which gained more than 1.6 million views.
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He is named as one of the World’s 100 Most Influential people in 2016 by the Time magazine because his account was the most viewed in all time. His channel was quickly grown from 100 million to 200 million views per month. Also, his channel became the most subscribed YouTube channel in the world in 2013. Soon in 2014 Mark Studios launched a PewDiePie iPhone app. As of 2019, his YouTube channel has 102 Million Subscribers.
PewDiePie is currently dating Marzia. Along with Marzia, Pew started his Unisex Clothing Brand Tsuki. This couple is seen frequently along with their families. He owns two Pug dogs as well.
PewDiePie with his Girlfriend
PewDiePie Net worth is almost 35 million US$ as of 2019.
YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/user/PewDiePie
PewDiePie is Famous with his Youtube name but his original name is Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg
Pew gets more than 2 Million views within 24 hours for his videos
He doesn’t edit his Videos.
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∴ Bio
∴ Books
Angela’s Story
Big American Trip
The Nines 2: Pluto (Never Forget)
A Best of Fence
A Megaphone
∴ Online Texts
Poetry & “Other”
∴ Bibliography & Sources
∴ Tarpaulin Sky Press
∴ Contact
Shearsman Books, 2009
6″ x 9″, 72 pages
– support indie lit: buy from Small Press Distribution
– or buy from Barnes & Noble or Amazon
– if you live in the UK, buy from Shearsman Books
Big American Trip assumes the form of postcards addressed to a variety of people and organizations, authored by a lone “alien” of unidentified nationality, ethnicity, and gender. A speaker of many languages and master of none, taking comfort in Terrance McKenna’s belief that “the starships of the future will be syntactical,” the alien travels from the Pacific Northwest to the East Coast as s/he studies Strunk and White and deconstructs the language of road signs, the talk of people in gas stations and rest stop bathrooms, the radioed speeches of the US President and Staff—all the while searching for something (A friend? A job? A home?) and coming up empty. Rather than any one alien perspective—Russian, Italian, Israeli, Mexican, Haitian, Cuban, Cambodian, Senegalese, Bangladeshi, a Berliner lost without a GPS and looking for directions on a Salish Indian Reservation—Big American Trip creates a syntax and a grammar at once common and strange, a hybrid language that might speak to anyone who has ever felt out of place or at odds with the Language of a Nation.
Excerpts from Big American Trip
Online at Action, Yes, edited by Johannes Göransson & Joyelle McSweeney.
Responses to Big American Trip:
“Big American Trip addresses all of our insecurities as artists, as lovers, and as citizens who lack the ability to understand one another, regardless of which language we speak. Peet allows us to look closely at our limits as humans and as Americans in a world filled seemingly with so many opportunities to connect.”
“As we follow the lone wanderer from Blaine, WA, to Brooklyn, we are given an increasingly intimate view of his private frustration with a society that wipes out all that has come before and simultaneously acknowledges its ravaged past with cheerful sound bites. The captions that crown many of the postcards are not-quite-prosaic bits of encyclopedic arcana that offer insight into the matter-of-fact manner in which Americans have treated their predecessors. With these tidbits, Big American Trip seeks to recall America’s erased history, deridable and otherwise. . . . The postcards are at once addressed to no one and everyone; it does not matter who reads them, but everyone will. Buckle up for Christian Peet’s worthwhile Big American Trip.”
“Peet delivers a missive that is as timely now as it has been for centuries. The fact that it still is absolutely necessary and relevant speaks to the true potential this country holds, which has more to do with the need and opportunity for growth and change than it does with any already-present, idealized greatness. Part of the brilliance of Big American Trip is in its delivery—Peet invokes a voice that never has the need to try to cast any sense of persuasion. It is, in its broken English, as native as the rest of us caught in the tide and flux of the melting pot.”
—Prick of the Spindle
“…an intriguingly strange book, a kind of cross between Michel Butor’s Mobile and Nick Bantock’s Griffin and Sabine Trilogy (or at least that’s what it made me first think of–and thankfully, it’s more Butor than Bantock.) Cleverly constructed, it encourages the reader to explore following different paths through the book–to make their own accompanying, parallel trips.”
—Big Other
“The most impressive aspect of Big American Trip is how Peet is able to interlace politics, linguistic commentary, and a subtle narrative through-line into one book, undercutting any notion that we cannot swell a sentence to something more than just words by breaking its structure, by making it new, by challenging our readers to read for more than one thing, and even more than two; in fact, like the narrator in Big American Trip, Peet asks each reader to look for and decipher everything, all at once.”
—mudluscious
“Samuel Richardson’s epistolary novel Pamela is a sad and hilarious book full of devastating social commentary about money, power, sex and British social mores. A couple centuries later, Christian Peet has updated poor Pamela’s well behaved letters into blistering postcards dashed off by a nervy, distraught human being of indeterminate gender who is both losing and finding him/herself in and across a terrifying pre-Obama America. Stamp this one with approval.”
—Rebecca Brown, author of American Romances, Annie Oakley’s Girl, The Dogs, Gifts of the Body, The Terrible Girls, and others
“The author of these postcards has transcribed this alien’s heart. Peet drives through the US landscape (circa early 21st century), offers us the hijacked language of a nation, and through this text asks: and what words have been left for you to use, honestly?”
—Elena Georgiou, author of mercy mercy me and Rhapsody of the Naked Immigrants
“In Big American Trip, Christian Peet rejects the idyllic dream of a post-national freedom, instead going back to those two archaic, fundamental tools of American nation building—the highway system and the postcard—not to find an imagined national community but to reveal the strangeness, violence and noise that results from the U.S. clashing with other cultures, languages and nations, and—just as importantly—clashing with itself.”
—Johannes Göransson, author of Entrance to a colonial pageant in which we all begin to intricate, Dear Ra, and Pilot (Johann the Carousel Horse)
“Christian Peet ravages through the American landscape injecting poems with Americana, pranks, puns, and power. . . . Peet, like Huck Finn, openly challenges authority and those that attempt to construct our world and thoughts for us. If America is a littered landscape of hyperbole, waste, and conformity, then the “wildness,” that feeling of “free-ness” seems to be gone, yet if we look at Peet’s poetry then we find through art and words there are still some of us who are wild and wide-mouth armed with pens and disapproval. . . . Originality, vision, risks, and experimentation to give you back this country as it is: flawed, fractured, hypocritical, greedy, beautiful, breathtaking, mesmerizing, and the constant dialect of a lie and a truth.”
—Steven Karl, author of the chapbooks emissions/ of and (Ir)Rational Animals
“The complexities of alienation hybridize the mouth, double the tongue. Derrida writes, “What does a post card want to say to you? On what conditions is it possible? Its destination traverses you, you no longer know who you are…instead of reaching you it divides you…it leaves you, it gives you.” Christian Peet’s Big American Trip embodies the enigma of the postcard—writing that is at once private and public—and like all letters, these maintain a sense of internal drifting that requires us to question our own sense of identity and location. The logic of Peet’s syntax and juxtapositions gives us the poetry of the divided tongue: in the space between multiple languages, we are invited to trespass our own borders that we might hear (and learn to speak) radical loss. A whole new spin on the classic postcard message: “wish you were here,” Big American Trip is a remarkable, necessary book….”
—Selah Saterstrom, author of The Meat & Spirit Plan and The Pink Institution
Text copyright 2003-2020 by Christian Peet, unless otherwise noted. Feel free to republish with proper acknowledgment and links to the original. Website by The Internet Joy Agency.
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The Breakup Playlist: Rocking the Mainstream World with Heart on its Sleeve
antoinette jadaone, dan villegas, Movie, Movie review, philippine cinema, piolo pascual, Review, sarah geronimo, star cinema, the breakup playlist, viva films
by Heinrich Domingo
The Breakup Playlist exhibits the journey of Philippine Cinema – struggling between looking for what is financially stable and striving for an outstanding content.
We wish to spare you from the discussion of film criticism or lectures of the history of Philippine cinema, yet, we cannot help but see this Star Cinema’s newest as an ideal piece for deconstruction and rationalization.
At the big screen, we see the marriage of two worlds – that of the independent film and of the mainstream media. On one side, The Breakup Playlist was released by Star Cinema, the country’s largest motion picture company. On the other hand, it was directed by Dan Villegas (best known for his low-budget yet award-winning English Only Please) and written by Antoinette Jadaone (debuted on her trending That Thing Called Tadhana) both of whom started in the world of Independent Philippine Cinema.
The sequence of events resembles that of the 500 Days of Summer. The chronological arrangement shows the approach that presents the sandwiching of past and present. This creative adaptation is reminiscent to the beginning of the Philippine cinema. In 1912, an American created a film about Jose Rizal. It is believed to have created a spark among educated Filipinos that time. It is often easier to stand on the shoulders of a giant.
Adapting to what is established and popular serves as a foundation of any successful film in the country. More often than not, producers are afraid of delivering a craft that can surprise the audience. The case is the same in The Breakup Playlist. We see familiar faces of ABS-CBN’s top artists Piolo Pascual (as Gino Avila) and Sarah Geronimo (as Trixie David). As the audience screams loud for their idols, we immediately notice that we are in the ground of Filipino pop culture.
There is an apparent need to bank on the good looks of Pascual and Geronimo. Although Gino David’s role could have been better portrayed by JM de Guzman, Papa P’s stature and chiseled face delivered a sufficient performance.
In the 1950s, cinematic techniques emerge in the country bringing artistic breakthrough in the decade and the next ones that came. Despite being called the golden age, films during these times did not improve content.
In The Breakup Playlist, the effective use of silhouettes in Dan Villegas’s photographic shots was outstanding. Also, the cinematography was helpful in the over-all story telling. It delivered coherence in the emotion of the characters. Yet, the plot was repetitive. It presented storylines which Filipinos are already familiar – a happy ending of two good looking characters after overcoming a major fight.
Some details might have been added such as inclusion of OPM and the concept of envy in a relationship. But such additions were not sufficient to salvage the film.
The Fall of Philippine Cinema
The Breakup Playlist reflects the journey of Philippine Cinema. It has a promising beginning that uses popular artists and tested story-telling techniques. Additionally, it introduces to the mainstream crowd the cinematographic techniques often shown in independent films. It could have been beautiful only to be ruined by its ending.
Like what has happened in the 1960s, the movie reached downfall due to the entry of commercialism. The need to acquire support from the public requires artistic decline. The movie has to end with Piolo and Sarah’s (all too fake) kissing scene rather than following a more logical breakup.
In general, the movie could be a good beginning to mainstream films. Relatively, The Breakup Playlist presents a more complex story than movies produced by Star Cinema for the last five years.
Yet, we believe that Filipinos should not be content with mediocrity. In a nation where creative thinking and liberalism thrive, we are entitled to ask for more.
Do you agree with our review? Share us your thoughts through putting comments below. Cinephiles unite!
11 thoughts on “The Breakup Playlist: Rocking the Mainstream World with Heart on its Sleeve”
Sarah P. said:
Agree. While it’s a new light of conflict (envy) to tell, it just fell into a bad taste of ending by still abiding to a happy ever after.
Besides, there wasn’t a focus on to how exactly Piolo changed. He just wanted Sarah back and the efforts made to win her back shouldnt be equivalent to him being a changed man.
They could have told a better story if the “Paano ba ang magmahal” soundtrack exposure was lessened. Haha! I got LSS at the end but was disappointed overall.
I’m still a gaga for those of Ishmael Bernal’s.
cinetactic said:
So true Sarah!
Truly, there was an effort from the production. It was just that they fell short on our expectations but still we can hope for a bright future for Philippine cinema.
Thanks for the comment. Watch out for our other movie reviews
Billy J. said:
“In a world where everybody hates a happy ending story.. it’s a wonder love can make the world go round…”
“You can never be too happy in this liiiiife…”
Armando Dela Cruz said:
I don’t know if one or a number of films constitute a “fall” in anyone’s cinema, much less a whole country’s. Frankly, articles that foster this kind of discussion is placing a rather antiquated argument. I see nothing wrong in populist cinema; they play a great role in our appreciation of films (it’s our gateway to cinephilia, in one way or another) and shouldn’t be looked at as this dreaded harbinger of death. If anything, support from the government is the one that’s currently lacking. If our cinema is facing a “fall”, I only need to remind everyone that–despite numerous circumstances–Philippine cinema not only endures but triumphs.
Perspectives are what make the world of cinema alive. Though, we admit that ours is not the only valid perspective, we stand on what we wrote as reviewers.
We do not in any way criticize populist cinema. We believe that films, popular or independent, should not be elitist and must be fully enjoyed by the public. What we criticize is the fall of Philippine movies to the abyss of commercialism and capitalism. For us, when filmmakers begin to serve the demands of their studios before their viewers, they are doing an injustice to the supposed populist tool.
Also, in spite of the beauty of the (post-modern, post-colonial) films of Lav Diaz and the like, we recognize that they cannot simply demand a commercial success like their popular counterparts. This, for us, is shameful. You can read more of our thoughts here https://cinetactic.com/2015/08/07/from-what-is-before/
Thank you so much for your comment. It provided a rich discussion on our blog. We are so excited to see more of your reviews on http://www.filmpolicereviews.com/
Doesn’t the film from the outset makes it clear that it caters to a certain audience? Even so it brings more insight than other Star Cinema outings (i.e. “content before form” argument made midway through the film, almost making a meta evaluation of itself).
In any case, I’m always painted with a smile when people appreciate (and initiate) film discussions. I hope to see you at Cinemalaya. Let’s all go together? 😉
(P.S.: No need to be all formal. Kakaunti lang tayo sa cinephiles, kelangan i-break ang ice instantly. Following your blog.)
We will be in CCP tomorrow. With the Cinemalaya’s bustle, we hope we could bump into you.
Our blog is just a month old. We are glad to have met this early someone on the same plane like us.
It seems that we couldn’t follow your blog. Dahil ba dot org ito?
I guess so. Register (onsite) / like (on Facebook) instead so you get daily updates:
http://www.filmpolicereviews.com/sign-up/
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1 December 2006 Phenotypic and Molecular Characterization of Isolates of Ornithobacterium rhinotracheale from Chickens and Pigeons in Taiwan
Hsiang-Jung Tsai, Chen-Wei Huang
Hsiang-Jung Tsai,1 Chen-Wei Huang1
1Graduate Institute of Veterinary Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan
Forty Ornithobacterium rhinotracheale (ORT) strains were isolated from 28 chickens and 12 pigeons for the first time in Taiwan. All isolates reacted positively in the p-nitrophenyl-β-d-galactopyranoside (PNPG) and oxidase tests, showing an API 20NE identification system biocode 0-0-2-0-0-0-4. All the pigeon isolates and 85.7% (24 of 28) of the chicken isolates belonged to serotype A. Compared to the ORT ATCC 51464 strain, 14.3% (4 of 28) of chicken isolates and 58.3% (7 of 12) of pigeon isolates showed smaller colonies after 72 hr incubation. Most of the chicken isolates (22 of 28), but none of the pigeon isolates, could agglutinate chicken and pigeon red blood cells. There appears to be a correlation that ORT isolates with a larger colony size tend to be more able to agglutinate red blood cells than the ORT isolates with a smaller colony size. A majority of isolates was sensitive to amoxicillin, ampicillin, ceftiofur, penicillin, and oxytetracycline. The 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) sequences of 23 Taiwanese ORT isolates showed high identity (98%–100%) to sequences in GenBank. Phylogenetic analysis of these sequences showed that pigeon isolates formed a distinctive cluster, while chicken isolates and all other 16S rRNA sequences obtained from GenBank belonged to another two clusters. The results indicate that pigeon ORT isolates are different from most chicken isolates in regard to a number of phenotypic and molecular traits.
Hsiang-Jung Tsai and Chen-Wei Huang "Phenotypic and Molecular Characterization of Isolates of Ornithobacterium rhinotracheale from Chickens and Pigeons in Taiwan," Avian Diseases 50(4), 502-507, (1 December 2006). https://doi.org/10.1637/7527-031906R.1
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All the Cooperative Banks and Societies in Goa are registered under the Goa Cooperative Societies Act 2001 and audit of such Banks/Societies are conducted by the Chartered Accountants and Certified Auditors which are impaneled on the Panel of Auditors constituted by the Registrar of Cooperative Societies under Section 74(2) of the Goa Cooperative Societies Act, 2001.
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Coordinating Goldhagens
here, there, and (sort of) everywhere
The incidental and the consequential
February 19, 2018 / coordinatinggoldhagens / Leave a comment
The other day, Gideon went off to meet up with an old friend who is from Santiago, Chile. Sarah and I, having been eating rather monotonously a home, went to lunch at a vegetarian restaurant. After a fifteen-minute walk through attractively bustling streets (we very much like the parts of Santiago we have seen), in the pleasantly dry heat, we nabbed the restaurant’s one free sidewalk table. It was a two person, small, square, wood-topped pedestal, separated from its neighbor to the side by just enough inches for us to feel we were at a private table, but not too many inches as not to afford natural-feeling, inter-table conversation. A kind of perfect placement, if conversational options are your eating-taste. Friendly, as we are, we struck up a conversation with our neighbor, which he actually initiated more than we did, which lasted an hour-and-a-half or more of our leisurely lunch of one-course plus coffee. Travelers, it should be a truism, are more likely to converse with strangers than non-travelers are. After all, travelers are underway for adventure and newness and discovery, and their world of available family and friends and colleagues and acquaintances has radically shrunk, so what better way to seek out the new and to fill in the social void than by talking with people seated nearby in cafes, particularly when they turn out also to be travelers and therefore of a similar conversational positioning?
Our neighbor Ash is an aerospace engineer from the UK, working to design the interiors of the sky-high airplane cabins of which we have caught only walk-through-glimpses during our current travels. We learned a bunch about his business and saw cell phone photos of the recently unveiled super-first-class 70th anniversary cabins on Singapore Airlines, the production of which (if I understood correctly) he oversaw. We told him that the Boeing 787, called Dreamliner, has, with its better air, quieter interior, expanded overhead clearance, and improved lighting, made our travels notably more pleasant. Beyond the what-do-you-do conversations, which were more extensive and substantive than is usual in such casual encounters, our good-natured exchanges included Iran, as Ash is of Iranian descent, the UK, Brexit, world order, high-tech education, Israel, Jerusalem, and, all but unavoidably, Trump. He told us that he can’t go to the US as he’s subject to the US travel ban. This is so even though he’s a UK citizen and even though he’s through-and-through British, as he was born there. Because he holds dual nationality with Iran, he’s Verboten-fruit.
The conversation, which was fully two ways (us<->him) was lively and respectful throughout. Ash is intelligent, open, and curious. We parted with good cheer and an exchange of contact information (and he received this blog’s address).
I recount this not because the episode was remarkable (such as coursing the Serengeti or visiting a township in South Africa) or because we developed with him a dense and potentially ongoing relationship (as we did with Zadock and with Kevin) but because it wasn’t. Much of traveling consists of non-remarkable moments, events, encounters, which may be thoroughly enjoyable (this was) but which doesn’t rise to guide-book worthiness. I could have just as easily written about the woman whose Airbnb we were renting, as she, a Chilean architect, spent considerable time speaking with Sarah about Sarah’s recent book (which she had begun to read, loved, and said it has finally given her a way to conceptualize and articulate what she does in her work), and about her own architecture, showing Sarah images. She exuded warmth and passion while we sat speaking at the dining table of her Airbnb which — true to her architectural ethos of creating what Sarah champions, “enriching environments” — she had renovated.
Ash came off as an entirely likeable, indeed a lovely, person. Our time with him and so many other incidental people help structure, populate, and enliven our travels and our memories of specific places and moments, as we spend all this time away from our family and friends.
— Danny
Promise Thwarted
February 13, 2018 February 19, 2018 / coordinatinggoldhagens / Leave a comment
Chile turned out to be a land of great promise and, through no fault of its own, tantalizingly little delivery. We had, after the careful choosing and planning, which has been our practice everywhere, scheduled a foray into, so we expected, the incomparable Atacama Desert, an area of lunar landscapes on a high plateau, as bone-dry as any desert in the world, and, being in the superior star-viewing Southern Hemisphere, therefore perhaps the premier professional and amateur star-gazing and investigation site the terrestrial earth offers. Several of the largest optical reflecting telescopes are there, as well as the Paranal Observatory’s stunning ESO Hotel for its scientists, the site of the climactic battle scene in the James Bond movie Quantum of Solace. In addition to three days in the desert, visiting three distinct landscapes, we had arranged to go on a most-of-the-night stargazing expedition with an astronomer who provides the telescopes and the know-how to make intelligible and meaningful what we see. The journey to the Atacama was Gideon’s first among equal-firsts in desire of all that we had planned for the year – though he now maintains it was always his clear number one. So, imagine his bitter disappointment, and Sarah’s and my (considerable without being bitter) disappointment too, as we also held the Atacama in high prospective regard, when we cancelled the journey owing to an unexpected intrusion.
X-ing out the Atacama came after we had already put the kybosh on our planned ascent to Cusco and Machu Picchu, which was meant to be our first South American stop, after our time in Zealandia and Oceana. Curiously, I had never been overly excited about this portion of our year, despite all the historical and sojourner myth, lore, and celebration enveloping Machu Picchu. I’m not all that enamored with ruins, particularly of the excavated varieties. But then, if I found Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire, England, beautiful, lyrical, and mesmerizing, which I (and Sarah and Gideon) had on a trip several summers ago, then why would I not expect the same in still more heightened form at a site reputed to be among the best if not the best of this kind that our planet’s distant past offers? Well, many things are worthy of public introspection, but I suspect this is not among them. It’s enough to note that my dampered expectations never got put to the test, and we flew from Melbourne directly to Santiago, a delightful city of eight million and, contrary to our original itinerary of using it as a hub to the spokes sequentially of Cusco, the Atacama, Valparaiso, and after ten days all told in Santiago, Patagonia and then…, we touched down in Santiago and never left, until we bade farewell to South America for good, as far as our current journey was concerned. This also means that we never went on our expected star-studded adventure in Patagonia, another great disappointment for all of us, as we had as good a stretch of a trip awaiting us as any planned, including a four-day journey by ship through the southernmost storied waters to glaciers, penguins, hikes, and peaks, and then the, or at least a, capstone of extended hiking in Torres del Paine National Park.
The upshot is that we spent close to three weeks in Santiago in three Airbnbs. I had had few firm notions about the city and its built fabric before arriving – except that it was culturally rich, a major city, and a major Latin city, which given our program of urban exploration meant that it offered considerable promise. We quickly discovered that Santiago is a gem, and a lucky place to be marooned.
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Goan anger over a dark coal corridor
Civil Society News, New Delhi
Updated: Dec. 03, 2020
Public anger in Goa has put the BJP-led state government on the backfoot over projects which will ravage forested areas and destroy the environment in the name of development.
Thousands have joined protests to stop what they see as an emerging freight corridor which will primarily be used to move coal from Mormugao Port to the border of Karnataka.
The recent protests have attracted national media attention, but the issues have been simmering since some time with Goans feeling that their quality of life is being irreversibly altered.
In question here is expansion of National Highway 4 A and a railway line and installation of a 400Kv transmission line.
The impact of these three projects will be felt on theMollem National Park and Bhagwan Mahaveer WildlifeSanctuary, which are protected areas.
The three projects are among some 30 other projects that have been pushed through by the National Board for Wildlife during the coronavirus pandemic.
A trail of dust
In December last year (see Civil Society January 2020) the Goa State Board for Wildlife (GSBW), comprising 29 members, witnessed sharp exchanges over a proposal to fell 80,000 indigenous trees in protected forests.The board itself was meeting over a gap of two years.
“The main motive of the three projects is to create a coal transportation corridor from Mormugao Port Trust (MPT) across Goa and towards industries in Hubli, Dharwad, Hospet and Bellary in Karnataka,” said Abhijeet Prabhudesai, an environmental activist and secretary of Federation of Rainbow Warriors.
Goa, he pointed out, will only serve as a path of connectivity to the port.The proposed corridor will cut through protected areas like the Mollem National Park and the Bhagwan Mahavir Wildlife Sanctuary. It will destroy hoary trees and wildlife in its path and impact Goa’s water resources. It will also leave a trail of coal behind, causing air pollution.
The agenda of the meeting was shared with board members at the last minute.
The proposed doubling of the railway line is from Castle Rock to Kulem and a stretch of the South Western Railway line from Kalay to Margao. In connection with this, a total of 54,860 trees have been marked for felling, affecting 136.4827 ha of protected forests in Mollem National Park and Mahavir Wildlife Sanctuary.
The second proposal is the four-laning of the existing NH-4A in Anmod-Mollem region adjoining the Goa and Karnataka border. A total of 32.085 ha of forest land has been earmarked for use after felling 12,000 trees.
The last project proposed in this region is the laying of a 400 KV transmission line in the village of Xeldem. The line will run from Dharwad in Karnataka to Goa and will affect 48.30 ha of forest area and result in the felling of another 15,777 trees.
Trees, water, wildlife
Several members of the GSBW voiced apprehensions about the manner in which these proposals were presented and pushed forward hurriedly, without any supporting data. Members were also not given any species-wise classification of the trees marked for felling and trees were categorised on the basis of height.
The only assurance offered at the meeting by the chairman of the Board, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, was that the three projects are “a must for Goa” and that “care will be taken to ensure minimum destruction of the forests”.
Explaining the proceedings of the meeting, Rajendra Kerkar, a prominent environmentalist of Goa and a member of the GSBW, said, “We were informed that the main aim is to benefit industries. But nothing was discussed or informed to the members about the type of industries that would be supported.”
Kerkar, who has worked tirelessly as the secretary of the MhadeiBachaoAndolan, pointed out that the trees marked for felling are located in areas protected under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. He said, “Before being labelled as eco-sensitive zones, these areas were granted the highest status of protection as national parks. In fact, some years ago inhabitants of Nandran village located in Mollem Wildlife Sanctuary were rehabilitated to reduce anthropogenic pressure here.”
With wildlife and even tiger corridors passing through Mollem National Park and Bhagwan Mahavir Wildlife Sanctuary, Kerkar warned that roadkills would shoot up exponentially. “When railways and roads pass through any area, the deep vibrations created by these engines are bound to hamper the natural habitat of wild animals,” he said, adding that the frequency of landslides will also increase, affecting tribal communities like the Dhangars and VelipGaonkars, who reside in these hinterlands.
Kerkar said that most of the trees marked for felling are likely to be indigenous species such as Terminalia elliptica, Terminalia paniculata, jambul, Terminalia bellerica, and Terminalia chebula.
Terminalia elliptica or the Indian laurel, known as matti in Konkani, is the state tree of Goa. It is among the indigenous trees that are home to wildlife species such as the Malabar giant squirrel, which is the state animal of Maharashtra.
Kerkar also worries that this singular decision will eventually threaten the water security of Goa. “Hydrological parameters will shake to a great extent following this massive tree-cutting. Goa’s Khandepar river originates in Anshi-Dandeli Tiger Reserve and it provides a large quantum of water to North Goa. The famed Dudhsagar waterfall is a part of this river,” he explained.
Paucity of information
In a written representation submitted by some members to the GSBW, concerns have been raised about the inadequate data on which this decision is based. Secondly, the absence of a plan for ‘compensatory afforestation’ was noted with discomfort because Goa lacks the land resource needed for replanting such a large number of trees.
According to the India State of Forests Report 2019, the total forest cover in Goa is 2,237.49 sq km which is 60.44 percent of its total geographical area. It comprises moist mixed deciduous, tropical evergreen and semi-evergreen trees. As per the state government’s records, the Recorded Forest Area (RFA) is 1,225 sq km of which 253 sq km constitutes reserved forest.
Apart from this, members have questioned the passing of a high-voltage electricity line through protected forests and have also demanded to know whether the overpasses and underpasses provided for by South Western Railways in its plan are located in known animal crossing zones so as to prevent roadkills.
Environmentalist Parag Rangnekar was among the members of the GSBW who signed the representation. “As per our request, the Forest Department has agreed to meet and discuss these concerns and develop a mitigation plan with us. We hope that the department will play a proactive role in this matter,” Rangnekar said.
“But despite our concerns, the projects appear to be moving ahead at full speed without debating any peripheral and immediate fallout. These three linear projects are going through a singular protected region. We are viewing them individually but they will have a cumulative impact, which needs to be understood clearly,” he stated.
Among these three projects, the larger plan of four-laning NH-4 is already being executed and only a stretch of 12 to 13 km which passes through protected forests is awaiting permissions.
Pick another port
Ramesh Gauns, former member of the GSBW and an environmental activist, said, “This is a suicidal move. The driving forces behind this reckless decision are not in public interest. A unilateral, opaque mode of decision-making is adopted to protect the vested interests of a few industrialists whose business depends heavily on coal.”
Gauns warned that the repercussions of such an insensitive move will be felt overnight as the distance between the Arabian Sea and the Western Ghats is a mere 50 to 60 km.
Referring to the Twelfth Five Year Plan which has a recommendation on moving hazardous cargo such as coal away from populated areas, Prabhudesai said, “The upper limit for handling coal in a populated area is 50 MT. If this is going to be implemented at all, then these three projects are pointless as MPT is surrounded by residential areas.”
He argued that an alternative port on the eastern coast of India was rejected as it would cost these private bodies an extra Rs 30 per tonne.
“These are 80,000 full-grown forest trees. The amount of carbon they soak cannot be overlooked merely to enhance the profits of private corporations. To save them some money, we stand to lose our forest cover. This move will spell complete disaster,” he maintained.
Kerkar confirmed the alleged link between the felling of 80,000 forest trees and coal transportation. “I don’t understand why the central government is insistent on transporting materials such as coal through a small and ecologically fragile state at the cost of such environmental destruction,” he said while urging the centre to reconsider its decision.
Kerkar demanded to know why Maharashtra and Karnataka with their longer coastline and more ports couldn’t handle coal transport for their own industries. “Unnecessarily bringing coal into MPT and transporting it through railways and roads may benefit certain parties financially but why risk the health of Goans and our environment for it?” he questioned.
The timing of this decision couldn’t have been worse considering the severe effects of climate change Goa experienced last year. In 2019, pre-monsoon showers in Goa were delayed by almost two weeks. Wells ran dry in villages. When the monsoon finally hit Goa, it lashed out in fury. The season was marked by floods, heavy agricultural losses and was followed immediately by two consecutive cyclones in the Arabian Sea.
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Ethics and aesthetics: That is what Alessandro Carlucci sells as CEO of Brazilian cosmetics firm Natura, now wrapping up its 44th year in business with an annual revenue north of $3.2bn. At the forefront of conservation efforts and mindful of its corporate responsibility, the Natura brand name has become synonymous with beauty of both mind and spirit. “Simply put: We want to do right.” Mr Carlucci finds modest pride in the fact that his company never tests its products on animals yet adheres to the strictest of international safety standards.
Doing things right, doesn’t mean giving up on either profit or expansion. Though last year Natura suffered from higher logistics costs and was forced to increase its investment in marketing to fend off competition, the company mulls a move into North America and also wants to further solidify its already robust presence in Latin America. Earlier this month, Natura got a hit on the São Paulo stock exchange after the company’s earning trailed estimates by the most since 2006.
However, Mr Carlucci is far from worried and believes his company will not just weather the storm, but prosper as well: “We strive for sustainability and have our sights set on the long-term. This is what ultimately will ensure our corporate success.” The Natura CEO in 2011 confided to the Financial Times that he succeeded in outselling his main competitor Avon only after getting in touch with his “feminine side”. It made him, he said, into a “much better” manager: “Developing my feminine side has not just been a pleasure, but offered new business opportunities as well.”
CEO of Natura since 2005, Mr Carlucci has few qualms about allowing intuition and emotion to guide his executive decisions. “Here at Natura we value our surroundings. Society and the environment are not merely abstract concepts but part and parcel of our business model. This attitude not only sets us apart from others; it delivers shareholder value as well. As a company we depend on nature for the ingredients of our products. Should the Amazon rain forest go, so would we.”
Last year, Natura acquired a 65% stake in the Australian beauty brand Aesop in a move that seems to herald an era of global expansion. Mr Carlucci admits that the Aesop’s extensive line of unisex products lured his company into the deal. “Sales of skincare products for men are projected to rise by 11% next year while the overall global skincare market is set to grow by only 6%. We need to go where the action is and Aesop allows us to do just that.”
Aesop has a particularly strong presence in Asia with 72 stores in 13 countries. The brand’s philosophy also closely mirrors that of Natura. “We are an exceptionally good fit,” says Mr Carlucci whose intuition so far has not failed him.
Ank Bijleveld: The Relentless Pursuit of Synergies
Upon re-entering national politics after an absence of seven years, newly-appointed Dutch Minister of Defence Anke Bijleveld was promptly dubbed
Ma Yansong: The Modular Rhythms of Human Experience
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Kishore Mahbubani: The Pendulum of History
Kishore Mahbubani thoroughly enjoys yanking the West’s chain every now and then. The Singaporean diplomat has the uncanny ability to
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Moments of haunting beauty amid new-music cliches in “Savior” premiere
Tue Apr 03, 2018 at 2:44 pm
Flutist Tim Munro and mezzo-soprano Hai-Ting Chinn in the world premiere of Amy Beth Kirsten’s “Savior” at MusicNOW Monday night at the Harris Theater. Photo: Todd Rosenberg
From Rossini, Verdi, and Tchaikovsky to Honegger, Norman Dello Joio and Richard Einhorn, the life of Joan of Arc has inspired composers for the past three centuries.
And now, Amy Beth Kirsten. Monday night’s MusicNOW program was devoted to a single work, Kirsten’s Savior. Commissioned for this 20th anniversary season of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s new-music series, Savior was presented in its world premiere at the Harris Theater.
Savior is not an opera but rather a musico-theatrical hybrid based on Saint Joan’s Passion. The hour-long work depicts, says the composer, “simultaneous temporalities.” There is “a flash of omniscience” reflected in “a barrage of time sound and memory” as Joan goes in and out of consciousness.
Joan is represented by a trio of amplified female vocalists who sing together and individually. A flutist wearing a stag’s mask represents a “divine messenger.” Musical backing is supplied by heavy electronics and two live players, a cellist and percussionist.
Rare is the multimedia hybrid that manages to make a unified convincing artistic whole out of such disparate resources. Unfortunately, Savior–despite arresting musical moments—doesn’t succeed in its ambitions any better than most.
The main problem is that the far-flung elements never cohere. A narrator (the excellent William Smillie) reads excerpts from the journals of the skeptical English general opposing Joan. The three women vocalists often walk together, holding hands, opening and closing their legs in unison in what seems to be a sort of feminist statement of solidarity. The stag-flutist walks on and off stage, standing high on a platform playing spare phrases and percussive blasts.
Yet the minimally staged presentation ultimately adds up to less than the sum of its parts. Most crucially lost here is any sense of Joan herself–her historic or religious significance, much less her courage or spiritual intensity.
Kirsten’s music is similarly uneven and too often derivative. The satiric, swooping vocal writing as the trio of women portray Joan’s questioners is right out of Cage, Berio and Ligeti. The instrumental writing is a kind of George Crumb Lite without that master’s uncanny ear for precise timbres and colors. And the breathy percussive blasts from the amplified alto flute—like the deafening electronic outbursts–never rise above current new-music cliches.
And yet despite its mixed inspiration and fitful pretentiousness, there are undeniable moments of haunting beauty in Kirsten’s score. The madrigal-like writing for all three women’s voices is lovely and reflects a 15th-century milieu, as does the spare luminous polyphony later on, suggestive of Perotin or Palestrina.
The female vocal trio (sopranos Molly Netter and Eliza Bagg and mezzo Hai-Ting Chinn) displayed staggering virtuosity and versatility– athletic and exacting in the leaping music and pure-toned and blended in their unison passages.
The playing of the three instrumentalists, also amplified, was on the same level.
Kirsten’s music for flute is the least interesting in the work, but Tim Munro performed the spare and percussive lines with typical polish and facility, as well as gamely entering the theatrical aspect, with his stag mask getup.
The climax of Savior is a spacious cello solo, played with rich tone and striking depth of feeling by the CSO’s Katinka Kleijn. Her colleague, principal percussionist Cynthia Yeh, delivered intense drumming and pointillist washes of color as needed.
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Archive of posts published in the category: Bus
Phoenix Public Transportation | Get Around With Bus & Rail
Written on Aug, 19, 2020 by iwano@_84 | No Comments
Need to get from the airport to your downtown hotel? It will cost you $2 if you take Phoenix’s Valley Metro light-rail system. The cost of an all-day pass is $4.
But getting from the airport to downtown affordably is just one of light rail’s perks. The 28-mile line links Phoenix to the neighboring communities of Tempe and Mesa, and includes stops at attractions such as Phoenix Art Museum, Heard Museum, Chase Field, Talking Stick Resort Arena and Tempe’s Mill Avenue.
Light rail’s quiet, air-conditioned trains operate 18-22 hours per day, seven days a week, and stop every 12-20 minutes. The system operates at street level and is powered by electricity from overhead wires.
There are 38 stations along the line, and they are adorned with $8 million worth of public art. The artwork at each station reflects the character of the community where it is located. Station platforms can accommodate the boarding of 600 passengers onto a three-car train within 30 seconds.
Convenient transportation to the airport comes by way of PHX Sky Train. This driverless people mover transports Valley Metro Light Rail passengers to the airport from the 44th Street/Washington Street station.
CTA bus crash: 3 injured after vehicle hits bus, crashes into Loop bank
CHICAGO (WLS) — Three people including a CTA bus driver were injured Thursday morning after a vehicle slammed into the bus causing it to crash in the Loop, police said.
According to Chicago police, around 4:20 a.m. the bus was traveling eastbound on Washington Street when a black sedan traveling at a “high rate of speed” southbound on Clark, ran through a red light and crashed into the bus, causing it to strike the side of a bank building.
The bus driver was pinned under the dashboard and had to be extricated by firefighters, fire officials said. The driver was transported to Northwestern Hospital in critical but stable condition.
Two bus passengers were also transported to Northwestern for treatment, officials said. They are in fair condition.
The driver of the sedan was identified as a 29-year-old man, police said. He was not injured in the crash.
Citations are pending.
No further information has been released at this time.
Pocket Guide to Large Truck and Bus Statistics
FMCSA’s 2019 Pocket Guide to Large Truck and Bus Statistics highlights the Agency’s role in collecting and analyzing data on large trucks and buses. Intended as a compact reference, it is a compilation of statistics from the overall state of the industry to enforcement activity, details on traffic violations and other incidents, the costs of crashes, and more. These data are used in support of our mission to prevent commercial motor vehicle-related fatalities and injuries. The Pocket Guide can serve as a valuable, compact resource for industry representatives, Federal agencies, and other individuals interested in motor carrier safety regulations and performance data. It will be updated periodically in the future as new data are collected and analyzed. Previous versions of the Pocket Guide can be found in the archives section on this page.
The Pocket Guide incorporates and replaces the one-page data summaries, “Commercial Motor Vehicle Facts,” published occasionally over the past 10 years. Links to those summaries are provided below:
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Charges filed in case of girl hit by vehicle while exiting school bus near Whitefish
KALISPELL — A woman has formally been charged in connection with hitting and severely injuring a child as she was getting off a school bus near Whitefish.
Flathead County Attorney Travis Ahner tells MTN News that they have officially charged Patricia Berliner, whose vehicle hit 6-year-old Jordana Hubble on November 12, 2019.
Berliner — who is not currently in custody — is being charged with one count of felony criminal endangerment.
Court documents state that “the defendant knowingly engaged in conduct that creates a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury to others, namely Jordana Hubble.”
The charge filed carries a maximum term in the Montana State Prison of 10 years as well as a maximum fine of $50,000.
According to witness statements, Berliner stated she did not think she had to stop since the bus was in the other lane.
Court documents state that Jordana “was reportedly thrown approximately 60 feet from the point of impact to where she came to rest in the ditch.”
The Montana Highway Patrol previously told MTN News the driver — now identified as Berliner — failed to stop for the bus when it had its flashing lights and stop sign up on US Highway 93 North near mile marker 137.
Jordana was taken to Nexus Children’s Hospital in Houston back in January to continue her recovery from the injuries she sustained in the incident.
Multiple fundraisers were held throughout the Flathead Valley to raise money for Jordana’s medical expenses.
Click here to read the full court documents.
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Automotive Buses and Vehicle Bus Description
Automotive Buses
[BST bus]
[byteflight]
[CAN bus]
[D2B]
[DSI bus]
[FlexRay]
[GVIF]
[IDB-1394]
[IEBus]
[Intellibus]
[J1708 bus]
[J185 bus]
[LIN bus] [MEC bus]
[MI bus]
[MML bus]
[MOSTbus]
[OBDII]
[Planet]
[SMARTwireX]
[Amazon Engine Diagnostic Products]
[Bus Info Page]
Note: There are six classifications of vehicle Buses:
Class A, Class B, Class C, Emissions/Diagnostics, Mobile Media, and
X-by-Wire.
Many of the buses listed below have a notation defining what
class they reside in.
Class A: A multiplex wiring system which reduces wiring by
transmitting and receiving multiple signals over the same signal bus.
The multi-purpose bus replaces individual wires performing the same function.
Normally Class A defines general purpose UART communication with bit
rates below 10kbps
Class B: A multiplex wiring system which transmits data between
nodes. The nodes replace existing stand-alone modules.
Class B is used as a non-critical 10kbps to 125kbps bus
Class C: A multiplex wiring system which reduces wiring by using
real-time high-data signals. Operating between 125kbps and 1Mbps
Emissions/Diagnostics: handle either Emissions or Diagnostics
buses.
Mobile Media: buses handle Mobile Media equipment.
X-by-Wire: is the collective term for the addition of electronic systems into the vehicle to enhance and replace tasks that were
previously accomplished via mechanical and hydraulic systems.
Automotive temperature requirements are -40C to +125C.
In addition, a number of the listed buses define the Electrical Physical
layer and the Optical Physical layer, which is normal for a bus which
defines both interface types.
The Physical interface bus being either
fiber [Optical] or wire [electrical]. The difference here, in some cases,
is that the electrical interface being defined resides just prior to the
optical encoder. So the Physical interface bus from device to device is
optical [fiber], but the specification also defines the Physical
[electrical] interface into the optical transmitter/receiver [which is
not normally done outside of Automotive buses].
Also: … “It is becoming clear that regardless of carmaker, new vehicles
will be made using LIN for the lowest data-rate functions, CAN for medium
speed, MOST for the high-speed data rates and FlexRay, for
safety-critical applications such as steer- and brake-by-wire.” from
Automotive Industries.
MOST bus Description
MOST bus: [Media Oriented Systems Transport],defines a multimedia
fiber-optic (low overhead, low cost) point-to-point network implemented
in a ring, star or daisy-chain topology over Plastic optical fibers
[POF].
The MOST bus specifications define the Physical [Electrical and Optical parameters] Layer as well as the Application Layer, Network Layer, and Medium Access Control.
The MOST bus provides an optical solution for automotive media [entertainment] networks [Video, CD..].
J1850 bus Description
The SAE J1850 bus is used for
diagnostics and data sharing applications in On and Off road vehicles.
Transportation Agency – Kauai Bus
Written on Mar, 31, 2020 by iwano@_84 | No Comments
The Kaua’i Bus operates a Public (Fixed Route) bus service and a Paratransit (Door-to-Door) bus service from Hanalei to Kekaha daily.
Fixed Route Service: (bus stop to bus stop)
Monday – Friday 5:15 a.m. – 10:50 p.m.
Saturday, Sunday and Holiday 6:00 a.m. – 8:45 p.m.
For Observed Holidays in 2020, please click here.
Each bus has a destination sign on the front and curb side of the bus, displaying the route number.
Although Drivers follow a predetermined schedule, arrival at bus stops may be affected by traffic, operating conditions and route deviations.
For up-to-date bus schedules, please click here.
To apply for an ADA Reduced Fare ID Card please click here.
Paratransit Service:
Paratransit service is available for qualified individuals in the categories below. Service days and hours are the same as public transportation. Reservations are required 24 hours in advance for door-to-door pickups. Reservations can also be emailed to TheKauaiBus@kauai.gov
Senior: Individuals must be 60 years and older and registered with the County Transportation Agency.
Agency: Human Service Agencies contract the County Transportation Agency to provide transportation service for their program participants.
ADA: (Americans with Disabilities Act) – Individuals must be certified and registered as ADA eligible for service.
Printed information is available in alternate formats within seven (7) days of a request.
(paratransit routes that go beyond the ADA 3/4 mile corridor will have seats open to the general public on a space available basis.)
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Management options in vertebral artery injuries
D. Demetriades, D. Theodorou, J. Asensio, S. Golshani, H. Belzberg, A. Yellin, F. Weaver, T. V. Berne
The treatment of 22 patients with vertebral artery injuries was reviewed. Only four patients required an emergency operation. Most of the injuries (13 of 22) were successfully managed by observation. Five patients were managed by angiographic embolization which was successful in three. In three patients with an aneurysm and arteriovenous fistula, proximal embolization of the vascular lesion was not adequate and a suboccipital craniectomy was required for distal ligation. Most vertebral artery injuries can safely be managed without an operation, or by angiographic embolization. Surgical intervention should be reserved for patients with severe bleeding or where embolization has failed.
British Journal of Surgery
https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.1800830126
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Demetriades, D., Theodorou, D., Asensio, J., Golshani, S., Belzberg, H., Yellin, A., Weaver, F., & Berne, T. V. (1996). Management options in vertebral artery injuries. British Journal of Surgery, 83(1), 83-86. https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.1800830126
Management options in vertebral artery injuries. / Demetriades, D.; Theodorou, D.; Asensio, J.; Golshani, S.; Belzberg, H.; Yellin, A.; Weaver, F.; Berne, T. V.
In: British Journal of Surgery, Vol. 83, No. 1, 1996, p. 83-86.
Demetriades, D, Theodorou, D, Asensio, J, Golshani, S, Belzberg, H, Yellin, A, Weaver, F & Berne, TV 1996, 'Management options in vertebral artery injuries', British Journal of Surgery, vol. 83, no. 1, pp. 83-86. https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.1800830126
Demetriades D, Theodorou D, Asensio J, Golshani S, Belzberg H, Yellin A et al. Management options in vertebral artery injuries. British Journal of Surgery. 1996;83(1):83-86. https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.1800830126
Demetriades, D. ; Theodorou, D. ; Asensio, J. ; Golshani, S. ; Belzberg, H. ; Yellin, A. ; Weaver, F. ; Berne, T. V. / Management options in vertebral artery injuries. In: British Journal of Surgery. 1996 ; Vol. 83, No. 1. pp. 83-86.
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World Sailing Coaching Framework
Background to the International Framework
The International Sport Coaching Framework (ISCF) has been prepared by the International Council for Coaching Excellence (ICCE), the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF), the IOC Entourage Commission (EC) as well as World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) following a process of development and consultation that commenced in April 2011. This initiative signals a new and collaborative effort to recognize and support the role of coaches at all levels of sport across the globe, providing the basis for initial implementation and further worldwide development and consultation from those parties involved. World Sailing has identified that with a growing appreciation of 'coaching' within both 'Participation' (Learn to sail) and 'Performance' (Learn to race) domains as well as the challenges that accompany the role of the coach, the sailing community and all of its key stakeholders now recognize the need for a common set of competence criteria to inform the development and subsequent certification / qualification of 'coaches' within sailing at National and International level.
'Coaching is a process of guided improvement and development in a ingle sport at identifiablestages of participant devlopment.'
The development of an World Sailing Coaching Framework aims to provide all World Sailing Member National Authorities (MNAs) with a common ground for developing and evaluating coaching qualifications / certification, encouraging coach education and training, working across international boundaries and establishing ethical guidelines and models for standards of international best practice
Coaches play a central role in guiding the development of both recreational sailors and athletes as part of any National Sail Training Programme (NTP). The welfare of all participants is the foremost concern to coaches in the design, implementation and evaluation of appropriate practices at National / international Level. While there are many common areas of sail training, unique characteristics in national sail training programmes exist. World Sailing understands that coaching and the increase in participation in the sport of sailing are best served when the principles and policies of the International Federation and those of its members work in harmony with the needs and experiences of sailors in local communities and the organisations facilitating their participation. The World Sailing Coaching Framework will provide a reference point that will have global applications. The process of 'mapping' al of the national sail training programmes that already exist and seeking to align those yet to develop to the guidelines within the World Sailing coaching framework will provide the International Sailing Federation with a detailed overview of the way in which training of sailing coaches in both 'Participation' and 'Performance' domains is delivered nationally and globally. The process of 'mapping' MNA National Sail Training Programmes will vary greatly depending on the stage of development of the systems in our MNAs.
The World Sailing Coaching Framework is not a 'one size fits all' solution and makes allowances for geographical, cultural and governance related national differences.
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He Spent 2,000 On 7 Replicas, Singapore News & Top Stories – The Straits Times
Uncategorized fake watches, Franco Sbarro, Sbarro creations, this year, very first, very same No comments
Peter uses a various watch every day. The financial institution exec makes about $2,500 a month, yet owns 3 Panerais, 3 Rolexes, and an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Safari – his favourite. A real version of this ivory-coloured watch would set you back $34,000, yet Peter, that did not want to be recognized by his full name, got his reproduction online for just $500. He has spent concerning $2,000 on his seven counterfeits, which he has actually been getting given that the begin of this year. The genuine versions would certainly have cost him concerning $123,000. He becomes part of the expanding market here driving need for counterfeit wrist watches. He thinks that many people that bought reproductions generally additionally owned real watches. He said he had 2 genuine Rolexes of his own. And he also does not hide the reality that some of his watches are counterfeits. Yet not all purchasers of counterfeits resemble him. Some pre-owned watch suppliers here claim that every month, they encounter in between one and also 5 clients that attempt and also work off fake watches as the real deal. Mr Alvin Lye, who runs watch dealership Monster Time. He included that in some cases, vendors could obtain the watch as a gift, assuming it is the actual point, only to learn it was an affordable phony when they attempt as well as offer it. To secure themselves, dealers right here are taking no opportunities. Mr Alfred Png of Png Watch Dealer. But even that was no warranty – some fake watches nowadays also include boxes and assure cards, he included. The Singapore Clock as well as Watch Profession Association (SCWTA) said that considering that watches started obtaining offered online, it has been significantly tough to police the circumstance. Mr William Leong, SCWTA’s vice-president.
After the opportunity to inspect Niki Lauda’s very first Formula 1 vehicle up close before strolling throughout the convention facility to locate initial prototype of the renowned Lancia 037 at this year’s Interclassics Maastricht, my hunger for standards with interesting background was currently sated by the time I found this piece of uncommon ’80s automobile indulgence. In the beginning look, I thought it was a changed Daihatsu Deception GTti. From a 20 feet away, packed in among all the rest of the cars and trucks battling for attention, the Sbarro Super 8’s contours advised me of the sporting Japanese mini hatchback. I discovered how wrong this suggestion was when I obtained closer and also saw what remained in front of the Sbarro’s rear arcs. 2 and an uncommonly pink Iso Rivolta Fidia that originally drew me to Speed 8 Standards’ display screen. Both of these autos are for an extremely specific sort of taste, the Fidia in its original Viola Borgogna paint specifically. I needed to see what else the Belgian company had on deal.
This was the route that lead me to the Sbarro on the other side of the stand, as well as when I understood that the sharp however bulbous, enormously expanded maker was one of Franco Sbarro’s creations I recognized I needed to dig in as well as share it with you. It’s tough to stick out from such a team of automobiles like the previously mentioned Iso and Monteverdi (visualized above), but if any individual can draw a crowd around a vehicle it is Franco Sbarro. The Italian-born mechanic/designer/all-around talented Sbarro moved to Switzerland at a young age, where he handled the popular Scuderia Filipinetti competing group, while also maintaining as well as establishing the team’s cars. In 1968 he after that founded his own company, Atelier de Building Car (ACA), and gained very early notoriety for constructing reproductions of famous vehicles like the Ferrari P4, Lola T70, as well as most significantly the BMW 328. And also his very first very own production under the ACA logo design, the Dominique III, was an auspicious beginning.
A very low-slung sports car powered by the very same 4.7 L V8 from the GT40 (a vehicle which Sbarro, friend of Eric Broadley, had a long background with currently), it was also with an air brake, simply among a variety of one-of-a-kind wind resistant as well as styling features that would certainly appear on future Sbarro creations. Though his creations are typically polarizing (and also some, I need to confess, are downright hideous), it is impossible for Sbarro’s detractors to criticize him on the basis of creative thinking. His mind seems to understand no limitations, and to supplement the wild visuals of his vehicle Sbarro typically infuses them with his visionary engineering services. He created such concepts as the hub-less wheel (a wheel with an engine inside the external edge), and also is also well known for building elegant equipments for Arabian customers, like six-wheeled SUVs created for falconing (offer the Sbarro Windhawk a Google). If you are at all familiarized with his job, you know that the Super 8 is not just a bodykit slapped onto a hatchback.
1765lbs) weight– extremely powerful mid-mounted engine. Does it sound like an acquainted principle? The Group-B-homologated Renault 5 Turbo made use of the very same recipe with a lot less luxury as well as a little much less power, however it was still adequate to overcome the rally phases in period. The MG Metro 6R4, Peugeot 206 T16, and also the Lancia Delta S4 were the other mid-engined hatchback homologation heroes of the ’80s, however whereas these were competition-bred remedies to regulations, the Super 8 was a more extravagant offering. The name of course refers to the variety of cylinders in the hatchback’s mid-mounted Ferrari V8, which was left in manufacturing facility specification. Remarkably sufficient though, the Super 8 is a tamed, extra civilized version of an additional Sbarro hatchback, the Super Twelve. Because cars and truck, two six-cylinder 1300cc Kawasaki engines collaborated in a transverse inline setup. Each of the bike motors powered one of the rear wheels with their very own transmissions (which were linked by an intricate linkage that permitted a solitary shifter to operate both).
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Banking and Finance Lawdaemis2016-04-17T20:54:31+02:00
MORTGAGE WITH GROUND CLAUSE
The ground clauses in mortgage affects nearly 35% of the mortgaged, and has become a real problem; because that establishes what the minimum interest rate to be paid in monthly instalments of the loan to the prejudice to the mortgaged property may not benefit from the lowering of interest (Euribor) and the consequent reduction in the loan instalments.
First study the contract and identify the existence or not of ground clauses and / or ceiling, and on that case, the amounts paid to your bank improperly.
Later, trying to reach a deal with the bank for it to delete the clause in the mortgage contract and return amounts previously more paid. It is important to see if there was a binding offer by the lender and if the mortgaged signed, and in any case if it was informed by the institution of that clause.
In case of failure to reach an agreement, we fill a request to vacate ground clauses by the courts and given the recent Supreme Court decisions and our extensive experience in the field (98% success in cases) it has ruled in favour of the mortgaged not only forcing financial institutions to eliminate clauses and soil but also with retroactively character to repay the amounts paid as a result of ground clause.
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Confessions of a Crypto Millionaire
My Unlikely Escape from Corporate America
At the start of this riveting memoir, Dan Conway is a brash young executive in a vast corporation, slogging his way up the ladder while struggling with depression and an addiction he thought he had defeated long ago. As he begins to realize that the mix of nightmarish bureaucracy and his unruly “flip side” have doomed any chance of success, Dan stumbles upon cryptocurrency, tumbling down the rabbit hole to discover a strange, anarchic, but captivating world. He decides to wager everything—his savings, his marriage, his family, his future—on the fledgling crypto, Ether.
In Confessions of a Crypto Millionaire, readers join Dan on a rollicking, harrowing, frequently hilarious journey, including his: struggle to rise through the corporate ranks; battle with addiction and its aftermath; bid to reinvent himself; efforts to hold his marriage and family together; and the costs–and thrills–of risking it all.
“For Conway, crypto was only partly about the money. It was also about finding liberation and salvation.” –Forbes.com
Dan details in a non-technical and non-preachy way how the idea of blockchain-based decentralization has convinced a generation of dreamers, misfits and gamblers to too often bet more than they can afford to lose. He illustrates how public blockchains like Ethereum could disrupt the nature of work itself in the coming years, upending stultifying centralized corporations in favor of “trust machines” and peer-to-peer cooperation. In the process, readers take a thrilling ride with Dan on a turbocharged adventure through crypto, not knowing if he will make history or lose everything he holds dear.
Available on September 9, 2019 in ebook, print, and audio book formats
"A highly dramatic but lucid introduction to the murky world of cryptocurrency... Conway skillfully combines three intersecting narratives involving his ego-driven, often self-destructive ambition; his cryptocurrency gamble; and the history of cryptocurrency in general. Along the way, the author stirringly describes how, to him, cryptocurrency investment wasn't just a new technological innovation, but rather a way to escape the corporate world that he once set out to conquer."
"Five out of Five Stars. Reading this book was nothing short of thrilling."
"If you want to feel what it’s like being in the middle of a retail-driven crypto bull run, this is it. When it happens next time, you’ll know what to do."
Ryan Sean Adams, Managing Director, Mythos
"I couldn't put it down. Dan captures what it felt like to be in crypto for the past few years and I didn't think that was possible. No journalist could have done that. A must read for anyone who wants to learn about this movement and also those of us who lived it and are still processing."
Jeremiah (JT) Nichol, Crypto Reddit legend
"A fantastic read. 5/5 stars."
"A business book you can't afford to ignore... For Conway, crypto was only partly about the money. It was also about finding liberation and salvation... 'It turns out.' he says, 'that my entire identity had prepared me for crypto.'"
"Epic. The first great book about crypto."
Andrew Keys, Managing Partner, DARMA Capital
"I finished it in one sitting and thoroughly enjoyed it. This book will resonate with anyone who has ever risked everything to chase their dreams."
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Navy Virgina Attack Subs Will Fire Nuclear Warhead, Expand Mission
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By Kris Osborn - Warrior Maven
The Navy’s Director of Undersea Warfare told Congress that a new nuclear-armed submarine launched cruise missile would be fired from Virginia-class attack submarines, marking a shift for the conventionally-armed attack submarine into a nuclear deterrence role.
“While Virginia-class submarines can use conventional deterrence to keep adversaries in check, a sub-launched cruise missile with a nuclear warhead would be incorporated into Virginias and give national command authority additional escalation control,” Rear Adm. John Tammen, Director, Undersea Warfare Division, told lawmakers at a March 20 hearing before the Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee.
The emerging weapon, called for in the current administration’s recent Nuclear Posture Review, is intended to bring new elements to the Pentagon’s current nuclear weapons deterrence posture. With the current status quo, only larger ballistic missile submarines, such as the Ohio class and emerging Columbia-class, are equipped to fire nuclear weapons, such as the Trident II D5.
Virginia-class attack submarines are currently armed with Tomahawk missiles and torpedoes; adding a nuclear weapons capability would expand its mission set and give combatant commanders new options, Tammen added.
“Because of its stealth, the submarine provides unique intelligence and warning as well as ISR type data. Without this, the crew is less informed moving forward which provides additional strategic risk,” he said. --- To Read Warrior Maven's report on Virginia-Class Submarine Weapons & Technology CLICK HERE --
Small, agile high-tech attack submarines are able to approach high threat areas due to on-board sonar and other quieting technologies. These undersea platforms are, in many cases, able to access high-risk areas and coastal regions not typically reachable by surface ships. This enables Navy forces to assess enemy defenses, conduct reconnaissance and even launch attacks while less detectable to enemy forces.
Given this scenario, bringing a nuclear deterrence option to these submarines could enable commanders to hold more areas at risk of nuclear strike from closer-in proximity, thereby strengthening the threat posture.
These advantages are enhanced by recent undersea technical innovations, which have been underway and tested as prototypes for many years. Some of them are now operational on the USS South Dakota, a new fast-attack submarine which entered service last year. Senior Navy technology developers have, in a general way, told Warrior Maven that the advances in undersea technologies built, integrated, tested and now operational on the South Dakota include quieting technologies for the engine room, a new large vertical array and additional "quieting" coating materials for the hull.
The USS South Dakota was christened by the Navy last Fall at a General Dynamics Electric Boat facility in Groton, Ct. -- To Read Warrior Maven's report on the USS South Dakota, Stealthiest Attack Sub ever -CLICK HERE ---
In recent years, the Navy has been making progress developing new acoustics, sensors and quieting technologies to ensure the U.S. retains its technological edge in the undersea domain – as countries like China and Russia continue rapid military modernization and construction of new submarines.
The impetus for the Navy's “acoustic superiority,” is specifically grounded in the emerging reality that the U.S. undersea margin of technological superiority is rapidly diminishing in light of Russian and Chinse advances.
Described as a technology insertion, the improvements on the USS South Dakota will eventually be integrated on board both Virginia-Class submarines and the now-in -development next-generation nuclear-armed boats called the Columbia-class.
Tammen also addressed the Nuclear Posture Reviews call for a low-yield, nuclear armed submarine launched ballistic missile, which he said would integrate into larger Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines.
Citing concerns related to the current fast-changing global threat environment, Pentagon leaders and many lawmakers see a need for these additions to the US nuclear arsenal.
A nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise missile and the modification of a small number of existing submarine launched ballistic missile warheads to provide a low-yield option – will enhance deterrence by ensuring no adversary under any circumstances can perceive an advantage through limited nuclear escalation or other strategic attack,” Gen. Paul Selva, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters during a recent Pentagon briefing.
Some lawmakers have also expressed interest in a need to continuously revise and adjust US nuclear weapons posture.
“The use of WMD is unfortunately becoming more and more common-place. Low barriers, and in some cases, no barriers to entry, should force us to continually review and evaluate our programs, policies, and activities designed to counter and mitigate these threats across the WMD spectrum,” Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Chairwoman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities, said in her opening statement at a recent hearing.
UnderSea Strategic Deterrence: New Nuclear Weapons to Keep the Peace
Defense Secretary James Mattis and other senior leaders seem aware that elements of the NPRs strategic approach may reflect a particular irony or paradox; in response to questions from lawmakers about whether adding new low-yield nuclear weapons could “lower the threshold” to nuclear war and therefore introduce new elements of danger, Mattis told Congress that increasing offensive nuclear-weapons attack capability will have the opposite effect, meaning the added weapons would improve deterrence and therefore enhance prospects for peace. --- To Read Warrior Maven's report and analysis on the Pentagon's Nuclear Posture Review and nuclear weapons arsenal - CLICK HERE --
Specifically, Mattis explained that a new, low-yield Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile could likely provide pressure on Russia to a point where they might be more inclined to negotiate about adhering to the INF treaty they have violated.
“We have an ongoing Russian violation of the INF. We want our negotiators to have something to negotiate with because we want Russia back in compliance,” Mattis told lawmakers.
Citing the rapid technological progress of adversary air-defense systems, Mattis further elaborated that a sea-launched cruise missile option might be necessary to hold potential enemies at risk in the event that air-dropped low-yield weapons were challenged to operate above necessary targets.
“To drop a gravity bomb that is low-yield means a bomber would have to penetrate air defenses. Air defenses are very different than they were 20 years ago,” Mattis told Congress.
Senior Pentagon leaders stress that neither of these new nuclear weapons recommendations in the NPR require developing new nuclear warheads or will result in increasing the size of the nuclear stockpile. NPR DoD advocates further stress that the addition of these weapons does align with US non-proliferation commitments.
Osborn previously served at the Pentagon as a Highly Qualified Expert with the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army - Acquisition, Logistics & Technology. Osborn has also worked as an anchor and on-air military specialist at national TV networks. He has a Masters in Comparative Literature from Columbia University.
More Weapons and Technology - WARRIOR MAVEN (CLICK HERE)--
Kris Osborn can be reached at Krisosborn.ko@gmail.com
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Peugeot 3008 wins in SUV category at Women’s World Car of the Year
by Caira-lee Durand
The 2017 edition of the Women’s World Car of the Year awards has taken place and the Peugeot 3008 won in the SUV category – making this the 35th title awarded to the luxury SUV.
This is the eighth edition of the prestigious award, chosen by an all-female judging panel of 25 motoring journalists from 20 different countries.
The judges convene once a year to elect a winner in each category. The vehicles considered for awards must be sold in at least five countries, on at least two continents prior to 1 January of the year of the awards.
This year, 420 cars were contenders for the various titles across six categories: family, SUV, budget, green, performance and luxury vehicle.
“The Peugeot 3008SUV won because of its Peugeot i-Cockpit – which the judges found elegant and impressive – its interior and exterior styling, as well as its road-holding and driving pleasure” said Managing Director of Women’s World Car of the Year, Sandy Myhre.
Other winners included Ford Fiesta, Mazda CX-5, BMW 5-Series, Honda Civic Type R, McLaren 720S and the Supreme Winner, Hyundai Ioniq.
“The Peugeot 3008 SUV has received numerous accolades worldwide said Francisco Gaie, Managing Director of Peugeot Citroën South Africa.
We are very excited that closer to home, it is also being acknowledged. Since its launch in August, the 3008 has been nominated as finalist in the prestigious WesBank South African Car of The Year competition and has also been voted a finalist in in the Cars.co.za Consumer Awards competition. Both winners will be announced in early 2018.
“The no of awards bestowed on the Peugeot 3008 SUV are an indication of the exceptional quality and class-leading features it has to offer, and all at a reasonable price.”
“Its premium interior, up-to-date in car specification, refined drive and economical engine range puts it up there with the best cars in its class.” Francisco added.
We are exceptionally honoured that the 3008 SUV has been given this recognition by an all-female panel of judges and look forward to its growing success in the South African car market.
Via: Peugeot Citroën South Africa
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Sire V7 vs Fender Player Jazz Bass – Which Is Better?
J-shape basses are synonymous with Fender – the man and namesake company that created the first model back in the ‘50s. But there’s a new challenger. Can the Sire V7 steal any of the limelight?
22/02/19 5:00pm - 4 min read | 46 min watch
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The Fender Jazz set the standard for ergonomic bass design. It quickly became a viable and equally popular alternative to the Precision, which was released a few years previous.
From the tapered neck to the curvy body and elegant cutaways, the J-bass oozes class. It’s also supremely versatile thanks to its dual pickup configuration. You’ve heard them all over blues, rock, metal, folk and jazz records.
Despite its long lifespan, the Jazz has retained pretty much the same specs with only a few minor adjustments made for one-off or signature models. What new direction can you take such an all-encompassing design?
Well, Californian bass manufacturers Sire might have something to say about that. They teamed up with former Fender signature bassist Marcus Miller to create the V series. This suave line-up of four-string, five-string and fretless bass guitars doesn’t try to hide its origins, but it does put a new twist on proceedings.
Here’s what we’ll be comparing:
Neck & fretboard
Renowned composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Marcus Miller knows what makes a good Jazz bass. They definitely picked the right man to help them through the creative process.
For this head-to-head, we’re going to take a look at the Fender Player range, which is closest in price to the V7.
New 2018 Fender Player Series Basses with Lee and Pete Pete joins Lee to look at the all-new MIM Fender Player series basses. Click here for more info - https://goo.gl/gX3DhC Interested in other Andertons YouTube channels? Click on one of these links to find out more… Andertons Guitar & Bass YouTube Channel: https://goo.gl/wRsx1P Andertons Drummers YouTube Channel: https://goo.gl/gjAEAs Andertons Keyboard YouTube Channel: https://goo.gl/kFxnYu Andertons Music Tech YouTube Channel: https://goo.gl/a2vnDT Andertons Shopping Web Site: https://goo.gl/TPsG2Q Buy a T Shirt: https://goo.gl/4mRRyy Make sure to subscribe to Andertons TV for more great videos like this! https://i.ytimg.com/vi/r3w1fxtTaVk/default.jpg PT21M58S 2018-06-22T15:12:58Z
Fender Player Jazz
Most bassists know the Fender Jazz specs off by heart. And you could have a pretty good guess at the Player series, which replaced the Mexican models in 2018.
This is a real workhorse of a bass. It’s not overflowing with features, but it is packing serious Fender tone, from an affordable Mexican-made instrument to boot. Its predecessor was the benchmark for quality, combining vintage looks with modern playability and the Player Jazz continues the trend. It has the same unmistakable feel, from the tapered modern ‘C’ Maple neck, to the 21 medium jumbo frets and 34” scale length.
The Player series takes things one step further, thanks to freshly-designed alnico single-coil pickups that sound great using either a pick or playing fingerstyle. It produces a classic punchy and tight tone you could easily use across a spectrum of musical genres.
What more can you say about a bona fide legend? It’s a no brainer. Fender have an excellent reputation for quality control, and you know it’s going to be a well-made and superb sounding instrument.
First Look at the Sire Version 2 V7 Vintage Range! Welcome to another edition of All About the Bass! Watch as Nathan and Lee take you through the new Sire Version 2 V7 Vintage range of bass guitars. https://tinyurl.com/qqxunba Learn more about the Marcus Miller line of Sire basses here! - http://tinyurl.com/yac5ltf5 Interested in other Andertons YouTube channels? Click on one of these links to find out more… Andertons Guitar & Bass YouTube Channel: https://goo.gl/kRJCpb Andertons Drummers YouTube Channel: https://goo.gl/9yKSS9 Andertons Keyboard YouTube Channel: https://goo.gl/ns172M Andertons Shopping Web Site: https://goo.gl/TPsG2Q Buy a T Shirt: https://goo.gl/TrTe78 Make sure to subscribe to Andertons TV for more great videos like this: https://goo.gl/aAzyQM #Sire #MarcusMiller #Andertons https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7Sy9zNxQ5f8/default.jpg PT23M4S 2019-01-17T10:30:00Z
Sire V7
At first glance, there aren’t a drastic number of features setting the V7 apart from a Fender Jazz. They look fairly similar, the only two major cosmetic differences being block inlays instead of classic dots found on the Jazz and a modern shaped headstock.
However, the V7 received a few appreciated updates in the 2nd run that set it apart from the crowd. It features rolled fretboard edges, so no more nasty nicks on your fingers as you glide around the neck. The neck also gets a satin finish like its Fender equivalent. All rosewood fingerboards are now darker, higher quality ebony.
Despite all these improvements, the biggest difference still remains. The V7 comes with a fully-fledged onboard preamp for its updated pickups.
Let’s start off with the pickups. These bad boys were designed in conjunction with Marcus Miller. They’re an excellent blend of vintage character and modern clarity. And they got a whole lot better with improved magnets and coils for a higher resolution and clearer sound.
The preamp system provides a massive amount of tonal control, making it even more versatile than the original. It includes a three-way EQ, with volume, tone, middle frequency and pickup blender dials. It’s a great feature for playing live, as you’re able to adjust where the bass sits in the band, or in the studio as you experiment with your unique sound. There are so many possibilities.
Should you buy a Fender or Sire?
You can’t go wrong with either of these basses. Both are extremely well-made, pack tons of tone into the reasonable price range and have been made by experienced hands.
The Fender has the name on the headstock. Mexican Fender models have been around forever, and you know they’re more than just trustworthy. These basses kill in quality and sound.
Sire, on the other hand, is still a growing brand. But with the backing of Marcus Miller, you know they’re not going to make any old rubbish otherwise he wouldn’t be sticking around. These basses have loads of flair, versatility and play brilliantly.
If you enjoyed this read, check out more of our Labs articles!
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Cian is a writer for the Andertons web team. He shares his birthday with Muse frontman Matt Bellamy and believes he will one day reach the same level of stardom. Cian is a big prog/modern metal fan so naturally loves Bare Knuckle pickups and pointy guitars.
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Every day, one equity ETF gets the 10 Green Diamond Reward Rating as the fund with the single best prospects for the next few months. For the last few months it has mostly been the PowerShares Dynamic OTC Portfolio Fund (PWO). We have written about it extensively this year as its ratings and performance have commanded attention. It got its first 10 Green Diamond Reward Rating on January 4th and is up 17.88% compared to the S&P 500’s 10.88% rise since then.
We wrote about it then and again on April 5th explaining how its smart beta selection process changes the portfolio every quarter, May’s reconstitution has maintained the top three sectors in info tech, consumer discretionary and health care with the first two at lower weights than the NASDAQ 100. The biggest difference from that benchmark is the absence of Apple from PWO’s constituents which tend to be lower market caps although large cap Cisco Systems occupies more than 3% of AUM.
On April 12th we compared its technical scores to SPY’s which has also led the ranks this year, and on May 3rd we wrote about PWO’s low liquidity advising to use limit orders. Its constituents are plenty liquid which ultimately determines an ETF’s liquidity so don’t be scared off by its low trading volume. Then on May 15th we reviewed these posts and added commentary on the fund’s Red Diamond Risk Rating, lower than average at 3.75 today. You can review any of those posts but there is one topic we have not covered yet.
PWO has been the 10 Green Diamond fund every day except one since May 3rd, an unprecedented streak since our inception last July. For many of those days it has dominated the model so much that there have been no 9 Green Diamond funds, a typical distribution would see about 15. That means that no other fund came close in the algorithm’s calculations. IYW gets a 9.27 Reward Rating today but it is the only 9.
We have said we like to write about PWO since it has performed so well and we also like to write about smart beta because it is at the heart of ETF Globalsm. However, the nature of quantitative analysis is that our personal fondness has nothing to do with the scores and ratings which are free of any human emotion. Today’s volatile world markets make that an even more powerful and important selection method.
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Top 5 Reasons Disney Fans Should Go See Live-Action Aladdin
Published May 23, 2019 by Disneyways.com
Aladdin basically repeats the exact story line from our animated favorite, yes, it’s true. But stay with me here – because I’m going to give you 5 reasons to go see this in the theater anyway. There are glorious parts that I think you’ll want to see and hear on the big screen if you are a die-hard Disney fan like I am. We are going to discuss rugs, Elsa moments and some other things to note as well. Fair warning, you may or may not find this review to be “spoiler free.” The story has been out since 1992, grossed more than $502 million at the global box office, and led to successful stage productions on Broadway and abroad as well as a North American touring company. Chances are as a Disney fan – you are familiar with the tale!
“Aladdin” opens in U.S. theaters nationwide May 24, 2019. My future daughter-in-law Kelsey and I attended the media screening on May 21, 2019.
The live-action versions of Mary Poppins, and even Dumbo – switched up the story so it was different from the animated versions. If you go looking for that again, you won’t see it.
Just the same, here is my list of Top 5 Reasons Disney Fans Should Go See Live-Action Aladdin:
#1 The opening song “Arabian Nights” ~ like you’ve never heard it before!
The film opens with a version of the song Arabian Nights – but this time – Will Smith is the singer! YES Will Smith is the Genie. I had trouble wrapping my brain around it before I saw the film. BUT, I think if you had any concerns about live-action Aladdin, especially anything Will Smith-related, they will vanish once that first big song kicks in. As a fan of Will’s work since way back in the day when he was “The Fresh Prince” … it’s safe to say that I have been jamming “Prince Willie Style” for a long time.
For Arabian Nights, I LOVED hearing his voice in full song. Our theater had the volume up pretty loud for the whole film, so it made it extra epic! I got chills hearing Will belt out to the swell of the music:
“Araabiaaan Niiiiiiii-i-i-ghts like Araaabiann Daaaays….”
You can just imagine.
“A Whole New World” and “Friend like Me” won Oscars back in 1992. Why did this one not get one too? “Arabian Nights” is fantastic, so if you enjoyed it in the animated film, I know you are getting me here. By the way, Will Smith as the Genie, did not try to get fancy with the tune or change the arrangement. You’re going to recognize it, it stays true to the classic.
Note how in parts of this film, Genie might remind you a bit of Will’s character in Hitch.
#2 The CAPTIVATING Magic Carpet
Photo Source: Kirsten Acuna from Insider.com and she got it from Disney
I read and saw as little as possible about this film in advance because I wanted to be surprised. I had no idea that the carpet made a splash and was overshadowing all this talk about Will Smith being the Genie – as early as February 2019. But wow, I totally get it now!! Keep your eyes on the carpet – he is CAPTIVATING!! The detail really presents itself on the big screen of a movie theater. I never knew I could get so excited about a rug.
Speaking of “rugs” Mena Massoud who plays Aladdin…bless his heart… what was going on with his hair in this film? Maybe it’s just me and the world that I live in. In case you hadn’t heard, I work with Peter Alden, who is a stunning and talented Elvis Presley Tribute Artist with his own natural and beautiful hair – in a time where even the really young “Elvis guys” wear wigs. I don’t know if Mena was wearing a wig, or if they straightened is hair in an effort to get it to look more like cartoon Aladdin. But the hair was distracting to me. I feel like they could have done better. Or even just left it alone. His natural hair is gorgeous. Go see this film on the big screen and tell me if you get what I am saying here.
Nooooo….
#3 “Speechless” A Princess Anthem: Jasmine has an “Elsa” moment this time around!
I was so glad to hear Genie’s show-stopping familiar songs like”Friend Like Me” and the fantastic “A Whole New World.” The new live action remake of Aladdin brings to life brand new versions of all your favorite songs, but it also adds an all-new tune to the mix.
The courageous and self-determined Princess Jasmine is portrayed by Naomi Scott. Remember her? She used to be a Power Ranger. Go go Princess Jasmine! She has a thick British accent in real life – but she drops it and you totally forget about it during her role as Jasmine. During this film, she sings a new song called “Speechless.”
While watching this in the theater I thought to myself that surely they are trying to recapture the magic of “Let It Go” from Frozen. It really reminded me of that song and the whole Princess Elsa scene. Now that I am researching this whole thing, I have found that there is good reason for that.
The music is by original Aladdin composer, Alan Menken. Jasmine and her storyline with the desire to be free of the constraints of the palace and be recognized for her own abilities was major in the last film – but it’s given even more prominence in this one. The title of the song, “Speechless,” references the state that that those around Jasmine, like Jafar and her father, seem to want her to remain in. She, instead, wants to be able to speak her mind.
Does that sound a little like “Let It Go” to you?
I am from the (non-feminist) school of thought that Princesses were fine the way they were. But I enjoy seeing the girls shine in the newer films as well. So, to me, it’s mostly just nice for Jasmine to get a song of her own, because she never had one in the original animated film. If you recall, Jasmine’s only opportunity to sing back then – was as part of the “Whole New World” duet. Unlike many of Disney’s animated films, Jasmine is a princess that isn’t technically the main character in Aladdin. As I mentioned, she’s a bigger deal in this film….and as a Princess fan, that alone was enough to make me happy. Go see Aladdin in the theater just to catch Princess Jasmine on the big screen having her “Elsa” moment! The colors in the film, the music and the thought behind this — are positive — and fabulous.
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I’m going to leave that right there. The colors, the movement, the music…enough said.
#5 Prince Ali – fabulous he – Ali Ababwa…
Here comes the THRILLING and VIBRANT part. WOW, it was so beautiful, I almost cried. I can’t portray how fantastic this scene was to you in words. It was a moment I was happy that animation became live-action. This alone is a reason all Disney fans should go see this film in the theater, just to fully absorb the splendor. Here’s a YouTube video that gives you a couple sneak peeks at what I am talking about.
It is interesting to note that when Will as the Genie sings the original lyrics “brush off your sunday salaam” he changes them to “brush off your FRIDAY salaam” … all I can think of is that maybe he did that because the film will be released on a Friday? Tell me if you know something about that!
I hope you enjoyed reading my top 5 reasons to see Aladdin in theaters! Send me your list when you go see it! Here are some links so you can follow the official accounts for more fun!
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**Please note that I was invited to a complimentary viewing of this movie on May 21, 2019 so that I could bring you this review. My guest and I each had to pay $8 for parking. The free admission and the money we shelled out for parking, in no way influenced my review, and all opinions are my own.**
Production notes:
Hashtag: #Aladdin
Genre: Action Adventure
U.S. Release date: May 24, 2019
Cast: Will Smith, Mena Massoud, Naomi Scott, Marwan Kenzari, Navid
Negahban, Nasim Pedrad, Billy Magnussen
Directed by: Guy Ritchie
Screenplay by: John August and Guy Ritchie
Animation Screenplay by: Ron Clements & John Musker and Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio
Based on: Disney’s “Aladdin”
Produced by: Dan Lin, p.g.a., Jonathan Eirich, p.g.a.
Executive Producers: Marc Platt, Kevin De La Noy
Music by: Alan Menken
New Lyrics by: Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
Lyrics by: Howard Ashman and Tim Rice
Score by: Alan Menken
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Reviewed by Dustin Putman, July 31, It may not have been groundbreakingly original and it wasn'tbut it ably carried itself purely on the intelligence of the actors and screenplay.
Over nine years have passed now, and although Roberts and Gere are a little bit older, they unfortunately aren't quite as wise in their project choices, as proven by their sophomore reunion with director Garry Marshall.
Unlike "Pretty Woman," "Runaway Bride" constantly feels like a phony, artificially manufactured excuse just to get the two actors together once again.
Apparently, the importance of the writing and story weren't at the top of everyone's minds when they decided to take on this lackluster endeavor. Searching for a revitalizing, interesting story to write about, Ike is told by one of his buddies that there is a young lady in the small rural town of Hale, Maryland, who likes to dump grooms on their wedding day and run away.
When the article finally is written, that woman, Maggie Carpenter Julia Robertswho doesn't purposefully hurt her fiances as much as she has trouble committing herself for a lifetime with one certain person, is humiliated and outraged. Writing a letter to the editor of the USA Today spotting fifteen--count 'em, 15!
Fortunately, his best friend, Fisher Hector Elizondocomes up with a sure-fire way to save Ike's job: Since Ike and Maggie are spending all of their time together, they start to get to know one another to the point that marriage with Ike sounds more appealing than marriage with Bob.
But even if they go through with it, who is to say Maggie won't run again? Simply put, this new film is stuck on auto-pilot, and Review of runaway bride, comes off as a tiresome excursion into terrain that has been covered too many times to count. For one, you know going in that director Garry Marshall wouldn't dare make a Review of runaway bride with these two actors and not have them get together by the final act, so there is nary an ounce of suspense or interest generated from this major aspect of the story.
To shake things up a little, Marshall and screenwriters Josann McGibbon and Sara Parriott should have went a similar route as Roberts' sweet career-revitalizing hit, "My Best Friend's Wedding," which had an upbeat resolution that was nonetheless more truthful and complicated than by just having the two romantic leads get together.
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Perhaps Marshall feared that audiences would get upset if Roberts and Gere didn't live happily ever after at the end, but it, no doubt, would have at least added a sprinkle of originality that is hopelessly absent from almost every scene in the overlong minute running time.
And that's another thing; the film may actually have worked on a minor level had it concluded with its natural ending, but instead, it proceeds to go on for another unnecessary fifteen minutes.
Once again, Julia Roberts and Richard Gere shine in their latest foray, but the romantic heat between the two that was so tangible in "Pretty Woman" isn't present nearly as much here, most likely because the writing, as mentioned, isn't as satisfying.
Their roles of Ike and Maggie also happen to be the least interesting characters in the whole film, which is a glaring flaw that looms overhead most of the picture. No fault of Roberts and Gere, especially, who seems far more loose and care-free than I think I've ever seen him on film, but every time one of the supporting players would appear on-screen, things would brighten up considerably.
Joan Cusack, as always, is a comic delight and standout as Maggie's best friend and hairstylist at the "Curl Up and Dye" Salon which, yes, garnered a big laugh. Cusack is not really wasted, particularly since she and Roberts have a subtle, honest scene together, but it is rather frustrating to constantly see Cusack, one of America's biggest current acting talents, cast in the "friend" role.
Studio heads, take note: Give Cusack the lead in a movie, for once. Believe me, she has proven her worth and is fully capable of holding up a picture on her own. Why don't other people see this? One compliment that probably should be given to the screenwriters is in the three-dimensional treatment given to the ex-wife character of Gere's, played by Rita Wilson in a memorable, superior performance to anything I've seen her in.
Too often overacting or missing the mark see her disappointing work in 's remake of "Psycho"Wilson is perfect here as a woman who still cares for Gere, despite their divorce and avoidance to what went wrong with their marriage, and is able to have a warm, loving relationship with him. Of the other supporting actors, Hector Elizondo is not used nearly as well or effectively as he was in "Pretty Woman" and is given very little to do, while Laurie Metcalf is hilarious in her too-brief performance as the town baker, as is Jean Schertler as Roberts' lovable, if brazen, granny.
When you go to see a movie that features megastars Julia Roberts and Richard Gere and, yet, you mostly want them to disappear into the background so you can watch the people around them strut their stuff, what exactly does that tell you?
In my opinion, it tells you that the screenplay needed an extensive rewrite to strengthen the two lead characters, who aren't nearly as flashy and absorbing as Cusack, Wilson, Metcalf, and Schertler.
When Roberts and Gere finally do come together in the last scene, you are happy for them, but left with an uncertain feeling inside. If Roberts' Maggie really does have a lot of personal problems to work out, then how can you be so sure that she and Ike won't be making a trip to divorce court a week later?
Or, better yet, and it is this plot contrivance that is the most difficult to swallow, why would Maggie be smitten with Ike in the second half when she thoroughly can't stand him in the former section because of the cruel things he wrote about her, in a country-wide newspaper, no less?
Regretfully, "Runaway Bride" too often appears to be so concerned with big box-office receipts that everyone involved forgot about making the film actually good. Sorry, Julia, but don't worry, I still love ya! On second thought, who couldn't?An average soundtrack.
It would have been better if not for a couple of really bad songs (that sound like they are here only to have a modern sounding pop song on the soundtrack) bringing it down.
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This is such a great movie! Okay, now, I guess I am a little partial because I do adore romantic comedies. Runaway Bride has the most romantic ending I've ever seen in a movie (with the exception of An Affair to Remember, nobody can beat that).
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Detailed plot synopsis reviews of Runaway Bride While coming up with column ideas at his favorite bar in New York, columnist Ike Graham (Gere) hears the story of Maggie Carpenter (Roberts), a small-town bride who has run away from several weddings at the last moment.
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Divine White Interior: Church Remodeled into Modern Home
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Some church conversions end up looking like anything but their original function. By using white throughout the stark modern interior of this remodeling project, however, the architects manage to mix both residential minimalism and the classic bright, light and white aspects of an awe-inspiring sanctuary space.
A few black and/or wood furniture pieces and decor objects serve to keep the white walls, ceilings and floors from overtaking the entire (very open-plan) volumes. This use of very basic blacks and whites also make other objects like the organ and the colorful stained glass stand out all the more like art on a museum wall.
Surprisingly little needed changing for this adaptive reuse project (designed by the architects of Zecc): the balcony remains as it was, private areas have stayed put as sleeping and reading spaces (which are also allowed to be a bit darker and cozier in their color schemes), and the most public areas for cooking and general living are placed toward the front of the plan near the main entry.
The subsidiary spaces in the back (both above and below) are more home-like, but this is also not much of a departure from their previous functions as more intimate church spaces. The remodeled bathrooms, for example, are much simpler and softer in their design, while the public kitchen area remains a small piece of the main living room areas.
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In Pursuit Of Shalom
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Storied Past – 15
A look of fear and guilt pushed Paul’s eyes to maximum width. A deed of pure selfishness and utter wrong resurfaced in his mind. If it were other circumstances, he may have charmed his way out of the girl’s certain confrontation. But he could do nothing but lay there in captive submission to whatever she surely was about to unleash on him.
Ramona was so stunned no words came. An awkward awareness of the situation crept up into her brain along with the flush on her face. Paul, or at least that guy; the guy she had spent that evening with in the roadhouse and then . . . and then, well the awful hours and days that followed.
“Paul?” She whispered. “What . . . what happened to you?” She realized the immediate circumstances obviously dominated the initial conversation.
“I . . . I was going to call you.” He stammered out in a weak, muffled voice. “I . . . I’m sorry I . . . ”
“Mister, Paul, or whoever you are, don’t even.” Ramona said in a measured but strong, quiet voice. “I asked you what happened, that’s all. Can you at least give me enough respect to answer me with a little straight truth?” She was gaining confidence with every syllable.
“I’m sorry: yes, I can.” He started to really grasp the vulnerability of his position in this unexpected encounter. There was no way to run even if he wanted to.
“Well, I was walking across the street in an unlighted crosswalk and got hit by some idiot’s truck.”
“Hmmmm.” Ramona breathed. Her mind went to all sorts of responses she could have spat out, like, “Yeah, I did too,” or, “I think the idiot was in the crosswalk,” but to her surprise, she restrained herself.
“Is anything broken?” She kept it practical.
“Well, my chest hurts, my head is wrapped as you can see, and my left leg is in some sort of a cast, I think.”
“Ramona.”
Mr. Beckett called softly from the next bed. “Ramona, could you step over here for a minute?”
Ramona moved around the curtain again to face her father.
“Dad, that is the guy,” she whispered. “The guy I met before . . . I mean, he’s the guy who attacked me. What do I do?”
“Serious? You mean he’s the baby’s father?” Beckett whispered too.
“Yes,” she whispered back. “I know it’s him. What should I do?”
“Well,” he started, “well he’s not going anyplace soon, that’s for sure. We have time to figure it out.”
That was one thing about her father she really respected. He was wise about things. She knew he could analyze and process things very well and he always seemed to come to good decisions about hard situations. Well, except for that irrational outburst in the mercantile store. That was really so unlike his regular demeanor. Church stuff made him act irrational too, though. She had to say that.
“Ramona?” Now the other bed was calling. “Ramona, I . . . I really am sorry. I hope we can have a conversation when I get better. I want to, I mean I’ve been thinking, I mean before this accident, that I need some help. I have been messed up and something has to change. Would you . . . be willing to talk to me, I mean in spite of what I did to you?”
“Mister, I don’t know. I’ll have to think about it. But you aren’t going anywhere soon and I know where you are and I intend to have a short conversation with you, along with somebody like Officer Riley.”
“Really? You would really do that? I know I deserve it. Never mind; just never mind. I mean, please, can’t we just talk first?
“Well, mister, the last time we talked you charmed my pants right off me and that will never happen again!” She spat this out with a venomous edge to her voice now.
“I know, and the drug was totally wrong, too. But that’s what I want to talk about. I . . . well, I need you to know that I wish I could do that night differently. You are such a great girl and I so took advantage of you, I’m . . . I’m such a toad.”
This last sentence seemed to take a great effort to get out of Paul. He looked drained. The whole shock of seeing Ramona in this context and him in such a vulnerable position weakened him physically and emotionally.
Ramona looked at him with a truck load of skepticism. “I will be back. You can be sure of that,” and moved back to the other side. Her father had drifted off to sleep again so she sat down in the worn, plastic overstuffed chair to think. It was 8:25 pm.
Becky had quickly closed the coffee bar. The whole bizarre narrative that Ramona had reeled off earlier has occupied her mind all evening. Fact is, she had to remake a few drinks because she didn’t seem to be able to focus.
What a story! The whole part about the Edith angel, though a strange tale, was entirely in the realm of God activity. After all, hadn’t she and Jeremy prayed for an intervention no matter what or how?
Locking up, she hurried down the street toward the hospital. It was possible Ramona was still visiting her father and she wanted to be there for her.
And what about that guy in the next bed? She wanted to tell Ramona about him, too; that she thought she had encountered him in her coffee store.
The hospital elevator was so slow! But after an eternity and a stop on the second floor to let on an entire entourage of family from the second floor maternity ward, the elevator groaned to a stop on the third.
Confusion from the family about having gotten on the “Up” elevator when it should have been the “Down” caused the doors to open and shut several times before she could wriggle out through the crowd.
“Excuse me, I need to get out. Thank you.” Finally free, she hurried down the corridor to 314.
“Ramona? Oh, good, you’re still here.”
“Hey Becky, guess what? I have to tell you something!”
“Well, I have to tell you something,” Becky insisted.
“The guy in the next bed . . . ,” they both said at once.
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“Where are u? I need 2 talk,” the text read.
“Jeremy! It’s Ramona,” Becky said out loud. “She must be around here somewhere because she wants to meet up with me.”
“That is good news! I wonder where she has been hiding,” Jeremy responded excitedly.
“Yeah, Becky, where’s she been, I wonder where?” Marcy joined in a little louder.
Just then a voice from the next bed chimed in too. “Yeah, if that’s my Ramona, ask her where she’s been. She’s been darting off for days lately. I hope she’s ok.”
Becky moved around to the other side of the curtain so she could address Mr. Beckett again.
“I don’t know yet. I’m responding to her now by text. I hope she’s ok, too. I was afraid she’d left town or something.”
“Oh, God have mercy,” Beckett sighed. “I don’t know why she would do that. Don’t know why she would just take off without saying anything. We don’t have much family so where would she go. Everything she needs is right here in Maple Valley. That’s what sin does! It will take you farther than you will want to go.”
“She must have thought her options had run out here.” Becky didn’t want to get into a religious argument with Mr. Beckett but she did want to present another possibility. Maybe it would give him something to think about.
“Or maybe she is running from something,” she ventured.
“Well she can’t run from her predicament, that’s for sure. The best thing for her to do is get back to church and serve God.”
Just then he winced with pain. His monitor started ticking faster. Becky darted out of the room immediately to find a duty nurse. Jeremy expressed concern and tried to comfort him. Marcy started praying.
Ramona heard the tone on the phone’s message app.
“I’m visiting someone at the hospital but I want to meet you right away. I need to be at work in 45. Want to come there?”
“K” she responded. “See u.”
An intern hurried into the room. “Excuse me,” he barked, “it looks like he needs to rest. Too much excitement. Maybe you should come back later.”
“No worries. Come on, Marcy, we need to let Mr. Beckett rest awhile.”
They both quickly exited.
Becky usually covered the 2-8 pm shift since she was a fairly new hire at Holy Grounds. Foot traffic was lighter in the afternoon and attracted mostly die hard coffee and tea drinkers. She pulled her uniform apron over her head and clocked in. A few minutes later Ramona strode in carrying a valise and flowered overnight bag. Setting them down near a table in the back she approached the counter nearest Becky.
“Hey,” she nodded to Becky.
“Hey yourself,” Becky said. “Are you ok.”
“I think so. You won’t believe what happened though.” Between espresso pulls and tea steeping, Ramona related the events since storming out of the apartment.
“And that’s why I had to get back here,” she finished. “What do you think it means?”
“Wow, that is quite a story. And I think you are right to pay attention. Sometimes weird things happen to shake up our world so we will change direction.”
“Right?” Ramona observed with the faddish rhetorical question. “But I don’t know what to do, really. I thought I needed to . . . to be done with my situation and move on with my life and then, then just when I take steps to do it, it’s like I get stopped by an angel. How crazy is that?”
“Ramona, I’m here for you. I will try to help as much as I can. If you want to keep the baby it would be hard, for sure, but it needs to be a decision you make and feel you can live with.”
She hesitated for a moment but felt she had to say the next part.
“I know you know this, but remember, it is another real person, a life with a future and a destiny who deserves a chance. I hope you will give that person a chance to live that future.”
“Thanks, Becky. I am; I have been thinking about that part. I need to go, to see my dad.” She dashed out before Becky could tell her anything else.
Mr. Beckett was resting more comfortably now. Reflecting on the past hour or so, he thought about his conversation with Becky.
“I guess I shouldn’t have been so harsh with her,” he reasoned. “After all, she probably doesn’t know as much about salvation and God’s ways as I do, or as much as Ramona.”
“Speaking of Ramona, I wonder if she will come see me. Maybe I should dial it back a little and at least try to be happy to see her. Sure miss her mom.”
Arriving at the hospital, Ramona inquired where her father’s room was and as she got onto the elevator a dread of facing him started to form. How would she explain her actions? Should she say anything about her bus trip? About Edith?
As she arrived at the third floor she decided that maybe avoiding trying to explain everything would be best. Mainly she wanted to see how he was doing and would try to stick to that topic.
Entering room 314 Ramona put on a cheerful face.
“Hi Dad! Are you feeling better?”
“Hey, pumpkin. You did come. I was hoping you might.”
“Yeah, dad, I’ve been . . . occupied, but I really should have come sooner. I’m sorry. Are they treating you alright?”
“Yep, except they keep waking me up every two hours to give me shots. Won’t let a guy get any rest. And that new friend of yours came in a couple of hours ago and, well, I . . . ”
“Who came in? You mean Becky? Did she come to see you?”
“Well no, she came to see the guy in the other bed. She didn’t know I was here. That guy was in an accident with a pickup. I think the pickup won.”
“Ouch!” Ramona said. “Who is he?”
“Don’t know. She didn’t know either at first but then I heard her say she recognized him from work.”
Ramona stood up and peered around the curtain. A scream shot out from her mouth and she just as quickly slapped her hand up to stop it. It was too late. The young man’s eyes opened just enough to see where the noise had come from and then they opened all the way with a terrified look.
Calling, Community, Faith, General, Kingdom of God, Love, Prayer, The Church, Uncategorized
Mr. Beckett had just finished breakfast. The remote control was in his hand and he was trying to figure it out. This was a relatively new experience for him as television was looked down on by the church. “Devil-vision,” the Pastor used to call it. “Just another way for Satan to get a hold on your family,” he said. But since he was in the hospital and he was captive to this bed . . . and, since he didn’t ask for it, it was just there, he felt like he had a free pass to explore what was offered.
But interrupting his well rationalized curiosity of forbidden treats was a walk-in who looked vaguely familiar along with a young man and a vagrant.
“Do I know you?” he asked.
“Oh, not really,” Becky returned. “I was with Ramona at the Mercantile store when you . . . uh, when I saw you talking to her. I heard you had a heart attack. Are you feeling better?” This was more awkward that she wanted but knew that since she had spoken first she had better follow through.
“Oh, that.” Beckett exhaled slowly. “Yeah, I was kinda stupid. Yes, I am feeling much better, thank you. Did you come up here to see me?”
“Well, no, not really. I wasn’t expecting that you would be in the same room. I mean, I, we, came to see the guy in the other bed. He was in an accident and was nearly killed.”
“They brought him in here earlier. He looked pretty bad. Do you know him?”
“Well, not yet. We’re hoping we can find out soon. Um, nice meeting you.”
“Yeah, you too.” Beckett said.
Becky walked around the curtain to where Marcy and Jeremy stood looking at the young man laying very still. There were traction devices holding up a cast on one leg and a partial body cast enclosed his upper body and left shoulder. The essential feeding and medicinal tubes were attached to him. It reminded her of that scene in the last Matrix movie where all those babies were in clear cocoons attached to feeding tubes waiting for their bodies to be harvested. Yikes!
His eyes were closed and his face puffy. Wait; his face! She had seen this guy before! Where was it?
Ramona’s journey seemed to be taking forever. She needed to get back and talk to Becky; to see what she had to say about all this weird stuff going on. Only another hour or so and she would be home.
The weather continued to be mild; a little brisk, though. Big, cumulus clouds were spaced so that the bright sunshine made it seem a little warmer than it really was.
Ramona started thinking about her father. She did leave him when he probably needed her to be there; to be supportive even if she was angry with him. That part made her start to feel bad about her behavior. If only he could understand her! If only they could have a relationship more like when Mom was there. He acted happier back then—not so intense.
But the confusing thing to her was that Becky was a Christian too. Yet, their dispositions were quite different. Her dad was usually uptight and appeared angry and sullen at times. Becky never came across like that. What was the difference? As she thought about it, even though people at church seemed friendly, there was this . . . undercurrent of tension, like people weren’t really free to be normal. Like someone was always watching to make sure they didn’t break the rules.
Maybe that was it! That was what she was trying to characterize in her mind. She wanted the freedom to be herself. To live life being real, not who someone else thought she should be. Couldn’t she just enjoy being a young, energetic girl; just go do fun things with friends and not feel like she was being spied on by God’s secret agent pastors?
Of course, not everything she enjoyed was frivolous. Helping people inspired her. She remembered the warm, benevolent stories from the Bible, especially those where Jesus was often visibly affected by the plight of the poor or sick. He healed them and taught about loving and caring for one another. She was always deeply moved when she saw others in need.
She would ask Becky about that, too. She seemed to live life like that. Ramona thought helping people who were poor and needing some help and friendship might be a good thing for her, as well. That City Reach place was doing stuff like that so maybe she could volunteer there sometime.
Marcy stared at the man lying silently. “He kinda’ looks dead, Becky. Is he breathing?” she whispered with a coarse voice. Whispering was not comfortable for Marcy.
“Yes. His heart is beating. Hear that bleep from the machine over there?” Jeremy answered for Becky. She was a bit stunned yet.
“Jeremy, this was the guy that came into Holy Grounds a few weeks ago.” She murmured. “He was hitting on me, trying to get me to meet him after work.”
“Seriously?” he whispered back. “Are you sure?”
“Yes, I’m sure it was him. He was nice but a little too syrupy for me. I didn’t buy what he was selling. Besides, Brad and I are still seeing each other and I didn’t want to ruin that.”
“Shoun’t we pray for him again Becky ‘n Jermy, shoun’t we?” Marcy asked in her best gravelly whisper voice. “We could just ask God to help him git better quick so we could git him saved,” she offered.
“Sure, let’s pray.” Again, Jeremy intervened for Becky who was still in shock at the discovery. He reached out and laid his hand gently on the man’s shoulder.
“Father, please watch over this man and bring healing to his broken body. Allow us an opportunity very soon to tell him about your love for him. Thank you.”
In the next bed, Mr. Beckett lay quietly, straining to hear the conversation. The TV had lost its attraction for the moment. He had never seen these people in church yet they prayed with such brazen faith. And that odd woman who massacred grammar; she didn’t look like a Christian either!
“Pretty scruffy, if you ask me,” he thought. “I don’t know how God would listen to her dressed like that.”
Just then a vibration jolted Becky into cognizance. It was a text . . . from Ramona!
-To Be Continued-
Birthday Blog June 28, 2015
A Song I Can Sing June 21, 2015
Storied Past – 21 May 26, 2015
Storied Past – 20 April 16, 2015
Storied Past – 19 March 29, 2015
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Stony Brook Theses & Dissertations [SBU]
Exploring Advanced Communication Primitives Using Greedy Routing in Sensor Networks and Other Complex Networks
Ban_grad.sunysb_0771E_11233.pdf (52.18Mb)
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Ban, Xiaomeng
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Scalable point-to-point routing on a wireless sensor network has been an active research topic for the past ten years. The major challenge comes from the fundamental resource limitation of sensor nodes, in terms of storage size and communication bandwidth. The solution that requires a node to acquire the entire network topology does not scale well. In the past few years there have been a number of innovative proposals on scalable routing schemes where each node only keeps local information and a routing path can be discovered by iteratively applying greedy routing decisions. Such work has mainly focused on issues such as guaranteed delivery and low path stretch, and has been relatively successful in that regard. The goal of this dissertation is to move on with greedy routing techniques and explore more advanced communication primitives. The first challenge comes from load balancing in sensor networks. In large scale sensor networks it is critical to balance out work load on different sensors, to prolong network lifetime and prevent immature node failures or network disconnection. We propose two different techniques to balance out traffic load in the case of uniform network traffic pattern. Given a sensor network densely deployed on a simply connected domain omega, we apply area-preserving map to transform omega to a disk D, then use load balanced routing on the virtual coordinates of the sensor nodes on the disk D. Another technique we propose applies on a 3-connected sensor network deployed on a domain possibly with holes inside, we use discrete Ricci flow to compute the circle packing of the spherical embedding of the 3-connected planar subgraph, and apply a heuristic algorithm by Mobius transformation to optimize load balancing across the sensor nodes. The second issue is exploring the path space in sensor networks. In a sensor network there could exist multiple disjoint paths between a source and a destination, an efficient method to explore and navigate in the `path space' can help many important routing objectives, e.g., high network throughput, low latency and fast recovery on network failures. We present distributed algorithms based on Mobius transformation on circular domains. The algorithms use local information and limited global information to generate disjoint multi-paths for a given source destination pair or switch to a different path 'on the fly' when transmission failure is encountered. This method compares favorably in terms of performance and cost metrics with centralized solutions of using flow algorithms or random walk based decentralized solutions in generating alternative paths. Thirdly, greedy routing could suffer from a wormhole attack, in which the adversary places two radio transceivers connected by a high capacity link and retransmits wireless signals from one antenna to the other. This creates a set of shortcut paths in the network, and may attract a lot of traffic to the wormhole link. We introduce a wormhole detection and removal algorithm based on local connectivity tests. The algorithm uses purely local connectivity information, handles multiple wormhole attacks and generalizes to wireless networks deployed in 3D. It does not suffer from typical limitations in previous work such as the requirements of special hardware, communication models, synchronization, node density etc, and guarantees to detect and remove the wormholes. Last but not the least, greedy routing can be extended to routing on a general graph due to its simplicity and efficiency, especially for navigation in real-world complex networks. We systematically investigate the conjecture made in earlier small world navigation studies that many real-world complex networks are navigable. That is, it is possible to discover a hidden metric space purely from the network connectivity information alone that permits greedy routing on the coordinates in the hidden space to discover extremely short paths for a majority of node pairs. We confirm the conjecture, delivering packages in a majority of cases in each of our five empirical networks, from a diverse set of application scenarios.
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Stony Brook Theses & Dissertations [SBU] [1956]
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Homechevron_rightIndiachevron_rightReservoir gates opened ...
Reservoir gates opened in Chennai after about five years as inflow increases
IMD said Nivar would cross over between Karaikal and Mamallapuram "during the midnight of November 25 and early hours of 26 November."
People use plastic sheets to cover from heavy rains in Chennai as cyclone Nivar approaches the southeastern coast of the country on November 25, 2020
Chennai: Coastal and north interior Tamil Nadu is having incessant rainfall on Wednesday, under the influence of severe Nivar cyclone advancing towards the region.
As a result the storage level touched 3,000 million cubic feet in the Chembarambakkam reservoir as against it full capacity of 3,645 Mcft, authorities on Wednesday began releasing about 1,000 cusecs into the Adyar river as a precautionary measure.
In its latest bulletin, the IMD said Nivar would cross over between Karaikal and Mamallapuram "during the midnight of November 25 and early hours of 26 November."
The storm, 250 km off Chennai and 190 km and 180 km from Puducherry and Cuddalore respectively is very likely to move northwestwards and cross coasts as a "very severe cyclonic storm with a wind speed of 120-130 kmph gusting to 145 kmph."
As the surplus waters gushed forth with the opening of shutters after about five years, Chief Minister K Palaniswami inspected the dam premises and reviewed the precautionary measures and the outflow.
Palaniswami said he advised the officials to "carry out their work cautiously and without causing any inconvenience to the people." On the dam's storage position, the Chief Minister told reporters that it has reached 21.5 feet.
"The reservoir is receiving about 4,000 cusecs and from noon 1,000 cusecs is being released," he said adding surplus water of about 2,000 feet from Aadhanur lake in the suburbs was also being let into the Adyar River.
"The Adyar River could carry up to 60,000 cusecs and people need not have any apprehensions. All precautions have been taken," he said and pointed out that approximately, only 6,000 cusecs now flowed in the river.
A flood control official of the Public Works Department said the storage level was close to 22 feet as against the full height of 24 feet. As per norms inflows received from now onwards should be released 'as it is' and it would be done in a phased manner, the official said.
The storage has increased in view of inflows from the Krishna river coupled with the monsoon rains and the current inflow stood at 4,027 cusecs (cubic feet per second), he said in a communique.
An alert, already sent by the PWD to local authorities said, "the outflow will be increased step by step based on the inflows."
The Chembarambakkam reservoir, which is among the very four important drinking water sources to Chennai is spread across 25.51 square kilometers and it is located in Kancheepuram district's Kundrathur taluk. Poondi, Cholavaram and Red Hills are the other reservoirs.
The Adyar river empties into the sea, traversing city localities like Kotturpuram and suburban neighbourhoods including Sirugalathur and Kundrathur.
People, who gathered eagerly to witness the water release along the river bank were advised by the authorities to move away considering their safety while intermittent rains lashed the city and suburbs.
The Greater Chennai Corporation said it has cleaned up the Adyar creek besides other canals and lakes like Mambalam and Velachery respectively.
The GCC said it has already advised people living close to the river like those in Jafferkhanpet to move to its shelters adding "169 shelters are open and ready."
For assistance, people may contact them at 044-25384530 and 044-25384540, the GCC said.
Palaniswami said all precautionary measures have been taken in view of the cyclone and so far 400 people have been accommodated here in relief shelters here.
Waterlogging has been reported from 30 low lying areas and GCC has deployed heavy duty motor pumps to drain the rain water, he said.
Also, electricity poles that were affected in city localities have been set right immediately by electricity corporation personnel, he said and appreciated government employees for their work.
City police said 12 teams, led by sub-inspectors of Armed Reserve, with necessary equipment and boats have been deployed for relief work. Police appealed to the people to seek their assistance, if needed by contacting the temporary control room at 9498181239.
As many as 38 uprooted trees were removed by them with the assistance of GCC and disaster relief workers, they said.
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Jan 20 | How Much Does the Region Lose in Crime?
Dec 17 | Costa Rica: The High Cost of Insecurity
Sep 14 | Costa Rica: Private Security Grows Octopus Style
Mar 14 | Alarm Systems in Homes Nicaragua
Dec 13 | Salvadorean Carriers Pay $36 million in Extortion
Dec 13 | Agriculture in Guatemala Cornered by Crime
Dec 14 | Insecurity Affecting Productivity of Sugar Sector
Jun 14 | Extortion Stifling Entrepreneurs in Guatemala
May 14 | The Private Security Business in Costa Rica
Apr 13 | Private Companies Spend More on Security than State
Jun 11 | Costa Rica: Growth in Private Security Spending
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How Much Does the Region Lose in Crime?
Because of factors such as business closures and lack of opportunities, it is estimated that criminal activity costs Honduras and El Salvador 16% of GDP, and in the case of Guatemala, its losses could amount to 7% of its production.
In Central America, the human costs of crime remain one of the highest in the world. El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras—referred to as the Northern Triangle— account for about four-and-a-half percent of homicides worldwide despite only having about one-half-percent of the world's population.
Costa Rica: The High Cost of Insecurity
One in five companies claims to have been a victim of crime this year, and 80% say that about 10% of their operating costs correspond to security.
From a statement issued by the Costa Rican Union of Chambers and Associations of Private Business Sector (UCCAEP):
December 18, 2017 The situation of insecurity that the country is experiencing is also hitting private sector companies hard. This has been revealed by the IV Quarterly Business Survey "Pulso Empresarial" (Business Pulse), prepared by the Costa Rican Union of Chambers and Associations of the Private Business Sector (UCCAEP).
Insecurity Affecting Productivity of Sugar Sector
Added to the production costs assumed by Salvadoran sugarcane growers during the harvest is expenditure to be made on private security and support for the police to prevent theft and extortion.
Sugarcane growers have allocated a budget for additional security costs which must be assumed due to increased threats and extortion by criminals.
Costa Rica: Private Security Grows Octopus Style
Limits to the number of contracted officers and other legal conditions are forcing large security companies to create smaller subsidiaries dedicated to providing services in specific areas.
So far this year 145 new security companies have registered with the Ministry of Public Security, about the same number of new businesses created during 2013, when there were 150. Including those who came into the market this year the total number of companies authorized to provide private security services in the country is 1,539.
Extortion Stifling Entrepreneurs in Guatemala
Just on the hiring of private security services companies spend $243 million per year, on top of the payments made to those extorting transport carriers on the roads.
These unpunished crimes are not just affecting freight companies operating in the country, but are also increasingly reducing the possibility Guatemala has to attract more and better foreign investment which would contribute to its socioeconomic development.
The Private Security Business in Costa Rica
Between 2003 and 2013 the number of registered services to provide private security companies increased 13 times.
A report by the Comptroller General of the Republic specifies that added to companies providing security services are also individuals registered as agents, which to date amounts to 29,582 people. The Comptroller noted that this rapid growth has created weaknesses in the supervision of this activity by the state, which does not have, according to the institution, sufficient resources to exercise proper control.
Central America: Highest Homicide Rate in the World
Drug trafficking and gangs are the main factors responsible for intentional murders in the most violent countries in the world: Honduras, Belize, El Salvador and Guatemala.
According to a report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime at the United Nations (UNODC), in 2012 Honduras recorded 90.4 killings per 100,000 inhabitants.
Alarm Systems in Homes Nicaragua
The growth in the supply of housing has led to an increase in demand for electronic security systems.
" ... The residential sector needs physical security (surveillance) , electric fences, alarm systems and camera systems, but not all homes have them.
Salvadorean Carriers Pay $36 million in Extortion
Despite the increase in extortion payments, 33 drivers died at the hands of criminals in 2013.
Catalino Miranda, representing the Federation of Transport Unions (FECOATRANS) said "this amount of money was paid by the employers of the 10,500 units that exist at the national level." In 2012 it reported $18 million in extortion payments.
Agriculture in Guatemala Cornered by Crime
Guatemalan agricultural employers spend $300 million on private security representing between 12% and 16% of their budgets.
Prensalibre.com reports that "the Chamber of Agriculture (Camagro) reported that during 2013 there was an increase in criminal acts such as kidnappings, threats and extortions against their workers, as well as the theft and destruction of private property ... "
Lack of Security on Guatemalan Roads
Companies use up to 12% of their budgets to provide security for their transportation teams.
In an article in Prensalibre.com, Carolina Castellanos, executive director of AmCham, said that the road blockades are causing uncertainty for companies and that it is impacting on the cost of products, causing them to rise.
The Problems For Tourism in Guatemala
A survey of 355 tourism companies and hotels points to the cost of power and insecurity as the main obstacles for the tourism sector.
Hotel occupancy in 2012 was 52%, down 3% compared to the figures reported in 2011. The survey conducted by the Association for Research and Social Studies (ASIES) reveals that 71% of operators did not have their expectations met last year regarding the number of tourists expected for Oxlajuj Baktun.
Criminal Violence and Corruption Curbs Business
The phenomenon affects much of Latin America, whose countries spend on average 8% of their GDP on security costs.
That was the conclusion reached during the forum "Connecting businesses as partners for prosperity with security in the Americas", organized by the Organization of American States (OAS) and the private sector, under the framework of the Guatemala Investment Summit.
Perception of Safety by Businesses in El Salvador
A survey of Salvadoran entrepreneurs reveals that during 2012, 66% of their companies or their staff were affected up to twice by extortion, kidnapping and murder.
The Survey ENADE 2013 assesses businesses' perception of the performance of government officials, in public safety, fiscal policy and democratic institutions.
Private Companies Spend More on Security than State
In El Salvador, the state budget allocated to security is $500 million a year, while the total amount invested by private enterprises for self-protection is $600 million.
"The combined budgets (National Civil Police, the Attorney General's Office and the Armed Forces of El Salvador) total about $500 million and the private sector invests over $600 million annually on security issues," said Jorge Daboub, president of the National Association of Private Enterprise (ANEP).
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Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Family Coalition Party candidate Vicki Gunn, Glengarry-Prescott-Russell
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Ontario general election, 2007
Algoma-Manitoulin: FCP
Ajax-Pickering: GRN
Beaches-East York: FCP
Bramalea-Gore-Malton: GRN, NDP, PC
Brant: PC
Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound: NDP
Carleton—Mississippi Mills: GRN
Chatham—Kent—Essex: FCP
Don Valley East: FRE
Don Valley West: FCP
Durham: PC
Essex: LBR
Hamilton Centre: GRN
Hamilton East: FCP
Kenora—Rainy River: PC
Kitchener Centre: FCP
Kitchener-Conestoga: LBR
Lambton—Kent—Middlesex: FCP
London-Fanshawe: PC
London North Centre: GRN
Nepean-Carleton: FCP, GRN
Newmarket-Aurora: FCP
Oakville: GRN
Ottawa Centre: COMM
Ottawa-Orleans: FRE
Ottawa West-Nepean: GRN
Oxford: LIB
Parkdale-High Park: LBR
Peterborough: GRN
Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke: NDP
Scarborough-Rouge River: LBR, NDP
St. Paul's: FCP, IND
Sudbury: FCP
Thornhill: GRN
Toronto Centre: COMM
Toronto—Danforth: LBR, COMM
Thunder Bay-Atikokan: GRN
Trinity-Spadina: LIB, PC
Vaughan: GRN, NDP
Welland: GRN
Willowdale: GRN, FCP
Windsor-Tecumseh: GRN
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Vicki Gunn is running for the Family Coalition Party in the Ontario provincial election, in the Glengarry-Prescott-Russell riding. Wikinews' Nick Moreau interviewed her regarding her values, her experience, and her campaign.
Stay tuned for further interviews; every candidate from every party is eligible, and will be contacted. Expect interviews from Liberals, Progressive Conservatives, New Democratic Party members, Ontario Greens, as well as members from the Family Coalition, Freedom, Communist, Libertarian, and Confederation of Regions parties, as well as independents.
Why have you chosen to involve yourself in the political process? Why did you choose to run in this constituency?
The basic grouping of our society, the family, has been undermined by government for years. Parents are involved in a struggle with the government to raise their families.
Parents are penalised should they wish to educate their children with their values. They must either pay public school taxes and pay the cost of private schooling or pay public school taxes and purchase supplies and home school their children or send their children to public school to have them taught values contrary to their family values.
Our teenagers are encouraged to leave home at 16 years because the government will provide them with student welfare. Our government will not provide the love and direction parents will, they will simply offer our children a way to elude family discipline and live without rules. Then we can all deplore our society where teenagers are violent and out of control.
Our government has undermined the vows of marriage by reducing them to a contract then offering us ways to break the contract. They've redefined the function of marriage to make it simply a sexual contract between any two adults.
It's for this reason that I have entered the political process in Ontario.
What prior political experience do you have? What skills and insight can you bring to office, from other non-political positions you may have held?
I have served twice as a candidate for the federal Christian Heritage Party. I am able offer creative solutions to problems. I am able to work with different people to achieve a common goal. I am willing to stand alone, if I must, against pressure to conform to an idea or course of action. I am thrifty with other people's money, such as tax dollars, as well as my own. I believe in personal responsibility for our actions... not excuses. I am a good listener, I have spent 11 years volunteering at a distress centre.
Which of your competitors do you expect to pose the biggest challenge to your candidacy? Why?
All of them because they all seek a mandate from the people of Glengarry-Prescott-Russell.
What makes you the most desirable of all candidates running in the riding?
I am not a resident of the riding so my decisions will not be based in local bias or favouritism. I come with a commitment to help empower families with the authority which is rightfully theirs. I seek to serve, not because of a love for power but, because I believe that we need strong families to build a strong society and economy. I would cheerfully address the issues of G-P-R and maintain a residence there to ensure there is access to me as their MPP.
What do you feel are the three most important issues to voters in your riding? Are these the same top three issues that are most important to you? What would you do to address these issues?
My first priority is our families. It is for them that we work and seek to maintain a stable home life. I believe the welfare of their families is of prime importance to the people of G-P-R. Whether it's recreational concerns, information provided to them outside of approved sources such as the internet, education or child care. People are concerned primarily about their family. This would be the first area I would seek to address. I would do so by decreasing government involvement in our personal lives. I would like to see parents empowered to make decisions for the well-being of their family. This would include the freedom to choose what form of education the children should have.
Access to health care - There are too many people who do not have access to a family doctor. A cooperative clinic does not provide the same access. Wait times in hospitals can be as long as 10 hours in the emergency room. For all the touting of things getting better, this was about 1 month ago. These are important issues.
Elective surgeries should not be paid for by public health care. They are elective and thus un-essential. The health care savings would ensure that we are able to fully provide necessary and lifesaving medical care.
I would work with the federal government to develop a testing and upgrading system to ensure qualified foreign doctors become active medical practitioners within our system.
Rural areas find the shortage of doctors even more challenging than large cities. We would strengthen the Under-serviced Areas Training Program, providing tuition, books and living expenses for each year of medical school in exchange for an equal number of years in under-serviced areas.
While small communities generally have less dramatic crimes, where there is crime there are victims. We need to protect the rights of law abiding citizens over those of convicted offenders.
Educationally, we need to promote personal responsibility. Violent offenders should need not receive reduced sentences.
What should be the first order of business in the 39th Legislative Assembly?
The first order of business should be to recognise the intrinsic value of the family and seek to withdraw all programs which interfere in the health of the family. This would include: eliminate funding for abortion which has contributed to our nationwide crisis due to the loss of 'replacement birthrate'. This problem will still compound for many years but it would be a first step towards resolving the issue; it would also include a voucher system for education to ensure that parents are in control of how their children are educated; The FCP would also seek to remove social assistance to youth under 18 who have parents able to support them.
Are the property taxes in your riding at a fair level for the amount of services received in the municipality?
Because of the vast infrastructure which must be maintained using a limited income source, I believe that property taxes are above what they should be. Municipalities are closer to the people thus they should be able to provide the services using some of the tax strategies of federal and provincial governments. Property taxes are paid only by homeowners, there are many people who do not own homes but using the services. We need a system of taxing fairly all users of our infrastructure.
How can the province lead the way in stimulating job creation?
The province can lead the way by encouraging the growth of small business. Enabling people to become self-employed stimulates the economy with new jobs. By taking the pressure off municipalities to offer incentives for large companies to move from municipality to municipality, depending on where they get the best tax break.
What are your views on the mixed member proportional representation (MMP) referendum?
I believe it will better represent the diverse opinions which are part of this province. Under the present FPTP system the majority of opinions are not represented in the Legislature because they have been effectively silenced by false majority governments. We need to allow representation to all members and viewpoints in Ontario.
What role, if any, does "new media" play in your campaign, and the campaign of your party? (websites, blogs, Facebook, YouTube videos, etc) Do you view it as beneficial, or a challenge?
My campaign is largely based in 'new media'. I live 3-4 hours from the riding for which I am the candidate. This means that I must use the opportunities provided by websites, emails etc.
Of the decisions made by Ontario's 38th Legislative Assembly, which was the most beneficial to your this electoral district? To the province as a whole? Which was least beneficial, or even harmful, to your this riding? To the province as a whole?
The decision to go ahead with the Citizen's Assembly on Electoral Reform was the most beneficial. The decision to break promises was the most harmful. A promise in which there is the least possibility of it being broken under any circumstances should not be made. Broken promises have the effect of estranging public and those who should be representing them.
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Azure Analysis Services - How to process an asynchronous model refresh from .NET
By James Broome Director of Engineering 19th March 2020
In previous posts, I've explained how to connect to Azure Analysis Services using .NET and Powershell, execute DAX queries to return data, and retrieve metadata about the underlying tabular model. Being able to do all of this enables integration into custom applications and processes, meaning you can unleash the raw analytical processing power of Azure Analysis Services in a whole variety of new ways.
However, up to now, everything I've described has been based on a static, read-only model. And whilst there's no reason why you can't take this a step further and perform model updates through these same integrations - for example, updating the expression behind a calculated column based on a user-defined value in your custom application - if you do, the important thing to realise is that these changes won't take effect until the model and data have been re-processed.
There's a number of ways to trigger the processing of a model using methods such as TOM (Tabular Object Model), PowerShell cmdlets, or TMSL (Tabular Model Scripting Language), as well as client tooling like SQL Server Management Studio. However, these methods can require often unreliable, long-running HTTP connections, which is problematic as data refresh operations can take some time depending on a number of factors including data volume and level of optimisation using partitions etc.
REST API for Azure Analysis Services
Alongside the general purpose Azure management API, there is a specific REST API for Azure Analysis Services, which deals solely with asynchronous processing of tabular models (but uses the terminology "refresh" rather than "process").
This API is part of Azure Analysis Services itself – i.e. it's cloud-only, so isn't available for your on-premise SQL Analysis Services instances.
The key part to this is that it's asynchronous – in fact, it's the *only* way to trigger an asynchronous refresh. All the other methods (using the previous mentioned SDKs, or PowerShell) rely on a long-running HTTP connection which is error prone if data volumes are large, or models contain complex calculations and data manipulations.
It's not clear if this API will evolve over time to include other useful Azure Analysis Services-specific features, but whilst it currently only serves a single purpose, it fills a gap that the other integrations don't support.
Triggering a refresh from .NET
With this API, by using any programming language that supports REST calls (for example, C#), you can perform asynchronous data refresh operations on your Azure Analysis Services tabular models.
As you'd expect, in .NET, this means using an HttpClient to point to the API to issue requests, as show in the first code sample below. Authentication with the API is performed using a Bearer token, which I explain about in a previous post (as well as providing the necessary code sample).
As the API is asynchronous, it follows a standard "long running operations" pattern of:
Issuing a POST request to start the operation
Returning an HTTP 202 Accepted response, along with a Location header that specifies the ID of the operation.
Issuing GET requests to check the status of the operation using the ID.
The refresh operation can be customised in the JSON payload - to target specific tables in the model, force a "full" refresh, rather than just the delta of changes, as well as tweaking parallelism of processing to influence performance. The full API specification is documented here.
The next code sample issues the request and returns the ID of the operation for subsequent status polling by the calling client.
Polling the refresh status from .NET
Finally, once the refresh has started and we have the ID, we can issue subsequent requests to check the status. Depending on the complexity and scale of the model, this could take seconds, minutes, or hours! So, the polling mechanism and frequency completely depends on the specific use case.
The last code sample calls the API again to retrieve the status of the operation, using the ID previously returned.
With the REST API for Azure Analysis Services, it's possible to trigger asynchronous refreshes of your data models, which is necessary for maintaining responsive and reliable custom applications when underlying model changes are made.
This post shows how easy it is to call the REST API from a .NET application, giving you everything you need to get started with more complex Azure Analysis Service integration scenarios.
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Officer in Katrina case claims new evidence found
A New Orleans police officer convicted of writing a false report about the deadly police shooting of a man in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina claims he has new evidence that could clear him.
NEW ORLEANS – A New Orleans police officer convicted of writing a false report about the deadly police shooting of a man in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina claims he has new evidence that could clear him.
Lt. Travis McCabe was convicted in December of charges he falsified a report to make it appear that a former officer, David Warren, was justified in shooting 31-year-old Henry Glover in September 2005. Sgt. Purnella Simmons, a government witness, testified that fabricated material was added to her original report without her knowledge.
Simmons couldn't produce her original report, but McCabe's lawyers said in a court filing Monday that they have found a copy she gave Warren in December 2005 that is "identical in substance" to the version McCabe was convicted of falsifying.
Warren's lawyers found the copy in their files after the trial. The discovery provides "overwhelming" evidence that there were never different versions of the narrative in the report on Glover's shooting, McCabe's lawyers wrote.
"The fact that there was always only one version of the report narrative negates the government's entire basis for prosecuting Officer McCabe," they wrote.
McCabe's attorneys are asking U.S. District Judge Lance Africk to set aside his convictions or order a new trial.
"The manner in which the newly discovered evidence exonerates Travis McCabe could not have been planned or designed by anyone," McCabe's lawyers added. "This is simply a case of the truth coming out."
A spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney Jim Letten declined comment Tuesday, saying prosecutors would respond in writing to McCabe's filing.
The jury in December also convicted Warren of manslaughter for shooting Glover without justification and convicted Officer Gregory McRae of burning his body in a car. McCabe, Warren and McRae are scheduled to be sentenced in March or April.
Lt. Dwayne Scheuermann was acquitted of burning the body. Former police Lt. Robert Italiano was cleared of charges he submitted the false report and lied to the FBI.
Prosecutors said Warren shot the unarmed man in the back while guarding a police substation at a strip mall on Sept. 2., 2005. Warren testified he thought he saw a gun in Glover's hand, but his partner that day said Glover wasn't armed and didn't pose a threat.
McRae admitted he burned Glover's body in a car after he was driven to a makeshift police headquarters.
The newly discovered version of the report and the version McCabe was charged with doctoring have some grammatical differences. Both versions describe the chaotic state of New Orleans after Katrina and state that two police supervisors determined Warren was justified in shooting Glover.
All five officers charged in the case testified at trial, describing grueling, dangerous conditions after the Aug. 29, 2005 storm, when thousands of desperate people were trapped in the flooded city. Looting was rampant, bodies rotted in the streets and officers recalled they had no time to write reports or investigate anything but the most serious crimes.
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A Yeti in the Valley of the Yetis.
Yetis are featured animals in Far Cry 4 found only in "The Valley of the Yetis".
Yetis are an ancient species of ape-like animals that live in the hidden Valley of the Yetis.
They are very aggressive and feared creatures that will attack anything that provokes them with extremely powerful attacks and can endure any heavy weapon. Ajay first encounters a yeti after escaping Durgesh Prison, but passes out before the creature gets closer. Ajay is sent north of Kyrat and into the mountains to find something called "The Relic", which turns out to be yellow glowing tree that emits a yellow gas or yellow spores. Inhalation of the Relic's gas turns people mad: they begin to hear voices and see visions, and eventually are said to transform people into Yetis. A religious cult called the Disciples processed the product of the Relic into a liquid called "the Elixir" which they force feed to people so they become Yetis, which the Disciples revere. The Golden Path have only heard rumors that the Relic could be a powerful weapon that Yuma Lau sought and planned to use it against Pagan Min. The Golden Path sent Ajay and his pilot Sukhwinder to the Valley of the Yetis in order to retrieve it but their helicopter is shot down by the Disciples and crashes on a ridge of the hidden valley. Ajay wakes up from the wreckage to find his pilot is missing and starts hearing radio chatter from the Disciples cult about how they've kidnapped Sukhwinder and have isolated the valley. Eventually, Ajay came to see that the Lost Valley's caves are filled with luminescent fungi with ape-like statues, which the Disciples claim are depictions of Yalung. After attempting to rescue his pilot, Ajay is knocked out and first encounters the Yetis eating human flesh. Later on, Ajay finds the Yetis are being worshiped and feared by the Disciples who they call "The Awakened". Ajay encounters the Yetis the more he explores the valley, and they prove to be more powerful than any animal he's ever fought.
Yeti's first Concept Art
Standing taller than a man, the Yetis have greyish fur with a strange orange scaring on their chests and parts of their faces. Those found in the final mission of the DLC have white fur.
Yetis are very resilient to any firearm, including heavy weapons. When enraged they charge on all fours proving to be incredibly fast and knock over vehicles. The best way to kill one is to aim for their heads which will disorient them, then go behind them to perform a takedown which will kill them instantly.
A recommended weapon is the AMR which will kill them with a single shot and does not require Ajay to perform a takedown. The AMR is a signature weapon (A Signature Version of a Z93 sniper rifle) that can also be found within the Valley of the Yetis.
Although Yetis have high resistance towards most weapons, they can simply be run over and die on impact.
According to the expedition journals, some witnessed the Yetis drinking water from the hot springs which contain the orange substance from the glowing fungi, after analyzing the strange substance, men from the camp site began drinking the liquid and began feeling high and more powerful which made them more and more addicted to it. Side effects included screaming, hallucination, extreme aggression and inflammation around the faces and orange eyes. As a result, the men hid away in caves and began to mutate, which the Disciples call "Awakening". Finally over an unknown period of time they evolved into Yetis.
Much earlier in Kyrat's history, the road to the valley was cut off and destroyed because the Fungi was believed by the people to be a dark gift from the demonic entity known as Yalung. Out of fear they destroyed the pass allowing the yetis to fade into myth and legend. It seems that judging by the bodies those who drink the elixir undergo a mutated transformation within a dark environment, also there's a chance the chosen possibly die during the mutation process. Those who survive the process evolve into yetis but are put into a primitive state of mind relying entirely on instinct to hunt and kill anyone in their path.
According to notes of some Sandesh soldiers in the valley, to turn a person into Yeti without drinking anything you need to collect elixir and distill it, so an odor makes people start to suffer hallucinations and become Yetis, even if it is much more time consuming as with Digvijay, a civilian that was rescued by Ajay. Digvijay has hallucinations and voices in his head, similar to the changes, but only slower. Possibly, the Disciples made this process to delay the transformation because their skin is orange and the ultimate goal of those who follow Sandesh is to turn into an Awakened, which would occur in due time.
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Second Yeti Concept Art
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NEJM paper details RADx initiative for accelerating COVID-19 diagnostics
In a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine, scientific leaders from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) set forth a framework to increase significantly the number, quality and type of daily tests for detecting SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and help reduce inequities for underserved populations that have been disproportionally affected by the disease.
The paper's authors represent a range of NIH institutes, including the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, the National Institute of Nursing Research, the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, the National Institute on Aging, and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
The authors described the current testing landscape and explain the urgent need for nationwide deployment of low-complexity, point-of-care molecular diagnostics with rapid results. To fill this urgent need, the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) program was established in just five days following the announcement of $1.5 billion in federal stimulus funding in April 2020. RADx covers the entire life cycle of the target testing technologies, is tightly focused on timelines and outcomes, receives applications from small and large companies and is expressly focused on health disparities. Although RADx is based at NIH, its members are closely coordinating with the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), and the Department of Defense (DoD).
Current testing methods to diagnose COVID-19 detect either viral RNA or viral antigens. These tests are highly sensitive and specific when conducted in centralized laboratories with standardized protocols, but require a large amount of lab space, complex equipment, regulatory approvals for the laboratory operations and skilled technicians. Results may take hours to days, and samples often need transport to a central laboratory, furthering delays. During that time someone who is unknowingly carrying the virus may go on to infect others, instead of being quickly isolated. These issues highlight the need for reliable, rapid, point-of-care testing diagnostics.
RADx includes four major components to enable approximately 6 million daily tests in the United States by December 2020, many times the current daily testing rate. In the near term, RADx confronts the pandemic by expanding testing capacity by fall 2020 as the nation faces the beginning of seasonal flu. In the slightly longer-term RADx aims to produce additional innovative diagnostic technologies and strategies for making testing available to diverse, vulnerable and underserved populations.
1. RADx Tech aims to identify, accelerate development, scale up and deploy innovative point-of-care technologies throughout the fall of 2020. The program uses an “innovation funnel” design where applications quickly move through multiple stages of review with increasing scrutiny. This has been compared to a “shark tank” model. About 15-20% of RADx Tech applications will qualify for additional consideration and review. Of those applications, less than one-third will move to rigorous Phase 1 testing and validation through NIH’s Point-of-care Technology Research Network (POCTRN). If a project is judged successful at that point, rapid scale up and clinical testing gets underway, with substantial financial assistance provided. As of July 13, over 600 applications had been submitted, with 27 projects advancing to Phase 1 and one project advancing to Phase 2.
2. RADx Advanced Technology Platforms (RADx-ATP), will support the scale-up of more advanced technologies that can achieve immediate, substantial increases in capacity. The program uses a rapid-response application process for companies with existing point-of-care technologies authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for detecting SARS-CoV-2 that can scale production to between 20,000 and 100,000 tests per day by the fall. Additionally, RADx-ATP will seek to expand “mega-labs” across the country that can increase testing capacity to 100,000 to 250,000 tests per day.
3. RADx Radical (RADx-rad) will focus on truly non-traditional approaches for testing that have a slightly longer horizon. This program will evaluate a wide range of technologies, such as home-based testing and repurposing of existing technologies for detecting SARS-CoV-2. Moreover, RADx-rad will support projects that use of biological or physiological biomarkers to detect an infection or predict the severity of disease, including the likelihood of developing multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), or using chemosensory changes as an early indicator of viral positivity. Other examples include the use of biosensors to detect the presence of the virus in the breath, or the analysis of wastewater to conduct community-based surveillance.
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Also prior to joining FSF, from 2006-2008, Vatske served as the Outreach Coordinator & District Press Secretary for a United States Congresswoman, where she was responsible for media relations, community outreach/improvement, constituent engagement, and district events.
During her tenure with FSF, Vatske was named a “Top Workplace Professional” by the Sun-Sentinel in 2016 and was named “40 Under 40” by the South Florida Business Journal in 2014. Vatske sits on Feeding America’s Network Fundraising Services Advisory Council.
Vatske holds a Master of the Arts in International Relations from Florida Atlantic University and a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from Florida State University. Vatske has a certificate in High-Performance Leadership from Cornell University and is a Six Sigma Green Belt as well as a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE).
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Since his arrival in 2012, Vélez has increased the number of pounds of food distributed across Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade, and Monroe Counties, from 29.6 million pounds in 2012 to 50 million pounds in 2018. He has increased funding and reduced expenses to ensure a healthy financial position for the organization, bringing it from seven figures in the red to seven figures in the black.
South Florida Business Journal named Vélez as Ultimate CEO of 2015, as well as a member
of the 40 Under 40 Class of 2013 for his accomplishments as CEO of Feeding South Florida.
Prior to joining Feeding South Florida in April 2012, Vélez served as executive vice president of programs and initiatives from 2010-2012 and director of services from 2000-2010 at the San Antonio Food Bank in San Antonio, Texas, one of the leading food banks in the Feeding America network. Vélez’s responsibilities at the San Antonio Food Bank included oversight of six divisions responsible for all outreach programs and initiatives of the food bank.
Also prior to joining Feeding South Florida, from 2010-2012, Vélez served as a consultant
to the Treasure Coast Food Bank for proposals, budgets, warehouse operations and program creation and innovation.
Vélez holds a Certification in Non-Profit Management from the University of Texas in San Antonio, Texas, and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
Vélez was recently appointed to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Service’s Living Healthy in Florida Advisory Board by Commissioner Adam Putnam. He is also the past secretary for Feeding Florida and is currently on the board, while also serving on the board of the Emergency Food and Shelter Program with the United Way of Miami-Dade.
In Texas, he has served on the boards of the South Alamo Regional Alliance for the Homeless (SARAH) and Holy Spirit Catholic Church Homeless and Hunger Ministry. Vélez is also a Leadership San Antonio graduate of The Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce/San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
As part of Humana’s Bold Goal to increase healthy by 20 percent in 2020, Feeding South Florida partners with Humana in a variety of ways. Most notable is our innovative randomized control trial (RCT) looking at the impact food insecurity has on the number of healthy days as defined by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The RCT is a single-blind research study that involved training clinicians on how to screen for food insecurity and providing different interventions for the treatment groups and control groups.
Seeking to better quantify the impact our School Pantry Program has on children, Feeding South Florida has partnered with Aetna, the Miami-Dade County School District, and the Florida Institute for Health Innovation (FIHI) to assess the impact food has on children’s performance in the classroom, absences due to health-related issues and behavior in school. Aetna is generously supporting a School Pantry Program site, research efforts, and school district personnel. Our research concludes in the summer of 2019.
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Tag: Tudor Lodge
JOHN CEE STANNARD – Folk Roots Revisited (Cast Iron Records)
John Cee Stannard’s Folk Roots Revisited is a wonderful flashback to the land of British singer-songwriter, circa 1970. But, oddly enough, it also nests nicely with the current (Bon Iver inspired!) love of authentic heartfelt acoustic music. It’s just like (the great) Richard Thompson wrote so long ago, “If you really mean it, it all comes round again”.
Just so you know, JCS was a vital third part of the very fine group Tudor Lodge, who long ago recorded a wonderful record for the Vertigo label (with a gorgeous fold out sleeve that was reproduced with textured perfection by Repertoire Records!). Of course, sales were slim, but today an original vinyl copy is pricey and deemed a classic. As Kurt Vonnegut said, “So it goes”.
Several of the songs were written for the never recorded second album, and they indeed conjure the spirit of those early 70’s. ‘Lovely Day’ is quick paced (with flute!), yet the lyrics are filled with inevitable loss, memories left, and finally, some joy in memories being made. Pop-folk existentialism, perhaps? ‘If Only She Were There’, is again up-beat with melodic flute that dances around a catchy melody – just the stuff that made Tudor Lodge’s album an instant classic – fifty years too late.
There’s a Dylan-inspired song, ‘Shades Of Grey’, in which John Cee contemplates love, life, truth, and everything in between, which, of course, is what songs way back when usually did. But the tune provides a thematic umbrella which covers the personal introspection and (to quote Ray Davies), the “definite maybe” of this album as John sings, “Is there just one question or a million on the way and which one was the one that was one too many shades of grey”.
By the way, my friend, Kilda Defnut, doesn’t hear Dylan, but rather Allan Hull (of Newcastle Brown, Lindisfarne, and ‘Fog On The Tyne’ fame).
That said, Folk Roots Revisited spins beyond the archival and philosophical stuff, and is, ultimately, a record of really nice songs.
‘High Hill’ begins with a nod to jaunty Fairport Convention, which belies the depth and tragedy of the lyric as the protagonist comes to terms with his plight of always being “someone else’s man working my fingers to the bone on someone else’s land”. Pop-folk class struggle, perhaps?
There are more insightful tunes. ‘No One There’ is a dreamy (harmonica-driven) glance at the loss of a loved one, which equals the greatness of fellow folkie Chris Simpson (of Magna Carta fame). ‘I See A Boy’ is a plea to see a “forever young” reality beyond the “dark surprise” of age. A simple violin frames the sincere vocal that echoes Wordsworth, when he wrote, “The child is the father of the man.”
You know, (to get tangential) I once talked with a trucker outside of a roadside restaurant in Fargo, North Dakota. The guy always travelled with his best friend – a one-eyed Dachshund named Buster. He said everyone only noticed what was missing, but he saw the beautiful eye that still remained, and according to this man, “Could read a road map better than Rand or Mcnally”. ‘I See A Boy’, as with much of the music on this album, touches that nerve.
There are songs with less abstract subjects. ‘Ferryman’ is a bluesy ode to Charon. ‘The Ultimate Inning’ confesses a fondness for the game of cricket. ‘No More Tears’ is a jumble of happy images hoping for “no more new tears from old tears´ with a melody worthy of Al Stewart in his prime. ‘The Last Time’ has the simple sincerity of Vin Garbutt. That’s high praise.
The odd man out is ‘The Picture’, which is sung by friend and co-writer, Mike Baker. But true to form, the song conjures the magic of those 70’s British singer-songwriters like Ralph McTell, and the lesser known guys like Peter Bond, Allan Taylor, Chris Foster, Peter Greenwood, Steve Tilson, Pete Atkin, and Marc Brierley, all of whom deserve current attention.
But (to quote The Beatles) the “topper most of the popper most’ is the final song, ‘Silver Chalice’. Sadly, John Cee Stannard passed away in March of 2020 of cancer. This song, with its roller coaster fun park ride of a melody, once again, belies its theme: a search for a silver “chalice” filled with water, which was rumoured to be an “efficacious in treatment of cancer”. Of course, John Cee gifts the tune with a wry folk-singer’s smile to inform (with a melodic wink) that while he did, indeed find his “holy grail’, he also found “a bamboo pair and monkey emblazed socks”.
So, we are left with a bunch of songs and a pretty great musical road map for life; and let’s just say Folk Roots Revisited is, to quote his own words, with deference to many things beyond and above the cricket crease (which every “old cricketer” eventually “leaves”), John’s “Ultimate Inning”.
Bill Golembeski
Artist’s website: https://www.johnceestannard.co.uk/
‘Shades Of Grey’ – live:
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Women Leave Welfare, Lose Health Insurance
A recent study of women and children leaving welfare rolls reveals that obtaining a job can mean losing health insurance. According to the study, about one-third of women formerly on welfare who are now employed have no insurance coverage. The study, to be published Monday in Health Affairs, is sponsored by the Health Policy Center at the Urban Institute and the Henry J. Kaiser Family, among others.
A 1999 study by Families USA “estimated that 675,000 people lost Medicaid coverage and had no other health insurance in 1997 due to strict new welfare rules.” Additional research demonstrates that former welfare recipients obtain low-wage jobs that do not offer insurance, or offer insurance, but do not provide sufficient wages for them to afford the premium.
The Health Care Financing Adminstration, which runs Medicaid, has reported alarming abuses in the system in recent years. Auditors claimed that poor families leaving welfare were misinformed about their eligibility, automatically deleted from computerized Medicaid files upon leaving welfare, or even harassed by caseworkers when applying for coverage.
AP - 7 January, 2000
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July 8, 2010 Uncategorizedcomedy, Nikki Blonsky, televisionTHEFEMINISTSPECTATOR
Winnie Holzman, who wrote the libretto for the blockbuster Stephen Schwartz musical Wicked and the 1990s television show My So-Called Life is back on tv co-producing with her daughter, Savannah Dooley, ABC Family’s summer show, Huge. The story, based on Sasha Paley’s book of the same name, is set in a summer camp for overweight kids (what used to be called disdainfully a “fat farm”), run by a bi-racial woman who has eating issues of her own.
At first glance, the premise seems vaguely offensive. The advertisement, which shows series star Nikki Blonsky (of John Waters’ 2007 Hairspray remake) in a teal one-piece bathing suit looking embarrassed, signals everything that could stink about a show like this. But instead, after watching the first two episodes, I think Holzman and Dooley are doing something much more subversive: creating a television series about overweight teens that’s utterly sympathetic to their self-image issues and at the same time critical of a culture that peddles extreme thinness as a way to sell products and impossible dreams of oxymoronic skinny healthiness to young women.
Blonsky is largely responsible for delivering the show’s critique. She plays Willamina, a teenaged girl furious with her disapproving parents for sending her off to this camp in the first place. She prefers to be called “Will,” signaling both her defiant gender-blurring and her determination not to cave in to public pressure to be thin. She’s proud of being an “angry feminist,” as she calls herself, and decorates her bunk with cut-outs from magazines, using their impossible images of thin women to form letters into words that spell “stop body fascism” and other anti-weight loss messages. That she’s the voice of resistance in a machine trying to help kids conform makes Will one of the most interesting teenage characters I think I’ve ever seen on television.
Gina Torres (I Think I Love My Wife) plays the camp’s biracial owner, Dr. Dorothy Rand, who employs her once estranged white father as the camp’s cook. Although the backstory for their revived relationship and Dorothy’s anxious rapport with her mother has only been hinted at, strain is apparent in Dorothy’s inability to tell her mother about her father’s new presence in her life. The second episode reveals Dorothy’s own eating issues, as her father makes her a “healthy” blueberry muffin that she at first resists, and then unwittingly devours as she’s trying to type out a truthful email to her mother, which she continually deletes.
Already, one of the summer’s residents has been expelled for throwing up (no bulimics allowed here), and her replacement, too, has departed, after suffering extreme anxiety when she’s removed from the gauzy over-protection of her over-weight parents and younger sister. But the remaining kids—especially the girls, on whom the series focuses—are all fairly well-adjusted and insistently “normal,” which makes their weight just another issue to address on their way to adulthood.
Typical kid stuff ensues. Chloe Delgado (Ashley Holliday) keeps secret that her brother, Alistair (Harry Guillen), is also a camper. She hangs with the cool kids, while he seems rather fey. In a nod to Holzman’s musical theatre hit, Alistair wears a Shiz University t-shirt, product placement for Wicked but also perhaps a signal that he’s a budding musical theatre queen.
Alistair and Chloe meet alone in the woods to share news of home and the care packages their mom sends. He tolerates the pretense with a bit of sarcasm, while she feels separating from her brother is necessary to secure her role in the girls’ hierarchy. At night, though, she wears a braces retainer with a harness that circles her head and makes her talk with a lisp, hardly a sign of “mean girl” status.
Most of the girls pop in their teeth-straightening devices at the day’s end, a reminder that despite what sometimes seems their sophistication, they’re still kids. And they’re all staunchly middle class, though fairly diverse racially. One of the lead characters is Will’s best friend, Becca, who’s African-American and wonderfully played by Raven Goodwin, who made her screen debut at eight-years-old as the wise-beyond-her-years kid in the film Lovely and Amazing. One of the boys, Ian Schonfeld (Ari Stidham), wears a big Jewish star around his neck, and several of the campers look racially and ethnically mixed. This, along with the size of the actors, provides a refreshing change from the all-white, svelte profile of most situation comedies.
In fact, Huge really isn’t just a comedy. Although the writing sometimes falls into cliché, with the kids responding to one another’s crises with predictable, wince-inducing platitudes, the show also takes seriously the angst of growing up in a body that doesn’t conform to impossible cultural standards. Will’s refusal to acquiesce to conventional body image offers a refreshing perspective on a wider range of young women’s desires.
The fit, athletic physical profiles of the camp counselors and staff, however, secures the model to which the campers are supposed to aspire. But these characters, so far, are all a bit daft, which undercuts what might be the mocking hegemony of their thinness. The girl’s counselor is well-meant but sweetly clueless, sweeping trauma under a very heavy rug and donning very rosy glasses to cheer her girls on their way to weightlessness.
The hot, deaf-in-one-ear male counselor, George (Zander Eckhouse), is good at sports but diffident and shy instead of more predictably macho. The female athletic director wears sports bras and tight-fitting capris that show off her muscly frame, but her enthusiasm for games is played way over the top. She shrieks her encouragement with such vigor, George could soon be deaf in both ears. And even Dr. Rand, who’s supposed to be in charge, mostly wrings her hands, evidence of her own anxiety about doing the right thing.
Camp, in other words, is full of imperfect people, regardless of their weight. The producers take care not to make fun of them, but to instead encourage empathy among them and from spectators toward the characters. They also differentiate empathy from pity, careful to clarify that nothing is necessarily out of these kids’ reach because of their weight. The move to lose is mostly about health.
The show’s web site includes this admonishment to viewers:
At ABC Family, we believe that healthy living means living life to the fullest. In order to live your best life, it’s important to take care of yourself — physically, mentally and emotionally. Here you’ll be given tips on how to eat nutritious snacks and meals, add exercise into your busy life, and build a stronger, more positive sense of self — because living a healthy life means having healthy self-esteem too!
Ask The Panel Huge questions and get Huge answers as they share with you important information about health and provide you with ways you can get healthy today! Reach out to our self-esteem specialist and discover how to appreciate yourself even more!
Love Huge, Think Huge, Act Huge. Whatever you do, do it to the fullest – LIVE HUGE!
Cool message, one that also runs between commercials when the show is broadcast. “Healthy living” is code for “losing weight”; will Huge never be mistaken as an infomercial for fat liberation. Nonetheless, the effort to program for kids in ways that might offer them agency and more reasonable role models to emulate around body image can’t be bad.
I worry, though, about how Huge already psychologizes weight as a result of family dysfunction. For example, a camper who’s good at sports lives with his father, since his mother died when he was young. But when he’s lonely and sad, he writes her letters about how much he misses her, since he and his father only communicate about teams and statistics. Will’s parents seem to disapprove of everything Will does, which heightens the alienation her weight could be meant to manifest. Ian says his parents don’t get along. The alpha girl, Amber, lives alone with a mother who seems oppressively co-dependent on her daughter.
Only the quickly departed camper who suffers from panic attacks has supportive, warm parents. They even adopt Will in their short time at camp, encouraging her to play basketball until she realizes to her surprise that she likes the game. That these parents are overweight, too, suggests that feeling good about yourself despite your body might be the healthiest option.
I worry, too, over Will’s quick concern that she’s been mistaken for “queer” when Ian implies he thinks she is. Becca is uncomfortable with the idea that Will could be queer, and says she’s never met any lesbians her own age (although the easy way she says “lesbians” belies her discomfort). Becca vindicates them both by quickly announcing to Ian that Will is straight and the issue is dropped. But fishing out a lavender herring this early in the series to reassure viewers that Will might be fat and feminist but she’s a normal heterosexual seems cheap.
I also worry that Amber, the one character who’s already heading toward a romance with the hard-of-hearing counselor, George, is the thinnest girl at camp. Played by Hayley Hasselhoff, daughter of David, who was a plus-size teen model before she turned to acting, Amber is beautiful and even a bit soulful, but at least 50 pounds lighter than the other girls. Against the prevailing effort of the show, her character telegraphs that thinness and beauty do bring rewards.
Still, Huge has potential as a summer series. Blonsky is terrific as Will. Proud of her weight and her intellect, full of sarcastic comebacks but vulnerable underneath, as observant about the other kids as she is about herself, Blonsky plays the character with subtle understatement and a healthy empathy of her own. She’s not afraid to make Will loud, aggressive, hostile, and unappealing. She’s also able to temper Will’s anger without making the character appear to capitulate or sell-out her own firm beliefs. Blonsky’s intelligence as an actor reads powerfully on television. Her performance alone is enough reason to check in on Huge.
November 11, 2009 Uncategorizedcomedy, Playwrights Horizons, women playwrightsTHEFEMINISTSPECTATOR
Annie Baker’s play, in a wonderful production directed by Sam Gold at Playwrights Horizons, takes place in the familiar, anonymous sterility of an all-purpose room at a community center, the kind of room that so often doubles as a crucible for community theatre and other arts. Exercise equipment clutters the floor, alongside the detritus of other objects useful for other kinds of groups. All become extraneous to the do-it-yourself creativity and faux self-help spiritualism-cum-acting lessons offered by the well-meant but self-involved would-be theatre guru, Marty.
As the oblivious leader of the four-member class, the middle-aged woman (played with a perfect balance of empathy and tone-deaf self-involvement by Deirdre O’Connell) tries to inspire her tiny band of followers to explore their inner psychology as a prerequisite to emotionally honest acting. But as Lauren (Tracee Chimo), the socially maladroit but emotionally acute teenager who’s the youngest person in the mismatched group of players notes plaintively, it’s not at all clear how any of this is going to help anyone learn how to be an actor.
Still, for Marty, the self-exploration and pseudo-psychologizing that are her stock in trade provide their own reward. It’s not at all clear that Marty has ever acted professionally; she’s one of those so-called artists who hang out a shingle on the basis of a happy fantasy rather than real life experience. Clearly, she’s cajoled her husband, James (Peter Friedman), to be part of the group, and he tries his best to go with the flow until the psychobabble gets the better of him and he takes the trust exercises a bit too far.
Schultz, Marty’s other male student, is a hapless divorcee with pent-up anger issues.Schultz is still not over the fact that his wife has left him, but he falls hard for Theresa, the supposedly “real” actor who’s moved to this remote hamlet of Shirley, Vermont, to escape her own relationship issues, as well as her own failed career. She’s just broken up with her boyfriend, an older man who controlled her jealously, a rather masochistic involvement that Theresa seems to have enjoyed more than she’s willing to admit.
Marty hurls herself into grooming this ragtag group, putting them through the ridiculous emotional recall, storytelling, and trust exercises familiar to any one who’s taken a community acting class at their local high school or playhouse. She asks the students to interview one another and then perform the narratives they collect, stories that Baker uses to structure the play’s cumulative revelations. Telling personal stories borrowed from their partners in a first-person form provides a rather sweet, halting demonstration of how the students get to know one another.
Since it’s impossible for them to perform one another without the barest hint of editorializing, we come to know the characters through how they describe and observe one another’s flaws and discrepancies during their interviews. As the six weeks of the class tick by, announced by slides projected between each scene, the characters’ back-stories are filled in a bit more, in tales that the students eventually use against one another as the trust exercises back-fire.
Each of the characters becomes likable in their own slightly askew way, as Baker gradually reveals their humor, their pain, and their sorrow. Several times, they lie on their backs on the studio floor trying to count collectively but consecutively to ten without stepping on one another’s numbers. The exercise is meant to foster trust and good listening skills. That the small ensemble can’t actually get to ten until near the play’s end marks both their failure and, at last, the ways in which they have indeed grown closer, more attune to one another’s presences and habits, their desires and frustrations.
O’Connell, as Marty, does an excellent job creating the pseudo-sincere care and attention of the not very talented acting teacher. She carefully watches each improvised moment she sets up among her pupils, positioning herself for optimal observation in a contrived, “artistic” pose, never explaining why she’s putting them through these emotional paces and never articulating what exactly they’ve done well or poorly. That each of the students simply follows her lead, rarely questioning her motives or their acting education, rings too true. I could hear who among my fellow spectators had taken such a class by the knowing laughter we shared at those familiar moments.
Marty’s husband, James, tries hard to be supportive of his flaky artistic wife. Marty shares the story of their meeting, a romantic moment at a friend’s wedding that depends on the kind of kismet in which only an aging hippy bohemian could continue to invest. But it becomes clear over the course of the play that their happiness is frayed, the romance fading. Their daughter, Erin, has stopped speaking to her father because Marty revealed to her a meaningless indiscretion James committed during his first marriage. James is devastated by his daughter’s silence and her sudden allegiance with Marty against him.
Friedman conveys James’s perplexed confusion over these sudden turns in his life, finding emotional candor in a character without a whole lot to say. James’s vulnerability makes him prey to the sultry charms of Theresa, the failed New York actress who’s here in the middle of nowhere to heal her own emotional wounds, and winds up seducing both men (and the teenaged Lauren) with her comfort in her body and her apparently open, if facile, vulnerability.
The versatile Reed Birney (whose raw performance in Blasted at Soho Rep was one of last season’s best) is excellent here as the wounded Schultz, who quickly falls in love with Theresa and is just as quickly and violently devastated when their brief affair doesn’t last. His need is palpable, even before clueless Marty makes the unsuccessful couple act out a scene in which his need becomes his only dialogue. Birney plays Schultz’s mercurial mood swings convincingly; even his sudden, menacing aggression seems justified when his rage boils up out of nowhere in the midst of his “objective” exercise with Theresa.
The play’s humor keeps it entertaining and holds at bay what could be more maudlin moments. As the baleful Lauren, Chimo is superb at physical humor; her expressions, as she reacts to the sometimes peculiar interactions of the adults, are priceless. Chimo can raise an eyebrow, widen her eyes, clench her fists, or raise her shoulders and communicate an entire paragraph of response to the absurdities of what she sees.When in the penultimate scene Marty asks her students to write down, distribute anonymously, and then read out loud something about themselves that they’ve never told another soul, it’s obviously Lauren’s slip of paper that says she secretly believes she’s smarter than everybody else in the world.
Even though she’s been an awkward, comically withdrawn presence through much of the play, that personal secret is clearly true. Lauren knows that her parents aren’t happy; knows that Marty and James’s marriage is headed for its end; sees through Theresa’s seductions while she’s also attracted to them; and is the only character in the play who expresses well-founded doubt that Marty’s ministrations are really going to make them better actors.
The shared secrets—meant to open the students emotionally and bind them psychologically—also reveal (if the characters are telling the truth) that Schultz has a secret addiction to internet porn; that James is in love with Theresa; and that Marty thinks she was molested by her father. These carefully held truths, when shared, seem at once virtuous and pathetic, and set in motion the play’s final bittersweet revelations.
As the orchestrator of what become emotionally acute confessions, Marty is as devastated as the others at what she hears. But she persists, like the soulful artist she believes herself to be, and ends the six-week class by asking Lauren and Schultz to act out one final improvisation, in which they meet one another 10 years later and share news of their lives.
The scene is both hilarious and poignant, as Schultz takes the opportunity to say out loud how Theresa “messed with my mind,” and for Lauren to predict that Marty and James will divorce, along with her parents. While Schultz asks the probing questions, playwright Baker clarifies that it’s Lauren who’s been prescient and wise all along, as she sees clearly into their collective futures.
Lauren enrolled in the class because she wants to be an actress, but realizes as she improvises her view of the future that she’ll be better off as a veterinarian, and sees herself 10 years out happily mated with a boyfriend in the same field. She’s kept in touch with Marty, who it turns out really does care for the odd young woman, predicting that at least one of the relationships so cavalierly dissected by the acting class has been established “for real” and will last. That final moment is both sad and hopeful, as Lauren’s improvised vision brings each character to a rueful but useful understanding of who they really are.
Circle Mirror Transformation is a lovely evening of theatre: fun and funny, smart and knowing, and hugely generous about the imperfect characters Baker portrays so simply and clearly. The play might not change your life, but like the acting class Marty wants so much to offer, it does offer insights into what our lives are and might be about, and demonstrates that the artistic impulse to see something about the human condition really can be felt, even in those tired, empty, all purpose rooms.
The production’s run has been extended to November 21.
Hung on HBO
August 28, 2009 Uncategorizedcomedy, feminism, HBO, televisionTHEFEMINISTSPECTATOR
HBO’s new summer series about a man whose anatomy becomes his professional destiny is not the first place I’d look for feminist television programming. And yet Hung turns out to be a wonderfully smart, funny, and indeed feminist story of a down-on-his-luck middle-class white history teacher-basketball coach whose wife divorces him, whose house burns nearly to the ground because of an electrical short in an overloaded extension chord, and who can’t get his life together, financially, emotionally, or pragmatically.
Ray Decker, played by the handsome, valiant Thomas Jane, is an otherwise ordinary man, beset with all the problems of someone whose best years are well behind him. He was a high school baseball star, who married his high school sweetheart, never left the Detroit suburb where he was raised, and in fact lives in a tent in the backyard of the house he inherited from his parents, which burns in a catastrophic fire in the series opener. He’s an average white guy stuck in his own history, who never progressed beyond his teenage success.
His wife, Jessica, the now-faded cheerleader, played by Anne Heche in parodic high dudgeon, has left him for Ronnie (Eddie Jemison), a high school geek who grew up to be a plastic surgeon (he gives Jessica shots of Botox after their morning coffee). Ronnie is short, blinkered, and socially clueless; it’s clear Jessica is more attracted to his money than to his body. Ironically, mid-way through the season, as the economic downturn hits, Ronnie announces that they aren’t rich anymore, leading Jessica’s busy-body mother (who looks like Dr. Ruth and speaks with an inexplicable Eastern European accent) to ask Jessica if she has to keep “giving him sex.” While Jessica dismisses her mother’s concern, in a later scene, as Ronnie rolls her way to nuzzle her ear in their marital bed, Jessica summarily announces that she’s not in the mood, predicting a lot of bad sexual luck in Ronnie’s future.
In an effort to improve his odds financially, Ray enrolls in a how-to-get-rich-quick seminar led by Floyd Gerber (Steve Hytner), whose large teeth, bad haircut, and empty inspiration reads as big-L loser immediately. In the seminar, Ray reconnects with Tanya (Jane Adams), a goofy poet with writer’s block with whom he had and has again a one-night stand. When their second tryst derails emotionally, Tanya’s accusation that all Ray has going for him is a “big dick” begins an entrepreneurial opportunity for both of them. The unlikely couple embarks on an even more unlikely business venture called “Happiness Consultants,” in which Tanya pimps Ray out to various sexually frustrated (or curious) middle-class suburban housewives.
If Ray is hobbled by his own stasis, Tanya’s earnest ambitions are enough to motivate them both. Although she’s a bohemian writer trying to be a vegetarian, she takes her work as Ray’s pimp very seriously. Part of the series’ comedy comes from watching Tanya navigate in the very unfamiliar waters of sexual capitalism. She’s been unable to write for years and works as a permanent temp as a copy editor in a law firm. But starting this business on the side with Ray let’s her aspire to the personal, intellectual, and especially financial freedom that she hopes will enable her creativity. Tanya’s “alternative” values are never belittled by the show’s writers, but her self-taught cutthroat business sense makes for a comic comparison with her otherwise progressive ethics. Tanya has a nasty mother who dismisses her (played by Rhea Perlman) and isn’t particularly pretty (in fact, in most scenes, Adam’s face is made up with a kind of oily sheen), but she’s vital and lively and cares about things in a way that Ray can’t fathom.
The unlikely affection between Tanya and Ray is utterly appealing as they begin to develop a friendship based on their business partnership. Thomas Jane and Jane Adams have great chemistry and work well off each other. The whole cast, in fact, has a nice bead on the show’s quirky humor, which treads a fine line between satirical and sincere. Heche’s Jessica, for example, who still has feelings for Ray, is surprised but generous when Tanya comes to see him coach a basketball game. Tanya joins the strange family easily, befriending Jessica as she cheers awkwardly (for the wrong team).
Ray’s twin kids, Damon (Charlie Saxton) and Darby (Sianoa Smit-McPhee), are disheveled teenage misfits with weird dyed hair and soft, puffy bodies. But their peculiar relationship to both parents, neither of whom knows exactly what to do with them, gives Ray and Jessica something to bond over. When Charlie pierces his tongue, for example, both parents are horrified. Jessica, maintaining her forced cheerleader cheerfulness, doesn’t understand a thing about her alienated, goth-leaning children, but her attempts to reach them prove funny parodies of the over-sharing, trying-too-hard parent. Saxton and Smit-McPhee do a nice job performing the kids’ incredulity at their parents’ stupidity. The kids’ allegiances shift depending on which parent has more money and the most comfortable place to house them.
Hung seems to be a story about failure, about the losers with whom people associate or who they inadvertently become, but the series’ pleasure comes from the small ways in which the characters succeed in each episode, whether sexually or financially, and the little ways in which their kindness toward one another makes their lives worthwhile.
The series also demonstrates perfectly how people perform what they think others want them to be. Ray’s role as the star of Happiness Consultants isn’t natural to his personality.He might be well endowed, but he needs to be tutored by Tanya in how to play the suave, debonair male prostitute they think their clients expect. The writers regularly prove that no one’s interested in his social performance; only his sexual performance matters, and in that, he always succeeds the way he and Tanya promise.
But in each assignation, Ray learns something about himself and about women. Early in their endeavor, on his first visit to a client, Ray balks at her middle-age, plump body, begging off with a cold. After Tanya scolds him about judging people on their appearances, Ray returns, only to find the woman now skittish about following through. She admits she’s sick of her husband’s inability to please her, but only when Ray shows her the goods is she persuaded (and eagerly excited) to complete the transaction.
In fact, none of the women Ray services are conventionally attractive or behave “normally.”Tanya persuades a sexually frustrated, homely proofreader colleague from work that she’d enjoy employing Ray. Their scene together in a hotel room is a gem, as the woman unmasks their meeting as only a fantasy in which she knows Ray is playing a role, but then happily goes along with it by letting go of her own inhibitions and gleefully repeating, “Let’s fuck” until they do. In all of these instances, Ray is happy to comply, and seems vaguely moved at what he sees in these women.
At the same time, although it’s Ray’s anatomy that provides their income, Ray is the objectified sex worker, a nice role-reversal in the cosmic scheme of conventional prostitution or pornography. Ray is not the agent of his own destiny; it’s Tanya who sets up his meetings, and who scolds him when he tries to arrange dates on his own. Tanya interviews potential clients, assessing their needs and how Ray can meet them. If their business is at all successful, it’s because Tanya understands the emotions that drive their clients’ sexual desires and talks Ray through how to satisfy each customer.
In another neat foiling of presumption, Ray falls in love with Jemma (Natalie Zea), a particularly complicated client with a host of unusual demands. When he tries to date her and begins refusing her payments, she purposefully hurts him. A contrite Tanya realizes too late that Jemma’s game is to construct Ray as the victim in their relationship, to avenge her own victimhood in past relationships. But the scenario upends the assumption that for men, sex is only physical, while for women, it’s emotional, since here the roles are exactly reversed. Ray’s hapless naiveté is partly what makes him so appealing. His masculinity isn’t built to handle the situations in which he’s called on to act. He needs Tanya’s help to navigate the emotional currents of his trick’s needs. But he’s charming in part because he rises to each occasion (literally, of course, and figuratively).
Hung is a really a family drama, with a twist that makes it interesting and a perspective that makes it feminist. No one here is starry-eyed about the American Dream; everyone knows that it’s precarious at best, diseased and desiccated at worse. But the series finds something sweet and poignant, rather than resigned and bitter, about the prevailing state of affairs, drawing the characters’ humanity against the odds. In the last episode, Ray, devastated by Jemma’s betrayal, gets drunk in a bar where he’s recognized by an old rival, a man who pitched against him when he was a senior in a high school and still hasn’t gotten over the fact that Ray, who was a freshman, batted his pitch out of the park. In pouring rain, the men head to a baseball field to relive the moment. The older man throws Ray a duffel bag full of balls one by one, and one at a time, Ray hits them away, saying, “Contact,” after he manages to connect with each pitch. The other man’s middle-aged body is paunchy and sagging as he winds up to throw, the outlines of his mortality palpable against his wet shirt. Ray looks only marginally better as he sways over home plate. The men barely speak, but the scene is a wonderful, soggy illustration of lives stuck in place.
Happily, it’s the proto-feminist Tanya who gives them all hope, who swats away references to her own inferior looks (a constructed claim, since Adams is actually very cute), who glows with newly found confidence, who schemes about ways to increase their business, and who engages her clients with tough pragmatism and no-nonsense business ethics. Adams plays beautifully the blooming power of the underdog who comes into her own. In the last episode, as Ray stumbles back to his tent wet and drunk to find Tanya waiting for him with a wad of cash from Jemma, Adams and Jane perform a sweet scene of friendly intimacy, need, and pleasure that portrays one of the most moving, innovative, insightful relationships on television.
Watch Hung.
July 16, 2009 Uncategorizedcomedy, drama, Edie Falco, Eve Best, Showtime, televisionTHEFEMINISTSPECTATOR
This new Showtime series stars Edie Falco as a wry, knowing, harried emergency room nurse. The show offers a terrific vehicle for the versatile actor, as a well-written, smart and funny situation-based character study that takes advantage of Falco’s intelligent, restrained emotional presence and her quirky humor. Unlike network doctor dramas like ER, women characters propel Nurse Jackie’s narratives. Jackie begins each episode with a brief voice-over remark, and then the story continues from her perspective.
Jackie’s best friend at work is Dr. Eleanor O’Hara (Eve Best), an elegant Brit whose arrogance is matched by her intelligence and wit. The upstairs/downstairs aspect of their friendship provides lots of comic fuel—O’Hara often refers casually to how much she spent on various items of clothing, from her $1,200 scarf to her almost as expensive silk stockings.Jackie and her bar-owning husband clearly pinch pennies to make it through their week.Jackie rolls her eyes at her friend’s profligacy, but her indulgence of O’Hara’s class idiosyncrasies emphasizes their bond as women in a professional environment skewed to favor men.
Pompous and powerful male doctors are represented here by Dr. “Coop” Cooper (Peter Facinelli), an Ivy League grad who struts into the ER with a blimp-size ego that Jackie promptly deflates when Coop’s misdiagnosis—against Jackie’s instincts—causes a young patient’s death. After the first few episodes, Jackie’s frequent corrections seem to be bringing Coop into line; he’s cultivating his human side and considering his patients’ emotional needs. In a recent episode he lavished rather sweet attention on an elderly woman on one of her regular trips to the ER from a nursing home. Coop adjusts her wig and compliments her vanity while writing her scrips, even though when she soon expires, he’s out by the nurses’ station boasting of how skillfully he handled his first gunshot wound patient a few curtains down.
Facinelli plays Coop with a dollop of humility and lots of magnanimity, although even he seems uncomfortable with the character’s odd, unconscious tendency to grab women’s breasts when he’s anxious (a completely gratuitous quirk that says more about the producers’ anxiety about the women characters’ strength than Coop’s). This week’s episode revealed that Coop is the son of lesbian parents (deliciously played by Swoozie Kurtz and Blythe Danner), a plot twist that also particularizes and humanizes a character who could be a too stereotypically thoughtless and self-involved heel. O’Hara, in fact, looks at Coop differently once she realizes he has two mothers; the information makes him more than a run-of-the-mill, ambitious male doc.
Nurse Jackie draws all of Jackie’s relationships with men in refreshing, slightly off-beat ways. She’s married to a sweet guy who cares for their two young daughters while he runs the bar they own in Queens. But at work, Jackie removes her wedding band, closets her family life, and carries on a regular sexual liaison with the hospital’s pharmacist, Eddie (Paul Schulze). He not only services her physically (with Jackie always literally on top) but keeps her stocked in the painkillers that make long days of walking hard floors possible. Jackie’s back seems seriously compromised, but the painkillers come with an addiction problem. She snorts Percocet and other opiates in doses small enough to let her function, but regularly enough that her drug use has to become an issue down the narrative line.
Jackie’s secrets, though, keep the character complicated. She never slides into the self-abnegating golden-hearted-but-gruff nurse stereotype that lurks just around the corner of this story. So far, the show avoids that pitfall, gilding Jackie’s essential goodness with enough sardonic cynicism to keep her from being a simple saint. Her first-year student nurse, Zoey (Merritt Wever), offers her a useful foil, as Zoey delivers the platitudes about wanting to help people that drives some idealistic young women and men into nursing in the first place.
Put up against Jackie’s unsentimental pragmatism, Zoey’s enthusiasm plays as funny but not quite ridiculous. The character could easily be the butt of facile jokes—Zoey is a bit chunky, not conventionally beautiful, and too open and cuddly for what proves the ER’s more cut-throat environment. But instead, she gets her own sharp edges. Wever’s loose physicality gives Zoey embodied, character-driven humor; for instance, when O’Hara blithely walks off with Zoey’s new stethoscope, the young nurse’s attempts to retrieve it provide Wever with moments of stuttering explanation and stealthy borrowings that show off Zoey’s agency and nascent power, instead of belittling her as inept.
Mo-Mo (Haaz Sleiman), Jackie’s nursing colleague, unfortunately bears the burden of race and sexuality in the narrative, a load too heavy for any one actor to carry easily. Sleiman’s features are ethnically ambiguous (his character’s full name is Mohammed de la Cruz), allowing him fill the “colored” slot in the character list, and his slightly fey, gentle presence and willingness to give Zoey fashion advice betray his gayness. Although his easy relationship with Jackie gives Sleiman and Falco some nice moments, so far, Mo-Mo represents still another gay person of color serving the development of the far more centralized white characters, a narrative strategy we could by now all do without.
On the other hand, Anna Deveare Smith makes regular appearances as Mrs. Akalitus, a nurse-turned-hospital administrator now charged with guarding the bottom line. The character is a hard-assed factotum, but Smith brings her, too, subtle off-beat humor. When she borrows what she thinks is a packet of Jackie’s sugar, and unknowingly gets high on the painkillers Jackie has ground up and put into the packet instead, Smith’s performance as the suddenly high and goofy administrator is priceless.
In another episode, Akalitus finds a taser gun lying in the corridor. After she shouts with anger to no one in particular about how irresponsible it is to leave such things lying around, she gets on an elevator and prompting stuns herself with the gun. Her electrified pratfall is hilarious. Watching Smith, who usually plays the steely, powerful, alpha female roles in films and television shows, play a comic character role makes me admire her acting even more.
Many terrific New York-based actors play the ER’s patients and visitors, offering keenly observed turns as the sick and dying and their families. The situations into which they’re written, however, are often predictable and run to stereotypes. For example, in Episode #3, Lynn Cohen is on hand as an elderly Jewish woman who tends to her dying husband’s heart disease with chicken soup. Their scenes are saccharine and lachrymose, their Jewish accents wearying echoes of vaudeville sketches about Jews and their magic ministrations that should be put to rest soon.
Likewise, the Latina mother whose son’s lung collapsed in a playground accident speaks with a thick accent, and her other son is excessively emotionally expressive; the elderly white woman who’s regularly delivered to the ER from her nursing home is vain about her appearance; the tourists from the Mid-West are white, middle-class, and heterosexual, and apologize for everything (even though the woman turns out to be an opium addict, offering a neat mirror for Jackie’s developing habit); and an international diplomat savagely murders a prostitute but can’t be touched, thanks to his legislated immunity. Jackie navigates these characters and their issues deftly, always looking out for the well-deserving underdog and wreaking what vengeance she can on the powerful and evil. But they still remain vehicles in which to drive her character, rather than truly interesting people of their own.
Nurse Jackie swivels from wistful and wry to parodic and satirical fairly quickly. For instance, when Jackie and her husband Kevin attend a meeting at their daughter Grace’s school, the teacher, the school psychologist, and the school nurse are played in high farce and shot from camera angles that make them appear large and confrontational to the prosaic, confused Jackie and Kevin. But the small family’s scenes at home are wistfully realist, as the girls cuddle with Kevin on their parents’ bed watching television while they wait for Jackie to come home at night. The combination of exaggerated and earnest works, asNurse Jackie’s sharp humor oscillates between its poignant observations about the proximity of death to life and its insights about how we navigate all those moments in between.
God of Carnage
May 13, 2009 UncategorizedBroadway, comedy, Hope Davis, James Gandolfini, Jeff Daniels, Marcia Gay Harden, women playwrights, Yazmina RezaTHEFEMINISTSPECTATOR
Yazmina Reza writes crowd-pleasers, plays that appear to give the audience something meaty on which to chew, but essentially put her characters on a predictable collision course, a highway of lite moral complexities in which they find themselves unwittingly and sometimes unwillingly debating ethical issues that finally sound a bit hollow.
But Carnage’s farce kept me from taking it too seriously. Instead, I enjoyed the four fine actors volley Reza’s dialogue (translated by Christopher Hampton) back and forth with superb timing and physical comedy. Although many critics find Carnage a pale imitation of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, I thought the play too farcical to accept that comparison.
Sure, God of Carnage concerns two couples who begin their evening with polite, decorous banter, trying to come to terms with a school yard altercation that’s left one of their sons “disfigured” by the other’s aggression. And sure, the evening ends with both couples drunk and disheveled, their secrets and pretensions summarily revealed, and all of them crumpled in defeated heaps around a living room that’s been trashed by their exploits. But this superficial resemblance to Albee’s classic domestic conflagration makes the comparison unfair to a comedy that wants to bite, but ultimately patches up any breaks it leaves in the skin.
Reza concocts a delightful, short evening of smart comedy by four actors (Tony Award nominees all) who’ve definitely got game. God of Carnage’s confectionary pleasures derive mostly from its actors’ obvious pleasure in zinging one-liners back and forth for a quick 90 minutes under the smooth, confident, and well-paced direction of Matthew Warchus. The actors perform with comic élan and style, delivering this light parody of contemporary parental mores through the social, class-based competition it stages between two white, heterosexual, upper-middle class couples that feels to them much more serious than it appears to us.
In Reza’s conceit, Alan (Jeff Daniels) and Annette (Hope Davis) visit Michael (James Gandolfini) and Veronica (Marcia Gay Harden) to resolve the crisis precipitated by Alan and Annette’s son’s “disfiguring” attack on Michael and Veronica’s boy. The playground conflict has left Michael and Veronica’s boy missing two of his teeth, a crisis apparently severe enough in the bourgeois cosmology Reza depicts that their parents’ draw up what sounds much like an official legal agreement about what’s happened and how they’ve all agreed to respond.
The boys’ skirmish occasions what escalates into their parents’ all out battle to maintain their shredded self-respect and dignity. In a predictable but nonetheless enjoyable trajectory, their awkward and contrite meeting turns into a scathing indictment of neglectful child-rearing, corrupt pharmaceutical practices, pretentious art venerating, and bourgeois propriety that barely covers the quickly melting icy veneer on which these two marriages skate.
The meeting, at Michael and Veronica’s faux-modern co-op, begins with the superficial chatter of two couples who don’t know one another reluctantly thrust together to work out their boys’ conflict. But as their conversation continues past the point at which Alan and Annette should have said their good-byes, they begin to recognize in one another the mirror images of their own failures and falsities.
Jeff Daniels, as Alan, performs a perfectly pompous, self-congratulatory high-powered lawyer with a cell phone glued to his ear. Every time it rings, he announces, “I have to take this,” loudly imposing his pretentious conversations on the gathering then appearing indignant when the other three overhear his business. Daniels delivers a sharp, wry performance as a man puffed up by his own self-importance.
A land line phone also rings constantly throughout the play, as Michael’s mother checks in with her son while she’s at a doctor’s appointment. Gandolfini, as Michael, gets the timing just right, switching from the heat of battle with his guests to an enforced calm to speak with his aging, unwell mother, whose plaintive calls regularly interrupt the couples’ engagement. In one of Reza’s too convenient, calculated but perfectly funny coincidences (mild spoiler alert), Michael’s mother is told she’ll be treated with the toxic medicine whose effects Alan has been coaching his client to deny in his cell phone exchanges.
As their meeting devolves into a wonderfully physical brawl full of alcohol, ruined art books, projectile vomiting, and a pretentiously proffered cake, the actors rise to the comic occasion with impeccable style. Each character has his or her own meltdown, following an arc that requires the actor to move from faked, attentive concern into high umbrage, up to a physical crisis that dishevels their clothing and overturns some furniture, then down into resigned indifference to the revelation of their common and essential imperfections. Each character is unmasked as much less than he or she first appeared–more ordinary, whiny, and unhappy than the accomplished, socially exceptional people they first present.
To Reza’s credit, the characters’ devolutions occur without regard to gender. Alan and Michael reveal themselves to be as shallow and unhappy as Annette and Veronica. No one is more responsible than another for their mutually destructive encounter. Gender alliances shift throughout the play. Halfway through, the men share cigars and bourbon and a bitter understanding of the silliness of their lives, and the women pair off to commiserate by ridiculing their husbands.
At other moments, the couples rearrange themselves to express at least a superficial empathy, Alan for Veronica and Annette for Michael. When the couples inadvertently reveal their pet names for one another (Alan and Annette call each other “Woof Woof”), their intimacies seem childish and reductive, no more meaningful than the names their sons called each other on the playground.
Gandolfini’s presence inspired the audience to applaud at the play’s opening the night I attended (5-2-09). As the actors waited for the clapping to die down, I saw Hope Davis wink at Gandolfini, a lovely, warm tribute to his fandom before the actors began to chew the scenery. The affection the actors clearly feel for one another shows in their beautifully orchestrated performances.
In fact, what might at first seem a cynical casting choice calculated to boost box office turns out to be a coup for Gandolfini in his post-Tony Soprano era. Watching him transform Michael from a husband trying his best to conform to the overly polite customs of upper-middle-class behavior to a man who can’t stand the suit coat he wears, and happily rips his shirt out of his pants when the going gets rough, is one of the production’s many pleasures.
Likewise, Marcia Gay Harden, whom I followed on television in her stand-out performance as the Iago-like lawyer for the corrupt corporation on Damages this season, offers a grounded and hysterical turn as Veronica. Her horror when her precious art books are accidentally covered with vomit is a high point of the evening.
Hope Davis is also terrific as Annette, the character whose movement from good to bad is the least predictable. Perhaps because of Davis’s inherently sympathetic presence, and her slight fragility, even when she’s performing indignation, Annette becomes the fulcrum of the couples’ full-pitch battle. When she indulges in alcohol and quickly gets drunk, Davis captures the pleasure, exasperation, and fear of a woman unaccustomed to losing social and emotional control. She’s also very funny.
All in all, Reza satirizes the wreckage of heterosexual marriage in God of Carnage, the petty bitterness that courses under what are carefully calculated to look like successful, luxe upper-middle class relationships sailing into their pre-destined futures without a ripple on the glassy waters of their lives. She satirizes how children become possessions, simple pawns for adults who at best treat them indifferently, and at worse, actually despise them.
While the comedy lets the audience laugh, Reza sneaks in recognitions that balance the evening’s affects. Somewhere in the uproarious meeting, the playwright comments on how people who no doubt mirror many in the Broadway audience live their lives. Under the humor, she urges spectators to consider what matters and what doesn’t, what we can control and what we can’t. By continually shifting the allegiances across couples and between the men and the women, Reza clarifies that no one wins, and that the stakes are equally high or low for all.
The production’s vivid realism and impeccable acting make it easy to swallow and probably mitigates whatever gentle punch to the gut Reza might intend. Watching actors more often seen in serious roles exercise their comic chops is entirely enjoyable. That God of Carnage concerns squarely middle-aged people also makes it a refreshing antidote to the many contemporary plays that address the angst of 20-something white characters figuring out how to live.
Reza examines the superficially comfortable, apparently successful lives of white upper-middle-class heterosexuals at the point when they’re supposed to be reveling in their achievements. God of Carnage demonstrates that the façade of their marriages and their families are already weakened and could be destroyed by the devastating moral emptiness and social pretension that’s chewed into their relationships like termites into the family house.
God of Carnage isn’t Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, but it’s a great deal of fun.
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Two Grisaille Paintings by Bosch
March 5, 2014 in Art, Color, Crowns, Gothic | Tags: altar, Anthony, Bosch, Christ, crowds, Flemish, grisaille, Hieronymous, monochrome, Painting, passion, temptation, Torture, triptych | by Wayne | 5 comments
Today is Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of Lent, a six week season of self-denial, repentance, and fasting observed among certain traditional-minded Christian denominations. Although I myself have no particularly ascetic intentions for Lent, it seems appropriate to mark the occasion with two vivid grisaille paintings by the great fifteenth century Flemish master Hieronymus Bosch, whose bizarre religious visions are among the strangest and most compelling works of painting (despite decades of deliberate strangeness by 20th and 21st century artists) .
The Left Outside Panel of “The Temptation of Saint Anthony” (Hieronymus Bosch, 1502, oil on panel)
The term ”grisaille” describes a completely monochromatic painting in which all colors have been removed and the values are all rendered in countless shades of black, white, and (especially) gray. The grisaille technique was sometimes used for underpainting by the old masters who would then add color later. It was also used to portray sculptures, to cover large walls (in the fashion of trompe–l‘œil illusion), or, most interestingly, as the opposite side of triptych screens and altarpieces. If a hinged triptych was closed, the two grisaille panels would become all that was visible.
The Right Outside Panel of “The Temptation of Saint Anthony” (Hieronymus Bosch, 1502, oil on panel)
These two paintings are the reverse of what may be Hieronymus Bosch’s most bizarre work, The Temptation of Saint Anthony which was finished in 1502, and can now be found at the Museo Nacional de Antiqua, Lisbon. The Temptation of Saint Anthony deserves its own post (or its own book), but suffice to say it is a truly deeply strange rendering of the beings who accosted the saint after he went to the desert to pray, fast, and repent as a hermit. It is a scatalogical hellscape filled with pig-priests, ambulatory jugs, stomach monsters, and flying fish crane ships. Describing the actual painting exceeds my not-inconsiderable descriptive prowess: you will have to go look at it yourself. However the work was created in such a fashion that the left and right panel can close in front of the central panel (probably so that the painting’s original owners did not have their brains fried by the twisted nightmares swirling around the saint). When the actual painting was “shut” the two paintings above became visible. In stark monocolor, the paintings portray the sufferings of Christ as he moved towards his crucifixion. Great bestial crowds torture and mock the savior as he crawls on his knees (in the left panel) or is crushed by the weight of his cross (in the right panel), yet it is the torments of the human figures in the foreground which draws our eyes.
Here are the inside panels of “The Temptation of Saint Anthony” but don’t look at them yet–we are talking about the grisaille panels on the outside
In the right image a grim black storm fills the sky above Golgotha. In the left, the Flemish landscape recedes into a blinding gray erasure. Perhaps the most disturbing element of these paintings is the ordinary everyday 15th century Netherlandish garb worn by the people around Christ—and the everyday nature of Christ’s tormentors themselves. Are there children among the tormenting throngs? Of course these magnificent paintings are not really important compared to the true paintings inside the altarpiece. The one time I saw The Temptation of Saint Anthony, the work was open and the grisaille paintings were turned to the wall—barely visible in the shadows.
December 8, 2011 in Deities of the Underworld, Gothic, Uncategorized | Tags: alpine, animation, Anthony, Bourdain, carol, celebrity chef, children, Christmas, claw, claws, dismembered, Festival, Germanic, holiday, Krampus, mummery, myth, pagan, puppets, Santa, Underworld | by Wayne | 13 comments
December 6th, was Krampusnacht, a holiday celebrated in Alpine regions of Germany and Austria. The festival’s roots stretch back into pre-Christian times when Germanic mountain folk paid homage to Krampus the child-stealing demon of winter darkness. Krampus was a hell-sent god with goat’s horns, coarse black fur, and a fanged maw. He would visit disobedient or inattentive children and beat them with a cruel flail before tearing them to bits with his claws (in fact “Krampus” means “claw” in old high German). The demon would then carry the dismembered bodies back to the underworld and devour the human flesh at his leisure.
This harsh myth imparted crucial lessons about the cruel Alpine environment—which would literally reward inattention and carelessness with a terrible death and a vanished corpse. However there were also merry elements of year-end saturnalia to the celebration: young men dressed up as Krampus and drank and played pranks while unmarried women would dress as Frau Perchta—a nature spirit and fertility goddess who could appear as a hirsute old beast-woman or as a gorgeous scantily clad maiden. Amidst the mummery, feasts were held and presents were given. Unsurprisingly, when Christianity came to Northern Europe, these pagan celebrations were incorporated into Christmastime festivities. Thus Saint Nicholas–originally a conservative Syrian bishop (who became a protector of unfortunate children after his death) obtained a devil-like alter-ego. This wasn’t even the end of the pagan metamorphosis of Santa. The orthodox churchman also acquired a team of flying reindeer, a tribe of subservient elves, and a magical wife as Christmas traditions moved northwards into Scandinavia and combined with the universe of Norse myth!
For a time the Krampus story traveled with Santa and became part of the Christmastime traditions of German immigrants to America. Christmas cards and holiday stories often featured Krampus and his evil pagan god features were even incorporated into the popular conception of Satan. However, as Christmas became more important to merchants and tradesmen, the darker aspects of the story were toned down. Additionally fascist regimes in Germany and Austria were hostile to Krampus traditions during the thirties (and the grim imagery was not wanted after the horrors of World War II when those regimes were gone). Lately though the figure has been making a comeback in Austria and Germany and even America seems to be experiencing a renewed interest in the fiend
I am writing about this because Krampus, the clawed god of winter death, is a perfect addition to this blog’s deities of the underworld category. However, I have a more personal (and twisted) Krampus tale to tell as well. As you may know I am a toymaker who crafts chimerical animal toys and writes how-to books on toy-making. Recently a friend of mine who is an art director asked if I could build some puppets for stop-motion animation. He asked for a traditional (not-entirely jolly) Santa and for two children with no facial features–the expressions would be digitally added later.
Imagine my surprise when it turned out that the puppets were for a dark Krampus segment on a celebrity chef’s Christmas special. Anthony Bourdain, celebrity personality, adventurer, and bon vivant wanted to do an animated segment about this murderous gothic god who is still a vestigial part of the holiday. The segment was supposed to go into the nationally broadcast “No Reservations” Christmas special alongside Christopher Walken and Norah Jones, but when network executives took a closer look at Krampus, child-dismembering Alpine demon, it was decided that he should remain a vestige. So much for my showbiz career (of creating an evil Santa puppet and two faceless victims)…. The stand-alone segment can still be seen by itself on Youtube (or below). Don’t worry though, this dark holiday fable has a happy ending—I still got paid!
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Shivers
Digital Theatrical Adaptation + Q&A
11am ET
Ages 4 & up
LIVE on Zoom and Facebook
Johanny Bert and Magali Mougel, the team behind the acclaimed play She No Princess, He No Hero, reunite to bring their new work, Shivers, to U.S. audiences.
This digital adaptation of their play Frissons, which premiered to wide praise this past winter in France, has been animated and translated to English for young American audiences. The creative process of Charlotte Melly‘s drawing beautiful illustrations is captured by the camera. This allows Bert to combine storytelling and soundscape to follow a young boy as he struggles to welcome his younger brother into his life.
Anis is about to become an older brother and worries about sharing his room, his toys, and his parents’ love with his new sibling. Shivers plunges young spectators into Anis’s world, as he anxiously meets his adoptive brother to forming a friendship through mutual discoveries and overcoming fears of one and other.
A Q&A with Charlotte Melly and New York Times theater critic Laura Cappelle will follow.
45 minutes with Q&A
Shivers and its French version Frissons is available to stream for free October 10–17.
Conception and direction by Johanny Bert
Text by Magali Mougel
Translation by Nicholas Elliott
Illustrations by Charlotte Melly
Sound by François Leymarie
With the voices of: Matthew ZanFagna (Anis), Marleny Heredia (Mom and Elianore), Kourtney Rutherford (Monette), Dylan Ungaretta (Elyas)
Johanny Bert
Johanny Bert is a French actor, director, and puppeteer.
Bert trained as an actor at the Ateliers of the Comédie de St-Etienne and studied puppetry with Alain Recoing of the Théâtre aux Mains Nues, Paris. He gradually developed his own theatrical language through the works he created and the people he met while doing them, including working with props and puppet theater. In 2000, in Puy-en-Velay he founded the Compagnie Théâtre de Romette, an experimental space for creation. His company was in residence at the Théâtre Municipal in Puy-en-Velay, then at Polaris in Corbas (69). From January 2012 to December 2015, Johanny Bert was the director of the Centre Dramatique National de Montluçon – Le Fracas, after which he returned to directing and working with Compagnie Théâtre de Romette. Since 2018, Johanny Bert is an Associate Artist at the Bateau Feu, scène nationale of Dunkirk. His works that are accessible for young audiences include Le petit bonhomme à modeler (2002–2008), Les pieds dans les nuages – inspired by a plastician photographer, Robert Parkeharisson (2004–2012), Les orphelines – written by Marion Aubert (2009–2012), De Passage – written by Stéphane Jaubertie (2014-2018), Patoussalafoi – a contemporary opera by Matteo Franceschini and Philippe Dorin (2015–2016), Elle pas princesse, lui pas héros – written by Magali Mougel (2015-2017) and its American version She No Princess, He No Hero, produced by FIAF as part of 2019 TILT Kids Festival, Le Petit Bain – choreographed by Yan Raballand, and in 2020 Frissons – written by Magali Mougel. Johanny Bert’s theater production of Une Epopée will also premiere at Bateau Feu, Scène nationale de Dunkerque in October 2020.
Magali Mougel
Magali Mougel is a playwright and drama teacher.
She currently teaches at the ENSATT/National School in Lyon (France) where she was a student between 2008 and 2011. Her works have been shown on stage by Jean Pierre Baro, Anne Bisang, Philippe Delaigue, Eloi Recoing, among others. Since 2011, she has written numerous works, many specially commissioned, for specific theater companies and directors. Her works include Elle pas princesse, Lui pas héros for Johanny Bert (National Dramatical Center of Montluçon), Poudre Noire for Simon Delattre (Rodeo Theatre), and Je ne veux plus and La Nuit où le jour s’est levé for Olivier Letellier (Theatre du Phare/National Theater of Chaillot). Her writings: Erwin Motor, Devotion (finalist of the Grand Prize of Drama Literature in 2013), Guerillères ordinaires, Suzy Storck (finalist of the Grand Prize of Drama Literature in 2013), and Penthy sur la Bande, The Lulu Projekt are published by the Editions Espaces 34. Her Young Audience plays, Elle pas princesse, Lui pas héros, We just wanted you to love us, and very recently Frissons are published by the Editions Actes Sud – Heyoka Jeunesse. Many of her plays have been translated into English, German, Italian, and Spanish. Member of the Artistic Ensemble of the Theatre de Sartrouville – CDN, Magali Mougel is an Associate artist at the Scènes du Jura and at Culture Commune – Scène nationale du Bassin minier du Pas-de-Calais.
Charlotte Melly
Charlotte Melly is a French graphic designer and illustrator.
She graduated from the Estienne School in graphic design and from Ensatt in scenography. She became a puppeteer in 2011 alongside artist Cyril Bourgeois. Following an international tour, she published her first graphic novel in 2017, Blanche la Colérique with the author Lison Pennec. In 2017, she joined the drawing collective Bien, monsieur, and the theater collective F71, with whom she developed live drawing for three shows: Sandwich (2017), Noire (2018), and Songbook (2018).
Laura Cappelle
Laura Cappelle is an arts writer and sociologist who lives in France.
She is the Paris-based theater critic for the New York Times and covers dance for the Financial Times. Additionally, she writes a monthly column, “France/Dance,” for Dancing Times, and has contributed to the Guardian, Pointe, Dance Magazine and The Globe and Mail, among other publications. Laura Cappelle earned her PhD in sociology at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 in 2018, with a doctoral thesis about the creation process in ballet companies. She was the dance consultant for the BAFTA-nominated 2015 docudrama Rudolf Nureyev – Dance to Freedom, directed by Richard Curson Smith. In 2020, she edited a new French-language introduction to western dance history, Nouvelle histoire de la danse en Occident (Seuil).
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This video was adapted from Frissons, a show created as part of Odyssées 2020, a festival developed by Théâtre de Sartrouville et des Yvelines–CDN in partnership with the Yvelines Departmental Council.
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The Last Puzzle Piece May Be Falling Into Place...
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Bob Wallace
A company called Eos has announced that their zinc-air battery will be installed on the New York grid in 2014.
Eos claims 75% efficiency and 10,000 cycles for $160/kWh. $0.016/kWh cycle.
This would mean 5 cent/kWh electricity could be stored and used for less than 10 cents.
Let's say we get 50% of our electricity directly from wind at 5c/kWh. 20% directly from solar at 7c. 10% from hydro and geothermal at around 7c. The last 20% stored wind at 5c + 4c.
(0.5 x 5c) + (0.2 x 7c) + (0.1 x 7c) + (0.2 x 9c) =6.4c/kWh
We can live with that. And the generations following us can live a lot better if we do.
« Last Edit: May 04, 2013, 11:16:34 PM by Bob Wallace »
jonthed
Re: The Last Puzzle Piece May Be Falling Into Place...
Yes, very encouraging news!
So many renewable energy opponents seem to fail to realise that all it takes is viable energy storage, and the game will change massively. The fact the Utilities are keen is very telling.
CraigsIsland
my utility company (regional-based) allows for a 60% or 100% of energy to "come from renewables" in exchange for a higher rate. 100% without hesitation.
utilities could be key.
One other technological development that is incredibly promising, and possibly a more important last piece of the gas/petrol puzzle, is also nearly falling into place: in wheel electric motors.
Ford recently showed off their eWheelDrive Fiesta; http://green.autoblog.com/2013/04/29/ford-fiesta-in-wheel-motors/,
and Protean Electric showed off their version; http://green.autoblog.com/2013/04/17/protean-electric-production-ready-in-wheel-electric-drive/,
Because, even if the electricity supply and the grid get sorted out by renewables and storage, it still leaves the huge problem of transport. These in wheel motors are a silver bullet for this, as they can be retrofitted to any standard car, and it will still retain its petrol engine functionality as well. They'd save people money on fuel, and help reduce pollution. No drawbacks once the price is viable.
So rather than expect every one to suddenly buy new electric cars (not gonna happen), we can instead hope that people will add these in wheel motors to their cars to simply turn their existing vehicles into hybrids, giving them great fuel savings as an incentive.
Could even hope for some sort of government grant scheme in some countries to really get them rolling.
gfwellman
You know what in-wheel electrics need? Better road maintenance.
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Quote from: gfwellman on May 15, 2013, 01:22:32 AM
Taking freight off the roads and putting it back on railways would do good things for the road surface, I suspect. It would also substantially reduce the carbon footprint of moving "stuff" around, notwithstanding the trickier "final mile".
Moving most of our freight to electrified rail makes immense sense to me.
That would be the most energy efficient, it would be relatively easy to electrify our railroads, it would take heavy truck traffic off our roads which would greatly decrease road damage and lower congestion.
The 'last mile' could be done with battery powered trucks. Someone has already built a demo 100 mile range 18-wheeler. For those factories/warehouses more than 100 mile from a railroad we could use battery swapping.
("Relatively" - easier to string wire over our train tracks and add an electric pickup to our existing hybrid diesel/electric engines than to turn all our 18-wheelers in to BEVs.)
Agreed about electrified rail. Even now without a carbon tax, higher fuel prices have been shifting some freight from longhaul trucking to rail.
We need a new HVDC national transmission backbone anyway ... if we build it along the railways, we'll have the power easily available to the locomotives. Pay for it with a fraction of a carbon tax and a lot more freight will switch to the rails.
TerryM
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With the totally solar powered light rail system in Calgary as a model I've wondered what % of rail electrification could come from solar panels along the right of way.
"what % of rail electrification could come from solar panels along the right of way"
Somewhere just under 20% if no storage was used. That's the percentage of sunny hours over a year.
<20% is still a substantial savings. If half was retained for paying for the new infrastructure and half was used to lower rates it would make rail more competitive. I'd envisioned a system where on site power would not be stored, but would be utilized as fast as produced by traffic on the line. With no property acquisition or storage expenses, payback would be quite rapid, The gangs putting in the system could have most the cost savings associated with assembly line production & altering an engine to include an electrical pickup would be a minor change rather than requiring new propulsion systems.
The US rail system is in need of lots of maintenance work anyway & something on these lines might provide the impetus for a revival of rail freight. The system in place now where freight is
containerized then moved by truck, sea or rail would in most cases simply lose the truck component at a savings in time and cost.
I'm not sure the "last 100 miles" is a huge concern. If rail transportation proved itself as a cheaper, faster and more reliable alternative it wouldn't be long before every manufacturer or distribution center had lines running to their loading docks.
This whole scheme seems to be something that could be done with very little up front costs and substantial savings to everyone. The only objections would be from FF producers, truck manufacturers and truck drivers. Why isn't it being instituted as we speak?
Yes, 20% is substantial. I was trying to point out the fact that the Sun shines only (roughly) 20% of the time. If one wanted solar to play a larger role then storage becomes an issue.
Wind and solar are likely to end up having very similar LCOEs. Somewhere at or just below five cents per kWh.
Storage will have some sort of a price. If Ambri's liquid metal battery works then it might be on a couple of pennies. If it's something like Eos's air-zinc battery then closer to ten cents. Or pump-up hydro somewhere between the two.
The cheapest electricity will be electricity straight from the generator rather than stored electricity. The wind blows more than 20% of the time, far more in good wind sites. Wind, even if it turned out to be slightly more expensive than solar, will probably play a dominate role because it is available more hours per year.
The best idea, IMO, is to use grid power for trains. The more we combine supply sources and demands the more variability is smoothed. Trains and non-train demand can share generation and storage.
Trains might even be a way to do some load-shifting. We might, for example, run many more trains late at night when other demand is down and the wind typically blows harder. Or if supply was stretched thin and brownouts were threatening we might halt a few trains or run them at a slower speed for a few hours until the crisis has abated.
I've had the opportunity to ride on some of Europe's rail system the last couple of years. After many years of flying, cramped into airplane seats, and years of driving highway speeds, in the company of speeding 18-wheelers, I'm in love with trains.
I should mention that "Truck-Rail-Truck" is big business(*) today. I'd say that for the majority of the volume, the "last 100 miles" is typically closer to 25. I wouldn't really expect a vast expansion of end-customer branch lines & railheads - there's no room in existing urban/suburban areas. Also, there's a point at which switching onto many branch lines is less efficient than handling the final 20 miles with trucks. What would be nice would be for this electric network we're talking about to have a few more terminals, both in under-served areas to cut down the longer dray runs so the last 100 miles is really 100 or less, and on the outskirts of major urban areas so that the typical 10-40 mile drays are more like 5-20.
The shorter the drays the easier it will be to electrify the trucks. That'll still be challenging, because a typical drayman's day is continuous driving, even if each run is only 20 miles. But here's a wild idea. Build batteries into the *chassis* (the frame with wheels that you put an intermodal box onto). The driver and his tractor drive all day, but any individual chassis typically only travels one or two legs a day. Thus, every pickup is a battery swap. Make it a normal part of terminal operations to make sure that chassis batteries are charged before a box is mounted on it. Tell the customers they have to plug in chassis while they've got them. Of course the tractor has batteries too, or it couldn't bobtail (drive with no chassis). But whenever it has a chassis, it would run on that battery and even recharge the tractor from the chassis if necessary. It might hardly ever be necessary to plug in the tractors even at night so long as everyone stays on top of charging the chassis batteries.
(*) one that indirectly pays my salary - I do a lot of intermodal software work - hence my interest.
chassis = trailer
Interesting idea. Easy enough to make work. Each trailer would need a fairly simple wifi unit which would allow remote monitoring. If it wasn't plugged in/charged when it should be, easy enough to send an alert.
It would be a question of whether that would require more or fewer batteries than a straight swap system with batteries mounted under the cab. Under cab swaps could be extremely fast, well under a minute. (Better Place swaps a Renault battery in 1:13.)
Something else to consider is moving lighter freight to late night high speed rail as we build that out. Not the bulk stuff, but the sort of packages that UPS/FedEx now fly longer distances. Engines and rails should be available during hours when fewer people want to travel.
The original plans for the California HSR system had four sets of rails. North/south with a separate set for freight. I think they dropped the freight set, but it would seem that a lot of freight could move at night on the passenger rails.
Building a HSR system will mean some new routes and the opportunity to serve at least a few new locations not now close to rail. Containers could be shuttled on HSR lines to slow freight lines.
And, as freight moved back to rail, factories and warehouses would migrate back to rail sidings. Reverse the move to interstate exchanges that has been underway.
The traps have got him, and that's all about it!
Quote from: TerryM on May 15, 2013, 09:48:03 PM
With the totally solar powered light rail system in Calgary as a model...
The C-Train is wind powered (since 2001). The wind farm is near Okotoks.
Calgary Transit has newer initiatives as well such as converting all transit stations to LED lighting. Over 46% of downtown commuters travel by Calgary Transit to their work.
My bad - I apparently saw "renewable" and read "solar" It's harder to envision long thin wind farms stretching along the right of way, but perhaps possible with redesigned towers?
Your solution for keeping the batteries in the semi-trailer is brilliant. This is where the weight should be distributed anyway & each trailer certainly moves less often than the tractor.
Bob's comment about factories migrating back to where sidings are available makes sense. We have two large Toyota assembly plants nearby that make extensive use of the rail facilities and their own large spur lines. I noticed while driving across western Canada in 2011 that Costco trains where each container was destined for some Costco distribution center were a regular sight. Apparently at least some large manufacturing and retailing concerns are already on board with the railroads (at least in Canada). I believe I read that Buffett & Gates both have bought large chunks of Canadian railroads - these guys have the money to initiate some of the innovations we're discussing.
“Along the route of the Trans-Siberian Railway, trains of oil tank cars extend across the landscape for miles. Each tank car, black and tarry-looking, with its faded white markings, resembles the one that follows it... a trainload of these cars defines monotony.
The Trans-Siberian Railway covers 9,288 kilometers between Moscow and the Pacific port of Vladivostok, or 5,771 miles. In other words, if it were twenty-one miles longer, it would be exactly twice as long as Interstate 80 from New Jersey to California. Laying awake near the tracks in some remote spot at night you hear trains going by all through the night with scarcely a pause.
(T)he Trans-Siberian Railway is all-electric, with overhead cables like a streetcar line - you find the tracks are empty of traffic only for five or ten minutes at a time.
Besides oil, the railway carries coal, machinery parts, giant tires, scrap iron, and endless containers … just like the containers stacked five stories high around the Port of Newark, New Jersey, and probably every other port in the world.”
Travels in Siberia by Ian Frazier (2010)
The Trans-Siberian was not originally electric. Over a number of years it was converted away from fossil fuels.
Imagine very long trains with only five to ten minutes between them. There is a massive amount being moved by rail. Electrified rail.
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The Bachelor US (Season 20, Episode 4): Days of Whine and Roses
by katbat020165
January 29, 2016 March 28, 2016 Filed under:
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Much excitement in the Bachelor mansion as Chris arrives to tell the girls that they are all off to meet Ben in Las Vegas.
This is the marriage capital of the world and it sends Olivia into a tailspin, and she starts speaking in some sort of garbled tongue: “I wanna wanna wanna wanna seeleen!” But somehow behind those wild-eyes, you know that the poor deluded girl thinks that Ben is going to drop everything and whip her off to a wedding chapel, forgoing the whole of the rest of the series.
Aside from its weddings tag, Las Vegas must also be at the centre of some bizarre time continuum vortex, because despite Chris greeting the girls with a hearty good morning AND telling them that their plane leaves in one hour AND them flying in a Lear Jet which should take about forty minutes, it is still well and truly dark by the time the girls gather in the middle of the strip to read Ben’s illuminated greeting, assuming of course that our Ben is the only man on the strip sending neon messages to a posse of girls.
At least he chose a decent font.
Still no sign of the man himself, so the girls head off to the suite. The lavish surroundings have had the desired effect with Leah, the event planner, declaring that she “feels like a baller”. MAYBE this is some sort of reference to being a successful gambler, but I’m pretty sure them’s fightin’ words if any of the other girls heard.
The Twins share a treadmill at the hotel gym, but sensibly wear different socks so they know which feet belong to whom.
JoJo gets the first date and Olivia’s fine with it.
Olivia’s fine with it.
JoJo’s date starts romantically enough, sipping champagne with Ben in a rooftop carpark. But of course it’s all just tricks from Ben, who wouldn’t be on a date if it didn’t involve some sort of flying craft. In comes the helicopter, sending the champagne flying, showering JoJo in cuvee brut and broken glass and embedding her hair extensions in her lip gloss. Really, Ben? AGAIN no hair tie?
JoJo didn’t read the fine print regarding safety boots.
Ever the gentleman, Ben checks to make sure JoJo’s lips are OK and Olivia sees this from the discomfort of the hotel room. Miss “I’m fine with it” is becoming less fine with it by the minute. Excellent. And by the time the next date card arrives and she misses out on another one-on-one date, she is decidedly NOT fine with it.
Back at the date and Ben takes JoJo to another hotel room to not eat dinner and not drink wine, before taking her up to the rooftop to admire the view…and wouldn’t you know it, fireworks explode in the sky. I guess there’s only so much metaphorical mileage you can get out of the Bellagio fountains shooting their load.
From her vantage point, Olivia is not fine with this either. And she hasn’t even seen the rose in JoJo’s hand yet. My hands are rubbing in glee.
Next morning, Caila is so excited about the group date and seeing Las Vegas. Too bad the group date is one of those humiliating affairs where the girls have to dress up and jump through hoops and belittle themselves. I know that that sounds like EVERY Bachelor date, but this one has a “Vegas Show” theme, and Celine Dion is not making a guest appearance. Ben attempts to justify this misogyny by saying that he’s looking for a girl who doesn’t take herself too seriously and he wants to help bring some of them out of their shells. The only way to check this out, apparently, is to dress them up in a chicken suits and make them juggle balls in front of 1200 people.
A ventriloquist named Terry Fator asks the girls to identify their talents. Leah smartly keeps her mouth shut about being a baller, but there are some other talents amongst the group. The twins do Irish dancing. Jubilee plays the cello. A couple of the girls can walk and talk at the same time. Olivia momentarily forgets about her elephantine cankles and decides she will do a Vegas showgirl act. “Luckily I shaved this morning,” she says. True. Bearded ladies belong in the circus, not Vegas.
Olivia channels Hugo Weaving in “Priscilla: Queen of the Desert”
So it all starts off OK. The twins dress like a couple of beer wenches and do a little Riverdance. Jubilees clamps the cello between her legs to show Ben what life might be like once they are wed. There’s juggling, hula hooping (that’s a talent?) a bit of belly dancing, and a little seen brunette forms balloons into what looks like a bunch of penises.
Finally, it’s Olivia’s turn. I didn’t see it on the prop rack, so I can only assume that Olivia is pretty crafty with cardboard and a few bits of chewy and has fashioned herself a cake which she can jump out of. Well, step out of. Then giggle. Then “dance”. It’s a train wreck. And carriage after carriage after carriage just keep flying off the rails.
“Someone left ,y cake out in the rain…I don’t think that I can take it, cos it took so long to bake it…and I’ll never have that recipe again…”
That moment when even Ben realises the talent show was a BAD idea.
After the show, Olivia has a panic attack as she realises any last shred of credibility she had as a news anchor has floated away like a stray feather from a boa. The rest of the pack waste no time sinking the knife in – while she’s out of the room, of course.
Olivia, for her part, manages to regain enough composure to attend the post show cocktail party. But Caila gets the first one-on-one time with Ben, where she immediately turns into a “sex panther”. Then Lauren H gets to talk to a puppet. Olivia is not fine with this.
To Lauren’s shock, Ben pulls out “Little Ben” and she thinks it’s too early in their relationship.
Olivia drags Ben away, and having lamented earlier about receiving a pity hug from Ben, she now whines about how bad her performance was (and let’s face it, whining is her real talent) to try to extract a pity rose. Her plan is thwarted when one of the twins barges in and Olivia is not fine with that, either.
Olivia tries to induce vomiting to get rid of all the shit that keeps coming out of her mouth.
Olivia is very worried. You can tell, because she shoves a canape in her mouth. And then another. And then the producers rush in and tell her to stop eating the props. With no food to distract her, and not content to sit on the couch playing with Little Ben like the other girls, Olivia is soon back to her usual form of barging in on everyone else’s alone time. Right when Emily was telling Ben a riveting story about how her dogs wouldn’t leave home with her, they are interrupted. Emily retreats and Ben apologises. Just once I would love to see one of these Bachelors tell one of these psycho cows to pull their heads in. It could only help ratings, surely?
But he doesn’t. Olivia tells him that she wants to start over because the last conversation was so not her. “I just want to start over,” she whines, while clicking her fingers in his face. “And ski dance. I just want to ski dance.”
If she gets saved tonight, I think I am out.
Ben gives her a peck on the lips, and Olivia is satisfied that the wedding plans are back on.
Then Lauren B gets the group date rose. Olivia is not fine with this. And thinking about it hurts her brain. Watching her hurts mine.
There’s been so much action I almost forgot that there is another single date to get out of the way on this Vegas adventure. Ben sends over a wedding dress for Becca, the virgin, to wear on their date. Of course this is designed to send the rest of them into a frenzied cat fight, but amazingly it is Jubilee who makes the most astute observation: “If she hasn’t lost it in twenty-six years. I can’t see it happening in the next six hours.” Having said that, that’s about twice as long as one of Britney Spears’ entire Vegas marriages lasted, so maybe there is cause for concern.
As it turns out, Ben has done some on-line qualification which means he can officiate at other people’s weddings. It’s like some cheesy plot from a Brady Bunch reunion where Jan’s priest has a heart attack, so Peter goes on line and saves the day by conducting the service.
Noisy ones are more fun.
Travis and Leah are first the guinea pigs in this social experiment, and I guess if you are tacky enough to get married in a Vegas chapel, then it’s not too much of a stretch to let The Bachelor do the honours. And even if Becca is trying her best to look like Priscilla Presley, at least Ben’s not dressed as Elvis. But then Becca starts reading some of the service stuff out of Ben’s book. Surely she hasn’t just become ordained too? Does this mean that at the end of it Travis is married, but Leah isn’t? Maybe I should stop over-thinking it.
After a hard day of marrying, Ben and Becca drive away in a convertible (slowly to avoid the hair in lip gloss issue) to a neon graveyard so that they can shed some light on the issue of Becca’s virginity and Ben’s man-whoredom. Anyway, she really likes him and he really likes her and this isn’t the stage of the process where bones are jumped anyway, so, having listened to cheesy vows all day, they exchange a few of their own and finally he gives her a rose. Great. Now we can get back to Olivia.
Finally, someone realises there’s no point even serving food.
But no! Ben decides to take the twins out for the day to see if he can actually tell them apart. The day starts with a visit to the family home where they are greeted by the twins’ mother and a pack of sausage dogs. Surely that’s a deal –breaker right there. Then one of the girls show Ben her room.
Twin: It’s so dirty!
Ben: What do you mean?
Twin: It’s not clean.
Yep. That exchange really happened. I think what she really meant was that the room was littered with photos of her and her ex-boyfriend. How embarrassment!
The other one, meantime does a lovely job of throwing her sister under the bus. We all knew it was going to happen; we just didn’t know when. It works. Ben decides to leave Hayley behind with her mother and dachshunds and take Emily back to the cocktail party. I think.
Cocktail time. AT LAST. So Olivia decides that she has to spend as much time with Ben as possible to maximise her chances of staying. Poor deluded girl! The less time he has with her the more chance he’s likely to forget how nutty she is. No matter, because before she can click her robust heels together, Jen has snapped him up. Jen? Jen? Who the heck is that? Was she just crossing the hotel foyer and got caught up in the exodus to the pool area? Or have I been so busy keeping all the blondes straight that I haven’t even noticed this girl?
Ben struggles for the name of this one.
Doesn’t matter, because Olivia is about to continue her bizarre dating ritual. This time it is to barge in on the one-on-one time with whatshername, produce a piece of cheesecake from behind the couch, and then show Ben how well she can eat it. Watching the cluelessness of this girl is starting to become excruciating. And yes…I know it is a construct, but there still have to be the building blocks with which to construct.
Ben holds his hand over his mouth to stop ungentlemanly things falling out.
In the end she is referring to herself in the third person and Ben is squirming in his seat like his friends have died in the plane crash all over again. Olivia is feeling fine…and confident about that rose.
Jubilee attempts to cello Ben in order to win a rose.
After what seems like an eternity, it’s rose ceremony time. The usual suspects get their roses, as well as Julie…I mean Judy…JEN…I mean Jen. It’s down to one rose and three girls: Olivia, Amber and Rachel.
And then it happens. He calls Olivia’s name. And she’s mighty fine with it.
Amber accepts her eviction with grace and dignity.
And I’m left with a head spiralling that I don’t even think another wine would fix. Even though Amber ended up in the foetal position, bawling, in a banana lounge, she was more bitch than psycho. At the moment I can’t see how I can sit through another episode of Olivia, and yet, deep down I know I’ll be back. Why? Because I live in hope that Lauren the kindy teacher, or Amanda the squeaky voiced mum, or Caila the good girl sex panther will get there in the end.
But even so, Ben. WTF?
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by Andrew on Sat Mar 29, 2008 2:02 pm
As expected, THQ is coming out with another instalment in the Smackdown vs RAW series later this year. IGN has posted some screenshots of the upcoming release here and an interview here.
Create-a-Finisher sounds good, I hope we're able to designate custom names for them as well. I like the fact they're going for different finishing moves than the traditional movelist offers though I think it would have also been cool to have the option to take an existing move (like a chokeslam) and add some small variations, like a taunt beforehand. From that article, it doesn't look like that will be possible though I can certainly live with that since moves like the chokeslam will no doubt be in the game anyway. Still, it would be good to be able to customise them or give them a custom name in a CAW profile.
Nice to know that tag team matches are being looked at and a couple of those additions sound nice but much like the wrestling styles last year, it remains to be seen how it plays out. Tag matches remain one of my least favourite aspects of career mode though a co-op career mode sounds cool.
This is what I like to hear though:
There are multiple Superstars you can take through on their path to Wrestlemania, and so we're offering one tag team story, but we're also offering a lot of single-player stories as well, so you build up experience [for] different Superstars, and this year, each story is tailored around that Superstar and a much more specific storyline around that Superstar. So [there] won't be a lot of generic stories where you see Undertaker's not really doing something that you would see him doing on programming or is kind of generic that old roles can fit that. It's more that this is the Undertaker in the WWE and you get to live that life and you get to experience his path to Wrestlemania.
Exactly what they needed to do in keeping the current career mode format. It's not so bad when you're using a created wrestler or someone with a more traditional character because the rest of the wrestlers in the angle are scripted to behave as in real life but as we all know, if you take control of someone like The Undertaker the dialogue doesn't usually fit. Changing that up so that we're controlling a character rather than just playing through storylines and picking someone to slot into a role sounds like a definite change for the better.
Downloadable updates sound great, especially if it means some additional wrestlers who didn't make the original cut. I'm guessing downloaded wrestlers wouldn't have their own Road to Wrestlemania storylines since there's only going to be a set number of wrestlers available in that mode anyway (with another mode presumably fulfilling the more traditional career/GM Mode from what was said in the interview). That still sounds good to me.
Reducing the loading times, cutting down on the repetition in the commentary and some of the outlined improvements to the animations sound like a step in the right direction but like everything else we'll need to wait and see. I was a bit let down by SDvRAW 2008, it wasn't terrible but I thought it could have been better. I'll probably end up getting 2009 but I'll be downloading the demo first.
by Lean on Sat Mar 29, 2008 7:44 pm
The update on the SvR2009's Career Mode sounds cool, because I remember using 'Taker on the Season Mode of SvR2006, his character wasn't there. So this revamp could be one of those that should have been done long ago.
EDIT: Looking at the screenies, it's good to see that they've updated the stage ramp as well.
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by Chino on Sat Mar 29, 2008 9:10 pm
Create-a-Finisher would be awesome.
I hope that they really make a big update on SVR09 as they just need to make it for ps3,Xbox360 and Wii.
by Andrew on Sun Mar 30, 2008 12:30 pm
Lean wrote: The update on the SvR2009's Career Mode sounds cool, because I remember using 'Taker on the Season Mode of SvR2006, his character wasn't there. So this revamp could be one of those that should have been done long ago.
Exactly. It was much better to use a CAW in the career modes since it fit the generic dialogue while everyone else was in character. It looks like in 2009 we'll be able to be the character, not just play through some generic angles with the wrestler we've chosen. Much better.
Chino wrote: I hope that they really make a big update on SVR09 as they just need to make it for ps3,Xbox360 and Wii.
It's being released for the PS2, PSP and DS as well but if you're buying the game for the 360, PS3 or Wii presumably you won't miss out on anything.
by deihatein on Sun Mar 30, 2008 2:31 pm
SvR2009 will be available on the PS2? Andrew? Then i can buy the game even though i am not a big fan of the game now. The last time i played a wrestling game was the title Smackdown:Here comes the pain i think?
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by Andrew on Sun Mar 30, 2008 3:14 pm
A PS2 version is mentioned in the interview so it looks like they're still developing the game for that platform.
by Chino on Sun Mar 30, 2008 4:18 pm
I didn't know that they are still making it for ps2 and other platforms.
I think each superstar will have different attires form last year based from the screens.
Edit: I saw the video of Create-a-Finisher and it was awesome!
by Lean on Sun Mar 30, 2008 6:27 pm
They should include the DX shirts and the pre-match attires of the superstars. Not much for a gameplay improvement but little details like that will make it look more real.
by buzzy on Sun Mar 30, 2008 11:13 pm
I only played SvR 08 on the PSP so I don't know how it was on the next-gen consoles.
But I found the crowd pretty damn boring. They looked ugly and they didn't got into the game, as they never cheered when a finisher ot whatever happened.
Or at least make the front rows more detailed, since some of the starts interact with them on their entrance. Mysterio for example, or HBK.
And I agree with Lean. Make John Cena throw his t-shirt and hat into the audience, etc.
Take it sleazy.
by Andrew on Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:08 pm
I'd prefer it if they went back to the old method of being able to store a finisher. I wasn't a big fan of fighting styles. It's not a bad idea in theory but it's kind of like Freestyle Superstars in NBA Live; the next step is to make the individual wrestlers standout rather than restricting them to some generic style movesets.
I still think everyone should be able to steal finishers. If they use the same approach as they did in No Mercy and Wrestlemania 2000, they could avoid wrestlers stealing moves they wouldn't be able to perform (eg Rey Mysterio chokeslamming the Big Show). Being able to store a finisher and use it at an opportune time was also a much better idea.
by Srbija on Mon Mar 31, 2008 11:34 pm
Andrew wrote: I'd prefer it if they went back to the old method of being able to store a finisher. I wasn't a big fan of fighting styles. It's not a bad idea in theory but it's kind of like Freestyle Superstars in NBA Live; the next step is to make the individual wrestlers standout rather than restricting them to some generic style movesets.
Couldn't agree more.
Andrew wrote: I still think everyone should be able to steal finishers.
I loved doing that. Nothing better than beating your opponent senseless and finishing him off with his own finisher.
Really hyped for the co-op career mode. I think last time they had something like this was on a Playstation 1 game. Can't remember which one though. Ever since then, I've been waiting for it to be included.
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by huddy187 on Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:49 am
Can u edit there costumes and go backstage that would be cool
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by Andrew on Wed Apr 02, 2008 8:40 pm
Probably not. There'll likely be a few alternates as usual but no costume editing outside created wrestlers.
by Cool2Fool on Thu Apr 10, 2008 2:10 pm
So Andrew the finisher is still the same from last year where you have to use it quickly or else it drain?!? Sh*t!
They don't seems to change anything with the character at all. Exactly the same as last year man. At least try to update some more recent look.
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by huddy187 on Thu Apr 10, 2008 3:05 pm
thats the only thing i didnt like about the game only few people had alternate costumes, i also didnt like is they took out the backstages
by Andrew on Thu Apr 10, 2008 9:12 pm
Cool2Fool wrote: So Andrew the finisher is still the same from last year where you have to use it quickly or else it drain?!? Sh*t!
I don't know, it wasn't addressed in that interview but the fact they didn't mention a return to the old system of storing a finisher instead of a fighting style makes me think it will be the same as last year. I hope I'm wrong, I don't think fighting styles particularly made the game any better.
by Cool2Fool on Fri Apr 11, 2008 4:54 am
Andrew wrote:
I didn't like the fighting styles either. It was so cheesy and easily abuse non stop. like a brawler would would do fist of fury non stop and harcore doing lionsoul with the chair at will.
by -Young Buck- on Sat Apr 12, 2008 4:08 am
Well i bought every smackdown game since 1 up till the first Smackdown vs Raw game for ps2. I havent bought the last two, and judging by them, i am not even interested in the 09 edition. They have just gone in the opposite direction of what made me love the game. Now its too slow, moves are limited, roster keeps getting smaller, and they fuck up the controls. I liked smackdown because it was fast and fun, and now its turning into slow simulation. The AI isnt good if they want to make it simulation, and every year they talk it up with new features, false promises, and hype. Im tired of their bullshit. Yukes/THQ is turning into EA, they just spit out yearly editions of a piece of crap game.
As a wrestling fan, im more excited for the new TNA IMPACT game, and i dont even watch TNA wrestling. I know the roster of wrestlers they have, but their game looks refreshing, fast, and fun. It actually looks like a next gen game beyond just graphics, unlike smackdown vs raw which still feels like a ps1 game with updated graphics. In smackdown limbs still go through turnbuckles, or other body parts, and they reuse old animations from years ago. No thanks, im ready for a change. I want a fun, and intelligent wrestling game, and TNA IMPACT looks like its going to be the one. Hopefully it doesnt dissapoint.
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by Lean on Sat Apr 12, 2008 7:45 am
SvR2009 Trailer:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnEyBKvjWZg[/youtube]
by buzzy on Sat Apr 12, 2008 8:16 am
Boy their faces look ugly, completely random.
by Andrew on Sun Apr 13, 2008 1:11 pm
I'm not too concerned about the graphics, the faces are easily good enough for the amount of attention I pay to the aesthetics. The new stuff like improvements to tag matches, co-op career play etc sound promising but I'm more concerned about the returning features and existing issues. Mind you, I'm not big on boycotts when the product is good enough to hold my interest so as I said in my first post I'll probably end up buying it, unless the demo reveals it to be truly unplayable.
by deihatein on Tue Apr 15, 2008 6:36 pm
I am buying this game but since this is not out yet, i want to ask if the older version of this game is worth buying because the last time i have played a wrestling game is the first SvR game and i dont like the features of it.
by Andrew on Tue Apr 15, 2008 7:01 pm
I've enjoyed each of the previous releases enough to feel I didn't waste my money but if you don't care for any of the features in the previous releases it's probably not worth picking any of them up, unless you find them cheap somewhere and have a bit of disposable income.
If you've got an Xbox 360, you can always download the 2008 demo.
So the Demo are only available for Xbox360 Because I didn't have it on ps3 but hopefully not for 2009
by deihatein on Thu Apr 17, 2008 4:04 pm
Well, here in our place there are ways to find some cheap games so i just buy the previous installment so i can enjoy again wrestling
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we all too often treat the NHS and Welfare State with indifference, failing to realise just how dire life was before its inception – a time when the simplest of setbacks in life could shatter a middle class life and plunge entire families into abject poverty and eventual starvation. Malnutrition would be an every day presence in the lives of huge swathes of the population in Britain, without the welfare state.
Innoculations, vacination and even the simplest of medical procedures would be but a didtant dream for the bulk of the population, were it not for the NHS, infant mortality is still much too high, even with the welfare state and NHS but rickets would once again become endemic and we would once again be dependent on having families of 10 – 12 or more to ensure the hope of assistance in ones old age.
When one appreciates that the 1909 Pension Act is in large part responsible for Britain’s irresolvable £Trillion debts one starts to realise just how thin the veneer of modern life really is. Ask a Syrian if they could have envisaged the life they lead today, or the life led by the unfortunate peoples of Libya – aided in the collapse of their standards of living by a vendetta by the west to prevent the burgeoning of the Gold Dinar as a challenge to the supremacy of the $US as bthe reserve currency of choice globally.
Life in cosmopolitan Lebanon in the late 1960s was a life of plenty a dream shattered by the war forced on Palestine by the occupation of their land by Zionists to create the new state styled Israel – a similar happenstance to the collapse of the Ukraine and the civil war that was resultant from the interference and inept ambitions of the EU and the perceived dangers of NATO to the Russians threatening their stability as they emerged from Communism; an interference that set back Russian liberty and the natural demise of Communism by a generation at least.
The hard won legacy of our fathers and forefathers to create a Welfare State and the jewel in its crown with the NHS is today teetering on a knife edge, facing cuts and pressures from immigration and the failure to invest enough in the training of nurses and doctors, such that it may not survive under the burden of debt left as Blair and Brown’s legacy.
One wonders just what percentage of our population realise just what a gift the welfare state has been and an even smaller percentage seem to realise just how fragile that structure is – especially when one considers the ease with which the gullible can be duped into demonstrations and protests against the unavoidable areas of austerity we face – austerity made ever more endemic to our way of life as a result of our misguided and damaging membership of the EUropean Union, which we were duped, at a time of 3 day weeks and ever popular strickes, into using both as a crutch and as a cudgel to regail control of our governance, all be it by a very allien outside force.
Now however if we are to see our welfare state survive and our NHS rejuvenated it is imperative that we consider our own well being first and foremost, liberated from the shackling effects of the EU and able to govern in our own interests.
In a relatively recent Christmas special of “Call the Midwife”, in what was very much an object lesson against our own complacency, they covered the tragic story of Mrs Jenkins.
It was toned down from the full story in the book – a story that was far too heart-breaking for broadcast as what is largely light weight entertainment as one finds on TV. The trilogy of books titled ‘Call The Midwife’ by Jennifer Worth are reminiscences of her life and training as a midwife in the 1950s only some 60 years ago – a training where she met Mrs. Jenkins, and many like her with similar horrific tales of the days before the welfare state and the NHS.
Mrs Jenkins had six children when her husband died early in the 20th. century, only some 30 years earlier.
There was no welfare state so she took her eldest, a daughter of ten, out of school to look after the younger ones, whilst she worked. The she and her eldest daughter took in sewing, to eke out their inadequate income.
Then an industrial injury to her arm, for which there was no compensation, resulted in her losing her job.
The sewing didn’t bring in enough money to support her and her family, thus she and her children were evicted from their home. Having already sold her teeth and her hair for money, she was forced to turn to the parish for help but the trustees told her she was “workshy” and denied her any help.
They had nothing and when the youngest, still not even a toddler died, she found a box and committed his body to the river Thames.
Eventually as the health of her starving children failed, she was forced to do something she dreaded.
The family turned up at the workhouse.
As they waited in the reception room she hugged them knowing, as they didn’t, that they would be separated. She never saw any of them again.
She was released from the workhouse when it closed, as with all the workhouses, in 1935, when her mind was shattered by her experiences of life.
Not one of her five remaining children lived – they all died either from pneumonia, tuberculosis, influenza or “failure to thrive”, maladies that stalked society at all levels prior to the welfare state and NHS, Mrs. Jenkins’ last to die was her eldest.
She wasn’t allowed to see their bodies nor attend their funerals, a concept hard for us to believe in this age when society seems willing to pay £Millions to effect closure trolling the Indian Ocean for months on end seeking clues to the death of those on Malayan Airways or even more indulgently seeking the body dead or alive of Madeleine McCann!
In the fifties, the midwifes and nuns had seen, the now aged, Mrs. Jenkins around in the east end of London, but didn’t know her story. She loved babies, but the mothers didn’t like this old, dirty, shambling figure around them and shooed her away.
She walked strangely because, it was later discovered, her toenails had grown to over 12 inches long.
When the nurses came to tend her, they had to cut her boots off. They bathed her, sent her to a specialist to cut her nails (which remain today in a London museum) and gave her second hand clothing. She tried to refuse it: “that’s too good for the likes of me, you keep it”.
She couldn’t believe that she could see a doctor free of charge; the NHS was a miracle, the money from the new welfare state a literal life saver. A welfare state and state health service which was not only inovational, based on Lord Beveridge’s Report but also was for many years the envy of the world.
All this has been put at risk, firstly by subtle ammendments to the Beveridger Report made by the scurrilous early champagne Socialist Aneurin Bevan and his Communist wife Jenny Lee, wheereby the NHS was politicised but later in its life as the NHS increasingly became a a National Lifestyle Service.
A Service pandering to political need and political greed, to buy votes and even more recently as it was exposed to privatisation by the 13 unlucky years of Socialist misrule and economic illiteracy under Blair & Brown, where many Hospitals were sold off and new developements were instigated, by plunging the NHS into insoluable debt, with PFI (Private Finance Initiatives) – which more rightly stood for Profligate Financial Inovations!
We should further risk the Welfare State and NHS at our peril, as the consequences may prove catastrophic. Already it is debatable if the NHS can survive the tampering of Aneurin Bevan when he was charged with setting it in place as agent for all 3 parties at the time, nor whether it can weather the profound damage done by Blair & Brown by borrowing against the service so heavily the repayments deeply cut into its budget, or can it survive the failure through many governments to provide adequate training, such that now we find ourselves stealing medical staff from those Countries which can least afford to loose such assetts such as the Philipines, India and Africa!
Of all our National Treasures it speaks loudest of our aims and aspirations – we must strive to save our Welfare State, which can best be served by sound efforts to ensure against the industrial levels of tax avoidance & evasion by corporations and the wealthy and those exploiting overseas tax havens and loopholes
whilst the poor claiming dependence on the Welfare State must be rigerously patrolled – The NHS on the other hand can best be served by a cut in management costs, a transfer of management to the medically trained, an emphasis on training and some method of assisting in coping with the debts incurred by Blair & Brown meanwhile making dramatic savings by concentrating the service on National Health and paring away the excesses of lifestyle treatments!
Already much of the Dental Service has drifted back into private hands where many can no longer obtain NHS cover nor afford private treatment. As with opticians and although those simple NHS specs were far from fashion accessories
all could have their glasses supplied by the service!
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The NHS was designed to fail. This is the inevitible conclusion of all socialist pipedreams. Eventually, socialists always run out of other people’s money.
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I incline to the inept efforts to stamp a socialist impramature and politicise the NHS by Aneurin Bevan on the NHS that is the grounding of its present problems, aided by Tony Blaire & Gordon Brown’s efforts to sell it off via PFI.
The propaganda that Labour founded the NHS is of course utter drivel, all that Labour ever did for the NHS was seek to use it to buy votes and raise money to fund populist failures.
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We Went There: Solange Knowles’s Wedding (on Twitter and Instagram and Email and Blogs and Voice Mail and Text)
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The idea of celebrity is slightly depressing.
In a perfect world, our own lives are so interesting and full and captivating that we don’t have six to eight hours a day to focus on the details of someone else’s life — a someone whom we will never meet. But here we are, all guilty, all at different degrees of obsession.
If you’re lucky, you can pick what facets of celebrity engulf your entire being. But there are undoubtedly times when you simply have no control.
Solange Knowles’s New Orleans wedding this past Sunday was one of those moments.
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Seeing this image pop up on the Internet Sunday afternoon, by way of Vogue and photographer Rog Walker, rendered me completely defenseless. Because this is, without a trace of hyperbole, royalty.
When I see this picture, I see the newly coronated queen of planet New Houstafrica in the middle, her mother, the strong, former benevolent queen to the right, and the new queen’s sister to the left, waiting for her chance to one day lead her people.
After staring at this for 10 to 12 minutes, you realize other things. For one, that there are eight other phenomenal women in this photo. Also, there seems to be a theme to New Houstafrica, that being all white or a cousin of cream. Thirty-five minutes later, you realize that to the left of Beyoncé is Janelle Monáe.
The important women in my life were unanimously thrilled with every single aspect of these wedding photos. Knowing that — yes — your wedding attire can involve a cape. And yes, your wedding party can look like District 11 took over Sag Harbor. But this was only the first image. There were more, from the actual wedding. And Solange had an entirely new outfit to display.
Yes. That’s a cream jumper, with the top on full elegant vase sideboob Rorschach, under yet another cape. And yes, she and new husband Alan Ferguson have white bikes. Because at this point, they deserve anything they want.
Even though there are always bad seeds attempting to find fault in everything, even an affair as beautiful as this, for a moment it was one of our four to five yearly occasions when negativity is temporarily banned from the Internet. For one evening, things were good. And I couldn’t help myself, so I kept digging for more info and more photos. And even when I knew I’d seen every picture, I kept looking. Because I wasn’t going to be satisfied until I’d seen the Knowles-Carter family at every angle.
This Mr. Carter look is a Mr. Carter look that I sorely want to pull off — a look that I can’t pull off for maybe a decade. But it’s why we have heroes. And goals. And vision boards.
At one point, I was in so deep that I typed “solange” and “wedding” and “spades” into Twitter, just to see if there were any images of spades being played at Solange’s wedding. There weren’t.
On my third trip through #SolangeWedding on Instagram, just making sure nothing new had surfaced in the previous five minutes, my head exploded. It literally exploded. Because I’d spotted friends of mine in a photo from the wedding.
And they looked so happy. Which made sense, because they were at Solange’s wedding. Realizing that it was Sunday evening, it hit me that they were definitely still at the wedding. So I sent a text their way, expecting not to hear back until the next day. An hour later, I heard back. The first line of that text.
Gumbo by Tina.
In any other context, I would have thought this was a new clothing line. But because it was a wedding, I was forced to assume that Tina had something to do with the gumbo, which really cut deep. Yes, the celebration of love was happening, and yes, everyone looked incredible, but TINA GUMBO?
Yes, this reportedly happened:
With performances by musician friends Kelela, Questlove, and Kindness — and an adorable dance-off between Knowles and her ten-year-old son Daniel Julez to “No Flex Zone,” — it was truly a family affair.
Well, not “reportedly.” It 100 percent did (note: outift #3) and is as Alvin Sremmurd Ailey as you’d expect.
BUT GUMBO DE LA CELESTINE?
That’s the moment when, just for a second, you become angry that you weren’t someone’s plus-1. Or that your mom and Tina don’t go way back. Or that you weren’t a day-one House of Deréon investor. Just anything that would have gotten you in the building for Tina’s gumbo with a cameo by Solange’s wedding.
But that anger lasts for only a second. Then you go back to being happy that all of this took place. And then you open #SolangeWedding and scroll down, smiling, until your phone dies.
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The American Band Championship Belt August 12, 2014
I’m Real: A Character Study of Mumblecore Nick’s ‘Bachelorette’ Run July 29, 2014
Kanye and Kim’s ‘Vogue’ Cover: Just Let Love In March 21, 2014
Scarecrows on a Hot Date: Chelsea Peretti’s Stand-up Comedy Special ‘One of the Greats’
‘State of Affairs’: Katherine Heigl’s Noisy, Brain-Numbing Return to TV
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What is the Gross Reservoir Expansion Project?
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Gross Reservoir
This short video summarizes Denver Water’s community commitments based on years of study and robust outreach to Gross Reservoir neighbors. Also, read more on our Community Responsiveness page and on DenverWaterTAP.org !
Jeff Martin, Denver Water’s program manager on the Gross Reservoir Expansion Project sits for an interview about the project goals, core values and minimizing inconvenience to our neighbors.
Provide $2 million towards aquatic habitat improvements on the Upper Colorado River.
Provide $1 million to the Upper Colorado River Wild and Scenic Management group to fund flow-related projects to protect the outstanding and remarkable values within segments of the Upper Colorado River.
Provide $6 million to Grand County to use towards environmental projects, and continue to participate in the “Learning By Doing” collaborative effort, which has already resulted in tangible positive environmental impacts on the West Slope.
Construct and maintain sediment pond on Berthoud Pass to keep the Fraser River bottom clean. Check out, “Good for drivers, bad for the Fraser River.”
Restore a portion of Fraser Flats in Grand County. Check out, “Keep it cool: Good for the Fraser River and its trout.”
Release water into Ranch Creek in response to high temperatures found through water temperature monitoring. Check out, “Searching for solutions to help trout keep their cool.”
Monitor stream temperatures and water quality in Gross Reservoir, South Boulder Creek and the Fraser River Basin.
Provide funding towards Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s cutthroat trout habitat projects to protect and restore native trout populations.
Through a cooperative process, replace culverts on Fraser River, Cabin Creek and St. Louis Creek with aquatic organism passage culverts that will enable free passage of fish and other aquatic organisms.
Provide flushing flows in the Williams Fork and Fraser River basins.
Provide more than 1,000 acre-feet of water in Grand County for environmental purposes.
Complete a stream restoration project on South Boulder Creek.
Create an environmental pool in Gross Reservoir that will be managed by the Cities of Boulder and Lafayette to provide flows into South Boulder Creek during periods of low or no flows.
Allow Grand County to store up to 2,500 acre-feet of water in Williams Fork Reservoir for environmental purposes.
Complete a stream restoration project on the Williams Fork River.
Begin stream bank monitoring on the North Fork of the South Platte River and South Boulder Creek to identify erosion and/or unstable banks, and make repairs, as needed.
Construct a fish ladder on Cabin Creek in Grand County.
Convey approximately 540 acres of land near the Moffat Tunnel to the U.S. Forest Service for permanent protection and management as part of the National Forest System.
Protect raptor species, fight invasive species, relocate rare plant species and responsibly remove trees and brush in the reservoir’s expanded footprint.
Continue to participate in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Upper Colorado River Recovery Program and the Platte River Recovery Implementation Program, both designed to protect endangered species.
Online Office Hours
Out of concern for the safety of our employees and community, Denver Water has suspended in-person office hours and events indefinitely.
We do offer online one-on-one appointments with our project representatives who can answer your questions about the Gross Reservoir Expansion Project. We invite you to search for an available time and book an online meeting here.
We look forward to speaking with you!
Gross Reservoir Expansion Proposal Presents Water Demand, Environmental Concerns
Law Week Colorado - Nov. 24, 2020 - "... the agreement obligates Denver Water to reduce diversions during drought years. “The project itself was shaped and designed to avoid damaging or affecting flows in the driest of years,” he said. “The project will only take...
Osprey Point Closure
Nov. 30, 2020 - Beginning the week of Nov. 30, Denver Water will be performing a safety project at the Osprey Point boat ramp at Gross Reservoir. This project will remove unstable rock at the boat ramp to ensure a safe environment for the public and Denver Water...
Going electrofishing on the Fraser Flats
TAP - Nov. 20, 2020 - "The data from the fish surveys are shared with Learning By Doing, a unique partnership between East and West Slope organizations in Colorado that focuses on maintaining the aquatic environment in Grand County and improving conditions when...
Aging outlet works at base of Denver Water dam call for major upgrade to valves, pipes.
October 16, 2020 - TAP - "At Gross Reservoir, one of the most important reservoirs in Denver Water’s system, it’s time to replace the outlet works, a seven-month job so big it will require sawing up massive slabs of concrete and removing fat steel pipes so big a short...
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Boating recreation is closed at Gross reservoir. Hiking and fishing access remains open, please ensure you are following local COVID-19 guidelines. If you have questions, please contact us.
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A Judge Might Decide If Bill Cosby Lied About Raping Janice Dickinson
Janice Dickinson’s rape claim against Bill Cosby falls well outside the statute of limitations, but she may have a civil case that could get some allegations against the disgraced comedian firmly on the record.
Roger Ailes Caught on Tape Urging Ex-Employee to Lie to Federal Investigators
Hamilton Nolan · 02/24/11 12:56PM
Think back five long years ago, when hot shot publisher-to-the-stars Judith Regan was embroiled in a huge scandal that was the talk of the media world: after HarperCollins fired her, Regan sued them. In her suit, she alleged that a mystery News Corp executive had told her to lie to federal investigators who were vetting former NYPD chief Bernie Kerik—a man that Regan slept with.
"Queen of All Media" Judith Regan Looks for Love on the Millionaire Matchmaker
Alison Flood · 12/14/10 11:45PM
You know Judith Regan for being a prolific former book publisher publisher and notably scandalous success. Tonight, she went to our friend Patti Stanger for a love fix, a dream date who can compare to her celebrity crush... Bruce Vilanch.
The Whole Hooker Ad Controversy Is Back
In your ferocious Friday media column: bad PR for Village Voice Media, Glenn Greenwald's in fine form, Bloomberg's up, the NYT Co. is down, and Judith Regan still exists.
The Most Knife-Twisting Boss Betrayal Books
Doree Shafrir · 03/04/10 01:37PM
Eliot Spitzer's once-trusted confidante Lloyd Constantine wrote a book, out next week, about Spitzer's downfall—and Spitzer's none too happy. But it's practically a hallowed tradition to write a tell-all about your famous boss.
Was Toobin's Too-Hot-to-Print XXX 'Fixation' for Editor-to-the-Stars Judith Regan?
Maureen O'Connor · 02/26/10 12:28AM
Once the floodgate to CNN anchor Jeffrey Toobin's sex life opens, the revelations don't stop. On Sunday we figured out the "vile" fetish the Daily News dared not name was probably anal. Now, news on the kiss-and-teller's identity: Judith Regan?
cityfile · 08/17/09 06:47AM
Robert De Niro turns 66 today. Sean Penn is turning 49. Controversial book publisher Judith Regan is 56. Yankees star Jorge Posada is turning 38. J. Crew CEO Mickey Drexler and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison are both turning 65 today. John McDonald, the restaurateur behind Lure Fishbar, Chinatown Brasserie, and the now-closed Lever House, is 41. Jonathan Franzen, the author of The Corrections, is 50. E! host Giuliana DePandi Rancic is 34. Nicola Kraus, the co-author of The Nanny Diaries, is 35. Hollywood exec Gail Berman is turning 53. Singer Belinda Carlisle is 51. Retired tennis player Jim Courier turns 39. Donnie Wahlberg is turning 40. Former Senator Norm Coleman is 60. And Rick Hilton, father of Paris and Nicky, turns 54 today.
Judith Regan Vs. Michael Wolff In Sad Gossip Feud
Judith Regan, the crazy, Bernard Kerik-fucking former star publisher fired by News Corp. last year, is now locked in a public feud with self-regarding media argument starter Michael Wolff. They deserve each other.
Sean Avery Gets the Boot
• Sean Avery may be spending a lot more time in New York in the near future: Hockey's preeminent bad boy has been cut loose by the Dallas Stars just 23 games into a four-year contract. [NYP]
• Jennifer Aniston was supposedly so desperate to have a boyfriend during the promotional tour for Marley & Me that her camp started "shopping for potential dates." [P6]
• David Paterson was not at all pleased with the impression of him on SNL this weekend. [NYP]
• Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber had a second son on Saturday. [People, E!]
More Pain for Pecker, Regan's Fat Settlement
♦ David Pecker's AMI, the publisher of the Star and National Enquirer, has been near bankruptcy for months. Now it's one step closer. [NYP]
♦ The details of Judith Regan's settlement with News Corp. have been revealed: It cost the company $10.75 million to make her go away. [Bloomberg]
♦ Janet Robinson says there are no plans to sell the Times. [E&P]
♦ A brief explanation for why newspapers are so screwed right now. [NYT, AP]
♦ An increasingly desperate OK! has cut the price of the mag. [NYP]
♦ The reorganization of Random House will likely leave Sonny Mehta the big winner. [NYO]
♦ Les Moonves on the state of network TV: "The model ain't broke." [THR]
♦ Gus Van Sant's Milk was named by the New York Film Critics Circle as the best film of 2008. [THR]
Judith Regan Was a Very Expensive Mistake
Sheila · 12/10/08 10:43AM
Remember Judith Regan? She was famous for publishing anything at her Newscorp/HarperCollins imprint, Regan books—as long as it was trashy, salacious, and celeb-autobiography oriented, like O.J. Simpson's If I Did It (which Newscorp killed.) She was like the National Enquirer of book publishers. In 2006, she was fired for saying something about the Jews, and she filed a $100 million lawsuit. It was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount, but, as the Observer brought to our attention, we now know the figure that NewsCorp paid out to shut her up—$10.75 mil. Damn—that's a lot of lawyering. Update: When called for comment by our intern James Frey, Jonathan Burnham, publisher of HarperCollins, said "no comment."
Judith Regan, Shep Smith, and All Good Things
Judith Regan has been slapped with a suit by the law firm that repped her in her spat with News Corp. [NYDN]
Regan Sued By Dismissed Lawyers
Pareene · 03/04/08 09:59AM
Judith Regan, former high-powered publisher with News Corp.'s HaperCollins, who notoriously carried on a gross affair with disgraced criminal former top cop Bernie Kerik in a Ground Zero apartment, and who was fired for, among other things, embarrassing the company with her O.J. Simpson book (and some alleged anti-Semitic comments), and who settled a wrongful dismissal suit with News Corp. for a rumored $20m–$25m (or maybe $10m) will need that money to pay off her old lawyers, whom she dismissed in favor of showbiz law legend Bert Fields. Regan's old lawyers at Dreier LLP say they worked 1,200 hours and received only $125,000. Fields says the suit brought by the old attorneys is without merit. And it was reported in Page Six, a happy part of the News Corp. cabal family. [NYP]
Judith Regan Wins Her Slanging Match
Nick Denton · 01/25/08 04:57PM
The virtues of going quietly are much overstated. Book publisher Judith Regan, an incredibly aggressive executive in an incredibly passive industry, was offered $6m after being fired by her employer, Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. After she threatened to expose a call from a Murdoch henchman — urging her not to testify against her former lover, Bernie Kerik — the terms improved. Maybe she could have gotten a better deal if Kerik still had the potential to embarrass the former Republican front-runner, Rudy Giuliani. Even so, the rumored $20m-$25m payoff in today's settlement is a nice improvement over Murdoch's initial offer. (Update: Another source says more like $10m, though definitions may vary.) Even after legal fees, and a slanging match (anti-semite! Giu-lovers!) with some of the dirtiest players in politics and media. If anyone could out-slang Roger Ailes, the former Nixon aide who built up Fox News for Murdoch, it's Judith Regan.
Judith Regan Waited Too Long
Judith Regan, the maverick publisher fired from Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation after she pressed ahead with a book by O.J. Simpson, has settled with her former employer. Regan is not an anti-Semite; Murdoch henchman, Roger Ailes, did not pressure her to keep quiet about her former lover, dodgy Giuliani aide Bernie Kerik; and O.J. is not guilty. Whatever. The only question: how much did Rupert Murdoch pay to make the increasingly deranged Regan Books founder shut up? Answer: not as much as she would would have received before the primaries began. Rudy Giuliani's campaign is faltering and, with it, Regan's leverage. It's moot whether Fox News creator and former Nixon aide, Ailes, pressured Regan to save the Giuliani's presidential bid. It's now beyond saving. Update: A newspaper source says Regan's settlement is $25m. Pah, nothing!
Tipster: FBI Agents Seek Judith Regan
Anyone else hearing that FBI showed up to the McGraw-Hill building in Manhattan looking for Judith Regan? The Feds thought the controversial publishing impresario would be at the Sirius office, in the 6th Avenue skyscraper, for her Wednesday appearance on the satellite radio network, according to a tipster. But the show is pre-taped on Tuesday, so she wasn't there. The FBI agents told the Sirius receptionist they were sending a team to Regan's house as well. What on earth would they be looking for?
Martha Stewart's Totally Sirius Christmas Tree
Choire · 12/07/07 10:00AM
As Page Six noted this week, the 36th-floor midtown lobby of Sirius Radio had a disastrous Christmas tree—until Martha Stewart came in herself and fixed it all up. And here it is!
Judith Regan's Top Secret Code Name Was "Giulietta Regan"
Emily Gould · 11/26/07 05:50PM
"Probably my finest skill relates to art directing the process, which includes the design, the marketing, and the sales. The books on my list were so beautifully designed, I used to take art direction credits under a pseudonym—I didn't want anyone to know," fired publisher Judith Regan told the Observer last week. That pseudonym, according to a ReganBooks insider? "Giulietta Regan." Subtle! Then again, subtlety isn't exactly what we've come to expect from the woman who recently wrote in Harper's Bazaar that "the media" "came out, guns blazing, and tried to kill me" over the publication of O.J.'s confession. In that same self-profile, Judith talked about feeling "betrayed," when no one would come to her defense, but according to the same ReganBooks employee, "She talks about betrayal, but she bred betrayal."
A Gawker Thanksgiving
Joshua Stein · 11/21/07 05:00PM
Every year Gawker commenter and ad sales guy (and the best argument for abolishing the divide between editorial and advertising) LolCait has a super special Thanksgiving in his mind. There all of his and your favorite characters meet and dreams come true. This year Laurel Touby hosts.
Judith Regan's Still Big, It's The Settlements That Got Small
Karaoke chanteuse and former publisher Judith Regan turned down a $6.5 million settlement from her former employer HarperCollins, we learned a few too many words into today's Observer cover storyHer lawyer says she found that number "unacceptable," but is Judy really motivated by a desire for more wrongful-termination money? Based on the nutty scope of her suit (bringing down Rudy Giuliani! etc) and its timing, this article posits, it seems like she's more concerned with grabbing the spotlight than the cash. Also, this is confusing: in Judith's article about herself in Harper's Bazaar, she claims that she wants her "life to get smaller now, not bigger." So why is she now doing the most attention-getting stuff possible? Hey, is Judith Regan, like, crazy or something?
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Specialty Research
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"We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals... We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth."
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Animal law is the body of law involving human intereaction with non-human animals, a relationship that goes back to prehistoric times. As companions, commodities, edibles, assistants, performers, sacrifices, experimental media, animals were historically considered property and as such, human indifference and greed often resulted in cruel fates for those animals.
Happily, times and sensibilities are changing. "The rise of animal protection laws in the United States over the last several decades is mainly a response by legislators to the heightened concerns of Americans about animal welfare, especially that of their pet dogs and cats. People also became worried about the treatment of animals used in laboratories...and highly social and intelligent wild species..." --Jordan Curnutt, Animals and the Law (2001)
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Sex and the CITY-19
June 3, 2020 June 3, 2020 / Gunner Q
You knew it would come to this: medical “experts” now call for mandatory face masks during sex. Most of us were already doing that with paper bags but let’s not miss this chance to view our tax dollars at work.
Sexual Health in the SARS-CoV-2 Era
Jack L. Turban, MD, MHS, Alex S. Keuroghlian, MD, MPH, and Kenneth H. Mayer, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital
Sexual contact carries some risk for exposure to infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. This commentary provides clinicians with guidance on how to address sexual health and activity with patients in this context.
More than 200 000 people have died of severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, leading to widespread concern regarding physical morbidity and mortality.
But not to pickup lines. “Do you really want to die a virgin?” only works once.
The sexual health implications, however, have received little focus. On the basis of existing data, it appears all forms of in-person sexual contact carry risk for viral transmission, because the virus is readily transmitted by aerosols and fomites.
Wow. Government has outlawed normal human behavior to the point that it can’t even be honest with itself about how normal sex works.
This has resulted in broad guidance regarding physical distancing, with substantial implications for sexual well-being. Given the important role of sexuality in most people’s lives, health care providers (HCPs) should consider counseling patients on this topic whenever possible.
Doc: “So, how’s your sex life been during mandatory social distancing? The contact tracer needs to know.”
Dude: “All of my children were created by prayer alone.”
This is an unprecedented and stressful time for HCPs; facilitating brief conversations and referrals to relevant resources (Table) can help patients maintain sexual wellness amid the pandemic.
Here’s the Oregon Health Authority’s take:
In: masturbation, phone sex. Out: human beings, kissing. Conclusion: Only a government can take the fun out of Nookie Night. Also, the government hates us and thinks babies come from India.
I had to censor that Public Service Announcement because the Dubai Porta-Potti habit is apparently way more popular than any Normal Norman could possibly have been willing to guess.
Abstinence: “Low risk for infection, though not feasible for many”
One hopes he meant “many married couples”.
Masturbation: Low risk for infection, Safe tips: [link to Planned Parenthood]
If you need an abortion provider to explain how flogging the bishop works then I just can’t even WTF is wrong with these people? MD for Medical Dunces, more like.
Sexual activity via digital platforms: Patients should be counseled on [sexual extortion].
Oh, that’s right. It’s now a crime to send dick pics unless she approves after the fact. Even if she’s your wife!
Minors should be counseled on potential legal consequences if they are in possession of sexual images of other minors. …and online sexual predation.
That’s just sick. These doctors won’t tell children to not have sex, then they DO tell children to only have sex online where the kiddie fappers can easily get at them, then they tell third parties to notify the kid that if he does what he’s been told to do, then he’ll end up a registered sex offender for life before he’s old enough to drive.
Thanks for nothing, you perverted freak cowards.
Sex only with [fellow self-quarantined]: Patient is at risk from an asymptomatic SARS-Cov-2-infected partner.
Speaking of Dubai Porta-Potties, I love how the world’s leaders grabbed their ankles so hard for Chinese censors that they’re still too full of shit to call the Wu Flu anything but mouthfuls like “SARS-Cov-2”.
I like to call it CHINA-19 right now. It’ll prevent confusion with the upcoming, annual CHINA-20 through -45. They might not all be coronaviruses, you see.
Sex with [swingers, prostitutes and Cabinet-level government health directors such as Professor Neil Ferguson]: Patients should be counseled on [the risks of anal sex].
Perhaps they skipped a few levels of sexual behavior risk types between “man and wife” and “doggy with the doggy”.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/05/05/professor-lockdown-quits-after-breaking-own-rules-to-meet-lover/
That is thankfully the last category, else this would cease to be Safe For Work. Kinda sketchy even as is.
Additional Resources: the Sex Partner Notification Platform, What To Know About HIV and COVID-19 [tip: they’re different] and the COVID-19 Command Center for STD Programs.
I can only assume that the latter is a way to transfer funding from HIV research to SARS research, else it makes no sense at all.
Current Evidence Suggests That All In-person Sexual Contact Carries Transmission Risk
SARS-CoV-2 is present in respiratory secretions and spreads through aerosolized particles. It may remain stable on surfaces for days. …
Data are lacking regarding other routes of sexual transmission. Two small studies of SARS-CoV-2–infected people did not detect virus in [bodily secretions].
So, it doesn’t spread sexually except by the coincidence of shared living space.
Because many SARS-CoV-2–infected people are asymptomatic, HCPs are left with little to offer beyond guidance to not engage in any in-person sexual activity.
“You probably won’t be affected, therefore you shouldn’t run any risk of living a normal life.” I cannot believe the sheeple are this stupid! to live in fear of a disease so terrifying that MOST PEOPLE WHO GET IT, DON’T NOTICE!
Psychological Effects of Sexual Abstinence
A topic they should have considered when adopting VAWA legislation, or at latest the “No Means No” movement.
Sexual expression is a central aspect of human health but is often neglected by HCPs. Messaging around sex being dangerous may have insidious psychological effects at a time when people are especially susceptible to mental health difficulties. Some groups, including sexual and gender minority (SGM) communities, may be particularly vulnerable to sexual stigma, given the historical trauma of other pandemics, such as AIDS. Abstinence recommendations may conjure memories of the widespread stigmatization of SGM people during the AIDS crisis. For the population at large, a recommendation of long-term sexual abstinence is unlikely to be effective, given the well-documented failures of abstinence-based public health interventions and their likelihood to promote shame.
These authors didn’t waste any time going hardline-homopedo. Abstinence-only programs are documented to be more effective at preventing risky sexual behavior than “fuck all you want then get an abortion before your parents find out” programs. But now, alas, Barbie might get SARS-Cough-2 from the baby parts recyclers at Planned Parenthood.
The use of shame is nothing to be ashamed about. Such emotions do much to regulate healthy human behavior. The sexually disobedient SHOULD be ashamed of their behavior!
Abstinence is the lowest-risk approach to sexual health during the pandemic. Masturbation is an additional safe recommendation for patients to meet their sexual needs without the risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection.
The authors recommend Hand Solo to married people because your spouse might be secretly DISEASED! Or worse, she might have a headache. There ain’t no coming back from a headache.
Given that abstinence-only recommendations, however, are likely to promote shame and unlikely to achieve intended behavioral outcomes, sex-positive recommendations regarding remote sexual activity are optimal during the pandemic, balancing human needs for intimacy with personal safety and pandemic control.
“Remote sexual activity” does nothing for the human need for intimacy.
Patients can be counseled to engage in sexual activity with partners via the telephone or video chat services. Given privacy concerns, they should be counseled to use secure encrypted platforms. They should also be warned about the risks for sexual partners taking screenshots of conversations and relevant risks and laws regarding sexual extortion. For some patients, including those without internet access and minors at home from school who are in environments unaccepting of their sexual orientation, digital sexual practices may not be feasible.
Laughing about these malicious fools is getting hard.
For the foreseeable future, HCPs will need to incorporate new technological advances regarding SARS-CoV-2 into how they think about sexual health and risk. As was seen during the HIV epidemic, antibody tests may play a key role in how we evaluate sexual risk. Though we currently lack data on how long such immunity may last, those who test positive for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies could have relative immunity to the virus. This may allow for the serosorting of individuals for sexual activity…
“No sex except with Government-approved individuals”.
The sexual ignorance of these doctors is astonishing. They cannot find ANYBODY’s ass with both hands! Even Joe Biden is less senile than that!
The idea that human social needs can be provided with virtual reality is truly monstrous, as is their unspoken assumption that government-backed academics are the people who best know how you ought to live… as is their instruction that people engage in the very online sexual practices that the State just finished criminalizing… as is their malevolent interest in what children should be taught about sex without their parents’ knowledge or consent.
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Nigerians in Edmonton show solidarity with youth in home country protesting police brutality
By Sarah Ryan Global News
Posted October 21, 2020 7:56 pm
Updated October 22, 2020 8:09 pm
1:52 Nigerian Canadians show support for youth protestors back home
Edmonton is home to about 5,000 people with roots in Nigeria, and they want the world to wake up to the police brutality and corruption happening in that country right now. Sarah Ryan explains. – Oct 22, 2020
Nigerians in Edmonton are showing their support for families and friends in Africa as Nigerian youth speak out against corruption, bribery and police brutality.
For years, young people have been protesting SARS, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad section of the Nigerian police, but this latest protest began nearly two weeks ago.
“If (youth) are dressed in a different way — with tattoos or dreadlocks — (the police) pick them up. And if there’s no one to come pay bribes to release them, some of them get shot,” explained Tope Akindele, the general secretary of the Nigerian Canadian Association of Edmonton.
Read more: 12 peaceful protesters killed by Nigerian forces, Amnesty International says
“The next morning, their parents or their families come to pick up their corpse. Those are the reasons they went to protest.”
The protests had been described as peaceful until Tuesday when the army was called in.
“Heavily armed people opened fire on their own people,” explained Fort Saskatchewan resident Jibs Abitoye. “They were only demanding a better country, and it was a peaceful protest.
“Nobody was doing anything, all they were doing was holding the Nigerian flag and singing the national anthem.”
Abitoye said she has experienced the police brutality firsthand, having been slapped by a SARS officer when they raided a party she was at in university.
READ MORE: Witnesses report Nigerian soldiers shooting protesters at anti-police brutality rallies
Tuesday’s shooting happened in Lagos state, the largest commercial hub in Nigeria.
Amnesty International reports at least a dozen deaths and hundreds of injuries.
“Those lives that were lost? They can’t be in vain. Something has to happen,” Abitoye said.
Edmonton is home to around 5,000 Nigerians, according to the Nigerian Canadian Association, and they’re appalled with what’s happening. Many, including international student Toyosi Kuti, are concerned for their family’s well-being.
2:38 Protests rage on in Nigeria over police brutality
Protests rage on in Nigeria over police brutality – Oct 22, 2020
“I’m scared, I’m terrified as to what could happen and the only thing I can do is pray,” the University of Alberta student said.
Locals are joining the protesting youth in calling for Nigeria’s president and other top government staff to resign.
“We need this revolution today. We need it now and it has to continue,” explained doctor Kehinde Akenroye.
READ MORE: Anti-police protesters storm prison in Nigeria, freeing some 200 inmates
They say it’s time for other countries to issue diplomatic sanctions against Nigerian officials.
“The government has promised us reform, they’re going to overhaul the system, and nothing has happened. And so on this fifth occasion, Nigerians are like, ‘OK, enough is enough,'” explained Chizoba Imoka-Ubochioma.
Locals hope that by holding candlelight vigils at Churchill Square each night at 6 p.m., they can pay tribute to those who have lost their lives at the hands of SARS.
They’re also hosting a peaceful protest march with masks and social distancing measures on Saturday at noon in front of the Alberta legislature. From there, they plan to walk to Churchill Square to raise attention for the cause.
READ MORE: #ShutItAllDown: Demonstrators protesting against Nigerian police take to the streets
“We can’t let our people down back home. We can’t let them do this fight alone,” Akindele said.
“I would expect to see my fellow Nigerians there, I would expect to see Africans there, I would expect to see Canadians there — anyone who feels like this is not OK,” Abitoye added.
“This is something the world needs to wake up to and stand against.”
Watch below: Some recent video about protests in Nigeria.
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Dear Students, Families, and Staff Members,
We are writing to you today with several updates. The Board of Education met last evening and took action on a number of important items. First, please note that the school calendar has been amended to provide our teachers with much needed additional planning time. As everyone understands, the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has placed a significant burden on teachers as they provide daily instruction to both in-person and remote learners. To that end, beginning on Wednesday, December 16, 2020, the school district will follow the early release schedule on the first and third Wednesday of each month. Teachers will use the time on those afternoons to plan for upcoming lessons and to assess students’ work. The revised school calendar is attached to this message and is posted on the district’s website.
Additionally, the Board took action on the implementation of a COVID-19 “dashboard” that is now accessible on the district’s website and through the following link: RHPS COVID-19 Dashboard
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In order to deal with the myriad issues associated with COVID-19 (including the management of the dashboard), the Board has promoted the director of special education, Ms. Amy Stevenson, to the position of interim assistant superintendent for personnel and student services. The special education supervisor, Ms. Jolene Piscetello, will assume some of Ms. Stevenson’s responsibilities and the assistant principal at West Hill School, Ms. Louise Adamow, has been assigned some of the duties and tasks normally delegated strictly to the special education administrators. Again, these changes were made to provide more direct assistance and oversight regarding the massive volume of issues stemming from the pandemic. We understand that this may have an impact on the timeliness of responses requiring administrative attention at West Hill School, and also with respect to special education throughout the district; however, the Board made these staffing adjustments in direct response to the pandemic, and with a full understanding that the operating budget is fixed and additional personnel cannot be hired at this time.
Yesterday, school district administration participated in a conference call with state public health officials. Some good news was shared with respect to the fact that the disease transmission rate within the public school setting (PreK-12) remains extremely low. State officials attribute the low transmission rate to the mitigation strategies in place, e.g., regular handwashing, the use of masks, social distancing. However, as we saw with our secondary schools last week, a small number of positive cases can create a situation where entire schools must transition to remote learning. Hence, we must again emphasize the following:
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Do you prefer the North American or global model?
Toyota has unveiled the all-new, 12th generation Corolla sedan. Two version were introduced, and the unveiling was simultaneously done in China and in the USA. The new Corolla Sedan will be offered in two different flavors. The North American version carries a sportier and very aggressive design, characterized by an ultra-wide front grille, while the rest of the world will receive the Corolla that was unveiled in China.
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Underneath the skin of the new Corolla is the brand’s TNGA C platform. As a result, the new Corolla is 60% stiffer and has a 2 cm low center of gravity than before. While that may not sound like much, it pays dividends to the car’s newfound sporty handling, aided by the fact that it now uses an independent multi-link rear suspension, replacing the torsion beam rear suspension found in current Corollas. Wrapping that new and more dynamic platform is an equally new and dynamic exterior design that perfectly matches the Corolla’s newfound sportiness. The global version follows the overall design of the hatchback.
Inside, the Corolla features the same stylistic and dynamic interior design. A mix of matte and shiny finishes, combined with soft padded surfaces and contrast stitching details do help in uplifting the interior ambience of the Corolla. Like the hatchback, the Toyota Corolla features a 7-inch TFT LCD digital instrument cluster, which displays vehicle information, turn-by-turn navigation, and various vehicle settings. The Toyota Corolla comes well-equipped, at least for the US-market, being fitted with a single-zone climate control, electronic parking brake, three-door passive entry system, and automatic up down windows on all four doors.
Multiple powertrain options are available for the Corolla. Higher powered version will receive the same M20A-FKS 2.0 liter Dynamic-Force inline-4 engine, which features direct-injection, Dual VVT-i, and Dual VVTi-E. It utilizes a long stroke design, and a high 13:1 compression ratio. Power is sent through the front wheels via a 6-speed i-MT (intelligent manual transmission) with automatic rev matching, or a Dynamic-Shfit CVT, which has 10-speed simulated gears and a launch gear. The launch gear is meant to assist the CVT while crawling or when launching the car from a complete stop, making the Corolla accelerate and respond quicker off the line.
Additionally, the North American model also gets a 1.8-liter inline-4 VVT-i petrol engjne with 139 horsepower mated to a continuously variable transmission carried over from the old Corolla.
The North American model, comes as standard with Toyota Safety Sense 2.0, which includes Pre-Collision Detection, Full-Speed Range Dynamic Radar Cruise Control, Lane Departure Warning with Steering Assist, Automatic High Beams, and new for TSS 2.0, Lane Trace Assist, which can let the car drive semi-autonomously on the expressway by tracing lane markings, and Road Sign Assist, which displays the traffic signs on the car’s 7.0-inch TFT digital instrument cluster.
Expect these new Corollas to be unveiled around 2019 for the Philippine market.
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the strange theory of light and matter
by Richard Phillips Feynman
Published 1985 by Princeton University Press in Princeton, N.J .
Photons,
Electrons,
Quantum electrodynamics
Statement Richard Feynman.
Series Alix G. Mautner memorial lectures
LC Classifications QC793.5.P422 F48 1985
Pagination x, 158 p. :
In this book, using everyday language, spatial concepts, visualizations, and his renowned "Feynman diagrams" instead of advanced mathematics, Feynman successfully provides a definitive introduction to QED for a lay readership without any distortion of the basic science. Though the principles of quantum electrodynamics were worked out by three individuals, the most famous founder of QED was undeniably Richard P. Feynman. Feynman was equally good at the mathematics and explanation of a theory, which resulted in his creation of Feynman diagrams — a visual representation of the mathematics that went on in QED.
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Nov 09, · In this quirky, fascinating book, he explains to laymen the quantum theory of light."" (New Yorker) "Praise for Princeton's original edition:"Feynman's lectures must have been marvellous and they have been turned into an equally entrancing book, a vivid introduction to QED which is leavened and enlivened by his wit/5().
Characterized by Feynman's famously original clarity and humor, this popular book on QED has not been equaled since its publication. Read more Read less See the Best Books of /5(87).
The book is transcription of a few lectures Feynman gave on Quantum Electrodynamics (QED), a branch of quantum theory he and Dirac developed. Feynman introduces a few QED book rules on how electrons and photons behave (which appear to be easy-to-digest analogs for vector calculus) and then off he goes, explaining the theory I think this is my favorite science book/5.
In this quirky, fascinating book, he explains to laymen the quantum theory of light, a theory to which he made decisive contributions."—The New Yorker "Feynman's lectures must have been marvelous and they have been turned into an equally entrancing book, a vivid introduction to QED which is leavened and enlivened by his wit/5.
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Press should ask me to write an introduction to the edition of Feynman's famous book QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter. First a confession: I had never read QED before. When this book came out in I had just finished writing my first popular physics book, Fearful Symmetry, and I.
In this section we finally get to quantum electrodynamics (QED), the theory of light interacting with charged matter. Our path to quantization will be as before: we start with the free theory of the electromagnetic field and see how the quantum theory gives book by Paul Dirac, “Lectures on Quantum Mechanics”.
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May 06, · I think Zees book often gives very intuitive explanations, that's a plus. Sometimes these explanations are not too good, (for example on vacuum fluctuations), so that's a minus. The math is explained in some detail, especially at the beginning, but I think that he is sometimes a bit sloppy.
So I would say yes, read it, but use other books as well. QED The Strange Theory of Light and Matter is a magical book of physics, one I highly recommend for students of all levels.
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A Turkish political, non-governmental, civil society organisation, Hizmet Movement, has made commendable contributions in Nigeria’s socio-economic life. The movement, which began in the late 1960s, particularly focuses on education, charity and dialogue, which it believes are the remedies to ignorance, poverty and disunity.
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Students, arriving at Romania for International Festival of Language and Culture (IFLC), visited the legendary football name Gheorghe Hagi, at his club building in Constanta, on Saturday.
The work of peace
Mr. Tozan is originally from Turkey; the Peace Islands Institute likewise has Turkish roots. He said that there are about half a million Muslims of Turkish descent in the United States, two thirds of them in the New York metropolitan area.
Virginians Deliver 114,000 Pounds of Winter Warmth to Refugees in Turkey
Local governments working with volunteers from religious groups and private business in Virginia delivered more than 72 tons of coats and blankets this winter to Syrian refugees in Turkey. The Northern Virginia Regional Commission, made up of 14 local governments in the Washington, DC suburbs, has been coordinating the coat and blanket drive for each of the last three winters.
NTIC Foundation: Touching lives in Nigeria
Foreign capital typically finds its place among the most promising market indicators, as transnational investors constantly seek maximum returns on their investments. But for the First Surat Group Company, it is obviously not all about the bottom line.
Virginia delegation teams up with Turkish NGO, delivers aid to Syrians
A delegation from the US state of Virginia was in the working class neighborhood of Umraniye in İstanbul on Monday, delivering food and blankets to Syrian families with the help of the charities Kimse Yok Mu and Embrace Relief.
Turkish Cultural Center presents ‘Love is a Verb’
“Love is a Verb” is a film examining a social movement of Sufi-inspired Muslims that began in Turkey in the 1960s and now reaches across the globe. The group is called Hizmet – the Turkish word for service – or The Gulen Movement, after its inspiration, leader and beloved teacher Fethullah Gulen – a man Time Magazine named as one of the most influential leaders in the world in 2013.
Cuban artist wins Kimse Yok Mu’s international cartoon competition
Arístides Esteban Hernández Guerrero, an internationally acclaimed cartoonist and illustrator from Cuba also known as Ares, has won the international cartoon competition titled “Refugees,” which was organized by Turkish charity organization Kimse Yok Mu.
Cuba wins Kimse Yok Mu cartoon competition
Aristides Esteban Hernandez Guerrero from Cuba has won the international cartoon competition titled “Refugees,” which was organized by the Turkish charity organization Kimse Yok Mu.
NTIC’s growing support help 13000 underprivileged children
Throughout our 18 year history, NTIC (Nigerian Turkish International Colleges) demonstrated a continued hard work in providing educational opportunities to the less privileged students through NTIC Foundation.
Afghans laud honorable Fethullah Gulen
Afghanistan’s capital city Kabul hosted a conference entitled “Fethullah Gulen’s Perspectives on Combating Extremism in the Muslim World,” jointly organized by the local Tolerance and Dialogue Center and Baran-i Omid Publishing. Leading Afghan officials called attention to Gulen’s approach and education for an efficient and permanent solution to extremism.
Kimse Yok Mu organizes international cartoon competition: ‘Refugees’
Turkish charity organization Kimse Yok Mu has organized an international cartoon competition titled “refugees” in order to raise awareness of the difficulties facing migrants who fled their homelands and set out on dangerous journeys to Europe.
Foundation gives to poor students
Nigerian Turkish International Colleges Foundation (NTIC Foundation) has started distributing 13,000 learning aids to underprivileged students. The project is known as “I Support a Child’s Education”.
Does Islam Promote Violence?
In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, a huge number of books and articles have been published investigating the link between some certain interpretations of Islam and the terrorist attacks.
Formerly Gülen-linked schools in Albania face growing gov’t pressure
Exclusive: Turkey, Kosovo violated fundamental rights of expelled teachers, UN body says
Sacked policeman’s grim death sparks debate on COVID-19 data in Turkish prisons
Dissidents of the Turkish government are living in fear in Canada
Turkish Food Festival seeks to teach Greenville about Turkey’s culture and cuisine
Chestnut Retreat Center offers a look inside their Saylorsburg facility and its mission
Erdoğan’s overarching purge is not a road accident
Is Gulen the scapegoat of Ankara crisis?
Post-coup purge in Turkey leaves children parentless after mother and father are put behind bars
Enes Kanter: “I’m getting death threats almost every day”
Kimse Yok Mu restoring eyesight to the needy blind in Pakistan
Establishing a Culture of Coexistence and Mutual Understanding Conference convenes in Nigeria
Laughter-guaranteed terrorist organization indictment
Deputy PM denies profiling of citizens in gov’t, private sector
New Level of Witch Hunt: Relatives are Targeted in Turkey
Friends of Hrant slam gov’t attempt to associate Dink murder with Gülen movement
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The North York Knights Hockey Association takes pride in providing the opportunity for players to participate in various levels of hockey, consistent with each player’s level of skill and interest. Our Association offers several programs: a Learn To Play program that channels the younger players into House League hockey – essentially a recreational level of play – as well as the more competitive Select program via the North York Hockey League (NYHL) and its member clubs. In addition, the North York Knights Hockey Association is affiliated with the North York Knights of the Greater Toronto Hockey League (GTHL) which offers players participation at the A and AA divisions, each offering an increasingly competitive brand of hockey for the players. These programs are briefly described below.
The Knights Hockey Association has been teaching Learn To Play hockey in Toronto for over 50 years with the original sessions (and still ongoing) at the historic St. Michaels College Arena (Bathurst and St. Clair). The program has grown to include other sessions at the York Mills, Bayview and Pleasantview arenas. The Learn To Play program has been recognized as one of the best in Toronto allowing the players to progress to the House League, Select or GTHL level of hockey depending on their skill level.
The various learn to play hockey and learn to skate programs operated by the Knights Hockey Association share the same philosophy of quality introductory skating and hockey instruction in a fun, supportive and nurturing environment. The programs are run by experienced coaching staff, and have established a strong continuity of drills and progressions as the children move from level to level in preparation for house league and Select hockey. The program is structured by grouping children with their peers in skill level after several weeks of careful assessment and skill evaluation. This enables the children to advance over the course of the year through pre-determined progressions from basic skating to hockey skills to hockey games, in preparation for House League and Select hockey in the Tyke and Minor Novice divisions.
Extended Learn To Play
This program is intended for players aged 8-14 who can already skate to some degree but who have never played organized hockey. Skills are developed in a fun and low stress environment. Most players enter House League the following year. Some stay in the program for a couple years, and in some cases, where the player develops quickly and there is room within house league, a player may be moved up to House League during their first year of play.
The House League program is primarily intended to provide players aged from 6 (Tykes) to 17 (Midget Senior) years old with the opportunity to play purely recreational hockey. There are no tryouts and all players receive an equal amount of ice time, without regard to ability or experience. Each player is assigned a team in the appropriate age division and all games are then scheduled weekly on Sunday evenings against other North York Knights Hockey Association teams within the same age division. All House League teams, with the exception of the Midget division, are also scheduled for a practice each week. Practices are generally scheduled on Saturday mornings or afternoons.
Tyke-Minor Novice Division
The Tyke and Minor Novice age group will follow the Hockey Canada mandated Initiation Program (IP) moving forward. The intention is to have practices for this age group on Saturday mornings and to schedule games on Sunday in the late-afternoon/early evening for the entire season. Games will have players as fully equipped goaltenders with a weekly rotation expected amongst the players; and there will be bumpers to divide the ice according to the modified ice guidelines.
Novice aged players will play using the full ice surface during the 2018-2019 season.
A more detailed explanation of what is recommended in the Initiation Program for the various ages can be found at the following Hockey Canada address: Initiation Program
Click here to go to HOUSE LEAGUE.
Teams are made up of House League players and represent North York Knights in competitive play against the Select teams drawn from other house league hockey associations. North York Knights Select teams play regularly in the North York Hockey League (NYHL), and participate in various tournaments throughout the season. Select teams are, in effect, All-Star teams, comprised of House League players. Team members are chosen from the House League teams through tryouts, usually held in April. Tryouts are open to all registered North York Knights House League players only. Players chosen for a Select team must continue to play for their House League team as well as their Select team. This means that these players will be scheduled for a Select game and a Select team practice each week in addition to their regular house league game and practice. Select games are generally scheduled on week nights and Select practices on Sunday mornings.
For more information regarding the NYHL and its hockey program, please click here to be redirected to the NYHL website.
Click here to go to SELECT.
Competitive Development Stream (CDS)
The Competitive Development Stream (CDS) program focuses on long term player development in accordance with the Hockey Canada and Ontario Hockey Federation (OHF) Player Development Model and the GTHL Initiation Program.
The CDS program is an extension of House League available to registered HL players from 6-8 years old on a tryout basis. Information on the OHF Player Development Model and the game play structure discussed below may be found here. Information on the GTHL Initiation Program and the benefits of modified ice hockey may be found here.
In addition to the House League, players in the CDS program participate in one or two additional practices per week and play approximately one weekly development game (20-22 games per season) against CDS teams from neighboring hockey associations including Leaside, North Toronto Scarborough, Don Mills and Forest Hill. As well, CDS teams may participate in tournaments or festivals throughout the season.
CDS games follow the game play structure of the OHF Player Development Model as follows:
Rosters of 18 players (16 skaters, 2 goalies) for IP6 and Minor Novice. Novice teams will have 17 players.
Goalies rotate in IP6 and may be designated in Minor Novice/Novice.
During game play teams are divided into two squads of 9 players (8 skaters, 1 goalie). After Jan 15, Novice teams play 5 v. 5 full-ice format.
Two games are played simultaneously in a 4 v. 4 format, including goalies, using appropriate rink dividers. Teams transition to full-ice 5v5 format in the second half of the Novice year.
IP6 games are played in a cross-ice format. Minor Novice games are played in a half-ice format. Novice games are played half-ice until early January and then on full ice thereafter.
Modified ice games will be 44-minutes run-time consisting of two 22-minute periods.
Line changes on 2 minute buzzers.
Games are officiated and penalties are called.
No formal scores, standings. All teams participate in a year-end festival in April.
Competitive Development Stream development games begin in October after Thanksgiving and are not scheduled over holidays.
GTHL
The North York Knights Hockey Association is affiliated with the North York Knights who operate teams playing in the Greater Toronto Hockey League (GTHL). The GTHL hockey is geared toward the most serious and competitive players and begins at the Minor Atom (9 years old) level. The teams in the GTHL play in one of three divisions based on the caliber of the team’s play: the divisions are A, AA, and AAA; A the lowest, AA in the middle and AAA the most competitive. The North York Knights have teams in both the A and AA divisions from the Minor Atom to the Midget Senior level. GTHL players are not permitted to play on a House League, Select or any other GTHL team. GTHL try-outs are held in the month of April each year for the following season starting in September. The GTHL age groupings are listed below.
Click here to go to GTHL Knights.
GTHL’s Division & Age Bracket (as of December 31st in the season)
Minor Atom Up to 9
Atom Up to 10
Minor Peewee Up to 11
Peewee Up to 12
Minor Bantam Up to 13
Bantam Up to 14
Minor Midget Up to 15
Midget Junior Up to 16
Midget Senior Up to 17
For more information regarding the GTHL and its hockey program, please click here to be redirected to the GTHL website.
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Blog June 18, 2018 April 10, 2019
Transnet SOC Limited an Unlimited Giant
Headline in the Sunday Times “Molefe’s R19bn Transnet ‘lie’” made me reflect on how easy it is to slip into the corruption narrative over the balanced highlighting of industry complexities. Good and bad things happen at the same time, all the time. In this piece I see Transnet Unlimited.
The evolution of Transnet SOC Ltd (Transnet) from dwindling railway company loosing million tonnage market share to road is reforming itself. Transitions embedded in this company are particularly interesting for me because I’m a shareholder in someway as it is a state owned entity. What makes Transnet so complex in the Freight Transport sector is that it is evolving as a giant, capital based and R 65bn revenue company (I’ll use press releases for ease of access and reading, but I do suggest to anyone really keen to get into the digital annual report platform here). Many onlookers may assume that it is stuck in the old business that lost tonnage to road freight. However the opportunities in the market look much brighter for rail transport than ever before.
Where’s Transnet going? I see it as a project based end-to-end consignment company leveraging on the inherent competitiveness of guided transport technologies — not just railways.
A point of departure may be the energy base when it’s electric the unit cost of operations is profoundly lower per ton-km. Similarity if diesel locomotives are used, distances beyond 500km seem to be ideal for rail theoretically, but in practice this can be as low as 250km depending on the consignment and transshipment infrastructure (could actually be less with new lighter guided delivery technology). In an era where energy is a commodity rising in price, and electricity is gaining traction in value, drivetrain technology is reaching an interesting point. New technology solutions have the power to break and open the freight tonnage market out of the pseudo-oligopolies in the road freight space. At the same time, regional integration is profoundly important for many raw materials that used to be exported out of Africa — now in need of new value adding transshipment destinations. This is a new era for Africa.
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Where’s Transnet going? I see it as a project based end-to-end consignment company leveraging on the inherent competitiveness of guided transport technologies — not just railways. Brian Molefe led the formulation of the Market Demand Strategy which was Transnet expending it’s supply base — shifting the curve — and preparing for increased demand. This ranged from new locomotives to improves systems. Freight Rail received nearly R 201bn of the budget in 2012 Rand. While domestic manufacturing of technology and systems aimed to access the continent. At the heart of the MDS was really changing the gear for Transnet into a new era.
“ The nature of this contract and the relationship with neighbouring and continent-wide rail, ports, and pipeline logistics providers tells a story of how Transnet strives to collaborate and grow its footprint on our African Continent, Middle East and South Asia. This is not only a historical event, but a key economic contribution to the milestones set out for Zimbabwe.” — Siyabonga Gama in a Seminal Press Release in Feb. 2018
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When Siyabonga Gama kicked in to the company as Chief Executive Officer he practically implemented the tactical ingredients attached to the MDS recipe. More specifically he pursued an ambitious capital raising strategy through accountable mechanisms and partners such as banks and international agencies. The capital hunt was not just financial, it included institutional capital, efficiency capital and immeasurable boldness — a scarce resource. One of the most interesting take-homes for me, after following the entity for some time is the emphasis on improving efficiencies (Six Sigma by-product, I don’t know). But coupling a long-term vision that builds on existing capital, making it work better results in well fueled and hyper-transparent State Owned Enterprise that private investors could rely on, interact with and monitor.
The next crucial phase from an outsider’s view was reorienting the company toward gaining efficiencies from the existing capacity in order to render every unit invested in expanding more viable than ever. Not only did this manifest in a company with higher ambitions, but it resulted in an entity that gained traction in the million ton market (according to STATSSA) after 2014, when comparing the State of Logistics data prior to that — how consistent are the models though?). The viability of rail, and its analysis is not in million tons really — I care about the ton-km composition of the market. What is clear is that rail has had a ton-km share of the market that practically accounts for nearly half of South Africa’s freight market . In other words, while transporting substantially fewer tons rail freight takes on the longer distance market. So there’s a lot that is misleading, railways are in an increasingly better place. It’s actually at a point where the road freight sector needs to seriously sit with the public sector and get the conversation going for their own sake. While platooning automated trucks is a hot topic, and operational efficiencies are blatantly changing quick, unit costs are increasing monthly and not just due to petroleum price pressures.
Back to rail: Transnet 4.0 is probably the most compelling narrative for the railway industry in Africa. It’s a catalytic repositioning of a company to get ahead of all freight sectors on our continent. As an entity expanding toward having a technology infrastructure that enables more than just basic transactions — emulating General Electric and other entities — it should be clear that we are only scratching the surface. The far reaching implications of a multinational State Owned Enterprise purport a deeply rooted business that is not only well governed, but that is highly motivated by the increasingly competitive landscape. While it is the norm for Grindrod or Barloworld Logistics to unbundle their corporate reach, it is rather exciting to see Transnet potentially following the footsteps of Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) in terms of extending their tentacles (as one friend of mine puts it). While the headlines may paint a dim picture for leadership, and purport a systematic rot in this national asset, there is also deeper more exciting evolution taking place and industry leaders are taking keen interest in what will follow. With regard to smaller towns, and emerging regions — Transnet should play a profoundly catalytic role in their activation and long-term sustainability. I’ve heard and seen some work related to reviving various branch-lines that SMME’s should be looking into with great seriousness (can’t say much more).
Perhaps a balanced view, highlighting the complexities, efforts and sweat behind public assets which employs thousands of highly valued persons who keep this economy ticking. The primary sector, has always been our saving grace in SA, and it is largely driven by Transnet from moving coal to iron ore — there is much to value amidst the need to hold people accountable. At some point we need to stop burning our own ships, start blocking the leaks and facing the coming storms. I still see a Transnet Unlimited.
Originally published here on Medium. More content can be found on www.hlulani.com | That’s the stuff.
Filed under: Africa, Blockchain, Energy, Railway, Transportation
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