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Nadour is a non-commercial collection of contemporary art from the Arab world and Iran. Our website is regularly updated with recent acquisitions, hand-picked by the collection’s owner and its curator...
About Nadour
Ninar Esber
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Flags, variable dimensions
Les Couleurs, (France)
Les Couleurs, (Israel)
Les Couleurs, (Saudi Arabia)
Les Couleurs, (Lebanon)
Les Couleurs (Iran)
Les Couleurs (Turkey)
Each piece in the series Les Couleurs is based on a national flag. Here Ninar Esber mixes their colourful and graphic elements, in proportion to the space occupied on the original surface, in order to produce simple flat blocks of colour. Hence these flags, originally made up of pure, simple, effective designs of rather glaring colours, are toned down in favour of muted tints. The sensual broken- down nuances, at times recalling flesh tints, soften these colours. By this meticulous work of diluting forms and as so often in her work, the artist uses a sensual dimension as a means to challenge.
The use of pure colour creates a shift from the symbolic to the sensitive. It feeds on ideas of synthesis and simplification which run through the history of art of the twentieth century. Thus, these pieces by Ninar Esber are rooted in the monochrome tradition of painting: they fully embody the power to question how things are represented. The doubt put into play does not wholly rest upon the abstract/figuration dialectic, but also on the questions of identity and political issues surrounding national colours. The Iranian, Lebanese, French, Saudi, Turkish and Israeli flags disappear in this mildly iconoclastic artistic gesture, which challenges their symbolism as well as their power to create a collective identity. The artist, by dissolving national symbols, strips them of their power to divide and separate. So the complete artwork is charged with a heightened symbolic power. The creation process used for this series is based on a principle of cross-culturalism crucial to the artist’s work. Moreover Ninar Esber deliberately emphasizes, as a commentary on this work, that the “plurality of cultures is a decisive critical issue “
Marion Guilmot
Translated by Theodora Taylor
The artist, by dissolving national symbols, strips them of their power to divide and separate.
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Aston Martin concludes FIA WEC factory effort, renews Prodrive multi-year deal for customer racing from 2021 – paultan.org
Aston Martin has confirmed the withdrawal of its factory Vantage GT motorsport programme, and will instead ‘switch the strategic focus’ to customer operations from 2021 onwards. This marks the end of the British sports car maker’s run as a manufacturer team, which has contested the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) since the series’ inception in 2012.
The shift in focus towards its customer racing programme has seen Aston Martin renew its ties with long-time partner Prodrive in a ‘multi-year deal’, where the Banbury, UK-based motorsport preparation outfit will continue to manufacture and distribute the current-generation Vantage race cars.
Aston Martin has attained 47 class wins and 103 podiums from seven seasons over nine years of taking part in the WEC, as well as nine class championships and four wins at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Its run of GT racing successes concluded at the 8 Hours of Bahrain in November, where the team won both the WEC GT Drivers’ and WEC Manufacturers’ championships with drivers Marco Sørensen and Nicki Thiim.
The marque has also seen successes with its customer racing teams, where outside the WEC calendar they have scored 62 wins and 157 podiums from 323 race starts across more than 20 racing series worldwide, says Aston Martin.
One in five race starts by the Vantage race car culminated in a win, while half resulted in a podium finish, and of those, 14% were from class pole position. In addition to its two WEC titles, the Aston Martin Vantage race car in its various forms has won 26 GT or endurance racing titles internationally.
“The Vantage proved it has world champion pedigree in 2020, and in its GTE variant is a 24-hour race winner. Now with the Vantage GT3 we wish to give our partners and customers the best opportunity possible to fight for victory against our closest rivals in the toughest endurance challenges GT racing has to offer,” said Aston Martin CEO Tobias Moers.
The British marque’s factory racing efforts will be concentrated on Formula 1, which sees the Racing Point F1 team rebranded as Aston Martin for the 2021 season. Racing Point is owned by Aston Martin chairman Lawrence Stroll, whose son Lance Stroll will be driving for the team from next year alongside four-time F1 champion Sebastian Vettel.
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Yamaha “confident” in MotoGP engine reliability for 2021
Yamaha is confident in the reliability of its engines for the 2021 MotoGP season, having been hampered early in 2020 by technical issues.
The Japanese marque suffered mechanical problems on several of its engines across the Jerez weekends in July, with Valentino Rossi, Maverick Vinales and Franco Morbidelli all losing units to problems.
It transpired the issues were related to a faulty batch of valves, which proved to be non-homologated parts and led to Yamaha being docked constructors’ championship points, while it had to withdraw the offending units from its allocation.
Yamaha said the use of non-homologated valves was a result of “internal oversight” and a misunderstanding of the rules, as it believed it could use valves of identical design from a secondary supplier after its usual one stopped making the part.
Though Vinales had to exceed his allocation of five engines having only had two left to use following the Spanish Grand Prix, the other three Yamaha riders got to the end of the campaign on their remaining motors. As a result, Yamaha boss Lin Jarvis is confident that reliability won’t be an issue again next season.
“For the 2021 season, we’re quite confident in our engines because of the reliability that we’ve seen using the right valves this season,” he said. “The regulations mean that we will continue to use those engines next year.
“We’re always missing horsepower, so we could do with some more. But we’re going to have to wait till ’22 to get that when we’re able to redevelop or use our development on the new engines.”
Rossi felt Yamaha’s engine department needed looked at after the problems faced in 2020, but Jarvis doesn’t foresee any major changes taking place over the winter.
“We actually did change our engine department organisation at the very beginning of this year,” he added. “So, I don’t really expect any major changes in the future, not in the near-term. But I think the error that we made this year was made before the beginning of this year. The error was made [with the valves] in the middle of last year.
“I think in terms of the pure engine department, our engines, honestly speaking – apart from the weakness in one valve batch that we had – have been very reliable for the rest of the season. Some of our engines have done 3000km, which is pretty extraordinary. We had to do that because we had to park a load of engines.
“I think the main attention for the future improvements we will make is a much more rigid attention to detail in how we prepare for the season, reconfirming quality of components, reconfirming on the regulations. So, a lot more reconfirmation will be required.”
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Wolfsburg vs RB Leipzig Prediction: Bundesliga Match on 16.01.2021
RB Leipzig were handed a reminder that there is still some way to go for them if they are to challenge for the Bundesliga title this season last time out. They will be looking to get back to winning ways against Wolfsburg this weekend.
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It was an excellent first half to this season for RB Leipzig, but since returning to action they have lost as many games as they had in their opening 13. Leipzig’s second defeat of the season as suffered last weekend, as they were overpowered by a rejuvenated Borussia Dortmund at the Red Bull Arena. Leipzig had no answer for the attacking threat posed by Dortmund in that fixture, and despite a late consolation strike from Alexander Sorloth, there weren’t many positives to take out of the game. Leipzig will need to improve for this upcoming fixture, as Wolfsburg have also been a tough side to beat throughout the Bundesliga season this term.
Like Leipzig, Wolfsburg had been excellent in the early months of the season, but that optimism has soon ended with a poor run of form. They have lost their only two games of the season in their last four, and will welcome Leipzig this weekend without a win in two. Their second league defeat of the season was suffered at the hands of Dortmund, before they were unable to bounce back against Union Berlin in their last game. Wout Weghorst levelled the scores in that draw to rescue a point. Wolfsburg were made to work hard to take the point away from the capital, as they had to compete in the second half with ten men after the sending off for Maximillian Arnold in the 50th minute.
Wolfsburg vs RB Leipzig Head To Head
This fixture has been dominated by draws in recent seasons, with three of the previous six matches ending with that result. That also includes the last two matches, which have both ended in draws. The most recent was a 0-0 deadlock between the two sides, but that looks unlikely to be the same result again this weekend.
Wolfsburg vs RB Leipzig Prediction
RB Leipzig will need to respond following their defeat against Dortmund last weekend, while Wolfsburg’s chances of taking anything from the game will be hindered with the absence of Arnold. We expect an entertaining game, but a win for the travelling side.
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First Look at Netflix Comedy “Sex Education” Season 2 – Returning in 2020
By MaFt On November 12, 2019 In Netflix Originals, News Netflix Originals, News 1
Netflix has already announced that their recent comedy series “Sex Education” has been renewed for a second season and they have now shared some first look images as well as announcing the synopsis. The show stars Gillian Anderson and Asa Butterfield and launched on Netflix around the world in January 2019. The UK production sees Anderson playing an uninhibited sex therapist and Butterfield plays her son – an awkward teen who, in season 1, sets up a sex therapy clinic at his high school.
In season 2, as a late bloomer Otis must master his newly discovered sexual urges in order to progress with his girlfriend Ola whilst also dealing with his now strained relationship with Maeve. Meanwhile, Moordale Secondary is in the throes of a Chlamydia outbreak, highlighting the need for better sex education at the school and new kids come to town who will challenge the status quo.
Maeve and Aimee’s BFF relationship is stronger than ever since Aimee ditched ‘the Untouchables’.
Eric notices his new-found self-confidence attracting unfamiliar kinds of attention.
Adam is at military school, still conflicted by his feelings for Eric.
Lily has hit pause on her sexual endeavours to focus on her creative talents and finds a new found friend in Ola.
Jackson is forced to flex his mental rather than physical muscle and is still buckling under the pressure from his parents to succeed.
Jean and Jakob’s relationship is discovered and they have to learn how to operate as a blended family. Jean forms an unlikely connection with Mrs Groff and a friendship between the two women begins to form.
Season 2 will consist of 8 episodes and will launch in 2020.
Meet Otis Milburn – an inexperienced, socially awkward high school student who lives with his mother, a sex therapist. Surrounded by manuals, videos and tediously open conversations about sex, Otis is a reluctant expert on the subject. When his home life is revealed at school, Otis realizes that he can use his specialist knowledge to gain status. He teams up with Maeve, a whip-smart bad-girl, and together they set up an underground sex therapy clinic to deal with their fellow students’ weird and wonderful problems. Through his analysis of teenage sexuality, Otis realises he may need some therapy of his own.
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Islamic State uses social media to groom British Muslim girls - think tank
by Kieran Guilbert | KieranG77 | Thomson Reuters Foundation
Monday, 23 February 2015 18:19 GMT
A man shows a picture of his 15-year-old sister who left her home for Syria. Picture taken in Paris, October 6, 2014. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
The Quilliam Foundation estimates some 600 people from Britain, around 10 percent of them female, have travelled to Syria and Iraq
By Kieran Guilbert
LONDON, Feb 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Islamic State is using social media and the promise of adventure to lure British Muslim girls to join its cause, an anti-extremism think tank said on Monday, as police attempt to trace three London schoolgirls believed to be heading to Syria.
The three friends, two aged 15 and one 16, left their east London homes last week and caught a Turkish Airlines flight to Istanbul without telling their families.
The Quilliam Foundation said there had been a concerted effort from Islamic State to use websites like Twitter, Ask.fm and Facebook to groom young girls into believing they have a moral duty and obligation to join the militant group.
For girls from conservative Muslim families in Britain, who may be denied the same opportunities as their brothers and male peers, messages offering the chance to "do something with your life" can prove tempting, said managing director Haras Rafiq.
"Many of these girls are not allowed out, or to do certain things in society," Rafiq told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
"When they are online, they are being targeted with messages of empowerment... 'Come and do your bit... Reject Western values - you'll never get what you want there'".
Islamic State, the militant Sunni Muslim group, declared an Islamic caliphate across parts of Syria and Iraq last summer. It has killed thousands in what the United Nations has called a reign of terror.
The Quilliam Foundation estimates some 600 people from Britain, around 10 percent of them female, have travelled to Syria and Iraq to join the conflict, mostly with Islamic State.
Rafiq said girls targeted by Islamic State recruiters were being misled by the promise of adventure and excitement abroad.
A manifesto attributed to an-all female branch of Islamic State and translated into English by the think tank said girls may marry at nine, the "most pure" will be wed by 17 and all women should consider motherhood the purpose of their existence.
"These girls are going abroad because they are not really achieving what they consider to be much in Britain," he said.
"But we want to inform young girls that the way [Islamic State] are targeting them and the story they're selling them is not reality."
In a report released in November 2014, The Quilliam Foundation said female supporters of Islamic State were using social media to persuade European Muslims to travel to Iraq and Syria with "the promise of an Islamist utopia". (Reporting By Kieran Guilbert; Editing by Ros Russell)
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Eletrobras posts 3rd-quarter loss on Angra 3 nuclear plant impairment
Friday, 13 November 2015 03:50 GMT
By Caroline Stauffer and Jeb Blount
SAO PAULO/RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Brazil's state-run Eletrobras, Latin America's largest electricity utility, posted late on Thursday a 4.01 billion real ($1.06 billion) third-quarter loss due to weaker hydropower generation and a massive impairment charge on its Angra 3 nuclear plant.
The loss at the financially strapped Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras SA, as the company is formally known, was 45 percent greater than the 2.76 billion real loss a year earlier and nearly triple the 1.36 billion reais it lost in the second quarter.
The bulk of the negative result came after the Rio de Janeiro-based electricity utility holding company booked a 3.39 billion real impairment charge on its Angra 3 nuclear power plant.
The writedown was the result of deteriorating economic conditions in Brazil, Eletrobras said. The world's seventh-largest economy is suffering its worst recession in a generation and its electricity industry has been hobbled by project delays, planning mistakes, government-ordered tariff reductions and a serious drought.
The writedown did not include charges related to a giant price-fixing, bribery and political kickback scheme that diverted funds and drove up costs at Eletrobras and other state-led industries such as Petroleo Brasileiro SA, or Petrobras.
Eletrobras said in its earnings statement that an independent review of its operations led by U.S.-based law firm Hogan Lovells in the wake of the scandal had not yet finished and that it had no information about any potential financial impact of the corruption scandal on its balance sheet and earnings.
Angra 3, about 170 kilometers (106 miles) west of Rio de Janeiro, is the third nuclear reactor being built at the country's only nuclear-power generation facility. The 14 billion real ($3.72 billion) Angra 3 project has been at the center of corruption allegations at Eletrobras.
In late July the President of Eletrobras' nuclear power unit was arrested and later charged with taking 4.5 million reais in bribes from contractors building the site. He has resigned from the company.
Eletrobras's preferred shares, the company's most-traded class of stock, have lost more than 40 percent of their value since the arrest.
The main Brazilian contractors on the Angra 3 project have withdrawn from their contracts. ($1 = 3.7675 reais) (Reporting by Caroline Stauffer and Jeb Blount; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)
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Get Your Amazon Orders in 30 Minutes Through Prime Air Drone Delivery
byAman Kumar
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The e-commerce behemoth Amazon, after launching a one-day delivery option for Prime users, is now slowly but steadily working towards a 30-minute delivery using its Prime Air drone design.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of the United States recently agreed upon “beyond-visual-line-of-sight” drone flight. Till now, the agency had a strict rule that required the drone to remain in the line of sight of the drone operator. This was one of the biggest hurdles for Amazon to carry out commercial drone operations for delivery purposes. However, this decision is an important milestone for e-commerce companies like Amazon that are planning to expedite the delivery process.
Prime Air Service is already operational in few parts of Europe but it’s yet to begin in the United States. Amazon recently showed a new drone design in June this year and claimed to launch the 30-minute drone delivery plan within three months. The drone is capable of taking off, landing as well as flying forward.
The University of Alaska Fairbanks completed the first “beyond line of sight” flight test, which took place in Alaska over an oil pipeline. The new drone design was disclosed at Amazon’s re:MARS Conference by Amazon’s Consumer Worldwide CEO Jeff Wilke. The drone design is very stable and sturdy just as that of a commercial aircraft. Using sonar, thermal, and depth cameras, it can easily detect various hurdles and navigate effectively. A tilting design of the drone allows it to use its six propellers while taking off and landing.
Amazon claims that the Prime Air drone can cover up to 15 miles and carry about 5 pounds of packages in under 30 minutes. The organization is yet to get approval on its drone design from FAA.
While Amazon first announced the Prime Air initiative back in 2013, it was delayed due to various logistics aerospace standard issues. However, if all goes well, the service will be launched soon in the coming months.
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Delta IV Heavy lifts off ending the ULA year in stunning fashion.
By zshaul December 11, 2020 December 12, 2020
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8:09 PM EST NROL-44 departs atop a Delta IV Heavy from LC-37 at Canaveral Space Force Station
Photo by: Matt Cutshall- NHS
After eight scheduled launch dates listed officially by ULA (United Launch Alliance) one of the few Delta IV Heavy rockets remaining has lifted off the pad and sent it’s top secret payload into orbit. Excitingly this is also the first launch of a rocket on the newly named Canaveral Space Force Station. Previously the Canaveral Air Force Station it’s name was officially changed just one day prior to launch in a ceremony lead by Vice President, Mike Pence.
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Arriving in November of 2019 the core boosters of the Delta IV Heavy rocket have been at the Cape for over a year now as the patiently waited to get to work. And work they did, As all three RS-68A engines ignited with over two million pounds of thrust the seventy-two meter rocket slowly leapt off the pad, seemingly stopping to get it’s picture taken before quickly building speed and flying heavenward.
Photo by: Kyle Montgomery- NHS
Originally on the launch schedule for June of 2020, that was moved shortly after the Covid-19 pandemic began. Then the company announced August 27th would be the mission time. Though it did not seem so. When the countdown reached the point to begin fueling the rocket, ULA stood down from that night’s attempt. With two seconds left on the countdown clock thousands of viewers watched with jaws dropped as the rocket appeared to light itself on fire before suddenly extinguishing. Hot fire abort it was called. A support sensor read something it didn’t like and shut down the engines to prevent a catastrophe from taking place. Tory Bruno, ULA CEO stated on his Twitter account “a high volumetric flow rate pressure regulator [that] did not open” as the cause of the abort. That issue fixed, we had a few more scrubs before the next abort. Weather prevented the MST (Mobile Service Tower) from being retracted caused two of them, a swing arm retraction issue causing yet another. We then were told September 30th would be the date, and as the night continued on things looked promising for the “Majestic” Delta IV Heavy to finally get off the ground. At T-minus seven seconds the rocket started to ignite it’s engines once more but was instantaneously shut down. A sensor lead to the computer misreading that a valve in one of the engines had not moved to flight position. The valve was moved, the sensor was just faulty, but more sensors found more issues with the swing arm, and some days later we were given two dates in October to look forward to seeing this beauty launch. Though every time things got closer to those dates ULA would take them away. We then heard nothing for almost two months, until December 5th when ULA at last announced that they would again attempt to launch the NROL-44 payload on the 10th of December. The night was literally perfect as the 45th Space Wing forecast moved from 90% GO, to a full 100% Go for launch.
NROL-44 Liftoff Clip.
This is just a few second of video from the launch tonight. I look forward to sharing a complete edited video soon, but need get some sleep so I am ready for SXM-7 tomorrow morning. pic.twitter.com/iYvxM3d0TG
— Derek Wise (@derekiswise) December 11, 2020
video clip by: Derek Wise- NHS
Little is known about the actual payload of this launch. NROL-44 is owned and operated by the National Reconnaissance Office or the NRO. A U.S. government agency responsible for operating America’s arsenal of spy satellites. Even with the top secret nature of the payload, all launch providers must provide NOTAMS (Notices to Airmen) and NOTMARs (Notices to Mariners). These are windows of time along with a certain amount of space around the launch site that must be restricted during those times to keep everyone safe. With the hazard area going almost directly East over the Atlantic Ocean we can put together that the satellite is most likely going into a Geostationary orbit. This is the 8th Delta IV Heavy launch for the NRO, and the 12th overall launch of the rocket since it’s debut in 2004. It is also the 6th launch for ULA this year, marking one launch more than in 2019. ULA has a 100% success rate, and Tory Bruno again confirmed mission success in his usual fashion, tweeting out a number. The number “142” meaning 142 successful missions for the company.
Photo by: Zac Shaul- NHS
When the payload fairings separated the broadcast was put in a black out. Normal for a NRO mission to keep prying eyes from getting any ideas of what they are really sending up. With that orbit in mind the payload will likely depart from the second stage six to seven hours after initially lifting off. from here on out we just have to assume all is going accordingly.
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Foreign Minister Gyawali’s Address at the Joint Press Meet after bilateral talks with Japanese counterpart (Full Text)
Published Date : 9 January, 2019 9:23 pm
Foreign Minister His Excellency Mr. Taro Kono
Dear Friends from the Media
Namaste and Good Evening!
I have immense pleasure to welcome the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan His Excellency Mr. Taro Kono in Kathmandu. We are meeting for the second time in less than two months.
I just had a very comprehensive and fruitful meeting with His Excellency Kono on all aspects of Nepal-Japan bilateral relations as well as regional and global issues of common concerns.
I expressed gratitude to the Government of Japan for its continued and unconditional support and cooperation in the socio-economic development efforts of Nepal.
Our two countries enjoy a close, cordial and cooperative relations. We attach great importance to our ties with Japan. Japan is one of the major development partners and one of the largest source countries of investment and tourists in Nepal.
As you all are aware, the present Government’s topmost agenda is economic transformation for the prosperity of the people of Nepal under the motto of “Prosperous Nepal, Happy Nepali”. We aspire to graduate from LDC status at an early date and become a middle-income country by 2030. I thanked the Government of Japan for its assurance of extending support in realizing these goals. I also thanked the Government of Japan for its assistance to post-earthquake reconstruction in Nepal.
We just signed the Exchange of Notes for revising the Air Service Agreement between Nepal and Japan signed in 1993. With the signing of this Exchange of Notes, it will pave the way for the operation of direct flight between our two countries. Similarly, a Memorandum of Cooperation has been signed between the Foreign Ministries of Nepal and Japan on Conducting Bilateral Consultations. The Memorandum of Cooperation will provide a platform to both countries to discuss modalities for extending the cooperation, review all aspects of bilateral relations, explore new areas of cooperation and exchange views on regional and global issues of mutual concerns.
We also discussed about bilateral cooperation for the implementation of projects in Nepal related to infrastructure building, connectivity and energy. We also discussed the Japanese investment in priority sectors of Nepal and active participation of Japanese investors and entrepreneurs in the upcoming Nepal Investment Summit to be held in March 2019.
We exchanged views on sending our labour forces to Japanese labour market under new immigration policy introduced by Japan. I thanked the Government of Japan for including Nepal as a source country for labour. We have agreed to conclude a Memorandum of Cooperation as soon as possible.
We also stressed the need of joint efforts for tourism promotion of Nepal in Japan in order to make the Visit Nepal Year 2020 successful.
The two sides underscored the need of continued exchange of high-level visits in order to take measures for further elevating our bilateral relations.
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Patriots Vs. Texans Preview: New England Holds Clear Edge In Playoff Matchup
by Doug Kyed
The New England Patriots shut out the Houston Texans 27-0 in September with their third-string quarterback under center.
There’s no reason to believe the results will be different when these teams face off in the divisional round of the playoffs Saturday night at Gillette Stadium. The Texans are one of the worst teams in NFL history to make it into the second round of the playoffs. They won an extremely soft AFC South and then played the Oakland Raiders, who were down to a rookie third-string quarterback, in the wild card round.
The Texans ranked 29th in Football Outsiders’ total DVOA, 30th in offense and seventh in defense this season. Tom Savage, who took over at quarterback for Brock Osweiler in Week 15, suffered a concussion in Week 17 and couldn’t play Saturday in the Texans’ win over the Raiders, but he could be back in the divisional round and might give Houston a slight upgrade at quarterback. The Patriots still opened as 16-point favorites, per OddsShark.
Let’s go through the Patriots-Texans matchup.
PATRIOTS PASSING OFFENSE VS. TEXANS PASS DEFENSE
Patriots: 4th, 269.2 yards per game
Texans: 2nd, 197.9 yards per game
Edge: Patriots
The stats say the Texans have the advantage, but Tom Brady is at quarterback, which almost automatically gives the Patriots the edge. The Texans only have allowed an 80 passer rating this season, good for fourth in the NFL. The Patriots, as a team, have a 109.5 passer rating, good for second in the NFL.
The Patriots have thrown just two interceptions all season, both coming from Brady in his 12 starts. Jacoby Brissett went 11 of 19 for 103 yards in his start against the Texans in September.
The Patriots could have a five-headed monster at receiver Saturday with Julian Edelman, Chris Hogan, Malcolm Mitchell, Michael Floyd and Danny Amendola.
The Texans’ pass rush this season was middle of the pack with J.J. Watt out. The Patriots’ offensive line has been among the best in the NFL at protecting the quarterback.
PATRIOTS RUSHING OFFENSE VS. TEXANS RUN DEFENSE
Patriots: 6th, 117 yards per game
Texans: 10th, 97.6 yards per game
This is close based on season averages, but the Patriots rushed 39 times for 185 yards with three touchdowns when the Texans came to Gillette Stadium in September, and that was before Dion Lewis returned to the offense.
The Texans are allowing an average of 4.0 yards per carry on defense this season while the Patriots are averaging 3.9. Texans linebacker Benardrick McKinney and edge rushers Whitney Mercilus and Jadeveon Clowney all are strong run defenders.
PATRIOTS PASS DEFENSE VS. TEXANS PASSING OFFENSE
Patriots: 12th, 237.9 yards per game
Texans: 29th, 196.7 yards per game
It wasn’t always pretty this season for the Patriots’ pass defense, but they pulled it together at the end of the season against weak passing attacks similar to the Texans’. Osweiler completed 24 of 41 passes for 196 yards with an interception against the Patriots in September. He went 14 of 25 for 168 yards with a touchdown Saturday against the Raiders. Savage was better than Osweiler this season with an 80.2 passer rating compared to Osweiler’s 72.2.
Patriots cornerbacks Malcolm Butler, Logan Ryan and Eric Rowe are playing their best football of the season. Defensive end Trey Flowers finished the season strong with seven sacks.
PATRIOTS RUN DEFENSE VS. TEXANS RUSHING OFFENSE
Patriots: 4th, 88.6 yards per game
Texans: 8th, 116.6 yards per game
Houston piled up a bunch of yards on the ground but averaged just 4 yards per carry. The Patriots allowed 3.9 yards per carry as opposing teams were forced to throw after New England’s offense got out to early leads.
The Texans rushed 27 times for 109 yards against the Patriots in Week 3. The Patriots’ linebackers in that game were Jamie Collins, who was traded, and Jonathan Freeny, who’s on injured reserve. Dont’a Hightower was out with an injury. Shea McClellin, Elandon Roberts and Kyle Van Noy have taken on bigger roles since Collins was traded and Freeny went to IR.
The Texans rushed 44 times for 123 yards with two touchdowns against the Raiders on Saturday. Starter Lamar Miller had 31 carries for 73 yards and a score.
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Ban WhatsApp, Facebook: Traders’ Body Urges Govt
By Nitesh Kumar Sahoo On Jan 10, 2021 - 3:47 PM
Ban WhatsApp, Facebook: Traders' Body Urges Govt
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New Delhi: The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) has strongly objected the new WhatsApp privacy policy through which all kinds of personal data, payment transactions, contacts, location and other vital information of a person who is using WhatsApp will be acquired by it and can be used for any purpose by WhatsApp.
In a communication sent to Minister for Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad, CAIT has demanded that the government should immediately restrict WhatsApp from implementing the new policy or put a ban on WhatsApp and its parent company Facebook.
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Facebook has more than 200 million users in India and enabling it to access data about every user by a company can pose a serious threat to not only the economy but even to the security of the country.
“It reminds us of the days of East India Company who entered India to trade salt only and invade the country but at this time it is the data which is very crucial to wreck the backbone of economy, social structure, etc. The Facebook- WhatsApp combine has shown their true colours by first facilitating the Indians to use Facebook and WhatsApp without any charge but now seeking access to data, its ultimate object seems to control trade & economy of India beside other hidden agenda,” CAIT said.
WhatsApp is to implement its changed Privacy Policy from next month in India which will force people using WhatsApp to accept the changed terms if they want to avail the usage of WhatsApp or else they will have to delete the WhatsApp from their mobile.
“The changed privacy policy of WhatsApp is an encroachment on privacy of an individual & runs against the basic fundamentals of Constitution of India and therefore the CAIT has demanded immediate intervention of the Government,” said CAIT National President B. C. Bhartia and Secretary General Praveen Khandelwal in a joint statement issued on Sunday.
Bhartia and Khandelwal said, “In its new privacy policy, WhatsApp is forcing the user to accept the new terms and it’s a common phenomenon that most of them without reading the terms would just go ahead and accept it without realising what WhatsApp is changing under the new terms. It does not give a choice to the user to stay on the platform without accepting the revised terms which is also an encroachment on independence of a person. How can a company operating in India force the users to accept its arbitrary and one sided terms.”
The new rules will be implemented next month, and if a user doesn’t accept the policy, then he has to delete the WhatsApp application from his mobile.
Bhartia and Khandelwal said what they could understand is that WhatsApp aims to obtain more data about each user which will enable it to know account information, including phone number, address book information, status information, also all the data on transactions and payments and this data may be linked with its new application, WhatsApp payments.
It will be disastrous when this data will be used by both WhatsApp and Facebook for various purposes, including the enablement of Facebook to use data with an e-commerce portal or compromising data with various companies to earn commercial benefits. Since Facebook being the parent Company of WhatsApp will be able to access all such data, CAIT said.
It will cause much disturbance when WhatsApp can collect data about usage, the kind of phone user is using and his location. Through new terms, WhatsApp will also access the bank account of the user. Not only this but WhatsApp will know what user is paying you and to whom and other related details like what is purchased and what will be the location of delivery. It can track every user, CAIT said.
By obtaining such huge data they will accurately know the purchasing and spending behaviour of users, what they eat, volume of requirements of various items, travels and destinations, usage of flights, railways, cab, road transport, etc.
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One for All and All for One - The Birth of Furnace Park.
by Geoff Mackay, Max Everett
in 65, August 2013
The scorching Sheffield summer has been rolling along smoothly with more bright days than we can remember, and Dead Space returns just in time for sunny August with a review on Furnace Park, another interesting location that we should all take notice of. It’s a call for community cooperation, a case of ‘come one, come all’. Furnace Park, the name given to the site by the team behind the scheme, is at the epicentre of a neighbourhood that has major significance in terms of the city’s industrial heritage. The park is a new urban space which has been created in the Furnace Hill conservation area on the dead space of one of Sheffield’s former metal works buildings, located between Scotland Street and Matthew Street in Shalesmoor. The arrival of the metallurgy industry dramatically transformed an area which was covered with farming crofts in the 17th century into clusters of diverse metal trades. This corner of Sheffield existed as a hive of vibrant activity during its industrial revolution. The Furnace Hill industrial zone quickly expanded around the pre-existing housing, which would soon become overpopulated and sullied by the pollution and sanitation issues that typified the era. Despite the conditions this nook of the city had a lot going for it. It was a prime site that boasted successful cutlers, steelworks, grinders, foundry casters and handle makers. By the end of the 19th century the area had achieved industrial slum status and inevitably it was lined up for clearance. A large cleanup operation took place in the 1930s and most of the housing was demolished, leaving only a few select buildings as examples of the early commercial propagation of the quarter. The new park is located on the site of a foundry works that belonged to Doncasters, a successful crucible steel company which made its name in the tool making industry. But progress is not sentimental and Doncasters relocated, leaving the site derelict for several years. The only obvious sign they were ever there is the large conical brick furnace that still exists in close proximity to Furnace Park. Nothing changed until about ten years ago, when Sheffield City Council purchased the land as part of the Inner Relief road construction initiative. The site lay overgrown until three years ago, when the local group named Occurus, meaning ‘to meet’, came across the site on one of the many walks/talks in and around the area. The group had sprouted in 2011 from groups of writers, researchers and artists opening up dialogue on philosophy, art, politics and literature across the city. This multiple, morphing cache of interests flowed between groups and individuals, causing questions to be asked about research and art. Tt was at this point that SKINN (Shalesmoor Kelham Island & Neepsend Network) got involved. Along with support from Plastic Cities, a research group at Sheffield University, SKINN started to look at a framework for low-cost, flexible uses of Furnace Park and other disused urban spaces. Holding open workshops and design sessions, a 1:200 model was created as a tool for exploring ideas and possible layouts. Designs stemmed out of the re-use of pallets and reclaimed timber for various items, from slouchers (laid back seating), workhorses (sturdy multi-use tables) and mules (wheelbarrow-type stalls). There is also an interesting neurone canopy idea that lights up when speakers stand below. We managed to catch up with SKINN and ask them: What would be your message for the public to engage with the scheme? Please come down! Bring on board your project ideas. We welcome anyone for help, contribution, dialogue and experimentation. Do you think this could be a catalyst for unused council space across the city? Yes, we think this sets a good precedent for other sites in the city. The Council have been supportive of the idea. They are letting us have the land for three years on a pepper-corn rate and they also welcomed the idea of repeating the project elsewhere. What are the long-term plans? An office development is possible. If there is no commercial interest in the site after three years or if there is high local interest in the scheme, then the site could be transformed into a long-term community asset for creative use. furnacepark.org )
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Base Score Metrics
Exploitability Metrics
Access Vector (AV)*
Local (AV:L)
Adjacent Network (AV:A)
Network (AV:N)
Access Complexity (AC)*
High (AC:H)
Medium (AC:M)
Low (AC:L)
Authentication (Au)*
Multiple (Au:M)
Single (Au:S)
None (Au:N)
Impact Metrics
Confidentiality Impact (C)*
None (C:N)
Partial (C:P)
Complete (C:C)
Integrity Impact (I)*
None (I:N)
Partial (I:P)
Complete (I:C)
Availability Impact (A)*
None (A:N)
Partial (A:P)
Complete (A:C)
Temporal Score Metrics
Exploitability (E)
Not Defined (E:ND)
Unproven that exploit exists (E:U)
Proof of concept code (E:POC)
Functional exploit exists (E:F)
High (E:H)
Remediation Level (RL)
Not Defined (RL:ND)
Official fix (RL:OF)
Temporary fix (RL:TF)
Workaround (RL:W)
Unavailable (RL:U)
Report Confidence (RC)
Not Defined (RC:ND)
Unconfirmed (RC:UC)
Uncorroborated (RC:UR)
Confirmed (RC:C)
Environmental Score Metrics
General Modifiers
Collateral Damage Potential (CDP)
Not Defined (CDP:ND)
None (CDP:N)
Low (light loss) (CDP:L)
Low-Medium (CDP:LM)
Medium-High (CDP:MH)
High (catastrophic loss) (CDP:H)
Target Distribution (TD)
Not Defined (TD:ND)
None [0%] (TD:N)
Low [0-25%] (TD:L)
Medium [26-75%] (TD:M)
High [76-100%] (TD:H)
Impact Subscore Modifiers
Confidentiality Requirement (CR)
Not Defined (CR:ND)
Low (CR:L)
Medium (CR:M)
High (CR:H)
Integrity Requirement (IR)
Not Defined (IR:ND)
Low (IR:L)
Medium (IR:M)
High (IR:H)
Availability Requirement (AR)
Not Defined (AR:ND)
Low (AR:L)
Medium (AR:M)
High (AR:H)
The base metric group captures the characteristics of a vulnerability that are constant with time and across user environments. The Access Vector, Access Complexity, and Authentication metrics capture how the vulnerability is accessed and whether or not extra conditions are required to exploit it. The three impact metrics measure how a vulnerability, if exploited, will directly affect an IT asset, where the impacts are independently defined as the degree of loss of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. For example, a vulnerability could cause a partial loss of integrity and availability, but no loss of confidentiality.
Access Vector (AV)
This metric reflects how the vulnerability is exploited. The more remote an attacker can be to attack a host, the greater the vulnerability score.
A vulnerability exploitable with only local access requires the attacker to have either physical access to the vulnerable system or a local (shell) account. Examples of locally exploitable vulnerabilities are peripheral attacks such as Firewire/USB DMA attacks, and local privilege escalations (e.g., sudo).
A vulnerability exploitable with adjacent network access requires the attacker to have access to either the broadcast or collision domain of the vulnerable software. Examples of local networks include local IP subnet, Bluetooth, IEEE 802.11, and local Ethernet segment.
A vulnerability exploitable with network access means the vulnerable software is bound to the network stack and the attacker does not require local network access or local access. Such a vulnerability is often termed “remotely exploitable”. An example of a network attack is an RPC buffer overflow.
Access Complexity (AC)
This metric measures the complexity of the attack required to exploit the vulnerability once an attacker has gained access to the target system. For example, consider a buffer overflow in an Internet service: once the target system is located, the attacker can launch an exploit at will.
Other vulnerabilities, however, may require additional steps in order to be exploited. For example, a vulnerability in an email client is only exploited after the user downloads and opens a tainted attachment. The lower the required complexity, the higher the vulnerability score.
Specialized access conditions exist. For example, in most configurations, the attacking party must already have elevated privileges or spoof additional systems in addition to the attacking system (e.g., DNS hijacking). The attack depends on social engineering methods that would be easily detected by knowledgeable people. For example, the victim must perform several suspicious or atypical actions. The vulnerable configuration is seen very rarely in practice. If a race condition exists, the window is very narrow.
The access conditions are somewhat specialized; the following are examples: The attacking party is limited to a group of systems or users at some level of authorization, possibly untrusted. Some information must be gathered before a successful attack can be launched. The affected configuration is non-default, and is not commonly configured (e.g., a vulnerability present when a server performs user account authentication via a specific scheme, but not present for another authentication scheme). The attack requires a small amount of social engineering that might occasionally fool cautious users (e.g., phishing attacks that modify a web browser’s status bar to show a false link, having to be on someone’s “buddy” list before sending an IM exploit).
Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. The following are examples: The affected product typically requires access to a wide range of systems and users, possibly anonymous and untrusted (e.g., Internet-facing web or mail server). The affected configuration is default or ubiquitous. The attack can be performed manually and requires little skill or additional information gathering. The 'race condition' is a lazy one (i.e., it is technically a race but easily winnable).
Authentication (Au)
This metric measures the number of times an attacker must authenticate to a target in order to exploit a vulnerability. This metric does not gauge the strength or complexity of the authentication process, only that an attacker is required to provide credentials before an exploit may occur. The possible values for this metric are listed in Table 3. The fewer authentication instances that are required, the higher the vulnerability score.
It is important to note that the Authentication metric is different from Access Vector. Here, authentication requirements are considered once the system has already been accessed. Specifically, for locally exploitable vulnerabilities, this metric should only be set to 'single' or 'multiple' if authentication is needed beyond what is required to log into the system. An example of a locally exploitable vulnerability that requires authentication is one affecting a database engine listening on a Unix domain socket (or some other non-network interface). If the user must authenticate as a valid database user in order to exploit the vulnerability, then this metric should be set to 'single.'
Exploiting the vulnerability requires that the attacker authenticate two or more times, even if the same credentials are used each time. An example is an attacker authenticating to an operating system in addition to providing credentials to access an application hosted on that system.
One instance of authentication is required to access and exploit the vulnerability.
Authentication is not required to access and exploit the vulnerability.
Confidentiality Impact (C)
This metric measures the impact on confidentiality of a successfully exploited vulnerability. Confidentiality refers to limiting information access and disclosure to only authorized users, as well as preventing access by, or disclosure to, unauthorized ones. Increased confidentiality impact increases the vulnerability score.
There is no impact to the confidentiality of the system.
There is considerable informational disclosure. Access to some system files is possible, but the attacker does not have control over what is obtained, or the scope of the loss is constrained. An example is a vulnerability that divulges only certain tables in a database.
There is total information disclosure, resulting in all system files being revealed. The attacker is able to read all of the system's data (memory, files, etc.).
Integrity Impact (I)
This metric measures the impact to integrity of a successfully exploited vulnerability. Integrity refers to the trustworthiness and guaranteed veracity of information. Increased integrity impact increases the vulnerability score.
There is no impact to the integrity of the system.
Modification of some system files or information is possible, but the attacker does not have control over what can be modified, or the scope of what the attacker can affect is limited. For example, system or application files may be overwritten or modified, but either the attacker has no control over which files are affected or the attacker can modify files within only a limited context or scope.
There is a total compromise of system integrity. There is a complete loss of system protection, resulting in the entire system being compromised. The attacker is able to modify any files on the target system.
Availability Impact (A)
This metric measures the impact to availability of a successfully exploited vulnerability. Availability refers to the accessibility of information resources. Attacks that consume network bandwidth, processor cycles, or disk space all impact the availability of a system. Increased availability impact increases the vulnerability score.
There is no impact to the availability of the system.
There is reduced performance or interruptions in resource availability. An example is a network-based flood attack that permits a limited number of successful connections to an Internet service.
There is a total shutdown of the affected resource. The attacker can render the resource completely unavailable.
The threat posed by a vulnerability may change over time. Three such factors that CVSS captures are: confirmation of the technical details of a vulnerability, the remediation status of the vulnerability, and the availability of exploit code or techniques. Since temporal metrics are optional they each include a metric value that has no effect on the score. This value is used when the user feels the particular metric does not apply and wishes to "skip over" it.
This metric measures the current state of exploit techniques or code availability. Public availability of easy-to-use exploit code increases the number of potential attackers by including those who are unskilled, thereby increasing the severity of the vulnerability.
Initially, real-world exploitation may only be theoretical. Publication of proof of concept code, functional exploit code, or sufficient technical details necessary to exploit the vulnerability may follow. Furthermore, the exploit code available may progress from a proof-of-concept demonstration to exploit code that is successful in exploiting the vulnerability consistently. In severe cases, it may be delivered as the payload of a network-based worm or virus. The more easily a vulnerability can be exploited, the higher the vulnerability score.
Assigning this value to the metric will not influence the score. It is a signal to the equation to skip this metric.
No exploit code is available, or an exploit is entirely theoretical.
Proof-of-concept exploit code or an attack demonstration that is not practical for most systems is available. The code or technique is not functional in all situations and may require substantial modification by a skilled attacker.
Functional exploit code is available. The code works in most situations where the vulnerability exists.
Either the vulnerability is exploitable by functional mobile autonomous code, or no exploit is required (manual trigger) and details are widely available. The code works in every situation, or is actively being delivered via a mobile autonomous agent (such as a worm or virus).
The remediation level of a vulnerability is an important factor for prioritization. The typical vulnerability is unpatched when initially published. Workarounds or hotfixes may offer interim remediation until an official patch or upgrade is issued. Each of these respective stages adjusts the temporal score downwards, reflecting the decreasing urgency as remediation becomes final. The less official and permanent a fix, the higher the vulnerability score is.
A complete vendor solution is available. Either the vendor has issued an official patch, or an upgrade is available.
There is an official but temporary fix available. This includes instances where the vendor issues a temporary hotfix, tool, or workaround.
There is an unofficial, non-vendor solution available. In some cases, users of the affected technology will create a patch of their own or provide steps to work around or otherwise mitigate the vulnerability.
There is either no solution available or it is impossible to apply.
This metric measures the degree of confidence in the existence of the vulnerability and the credibility of the known technical details. Sometimes, only the existence of vulnerabilities are publicized, but without specific details. The vulnerability may later be corroborated and then confirmed through acknowledgement by the author or vendor of the affected technology. The urgency of a vulnerability is higher when a vulnerability is known to exist with certainty. This metric also suggests the level of technical knowledge available to would-be attackers. The more a vulnerability is validated by the vendor or other reputable sources, the higher the score.
There is a single unconfirmed source or possibly multiple conflicting reports. There is little confidence in the validity of the reports. An example is a rumor that surfaces from the hacker underground.
There are multiple non-official sources, possibly including independent security companies or research organizations. At this point there may be conflicting technical details or some other lingering ambiguity.
The vulnerability has been acknowledged by the vendor or author of the affected technology. The vulnerability may also be "Confirmed: when its existence is confirmed from an external event such as publication of functional or proof-ofconcept exploit code or widespread exploitation.
Different environments can have an immense bearing on the risk that a vulnerability poses to an organization and its stakeholders. The CVSS environmental metric group captures the characteristics of a vulnerability that are associated with a user's IT environment. Since environmental metrics are optional they each include a metric value that has no effect on the score. This value is used when the user feels the particular metric does not apply and wishes to 'skip over' it.
This metric measures the potential for loss of life or physical assets through damage or theft of property or equipment. The metric may also measure economic loss of productivity or revenue. Naturally, the greater the damage potential, the higher the vulnerability score.
There is no potential for loss of life, physical assets, productivity or revenue.
A successful exploit of this vulnerability may result in slight physical or property damage. Or, there may be a slight loss of revenue or productivity to the organization.
A successful exploit of this vulnerability may result in moderate physical or property damage. Or, there may be a moderate loss of revenue or productivity to the organization.
A successful exploit of this vulnerability may result in significant physical or property damage or loss. Or, there may be a significant loss of revenue or productivity.
A successful exploit of this vulnerability may result in catastrophic physical or property damage and loss. Or, there may be a catastrophic loss of revenue or productivity.
This metric measures the proportion of vulnerable systems. It is meant as an environment-specific indicator in order to approximate the percentage of systems that could be affected by the vulnerability. The possible values for this metric are listed in Table 11. The greater the proportion of vulnerable systems, the higher the score.
No target systems exist, or targets are so highly specialized that they only exist in a laboratory setting. Effectively 0% of the environment is at risk.
Targets exist inside the environment, but on a small scale. Between 1% - 25% of the total environment is at risk.
Targets exist inside the environment, but on a medium scale. Between 26% - 75% of the total environment is at risk.
Targets exist inside the environment on a considerable scale. Between 76% - 100% of the total environment is considered at risk.
These metrics enable the analyst to customize the CVSS score depending on the importance of the affected IT asset to a user’s organization, measured in terms of confidentiality, integrity, and availability, That is, if an IT asset supports a business function for which availability is most important, the analyst can assign a greater value to availability, relative to confidentiality and integrity. Each security requirement has three possible values: low, medium, or high.
Loss of Confidentiality is likely to have only a limited adverse effect on the organization or individuals associated with the organization (e.g., employees, customers).
Loss of Confidentiality is likely to have a serious adverse effect on the organization or individuals associated with the organization (e.g., employees, customers).
Loss of Confidentiality is likely to have a catastrophic adverse effect on the organization or individuals associated with the organization (e.g., employees, customers).
Loss of Integrity is likely to have only a limited adverse effect on the organization or individuals associated with the organization (e.g., employees, customers).
Loss of Integrity is likely to have a serious adverse effect on the organization or individuals associated with the organization (e.g., employees, customers).
Loss of Integrity is likely to have a catastrophic adverse effect on the organization or individuals associated with the organization (e.g., employees, customers).
Loss of availability is likely to have only a limited adverse effect on the organization or individuals associated with the organization (e.g., employees, customers).
Loss of availability is likely to have a serious adverse effect on the organization or individuals associated with the organization (e.g., employees, customers).
Loss of availability is likely to have a catastrophic adverse effect on the organization or individuals associated with the organization (e.g., employees, customers).
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Is Curtis Jones the Son of God? | Crystal Palace v Liverpool (19/12/2020)
By James Robinson, Football Tipster
Onside View’s resident football tipster, Mr Robinson is looking to Saturday’s early kick-off at an empty (again!) Selhurst Park. Coming off the back of two 1-1 draws, Palace take on Premier League leaders, Liverpool. But will The Reds midweek escapades against title rivals Spurs catch up with them?
Roy Hodgson has never beaten Liverpool as Palace manager and has lost all 5 of his encounters. April 2017 was the last time The Eagles soared to victory. That game ended 2-1, with Benteke scoring a brace against his former club at Anfield. Benteke’s suspension means history will have to wait to be repeated.
Out of the current top 6, Palace have only lost to Everton, and they’ve only failed to score once at home. That was against Newcastle, who scored twice very late on, in a game that looked certain to end honours even.
Meanwhile, Liverpool’s record on the road is, frankly, poor. They’ve failed to win 4 out 5, with their only success coming at Stamford Bridge, where they incidentally kept their only clean sheet. It’s easy to think that Liverpool will just brush Palace aside, but with the way Hodgson sets his teams up to have a go, and with pressure to extend their lead at the top, there’ll surely be chances aplenty for both? Backing BTTS is just common sense @8/11 with BetFred.
A glorious last gasp header from Bobby Firmino on Wednesday night saw Liverpool take a hugely important 3 point lead at the top over Spurs. But though the momentum will be with Liverpool, it’s not guaranteed that they will have the sharpness to match. A game like that can take its toll.
Liverpool have also started slowly in away games this season. They’ve predominantly scored their goals in the second half, whilst Palace have scored all but 2 of their home goals in the first half. Backing Double Result Palace/Liverpool @18/1 with BetFred is outlandish, but it plays to the stats.
Much has been made of Liverpool’s huge injury list this season, but it hasn’t thrown them off course and their results have been relatively unaffected. It has also paved the way for young academy star, Curtis Jones (19), to show what he’s made of – and he hasn’t looked one bit out of place.
His balance and poise on the ball for someone so young is staggering. I can only make the lazy comparison to Gerrard, but he is completely different in style and should be lauded for his expressiveness. Though, like Gerrard, he could very easily be Liverpool’s leader for the next decade or two – and my god has he come at the right time for Klopp. A Christmas saviour, if you will. The best value bet of the weekend is Liverpool WIN & BTTS @2/1 with Betfred.
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Boeing, flying high once again?
Posted on May 22, 2013 by Dom
After 15 months and millions of dollars spent, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner has resumed commercial flights. The groundbreaking jet, introduced in July 2003 was dubbed as the next generation airplane that would revolutionize the way air travel operated. Soon after preliminary flights, major aircraft corporations began to notice technical and mechanical issues that affected the reliability of the jet. These problems resulted in flights being delayed and cancelled. In January, two 787s owned by Japanese airlines experienced burning batteries that would later ground all 787s.
Prior to the grounding, delivered 787s logged a reliability rating of 97.7% (23 delays/cancellations out of 1000 flights). This result was comparable to the long tested and proven 777 that that 787 aims to replace. As technology expands, systems become more intricate and coincide with higher rates of failure. The 787 is an example of new age lithium-ion batteries, electrical systems, and computer systems that alter service requirements. This plane alone requires 10 times more power during startup than traditional Boeing planes, computer and electrical systems to be turned on three hours before each flight, and scheduled maintenance in between each flight.
During this downtime Boeing continuously has been mass producing these airplanes to fill the 800+ orders that have been filed from 50+ customers. By April 2013, 50 planes have been built and delivered to their respective companies. However, this plane does retain more positives than negatives, thus accounting for the 800+ orders. With this new technology, the planes will be able to be serviced in as little as 45 minutes. This will allow for companies to keep their planes in the air instead of on the ground. In addition, new light weight materials have been used and new fuel efficient engines fitted on the wings that allow for longer distance flights without using more fuel.
Aboard the new computer system, Boeing has also included a transmitter that will upload the airplane’s data to a world-wide network managed by Boeing’s facilities near Seattle. This system will track each jet’s information, making it easier for mechanics to fix any issues that may have occurred during a flight. This system will also allow for Boeing to monitor necessary maintenance updates as well as be able to ground any planes that it deems unsafe to fly.
Years behind schedule and plagued with problems, the Boeing 787 did not have a successful start. Boeing executives believe that in the future years to come, this plane will be more reliable than the 777 and project a reliability rating of 99+%. The 787 is a key example of problems during the operations strategy of a company and their ability to overcome difficult situations that result in millions of dollars of losses. At this point the 787 is operational, but if similar problems occur in the future, Boeing may lose potential orders.
With so many problems occurring with the 787, do you believe that its main competitor (Airbus) may be regarded as a safer investment?
What do you believe lies in the future for the 787? Will it continue to experience more problems or will it beat the projected 99+% reliability?
Ostrower, Jon, and Andy Pasztor. “Dreamliner’s Other Issues Draw Attention; Boeing and Airlines Try to Improve More Systems After Fixing Battery Flaws.” Wall Street Journal (Online): n/a. May 20 2013. ProQuest. Web. 22 May 2013.
Posted in 1 Operations & Productivity, 11-Supply-Chain Management, 12 Inventory Management, 17-Maintenance and Reliability, 2 Operations Strategy, 3 Project Management, 5 Design of Goods and Services, 6 Managing Quality, MGT301- Spring 2013Tagged 787, Boeing, delay, design of goods and services, Dreamliner, operations strategy, quality
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spr1324mszewc says:
I thought it was interesting that the Boeing 787 logged a 97.7% reliability rating even though it has experienced all of these issues during its launch. I think if Boeing offers the sort of maintenance updates and service that it is known for, than the787 will beat the 99+% reliability projection. I don’t think that Airbus will necessarily be considered as a safer investment than Boeing, but I do believe that because of the rate at which Boeing has rolled off the first shipment of 787s coupled with the problems at start, it’s going to be up to the next few years of deliveries to determine whether or not customers continue to order the 787.
spr1331jdelatorre says:
Boeing has an extensive history of success, but their B-787 had a huge negative impact on their credibility. I do not think Airbus is a safer investment because they never introduced a revolutionary airplane that had numerous technical problems. Once Airbus experiences a similar situation Boeing experienced with the 787 and we see how the company handles the problem, then we can compare both companies and decide which company is better.
spr1313perna says:
I agree completely with both the comments above. Boeing is a smart company that has been tested time and time again and they have always pulled through. This seems to be just a bump that they will overcome. Yes, it will take a few years but I do not believe this means the Airbus will be a safer investment. It would be interesting to see if Airbus can introduce a fully functional plane into the market without any issues.
spr1314jschild says:
I think this does imply that Airbus may be a safer investment. We all know that Boeing is the primary competitor, leading in innovation and the launch of new products/concepts. Therefore, I think it is safe to assume that they are taking on most of the risk by introducing these new things to the market; in testing new airliners such as the 787 which requires a lot of time, and experimenting with what clients/customers actually prefer. Contrary to Boeing, competitors like Airbus remain on the edge until Boeing gives the green light. Once Boeing clears the path, the rest follow. This implies that they (competitors) are not taking on a significant portion of risk, making them safer investments. However, less risk means less return. Boeing is willing to step off the edge and go where others in the industry won’t. Of course this means greater risk as some things may fail, but greater returns can be expected with greater risk.
spr1322tkrolicki says:
I think Boeing’s problems are not such a big deal. For one the Dreamliner is the first of its kinds with plenty of technology upgrades from anything currently out there. Because of this there were bound to be a problem or two and its seems as though they have this solved now. If you are company that is in the lead of using new technology there will obviously be bumps in the road. Boeing handled this situation well, and as long as there aren’t anymore problems, i believe they will be fine.
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Justin Schneider and Jacob Anderson Go Free; Cyntoia Brown Does Not
by Sam Wilkinson · December 13, 2018
Justin Schneider was driving when he saw a woman asking for a ride. He stopped to offer her one. He refused to drive her where she had asked to go. He took her somewhere else instead. He choked her until she passed out. Then he masturbated on her. When she woke up, he explained that her thinking she was going to die was the only way he could pleasure himself. She called the police immediately. She had Schneider’s license plate, as well as a tissue he had given her to clean up. Police found Schneider almost immediately. Schneider did not deny the encounter.
State prosecutors worked out a plea bargain with him. He was credited with time served for having worn an ankle monitor while being at home with his family. He served no jail time. He was not forced to register as a sex offender. Andrew Grannik was the prosecutor that worked out the deal. Grannik claimed he could not contact Schneider’s victim to encourage her participation in a trial or to notify her about the pending plea bargain. He said that Schneider’s plea bargain was, “his one pass – it’s not really a pass – but given the conduct, one might consider that it is.” The judge overseeing the deal warned Schneider, “This can never happen again.” Grannik’s boss publicly praised him.
Schneider’s victim has since sued Schneider and has declared that she provided Grannik with plenty of avenues to communicate with her. Her lawsuit claims that Schneider was given preferential treatment by the state, both because of who he is and who she isn’t. There is no reason to disbelieve her claim.
Jacob Walter Anderson found a 19-year-old woman at a fraternity party. He was the president of the fraternity. She described consuming punch that had been provided to her. She described immediately feeling woozy. She described that – none of this is easy to read – Anderson led her to a secluded area and raped her repeatedly. She passed out. When she woke up, she found a friend who took her to Baylor Scott & White (a nearby hospital) to receive a sexual medical assault exam. A grand jury indicted Anderson on four counts of sexual assault.
State prosecutors worked out a plea bargain with him. He plead no contest to a charge of unlawful restraint as part of that plea bargain, which means that although he does not admit any guilt, he will not defend himself. Anderson will get three years of probation, be expected to pay a $400 fine, and will be expected to attend counseling. Anderson will not serve jail time or be forced to register as a sex offender. Hillary LaBorde was the prosecutor who worked out the deal. She released a statement in its aftermath, declaring that Anderson’s plea bargain was the best she could hope for. LaBorde insisted that there were a secret set of facts which made Anderson’s plea bargain much more reasonable; she refused to release those facts to the public; LaBorde also claimed that, “our jurors aren’t ready to blame rapists and not victims when there isn’t concrete proof of more than one victim.” Ralph Strother, the judge who approved the deal, declared that those opposed to it were misinformed; court records showed that there was both DNA and medical evidence of rape.
Anderson’s victim was in the room when the plea deal was announced. She has been understandably infuriated since the incident and by its handling. She has criticized LaBorde specifically but went after the judge after he agreed to Anderson’s plea bargain, noting that his willingness to go along with it served only to threaten the safety and well-being of future women Anderson might encounter. There is no reason to disbelieve her claim.
Johnny Mitchell Allen was a 43-year-old real estate broker and Army veteran. He met Cyntoia Brown at a Sonic Drive-In, where he agreed to pay her $150 for sex. She rode with him to his house. She shot him to death. Brown fled with guns, cash, and behind the wheel of Allen’s vehicle. Brown claimed she feared for her life; forensic evidence suggested that Allen was sleeping at the time he was shot.
She was tried as an adult and sentenced to life in prison. Prosecutors offered no leniency to account for her background, her circumstance, or her situation. Her own explanation for her having killed Allen was ignored; prosecutors insisted that she had planned to rob and kill Allen. Prosecutors offered her no plea bargains nor any opportunities for a second chance nor any opportunities for anything but a life behind a prison’s walls. As a teenager, she was sentenced to life. She is now 30. She appealed her conviction in 2012. The Tennessee Supreme Court just decided, after an appeal, that her sentence could be reduced to a minimum of 51 years. She will be eligible for parole when she is 67.
The law is such a miraculous thing: all at once so malleable and so rigid. Prosecutors were willing to engineer sweetheart deals for rapists like Schneider and Anderson, despite women who voluntarily and willingly endured everything that the justice system insisted that they must if they wanted their lives to matter. And yet prosecutors were unwilling to acknowledge Brown’s humanity despite her being an abused 16-year-old girl being sold for sex.
Maybe these are three unrelated cases though, each having happened in different places, each having involved different actors, each having involved different details, each not to be understood as evidence of a bigger cultural failing to take some lives as seriously as others. To understand them in that fashion though is simply to encourage more of the same.
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Throwing the baby out with the veal calf
Richard Hershberger says:
I don’t disagree with a thing you have written, but this particular set of cases isn’t going to persuade anyone who isn’t already persuaded, what with the harsh sentence being for murder and the lenient sentences for lesser crimes. Simply as a matter of rhetoric, this set is not a great argument.Report
Sam Wilkinson in reply to Richard Hershberger says:
@richard-hershberger Unfortunately, there is no set that works as a great argument, because the persuaded folks whose minds we are imagining changing are either more sympathetic to the men mentioned here or are simply unwilling to acknowledge the humanity of the women involved.Report
Reformed Republican says:
It is easy to pick cases to support a point, but you need more to show a “cultural failing.” You can easily pick cases to suggest that being abused lets a lady get away with murder:
https://www.fox4now.com/news/local-news/domestic-abuse-issue-surfaced-in-acquittal-of-woman-on-trial-for-murder
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/nyregion/barbara-sheehan-who-killed-husband-is-found-not-guilty-of-murder.html
To be clear, I am not saying these cases were decided improperly, or that the ones in the post were reasonable sentences. However, I think you give too few points to make claims about them representing anything widespread.Report
Sam Wilkinson in reply to Reformed Republican says:
@reformed-republican What is the exact number of cases you would need before you might start to suspect that there is a cultural failing at work here?Report
Reformed Republican in reply to Sam Wilkinson says:
There is not an exact number of cases. A good start would be comparing cases where men are accused of murder to women being accused of murder across the nation. Show that women are being treated more harshly then men. That would get the conversation started.Report
Philip H in reply to Reformed Republican says:
Except what you really need (for the statistical comparison to hold water) is the number of sexual crimes that led to murder cases in which each gender was convicted without offer of plea bargains or other leniency. I’m no legal scholar, but I surmise from available news coverage that the number of women indicted (much less convicted) in instances where they were the victims first of a sex crime (and as a 16 year old prostitute Ms. Brown most definitely was)is probably statistically higher then the number of men so indicted and convicted.
But like we saw in the college swimmer rape case a couple of years ago – the prosecutor in the Andersen case is probably right. She would not likely have gotten a conviction of an otherwise “clean” (i.e. without criminal record) young white male for rape, since “nice” young white boys don’t rape women. Or so our collective societal mythology and current political pathos tells us.Report
Reformed Republican in reply to Philip H says:
I’m no legal scholar, but I surmise from available news coverage that the number of women indicted (much less convicted) in instances where they were the victims first of a sex crime (and as a 16 year old prostitute Ms. Brown most definitely was)is probably statistically higher then the number of men so indicted and convicted.
I could interpret this two ways, and I am not sure which is correct. Are you claiming that:
1) Women are disproportionately indicted and convicted of murder after being a victim of a sex crime or
2) When accused of committing murder after being a victim of a sex crime, women are more likely to be convicted and men are more likely to be acquitted?Report
@reformed-republican Why is murder the focus here? Especially in the aftermath of me offering examples of the law treating victims as if they do not matter, and their aggressors as if they need to be protected?Report
Jaybird in reply to Sam Wilkinson says:
“Why is murder the focus here?”
Well, let’s look at what you wrote in your post above:
I added some emphasis that might explain why murder is the focus here.Report
Sam Wilkinson in reply to Jaybird says:
@jaybird In all three examples, the Justice System was far more concerned with what happened to men: in the first two cases conspiring to protect rapists, and in the third to pursue justice for a rapist’s death. I think the idea that the thing we’re even considering discussing is murder, rather than the Justice System’s plainly misplaced priorities, is precisely the problem.Report
I’m not sure how much emphasis we should put on forensic evidence.
I am open to hearing arguments that we put too much on it.
As for why we put more emphasis on murder than on rape, I guess it’s cultural. Are there other societies that put more emphasis on rape than on murder? Maybe we could try to be more like those cultures. Import more people from them to live here in the US.Report
@jaybird This isn’t a murder versus rape debate. The point is that assaulted women are ignored, no matter they’ve endured and no matter what they’re willing to endure, while their aggressors are given plea bargains and stern talkings to or, in Allen’s case, the fullest prosecution of his killing. Men keep mattering in these cases. Women don’t.Report
Chip Daniels in reply to Sam Wilkinson says:
Part of why these cases never seem to have neat side-by-side comparisons for easy debating purposes is that the sexes are asymmetrical.
Women don’t and can’t just casually slap men around, can’t tower over them and intimidate them, and generally don’t use them for sexual sport.
So we see cases where women use deadly violence in lieu of beating the man. The Burning Bed case comes to mind.Report
You asked “Why is murder the focus here?”
You mentioned the forensic evidence that he was shot while he was asleep.
I pointed out that the forensic evidence was why murder was the focus in that case.
If there was no other forensic evidence for what happened, only acknowledgment that there was an agreement to exchange money for sex, there is a presumption that the sex was consensual to some degree and you’ve got a situation where the forensic evidence is that the woman shot the guy in his sleep.
Heck, back a million years ago when I took a Women’s Studies course (we were still debating whether Paglia was a feminist!) the professor told us that when a husband killed his wife, it was most often domestic violence that wasn’t intended to be murder and so got charged as 2nd degree murder. But when wives killed their husbands, they tended to do stuff like buy a big bottle of whiskey first and then shoot the husband when he was drunkenly sleeping… which made it murder one.
That sort of thing hasn’t changed since 1992 and I’d be very interested in hearing why it should.Report
@jaybird A 16-year-old can’t consent to sex in Tennessee.
As to your point about accidental versus intentional murder, it’s just the damndest thing in the world how well that works out for one side but not the other. It’s almost as though preferences the humanity of one group but not another. And it’s almost as though those advantages are enjoyed by the folks that tended to have written those laws.
Perhaps though you can tell me why the law should be doing that?Report
Aaron David in reply to Sam Wilkinson says:
Were Klaus Von Bulow or OJ Simpson tried for, as Jaybird called it, Domestic Violence? No, they were tried for Murder in the First because they were accused* of Premeditated Murder, meaning it was planned out. What the estimable Jaybird was noting was the pre part of this, which if I remember correctly is what moves something from second to first degree.
Also note that those were two famous men, in which the patriarchy went full bore to convict of this most heinous crime. Also, note the sentencing disparity as reported by the Huffington Post.
*Alleged because both of them were acquitted. I have my own thoughts about that.Report
Are we pivoting to “legal definitions are really important”?
I am not sure that that is where you want to go with this. If you’re uncomfortable with something as Paternalistic as “16 year olds cannot meaningfully consent to sex”, you could go with something SWERFy instead.
As to your point about accidental versus intentional murder, it’s just the damndest thing in the world how well that works out for one side but not the other.
This goes back to the importance of legal definitions.
Killing someone unintentionally gets treated differently than planning to kill someone then following through on the plan.Report
@jaybird 1. Your position is that legal definitions are super important…except when it comes to laws about consent, which you find paternalistic? How does that work?
2. My point is that those legal definitions are designed to benefit men. So a husband who was kicking the shit out of his wife but not intending to kill her (but did anyway) gets to say that and the justice system’s response is, “Well, as long as you weren’t intending to kill her while you were kicking the shit out of her.” No such luck for almost all women.Report
1. Your position is that legal definitions are super important…except when it comes to laws about consent, which you find paternalistic? How does that work?
No, my position is that if we want to rely on legal definitions, we’re going to be stuck using legal definitions.
According to the evidence provided, I’d say that there is evidence that Allen engaged in statutory rape and that he was murdered while he slept and that the statutory rape victim who killed him was tried for murder instead of self-defense because she killed him when he was asleep.
My point is that those legal definitions are designed to benefit men.
You think that defining murder that is pre-meditated as being treated by the law as worse than murder that was incidental/accidental benefits men is because of premeditation rather than because it’s incidental/accidental?Report
@jaybird We’re not “stuck” using them. The law negotiates them constantly. In the three examples I provided, the law – all three times – tilted toward men, excusing two of them, and pursuing maximum justice for the third one (despite his own behavior).
And that’s the part wherein we see the cultural rot of things being tilted wildly toward men. Take your premeditation example as but one perfect example. A woman gaining an advantage is considered premeditation; a man having that advantage and using it is excused away. Who benefits?Report
j r in reply to Sam Wilkinson says:
Why the focus on gender? Seems that there are a couple-few other relevant differences between the two who got excused and the one who did not?Report
Sam Wilkinson in reply to j r says:
@j-r Do you think the two should have been excused?Report
I am racking my brain trying to figure out how you got there from my comment.
Let’s try this: If Cyntoia Brown were Cynthia Brown a runaway from an upper-middle class white family and the john she shot were a black or brown man, would Cynthia Brown be in jail for life right now?
If the answer is no, then maybe this is about a lot more than gender.Report
@j-r I was interested in your answer. There is no doubting that underlying these stories, beyond the gender issue, are ones of race and class.Report
A woman gaining an advantage is considered premeditation; a man having that advantage and using it is excused away.
I don’t see “Murder in the 2nd Degree” as “having it excused away”.
I see it as making distinctions between premeditated acts and acts that had bad outcomes incidentally/accidentally.
Is it really your position that intent doesn’t really matter, only the outcome?Report
@jaybird “accidentally” is doing a hell of a lot of work here. “When I attacked my wife, I didn’t intend to kill her, but rather, just very badly injure her because she had dared to anger me. Anyway, you should definitely believe me about this.”
So, yeah, I’m dubious about the idea of intent, and especially crediting the claims made by abusive people.Report
Is “accidentally” the only term I used? If that’s the only word you saw me use, it might explain why you think it’s doing so much work.
I’m dubious about the idea of intent, and especially crediting the claims made by abusive people.
Well, keep in mind, the reason you give Cyntoia Brown so much credit involves the claims she made which communicates to you her intent.Report
@jaybird I give Cyntoia Brown credit because she was a child who was subject to horrific abuse. I differentiate between abusers and the abused. The law, as you’re describing it, rewards abusers, just so long as they (claim they) only meant to abuse, but not kill. That seems dubious on its face.
Is it fair to say you think the outcome in the Cyntoia Brown case was just(ice)?Report
I just did a quick google.
Here’s what it said here:
Brown said she was a teen prostitute and shot Allen, 43, because she thought he was reaching for a gun under his bed.
The link that I found doesn’t mention the forensic evidence that suggested that Allen was sleeping at the time he was shot.
I submit to you:
That if the forensic evidence suggests that Allen was sleeping at the time he was shot, the forensic evidence does not comport with Cyntoia Brown’s story.
Is it fair to say you think the outcome in the Cyntoia Brown case was just(ice)?
I don’t think that justice is possible in this fallen world.
Is it fair to say that you think that justice is, in fact, possible?Report
@jaybird Re: justice – it is fair to say that I think we can get much closer to something we might describe as justice than we do currently, but it would involve significant time and energy spent understanding our current system’s failures, and significant time and energy spent working to undo them.Report
Lemme know how getting rid of “caring about intent” goes for you.Report
@jaybird The idea that, “He was only trying to savagely beat his wife, not kill her!” gets taken seriously is precisely the sort of legal failing that I’m talking about. Meanwhile, you seem to take that claim seriously. Why take a sociopath seriously?Report
It’s worse than that I make distinctions between 1st Degree Murder and 2nd Degree Murder. I’ve also toyed with the idea of abolishing prisons.
My morality is truly otherworldly.
Edit: I mean, if you would rather talk about me than about the distinctions that the law makes and has made for centuries.Report
@jaybird The point of the distinctions being made here is that they benefit some (abusers) but not others (their desperate victims). If you don’t see that as a failing, so be it.Report
As failings go, I see it as a smaller failing than abandoning the legal concept of intent.
Sort of like the distinction being made between Murder in the 1st Degree and Murder in the 2nd Degree.
For what it’s worth, I think that there are cases where killing another person is justifiable (even morally justifiable) and, if I think about it, I come to the conclusion that those killings are more likely to be premeditated than not.
Which brings us to discussions of vigilantism, I suppose.Report
@jaybird The legal concept of intent benefits survivors, and, perhaps most noxiously, abusive survivors, who are for some reason given credit for claims they made that go wholly against what they were known to have been doing. That, again, is a failing which extends benefits to the wrong folks.
As for the idea of the abused woman killing her abuser being a vigilante, that is almost surely also the failing of a legal system which is designed to not take abuse seriously.Report
Are there other things that it does?
(Think carefully: it’s related to your second paragraph.)
Oh, if we’re pivoting to criticizing the American legal system, I absolutely agree that our legal system has some horrible excesses and does some really awful stupid stuff.
I think that we should allow affirmative defenses a lot more often than we actually do. “Hell yeah, I did it! And here’s why!”
For some reason, the legal system really cracks down on these. You’ll have to ask the lawyers on the board about why it does.Report
@jaybird There is no doubting that there truly are accidental killings, where the individual involved did NOT intend to kill somebody. I’m extremely dubious that a man who is viciously abusing his wife, for example, would ever fit that profile. Again, the defense, “I was trying to viciously abuse her, not kill her!” is no defense at all, because it asks us to believe something that plainly is neither true nor defensible.Report
And you think that my saying that such a killing is obviously 2nd Degree Murder according to the legal definition is *DEFENDING* it?Report
@jaybird No, I think the law is defending it, by going easier on that guy than it would on a wife who killed an abusive husband via the means you proposed earlier.
That’s the criticism.Report
“Malice Aforethought” goes back to the 14th Century.
I’d agree that making distinctions between types of murders could have unintended consequences that are unpleasant.
Saying that the law is “defending” these unintended consequences strikes me as a mistake.
As for stuff like the abused spouse killing her abuser, I think that there should definitely be affirmative defenses allowed more often than there are.
You’ll have to ask the legal types on the board why they aren’t.Report
@jaybird 1. Revisiting our understanding of intent would still allow for distinction between the two while not rewarding abusive murders savvy enough to claim that her death was an accident.
2. We know why the law doesn’t allow for those sorts of things: because it would empower the wrong people. The goal is to never endure what others are forced to. It’s classic conservatism in a nutshell.Report
Revisiting our understanding of intent would still allow for distinction between the two while not rewarding abusive murders savvy enough to claim that her death was an accident.
Please. I would love to see your proposal for a new understanding of intent. Please make it technical, however. Something that we can write in legislation that will make it interprable by judges and will result in the outcomes that you want.
I would love to see a new and improved “Malice Aforethought”. It’s time, after all.
We know why the law doesn’t allow for those sorts of things: because it would empower the wrong people.
Yeah, now I *REALLY* want to see your new definition.Report
@jaybird If you make an intentional decision to do something to another person, you don’t get to claim that the resulting outcome was an “accident” or “unintended” or anything else. That seems extremely obvious and easy.Report
So Cyntoia Brown’s act was 1st Degree Murder, according to this standard?Report
@jaybird It already is. (Although, in her case, extenuating circumstances ought to be considered: she was an abuse victim forced into sexual slavery, being routinely sold to adults.) In the case of an abuser, the extenuating circumstances are that the abuse was not intended to kill, which ought not be any excuse at all.Report
At this point, I’m applying your standard to Cyntoia Brown. She shot him in the head when, the forensic evidence says, he was asleep. That means that, using your standard above, she can’t claim that she was in fear for her life or that there were any other extenuating circumstances, as far as I can tell.Report
@jaybird Right, which is part of the law’s failing that I’m criticizing. She wasn’t afforded anything for her situation. Prosecutors pursued the maximum available punishment for her.Report
So you want that established in the law across the board for everybody?
I suppose I could see that.Report
@jaybird Nothing mattered when it came to her: not that she was 16, not that she was being forced into prostitution, not that she had endured significant abuse, not that she was being routinely raped, nothing. Prosecutors dismissed all of that and pursued the most maximum penalty possible.
Meanwhile, in two other cases, prosecutors said, “Ahh, no big deal, let’s go easy on these guys,” for no obvious reason beyond an apparent desire to go extremely easy on them.
That’s the fundamental difference here.Report
So we’re going to solve it by making it impossible for her to argue what was going through her head when she pulled the trigger in the first place.
And we can not only call it “justice” we can question the bona fides of any who disagree with us that it is.Report
AFC in reply to Sam Wilkinson says:
I couldn’t agree more!!! Her history of fights at school and the psychological evaluation in which the doctor stated she responded by speak/singing. I guarantee she was over medicated on her psych meds. The doctors report also states she has no self worth, which is a mo’fo to deal with, as I lost mine in 2009 after enduring 8 spinal surgeries and was unable to perform my job duties. I was only 34 years old. I was heavily medicated by a psychiatrist for 11 1/2 years, then the office closed without notice and most of the patients have been unable to retrieve medical records. I’ve been without mood stabilizers for Bipolar since March of 2018, and without my anxiety and ADHD meds since June of 2017. It was a hard 3-6 months, trying to stay in check without the meds. It was super rough, but I feel better today without meds than I’ve felt since 2009. I’ve figured out how to feel at peace, and only get anxiety a few days a week, compared to all day/every day. She also states she was molested and raped the majority of her life, by family and strangers. She had trust in nobody, yet her boyfriend/pimp earned her trust. She is clearly a victimReport
Dark Matter in reply to Sam Wilkinson says:
she was an abuse victim forced into sexual slavery, being routinely sold to adults
RE: Brown
At the moment we have a non-creditable story on what happened in that house; i.e. the unconscious man reached for a gun she presumably couldn’t know existed. Her wiki/film is heartbreaking… but if I’m reading it right, the guy she picked up and then killed wasn’t involved in any of that.
The “burning bed” had an abused woman lash out at her abuser. This apparently is “gal in ‘burning bed’ stalks and kills someone else for money while high on drugs”.
At the moment she’s in the same category as a carjacker who kills people as part of robbing them. I don’t see why (other than data error) she shouldn’t be. Lots of people who commit heinous acts have horrible, tear jerking back stories. Society still comes down hard on them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_Facing_Life:_Cyntoia's_StoryReport
Sam Wilkinson in reply to Dark Matter says:
@dark-matter “guy she picked up” is the phrasing you wanted there?Report
They met and came to a price at a drive in and went back to his place. The way it reads there wasn’t a third party involved (a pimp for example) and they didn’t have a previous relationship. She lied to him about her age. He doesn’t seem to have forced her back to his place.
I haven’t read anything suggesting he was trolling for a prostitute so it seems more likely that she was trolling for a client.
Granted, there are other possibilities; Maybe the forty year old guy had a habit of hitting on every teenager in a public restaurant, maybe he knew her pimp, maybe he has some other dark history like serial killer, but what’s on the table is he’s a real estate guy and they crossed paths at a restaurant.
And then he ended up shot in the back of his head while asleep. Thinking that she picked up him and not the reverse seems fairly reasonable.
I get the whole “victim her whole life” aspect of this… but what we’ve got on the table suggests she was victimizer and not victim that night. If you have different reasoning or different info please spell it out.Report
@dark-matter She’s a 16 year old child, she cannot legally consent to sex, much less prostitution, he was a 40 year old man, he willing agreed to purchase sex, etc. Even she hadn’t also been the victim of a violent pimp – although she was that also – the idea that this adult was totally without agency, and was led astray by this child, is without merit. But the idea that the law would look at this man and conclude that he was the innocent victim is precisely the problem here. The law’s conclusions about how important men are, and about how all other concerns need to be considered as less than, is what drives this problem.Report
She’s a 16 year old child, she cannot legally consent to sex…
Are you saying she was committing a crime when she lied to him and convinced him she was an adult? That’s it’s unreasonable to think her hellish life left her looking and acting older than her years?
he was a 40 year old man, he willing agreed to purchase sex,
Last I checked, this wasn’t a death penalty crime nor even a 50+ year crime.
You’re trying to compare the victim of a murder to his murderer and claim she’s the real victim because of things external to their encounter.
the idea that this adult was totally without agency, and was led astray by this child, is without merit.
If he hadn’t been shot in the back of the head while asleep, we could try to convict him of something.
Which doesn’t change that this looks like she setup and then killed a random John.
But the idea that the law would look at this man and conclude that he was the innocent victim is precisely the problem here.
The word “innocent” depends on the context.
Would you say that serial killers who target prostitutes are “justified” because their victims are committing crimes? That those women are somehow not “innocent” in that context?
How about some guy shot while Black? If he was a criminal, do the police get to shoot him because of his skin color even if he’s surrendered?
What this guy is on the hook for is paying for sex. That’s not nothing… but it’s also not attempted murder, nor rape, nor enslaving her, nor anything else for which we might handwave her shooting him in the head.
The law’s conclusions about how important men are, and about how all other concerns need to be considered as less than, is what drives this problem.
I would be really unhappy if my wife or daughters were shot in the head while sleeping or otherwise coldbloodily murdered at random for a few hundred dollars.
Maybe it’s just me but that seems like a “life in prison” crime. The shooter being high or having a bad life before they pulled the trigger wouldn’t change that opinion.
Yes, the system failed Brown rather spectacularly from birth to age 16. No, that doesn’t mean she gets a pass for what she did.Report
@dark-matter 1. I am suggesting he was committing the crime. Victims are generally not charged with statutory rape. Are you proposing a change? The idea that she misled him – that he was a fine, upstanding, reasonable purchaser of sex from teenagers, but that she tricked him – is absurd.
2. “What this guy is on the hook for is paying for sex.” Nope. He’s on the hook for statutory rape (at the minimum) of a girl who had been forced into prostitution at threat of both rape and abuse.
3. As for your project ONLY to recognize the humanity of the 40-year-old man who purchased sex from teenagers forced into prostitution, but not the teenager forced into prostitution, I don’t know what to tell you, nor do I know how to convince you that her humanity matters too. I suppose I could ask, “What if it was your daughter who had endured what she had?” but those questions always end up going so badly.Report
The idea that she misled him – that he was a fine, upstanding, reasonable purchaser of sex from teenagers, but that she tricked him – is absurd.
This is her claim, not mine. From wiki…
Prosecutors argued that her motive for killing Allen was robbery.[5] This was, in part, due to video-recorded admissions Brown made during her arrest. Brown admitted to lying about her age when she first encountered her victim.
As for your project ONLY to recognize the humanity of the 40-year-old man who purchased sex from teenagers forced into prostitution, but not the teenager forced into prostitution,
Either we’re all human or none of us are.
I am suggesting he was committing the crime.
I don’t see the connection between her crime and his. Her actions were heinous, in order to try to justify them, you need to point to… people other than him.
She has a pimp, she has multiple rapists, we have no evidence he knew of this and we seem to have her word that he didn’t. If we narrow the universe to just the two of them, there doesn’t seem to be justification for what she did.Report
@dark-matter You can point directly at the 40-year-old man who was “purchasing” the 16-year-old who had abuse at her back motivating her consent (which she couldn’t legally give) to the situation she was in.Report
You can point directly at the 40-year-old man
The back of his head, specifically. While he sleeps.
Don’t pull the trigger. *SQUEEZE* it.Report
@jaybird Pity the poor 40-year-old men who just want to have sex with underage girls who are being forced into prostitution.Report
It’s possible for it to be wrong to kill a guy in his sleep, even if he is guilty of crimes that he didn’t even know he committed (on top of the ones that he knew were crimes).
I suppose we could get into death penalty theory…
Though I’m not sure that this particular case will necessarily lead to the conclusion that you’re hoping to bring everybody to…Report
@jaybird You’re right that the conclusion being drawn won’t necessarily be the one that I’m drawing. That’s the point. The justice system defaults to being concerned with the lives of men, women be damned. In each of these three examples, only the man mattered.Report
Well, in the specific case that we were discussing, the man mattered because the woman shot him in the back of the head while he was sleeping.Report
@jaybird Whereas nothing that happened to her, including him having raped her, her having been forced into that situation, and her enduring violent abuse for much of her young life, mattered at all. Just as nothing that happened to other two women in the other two stories mattered.Report
I found myself wondering “what happened to her pimp?”
So I went to Wikipedia.
Brown’s former pimp, Garion L. McGlothen, also known as Gary McGlothen and Kutthroat, died on March 30, 2005, at the age of 24, having been shot and killed by a man named Quartez Hines.
So, as it turns out, the actual guy involved in trafficking her was ignored by law enforcement.
The good news, I guess, is that Quartez Hines put an end to “Kuttthroat’s” trafficking for good in a similar manner to that used by Brown.Report
Dark Matter in reply to Jaybird says:
Brown killed that guy August 6, 2004.
Kutthroat, died on March 30, 2005
There’s about 8 months between those two murders. I couldn’t find when Brown was arrested.
I also couldn’t find whether or not the police were interested in Kutthroat in general, but not actively being in prison isn’t the same as being “ignored”.
Some more information here (this is clearly a supporter of hers and they swing pretty left): https://theappeal.org/not-a-cardboard-cut-out-cyntoia-brown-and-the-framing-of-a-victim-aa61f80f9cbb/
Brown only lived with Kutthroat, her pimp/boyfriend, for only 3 weeks before the murder. The author of that piece strongly objects to the word “trafficked” and thinks Brown’s lifestyle is better described as “survival sex”.Report
Jaybird in reply to Dark Matter says:
For the record, had Brown shot Kutthroat, I would have 100% sympathy for the argument that Sam is making. (Perhaps even if Brown had shot Kutthroat in his sleep.)
Given that Brown did not shoot Kutthroat but Allen and then given that Brown killed Allen and then went back to Kutthroat, I really have more confusion for Sam’s points than anything else.
It’s like he doesn’t believe that mens rea exists, but stuff we know after the fact was stuff that everybody knew at the time… like this is a Dirty Harry movie or something.Report
What would your preferred outcome be for this situation? Do you think she should have received a lighter sentence, do you think she should have been acquitted, or something else?Report
@reformed-republican At the very minimum, she should have received a much lighter sentence, and she should not have been prosecuted as an adult. Nobody is proposing excusing what she did; what is being proposed is prosecutors extending her the sort of humanity that they are willing to extend to brutal rapists like the other two described.Report
Okay. I think we are probably on the same page regarding this particular case then. I cannot speak for anybody else, but to me, it sometimes seemed like you though she should get a free pass for this.
I think the abuse she suffered should be mitigating circumstances that would have reduced her sentence. What magic number would be just or fair? No idea. I feel pretty confident that “life” is not that number.Report
@reformed-republican She has already served more than a decade in prison. There is no free ride for her. It would be impossible to give her one.Report
Dark Matter in reply to Reformed Republican says:
I think the abuse she suffered should be mitigating circumstances that would have reduced her sentence. What magic number would be just or fair? No idea. I feel pretty confident that “life” is not that number.
The phrase “Fetal alcohol syndrome” gets mentioned by her supporters, a big part of that is “makes shockingly bad choices”. FAS is a nasty package, if you read the “how to help” section is basically the opposite of her life and lifestyle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_alcohol_spectrum_disorder#Behavioral_interventions
If it matters: it was her gun, she’d been with her boyfriend/pimp only 3 weeks, and after the killing she drove back to him.
The Prosecutor convinced the Judge the whole thing was premeditated. So killing him as part of a robbery was planned, certainly before she pulled the trigger, perhaps before she’d even met him. This takes us into “predators looking for random victims” territory which is also “actively dangerous to society”.
It’s certainly possible we’re looking at a case where the Prosecutor over charged to force a deal and then broke someone they shouldn’t have… but convincing a judge of something in court with someone arguing against it is a pretty high bar and we’re past that point.Report
Maribou in reply to Dark Matter says:
@dark matter
“convincing a judge of something in court with someone arguing against it is a pretty high bar”
Not when it comes to putting certain people – people who aren’t the right race, class, mental health status, etc. – under lock and key, it isn’t.
Nor is it when it comes to getting white, “well-spoken,” purportedly remorseful (or lying through their teeth, or sometimes, confusingly, both!) men out of jail.
Have seen the latter play out in my own life (generally in cases where the perps were related to me) an embarrassing number of times, including cases where there were public defenders and deals involved. The stats for the former are anywhere you want to find them.
It’s not a high bar at all.
Judges wield an astonishing amount of power and are very happy to permanently lock up those they can’t feel empathy for, seems to me to be the most common situation.Report
Maribou in reply to Maribou says:
Note, I’m not even arguing one thing or the other about any particular one of these cases here.
But the idea that there’s no overwhelming bias involved, which underlies your “high bar” claim, is so patently false it always surprises me when it turns out you’ve reverted to it.Report
Dark Matter in reply to Maribou says:
My point is we’ve already applied the highest bar society has for this case.
Yes, that bar is imperfect. Yes, it is possible the outcome here was determined by a lack of resources in Brown’s defense team… but that is something which should be argued and proved, not simply assumed. It is possible what we know is wrong/biased… but Brown’s supporters mostly aren’t claiming what we know is wrong, they’re just claiming Brown had a hard life.
The legal system answers the question: “what is an appropriate jail term for someone who does [X]”. We probably don’t want to have a “harsh life” exception nor a “cute and female” exception.Report
@dark-matter Cyntoia Brown got the max. You seem comfortable with that. No acknowledging what she endured. Now acknowledging how she got there. Fine.
What about the first two men who didn’t endure anything of the sort? Who were given all of the extensions of kindness and understanding denied to Cyntoia Brown? Maybe they just got lucky? Maybe the bar’s imperfection was on display there?Report
What about the first two men who didn’t endure anything of the sort?
I would call those “never events”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_events
They’re the legal equiv of a surgeon leaving his tools inside the patient (MUCH worse than it sounds btw), which happens more than a thousand times a year.
BTW, note just how useless it is to point to one of 4k “never events” and then compare that to the billion+ examples of the system working.
We expect the system to work. We expect cops to be able to interact with civilians without killing them. We expect surgeons to not kill/maim their patients via miscounting the number of sponges they put inside them. We expect the legal system to not drop the ball as heinously as it did in your examples.Report
@dark-matter *edited because I actually read the wiki page and realized I had the terminology wrong and corrected myself*
It’s not okay to call them never events when they happen all the damn time. It isn’t an “oh well” to call them never events. Most well-positioned white men get more lenient sentences than most other men.
Also, Atul Gawande got his platform mostly by pointing out that shrugging (or even kindly sympathizing) and calling something a never event when it’s as drastically bad as your surgeon example is *not acceptable*, and then working to change things. His checklist approach fixed a ton of problems in his and other hospitals’ surgeries that were previously written off as unavoidable precisely because no one was facing that things so horrible happened so damn often.
The fact that he actually changed things, instead of buying into the “never events” approach of refusing to face the problem, is why he’s an incredibly influential person today.Report
Atul Gawande got his platform mostly by pointing out that shrugging (or even kindly sympathizing) and calling something a never event when it’s as drastically bad as your surgeon example is *not acceptable*, and then working to change things.
You seem to be saying I’m suggesting that never events should be ignored.
Let’s talk about surgeons leaving tools inside of people. The most common tool left is a sponge and it’s a horror. The body quickly “merges” with a sponge. It also rejects the sponge as foreign. Removing the sponge even a few days later involves ripping out not only the sponge but large amounts of surrounding tissue (and that’s the best case).
During the course of a surgery dozens of sponges can be put into and taken out of a patient. There’s supposed to be one nurse with a whiteboard tracking how many are in, however surgeries can take many hours, shifts can change, the dedicated nurse has other duties, and people suck at counting and remembering.
I don’t remember the frequency of this never event, one in 10k? Obviously it’s budget nightmare, a multi-million dollar mistake. No hospital wants to get in front of a jury and explain they maimed someone because their nurse couldn’t count to 10.
Computers are great at both counting and remembering.
Last I heard, we don’t (yet) know the failure rate of computerized sponge counting systems. Not because they’re new (they’ve been in the field for years) but because they’re so much absurdly better at counting that I’m not sure if we’ve seen them fail yet and in order to calculate a failure rate you need failures.
The system itself adds more expense to the surgery (the new sponges aren’t free, nor is the counter), but a million dollars divided by 10k means a hospital should be willing to pay up to $100 per surgery to avoid this and the system is MUCH cheaper than that. Pennies per sponge, a few dollars per surgery.
From my point of view, preventing never events is profitable. However it’s worth noting the solution to all this was money and not outrage.Report
@dark-matter Just so we’re clear: most of the time, the justice system gets it right, at least as far as you’re concerned?Report
most of the time, the justice system gets it right, at least as far as you’re concerned?
Let’s talk football. A football “never event” would be running the ball down to the 2 yard line and then failing to score even with no one guarding. Another “never” would be a player being seriously injured by his own team. Avoiding never events have little to do with “getting it right most of the time”, i.e. winning games, which is a different metric of performance.
I think your question is FAR too broad to have a single specific answer. The justice system’s success rate for dealing with crimes that leave corpses is much better than it’s success rate for auto-traffic/drug/sex crimes. It’s probably a mistake to lump all of those categories together. Similarly something as measurable as a murder conviction rate would swing wildly depending on your location, so Chicago’s problems/flaws aren’t very relevant to me personally.
The justice system is obviously flawed. Some of these flaws are because of budget limitations, some because of cultural limitations, some because people are flawed, some because there are people actively opposed to justice, some because people disagree on what justice is. Some of these flaws can and should be fixed, in particular some seem like self inflicted injuries (the war on drugs). Other flaws are probably built into the system, it’s easier for me to picture the WOD ending than all inequality ending.
If we narrow focus to my personal encounters with the justice system in the last decade, the traffic cop gave me a warning the other month rather than a ticket. They didn’t find the guy who broke into my house. They didn’t end parental rights for the serial false sex abuse accuser. They also didn’t traumatize my daughter when she was accused by that nut. They cleaned up my neighbor taking a mortgage on my house. They didn’t catch the guy who stole my daughter’s checkbook. They also didn’t make her pay for his bad checks.
What does all that add up to? My conclusion is that the plural of anecdote isn’t data.Report
Maribou in reply to Sam Wilkinson says:
” I differentiate between abusers and the abused.”
How do you manage to do that so neatly, considering that most people in the first category also fall into the second? (Most people in the 2nd category, of course, definitely do NOT fall into the first – they’re asymmetrical categories.)
Not really needling here, I really am curious about it, because it’s something I struggle with a great deal morally, familialy (not a word but you know what I mean), and in terms of prison-based vs restorative justice.Report
Brandon Berg in reply to Sam Wilkinson says:
In a nation of 325 million, you can find a pretty decent number of cases to cherry-pick to support pretty much any narrative you want. If you actually wanted to get at the truth, it’s not a question of having some magic number of data points, but of having a representative sample. You can’t just pick all the cases that fit your preferred narrative and declare that those are the ones that matter.
I mean, obviously you can, because you do. But you shouldn’t fool yourself into believing that this is a valid way to get at the truth.Report
Sam Wilkinson in reply to Brandon Berg says:
@brandon-berg That is theoretically true. So perhaps we might look at the epidemic of untested rape kits. Or cities arbitrarily deciding that rape charges aren’t worth pursuing. Or the abuse scandals that have happened virtually everywhere and involved virtually no one getting punished.
Using specific cases puts a name on a statistic. Brock Turner’s absurdly lenient treatment, for example, might convince more people that there is a significant problem than offering them statistics that show there is a significant problem.Report
Pinky in reply to Sam Wilkinson says:
A word of sincere advice: your articles about specific cases come off as cherry-picking. You’d be better off combining stats and cases, with context, under a clearly-stated premise (that premise being within the article, not in the comments section).Report
Sam Wilkinson in reply to Pinky says:
@pinky Thank you for your definitely sincere advice. I will definitely sincerely take it.Report
Take it or don’t. It was meant in good faith.Report
KenB in reply to Pinky says:
I look forward to Sam’s future post on the scourge of scummy cardiologists.Report
Sam Wilkinson in reply to KenB says:
@kenB Who do you think you’re defending here?Report
@pinky I write what I write, I think what I think, I get in the same arguments in the comments regardless. If you don’t like it, no worries.Report
Philip H says:
Reformed Republican: I could interpret this two ways, and I am not sure which is correct. Are you claiming that: 1)Women are disproportionately indicted and convicted of murder after being a victim of a sex crime or 2) When accused of committing murder after being a victim of a sex crime, women are more likely to be convicted and men are more likely to be acquitted?
Those two ideas are strikingly similar. Reread them.
What I’m saying is that from media coverage 1) women appear to be more likely to commit murder after being victims of a sex crime (and generally in self defense); 2) if indicted for said murder they are more likely to be tried then to receive plea bargain offers (especially to lower charges), and 3) if tried they are more often convicted.
Now, again, that’s not a robust legal scholarly assessment – its a SWAG based on Google searches at lunch. I’m open to being proven way wrong.Report
They are not that similar.
1 refers to the circumstances leading up to committing the crime, 2 refers to how they are treated by the legal system. I am willing to accept that women are more likely to be victims of abuse, and therefore they are likely to commit crimes as a result of that abuse.
On the other hand, studies that I have seen in the past have always suggested that women are (generally) treated much more leniently then men by the justice system. If there are statistics to disprove that, or statistics to show that women who are abused fare worse than women who are not abused, I would be interested in seeing them.
https://journalistsresource.org/studies/government/criminal-justice/courts-lenient-sentencing-bond-women/
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2144002Report
@reformed-republican “treated much more leniently then men by the justice system” is going to have to be qualified. Do we think the justice system, for example, does a good job with sexual assault? The examples above, as do the countless other examples available via any cursory search, suggest it doesn’t. Do we think the justice system does a good job with abuse? The example above, as do countless other examples via any cursory search, suggest it doesn’t. If you only look at what the justice system does at the very end, your numbers might play out, but that isn’t reflective of the entirety of the system as it functions.Report
Sorry, I should have stated “treated more leniently than men by the justice system when accused of a crime.”
Another relevant question. Was Brown represented by a public defender or a private attorney (considering she was a sixteen-year-old runaway, I suspect it was a public defender)? What about the men in the other two stories?Report
Sam Wilkinson: @JaybirdIn all three examples, the Justice System was far more concerned with what happened to men: in the first two cases conspiring to protect rapists, and in the third to pursue justice for a rapist’s death. I think the idea that the thing we’re even considering discussing is murder, rather than the Justice System’s plainly misplaced priorities, is precisely the problem.
It shouldn’t be shocking however. In spite of all the sexual harassment training done in board rooms across the nation, how many senior managers are allowed to leave leave their lofty positions with lofty golden parachutes after being credibly accused of sexual misconduct? All of these events are symptoms of a misogynistic system trying to protect itself.
That’s what we need to focus on.Report
Michele Kerr says:
I agree with much (not all) of what jaybird sez (I can’t figure out how to quote people here), but in general, I’m struck by the vast differences between the cases and the absurdity of linking them.
The Justin Schneider case was widely recognized as outrageous, receiving coverage everywhere. The local community has responded. Like the Stanford case, I can’t even accept the argument that the judges and lawyers subscribe to the “boys will be boys” defense–I mean, stupid much? These aren’t 90 year olds.
The Jacob Anderson case, on the other hand, could be easily viewed as an injustice from either end. If Anderson had had consensual sex while slightly drunk, any lawyer would have told him to take this deal. And that’d be terribly unfair, given what happened. There’s very little support for the charge. Consider him innocent, and what happened next seems incredibly unfair. I simply don’t have much sympathy for the “girl is at a party, drinks something, and then is raped repeatedly by a guy who otherwise has no history of doing this” charge anymore. Sorry. Maybe it happened, maybe it didn’t. I distrust any rendition that doesn’t make this clear.
The Brown case seems completely normal. She shot a guy in cold blood and stole his considerable property. This after being paid a fairly exorbitant chunk of money for sex. I have no sympathy. Pretty sure it’s not normal to charge men having sex with 16-year-old prostitutes with statutory rape, even if it’s technically correct. 51 years seems excessive. It’s also pretty obvious that her case, which is 12 years old, is being revived as a celebrity cause.
So there really doesn’t seem to be any connection, certainly not enough to make the case. there are countless cases of injustice of every race, religion, gender, color, immigration status. Kind of like “pick 3 cases at random and pretend trend.”Report
Sam Wilkinson in reply to Michele Kerr says:
@michelle-kerr You’re describing Jacob Anderson as, potentially, a victim here? And “little support for the charge” means what exactly? What more would you have her provide exactly, beyond the immediate rape kit (which showed what she said) and her willingness to testify?
As for your comments regarding Cyntoia Brown: she was a 16-year-old girl. The idea that the law there shouldn’t count – or, worse, that she was overcharging for the sexual slavery she was forced into – is bonkers.Report
Michele Kerr in reply to Sam Wilkinson says:
The rape kit showed she had sex, presumably. And her willingness to testify is not much, these days. Do I think it’s possible she is lying? Absolutely. And so would many others, which is possibly why the DAs offer these deals.
” The idea that the law there shouldn’t count – or, worse, that she was overcharging for the sexual slavery she was forced into – is bonkers.”
That’s a bizarre interpretation. I said nothing about whether or not the law “should” count, only that it doesn’t seem to be a typical charge. Statutory rape was not designed for prostitution. If it were, every john hiring an underage hooker would be charged with rape and tagged as a sexual offender, which I’m pretty sure is not happening.
Nor did I say she was overcharging, simply that in a country where sex can be obtained for far less, she was setting a fairly high price for her services. But it may be that she only pretended to prostitution, but in fact was always stealing from her johns. Who knows?
Am I sympathetic? No. But I do think 51 years is excessive for a 16 year old.Report
@michelle-kerr “her willingness to testify is not much, these days” is, again, based on what? She was in the courtroom when this sweetheart deal was announced. She gave a victim statement in its aftermath, excoriating both her rapist (for what he did) and the court (for having conspired with him).
As for statutory rape: if men having sex with children are not being tagged as “sexual offenders” if the child had been forced into prostitution beforehand, the system is even more broken that I have alleged above. I guess I’m missing why prostitution would excuse a man’s victimization of a child?Report
Jaybird says:
And along these lines, a million years ago, I had a question about defenses that people were allowed to give for themselves.
Specifically, I was confused by the oath to tell the Truth, the whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth would prevent defendants from saying something like “but I was doing this in accordance with state law!”
Even if it were true, it wasn’t relevant, it was explained to me.
Which struck me as bullshit then and it does now.
But if you want to see lawyers try to explain it to me, please read this thread here.Report
A point to Sam: There is, IMHO, a problem with charging men who hit their wives with unintentional homicide.
If I get on my bicycle and drive straight at a person, and ram them, there is a chance they will be killed, but most likely they (& I) will be injured and live. Even if they die, one could argue I could not reasonably have intended to kill them, since I hit them with my bicycle. Put me in a car, however, and reasonable goes out the window. Hitting a person with a car has a much higher likelihood of killing them. It’s a much tougher argument to claim that I didn’t mean to kill them.
Thus it should be when it comes to men hitting women. A large person hitting a smaller, weaker person, has a much higher likelihood of resulting in death. Especially when the larger person is enraged, or drunk and unable to accurately assess when they should stop.
In short, the law, when deciding on charges for such cases, should flip it on it’s head. If the woman had, during the beating, pulled a gun and killed the man, would she be able to reasonably claim self defense? If yes, then he should be charged with 1st degree.Report
Maribou in reply to Oscar Gordon says:
@oscar-gordon I mean, I agree with you but does that really have to be a gendered rule? It’s equally the case – and equally egregiously the case – in plenty of other gender situations (including male on male violence) …. just because a man beating a woman is statistically far more common than any other domestic abuse situation (except perhaps a man beating his kids? I think that one is the most under reported) doesn’t mean the rule itself should have to be gender-based. Weight, height, strength, reach, training, whatever, those are all as powerful an argument and don’t require recourse to gender.Report
Oscar Gordon in reply to Maribou says:
I never intended for it to be a gendered rule. The rule is about the disparity of employed force. It’s one of those things that people who think about self-defense have to keep in mind. If a frail old man who can barely hobble is chasing me with a stick, I can’t shoot him and claim self defense unless I am disabled to such a state that he poses a reasonable threat to me.
Likewise, if a fit young woman is beating on said old man, his use of a weapon to defend himself would be reasonable.
In the end, it’s akin to pointing a gun at a person, and having the gun unintentionally go off and kill that person. The fact that you REALLY didn’t want to murder them isn’t as important as the fact that you were pointing a loaded weapon at them.Report
@oscar-gordon I agree completely. Think I was just confused by the way you were using men and women in the previous comment, when actually you were just running with the way previous commenters had done so.Report
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CONFESSIONS OF A CHILD ENTREPRENEUR
Richard Kraft 7th September 2020
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I always wanted to earn my own money. As a kid during the 1960’s there were just so many things I coveted (Aurora monster models, James Bond gadgets, Creepy Crawler Thingmakers, Richie Rich comics) and begging my folks for them was usually futile (they were public school teachers hardly flush with cash).
Plus, I always romanticized the idea of having a job. I really wanted the one Walt Disney had… but that seemed already taken. Plus, Disneyland wasn’t hiring seven year olds.
CURB: MY ENTHUSIASM!
So in 2nd grade I decided to build my financial empire painting street numbers on curbs. I would knock on doors genuinely excited when they answered. “Can I please paint your curb? No charge, unless you like it.” (Even then I was a proponent of giving away free samples!)
The flaw in my plan was I sucked at it. My paint smeared. I was unsteady with my stencil. And I often got people’s addresses wrong. I later found out my dad, bless him, would return hours after me to redo them correctly to cover for my mess-ups.
HOCUS POCUS WITH A FOCUS
My next scheme was to do magic shows with tricks from a magic kit I found at a thrift store. I wasn’t particularly good at executing my tricks (that required way too much practice) so I focused on my banter instead. I mixed my clumsy melding of seemingly solid metal rings with slightly risqué-yet-child-friendly jokes (“Why do street lights turn red? You would too if you had to change in front of all those people.”)
But my main innovation was marketing. I took out a classified ad in the local paper declaring “Kid Magician for Kid’s Parties!” Shockingly, people hired me. Eventually my parents got tired of spending every weekend schlepping me around. And so, my career as Crafty Ricky Kraft came to an unceremonious end.
LEARNING THE SWEET TRUTH OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND
By fourth grade I figured out that it was insanely hot during the summer in Bakersfield. No one wanted to leave their homes during the afternoon. But, what do kids always want? THEY WANT CANDY!
So, in the cool of the evening I would ride my bike to 7-11 and stock up on Red Vines, Razzles, Lemonheads, Candy Necklaces, Sweetarts and Zotz. The follow afternoon, at the peak of the heat, I would set up a TV tray in front of my house peddling candy at extraordinary mark-ups.
Sure, my customers would gripe about price gouging (I would open a nickel pack of Sugar Babies and sell them individually at 2¢ per baby!). I always made it clear they still had the option of riding their bikes a mile to 7-11 in the scorching heat. OR… they could buy from me with a slight “convenience” fee tacked on. I was like the neighborhood drug dealer (with Pixie Stix instead of cocaine). I got everyone hooked on the product and the ease in obtaining it.
I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE… AND MY PROFITS
With so much success, I decided to expand my product line into Milk Shakes. If I could get two pennies for a measly Sugar Baby during the blistering summer, imagine how much I could charge for a thick and frothy chocolate shake! With my stash of Milk Dud earnings I invested in serious equipment… a milk shaker maker. Unfortunately at nine I had yet to master food cost management and my shakes ended up costing me more to make then I was getting for selling them. And my supplies of ice cream and this business venture melted away awfully fast.
KRAFT FINDS THE CHEESE
At 14, I spent most of my time at the local mall (they had great shops, air conditioning and a cute girl working over at Kinderfoto). My favorite hang was at the cheese counter of Hickory Farms. The manager would give my me samples and stories of all sorts of “exotic” cheeses (basically anything that wasn’t Velveeta). After many samples I would pick one and buy their quarter pound minimum.
The manager was so impressed by my endless cheese enthusiasm and curiosity he offered me a job packing Christmas gift boxes in the back room. I sucked at it more than I sucked at curb painting. “Sorry, I’m going to have to let you go,” he said with genuine remorse. I had blown my first salaried employment.
“I have an idea,” I scrambled. “How about putting me behind the cheese counter as a salesman instead. We both discovered customers loved an eager kid giving away samples and reciting cheese knowledge. The manager taught me many sales tools in increasing profits including when asked for a pound of Beef Stick to instead cut it at the 1.25 pound mark figuring that after you cut and weighed it nobody was going to insist on recutting it to an exact pound.
He showed me how to upsell (“Would you like some Old Fashion Crackers to go with your Gouda?”) He made me hide the Sesame Stick samples on Saturdays and Sundays (Too many kids and lookie-loos on weekends, the serious buyers were Monday-Friday). And he show me to how to make anything seem rare and special and sophisticated (“Banana Chips liven up any family gathering”). My fromage mentor and I really enjoyed cheese, but more importantly, we enjoyed studying the psychology of why and how people shopped.
HANDLING THE BIGGEST NAMES IN HOLLYWOOD
By the time I left the cheese industry and at the age of 15, I decided it was time to focus more on my real passion, movies. So I boldly filled out an application to work at the local mall theatre and they hired me as Marque Boy (where I would often misspell the film titles and stars’ names).
It was dangerous dangling on a rickety ladder clipping on big plastic letters on a marque high up the side of the building which, looking back, was probably a violation of multiple safety and child labor laws. But damnit, I was now part of show biz and I wasn’t turning back…
Richard Kraft
Richard Kraft is the co-owner of Kraft-Engel Management, one of the world’s leading agencies specializing in representing film, theatre, television and video game composers, songwriters and music supervisors.
Richard Kraft is the co-owner of Kraft-Engel Management, one of the world’s leading agencies specializing in representing film, theatre, television and video game composers, songwriters and music supervisors. (Read more)
Richard and his partner Laura Engel are also the producers of stage productions and live film music concert experiences including Danny Elfman’s Music From The Films of Tim Burton which had its premiere at Royal Albert Hall and has toured around the world. Richard was also the creative director and producer of the highly acclaimed Disney’s The Little Mermaid in Concert at The Hollywood Bowl. Richard and Laura produced the Emmy Award-winning PBS broadcast Live From Lincoln Center – Danny Elfman’s Music From the Films of Tim Burton and Danny Elfman Halloween at The Hollywood Bowl – Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas In Concert – Live to Film which sold out The Hollywood Bowl two nights in a row on October 31st and November 1st, 2015 and is returning this Halloween weekend. Additionally, they executive produced the historic Danny Elfman & Tim Burton 25th Anniversary Music Box which received a Grammy nomination for Best Box Set.
Richard is also directing and producing the upcoming concerts A Whole New World of Alan Menken debuting at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts and Evil Dead Live in Concert: A Halloween Experience premiering at The Theatre at Ace Hotel.
Prior to starting his own company in 1991, Richard was an agent at ICM and started his career working with several of his musical heroes such as Jerry Goldsmith, Elmer Bernstein and Henry Mancini. Kraft once ran Varese-Sarabande Records where he executive produced over 150 soundtrack albums. His award-winning feature-length documentary, Finding Kraftland played at over 75 film festivals around the world.
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TRUE CONFESSION: TAKING A GIANT RISK WITH JERRY GOLDSMITH
THE BEYONDNESS OF THINGS: MY BITTERSWEET RELATIONSHIP WITH BARRY. JOHN BARRY.
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SHAKESPEARE’S BROTHER – EDMUND SHAKESPEARE
Published work on Edmund Shakespeare, London and Southwark, back on July 1st 2012, was too long, so it has been reworked into short storytelling chapters, the first of which starts today. There are still a few errors, or slight mistakes to be checked back with our original notebooks, though there are very definitive elements to come too. It is a thrilling adventure in Shakespeare and local history. The chapters will become part of the project Shakespeare’s Brother, posted above. Readers are very much encouraged to write in with corrections, or to point out glaring errors.
SHAKESPEARE’S BROTHER – The biography of a borough and an unrecorded life
by David Clement-Davies
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
The Tempest, Act 4 Scene 1
Shakespeare’s Brother is an original and relevant look at Elizabethan Southwark, 400 hundred years ago, with new evidence in the search both for a poor player, Edmund Shakespeare, his brother William, and kinds of brother and sisterhoods in life and art. New discoveries, like the history of The Vyne, or pleyers on St Lucy’s day in St Margaret’s Church, a hundred and fifty years earlier, and links to the Bishop of Winchester, are, as far as I am aware, ground-breaking.
It also attempts an approach not taken, which is to go backwards through time, from perhaps inevitably sad endings, to brighter or more mysterious beginnings. The story will turn pages with all the energy and excitement of James Shapiro’s hugely readable 1599. Yet in a way more attuned to the spirit and language of a fluid time, and perhaps the wider purpose and mystery of art and theatre.
For you, them and your children
SHAKESPEARE’S BROTHER
CHAPTER ONE –
Down the Borough.
“The past is prologue.”
Like any traveller venturing onto the shifting sea of words, it’s wise to trim your sails in a squall, and make for some safe, if temporary harbour. My slack sheets started to flap when an agent said she would like to see a novel of late 16th Century London – Shakespeare’s Brother.
Brother? The number of people who have said they had no idea Shakespeare even had one made me at least confident of a cargo’s value. If not, like Antonio in The Merchant of Venice, of its certain arrival in port – Venice, Antwerp or London.
In fact, Will Shakespeare had three brothers – Richard, Gilbert and Edmund. This story, and part story it is, does not support any theory surrounding the 17th Earl of Oxford, Edward Devere, as real author, nor Francis Bacon or many others. Nor that we do not know enough to write about Shakespeare, or of a family either.
Although it does ask what gets into a public consciousness and how, and treads more carefully than Giordino Bruno, falling into a pool of London slop, that nearly drowned him, and with respect for original documented evidence too. While challenging what we know, how studies, controversies and shibboleths have developed, even what identity itself might be, and why art is so important and universal a human need.
It is why a project tacked in that rising wind though, from very imagined fiction, to some kind of detailed social history. Although, I hope with a sense of play and fun too, as Shakespeare is so playful, and so much fun. As an actor or director, indeed student, you should never approach him with too much worthiness. If, for any miscarrying cargo, perhaps everyone writing about Shakespeare needs a Portia bravely on their side, suing for some quality of critical mercy.
I certainly never knew William Shakespeare had a youngest brother, Edmund, and a ‘player’ in London too. Although Will, an actor himself, reached much greater heights than the sometimes considerable skills and courage of actors.
How much in the Shakespeare critical cannon though has been written about specific family contexts, beyond glove makers like John Shakespeare, Hathaways or second best beds? Much is dismissed as speculation anyway, shots at truth, which can often misfire and burn down the thatched roof of real ‘history’. Like that theatrical cannonball in 1612 that set fire to the first Globe. It was put up again immediately, in 1613, and better, so disaster has its benefits too.
At least it seems a truism that William Shakespeare shared the most fundamental template we all do, the vital experience of our own families. Unless orphans, or only children, the influences that can block or encourage very significantly indeed are siblings; brothers and sisters.
Not to say brothers naturally like one another, spend time together, or find the kind of Arden forest reconciliations achieved in As You Like It. Indeed, as men break out to find their own families, and make new worlds, or remake old ones, others are affected inside families and there is far more possibility for violent contention between brothers than between sisters. Although the experience and consciousness Shakespeare gives to his great women can be extraordinarily liberated and ‘modern’.
It is an obvious subtext of this book to ask what brotherhood means, in a family, but wider metaphor too, and if Shakespeare did not simply find an obvious and more important brotherhood far from home, among London artists and players. As it asks what kind of company we would all like to keep in life, and how we really define ourselves.
“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.” Henry V’s very human rallying cries are addressed to the needed comradeship and loyalty of arms, but voiced in the performing comradeship of a theatre company, on a wooden stage. Of course, if in Elizabethan times often avoiding the nasty reality of actually being called to war, both writers and actors can be an extremely vain, back biting or competitive lot, cowardly too, and in a world where fictions had far more likelihood of erupting into dangerous fact.
In the 16th Century Ben Jonson killed a fellow actor in a duel in Shoreditch, and players got training at Rocco Bonnetti’s Fencing Academy in Blackfriars, it seems with a few spies, and with real swords. This was not our world of Health and Safety then, we often complain about, as another misfiring cannon in a theatre killed a woman and child in the audience. Small beer to a collapsing Bull Baiting ring that killed hundreds, in a kind of mini Hillsborough.
But just as the novelist and Shakespeare biographer Peter Ackroyd stresses the reforming of Lord Strange’s Men in 1596, or the bequest of mourning rings and some shillings to Shakespeare’s ffelowes in his will, so this book stresses that a rare little brotherhood, with exceptions, stayed together for over 25 years.
Even lovers rarely exist in a bubble though, or are always challenged in the ‘real’ world, and all relationships are about a matrix of others. I think Shakespeare’s immediate family a very neglected field of study, certainly an important glass to look through. Not only for a person, Will or Edmund Shakespeare, but for a city and a time too, that tells a largely unknown story. Indeed, I believe he is, as a writer of real human relationships, so much about families, or how you get to them or loses them, and the structures of his own family is written across the plays. Although this is not exactly an academic book, more a creative journey through facts and fictions.
I wasn’t hugely interested in Will’s family either, or disturbing the myths, beyond visits to Mary Arden’s House and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon. Certainly now part of ‘the industry’ some have attacked it as being, like that sometimes odd “RSC Land.”.
Like many, I twitched at representations of Will on TV or in historical novels like At the Sign of the Bell. The tendency too is to make it Shakespeare’s time alone, because he gave us so much language and metaphor to speak of it, and ourselves, which it was not, and so in fiction at least, the danger of blundering into pastiche and anachronism.
Those were strangely sacred early visits to Stratford though, contemplating an author who is both rebellious but has a deep instinct for the sacred too. Perhaps a kind of secular sacredness, even if scholarship is returning to his ‘Catholic’ sentiments. But out of an instinct and inheritance that stretches far beyond any family experience too, even to the healing traditions of ancient Greek drama, in those cathartic rounds that also had gymnasia attached, and snake pits dedicated to the worship of the God Asclepius. Shakespeare’s ‘Gods’ of inspiration could be very big and potent indeed.
A sense of the sacred for me, like first walking into a theatre space itself; a writer, but once a hopeful actor too, and bit of a stage hand. A place that is itself enormously liberating, and must have been for Shakespeare as he began to build and walk about the echo chambers of his own imagination. But the plays were the thing, and still are, in so many regards. While my feeling was Shakespeare left his past behind in many ways. Perhaps it was a driving factor, even if “the past is prologue.”
While we know William Shakespeare of Stratford married Anne Hathaway at 18, the Bard had had four sisters too, in a family of eight children. Only one, Joan, survived to marriageable age. One, Anne, died at the age of seven, and two others, Margaret and another Joan, in infancy. He of course had his own children, a son, Hamnet, and two daughters, Susanna and Judith, the girl twin of Hamnet.
But it was this missing Edmund Shakespeare who first caught a storyteller’s imagination, and then a partly trained historian’s, perhaps because, like me, Edmund was a youngest son. William was the eldest, and we know his amazements, if we still stand in awe and astonishment at exactly how. But youngest children can be a very particular thing.
Whether or not they become Auden’s ‘spoilt third son’, although Ed was the fourth son of John Shakespeare and Mary Arden, they can also be in danger of picking up the underlying family issue, and failing, or turning to revolt, beneath the structures and expectations above them.
They are supposedly the ‘magical’ child, the apple of a mother’s eye, but the youngest might well find themselves in exile too, or always be there. In the fairly modern days of Empire they might have become vicars, or set off to India to administrate. This book is also very much about an idea that the world is not at all used to though – a Shakespeare as failure – even tragedy. Although Shakespeare’s vision encompasses the metaphysical fact that we all fail and die too.
Here though was a chance to imagine and research a time through the angle of an unknown player, but a Shakespeare, so look back at those great plays as well. It has become much more an attempt to feel my way into a living history of London’s Southwark, Elizabethan ‘theatre land’, and a very specific area indeed – Borough and Bankside. One that Black taxi drivers with all their ‘Knowledge’, insist came to give its name to all London boroughs.
The giving and discovering of names to things is very important, especially on the edge of officially recorded history, which in the very beginning of church and parish records, in the mid 16th century, was another legacy of the Henretian Reformation itself. But I think in significant ways Southwark became the vital borough of a poet’s working and changing imagination.
This book might have been called Shakespeare’s Brothers then, there could be one on Sisters, while it tries to tell some story of Richard and Gilbert Shakespeare. Although in still the best book on documentary evidence by Samuel Schoenbaum, the index notes to the two are virtually non existent.
We know their christening dates in Stratford, like Edmund’s, a day or two after their actual births, though they would have known their own birthdays, not least because of casting astrology horoscopes, or joking about such things, as Edmund does in Lear. But none of the three are mentioned in Shakespeare’s famous will, bequeathing that second best bed to Anne Hathaway, although by 23rd April 1616, all three brothers were already dead. Will survived them all and his work survived everything.
Of Richard Shakespeare there is so little evidence, except he was not married and stayed in Stratford to get involved with some dubious local characters, that he might as well not be there at all. So it is left to Anthony Burgess’s novel and fancy to have Will ‘cuckold’ Rich on the ship of said marital bed. That’s brothers for you, perhaps, or certainly playful novelists, summoning lusty energies, because Shakespeare has perpetually been reimagined or reinvented over the ages. He has a very personal quality for everyone.
Not that I deny Shakespeare’s ‘dark side’, in his own psyche, possibly in matters of the heart and sex, or sometimes in his involvements over money. It is also why I wanted to write about him as real man, actor, poet and playwright. But perhaps concentrating on brothers, rather than pursuing William again, is a safer way to explore just what I mean, above all about life, success and survival in the London of the time too.
As for Gilbert Shakespeare, from the Coram Rege Roll of 1597, he was working as a haberdasher in St Bridge’s, in a London of abutting field-edged parishes, trying to grow into an interconnected city. Around that very formidable and ancient walled City of London, stretching down to the river, that had its own chartered rights and banned players and theatres officiously from its precincts by 1575.
A move, although travelling players and theatre taverns certainly remained and operated inside, just as the Inns of Court staged revels and plays, that itself led to the building of permanent playhouses, right on its perimeter. Like that simply autolicous The Theatre, put up by James Burbage, which aided a theatrical and literary revolution. They were also crowding in on the money and potential audiences.
When Gilbert died in 1612 though he was marked down as ‘adolescens’ so at first dismissed as not being Gilbert at all. Then a brother was transformed into an invented nephew, because of the adolscens. Actually, even for a 45 year old man, it meant someone who had no children. Much is about the wary reading of documents, and supposed facts and connections, by only interpreting them in specific context.
In an age when child bearing women were still ‘churched’ though, 40 days later, to welcome them back into a community, it shows how much Elizabethans and Jacobeans, for the period straddles an age, equated being a man with having children, so reaching Man’s Estate that Feste sings of. Edmund Shakespeare would never have a New Place, unlike Will in their Stratford birth place, and lose that estate, even as he reached it, then lose everything.
Male children were of course often sought, with primogeniture in high places, especially by the powerful and Monarchs like Henry VIII. Although the role of daughters and women in that society is far more complex than imagined, at various social levels, even in a world where female roles in public theatres were strictly taken by men. .
Just as London law ensured that standard wills did not operate by Primogeniture, but divided property equally between living spouses and male and female children. A portion was left over to be parcelled out at the deceased’s discretion called “The Deadman’s Portion”. A city and its laws, and means of escape too, is a thing in itself, but there is also that Elizabethan age, out of the barren and bloody, if mercifully brief, agonies of her sister Mary Tudor, that saw the most extraordinary woman sit on a throne.
A queen who was childless too, unless conspiracy theories prove she had a child and heir out of wedlock. But whose conscious formulation of a political myth, in the worship of Glorianna, not only lasts to the present, but literally supplanted the Catholic adoration of the Virgin Mary and the Reformation throwing down of saints. It is a vision much related to that eloquence and forging of a consciousness and national identity in Shakespeare’s largely secular plays.
Will, the eldest, started to have his children at the age of 18 though, the older Anne Hathway probably going up the aisle pregnant, like very many couples, then got on with the rest of it. But it is important to remember that ‘Shakespeare’, William or Edmund, was not one fixed person either, but growing through life and time, which is again why contexts are so vital.
Neither Richard nor Gilbert built successful relationships we know of though, nor had children, and Edmund’s own issue in London is much the case in point. As Alan Nelson says, a theatre Professor from Berkeley University, the Shakespeares were probably a rather odd family.
Instant meat for any writer, that, although all families are probably odd. Exceptional is another way of putting it, in this very exceptional case, or you might quote Tolstoy at the start of Anna Karenina: “All happy families resemble each other, all unhappy families are unhappy in their own way.” It suggests suffering itself is a very individual thing, but that is the arc of tragedy and comedy seeks more inclusive resolution.
I rather dismissed Gilbert Shakespeare too, but pause a moment. Their father John, a glove maker in Stratford, and Gilbert, a London haberdasher, selling buttons and bows. Southwark too was a place of many haberdashers, related to but not specifically connected to the theatre trade. The Christie family, that later turned into the enormously wealthy jewellers, Christies of London, started there in felting and tanning.
Does that parental and sibling profession though not suggest some family dressing up box in Henley Street, back in merry Stratford? It is not the dignified simplicity of Elizabethan home life hinted at by Peter Ackroyd, in his plain remembrance of beds or hearths.
Though Peter Ackroyd says something very important about both a childhood and indeed any writer, in it being a vitally happy experience, if only because Shakespeare’s summoning and remembering of childhood experience could not have been false happiness, without some serious psychic disturbance on the surface of his work. I think those disturbances were to come, but later, and in London, especially in a play like Macbeth, not unrelated to his brother Edmund’s existence and death.
But children learn the delight and importance of playing through dressing up, although teaching in play that life is more than a game, and this was an age of many kinds of dressing up, and undressing too. The truth in Gilbert’s case though is that is more about valuable businesses at the time than any theatrics of his own, but it is important.
There is an obvious reason this story is about Edmund Shakespeare though, and only incidentally the others, and that is of all the three brothers, Edmund Shakespeare alone came to muddy London to be a player too, an actor, and in Southwark. He followed his eldest brother’s first, most heroic profession then, for me, sharing many haunts, giving a special affinity between youngest and oldest. I have always wondered what that must have been like for both of them.
What about names though, as clues in a possible life of Edmund, this effectively lost player Shakespeare? If you are following records, it is important to say that although the name Shakespeare was common enough in rural Warwickshire, as a source of confused identities there, it was very rare indeed in London. ‘One in a million’ says Alan Nelson, although in the London of then, probably three in two hundred thousand.
As for the name Edmund, its biblical association was to prove rather fateful, because it literally means “wealth bringer”. Edmund Shakespeare, unlike the famous eldest, with his experience of court or wealthy patrons, his triumphs and his purchase of New Place in Stratford, was not that at all.
In terms of the name in the plays, there is of course only one, apart from the historical Edmund Mortimer. He is that “Now, God Stand up for bastards” Edmund of King Lear, one of the most malign characters of them all. Both a youngest and a bastard son, who scorns “the monster custom” because of it, and blinds his own father Gloucester, to seize his inheritance and drive out Edgar, in the failure of Lear’s parental ‘Kingship’ and Gloucester’s own foppery. Or Lear’s misguided search for unconditional love from his own daughters.
An Edmund who, in the moral blindness of successive generations, also expresses some preternatural energy about life and Man, perhaps much about London of the time too, in a City now very financially minded and just founding Virginia and East India trading companies to conquer brave new worlds.
It makes Shakespeare’s villains also his heroes. Essential Anti heroes too, like anti-matter to matter, or the evil becoming almost attractive in terms of the inadequacies or hypocrisies of everyone else. Then Shakespeare, the natural philosopher-poet, the great observer, is a playwright, who knew the devil sometimes had the best tunes, trying to move, create and entertain. He is summoning drama, both fixed in life on a page and happening in a head. Being historian or scholar, as Shakespeare writes histories, and being a player-writer, working in a theatre, are very different enterprises. Just as that vital spring of poetry and inspiration is not unrelated to the experience of acting, and sometimes improvising, in the magic circle of a stage.
Although, in the context of Lear and Gloucester, Edmund is a secondary character and anything but a hero, if a villain also allowed the possibility of human redemption. That famous Lear speech of Edmund’s probably has nothing visibly to do with a real Edmund’s life, or personality either, let alone Edmund Shakespeare talking. Yet, from what we know of each other in our own lives, would it not sound loudly in a brother’s mind to hear his own name on a London stage, in his own brother’s play?
Perhaps Edmund Shakespeare our lost player was once cast in Lear, or wanted the role. Except that by now big parts were being taken by well tried actors, gaining status, while there is no mention of an Edmund Shakespeare in any extant play bill. Although the vast majority of those flimsy bits of paper were long trampled into the Elizabethan mud. The evidence though also suggests that Edmund was not in his brother’s troupe, at the increasingly successful Globe, but was or became associated with The Fortune theatre, north of the river Thames.
My search for a real Edmund started in London though, in a pub in Clapham, when a teacher told me she had made a visit with her pupils to Southwark Cathedral, and come across the tomb of an Edmund Shakespeare. It instantly suggested a documentary, film or book, so I made a little pilgrimage.
St Saviour’s Church, as it was then, not so distantly St Mary’s Ovaries Priory too, today squats below modern London Bridge, in a strange chink of time and space, by London’s first muse, the river Thames. A replica of Drake’s world circumnavigating ship The Golden Hinde, like Puck putting a girdle round the earth, sits in what was its river dock. It is I think one of the most beautiful and resonant churches in all of London.
A gentle Cannon showed me to the tomb stone, under the lifting central nave. It was a thrill seeing that deep scored name, Edmund Shakespeare, something like the tomb of the Unknown Soldier for actors and writers, although the stone was laid in the 19th Century.
Right next to it are stones for John Fletcher and Philip Massinger, two playwrights. ‘Ooh, they didn’t mind in those days’, said the goodly Cannon, talking about why Fletcher had asked to be interred next to his ‘boyfriend’, and, if he had, reminding me about debates about Shakespeare’s bisexuality, the game of the sonnets, or patrons like Leicester or Southampton. He also suggested that the Church was far more tolerant in those days, which was and was not true.
There is also an effigy of Will there, on the South wall, rather better and certainly more overtly literary than that puffy Father Christmas oddity at the shrine in Holy Trinity Stratford, that one commentator described as looking like “a pork butcher.” But it was Edmund’s marker, and the presence and proximity of other players and writers, that convinced me this, not Stratford, was the place any investigation should start.
So like any good scholar I looked up Edmund on the internet to find some immediately redolent or concrete facts. It is full of compounding mistakes, that relay the myths, yet in the vein of programmes like Do You Know Who You Are the opportunities for useful genealogical work are also invaluable.
An Edmund Shakespeare had certainly been baptized though, in the Church at Holy Trinity on May 3, 1580. Here was the first evidence he had really mewled into the world, but it did not go much beyond that. In fact there are only six discovered records that do, or might, refer to any Edmund Shakespeare. The first is that baptism record. All the rest refer only to the single year 1607, the year he died in Southwark.
One appears in something called a Token Book, in the Southwark Liberty of Bankside. Two more refer to a July and August birth and death of an infant son, in St Leonard’s Shoreditch and St Giles, Cripplegate, both neighbouring areas, over a mile north of the river, but directly linked to theatres too, especially Shorditch. Henry VIII’s own Court Jester, Will Summers, was buried in St Leonard’s in 1560, as was Richard Burbage later.
The last two are burial records, one a loose leafed document, the other in the main register, when Edmund Shakespeare died in the river side parish of Southwark at only 27. Although lives were much shorter then, development earlier, it spoke of a little tragedy, if not a fall from some great height.
There is a problem with these records too though, namely that they were not only in the hands of, but highlighted in significance by the famous disgraced 19th Century critic and forger, John Payne Collier. It is one of the reasons Edmund was rediscovered and a tomb stone laid. Collier himself is a fascinating character, perhaps too much maligned, if Kermode is right to remark that he might have left a record of where his inventions or reinventions are. But immediately the possibility of forgery sprang into view and perhaps the pointlessness of any such quest too.
I argue its value on other records alone, completely unrelated to Edmund Shakespeare, but giving astonishing insights into the life and history of Southwark at the time. As for forgery, after looking into it there is only one record which, in my view, might still be an addition, in that Token Book, because of the quality of the ink. It would undermine my research into where Edmund was actually staying, although a place itself independently valuable to studying the period and his brother.
Edmund’s name in the loose leaf burial note from St Saviour’s and then the official register too, also appear in a very striking place indeed, namely December 31st, 1607, and right at the end of other names. That immediately flags the possibility of later insertion. So it is the name and profession appearing in registers from north London then, also in 1607, where forgery is impossible, that makes Edmund’s presence in London and his profession undeniable.
The lingering doubt in the Southwark burial register is because of its fortuitous position, and because two other names of buried residents that occur after Edmund’s in the loose leaf record are missing in the main register.
I think both real too, because of ink and style, with the simple explanation that the person copying over into the main register neglected to turn over the loose leaf page. The last two are the most significant because they speak of a burial “inside ye church” and with a forenoon toll of the great bell – 20S; twenty shillings.
To turn too to the record of the birth and death of a child though, four months earlier in 1607. First comes that reference to a christening in St Leonard’s, Shoreditch of an infant son whose father was Edmund Shakesbye, although such a variation was very possible in mishearing’s. Not to mention that family names are somewhat held in dialect. Henslowe’s ‘diary’ calls the playwright that we know in ‘Received Pronunciation’ as Thomas Dekker – Dikker. Christenings were also the places where parental records of a profession are most frequent, actually only fathers mentioned. The entry has a side notation about where the parents were; Morefields. It is on July 12th, 1607, and though it says “on the same daye“, that does not refer to a christening on the day of the birth, thus urgency, but the same day as other children listed, ie July 12th.
It was not a happy christening, but it happens that it took place in a year that was a happy time for William Shakespeare, June 5th, 1607 seeing the marriage of his daughter Susanna to John Hall in Stratford. It would have taken him home from London, to give his favourite away.
Then, exactly a month later, on August 12th, 1607, there is a death in neighbouring St Giles, Cripplegate, of Edward, sonne of an Edward Shakespeere player. The confusion of first names is easy and I do not dwell too much on the spellings of Shakespere, Shakespeer or Shakespeare, because spelling varied wildly, and its codification, especially in being turned into printed and standardising English, is as much part of this story as the liberation of language and wordplay. At the death though Edmund’s child was marked out as being ‘base born’. That struck a very loud chord indeed out of King Lear’s defiant Edmund – “why bastard, wherefore base?” – although this was a dead infant child, a son, to unmarried parents.
The sixth record, in that Token Book, needs some discussion of what Token Books are. They were local parish tallies, made by roundsmen, roughly recording houses, streets and the names of residents buying Communion tokens, for shillings, that they would then hand back to the Church as proof of attendance.
They were thus simultaneously a kind of church tithe, a record of parishioners and became a potential means to guard against Catholic Recusancy too. It is important to note that the accusation of Recusancy was more common at times of threat, real or presumed, but attendance at Communion was officially expected probably no more than once a year. That the Token Books can be hard to decipher too and are rather scrubby, and that some even appear to have been copied out of a previous year’s Token Book lists.
In themselves though they are an enormous resource and also reflect fascinating forms of very local economics, just as tokens found in the area of Southwark, stamped with symbols like The Dogge and Duck, or The Frying Pan, allowed for commerce, credit and barter beyond the minted coin. If we think money is a real thing, in the physical fact of gold or minted money, just look at our credit driven world.
There is perhaps one more ‘record’ of Edmund Shakespeare, in a suitably gloomy portrait circulated on the Internet, though no precise reason to say it is him at all. It shows a rather mournful figure, as limp haired and faced as his Jacobean ruff, though with that high forehead of the Droshout engraving, or the Folio, perhaps one doomed to die young, like a Shakespearian bit part player.
But back to that burial, inside the Church, and with a forenoon toll of St Saviour’s great bell. The story had long tolled bells in local mythology and that friendly cannon confirmed the legend. Edmund Shakespeare had not been buried outside in the churchyard, at the standard cost of around 3 shillings, but inside a very great Church, in a freezing winter, and a church of deep significance in the story of the Reformation in London. With an expensive honouring toll of the great bell too, because it then cost a penny for a short river ride.
So then, in a story that happens in reverse, to evoke the alchemies and even magic that Shakespeare is always attempting inside himself, and in a theatre space, taking you from an end to brighter beginnings, let’s go back to 1607. To explain why Edmund Shakespeare’s little story, “The biography of an Unrecorded Life”, is so important, for itself, but just as importantly because it is the story of Southwark, of London, of William Shakespeare and the English language.
To come: The Deadman’s Portion: Cold Doings in London
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SHAKESPEARE’S BROTHER AND JAMES SHAPIRO
It was the US academic, and very nice guy, even if he would not help with an agent, who said that any work on Edmund Shakespeare was a ‘good idea’. So it was gloomy to take it to Faber and Faber and discover James Shapiro is doing another book on the year 1608 there, after his very valuable and enjoyable 1599. Sorry to correct editors though, but there is a great deal that was and is completely new in writing about Edmund Shakespeare and Southwark, in Shakespeare’s Brother.
Firstly is the precise discovery of where Edmund was living in Southwark and probably died in 1607, The Vine, who owned it and what it was. It was based on initial information in a lecture by Berkeley Professor Alan Nelson on the Token Books at Southwark Cathedral, but then original research into deeds and the ownership of The Vine by the Hunt family. That family also played a part with a fascinating local Catholic fraternity called The Brotherhood of Our Lady of Assumption, linked to the leatherworking Guild that played a large role at the all important church of St Mary Ovaries, later St Saviours, now Southwark Cathedral, where Edmund Shakespeare is buried.
There are jewels of information in those Token Books, that read like an Elizabethan Address Book, as there are in birth and death records, new to the Reformation, proving how long Philip Henslowe, who became a warden, lived in Southwark, precisely where, and the residence there of his son in law Edward Alleyn and his family. There are a great many things about other players living in Southwark at the time too. But following the trail of that Brotherhood of Our Lady there are also unknown facts, as far as we are aware, about ‘pleyers’ in the district and at the Church of St Margarets, that was thrown down during the Reformation, well over a hundred years before Shakespeare’s troupe, especially performing on St Margaret’s and St Lucy’s days. But in that Reformation earthquake also specific evidence of how The Bishops of Winchester were running and licencing brothels, and how so much of the history of Bankside was about the tavern and then coming brewing industry, and the battle for money and wealth in the great capital.
Much of the writing on Shakespeare nowadays comes from the US, perhaps because of the forming of a consciousness at a particular time, or a US need for roots, especially in Southwark, with the likes of John Harvard being born there (if he was). Also because of those religious echoes that still sound so loudly in America. But much as American academics can be very brilliant, and well funded, there seems also the danger of American literalism in work on Shakespeare that does miss some point about the mysterious well springs of language and inspiration itself. Read the story with us, as it happens, and perhaps James Shapiro can tell if it is of further importance or value.
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2.1. Personal Data about our customers is an important part of our business and we shall only use your Personal Data for the following purposes and shall not keep such Personal Data longer than is necessary to fulfil these purposes:
2.1.1. To help us to identify you when you contact us.
2.1.2. To help us to identify accounts, services and/or products which you could have from us or selected partners from time to time. We may do this by automatic means using a scoring system, which uses the Personal Data you have provided and/or any information we hold about you and Personal Data from third party agencies (including credit reference agencies).
2.1.3. To help us to administer and to contact you about improved administration of any accounts, services and products we have provided before, do provide now or will or may provide in the future.
2.1.4. To allow us to carry out marketing analysis and customer profiling (including with transactional information), conduct research, including creating statistical and testing information.
2.1.5. To help to prevent and detect fraud or loss.
2.1.6. To allow us to contact you in any way (including mail, email, telephone, visit, text or multimedia messages) about products and services offered by us and selected partners unless you have previously asked us not to do so.
2.1.7. We may monitor and record communications with you (including phone conversations and emails) for quality assurance and compliance.
2.1.8. We may check your details with fraud prevention agencies. If you provide false or inaccurate information and we suspect fraud, we will record this.
2.2. We will not disclose your Personal Data to any third party except in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
2.3. We may allow other people and organisations to use Personal Data we hold about you in the following circumstances:
2.3.1. If we, or substantially all of our assets, are acquired or are in the process of being acquired by a third party, in which case Personal Data held by us, about our customers, will be one of the transferred assets.
2.3.2. If we have been legitimately asked to provide information for legal or regulatory purposes or as part of legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings.
2.3.3. We employ companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf and we may disclose your Personal Data to these parties for the purposes set out in clause 2.1 or, for example, for fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and email, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analysing data, providing marketing assistance, providing search results and links (including paid listings and links) and providing customer service. Those parties are bound by strict contractual provisions with us and only have access to Personal Data needed to perform their functions, and may not use it for other purposes. Further, they must process the Personal Data in accordance with this Privacy Policy and as permitted by the Data Protection Act 1998. From time to time, these other people and organisations to whom we may pass your Personal Data may be outside the European Economic Area. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your Personal Data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the Data Protection Act 1998.
2.4. Where you give us Personal Data on behalf of someone else, you confirm that you have provided them with the information set out in this Privacy Policy and that they have not objected to such use of their Personal Data.
2.5. In connection with any transaction which we enter into with you:
2.5.1. We, and other companies in our group, may carry out credit and fraud prevention checks with one or more licensed credit reference and fraud prevention agencies. We and they may keep a record of the search. Information held about you by these agencies may be linked to records relating to other people living at the same address with whom you are financially linked. These records will also be taken into account in credit and fraud prevention checks. Information from your application and payment details of your account will be recorded with one or more of these agencies and may be shared with other organisations to help make credit and insurance decisions about you and members of your household with whom you are financially linked and for debt collection and fraud prevention. This includes those who have moved house and who have missed payments.
2.5.2. If you provide false or inaccurate information to us and we suspect fraud, we will record this and may share it with other people and organisations. We, and other credit and insurance organisations, may also use technology to detect and prevent fraud.
2.5.3. If you need details of those credit agencies and fraud prevention agencies from which we obtain and with which we record information about you, please write to our Data Protection Manager at PhoenixArkPress, The Forge, Tichborne, Hampshire SO24 0NA.
3. Protecting Information
We have strict security measures to protect Personal Data.
3.1. We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input.
3.2. We reveal only the last five digits of your credit card numbers when confirming an order. Of course, we transmit the entire credit card number to the appropriate credit card company during order processing.
3.3. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards in connection with the collection, storage and disclosure of personally identifiable customer information. Our security procedures mean that we may occasionally request proof of identity before we disclose personal information to you.
3.4. It is important for you to protect against unauthorised access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when you finish using a shared computer.
4. The Internet
4.1. If you communicate with us using the Internet, we may occasionally email you about our services and products. When you first give us Personal Data through the Website, we will normally give you the opportunity to say whether you would prefer us not to contact you by email. You can also always send us an email (at the address set out below) at any time if you change your mind.
4.2. Please remember that communications over the Internet, such as emails and webmails (messages sent through a website), are not secure unless they have been encrypted. Your communications may go through a number of countries before they are delivered - this is the nature of the Internet. We cannot accept responsibility for any unauthorised access or loss of Personal Data that is beyond our control.
4.3. We may use 'cookies' to monitor how people use our site. This helps us to understand how our customers and potential customers use our website so we can develop and improve the design, layout and function of the sites. A cookie is a piece of information that is stored on your computer's hard drive through your browser, to recognise your browser and which records how you have used a website. This means that when you go back to that website, it can give you tailored options based on the information it has stored about your last visit. You can normally alter the settings of your browser to prevent it from accepting cookies.
4.4. If you do not want us to use cookies in your browser, you can set your browser to reject cookies or to tell you when a website tries to put a cookie on your computer. However, you may not be able to use some of the products or services on our website without cookies.
5. Turning Off Cookies in Different Browsers
The Help menu on the menu bar of most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie and how to disable cookies altogether. Additionally, you can disable or delete similar data used by browser add-ons, such as Flash cookies, by changing the add-ons settings or visiting the website of its manufacturer.
6. Links
6.1. The Website may include third-party advertising and links to other websites. We do not provide any personally identifiable customer Personal Data to these advertisers or third-party websites.
6.2. These third-party websites and advertisers, or Internet advertising companies working on their behalf, sometimes use technology to send (or "serve") the advertisements that appear on the Website directly to your browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use cookies, JavaScript, web beacons (also known as action tags or single-pixel gifs), and other technologies to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalise advertising content. We do not have access to or control over cookies or other features that they may use, and the information practices of these advertisers and third-party websites are not covered by this Privacy Policy. Please contact them directly for more information about their privacy practices. In addition, the Network Advertising Initiative offers useful information about Internet advertising companies (also called "ad networks" or "network advertisers"), including information about how to opt-out of their information collection.
6.3. We exclude all liability for loss that you may incur when using these third party websites.
7. Further Information
7.1. If you would like any more information or you have any comments about our Privacy Policy, please either write to us at Data Protection Manager, PhoenixArkPress, The Forge, c/o The White Cottage, Tichborne, Hampshire S)24 0NA, or email us at dclementdavies@aol.com.
7.2. We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time without notice to you, in which case, we will publish the amended version on the Website. You confirm that we shall not be liable to you or any third party for any change to this Privacy Policy from time to time. It is your responsibility to check regularly to determine whether this Privacy Policy has changed.
7.3. You can ask us for a copy of this Privacy Policy and of any amended Privacy Policy by writing to the above address or by emailing us at dclementdavies@aol.com. This Privacy Policy applies to Personal Data we hold about individuals. It does not apply to information we hold about companies and other organisations.
7.4. If you would like access to the Personal Data that we hold about you, you can do this by emailing us at dclementdavies@aol.com or writing to us at the address noted above. There may be a nominal charge of £10 to cover administrative costs.
7.5. We aim to keep the Personal Data we hold about you accurate and up to date. If you tell us that we are holding any inaccurate Personal Data about you, we will delete it or correct it promptly. Please email us at dclementdavies@aol.com or write to us at the address above to update your Personal Data.
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Physician Attitudes Regarding School-Located Vaccinations
Emily V. McCormick, Josh Durfee, Tara M. Vogt, Matthew F. Daley, Simon J. Hambidge and Judith Shlay
Pediatrics November 2012, 130 (5) 887-896; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2011-2962
Emily V. McCormick
aPublic Health Prevention Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia;
Josh Durfee
bDepartments of Health Services Research,
Tara M. Vogt
cNational Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia;
Matthew F. Daley
dInstitute for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Colorado, Denver, Colorado; and
eDepartments of Pediatrics, and
Simon J. Hambidge
fCommunity Health Services, and
Judith Shlay
gDenver Public Health Department, Denver Health and Hospital Authority, Denver, Colorado;
hFamily Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado
OBJECTIVE: To assess physician attitudes regarding school-located adolescent vaccination and influenza vaccination.
METHODS: From July through September 2010, a 20-item survey was mailed to 1337 practicing Colorado family physicians and pediatricians. Standard statistical methods were used to examine unadjusted and adjusted odds ratios of factors associated with physician support for school-located vaccination programs.
RESULTS: Overall, 943 physicians were survey-eligible, and 584 (62%) responded. More than half of physicians supported both school-located influenza and adolescent vaccination. However, fewer physicians supported school-located adolescent vaccination compared with influenza vaccination. More physicians supported school-located vaccination for their publicly insured patients compared with their privately insured patients. Some family physicians (32%) and pediatricians (39%) believed that school-located vaccination would make their patients less likely to attend well-child visits, and half of respondents believed that school-located vaccination would have a negative financial impact on their practice. In multivariate analyses, physicians concerned about the financial impact of school-located vaccination were less likely to support such programs.
CONCLUSIONS: Although a majority of Colorado physicians supported influenza and adolescent vaccination at school, they expressed concerns regarding the implications on their practice. Lesser support for vaccination of their privately insured patients and concerns regarding attendance at well-child visits suggests the perceived financial impact from school-located vaccination is a barrier and merits additional examination.
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Accepted June 14, 2012.
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A Chimney Sweep’s Top 5 Tips for Ecofriendly (and Cheap!) Fires
Chim-chiminy, chim-chiminy, chim-chim-charee, here’s how to reduce the environmental impact of your fireplace. Wheee!
Kiera Butler
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu23HHmOG48" target="_blank">Mary Poppins</a>/YouTube
It’s no secret that fireplaces and woodstoves—wonderful and cozy though they may be—are not great for the environment. The smoke that they produce is full of harmful particles, including, according to the EPA, volatile organic compounds and the likely carcinogen benzo(a)pyrene. Smoke can foul up the air both inside and out, and exposure to the stuff can cause serious respiratory problems.
So should you board up your hearth for good? Not necessarily. The right equipment can help, as can proper burning techniques.
To find out exactly how to make the most efficient fire possible, I enlisted the help of Clay Thompson, a working chimney sweep based in Sacramento, California. According to the Chimney Safety Institute of America, there are about 5,000 working chimney sweeps in the United States. You may be as disappointed as I was to learn that Thompson, who has been sweeping six chimneys a day five days a week for 13 years, says that unlike that other notorious chimney sweep, Mary Poppins’ boyfriend, he sings only in the car and never dances. Also, he uses brushes instead of, you know, climbing on in. “Most modern chimneys are only six inches wide,” he says. “I don’t know how Santa does it.” Anyway, here are Thompson’s tips:
If you have a fireplace, consider an insert. A fireplace insert is like a wood-burning stove that fits right into your fireplace. EPA-certified models burn 70 percent more efficiently than an open fireplace.
Chimney sweep Clay ThompsonUpgrading to new equipment could save you money. If your fireplace insert or stove was made before 1992, you might want to consider a newer, EPA-certified model. Although they can be pricey, the agency-approved stoves and inserts not only produce less smoke and soot, they’re also 50 percent more efficient than traditional models—so you’ll end up spending less on fuel. They’re also much easier to clean, says Thompson: “I dread those old inserts. They weigh 600 pounds, and then there’s six to eight inches of soot inside. You can’t even see anything, and it takes two and a half hours. I have to change my clothes after that. I work as a chimney sweep but I don’t like getting dirty.” For several years, people who upgraded their fireplaces and wood stoves qualified for a federal tax credit, but that program expired this year. Some states offer their own programs; the Alliance for Green Heat lists them here.
Burn the right kind of fuel. Rule of thumb: The cooler your fire, the more particulate emissions and soot it produces. In order to ensure that your fire is hot enough, Thompson recommends using only wood that has been “seasoned” (dried) for at least a year. Hard woods (like maple, ash, oak, and beech) burn hotter than soft woods (pine and fir). Most importantly, never burn wet wood. Pellet stoves, which take bricks made of compressed wood or other organic materials, generally burn cleaner and more efficiently than woodstoves or fireplaces. This EPA chart compares particle emissions from various heat sources:
Image courtesy of EPA
Use the right sized grate for your fireplace. “A lot of people buy a grate that is too big for their fireplace and then spread out the logs,” says Thompson. For the hottest and hence cleanest-burning fire possible, “you want those logs all bundled together in the center.”
Skip the home chimney-cleaning remedies. There are a bunch of old wives’ tales about DIY chimney sweeping; Thompson says that several of his customers have tried to clean their chimneys by starting a fire with potato peels or rock salt. “Those don’t seem to work.” Another bad idea: “Some people try to start a chimney fire to clean their chimney,” he says. “Sometimes it does clean it, but sometimes it burns your house down.” For newer model fireplace inserts and stoves, Thompson recommends a professional inspection and sweeping about every two years, or one cleaning for every cord of wood burned. But if you have older equipment, or if you regularly burn wood that isn’t properly seasoned, you could end up needing a sweeping much more frequently. Thompson’s company charges $149 for a one-story sweeping, but prices vary by region.
It should also be noted that the while fuel stoves in the United States are often considered ornamental, Europeans are increasingly using pellet stoves as a primary source of heat. The Alliance for Green Heat points out that these stoves produce fewer climate-warming greenhouse gases than fossil fuels.
Wood and pellet stoves are far from the only hearth-based heat contraptions available. If you’d like to geek out on hydronic heaters, masonry heaters, and more, the EPA’s site on appliances is a good place to start. Want to compare efficiency and emissions of various models? Go further down the rabbit hole with Cornell Cooperative Extension’s extremely thorough guide.
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That Afghanistan Election
Kevin is off until Tuesday. I’m blogging for him until then.
As I noted recently, keep your eye on Afghanistan’s ongoing presidential election. From AFP:
Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday criticised the US ambassador’s presence at a meeting calling for a decentralisation of his government, adding he would fight such moves “tooth and nail”.
Karzai said ambassador Karl Eikenberry’s attendance at a press conference this month, where a leading rival to the president in the August 20 elections had called for the change, was deeply sensitive and “raises concerns”.
This was especially because of recent US and British media reports of plans laid in “Washington and in London to bring a change into the structure of governance in Afghanistan to weaken the central government of Afghanistan,” Karzai said.
There’s been plenty of tension between the Obama administration and Karzai. At his first White House press conference, President Obama noted that Karzai’s government was “very detached” from the rest of the country. That was quite a slam.
Since then–especially when Obama unveiled his strategic review concerning Afghanistan and Pakistan–the White House has tried to downplay its dissastisfaction with Karzai. But Karzai is accutely aware of it. And now he’s making it part of his reelection strategy. This might help him. His government has been plagued by corruption and incompetence. But there’s a lot of popular anger at the United States military for its bombing assaults, which kill innocent civilians, and its raids on homes, which humiliate and intimidate Afghans. If Karzai holds on to power by playing the anti-USA card, it will not make Obama’s already difficult job in Afghanistan any easier.
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10 Little Piggies
Forget welfare moms and the unemployed. No one feeds at the public trough like these ten.
Dan Carney
PETER MUNK
CEO, Barrick Gold
Salary: $1M/yr.
OK, you can have the gold, but only if you poison the water.
Under the 1872 Mining Act, Barrick and other huge companies don’t pay any royalties for mining on public lands. They are allowed to purchase the land–which now yields about $3 billion of minerals per year–for $5 an acre or less. And the cleanup costs for abandoned mines are staggering, estimated at $32-$72 billion by the Mineral Policy Center.
ALFONSO FANJUL
CEO, Flo-Sun
Salary: secret
Doesn’t everybody need a sugar daddy?
Thirty-three giant sugar growers have one of the sweetest deals going–at least $1 million annually each in price supports. Of the $1.4 billion in subsidies doled out to sugar growers yearly, about 42 percent go to the top 1 percent, like Flo-Sun. These subsidies jack up consumer sugar prices, and increase sugar cane farming in the environmentally sensitive Everglades.
MICHAEL R. QUINLAN
Chairman, McDonald’s
Salary: $1.9 M/yr.
Ever think they might need some Chicken McNuggets in Kazakhstan about now?
The U.S. Department of Agriculture spends about $85 million annually on consumer marketing campaigns and promotions to spur the export of well-known products such as McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets, Miller beer, and Campbell’s Soups. The subsidies generally benefit huge companies at the expense of smaller ones.
GEORGE P. MITCHELL
CEO, Mitchell Energy
Salary: $800,000/yr.
Hey, we paid for that tax break. Ask George Bush.
Exploration companies like Mitchell Energy and Development of Texas have long benefited from a “depletion allowance.” They can deduct 15 percent of gross income or sales as compensation for the decreasing value of their oil wells as they are used up. Over the years, some of these companies have deducted more than the entire value of their investments.
JAMES NEAL BLUE
CEO, General Atomics
And, furthermore, we’re sick of hearing about Chernobyl.
The U.S. has spent more than $900 million–and could well spend another $2.6 billion–for research on a gas-cooled nuclear reactor. Both Bush and Clinton proposed killing it on environmental, economic, scientific, and safety grounds. But its politically powerful builder, General Atomics, lavishes contributions on Congress members. RANDALL L. TOBIAS
CEO, Eli Lilly
Salary: $1.8M/yr.
The Caribbean has always been a good place for drug deals.
Led by pharmaceutical giants such as Merck and Eli Lilly, U.S. firms receive $4 billion in tax breaks yearly on operations in Puerto Rico and other U.S. possessions. Powerful friends to the industry include GOP senators Hatch and Dole. Though the breaks are designed to spur job growth, consumer groups say they skew the market toward rich companies. DANIEL M. TELLEP
CEO, Lockheed Martin
PENTAGON CONTRACTS
But they go really fast and blow things up!
Lockheed Martin Corp. is building the F-22, an advanced fighter jet. Sen. Dale Bumpers (D-Ark.) and others claim the jet is too expensive and probably unnecessary. Defense Secretary William Perry cut $200 million of its funds from the 1996 budget. Limiting production of the F-22 and using the F-15 as the standard plane for fighter jets would save $6 billion in a five-year period.
JOHN F. McDONNELL
Chair, McDonnell Douglas
MILITARY SALES
Remember how much fun it was to look down the barrels of our own guns in Somalia?
Subsidies for foreign buyers of American weapons now cost taxpayers about $2.5 billion over five years. Many analysts and peace groups criticize this as wasteful, subsidizing the handsome profits made by defense giants such as McDonnell Douglas Corp., General Dynamics Corp., and Northrop Grumman.
DOUGLAS C. YEARLEY
CEO, Phelps Dodge
There’s a reason they’re called the “extraction industries.”
Mining, oil, and gas companies benefit mightily from a tax provision that allows them to deduct certain capital costs instead of depreciating them. Phasing out this provision could save about $6.1 billion over five years, but mining companies such as Alcan and Phelps Dodge Corp. will lobby hard to preserve it.
DWAYNE ANDREAS
CEO, Archer Daniels Midland
But in return for the money, he always sponsors the biggest butter-carving at the annual state fair.
From corn sweetener to ethanol, no list of the corporately subsidized would be complete without the CEO of the giant food concern, Archer Daniels Midland (see accompanying story).
Salary figures do not include stock options and other forms of compensation.
Sources: Friends of the Earth, National Taxpayers Union Foundation, Progressive Policy Institute
Go back to the rest of our report on corporate pork.
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What Taxes Would Look Like if Normal People Called the Shots
Changes already popular with Americans could make us healthier, wiser, and less indebted.
Mattea Kramer
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This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website.
After heroic feats of arithmetic and a your-guess-is-as-good-as-mine interpretation of opaque rules and guidelines, millions of Americans will file their taxes by this Monday, April 15th.
Then there’s the bad news.
For anyone who takes a peek at where his or her income tax dollars are going, Tax Day can be maddening. Outsized chunks of our taxes fund the military, rising healthcare costs, and interest on the federal debt. Comparatively tiny amounts go to education, science, alternative energy, and the environment.
Category by category, this is contrary to what Americans want—and what we the people want is pretty clear. Despite near-constant news about how polarized our nation is, a careful look at opinion polls indicates that a strong majority of Americans actually have a coherent to-do list for Washington: we want more jobs, smaller deficits, more education funding, reduced reliance on fossil fuels, higher taxes on the wealthiest, plus—the kicker—Medicare and Social Security benefits preserved. You know, it’s the typical story of wanting to have our cake and gobble it down, too. Right?
Wrong. What’s virtually unacknowledged is that all these things could be done at once. Far from being an impossible set of demands, the collective opinion poll version of the wisdom of the American people is, in fact, a smart set of solutions—or at least it would be, if we had a government capable of following our wishes. That collective wish list would address most of this nation’s urgent challenges, while making us smarter, safer, healthier, less indebted, and better invested in our long-term future. Here’s how.
First—no shocker—it’s the economy. According to a recent Gallup poll consistent with previous findings on this issue, 99% of Americans want job creation bolstered. Lawmakers only have so many options when it comes to directly affecting job growth, and one of the quicker ways is to invest in repairing our crumbling infrastructure, currently rated D+ by the American Society of Civil Engineers. Such repairs would require substantial new spending in the near term, which would seem to conflict with another top priority of Americans: 92% say cutting spending and reducing deficits are also important. But we can invest in jobs and infrastructure and make this money back many times over just by doing the other things Americans support.
First, though, let’s toss in another issue that comes in high on American priority lists: expanding education funding. Critics say that support for more education spending shrivels when proponents are threatened with higher taxes on the middle class. But there’s no need to hike middle-class taxes; we can raise taxes only in ways favored by a majority of Americans. Do that and you could fund pre-kindergarten to research-university public education in the style that around 60% of taxpayers consistently support, and with money left over.
Case in point: a strong majority (73%) of Americans want to reduce our reliance on oil, gas, and coal, while a narrower 50% want action on climate change. A carbon tax addresses both issues by making innovation in alternative energy attractive, while reducing carbon output. Championed by economists across the ideological spectrum, such a tax has the added benefit of raising an estimated $125 billion annually with a tax of $25 per ton of carbon dioxide. Some of that money could be used to offset higher energy prices for low-income Americans and the rest for those generous increases in education funding.
We can similarly resolve this country’s long-term budget woes just by acting in ways the public is clamoring for.
Polls show that Americans want less government spending and smaller deficits. To be clear, this issue has been the subject of significant fear mongering and little sound information. Deficits are not an immediate problem, as even House Speaker John Boehner recently acknowledged, since at the moment lenders are basically paying Uncle Sam to take their money. But deficits could become a problem down the road when interest rates rise. The key is to reduce deficits before that happens, so interest on the federal debt doesn’t eat up far more of our tax dollars.
There are few specific federal budget items that a majority of Americans agree should be cut. But according to Gallup, 58% of us favor “major cuts in military and defense spending.” Ask the question in more detail and you’ll find that the average American wants an 18% reduction in the Pentagon’s budget. That can be done without compromising national security because we currently spend extraordinary sums on a force structure tailored to the Cold War and throngs of outdated or wasteful weapons systems—like the problem-ridden, historically over-budget F-35 Joint Strike Fighter that has already drained $84 billion from the US Treasury, and is projected to cost $1.5 trillion over its lifetime.
So let’s fundamentally rethink the way we conduct national security and match our armed forces to actual threats. Downsize the present American global mission and our eternal “war on terror,” bring the military’s arsenal into line with reality, and you can save around $1 trillion over the next decade from the Pentagon budget without blinking.
Next on the list: polls show that two-thirds of Americans want the wealthy and corporations to pay more in taxes, and a blockbuster majority of 90% wants a simpler tax code. It won’t surprise you to learn that the present tax code is a playground for the rich and their talented accountants. Americans for Tax Fairness, a coalition of 280 organizations (including my employer National Priorities Project), identified 10-year budgetary savings of $2.8 trillion simply by limiting or eliminating a plethora of high-income and corporate tax loopholes.
So far, by following the people’s wisdom, we’ve managed to invest significant sums in rebuilding education, the country’s infrastructure, and energy security, while achieving long-term deficit reduction. Still, one of the biggest challenges remains.
This week, Barack Obama became the first Democratic president ever to propose lower Social Security benefits. On this, polling tells us, Americans couldn’t be clearer. From progressives on the left to the Tea Party on the right, nearly 90% of Americans want Medicare and Social Security benefits kept intact.
No matter what you’ve heard—including claims that the program is, over the long haul, doomed—safeguarding Social Security is easy. The system is on solid footing until 2033. Then, only simple changes are needed, like altering the payroll tax (Social Security’s dedicated funding), so it applies to all wage income instead of just your first $113,700. Most Americans don’t realize that Social Security taxes disappear on higher income. Simply by correcting that regressive policy and making a few other obvious tweaks, Social Security will be ship-shape in its present form into the distant future.
Now for the big ugly: Medicare. Healthcare costs are the real long-term budget-buster facing this country and on this issue Americans want it all—benefits preserved and spending contained. In fact, there’s a way to do both.
Estimates suggest that a third of health spending in this country is wasted in a system of uncoordinated, fee-for-service care. Some primary-care organizations have, however, bucked the trend by favoring a new “bundled payments” model of healthcare in which doctors are paid for their overall treatment of a patient rather than one test and procedure at a time. Organizations that made such changes reduced costs by 15% to 20% without compromising quality.
Medicare is pilot-testing such changes with promising results. Massachusetts lawmakers have already passed landmark cost-containment legislation that will usher in this new form of payment across the state’s substantial health sector. We should be racing to implement these changes nationally. Since there isn’t a good estimate of how much could be saved in Medicare if such major changes were implemented, let’s be particularly conservative and estimate only a 5% savings. That would still shave around $400 billion from federal spending over a decade.
With these lower health costs, as well as smart reductions in military spending and limits on tax loopholes, we’ve tallied more than $4 trillion in savings over the next 10 years. Use a fraction of that to fund a job creation/infrastructure repairs program and we’ve still achieved around $3.5 trillion in potential deficit reduction. Since that’s substantially more than experts recommend, we’ve actually freed up extra cash that could be used for any number of other priorities.
And all we did was pursue changes consistent with a people’s budget that clearly emerges from opinion polls—though you can depend on Washington to ignore such possible reforms. The outsized influence of money in politics plus gerrymandered congressional districts are among the structural problems that reward our elected officials for serving narrow special interests instead of the will of the people. And though we the people have clear priorities, we don’t do a good job of holding our elected officials accountable for pursuing a roadmap for the greater good. Still, that roadmap is there, if we ever want to use it.
Mattea Kramer is research director at National Priorities Project, a TomDispatch regular, and a frequent commentator for media outlets across the country. She’s the lead author of the book A People’s Guide to the Federal Budget. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com here.
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Secondary Library Highlights - July 2020
Secondary Library Highlights - July 2020: Home
This is a small selection of books that have arrived in the library this month. The UWCSEA Community should login to Destiny to locate the books in the library and check availability. All reviews are written by the publishers.
For complete lists of new arrivals check out the July- New Arrivals.
Middle Years Books
My Life As a Potato by Arianne Costner
Call Number: S\ Costner
For anyone who has ever felt like a potato in middle school, this hilarious story about a boy forced to become the dorkiest school mascot ever will have readers cheering!
Ben Hardy believes he's cursed by potatoes. And now he's moved to Idaho, where the school's mascot is Steve the Spud! Yeah, this cannot be good. After accidentally causing the mascot to sprain an ankle, Ben is sentenced to Spud duty for the final basketball games of the year. But if the other kids know he's the Spud, his plans for popularity are likely to be a big dud! Ben doesn't want to let the team down, so he lies to his friends to keep it a secret. No one will know it's him under the potato suit . . . right?
Act (graphic Novel) by Kayla Miller
Call Number: S\GB Miller
The funny and honest follow-up to the middle school graphic novel sensations Click and Camp.
How do you know when the person who can make the difference . . . is you? Olive is excited to start sixth grade: new teachers, new experiences, and a field trip to the big city with her best buds! But when Olive finds out that a school policy is keeping some kids from going on the trip, she decides to act. She's prepared to do whatever it takes to be heard--even if it means running against Trent and Sawyer, two of her closest friends, in the student council election! With intense campaign competition and emotions running high, can Olive make a big change and keep her friends?
The Plot to Kill Hitler by Andy Marino
Call Number: S\ Marino (PLO #1)
Based on the real-life scheme to take down one of history's greatest monsters, this heart-pounding trilogy puts two courageous kids at the center of the plot to kill Adolf Hitler.
Berlin, November 1943. With bombing raids commencing, the city is blanketed by explosions. Siblings Gerta and Max Hoffmann live a surprisingly carefree childhood amid the raids. Berlin is a city going about its business, even as it's attacked almost nightly. But one night, the air raid sirens wail, and the Hoffmanns' neighborhood is hit. A mortally wounded man comes to their door, begging to be let in. He asks for Karl Hoffmann, their father. Gerta and Max watch as Karl tries in vain to save the man's life. Before he dies, the stranger gives their father a bloodstained packet of documents, along with a message: "For the sake of humanity, the Führer must die. Finish it, Karl!" Based on real events, this is the story of two children swept up in a fight for the soul of Germany -- and the world.
Bad Best Friend by Rachel Vail
Call Number: S\ Vail
Rachel Vail's powerful middle-grade novel proves once again that no one does tween better than she does!
Niki Ames can't wait to start eighth grade, that all-important year before high school. She and her best friend Ava have shared so many plans for the coming year. But then the unthinkable happens: at gym class pair-up, Ava chooses someone else to be her partner. Niki is devastated. It's clear that Ava wants to be part of the popular group, leaving Niki behind. Niki has to decide who her real friends should be, where her real interests lie. Meanwhile, life at home is complicated. Niki's nine-year-old brother Danny continues to act out more and more publicly. Their mother refuses to admit that Danny is somewhere on the autism spectrum, but it's clear he needs help. Niki doesn't want to be like her brother, to be labeled as different. She just wants to be popular! Is she a bad sister and a bad best friend?
Creep by Eireann Corrigan
Call Number: S\Corrigan
The haunting tale of a family that moves into a new house and finds that someone -- or something -- does NOT want them there.
Olivia is curious about the people moving into 16 Olcott Place. The last family there moved out in the dead of night, and the new family, the Donahues, has no idea why. Olivia becomes fast friends with Janie Donahue . . . so she's there at the house when the first of the letters arrives: --I am the Sentry of Glennon Heights. Long ago I claimed 16 Olcott Place as levy for my guardianship. The walls will not tolerate your trespass. The ceilings will bleed and the windows will shatter. If you do not cease your intrusion, the rooms will soon smell of corpses.-- Who is the Sentry? And why does the Sentry want the Donahues out of the house badly enough to kill? As Olivia and Janie explore the house, they find a number of sinister secrets . . . and as they explore their town, they find a hidden history that the Sentry wants to remain hidden forever. You can lock the doors. You can close the windows. But you can't keep the Sentry out. . . .
The Derby Daredevils: Kenzie Kickstarts a Team by Kit Rosewater; Sophie Escabasse
Call Number: S\ Rosewater (DER #1)
A highly illustrated middle-grade series that celebrates new friendships, first crushes, and getting out of your comfort zone.
Ever since they can remember, fifth-graders Kenzie (aka Kenzilla) and Shelly (aka Bomb Shell) have dreamed of becoming roller derby superstars. When Austin's city league introduces a brand-new junior league, the dynamic duo celebrates! But they'll need to try out as a five-person team. Kenzie and Shelly have just one week to convince three other girls that roller derby is the coolest thing on wheels. But Kenzie starts to have second thoughts when Shelly starts acting like everyone's best friend . . . Isn't she supposed to be Kenzie's best friend? And things get really awkward when Shelly recruits Kenzie's neighbor (and secret crush!) for the team.
Here in the Real World by Sara Pennypacker
Call Number: S\Pennypacker
A gorgeous and moving middle grade novel that is an ode to introverts, dreamers, and misfits everywhere.
Ware can't wait to spend summer "off in his own world"--dreaming of knights in the Middle Ages and generally being left alone. But then his parents sign him up for dreaded Rec camp, where he must endure Meaningful Social Interaction and whatever activities so-called "normal" kids do. On his first day Ware meets Jolene, a tough, secretive girl planting a garden in the rubble of an abandoned church next to the camp. Soon he starts skipping Rec, creating a castle-like space of his own in the church lot. Jolene scoffs, calling him a dreamer--he doesn't live in the "real world" like she does. As different as Ware and Jolene are, though, they have one thing in common: for them, the lot is a refuge. But when their sanctuary is threatened, Ware looks to the knights' Code of Chivalry: Thou shalt do battle against unfairness wherever faced with it. Thou shalt be always the champion of the Right and Good--and vows to save the lot. But what does a hero look like in real life? And what can two misfit kids do?
My Survival by Joshua M. Greene; Rena Finder
Call Number: S\ 940.53 Finder
The astonishing true story of a girl who survived the Holocaust thanks to Oskar Schindler, of Schindler's List fame.
Rena Finder was only eleven when the Nazis forced her and other Jewish people into the ghetto in Krakow, Poland, during WWII. Then, Rena and her mother were taken to a work camp. By chance, they found jobs in the factory of a German man named Oskar Schindler. Still, Rena was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp. It was Schindler and his wife who would ultimately help her escape.
The Rift by Rachael Craw
Call Number: S\Craw
In a possible near future where Big Pharma is pitted against ancient traditions and the supernatural, Rachael Craw's gripping and brutal tale, inspired by Greek mythology, will immerse readers and leave them intoxicated by its richly imagined world.
As corporate greed is pitted against supernatural forces, two young friends must try to protect the precious Old Herd -- and their island itself. For generations, the rangers of Black Water Island have guarded the Old Herd against the horrors released by the Rift. And Cal West, an apprentice ranger, fights daily to prove he belongs within their ranks. But even greater challenges await with the return of his childhood friend Meg Archer and the onset of a new threat that not even the rangers are prepared for. Now Meg and Cal, while struggling with their mutual attraction, must face their darkest fears to save the island from disaster.
Nowhere on Earth by Nick Lake
Call Number: S\Lake
It starts with a plane crash. There are survivors: a teenage girl and her little brother. They are running from something. But what? Then the men arrive. They are hunting the girl and boy. And that's all we can tell you ...
Sixteen-year-old Emily and her little brother Aidan are onboard a plane bound for Anchorage. When the plane crashes, both kids and the pilot barely escape with their lives and are left to fight for survival in the Alaskan wilderness. But there is worse to come - Emily and Aidan are being chased, and their shady, unknown pursuers are closing in. As the kids go on the run, Emily finds herself in greater danger than she could have imagined. Because nothing in her life is what it seems - not even the things she holds dearest of all...
When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson (Illustrator); Omar Mohamed; Iman Geddy (Illustrator)
Call Number: S\GB 305.9 Jamieson
An intimate, important, unforgettable look at the day-to-day life of a refugee, as told by Omar Mohamed, the Somali man who lived the story.
Omar and his younger brother, Hassan, have spent most of their lives in Dadaab, a refugee camp in Kenya. Life is hard there: never enough food, achingly dull, and without access to the medical care Omar knows his nonverbal brother needs. So when Omar has the opportunity to go to school, he knows it might be a chance to change their future . . . but it would also mean leaving his brother, the only family member he has left, every day. Heartbreak, hope, and gentle humor exist together in this graphic novel about a childhood spent waiting, and a young man who is able to create a sense of family and home in the most difficult of settings.
You Must Be Layla by Yassmin Abdel-Magied
Call Number: S\ Abdel-Magied
Touching on the migrant experience and exploring thought-provoking themes relevant to all teens, this book shows the strength required to be a Queen with a capital 'Q'.
Layla's mind goes a million miles a minute, so does her mouth - unfortunately her better judgement can take a while to catch up! Although she believes she was justified for doing what she did, a suspension certainly isn't the way she would have wished to begin her time at her fancy new high school. Despite the setback, Layla's determined to show everyone that she does deserve her scholarship and sets her sights on winning a big invention competition. But where to begin? Looking outside and in, Layla will need to come to terms with who she is and who she wants to be if she has any chance of succeeding.
Seasons of War (Skulduggery Pleasant, Book 13) by Derek Landy
Call Number: S\SERIES SKU #13
The thirteenth thrilling novel in the internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series, SEASONS OF WAR will test the Skeleton Detective and Valkyrie like never before... War is coming.
To avert catastrophe, Skulduggery and Valkyrie are sent on a secret mission that takes them away from everything they know, to a forsaken land of magic and grim, unrelenting terror. It is here that Valkyrie will have to fight the hardest -- not only against the enemies who want her dead, but also against her own self-destructive impulses. It's only by crawling through darkness that she'll be able to once again stand in the light...
Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valour by Ally Carter
Call Number: S\ Carter (WIN #1)
April didn’t mean to start the fire. She wasn’t even the one who broke the vase.
April had absolutely no intention of becoming the only person who knows that Gabriel Winterborne, the missing-and-presumed-dead billionaire, is neither missing nor dead and is actually living in the basement of Winterborne House, sharpening his swords and looking for vengeance. Now that April knows Gabriel Winterborne is alive, it’s up to her to keep him that way. But there’s only so much a twelve-year-old girl can do, so April must turn to the other orphans for help. Together, they’ll have to unravel the riddle of a missing heir and a creepy legend, and find a secret key, before the only home they’ve ever known is lost to them forever.
Trouble in New York by Sylvia Bishop
Call Number: S\ Bishop
Set in 1960s New York, this is another beautifully written mystery from Sylvia Bishop, author of THE SECRET OF THE NIGHT TRAIN.
Jamie Creeden has always wanted to be a reporter - so when he is given a tour of the famous Morning Yorker newspaper, he can't believe his luck. But a chance phone call draws him into the mystery of the missing actress. Soon Jamie, along with his new friends Eve and Rose, must navigate a tense world of infamous villains, double crosses and carefully planted clues - a world in which he can trust absolutely no one. He still longs to be on the front page - but at what cost?
Young Adult and Mature Books
A Breath Too Late by Rocky Callen
Call Number: S\ Callen
A haunting and breathtaking YA contemporary debut novel that packs a powerful message: hope can be found in the darkness.
Seventeen-year-old Ellie had no hope left. Yet the day after she dies by suicide, she finds herself in the midst of an out-of-body experience. She is a spectator, swaying between past and present, retracing the events that unfolded prior to her death. But there are gaps in her memory, fractured pieces Ellie is desperate to re-assemble. There's her mother, a songbird who wanted to break free from her oppressive cage. The boy made of brushstrokes and goofy smiles who brought color into a gray world. Her brooding father, with his sad puppy eyes and clenched fists. And Ellie's determined to find out why a piece of her was left behind.
Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
Call Number: S\ Jackson
A gripping novel about the mystery of one teenage girl's disappearance and the traumatic effects of the truth.
Monday Charles is missing, and only Claudia seems to notice. Claudia and Monday have always been inseparable--more sisters than friends. So when Monday doesn't turn up for the first day of school, Claudia's worried. When she doesn't show for the second day, or second week, Claudia knows that something is wrong. Monday wouldn't just leave her to endure tests and bullies alone. Not after last year's rumors and not with her grades on the line. Now Claudia needs her best--and only--friend more than ever. But Monday's mother refuses to give Claudia a straight answer, and Monday's sister April is even less help. As Claudia digs deeper into her friend's disappearance, she discovers that no one seems to remember the last time they saw Monday. How can a teenage girl just vanish without anyone noticing that she's gone?
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
Call Number: S\ Dalton
A story of brotherhood, true love, family, and the most unlikely of friendships, Boy Swallows Universe is the tale of an adolescent boy on the cusp of discovering the man he will be.
Eli Bell's life is complicated. His father is lost, his mother is in jail, and his stepdad is a heroin dealer. The most steadfast adult in Eli's life is Slim--a notorious felon and national record-holder for successful prison escapes--who watches over Eli and August, his silent genius of an older brother. Exiled far from the rest of the world in Darra, a neglected suburb populated by Polish and Vietnamese refugees, this twelve-year-old boy with an old soul and an adult mind is just trying to follow his heart, learn what it takes to be a good man, and train for a glamorous career in journalism. Life, however, insists on throwing obstacles in Eli's path--most notably Tytus Broz, Brisbane's legendary drug dealer. But the real trouble lies ahead. Eli is about to fall in love, face off against truly bad guys, and fight to save his mother from a certain doom--all before starting high school.
Parachutes by Kelly Yang
Call Number: S\Yang
A modern immigrant story from New York Times bestselling author Kelly Yang about two girls navigating wealth, power, friendship, and trauma.
They're called parachutes: teenagers dropped off to live in private homes and study in the United States while their wealthy parents remain in Asia. Claire Wang never thought she'd be one of them, until her parents pluck her from her privileged life in Shanghai and enroll her at a high school in California. Suddenly she finds herself living in a stranger's house, with no one to tell her what to do for the first time in her life. Dani De La Cruz, Claire's new host sister, couldn't be less thrilled that her mom rented out a room to Claire. An academic and debate team star, Dani is determined to earn her way into Yale, even if it means competing with privileged kids who are buying their way to the top. But Dani's game plan veers unexpectedly off course when her debate coach starts working with her privately. As they steer their own distinct paths, Dani and Claire keep crashing into one another, setting a course that will change their lives forever.
The Island by M.A. Bennett
Call Number: S\ Bennett
Seven students. One plane crash. No rules.
Link is a fish out of water. Newly arrived from America, he is finding it hard to settle into the venerable and prestigious Osney School. Who knew there could be so many strange traditions to understand? And what kind of school ranks its students by how fast they can run round the school quad - however ancient that quad may be? When Link runs the slowest time in years, he immediately becomes the butt of every school joke. And some students are determined to make his life more miserable than others ... When a school summer trip is offered, Link can think of nothing worse than spending voluntary time with his worst tormentors. But when his parents say he can only leave Osney School - forever - if he goes on the trip, Link decides to endure it for the ultimate prize. But this particular trip will require a very special sort of endurance. The saying goes 'No man is an island' - but what if on that island is a group of teenagers, none of whom particularly like each other? When oppressive heat, hunger and thirst start to bite, everyone's true colours will be revealed. Let the battle commence.
Call Number: S\ Dugan
A fresh and funny YA contemporary novel about two teens who fall in love in an indie comic book shop.
Jubilee has it all together. She's an elite cellist, and when she's not working in her stepmom's indie comic shop, she's prepping for the biggest audition of her life. Ridley is barely holding it together. His parents own the biggest comic-store chain in the country, and Ridley can't stop disappointing them--that is, when they're even paying attention. They meet one fateful night at a comic convention prom, and the two can't help falling for each other. Too bad their parents are at each other's throats every chance they get, making a relationship between them nearly impossible . . . unless they manage to keep it a secret. Then again, the feud between their families may be the least of their problems.
How We Learn by Stanislas Dehaene
Call Number: S\ 153 Dehaene
How We Learn finds the boundary of computer science, neurobiology, cognitive psychology and education to explain how learning really works.
Leading neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene delves into the psychological, neuronal, synaptic and molecular mechanisms of learning. Drawing on case studies of children who learned despite huge difficulty and trauma, he explains why youth is such a sensitive period, during which brain plasticity is maximal, but also assures us that our abilities continue into adulthood.
Jack Kerouac Is Dead to Me by Gae Polisner
Call Number: S\ Polisner
A story about the fragility of female friendship, of falling in love and wondering if you are ready for more, and of the glimmers of hope we find by taking stock in ourselves.
Fifteen-year-old JL Markham's life used to be filled with carnival nights and hot summer days spent giggling with her forever best friend Aubrey about their families and boys. Together, they were unstoppable. But they aren't the friends they once were. With JL's father gone on long term business, and her mother struggling with her mental illness, JL takes solace in the tropical butterflies she raises, and in her new, older boyfriend, Max Gordon. Max may be rough on the outside, but he has the soul of a poet (something Aubrey will never understand). Only, Max is about to graduate, and he's going to hit the road - with or without JL. JL can't bear being left behind again. But what if devoting herself to Max not only means betraying her parents, but permanently losing the love of her best friend? What becomes of loyalty, when no one is loyal to you?
We Are Lost and Found by Helene Dunbar
Call Number: S/ Dunbar
A poignant, heartbreaking, and uplifting story about three friends coming of age in the early 1980s as they struggle to forge their own paths in the face of fear of the unknown.
Michael is content to live in the shadow of his best friends, James and Becky. His brother, Connor, has already been kicked out of the house for being gay, so laying low seems to be Michael's only chance at avoiding the same fate.To pass the time before graduation, Michael hangs out at The Echo, where he can dance and forget about his father's angry words, the pressures of school, and the looming threat of AIDS, a disease everyone is talking about but no one understands.Then he meets Gabriel, a boy who actually sees him. A boy who, unlike seemingly everyone else in New York City, is interested in him and not James. And Michael has to decide what he's willing to risk to be himself.
The Lucky Ones by Liz Lawson
Call Number: S\ Lawson
May is a survivor. But she doesn't feel like one. She feels angry. And lost. And alone.
Eleven months after the school shooting that killed her twin brother, May still doesn't know why she was the only one to walk out of the band room that day. No one gets what she went through--no one saw and heard what she did. No one can possibly understand how it feels to be her. Zach lost his old life when his mother decided to defend the shooter. His girlfriend dumped him, his friends bailed, and now he spends his time hanging out with his little sister...and the one faithful friend who stuck around. His best friend is needy and demanding, but he won't let Zach disappear into himself. Which is how Zach ends up at band practice that night- the same night May goes with her best friend to audition for a new band. Which is how May meets Zach, and how Zach meets May. And how both might figure out that surviving could be an option after all.
What I Like About You by Marisa Kanter
Call Number: S\Kanter
Can a love triangle have only two people in it? Online, it can...but in the real world, its more complicated.
There are a million things that Halle Levitt likes about her online best friend, Nash. They can talk about anything...Except who she really is. Because online, Halle isn't Halle--she's Kels, the enigmatically cool creator of One True Pastry, a YA book blog that pairs epic custom cupcakes with covers and reviews. Kels has everything Halle doesn't: friends, a growing platform, tons of confidence, and Nash. That is, until Halle arrives to spend senior year in Gramps's small town and finds herself face-to-face with real, human, not-behind-a-screen Nash. Nash, who is somehow everywhere she goes and who has no idea she's actually Kels. If Halle tells him who she is, it will ruin the non-awkward magic of their digital friendship. Not telling him though, means it can never be anything more. Because while she starts to fall for Nash as Halle...he's in love with Kels.
The Silence of Bones by June Hur
Call Number: S\ Hur
Prepare to delve deep into the lush and dangerous world of Korea in the 1800's.
Homesick and orphaned sixteen-year-old Seol is living out the ancient curse: "May you live in interesting times." Indentured to the police bureau, she's been tasked with assisting a well-respected young inspector with the investigation into the politically charged murder of a noblewoman. As they delve deeper into the dead woman's secrets, Seol forms an unlikely bond of friendship with the inspector. But her loyalty is tested when he becomes the prime suspect, and Seol may be the only one capable of discovering what truly happened on the night of the murder. But in a land where silence and obedience are valued above all else, curiosity can be deadly.
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
Call Number: S\ 128 Bregman
Bregman shows how believing in human kindness and altruism can be a new way to think - and act as the foundation for achieving true change in our society.
Human beings, we're taught, are by nature selfish and governed by self-interest. Humankind makes a new argument: that it is realistic, as well as revolutionary, to assume that people are good. The instinct to cooperate rather than compete, trust rather than distrust, has an evolutionary basis going right back to the beginning of Homo sapiens. By thinking the worst of others, we bring out the worst in our politics and economics too. In this major book, internationally bestselling author Rutger Bregman takes some of the world's most famous studies and events and reframes them, providing a new perspective on the last 200,000 years of human history.
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer
Call Number: S\ 636 Foer
Jonathan Safran Foer explores the central global dilemma of our time in a surprising, deeply personal, and urgent new way.
Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. But do those of us who accept the reality of human-caused climate change truly believe it? If we did, surely we would be roused to act on what we know. Will future generations distinguish between those who didn’t believe in the science of global warming and those who said they accepted the science but failed to change their lives in response?
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Cherif, Anissa, Roelands, Bart, Meeusen, Romain, and Chamari, Karim (2016) Effects of intermittent fasting, caloric restriction, and Ramadan intermittent fasting on cognitive performance at rest and during exercise in adults. Sports Medicine, 46 (1). pp. 35-47.
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The aim of this review was to highlight the potent effects of intermittent fasting on the cognitive performance of athletes at rest and during exercise. Exercise interacts with dietary factors and has a positive effect on brain functioning. Furthermore, physical activity and exercise can favorably influence brain plasticity. Mounting evidence indicates that exercise, in combination with diet, affects the management of energy metabolism and synaptic plasticity by affecting molecular mechanisms through brain-derived neurotrophic factor, an essential neurotrophin that acts at the interface of metabolism and plasticity. The literature has also shown that certain aspects of physical performance and mental health, such as coping and decision-making strategies, can be negatively affected by daylight fasting. However, there are several types of intermittent fasting. These include caloric restriction, which is distinct from fasting and allows subjects to drink water ad libitum while consuming a very low-calorie food intake. Another type is Ramadan intermittent fasting, which is a religious practice of Islam, where healthy adult Muslims do not eat or drink during daylight hours for 1 month. Other religious practices in Islam (Sunna) also encourage Muslims to practice intermittent fasting outside the month of Ramadan. Several cross-sectional and longitudinal studies have shown that intermittent fasting has crucial effects on physical and intellectual performance by affecting various aspects of bodily physiology and biochemistry that could be important for athletic success. Moreover, recent findings revealed that immunological variables are also involved in cognitive functioning and that intermittent fasting might impact the relationship between cytokine expression in the brain and cognitive deficits, including memory deficits.
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Sandman Slim (2002)
Sandman Slim
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About book Sandman Slim (2002)
Sandman Slim is a man with a criminal past who was sent to Hell while still alive. After 11 years he returns, seeking vengeance for what was done to him and the killing of his girlfriend Alice. He finds himself caught up in a literal struggle for control of Heaven and Hell.Didn't really like any of the major characters and there was little humor, but it was an exciting, interesting story and was well written. I read this book a few years ago and it completely blew me away. Kadrey's Sandman Slim was like a shot whiskey served in a dirty glass. Pure Pulpy fun. The book reads like a lovechild of Richard Stark and Jim Butcher. In fact, it's what Harry Dresden wants to be when he grows up and discovers his ball. James Stark or just plain Stark has just escaped hell, literally. He just crawled out of the ass crack of hell after being trapped their by his former crew. Now he's out for revenge. If you like the revenge flicks , you'll enjoy this book, hell the whole series really. It reads like Mel Gibson's Payback with supernatural overtones. Foul language, Rampant violence, Angels with dirty faces, devils with a heart of gold, it's all there. Great first novel in a fantastic series.
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Other books by author Richard Kadrey
Butcher Bird: A Novel of The Dominion (2007)
The Getaway God (2014)
Devil in the Dollhouse (2012)
Aloha from Hell (2011)
Kill the Dead (2010)
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Thieftaker (2012)
Breach Of Trust (2011)
Irreparable (1970)
SPQR XII: Oracle of the Dead (2008)
Artful (2014)
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Home›News›Features›STREET FOOD SOUK GIVES STARTUPS A MARKET TASTE
STREET FOOD SOUK GIVES STARTUPS A MARKET TASTE
by Bilal K
The street provides a training ground for food and beverage concepts to own their own bricks and mortar property.
Souk el Akel is described by Co-founder Anthony Rahayel as a “Street market showcasing Lebanon’s vibrant culinary world of foods including Lebanese, Middle Eastern and international bites.” In an interview with a Lebanese business magazine, he says: “Souk el Akel introduces new foods to Lebanon, pushes ideas further and lets small businesses realize their dreams.” For some F&B concepts, standing on this popular street food market has made the dream of owning a bricks and mortar venue finally come true. But it’s not without its challenges.
Located on Mar Mikhael’s Madrid Street, The Bros is a recently opened burger venue. Walk past it on any given day or night and a large crowd of young foodies can be seen gathered outside eating and drinking. Its popularity has led to the expansion of the venue, despite that not too long ago, it begun life on a street food market.
The Bros Burgers
“We worked with the three brothers behind The Bros concept,” says Manal Syriani, project manager at N4TC, a tourist and hospitality consultancy. “The brothers loved cooking and over time were able to build clientele at Souk el Akel, so began thinking about officially taking their concept into a physical business.”
It’s no secret that street vending at food markets offers direct access to the target audience without the significant overheads that come with a permanent space. Therefore, being able to test and grow a concept before having to commit to it financially is invaluable for street food entrepreneurs.
“Many outlets started in similar places before going on to become typical food and beverage outlets,” Syriani says, adding that such street markets provide opportunities to meet people, test the food, test the market, and ultimately test the concept before investing into a full-fledged bricks and mortar restaurant.
Elias Saade, owner of Frooza, a concept that handcrafts ice cream rolls in front of customers, had a clear strategy in place when he first stood at Souk el Akel two years ago: “We planned from day one to create a loyal crowd in the first eight to 12 months at the Souk, so we could open a physical shop.”
The Frooza Ice Cream Bar
It opened 12 months later and the risk of investing around USD $50,000 into the physical space has seemingly paid off: “People come every day. They enjoy the live show of us making the ice cream rolls, and take photos and videos to post on social media,” he says.
Syriani says that the typical challenges faced by street food vendors wanting to set up a bricks and mortar shop are the same faced by small and family run businesses. “All these concepts have a passion for food and enjoy what they do, so much so they just want to open an outlet to express it,” she says. “But when they do, it is a challenge for them to organize it and put a structure for it like trying to put systems in place.”
“Obviously, overheads have increased − monthly rent, staff payroll, and utilities all have to be paid yearly, which can be a challenge” says Saade.
To keep customers aware of their new bricks and mortar shops, many of the street food entrepreneurs have remained at Souk el Akel “I’m still there because you have people visiting the Souk who are unable to get to Mar Mikhael. It also gives me the opportunity to market the shop and tell them about it face-to-face,” he says.
Street food vendors Joseph Astourian and Roy Chehadeh have also remained on Souk el Akel, despite opening Das Küche (German for The Kitchen) this week (November 28, 2017) just three doors along from The Bros. Both Astourian and Chehadeh our managing partners of the space, which is a combination of two concepts – The Potato Bar, by Astourian, and The Sausage House, by Chehadeh, both of which began life separately two years ago on the Souk. According to Astourian, investment in Das Küche is around $200,000. “It was a big step,” he says, “but being at the Souk has been a big success for us. We were always busy so decided to have a shop here in Mar Mikhael.”
The Sausage House imports 16 type of sausages from Europe and grills them live in front of diners. According to Astourian, the sausages can also be bought raw by the kilo and taken home. The Potato Bar offers the same jacket potatoes and fillings it sells on Souk el Akel. “We have added a gourmet line here at Das Küche, says Astourian, “which includes fillings like pulled pork and salmon, and sweet potatoes.” The restaurant also sells eight draught beers and a selection of German, English and local bottled beers.
The list of F&B street vendors that have made the transition from market to bricks and mortar is growing. Mac ‘N’ Cheese, The Pasta Guys and Kharouf Beirut are just a few from a long list. “Street food is very popular. It’s a growing trend,” says Syriani.
Charbel Akiki managing partner with Gino Khoueiry at Kharouf Beirut opened their physical restaurant four months ago, also in Mar Mikhael. “It a restaurant that has lamb rotating on a spit that diners can see,” says Akiki, who first began the concept eight years ago through providing BBQs at small events. In 2015, he partnered with Khoueiry and moved to Souk el Akel. “We only sold sandwiches at the Souk. But because we had the rotating spit, it created a huge amount of traffic,” he says.
Around USD $100, 000 was needed to create the bricks and mortar space, according to Akiki. “It’s an investment,” he says, “and allows us to widen our menu offering. But more importantly, it allows us to expand the concept.”
It is clear that the street is a training ground for the possibility of food startups to open a future bricks and mortar venue. The street market provides a viable way to interact with customers and see if there is a potential to take the concept to a more permanent level. But setting up shop in a permanent location doesn’t always mean leaving the street behind entirely.
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Sewing Subjectivities
The costume atelier as live performance. An experimental and comfortable space in which we support each other's impulses as we react to a kit of materials and sewing tools. Pre-made costume "outlines", crude introductory forms, are readapted, reacted to, cut, folded and added to during a series of improvised sessions. Roles switch as we each have a chance to be either the model or designer. Each participant experiences it in their own way and these characteristics are, quite literally, built into the costumes.
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"Warm up"
"I knew exactly where to cut"
During the process of editing, I became increasingly aware of the authority I had in selecting what was and wasn't included in the edit. Critical of this, I revisited the "Warm up" video and selected frames that were previously discarded. Many of the frames I had cut were moments that I personally found uncomfortable or embarrassing. These are a reflection on my own judgements and insecurities and so it was interesting for me to intentionally include them as a way to un-edit myself.
"Inverse Cut"
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Jared Paul Stern
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International Finance And Open Economy Macroeconomics Theory History And Policy By Hendrik Van Den Berg PDF, ePub eBook
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International finance and open economy macroeconomics theory history and policy second edition hendrik van den berg isbn 9789814730242 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. This historically based textbook on international finance and open economy macroeconomics provides a complete course on the theory and policies that shaped our international financial system utilizing the 1944 bretton woods conference as a unifying theme the book covers all the standard topics of international finance such as foreign exchange markets balance of payments accounting . International finance and open economy macroeconomics provides a complete theoretical historical and policy focused account of the international financial system that covers all of the standard topics such as foreign exchange markets balance of payments accounting macroeconomic policy in an open economy exchange rate crises multinational enterprises and international financial markets . International finance and open economy macroeconomicstheory history and policy by hendrik van den berg cite bibtex full citation abstract this historically based textbook on international finance and open economy macroeconomics provides a complete course on the theory and policies that shaped our international financial system utilizing the 1944 bretton woods conference as a . Start your review of international finance and open economy macroeconomics theory history and policy write a review mar 12 2012 greg rated it liked it review of another edition
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Urban Geology in Wales by Douglas Nichol, Michael G Bassett & Valerie K Deisler. National Museum & Galleries of Wales, Geological Series No. 23, 2004, £18 softback 256pp. ISBN: 0 7200 0549 3.
Mike Rosenbaum
Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, 38, 223-224, 1 May 2005, https://doi.org/10.1144/1470-9236/04-108
Ludlow, UK
The title aims right at the core of the concerns of many within the ground engineering industry who are grappling with the problems of redevelopment and regeneration of urban areas in formerly industrialized regions. Unfortunately, the volume fails to focus on what many might consider to be the principle issues, including groundwater, contamination and the character of anthropogenic ground. Perhaps use of terms such as ‘applied geology’, ‘built environment’ or ‘mining legacy’ rather than ‘urban geology’ might have more successfully conveyed the concepts which this volume encompasses.
This book presents a compilation of 35 papers concerning a wide variety of projects, but there is little text to draw the threads together. Indeed, 20% of the papers are not strictly concerned with urban areas in Wales at all, such as mineral resources (e.g. Paper 31 on exploration …
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Online Entertainment and Support Resources
Chris Wilson Uncategorized April 21, 2020 15 Minutes
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Thanks to the Greensboro Public Library for this awesome listing!!!
Greensboro Public Library at Home Fun activities for children and adults.
Greensboro Parks and Recreation is going live on Facebook Monday-Friday at 1 pm. We have a variety of programs from animal Mondays to fitness Fridays and everything in between!
Greensboro Children’s Museum has a comprehensive list of at-home activities and projects for the family.
Greensboro Downtown Parks have gone digital with art, wellness, and so much more.
GreenHill Center for NC Art is holding virtual art lessons! Visit their Facebook page for links.
North Carolina Zoo lists a variety of virtual programming that allows viewing and learning about their animals online. This listing provides specific details of what the programs are, when they are offered, and on what platform they can be accessed.
Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum State Historic Site encourages children to participate in their “Flat Charlotte” adventures.
Greensboro Ballet is holding daily classes on YouTube.
Free Music Lessons – A Greensboro couple is providing virtual music lessons to children:
Fun Online Opportunities from The Greensboro Green Foundation:
Watch our Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for activities and other interesting information.
Rainbow Yoga for EveryBODY will be held on Instagram. See Lana’s instagram page here.
Check out Campaign for Southern Equality’s Front Porch series of virtual gatherings.
Downtown Greensboro, Inc. List of Virtual Arts & Entertainment Resources
Triad Stage has published a full line-up of virtual performances
Carolina Theatre is hosting virtual Open Mic Nights throughout the month of April.
Vintage to Vogue Boutique is livestreaming twice each week on Facebook. Visit this feed for details.
Greensboro Downtown Yoga has online yoga classes via their YouTube Channel.
Chez Genèse is holding virtual cooking classes during the week. They post the schedule on their Instagram feed and the recipes on their blog.
Triad Stage is holding Facebook Live events this week:
Greensboro Parks & Recreation is offering online recreational activities each week day at 1pm via their Facebook page.
Virtual tours of NC Parks: https://www.ncparks.gov/photos-and-videos
Vitual Tour of the NC Museum of Natural Sciences: https://naturalsciences.org/exhibits/virtual-tours
Online Exhibits, NC Museum of History: https://www.ncmuseumofhistory.org/exhibits/online
Virtual Field Trips, NC Museum of Art: https://learn.ncartmuseum.org/vft/
An Appalachian Summer Festival Replaces LIve Events with alternative online programming:
https://www.yesweekly.com/music/an-appalachian-summer-festival-2020-replaces-live-events-with-online-programming/article_1d5e48d6-80ee-11ea-bad3-4713c448f0f1.html
Carolina Theatre’s Future Fund Virtual Event:
https://carolinatheatre.com/event/future-fund-10-live/?occurrence_id=5701
Fox 8’s Virtual Event Calendar: https://myfox8.com/community-calendar/#!/
Virtual exercise via the YMCA of Greensboro: https://www.ymcagreensboro.org/virtual
Heart and Stroke Walk: https://www2.heart.org/site/TR/HeartWalk/MAA-MidAtlanticAffiliate?pg=entry&fr_id=4938
Virtual Theatre for Greensboro Teens: https://www.wxii12.com/article/creative-greensboro-virtual-theatre-experience-teens/32155012
Non-local offerings
Each day at 3 pm, the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden will bring the zoo to you on Facebook Live with animal visits, information and activities to do at home. http://cincinnatizoo.org/home-safari-resources/?fbclid=IwAR0VzTaBOeLdK43nDqYNsO7c9IZhkkxUUEecyJ7kIB5zaYJPnojIGi8JodQ
“Mondays With Michelle Obama” is in collaboration with Penguin Random House’s “Read Together, Be Together” initiative and PBS Kids’ “Read-Along” efforts. The series will be livestreamed on PBS Kids’ Facebook and YouTube pages, as well as Penguin Random House’s Facebook page each week at 9 a.m. Pacific and be available to view anytime after.https://redtri.com/mondays-michelle-obama-random-house-storytime/
https://www.readtogetherbetogether.com/
PENGUIN KIDS STORYTIME @PenguinKids on Instagram
Boston Children’s Museum virtual tour:www.bostonchildrensmuseum.org/museum-virtual-tour
Mo Willems archived Lunch Doodles through the Kennedy Art Center. Download a three week, 15 episode doodling fun time with the author/illustrator of the Pigeon books! This article also includes a link to other author/illustrators that are sharing stories and leading activities
https://www.kennedy-center.org/education/mo-willems/
The World of Eric Carle shares an animated performance of 10 Little Rubber Ducks narrated by Bernadette Peters – an engaging story of a box of rubber ducks that go overboard during a storm at sea. Spoiler alert: the ending will quack you up!
https://www.facebook.com/theworldofEricCarle/videos/267488427984718/?vh=e&d=n
Choose from a variety of live cams to see animals and natural spaces in real time from around the world : https://explore.org/livecams
Stream an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical every weekend. Look for his “The Shows Must Go On” link on his website: https://www.andrewlloydwebber.co
Get inspired by family art-making ideas from New York City’s Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/magazinrticles/254
www.artliveson.com/streaming-now a calendar of online music events
Melissa Etheridge performs live on Facebook each day at 3pm.
Ellen is calling her celebrity friends live on Facebook.
Q Chat Space – a community for LGBTQ youth.
Work out at home with the Y! Strength and endurance, balance, controlled and focused movements, beginners, cardio, yoga, active older adults, and more! Classes here and here.
Dolly Parton is reading bedtime stories to children every Thursday night at 7pm for the next 10 weeks.
Some Upcoming Live Streamed Music Events from Billboard:
May 8: Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman and Talinda Bennington announced 320 Festival, a one-of-a-kind festival aimed at changing the way we talk about mental health. The festival that was set to take place across the entire L.A. LIVE complex in May has been canceled in its current form. Instead, the festival will be going online. On May 8- 10, fans can tune in for free on Facebook Live, YouTube Live, and the KNEKT.TV Network on Roku and Apple TV to join the conversation through educational sessions, musical performances, workshops and more.
May 2: Latin music stars Gloria and Emilio Estefan, Luis Fonsi, J Balvin, Diane Guerrero and Ana Brenda Contreras have teamed for Eva Longoria’s virtual Cinco de Mayo celebration. The virtual concert will stream live on Facebook Live, Youtube, Twitch, Twitter, iHeartLatino’s radio stations and websites, among other social media platforms, on May 5 at 2 p.m. PT. The event is free to watch but viewers will be encouraged to make donations.
May 1: iHeartMedia Los Angeles’ 102.7 KIIS FM will be hosting a Virtual Prom for Southern California students live at 6:30 p.m. PST on KIIS FM’s YouTube channel. The event will feature DJ sets from Joe Jonas, Dillon Francis and Loud Luxury, a special guest appearance from Lauv and more.
April 29: The Grammy Museum is releasing its digital public program with Brett Young here.
April 27: The Grammy Museum is releasing its digital public program with Sabrina Carpenter here.
SPACE will livestream Blue Monday, presented by Magellan Corporation, with Dave Specter (playing at 8 p.m. ET) and John Kattke (performing at 8:30 p.m. ET) via their Facebook page.
April 26: Lindsay Ell will be hosting a virtual Facebook Live concert at 7 p.m. MT to benefit Colorado’s Tennyson Center for Children (Tennyson Center) as Child Abuse Prevention Month comes to a close.
April 25: NETTA, Flora Cash, Hanson, MILCK and more are set to perform during Twitch’s free virtual music festival on April 25. Donations will benefit MusiCares. More details are available at Loop.tv.
Digital music festival Room Service kicks off April 24-26, with performances by Yungblud, Channel Tres, Pink Sweat$, Chromeo, Zeds Dead, Borgore, A Boogie wit da Hoodie, Gallant, Griz, Mt. Joy, Trevor Daniel, RAC, Jeremy Zucker, Shallou & more (full lineup here). Proceeds from the event will go directly to COVID-19 relief efforts, including Sweet Relief and Feeding America.
North Carolina and CLTure are hosting “Under One Roof,” a livestream benefit concert for North Carolina artists, to be presented in one-hour segments on the evenings of Friday April 24 through Sunday, April 26. Anthony Hamilton, 9th Wonder, Ben Folds, The Hamiltones, Petey Pablo, Tift Merritt, Jim Lauderdale, Steep Canyon Rangers, Chatham County Line, Joe Troop of Che Apalache and The Harvey Cummings Project are all scheduled to perform. See here for more information.
The Grammy Museum is releasing its digital public program with Ben Platt here.
100 gecs is hosting a virtual festival experience: Square Garden. The festival will take place in a unique Minecraft world and feature artists like Charli XCX, Dorian Electra, Kero Kero Bonito, Cashmere Cat, Benny Blanco, Tommy Cash and more. The festivities will take place on 100gecs.com at 6 p.m. with all donations set to benefit Feeding America.
April 23: SPACE will be livestreaming a performance from Tony Lucca at 8 p.m. ET, followed by a set from Jay Nash at 9 p.m. ET via their Facebook page.
Dolly Parton will be reading for her “Goodnight With Dolly” series every Thursday at 7 p.m. EST on Facebook.
April 22: The Grammy Museum is releasing its digital public program with Courtney Barnett here.
SPACE will be livestreaming a set from the Mynabirds’ Laura Burhenn via their Facebook page at 8 p.m. ET.
The New Jersey Pandemic Relief Fund will be hosting JERSEY 4 JERSEY 7 p.m. ET on Apple Music and AppleTV apps worldwide, on SiriusXM’s E Street Radio (currently free on the SiriusXM app) and carried on WABC Channel 7, WPVI 6ABC, WPIX, News12, NJTV and local radio outlets including 1010 WINS, WCBS 880, CBS-FM, WFAN, New York’s Country 94.7, Alt 92.3, Q104.3 and others. Halsey, Jon Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, SZA, Charlie Puth, Saquon Barkley, Tony Bennett, Danny DeVito, Whoopi Goldberg, Chelsea Handler, Kelly Ripa, Jon Stewart and more will make appearances.
April 21: Third Eye Blind are performing live during their “Quarantine Kitchen Sessions” every Tuesday at varying times on the band’s Instagram account to promote social distancing. Said Stephan Jenkins: “We all need to be part of the solution and not the spread.”
April 20: The Grammy Museum is releasing its digital public program with Richard Marx here.
SPACE will be livestreaming a set from Miles Nielsen via their Facebook page at 8 p.m. ET.
Virtual Tours of Historic Sites, Museums, Zoos, etc.
Blarney Castle https://www.virtualvisittours.com/blarney-castle/
Stages / Theatres Around the World https://artsandculture.google.com/story/1gJiszMqltReJA
Disney previously launched Google Street View imagery of Disney World in Orlando, Florida, and Disneyland in Anaheim, California.
Fans dreaming of a day spent in the lovable theme parks can virtually enjoy Magic Kingdom, Hollywood Studios, and even Disney World’s global Epcot “countries.”
Monteray Bay Aquarium California, is giving visitors a virtual look at its colorful sea creatures via free live camera streaming. Animal lovers can zen out to jellyfish or watch penguins waddling in their habitat.
Guggenheim Museum. Google Arts & Culture is offering a free digital tour of the Guggenheim Museum through its Street View feature.
Taj Mahal, Eiffel Tower, Sydney Opera House. Google’s Arts & Culture section has crystal-clear views of the Taj Mahal in New Dehli, India, as well as several other renowned spots around the world. For example, you can look down from the top of the Eiffel Tower or relax with a view of the Sydney Opera House, all while not actually traveling.
Natural History at the Smithsonian. From dinosaurs to ocean creatures, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History offers in-depth 360-degree views of its exhibits.
San Diego Zoo. The California zoo has pre-recorded and live video streams showing koalas, apes, pandas, penguins, and other creatures that offer endless hours of entertainment and fascination.
British Museum. The museum has a free interactive timeline that lets users explore artifacts from ancient civilizations around the world. The virtual exhibit lets people focus on different topics and themes, like “living and dying,” “power and identity,” and “trade and conflict,” all from different continents and eras.
Museum of Modern Art. Also in partnership with Google Arts & Culture, the MoMA offers one free virtual “walk-through” exhibit, plus select photos of its permanent artwork collections.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Anyone who appreciates architecture will likely enjoy The Met’s series of YouTube videos that show its most famous buildings and exhibit spaces in a 360-degree format. As a bonus, the videos also feature relaxing instrumental music soundtracks.
Royal Botanic Gardens. Some very kind visitors to the Royal Botanic Gardens captured panoramic shots of the stunning landscape, and they’re available to view on Google’s Street View feature.
NASA Space Center. NASA’s free Space Center Houston app lets people explore virtual reality experiences, take astronaut selfies, and follow along through an audio tour of its educational space center.
The Louvre. The Louvre’s official website offers a few virtual exhibits of its own, and a separate site, YouVisit, has a realistic 360-degree tour of several parts of the Paris museum.
The Acropolis. In partnership with Google Arts & Culture, the Acropolis Museum has digitized many of its ancient artifacts, from statues to marble murals. Virtual visitors can also take in panoramic views of Athens via the Street View feature.
National Portrait Gallery. Online guests can explore several exhibits from the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, from “First Ladies” to “Eye to I: Self-portraits from 1900 to today.”
National Parks You Can Visit Virtually:
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While all the major sports leagues have currently shut down, that doesn’t mean you can’t relive some of the highlights from prior seasons.
BASEBALL: In addition to being able to watch all of last season’s games on MLB.tv, you can also watch plenty of great classic games on MLB’s YouTube channel. Additionally, PBS has added Ken Burn’s “Baseball” to their list of online viewing options.
FOOTBALL: NFL Game Pass is offering free access until the end of May. Watch original programing and games from 2009 – 2019.
BASKETBALL: NBA League Pass is offering a free preview until April 22nd. Watch full and condensed games and additional programing.
HOCKEY: The NHL is providing access to games played this season before the shutdown as well as additional classic games and content from prior seasons.
SOCCER: Enjoy World Cup action from FIFA TV on YouTube featuring full games and original content.
Don’t forget you can also watch More Sports & Les Levine weekdays at 6 for all the latest Cleveland Sports Talk.
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COOKING: Both Milk Street and America’s Test Kitchen have made a variety of recipes and cooking lessons free on their websites.
KIDS: Audible has released a number of kids audiobooks for free. Additionally, Penguin Random House is providing free daily book readings as well as sing-a-longs for kids.
CONCERTS: The New York Metropolitan Opera is offering free daily encore performances. The Seattle Symphony is also providing free live shows. The Cleveland Orchestra also has educational videos, concert rehearsals and more on their YouTube channel.
THEATER: Broadway HD currently has a free 7-day preview featuring some of the biggest shows on Broadway. The Globe Theatre is also offering free videos featuring adaptations of scenes from various Shakespeare plays as well as additional content. Watch some of the most loved musicals of all time premiering every Friday on a new YouTube channel. Shows will only be available for 48 hours each though. PBS is also streaming Great Performances.
E-BOOKS: Featuring works in dozens of languages and including a number of classics from Dickens to Plato, you can download works for free from Project Gutenberg. If you are a fan of classic choose-your-own adventure books, head over to Project Aon. For fans of Comics, Comixology has extended their free preview to 60 days.
PUZZLES: Having trouble finding jigsaw puzzles for sale and in stock? Jigidi.com offers free online puzzles that you can save and come back to.
VIDEO GAMES: The Internet Archive is a great location for lots of content. In particular, they offer access to hundreds of classic PC and DOS video games that you’ve probably been unable to play since you updated to Windows XP. Parental warning, a handful of games do have adult themes.
STREAMING SERVICES: A number of free services exist. However, a number of paid services have also extended free options or extended their free trial periods.
SiriusXM has extended free streaming through May 15th.
The WWE has unlocked a large amount of content online including all prior Wrestlemanias, past live shows and loads of original content.
HBO is making streams of its most popular series available at HBO Now for free, including ‘Veep’ and ‘The Sopranos’
Apple TV+ has made some of its original programming free.
CBS is making ‘Star Trek: Picard’ available to those with a free trial by using the code GIFT.
Amazon Prime has unlocked a number of TV shows and movies geared towards young children and families. Amazon membership not required.
Kanopy: This free service is available for access. All you need is your library card.
SLING is currently offering a free experience providing access to some family-friendly movies and shows as well as live news from ABC News.
Showtime is currently offering a free 30 day trial to new subscribers.
Acorn TV is offering 30 days free for access to many popular British shows. Use pass code FREE30.
For fans of the horror genre, Shudder is offering 30 days free with the code SHUTIN.
You can also get 30 days of Sundance Now by using the code SUNDANCENOW30.
STARS ONLINE: A number of celebrities have begun to reach out to fans on their social media platforms as well. You can watch Patrick Stewart recite Shakespeare on his Facebook page while Andrew Lloyd Weber is taking requests from fans on songs from his musicals.
Let’s face it, being stuck at home is stressful. Worrying about getting sick is stressful. Here’s several services that are extending free stress-management services as well as at-home workouts.
Sanvello is currently offering free premium access to their app. Practice meditation and learn other clinical techniques for dealing with stress, anxiety or depression.
Simple Habit is offering free premium access to their meditation and mindfulness app for those impacted by the current economic downturn.
Peloton: You don’t have to buy one of their bikes to get 90 days free access to their app.
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Yogini Jeannie is offering free classes to those in the Northeast Ohio service industry who have been impacted by recent closures.
Jazzercise on Demand is currently offering 60 days free when you sign up and use the code 60DAYSFREE.
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Kick 55 Fitness is offering free video classes through their Instagram page until the end of March. Prior, archived videos of those classes are also up and will remain so after the end of the month.
Business and Job Search services
Novoresume is offering one month of free premium service, including access to cover letter and resume templates. The offers is good until April 10th.
Enhancv is currently offering free resume building tools online.
Fender: Learn to play the guitar online as the company is currently offering free online guitar courses.
Adobe: The company is making home access to Photoshop and some of its other platforms free for students and educators. Note: Request must come from school’s IT personnel.
Professional development: New to the work-from-home scene? LinkedIn is providing a number of educational videos to help employees and managers optimize their time working remotely.
Khan Academy is offering free online resources for parents, teachers and students.
Scholastic Learn at Home has opened a free digital learning hub for at-home students.
Explain Everything is providing access to their Whiteboard tool for those teaching from home.
Unity 3D: Company is provide access to hundreds of hours of tutorials on computer graphics design, 3D modeling, coding and more.
Pear Deck: Offering free access to their premium online suite for teachers and students integrating Google tools.
Kahoot: Providing free access to their online distance-learning tools.
No Red Ink: Distance-learning tools for writing, grammar and more.
KnowledgeHook: Access to free premium tools for remote math education through the end of June.
The Akron Children’s Museum is offering free online programs Mondays and Tuesdays on their website and on their Facebook channel the rest of the week.
Free educational videos: While you can’t take your kids out to the museum or zoo, you can bring those experiences home. The Great Lakes Science Center’s Curiosity Corner currently provides a number of videos with experiment suggestions as well as brief talks and demonstrations on a number of topics. The Cincinnati Zoo is offering Home Safaris, bringing you up close with Fiona and many of the other animals at the zoo. Closer to home, the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo has expanded their online offerings via their Virtual Classroom.
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411: Drivers & Teams 2011
Posted by rookief1 on December 2, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Hope you’re coping well with the weather; trudging to work in the snow is not my favourite thing to do first thing in the morning. But once I returned home (through the sludge…snow is depressing once it’s walked on don’t you think?) I found the first sign of spring…
FIA announce provisional 2011 entry list:
Red Bull Racing 1. Sebastian Vettel
2. Mark Webber
Vodafone McLaren Mercedes 3. Lewis Hamilton
4. Jenson Button
Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro 5. Fernando Alonso
6. Felipe Massa
Mercedes GP Petronas F1 Team 7. Michael Schumacher
8. Nico Rosberg
Renault F1 Team 9. Robert Kubica
10. TBA
AT&T Williams 11. Rubens Barrichello
12. Pastor Maldonado
Force India F1 Team 14. TBA
Sauber F1 Team 16. Kamui Kobayashi
17. Sergio Pérez Mendoza
Scuderia Toro Rosso 18. TBA
Team Lotus 20. Jarno Trulli
21. Heikki Kovalainen
HRT F1 Team 22. TBA
Marussia Virgin Racing 24. TBA
The ‘provisional’ part must be stressed; we’ve only just started December, and as you can tell by the gaps…it’s far from completed. I’ve got a page set up which will be constantly updated as the information gets released by the teams and the FIA.
First order of business is to make a note of who’s missing from this list; as it stand we have 10 seats unaccounted for, that’s almost half the field for the record. Below is the list of the drivers that haven’t featured on the list yet and who drove last year at some point.
Vitaly Petrov (Renault), Nico Hulkenberg (Williams), Adrian Sutil (Force India), Vitantonio Liuzzi (Force India), Nick Heidfeld (Sauber), Pedro de la Rosa (Sauber), Sebastien Buemi (Toro Rosso), Jaime Alguersuari (Toro Rosso), Christian Klien (HRT), Sakon Yamamoto (HRT), Bruno Senna (HRT), Karun Chandhok (HRT), Lucas di Grassi (Virgin) and Timo Glock (Virgin).
Quite a chunk of drivers and not enough seats to go around; a common feature of the end of season dash, but there are a couple of drivers we can sort out from the off. It has been reported that Alguersuari and Buemi do have Toro Rosso contracts for 2011; I reckon they’re just ironing out some of the important details. Like who gets the number 18 car.
One of the biggest shocks is that Nico Hulkenberg has been booted from Williams; this is far from performance related as the German stopped the 100 race drought by providing a much-needed pole position in Brazil. But not to discredit Maldonado; it’s hard to ignore the substantial sponsorship he’s bringing with him. I personally hope Hulkenberg finds a home to call his own before the season starts as he produced some good results this year.
And despite being assured he would remain with Renault next year; Vitaly Petrov has yet to be confirmed, buoyant after his (surprising) performance in Abu Dhabi he claimed he was staying put. And the team seemed in agreement; but once the dust had settled; I imagine they perused the last season and remembered the trail of destruction (and unclaimed points) he left around the world.
A rumour swirling around the Virgin and HRT teams is that they are waiting for ‘paid’ drivers to knock at their doors. It’s a balancing act that a lot of the teams have to manage throughout the year; do they go for money and develop their cars and survive another year, or risk it with a talented driver without the backing for the points. It’s essentially about the money…which of course is a shame, but it’s the way the sport is. However as Virgin has just acquired a brand new title sponsor in Marussia; it’s unlikely they are in dire need of money…so what’s the hold up?
Regarding team names Lotus Racing has become Team Lotus; Tony Fernandes has got his way and entered his team for the 2011 season under the name he wanted all year. But what’s this? The buzz around the ice-laden paddock is that he could sell up to Group Lotus and purchase Renault (which had been with Lotus in November). Now that would be a tasty end to this tale…
Oh and as a final note on the teams for next year; mull over the Mercedes GP drivers…who would you give the top car to? Nico Rosberg surely; after the consistent ass-whooping (the technical term for outperforming your teammate all year) he gave Schumacher this season. No, Schumi took the #7 for himself under the guise of superstition. You’re not fooling anyone mate!
Later rookies!
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Style » Fashion
Black Hair Matters: How Going Natural Made Me Visible
by Cara Anthony
Friday November 13, 2020
Three months into the pandemic, Anthony said goodbye to chemically straightened hair, which led to many conversations with her daughter about what it means to go natural. (Source:Anthony family/Cara Anthony)
The night before I chopped off my hair, I got nervous.
This decision felt bigger than me, given all the weight that Black women's hair carries. But after three months of wearing hats and scarves in a pandemic when trips to the hairdresser felt unsafe, I walked into a salon emotionally exhausted but ready to finally see my natural hair.
I thought a few tears would fall, but, as the last of my chemically straightened hair floated to the floor like rain, I felt cleansed. Free. I laughed hysterically as I drove away from the salon.
Friends and family cheered me on virtually, but my father quietly worried about my decision. My dad grew up in the Jim Crow South, where many women straightened their hair to land jobs, husbands and respect. Before my big chop, he never said much about my hair beyond the occasional compliment, which is why I was surprised when he issued a warning.
"Watch it out there. Your hair is cut now," he blurted when he saw me walking out of the house.
My mother heard him but remained silent. She had her own set of concerns. She was worried about me looking less professional.
I also had to help my now 4-year-old daughter understand why I decided to go natural. We've watched the animated "Hair Love" a million times. We've read books like "Happy Hair" by Mechal Renee Roe, "I Love My Hair!" by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley and my personal favorite, "Don't Touch My Hair!" by Sharee Miller.
Still, my daughter had a hard time adjusting to my new haircut, often asking when I planned to get my hair styled again. She preferred my extensions, saying she thought I looked more like a princess that way. I gently explained that my hair is a style — and the one I choose — even if it's not long and straight.
My family's emotions about my hair left me tangled.
Of course, the styling of Black hair has been fraught for centuries. The CROWN Act, which passed the U.S. House in September and is now pending in the Senate, is intended to protect Black people from discrimination in schools, housing and employment based on their hairstyle. But such a law, even if passed, cannot stop bigotry, bullets and the emotional battle that comes with being a Black woman in America as seen through something as simple as our hair.
I hadn't considered talking to my daughter about how hair could affect her personal safety until my father broke his silence. A haircut shouldn't influence your life expectancy.
On the night of my haircut, I drove to the store more aware of how others would perceive my new look. My father, however, was more worried about my safety because my silhouette could possibly be mistaken for a Black man's frame.
We live in the Midwest, just outside St. Louis, where natural hair still makes a statement for Black women. If my buzz cut made me look more like a Black man, would the cops in our town treat me differently? In my dad's eyes, my femininity increased my chances of making it home safely.
His comments also led to a conversation about the intersection between racism and sexism. Without reading the crucial work of scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw and other activists, my father intuitively understood that society has placed Black women in a blind spot, where our gender and our race make us invisible in many ways.
But that space isn't safe, is it? A Eurocentric feminine hairstyle can't protect Black women from the many deadly forms of racism.
Police officers can see us. Since 2015, at least 48 Black women have been killed by the police. I'm guessing the style of their hair didn't matter to the officers pulling the triggers. In the past few years, the #SayHerName campaign has put a spotlight on their killings, but society still pays less attention to the police killings of Black women. While most people have heard of George Floyd, Michael Brown and Breonna Taylor, fewer know about Kathryn Johnston, Korryn Gaines and India Kager.
In death and life, our rights and our achievements don't seem to hold as much weight compared with those of our male counterparts or our white ones. Yet, many Black women go to great lengths to be accepted in this country.
In the past few weeks, I've listened to other Black women in my life vent about their hair and navigating racism. We've shared our fears, hair horror stories and moments of victory. I've come to realize that my haircut wasn't just about changing my style. It was also about reclaiming my crown after years of letting society control it.
Kaiser Health News (KHN) is a national health policy news service. It is an editorially independent program of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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Residential Exposure to PM2.5 Components and Risk of Childhood Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma in Denmark: A Nationwide Register-Based Case-Control Study
Ulla Arthur Hvidtfeldt, Kræftens Bekæmpelse
Friederike Erdmann, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Stine Kjaer Urhoj, Københavns Universitet
Jørgen Brandt
Camilla Geels
Matthias Ketzel
Lise M. Frohn
Jesper Heile Christensen
Mette Sørensen, Kræftens Bekæmpelse, Department of Natural Science and Environment
Ole Raaschou-Nielsen
Institut for Miljøvidenskab - Atmosfærisk modellering
In a recent study, we observed an increased risk of childhood non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) associated with exposure to fine atmospheric particulate matter (PM2.5) and black carbon (BC). In this nationwide register-based case-control study, we focus on specific components of PM2.5 in relation to childhood NHL in Denmark (1981-2013) by identifying all incidents of childhood NHL cases in the Danish Cancer Registry (n = 170) and four (cancer-free) randomly selected controls matched by date of birth and sex. We applied PM2.5 concentrations and the following sub-components: secondary organic aerosols (SOA), secondary inorganic aerosols (SIA; i.e., NO3-, NH4+ and SO42-), BC, organic carbon (OC) and sea salt. We calculated a time-weighted exposure average from birth to index-date at all addresses. Odds ratios (ORs) were adjusted for register-based socio-demographic variables. We observed adjusted ORs and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) of 2.05 (1.10, 3.83) per interquartile range (IQR, 4.83 µg/m3) PM2.5 and 1.73 (0.68, 4.41) per IQR (3.71 µg/m3) SIA, 0.95 (0.71, 1.29) per IQR (0.05 µg/m3) SOA, 1.22 (1.02, 1.46) per IQR (0.39 µg/m3) BC, 1.02 (0.83, 1.26) per IQR (0.56 µg/m3) OC and 1.01 (0.79, 1.30) per IQR (0.87 µg/m3) sea salt, respectively. The estimates were attenuated after adjustment for PM2.5, whereas the OR for PM2.5 remained increased regardless of adjustment for specific components. The findings indicate that the previously observed relation between PM2.5 and childhood NHL may be related to BC (as reported in our previous study) but also partly to SIA, but the role of specific chemical components of PM2.5 remains ambiguous.
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DOUGLAS SIRK: FILMMAKER COLLECTION
Posted on January 27, 2020 January 27, 2020 by robertemmetsweeney
The Tarnished Angels (1957) is one of Douglas Sirk’s greatest accomplishments, and it was not available on DVD in the United States until last month (one had to nab Region 2 DVD editions in France and England previously). TCM released it on September 31st (in partnership with Universal) as part of the Douglas Sirk: Filmmaker Collection box set, along with Thunder on the Hill (1951), Taza, Son of Cochise (1954) and Captain Lightfoot (1955). It’s the latest production from TCM’s Vault Collection, which makes limited runs of hard-to-find studio titles, only available for purchase on-line.
Now is the time for the full disclosure bit. Since I’m writing for TCM, there’s a clear conflict of interest here. Proceed at your own peril, although all of the following thoughts are my own and are not influenced by my beloved corporate overlords (I promise).
Sirk made his reputation on the melodramas he directed for producer Ross Hunter, but this set shows off his versatility. It contains a murder mystery (Thunder), a western (Taza) and a swashbuckling adventure (Lightfoot) in addition to the more familiar Sirkian drama of The Tarnished Angels. Thunder on the Hill is a stagy whodunit set in a convent, based on the play “Bonaventure” by Charlotte Hastings. It finds Claudette Colbert’s meddling Sister Mary trying to clear the name of convicted murderess Valerie Carns (Ann Blythe). Valerie is being escorted to a prison to be executed, when a dramatically convenient storm maroons her in Sister Mary’s domain. The scenario is creaky but the actors are game, with Colbert’s earnest moon-shaped face beaming out of her nun’s habit. Sirk wasn’t happy with the project, complaining to Michael Stern that, “only on Thunder did I have a producer who was interfering with my work. He was the only one at Universal. After that film I believe they fired him.” A quick look at producer Michael Kraike’s IMDB page confirms it was the last film he worked on for the studio.
Despite the fraught working conditions, Sirk still displays his impeccable sense of composition, with DP William Daniels setting up B&W shots in depth, analyzing the power relations between characters. The triangle above finds Colbert flanked by a jealous nurse and the passive doctor, who will both be serious impediments to her investigation. Later, there’s a striking sequence where Colbert commiserates with Sister Josephine (Connie Gilchrist, a delightful busybody) about the case while the loyal town idiot Willie (Michael Pate) eats in the corner. The diagonal lineup of characters rhymes with the staircase in the background, a more harmonious arrangement for her informal deputies.
Taza, Son of Cochise is less satisfying, but does contain stunning color CinemaScope photography from Russell Metty. It’s an informal sequel to Broken Arrow (1950) and The Battle at Apache Pass (1952), where Jeff Chandler portrayed Cochise against James Stewart and John Lund, respectively. Here Chandler appears in an uncredited cameo as the Apache Chief, turning over his responsibilities to his son, Taza (Rock Hudson), who battles his brother Naiche (Rex Reason, a name for the ages) for control of the Apache tribe. The script is a tired reiteration of the Cochise story, and the film, which was originally shot in 3D, fails to display Sirk’s usual visual dynamism in 2D. The colors certianly pop, though.
Captain Lightfoot is an enormously entertaining comic adventure filled with revolutionary skirmishes in 1815 Ireland. It was the first Hollywood feature film to be entirely shot in the Emerald Isle (The Quiet Man just shot exteriors there), and Sirk and DP Irving Glassberg glory in the rolling hills and elaborate period finery for the color ‘Scope frame. Rock Hudson excels as young rebel Michael Martin, a small-time hood taken under the wing of Captain Thunderbolt (Jeff Morrow), a legendary Robin Hood resistance fighter and bon vivant (the scenario was lifted for Michael Cimino’s Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. Captain Lightfoot’s screenwriter W.R. Burnett was not kind to the remake: “He stole it. Son-of-a-bitch. I’m glad Heaven’s Gate flopped.”).
Burnett, an irascible sort, was also not pleased with his director (from Backstory 1): “Sirk was a very bad job of miscasting. He had no sense of humor.” I beg to differ. While Sirk does not opt for out-and-out slapstick, there is a tender, amused tone throughout, from Hudson’s dance lesson to his strategic cigar smoking in a duel. The compositions here are packed, often overstuffed with action and reactions. Thunderbolt’s elaborate ball is masterfully staged and executed, with Hudson continually framed near the center in his eye-grabbing matte-gray suit. When he’s interrogated by the inspector, all stares remain on him, as ladies gather expectantly behind a window. This cements his transition from the one who looks up to Thunderbolt to the one being looked at.
The centerpiece of the box set is The Tarnished Angels (1957) a downbeat study of a family of stunt-flyers in Depression-era New Orleans. Adapted from William Faulkner’s novel Pylon, it was a treasured project of Sirk’s. Screenwriter George Zuckerman recalled to Gary Morris of Bright Lights film journalthat, “But after the success of Written on the Wind, in conversation with Sirk, I suggested Pylon. His face turned white. He said it was exactly the property he had in mind.” He re-teamed Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone from Written on the Wind, now as the doomed couple Roger and LaVerne Shumann. Roger was a decorated WWI pilot, now reduced to winning dangerous prop plane races at county fairs. LaVerne does the parachute drops, her buffeted skirt giving the guys on the ground a thrill (Sirk: “[Producer Albert Zugsmith] didn’t want her to wear anything underneath!”). Roger’s constant circling around the pylons is a metaphor for their lives: always moving, never going anywhere. With their son Jack (Chris Olsen) and mechanic Jiggs (Jack Carson), they travel the world seeking nothing other than their own anihilation.
Rock Hudson plays a reporter, Burke Devlin, who trolls for a human interest story amidst their wreckage and ends up in love with LaVerne and aghast at the society that produced their infernal little group. Sirk ironically layers images of Mardi Gras and the county fair over their travails, note the ferris wheel behind Dorothy Malone’s head in the group shot above, or the empty chasm of bleachers that opens up next to Hudson in the top-lining still. Then there is the motif of skull masks, which follow LaVerne throughout the film. During her first kiss with Burke, Sirk inter-cuts their clumsy romance with a raucous party next door, where a leotard-clad woman kisses and bites a man in a skull mask. They are instantly associated with death. And when a plane crashes later in the film, another masked man leads her away. The film swoons with metaphorical decay, and in Sirk on Sirk, the director recounts how he read T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland to Robert Stack and Eliot’s Prufrock to Hudson, to drill in their respective destructiveness and isolation.
The camera is constantly moving on short tracking shots, similar to Roger’s peripatetic nowhere man. I’ll close with Luc Moullet’s provocative disquisition on these dollies, which rise above the level of narrative and celebrates the pure artifice of Sirk’s art (quoted in Jonathan Rosenbaum’s Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia):
The whole film is made of short tracks, usually lateral, almost invisible, the camera perpetually strolling five or six meters above the ground. Why? No reason. Just Sirk’s pleasure in making the camera move…In art, there is only artifice. Let us therefore praise an artifice that is cultivated without remorse, which consequently acquires a greater sincerity rather than artifice masked by itself as by others under hypocritical pretexts. The true is as false as the false; only the archi-false becomes true. (Cahiers du Cinema no. 87, September 1958).
For a look at the technical quality of the set, DVD Beaver has reviewed it here.
I have no more words to spare on the New York Film Festival, but please check out David Bordwell here and Michael J. Anderson here on my co-favorite film of the festival (tied with Uncle Boonmee), Raul Ruiz’s magisterial The Mysteries of Lisbon.
Posted in Hollywood, UncategorizedTagged Captain Lightfoot, Douglas Sirk, Rock Hudson, Taza Son of Cochise, The Tarnished Angels, Thunder on the Hill
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InnovationFeatured
Ex-Alibaba/Dianping Executive Si Jianghua Bets on a Cashierless Future
By Christopher St Cavish January 19, 2018
Home > Innovation > Ex-Alibaba/Dianping Executive Si Jianghua Bets on a Cashierless Future
Every convenience store has its hiring quirks. At Alldays, the cashiers are usually aunties in their 50s. At Family Mart, millennials, rarely past thirty. But one store has the quirkiest set of cashiers among them all: none.
Xing, a burgeoning chain founded in mid-2017 by tech executive Si Jianghua, is doing away with the legions of cashiers that now populate convenience stores in a gamble that the future will be self-checkout, and that staff (the stores still have 4-5 employees each) are better used to “guide customers” (being referred to as goudao, or “shopping guides” in Chinese) and keep the store in order.
Xing founder, Si Jianghua
Of course, self-checkout is not a new idea. The concept has been around for years in Wal-Marts, Boots and countless other retailers in the West. But not like this. For one, Xing does not have self-checkout kiosks with a bagging area and a dedicated scanner, like the above-mentioned chains do. Instead of just swapping the customer for the cashier, Xing swaps the infrastructure as well. The only tool needed? A mobile phone.
The process works like this. Customers enter the bright-yellow Xing stores and do their shopping. Once they have their items, they go to a counter in the front. At this point, if they haven’t already downloaded the Xing app, they do so. Then they open the app, using their phone’s scanning function to register the items they want to purchase. They pay via mobile platforms WeChat Pay or Alipay, and once they’ve completed payment, receive a QR code in return. At the store exit, a second scanner awaits, which confirms the purchase by scanning the QR code. Done.
For founder Si Jianghua, this is the future. A former supply chain director at Alibaba and regional head at restaurant review website Dazhong Dianping, Si sees unmanned shopping as the next frontier in retail. Though it only launched last June, Xing now has close to 20 stores and claims to have processed more than three million orders. Investors include the original CEO of Meituan, Wang Xing, and Zhang Tao, the original CEO of Dazhong Dianping, among others.
Though it only launched last June, Xing now has close to 20 stores and claims to have processed more than three million orders
On a recent visit to a location in downtown Shanghai, where the company is headquartered, the store was buzzing with curious customers of all ages, drawn in by the novelty but then persuaded by the premium product mix, which includes unique items like Patron tequila, dried mulberry snacks, and freshly prepared meals. A more advanced version of the store is currently being developed by Japanese engineers, according to a December 2017 speech by Si about Xing’s future development, though what that means is not yet clear.
For Si, it’s not just about convenience stores. He was inspired by a trip to Japan and an encounter with the country’s legendary network of vending machines, and has said that his company is in the “instant consumption” business, regardless of what the delivery of the product looks like. As such, Xing is also in a race to cover China in vending machines, one that Si believes will be won by whichever company is the first to 300,000 locations. He predicts the game will be won or lost by Spring Festival 2018, less than a month away. Some critics have charged that in his push to blanket the country in vending machines, Si has focused solely on numbers, with many machines in obscure locations.
Xing is also in a race to cover China in vending machines, one that Si believes will be won by whichever company is the first to 300,000 locations. Si predicts the game will be won or lost by Spring Festival 2018, less than a month away.
Si has pushed back by saying his retail concepts are based on the “15 minute circle” that young consumers tend to stick to — this refers to the idea that all of their consumption is done within 15 minutes of their work or home, and whether it’s the convenience store or the vending machine, being within that circle will be the key to winning the retail market.
The aunties of Alldays and the kids of Family Mart are probably secure in their jobs for now, but China’s staid convenience store sector is due for a shake-up, and Si’s new ideas are, hopefully, just the beginning.
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Built as a sloop under yard No 853 by Cochrane & Sons, Selby, U.K. for the Royal Navy.
15 March 1918 launched as the HMS KILDANGAN, she was one of the Kill-class.
Displacement 895 ton, dim. 55.5 x 9.1 x 3.20m. (draught)
Powered by one reciprocating steam engine, 1,400 hp, one shaft, speed 13 knots.
Armament 1 – 4 inch gun and 12 depth-charges.
September 1918 completed.
If she had any war service is doubtful.
Wikipedia gives the following on the class:
The Kil class were designed to counter the U-boat threat posed by the Imperial German Navy during the First World War. They were designed to be equipped with hydrophones and depth charges to detect and destroy enemy submarines before they posed a threat to allied convoys. The class began to be launched towards the end of 1917. So they could be constructed, an order for 85 anti-submarine trawlers was cancelled across six shipyards in order to free up enough berths for the building of the Kil class. Each ship took around six months to be constructed. Ships in the class were named after villages in Scotland and Ireland beginning with "Kil".
Similar to the 24-class sloop, the ships were built with a double ended design in order to confuse enemy submarine observers who were trying to work out which direction the ships were due to travel in. They had a single central funnel, and deckhouses both fore and aft were designed to be similar in order to enhance the effect. The class were painted in dazzle camouflage.
The class entered service after the main threat of the U-boats had passed, and therefore their effectiveness in anti-submarine warfare cannot be determined. Only 38 of the 85 ships ordered were completed by the time the Armistice with Germany was signed on 11 November 1918. The ships were put into reserve following the war, and were put up for sale by the Admiralty.
14 February 1920 sold to Robinson, Brown & Joplin (B.Burletson), Newcastle renamed in BEBSIDE and converted to a cargo vessel.
1922 Sold to Johann M.K. Blumenthal, Hamburg, Germany and renamed JOHANN.
1925 Sold to Pietro Schenone, Leghorn, Italy and renamed LABRONE.
1928 Sold to SA di Nav. L’Argonauta, Genoa. Italy and renamed ANITA. She was converte to a motor vessel, a new 4-cyl. oil engine was installed manufactured by Bolinder, Stockholm, 192 nhp.
1930 Sold to Banca Casareto, Genoa (most probably the mortgage holder), not renamed.
1939 Sold to Adolfo Calzi, Trieste, Italy not renamed.
1940 Sold to Soc. Italiana Ernesto Breda, Venice, Italy renamed in GIOVANNI MARIA.
10 January 1941 on a voyage from Derna for Tobruk was she running on a mine 12 mile off Tobruk and sunk.
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If you wish to carry a concealed weapon for protection, a concealed carry permit is required. Montana Code Annotated Section 45-8-315 covers the laws related to concealed weapons. The Criteria for obtaining a concealed weapon permit are:
Resident in Montana for 6 months
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Tactic’s CWP course of instruction satisfies the proficiency requirement of a handgun safety course. We HIGHLY recommend this course for anyone considering carrying a weapon. This course will minimize your risk and keep you on the edge of your seat! The following material will be covered in this course:
The legal definition of use of force will be explained
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How did Vikings Wash their Hair and Brush Their Teeth?
As they tore through Northern Europe during the Middle Ages, descriptions of the marauding bands of warriors known as the Vikings emerged from victims and witnesses that were left in their wake. These pointedly biased accounts portraying the Vikings as filthy and bloodthirsty savages spread as their conquests expanded. What is now known, however, is that the Vikings’ hygiene was better than most.
Contrary to popular belief, the Vikings bathed regularly and washed their hair with soap containing lye, which contributed to their cleanliness and bleached it blonde while keeping it free from headlice. While there is no evidence of brushes, Vikings kept their teeth clean with picks.
Plundering monasteries and sacking coastal villages while seeking better fortunes in new lands was dirty, and often bloody, work.
While age-old descriptions of Vikings will never completely fade away, historians and archaeologists have labored to portray these people of the north in a more accurate light. They have found that in addition to their iconic swords and axes, the Vikings also wielded combs.
A lot of people wonder what the Vikings looked like. See Did the Vikings Have Piercings? to learn more.
Here is How (Often) Vikings Washed their Hair
The Vikings made some tools for daily hygiene using bone
The Vikings did not document their own history, so that task was left either to parties who witnessed their activities firsthand or to outside observers who, more often than not, were somewhat biased in their portrayal of these Norse people.
Thankfully, archeologists and scholars have painstakingly pieced together more accurate depictions of their lives based on physical evidence and reliable historical accounts, and some of what they have been able to reveal may be startling to many, including the Vikings’ personal hygienic practices.
The Vikings Bathed Regularly
The Viking Age (793 – 1066 CE) took place during the Middle Ages, a period of time when the people of Europe lived in harsh and difficult conditions and when life expectancy rarely surpassed one’s thirties or forties, even for those who never set foot on a battlefield.
Simply put, living conditions were poor and hygienic practices were nowhere near what would be considered minimally adequate today.
Yet, the Vikings as a society not only encouraged its citizens to bathe themselves but to do so regularly: weekly, as a matter of fact. Bathing was such an integral part of life for the Vikings that the day known as Saturday was referred to by them as Laugardagur, which translates to “bathing day.”
Ironically the people who most fervently considered the Vikings to be filthy and godless barbarians, namely Christians and Anglo-Saxons, bathed themselves but once per year by comparison. [1]
The Vikings had many interesting customs. See Did the Vikings Paint Their Faces? to learn more.
The Vikings Used Lye Soap to Keep Clean and Blonde
The Vikings had relatively good hygiene habits
The Viking weekly bathing regimen, which included washing their hair, involved using a strong soap made from animal fat and wood ash.
This latter component was significant in several ways. When processed by the Vikings, the wood ash produced lye, which as an alkali made soap when mixed with the fat from animals.
The lye soap used by Vikings also had the effect of bleaching their hair blonde, which by many accounts was a highly desirable attribute, and not just for Norse women.
Scholars believe that Viking men, even their fiercest warriors, purposely left lye soap in their hair and beards to produce the signature blonde locks and facial hair that were all the rage during the Viking Age.
(Not all Scandinavians are natural blondes, many people from Denmark and Norway are natural brunettes and redheads.) [2] [3]
Vikings not only Washed their Hair, They Combed It
Items like swords, shields, and even ships, have for centuries been the gold standard of Viking artifacts, stirring up excitement with each discovery.
However, smaller, less newsworthy objects pull back the curtain on how the Vikings truly lived. For instance, among the most common finds excavated from Viking sites are items that were used purely for grooming and personal care purposes, including:
Ear spoons (for the removal of ear wax)
Combs are among the most common items recovered from Viking excavations. Historians believe they were considered so essential that they were as likely to be hung from a warrior’s belt like a sword or knife.
These grooming items were apparently not only for combing the hair on their heads but also for preventing their long beards from becoming unkempt. [4]
Viking combs were typically made from reindeer antlers and featured exquisite craftsmanship. In addition to having fine teeth, some were decorated with ornate carvings demonstrating just how valuable these seemingly humble items truly were in the eyes of their owners.
This is further supported by the fact that Vikings were traditionally buried with items considered important in life and needed in the afterlife. Their combs have been found among these artifacts. [5]
Even the names taken by prominent members of their society reflected how important hairstyles were to the Vikings. Prominent Norse royalty included familiar figures such as:
Sweyn Forkbeard, who presumably styled his beard into two halves
Harald Fairhair, whose moniker suggests a well-groomed head of hair [6]
Cleanliness was important in Viking culture, in part for health reasons. See How Did the Vikings Bathe? to learn more.
The Vikings’ Appearance Didn’t Go Unnoticed
Daily life in Viking culture created the need for good hygiene habits
Despite the terror they instilled in people throughout Northern Europe, the Vikings were also recognized for their personal hygiene, which by Medieval European standards was centuries before its time.
In fact, the English historian (and monk) John Wallingford noted the weekly bathing habits of the Viking warriors who besieged the British Isles and further lamented:
“It is in this way that they sieged the married women’s virtue and persuaded the daughters of even noblemen to become their mistresses.”
The Arabic scholar Ibn Fadlan also documented the Vikings’ cleaning habits, describing their daily ritual of washing their hands and faces and combing their hair from communal washbowls.
Although he was horrified by the fact that the people from the north passed soiled water from one man to the next (possible conjecture on his part), he confirmed that daily washings of some nature did take place. [7] [8]
This is How Vikings Kept Their Teeth Clean
Although scientists have found many grooming objects, Viking history’s archeological record is thus far devoid of toothbrushes or similar implements. However, this does not mean that people from Sweden, Norway, and Denmark did not care about their dental needs.
Scientists have determined that the Vikings used picks to clean between and around their teeth from wear marks found on the teeth of skeletal remains.
Furthermore, the lack of sugar and scarcity of fruits and vegetables in their diet is the likely reason that virtually no cavities have been found in Viking teeth.
On the flip side, however, the Vikings likely suffered from abnormal wear of the enamel on their teeth due to the meats and unprocessed food they consumed daily.
Archaeological evidence suggests that they lost around ten percent of their teeth during their lifetimes. Archaeological data also shows that many Vikings suffered from significant gum disease. [9]
The Vikings Filed Grooves in their Teeth
While the Vikings suffered from dental maladies that were a by-product of their diet and the times in which they lived, they also purposefully modified their teeth.
Archaeologists excavating at various sites have found Viking skulls with teeth bearing pronounced horizontal (and sometimes vertical) grooves filed into the enamel.
Interestingly, while the Vikings acquired many of their behaviors from the various lands they conquered and traded with, there were no cultures in Europe known to have engaged in dental modifications such as these.
However, scholars have noted that certain native peoples in North America (the Great Lakes area) similarly altered their teeth.
Viking dental grooves have been observed in parallel groupings of two or three horizontal lines and were presumably made by skilled hands.
It is also theorized that these lines, when filled in with colored pigment, would have presented an intimidating sight to victims such as clergy or ordinary citizens. [10]
What is now known about the Vikings is that not all of them were warriors, and they had far better hygiene than is widely believed.
[1] skjalden.com
[2] medievalists.net
[3] Mother Earth News
[4] danishnet.com
[5] york.ac.uk
[6] en.natmus.dk
[7] science nordic
[8] vkngjewelry.com
[9] nion.no
[10] history.com
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What Happens When a Wildfire Meets a Pandemic
Posted byCityFella August 21, 2020 Posted inCalifornia, Corona VirusTags:Covid-19, Wildfires
A home in flames in Vacaville, California.Paul Kitagaki Jr./Zuma
The potential dangers of smoke mingling with the coronavirus in people’s lungs have doctors worried.
By: Lydia O’Connor/HuffingtonPost
Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, a dreaded question has hung heavy over Californians: What happens if a bad wildfire season hits and we’re still in the throes of COVID-19?
With about two dozen major fires burning across hundreds of thousands of acres on Thursday, forcing people to evacuate across Northern California, they’re about to find out. On Wednesday, fire officials described a situation with little end in sight.
“California’s firefighting resources are depleted as new fires continue to ignite,” Cal Fire public information officer Jeremy Rahn said of this week’s historic lightning siege, which set off more than 360 new fires across the state.
“Unfortunately, several fires got away from us. … It expanded beyond our abilities,” Cal Fire Unit Chief Shana Jones said.
Fast-moving fires ripping through Sonoma, Napa and Solano counties are a painfully familiar site to residents of the fire-prone region, but the pandemic adds a new layer of danger. Evacuating people is one of the more obvious challenges, said Dr. John Balmes, a physician at the University of California, San Francisco who also teaches and studies the health effects of air pollution at the University of California, Berkeley.
“Now that we have this pandemic, we can’t just put a lot of people in a high school gymnasium, which is often what’s done,” said Balmes, a member of the California Air Resources Board, the state’s clean air agency. The same concerns apply to firefighters ― many of whom are inmates―who can’t easily bunk together or travel from other regions to battle the blaze.
But doctors are concerned about another, less visible threat: What happens to people’s pulmonary health when wildfire smoke, a dangerous pollutant linked to several adverse health conditions, descends into the lungs of people who already have COVID-19? Given the novelty of the coronavirus, little is known for sure about how inhaling wildfire smoke may worsen someone’s COVID-19 symptoms.
“There are a lot of the things that we still don’t understand,” Dr. Stephanie Christenson, a pulmonologist and critical care doctor doing research at the University of California, San Francisco. “How is it going to make things worse for patients? If you get the disease, are you more likely to get symptoms? If you’re recovering from the disease, how is this going to affect you?”
Balmes said he’s been thinking about this for a while, and that there’s good reason to be worried.
“We know that wildfire exposure to communities increases the risk of lower respiratory tract infection,” such as acute bronchitis and pneumonia, Balmes said. “So there’s concern in the context of the pandemic that wildfire smoke exposure would increase the risk of moving from mild to more severe COVID-19.”“How is it going to make things worse for patients? If you get the disease, are you more likely to get symptoms? If you’re recovering from the disease, how is this going to affect you?”
It’s not just those close to the fires who are at risk. Smoke has spread across the entire San Francisco Bay Area for days. In many areas, the air quality index has been higher than 200, which indicates that “everyone may experience more serious health effects if they are exposed for 24 hours,” according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
Wildfire smoke is “kind of like tobacco smoke without the nicotine,” Balmes said. When someone inhales toxic particles from the smoke, their airways can become chemically injured, predisposing them to more severe infections, he said. If their airways are also badly inflamed from COVID-19, they could be in trouble.
Particulate matter from wildfire smoke may also build up on and damage the amoeba-like cells in a person’s lungs that serve as a first line of defense against viral infections, Balmes added.
What’s less clear is whether wildfire smoke increases the likelihood of catching COVID-19. A July study out of China found that even short-term exposure to air pollution―as one experiences during a wildfire―was linked to a higher rate of confirmed COVID-19 infections.
It’s important to note that people who live in highly polluted areas tend to have several other high-risk factors for disease, Christenson said, so the study might not say much about wildfire smoke in particular. There is, however, one simple possibility: Wildfire smoke makes people cough, and coughing spreads disease. Christenson doesn’t think that’s a small contributor.
“That’s why the American Thoracic Society put out guidelines to not use tear gas [on protesters], because it can make people cough more and salivate more,” she said.
Doctors saw the same thing happening with choirs, where infected people easily spread the coronavirus while singing, she added. In one instance, it took just one infected person to get 52 others sick.
Some emerging research suggests that the coronavirus can “hitch a ride” on particulate matter from wildfires, Balmes said, making it easier for the virus to descend deep into the lungs, but there’s not much data on that yet.
The most important thing people can do now, Christenson and Balmes said, is continue wearing a face mask, washing their hands as much as possible and maintaining distance from others in congregate settings.
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American Cancer Society/Relay for Life drive-thru Luminaria Ceremony Oct. 11
The American Cancer Society inaugural Drive-Through Luminaria Ceremony will be held at Hello Auto Group on Sunday, Oct. 11, from 5-8 p.m. Courtesy photo.
Each year the American Cancer Society’s largest fundraiser, Relay For Life, features the inspiring Luminaria Ceremony, which honors cancer patients and survivors as well as memorializing those who have lost their lives to cancer. This year’s Luminaria Ceremony will take a different format.
The ACS inaugural Drive-Through Luminaria Ceremony will be held at Hello Auto Group on Sunday, Oct. 11, from 5-8 p.m. The Kia and Mazda dealerships are located at 24095 Creekside in Valencia. From the safety of their vehicles, participants can view the decorated and lit luminaria bags lining the route and drive through as many times as they wish. Additional details including a map of the drive-through route can be found at the “more details” page at SCVrelay.org.
Luminaria bags can be purchased for $10 and decorated on Saturday, Oct. 3, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Discovery Shop on 26570-B Bouquet Canyon Road in Saugus. Those wishing their luminaria bags returned to them after the event should write their name and phone number on the bottom of the bag. Luminarias can also be purchased online at SCVrelay.org and will be decorated by Relay For Life volunteers.
The deadline for online purchase is 5 p.m. Oct. 7, when all decorated bags must be returned. A donation of one canned good for each luminaria is requested (to stabilize the bag) and will be donated to the SCV Food Pantry after the event.
The event honors and remembers loved ones and families who have been affected by cancer while raising funds for ACS cancer research, programs and services. For additional details about dropping off or picking up luminaria bags and canned food, or for any other questions, contact Yvonne Salas at [email protected] or call 805-750-5248.
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The initiatives were announced in a statement issued by the two countries at the conclusion of their two-day “bilateral strategic dialogue” in Washington.
In the economic sphere, Kenya and the US said they would “accelerate bilateral talks to expand cargo opportunities” under the existing Open Skies Agreement between the two countries.
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Kenya and the United States agreed on Wednesday to take a series of steps to deepen their economic ties, promote opportunities for US businesses and enhance their joint efforts to “degrade Al-Shabaab.”
The statement, however, offered few details on new undertakings resulting from the discussions led by Foreign Minister Monica Juma and senior State Department officials.
In regard to security matters, for example, the statement said “the United States commended the sacrifice of the Kenya Defence Forces in Somalia,” but it used general terms only to describe future initiatives.
It added, “Both sides committed to enhance counterterrorism, defence and maritime surveillance security cooperation through intelligence sharing and capacity building.
It also said, “The two governments reaffirmed their commitment to degrade Al-Shabaab and agreed to work with UN Security Council partners to sanction Al-Shabaab and other terror groups operating in the Horn of Africa.”
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In the economic sphere, Kenya and the US said they would “accelerate bilateral talks to expand cargo opportunities” under the existing Open Skies Agreement between the countries.
The statement also made reference to a pair of projects being launched by the US Trade and Development Agency and intended to help US companies invest in Kenya.
The US trade agency will soon host meetings between Kenyan officials and US business executives, focused on emergency management and communications systems.
“The visit occurs as the government of Kenya seeks to upgrade the country’s emergency communications systems and improve responses to natural disasters in remote areas,” the trade agency said in a separate statement.
“US companies have cutting-edge technologies that can meet these needs, which will be featured throughout the visit.”
Kenyan officials will also go to Washington to learn about the trade agency's Global Procurement Initiative.
It seeks to assist public procurement entities in developing countries to better determine the full costs of goods and services over the entire life cycle of a contract.
“This leads to smarter, longer-term investments with overall savings to the government, and also levels the playing field for US firms in international tenders,” the US trade agency said.
Wednesday's announcement on the outcome of the bilateral strategic talks contained a pledge to “maximise Kenya’s use of trade benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act, and explore a future bilateral trade and investment framework.”
The two countries also agreed to continue talks on proposed US business investments in infrastructure projects in Kenya, including projects to modernise the Kenyan government's telecommunications network.
The statement noted US commendation of Kenya's commitment to establishing a National Public Health Institute.
Kenya's launch of a Coast Guard Service was also lauded by the US side. That move will help develop the “blue economy” and “safeguard a free, open, and prosperous Indian Ocean region,” the joint statement said.
The two countries signed an updated “Security Governance Joint Country Action Plan” to enhance bilateral cooperation on anti-corruption efforts, the statement added, but it gave no details on what those efforts would involve.
Kenya's announced commitment to register all refugees also won praise from the US in the joint statement. The announcement added that the US will work with Kenya to help ensure that refugees have access to health care, education and jobs.
The statement was silent, however, on Kenya's reported decision to shut down the 28-year-old Dadaab refugee complex that currently hosts more than 200,000 Somali refugees.
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South Sudan basketball team and officials received by President Silva Kir (centre, in hat).
Hoops on the Nile – a journey to South Sudan
BAQE's Silalei Shani looks back to a trip to Juba during filming of the TV Show, Ball'n Africa.
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As much as it can interfere with regular life, one of the best things about a factual TV show is that you have to get out on the road. A sports show even more so, perhaps, as you have to cover actual games – and a basketball show… getting into the local ‘hoods and learning the local balling culture… absolutely crucial. To produce a top-quality, authentic African basketball TV show, you simply cannot stay home and do it from the local court…. there’s a need to engage and get truly respectful of what players must do, what they go through, to make themselves into world-class ballers. You have to get out on the court with them… no matter the situation.
BAQE’s Silalei Shani with Marier Anyuat, now Secretary General of the South Sudan Basketball Federation
The 2017 season of Ball’n Africa is a case in point. We’d done showcasing some of the best African basketball from Lagos to Johannesburg, Dar es Salaam to Luanda, Nairobi to Cairo. Then we realised that despite the security situation at the time, we were still missing one of the most important basketball destinations on the continent – Juba, South Sudan.
It was my suggestion to head over to Juba. Despite a strained political situation, South Sudan is known for producing some of Africa’s most prolific basketballers – like Luol Deng and Manute Bol to name but a few. Besides, it’s in east Africa – practically on Nairobi’s doorstep.
Of course, the first concern was security. No problem… I got people who know people. The second concern was filming access, but even there, knowing and connecting to the right people helped immensely. It was Juba or Bust!
We landed at the airport on January 31st. It was a “hot” day, we were told, but nothing – not even my years living in West Africa – could have prepared us for the blast of humid heat. February can average 37 degrees centigrade and because of the proximity to the Nile River, the city is also humid. Juba International Airport arrivals hall was a sparse combination of 6 tents and some wooden planks on the floor but I was still excited. We managed to get through immigration smoothly and were welcomed by our host for the trip. Marier Anyuat is a 6’11″ gentle giant who insisted we were going to have a good time. I was stoked and so was the crew.
An outdoors league game played in +35 degree celsius heat… not for the faint-hearted. Picture: Silalei Shani
My initial impressions of Juba were how much it reminded me of my early days in Mauritania. The next thing I noticed was how many Land Cruiser V8s people were driving. They were everywhere! Mariner drove us around Juba showing us the sights and getting us set up with phone lines and the local currency and I realized how safe I felt. It was hard to believe that this was the same city that the media portrayed as war-torn. Marier explained that violence does break out but it ends quickly and is forgotten even quicker. I got a real sense of community just from observing the interactions between people in the streets.
Marier Anyuat, current Secretary General of the South Sudan Basketball Federation
The rest of the trip was an enjoyable blur – from filming local games and interacting with the Ol’ G’s of the basketball community… hearing them talk about the “good ol’ days” and cheering on the “young turks”… it’s amazing how many South Sudanese have American accents… to sailing down the White Nile in a speed boat and enjoying the local, flavorful food. The people received us like royalty and again it struck me how wrong my media-affected perception of Juba was.
By the time we left Juba I was filled with an admiration of the sense of brotherhood in the basketball community, a hope for the people of Juba…. and an appreciation for air conditioning!! Seriously, Juba is brimming with basketball talent, we saw it and I can’t wait for the world to realise and see it too.
(Which is what is starting to happen now and why we were happy to receive this “throwback” from Silalei. Oh and by the way, Marier Anyuat is now the Secretary-General of the South Sudan Basketball Federation, so be sure to catch the video that goes with this piece – Editors)
THE FOLLOWING VIDEO IS AN EXCERPT FROM THE 2017 SEASON OF BALL’N AFRICA. Courtesy of BAQE and Silalei Shani.
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Rajasthan Royals – A look back at their performance in IPL 2015
by Pomil Bachan Proch
IPL 2015 saw Rajasthan Royals begin in the best manner possible. The absence of regular skipper Shane Watson due to injury forced Steven Smith to be the makeshift captain. The start was a fairy tale as they remained unbeaten in their first five encounters. A super over defeat at the hands of KXIP further dented the team’s confidence. As the Royals huffed and puffed, they managed to make it to the playoffs before eventually bowing out to RCB in the knockout stage.
The positives to come out of IPL 2015 for Rajasthan Royals
IPL 2015 was a mixed bag for RR. The rock solid Ajinkya Rahane showed that T20 is just not all about the big dashers and muscling the bowling to all parts of the park as he led the batting charts. Deepak Hooda promises to be an interesting prospect. His hitting abilities are just the thrust needed in the middle order of the Royals. Sanju Samson is coming up the ranks fairly quickly. Chris Morris has been decent with the ball in this season picking 13 wickets from 11 matches at an economy of 7.4 including a 4 wicket haul.
Areas of Concerns
The first few victories may have masked the weakness of the team but Rajasthan Royals had much to sort out as the tournament progressed. Stuart Binny with his continued failures has become a liability. Chris Morris getting promoted in the batting order ahead of Stuart Binny is a clear reflection of Binny’s lacklustre performances
Players like Karun Nair, James Faulkner failed to make it count at the business end of the IPL. The team relies heavily on the Australian to bowl in the death overs and be the big finisher with the bat. The 42 year old Pravin Tambe too was not as his best this year managing to get only 7 wickets in 10 matches. There rises a lingering feeling that we might have just seen the end of the leggie.
What RR needs to do to address the concerns
The team needs to invest a bit more in its bowling and include more quality in its pace attack. A couple of all rounders like Faulkner, Binny may lend more dexterity to the attack but they are no match for an out and out fast bowler. Good bowling units like KKR and SRH have the greats Wasim Akram and Muttiah Muralitharan imparting their wisdom to the bowlers. However with RR’s financial constraints it is highly unlikely to see them appoint a bowling coach. Hence the need for a genuine world class bowler becomes all the more paramount. He can serve as the father figure to the bowling attack of the Royals.
The batting looks good with Ajinkya Rahane, Steve Smith and Shane Watson being the backbone of the batting order. Steve Smith is a mentally tough character and is the ideal candidate to lead RR in further editions of IPL. He is also the best candidate at one down in the batting order.
Shane Watson’s fitness has been a concern all throughout his career. Although he can roll his arm over to bowl a couple of over of medium pace, he can at best be a containing bowler. With the burden of captaincy relieved from Watson’s shoulder, it frees him to play his naturally aggressive game. Shane Watson should be viewed as a batsman who can bowl a bit and hence not mistaken for a genuine rounder.
James Faulkner needs to pick up his batting and be the power hitter of the team, failing which the franchise should look into adding an explosive batsman in its middle order. The team’s lack of power hitters was evident in the super over again KXIP as it took ages for them to decide on the batters to face the steaming Mitchell Johnson.
As it is likely that we may not see more of Pravin Tambe in further editions of IPL, it will be interesting to see who replaces him in the next edition.
The Rajasthan Royal’s Mantra
As Rahul Dravid mentions that RR might not be the first preferred franchise for most players but it is definitely their preferred choice as the second option. Rajasthan Royals believe in doing their job professionally without making a fuss. No one tells us the the philosophy of the Royals better than Harsha Bhogle. Here is a video why he likes RR so much.
There are certain restrictions when it comes to a franchise like the Royals. As Harsha Bhogle remarks Rajasthan Royals to be the Arsenal F.C. of the IPL, RR obviously has financial restrictions when it comes to choosing the big names from the international circuit. It is perhaps for this reason that one might not see Brendon McCullum or Yuvraj Singh or AB de Villiers or Mitchell Starc adorn the Royals blue.
But the team has more than made up for it. In the glitz and glam of IPL where most teams prefer to go for the already established national and International players, Rajasthan’s choice is a stark contrast. They been known to unearth the best domestic talents and bring them into the limelight. RR is known to pick traditional, uncapped, young as well as over aged players. One cannot possibly imagine a 40 year old uncapped leggie being picked by any other team besides Rajasthan.
RR have been known to judiciously pick its International Players as it makes it a point to pick players of strong character and resilience like Shane Warne, Graeme Smith, Steve Smith.
When it comes to mentorship, there is hardly a more perfect person than the former Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid. His combination with Paddy Upton and Rahul Dravid provides the ideal environment for the players to grow into genuine match winners.
Let us see how this franchise performs in the future editions of IPL.
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The 2020 Ethnic Food Incubator: Guiding Founders Through Stages of Entrepreneurship
There are many different ways to approach entrepreneurship, and each founder goes through a number of stages to grow their business. Every entrepreneur is unique, be it through their product or service, the motivation behind starting their business, their goals and definition of success, or where they are at in their journey.
The Ethnic Food Incubator, spearheaded by the Canadian Black Chamber of Commerce and delivered by Spring Activator, is a pioneering program that has been designed to take a diverse group of food industry founders to the next destinations of their entrepreneurial endeavors.
The program, led by Spring Program Manager and food entrepreneurship expert Allison Gibson, is iterated upon in real-time to cater to the unique challenges and needs of each program participant.
A Tailored Experience for Each Founder
Through a combination of group sessions and 1:1 check-ins, the Ethnic Food Incubator takes into consideration the unique challenges each founder may face. This is to ensure they attain success corresponding to their individual business stages and goals.
Regular feedback loops and priority discovery allow for the needs of each entrepreneur to be met. No matter which stage a particular founder is in, there is something to be gained from each session. From ideation and incorporation to launch and going mainstream, each stage of the food entrepreneur’s journey is covered.
Along with being the first-ever incubator for Black food entrepreneurs, it is also the design flexibility and tailored approach of the program that define its pioneering nature.
Guest Speakers With a Focus on Mental Health
Personal check-ins with program participants also allow Allison as the Program Manager to gauge which experts to invite as guest speakers to best fulfill the needs of the cohort. Speakers have included Jacinthe Koddo of Tandem Innovation Group and Lisa Slater, a food marketing and operations professional with Whole Foods expertise who shared the ins and outs—from labeling recommendations to ingredients—of bringing food products to high-end grocery stores.
One of the program’s guest speakers has been involved in more depth to support the entrepreneurs through the challenge of balancing entrepreneurship with established professional careers and life during a pandemic. Joining in on 1:1 sessions, Nicola Brown, founder of Kokoro, is guiding participants through developing as leaders mindful of maintaining good mental health. Participants will walk away with valuable tools to maintain their well-being as entrepreneurs to be better able to achieve their goals and serve their communities.
Meet the Ethnic Food Incubator Participants
Resa Solomon-St. Lewis
Baccanalle
A professionally trained, award-winning chef with an engineering background, Resa is passionate about leveraging her Caribbean heritage to bring authentic flavours to the Canadian market. Baccanalle is based in Ottawa and offers ready-to-eat meals, easy-to-cook meal kits, artisan foods, craft drinks, catering, and more. Currently operating with a restaurant model and widening the reach through farmers’ markets, Resa is looking to gain expertise in retailing, labeling, packaging, distribution, and building a strong network with fellow foodpreneurs.
Nwamaka Onyenokwe
116 Kitchen
An architect by education, Nwamaka is now busy designing fusion recipes with Nigerian spices and simple ingredients. Her product lineup includes ethnic sauces and spice mixes curated for those who aren't afraid to try bold flavors. Having tested her recipes and sauces at pop-up eateries, she is looking to understand how to enter the industry and increase outreach through different channels.
Jackline Ankomah
J&B Kelwells
J&B Kelwells, founded by Jackline and her father, was created to bring delicious and convenient Ghanaian food to the Canadian market. MAAKO – Hot and Tasty African Pepper Sauce is their premier product designed to fill a gap in the hot sauce market and provide the full experience of a pepper sauce. Jackline is focusing on diversifying her product lineup with other Ghanaian dishes such as Kelewele. The father-daughter duo wants to see their products sold in major grocery chains across the country and to bring an element of Ghana to Canada.
Janelle Jordan
FusionFit Foods
Janelle is a nationally certified personal trainer and holistic nutrition coach, a lifelong fitness athlete, and self-confessed fit foodie! As the Founder of Fusion Fit Foods, Janelle is on a mission to help people’s daily bites be healthier and tastier, one delicious and nutritious snack at a time. Her signature adaptogenic, vegan protein bites made with Caribbean and Asian herbs and spices are crafted to take fellow fit foodies’ palates on a culinary adventure. Her focus is to build credibility, viability, and scalability for her products and make them more accessible through online and retail channels.
Mmabatho Mtimkulu
KLEENtea
Mmbatho has worn multiple hats in her career and her desire to bring high-quality nutrition to the masses led her to start her entrepreneurial journey with KLEENtea. With the experience of owning an organic grocery store in her back pocket, she is looking to supply her organic tea to hotels, cafes, and retail chains in Ontario. She is a big proponent of fair wages and sustainable packaging and that reflects in her ethically-sourced infused teas from Africa with recyclable packaging. She is looking to understand the screws and bolts of building a beverage business.
Anthonia Iveren Gom
Street Food Wrld Inc.
Combining her love for street food and a burning desire to become an entrepreneur, Anthonia aims to popularise street-style food and drinks from different countries around the world. She believes that the magnetic power of global flavors is here to stay. She joined the program to build her venture into a viable commercial business. Originally from Nigeria, Anthonia calls the beautiful city of Manitoba her home now.
Muna Mohammed
Eight50 Coffee
Coffee growing is a trade that is woven into Muna’s DNA. To learn more about her heritage, Muna visited her family’s coffee farm in East Hararghe, Ethiopia. This visit brought life and colour to the stories that her father had passed on to her during her childhood. While in Ethiopia, she learned about the complexities of coffee farming and the impact big coffee supply chains have on farmer livelihoods. This experience empowered her to build a responsibly-sourced coffee brand and she started Eight50 in 2019. She is looking to work with mentors and industry experts in retail to help her scale and build Eight50 into a thriving coffee brand.
Keisha Harmon
Dinaka Food & Drink
Keisha credits her grandmother for her love of cooking. Rekindling her childhood memories associated with flavors and using her hands-on knowledge, Keisha opened her catering business in Toronto in 2016. Her specialties include frozen Nigerian meat pies and Guyanese patties. She is looking to widen her product outreach and enter mainstream supply chain channels. Although cooking is her passion, Keisha sang professionally across Guyana and the Caribbean and also started her own videography business prior to migrating to Canada.
Tanya Mills
Sunshine T Catering Inc.
A love for cooking and food has accompanied Tanya since her early years. Born and raised in Toronto, she had a eureka moment when she realised she could turn her interest into a thriving business someday. A self-taught chef with expertise in fusion cuisine, she loves to blend West Indian, Canadian, and Asian flavours. Her favourite pastime is being in the kitchen and experimenting with creating new fine dishes. Specializing in delicious hand-made Afro-Canadian frozen foods, she is now looking for support in product and business development.
Onyii Adibe
Gosiora Greens N Grains
With a solid background in public health, Onyi is now focusing on making organic, gluten-free and mostly allergen-free plant milk accessible for everyone. She is leveraging her African heritage to bring healthy flour alternatives from some relegated food crops to Canadian dinner tables. Onyi joined the program to map out her branding and marketing strategy while she charts out her product launch journey. She is looking forward to gaining insights on how to sell at retail chains and manage finances through the mentoring program, and she's also hoping to build a strong network.
Nadeisha Pinnock
Sweet Homage Confections
A mental health nurse with 12 years of experience, Nadeisha has loved to bake from a young age. Inspired and trained by her mom who is a professional baker, she decided to take the plunge and start her own food business focusing on desserts. Through this, she wants to share Jamaican treats and her love for other Caribbean islands with a larger audience. She is now focusing on scaling both in terms of product accessibility and her revenue model. Nadeisha hopes to see her products in grocery chains and in restaurants as she expands her small bakery.
Prudence Betty
PNB Caterers
A passionate cook hailing from Jamaica, Prudence has always had a love for the culinary arts. From her early days of baking cakes for her friends and loved ones to preparing delicious meals for her family, she has always strived to make memorable meals that spark joy. After a long career in banking, she is now embarking on a journey to explore what might be possible in the food industry. PNB Caterers is the first step in this journey, and she intends to use it as a vehicle for sharing her passion for food with the world. She wants to move toward selling in retail chains and aspires to gain the foundational know-how of running a food business.
Nichole Nzegwu
Craving is Served
A supply chain specialist at a medical device company, Nichole started her food business as a hobby turned side hustle. Originally from Nigeria, Nichole is a proponent of clean eating which is reflected in her baked goods, vegan granola, cereals, nut milk, and salad dressings. She is looking to understand growth and expansion models to take her food business to the next level and widen her network in the food industry. When not serving cravings, she loves to hike and travel.
Follow Spring Activator and the Canadian Black Chamber of Commerce to stay up to date on the Ethnic Food Incubator. To learn more about the program, reach out to Allison Gibson.
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Skeptics in the Pub
Bent Spoon
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Equine Pseudoscience
Do horses really have a distinct set of personality types or is it just a load of equine excreta?
There are times when I think all taxonomy is pseudoscience. It certainly seems to have a predisposition that way. For example, people have been classified by their star signs, the pattern of whorls and loops on the skin of their finger tips, their birthplace, shape of head, colour of skin, handwriting, and so on. Some of these are without doubt useful in given situations, others seem arbitrary to say the least.
When it comes to classifying species, we have a workable system based on evolutionary principles. It is well understood despite at times being difficult to apply. However, how do we fare classifying individuals of species other than our own?
Take horses for example. Why horses?
Well, for me they are an vere present factor in the equation of life. My partner and three daughters are besotted with the creatures.
On any non-working day they can be found washing them, grooming them, dressing them, undressing them, riding them, talking to them (or about them), or any combination of the aforementioned.
Consequently there are a lot of horse books in our home. Recently I picked up one entitled Professor Beery’s Illustrated Course in Horse Training; Book 2 Disposition and Subjection (published in 1962). What a load of … pseudoscience! It begins with a classification of horses into four types by disposition;
Teachable, kind
Stubborn, wilful
Nervous, ambitious, determined
Treacherous, ill-tempered, resentful
Now there’s a nice piece of anthropomorphism. Apparently, according to Professor Beery, each kind of disposition is indicated externally by certain lines of the head.
Type 1 is characterised by a kind eye, a deep forehead and plenty of room between the ears.
Type 2 is recognised by a bulge below the line of the eyes and a heavy jowl.
Horses of type 3 have their eyes set far out to the side and forward, and are favoured with forehead furrows.
Type 4 have a prominent forehead (indicating treachery), a dished face, small eyes, and long narrow ears which are hairy inside. Some of these descriptions sound more like people I’ve met, but that’s another story.
Professor Beery assures us that type 1 horses are worthy of the utmost confidence when trained, and make perfect family horses. The type 2 variety take a long time to train and have no feelings when their senses are aroused (whatever that means). Type 3s act through fear and are liable to shy, or run away. They surrender unconditionally. Type 4 resist like bulldogs and are liable to kick, bite and bolt.
The impact of the theory is somewhat lessened by a strong implication that through good training a horse can overcome these natural tendencies. After all, as Professor Beery says, “Because a horse has certain natural inclinations there is no reason wby he should be spoiled or vicious. Many a man has become a public benefactor who would have been a criminal, if he had allowed his natural desires to govern him.”
Horses are not seen as being of one type. They may combine characteristics of two or more types. They can be described as being, for example, 3-2; a combination of types 3 and 2 with 3 predominating. An added complication is the fact that the lines of the head may not be immediately obvious, the eye may deceive. In many cases a horse’s true disposition can only be ascertained by running a hand down its face.
No head can be fully read from any one angle. The book describes many combinations of types viewed from the side, top, front and bottom of a horse’s head. Apparently some characteristics can only be discerned when lying flat on your back scrutinising the underside of the horse’s jaw.
An interesting paragraph describes how to classify mules, the majority of which are said to be 3-2 types, all having a smattering of 4. Professor Beery exhorts us to “Never allow a mule to get the better of you.”
Knowing that Arab horses have typically a dished face, I was intrigued to see how the author would handle their classification. He tells us not to let this one characteristic cause us to misjudge the horse’s disposition. Apparently, only an exaggeratedly dished face indicates that the Arab is treacherous, ill-tempered and resentful.
This is not a review and I am not recommending that you buy the book (although it is available from the Beery School of Horsemanship, Pleasant Hill, Ohio, USA). It’s just that a lot of the style seems familiar. What do you think? All those in favour say “Yes.” All those against say “Neigh.”
Skeptics Bite Watchdog
The Bent Spoon Award this year created more controversy than usual when it was awarded to Consumer magazine. Why did we feel it necessary to bite our consumer watchdog?
I was pleased when my copy of Consumer magazine arrived with a lead story on the natural way to health. I had had a survey a couple of months previously asking what I’d like to see in the magazine, and had replied that it was about time that an objective, hard-headed look at alternative medicine was done.
I was shocked and disappointed, therefore, when I found that the article did not meet Consumer‘s usual high standards, but was a startling blend of unsupported claims and sketchy, superficial statements. I really didn’t expect Consumer, of all publications, to produce something that so obviously deserved a Bent Spoon Award.
I wasn’t alone in this. Many Skeptics, it seems, are subscribers to Consumer — I put that down to the institute offering consumer protection for one’s physical environment, and the Skeptics providing such protection for one’s mental environment. And it soon became obvious from the phonecalls and faxes that a large number of you (and plenty of interested observers) were as disappointed as I. What to do?
We embarked on what has been perhaps one of the saddest Bent Spoon awards — sad in its implications for Consumers’ Institute and sad in that Consumer‘s apparent endorsement of what has been described as “controversial, even bogus, treatments” will make it so much harder in the future to debate these issues factually.
So what was in the article that virtually forced us to challenge Consumer and take on ourselves a great deal of misinformed abuse from the Institute?
The article, in the July 1992 issue, was titled “The Natural Way to Health — your guide to acupuncture, osteopathy, homeopathy and other natural therapies.”
“Natural therapies are popular and often effective,” it opened, with the caveat that going to an “untrained” therapist can be a waste of money and may be dangerous.
However, after that brief warning, the article continued:
When it comes to health, even Mother Teresa, Tina Turner and Queen Elizabeth have something in common. They all get help from non-conventional medicine, and homeopathy in particular. The Royal Family has consulted a homeopath for several generations.
Apparently an elderly nun, a former rock star and a clan of inbred blue-bloods are sufficient to validate some very questionable practices.
It noted that some practices, such as osteopathy and acupuncture, have their own professional bodies and are used by conventional doctors. It recommended looking for a trained, registered practitioner. After all, it added, “the best non-conventional therapists can offer highly effective treatment.”
This suggests that natural therapies are effective and the only caution necessary is to avoid untrained practitioners who may have got their fancy certificates through mail-order.
The article did say that radical treatment — such as having all your teeth pulled out — should lead you to seek a second opinion with your own GP or dentist.
It also ended with a case study of one therapist, pointing out problems such as the rejection of conventional medicine, promising cures and charging high prices. There was additional discussion of the Medicines Act, where it was stated, somewhat naively, that the Act limits what an alternative therapist can advertise or claim in the form of cures or treatment of certain illnesses. At least it did point out that the Institute was aware of cases where this law has been broken, but that it was not aware of any prosecutions.
Consumer recommended tightening up the Act and enforcing it more rigorously to “protect the public from untrained or improperly trained practitioners,” again suggesting that one need have no concern if one’s practitioner is trained in alternative therapies.
David Russell, chief executive of Consumers’ Institute, vigorously defended the article by pointing to these disclaimers. Dr Gordon Hewitt, head of the health professions school at the Central Institute of Technology and a Skeptic, in debating with Mr Russell on National Radio, compared this to two slices of thin bread, surrounding some very dubious meat.
It is obvious which part will be remembered, particularly by alternative therapists keen to cash in on the very supportive statements within the body of the text.
So what smelled rotten?
Acupuncture and Osteopathy
The acupuncture section talked about the flow of “life energy force” throughout the body, and that illness follows when the flow is blocked. It mentioned acupuncture’s successful use to treat a variety of complaints including headaches, sports injuries and muscular inflammation.
It supported this with the statement that stimulation of the acupuncture points releases endorphins, and that the World Health Organisation lists 71 disorders successfully treated by acupuncture.
In the Bent Spoon press release, our own Dr John Welch — himself trained in acupuncture — said that the section paid no regard to the large and growing scientific literature showing that it is clinically ineffective for diseases the magazine lists. There is now a Skeptic Truth Kit on acupuncture available for those interested in reading further about this.
The osteopathy section talked about the large body of scientific research behind the therapy, implying that its efficacy has been established but avoiding stating this definitively.
One Skeptic, in writing to Consumer independently before the award was announced, said that such a statement was exactly the type which Consumer has criticised advertisers for making.
“If there is any scientific basis for so contentious a therapy as osteopathy, then you owe it to your readers to explain it,” he added.
Consumer quoted a 1986 survey by its UK counterpart which showed that 82% of respondents who had visited osteopaths claimed to have been cured or improved by the treatment.
As one who is highly skeptical of survey techniques, I find the wording of this interesting. “Respondents” suggests that the responding to the survey was voluntary, which immediately skews results.
The other interesting point to note is that the material in the Skeptic Truth Kit on chiropractic explains that any form of back manipulation can produce apparently good results, but more from the nature of back pain itself than from actual efficacy. That is, pain is often a chimeric thing, disappearing of its own accord.
Once again, registered osteopaths are recommended as providing some form of protection, but the article does also mention that “improperly trained people advertising their services as osteopaths” can cause serious problems. There is no control over the use of the term “osteopath” — the implication is that someone with little or no training can use it legitimately — but this important point appeared not to be worthy of comment or criticism by our consumer watchdog.
Consumer said that “many [homeopathic] remedies work only in specific cases” and that “a few remedies can be used widely.” There was no supporting information for these blanket claims. The institute was much more rigorous in recent tests of cough medicines, but did not subject homeopathic claims to the same criteria. Why not?
The magazine said that a homeopath will find the right treatment by conducting a detailed interview. Yes, but this is because homeopaths believe that certain extracts “match” certain personality types. Oyster shells, for example, are said to suit patients who are fearful and who feel better when constipated. This sort of dubious anthropomorphic alchemy was not mentioned.
While it may initially seem reasonable that such extracts could have some physiological effect, none of these substances actually come anywhere near the patient. This is because homeopaths believe that a preparation becomes much stronger when highly dilute — something akin to having sweeter coffee by putting less and less sugar in it.
Homeopathic preparations are diluted in 100-fold steps, commonly 30 times, but sometimes as much as 120 times. This is like stirring a teaspoonful of sugar into the Pacific Ocean — only that would give you a much higher concentration than that of most homeopathic solutions.
And how did Consumer report this? It said merely that the substances are “diluted in a particular way many times”. Hardly indicative of the true situation. If I tried selling a microwave that worked without being plugged in, I am sure that Consumer would be more than a little suspicious.
Even homeopaths admit that there is no substance in their solutions. They believe that shaking the solutions during dilution will “potentialise” them, causing physical changes in the water’s structure so that it remembers the substance long after it has disappeared. Presumably water at the base of any waterfall would be incredibly potentised through being violently shaken and thus highly dangerous in a homeopathic sense.
There is no physical mechanism for changing the basic molecular structure of water in this fashion. Consumer used the term “potentise” in its passing reference to the dilution process, but did not mention the idea that shaking water gives it these fantastic properties.
The magazine did note that the “scientific evidence is not conclusive,” but quoted only one positive study without any details, ignoring that a great many scientific trials, and basic science itself, are all against homeopathy.
In fact, the literature review which Consumer quotes is by no means as positive as suggested. The article says that the Dutch review of 107 (it was actually 105) homeopathic trials showed that 81 indicated that homeopathy worked and 21 did not. Consumer did not quote the review’s conclusions which said:
At the moment, the evidence of clinical trials is positive but not sufficient to draw definitive conclusions because most trials are of low methodological quality and because of the unknown role of publication bias.
The doctors themselves noted that the most poorly performed trials produced the most positive results, and said that the inferences seemed to be over-optimistic at times. They also voiced concerns about the failure to submit negative results for publication. In addition, the most important positive trial in the review was reworked by the researchers involved and was found to show no firm evidence for the efficacy of homeopathic treatments.
You’d only know about this, however, if you had access to back issues of the British Medical Journal (Vol 302, 9 February 1991; 316-323; 2 March, 1991; 529; 23 March, 1992; 727).
Consumer also said that “homeopathy is taken seriously in many European countries”, as if this was enough to endorse it. Certainly homeopathy deserves to be taken seriously because serious problems can result from it, particularly with regard to the sometimes disastrous consequences of the anti-orthodox attitudes which are common to many alternative medicine followers.
Last year, a Wellington nurse refused antibiotics for her baby’s earache, preferring to have it treated homeopathically. Two weeks later, after a number of unsuccessful treatments, the child was taken back to her regular doctor who had her hospitalised immediately. Both the doctor and the hospital’s paediatrician had great difficulty in persuading the woman to allow conventional medicine to be used. It was all too late anyway, as the baby died. (See Skeptic #22 for Coroner’s Court report.)
Presumably the way to avoid this is to find a good homeopath, and Consumer provides addresses for finding ones with the “best” qualifications. It is to be hoped that those qualifications include learning how to recognise when real treatment is needed.
Consumer then goes on to briefly look at other popular therapies which one can learn in a weekend or through books. These therapies are “often very gentle,” Consumer says. So’s my ferret, but he can be very dangerous too…
Aromatherapy, using plant oils in massages and baths, is said to help insomnia, anxiety, boils, rashes, acne, colds and chest infections. The magazine suggests reading a book or attending a workshop before embarking on this form of treatment, but notes that it is one of the easiest natural therapies to use yourself.
British nurses use lavender oil to massage patients and help them to relax, Consumer tells us. One wonders if the natural therapeutic properties are really anything to do with the specific type of oil used — surely the massage itself has a part to play?
A form of massage, reflexology, is said to help in psychological as well as physical areas. This may well be so, but is it really because of direct links between the extremities and other body organs and tissues, as suggested? There is no anatomical basis for many of the claims of reflexologists, but this is not mentioned.
Consumer does mention that “the crystalline deposits that reflexologists say they can feel has not been scientifically proven.” This implies that there is some real, substantive basis for these claims, and final, conclusive proof is all that is lacking. In fact, the overwhelming evidence of anatomy, physiology, radiology and so forth suggests that such claims are entirely without foundation.
Again, Consumer uses a single positive example which it calls “intriguing” to suggest that reflexology may be an effective diagnostic aid. Surely Consumers Institute, of all organisations, recognises that one personal anecdote — printed in an alternative health magazine to boot — is not adequate. I very much doubt that they would let a manufacturer get away with extraordinary claims “backed up” by just one happy customer.
In the section on herbal remedies, the article stated that “few manufacturers can afford clinical trials of their product.” What amounts to a grave omission on the part of people selling untested “medicines” is passed by with no comment.
Does this mean that Consumers’ Institute would find it acceptable that clothing manufacturers save money by ceasing to test their products for fire resistance? Struggling toy manufacturers no longer checking to see whether their latest product can be swallowed by toddlers? Surely not. Yet herbalists are apparently permitted such gross irresponsibility towards the consumer.
The section goes on to say that traditional folklore rather than scientific evidence will often be the basis for selecting a herbal treatment. Consumer then says that a better option is to go to an experienced herbalist, implying that they won’t be working on traditional folklore lines.
Certainly, as the article says, some modern drugs are based on plant extracts, but these are compounds which have been rigorously tested through clinical trials, not a mish-mash of “natural” ingredients. Consumer suggests that herbal experts will protect you from dangerous overdoses or inappropriate uses.
I wonder whether people will take the trouble to check whether their local health shop owner is a member of the New Zealand Natural Health Practitioners Accreditation Board before stocking up on their comfrey tea. Given comments I have heard from nutritionists and other health professionals, as well as personal experience, I am not particularly sanguine about the education or expertise of many health shop owners.
Perhaps one of the most disappointing things about the article was that there was no discussion of one of the primary ways in which many of these alternative therapies work — the placebo effect.
It is generally recognised that a significant proportion of medical conditions will get better with time, regardless of whether alternative or orthodox remedies are prescribed. Combine this with the provision of some form of treatment and you have a very powerful, though not necessarily valid, conjunction of “treatment” and “cure”.
In addition, people will respond to someone taking an active interest in their condition, and healers take advantage of this, whether by design or accident. The intense personal focus of alternative therapies has a strong advantage over the generally perceived impersonality of much of conventional medicine these days.
Yet there was no discussion of this vital point in the Consumer review. Nor was there any discussion of what is meant by “natural”, bar the note in the herbal discussion that suggests it involves being untested.
I wonder what Consumer would say if I sold “natural” iodine, extracted lovingly from organic kelp, and charged a small fortune for it, claiming that it is somehow more “natural” and healthier for you than the synthesised version…
It will be quite some time before many of us will be able to see Consumer‘s advertising boast — “Get the facts you need from the source you can trust” — without feeling a little betrayed.
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Why Creationists Do So Well
Creationists are winning hands-down in the publicity stakes, despite, one presumes, no real assistance in the form of Divine Guidance.
Volumes of perceptive articles by competent scientists and philosophers have been written about the indefensibility of creationism. Still, the beast not only manages to stay alive, but also to deliver a nasty shock now and again by conducting successful forays into the science education arena. Why?
It is my opinion that the answers are found in the way science and creationism tend to conduct their campaigns: it is the latter camp which has consistently outsmarted its opponent in the public relations field. This adds a lot of points to the scoreboard in a democracy.
In the course of some twenty years of studying creationist literature and tactics, and people’s responses thereto, I have noticed a number of things about public perceptions of the issue.
Newton’s Law of Public Relations
There is a widely-held (mis)interpretation of the democratic ideal to the effect that for every view there is an opposite and equally valid view. (I call this Newton’s Third Law of Public Relations.) A corollary of this misconstruction being the simplistic sequitur that there are “two sides to every story,” creationism’s appeal to heed what is presented as “the other side of the story” finds many willing ears.
Also arising from this gem of common philosophy is the perception that science and religion represent the above “two sides.” The creationist case is highly dependent on the continuing popular belief that science and religion are mutually exclusive antagonists in the area of origins, and people must “believe one or the other.”
The 1960s are not that distant in time, and creationism skilfully manipulates the latent anti-establishmentism present in general society. People love an underdog (creationism) taking on an orthodoxy perceived as aloof and patronising (science), especially when that underdog is seen to challenge the ivory tower on its own terms and the establishment appears to be worried.
Creationism makes sense to many, if not most, people. Everything has a purpose, doesn’t it? Pure chance can’t possibly lead to something like the human eye, can it? You can’t really reconstruct an ape-man from a single tooth, can you? (Creationists love the 1934 Nebraska Man débacle.) That Aussie Doctor-guy found Noah’s Ark, didn’t he?
The list goes on, and the common theme is clear. The creationist PR machine identifies and manipulates public ignorance and misconceptions to its immense advantage.
Tentative Science
The one thing most people do know about science is that it is tentative — thereby opening the way for another gem of popular wisdom, the “but you don’t know everything” argument which when applied to any area of controversy involving science is regarded as creating an instant niche for an opposing view, no matter how absurd. (This principle also applies very much to the orthodox/fringe medicine debate.)
Furthermore, any perceived weakness in the orthodox case becomes a plus-point for the challenger. The creationist case relies heavily on using science’s tentativeness (portrayed as uncertainty) and occasional blunders (Nebraska Man) to bolster its public image.
People prefer certainty. A naked ape arising fortuitously on an inconsequential planet in a far corner of the universe is just too much for most people to handle — especially when placed in opposition to the creationist Linus’s Blanket of “you are so special.”
Science’s response to creationism has frequently been counterproductive in that it has reinforced the public misconceptions which creationists have turned into assets.
The ridicule levelled at creationism by some exasperated scientists and science educators reinforces the image of science as a patronising, superior Olympus inhabited by an esoteric elite who harbour undemocratic views.
And there is more than a vestige of 19thcentury anti-religiosity (especially anti-Christianity) left in the scientific community.
When scientists turn their literary skills into a diatribe against Christian scriptures and belief, the result is definitely good PR for creationists.
Catch-22 Situation
Of course, we are in a three-way Catch 22 situation when it comes to replying to creationism:
If we ignore the creationists, we “haven’t got an answer” and seek to shield ourselves from valid criticism.
If we respond to creationism at all, they’ve “got us worried.”
If we respond by writing articles most people don’t understand we’re “snobs” and/or trying to “put up a smokescreen.”
Finally, if we try to argue at the intellectual level creationism operates at, we lose the match because we have tried to play it by the opposition’s rules, which are stacked so heavily in its favour from the kick-off.
The upshot is that we cannot defeat creationism on scientific grounds, and should stop trying to do so. Writing articles in academic journals may make us feel better, but we are preaching to the converted and only reinforcing our negative image by alienating the general public even more.
More importantly, a scientific response to a pseudoscientific argument publicly perceived as a scientific argument merely reinforces the opinion that there is a case to answer.
Creationism is not a scientific argument, but a religious one. However, we must appreciate that we are dealing with a vocal fringe minority who are not representative of Christianity as a whole, and we must therefore correctly identify the enemy — fundamentalism — and also identify our allies, the mainstream Christian churches.
Scientists should not venture into the area of biblical scholarship unless they are qualified in that area, for the public appreciates only too well that an expert in one field may be a layman in others. This is where we need an alliance with mainstream religion.
Such an alliance would put paid to the popular misconception that science and religion are incompatible. (Anselm, Teilhard de Chardin and new Zealand’s own John Morton appear to have had little impact on public thinking) and that creationism represents the battle of good, Bible-believing Christians against the tyrannical reign of atheistic scientists.
I believe that this aspect of the creationist case in the public eye is at the same time its Achilles’ Heel, and can be used against it.
For if we live in a secular democracy and creationism is a religious view, then while the right to profess that religious view is safeguarded, the right to foist it on others through state educational apparatus is an infringement of democratic principles.
Once this is understood by the general public, I suspect creationism will rapidly lose the positive public image it appears to have built up so painstakingly.
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The Devil and Mrs Smith
It’s a mindbending situation, but I guess you’d have to call me a skeptical believer. Like parapsychologist Susan Blackmore, personal experience inclined me towards the idea that supernatural events really happen.
Blackmore’s approach to the problem was carefully designed ESP experiments. My approach was to go boldly forth among the space-cadets themselves, expanding my consciousness, grooving, absorbing the mind-enhancing rays of the Melchizdek Messengers and basking in the all-embracing super-soul of the Maha Vishnu.
My consciousness expanded all right. It expanded so much my brains nearly fell out.
It’s a jungle out there. If the fundamentaist super-cults don’t get you, the communist descendants of the Abominable Snowman will.
You don’t know what the third kind is until you discuss doomsday with the under-cover Pleiadean alien over a sanctified lunch in a Rama/Krishna boutique.
Ten or fifteen years later (time loses meaning in the Etheric world) I was back where I started. I still think there are grains of truth among claims of the paranormal, and from these tiny grains huge empires of hogwash are built.
If every religion on earth miraculously vanished today, they’d be springing up like toadstools again tomorrow. It is bound to happen, because underneath it all, people keep having experiences.
The hypothetical perceiver, Mrs Smith, knows she saw a ghostly entity float through her room last night, so when her scientifically trained doctor says it was just her imagination she goes away thinking, “What do these clowns know anyway?” The next time it happens she goes to a Mayan channeller and seeks advice from the lost ancestors of Mu.
To some extent “psi events” are undoubtably in the mind. Maybe it’s completely “in the mind”. Maybe. But while the wand-like utterance “hallucination” may mean something to someone, it gives me the screaming-jeebies.
Hallucinations are devilishly tricky things. It could be said that the brain mechanism behind the hallucination allows some aspect of the subconscious mind to come into play. Or, it could be said that the “mechannism” allows the mind of the perceiver access to actual external things not otherwise perceivable.
The whole problem with these damnable, luciferic happenings is that they look like real, external events. They are not inside our heads. Until I get a better idea of how this mental process works, I have to remain a little skeptical of the “all in the mind” theory.
Still, whether it’s all in the mind or not, the only way to get at it is through mind research. The paranormal itself has never given us any genuine information on the subject.
One only has to look at the conflicting literature to realise something’s rotten in Denmark.
Of course, the super-cults have an every-ready explanation for all this confusion — demon activity.
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D is for Dog, and for Doctor
A colouring book for young patients of chiropractors says “A is for alligator and adjustment. B is for bells and for back. C is for caterpillar and for chiropractor. D is for dog and for doctor.” The latter two may have more in common than is apparent at first glance.
It is as much of a surprise to the medical profession to find that their standards of back care are under attack as it would be to a high-rise executive to be attacked through his office window by fighter planes.
The orthopaedic surgeon, secure in his strength and apparently limited in his intellect, seems ill-equipped to withstand the challenges mounted against him from a variey of paramedical platforms. The face of the enemy may be unfamiliar, but the threat to the doctor’s authority is absolutely clear. The battleground is the low back. The opposing forces clash at the point of pain.
The public has little confidence in the medical profession’s ability to diagnose or manage back pain. Recently, on my way to conduct a seminar, I took a taxi from my hotel. The driver, seeing my carousel full of slides, observed I was going to give a lecture. When I responded to his questions that my topic was back pain, he observed I must be a chiropractor.
The medical profession is justifiably under attack because the conventional medical management for back pain is often wrong.
Prolonged bedrest beyond five days is of no proven value, and admitting a patient to hospital merely to sit on him is boring for the physician and makes it difficult for the patient to breathe. Getting high on drugs seems somehow more appropriate on the street than in the clinic. The prescription of modalities, such as traction, to treat a structural spinal abnormality leads to lengthy treatment producing temporary alteration but which ends precisely where it began, with a structural spinal abnormality.
Medicine’s fascination with excessive and even unnecessary investigations proceeds towards one of two unfortunate conclusions.
The patient is told, “The results of your tests were negative. Get lost.”
Or, the surgeon is seduced into operating on an x-ray. When the radiograph, rather than the patient, demands treatment, I recommend that the surgeon content himself with the film, a view box and a pair of scissors.
Faced with this apparent lack of medical success, there is little wonder that many patients seek out alternative treatment, searching for “a backache remedy that works”.
Therapeutic touch is one such alternative. It is a non-invasive therapy utilising “the body’s own electromagnetic field” which assists the client (no longer the patient) to return to “a more balanced state of body, mind and creative spirit”. I suspect the client/patient is not the only one who is being creative.
Polarised Haemoglobin
The Magnetic Four Season Band is typical of the commercially available remedies to relieve backaches. Naturally, since over 80% of backache subsides spontaneously within three months, the Four Season Band comes with a money-back guarantee.
The advertisement also explains the Band’s mode of action to relieve back pain, namely the polarisation of haemoglobin by small magnets. I have no idea what that means, but I feel better already just knowing my haemoglobin has been polarised.
The lack of proof or scientific validity seems no deterrent to the method, and the picture is confused, as it is with so many spurious treatments, by the coincidental subsidence of pain or some unrelated additional benefit.
In the case of the Magnetic Four Season Band, for example, you might use the magnets to attach yourself to the outside of a bus and be allowed to travel for half-fare.
Skull Manipulations
Perhaps striking closer to home is the practice of craniosacral therapy. Instruction in this art form throughout North America generates an annual revenue of more than three million dollars.
The therapy is based on a philosophy expounded in 1908 by an osteopathic student, who felt that since suture lines were visible on the human skull, God had intended there to be movement. The fact that no movement can be demonstrated and that the suture lines commonly fuse over the age of 50 was, and is, considered irrelevant.
Having spent considerable time and money, and having been required to memorise, for example, the over 20 articulations at the base of the skull (none of which move) as potential sources of pathology, it is little wonder that the initiated are reluctant to dismiss the technique as a waste of time.
Furthermore, patients find it comforting to lie in a darkened room, listening to soft music and having their heads massaged. But transient relaxation does not justify a belief in the repetitive expansion and contraction of the skull every five to ten seconds, nor does it establish cranioscaral’s link, as described in one of their texts, with Phillipine psychic surgery.
And I have great difficulty in accepting craniosacral’s “Laws of the Lines of Gravity”, which state:
Man deals with himself in such a manner that his brain becomes more perfect because he arranges his lines of gravity in a different manner from any other creature. Also, the gravity lines pass through his diaphragm, and no animal has this diaphragm-gravity relationship.
I advise patients who wish to have the bones of their skull rearranged to choose their therapist carefully.
Whiplash Worries
Clearly we are on the road to confusion, and it is the patient who may become the accident victim. And what motor vehicle injury is more classic than whiplash?
Every one of us who has ever worked in an Emergency Room has treated this problem, and yet whiplash is not a diagnosis. It describes only a particular mechanism, commonly seen in rear-end collisions, which may lead to a variety of neck injuries.
The pathology after an acceleration-deceleration injury may be as simple as a minor muscle haematoma or as devastating as a cervical fracture with cord damage.
Each is a distinct entity requiring specific treatment, and the diagnosis should reflect the individual conditions — not the common physical cause.
Whiplash to the chiropractor offers a different vista. Gone is the range of diagnoses, to be replaced by the ubiquitous vertebral subluxations. Anatomical reality is replaced with a line drawing where the neck bows like a willow in the wind.
In case of accident, medical attention is not recommended, but the admonition to see a chiropractor follows immediately after advice to remain at the scene of the accident until all information has been collected, and before being instructed to notify your insurance company.
Thorough examination by a chiropractor is presented as a wise precaution to determine the presence or absence of injuries.
As an example, headaches are a current complaint after a whiplash-type injury, and according to matrial supplied by the chiropractor:
Most headaches result from spinal subluxations, in other words, malfunctioning vertebrae. These subluxations cause irritation of the delicate nerves and arteries that supply the head and face area, causing pain. Subluxed neck vertebrae can also interfere with the blood circulation to the brain.
The chiropractor’s adjustment keeps the body free of nerve interference and allows normal blood flow. This allows the body to use its own inherent healing ability to maintain a state of health.
A Blow to the Head
For minor cervicel adjustments, a chiropractor may employ the activator gun. This instrument closely resembles a dental implement which used to be used to pound an artificial crown on a tooth. A spring-loaded plunger is propelled a centimetre or so beyond the end of the barrel.
Patients are told that contact with the skin and subcutaneous tissues creates a subtle pressure wave, sufficient to restore minor subluxations without the discomfort or potential risk of a full adjustment. In Ontario, each trigger pull is worth $10.
In health care, as in any retail business, effective marketing means listening to consumer demands. Giving the client/patient what he or she wants is the name of the game.
When the validity of treatment is not an issue, everything from electric pain management to dietary regulation can have a place in the control of back pain. When you treat a self-limiting condition, easy access, lucid explanations, emotional support and physical contact are powerful weapons.
It should come as little surprise that most sociological studies rank the chiropractor well above the doctor in the ability to control back pain.
And where is the doctor? Has the battle been lost by default? Medical training provides little knowledge or skill to justify the restoration of public confidence.
The modern medical attitude says, “Well, Bob, it looks like a paper cut, but just to be sure, let’s do lots of tests.”
Even the doctor confronted by a patient on whose back clings a large, green monster may be reluctant to make a definite diagnosis.
Although the doctor thinks he has found the trouble, he may refuse to make a commitment until all the investigations are complete, all the while muttering under his breath about the complexity of back pain and the possibility of arthritis or cancer.
D is certainly for Dog, and seems an appropriate mark for the doctor’s attempt at back care.
The fundamentals of patient back education are too often left to junior colleagues without the depth of knowledge necessary to answer questions or the depth of experience necessary to command respect.
A concerned patient requires a clear understanding of the problem, but the lesson in consumer satisfaction so clearly demonstrated by the chiropractor is lost on the physician.
Doctors Gullible Too
Equally quick to criticise the chiropractor for non-scientific methodology, the doctor is equally vulnerable to promotions based on scant medical research — an appeal through showmanship rather than science.
Consider the cold laser. Lasers are high energy light beams which travel in perfectly straight lines. They can be used to signal satellites or to burn holes in bricks. When the energy of the beam is reduced below the combustion point there is no known effect.
Laser surgery relies on the laser’s ability to vapourise tissue. Laser therapy relies on the laser’s unseen ability to increase the energy-containing capacity of the mitochondria within the cell. There is no way to measure this!
Lasers are said to normalise Brownian movement, the random particle movement typified by dust motes in a beam of light. Since random motion is an element of quantum mechanics, and cannot be measured in the living body, there is no way this theory can be tested.
Furthermore, I find it difficult, even in a large scale model, to differentiate between normal random movement and abnormal random movement.
Finally, the laser is heralded as being able to increase the nervous system’s light-carrying capacity, or bioluminascence. This capacity, unknown to the neurophysiologists and anatomists, is well recognised by those who sell medical lasers for $10,000 apiece. Still, lighting up the nervous system has a great deal of appeal.
Having purchased my own expensive equipment, in order to keep up with the clinic across the street, I intend to treat all my joggers so that they can run safely in the dark.
Mind-Body Interaction
The back is an emotional target, and is subject to storng mind-body interaction. Dreaming he is falling, Jerry forgets the well known “always wake up before you land” rule and is flattened like a pancake in his own bed. Here is mind-body interaction in the home.
Six months of inactivity with a bad back, too much beer and too much televisio, and we have the perfect male specimen poised to return to the job. Here is mind-body interaction in the workplace.
Lack of physical stamina limits performance. Strength requires exercise. The willingness to actively participate in the recovery process is a positive mind-body interaction.
Using exercise to control back pain is not a new idea. One manual published in the 1920s pictures the author, complete with bow tie, demonstrating his own routines.
But modern medicine’s love of technology threatens to make even this simple idea unmanageably complex. A bride in her wedding gown standing next to a computerised exercise machine smiles out from a glossy advertisement and exclaims, “Superb! I passed my dorsal stress test. Have you?” I haven’t the faintest idea what she is talking about. I think I prefer the man in the bow tie.
Active, Healthy Machines
Given the choice, of course, many of the doctor’s patients also prefer technology to exercise. One case in point is the passive exercise studio, where you can assure yourself of a healthy, attractive body, painlessly, without perspiration, without the discomfort of strained muscle and bruised joints, and never be out of breath.
The answer, of course, is the machines do all the work. An electric table folds in the middle, helping you with your sit-ups. After a busy day at the clinic, the machines are in great shape.
The same appeal possessed by passive exercise motivates many patients to visit the chiropractor. It is far easier to let something or someone else do the work and take the responsibility than to take charge of your own problems. But chiropractic is not unique in its emphasis on passive techniques. Nor is it alone in its apparent disregard for anatomical considerations.
Manual therapy, performed by a broad spectrum of experts, remains shrouded in folklore and mystery. Thoracic manipulation, as a means of moving the thoracic vertebrae independently, disregards the intervening skin, fat and muscle present in the average living patient.
This same disregard for proven functional anatomy appears in the descriptions of the neurolymphatic reflexes. For example, symptoms of conjunctivitis (an eye complaint) may be treated with pressure on the appropriate reflex location, the upper humerus at the deltoid insertion (arm-shoulder connection).
As surprising as this sounds at first, it is in fact one of the better recognised non-anatomical connections. The next time you meet someone whose eyes are red and bleary from a previous evening’s party, punch her or him sharply over the outer shoulder and watch the eyes fly open. You have just demonstrated a neurolymphatic reflex.
Fallacious anatomy can be used to justify massage or manipulation which brings only temporary pain relief, and yet the patient’s comfort may be enhanced through the erroneous belief that some structural malalignment has been correxted. But when applied in a more sinister fashion, anatomical misinformation can create unwarranted fear and justify the continuation of unnecessary treatment.
Anatomical Misinformation
Dozens of medical conditions are purported to arise because of minor vertebral malalignments. The anatomy seems reasonable, the terms sound familiar, and the medical problems are easily recognised, and yet something is amiss. To accept the diagnosis you must believe. But there are several conflicting belief systems at work in the realm of back pain.
Where better to indoctrinate the true believer than in childhood. Convincing new parents that their infant’s spine requires manipulation to ensure normal growth not only increases current practice, but fosters the child’s lifelong adherence to the principle. “Bring your children for an adjustment. Teach them the benefits of chiropractic.”
Without the knowledge that most back attacks subside spontaneously within 12 weeks, that back pain is a self-limiting condition, and that most back disorders can be controlled through simple measures of self- help, a chiropractic schedule of adjustments outlining intensive care for 13 weeks, reconstructive care for two to two and a half years, and maintenance care for a lifetime seems almost reasonable.
Dependency a Problem
Dependency can be a serious problem, but patients readily accept the idea that their back can somehow be straightened, pressed and cleaned in time for them to pick it up before the shop closes. Passive acquiescence and dependency are the antithesis of active participation and self control.
For those who allow back pain to dominate their lives, the statistics paint an ominous picture. Anyone remaining off work with a bad back for more than six months has only a 50% chance of returning to work on a regular, full-time basis.
Remain off the job for a year, and the chance falls to 25%.
Remain unemployed because of a bad back for two years, and there is virtually no statistical probability that you will ever return to your previous employment in a regular productive capacity.
It is the doctors, far more than the chiropractors, who have been guilty of creating dependency. It is little wonder that many patients will use more than the “apple a day” to keep the doctor away from their backs. The medical profession possesses the potential to eliminate back pain as a major socio-economic problem, but we have yet to demonstrate our understanding of the solution.
Too many meetings, too many publications, and too much time and effort are addressed to the perfect surgical solution while neglecting the simple fundamentals of intelligent and effective back care.
Patients need a simple answer to what can be a simple problem. Most need support, not surgery. They need a platform from which they can achieve their own success.
Joint Responsibility
This is not a popular message. There are too many vested interests and too many strongly held differences of opinion to gain consensus. But whether we like it or not, the battle has been joined and will continue. Both the doctor and the chiropractor have a responsibility to promote better back care.
No longer can the physician place unwarranted emphasis on investigative procedures and invasive therapies.
No longer can the chiropractor hide behind non-diagnoses like “concomitant intervertabral subluxation complexes,” nor report that “the form of treatment given is chiropractic care”.
No longer can the physical therapist be allowed to treat patients solely with modalities possessing no proven therapeutic value, providing temporary pain relief at the risk of long-term dependency.
Dr Hill presented this at a conference of the NZ Society of Physiotherapists.
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Once When My Back Was Crook
I was struggling with the vacuum hose to reach an awkward corner of the kitchen.
“What’s wrong? Afraid to bend your back?” my wife asked. I felt a little pain and it didn’t go away. It got worse, seemed to improve for a day, stayed barely tolerable for a week, and then became intense.
It spread, and by the following weekend I was virtually immobile — unable to roll over in bed, racked with unbearable pain every time I moved. I finally phoned Skeptic Barrie Tait, who agreed to see me the next morning. My panic was dictated by an important conference I had to attend on Monday morning in Wellington. Things were looking bleak.
Dr Tait was the soul of courtesy and good-humoured professionalism. He’s the head of Musculoskeletal Medicine at Christchurch Hospital. I bragged about that. People always want to convince everyone — especially themselves — that their doctor is a genius.
Finally, after a gentle, thorough and obviously expert examination, Barrie took the crucial first step on the road to my recovery — he gave my disease a name.
“It’s lumbar dysfunction,” he said with quiet authority. I tried to translate from the Latin and kept coming up with something that seemed to mean “back not working too well.” What could he do for it, I asked eagerly.
“Nothing,” he said. Take pain killers and anti-inflammatories and your back will gradually heal itself. There was no specific medicine or treatment. I should go ahead and walk as much as possible.
Which is what I did. I stopped by the chemist and, by the time I was limping up to Victoria University things were improving. As the hours wore on, my back got better and better, and at home later that evening I was virtually able to turn cartwheels. The pain was gone. After over two weeks of agony, my tortured back was miraculously “cured”.
Over the years, the Skeptics have been relatively unsuccessful in altering the general public credulousness toward alternative medicine. In light of my experience, it’s not hard to see why.
What if Barrie had twirled a pendulum over me, said a mantra, given me chiropractic manipulation, a homeopathic preparation, or analysed my irises? And what if — like most desperate, pain-wracked patients — I’d wanted to believe it?
Barrie would have had a convert for life. The psychological evidence of my spectacular “cure”, coming as it did after weeks of suffering, was overwhelming. Who cares what the Skeptics think about alternative medicine when sufferers are similarly “cured” on a daily basis by chiropractors and other healers?
And it’s not just back pain that has spontaneous remission, but countless other afflictions. This — combined with the fact that people want to believe in their healer, orthodox or quack — means there will always be an army of satisfied customers ready to testify that some placebo cured them after all the marvels of scientific medicine had failed.
Having said all that, and accepting it at a rational level, I still in my heart believe Barrie Tait is a medical genius. I can’t help it. You see, once when my back was crook…
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Reader Response
Also, as a NZCSICOP newcomer, I’d like to respond to Carl Wyant, who asked why skeptic groups rarely attack the Big Groups. Firstly, skeptics challenging religious beliefs or their legal implications do so elsehere as atheistic or political groups. Secondly, religious belief is untestable, so a skeptic cannot point to refuting evidence. The argument reduces to philosophy. Thirdly, pseudoscience is a lot more irritating than something not even pretending to be scientific.
I would like to comment on a note in the #22 Hokum Locum column. Dr Welch called tinted lenses developed (in 1983) by a “marriage guidance counsellor” a “quack” treatment. Firstly, Irlen is a psychologist and I haven’t heard of her being a counsellor.
It is true that favourable studies have not usually been judged to be up to full scientific scratch (see pro and critical papers in the Dec 1990 <I>Journal of Learning Disabilities<D>, including an experimentation validity paper by R. Parker). Criticisms I find in the literature are: a) the lenses do reduce distortion, but orthodox treatment may work better; b) longer term scientific studies have not been done; c) no complete mechanism has yet been found.
These valid points mean the onus is on the Irlen lens proponents to scientifically demonstrate their worth. But I feel the label “quack treatment” is unjustified.
Matthew Hobbs, Wellington
No Crusades
The letter from Carl Wyant (Forum, March 1992) asks, “…why the Skeptics are so quick to pounce on relatively trivial paranormalities … yet never appear to say anything about the seriously dangerous personalities, such as Christians, Muslims, among others.”
Like many, I started subscribing to The Skeptical Inquirer (the parent skeptical publication) after reading the famous “Metamagical Themas” article by Douglas P. Hofstadter in Scientific American around ten years ago.
It was refreshing and novel to encounter a skeptical approach to claims of the paranormal. Organised skepticism did not provide some sort of substitute religion without a god. Hofstadter wrote that the aim was “simply to combat nonsense”, while the methods used were the testing of claims coupled with rational debate.
Carl Wyant seems to suggest some sort of crusade against organised religion.
Now although I would agree with Bertrand Russell that the “great religions” have, on the whole, done more harm than good, I would not wish to belong to an organisation that set out to tackle what Carl Wyant calls “these Big Groups”. Past experience shows that enthusiasts who do so set out, quickly turn into just another religious group themselves.
While as for crusades, many will be skeptical as to the benefits provided by such endeavours.
It is fine to be skeptical about all religious claims, but let us not aim to try to destroy belief — this would be sheer folly. But when people make testable claims, whether religious or otherwise, let us test them.
Do not imagine that people will suddenly abandon irrational modes of thought, but let us try to increase the amount of rational discussion in New Zealand. These aims may be more modest than some would like, but they have the advantage of being attainable.
Jim Ring, Nelson
Environmental Skepticism
Dr Vincent Gray has written a very pertinent and timely article in “The Skeptical Environmentalist” (Skeptic #23).
Dr Gray’s criticisms of environmentalists are very much in line with a re-appraisal of the so-called greenhouse effect by American climatologists, meteorologists and geophysicists.
In February, the Washington-based Science and Environmental Project released a public statement signed by 43 prominent scientists. It said, in part:
We are disturbed that activists, anxious to stop energy and economic growth, are pushing ahead with drastic policies without taking notice of recent changes in the underlying science.
They further spoke of:
…the unsupported assumptions that catastrophic global warming follows from the burning of fossil fuels and requires immediate action. We do not agree.
The tragedy of “Green” scare stories is that their public credibility decreases each time a hoax is exposed. However, the media (Skeptic excluded) can always be relied on to seize the chance to scare the public out of their wits.
Mike Houlding, Tauranga
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One of the techniques used by quacks is to attack conventional medicine as being a conspiracy against the laiety.
For example, in an article entitled “GP says vitamins wrongly dismissed as quackery”, a Dr Piesse criticises clinical trials and then outlines how he uses intravenous injections of vitamin C for flu and vitamin B12 for genital herpes.
He claims, “If you had genital herpes I’d give you an injection of B12 and the herpes would heal up within 36 hours” and “If you came to me having had flu for three or four hours, I’d give you a couple of syringes of ascorbate and you’d walk out without the flu.”
He alleges that vitamins are ignored because “they had not met the ‘semi-religious’ tests of validity.”
GP Weekly, 25-3-92
I wish I had an injection that would cure such a breathtaking ignorance of infectious diseases! How many people go to the doctor after having had the flu for 3-4 hours? It would be nothing short of miraculous if an infectious disease could be eliminated by intravenous vitamin C. Who was it who said if a miracle is proposed suspect a fraud?
Of course genital herpes could heal up within 36 hours of an injection of vitamin B12 but only if it was due to heal anyway. Any other effect from these injections is obviously mediated by the placebo effect, which is very strong from injections.
If this doctor thinks that he is on to some fantastic advance in the treatment of infectious diseases he is duty bound to publish his results in a peer-reviewed journal. I find it ironical that Dr Piesse criticises this process as being “semi-religious” but then expects us to accept his own results on faith.
Wholly Water?
While on the subject of faith, thousands of people are flocking to a small town in Mexico where a quack is touting his special well water as a cure for everything from AIDS to terminal cancer.
This special water weighs less than ordinary water, a fact confirmed by a laboratory in Mexico City. Being ignorant of physics, I can only assume that they do not perform their laboratory tests with the same gravity as the rest of us. The well owner has been dispensing free water so far but acknowledges that his product is “worth its weight in gold”, and he plans to start selling it soon.
This has all the hallmarks of a scam. Take an alleged miracle (or more likely a lie) and after a few endorsements and accounts of miraculous recoveries, have an entrepreneur market the cure to a population who are both devout and ignorant.
Christchurch Press
Pyramid Selling
Remember pyramid selling? It’s arrived in the health market. A 10-metre high replica of the Great Pyramid of Egypt is currently being “tuned in” by the Havalona Spiritual Health Centre and will then “aid the healing process by supplying additional energy so the body can heal itself more quickly and effectively.”
Pyramids are supposed to sharpen blunt razor blades and we are told that cut flowers placed under the structure were still alive 3 weeks later. I wonder whether any members would be prepared to participate in such a clinical trial?
Christchurch Press 17/1/92
Silly Smorgasboard
A quick review of the Christchurch Press Making It Happen column (27/4/92) shows a smorgasboard of silly beliefs and practices. A naturopath planned a talk on natural immunity, which means not being immunised and being protected by everyone else who is.
If that doesn’t interest you, try Pulsing, a gentle rocking technique costing $80, which brings a state of deep relaxation and awareness, surely a contradiction in terms. Personal empowerment using creative visualisation reminds me of a long forgotten guru who taught his adherents to chant “Every day, in every way, I’m getting better and better.” Can anyone remind me who taught this?
In addition to Ayuverdic medicine, there is now Vipassana, an “ancient Indian meditation technique, said to get you in touch with the universal truths of impermanence, suffering and egolessness.”
This could be useful for Housing Corporation staff. Perhaps the Christchurch Skeptics should start advertising their meetings in this same column. Skepticism clearly needs attractive marketing.
Doctor’s Gender Diet
Doctors have a distinct advantage over lay practitioners when it comes to promoting quack treatments. Doctors are already respected (personally, I’d rather be feared!) and the placebo component of any treatment is already assured. In addition, doctors will already have read Denis Dutton’s article “Increasing Your Income while Pleasing Your Patients” (Patient Management Vol 21 No 3, March 1992).
A Dr Hewitt is recommending a strict preconceptual diet in order to guarantee a child of the desired sex. This is a considerable advance over the unpopular practice of ligating the left testicle in order to increase the chances of a male child.
Dr Hewitt’s diet works by altering the ratio of sodium and potassium to that of calcium and magnesium consumed during the six weeks prior to conception. Women wishing to have a boy are advised to eat a diet rich in foods such as mushrooms.
After putting my wife on this diet in order to guarantee a son we had a daughter who flatly refuses to eat mushrooms.
Dr Hewitt can play it both ways. If parents fail to produce the correct gender in their offspring then he can say that they failed to follow his diet (described as “rigid and unpalatable”), and if they are lucky enough to be satisfied he takes all the credit.
This diet could be tested by Dr Hewitt but it is not in his interests, as the results are predictable — that is, it would turn out that children would continue to be born in the ratios predicted by the effects of known biological factors and chance.
As psychologists have explained, people do not go out of their way to test their own beliefs.
Chemical Phobia
This is extremely prevalent and can be responsible for episodes of mass hysteria, for example the aftermath of the ICI Fire in Auckland when firemen developed conversion disorders. That is, their stress and beliefs led them to develop symptoms of ill-health.
The Marlborough Express (19/5/92) featured a US account of a farmer who had been poisoned by a fungicide used on his farm. The predominant symptom was “generalised shaking”. Even a cursory knowledge of medicine suggests such symptoms are more likely to be due to anxiety or perhaps hyperventilation.
When claims of chemical poisoning are not supported by proper scientific enquiry, claimants seeking to legitimise such claims in the media and the courts.
Some of these people establish the most fantastic rituals:
Debra Lynn Dadd’s mattress is stuffed with wool humanely shorn from organically raised sheep and processed in a solar-powered mill. Her pillows are filled with organically grown cotton. Her floors are strictly hardwood. Even her hairbrush is made entirely of wood. In fact, there’s not a single synthetic fibre to be found in her house. Neith are there any synthetic chemicals, toxic substances or non-organic food.”
I found an excellent review of this subject in Psychosomatics (August 1983, Vol 24 No 8) entitled “Allergic to everything: A medical subculture.”
The author is a professor of psychiatry and he was examining the pseudoscience of clinical ecology which promotes chemical phobia. Factors contributing to a belief in clinical ecology include:
a society with a heightened awareness of the potential dangers of inhaling and ingesting noxious substances in usual enviroments
a group of professionals who develop a theory that utilizes concepts from allergy and immunology to explain symptom patterns formerly explained by psychological theories
dissatisfaction with and non-acceptance of psychological explanations suggesting that the defects are in the patients rather than external to them
a compensation system designed by law to favour the applicant and in the process to favour his or her explanation of the symptoms
a support system of lawyers and doctors who themselves may not espouse the allergic and immunologic explanation but who support the patient in the drive to convince others
This unitary theory is already operating to explain the false beliefs which underlie ME (see Skeptic #21) and RSI (see Skeptic #18).
I was reassured to see that the courts are capable of dealing with unsupported claims of chemical sensitisation. (Lancet Vol 339; 297 Feb 1, 1992).
A woman claimed 250,000 GBP for alleged chemical poisoning which had spread to include aftershave, perfume and car fumes. The judge criticised the doctor’s supporting evidence as “in many respects bizarre and unscientific” and slated the GP for giving out “sick notes rather like confetti”.
The judge concluded that the various evidential reports “grossly inflated the plaintiff’s claim without any sensible basis at all”.
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QED/BBC, 1990; 30 minutes
A very interesting look at the state of homeopathy in the UK in the ’90s, including its use by some “conventional” doctors and vets. Details are given of a few trials (some double and triple blind) that have been conducted claiming to give support to homeopathic techniques. Unfortunately, relatively little time is permitted for dissenting views, and I am sure many of our rural members will have other explanations for some of the “miraculous” animal cures presented. A thought-provoking programme nevertheless; it should be essential viewing for any skeptic confronting homeopathic enthusiasts.
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A visit to Sedona, Arizona, a centre for “New Age” blather in the US. Topics covered include fire walking, astrology, UFOs, vortexes, pendulums, channelling, reincarnation, and New Age music — surely there is something for every skeptic in this one. The programme shows how some successful businessmen and women use New Age techniques to influence their business decisions, and the industry that has built up around this philosophy in a beautiful part of the American west.
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Jim White - Waffles, Triangles, and Jesus - Albums - Reviews - Soundblab
Jim White - Waffles, Triangles, and Jesus
by Steve Ricciutti Rating:9 Release Date:2017-11-10 Label: Loose Records
Sixty year-old singer-songwriter Jim White has been around for a while and lived a life full of experiences, a Renaissance man during an age when few have even heard of the term. Surfer, model, boxer, cab driver, author, producer, filmmaker, photographer, preacher, and comedian fill out the rest of his resume, one that calls to mind Hemingway in scope and machismo. Along the wandering path of his life, one that started with writing “truly terrible” songs just to pass the time, White mangled his hand in a table saw accident. Forced to put down the guitar for a while, White was adrift, eventually becoming destitute; a homeless man eating out of dumpsters and selling garbage he found for spare change. One day, White strode into NYU and “talked his way” into a scholarship, which, lo and behold, they gave him! Upon graduating near the top of his class, he became deathly ill, and whilst recuperating, he took up the guitar again, and began writing with the ease and clarity of focus he’d lacked before. David Byrne discovered a poorly recorded tape of his songs somewhat coincidentally, and off he went. Jim White could never record another song again, and his story would still be enormously impressive, bordering on unbelievable.
On his latest, brilliantly titled Waffles, Triangles, and Jesus, White serves up a blue plate special of his unique Americana-cum-alt-country songs, and it’s a tasty mix of gentle humor, hope and heartache, like the soundtrack to Grapes of Wrath. Indeed, this album reminds me of the brilliant scoring of O Brother, Where Art Thou? by T Bone Burnett, who used country, gospel, bluegrass, folk, and Appalachian music to recreate Depression-era accompaniment for the film. Incorporating the standard musical breadth of those same forms with precision, White commences things with “Drift Away.” Starting with a haunting whisper, the song blossoms into a lilting banjo-driven melody, and on the follow-up, a violin and whistle melody introduce “Long Long Day.”
White has some moments of levity as well, like the sing-a-long silliness of “Playing Guitar,” or the charming duet with Holly Golightly, wherein White references a character from the old television program The Andy Griffith Show, “Ernest T. Bass at Last Finds the Woman of His Dreams.” White reaches into boomer nostalgia with this one, as it’s unlikely too many people in his audience are aware of the show, let alone a recurring character who was a quaint, loveable rascal hillbilly (who would absolutely love this album, too!). Things culminate in the gorgeous “Sweet Bird of Mystery,” a song that may well bring a tear to your eye, and one that is likely to be heard at future weddings during the father-daughter dance. It’s just beautiful.
This is a delightfully refreshing entry into a timeless musical format, and fans of Americana should enjoy themselves with White’s latest. Bring your own White Lightning and a washboard, and join the hoedown.
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Exclusive Interview with Rising Star Andi Young
Andi Young is able to play several instruments such as the piano, violin, and more. He is a classically trained violinist, who delicately threads his diverse influences into the combination of modern pop and classical music which can be heard in his releases. Andi released his single, “Time To Say Goodbye”, a few weeks ago and it has now become the #1 in the Top 50 on SoundCloud. The SoundCloud Singer/Songwriter chart is full of successful artists such as Ed Sheeran, James Bay etc, and Andi Young is no doubt a dark horse, and his songs are now available on iTunes, Amazon, Google and other online stores.
Andi Young
When did you decide to take music seriously and how did you go about getting started?
Andi Young: I uploaded a song to SoundCloud, thinking it won’t get noticed, cuz you know, there are countless songs there from everybody in the world, and you normally get a few clicks and that’s it. But after a couple weeks when I checked that song, it got more than a million plays already! I was surprised at how many people around the world are listening to my music, so I decided to make more music for them.
Who were your first musical influences that you can remember?
Andi Young: I started playing the violin since 4, and singing and dancing when I was about 6 or 7.
Which artists are you currently listening to?
Andi Young: Singers? A lot. Tori Amos, Queen, Christina Aguilera, Etta James. Those are the names you would know because they are in the modern music world. But I actually like classic music a lot. I listen to compositions by European composers such as Fritz Seitz. You know him? Haha.
Have you ever had any formal training and do you think it is a necessary requisite for artists today?
Andi Young: Oh yeah, I was classically trained to play the violin, to dance and to sing. I learned not everything about singing from the anatomy of how we produce sound, how vocal cords work to musical expressions etc. I think they are important knowledge, and I would refer to that knowledge when I need to and that’s just a bonus. I mean, every artist needs to express freely and naturally. Even if you don’t have that knowledge you might still be able to do very well, so it’s important but not necessary.
What are your thoughts on visual media? Do you see video as purely a marketing tool or as a creative extension of your music?
Andi Young: Absolutely the latter. Visual sense is too important to us. We wanna hear the music but if we can also see the music then what’s bad about it?
Which do you ultimately prefer? Entertaining a live audience or creating songs in a studio setting?
Andi Young: I like both and I am a crazy live singer haha, I love singing live so they can see how I express music as a whole and not just through my sound.
Do you write all the lyrics and music to your songs, as well as arrange them, or do you collaborate with other creative writers?
Andi Young: I write everything on my own. But I also work with other extremely talented musicians for the instrumental arrangement just to get the deeper part of me out sometimes.
What kind of a songwriter do you consider yourself to be. Someone who is inspired at the spur of the moment, or someone who ‘locks’ himself away, and works at it until the right idea comes along?
Andi Young: All of them. I started by locking myself away haha, but after I got all those demons out, I started writing for the moment.
Which ingredient do you think makes you special and unique as a performing artist in a business thriving with newcomers and wannabes?
Andi Young: My music is not commercially driven. I mean, lots of songs you hear are perfected in a business way, because labels think that kind of songs will sell because they are on the charts, so they just copy and paste. I write music for music’s sake. I don’t write to suit my audience, rather, I remain true to music, because it is an expression that I cannot ‘make’, I can only get it out and let music write itself, so it is ultimately nature’s work, not my own. And I have strong influences from classical music.
If you were forced to choose only one, which emotion, more than any other drives you to be a part of this tough and sometimes cruel business?
Andi Young: All emotions are important, but for me, I think everything is derived from sorrow. That makes me think, it makes me see things through and ultimately become happy.
Which aspect of being an independent artist and the music making process excites you most and which aspect discourages you most?
Andi Young: I get to do the music I love. What discourages me… when there aren’t enough outlets for my music to come through.
Do you personally choose the engineers and producers for your recordings? How do you find them? And who are the most important creative people you have worked with thus far.
Andi Young: I do. Yeah I pick the ones I wanna work with. I try a few engineers and pick the one for the final recording. Yes, it is a long process for me, because I want my audience to hear the best quality. Every producer and engineer that I have worked with has made me grow. I learned from every body.
What is the best piece of advice in this business you actually followed so far, and one you didn’t follow, but now know for sure that you should have?
Andi Young: You gotta be strong enough to be yourself. Think about it, it’s too hard to be strong and be yourself, but it is the best advice an artist can follow.
If someone has never heard your music, which keywords would you personally use to describe your overall sound and style?
Andi Young: Original, classic? And special haha.
Do you consider Internet and all the social media websites as fundamental in building a career in music today, and what is your personal relationship with the new technology at hand?
Andi Young: Internet is too important now. Every artist needs a platform and the internet provides lots of opportunities to be heard.
What is the title of your upcoming debut release and where and when can fans find it?
Andi Young: I released Time To Say Goodbye, and Star and You Go Left I Go Right, and there will be a few more songs coming up.
Are the songs on your EP predominantly personal and confessional or more in pursuit of the greater world that surrounds us all?
Andi Young: Personal, intimate, confessional and the exploration of the world haha all in one. That’s why we write songs right?
As you work your way through your career, which more than any other fires-up your imagination – A Grammy award, Platinum music sales or some other tangible milestone?
Andi Young: Music sales are contaminated these days, and Grammy maybe, but these are not very important to me actually. I want to be there for my audience, you know what I mean? Like if one day I hear from someone telling me a story of how any of my song helped him or her go through a difficult time, then you know what, that’ll be the pinnacle of my life, and that is why I wanna do music.
What is the ONE thing you are NOT willing or prepared to do EVER, in your quest to achieve a successful musical career?
Andi Young: Nothing.
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Bheeshma Movie Story: Nithiin’s Inspiring and Lady Love to Rashmika
Here I will share with you Bheeshma movie story which is inspiring and you will find out the true lady love. So read the Bheeshma movie story below:
Bheeshma movie story:
Bheeshma is a Telegu -language movie. It is a story about a man who is desperate in search of his true lady love. It is directed by Venky Kudumula and produced by S. Naga Vamshi.
It is a rom-com movie. Nithiin and Rashmika Mandanna play the lead roles in the movie. the music is composed by Mahanti Swara Sagar.
The movie got released on 2nd February 2020. Bheeshma hit the theatres and got a good response from the audience. Even the Critics rated the rom-com 3 stars out of 5 stars. The movie is a full-on entertainment and fun to watch, with a variety of songs in it.
Bheeshma is liked by the audience for its comedy also. This romantic comedy movie has set records in the box office. As per the sources, the movie has raked in a total of Rs 23.73 crore worldwide to become a blockbuster.
As per the day 5 reports, Bheeshma has achieved Rs 1.5 crore in Andhra Pradesh Telangana region, while Rs 2 crore worldwide.
According to another report by Sacnilk, Bheeshma performed superbly in its 4 days after the release at the Box Office and earned a total of Rs.25.30 Cr net ., and earned 1.90 Cr on its 5th day after the release.
Bheeshma has proven to be a huge success this year. , with a great start. , and has managed to make s pre-release worldwide business of Rs. 23 Cr. As per the reports by Trendingraja, the movie collected around Rs. 0.49 Cr in the Nizam area on its 5th day after the release.
This movie managed to collect around Rs. 1.25 Cr share in both AP and TS on it,s 5th day. Bheeshma so far is doing great business at theatres and is a hit in theatres.
It stood to the expectations of the audience. The movie is doing good not only in India but also abroad.
As per the reports by another channel, Bheeshma’s 5 days AP/TG total share is. 17.96 Crores. According to the reports by the experts, Nithiin and Rashmika Mandanna starrer Bheeshma has managed to collect around Rs 18.02 Cr shares at the box office of both Telugu states.
Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in 5 days and around Rs After the movie ‘ Ala Vaikunthapurramloo ‘ of Allu Arjun and Pooja Hedge, Bheeshma is the only film to provide profits to all the buyers associated with it Finally, Bheeshma has become the second film to cross the breakeven mark in all the territories.
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Georgie Fame - The Ballad Of Bonnie And Clyde (Vinyl, LP, Album)
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The Devil's Work
Fritz Grobe & Stephen Voltz, founders of EepyBird, Creators of the Mentos/Diet Coke videos, and authors of “The Viral Video Manifesto”
Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz are the masterminds behind the “Diet Coke and Mentos Experiments” which went crazy viral (17 million views and counting) enabling them to launch EepyBird, where they “spend countless hours searching for ways to transform these things from everyday life into something new, into something unforgettable.” Their book The Viral Video Manifesto (which we review here) not only identifies some terrific rules and guidelines for helping things go viral, it also provides dozens and dozens of examples which are as entertaining as they are instructive.
Grobe, who ran away from a mathematics degree at Yale to join the circus (more or less) and Voltz, a practicing lawyer, part time juggler and former street performer, agreed to sit down with us to discuss virality, advertising, clients and where they all overlap.
Agency Review:
One of the most valuable insights about viral videos that you make is, frankly, one that I was not expecting. Namely, that most companies are culturally incapable of being as risky as success demands. In fact, we quote you extensively on the subject during the review. As someone who’s been asked to make viral videos for clients, we couldn’t agree more. But when did you realize this, and how, and what is it like to explain to clients that they just aren’t capable of success?
Stephen Voltz:
This was something it took us a while to figure out. It was only when we looked back at conversations we’d had with some brands that hadn’t gone in the directions we thought they should have that we realized there was a pattern. Having said that, however, I don’t think I’d say that brands aren’t capable of being different enough to stand out and go viral. I think they can be. What we try to help them realize is that there’s a bigger and more predictable risk in doing what everyone else is doing – which is that no one will watch your work and all the time and money you spent creating it will go down the drain without a sound.
To be clear, I wasn’t saying that brands aren’t capable across the board; I was focusing on the idea that companies are, by and large, set up to avoid doing things that are risky. And, as you point out, risk is central to viral.
Fritz Grobe:
Absolutely. We have had many clients who gravitated to ideas that didn’t stand out from the crowd, and those ideas just won’t go viral. There’s a very natural tendency to do exactly what everyone else is doing, but to go viral, you’ve got to stand out from the crowd in some clear way. You need to create a sense of, “I’ve never seen that before!”
How much of that is ignorance of the medium (e.g., they don’t know that their idea’s been done to death) and how much is fear of risk?
I think it’s a bit of both. We push clients to take their ideas far enough to become unforgettable. It’s easy to confuse risk-taking with being wild and crazy, which may simply be off-brand. But brands like Sony Bravia, TNT, and Volvo have made wildly different, beautiful, on-brand videos that took artistic risks: being bold and daring enough to capture people’s imaginations.
So do you seek out clients who appear to be aware of the value of risk, who have some how demonstrated an understanding of it – and if so, how do you identify those clients? Or, do you lay out ground rules at the beginning – much like you do in the book – and say “if you’re not willing to do these things, you’re just wasting your money with us”? And if it’s the latter, how do you hold them to that without feeling like the scolding schoolmarm?
We find it a lot easier to work with brands that are already at least somewhat on the same page with us. It helps to see what they’ve done before, but we learn a lot in the first conversations we have with them.
Like any business, we’re trying to provide the best possible value to our clients, and for companies that really want to make a TV commercial, not a viral video, we’re simply not a good fit. The strength of online video is creating an emotional connection. That connection is what gets videos to go viral. We emphasize with new clients that that’s where we can provide value.
You have some very specific do’s and don’ts that, in your estimable opinion, will increase the likelihood of a viral video’s success. We don’t disagree with them, but most guidelines didn’t develop in a vacuum. They were the product of trials and errors, disastrous missteps and subtle tweaks that had huge consequences. So how did you come upon these guidelines – and don’t tell us it was simply a case of reverse engineering the success of Diet Coke/Mentos.
No, indeed, it wasn’t simply a matter of reverse engineering what we had done with Coke and Mentos; it was the result of analyzing literally hundreds of videos that had had viral success as well as videos that had tried to go viral and failed.
That’s great to hear, because a lot of the books we read feel like the authors had a hit, then wrote a book saying “the only way to have a hit is the way we did it,” creating this weird, self-fulfilling feedback loop that is devoid of real insight. It didn’t feel like The Viral Video Manifesto did that, and we’re glad to hear it wasn’t the case.
In The Viral Video Manifesto, we discuss over 150 different viral (and a few non-viral) videos, and we looked at many times that number of videos in researching the book. It was from looking at all of them that we were able to tease out, more globally, what works and what doesn’t and it was that process that lead us to develop our Four Rules.
We also had a particular learning experience ourselves with The Extreme Sticky Note Experiments where the video got away from the original concept of amazing images created with thousands of sticky notes and turned into more of a story: there’s an office where the boss is a bit of a jerk and we’re the two mischievous workers… The video did well and won some nice awards, but afterwards, we realized it could have been better constructed for viral spread. That experience led us to understand that, for viral video, story is an obstacle. When you’ve promised amazing sticky note experiments, get to it right away. Those kinds of experiences really shaped our Four Rules.
Funny you should mention awards – because that brings up an interesting challenge that new forms face: they are constantly judged against criteria that are more or less irrelevant for them and it takes time for people to discover what the appropriate criteria are. That’s one of the things that makes The Viral Video Manifesto great – it’s hit on the appropriate criteria. So are you finding people embracing your Four Rules?
Yes, they do seem to resonate. And as brands have more and more experience in the medium, what they’re learning often coincides with what we’ve been advocating.
Particularly when we started explaining that viral video isn’t about conventional storytelling, that was tough for a lot of clients to understand. But now, it’s easier to explain and easier to see that viral video is, as we say, the 21st Century sideshow – promise me something new and amazing, then deliver. Whether it’s Felix Baumgartner jumping from the edge of space or Jean-Claude Van Damme doing the splits between two Volvo trucks, you can really see our Four Rules in action.
craft and reality
There’s a deeper observation at the heart of your book that we found really fascinating – that one of the things that has made advertising less effective is the very professionalism of its craft. That is, its very slickness. And correspondingly, a lot of the tips and advice you give are basically ways to make the videos feel “realer” by foregoing that look of professionalism. Why? What do you think it is about the way advertising is done that makes it less engaging than it once was?
For most of the history of modern advertising the big players were radio and television where the goal of the networks was to keep listeners and viewers tuned in at night until they were so exhausted they fell asleep. That led producers to develop content – both programming and advertising – in a style that encourages passive, continuous viewing. The production techniques that we think of as making content look more “professional” – quick cuts, odd camera angles, sound effects, news crawls, and the like – are techniques to keep viewers watching and listening, in an almost hypnotic state, regardless of what the actual content is.
Online, things are very different. Passive viewers don’t help content spread across the web. For content to spread virally, you need to get viewers to be ACTIVE, to stop what they’re doing and tell their friends about what they’ve just seen.
And that requires a whole new set of tools.
One of the most important principles we discovered is that content that goes viral is content that’s authentic. That’s our very first principle – Rule One: Be True. People tell their friends about things that are real. And every traditional production technique you use tells people, subconsciously, that what they’re seeing isn’t real, it’s manufactured. Ultimately, that’s why the techniques we’ve all learned from film and television actually hurt you when you’re trying to create something viral.
That idea that online requires different tools because it’s a fundamentally different user experience – and because fundamentally different things are expected of the user – is huge, and doesn’t just apply to Viral. Every media is a different user experience, and the truly successful executions are the ones that recognize that.
That said, I fear you’re in some difficult territory when you talk about being “true”. You guys were in white lab coats in the Mentos vids, but you’re not scientists. Did it add to the drama and comedy of the piece? Of course. But was it strictly “true”? Was it even “true” in the way that the guy with the bricks on his head was “true” – capturing an event that was not constructed for the reason of being video’d.
Now, I’m not beating up on you guys, honest. I think you’re spot on in a whole bunch of areas. I just wrestle with “true” because I think it’s a highly volatile idea in the least of times, but especially when we talk in terms of marketing.
Actually you raise a really important point. For the kind of viral videos we make, you can and should prepare, and even rehearse, your piece before you record it and put it online. You want to nail it in one take, and to do that you need to practice it. But, as Fritz mentioned earlier, we also believe that viral video is the 21st Century sideshow. Some of the sideshow acts know that that’s what they are, and they do what they do on purpose. That group includes folks like us, OKGo, Felix Baumgartner, and the like. Others, like the FAILBlog videos, wind up as sideshow acts by accident.
With us, our piece involved wearing lab coats and setting up a 100+ bottles of Diet Coke out in the woods. We didn’t expect people to really think we were scientists, we just wanted to present a fun, off-beat sideshow act. Then, within that framework, we tried very hard to be true. We worked to make clear exactly what we were doing and to offer it up as an honest and straightforward (if silly) presentation of what happens when you drop Mentos into that many bottles of Diet Coke and choreograph it all to music.
For us, the major warning bell on Rule One: Be True is if there’s supposed to be “Acting” involved. Are there characters and a plot and a script? That’s dangerous for viral video. The more you simply capture something real and the more you share who you really are, the better. We aren’t scientists, but we are geeky guys who are genuinely excited to pull of these crazy stunts – from the Coke Zero & Mentos rocket car to turning a quarter of a million sticky notes into paper waterfalls. We work to keep the focus on the truth, the reality of those stunts, and create an emotional connection through our genuine sense of accomplishment in achieving these absurd extremes. No acting necessary.
money shots
You dedicate an entire chapter to “Money Shots” which we’d like to explore a bit more. It seems that you’re saying “you don’t need as much set up in viral videos as you do in other forms – what you need is a killer money shot, a killer punch line.” And we get that. But, “set up” is another word for “story” in most cases, something that contextualizes the punch line or money shot. And so we’re wondering if the way you get around that is because in viral videos, the story is often culturally contextual, so you don’t need a set up (that said, admittedly some things are just contextual to life – e.g., the “Dude transports 22 bricks on his head”). And further, do you think this is something that’s limited only to online video, or do you think it’s applicable more broadly to culture?
Our focus on money shots comes from our work in circus and sideshow, where if you have a sword-swallower, we don’t want to hear her life story – we want to see sword swallowing. Television has trained everyone into providing lots of background information: every time the Olympics roll around, we’re about to see the best gymnasts in the world, but first, let’s look at where they came from… For viral video, this kind of context just slows things down. If you’ve promised us “Dude transports 22 bricks on his head,” do you think we then want to see him getting ready for work or talking to his kids? For a documentary, yes. For viral, just show us an insanely big stack of bricks on his head. Make a promise and deliver as efficiently as possible.
It occurs to me that in that example, the set up is in the title – “Really? 22 bricks? I gotta see that!” You already know why you want to watch. With the Olympics, not so much “Here’s the third Lithuanian diver. Ready?” “Well, no.” “How about if I tell you she’s blind and an orphan and can’t swim?” “Now you’ve got my attention… You should have called her ‘blind orphaned non-swimming diver competes in the Olympics!’”
Absolutely. A video of “the third Lithuanian diver” – unless, as you say, there’s a big surprise involved – is unlikely go viral. On TV, they’re stuck with the problem of trying to make the third Lithuanian diver compelling through story. For viral, you don’t want content that you have to try to dress up to keep people watching. For viral, you want content that is, all by itself, compelling. Video of yet another Olympic diver doing yet another solid dive – probably not viral, no matter how you dress it up. Video of a regular guy trying to jump into a pool that is frozen solid – there’s a hook, and that video went viral. There’s a video that needs only a simple setup before a great payoff.
You do need setup and context. Without it whatever your punchline is will be meaningless. This is true of even the simplest, shortest viral video. Sneezing Baby Panda is only 16 seconds, but 11 of that is setup. Our experience is that your video will be more viral if you make the setup as ruthlessly brief as possible. For the classic JK Wedding Entrance Dance, the first few seconds of the church with guests seated and ready for a wedding to being is all they needed.
And now that you ask, that probably is true more broadly, too. The urge to pad things around the “money shot” and make everything longer than it needs to be probably starts in school when we’re told to do things like “write a 10-page paper” (as opposed to a paper that clearly explains something) and continues up through to anyone whose job it is to crank out content of any kind on a regular basis. If you have to come up with 22 minutes of “news,” or 7 column inches of opinion, or “2 articles on healthy eating,” every day, tricks to pad your core content (your money shot) quickly become your friend. They’re the enemy of good writing however, even as they help you pay the bills day to day.
My personal guideline, and this applies to whether I’m making a video, giving a speech, writing a book, or back when I was practicing law, trying cases, comes from guitar legend Carlos Santana. When asked about how to approach playing a solo, he answered simply “You get in, do what you gotta do – and get out, man!”
Those are words to live by.
I’d be a fool to argue with Santana, so I’m not gonna try. Not only because he’s a Hall of Fame Rock and Roller, but because I completely agree with him. And with you about people focusing erroneously on length (which, let’s face it, is arbitrary) instead of content. My father used to quote Einstein about it: “Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler”. Form following content following form.
But I’m sure you find yourself dragged into meetings with people who start second guessing and overthinking. I would imagine that’s what happened in The Extreme Sticky Note Experiment – “People won’t know why this is happening in an office, so we better explain that. And they won’t understand who these people are, so we better explain that.” And what you cut ends up being very personal – “I understand this is implied, so we don’t need it” “Well I don’t, so I think we do.” So how do you navigate that?
It’s always easy to overthink, and it’s a constant battle to keep everything as simple as possible.
We try to get everyone on board with the idea that story only hurts us and that the only shots we can afford are shots that bring the viewer information he or she needs to understand to appreciate whatever comes next. If everyone agrees that that’s the rule, we’re usually alright.
Viral videos are a media just as legitimate and valuable as any other and one of the great services your book provides is it lays out the ground rules for that media, as have been laid out for other media over years and decades. And that’s always the first hurdle, right? What is this and how does it work? But this phase is usually followed by people taking those tools and creating stuff we never could have imagined when we were in the initial “Whoa, what is this?” phase. So, what do you think is next for viral videos? More? Different? Yes? How?
I’m not sure where viral video is headed, but one trend I’m noticing is that, with branded content, it’s getting tougher and tougher to tell what’s viral and what’s got a lot of views simply because of heavy promotion.
Don’t get me wrong, putting budget into promotion is important, but figuring out what’s going viral and why has gotten harder because view counts alone don’t any longer determine if something is viral.
Interesting. In other words, the efforts of Twitter and Facebook to monetize by allowing advertisers to “buy” success on their sites (which they would argue is just like letting an advertiser dial up their media buy on a tv show) actually muddies the measurement, generating, at best, less faith in the media itself.
Yes. Not to say there’s anything inherently wrong with buying viewers. That’s what TV is all about and it works wonderfully. It does mean though that judging what’s “gone viral” takes metrics other than simple view counts.
That said, the Four Rules of Viral will likely remain true for a long time because – and this wasn’t something we realized until after we’d written the book – they’re really just the basic rules for good human communication: Be True, Don’t Waste My Time, Have Something to Say – Be Unforgettable, and Ultimately, it’s All About Humanity.
Things that were once strange and unforgettable can become normal, so what stands out from the crowd will evolve. But whether it’s on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Vine, or whatever comes next, as Stephen says, the Four Rules in our book are fundamentally about human communication: be honest, get down to business right away, show us something we’ve never seen before, and show us who you really are. While the medium may change, the ways to communicate and the methods for getting people to share positive emotion with their friends will remain much the same.
You’re right, of course, and we’ve argued that those rules, or rules very much like them, are the real measure of any marketing campaign. What makes “Think Small” so brilliant, what makes “1984” so great, what makes even “the Marlboro Man” so resonant, are their adherence to those ideals. And yet, marketers don’t seem to understand that (because one would think that if they did, they’d buy better work). Why?
I think marketers often get stuck focusing on communicating the features and benefits of their products. And explaining features and benefits can be important. Coca-Cola definitely gets us associating their products with cold, fizzy refreshment. But if, as a marketer, that’s all you’re thinking about, you can miss the bigger picture: creating an emotional connection with consumers. So Coca-Cola is ultimately focused on happiness, and their best viral campaigns like The Happiness Machine show the smiles their products can generate, with great success. Features and benefits are secondary to the emotional connection.
And that emotional connection moves product. Our Coke & Mentos videos saw sales of Diet Coke spike and sustained increases for Mentos, not because we were showing features and benefits. Yes, the videos reinforce the ideas that Coke is fizzy and that Mentos are strong, but most of all, those videos get people smiling when they think of those brands.
Red Bull is edgy and exciting, so that made Felix Baumgartner a good fit for them. When he jumped from space, did you learn about Red Bull’s flavor or other features? No. But they created an emotional connection with millions of people. That’s a big win.
So if marketers are solely focused on explaining that this new computer has a faster graphics card, they won’t create “Think Different.” Again, the strength of viral video is in creating an active, positive emotional connection. It can be difficult, but the potential rewards of that viral connection are huge.
You can read our review of Fritz & Stephen’s book here, or order it from Amazon here or from Barnes & Noble here – or pick it up at your local bookseller (find one here). Or you can reach out directly to them here.
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Maulana Shaykh Nazim’s Friday Suhbah
A’uzubillah himinash shaitan nirrajeem
Bismillah-hir Rahman-nir Raheem
Assalamu’alaikum wrh wbkt
(Though this Suhbah is directed mainly at Arab dictators like Ghaddafi and Assad, there is hidden within this powerful Suhbah, teachings to tame the dictatorial ego in each of us.)
Maulana began by reminding all, that humans are weak servants of Allah, but our egos never accept that – hence the multitudes of people who believe that they are powerful, and who try to exert that so-called power over those around them. The biggest liar, says Maulana, is one who claims to be powerful. Always say to yourselves – we are but weak servants of Allah!
There is wisdom in all that Allah creates. He has decreed that we live by breathing – humans take 24 000 breaths every 24 hours. Allah is All-Powerful, He could have made Man creatures who can live without breathing, but He did not. Why? So that this need for air in every moment, is a constant reminder of our weakness and helplessness and of our complete dependence on the Almighty. The moment our allotted number of breaths is up – we die immediately! If there is no permission to exhale what we have just inhaled, or if there is no permission to inhale after we have just exhaled – then, that is the end of our worldly existence. That is how weak we are – we are beggars in every moment of our life, begging for one more breath of air from Allah. By making Man in need of Him, in every moment of his existence, Allah is teaching us that we are His creatures, we cannot live without Him.
For Man was created weak (Surah An-Nisa 4:28)
Allah has already decreed that Man is weak, so how is it that Man himself claims that he is a powerful one? Just because you are sitting on a Throne, and wearing a Crown, does not make you powerful, or different from your subjects! So many dictators, backed by powerful armies and frighteningly destructive weapons, feel a sense of power and superiority over their lowly citizens. Look and learn from what happened in Japan exactly two Fridays ago. Can the Throne and Crown that you possess, or your well-trained armies or state-of-the-art weapons, help you when Allah’s punishment comes from the skies, or from the seas or from under your feet? No. Yet man still claims that he is a powerful one.
It is shaitan who teaches Man that he is powerful. By opening the way for Man to harness the powers of technology, shaitan has made Man into a conceited creature. What has been opened to Man is but a very tiny doorway for harnessing the secrets of science, yet already he thinks he is invincible and indomitable, and he truly believes that he is independent of his Lord. Oh people, don’t obey shaitan!
“Did I not enjoin on you, O ye children of Adam, that ye should not obey Satan; for that he was to you an enemy avowed? (Surah Ya-Sin 36:60)
Despite knowing that shaitan’s way leads one astray, so many people have been tricked by his glib tongue into believing that they have power and that, with the help of technology, they can control what happens in their lives. As this belief takes root in them, they begin to feel that they can also control others and do as they please, since they possess the finances, influence, knowledge and power. Finally this delusion turns them into iron-fisted tyrants and dictators.
How did this idea that they are superior creatures enter their deluded minds? What differentiates a dictator from his citizens? Today, one such dictator stands in Libya, defying the calls of millions of his citizens to leave, firmly believing that it is his right to rule, and that he is superior to all of his citizens. He says, “I am going to do as I please.” Another such one stand aloft in Syria, also with a similar ideology – “I will have my way, even if I have to crush the will of the masses! What they want, is not important. What I want, now that is important! I am the one in power, and the millions out there must obey my orders and bow to my will.” (Read an earlier Suhbah about there being a Pharoah in each one of us)
Maulana labels such tyrants as no-mind people, unbelievers and deputies of shaitan. Allah reminds all leaders and the so-called ‘powerful’ ones: “You are also humans, no different from the humans that you rule. You are just like any one of them. You are not special, you are not superior to them.” Maulana says, it is not as if they have something extraordinary, like having four legs, five hands, two mouths or a tail.
Yet despite being like any other ordinary human beings under their rule, shaitan has taught them that it is their right to rule and to have millions bow to their whims of fancies, and that it is their right that their will should be obeyed submissively by millions, without protest. How does one claim that right?
Are you so special, Maulana asks, that you have never needed to relieve yourself in the toilet? If truly you have a special position above that of common people, then surely you would not have to perform such degrading acts such as urinating and defecating, like the common people are doing daily! Or perhaps, what you produce in the toilet is indeed different and superior to common people.
But if indeed you are visiting the toilet, and producing what ordinary people do so in there, how then do you consider yourself an extraordinarily superior being, whose desires are more important than all under your rule? They say defiantly, “I am not leaving my position as leader.” Who are you, Maulana asks, to say that?
Oh misguided dictators, you eat and drink as ordinary people do, and you produce excretions that the ordinary people do; there is nothing that makes you different from those whom you are persecuting. Sitting on a silver or golden toilet bowl doesn’t make you superior, and doesn’t make your excretions any different from common people.
Power crazy leaders do not see that they will be questioned on Judgement Day concerning their rule and their citizens. Muslim leaders will be held responsible if they did not implement Allah’s Holy Shariah. Do they think Allah sent down the Shariah so that humans can desecrate it, tear it to pieces, stomp on it and throw it out the window? Today’s Muslim leaders turn their back on the Divine Shariah, and replace it with their own man-made Constitution, in open defiance of Allah and His Commands. Each new leader introduces new laws, tweaking the Constitution for his personal benefit and profit. Do they not think that Allah will punish them for this?
Is this how a true Muslim leader thinks – that man-made laws are superior to Divinely sent laws? Ghaddafi has a special Green Book that he wrote, which he governs by. Without batting an eyelid, he turns his back on the Islamic Shariah and the Quran, not showing an iota of shame or guilt! Allah will punish these tyrants who have the audacity to defy Allah openly. The Islamic world is in shambles, as no leader is upholding the Holy Shariah. Scholars have kept silent when these dictators discarded the Quran and introduced a method of ruling alien to Islam consisting of a Democratic Parliament ruling by a Constitution.
All a human being has ever produced from himself are dirty secretions and excretions, Maulana says, and the foreign-to-Islam inventions of modern day leaders of Muslims countries, fall into the same category -they rule by corrupted concoctions of perverted minds.
Oh leaders, Allah is not heedless of what you do!
No slumber can seize him nor sleep. (Surah Al-Baqarah 2:255)
But Allah is not unmindful of what ye do! (Surah Al-Baqarah 2:140)
You (oh dictators) were given the right to rule Allah’s servants, to cherish and nourish the beloved creatures of Allah, as best you can; not to abuse or kill them! Yet you behave as if you are not going to be called to Judgement in His Divine Court. “They are My servants,” Allah says, yet these cruel dictators, oblivious of the weight of responsibility placed on their shoulders, treat their citizens as if they were their servants. Hence Allah’s punishment is beginning to descend on the Islamic world, starting with Tunisia, Jazair, Libya, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Hijaz and Yemen.
The non-Muslim world will also be struck by Divine retribution, because they have turned their backs on the Divine Commands and the Divine Book, whereas deep in their hearts, they know and believe in the existence of an Almighty Lord. Every Prophet came to Man to teach people his limits – what is acceptable and unacceptable in Divine Sight, as well as to teach Man how to live a life that is pleasing to his Lord. Every human being who lives contrary to Divine Commandments, invites the Lord’s wrath upon himself, hence we see a flood of natural disasters suddenly rearing its terrifying head.
It is shameful enough that a Muslim leaders of Islamic countries refuse to implement the Holy Shariah, but now, Muslim leaders are now bringing more shame to Islam, by persecuting and killing their own citizens, until non-Muslim countries have to intervene to save them! How they have tarnished the beautiful name of Islam by such disgraceful conduct! Maulana prayed for these criminal leaders to be taken away.
Listen to, and obey, the Holy Commands of Allah, for every disobedient one will be punished. Maulana prayed for Allah to send His Holy armies to uphold the Holy Shariah, and to bring down all those who oppose it. Maulana reminded attenders, that he was not speaking from his ego, he was merely proclaiming what had been transmitted to his heart.
All humans are created equal. Our Holy prophet (saw) said, “People are as equal as the teeth of a comb.” Maulana explained in such a simple and down to earth manner above, how we all have the same organs and were subject to the same humbling acts like having to visit the toilet, so we must always remember that we are no better than others.
But iblis is beating a different drum. He viewed himself better than Sayyidina Adam (as), and in doing so, earned Allah’s wrath and curse. Ejected from the Divine presence, he swore to lead Man astray – and he is doing so by making Man do what he did, so that Man will also become cursed and rejected . Iblis teaches Man to view himself above and superior to those around him. This is the reason behind Iblis’ fall, and this is the main mission of iblis – to instil in Man the pride and arrogance of viewing himself as being better than those around him. One with an atom of arrogance in his heart, will never smell Paradise, says Rasulullah (saw). Even if you feel superior to one person, you have done exactly what iblis did, for he felt superior to one person too.
He (Allah Almighty) said: What hindered thee that thou didst not fall prostrate when I bade thee? (Iblis) said: I am better than him (Adam). Thou createdst me of fire while him Thou didst create of mud. (Surah Al-A'raf 7:12)
Shaitan is always teaching Man, that to be simply ‘one of the masses’ is not good enough. You must show the world that you are better than others, and you must proclaim it proudly! So shaitan makes Man proud to be acknowledged and hailed for his skills, abilities and talents, making Man forget that these are all God-given gifts. Hence people start to seek fame and name. They want to be the best singer, the best sportsman, the best businessman, the best model, the best Quran reader or the best looking human being. People are willing to spend a lifetime to train on the trampoline or in the swimming pool, just to stand on the podium for a few minutes with a medal around their necks, proclaiming ‘I am the best in the world!’ Contests and competitions provide ample opportunity to prove that one is the best.
If shaitan is able to make a human being elevate himself above others, he has succeeded in ‘cloning’ himself, creating another proud devil, who wants others to bow to him, but is too proud to bow himself. By encouraging the ego, shaitan helps Man build and climb his own pedestal, proclaiming his own greatness and superiority.
People view themselves powerful, and hence superior, in various ways. Some think that they are physically powerful, others believe they are spiritually so. Yet others believe they have powerful intellects, powerful armies, powerful finances etc. Shaitan always reminds us that we are powerful, and the ego likes to be acknowledged as superior to weak ones. This culture of seeking superiority over others, is the creed of our egos, and the Shaykh of such destructive ego-building teachings is none other than iblis himself. So this simple yet effective advice from Maulana, to remind ourselves that we are indeed weak, is the antidote for this rampant disease that is wreaking havoc on mankind today.
Once a country feels superior to another, it will want to conquer and make its citizens its subjects. Once a race feels superior to another, it will want to persecute and dominate the other race. Once an individual feels superior, he wants others to submit and to be subservient to him. See how shaitan’s teachings lead Man to war, strife, hatred and cruelty by creating tyrants, dictators and megalomaniacs.
Ironically, no one wants to be the best believer, the best spouse, the best parent or the best servant to the Lord Almighty. No medals are awarded for this, there is no podium for this prize, so it is an unattractive achievement to attain.
Maulana himself always says that he is a weak servant, in his own words, ‘I am perhaps the weakest servant of Allah’. If our Master and Sultan himself is saying this, every deputy, mureed and muheeb should be ashamed to claim spiritual prowess or elevated stations for themselves.
Tariqah trains believers to view themselves as lowly, unimportant ones. Instead of elevating our egos onto a pedestal, tariqah does the opposite – we are taught and trained to lower ourselves into a pit of humility. We are taught not to see others as better than ourselves. When we look at the young, we know they are better than us because they have sinned less. When we look at the old, we know they are better because they have done more good deeds. We look for every reason and excuse to elevate others and to chastise ourselves.
Read what Shaykh Abdul Qadir jilani (q) said about humility.
It is with this virtue, humility, that the servant’s residence is erected, that his station is raised high, that his honor and eminence are made perfect in the sight of Allah (Glory be to Him) and in the sight of His creatures, and that he is empowered to achieve all his worldly and otherworldly goals. This virtue is the root, branch and consummation of all virtues, whereby the servant attains to the stations of the righteous, those who are content with Allah (Exalted is He) in joy and sorrow alike. This is the perfection of piety.Humility means that the servant never meets anyone without assuming him to be more worthy than himself. He will always say: “Perhaps he is better than I in Allah’s sight, and higher in degree.” If it is someone young, he will say: “This person has not offended Allah (Exalted is He) as I have done, so he is undoubtedly better than I.” If it is someone older, he will say: “This person served Allah long before I did.” If it is someone learned, he will say: “This person has received something I have not experienced, and has acquired something I have not acquired. He knows things of which I am ignorant, and he puts his knowledge into practice.” If it is someone who is ignorant, he will say: “This person has offended Allah in ignorance, while I have offended Him knowingly. I do not know what end He has in store for me, nor what end He has in store for him.” If it should be an unbeliever, he will say: “I don’t know; perhaps he will embrace Islam and come to a good end, and maybe I shall become an unbeliever and come to a bad end.”
Read the following excerpt from the life story of one of our Naqshbandi GrandShaykhs, where the best mureed of Shaykh Sayyid Jamaluddin al-Ghumuqi al-Husayni ad-Daghestani (q), Orkallisa Muhammad, reached a point, when he realised that he was the worst human being on earth. Read what happens to him next.
One time Sayyid Jamaluddin al-Ghumuqi (q) was with his followers in the big mosque of the city praying the night prayer in congregation. When the prayers were finished, everyone went out and they locked the mosque from the outside. One person remained behind inside the mosque, hiding behind a pillar. His name was Orkallisa Muhammad, one of the best murids of Sayyid Jamaluddin (q). He was talking to himself and saying, ‘O Orkallisa Muhammad, now there is no one with you, you are alone. Defend yourself.” And he answered himself, “How can I defend myself? I am the worst person that Allah has created on the face of the Earth. To prove it, I swear an oath that if what I say is not what I honestly believe, then may my own wife be haram to me!” He didn’t know that his Shaykh was also hiding himself in the mosque and observing him. The Shaykh looked into his heart. He saw that in his heart he truly believed himself to be the worst person in creation. Sayyid Jamaluddin (q) revealed himself, laughing and saying, “Orkallisa come here.” The latter was very surprised to see his Shaykh because he thought he was alone. The Shaykh told him, “You are right and you are also loyal and sincere.” As soon as he heard this, Orkallisa Muhammad floated up and hit his head on the ceiling of the mosque. He came down and floated up and came down again. This happened seven times. When the murid is cleansed of this dunya his soul will lift him up and he will fly like a bird.Then Shaykh Jamaluddin told him, “Sit,” and he sat. The Shaykh was pointing with his index finger to the heart of Orkallisa Muhammad with a circular motion. As he was rotating his finger he was opening his heart, not to the Divine Presence, but to the secrets hidden already in his own heart. What he opened up to him were the six levels that must be opened to the seeker in order to set foot on the first step in the Way. These are: the Reality of Attraction (haqiqat al-jadhba), the Reality of Receiving Heavenly Revelation (haqiqat al-fayd), the Reality of Directing the Heart’s Power to Someone (haqiqat at-tawajjuh), the Reality of Intercession (haqiqat at-tawassul), the reality of Guidance (haqiqat al-irshad), and the Ability to move in Space and Time in one Moment (haqiqat at-tayy). These six powers that he opened to him are the First Major Step on the Sufi Path. As he opened these six powers, he was able to take him to the State of Witnessing. In that state of vision he saw himself sitting with 124,000 white birds encircling him. One large green bird flew to the middle. After that vision the white birds disappeared and in their places there appeared the spirituality of 124,000 saints. Then the green bird disappeared and there appeared the spiritual form of Sayiddina Muhammad . The Prophet said, “I am testifying that he has reached the state of Perfection and now you can depend on him. Give him the secret of the Naqshbandi Order.” Then Sayidd Jamaluddin poured from his heart into the heart of Orkallisa Muhammad secrets and knowledge of which he had never dreamed. He said to his Shaykh, “O my Shaykh, do these things exist in tariqat?” He replied, “Yes, my son, and that is only the Beginning of the Way.”It is said that the secret of his Shaykh could be seen in Orkallisa Muhammad. He would go up on the mimbar (pulpit) on Friday and he would clap his hands and say, “O People cry!” and they would all begin crying. Then he would clap his hands and say, “Laugh!” and they would laugh. Then he would make a du’a (invocation) saying, “O Allah they are crying in repentance and asking forgiveness. Forgive them. And they are laughing at the pleasure of your mercy!” Then he would clap a third time and say, “Are you accepting the Naqshbandi Sufi Order to be your Order?” and they would say, “Yes.” Then he would ask them, “Do you accept to repeat 5000 times, ‘Allah,’ by tongue and 5000 times, ‘Allah,’ in the heart?” and they would answer, “Yes.” By this method he spread the Naqshbandi Order all over the land of Daghestan, Kazan, Southern Russia and among the soldiers of Imam Shamil.
So once Orkallisa Muhammad had reached that lowest point that he saw himself as the worst, he was witnessed by the Prophet (saw), and given the secret of the Naqshbandi Order! And that, was only the beginning of the Way! So what about all of us who are so proud of the little superficial knowledge that we have? We haven’t even begun the journey, masyaAllah, until we receive the secret from our Shaykh! And the only way to do that, is to lower ourselves, as the door to Allah is humility, as Shaykh Abdul Qadir Jilani (q) said. That is why Maulana has often quoted this Verse of the Quran, where Maryam (as) says:
Would that I had been a thing forgotten and out of sight (nameless/unknown)!” (Surah Maryam 19:23)
This is the cornerstone of our worldly journey – to seek to become a forgotten and unknown one! So whilst Shaitan urges us to become known and proud like him, the Prophetic teachings preach the opposite, for us to seek humility as this leads Man to the highest of Maqams – see what Allah revealed about the Maqam of Maryam (as), who uttered the words above:
Behold! The angels said: “O Mary! Allah hath chosen thee and purified thee, chosen thee above the women of all nations. (Surah Ali-Imran 3:42)
So many believers are misled by their egos and shaitan into doing the exact opposite – they want to show their miracles (karomah), their stations (maqams), they seek to become Shaykhs and want to teach and attract followers. Why? Is that the purpose of being in Tariqah? Or is it servanthood, submission, love and annihilation in the Beloved? In the words of a close mureed of Maulana’s, he said, “Maulana has three million mureeds today. Half think they are Shaykhs. They other half want to be Shaykhs. Strange that everyone wants to be Shaykh, and no one wants to be mureed, no one wants to become a servant, no one wants to be a Saint.” See how shaitan has drawn the wool over our eyes, until we all think we are powerful and special ones?
So, as Maulana quoted from the Quran, we must stop following shaitan. Remain unknown, humble and forgotten – don’t let the big turban you are wearing, or the long beard you sport, or the flowing Saintly robe you don, or the fact that you lead zikir/Khatam in some town, make you swell with pride and arrogance. That is not the purpose of being in Tariqah! In the words of Maulana Shaykh Nazim himself below:
Tariqah trains you to be Nothing!
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▼Maulana Shaykh Nazim’s Suhbahs (186)
"Neither My Earth nor My Heavens can contain Me, but the heart of a Believing Servant, contains Me."
"Oh My servant, I am happy with you!"
13 Chapters of Good Advice (Part 1)
A fish can never grow larger than the Ocean
A question posed by the disciples of Jesus: 11th October 2010
A Sign Has come for Our Protection
A single lighted candle, can light a thousand other candles
A Tale of two Drops of Water
A thousand years in dunia passes in the blink of an eye
A true believer is happiest at the moment of death
Allah gave us seven names, Maulana reveals the first
Allah has given you a one-way-ticket home, use it wisely
Allah likes to see His servants happy: 1st November 2010
Allah loves NOT, the ways of the unbelievers
Are you of any value, in the Divine Presence? 4th Oct 2010
Are you standing in a Circle in the Sand?
Arrange your life, as He likes it, not as you like it. 8th October 2010
Astonishing insight into the mind of Mubarak: 9th Feb 2011
“Oh Man, I created you for Myself!”
“Oh My Lord, I surrender!” 12th October 2010
Be a raindrop that dissolves in the Ocean
Be always aware of your approaching death: 9th October 2010
Be careful where you plant the seed: 12th November 2010
Be free from shaitan
Be humble, seek those with real Knowledge
Be thankful you were created as humans
Be the pearl, not the shell
Be united, be moderate and be with true ones
Be with the Sadiqin
Bring your best, to meet Allah
Change your aim! 7th October 2010
Close your heart to this worldly life: 10th October 2010
Darwin versus 124000 Prophets
Death ends life's bitterness for believers
Defend the truth, and He will defend you
Devotions on the Day of Ashura
Dive for pearls in the Ocean: 13th October 2010
Divine Anger is knocking on our door now
Do not fear the enemy or their weapons
Do not frown: 13th December 2010
Do you know Rasulullah’s (saw) real Station
Don't be cruel
Don't bring pride, when you meet Allah
Don’t be stubborn like Iblis
Don’t Judge Others, Judge Yourself
Don’t let strangers into your home: 19th October 2010
Don’t live in dunia, just to show off!
Each atom has its own personality
Each moment, He is giving us a new gift
Elaboration concerning the Divine Orders
Entering time of Sayyidina al-Mahdi (as) - the vital importance of Green!
Even if you owned all of dunya, it is meaningless
Every Guide must ask himself this question
Every mureed MUST read this Qaseedah / Do'a now
Fear not, Allah is with us
First it is hardened, then it is locked
Float like a butterfly
Four Divine Orders for all Mankind
From heart to heart, there is a connection: 5th & 13th December
From heart to heart, there is a secret connection
Go East, to where the Sun rises
Graduates from the Academy of iblis
Hadees: “Beware of what you say!”
Has it never occurred to you, that the Qur'an contains a message for you?
Have Yaqeen, Over it are Nineteen
He who cheats, is not of my Ummah
Higher education doesn’t always lead you higher: 16th December 2010
Honor for Man, Is to Know Allah
How a flute produces beautiful notes
If we are really His servants, then all that we own, is His
Imitated faith, as compared to real faith
Important birthday announcement for Maulana Shaykh Nazim, from GrandShaykh, for all mureeds
Important practices for Nisful Sha'aban
In Jesus’ miraculous birth, lies a POWERFUL lesson
Intriguing interview with Maulana: 12th December 2010
Islam came to free you from slavery to dunia
Islam honours Women: 30th October 2010
Islam is the Only Way to Cleanliness
Know your Muslim Calendar and Ethics: 3rd December 2010
Learn about the Creator, not about the creation
Learn from the Sadiqeen, how to ride your donkey
Leave your fantasy, come to reality
Live like a flower in a Garden: 15th October 2010
Living in a Palace: 4th December 2010
Love one another and spread the Azan, 5th October 2010
Maulana addresses Egyptians – Oh Scholars, Leaders and Protesters!!
Maulana congratulates all rubbish-collectors: 5th November 2010
Maulana reveals the CROWN of all knowledge
Maulana reveals the Greatest Name of Allah
Maulana's poignant meeting with Chilean miners: 19th December 2010
Maulana's response to "Innocence of Muslims"
May our faces be full of light and our hearts pure!
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the greatest one of all?
More revelations about the Chilean miners: 22nd December 2010
Name one thing that you own in this world
No other Ummah was given Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim
Oh believers, lower your gaze!
Oh Man, He created creation to serve you, he created you to serve Him
Oh Mankind, Paradise is for clean ones!
Oh Muslims, give your Highest respect to Rasulullah (s.a.w)
Oh People of Egypt, bring back your King!
Only Clean ones are accepted by ALLAH
Patients must be patient: 13th November 2010
Prophets brought us the keys to Paradise
Questions that will change your life forever
Rabitah - a Bond of Love
Read, listen to, and obey the Qur'an
Real Islam is life transforming
Refuting the Claim that Jesus is God
Respecting People of All Races
Return to Him as a servant, and He will honour you like a king: 14th October 2010
Return to your homelands: 14th December 2010
Saints are hidden during Winter: 24th October 2010
Secrets of Damascus and Blessings of Guests: 9th November 2010
Seek refuge in the fortress of Madinah
Servanthood is honour, slavery is humiliation
Seventy two sects will fall from the Bridge!
Shaitan – his tricks, his traps, and how to defeat him
Shaitan is working day & night to drag you down with him
Sheikh Muhammad Adil Singapore Visit 2016
Short snippets of Advice: 21st October 2010
Special Suhbah for Habib Ali Al-Jufri: 23rd November 2010
Stunning Quranic solution to the situation in Egypt
Take off your mask and be yourself
Tariqat trains you to have Adab to Allah
Temu Ramah yang Menarik bersama Maulana
Thank Allah and Don't Complain
Thank God it's Friday: 29th October 2010
The 70 who incurred Allah’s Wrath
The Art of War – Know your Enemy: 17th October 2010
The Day of Arafah - its determination and practices
The Deadly Kiss Of Iblis
The disease of this Nation, is that we forget Death
The Emperor’s new clothes
The Key to a Sweet Life: 18th October 2010
The Key to unlock the Powers of your Soul
The Kingdom of Heaven on earth: 16th October 2010
The Most Important Question That Allah will ask Us
The night of the special declaration: “Be Mine!” 20th October 2010
The Prophet took 23 years to digest the Qur'an
The Real Reason for this Economic Crisis
The river must finally reach the Ocean
The Sad Song of the Flute
The Secret of how a Saint remained clean for 37 years
The Secret of the Atom
The Secret to becoming a real Mureed
The Secret to Understanding a Suhbah
The Secrets behind Prophet Adam's (as) fall from Paradise
The story of a rich King who died hungry
The tragic end of Osama bin Laden
There are two categories of Humans
There is a Pharoah in each one of us! 6th October 2010
This single hadees contains all knowledge: 29th October 2010
Those who seek to please Allah are on Siratal Mustaqeem
Those who Seek, shall Find: 23rd October 2010
Turn your face in the direction of the Sacred Mosque
Two Doors that You Will See After Death
Unlock your heart
Visit the graves of Saints, there is benefit in it
We are wild creatures
We must study from one who is connected to the Prophet
Wearing a Black Turban: 9th December 2010
What determines a person’s true value
What is the value of this dunia, to Allah?
What we must learn in this world
When you are not with Allah, you are with shaitan
Where should we run to, for safety?
Which camp are you from, the Mukhliseen (sincere ones) or the Mujrimoon (defiant ones)?
Who will sit on the Throne on Judgement Day?
Why Maulana Shaykh Nazim stopped his Suhbahs
Why Sayyidina Yusuf stepped forward: 10th November 2010
Why the Crusaders failed to conquer Jerusalem: 19th December 2010
Worship Allah, Respect Rasulullah (s.a.w)
You are not Allah’s servant, you are a servant to your desires
You can never reach Allah, without a Guide
You don’t even understand about one Ant
You must take blessings from April's rain!
You must use your minds to attain salvation
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The Story of the Thief and the Saint
The First Ten Days of Zulhijjah
Maulana’s response to “Innocence of Muslims”
Entering time of Sayyidina al-Mahdi (as) – the vital importance of Green!
Laylatul Qadr Part 1
The Night of Power and the Last Friday Night of Ramadhan
Advice concerning the worship in the month of Sha’ban
Daily wirid in month of Rabi’ul Awal
The Day of Arafah – its determination and practices
Important practices for Nisful Sha’aban
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Update 4.7. Spring Season at World of Tanks Blitz
Updated on February 27, 2018 By admin Leave a comment
With the release of the new update 4.7, among other changes for the players will be an accessible new tournament: “Spring Season”. Why spring? Yes, because in a few days there will be a long-awaited spring.
The spring tournament will begin with the release of a new patch 4.7 and will last until release 4.9. What is the spring tournament? It is a rating battle for the passage of which you will receive some awards. Despite the fact that the tournament is new, the entire salary rating will remain.
But still, some changes will appear. For example, a new system of penalties. If you have not played a rating battle for 7 consecutive days, your rating will have to be confirmed. That is if the battles are not being maintained the rating becomes unconfirmed. In order to confirm the rating again, you need to play 5 fights.
All the achievements for rating battles will be confirmed by awards. Important! a week later the start of the new season players are waiting for registration for the qualifying tournament. Only the best teams will be able to receive invitations to the Tournament of Professionals. At this tournament, you will be able to show your level and get valuable prizes.
Release update 4.7 for World of Tanks Blitz
Update 4.0. Rating battles.
Release update 4.0
New event for World of Tanks Blitz. Spring season 2019
New micro update for World of Tanks Blitz 4.2.0.267
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Resources for Nineteenth-Century Studies
BRANCH (Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth-Century History): Short, peer-reviewed articles about British history (1775-1925).
COVE (Central Online Victorian Educator): BRANCH’s sister site. Publishes peer-reviewed material to support research and pedagogy in Victorian studies.
Cotton Famine Poetry: Database of poems written in response to the Lancashire Cotton Famine of 1861-65.
Curran Index: Database of articles in nineteenth-century periodicals sponsored by the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals.
Dickens Journals Online: Digitized and searchable issues of Dickens’s All the Year Round and Household Words.
Discovering Literature: Romantics and Victorians: British Library project that features 1,200 collection items, 167 articles, 25 films, and more.
The Hoarding: Blog devoted to reporting recent work in British Romantic and Victorian literature.
Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies: Peer-reviewed online journal.
Periodical Poetry Index: Research database of citations to English-language poems published in nineteenth-century periodicals.
RAVON (Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net): Open-access journal devoted to British Nineteenth-Century literature.
Reading Like a Victorian: Victorian Serial Novels: Gives readers access to parts of Victorian novels in the order in which they were published in the nineteenth century.
Review 19: Reviews of new books on English and American literature of the nineteenth century.
Victorian Plays Project: Digital archive of selected plays from Lacy’s Acting Edition of Plays published between 1848 and 1874.
Victorian Research Web: Incredible resource for research in Victorian studies.
Victorian Women Writers Project: Collection of digitized texts by British women writers of the nineteenth-century.
The Yellow Nineties Online: Searchable facsimile editions of avant-garde aesthetic periodicals of the British fin de siècle.
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Female airman becomes first to earn Army Ranger tab
An Air Force officer became the first female airman to earn the Ranger tab last week, joining a growing group...
By Haley Britzky September 03, 2019
An Air Force officer became the first female airman to earn the Ranger tab last week, joining a growing group of women who have completed the Army's legendary combat leadership course.
Air Force 1st Lt. Chelsey Hibsch pinned on her tab during Ranger school graduation at Fort Benning, Georgia, last week.
She joins around 300 other airmen who have done the same since the Army began getting accepting airmen into the school in 1955, according an Air Force press release.
“Ranger School is truly not for the weak or faint of heart,” Lt. Col. Walter Sorensen, the Ranger-qualified chief of training at the Air Force Security Forces Center, said in the release. “It speaks well of all those who persevere to find that inner grit and motivation to push through all that Ranger school throws at them.”
“The perspective tabbed Airmen earn serves them well when the mission gets challenging and others look to them to find a way,” he added.
Then-2nd Lt. Chelsey Hibsch, 374th Force Support Squadron officer in charge of logistics and supply, speaks during a Women's History Month luncheon at Yokota Air Base, Japan, March 26, 2019
(U.S. Air Force/Machiko Arita)
Hibsch is a former enlisted Airman who previously served with the 374th Security Forces Squadron at Yokota Air Base, Japan.
She earned a slot in the Army Ranger Course, one of the hardest leadership courses the service offers, after attending the Air Force's Ranger Assessment Course (RAC), the service describes as “based on the Ranger Assessment Phase week and the first two weeks of the Army Ranger Course.”
In the Air Force statement, Hibsch called the RAC an “unmatched learning experience on leadership,” adding that it was helpful for Ranger school because it gives potential candidates an “understanding of how you function when you're hungry, tired, wet, cold, and worse, then you have to lead a team of individuals feeling the exact same way.”
Hibsch will now move to the 821st Contingency Response Squadron at Travis Air Force Base, where she will serve as a flight commander.
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10 Best Idle Games For iOS and Android [2021]
Best idle games are widely played games nowadays. For both android and iOS users, there are multiple idle Games available in their respective app stores. Best idle games are being the spot of attraction in gamers because of its graphical interface and ease of play. Here in this auricle, we are going to share information about some of the Best Idle games for iOS and Android.
If we talk about idle games increasing interest over the game lovers is just an ease of playing control. These games are made for totally time passing games and make no efforts to play. Even in minimum specification Android or iOS device is compatible with these games. It doesn’t need expertise on gameplay controls to play these types of games. Mostly these all games are clicker and incremental type.
So, let’s have a brief about Best Idle Games for iOS and Android.
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BEST Idle Games
1 BEST Idle Games
2 #1. Idle Miner Tycoon – Mine Manager Simulator
3 #2. Hay Day
4 #3. Clash of Clans
5 #4. Egg INC
6 #5. Bit City
7 #6. Idle rpg clicker games : Evolution Heroes of Utopia
8 #7. Where’s my Water?
9 #8. BBTAN by 111%
10 #9. Bitcoin Billionaire
11 #10. Hooked Inc: Fisher Tycoon
#1. Idle Miner Tycoon – Mine Manager Simulator
Idle Miner tycoon- Mine Manager Simulator is the best idle game for Android and iOS both types of devices. This idle game is dedicated to managing the mines and dug out the different types of rare crystals. It is the best game that allows you to make mine and expand mines and carry out your best practice of manager strategies.
By this game, one thing you will gain is time management and management strategies for sure. Also, it is sure that you will have fun playing this game. Here in this game, you will have to optimize your resources and increase productivity by your managerial skills.
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#2. Hay Day
Hay Day is one of the greatest idle android games that capture so many gamers’ attention towards it. Nearly 5-6 years ago this game was launched and it has gained so many users just because of its gaming levels and best practice to time management to get higher productivity.
Well, the main theme of this idle game is you will have a farm, and step by step you will have to expand your farm and complete the tasks again and again from the order board to upgrade to the next level. Its graphics and user interface are very user friendly and easy to access. There is no complicated play control of this game, you only have to do drag and drop and click on the object to play this game.
#3. Clash of Clans
Clash of Clans is one of the best clicker game and best idle game for android and iOS. After Hay Day being popular in the play store, this game has also become famous among the players. The basic theme of this game is that you have got a small village at the beginning and then you have to train your army and do an attack on another village and make a loot by winning the war and use that money to expand your village and again training of your army. It will require your strategical power to forecasting the opponent’s army power and train your army and depute in such a way so you can win the war and make a loot as much as possible.
#4. Egg INC
Egg INC is a widely played game over the Play store and app store in the Android and iOS platforms. It is like to open up your personal Egg Farm and produce eggs from the chickens. The basic theme of this wonderful game is you will get a farm and you have to spend your money on buying the chickens to produce the eggs. The produced eggs you will have to sell to earn more gold and complete task and expand your farm. This is the best example of the idle, clicker, and tapping type game. Here you will be required managerial skills to increase the maximum productivity of the eggs by using optimum resources.
#5. Bit City
Bit city LLC is the best simulator incremental idle clicker game for android and iOS. This is also a similar game like other idle games. In this game, the base theme of the game is to build your city by investing and upgrade your city as per your choice. Here you will get a small town and you will need to upgrade it by building the city and purchase the other kinds of stuff like cars, bikes, beaches, monuments and other landmarks. Customize all that stuffs to design with optimum space utilization and make a pretty look at your city. From your city collect the money and use them to invest more to expand the city.
#6. Idle rpg clicker games : Evolution Heroes of Utopia
As its name implies Evolution-Heroes of Utopia means that here you will be required to evolve the team of heroes to conquer the monsters and bosses by tapping and clicking. The best part of this game, you will have Guns instead of a sword and other old things. You will invest your money in upgrading your team to fight against the demons and monsters in such a way to win the battle. The graphics of this game are pretty good in comparison to other clicker incremental games.
This game can be played both modes online and offline. You can invite your friends too to defeat the boss jointly. It is the best multiplayer clicker and idle game famous among so many people. Also, you can create clans and hold the tournaments and invite your friends to play jointly. Earn rewards by completing the tasks and upgrading the level by level.
#7. Where’s my Water?
“Where’s my Water?” is another best example of the idle game in which you have to solve the puzzle. If you like to solve puzzles then this game will be the best option for you. In this game, you will have to save Allie (Which is Alligator) by solving the puzzle. In this case, puzzle means Allie is trapped in the ground and you have solved the puzzle in such a way that water reaches out to the Allie. As the level increases, the puzzle level will be harder than the last one.
#8. BBTAN by 111%
BBTAN by 111%is another example of the best idle and clicker incremental game. This game is somewhat tricky that you have to use some calculation to break the brick. In this game, there is no such level increment one by one. It is like a continuous incremental level game that in the same play your level will be getting harder. From the upper side, the bricks will become down with numbers in the brick. That number shows that you will have to hit that number of balls to that brick. As the level going ahead the number of balls and number on the bricks will increase and after each shot that all bricks will come down. Blast all of that bricks by shooting balls before it touches the ground.
#9. Bitcoin Billionaire
Bitcoin Billionaire is the game in which you will mine the bitcoin by just tapping on the screen. That is why it’s the best example of the idle clicker game for IOs and Android. It is just like an incremental game because you will need to spend the mined bitcoin to upgrade your office. In the beginning, you will get a warehouse-type office with a wooden table. You will have to mine bitcoin by tapping the screen and invest that bitcoin in such a way to upgrade the kinds of stuff in your office.
#10. Hooked Inc: Fisher Tycoon
Hooked Inc. is the best idle game for android and iOS which is based on a fishing concept. Here in this game, you will have to capture the fishes by tapping on them. Well if you would like fishing then this game will be more enjoyable for you. In this game, you just have to drag your boat near to the fishes and tap on the fish to capture. By capturing the fishes, you can expand your crew and earn game money. It is the best clicker game but not like a typical idle clicker game because sometimes you need to swipe the screen to drag your boat.
Final Wrapping:
Here in this article, we have mentioned a few of the best idle games for Android and iOS. In the recent scenario, most of the people love to play this type of idle clicker incremental and tapping games instead of old racing type games. This type of game requires the managerial and strategical thinking power to reach the next level and expand your journey of the game. By practicing this type of game will enhance your strategical thinking ability up to the next level.
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Mobility retailer takes “difficult decision” to close its South West store due to increasing running costs
Sarah Sarsby11th March 2019 Mobility retailer takes “difficult decision” to close its South West store due to increasing running costs2019-03-28T06:23:43+00:00 Newsroom, Retailer News
Devon-based mobility dealer More Than Mobility has announced the closure of its Sidmouth store on Friday 29th of March 2019, citing steep rising rent costs as the reason for the closure.
More Than Mobility sells a variety of mobility and disability aids, such as mobility scooters, powerchairs, manual wheelchairs, adjustable beds, incontinence products, stairlifts and daily living aids.
As well as the Sidmouth store, the dealer also has shops in Plymouth – the nearest location to the Sidmouth store – and Northampton.
Speaking about the decision to close the store, Jemma Dunn, Managing Director of More Than Mobility Sidmouth, told THIIS: “Unfortunately, we’ve had to close our Sidmouth store due to rising rent and rate costs. The lease is due to finish in the next month and as the Sidmouth store has not been selling as well as our other stores and with the costs going up, we decided that we would shut that store.
“This was a difficult decision for us and it wasn’t something that we’ve taken lightly. We did look for other premises in Sidmouth. However, there are a lot of spaces that are very big in Sidmouth and there are a lot of spaces that are very small in Sidmouth, but there was nothing really of the right size in the Sidmouth area. So, we are taking the difficult decision to shut the store at the end of March.”
However, the managing director stressed that the rest of the business is running as usual and customers can still go to its Plymouth and Northampton stores or shop online.
Jemma added: “We wanted to give our customers as much notice as possible about the closure.”
As part of its closure, the Sidmouth store is also running a closing down sale, offering up to 25 percent off some of its mobility products.
For customers with warranty issues, More Than Mobility Sidmouth said that it will honour this and that the Plymouth store will be able to handle any existing warranty issues.
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Click here for forthcoming sales
Why Think Thainstone
About Thainstone
We’re delighted to be working with a growing number of livestock farmers in Angus and Perthshire, who all benefit from new easy fast access to Thianstone on the new Aberdeen bypass. They already know the benefits - and Think Thainstone.
If, like them, you'd like to take part in upcoming sales as we move into the prime selling season, or you'd like to take some advice from one of our specialist auctioneer for Angus and Perthshire, get in touch.
The Church family
About Henry: The Church family has been farming at Rannagulzion Farm, Bridge of Cally, Blairgowrie since 1966 when Henry’s father purchased the land and moved North from Suffolk, England. The farm has 3,200 acres of rough grazing hills and sits 600 feet above sea level, rising to a high of 1,400 feet at its peak.
The family farm is run by father and son team Henry and Gordon, head stockman Neil McClymont and assistant Rob Blythe. Neil is a very experienced stockman who has worked at the farm for four years and his ability to revive calves is complemented by the Salers will to live. They are proud of their expanding herd which comprises of 230 Salers females (all born on farm except one cow), and stock bulls including four Salers and two Charolais bulls. The family also has a small herd of pure-bred Salers.
Commenting on his affinity for the Salers and Charolais breeds, Henry said: “We saw Salers for the first time in 1988 and bought two unhaltered bulls from Brian Walling, an original importer. We were impressed by the scope of the cow and its promised ease of calving. We were not disappointed as our calving problems fell by two thirds.
“Three years ago, we took a major step in buying a Charolais bull from our neighbour Peter and Allen Drysdale and we are very pleased with our Charolais Salers crosses. It has turned out to be a classic cross with very little calving problems. The Charolais gives top growth rates, structure and fleshing which the pure Salers would simply not reach, but their dairy heritage greatly benefits the Charolais calves.”
Henry & Gordon Church
Henry and Gordon have been Thainstone customers and members of Aberdeen & Northern Marts for the past two years, attending various sales in the back end.
Speaking about his experience of selling at Thainstone, Henry said: “Thainstone is like a club. It has a lovely atmosphere around the centre, and everyone is very friendly to us. The auctioneers are welcoming and speak with all customers. It’s always a good business day at the Mart.
“Before trying Thainstone, Rory made time to visit us regularly and his persistence and professionalism persuaded us to sell at ANM. We were not disappointed with our first consignment of spring calves averaging £780 or 240 pence per kg last year. Our Salers heifer calves always achieve our best prices per kg because they are hard to come by and people who know us keep coming back.
“In August 2019, we sold a top third of our autumn calves at Thainstone which sold at 11-months-old, averaging 429kgs and £973. Two years ago, same top third weighed 452kg and averaged £1,067.”
The opening of the AWPR has delivered time saving benefits to farmers in the South and Henry is seeing a positive difference:
“We usually use a local haulier Colin Duncan to transport our livestock to Thainstone. We prepare our cattle two weeks in advance of the sale and the AWPR has certainly made the journey better and improved travel times by up to half an hour for us.”
Ian Sim
About Ian: Ian is a 3rd generation farmer who is a regular Friday buyer of store cattle at Thainstone. He farms at Kincraig Farm, Brechin, with 500 acres of arable ground comprising of malting barley and cattle finishing enterprise with 600 cattle on farm at any time and approximately 2,000 finished cattle going to abattoir each year.
“The quality and consistency of stock at Thainstone are brilliant and it’s reassuring to know how the cattle were raised because you’ve bought from the same consignors for a number of years.”
“It’s good to support the same sellers each year and access the catalogue in advance of the sale. Thainstone is an open market which allows me to buy a certain type of cattle I am after and there is always a good selection of stock available.
“The auction ring offers a transparent way of buying and I enjoy coming to Thainstone to do business and meeting other farmers. The facilities are outstanding, well-planned out, and you know the stock is well-looked after.”
About David: David is a 3rd generation farmer and his great uncle was a past General Manager at the Kittybrewster Mart in Aberdeen. The Barclay family has a strong relationship with Thainstone and has been a customer for over the past 50 years.
He farms at Tullo of Garvock, Laurencekirk, a mixed stock and arable farm comprising 530 head of cattle (Simmental cows, Charolais and Limousin bulls) and 200 head of sheep (Suffolk and Texel) including potatoes and daffodil bulbs for export to the USA.
“Thainstone hosts regular sales and has a strong farming community. Just by attending a sale you learn more in an hour from other farmers than you can learn working all week at the farm.”
“It’s great to bring your cattle to Thainstone, sell your stock and get your money the same day – you just don’t get that type of service elsewhere. The quality of cattle is consistent and you get the best price on the day.”
Graeme Farquharson
About Graeme: Graeme is a seasonal store cattle seller at Thainstone and has traded at ANM’s plant, machinery and equipment sale.
Graeme farms at Meikle Coull Farm, Tannadice, Angus, 546 acres of mixed arable farm comprising grain crops and 130 suckler cows with a special interest in breeding Romagnola cattle.
The Farquharson family farms and runs an agricultural engineering business called Coull Farm Services which repairs and maintains their customers’ agricultural machinery.
“The AWPR bypass has made a big difference for us travelling to Thainstone and the service we receive is excellent. There are sales on a weekly basis and Thainstone has the largest buying power ringside with a market for everything. The auction is run smoothly and there is a steady flow of stock coming through the ring.”
“Thainstone staff and auctioneers are very friendly and the market has such a good atmosphere – it’s a very good set up.”
Thainstone Mart is community-owned and part of Scotland’s most progressive farming, food and finance business. We are people-centred, proudly sharing the proceeds of our success with our members since 1872.
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BU Icebreaker Reveals Dark Past for One Student
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Jacob is a Freshman from Easton, Massachusetts. He currently has no major and no life, a true disappointment overall.
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COLLEGE OF GENERAL STUDIES– The classic icebreaker, “two truths and a lie” forced upon students from BU faculty as an “entertaining get-to-know-you game” became a bit too entertaining for one class after student Thomas Zerkat (CAS ’23) exposed his haunting past.
Zerkat eagerly raised his hand, volunteering to share first.
“Well, uh, I’ve got a knife in my bag,” said Zerkat, immediately silencing the bewildered classroom. “Secondly, I’ve killed a man…and the last one is that, uhhhh, I’ve got two dogs.”
Out of the students brave enough to vote for which they thought was the lie, the majority chose option 2. However, Zerkat went on to disclose that the lie was in fact the third statement, and that he only has one dog, named Cookie, who he adores and treasures deeply.
Zerkat proceeded to unzip his bag to demonstrate that what he had said previously was true.
“This is one of my favorites out of the whole bunch,” said Zerkat as he pulled out an enormous knife from his backpack. “I typically bring it on Tuesdays and Fridays.”
As the faces in the classroom gradually turned to a ghostly pale shade, economics teacher Pauline Hertil attempted to escape the subject.
“Alright Thomas,” Hertil said, clapping her hands. “Thank you for sharing! Who wants to go next?”
After Hertil ultimately reported the incident to BU Student Health Services, the university eventually expelled Zerkat, claiming he was a threat to student life.
However, Zerkat has since landed on his feet and was recently accepted to BC on a full scholarship.
“I feel right at home, right at home,” said Zerkat. “Everyone here has the exact same interests as I do; I’ll surely be an eagle for life.”
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Students meditate together in class, new meditation group
Students meditate on a Saturday afternoon. Photo by Abby Glaws.
ELLIE ALLEN | STAFF REPORTER | emallen2@butler.edu
Students sitting cross-legged on red cushions and practicing mindfulness filled Jordan Hall 048 this weekend. Ten students sat quietly a few feet apart from one another with their gazes facing downward. They gather every Saturday morning to practice group meditation.
Meditation has been spreading throughout campus, and students and faculty alike are experiencing the benefits. James Ewing, a sophomore political science major, decided to start a meditation group to give students a place to meditate together.
“There is a big need for meditation here at Butler and a big craving and desire for it,” Ewing said.
Butler had a meditation group on campus 10 years ago, but it became inactive as students graduated. Ewing wanted to bring it back. He said it is important for students to have a place where they can find calmness.
“People really crave time with themselves and peacefulness in their daily lives,” Ewing said. “Especially on a campus, where everyone is busy with homework and clubs.”
The group offers meditation for secular purposes or for those who practice Buddhism. Olivia Marunde, a first-year computer science and Chinese major, has been meditating her whole life as a practicing Buddhist.
Marunde said she would go to the temple back home most Saturday mornings. She enjoys meditating with other people, so she decided to join the group.
“My mom would have me meditate to help me calm down,” Marunde said. “It helps me focus and be more mindful.”
Marguerite Stanciou, the assistant director of the Center for Faith and Vocation, helped found the meditation group and has been offering meditation instruction to faculty and students for the past 12 years.
“Meditation practice is very much a part of enabling us to connect with ourselves in a very direct way and work with all the messiness of our lives,” Stanciou said. “It is not so much about retreat, but it’s about more fully being available to ourselves.”
Stanciou said she has seen an increase in people’s interest in meditation.
“In the last two or three years, there seems to be an increasing awareness that we are feeling some type of anxiety, stress and distractedness,” Stanciou said. “There needs to be a way to work with that, so more and more people are connecting with the meditation practice.”
Margaret Brabant, professor and chair of the political science department, begins one of her classes with a five-minute meditation once a week.
Brabant said she started meditation with one class because she wanted to see if it really helped students. She was uncertain in the beginning because she was not sure if her students would see the benefits of meditation like she did, but they really enjoyed it.
Brabant said she found meditation to be beneficial in her life as well as for her students. She has decided to implement a meditation in all of her classes next semester.
“Saying to students it’s OK to just stop and slow down really proves to be beneficial in helping us calm that beast that controls most of us, which is hideously busy lives,” Brabant said.
The meditation group meets weekly on Saturday from 2 to 3 p.m. at the CFV blue house. There is also instruction offered on Thursdays from 12:15 to 12:45 p.m. For students or faculty wanting to meditate individually, there is a room open daily at the CFV, as well as in Jordan Hall 182 and 183.
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By Ritesh Gogineni
The excitement continues to build ahead of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia and as always, high hopes and strong expectations of a nation surround the England camp, despite the national team not having lifted the trophy since 1966. Gareth Southgate has chosen a 23-man squad that raised a few eyebrows when it was named, including several players with less than ten international caps and two who hadn’t debuted when the squad was announced.
Nevertheless, the Three Lions boss has built on strong tactical foundations which served him well throughout World Cup qualification. England were comfortable winners of UEFA Group F, which not only featured classic confrontations with old rivals, Scotland, but also plenty of potential banana skins in the shape of tricky east European sides like Slovakia, Slovenia and Lithuania, plus the eventual whipping boys of the group, Malta.
The Three Lions were quite average in the scoring department, but with the joint-best defensive record in any of the UEFA groups, they were also one of only three European teams to remain unbeaten throughout qualification, with 8 wins and 2 draws from 10 matches. England might not be the most thrilling to watch, but there is an air of reliability to Southgate’s side that will compete at the World Cup this summer.
Good win?? plenty of positives, we build and move forward?? #threelions @England ??? pic.twitter.com/mb7aAUposw
— Jesse Lingard (@JesseLingard) June 2, 2018
Image Source: @JesseLingard via Twitter
It’s often said that goals win games, which is very true, but keeping a tight lock on things at the back will be equally important for England. For those keen to wager on World Cup matches featuring the Three Lions, keeping a close eye on the under or over 2.5 goals tips provided by FootballTips will be worthwhile. Southgate’s side can often be difficult to predict in that particular betting market, as their results throughout qualification proved.
During England’s unbeaten run to the World Cup, only 4 of their 10 qualifying matches produced over 2.5 goals, which indicates that the Group G matches in Russia might also be tightly contested encounters. Goals are expected to come against Tunisia and Panama in the opening two group games, but the third and final match against Belgium could be a close call, especially if a draw would serve the needs of both sides, who should qualify for the knockout stages with little fuss.
Harry Kane:
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⚽️ Top scorer in Russia? ? pic.twitter.com/WcyIq3V5CQ
— UEFA Nations League (@UEFAEURO) June 6, 2018
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Harry Kane will be carrying a hefty weight of expectation as the tip of England’s attacking lance. After scoring 30 Premier League goals last season, plus 7 in the Champions League and 4 in the FA Cup, such form makes him one of the favourites to top the scoring charts at the 2018 World Cup. Boasting a very noteworthy 13 goals in 24 international appearances, Kane certainly has the numbers to suggest he can be relied upon to take his chances at the tournament in Russia.
He will, of course, need plenty of support if England are to enjoy a successful tournament, but amongst the 23 players in Southgate’s squad, only Arsenal man Danny Welbeck has registered more than 10 international goals, with 15 from 38 appearances in the Three Lions shirt. The best of the rest are Jamie Vardy of Leicester City with 7 in 21 appearances, then Manchester United wing-back Ashley Young, with 7 international goals from 34 outings.
Such numbers would suggest that England are unlikely to be one of the highest scoring teams at the World Cup, but so long as there’s enough defensive robustness and overall tactical stability from Southgate’s chosen ones, fans are unlikely to complain too much if the team can still produce victories; even if it’s only by the odd goal or two.
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Marine Scientist Wins Pew Fellowship
4 March 2010, at 12:00am
AUSTRALIA - One of the worlds most prestigious awards for scientific research into the challenges facing the worlds oceans a Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation has been won by a senior ecosystem modeller with CSIROs Wealth from Oceans Flagship, Dr Beth Fulton.
Marine ecosystem modeller, Dr Beth Fulton, has received a 2010 Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation. (CSIRO)
Dr Fulton will use the $US150,000 Fellowship to develop models for assessing how marine biodiversity is affected by pressures such as overfishing and climate change.
Existing models of marine ecosystems used in support of management and conservation do not represent or evaluate changes in biodiversity, Dr Fulton says.
Rather, they group species according to their niche in the ecosystem for example, by similarities in diet, growth, reproduction and habitat use and cannot simulate changes in species composition.
The biodiversity models will add this capability by drawing on long-term datasets of fish, plankton and seabed biodiversity, as well as field observations designed to fill existing information gaps.
The models will focus on marine systems in Antarctica and Indonesia.
The greatest pressures of global change are likely to be manifested first in polar and tropical regions and these changes are likely to foretell later changes in temperate systems, Dr Fulton says.
Marine systems in the tropics and poles are under threat from fishing, pollution, and climate-induced changes including temperature, rainfall patterns and ocean acidification.
They are facing significant and rapid changes in habitat distributions and this vulnerability makes them ideal test systems for applying new modelling approaches that include biodiversity.
Dr Fulton anticipates the new modelling techniques will be adapted to guide environmental management decisions and reduce threats to biodiversity worldwide.
Only five Pew Fellowships in Marine Conservation are presented each year from a candidate pool of about 40 applications.
Dr Fulton is the developer of Atlantis, one of worlds most successful models in the relatively young field of whole-of-ecosystem modelling for the marine environment.
Marine ecosystem modelling supports management that seeks to balance sensible development and resource use with the conservation of biodiversity and functioning marine ecosystems.
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Classic Australian Novella, Storm Boy: The Game Now Available on Nintendo Switch
This entry was posted on November 20, 2018 by samversionone, in Android, Gaming & App News, iPhone, iPod Touch, & iPad (iOS), Nintendo Switch, PC / Mac, PlayStation 4 (PS4) and tagged Blowfish Studios, indie game, Storm Boy, Storm Boy: The Game. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment
Based on the classic Australian Children’s Boo, Storm Boy: The Game is available now for PS4, PC, Nintendo Switch, and mobile. Developed by Blowfish Studios, Storm Boy: The Game follows a young child living with his father on the South Australian coastline, who rescues and befriends a baby pelican, Mr. Percival.
Alongside the retelling of Colin Thiele’s beloved story, Storm Boy: The Game features a diverse collection of entertaining and relaxing minigames. Toss fish into baby pelicans’ mouths to help them grow. Play fetch with Mr. Percival and see how far he’ll go to retrieve the ball. Surf the sands, sail the seas, and soar the skies around pristine beaches and beautiful lagoons.
Storm Boy: The Game is out now in English for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Steam, and the Mac App Store for $5.99 USD. iOS and Android versions are available for $2.99 USD.
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Greenest flight ever! Air Canada to Conduct First Flight with Sustainable Biofuel
An Air Canada Airbus A330-343X, in Star Alliance livery, landing at Vancouver International Airport (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Cooking Oil-Powered Flight Expected to Reduce Emissions 40 per cent or more
MONTREAL, June 18, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ – Air Canada will operate its first flight with biofuel today to highlight the airline’s commitment to the environment. Flight AC991 from Toronto to Mexico City is expected to generate at least 40 per cent fewer emissions by using jet fuel derived from recycled cooking oil and through other fuel-saving measures, making it the most environmentally-friendly flight ever flown by Air Canada. The flight is supported by Airbus and is part of an environmental demonstration by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to coincide with the Rio +20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development.
“Air Canada fully accepts its responsibility to reduce its footprint and our first flight using biofuel tangibly demonstrates our ongoing commitment to the environment. Since 1990 our airline has become 30 per cent more fuel efficient and we are determined to increase these gains through cutting-edge measures such as those being showcased with this Toronto-Mexico City flight, our greenest ever,” said Duncan Dee, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Air Canada. “The flight, supported by Airbus, will link with other biofuel flights from Canadato Rio de Janeiro arranged under the auspices of ICAO to underscore the aviation industry’s commitment to the environment at the UN sustainability conference.”
“Today’s flight with Air Canada proves that the aviation industry is in a strong position to reduce emissions,” said Fabrice Brégier, Airbus President and CEO. “To make this a day-to-day commercial reality, it requires now a political will to foster incentives to scale up the use of sustainable biofuels and to accelerate the modernization of the air-traffic-management system. We need a clear endorsement by governments and all aviation stakeholders to venture beyond today’s limitations.”
Today’s AC991 will be a normal revenue flight operated with an Airbus A319 aircraft using a 50/50 mix of regular and biofuel derived from recycled cooking oil. This blend produced by SkyNRG has been recertified to normal jet fuel standards and can be safely used without modifying the aircraft’s systems.
Flight AC991 is being operated as part of ICAO’s Flightpath to a Sustainable Future. In addition to alternative fuel, AirCanada will also use other techniques and measures it has adopted to reduce the flight’s environmental impact. These include:
Pre-flight maintenance preparation:
Fuselage wash and wax to improve aerodynamics
Interior clean and reconciliation of service items to reduce excess weight
Installation of lightweight aisle carpet
Engine compressor wash to increase efficiency
iPad Electronic Flight Bag in lieu of paper documents for pilots to save weight
Pre-flight operations:
Minimizing emissions from on-board Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) through use of ground power at gate and use of conditioned air
Streamlining push-back procedures to reduce fuel usage
Taxiing the aircraft to the runway with one engine
Minimizing taxi time to runway
Take-off:
Reduced thrust take-off
Air conditioning adjusted to save power
Climb:
Immediate turn towards destination
Optimized climb to optimal cruise altitude
Optimized cruise speed and altitude
Most direct routing through Canadian, US, and Mexican airspace
Use of live weather updates accessed through iPad for re-routing due to weather
Descent:
Constant descent using optimized descent rate along most direct routing
Direct taxi to gate with minimal delay
Taxiing the aircraft with one engine
Minimizing use of APU at gate through use of ground power.
Air Canada is Canada’s largest domestic and international airline serving more than 175 destinations on five continents. Canada’s flag carrier is the 15th largest commercial airline in the world and in 2011 served more than 33 million customers. Air Canada provides scheduled passenger service directly to 59 Canadian cities, 56 destinations in the United States and 63 cities in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, the Caribbean, Mexico and South America. Air Canada is a founding member of Star Alliance, the world’s most comprehensive air transportation network serving 1,290 destinations in 189 countries. In 2011, Air Canada was ranked Best International Airline inNorth America in a worldwide survey of more than 18 million airline passengers conducted by independent research firm Skytrax. Air Canada customers can collect Aeroplan miles for future rewards through Canada’s leading loyalty program, and Top Tier members enjoy reciprocal frequent flyer benefits including lounge and priority services. For more information visit aircanada.com, follow @AirCanada on Twitter and join Air Canada on Facebook.
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Air Canada Leaveless: http://www.aircanada.com/en/environment/index_flash.html?EMS_MID=EMSx25x31399
Air Canada’s Green Flight Infographic
Air Canada Flew Plane Using 50% Cooking Oil Biofuel for First Time(treehugger.com)
Air Canada jet flies from Toronto to Mexico City using 50 percent cooking oil-derived biofuel(gizmag.com)
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LAPD reassigns 7 officers for using excessive force during protests
The department has appointed 40 investigators to look into "every complaint" and "hold every officer accountable."
A participant wearing a face mask with the words Defund Police in it. (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)
The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed on Wednesday that at least seven officers have been relieved of their field duties for using excessive force during protests over the death of George Floyd.
The move comes amid national criticism of police brutality and the violent response from members of several law enforcement agencies to demonstrators advocating for police reform.
“The Los Angeles Police Department continues to investigate allegations of misconduct, violations of Department policy, and excessive force during the recent civil unrest,” the department said in a statement, CNN reports. “Seven employees have been assigned to non-field duties due to improper actions during the protests.”
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Police assault on senior in Buffalo during protest (Screenshot from viral video)
Police across the nation are catching heat for using tear gas, rubber bullets and brute force during the civil unrest that has grappled the country in the two weeks since Floyd’s death. The LAPD said of the 56 officer complaints received during this time, 28 involve alleged uses of force.
The department has reportedly assigned 40 investigators to “look into every complaint thoroughly” and “hold every officer accountable for their actions.”
“I am alarmed by the growing number of disturbing accounts and images of peaceful protesters being assaulted with plastic bullets, Tasers, batons, physical force, and of reports that protestors were detained unnecessarily by law enforcement during last weekend’s George Floyd solidarity protests,” LA Councilman Mike Bonin said in a letter to Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore.
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NEW YORK, NY – JUNE 02: NYPD officers block the entrance of the Manhattan Bridge as hundreds protesting police brutality and systemic racism attempt to cross into the borough of Manhattan from Brooklyn after a citywide curfew went into effect in New York City. Days of protest, sometimes violent, have followed in many cities across the country in response to the death of George Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 25th. (Photo by Scott Heins/Getty Images)
Los Angeles is not the only city currently managing cop controversies.
In Philadelphia, a police inspector is facing numerous charges, including aggravated assault, after being caught on camera bashing a protester over the head with a metal baton.
In Buffalo, New York, fifty-seven officers quit the emergency response team after two cops were suspended and charged with assault for shoving an elderly man to the ground, resulting in a head injury. The shocking moment was caught on camera by a reporter covering the Black Lives Matter protest.
Last week in Atlanta, six officers were charged after a viral video showed them using excessive force on two college students.
Several city officials, politicians and citizens alike are now pushing to defund the police.
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What You Can’t Afford to By: Sean Evers,
Oil Prices Won’t Exceed By: Gulf Intelligence
Black Gold Outlook By: Gulf Intelligence
Choppy Geopolitical Waters: By: Herman Wang,
Global Insights By: Gulf Intelligence
NOCs Global Trading Hierarchy By: Neill
Caught in the Middle? By: Gulf Intelligence
IMO 2020: Are You Ready? By: Gulf Intelligence
IMO 2020: Fifteen Days to Get By: Chris Wood,
Are You Ready? By: Gulf Intelligence
Beyond 2020 By: William List,
Finding Gold in the Triple By: Michelle Meineke,
Fujairah: Leading Status Ahoy By: Dyala Sabbagh,
Energy Outlook Q4 2019
What You Can’t Afford to Ignore in 2020
BY Sean Evers, Managing Partner, Gulf Intelligence
December-19-2019
Climate change: the greatest bearer of opportunities and challenges ever to face the global energy industry. When 196 countries that are Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) adopted the Paris Agreement in December 2015, it represented a major breakthrough – after more than 20 years of negotiations! The agreement is seen by many as the last hope for humanity to preserve the foundations for a healthy planet. Now, energy markets must play their part.
Under the Paris Agreement, each country has set forth a climate action plan with Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), which describe the country’s climate targets and how they’re going to get there. Understandably, the Middle East’s energy industry and financial institutions (FIs) increasingly have these front and center of their 2020 agendas.
The fossil fuels that have been the wind in the sails of the Middle East’s economic growth since the mid-1900s are charting a new course. A new era beckons as the Paris Agreement means an ‘energy basket’ will be the mainstay of the 21st century, fossil fuels and renewables alike. BP Energy Outlook anticipates that the Middle East will remain the world’s largest oil producer and the second-largest gas producer, accounting for more than 34% of global liquids production and 20% of gas production by 2040. At the same time, the share of non-fossil fuels in the Middle East’s primary energy demand mix increases from 1% in 2017 to 13% in 2040.
Have no doubt: the energy transition is expensive business. Investor confidence is pivotal to meeting environmental targets that the world cannot afford to miss. There’s good news. For the fifth consecutive year, global clean energy investment exceeded the $300bn benchmark, reaching $332bn in 2018, detailed Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). What is one key ingredient to sustain investors’ appetite in the Middle East? Transparency.
We are all still figuring out what ‘good decarbonization’ looks like, so bolstering clarity will improve forecasts and risk-reward profiles. Watch this space.
Oil Prices Won’t Exceed $70/bl – For Now
BY Gulf Intelligence
Moderator: We are in a period of geopolitical infraction and witnessing significant changes in both supply and demand for oil. Yet prices seem to be stuck in a $60/bl-$70/bl bracket. How do you explain that?
Mele Kyari: Everybody thought that the attack on the Saudi oil facilities [in September] would create a very serious disruption and take prices to $80/bl, but it didn’t happen for two reasons. One is that Saudi Aramco took control and started delivering within a short period of time. Secondly, demand forecasts are casting a bearish impact on oil prices. I don’t see any situation where price conditions will go beyond $65/bl-$70/bl in the short-term.
Moderator: Is a price range of $60/bl-$70/bl conducive to the investment required in the oil and gas sector? What can we expect from Nigeria on that front in the next few years?
Mele Kyari: Nigeria has great opportunity for growth, particularly in oil and gas. We’re looking to increase our production to about 3mn b/d in the next two to three years and there’s significant progress on the ground to achieve that. Our country is also tactically placed geographically. Future demand growth is going to come from Africa and Middle Eastern economies. That is where you have the least infrastructural development, so there is great potential in these two regions.
Moderator: Nigeria also has a major say in the state of affairs within OPEC. We find ourselves in a complex market situation where the US President does diplomacy by Twitter and there are unpredictable demand and supply dynamics. Where does OPEC sit in all of this, and with its new partners as part of OPEC+?
Mele Kyari: It sits in the middle. OPEC’s intervention is to the benefit of all consumer and producer nations. It enables the micro balancing that will guarantee that the cost of supply is covered, as well as the connection between the oil and gas industry and the global economy. OPEC’s continuous intervention is not to intentionally raise prices. But of course, our actions to balance the market have had an impact on prices. Our intention is to create a balance between supply and demand that works for all and this includes taking into account the investment in US shale.
Moderator: Will we see global oil demand peak in the coming ten to twenty years?
Mele Kyari: I don’t see it peaking. The global population is growing and with that comes continuous growth in energy demand. Yes, we see some decrease in oil demand because of energy efficiencies, for example in the combustion engine, but not due to renewables solutions, such as solar. These are, for the time, limited by battery power and storage and going forward, I don’t see exponential growth in solar energy sources. As long as demand for energy continues to grow, it will also grow for oil. The demand forecasts for 110mn b/d by 2040 are quite conservative, particularly when one looks at the potential growth of rising economies in the Middle East and Africa. Oil demand growth is on the up and it will probably not be matched by an equivalent growth in production.
Moderator: How do you reconcile with the two objectives of being in the petroleum business while keeping Nigeria’s objective of balancing its carbon output?
Mele Kyari: NNPC is a global oil company and we need to be in all sectors, including renewables. Currently, we’re short on supply of petroleum products and so our main purpose is to address that situation in the short-term. We know that the consumption of fossil fuels has an impact on the environment and, as long as we have improvements in the efficiency of the internal combustion engine, we will be able to contain that to a certain level. We don’t see any major conflict in addressing the impact of fossil fuels on the environment that is different from any other producer. One thing we should do going forward is leverage technologies so that in another five to ten years, we can probably make enough progress on renewables to produce a better balance between that resource and fossil fuels in addressing the environmental impact of energy consumption.
*Edited transcript from the Gulf Intelligence Energy Market Forum in September 2019.
Black Gold Outlook
Choppy Geopolitical Waters: Middle East’s Risk Premium on the Rise?
BY Herman Wang, Managing Editor of OPEC and Middle East News, S&P Global Platts
Oil tankers ablaze and drone attacks on the world’s biggest oil exporter. It’s not been a dull year in the Middle Eastern energy markets, that’s for sure. While events allow dramatic news headlines to write themselves, this adds more complications to commodities and trade flows in the Middle East – global hub of East-West trade flows – in already unpredictable times.
While geopolitics and energy have always been two sides of the same coin, there’s no denying that the knock-on impact of recent geopolitical bust-ups will influence prices. The sudden change in geopolitical risk warrants a potential $5/bl-10/bl premium to account for now-undeniably high Middle Eastern dangers to supply and the sudden elimination of spare capacity, S&P Global Platts Analytics said.
Regional Jitters
Thanks to the biggest attack on oil infrastructure since the Gulf War, oil markets are still calculating the risk premium after drones hit Saudi Arabia’s Abqaiq oil processing facility – the kingdom’s largest – and the Khurais oil field, in September. The attacks took 5.7mn b/d of production offline, about half of OPEC’s biggest and most influential member’s capacity – equating to 5% of global supplies. In short, this attack exposed a nerve, not just in Saudi, but worldwide. Saudi Arabia has, by all counts, done a good job at restoring its production – a valuable confidence boost to an industry awakening to a new (and for many, unnerving) style of aerial attacks. The kingdom’s press conference shortly after the attack was a masterpiece of positive communication. A reassuring picture was presented, dulling the more severe price moves. The US, a key ally of the Saudis, accused Iran of carrying out the attacks, which Tehran strongly denied. Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for the attacks. And it goes on; the bad blood doing little to stabilize energy prices.
On October 11, oil prices jumped again after Iran’s state shipping company said one of its Suezmax tankers in the Red Sea carrying 1mn b/d of crude had spilled oil after two “separate explosions, probably by missile hits” occurred. This followed a handful of tanker-related incidents in the Strait of Hormuz chokepoint – through which a fifth of the world’s sea-borne oil passes daily – earlier this year. The narrative of pricing premiums for the Middle East was reinforced (again).
INFLUENCERS TO WATCH
With US sanctions, OPEC member Iran is essentially knocked out of the international market. Having clawed back production efficiently from the first round of sanctions, Iran was exporting 2mn b/d a day last August. Now it’s in the six figures, approximately 200,000 b/d. And the US Trump administration continues to press China to stop importing Iranian crude. Comparatively, the US’ progress speeds on. It will account for a staggering 70% of the increase in global production capacity until 2024, adding a total of 4mn b/d, according to the IEA’s Oil Outlook 2019-2024. Likely a net oil exporter in 2021, the US’ gross exports will reach 9mn b/d near 2024, overtaking Russia and catching up on Saudi Arabia. The fortunes of these two energy behemoths – one fading, one soaring – may be edited when they have their presidential elections: the US in November 2020, Iran in 2021. Or maybe they won’t.
GLOBAL ROWS
There’s the US-China trade war that continues to reshape global trade flows. 61% of respondents to a GIQ Industry Survey in October believe the trade dispute is nearer the beginning than the end but the good news is that just 10% feel the Middle East is the biggest loser; Asia meanwhile was seen taking the biggest hit at 57% with other countries along the New Silk Road at 33%. If the tension is not resolved, 58% of survey respondents said energy companies in the Middle East and worldwide are not prepared for the long-term impact of the decoupling of the world’s two economic heavyweights. Adding to the uncertainty is the impact on oil prices from discord within the Gulf Corporation Council (GCC) and also from Libya and Venezuela’s geopolitics.
GOLDEN CHILD: OPEC+?
And not to mention the growing production from non-OPEC producers like Brazil, Canada, Norway and Guyana (while output from some OPEC producers falls). Every growth and every decline in an oil producer’s influence triggers a political ripple. Watch this space. The recent OPEC meeting in Vienna in December, with the group doing a good job at reassuring the market since they joined forces with Russia and other non-OPEC allies – rare unity in any industry worldwide – in 2016. Nearly half (42%) of survey respondents said they are very confident in OPEC+’s ability to balance the oil markets this fourth quarter; 28% said somewhat confident. Let’s end this long list (that only covers a slither of geopolitical-energy dynamics worldwide) on a positive note. Saudi and Kuwait may (there have been many false starts) resume oil production in jointly-operated fields in the Saudi–Kuwaiti Neutral Zone since the shutdowns of Khafji and Wafra in 2014 and 2015, respectively.
BOLSTER ACCOUNTABILITY?
There has been a relatively muted response worldwide, notably from the US, to the scale and global impact of the attacks on energy infrastructure in the Middle East this year. The road of geopolitically powered violence and hostility will be easier to tread if there’s a lack of consequences, militarily speaking but this isn’t necessarily good news for the energy markets, nor economic growth. There must be stronger or more predictable deterrents in place, in part, to buoy investors’ confidence.
In 2018, global energy investment remained relatively stable, at over $1.8trn, following three years of decline, the IEA detailed in its World Energy Investment 2019 report. This trajectory must accelerate to ensure energy security. Investment in the Middle East was down by one-fifth over the past three years, one of the largest declines globally, the IEA added. Soon it will be revealed whether the largest Middle Eastern national oil companies (NOCs), many stating higher capital budgets for 2019, came through.
What is certain is that worsened geopolitics typically don’t bode well for deeper pockets. And there’s no telling whether 2020 will be calmer. So, the rallying support of regional NOCs and IOCs, plus new partners worldwide, is critical to sustaining the much-needed flow of funds. This feeds directly into the region’s energy security, but also its attractiveness as a global hub – value that is impossible to put a price tag on. War of words, and worse, only hamper the region’s bottom line.
Moderator: China was the US’ biggest trading partner when US President Trump took office almost three years ago. It is now number three behind Canada and Mexico. During the same period, US tariffs on Chinese goods have increased from 3% to 21%. We have all witnessed the negative impact that the trade war is having on global GDP, energy demand growth and oil prices. Is there an end in sight for this battle between the world’s two largest economies and how is it impacting countries along the New Silk Road?
Thomas Waymel: We’re closer to the beginning than to the end of this trade war, which has been going on for years and hasn’t made any decent progress. I don’t see any breakthrough in the negotiations ahead of the US presidential elections next year.
Moderator: What has been the main impact been on countries and downstream industries?
Arif Mahmood: The three areas that the trade war impacts are demand, trade flows and pricing margins. If the sweet spot of prices is not right, it impacts investments. Some refining projects take years to build and the market needs stability for this, so having these erratic tariffs leads to a lot of uncertainty. I do see potential positive points. If you look at petrochemicals, the tariffs against the US can open new markets for those operating in Asia and offer more flexibility to producers in the region. There were a lot of polymers coming into the Asian market from the US and these are now looking for new ports. But by the same token, there are not many markets in Asia that can give the volume of demand that China does.
Moderator: Large Chinese refineries, such as Sinopec, are relying on orders of US crude made months ago. Can this be easily replaced by West African crude or Middle Eastern crude?
Arif Mahmood: China is currently importing 10mn barrels of African crude but whether that’s enough to supply long-term may be a challenge. China has ramped up supplies from Nigeria, Angola and the Middle East, but questions remain. Will demand be further suppressed? Will product start to flow in different directions in and out of China? The whole supply-demand dynamic on pricing and margins triggers a lot of uncertainty from an investment point of view.
Moderator: Do you see the change in crude flows impacting China’s strategy of building strategic oil reserves?
Thomas Waymel: I don’t see any huge change in long-term policy. China has been building strategic reserves for the last ten years and they may now speed that up. They are securing long-term supply for large new refineries, some of which are being built as joint ventures with the likes of Saudi Aramco.
Moderator: Shipping accounts for 90% of global trade and the Suez Canal is a critical part of that. Have the trade dynamics between the US and China led to any significant rerouting of trade flows and how have volumes at the Suez Canal fared?
H.E. Admiral Mohab Mohamed Hussein Mamish: The movement of world trade is changing to move from the East – China, India and Vietnam – through Europe and onto the US. We are actively preparing for that. We must be ready for the number of ships needed and build the infrastructure and facilities to supply the ships. The Suez Canal touches the Red Sea and Mediterranean with around 20,000 vessels a year and investments along the New Silk Road will only lead to increased volumes.
Thomas Waymel: Shipping has been a bad investment for the last few years as there have been too many new builds. As a trader, you want to have long options, long storage and long ships. IMO 2020 may provide some respite with new flows expected to materialize, so the market has been pricing a stronger shipping for 2020. But on the other hand, we have a slowing global economy, which is stymying trade and is bearish for shipping rates.
Moderator: There’s a lot of investment going into refineries across the Middle East and into China itself. Can refiners still have peace of mind knowing that crude flows will not be disrupted on the back of the escalating trade war?
Arif Mahmood: My main concern is that we don’t see demand increasing and that means bad margins for refiners. One tactic has been to get closer to where markets are and take advantage of distance logistics. The other challenge at the moment for Asia is that there are a lot of changing specifications for products and many countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are behind. I don’t see margins for refiners as very optimistic as we move towards IMO 2020 in January.
Moderator: Are energy companies prepared for the long-term structural impact of the US-China decoupling?
Thomas Waymel: Companies don’t expect this to last; it will be resolved one way or another. We don’t expect to be planning for a global meltdown of worldwide trade.
Arif Mahmood: The oil business has always been impacted with abrupt changes. Refiners, traders, shippers and storage companies have always been expected to adjust. Long-term, things will eventually normalize in this new trade dynamic, but that is not to say that we will continue as we are today. A new normal will have to be established.
Middle East: Impact on Trading and Shipping Routes?
Thomas Waymel: The US and Asia are the two regions most affected, not the Middle East. The US export market for crude and gas now has limitations. Most of the LNG that was destined for China now can’t find a home and this has impacted the price of LNG significantly. There is obviously enough crude supply in the market today and US crude is being redirected to Europe instead of China, while Europe continues to take West African crude. The Middle East has perhaps been benefiting short-term with more Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabian crude going to China. In terms of the impact on flat prices, if President Trump tweets that negotiations are going well, the market jumps $3/bl and if not, it drops by the same amount. But that is sentiment and not fundamentals. Although that type of volatility is not ideal, it’s totally unpredictable.
Moderator: So, there’s no tangible opportunity for traders to capitalize on then? Are they shifting their focus at all on what products to trade over others?
Thomas Waymel: A trading company must continuously look for opportunities and sort out the imbalances created by the market and those are there today as a result of the trade war, the most recent being the tariff by China on US crude. Flows will always be rearranged, creating a new optimum and that is an opportunity for trading houses. But, there’s good and bad volatility. If it’s volatility like an unexpected and significant strike on Saudi Arabian oil facilities, traders will be hurt.
New Silk Road: Flow of Funds?
Moderator: As part of its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China is one of the biggest investors in new oil and gas infrastructure across the New Silk Road and beyond. How are countries like Singapore being impacted by the dynamics of the trade war? Is there a shift or refocus of Chinese investment? China has also been opening up its own economy to outside investors in the last few years to boost internal infrastructure.
Roger Chia Kim Piow: Singapore is very strongly dependent on investors and our GDP took a big hit in the second quarter of this year on the back of the slowdown in China and the global economy. China as a state is playing a very important part in eastern trading and that’s where economies are being impacted. The energy storage and trading industry by itself will not be affected too much. Manufacturing businesses like electronics will be, for example. In general, China’s BRI investment is continuing to take advantage of new centers of demand. Singapore’s small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are also venturing into some of those same countries that offer opportunities.
Arif Mahmood: Energy security is key for China and when the trust of a free market is disrupted by excessive tariffs, countries secure supply either through partnerships or new investors. There will be an increase in the pace of investment to ensure this security through joint ventures. China is still growing at 6%, which is huge for a population of 1.2bn people. It needs to create new markets and the Middle East and Russia will increasingly become more important regions for that. The tariffs are also triggering a new dynamic in regards to innovation in China. It does not want to become reliant on any particular region or country like the US, so we are seeing this increased pace of innovative thinking on energy product flows, intellectual property (IP), software and technology.
*Edited transcript
NOCs Global Trading Hierarchy
BY Neill Robertson-Jones, Head of Energy & Marine, National Bank of Fujairah
Fully monetize the value chain; rethink corporate philosophies; and go back to the basics of trading. Applying these three steps will mean national oil companies (NOCs) can accelerate up the global hierarchy. Over the last three years, many have laid the foundations to emerge as energy trading heavyweights; a role historically dominated by international oil companies (IOCs). Now, they must up the tempo.
Saudi Aramco’s bid to be among the world’s top three global oil traders reflects the ambitious step change among Gulf NOCs. They have increasingly been advancing and diversifying their upstream dominance into downstream expertise and building vertically integrated businesses that are sometimes direct competition to established global energy traders.
FORTUNATE GEOGRAPHY
One golden ticket for Gulf NOCs is geography, notably the UAE’s Emirate of Fujairah. The Middle East’s biggest port and the world’s second largest bunkering hub lies at the heart of global east-west crossroads, especially the surge of trade flowing towards Asia. Aramco Trading, which expects to see its oil trading volume rise to 6mn b/d next year, has opened its second international office in Fujairah. Plus, ADNOC is building the world’s largest underground oil storage project in Fujairah having awarded a $1.21bn engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to South Korea’s SK Engineering and Construction Co (SKEC). The port has also made excellent progress (in a global context) to have a clean and steady supply of LSFO for when the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) ruling to reduce sulfur limits from 3.5% to 0.5% comes into play on 1 January 2020. All these moves are affirmations of Fujairah’s strategic importance – and capability – to meeting NOCs’ trading goals.
SQUEEZE, SQUEEZE, SQUEEZE
NOCs must maximize the overall value of the integrated portfolio rather than any single element, which is sentiment echoed by management consultancy Strategy& Middle East last year. This encompasses standardized management tools and data transparency along the entire value chain to create a holistic, not fragmented, overview. ADNOC are an excellent recent example of how this strategy pays off. As many (surviving) energy companies did after the oil price dramatically fell in 2014, the company has stretched the value of every barrel, squeezed efficiencies internally and opened its metaphorical and literal doors to be more entwined in global energy dialogue and foreign partners. Consequently, ADNOC is leaner, more aggressive and, critically, easier to benchmark to a private business than a government. All play well into broadening an influential trading portfolio, plus the efficiencies add some fat back to the balance books – helpful for trading liquidity.
A NEW CULTURAL STATUS QUO
Cultural change can be a tricky and long slog – but it’s non-negotiable. Currently, it is still not 100% clear which direction the Gulf NOCs’ trading arms are going to take. What we do know is that they will be sizeable and important players who will be welcomed into the market (greater liquidity is a win-win for all). But what of their philosophy to regional and global growth, alliances and risk? The first step to updating NOCs’ corporate philosophy is staff. It’s very simple: hire people who know what they’re doing. Secondly, cover every base when it comes to mitigating risk. With all the checks in place, red flags of misalignment should be easy to spot. Of course, every company will have a different pain threshold.
Liberalization is a simple and sure way to accelerate liquidity and grow a traded market. NOCs must let go, reduce destination restrictions and reduce official selling prices. Let the market decide the price and supply-demand dynamics. Of course, NOCs by the very nature of their social and state responsibilities may find this balancing act difficult. But it also offers significant value. For one, NOCs have the advantage of being able to manage the whole value chain, from drilling for black gold through to the trading desks and retail.
DIGITAL SMARTS
Another step towards simplifying trading is leveraging the 4th Industrial Revolution, notably blockchain. Approximately, if you made a spreadsheet of all the blockchain consortiums worldwide, there are more IOCs than NOCs. NOCs are missing a very relevant trick; blockchain is only going to be become more widespread and more influential in building confidence among traders.
Make no mistake, Gulf NOCs emerging as another Vitol or BP Trading is a major leap. It only takes one big loss on the books to rattle the market and spark doubt, so NOCs must tread carefully and smartly. But their strong track record, plus Fujairah’s credentials, means there’s no reason Gulf NOCs can’t enjoy one of the best seats at the table of global traders in the early 2020s.
Caught in the Middle?
IMO 2020: Are You Ready?
Moderator: Which sector is better prepared for IMO 2020 – shippers, refineries or ports?
Mike Muller: There is a general expectation that stakeholders may not be ready to immediately comply. I would say it may be easier for the ports to be prepared because they just need to enforce rules, whereas others must invest in structural changes.
Moderator: Many say the ports have a responsibility for the communication of clarity and procedure and that preparation could have been done better.
Mike Muller: It depends on the port. But for the most part, those that have engaged have been very clear in towing the line and threatening enforcement and consequences on stakeholders who are caught not complying. The biggest concern is consistency of enforcement globally, but you really do not want to be boycotted by concerned investors these days. They represent a large percentage of the share price and are consistently talking about sustainable growth and accountability to the environment. It’s an extremely large issue and if you listen to the top people at the IMO, they are singing the exact same tune and already looking to the next step, encouraging alternative fuels, such as LNG.
Magid Shenouda: Refineries are most prepared. They have been for two years, with the exception of the Russian refinery sector maybe. Globally, in the last five months, we’ve seen heavy and medium sweet crudes trading at large premiums to Brent, contrary to what they have done historically. So, refineries have been buying those products to get ready. Product can always be sourced. The real question is how is it going to affect feedstocks, how are people going to switch feedstocks and what impact will that have?
Dave Ernsberger: Most people are prepared. We are talking about a massive group of entities with a huge number of vessels and assets. More than 2,400 scrubbers have been, or will be, installed by the end of this year and another 3,000 by the end of 2020. The only constituency that is absolutely 100% exposed to this new rule is the shipping community. What I hear from shippers is that everybody’s switched the lights on from mid-October to go to LSFO. They’ve already put the enquiries into the ports. Most people think the industry’s ready and we see that reflected in prices as well.
Moderator: Will there be enough LSFO supply to meet demand in the first half of 2020?
Keith Martin: Great efforts have been made and storage is full. Our unit in Fujairah is producing today and we’ve got a number of locations with storage and this is being echoed by other players. We see ships full, laying in the harbour waiting for the change. The refineries are all ready to switch and have been prepared as well, so there will be enough product available. That is not a concern. What everybody’s interested in is what will be the initial teething problems in terms of system changes. This will only work if applied globally and we have seen government commitment at a high level, which will put on a lot of pressure to make this happen. Those that don’t will be castigated by shareholders.
Moderator: With plenty of supply, does the big opportunity of margin disappear?
Keith Martin: I don’t think so. There is stock at the moment to reassure concerns around readiness in the first half of 2020. But the market will level out, demand will increase, we’ll get over the teething problems and then we’ll have a new dynamic in terms of price levels and margins will be reasonable.
Moderator: Where is the pricing spread of LSFO and high sulfur fuel oil (HSFO) today and where is it headed?
Mike Muller: The front of the market price for LSFO is in the low $300s/t. There are going to be very different flavors of ultra LSFO…high viscosity, low viscosity, directly from the refinery, blended by somebody you trust or don’t trust, etc.
Magid Shenouda: The market is currently trading at $276/t. To get to $300/t, you only need another $25/t, which is going to happen because the HSFO market is going to be pushed down, as well as other factors.
Adi Imsirovic: I would be a bit more conservative. There will be very good demand for ultra LSFO, given where marine gas oil prices are, so somewhere between $200/t-$300/t.
Moderator: What is the big picture outlook vis-à-vis the first half of next year? How do you see IMO 2020 playing out?
Dave Ernsberger: It’s important to keep these things in perspective. The bunker fuel market is 3.5mn b/d in some shape or form. The global oil markets have managed much bigger changes than this; many of us have seen shifts from diesel, from HSFO to ultra LSFO, gasoline to cleaner standards all around the world. The bunker market will be roiled a little from November and probably through to February next year with technical challenges, such as tanks changing and ships loading new fuels. But the fundamental challenge is the fuel itself and it appears that the required investments have been made on that front in LSFO production through to blending and new scrubbers. We are not looking at a crisis – this is more Y2K than it is anything massive.
Moderator: As prices are on a bearish trend, will OPEC need to make much deeper supply cuts at its December meeting to support prices at where they are today?
Dave Ernsberger: OPEC will definitely have to make a bigger cut if it wants to get to $70/bl again. We’re reaching the end of the road on OPEC’s output cut policy. What the group faces right now is diminishing growth in oil demand, which is being very weighed upon by uncertainty in the global economy and in the move towards sustainable energy. One of the great triggers that can accelerate the further erosion of demand growth is a high oil price. So, if we push to get prices higher in an environment where there could be another shock, that could become a little self-defeating medium to long-term. There are voices in OPEC that are making this argument today.
Moderator: OPEC and non-OPEC recently signed a charter of cooperation for a longer-term partnership. Do you think there’s appetite in Russia to sustain the partnership and make these kinds of commitments?
Adi Imsirovic: There are so many variables involved. First of all, IMO should have given the market a bit of a kick and it didn’t. Secondly, the fact that there has been no geopolitical risk impact has also been a huge surprise. Is the market complacent? I am not sure. Thirdly, it’s very hard to say what President Trump is going to tweet next and that is really influencing fundamentals. Trade drives the world economy and at the moment, Asia is being really badly hit. Singapore’s economy is doing extremely poorly. With demand growth mainly coming from Asia, this does not bode well for the global economy. But oil producers will still make sure that prices are stable and Saudi Arabia has done a fantastic job so far in ensuring that.
Snapshot: Price Impact of Drone Attacks on Saudi’s Oil Market?
Moderator: In the aftermath of the attacks on Saudi oil facilities in September, there has been a lot of talk about the return of a geopolitical premium to the oil price, but that has not really materialized. Could it still do so?
Keith Martin: The shale oil revolution in the US and the amount of supply that’s available in the market has brought in a calming factor. Former US President Bush said recently that if that same attack had happened ten years earlier, the price probably would have been up $40/bl and would have been far more sustained and damaging. But the fact that there’s such healthy supply means that markets are far more prepared to cope with shocks than ever before, so I don’t see a premium sustained for any serious period of time.
Moderator: For many years, there’s been a sense that the sector is a little nonchalant about the risk here to supply. Is there geopolitical risk?
Mike Muller: There is. Is it due to the fact that Venezuela, Libya and Iran production have been impacted? Yes, that’s in there somewhere. But what the recent attack in Saudi has done is take away spare infrastructure, which the kingdom put in place in order to have the ability to cope with such challenges. So, we are eating away at those layers of assurance.
Magid Shenouda: Prior to the attack, the market was really short and would have gone close to $55/bl for Brent. We were trending down anyway because of President Trump’s tweets and the impact of the trade war on demand. At the same time, if you look at the global economy, it’s still sick and has never really recovered since the 2008 financial crisis. We keep printing money and there is too much cheap cash. The trading community is short and the fact that there’s a plethora of producers, mostly in the US, waiting for spikes so that they can sell into it, says something. Private equity markets have a lot of money scoping oil and gas and praying for higher prices so that they can hedge.
IMO 2020: Fifteen Days to Get Clean
BY Chris Wood, Managing Director, Uniper Energy DMCC
Clean and compliant. Make no mistake, these two words are dictating the economic health of the world’s shipping industry. This is significant; the sector transports 90% of the world’s trade, including energy. So, everyone should be watching the calendar. It is a mere fifteen days – a blink in an economic eye – until the IMO ruling that bunker fuels from January 1, 2020 must be 0.5% sulfur, down from today’s 3.5%.
One misstep after the clock ticks past midnight on New Year’s Eve can spark costly rumours, dull operational credibility and give business away to competitors overnight. Ports and all other stakeholders – refineries, storage operators, traders, shippers – must ensure clean and compliant fuels flow through their terminals i.e. uncontaminated with other blends and sub-0.5% sulfur. Success means leveraging a major opportunity to expand global influence, as votes of confidence in global shipping lanes work their way down the maritime grapevine. Make sure you’re on the right team; IMO 2020 is a game of confidence.
Everyone must play by the same rules, but there must also be minor wiggle room for first-time mistakes in the early days. The majority of those in the value chain are starting from ground zero with 0.5% fuels (we already supply more than 4mn tons of IMO 2020 and ECA compliant marine fuel oils). Volatility in the first quarter of 2020 is inevitable; it is the biggest shift in the shipping industry in 100 years, after all. Most importantly, don’t let rogue waves of disruption derail the positive momentum on the many compliant seas. The fuel markets already contend with enough (volatile geopolitics, fluctuating oil prices, pressure to embrace digitalization, talent shortages, etc). Look at IMO 2020 through a prism of progress, not finger pointing.
DUSTING OFF COBWEBS
In this vein, all stakeholders must up their game amid the more stringent fuel rulebook – never a negative. IMO 2020 is spurring much more extensive collaborations along the value chain, such as smarter tank segregation and fuel testing to eliminate contamination. The ambiguity surrounding pricing – a thorn in the energy and shipping industry’s side – has made it more challenging to comply. Some financiers’ forecasts have little choice but to be riddled with guesswork. The ‘chicken and egg’ element – supply-demand dynamics drive the price yet knowing the price influences supply-demand – has caused many headaches this year. But stronger opinions appear to be forming.
It seems likely for now that $200-$300 will be the average price spread per metric ton of compliant LSFO over non-compliant HSFO in Q1 of 2020, according to half the respondents to a GIQ Industry Survey of more than 350 energy executives in Fujairah in October. A quarter (26%) said $100-$200/mt and another quarter (24%) said $300-$400/mt. More transparency may also come with the new bunker adjustment factor (BAF) indexing mechanism from Drewry and the European Shippers’ Council, which aims to help shippers control bunker charges as shipping lines switch to compliant fuels. Watch this space.
Our meetings worldwide have revealed that many new players seek business locally under IMO 2020 terms – Fujairah’s compliance efforts and UED’s LSFO supply make the decision easy for them. We were also recently added by S&P Global Platts, the world’s biggest energy pricing agency, to their Asia Market On Close (MOC) assessment process for Asian fuel oil. The same applies for Singapore and Fujairah physical bunker fuel, the world’s first and second largest bunkering hubs, respectively. This emphasises our rapidly growing influence and credibility worldwide.
Still, no matter the upside, IMO 2020 is new territory. Amid the noise, keep these two words as top priorities: clean and compliant. They are your allies in a market where you can never have enough.
BY William List, Operations Director, Fujairah Oil Tanker Terminal
Ambitions and alliances are fast being achieved at the Port of Fujairah. The UAE emirate is the unblinking beacon in the energy market’s storm of opacity; one driven by sub-$60/bl oil, geopolitical tensions, wildly fluctuating forecasts on peak oil and other unpredictabilities. Fujairah’s unwavering positive trajectory for the last decade gives the market confidence that we can fulfil our goals in the 2020s.
As we approach the next decade, the world’s second largest bunkering hub will see a number of new and exciting projects come to fruition such as; commissioning of an additional 796,178 m³ of storage capacity of which 43,000m³ will be dedicated for chemicals, a new Petroleum Regeneration and Recycling facility in 2020 and completion of the world’s largest underground storage caverns designed to hold 42mn barrels of crude oil in 2022. A new trading desk for Aramco Trading (which expects to see its oil trading volume rise to 6mn b/d next year) has been established, Brooge Petroleum & Gas Investment Co. and Sahara Energy Resources DMCC are currently constructing a new 24,000 b/d Topping Unit to produce LSFO products for the bunkering market, which is expected to come online within a year and future plans to construct a 250,000 b/d refinery – major investments that clearly signals confidence in the energy hub’s future. Feasibility studies and analysis are ongoing regarding the need for more jetties, including the possibility of a second VLCC jetty to complement Fujairah’s inaugural VLCC jetty commissioned in 2016, which heralded the UAE’s first on the Indian Ocean. Plus, OPEC and PLATTS are publishing the ledger data for Fujairah, highlighting the value of ‘soft’ progress alongside the ‘hard’ progress of infrastructural developments.
PROACTIVE MARKETING
Part of evolving into the leading global hub means better marketing these successes internationally. This is just the tip of the iceberg of what has been achieved since the port opened in 1983 – less than four decades ago (comparatively, Singapore, the world’s biggest bunkering hub, opened two centuries ago in 1819). Today, Fujairah Oil Tank Terminal (FOTT) is handling more product and ships than ever however, through the implementation of new operational efficiency programs and our service offering jetty occupancy and vessel waiting times have decreased significantly, year to date the average berth occupancy is 57.9% and vessel waiting times are 3.5hrs which is best in class. Let’s share that message!
Fujairah is transforming what some view as economic toil into a golden opportunity: IMO 2020. Fujairah has the capacity – and the will – to spearhead what is a drastic and arguably one of the industry’s most defining moments since the shift away from coal. The emirate also benefits from sophisticated and flexible crude palettes in the Middle East’s many new refineries over the last five-plus years.
Some operators in Fujairah, such as Uniper Energy DMCC and VTTI, have made significant progress in ensuring a healthy supply of LSFO will be available in Fujairah prior to compliance enforcement date of January 1, 2020. Today we are seeing some of this product being exported to Singapore; a somewhat surprising trend considering our friend in the East’s bunkering prominence. Of course, we are keen to capture as much market share as possible.
The big challenge with IMO 2020 will be building confidence. Respondents to a GIQ Survey of 350 high-level executives in Fujairah in September were split equally over whether they thought there would be sufficient supply of LSFO worldwide in January. Of course, we want the ‘Yes’ response to be in the high-90% for Fujairah. Our customers, existing and potential, need to know they can come here and get as much compliant, compatible and quality specific fuels as they need. That belief will get stronger with every successful cargo we handle. At a minimum, traders and suppliers have said they will conduct extensive testing, in addition to existing tests – an excellent step to bolster confidence. However, with regard to compliance Fujairah is not going to inspect every vessel; the Port of Fujairah (PoF) will take direction from the UAE Federal Roads and Transport Authority (FTA) and our representative who sits in the IMO offices. Every stakeholder is responsible for their actions.
GUESSWORK ISSUES
Wallets are, understandably, not being flung open amid this major shift, at this stage many traders and suppliers are hesitant to enter into long-term supply contracts. This is largely due to the guesswork over the price differential between LSFO, HSFO and Marine Gas Oil (MGO). Ports and shipping are very cost driven markets, and both are trying to operate with unreliable signposts. At the beginning of this year, I conducted a survey with ship owners who utilize the PoF, and the consensus was a preference to run on MGO in 2020. Now, LSFO is the talk of the town. With just less than a month left until the enforcement date, what’s the lesson? Nobody knows. As unsettling as it may be, we must accept the ‘wait-and-see’ approach while doing our utmost to prepare.
Inevitably, this affects other operations at Fujairah. We need to know where the tipping point for more investment lies before signing checks for additional jetties, or another VLCC. We are in a solid position, with advice from our management to always try and be 25% to 30% ahead of the game in terms of capacity.
BENCHMARKS FOR 2020
There’s a lot of discussion about whether establishing an independent Middle East oil pricing benchmark is a requirement or a nice to have. For me, it’s the former if we want to take pole position as a global hub. Over the last three years, long-delayed talk has evolved quickly into serious conversations on ‘how can this be established?’ – a smart move that must gain momentum in 2020.
Now, how do we capitalize on all these opportunities and further enhance Fujairah as a global logistical epicenter for crude oil and refined products, as well as storage and trading? Companies like Uniper Energy DMCC and BPGIC have capitalized on these opportunities with great success. We must keep making Fujairah an easy sell. The question is: are you in?
Finding Gold in the Triple Ds?
BY Michelle Meineke, Gulf Intelligence
$275 billion.That’s the potential value for downstream oil and gas companies if the digital and physical worlds are combined between 2015-2016 as per the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR), according to the World Economic Forum and Accenture. Plus, operating costs in downstream can be cut by up to 3% by using artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, robotics, sensor technology, machine learning, deep learning and edge computing, detailed McKinsey. These figures should trigger a sigh of relief among stakeholders operating in a world of sub-$60/bl, compliance for IMO 2020 just days away and rising geopolitical tension. No stakeholder can afford to give digitalization a cold shoulder; even 0.1% of greater economic efficiency is golden.
PROGRESS CLOSE TO HOME?
This certainly applies to the 20,000 ships sailing into the Port of Fujairah every year, not to mention the vast operations and infrastructure at what is the Middle East’s biggest port and the world’s second largest bunkering hub. Applying the tools of the 4IR – Internet of Things (IoT), predictive analytics to name just a few more – will spur transparency and give the Middle East’s downstream ambitions more global credibility. Stakeholders need to know at the click of a button how much storage there is, where the customers and shippers are, when the delivery is and what the likely external triggers to liquidity will be i.e. geopolitics and so on. Operating in a vacuum of guesswork dulls competitive edges and makes business models irrelevant – fast.
Two decades ago, little information was transmitted from a ship at sea. Today, every inch of operations and every decision can be monitored and analyzed, no matter the sea or port. This creates a real-time, global picture of where every single asset is at any point in time and accelerates the speed of decision-making, bolstering trade volumes and liquidity. But this real-time looking glass is a two-way street that not all downstream players are travelling on – yet. Failing to gather and transmit data means the digital, real-time maritime ecosystem splutters to a halt.
PROACTIVITY CAN PAY – LITERALLY
Traders, refiners, storage operators and all others in the downstream value chain must keep greasing the conveyor belt of data. Saudi Aramco and ADNOC are among the NOC forerunners who are opening their digital doors without jeopardizing intellectual property (IP). The UAE Government’s Open Data policy also heralds a major cultural step change in how the region manages its intel, and NOCs’ trading desks are becoming extremely proactive with real-time vessel tracking, tank monitoring and proactive talk of adopting blockchain. The next step is tailoring the data to maximize usefulness. Important information for a trader differs to what a shipper considers dear. Stakeholders must think about how to gather, assimilate and distribute targeted knowledge, avoiding a scattergun approach.
Desire for greater digital adoption is building; the holistic roll-outs less so. Approximately 62% of CEOs have a management initiative or transformation program to make their business more digital, according to Gartner’s 2018 CEO and Senior Business Executive Survey. But executives still tend to neglect a holistic cross company approach, often leaving initiatives to be taken exclusively by their IT business units. In the refining world, a report by Accenture recently revealed that while 60% of refiners intend to spend more on digital this year, just 48% have mature or semi-mature digital technology deployment. This is especially surprising when 80% of the same respondents said digital is, or could, add more than $50mn to their business. This disconnect needs fixing. Unleashing the economic value of digitalization needs companies to walk the walk, not just talk the talk.
TREAD CAREFULLY
The ultra-efficiency offered by digitalization comes at a cost: cybercrime. Damages from cyberattacks will cost the world $6trn annually by 2021, up from $3trn in 2015, reported Cybersecurity Ventures. Such attacks worldwide already cost the world $600bn in 2017, 0.8% of global GDP, according to McAfee. Downstream operators, vital gateways to global trade, cannot be an easy target. Many proactive steps are being taken – Honeywell opened its first Industrial Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (COE) at its Middle East headquarters in Dubai – but many more are needed to combat the fast-moving digital mafia. Leveraging the 4IR toolbox and building robust digital defenses must be a continual effort to not just fatten profit margins but protect the region’s energy security. Digital fluency is no longer a language you can choose to learn tomorrow; it’s a must-have today.
Fujairah: Leading Status Ahoy
BY Dyala Sabbagh, Partner, Gulf Intelligence
Infrastructure matters as much as brain power; hard and soft capacity are two sides of the same coin. Policies and forecasts detailed on paper mean little if the supporting ecosystem is weak. Capacity – a simple word with significant meaning in what is the biggest change in the energy markets for a century – sits at the core of a successful energy transition for downstream operators; for those in trading, shipping, refining, storage and more.
HIGH DEMANDS
The Middle East’s energy supply and environmental pledges are highly demanding. BP expects energy consumption in the region to rise by 55% by 2040, the UN says it has one of the world’s fastest growing populations and it is also becoming increasingly industrialized. On the environmental front, the Middle East is one of the world’s most vulnerable spots to the negative impacts of climate change (some parts of MENA, home to 500mn people, may be uninhabitable by 2050, said the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry). Accordingly, governments have committed to ambitious – but laudable – environmental targets as per the Paris Agreement. Downstream operators in the historical global epicenter of black gold are increasingly environmentally aware. The trick is sustaining this momentum so that it’s affordable, scalable and sustainable.
PROGRESS AHOY
The UAE’s Port of Fujairah is at the front of a global push for greener fuels for the world’s 50,000 merchant vessels from January 1, 2020, when the IMO’s ruling for a 0.5% sulfur limit starts. The world’s second largest bunkering hub has already earmarked loading berths for compliant fuel only, for example.
Globally, 28 of the 100 largest ports, in terms of cargo volume, are offering port-based financial incentives, such as a differentiated fee for greener ships, to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to the OECD International Transport Forum (ITF). The Panama Canal Authority’s scheme gives priority slot allocation to greener ships and Spain includes environmental incentives in the tender and license criteria for the towage services provided in ports. Shanghai has an emission trading scheme (ETS) in which ports and domestic shipping are included, the ITF detailed.
COMMON GOAL: KEEP INNOVATING
All these steps bring the industry closer to the UN’s goal to reduce the total annual GHG emissions from shipping by at least 50% by 2050 compared to 2008. But the journey has just begun. Middle Eastern downstream operators must do more to be proactive and relevant actors in the global energy transition.
One new route to explore is the widespread development of hydrogen as a fuel. Hydrogen and energy have a long-shared history, from powering the first internal combustion engines over 200 years ago to becoming an integral part of the modern refining industry, according to the IEA. It is light, storable, energy-dense and produces no direct emissions of pollutants or greenhouse gases. Surely this is a win-win for the energy transition, so what’s the hold up? Well, it certainly has advocates within industry and academia. The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) recently called green hydrogen the “missing link” in the transformation of the energy system. And some projects are moving ahead, such as the world’s first hydrogen powered yacht, the 30.5 metre catamaran Energy Observer. But this is on a very different scale to reliably fueling some of the world’s largest vessels, each on a tight schedule to sustain energy security and trade flows (shipping accounts for 90% of global trade).
HOLISTIC PROGRESS
Hard and soft capacity development will only become more multifaceted as the energy basket diversifies. For hard infrastructure, it ranges from more ships much more efficiently crisscrossing the world’s oceans to more sophisticated information technology (IT) resources being integrated into daily operations.
For soft capacity, it encompasses more investments in energy education (school onwards) to ensure the market has the intellectual capacity it needs in the 2020s, to developing professional opportunities like internships and secondments. This also extends to more conferences and knowledge-sharing at home and abroad, plus more funds and time funneled into innovative research and development (R&D). Above all, one feature is non-negotiable: high safety standards. These must be sustained by sharing technical expertise and best practices across all capacity developments. Progress cannot outpace safety measures.
Global energy investment totaled more than $1.8trn in 2018, a level similar to 2017, according to the IEA’s World Energy Investment 2018 report. This is not enough; momentum must build in 2020 to have a chance of energy, environmental and economy security. Unchartered territory means all stakeholders need a confidence boost. Downstream operators must encourage investors by showing tangible signs of progress and knowledge, while investors must be open to new opportunities.
LEVERAGING EXISTING VALUE
A central part of improving capacity is leveraging what we already have by filling the gaps of existing inefficiencies. Industry could produce nearly twice as much value per unit of energy in 2040, according to the IEA. Every business, every value chain and every partnership have areas that can be streamlined, from operations to communications. From an economic perspective, one measure of this is the energy intensity of the global economy – expressed as units of energy per unit of GDP. It took 4.6 megajoules to produce a dollar of global GDP in 2017, yet it will take just 1.9 megajoules in 2050, DNV GL forecast – a near 60% reduction if efforts continue. Downstream operators – already facing sub-$60/bl oil prices, rising demand, geopolitical tensions – must benefit from this potential.
BOUNTIFUL ECONOMICS OF DIGITAL
And of course, let’s not look past the endless value of the digital tools under the umbrella of the 4th Industrial Revolution. More than $11trn could be generated by combining the physical and digital worlds by 2025, McKinsey estimated. Tools include blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), predictive analytics, robotics and more; all can finesse how downstream operators work. Google recently designed a machine that needs only 200 seconds to solve a problem that would take the world’s fastest supercomputer 10,000 years longer. Clearly, it would be easy to fall behind in this rapid-moving field.
Opportunities and risks abound in equal measure in the energy transition; everyone is operating amid unknowns. Downstream operators’ strong foundation of infrastructure and know-how – hard and soft capacity – gives them a head start in remaining profitable and sustainable. But they must ramp up capacity again (and again) to keep pace with intensifying market pressures.
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Review: ‘Premium Rush’ crashes and burns
By James Hasson — Staff Writer
There is an expression that goes, “never bring a knife to a gunfight.” The same should be said for bicycles in car chases. Director David Koepp attempts to introduce bicycles chases as an alternative for traditional car chases in “Premium Rush.” The film ultimately lacks horsepower with its predictable cinematic elements, dull story and bland execution of chase sequences.
Koepp, who previously directed supernatural thrillers such as “Stir of Echoes” and “Secret Window,” directed and wrote “Premium Rush.” Though he served as a supporting writer for blockbusters such as “Jurassic Park” and the original “Spider-Man” film, “Premium Rush” portrays itself simply as “The Transporter” for the BMX crowd, full of bicycle chases with young daredevils behind the pedals.
Wilee (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) — named in reference to the Wile Coyote cartoons — lives his life on a bicycle, darting between cars and pedestrians in the New York City streets to deliver packages. However, Wilee’s ordinary day takes a twist when he accepts a mysterious package, resulting in a day biking frantically from corrupt cop Bobby Monday (Michael Shannon), his coworker and rival Manny (Wolé Parks) and an overzealous bicycle cop (Christopher Place).
And, like other car chase movies like “The Transporter” and “Drive,” Wilee has a change of heart after learning he holds the life of an innocent person in his hands, adding a very predictable plot element. “Premium Rush,” could have passed as a successful bicycle version of traditional car-chase films if it had strong character performances or extremely exciting action, but the film doesn’t offer much of either.
The long, linear sequences featuring bicyclists winding and weaving perilously through traffic lose intensity when they occur so frequently without incident. Most of the protagonist’s anticipated bike tricks are saved until a silly and contrived final chase through a police impound lot, where a group of cops fail to corner Wilee, despite the fact he’s in a crowded warehouse with few exits.
To appear fast paced, “Premium Rush” keeps the screen busy with many hokey, repeated CGI effects, such as the frequent appearance of delivery times and GPS maps of the city routes. CGI in the shots of Wilee’s body flying through the air come off as terribly fake, giving the body a plastic, inanimate look. And because there is almost no gore, the effect makes the body look alien.
As far as acting, Gordon-Levitt doesn’t make the mark with his overly simple main character, and Shannon makes for a cliché villain, completely devoid of evil wit. Monday’s lines and treatment of the conflict paint him as an adult-sized toddler who frequently doesn’t get what he wants.
The soundtrack includes rock bands such as The White Stripes and My Chemical Romance, and the movie opens with “Teenage Wasteland” by The Who. Though these elements as a whole could appeal to the film’s target audience, they generate too light-hearted a tone that clashes with darker moments, such as intense mafia beatdowns.
This film may offer a new take on high-speed chase movies, but its predictable story and unexciting execution bring “Premium Rush” to a crashing halt.
Overall rating: one 1/2 stars
There is an expression that goes, “never bring a knife to a gunfight.” The same should be said for bicycles in car chases. Director David Koepp attempts to introduce bicycles chases as an alternative for traditional car chases in “Premium Rush.” The film ultimately lacks horsepower with its predictable cinematic elements, dull story and bland
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BlogsOne Step at a Time
Justice Half Served
Dismissals in the interest of justice are just one step
By Faith Meckley — Staff Writer
Dwain Wilder, Colleen Boland, Sandra Steingraber, Roland Micklem, Susan Mead, Judy Leaf, Jimmy Betts, John Dennis, Michael Clark and Kelsey Erickson. They all have at least two things in common. 1) They are outstanding and involved citizens in both their regional and global communities. 2) They went to jail for their efforts to protect Seneca Lake and expose the problems with Texas-based company Crestwood Midstream’s plan to store highly-pressurized gas in crumbling salt caverns.
Outstanding, involved, passionate and concerned citizens, going to jail. For a violation trespass — not a criminal trespass. They went to jail over something equivalent to a parking ticket.
Judge Raymond Berry of the Reading Town Court never enjoyed his job of sending peaceful protesters away to jail when they refused to cough up a fine. He admitted to defendant Irene Weiser, Town of Caroline councilwoman, during one court session that his granddaughter refuses to speak to him when he sentences someones to jail.
Berry especially sputtered over me going to jail. I was 19 the first time I appeared before him, and rather than sentence me he postponed my case repeatedly. On several occasions with the aforementioned people, he tried to talk them out of their convictions. To Mead, he said, “You don’t want to go to jail,” and to Erickson, he asked, “Do your parents know you’re doing this?”
Berry’s struggle with sending good people to the slammer exactly reflects Mohandas Gandhi’s intentions with civil disobedience during the Indian independence movement. The act of severely punishing citizens who are standing up for a higher moral purpose, whether it be smashing them over the head with a billy club or imprisoning them, exposes the ironies and problems within the so-called justice system.
In our case the irony comes from people being arrested and going to jail for something equivalent to parking ticket, and meanwhile, Crestwood, which has the potential — admitted in it’s own 10K report to the Securities and Exchange Commission — for incredible disaster at the cost of human and ecological life, has gone unexamined and unpunished by our justice system.
On Wednesday, March 18, my back-and-forth with Judge Berry finally came to a close. Along with 41 others, my case was dropped in the “interest of justice” — no jail, no fine, no trial and nothing held against me. Our team of devoted lawyers and the district attorney, Joe Fazzary, reached an agreement on this, one that is now being lauded as historical and potentially precedent-setting. Our dismissals came on the heels of two other major victories in the world of activism: the acquittal of lobster boat activists in Maine who blocked a coal ship after successfully using necessity defense in court, and 10 Flood Wall Street protesters proven not guilty for a sit-in back in September, with the judge taking “judicial notice” of the urgency of climate change.
Here’s the statement we made that night in court, which prompted many present in the courtroom, including our lawyer, to break down into joyful tears:
We only have this planet. We must safeguard it for those who follow. Would that it not be necessary, but sometimes citizens of good conscience must engage in non-violent acts of civil disobedience to protect that sacred trust. As long as Crestwood Midstream Partners, or any other corporate or public or private entity, continues to threaten our way of life by the proven dangerous storage of highly compressed gas in the crumbling caverns at the Salt Point facility, I reserve the right to act as my conscience dictates in order to protect Seneca Lake, its citizens, and the surrounding environment. I reserve all rights to protest further at the Crestwood facility, although it is not my intent at this time to break the law in doing so.
The statement we made acknowledges the existence and importance of a higher moral conscious that is not always in alignment with our laws and justice system, as well as the critical need to take direct action to safeguard our planet for those yet to come.
The group on March 18, standing outside the courtroom and reading the dismissal statement out loud. I am pictured in the middle, standing beside Martha Ferger, 90, the oldest Seneca Lake Defender.
I accepted my dismissal in the interest of justice with a sigh of relief, the worry of going to jail in the middle of a semester and damaging my grades and schoolwork taken off my shoulders. With my rights to continue acting as my conscience dictates reserved, this was something I felt good about.
And yet, I know this is only one victory in a much larger and more prolonged battle, and I see our dismissals as one rung in the climb to justice. Although punishment of peaceful citizens taking action for a just cause has been dropped, we have yet to see any consequences for Crestwood, and by extension, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which approved this ill-fated project with little consideration to potential environmental and community damages.
Until all of the world’s Crestwoods are held accountable and as a human race we make the necessary changes to our society and cultures to create a peaceful and sustainable future, justice has only been half-served. And I will continue to defend my right to act as my conscience dictates to make that future a reality.
Faith Meckley can be reached at fmeckle1@ithaca.edu or via Twitter: @faithmeckley
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Multiple Identities in a Frontier Land: Balkh And ‘The Iranians’
Dr. Arezou Azad focuses on the region of Balkh in the north of modern-day Afghanistan, ancient Bactria
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Noting that identities are not static, but constantly shifting, she examined the interplay between processes of self-definition and memory. Thus the land of Balkh is approached as a lieu de memoire, a site of memory that provides a useful prism through which to view the construction of historical identities.
Emphasising the importance of Balkh’s geographical-topographical context as a broad and once-walled oasis, Arezou noted the land was a distinct and distinctly imagined space, a wealthy city of the medieval Silk Road. Forming part of historical Khorasan, Balkh is primarily remembered today as the homeland of the great Persian poets of the Middle Ages and the birthplace of Sufism, for example producing the mystic and poet known today as ‘Rumi.’ In these understandings ‘Balkhiness’ is Islamic and Persian, but not ‘Iranian’ – although in the current context of Tajik-Uzbek political rivalry this is changing. In pre-Islamic times, however, Balkh was only loosely governed by the Sasanian polity, a particular region with its own identified language, Bactrian, and religion, Buddhism. Yet this is only known through Chinese sources, since medieval Arabic and Persian texts merely evoke vague ‘Indic,’ Buddha-praising (botparast) or ‘Zoroastrian’ pre-Islamic cults. Certainly, the iteration of Buddhism practiced in the region was particular and unique, but the totality of the loss of memory remains striking.
Ultimately Arezou argued that in this multi-lingual frontier land the development of ‘New’ Persian – a language almost identical to modern Farsi – was constitutive of the reimagining of an Abrahamic and Zoroastrian past, crystallised in a Perso-Islamic historiographical tradition. Represented by such processes as the formalisation of the epic tradition that would become Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh, it is this development which results in the ‘forgetting’ of Balkh’s Buddhist past.
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Alison Riske vs Julia Goerges – Betting Tips and Game Predictions. WTA Australian Open
Australian Open Odds Australian Open Upcoming Games Predictions, Betting Tips Tennis Tips January 23, 2020 12:23 by Jonathan Pickman
In the third round match of the Australian Open on January 23 between Riske and Goerges, bookmakers do not single out a clear favorite. Who will be closer to win? – we learn from the prediction of a tennis expert.
Bet and win
Before starting the Australian Open, Alison Riske held a successful tournament in Brisbane. She was able to reach the quarterfinal then, losing only to future winner Karolina Pliskova (6-7, 3-6).
In Melbourne, an American tennis player in the opening matches confirmed her status as a favorite of bookmakers and went through the tournament bracket of two Chinese tennis players Wang Yafan (7-6, 2-6, 6-3) and Zhu Lin (6-3, 6-1). Significantly more confident and with fewer unforced errors worked in the second game.
The 39th racket of the world, Julia Goerges, before starting at the Australian Open played in two tournaments. In Auckland, she reached the quarterfinals, and in Adelaide, she lost to Bencic in the second round (6-7, 6-7). Goerges had victories only over decently rivals in the class.
In Melbourne, in the second round with great difficulty, Goerges passed Petru Martic (4-6, 6-3, 7-5). The first serve was noticeably helped by Julia (84% of the points scored), but at the same time, not the highest figures in the percentage of hitting the first goal (55%) allowed her opponent to have a chance at the reception (Martic had eight breakpoints, two of which she could realize).
Statistics and personal meetings
In three personal meetings, Goerges won twice.
The last personal meeting in 2019 ended in a victory for Risk.
Alison Riske vs Julia Goerges Prediction
Bookmakers give a slight preference in the upcoming match of Julia Goerges. Meanwhile, the German tennis player often lacks stability in order to work out several matches in a row at the same level against competitors comparable in level. According to the current form, Risk is able to cause many problems for Julia at the reception. Martic did not take full advantage of her chances. We expect that Risk will be able to win and even the score in personal meetings in a difficult match.
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Is snus the same as dip? Smokers' perceptions of new smokeless tobacco advertising
Sareh Bahreinifar1,
Nicolas M Sheon2,
Pamela M Ling1,3
1Center for Tobacco Control Research & Education, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
2Department of Medicine, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
3Department of Medicine, Center for Tobacco Control Research & Education, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
Correspondence to Dr Pamela M Ling, University of California San Francisco, 530 Parnassus Ave, Suite 366, Box 1390, San Francisco, CA 94143-1390, USA; pling{at}medicine.ucsf.edu
Background Since 2006, leading US cigarette companies have been promoting new snus products as line extensions of popular cigarette brands. These promotional efforts include direct mail marketing to consumers on cigarette company mailing lists. This study examines smokers' reactions to this advertising and perceptions of the new snus products.
Methods Eight focus groups (n=65 participants) were conducted in San Francisco and Los Angeles in 2010 with smokers who received tobacco direct mail advertising. The focus group discussions assessed smokers' perceptions of the new snus products. Focus group videos were transcribed and coded using Transana software to identify common themes.
Results Most participants were aware of snus advertising and many had tried free samples. Most were aware that snus was supposed to be ‘different’ from traditional chewing tobacco but consistently did not know why. Participants willing to try snus still identified strongly as smokers, and for some participants, trying snus reinforced their preference for smoking. Snus' major benefits were use in smoke-free environments and avoiding social stigma related to secondhand smoke. Participants were sceptical of the idea that snus was safer than cigarettes and did not see it as an acceptable substitute for cigarettes or as a cessation aid.
Conclusions Smokers repeated some messages featured in early snus advertising. Snus was not seen as an acceptable substitute for smoking or way to quit cigarettes. Current smoker responses to snus advertising are not consistent with harm reduction.
non-cigarette tobacco products
Prior to the 20th century, in the USA, tobacco was primarily consumed as leaves placed between the cheek and gums and occasionally chewed.1 While cigarettes are now the most popular tobacco product, since the 1980s, moist snuff use has increased.2–6 In 2009, approximately 3.5% of US adults used smokeless tobacco, and 75% of the smokeless tobacco market was moist snuff: cured tobacco ground into fine particles where a pinch or ‘dip’ is placed between the cheek and gum.7 ,8 Traditional chewing tobacco requires users to expectorate, and it has been associated primarily with outdoor male activities.
Since 2006, two leading US cigarette companies, RJ Reynolds (parent company Reynolds American Inc.) and Philip Morris (parent company Altria), acquired smokeless tobacco companies and began to market new snus products.9 Snus (rhymes with ‘loose’) is finely ground moist tobacco snuff packaged in small porous pouches that are placed between the cheek and gum and traditionally used in Scandinavia. The juices produced in the mouth when using snus are swallowed rather than spit out. In Sweden, snus processing typically involves heat treatment or pasteurisation, which is thought to reduce carcinogens, such as tobacco-specific nitrosamines, compared with traditional US chewing tobacco.10 US snus marketing has emphasised the Swedish origins of snus (figure 1). However, it is unknown whether products currently marketed with the name ‘snus’ in the USA are processed in the same way as Swedish snus, and limited studies of product composition suggest that the American and Swedish products are not equivalent.11
Example of early Camel snus advertising (2007) emphasising its Swedish origins and promoting its use in smoke-free environments (at a concert, in an airplane, at a bar or club). RJ Reynolds. Camel Snus. 2007. http://www.trinketsandtrash.org/tearsheet.asp?ItemNum=211916.
Furthermore, snus products in the USA have been promoted as line extensions of powerful cigarette brands: Marlboro and Camel. Following test marketing, both Camel and Marlboro snus products were launched nationally in 2009 and 2010 respectively,12 in cities that have smoke-free laws in workplaces, bars or restaurants.13 With increasing clean indoor air laws, snus has been marketed as a product that could be used discreetly in public, unlike chewing tobacco (which requires spitting)14 or cigarettes (figure 2).12 Snus products are suggested for use in bars, offices and airplanes ‘when smoking isn't an option’ (figure 3). In this way, snus has been marketed primarily as an adjunct to smoking, rather than a replacement.
Examples of Camel snus advertising (2009) emphasising (A) the discreet nature of snus and (B) the message that snus is not the same as traditional smokeless tobacco, also known as ‘dip’. The coupon (far right panel) offers one free tin of Camel snus. RJ Reynolds. Camel snus. http://www.trinketsandtrash.org/tearsheet.asp?ItemNum=212801 (A) and http://www.trinketsandtrash.org/tearsheet.asp?ItemNum=212564 (B).
Example of Marlboro snus direct mail advertising (2009) targeting smokers. The coupon offers a free pack of Marlboro snus with any Marlboro product purchase. Philip Morris. Marlboro Snus. 2009. http://www.trinketsandtrash.org/tearsheet.asp?ItemNum=212750.
Outside the USA, snus products have been promoted by British American Tobacco (BAT) in South Africa, Japan and Canada, bearing cigarette brand names such as Lucky Strike and Peter Stuyvesant.15–17 In 2009, Phillip Morris International also entered into an agreement with Swedish Match AB to commercialise smoke-free tobacco products such as Swedish style snus worldwide outside of Scandinavia and the USA.18
The use of snus as a harm-reduction product has been a topic of debate within the public health community.10 Some argue that in Sweden, the rates of tobacco-related mortality and morbidity were reduced as male users replaced cigarettes with snus.19 However, the use of snus may deter smokers from smoking cessation, it may attract new users who would have not otherwise used tobacco and it normalises tobacco use and the tobacco industry.20 ,22 Promoting smokeless tobacco products as line extensions of established cigarette brands may also encourage dual use of both products.21 ,9 Dual use of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco is of unclear benefit to public health and may actually increase the risk of tobacco-related morbidity and mortality.22 ,23 Dual use has been associated with increased risk of acute myocardial infarction compared with smoking and chewing tobacco alone.24 In addition, a longitudinal study demonstrated that dual users were less likely to quit using tobacco.23
The public health community and general public likely view smokeless tobacco products differently, in part because of different exposure to marketing messages and different access to information about smokeless tobacco. As traditional broadcast tobacco advertising (such as billboards) has been restricted, tobacco companies have increased the use of direct mail, email and other direct to consumer advertising. This approach aims to develop and maintain relationships with existing customers, often by offering steep discounts on purchases of multiple packs of cigarettes.25 Direct mail or email marketing largely remains outside the scrutiny of the public health community.25 Current adult smokers in New Jersey were 4.5 times more likely than never/former smokers to report receiving direct mail from tobacco companies.26
Tobacco companies used multiple strategies to build their direct mail databases: they purchased commercial marketing databases, directly recruited consumers through sweepstakes forms and other contests, collected contact information when distributing free tobacco samples or at entry to industry sponsored events (such as those held at bars or nightclubs) and collected names from signed coupons or brand-loyalty programme orders.26 Direct mailings have been used to promote Marlboro and Camel snus with coupons and free packages of snus, often linked with the purchase of cigarettes (figures 2 and 3). This research aimed to explore smokers' perceptions of direct mail advertising campaigns and smokeless tobacco products. The guiding research questions were (1) How do smokers perceive snus compared to chewing tobacco? (2) What has motivated any smokers to try snus? and (3) What do smokers perceive as the risks and benefits of using snus?
We conducted eight focus groups (four in San Francisco and four in Los Angeles, California) with 65 smokers in July 2010. Eligible participants were adult current or former smokers who had received direct mailing advertisements for tobacco products in the past year. We felt that smokers in California were a relevant study population due to aggressive snus advertising promoting dual use in smoke-free environments, the low smoking prevalence, longstanding clean indoor air laws and role as a test market for Camel snus since 2008.
We contracted with a commercial market research firm based in both San Francisco and Los Angeles to use existing commercial market research databases, telephone, internet and street recruitment to identify participants. A member of our research team moderated all focus groups. Participants' receipt of direct mail advertising from tobacco companies was validated both by description and by participants bringing examples of direct mail they received to the focus group. While the number of smokers on mailing lists is not known, Philip Morris' database contained 37.7 million names in 2005,27 and there were an estimated 45.1 million smokers in the USA in 2005, so a substantial proportion of smokers were likely exposed to direct mail marketing. We expected that around one-third of smokers would be on direct mail lists, as 35% of current adult smokers in New Jersey reported that they were on lists to receive direct mail tobacco advertising.26 This requirement limited the potential pool of participants, so we did not limit focus group participation further by gender, age, brand or other factors. All subjects completed written informed consent, and all study protocols were approved by the University of California San Francisco Committee on Human Research. The 90 min focus groups were video recorded to facilitate accurate transcription and analysis. Small digital video cameras mounted on tripods and visible on the side or corner of the room were used, and participants were all informed that they were being video recorded and observed by researchers in the other room. None of the participants objected, and we did not note any self-conscious behaviours among the participants.
Participants described the direct mailings they brought with them or a piece of direct mail advertising they selected from samples provided to the group. Participants described their routine of sorting through and opening direct mail advertisements and how they used the discounts and coupons offered therein. This was followed by a discussion of their likes and dislikes of such mailings and the perceived effect these mailings had on their use of tobacco products, including smokeless tobacco products. This analysis focuses on discussion of smokeless tobacco direct mail advertising, which was a subset of the direct mail advertisements discussed.
Video recordings of the focus groups were transcribed and then open-coded using Transana software, which synchronises the transcript with the video data allowing analysts to work with both simultaneously and to correct and annotate transcripts as video recordings are reviewed.28 Synchronised analysis of video and transcripts enables the researcher to better understand and identify individual voices during simultaneous and collaborative talk and to view non-verbal interaction, such as gaze and agreement or disagreement with the current speaker.29–32
The research team met frequently to discuss the open coding process, code word definitions, to explore discrepancies in coding and to identify emerging themes in the data. Several focus groups were double coded by two different team members to identify and discuss differences in the coding schemes. Collections of data related to different topics were created, based on our guiding research questions and summary memoranda including illustrative quotes were written. These memoranda were reviewed and discussed by multiple team members, who iteratively identified more specific research questions (eg, how do smokers differentiate between smokeless tobacco and cigarettes?) and emergent themes.
The demographic characteristics and tobacco use history of participants are summarised in table 1.
Participant demographic characteristics and tobacco use (N=65)
Although not all smokers in the focus groups had tried smokeless tobacco products, most participants were familiar with smokeless tobacco and reported that they had seen or received advertising for new snus products (primarily Camel snus). Those participants who had tried smokeless tobacco products related their experiences with the product to other members of the group.
How do smokers differentiate between smoking and smokeless tobacco?
When participants were asked about smokeless tobacco products and their use, they began by making a clear distinction between ‘smokers’ and ‘chewers’: I used to hang around with a lot of cowboys. They don't smoke cigarettes. They chew tobacco. And like baseball players. It's just like a tribal kind of habit for them. And I don't know, it doesn't seem so gross when it's in a big group of guys that are doing it, just through the work day or whatever. —LA, female, 53 Yeah, most smokers that I knew back in the day, that is one or the other—I mean either you were a, you know, you were a tobacco chew guy, or you were a cigarette guy, or you know, or cigars.—LA, male, 29
These comments also illustrate the widely held notion that smokeless tobacco use was regarded as a male activity. Smokers' experimentation with snus, however, did not cause them to reclassify themselves as ‘chewers’. Women seemed amenable to trying snus, but not with great enthusiasm: … It's not the same as smoking. It wasn't anything I wanted, but I tried it just because it was something new and weird… it's not anything I would ever buy.—SF, female, 26
Overall, most participants who tried smokeless tobacco identified themselves as smokers and continued emphasising that they would remain a smoker. Ultimately, participants strongly preferred smoking: It is. I tried it. I did it. … really wasn't for me, though. I tried one packet of it. I remember it wasn't really— I was always just a cigarette smoker. I never really got into the tobacco, you know.—LA, male, 29
Some remarked that using snus products reminded them how much they missed the experience of smoking a cigarette, including the use of the hands and feeling of the smoke itself: It's not that I didn't like anything about it [snus]. It's what I miss from smoking. I like to inhale and to see smoke and that whole process behind it. Even though I was getting the nicotine in my body, I still felt like I didn't get what I wanted and I wanted to smoke.—SF, male, 33 I don't really understand like what smoke-free tobacco is, like, it just sounds weird to me. Like, the whole smoke is like what makes you want them. I don't know. They go together. Why would you smoke and not have any smoke come out.—SF, female, 20
No one in the focus groups identified themselves as being a ‘dual user’ of both cigarette and smokeless tobacco, and the concept of dual use was not brought up. Participants strictly retained their smoker identity, even if they had tried smokeless tobacco products.
Differentiating snus from chewing tobacco
Participants familiar with Camel and Marlboro snus advertisements perceived a difference between traditional smokeless and the snus products. Traditional smokeless was referred to as chewing tobacco, ‘chew’ or by brand names, such as Copenhagen or Skoal. Snus was recognised as something different: It's a little pouch, that's not real Copenhagen. It's just tobacco. You can chew it.—LA, male, 37 It's a packet of tobacco, like basically chew that you don't chew. And it's just spittable.—SF, male, 26
While snus was perceived as different from traditional smokeless tobacco, participants varied in how they described these differences. Some named differences in how the product was used (need to spit out the juices): You just put it in, and what I've heard, if you accidentally swallow some, it can cause hiccups, or like maybe throw up, so they are trying to make it safer to chew tobacco, and they made little packets and you just chew on a packet, or suck on a packet and spit it out.—SF, male, 23
Smokers also expressed some confusion about whether or not snus products actually required spitting or not. Some participants specified that the product did not require one to spit out juices, while others noted that the snus packet needed to be spit out: It's in a little pouch that you just put under your lip and you basically get the nicotine into your gums that way. It's like—but you don't spit. You don't chew and you don't spit. It's supposed to take five to 15 minutes; I think it said, before you start feeling the nicotine.—SF, male, 27
Other participants described the difference from loose chewing tobacco primarily as packaging in a tea bag or a pouch. This was one of the distinct characteristics of snus that smokers were able to describe easily: So, it's like a tea bag?—SF, male, 23 Yes, exactly. Very small.—SF, female, 51
Additionally, almost all smokers who had been exposed to snus advertisements associated it with being a Swedish product: It's a Swedish—it's called “snus.” It's a Swedish spitless tobacco.—LA, male, 29
However, one smoker assumed that the Swedish origin was a creative marketing ploy: Camel's come out with about everything under the sun to get everyone to smoke—now the snus, of course, because you can do it privately and no one sees you. Of course when I saw this, first thing I looked through it—I went and ran and saw my roommate because he's Swedish. I asked if it really started in Sweden. First thing I really look for is, is it free?—SF, female, 44
Some participants remarked that snus was intended to be safer or better than traditional chewing tobacco: Yeah, you put them like in between your lip, and they're [referring to snus] supposed to be better than chew.—LA, female, 23
While smokers appeared to reflect the message that snus was different from traditional chewing tobacco, the fact that the product and its name were different made snus less attractive to some: The name's kind of weird—snus.—SF, male, 33 It sounds like a Muppet.—SF, female, 26 Like a Smurf or something. People I know—we've had conversations—the name doesn't make you want to try it. It kind of sounds like a new drug or something. Like, [whispering] “got any snus on you?”—SF, male, 33
Smokers' motivations to try snus
Offers for free packages of snus appeared to be the primary motivator for participants to experiment with snus, particularly given the high cost of cigarettes. Despite widespread concerns expressed about the high cost of cigarettes, smokers in our groups did not remark upon the comparatively lower cost of snus even without the coupons: I won't buy them… I won't. They're too much money [Referring to cigarettes]. I need a coupon. And so this coupon, actually this one seems to have coupons, and then it also has—they have new things now called some tobacco-less tobacco, or where you don't—you chew it, you don't smoke it, and they give free—they give you free samples with these. And that's what I like about it.—LA, female, 45
In some cases, the free samples made some participants feel the tobacco companies' aggressive promotions of free snus at bars and clubs were an attempt to unload an unpopular product: You swiped [referring to swiping magnetic strip on an identification card] and got the two free packs of cigarettes. But they made you take a handful of snus. Like a double fisted handful.—SF, male, 26
What are the perceived risks of smokeless tobacco?
Only a minority of smokers expressed a perceived risk of both toxicity and addictiveness of smokeless products compared with cigarettes. Swallowing the juices of snus packets was perceived by participants as both disgusting and potentially toxic, as illustrated in this exchange between three participants in San Francisco: With the chewing tobacco, you spit out the juice. With this snuff stuff, they say you don't have to.—SF, male, 31 You swallow it.—SF, male, 26 Yeah, exactly, which I think is disgusting. I mean, that—that pollutes your body just ten times.—SF, male, 33
Another participant in Los Angeles speculated: …those [referring to snus] are more addicting—LA, male, 50
Although snus advertisements in the USA do not make overt claims that snus as less harmful than cigarettes, some participants were aware of this claim. One participant also compared snus with other chewing tobacco: Yeah, it's supposed to be a health—it's supposedly healthier—I won't say the word healthier. It's kind of oxymoronic, but it's a better alternative than to regular [referring to chewing tobacco].—LA, male, 29
What are the perceived advantages of using snus?
Participants frequently discussed the benefits of using snus products indoors where smoking is restricted: Well, all these restaurants being smoke-free and stuff… there's a market for that, it seems.—SF, male, 32 It's for when you can't smoke a cigarette, I think, because if you're in, like, an office working or anywhere I think, or if you're in a studio or anything just where you can't smoke.—LA, male, 27 Yeah. Well, I think because you can use either of them in a restaurant—smoking where you can't smoke. So it's being able to get your nicotine when you're being told you can't.—SF, male, 27 It's [referring to snus] called “work-friendly.”—LA, male, 29
The ability to consume snus discreetly was another advantage compared with cigarettes or spitting tobacco: I have friends who sit in class and have them in their mouth.—LA, male, 18 People think you're chewing gum or something.—LA, female, 35
Another perceived advantage of snus over cigarettes was to avoid exposing others to secondhand smoke. However, rather than a way to avoid the health risks associated with secondhand smoke, snus was viewed as a way to avoid social stigma: I think it has something to do with, you know, second hand smoke. I know I worry about second hand smoke. I hate smoking around people. I hate getting those disgusting looks from people, you know, I'm smoking, and they hate it.—LA, female, 23
Participants' experiences trying snus
Only a minority of participants had actually tried snus; those who tried snus almost universally described the product as ‘weird’ and ‘disgusting’ and not something they would try again: It's not very enjoyable. It sort of burns the mouth. It's supposed to give you a –sort of—I bought the one that was mellow, which was supposed to keep you calmer, and it did not. It just made me uncomfortable.—LA, male, 18 Because it burned really bad. It didn't taste good. It was disgusting. It wasn't anything like a cigarette… it wasn't natural.—LA, male, 27 I didn't like the feeling in my mouth… I'd rather chew gum… it just wasn't for me.— LA, female, 37
In addition to the taste, participants who tried the product found it did not live up to its ‘spitless’ claim It was really strong, it made me kind of sick. Like, it was just really, really strong. I had to spit it out. I got a headache.—SF, female, 32 Well, I mean maybe it, like, just to have it for a couple of minutes, but once it starts to get like grass, I would spit it out… well, you still kind of have to spit, if you don't want to swallow it. —LA, female, 23 Well, you—you don't have to spit, but you spit the thing out.—SF, male, 26
Six main points emerged from these focus group discussions: (1) snus was seen as a temporary replacement for cigarettes for situations where one could not smoke; (2) snus was perceived as different from traditional chewing tobacco, but specific differences were less consistently noted; (3) promotions offering free samples either through coupons on cigarette packs, direct mail advertising or distribution at clubs and events successfully motivated smokers to try snus; (4) smokers did not perceive snus as less harmful than other tobacco products for users but recognised that snus eliminated some social problems of smoking; (5) the major benefit of using snus was that it could be used discreetly in smoke-free environments and (6) smokers' experiences with snus were unappealing.
Other studies have examined smokers' perceptions of cigarettes, potentially reduced-exposure tobacco products33 and non-traditional tobacco including snuff, but we identified only one study in the USA that has examined smokers' perceptions of Camel snus through a qualitative analysis of Camel snus's website message board.34 The message board participants frequently tried Camel snus free samples, similar to participants in our study. In contrast to our findings, perceptions of the board participants about Camel snus were overwhelmingly positive, although several participants disliked the spice-flavoured snus.34
Camel snus advertising between 2006 and 2009 attempted to differentiate snus from traditional smokeless tobacco and promoted its use in smoke-free environments (figures 1 and 2). Our findings suggest that the industry has communicated these messages successfully to smokers. The situational use of snus to deal with clean indoor air laws was perceived as a major benefit that was commonly discussed among our participants. This theme is also expressed in the message board study.34 Snus was also widely perceived as a temporary replacement and not a complete substitution for cigarettes. Our findings are consistent with a study examining US smokers' reactions to a brief trial of oral nicotine products that found that smokers viewed using smokeless tobacco products such as Camel snus and Marlboro snus as a temporary rather than a complete substitution for their smoking.35
An intriguing finding in our study was that for some smokers, using snus reinforced their preference for cigarettes and the feeling of smoking. Snus was not perceived as a cessation aid; one participant had tried snus while quitting but did not continue using it.
While almost all participants used coupons to initially try snus, this did not translate into continued purchases, despite the lower price of snus compared with cigarettes. Almost all participants who tried snus disliked it and stated that they would not purchase or try snus again. The message board participants commented that the price of snus was too high compared with other smokeless tobacco products, while others noted that the price seemed ‘acceptable’ when compared with smoking.34 The ‘acceptable’ cost of these products still did not promote a complete switch to snus.
There is growing attention to tobacco harm reduction and an increased interest in promoting the use of lower nitrosamine smokeless tobacco such as snus in lieu of smoking.10 ,19 Most smokers in our study appeared sceptical about whether or not snus was a safer alternative to cigarettes. The use of snus as a harm-reduction product was rarely mentioned, and participants expressed scepticism about the notion that snus was healthier. While harm reduction is hotly debated within the tobacco control community, the issue is largely absent from the discussion by the California smokers participating in our study, who generally echoed messages from snus advertising. Other studies that have looked at smokers' perceptions of smokeless tobacco products such as snus have been conducted in Sweden where the use of snus is more prevalent and perceived as attractive and trendy.36 In the USA, snus is a new product that has no established cultural context or established user base, so a campaign discouraging dual use of cigarettes and snus in the USA needs to deter adoption of a new product. This suggests that the Swedish experience with snus is highly unlikely to translate directly into patterns of use in the USA.
Tobacco companies are engaging in lobbying efforts to overturn the snus ban in European countries outside Scandinavia.37 This may lead to the global expansion of snus marketing. As a result, future studies should examine and monitor the international smokeless tobacco markets and marketing strategies, particularly products modelled after Swedish snus. With the implementation of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and increasing clean indoor air policies, the tobacco companies' response may be to market snus globally even more aggressively. International studies might aid in our understanding of the effects of these marketing efforts by including questions about the interest in or rates of adoption of snus products by smokers and others, the reasons for doing so and the effects on tobacco use patterns. Hypotheses resulting from this research that could be tested in future studies include: in countries where smokeless tobacco is used primarily by men, female smokers who perceive snus to be different from traditional smokeless tobacco are more likely to try it; current snus products marketed in the USA are poor substitutes for cigarettes and smokers who adopt US snus products are unlikely to quit or reduce their cigarette consumption.
Our sample of exclusively urban smokers from California limits the generalisability of our findings to smokers outside of California's metropolitan centres. The study is limited to a convenience sample of smokers on direct mail lists that were not further subdivided into groups based on demographic or tobacco use, so the data have limited application to specific subgroups. One would expect experienced smokeless tobacco users would have markedly different perceptions of snus, its attractiveness or trial experiences, and future research should assess participants living in rural areas and urban centres outside of California. It would also be interesting to explore perceptions of snus marketing among non-smokers, particularly youth and young adults. Continued surveillance of direct mail marketing of snus and assessment of its impact on snus purchases is needed.
It appears that snus advertising promotes dual use of cigarettes and snus. Our study suggests that counter-marketing messages are needed to discourage use of multiple tobacco products, particularly if such patterns of use discourage smoking cessation. Drawing attention to product deficiencies (participants almost universally found snus unappealing) may be a useful strategy to discourage the uptake of snus by smokers who may be otherwise motivated to quit. Pointing out similarities between snus and other smokeless tobacco products may decrease their attractiveness, particularly to women, who have low rates of traditional smokeless tobacco use. Implementation of clean indoor air policies should ideally be accompanied by incentives to quit smoking rather than to take up another type of tobacco product. Targeted financial incentives (such as offers for free or discounted smoking cessation aids) may be particularly relevant to smokers on tobacco direct mail lists, whose behaviour was frequently motivated by free sample offers and coupons. Finally, campaigns that de-normalise the tobacco industry may support scepticism about new tobacco product ‘innovations’ (including snus and dissolvable products), encouraging smokers to recognise that these products may promote continued tobacco use and are designed to increase tobacco industry profits.
What this paper adds
This paper contributes to the literature on new aggressive smokeless tobacco product advertising in the USA. This paper provides the first qualitative analysis of smokers' perceptions of Camel and Marlboro snus direct mail advertising and their experiences trying the new products. Our analysis reveals that smokers found these products were not an acceptable temporary or permanent substitute for smoking. In fact, for some, using these products reinforced their preference for smoking. Smokers were attracted to snus primarily as a way to deal with smoke-free environments and avoid social stigmas associated with secondhand smoke. Few smokers were willing to continue using snus after trying a free sample, and none found it to be an acceptable substitute for smoking or a viable smoking cessation aid.
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Funding This research was funded by the National Cancer Institute Grant (R01-CA141661) and the Public Health Trust.
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Ethics approval Ethics approval was provided by University of California San Francisco Committee on Human Research.
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Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft
Lara's Home
Version: Revised in 2017. Remark: Please be aware that this is not a regular walkthrough. You can explore the rooms of the manor at your own leisure and in whichever order you like. Only if going for the racetrack key, there is a certain order you have to stick to. Story: "Let's go into the gym. Those of you who have been here before may notice the new decor. What do you think? Well, let's do some exercises. I think we should do them in order," says Lara when you enter the gym on the ground floor of Croft Manor.
Welcome to the Croft Manor for Tomb Raider III. This is the third time we get to see the manor and the last time it is playable up until Tomb Raider Legend, where a completely different manor will make its appearance.
Lara's Bedroom
The visit of "Lara's Home" begins in Lara's bedroom. "Welcome back to my humble abode. Feel free to take a look around." When you turn around to the left (directional buttons) you will find a small push switch between the closet and the bed that you can push with the action button (PC: Ctrl, PS: X). This opens the closet door. Inside is a pack of eight Flares that can be picked up by using the action button again. The room left of the closet is the bathroom, where there is nothing of interest to find. The bathtub inside is filled with water, but it's not enough to practice swimming. Lara will slowly wade through the water. Back in the bedroom, run to the other end, where you will find the doorway on the left leading into the main hall.
Upper Main Hall
If you go to the right you will find nothing but a locked door. So instead head over to the left. Run past the stairs leading down to your right. On the left wall you will come upon a closed door and next to it a small push switch. Activate it to open the door to the attic. For now there is nothing else to do in the attic. Follow the way around the corner. You come to an open door leading into the music room.
Music Room & Library
Enter. The windows inside allow you to look upon the quadbike racetrack and the roof of the poolhouse downstairs.
Head up the short set of stairs to the left, into the library. On the right hand wall, in the corner with two bookcases you can find a protruding book. Press action to flip it around. The fire inside the fireplace is extinguished. Step into the fireplace and turn to face the left side of the chimney. If you look closely you can see darker spots in the bricked wall, these are footholds. Stand in front of this wall, as close as you can and press and hold the action button to make a Lara jump up and grab hold. Climb up using the directional buttons.
Secret Passage
At the top you will find an opening to the right. Traverse as far to the right as possible so Lara's feet are above solid ground and let go of the action button to drop into the alcove. Run to the end of the tunnel and hop down. Continue towards the left and down two more steps, to finally reach a secret chamber with a movable wooden crate. Pull this once along the wall to the right. Where the crate was you can now pick up a pack of eight Flares. Then climb onto the crate and you will look straight into a tunnel with a second movable crate. Since the first crate can be used to stand upon, you can pull out the second crate twice. Then go to its right side and push it once into the left corner.
This has cleared the path to the attic. In case you haven't done that earlier, go down and open the connecting door between the attic and the upper main hall by activating the small push switch, which from this side can be found on the stairs at the end on the left wall. In any case get familiar with the path. If you like, you can take a glimpse out of the attic's window down onto Lara's balcony and the assault course in the garden. Then return to the secret room and find the wall lever at the right end of the elevated walkway. This will open a secret door underneath the stairs down in the main hall. This door is timed, so you have to hurry. While the cutscene is still showing you the opening door, perform a roll (PC: End or Up+Down simultaneously, PS: ◯) and start running along the path. At the end turn right, into the attic. After going up the step, turn left, into the narrow staircase. Here you can use the sprint button (PC: -, PS: R2) to move around faster. At the end turn right to come out at the top of the main hall. Jump over the banister early to land on the left stairs and immediately jump over the banister again to land downstairs. Perform another roll and quickly sprint though the hopefully still open secret door.
Cellar with Fish Tank
On the stairs you can find eight more Flares and a small push switch that can open the secret door again when it closes. Follow the staircase down into the cellar and at the foot of the stairs follow the corridor around the corner into a large room with a giant fish tank. At the end of the room you will find a comfy lounge chair, a bookcase and a marble bust. Near the entrance, on the left, you will find a movable block. Pull it once over to the right, into the centre of the room, away from the fish tank. Then push it once down the passage, away from the entrance, so it ends up underneath an opening in the ceiling.
Climb on top of the crate and face the left wall. You will see a ventilation shaft in the ceiling above you. Walk towards the edge of the crate, jump straight up and press the action button to grab hold of the ledge. Pull yourself in. Follow the tunnel. At the end, drop into the water. Take a deep breath before you set out to explore the fish tank diving. Dive along the glass wall towards the back and there turn around the corner to the right twice. Near the glass wall, around where the sofa is on the other side, you can find the Racetrack Key. Dive close towards the key and pick it up using the action button. Dive back towards the opening where you came in and climb out of the water. Backtrack through the shaft to return to the cellar room. There is not much else to do so head up the stairs again to return to the main hall. If you haven't done so yet, open the door by pushing the button on the wall.
If you now turn to the right, you will reach the gym. Here Lara will advice us to do the exercises in order.
1: Walking
Head up the ramp with the number 1. "I don't actually run everywhere. When I want to be careful, I walk. Hold down the walk button and walk to the white line." Following Lara's instructions, walk up pressing and holding the walk button (PC: Shift, PS: R1), till Lara automatically stops at the white line at the top. "With the walk button down, I won't fall off, even if you try to make me. Go on, try it." Then let go of the walk button to hop down and approach the next exercise.
2: Grabbing the Ledge
Now walk up ramp number 2. "If a jump is too far for me, I can grab the ledge and save myself from a nasty fall. Walk to the edge next to the white line until I won't go any further, then press jump immediately followed by forward, and while I'm in the air, press and hold the action button." Walk up and to the right, till Lara stops at the white line. Now in rapid succession press jump (PC: Alt, PS: □) and up. While in the air press and hold the action button. Lara will grab the ledge of the next obstacle. "Press forward and I'll climb up." Press up, like Lara has instructed you to, to pull up onto the obstacle.
3: Running Jump
"If I do a running jump, I can make a jump like that no problem. Walk to the edge with the white line until I stop, then let go of walk and tap backwards to give me a run up. Press forward and, almost immediately, press and hold the jump button. I won't actually jump until the last minute." Follow the instructions. Walk to the edge, hop backwards and start running while holding down the jump button. Lara will automatically jump when she reaches the edge and land on the next block. Hop down and turn to the next obstacle.
4: Running Jump and Grabbing the Ledge
The next exercise is nothing new, just a combination of the previous two. Head up ramp number 4. "Okay, this is a huge jump. So do a running jump exactly as before, except while I'm in the air, press and hold the action button to make me grab the ledge." Walk around the corner to the left and step up to the white line. Just like with the previous exercise, hop back, start running and press jump to jump off at the edge. This time, once you're in the air hold down the action button to grab the ledge. Pull up. "Excellent!" Hop down to the right.
5: Shimmying Sideways
Head up ramp number 5. "Try to vault up here. Press forward and hold action. I can't climb up because the gap is too small, but press right and I'll shimmy sideways until there is room. Then press forward and I'll climb right up." Run forward until you bump into the wall. Now press up and hold the action button to make Lara jump up and grab the ledge. As long as you are pressed against the wall, you don't need to press jump in addition. Holding the action button, shimmy over to the right, till you reach the opening, where you pull up. "Well done. If there is a long drop and I don't want to hurt myself jumping off, I can let myself down carefully. Tap backwards and I'll jump off backwards. Immediately press and hold the action button and I'll grab the ledge on the way down." I will deviate a little from this next exercise. First press and hold the action button before jumping backwards over the edge, this way you will avoid pressing the button too late. "Then let go." Let to and turn right towards the next exercise.
6: Crawling
Run up the ramp with the number 6. "Next, I'll show you my crawl. First, vault onto the block, now hold down the crawl button - this will make me crouch down - and keep holding it while using the direction buttons to move me through the gap. At the end, turn around and drop me off the ledge. Make sure to keep the action button pressed or I'll fall. Now let go." While on the ramp turn left and jump up at the wall and pull into the opening. Press and hold the crawl button as instructed, while navigating through the gap. Once you're inside the crawlspace you can actually let go of the button, the low ceiling will keep Lara from standing up. At the end turn to face left so your feet are pointing towards the ledge. Crawl backwards, while holding down the action button to lower yourself onto the ledge. Let go to safely drop to the ground. "Push forward and hold down the crawl button to make me squeeze into the gap." Thank you, Lara, but we already did that.
7: Climbing and Monkey Bars
Turn towards the ramp number 7. "To get to those really high places, sometimes I'll need to climb. Let's try that now. Walk up to the climbing frame, then press and hold the action button so I'll climb up onto it. While keeping this button pressed, push forward on the direction buttons and I'll climb to the top." Walk next to the orange scaffolding, turn to the right to face it and climb up like instructed and pull up on top. "Now looking up, you'll see some monkey bars. These look like fun. Press the jump button, then immediately hold down the action button to make me jump and grab hold of the bars. Now use the direction buttons to manoeuvre across. Don't let go of the action key, because as soon as you do, I'll let go." Turn to face right and jump straight up. Press the action button, to grab hold of the monkey bars. Move along them to the other side. Once you've reached the other tower, you can safely let go to drop onto it. "That's great." Now turn your back towards the edge in front and hop backwards will holding down the action button to grab the ledge. Keep holding down the action button, while using the directional buttons to climb to the ground floor.
8: Sprinting
Step onto the blue mat. "Right! Let's sprint! Push forward and hold down the sprint button. When I reach the white line, press the jump button and I'll perform a diving roll." Like instructed, run along the blue course and hold down the sprint button (PC: /, PS: R2) to sprint along. When you reach the while line, perform a diving roll using the jump button. "Okay, fancy a swim?"
Now that the exercises in the gym are all done, you can explore the pool house. When entering, Lara explains how to dive. "The jump button and the directions move me around under water." Get over to the other side and step onto the diving board. Perform a swan dive into the water by pressing the jump button (PC: Alt, PS: □), up and the walk button (PC: Shift, PS: R1) at the same time. Take a dive while under the surface. You can even make sure that the underwater-turn still works by pressing the roll button (PC: End, PS: ◯). Then swim towards the surface. "Air. Just use forward, left and right, to manoeuvre around on the surface. Press jump to dive down for another swim or go to the edge and press action to climb out." Swim towards the edge of the pool and vault out of the water with the action button. "Right. Let's go and play outside." Press the small push switch located behind the diving board and you are shown that a secret door in the wall panelling of the main hall opens.
Cross the pool house and the gym as well, to return to the main hall of Croft Manor.
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Amanda Seales to Host 2020 BET Awards
Insecure actress and comedian Amanda Seales will host the 2020 BET Awards on June 28.
BET also announced the first group of performers today (June 15), which include five-time nominated newcomers Megan Thee Stallion and Roddy Ricch as well as Alicia Keys, Chloe x Halle, DaBaby, D Smoke, Jennifer Hudson, John Legend, Jonathan McReynolds, Kane Brown, Lil Wayne, SiR, Summer Walker, Usher and Wayne Brady. BET Amplified Artists Masego and Lonr will take the BET Amplified Music Stage specifically for emerging acts.
“Still I Rise #betawards2020,” Seales quoted famed poet Maya Angelou while showing off her latest hosting gig credentials on Instagram. MC Lyte, Mandy Moore, Kyla Pratt and other celebrities congratulated her in the comments section.
BET veterans Terrence J and Erica Ash will co-host the first interactive pre-show featuring celebrities, nominees and special guests on BET starting at 7 p.m. ET.
“BET was created to stand at the forefront of black culture. We have made strides over the past two decades to create a space where black creativity, culture, and art have the opportunity to get the celebration it deserves in a world where it is systematically muted,” said Connie Orlando, EVP Specials, Music Programming & Music Strategy at BET, in a press release. “This year we’re looking forward to continuing the tradition of providing fans with those special, not to be missed moments of enrichment, entertainment, empowerment and also using our platform to create change for our community.”
And for the first time ever to commemorate the awards ceremony’s 20-year anniversary and BET’s 40-year anniversary, the 2020 BET Awards will simulcast live on CBS and BET/BET HER on June 28 from 8 p.m.-11 p.m. ET.
Check out Seales’ official announcement below.
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Dr Joanna White is the Group Leader for the Intelligent Transport Systems Group at Highways England. Following her PhD in Mathematics where she developed mathematical models for traffic networks, Jo started her career in 1999 at TRL working as a Researcher. One of her first projects was to demonstrate how mobile phone data could be used to produce information about movements on transport networks and undertook. 6 years later she joined the Highways Agency as a Senior ITS Engineer in the Traffic and Travel Systems Group – now known as the ITS Group! She led the M42 Active Traffic Management Monitoring, investigated how smart motorways and ramp metering could operate together and set up the ITS Radar service. Jo was promoted in 2007 to the Team Leader of the Technology Programme Performance team, responsible for overseeing the Agency’s £250m Technology Programme. She took a couple of years out to have children (not concurrently thank goodness) and then changed roles in April 2012 to lead the National Operational Systems team in Traffic Technology Division, looking after all the systems that the Traffic Officers use to manage traffic and incidents – such as HATMS and Command and Control. Now she is back home in research, overseeing teams who improve operational systems, lighting policy and tunnels technology and future vehicle technology – including trialling connected and automated vehicles. Jo is also the Technical Lead for the Innovation Designated Fund.
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May 28, 2020 Updated Oct 28, 2020
A pump jack sits over an oil well on Dec. 22, 2018, along Interstate 25 near Dacono, Colo. Federal courts have delivered a string of rebukes to the Trump administration over what they found were failures to protect the environment and address climate change as it promotes fossil fuel interests and the extraction of natural resources from public lands.
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BILLINGS, Mont. — Federal courts have delivered a string of rebukes to the Trump administration over what they found were failures to protect the environment and address climate change as it promotes fossil fuel interests and the extraction of natural resources from public lands.
Judges have ruled administration officials ignored or downplayed potential environmental damage in lawsuits over oil and gas leases, coal mining and pipelines to transport fuels across the U.S., according to an Associated Press review of more than a dozen major environmental cases.
Actions taken by the courts have ranged from orders for more environmental analysis to the unprecedented cancellation of oil and gas leases across hundreds of thousands of acres in Western states.
“Many of the decisions the Trump administration has been making are arguably illegal and in some cases blatantly so,” said Mark Squillace, associate dean at the University of Colorado Law School and a specialist in natural resources law. “They’ve lost a lot of cases.”
Some of the most far-reaching rulings have come from U.S. District Judge Brian Morris, an appointee of former President Barack Obama posted in Montana.
This month alone Morris canceled energy leases on several hundred thousand acres in cases that centered on potential harm to water supplies and greater sage grouse, a declining species. He also struck down a nationwide permitting program for new oil and gas pipelines in a lawsuit against the controversial Keystone XL oil sands pipeline from Canada.
The rulings brought cheers from environmentalists who have looked to the judiciary to check Trump’s ambitions. But Morris was denounced by oil and gas industry representatives and allies in Congress as an “activist judge” inserting his own agenda into cases.
The ire directed at Morris, a former clerk for the late conservative U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist, appears to be politically driven, legal analysts said. Federal judges in other states — including appointees of both Democratic and Republican administrations — have also ruled against Trump.
— In California, Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong, an appointee of George H.W. Bush, struck down the administration’s attempt to repeal a rule meant to ensure companies pay fair value for oil, coal and other natural resources from public lands.
—In Colorado, Judge Lewis Babcock, a Ronald Reagan appointee, sided with conservation groups and said the administration’s review of 171 proposed natural gas wells didn’t look closely enough at the cumulative effect of drilling on climate change and the area’s mule deer and elk populations.
—In Idaho, a magistrate judge canceled more than $125 million in oil and gas leases on public lands that are home to sage grouse, after determining the Trump administration illegally curtailed public comment.
Administration officials said the courtroom setbacks had not stopped them from paring back burdensome regulations to create jobs and save taxpayer money while still upholding environmental protections and public health.
“It is hardly surprising that these frequent-filer litigants can sometimes find forums to temporarily slow administrative actions,” Interior press secretary Ben Goldey said.
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Kathleen Sgamma with the Western Energy Alliance, which lobbies for oil and gas companies, said a better measure of the administration’s success is the growth in U.S. energy production under Trump. The U.S. overtook Saudi Arabia in 2018 to become the world’s largest oil producer.
“The big picture is the administration’s ’energy dominance’ agenda has been hugely successful,” Sgamma said. Trump deserves praise for recognizing that regulations hampered the industry’s growth and needed to be eased, she said.
In the Keystone XL case, Morris ruled the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had never justified use of a blanket environmental permit for construction of oil and gas pipelines through wetlands, streams and other waters. The Army Corps suspended the permitting program, affecting thousands of projects.
U.S. Rep. Greg Gianforte, a Montana Republican, called the ruling “a massive overreach by an activist judge” that went beyond the court’s authority.
President Donald Trump issued a special presidential permit for Keystone XL last year. The move came after Morris rejected an earlier permit and said officials had not adequately considered cumulative effects of greenhouse gas emissions and potential oil spills.
Government attorneys have asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to take emergency action and overturn the pipeline ruling by Friday.
A longtime colleague of Morris who served with him on Montana’s Supreme Court said his detractors should look more closely at his record.
“He follows the rule of law,” said retired Justice Mike Wheat.
Attorneys who sue on behalf of environmental groups have long sought out venues they believe favorable, but it hasn’t always worked out.
In March, an Obama-appointed judge in California upheld the Trump administration’s repeal of a 2015 rule regulating hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” for oil and gas.
Last week, on the same day Morris canceled oil and gas leases on more than 300,000 acres of public lands in Montana and Wyoming, he ruled for the administration in a coal mining case brought by environmentalists and the Democratic attorneys general of California, New York, New Mexico and Washington.
The judge had initially ruled against the administration and said its lifting of an Obama-era moratorium on coal sales was flawed. But he accepted Interior’s subsequent justification that the move had a negligible impact on climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions.
That case illustrates a growing frustration among environmental activists: While judges have ruled against Trump on climate change and other issues, that hasn’t stopped the administration from issuing flawed or incomplete environmental analyses then pushing forward until challenged in court again.
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Michael Novakhov – SharedNewsLinks℠: It’s time to end the farce of this government
It might be a case, as the English say, of turkeys voting for Christmas, but Benny
and his Blue and White Party have no choice. On Wednesday they must join forces with Yair Lapid and support Yesh Atid’s no-confidence motion in the government and bring this misaligned and malfunctioning unity coalition to an end.
The government has been in power for all of seven months and already it’s time to put it out of its misery. Israel’s citizens have been badly served throughout this period, and there is no indication of any progress in sight. Formed against the backdrop of COVID-19, this government has spectacularly failed to provide any coherent or consistent policy to combat the pandemic, sewing instead confusion, panic and indecision.
Rather than form a united front and work as a team, this
is riven with distrust and self-interest, as highlighted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s behavior. From pandering to the haredi community throughout the pandemic so as to ensure its continued support to deliberately failing to pass a state budget for 2021, Netanyahu has worked determinedly to ensure this government serves only one thing: his own narrow political needs.
Having already called Blue and White’s bluff once over the budget – Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi’s threat to bring down the coalition if budget preparations did not start by the end of October – Netanyahu and Finance Minister Israel Katz are preparing to do the same again. While Gantz publicly stated earlier this month he will call for early elections if the budget is not passed by the end of December, Katz announced at the end of the week that he and Netanyahu are planning on passing the budget in February.
Netanyahu’s calculation here is simple and has nothing to do with Israel’s economic well-being and everything to do with his own political interests. If the prime minister again succeeds in stringing Gantz along, come March Netanyahu will be in a better position to engineer a political crisis, bring down his own government and hold elections in June. Let’s not forget: Netanyahu’s political calendar is focused on November 2021, and ensuring his rotation agreement with Gantz, scheduled to take place then, never happens.
By June next year, the majority of Israelis, so the assumption goes, will already be vaccinated against COVID-19, the economy will start to revive, unemployment will fall, and all the nation’s children will be back safely behind their desks at school. With such a feel-good atmosphere after the trauma of the pandemic, the prime minister will run a campaign falsely based on the image of Netanyahu the great leader who brought the children of Israel out of the wilderness.
And if Gantz, suddenly and against character, decides to down tools and slam the door on the government in December, the country will go to the polls in March, a few months earlier. While not ideal for Netanyahu, given it’s unlikely that the vaccine will be widespread by then, the country will still be in a recession, and his trial on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust will have started, the prime minister also knows there is no candidate on the Center-Left who can seriously threaten him. If anything, the more possible (although highly unlikely) threat to a future Netanyahu-led government comes from the Right in the form of Naftali Bennett.
And yet, even though it means Gantz stepping down from the Defense Ministry, Ashkenazi quitting the Foreign Ministry and Avi Nissenkorn leaving Justice, probably never to return, Blue and White have no option but to join Yesh Atid’s no-confidence motion. At the very least, it will allow them the dignity of stepping down at a time of their own choosing.
SUCH IS the lack of basic trust at the highest echelons of the government that just last week, the prime minister flew to Saudi Arabia – still officially an enemy country – without informing his defense or foreign minister. Like the rest of the country, they became aware of it only through a Netanyahu-sanctioned leak on social media.
Gantz, meanwhile, keenly aware of Netanyahu’s sensitivities around the issue, last week announced the establishment of a government committee to investigate the irregular purchase process of submarines and corvettes, also known as Case 3000. This affair centers on allegations of a massive bribery scheme in the multibillion-dollar deal in 2016 with German shipbuilder Thyssenkrupp, involving a number of close associates of the prime minister.
With such an atmosphere of suspicion around the cabinet table, it’s no wonder the government is failing to function. Back in the 1980s, when Israel last had a national-unity government, its leaders, Yitzhak Shamir and Shimon Peres, were far from friends, but there was mutual respect and, importantly, a sense that the country’s interests took precedence over everything else.
Today, this is not the case and it is time to end the farce.
The writer is a former editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post.
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Ronnie Gunz
Last Appearance: Jun 14, 2018
Ronald Miller, born June 7, 1974, at Smithtown hospital on Long Island.
How did Ronnie and Joe meet?
Ronnie graduated from North Babylon High School with me in 1992. However, I had no fucking clue who he was. To be honest, I couldn’t pick him out of a lineup if my life depended on it.
It wasn’t until 23 years that on June 30, 2015, a connection was born. Ronnie reached out to me on Facebook Messenger.
Here is his original message to me:
“I’m not gonna lie, I thought you were kind of a douche in high school haha. But I think your show is awesome. I remember Smoking a joint with Rob on DPA in like 92 or something and he told me the doctor had to remove his brain every time he smoked pot. It’s kind of a trip seeing and listening to him now. He’s a great part of the show. Pete is really naturally funny, and your brutal honesty and the willingness to say whatever the fuck crosses your mind regardless of whether or not it’s a subject people normally go into detail about (jerking off, hemorrhoids, anxiety etc.) kinda keeps the show on the edge. I’ve listened to every episode and I hope you keep doing it.”
What makes Ronnie Gunz a great guest?
He likes to embarrass his wife by farting out loud in public.
He loves President Trump.
He goes off on rants about girls having ‘meat hooks’ or ‘bologna sandwiches’.
His rap song ‘Real Shit’ may be the best song played on TJCS.
How did Ron Miller become Ronnie Gunz?
Ronnie made his first appearance on February 15, 2016. I could just tell from his voice that he was extremely nervous. Yet, once the conversation turned to sex, Ronnie became a natural. Ronnie explained that he had to bribe his wife for sex by first giving her a full-body massage. I loved it! I instantly labeled him as Ronnie Lotion!
How did he get the name Ronnie Gunz?
Ronnie wasn’t too thrilled with the ‘Ronnie Lotion’ label. One day he called the show and started to discuss his concealed carry permit. He told me that he doesn’t ‘go anywhere without his gun’ and he was always ‘strapped’ just in case something goes down. I was fascinated by this, especially because New York has such strict gun laws.
The legend of Ronnie Gunz was born.
Parting ‘Shots’ about Ronnie Gunz
Let me say this about Ronnie. He is without a doubt one of the nicest and most generous guys I’ve ever met. Moreover, Ronnie went out of his way to mail Crazy Robert Marlboro cigarettes and bought him a shit gold chain that CR despises!
TJCS has connected me with so many great people. It’s one of the reasons I truly love doing it. Ronnie Gunz is at the top of that list.
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April 26, 2019 – The Evolution of Life, Liberals, Trump, LGBT Community
Today’s topics – Is it possible Donald Trump can lose the 2020 election? If he does lose, will the country really be a better place? Planet Earth is over 4 billion years old. Is it possible humans existed 800 million years ago and then became extinct? All this and more in today’s episode!
Ronnie Gunz: Anxiety on Full Tilt
I finally get Ronnie Gunz to come to the studio for his first interview. Ronnie is hilarious and talks about doing coke in his younger years and how he would use it to level off his drinking. RG also talks about his first time he had sex with a black girl and how things went down […]
Joe’s in Red’s doghouse because he didn’t like the Valentines Day gift she gave him, Ronnie Gunz buys his wife a new ‘bedroom toy’, Crazy Robert Valentines Day wish, and more!
TJCS – September 25, 2018
Joe has Ronnie Gunz on today’s show talking about absolutely nothing and everything. From the #MeToo movement to Bill Cosby deserving his jail sentence, Ronnie Gunz gives it raw!
An emotional Ronnie Gunz comes on the show to express his greatest fears about Hurricane Florence. The Catholic church is the worst institutions of our lifetime, and more!
TJCS – June 14, 2018
Joe discusses his night out to dinner with an old friend, Ronnie Gunz and Eddro come on the show for a quick segment called ‘Getting to know Eddie and RG’ and more!
The Daily Show – 09-27-16
Joe talks last night’s presidential debate, Ronnie Gunz and new guest Tara Banninger come on to share their thoughts, do you text with one finger and more.
Joe discusses how great it is to live alone, How difficult it is to quit drinking coffee, the NYC bomber Ahmad Khan Rahami gets captured, Ronnie Gunz comes on and talks about working out and licking ass, and more!
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Valor of Law Enforcement Community at Route 91 Concert Tragedy Honored with $25,000 Grant from Cox
Nov 24, 2017 | Arts & Entertainment
Las Vegas, NV, November 24, 2017 –(PR.com)– The Injured Police Officers Fund (IPOF) receives a $25,000 grant from Cox Communications of Las Vegas. Top officials from Cox made a check presentation on behalf of the Company’s 1,550 Las Vegas-based employees to representatives of IPOF during the opening of a national Cox Care and Field Leadership Summit at Encore Las Vegas on Oct. 25, 2017.
“Cox Communications is a wonderful community partner, and we are grateful for this grant and the many individuals we can assist with this money,” said Lieutenant Erik Lloyd, LVMPD, Vice President of the Injured Police Officers Fund. “We will be partnering with a variety of programs and it is our job to maximize these funds to the fullest extent; and we will.”
Michael F. Bolognini, Vice President and market leader of Cox Las Vegas, said, “The employees of our organization are making this check presentation as a way to express our gratitude for the valor, courage and selfless sacrifice of the law enforcement community in the wake of the somber events of the October 1st Route 91 concert tragedy. Our thoughts are with those who provided great service to our safety and well being."
You can help the IPOF by making a tax-deductible contribution through their website https://ipof.vegas. Or contact us for more information at [email protected], via telephone at 702-380-2840, or via mail at 9330 W. Lake Mead Blvd. Suite 130, Las Vegas, NV 89134.
The mission of the Injured Police Officers Fund is to help reduce the financial burden suffered by Police Officers and their families in the event of a line of duty injury or death by providing monetary assistance to these Officers and their families. The Injured Police Officers Fund (IPOF) was formed in October of 1982 when LVMPD Motor Officer James MacLaren was shot in the head during a traffic stop. Fortunately, Officer MacLaren survived his injuries however; he was forced into medical retirement.
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Industrial Energy Ltd ( a subsidiary of Tata Power ) is setting up 2 x 67.5 MW gas based project and 3x150 MW coal cum gas based thermal project in Kalinganagar adjacent to Tata Steel plant. The company has invited international bids in August 2011 to implement the project.
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How to watch Alabama vs Ohio State Football Buffstreams Online – The Daily Chronicle
Ohio State vs Alabama live stream: How to watch college football playoff game online. Today’s Ohio State vs Alabama live stream looks to be a matchup for the ages. The Ohio State vs Alabama live stream may see the top ranked Tide roll the Buckeyes, at least if history repeats itself and coach Nick Saban nets his sixth title. And Saban is well equipped, with five All-Americans, including WR DeVonta Smith (the Heisman Trophy winner himself).
How to watch Alabama Crimson Tide vs. Ohio State Buckeyes (1/11/2021): College Football Playoff national championship TV channel, time, live stream
The Alabama Crimson Tide and Ohio State Buckeyes are headed to Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, for the College Football Playoff National Championship on Monday, January 11 (1/11/2021), and broadcast partners ESPN are offering a staggering range of ways to watch the game.
No. 1 Alabama defeated No. 4 Notre Dame 31-14 to win the Rose Bowl Game and make it to the National Championship. The Crimson Tide had an undefeated 12-0 season. If that wasn’t impressive enough, Alabama’s own DeVonta Smith became the first wide receiver to win the Heisman Trophy since 1991 just last week.
No. 3 Ohio State defeated No. 2 Clemson 49-28 to win the Sugar Bowl and push on to the championship. Like Alabama, they had an undefeated season, but with only a 7-0 record to get them into bowl season.
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The Ohio State vs Alabama live stream begins tonight at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT, today (Monday, Jan. 11).
It’s on ESPN.
Bama quarterback Mac Jones and RB Najee Harris also finished in the top five of the Heisman voting,. Meanwhile Buckeyes QB Justin Fields is the subject of a lot of headlines, after his massive game against Clemson, where he took an equally massive hit to the side but also threw for six touchdowns.
It’s been a long road to this game, as Big Ten games were postponed early in the season, and the Buckeyes only got six games in before the playoffs. On top of that, there are new positive test results for COVID-19 for Ohio State.
Favor seems to be tilting towards Alabama’s side, at least from the bookies. The over/under is set at 75.5 last we checked, and the Crimson Tide are -300 favorites.
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Ohio State vs Alabama live streams in the US
In the US, Ohio State vs Alabama is going to be carried on ESPN, which is available on two of our favorite streaming services fuboTV and Sling TV. The game starts at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT today (Jan. 11).
Of the two, football fans will probably want fuboTV, as it has all five of the main channels you’ll want: CBS, NBC, Fox, ESPN and the NFL Network. That’s why it’s one of the best streaming services.
Sling will get you this game on the cheap with the Orange package of channels that includes ESPN. That will cost you $30 a month, while Fubo.TV is now $65.
Fubo.TV is one of the best streaming services that offers ESPN. Fubo has all of the right broadcast networks and the two cable channels you’ll need to get your football fix. Who needs cable? Not Fubo subscribers. It’s got a 7-day free trial so you don’t need to pay up front.
Sling TV is an affordable live TV service with some of the channels that football fans want, providing a middle ground. The $45 per month Sling Orange + Blue package has ESPN for this game, as well as local Fox and NBC affiliates. A $30 package includes fewer channels, but saves you money — and you still get ESPN.
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Ohio State vs Alabama live streams in the UK
College football fans in the UK will need to stay up late, as the game starts at 1 a.m. local BST. It’s going to be on BT Sport ESPN.
You can get BT Sport through BT as well as an add-on to Sky. BT Sport subscribers are able to stream Ohio State vs Alabama on the BT Sport website or by using the channel’s dedicated app (Android, iOS). A monthly BT Sport pass will cost you £25.
Ohio State vs Alabama live streams in Canada
You’re going to need TSN for the Ohio State vs Alabama live stream. Coverage starts at 8 p.m. ET.
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To witness a massive moment in history (even if it is that of a niche sport), is a pretty surreal feeling. This weekend, an American Racer, Aaron Gwin, won a World Cup round without a chain. He broke it pedaling out of the starting hut, and all he had was momentum, gravity, and a little sheer grit to get him down the hill. In a testament to his savage abilities on a bike, and steely mental state, he crossed the line .045 seconds ahead of second-place-finisher, Connor Fearon (a first-time podium finisher in his own right). It was a dramatic Sunday; as a fan of the sport, and now a photojournalist documenting the series, the script couldn’t have been better written.
The race at Leogang, Austria in 2015 will without a doubt be considered a paradigm shift in the world of downhill racing. Friend and racer, Neko Mullaly had a similar run at the World Championships last year in Hafjell, Norway, and to now have two riders put down unfathomable runs is certainly bound to have repercussions on the sport. What they are, it’s hard to say, but I certainly think that trainers, managers, engineers, and riders are all going to have a powwow about what a “winning approach” to winning a race really means. It’s obviously physical, but how much technical skill have riders been losing in favor of vigorous training regiments all in the name of fitness? Where is the balance between talent and coaching? What role does the engineering play in the outcome of a race, is it truly all about the rider still?
We were all left in awe at the end of the day, and the only real explanation is that some people are just better that others, and there is only so much that can be done to level a playing field. It is highly possible that we all witnessed the greatest run in the history of the sport. That doesn’t mean the rest to come will all be less exciting or moot – no, in fact I think the races will only get more interesting as riders do their best to show that they are capable of amazing feats as well. With four rounds to go, there is a lot of racing left to be had, and who knows, maybe Gwin will one-up himself, or perhaps another rider will manage to shine even brighter – the other riders on the podium with Gwin are certainly capable of the unthinkable, and there are a fair few other former winners and contenders lurking outside the Top 5 as well.
This is the official write up I contributed to, this is a bio-piece I worked on over the weekend, and below are some more shots that I enjoyed from the weekend:
(Remember: click the pictures to see them in a slideshow-style viewer)
Gwin was looking on a mission in practice.
He was on-point, from start to finish.
It all culminated in the most astounding race win in recent memory.
Not everyone was quite as comfortable on track though…
He rode this out, no crash – impressive.
The course sweepers were giving it the beans too!
Finn Iles isn’t just any course sweeper – big things to come from this kid.
Dave McMillan calls himself a professional spectator.
He has yet to qualify for a final.
But, I think it’s only a matter of time.
Below, a host of riders are seeking out the top step. A few are former winners looking to add another #1 to their trophy case; Sam Blenkisop (#13) is one of them, last winning in 2007 at Schladming in Austria, as is Brook MacDonald (#22), last winning in 2012 in Val d’Isere, France. Connor Fearon (#36) found himself on the box in 2nd this weekend, his first podium and he nearly won. George Brannigan (#26) is no stranger to the Top 5 and looking to find the top step with the rest of these guys this season as well.
It’s fun to build report with riders, and Laurie here has become a friend over the years, so when he saw me sprawled on the ground like a toy soldier, he put some extra style on for the shot. Below are an extended collection of photos I just happen to like from the weekend.
Andrew Crimmins on his way to a 1st place in Jr Men.
Remi Morton putting in the effort, only to have a mechanical about 30 seconds later.
Greg Williamson tucking up against the pole in practice.
The text boxes don’t like all the photos. So, just for reference, the riders in descending order from above:
Loic Bruni; Mike Jones; Loin and Greg Minnaar; Harry Heath; Sam Dale (yes, he nearly ran me over, no regrets!); Neko Mullaly, putting the hurt on the first corner of the course.
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