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Ambitious plans to transform the current Plumstead library building into a multi-functional library, leisure, cultural and sports centre were given the go-ahead after planning permission was granted.
The town hall says the project is one of the critical elements of the ambitious Plumstead Urban Framework, aimed at delivering the renewal and regeneration of the Plumstead area and providing modern leisure facilities and services for the local community.
Deputy leader and cabinet member for regeneration and sustainability, Councillor Danny Thorpe, said: “This is a substantial milestone for the project which is going to be at the heart of our longer term aim of revitalising the high street and regenerating the area under the Plumstead Urban Framework.”
The council said the design incorporates the historic features of the Grade-II listed library into a new complex which combines library, leisure and cultural facilities. It was developed after consultation with residents about what they wanted from the new facility as well as discussions with stakeholders.
The redevelopment will involve the internal refurbishment of the existing Grade-II listed library building, the demolition of non-listed existing extension to the rear, the redevelopment of part of the site comprising a two-storey extension to facilitate the provision of leisure facilities, public realm improvement works and cycle parking.
Jack Penford Baker, project architect for Hawkins Brown, said: “The combination of a sensitive refurbishment of the listed building and a high quality contemporary extension to the rear will provide a space for all in the community, and re-activate the library as a beacon for Plumstead.”
Work on the site is expected to begin in the spring 2018 and be completed by autumn 2019.
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Loula Yorke
Noise Maker + Live Artist
Crowd Control Vol 1
Crowd Control Vol 1 is a 22-minute installation, film and live sound performance examining themes of privacy and protest in the age of surveillance capitalism.
Our digital communications and social posts feel private but are in fact mined for information and predictive behavioural data by third parties, from supermarkets to state agencies. Similarly, crowds feel like a safe environment in which to find solidarity and take action, but are in fact intensely watched, with individual people identified and criminalised later on the basis of social media posts and video footage.
The Piece
A voltage-controlled laser is trained on a vase of flowers, lit candles and curiosities sitting on a silver tray. The movement of the laser is controlled by the sound waves created during the performance.
A film plays, heavily featuring the colour yellow in homage to Sarah Hegazi. Wildflowers are inspected under a microscope; crowds of people process slowly through city streets.
A live sound piece is performed using my Innalog modular synthesiser and a drum machine. I open the piece by layering white noise over recordings of crowds gathered at social justice protests: the resulting mix of sonic data – ‘signal’ and ‘noise’ – is then sculpted over time using different types of filtration and FX, including granular and spectral processing. Melodic elements start to appear: oscillators bleep, rising and falling; drums; the sound of a female voice is looped to create rhythm. Gradually the mix is peeled back to the foundational building blocks of the piece: white noise and crowd noise, people and data, information littered across the digital panopticon; but who is controlling the laser?
The symbolism of the visual elements is deep: in particular, the colour yellow was chosen to pay my respects to Egyptian feminist and queer activist, Sarah Hegazi, who ended her life in June, two years after her arrest for waving a rainbow flag in a crowd at a music concert in Cairo. The flowers are an embodiment of the beauty and diversity of humanity in the first flush of youth.
Lock East, Sound City Ipswich, Friday 2nd October 2020 – livestream performance
TUSK Virtual, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Saturday, 10 October 2020 – pre-recorded livestream performance
‘Lateness Stage’ on BBC Radio 3, Friday, 2 October 2020 – an excerpt of the TUSK performance
HERE, The Art Station, Saxmundham, Saturday 21 November to Sunday 13 December 2020 – livestream performance; gallery showing; online exhibition; framed prints for sale
A live recording of Crowd Control Vol 1, including some preparatory studies, is available on Bandcamp now.
Framed prints of the Crowd Control Vol 1 artwork will be available to pre-order on Bandcamp in the coming weeks. Despatch date: Monday 14 December 2020, after the gallery showing at HERE.
“Sometimes you read about the ideas behind a release and find that the concept is better than the execution. That’s not the case here. With Crowd Control, Loula Yorke attempts to draw together ideas about privacy and protest, surveillance and data mining, all while making exciting music that’s more than just a lofty idea. The sound is a mixture of white noise, vocal recordings and sonic manipulations that’s hard to pin down but easy to enjoy.” Aidan Hanratty, Bandcloud #316
“Loula Yorke’s beguiling set of beat-driven electronics and concrète collage, a texturally rich blend of sounds with a definite early Warp clonk at its heart, presented split screen with her voltage-controlled laser providing some intrigue.” Lee Fisher, NARC Magazine
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The Bulgaria Adventures 4.0: September 2019 Visit
Sep 17, 2019 | Home, Leisure, World
The summer passed and we watched the weather in Gradeshnitsa on our phone apps hit 34 degrees at times!!
So we were actually relieved to be in much-cooler England, especially as the Bulgarian house has no livable rooms in the cooler basement until we can get those done up!
The flights were booked for September as we knew it would be cooler then, but still good average temperatures, and cheaper flight prices as it was no longer school holiday time.
Because it was Alex’s last year of GCSE study, and because they’d already said they were not that bothered about going again until we’d got the house a bit more set-up and were able to get out and about exploring more, the two older boys didn’t come this time.
I was sad they weren’t there with us, but understood why they didn’t want to go; the facilities there are still quite limited and it’s not a huge amount of fun sitting around whilst the grown-ups do boring jobs on the house, or wait in all day for deliveries.
This time, we’d planned to leave a little earlier in the day and arrive at Gatwick at dinner time, so we could eat at the airport before going to the Travelodge for a few hours sleep.
We’d found the journey that would need the least amount of train changes, as we had a toddler in a pushchair, three cabin-sized suitcases, and a rucksack, which was a pain to drag on and off various trains, so we thought we’d be smart and minimise the disruption to our journey!
We hadn’t factored in the rail network having a tonne of issues that day though!
Signal failures, point failures, smoke on the tracks, and even someone hitting a train bridge with their car :O
Arriving at Portsmouth Harbour, we expected to get on our train but it was cancelled.
As was the next one we could have caught :/
An employee advised us to catch the next available train to Havant then get off there.
At Havant, there seemed to be a load more people with suitcases trying to get to Gatwick too!
Another employee told us to get the next train to Barnham.
So we slowly edged up the line, closer to Gatwick with each change, having to unload all the luggage off one train and onto the next!
We finally made it and enjoyed a much-needed meal at Wetherspoons (the first time we’d eaten out for MONTHS as we don’t even do that for special occasions any more!).
Then we caught the shuttle train to the North terminal (which B loved!) and ordered a taxi to take us to the Travelodge.
Despite the fact that we’d told the taxi company where we were waiting and that we had a toddler in a pushchair as well as all our luggage, and despite the fact that we were waiting at the Gatwick drop-off/pick-up spot, the taxi driver pulled up OVER THE ROAD :/
Which meant we then had to collect up all our luggage AGAIN and drag it across the road to him…
Our exhaustion by this point matched our frustration as it had been a hard, tiring day, and because of my EDS, poor Ian was having to do the bulk of the hefting of the luggage as I was only able to manage the pushchair.
I might have uttered a few choice words about how rubbish all the services we had paid for that day had been!!
But eventually, we made it to the Travelodge.
Who put us in a room about 6 miles away from reception, and up a flight of stairs in a section of the hotel that had NO lift to get us up to it *eyeroll*
Which meant dragging all the luggage up said stairs, taking B out of the pushchair and holding his hand whilst he slowly climbed them at his toddler pace, and carrying a pushchair up too…
So that was fun too!!
But at least we’d finally made it and now just had the challenge of getting B to sleep quickly so we could sleep too, as we needed to be awake at 3am the next morning.
I was just too exhausted to take him through his usual bedtime routine by this point, so I hoped just snuggling in bed between us would be enough to help him fall asleep.
He didn’t play ball though, so we gave up for a while and just snuggled up watching a bit of TV, knowing it might stimulate him, but hoping it would be boring enough for him to drift off to!
At about 10:30pm, we just turned it off and quite soon after he drifted off too!
At LAST, we could finally relax for a few hours… 🙂
Click to read about the NEXT thing that went wrong..
A few more photos from our visit…
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Kate Gramlich
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Magic! Friendship! Gratitude! Tom Petty! We may have thought fantasy wasn't our thing, but it turns out... we were wrong. (First time for everything!)
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Great list of literary adaptions that are on Netflix: Startdust, The Iron Giant, Revolutionary Road, Carole, Sherlock, Carol, The Magicians, Cruel Intentions, Alias Grace… SO MANY
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Andrew Sean Greer's, Less.
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No Time To Spare by Ursula K. LeGuin ("The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is 'escapism' an accusation of?")
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If you miss the magical feeling you got from fairy tales as a kid,this book is for you! Agnieshka lives in a idyllic village. Her country is at war with its neighbor, and between them lies a corrupted Wood, filled with malice that occasionally breaks through. Every 10 years, The Dragon, the local wizard who keeps The Wood at bay, demands his payment of the most exceptional young women from the village, who comes live in his tower as a servant. Everyone knows this time the Dragon will take Nieshka’s lovely best friend, Kasia. She’s desperate to save Kasia, but to everyone’s surprise (and the Dragon’s reluctance) he finds magic in Nieshka, and is forced to take her for training. But Nieshka’s magic is very different than The Dragons, and that, friends, is the start of our tale!
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Williams v. Lee
PETITIONER:Williams
RESPONDENT:Lee
LOCATION:United States Senate
DOCKET NO.: 39
DECIDED BY: Warren Court (1958-1962)
LOWER COURT:
ARGUED: Nov 20, 1958
DECIDED: Jan 12, 1959
Audio Transcription for Oral Argument – November 20, 1958 in Williams v. Lee
Earl Warren:
Number 39, Paul Williams and Lorena Williams, Petitioners, versus Hugh Lee, Respondent.
Mr. Littell.
Norman M. Littell:
Mr. Chief Justice, Associate Justices.
This case is a very simple one on the facts that has very complex, indeed very deep current certification.
Actually, it is an action for debt, originates an action for debt by a trader, Hugh Lee on the Lee Trading Post Ganado, Arizona, in the middle of the Navajo Reservation.
And the defendants are two Navajos, husband and wife whose flock of sheep was attached for the purpose of collecting a debt of $361.22.
After some delay in holding the sheep at the plaintiff’s trading post where they were carried for and at a per diem charge, they were finally sold to sheriff’s sale for a total sum including $2 in cash, but the plaintiff, for some reason, put up $272, the total cost of maintaining the sheep during their incarceration, shall we say, was $246.72.
So that had the plaintiff not paid in cash in his anxiety over this case the sum of $280, there would have been a net balance to credit on this debt of $27.28 and had the — I cannot refrain from commenting in passing that had the jurisdiction of the Court in respect to this particular point then maintained, he could then have attached another flock of sheep and repeated the process calling up on the debt of this proof presumably at the rate of $27 or $30 in attachment.
Now, actually, with the payment of cash, the final judgment was $82.22 which is still standing against these — these defendants and therefore other property can be — be attached for reasons explained in the course of my discussion.
The Supreme Court of Arizona held that that attachment was invalid.
In fact, in the Superior Court proceedings below beginning there, the Superior Court judge, when the defendants challenged the jurisdiction of the Court proceeding this matter, held that having obtained the citizenship, they were subject to the state jurisdiction, I need not to spell out Superior Court’s ruling anymore than that perhaps under the issues in the Supreme Court, where, on appeal, the Supreme Court of Arizona sustained these views.
However, it reversed the District Court — the — the Superior Court on the — in respect to the attachment on the grounds and for the reason that a specific regulation of the Bureau of — of the Department of Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs forbad the sale of livestock without a — an expressed permit by the superintendent.
In this area, the federal regulations, the Supreme Court of Arizona held did in fact preempted appeal.
And therefore, the attachment was invalidated.
There was personal service (Inaudible)
(Inaudible)
Personal service in the Reservation, Your Honor, yes.
Charles E. Whittaker:
No jurisdiction whatsoever over these petitioners, none whatever.
Is that (Inaudible) the sheriff did not have territorial authority to make valid services in the Reservation?
That is only the more trivial of the reasons, Your Honor, and I will come to that point later in my argument, but the State of Arizona has neither civil nor criminal jurisdiction over Indians on the Reservation at all.
May an Indian institute his suit in a state court in Arizona?
He may.
Is this (Inaudible) is not to do so?
Did they not file a counterclaim in the proceeding in Arizona court?
Everything done was without prejudice to the basic contention of the state court lack of jurisdiction, Your Honor.
How can one file a counterclaim seeking affirmative action (Inaudible) the Court without permitting to the Court?
The counterclaim was dismissed, Your Honor.
I know, but that was after he had caused to be (Inaudible) whatever the effect of filing a counterclaim was, was it not?
Well, Your Honor, we can only contend that the whole proceeding was totally lacking in basic jurisdiction and not the defendants themselves cannot convey jurisdictions where they — where — where the basic proceeding is lacking in jurisdiction.
I can understand along (Inaudible) on jurisdiction of person, I (Inaudible)
To narrow the issues to those that are before this Court, the Supreme Court of Arizona, as I have said briefly, did say that the federal regulation respect to say livestock had preempted that field and invalidated the attachment.
On the broader ground that a regulation controlling the credits — controlling the transaction between traders and Indians on the Reservation specifically provided that if credit is extended, it should be at the traders’ own risk.
In respect to the contention of counsel for the defendants below that there was no jurisdiction in the Court by reason to construction of this regulation, one contention.
The other contention that there was a basic contention, there is no jurisdiction anyway over Indians on a transaction arising in the Navajo Reservation.
But on this narrower ground, that the credit provisions of the traders’ regulations left the traders entirely at their own risk and made the transaction unenforceable.
The Court said that the only thing before it was the question of jurisdiction and that the effect of this regulation went to the merits.
It could be plead on the merits.
It did not go to the jurisdiction of the Court.
The court below had jurisdiction in the opinion of the Supreme Court, and this regulation could be plead if necessary on the merits but did not go to the jurisdiction.
The Court reviews the law of the situation as it considered to be, recognizes that there is preemption of the — of regulations, but where Congress has not specifically prohibited and the State has the jurisdictions.
They quote some cases to this effect which are to some extent not correctly represented but in any event, on certiorari to these courts, out of the assignment of errors or points on appeal below, there emerged here two basic points which ought to be considered.
First, our main contention and the one consonant with a long line of decisions from Worcester against — from the Worcester case in — against Georgia in — in 5 Peters down through many, many years that the Court — that no jurisdiction of the persons but had by the state court because they are Navajo — Navajo Indians residing on the Navajo Reservation and because the State does not, broadly speaking, have civil or criminal jurisdiction.
Felix Frankfurter:
Your — the immunity which you urged is the immunity of the person and not of the enclave of the — of the Navajo Reservation, is that right?
They both —
Your Honor, I agree there’s no immunity of the enclave for certain functions of the State arising from its jurisdiction of that territory.
Well, I meant immunity on the enclave as to Navajo Indian.
As to Navajo Indians, absolutely.
But — but your claim is broader than — your claim is the immunity of the Navajos on or off the Reservation.
Not of the Reservation.
Not off?
Not off.
So it’s a sort of a territorial immunity of the Navajos within the Reservation?
The second point is, and here, I must take a moment of explanation because in —
Even if the Navajo Indian was off the Reservation or off the town or — so on then he’s — then he maybe personally served?
He is personally served, not for a transaction on this Reservation, not for this transaction.
Maybe — maybe personally served, that isn’t this case now.
Maybe personally served off the Reservation on a transaction that’s within the Reservation, localized within the Reservation.
No, Your Honor.
In my — in my view, he —
So therefore, it isn’t merely the geography but it’s also the immunity of the Indians with reference to transactions pertaining to the Reservation.
On this Reservation, that’s right.
Well, then, may I ask you this?
Suppose — and now, it’s on (Inaudible) notes within the contract of the Reservation to this Navajo (Inaudible) wouldn’t mean the Navajo Indians thereafter has brought existing state courts of Arizona (Inaudible)
He could.
Your cases have so held.
Well, I don’t see why these plaintiffs when they filed a counterclaim in the state court did not thereby institute a suit invoking the jurisdiction of the state court and submit their (Inaudible) lawfully jurisdiction?
Well, I think the only answer to Your — to Your Honor’s point on the counterclaim is the fact that the state court did not treat it as a waiver of jurisdiction.
They accepted it as — as subject to the stipulation throughout that — that the Court was about jurisdiction.
And as to your point that the counterclaim was subsequently dismissed (Inaudible) as a matter of law that a litigant may step in and out of the Court at will?
In this instance, Your Honor, I think the answer is yes.
Well, I think there are many surprising doctrines in — in the question of — of jurisdiction over Indian affairs to the average common law lawyer.
There’s no question about it.
I found some surprising ones myself when I took on the responsibility of general counsel of the Navajo tribe as one does when you read admiralty.
There’s a slippered branch of the law.
William J. Brennan, Jr.:
Mr. Littell, may I ask if there were a transaction off the Reservation, might there be service upon the Indian on the Reservation in respect of that transaction?
Your Honor, there are two schools of thought in that case quite frankly.
That’s a $64 question in this particular issue and there are two schools of thought.
One of them is, he may not under any circumstances.
Merely because he’s on the Reservation.
The other is that he — he may that in going off the Reservation, he has submitted himself to the jurisdiction off the Reservation and that he could be sued but that is not this case.
Now, here, we have a transaction on the Reservation and the Indian on the Reservation.
In toto.
And the process, in our view, illegally served upon the Reservation.
William O. Douglas:
Did you say it’s the same as an Indian (Inaudible)
That is criminal jurisdiction.
I understand, but if —
And the case the same Court that we are reviewing here within three weeks of this decision held precisely what Your Honor has in mind in the Denetclaw case that there is no criminal jurisdiction on a highway in the — in the Reservation expressing great regrets if there were not — there was not.
That’s because this is not state territory.
It’s not state territory.
And the sheriff therefore admiral jurisdiction to make it (Inaudible) process beyond the state territory and in beyond that.
Well it is either — but that is not to say that that individual interest could not come into a state court and invoke its jurisdiction in (Inaudible) isn’t it?
He can.
Your — this Court has so held that the — even where this Indian lacks citizenship that he is nevertheless a person and can sue in the state courts.
But the Indian law is full of inferences where advantage is given to Indian and immunity is also given to him.
If I may submit it to Your Honor, in the emancipation of the Indian which is the process in which we are living and it’s an advanced stage today.
If there were 10 points necessary to the emancipation of the Indian, let’s assume a hypothetical 10 criteria, number five is citizenship.
My distinguished counsel and the courts that he is depending or shocked that the Indian could be a citizen and not be subjected to all the incidents of citizenship including liability for this suit.
I say that citizenship was number five on the list of 10, he hasn’t attained upon yet.
And as Mr. Justice Frankfurter’s comment indicates, there are all sorts of seemingly inconsistent immunities, inconsistent with the common law as we know it until that complete emancipation has arrived that we have thousands of them that have arrived at that State and they’re living around in the country just as you and I can be sued and sue just like anybody else, that this immunity does not follow the infinite — the Indian ad infinitum.
But it’s perfectly clear by the doctrines of this Court, reviewed in our brief, that there is no civil or criminal jurisdiction until Congress has granted it, except, I must make a qualification as you think I’m painting a black and white picture and a ridiculous one, there are incidents to territorial sovereignty of the State.
There are sections to this vast reservation, the biggest in United States, 24,000 square miles within New Mexico and Utah and — and a bit in Colorado and — and Arizona.
It would be futile to put that into the territorial sovereignty of the State of Arizona if there weren’t some incidents and your Court — this Court has held.
If the Navajos had leased land to a white man on the Reservation and he was raising his sheep there or grazing livestock, he could be taxed by the State.
And I would not be so foolish as to say that that white man on the Reservation is exempt from process of the State, maybe because on the reservation of law.
He is subject to the jurisdiction.
All of the traders in this — in this Reservation pay taxes to the State.
And I wouldn’t say that their personal property could not be attached by a legal process served in the Reservation.
Although I reserve the qualification that if the Navajos, under Section 13 of their Treaty of 1868 were back any sheriff to enter the premises, I would reserved the right and let have anybody quote me in this argument to say that I have waived this forever.
I would there to contend the Navajos have denied access to this Reservation and you can’t come on, but the general law is the contrary.
You asked against Fisher, oh I can — in these cases in our brief.
So that — that territorial jurisdiction has followed onto the Reservation as far as the commission of crimes by a white man, as far as the civil actions by white man against another, but why this legislative history, which I’m about to review which I think if I may suggest it would help Your Honor in this — in this rather trying field.
Now, first, because we have changed our position from the petition below, I would account it below, I must spend a moment on the point that we contended below.
There is no jurisdiction because these traders’ regulation said that the credit — that extension of credit was at the traders’ own risk and therefore no jurisdiction.
As this — as the Government’s suggestion that if we accept that thesis, we don’t have to reach the broader and very esoteric other arguments that are involved in your position.
Yes, Mr. Justice Harlan, and I — I regret that our ally in this case is such a weak ally.
The Solicitor should have stepped up on this issue and helped us backing our position.
He took this weak position, an untenable which we had abandoned.
We abandoned it below because we have found when we went to write our brief in this very case by consultation with the attorneys and the Department of the Interior that the traders had affected their reaffirmation of its regulation in 1937 which did two things.
It took out a provision that the federal employees — it forbad — it took out the provisions of federal employees were forbidden in the Indian Bureau, forbidden to help collect the debt.
They felt that they are to be the moral suasion of the Bureau of Indian Affairs to collect that debts.
It did something else.
It took out a prohibition against farms and pledgets and it put it in that they could put farms and pledgets.
That gave the traders a real grip, which they have used extensively, all jewelry and sheep and pinyon nuts and all sort of things are pledgets.
Furthermore, and this is the policy of the Solicitor’s opinion.
In order to get around this broad jurisdictional point, and we are aware of your policy and judicial policy of trying to narrow its decision or not to amend the grounds rather a broad ground.
It would be superficial and untenable to do it upon the Solicitor’s basis.
He states the blunt position that now, these debts are unenforceable.
And for that ground only, he says the Court had no jurisdiction below.
That’s subject matter of jurisdiction (Voice Overlap) —
Subject, yes.
The thing that puzzles me is when you have such a strong ally as the Government on your side on a narrow point why you were so vigorous in throwing up away that assistance and need for still getting the broader point decided.
Your Honor, we are happy to throw way an untenable position even if sanctified by the Solicitor General of United States.
And it is untenable.
He wasn’t aware of these basic facts.
And I asked permission of the Court to file here just a sample list of 215 citations of cases pending in the tribal courts by — by traders themselves.
These debts are enforceable in the tribal courts.
And they used the tribal courts all the time.
And this is only from three court districts.
Two clerks couldn’t be reached and it only is the cases in the last few months, hundreds of — of traders cases that we went back to the reaffirmation of this resolution could be — could be showed to you.
Well, Mr. Littell, do you mean that — that we — if we should hold against you on your major propositions, your general issue as you raised it that we would be foreclosed from deciding in favor of your client on the one suggested by the Solicitor General?
Your Honor, this — this Court is the law and that therefore not foreclosed of course, but I would —
But we must abide by it.
I would — I — I —
You say it’s untenable, does that mean legally untenable or —
Oh, I think so, Your Honor.
And I’m sure you’ll reach that conclusion because it — it’s — all together incompatible with the language and with the practice, the debts of the traders are enforceable.
Let’s see if I understand what the practice or what practice you offer that over a period in which you have not indicated, suits have actually been brought by traders in tribal courts which you’d have to be dismissed neither as the questions were raised by the defendant or sua sponte by the tribal courts, is that right?
Oh, I think so, if the —
Now, over what period?
— if the Solicitor is right.
Over what period?
These — these are nisi prius cases, all of it?
Your Honor, this is really —
But I — I’m (Inaudible)
Here is a telegram listing the cases that I —
(Voice Overlap) the question is, I don’t — I don’t know a thing about it as you —
— know things about this — you spoke.
I’m trying to elicit the scope of the offer and its significance.
Now, over what period are these cases — these cases exist?
I submit to you this list, Your Honor, on a slightly vague basis that these are pending cases and that the —
They’re now pending at Court?
Now pending.
(Voice Overlap) —
In — in — and — and the cases that are — that are not very old.
I mean, these are cases now pending for action in the tribal courts, and that if I did a thorough job of checking, I could submerge this Court with the citation of cases since 1937, since the reform of this — of this tribal regulation of this government regulation.
If in fact as they are contemporaneous or — or recent cases is a two-edge in and its implication, namely, lawyers are sometimes wrong about their notion of logistic law.
I’ve known lawyers to be wrong as indeed you have those.
I’ve been wrong, Your Honor.
I regret that — that it —
And well, they are not unique, I can assure you, even if we do it among lawyers and judges.
Have you furnished the Solicitor General’s Office in — list of these cases?
Right now I’ve — no.
I — I got it —
You had an opportunity to make any response in your — to the argument of — of practical interpretation of the regulation.
I had no idea of the volume of these cases frankly until I listened in by telegraph.
We — we submit, if Your Honors please, that the — that the point in the Solicitor’s opinion that it’s not enforceable is demolished by the facts also by the construction of the language without reference to this — the fact that the traders do consequently enforced them in over 30 years since this reaffirmation have done so.
Mr. Littell, is the — the decision you have made the same enforceability in a tribal court over enforceability in a court of common law?
Well, it’s quite a distinction in practice.
Might there —
I mean if the —
— if the Solicitor was right, Your Honor, in saying that these were unenforceable, then they have no business in the tribal courts and the tribal court regularly enforce them and — and do — and enter judgment and — and moneys are paid and Navajos pay and they are collected.
(Inaudible) that they are enforced in the tribal courts also (Inaudible) that they’d be enforced — enforced to the State?
That’s exactly —
No, I don’t think he recognizes the tribal court.
If he recognizes the tribal court, he can hardly say they are enforceable because —
(Inaudible) he — he doesn’t recognize tribal courts (Inaudible)
— enforced to the State.
That’s what we —
— that’s what counsel for the — for the defendant said below.
And we’ve abandoned here because of this reaffirmation of the regulation which makes it so superficial and so tenuous in our position — in our opinion.
Well, that’s what the Solicitor revived.
He revived it or he retreat to it, Your Honor, and keep you off the broader ground.
But the — the Solicitor says, to give you his precise language, my colleague has handed to me here, “The Interior Department,” reading page 2 of his brief, “Interior Department we — in — the Interior Department and we construed this provision as meaning that ordinary remedies for collection of debts including judicial remedies shall not be invoked within the Reservation — not period, but I mean parenthesis, I say period.
And that traders must do business on that basis and that understanding.
As long — remedies are available to reservation, they are used over years.
There are 215 with a telegram overnight.
And he — in the tribal court.
— he — I beg your pardon.
I say in the tribal court.
And he says in — and the Indians (Inaudible) into the Bureau?
I beg your pardon?
The Solicitor General has coupled the —
Yes, he does.
(Voice Overlap) of the Indian tribe.
Yes, he does it over probably the Solicitors in the Interior Department —
— to the lawyers, yes.
Yes, they coupled.
It say “the Interior Department and we —
— construe —
I don’t have to tell you that — that that should carry great weight among others in a field that’s specialized in the — you say as Indian law, doesn’t have the Interior Department say, “This is our view, presumably, means the study of the intricate variety of Indian legislation, regulation and practice.”
That doesn’t preclude you’re being wholly right.
I’m merely suggesting what it is that one has to overcome.
Your Honor, I’m glad with your last statement because I am wholly right.
And the depletion of the Department of the Interior as glibly suggested in this one line is absolutely inconsistent with the position they’ve taken on legislation which I now wish to review with you, completely inconsistent.
They have taken our position time and again and due to this day on legislation before Congress and I can’t accept this.
Let’s say this very casual presentation of their point of view.
And one more — one more thing that maybe urged in behalf of the petitioner, namely, that it’s protective of the Indians but would — one would — beyond the alertness the Indian office under some unfriendly administration and that does — I mean of Indian affairs would take the position against the Indians.
But this is protective of this, isn’t it, at least to a measure?
The measure we’re considering?
To that extend, it’s protected, isn’t it?
It is protected, but their construction of it is not broad enough.
It still leaves open the door to sporadic raves under this Reservation by state jurisdiction as in this case.
Please have this physical perspective in mind that if the State has this power to send its processes into this batch reservation where there are now great reaches and discovery of oil and things of that sort, lots of things going on.
It has no correlative responsibility to extend the protection of its sheriffs and its courts, unless civil and criminal jurisdiction is extended in an orderly way.
They can’t sit back and say, “Oh, we’ll take this case.
We’ll go get them on this one,” and yet extend no sheriff services of that Reservation of an entirely by the Navajo belief and no courts called entirely by the tribal courts.
— now you’re talking more about the person’s jurisdiction and (Inaudible)
I’m talking about — well, I’m talking about any jurisdiction over Indian affairs until civil and criminal jurisdiction have been extended by Congress in — in the — in the usual way that they have in the past history of this country, not by accretion.
This is the way the camel get into the Arab’s tent by these backdoor methods and the State should not be permitted to intrude into — into the jurisdiction over these Indian affairs.
Perhaps we’ll — perhaps we’ll appreciate your argument, at least I would more, after you’ve given us this network of legislation.
Oh, I think — I think that too, Your Honor.
The — the questions are very much appreciated but they — they don’t reach to that point.
Now, so much for that — that ground because I would like to consider that disposed of and I hope the Solicitor’s opinion have used — modified to that extent.
In other words, I eliminate to my discussion now the contention that we did make below and abandoned here.
And the Solicitor picks up and — and asserts that — that the — that is unenforceable merely because of this credit provision.
He — he has withheld all views on the larger issue (Voice Overlap) —
He has withheld them.
With —
(Voice Overlap) he was righteous, if I may say so, he’s right about the regulation to my point of view.
With the — with the exception of one, Your Honor, with artful skill, he downgrade the most important point in the argument by dropping the — the consideration of — of Section 9 of the Navajo-Hopi Rehabilitation Act to — to a footnote.
But let me come to that in — in an orderly way.
We now come to the main issue to the effect that — that there is no jurisdiction whatsoever.
In other words, our reasonable condition — our — our contention throughout, counsel of the defendants below and here and in the petition and in our briefs throughout that the Court had no jurisdiction of the person because the Navajo Indians residing on the Navajo Reservation and as much the State does not have civil and criminal jurisdiction over the Reservation.
Now, skipping that long line of cases from Worcester against Georgia to which I referred, John Marshall, right on down through the decision of this Court, skipping that base which is adequately set forth in the briefs by looking at the legislation, Congress has carefully maintained the jurisdiction from the day, Your Honor, when we start from the sovereign character of the Indian nation, incredible as it seems today.
It was true with all of the immunities that are attached thereto or — or most of them.
Well, that’s the basis of Worcester against Georgia.
And Congress has step by step stepped down from that partialling out the jurisdiction by expressed provisions.
Now, coming up to date on it, the New York statute of 1948, except for hunting and fishing which was preserved in its — in its Indian right preserved from their reservoir granted a criminal jurisdiction over Indian Reservations in the State of New York.
That was amended in 1950 to extend it to criminal jurisdiction so that the courts of New York then had jurisdiction over all of this.
In 1953, there was the general — a general act extending specifically to five States, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oregon, Wisconsin and California extending civil and criminal jurisdiction of those States over Indian reservations within those States over an Indian country.
Now, Section 6 and 7 of that Act is pertinent to our case because Section 6 and 7 said that consent is given to the people of any State to amend the Constitution or statutes to remove impediment to civil and criminal jurisdiction.
This impediment exists in Arizona in the Constitution.
It is submitted in the union under condition as quoted in our brief that as long as the Federal Government maintains this exclusive jurisdiction to these lands — these lands until they release from Indian title or absolute jurisdiction of the Federal Government.
They have the power.
They have the power to get the jurisdiction which they’re reaching for sporadically in this one case, under 6 — Section 6 and 7.
So that anytime the people of Arizona want the jurisdiction which is artificially and unnaturally contended for here, they can get it by the legislative process by amending their constitution and amending their prohibition statutes, and they have it under consideration.
Out of chronology, I now mention in the Navajo-Hopi Rehabilitation Act, passed in 1949 to design to accomplish the rehabilitation of these two tribes of which Section 9 was added in 1949 to provide in all cases the jurisdiction of the State and the federal and tribal court shall become current.
That was vetoed by President Truman.
And the Act was passed in the next Congress without it.
So here is a clear legislative history.
Criminal and civil jurisdiction is not extended even concurrently.
(Inaudible) about these things, it’s about — it was passed omitting that provision.
That’s what I meant.
I meant without Section 9, Your Honor.
So that —
How about Section 9?
Would this suit have been maintainable?
Yes, definitely.
It specifically covers this —
Oh, definitely.
Oh, no.
No question about it, Your Honor, I wouldn’t be here.
It would be all settled.
It’s — and the reasons for the President’s veto are set forth in our brief and especially, I referred to again in our — in our reply.
Now, in the decision of the Arizona Supreme Court, Miller against Begay which is absolutely inconsistent with this present opinion which we are reviewing, the Supreme Court of Arizona, the same court held that there was no jurisdiction over a suit by your wife of a divorce — in a divorce affair who’d been married under Arizona law, under Arizona license, divorced from the tribal court, the wife being unhappy, sued, went back to the Arizona court, she’s unhappy about the tribal decision on alimony — that’s by the different concepts of those things.
And she sued in the state court and the same court.
Chief Justice — Chief Justice Udall held there was no jurisdiction in the Supreme Court of Arizona, precisely in point with this case and utterly inconsistent with the present holding that this Hugh Lee can maintain this jurisdiction.
Now, I find fault with my distinguished ally, the Solicitor in retiring to a footnote.
They all submit they can point at Section 9 of the Navajo-Hopi Act was dropped after the President’s veto, which hits right in the middle of this case and not to our court on the broad grounds and not the narrow grounds and he should have said so.
Now, he speaks in his brief of the reserve powers of the State.
What reserve powers?
Are the reserve powers whose date over piece in ore, over foreign affairs or Indian affairs?
The only reserve powers I know that are left to the States and these delegations of power to the Federal Government are in the Articles of Confederation.
I admit there’s one there.
The Article of Confederation giving the power of peace and war reserved the power to the State to make war on Indian tribes that threatened with invasion.
Well, of course, the Court can take judicial notice of the — that the Article of Confederation are no longer in full force and effect.
Do you think that would be a strength, to take judicial notice of that?
[Laughs]But that was the only legal example that I could find.
I don’t know what the Solicitor is talking about reserve powers of the State.
Are we trying to change the philosophy of constitutional law?
The only thing he can refer to properly are the incidental powers of the State sustained by this Court in many decisions, criminal jurisdiction over the white men for crimes on the Reservation, similar jurisdiction as far as the white man’s conducts are concerned, jurisdiction over tax cases.
The State is not negative in its proper jurisdiction but over Indians on the Reservation it out until this legislation in Arizona is passed pursuant to Section 6 — Articles — Sections 6 and 7 of the — of the Act of 1953.
I’d like to save the rest of my time, Your Honor.
You may, Mr. Littell.
Mr. Stevenson.
Wm. W. Stevenson:
Mr. Chief Justice and Associate Justices, may it please the Court.
In order to dispel any question that might have arisen as to fair dealing or sharp dealing, which I’m certain that Mr. Littell has no intention of inferring the sheep that were attached and impounded were held for a considerable period of time.
I had to be fair.
They couldn’t be turned out to pasture.
They had to be feed in a corral as large as this courtroom.
In over a period of time, hauling hay and grain from some 75 miles away didn’t run those costs up.
Those were costs that the sheriff assessed.
And as I say, I — I wanted to dispel any question in anybody’s mind that there was a problem on the sharp dealings in that case.
Mr. Stevenson, I don’t believe Mr. Littell said that — where would the sheep at the time they were attached, were they on the Reservation or off the Reservation?
The sheep was on the reservation and apparently at the home or hold on of the then defendants —
— and we’re taken by truck to a trading post on the Reservation and placed in a corral layer and kept there for a period of time until the — a sale could be arranged about the time that the sale came along the lands — this land of lands use.
Anyway, we have more sheep than we started with me to start it over, some getting another sale.
Do you still own sheep?
No, some of them were turned back.
(Inaudible) large quantity of sheep in the market and received telegrams (Inaudible)[Laughter]
Now, Justice Whittaker, I believe you referred to or questioned the Denetclaw case, a very recent decision in the State of Arizona particularly with respect to the fact of whether or not the criminal offense occurred within state territory.
So there can be no question on that point.
The major portion of the Navajo Reservation lies within the exterior boundaries of the State of Arizona.
The offense, if any, that was committed — was committed where a U.S. highway runs through the Reservation.
The arrest was made by a state officer and out of that came this Denetclaw case.
Gentlemen, the Navajo Reservation is approximately 24,000 square miles of the area.
The principle portion of it lies within the State of Arizona.
It’s still, it’s over into New Mexico and there are some in Utah and I am not certain but there maybe a little in the State of Colorado.
So that you have, when you stop and think about it, a vast, vast area involved.
Now, the Reservation was originally created by the Treaty of 1868, and either by executive order or congressional action, additions have been made to bring it up to the size that it presently contains.
That original treaty was signed by the agent of the United States, I believe at that time, was one of the generals that was having trouble in the west with these Indians.
That original treaty was also signed, born on behalf of the Navajo by approximately 20 headmen or chieftains.
I think it’s important, later on, I — I’ll bringing it up here so that you’ll have that picture.
Just a matter of interest, how many — about how many Indians are there on this Reservation, Mr. Stevenson, do you know?
I can’t tell you.
It’s my understanding though that it’s in the neighborhood of some 80,000 people, 75,000 to 80,000 people residing there.
Now, in 1868, Worcester versus Georgia was some 30 years old.
That case had been decided long in 1932.
But also at that time, in 1868, the principle intercourse between what we shall refer to as the white, the Indians was bartered, trade, that type of thing.
It hadn’t reached any particular extent necessary that the Indian might want and that the trader could furnish.
Today, with modern means of travel and with modern means of communication and with an enlightened policy on the part of our Government with respect to the education of these people, we have an entirely different picture in the State of Arizona.
Witness the fact that the Navajo has insisted upon his right to vote that in one instance, in our State Supreme Court, a franchise to operate a trucking line was granted to a Navajo, a member of the tribe, the fact that they can, if they see fit and if they have the qualifications to run for public office in the State of Arizona.
In fact, in the most recent election, there was a gentleman from Window Rock who ran for state representative.
For what — for what district (Inaudible)
It was — I can’t tell you the district, Justice.
It was within Apache County.
Outside of the Reservation?
Outside of the Reservation.
It would cover part of and part out as I understood it.
I haven’t got —
(Inaudible) a Navajo Indian can run for office —
— who presented community outside of the Reservation.
There are —
Providing — providing the district (Inaudible) in the Reservation, is that what you mean?
Not that he could —
We —
— run in a District Court (Inaudible)
No, we’re talking about the — the Navajo who resides on the Reservation but within the exterior boundaries of one of the counties that encompass portions of the Reservation, running for office.
(Inaudible) congressional district, is it?
They must certainly be.
Now, I — I am sorry, I haven’t checked that.
I do know this that they can and have run for public office in Apache County.
There are sufficient members of the tribe who properly organized to elect the entire board of supervisors for the county, and enact the ordinances and regulations, promulgate the rules by which your county governors operated.
Are there any legislative districts or county units exclusively within the bounds of the — of the Reservation?
There’s none.
You said they have the right to vote in the State?
They have the right to vote.
But not for any state officers or legislators representing any particular segments of the Reservation itself.
Their right to vote would be limited to the — the right to vote for the officers that — that I would vote for that is to say within a certain county.
You see the area is so large that it encompasses parts of Navajo, Apache and Greenlee Counties.
But the county lines are not coextensive with or entirely within the Reservation as such?
It is 24,000 square miles, isn’t it?
The — the county line, if I get the — your question, the county line is partly in and partly out.
In short, let’s put it this way that perhaps half of the area lies within the exterior limits of the present Navajo Reservation and half out.
But nonetheless, they are citizens and residents.
Our Supreme Court has held that they are competent.
The Navajo was a competent witness in judicial proceedings that he can serve as a juror.
Do they do that — do they do that in the court of the State?
Serve as juror?
We have had one or two in my county at Coconino that served as jurors.
Now, I don’t cite those as benefits that the State of Arizona has given this tribe.
I merely cite them to indicate the economic change that has taken place in some 125 years since the days of Worcester verus Georgia.
These changes present new, different and very intriguing problems.
Mr. Stevenson, the — these changes haven’t affected the broad constitutional relation being the Federal Government and the States vis-à-vis Indians, that’s it.
I mean — Worcester against Georgia is still citable and still as it were the foundation of any consideration of power.
I’m not now talking about recognition, conscious recognition to legislation whether explicit or implied by Congress and supply the constitutional relationship between the Indians as — as it were a people of — of the denominated and aide of foreign people within the United States leaving the control that Congress chooses to exercise it and to the extent where it does choose wholly within the federal authority.
— pass changes in — in the actual recession from that abstract political legal position but no change in the constitutional framework.
Commercial intercourse and that is what we have here inevitably brings disputes and problems and legal questions that demand trial for a determination thereof.
The problem in this case was fairly simple.
It was the sale of merchandise between the trader on the Reservation operating a store on that Reservation and — and then residing on that Reservation and buying from them was a fairly simple one.
But it’s easy to conceive of a myriad of more difficult problems in the field of civil law that are bound to come along.
That is why we want to see it decided on the broad basis not on a narrow regulation.
At the outset, we were immediately confronted with this problem is that conceivable within the United States.
There is an area approximating the size of the State of Kentucky in which there’s no civil law in search of a forum.
It was our — it was — that the place to look but to the federal courts, to the state courts.
And not the Congress?
Congress, Mr. Justice, if I may so, I believe that by legislation assumed exclusive jurisdiction, that is they could oust the State of any jurisdiction.
Congress —
They also seek jurisdiction — (Inaudible)
I don’t think they need to.
I think we have it to a certain extent.
And this could be made very clear by a (Inaudible) of that jurisdiction by Congress, does it not?
We trust this decision may clear it up, one way or the other.
But it could be clear by a congressional enactment but it’s my position that the congressional enactment in this instance and on this point would not be much more than analogy because I don’t think that Arizona has ever ceded or lost that jurisdiction.
Clear me up — clear me up a little bit, Mr. Stevenson.
You trouble me, And you now made it firm.
You said Congress could oust, that implies that it is in but maybe supplanted rather than — that it isn’t in but may have a grant given to them.
It was partly —
What is your — what is the basis for saying that?
It was possibly the choice of a wrong verb.
Well, I don’t care about the verdict particular.
But none —
— and nonentheless are the basis for saying that is my argument as it unfold —
— and I’m coming right to it.
Well, is it your position that — that the Act of 1953 was meaningless so far as giving greater jurisdiction to the States of Minnesota and California and — and Oregon and the other States that were involved there?
Mr. Chief Justice, I don’t know what treaties were involved in those States with respect to Indian tribes residing therein.
I don’t know what is contained in the Enabling Act of any of those States so I can’t say that it’s meaningless insofar, say, California is concern or Nevada or Utah or any of the other western states.
Well, what I mean is this.
If they have included you in this Act, that is the State of Arizona, would it confer any greater jurisdiction on your courts than you now have?
To what extent?
It would have.
To this extent, we would — Arizona would then have had the criminal jurisdiction as well as —
Now, let’s take the civil —
— take with the civil jurisdiction.
All right, fine.
Would it have granted you any greater civil jurisdiction than you have now?
I — my position is that it would not except possibly in the field of domestic relations and not the —
I thought the levying of the attachment of the sheep?
I — I beg your pardon?
How about attachment?
Well, the —
The Court denies that you — they had the power to do that.
That is right because the Federal Government through the Commissioner of Indian Affairs has regulated the —
Took over.
— sales.
No, they have taken over precisely.
But under the —
— under the new proposed bills, you would have had — you would have the power of attachment, wouldn’t you?
Under the new proposed bill, I don’t think that it would have changed that situation with respect to Indian goods of that nature.
Well, Congress must thought so because it gave to your State and other States that were not included in that Act the opportunity to become — to get under the umbrella there by changing your laws so as to do certain things and assume certain jurisdictions, isn’t it?
That is right and it would clarify the picture.
There is no question about that.
Basically, when I got into this matter with sometime after the suit had been filed, I felt that we still had jurisdiction, not — not that we still have it that — but that we did have it —
— in a civil matter.
Well, assuming that that Act does something by way of granting jurisdiction to those five States over and above the jurisdiction you have, your constitution and laws at the present time forbid you from assuming that jurisdiction, do they not?
Over the lands, over the lands not the people inhabiting that area.
Over the land.
And that are — are — the disclaimer in our constitution and the disclaimer appearing in our Enabling Act, that was — which was carried in to the Constitution —
— are almost identical in language with that in the State of Montana.
And in that particular instance in the State of Montana, that disclaimer was interpreted to mean jurisdiction over lands not people.
Did Congress —
— made that distinction in the 1953 Act?
Congress made no distinction.
Distinction between land and personals.
Not that I recollect.
You just granted civil and criminal jurisdiction over — over the reservations and saying that those States that were prohibited by their own constitution and — and statutes could come under the Act if they should change.
And you have not change.
We have not change.
Not change.
Did I understand the line of argument that you are going to enfold it is that Arizona, a particular situation by virtue of the treaty with the Indians, by virtue of the terms of admission, by virtue of the legislation pertaining to Arizona, you don’t care about the other 47 States at this — at the moment?
Arizona or this body of treaty, constitutional provisions, legislation, congressional response thereto let, didn’t require a grant from the Congress but put in to Arizona power which Congress could took away — they could take away but in — in — for lack of withdraw, it is there.
That’s your position.
And — and you’re going to develop that with (Voice Overlap)
That is what I’m talking about.
Exactly, all right.
I just want to know what your position is.
That’s it, is it?
That is it.
It is our position that jurisdiction is vested in the state courts of Arizona except where Congress has assumed jurisdiction or reserved the same pursuant to the Constitution of the United States.
The United States Constitution Amendment 10 provides that the Federal Government is one of delegated powers.Or power is not delegated to the United States nor prohibited by the Constitution or reserved to the States.
So looking at that law, we find nothing there that precludes us from assuming Arizona has jurisdiction.
The United States Constitution Article 1, Section 8 provides, “Congress shall have the power to regulate commerce with the Indian tribes.”
A question immediately arises but it’s meant by commerce.That’s been defined by this Court.
The U.S. versus Holliday, one of the older cases, 3 Wall.
407, defines it as traffic intercourse even more than that, the buying, selling and exchanging commodities.
Certainly, the — the Congress of the United States might assume jurisdiction with respect to civil matters involving white Indians but it can’t be implied from this that it automatically has it.
That’s the Commerce Clause.
Now, our Enabling Act, Section 20 thereof provides and the people of Arizona covenant thereby that until the title shall have been extinguished, the same shall be in remain under the absolute jurisdiction and control of the Congress of the United States.
I’m referring thereto lands.
Article 20 of the Constitution of the State provides that people disclaim all right entitled to the lands within the boundaries of the State which lands are owned or held by an Indian tribe until the title says tribes shall have been extinguished and that the same shall be in remain subject to a disposition and under the absolute jurisdiction and control of the Congress of the United States.
Again, they are referring to the land not the peoples inhabiting those lands.
As I said a moment earlier, the Draper case, which is cited, I think, in both petitioner’s and respondent’s briefs interprets Montana’s Enabling Act Clause as covering only land and not people.
Now, as of that moment having what I would refer to as the basic law, we — we find nothing that would indicate that the State of Arizona does not have jurisdiction.
Has your Court, your Supreme Court interpreted that constitutional amendment so as to distinguish between jurisdiction over land and people before this case?
No, our Supreme Court has not (Voice Overlap) —
And did it — did it in its opinion here distinguish it on that basis.
That’s the only case —
— that raises the point.
But it did specifically base it upon that distinction between the land and — and the individuals or is that merely your argument now?
That is my argument now.
And I’m (Voice Overlap) —
What did the Supreme Court say about that?
The lands versus the people, our Supreme Court based it — if you could give me one moment (Voice Overlap) —
(Inaudible) Mr. Chief Justice, they didn’t mention that point.
Well, then — then point is — is open in your State.
It just hasn’t been decided.
And so it’s a matter of first impression here.
Now, then, for many years, there has been absolutely no question but that the United States — the federal court system had jurisdiction with respect to criminal matters.
But if we take a glance back to these cases in history, we find 109 U.S. 556, Ex parte Crow Dog, in which case it was held that there was no federal jurisdiction to punish the murder of one Indian by another on an Indian reservation.
Now, after that, Congress came along and enacted effective legislation.
I think I maybe in error on this but I think it was 10 Major Crimes Act.
There was a major crimes act or whatever they call it at the time.
Now, then, that has been because of, again, economic influences developed and enlarged by virtue of the Assimilative Crimes Act which indicates or evidences an assumption by the United States all criminal jurisdiction.
With respect to civil jurisdiction, we have the one point in Arizona and that was Begay versus Miller and that case follows the decision in an old United States case, U.S.versus Quiver, 241 U.S. 602.
In that — in the Begay case, the Court recognized the rights of tribal Indians to deal with their people amongst themselves on personal and domestic affairs.
Now, that was the — that was the breadth, that was all that was covered in that.
It was a domestic affair, a divorce that was involved.
The husband or the wife whichever had gotten a divorce in the state court and the other has gone to a tribal court, and done the same thing.
The state court — I guess, it was the wife who went to the state court.
The wife was granted alimony.
He didn’t pay.
He was cited on a contempt charge and put in jail and that’s the way this case came up.
The husband had a divorce from the tribal court that was considered bona fide and valid.
Our Supreme Court says in matters relating to domestic affairs, we recognize their right.
Potter Stewart:
It was the — was the decision of your Supreme Court limited in its language through domestic relations kind of a case?
That is my interpretation of it.
That’s a —
It was limited to that one field, domestic relations and —
Family affairs.
Person affairs.
Affairs.
You’re talking about the?
Begay versus William.
Begay — how about Begay against Miller?
Well, pardon me, Begay versus Miller.
Begay against Miller.
It’s put on jurisdictional ground.
As I recollect it was, yes, but not outside the scope of that very limited area.
Well, what was the basis upon which your Supreme Court said, “Your state court has no jurisdiction”?
The basis, apparently, was that the husband filed — the wife’s suit was pending in the state court and the husband went into the tribal court and had a more effective procedural remedy from this so there was a — a divorce at the time it first occurred then outside.
(Inaudible) or something like that.
It’s something like that.
I don’t — as I understood it, I haven’t read the opinion, but as I understood it, this was grounded on complete absence of jurisdiction in the state courts, for example, as if these parties would first come to the state courts for a divorce without having been to the tribal court, as I understood it, your Supreme Court affects that that there would have been no jurisdiction entertained, if that’s the (Inaudible), am I right in that?
Are you saying to me that in the Begay case, your understanding is that the Supreme Court reversed the thing that we have no jurisdiction?
I’m — I’m wrong in that.
It’s — in other words the decision was influenced by the facts that there are — had already been a divorce proceeding in the tribal court?
It was influenced by that tribe.
I — I have difficulty understanding how that bears on jurisdictions of the state court.
Well — now, the — Justice (Inaudible), he says one action was pending that is the tribal action when they brought the suit in the Superior Court of the State of Arizona.
Or was that on some notion then of a concurrent jurisdiction, one court having taken jurisdiction, the other one would not interfere or something like that?
I didn’t gather that from the opinion.
I (Voice Overlap) —
Well, then, let me put the question to you this way.
Suppose it never been a tribal court proceeding, would it be, in Arizona, possible for those parties to have — had an action to determine — divorce action determined in your state court?
Oh, yes.
And that it is quite frequently done.
The Indian man and Indian wife had come in, got a divorce in the state courts.
And that’s not done on any expressed grant by Congress to your state court to entertain that kind of action between the two?
I beg your pardon.
That’s not done.
Under any expressed grant of Congress–
— the Arizona court entertain it?
What — what’s the basis upon which the state court says they have jurisdiction (Inaudible)
I don’t think it’s ever been challenged until we got —
— in — into —
— the basis really would be —
— right here.
— the very argument you’re giving us to sustain jurisdiction in this case.
And the tribal courts (Inaudible) jurisdiction?
The tribal courts — I’ll put it this way.
So far as I know, the tribal courts do have because our State Supreme Court recognized as valid the, shall we call, the decree of divorce, it was entered by a tribal court on the Navajo Reservation.
To strengthen this — perhaps to diverting line of inquiry what — on the basis of what law do — the federal courts grant divorce?
Arizona state law?
What are your grounds for divorce in Arizona?
The tribal court’s ground — grant divorce on the basis of no law that I know of.
Bare law, Indian law.
It has to be tribal customs.
Customs.
Now — and your — the state courts of — of Arizona respect on a Full Faith and Credit Clause under the theory, the tribal law or decree.
Now, did I understood you to say that the Navajo husband and the Navajo wife can go into the state court and get a divorce which must be based on some allowable grounds for divorce of Arizona law which maybe in conflict with the tribal law of divorce?
They have done it.
(Voice Overlap) problem here but this opens up interesting possibility —
— under the law and state law.
They’ve done that.
They have done that.
And yet, you — yet, if Mr. Littell’s argument prevails assuming it’s applicable to the divorce situation which has authored its own quiddities and oddities of law, you could — hereafter, the wife could challenge the jurisdiction of (Inaudible) that husband to challenge the jurisdiction of a suit for divorse — therefore divorce in court and a state court, is that right?
Now, I — I’m not sure that is right, Justice Frankfurter.
And you have to discriminate between divorce jurisdiction and non-divorce jurisdiction.
You see in the — in this — the instant case, the Begay case, the husband went to the tribal court and instituted his actions.
The wife and — went into the state courts and —
Well, but — but if he contested her on Mr. Littell’s ground, he could contest the jurisdiction of the Court and the proceeding would have to be dismissed.
Unless he tells (Voice Overlap) —
On the basis —
— I’m wrong.
— of his argument?
Of course, there maybe a — there maybe a good deal of so-called practice that hasn’t been challenged, but one way or other, either lawyers or litigant could always raise the questions as long as there’s pertinence on litigation.
Well, it’s readily apparent that a wife, an Indian convicted of a crime or charged with a crime, committed on the Reservation, is going to make this appeal, say — be properly protected, that’s readily apparent.
That is why the body of law relating to criminal law on those reservations is so well defined and clear but it is not readily apparent why a trader would be hard-headed about $361 and will clear up the United States Supreme Court on the question of civil jurisdiction.
(Inaudible) insidious people.
Well, I take it that you’re — you’re interested more than in — just dollars and cents in this case, are you not, because I noticed you joined, you and Mr. Littell joined in saying that the — the narrower issue is really not involved here, it’s a broader issue as to whether they do have jurisdiction that bothers you?
You — you’re not particularly interested in — in the money value of this case, are you?
That’s not all.
What’s your position?
— on the counterclaim?
What position do you take on the counterclaim?
Well, the position (Voice Overlap) —
I don’t find you’ve mentioned in your brief.
You don’t mention it in your brief.
The position I took was that it — it had been dismissed pursuant to motion pending his state of claim and that was the end of it.
Now, you — I think they’re wondering about the assumption of jurisdiction or the acceptance of jurisdiction.
I’m thinking of Justice Whittaker’s earlier question.
You don’t make any point at that?
I don’t make any point about it at all.
No, Justice.
He can do it in either sides —
(Inaudible) and if he doesn’t file a counterclaim, he stepped into the jurisdiction of (Inaudible)
(Inaudible) to say that the Court didn’t have jurisdiction of (Inaudible)
Looking back as a wonderful point, at the time that this case came on for trial, we just stipulate it as to the facts.
They were interested principally in the broad point, where does the civil jurisdiction lie?
That’s why (Inaudible) is that right?
I — I think the broader issue that you probably are referring to, Your Honor, is the question of where that jurisdiction lies, that civil jurisdiction.
How could you reach that if (Inaudible)
Well, without going back — refer to the pleading file, I can’t tell you but it seems —
(Inaudible) they did — they did file a counterclaim.
That’s constituted the fairness.
Could they (Inaudible) the jurisdiction of the Court?
Prior to the finding of counterclaim, Your Honor, is we have stipulated that their answers did not constitute (Inaudible) so far as they were questioning jurisdiction all the way.
They challenged all the way that brought the — the question.
Now, I can’t give you the — I can’t recollect that — out of my mind that the point that you’re getting at on that counterclaim, what transpired on, I don’t know (Inaudible)
The record shows that one (Inaudible)
Mr. Stevenson, have you seen the — the memorandum that Mr. Littell submitted with this long list of cases showing that your courts there have accepted jurisdiction in — in cases involving commercial transactions on the Reservation?
I understood, Mr. Justice — Chief Justice, that this constituted a list of claims outstanding filed by — in some instances of white Indian traders against Indian (Inaudible) of the transactions arising on the Reservation.
— may I ask you, if this — if this is the usual practice in Arizona courts?
The tribal courts, Your Honor.
Oh, these are the tribal courts?
These are tribal law.
(Inaudible) oh, tribal courts.
Yes, I see.
And I — I don’t know of any way to — to oppose that argument.
I — I misconceive the report that I thought —
Well, you — you raised the point that I wanted to come to.
And I know of no —
–in a way to — to get out of except to point out that the Navajo tribe is not a corporation.
It doesn’t have a constitution.
It appears to me, it’s an association of individuals.
Now, let me get to a very, what I consider, dangerous position, that being the case, then you and I and 67 others can form an association and set up our own government.
We could set up own courts by what authority is the tribal courts created.
Oh, isn’t the answer to that that either of the treaties — the Treaty would be United States or congressional act or regulations of the Department of Interior to permit this?
Well, the regulations, the Interior Department regulation arise out of 19 Stat.
200, power to appoint traders with Indians, the permission of Indian Affairs shall have the sole power and authority to appoint traders to the Indian tribe and to make such rules and regulations that he deem just and proper, specifying the kind and quantity of goods.
The price of which (Inaudible) shall be sold to the Indians.
But that subject also to the act of — the act of Congress, is it not, which says that white traders shall not sue on obligations that — incurred in the Reservation.
But now — Chief Justice, you’re not referring to the act of Congress, you’re referring to see the regulations promulgated by the Commission of Indian Affairs on that point.
And the — that when — specifies that all trade shall be at the traders’ risk.
Now, the — the brief of the United States amplifies that or expand it into this type of thing, but that gives — that takes away from the State any jurisdiction it had.
But when the regulation says that all trade shall be at the — the traders’ risk, all credit extended shall be at the traders’ risk.
I failed to be able to interpret that as meaning that you’re going to have to go into an entirely different set of courts.
I –I don’t — I — it seems to me that’s a strain and an unnatural interpretation of that small phrase.
I would think I should give one or two moments to this Worcester versus Georgia which is unquestionably the leading case on Indian law cited time again without end.
And in that case, Chief Justice Marshall’s opinion was based on this type of finding.
This Treaty, Hopewell does explicitly recognize the national character of the Cherokee, their right to self-government and does guarantee their lands.
Cherokee nation is a distinct community occupying its own territory with boundaries accurately described in which the laws of Georgia can have no force, and which the citizens the Georgia have no right to enter but with the assent of the Cherokees themselves found that the Cherokee Nation was not a part of the State of Georgia.
They were attempting to extend their county limits to incorporate part of the State of Georgia but this decision is based on the fact that that was not a part of the State of Georgia.
Now, with this Reservation, the Navajo that we’re talking about and that is our problem here, it is encompassed within the exterior boundaries of the State of Arizona.
Well, gentlemen, in summation, it is our position that the sovereignty of Arizona is plenary over its territory except where that sovereignty is reserved to the U.S. or has been relinquished and assumed by the Government.
But the Congress of the United States may assume jurisdiction as granted.
We — I don’t question that to the extent that such assumption of state courts would be the best of the jurisdiction and here is where it happened.
Neither our Enabling Act nor our constitution has divested the State of Arizona of jurisdiction either criminal or civil that came through legislation of this Congress.
We submit on the basis of foregoing that the decision of the Arizona Supreme Court should be affirmed.
Mr. Stevenson, before you sit down, Mr. Stevenson, I have a couple of questions which — from my own information of Ohio or even Sixth Circuit, we didn’t have any Indian cases and I have a lot to learn on this subject.
But — first of all, am I right that the Assimilative Crimes Act gives jurisdiction to the federal courts of criminal offenses committed by one Indian against another Indian within this Reservation, is that correct or not?
That is — that is my understanding of it, yes.
If the — if the — let me put it this way, if the penalty in the state act is broader than the penalty set up in the Federal Act then the penalty in the Federal Act applies for deciding that opinion.
Well, in the case of a civil and crimes act, you — you haven’t got any — it’s a rare case that you got a federal penalty for the commission of state offense, isn’t it?
That is true.
I — I ran across one the other day.
I can’t think of the name of it, that’s why I mentioned that.
But generally, subject to, perhaps, qualifications, the federal courts have jurisdiction for criminal offenses by one Indian against another Indian committed within this Reservation because of federal legislation, you say.
And secondly, I didn’t quite get the distinction that you made in cases of jurisdiction in civil cases of wrong or litigation between one Indian and — and another Indian or within the Reservation.
You made a distinction between domestic relations and family cases on the one hand and all other types of civil cases on the other I thought and I wondered upon what that distinction was based.
That —
I think you told us but if so, I missed it, I think.
That distinction was based on this, the fact that in the Begay case, that was the divorce case in the Arizona Supreme Court, they confined their opinion to that one narrow point recognizing the right of the Navajos to govern themselves with respect to personal and domestic affairs involving their tribes and their people.
But — is it — so that the — the distinction that you pointed out stems only from that decision of the Arizona Supreme Court and the Begay case —
— not from any — anything else?
I must ask if I might.
(Inaudible) one more question (Inaudible) one more.
Do you have anything to say about the question of whether the statement of the regulation that you — trader extends credit to (Inaudible) Indian at his own risk destroys subject matter of jurisdiction?
Do I have anything to say —
— to the effect that that does destroy?
This position that you’re telling.
The Solicitor General takes one position (Inaudible) Mr. Littell says it was not.
The Solicitor General says it governs.
Are you (Inaudible) or do you agree with Solicitor?
Well, Mr. Justice Whittaker, my answer to you is this.
The — the phrase often it shall be at the traders’ own risk to me means only one thing that the United States of America as the guardian of the Navajo Indian isn’t underwriting that bill and I sense the word.
Now, that’s what it means to me and — that simple language.
I don’t think that it means that state courts are ousted of jurisdiction.
I think if that had been the intent, then I would have gone further and say more.
Now, you — you agree with Mr. Littell (Inaudible)
I — I’ll put it this way.
I thought that Mr. Littell’s reply brief covered the point admirably.
To that extent.[Laughter]
Mr. Stevenson, may I ask you this one more — one more question?
In view of your broad claim of jurisdiction on the part of the State of Arizona in these matters, how do you make the distinction between your jurisdiction over — over this individual and his business affair on the one hand and then say that there is no jurisdiction so far as the attachment was concerned?
If I said that I — I perhaps misstated.
Well, but what your Court — your Court seemed to make a distinction between the two views, Supreme Court and how do you justify that in your argument here?
Our Supreme Court justify that this way looking at the code of federal regulations and the regulations promulgated by the Commission of Indian Affairs with respect to trading on the Navajo and Hopi Reservation, that Court said, “Well, the United States has assumed jurisdiction with respect to this type of property, sheep, therefore, the Sheriff of Apache county could not possibly have a test of ship and sold them.
And is that your argument to us and is that the basis on which you would want us to — to distinguish between the two?
I think so, yes.
And you really think (Inaudible)
That’s — that’s all I’ve got out of the State Supreme Court on that.
You mean, Mr. Stevenson (Inaudible) your Supreme Court recognized that as guardian of the Indians, the Government could effectively withdraw property of the Indians of this kind in any event from vulnerability to attachment or other disposition, is that it?
It goes back a little into the history that they have abandoned in the past a nomadic type of people, sheep herders, that sort of thing.
Now, what the Government has attempted over a period of, let’s say, since the first term of Franklin Roosevelt as president is to encourage these people in a way of letting — pardon me, give them a livelihood, build up their herds, build up their sheep so the Government has put money into it, as I understand it, by furnishing sheep.
And has said —
So they feel that they have some claim.
Well, we have in many state laws, including my own State, property exempt from attachment or execution up to $100 or $200 if it consists of household furniture or clothing and that sort of thing.
This is much different, is it really?
No, it isn’t a great of difference.
Thank you, Mr. Chief Justice.
Mr. Littell, so I won’t have to interrupt you during your — your closing argument, I just like to ask you to what point you — you filed this memorandum.
I — I misinterpreted it.
I — I thought these were recent cases that had been filed in the state courts but I was corrected by counsel.
And I — I don’t know now just what your point was concerning it.
Would you mind telling us?
Yes, indeed, Your Honor.
It disposes conclusively of the narrow contention upon which the Solicitor’s opinion is based, it’s in the Solicitor’s brief, it’s based amicus that these debts are unenforceable.
It’s merely to show that they are enforceable.
He takes one construction of this CFR regulations which let’s read for the moment, it’s only a line that trader may extend credit to Indians but credit will be at the traders’ own risk.
Now, he’s joins with us in saying that the court below lacked jurisdiction on the narrow ground under that language, the debt is unenforceable.
I say it is enforceable in the tribal court.
We’re engaged in no unholy conspiracy, Your Honor, to get a broad decision of this Court.
No, Your Honor, it’s the line in your thalweg.
We are not seeking and if we had a narrow ground, we would go for it.
We want to win this case to begin with.
We went for in the petition and it was only on the revelation of the history of this regulation and its weakness that I, an associate counsel, could not conscientiously come before this Court as practitioners who hope to come again someday and makes so tenuous and superficial the contentions that these — that these debts are therefore unenforceable so we drop this point.
Would — would you spread that delicate (Inaudible).[Laughter]
Your Honor, I will do my best in the case, the next bar association.[Laughter]
I have never made a contention here which I felt was not tenable and my colleague — associate in this case has not either and I think this is an untenable one.
And I think we have demolished it.
I think this — the showing of these cases is a — is superficial, if you please, Your Honor, I — in the surface, 250, it’s quite as skimming though to show that these debts are enforced.
The Solicitor is wrong about it.
Now, that is our only ground, sir, for — for saying that this case should be properly launched in the stream of magnificent cases holding to the same effect that we’re condemning for by this Court.
(Inaudible) one point to wit, the Court did not have jurisdiction of the person (Inaudible)
It did not have jurisdiction of the person of the — of the petitioner on the fact of this case, precisely that’s the point.
That — that’s the whole point.
That’s whole point.
And (Inaudible)
Now, thank you for asking that because I just wanted to come to that which I can see and very recently abolish, Your Honor — Honor, considerably.
Two or three times I’ve quickly put my hand on two times in the course of these proceedings.
It was stipulated by counsel that everything here would be without prejudice as my able colleagues from Arizona has agreed and his signatures here so he must of course.
I won’t bother you to read those but, Your Honors, bothered by the effect of them.
I say that this is a procedural matter for the courts of Arizona.
The Supreme Court of Arizona has sustained this without waiver of jurisdiction that we could proceed in this case without waiving the jurisdiction
You don’t — I don’t believe you (Inaudible) may stipulate some (Inaudible) invitation of the courts judicial power shall not give the courts jurisdiction (Inaudible)
I could say that’s a procedural point and not a matter of substantive law.
It’s for the law of the Court in the State of Arizona.
And the Supreme Court of Arizona has spoken on it and — and said yes that our waivers of — of the — why counsel below would have, in this case for a minute, accepted those stipulations protected by the decrees of that Court all the way through the Supreme Court of — of Arizona.
I don’t think that can be questioned here.
It’s a new — it’s a new issue.
Respectively submitted it, Your Honor.
Well, Mr. Littell, are you — when you agreed that there’s nothing here for the question of jurisdiction of the person, maybe I’m wrong, I had the feeling that this was a question of the jurisdiction of the state courts of this lawsuit, am I wrong about that?
No, I — I do if I — if my answer to Judge — Justice Whittaker was construed that way, I — I quite agree for this lawsuit and it’s for any similar situation.
I mean this lawsuit which involves an Indian defendant against whom is sought to be enforced the claim arising out of a transaction on the Indian reservation.
Is that it?
I was tempted to —
But it’s the question of the jurisdiction of the lawsuit, not of the Indian.
I — I was — well, jurisdiction of the Indian too.
But I wasn’t — I would tend to put —
But basically it’s lawsuit, not personal jurisdiction you pointed.
Quite right, quite right.
Why is it the courts doesn’t have jurisdiction of the lawsuit, under your view, is it not because it doesn’t have jurisdiction of the person?
You see, you’re both right [Laughter].
(Inaudible) to both.
And — and may I — [Laughter]
And Mr. Chief Justice, may I throw myself on the mercy of the Chief Justice and have this question resolved in chamber?[Laughter]
It will be.[Laughter]
Now, very quickly because my time is going — is almost gone.
My distinguished opponent from Arizona has his shoe on the wrong foot.
The power of the Federal Government is plenary, our state, not over these Indian affairs.And we so contend.
Now, his attempt to — his attempt to confine this language that the Constitution, taken over from the Enabling Act of Arizona, to effect on lands is a strange and unnatural concept which out of court with this Court’s decisions.
Reading from page 25, Appendix A of our brief that people inhabiting this State do agree and declare that they forever disclaim all rights entitled to the unappropriated and ungranted public lands lying within the boundaries thereof and to all lands lying within said boundaries own or held by any Indian or Indian tribes the right or title to which shall be — shall have been acquired through or from the United States or any prior sovereignty.
And that, here it is, “Until the title of such Indian or Indian tribe shall have been extinguished, the same shall be and remain subject to the disposition under the absolute disposition and control of the United States.”
Now, if counsel’s petition was correct, why, Section 9 of the Hopi Act which was vetoed by President Truman extending civil and criminal jurisdiction, why, Section 6 and 7 of the Act of 1953 extending jurisdiction to five States very discriminatingly, you read the Act, you’ll find they eliminated two tribes.
They concluded — Congress concluded two tribes weren’t ready for this.
Two tribes were eliminated but otherwise for those five States, civil and criminal jurisdiction is extended, why, Section 6 or 7 inviting the State of Arizona to come in through its legislature and to its people and amend its constitution and delete this.
It’s an open invitation because Congress realizes that this is not a thing which can be handled by sporadic grabbing of jurisdiction as in this case because it does not carry with it this sporadic grabbing of jurisdiction and this case does not carry with it the extension of the concomitant civil services that go with civil and criminal jurisdiction.
How about courts?
How about the police?
Over 24,000 square miles is big as all of Virginia, is big as all of New England except Maine.
Do they just reach in and grab for jurisdiction when they want it?That’s what counsel is contending for in the Supreme Court of Arizona.
Hugo L. Black:
May I ask you a question about the tribal courts that — of that idea — idea?
Your Honor, could — could I take the extreme and on terrible liberty of adding just this to this point?
He cites the Draper case.
He — he cites the Draper case.
I thought you pretty said that.
With this point, he cites the Draper in support of this extraordinary doctrine that this doesn’t apply to lands only — it only applies to lands and not to persons.
What is jurisdiction — but over persons on the lands.
What is the jurisdiction except that?
The Draper case had nothing to do with that case.
The Draper case was a clear holding that a murder by a white man, a non-Indian on the Indian reservation could be punished in the state courts.
We admit it.
We admit they can be so protected.
We admit they can sue each other for other things.
That’s my point.
It does sustain this — this case at all.
Excuse me, sir.
I’m — I’m sorry, I interrupt you.
No, thank you, Your Honor.
What I want to ask you is this.
You said you’d give us a list of cases tried in the tribal courts on the basis that there is a — a place where these rights can be enforced to this contract.
Of course, that would not be true unless there was power to establish the —
Unless there were what?
Power to establish the tribal court.
In reading the case from Arizona, the regional case, Begay, I see that they recognized tribal courts in connection with domestic relation and thought they had found a federal basis of authority on which to rest.
They did.
— and — where?
That’s the tribal court thought domestic relation.
What — where do you find the source of the establishment of these tribal courts which would exclude the jurisdiction of the State in these cases?
Within the — well, my associate suggests specific regulations.
I was going to make the general answer but —
What is the specific regulation?
The specific regulation is — is in the — in 25 CFR — the regulations based upon statute 25 CFR 11.22.
That’s not the one that says that they do business at their risk.
That’s the trading regulation.
This is court regulation.
This is in — this is in the regulations, Your Honor, pertaining to the tribal courts and let me read the first line of it.
“The Courts of the Indian Offenses shall have jurisdiction of all suits wherein the defendant is a member of tribe or tribes within their jurisdiction.”
The courts for what?
Indian offences.
Court — The Court of Indian Offenses, yes sir.
It’s — that’s a regular known name in the Bureau of Indian Affairs and there are these tribal courts all over the country.
And in Indian reservations, they have these tribal courts and these are the regulations that — that control.
Those are the regulations that you have cited in your brief which show that they wouldn’t have jurisdiction of cases like this which are authorize by regulation which themselves are authorized by Congress?
Perhaps we should have cited.
I cite it now.
Here it is, that leads you to all these regulations.
I don’t believe we’ve cited the tribal court regulation because we did —
Would you mind giving it again?
Yes — yes, Your Honor, 25 CFR 11.22 jurisdiction.
And there’s some change in numbering from our original — no disregard that.
That will only confuse.
Are those regulations published in the (Voice Overlap) —
— that looks like that —
This — no.
I know they’re published but is that the way we get them and the volume something like that.
You’ll find this in the — in your own library this way.
And that’s an official government publication.
And it has — these have the force and effect of law as you know.
I merely cited that to demolish the point that — that —
Is their judgment final under the — the judgment —
— Tribal Court final?
Yes, it’s a — it’s a separate — it’s a separate judicial system.
I — I can’t — except outside of the record begin to expound on it how we’re trying to improve tribal courts from the Navajo Reservation but it has very mark limitations.
However, I point to the fact that the traders for years had (Inaudible) to collect their debts.And their judgments are entered then the Navajos pay.
It’s not as precise and as formal and as satisfactorily —
Who — who appoints the judges?
Sir?
Who appoints the judges?
The judges are now elected in the Navajo Reservation.
It’s different in different reservation.
Tribal —
— customs are —
They have — that’s the theory.
They have the cognizance of tribal customs as they probably will amend the — the tribal regulations to make an appointee.
They have the same experience with elected judges that we’ve had.
Your argument is that Congress has full power to do so —
— as fixed to these courts (Inaudible)
Complete —
— purpose of having that judgment final and that chose to do business with the Indians?
Have to know that?
Among themselves and others using too.
But what’s the basis (Inaudible) of this regulation?
Why, sir, the general plenary power of the — of the Government under the Constitution over Indians.
This is only one of the aspects.
This scope is available to regulations and things of Indians, an exercise of the plenary power of the Constitution.
(Inaudible) You’d have to look, would you not, even to a statute or treaty rather than the Constitution insofar as that power of the Secretary of the Interior to promulgate regulations that have the effect of law?
Could you —
They —
— could you just look to the Constitution and say that the Secretary of the Interior can do that without authority of Congress?
It’s — it’s — in — I’m sure that there is statutory authority which I can’t cite at the moment behind these, Your Honor, this — this collateral line that comes up a little unexpectedly but I have to say the answer is yes anyway because the portion affected these regulations and — and —
Answer is yes, what do you mean by that?
Answer is yes that they have the power whether there’s a statute behind it or not under the general delegation of the power to the — to the Secretary to regulate Indians.
But that power —
Didn’t that would be a power delegated by Congress?
So that’s it.
Well, sir, I was thinking of the Constitution.
But — but I do believe that there — there are powers.
If I may just make this one more point — I see our time is exhausted and there is no need to asking more.
Our time is exhausted.
The Solicitor [Laughter] —
You have five minutes more if you should want it up to lunch.
Your time is not exhausted.
I will spare the Court but only call your attention.
If I’m wrong about these things, about Section 9, about 6 — Section 6 and 7 of the Act of 1953, why did Congress also go on the admission of Alaska and extend civil and criminal jurisdiction?
It’s always by statute and it can’t be gotten like camel get into the Arab’s tent, the way they’re trying to get it here.
Before we recess, I see Mr. Marquis in the courtroom.
Mr. Marquis, you were on the brief of the —
Roger P. Marquis:
— of the Solicitor General and would you mind having the Solicitor General respond to this if, in his opinion, it — it calls for any response?
We — we’ll (Inaudible).
Arizona v. California – Oral Argument – January 11, 1962 (Part 2)
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The Monday Issue
March 28, 2011 March 28, 2011 maggiedot
Not too much to talk about writing-wise this last week. Made some progress on the slow-moving novel, though it’s been a bit more back-and-forth on Chapter 6 than I was hoping. I’m eyeing my May deadline warily–it’s going to take a big push to get this wrapped up by then, or even to hit 50k on it, which is my overarching goal for FY11. I just keep getting distracted by short-term projects, new ideas, toying with script writing, among other things. But if I get nothing else done by the end of May besides the novel, I’ll be all too happy. :)
I’ve been watching a lot of documentaries lately, many specifically in the subject of fashion. I’ve admitted before that Project Runway is one of my greatest weaknesses, but it really spans to all fashion/design/clothes-making arenas. Perhaps its an issue of opposite attraction: I’m not fashionable, at all. But I’ve got some significant admiration for those who are.
It’s not just appearances either, because while America’s Next Top Model is a fun show now and then, I care less about the people actually wearing the clothes than I do about the people making them. There’s something that really speaks to me as a writer to hear designers talk about collections, stories they’re trying to elicit through fabric, and the importance of an “editor’s eye” when evaluating a design. All I know is that after watching any fashion-oriented show, I’m crazy to write, to do fiction collections, to write a series of stories that conjure what it means to be Spring, and to edit my older stuff ruthlessly.
Though I am glad no one’s challenging me to write a completed (albeit rough) draft of fiction in the same 24 hour rush as the designers on Project Runway. I’d be the one freaking out and doubting my original plan, all while Tim Gunn frowns thoughtfully at the two paragraphs I’ve actually managed to finish with a sigh and his characteristic “Make it work.”
Tim Gunn: “The character just feels a little…tortured. Do you know what I mean?”
Me: “Oh, well, yeah. Yeah, no I hear what you’re saying. He’s- ah- well…”
Tim Gunn: “He’s just kind of stuck where he is. The plot’s dragging.”
Me: (getting teary, nodding quickly.) “You’re right. No, you’re totally right.”
Tim Gunn: (concerned look) “I mean, what you’ve got so far is good. It’s really good. You just need more of it. More movement.”
Me: (trying not to cry, pinched lips) “Yeah. Yeah, ok. I’ll–” (head shake, gathering up papers) “I’ll fix it.”
Tim Gunn: (pat on back, drift away) “Make it work.”
Me: (back-hand wipe-off of tears, clenching draft papers in hand, frowning with renewed frustration as I walk back to my desk. low mutter) “Make it work, make it work. Shit, I thought that’s what I was doing.”
Meanwhile, back in reality where Maggie isn’t chatting with her own personal Tim Gunn: I need to resub a story that came back almost a month ago and while I meant to get it right back out again, I forgot, and it’s been languishing on to-do list. This is why I give myself a sticker for turning a rejected submission around in less than 24 hours. Otherwise it just sits there.
Other than that, life goes on!
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Marloes says:
Nice! :D
I feel quite the same way: that making of, inventing, designing of ‘fashion’ is so much more interesting than the shows about the whiny models. Got the same with good cooking shows: using ingredients, textures, flavours to create unique dishes. Cooking is definately like writing. Masterchef (Australia) totally inspired me (writing-wise, and in bashing out my own garam masala haha), and instead of Tim Gunn I’d like to have a swearing Gordon Ramsay I can consult from time to time. “Wake up, move your ass, or piss off!”.
Oh, and definately So You Think You Can Dance. The discipline, pushing yourself over the edge to find new movements, to create an “effortless”, fun and inspiring piece.
Auf wiedersehen! ;)
maggie Jamison says:
Haha! I can imagine Gordon Ramsay being one heck of a motivator to get in the chair and WRITE. XD There really is just something fascinating about all those shows that really display human ambition and hard work in the face of creative arts. It’s so neat! I feel the same way about cooking shows, too, but fashion shows is where it started for me. Oh my word, just the other day I watched a documentary on the Master Pastry challenge in France, and it just about broke my heart watching those chefs work their tails off in the face of adversity! Some came out winners, some will try again. It’s just fascinating! Plus, watching these shows is a convenient way to procrastinate. XP
How’s life?! I feel like we haven’t talked in AGES! :D
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[ANN] oVirt Node Next Beta
by Fabian Deutsch
Hey, the just released oVirt 3.6.6rc1 release marks the first official oVirt release which is accompanied by oVirt Node Next (Beta). Since it's pre-alpha release a few weeks ago, Node has seen a lot of testing and fixes, which brought it to the beta level. If you have not yet started to test oVirt Node Next, this is the time to do so. Take a look at the quick-start guide to see the next steps [0]. What is oVirt Node? oVirt Node is a ready-to-use OS image, containing all the OS and oVirt packages needed to act as host for oVirt Engine. The image can be installed in minutes, can be administered using Cockpit [1], and provides a safe upgrade and rollback mechanism. Where can I learn more about oVirt Node? A quick-start guide, and links to additional documentation can be found on the oVirt Node Project page <http://www.ovirt.org/node/>. On behalf of the Node team - fabian -- [0] http://www.ovirt.org/node/ [1] http://cockpit-project.org/
[ANN] oVirt 3.6.6 First Release Candidate is now available for testing
by Sandro Bonazzola
The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the First Release Candidate of oVirt 3.6.6 for testing, as of April 27th, 2016 This release is available now for: * Fedora 22 * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 * CentOS Linux 6.7 (or similar) * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 or later * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.2 or later This release supports Hypervisor Hosts running: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 or later * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.2 or later * Fedora 22 This release candidate includes the following updated packages: * ovirt-engine * ovirt-engine-extension-aaa-jdbc * ovirt-engine-extension-aaa-ldap * ovirt-engine-dwh-3.6.6 (git hash 33f6636) * ovirt-hosted-engine-setup-1.3.6.0 * ovirt-vmconsole v1.0.2 * vdsm v4.17.27 See the release notes [1] for installation / upgrade instructions and a list of new features and bugs fixed. Notes: * A new oVirt Live ISO is already available [2]. * A new oVirt Node Next Install ISO is already available[3] * Mirrors[4] might need up to one day to synchronize. Additional Resources: * Read more about the oVirt 3.6.6 release highlights: http://www.ovirt.org/release/3.6.6/ * Get more oVirt Project updates on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ovirt * Check out the latest project news on the oVirt blog: http://www.ovirt.org/blog/ [1] http://www.ovirt.org/release/3.6.6/ [2] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-3.6-pre/iso/ovirt-live/ [3] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-3.6-pre/iso/ovirt-node-ng-installer/ [4] http://www.ovirt.org/Repository_mirrors#Current_mirrors -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com
[ANN] oVirt 3.6.5 Final Release is now available
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[ANN] Schedule for oVirt 4.0.0
The oVirt Project team is pleased to inform that schedule for oVirt 4.0.0 has been finalized. The key dates follows: * 2016-05-18 - oVirt 4.0 Beta - Feature freeze * 2016-05-25 - String Freeze * 2016-06-01 - oVirt 4.0 RC1 * 2016-06-15 - oVirt 4.0 GA Release A release management page has been created at: http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/releases/4.0/release-mana... oVirt 4.0.0 Alpha release notes are available at: http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.0.0/ oVirt Google Calendar has been updated accordingly: ICAL: https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/ppqtk46u9cglj7l987ruo2l0f8%40group.c... XML: https://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/ppqtk46u9cglj7l987ruo2l0f8%40group.... HTML: https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ppqtk46u9cglj7l987ruo2l0f8%40gr... Thanks, -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com
[ANN] oVirt 3.6.5 Third Release Candidate is now available for testing
The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the Third Release Candidate of oVirt 3.6.5 for testing, as of April 12th, 2016 This release is available now for: * Fedora 22 * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 * CentOS Linux 6.7 (or similar) * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 or later * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.2 or later This release supports Hypervisor Hosts running: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 or later * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.2 or later * Fedora 22 This release is also available with experimental support for: * Debian 8.3 Jessie This release candidate includes the following updated packages: * ovirt-engine * mom * vdsm * qemu-kvm-ev * ovirt-hosted-engine-ha See the release notes [1] for installation / upgrade instructions and a list of new features and bugs fixed. Notes: * A new oVirt Live ISO is already available [2]. * Mirrors[3] might need up to one day to synchronize. Additional Resources: * Read more about the oVirt 3.6.5 release highlights: http://www.ovirt.org/release/3.6.5/ * Get more oVirt Project updates on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ovirt * Check out the latest project news on the oVirt blog: http://www.ovirt.org/blog/ [1] http://www.ovirt.org/release/3.6.5/ [2] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-3.6-pre/iso/ [3] http://www.ovirt.org/Repository_mirrors#Current_mirrors -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com
[ANN] oVirt 4.0.0 First Alpha Release is now available for testing
The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the First Alpha Release of oVirt 4.0.0 for testing, as of April 5th, 2016 This is pre-release software. Please take a look at our community page[1] to know how to ask questions and interact with developers and users. All issues or bugs should be reported via oVirt Bugzilla[2]. This pre-release should not to be used in production, and it is not feature complete This release is available now for: * Fedora 23 * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 or later * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.2 or later This release supports Hypervisor Hosts running: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 or later * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.2 or later * Fedora 23 * oVirt Next Generation Node 4.0 See the release notes draft [3] for installation / upgrade instructions and a list of new features and bugs fixed. Notes: * A new oVirt Live ISO is already available [4]. * A new oVirt Next Generation Node is already available[4] * A new oVirt Engine Appliance is already available * Mirrors[5] might need up to one day to synchronize. Additional Resources: * Read more about the oVirt 4.0.0 alpha release highlights: http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.0.0/ * Get more oVirt Project updates on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ovirt * Check out the latest project news on the oVirt blog: http://www.ovirt.org/blog/ [1] https://www.ovirt.org/community/ [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?classification=oVirt [3] http://www.ovirt.org/release/4.0.0/ [4] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.0_alpha1/iso/ [5] http://www.ovirt.org/Repository_mirrors#Current_mirrors -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com
[ANN] oVirt 3.6.5 Second Release Candidate is now available for testing
The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of the Second Release Candidate of oVirt 3.6.5 for testing, as of April 4th, 2016 This release is available now for: * Fedora 22 * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 * CentOS Linux 6.7 (or similar) * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 or later * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.2 or later This release supports Hypervisor Hosts running: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 or later * CentOS Linux (or similar) 7.2 or later * Fedora 22 This release is also available with experimental support for: * Debian 8.3 Jessie This release candidate includes the following updated packages: * ovirt-engine * ovirt-engine-extension-aaa-ldap See the release notes [1] for installation / upgrade instructions and a list of new features and bugs fixed. Notes: * A new oVirt Live ISO will be available soon [2]. * Mirrors[3] might need up to one day to synchronize. Additional Resources: * Read more about the oVirt 3.6.5 release highlights: http://www.ovirt.org/release/3.6.5/ * Get more oVirt Project updates on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ovirt * Check out the latest project news on the oVirt blog: http://www.ovirt.org/blog/ [1] http://www.ovirt.org/release/3.6.5/ [2] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-3.6-pre/iso/ [3] http://www.ovirt.org/Repository_mirrors#Current_mirrors -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com
oVirt Community Newsletter, February+March 2016
by Mikey Ariel
February and March were very exciting for oVirt, including our brand new oVirt.org website launch, some great oVirt presentations at Developer Conference CZ and FOSSASIA, and the release of oVirt 3.6.4. Check out the newsletter for all the updates. **FOSDEM VIDEO UPDATE: Unfortunately, not all FOSDEM videos were published due to technical problems with the video equipment. See below for links to the videos that were published.** ----------------- Software Releases ----------------- oVirt 3.6.5 First Release Candidate is now available for testing http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/announce/2016-March/000241.html oVirt 3.6.4 Final Release is now available http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/announce/2016-March/000240.html ---------------- In the Community ---------------- First Boston oVirt Meetup held on March 16, join the meetup group for future events! http://www.meetup.com/Boston-oVirt-Community/ Get involved with the oVirt project! Spring edition http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/infra/2016-March/014195.html Yaniv Bronhaim presented an oVirt workshop at FOSSASIA 2016 http://www.slideshare.net/bronhaim/fossasia-16-ovirt-overview [Presentation] The new oVirt.org website is now live, contributions welcome! http://www.ovirt.org/blog/2016/02/welcome-to-new-ovirt-site/ Yaniv Kaul shares his experience at DevConf.cz 2016 http://www.ovirt.org/blog/2016/03/devconf-2016/ Mikey Ariel shares her experience at FOSDEM 2016 http://community.redhat.com/blog/2016/02/ovirt-rolls-into-fosdem/ Videos from oVirt-related sessions at FOSDEM 2016: https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/virt_iaas_host_lifecycle_content_m... https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/virt_iaas_reactive_processing_ovirt/ https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/virt_iaas_sweep_away_the_garbage/ https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/managing_ceph_through_cinder_using... https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/virt_iaas_ovirt_hyperconverge/ https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/virt_iaas_containers_and_virtualiz... Videos from oVirt-related sessions at DevConf.cz 2016: Smart VM Scheduling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkK4XxcKADw In-Depth Look of VM Migration Algorithms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8hCoKEOUWM oVirt and Gluster Hyperconvergence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksTYYpa6nko Ceph integration with oVirt using Cinder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytPgMEPvb38 Host Fencing in oVirt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8qAkHXxU9o ------------------------------------ Deep Dives and Technical Discussions ------------------------------------ Deploying an Open Source VDI solution with oVirt https://www.udsenterprise.com/en/blog/2015/03/25/deploying-open-source-vd... oVirt 3.6 Installation https://glennsnead.wordpress.com/2016/02/28/ovirt-3-6-installation/ Importing Glance Images as oVirt Templates http://ovedou.blogspot.cz/2014/03/importing-glance-images-as-ovirt.html Up and Running with oVirt 3.6 and Gluster Storage http://www.ovirt.org/blog/2016/03/up-and-running-with-ovirt-3-6/ ApricityOS - Cinnamon Install and review https://youtu.be/i-02ksBS1UU [Video] oVirt 3.6 Networks and ISO Upload https://glennsnead.wordpress.com/2016/02/29/ovirt-3-6-networks-and-iso-up... -- Mikey Ariel Community Lead, oVirt www.ovirt.org "To be is to do" (Socrates) "To do is to be" (Jean-Paul Sartre) "Do be do be do" (Frank Sinatra) Mobile: +420-702-131-141 IRC: mariel / thatdocslady Twitter: @ThatDocsLady
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2020 Americans Will Vote Like French Citizens in Streets!
— Reality check, folks.
Feb 15, 2020·5 min read
First of all, America is a blatant oligarchy. Despite bravado from our politicians, worldwide indexes prove America is a “flawed democracy!” Moreover, the CIA’s Fact Sheet comparative rankings are pitiful!
Our 750 billion dollar military is strategically placed throughout the world. It is a well-oiled muscle-bound profit-making machine with over 800 military bases situated more for corporate privilege and advantage than it is need for protecting the American people. The politicians who maintain this are groomed, pedigreed and aged like wine by the two major political parties.
Simply ask yourself: Why do we need this when we’ve got expansive oceans east and west and friendly neighbors to the north and to the south? Worse, this military build-up exists at the peril of our own citizenry and is maintained only for sake of a privilege few.
Second, America’s power essentially operates with very well-protected oligarchs at the top. Under them are what I call Oligarch Protection Units (OPUs). They consist of highly-paid Ivy League consultant/lobbyist and institutional political operatives at the second tier; the presidency on the third level; Congress, governor seats and state legislatures function at the fourth layer; and the powerful media is fifth in importance and serves to hold it all together.
Since Reagan-Bush Democrats Have Been Back-Up Quarterbacks
In fact, throughout the Communications Age, America has seen right-wing rule politics ever since JFK was shot. Indeed, the power players — perhaps to cloak guilt — conceded the long-held JFK ideals of Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts. But that was about it. Pretty much it’s been all war, profiteering and suppression of the citizenry since he was killed, with the GOPwingers leading the way.
The media conveniently helped to define being a Democrat or a Republican as one’s position on god, gun and gay issues. Every now and then something like immigration would be thrown into the mix so citizens would get fired up within their respective boundaries and so one could better decide their party loyalties.
Economics, civil liberties, anti-war or pro-labor issues — ones historically critical for being a sound Democrat — became scantly emphasized, outright ignored or obfuscated. After all, using good cop (D) and bad cop (R) politics, money continues to rule politics. The sheep, at all costs, must be kept at bay by the OPUs.
Sadly, in the cause of oligarchy, once strong Democrats became weak Democrats — GOPwinger-Lite!
From 2010 onward, Democrats lost 1,200 elective offices and literally gave the presidency to Donald Trump in 2016. Why not? Hasn’t it been right-wing rule in America for a long time?
It got so bad that by 2016 the Democrats, who gradually shed their FDR-ideals, lost the US House and US Senate, 33 governor seats and 32 state legislatures (17 of which were veto-proof for GOPwingers)? Sure, they won the House back in 2018. But, overall, comparatively and seemingly a big deal, this effectively amounted to only a whoopie-doopie-do.
Russiagate, impeachment and imagery politics — instead of the true issues — were all the public got to absorb from the media. Right-wing rule continues to prevail, and the OPUs effectively serve to keep oligarchy behind the wheel of the Rolls Royce, this while poor folk don’t get to even drive cars either due to expense or because they’ve become orphans of the courts.
[Sidebar: One in 25 of those executed in America are innocent; one in 100 are in a jail system; one in 55 are on probation and 12% of all Americans hold felony convictions. You better believe the Drug War serves to reduce the voting pool making it easier for money to control the elections.]
For rank and file Democrats it’s important to ask: Which sway of political influence lost the presidency to Trump? Which sway of political influence lost all of those elective offices throughout the 20-teens?
The answer is obvious. The Obama-Biden-Clinton-Bloomberg wing of the Democratic Party. It’s finally time to realize that money Democrats will not beat the money Republicans — they’re one and the same! Examine America’s foreign policy and you’ll understand the narrative.
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Below is a YouTube clip highlighting excerpts from 30 years of Bernie Sanders speeches:
Yes, Bernie Sanders for years has been trying to come to our rescue. When you listen closely to his speeches over the past 30 years one can’t help but think of what the very great independent journalist I.F. Stone once said:
But Bernie is very much alive! In the 2020 election it’s time to be like the French in the streets with their yellow vests. But our duty, today, is at the ballot box. We need overwhelming numbers of citizens to participate in this election. Grab your friends and let’s finally, once and for all, beat back oligarchy and get back to the principles of FDR and JFK!
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iSeries at UK Drone Show 2016
Dec 10, 2016 Matthew Evans 0 Comments
The UK Drone Show last year was one that stuck in the minds of many - a great first successful Expo for the UKDS crew that also featured racing demonstrations. For those of us that took part we remember it as being the place with god-awful video - which plagued many in their battle to try and be crowned the winner! With that in mind, we all signed up anyway as the racing was great fun with the early days of Rotor-Racing being in control and the UKDS guys themselves sharing a huge passion for what is also our passion. For me, it was really the event I had been waiting all summer for - having had my quadversity setup now for many months I was yet to really put it through its paces in the outdoor events we'd flown at so far. Battling against rivals on the track, vendors and a Tiny Whoop track (as modelled on the simulator), with tons of vendor stalls and entertainment all round we were ready for an epic weekend.
Here's a sneak peek of the track, designed by Brett Collis. He's really made great use of the space in here, we got to fly it in the simulator as part of an online competition prior to the event as the usual sSeries (simulator series that goes hand in hand with iSeries), and the track flows amazingly with great features in it for such a small space. We were all looking forward to see how fast we could get our laptimes compared to the sim, it's always an interesting challenge, and one that I don't normally succeed in either!
Our home for the next was a dark one, with not much lighting we had to make the best of what we could.
Familiar faces joined us to provide commentary of the racing and keep the crowd entertained for the whole weekend - Niall Sheffield and Craig aka @DroneLondon. These guys are a great laugh and provide the entertainment that events sometimes miss, filling in the gaps where need be and providing some epic race commentary. We have made their lives a little easier this weekend as everyone is required to run colour-changeable LED's so that we have distinguishable colours per race.
First steps to racing in an environment was to set your camera settings correctly. It's safe to say running normal day settings leads to a very bad picture with all of the surrounding lighting completely blown out. I would like to see anyone get around the track fast on those settings, as it's really that bad. For those going to be flying in areas like this set your AGC to Off and you'll be amazed how much difference it makes. The gates turned from white blobs of mess to being able to visually see the triangular support pattern in the trussing, as well as allow it to be viewed in colour (also force the Camera to colour, switching introduces lag).
What better way to test camera settings than to test it on your face!
With check-in's done bright and early (though not so much in here) at 8am, we got straight into practicing after that before the doors were open to the public - the plan was to get 2 rounds of practice in followed by 5 rounds of qualifying rounds, whereby 2 of them would be dropped, leaving your remaining best 3 which scored us. Of the 40 pilots attending the UK Drone Show, only 16 were set to make it through to Sunday's racing, a tough order for everyone - consistency is certainly king in racing and that is no different here.
With the public now entering including some familiar faces (hello Simon of Airjacker!), many people brought with them their own set of goggles to both watch the racing for themselves but also give the public a view of what we see when racing.
For me, practice went pretty well. I got through both rounds OK and managed to complete 5 laps in each. Some of the pilots were hitting 7 and even 8 laps so I knew I had some catching up to do - but slow and steady was my plan right now - I'm not pushing I'm relearning the quad, learning the track and getting used to the environment. For others it meant hitting gates, crashing into the netting, and if you were unfortunate then it also meant landing upside down - meaning that was it for that round.
Getting stuck in the nets was a constant battle for some, as frustration set in. The course was slightly different in the simulator whereby the back corner after the straight section had the netting much closer than in the sim, and if you were unfortunate to not realise then it would easily catch you out. For this reason I like to spectate the first few rounds of the event regardless of who is flying, just to see the course from the goggles - as it always looks very different to just watching line of sight.
Round 1 qualifying passed by as a success, I had waited on the start line so long for everyone else to go (as did everyone else LOL), it meant I had a hefty 40 second lap or there abouts with some faster ones approaching as I got the flow of the course. It looks like I made a mistake part-way through which cost me nearly 10 seconds. I think on this lap I'd managed to miss-judge the Split-S and overshot it - going right back into the net. Somehow, I had only clipped the net and came tumbling down to the floor, bouncing around until finally landing upright! I then managed to carry on a little more, and hit a gate this time, throwing me around all on the floor. Amazingly, I had managed to land upright again, and with no RX or video antennas I carried on around the course for 2 more laps at times similar to Brett and Leo. Upon finding the quad I was a little gutted I'd done so many damage so early on, but that is the way it is sometimes.
I scrambled to get my quad ready for the next round, originally trying to re-cut the active lengths of the receiver antenna using some wire strippers, I ended up using a part of the tool that was meant for even thinner wires and just cut them off even more! With a new RX (oops, I had no spares) I was nearly ready to go but decided to run the backup in the mean time as I knew it worked.
Round 2 was a frustrating one for me, after hectically trying to find my quad ready for the next round I ran into further issues. As soon as I had gone through the first gate only 10 meters away I had near complete video loss, going further round ended up in complete loss. There was definitely something interfering on the channel which meant I had to sit out. I tried multiple times to take off but there was no picture at all, not on the big screen, not on my crazy quadversity groundstation, and not on the provided groundstations either. Grounded, you might say.
Others were experiencing other issues as well, seeing tiny whoops on their screen at times from the demo area on the other side of the show. We were surprised at how clear some of the picture was at times when our quads were not powered up, you could make everything out! Others, like this quad, found obstacles on the course that limited their flying times :)
Not only trussing, but the signposts on the gates were popular targets for our quads, munching through!
Opposite the pilot seating area and race control was a large screen with a great 4-way video where the audience could view the action and see exactly what kind of video we had to put up with. Everyone was extremely impressed with how well we managed to navigate the course considering how shocking the picture is. Truth be told is that when we have multipathing (the lines that go across the screen), we actually just get used to it because they are pretty consistent, and you can fly through it as if it isn't even there. The issues we get are when we get giant colour shifts or screen flickering, no matter how hard you are concentrating on the 2rd or 3rd gate ahead, it will always throw you off.
We had an 'interesting' article (to say the least) written about the racing - 'pale young men' was one of the comments that stands out to me, a rather derogatory and also racist comment (there was far worse in the article too). Anyway, I'd just like to point out some of us had tans, and we are all a close-knit community from all backgrounds and walks of life. Tan harder Marc!!!
Here's Leo and Aqil getting mentally prepared for their next race. We can seeing they're training hard, at least Leo is!
For my third qualifying run I knew I had to focus and really pull something out of the bag. I felt disappointed with how I was performing so far and knew I had way more to give but had many missed opportunities from silly mistakes and stuff that was just out of my control
Curse of the Tiny Whoop strikes again for some of the people trying to get their qualifying rounds in. To be honest, most of the time it was not an issue, we can only assume it was down to people bringing them to the show and not being on 25mW.
For me, I managed to focus and just stay smooth and consistent, bagging the laps where I needed. After landing I was greeted with the news that I'd managed to do 7 laps - 2 above my previous best - bumping me up to 5th place! I was now relatively secure in the top 16, but wanted to do the same again in my next run to get a feel for the track, each time we fly we get faster, so staying consistent is key. Not crashing out is not just important for these rounds, but for the ones ahead - every single lap completed is further skill development on that course as we get faster and faster!
Luckily for me, I'd managed to do what I had hoped again - a 7 lapper! I was still a relatively large amount of time behind Leo in the time it took to do those 7 laps (an extra 11 seconds), but I was at least on the same laps now!
With the qualifying finished we waited to hear the announcement of who would be flying tomorrow, while the rest were free to do whatever they wanted. I had made it into the top 16, and quite a way up the board. Others who had not made it into the final knockouts now got to enjoy the show, others went to go and fly around the local area and just enjoy the rest of their day.
With everyone feeling refreshed and ready to start, the quarter final groups were announced with Tom Smith (YEAHLAD!), Philip Trifunovic (Pboy) and Marc Booth (PaleAle) being in my groups it felt like another death group. Everyone is getting faster and faster, and so when we make it to the knockouts there's no real safe groups anymore, especially this one.
Each group was given one practice run before the knockouts started so that we were used to flying again after the 12 hour break, where I'd done the whole 7 laps again and felt confident going into the quarter finals. We were in the first of the quarter finals so I was glad to be able to get it out the way, just in case we did have any accident I'd have a good amount of time to fix the quad, but it also helps to stop build up the nerves when you are sat around waiting to see who goes through.
Now I'd found my mojo again, and was used to the backup quad, I did exactly the same I had been doing in my final qualification rounds - banking those laps. Tom Smith was ahead of my and my spotter had mentioned that the other 2 competitors had crashed out so again I was just banking the laps to get that all important track practice. Because two of us go through there's no point at all pushing here, you fly to the race pace.
Going into the semi-finals was a similar story to the quarter finals - death groups. I'd be placed with Brett Collis, Richard Whelan and James Bowles. I'd been spotting for Rich throughout qualifying and he had got some great battles in with James as they had been flying at the same pace so far throughout the competition. The initial start was not great for me, being last off the line I knew I had a lot of making up to do if I wanted to make it through to the finals. Going into the second lap I was still in last place but sitting comfortably behind Richard and James battling it out, waiting for that all-important gap to take. That was until they had a collision, which saw both of them crash out - Rich had managed to get back up but by that point he'd lost around 5 seconds off of the race pace. I continued on doing the same sort of laps I was doing before (though only managed to complete 6 this time after a slow first few laps), and made it through in second place with Brett 5 seconds ahead and Richard just 10 seconds behind me.
Somehow I'd made it. After a rocky first day and having a very rough few previous competitions (these things seem to happen in spouts), I was feeling pretty down about the whole racing thing, and wondering if I was still a good pilot or not. A string of bad luck can certainly get you down, and with a wake up call in the morning I'd decided to just go and have fun, something that sometimes can get missed when you're trying to win. The chilled out approach (and one that I had taken at many other events) was starting to work again, so going into the finals I didn't feel nervous or pressured, to me it was just going to be fun whatever happened.
With the other semi-finals taking place just after mine (I was lucky and got to go first again), me and Brett were now joined by Oli Peters and Leo Whitfield. Oli had some pretty unfortunate crashes throughout the weekend (as did others) and managed to break 2 of his own quads, and was now on his brothers backup (I believe Dan broke his own main quad too), which was very much untested!
Crowds filled the entire spectator section and around the screen to witness what should be the best race of the day with the fastest and most consistent pilots making it through, it was surely set to be a great race.
It was hard not to be nervous right about now going into the finals, whether I was trying to keep my cool or not. I was planning my own game plan of doing exactly what I had done so far, but a little bit faster. So, the camera angle was notched up a few more degrees in the hope that I'd pick up the pace a bit more, I felt a little limited on the previous runs by it, but I was also playing it safe to ensure I got through to where I wanted to be.
Here's my view from the finals and how the action went down.
If it wasn't clear from the video, I'd managed to take second place!! I had a bit of a slow start off the line again but just took my time on the first few laps getting into a rhythm, my first lap is always majorly slow and it was no different here. I was comfortably sat in third as Oli had crashed out on the first lap, and in just over 2 laps Leo had also crashed out, leaving just me and Brett left in it.
Warren (my spotter) just said to me "right push, its just you two left" - and that was my call to do what I'd been wanting to do all weekend - push! I never usually get the chance to, as I think racing always happens at about 80% of the speed you are comfortable with, so that you do not make any mistakes, but right here, I had nothing to lose. For the next 2 laps I had managed to shave around 3 seconds off of Brett and was within inches of him going into the Split-S where it appeared I was faster. Frustratingly in my 5th lap had a bit of a mess-up where I was a little too close to a gate and that had thrown me off, so I went back to the comfortable laps I was used to - albeit a bit quicker now with the increased camera angle!
And that was it, over the finish line with only 1.63 seconds in it, I'd managed to not only beat my own bad luck, hardware issues and frustrations, but come in 2nd place doing it. I really couldn't have been any happier about the position I had finished in, I was ecstatic. I also had absolutely no bad feelings towards Brett either who had managed to stay ahead the whole time, as we landed a mandatory fist bump came out and we could now chill!
I knew Brett had been gaining a ton of speed recently from his constant practice and was keeping up with Gary and Luke in their weekend sessions, which for me is a bit of a worry as I'd only just really caught him up. With the lack of practice due to weather, winter hours and broken quads the event was really a make or break for me in terms of sticking with it or just taking it easier next year. From now until the end of the show I held the biggest smile of everyone!
With the prize ceremony done early, we now moved on to the racing I was really looking forward to - the Connex Cup. As I mentioned right at the start, we all knew going into the racing that video issues would probably plague a few people, and would cost people races at the most crucial times, but that is just one of the things you put up with at the NEC in order to still have fun when it does go well. With Connex, we were hoping to finally be rid of that pain - tests out in the field and watching videos on YouTube had shown that multi-pathing was non-existent due to the digital transmission which blocked out any unwanted data - this was really a crucial part of the flying which should transform indoor events. There's obviously also the bonus that we'll be viewing video in at least 720i, upwards from the 480p we're used to.
Sadly none of us had the hardware for it, but HP+ has now just been released which is a combination of the "Performance" (HP) and "Quality" (HQ) mode which aims to fill the needs of everyone with having full Quality 720p video, but at the 60fps that Performance gives (HQ mode is only 30). I'm still super excited to see how this mode is, everything I've read so far seems to have no drawbacks, but sadly most of us had to run in HP mode, which is still good, but we lose some of the finer details. Still, it's better than analog regardless!!!
On the video wall there was not a single sign of breakup or multi-pathing around, it just looked insane!
On the plus note, Cinemizer had kindly given the organisers some sets of their OLED goggles of which I'd been testing for the 2 weeks prior to the event (and OH MY GOD they are amazing on the sim), these were fantastic to use and the picture quality of them is just insane. They do fog up if you haven't let them acclimatize, but putting them on your head for a few minutes before a race seemed to solve that issue pretty easily.
Here's some of my arguably rubbish flying around the track on my Connex setup. I was much slower than analog due to switching goggles, quad and transmitter - all of which are a big change. Most notably, I'd now learnt that the Turnigy Evolution sticks do not have enough tension compared to what I am used to on the Taranis and I had a tendency to overshoot every input I gave.
There's some weird stutter and signal issues that ruined the video for me - we think there were 2 issues going on here. I'd used Brett's DVR which apparently had some write issues to the memory stick (in the places where it completely skips a few frames), and the blotchyness appears to be from the new Beta antenna I was using. It was just me and Richard Whelan using this antenna (sadly he did not fly), but looking at the signal bar throughout the video we can see it drops. A little annoying, as the antenna was using the stock mount it comes with and it had a clear path to the receivers at all times, so I'll be reverting back to the original antenna for sure. Other people were getting better pictures strapping the bigger, original plates to their frame arms and battery.
However, regardless of the issues above, what a joy to fly. Many of the people who had flown earlier were now beating their lap times on their first rounds in digital - showing how much of a benefit it can be having clear video without having to dodge the issues when flying!
We didn't have a full tournament, but we did run 1 round of practice followed by 3 rounds of flying whereby whoever got the fastest/most laps in a single round was declared the winner - Brett won again!! :P
On behalf of all the pilots, thanks to everyone who took part, came to spectate and most importantly those guys who were organising it, doing the little odds and ends behind the scenes and everything else that made it into one of my favourite races of the year, closely behind Queens Cup! I sadly didn't get to see much of the rest of the show due to the constant racing (first world problems huh?), but it looked like it was a great one :)
Special thanks to Jon and Adam for taking up the role of race control without that much experience - we were a little worried going into it due to all of the challenges we faced at the NEC last time, but these guys did an absolutely awesome job and it was one of the most smooth-running events I've been to! I obviously have to thank Oli for believing in the racing community and allowing us to race again at Europe's largest drone expo, speaking with members of the public outside of the racing it's clear to see how people who do not even like racing sports quickly got hooked on watching the action.
Cheers to Julian Whitfield for the pictures again and Niall Sheffield for the cover photo, much appreciated :)
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Burlington, ON, Canada – July 21, 2015 – Astrix Networks Inc. (TSX-V: OEE), operating under the trade name Memex Automation, announces that it has officially changed its name to Memex Inc.
The name change will be effective for trading purposes on the TSXV commencing at the opening of trading on July 22, 2015. The common shares of the company will continue to trade under the operating symbol “OEE” following the name change. The existing share certificates issued under the former name of Astrix Networks Inc. will continue to represent common shares of the company under the new name, Memex Inc., and there is no need for shareholders to exchange their share certificates. However, if any shareholder wishes to exchange their share certificates for new share certificates issued under the new name Memex Inc., they can do so by contacting the company’s transfer agent Computershare Trust Company of Canada.
“Changing Astrix’s name to Memex was something that we had wanted to do for a while,” says David McPhail, President and CEO of Memex Inc. “Astrix has done business as Memex Automation for years and we are well known for that. We felt that the name ‘Memex Automation’ no longer fit quite right with the direction our business has been going in so we wanted a fresh start. Sticking with the Memex theme seemed only natural as most of our customers and prospects know and refer to us as Memex.”
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We talked with Michael Amott from Arch Enemy.
Metalhead Zone: Hello Michael. It’s a pleasure to have you for an interview again.
Amott: The pleasure is all mine, good to talk to you again!
Metalhead Zone: As Turkey’s most visited rock and metal portal, we did a poll last year. It was the ‘album of the year’ poll and Arch Enemy placed to the top! And of course you placed in number one again in another poll which is all about ‘most exciting band which is going to have a live show in Turkey this year’. Shortly, Turkish metal listeners are crazy for Arch Enemy and you fold all the headliners. Turkey loves you. Why do you think this is?
Amott: You can’t imagine how happy I am to hear that! That makes us very proud, to know that the Turkish metal fans have been enjoying Arch Enemy and our War Eternal album! I would think it is very difficult to explain exactly why people like certain music things, it is such a subjective experience with music and all forms of art. When I write songs and we put them together as a band we are not thinking about being successful, we are merely expressing ourselves as song writers and musicians. However, it is very gratifying and rewarding to know that we are reaching the hearts of fans around the world!!!
Metalhead Zone: Before our previous interview, it was a huge member change and Alissa White-Gluz has recruited the band. After a year with her, what do you want to say her effect on band? What did she bring to Arch Enemy?
Amott – Yes, the change in the lineup was a big challenge of course. But I also feel that the band is very much energized by this. In a way I can say that we have new blood in the band, but the heart and soul is the same as it always has been. Alissa has been very well accepted by our fans I feel. She’s definitely bringing a lot of energy and professionalism to the live show and I’m super happy with how much we have achieved together in a relatively short time. This is most definitely a new exciting chapter in the history of the band. I can’t wait to see what we will create together in the future!
Metalhead Zone: You recruited the famous progressive metal guitarist Jeff Loomis who’s known globally. Can you please tell us the first touch and joining process?
Amott: I’ve been friends with Jeff Loomis for 15 years and we’ve toured together in the past when he was doing the Nevermore band. It was a very easy process, just a phone call and that was it. There’s a great friendship there and we’re having a good time together, on and off stage!
Metalhead Zone: Fans are wondering something. We want to carry that to you directly. Turkish audience are wondering that can we see you on stage with Carcass just for one song on the fest? That would be awesome really!
Amott: That’s up to the Carcass guys, it’s their performance. If Jeff and Bill want me there, I’m ready to jam!
Metalhead Zone: I know it’s too early but I have to ask. We loved the last album War Eternal! With Alissa, it was very strong. After new recruit, when do you think to start a new album project with Jeff Loomis?
Amott: I’m glad to hear you enjoyed “War Eternal”! It has been a very popular album for us indeed. I have already written two new songs, they’re in a rough demo stage at the moment but it’s sounding very promising. You’re right though, it is a bit early to talk about a follow up to the “War Eternal” album… I also look forward to working with Jeff Loomis on some new ideas. At the moment we are focusing on the heavy touring schedule at the moment. Realistically, we’ll start working on a new album sometime in 2016.
Metalhead Zone: I’m gonna ask this one for just myself. I like your solo guitar technique to ‘baglama’ which is a cultural instrument for Turkish people. Do you have a curiosity for electro baglama or something else belongs east culture?
Amott: I have a curiosity for all kinds of music, especially if it involves String instruments. I actually really enjoy the sound of the electro baglama! I am not sure if it has been an influence on my playing though – but who knows? I am influenced by so many things and have taken inspiration from a lot of different kinds of cultures and their music.
Metalhead Zone: Do you have a ritual before the shows? Could be as a band or just alone.
Amott: Personally speaking I just stretch my body a little bit, make sure I’m warm and I also warm up on the guitar for a minimum of 30 minutes. As a band we do get together right before a performance and have a little moment with a secret “word” that gets us focused and ready.
Metalhead Zone: Last year in Turkey you had an unlucky situation with sound system. We think that it won’t be any hidden and silly agreements this time. These are all limiter facts and they are killing your music and our joy. What do you want to say?
Amott: I think everyone knows what happened at the concert last year. I lost all respect forever that day for the headlining act. To enforce such extreme limitations on the Arch Enemy show was very unfair towards the Turkish metal fans. This time will be a very different story!
Metalhead Zone: It’s gonna be awesome to see you again here. See ya!
Amott: Yes! We can’t wait to bring the REAL Arch Enemy show to Turkey this time!
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Virtual Fort Benning, McKenna Urban Operations Training Site
MetaVR VRSG aerial view of the environs around the virtual McKenna MOUT site at Fort Benning.
MetaVR VRSG real-time scene of virtual McKenna MOUT site at Fort Benning.
One of several urban warfare terrain databases MetaVR has built is the geospecific high-resolution virtual McKenna MOUT site. This virtual site was modeled after the actual McKenna MOUT site located at Fort Benning, GA, for use with Virtual Reality Scene Generator (VRSG).
The McKenna urban operations training center at Fort Benning uses MetaVR's 3D virtual replica of their facility for live training of soldiers. The McKenna MOUT site features an urban village that was built by Army engineers, which belongs to Fort Benning’s Soldier Battlelab. This site is primarily used for live, virtual and constructive experimentation on soldier systems, weapons, and equipment.
Using 0.30 meter high-resolution imagery of the MOUT area (4 km x 4 km), coupled with overall 1-meter imagery and 30-meter elevation data of the Fort Benning area, MetaVR extended the legacy geotypical virtual McKenna site to a 30 x 40 km 3D terrain area, using MetaVR's Terrain Tools for Esri® ArcGIS®. The Fort Benning terrain and virtual MOUT site are part of MetaVR's CONUS++ terrain.
The visual realism of MetaVR's 3D virtual replica of the urban warfare training area was enhanced by using GIS survey data for feature placement and digital photographs of the site to aid in geolocating geotypical vegetation.
As part of the visual fidelity enhancements to the database, the locations of buildings and roads within the virtual McKenna MOUT site area have been refined using survey data taken at the site. Survey points were brought into the VRSG environment via a cultural feature data file and were used as guides to adjust placement of cultural elements. The resulting terrain database represents the true real-world coordinates of these elements to within a 0.1 meter tolerance. This degree of correlation is vital for enabling visualization of real-time feeds of positional data by instrumented soldiers carrying out exercises in the urban warfare training site.
About the virtual McKenna MOUT site
Geospecific aerial photography imagery was used to replace the geotypical textures used on the original McKenna terrain. A key component of realistic urban warfare infantry training is traversing the avenues of approach to the town. The terrain includes 9,738 segment road and track network The geographic extents of the MetaVR database and the extensive tree lines around the McKenna site provide an environment for training soldiers how to approach urban centers undetected.
The buildings and trees were geo-located on the terrain to match the imagery. Buildings were placed visually by displaying survey data from the McKenna site as survey sphere objects in the database. The survey data taken from the site and provided by Fort Benning was put into cultural feature files with survey points mapped to survey sphere models.
About the models
MetaVR improved the original OpenFlight building models by enhancing their interior geometry and applying photospecific and photorealistic textures to the surfaces based on photographs of the buildings at the McKenna site. The 13 geolocated and photorealistic MOUT building models have radiosity (soft shadows) applied to the geometry to increase their realism.
The terrain also makes use of 103 streetscape and other cultural elements: barriers, tombstones, fences, manhole covers, 76-element power-line network with utility poles and street lights, and 1,510 geolocated geotypical volumetric trees of varying types.
Actual and simulated views of the McKenna MOUT site
In the following set of images, you can compare photographs of the actual McKenna site on the left with VRSG simulated view on the right. The models of buildings and other structures are photorealistic; the models were textured from a set of photographs of the McKenna training area.
Photos of the McKenna MOUT site
VRSG screen captures of the same scene
MetaVR’s virtual McKenna MOUT site at Fort Benning is available as part of the Southeast US region of CONUS++ 3D terrain, available to MetaVR customers who are on active VRSG software maintenance and are US Government agencies or contractors (for official use only). For US-domestic use only, not available for export. The terrain is provided in MetaVR's round-earth terrain format and will only run with a valid VRSG software license with valid software maintenance.
MetaVR 3D Terrain of Continental USA Plus Alaska and Hawaii (CONUS++)
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I’m A Celebrity 2020: Castle bosses hit back at claims that camp has central heating
Abbie BrayMonday 30 Nov 2020 5:41 pm
I’m A Celeb fans believe the campmates have central heating at the castle (Picture: ITV)
I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! has faced a number of changes this year – including swapping the Australian jungle for the Welsh countryside.
The star-studded line-up which includes the likes of Shane Richie, Vernon Kay and Beverley Callard have had to live in the cold and wet conditions at Gwrych Castle.
Despite the celebs having a wood fire on camp and hot water for a shower, some viewers have questioned how the celebs are keeping warm.
Some believe the campmates have central heating at the castle because sometimes they walk around in just a T-shirt and trousers.
Professional dancer AJ Pritchard also went to sleep in just in boxer shorts as he claimed ‘he got too hot’ in the night.
The celebs have been wearing T-shirts in the castle (Picture: ITV/REX)
Some viewers have questioned how they are keeping warm (Picture: ITV/REX)
Taking to Twitter, one viewer question whether the celebs have heaters.
They quizzed: ‘They must have space heaters somewhere cause my heating has been off for 10 mins and I’ve already got a blanket it’s the f**kin cold.’
Another tweeted: ‘There must be heating in that castle as no way they would be wearing such few clothes in a freezing cold, damp castle!’
Viewers think the celebs have heaters (Picture: ITV/REX)
While another added: ‘If there was no heating on @I’macelebrity then we would see their breath.’
‘Considering it’s nearly December. has the castle got central heating as they’re walking around in t-shirts and don’t look cold,’ a fourth asked.
However, following the claims, representatives for Gwrych Castle have since confirmed that there is no central heating, mains electricity or running water.
Gwrych Castle Preservation Trust, which runs the estate, explained that the celebs have no amenities at all.
‘There’s no central heating at the castle. It has no mains electricity or running water,’ a spokesperson told North Wales Live.
It comes after former winner Scarlett Moffatt said the 2020 campmates ‘have it easier’ compared to when she was in the jungle.
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‘It’s so stupid because even though we’re not in there anymore, I got so angry that they got hot water,’ the former Gogglebox star said.
‘I actually got prescribed a shower from Medic Bob! Because he was like “No, Scarlett you haven’t been in the shower for eight days now, you really need to go in! Or you will get rashes!” But it was just so cold.’
Metro.co.uk has reached out to ITV for comment.
I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! airs daily at 9pm on ITV.
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Home » Archive News In Brief » News In Brief 2020 » News in Brief Issue 06_2020 » First anniversary: Research Centre of Post-Mining of the THGA turns five – and is becoming increasingly complex
Fig. 1. Everyone should understand post-mining: Prof. Ulrich Paschedag, Head of the FZN, wants to explain the complex tasks simply. Bild 1. Jeder soll den Nachbergbau verstehen: Prof. Ulrich Paschedag, Leiter des FZN, will die vielschichtigen Aufgaben einfach erklären. Photo/Foto: THGA
in News in Brief Issue 06_2020 11. December 2020
The history of mining is long – but the history of post-mining will be much longer. For five years now the Research Center of Post-Mining (FZN) at the TH Georg Agricola University (THGA) in Bochum/Germany has been attending to the issues that emerge as mining activity ceases. As the world’s first institution, it takes a comprehensive look at the post-mining era. The scientists are examining not only the tasks that mine water or former mining areas leave behind. They are also developing modern monitoring methods, advising affected regions on the structural transformation and trying to preserve the industry culture.
“The challenges of post-mining are complex, that’s why we are also becoming increasingly complex”, says Prof. Ulrich Paschedag, Head of FZN (Figure 1). “Since October 2015 we have been pooling the necessary know-how to shape the consequences of mining in a technically, economically and environmentally friendly manner.” In the interdisciplinary team around 40 independent experts in mining, geology and geo-technology, hydrogeology, chemistry, electrical engineering, materials science, land development, mine surveying and economics, all work closely together. This is the core around which a broad network has been established, nationally and internationally.
In the beginning the focus was still on researching the so-called perpetual tasks of the coal mining industry, but the FZN has been expanding its focus to this day. From the integrative approach come the four research areas: perpetual tasks and mine water management, geomonitoring in post-mining, materials science for the preservation of the industrial heritage, as well as reactivation and transition.
The experts are currently developing the scientific bases for an ecologically and economically compatible mine water ascent. The experiences from other European territories, in which such processes have already taken place wholly or partly also help. “The mine water rise is technically controllable”, says Prof. Christian Melchers. “Now it is about designing sustainable water management systems within the closed mines. Only then can the water resources in the former mining landscapes be reshaped in a near-natural way”, states the expert. The findings can also be transferred to other mining activities such as lignite or the gas and oil industry.
In the future geomonitoring will be about monitoring the impacts of mining over the long term using modern technology. “For this we must skilfully connect lots of information – like with a puzzle”, states Prof. Tobias Rudolph describing his area of research. Satellite data, historical maps, soil samples or multispectral aerial views with the drone are used here. “From these we can draw conclusions, e. g., about soil changes and detect changes in the vegetation.” In close cooperation with materiaIs scientists at the German Mining Museum (DBM) in Bochum, new methods are also being developed at the THGA to slow down or ideally stop ageing processes. The post-mining experts are helping to preserve the industry culture such as old winding towers or blast furnaces.
The cutting-edge research in the area of post-mining is in demand worldwide. More and more countries are interested in a far-sighted approach for handling active and former mining sites. The knowledge from Bochum also helps to make future mining processes more environmentally friendly. The FZN is in constant dialogue with its many international partners. It will also remain challenging in the future. “We are concerned with highly complex questions and interrelationships that take place in locations that are frequently still difficult to access. Underground, e. g., in places most people have never been to, and which will soon become inaccessible to all of us”, says Prof. Paschedag. “This is the reason why we, as scientists, have to make a special effort to formulate our post-mining findings in a way that can be generally understood by everyone.”
(THGA/Si.)
Forschungszentrum Nachbergbau FZN Research Center of Post-Mining TH Georg Agricola THGA 2020-12-11
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January 7, 2021 TIME OF THE POET Uncategorized
Trotsky in the Amazon, a short story by Nick Gerrard, WordCity Monthly January 2021 Issue5
Trotsky in the Amazon
We had never been religious in our family, well there was one Uncle and Aunt who we hated visiting as they always dragged us along to Sunday school meetings. But I didn’t mind that in the end as I got off with Julie Clarke, the best looking girl; and she wasn’t religious at all as I found out in the cemetery after class.
In school one of the best lessons we had was Religious Education. And that was saying something as it was a crappy school; full of corporal punishment and depressed teachers, so mostly we just fucked around or fucked off to a mate’s house to wait out the day.
But for a change, in R.E we had a cool guy who taught us about ethics and about different religions; and when he started the sex class by writing ‘fucking, prick and cunt’ on the board we knew this was something to pay attention to.
He took us on trips to all the local religious centres around our way; Mosques, Synagogues, Hindu temples and even a Quaker meeting house. So, we learnt firsthand about these religions and how they did things. It didn’t make me want to be involved in any religion but it was interesting to know about them.
My mates who went to the Catholic school had a different experience. They had Catholic doctrine beaten into them by nuns and priests. And there were always stories around about fiddlers. So, we got off lightly I think. The Church of England was always a bit of a wimpy religion. All afternoon tea and crumpets and summer jamborees. Pretty harmless really.
When punk came around I was introduced to Anarchism; with its ideas on atheism and its agnostic stand-point. And I wrote anti-religious lyrics for our songs. So, after that I was pretty anti-religion and loved getting into arguments. We used to go to the students’ union in Manchester where there was always some god-botherer spouting fire and brimstone outside the Union building. We wound them up by first arguing about the bible and then by saying stuff like ‘The Romans had the right idea, throw you to the lions!’ and ‘If he comes back we will nail him up again!’ They got pretty red-faced about that one.
Then in 1990 I went to Brazil, I had become disillusioned with the politics I had been involved with for the last ten years or so, so fancied a change. I supposedly went to teach English but I mostly lived a hedonistic existence of booze, drugs, and parties
But two things affected me, both to do with religion.
One day I was walking down the street in Belem a city on the Amazon and saw a big crowd of people piling into a hall. I sauntered over and paid my ten Cruzeiros entrance fee. Inside I saw on stage a madman ranting and raving about Christ. He was American but shouted at the audience in perfect Portuguese, and around the walls stood other Americans looking like CIA agents; they were there to keep the peace. In front of this man was an audience of poor locals hanging on his every word and the gist of it was this; ‘You are all bad sinners, and you will all go to hell if you don’t give us your money!’ And unbelievably the people gave what little they had to these fraudsters. I tried to argue with some, telling them not to do it, but got lifted up by the CIA and thrown out the door.
The second religious encounter couldn’t have been more different.
I was teaching a class of some teacher who was sick. After the class this skinny dark-skinned young man came up to me. ‘I found what you said about our country interesting,’ I had been political, talking of the poor and how much I hated the president and that, and he said ‘But, do you know the real Brazil?’ ‘I think so; I’ve been to enough seedy bars in dodgy areas, so I think I know it pretty well.’
‘Do you want to see the real Brazil?’
‘Sure.’
So he gave me an address to go to where there was some gathering and then he promised me a trip or some such thing after.
I bounced up to the address on a late Saturday lunchtime to find that it was a Catholic seminary! After Umming and Arring outside for a bit, I smoked a fag then decided it would be a good experience to see what happens in these places, so rang the bell. Inside there was a party going on, loads of young people were dancing Lambada, the girl’s knickers visible as they twirled. And older , I found out later, teachers, writers and other intellectuals, stood around yapping away whilst swigging back the Caipirinha.
I was introduced to other young trainee priests and got stuck into the booze. They showed me around and in their simple rooms I saw their books; the bible of course, but also, Marx and Gramsci and even Trotsky…I mean Trotsky in the Amazon! Then the music was turned off and people started to give speeches. I understood the gist and Joao my student translated the rest. One after the other the intellectuals and the trainees gave anti government rants. Slagging off the authorities and arguing for action to help the poor and working classes. I was amazed… it was like being back home in a union meeting or a miners’ strike rally. They pointed the mike at me and in my broken Portuguese I said I loved Brazil and the people but hated the president. They cheered and slapped my back and poured me another drink.
But I wondered if this talk was all show by the church, just to gain favour with the poor as the evangelists had with their wrath at the unfaithful method.
After an hour or so they said ‘You ready to see the real Brazil now?’ Shit, I thought this was it!
‘Sure lead on!’
We got a lift in an old ford and pulled up outside a make-shift bar; corrugated iron walls and roof and various old tables and chairs and a freezer and football photos behind a wooden table kind of thing nailed onto two oil drums. We were near the edge of a Favela near the river. The place looked and felt dangerous and all talk stopped when we drew up. But as soon as the topless drinkers saw the two Trainee priests their spirits and friendliness rose. Backs were slapped, hands were shaken, and cold Antarctica beers were pulled from the freezer and plonked down in front of us on a hastily wiped Formica table. I was introduced and everyone shook my hand, from the druggy looking teenager to the pot-bellied guys in Bermudas. Even the dodgiest looking guys with moustaches who looked like guns for hire ventured over and shook my hand.
I could see these guys were respected and wondered why?
After a few beers we bid our farewells and were told to come back later for a farewell one. We ventured into the labyrinth of the Favela. Because of the river all the buildings were on stilts, built high in case of flooding. The two guys were welcomed at every turn. Some old women kissing their hands. We were welcomed into homes that had little in the way of furniture or anything else for that matter but were given cakes or bread and of course drink; beer or moonshine. The families and the guys chatted and I was questioned about the UK and what the hell was I doing here in Brazil? They really couldn’t understand why I would come here from Europe, I tried to tell them about the poverty and the fights of working people in Europe but they dismissed my stories with a wave of their hands.
We were shown a big wooden building and this I found out was a community workshop, where the locals made excellent furniture that was sold collectively. This had been set up by the trainees. The people showed me other projects with pride. Organic toilet blocks that had replaced the shed at the end of the plank from your hut where you shat from a great height into the street. The trainees had introduced compost toilets at ground level and this was helping to keep the place hygienic. I was impressed. I was introduced to a very dangerous looking man, with a 4-inch scar down his face and a pistol at his waist. He told me that the Trainees were welcome here, the police never came and if I hadn’t been with them I would have been stripped and running naked trying to escape by now. I grinned and said ‘Well, thanks for that, I suppose.’ We said our goodbyes and had a last farewell drink in the bar and left.
This was no religion as such, no preaching or asking for cash. The guys role they felt as priests was to fight for the poor. And that was why they were so respected by the people and hated by the hierarchy of the church. I found out more about these Marxist priests and found they had a long history in South America. Had been persecuted and hunted and murdered and often thrown out of the church.
I left Brazil but kept up a correspondence with Joao. He sent me a picture of a reed hut where he now lived after graduating. He was in the forest helping the Indians fight against the ranchers burning down the forest.
After two years I got no more correspondence.
Nick Gerrard is originally from Birmingham but now living in Olomouc where he writes, proof-reads and edits, (Abridged versions of the classics; like Hemingway and Orwell) and in between looking after his son Joe, edits and designs Jotters United Lit-zine. Nick has been at one time or another a Chef, activist, union organiser, punk rocker, teacher, traveller and Eco-lodge owner in Malawi and Czech.
His short stories, flash, poetry and essays have appeared in various magazines and books in print and online. Nick has three books published available on Amazon. His latest short novel, Punk Novelette is all about a group of friends growing up with punk in the 70s in the UK and the effect the movement had on their lives.
https://www.facebook.com/NickGerrardwriter/ https://twitter.com/nickcgerrard https://www.instagram.com/nickgerrardwriter/ https://www.amazon.com/Nick-Gerrard/e/B00CO434XK/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1
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Eden Capital Acquires Tour De Force Inc.
By PRNewswire On Oct 13, 2018
Eden Capital announced that it has acquired Tour de Force Inc., a growing provider of customer relationship management, sales force automation, business intelligence and business process optimization software solutions designed to help business-to-business sales organizations improve processes, from sales to support. Tour de Force will join Eden’s growing sales force automation platform, Compass Sales Solutions. Compass is a leading sales force automation provider for the office technology industry. Eden is a private equity firm focused on investments in sectors including software and business services.
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Tour de Force develops, sells, implements, and supports a suite of CRM and BI software solutions. Based in Findlay, OH, Tour de Force was built to offer a single view of customer data and information and deliver the insights businesses need to drive sales and improve customer relationships. While the product was originally designed and developed to address the many complexities of wholesale distribution, it offers an ideal solution for any business-to-business sales organization.
“Eden Capital is an ideal partner for Tour de Force given their experience and investments in vertical software and their commitment to our vision, our mission and our core values,” said Matt Hartman, Founder, President and CEO of Tour de Force. “Through this partnership, I am very excited to be a part of continuing to build the legacy of Tour de Force alongside the teams from Eden and Compass. Together, we will continue to create value for our mutual customers through providing innovative solutions that create more efficient and more effective sales organizations.”
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“We are excited to announce the acquisition of Tour de Force in our software platform,” said Dina Said, Managing Director of Eden. “Tour de Force’s leading position in its markets will enable the platform to continue growing both organically and through M&A. We look forward to working with management to capitalize on its success.”
Perkins Coie LLP served as legal advisor to Eden. Elm Park Capital provided debt financing for the transaction.
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The Asphalt Jungle (1950) Dir. John Husten
Posted by Martin J Frankson in Cinema, Review
cinema, Marilyn Monroe, movie, Noir, The Asphalt Jungle
There is probably little that is left unsaid about this movie out there in Internet land but tonight, I watched this amazing movie for the first time in years and I feel compelled to add my warble to the singing choirs of critics, both professional and perhaps armchair like myself.
The Asphalt Jungle is considered to be a classic of the genre of Film Noir and I do not disagree.
So what does Noir mean to me? It certainly means many things to many people.
Firstly, the aesthetics are the bait to a syberite of the senses like myself. The shabby glamour. The suits whose creases slowly succumb to crumple and crimson during the course of the story; party dresses that the dames forgot to change out off at the end of the night before, incongruous with the morning sun.
But that’s the thing; there is no day and there is no night in Noir. The inhabitants of Noir occupy a perpetual twilight that segues into a perpetual night.
Black and white. Shadow and light.
This a dualism incarnate. It’s a world where there is only good and evil. It’s land where we see its people scrabble around, flailing their legs and arms to better themselves with a quick ill-gotten buck obtained courtesy of Mssrs Colt, Smith or Wesson, only to be slowly but surely swept down the vortex of fate.
Noir is a world where there was no golden age. How oftendo people of a certain age fall into the reverie of returning to a post World War Two world, a world of no crime, narcotics, terrorism and where children obeyed their parents (Mom and Pop naturally) and front doors were strangers to lock and key.
A world where everyone was sure of their place and their purpose.
I guess all epochs need their Garden of Eden allegory. Humanity needs a narrative that tells of a time we lived in a land of milk and honey and through greed, envy or stupidity, was banished, cast from Paradise to wander in the darkness ever since, trying to find and recapture our lost idyll in the unlikliest of cornerswhatever that we may find ourselves in. The Paradise Lost, Eden narrative is perhaps the raison d’etre, the driving force behind our species.
Howeve, Noir shows us that no such Eden ever existed. Murder, rape, robbery, cheating and the whole gamut of human frailty is as well represented in whatever era of history we care to mention. The only difference is, technological advancements in communications and media spred light into the shadows of ignorance and more is exposed and exhibited to the world.
The past was a place were its dark secrets were swept under the carpet.
The Asphalt Jungle was made in 1950, just before the Eisenhower Presidency. The dawn of modernity as we know it today. America was on the cusp of unparalleled prosperty and political and military power in the world yet why was this era such fertile ground for such a genre?
Well, it may have been 1950 but as we know, social decades do not start on January 1st of a year ending in zero. America was still basquing in the dark afterglow of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, World War Two. Even the Great Depression, was only less than two decades ago at the time and its scars were very much visible and felt on the psyche of the nation.
Stylistically, The Asphalt Jungle belongs to the 1940’s, or even the last 1930’s. We meet a very young ingenue, Marilyn Monroe whose name does not feature on the opening credits. She plays the mistress of a sugar daddy, the seemingly wealthy big-shot lawyer Lon Emmerich whose lavish lifestyle indirectly sets the scene for his downfall. It’s a story of a heist that goes wrong. The story is well documented in other sites, notably Wikipedia but one aspect of the storyline which seems to be largely overlooked is that of one of the central characters Dix Handley (played by Sterling Hayden).
Dix plays a displaced farmboy from Kentucky whose family lost everything, their land, their farm and each other as a result of the Depression. He finds himself in the city, alone, dispossessed and disconnected. We already see the allegory of a lost idyll. Dix even speaks nostalgically about this at the very start.
Within the context of the Judeo-Christian tradition, this puts me in mind of the story of the fallen angels who rebelled against God and were cast forever from Heaven to spend eternity in the darkness, in a world which would never know the touch of the light of love again. Ditto for Adam and Eve cast from Eden. Many cultures and traditions have similar legends and tales.
Dix is in his version of Hell and dreams of making enough money to buy back the farm his father lost all those years ago. He is mortally wounded during the course of the heist but by hook and by crook, manages to drive the whole ten hours all the way from the city to the farm of his childhood, with the money to buy it back in his pocket.
But a rapidly expiring Dix collapses in the field and dies without ever fulfilling his dream.
Ok, he catches one final glimpse of his Heaven but he never had a chance to enter it. This is the ultimate message of the genre : whatever your Heaven is, you will never get there. You may think you will and you may even come as close to its gates but humanity has ain in-built self-destruct button and we just clutch defeat from the jaws of victory in the end.
Art does not exisit in a vacuum. It reflects society, its mores and values, its hopes and fears. Noir is a reflection of a society that while believing in struggle, planning and endevour, subconsciously does not believe that its trees will bear any fruit. It reflects a society that hopes for the best but doesn’t really expect it. Noir reflects a society that psychologically prefers to live in the shadows because if you live in the shadows, there is no light to go out.
Will Noir return as a force in mainsteam cinema? Perhaps not stylistically but in spirit, only if social, economic and political planets align in that form once again.
About Martin J Frankson
Crimewriter & noirista. Author of 'Two Shades of Darkness' on Kindle.
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2 thoughts on “The Asphalt Jungle (1950) Dir. John Husten”
Valerie said:
Great overview of film noir and fascinating analysis of ‘The Asphalt Jungle’. You’re an education! I like your use of heavy black font too. Your ‘self destruct button’ puts me in mind of Freud’s ‘death drive’. I’m going to have to go out for a walk in the sunshine now…
Martin J Frankson said:
Thank you for your remarks Valerie. I wasn’t aware of Freud’s “Death Drive” and that’s an interesting facet of human endeavour. Believe it or not, I too enjoy walks in the sunshine too despite my predilection for the genre!
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Your Past is Around the Corner: A Review of Annex Theater’s “Insurrection: Holding History”
If you want to see a play that forces you to think about how the past influences the present, Robert O’Hara’s Insurrection: Holding History, is a must-see. O’Hara, who wrote the play as his graduate thesis, explores themes of ancestry, race, and sexuality.
Ron (right) drives T.J. (left) home. Mutha Wit takes the backseat. (Photo courtesy of Annex Theater)
The play follows Ron (Nathan Steven Couser), a 25-year-old Columbia University doctoral history candidate who is finishing his thesis paper about Nat Turner’s rebellion. Accompanying the central character is his immobile, non-speaking 189-year-old great grandfather, T.J. (Dominic Gladden), who is a former slave. Ron is able to communicate with his grandfather through Mutha Wit (Anna Brown), who is an extension of T.J.’s psyche. Through Mutha Wit, we hear T.J. thoughts and his conversations with his great grandson. After celebrating his 189th birthday, T.J. tells his grandson to take him home.
What better way to get material for your looming thesis paper deadline than to travel with your grandfather to the slave plantation where he lived in Southampton, Virginia? Initially, the play reminds me of Octavia Butler’s Kindred (for those of you who haven’t read the novel, the protagonist is transplanted into slavery times). Although the play’s subject matter can be heavy and dark, especially the scene when the Black overseer (Kalid Bilal) forces both Izzie Mae (Terena McLorn) and Ron to strip in order to beat them, there are comical scenes. The musical dance break that the slaves perform when they discover the master’s dead body is hilarious.
“Yeah! Oh, he’s dead,” the slaves sing gleefully while an image of a cotton plantation is projected on the wall.
And you can’t have a play about slavery and not include the slave owner’s wife. S. Ann Johnson plays Mistress Mo’Tel superbly. There is Katie Lynn (Rachel Reckling), the house slave who cares for Mistress Mo’Tel’s baby, Wretched Jr. (and even that has a twist). Buck Naked (Dave Iden) is the lone White indentured servant who is treated no better than his Black counterparts.
Nat Turner (front) during a rousing sermon. Buck Naked (middle) and Mutha (far left) listen. (Photo courtesy of Annex Theater)
Another aspect of the play is the role of religion. We see Nat Turner (Kalid Bilal), who claims he is a prophet and values the Bible; yet, he is able to justify brutally killing Whites. As Ron watches the brutality of the reality that surrounds him, he asks his grandfather does he believe in God. Fervently, the grandfather tells his grandson, “You are the proof. Slavery ends.”
As a viewer, the play challenges the notion that history is not connected to the present. O’Hara seems to suggest that life is a continuation of experiences that are rooted in the past. As T.J. puts it to Ron, “You wake up every morning breathing the air that Nat Turner fought for you to breathe and you sleep every night with no fear ’cause that crazy nigga shouted out at the moon asking his God for a way through this trouble.”
Insurrection also examines the quest for an individual to find his purpose. The question that Hammet (Kenyon Parson), Nat Turner’s right-hand man, asks Ron is a poignant one: “You ain’t got something you willing to die for?”
Insurrection runs through October 25th at the Annex Theater (219 Park Ave, Baltimore, MD). The play is directed by Kyle Jackson. Tickets are $15.00 (general admission) and $7.00 (students). Visit Annex Theater website for more information at http://www.baltimoreannextheater.org.
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Preview: Sounders look to quiet explosive Quakes at CenturyLink
SEATTLE SOUNDERS FC vs SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES
CENTURYLINK FIELD, Seattle, Wash.
March 31, 2012 (WEEK 4, MLS Game #32)
7 p.m. PT (KONG/KOMO; CSN-BA)
Two clubs coming off big victories meet for the first time this season when Seattle Sounders FC play host to the San Jose Earthquakes at CenturyLink Field. Sounders FC have won both of their league starts this season, both at home, after a 2-0 defeat of the Houston Dynamo last weekend. The Quakes went on the road for the first time in 2012 last weekend and came away from Toronto FC with an impressive 3-0 victory.
REFEREE: Mark Kadlecik. SAR (bench): Ian Anderson; JAR (opposite): James Conlee; 4th: Ramon Hernandez
MLS Career: 16 games; FC/gm: 24.0; Y/gm: 3.3; R: 5; pens: 5
INJURY REPORT:
SEATTLE SOUNDERS FC - OUT: GK Josh Ford (knee pain); DF Andrew Duran (knee surgery); DF Michael Tetteh (hamstring); MF Mauro Rosales (knee injury); MF Steve Zakuani (leg fracture); DOUBTFUL: FW Eddie Johnson (hip injury); QUESTIONABLE: DF Adam Johansson (hamstring)
SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES -- OUT: MF Joey Gjertsen (R knee surgery); DF Tim Ward (L non-specific soft tissue injury); DOUBTFUL: MF Sercan Guvenisik (R hip flexor strain); QUESTIONABLE: MF Marvin Chavez (concussion)
SUSPENDED: none
Seattle looking forward to Chelsea friendly
ALL-TIME (7 meetings): Sounders FC 4 wins, 9 goals ... Earthquakes 2 wins, 9 goals ... Ties 1
AT SEATTLE (4 meetings): Sounders FC 3 wins, 6 goals ... Earthquakes 1 win, 3 goals ... Ties 0
RETURN MATCHES: 8/11: San Jose Earthquakes vs. Seattle Sounders FC, 7:30 p.m. PT; Seattle Sounders FC vs. San Jose Earthquakes, 7 p.m. PT
LAST YEAR (MLS):
4/2: SJ 2, SEA 2 (Dawkins 32; Stephenson 52 - Evans 17; White 42)
10/15: SEA 2, SJ 1 (Ochoa 82; Montero 87 - Wondolowski 24)
Sounders FC have come away with points on each of their last two visits to Buck Shaw Stadium, the 2-2 draw last year following a 1-0 Seattle win in 2011.
The Quakes came away from Seattle with their lone away win in the series in 2011, a 1-0 victory.
Coaches record: Sigi Schmid vs. SJ: P27 W14 L8 D5 ... Frank Yallop vs. SEA: P7 W2 L4 D1
Seattle Sounders FC made it two wins on the trot to start their 2012 season, knocking off the Houston Dynamo 2-0 on Friday evening at CenturyLink Field. Sounders FC are in a four-way tie for second place in the Western Conference with 6 points from 2 games.
Sounders FC grabbed control of the match with two goals in a five-minute span. In the 23rd minute, a corner kick was headed outside the area to where David Estrada waited. His long-range blast deflected off Dynamo defender Geoff Cameron on its way into the net, leaving goalkeeper Tally Hall with no chance.
Cameron's nightmare continued three minutes later when referee Balmodero Toledo whistled the Dynamo center back for undercutting Patrick Ianni during a Seattle corner kick. Brad Evans converted the resulting penalty to put Seattle ahead 2-0.
Sounders FC head coach Sigi Schmid made two changes to the team that took a 3-1 win against Toronto FC at CenturyLink Field. Zach Scott came into the back four for Adam Johansson, and Roger Levesque started in place of Mauro Rosales.
SEATTLE SOUNDERS FC (4-4-2): Michael Gspurning - Zach Scott, Patrick Ianni, Jhon Kennedy Hurtado, Marc Burch - Roger Levesque (Leo Gonzalez 81), Brad Evans (Servando Carrasco 61), Osvaldo Alonso, Alvaro Fernandez - Fredy Montero (Christian Sivebaek 90), David Estrada.
Sounders Scouting Report: San Jose
Sounders FC have won their first two games in a season for the first time since beginning their MLS career with a pair of victories in their inaugural season of 2009.
"Getting to start the season with three home games is huge for us," defender Zach Scott said. "If we can get nine points out of them, it distances us from the rest of the league and as we start to hit more road games, it's definitely going to give us that little cushion."
David Estrada regained the MLS lead with his fourth goal of the season in the win vs. Houston. Estrada has five goals in all competitions already this season.
"It's going good. When it's going good it's going good, so you can shoot on goal and get a little bit of a deflection and score a goal. But he did well. You get rewarded when you work really hard," said Sounders FC head coach Sigi Schmid. Said Estrada: "I was a little bit bummed when I came in at halftime and heard it was an own goal, but thankfully they reviewed it and gave it to me. I'll take it."
Goalkeeper Michael Gspurning kept his first clean sheet in a competitive match since joining Seattle.
"You always want to get shutouts. We talk about it. We talk about making sure we don't allow anything because we always feel confident that we're going to be able to score a goal," Schmid said. "But it's not like, 'shutout-or-bust'. It's not that kind of an attitude."
Already facing a few injuries, there was another concern when Brad Evans was forced off after an hour.
"He felt his hamstring a little bit, so he wanted to get off the field before he would make it worse," Schmid said. "I thought early in the game he made a lot of big runs for us getting into the box and was dangerous for us in that way and that might have been a little too much."
With Mauro Rosales suffering a knee injury the week before, Roger Levesque took his place on the wing. "We've got to see how guys recover from injuries right now, where we're at, how the matchups look for us. As we play San Jose we'll take a look."
Striker Eddie Johnson has returned to full training for the first time since suffering a hip flexor strain in the March 14 CONCACAF Champions League game against Santos Laguna.
"Eddie is definitely coming along," Schmid said. "We want to be careful because we felt maybe we pushed him in a little too quickly last time. We think he's getting closer. He participated full out in training today so we anticipate he'll be able to go full out again on Wednesday, and then we'll have to decide about this weekend. It might be a little bit too soon."
The San Jose Earthquakes went on the road for the first time in 2012 and came away with an impressive victory, rolling to a 3-0 win against Toronto FC at BMO Field. The Quakes sit in a four-way tie for second place in the Western Conference with 6 points from 3 games.
The Earthquakes led after just nine minutes. Sam Cronin hooked in a cross from beyond the corner of the area on the left, and the ball hung up in the wind long enough for Chris Wondolowski to nod home inside Milos Kocic's left-hand post.
San Jose doubled their lead nine minutes into the second half. Defender Steven Beitashour raced down the right side into open space and laid the ball wide for midfielder Marvin Chavez. He made one quick touch across the box to Shea Salinas, who fired a left-footed strike into the left corner.
Just 12 minutes later, the Quakes were at it again with another flowing movement. Midfielder Rafael Baca drew Kocic out of the net towards him before passing to his left to a wide-open Wondolowski, who dug the ball out of his feet before slotting into the empty net.
SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES (4-3-1-2): Jon Busch - Steven Beitashour, Justin Morrow, Victor Bernardez, Ramiro Corrales - Marvin Chavez (Khari Stephenson 72), Sam Cronin, Shea Salinas (Simon Dawkins 85) - Tressor Moreno (Rafael Baca 57) - Steven Lenhart, Chris Wondolowski.
HIGHLIGHTS: SJ rout the Reds
San Jose's 3-0 win at Toronto FC was the club's biggest win on the road since a 3-0 victory in Dallas on Aug. 13, 2003.
"We got the win, which is much-needed," Sam Cronin said. "It's our first road win of the year, which is big for us. We wanted to set the impression, continue it next week in Seattle and this whole season, [to] be a tough team to play on the road."
Through the first three games this season, the only goal the Quakes have allowed has come through a penalty kick in the 1-0 loss to Houston.
"We came in trying to get behind their back four and we accomplished that quite a few times especially in the second half. It's nice to see what you work all week in practice come out in the game. Our back four and defensive unit as a group, didn't give up any clear-cut chances," Quakes head coach Frank Yallop said. "In the second half Toronto had quite a good spell of pressure but it was nice to break on and score the second goal to see the game off."
Chris Wondolowski scored twice vs. Toronto FC, and is now one off the league lead with three goals. He has recorded seven multiple-goal games since the start of 2010.
"He scored two last week and he can just sniff out the chances and is very clean with his finishes on any surface," said Yallop. "Whether it be heading it, driving it, tucking it, whatever he needs to do he scores."
Wondolowski has continued his role as the linchpin of the Quakes attack, with three of the club's four goals this season. Over the 2010 and 2011 seasons, Wondolowski scored 34 of San Jose's 74 goals total. At 45.9% of the team's output, only one other player in MLS history has a higher percentage of a team's goals over a two-year span: Carlos Ruiz, from 2002-03 for the LA Galaxy (49.4%, 39 of 79 total goals).
Cronin recorded assists on the first and third San Jose goals, his first multiple-assist game as a professional. It came against the club that selected him in the 2009 SuperDraft.
"I think that's a huge, underrated part of Sam's game," Chris Wondolowski said. "He does a great job of covering so much ground and tackling, it kind of goes unnoticed how good his passing is. He put it on a platter for me on the first goal, and he's got great vision to see Rafa going through and have that chipped ball."
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Kim Kardashian Mourns 'Shameful' Execution Of Brandon Bernard: 'Our System Is So F**ked'
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Kim Kardashian West took to Twitter Thursday evening to deliver the sad news of Brandon Bernard’s execution. After penning a series of candid and emotional tweets chronicling his last moments, as well as championing a campaign to appeal the death penalty, the reality TV personality (and a team of lawyers) were ultimately unsuccessful in their pursuits.
The KUWTK’s star tweeted last night:
“I’m so messed up right now. They killed Brandon. He was such a reformed person. So hopeful and positive until the end. More importantly he is sorry, so sorry for the hurt and pain he has caused others.”
The Associated Press reported the 40-year-old’s passing at 9:27 p.m. Thursday.
For those who might need a refresher, Bernard was convicted of double murder and robbery in 1999 (when he was only 18) and has since served 20 years in prison. Last week, lawyers requested Donald Trump reduce his sentence to life in prison. They believed his good behavior should have qualified him for an easier sentencing, as well as the fact that three of the five jurors who originally sentenced Bernard regretted their death penalty decision.
Through Kim’s fight to stop the execution, she urged followers to tweet Trump in hopes the outcry of support might influence him to stop or delay the federal execution, a law which he brought back to life after a 17-year hiatus.
Ultimately, the President, as well as additional judges, denied the request. Kim made note to highlight Thursday’s ironic national holiday as well, writing an hour before Brandon’s death:
“It’s #HumanRightsDay and here in the United States we are executing someone who was 18 at the time of the crime, was not the shooter and has rehabilitated himself. So shameful.”
What’s even more difficult to hear are the personal details of Brandon’s last phone call with the criminal justice podcast host, which she described as “the hardest call I’ve ever had.” The KUWTK alum explained:
“When he told me he’s claustrophobic and they offered to give him a shot of Sedative to calm him down before they put him in the chair and he just didn’t want to panic, I literally lost it. I had to mute my phone so he wouldn’t hear me cry like that.”
She later received a phone call from his attorney, in which Bernard made reference to his earlier conversation with Kim, saying:
“Brandon said he loves you and wants to say thank you again. He said he doesn’t feel too claustrophobic in the chair.”
Our hearts are breaking reading this. While it’s incredibly important all victims of a heinous crime such as this double murder get justice, Kim’s stance on federal executions couldn’t be clearer:
“I stand by what I have always said, I can empathize and feel pain for the victims and their families. Killing Brandon will not bring them back and I believe in my heart of hearts killing him isn’t right. What Brandon did was wrong, but killing him won’t make things right.”
She concluded:
“I could go on and on about what an amazing person Brandon was. I do know he left this earth feeling supported and loved and at peace. This just has to change: our system is so f**ked up.”
It does seem Brandon had understood the wrong-doings of his past and had grown to become a better man. His last words to young people? Stay away from “the wrong crowd.”
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Inside the mysterious world of the microfinance agents
October 13, 2010 · by m rajshekhar
this is the draft of a story on microfinance agents that never got published. i could not conclusively prove the existence of these microfinance agents. but it is an interesting read nonetheless, on how the informal economy subverts the formal sector’s best laid plans. take a look.
In xx, while auditing the books of an Indian microfinance institution (MFI), Deepak Alok, partner at a microfinance portfolio-auditing firm called m2i from Gurgaon, noticed something intriguing. Locals — rickshaw pullers, small-time politicians, husbands of MFI clients, etc — were bringing it clients in return for a commission. Some of these clients were genuine. Women who needed loans but lived in villages the MFI did not cover.
Others, however, were borrowers who needed larger loans of Rs 1 lakh or so but could not get those from the formal banking channel. Consequently, they were approaching these intermediaries. Who, in turn, would present this loan to the MFI as Rs 10,000 loans for 10 women. The women would fill out the form and furnish documents for verification. In return, they would get Rs 500 up front for filling the form out and another Rs 10 every week for attending the MFI-mandated weekly meetings. But the repayment itself would be done by the final borrower, via the agent.
That is one vignette from the world of the microfinance agents. The folks who have been in the news over the past few days, getting blamed for harassing microfinance borrowers in Andhra Pradesh to a point of such desperation that 30 (and counting) of them killed themselves.
There’s is a shadowy, little-glimpsed world. The agents rarely crop up in popular discussions about MFIs. And yet, operating at the intersection between the MFIs and their borrowers, they can be powerful forces. Large agents command enough clout to be able to direct women borrowers to stop repayments. They can redirect their loans to others. Needless to say, every time a loan is redirected, there is a failure of KYC norms with cascading implications for the MFI and the bank. Not knowing who got the loan, they cannot follow up in the case of a default. Then, as recent events in Andhra Pradesh show, agents’ egregious conduct can land MFIs in the dock.
Remember Kolar where MFIs took a collective hit of Rs 60 crore after the local Anjuman Committee issued a fatwa barring women from transacting with MFIs? That was due to the agents. Or take Lucknow, in late-2008, agents were responsible for another microfinance NGO, Nirman Bharati, almost shutting down.
For all that, not too much is known about the agents. Who are they? Are they an isolated phenomenon or are they more widely spread? What are the implications for the MFIs and the banks whose money is at stake?
Inside the microfinance industry, opinions are divided. Most say that the agents are nowhere as pressing a problem as the multiple loans borrowers are stacking up (see “Quest for fast growth lands India’s microfinance institutions in soup”, 8 March, 2010, Economic Times). Others say the agents are a more serious problem than that.
To find out more, the Economic Times spent two weeks on their trail. At this time, two points seem to be fairly evident. One, while more studies are needed to quantify individual MFIs’ exposure to agents, the structural reasons responsible for their entry into microfinance are widespread.– which includes the MFIs’ disregard for financial prudence in their search for growth and valuations.
A closer look at the agents
In the MFI model, women are formed into joint liability groups of five or so members each. Each group is headed by a group leader. A bunch of these groups combine to constitute a centre. Which in turn is headed by one member who is appointed centre leader. A collections meeting is held every week, where the women have to sit in queues corresponding to their groups. the MFI’s centre manager arrives, the women recite the oath, and then the centre leader and the centre manager collect instalments from every woman.
It is this model that is being distorted.
1. The field staff starts charging commissions from the borrowers. on the whole, says an SKS ex-employee, s/he might walk off with as much as Rs 1,000/2,000 from a Rs 10,000 loan.
2. The centre leader, usually a more affluent woman, uses her position to hold on to some of the borrowers’ loans. If she oversees, say, 8-10 groups (about 40-50 women), she retains and uses a part of the overall loan portfolio — for consumption, or to put into her own business. While the loans continue to be in the names of the members, the centre leader makes the repayments.
For this to happen, the field executive and the branch manager have to outsource the responsibility for disbursing and collecting money to the centre leader. She then decides whom to lend to.
3. In a third model, an community member — a shopkeeper, a local bigwig, a rickshaw puller, etc — offers to supply borrowers to the MFI. Over time, he becomes the local point person, and all the MFI’s work is done through him. He does the lending and he does the recollections. He might lend to the women. Or he might take their names on the application forms but lend to someone else.
There are some larger points to be made here. It is in the interest of the agent to keep the repayments on track. He/She stands to lose if the arrangement collapses. Also, the fact that agents are doing the onlending need not be bad per se. They know the market, and can customise loans far better than the MFIs – they might lend anywhere between 2000 to 200,000 to a borrower, offer flexible repayment schedules, all the while ingeniously ensuring weekly repayments are on schedule. Until, of course, an external shock throws all calculations awry.
Which is what happened in Kolar. Accrding to an MCril report on the crisis, a local agent called Sardar Khan had taken a loan in the name of 20-25 local women, and onlent it further. When he failed to repay, the MFI staff went after these women. Who in turn told Khan to pay up. In the heat of the moment, he drank poison, landed in hospital, his friends complained to the local Anjuman Committee, which issued a fatwa banning any business with MFIs.
4. The fourth model is more predatory. Here, a local political agent steps in as a local intermediary. In this case, he becomes the local agent with the intent of converting the loans into political capital. Says Mohammad Anas, a microfinance ex-employee of both SKS and Spandana: “at times some commission agents become so dominant in certain pockets that we are bound to avoid that area for the time being.”
Also, the second, third and fourth model make the branch manager very dependent on the agent. Says a Lucknow-based exemployee of SKS Microfinance, “While the MFI model is built on spreading risk across a bunch of people, here, one member carries disproportionate risk.”
The balance of power here is in the agent’s favour. If the agent leaves, the MFI will not know who its final clients were. Nor would the clients know who the MFI is – because if the MFI tries to promote itself in the village/locality, it will alienate its agent. Also, if another MFI comes in, the agent can play the two against each other. Or start representing it as well. The branch staff of the first MFI will rarely be in a position to object. Also, if the agent is not able to keep the repayments coming, the branch staff is likely to advance him/her a fresh loan to avoid a default which would expose the distortion.
All this has further implications. Says rural finance practitioner Ramesh Arunachalam, “Microfinance is a large number of small loans, disbursed in remote areas, built around weekly transactions. In all, there is a lot of cash involved. Further, once agents come in, there are no checks and balances. For that reason, they have a perfect setting in which to run all sorts of frauds. It is all a recipe for disaster.”
The bigger question is about the extent of the problem.
Omnipresent agents. Weak systems. Weak communities.
In the first place, it is incontrovertible that agents themselves are around. External interventions in Bharat– by companies and government – are surrounded by tens of thousands of people looking for ways to turn that intervention into private gain. It doesn’t help that the interventions themselves, always conceptualised with scale in mind, are rigid hierarchical structures with slow response times. Between the two, subversion is inevitable. Be it the village elite trying to get family members into position of power – as an anganwadi worker, into the panchayat. Or a farmer pushing bad stocks into the government’s procurement system by bribing the buying agent (who too is looking for his own ways to maximise his overall fitness).
Here too, the agents illustrate some of the lesser-known ways in which communities are responding to microfinance. There are others. In ‘Multiple Meanings of Money’, Smita Premchander talks about how women in her study site of Koppal, Karnataka, are unilaterally dissolving and recombining as new groups – along risk profile, risk appetite, neighbourhood, caste, etc. Working on this story, ET heard stories about field staff running off with cash.
What makes their presence even more incontrovertible is the fact that it is easy for them to spot the microfinance opportunity. One kind of agent, says Anas, “takes shape while the women are filling out their forms. He might be the son of one of the women or the husband of a centre leader. He helps them with the forms, perhaps runs around a bit and gets the photocopies, etc, arranged.” In return, the women voluntarily pay him some fee, and an idea takes root. “His brain clicks”, says Anas, “This is a good way to make money, and he starts looking for more groups to form.”
Others might see the model at work, contact a bunch of women living in the next gali, etc, who need loans but have no MFI, and puts them in touch with the MFI in return for a commission. Next, those seeking larger loans approach him, and the misrepresentation starts.
It is interesting. This intersection between the formal and the informal economy. The smaller agents lead lives of quiet desperation. Says Alok: “If the borrower defaults, the MFI will contact the women. And then, they will point him to the agent. Who will probably get hauled off to the police.”
The bigger agents raise questions about the utility of microfinance itself. They thrive on patronage. Which translates into a complete negation of what microfinance stood for. Lenin Raghuvanshi, founder and executive director of Peoples’ Vigilance Committee on Human Rights, who works with the beleaguered weavers of banaras, says communities such as these are structurally marginalised. To ensure repayment, MFIs are tying up with local Dabanng characters. “But if an MFI ties up with the local elite to disburse funds, isn’t it getting coopted into the existing semi-feudal society?” If so, what kind of qualitative change in the lives of its clients can it possibly bring about?
Says Mukul Jaiswal, managing director, Cashpor Micro Credit, “Wherever there is money, there will be agents.” The question is: under what conditions, do agents enter the microfinance business?
One. When the MFI’s systems are weak. Which happens either because it is trying to grow fast, and its systems cannot keep up. Or because competition is forcing its staff to cut corners.
Take Banaras. The city, says Anupam Tiwari, who moved from Cashpor to head the Rickshaw Sangh, a Banaras-based cooperative for rickshaw-pullers, has 12-13 large MFIs. This is quite a change from even 5 years ago when there was just Cashpor working here. As a result, he says, MFIs are competing to add borrowers. They are said to be giving cash bonuses for every new borrower a staff member brings in. In the process, several norms essential for running an MFI smoothly are being given the go by — client identification, training, group formation.
Also, agents come up most easily in areas where social relations are weak. As Jaiswal says, in a village, where people know each other, it will be stigma if the villagers figure that one of their own has been cheating others (or taking a commission that was never theirs to begin with). In the cities, less so. They belong to migrants. Fellow feeling is lower. That said, even inside the cities, there is a continuum. he says, “Multi-ethnic communities do not have great fellow feeling. Communities of a single caste/clan/ religion, etc, are more cohesive. Similarly, groups of members who live nearby form bonds that do not revolve only around the group meetings. these are stronger relationships.”
What parts of india correspond to these conditions? According to Manoj Kumar, xx, Spandana, the agents are a large problem in the cities. In Hooghley, disbursement itself has stopped.”
What is the best way to fix this?
These days, whenever an MFI hears about an agent, it stops all disbursments, and starts talking to borrowers, asking them to repay only to the MFI. The problem with this approach says Akhilesh xx, Microsave, is that getting the money back is very hard. This is because of two reasons, says Ramesh Arunachalam, a rural finance professional. One, because the women are promised a second larger loan if they repay. If there is no second loan coming in, they lose all incentive to repay. Two, when a community is steadily getting loans from the MFI, it is easier for the women to even borrow from each other to repay. When the loans dry up, it gets harder.
Instead of chasing defaulters, say sources, MFIs seem to be keeping one foot firmly on the gas pedal. That way, the proportion of portfolio at risk will never rise beyond 1% (defaults are roughly calculated as ‘total outstanding of past due loans’ divided by ‘total portfolio outstanding’). Says Alok Misra, director, rating and research, Micro-Credit Ratings International, “Even if they lose Rs 50 cr, that is nothing compared to their 5,000 crore balance sheet.”
This approach is problematic. Partly because the larger MFIs cannot possibly keep doubling every year to keep their PAR (portfolio at risk) low. An SKS has 7.3 million borrowers. And Spandana has 4.95 million.
And partly because 99% repayment itself is something of a chimera. Says the Lucknow banker: “Why should repayment be higher here than in credit cards or auto? Even if the loans are not taken with the intent to default, there will be environmental/seasonal factors that result in a default occassionally.” Indeed, every household has an absorption capacity for loans – the amount that their existing cash flows will enable them to repay. In the old days, families would borrow during emergencies and repay from these cash flows.
Now, the gush of microfinance seems to be changing that pattern. Partly because it has enabled households to borrow well in advance of any contingency. This way, they are already fully leveraged by the time any emergency arises. (Even if the borrower starts an income generating activity, it is not easy to find one which will throw up cash over a 50 week period in India’s agrarian economy which sees, at best, two spikes when money comes in).
A more permanent solution is needed. Some microfinance organisations, like Cashpore, have slashed the discretionary powers given to centre leaders and field staff. And they transfer their branch staff regularly so that they do not form linkages with the borrowers.
All this, says Jaiswal, has bought down the incidence of such complaints. But one still cannot completely rule agents’ presence out.
In his case, it might well have. Cashpore, which is not an MFI, grows at a positively sedate 30% every year. Its peers, however, continue to set an indescribable pace (see chart). Between 2004 and 2009, number of outstanding loans at six of India’s top 8 MFIs grew at over 1000%. The other two grew their outstanding loan portfolios at 500% plus clips.
There is considerable cynicism within the industry on whether their systems are keeping pace with this level of growth. Says Misra, “The 100% YoY growth is not sustainable. There is no system. Group meetings are not taking place. This is what happens when money starts chasing people.” Adds Arunachalam, “Microfinance was predicated on relationship lending and social capital. The key was that the field staff knew every individual client. That is now being replaced by something far more like Starbucks or McDonalds.”
The question is: can the MFIs slow down? Or will that reveal default rates in excess of that magical, mythical 1%?
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Dr. Mike Zaworotko currently serves as Bernal Chair of Crystal Engineering & Science Foundation of Ireland Research Professor at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Research activities have focused upon fundamental and applied aspects of crystal engineering since 1990. Currently, metal-organic materials (MOMs), especially microporous and nanoporous sorbents, and multi-component pharmaceutical materials (MPMs) such as cocrystals, hydrates and ionic cocrystals are of particular interest.
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Jose Canseco will be returning to the boxing ring very soon.
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Canseco had previously boxed 7'2" South Korean MMA star Hong-man Choi in 2009. Billy, a former high school football quarterback and collegiate wide receiver, has no record of a boxing background, but is a noted self-proclaimed fitness aficionado.
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“Why should we care? Grassland birds are declining faster than birds in any other habitat,” says Nicola Koper, a professor in the Natural Resources Institute at the University of Manitoba. “Human activities change bird’s habitat, behaviour, and predators. We need to learn more about them to understand how we affect these species, and how we can help them.”
Koper worked with her North Amercian colleagues to test two competing hypotheses about fledglings’ decision making: Birds either leave the nest early in the day, to avoid nest predators and maximize the amount of time they have to find a safe place to hide from predators before nightfall; or, once their siblings start to leave, the remaining birds might decide to stay in the nest longer to take advantage of reduced competition for the food their parents provide, resulting in spread-out fledging times.
“And like boomerang millennials, sometimes nestlings leave the nest, and come back to the nest…. leave the nest, and come back to the nest. And finally, they leave the nest,” Koper says. “It turns out that 10-day old baby birds are actually a lot like teenagers,” she says, noting that sometimes they stay in there nests upwards of six hours past sunrise before fledging (making a mockery of our “early bird” stereotypes).
Surprisingly, there was little evidence that they left the nest to avoid predation, even though grassland songbird nests face very high predation risks—most baby birds are eaten by predators, so it’s curious that they don’t try harder to leave as soon as possible.
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“Measuring fledging time can be tricky because chicks run in and out of the nest multiple times before leaving for good,” Dr. Christine Ribic, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says. “We don’t know why they do this; maybe they are exploring their world and gaining confidence before leaving to brave the world outside their home. Remember these birds have only been alive for a week and a half or so. Regardless, it’s a bit like kids going off for college but returning for school breaks … nestlings may leave and return repeatedly before fully fledging. Fledging is not nearly as simple as people think it is.”
Koper’s research was funded by NSERC, CFI, MRIF, Clayton H. Riddell Endowment Fund of the University of Manitoba, and Cenovus Energy.
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Monica Mercedes Martinez, one of the first students to graduate from the University of Manitoba’s new Master of Fine Arts program, is a nominee for the RBC Emerging Artist People’s Choice Award.
This award, which will be presented at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto, recognizes a ceramic artist whose work receives the most votes from the public. It comes with a $10,000 cash prize. Monica is one of five artists to be nominated for this award. Voting is open to the public until October 13. The winner will be announced on October 15.
Monica is currently the artist in residence at the Edge Artist Village and Gallery in Winnipeg. She received her BFA from the Alberta College of Art + Design in 2010, and her MFA at the University of Manitoba in 2012. She has taught as a Sessional Instructor in the School of Art at the University of Manitoba.
Grace Nickel, professor of ceramics at the University of Manitoba, nominated Monica for this prize.
“Monica Mercedes Martinez is bringing something new to contemporary ceramics. Using heat as both medium and metaphor, she allows the kiln to transform, deform, and freeze her figurative sculptures in time, pushing clay to its limits and beyond,” Nickel wrote in her nominator statement.
To see pictures of Monica’s entry and to read her artist’s statement, click here.
Don’t forget to vote.
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Queen's dorgi Vulcan dies leaving her with just one dog left
The Queen is down to her last dog after the reported death of her beloved dorgi Vulcan.
He passed away of ‘old age’ at Windsor Castle, leaving her with only one dog called Candy, according to palace sources.
The 94-year-old monarch is said to be ‘upset’ at the loss.
‘Clearly the loss of a loved pet is upsetting,’ a palace source told The Sun.
The Queen decided to stop breeding dogs in 2015 as she did not want to leave any behind when she dies, insiders said at the time.
She is also said to have feared tripping over and hurting herself.
Vulcan, who was a cross between a Pembroke Welsh Corgi and a dachshund, is reported to be buried at Windsor.
The Queen’s love of dogs has been well documented over the years.
Vulcan and Candy featured on the front of Vanity Fair with the Queen in 2016 in celebration of her 90th birthday.
The monarch has owned 30 corgis, all of which are believed to be descended from a pet called Susan which was given to the monarch as a gift on her 18th birthday.
A dorgi is a dog which is a cross between a dachshund and a Welsh corgi.
The cross-breed was introduced to the royal household when Princess Margaret’s dachshund Pipkin mated with one of the Queen’s dogs.
News of Vulcan’s death comes days after the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge lost their nine-year-old dog Lupo.
The nine-year-old black cocker spaniel was a wedding present from Kate’s brother James Middleton.
William and Kate said he had been ‘at the heart of our family’.
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Music Licensing – What, How and Why It’s Important for Your Business
Music licensing commonly refers to ‘royalty free music’ or ‘production music’. This is music that has been written and produced with the sole purpose of being used in another project. Anyone can then license this music for a fee, to use in their project.
What about commercial music?
Commercial music, written and performed by artists like Adele, M83 and U2 for example, cannot be used for any purpose other than personal/private performance. When you buy a CD or download an MP3, it is specifically stated that you cannot do anything with that song or music track except listen to it yourself. Any business use is prohibited, even playing it on the radio to customers at a hair salon.
To play commercial music to the public, a public performance licensed is required by the appropriate performing rights organisation of that country. In the UK it may be PRS or PPL. In the US/Canada, it may be BMI or ASCAP. These organisations arrange a fee to the proprietor of the business, based on the size of their business/location. This can be expensive, and time consuming just to play the radio to your customers on your premises, but does permit the business to play the radio to its customers without legal issues.
This is not a suitable solution for video production and filmmaking, as the usage and purpose of music is not the same. As many video production companies produce content for clients, they need background music for their video/film that is cleared for its intended purpose. When licensing commercial music, arranging such a license for online, public performance, in-store and mass distribution quickly becomes expensive and convoluted.
Royalty free music licensing offers a simple and cost effective solution to acquiring well produced music with all necessary rights for the client, within an affordable, transparent license.
Who needs to license music?
Anyone creating digital content with the intention of publishing it online or publicly. It’s really that simple. You cannot legally use music you have not written yourself, or licensed from a music library.
What about ‘home movies’ and ‘personal projects’?
The same rules apply to home movies and personal projects, but because these are produced not-for-profit, nor professionally on behalf of a client it is possible to use commercial music in this type of content. However, when this content is published to social platforms like Facebook and YouTube, you may find your video is blocked in certain countries, or deleted entirely. This is because commercial artists and record labels have an agreement in place that monitors use of their content on these platforms, and can enforce accordingly. There is however, many commercial artists and record labels who permit the use of their music in exchange for advertising. An ad will be attached to your content as a pre-roll, overlay or half-time break during the video in exchange for permission to use their music track. If you’re producing something personal, ‘for fun’ then this shouldn’t be an issue.
The risks of using commercial music in professional video
A client may want the latest chart hit in their video because it resonates with their target audience, or they feel it represents their brand. However, as outlined previously this could end up immediately being blocked or deleted with further implications like account suspension. If the video is not blocked or deleted, then it will be served with ads.
This is the last thing you want for your client. You’ve produced a video promoting their new product, and before the video has even started, viewers are being shown ads for competing brands and products. It degrades the potential of the video and the brand.
Why license ROYALTY FREE MUSIC?
There are THREE key reasons why licensing music correctly is hugely important.
1. You’re using music that will NOT be subject to copyright claims, blocks or deletion when it is published online. This means you can deliver your end-product to your client without fear of any music related issues.
2. You can MONETISE the content you produce. If you’re producing the content for your own online channel on YouTube, you’ll no doubt be entered into the partner program, to earn money from ads displayed on your videos. You cannot earn money from these ads if the music is not licensed, as it will go straight to the artist/producer of the music. Pay for the music license, earn money from that music license. Simple.
3. Create an identity for your video. Whether you’re producing something on behalf of a client, or yourself. If you use a hugely popular, well known commercial music track, chances are that song will resonate with the viewer more than your content. However, if you create really good video content AND license the perfect music track nobody has heard before, you’re offering a completely unique audio/visual package that is new and fresh.
What about free music?
If you look for it, you will find music that is available to use for free. But ask yourself, why is it free?
Free in exchange for ads and revenue.
The creator could be giving you permission to use their music in exchange for ad-revenue online via YouTube and Facebook, and you won’t know this until you publish it and get informed ads will be displayed alongside your video, with all revenue going to the artist.
A poor quality sample
The free music track you’re using could be a low quality sample of something an artist is trying to sell. This could be a low 128kbs MP3 that appears suitable, but when played back against high quality content, will sound quiet, muted and generally not as good. When music is licensed from a library, it should be available in broadcast quality WAV or 320kbps MP3 as standard.
Who else is using it?
You won’t be the only one looking for free music. People creating content purely for personal projects don’t have a budget for music licensing so they need something free. If you’re producing a project for a client who is paying you, would they be happy with you using the same free music track as everyone else? If it’s free, chances are a lot of people will make use of it.
Clearance and Assurance
Anyone can upload a music track online. There is no vetting, no quality control or legal assurance. Any Blog or digital content platform can host a music track for others to share. So, when you’re downloading a ‘free music track’ how do you know the provider actually has the rights to provide it to you? When you license a music track from a professional curated library, you have the assurance that every single music track has been reviewed, contracted and published legally for you to license and use.
Why pay for music?
There are thousands of music tracks online. What difference is there between ‘Track A’ and ‘Track B’? As a video producer/filmmaker, ask yourself this question: “There are thousands of video cameras available. iPhones can shoot 4K video and you can plug a microphone into them. Why should a company hire me to shoot their video”?
When you license music from a reputable library, you’re paying for the expertise in writing and composing the music track. From the start, middle and end. The quality of instruments used. The production of dynamic audio, the builds and crescendos. The post production mastering and edits so that a 3 minute piece can be condensed into a short 30 second edit without losing any of the magic of the music track.
The difference you get when someone films a corporate video on their iPhone compared to someone filming the same video with a professional camera, lighting and staging is painfully obvious. It is no different when it comes to music or photography. There is the technology, the knowledge the skill and ability to combine them to achieve the highest quality result.
What can I do with licensed music?
Whatever you want. Music can be licensed for limited use or global distribution, mass production and broadcast. You can license music for a specific purpose and tailor it to accommodate any additional requirements at any time.
Licensing royalty free music is intended to be the most cost-effective and practical solution for using music in your professional projects. General online distribution is commonly a one-time license fee per track for lifetime usage.
Source by Mark Malekpour
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Hilton replied that the topic is off-limits for the pair. “No, I don’t like bringing things up like that,” she explained. “She is so sweet and so innocent and such a nice girl. We just talk about happy things. Music, fashion … fun things. I never like to bring up negative things and make people feel uncomfortable, so I’ve never talked about it with her.”
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These days, it’s impossible to think of Las Vegas without the image of the lights on the strip and glamorous casinos coming to mind. But the Vegas we know of 2020 wasn’t always that way; and it took a long, long time to get its reputation for being the world’s casino capital. Let’s take a trip down memory lane and get to the root of how Las Vegas became the city that never sleeps.
A historical journey
It’s hard to believe these days, but the Las Vegas region was once an abundant marshland stock full of rich vegetation. That is, until the marsh receded, and the waters disappeared, transforming the landscape into a desert, with the trapped water underground sprouting life and forming an oasis.
It was during the 19th century that the explorer Antonio Armijo from Mexico foraged the way from New Mexico to California on the first commercial caravan. It was a member of the group, Rafael Rivera who rode west to find water and venture through the desert, setting his eyes upon Las Vegas Springs. Las Vegas was therefore named ‘the meadows’ after the grasses found growing there.
Years went on and both Mormon and Mexican settlers began to filter through. In 1890 it was decided by railroad developers that Las Vegas would serve as a spot along the San Pedro, Salt Lake City and Los Angeles railroad route as well as connecting to major cities along the Pacific Coast. From there on, Vegas boomed with stores, boarding houses and saloons popping up around the area. This was the beginning of the Las Vegas as we know it — with railroad workers and ranchers enjoying the gambling and drinking through illegal speakeasies and bootleg casinos operating despite the ban on gambling in Nevada in 1910.
In 1931 gambling once again became legal in the state, with new casinos and showgirl venues opening up along Fremont Street to entertain the thousands of workers who flocked the city during the construction of the Hoover Dam. The first hotel, El Rancho Vegas, opened up in 1941 along Highway 91. Its success inspired others to open up their own hotels along the highway which would one day become the strip. Tourists began to flock to the city over the next few decades to enjoy the casino scene and see incredible artists like Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra perform.
The birth of the mega resort
It was in 1966 the businessman Howard Hughes purchased the Desert Inn hotel; this was followed by over a dozen more hotel purchases, pushing out the mobster-owned hotels that had previously dominated Las Vegas. The concept of the mega hotel came about in 1989 when Steve Wynn opened the Mirage as the first hotel resort in the city. By 1994, Las Vegas was the home of more than 86,000 hotel and motel rooms with 13 of the 20 largest mega resort hotels in the world. It was during this era that the Strip became populated with more hotels and casinos, with developments inspired by the iconic cities and countries of the globe including Egypt, Paris, New York and Rome.
Las Vegas in the 21st century
The Las Vegas of today is well and truly established as a home for entertainment and casinos — which remain the biggest source of income for the city. However, there’s no doubt that Vegas faces more competition than ever before from the virtual world, with more people than ever before opting to play at an online casino, rather than play in the old fashioned way, but Vegas will always have the advantage. For many, it’s a once in a lifetime trip that an online casino can’t replicate, but do the online equivalents help to increase interest in Vegas?
The bright lights of Vegas is attracting billions of dollars in investment as many try and get a slice of the revenue that the sector has to offer. During 2019 over 42.52 million people came to visit Las Vegas from all around the world. Domestically, it was shown to be the second most popular destination for U.S. traveller’s dream spots after New York.
These days, Las Vegas continues to thrive and be a source of entertainment for millions of visitors from around the world looking to experience what the city has to offer. With new generations becoming interested in casino games — and some incredible musical residencies continuing to be announced — Las Vegas surely will continue to be one best places to go for a unforgettable dream destination for many.
What can people find at some of the biggest land-based casinos in Canada? From Niagara Falls to Toronto, there is something for everyone at casinos in Canada, including table games, slots, roulette, blackjack, and other games. There are also many poker and blackjack tournaments held throughout the year and it is easy to find jackpots or slots with free spins at the casinos. Many casinos also have hotels, bars, and numerous restaurants which are perfect for players seeking some comfort. A relaxing casino experience for all ages can be found in many different places in Canada. Choose one from below.
Choosing a casino depends on your tastes and location within Canada. Do you want to experience the grandeur and splendour of nature while placing a bet? Then head to Niagara Falls. Do you want to see a show? Choose a casino with a show that will be perfect for you. If you are looking for pure relaxation, then check out some of the casinos with spas and world-class dining. Entertainment is also a large part of the casino experience in Canada. Musicians, bands, comedians, and other types of entertainment continue to be found at all of the biggest casinos.
Some Big Casinos Near Nature
Casino Niagara is located in one of the most beautiful places in Canada and the world. People from all around the globe come to experience the best of both worlds at Casino Niagara. Players have access to beauty and scenery while spending time at one of the biggest casinos in Canada. The casino has two floors with over 1200 slot machines, poker, and other table games. There are also many different restaurants and even a comedy club. The sports bar and casino was refurbished back in 2017, meaning that it has not lost any of its charm and shine.
ST Eugene Golf Resort: Casino of the Rockies is a golf and nature lovers’ paradise. The location could not be any more splendid. People can find the casino between the Rockies and Purcell Mountains. Furthermore, the casino has an interesting history after it was converted from an Indian Residential School. It was then opened in the early 2000s. St Eugene has table games, electronic roulette, baccarat, and blackjack. There is also a golf course, restaurant, bar, spa, and hotel that is highly rated in Canada. Overall games are limited so most people come for golfing and betting fun.
Caesars Windsor is famously located on the riverbank in Windsor, Ontario. Visitors from both Canada and the States frequent the casino and hotel. Players can see the Detroit and Michigan skyline from the area. There are two floors of slots, table games, and plenty of poker tables. Blackjack, baccarat, and roulette are also available at the casino. It has beautiful restaurants, a gym, bars, slots, and live sports. Check out the Titan 360™, a 10-foot tall slot machine with 5800 pounds of wins at the click of a button. It’s the largest slot machine in the world and great fun.
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River Rock Casino Resort – In Transit
Are you passing through Vancouver Airport and have a long transit? Hire a cab and spend some time enjoying slot machines at River Rock Casino Resort. There are slots galore and the different themes make it an enjoyable visit for all. There is even a Dungeons and Dragons slot for gamers. A fourteen-table game room can be found at the casino and international poker tournaments are held regularly. Other features include a VIP area, spa, live music, 24-hour food and drink, as well as other entertainment. Richmond is also worth a quick visit, especially for some delicious seafood.
Casino de Montreal – The Big Gun
Casino de Montreal is 526,488 square feet of casino excitement. The casino has around 20 thousand visitors each day and is one of the biggest casinos on the globe. If you are still unconvinced about the size of the place, then imagine five floors of slots and table games. 3,000 machines and 111 table games make the casino seem even more mammoth. Casino de Montreal games can be played in a smoke-free environment and many players comment on the user-friendly games and helpful staff. Complimentary drinks and top-rated gourmet food is all part of the experience at Casino de Montreal.
Hard Rock Casino – Another Big One
Hard Rock Casino is another large casino located in Vancouver, British Columbia. The casino is over 80,000 square feet, making it a big one in Canada. Hard Rock has gaming tables, slots, baccarat and a poker room. The casino includes 70 casino tables and 1,000 slots. Private rooms and high roller areas are also available. However, the Hard Rock name is known for excellent food and this is what people love about this casino. Many players comment on the quality of the food here. It even has a 1,000 seat theatre, making it great for dining and a show.
Elements Casino Brantford – Enjoy High Culture
Elements Casino Brantford is a historical gem for culture in Ontario. It is a charity casino that was established last century. It includes the Sanderson Centre for the Performing Arts, which is a high society entertainment venue in Ontario. The centre is well known to performing arts enthusiasts in Ontario and Canada. Players come to see a show, enjoy some gourmet food and a game. The casino also has plenty of slots, table games, blackjack, baccarat, sic bo, three card poker, roulette, and other games. There is also a 14-table Texas Hold ‘Em poker room. Enjoy all the excitement.
River Cree Resort and Casino – Sports Lovers
River Cree Resort and Casino is a sport and gaming venue located in Edmonton that should not be overlooked. It has 39 tables of various money limits and over 1,000 slots. There are also a few different places to dine while enjoying a bet and other things to experience. There is a fitness centre, spa and a 200 room resort. However, the most interesting feature of this casino is the two hockey rinks, which are often used by the Edmonton Oilers for practice. It is possible to watch the team practice and go for a meal and some gaming fun.
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The gaming industry has been quite widespread since its inception. With the advent of globalisation and technology, this industry is reaching new heights. Kids these days are more inclined to the internet than they are to books.
The internet has more information about everything than anywhere else and is very easily accessible. This further makes some parental control necessary. Most parents are worried about their kids playing violent video games that can further affect their mental health.
Nevertheless, you cannot stop a kid from finding ways to log in to the internet, nor can you keep them away from playing video games. You can always supervise them on their media consumption. But that also gets tiresome after a point. This is when it gets necessary for you to introduce them to games that are not only kid-friendly but are also of their liking.
If you are in a similar situation, looking for a way out, this article will surely help. Further mentioned are a few games that you can let your kid play while you concentrate on your work and well-being.
1. Gummy Drop
Finding games that you can let your kids play without supervision is quite a task. With games like Gummy Drop, you do not have to worry one bit. With beautiful graphics and interesting gameplay, it does not take long for your kid to get hooked to the game.
With new cities and interesting content being added almost every day, this 3 puzzle game is a good choice for your kids to play. It also connects to your Facebook account, letting you play with your other friends. It is also a nice way for your kids to improve their general knowledge and problem-solving skills.
2. Skribbl
If you were a fan of Pictionary when you were growing up, you should definitely introduce your kids to this game. While the rules of Pictionary remain the same, this game improves on the visual aspect. With all of their friends in the same server, your kid can easily get hooked to this game.
Easy and fun to play – once the server is set up, each player will get a word that they have to draw on the screen. The motive of the game is to help the other players guess your word. Each round chooses players at random. While it is advised that you use a tablet and a stylus to play this, you can always sketch with your finger.
3. Ludo Supreme
A classic in every sense of the word, online ludo needs no introduction. There are some new features that are added in the game version of this app. It lets you connect to your Paytm account and earn real money while playing the game.
Along with such amazing features, you can also play it for fun with your family or friends. It has other versions as well that come in different languages, especially in India, given the diverse nature of the country. You can download the LUDO for your android phones.
4. Houseparty
There is no doubt that Houseparty has been one of the most popular downloads this pandemic. This is a networking app that lets you add as many as seven friends and play different games face-to-face via video calls.
The novel approach of phone gaming made this a very widely chosen app. While playing games with your friends is always fun, this app lets you see and talk to them as well. Some of the most played games in this app include Heads Up!, Chips and Guac, Trivia and Quick Draw. With such amazing features and games, this is a worthwhile download for your kid.
5. Monopoly
Monopoly is a very interesting game, which you can get your kids. Along with being fun, it can be played by any age group and is always stimulating your brain. This board game is an all-time classic that is now available on mobile platforms.
The good thing about it being on the phone is that now your kids can play it with their friends as well, and all from the convenience of your home.
6. Rocket League
If you have ever wondered what it would be like to play soccer but with cars, this game is exactly that. You get to pick a car at the beginning of the game in an oversized field with an oversized ball. Then start the five-minute matches where you have to score goals against them.
To make it even more fun, this game allows the player to add up to three friends on the same server. It also has options where you can choose between casual play and ranked online play. Nevertheless, in both gameplays, you can earn new cosmetic looks for the car and get a chance to score more goals.
7. UNO
Another all-time classic, UNO has been a very celebrated game all these years. The original company of UNO came out with the online version that is available on both iOS and Android devices. Since they are the copyright holders, you already know, the gameplay cannot get any better than this.
Nevertheless, since it is a multiplayer game, you can play it both against your friends or strangers. It’s fun aesthetics, and new rules make it more interesting. It now has different modes of play and tournaments as well. You can also partner up and play 2v2 to win together. With servers available all around the world, you can connect to anyone you know.
8. Guess The Word
Very obvious from the name itself, this game is known to be one of the most popular downloads in this list. It not only helps your kids spend some unsupervised time with themselves but also ensures that they learn new things in the process.
The game contains different levels which get harder as your kid progresses, further making it more interesting and attractive. If you have some free time on your hands, you can also jump in and play with your kids.
So, these are the 8 games that kids of all ages can play without any tension. Above all, parents don’t have to panic or keep an eye on them all the time.
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29/11/2020 In Art, Community, DJ/Dance Party, Electro, Everything Else, Fashion, Festival, Film event, Hobbies, Jazz, Lifestyle, Music Festival, Musical performance, Musicals & Shows, New Media, Non Musical performance, Orchestral, Other Music, Pop, Rock & Indie, Talk/Debate By Giselle
Top 10 Australia Revelry On this week 29/11/2020 (COVID-19 EDITION)
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10) LP Giobbi’s House Hymns
What: LP Giobbi is a producer-DJ-music director-synth warrior goddess born draped in sequins and cloaked in fog at a seance in the mountains of Oregon. Experience her unique sound in this livestreamed performance.
Why: We don’t generally believe in the occult, but if a demonic seance is responsible for the proliferation of synthwave it would explain a lot.
https://on.com.au/search/search?parentId=8de33800-30e3-11eb-96b7-b132cf2a7536
9) Victory Boyd: Live from The Secret Place
What: You are invited to experience a spectacular holiday concert, streaming to you live from The Secret Place Studios! Hosted by ROCNATION, experience Detroit R&B recording artist Victory Boyd with appearances from Infinity Song and other extraordinary talents.
Why: Because even during the holiday season, you cannot escape the sound of Americans caterwauling.
https://on.com.au/search/search?parentId=44607160-30e4-11eb-96b7-b132cf2a7536
8) Elizabeth and the Catapult: Live from Rockwood Music Hall
What: Elizabeth Ziman, who performs as Elizabeth and the Catapult, is a critically acclaimed singer/songwriter from New York, living and working in Brooklyn. Always writing, Elizabeth has narrowed her vast collection of previously unrecorded material down to her fourth full-length studio album Keepsake, produced by Dan Molad (Lucius) and featuring collaborations with Richard Swift (The Shins). Keepsake is her most personal and cohesive record yet, comprised of both upbeat and sentimental songs, many of which came to her in dreams. Experience this record performed live.
Why: Because in this unendingly chaotic existence perhaps the one thing we can all rely upon is the continuous manufacturing of an endless line of indie pop clones.
https://on.com.au/search/search?parentId=dfbce4a0-30e3-11eb-96b7-b132cf2a7536
7) Molly Tuttle: Live from The Basement Nashville
What: Molly Tuttle is a vocalist, songwriter, banjo player and guitarist, recording artist and teacher in the bluegrass tradition, noted for her flatpicking, clawhammer, and crosspicking guitar prowess. Experience her unique talents in a livestreamed call for social change.
Why: History will read: ‘A world gripped by economic catastrophe, disease, famine and institutionalised prejudice was saved from ruin by Molly and her clawhammer technique’.
https://on.com.au/search/search?parentId=9facf0c0-30e4-11eb-96b7-b132cf2a7536
6) Darlene Love: Love for the Holidays
What: Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and pop singer Darlene Love is continuing her tradition of performing Christmas shows, this year with virtual concert “Love for the Holidays” streamed from New York’s Sony Hall.
Why: A woman from an age in which the stage name ‘Darlene Love’ could refer to something other than a porn star.
https://on.com.au/search/search?parentId=2e67d170-30e2-11eb-96b7-b132cf2a7536
5) Evanescence: The Bitter Truth
What: Evanescence will be performing songs from their upcoming album The Bitter Truth as well as fan-favourite tunes live for a streamed concert.
Why: You’re old enough to confront that stage in your teen life you’ve been denying for the past ten years ever existed.
https://on.com.au/search/search?parentId=9c610c00-30e2-11eb-96b7-b132cf2a7536
4) The Hold Steady: Massive Nights
4th, 5th & 6th December
What: Brooklyn rock band The Hold Steady are streaming their Massive Nights event, a multi-night celebration of music and community, from New York’s Brooklyn Bowl.
Why: For those of you who just haven’t had enough of Brooklynites screaming at you.
https://on.com.au/search/search?parentId=d921add0-30e1-11eb-96b7-b132cf2a7536
3) At Home With Lindsey Buckingham
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Why: Remember when old rockers would just fade quietly into obsolescence? No, we don’t either.
https://on.com.au/search/search?parentId=69bb8050-30e2-11eb-96b7-b132cf2a7536
2) Liam Gallagher: Down by the River Thames
What: Liam Gallagher is performing live for a global event he’s calling “Down by the River Thames.” For the show, he’ll be performing Oasis classics as well as songs from his solo career while floating down the river on a barge.
Why: Two legs, cocaine and a barge. Bosh.
https://on.com.au/search/search?parentId=361705c0-30e3-11eb-96b7-b132cf2a7536
1) Alice in Chains: Museum of Pop Culture
What: Alice in Chains will be honoured by the Museum of Pop Culture. The livestreamed event will feature tribute performances by Metallica, Billy Corgan, Duff McKagan, and many more. Eddie Vedder, Tom Morello, Robert Downey Jr. and others are also set for special appearances.
Why: No, we have no idea why Robert Downey Jr. is set to appear either, but just be thankful Bill Murray isn’t also showing up for no reason. There are enough irrelevant, overvalued idols here.
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Welcome to the Frequently Asked Questions for Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) – if you have a question that is not on this list, please contact us.
Welcome to OSO
What is OSO?
What is University Press Scholarship Online (UPSO)?
How does OSO work with UPSO?
Do I have access to UPSO? What does it mean if I don’t?
Which books are within OSO? Existing content, new content, missing content
How often is OSO updated? Are there plans to make it more frequent?
How soon after a title is published in print will it appear online?
How can I find out which new titles are being added to OSO?
There is an Oxford University Press (OUP) book which I would like to see available on OSO
Why can't I access a title that I used to be able to see on OSO?
Are there Open Access books on OSO?
Additional Content Enhancements
2010 and 2011 Content Enhancement
December 2013 Science Content Enhancement
2015 OSO Archive Content Enhancement
Finding information within OSO – searching, linking, browsing
One of the cross-reference links in the text doesn't work
I am having problems with searching
What do the icons mean next to content when I'm searching?
How do I read the page numbers provided within the text?
Where are the footnotes and endnotes?
Can I follow links from OSO to other online resources?
The book I'm viewing has no chapter abstracts or keywords
When are the DOIs for titles from the latest content update available?
Are searches in OSO and UPSO case sensitive?
Working with the content – printing, saving, downloading, reusing
Can I print text from OSO?
Can I save chapters to PDF from OSO?
How much material can I legally print/save to PDF from OSO?
I would like to reuse or reproduce excerpts from OSO. Do I need to get permission?
Problems with the content – textual errors, display issues
I've spotted an error in the text
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Technical aspects of the content – OpenURL, DOIs, MARC Records, Usage statistics
Is OSO OpenURL-compliant?
Does OSO make use of digital object identifiers (DOIs)?
Does OSO provide MARC records for subscribing institutions?
How are the OSO user statistics reports defined?
Can I see usage statistics for my library/institution?
How often are COUNTER statistics made available?
Access issues - logging in, not seeing the correct content
I am a subscriber and I can't access OSO
I have purchased an annual collection, but there are books I am unable to access
I don’t have access to a book from the additional content enhancement; how do I get access?
After I enter my user name/password and click on "log in" and then try to search or use the indexes, I'm being bounced back to a blank log-in screen
Do you offer library card access to OSO?
Our institution connects to the internet using NAT; can we access OSO?
Users with off-site access to OSO
What is your policy on cookies?
Questions about proxy servers
Questions relating to IP addresses
Questions about passwords
Subscriber services – account information, browser compatibility, accessibility
How do I update my institution's subscription record?
Which browsers will OSO display on correctly?
How accessible is OSO and will my screen reader software work with it?
How do I use Subscriber Services?
Discoverability
Does OSO support meta search software?
What content can Google crawl from OSO?
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What is your policy on third party data mining?
The answers...
OSO provides quick and easy access to thousands of key scholarly works, many of which are award-winners, from OUP's prestigious academic list. The books cover 20 subject areas across the humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine, and law, and OSO sits within UPSO. Find out more on the About page.
What is UPSO?
UPSO is hosted by OUP, and is home to scholarly content from some of the most reputable university presses from across the globe. Find out more by visiting our Partner Presses page. For more information on UPSO, please visit www.universitypressscholarship.com
OSO is delivered on the UPSO platform, along with academic monograph content from the many other university presses. When you carry out searches within OSO, you will be able to cross-search all the content on the UPSO platform, choosing to expand your search to include results from the other publishers or not.
Your institution can subscribe or purchase content from the publishers within UPSO, in the same way that they can subscribe to or purchase OSO content. You will be able to see abstracts for those titles that your institution does not have access, and full-text for those that they do.
You can filter search results using our availability markers to view just the content that you have access to.
If you want to get access to content that you currently can only see at Abstract only level, we suggest that you complete a recommend to your librarian form.
How often is OSO updated?
OSO updates every month. Read this section of the FAQs to find out about uploads which have taken place outside our usual publication schedule.
Provided that the book has the appropriate permissions for inclusion online, it will go into the next scheduled update.
How can I find out which new titles have been added to OSO?
A news item is published every time OSO updates, picking out key books for each upload - these can be accessed on our News page. You can also browse OSO and sort by latest published, and download the 'OSO All Titles' spreadsheet and select the most recent month.
There is an OUP book which I would like to see available on OSO
Please contact us with your suggestion. Please bear in mind that OSO only includes academic, scholarly titles, and not publications meant for general trade.
We have had to remove the below books from future sales and current subscriptions. This happened in the following months:
January 2015: One Hundred Days: Napoleon's Road to Waterloo by Alan Schom (9780195081770)
June 2015: Our Natural History: The Lessons of Lewis and Clark by Daniel Botkin (9780195168297)
June 2015: Beyond the Stony Mountains: Following in the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark by Daniel B. Botkin (9780195162431)
January 2016: Toward a Generous Orthodoxy: Prospects for Hans Frei's Postliberal Theology by Jason A. Springs (9780195395044)
November 2017: The Akan Diaspora in the Americas by Kwasi Konadu (9780195390643)
May 2019: The Moon in the Nautilus Shell: Discordant Harmonies Reconsidered by Daniel Botkin (9780199913916)
October 2019: Remembering our Childhood: How Memory Betrays Us by Karl Sabbagh (9780199218417)
However, customers who have bought perpetual access to the titles before they were removed from sale will have their access unchanged, existing DOIs will still work, and the titles are still searchable on the site. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us. For perpetual access customers, individual MARC records are available at the below links:
One Hundred Days: Napoleon's Road to Waterloo
Our Natural History: The Lessons of Lewis and Clark
Beyond the Stony Mountains: Following in the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark
Toward a Generous Orthodoxy: Prospects for Hans Frei's Postliberal Theology
The Akan Diaspora in the Americas
The Moon in the Nautilus Shell: Discordant Harmonies Reconsidered
Remembering our Childhood: How Memory Betrays Us
The following four books were superseded by versions published on Oxford Scholarly Editions Online (OSEO), our premier online resource for scholarly editions, where you can get a much improved presentation of the content:
The Correspondence of John Wallis (1616-1703), Volume I: (1641 - 1659) by Philip Beeley and Christoph J. Scriba (9780198510666)
The Correspondence of John Wallis (1616–1703): Volume II (1660 – September 1668) by Philip Beeley and Christoph J. Scriba (9780198566014)
Seneca on Society: A Guide to De Beneficiis by Miriam T. Griffin (9780199245482)
Studies on the Text of Caesar's Bellum civile by Cynthia Damon (9780198724063)
In 2016 these books were removed from sale on OSO, although they remain listed on the site for PA customers who purchased the titles prior to removal. Historical purchasers of the books were also given access to them on OSEO, available at the links below:
The Correspondence of John Wallis (1616-1703), Volume I: (1641 - 1659)
The Correspondence of John Wallis (1616–1703): Volume II (1660 – September 1668)
Seneca on Society: A Guide to De Beneficiis
Studies on the Text of Caesar's Bellum civile
If you have any questions or concerns, or you think you should have access to these titles, please feel free to contact us.
For perpetual access customers, MARC records for these titles are available at the below links:
The Correspondence of John Wallis (1616-1703), Volume I: (1641 - 1659) and The Correspondence of John Wallis (1616–1703): Volume II (1660 – September 1668)
Seneca on Society: A Guide to De Beneficiis and Studies on the Text of Caesar's Bellum civile
We have had to remove the below books from OSO in their entirety:
Karl Marx: His Life and Environment, Fourth Edition by Isaiah Berlin (9780195103267)
Law 101: Everything You Need to Know about the American Legal System, Fourth Edition by Jay Feinman (9780199341696)
Managing Capital Flows: Issues in Selected Emerging Market Economies by Bruno Carrasco, Hiranya Mukhopadhyay, and Subir Gokarn (9780199453344)
OUP have taken an active role in discussions around the changing nature of the monograph in the context of digital advancements and new publication models. We offer authors, on a case-by-case basis, the opportunity to publish their monograph open access.
There are over 60 Open Access books currently available without paywall restriction on OSO. MARC records for these titles are also available to download to add the titles to a library collection.
A free PDF version of each title is also available to download from oup.com. This version is free to read and share according to the terms of the Creative Commons publication licence, provided that the author is properly cited. Please note that third party materials included in the publication may be subject to copyright restrictions; proper permission to reuse this material should be sought from the rights holder. Print and eBook versions of these titles are available to purchase.
There have been additional content enhancements which have added backlist titles to OSO. As these are extra content and have taken place outside of our usual frontlist publication uploads, they are not included in frontlist collections. To get access to these collections, contact your librarian or local sales representative via our Contact Us page.
A new content option available to purchase, the OSO Archive, is now available, which provides access to seminal works and prize winning content, not previously available online, carefully selected for their continued relevance in evolution of scholarship within 8 key disciplines:
Business & Management, Economics & Finance, History, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Political Science and Religion.
This content is available to purchase and won’t be accessible via subscription, so users may see titles within a module that they usually have access, with a "published online" date of October 2011. Unless you have purchased content from the OSO Archive in that subject area, you won't be able to view the full-text of those titles.
A full title list of the titles within the OSO Archive can be downloaded here.
The December 2013 Science Enhancement
As of December 17th 2013, 70 titles were added across Biology, Mathematics, and Physics as part of a one-off science content enhancement. As these titles are outside of regular UPSO/OSO content updates, they have not been included in yearly collections. However, they are available to purchase, so please ask your librarian to contact their sales representative.
With these new titles comes new functionality for OSO that allows users to view and download print-replica PDFs. For the 70 titles in this upload, and for the majority of science titles in the future, print-replica PDFs will be available instead of XML-generated PDFs, which will alone continue to be delivered for existing titles. The new print-replica PDFs will give users an enhanced reading experience closer to the equivalent print editions, with better presentation of images and the ability to search the text.
The 2015 OSO Archive Content Enhancement
Hundreds of outstanding works of scholarship are being added to OSO as part of our 2015 Archive Project. Published in print in 2011 to 2014, these books are now available online for the first time outside of the frontlist annual collections. Find out more about the project, including editorially-picked key titles in each subject, by visiting our 2015 OSO Archive Project page.
If a cross-reference link in the text isn't working, please contact us. We cannot correct faulty cross-reference links immediately. However, we will load the corrected data the next time we publish an update to OSO.
Try looking at our Help pages, which give you lots of information about searching as well as tips on how to avoid common problems. It might be that you need to use a different type of search, or perhaps alter your search term to either cast your net more widely if you have too few results, or narrow your search if you've got more results than you can deal with.
There are four different availability markers:
Unlocked (green open padlock) – your institution has purchased access so you can view the full-text content
Free (the word free in a green box) – the title and/or chapter has been made freely available for a limited time
Open Access (orange open access padlock) – the title is available as an Open Access book
Restricted (red locked padlock) – not included in your account’s access, but the Abstract and Keywords are available to read for free
Anything included in your 'unlocked' access always overrides all other markers. For example, if your institution has purchased access to a module which includes an Open Access title it will have a green padlock next to it, rather than an Open Access one. However, you can still filter your search list by the Open Access marker.
The number marker is where the page begins in the print version of the book.
The footnote and endnote numbers are live links in the full-text. Navigate to a chapter to find the full text.
Links are available from OSO bibliographies and references to other online resources. Clicking on the link will take you to a page describing the external resource that OSO has identified. If you or your institution has full text online access to this resource you will be able to view the resource.
Please note that this system does not appear if your institution uses an OpenURL resolver such as SFX or LinkFinder Plus. In such cases you will see your institution's preferred links on bibliographic pages.
Some abstracts and keywords are not yet supplied. They will be uploaded to the site at regular intervals. The vast majority of titles on the site have abstracts and keywords
Following a content update to OSO/UPSO, there may be a short delay between the new content going live on the site, and the availability of the DOIs for those particular titles, as the DOIs cannot be registered before the content is live. CrossRef requires that a response page is in place before DOIs are registered. On OSO and Partner Press sites, this happens when the content is made live.
All lower case searches in OSO and UPSO are case insensitive, for example a search for "abraham" will return results with Abraham. When a search contains mixed case, the search becomes case sensitive. For example, a search for "aBraham" will return no results.
Working with the content – printing, saving, downloading
Yes. You can print content from OSO by chapter. To print any page from OSO, simply use the Printer icon in the toolbar at the top of the chapter. A preview window will appear with the correctly formatted pages, minus the site navigation components. Please note that printing restrictions apply – see below for guidelines on legal printing and copyright.
Yes. You can save individual chapters to PDF from OSO. To generate a PDF of an individual chapter, simply click on the Download Chapter (PDF) option at the top of the full text chapter page. You can then save (or print) the PDF as required. Please note that Copyright restrictions apply – please see below for guidelines.
Books and search results can also be saved to the My Work area, so that you can return to them in later sessions. Find out more >
You are restricted by Copyright to the amount of information that you can print or download. It is very important that you read the Legal Notice, which includes information on printing and downloading to PDF, before printing or downloading anything from OSO.
Yes, in order to reuse, reproduce, digitize, or translate any excerpt, chapter, and image from OSO, you need to fill out a permissions request form. Depending on your request, please select the appropriate link on the online form, and follow the instructions.
If you notice an error in the text, please contact us and we will endeavour to load the corrected text as soon as possible.
Why are the special characters (such as Greek and Hebrew) in this text not displaying correctly?
This is part of a wider display issue on OSO, whereby the font Georgia doesn’t support an extended range of Greek characters. Different browsers interpret and render this information differently, and so we would recommend that you upgrade to the latest version of the browser you are using, or switch to Chrome 17, to improve your browsing experience.
Yes, OSO is compliant with version 0.1 of the OpenURL specification. To enable this feature in your institution, please access your account information in Subscriber Services. OSO also supports custom OpenURL resolver icons specific to your institution.
Also note that OSO is integrated with Ex Libris' SFX Knowledge Base, ensuring that the site operates as both a source and target for OpenURL.
Yes, OSO uses digital object identifiers (DOIs) extensively throughout the site. You'll see them on a table of contents page as well as at the foot of every chapter page - for example: doi: 10.1093/0198296983.001.0001. The DOI is the best way of citing and linking to electronic documents. The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon initial electronic publication. The DOI will never change. Therefore, it is an ideal medium for citing a document.
The correct format for citing a DOI is as follows: doi:10.1093/0198296983.001.0001
When adding links to reading lists, first locate the DOI from the foot of the Table of Contents or chapter page of a book. The International DOI Foundation provides a service at dx.doi.org enabling users to create a URL from a DOI simply by adding this site address and the DOI together, as with this example: dx.doi.org/10.1093/0198296983.001.0001.
If you have further questions on these features please contact us.
MAchine Readable Cataloguing records (MARC21 Records) are available for library professionals to download free of charge. Our records are NACO, SACO, and AACR2 compliant.
Click on the appropriate link on our MARC records download page to download a MARC21 format file (.mrc) containing records of books published in the latest content update, or of all the books currently published in OSO. Please note that you will require MARC record reader/editing software (such as MARC Edit) to load these files to your library system.
How are the OSO usage reports defined?
Yes, COUNTER-compliant usage statistics are available to account administrators. For more information and to access reports for your institution, please see our Usage Statistics page for librarians.
COUNTER statistics are made available approximately 2 weeks after the end of the month.
I am a subscriber/content owner and I can't access OSO
First of all, please check that you have sent us your licence agreement. Unless you are in a free trial period, we cannot give you access to OSO until we have received and checked your signed licence agreement. Please see the following FAQs for other connection issues.
a) Is it possible that some of your registration details are incorrect on our database?
If the IP address/es for your institution or the user name and password which you use to access OSO are incorrect in our subscriber database you will not be able to access the site. Check with your librarian or account administrator, and ask them to follow the instructions below.
First of all, you need to log in to OSO, then select Subscriber Services from the top toolbar on any page, and then go to 'Subscriber Services Log in for existing subscribers' to enter the Subscriber Services page for your territory. From there you can check that you are using the correct user name and password or that the correct IP addresses have been entered for your institution.
Once you have checked whether your IP address details are correct, please contact us to tell us whether:
- your IP address/es need to be corrected (if so, please supply the correct address/es)
- your IP address/es are correct, but you still can't get access to OSO.
b) Are you seeing any error messages when you try to log in to OSO?
Error messages appear beneath above the login box on the Log in screen. These give some suggestions about why you may not be able to access the site. They may direct you to either your network administrator or to the contact us page.
c) Could your account be on hold?
Occasionally an account is put on hold if we have not received your subscription payment, or if your subscription or free trial has expired. In both of these cases we would usually have been in touch with you about this. Do contact us for more information about this.
d) If your institution holds a concurrent user licence, it may be that your browser is not configured to accept cookies
Cookies are required for subscribers to OSO in order to control access to the service. If you see a cookie-related error message when you try to log in to the OSO site, then you need to enable cookies and try again.
It is possible that the books you are trying to access were added to the site as extra content in our backlist projects, which are not included in our frontlist collections. You can find out more about our backlist collections. If this doesn't solve your query, please get in touch.
It is possible that you are seeing an old page and need to alter your cache settings.
To find out how to refresh your cache settings, please refer to the online help in your Browser.
Yes, to access using your library card, use the login on the Home Page.
Our access control software will work fine with sites firewalled using NAT. In order to give you access, we just need to know which IP address ranges that the NAT software is masquerading as. Please contact us if you would like to do this.
We do not allow remote access unless it is by a secure route e.g. Shibboleth, Athens, a referred URL access from an accessed-controlled page on the subscriber's website or access via a VPN (Virtual Private Network). Please contact us for more information.
Cookies are required for subscribers to OSO in order to control access to the service. The default policy will be to use cookies for authentication. However, subscribers who have unlimited access licences for OSO may choose to disable cookies and will still be able to use the service, but note that usage statistics related to user sessions will not be available.
a) Will our proxy server IP address(es) be enough to allow access to OSO?
Yes. However, if you are accessing OSO through a proxy server then you need to give us the IP address of the proxy server in order for you to access the OSO site.
b) I've registered my proxy server IP address(es), but I can't access OSO.
If you are shown as not logged in when you access www.oxfordscholarship.com/ and have no access to full-text content then the IP address of your proxy server is not being recognised by the OSO site. If this is the case, please contact us, giving us details of the problem.
c) After previously successful IP-authenticated access via a proxy server, why am I now being requested to sign in with a user name and password?
If there is no obvious technical solution to the problem, please contact your Internet service provider (ISP) to check whether they have changed their configuration in a way that might hinder your IP-authenticated access to the OSO site.
a) I've tried to set up IP-authenticated access to OSO without success
If, for some reason, you are unable to access OSO by IP address authentication, referring URL access may be possible. Please contact us to enquire about further possibilities for your institution.
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"One afternoon, Commissario Guido Brunetti gets a frantic call from the director of a prestigious Venetian library. Someone has stolen pages out of several rare books. After a round of questioning, the case seems clear: the culprit must be the man who requested the volumes, an American professor from a Kansas university. The only problem--the man fled the library earlier that day, and after checking his credentials, the American professor doesn't exist. As the investigation proceeds, the suspects multiply. And when a seemingly harmless theologian, who had spent three years at the library reading the Fathers of the Church, turns up brutally murdered, Brunetti must question his expectations about what makes a man innocent, or guilty."--Publisher's website.
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Super Mario Odyssey – The Collect-a-Thon We All Needed
November 3, 2017 Geddy Nintendo Switch, Thoughts On / Reviews 3 comments
Evidently, Mario is not popular in Thailand. Our original honeymoon plans were going to put me in Japan for the Super Mario Odyssey launch, where our favorite Italian plumber enjoys fame and fortune, but despite my best efforts to steer my honeymoon to a more Mario-friendly destination, we enjoyed up going further south to Thailand.
Still though, I did not get to see one iota, not one mere mention of Mario during or after launch day. I swear, Thailand doesn’t have video games. MMOs, sure, Internet cafes with people playing World of Warcraft, perhaps, but not a single video game store, or even a media store, for hundreds of miles in all directions. I checked!
Since I dare not go on social media or do any sort of research whatsoever when a game of this scale launches for fear of spoiling or in any way impacting my own personal hype, I avoided Twitter like the plague, and I don’t have a Facebook. And then I did the unthinkable: I ignored the game completely for 4 damn days. A game of which I’d been looking forward to since I finished Super Mario 64 back in 1997, ~20 years ago.
But then I get home after 20+ hours in the sky to find that everything in the world has righted itself! I had put through a USPS “Hold Mail” request, and thus would have to wait until the next day when they delivered the accumulated mail to play Odyssey. Luckily, someone screwed up and let two boxes slip through. Which boxes were they? Well, perhaps it was all the Buddha statues we saw in Thailand, but a power higher than myself made everything right with the world.
Waiting for me in my house, same and sound! Thanks Mr. Buddha!
I threw all my luggage on the floor because who cares about that and ran upstairs and slammed the cartridge into… oh wait, my Switch is back downstairs in my backpack from bringing it on vacation. I was a mess. But finally, FINALLY!
It felt great. I’ve mentioned before that Super Mario Sunshine and the Galaxy series never worked for me, but this game felt like the Mario games I remember.
Now before I go on any further, I need to bring something up. I absolutely despise the fact that so much footage of this game was shown. At E3, at every single Nintendo Treehouse Live event, everywhere. It littered YouTube, spoiling every last world. They basically pulled a Yookah-Laylee out of thin air and spoiled every last thing about the game. I managed to avoid all of this, but I saw the recommendations in my YouTube related videos and in my suggestions, and I saw all the Twitter and Reddit posts before I filtered them out.
This is a hot topic for another day – but what is it with spoiling games? No one likes it when a film trailer for a comedy shows all the funny parts. So why is everyone content with riding the hype train up until the point it derails and kills everyone on it? The point is to garner attention to the game. If you already know about it, watching 3 and a half hours of gameplay footage is just robbing you from your own experience. But like I said – a topic I’d like to cover another day.
I was running around the little black and white tutorial level world, getting accustomed to the controls, which took roughly three seconds since the surgical precision with which they work cannot be overstated. I’m running around, practicing all the moves and discovering how to throw the hat, with the help of the very well done on-screen hints that do not interrupt gameplay but serve more as a hint than an instruction.
I thought to myself, “I’m so happy that I didn’t spoil anything! All I know is that there’s a hat and you can control stuff and I think there’s a dino-“. And then there it was. The dinosaur from the E3 sizzle reel. Just laying there, sleeping. Why the heck is a dinosaur just randomly sitting here? Uh, ok – that’s cool I guess. I guess I’ll control him with the hat – yup, there ya go. I already knew I could do this but I’ll try it I guess. Now I’m running around as a dinosaur and stuff.
The dinosaur struck me as shoe-horned in, and very out-of-place. And when you leave control of him, he just falls asleep on the spot, before warping back to his original position. What’s the point of this?
Now, Mario games are clearly not praised for their story, nor will they most likely ever be, and the loose narrative thus far about Peach being kidnapped yet again is forgivable for the sole reason that we need an excuse to play a Mario game, and Peach isn’t going to kidnap herself. The dinosaur doesn’t need a reason to be there, and really, it simply serves to demonstrate to the player that you can take control of pretty much anything with Cappy, regardless of whether or not it is a native of the Mushroom Kingdom. Part of me just wished that there was more of a purpose of taking charge of a freaken dinosaur that didn’t just involve running into some bad guys and breaking a few blocks for coins, all within five minutes of the game.
Like a child showing up half an hour late for curfew, Nintendo has their own way of keeping me up all night, and that is their innate ability to go overboard with concepts. They may have a terrific idea, but too much of a good thing is usually bad. In regards to Super Mario Odyssey, this whole cap mechanic was the source of my panic.
The central gimmick of Odyssey is Cappy, who lives on your head and possesses creatures like a demon, swallowing their souls and allowing Mario to control them like a ragdoll and carry out his dirty work. Something like that – again, I’m not a story guy.
But what worried me was that Odyssey was going to take this too far and make the entire game about this. Mario himself is a fairly talented individual, what with his gymnastics moves that could put even a seasoned teenaged acrobat to shame. His diverse moveset was always the central focus of his character. Running, triple jumping, wall jumping, side-hops, crawling – even with Super Mario Sunshine, while his water jet was his main tool, it was never the focus of the game. It simply helped Mario move in ways that he already could.
Would Cappy take over Mario and turn him into a magical hat with legs? Well, this was my fear. But I’m happy to say that after my first five hours of gameplay, I can conclude that this isn’t the case. So far, it is my experience that Cappy serves to enrich Mario’s moveset by adding the potential moves of the creatures he possesses, but none of them seem overpowered. They all have special moves with an obvious catch. Possessing a Caterpillar for example allows you to stretch your body across chasms, but you cannot stretch to higher or lower platforms. You also lose access to all of Mario’s moves once you take over another creature (or object, for that matter), making it feel more like an enhancement to the gameplay rather than an artificial inflation of Mario’s moveset. It works.
Looking inside the physical box, I was yet again left a little disappointed by a single cartridge and not much else. I really wonder why they bothered with these huge cases if they had roughly a postage stamp-sized thing to fit inside of it. A thinner plastic, a-la the Vita cases would have done just fine, really. The reason I bring this up is that while I tore the case open looking for at least a small control sheet to ogle over, Super Mario Odyssey does a tremendous job of showing you how to play via subtle in-game hints. They’ll fade into view and then quickly fade out when you become idle. Not sure how to do something? Just do nothing. It’ll tell you what to do next.
My fiancée wife wandered into my office as my audible excitement boomed through the house, and it was at that point I discovered a 2-player mode in the main menu! As I avoided all information about the title, I had no idea this was a thing – but I quickly threw her a JoyCon and we begun to play together. And let me tell you – it’s really an absolute blast how they set it up. Essentially, one player controls Mario, the other controls Cappy. It gives a shared responsibility to each player, rather than having one of the players filling in a meager support role. We played for about an hour and found probably 20 moons. It was one of the few times I’ve actually seen my wife enjoy herself playing a game, as she usually gets stressed out very quickly if she doesn’t know what to do or hits a wall of frustration.
Eventually she excused herself to “pass the hell out” as it was now 1am and we were both working the next day, but I pressed on! I kept chugging along, and then it hit me – I was really enjoying myself. Time had been flying by and I didn’t even realize it.
I had collected dozens of Moons and was searching through each level, learning the landscape and experimenting with Cappy. It dawned on me that Super Mario Odyssey felt like the perfect collect-a-thon that I had been craving for almost two decades. But before I go into more detail of why it’s a perfect collect-a-thon, we need a brief bit of history.
Collect-a-thons seem to be seeing a resurgence lately in the gaming industry, this trend jumpstarted a few years ago at the announcement of the Yookah-Laylee kickstarter. The ex-Rareware team members claimed that they wanted to bring back the wonder and sense of exploration of the early 90s 3D platformers. However, the lukewarm reception of the finished product proved one thing – when you bring back an old trend, you still need to modernize it. I’ve never played Yookah-Laylee, but after playing Odyssey, I don’t see any reason to play anything less perfect. This is just my personal preference of course, but my point is that Super Mario Odyssey is the collect-a-thon we all needed!
In this age of instant gratification and constant reward systems in things like mobile games, Super Mario Odyssey gets the item collecting frequency right on the nose. Each level contains dozens of Moons to find, but you find them so often that you never lose the momentum to keep finding more. The gameplay is addicting. That first night I played, I kept doing that thing that is typical in all games that are actually fun: “just 1 more minute, just one more minute, just one more minute…” and then two hours have passed by and you may or may not have peed your pants due to not wanting to get up off the couch. (IT WAS ONLY ONE TIME.)
Each level is so special in its own right – they are masterfully crafted and they make you want to explore every nook and crannie. The difference between subpar collect-a-thons is that you could spend all day running around levels, and feeling like you wasted time because you have nothing to show for it. Aside from Moons, you have coins and special coins, and I’m still not sure what they’re called. Those special coins have a different shape and color in each level and can be used only to buy trinkets and costumes and stickers for your ship in that specific level. The collect-a-thon game is strong in this one – it really never stops offering you things to add to your collection.
In fact, there’s a whole beautiful checklist in the theme-park-modeled map screen that shows all of the collectibles and your status with collecting all of the Moons and special coins in each level. Nothing beats a good checklist for this sort of collecting madness, and I personally cannot wait to go back and find everything.
What sets Odyssey apart from the other 3D Mario games is the frequency at which you are rewarded. In a typical gameplay setting, you arrive at a new level, and must find a set number of Moons to power up the Odyssey (your hat-shaped ship) to move to the next land. This is where the fun begins. Just by exploring, you’ll find all sorts of fun things going on within the level, characters to possess with Cappy, and interesting scenarios to work through, most of which reward you with a Moon. Find a little pipe sticking out of the side of a hill? Wander in and you may find yourself one dimension short as you play a quick game of 2D Super Mario Bros.! It’s little ideas like this that make this game a huge charmer that will make you fall in love quickly.
To add to that, when you find all of these Moons, you never get warped out of the level (such as in Super Mario 64), so the momentum just keeps going. There’s even a fast travel system implemented within the levels, and they make sure you don’t ever get bored of wandering around once you’ve found the major landmarks of each level. Getting bored is practically impossible, as Moons are so frequent and numerous in each level that you can collect a Moon practically every 30 seconds when you first enter a level and start running wild. It’s a tremendously rewarding process that doesn’t get old.
At this point, I’m on the last level and almost done with the main story of the game, and it’s only been a handful of days that I’ve been playing. I’m eager to wrap it up, so that I can go back into all the beautiful levels and continue exploring and collecting Moons. Nintendo did a tremendous job with Odyssey, and despite an odd tutorial level, the game really pulls itself together and looks gorgeous while doing it.
It feels good to truly have a sequel to my favorite childhood collect-a-thon!
Have you played Odyssey? Of course you have, otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this! How are you liking the game so far? Let me know in the comments!
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LightningEllen says:
November 3, 2017 at 9:44pm
I definitely agree with you on the dino moment! I try to know nothing about a game before I play it. I find most of the fun is in finding these things for myself. Great post! 🙂
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Ys IX: Monstrum Nox Coming 2021 on Switch/PC/PS4
June 23, 2020 Geddy Updates One comment
Despite not having slept in about a week and a half with a newborn, I have managed to keep my finger on the pulse of video game news! And today I was blessed with some of the best gaming news that I’ve heard in ages: Ys IX: Monstrum Nox is officially confirmed to be coming West on the PS4, PC, and, yep, Nintendo Switch!
I’ve been a huge proponent of more people checking out Ys since my initial discovery a few years back, and this will mark the second massive Ys title on the Nintendo hybrid.
I was concerned we wouldn’t see this title on this side of the pond for quite some time, although it was only released September of 2019 in Japan, so perhaps my concerns were slightly exaggerated. I’m stoked to see Ys making it’s way into the West, as it’s a criminally under-appreciated series that enjoys popularity in Japan and very few other locations. Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana arrived on the Switch a while back and I was very happy that it was finally getting some love on a Nintendo console again.
This was teased not long after the Japan release last year, and it’s taken quite a while for some news but finally, here we are. Bask in the glory of the official announcement trailer!
Of course, and like with most announcement trailers, not much about the game has been revealed. One thing stood out from the game page:
Familiar mechanics such as Flash Dodge and Flash Guard allow you to outmaneuver your foes, while new additions such as Gifts and Boost Mode further augment your ability to fight.
I really enjoyed the Flash Dodge/Guard mechanic, and thought it really added a degree of skill and required focus during the battles. Not only that, but two new perks seems like they’ll be interesting, and I’m looking forward to hearing more! Personally, what would impress me the most is 60fps gameplay, but I’m not holding my breath on that one. The gameplay just looks so much smoother on the PS4/PC at high framerates, and after playing Ys VIII on the Vita with a sometimes-choppy framerate, it’d be pretty cool to play IX on a butter-smooth experience. That being said, I’m just happy to hear that it’ll be playable on the big screen – every Ys game I’ve played so far has been on handhelds, after all.
And here’s the NIS America store link with all the relevant fun-stuffs, including preorders for the collectors edition (no affiliate link), if you’re like me and will throw your money at anything in this series. I may have already done so…
Yeah, it was a real tough decision.
Anyway, that’s it for today – I’m certainly no news source but needed to share my excitement with the world. Cheers!
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6 August 2020, 12:50 pm ·6 min read
Whether you’re swimming in dog hair, got kids who keep spilling food on the floor, or simply want to spend more time with your family, a robot vacuum ought to lighten your chore load. We’ve scoured Amazon and Best Buy and found three little automatons that can help make your life a little easier. Get the Ecovacs Deebot 500 and iRobot Roomba 675 and 960 today starting from just $155.
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The Ecovacs Deebot 500 only costs $155 (down from $280) at Amazon but it’s surprisingly outfitted with advanced features that are normally reserved for higher-end models. This robot vacuum boasts app control, cleaning schedule programming, smart-home compatibility, anti-drop detection, and plenty more. Most importantly, it does a bang-up job of making sure your floors remain virtually spotless. It’s not the best at avoiding wires though, but for the price, it’s very hard to complain.
Underneath the Deebot 500 is a single bristled roller brush and two rotating brushes that are extremely capable at removing dirt and debris from your floors. It has three cleaning modes: Auto, Spot, and Edge. These modes have varying degrees of suction intensity and are meant for certain types of floors and surfaces. Auto mode is optimized for carpets. Edge mode will make the Deebot travel the perimeter of a room and clean its edges and corners. Spot mode is meant for thorough cleaning of concentrated dirt, cleaning in a spiral pattern (the device usually travels in a straight line with the first two modes) on a specific area. Through the Ecovacs Home mobile app, you can set up cleaning schedules, remotely control the robot, check its battery life, and determine whether it’s time to do some light maintenance. This robot also has the ability to pair with Alexa and Google Assistant so you can order it to clean through voice command, a next-level convenience hard to find in a robot vacuum of this price. When the Deebot 500 is about to lose power, it will automatically return to its charging dock, recharge itself, and resume cleaning.
The Deebot 500 is equipped with anti-collision sensors that allow it to smartly navigate its surroundings without hitting anything. It also has anti-drop detection, so it won’t fall down the stairs. Unfortunately, the Deebot does have the tendency to get itself tangled with cords that are just lying about, so you’ll need to make sure that the floor area that it’s going to clean is clear. Other than that, there’s no real issue with how well it performs. The Deebot 500 is a superb robot that comes at a very reasonable price. Make this little gizmo do the cleaning unsupervised for just $155 at Amazon.
We all know that Roombas tend to be really expensive, but if you’re hellbent on owning one without breaking the bank, we recommend the iRobot Roomba 675. This robot vacuum is virtually identical to the pricier Roomba E5 and even has the same set of features. It’s only missing the Virtual Barriers which you put in areas you want it to avoid, and not much else. Right now, you can get this budget Roomba for the very affordable price of $270 instead of $300 at Best Buy.
The Roomba 675 uses dual multi-surface brushes to grab dust, dirt, and large debris from carpets and hardwood floors. Its edge-sweeping brush is specially designed at a 27-degree angle to loosen and lift debris away from edges and corners. During our test, this robot vacuum was able to remove approximately 99% of debris on hardwood floors. It also performed admirably on low pile carpets. However, it didn’t do that spectacularly on a high-pile carpet, removing 90% of particles, which is still a pretty good number for a budget robot vacuum.
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Stenographer snaps, rants on House floor
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Updated: 2:06 p.m. ET, 10/17/2013
Washington (CNN) – Amid all the chaos of the last-minute deal in Washington, there was an unusual moment on the House floor moments after the bill passed.
A House stenographer and well-known employee calmly took to a microphone and began screaming.
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"Do not be deceived. God shall not be mocked. A House divided cannot stand," she said, according to a House GOP aide. After a few seconds, she was escorted out by the Sergeant-at-Arms, but an audio recording by Todd Zwillich of Public Radio International captured the rest of her rant.
"He will not be mocked, He will not be mocked, (don't touch me) He will not be mocked. The greatest deception here, is that this is not one nation under God. It never was. Had it been... it would not have been... No. it would not have been... the Constitution would not have been written by Free Masons... and go against God. You cannot serve two masters. You cannot serve two masters. Praise be to God, Lord Jesus Christ."
House members and aides were surprised and unsettled by the scene.
"I don't know, she just snapped," said a GOP aide.
CNN's Dana Bash spoke with several staffers who knew the woman well.
"She’s a well-known person, she’s a perfectly nice person, a good colleague, somebody who’s respectable and dependable, and this is very surprising to everybody who works with her," Bash reported on air.
"The Sergeant in Arms didn’t try to stop her because she works there and that’s where she’s situated," Rep. Peter King, R-New York, told Jake Tapper. "And she actually went up behind the podium where the president speaks from. They thought she was going to hand something to the speaker, and then they realized."
Officer Shennell S. Antrobus of Capitol Police told CNN she wasn’t arrested or charged and was transported to a local area hospital by DC Fire for further evaluation.
In terms of an ongoing investigation or further action about the stenographer, Antrobus said no such action will be taken.
"There is nothing more, from our end, that we are going to do," Antrobus said.
–CNN’s Deirdre Walsh, Steve Brusk, Dan Merica and Conor Finnegan contributed to this report.
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laine b
Imagine the stress of the last couple of weeks...I'm not surprised.
BigSir
One nut among many in that building.
bob douglass
I would love to hear the recording of this
momie8x
If any of them in congress believe in God. well I think they just received an important message!
Jaxckso
Religious loon. The government is broken and diseased on every conceivable level, including low level staff.
1-trupatriot
One more far right win nut trying to change history claiming that America was founded to be a totally Christian nation. Try re-reading the facts about WHY our ancestors left england, etc. To get away from forced religion and to be allowed to have a say in government. It's called democracy. Something religious fanatics hate. If the gop and tea party want to believe they "won" with the Bill of last night and think their stunt can be repeated (as some tea party nuts are saying) well they are in for a bigger surprise. America was founded not on allowing a free for all or to encourage forced religion on others. It was established that America will be a democracy and No groups or religious fanatics will force this country into religious law (like the Taliban do) or into a dictatorship. Understand thap true patriotism is protecting democracy against a minority group of fanatics of any persuasion who would try to force their will upon a (lawfullly) majority elected government. There will never be a radically driven coup in America. Our democracy will at all costs, survive and prosper against the hateful will of any group of fanatics- religious or otherwise, for self gain and greed. If these groups want to talk about God, they should first go talk to him about their lack of compassion and their lust of greed and power. You all need His lessons on being humble. But I forgot, the teachings of a humble God goes against the desire for ultimate control and material greed exhibited by the Tea party and GOP.
Deborah Williams
SHE DOES NOT NEED TO BE "EVALUATED". The idiots running or "not running" the country need to be "evaluated". She just could not sit and watch this ridiculousness anymore and not react to it. It's called "free speech". Good for her!!!!
Awesome. Perfectly sane.
Freemasons is one word not two 🙂 And don't worry, we're not trying to take over the world, we did that a long time ago...
Third Eagle of the Apocalypse.
Religious nut.
And shes right, this nation has never been a Christian nation. We only hide behind God and use God as being morally superior. We are a nation built with lies on a foundation of fraud. And in 2013 we are a cesspool.
How do you single out one crazy person in that room?
She was just fed up with all the incompetence and happened to be right there to voice it!
She speaks the truth. Examine what she said.
That was probably the only truth spoken in there all year.
qazoo
And shes right, we have never been a Christian nation. We only hide behind God and use God to pimp some moral superiority. We are a nation that was built with lies on a foundation of fraud. And in 2013 we are a cesspool.
Fur Ball
Being the only one in that room with at least half a brain, who wouldn't expect the poor woman to finally lose it. It's the same as working in an insane asylum and wondering at the end of the day if you're not nuts too.
Wake up People!
You know it's gotten bad in the House. The poor stenographer even snapped.
She makes as much sense as many of the other rants we hear on the house floor.
ibanezerscrooge
It's a mad, mad, mad, mad, mad world.
U.S. Congress: Literally driving people insane.
Sounds like she just joined the T.Party.
FreeFromTheism
Oh, I see, so her problem is that the US isn't a theocracy.
Ya know, they stuffed all that god stuff in there to satisfy the hoi polloi. It's government; it is designed to keep a large population from tearing its self to shreds; everything else is secondary.
dadinalaska
Honestly, she was probably really tired and needed a nap.
Sounds like she just joined the T.P.
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Former Saudi Official Accuses the Crown Prince of Trying to Kill Him
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BEIRUT — A former top Saudi intelligence official publicly accused Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Thursday of sending a team of agents to Canada to kill him.
The allegation came in a lawsuit filed in United States federal court on Thursday by the former official, Saad Aljabri, who has accused Prince Mohammed of seeking to silence or kill him to stop him from undermining the prince’s relationship with the United States and the Trump administration.
The suit marks the first time a former senior Saudi official has publicly accused Prince Mohammed, the kingdom’s de facto ruler, of carrying out a widespread and sometimes violent campaign to silence critical voices.
Mr. Aljabri, who was a top aide in the Saudi Interior Ministry, now lives in self-imposed exile near Toronto. Prince Mohammed has been trying to coax him to return to Saudi Arabia and in March, Saudi Arabia detained two of Mr. Aljabri’s adult children and his brother, prompting accusations by relatives and United States officials that they were being held hostage to secure Mr. Aljabri’s return.
His lawsuit says that Saudi agents attempted to target Mr. Aljabri in Canada less than two weeks after another team of Saudi operatives killed and dismembered the dissident Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. American intelligence agencies have determined that Crown Prince Mohammed likely ordered the killing.
Mr. Aljabri’s suit contained scant evidence to support its charges, including about the alleged Canada operation, nor could they be independently verified by The New York Times.
A spokesman for the Saudi embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment, and Prince Mohammed has said that he had no prior knowledge of the operation targeting Mr. Khashoggi.
The lawsuit is the latest riposte in a years-long battle at the top of the Saudi power structure as Prince Mohammed has worked to consolidate his grip on the kingdom.
Mr. Aljabri worked for years as a top aide to former Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, who headed the Saudi Interior Ministry, which oversees domestic security and counterterrorism. That work gave Mr. Aljabri close relationships with intelligence officials from the United States and other countries.
Mr. Aljabri was fired by royal decree in 2015, before Prince Mohammed ousted Mohammed bin Nayef as crown prince and put himself next in line to the throne. Mr. Aljabri left Saudi Arabia two years later.
Mr. Aljabri has accused Prince Mohammed of using increasingly aggressive tactics to try to return him to the kingdom, including offering him a job, threatening to have him extradited on corruption charges, and arresting two of his adult children to be used as leverage.
In 2017, Saudi Arabia filed a notice through Interpol, the international police organization, asking other nations to arrest and extradite Mr. Aljabri to Saudi Arabia on corruption charges. Interpol later deemed that notice politically motivated, a violation of the organization’s rules, and removed Mr. Aljabri’s name from its system, according to Interpol documents reviewed by The Times.
Mr. Aljabri’s suit adds a number of new allegations, accusing Prince Mohammed of deploying Saudi agents in the United States to determine his whereabouts and sending the team of agents to Canada.
The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia under the Torture Victims Protection Act and the Alien Tort Statute, which allow non-Americans to sue in U.S. courts for certain crimes committed abroad.
Mr. Aljabri could not be reached for comment. In an interview, his son, Dr. Khalid Aljabri, a cardiologist also based in Canada, said his family chose to file the suit after running out of other options to secure the release of their relatives detained in the kingdom and resolve the conflict with Prince Mohammed.
“We have exhausted every single avenue for a peaceful remedy and reconciliation, to no avail,” Dr. Aljabri said. “We hope that this will help end the torment that my family is suffering.”
A trial, he said, would allow both sides to present their cases.
“We have always told the Saudis, if you have an issue, bring it to court, so now we are making it easier for them by coming to court,” Dr. Aljabri said.
Citing unnamed Saudi officials, The Wall Street Journal reported last month that Mr. Aljabri had been involved in large-scale corruption schemes to enrich himself and others, charges that were repeated by state-controlled Saudi media. Saudi officials have not responded to questions from The Times about corruption charges against Mr. Aljabri.
The court filing contains text messages that Mr. Aljabri says were sent to him by Prince Mohammed. In September 2017, Prince Mohammed asked him, “where should we dispatch the airplane to fetch you?”
Soon after, according to the lawsuit, Prince Mohammed threatened to use “all available means” to reach Mr. Aljabri, including “measures that would be harmful to you.”
The suit also accuses Prince Mohammed of creating a 50-man “death squad” known as the Tiger Team to go after Saudis at home and abroad whom he perceived to be a threat to his standing.
Last year, The Times reported that Crown Prince Mohammed, during the year before Mr. Khashoggi’s killing, had authorized a secret campaign to silence dissenters that included the surveillance, kidnapping, detention and torture of Saudi citizens at home and abroad. The report was based on interviews with American officials familiar with classified intelligence assessments about the efforts by the Saudi leader.
The suit alleges that a team of Saudi agents carrying forensic gear and including forensic experts arrived at an airport in Ontario in October 2018. They tried to enter on Canadian tourist visas but were turned away by Canadian border officials, the suit said.
Canadian officials have not spoken publicly about any such event.
Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, the former crown prince and Mr. Jabri’s former boss, had longstanding ties to C.I.A. leaders, especially John O. Brennan, President Obama’s C.I.A. chief.
During a trip to Riyadh in 2017, the C.I.A. director Mike Pompeo awarded Prince Mohammed bin Nayef the “George Tenet Medal” — named after President W. Bush’s C.I.A. director — apparently an award created just to bestow on the Saudi prince.
Mr. Aljabri held so many secrets, the lawsuit states, that Crown Prince Mohammed was determined to kill him.
“That combination of deep knowledge and enduring trust by top U.S. officials is why there is virtually no one Defendant bin Salman wants dead more than” Mr. Aljabri, the suit says.
Ben Hubbard reported from Beirut, and Mark Mazzetti from Washington.
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Carrie Underwood Shares Husband Mike Fisher and Son's 'Story Time'
By Hannah Barnes - January 22, 2018 12:28 pm EST
Carrie Underwood often gives fans glimpses of her son, Isaiah, on social media, and the singer used Instagram over the weekend to share an adorable moment between the toddler and his dad, Underwood's husband Mike Fisher.
In the clip Underwood posted, Fisher reads Isaiah a book about Noah and his ark, stopping to ask his son to name the animals featured on the page. The 2-year-old successfully identifyies the lion, zebra, bat and giraffe before naming Noah.
“Story time with Daddy…Learning about Noah…and my heart melts,” Underwood captioned the clip.
Story time with Daddy...Learning about Noah...and my heart melts... ❤️❤️❤️
A post shared by Carrie Underwood (@carrieunderwood) on Jan 20, 2018 at 6:51pm PST
The video also received a few comments from Underwood's famous friends, with Lauren Alaina writing, "I'm commenting again because my heart melted when he said, 'Noah.'"
Lady Antebellum's Hillary Scott also commented, sharing that she and her daughter, Eisele, are big fans of the sweet moment.
"Eisele and I have watched this a dozen times!" she wrote. "I love how he says 'zebras!' Such a smart, precious boy!"
Underwood is currently recovering after suffering a fall in front of her home in November that required her to undergo surgery for a broken wrist and receive between 40 and 50 stitches in her face.
“It’s crazy how a freak random accident can change your life,” she recently wrote to fan club members. “I honestly don’t know how things are going to end up but I do know this: I am grateful. I am grateful that it wasn’t much, much worse. And I am grateful for the people in my life that have been there every step of the way.”
“I am determined to make 2018 amazing and I want to share things with you along the way," she added. "And when I am ready to get in front of a camera, I want you all to understand why I might look a bit different."
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Q&A with Poptropica’s CEO, Abhi Arya 🎤🤴
November 6, 2020 November 6, 2020 Slanted Fish
Hey Poptropicans — you asked, and Poptropica has answered!
A while back, we asked you to bring your questions for Poptropica’s CEO, Abhi Arya. We selected some for him to answer, and he has responded!
We may have tweaked a few of the fan questions for clarity, but Mr. Arya’s words below are verbatim. For a few of the answers, the PHB asked for clarification, and Ms. Natalie Shahmiri, the general manager of Poptropica, stepped in to answer on his behalf, so you’ll see her responses too. Without further ado, let’s pop all of the questions!
Emma I: How does it feel to head up such a great game that has made so many childhoods?
Abhi: It feels great. Whenever I am in a room with Poptropica fans, I hear great kudos. Having association with a recognised game that continues to excite the gaming generation is a proud feeling. But I am not alone – I have a great team supporting me in this journey – in fact our game designers, developers and product team are much more passionate about Poptropica and they push me to do better for our players.
Theo (of Dimension Bros): How are Poptropicans so strong?
Abhi: Rumor has it that they descended from dinosaurs. Some people have said birds, which kind of are dinosaurs? Or maybe it’s just sheer willpower and determination. That’s probably it.
Dino DNA: Won’t find any cloning materials here.
The Future of the Game
Magniventris: What does 2021 hold for Poptropica? Will there be brand new islands, or will the focus be entirely on porting old islands to Haxe? If it’s on porting, how many islands do you project will be converted by the end of next year?
Abhi: We’re working on a mix of both, plus some remasters of the old islands. We’re also looking at ways to allow players to access the old islands once Flash isn’t widely supported anymore.
Natalie: Our current audience plays a big part in how we approach converting islands too. For example, the remastered Mythology island is a departure from the island you grew up with. It’s linear and definitely simpler (but still not too easy for a younger kid!). We have a lot to weigh when creating new content, from special events to remastered islands, so we don’t really know yet how many islands will be converted by next year. That’s also why we’re looking at options to ensure our older fans can still play the original Poptropica islands. We know how much the Poptropica you grew up with means to you and want to make sure you can always play that version.
The remastered Mythology Island on Haxe deviates from the original.
Emma I: Will non-members be able to access old islands anytime soon, and when can we expect that to happen?
Abhi: The original islands use some old technologies that make it harder for us to support in a live environment. Limiting it to members-only keeps our systems from being overwhelmed and allows us to focus on the long-term decisions of how to keep them available. We’ll share more by the start of 2021.
Short Glove: Will player names be customizable from a prescripted list in Haxe, like they were in Flash? (Right now, only a handful of names are possible in Haxe based on the default character you first choose when making an account, but many more options were available in Flash.) (Editor’s note: Since this question was asked and answered, the Friends Beta released in Haxe with the option to change one’s name.)
Abhi: It’s something we’ve definitely been considering. We’re working on optimizing a lot of the player features right now, like the ability to add friends by username. We’re also working on some new ideas for player dashboards, which may incorporate customizable names or use usernames instead.
Small Beginnings: This was our very first attempt at designing your friends profile page.
Bee: Will there ever be a multiplayer option for playing through Poptropica islands with friends?
Abhi: Adding multiplayer to the older islands would be a little tricky since they were designed for a single-player experience, but we’re actively testing how to do this in new ways.
Purple Paw: Will the Photo Booth, Costumizer, and old Friends profiles be brought back? Why were these features taken out in the first place?
Abhi: The photo booth and old friends’ profiles weren’t very popular and were pretty dated. That’s the tough thing when you have a popular game for over 10 years, some things just start to feel out of place, especially for a new generation of players. Whenever we make these decisions we look at the data: what are users engaging with? If something no longer resonates with players we look at how we can update it or sometimes make the tough decision to remove it from the game.
Natalie: Engagement with things like the photo booth and old friend profile was less than 10% of the players. They were definitely fun features but as gaming has evolved, we need to evolve with it. We want to reintegrate features like that, but in a way that makes sense for today’s players.
The Photo Booth allowed you to create your own pictures from Poptropica art assets.
The old friends profile prior to the 2019 update had features like island albums, battle ranking, and more.
Invisible Ring: What’s the plan for Poptropica Worlds? Will there be more islands there, or will it eventually fuse with Poptropica Original?
Abhi: We had to pause development on Poptropica Worlds so we could focus on the conversion of Poptropica from Flash to Haxe. We’re still working on a plan for Poptropica Worlds, but for now, our focus is still on Poptropica.
The Pop Creators are focusing on Poptropica Original, not Poptropica Worlds.
Maxx: Will the old islands be adapted for the Poptropica app (iOS and Google Play)? (I really enjoyed playing Cryptids and Big Nate for the nostalgia factor, and would really like to replay them on the iPad.)
Abhi: Some of the older islands won’t be available on mobile in their original form. They were built using a version of ActionScript from prior to mobile games even existing! Since they can’t be converted there aren’t a lot of options outside of working on a way for players to still access and play them after Flash is no longer actively supported.
Mess of a Being: When recreating old Flash islands for Haxe, will you consider making changes to the stories, like with the new-ish 24 Carrot Island on Poptropica Worlds?
Abhi: Yes, this is definitely in the plans. We’re also tweaking some of the islands since we know there are spots that were too hard or confusing for players. Mythology Island that comes out in November will be the first island we’ve converted that will have changes to it.
Editor’s note: The remastered Mythology Island came out on Haxe ahead of schedule last Friday, October 30. Read more about the release and initial community feedback here!
Aphrodite now gives up her precious vanity mirror without a challenge.
Fandom Fun
wow: What do you think about the Poptropica fandom community?
Abhi: We wouldn’t be where we are today if it weren’t for our fans. We’re actually bringing back our VIP program to help elevate our super fans. Stay tuned to the Poptropica Blog for more details coming out soon.
Theo (of Dimension Bros): Do you keep up with certain Poptropica fans’ postings (blogs, Instagram artists, YouTube channels, etc)? If so, which ones?
Abhi: We definitely do and Dimension Bros is one of them! We see almost everything tagged with Poptropica and regularly share our favorites among the Pop Creators. We’re also working to share them more on our blog and social media.
by @dimension_bros (drawn by @hfevra)
by @happyclonetrooper
Incredible Fire: Can we have another Create Your Dream Island contest? This monumental contest that gave us Arabian Nights Island happened 7 years ago, and many fans today would love the chance to participate.
Abhi: Definitely! How about after this interview gets posted we start the contest?
IsaacEntertains (of Dimension Bros): Since a few fans have shared their lists, we’d like to know: who does the Poptropica team declare are the top 10 hottest Poptropica characters?
Abhi: That’s like asking a parent which kid is their favorite.
Emma I: What does the process of making an island look like?
Abhi: We actually just did a blog post about this for the Zomberry Special Event. To start off we talk about different story ideas and iterate on that until we have a story the whole team likes. From there we start storyboards so everyone knows the sequence of events and has an idea of what each scene will look like. The developers use the storyboards to start their initial coding while the artists start to make all the art and animations. There are a lot of meetings during those steps with feedback, changes, more feedback, and even more changes. It takes months for an island to be built because of how many scenes, mini-games, NPCs, and prizes need to be made. There’s also music that needs to be composed and of course, a lot of testing.
Artists use software to create in-game animations for Poptropica.
GEAR: How long does it take to make one character, from their initial design to putting them in the game?
Abhi: Anywhere from 1-2 weeks. Characters with a lot of animations take the longest.
GEAR: Are you hiring? How do people get involved in working with Poptropica, and what kind of skills/talents do you look for?
Abhi: If someone is new to game design and development it’s best if they keep a lookout for when we post internship opportunities. We look for all types of skillsets, from artists to animators to developers. Outside of game development, we have marketing, which includes making videos and social media posts, and analysts who help go through game data to see how things in the game are performing. There are a lot of ways to get involved with Poptropica, it just depends on what part of the game industry you want to get involved with.
The Poptropica team in 2016 celebrating the game’s 9th birthday with cake at the office.
PHB: What does the Poptropica team currently look like now? How many people are on the team and doing what kinds of work?
Abhi: The Poptropica team is made up of team members all around the world. We have artists, game developers, web developers, graphic designers, testers, and more. Maintaining and growing a game like Poptropica requires a lot of people!
PHB: Fans have noticed that Poptropica’s newer (and fewer) islands lack the depth of storytelling found in many of its older islands. Why has Poptropica strayed from this original vision, and will you return to this key element which made the game unique?
Abhi: Storytelling is still core to what Poptropica is and always will be. Creating a full island story and experience can take anywhere from 3-6 months and requires the full team. Since we’re still working on converting the old islands we’ve been creating some smaller and shorter experiences so you have something to do in-between the islands being converted.
The Zomberry Hero special event was a smaller and shorter experience released in October 2020 while island conversion was in progress.
Dangerous Icicle: Why are there so many ads in the Poptropica browser? (The whole screen is littered with ads, even ads for Poptropica, and the new video ads in between scenes were not well received.)
Abhi: We added more ad units to the game browser and in-between scenes due to demand. A lot of the new units, like in-between scenes, are being tested and may not stay permanently.
Natalie: The demand for more ads came from advertisers. COVID-19 has made most businesses change how they approach advertising and that impacted how our partners work with us. While we know players aren’t crazy about the ads, advertising is part of what funds the development of Poptropica. We’re always working to find the right balance.
With the recent inclusion of video ads, it is possible to encounter a full screen of ads while playing Poptropica. Sometimes the ads are for Poptropica itself!
Tyler N: What is Jeff Kinney’s involvement with Poptropica these days?
Abhi: He isn’t actively involved at the current moment since most of our efforts have been focused on converting the game from Flash to Haxe instead of new islands. Plus, he’s pretty busy with his book series!
Tyler N: What, if any, do plans for a Poptropica movie, TV show, or animated series look like right now? (It was hinted at in the Q&A with the previous Poptropica CEO.)
Abhi: This is something that we’re always considering. It takes time to make partnerships like this happen and isn’t something we’ve ruled out.
MaryannTheConqueror: Are there any plans for more Poptropica merch, and is there a way fans (especially the nostalgic ones) could be involved in creating/suggesting ideas for that? Many have some very cool ideas!
Abhi: We have a new shop launching in November and yes, we definitely want suggestions! We’ll let you all know more on the Poptropica Blog.
Editor’s note: Since answering this Q&A, the Poptropica Creators’ Blog has shared about their plans to sell merch and invited fans to give suggestions!
Potential Poptropica merch?
MaryannTheConqueror: Are the Poptropica Creators OK with small-scale sales of fan-made merch (such as through Etsy or at conventions, or print-on-demand sites like RedBubble)?
Abhi: I love fan art and creations that are inspired by Poptropica. Using our art and logo files for merch isn’t okay though.
PHB: Will Poptropica consider adapting its content for a progressively older player base? Though many started playing Poptropica as kids, many fans are now teens and young adults. And as Poptropica Creators have shared before, Poptropica stories have the potential to carry more than just a superficial experience.
Abhi: It’s an interesting idea and we often talk about how we can extend the stories outside of the main game. The core of our audience is still on the younger side, similar to when you probably started playing. It’s who the game is made for, so we have to stay true to that as our core focus.
Natalie: The majority of the Poptropica players are still under 13. We have over a million kids playing every month and while the PHB fandom is big, it doesn’t encompass all of our players. Similar to when a lot of you started playing, a lot of our players today are introduced to and play Poptropica in school. They also discover us through advertisements on kid-specific websites.
Oh Baby: Young at heart is usually good enough.
Mess of a Being and Tiny Bean: What do you have to say to criticism about the ending of Monster Carnival Island, which some fans have found problematic? (This fan video highlights the issues, explaining that Ringmaster Raven’s portrayal plays into ugly stereotypes and that he is given disproportionately unfair treatment by the townsfolk.)
Abhi: I totally get it. This is definitely one of those instances where you know the intent doesn’t align with the issue and you have to ask, “How was this affected by implicit bias?” We’re actually auditing all the islands for this reason and have already revised Monster Carnival for its conversion to Haxe. I appreciate that players bring this to our attention. It’s the only way we can all collectively move forward in the right direction.
Ringmaster Raven deserved better.
PHB: What is the current vision of Poptropica in terms of how it hopes to impact the next generation?
Abhi: I want Poptropica to continue to inspire young fans around the world. Gaming has changed a lot since Poptropica was first introduced and I’m proud of the fact that kids still love our characters and stories. Seeing videos of people coming to play Poptropica after 10 years and their enthusiasm for the game is amazing. All of the fan art (and fanfiction) is inspiring and shows that Poptropica holds a place in players’ hearts.
Mess of a Being: Are there characters in Poptropica that the Creators see as LGBT? Who might they be? (For fan discussion on this topic, see Dimension Bros’ video on analyzing queerness in Poptropica.)
Abhi: Poptropica always has been and always will be inclusive. It’s part of why we want players to be able to customize their characters however they want and why we removed the gender selector when setting up an account. I don’t think we have any characters where their gender identity or sexual orientation plays a role in the story, but it’s something I think we should consider for future islands. Representation matters and we’ll always work to create a place where everyone feels like they belong.
GEAR: Thoughts on Dr. Beev?
Abhi: Dr. Beev is an enigma. He does periodically show up for parties though.
Nice gnawing you too, Dr. Beev.
You made it to the end! Thanks so much to Abhi and Natalie for joining us on this Q&A and taking the time to address some fan questions and concerns. It’s assuring to hear there are big plans for Poptropica even beyond the end of Flash gaming!
What did you all think of their responses? What further questions do you have for the Poptropica team? Share your thoughts in the comments below and on the PHC Discord!
— the Poptropica Help Blog —
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Bring in your questions for Poptropica’s CEO!
October 13, 2020 Slanted Fish
Hey Poptropicans, we’ve got something special lined up for you!
We’ve been in touch with Poptropica’s current CEO, Abhi Arya, who is also the chief of Coolmath Games and Sandbox & Co., Poptropica’s parent company. We asked Mr. Arya if he’d be interested in doing a Q&A with readers of the Poptropica Help Blog, and he said yes!
Do you wonder about what goes on behind the scenes of making Poptropica, what the future holds for the game, and more? Send in your questions in the comments of this post, and we’ll gather some of your questions for the Poptropica CEO and team to answer.
While we wait to hear their insights, you can revisit this 2015 interview we did with the then-CEO of Poptropica, Jess Brallier! Poptropica has changed a lot in the past five years, especially with the external factor of having to adapt to a post-Flash future, and this is a great opportunity for both fans and the Creators to reconnect about what’s been going on.
We’ll be taking questions from now until next Tuesday, October 20, so fire away in the comments! And we’ll keep you posted on their answers here on the PHB, so stay tuned… 😄
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Justice Department Bad Boys: More Than 650 Cases of Misconduct Documented in 12-Year Period
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Federal prosecutors, judges, and other officials at the Justice Department committed over 650 acts of professional misconduct in a recent 12-year period, according to a new report published by a DC-based watchdog group, the Project On Government Oversight. POGO investigators came up with the number after reviewing documents put out by the Department of Justice’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR). According to one little-noticed OPR document published last year, a DOJ attorney failed to disclose a “close personal relationship” with the defendant in a case he was prosecuting, in which he negotiated a plea agreement to release the defendant on bond. An immigration judge also made “disparaging remarks” about foreign nationals. POGO contends that this number is only the tip of the iceberg and OPR needs to release more information about this misconduct to the public.
“The bottom line is we just don’t know how well the Justice Department investigates and disciplines its own attorneys for misconduct when it occurs,” says Nick Schwellenbach, a contributor to POGO. “The amount and types of misconduct DOJ’s own investigators conclude has happened suggests more [information] should be public than is already, including naming names of offending prosecutors that commit serious misconduct.”
OPR is responsible for investigating ethics complaints at the Justice Department, but the office reports directly to the attorney general. POGO argues that this insular system might not be sufficient to provide effective oversight of prosecutor wrongdoing. Last year, for example, two federal judges issued court orders complaining that DOJ attorneys had misled them about the full scale of the NSA’s surveillance activities—but OPR was never aware of the complaints and didn’t investigate them even though a former OPR attorney said that they should have triggered an inquiry, according to USA Today.
Between fiscal year 2002 and FY2013, of the more than 650 documented cases of DOJ employee misconduct, 400 were characterized as “reckless” or “intentional” by OPR. In OPR’s latest report, from FY2012, the office received over 1,000 complaints and other correspondence about Justice Department employees (over half of these complaints came from incarcerated individuals) and opened 123 inquiries and investigations.
In one case from 2012, a Justice Department attorney falsely told a court that the government didn’t have evidence that a key witness suffered from an ongoing mental-health disorder—when the prosecutor did have that evidence, according to OPR. The attorney was suspended for two weeks and the state bar was notified. In another case, an immigration judge presiding over a case where a father and his daughter were fighting removal from the United States was found by OPR to have “engaged in professional misconduct by acting in reckless disregard of his obligation to appear to be fair and impartial” and to have made biased statements against immigrants. The judge was suspended for 30 days.
OPR isn’t responsible for disciplining employees; that’s up to others in the Justice Department. OPR also no longer publicly names Justice Department employees found to be conducting misconduct, although it did so for a brief period during the Clinton presidency. In 2010, the American Bar Association passed a resolution asking the Obama administration to release more information about Justice Department investigations, potentially including names, but so far, not much has changed.
“The department takes all allegations of attorney misconduct seriously, and that is why the Office of Professional Responsibility thoroughly reviews each case and refers its findings of misconduct to relevant state bar associations when the rules of the state bar are implicated,” says a Justice Department spokeswoman. “OPR also regularly provides detailed information on the resolution of complaints to the defense attorneys, judges, and others who send allegations of misconduct to the department.”
A bill proposed on Thursday by Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.) would overhaul how misconduct is investigated at the Justice Department. Right now, only OPR is allowed to look into ethics complaints, instead of the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General, which is widely considered to be more independent. The senators’ bill would move that authority to the IG’s office. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who supports the bill, says: “When Americans pledge to abide by ‘liberty and justice for all,’ that does not mean that those pursuing justice can creatively apply different standards or break the rules to get convictions—it means that in America everyone is held equally accountable.”
Obama Justice Department Intervenes in Gun Case—on Behalf of Notorious Gun Dealer
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Justice Department Sues Florida Over Disabled Kids in Nursing Homes
When Falling Behind on Rent Leads to Jail Time
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How a Smelly Fish Sauce Helped Solve One of Ancient Rome’s Mysteries
“Garum” has been bringing the umami flavor for centuries.
Jenny Luna
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During the early morning hours at the ports of the Mediterranean, circa 50 A.D, fishermen would haul hundreds of anchovies, mackerel, and tuna back to shore, gut the carcasses, and leave them on the docks. As the sun heated the day, the fish entrails began to ferment. It’s not exactly the most appetizing scene to imagine, but it was the way that early chefs concocted one of the most highly sought-after sauce in ancient Rome: garum.
“[People] would move the fish outside of the city because it created such a stench,” says Tom Nealon, an antique cookbook collector and the author of Food Fights & Culture Wars: A Secret History of Taste. On the latest episode of Bite, we talked to Nealon about his attempt to recreate an ancient recipe that incorporated garum (sneak preview: It didn’t go very well). The interview with Nealon begins at 11:15:
Garum, or colatura di alici, wasn’t unlike Southeast Asian fish sauce, a condiment that gives Thai and Vietnamese food its distinctive umami flavor. In ancient Rome, the highest-quality garum was saved for elites, the lower quality for slaves.
Engraving of fisherman, 18th Century
Wellcome Library, London/ Courtesy of The Overlook Press
But Garum brought more than a distinctive flavor to 3rd and 4th century cuisine—it also helped historians put a precise date on the fall of Pompeii. According to Pompeii’s Applied Research Laboratory, when leftover jars of rotten fish bones and entrails were discovered at the site of one of the ancient city’s producers, they were referenced against written accounts to confirm the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on August 24 of 79 A.D.
If you’re hungry for a taste from the past, it’s not too late to get a robustly savory dish made with garum. Companies in Italy’s Amalfi Coast still honor tradition and produce the sauce, and US restaurants like Ava Genes in Portland now import bottles.
To hear more from Nealon and discover other ancient recipes inspired by Season 7 of Game of Thrones, listen to our latest episode of Bite.
Did Trump Just Cut Guest Farmworker Wages by as Much as 50 Percent?
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EPA vs. Corn Huggers
To the casual observer, it might seem like corn-state representatives got a big win over the Environmental Protection Agency last week, as administrator Lisa Jackson vowed that pending biofuels rules will reflect “uncertainty” around the indirect emissions that come from land-use change related to biofuel production. But upon closer inspection, it sure looks like Jackson played Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and other corn-state Democrats on this issue, offering them a pittance so they’d back off attempts to thwart EPA rulemaking.
The EPA is currently considering working on a updates to the renewable fuel standard. Harkin and other ethanol supporters have sought to block the EPA from considering the greenhouse gas emissions resulting from land use change in their final rule.
Harkin had planned to introduce an amendment to the EPA and Interior appropriations bill that would block the EPA from spending funds to study and include international indirect land use change emissions in their rulemaking on the Renewable Fuels Standards for one year. But last Wednesday, Jackson sent Harkin a letter informing him that their analysis would attempt to account for uncertainty involved in indirect land-use emissions. “This analysis will allow us to quantify the impact of uncertainty on the lifecycle emissions,” the letter states. “We will present these estimates in the final rule, and I plan to incorporate those estimates of uncertainty in my regulatory decisions.” Yet the letter made it clear that studies thus far “indicate that it is important to take into account indirect emissions from biofuels when looking at the lifecycle emissions.”
Apparently, that was enough to fend off Harkin’s onslaught. “In light of the EPA letter, and because EPA had said it would delay issuing regulations to establish renewable fuel volume biofuel requirements for 2010, Harkin decided not to press the amendment today,” said Harkin spokesperson Grant Gustafson in a statement. “Harkin considers setting those fuel requirements in a timely manner as critically important to our national strategy for reducing our dangerous dependence on imported oil.”
But that’s not to say that Harkin and other corn-huggers won’t pull out a win in the end, when the EPA finalizes its rules. They also scored a win last week when the final EPA rule on reporting greenhouse gas emissions excluded ethanol producers, after listing them in the initial proposed rule.
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Trump Won’t Impose the Russia Sanctions His Administration Announced Yesterday
It’s only the latest example of Trump pushing back against his advisers on Russia policy.
Dan Friedman
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Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump speak in Da Nang, Vietnam, at an economic summit in November. Mikhail Klimentyev/ZUMA
President Donald Trump’s battle with his own administration over Russia policy continued as he walked back economic sanctions targeting Russian companies connected to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s chemical weapons program the day after Trump’s United Nations ambassador, Nikki Haley, announced the penalties.
The Washington Post reported Monday that Trump told his national security team to hold off on implementing the sanctions, which were designed to punish Russia for abetting the Assad’s April 4 chemical weapons attack on civilians in a rebel stronghold. The reversal came after the Kremlin complained the sanctions were overly harsh.
The walkback was a sharp rebuke for Haley, who has used her post in New York, outside Trump’s Washington orbit, to talk tough to autocratic regimes. In doing so, she has distinguishing herself from Trump, who has faced criticism for striking an appeasing tone toward autocrats.
Haley said Sunday on CBS News’ Face the Nation that the Treasury Department would announce sanctions by Monday targeting “any sort of companies that were dealing with equipment related to Assad and chemical weapons use.”
Haley continued, “Our goal was to send a very strong message to Assad and his friends that we are not going to watch them continue to use chemical weapons on their people.”
But Trump was not yet comfortable rolling out new sanctions and was upset by Haley’s announcement, according to the Post. As a result, the White House informed the Russian Embassy in Washington that the sanctions were not coming. White House aides also claimed Haley had erred by stating that a decision had already been reached.
“We are considering additional sanctions on Russia and a decision will be made in the near future,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement on Monday.
This is not the first time Trump has appeared to push back on his own advisers’ efforts to toughen the administration’s policy on Russia. After the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain in March, the administration expelled 60 Russian diplomats in coordination with European allies. But Trump reportedly berated aides in a curse-laden rant after learning European countries had ejected fewer Russians than the United States had.
After his election, Trump reportedly pressed the State Department to review options for unilaterally lifting sanctions that the United States has imposed on Moscow since Russia’s 2014 incursion into Ukraine. And last year, Trump opposed another set of economic penalties that Congress overwhelmingly approved in response to Russian interference in the 2016 election. Trump reluctantly signed the bill only after aides convinced him that Congress’ veto-proof majority vote for the measure left him no choice. But he delayed implementation of the sanctions, before announcing in January that he would not impose them at all because they were not needed, in apparent defiance of Congress.
Trump Launches Attack on Syria
Trump Administration Imposes Sanctions on Russian Oligarchs
Michael Flynn Vowed to Put Ending Russia Sanctions Among “First Orders of Business,” Whistleblower Says
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The recognition and accolades the school, its students and the staff have been recipients of, since its inception are aplenty. A sum up of the most important are as follows:
The school was accredited with the International School Award by the British Council between 2012 and 2015.
The school was awarded the Guru Vandan 2016 Academic Excellence Award for the achievement and dedication in the field of education by Mantra Events.
Our school received a Global Partnership from the British Council Teacher Grant. Dr. Revathy Parameswaran and Mrs. Shylaja Vinod, teacher coordinators for the programme, visited our partner schools in Wales in 2013 as part of the same.
Three successive principals of the school are recipients of the coveted National Award to Teachers from the President of India:
Mrs. K. Alamelu (19900
Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Srivatsan (2002)
Mrs. Lakshmi Srinivasan (2013)
Dr. Revathy Parameswaran, Vice Principal, HOD, Maths is a distinguished Fullbright Scholar(2013). She is also the recipient of the ‘Best Teacher award from Srinivasa Ramanujam Academy of Maths and was accredited as Global Teacher by the British Council in 2013. She was awarded the ‘Shri Kola Perumal Chetty Best Teacher Award 2016-17’ for her contribution and service rendered to the community for the cause of education.
Mr. K. Kalidasan, HOD, P.E.D., is the recipient of NDTV Best Teacher Award for excellence in sports in 2012. He has been awarded the ‘Jeeva Jyothi Award in Physical Education’ for the year 2016 by Dr. S. Navraj Chellaiah Charitable Trust.
Dr. S. Venkataraman, HOD, Art Department is the recipient of NDTV Award for Best Teacher in 2015
Mr. R. Sivakumar, Vice Principal, was awarded ‘The Best Teacher Award’ by the Lions Club of Avadi and Jaigopal Garodia Vivekananda Vidyalaya, Avadi in the year 2016.
Mrs. E Bhagavathi, HOD – Tamil was awarded ‘ The Best Teacher Award’ by the Lions Club of Avadi and Jaigopal Garodia Vivekananda Vidyalaya, Avadi in the year 2017.
Mr.S.U.Gopalakrishnan, PGT Maths was awarded ‘The Best Teacher award’ by the Srinivasa Ramanujam Academy of Maths.
Participation in International Programmes:
Mrs. Lakshmi Srinivasan attended the full time intensive course of 12 weeks in Syllabus Design and Materials Writing as part of the CBSE Project – British Council’s ODA at the College of St. Mark and St. John, Plymouth, England in 1989.
Dr. Revathy Parameswaran, attended the International Congress on Mathematics Education in Seoul and presented a paper on ‘Relevance of examples in mathematics and its relevance to school education’ in the year 2012. She participated in the Fullbright Distinguished awards in Teaching (DFAT) Programme at the College of Education at the University of Maryland, USA from August 2013 to December 2013. She also participated in the 13th International Congress on Mathematical Education 2016 held at the University of Hamburg, in July 2016 and presented a paper on the theme ‘Formative Assessments in Classrooms in the Indian context’.
Our Students have always performed well in competitive examinations. The best ranks were:
1987: Rajaram awarded rank 25 in IIT JEE
1996: Prasanna awarded rank 1 in IIT JEE
2003: Aravindan awarded rank 28 in IIT JEE
2005: Anand Venkatraman awarded rank 2 All India Medical Entrance Examination
2009: Prashanth awarded rank 9 in IIT JEE
Several of our students have done excellently in the International Olympiads
1995-1996: Sumankar Shankar: Silver Medal (Toronto, Canada)
1999-2000: Aravind Narayanan: Silver Medal (Bucharest, Romania)
1999-2000: S.Ashok: Silver Medal (Antalya,Turkey)
2001-2002: Sruti Srivatsan: Bronze Medal (Jurmala, Latvia)
2002-2003: Srivats Madhavan: Bronze Medal (Minsk, Belarus)
2004-2005: Anand Venkatraman: Gold Medal (Beijing, China)
2007-2008: P G Nandan: Silver Medal (Mumbai, India)
2001-2002: Arjun Krishnan: Bronze Medal(Groningen, Netherlands)
2002-2003: V Aravindan: Gold Medal (Athens, Greece)
2002-2003: B Vikram: Silver Medal (Athens, Greece)
2005: G Karthik: Silver Medal (Taipei, Taiwan)
Informatics:
2006: S Swarun Kumar: Bronze Medal (Merida, Mexico)
2007: B Venkatesh: Represented India (Zagreb, Croatia)
2009: V Prashant: Silver Medal (Bulgaria)
2014: Prashant Mahesh: Bronze Asia-Pacific
Astronomy and Astrophysics
2014: Shruthi Sridhar: Silver Medal (Suceava,Romania)
Sports and Physical Activities
V Shankar of Class XI (1992) , a Rashtrapathi Scout represented India at the Asia Pacific Jamboree in Japan
2008: V. Tejas Ravichandran: Gold Medal (boys under 14) at the Commonwealth Chess Championship; and ?? at the World Youth Chess Championship 2009
?? : N. Vidya: Table Tennis State Champion in Junior Girls Category , Women State Ranking No.2
??: CH. Anjani and Rashmitha: Represented India as a member of the US sponsored India – Pakistan Girls Soccer Sports Visitors Program organized by ‘The U.S.Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs’.
2014: R. Adhithi: Represented India in the ?? World Cup 2015 ?? qualifying round held at Dhaka in 2014
Extra-Curricular Achievement: Our students have always excelled at extra curricular activities like debates, quizzes, etc
TCS IT WIZ Quiz-National
2013 S. Abhinav of Class XI and Bharath Sivakumar of Class XII: National Runner up
2014: S. Abhinav of Class XII and Arjun Aravind of Class XI: Mega Final Winners
2011: Dhruva Bhat, X-D, represented Team India at the World School’s Debating Championship held at Dundee, Scotland in 2011. Dhruva and Sriram Sridharan, class XI were on the team for the 2012 Edition held at Cape Town, South Africa.
Youth Exchange Programmes
International Youth Exchange Programme: Three of our students were selected to visit Japan as a part of Japan – East Asia Network of Exchange for students and Youth programme of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (JENYSYS).
2008-2009 Ravi Kiran Ramaswamy and Nandita Bhaskar
2009-2010 Varun Dwarkanathan
CBSE competitions: Our students regularly participate and excel at CBSE competitions at all levels.
Our team represented by R. Hari (XI A) and Venkatakrishnan Sutharshan (XI A) emerged winners in the CBSE National Science Exhibition held at Blue Bells Group of Schools, Gurgaon, Haryana in 2015.
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40% of Online Advertising Misses the Target: Here’s Why By Edie Lush
21 May 2014 by PsychMatters Staff
Originally posted by Edie Lush on The Week, Edie gives the lowdown on what she took away from Psych last week.
Make ads funny, sexy, cute and illuminating – but what really matters is that they are unpredictable.
I know I’m not alone in being cross with online advertisements. In fact, since writing articles on Singularity and Virtual Reality I am being stalked by ads for eye-tracking goggles and brain sensors.
At least they are vaguely more appropriate than the Facebook ads I get pushed: you can keep trying, Facebook, but I’m not going to post a picture (below) that says, ‘Far away is never too far for friends’. What does that even mean?
So it doesn’t surprise me that Nielsen said on Friday that 40 per cent of online ads aren’t hitting their target audience. It is pretty rare that I’ll ever click on an advertisement being pushed at me – even if (especially if) I’ve looked at the product before.
Last week the UK government announced it was about to increase its ad spend by 22 per cent to almost £300 million to explain deficit reduction, the Scottish independence referendum and Britain’s role in Afghanistan. Since all of these campaigns will include a significant amount of digital spend I’m hoping they are going to be hiring someone better than Facebook to do it.
With these stories bothering me I visited Chinwag Psych’s conference on Behavioral Science last week and learned a bit about what does make people pay attention online.
Communication guru Mark Borkowski tossed around the phrase “idea porn” while he discussed what triggers you need to get people to pay attention and make a decision to do something. In short, he says: make it funny, sexy, cute, shocking, illuminating, spectacular, controversial, topical, and with a touch of schadenfreude. Or when all else fails, add a celebrity.
Brian Massey’s advice is to focus on the brain when you are trying to get people to buy, click or read. The “bouncers” that filter out all of the “language noise” that you don’t need to pay attention to are Broca’s area and Wernicke’s area.
To get Wernicke’s area engaged, relevant, emotional words work wonders. For example, which one of these links for an addiction centre would you guess gets more clicks:
“A place of New Beginnings.”
“Addiction torments Addicts and their Loved Ones.”
Using the second title increased clicks by 184 per cent because Massey says, “Language is not just decoded, it is adorned with memory, emotion and meaning.” Wernicke’s area is being wound up by the second title because it is “a complete story in seven words”.
Meanwhile Broca’s area is the part that tells you the difference between grass blowing in the wind and grass being stomped on by a tiger. It filters out the predictable and highlights the strange or unexpected. Guess which of these got the most clicks:
“Free Marketing Research: We hold all the secrets to internet marketing. Buy Now!”
“Free Marketing Research: Lousy Marketing ideas. Don’t come to our Site.”
The second one – because it’s unexpected and inconsistent with what you’re expecting. You’re tricking Broca’s bouncers.
Finally, a word on pictures.
André Morys put people in an MRI scanner and showed them two different websites: that of Amazon-owned Zappos and a relatively unknown company called Shoe Guru.
Now, I am a fan of the Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh and his Downtown Project, but the Zappos website, while easy to navigate, is more cluttered than sexy. Shoe Guru’s site on the other hand focuses on one “hero shot” of each shoe.
Morys’s MRI scan showed that nucleus accumbens (the part of the brain responsible for emotion) was stimulated much more when people looked at Shoe Guru than Zappos. You could see the brain producing feelings of desire, “like what you get from drugs or when you see an Apple product”. He argues that targeting the nucleus accumbens in this way gets you from “I’m able to buy it” to “I want to buy it” to “I have to buy it” as fast as you possibly can.
Where does this leave the government in their ad campaign that aims to convince the Scots to vote No to independence in the upcoming referendum? More in the need of brain scientists than Don Draper, I’d wager.
Photo (cc) Artur Ring on Flickr. All rights reserved.
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abolition of the Standards Board for England (“the Board”).
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Advancing the understanding of autism disease mechanisms through genetics
Nat Med. 2016 Apr;22(4):345-61. doi: 10.1038/nm.4071.
Luis de la Torre-Ubieta 1 2 , Hyejung Won 1 2 , Jason L Stein 1 2 3 4 , Daniel H Geschwind 1 2
1 Neurogenetics Program, Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
2 Center For Autism Research and Treatment, Semel Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
3 Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
4 UNC Neuroscience Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
DOI: 10.1038/nm.4071
Progress in understanding the genetic etiology of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has fueled remarkable advances in our understanding of its potential neurobiological mechanisms. Yet, at the same time, these findings highlight extraordinary causal diversity and complexity at many levels ranging from molecules to circuits and emphasize the gaps in our current knowledge. Here we review current understanding of the genetic architecture of ASD and integrate genetic evidence, neuropathology and studies in model systems with how they inform mechanistic models of ASD pathophysiology. Despite the challenges, these advances provide a solid foundation for the development of rational, targeted molecular therapies.
Autism Spectrum Disorder / genetics*
Autism Spectrum Disorder / pathology
Autism Spectrum Disorder / therapy
Child Development Disorders, Pervasive / genetics*
Child Development Disorders, Pervasive / pathology
Child Development Disorders, Pervasive / therapy
Disease Models, Animal
Genetic Predisposition to Disease*
Molecular Targeted Therapy*
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Here We Go: Trump Has Started Accusing the Dems of Stealing the 2020 Election
And his campaign is shamelessly fundraising off this lie.
Alex Brandon/AP
In the middle of a horrific crisis claiming the lives of thousands of Americans a day, President Donald Trump decided it was a fine time to undermine democracy.
Last week, as the coronavirus continued to burn through the United States, Trump’s campaign sent out an email from him soliciting contributions for his reelection effort and made a dangerous accusation: the 2020 election cannot be trusted. The first line of the email—which likely was sent to hundreds of thousands, if not more, people on Republican and conservative email lists—reads, “It’s no secret that the Democrats are trying to steal the Election out from under me.” The letter asserts that Democrats have “been plotting against me from the very beginning” and are deploying “fraud” to “rig the game” because “they know they can’t beat me at the ballot box.”
Less than seven months from Election Day, Trump was trying to undermine the process and cast doubt on its legitimacy. Without spelling out the matter at hand, he was responding to recent calls for an expansion in voting-by-mail as a way to hold elections safely during a pandemic. His letter referred to possible “chaos” from “ballot harvesting”—a term for volunteers or political operatives collecting absentee or mail-in ballots. But there has been no proof that such activity leads to significant fraud. Seventeen states already have some form of mail-in elections, and many others allow for absentee voting through the mail. (Remember, Trump falsely insisted after the 2016 election that there had been “millions” of fraudulent votes cast against him.)
So as the country struggles with how to hold elections during a pandemic—look at the mess that occurred recently in Wisconsin when Republicans successfully fought to hold an election that the governor wanted to postpone—Trump is telling his supporters that he (and they) are victims of a dark plot to rig the election. This echoes his demagogic rhetoric from the 2016 campaign trail. He repeatedly insisted then that he could only lose due to shenanigans, contending that rampant fraud was being mounted to swipe that election from him. He devised a nonsensical paradigm: if he won, the election was honest; if he lost, the election was crooked.
His rhetoric during that campaign was treacherous in and of itself; Trump was inviting his supporters to disbelieve the election results, should he lose. But it harmed American democracy in another critical way. His talk of a tainted election influenced how President Barack Obama and his top aides responded to the ongoing Russian attack on the election. With Trump griping about the contest being rigged, Obama and his crew feared confronting the Russian assault (which was helping Trump) too forcefully in public; they worried that Trump would point to such action as evidence of the non-existent “rigging” he was decrying. That is, because Trump was raising unfounded questions about the election, the Obama White House did not want to introduce into the mix other concerns about its legitimacy—which Trump could use as ammo. (“See? Obama says the Russians are helping me? They’re just doing that to cheat and rig the election against me.”) Trump’s trash-talking of the election boxed in the Obama administration, and Obama, rightly or not, opted to not highlight Moscow’s intervention in the campaign to the degree he could have. (Obama and his advisers tended to believe that Hillary Clinton would win, despite Moscow’s effort, and that the Russian interference could be addressed after the election.) This year, as Trump administration officials have warned that Russia again is interfering in the American election, Trump once more is pushing a baseless allegation of voting fraud as a diversion.
One thing Trump is good at is setting up narratives. He told his supporters in 2016 that a Trump loss would be evidence of a dishonest election. Consequently, if he had failed, he had his folks ready to believe Trump had been swindled and primed for a holy-hell reaction. Trump recently has created a self-serving plot line for the coronavirus crisis: if the situation improves, he can claim credit; if it does not, the governors are to blame. And now he’s jeopardizing the 2020 election by establishing a risky cover story: the Democrats are attempting to rip off the voters and stop Trump with illegal means.
And Trump is trying to raise money with this pitch. His letter asks its conservative and Republican recipients to send his campaign money it can use for an “Election Defense Fund.” A reader who clicks on the donation button is directed to a page requesting between $5 and $2800 dollars. The fine print at the bottom of the page notes that the money will go to the Trump campaign and the Republican Party in a 75/25 split. Maybe a donation will end up at an election defense fund. Maybe it will not.
Trump has been trampling on norms since he tramped into the White House. And much of the public and media has become inured to his creeping authoritarianism. In any normal circumstance involving any normal presidential candidate, a charge that the other party is stealing the election would prompt headlines, scrutiny, and a demand for proof. It would provoke cable television outrage. What’s the evidence? What harm does such a talk do? Does this encourage disrespect for elections and discourage voting? How could a president be so irresponsible and reckless with his rhetoric and so cavalier about undercutting American democracy? This email drew no such attention.
Trump’s excesses and extremes have been normalized. They no longer shock. Some barely even seem to warrant comment. After all, what’s one fundraising letter when Trump is profoundly mismanaging the US government’s response to a pandemic, lying, bullying, and proclaiming his own greatness at the daily Trump follies to distract from his actions and inaction that have contributed to the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans? Yet this give-me-money missive is a double-warning. First, Trump can be expected to continue to push this line in the coming months to sabotage the election. Second, he may well be preparing to deny results that do not keep him in the White House. While the nation is fixated on public health and economic crises of the moment, Trump and his lieutenants are looking ahead to the fall and readying an attack on the foundation of American self-governance. He is signaling how ugly this election will be and how much damage he is willing to cause to protect his own political health.
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Moving Up without Losing Your Way
Jennifer M. Morton
Hardcover ISBN: 9780691179230 $26.95/£22.00 Paperback ISBN: 9780691216935 £14.99/$17.95
Moving Up without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility
The dilemmas faced by disadvantaged college students seeking upward mobility and what educators can do to help these students flourish
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Upward mobility through higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant college students. While this path usually entails financial sacrifices and hard work, little attention has been paid to the personal compromises such students make as they enter worlds vastly different from their own. Measuring the true cost of higher education for those from disadvantaged backgrounds, Moving Up without Losing Your Way looks at the ethical dilemmas of upward mobility—the broken ties with family and friends, and the loss of community and identity—faced by students as they strive to earn a successful place in society. Drawing upon philosophy, social science, personal stories, and interviews, Jennifer Morton reframes the college experience, factoring in not just educational and career opportunities but also essential relationships. She urges educators to empower students with a new narrative, one that might allow them to achieve social mobility while retaining their best selves.
Winner of the Frederic W. Ness Book Award, Association of American Colleges and Universities
Jennifer M. Morton is associate professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and senior fellow at the Center for Ethics and Education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
"An empathetic and clear-eyed analysis of the difficult choices [strivers] must make."—James M. Lang, Chronicle of Higher Education
"Important and accessible."—Choice
"Morton is not the first person to describe the myths and ordeals of upward mobility. . . . But where Morton differs—and meaningfully contributes—is in her perspective as a philosopher."—Shaun Ossei-Owusu, Public Books
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stores © Ali AL-DAHER / AFP Part of Europe, including France, will return to its stores this weekend, reassured by the reflux of the coronavirus. France, which reopens its businesses on Saturday, sees the number of hospitalizations linked to Covid-19, including in intensive care, still decreasing.
Part of Europe, including France, will find its stores this weekend, reassured by the ebb of the coronavirus. In France, the first stage of gradual deconfinement takes place this Saturday with the reopening of all shops. The latest Covid-19 figures continue to show a drop in hospitalizations, including in intensive care. Follow the evolution of the situation live.
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France begins Saturday the first stage of gradual deconfinement Hospital pressure continues to decline, while the virus has killed 51,914 people in the country Europe is slowly deconfining
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French Prime Minister Jean Castex detailed Thursday the containment relief measures, which will be lifted on December 15 to be replaced by a national curfew, from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m. All the shops will reopen on Saturday, according to a strict protocol which obliges certain brands to find technical solutions, in particular to count the number of customers present in the store. Travel will be permitted within a radius of 20km for three hours. Here is what changes and what does not change from this Saturday .
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Restaurants reopen in parts of Germany, while Italy relaxes travel restrictions. Vienna and Berlin offer a possible route map for other European countries, including France , which is considering reopening its restaurants on 2 On Friday, Slovenia proclaimed an end to its coronavirus epidemic.
Coronavirus Live Updates. France Eases Some Pandemic Restrictions And Will Reopen The further easing is part of a gradual relaxation of restrictions in France that began with the May 11 end of a All four countries, including France , have seen significant declines in infections in recent weeks.
A return to normal, with restaurants reopening, is planned for January 20, but on the express condition that "the end of the year holiday period does not (have) resulted in a rebound in the epidemic" , warned the Prime Minister, recalling that until then, "teleworking will remain the rule and should be as massive as possible".
Hospital pressure still falling
Health data on Covid-19 has stopped deteriorating, with a further decline in admissions to intensive care units, but the epidemic has still killed 393 people in hospital in recent years 24 hours, according to figures from Public Health France published on Friday.
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mask With these new deaths in hospital, the number of deaths linked to the coronavirus has risen to 51,914 since the start of the epidemic in France, in hospitals and nursing homes. 28,648 people carrying the virus were still hospitalized Thursday, against 29,282 the day before, and after a peak to more than 33,000 in mid-November. The intensive care units had 3,883 patients (against 4,006 the day before), including 206 new admissions in 24 hours.
Relaxation of measures in Europe, but not everywhere
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Jason Kenney incorrectly identified which century Stephen Harper was Prime Minister (again)
Is Jason Kenney sure he knows what century he's living in?
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Is Jason Kenney sure he knows what century he’s living in?
The former federal Conservative minister deleted a tweet Saturday night announcing he’d received Stephen Harper’s blessings to seek the leadership candidate for Alberta’s Progressive Conservatives, joining Rob Anders as one of the chosen few to receive Harper’s golden touch.
Only problem? Kenney’s tweet identified Harper as the “20th century’s longest-serving Prime Minister.”
Of course, Harper was Prime Minister from 2006 until 2015. That time range would, in fact, place Harper’s Prime Ministership squarely in the 21st century, not the 20th century.
The screw up has a certain poetic irony about it considering Kenney has recently been described as “yesterday’s conservative” and as “the type of person who could lead the PCs into the 20th century.”
After all, in addition Kenney’s old-fashioned social conservativism, his cagey views on women’s reproductive rights and bizarre fears about the school system, this is a man who, in only the last few weeks, talked about radical “social engineering” in response to a question about transgender students and warned of “bohemian” youth being seduced by the wiles of communism.
But what makes this all the more remarkable is it actually is not the first time Kenney incorrectly named Harper as a 20th century Prime Minister:
Um … Kenney has already been reminded that Harper was not PM during the 20th century. https://t.co/joTSqCrydM
— Nora Loreto (@NoLore) July 10, 2016
In fact, during Kenney’s speech launching his leadership bid last week, he made a similar comment about the Harper government belonging to the 20th century:
Kenney got applause for calling Harper gov the longest-running Conservative gov’t in 20th century. Fact check: 21st century
— Jason Markusoff (@markusoff) July 6, 2016
Which led to these sorts of observations:
@markusoff Also several Ralph Klein references and a Ronald Reagan quote. Plenty of 20th century in this speech.
— Robson Fletcher (@CBCFletch) July 6, 2016
I am not the least bit surprised that Jason Kenney thinks it’s still the 20th century. https://t.co/7QDZ1MAnX5
— andrew barley (@Andrewmbarley) July 6, 2016
Did Kenney just say Harper govt was in 20th century? He actually doesn’t know what century it is. #backwards #ableg
— Matt Hannah (@mattjdh) July 6, 2016
Jason Kenney, taking you back to the good ol’ days of 1905. #20thcentury #ableg
— timothy chu (@timothy_chu) July 6, 2016
And Kenney plans to promise the best 19th century government Alberta has ever had. https://t.co/VPiEsdAPlT
— Gerry Porter (@ficklesonance) July 6, 2016
So, it kinda begs the question: is Jason Kenney sure he knows what century he’s living in?
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20th century Jason Kenney Kenneywatch Stephen Harper they said what?
Conservatives vow to “stand up” for door-to-door mail delivery, except they axed that in 2013
A fundraising e-mail suggests to potential donors the Conservatives will "stand up" for "door-to-door delivery for all Canadians."
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Are Conservatives stealing ideas from the NDP or did they forget the last decade ever happened?
A fundraising e-mail sent to supporters Friday criticizes the Trudeau Liberals for breaking a campaign promise to restore door-to-door mail delivery and boldly suggests the Conservatives will “stand up” for “door-to-door delivery for all Canadians.”
“Trudeau’s Liberals promised door-to-door mail delivery for all Canadians,” reads the e-mail, noting “they even promised a review of Canada Post to make…
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Despite Helena's offer to pay for the trip, Abraham turned a deaf ear to their pleas. Every woman united to an anarchist or vice versaknows very well that she should not exercise on him, or accept from him, domination of any kind. The sham, the hypocrisy of it. They failed to consider that from the blood of the martyrs grows the new seed, and that the frightful injustice will win new converts to the Cause.
Incidentally, Maria Louise subsequently became a Mahatma.
Emma Goldman was one of the invited speakers. But very few have succeeded in preserving their European education and culture while at the same time assimilating themselves with American life.
Emma Goldman entered into correspondence with Kropotkin and succeeded in securing his consent to arrange for him a series of lectures. The fire of enthusiasm swept her toward the public platform.
Marriage protecting the child, yet thousands of children destitute and homeless.
Yet the episode left her wounded to the heart. During interrogation he claimed to be an anarchist and said he had been inspired to act after attending a speech by Goldman.
Another teacher tried to molest his female students and was fired when Goldman fought back. Before McKinley died, Goldman offered to provide nursing care, referring to him as "merely a human being".
By requiring the involvement of the State, creating a sort of dependence on the State for things like tax benefits and social welfare, marriage is a powerful device to create the illusion that a government is necessary for such basic elements of human existence.
Soon, all too soon, disillusionment awaited them. Once inside she suffered an attack of rheumatism and was sent to the infirmary; there she befriended a visiting doctor and began studying medicine.
Is it more humane to go by a stroke of a blunt machete than by a whiff of Zyklon B. Yet the real Emma Goldman is almost quite unknown.
The boy is swallowed up in the pattern of the week--vanishes like a bare-legged pirate or Indian taken prisoner by missionaries.
Even in the darkest hours of later persecution Emma Goldman always found a haven of refuge in the home of this loyal sister. Robert Herrick, in Together; Pinero, in Mid-Channel; Eugene Walter, in Paid in Full, and scores of other writers are discussing the barrenness, the monotony, the sordidness, the inadequacy of marriage as a factor for harmony and understanding.
Owing to the suppression of the congress, the delegates were in danger of being expelled from France. Just as the animal cells, by mutual co-operation, express their latent powers in formation of the complete organism, so does the individual, by co-operative effort with other individuals, attain his highest form of development.
She asked for a raise and was denied; she quit and took work at a smaller shop nearby.
The true criterion of the practical, therefore, is not whether the latter can keep intact the wrong or foolish; rather is it whether the scheme has vitality enough to leave the stagnant waters of the old, and build, as well as sustain, new life.
When Emma Goldman arrived in New York inshe experienced little difficulty in associating herself with active Anarchists. Small wonder if she becomes a nag, petty, quarrelsome, gossipy, unbearable, thus driving the man from the house.
If the world is ever to give birth to true companionship and oneness, not marriage, but love will be the parent. Excited by the experience, Goldman refined her public persona during subsequent engagements. Her parents considered Emma goldman essay marriage behavior "loose" and refused to allow Goldman into their home.
Goldman began working as a seamstresssewing overcoats for more than ten hours a day, earning two and a half dollars a week. Although they found no evidence, they pressured her landlord into evicting her.
It is like that other paternal arrangement capitalism. From infancy, almost, the average girl is told that marriage is her ultimate goal; therefore her training and education must be directed towards that end. Like all conservative parents they, too, were quite convinced that their daughter would marry a respectable citizen, bear him children, and round out her allotted years surrounded by a flock of grandchildren, a good, religious woman.
No matter how decrepit the latter, he has been taught to be independent, self-supporting. Response to “Marriage and Love” by Emma Goldman Essay Sample “Marriage and Love”, an article by Emma Goldman tackles the issue of marriage and the notion of free motherhood.
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- Emma Goldman Emma Goldman was an anarchist, propagandist and most of all a feminist. She was born in Kovno, Lithuania. She moved with her family to St. Petersburg, Russia (), where she worked in a glove factory and absorbed the prevailing radical-revolutionary ideas. Teenage drug abuse research paper, essay on doctor words, rainy season essay in marathi, anarchism and other essays by emma goldman.
On July 23rd, Donald Trump’s red-white-and-navy-blue Boeing touched down in Laredo, Texas, where the temperature was climbing to a hundred and four degrees.
Inthe Times introduced. Marriage and Love Source: Emma Goldman’s Anarchism and Other Essays. THE popular notion about marriage and love is that they are synonymous, that they spring from the same motives, and cover the same human needs.
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A Rebalancing Act, Socio-Political Disfunction
by Perplexia May 31, 20202:15 pm January 10, 2021
What Went Wrong Where did We Go Wrong
“Trump is a swindler, but the Trumpocalypse of 2020 represents something a lot bigger and a lot worse than a swindle. In the fall of 2019, a nonpartisan research organization studied the distinctive attitudes of Republicans who watched Fox News as their primary source of information. Among that group, 55 percent said there was virtually nothing President Trump could do that would change their minds about supporting him. Fox News and the Facebook feed have become for many Americans friends more intimate and trusted than family or neighbors. The validation of their prejudices by television and Facebook is a validation of themselves.
And so, for the sake of flag and faith, millions of decent conservative Americans countenanced scandals, wrongs, disloyalty, and crime. Trump’s followers live in an isolated knowledge community that has developed its own situational ethics. They wanted to lock up Hillary Clinton for sending and receiving emails on a personal server, not caring even slightly when Ivanka Trump did the exact same thing or when Trump outright blabbed to the Russian foreign minister secrets much more vital than anything Clinton could possibly have risked. They plunged into the QAnon fantasy of a wise and good Trump poised to crush a global ring of child molesters, in order to avoid the reality of a malignant Trump who by his own admission had preyed upon teenage beauty-pageant contestants. The System Failed the Test of Trump
A psychologist explains how a nationwide ‘breakdown of empathy’ has created today’s toxic GOP
The US is a lot more corrupt than Americans realize, and the problem goes much deeper than Trump https://www.businessinsider.com/scandals-show-us-is-a-lot-more-corrupt-than-americans-realize-2019-3
A handful of ultra-rich dynastic families are bleeding the country dry — and destroying American democracy
How Trump Happened It’s not just anger over jobs and immigration. White voters hope Trump will restore the racial hierarchy upended by Barack Obama. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/03/how_donald_trump_happened_racism_against_barack_obama.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_top
What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class https://hbr.org/2016/11/what-so-many-people-dont-get-about-the-u-s-working-class
How the baby boomers broke America The most likely outcome in 2020 is that voters will yet again ask a baby boomer to fix what the baby boom broke. https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/26/how-the-baby-boomers-broke-america-058122?cid=apn
Did we declare independence from common sense?https://www.al.com/opinion/2017/07/did_we_declare_independence_fr.html
Why I’m helping people fight their biases https://qz.com/work/1223020/why-im-helping-people-fight-their-biases/
American hyper-capitalism breeds the lonely, alienated men who become mass killers Despair, rage and lack of human connection among white men are key culprits in America’s mass shooting epidemic https://www.salon.com/2017/11/08/american-hyper-capitalism-breeds-the-lonely-alienated-men-who-become-mass-killers_partner/
White fear elected Trump: Political scientist Diana Mutz on the “status threat” hypothesis
Noam Chomsky reveals exactly what went wrong in the 2016 presidential election that gave us Trump
Angry young white men, the “incel rebellion” and an age of worldwide reaction White supremacists, online misogynists and the rise of the far right: How to fight a rising tide of resentment https://www.salon.com/2018/05/12/angry-young-white-men-the-incel-rebellion-and-an-age-of-worldwide-reaction/
Conservative Naval War College professor explains how Fox News is an addictive drug for paranoid elders
Fall of the American Empire
We’ll Be Paying For Mark Halperin’s Sins For Years To Come Reports of sexual harassment destroyed his reputation and his career. But I want to talk about the deeper, subtler, more insidious effect Mark Halperin had on our politics. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/evefairbanks/mark-halperin-poisoned-our-politics
What Machiavelli can teach us about Trump and the decline of liberal democracy The infamous philosopher had a lot to say about why democracies fall. https://www.vox.com/2017/7/24/15913826/machiavelli-donald-trump-democracy-america-erica-benner
Conservative Men Are Obsessed With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Science Tells Us Why. Conservatives respond to fear more strongly than liberals do, says one neuroscientist who studies political anxiety. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/conservatives-afraid-alexandria-ocasio-cortez_n_5c38cb74e4b05cb31c421cc3?guccounter=1
What America can learn from the fall of the Roman republic Theory for why Trump supporters are so angry Cramer’s recent book, “The Politics of Resentment,” offers a third perspective. Through her repeated interviews with the people of rural Wisconsin, she shows how politics have increasingly become a matter of personal identity. Just about all of her subjects felt a deep sense of bitterness toward elites and city dwellers; just about all of them felt tread on, disrespected and cheated out of what they felt they deserved.http://wpo.st/2hME2 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/11/15/donald-trump-didnt-hoodwink-his-voters-says-professor-whos-spent-nearly-a-decade-researching-them/
Working class whites delivered the election to Donald Trump, and Kathy Cramer can help explain why. For the past nine years, the political science professor has been studying the politics of rural Wisconsinites, returning to the same people over and over, analyzing their views and tracing them over time. This election cycle, she’s had a front-row seat to the rise of Trump.
We first spoke to Cramer last week before the election. Her research emphasizes how personal identities and frames of mind shape the political beliefs we hold — even the facts we choose to see. In her recent book, “The Politics of Resentment,” she explains that the perspectives of rural voters of Wisconsin are dominated by their belief that the government and city elites disrespect them and deprive them of their “fair share.”
In this worldview, racial and economic anxieties shape — and are shaped by — people’s personal values, like their beliefs about who works hard, and who deserves what. As Cramer writes in her book
This is how the politics of resentment operates — it works through seemingly simple divisions of us versus them, but it has power because in these divisions are a multitude of fundamental understandings: who has power, who has what values and which of those values are right, who gets what, and perceptions of the basic fairness of all of this.
After the election, we returned to ask Cramer for her reaction. Wisconsin was supposed to be part of Hillary Clinton’s “blue wall” — but in the end the state went to Trump, largely thanks to the white working-class and rural voters that Cramer studies. Some of these Trump supporters may have even voted for President Obama in 2012.
People with extreme political views have trouble thinking about their own thinking, study finds – Popular Science
Situational Assessment 2017: Trump Edition
While many things have changed in the world in the past two years, 2016 saw what looks like a phase transition in the political domain. While the overall phenomenon is global in scale and includes Brexit and other movements throughout Europe, I want to focus specifically on the victory of the “Trump Insurgency” and drill down into detail on how this state change will play out.
Decline of intellect – science as truth https://www.facebook.com/neildegrassetyson/videos/10155195888806613/
Square and stationary earth http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2015/09/30/history_of_flat_earth_theory_orlando_ferguson_s_map_of_the_flat_earth.html?wpsrc=atlasobscura
Merkel says pandemic reveals limits of ‘fact-denying populism’ https://thehill.com/policy/international/506393-merkel-says-pandemic-reveals-limits-of-fact-denying-populism
Perspective | This was the week America lost the war on misinformation — The Washington Post
‘A war against COVID and stupidity’: Houston doctor — Reuters
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The Prophecies of Q American conspiracy theories are entering a dangerous new phase. https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/610567/
The Death Of Expertise https://thefederalist.com/2014/01/17/the-death-of-expertise/
How the Right Learned to Loathe Higher Education Conservative dislike of the academy isn’t new. But it is alarming.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-the-Right-Learned-to/245580?key=lUtmf4EyiX3iIy8Gt541orbwlcJ6jTOv9rEx4XvR5hdaWtQI_YKNNGRpvvYEwg4fQk9MMC1ZM250bGxWLXhDYks0aXE1dnNiOWxpd1IyRXRwXzNtVHZxWE1oWQ&sfns=mo
The man who studies the spread of ignorance http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160105-the-man-who-studies-the-spread-of-ignorance
This Presidency is Killing Relationships—and We’re All Grieving Nothing adequately explains their complete rejection of Science.
Nothing completely accounts for them instantly embracing the most nonsensical of conspiracies.
Nothing truly prepared me for their social media explosions of racism.
Nothing fully connects the dots between their past goodness and this present ugliness.
I can microscopically parcel out every conceivable contributing factor: white supremacy, the pro-life lie, Fox News propaganda, toxic masculinity, Evangelical indoctrination, intellectual laziness, manipulated nationalism, unchecked capitalism, hatred for Hillary, political fatigue, disenfranchisement, fear of replacement, and celebrity worship:
They fail to adequately explain how I lost people I loved and respected.
They don’t cushion the pain of these separations.
They don’t make it easier for me to grieve the loss of living people.
They don’t comfort me in these relational funerals.
And as much as I am in mourning, I know that these people are likely similarly grieving me right now; that they too are lamenting their own list of ways they imagine I’ve changed or lost the plot or abandoned my convictions or betrayed my religion—and they’re wondering where they lost me.https://johnpavlovitz.com/2020/08/06/this-presidency-is-killing-relationships-and-were-all-grieving/
Big tech experts Jeff Orlowski and Tristan Harris explain why lies spread six times faster than truth on social media. @hari @TristanHarris @jefforlowski Amanpour and Company on Twitter
How professional wrestling perfectly explains Donald Trump’s ‘Superman’ stunt https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/11/politics/donald-trump-superman-shirt-coronavirus/index.html
Appeasement Got Us Where We Are It’s time to stand up to the fascists among us. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/opinion/donald-trump-fascism.html
People with extreme anti-science views know the least, but think they know the most: study https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/people-with-extreme-anti-science-views-know-the-least-but-think-they-know-the-most-study
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Gone are the days when AT&T was always the premium operator partner for an iPhone launch. This year, Verizon took star billing at the launch of the iPhone 12 – admittedly the lowest-key iPhone debut ever. Apple continued to split its flagship range into two families – the iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max – but the most interesting features were the wide range of spectrum combinations supported, and a Lidar option that provides application developers with some new options for camera and environment mapping capabilities.
Many operators have been talking, for at least a year, about how a 5G iPhone would transform their business cases, but when the day came, there was none of the fevered anticipation and excited discussion of the old days. It may be that the mantra, that an iPhone automatically drives massive uptake of a new service, is no longer true in the 5G era.
Apple introduced the new models with all three US national operators, but featured Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg as a special guest, joining Apple CEO Tim Cook on the stage of the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California. This enabled the operator to crow over the launch of its 5G Nationwide network, which now reaches 200m people in 1,800 cities and towns, providing broad 5G coverage to add to the localized fixed wireless services of the 5G Ultra Wideband service.
Given Verizon’s shortage of midband 5G spectrum – which has driven it to deploy initially in millimeter wave bands, with their limited range – the key enabler of 5G Nationwide is dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS). This enables Verizon to use some of its 4G spectrum in 850 MHz for 5G as well, on a flexible basis, and therefore improve its coverage and indoor penetration even before it can acquire new midband spectrum in the C-band auction later this year.
Heidi Hemmer, VP of technology at Verizon, said: “We have built that 5G nationwide network on top of the best 4G network”, though she acknowledged that speeds would be closer to those of 4G, because of the limited capacity in sub-GHz bands, than those on Ultra Wideband or on 5G-dedicated midband spectrum. Devices which support both the mmWave and 4G bands, such as the new iPhone, will pick up Ultra Wideband as its first preference, followed by 5G enabled by DSS, and if neither is available, it will revert to 4G.
Verizon and AT&T immediately announced their deals for the iPhone 12, which start at $699 or $799 depending on the model. New and existing AT&T customers can get the handset for free, but only on an AT&T instalment plan and with an AT&T Unlimited subscription. Verizon also offers a free iPhone 12 when customers switch to its network from a rival service, and existing customers can get the device for $15 a month on a device payment scheme with qualifying unlimited plans. Cable operators Comcast and Charter, whose cellular services are enabled by MVNO deals with Verizon, also had their 5G coverage expanded thanks to DSS, and both will offer the whole iPhone 12 range.
Considering these are the first 5G Apple iPhones, the hype around them was strangely muted, perhaps because of the long wait while the vendor settled its differences with Qualcomm, which has enabled it to develop a wider portfolio of models than it usually does, and to support what it claims is the largest number of frequency band combinations of any handset vendor.
The new models are based on the latest generation of Apple’s system-on-chip (SoC), the A14 Bionic, which comes with six CPU and four GPU cores plus 16 neural processing unit cores. It is also the first mobile SoC to be manufactured on a 5-nanometer process, presumably by TSMC. This allows it to pack in 11.8bn transistors will maintaining the same power consumption as the A13, which had 10bn transistors.
There are also enhanced OLED displays and camera modules in the new smartphones. Two models, the iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max, have Lidar sensors for autofocusing the camera, mapping the environment, and for use with augmented reality applications.
Apple has partnered with Dolby to support 4K Dolby Vision, pushing the iPhone towards the realm of professional video cameras. It also enhanced the magnetic wireless charging system, MagSafe, to boost performance.
Nokia pins its hopes on 5G-inspired global boom after Covid trough
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High-profile, celebrity chefs have perfected their trademark cuisine styles to a point that they can afford to do pretty much whatever they want, whether it’s another high-concept restaurant or more approachable fare. Here’s what every operator needs to know about this approach.
Wolfgang Puck simultaneously serves the glitterati at his flagship Spago Beverly Hills restaurant and the masses at Wolfgang Puck Express, located at almost every major airport in the country. David Burke’s Primehouse attracts well-heeled business types, while his Burke in a Box concept targets weary travelers and shoppers. And while Paul Kahan boasts a Michelin star and several James Beard awards for avec, Blackbird and Publican, you can still get a $3 taco and $2 whiskey shot at Big Star.
These high-profile chefs have perfected their trademark cuisine styles to a point that they can afford to do pretty much whatever they want, whether it’s another high-concept restaurant or more approachable fare. In 2012, Bravo’s “Top Chef” season four winner Stephanie Izard jumped in on the trend with the opening of Little Goat Diner in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood.
It’s located directly across the street from Girl and the Goat, her award-winning, contemporary American restaurant that opened two years prior with Boka Restaurant Group. Rob Katz, one of the original partners with Boka Restaurant Group, believes that it was a natural progression to open a sequel to GATG.
“We wanted to do a follow-up restaurant to Girl and the Goat because we were maxed out on space at the restaurant,” says Katz, who also owns Boka restaurant, GT Fish & Oyster and Momotaro. “We were at 100 percent capacity. There was no way to open for lunch, but we wanted to do it.”
He says that in preparation for the new concept, he, Izard and partner Kevin Boehm traveled extensively through the South visiting old-school diners. “Everyone has some childhood memories of diners, and we wanted to do an updated concept of the American favorite,” he adds.
While the price points of Little Goat are significantly lower than its predecessor, the quality, service, etc. remain the same, according to Katz. As with any successful establishment, there has to be a zoned in focus on the customer. Katz also credits Izard’s strong presence and input at both establishments an important component.
“She can be found cooking in both restaurants,” he says. “She will literally get on the line on a regular basis at Little Goat and she does it all the time because she is very particular with what comes off the line. She is really immersed over there. (Because they are) directly across the street from one another, she is back and forth between the restaurants. She is obsessed with the quality of both restaurants.”
Part of that quality includes the use of local farmers and producers, which help put out the best quality products, he says. Katz adds that with 80-plus menu items at Little Goat and 30-plus items at GATG, she is even more challenged with running two successful businesses. But she’s clearly up to the challenge; so much that she’s aiming to open yet a third venue with Boka Restaurant Group in the West Loop later this summer.
Similar to Stephanie Izard, Jared Van Camp has his hands full with restaurant projects. He’s what you’d call a chef’s chef as his profile is high in Chicago’s thriving dining community and beyond. With his first restaurant, Old Town Social, he created the city’s first-ever house-made charcuterie program, and at the Italian-focused Nellcôte, he was the first in the country to mill flour in-house for pasta, breads and more.
In 2014, Van Camp and his partners at Element Collective opened a few additional concepts: Kinmont, the city’s first-ever sustainable seafood restaurant; Owen + Alchemy, a chef-driven juice bar; and Leghorn, a chicken sandwich shop.
While Owen + Alchemy and Leghorn are the most inexpensive venues in the group, Van Camp says he set out to offer quality he felt was missing from other juice bars and chicken-focused eateries. Another lesson for operators: Fill in the gaps.
“We love fried chicken sandwiches, and the places where we were going did not source ethically,” he says. “(By opening Leghorn), it became a way for us to get what we wanted in this great fried chicken sandwich, but from locally sourced chickens that we butchered in-house.”
He had a similar mission and focus as he set out to open Owen + Alchemy. His diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes made him look at what he consumed in a healthier manner, and that included the products at typical juice bars. He felt that most offered products with too much fruit juice, and he wanted to feature a host of savory juices with produce from local farms.
“We love putting our own spin on everything,” he says. “The same farms where we source from for our other restaurants we use for our juice bar at Owen + Alchemy. It was an epiphany for us to use our existing relationships with the farmers.”
Like many chefs, Jason McLeod refuses to sacrifice quality just because he’s operating a lower-priced venue. He garnered two Michelin stars at Chicago’s now-shuttered RIA before making his way to the West Coast to open two successful restaurants in San Diego: the seafood-focused Ironside Fish & Oyster and casual eatery Soda & Swine (a second one opens this spring). The latter cranks out signature meatballs, and classic apple pie paired with craft sodas, and McLeod boasts that some staffers work at both restaurants, ensuring great service.
“The overall feel in terms of guest experience of what they get with our staff is the most consistent,” McLeod says. “It’s still friendly, familiar service, and our aim is to make customers feel well taken care of — no matter how much they’re spending.”
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Raincoast Wanderings
Hanson Island Winter
When the Outflow Arrives
December 30, 2014 David & Brittney Cannamore Leave a comment
Wool socks, down jackets, long underwear. All them and more have been deployed to combat the latest northeasterly outflow that has descended upon Hanson Island; freezing the intertidal pools, our waterline, and our toes. We had the bright idea last night of dragging our mattress downstairs from the loft and putting it at the base of the fireplace stacked with bark and fir, Penny’s house placed snugly in the corner. And while the cold seemed to paralyze us in the early morning light, numbing any motivation to rise from the comforters, the Orca’s seemed impervious to it all.
Shortly after nine we begin to hear the faintest Transient calls in Johnstone Strait, leading us to the lab where the temperature hovered just a couple degrees above freezing. After just half an hour of sporadic calling the sounds vanished as the whales disappeared into acoustic parts of the strait unknown. Silently I gave thanks that all I had to do to catch my breakfast was crack a couple eggs over a skillet. I don’t think I could catch a harbor seal in this weather.
But despite the cold, the view atones for it and than some. The palest of blue skies and the whispiest of clouds frame the mountains on Vancouver Island, their peaks clinging grimly to their traces of snow, illuminated in the weak December light. The solar panels greedily suck in the beams’ power, giving our generator a belated reprieve. Blackney Pass sits immobile, or at least as still as it can as the tides pull the waters north and south cutting trails in the surface like tiny intersecting roads. It’s still odd to have Orca Lab so quiet. Besides the occasional Transient celebrating its catch the speakers tell the story of cycling hydrophones, insistent tugs, and at low tide, the cries of eagles as they soar past.
The beauty and peace is priceless and there is little more soothing or funny than ten Harlequin ducks bobbing into the cove every morning chirping at one another as they cut tiny wakes through the water. They dive one at a time, vanishing in the blink of an eye, their bodies barely visible in the dark green water, wings flapping incessantly. When they come up for air they shoot clear of the water like little rubber duckies bouncing on the surface, tiny bits of food clasped in their beaks.
But the deep waters of Blackney feel empty with no Guardian or KC or any of the other humpbacks that felt like friends in September, leaving us with the thirty odd sea lions down the beach for company. Today they huddle like a single sentient being on their rocks, stinky but warm I’m sure. It leaves us with nothing left to do but read, drink tea, and chop wood at a frantic pace before running back inside to the warmth of the fire that has been dancing for three days straight. The thermal pane windows have been worth every penny, thank you: Paul and Helena.
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In the Holy of Holies
December 23, 2014 David & Brittney Cannamore 1 Comment
The boat slides into the rocks and triggers a memory. Not a visual one, or olfactory, but auditory. The sound of pebbles racking against the hull of the boat almost makes me turn around, half expecting to see a dorsal fin gliding across the water behind us. Both boat and orca move the smooth, tiny rocks of this beach sound the same way. But today we were alone, just the two of us cautiously approaching the main rubbing beach of the Northern Resident orcas.
I step to the stern of the boat and look back over the water. It’s weird to see for the first time a place I feel I already know so well. High atop an old weathered tree hangs a white box looking for all the world like a security camera. For a summer that was my keyhole. And I would press my eye against it as close as I could, drinking in the scene. But now, for just an afternoon, I got to stand here and see and smell and feel a piece of orca lore. If the bight is hallowed ground, this is the holy holies.
Twenty minutes east of Robson Bight as the orca swims lays this beach where, for all eternity as far as we know, the orcas have come. This beach, an outlier itself in a land of jagged rocks, steep cliffs, and deep water. The beach is smooth and gradual, the reflection of the trees turning the water turquoise, like some tropical paradise. In the shallows, sometimes with barely enough water to cover them, the whales come and rub vigorously on the smooth, quarter sized pebbles that compose the beach.
I step up and over the top of the boat and onto the bow, the waves rocking the boat gently against the shoreline, emitting the sound of rushing pebbles with every crest. I hop lightly off the bow and feel them crunch and slide under my feet. I step clear of the surf and see my footprints imprinted in the rocks. Damning evidence of my intrusion into this mystical place. I lay on the beach and, like the orcas, begin to squirm and roll back and forth on the pebbles, their sounds filling my ears. If it’s good enough for them it’s good enough to me. Brittney laughs and rolls her eyes as she steps gently from the boat. We talk in hushed voices, as if we’ve just entered a church, and prod slowly up the shore.
We had a reason to be here. The rubbing beaches are strictly closed off to the public, giving the orcas their own private sanctuary much like Robson Bight. But someone had to pull the batteries of the long defunct rubbing beach hydrophone, the victim of a fifty knot storm in October that had torn the cable free. Without this premise we’d go nowhere near this place, even in December, when the orcas hadn’t neared the beach in a month, it felt almost taboo to stand here.
A steep cliff makes up one edge of the beach and stretches out to a point into Johnstone Strait. I boulder up and walk to the edge, the bottom still visible even on this massive 17.1 foot high tide. I find the batteries and the second camera, the one that looks straight down into the water off the cliff face where the orcas would cruise right past just before they reached the pebbles. Like at Robson Bight I see them in my minds eye, cruising peacefully past, bound for their favorite spot in the strait. We get the batteries off the cliff and perch on a massive log washed against the shoreline. We dig out some food and stare out at the water, this unassuming little stretch of earth that means so much. Camera in hand I snap pictures while I eat, hoping to capture as much of it as possible and failing to do justice. It’s tough to think about leaving so soon, and I a great longing fills me to see the whales here, just once while I hide unseen in the bushes. It’s a dream that will have to remain a dream, and I look up at the camera, thankful that it gives me the opportunity to enjoy it from a distance. We climb into the boat and gently push back into the water, gliding across the brilliant blue/green waves, bound for the gray surf of the straight, the southeasterly starting to turn up the current.
Before we go home there’s one more place I want to find, and we shoot across Johnstone Straight, heading for Cracroft Island. As we reach the shore I slow down and and we move slowly west toward Hanson Island. I see the hollow wooden skeletons of a camp. Structures with no roofs or walls, tiny wooden platforms and benches on the rocks. This is it. I stop and look at this unassuming little kayak camp. “This is my birthplace,” I thought.
It was here, seven years ago that I had visited, kayaked, and fallen in love with this place. Straining my eyes for that elusive dorsal fin that has dictated so much of my life. I look behind me and remember the A36s, cruising west past our camp, oblivious to the life they were altering forever with every surface, every breath. A part of me wants to find a place to land, to step ashore here and crouch where I did those nights when the A4s swam by, allowing me to hear but not see. But the wind has other ideas, as does the quickly fading sun of the second shortest day of the year. We pick up speed and continue west, picking our way through the deadheads and kelp, tracing the footprints of the orcas that would be back to chase the salmon. Like they have every summer. For all eternity.
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On Hallowed Ground
Traveling south from the lab and through the tiny bottleneck that is Blackney Entrance leads to the wide open expanse of Johnstone Strait. After almost four months and countless trips to Cracroft Point, the image springs to mind instantly. The high peaks of Vancouver Island casting a deep green shadow onto the water, turning it the color of jade as you approach the Vancouver shoreline. The mountain range seems to stretch on forever to the East down the strait, looming over the water with their mighty shadows extinguishing what little winter sun there is. It had been seven years since I had been in the strait past the edge of Cracroft Island. Yet I could still remember the shapes and curves of the shoreline.
Back home I would habitually pull out maps and trace the expanse of the strait, and mouth the names of places I hadn’t seen in years. Boat Bay, the Cliff, Robson Bight, the Rubbing Beaches. The bight and the beaches held a special lure, the forbidden fruit of the strait where no one was allowed save for the whales and the fishing boats. Locations I had listened to through headphones for hours but never saw. The bight is now an ecological reserve, set aside as critical habitat for the northern Residents, the boundaries expanding east to encompass the whales’ rubbing beaches. The maps show the bight as a subtle nick in the Vancouver Island shoreline. It’s as if the strait scooped out a chunk of the island with an ice cream scoop, leaving a crescent shaped divot. In the back of the bight sits the headwaters of the salmon rich Tsitika River.
From Cracroft Point, the lab’s out camp, you can almost make out the bight down the strait, straining your eyes through the glare of the sun, the small bay camouflaged by the steep slopes of the St. John, Tsitika, and Derby mountains, standing like sentinels, the guardians of the bay. It is in this unassuming bit of water, that so much of our understanding and knowledge of orcas has arisen. It is here that they have rested, played, and hunted for untold generations. The place holds an uncontrollable draw, a magnetic attraction pulling me in.
But of course, it is all closed off. Which, is probably for the best. And though the commercial fishing boats are still aloud to clog the bight as the sockeye run every year, it gives the whales at least some semblance of escape and privacy from those of us that perhaps love them too much. But there is no law against hydrophones, and on the east side of the bight hangs a crucial piece of Orca Lab’s research; the Critical Point hydrophone. Anything that makes a sound west of the hydrophone in Johnstone Strait is picked up and transmitted through a thin cord of wire, piping back to the lab the calls of orca, dolphins, and humpbacks as well as the drone of barges, fishing boats, and the abominable log tows.
As the days get shorter and the clouds thicker, the solar panels that power the hydrophones throughout the network begin to sputter. The batteries stationed are asked to supply more of the power each day until finally, they too begin to crack under the increased workload. Critical Point, shrouded in shade most of the time thanks to the mountains, was the first to begin to protest. Clicks and oscillations eventually giving way to hours of pure static, especially at night. The occasionally sunny day would give the batteries a brief reprieve but the only long term solution, was to replace them.
So last week, when Brittney and I came to town, we were met on the dock by Paul. Bouncing out of the car with his usually vigor, he excitedly announced that today was as good as any to take the one hour run from Alert Bay to the bight and replace the batteries. My chance to set foot in the hallowed ground had come and we climbed back into the minuscule boat thirty minutes later, prepared to battle an ebbing tide down the strait.
The sun broke through the clouds as we entered the bight, brilliant rays of sunshine stabbing through the gaps, illuminating the dark green of the mountain sides. The water becoming that brilliant jade on one side, sapphire blue on the other. Paul brought the boat to rest near the rocks on the far side and I clambered out, soaking in the beauty and silence. It was easy to see why the orcas loved it here so much. The water was calm and the bight would seem to funnel the fish toward the mouth of the river, giving them ample opportunity to catch dinner. The steep rock face we stood on fell directly into the ocean with no gradient. One step to many and you plunge feet down into the frigid waters of the channel. In my minds eye I saw an orca pass an arms length from the rocks, it’s massive body gyrating majestically feet below the surface as it cruised past, bound for the rubbing beaches.
It was, as I’d been told, “just trees and rocks and water.” But my prior knowledge of what lived here, what had happened here, made magic spring from the trees, rocks, and water. It was here that Erich Hoyt and his team had first dove with the orcas. Where Robin Morton had first filmed them rubbing their bodies on the smooth pebbles of the beaches. In these waters the A36s had swam during those nights when they kept me up in the lab, their calls echoing off these very rocks and into the hydrophone between my feet. And now, even if just for an afternoon devoid of orcas, I got to stand on this hallowed ground, staring up at the massive mountains and experience it all for myself.
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One Day in the Bay
December 11, 2014 David & Brittney Cannamore 2 Comments
As many of you know, today marks the 45th anniversary of Corky’s (A23) capture and subsequent imprisonment. She currently resides in Sea World San Diego, hundreds of miles from her home that centers around Johnstone Strait, British Columbia. Her family was a consistent fixture in the straight this summer, and every sighting of them is a stark reminder that she deserves to be here so much more than I do. Much today has been written and shared about this amazing whale who continues to buck the odds and survive in her tiny bathtub after four and a half decades. Coming less than a week after the death and autopsy of Rhapsody of the southern Residents, one cannot be blamed for feeling discouraged and depressed about the state of these creatures.
There is however, hope and beauty that persists up and down this coast. There are miraculous encounters and moments shared between people and healthy wild whales. On this day, as we remember Corky, and all the others that have been captured, I’d like to share my most memorable whale experience of my life.
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve lies just 30 minutes west of Juneau by plane. A magnificent playground for the outdoorsman with untold miles of not just the bay, but mountains, glaciers, and beaches. It is a place to grow and rejuvenate, just like the land that is still rebounding after years of dormancy beneath the oppressive weight of the massive glaciers that carved the bay.
I had a built in excuse to visit as often as I could as my soon to be wife Brittney lived and worked out of the bay in the summer where she worked as a kayak guide. Leaving the more commercial world of cruise ship tourism where I worked on a whale watch boat, I’d hop in a Cessna 206 and enjoy the breathtaking half hour flight over the Chilkat mountains to spend a few days with Brittney and the bay.
For whatever reason, I remember really needing a few days their his time. Perhaps I’d just had a bad run of ornery people on rainy days, or seen 20 boats around four humpbacks one time too many, but I was ready to get out and needed the silence and therapy that the bay could provide. I suppose it’s a sign that you truly do what you love when it’s all you want to do on your day off as well. There was no discussion of what we’d do as long as the weather cooperated, we were going paddling. It combined our two passions; the kayak and whales.
The next day dawned (at 4:30 am) with baby blue skies and a scattering of puffy white cumulus, the water was projected to be still, a rarity that summer that would wind up being one of the wettest on record. Giving the weather no time to change its mind, we leaped into an old rusty van owned by the kayak company, and drove the nine miles into the park to Glacier Bay’s gateway; Bartlett Cove. We grabbed a pair of fiberglass beauties from the companies rack and slipped them into the water. Unlike most sea kayaks decked out in bright and loud colors like aqua, yellow, and red, these boats were a dark forest green and seemed to blend into the landscape of evergreens and contrast beautifully with the deep blue water.
The north end of Bartlett Cove is lined by two islands, Young and Lester, and just beyond is a tiny archipelago known as the Beardslees. The islands were a veritable fantasy land for a kayaker with quiet coves, calm waters, and plenty of wildlife. The only danger was the similarity in the appearance of every island. They all followed the same recipe with rocky beaches, slight elevations, and plenty of trees. I’d traced a large circle around the archipelago two summers ago, but kept my eye on the map strapped to the boat all day.
We moved through the tiny gap between Lester Island and the mainland at the back of the cove known as “the cut,” timing our departure so that we flowed with the tide and the first half mile of our trip we barely had to paddle at all. We paddled for a couple hours through the islands, weaving through the tiny cuts and inlets, joined occasionally by gulls, murrelets, surf scoters, and the occasional harbor seal, their wide unblinking eyes staring at us with a mix of curiosity and skepticism. Finally we passed a wide channel, the tidal influence spewing out water and the islands on our right vanished, giving way to the wide expanse of Glacier Bay. The bay is shaped like a Y, with the upper arms holding the majority of the glaciers, most of them in retreat. The Beardslee’s and Bartlett Cove sit near the base of the Y, where the bay merges with Icy Strait.
We knew we’d passed Lester Island and the northern end of Young Island sat in front of us, a long point of land extended toward the upper reaches of the bay and we followed just off the rocks toward the point where we could make a U turn and begin to head south toward the mouth of Bartlett Cove and home. Brittney paddled some fifty yards ahead of me as I dawdled, trying to locate a Harbor Porpoise I’d been sure was following me when I noticed that she’d stopped paddling. Right at the point she was bobbing just a few feet from shore, paddle held gently across her lap. Coming up behind her I see why. A massive group of her favorite birds, Black Oystercatchers are congregated on the rocks, their sharp orange bills and matching eyes flashing back and forth against their dark silhouettes. I’d never seen so many in one place and they seemed completely unconcerned with the gawking humans in the water.
We watched them jaunt up and down the rocks, dipping their bills into the water until something larger, much larger, brought us back to reality. The point of land was to high to see over, but it was clear from the sound that something large had surfaced just on the other side. Leaving the oystercatchers we paddled cautiously around the point, taking care to stay on the beach side of the kelp bed that circled the island like an asteroid belt around a planet.
When a humpback surfaces in the calm water you can see the water displacement long before you see the whale, than a shadow, than a bulbous bulb of water, until finally the whale breaks the surface. The massive exhalation less than fifty yards away felt like a bass drum in my chest. The explosiveness of her surfacing made it clear she was feeding and I was thankful for the kelp bed between us. I didn’t want the whale to have to worry about us and her daily allotment of half a ton of herring. As the whale disappeared another explosion echoed off the rocks behind us. You can’t spin around in a kayak, but you can twist your head so fast that you sprain your neck. A second humpback had just materialized behind us, lunge feeding just as close as the first.
There was an exhilaration with a teaspoon of fear at seeing these whales so close and at their level with nothing between us and them but a few inches of fiberglass and some flimsy strands of bull kelp. But we weren’t moving, not for the world, as humpbacks broke the surface like fireworks up and down the shoreline, lunging out of the water, mouths agape, herring running down their throats. After thirty minutes of this incredible display, we finally conceded that we needed to start trying to get home. That meant paddling through the bay littered with whales exploding from the water like land mines. We took the long way, skirting the shoreline.
As we continued down Young Island, it seemed around every corner was another humpback. It was as if they were forming some massive 40 ton relay team to get us back to Bartlett Cove. There had to of been 25 in all, encouraging us to hug the shoreline, Brittney at times having to drag me along for I could have stopped and watched every single one. Finally we neared the mouth of Bartlett Cove, and as exhilarated as we were, the soreness and fatigue of 8 hours of paddling was setting in. We started to fantasize about sweet potato fries and Alaskan Summer beer at the lodge in the cove, and prepared for the last couple miles of hard paddling home.
But something stopped us. The tour boat that left daily from the cove and traveled up the west arm of the bay to the Margerie Glacier, had stopped in the channel when it should have been heading into the cove to meet its deadline. Daring to hope we watched and to my shock and absolute glee, a tall black fin broke the water a half mile from shore punctuated by three smaller fins as the tiny group of Transients headed into the bay. They were probably destined for John Hopkins Inlet where the pupping Harbor Seals were sprawled on the ice bergs.
Tears of gratitude formed in my eyes, it was almost too much. The bay had overwhelmed me. First the weather, than the oystercatchers, the never ending parade of humpbacks, and finally, this grand finale. Brittney and I rafted our boats together, her hand in mine as we floated together watching the orcas move further into the bay, completely unaware of the magnitude and power that their presence had just created in our lives. Finally they began to vanish from sight and we begin to paddle into the cove, our spirits full and our eyes glistening with tears of gratitude. I could paddle for the rest of my life and never see another whale and it would be ok. Because every time I pretzel myself into a kayak, I think of that day, the magic it brought, and what a gift it is to share the world with an animal as spectacular as them.
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The Southern Residents and Repeating History
December 7, 2014 David & Brittney Cannamore 1 Comment
Off the waters of Washington state live the most magnificent, beautiful, and intelligent creature on the planet. A species that has learned to exist without wars or visible disputes of any kind. They maintain a peaceful, complex, and intricate social structure with bonds that we cannot even begin to fathom. And it is all in danger, of vanishing forever. For many it’s already too late. Like Rhapsody, whose body has gone to science in the hope of finding out what ended her life.
It is all so chilling because it’s not the first time that this story’s been told. In the serene and beautiful waters of Prince William Sound, hundreds of miles to the north, the same tragedy is playing with a 20-year head start. The genetically unique AT1 Transient pod, that has lived, stalked, and hunted within the sound for generations is just years from extinction as it comes up on three decades without a successful birth. For AT1, the prognosis is simple and obvious. On good Friday, 1989, the whole pod swam, unknowingly through the lethal slick of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. They have not reproduced since as friends and researchers like Eva Saulitis watch the pod disappear one by one, a slow tear jerking countdown to zero.
For the southern Residents, it’s more complicated. For decades they’ve endured live captures, bullets, overfishing, and the toxic runoff of the increasingly urban Puget Sound. In many ways it’s miraculous they’ve persevered for so long. They can still lay claim to, “Granny.” An orca that was born the same year the Titantic sank and is still seen every year off the San Juan Islands, a talisman to the resilience of the community. And yet, Orcas are dying that shouldn’t be. When Plumper (A37 of the northern Residents) finally vanished from the lab’s view in August 2014, there was such a finality to what we were seeing. It was his wake. His time had come, and all of us, including him and his brother Kaikash seemed to know it. But sweet 18-year old Rhapsody shouldn’t be washing up in Comox. She should be with her mother, siblings, Grandmother, and Aunts, with one or perhaps two calves to her name. This wasn’t her time and it’s hard not to feel guilt, knowing that our species shoulders the blame for her demise and dozens just like her, whether from captivity or PCBs.
The southern Residents are at 77 individuals. The time has come for drastic action before the genetic bottleneck tightens anymore. So that in 20 years, we’re not watching the last of the pod fade into darkness, leaving the waters of the San Juans and Puget Sound in great silence. How empty and desolate it would feel. Imagine Orcas Island with no Orcas. It’s not impossible, the only place in California you can find a brown bear is on the state flag.
It may mean sacrifices on the part of us as human beings. To surrender the pleasure and joy that only comes from watching a line of dorsals materialize off the bow of your boat or kayak. Or perhaps going without Chinook salmon in the freezer this winter. Or maybe as simple as riding the bus to work and reducing the carbon exhaust pumped into the atmosphere.
These aren’t tigers or elephants, we can’t just start captive breeding programs and reintroduce them. But they do need help, and we have a chance, maybe not to make amends, but to right some of the wrongs that we’ve brought against them. To even the playing field as best we can for a species that doesn’t deserve the cards we have dealt. North American progress, american history as a whole, has been filled with extinctions, manipulations, and destruction. We’ve hunted the Gray whales, sea otters, wolves, and now the Orca. But today sea otters again bob in the waters off of Monterey Bay, wolves run through the forests of Yellowstone, and North Pacific gray whales represent one of the healthiest and strongest whale populations in the world as they continue their amazing recovery from industrial whaling.
I don’t think it’s too late for Rhapsody’s kin. But it is time to try something different, because whatever help we’re giving them clearly isn’t working. They need time, space, and most importantly, the salmon that make up more than 90 percent of their diet. Save the whales doesn’t have to just revoke memories of Greenpeace and the 70s. The war is not over, and it is our time to fight for the animals we love.
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Making Christmas
It is somehow December. My Alaskan sensibilities tell me it’s impossible for it to be the season of; holly, mistle toe, and red clothed, cookie scarfing, overweight home invaders without a thick carpet of snow. I suppose that’s not entirely fair. It did snow one morning and it almost stuck around for the whole day. But for the most part, the weather continues to emulate an Alaskan fall with the temperature playing jump rope with the freezing point and encouraging us to maintain a fire around the clock.
The orcas gifted us an early christmas present the other day when the I15s announced their arrival in Blackfish Sound with their trademark, donkey like, “hee-haw.” After holding down the strait for much of the summer, seeing the family charge through Blackney Pass and into Johnstone Strait made it feel like August all over again. They have sense vanished, we presume they are still to the west of us in the strait. Though we have reached the time of year where the clouds and storms begin to choke the power from the solar panels, causing hydrophones to cycle on and off, especially at night. With the ocean again silent, save for the daily parade of tugs and the occasional Alaska state ferry, we can prepare, as best as we can at least, for Christmas.
Much like our ill fated New Zealand thanksgiving with the intrusive lemurs, we knew this was coming. That we were going to be far from not just our families, but our friends as well for a season that magnifies togetherness more than any other. Thanks to Helena and our parents though, we’re doing our best to bring a little bit of Christmas to the island. We’ve put up our single strand of multi colored christmas lights and a tiny, “father christmas” figurine who for some reason, is outfitted like a biblical Shepard complete with a staff, mercifully the glorious white beard remains in tact. Than there’s my mother, who can only be described as having been born with second and third helpings of, “care bear DNA.” Their christmas gifts, complete with stockings for not just us, but the cat and rabbit too are piled on a shelf in our room (Brittney insists that we need to find a tree). All together, it makes it feel a little more like the holidays on Hanson Island. But it feels weird to not be listening to the traditional Cannamore rotation of Christmas music, I can’t believe I’m admitting that.
It is, I suppose, all part of the isolation of care taking. And there are certainly days when we need the other to make us smile, laugh, or at the very least, roll our eyes. Yet besides Mom’s christmas cookies and everything else that always made Christmas special, I don’t find myself missing civilization much at all. Groceries being a 30 minute boat ride away doesn’t feel like an inconvenience, nor does getting up every two hours in the middle of the night to stay warm. On the whole, I’ve transitioned into this lifestyle magnitudes easier than I had trying to live in Seattle. When the luxuries of normality are stripped away, we find that we really need precious little to be happy and secure. There’s a roof over our heads, a pot of coffee, and a comfortable fire burning. What more does a human being require. It makes me wonder what it’ll be like when we do leave, and drive back down to the big city before escaping to the comfort and familiarity of Southeast Alaska. Sensory overload, I imagine. Perhaps Brittney should drive.
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Tangible Progress
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Climb That Mountain
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Cooper Taylor Named Rivals.com Freshman of The Week
ATLANTA – Georgia Tech freshman safety Cooper Taylor has been named Rivals.com Freshman of the Week following his performance against Florida State over the weekend.
Taylor, an Atlanta native, sealed a 31-28 victory for the Yellow Jackets by forcing Florida State running back Marcus Sims to fumble in the end zone with 45 seconds remaining on Saturday.
Taylor also intercepted a Christian Ponder pass in the first half before returning it 28 yards in FSU territory, eventually leading to a Greg Smith touchdown and a 21-10 Tech lead.
The 20th-ranked Jackets head to Chapel Hill, N.C., for a showdown with 19th-ranked North Carolina on Saturday at Noon. The game will be televised on Raycom and Raycom-HD. Locally, it can be seen on the CW Atlanta, WUPA TV-69.
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Georgia Tech Basketball in the News
Yellow Jackets in the Pros
By Matt Winkeljohn
Sting Daily
With a couple days to digest what may have been Georgia Tech’s most comprehensive effort (beyond the first several minutes of Saturday’s visit by Duke), some folks outside the Yellow Jackets sphere are curious about some of the same things as fans within.
On the ACC coaches teleconference, Tech coach Brian Gregory was asked about Glen Rice, Jr. coming off the bench, and the curious case of Mfon Udofia at point guard.
Gregory is not exactly receiving a warm welcome to the ACC. When your conference schedule opens with a game against Duke and then two road trips — to NC State for tonight’s game, and then to Maryland for a game on Sunday — you’re not sending a thank-you to the league office even if the Terrapins are having a down season.
Don’t look for Gregory to poor mouth, or whine. No style in that.
On the upside, the Jackets played with as much passion against the Blue Devils as they have in a few weeks, and they were perhaps more mindful of their Ps and Qs than at any point this season.
More than anything, they were out-manned rather than out-played.
“We need to continue to play with the effort, energy and intensity that we played with on Saturday,” Gregory said. “If you do that, good things are going to happen to you down the road.”
NC State (12-4, 1-0 ACC) also has a new coach, and Mark Gottfriend has done as well with the Wolfpack to date as could have been expected, perhaps better. They’ve won six straight.
Rice was fabulous off the bench against Duke in going for 28 points on 10-of-17 shooting. He added eight rebounds, and made four three-point shots, which is about what Tech is averaging as a team.
The trick for Gregory, Rice and the Jackets — all of them — is that predicting how he’ll play has been abundantly difficult whether he’s working in a starting role or as a reserve.
In Saturday’s case, he played starter minutes (32), and for the most part up to his talent level. He was locked in; that hasn’t always been the case.
“I’ve never been a guy who has put a great emphasis on who was starting,” Gregory said. “Sometimes, it’s what is best for this team that’s the most important. We have played some of our best games with Glen coming off the bench.
“Usually it is based on performance in practice and so forth, and different things. Having that luxury of that guy that can get it going and can sub in at multiple positions, that is one thing with Glen, we can sub him in at the one, two or the three depending on how the flow of the game is going at that time.”
If the Jackets (7-8, 0-1) put together an effort similar to what they threw at Duke, they’re going to give the Wolfpack fits.
Udofia, who prior to this season played more off the ball than with it in his hands, played more like a true point guard against the Blue Devils than in any game this season.
And yet he did it without sacrificing his propensity to attack while on offense. He not only had a team-high four assists, but added 19 points and made a couple treys himself.
That was certainly a good sign as point guard play has been sporadic to date.
“I think Mfon is a guy who you’ve really seen, from day one of the season, a guy who has really improved his overall play,” Gregory said. “I thought he handled the ball extremely well, got us into our offense . . .
I’ve said this is a new role for Mfon in terms of having the ball in his hands quite a bit and quarterbacking the club.”
Any improvement in point-guard play has an exponential impact on the Jackets as Rice and to some degree Jason Morris are otherwise often the only Tech players who can often create a quality shot for themselves without being set up.
“I think the last couple of years with a guy that could really dominate the game and the ball as much as Iman Shumpert did, sometimes, the challenge we are having Mfon undertake is daunting at times,” the coach said. “[That’s true] especially in this league with the quality of play, the quality of defenses coaches are able to apply, different types of pressure and so forth and recognizing different situations.”
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January 14, 2021 Georgia Tech-NC State Men’s Basketball Game Postponed
Game was scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday, no makeup date determined
Georgia Tech-NC State Men’s Basketball Game Postponed
January 14, 2021 Georgia Tech #ProJackets Basketball Report
Young and Bulls vets paying off, Okogie back from hamstring layoff
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No. 5 Georgia Tech Captures Third-Straight ACC Women's Tennis Championship
CARY, NC –
Christy Striplin won 12 of her last 13 games en route to a 2-6, 6-0, 6-1 victory at No. 5 singles to clinch match point as the fifth-ranked Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (23-4) captured their third-straight ACC Women’s Tennis Championship with a 4-1 win over No. 11 Miami (19-6) in the title match Sunday afternoon at the Cary Tennis Complex.
With the victory, the women’s tennis team earned Georgia Tech’s first ACC Championship of the season.
“It never gets old,” said an elated Bryan Shelton, head coach of the three-time ACC Champion women’s tennis team.
For the third-straight day, the Yellow Jackets were led by freshman Amanda Craddock, who ended the tournament with a 3-0 record in singles and a 2-0 mark in doubles to earn MVP honors. Craddock posted a 6-3, 6-2 win over Miami’s 50th-ranked Audrey Banada to tie the match at 1-1 after the Hurricanes won the doubles point to start the day.
“A.C. is well deserving (of MVP honors) after her play this weekend,” said Shelton. “Not only did she win, but she won convincingly in all of her matches. She was the catalyst for this team all weekend, and the honor is just a tribute to what she’s done all season. She has gotten better and better as the season has gone on.”
Freshman Amanda McDowell gave the Yellow Jackets a 2-1 lead with a 6-1, 6-1 victory over Romy Farah at the No. 4 singles spot before Tech’s eighth-ranked Kristi Miller stunned top-ranked Audra Cohen, 7-5, 6-2, at the top singles spot to push the score to 3-1. It was the second time in as many ACC Championship matches that Miller has bested Cohen.
“Kristi’s win was huge,” said Shelton. “Last year she got over the hump, beating Audra at ACC’s, and she made shockwaves throughout the rankings. I think the same happened again today. She fell behind early (to Cohen), but got gritty and stuck in there. Once (Miller) got on top, she didn’t relinquish the lead. I’m so proud of her effort, especially after losing doubles. She came back strong to lead this team to victory.”
Miami began singles play with a 1-0 lead after winning at the Nos. 1 and 3 doubles positions. Banada and Gina Sabatino stopped the Yellow Jacket tandem of Tarryn Rudman and Kirsten Flower, 8-3, at the third doubles spot before Tech’s 51st-ranked duo of Alison Silverio and Craddock handed Caren Seenauth and Farah an 8-6 loss at the second doubles position, setting up the top doubles line as the deciding match.
Miami’s 33rd-ranked Cohen and Laura Vallverdu then outlasted Miller and Whitney McCray, the nation’s third-ranked doubles team, 8-6, to give the Hurricanes the first point of the match.
Georgia Tech will have to wait until May 1 to find out who it meets in the first round of the 2007 NCAA Women’s Tennis Championships. The announcement will be made on ESPNews on May 1 between 2:30 and 3 p.m., with the Yellow Jackets, who earned an automatic bid with their victory Sunday, looking to host the first two rounds at the Bill Moore Tennis Center on the Georgia Tech campus.
Tennis Match ResultsMiami vs Georgia TechApr 22, 2007 at Cary, NC
#5 Georgia Tech 4, #11 Miami 1
Singles competition1. #8 Kristi Miller (GT) def. #1 Audra Cohen (UM) 7-5, 6-22. #87 Alison Silverio (GT) vs. #20 Laura Vallverdu (UM) 6-1, 3-6, 5-4, unfinished3. #74 Amanda Craddock (GT) def. #50 Audrey Banada (UM) 6-3, 6-24. Amanda McDowell (GT) def. Romy Farah (UM) 6-1, 6-15. #54 Christy Striplin (GT) def. Caren Seenauth (UM) 2-6, 6-0, 6-16. Tarryn Rudman (GT) vs. Gina Sabatino (UM) 3-6, 5-3, unfinished
Doubles competition1. #33 Cohen/ Vallverdu (UM) def. #3 Miller/Whitney McCray (GT) 8-62. #51 Amanda Craddock/Alison Silverio (GT) def. Farah/ Seenauth (UM) 8-63. Banada/ Sabatino (UM) def. Kirsten Flower/ Rudman (GT) 8-3
Match Notes:Miami 19-6; National ranking #11Georgia Tech 23-4; National ranking #5Order of finish: Doubles (3,2,1); Singles (3,4,1,5)
January 16, 2021 Jackets Post Strong Day at Bulldog Kickoff
Georgia Tech women’s tennis pockets eight wins on day one
Jackets Post Strong Day at Bulldog Kickoff
January 15, 2021 Tennis Set to Open Season at Bulldog Kickoff
Women’s tennis to face Ole Miss, Mississippi State and Memphis
Tennis Set to Open Season at Bulldog Kickoff
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New Year Brings Exciting Progress: Construction Update
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If you haven’t toured Rivers Pointe Estates yet, this month is a great time to visit. Look for new signs helping you find your way throughout the community. As you drive around, you’ll see landscaping, exterior lighting and benches already in place. Find Your Lot Building lot signs are also posted now. If you see a spot you like or would like more information on, feel free to reach out to the builder contact listed on the sign. With two home lots sold within one week of the roads being open, we can tell there’s keen interest in our new community. We can’t wait to invite you to more model homes as they are completed this spring and summer. The…
By RiversPointe | December 10, 2020
At the heart of Rivers Pointe Estates is Toebben Builders, led by president John Toebben. John spent 27 years assembling the gorgeous rolling property and riverview lots to create Rivers Pointe Estates. John is honored and proud to build homes in this gem of a master-planned community and to share it with future residents. Not only is John the developer of Rivers Pointe, he and his family make The Reserve at Rivers Pointe their home. They are thrilled to welcome others to the Hebron, Kentucky, area. It’s a vibrant, growing community with a quiet country feel that still offers easy access to all modern conveniences, including stellar schools, churches, shopping, parks, and the airport. Toebben Builders is excited to begin…
Introducing New Patio Homes
By RiversPointe | December 2, 2020
At Rivers Pointe Estates, home buyers will find a wide variety of housing types and styles. For those looking for new patio homes, Drees Homes is offering accessibility and easy living in the Rivers Pointe Estates Villas. The Naples Plan The Naples is just one of the unique new patio homes Drees Homes will build in this section of Rivers Pointe Estates. This model offers the ease of one-story living, plus, you won’t have to worry about lawn mowing or snow shoveling: These maintenance chores are taken care of for you. Inside, the Naples has an open spacious design. An inviting foyer opens to a gallery and private study. A spacious bedroom with an adjacent full bath is tucked away…
Finding Your Community for Downsizing
By RiversPointe | November 24, 2020
In the corporate world, “downsizing” sounds ominous, but in terms of lifestyle options, downsizing can be very exciting and fulfilling. If you are searching for a community for downsizing, you want to make smart choices in location and amenities. And you should consider your new smaller (or not) home’s design and features carefully. Here are some things to keep in mind as you plan your next move: The Time Is Right It’s never too early to start looking for your next neighborhood. There are a number of reasons why people search for a community for downsizing: Maybe they have just become empty nesters. They could be ready to spend less time on home and yard maintenance. Or, it could be…
Riverview Community Information Center
By RiversPointe | November 5, 2020
We can’t wait to show you around Rivers Pointe Estates! Now that our new information center is open, you have the perfect place to start your visit. Located at 4051 Roundup Ridge in Hebron, Kentucky, the center offers an introduction to everything Rivers Pointe has to offer. You can learn more about the community amenities and layout of neighborhoods, green space and village center. Information on our four top custom home builders will be there, too. Our welcoming guide will have all the latest updates on model homes. While you’re at the information center, be sure to check out the panoramic view of the Ohio River. It’s one of the reasons Rivers Pointe is so special. River-view lots are available…
Building a New House Brings Peace of Mind
During times of stress it’s natural to be concerned about our sense of well-being. Maybe you’ve looked into ways to feel calmer lately. Here’s an idea you might not have come across: Could building a new house help people feel more content? Let’s look at factors that can ease stress and worry. Sleeping and Eating Well It’s no secret that good sleep habits and healthy nutrition help us feel good. By building a new house, you can design it with a sound night’s sleep in mind. Consider separating bedrooms from the home’s more active areas to cut down on noise. Pay attention to which direction bedroom windows face. Eastern exposure with its morning sun will gradually rouse you from sleep…
Builder Profile: Traditions Building Group
By RiversPointe | October 29, 2020
A home isn’t just where you rest your head: It’s where families come together to make memories and celebrate traditions. Traditions Building & Development Group knows this sentiment better than most. The company isn’t just a group of home builders and designers; they’re life planners. Since 1978, Traditions Building Group has worked to create distinctive lifestyle communities that Cincinnati families can truly call home. Bringing Innovation to Tradition The company takes a unique approach to home building by blending the great traditions of Cincinnati’s classic neighborhoods with the most innovative new community planning concepts and home designs. These distinctive, planned communities create convenience and connection, in and outside their homes. “I think most people would recognize us as being not…
Northern Kentucky New Home Community Shines
Little things add up, and the details make all the difference at Rivers Pointe Estates. This fall, we’re excited to see many of the special touches we planned for this Northern Kentucky new home community coming to life. Follow the Signs The first thing you’ll notice when you visit Rivers Pointe is our entryway off North Bend Road in Hebron. Look for long Tennessee fieldstone walls topped with wood timbers: They lead you straight into the community and set the tone for our refined rustic streetscaping. In fact, street signs all around Rivers Pointe will feature stone accents. Even the street names (like Copper Ridge and Silver Peak) bring natural treasures to mind. Other signs to look for include our…
Builder Profile: Justin Doyle Homes
By RiversPointe | October 9, 2020
For Justin Doyle, creating high-quality custom homes is a family affair. He began building homes with his father at Doyle Homes in Lima, Ohio, decades ago. Today, Justin Doyle Homes offers buyers premium luxury homes all around southwestern Ohio and Northern Kentucky. After working with his father, Justin earned a degree in mechanical engineering from Ohio State University. This background in lean manufacturing led Justin to approach building from a technically advanced perspective. Still, the crew and staff at Justin Doyle Homes recognize that custom homes combine the head and the heart. Their goal is to make clients’ visions come to life with houses designed and built to stand the test of time. The Design-Build Way Justin Doyle Homes clients…
What Is a Master-Planned Community?
According to real estate investing resource Million Acres, master-planned communities (MPCs) tend to be large, residential neighborhoods. “In contrast to most residential developments,” the site reports, “MPCs are often self-contained small cities with commercial properties and extensive recreational, education and other amenities.” The developer of the community typically purchases parcels of land to create the community. Then the developer sells sections of it to builders who will then offer new construction homes to buyers of their lots. Construction of the community’s amenities is the responsibility of the developer. Over time, the community may evolve to oversee and “govern” itself through a homeowners’ association. Why Choose a Master-Planned Community? A master-planned community can offer its residences a range of benefits. These…
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Send Your Tips to StarWatch!
Time to set your sights on the stars and let me, Callie C, shine a light on everything you need to know about today’s hottest socialites and celebrities. Turns out they’re just like the rest of us, only attired in more fetching threads. Welcome to StarWatch!
Let’s begin with the hot topic currently setting spectrum aflame. Boyce Baudin is back! But don’t you dare call him “Babyface” anymore. The beloved comedic actor with the cherubic visage disappeared from the public eye for months, canceling several spectrum appearances without warning. Rumors swirled that the notoriously hard partying prankster might’ve finally allowed his cravings to control him. Now we know, thankfully, that wasn’t the case. But many of Boyce’s longtime fans are less than pleased with the real reason for his self-imposed sabbatical…
Turns out that Baudin couldn’t deny the call of the Calliope. The actor felt his signature look was keeping him from landing the leading roles he truly desired, so he became the latest celeb to get the BiotiCorp reboot. Bye bye rosy red cheeks and round chin; hello chiseled cheekbones and devastating jawline. I believe the desired outcome was “ruggedly handsome,” but to my eyes it’s more “rough around the edges.”
Initial reactions to Baudin’s new appearance on spectrum were savage. Some of Baudin’s most dedicated devotees spun wild theories to explain the change, including one group convinced he’s going to yell “Triggerfish!” at any moment. From what I’m hearing, the star may be wishing that the new look had been a prank. Sources close to the bygone babyface claim he’s despondent about the public’s reaction and has been debating restoring his classic countenance. Let this be a lesson to all those stars considering similar procedures; sometimes perfection has a price.
Now, let’s go to a “say it ain’t so” scenario. There’s a new headline crashing its way out of Oso that kid-vid heartthrob Sindre Alby has been arrested for an unprovoked attack on a civilian ship. Representatives for the former star insist that Alby’s intentions were honorable and that the incident is nothing more than an unfortunate misunderstanding.
Alby rose to fame for his role as the mysterious yet sensitive stock clerk in Open for Business, one of my fav vids growing up and still my go-to drunk rewatch. Of course, we all remember when, at the height of the show’s popularity, Alby quit the show and acting entirely to go fight for animal rights across the Empire. Be still my beating teen heart!
He’s been at it for a while now, making vids and leading protests to raise awareness, but I guess this time he might have taken the fight too far.
Sources say the handsome heartbreaker had taken up with a watchdog group dedicated to staking out the Oso system and scanning ships to ensure Osoians aren’t being smuggled out. When Alby became convinced a vessel travelling well off the system’s normal shipping lanes was smuggling the protected creatures, he reported it to the local authorities. Though he was explicitly told not to engage, Alby got nervous when the ship’s quantum drive began to spool and decided to blow their main thrusters to bits. When the authorities finally arrived at the scene and boarded, guess what they found? Nothing illegal! Not a single cute Osoian! Nothing! They arrested Alby and the rest of the activists on the spot for attacking a civilian vessel.
Sure, Alby didn’t follow proper procedures, and the family aboard the ship suffered some injuries, but no one died. The former actor has promised to replace the damaged ship and pay all medical costs, but he’s still facing serious charges. Are you kidding? If you ask me, the ‘verse needs more valiant individuals like Alby who are dedicated to the greater good.
Fans of the former star have already started a “Free Alby” campaign to advocate for his release. I’ve pledged my support and so should you, so Alby can go free… and maybe star in the Open for Business reboot.
Enough with all this serious stuff. It’s time to have some fun!
It takes only one look at me to see that fashion is a passion. I’m not afraid to admit that the longest and most important relationship in my life is with a pair of LaVenti Penrose suede pumps. For me, it’s an expression of individuality and a way to stand out from the crowd.
That’s why, when I’m not scooping scandals, I’m scouring spectrum for all the hottest trends. To help me assess the latest looks, I’m joined again by my fab friend and fashionista, Nisco Hobbins.
Nisco Hobbins: Thank you, Calcee. I love being here almost, almost as much as I love OpalSky’s new line.
Stop it. Didn’t you call last year’s fall look, “chintzy casual clothes for those too rich to shop at Casaba?”
Nisco Hobbins: In my defense, I’m not paid to pull punches. My job is to form fashion opinions based on my gut reaction and years of experience. Expressing honest, cutting comments is what got my butt a spot on this show, you know.
And won your way into my heart… which I’m now reconsidering.
Nisco Hobbins: How dare you?
I just don’t understand how adding stuff like a subtle paw print pattern to the same boring and basic clothes suddenly converted you?
Nisco Hobbins: What? I can’t change my mind?
Only if you back it up by wearing OpalSky’s new line the next time you’re on the show.
Nisco Hobbins: Done and done.
Before I reconsider ever asking Nisco back on the show, let’s talk about what I think is the hottest new trend… gems, gems, and more gems.
Nisco Hobbins: Are you talking about those new Laren’zo designed dresses?
So amazing, aren’t they?
Nisco Hobbins: I almost don’t even know what to think.
This boldly beautiful new look from Republic of One features gems sewn into the seams around the peekaboo panels. It provides this mesmerizing sparkle and an eye-catching pop of color that is incredible.
Nisco Hobbins: It’s ostentatious. It’s shocking. And I love every damn thing about it.
The fashion house is even pitching these dresses as a potential heirloom quality asset. So, if you like keeping a little physical wealth around, a dress encrusted with gems isn’t a bad option.
Nisco Hobbins: So true, ‘cause from what I heard, these handcrafted pieces are mondo expensivo. I’m already debating which organ to sell so I can afford one.
You heard about what they had to do to make their first run, right?
Nisco Hobbins: No, what?
Republic hired a bunch of independent miners to hunt down exactly the stones they needed.
Nisco Hobbins: Big thanks to all those out there making this ‘verse a more beautiful place! You did your part for the greater good.
Now, all I need is someone to send me one to wear on the show. Wink, wink.
Nisco Hobbins: Winking doesn’t work that way.
Guess we’ll see.
Nisco Hobbins: Honey, trust me, Laren’zo is not watching this show.
Stop crushing my spirit, or I’ll have Ravi mute your mic.
Nisco Hobbins: Love you, Laren’zo! Your new line embraces the entire Republic aesthetic while also giving it an intriguing new spin. Just like what OpalSky did.
What’s going on here? Are you getting paid by the plug?
Nisco Hobbins: Can I be honest?
That’s a loaded question.
Nisco Hobbins: I hate OpalSky’s new line. I just wanted to have a little fun. Please don’t make me wear their clothes on your show.
Oh! You are so bad! We might have some Opal lying around here that I should make you wear for the second half of this segment.
Nisco Hobbins: You wouldn’t.
Better keep your eyes here, watchers. There’s more StarWatch coming up after this quick break.
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March 2010 – Copacabana Review
21st March 2010 22nd November 2016
Reviewed by Rochdale Style Magazine.
Rochdale Amateur Operatic Society put on a spectacular production of Barry Manilow’s Copacabana, with many of the audience commenting that it was the societys best show yet.
‘Her name was Lola’…the unforgettable opening lyric of Barry Manilow’s hit Copacabana, is the inspiration for this exciting musical tale, of love and romance, set at the heart of the swinging nightclub scene of the 1940s. While creating the world’s next big hit, Stephen (Gary Jones), an aspiring songwriter, is carried back to an era when ‘music and passion were always the fashion’ at the world famous and glamorous Copacabana nightclub in New York City. In his dream, Lola La Mar (Laura Hoyle), a hopeful showgirl, is launched on the path to stardom as a Copa Girl with the help of Tony Forte (Gary Jones), a bartender with dreams of his own. Captivated by her performance, the villainous Rico (Steve Harrison) whisks her away to the Tropicana nightclub in Havana. From this exotic, distant new world, a tale of old-fashioned love, jealousy and murder in the entangled lives of Lola, Tony and Rico unfolds.
Laura Hoyle stole the show, putting in an exceptional performance, as Lola. Gary Jones deserves a special mention for not only giving a faultless leading man performance, but also directing and choreographing the production, alongside Assistant Director, Mike McCaw and Assistant Choreographer, Claire Egerton. Dawn Leigh was perfectly suited to the role of latino bombshell Conchita Alvarez and Steve Harrison captured the danger, but charm of his character, Rico Castelli. Tony Stones, as Sam Silver, and Nicky Mead, as Gladys Murphy, gave strong performances and Tom Varey had excellent comic timing as Willy the waiter. The Copa girl dancers had the audience mesmerized, during some brilliantly choreographed numbers; their stunning costumes adding to the effect. The male dancers also showed off their talents, with some very energetic routines.
The 13-piece band, under the direction of Paul Nicholls, remained visible behind the action throughout most of the production, adding greatly to the ambience of the nightclub scenes. The 20+ chorus made for some impressive numbers, even dancing into the audience for the finale. This feel-good musical certainly seemed to prove a hit with the audience and a fitting tribute to the memory of Jack Heaton, the society s dedicated and long-standing President and Chairman.
March 2011 – Sweeney Todd Review →
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The Day Before Twilight but After Midnight Chapter 6: A friend returns.
By Rova - February 11, 2018
Crystal nearly fainted when she heard Obsidian.
" War? Why? What reason is there to have a war!!!???" She thought. She was about to slip into a different hiding place, so she could hear better, but heard Obsidian's cold dry voice.
" We will gather not only our best demons but also our worst. We will carry the Dragons, of which we captured, out into the middle. The evil fairies will be at the end, and I will be up above, helping all of ours who need it. You will be finishing the potion with Crumble. When done, let me know, and I will tell you when to release it to Dusk."
" Obsidian," Rocky asked. " Would you please explain to me how we will win this war??"
" We will win, for I have the most complicated, best, and winning tactic ever used and won in a battle. The battle was long ago, as I can remember, just like yesterday. 3 million years ago, when I was fighting as Nobel Demon, I fought-"
" How old are you??" Obsidian snapped out of her story.
"That is none of you business nosey!!" Rocky looked away quickly, ashamed.
" Sorry." She squeaked.
" Going back to your plan, how will we fight. We will need to have to best battle strategy, and even though you have one, we need a backup, just in case, and - " Started Rocky.
" We will do the plan my WAY!! We need NO backup plan. This plan has succeeded in winning a war, and it will for this war!!!" Cut off Obsidian.
" Right." Rocky's voice sounded strong and firm, though under her breath there was a small quiver of fear as if she was scared of Obsidian. Crystal could feel it, though there were no hints or clues to tell that Rocky was scared.
" I have to tell Twilight and Midnight. They ought to know what to do." Crystal thought. She started to tiptoe silently to tell the sisters, but was caught when Obsidian said,
" Crumble, what is taking you so long???" Crumble tried to gulp down the knot in her throat. She had no choice but to fib.
" Almost ready Obsidian. Just checking which potions are going to be needed for the spell."
" Well hurry up!"
" Right away Obsidian." Crumble sighed, and dragged all the way up the stairs to the spell room, where the spell was being made and stopped. She sucked up the small bits of energy left inside her and changed to show she was Crumble. She knocked and held her breath. Knock, Knock, Knock.
" Enter Crumble." Shouted Obsidian. Crumble entered the room, her body swayed slowly with pain, her muscles were weak, and her face started looking paler and paler by the minute. She gathered up all her energy and said,
" I believe that you called me in here."
" We did." Said, Rocky. Her face showed her work. Her face drooped, and her outfit was full of stains. She too was turning pale. there was even a small glimpse of Golden Dandelion hair sticking out from certain pieces. Crumble gaped at this, Dawn was alive, she could feel it. She always had a big connection with Dawn and Dusk, as if she belonged to be with them each day, not as a helper, but actually be with them. She started wandering off in her memories and forgot that she was still talking to Obsidian.
" CRUMBLE!!!!!" Shouted Obsidian, losing her patience.
Crumble snapped out of her daydream and gulped.
"S- S- Sorry Obsidian." She said, stumbling on her words. " I-I had a bit of delay. I was cleaning up a potion that I spilt, and--"
" Silence!!!" Cut Obsidian. She rasped in her voice, eyes bulging out. " You should be sorry Crumble, or should I say, Crystal!!" Crystal gasped.
" That is nothing but a lie!! I am Crumble!!"
" Oh please, I saw it all, how you told Twilight the plan, how you were listening to me and Rocky, and now, you are barely paying attention to what I am saying!!! I shall use you as the bait, and lure in the youngest sister, Midnight, and capture her, while Rocky makes the potion to drain not only Dusk's magic but also hers!! You will be aiding me in the war, Crumble!!" Obsidian cackled wildly, acting quite odd.
" Crystal, Rocky, Obsidian, Dusk, Crystal, Crystal, Crystal," Dawn said under her breath, " Crystal, Crystal... CRYSTAL!!" She shouted, instantly transforming back to Dawn.
" WHAT!!??" Obsidian gaped.
" You, you' re the main reason why I have been locked up in my own body, shivering and struggling to fight, now rocky is locked up in her body, and there is no way you can bring her back. Understand!!???" Dawn shot at Obsidian. Obsidian stood silently.
" Do you understand you cruel -- Ahh!" Dawn fell fast to the floor gasping. " Cry-Crys-Crystal." Crystal leapt forward, she fell next to Dawn and closed her eyes. She started glowing and layed a hand on Dawn. She hummed a small tune and opened her eyes. Dawn still layed there silently. She closed her eyes once more, and but her other hand on Dawn, having both hands side by side. She hummed once more but sung a different tune. She opened her eyes once more, and stood up, facing Obsidian. She took hold of the hem of her robe, and said,
" Open, come, the song is sung, bring me the cure tonight." She looked at Obsidian and clapped gently.
" You," Crystal said in a stern voice, " You took my family away, then my friends, now, you caused suffering to one of them. Think about it. What do you have to say for yourself!!??" Obsidian looked away, furious.
" ANSWER ME!!!" Then, out of no where, a bright shimmer erupted from the sky, and the ground. a dainty shadow formed, still hidden underneath the glow of peach light and stars.
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Building Pacific Social Citizens through Education
Senior education policy and curriculum development officials from the region met on 3-5 April 2017 to map a way forward for their countries to strengthen the human rights, gender equality, civic education and social citizenship components of their national education curriculum.
The meeting, jointly organised by SPC’s Regional Rights Resources Team (RRRT), Educational Quality and Assessment Programme (EQAP) and Social Development Programme (SDP) with the support of the Australian Government, discussed the relevance, readiness, and opportunities for implementing human rights curricula in Pacific island countries.
Participants shared experiences from implementing other socially-orientated curricula balancing multiple demands, and generating curriculum content and teaching solutions by drawing on existing skills and expertise. There was consensus on building on existing curricula. Countries represented included Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Nauru, Palau, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.
Speaking at the opening of the consultation, SPC Deputy Director-General Dr Audrey Aumua, said universal enjoyment of human rights, including equal opportunities and outcomes for women and girls, reflected the best of what Pacific cultures and histories had to offer, and complemented SPC’s vision for prosperity and development in the region.
“Social citizenship education, tailored to country contexts and adaptive to local conditions and challenges will prepare Pacific youth to embrace and own human rights and gender equality,” said Dr Aumua.
RRRT Senior Human Rights Adviser, Dr Jayshree Mangubhai said “This consultation is in the context of SPC’s growing role in this area, and brings together SPC’s significant experience and expertise in human rights, gender, and education design and delivery to address common issues.”
Dr Mangubhai added that this consultation was a critical step in ensuring that school curricula incorporated and promoted respect for the human rights of all and the attendant responsibilities.
Moving ahead, SPC will provide curriculum development, policy review, gender and human-rights mainstreaming and whole of school support to Pacific countries as they integrate human rights and gender equality into the school and education system.
Onorina Saukelo RRRT Communications Assistant, [email protected] or +679 330 5582
Useful link: SPC Regional Rights Resource Team
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← The despicable cruelty of the awful anti-vaccination movement – updated
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Anti-vaccine activists secretly plot to defraud the Commonwealth
Posted on April 13, 2015 by reasonable hank
As you would all be aware the Australian immunisation policy and social welfare world is abuzz with the recent changes being made to the immunisation allowance and child care payments. I’m not going to discuss those here. To be honest I still haven’t got my head around it. I will, however, be highlighting the behaviour of anti-vaccinationists to the news of the revocation of the conscientious objection section of the legislation which should never have been in place anyway. It is a hangover from times past when some people in Federal parliament thought Meryl Dorey was a fit and proper person to allow into their offices to conduct the nefarious business of the anti-vaccine fundamentalist group, the Australian Vaccination Network.
Anyway, the CO section is gone. This leaves medical exemptions, as is right and proper. And it also leaves, inexplicably, the religious exemption. The only religion currently exempted by the government, from immunisation, is Christian Science.
So, we contacted Christian Science to ask them if the church has any objections to immunisation. This is the reply:
Thank you for your email and inquiry about whether there is a Christian Science church policy on vaccination. The answer is that members of a Christian Science church are free to make their own healthcare decisions/choices, including vaccinations. There is no church policy regarding vaccinations.
So that’s it. The only religion which is recognised by government as having an objection to immunisation does not have any objection to immunisation.
The religious exemption must, therefore, be removed.
As I stated above, this post will contain examples of anti-vaccinationist responses to the forthcoming changes. You will see that these people stand for nothing. These people think nothing of committing fraud, lying about their beliefs – and in doing so denigrating the beliefs of the religions which they propose to dishonestly join – expecting medical personnel to commit fraud, and committing tax fraud. Anti-vaccinationism is a cult, and they’ll go faith-shopping until they find a religion into which their cult will fit.
The following examples come from the Facebook group, Vaccine Free Australia.
The lists begin:
Astonishingly, and without a hint of irony, one commenter speaks of remaining “true to our beliefs and knowledge”:
Here is the first of many mentions of the fake church set up by anti-vaccine businessperson, Stephanie Messenger:
The AVN’s resident protected troll, Johanna Holland/Nicole Johnson recommends Scientology:
This person needs to be told which religion she needs to join:
This commenter advocates that people join a religion in a hurry as the new changes smell of a CDC conspiracy. I suppose if you think about it hard enough, doesn’t everything?
“I would do whatever it takes,” includes lying about your deeply held beliefs so as to access government benefits:
In response to an article about the “fake” Church of Conscious Living, a commenter wants to join:
An atheist will “pretend to believe whatever it takes” to join a religion:
Conspiracy theorist Everson plans to preach the bible at a medical practitioner. AVN stalwart and dog breeder Anita Bugges is all too aware that their group is commonly known to be anything but private; she has read the stream of deceit from those planning to lie to obtain benefits:
Having not yet submitted a CO form, this person wonders if she should just change it to a religious objection:
Another vote for Messenger’s fake church:
This person just wants to know how to join a church. Belief means nothing, unless it’s anti-vaccine belief:
You can tell how strongly held a religion’s beliefs are when those wanting to join it don’t understand it isn’t a religion:
How easily, and quickly, one can change their beliefs when they subsist on deceit:
This commenter advocates for Christian Science:
It’s always good to see the Jews get a mention without the obligatory conspiracy theories about the new world order. It’s also good to see an anti-vaccinationist heap scorn on a belief system they are about to pretend to share:
Buddhism!
Islam!
Amish!
The Taliban! Scientology! Messenger’s fake church! I think this text comes from the South Australian anti-vaccine fundamentalist, Kathy Scarborough:
Whatever religion it is, just become religious:
This commenter should be dashing the hopes of Messenger’s fake church by noting that it not registered as a religion. We’ll see:
This person will become a JW faster than you could say, “Lol”:
Look. I don’t know what this is. But if it’s anything like a human caterpillar I’m out:
I don’t know about you, but, End Time Ministries actually sound like they enjoy a laugh, once the serious business of sandwich-board-making is over for the day:
“Become that religion”. It really is that easy. Personal belief really is something to be abused as a tool to defraud the Commonwealth:
More votes for the JWs, Scientologists, and Messenger’s fake church:
Registered nurse Libby Gregg likes giving advice against immunisation. She is always wrong. Just like she is with this bad advice:
This commenter wants the flock to create their own religion. More votes are given for Messenger’s fake church, whilst the poor old Buddhists are lumped in amongst this lot, where they do not deserve to be:
From the same thread the Seventh Day Adventists get a mention, along with some more poor advice that objectors don’t need to note down their religion:
The Taliban gets another mention, which is appropriate given they hate vaccines so much they literally murder health staff who provide vaccines. Again this is the text from the South Australian anti-vaccine grunt, Kathy Scarborough:
This anti-vaccinationist states that her intention is to join Christian Science, then, simply leave after six months. Or maybe Buddhism. Easy! No disrespect to the church I’m sure. It’s just business after all. Anti-vaccine business:
Okay, we’re almost there. I promise. I have a few extra screenshots of other dishonest plans being hatched by anti-vaccinationists.
This person is planning on committing tax fraud as a payback:
These people are counting on some medical fraud and related bribery:
This is a very common tactic discussed by anti-vaccinationists. They attend a doctor’s appointment so as to have a discussion about having their CO form signed. Then, when the doctor refuses to sign, as is the doctor’s right if they do not believe the parent really does understand the risks and benefits of refusing immunisation, the anti-vaccinationist leaves without paying for the consultation. Stealing means nothing to these people:
This person recommends forging CO forms:
This person advocates refusing to pay tax, as some form of payback:
Veteran AVN member and former Facebook admin Christine Phethean wants us to take into account the Nuremberg Code. Because why not, really:
And proving me wrong about the previous mention of the Jews, here is anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist Stuart Everson, with his tongue hanging out, whilst shaking his fists at Ken McLeod and his Freemason cabal:
This final comment from protected AVN troll Holland/Johnson has nineteen likes. Anti-vaccinationists are delightful:
If you made it this far, thank you.
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56 Responses to Anti-vaccine activists secretly plot to defraud the Commonwealth
adventuresofanaussieragdoll says:
Scott Morrison, the Federal Minister was apparently on Channel 9 this morning & was asked about this issue & specifically the religious exemption. He apparently stated that there is only one religion that has registered an objection with the government. He refused to name the religion, no matter how hard they pushed for the answer. I think the reason for his refusal is well demonstrated in your blog post. He doesn’t want these lunatics ‘joining’ this religion under false pretenses. I think they are all going to be disappointed. Because even if they do join these religions they name, you have to get the exemption signed by the minister of your church. And any minister would be taking his or her responsibility very seriously & would be questioning the personnabout their committment to the faith before they would sign what would have the same force in law as a Statutory Declaration. The penalty for making a false declaration is Purjury & can result in a gaol sentence. Just ask the former Supreme Court Justice who did a false Stat Dec about who was driving his car……
Simon Margan says:
Why would a wacky cult, fundamentally against immunisation, be restricting any new member from the exemption. If the Catholic religion were exempt, anyone who was a catholic could not realistically be prevented from being exempt.
Whether of not you hold a faith position is rather different to whether or not you were driving a specified car at a specified time. The former is largely subjective while the latter is wholly objective.
And, depending on the church, the minister may have little concern beyond how much loose change s/he finds in the weekend collection tray. It’s not like organised religions have shown themselves to be largely trustworthy and honourable institutions of late.
Annette Bannon says:
I read the lot!…I only had to go to the loo once, and that was to throw up, lol!
Religion roulette.
Sharli says:
Vaccination roulette? Ah, no that came first.
Ken McLeod says:
If ever there was a reason to remove the exemption for religious belief, this is it. It’s a pity that the genuine believers have to suffer because of the dishonesty of this lot.
Their advice on law is about as accurate as their advice in immunology
This is a closed and private group and you have violated their privacy by posting these screen shots publicly. I would get yourself ready for some legal action
reasonablehank says:
I’ll play. It is a ‘private’ Facebook group comprised of 2900 members, many of whom were personally invited in by the founder Courtney Hebberman, then posting as Phoolan Devi, on the Stop the AVN Facebook page. Many more were already members. All of the images published are published in the public interest: crimes are being planned against the Commonwealth of Australia. Good luck.
Gianna Cherry Possum Bee says:
better call bucky –
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bucky-Goldman-And-Associates-Interweb-Attorneys/1487231718187441?fref=ts
I love it when twat waffles get all butt hurt about privacy when they post stupid crap openly in the public domain
LOL, good luck with that Lissa.
Melissa Whelan says:
Nope, the sanctity of facebook groups don’t exist, legally anyway, this was perfectly legal, as is passing on all the posts and names to both Centerlink and the police.
jbeddy says:
@lissa I suggest you read the facebook terms. On Facebook, there is no such thing as privacy. You are not the user of Facebook, you are the product that Facebook sells.
Nilbeliever says:
Nothing on the internet is private.
There is no right to privacy in the Australian Constitution.
The Australian Privacy Act doesn’t cover the privacy of activities on Facebook.
So now you know.
Tom Reynolds says:
Reporting on potential frauds will get you legal action? It’s a bold move, let’s see if it pans out…
A. Bright says:
Hello, let me get right into it! I do believe this article is infringing on the privacy of the people mentioned in this article.
This website has tried to cover themselves by copying and pasting sections of the Commonwealth Copyright Act 1968 and the Facebook Statement of Rights and Responsibilities subsection: Sharing your content and information which clearly states ***4. When you publish content or information using the Public setting, it means that you are allowing everyone, including people off of Facebook, to access and use that information, and to associate it with you (i.e., your name and profile picture).***
This group is a private invitation based group who’s content is strictly exclusive to the page, therefore, all posts are private and do not fall under these guidelines, therefore, copyright.
The author of this article can be charged with culpability along with the website as they have allowed this to be published. This article is also vexatious which in itself holds grounds for legal action.
Thank you kindly for reviewing my complaint and I do hope for a peaceful outcome.
Thank you for your explanatory message, anonymous person who uses the google email address “PJDlegalchambers”. Your Admonitions will be afforded the appropriate diligence.
Please see the reply to the other commenter who provided similar warnings.
A. Bright what? definitely not a bright person and absolutely not a bright legal representative. Admittedly this is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a long time.
Anthea says:
Lawyers can usually spell. Just sayin.
A “peaceful” outcome?! As opposed to what? War?
Clearly someone doesn’t comprehend the ‘Doctrine of Clean Hands’. You cannot go to court, asking for relief from the court if you yourself has done something wrong. Your hands must be clean before the court can help you. As these people are all planning to purpartate a fraud against teh Australian government, I think that would meet the definition of not having ‘clean hands’.
Hmmm, I’m torn.
Religion is a purely philosophical position. There is (or should be) no legal restriction to people picking and choosing a religion (or no religion) to follow.
How many criminals “find God” while in prison, and find their stay somewhat shorter as a result? No one is surprised when this happens – it’s expected and even applauded.
By allowing this special-case philosophical exemption, the government has opened the door for exactly what we see happening here. Is it that much different to corporations legally taking advantage of known tax loopholes, or workers doing a few less hours so as not to lose the Health Care Card by earning too much?
While I disagree with the fundamental tenets of the anti-vax cause, and while I’m amused by their antics in scrambling to find an acceptable religion (which will no doubt come with a raft of other impositions on their personal and private lives), I am not especially offended that someone would seek to take advantage of a loophole which is there for no other reason than to be exploited by people who choose not to vaccinate for philosophical reasons.
After all, is Ms “Johnson’s” misinformed, dangerous but deeply held belief that vaccines cause autism any less deeply held than some random Christian Scientist’s misinformed and dangerous belief that God will save their kid from whooping cough? If there’s a distinction, I’m not seeing it.
Let them know that Amish is the only religion that exempts the vaccinations. Then they can join and remove themselves from the internet. After all, they don’t want chemicals, how can they be OK with a Cathode Ray Tube or a Diode that emits light beaming lasers into their child’s face?
If governments did not creat discriminatory laws then then you would have no arguement.
You know, I kind of find it offensive that anti-vaccination liars bleat “discrimination”. You poor things. You poor mistreated minority.
How is being asked to do the same thing as the rest of the community “discriminatory”? No really, how?
It’s funny when people don’t actually know the meanings of the words they use.
A Secret group which you arent a part of is not public settings.
As you nor your friends here belong to the group using a real profile you’ve obtained personal information without consent.
Should of checked the settings Hank.
As for accusing people of being criminals and planning crime you’d want to have more than just chat from a fb group,accusing people of committing major crimes without evidence is defamation.
Where is the crime?
Defrauding the Commonwealth of what,joining a church for its beliefs lmao
You really are sad,as you see the group agrees with me about your Sociopathic nature.
See,you were invited and banned,youre still on the ban list mate so again how did you obtain information from a secret fb group youre not part of?
Your group cannot be considered private. It has been known for over a year that screenshots from your group – a group with almost 3000 members no less – were being shared all over Facebook. You then sent an invitation to more of your group’s critics, on your critics’ Facebook page, almost one year ago, to join your group. Yet you steadfastly refused to make this knowledge common knowledge amongst your members:
http://i.imgur.com/b21q8Ly.jpg
You noted again in December 2014 that there were what you call “fake trolls” in your group, from the very beginning! Yet you still steadfastly refused to make this knowledge common knowledge amongst your members:
http://i.imgur.com/KEaEOZO.jpg
And only the other day you tell your members “be wary of what you post” because “nothing is private”. Nothing is private. Your words. Finally you tell your members!
http://i.imgur.com/xLB2uas.jpg
As for this, “you’ve obtained personal information without consent”. Rubbish. I have obtained no personal information, and I object to the accusation that I would obtain and share “personal information”.
If you think I have committed defamation, by stating that people are planning to defraud the Commonwealth Government of benefits to which they are not entitled, planning on refusing to pay tax, planning on bribing or having medical administrative staff fraudulently file forms, and even planning on forging a CO form – this is not to mention the popular plan of stealing from a medical practice by refusing to pay for a consultation – whilst presenting evidence that all of this has happened, then I say go for it.
Do you honestly think I’m going to tell you my source for the collection of your group’s planned illegal activities?
You are pissed off because you all got caught out planning a rort. And your group has you to thank for it, Ms Hebberman.
I can’t take anyone seriously when they use grammar such as ‘Should of checked the settings Hank.’
Courtney, you funny says:
HAHAHAHAHA! Oh man you people are hilarious. I’ve never been to this blog before but for the love of God tell me you ant-vaccine people aren’t all this dumb.
Sillier and sillier.
You think the Privacy Act gives a shit about what you post on FB? You think that FB gives a shit that your private group’s activities have been exposed?
Good luck with that, then.
Oooh, a Secret group! I think you might have gone too far this time Hank. You really shouldn’t expose secrets because then they’re not secrets any more and the Secret group won’t be secret.
What you should be doing is getting your super-secret undercover friend to tell the people in that Secret group that literacy is a thing and that if people see they can’t even string a comprehensible sentence together in simple English, with at least a scattering of primary-school-level grammar, then people might think they’re not qualified to understand super-complex things like the science of immunisation. And they surely wouldn’t want that given that they’re trying to convince people how much smarter than the rest of us they are.
That’s low, don’t you have respect forppeoples privacy?
I have more respect for people who don’t plan on stealing that to which they are not entitled, courageous, anonymous commenter.
How come courageous, anonymous commenter has the same dodgy keyboard, or keyboard “skills”, as Courtney?
People do not deserve respect if they plan to steal, defraud the taxpayer, forge documents, misrepresent themselves to the clergy, and lie. You have been exposed as dishonest and unethical, get over it.
How much respect did Meryl Dorey and her acolytes have for the privacy, grief, feelings or anything else of Dana McCaffrey’s parents, again???
Yeah. Exactly. Pot, kettle, all that stuff.
I Think this is awesome, i think everyone should report frauds, there is a centerlink link for it as well as reporting via the police. great work!
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So if they do go ahead with this religious idea, if they (or their family) ever use the hospital system again, would they get fraud charges ? We could only hope
Well one thing’s for sure. If they actually find and join a church that is fundamentalist enough to oppose vaccination, they won’t be allowed to use or promote high-dose vitamin-C, black salve or homeopathy ever again either.
Even crystal therapy, reiki, kinesiology, TCM, chiropractic or any form of “chakra balancing” or re-aliging of one’s Qi would be seen as blasphemous and lead to immediate ostracisation – so they certainly wouldn’t be able to promote such nonsense on Facebook…unless they do it in a secret group where no one else can see it, of course.
Unon says:
You could at least have the decency to blur out names. You have screen captured my name and publicly posted it. I don’t care that you’ve shared what I said, but you have caused a huge breach in my privacy and you have now risked my son and I’s wellbeing on a very personal level. I will be contacting the police.
You use that profile picture all over Facebook, and your name, publicly. If you don’t want that picture being associated with you, then don’t use it. It’s really not that hard. Your complaint is ridiculous, but, to be expected from the likes of anti-vaccination liars. The names are left in should any government departments want to follow up on any possible illegalities. Give me your local police station and I’ll ring them for you.
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A standout in that pack of liars exposed here is Stuart Everson. He says of me “Call Ken McLeod out on his Freemasonry. He loves it.” For the record, I have never been ‘called out’ on my supposed links to Freemasonry. Further, I have no links to the Freemasons, but I would not be at all offended if I was to be so accused, as I know them to be honourable people who do much commendable charity work.
“…if I were a mason I’d sit at the back and not get in anyone’s way.”
Kevin Paine says:
Hank. Well done.
Thankfully, the religious exemption looks like being removed. I joined an internet based anti-vax religion just to show how easy it was to get around the religious exemption. Less than 10 minutes and I’m a member of a religion, complete with certificate, without ever having left the comfort of my own home. All I had to do to get my certificate was fill out my name & email address on a website. A copy has been sent to the PM and Health Minister to show how easy it is to abuse the system.
The anti-vax crows are effectively causing the deaths of children. When you’re prepared to kill kids, defrauding the government is only a minor moral breach.
Mr Morrison said the religious exemption was no longer necessary. I wonder on what grounds it was ever deemed to be “necessary” anyway?
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we as parents have the right to choose what to put into our childs body!! i choose not to inject neurotoxins and baby fetal tissue into their bodies . the government has no right to push parents into fear mongering tactics to vaccinate.
The government has every right. As a parent of a newborn, I have the right for your little balls of pustulence not to kill my child before they can get immunised.
Vaccination is a no-brainer. It’s as close to a guarantee of immunity as is possible for a mortal being. Deciding not to immunise because you don’t want to be told what to do is fatal hubris that can not only affect your child, but every child in the community.
Hell, you may have blood on your hands already and not even know it. That’s not fear-mongering, that’s a fact and a potential consequence of your obstinance.
There are no neurotoxins and fetal tissue in vaccines, Grace. Grow up.
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Keeping Dead Products Alive: Tips for Supporting Legacy Software
Software companies rely on regular customer upgrades and decommissioning old titles. But what is good for vendors isn't so great for IT, which often has to support unsupported software.
Nearly 80 years ago, the term "planned obsolescence" was coined by Bernard London, a New York City real estate professional and amateur economist. The idea, which London thought was a darn good one, was to design products with a limited lifespan so consumers regularly had to get new ones, thus keeping the economy going.
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Even though code doesn't stop working unless corrupted, software goes out of date in a variety of ways. The biggest death blow strikes when vendors stop support. No more features but, more critically, no more security updates.
Another problem is when new environments won't run old products. Even if a new version of Windows looks and acts largely the same, many older applications and hardware no longer operate.
Redmond magazine heard from some 30 readers -- all IT pros -- about their frustrations with unsupported software and how they deal with them.
Short Course on Support
Each software company has its own support policies, which sometimes vary from product to product. For this article, we were mostly concerned with the basics of how Microsoft support works. When a Redmond product comes out, it's fully supported. That means service packs are created, patches written and released, and compatibility with current environments is maintained to the best of Microsoft's ability. This lasts for five years, and patches and software updates and service packs are all free.
After five years comes "Extended Support." Plain old customers get software updates and service packs for free -- but not much more. Those with a volume license go on "Extended Support" and can also buy an "Extended Hotfix Agreement" that provides full security support.
Fortunately, all customers -- so long as they're legal -- get patches and other security-related fixes. After 10 years, though, there's basically no support, no patches and no security fixes.
The biggest thing that disappears when support ends are security updates and patches for critical flaws and zero-day exploits. This is the main way vendors scare you into upgrading.
Jim Adcock, a SharePoint consultant, works in a shop that uses iNotion as a repository for documents and records. "The repository cannot be accessed with browsers more recent than Internet Explorer 6. This leaves our systems with older unsupported browsers with security flaws," Adcock says. "We're currently migrating to a new product for document and records management: SharePoint 2010. There is no newer version of iNotion because the company that made it is no longer in business. We tried a migration last year to another product that did not meet our needs and had to roll back to iNotion."
Not all are so nervous about running old apps, though. "I think the 'security' issue is a bit overcooked," says Bruce Roeser, an independent freelance developer.
Forced Upgrade March
Software wouldn't become obsolete if companies didn't want it to be. Forced upgrades put money in vendors' coffers but leave you holding the bag -- and your old software. And many of these new titles aren't wanted–even if they're free. As one Redmond reader says: "Microsoft is way too focused on rolling out new versions every three years and making us upgrade, [rather] than focusing on quality. I don't need the interface of Windows and Office. My users hate the changes and prefer not to upgrade at all. We just started to get them sold on Windows 7 and Windows 8 is changing the GUI again?" the reader complains.
One example is the Office Ribbon, which debuted in Office 2007 and now graces Office 2010. A huge number of users vastly prefer the old interface (they hate the Ribbon), but Office 2003 will soon be no longer officially supported. To maintain full support, IT will have to upgrade and train users on a new interface they don't even like.
Reader Dick Lutz is also weary of forced Office upgrades. "Every now and then, Microsoft 'fixes' the Office suite, perhaps hoping to reorient users away from the excellent adaptations of the previous style of interface by other vendors. The 'Ribbon' brings us nothing but a new and wholly unnecessary learning curve. In tweaking what needs no tweaking, the company creates minor chaos in the orbit of other software," says Lutz, editor and publisher of The Main Street WIRE in Roosevelt Island in New York. "My determination to stick with products that I know well keeps me in WordPerfect's camp: I still use WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS almost every day and -- for page layout -- use antique PageMaker, which does everything I need without the learning climb of InDesign."
New OSes are also a big shift. "I hate the Windows 7 user interface with a deep purple passion. Windows 7 took away functionality, and the UI is hard to use and dysfunctional in some ways," says one Redmond reader.
Besides the hassle of upgrading and trading, there's the pure issue of dollars and cents, often a lot of dollars and cents. "For the most part, 'upgrading' means I pay additional dollars to get nothing I need in return," says developer Roeser.
The Case for New (and Old)
Some IT pros like having a choice -- the choice to move to new software where it makes sense and keep running the old stuff when upgrading doesn't make sense. "As an IT person, you should always move up to the new operating system if at all possible. If you're going to keep an older machine, it's functioning well and you're not going to put the money into it for upgrades, keep it until it dies. I don't see the big deal," says W. Mitchell. "My various home systems will be on XP, probably until they die. I can't justify $200-plus OS upgrades for machines worth $50 to $100. The machines work fine, and do what I need them to do, so I can't justify replacing them."
Were it always so simple. Some shops buy new software to interact with others using new software. "If everybody you do business with is expecting your Word documents as .docx, what are you to do? On the other hand, Microsoft has been pretty good with backward compatibility. There's an extension you can install to Office 2003 that reads the extended formats," Roeser adds.
Online Lifeline
After a Microsoft product turns 10, you're mostly on your own for support. There are third parties and Microsoft support partners, but they cost money. And Microsoft offers fee-based Custom Support, but this is really meant as a bridge for those who will ultimately migrate to a new version. Plus, you have to have already bought Premiere Support to qualify. Keep in mind, too, that this Custom Support is limited. If your problem needs a security update or hotfix, you'll have to upgrade.
Support on the cheap can come online:
Join TechNet and read Knowledge Base (KB) articles. Keep in mind that Microsoft only promises to keep KB articles up for a year after support fully expires.
Bookmark Product Support Center FAQs for apps you need to support.
Get to know the Microsoft Answers Community.
-- D.B.
I Heart XP
While support for Windows XP won't fully expire until 2014, IT is already agitated. Let's face it: IT has figured out how to troubleshoot XP, and most XP PCs were long ago paid for and amortized. And because IT gave Windows Vista such a wide berth, there are plenty of fresh XP installs. Looking at losing support in less than three years for an OS that was just installed isn't fun. "For our purposes, XP is the most reliable and functional OS that Microsoft ever developed. We've had nothing but problems with Windows 7 -- on new machines! We've kept XP on old machines and laptops and netbooks with no problems," says reader Dick Schultz.
Longtime reader and development specialist C. Marc Wagner puts it more succinctly: "XP won't die. Why should it? The damned thing just plain works."
Software developer Roeser, who runs Office 2003 at home, is passionate about his old software. "You can have my Office 2003 when you can pry it from my cold, dead fingers!" he exclaims. "I've thought about retrograding the suite on my office machine back to 2003, but the GUI in 2003 is just cleaner and easier to work with."
We Don't Need No Stinkin' Support
Some products are so simple or stable they don't need support. "I'm still using Outlook Express -- it's easy to use, simple and gets the job done. Too bad it's no longer supported, but who needs support? It just works," says Dean, a Redmondmag.com reader.
Others just don't see value in Microsoft support. "I won't miss their support when it's gone. I use their support very little. We all know Microsoft is running a scam on introducing new OSes in conjunction with the PC manufacturers to make it cheaper to get a new PC with the OS installed, than to update an old PC," says Dennis Webb, DP technician for the Community Action Council in Lexington, Ky. "If the OS works with my applications, that's all I care about."
Webb currently supports some 100 PCs, running Windows 95 and Windows 98, which are used in Head Start classrooms. "Windows 95 is all I need. What's even more interesting is how fast Windows 95 can be loaded. I use a Compaq restore disk, and it takes about 20 minutes to wipe out and restore the OS. Using a restore disk from HP, it takes about four hours to reload a Windows 7 laptop," Webb says. He has some doubts about Microsoft's most recent OS. "I've rolled several HP computers back to Windows XP from Windows 7. I really prefer XP to Windows 7 and haven't found any advantage to Windows 7."
Teenage Software
My word processor of choice is ArkoseWorks 3.0. It was a Win 95 update of Novell PerfectWorks, which started life as WordPerfectWorks. It is a down-and-dirty program that doesn't mess me up by trying to anticipate what I'm doing or making global changes. I've been using it for 15 years. I know its quirks and the ins and outs of running it. However, it's getting harder to install and set up on new computers because it wants to put the user profile in c:/Windows/Profiles. Getting that to work with User Access Control can get a bit hairy.
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Webb's views are echoed by reader Linton. "'Still supported' or 'no longer supported' -- makes very little difference. I've never been able to garner free support from Microsoft for anything. Either it's been the responsibility of the OEM to support the OS or my issue was one that required payment," says Linton. "My 'support' has always come from friends or colleagues on Usenet or at work. And vendor support is, in my book, as much a myth as the universally recommended and utterly fictional 'Windows installation disk.' Not since the days of Windows 3.1 have I ever seen such a chimerical beastie."
Gary Lea is not worried about the impending end of XP support. "Are all the computers running XP just going to die on that day? In [a bit more than] two years, Microsoft will stop supporting XP. That doesn't mean it's dead. It just means we won't be getting updates every fourth Tuesday. We probably won't need them because the hackers will be concentrating on Windows 7 or Windows 8 or whatever the current over-bloated Microsoft OS is at the time," says Lea. "My theory has always been that if it works for you, there's no reason to change. I know a few people that are still using Win 98! It still works, and you don't need (tons) of RAM to support it."
Keeping an old OS alive is easier if you have coding skills like R. Loew from Elmont, N.Y. "I use Windows 98SE almost exclusively. It's faster, more compact, more flexible and easier to debug than the newer versions. I've developed patches and add-ons that support modern hardware, sometimes even better than the newer Windows. Windows XP will choke on a 3TB hard drive. I use 3TB hard drives with DOS and Windows 98 without problems," says Loew.
Developer Roeser goes out of his way to run the old stuff. "I keep the distribution sets on a USB hard drive and re-install them if I'm moving to a new system. If an OS upgrade really does break a piece of software, then I guess I just need a new version," he says.
Total Abandonment
So far, we've mostly been talking about old products for which there's a new version you can migrate to. Not all of you are so lucky. "Far worse than abandoning previous versions of programs is the abandonment of entire products and the limbo that sometimes accompanies that. Microsoft Office Accounting Pro (MSOA) was a great product that made sense -- especially for small businesses that could integrate Outlook, Business Contact Manager and Accounting," recalls one MSOA customer. "However, MSOA sat in a freakish limbo for a long time until the issue was finally forced and Microsoft quietly admitted -- in a software support timetable -- that they were bailing on it. Whether we asked MSOA specialist bloggers or even contacts within Microsoft, nobody had any clue for a long time."
A Virtual Lifeline
Windows Vista and Windows 7 are based on the same core foundation as Windows XP, but they're different enough that a lot of stuff breaks. Wanting users to upgrade, and afraid of the backlash from old broken software, Microsoft created XP Mode. Layered on top of Microsoft Virtual PC, this is essentially a version of XP that runs in a virtual machine. Here you can run otherwise incompatible apps and load older device drivers.
But XP Mode doesn't work for all apps, Redmond readers report. And it has certain requirements. You need to run Windows 7 Professional, Ultimate or Enterprise, and you need PC hardware with a virtualization-ready processor.
Other virtual technologies such as VMware Workstation and VMware Player can do much the same thing.
Virtualization can be a godsend. "I have virtual machines running -- you name it, I'm running it. Software I push out has to deal with clients who are perfectly happy with SQL Server 7.5 or 2000 running on perfectly functional Windows 2000 installations up through Windows 7. Can't say that I blame them," says a Redmondmag.com reader from Pennsylvania.
Another reader thanks his lucky stars for VMware. "We're still using NT 4 and Siebel 6 in one of our departments because of all the customizations that have been done over the years and the cost -- both money and time -- to upgrade all that code to later versions of Siebel. Thank goodness for VMware, since not even Microsoft supports virtualizing NT 4," says a reader from El Segundo, Calif.
Dick Lutz runs the newish Windows 7 but also needs to use older software. "This led me to overlay VMware Workstation in order to run the software I prefer in XP, while still being able to run Windows 7 for newer software built specifically for Windows 7. The VMware product is vastly superior, in all respects, to Windows 7's sluggish and flawed XP-compatibility mode," says Lutz, a consultant and publisher of The Main Street WIRE, the community newspaper serving Roosevelt Island in New York.
Lutz still runs PageMaker 7.0 on Windows XP. "I'm still running it seven years after its prime ended, and therefore still running XP, though I'm running it on a virtual machine, using VMware, over Windows 7," says Lutz.
Lutz also runs WordPerfect for DOS 5.1. "I know its macro capability cold," he explains. He also uses the latest version of WordPerfect for Windows and Excel 2003 -- which he says he "had to buy special."
Custom software can also benefit from virtualization. "I have some old projects in Visual Basic 6 that wouldn't install cleanly on my [Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit] machine, so I built a virtual XP machine and put it all there. Works fine," says software developer Bruce Roeser.
Dang Devices
Device drivers are one of the biggest bugaboos. And you can't just upgrade unsupported hardware; you have to buy an all-new device! "I'm still running a machine on XP due to HP offering no Vista or Windows 7 drivers for a printer and a scanner of theirs. Not even a universal driver. Those were the last devices I purchased from HP. You don't support me, I don't support you," says a frustrated ex-HP customer.
Some folks expect software drivers and hardware interfaces to work nearly forever. One Redmond reader has a scanner he bought for an Intel 80486-based PC that originally ran Windows ME, an OS that's more than 10 years old, with support that ended a half-decade ago.
This reader now wants to run the scanner under Windows Vista -- which the OS won't do. His answer? Keep running the old driver on the old machine. He's still fuming. "I'll no longer buy HP or Microsoft products without remembering they took my money then shut me off. Those who opine that these are hardware-driven product requirements, please shut up. These decisions were made to make money. Old devices could easily communicate with more modern software if manufacturers and software developers didn't think it acceptable to abandon their customers," the reader says.
Another reader is running even older software. "I have an ancient laptop chained under the desk running DOS 6.22 to run a program used to set up Motorola HT1000 portable radios. I can't get it to run in a 'DOS box' under any version of Windows. The radios will probably last another five to six years, so until then, I have to keep a relic running," the reader explains.
Scoring Vintage Code
So you've got old, unsupported software, and maybe the vendor even went under. Now the software your company depends on is corrupted. What do you do? I suppose you could copy the software from another machine, as you likely have a license for the copy that fried. But if you don't have that spare, there are several places to go.
eBay is often a good choice, though you need to make sure the copy is legal and you get the paperwork.
There are several Web sites that sell old software, including Oldversion.com. Here's how the company explains itself: "Sometimes upgrading to a newer version can be a good thing. Other times, your computer may not be compatible with the new version, the new version is bloated or all the options you liked are no longer available."
Oldversion.com believes many new Internet-centric apps are spyware and adware carriers. "It's sometimes possible to avoid spyware by downloading an older version of a program. Use Oldversion.com and show the industry your dissatisfaction with these types of business practices."
There's also OldApps.com, which focuses on Web apps such as instant messaging. "Often newer versions are more complicated to use, and we understand that it's hard to find older, more user-friendly versions of popular software. Many software providers do not include older versions of their software on their sites," the company says. "As software updates are being released more frequently, not every computer is able to keep up with the minimum requirements of new software. Many users with slow Internet connections may want to attain a leaner program to avoid the common frustrations associated with the increasingly larger sizes of modern programs."
And www.retrosoftware.com sells what it argues are fully licensed (not OEM or Academic) versions of out-of-date titles.
Older Is Better
In some instances, upgrading means going backward. "I have computers with most versions of Windows except Vista and Windows 7. An old computer with Windows 98 is used with Access 97 for an ongoing database project. That combination is much faster even though the CPU isn't particularly fast. For safety, the computer isn't connected to the Internet," explains one Redmondmag.com reader.
Windows 98 also still has a loyal following. "We have one Windows 98SE workstation left in our office that runs an old program [for which we have] no plans to upgrade -- it works fine. All of the office workstations are XP running Office 2003, with no issues and no plans to change. We don't need the new features or headaches. This is a working office with no need for extra features or fancy screens. My Windows 7 SP1 crashes too many times at home to recommend any change for the office," says a Redmondmag.com reader.
Newer software doesn't always support critical needs. "I needed central data storage for a typing program in a small school district for 16 computers. Because XP will only allow 10 concurrent connections, I dragged out an old Windows 98 machine and set it up as the data repository. Why set up a server when a simple peer-to-peer network will do the job?" asks a reader from western Montana.
We've been talking about software being old at five or 10 years. Large systems software can last far longer than that. "The lifecycle of some computer applications is as much as 15 years. The State of Michigan accounting system was old when it was implemented in 1994 and is mainframe-based. Historical data is important and many systems are integrated with it. Though the interfaces are old, the functionality still works. A wholesale Web-based rewrite would be expensive, catastrophic, time-consuming and a monster project. But it needs to be done someday," says a Michigan-based IT pro.
Feeling Vendors' Pain
Not all readers are so down on vendors, especially those that write software themselves. "That vendors want to discontinue support of older products to get you to buy new is partially true. But it's very expensive to support multiple versions of any product. I do custom programming and have a product used by several clients. I have to insist that everyone update because it's just too complicated to keep track of multiple versions," says reader Mike from Ann Arbor, Mich.
Reader Wagner is a fan of new software. "Office XP is awfully long in the tooth now. After all, it was followed by Office 2003 and Office 2007 well before Office 2010 became available. Users should never allow themselves to fall more than two versions behind any version of software upon which they're dependent. That just guarantees you trouble down the road," argues Wagner.
I ride a 1988 Harley-Davidson Heritage Softail. It looks almost identical to a brand-new model and usually runs great. When it didn't, I used to schlep on down to my local dealer.
The last time I went to the shop, and I mean the last time ever, I needed a headlight. "Sorry, your bike is obsolete," I was told. Hmmm, that's the same thing they told me when I needed a new petcock.
Like so many of the IT pros in this story, I was left to my own devices, and found third-party companies that refused to accept that my bike was done.
Other developers have the most sympathy. "Considering that they're burping out a new OS every three years, I don't know how else they could do it. For a product that you can buy for just a couple hundred bucks -- if you don't buy a system -- that's awful generous. Think about it a minute: When you buy a car, do you get the same? An OS like Windows represents a massive investment in R&D and development. You can't afford to give away free support on a $200 item forever," says developer Roeser.
Roeser, however, sees both sides. "Old dogs like me feel pulled in two directions. On the one hand, I really like the latest cool gadgetry but, on the other hand, I see no reason to upgrade a dozen other titles that continue to serve me well."
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7.1 Boolean Values and Boolean Expressions
7.2 Logical operators
7.3 Precedence of Operators
7.4 Conditional Execution: Binary Selection
7.5 Omitting the else Clause: Unary Selection
7.6 Nested conditionals
7.7 Chained conditionals
7.8 Boolean Functions
7.9 Glossary
7.10 Exercises
7.2. Logical operators¶
There are three logical operators: and, or, and not. The semantics (meaning) of these operators is similar to their meaning in English. For example, x > 0 and x < 10 is true only if x is greater than 0 and at the same time, x is less than 10. How would you describe this in words? You would say that x is between 0 and 10, not including the endpoints.
n % 2 == 0 or n % 3 == 0 is true if either of the conditions is true, that is, if the number is divisible by 2 or divisible by 3. In this case, one, or the other, or both of the parts has to be true for the result to be true.
Finally, the not operator negates a boolean expression, so not x > y is true if x > y is false, that is, if x is less than or equal to y.
x = 5 print(x > 0 and x < 10) n = 25 print(n % 2 == 0 or n % 3 == 0)
Common Mistake!
There is a very common mistake that occurs when programmers try to write boolean expressions. For example, what if we have a variable number and we want to check to see if its value is 5,6, or 7. In words we might say: “number equal to 5 or 6 or 7”. However, if we translate this into Python, number == 5 or 6 or 7, it will not be correct. The or operator must join the results of three equality checks. The correct way to write this is number == 5 or number == 6 or number == 7. This may seem like a lot of typing but it is absolutely necessary. You cannot take a shortcut.
Check your understanding
select-2-2: What is a correct Python expression for checking to see if a number stored in a variable x is between 0 and 5?
x > 0 and < 5
Each comparison must be between exactly two values. In this case the right-hand expression < 5 lacks a value on its left.
x > 0 or x < 5
Although this is legal Python syntax, the expression is incorrect. It will evaluate to true for all numbers that are either greater than 0 or less than 5. Because all numbers are either greater than 0 or less than 5, this expression will always be True.
x > 0 and x < 5
Yes, with an and keyword both expressions must be true so the number must be greater than 0 an less than 5 for this expression to be true. Although most other programming languages do not allow this mathematical syntax, in Python, you could also write 0 < x < 5.
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The Richmond Police Department is asking for the public’s help in locating a missing child, Kamill Jones, 2, whose mother is wanted for parental abduction.
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Erica Jones, 26, was last seen on July 16 in the 1100 block of Cypress Street when she picked up the child from family members. She was due to return Kamill to family members on July 18 but has not returned. Erica Jones does not have legal custody of Kamill Jones. They may still be in the area. Photos of mother and daughter are attached.
Erica Jones is approximately 5’ 3” and weighs about 200 pounds.
Anyone with information on Erica Jones or Kamill Jones is asked to call Detective J. Hewitt at (804) 646-6870 or contact Crime Stoppers at (804) 780-1000 or at www.crimestoppersrichmondvirginia.com.
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City of Richmond declares State of Emergency due to “credible threats” related to planned protests
The city’s declaration opens up funds for emergency use and was voted into effect unanimously by City Council Monday evening.
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The City of Richmond and Mayor Levar Stoney’s administration has declared a State of Emergency for the city due to what officials call “credible threats” of violence related to planned protests leading up to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20th.
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Police seek suspect in armed robbery on West Hill Street
Richmond Police detectives are asking for the public’s help to identify the individuals in the attached surveillance photos, who are suspects in a commercial armed robbery that occurred last month.
At approximately 8 p.m. on December 14, 2020, the two male suspects walked into the Tiger Martconvenience store, located at 200 West Hill Street, displayed firearms, and robbed the store of an undisclosed amount of cash. The suspects then fled on foot, but security video captured them getting into a small white Toyota SUV (photos attached).
Anyone with information about their identity is asked to call Fourth Precinct Detective K. Robinson at (804) 646-6820 or contact Crime Stoppers at (804) 780-1000. The P3 Tips Crime Stoppers app for smartphones may also be used. All Crime Stoppers methods are anonymous.
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The Richmond Police Department’s Special Operations Division-Traffic Crash Team, with the assistance of the Currituck County Sheriff’s Office, has made an arrest in connection to the double fatal crash that occurred on Thanksgiving Day.
Ryann Daniels was captured yesterday afternoon by deputies in Currituck County. At approximately 1:30 p.m., the deputies responded to a report of the wanted subject at a residence. As the deputies approached the residence, Daniels fled on foot into a wooded area on the backside of the property. A K-9 unit, accompanied by several deputies, tracked Daniels and took him into custody.
Daniels has been charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter. His booking photo is attached. He is currently being held at the Currituck County Sheriff’s Office detention center on a $500,000 bond.
At approximately 7:54 p.m. on Thursday, November 26, 2020, Daniels was driving a pick-up truck westbound on Brookland Park Boulevard, disregarded a red light and entered the intersection of Chamberlayne Avenue – striking two vehicles, including an SUV, that were traveling southbound on Chamberlayne Avenue.
All three vehicles then collided with three vehicles that were stopped in the eastbound lanes of Brookland Park Boulevard.
Karen Murphy and Kevin Hancock were in the SUV. Murphy was pronounced dead at the scene. Hancock was transported to a local hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.
“It is always tragic losing a loved one, but especially on a holiday centered on time spent with family. We want to send the victims’ families our sincerest condolences during this difficult time,” said Richmond Police Chief Gerald Smith. “Our crash team investigators have been working diligently to apprehend the suspect. I would like to thank them and the Currituck County Sheriff’s Office for their tremendous work.”
The crash remains under investigation. Anyone with information is asked to call RPD Crash Team Investigator D. Olson at (804) 646-1664 or contact Crime Stoppers at (804) 780-1000. All Crime Stoppers methods are anonymous.
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Shaw Surname Meaning, History & Origin
Select Shaw Meaning
The Shaw surname in England may have either topographical
or locational origins. As a topographical name, Shaw was used for
who lived by a copse, wood or thicket, derived from the Old English sceaga
or “dweller by the wood.” Alternatively, the surname might have
been come from a number of place names with the same root in Lancashire
elsewhere in England.
Shaw can also have Chinese roots, from the Chinese
Shao. Shao Xingyin, for instance, was the patriarch of Shaw movie
that was started by Runme Shaw in Singapore in 1924.
And Shaw could be Jewish. Artie
Shaw, born Arthur Arshawsky, was a
popular American big band leader of the 1930’s.
Shaw Resources on
Shaw Clan. Scottish Shaw clan
The Shaw Genealogy. Shaw genealogy and early
Shaws in America.
J.W. Shaw Amusements. Shaw family fairground
roots in Sheffield.
Christian Shaw and the Witches. A story of late 17th
century Scotland.
Select Shaw Ancestry
England. The earliest spelling was Shaghe, as in William
Shaghe in Somerset in 1333. However, the name has been
mainly found
in the north of England. The three counties of Yorkshire,
Lancashire and
Cheshire accounted for over half of the Shaws in the 1881 census.
The largest Shaw concentration at that time was in the town of Oldham,
which has a Shaw district. The Shaw name (del Shag) was to be found at Saddleworth, now part of Oldham, in
1379 and Shaws have continued there ever since.
de Shaw was recorded in Widnes, Lancashire in 1284 and an early
family near Chorley was called Asshawe. Hugo de Shawe of Chester lived around 1280 and held
the manor of Haslington in Cheshire. Roger Shaw, born around
1550, was
a yeoman farmer at Hulme Walfield near Congleton in Cheshire. There was
also a
long-standing Shaw family in Kirkham, Lancashire.
Prominent Shaws in Yorkshire have been:
John Shawe from Ecclesfield near Sheffield who
was an influential Puritan preacher at the time of the Protectorate.
William and
George Shaw of Sheffield, Quakers who suffered for their beliefs in the
1680’s.
a Shaw family, beginning with
John Shaw in the 1770’s, who were mill owners at Holywell Green near
until the 1930’s.
and Percy Shaw, born in Halifax in 1890, who invented the
ubiquitous cats-eyes on British roads.
Scotland. The English
Shaw name spread into the Lowlands of Scotland
– particularly into Lanarkshire, with Shaws originally being found
Paisley Abbey. One early family, which
lasted until 1752, was known as the Shaws of Sauchie.
A Shaw family line has
been traced from the marriage of Robert Shaw and Agnes Anderson at
Kilsyth in
north Lanarkshire about 1660. Around the same time John Shaw was
the laird of
the small estate of Bagarran in Renfrewshire.
His daughter Christian Shaw had an eventful
and eventually a very successful life.
Shaw has also been a Highland clan name. The
name here can be an English rendering of the Gaelic
personal name Sitheach, meaning “wolf.” The Shaw clan (or
clan Ay) of Tordarroch near Inverness at one
held the
stronghold of Rothiemurchus in the Cairngorms:
James Shaw, who was killed at the
Battle of Harlaw in 1411, was regarded as the first chief of these
Shaws.
while Aeneas Shaw, a son of a latter chief, came to
New York in 1770 but, being a Loyalist, he headed north after the
War to Canada.
Ireland. Irish Shaws may be of Scottish or English origin.
The Shaws of Bushy Park near Dublin
can trace their ancestry back to
a Scottish soldier at the Battle of the Boyne in 1689.
A related line includes the playwright George
Bernard Shaw. The Shaws of Castledermot
in county Kildare date back to Thomas Shaw in 1755.
Shaw may also
have Irish origins, a variation of the O’Shea or Shee name in Tipperary
America. The
earliest Shaw in America was probably
John Shaw, of uncertain origins, who came to the Plymouth colony in
Massachusetts in 1626:
“Although Shaw was not one of the first settlers of
Plymouth colony, he and only one other man, Phineas Pratt, were given
privileges belonging to old-timers, ‘those arriving on the first four
ships, the Mayflower, Fortune, Ann,
and Little James.”
In 1633, John Shaw
led a team of colonists that made the cut river between Green Harbor
Duxbury Bay, the first canal to be built in America.
Other early Shaws in
America were:
Abraham Shaw from Halifax in Yorkshire who came with his
in 1636 and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts.
John Shaw who was born in
Charles county, Maryland in 1663.
Shaw, a Quaker who
came to Bucks county, Pennsylvania in 1697.
Quaker Shaw, Samuel Shaw from Antrim in
Ireland, who came to
Richland, Pennsylvania in 1729.
Canada. Early
Shaws in Canada were from Scotland. Their
numbers included William Shaw, a
soldier during the Seven Years War who returned and settled in Nova
Scotia in
the 1770’s; and Angus Shaw from the Scottish Highlands who came to
in 1786 and was a fur trader in the employ of the NW Company.
Even Aeneas Shaw, a Loyalist who departed New
York in 1791 for New Brunswick and later settled in Ontario, was
originally
from the Scottish Highlands.
Shaw Miscellany
Hugo de Shawe of Cheshire and Sir John Shaw of London. Early Shaws were from Cheshire. Hugo de Shawe of
Chester was said to have
distinguished himself in the fighting around Ruthinin 1280 against
Llewelyn the
Welsh prince and was granted the manor of Haslington (near present-day
Crewe). His son Randal de Shaw was its
occupier. The manor passed in the next
century to the Vernon family who were responsible for the building of
the Haslington
Hall which stands today.
Sir John Shaw,
the son of a London vintner, claimed descent from these Shaws. He was a Royalist and
was made a baronet after the Restoration.
This position enabled him to build a new manor house, Eltham
Lodge, on
his estate in Kent.
Shaws of Saddleworth. The Shaw name is a long-established name in Saddleworth, now a part of the conurbation of Oldham in Lancashire (although it
was originally in Yorkshire). The Shaw
district of Oldham lies nearby. The
earliest Shaw recorded in the parish records of Saddleworth was that of
Shaw, son of Giles, who was born in 1656.
were yeoman farmers in Furlane
hamlet and were also strongly associated with St. Chad’s church in
Uppermill. St
Chad’s House and gardens were
originally owned by the Shaw family which
occupied the site from the early 18th century. The farm was rebuilt in
1798. In the 1840’s the front was
rebuilt by George Shaw, a local architect who lived there.
The 1822 trade directory for Saddleworth showed
Shaw tradesmen being mainly in the Delph area of Saddleworth.
Shaws in Delph in 1822 Occupation
Abram Shaw baker
Charles Shaw drysalter
George Shaw innkeeper of White Lion
John Shaw boot and shoe mfg.
Joseph Shaw woollen merchant
But there were also other Shaws in trades in the
Uppermill and Dobcross
parts of Saddleworth. In 1844 Giles Shaw
was recorded as letting his woollen mill in Uppermill to James Mills, a
finisher.
The 1881 census counted more
than 700 Shaws in Saddleworth.
The Highland Shaw Clan. The Shaws were an ancient Highland clan which traced its ancestry to the old Earls of Fife.
Initially, prior to the general adoption of surnames and
specifically the use of the name Shaw for that purpose, the Shaws were the first
chiefs of
clan Mackintosh.
The clan name derived
from Shaw Mor Coriaclich, great-grandson
of Angus, the 6th chief of Mackintosh, and Eva, an heiress of clan
Chattan. By tradition he led the clan
Chattan contingent to victory at the famed clan battle of the North
Inch at
Perth in 1396 and was, as a reward, given the lands of Rothiemurchus,
became the first seat
the clan.
The Shaw clan name later came
from the anglicization of the Gaelic name Sitheach meaning
“wolf.” The Gaelic names for
the clan were Na Siach and
Mhic Sheaghd.
The Shaws of Sauchie. The Shaws of Sauchie date from the early 1400’s when James Shaw of Greenock married
Mary de Annand, the heiress of Sauchie.
of their sons, James, was killed by a cannon-shot during the siege
of Dunbar castle in 1478, another, George, was the Abbot of Paisley. Later came Sir James Shaw, known as the
“Sauchieburn Shaw,” who was involved in the conspiracy against James
which culminated in the 1488 Battle of Sauchieburn and the
assassination of the
king.
was said that the Shaws of Sauchie were “borne from the
earliest times as hereditary cup-bearers to the Scots kings.” Apparently in connection with that hereditary
office, these Shaws also held hereditarily the office of Master of His
Majesty’s wine cellar.
Shaw line
lasted until 1752.
The Story of Christian Shaw. Christian Shaw was born in 1685, the eldest daughter of John Shaw, laird of the small estate of Bargarran in Renfrewshire.
At the age of eleven she began to have fits
and strange visions. She claimed that
Catherine Campbell and others in the household whom she disliked were
torturing
her and that her body showed the signs of severed pinch marks. Her father persuaded the sheriff deputy
Lanarkshire to jail those his daughter accused of harassing her since
lost their power when imprisoned. But
the victim’s condition showed little improvement.
In total 21 men, women and children
thrown into prison and ‘witch prickers’ examined them.
They were brought to trial in Paisley in 1697
and charged with witchcraft and murder.
Four women, including Catherine Campbell, and three men were
to death. The executions were watched by a large crowd which probably
Christian. And she was cured.
Understandably, Christian was not a hot
property on the marriage market. She was
34 before she found a husband and he died within three years. The widowed Christian then found a small
house in Johnstone and took up spinning.
At that time, Dutch lace and linen led the world. They
had invented a
mill that could twist flax to produce a strong, consistent thread.
found that she was unable to produce its equal.
But she saw an opportunity. She persuaded a
Glasgow merchant of her acquaintance to bring back the vital bits of
on his next visit to the Netherlands and she built a little thread mill
Bargarran. Soon her products were in
demand from embroiders and lace-makers.
Others in Renfrewshire, particularly in Paisley, copied
methods and she had spawned a flourishing industry.
As for Christian?
In 1737, in her 50’s and the possessor of a
substantial fortune, she married William Livingstone, an Edinburgh
glover. And they lived happily ever after.
John Shaw the Quaker. These Quaker Shaw lines may or may not have been related.
Shaw of Shipley in Sussex
was a Quaker who was jailed in 1659 for his refusal to pay church
tithes. His Tudor house there, known as Little Slatter, was used as a Quaker
meeting house and was in 1691 sold to the Quakers for conversion to a
Penn, when not
in America, was a resident from 1676 at nearby Warminghurst and
attended Quaker
meetings at this house. Penn was said to
have been delighted when this house, which later became known as the Blue Idol, was established for Quaker
second John Shaw, born around
1670, was also a Quaker and was said to have embarked with William Penn
on his
second voyage to America in 1697. He and
his wife Susannah purchased land in Bucks county, Pennsylvania in
township where they raised their family.
John died there in 1722.
The Shaws of Bushy Park. William Shaw had gone out to Ireland from Scotland and
fought for King William at the Battle of the Boyne in 1689. He was rewarded by a grant of land. But it was not until almost a century later
that his great-grandson Robert moved to Dublin and prospered there as a
merchant. He acquired the Terenure House
estate outside Dublin in 1785.
years later his son Sir Robert married Maria
Wilkinson, the daughter of a neighboring family who brought with her
acre Bushy Park estate. This now became
the principal Shaw estate. The Shaw
family that was established there became an important and prominent
part of Dublin’s
financial and civic life.
Robert’s wife Maria died in 1831, having borne him
nine children. His cousin, Bernard Shaw,
had died in 1826 and Sir Robert provided Bernard’s widow, Frances, with
cottage on the Terenure estate where she lived for the next 45 years. On several occasions Sir Robert proposed to
Frances, but he was turned down each time.
One of Frances’ grandchildren, the playwright George Bernard
Shaw, was
to be a regular visitor.
1953 after 166 years, Maria Shaw the last of the
Shaw family left the house.
Shaw Names
John Shaw was a prominent English architect in the early 19th century who pioneered semi-detached housing in London. George Bernard Shaw, born in
Dublin, was a great English playwright and socialist advocate of the early 20th century.
Napier Shaw was the British
meteorologist who developed the air pressure unit millibar.
Artie Shaw, born Arthur Arshawsky, was one of the great jazz clarinetists.
Runme Shaw and his brother Run
Run Shaw, born in China, were the founders of the Shaw Organiization in Singapore and pioneers of the movie industry in SE Asia.
Select Shaw Numbers Today
90,000 in the UK (most numerous
in Yorkshire)
60,000 in America (most numerous in Texas)
49,000 elsewhere (most numerous in Canada)
Select Shaw and Like Surnames
These names are locational, describing someone who lived in those medieval times by the side of a bank, or by a barn or a lane or a shaw (which means a wood) or a wood and so forth. Both the oak tree and the ash tree have in fact provided locational surnames – Oakes and Nash (from atten Ash). Here are some of these locational surnames that you can check out.
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Art Design Virtual Art Exhibitions, Online Auctions and More: The Art Trends of 2020
Virtual Art Exhibitions, Online Auctions and More: The Art Trends of 2020
teamLab's "Flowers Bombing Home" is one of their latest works, adds to the digital art trend this year (Photo: Courtesy of teamLab)
By Jianne Soriano December 23, 2020
We look back at the trends the art industry set this year—from virtual exhibitions to pandemic-themed artworks and more
The pandemic has posed challenges to a lot of industries this year––be it beauty, food, travel or fitness––resulting in trends that are very reflective of the times we're living in. The art world is no exception and like others, the industry has adopted many ways to continue showcasing art in various ways.
To highlight how the year has been for art, we're rounding up the biggest art trends of 2020, from virtual exhibitions, digital art to online auctions and more with some insights from experts in the field.
Exhibitions go virtual
With travel restrictions on hold and social distancing measures in place, a lot of museums around the the world have had to either temporarily close or move their exhibitions online. And while browsing artworks physically is still the most preferred way, online exhibitions have allowed art to transcend across boundaries. We can see an art piece in Europe all the way from our homes here in Hong Kong and it provided a different kind of viewing experience.
Well-known museums like the Lourve to Brooklyn Museum have opted to go virtual, with others such as Schoeni Projects holding two exhibitions, disCONNECT LDN and disCONNECT HK both physically and also online. "As everyone was beginning to replace physical attendance with virtual exhibitions, we questioned whether it was possible to replace a physical art experience with a digital experience. Clearly, one has to always see artworks such as the ones created for our project in person and within the context of its location and that can never be replaced," said Nicole Schoeni, founder of Schoeni Projects and Schoeni Art Consultancy.
While the pandemic prompted exhibitions to go virtual, it seems that the trend will only continue as this new format of exhibiting art not only challenged but opened up possibilities of viewing art beyond traditional means. "There are so many forms in which art expresses itself and I think it’s a platform that merits continued exploration and trying to push boundaries, particularly since the younger generation are becoming more of a digitally-driven society," added Schoeni.
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Pandemic-themed artworks
Art has always been a platform where artists reflect their own stories, but also where they tell the stories happening in society and in 2020, this seemed more important than ever. Contemporary artists are creating pandemic-themed artworks to represent the times we're living and also to document it for the future generation. Notorious British street artist Bansky himself has created a number of street artworks that highlight the pandemic.
Schoeni Project held the disCONNECT HK exhibition where the artworks were related to the pandemic in some way. "We wanted the project to be 'of the moment' and to confront the obstacles and uncertainty of the changing nature of Covid-19 and its global effects to create a dialogue and discussion around the topic," said Schoeni. "The pandemic has consumed 2020 and has brought to the spotlight many social, economic and political issues that already exist across the globe. It is only natural that many artists turn to the pandemic for inspiration, art is a way to reflect and connect with others," she added.
Hong Kong artist Jaffa Lam, whose artwork was part of the exhibition, reimagined a toilet in an old tenement building into a paradise for humankind to rest their mind during the pandemic. She wanted to highlight the materials that people took from granted during this pandemic. We've seen hoarding of toilet papers and Lam believes that her redesigned toilet "created for a short time [allowed] rethinking on 'where is the safest world in the world' and 'is lockdown is really a nightmare'?"
The pandemic has bought a lot of things to a standstill, but these pandemic-themed artworks allowed us to look back and see how these trying times have affected us and also allowed for more artistic expression.
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Online auctions boom
Again because of the pandemic, auctions that most often happen physically have moved online. In many ways this benefitted many as moving online allowed for more interested bidders and buyers to participate without the need of being there physically due to continued travel restrictions, social distancing measures and lockdown in many parts of the world. Kevin Ching, CEO of Sotheby's Asia noted a dramatic increase in online auctions sales "using technology to create new ways of transacting."
For Sotheby's, their accelerated online sales have soared to new heights with a staggering online sales increase compared to 2019. In total, they held 63 online auctions across a diverse range of categories from Chinese works of art to contemporary art which amounted to nearly HK$250 million. Their first live-streamed format just this October generated two million views across the digital and social platforms. Online bidding has also become more popular with more than half of lots going to online bidders.
"A number of new digital innovations brought virtual access to clients regardless of physical boundaries, who responded enthusiastically to new tools and means of engagement, including enhanced digital catalogues, virtual specialist-guided tours, virtual exhibitions and social media communications," said Ching.
Rise in digital art
Technology has taken over our lives even more this year. The use of Zoom to communicate with family, hold online classes and host virtual parties has helped us navigate and find our footing during the pandemic. Even fashion houses have explored ways that they can make use of technology and the digital format, for instance, Gucci's series of videos and Balenciaga's video game presented their new collections. Technology's influence in the art world doesn't come as a surprise. Over the years, digital art––ways in which art and technology connect––have been on the rise and this year is where we see it completely utilised by artists, galleries and art collectives as they experiment on ways they can continue to create art that's boundless and limitless.
For instance, teamLab, an international art collective that has made use of technology when it comes to their installations has continued its expansion this year. "Digital technology enables complex detail and freedom for change. Before people started accepting digital technology, information and artistic expression had to be presented in some physical form. The advent of digital technology allowed human expression to become free from these physical constraints, enabling it to exist independently," the art collective said.
This year, teamLab had a soft opening for their new exhibition in Macau, a solo exhibition in Fukuoka and a remote artwork you can experience at home called Flowers Bombing Home.
"We have created an artwork that allows people to experience being connected to others and the world, even in the comfort of their homes. Flowers Bombing Home is an artwork that transforms the television in your home into an artwork. The novel coronavirus has forced the world to become more isolated, causing people to become confined to their homes. teamLab’s artworks are also designed to help people experience the beauty of a world without boundaries and the beauty of anti-division," they added.
(Related: Dior, Balenciaga and More: Virtual Fashion Exhibitions to Enjoy From Home)
Dinosaur fossil collecting
Interest in collecting dinosaur fossils has been booming over the years but this year is where the interest peaked when the T-rex dubbed Stan shattered previous auctions records. The bidder at Christie's paid US$32 million for one of the most complete T-rex skeletons ever found.
The enthusiasm for fossil collecting is seen as an interesting alternative to paintings, wine or a car—items that auctions usually offer. When Christie's first started adding to its natural history department in 2012 and 2013, the total sales were only around £100,000 and this skyrocketed to £2.5 million last year and eventually tripled with the sale of Stan this year. What's interesting about Stan is rather than being in a dedicated natural history auction section, it's part of the 20th-century paintings and sculptures section joining the ranks of Cézanne, Rothko and Picasso.
"Certain works and objects have the ability to transcend categories,” says James Hyslop, head of science and natural history at Christie’s.
To an extent, this places dinosaur fossils as a work of art which may not be surprising since dinosaur fossil exhibits have been part of museums alongside conventional works of art. "There is a long and rich association between [natural history] and the wider art market. It is really born in the kunstkammers and cabinets of curiosity first seen in Europe, and recently these have had a revival," adds Hyslop.
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Man of Medan has Multiplayer!
Posted by John Klein III on July 12, 2019
Posted in: Fun With YouTube, Games, Podcasts, Websites. Tagged: Beyond : Two Souls, Comic Book Queers, Comixology, Dead by Daylight, Detroit Become Human, Horizon Chase Turbo, Lego Marvel Collection, Man of Medan, PES 2019, PS Plus, PS4, Spider-Man Far From Home, Spider-Man PS4, Supermassive Games, YouTube. Leave a comment
https://www.androidcentral.com/supermassives-man-medan-has-multiplayer-eight-games-planned
I’ll add my voice to the news that Supermassive Games has announced that The Dark Pictures Anthology is no longer a five game franchise. There will be . . . eight games! I can only imagine their preorder sales have been incredible and they just are fully committing to making these games. I’m going to preorder as many as I can!
I’m intrigued about the multiplayer games, playing the game with someone else sounds like fun. I’m not sure how that would work as I could never commit to playing for five hours, even in the middle of the day on a Sunday.
I’m hoping it isn’t like Beyond : Two Souls where there is only one ongoing save file so you had to either play solo or with a partner. I want this to be like Portal 2 where there will be options to play single, multiplayer or party mode. Which now I’m trying to think if Hidden Agenda had different tracks, I want to say it didn’t but that game was super short at barely three hours, a length of a full length movie these days. Five hours feels just a tad long to be in front of the system, at least to this 37 year old. If I was in college, then heck yeah, but I got adult responsibilities now and barely no time to play as it is.
I really want to platinum this game so I’m really hoping I can do that and not be held up by the multiplayer mode. In that case, I guess I’ll have to figure out how to operate without any sleep the night before.
Sounds like the second game must be in near completion mode as the third one is filming soon. So maybe they can make two games a year work?!
The fourth and fifth games are in the game design mode and they have story concepts for games six, seven, and eight. This is such an exciting time!
http://play.st/2xHhliW
PlayStation has a little more information on the game too!
Thanks to Dave and Rosie of PlayStation Access for hosting their video containing multiplayer gameplay!
They even got to experience a real life ghost ship! So lucky! Poor Dave, at least he had Rosie there.
For July 2019, the PlayStation Plus games were changed from Horizon Turbo Chase and PES 2019 to Horizon Turbo Chase and Detroit Become Human.
Which is unfortunate as I don’t own the Special Edition of Detroit but I did get the regular edition for Christmas. I was also really looking forward to playing PES 2019. I was really hoping Konami was going to pull a NBA 2k19 and make their game $2.99 to take advantage of the hype and disappointment loads of people felt. As I would never buy the game for $30 but if it was $3, heck yeah! Especially as PES 2020 is coming out in September and then, no one is probably going to buy 2019, except for me, once it is way cheap. I can hold out, of that, I’m sure.
Thanks to YouTuber TN_Spicyapples33 for hosting his video of the San Francisco cup!
I’ve only played and completed the San Francisco cup of the World Tour. This is a pretty fun and relaxing game. I can see this becoming a nice chill game to play after completing a night’s worth of playing whatever my main game is. The tracks do not take long and once you understand how the rubberbanding works in the game, I rarely stressed about winning. The only playful stress I had was trying to get all of the coins and come in first place to earn the Super Trophy. Whenever I grabbed all the coins, I wasn’t in danger of coming in second but when I came in first, I often didn’t get all of the points so I had to do some replays.
Before I can start a playthrough of Detroit, I really want to complete my first playthrough of Beyond : Two Souls. It is silly but that’s just what I want to do. Except I’m not really doing it. I finished the Separation chapter and I started the Dinner chapter. And that was a week ago.
Still a fun game but I’m just addicted to playing Dead by Daylight right now.
My goal is to play a level of Lego Marvel Superheroes 2, then play Dead by Daylight, and then the next night, play a level of Beyond : Two Souls, and then chill (if that’s even the word, as unwind sure isn’t!) with Dead by Daylight.
Instead, with some nights I only get to play for like 30 or 45 minutes, I’ve just been playing Dead by Daylight and completing my dailies (or trying my best!). I’m still no good at it but I’m learning and feeling like I’m getting better.
In Lego Marvel Superheroes 2, I completed the first Inhumans story level and it seems I have one more but making nice progress in the story as well as doing the side content.
Over on the Spider-Man side of my life, Walker Dennis is still super obsessed with Spider-Man!
The excellent team over at Insomiac added the two new suits from Spider-Man : Far From Home!
The Upgraded Suit
and Night Monkey!
The suits look great in the game too! I started The Heist DLC on Ultimate New Game Plus mode but I just did the first mission as I have other games to make progress with.
https://www.comixology.com/free-comics
Comixology has three X-Men comics for free!
Uncanny X-Men 201
A total value of $5.67!
I can’t believe I’ve never done a review for 201 or 211, that can’t be right but it must be as they don’t come up when I did a search.
201 is the amazing Cyclops vs Storm issue. 211 is an incredible issue from the Mutant Massacre story. 266 is Gambit’s first full appearance. I have never read 266 but 201 and 211 are some of the best comics!
We got to watch Spider-Man Far From Home on July Fourth and the theater was barely full, people must have been out of town or something silly.
Such an amazing time!
Like with Endgame, this at the end of the post and there will be spoilers but also, nothing else but Far From Home commentary so you should stop now if you haven’t seen the film!
Such a spectacular film!
Jake Gyllenhaal did an outstanding job as Mysterio! My favorite scene of his has to be after he’s given the glasses and he’s alone in the bar and there is that half minute of silence and then the entire bar explodes with applause. So great! I sort of want to rewatch the entire movie again just for that one moment of stillness.
I thought before the movie was how does Mysterio trick super spy Nick Fury into thinking there was a multiverse? I mean, there could still be one but with Fury’s resources, how does one fake one? Then the post credit scene, we finally figure out how Mysterio did it. It wasn’t Nick Fury! Though how Mysterio still tricks everyone else working for Not-Fury, I’m not sure. Also, who is that agency? Is it a side SHIELD? Seemed like a missed opportunity to use the Agents of SHIELD team. Or are these guys just private soldiers of Fury’s? But then how does he pay those soldiers? Or are they all human agents of SWORD from Fury’s actual appearance in the film? We really need to watch Captain Marvel.
I got the word “Night Monkey” spoiled for me with the costume reveal but it was a minor spoiler but that was all I got spoiled by, so that’s nice. We also saw it the day after it came out, so that helped too.
We finally got Ned Leeds and Betty Brant together! So great!
Martin Starr was amazing as always and they got JB Smooth too! Such a fun combination.
Peter Tingle, and I kept waiting for it to be called his Spider-Sense.
Nice how the three Lego sets were all actually in the movie proper, that was great. We still only own the Hydro-Man set but we’ll probably snatch up Molten Man, if we can ever find it again.
The biggest day away though was the mid-credits scene. Someone had the genius idea to bring back J. Jonah Jameson AND to have JK Simmons come back and portray the character!
I mean, that voice, that face, that’s everything I want! I imagine they had him bald to separate him from the Tobey Maguire movies and I’m fine with that.
Though, as big of a shock as it is to state Peter Parker is Spider-Man on a popular news outlet, I still don’t feel like it is that big of a deal. Right? I mean, the Stark Foundation can help settle this misinformation. Sure, it’ll follow Peter Parker for a while but if the Stark Foundation or SHIELD can just say it isn’t true, have a nice Skrull appear as Peter Parker standing next to Spider-Man, I just feel the stakes are not that high. It makes for a terrific ending but I don’t anticipate Peter being hounded by the police or Interpol. Especially as the next movie won’t be out until 2021 at the earliest. Funny how we don’t know the next slate of films but it’ll probably come during or right after San Diego Comic Con or D24.
Plus, if Peter is just going to be under the employ of the Avengers or Stark, then he’ll be fine. Sure, he’ll have to go to a different school or getting his GED through the Avengers, but he’ll be okay.
But such a great ending!
Also cool that they actually got Peter Billingsley to come back from the first Iron Man movie. And I was reminded that Billingsley is Ralphie from A Christmas Story! Apparently he was also an executive producer for Iron Man but not for any of the other Marvel films so I wonder how that came about?
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Apparently he is friends with Jon Favreau so that explains so much! Favreau is so deep in Disney’s pocket that I can only assume now that he is a majority shareholder in the company. He ought to be with how much money he has made for Disney and Marvel!
Marisa Tomei and Favreau were also great in the film too! Such fun chemistry together.
Always great to see Cobie Smulders in these movies.
Zendaya got a lot more to do in this film and she was super fun. I really like seeing her and Holland together. Also, super realistic how swinging around New York City has to be extremely terrifying!
People are saying the four Elementals are based on Spider-Man villains, which makes sense with Molten Man and Hydro-Man but I don’t remember even seeing the Earth/Sand Elemental. Was he only shown on screen during that exposition map scene? People say the Wind Elemental is Cyclone, which sounds like a stretch as well as he’s mostly just a dude who whirls. But I completely get that if two of them can be identified as Spider-Foes, then let’s label the other two as well.
So much fun that opening montage of our fallen heroes! Makes sense the world at large just assumes Captain America is dead.
That’s another thing, with two years between films, we’ll most likely get Peter’s subplot resolved in whatever next film he shows up in.
https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2476313/are-the-russo-brothers-teasing-new-marvel-footage
Apparently the Russo Brothers are teasing that on July 19th, there will be an announcement at San Diego Comic Con.
Apparently D23 is named after Disney 1923, the year the company was founded. That Expo is to be held on August 23, so expect big news to continue.
We know to expect Black Panther 2, Captain Marvel 2, Spider-Man Home Run, and one day, Avengers 5. Plus, Fantastic Four and X-Men announcements.
I’m not sure if I really need Doctor Strange 2, I feel like the character, much like Thor (and Superman), works better in a team environment or on special guest star status. But who am I kidding? I’ll still watch his movie, I will just have to remember to do so.
Oh, and Deadpool 3 has to happen too? The jokes that movie will have to address will be fun to watch.
Plus, maybe more Disney+ series?
Time will tell!
I also keep forgetting about Eternals too.
https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Phase_Four
Also, there is a rumored Black Widow origin film, Shang Chi, and Guardians of the Galaxy 3.
https://www.universehead.com/comicbookqueers/2019/7/5/episode-91-spider-man-far-from-home
If you want to hear Comic Book Queers Legacy’s take on the film, follow the above link!
July 2019 Free PS Plus Games
Posted by John Klein III on June 28, 2019
Posted in: Fun With YouTube, Games, Websites. Tagged: Dead by Daylight, Horizon Chase Turbo, Lego Marvel Collection, PES 2019, PS Plus, PS4, YouTube. Leave a comment
The July 2019 Free PS Plus Games are : Pro Evolution Soccer 2019 and Horizon Turbo Chase!
I will admit, when my eyes saw “Horizon” I did a mental “finally!” and then I was pretty shocked by the next few words!
To say the least, Reddit is not so pleased!
PS+ July 2019 Titles: Pro Evolution Soccer 2019 + Horizon Chase Turbo from PS4
PS Plus games for July 2019: PES 2019 & Horizon Chase Turbo from PlayStationPlus
I bought NBA 2K19 and was pretty happy with the purchase but it also only cost me three dollars. So I’m sure I’ll get some play out of both PES 2019 and Horizon Chase Turbo.
Horizon Chase Turbo is a racing game straight from the 90s (and apparently a free mobile game, that we all learned from E3 2019, we all love), and PES is either your preferred soccer game, or it is the game that is not FIFA.
I know of PES as it is PlayStation Access’ Rob and Dave’s favorite soccer game as they have plenty of videos regarding the game.
Referring to them, here are my peeps’ YouTube videos.
PlayStation Access
Smart to have Rob do the video. Now that I think of it, when was the last time I heard Dave do a voiceover? It seems to be either Nathan, Rob, or Elle these days.
PlayStation Grenade
Adam is not thrilled by the games.
Platinum Chasers
Ben isn’t too thrilled either.
Here are the trophy guides for both games.
https://www.playstationtrophies.org/forum/pes-2019-a/329433-pro-evolution-soccer-2019-trophy-guide-road-map.html
https://psnprofiles.com/guide/8513-horizon-chase-turbo-trophy-guide
Never a good sign when playstationtrophies.org doesn’t have a trophy guide for a game.
I’ll probably play a tad of Horizon Chase Turbo and then just go down the list for PES 2019 and see how I take to the basic trophies before tackling the ones that require time.
On the PlayStation store, there is a “Pro Evolution Soccer 2019 PS Plus Member Bonus” that is free and I’ve downloaded. As far as I can tell, it doesn’t stay anything of what it does. For Horizon Chase Turbo, there is a demo we can enjoy but I can just wait the few extra days and just play the game.
The games would usually cost us, $20 for Horizon Chase Turbo and the Standard Edition for PES 2019 is $30, so $50 total. PES 2019, like NBA 2K19, also has coins you can buy for in-game purchases but I’m not going to do any of that.
In other games, my casual break from Lego Marvel Superheroes 2 is still going on. I’m at the part where I have three chapters to choose from and I’m just going down the proper order, so I need Iron Fist, Luke Cage, and Daredevil to help me out in the Noir hub. I do have the x2, x4, and x6 multipliers on, so that feels like a real victory.
While looking over the PL Plus Specials (I though it had a name but it has a nice pink and purple banner), none of the two dollar games jumped out at me. What did though, was Dead by Daylight, which was a free game way back in August 2018. I figured I’ll attempt to play it as I’m not much of a horror guy but I didn’t even attempt to play it and I really took to For Honor.
I look over the trophy list:
https://www.playstationtrophies.org/game/dead-by-daylight/guide/
Since there isn’t a single player mode, there were no simple trophies to get but I’m committed to at least get the “reach level ten” trophy. I’m still not very good at being either a survivor nor a killer, but I’m having fun playing it.
My answer to the question of, What is your favorite horror franchise?” is always Halloween! And part of the sale is Michael Myers, so I bought him, as he’s typically eight dollars and on sale, he’s four.
Thanks to GameSpot for hosting the trailer!
Halloween DLC comes with both Michael Myers and his sister, Laurie.
The DLC, that must have been free at the time (it could still be, I’m not sure now that I own it), was the Lullaby for the Dark. From the trophy guide above, it says it is free, so it must always be free.
Thanks to YouTuber CaptainABSea for hosting the video! And for having a clever screen name!
Looks like they have four videos regarding the game so I’ll try to watch the other three! Turns out, they just read it from the bio page but I was like, I really want to play as the Huntress now!
The DLC also comes with survivor, David King, as well.
The guide recommends playing first as Nea so that’s what I’ve been doing.
The nice part is that the games don’t last that long, especially if you are as bad at it as I am. I’m lasting a tad longer, but not by much. Also, as the killer, I’m the ideal guy, as I might spot a survivor but then they can get away.
So in order to try to get gud, and to sample different aspects of the game (and to get my money’s worth), I’ve been doing three game of Nea, David, Laurie, and then two games of Michael Myers and the Huntress. They call him, The Shape, in the game, which is a little fun.
Also, I like it mentally as it gives me something new to do as well, playing this way.
I made a list of “doable” trophies so I’m trying to try to get as many as I can or at least, get one trophy, and see where we go from there.
I’ve been making a point of giving whomever I play with a thumbs up on the total screen, as that feels good to do, there isn’t a trophy for “earning 100 thumbs up” but I figure it is nice to do anyway.
The game also added Ghostface from the Scream franchise and I’m sort of tempted to get him, as Scream would probably be a close second on my list.
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Journal of soil science and plant nutrition
J. Soil Sci. Plant Nutr. v.10 n.3 Temuco jul. 2010
J. Soil Sci. Plant Nutr. 10 (3): 378 - 398 (2010)
THE ROLE OF COAL COMBUSTION PRODUCTS IN MANAGING THE BIOAVAILABILITY OF NUTRIENTS AND HEAVY METALS IN SOILS
B. Seshadri1,2,* , N.S. Bolan1,2, R Naidu1,2 and K. Brodie3
1Centre of Environmental Risk Assessment and Remediation Corresponding author: Balaii.Seshadri@potgrads.unisa.edu.au,2CRC CARE, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, SA. 3Flinders Energy, South Australia.
Coal provides the primary source of energy for many countries including Asia, South America, North America and Europe, and large quantities of waste products are produced during the combustion of coal in coal-fired power stations. This review paper gives an overview of the various types of coal combustion products (CCPs) and their utilization in various sectors, with a particular emphasis on the role of CCPs in managing the bioavailability of nutrients and heavy metals in relation to enhancing soil chemical fertility and mitigating metal contaminated soils. Currently, CCPs are used extensively in agricultural and construction industries. In agricultural industries, they are used primarily as an amendment to improve the physical and chemical properties of soil, as a source of liming material to ameliorate soil acidity and as a nutrient source to supply calcium and sulphur. In the construction industry, they are used mainly as a source of concrete, roofing material and road surface sealing. Increasingly, CCPs are used in the remediation of contaminated environments including control of acid mine drainage, mitigating phosphorus leaching in farm lands and immobilization of toxic metals in mine sites and agricultural soils.
Keywords: Coal, heavy metals, combustion products.
Coal Combustion Products (CCPs) result from the combustion of coal, both in the presence and absence of bedding materials in coal-fired power stations. The volume of waste generated and problems with safe disposal make these by-products a menace to public health and environment. The rate of CCPs generation has been steadily increasing and is also predicted to ascend in the next two decades, mainly due to the intensification in coal usage for energy production (WEC, 2007). The rising Asian economies and the already developed nations like USA and Australia are projected to increase their energy needs thereby conflicting with Kyoto Protocol, although they are not part of the treaty.
Coal is derived from peat and as geological processes apply pressure to peat over time, it is transformed into the following types based on their organic maturity (WCI, 2009):
- Lignite (brown coal) - is the lowest rank of coal and used solely as fuel for steam-electric power generation.
- Sub-bituminous coal - properties range from those of lignite to bituminous coal and are used primarily as fuel for steam-electric power generation.
- Bituminous coal - a dense coal, usually black, sometimes dark brown, used primarily as fuel in steam-electric power generation, with substantial quantities also used for heat and power applications in manufacturing and to make coke.
- Anthracite - the highest rank of coal and is a harder, glossy and black coal used primarily for residential and commercial space heating.
Coal-fired power stations generate a number of by-products during the combustion of coal. Coal is usually burnt in a pulverised fuel furnace, resulting in two major types of ash products (CCPs) -the fly ash (FA) and the bottom ash (BA). The FA, which is recovered from the flue gas, has fine texture and is the major portion (90%) of ash produced. The remainder is collected at the bottom of the furnace as BA (coarser than FA). Apart from these two ash products, two other by-products - fluidised bed combustion (FBC) ash and flue gas de-sulphurisation (FGD) ash are produced as part of Clean Coal technologies, mainly to trap sulphur oxides (SOx) produced during the combustion of high sulphur (S) containing coal (Stout et al, 1998).
The use of CCPs as a soil amendment has been an ongoing area of investigation in many countries that produce coal and also use coal as an energy source. Following a brief overview of the types of CCPs, volume of production and their industrial, agricultural and environmental applications, the review focuses on the role of CCPs in managing the bioavailability of nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus, sulphur and calcium, and heavy metals such as cadmium, lead and mercury in relation to enhancing soil chemical fertility and mitigating metal contaminated soils.
Coal reserves are available in almost every country worldwide, with recoverable reserves in around 70 countries. At current production levels, proven coal reserves are estimated to last 122 years. In contrast, proven oil and gas reserves are equivalent to around 42 and 60 years at current production levels, respectively. This forecasts the potential continuing dominance of coal in energy production in the most successful industrial nations like United States, China, India, Australia and South Africa, where the coal power plants contribute over 50% to the energy needs of these countries (Figure 1) (WCI, 2008).
Global coal consumption is expected to increase at an average rate of 1.7% per year until 2020 and share of coal in world primary energy demand will remain stable at about 25% until 2020 (IEA, 2003). Although the coal industry welcomed the progress made in the Copenhagen summit (2009), it urged the governments to be more ambitious on climate change and work quickly to reach a legally binding agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol as early as possible in 2010 (WCI, 2009). This will eventually drive the industrially powerful countries to invest on clean coal technologies and ensure effective carbon capture and storage. The clean coal technologies include the safe disposal and beneficial utilisation of post combustion products -the CCPs.
Sources, types and basic characteristics of CCPs
The Ash Development Association of Australia has recently updated the definitions of CCPs as follows (ADAA, 2009):
Fly ash (FA) - the non-combustible oxidized elements, light to mid-grey in colour, with sphere-shaped particles ranging in size from less than 1 urn to 200 urn that exit the combustion chamber in the flue gas and is captured using electrostatic precipitators, filter baghouses, or wet scrubbers (Heidrich, 2003). FA has typical pozzolanic characteristics (siliceous, or siliceous and aluminous material).
Bottom ash (BA) - agglomerated ash particles formed in pulverized coal furnaces that are too large to be carried in the flue gas stream and impinge on the furnace walls or fall through open grates to an ash hopper at the bottom of the furnace. Bottom ash is typically grey to black in colour, is quite angular, and has a porous surface structure.
Fluidised bed combustion (FBC) ash - is formed when fine coal is burnt in the presence of crushed limestone as a bedding material in fluidized form. The FBC is a technology employed to limit the amount of S released into the atmosphere while burning S-rich coal. Sulphur dioxide (S02) released during combustion is converted to calcium sulphate (CaS04) through its reaction with the calcined limestone. Fluidized bed furnaces burn coal at lower temperatures (815 - 870C) than the conventional coal fired furnaces (1400 -1600C). The chemical reactions involving the limestone charge in a fluidized bed boiler can be described by the following equations:
Because of its relatively low cost, the FBC technique has become widely used for reducing S02 emissions from electricity-generating plants. Existing coal fired power plants can be modified to FBC, and therefore present a simple option for bringing older plants into compliance with clean air legislation (Wang et al, 1994).
Flue-gas-desulphurization
(FGD) ash - is the residue of alkaline scrubbing of sulphur oxides from flue gases of coal-fired power stations. A range of amendments including lime and ammonia are used to trap sulphur oxides, resulting in a range of FGD products. For example, FGD gypsum is obtained in the desulphurization of flue gases with lime or limestone suspension. Similarly, ammonia FGD is produced by reacting ammonium hydroxide with S02 to form ammonium sulphite, which is oxidized to ammonium sulphate. Apart from over 95% S02 removal capacity, this technology can also reduce the emission of other acid gases like sulphur trioxide and hydrogen chloride (Srivastava, 2000). The chemistry of the production of (NH4)2S04 from boiler flue gas is very similar to the chemistry of wet limestone FGD. S02 from the flue gas is absorbed in the spray tower by water according to the equation:
The H2S03 is then reacted in a reaction tank with ammonia to form (NH4)2S03 andNH4HS03:
(NH4)2S03 and NH4HS03 are also oxidized in the absorber (forced oxidation) to form (NH4)2S04 and NH4HSO4. The NH4HSO4ÍS neutralised in the presence of ammonia and water to form (NH4)2S04:
The fuel and S-capturing sources dictate the composition of these by-products in the coal industry. For example, the FBC ash is highly alkaline because of the presence of unspent sorbent, and also contains anhydrite, thus has potential to be used as liming material and S fertilizer; whereas FGD gypsum is nearly neutral and primarily used as a source of S.
In supplying the power requirements for Australian households, around 14.6 Mt (million tonnes) of CCPs are produced annually of which about only 1.787 Mt is utilized primarily in the construction industry. In Australasia, about 85% of the current "beneficial use" of fly ash is for partial cement replacement (between 10 & 20%) to enhance the properties of concrete and other building materials. Only about 0.5 Mt (3%) is used for non-cementitious applications, which include agriculture and environment (ADAA, 2008). Similarly, ash utilization as a percentage of total ash generated in different countries amounts to around 85% in West Germany, 73% in Denmark, 60% in France and UK, 50% in Poland, 32% in US, 25% in China and 15% in India (Sinha and Basu, 1998). However, there is a high potential for greater utilisation of these CCPs in Australia and worldwide.
Properties of coal combustion products
The physical and chemical properties of CCPs depend upon a number of factors, including the origin and the type of coal burnt, boiler conditions, type and efficiency of the emission controls and nature of sorbents used to trap S (Adriano et al, 1980; Stout et al, 1998; Wang et al, 2006), but certain characteristics tend to be similar in most ashes. Chemically, CCPs are mainly silico-aluminate glasses, though some mineral materials may also be present. Based on the chemical composition, FA is grouped into two classes - F and C (ASTM, 1994). They primarily differ in the amount of calcium and the silica, alumina, and iron content in the ash, which also vary among the types of coal used (Table 1). Class F FA is highly pozzolanic and has total calcium content typically ranging from 1 to 12 %, mostly in the form of calcium
hydroxide and calcium sulphate. In contrast, Class C FA contains calcium content as high as 30 to 40 %. Another difference between Class F and Class C is that the amount of alkalis (combined sodium and potassium) and sulphates (S04) are generally higher in the Class C fly ashes than in the Class F fly ashes. Countries like United States and India, which produces Class C fly ashes, need to strictly implement clean coal technologies like FBC and FGD for this reason. In Australia, the majority of ash produced is categorised as Class F -being mainly silica and alumina (80-85%) and less than 10% CaO (Table 1).
Generally, the CCPs are mainly composed of silt-sized materials having a diameter from 0.01 - 100 urn (Kula et al, 2002; Peng et al, 2004). When compared with mineral soils, FA has lower values for bulk density, hydraulic conductivity and specific gravity. Both crystalline (mullite) and amorphous (glass) phases have been identified by X-ray diffraction in fly ash (Mattigod et al, 1990; Karayigit and Gayer, 2001).
The chemical properties of CCPs will largely be determined by the metal oxides (Si, Al, Fe, Ca, Mg, Na, K) that are surface adsorbed during particle formation (Terman et al, 1978; Adriano et al, 1980). Most of these elements can substitute into the iron pyrite structure, and coals higher in pyrite therefore tend to produce CCPs which contain higher levels of these elements. The behavior of volatile elements such as Se and Hg is highly dependent upon the burning conditions within the boiler and the sorbents used for capturing S (Punshon et al, 2003). During the combustion and subsequent cooling process many different metal oxides can precipitate and concentrate on the surfaces of fly ash particles. Based on reactivity and surface electric charge, three groups of solid components have been identified in fly ash (Terman et al, 1978; Adriano et al, 1980; Table 2).
The above mentioned physical and chemical properties of CCPs have driven coal industries and environmenresearchers to explore the possible applications as part of the sustainable utilization strategies of these mine derived resources.
Application of coal combustion products
Currently, CCPs are used extensively in construction and agricultural industries. In the construction industry, they are used mainly as a source of concrete, roofing material and road surface sealing (Chugh et al, 2006). The various types of CCPs and their potential applications are listed in the Table 3. In agricultural industries, they are used primarily as an amendment to improve the physical and chemical properties of soil, as a source of liming material to ameliorate soil acidity and as a nutrient source to supply calcium and sulphur (Heidrich, 2003; Wang et al, 2006).
About 85% of the current use of FA is for partial cement replacement (10-20%) to enhance the properties of concrete and other building materials. The BA is used as a sand replacement, aggregate for lightweight blocks, a road-base component, for agricultural drainage mediums and as an engineered bulk fill. The pozzolanic property of FA means in finely divided form and in the presence of moisture, it could chemically react with calcium hydroxide at ordinary temperatures to form compounds that have cementitious properties. As a partial replacement of the sand and cement in concrete, FA economically enhances performance in regard to workability, shrinkage creep and durability to produce high-performance concrete (Kurita and Nomura, 1998; Bilodeau and Malhotra, 2000).
The idea of utilizing CCPs in agriculture has originally arisen as a result of their role as a nutrient supplement in soils low in Se, Mo, Cu, Zn, or B (Page et al, 1979; Adriano et al, 1980; Kesh et al, 2003; Yunusa et al, 2006). The CCPs in general and FA in particular have a considerable content of K, Ca, Mg, S and P (Page et al, 1979; Adriano et al, 1980; Singh et al, 1997; Yunusa et al, 2006), which help in increasing plant growth and nutrient uptake.
Much research and development has been carried out in the past three decades on the use of fly ash in agriculture (Page etal, 1979; Stehouwer et al. 1996; Stout et al. 2003; Wang et al, 2006), where the potential of CCPs as liming agent, source of plant nutrients, and soil modifier has been exploited. The uptake or enrichment of various nutrients and toxic trace elements (Table 4) in soil after CCPs amendments has been investigated, and crop produce has been found safe for consumption (Sen et al, 1997).
The agricultural use of CCPs highly depends on the nature of parent coal used and coal combustion technologies used for power generation (El Mogazi et al, 1988; Wang et al. 1994). The agricultural use of CCPs has often been assessed in relation to its effects on: (1) crop yield and establishment; (2) uptake and accumulation of nutrient and non-nutrient elements; and (3) toxicity levels of trace elements (Table 4).
The CCPs are also used for various environmental applications that include: (a) Phosphorus retention; (b) Heavy metal immobilisation; (c) Acid mine drainage (AMD) mitigation and mine site reclamation; and (d) Carbon sequestration. For example, Stehouwer et al. (1995) demonstrated the value of CCPs as an amendment for coal refuse piles and non-agricultural lands, especially for reclaiming mined areas. Similarly, Gitari et al. (2006) examined the value of CCPs in mitigating AMD.
Bioavailability of nutrients and heavy metals
Application of CCPs to soil influences the bioavailability of nutrients and heavy metals by acting as a source and also by affecting their transformation in soils (Table 5). For example, depending on the origin, CCPs contain appreciable amounts of nutrients such as sulphur, calcium and magnesium and heavy metals such as cadmium, chromium and mercury, thereby acting as a source of these elements (Table 4). Similarly, the application of CCPs is likely to affect soil properties such as pH and cation exchange capacity, thereby influencing the reaction and transformation of nutrients and heavy metals.
Bioavailability refers to how much of a chemical is available to a living biota including plants and soil microorganisms. (Naidu et al, 2008) However, the bioavailability of a chemical defines the relationship between the concentration of the chemical in the terrestrial environment and the level of the chemical that actually enters the receptor causing either positive or negative effect on the organism. Bioavailability is species-specific because the dose which reaches an organism's target organs or tissues, and results in a biological response, may vary among receptors (Stokes et al, 2005). Bioavailability is also often referred to as the extent to which a chemical can desorb, dissolve, or otherwise dissociate from the environmental medium in which it occurs to become accessible (i.e. bioaccessibility) for absorption (Alexander and Alexander, 2000). Chemical bioavailability is now considered an important issue in the environment because the availability of chemicals may be mitigated once the chemical comes in contact with the soil and sediment. For this reason, both fertility status of soils and risk assessment of contaminated sites require quantification of chemical bioavailability much like any other parameter in fertilizer recommendation and risk calculations (Hrudey et al, 1996). In both fertilizer recommendation and contaminated site assessment, bioavailability addresses the fundamental issue of exposure of the element to a receptor. However, exposure is not dictated by the total concentration of the element in the environmental media, but rather by the fraction of the total concentration of the element that is biologically available. Hence, exposure can only occur following the release (e.g. desorption) of the element from the soil particle and if the element is then transported to the receptor. The amount of an element in soil that is bioavailable depends on a variety of factors including the properties of both the element and the soil environment (Adriano et al, 2004).
Numerous studies have examined the value of CCPs as a nutrient source (Table 4). The major nutrient elements in CCPs include Si, Al, Fe, Ca and S, together with lesser amounts of Na, Mg, B, Sr and K. For example, FBC and FGD ashes have Ca and Mg contents ranging from 13% to 39% and from 0.1% to 16%, respectively depending on whether the sorbent is calcite or dolomite. Due to the presence of unspent sorbent, FBC ash is usually highly alkaline (pHwater 10.5-12.5) with significant neutralization potential. It has been reported that the best agricultural use of FBC ash is as a liming source to overcome the problems associated with soil acidity (Terman et al, 1978; Stout and Priddy, 1996; Wang et al. 1994). The S content of FBC and FGD ashes is also relatively high, being mainly in the form of CaS04 (anhydrite). Therefore, these two are a major source of both Ca and S for plant nutrition in addition to relatively high liming value (Wang et al. 1994). Compared with Ca and S, the amounts of N, P and K in CCPs are negligible. The micronutnent content in CCPs is low except for boron (B) that ranges from 36 to 1360 mg kg-1 (Table 4). Boron is an essential mineral nutrient for all vascular plants. The functions of B are primarily extracellular, which relates to lignification and xylem differentiation. Some of the CCPs such as FBC ash also contain small amounts of selenium (Se, 0.16 - 5.6 mg kg-1) which is an essential nutrient for animals but not for plants. Due to the oxidizing conditions to which these elements are exposed during combustion, Fe, Mn, Cu and Zn probably occur as oxides in FBC ash, and B and Mo as borates and molybdates (Table 5).
The presence of S in FBC and FGD ashes as anhydrite (CaS04) or gypsum (CaS04.2H20) after hydration makes these CCPs the major S source in S-deficient soils. Gypsum, including industrial by-products, such as phosphogypsum, has been successfully used as an S fertilizer to increase the yields of winter wheat, rice and pasture. To date, data on the use of these two CCPs as a S fertilizer is limited, although Terman et al. (1978) demonstrated that FBC ash is an effective S source for growing corn and peanuts. Approximately 50% of S in slaked FBC ash is present as sparingly soluble ettringite, which can act as a slow-release S fertilizer (Wang, 1996).
Therefore, slaked FBC ash shows potential to be used as a basal S fertilizer in soils prone to severe leaching, which are common in some high rainfall areas of New Zealand and in soils with low anion retention capacities. For example, results from a field study in the peat soil indicated that ettringite-S in slaked FBC ash was less affected by leaching loss than gypsum and resulted in longer-term pasture yield S responses to FBC ash treatments (Wang, 1996). This was supported by herbage S analysis where, 8 months after application, herbage S contents in the high rates of FBC ash treatments (6616 and 26462 kg ha-1) were significantly higher than the control. Hill and Lamp (1980) demonstrated that in Australian soils, FA released magnesium (Mg) at rates comparable with established Mg fertilizers.
A number of studies have examined the value of CCPs in the immobilization of P (Cheung and Venkitachalam, 2000; Stout et al, 2003; McDowell, 2004 & 2005; Table 5). Loss of P through leaching and surface runoff, especially in sandy soils is a major environmental issue in many countries including Australia, resulting in the eutrophication of surface waters. For example, concentrations of P in runoff from agricultural catchments in southern Australia are high and well above national and international limits (Cox et al, 2005). They argue that P loss is a serious problem in most parts of Australia due to its unique soil (sandy texture) and climatic (xeric; i.e., strong seasonal wetting and drying cycles) conditions. Cheung and Venkitachalam (2000) reported that coarse, sandy soil such as those found in Perth, Western Australia, exhibit low attenuation capabilities for P during effluent infiltration.
Various CCP sources including FA and BA have shown potential as soil amendments to decrease soil inorganic P solubility. For example, Stout et al. (2000) reported that FBC ash has consistently reduced concentrations of water-soluble P in a number of soils with high concentration of soluble P. They found that amendment with FBC ash resulted in a shift from readily available resin P and less available NaOH-extractable Fe and Al-bound P fractions to HCl-extractable Ca-bound P, which can be attributed to their neutralizing capacity. However, considering the high treatment rates (22 tons ha-1) required to significantly reduce readily available P in soils, Codling et al. (2002) suggested that FBC ash may not be suitable for field application to sequester P in high P soils.
The FBC ash has also been tested in a number of studies to reduce solubility and mobility of P in soils with high P concentration and in P-rich organic wastes (Codling et al, 2002; Dou et al, 2003). In a packed column leaching study involving dairy manure, Elrashidi et al. (1999) reported that P in leachate in FBC ash treated column was reduced by more than 80% compared with the control treatment containing dairy manure only. In a laboratory incubation and extraction study, Dou et al. (2003) found that FBC ash applied at a rate of 400 g kg-1 reduced readily soluble P by 50-60% in P-rich manures including dairy, swine and broiler litter.
Seshadri et al. (2009) compared the effect of various sources of CCPs including FA, FBC and FGD ashes on P sorption in a variable charge soil. The increase in P sorption with the addition of CCPs is attributed to an increase in soil pH (Figure-2) and an increase in the concentration of aluminium (Al), Iron (Fe) and Ca in soil solution resulting in the formation of insoluble Al-P, Fe-P and Ca-P (McDowell, 2004). The decrease in P sorption with increasing levels of FGD gypsum is attributed to the decrease in soil pH. Bolaneia et al (2008) examined P leaching as affected by various liming materials including FBC ash in a variable charge soil (Table 6). FBC ash decreased both bioavailable P as measured by Olsen P and leaching of P.
However, Mc Dowell (2004) observed increased P losses in New Zealand pasture soils when soil pH was raised with the application of FBC ash which has been attributed to the solubilisation of organic P due to free CaO in this ash by-product. He consequently concluded that ash could be useful as a supplement or alternative to lime in cropping soils where the pH is commonly maintained at a higher level and may, in these soils, prove beneficial in mitigating P loss (McDowell, 2005). Similarly, although most CCPs contain insignificant N amount, application of CCPs with organic amendments such as biosolids has been shown to increase the mobilization of N by inducing the mineralization of organic N (Stuczynski et al, 1998).
Principally, the amount of trace elements (including heavy metals) in CCPs, excluding B is found within the range actually present in soils (Table 4). For example, Korcak and Kemper (1993) observed no phytotoxic effects of micronutrients when FBC ash was used as a liming source even at very high rates. However, the availability of micronutrients to plants depends not only on the amounts applied in FBC ash, but also on the soil properties and the specific crop being grown.
Although B concentrations in most CCPs (Table 4) are higher than those found in most soils, it is not toxic in most agricultural soils, unless supplied in excessive amounts by fertilizers. Wang (1996) reported that high application rate of FBC ash (up to 19, 185 kg ha-1) in a field trial had not induced visual symptom of B toxicity in a white clover and ryegrass dairy pasture in a peat soil. However, Clark et al. (1999) reported that a soil mixed with more than 0.5% FBC ash resulted in significant dry matter reduction of maize in a pot experiment due to B toxicity. Crews and Dick (1998) observed B toxicity symptoms in plant tissue when red oak is grown in soil applied with FGD ash at two times or higher the lime requirement rate. Therefore, care should be taken when applying CCPs with high levels of B to sensitive crops such as cherry, peach, lupin, and kidney bean, especially when these crops are growing on sandy soils.
Stout et al. (2000) reported that the heavy metal content in CCPs is comparable to that of more traditional agricultural soil amendment products, such as lime and gypsum. In addition, the oxide form of heavy metals in FBC ash makes them much less available to plants than the organic forms in sewage sludge. However, any increase in the quantity or availability of these metals in soils should be carefully monitored using appropriate soil tests.
The value of CCPs as a viable option in immobilizing heavy metals in contaminated soils has been examined in many studies. For example, Ciccu et al. (2001) conducted a study using soils from an Italian mine site contaminated severely with heavy metals and showed decreased levels of heavy metals in percolating water from fly ash mixed soil, indicating that fly ash in such soils can lead to immobilization of heavy metal ions.
Kumpiene et al. (2007) demonstrated reduced leaching of Cu and Pb from contaminated soil using coal fly ash and peat as soil amendments. They observed that the amendments reduced the exchangeable metal forms, likely because of the formation of new mineral Cu- and Pb-bearing phases and the enhanced metal sorption due to increased amount of sorptive sites. They also observed reduced metal uptake by plants and reduced soil toxicity to microorganisms. This was attributed to the rise of soil pH and the lowered metal mobility due to fly ash additions.
Stehouwer et al. (1995) observed that FBC ash reduced leachate concentrations of Al, Fe, Mn and Zn that are frequently phytotoxic in acid soils. Decreased solubility and mobility of these metals would also improve surface and drainage water quality.
The recycling of CCPs into construction and agricultural related applications can reap substantial environmental benefits. These include:
- Waste stream reduction and associated reductions in requirements for landfill.
- Contribution to the conservation of resources such as gypsum, limestone and natural gas which would otherwise be used in cement production.
- Reduction in Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions from cement production of almost 1 tonne of C02 per tonne of cement.
- Decrease in fertilizer application resulting from reduced losses
Land application of CCPs affects the bioavailability of nutrients and heavy metals by both acting as their source and sink in soils. Some of the CCPs are rich in S and Ca thereby acting as a source of these nutrients. They also control the transformation of N and P through immobilization and mineralization reactions. Similarly, CCPs can act as a source of heavy metals such as B and affect their reactions by altering soil solution chemistry including pH and ionic strength. Thus, CCPs can be used to manage the bioavailability of nutrients and heavy metals, thereby enhancing soil chemical fertility and mitigating metal contaminated soils.
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Determination of Free Glycerol Content in Fatty Acid Methyl Esters (FAME) and Biodiesel According to EN-14106
Biodiesel is produced by transesterification of the parent oil or fat with an alcohol, usually methanol, in the presence of a catalyst, usually potassium hydroxide or sodium hydroxide, or, increasingly, alkoxides. The resulting product can contain not only the desired alkyl ester product but also unreacted starting material mono-, di- and triacylglycerides, residual alcohol and catalyst. Glycerol is formed as a byproduct and separated from the biodiesel in the production process. However, traces of glycerol can be found in the final biodiesel product. In higher concentrations, glycerol has a negative effect on fuel behavior and performance. For biodiesel to be used as a motor fuel or blended with petroleum diesel, it must conform to standard specifications (ASTM D6751 or EN-14214). There are GC methods in use today to determine whether biodiesel conforms to the standard specifications. One of these methods, EN-14106, is used to determine the glycerol content. This European Standard specifies a gas chromatographic method for the determination of free glycerol content in Fatty Acid Methyl Esters (FAME) in the range of 0.005% to 0.070 %.
Fig. 1 Biodiesel Chromatogram
The SCION Biodiesel analyser for EN 14106 is based on our 436 GC platform, a split/splitless injector, a custom PLOT Q column and an FID Detector. Analytical conditions for the EN 14106 analysis can be found in table 1.
Injector Split/Splitless @270ºC
Column 10m x 0.32mm x 10μm
PLOT Q (Custom column)
Oven Program 210ºC Isothermal
Carrier Helium @ 6,5 psi
Ethyl alcohol, water, hexane and a known amount of internal standard were added to a known quantity of sample. Please note that when these solvents are added together, two phases are formed. The free glycerol ‘transferred’ into the lower of the two phases. Approximately 3.5 g of sample was weighed into a 10 mL test tube. 1 mL of ethyl alcohol was added and gently shaken to ensure uniform mixing. Exactly 1 mL of internal standard solution and 4 mL of hexane were added. The tube was tightly plugged and shaken vigorously for ~ 5 minutes. After an ~15 minutes centrifuge, the lower phase was used for gas chromatographic analysis.
Calibration and Calculation
A calibration mix containing known quantities of 1,4 Butanediol and Glycerol was used to determine the response factor of Glycerol.
Response Factor (Fr) = (A1/M1)/(A2/M2)
A1 is the peak area of internal standard
A2 is the peak area of Glycerol
M1 is the mass of 1,4
Butanediol in response factor solution, expressed in mg
M2 is the mass of glycerol in response factor solution, expressed in mg
The results were calculated using the following equation:
Free Glycerol, % (m/m) = (((A2/A1) * Fr * m1)/m)*100
A1, A2, Fr see formula 1
m1 mass of int std in sample (mg)
m mass of sample (mg)
The sample of biodiesel used in this application was analyzed multiple times. A chromatogram of this analysis is shown in figure 1. Table 2 shows the repeatability figures, average and standard deviation. Figure 2 shows the individual numbers compared to repeatability and reproducibility limits described in the EN 14106 method.
File Glycerol (% m/m)
1 0,04306
10 0,04299
Average 0,04250
STDEV 0,0003984
STDEV (%) 0,94
Table 2. Repeatability results for Glycerol in Biodiesel
Fig. 2 Repeatability based on 10 runs. Red lines indicate the maximum and minimum variation limits of the method.
This application note demonstrates the suitability of SCION Instruments Analyser for EN 14106, for the analysis of free glycerol in biodiesel. The repeatability data demonstrates good system integrity. Therefore, the system is well suited to the analysis of free in biodiesel in accordance with the standard method EN 14106.
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You can download the complete application note as a pdf: Determination of Free Glycerol Content in Fatty Acid Methyl Esters (FAME) and Biodiesel According to EN-14106
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Noise, Reality, Experience and Crowdfunding Zombies – Edinburgh Interactive (Session 5)
Who need lunch, as we take you into the afternoon.
Getting Above the Noise
With more than 500,000 games and applications on Android, iPhone and other devices, players and developers both need a way to find each other. You’ll meet three companies; GREE, Flurry, and Tapjoy, who are creating global networks and tools for games that entice and entertain, as well as make money through advertising, promotion and virtual currency.
David McCarthy of GREE, Richard Firminger of Flurry and Paul Bowen of Tapjoy take the stage for a discussion about how to get users to see your games amongst all the others on app stores, chaired by Matt Rothman of Hemisphere Capital.
It’s the enormous number of apps that makes this such a challenge, with about a million on iOS and Android. Indeed, in-app advertising has become a billion-dollar industry.
Richard (@rfirminger) introduces himself by talking about how big the smart device market is, with a slide showing 529 million active smart phone in April of 2012. 2 billion people in the world will be in a position to afford such a device. Premium in-app purchases on freemium games make the majority of income for developers, with advertising taking an 18% slice. This is expected to grow to around a quarter. Apps vs. Games, users are leaning heavily towards games on smart devices.
Paul (@pgbowen) of Tapjoy: They were formed in 2010 and is about creating a platform to deliver ads to users through developers’ apps. Draw Something was an example given.
David from GREE started life in 2004 as a social network in Japan, but moved into games as well. Three key approaches are outlined: First, they make their own games. Next, they have their own advertising business, hosting other developers’ games. Lastly, it’s about creating greater longevity for the games.
Paul talks about engagement being key to making advertising work, offering users ways to spend time instead of money to advance in a game. The importance of the “long tail” for a game is brought up, highlighting the strengths of the freemium model. It allows developers to reduce the barrier to entry for users; “Free” is more likely to be tried. How do you get people to see and consider the game though? Getting featured in stores is important, but it can be equally important for the device makers can be an important promotion tool as well; if they use your game to show off what their device can do, so much the better.
Paul points out that referral codes are very effective at creating a viral effect for games. It’s then asked if all three speakers have any more general tips and tricks for pairing games with the right person. Essentially the Amazon model of, “If you like this, you’ll like that”.
David talks about measuring metrics to see what’s going on with consumers. Games successful in Japan, for example, have to be localised for other territories in a deeper sense than text translation. Engagement is all about getting the design right. Today, spending is very different to simply buying a game and playing it, with consumers now buying time-saving and cosmetic items in freemium games, for example, although DLC also comes to mind.
Richard is asked for a more global perspective; is their a significant difference between Asian, American and European markets? There’s clear growth within certain countries, China for example, of smart device users. Developers can get seen by being similar to other games, but that can backfire to create disinterest in the mind of the consumer; “I already have that”.
Paul points out clearer differences between art styles in the regions mentioned. Romance games are a big genre in Japan just now, says David.
Audience question: “Any example of something globally popular?” Rage of Bahamut is given as an example. Capcom’s strategy is pointed out as generally working quite well. Although pitfalls are to test markets where success is more likely; Gameloft are the example, where they do well in France, but not necessarily elsewhere.
It’s pointed out that older players are more likely to pay to save time; “younger players are prepared to play, older players are prepared to pay”.
With smartphones, games almost have to create a good core loop in the first 30 seconds. Sustained engagement has to be achieved by being more analytical and scientific about what your users are up to.
By Michael Black (@firm3d)
Augmented Reality: Is it enough to get excited about?
The first thing to come to mind when hearing augmented reality (AR) is probably artificial reality, complete worlds created by computers and popularised by 80’s sci-fi movies. AR whilst similar in that it still uses computers to overlay objects that aren’t really there, instead is designed to enhance an experience rather than create a completely new one.
Discussing this topic are four different players in the AR space. The first is James Shepherd, head of business development at Blippar – a London based company focusing on using AR for advertising. Blippar is an app for ios/android which takes physical objects such as: press ads, outdoor ads and product packaging and provides additional information when viewed through a smart phone.
Although they don’t describe it as AR in a pure sense, but rather image recognition creating a content bridge e.g. pointing the user to a related video, the examples are still impressive. Amongst these is an advert for Maybelline’s Colorshow Nail Polish where the user can create a virtual set of nails over their own in order to see each of the polish colours in action.
Next up to speak is Zappar’s Caspar Thykier, whose focus is more on how to implement AR in a meaningful way. He praises the technology but thinks that often the implementation is a little clumsy. Users can find it awkward holding up their tablet or mobile phone in the street and there’s an initial learning curve.
Their most recognisable product is Moonpig’s new line of greetings cards where the sender can record a video to accompany the photo on the card. The receiver holds their camera to the card and the video then plays. They also have a line of T-Shirts available at ASDA & Primark which allow you to play games featuring the wearer or create a memorable picture such as adding a spiderman mask to your friend who’s wearing a web slinger shirt.
Although our third speaker, Remco Vroom (@remcovrOOm), Co-founder and CEO of TAB Worldmedia is let down by the projector he’s come prepared and uses his own laptop instead. TAB are a creative agency which utilise AR and in a brief video he shows us how even large corporations can implement AR. TAB worked with the Efteling fairytale theme park, in the Netherlands, and a leading bank to come up with a story for the Magic Vault (a special ATM machine).
The vault was situated at the entrance of the theme park in a place where customers are either waiting to enter or perhaps for their family to regroup so they can leave. Either way there needed to be something to engage them so TAB created a simple game where children learned the story of the magic vault and clicked to collect fairies. Each fairy represented some money and in this way it taught the children about responsible saving.
The final expert is Julian Harris, Senior Manager of Business Development at Qualcomm and he’s keen to stress how much the technology has matured. Through Vuforia – a vision augmented reality based source development kit, developers have created games (both video and children’s playsets), adverts and scientific content. Their most public endeavour was on James May’s Science Stories, an interactive teaching tool primarily based around London’s Science Centre Museum but also accessible at home.
It’s clear that the possibilities of AR are intriguing but the panel do indentify some areas of concern: market penetration of smart phones in the UK is still only around 50% and consumers need to feel that the content offered is exclusive in order to drive their interest. Going forward consumer feedback suggests that the public don’t want separate apps but for the technology to be built in to the phone’s functionality. This is certainly feasible with the way technology is progressing as long as batteries can keep up.
By Joel Spencer
How New Technologies will Reinvent the Consumer Gaming Experience
Chris Allen (@mrchrisallen) has had a strange path to games development. Believe it or not he was a beer salesman back in America. He’s now CEO of Brass Monkey and his talk surrounds the evolution of gaming technology and how this will impact on the future of the medium.
As he takes us through a whistle stop tour of gaming’s various influences and impacts he touches on the Turk (the first chess machine, though actually just a compartment hiding a player of diminutive stature), how the flipper created the modern pinball machine, the earliest video games: Space War and Tennis and finally alights on the Atari PONG consoles.
In previous home consoles the control stick was built into the cabinet, Atari’s design broke the mould in that it gave each player a controller. Although the breakaway controller on the Xbox and the wireless gamecube controller were important these steps were evolutionary not revolutionary.
Chris maintains that Nintendo’s Wii heralded the next major innovation: motion based input. Microsoft Kinnect then took the next step and whilst its performance has been questioned there’s no denying that it appeals and brings in a different demographic to gaming.
This is where Brass monkey comes in, identifying a burgeoning market of internet enabled Smart TV’s, they’ve developed a platform which allows players to use their smart phones as controllers and play a vast range of games without purchasing any additional expensive hardware.
In addition multiple players can play on the same TV either in a traditional competitive/co-operative format or asymmetrically (think New Super Mario Bros. 2 on the Wii-U or the Mario Party series). Chris demonstrated this potential with the game Road Warrior where one person steers a car and the others ride shotgun to fend off assailants.
Players pay for games via coins (reminding us of another key gaming innovation, the coin slot arcade) and can either spend a small amount of coins to play a game for a while or buy the game outright. Nothing needs to be installed (except for games developed using the Unity engine) and all traffic is handled over wi-fi which eliminates the problems of delays associated with mobile broadband.
During a demonstration there was one noticeable draw back on display, as players connected to the wifi network they could also control the game. This ended up with users accidentally quitting the game or otherwise disrupting the experience. Although this points to a disruption, very reminiscent of track selection on the Nintendo 64 version of Mario Kart, it’s doubtful that this is a problem commonly encountered and this instance was probably caused by the demonstration setup.
In response to a question about how Chris views Onlive and Gaikai (spelling?) he expresses reservations about the sustainability of their business models. As well as the costs of running servers these services are more or less targeting an existing userbase. The games they offer are available on many other platforms; Brass Monkey offers a new market and their ideas about multi screen gaming have already been emulated by the Wii-U with Microsoft and Sony not far behind.
To make the platform stand out further there are free source development kits for prospective programmers and Brass Monkey offer slot-in advertising which removes some of the challenge of monetizing apps. Of course there is a revenue split with Brass Monkey but the rate is competitive.
Chris finishes by mentioning a kick starter project he’s involved with. Again based on the idea of removing costly or space intensive components of gaming it’s a tabletop game which you can play using your phone. It’s unclear whether the target audience will embrace appreciate such a substantial shake-up but if Brass Monkey can get in early with TV manufacturers then there’s a good chance that their service will become a household name.
Crowdfunding Zombies Run!: What we Learned and Why it Matters
Matt Weiteska @gamecat (Six to Start) bounced onto stage in that threatening, where is lunch, session to talk about zombies, with many attendees potentially licking their lips.
Zombies Run is an interactive immersive running game. Using audio the game creates a zombie world and while you are out running you collect necessary items and so there is a health aspect linked to the healthy running activity. With options to review where you ran each day and which story missions you completed.
Using KickStarter for the crowdfunding Matt explained the rewards that were available. From the $1 thanks and then getting far greater engagement with $10 when you get the game first, making the user feel special. At higher levels the prizes were greater, including becoming one of the runners to use, receiving personalised items and branding.
Why was it so successful. Apart from it being a good idea it was a simple idea. One that could be explained easily and people would understand well. People could see it as a new way to engage in exercise and the community interaction quickly became high.
So the three things you must know about crowdfunding, according to Matt are:
Trust: Double Fine and Tim Schaffer are well trusted in the community so they got a good response.
Built in Market Testing: You get a good idea of whether you are engaging with your market and
Backers are Investors: Even though they don’t get any investment return it is essential to ensure that you keep them updated.
So if people do not back a project it is a low cost loss allowing you to fail early and cheaply. It also is good for the investors, as if the project isn’t funded they get their money back and they choose the level of risk they are taking, deciding on their own economic situation.
It allows niches to be met, where larger companies may not see that a brand will succeed something like Mobile Frame Zero will do and, finally, it empowers the consumers and creators.
With KickStarter beginning in the UK soon the opportunities are vast, so its possible to consider the opportunities that crowdfunding gives and turning your audience into advocates.
By Phil Harris (@PhilipGHarris)
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Rachel Kerr – Impactful Anthem, Alive Despite The Hard Knock Life
18 décembre 2017 26 avril 2020 Marcus Gon
« I woke up this morning, I woke up this morning… I got a smile when I say that […] I woke up this morning » – Chance The Rapper – Somewhere In Paradise
Collapse into the depth of the valley of shadow and death,
Left with nothing but sorrow, in the dead of night,
Until the break of dawn, proof for new tomorrow, in the heat of the morning,
Blessed for many moons, blooms anew that one who can testify the bliss to feel Alive.
British singer/songwriter, celebrity vocal coach and entrepreneur from Walsall, England, also the CEO and founder of Singercise, online singing school,
Rachel Kerr impacts the audience with powerful overcomer anthem Alive, lead single of highly anticipated debut album, expected for 2018.
Meaningful piece, the ambition behind it is to convey an uplifting feeling, share an overwhelming strength, allow a second breathe. The goal is definitely to empower and inspire the listener.
The single is a perfect blend of traditional Gospel, and Contemporary R&B, rooted with African sounds.
The addictive hook, actually the mentra « I’m Alive », screams a massive message, a word of positivity and victory, embodied by a woman of character. In the video, she’s standing like a leader, someone who can paint the pain yet stands up again and head up remains. Rachel Kerr is high on life, despite the hard knock life.
Her charisma and impressive vocal skills are often compared to Beyoncé’s, and she’s quite as mind-boggling when you listen to her.
Alive is already poised to feature in a hit movie next year and you may hear it on a major TV show next spring.
As a MOBO award winning for Best Gospel Act, she recently performed her single in front of the audience, among neo-soul singer Floacist (one-half of Grammy-nominated duo Floetry), jazz/soul singer Zara McFarlane (who won Best Jazz Act in the 2014 MOBO Awards), and many other prestigious artists.
Her performance is nothing short of magnificent, with stunning vocals are supported by a spectacular orchestration.
Her band creates heavenly music. Such organic and heartfeld energy is nothing but glorious. Believer or not, Rachel Kerr’s faith is communicative, and breathes a feeling of joy and hope.
This way, she’s reaching her goal to appear as ‘The Bridge’ between Contemporary RnB & Inspirational Music as she effortless and unapologetic transcends pre-existing boundaries, boxes and labels.
Such a vision recalls the likes of Chance The Rapper who won that challenge with his Grammy award winning mixtape, Coloring Book, pure blend of Contempory Rap & Inspirational Music, breaking the codes as an independent artist.
Nina Lee – The Powerful Family Tribute Of A Strong 17 Year Old Singer
Caroline Grace – A Way To Explore Your Voice
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Video: 4K video replay of SpaceX’s CRS-21 launch (members only)
Watch a 4K video replay of the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Cargo Dragon spacecraft Dec. 6 on a resupply mission to the International Space Station.
SpaceX launches first in new line of upgraded space station cargo ships
An upgraded version of SpaceX’s Dragon cargo freighter launched Sunday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, loaded with 3.2 tons of supplies and experiments in the first of at least nine resupply flights to the International Space Station under a new NASA contract.
Photos: Upgraded Dragon cargo capsule rolls out to pad 39A
Ready for a flight to the International Space Station, SpaceX’s first upgraded Dragon cargo capsule rolled out to pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida this week in preparation for launch on top of a Falcon 9 rocket.
Space station to receive new commercial airlock from Nanoracks
A privately-funded airlock from Nanoracks will head for the International Space Station this weekend in the trunk of a SpaceX Cargo Dragon capsule, adding to the orbiting lab’s capacity for scientific experiments in another milestone for commercial space development.
Live coverage: Cargo Dragon arrives at space station
Loaded with more than 6,000 pounds of supplies, experiments, and hardware, a SpaceX Cargo Dragon freighter docked with the International Space Station at 1:40 p.m. EST (1840 GMT) Monday, one day after taking off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This was the first Dragon cargo mission to automatically dock with the space station.
SpaceX breaks cycle of scrubs with successful Falcon 9 launch
Sixty more SpaceX Starlink broadband satellites rocketed into orbit Tuesday from the Kennedy Space Center, breaking a streak canceled launch attempts at the Florida spaceport in recent weeks and nudging the Starlink network closer to reaching a wider population.
Ground sensor reading scrubs Falcon 9 launch with Starlink satellites
An unexpected reading from a ground sensor prompted SpaceX to scrub the planned launch of a Falcon 9 rocket Thursday with 60 more Starlink broadband satellites. It was the second last-minute abort of a rocket launch on Florida’s Space Coast in less than 10 hours, following a hold Wednesday night just before engines ignited on a United Launch Alliance Delta 4-Heavy rocket.
Live coverage: SpaceX launches 60 more Starlink satellites
SpaceX launched 60 more Starlink satellites from the Kennedy Space Center at 7:29 a.m. EDT (1129 GMT) Tuesday aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. Meanwhile, the launch of another SpaceX rocket a few miles away with a GPS satellite has been postponed indefinitely after a countdown abort moments before liftoff Friday night.
Live coverage: SpaceX scrubs Falcon 9 launch due to weather
After an 11-day delay, SpaceX planned to deploy 60 more Starlink broadband satellites with a Falcon 9 rocket launch scheduled for 10:22 a.m. EDT (1422 GMT) Monday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. But SpaceX scrubbed the launch less than a minute before liftoff due to bad weather.
Next SpaceX launch will wait for improved ocean conditions
The launch of SpaceX’s next 60 Starlink satellites will wait for better weather and sea conditions after currents were too strong for the company’s rocket landing platform to hold position in the Atlantic Ocean for a launch attempt Thursday.
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Fuel-Spray/Charge-Motion Interaction within the Cylinder of a Direct-Injected, 4-Valve, SI Engine
Published February 23, 1998 by SAE International in United States
The mixture preparation process was investigated in a direct-injected, 4-valve, SI engine under motored conditions. The interaction between the high-pressure fuel jet and the intake air-flow was observed. Laser-sheet droplet imaging was used to visualize the in-cylinder droplet distributions, and a single-component LDV system was used to measure in-cylinder velocities. The fuel spray was visualized with the engine motored at 1500 and 750 rpm, and with the engine stopped. It was observed that the shape of the fuel spray was distorted by the in-cylinder air motion generated by the intake air flow, and that this effect became more pronounced with increasing engine speed. Velocity measurements were made at five locations on the symmetry plane of the cylinder, with the engine motored at 750 rpm. Comparison of these measurements with, and without, injection revealed that the in-cylinder charge motion was significantly altered by the injection event. After injection, droplets were preferentially transported towards the exhaust side of the cylinder, rather than towards the intake side. This study suggests that the fuel-spray and in-cylinder charge motion are coupled and that it is not possible to accurately model one in the absence of the other.
Technical Paper Effects of Injection Timing on Liquid-Phase Fuel Distributions in a Centrally-Injected Four-Valve Direct-Injection Spark-Ignition Engine
Technical Paper A Research on Fuel Spray and Air Flow Fields for Spark-Ignited Direct Injection using Laser Measurement Technology
Technical Paper Effect of the Swirl Control Valve on the In-Cylinder Air Motion in a Four-Valve SI Engine
Rudolf H. Stanglmaier - The University of Texas at Austin
Matthew J. Hall - The University of Texas at Austin
Ronald D. Matthews - The University of Texas at Austin
CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS
Spark ignition engines
Stanglmaier, R., Hall, M., and Matthews, R., "Fuel-Spray/Charge-Motion Interaction within the Cylinder of a Direct-Injected, 4-Valve, SI Engine," SAE Technical Paper 980155, 1998, https://doi.org/10.4271/980155.
Direct Injection SI Engine Technology
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Fraidl, G. K., Piock W. F., and Wirth M. (1996), “Gasoline Direct Injection: Actual Trends and Future Strategies for Injection and Combustion Systems,” SAE Paper 960465.
Han, Z., Reitz R. D., Claybaker P. J., Rutland C. J., Yang J., and Anderson R. W. (1996), “Modeling the Effects of Intake Flow Structures on Fuel/Air Mixing in a Direct-Injected Spark-Ignition Engine,” SAE Paper 961192
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Covid: Adults With LD ‘Miss Out’
People with learning disabilities have been “at the back of the queue” during the coronavirus pandemic, a panel of MPs has been told.
Those living in supported accommodation were left waiting weeks for guidance on testing and visits.
MPs were also told long-term social factors were likely to be more important than biology when it came to ethnic divides in the virus’s impact.
The panel focused on what lessons could be learned.
Giving evidence
James O’Rourke’s brother Tony lives alone in a one-bedroom flat in a block of supported-living accommodation.
He said the family had been unable to visit him, even though people living alone in the wider community are allowed to form a support bubble with another household.
Mr O’Rourke said this was because guidance had been tailored towards large residential care homes and failed to account for people in his brother’s situation.
He was giving evidence to a joint hearing of the Health and Social Care Committee and Science and Technology Committee.
Supportive-living services
This sentiment was echoed by Steve Scown, who runs Dimensions UK, a major provider of supported accommodation for adults with learning disabilities and autism.
“Consistently, the government guidance for registered care homes has been issued weeks in advance of guidance for supportive-living services,” he said.
“There’s been a focus on large registered care homes for older people.”
While the government’s focus on older people was “understandable”, these delays meant his service was still waiting for guidance on testing residents.
And in other cases, constantly changing guidance had left staff and residents confused.
‘Better instructions’
Ann McCallum, who has a learning disability and advocates for others who do, said she had struggled to understand certain guidelines.
“It’s not been in easy language for people to understand,” she said.
“Politicians need to really not use jargon and give better instructions on all the rules that they want us to follow”.
Language around “tiers”, for example, was confusing, Ms McCallum added.https://emp.bbc.co.uk/emp/SMPj/2.36.6/iframe.htmlmedia captionWhy people with learning disabilities are struggling to adjust to life after lockdown
Mr Scown said life-expectancy figures – between 14 and 18 years lower for people with learning disabilities – were evidence they were not valued “as equal members of the community”.
And he cited “frankly, disgraceful” instances during the pandemic of medics placing do-not-attempt-resuscitation (DNAR) orders on patients with learning disabilities’ files without consulting their families .
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Looking ahead to Game 5: Cavaliers at Warriors
Dan Devine
Previously, on "The Warriors vs. The Cavaliers" ...
Heading into Game 4, the Cleveland Cavaliers were like:
After, though, they were like:
Your mood can change pretty quickly when the Golden State Warriors get locked in.
After spending the lion's share of the first three games of the 2015 NBA Finals watching their high-octane offense get dragged down by the deliberate, isolation-heavy approach of the LeBron James-led Cavs, the Warriors finally got free. The Dubs built on the offensive success they found in the 36-point fourth quarter of Game 3, handing Cleveland a 21-point Game 4 blowout behind an efficient, effective game from Stephen Curry (22 points on 8-for-17 shooting, 4-for-7 from 3-point land, six assists) to even the series at 2-2.
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Seeking a change in the terms of engagement, Warriors head coach Steve Kerr took a suggestion from 28-year-old special assistant Nick U'Ren and shuffled his starting lineup, moving struggling center Andrew Bogut to the bench in favor of soaring swingman Andre Iguodala. Draymond Green bumped up to Bogut's center slot, Harrison Barnes slid up to replace Green at power forward, and Iguodala stepped in at small forward to match up with James.
The small-ball shift left Golden State vulnerable on the boards. The bigger and burlier Cavs, led by Timofey Mozgov and Tristan Thompson, grabbed 16 offensive rebounds and scored 20 second-chance points. But it also put the Warriors back in position to reclaim the aggressive, attacking form that helped propel them to 67 wins this season.
Andre Iguodala and Draymond Green had plenty of reason to smile in Game 4. (Bob Donnan-USA TODAY Sports)
Removing Bogut's big body from the interior — and the resultant cross-match, which often saw Mozgov guard Iguodala, who's no knockdown shooter, but does pose a greater perimeter threat than the Aussie — gave Golden State more space to attack. The shock to the system shook some struggling Warriors out of the doldrums, as the previously punchless Green rediscovered his scoring and playmaking touch (17 points on 6-for-11 shooting, seven rebounds, six assists) and Barnes bounced back from his scoreless Game 3 (14 points on 4-for-9 shooting, eight rebounds, two blocks).
Iguodala again gave the Warriors exactly what they needed. The 11-year vetera scored a season-high 22 points, drilled four of his nine 3-point attempts and pulled down eight rebounds. He looked for every chance to find early scoring opportunities before Cleveland could set its defense — including determinedly pushing the ball up the floor after a couple of Cavaliers baskets — and made LeBron work for his points.
With James' production curtailed from "historically insane" to merely "All-Star-level" and Cleveland's perimeter players unable to fill the void, the Warriors kept the Cavs' offense in check. Cleveland couldn't do the same, allowing Golden State to shoot 12-for-30 from deep and turn the Finals into a best-of-three.
Three Things to Look For in Game 5
Will the Warriors stay small?
Look a bit deeper, and you'll see that the lineup change by itself didn't necessarily seal Cleveland's fate.
As well as Iguodala played, and as much better as Barnes and Green looked offensively, the Warriors' new starters got outscored by a point in 14 minutes of floor time. As much as it seemed like the small-ball Dubs cranked up the pace, Game 4 actually featured fewer possessions (91.6) than the series' first three games had averaged (93.74 possessions per 48 minutes) and Golden State still managed just 11 fast-break points, a tick below their average through three Finals games (11.7 per game) and well below their league-leading regular-season (20.9) and pre-Finals-postseason (21.6) marks.
Shaun Livingston did everything from facilitate to guard LeBron James in Game 4. (AFP/Timothy A. Clary)
Starting small didn't mean Golden State spent the entire game with its foot on the gas pedal, which is word to Bay Area notable Sage the Gemini. But staying small — Bogut played just three minutes and Festus Ezeli didn't play at all, while valuable Swiss army knife Shaun Livingston (seven points, eight rebounds, four assists, one steal, one block, a team-high +25) and Game 3 silver lining David Lee (nine points, five rebounds, three assists) got extended run — did mean that the Warriors had multifaceted threats at just about every position at nearly all times. When everybody can screen, drive, pass and hit an open jumper, and you don't know who'll do what next, it can stretch an opponent past its breaking point.
The Warriors' most effective five-man units in this series have all run small. The Lee-Curry-Iguodala-Klay Thompson-Leandro Barbosa group got Golden State back into Game 3 with a big fourth-quarter run. The Green-Iguodala-Livingston-Thompson-Curry group torched Cleveland by 10 points in a four-minute burst in Game 4. The Game 4 starting lineup, which got outscored 36-35 in Game 4, has still logged a +7 in 35 Finals minutes.
Then again, the Warriors led the NBA in defensive efficiency and were one of the most successful regular-season teams in league history playing significant minutes with All-Defensive Teamers Bogut and Green up front. Turning away from that alignment for good might be a bit too much for Kerr to swallow.
"Obviously, we won Game 1 with our normal lineup," Barnes said after Saturday's practice. "We've had a great season with our normal lineup. So it's something we went through last season to get our offense going. So whether we stick with it or go back to the old one, we'll see."
As you might expect, the coach played coy.
"Well, as I established before Game 4, I will lie," Kerr said Saturday. "[...] if I say anything, I'm guessing it might get back to [Cavaliers head coach] David [Blatt]. So I'll just say that I've established my penchant for lying. So however I answer right now, you shouldn't believe me anyway."
How much will fatigue be a factor?
The Cavaliers looked dead on their feet at times in Game 4, which was to be expected, given the sharply shortened rotation Blatt has favored following injuries to Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving. It seemed like only a matter of time before the heavy in-game workloads — especially with three games in five days and a three-time-zone-spanning flight mixed in — took its toll on the Cavs' skeleton crew.
Herculean recovery efforts aside, LeBron wasn't nearly as effective, scoring 20 points (less than half his pre-Game 4 Finals scoring average) on 7-for-22 shooting. He did add 12 rebounds and eight assists in his 41 minutes of play, but with James taking 14 fewer field-goal attempts than he'd averaged through the series' first three games — thanks in part to more active help defense from the Warriors' array of long-armed wings — the onus moved from the King to what remains of his court.
Matthew Dellavedova has battled cramping and dehydration. (Jason Miller/Getty Images)
The 7-foot-1 Mozgov scored a career-high 28 points, with which Golden State was willing to live.
"You're going to take the chance on Mozgov beating you before you take the chance on LeBron beating you," Green said after the game.
None of the other Cavaliers, though, were up to the task.
A decaffeinated Matthew Dellavedova crashed to Earth after his heroic Game 3, missing 11 of his 14 shots, including seven of his nine 3-pointers. J.R. Smith rolled — hands-free, natch — off a cliff, going 2-for-12 from the floor and 0-for-8 from deep; the Cavs were outscored by 27 points in his 27 1/2 minutes. Iman Shumpert, working through a left shoulder injury, missed seven of nine field-goal attempts, making just one of five triple tries.
"The fact that we didn't make shots tonight from outside, that really had an impact on [LeBron's] ability to find seams and to score the ball, because there is a dynamic to that," Blatt said after the loss.
The question now is whether the Cavs missed the open shots they got because that's just the way the ball bounces sometimes, or if they clanged away — 33 percent from the field overall, just 4-for-27 from 3 — because they just don't have the legs.
LeBron's averaging 45.8 minutes per game in the Finals. Tristan Thompson's averaging 42.3. Since Irving's injury, Dellavedova's logged 38 per game, resulting in cramps so debilitating and dehydration so severe that he had to be hospitalized after Game 3 and had to briefly ask out of Game 4.
Shumpert's playing 36 minutes per night despite shooting 25 percent from the field. Smith's at 33 a contest despite, by his own admission, playing like equine feces. And while Mozgov's at a comparatively reasonable 32 per outing, ramping his floor time up might not be a solution for what ails Cleveland, especially if Golden State doubles down on its commitment to playing small.
The easing of the schedule — from just one off day separating Games 2, 3 and 4 to two off days between Games 4 and 5 — couldn't come at a better time for these Cavaliers.
"I think I'll definitely feel better," Dellavedova said Saturday. "Yeah, extra day's rest for everybody is going to be really good for us, I think."
"We've had a couple of days here to recover. I believe that's going to be helpful," Blatt said. "[The extra day off] certainly helps. Doesn't guarantee anything — you've still got to come and play — but it certainly helps."
That cuts both ways, though, and Kerr spent the regular season emphasizing the importance of rest and balancing his roster's workload to be able to push some players into the red if needed in the season's highest-leverage moments.
"Well, it was a focal point for us to try to keep guys fresh, but it was made easy by our players' play," Kerr said. "I wouldn't have sat Steph out of 17 fourth quarters if we'd had close games in those 17 games [...] We did make a concerted effort to give Bogut and Andre games off from time to time. Whether it's paid off or not, I guess that's subjective. But I do like our players, the look. They look fast. They look sharp out there."
How do the Cavs respond to the Warriors' adjustments? How much do they have to?
There's a tendency, especially after a blowout, to think the losing squad must totally overhaul its game plan to avoid another strafing. Blatt, though, doesn't sound like he's looking for another reinvention after having already experienced one due to midseason trades and two more due to postseason injuries.
"If you look at the one game, it makes you think, 'OK, we've got to change this, that and the other thing,'" he said. "If you look at the four games, in three out of four of those games, we were pretty good doing the things that we did. So I think you'll see a combination of both of those possibilities. We've got to continue to do certain things really well. What we need to change, we will."
Cavaliers coach David Blatt reminds his team that this is only Game 4. (David Richard-USA TODAY Sports)
When they've been able to stay big, the Cavs have commanded the proceedings. Cleveland's two-big starting lineup — Mozgov and Thompson up front, James and Shumpert on the wing, Dellavedova running point — outscored the smaller Warriors by eight points over 16 minutes of floor time in Game 4, and stands at +10 in 43 total minutes for the series.
With Golden State going small more often, though, it might be harder for Cleveland to keep two bigs on the floor. The Cavs, then, will need to find workable small-ball lineups capable of generating enough half-court scoring to fight fire with fire.
RealGM's Jonathan Tjarks suggests more minutes for James Jones as a small-ball power forward alongside LeBron and Mozgov. Lineups featuring that trio have only seen 13 minutes of Finals playing time, but have outscored Golden State by seven points in that span and boasted strong shooting percentages. With neither Mozgov nor Jones especially fleet of foot, though, Blatt would figure to be at least somewhat concerned about how that mix would hold up defensively against the Warriors' wings.
One potential change — especially in light of the fatigue issue — could be to look for opportunities to expand the wing rotation. There were rumblings after Game 4, according to ESPN.com's Brian Windhorst, that some Cleveland players would like to see Blatt take a longer look at veterans Mike Miller (who has played 15 minutes in this series) and Shawn Marion (who hasn't logged a second of Finals burn) to help spell Shumpert, Smith, Dellavedova and, most importantly, James:
When asked about the need to expand the rotation, LeBron James publicly yielded to Blatt after Game 4 but hinted it could help him and others get some more rest.
"That's the coach's decision if he decides he wants to go deeper in the bench," James said. "We haven't played many guys throughout this playoff run. I think it would help some of the guys that are playing some high minutes, for sure. Just give guys a couple minutes here, a couple minutes there. But I think the coaching staff will try to do what's best to help us be physically and mentally prepared for Sunday."
Asked Saturday specifically about turning to Marion, Blatt offered a noncommittal answer.
"Well, first of all, I'm not sure why you're picking out any one particular name, unless you want to suggest to me what the next rotation should be," he said. "Listen, we've got a lot of experienced players on our roster, and a lot of guys have been through these battles before. Some of the guys have not played a whole lot. Our results have been pretty good as we've been playing, but, again, I believe in those guys and their ability to step in, if necessary, and do what needs to be done."
Mozgov and Thompson aside, few wine-and-gold-clad contributors did what needed to be done Thursday when the Warriors collapsed on LeBron. All told, other Cavaliers shot 30 percent off LeBron's passes in Game 4, according to NBA.com's SportVU player tracking data, after shooting nearly 53 percent off his feeds in winning Games 2 and 3.
"I think we had a lot of good looks last game," Shumpert said Saturday. "We just failed on connect on them. And we've got to do a better job of knocking those shots down."
After spending three games trying to make LeBron beat them by himself, and losing twice, the Warriors in Game 4 dared any other Cavalier to beat them. None could.
"We've got to get performance from everybody," Blatt said. "At times we've got to take the pressure off of him."
They've yet to show they can. The Warriors have outscored the Cavs by as much (11 points) in the scant 19 minutes of rest that LeBron has received in this series as they have in the whopping 183 minutes he's played. When he doesn't do everything, not much gets done. With the Finals knotted and the scene shifting back to Oakland, the Cavs now find themselves with an awful lot to do.
"We're going to play our game," James said Saturday. "We've gotten to this point by playing the way we play, and we're not going to change. We'll make adjustments throughout the game, but we won't change our starting lineup."
Then again, after Kerr's pre-Game 4 prevarication, I suppose LeBron could be lying, too.
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Plague victims discovered in London and The Black Death
Posted on March 23, 2013 by Stephen Liddell
In recent days it has become clear that whilst building London’s new cross-rail project, archaeologists have found a mass underground burial. It is suspected that the remains of these people are the unfortunate victims of The Plague or Black Death as it is often known as.
Burial ground for Plague victims in Farringdon, London.
Despite the rather stupid questioning from TV news presenters, it is obvious to anyone who knows history that this burial site is the resting place of some of the first plague victims in London. We can tell this by the orderly way the people have been buried. As the sheer scale of the plague overtook the land, later on plague victims would just be dumped in a large pit. There wasn’t enough time or manpower to do things properly.
The plague originated in Asia and came westwards towards Europe some say with the aid of The Mongols who are known to have used plague victims in the first real use of biological warfare by catapulting the bodies of plague victims over city walls knowing that the plague could kill the inhabitants more effectively than their feared soldiers ever could. Their large peaceful empire encouraged trade between China and Europe on the Silk Road with the plague reaching the city of Caffa on the Crimea in 1347. From there fleeing Italian merchants took the plague into Europe proper and whilst some quiet areas such as Belgium and parts of Germany and Poland largely remained unaffected, it was only ever going to be a matter of time before the plague reached England.
How The Black Death swept through Europe.
The fact that we had an idea there were plague burials in the recently excavated site and the fact they were well organised are just some of the indicators that England was as prepared as possible for the plague. Whilst obviously technically far inferior than what we are today, it is wrong to assume that the governments were stupid and at some level didn’t care about the welfare of their people. It was a good thing too as it is thought that the global population fell by 100 million people. The average death toll in Europe is thought to be about 50% although perhaps due to its dense cities and transport networks the population of England fell from 7 million to just over 2 million. Unlike in other countries law and order was maintained and there were no persecutions of ethnic or religious groups such as Jews who in other lands were linked and blamed for the Great Pestilence.
An end of the world scenario with a bit of umph behind it.
On June 24th 1348, a ship from Gascony in modern-day France arrived in Weymouth carrying a sick sailor. The first major city to fall was Bristol whilst the plague spread along three major roads towards the capital and by the autumn the plague had reached London and over the next 18 months spread northwards to ravage the whole country.
It is generally agreed that the plague bacteria was carried by fleas that lived on rats and the 70,000 people who lived in London narrow had no escape. Their houses were small with little or no ventilation and the streets were narrow with sewage flowing through them all of course a great breeding ground for rats.
Map showing where London Underground routes have encountered plague pits.
Though the plague would have covered the entire country eventually, things were made worse when a plague ship docked on the Humber River several hundred miles northwards which allowed the plague to quickly reach cities like York. Recent famines and attacks by Scots left northern England particularly prone to the plague. Although the plague would kill people at all levels of society, as usual it was the poor who suffered worst with up to 90% of the peasants dying.
There was no cure for plague and once it was contracted, the person would know they had only a painful though quick death to look forward to. Things were made worse by the fact that there were multiple varieties of the plague with some being spread by air-borne virus as described in the childrens nursery rhyme below.
Ring-a-ring o’ roses,
A pocket full of posies,
A-tishoo! A-tishoo!
We all fall down.
There were attempts to treat sufferers, some were more or less nonsensical such as killing pigeons and rubbing the dead bird on the sores of the sufferers. Others had more potential validity such as forced sweating and vomiting of patients but their science was just inadequate for the task.
Plague Doctors, possibly the worst job in history ever.
Plague Doctors were familiar sights partially as many legitimate doctors fled at the first site of plague as they knew it was hopeless. Being a plague doctor was a badly paid and terribly unpleasant job and not one for people who wanted a long life. Surprisingly they did wear clothing that offered some protection. Wax coats covered their body which would have been vaguely effective at protecting them although it is thought that the coats could carry the fleas from one house to another. They also were an unusual bird mask which has sweet-smelling materials in the beak. This may have been just to mask the awful smell but also may have protected the wearer from air-borne disease. Birds were also thought to be connected with the plague and it was hoped the disease would leave the sick to enter the bird. Plague doctors would also carry sticks to prod patients and dead bodies.
Any household who had a plague victim was quarantined with a red cross painted on the door. No-one except doctors and nurses were allowed in our out of the house for 40 days, a near death sentence for other family members. Unfortunate people were paid money to wander the streets shouting “bring out your dead” with dead victims dragged onto the cart and taken away to be buried in a plague pit.
A very few isolated villages escaped the plague. They would set exclusions zones through which no one could pass. Food and money were often left in pools of water in the hope it would stop any contamination. Of course all it needed was for a rat or flee to get in and the village would be doomed.
This plaque in Eyam, a village in Derbyshire is indicative of how devastating the Plague was.
The Black Death wasn’t the first wave of plague as 40% of Europe was killed by it in the 7th Century and there were later outbreaks especially in India and China. Even in England tens of thousands of people would die in period outbreaks but the plague didn’t do well in the cold and the winter of 1349/50 did much to kill of the main outbreak.
It is often thought that the plague was beaten permanently in London after its outbreak in 1665 by The Great Fire of London in 1666 which destroyed almost all the houses and presumably a lot of the rats.
The Great Fire of London destroyed the city and the Plague with it.
The Plague did inspire people to study the human body and medicine more as they were well aware of their shortcomings. The arts and culture suffered. It changed the way people in England spoke as virtually all the French speakers died. The country was hugely emptied of people. Imagine living in a street of 100 houses and within a month 70 of them were empty. That is what happened on a national scale. Many towns and villages just disappeared.
This village near Hound Tor in Devon was abandoned following The Black Death
One positive aspect though was that the huge labour shortage meant that wages rose at this time at the quickest rate in history until the 20th C. It also ruined the feudal system of having serfs working on the land for their local lord and was one of the contributing factors to the famous Peasants Revolt with Wat Tyler in 1381.
**You may like to see the later post I wrote on my visit to The Plague Village of Eyam here**
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90 Responses to Plague victims discovered in London and The Black Death
I love how you synthesized so much information into a not-too-long post. You gave just the highlights or the really fascinating parts. P.S. I have known that nursery rhyme my entire life, but never knew its origins. Makes total sense now.
Stephen Liddell says:
Thanks Janine. I’m glad you liked it. I wonder how many parents teach their children this rhyme without knowing the meaning behind it. The fact we still sing it now 700 years later shows what a scar it must have left over the world. It must have been terrifying.
Yes, absolutely terrifying. When you described how they were buried, orderly at first, then in a hurried mass, my first thought was who was left to bury them and were they sick as well? Such a scary image.
geneticfractals says:
I read this with great interest. Great post, thanks
Animalcouriers says:
bookvolunteer says:
Interesting. I particularly like the way you have illustrated the text. As The Picture Post discovered pictures can inform us memorably.. I hadn’t seen the underground map or the abandoned village before. Thanks!
I’m glad you liked it. I thought it was a good way to tie in the Plague with some current news.
I’m glad you liked the pictures too. I always like to find suitable photos. That plague doctor image has always seemed nearly as scary to me as the plague.
jacquelineysamuel says:
I loved reading this. It was a well constructed post.
I’m so glad that you enjoyed it. Thank-you for stopping by my blog.
drfelixjames says:
The plague and the great fire of London are connected.
http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?ParagraphID=ilz
An example of the urge to identify scapegoats for the fire is the acceptance of the confession of a simple-minded French watchmaker, Robert Hubert, who claimed he was an agent of the Pope and had started the Great Fire in Westminster.[53] He later changed his story to say that he had started the fire at the bakery in Pudding Lane. Hubert was convicted, despite some misgivings about his fitness to plead, and hanged at Tyburn on 28 September 1666. After his death, it became apparent that he had not arrived in London until two days after the fire started.[54] These allegations that Catholics had started the fire were exploited as powerful political propaganda by opponents of pro-Catholic Charles II’s court, mostly during the Popish Plot and the exclusion crisis later in his reign.(from wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_London)
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The after math of the fire, led to the rise of a super power based in city of London. Any chance of a Conspiracy??!!
Thank-you for your great comment. I was aware that there were false allegations that the fire was started by “foreigners” but did not know about Hubert actually arriving in London after the fire.
I am going to check out your links as I’m sure many others will. Nothing surprises me about London or its history so I am sure there is every chance of a Conspiracy even if we don’t know of it at the moment!!
Thanks for the reply, your openness towards truth is welcome. All the best!
Such an interesting history. Thank you for researching and posting.
You’re welcome, I’m glad that you liked it.
dougsatre says:
Thanks so much for this informative post! I just re-read Camus’ The Plague and your information about role of the plague doctor, who is the central character in that book, was fascinating background information.
I have not read that book you mention but I can see it would be of interest to me. I’m glad you liked my post, thanks for your comment and the tip of for my next book buy!
Very interesting! I always learn something new from your posts.
Diana Staresinic-Deane says:
It changed the way people in England spoke as virtually all the French speakers died.
I found this part particularly interesting, not only because of the irreversible change to the native tongue, but also because it made me wonder if French speakers–people with bloodlines tied to the continent, anyway–were genetically more susceptible to the plague.
This entire piece is really interesting. I completely agree with Janine’s assessment…that’s a lot of information in such a small piece. I’m curious if, today, we would be able to keep such order. Governments develop plans for handling such disasters, but as people become too sick to carry out the plans (particularly in a day and age where we believe everything can be treated with a bottle of pills), I am not so sure those remaining could hold it together.
I’m not sure if the French speakers more genetically more pre-disposed to suffering from the plague but perhaps the ruling elites had bigger problems to worry about with no-one left to work in their fields than learning French.
Even though the wages for the peasants increased, I read that the population and economy generally took over a century to return to anything like it was before. Perhaps also French speakers decided to stay in France afterwards given that their country was suffering equally bad in its own way.
I’m not sure we would cope either as you say. I know in modern times if there is war like the bombings of Britain in WW2 or the floods New Orleans, people do come together a lot more. Presumably the people who carried and buried the dead were at the bottom of society and yet they still did as they were told as it was their duty and also perhaps it was the only way they could continue living their lives but people these days panic buy just to get fuel for their cars or supermarket sales. I know lots of us would still die for our friends and family and maybe our country but would we condemn our selves to almost certain death just because of our ranking in society? I don’t think so.
A really good and though-provoking comment. Thank-you.
tinatames says:
Great job! Really interesting. It reminds me of a book I read recently by Connie Willis, the Doomsday Book. She imagines what it might have been like to live during the plague outbreak and incorporates many interesting historical facts as well.
Thank-you. I remember reading that book about 10 years ago. It is a really good read. Have you also read Canticle for Leibowitz? If not, I recommend it.
I have not. Thanks for the suggestion!
auntiesfavourites says:
Thanks for visiting and liking my post. This is really a great article. I’ve been to London twice now and the rest of England once and it is definitely one of my favourites!
You’re welcome. I’m glad you liked my post and England. So much better since we got rid of that pesky Black Death!
londoncab53 says:
Stephen, thanks so much for posting. Interesting subject. I love thought provoking reads, especially about history. I couldn’t help thinking that I hope those workers are wearing masks while digging. Imagine if some of those germs lived on……
You’re welcome. Yes it is so easy to make history interesting and even exciting so it’s to see why it often has a boring reputation. I was wondering the same thing, I have seen that they do have masks on but nothing more than that. I did a little more research and they are very confident that the plague couldn’t survive in those conditions although I have heard that other grave areas where people have died from other horrid diseases are treated a bit more carefully.
I always think of the head of the Egyptian Antiquities who when he opens up a new tomb for the first time, lets it air for 2 days before he goes in which seems a good idea to me.
Yes, I read that too. It makes since, there are some wicked mold and mildew spores that I wouldn’t want to breath in!
I wanted to let you know that I found your post so intriguing that I went over to Amazon and looked at your book. Thanks for letting it go to Kindle, not everyone does. I bought it, but can’t start until I’m done with “Londoners” by Craig Taylor. Looking forward to it.
Oh thank-you Linda. I really appreciate that. I do hope you enjoy it. There are so many book formats and so many territories these days it is hard to remember where to have books registered but I have actually sold a few in Kindle recently. Do let me know how you like it. I am actually just finishing book 2 this week! -Stephen
Fantastic post! The Plague has always interested me (does that make me morbid? lol) and I appreciate your quick presentation, here. And your learned audience, too. 🙂
Thanks Sandi. I think the overwhelming awfulness and size of the plague makes it popular with lots of people who wouldn’t want to know about smaller more recent outbreaks of illness.
Yes there is a very learned audience here. Great minds obviously think alike 🙂
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Shi2rsingh says:
Although i am not a fan of history but the post is really informative… Great post 🙂
I’m glad you liked it. It’s hard to make the Black Death interesting though, nothing to do with my writing talents or lack thereof 🙂
Kate Sampsell-Willmann says:
Some say it originated here in Kyrgyzstan, on the shore of Issyk Kul but the population density was not such to allow it to do more than cause localized outbreaks.
That’s interesting as I read that the reason it spread so quickly without staying in any one place for too long was that it killed so many hosts that there quickly wasn’t enough people left for it to flourish after the initial epidemic.
thefrayedendsofsanity says:
Excellent piece Stephen. It is crazy to think of the devastation that The Black Death caused and the way in which it shaped Europe.
If we think we have overpopulation now, it would have been so much worse if our starting point 600 years ago was 2 or 3 times higher. I wonder maybe if things like the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution might have happened earlier if humanity hadn’t been set back that way.
Yeah, that is the interesting thing. From the horror of the time society was nearly forced into developing a certain way. The change in serfdom, particularly in England, helped shape the revolutions to come. With the decline in spoken French in England it paved the way for the English language to become one of the great languages of literature.
What you say is true, perhaps along with the Norman Conquest, the plague was the single biggest change in British history. We could all have been reading and writing on WordPress in French. Perhaps writers such as Shakespeare may never have been as gifted in French or even able to write in French at all. Did having a prosperous English language help give King Henry VIII the confidence to abandon Catholicism and create a new religion? It must have changed things in thousands of ways which we will never know.
rescuemybookshelves says:
Great post, thank you! Caught me up on some important history! 🙂
Glad to be of service 🙂
vonmises1881 says:
I like…..Your post that is, not the plague.
Thanks, there is no doubt my worst post is better than any aspect of the plague!
shanesbookblog says:
Hey Stephen. You have some really great content on here….i was reading your post on the plague aka the black death and i just cant fathom how deadly that was. To think of being in the medical field back then during that time is horrific! however whats even more horrific is the thought of the doctors who did have the courage to stay and the motivation to try and comfort people dieing while doing probably one of the most unappreciative jobs in the history of the world! Doctors deserve more recognition and especially nurses…..most work harder than the doctors do…i would know because my mother raised two kids by herself while working 15 hours a day 6 days a week in ICU. Your post sparked an idea and i wanted to ask perhaps if you maybe wanted to help me write it. I Was thinking of doing a piece on the medical industry today and how doctors and nurses and care givers don’t get enough credit or recognition for the miracles they perform each day and try and decipher why that is and what needs to be done to establish recognition for doctors who go to college for 8 plus years and then they work over 20 hours a day somehow and only have a day off every couple of months and for nurses who take such good care of there patients while doing equally remarkable and courageous things at home.
I am still trying to piece together my thoughts on it but its just an idea i had. Regardless i love your blog and you have a new subscriber for life! -sorry for writing a book on your blog-
Thanks for your great comment. Sorry for taking so long to reply but you may have read I had lots of things happening this week.
I agree, I can’t think of a worse job. The only parallel maybe are those people who go into a nuclear reactor after radiation leaks and are risking premature death but still it doesn’t really come close given the awful conditions the old doctors worked in.
You’re right about the nurses. No disrespect to Doctors but nurses do one hell of a job and for a fraction of the pay. God bless them all. I often think how much better the world would be if nurses and rubbish/garbage men got paid the huge salaries instead of bankers and businessmen as they do the jobs we all need to have done but probably wouldn’t want to do ourselves. Looking after elderly patients with dementia or long term problems must be awful.
I would very much like to co-write something with you on this.
I’m really glad you like my blog!
Aristotle Koskinas, Greek Tourist Guide says:
The plague is not as distant as we may think. My grandmother had vivid recollections of the Great Flu epidemic of 1918-19 and vividly remembered young people taken to the cemetery daily. She was six at the time.
Today, something similar is happening in HIV-stricken Africa, where many areas have lost nearly all their young adults to the disease, leaving just the children and the elderly.
Thanks. You’re right of course. HIV in parts of Africa is every bit has awful as the Plague was except perhaps the sufferer survives for longer.
I read of some one in Oregon, USA contracting The Plague in 2012 after being attacked by a wild animal.
Did he/she survive it? I suppose there are antibiotics for it, aren’t there?
I believe he survived as he gained medical treatment very early on. I have copied in a report below but just look at his hands to see how awful this plague must have been hundreds of years ago.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/18/oregon-man-case-plague
Incredible! Thanks for the link.
hickeyguy says:
Wow! I need to read more about this! So interesting!
I’m glad you liked it. There is a load of material on the internet and good history and historical fiction on the subject too.
Tim H says:
I hadn’t even heard about these graves being found. Richard’s bones in the carpark were all over the news, but of course no one in the international media gives a damn about some poor dead peasants, even hundreds of years later. Sad.
Some things never change. I always think how wrong it is that in history, large memorials were built to officers and leaders who usually didn’t suffer anything like as much as the nameless people who died under their command and unlike the officer had little choice in fighting anyway.
Jeanette B says:
This is fantastic – I’ve always been interested in the plague and great fire – I’ve been really disappointed with the information provided on the news since the bodies were discovered. I’m really interested to see if they can discover what the disease actually was, but meanwhile your information has provided a great insight that I wasn’t taught at school when we covered this subject, so thank you.
I’m so glad that you liked my blog. That’s awful that you didn’t learn this at school. It is just the sort of horrible thing that many children would love to learn.
Apparently they are going to attempt to remove genetic material to find out more about the plague and these people who died. They even hope to identify some of the bodies as these early plague burials were quite well documented at the time.
Interesting post. I read Defoe’s ‘diary of the plague year’ while walking around central London… really creepy! Discovered St Olafs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Olave_Hart_Street) where you walk down into the church as the ground is built up by the plague pit. Love the skull and cross bones over the church door!
Oh thanks for your comment Alexander. I had heard of St Olafs but have never visited it an wasn’t aware of the plague pit. I think that will make for an interesting diversion one day!
Fascinating post! I recently read about a couple who contracted the plague in New Mexico. They were thought to be terrorists at first: http://www.npr.org/2013/03/22/174963598/living-and-loving-through-the-bubonic-plague
I also love Connie Willis’s Dooms Day Book, and highly recommend Geraldine Brooks, Year of Wonders about an English village during the 1665-1666 plague. It’s a novel based on historical events–beautiful and sad.
Thanks for that and the link. I read about a plague case in Oregon in 2012.
I’m glad you also like Dooms Day Book but I haven’t come across Year of Wonders. I will definitely get it on your recommendation 🙂
I hope you enjoy it! She has written several excellent historical novels.
mattstale says:
It is perhaps a little bit ironic as much as sad that so many dead, in the end, resulted in so many others being able to finally earn a living – as the landed gentry were forced to offer something beyond food, clothing and shelter in competing with each other for labour to work the land as well as skilled services.
As you know from seeing my blog on “The Return to Canterbury”, I believe this is what afforded a new class of people to be able to have freedom to take to the road and think about life beyond their daily toil – and is what led Geoffrey Chaucer to note this and write about them in his book “The Canterbury Tales”. Without this we would not have had the more balanced and educated society that we have today.
P.S. The people involved in “The Peasant’s Revolt” were not exactly “peasants” – despite history (or perhaps, more correctly, someone’s story) referring to them as that. Rather, these were people that the government of the day saw fit to tax in the absence of revenues being available from the gentry that they had originally sourced sufficient revenue from previously. The source of the uprising arose due to circumspect methods used to collect poll tax – something that Maggie Thatcher and the current Conservative Party have proposed. Even in Maggie’s heyday it led to riots….
Yes, looking at it from an unemotional point of view, the loss of so many people did start us down the road to modern society. Society was stuck in a rut until changes were forced on both the rich and the poor.
Thanks for the clarification on The Peasants Revolt. Yes, that was Mrs T’s big downfall. Everyone predicted it wouldn’t work any better then as centuries earlier but she didn’t listen.
Ophelia's Dreaming says:
A very interesting post. I hadn’t considered how much The Plague transformed and shaped English society.
Thank-you. It is incredible how history was changed so much by this natural disaster.
marcelciocirlan says:
It’s a real pleasure to read such interesting post. Besides the tragedy of those people, the Great Plague meant a starting point as regards the public hygiene politics.
Thank-you. Yes the Plague did motivate a great deal of improvements in public hygiene and medical advancement.
I read yesterday that The Plague was the last existential threat that humanity faced. It’s still hard to imagine 70%+ people being wiped out in a few months.
lynnee8 says:
Very interesting! Thank you.
Mountainstroh (Tony) says:
Very nice, never knew tha about the Mongols!
Oh I love the Mongols. They are terribly overlooked in history though in many ways they were there own worst enemies. Actually they were pretty much everyone’s worst enemies!
I can imagine they didn’t get invited to too many parties!
songsofhope883 says:
Very well researched article!
I own a book on the black death, but nevertheless your post made fascinating reading. Well put together; you covered a ton of information in a cogent manner. Oh–and thank you for visiting my blog. d:)
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A fascinating read.
Rebecca Lang says:
Really fascinating article. Thanks.
Jamie Lynn Walker says:
This was so fascinating! Such a tragic time. I can’t imagine 30-50% loss of a country’s population…insane! Thanks for posting.
I’m glad that you enjoyed it. It’s hard to believe a 50% population loss when today people get worried when the winter flu arrives and much less than 1% of people become casualties of it yet even this makes the headline news.
McPhedran Phocus says:
Great reading. I was always interested in learning about the plague as a school girl. I thought you covered a lot of the history in a nice brief story. Thank you
itsmejoan_up says:
I’m quite a history geek. I love the in-depth research, since I only got introduced to the Great Plague in my English Literature class.
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‘Once Upon A Time’ S1 Ep 13 recap: Don’t stay gold Freddie boy
February 20, 2012 July 29, 2016 Categories Once Upon A Time, TV Recaps & Reviews, TV ShowsABC, Disney, Once Upon A Time, OUAT, Recap, Review, TVLeave a Comment on ‘Once Upon A Time’ S1 Ep 13 recap: Don’t stay gold Freddie boy
Are Snow and Charming having lovers quarrel? (Photo credit: ABC)
This week’s episode asks “What Happened to Frederick?” One would assume the titular character would play a huge role in the 13th installment of ‘Once,’ but as it turns out, the importance of what happened to Frederick is reflected in what Prince Charming chooses to do. Unfortunately, Storybrooke’s David does not display the same chivalrous valor as his Fairytale counterpart.
Fairytale Land: “True love isn’t easy, but it must be fought for.”
The Fairytale picks up from where we left off in “7:15 A.M.” Prince Charming has just escaped from the palace, abandoning his bride-to-be and frantically running from King George and his men. However, instead of being captured by the royal guard, Prince Charming is surprisingly confronted by Abigail.
Prince James confesses his love for Snow White and Abigail reveals that she does not love him either. She also longs to be reunited with her true love, but she needs P.C.’s help. She takes him to her kingdom’s realm where he will be safe from King George and leads him to a gold statuesque knight that resides on a platform in the woods. Then Abigail explains what happened to Frederick, the courageous man she loves.
Frederick loyally served King Midas; one day the brave knight jumped in front of the Gold Handed King to protect him and was inadvertently turned to gold. P.C. suggests Abigail try using True Love’s kiss to set him free (nice call-back to Belle and Rumpy), but she tried and it never worked. The only thing that can save him is water from a magical lake called Nostos, but every man who goes to the lake never returns because it is guarded by a merciless beast. Lucky for Abigail, Charming is not just everyman.
Prince James leaves a token at the shrine asking the guardian of the lake for mercy and gently dips his toe in the water. Suddenly a Siren emerges from the lake and walks on water towards P.C. She attempts to break him like all the other men by finding a chink in his armor. She says she can be anything he wants her to be; she transforms into Snow White and starts kissing him, but he pulls away and says, “This is not real love. I’ve felt it. I know the difference.” The Siren angrily drags him underwater to show him all the men she has defeated; they wrestle in the weeds until he finds a knife and stabs her. Successfully slaying the Siren, he bottles up the magic water and returns to Abigail.
Abigail douses her golden knight with the magic water and the curse is broken. Seeing Abigail find happiness with her true love motivates P.C. to fight for Snow’s love, even if she said she didn’t love him back at the palace. With a hopeful heart he continues his quest, which leads him to Red Riding Hood. She tells Prince James that Snow still loves him, so he realizes that King George convinced Snow to lie to him earlier. Before P.C. and Red ride away from the king’s men, Charming once again declares: “I will always find her. I will always fight for her.”
Storybrooke: “I choose you.”
David and Kathryn are having another speechless meal when she abruptly says that she wants to leave Storybrooke and go to law school in Boston, where she hopes they can “make new memories” together. David acts supportive of her decision, but later tells Mary Margaret that he doesn’t want to go. M.M. says that he has to make a choice; the time has come for him to be completely honest. If David truly chooses Mary, then he has to tell Kathryn how he feels.
David returns home to Kathryn and ironically gets down on bended knee to propose that they break up. He merely says, “Something is preventing me from connecting with you.” Kathryn runs to cry on Regina’s shoulder; she in turn tells Kath about David’s affair with Mary and shows the pictures that prove it. Furious that Regina did not tell her the truth sooner, Kathryn storms out of the office, saying that a true friend would not lie.
Kathryn bursts into the elementary school, bumping into a gym teacher (Fred’s doppelganger) and bee-lining for Mary Margaret. Kathryn shockingly bitch-slaps M.M. in front of everyone and calls her out as a deceitful home-wrecker. Mary apologizes and is even more surprised to hear that David did not tell her the news personally. Kath tells Mary she and David deserve each other because they are both liars and she leaves in tears.
The townspeople sneer at Mary as she walks through town on her way home and when she reaches her car she finds David washing off a bright red “Tramp” stamp. David asks who told Kathryn about the affair and Mary confronts him for lying. She thought they were on the same page, but instead of being honest, he lied and hurt everyone involved. M.M. believes this isn’t real love because True Love is not destructive; she tells David that they just shouldn’t be together and puts an end to their bad romance.
Meanwhile, Emma receives a couple surprises of her own. Mr. Mysterious Writer bumps into Emma and wants to take her out for that drink. She agrees to go if he reveals his name, which is August W. Booth. Later that day he rides up to the diner, asking her to take a “leap of faith” and hop on so he can take her to “a good watering hole.” August brings Emma to a magical Wishing Well; he insists he always tells the truth and believes that water is very powerful. Then he explains the legend: when you drink this magic water, it has the power to return something lost back to you. When Emma walks back to her car after their date, she discovers Henry’s book in the gutter and returns it to her son. Maybe August simply restored the book for Henry or perhaps he made a copy of it for himself before creatively returning it; his intentions seem to be good thus far, so let’s hope whatever he does is an attempt to help Henry’s reinstated “Operation Cobra.”
That same day Kathryn goes to say goodbye to Regina. She admits that after looking at the photos of the affair, she realizes what True Love looks like. She doesn’t know why she fought so hard for David when they never really loved each other and their marriage was just an illusion. Now it is time to go to Boston and find a true love of her own. She tells Regina that she left letters to Mary and David urging them to be together. After Kathryn leaves, Regina breaks into David’s house and steals his letter (Turns out the ring of keys we saw in an earlier episode are the keys to every house in Storybrooke!).
Night falls and the gym teacher discovers Kathryn’s abandoned car by the Storybrooke welcome sign, but she has mysteriously disappeared. The episode concludes with a close-up panning over a can of red spray paint in Regina’s office and sweeping up on the glimmer in her eyes after she burns David’s letter.
What did you think of “What Happened to Frederick?” Were you a little disappointed after last week’s awesome episode? Did you expect a more happy romance from the Mary/David storyline? Were you surprised by the Fairytale twist this week?
Share your thoughts in the comments below!
Amazing transitions from Fairytale to Storybrooke: Love the storybook pages and the bloody water to the “Tramp” red-riddled wash bucket.
Cute moments of mother-daughter bonding: Emma to M.M. about the affair, “I’m not your mother.”
Fun fact: Nostos means “homecoming” in Greek and was used in Homer’s The Odyssey, in which shipwrecked Odysseus longed to free himself from the sirens and return to his beloved wife.
Hopefully, David will redeem himself soon because this was not the expected outcome after coming clean to his wife. He should take notes from his alter-ego.
It is nice to see that “the other woman” is not another villain: Kathryn & Abigail want their own true love and won’t get in the way of others’.
Where is Kathryn? After last week’s episode, you can’t help but assume that Regina has locked her up in a room on Belle’s cell-block. Looks like we might find out on March 9th.
What is the significance of the writer’s name, August W. Booth? Who could be his Fairytale doppelganger?
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Pregnant Indian woman dies after being denied an abortion by Irish Hospital: News Roundup
November 19, 2012 /in /by Alex
In the news this week, thousands rally in Ireland after woman denied abortion dies, customer sues Muslim barber for refusing to cut her hair, Atheists sue IRS for failure to monitor church politicking, and other stories.
Thousands of people rallied outside Ireland's parliament on Wednesday to demand strict abortion rules be eased after a pregnant Indian woman repeatedly denied a termination died in an Irish hospital.
Savita Halappanavar, 31, admitted to University Hospital Galway in the west of Ireland last month, died of septicaemia a week after miscarrying 17 weeks into her pregnancy. Her repeated requests for termination were rejected because of the presence of a fetal heartbeat, her husband told state broadcaster RTE. MSNBC
In case of competing rights, a Toronto woman has lodged a complaint against a barber who refused to cut her hair because he's Muslim. In June, Faith McGregor requested a man's haircut at the Terminal Barber Shop in downtown Toronto. Co-owner Omar Mahrouk told her that his Muslim faith prohibits him from touching a woman who is not a member of his family. All the other barbers in the shop said the same thing.
"For me it was just a haircut and started out about me being a woman," McGregor, 35, told the Toronto Star. "Now we're talking about religion versus gender versus human rights and businesses in Ontario." She has filed a complaint with Ontario's Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario because the incident made her feel like a "second-class citizen." Religion News Service
A First Amendment watchdog group is suing the Internal Revenue Service for failing to challenge the tax-exempt status of churches whose pastors engage in partisan politicking from the pulpit.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation, which advocates total separation of church and state, filed the lawsuit Wednesday (Nov. 14) in U.S. District Court in Western Wisconsin, where the 19,000-member organization is based.
The lawsuit claims that as many as 1,500 pastors engaged in “Pulpit Freedom Sunday” on Sunday, Oct. 7, when pastors endorsed one or more candidates, which is a violation of IRS rules for non-profit organizations. The Washington Post
The faith-based Katallasso Family Health Center is set to open in York City's Salem Square neighborhood on Jan. 7. Treatment at the clinic will be free for York County residents, executive Director Brian Kreeger said. The story of Katallasso — a Greek word that means reconciliation — started a few years ago. Kreeger said he had a conviction to share Christ's love in a poor York City neighborhood. So, he headed to South Queen Street. York Dispatch
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