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Coronavirus update: All 15 suspected cases in Ghana NEGATIVE – Minister
Health authorities in Ghana have explained that the country has as of Wednesday, February 12, 2020 encountered 15 suspected cases of coronavirus but they have all proven to be negative.
The Ministry of Health has therefore given the assurance that recording 15 suspected cases of coronavirus in Ghana should not call for panic.
To them, although the virus was very contagious the situation is not a matter of life and death because the suspects have not shown severest of symptoms,
In a press statement signed and issued by the Minister of Health, Mr Kwaku Agyemang Manu on Wednesday to update the public, it was explained that samples have been taken from all of them and sent to the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research for tests and results have been negative
“We further wish to reassure the nation that our preparations in terms of emergency preparedness response and surveillance have been heightened and proven to be effective and efficient.”
Below is the statement
The Ministry of Health once again wishes to brief the general public and provide updates in respect to developments on the Novel Coronavirus infection as promised in the last press release.
As a country, we have encountered 15 suspected cases as of today. Samples have been taken from all of them and sent to the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research for tests and results have been negative
Key stakeholder engagements have been extensive and we have met all regional directors of health services, chief executive officers of the Teaching Hospitals, and reviewed their preparedness for emergency response following our alert to them and the Ministry is satisfied with preparations made across the regions so far.
Disease surveillance within the country and at the points of entry has been heightened, as we work in collaboration with the Ghana Immigration Service and other Port Authorities.
Our prevention and control mechanisms cut across strengthening Surveillance internally and at Points of Entry, Case Management, Risk Communication and Social Mobilization, Coordination, Laboratory testing and Logistics support.
We are in constant engagement with Ghana’s ambassador in China as well as the Chinese authorities through their ambassador in Ghana. Information reaching us indicates that so far not a single Ghanaian in China or elsewhere on the globe has been affected.
I. We once again wish to reassure Ghanaians, especially parents and relatives of Ghanaians and in particular Ghanaians in Wuhan city and entire Hubei Province that our citizens are in good hands and are being taken care of. The Ghana embassy in China is in constant engagement with them and have been constantly updating us of events.
We are working in collaboration with the World Health Organisation, West African Health Organisation, US Centres for Disease Control and other Development Partners, discussing and reviewing our strategies day by day. So far, all advice through consultations and engagements is not encouraging us to undertake mass evacuation as yet because of the following:
1. Sub regional consultation- the West African Health Organisation is engaging member states and has not recommended evacuation yet
2. Public Health principles in outbreak situations. A11 these notwithstanding, we are reviewing the situation by the hour and when it becomes necessary, we will tow the next line of action as appropriate, including evacuation.
The Government of Ghana is much concerned about our citizens in China especially the Ghanaian students, and is working to ensure their protection, safety and wellbeing as we continue to supply basic needs.
We want to assure the public that, as per the management of all outbreaks which is a dynamic activity, we will continue to monitor the situation and act as appropriate
We will further wish to advise Ghanaians to delay non-essential travels to China.
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Read How Colangelo & Raptors Attempt at "Wooing" Nash
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 04:44 PM
This is pretty impressive. So sad that we failed.
Marc Stein wrote:
Raptors president and general manager Bryan Colangelo was the first caller to get through shortly after 12:01 a.m. Officials from the Knicks, Heat, Lakers, Mavericks and Nets dialed in soon thereafter. And with his client sitting in such close proximity after their late-night meal, Duffy offered each team that rang an opportunity to speak directly to Nash.
It didn't seem like much at the time, but that's when Nash and Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak had their first chat. Kupchak let Duffy know that he was well aware of Nash's comments to Stephen A. Smith on ESPN New York 98.7 just days before about how "hard" it would be "to put on a Lakers jersey" after all of the Suns' playoffs battles with Kobe Bryant and Co. When Kupchak explained that he "had to call anyway," Duffy thanked him and assured him that he was wise to check in, dismissing Nash's quotes as "media hype."
Yet that's as far as things went with the Lakers on Day 1. Face-to-face meetings were quickly arranged with the two most obvious serious suitors to get the Nash sweepstakes officially underway: Toronto and New York.
The Raptors were first up at 10:30 a.m., with a seven-strong contingent of team officials arriving on a cross-country flight arranged by Raptors co-owner Larry Tanenbaum. With Raptors assistant coach Eric Hughes getting married that weekend in Pasadena, Calif., Tanenbaum made his private jet available to transport Colangelo, Raptors coach Dwane Casey, Nash's former Team Canada coach Jay Triano and the rest of the group to the other side of the country as quickly as possible overnight.
Tanenbaum also provided his ritzy Central Park apartment to serve as the venue for what Duffy described as a "big presentation." The food was lavish and the contract offer rich, but the video compilation Colangelo ordered up for the occasion made an impression on Nash that moved him more than a three-year, $36 million pitch ever could -- largely because Wayne Gretzky was the narrator.
Rumbles that Gretzky, one of Nash's boyhood heroes, would be involved in the Raptors' Nash pitch leaked out through the Toronto media before the two parties got together, but "involved" was understating it. The Great One's unmistakable voice was the backdrop for a compilation of clips and interviews that traced Nash's lifelong journey from young basketball dreamer on faraway Victoria Island in British Columbia to two-time MVP with the Suns, hitting all the stops (Santa Clara, Canada's fairy-tale run at the 2000 Olympics and more) in between and promising a Gretzky-esque legacy if he'd join the Raptors now.
More than one person in the room would later say that Nash was fighting back tears watching it all.
"We all were," Duffy said. "It was like watching a Hall of Fame video.
"They wanted us to close the deal right then."
Colangelo's approach was reminiscent of the full-court press that greeted Nash from Phoenix on the opening day of free agency back in 2004 -- when another extra-large traveling party descended upon Dallas to swipe Nash away from Mark Cuban's Mavericks -- with the bonus of knowing that the inspired Gretzky wrinkle took the whole operation to a new level. The difference this time, eight years later, is that Nash simply wasn't ready to move that quickly. He couldn't decide that fast knowing that the familiar soil of Toronto, home to Canada's only NBA franchise, was an address far away from his kids.
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Tags: bryan colangelo, steve nash, toronto raptors
Even though it was a losing effort, it's interesting to read about the business side of sport. Great find!
DoNDaDDa
i just dont understand the whole Gretzky angle.. why pick a canadian who doesnt even live here, why pick 99 who turned the leafs down to play in NY.. & who soo famously played in L.A, it just seems like a dumb attempt to woo nash... they'd have been better off using Don Cherry to pitch playing in Canada then #99...
Quirk
If being near his kids is so important, why does he spend his summers in NY? Does he have custody during the summer?
Edit: I highly doubt he has summer-long custody of the toddler.
Quirk wrote: View Post
Does anybody actually believe this was the reason? It's just PR maneuvering.
Note: I'm sure Nash is a concerned father, and loves to be with his kids. But realistically, LA, NY or TO is not going to have that big an impact on how often he sees them. NBA schedules are pretty damn tight.
DoNDaDDa wrote: View Post
I think the whole idea was that Nash could do for basketball in Canada what Gretzky did for hockey in California and the US in general. Turning Nash from great basketball player into a sports icon kind of idea. Not sure if that was the right sell to Nash but it was always the best the could offer. Forget the ring cause we can't get you that but we can make you a larger than life, beyond basketball type star....
KHD wrote: View Post
It's just PR maneuvering.
There is absolutely nothing stopping him from living in Phoenix in the off season, but he doesn't. So unless his kids live with him in NY during the summer, which is doubtful, he's giving up the opportunity to spend a few months solid with them for no contractual reason.
Marc Stein's article is obviously written by a PR firm.
Katman
Would you want to spend a summer in Pheonix, it's a dry heat...that will fry off your skin!
I believe the ex goes to NY for the summer too, that's why he wanted NY.
Katman wrote: View Post
Yeah jeez, this makes me think BC couldn't have done much more.
It is pretty damn ironic that Gretzky left Canada to play in LA though.
Eh follow my TWITTER!
I believe Gretzky was Nash's boyhood hero.
Not sure how reliable he is, but Doug Smith said that the kids spend the summer in NY with Nash (since they're out of school). This was on Sportsnet 590 in an interview with Bob McCown late last week.
Where's the source for your BS?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachment_in_children
Have you met many under 2 year olds who happily spend many weeks or months away from mom?
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It’s time to take your skills from the turf to the tracks in this Ronaldo Kick ‘n Run game. It’s not enough that our beloved #7 has dominated the international soccer scene for a decade. No, Cristiano Ronaldo thirsts for even more glory, so he has found a way to show off his supernatural skills in a totally new challenge. Instead of a nice, freshly mowed field to stomp around on, he’s dashing and dodging his way through a crowded street! Not only do you have to worry about avoiding train cars, awnings, gates and other hazards, but you have to do it all while dribbling a ball. Normally, we would say this is impossible, but then we remember just whose feet those are laced up into those fancy shoes. We remember just how many times Ronaldo has done the impossible. That’s why this game is so crazy and realistic at the same time. We love it!
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Forging alliances with nature: Atlas Botánico de Chile en Joyería
Lucía Nieves Cortés
Artist in her studio, 2019, photo by Fran Razeto
Lucía Nieves Cortés shares a series of jewellery objects that activate a relationship between humans and plants in her adopted country.
(A message to the reader in Spanish.)
(A message to the reader in English.)
“As much as the copihue is unsuited for vases and bouquets, it is befitting for garlands, more than this, it is the natural garland par excellence devoid of thorny roses and unyielding jasmine.
[…] the copihue had the humour of being born and gifting itself only here, in the Chilean extremity, where the terrestrial globe shrinks […] I have attempted to present my Indigenous copihue in words, to shape it in words as a gift to whoever reads, and yet in the end I realise the uselessness of my effort. Nothing can be conferred in words, neither flowers nor exotic fruits […] and learning happens only though receiving, when in Puerto Rico they sang praises to the pomarrosa, the fragrant morsel did not enter my mouth, nor did it crack between my teeth. It is God’s will that every fruit and every flower be direct initiations. “To know them” requires to breathe them in and bite them,…”
Translated excerpt from Recado sobre el Copihue Chileno by Gabriela Mistral
In 2013 I moved from Berlin to Santiago de Chile, a change which I jokingly categorise as a move from one planet to another. I am originally from Puerto Rico, and have otherwise lived in The Netherlands and Mexico. In each of these places I lived at least one year and up to nine years, as was the case of Germany.
These were not just different places with different cultures, but also quite different climates, geographies and landscapes. Wherever I went, plants were there, in my peripheral view, but throughout my life they have gradually caught the centre of my attention.
Coming from a territory of eternal summer, the tropics, plants in these new places, so seemingly still, signalled the changes in seasons, a novelty for someone like me. If you look close enough, sharpen your eye, slow down your pace, they reveal themselves, not as mute as one would have thought. Despite having banished them to the fringe of our lives, these non-human people, as I have learned to see them, provide us with practically everything we need to survive and thrive. They are fantastic teachers, adapting to their context, in a relentless flow, and showing us their ways, if we would only pay them closer attention and begin to see them as our kin. Without them, we would have never been.
Each climate region presents quite different expressions of the vegetal. Perhaps this laid down the certainty that I could not continue making the same jewellery in Chile that I had been making in Germany. New place, new lessons to learn, new needs for adaptation and expression.
Thus, the Botanical Atlas of Chile in Jewellery stemmed from my own need for integration into a new geography and consequently a new plant landscape: an endeavour that could weave together my personal history of migrations, the relationship between humans and plants and my concerns about the environment.
Chilean flora has historically ignited the fascination of travellers and scientists. This land is considered a geographic island, cut off to the east not by sea but by the Andes mountains. Its unusual shape, a narrow strip that seems to be made up of north and south, but devoid of east or west, features an exhaustive catalogue of most sorts of imaginable climates, except, curiously enough, the one that I identify as my habitat: Chile has no tropical regions.
In the words of poet Gabriela Mistral:
“Geographers call the [southern forests] Trópico Frío (Cold tropics) and, although the nickname is contradictory, it corresponds to those truths that bear an absurd appearance: Chilean australity is wet and icy; but it resembles the tropics in its vicious vegetation and its mist of steams and aromas.”
Thus, a study of this, to me unknown, flora seemed as exotic and exciting as it could get for a native of the tropics. How can plants survive and thrive in the driest of all world regions, the Atacama Desert? Besides, “cold tropics”, what was that all about? It was clear that Chilean plants have a lot to teach us about endurance and adaptation.
For this voyage, a series of semantic shifts had to take place. In Chile, the botanical studies that laid the foundations for the discipline were carried out during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by white European men, through the lens of science, such as the illustrious Claudio Gay, founder of the Herbarium that later became Chile´s National Museum of Natural History. This “official history” turns a blind eye towards the ancestral botanical disciplines of First Nations Peoples, a wealth of knowledge accumulated across millennia.
How is an approach to the plant kingdom affected when we find ourselves in the twenty-first century seen through the eyes of a Caribbean mulata craftswoman? Could these shifts provide us with clues that might shed light on the labyrinth in which we find ourselves, a knot in which we are continuously pressured to adapt to environmental dangers, the menace of extractivist economies, social injustice and an accelerated impoverishment of so many areas of life, despite growing material wealth.
How does that pour over into the practice of the objects we make? What happens to an atlas, broadly interpreted as a functional view of our surrounding world, when a shift is made from a collection of images presented in book form to a collection of craft objects that attempts to describe realities, while simultaneously leading us into new territories? I felt the need to search for repair through integration of disciplines, times, spaces, views and beings in order to answer these concerns.
This journey led me to a lot of researching and questioning how we view ourselves in the face of the vegetal, even further, Nature writ large. The mission became fertile ground in an attempt to close the gaps between art, craft, science, ancestral knowledge, ethics and history. From early on I had the notion that the jewellery results of the project were a part of something greater.
This project is meant to become an opportunity for learning and then a tool to transmit the acquired knowledge, through objects and their process of becoming and the many branches of thought that they have elicited. I engaged the partnership of artist Maria Jose Rojas, whose own work reflects sensibly about the vegetal. Her guidance has proven essential to the development of this Atlas.
Semilloids
Lucía Nieves, semilloids, 2019, copper, silver, variable dimensions, photo by Lucia Nieves
Lucía Nieves, semilloids backs, 2019, copper, silver, variable dimensions, photo by Lucia Nieves
Lucía Nieves, semilloids, 2019, Chilean native woods, silver, variable dimensions, photo by Lucia Nieves
After much sketching, reading and many conversations, objects had to be made.
At the bench, when I still was unsure where the voyage should begin, I gave my hands a chance to warm up in the technique I proposed to work with, lost wax. I thought out a simple methodology of hexagonal geometries of perforations and cuts, which reminded me of natural patterns and traditional jewellery making, such as the geometries of pavé setting.
Variations blossomed in different expressions of what I call the semilloids. These pieces do not represent specific species, but have a basic character which speaks about organic forms and life. They are reminiscent of seeds, marine life, flowers, microscopic beings. Their unspecificity and open aspect are crucial to their being. The seed becomes a metaphor of enormous potential for life and capacity of transformation. It is a starting point with the possibility of branching out in innumerable directions, each branch is an imagined path, a stroll down a universe. The semilloid is a capsule of creative and regenerative potential that contains vast and archaic energy. An energy so powerful and generous, capable of healing and gifting the spectator with the possibility of growth in any which direction that she or he can imagine.
Lucía Nieves, Botanical Alliances, 2019,silver, ca.300 x 50 mm, photo by Fran Razeto
Lucía Nieves, Foye-Chilco, 2019, silver, ca.300×50 mm, photo by Fran Razeto
Lucía Nieves, side view of Botanical Alliances, 2019, silver, ca.300 x 50mm, photo by Fran Razeto
Lucía Nieves, Pewen-Copiu, 2019, silver, ca.300×50 mm, photo by Fran Razeto
The Botanical Alliances is a series of five cast rings, each pairs two species of endemic plants from various Chilean habitats: Pewén-Copiu, the Araucaria, sacred tree of the Mapuche people, and the Copihue vine, so beautifully described by Mistral; Foye-Chilco, southern plants of great beauty and spiritual significance; Puya-Coquimbana to describe Chile´s dry and rocky landscapes; Quila-Pangue, resistant plants of great use for object making as well as sustenance the; and Palito-Culcul, ancient fern species which speak about some of the oldest plant life on Earth. I chose the species intuitively after studying the morphology and origin of plants through drawings. I relied on my outsider eye to choose those which stood out as beings of cultural or biological importance. Not only do the rings seal a pact between two plants, but with the wearer as well, embracing the body in a bond of reciprocity with nature. For this group I carefully carved and modelled wax into large format and sculptural pieces. Their dimension is noticeable and I worked the surfaces in great detail. I expect this series of five to expand and include more species, as well as to extend the idea to further atlases describing other botanical territories.
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Lucía Nieves, Balanganda Botánica, 2019, various Chilean native woods, silver, copper, steel, silk 120 x 190, photo by Fran Razeto
Lucía Nieves, Balanganda Botánica, 2019, various woods, silver, copper, steel, silk 120 x 190, photo by Fran Razeto
The penca de balanganda is based on a jewellery typology originating in Salvador de Bahia, Brasil, akin to today´s charm necklace or bracelet: a central piece from which all sorts of pendants with a symbolic and talismanic power are added. They were worn by enslaved black women during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
A penca represents the meeting of cultures between Africa and America, the spiritual needs and the desires of abundance and prosperity of the women who carried them. I was attracted to this typology because it frequently featured botanical motifs and it seemed to span a bridge between jewellery, my own history and heritage and the subject of my project: expressions related to displaced or out-of-place women and the power of jewellery and plants to create a new connection to place, and express our innermost wants.
The Balangandá Botánica reinterprets this typology. Its cluster-like character was ideal to unite the techniques that I worked with throughout the project in an experimental way. I integrated the semilloids and applied their geometry to wood, working with native woods that I receive from other craft-making colleagues. This piece works as a remix of accumulated knowledge and picks up the concept of open possibilities by its additive character, a folding together of time, place and stories.
“But let us go back to the absolute “here” of the plant. There is nothing more difficult for us than to linger patiently in the “here,” without as much as fantasizing about something that lies “over there”, where we are not. Heidegger, for his part, understood human existence precisely as the possibility of “being-there” (i.e, not here, despite the literal translation of existence, or Da-sein). By implication, he deemed other living beings, tethered to the immanence of the “here” and to pure present, to be outside the sphere of existence, which hinges on a temporal stretching between the past of thrownness and the future of projection (Heidegger 1962). The plant’s relation to space—not to mention that of the animal—testifies to the problematic nature of this assumption.What we urgently need is an elaboration on the vegetal equivalent to the existential spatiality of Dasein; that is to say, a comparative analysis of our construction of, and interaction with, lived space and a parallel construction and interaction in the case of plants. How do plants make sense of the places they inhabit?”
Excerpt from The place of plants: spatiality, movement and growth, by Michael Marder.
Plants´sessile nature teaches us so much about how to be “here”. I wasn’t consciously aware of this when the journey began. Yet, in this “tethered here”, I have found a space that thrives on collaboration, integration and adaptation, where we have so much to learn, if we were humble enough, and maybe imagine other more vegetal futures.
This project was made possible thanks to the generous support of the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage of Chile through its national FONDART, funds for craft creation and production. The exhibition and publication of the project´s results are yet to be planned due to the adaptations imposed upon us by the COVID pandemic. You can follow further developments on www.instagram.com/atlasbotanicojoyeria. Finally, I am very honoured to announce that the Alianzas Botánicas ring series has been awarded the Sello de Excelencia a la Artesanía 2020, a recognition from the Chilean government that goes to 10 craftswomen and men each year.
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Gabriela Mistral, Recado sobre el Copihue Chileno
Michael Marder, The Place of Plants: Spatiality, Movement, Growth
Michael Marder, The Sense of Seeds, or Seminal Events
Kimmerer, Robin Wall, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. PENGUIN BOOKS, 2020.
Lazo, Waldo. Viajeros y botánicos En Chile Durante Los Siglos XVIII y XIX: 2010. Bicentenario De La Independencia De Chile. Editorial Universitaria, 2011.
Mancuso, Stefano, and López David Paradela. El Futuro Es Vegetal. Galaxia Gutenberg, 2017.
Moesbach, Ernesto Wilhelm de. Botánica indígena De Chile. Museo Chileno De Arte Precolombino, 1999.
Sagredo Baeza, Rafael. La ruta de los naturalistas. Las huellas de Gay, Domeyko y Philippi. Max Donoso Saint, 2012
Lucía Nieves Cortés is a puertorican artist and goldsmith currently based in Santiago de Chile. She studied goldsmithing and jewellery design at the Staatliche Zeichenakademie in Hanau, Germany and is a jewellery teacher at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Aplicadas in Santiago. Her studio work has been devoted to transmitting the values of joy and colour of her native tropics. She has lectured about the practice of jewellery making and wearing in Puerto Rico, Chile and Germany. The Botanical Alliances ring series, awarded with the Sello de Excelencia a la Artesanía 2020, are now part of the collection of the Museo de Artes Populares of Chile.
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Craig Alan Band is going for win #3 today at 6pm ET on Gashouse Live! While the music from CAB is much different than Craig’s previous band OTiS, it seems that many of the OTiS fans have carried over to this new project. The EP hasn’t even released yet, and we’re getting great feedback from our audience. Tune in today at 6pm ET to hear 3 songs from the upcoming release, and check out craigalanband.com for more information about the band.
Bullbuckers are an incredible band out of Wilmington, DE. We saw this 7-piece band (awesome horn section) open for the Tsunami Rising CD Release show and we were blown away. It’s hard to put their music into a genre, combining elements of reggae, ska and soul. They have a high energy live show, which you can check out this weekend. August 3rd Bullbuckers will be playing MOJO 13 in Delaware, and August 4th they’ll be playing the Mann Music Center in Philadelphia. Go to bullbuckers.com for shows and more info on the band.
We’ve got 3 songs from each band to play for you at 6pm ET today on Gashouse Live. We’d like you to listen carefully to each song, and share your opinion using our thumbs up/down buttons. These votes will determine which band comes back next week as our champion. In addition, we’ve got Gary from The Lost Will Follow stopping by to talk about their upcoming show at Hebe Music this Saturday. Tune in, and join us in the chat room!
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Watch: Final Trailers For ‘Booksmart’ Starring Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein
By The Movie God | @ | May 21st, 2019 at 8:00 pm
A couple of months back we saw a restricted trailer for Booksmart, which marks Alpha Dog and TRON: Legacy star Olivia Wilde‘s feature directorial debut. The movie stars Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein as a pair of straight-A students who decide it’s time to go to a party and live it up a bit before they have to head off to college.
Now a pair of final trailers have been released by Annapurna. One is another restricted trailer, which is not so safe for workplace viewing, while the other is a short safer for work trailer. You can find both of these final Booksmart trailers below along with some bonus previously released videos, including a green band trailer, featurettes, and the uncut first six minutes of the movie, and a pair of posters.
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‘Booksmart’ Trailer: Olivia Wilde Makes One Hilariously Wicked Directorial Debut
By eelyajekiM | @ | March 11th, 2019 at 8:00 pm
Annapurna Pictures has released the first trailer for Booksmart, a new comedy that marks Olivia Wilde‘s directorial debut. In it, Beanie Feldstein (Lady Bird) and Kaitlyn Dever (Short Term 12) play a pair of best friends who make a promise to make a name for themselves in the last days of high school when they realize that after all the time and effort they have put in to prep for college, the same troublemaking kids are getting into those same colleges as well.
The film has already made its feature debut this month at SXSW, where it was met with rave reviews. Check out the trailer here below.
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Blu-ray Review: The Spy Who Dumped Me
By Olympus Athens | @ | October 30th, 2018 at 4:00 pm
Blu-ray | DVD | 4K
Directed by Susanna Fogel
Written by Susanna Fogel, David Iserson
Starring Mila Kunis, Kate McKinnon, Sam Heughan, Justin Theroux, Hasan Minhaj, Lolly Adefope, Dustin Demri-Burns, Gillian Anderson
Lionsgate Films
Rated R | 117 minutes
It’s Audrey’s (Mila Kunis) 30th birthday and everybody keeps asking her about her ex Drew (Justin Theroux), which after a myriad of mixed emotions, causes her to set his things on fire, with the help of aggressive nudging from her best friend Morgan (Kate McKinnon). Drew is very busy of course being almost killed in Lithuania almost 100 times.
Enter Sebastian (my #1 boyfriend Sam Heughan), who lures Audrey outside and into a van to tell her about Drew’s secret life as a CIA agent. Everybody is looking for this trophy which needs to get to Austria to “Verne” by tomorrow. Drew shows up, there’s a shootout, and he dies.
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‘The Spy Who Dumped Me’ Trailer: Kate McKinnon and Mila Kunis Are Playing A Very Dangerous Game
By eelyajekiM | @ | March 21st, 2018 at 6:50 pm
Spoofing the spy genre isn’t something that is particularly new. But that doesn’t make it any less funny. Especially when you get some great talent like Kate McKinnon and Mila Kunis. The two will be paired up in the new spy comedy The Spy Who Dumped Me – get it, it’s a riff on the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me.
Lionsgate has dropped the first trailer for the film. In it, Audrey (Kunis) and Morgan (McKinnon) are two best friends who get wrapped up in an international conspiracy when Audrey finds out that her former boyfriend is actually a spy. Check out the trailer below.
Tags: Gillian Anderson, Hasan Minhaj, Ivanna Sakhno, Justin Theroux, Kate McKinnon, Mila Kunis, Sam Heughan, Susanna Fogel, The Spy Who Dumped Me
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Focus Areas Include Mental Health, Early Childhood Education, Nutrition, among others
New York, New York; October 22, 2019 – GLG (Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc.) today announced its sixth class of GLG Social Impact Fellows – social entrepreneurs and nonprofit leaders who will receive no-cost access to GLG’s platform. The nine new Fellows lead organizations addressing some of the world’s most pressing challenges, from early childhood literacy in India to sustainable agriculture in Vietnam to mental health in the United States.
GLG is the world’s knowledge marketplace, connecting decision makers to the largest global network of subject-matter experts across every sector. GLG serves thousands of the world’s best businesses, including 50% of the FORTUNE 100 and nine of the top ten global tech companies.
GLG Social Impact delivers the transformative power of GLG’s knowledge marketplace to organizations working to solve society’s most urgent challenges, including social entrepreneurs, leading foundations, nonprofits, and impact funds. The GLG Social Impact Fellowship provides many of the world’s most impactful social innovators with free access to GLG’s platform. Now entering its sixth year, the Fellowship counts 54 leaders in its worldwide community.
“GLG has unique assets as the world’s knowledge marketplace – and a unique responsibility to maximize our impact,” said GLG CEO Paul Todd. “That’s why we’re proud to put GLG to work, free of charge, for many of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs, including the nine new Fellows we welcome today. We’ve seen first-hand how our impact is multiplied by the outstanding innovators we support.”
The 2019 GLG Social Impact Fellows and their focus areas are:
Avery Bang – President and CEO, Bridges to Prosperity; Rwanda, Uganda, and Bolivia; works with local communities, partners, and foundations to build footbridges that connect rural residents to education, health care, and economic opportunity.
Curt Bowen – Executive Director, Semilla Nueva; Guatemala; fights malnutrition by collaborating with communities, NGOs, and governmental agencies to develop and expand the use of locally produced and nutritious biofortified corn.
Charles Daniels – Co-Founder and CEO, Fathers’ Uplift; the United States; supports fathers with therapeutic interventions to overcome emotional and addiction-based issues so they can be positively and sustainably engaged in their children’s lives.
Giffin Daughtridge – Co-Founder and CEO, UrSure; the United States; patient-friendly diagnostic tests that measure and improve adherence to medications, including a urine test that tracks patient adherence to PrEP, which prevents transmission of HIV.
Carolyn Edelstein – Executive Director, OpenBiome; the United States; a nonprofit stool bank focused on expanding safe access to fecal transplants and catalyzing research on the human microbiome, founded by a team of doctors, scientists, and public health advocates.
Tatiana Garcia-Granados – Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, The Common Market; the United States; connects communities with food from sustainable family farms, improving food security, farm viability, and community and ecological health.
Cristi Hegranes – Publisher and CEO, Global Press; Global; trains and employs local journalists to produce news coverage from the world’s least-covered places.
Sneha Sheth – Co-Founder and CEO, Dost Education; India; works with parents of any literacy level to support their children’s early learning, through podcasts delivered by phone, a parent coaching hotline, and community-based workshops.
Trang Tran – Founder and CEO, Fargreen; Vietnam; increasing farmers’ income and reducing environmental harm with a no waste production process for rice straw to grow mushrooms and biofertilizers.
Full Fellow bios and organization overviews are available at our website.
“We are honored to welcome this year’s class of GLG Social Impact Fellows to our global community of innovators,” said Jen Field, GLG Director of Social Impact. “From our earliest days, GLG has brought expert insights to organizations tackling society’s toughest challenges. Our Fellows’ collective reach expands dramatically with each new class, and we’re excited to support the nine new leaders who join us today to grow our impact even further.”
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SORRY, FEDS: KIDS CAN SUE OVER CLIMATE NEGLIGENCE, JUDGE SAYS
Apr 10, 2016 by Casey Coates Danson
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CREDIT: Our Children’s Trust
Young plaintiffs celebrate the judge’s ruling.
A group of youngsters just won a major decision in their efforts to sue the federal government over climate change. An Oregon judge ruled Friday that their lawsuit, which alleges the government violated the constitutional rights of the next generation by allowing the pollution that has caused climate change, can go forward.
Federal District Court Magistrate Judge Thomas Coffin ruled against the federal government and fossil fuel companies’ motions to dismiss the case, deciding in favor of 21 young plaintiffs and Dr. James Hansen.
This will be the trial of the century that will determine if we have a right to a livable future
The federal lawsuit is part of a broad effort led by Oregon-based nonprofit Our Children’s Trust. The group and its allies have filed lawsuits and petitions in every state in the country. Filed in August, the complaint alleges that the U.S. government has known for half a century that greenhouse gases from fossil fuels cause global warming and climate change.
“If the allegations in the complaint are to be believed, the failure to regulate the emissions has resulted in a danger of constitutional proportions to the public health,” Coffin wrote. He called the lawsuit “unprecedented.”
The suit is based on the idea of the public trust — the same doctrine that guides the Clean Water Act. Under the idea of public trust, governments must protect commonly held elements, such as waterways and the seashore, for public use. Under this lawsuit, the plaintiffs allege that the climate and atmosphere must be likewise protected.
“This will be the trial of the century that will determine if we have a right to a livable future, or if corporate power will continue to deny our rights for the sake of their own wealth,” 19-year-old lead plaintiff Kelsey Juliana said in a statement following the ruling.
Three fossil fuel industry trade associations, who called the case “extraordinary” and “a direct, substantial threat to [their] businesses” were granted defendant status in January.
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Recent Speeches 08: The First Step to Realizing Heaven's Dream Is National Restoration
by Godible December 17, 2019
Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, affectionately known as True Mother, gave the keynote address at the 2018 True Parents Special New Year Gathering for Cheon Il Guk Leaders held at the Cheon Jeong Gung in Korea on January 5, 2018.
Beloved Blessed families and members around the world:
The first step to realizing Heaven's dream of one human family centered on God is national restoration. In our present circumstances, it is hard to have conviction in many different aspects. How can all Blessed families around the world and all 7.7 billion people of the world know Heavenly Parent and True Parents and become filial children and loyal patriots that can realize God’s dream? When we look at what is occurring around the world today, we feel there is no hope. People have tried very hard. They dreamed of a peaceful and happy world. However, the path to that was always out of reach. This was because there was no central figure. We are Blessed families who have been reborn through the True Parents. Those who receive the Blessing have responsibilities, not for yourself, but towards your neighbors, your tribe, your nation, and the world. The basic step for that is your responsibility as Heavenly Tribal Messiahs. How much devotion have you offered to this responsibility? There are now only two years left to reach our goal by 2020. As nations of model Blessed families that have fulfilled your Tribal Messiah missions -- who not only know God but attend God -- you must show others that if they follow in this way, Heaven will bless them too.
In the central providential nations of Korea, Japan and America, please think about how you will show and reveal a Family Federation for a Heavenly Korea, for a Heavenly America, and for a Heavenly Japan, whose members have been successful as Heavenly Tribal Messiahs to the world. That is why I made the decision to divide the Korean region into five subregions. If the five leaders work together as one, you will be five times more effective. Each subregion will be its own nation.
Five years ago, I told the Family Federation, “You must go forward with the spirit and the truth.” After Jesus was crucified and the Holy Spirit was resurrected, Christianity began. Yet even after all this time, Christians still do not know the essence of the True Parents. They have made many mistakes and many failures. When Jesus died on the cross, he prophesized he would return and hold the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. However, Christians and even members of the clergy still look to the clouds, waiting for the return of the Messiah.
During Creation, God created a man and a woman, the first human ancestors. A man alone cannot complete God’s providence; he must have a partner -- a woman! The purpose of Christianity was to prepare humankind and to prepare the foundation for the completion of God’s providence. However, it is still evening and Christians are unable to wake up from their slumber. The Bible says, there was evening and there was morning on the first day. The evening sleep was so long that when the time came for Christians to greet a new morning, they were unable to do so. What must we do then? We must reveal the truth! We must wake them up from their sleep and in this new era, we must give them the love that will lead to completing God’s providence, centered on True Parents. That was why I said you should reveal the truth of history. While you hesitated, I myself went out and proclaimed, "I am the Only Begotten Daughter of God." What was the result? The members of the American clergy welcomed me. They asked, “How did we not know this truth?”
What are you afraid of? The world has reached its limit; there is no hope for humankind. There is no hope that we can remain living on this earth. Many scientists are concerned about what will happen to the planet in the next few years. Can humankind survive if there is no earth? If we stand idly by and watch when we are in such a terrible situation, we will not be able to ensure a future for our descendants and future generations. Therefore, each of you and each of your families must do the work of a hundred people and then we will be victorious. You must teach people the truth. I decided to do this in America. There is no doubt that America is a large nation; it has fifty states. America will also be a region divided into five subregions. They made the determination that no matter what they will become a nation that will fulfill its responsibilities. The three central nations will unite under one system and one organization and help one another to advance toward our goal! The three nations will form a trinity, communicate with one another and share their results. I felt we must have an organization that can be 120 percent effective during the remaining time we have. Therefore, today I am also looking at Japan as a region and have divided it into five subregions. By doing this, I believe that Japan too will move quickly towards national restoration. By doing this, all the work I have been doing since True Father's Seonghwa will be in order. Now you are Heavenly [shin] Tribal Messiahs! You must become Tribal Messiahs in which the "shin" does not mean "new" but means "Tribal Messiahs that attend God." Therefore, we are building the Cheonbowon [Genealogy Center] so that your devotions and hard work can be reported to Heaven and you can leave behind a record of your results. I pray that all of you here today can become filial children and loyal patriots that can enter into the records there.
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HAVE YOUR SAY ON PLANS FOR THE REGENERATION OF HAILSHAM TOWN CENTRE
Following on from an initial successful consultation in 2019 with more than 800 respondents, ‘Hailsham Aspires’ is now launching the next stage of stakeholder engagement to understand residents’ thoughts on three different masterplan options for the town centre.
Hailsham Aspires was created by Wealden District Council to bring forward plans to enhance and regenerate Hailsham Town Centre. The vision for the regeneration is to create a welcoming, inclusive, and impressive design that draws on the history of the town and enhances its surroundings. The current proposals include retail, employment space, civic and leisure uses, and new environmentally friendly town centre homes for local people, as well as an exciting evening economy, public realm, and car parking.
The aim is to address the challenges the town centre currently faces, and to support local communities now and into the future, investing in the town as a key growth area in East Sussex in line with the vision in the Hailsham Neighbourhood Plan.
The first stage of consultation explored the aspirations of those that live, work in, or visit Hailsham, asking a range of questions on key topics. A desire to see more landscaping, trees and green spaces was popular, as was improved access for pedestrians, cyclists, and enhanced sustainability measures. Respondents were keen for regeneration to enhance and be sympathetic to Hailsham’s history and heritage.
Councillor Bob Standley, Leader of Wealden District Council, says: “This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to build sensitively and thoughtfully for the future of Hailsham town centre and it is so important that residents seize the opportunity to have their voices heard.”
Mayor of Hailsham and Chairman of Hailsham Town Council, Councillor Paul Holbrook says: “This is an exciting project to rejuvenate and reinvigorate the centre of Hailsham for both present and future generations to enjoy. I look forward to seeing the feedback received from the consultation and how this will feed into the final masterplan”
Hailsham Aspires is looking for feedback on what you like and what you like less about each masterplan option, and which elements you would prefer to see in a new option by taking part in the consultation survey from 18th January to 14th March. Feedback can be provided here, calling freephone 0800 368 7592 or emailing HailshamAspires@wealden.gov.uk
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Hairstyles are a fun and diverse way for people to express themselves today, but that wasn’t always the case. Styling hair was generally a thing for men before the 1920’s until women started exploring ways to explore and style their hair. Fast forward to a hundred years later and you have resources like Instagram or Pinterest where people can daydream and experiment with any hairstyle imaginable! We’ve laid out the journey it took to get to modern hairstyles, and how things have changed along the way.
The 1920s is when exploration into the world of women’s hairstyling really began. Before this time, women would often have their hair maintained at home or with the help of trusted friends. Barbershops were catered towards men’s grooming needs, and women didn’t have local salons they could enjoy. During this time, women began to frequent barbershops to get their hair cut and styled. This was seen by many as controversial, because it was considered rebellious for women to make themselves look more like men.
The hairstyle that swept women’s fashion in the 20s was the off-the-neck style bob. Women everywhere were cutting their long locks of hair in favor of short, wavy curls that seldom extended below the chin. The bob cuts were often parted off to the side or down the middle. Women who didn’t want to cut their lengthy locks even opted for faux bobs and high buns to keep the appearance without sacrificing the hair.
The 30s was the decade of the curl. As women started picking up new and more complex hairstyles, the curl became the centerpiece of the typical 1930’s hairdo. Bathroom cupboards full of hair curlers become an iconic staple in households during this time as women rocked incredibly curly looks. Most hairstyles still never strayed below the nape of the neck though, as longer hair was still not seen as being as glamorous as short hair, or hair that was styled up in a curly bun.
The 1940s saw rise to hairstyles that required substantially longer hair. Curls continued to abound, but also became larger and more swooped into the prominent bouffant hairstyle. The bouffant hairstyles were generally styled tall and poofy on top with locks trailing down the back of the neck. Hair began to be worn as low as the shoulders as well, often styled in a “half up half down” fashion. The pompadour hairstyle was also prevalent at this time, introducing opportunities for women to individualize the way they wore their hair.
Short hair once again saw a major surge in popularity during the 1950s. The bob came back in a major storm, but unlike the first wave of popularity in the 1920s, the hairstyle took on a more diverse selection of styles. Curls were just as popular as before, but the slick wave of the 20s didn’t make a return. The curls of the 50s were more voluminous and light with a more matte and carefree finish. The 1950s also saw the appearance of the Italian hairstyle, with bobs that were fluffed up to be larger and rounder than bobs of decades past. The poodle clip hairstyle was also a homerun, with big round curls focussed on the top of the head being paraded by TV stars like Lucille Ball.
Big? Yes. Bobbed? Yes. Bangs? Yes, the 1960s saw all of these hairstyles! The 60s were a time where women started to branch out into many different looks, many of them including large, curled bangs. Shorter hair was still popular, but hair with extreme volume was an important part to looking stylish. The notorious beehive or “B-52” hairstyle caught mainstream popularity because of the voluminous, off-the-neck style that also allowed for creativity with bangs. Women could pull off many different hairstyles as long as they had curls, bangs, or poof.
The 1970s continued to see an increase in diverse hairstyle choices throughout the decade. Feathered and shag hairstyles were popularized by Farrah Fawcett’s timeless look, while the hippie crowd shunned products and treatments in favor of straight, natural hair. In a similar vein, the black pride movement of the decade brought natural and permed afros into the spotlight, along with traditional plaited cornrows. The wedge was another iconic hairstyle that was brought to mainstream popularity by the 1976 olympic gold medalist ice skater, Dorothy Hamill. The look was created with a steep, triangular shape with lengthier hair on top, and it was an instant hit!
Hairstyling new strides in the 1980s with an obsession with all things big. Big hair, big looks, and big attitudes! The quintessential look of the time included curls, crimps, and lift to look as wild and carefree as possible! In addition to the large locks, looks like the mullet took popularity as well, featuring length in the back and shorter hair on top. Curls and perms continued to be popular throughout the 80s especially the newly invented Jheri Curls, popularized by the king of pop, Michael Jackson. Another prolific look from the 80s was the high ponytail with a scrunchy, which could be worn centered or off to the side to suit the mood.
The 90s are often characterized by a number of eccentric hairstyles from the time, but few were as iconic or lasting as “The Rachel.” Jennifer Aniston inspired millions when she took the stage for the incredibly popular TV show, Friends, as with her bouncy, layered hairstyle. Crimping also survived the 80s and was popular throughout the 90s, especially among younger women. Accessorizing also exploded during the 90s, with everything ranging from butterfly clips to scrunchies that were used to hold up the newly popular “half-up” hairstyle. African-American women of the time also cemented the box braid as a staple hairstyle for decades to come.
Women continued to try out a wide variety of new and interesting hairstyles throughout the 2000s as they had in decades past, which brought a massive array of unique hairstyles into mainstream popularity. One of the most iconic looks of the decade was the stripey or chunky highlights in super straight hair, often paired with clipped back bangs or flat ironed bangs. Layers also dominated the scene from the red carpet to high school hallways, often with flipped out ends for a little extra flair. Hair accessories diminished in popularity, but headbands became more popular than ever as a way to control straight hair.
Over the past decade, we’ve seen many hairstyles go retro with a twist, and sometimes it feels like the “in” fashion changes on a daily basis! You can see all kinds of hairstyles on the red carpet, ranging from crisp, modern bobs to voluminous, layered locks. Advances in color technology has helped to increase the prevalence of new and exciting hair color. Balayage has been the go-to color option for several years, providing a natural, sun-kissed look for the wearer. For the more adventurous, trendy and bold colors come and go, such as the playful cotton candy or the rich and tasteful rose gold. Creative incorporation of braids has also surged due to popular shows like Game of Thrones, which features the look on prominent female characters.
Where Will Hair Go Next?
The past ten years has shown that hair styling and color is limited only by your imagination, and the past 100 years have shown us that the looks of the future will surprise us! Where do you think mainstream hair will go in the next ten years? Share with us on Facebook!
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The Slushoverse Theory: The Shared Realities of J.J. Abrams!
June 29, 2019 Scoot Allan 4 Comments
It feels like we are always talking about the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or the DC Extended Universe, or whatever new series in development with a “shared universe” idea has hit the webs this week.
After the success of the MCU, it was no surprise to see some of their work with a shared universe emulated by other franchises and studios. However, it’s easy to forget that while the MCU has basically perfected the idea, they were not the first studio, series, or franchise to dabble with a shared universe.
So today, we will be discussing one of the most interesting yet relatively unknown shared universes out there, and how it relates to other theories that we have seen over the years. Today we will be examining J.J. Abrams, Star Wars, Lost, and a number of other franchises that theoretically exist in the same cinematic universe.
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New Fringe Season 5 Promo!
September 16, 2012 Adam Popovich Leave a comment
Here comes another noteworthy Fringe promo. They’re going full bore into preparing us for this whole flash forward thing they showed us last season, this time with a more viral video approach rather than a straight up preview. As we know, the Observers turned from an interesting story element of the mythology of the show, to the forefront of the threat to humanity as we know it. They have become the one, big bad, unifying thing that ties all of the “Fringe” events of Fringe all together in its entirety. The promo itself is fairly simple, with an Observer describing “Residency protocol”, which is just code for the installed curfews on us. He also frequently references “A scan”, which as we saw last season, is tantamount to a horrific psychically induced death, a la Scanners. In fact, assuming it’s intentional, I’m fairly positive it’s a reference to that film.
But of course they can’t show this on TV, but we all know that’s what they mean.
Here’s the promo:
I’m really antsy for this season to come already, as Fringe is a show that is truly unique. Never has a show gone from being truly awful, like it was in Season 1, to one of the best examples of Science Fiction in recent memory, and by far the best Sci-Fi show on television today. If you had asked me that the fifth season of this show would be as good as it is, and be where it is, in relation to the first season, I would have slapped you for trying to trick me into continuing to watch a terrible show. It took the coaxing of several friends repeatedly telling me “it gets better, it gets better, just watch it!”, to trudge all the way though the full first season. When I did, I got to that admittedly pretty clever and enticing last episode, which opened up the show in such a beautiful and revelatory way. It’s climb in quality since then has been exponential, and created some of the best hours of TV I’ve ever seen. Season 3’s “White Tulip“, featuring Peter Weller, also known as goddamned RoboCop, is an incredibly moving and brilliant time travel story that never manages to lose its emotional center, or get bogged down with technical minutiae. That episode alone puts Fringe up in the echelon of brilliant modern TV shows, alongside Battlestar Galactica, Lost, the first season of Heroes, Doctor Who, Carnivale, and even The X-Files.
The flash forward in this season isn’t exactly a new idea itself, as Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse employed the same tactic for its season finales, for both its seasons. Unfortunately, Dollhouse was a muddled, plodding, slow paced show that never found its footing, and meandered about for the whole first season until that decent finale. It’s a bummer that the finale, which might as well have been an entirely different show, was a much better show than Dollhouse ever was. Then Season 2 rolled around, and went back to the same boring, plodding pace, and that was enough for me. Fringe has taken the sudden flash forward concept and ran with it. What will happen to our Fringe team? What happened to Olivia in between now and then? And will the Observers be stopped? Will timelines be changed? Can they be changed? Is there truly no fate but what we make?
There’s even a few noticeable Easter eggs in the promo, that compelled me to grab screenshots for you to analyze and speculate further. Enjoy!
Goddamn, I wish it was September 28th already.
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Four Minute ‘John Carter’ Clip – v.s. the White Apes of Mars!
February 26, 2012 Stephen Sanchez Leave a comment
I swear I’m not being paid to promote this movie, but seriously it is shaping up to be pretty damned awesome as is evidenced by the following clip which shows John Carter in action against some crazy looking beasts in an alien gladiatorial arena that is reminiscent of the Geonosian arena on Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones (John Carter came first though):
This movie just looks better and better every time I see a new trailer or clip from it. The visual landscapes are beautiful and the CG aliens and spaceships as good as anything to come out of Star Wars and Avatar. It remains to be seen if the story and acting are up to snuff, but it looks to me from the many glimpses of the movie that it will fare just fine.
Not to mention Michael Giancchino’s score seems absolutely brilliant during the presented scene. This guy is well on his way to becoming the next John Williams who is by far my favorite composer in regards to movie soundtracks. Giancchino has been able to capture the spirit of pretty much every project he has worked on since his days as the Lost composer, none more so thus far than 2009’s Stark Trek which had one of the most invigorating soundtracks I’ve heard in almost the last ten years. I can’t wait until March 9th to see this movie!
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Alcatraz: Season 1, Episode 4 – “Cal Sweeney” Review
January 31, 2012 Nathan Troy Leave a comment
In this episode of Alcatraz we follow the events surrounding Cal Sweeney (Eric Johnson), a suave bank robber known for his theft of safety deposit box items. He is not a violent criminal unless things don’t go his way.
With episode 4, after our characterization of Dr. Soto (Jorge Garcia), we get back to the same feel that the first two episodes had. This episode had both the feel of a procedural cop drama and a mystery.
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LOST Deleted Scene From Comic-Con – Proof it Was All Planned
July 27, 2011 Stephen Sanchez Leave a comment
Okay so this isn’t really a true deleted scene. But sure is effin’ hilarious. It shows a scene between Jack and Locke from season one when they are debating about whether or not to open the hatch, and their belief in faith. And who’s watching in the bushes? Jacob and the Man in Black! Don’t take my word for how funny it was though, watch for yourself below:
Awesome. Now I’d like to make clear that I was a huge fan of Lost, even the time travel stuff and the ending. I thought things would go a little different, but I enjoyed everything. Some people hated and probably went on murderous rampages, but they probably laughed at the clip above during computer lab in prison. Even being a fan of the whole story I’ll admit that it sounds ridiculous to the max when you hear all of the stuff talked about outside of the show.
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TNT’s Falling Skies: Episode 5 – “Silent Kill” Review
July 11, 2011 Rev. Kaiser 8 Comments
Let me start this out by first saying Congratulations. Congrats to the show for proving me wrong and earning a 10 episode second season, which is slated to air summer of 2012, and was ordered only 3 episodes in to the first season. The show has managed to retain 3.8 million of the 5.9 million premiere viewers. Way to go Falling Skies, way to say “IN YOUR FACE” to an opinionated idiot that writes for a certain website. Anyways on to tonight’s episode…
So for anyone who looooooooooves character development, this episode was for you. While the episode is centered around the rescue of Tom’s son Ben, we delve a little bit deeper into what makes Anne, Margaret, and a little bit of Captain Weaver tick. The episode kicks off with Tom and Hal once again coming up with a plan to rescue their missing family member Ben, and getting the ok from Captain Weaver. In short, the plan is to sneak in the hospital at night while the guarding skidder is sleeping, kill him without making a noise, and avoid alerting the patrolling mech. Hence the title SILENT KILL!
After the plan is decided, we cut to the good teacher and Tom’s younger son Matt playing with radios and listening to a classic record. Captain Weaver picks up in the music while staring at a drawing from a child and calmly walks into the classroom, confiscates the record, and informs the good teacher that he can play record he wants, except that one. It appears the stoic Captain has a soft side after all. More on this later. Next, we have the best of the entire episode. The death of Dr. Harris!! While playing a little too close to the skidder cage and to study new noises the alien is making, the skidder manages to choke the life out of the cowardly doctor. Kudos to the writers for killing him off so quickly.
After Dr. Harris’s death, we then see Hal talking to the previously rescued boy about his time being harnessed with the aliens. From what he learns, Hal decides to change the original rescue plan and where a harness to disguise himself to save Ben. A plan not quickly approved by his father. Quick side note, I think they should have made this conversation a bit longer and more detailed. It would have been great to get more insight into what the aliens where doing with the captured kids. Anyways, we now join Anne, Tom, and Hal where they are discussing how best to kill a skidder without making any noise. Anne informs them of a weak spot in the aliens mouth that could provide a way to kill them. After placing a saucer of water, Anne attacks and kills the captured alien by stabbing it with a scalpel inside the creatures mouth at the soft palette location they were discussing. After killing the creature, Anne storms off to the lost child board and confesses Tom how easy it was to kill the alien by picturing her family and how she has nothing to reminding her of her lost loved ones, only the blood from the alien on her hand. We now see why she has shut down when it comes to discussing her family.
Next, we finally get the what we have been building up to for the past 2 episodes, the rescue of Ben. Hal is able to successfully break in to the hospital where his brother is being held wearing a harness as a disguise. He slips in line with his brother and the other harnessed kids being led by a skidder. This is where it gets a little weird. The skidder leads them all in to a room where they all lay down in a circle, and the skidder hovers over them, caressing their heads as they all go to sleep. This looked a lot like a mother nesting over her babies, showing that there is something more to this enslavement by the alien invaders. As skidder falls asleep, Hal attacks and thrusts a pocket knife into the skidders mouth as Anne did back at the base, but during his attack the harnessed kids pull at Hal to try to stop the attack. To make things even more weird, after the skidder dies and the rescue team starts save the harness children, we see the kids placing their hands over the dead alien showing a sign of concern and sadness. What the F is going on here?
With the kids rescued and Dr. Harris dead, it’s now up to Anne to successfully remove the harnesses from all kids on her own. After removing all the harnesses, the final child (don’t worry, not Ben) died on the make shift operating table. Despite encouraging words from Tom on the number of kids she just saved, she is focused on the one that died. Someone should really explain to her she needs to be a glass is half full kind of person. A ‘Debbie Downer’ is no good for surviving alien invasion.
While waiting for Ben to recover we see a conversation between Hal and Margaret, who was instrumental in the rescue due to her extensive knowledge of the hospital, where we get to learn that Margaret is a cancer survivor who was given a 50/50 chance to live, and its that mind-set that allowed her to survive not only the invasion but her time spent with Pope’s crew.
The show comes to an end with Captain Weaver watching Tom and his reunited family, then going off to play the record he confiscated in the beginning, and Ben waking up to recognize his dad. All in all, I would say this week the show was OK at best. While I know character development is a must for any show in order to gain sympathy and create a connection between us and the characters, I feel they went about it a little half assed for Margaret and Captain Weaver. They probably should have taken a page from Lost and spend an entire episode focusing on them mindset of each character, that’s just my opinion.
I’ll be curious to see what adventure the writers have in store for us next since we have spent the first few episodes wanting to rescue Ben. Do we go back and rescue Hal’s girlfriend, or is she just to be forgotten about and Margaret will take her place?
2.5 out of 5 grizzlies!
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When TV shows become Lost: ‘How I Met Your Mother’
February 26, 2011 TheAsswhole 1 Comment
Like most Americans I spent hours of my life watching Lost. I didn’t start watching until during the third season at the request of friends so I just jumped into the first and second season DVD’s. I was hooked. Those first two seasons were so good at captivating me and teasing me with all these clever questions that they would only answer with more questions. The characters were engaging and the story was somewhat fresh. After catching up and somewhere in the fifth season I got my room-mate just as hooked in it as I was. We burned through the earlier seasons (again for me, first time for him) and caught up to speed quickly.
Unfortunately what we both soon realized was that the spark had quickly left the show. Unlike most shows where they “jump the shark” and continue to stick around long after their expiration date, Lost had promises of something different by giving its self a time limit on its story. However it only seemed that the reason the writers gave themselves this time line is because they realized they had written something too clever and now knew no way out. The story fell apart and the questions I had once had three seasons ago were now replaced with different things altogether. If it wasn’t for Lapidis keeping things so chill there would have been nothing saving that show at all. (I mean honestly, all that Walt build up, the hints of telekinetic possibilities, the others possessing some unknown power to silently walk through the woods only to find out it’s a fat old guy in a fake beard. Come on!) Finally though, it ended and my time was better spent wasted on other programs. However I always had a little bit of disdain whenever Lost would be brought up again. I felt betrayed by the writers for letting such a good idea get away and at myself for holding on to it for so long.
Recently I’ve noticed a similar trend with other shows I watch. Shows that I wouldn’t say “jumped the shark” just yet, but rather got Lost as I’m going to refer to it in up coming posts. I’m going to pick out shows I once loved, but now can barely recognize. This trend became clear to me when watching last weeks episode of another show I used to love, How I Met Your Mother.
I’m sure most of you didn’t even watch the last episode, because most people I know have just given up on it. Here’s a quick run down of the episode for you kids at home:
Marshall and Lily have given up on life and are married and boring and now useless to the show and life. No one cares about their storyline, only Alyson Hannigan’s boobs.
The writers are again trying to show Barney as more than just a funny suit. They introduced another love interest for him, which Robin attempts to help with, and again, no one cares about this. Everyone just wants to see a gay man try to hook up with slutty women all while saying clever things, and of course, Cobie Smulders’ boobs.
Ted is dating another new female who the show has built up for almost the whole season, like it does literally every season. They get all the way to the end of the episode and leave Ted and his new girlfriend (whose name I honestly don’t even remember because it means so little and I hate the show so much) [Ed. – Zoe] apparently super happy in love, and headed towards possibly finding out this is finally the mother. Only we don’t find that out. Instead out of no where it’s randomly revealed that this new love interest is not the “mother” that we all want to “meet”, but just another useless story line with great tits. The show laughs at our waste of time and poops noisily, on our chests.
It seems to me that the writers of this show had so little faith in this project they never expected to make it past season one or two. Now they are stuck in season six of a show with no end game. Someone needs to tell these writers that no one actually cares who the mother is. I know I don’t, and as long as she is well cast I don’t see how anyone else would. It would have been great if Sarah Chalke (Scrubs) had just stayed around, she would have made an excellent new cast member, instead she choose obscurity and is more than likely unemployed or dead. [Ed – which is the same as starring in the new, and sure to be canceled, or at least suck, CBS show MAD LOVE]
The fact of the matter is the show works because the characters are likable and the jokes were clever, Slapsgiving = classic. However the gag of teasing us with the identity of the mother is old. Its time for the show to move on and come to terms with it’s self. I might return for an episode or two here or there, but after this weeks steaming pile I’m out.
This show has officially become ‘Lost’. With Charlie Sheen (see legen—-dary, super awesome, hard partying, hooker beating, crack head) shutting down production of Two and a Half Men, (Dr Kronners’ favorite show) it looks like CBS is pretty much doomed. [Ed. If they weren’t rated #1 in everything] Let’s hope next season things shape up and TV magically finds a way to fix itself. Until then I’ll stick with NBC and hopefully others will too.
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Life Out There Has It Been Seen?
The film is a delicate gaze at Mina de São Domingos, a desolate village in Portugal whose past mining economy barely breathes facing an uncertain future.
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Life Out There Has Been Been Seen? Observing a desolate mining village
The existence of the village Mina de São Domingos, in Portugal, is directly connected to the mine working past. The sudden end of the mining exploitation in the area left a huge compound abandoned that is still in ruins.
The old mines host knowledge about the profession but also reveal uncertainty towards the future, after the whole community was abandoned in the 1960’s.
The film proposes to re-think the territory left behind, through the contact with the inhabitants and their ideals, so that the present can be confronted with new possibilities that may come.
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Where There Are No Churches
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Thuray was one of 20 Kachin church planters we trained and ministered with while we were in Myanmar in October of 2019. Thuray began visiting a new village a few months ago and quickly found a person of peace who invited him to stay in his home. There is no electricity or running water and as you can imagine very primitive. As our team visited the homes in the village, the people welcomed us because of Thuray’s prayers for the people and the love he has shown to these families.
In this 2-minute video, Thuray explains that there are no churches in this village and he is the only Christian but asks for your prayers as he implements the new methods of sharing the Gospel he learned during the training.
GoTEN connected with church planters in Mynamar through the refugee program in the United States. A former refugee, now US citizen and GoTEN staff member travels regularly to his home country to invest in his people. GoTEN walks alongside these missionaries providing training that helps communicate the love of Jesus to people who have yet to hear the Good News.
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Written Statement - UK Government visit to Trawsfynydd (SMR) and Launch of Nuclear Sector Deal
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Ken Skates, Cabinet Secretary for Economy and Transport
Launching the UK nuclear sector deal in North Wales today is significant step forward for the sector and builds upon the momentum generated by the recent announcement on financing the proposed Wylfa Newydd project. As a government, we recognise the nuclear sector’s huge potential for delivering economic growth and delivering against our central aim of tackling regional inequalities and delivering prosperity for all.
The sector’s potential is recognised by our partners from local authorities, universities, regional skills partnerships, the north Wales Economic Ambition Board and crucially the critical mass of innovative, forward looking and capable nuclear supply chain companies we are proud to have in Wales.
Welsh Government has led the way over many years in supporting the nuclear sector. We have invested considerably in the sector across many areas. We have supported the development of competitive and capable Welsh supply chains through programmes like Fit for Nuclear and facilitating the formation of the highly dynamic and successful Wales Nuclear Forum, the sector’s industry voice within Wales. We’ve targeted the need to develop local skills especially in a North West Wales context and are proud to have been able to support capital investments at Coleg Menai and back the innovative Cwmni Prentis Menai - shared apprenticeship programme over many years.
We recognise the genuine potential to build a centre of excellence of nuclear skills and capacity in north Wales and this is why we’ve led the charge in targeting RD&I for Ynys Mon, within the concept of the North West Nuclear Arc. A Bangor University led consortium is currently undertaking a Nuclear Science and Innovation Audit that will hopefully aid decision making on investments within the North West Nuclear Arc following the announcement of the Nuclear Sector Deal. Our approach, in keeping with the Economic Action Plan, is very much founded on collaboration and co-design where we actively seek to work closely with industry and our partners, to directly influence developments at the UK scale.
Testament to the effectiveness of our approach is the fact that the UK nuclear sector deal is being launched today in Trawsfynydd. The fact that future nuclear opportunities are recognised at the UK and international scale is a direct result of the foresight we demonstrated in designating the Snowdonian Enterprise Zone back in 2012. The zone has shown how Welsh Government working alongside business, local authorities and partners is helping to lay firm foundations for growing a vibrant sector that can directly benefit local people and help sustain vibrant communities.
This successful collaborative model of working should not be restricted to the nuclear sector alone. We have very ambitious renewable energy and decarbonisation objectives and are founding our whole economic development approach on the need and opportunity to maximise the economic benefits to Wales from the transition to low carbon. As members will be very aware, following the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon announcement this week, my statement stressed that we must work closely with the UK Government in pursuit of our renewable energy and low carbon ambitions. UK Government energy priorities should back Welsh ambitions, not just English interests, particularly because of the significant and unique sustainable energy resources in Wales.
This Sector Deal recognises the long established and future position of North Wales and Wales within the UK’s nuclear industry. The deal sets out a compelling case for key investments and action required to underpin the sector’s competitiveness and growth potential.
Looking ahead, we now require more detail from UK Government on the timeframe and mechanisms for delivering the pledges announced today. This detail will ensure that we can collectively exploit the huge potential North Wales offers in delivering a Nuclear Sector Deal for the benefit of the whole of the UK.
We stand ready and willing to work with the UK Government on the delivery of this hugely exciting and important nuclear agenda.
I will keep members appraised as this moves forwards.
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AO 2015: Get Warmed-up for the Murray v Kygrios Quarterfinal
January 26, 2015 By grandslamgal
Andy Murray and Nick Kyrgios will play in the Australian Open quarterfinals on Rod Laver Arena at 7pm on Tuesday 27 January. Here are some interesting facts and stats to help you get warmed up for the match.
Murray and Kygrios have only played once before at the 2014 Rogers Cup, Toronto, Canada. Murray won this hard court encounter convincingly 6-2, 6-2 in 55 minutes.
Murray has played ten previous competitive matches against Australians and won them all.
Murray has 31 career singles titles including US Open champion in 2012 and Wimbledon champion in 2013. Murray was the first British winner of the Wimbledon men’s singles in 77 years.
At 19, Kygrios is the youngest man to reach the Australian Open quarterfinals in 25 years. This will be his first match on RLA during AO2015, having played his previous matches on Margaret Court Arena, Court 3 and Hisense Arena with incredible crowd support in all matches.
Kyrgios won the 2014 Newcombe Medal, awarded to Australia’s most outstanding elite tennis player of the year.
Murray is the British men’s No.1 and his current ATP world ranking is six.
Kyrgios is the Australian men’s No.1 with an ATP ranking of 53.
Path to the 2015 Australian Open quarterfinal
Kyrgios has dropped four more sets than Murray on the way to the quarterfinal. Two of Kyrgios’ matches have been big five setters.
Kyrgios has spent 11 hours, nearly 1.5 hours longer, on court than Murray (9 hours 33 minutes) in reaching their quarterfinal match. The length of each match is shown in brackets below.
Murray d Yuki Bhambri 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (2 hours 13 minutes)
Kyrgios d Federico Delbonis 7-6, 3-6, 6-3, 6-7, 6-3 (3 hours 8 minutes)
Murray d Marinko Matosevic 6-1, 6-3, 6-2 (1 hour 42 minutes)
Kyrgios d Ivo Karlovic 7-6, 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 (2 hours 20 minutes)
Third Round
Murray d Joao Sousa 6-1, 6-1, 7-5 (2 hours 6 minutes)
Kyrgios d Malek Jaziri 6-3, 7-6, 6-1 (1 hour 58 minutes)
Fourth Round
Murray d Grigor Dimitrov 6-4, 6-7, 6-3, 7-5 (3 hours 32 minutes)
Kyrgios d Andreas Seppi 5-7, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6, 8-6 (3 hours 34 minutes)
2014 Grand Slam Performance
Australian Open – lost in the quarterfinals to Roger Federer
Roland Garros – lost to Rafael Nadal in the semi-finals
Wimbledon – lost in the quarterfinals to Grigor Dimitrov
US Open – lost in the quarterfinals to Novak Djokovic
Australian Open – lost in the second round to Benoit Paire
Roland Garros – defeated by Milos Raonic in the first round
Wimbledon – lost to Milos Raonic in the quarterfinals
US Open – lost in the third round to Tommy Robredo
Nick Kygrios during his round 3 match v Jaziri
Both Murray and Kyrgios have had problems with their backs. Murray had back surgery late in 2013, which impacted his training and form in 2014. Kyrgios hurt his back in preparation for the 2015 Hopman Cup, leading to his withdrawal from that event.
With three time Australian Open finalist Murray on court with showman Kyrios in front of his home crowd, however it plays out, it promises to be hours of entertainment and quality tennis.
Any predictions for the final scoreline between Murray and Kyrgios?
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Every week I keep tabs on what’s trending, new technology and consumer habits that impact the social web. These are summed up in a round-up called Social Pulse. Sign up to get this in your inbox every Friday here.
SocNet Updates: Instagram added the ability to “Pin” comments on your posts. Facebook launched even more free online classes for community managers. Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp are headed toward integration. Twitter tweeted “You can have an edit button when everyone wears a mask” which got 2.8M Likes and is rumored to be building a subscription service. TikTok opened its self-serve ad platform to all businesses. Venmo is piloting Business Profiles for small sellers. Uber acquired Postmates for $2.65B. Snapchat released new research about how Snapchatters engage with the NFL. YouTube announced an update to its monetization policy which will mean that videos of 8 minutes in length, instead of 10, will now be eligible for mid-roll ad.
Fortnite’s We the People: Last weekend Fortnite’s Party Royale aired an in-game showing of We The People, a discussion about systemic racism in media, culture, and entertainment with by Van Jones of CNN, journalists Elaine Welteroth and Jemele Hill, and musicians Killer Mike and Lil Baby. Watch the replay here.
Gloves That Let You “Hear” Sign Language: Researchers at UCLA have developed a translation glove that translates finger movements to one of more than 600 sign language signs with 98.63% accuracy. The results are beamed via Bluetooth to a companion app on your phone, which reads the words aloud.
Walmart+: The Amazon Prime competitor will cost $98 a year and include same-day delivery of groceries, fuel discounts, and other perks. This move will formal normalize same-day delivery, retailer loyalty programs, and most likely, add yet another streaming service to your binge choices. Launching later this month!
Spotify’s Personalized Workout Generator: Spotify has a new tool called Soundtrack Your Workout. You answer a few questions and it will build you a workout soundtrack, including podcasts. Try it here.
Best of the Nice Viral Internet: Mashable has a round-up of the more wholesome, positive sides of the viral internet so far in 2020, including: a 100 year-old knighted for raising money for healthcare workers; a man’s touching reunion with his donkey; Malala Yousafzai’s graduation; and more! See them all here.
The Zoom Hack We Needed: For many of us, today is the 119th day working from home and living life on webcam. And finally there is some innovation happening in how we appear on camera, share decks, and engage with each other. Mmhmm is a virtual camera app that lets you lets you easily manipulate slides, backgrounds, and your own image. You can create interactive presentations or do a “show” like a talk show host with your content. And it works on most major meeting services. Sign up for the beta here.
Rickroll Your Coworkers on Zoom: Finally. There was a new Rickrolling service. The folks at InviteRick.com created a tool that allows you to share your Zoom meeting invitation and Rick Astley would appear and perform “Never Gonna Give You Up” at some point during your meeting. Unfortunately, the stunt violated Zoom’s terms of service and was turned off. But you have to see this.
Tweet of the Week: @JurassicPark2Go is Jurassic Park Updates, and it’s a Twitter account giving updates from the fictional dinosaur park as if it was operating today. For example: “the screaming is fine we just checked it out it was nothing”.
The Infinite Music Video ARG: The band Twenty One Pilots released a music video that never ends, and it’s surrounded by an ARG (alternate reality game). Internet treasure hunts can be cliché, but this one is pretty good. If only the song was better.
Weekend Plans: 1) Amazon is giving Prime members the ability to watch TV shows and movies on Prime Video with friends using its new Watch Party feature. Here’s how to see if you have this feature yet. 2) Read this short fiction story written by an algorithm in MIT Technology Review. 3) Buy a physical copy of Trolls World Tour on DVD as a historic memento of this time. Why? Per journalist Mike Murphy, “We’ve been in lockdown so long that movies released on demand instead of in cinemas are already coming out on blu-ray.”
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#BookReview Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton. @Rosamundlupton #ThreeHoursNovel @VikingBooksUK
February 3, 2020 February 2, 2020 if only I could read faster
Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton.
I have to confess that I really wanted to read Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton and not like it, which is not how I normally feel when starting a book. The reason is that the first book that I wrote (but as yet haven’t done much with) was about a school shooting in the UK and I was not impressed that there was another book about a school shooting by a successful author. I found that this book is totally different to mine, but also that it is an absolutely amazing book.
I received a copy of the book from the publishers via Netgalley, I was under no obligation to review the book and all thoughts are my own.
I read Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton in, well I’d like to say three hours but that would be impossible for me, but definitely, three days which is fast for me. From the very first page, this book sucked me in and took me on a rollercoaster of a ride which lasted until the very last page.
I was totally hooked and desperately wanted to get to the end but at the same time, I really didn’t want the book to be over. I loved the diverse characters, how the situation brought out the good in many and how the school itself and the weather became characters of their own.
Three Hours is a book that I thought about a lot since finishing it, it has stayed with me and I have actually considered reading it again which I never, ever do as there are just too many books that I want to read to spend time reading one twice, but I think that I will be reading it again soon.
This book really was amazing, It may just be February but I am confident that this book will be in my top 2020 books.
Three hours is 180 minutes or 10,800 seconds.
It is a morning’s lessons, a dress rehearsal of Macbeth, a snowy trek through the woods.
It is an eternity waiting for news. Or a countdown to something terrible.
It is 180 minutes to discover who you will die for and what men will kill for.
In rural Somerset in the middle of a blizzard, the unthinkable happens: a school is under siege. Told from the point of view of the people at the heart of it, from the wounded headmaster in the library, unable to help his trapped pupils and staff, to teenage Hannah in love for the first time, to the parents gathering desperate for news, to the 16 year old Syrian refugee trying to rescue his little brother, to the police psychologist who must identify the gunmen, to the students taking refuge in the school theatre, all experience the most intense hours of their lives, where evil and terror are met by courage, love and redemption.
Rosamund Lupton’s new book, ‘Three Hours’ is published on 9th January 2020.
Her debut novel, ‘Sister’ was a BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime, a Sunday Times and New York Times best seller and the fastest selling debut in WHSmiths’history. Her next two books ‘Afterwards’ and ‘The Quality of Silence’ were also Sunday Times best sellers. Her novels have been translated into over thirty languages.
Three Hours by Rosamund Lupton is out now and is available from Amazon UK and Amazon US.
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#BookReview Only Child by Rhiannon Navin. @rhiannonnavin @MantleBooks #bookblogger #greatread #5star
June 18, 2018 June 17, 2018 if only I could read faster
Only Child by Rhiannon Navin.
Sometimes a book comes along that climbs right inside of you and lodges itself right into your heart. It doesn’t happen very often but when it does you know that the book is really something very special.
That is what happened to me when reading Only Child by Rhiannon Navin. It isn’t an easy book to read, I think that even the most hardened reader will struggle to stop the storyline from affecting them.
This book grabbed me from the start when Zach was hiding in the cupboard at school listening to the pop pop pop of a gun going off. Little does he know that his life is about to change forever. I loved Zach as a character, aged only six that could have been very different, but he is believable and just wonderful in so many ways.
As his family falls apart Zach struggles to understand what has happened and how he can get his family working together again, as they once did. I really liked Zach’s Dad, while his mother fell apart he struggled to keep things as normal as possible for Zach and although he hadn’t been the best Dad before he works hard to make things better. I think that he was underused as a character and I loved reading the scenes between Zach and his Dad.
Readers of my blog will know that I love reading crime and thriller books, but once I finished Only Child I really struggled to read anything with a gun in it. Very unlike me but that is the impact that this book had on me. It didn’t last (thankfully), but this book did have a strong and long lasting impact on me. It really was a wonderful read but not an easy one. For a debut novel it is nothing short of outstanding, I can’t wait to read more from the author and I am pretty sure that Only Child will be on my top reads of 2018 though.
Thank you to the publisher Mantle, for a copy of Only Child by Rhiannon Navin. I was under no obligation to review the book and all thoughts are my own.
Readers of Jodi Picoult and Liane Moriarty will also like this tenderhearted debut about healing and family, narrated by an unforgettable six-year-old boy who reminds us that sometimes the littlest bodies hold the biggest hearts and the quietest voices speak the loudest.
Squeezed into a coat closet with his classmates and teacher, first grader Zach Taylor can hear gunshots ringing through the halls of his school. A gunman has entered the building, taking nineteen lives and irrevocably changing the very fabric of this close-knit community. While Zach’s mother pursues a quest for justice against the shooter’s parents, holding them responsible for their son’s actions, Zach retreats into his super-secret hideout and loses himself in a world of books and art. Armed with his newfound understanding, and with the optimism and stubbornness only a child could have, Zach sets out on a captivating journey towards healing and forgiveness, determined to help the adults in his life rediscover the universal truths of love and compassion needed to pull them through their darkest hours.
Rhiannon Navin grew up in Bremen, Germany, in a family of book-crazy women. Her career in advertising brought her to New York City, where she worked for several large agencies before becoming a full-time mother and writer. She now lives outside of New York City with her husband, three children, two cats, and one dog. Only Child is her first novel.
You can follow the author on Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads and on her website.
Only Child by Rhiannon Navin is out now and available from Amazon UK and Amazon US.
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3*, book review, mental health, non-fiction
Review: A Mother’s Reckoning by Sue Klebold.
March 10, 2017 March 10, 2017 if only I could read faster
A Mother’s Reckoning by Sue Klebold.
I’m fairly sure that this is the longest book review that I have written, I have tried to cut it down but can’t, it seems that I have a lot to say about A Mother’s Reckoning by Sue Klebold and feel the need to say it! It is also the first review that I have done that could be classed as giving away spoilers, although being a non-fiction book that doesn’t tell the reader anything that isn’t already ‘out there’ I’m not sure whether you can really class them as spoilers.
My 3* review:
I have to admit that while reading this book I did ask myself why I had wanted to read it. As a big crime fiction fan, I do find myself interested in real crime, especially the more unusual cases. I remember the shooting at Columbine high school in America, I remember being horrified that something like that could happen in a school and trying to comprehend why two teenage boys would decide to go on a rampage in their own school.
I am thankful that gun laws in the UK prevent this sort of thing from happening, and I’ve always been horrified at the subsequent school shootings that have happened since Columbine. I have to admit that part of me is fascinated about what would make someone shoot children in a school, and what type of upbringing might cause someone to do that.
So when I came across A Mother’s Reckoning I wanted to read it, I wanted to understand what had happened at Columbine and how Dylan’s parents coped with the aftermath. I wanted to know whether the author would try to minimise her son’s involvement or paint herself as a wonderful mother who did nothing wrong? I had many questions.
The first half of this book is incredibly depressing to read. It is clear that Sue Klebold descended into a very dark place after the shooting and she uses the pages to vomit those feelings out onto the reader. I got to 50% through and had to take a break, I could feel my own thoughts becoming darker and knew that I had to step away from the book. I read two fiction books before returning, bracing myself for more.
Perhaps because I was prepared for it the second half was not as deeply depressing as the first. In fact, the second half actually said very little that wasn’t in the first half, this book is very repetitive. We hear, again and again, and again, how Sue and her now ex-husband had not noticed anything with Dylan that they hadn’t put down to normal teenage angst and how if she had suspected anything then she would have forced Dylan to get help and that then Dylan wouldn’t have felt so desperate and wouldn’t have killed so many people. I’m simplifying it, but basically, Sue Klebold obviously thinks that she could have saved the day if only she’d noticed.
Another thing that Klebold focuses on is what she calls ‘brain illness’. She does eventually give a brief explanation of why she says brain illness rather than mental health but if I’m honest, by then I was past caring about the why as it had become so annoying that I just wanted her to stop it and call it what it is. Brain illness makes no sense to me, sure, I understand that when you have mental health problems that your brain doesn’t work as it should, but does it have an illness? If my kidney’s stop working properly I don’t say that I have kidney illness, or a leg illness when I’ve broken my bone. You get the point, but it’s annoying and unnecessary. And yes, I do have mental health problems so feel that I am able to say that I hate ‘brain illness’.
It was interesting to read about Klebold’s denial around what her son did and how that denial was smashed when the police sat her down and told her step by step, what had happened during the rampage that Dylan and his friend Eric went on, including who shot who. It is made clear to us that Dylan shot fewer people than Eric and that he had spared a few people, telling them to run instead of shooting them. While these may be true facts it did feel that Klebold had emphasised them to make sure that we know that her son was not the worst.
It is clear that Klebold sees Eric as the bad one and that without him in his life Dylan would never have done such terrible things. Klebold acknowledges that Dylan had mental health (sorry, brain illness) problems that were undiagnosed and tells us repeatedly that Dylan was suicidal yet unable to kill himself, but so desperate was he to die that he went along with Eric’s plan to kill others, something that both boys knew would end in their deaths too. Klebold does talk about the memorials for the victims, she tells us that originally two crosses had been put there for Dylan and Eric but they had been destroyed. I can’t help but feel that she thinks that Dylan deserves a cross, that he too was a victim in all of this.
Since finishing this book I have done some more research into Dylan especially, but also Eric and the shootings. It is clear that there were more signs that Dylan was in trouble, like clear anger management issues, that were not mentioned in the book. This is not a short book and as I said it is very repetitive so there was plenty of room for Klebold to tell us about this, but I guess that she didn’t want to. Which makes me question the rest of the book, and what else she decided not to tell us.
What Klebold had to go through must have been beyond horrific and I do feel compassion towards her. She has clearly gone on to do a lot of good, supporting others who have lost children to suicide and reaching out to other parents of school shooters. The fact that she managed to get through what happened and put it to something positive is commendable.
However, I’m not really sure what she wanted to achieve with this book. The focus of the book is, understandably, on Dylan and although she tells us many times that she is very sorry about the people that were hurt by her son the victims seem to be almost forgotten and, in many ways, irrelevant. The book is far longer than it needed to be, mainly because of the repetitiveness which is a shame, this book could be a very powerful tool, helping parents to look at their children and see signs that may suggest that their child needs help and support. Instead, Klebold comes across as quite preachy and arrogant, placing blame with many people and institutions, but not with Dylan and certainly not with herself.
I received a copy of A Mother’s Reckoning by Sue Klebold from the publishers via Netgalley, I was under no obligation to review the book and all thoughts are my own.
On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Over the course of minutes, they would kill twelve students and a teacher and wound twenty-four others before taking their own lives.
For the last sixteen years, Sue Klebold, Dylan’s mother, has lived with the indescribable grief and shame of that day. How could her child, the promising young man she had loved and raised, be responsible for such horror? And how, as his mother, had she not known something was wrong? Were there subtle signs she had missed? What, if anything, could she have done differently?
These are questions that Klebold has grappled with every day since the Columbine tragedy. In A Mother’s Reckoning, she chronicles with unflinching honesty her journey as a mother trying to come to terms with the incomprehensible. In the hope that the insights and understanding she has gained may help other families recognize when a child is in distress, she tells her story in full, drawing upon her personal journals, the videos and writings that Dylan left behind, and on countless interviews with mental health experts.
Filled with hard-won wisdom and compassion, A Mother’s Reckoning is a powerful and haunting book that sheds light on one of the most pressing issues of our time. And with fresh wounds from the recent Newtown and Charleston shootings, never has the need for understanding been more urgent.
All author profits from the book will be donated to research and to charitable organizations focusing on mental health issues.
A Mother’s Reckoning by Sue Klebold is out now and available from Amazon UK and Amazon US.
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The Golden Age • 2014 • episode "2/3" • Treasures of Ancient Egypt
On a journey through Ancient Egyptian art, Alastair Sooke picks treasures from its most opulent and glittering moment. Starting with troubling psychological portraits of tyrant king Senwosret III and ending with the golden mask of boy king Tutankhamun, Sooke also explores architectural wonders, exquisite tombs and a lost city - site of the greatest artistic revolution in Egypt's history where a new sinuous style was born under King Akhenaten and Queen Nefertiti. Along the way Egyptologists and artists reveal that the golden veneer conceals a touching humanity.
Treasures of Ancient Egypt • 2014 • 3 episodes •
The Birth of Art
Tracing the origins of Egypt's unique visual style, he treks across the Sahara and travels the Nile to find the rarely-seen art of its earliest peoples. Exploring how this civilisation's art reflected its religion, he looks anew at the Great Pyramid, and the statuary and painting of the Old Kingdom. Sooke is amazed by the technical prowess of ancient artists whose skills confound contemporary craftsmen.
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Alastair concludes the epic story of Egyptian art by looking at how, despite political decline, the final era of the Egyptian Empire saw its art enjoy revival and rebirth. From the colossal statues of Rameses II that proclaimed the pharaoh's power to the final flourishes under Queen Cleopatra, Sooke discovers that the subsequent invasions by foreign rulers from the Nubians to Alexander the Great and the Romans produced a new hybrid art full of surprise. He also unearths a seam of astonishing satirical work, produced by ordinary men, that continues to inspire Egypt's graffiti artists today.
An aerial journey reveals how Egypt is modernizing while preserving its unique past.
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As Germany invades Poland and sparks World War II, loyal Deputy Fuhrer Rudolf Hess tries to reclaim his once lofty status among Hitler's senior staff.
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Jeffrey Epstein's personal pilot photographed with Kellyanne Conway in 2016.(dailydot.com)
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dodgydogs 3 points4 points5 points 1 year ago
What is that thing where you keep doing the same thing expecting different results?
Just because they've been slaves for all of written history doesn't mean they are required to be slaves tomorrow.
The thing that scares the creepy pedos criminals at the top is the idea that tomorrow all their slaves could wake up from their spells and realize they can do anything. Which is why they spend so much effort in attacking human consciousness.
Rojiru 2 points3 points4 points 1 year ago
It's a tired platitude, and I'm tired of hearing it. Like I said, there's very few ways the people can better their situation, and none of their options are nice. Most of the options involve doing basically nothing, which leaves things largely unchanged. The other options involve some sort of violent revolution, which is radically unlikely barring outside intervention.
That sounds like a failure of imagination. Imaginary concepts could disappear tomorrow if we felt there was no need for them. Everyone could decide to start using bottle camps for money and paper currency as toilet paper without a shot fired. An absurd and unlikely resolution sure, but that doesn't mean there aren't other resolutions humanity could make.
It is a rich man's trick to fool the masses into thinking the money he owns is the only way to shift consciousness. History was written by the victors who used such magic for fascism and empire.
we can just sit back and wait for the robots to eat our brains, or have hope that life will find a way.
sigh You don't need imagination to fix these problems. We know what they are and what the solutions could be. People just need to do it. What you're talking about doesn't have any substance to it. If your imagination cooks up any good ideas though, I and many other people will be all ears.
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An unprecedented insight into Quentin Blake's private practice as a figurative artist. Oil paint on canvas, 1980s © Quentin Blake
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Cuomo: New York on PAUSE to be Extended in ‘Many’ Parts of State
The mandate that closed all non-essential businesses in New York State will be extended in many parts of the state.
On Sunday, during his daily COVID-19 briefing, Gov. Andrew Cuomo outlined a phased plan to re-open New York and re-imagine a "new normal" for the state.
On Monday, he slightly backtracked and said he will extend the New York on PAUSE order "in many parts of the state."
The stay-at-home order that closed all non-essential businesses in New York currently runs until May 15.
Cuomo added he believes some parts of New York will begin to gradually open or "unpause" around May 15.
"We have to be smart about it. Cause if you are not smart we will be right back where we were 58 days ago and no one wants that," Cuomo said.
The Governor added local officials need to start thinking about what reopening will mean for that area.
"We are taking a regional approach to safely reopening NYS," Cuomo tweeted during his press briefing. "Each region is facing its own set of facts. Protecting public health comes first and all decisions will be data-driven."
Factors for reopening include hospitalization rate, antibody testing, diagnostic testing and infection rate.
He believes regional factors for reopening are the health care capacity in each region, such as hospital beds, ICU beds, a stockpile of equipment, a plan for the upcoming flu season and a testing/tracing/isolate program.
"This has been a hellish experience for our country," Cuomo said. "But it has also been a time of cooperation, unity and love. It’s not red state versus blue state. It’s us together versus this virus."
Cuomo announced more drive-by COVID-19 testing sites will be opening in parts of the state this week.
He also announced expanded results from the statewide antibody survey. 7,500 people were tested and the preliminary results suggest that 14.9 percent of the state is positive for the COVID-19 antibody, Cuomo said.
Cuomo announced 337 New Yorkers died from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, bringing the statewide total to 17,303.
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News Local Two teenagers arrested over knife-point theft of delivery man's motorcycle
Two teenagers arrested over knife-point theft of delivery man’s motorcycle
Police on Monday arrested two teenagers in connection with a Sunday evening theft of a motorcycle at knife-point in Limassol following a report by a 28-year-old food delivery man.
Police actually found three reported stolen motorcycles while investigating this case.
The 28-year-old reportedly said he had delivered an order at an apartment in central Limassol around 7pm and upon returning to his motorcycle he was stopped by two strangers holding a knife. The two then got on the motorcycle and sped off.
Police were alerted at around 9:20pm that four or five youngsters were trying to disassemble three motorcycles at a parking lot of an apartment complex.
When police arrived at the scene, they saw a number of youngsters, including a girl, running away and after chasing them on foot they managed to arrest the girl who is only 13. She was later questioned, in the presence of her mother, and released.
Three reported stolen motorcycles were identified at the specific parking lot, including that of the delivery man. The two arrested young men are 14 and 16 years of age.
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Apple iOS 8 Increases Privacy
richardbagdonas,
iBeacons and no wifi
I am so glad that Apple is going to start randomizing MAC addresses. It all boils down to opt in.
At Mahana (http://mahana.io) we are focused on providing iBeacon tech to apps that need location-based information in an opt-in manner. The platform would be very suspect if we were collecting data from phones without someone saying "yes."
We would like to see more parity between Android and iOS on the hardware side, but I imagine that will come from industry pressure.
jgherbert,
So I haven't seen an explicit confirmation yet, and perhaps somebody here can provide that, but if I understood correctly, the randomized MAC addresses are only used during scans for WiFi networks (Probe requests / responses), but once you actually join a WiFi network you still use your burnt in address (BIA). This is handy, since I (at least) use static MAC->IP mappings in the dhcpd configuration!
So to get a MAC address you now have to get people to actually join your WiFi network. Enter every store offering comprehensive (free!) WiFi service for you. Once you're on the WiFI, it's as good as it was before the security improvements. If, as mentioned in a recent article, you can also get other user information - e.g. by using a Facebook login to gain access to the WiFi - you could be on to a huge winner in terms of putting some personal meat on that data.
Re: Lots of time to transition
"The operation system won't be available until fall, next it will take some time before full deployment has been achieved"
For the devices that support IOS8, it seems likely that adoption will be very high very quickly, just as it was with IOS 7. I'm not going to argue about which statistics are fair to quote on that, but in less than 12 months the penetration of that OS is quite amazing.
As you correctly state though, iOS is not the only game in town. But it's a valuable one to advertisers I'd bet.
Brian.Dean,
@Melgross, yes you are right, I referred to "MAC" (MAC address) as an enabler to perform customer identification and tracking. It's all about the data and the value that data can create, targeting ad content to users that might be interested in a product is better than, randomly sending out ads that generate low customer actions. And data is not just useful for ads -- knowing in aggregate, what consumers are interested in, can help in optimizing the supply chain as well.
@Zaious, sorry for creating the confusion, I was referring to the MAC address going away as a tool that indirectly enables tracking.
If MAC addresses were to not be used completely, then an entirely different anchoring system would have to exist, the only thing that is becoming unavailable from the retail side of the equation is that due to the randomization process, tracking will not be possible -- dynamic IP address create the same problem for websites, that's why websites use cookies.
melgross,
Re: Check & Mate
I suppose you're one of the few Blackberry users still moping around? I can't speak to Android as much as iOS, but for iOS, privacy is pretty easy to achieve. Apple doesn't receive 97% of their sales and profits from user data as does Google, as unlike the advertising revenue model Google is forced to use, Apple makes most of its revenue and profit on hardware.
You're misunderstanding the issue, if I understand what you are saying. MAC addresses aren't going away. This is just for roaming for a WiFi network to join. In order to join that network, the proper MAC address is used. If you're saying that the lack of a true MAC address for roaming is the issue, then yes. These big companies are doing whatever they can to get leverage. So far, the heavily Google supported NFC has been a bust. It isn't required that google have any part in any of this. Apple participation is enough. We can see that Google has already partly given up on NFC to support Apple technology in this area. They have no choice, as iBeacon is taking off, and this will further that. A good deal of this has to do with purchasing. If Apple users make significant purchases, then the system will work without Google. If Android users do not make significant purchases, then Google's participation won't matter either.
asksqn,
Check & Mate
Android, iOs 8 sees your complete and utter disregard for consumer privacy and bets the house.
zaious,
6/9/2014 | 11:50:55 PM
@Brian.Dean: why would we need to consider a scenario where Mac is no longer available? They are not going to dissolve the entire thing suddenly. Most probably, you were hinting to to some case where 'Mac' is not allowed on the network.
Lots of time to transition
The operation system won't be available until fall, next it will take some time before full deployment has been achieved, and even then, Android is a big portion of the mobile device market, businesses might opt to wait for data to arrive that indicates that consumers are happy with the move, and that Android will follow soon. All this leave a lot of time before businesses begin to actually receive a lesser level of insight, however, it is important to locate the next best alternative of sharing data as soon as possible, in a way that's beneficial to both businesses and consumers.
I wonder, what would be the next best alternative, once MAC is no longer available.
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Wendel Rosen's Intellectual Property Blog
No Slow Lanes, No Fast Lanes: FCC Adopts New Regulations Treating Internet as a Public Utility
By IP Legal Forum, March 4, 2015
Should your Internet service provider be regulated in the same manner as your telephone service provider? Despite how quaint this question might sound now that many consumers bundle their ISP, telephone and television service through the same company, this issue has been the source of raging debate throughout the country (and abroad). In a vote held on February 27, 2015, the FCC voted 3-2 along party lines to approve reclassifying high-speed Internet service as a telecommunications service, instead of an information service, under Title II of the Telecommunications Act. Your Internet service will now be regulated as a public utility. Prior to last month’s vote, the FCC had delayed a decision on proposed rules in December of 2014.
Though there will be details to parse, the move is certainly a clear win for those favoring “net neutrality,” the premise that internet content should flow unfiltered to the consumers who ultimately view that content. The new regulations will preclude providers both from blocking or slowing particular content and from establishing pay-to-play “fast lanes” for those who are willing and able to pay for more direct content streams to consumers.
There are three basic constituencies involved every time someone pulls up a webpage: the content provider (e.g., Netflix, Facebook, Wendel Rosen), the ISP (Comcast, AT&T), and the end user (you, reading this blog post while the latest episode of House of Cards plays on the other side of the screen). At issue is whether and to what extent companies like Comcast can exercise control over how fast your Facebook page and this post pull up and how frequently Kevin Spacey’s diabolical monologues are interrupted for buffering.
Rules Preclude Slowing Service for Particular Content
Netflix comes up a lot in this discussion, and for good reason. The streaming video provider accounts for nearly a third of all evening Internet bandwidth, and it offers a prime example of both the benefits and detriments of net neutrality. Obviously, Netflix customers want to be able to watch their movies and television shows from start to finish without interruption. Without being able to reliably offer such a service, fewer and fewer customers would view Netflix as a reasonable alternative to cable providers, such as—that’s right—Comcast.
So, Comcast has a theoretical incentive to slow Netflix service to its customers. Prior to the introduction of the new FCC rules, in fact, Netflix entered into agreements with Comcast and other ISPs to ensure that its customers could receive faster service. Whether these deals were simply designed to provide more direct connection between the ISPs and Netflix’s content or, rather, involved payment to the ISPs in exchange for not slowing Netflix service is a matter of debate, but Netflix’s deals with ISPs followed a federal appeals court decision striking down the FCC’s previous net neutrality regulations. The new rules would preclude Comcast from treating Netflix in a discriminatory manner.
Rules Preclude Speeding Up Service
The rules ultimately adopted by the FCC also preclude Netflix from paying for the privilege of even faster connections than other content providers receive. Such so-called Internet “fast lanes,” populated by those who can afford to pay for more streamlined connections to their customers, were a major concern for net neutrality advocates when the FCC put out proposed rules for public comment one year ago. The “fast lane,” they said puts less powerful content providers at a greater disadvantage in competing with larger companies. Fast speeds mean quicker download times and fewer interruptions. If it cannot afford to pay for the “fast lane,” a would-be Netflix competitor would have a harder time obtaining significant market share. And it is fair to ask how well-tended the free connections from ISPs to customers will be once the ISPs begin promoting premium paid connections. It appears that these potential ills have been avoided through the new regulations.
What Will Happen Now?
Clouding the discussion of net neutrality is the fact that this is all new ground and the Internet continues to develop on an hourly basis. As such, no one likely knows precisely how the FCC’s new rules will alter the Internet landscape. For their part, the two Republican commissioners who voted against adoption of the regulations say that the FCC is meddling in an unbroken arena in a manner that is sure to slow both investment and innovation. Time will tell who is correct, but what is beyond doubt is that the FCC’s vote is an historic one that will help shape the landscape of the Internet for years to come.
Categories: Net Neutrality
Tagged: FCC, Telecommunications Act
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Garret Murai March 4, 2015
Informative post Jason. Like most consumers I want more for less. My gut tells me though that, at least in the short term, this may mean same for more – higher priced internet access (but not necessarily faster speeds) as the “fast lanes” get more congested – at least until our infrastructure can support higher bandwidths.
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Endocardial cells are a distinct endothelial lineage derived from multipotent cardiovascular progenitors
Misfeldt, Andrew Michael
Identification of multipotent cardiac progenitors has provided fresh insight into the mechanisms of myocardial lineage specification, yet has done little to clarify the origin of the endocardium. Despite its essential role in heart development, the lineage classification of endocardium has remained undefined due to a lack of specific markers of this early vascular subpopulation. To distinguish endocardium from other vasculature, we generated an NFATc1-nuc-LacZ BAC transgenic mouse line that faithfully recapitulated endogenous NFATc1 expression in the heart and other cell populations during development. Utilizing this novel specific marker, the endocardium can be distinguished from other endothelial subpopulations, and tracked as it emerges from the cardiac mesoderm and participates in early cardiac morphogenesis. To further characterize endocardiogenesis, embryonic stem cells (ESCs) derived from NFATc1-nuc-LacZ blastocysts were utilized to demonstrate that endocardial differentiation occurs in a pattern consistent with its mesodermal origin and its close association with myocardium. Endocardium is specified as a cardiac cell lineage, independent from other vascular populations, responding to BMP and Wnt signals that enhance cardiomyocyte differentiation. Furthermore, a population of Flk1+ cardiovascular progenitors, distinct from hemangioblast precursors, represents a mesodermal precursor of the endocardial endothelium, as well as other cardiovascular lineages. Taken together, this work emphasizes the endocardium as a unique cardiac lineage and provides further evidence that endocardium and myocardium are derived from a common precursor. Furthermore, we have established a method to identify the endocardium at the onset of differentiation and throughout subsequent stages of development, providing the framework for future work to delineate mechanisms important in the ontogeny of this unique population.
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Childhood Obesity it’s time for drastic action
By June Shannon Policy News | 12th Nov 2019
The Irish Heart Foundation launches ground-breaking childhood obesity manifesto that aims to cut childhood obesity by 50 per cent by 2030.
Obesity “represents the greatest single threat to the health and wellbeing of children in Ireland today and drastic action is needed to protect them.”
This was the main message of the Irish Heart Foundation’s new Childhood Obesity Manifesto which was launched at a special event in Dublin today (Tuesday 12th of November ) and plans to cut the rate of childhood obesity in Ireland by half in the next decade.
It is estimated that overweight and obesity will be responsible for the deaths of 85,000 children on the island of Ireland and currently, children as young as eight are presenting with high blood pressure while some teenagers have a heart health age of 60.
The new manifesto entitled ‘The Future for our children’s health- A Childhood Obesity Manifesto’, was developed by the Irish Heart Foundation in conjunction with leading obesity experts, parents and young people and makes a total of 58 recommendations under 12 separate headings.
The recommendations include, making tackling childhood obesity a national health priority, a ban on all unhealthy food and drink marketing to under 18s as well as a ban on the sale of junk food in schools and a need to change the built environment to promote more healthy and active lives.
The manifesto also calls for the price of unhealthy food to be increased through new taxes that incentivise reformulation and for the price of healthy foods to be reduced through funding subsidies.
It also recommends a ban on special price promotions such as buy-one-get-one-free and multipack offers that encourage the overconsumption of junk food, the removal of unhealthy food products from end-of-aisles and checkouts in supermarkets and the provision of a clear food labelling system which details fat, sugar, salt and calorie content.
“ This manifesto has the potential to be a game changer if people take it at face value,"
Prof Donal O Shea, Clinical Lead for Obesity, HSE
In its manifesto the Irish Heart Foundation has also called for an end to misleading health claims on the packaging of unhealthy food and drinks, greater political priority for action to tackle childhood obesity and the immediate removal of food industry representatives from national health policy formation.
Polling carried out in conjunction with the IHF Childhood Obesity Manifesto revealed overwhelming public support for its recommendations.
Speaking at the launch Professor Donal O’Shea, the HSE’s Clinical Lead on Obesity said, “This manifesto has the potential to be a game changer if people take it at face value. It is the truth, simply spoken and crucially has been developed in cooperation with young people who it is ultimately for. It could help turn the tide on childhood obesity – the biggest health challenge of this generation.”
Consultant endocrinologist Professor Francis Finucane, who also addressed the Manifesto launch in Dublin added, “If policymakers are serious about protecting children’s health in the face of the obesity epidemic they have to commit to drastic action. A crucial element of this is restricting the ultra-processed food industry’s ability to promote overconsumption in pursuit of profit, including through marketing restrictions, taxation and mandatory reformulation.”
In addition, the Irish Heart Foundation recommends that voluntary reformulation targets to be launched shortly by the Department of Health should be made mandatory and be accompanied with new taxes, including a levy to incentivise a reduction in the calorie content of confectionery.
“ If policymakers are serious about protecting children’s health in the face of the obesity epidemic they have to commit to drastic action,"
Professor Francis Finucane, Consultant Endocrinologist
Head of Advocacy at the Irish Heart Foundation, Mr Chris Macey, said that IBEC’s 12-year reformulation programme up to 2017 had failed to reduce average energy consumption across the population in any age group. Meanwhile, by the end of 2018 there had been just a 2.9 per cent reduction in sugar content under the UK’s voluntary reformulation programme which began in 2015, despite a 20% target due to be reached in 2020. This compared to a 29 per cent drop in the sugar content of products subject to the UK’s sugar sweetened drinks tax over the same period and a 21.6 per cent reduction in sugar purchased from these drinks.
“The decisive action taken by manufacturers to reduce their exposure to the tax demonstrates the futility of voluntary schemes and the necessity for Government to enforce mandatory programmes coupled with new taxes to encourage further reductions in high sugar, fat and salt levels in products popular with children.
“Sweet and chocolate confectionery are among the highest contributors of sugar to children’s diets, whilst chocolate is also one of the highest in terms of saturated fat intake and evidence suggests that a levy on such products that incentivises reduction in calorie content can have a bigger impact than the sugar sweetened drinks tax.”
Mr Macey added that it was crucial to ringfence such levies so their impact could be further magnified, particularly by funding interventions targeting disadvantaged communities where obesity rates are highest, along with initiatives such as healthy food subsidies to help close the price gap with cheap junk products and measures to deliver a healthier school food and physical activity environment.
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Proebstel brothers
German brothers named Proebstel, their wives and offspring made up one of the largest families settling in Clark County in the early days. A community east of Orchards was named for the family, and a church still carries the Proebstel name.
Four brothers arrived here from Missouri in time to take donation land claims in the early 1850s. Andrew took out a claim just northwest of Orchards, and John, Valentine and Jacob Proebstel settled near what is now Proebstel. Andrew departed in several years for the Midwest, and his land was purchased by Jacob Proebstel.
At least two other Proebstel brothers also lived in Clark County in the early days.
J.C. Proebstel, born in 1854, a son of John Proebstel, remembered that the family residence was a log cabin chinked with mud and moss to keep out skunks, wood rats and bad weather. Indians were the nearest neighbors, and wolves, bears and cougars prowled the Proebstel area.
J.C. Proebstel also recalled:
“Our roads were pack trails. We subsisted chiefly on game and fish and berries. Our stock fed on the grass of the native meadows. To establish our livestock we would exchange pigs for calves, colts for cows, a cow and a calf for a horse.”
A visitor to the Proebstel area in 1876 reported Jacob Proebstel Sr. was growing grain and clover. At the nearby John Proebstel farm, the owner had cleared a large amount of brush and logs. He told the visitor “there is no country in the world” he preferred to that area. A post office named Proebstel was established in 1886 with Francis and Herman Proebstel, two sons of John Proebstel, in charge at the start. Several other postmasters also were on duty before the office was discontinued in 1907.
Although farming was the Proebstel’s main occupation in the earliest days, some of the family eventually went to Vancouver. William W. Proebstel was proprietor of the Exchange Hotel on Main Street between Third and Fourth streets in the 1880s, and the Reception Saloon in the same vicinity in the ’90s. Andrew J. Proebstel, a son of Jacob Proebstel Sr., also was active in the business district.
He worked for a while for his brother, Jacob Jr., who owned a general merchandise store, and later was in business with partners at several stores. He aided his son-in-law, Frank Wilcox, in establishing an auto company in 1907 and spent much time in that business in later years, in addition to serving as bailiff at Clark County Court.
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Ex-Met Detective John Wedger provides final nail in Hampstead SRA hoax coffin
Over the past year and a half, we’ve noticed that a former Metropolitan police officer, Jonathan Wedger, has been peddling tales of “police corruption at the highest levels” to almost anyone who’ll listen.
Mr Wedger has been quoted extensively in the tabloids, as well as by Brian Gerrish of UK Column, making claims that the Met deliberately covers up the sexual abuse of children. He has also stated that he now suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the bullying he received when he attempted to bring this situation to the attention of his senior officers. Following some time on sick leave, he has now been dismissed from the force and is attempting to sue for psychiatric injury. We have our own opinions of his allegations, which we will share at a later time. However, today we’d like to talk about ex-DC Wedger’s contribution to closing the police investigation into the Hampstead SRA hoax.
We can now reveal that in September 2014 ex-DC Wedger played a small but critical role in ensuring that the police were aware that the claims made by Ella Draper and Abraham Christie were in fact a complete—and intentional—hoax.
Who let the cat out of the bag?
Long-time readers might recall that Abraham and Ella wrote to a well-known and influential troofer on 11 September 2014. The email, addressed to Brian Gerrish of the UK Column, was a laundry list, setting out all the salacious details which Gerrish would be able to publicise if he backed the hoax. It was meant to tempt him into joining in, but in fact it had the opposite effect.
This tweet from Drifloud on 8 March 2016 contains the email, and indicates that it was sent only to Gerrish:
Keep in mind that this email was sent while the Hampstead case was still under active investigation by the Child Abuse Investigation Team (CAIT).
In a YouTube comment in early 2016, Abraham and Ella complained bitterly that this email had been sent, via a circuitous route, to DC Steve Martin, who was then working on the Hampstead investigation.
Here’s what Abrella said:
On or around the 16th of September 2014 Steve Martin received an email that had “found it’s (sic) way to S.O.E.C.A. (Sexual Offences, Exploitation and Child Abuse) via D.P.S. (Directorate of Professional Standards)” The sender explains that having read the contents of said email it appeared “IDENTICAL to a current investigation of yours 2419891/14 concerning allegations of sexual and ritual abuse at Christchurch Primary School.”
“The email appears to be one in (sic) the same sent by the MOTHER TO THE INFORMANT and the contents appear on your CRIS.”
BRIAN GERRISH of UK Column was the ONLY person to have received that email/file from the mother on the 11th of September 2014 .
But ,but Brian couldn’t be the informant , he sent the email to Bill Maloney on 15-09-14 who sent it to Nathan ‘NumNuts’ Wedger who sent it to P.C. Paul Armstrong, who in turn sent it to Anna Bewley at D.P.S. H.Q. saying that he’d received a disturbing email which includes serious allegations of wrongdoing by MPS officers … Then via two internal D.P.S. emails from Anne and PC Craig Langley the email “found it’s (sic) way” to DC Victoria BARNES SC&036 -SOECA LIT
29th Floor (East Block), Empress State Building, and thence back to Steve Martin , who had the original email from the original INFORMANT, which as Vicky noted was already in Steve’s CRIS report.
Q. Name original informant, AAND (sic) subsequent informants used to distract from original informant.
For a bonus prize explain why Brian never said a word about the case till MSM’s attempted hatchet job on the Whistleblowers, ella & abe and WHY BILL MALONEY HAS SAID F-CK ALL. nemesis )+( nerd
Shortly after posting the above comment, Abrella wrote on the same YouTube comments thread,
Bill Maloney in an interview with Lou Collins .(connected to Danielle la Verite)speaks out about the tattoo on Leon Brittan’s pubenda (sic!) that a victim (Andrew) of Leon Brittan described and drew during an interview with a newspaer (sic) almost 2 years ago , so when Maloney and Gerrish received Ella’s email describing the Tattoos and distinguishing marks on the cult members (sic) pubenda (even more sic) they were well aware of this corroborating the testimony of Leon Brittan’s victim. Why then have neither of them said anything apart from the few times that Gerrish mentions the case on UK Column when the MSM had attempted a hatchet job on Abe and Ella, and he had to say something ? Now it’s clear why the info re Tattoos was buried buy (sic) Maloney, Gerrish AND the police and exposes Maloney and Gerrish as Shills ! Quite apart from the fact that Maloney passed the email onto a Nathan “NUMNUTS” (sic) Wedger a known police informant ; and the email eventually “found it’s (sic) way” to investigating/cover up Freemason, DS Steve Martin. mmmmmm…
Abe and Ella were aware of the path which the Gerrish email took, since they were now in possession of Ella’s court bundle, turned over to her by her solicitors when she sacked them in December 2014. But why were they so angry that Nathan “Numnuts” Wedger had sent it to the police?
Who is Nathan ‘Numnuts’ Wedger?
Despite our best efforts, we were unable to determine the identity of Nathan “Numnuts” Wedger, the “known police informant” who bridged the gap between Bill Maloney and PC Paul Armstrong.
However, when a recent interview between Lou Collins (yes, she’s back!) and ex-DC Jonathan Wedger came to our attention, we wondered: how common a surname is “Wedger”? And could this former cop have had anything to do with unveiling the true purpose of the Hampstead SRA hoax?
As it turned out, Wedger is not a very common surname, and the only “Nathan” we found would have been a young teenager in 2014, so unlikely to have been involved in this case.
However, we did discover that someone else named Nathan Wedger has a mostly unused Pinterest account: He has only one follower, whom he follows back: And looking at his account URL reveals something even more interesting: So we knew that someone named “Nathan Wedger”, with a friend named Tasha Leach, uses the online tag “numnut2009”.
After a bit of digging through public records, we discovered that Ms Leach’s maiden name was “Wedger”, and she has a twin brother: Jonathan.
It was at this point that the obvious struck us between the eyes: remove the letters “Jo-” from “Jonathan”, and you have….
In our searches we found a few confirmatory details: Jonathan and Natasha Wedger were born in 1970 in London. In his interviews, ex-DC John Wedger has stated that he is 47 years old.
And on a site called Healer Practitioner Association International, we found a “Jon Wedger” using the email address <numnut2009@hotmail.co.uk>:
Jon Wedger, “healer practitioner”, gives his address as Hemel Hempstead; ex-DC John Wedger mentions that he lives in Hemel Hempstead as well.
Now we only needed to confirm the connection between Jonathan Wedger and Bill Maloney.
As it turns out, Mr Wedger mentions Bill several times in his interview with Lou Collins. In fact, at one point in the second part of the interview, he mentions that he and Bill are good friends, and says he’s known him at least eight years.
Ex-DC Wedger cracks the case
Suddenly, the chain between Brian Gerrish and DC Steve Martin becomes crystal clear.
On 9 September, the CAIT team receives the content of an email from “the informant”—Abraham’s brother-in-law Jean-Clement Yaohirou—which is logged in the CRIS report:
The content of this email is virtually identical to the email which Abe and Ella would send to Gerrish on 11 September, the same day the children were taken into protective custody. In fact, the children were taken into custody shortly after 7 p.m., and the email was sent to Gerrish at about 10 p.m.
This was also three days after Gerrish had sent one of his colleagues, Finn Hagan, to check out the children’s stories. It’s difficult to say whether Gerrish remained unconvinced by Finn’s account of the visit, or Abe was sending the email in an attempt to stir up interest in the story before word got out that he and Ella had coached and abused the children.
On 15 September, Gerrish forwards the email to his friend Bill Maloney, perhaps wishing for a second opinion as to whether he should get behind Abe and Ella.
Maloney, also concerned, sends the email to his trusted friend at the Met, DC Jonathan Wedger. Surely he’ll know how to deal with something like this? Ex-DC Wedger has stated that he began “whistle-blowing” in 2014, and was put on sick leave, which explains why Maloney sent the email to his personal email address, “Nathan Wedger” at <numnut2009@hotmail.co.uk>. Abe would later notice this detail and add it to his angry comment, possibly in an attempt to humiliate “Nathan Wedger”, who he blamed for alerting police to the hoax.
Ex-DC Wedger, realising that this email contains very serious allegations which ought to be investigated, forwards it to another officer, PC Paul Armstrong, who in turn sends it to Anna Bewley, who works in the Directorate of Professional Standards (DPS) at the Met.
From there, the email proceeds to DC Victoria Barnes at the Sexual Offences, Exploitation and Child Abuse (SOECA) unit.
DC Barnes recognises the details contained in the Gerrish email as identical to those in a case currently under investigation by the CAIT, and so she forwards it to DC Steve Martin on 18 September 2014. This is recorded in the CRIS:
At this point, DC Martin has received one email from the original informant—Jean-Clement Yaohirou—forwarding an email J-C received from Abe and Ella.
And now, nine days later, he receives a second, identical email, originating not with Jean-Clement or even with Ella, but with two known conspiracy theorists, Brian Gerrish and Bill Maloney. And he can see from the email address that it had been sent to Gerrish by none other than “hempstarsdynamics”…that is to say, Abraham Christie. (Oh, and did we mention that DC Martin already knows Abraham from a previous encounter, when Abe assaulted his own son?)
Abe and Ella were clearly attempting to hawk the children’s story round to Gerrish while the police investigation was in progress. Anyone who has ever been involved in a criminal investigation will be well aware of the police warning not to discuss the case with anyone else, lest the evidence be contaminated, and the case destroyed in court. Yet Ella and Abe were not just discussing the case, they were sending details of it to Gerrish, in a kind of “troofer news release”.
If you were DC Martin, do you think you might have smelt a rat at this point?
If Ella and Abe had all this information about the alleged cult, why had they not immediately reported it to the police? Why would they have sent this information to Gerrish instead? And why did they send it to Gerrish within hours of the children being taken into police custody? If their aim was to shut down a cult, why would they interfere in the investigation in this way?
Could it have been because they were in the process of attempting to engineer a gigantic publicity stunt?
While the bulk of the police investigation had already taken place by the time the Gerrish email reached DC Martin’s desk, the email would have provided the proverbial icing on the cake. It would have demonstrated conclusively that this case, as Ella would later admit, had never been meant to reach the police and CPS. It was a hoax through and through.
And sure enough, in the closing pages of the CRIS report, we find this notation:
By the end of the police investigation, the Gerrish email had made one thing very clear: the police were onto Abraham. They understood that this wasn’t about “saving children”, but about attracting attention from the conspiracy community.
And for this final nail in the Hampstead SRA investigation’s coffin, we can thank ex-DC Jonathan Wedger.
We can now give him full credit: whether intentionally or not, he helped to demonstrate the real nature of the Hampstead SRA hoax, and bring the investigation to its rightful conclusion.
02/01/2018 in Investigating the hoax. Tags: Abraham Christie, Bill Maloney, Brian Gerrish, criminal charges, Ella Draper, Jean-Clement Yaohirou, Jonathan Wedger, police investigation
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168 thoughts on “Ex-Met Detective John Wedger provides final nail in Hampstead SRA hoax coffin”
The Sole of Justice says:
Judging by that last notation about Abraham, that he was circulating interviews of the children and might continue, it’s clear that the police understood the meaning of the Gerrish email.
What I don’t understand is why they didn’t pick Abe up on this basis, even if they couldn’t arrest him for child abuse since he’d made the kids say he only hit them when they were not on British soil? Surely circulating videos of the children would have been illegal too?
Old Rat Watcher says:
Something about the CRIS that hadn’t really hit home for me before: the “Inft” or “informant” was Jean-Clement. Any information given to police seems to have come from him, not from Ella. Of course this makes sense, as she has said they never expected the case to go to the CPS, but this makes it brutally clear. The children’s mother didn’t go to police to report their alleged abuse. That was left to her boyfriend’s brother-in-law. Pretty effed up if you ask me.
Good reporting EC.
It seems to me that ex DC Wedger did the right thing by forwarding the email to the police, as would be expected from someone with his experience. As you said, he might not have intended it, but he showed Abe up good and proper.
I listened to the Wedger/Collins interview. Note to Lou Collins. Learn to say ‘Haut de la Garenne’ properly. That’s what a real journalist would do.
Thanks, Fnord! I wonder how Lou will like knowing that her friend was the one who showed Abe and Ella for what they are?
And may I add some more advice to Lou? Stop snuffling and snorting like an old steam engine while your interviewee is talking. Also, an interview is not a good time to decide to rearrange your pots and pans. #ProTip
Yes, re-reading the CRIS after all this time is enlightening. Details that might have seemed inconsequential in the past really leap out at one.
That’s a good point, and I don’t know the answer.
Clearly, if they knew he was going to circulate the children’s videos, they ought to have acted at that time, whether by arresting him or by placing some sort of restraining order on him. We don’t know that that didn’t happen though, since the only material we have available to us has been put online by Abe, Ella, or Sabine. Anything which doesn’t fit their controlled narrative has simply been withheld.
It all seems to move so slowly and I think they’d have picked Abe up eventually if he’d hung about. He knew that and that’s one of the reasons he sodded off to Spain or Russia or wherever he is. Personally I think he’s on that island with Patrick Cullinane, making plans to overthrow the New World Order, whilst listening to Elvis, still crooning from his zimmer frame.
Laughing at Abrella calling Wedger a ‘police informant’. What do they expect an experienced copper to do with info like that? He’s bound to pass it on isn’t he? Anyway, there’ll be no love lost between someone like Abe (thirty plus previous convictions) and Wedger who was a seasoned Police Officer.
I don’t think that Abe realised Wedger was a copper. Maloney sent the email to ex-DC Wedger’s “civilian” email address, as they were friends and he wouldn’t have used his work address. So all Abe would have seen was the “numnuts2009” address, and the name “Nathan”, which Mr Wedger seemed to use online, probably to avoid recognition as a police officer.
I think Abe called him “a known police informant” because as a lifelong criminal himself, that was one of the worst things he could call someone. He added the “numnuts” thing as a nasty jibe, I think.
“It all seems to move so slowly and I think they’d have picked Abe up eventually if he’d hung about. He knew that and that’s one of the reasons he sodded off to Spain or Russia or wherever he is.”
Yes, I remember that Abe buggered off right away quick after the kids were taken into care. I remember people on the Icke Forums talking about how he’d basically abandoned Ella. I think he came back early in 2015 when it looked like the cops weren’t going to do anything.
‘If Ella and Abe had all this information about the alleged cult, why had they not immediately reported it to the police? Why would they have sent this information to Gerrish instead? And why did they send it to Gerrish within hours of the children being taken into police custody? If their aim was to shut down a cult, why would they interfere in the investigation in this way?’
Because they’re troofers and paranoid?
From what I’ve read they didn’t intend to take the matter to the police in the first place. Once the police got hold of it they knew they were in trouble. They were panicking and looking for backup from the Conspiracy community who, unlike the Police, would swallow the hoax all the way.
They were interfering with the police investigation on other occasions too – like when they took the kids for a taxi ride round to identify houses the night BEFORE the police intended to do it. Not that they were coaching the kids in what to say or do or anything. (That’s sarcasm) As I recall the taxi driver was so disturbed at Abe’s behaviour towards the girl that he called the police and reported him.
Yes, that’s right. And I think you’re absolutely right about why they sent the Gerrish email in the first place: they knew they were in deep trouble, the kids would probably retract as soon as they were out of Abe’s clutches, and they wanted to call in the conspiracy community to put up a stink and act as a diversion.
I get it! Thank you for clarification.
He called him a known police informant, in my opinion, because the oft convicted Abraham Christie couldn’t conceive of someone informing the police of something and being an informant as anything other than how he views it as a criminal.
Providing information to police as a concenrned citizen vs dirty secret grass.
Victim/witness/informant is just how things are recorded on the CRIS records. I have just loooked up a few FOI responses from the MPS.
I have called 999 on occasion so I am sure I will be recorded as an informant. It bothers me not.
Of course, Abraham isn’t exactly blessed in the brains department.
I think the police may have known that Abraham was circulating the videos, because he was, and one of the parents went to the police themselves when they found out. That is according to Abraham at least. This means that right at the very beginning he was sending the videos out to people who were not part of the police investigation.
I believe that Abrella might counter that the authorities never intended the case to be prosecuted, but that they did. Why they were looking up conspiracists in Morocco is odd though, right.
They failed to convince the court it was true on the lower civil standard mind. And they cared so much that Abraham turned up outside the court, cunningly disguised in an ill fitting suit, in an area well covered by CCTV, frequented by police, making a spectacle, with banners, probably even used his oyster to get there. Apparently, actually going inside and giving evidence scared the little man witless though.
https://maps.met.police.uk/globalassets/foi-media/policies/covert-human-intelligence-sources—policy
I had forgotten all about the taxi driver being disturbed at Abe’s behaviour towards the girl that night and reporting him for it.
This post was some good detective work, EC.
Costa can only dream about such excellent dot-joining, as hers is so poor, it’s laughable.
Thanks, Jake. I do wonder how many of those currently pushing Mr Wedger (Costa included) are aware of his role in the Hampstead hoax?
Yes, a bit like Georgie Porgy—running away at first sign of danger.
They wouldn’t be pushing him if they did. Cassie Crowhurst was championing him in her videos too.
Yes, I expect he’s just modest and didn’t want to take credit for upsetting the Hampstead hoax applecart, LOL. 😀
Frickin’ BRILLIANT!
Totally excellent work – you and your team are Champions 🙂
This is what I do, when postings here make me happy & excited…I post back a music video that makes me happy & excited. Like this one! 🙂
Thanks so much, Justin! 😀
Great choice! 🙂
Here’s a vaguely related post-script…
Early in 2015, I believe, I went to the Exaro site and posted a long comment in which I stated flatly that some “retired” and some currently serving Met officers must be conspiranoid True Believers totally sucked in by the likes of David Icke etc. Of course, I had no idea WHO those persons might be…but I felt so certain that this was the case. And that it had to be stated publicly. And that no one else was saying it! So I did.
I was hanging out on another blog’s comments at that time. I sent that person an email, telling him that I’d gone to the Lion’s Den and yelled: BOO!! (metaphorically), just to see what might come scurrying out. And I did learn some things from that, though not directly.
Well, you were right on the money, Justin. It certainly seems that in some respects, Mr Wedger has swallowed the conspiranoid line. I am not wholly unsympathetic to him, as he seems to have gone through a great deal in his career which would cause severe psychological stress in almost anyone. But he seems to add one plus one and come up with 42 in some cases. More on this to follow!
There were/are others. I had no idea about this one until you started talking about him.
You know that I’m patient enough to wait weeks, months, even years for the right time & place to “speak out”.
When the right time comes…
Am I alone in thinking using words like “Main action” denote a sort of flippant attitude that demonstrates a lack of seriousness in the supposed subject of murdered children?
No, you’re not alone. Abe and Ella treated this as if they were producing a particularly bad television show. Which they were, in a way.
Bill Maloney was with Jon Wedger at the Whiteflower’s meeting at Parliament in January 2015.
I know as I saw them together there.
Lou Collins confirmed the pair were “mates” the other day on one of her posts where she was complaining that none of her real friends were sharing her video/s of Jon Wedger.
I haven’t listened to the latest video, but I did listen to the one Gerrish did in July 2016 so I don’t know if it’s any different or has added contents.
Is Mr. Wedger “dodgy” as Baloney sure is?
That’s a hard question to answer, worth a post of its own. The short version, I suppose, is that while Mr Wedger did some exemplary work in a tough job, some of the statements he’s made left us scratching our heads. It seems as though perhaps he’s spent a bit too much time in the company of troofers, and some of it has rubbed off on him.
Nice work, EC.
Interesting about Wedger’s involvement in Hampstead. Kristie Sue will love that! That’s how she latched on to Cassie – it was her video about Wedger that started the whole Cassie phenomenon:
(Thanks to Jake Blake for jogging my memory on this video in his comment higher up the page.)
It’s also on YT, btw:
What an idiot…
Deluded newbie obviously…
Fascinating finds, Jake.
What a deranged personage 😮
Thanks for sharing. Will add those to the Random Twats & Psychos collection.
Drifloud’s appalling grammar is making me sic.
Nice reveals, EC! And superbly analysed.
Oh dear, only 3 years late to the party.
Why should/would the father make videos??
And Ella has long forgotten about all her children imo.
Dammit, EC – you’ve pipped Kristie Sue to that oh so coveted award again!
I’d love to see Kristie Sue’s explanation as to why Abe & Ella blatantly scuppered the police investigation by leaking the details to an alt news channel. I doubt we’ll get one, though.
Just finished reading this and seriously, EC, you’ve surpassed yourself with this one. This will go down as a classic ‘boom’ moment, I reckon. What a promising start to the new year!
That’s a sobering thought, EC. God knows what else could be out there that could potentially blow the lid on this blatant hoax (again).
Actually, Elvis is on that island with them, so listening to him is easier than you might think. Personally, I reckon he’s behind the whole thing, uh-huh.
Oh, how interesting! I don’t think I knew about him doing a bunk without Ella (or I’d forgotten about it – hedgehogs have notoriously short memories). The plot, as they say, thickens!
Reame Ember-Sandlings says:
And did Abe also kiss the girls and make them cry? The truth is out there.
Bill McLooney says:
@Fnord
Baloney always had trouble pronouncing that too, to hilarious effect.
So, Baloney always said he was working closely with the Met. Could this be what he meant?
Danielle and Lou had an insy-winsy fallout over Hampstead in March 2015 and it precipitated Danielle’s gradual isolation from the troofer community. She was then trolled heavily over her refusal to believe the hype and over her character assassination of Ella. Christ, when even someone who believes that Cliff Richard fertilises his vineyards with the bodies of murdered babies calls bullshit, alarm bells should ring!
You’ll never know how close this blog came to being called Scamden Research 😀
Blimey, at 3:08 Danielle echoes what EC says about not wanting to discuss the case in case it scuppered any court proceedings.
And at 4:49 she says that the children’s anonymity should have been protected for their own safety.
And at 5:18 she describes Abe as “shifty as fuck” 😀
I hate to say it (seeing as she has so much else to answer to) but in this instance fair play to her!
The greasy one will be gutted too, as he’s only just latched on to the Wedger thing and has been promoting it on his blog that no one reads 😀
Sorry, GoS, I posted mine below before I saw yours. Seems Spiny’s mind-reading skills have rubbed off on you!
Great Minds think alike and they gather here to present the truth,
Last I checked, Angela was the accuser of the people.
Angie's Playlist says:
I always have sympathy for policeman as they can often see the most terrible things involving humans and can be severely affected by it.
So hated their attacks on Cliff Richard. Never a fan of his music but he strikes me as a genuine and extremely nice person who is very sincere in his Christian beliefs.
But as usual when someone won’t reveal their personal life (why should they?) some people assume the worst.
Given Abe’s 30 plus convictions why hasn’t he been deported as an undesirable alien? Morocco isn’t part of the EU so why has he been able to remain so long in the UK breaking the law?
Mind you I’ve been to Morocco numerous times and have always liked the people so it would be a shame they were saddled with him as well. Then again they have Hope Girl, another scam artist.
EC has won many awards as you & I have shown. I hear he’s up for the much coveted Koala Gold Badge but don’t tell anyone as it’s a surprise.
The silly woman can’t even get the basic facts right- ones that those on opposite sides don’t dispute, so this new revelation with the ex-copper will probably throw her for six.
What a strange life she is leading. Living in a US state and absolutely obsessed with an imaginary hoax in the UK.
Out of curiosity, did you ever meet him?
So Abe was an immigrant to the UK? I must admit I didn’t know that.
But since he was “invited” in by the real Met to attend an interview re the disastrous “Nick” allegations I think Mr Maloney is now following a new interest. Something safe like lawn bowls or similar.
And as for the charming Mr Fay, there is no love lost between those two. Always sad to see such close friend fall out.
Angie should just cut to the chase and accompany every post with “please send me a fiver”.
Sorry if we’ve already had these but this is Lou Collins’ interview with Wedger (it’s in two parts):
Terri Stewart – the British Government is NOT accountable to people in Indiana or other parts of America. You put a stop to this when you dumped our tea in the dock in Boston. Sod off and sort America’s problems out.
This. What does she do all day? She’s a mother and a wife…. how much time does she actually spend on being those things? To be honest, I feel sorry for her family – can you imagine what it must be like to live with an obsessive. Moreover, a person whose obsessions are the vilest, sickest, weirdest things that human beings can do, pretty much. And bad enough it they’re true (best left to the professionals imo), but what a total waste of time, that could be spent hanging out with your kids and partner, rather than discussing sodomy and satanism with your fake friends on the internet. Weird doesn’t really cover it.
Unless you want a one world Government of course in which case ‘we the people’ will be everyone.
hahahahahahahahahahahahha
He’s British, more’s the pity. I think the above post refers to Morocco letting him lounge about there.
Difficult to hate Cassie but boy, is she one of the most annoying you tubers to date. Imagine living with her !.
Yes, thanks! We’re planning to discuss those on tomorrow’s blog.
Gerrish really has had a charisma bypass. Always have to give thanks to those with stronger stomachs who can sit through the mind-numbing boring presentations.
Now Mad Moo- she’s like a performance artist with a stunning climax.
What a brilliant post to start the new year with, well done indeed EC. Great piece of detective work that you have done here, the Met could do with your skills.
Thanks, AP! Glad you like it. 🙂
A classic video there featuring ole Wiggy. I must make a point of going back and re-watching the old videos made by friends of Hoaxtead Research.
Their attacks on Cliff Richard are still ongoing. The truthers believe that he was a visitor at the Elm Guest House and is nick-named Kitty. Yet another made up story that the fruitloops all fell for.
I agree with JS in that what you have done here is fantastic EC. An excellent piece of detective work showing us how you got to where you did. How the troofers must wish they had your intelligence.
Yes that’s a good point GOS. I was just saying to a friend recently about how at times i may slag the police off but whenever there is trouble or people need help then the police are there for them. If a bomb goes off everybody runs from the scene but the police have to be brave enough to run towards the scene without knowing what dangers they may encounter there.
Thanks, WW. 🙂
I certainly do like it EC 🙂 You never fail to impress me with your detective skills and your writing.
Thanks for that. I hadn’t heard that one, I had only heard the Gerrish interview.
He said something interesting about spotting a child who is lying and knowing when a mother has made a child say things about their dad.
Wonderful delving and reportage EC and team.
There is an immense chasm between the balanced,objective analysis witnessed here and the imagined output of peddlers of perversion who unconscionably use children as human shields to play out their vile,loathsome and entirely inept charades.
A wee spoon based tunette to celebrate wolf moon and the inevitable turning of the screws.Productive and resonant howlings one and all. 🙂
Yes, Abe is a UK citizen. He took the kids to Morocco to bully them into saying what they did. At one point in the police interview the little girl is asked where they were when Abe hit them. She is very careful to say “only Morocco”; this is because Abe drilled it into them that they must not say he ever hit them while they were in England. He was well aware he’d be up on charges if that came out.
It makes me happy to see Dave Grohl – and even more so, Pat Smear – prospering 🙂
Because I remember all the way back to The Germs and even farther. In a way Pat represents for me a redemption for all the failed gutter-punks who crashed & burned along the way, like Darby. I doubt he sees himself that way, but…
Yes, EC. I couldn’t agree with you more on that description of Wedger. Well said.
Excellent choice, Mik and a happy new year to you. May your gifs run-a-plenty this year. 🙂
I’ve met him twice, briefly for promotions. Very friendly and not all ‘starry’- will chat to anyone.
My mistake. He’s quite dark so I always assumed he was Moroccan seeing he had connections there. But the name of course isn’t Arabic.
David Howard needs to read your post, EC.
He’s left this comment under the Wedger interview..
Oh yes, thanks Jake. I meant to post that earlier 🙂
What threw me was “Why has he been able to remain so long in the UK?”
Yes, I’m quite certain that when they are arrested and brought to trial (I know, I’m an optimist) we will discover all sorts of fascinating details they “neglected” to share with their drooling public.
She also claimed that ‘Carrie’ was Cliff’s cryptic murder confession, blissfully unaware that he didn’t write it.
Slain Crater says:
Someone forgot to lock Kane’s cage again.
How’s this for projecting your own sick fantasies onto others? Seriously, how sick and perverted must Kane be to interpret an innocent photo in this way?
Thanks, Spiny & Jake! I’m going to add in the details to the FAQ at some point today. 🙂
HAHAHA!! Love it, thanks Spiny!
Oh dear. Wonder if he said Trump called him a “helluva man, just a helluva man”?
https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2016/09/09/david-howards-polygraph-fixation-a-brief-history/
Great choice, Mik! We’re rocking in the office today. 😀
Indeed and the confused look on the office cat’s face is priceless!
14:29 – “Then [age] 7 to 12, which is, like, the spirit of homosexuality that reigns over the UK and over Hollywood and over New York…”
No homophobia there, then.
Some thoughts for Angie:
Heterosexuality is cursed: Genesis 3:16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire [shall be] to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
In the ten commandments, God condemns heterosexual lust. Gay lust is not listed in the ten commandments as a sin. This shows God’s disapproval of heterosexuality.
Exodus 20:17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife.
Heterosexual acts are unclean:
Leviticus 15:18 The woman also with whom man shall lie [with] seed of copulation, they shall [both] bathe [themselves] in water, and be unclean until the even.
Clearly God recognizes the inherent filthiness of heterosexual relationships.
Leviticus 20:18 And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
Heterosexual relationships during a woman’s period are so disgusting that even God indicates those who have sex then are to be cut off from His people.
Want more evidence? Check this out: http://www.createdgay.com/satire.html
Kudos to anyone who managed to carry on listening to this after Angie started condoning child rape for anyone who repents.
She finally gets round to whining about us at 28:32 😀
She’s once again denying that smoking causes cancer. Good luck with that, Ange.
She thinks she’s a shadow of her former MK Ultra Kitten-self and complaining her weight gain may be down to remote targeting and no-consent childhood medical experiences catching up with her.
“The fear of losing my looks” 😂
No, Debs – this family needs you to leave them the fuck alone, you interfering old witch.
That train done left the station, Angie.
Once again proving the theory of survival of the fittest.
This was the vid wherein he says nothing but: “fuckity-fuck-fuck-fuck!” – yes?
Update from Dr. Mahmoudieh:
She’s just annoyed that we don’t bother with her any longer. She has nothing of interest to say, and now that her protegé Rupert is out of the picture, why would we mention her?
49:34 – “I’ve fallen out with one of my best cyber-friends, on quite a profound level.”
Ooh, do tell, Angie! 🙂
This kind of BS feigned concern really burns my butt 😦
She knows nothing about, and wouldn’t give two sh*ts about, all the Pretty Boys who never made it adulthood for so many tragic reasons. The Glasgow train-spotter boys, the kiddies from The Cup in L.A., some of whom ended up in trash bags by the highways of California, the boys from Vancouver and Houston and Chicago and on & on. Sick old bitch.
THE OUTLAW 🤠 (@outlawjimmycom) says:
Reads pretty much like a slam dunk from where I am sitting.
Well done EC and the team, and may Hoaxtead Research go from strength to strength in 2018.
Many thanks, Jimmy! 🙂
Happy New Year, Jimmy. 😀
58:21 – “I declare and decree that we will have a breakthrough by then and the investigation will be re-opened, the alleged paedophiles described in intimate details will be arrested, three years later, will have their computers and phones and so on forensically examined, will have their identifying body marks – piercings, tattoos, scars and so on – either verified or not. Steve Martin, Rupert spoke highly of you and said that you just did what you did to get along in your career… And I just appeal to you and everybody else that’s been involved with that case to do the right thing.”
Good luck with that, Angela.
That’s it, Debs – you tell ’em 😂
Another day, another new spelling of ‘Hoaxtead’ 🙂
Good to hear things are swinging up at HQ.
Self inflicted stress addict Sabine”madame crocodile”McNeill would be well advised to take a leaf out of your book and learn to loosen up a little too,what with that extensive brood of chickens heading back to roost in 2018 and eveything.The shifty cow might even learn a few new moves.
Yeah, Moo’s stolen her limelight somewhat. LOL
Yay, it’s Jimmy!
Thanks for stopping by, mate. And happy new year to you. Keep up the good work in 2018.
By the way, I don’t know if you’ve heard but our mutual fiend Malcolm Paedogilvy thinks you’re me. Flattering for me but not so much for you.
Come join us, Mik. It’s really swinging in here. And I’ll tell you what, mate – Liza sure has got some moves…
It is quite understandable that having no real friends or family left to fall out with and Mr God flatly refusing to take her calls,the next best thing for a self absorbed nobody and terminal liar is to start creating imaginary friends to thoroughly piss off.
Angela may well be utterly devoid of worthwhile human qualities,but to be fair,she provides an excellent example of precisely how not to live existence on a planet where other beings also happen to exist.
Too much Vodka – according to Kristie Sue.
Too much lounging on the sofa – according to Rupert.
Remote targeting, wtf! She’s having a Giraffe.
As for no-consent childhood medical experiences. How could she consent, even if that is true, which I simply do not believe? She would have been a child, she wouldn’t be in a position to consent.
As for MK Ultra!!
Pleeeeaaaase, pull the other one, it’s got bells on.
What a load of old tosh.
Nothing changes there.
Good to see you back, Mik. You’ve been sorely missed 🙂
Blame Rev Bruce – he’s the one who brought in that giant vat of homebrew. Those vicars sure know how to put it away!
“Yes, am a nasty, horrible person”
A rare moment of self-awareness from the Mooster. Nice 🙂
Thankyou Liza.Glad to be back at base camp after travelling about all over the place.I know he now gets long downtime just ordering elves about and stuff and probably receives decent mileage allowance but I have much admiration and respect for Santa still doing winter excursions at his ripe old age.
Far too many to mention but certain grifters,by comparison need to have a long hard look at themselves and then hang their heads in shame.
You all ready for your daily dose of Moo?
Indeed Spiny,all she needs to do now is acknowledge she has got everything ARSE ABOUT TIT and slide back under the STONE from whence she came and HUMANITY wil be a FAR,FAR better PLACE.
I can assure you that it could be a lot worse Norman.
Assorted online nutters have ‘outed’ me over the years, as being everyone from a female mainstream media journalist, the real author of Justice Paulfrey’s report into the Hampstead case, the Llandudno killer Howard Hughes through to one of the murderers of toddler James Bulger with a new identity.
You are dealing with the kind of people who when alone, take off their socks, and make hand puppets out of them just so they have somebody else to lie too.
I have long given up trying to figure out what goes on in the minds of people like Ogilvy …. Along that road lies madness.
Happy New Year to you too.
6:04 – Have I misunderstood or does Moo not get the difference between fraternity and paternity? She’s based an entire rant about the Masons on the notion that they’re supposed to have a fatherly outlook on life, based on her thinking they’re a ‘paternity’ instead of a fraternity!
Again….hahahahahahahahahahahahah
Well effin hell Dave – we all now know who needs to take a lie detector test don’t we!
Why does this demented pervert keep asking to see an innocent man’s “willy”?
7:23 – “People like me, who are talking reason and sense.”
Shit, there goes that self-awareness. Oh well, it was good while it lasted.
Jake should really try focusing his attention on tieing up his shoelaces and negotiating his way out of his arse before blithely accusing outer gas giants of making his life shit.
Astral Plane says:
The really funny thing is that without Abe publicising this detail we never would have known.
Another borderline death threat for the collection
7:44 – “So ignore me and take what’s coming, because, I tell yer, there is a consciousness out there that would like to crucify paedophiles and chop their heads off and chop their bits off and all kinds of horrific things.”
This really did me head in. I had to get a cuppa and sit down. Is she real?
Angie. It’s not ‘work’. It’s pratting about on the internet. Work involves effort, hopefully, is useful.
I hope Deborah tells the police this when they pick her up. Tick tock as they say…..
I’m still confused about why she thinks the Red Cross is a Christian organisation and that was about three videos ago.
She then goes on to threaten them with “consequences” and says they’ll “feel the wrath” (which she can’t pronouce, btw).
Check out this crap:
https://archive.is/mtm93
I hope Jake never focuses on Uranus.
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just another hit piece in my opinion
Well that’s just, like, your opinion, man.
Ian Leapingwell says:
I am interested to know your opinion about DC Jon Wedger, his work investigating and exposing child abuse throughout the UK and his allegations that his bosses repeatedly shut down his investigations and threatened him with dire consequences if he continued.
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Is Belinda planning a kangaroo court?
Belinda has been doing a lot of gloating and gleeful rubbing of hands over the past couple of weeks, and we suspect we might know why.
About a week and a half ago, she began making references to a “very secret conclave” she’d attended:
Have been at a very secret conclave all day today (19 May 2018) since 11am, woohoo! ….At the said Conclave we had TV on from the late morning so I caught the tail-end of the footage from Windsor but we had a great deal else to discuss.
The references to the royal wedding and her deceased sister seem a bit odd in this context, but clearly Belinda was feeling quite jolly—always a sign that she’s cooking up some sort of plot. We decided to watch and wait.
On Monday, she dropped another subtle hint:
Am getting a bit old now but am nowhere near done and still have a trick or two up my sleeve (sshh!) so am hoping lots more will join me and me them in the upcoming new year of my life.
Of course it’s possible that in her dotage Belinda has decided to learn how to do conjuring tricks for the entertainment of her grandchildren. But the reference to “something up her sleeve” sounded more like confirmation of her earlier post: Belinda is almost certainly hatching some sort of plan.
Lee Cant spills the beans
Sadly for Belinda, we suspect we have some idea what she and her fellow “secret conclave” members have in mind. In fact, one of her minions, Lee Cant, emailed us last week to tell us:
We’ve tried to remove any personal information about recipients of this email, excluding publicly available media and police (!).
yes we are ORG. a JURY of 24 folk to do retrial on the Hampstead Children in a Common Law Court of record so the Public can see and be able to judge
to be posted all over……..
To be fair, Lee probably didn’t send us this fascinating announcement intentionally. It was meant to answer a question from Andy Devine, in a seemingly interminable email thread begun by John ‘The Schnozz’ Paterson. Lee probably just forgot to check who was on the recipients list when he hit “reply all”.
Here’s Andy’s question:
ps do you still not think there should be a retrial on the Hampstead Children in a Common Law Court of record so the Public can see and be able to judge for them selves (sic), do you still think it irrelevant the people accused of having Tattoo’s-Birthmarks-Piercings-scares (sic) by the children in places the children should not have known? I for one would like that accusation proven wrong then I might think like you, however the fact that simple process wasn’t done leads me to believe this needs a retrial, so why “DONT” (sic) You????
Let’s leave aside for the moment the fact that there was no “trial” on this case, as no one was ever charged following the police investigation—though in our opinion Ella and Abe should have been charged, if not with child abuse, then at least with attempting to pervert the course of justice.
Fortunately for Ella, Abe, and Sabine, the court hearing was not in a Crown court, but in the family division of the High Court; and it was a fact-finding hearing, not a criminal trial.
Andy and Lee are dredging up the ludicrous issue of the tattoos yet again, failing to recognise that that particular horse has been deceased for the past three years, and that there is absolutely no point in continuing to flog it.
So how will a “jury in a Common Law Court of record” solve anything? And why will said jury consist of 24 people rather than the usual 12?
According to a site called Freeman Legal Services,
The Grand Jury of Peers is the most potent and lawful force which mas (sic) can assemble to hear wrongdoing. There is NO legal fiction, persona, corporation or entity which can withstand its judgment and is composed of “men and women” not legal fictions, and requires no authority from any external source. It trumps the Supreme Courts of England and the USA and the ICJ and any other fiction court which sits is finery on this planet.It’s yours, it’s here now and you are going to love it because you will understand it. The Grand Jury has the power and authority and precedence to judge facts as well as law – AS ALL JURIES HAVE. It is a deliberate falsehood to purvey that they can only decide fact!
Note to Lee, Andy, and Belinda: no amount of Freeman on the Land woo can make such a court “lawful”.
Holding any sort of public pretend court to “prove” that the Hampstead SRA hoax was somehow real is against the law, for the simple reason that victims and complainants in cases involving sex offence victims are automatically given lifelong anonymity under UK law. If their names or images are dragged out in public yet again, this will constitute contempt of court (the real court, not the pretend one). And we all know what recently happened to Tommy Robinson. ‘Nuff said?
As for the issue of the tattoos, aside from the fact that it would have been illegal for the police to demand that people reveal any distinguishing marks without their having been charged with a crime, it sounds very much like Lee and friends are contemplating some form of vigilantism.
Are they planning to somehow force the people of Hampstead to demonstrate their lack of tattoos, etc.? If so, we’re afraid they can look forward to being charged with assault, at the very least.
If all of this is the subject of the “very secret conclave” which Belinda attended on 19 May, it sounds an awful lot like a group of people might be conspiring to commit a number of crimes.
Whether it involves assaulting the innocent people of Hampstead, or illegally publicising the names of RD’s and other people’s children, any “public Common Law Court of record” would be very much against the (real) law.
Just to be on the safe side, we’ve informed the police of our suspicions. You’re welcome.
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I’m sure the boys and girls in blue will be overjoyed to hear about this!
A “secret conclave”?. Yes there it is confirmed: a conspiracy is being hatched to yet again to attempt to pervert the course of justice and harass innocent people.
That’s if “lee cant” is to be believed but as this mob is like a dog with a bone it seems likely. There is an opportunity for the authorities to nip this conspiracy in the bud before it gets out of hand again. The real victims in this case have been through enough. The few short years that this has ghastly hoax has run must have been harrowing for them and to even hint that a group of misfits are planning to assault their innocence again must be a debilitating. thought.
When will they ever be allowed to live their lives free of this demeaning organized harassment?. And will this mob ever let the 2 children involved retain their innocence for even a few short years?. Must they go into their teens and adult life with an endless repeating series of videos and photos of them being tortured into telling tales of sordid sex and murder popping up on Youtube?
Surely a libel action against the main instigators would focus their thoughts?. We have evidence that any deranged mind can be spurred into action: just as a gunman decided to visit a Washington pizza parlor and fire a gun in the place while customers were there, Hampstead had someone travel from the USA to confront victims and turn up armed with a knife at a named location.
And about bloody time local MPs were badgered into protecting their constituents from harassment. It makes me angry that politicians are lagging so far behind in the rapidly developing world of internet fantasy where innocents are attacked on a daily basis and physically threatened. Why are they so ignorant and frightened of these net entities like Youtube, Facebook etc – they don’t pay their fair share of tax and we are left paying to try and clean up the mess they help create.
Oh, I should think so, yes.
Weborah the Spider says:
So let me get this straight. The truthers trust in a woman, who houses convicted paedophiles (nope sorry not whistleblowers), has a history of involvement in very dubious charity/criminal scams, was a key person who orchestrated the Hampstead child abuse hoax, has promoted no end of alien/star child and conspiracy nonsense (whilst taking donations), and yet they still associate with this vile beast!!!
Words fail me. Bellnder has some nerce to even show her face in public, a complete narcissist and most likey a psycho.
I think it’s apt to bring up the Tommy Robinson case. When you read the Secret Barrister’s report on it he makes some excellent points about Contempt of Court which has some far reaching powers. Are we seeing the plotting of an attempt to bring about such a Contempt?
https://thesecretbarrister.com/2018/05/25/what-has-happened-to-poor-tommy-robinson/
wallop says:
Wasn’t Belinda served with a gagging order about this case? Seems to me she is on the verge of breaching it if she has not done so already. The police should start by questioning Lee Cant about these plans.
Pah! Secret court schmecret court. Nice work, EC 🙂
And up yours, McKenzie, Cant and Devine
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1n7LUTUC1QGKDwGZ-7VagWhLvW9re3HIC
I’m still laughing that Hope Girl fell got scammed out of her crypto currency, LMAO!
A scammer getting scammed by a a speculative negative sum game, that is even worse than a Ponzi/Pyramid scheme, closer to the ‘greater fool theory’ than anything else.
Anyone who makes money off of crypto is at the expense of other making losses later on.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/greaterfooltheory.asp
Did dummy fake new age christian/ex witch not know that there is no safe way to store crypto? Even if you take every precaution imaginable, hold a degree in cryptography and computer security, the developers, miners, markets and wallet holders can all exit not to mention that the crash is imminent as Bitcoin becomes less efficient as time passes, and magic internet beans mined using tons of energy to solve puzzles, is of no value to anyone except those running the scams.
Another double 🙂
Aww, poor Malk 😦
He only opened that account because we got him a ban on his main one 😂
From Sunday:
Vive le Hoaxtead says:
Oh well, at least he’ll have more time to go arse-kissing on Naima’s videos now. Bless 🙂
Not sure why you veered off into a rant about politicians. There are plenty of existing laws in the UK dealing effectively with contempt of court and harassment and menacing digital communications. In almost all cases I see here, that threshold has been crossed and it is legitimate to ask why they aren’t being prosecuted. BUT prosecutions are a matter for the police and CPS and long may it remain that way. The day that we slide into the quagmire that we are seeing over the pond where politicians are able to direct the police and judiciary to act on their orders will be a dangerous day for all. The UK’s constitutional separation of powers is important for a very good reason.
A case of be careful what you wish for lest you are given it.
Vin says:
Some of this is intentional. I don’t know about Hampstead but some of it is intentional
Ogilfail’s final words before he went down:
HUh? Where’s Equador?
Good luck with that, Neelu 😂
http://wideshut.co.uk/tommy-robinson-arrested-contempt-of-court
Grobnob says:
I’ve been waiting for that. Tommy and the vicious pseudo ‘Christian’ , who harass a clergyman and his flock, have so much in common.
Debs has been at the funny fags again, I see.
I don’t think Mr. Marley would approve of your online activities, Debs. Sorry
Roseanne doesn’t sound that sorry to me.
https://twitter.com /therealroseanne
I think it’s hilarious that he would include the Police and media in that list of email recipients.
PC Grimwood is even on that list. They honestly think they will get away with this common law Hampstead “retrial” harassment? LOL!
Mad bint update
Oh and as usual, Angela’s accompanied that post with a random pic so it can’t be reported.
She’s a Christian, you know.
Normal Wisdom says:
Didn’t they try this “Grand Jury” nonsense three years ago? – 01.45 of attached – that obviously went well …
Ah, Belinda’s grand goodbye, well remembered, NW.
Wait – Christians believe in karma now?
I fail to see the issue with GoS saying that MPs should be “badgered into protecting their constituents from harassment.” Ensuring that the police/CPS are acting upon a constituents concern is one of the roles of an MP.
An MP needs to understand the impact inaction by the police, CPS or outdated laws have on their constituents. This may be given time in Parliament as that is where laws come from in the first place!
It’s kind-of how it has worked in the UK for quite a while now…
Karma, astrology, hatred, murder, water dowsing, spirit channelling, false idolatry, clairvoyance, fraud, arrogance, bearing false witness, casting spells and curses… All ok for Christians now, apparently. Let’s just say things have changed a lot since my Sunday school days.
I see one of her creepy followers made their thoughts known under that video:
Same ol’ same ol’…
Looks like Hope Girl’s anti-MKD trolling video (that several people from here reported) has come down.
Great work, folks. As JournoAngie said, “Karma’s a bitch.” Hehe 🙂
Perhaps I didn’t explain my politician angle too well.
I think on the whole they have been woefully left behind by the onslaught of the internet and the large net entities like Google, Facebook, Youtube etc who thumb their noses at the notion of citizens having the right to privacy, the right not to be harassed and defamed etc. and what galls me is that they are huge tax avoiding entities with their falsely constructed “debts” by which they cream of advertising in the $Billions, paying little or no tax, using the infrastructure of a country but owing zilch loyalty to where they make their profits and in the end always without fail, claim that hokey US mantra of “free speech” as a get out clause.
It gets so insane that the Irish government went into a swoon when the EU ordered Apple to repay Ireland €13 billion in taxes and said they didn’t want it: in other words their craven loyalty was to a giant corporation rather than Irish citizens. That’s an awful lot of money that could be used in a small country. The notion that Apple’s HQ (like Facebook) is “based” in Ireland is a sham.
And that’s quite apart from how these tax avoiding scams are demolishing publishing and 100,000s of jobs yearly.
Think back 20 years : could Britain’s newspapers have got away with publishing day after day the photos of the 2 Hoaxtead kids and re-telling their stories without a huge controversy band outrage from our elected representatives?. Our current load of politicians are like deer caught in the spotlight while these corporations walk all over them to the detriment of citizens.
And yes I think politicians also on a local level have a duty to ensure the police are pro-active.
Seems someone’s missed the sodding point as always, Sam:
I’ve often wondered what George Jamaican Trucker’s up to these days…
LOL, they’ve all gone now:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUcu1P-bSXIb5UmpGxLNucQ
Someone’s nervous about a second/third strike, methinks 🙂
The Grand Fubar says:
Far be it from me to diagnose someone with a mental disorder. I have to say though that Belinda’s housing a convicted sex offender was the last straw and brought home to me how deluded she must be.
If anyone reading this believes what happened in Hampstead wasn’t a hoax, at least consider the fact that Ms McKenzie housed (actually HOUSED) a man who had been convicted of sex offences by the Courts. Would you do it? I know I wouldn’t. And she has been one of the main players promoting the shenanigans re Hampstead. You don’t have to believe me. Check for yourselves.
Fascinating article on the Tommy Robinson arrest by our old mate Keelan Balderson:
You forgot drinking menstrual blood. I can’t imagine what Brown Owl would have said about that on a Sunday.
Thank you for the best laugh I’ve had so far this week. 🙂 🙂 🙂
How’s this for irony? Hoax Girl’s just uploaded two ‘cute kitten’ videos which are uncredited copies of someone else’s. Let’s hope no one tells the owners of the original videos about her blatant copyright infringement 😉
See, I said it was a tough gig this week! OK Debs, you win 😀
Ogilvy’s latched on to your link, Lisa – and he’s not happy 😀
Who the fudge is Kellan Balderstone???
Many issues here which go way beyond that of failure to apply existing laws. I’m sure as well as a wide range of religious/non-religion views held by fellow posters, there is a wide range of political ones too. Politics is beyond my GCHQ pay grade so I’ll leave it well alone.
We’ll just have to agree to disagree. 😎
That’d be a real shame.
I hope I get a jury service notification from Belinda! Come to think of it who will be selecting those jurors….and will they be unbiased?
Secret meetings….doting over the Royals….has Belinda joined the Order of the Eastern Star and is teaming up with Rothschilds and Bilderberg Group?….It’s a conspiracuh.
A common law court case in which a bunch of unprofessional biased conspiracy nuts choose which evidence is heard without any defense present and nobody of any relevance or importance being questioned or cross examined. Pointless nonsense!
It’s pointless, but if it takes place prior to or concurrent with Sabine’s trial, they could find themselves doing a Tommy Robinson. Among other things.
Okay. I watched it. It made me laugh. Yes, the police car slowed down but it was probably an officer pointing out the nutter’s address to a new colleague. The other cars just drove by normally.
My maths is a little rusty but if she claims that there is only one car every 5 minutes in that road, then assuming standard distribution three within a minute has a 16% probability or the same as throwing a six on a die. Hardly an unusual event.
Must be those paranoia inducing chem-trails.
I think they should put Angie in charge of the whole thing.
I’m still laughing that Hope Girl fell got scammed out of her crypto currency
For reals? Or as an explanation for why she can’t account for funds that someone lend to her?
Karma, astrology, hatred, murder, water dowsing, spirit channelling, false idolatry, clairvoyance, fraud, arrogance, bearing false witness, casting spells and curses…
And stampeding cattle.
That’s not much of a crime.
…through the Vatican?
Lurker from the 5th floor (GCHQ) says:
Thou can just turn up if you want. Methinks they are desperate to get people involved. It’s going to be held in afield near Glastonbury. Google common law court for all the details.
“…in which a bunch of unprofessional biased conspiracy nuts choose which evidence is heard without any defense present and nobody of any relevance or importance being questioned or cross examined.”
That is justice in many countries, scary eh?
This court perhaps?
https://www.commonlawcourt.com/
It’s the current favourite amongst the ‘Lawful Rebels’ https://www.facebook.com/groups/practicallawfuldissent/?ref=group_header who have been using it to good effect to get out of paying council tax and hide their assets from bankruptcy practitioners… Well… When I say good effect I mean no effect whatsoever but there’s been commercial liens and Lis Pendens and plenty of other Footler favourites. You can even get a common law birth certificate which lets you reclaim your something, something, something.
The best bit about it is … And I quote…
“The final verdict of the Common Law Court Jury is final and not subject to appeal.”
So that should be the end for the satanic powers of satanic satanism.
In reality the ‘Common Law Court’ is one man who appears to be John Smith of somewhere in Scotland. John seems to be the judge, court clerk, prosecution counsel and all twelve members of the the court. As often as not he’s the plaintiff too so a lot of the final and non-appealable judgements work in his favour.
As of late he’s been doing a roaring trade… Well… A trade anyway in ‘official’; court documents at £7.00 a go. Yes folks… A mere seven of your English pounds will buy you a certified copy of the CLC’s judgement overturning council tax… Think of all the money you could save.
Oh… You can even get a medical marijuana get out of jail free card for the same low, low price…
“There is NO CHARGE for recording this information however you may purchase an A4 extract for £7.00. This extract will be embossed with the Common Law Court Seal and will confirm that it is lawful for the named individual to use and grow the marijuana plant under Common Law.”
https://www.commonlawcourt.com/medicinalmarijuana
Perhaps Belinda is wanting to spend some time in Prison alongside Sabine?
I’ve never knowingly met a paedophile in my life. These folk have proved connections to convicted paedophiles and have even housed one. Are they always shouting out about paedophilia just in case fingers start pointing their way? Is it a case of protesting too much?
Oh for crying out loud !. Why didn’t someone tell me she’s a Flat Earther?. Explains everything.
She really is a fuckwit isn’t she?. Despite probably 1000s of hours of complicated investigations by numerous police officers, the complications of gathering evidence, 100s of interviews of witnesses and victims and alleged perps..it’s a berk like “Tommy Robinson” actually exposing abuse. Even though there are several trials going on.
Power-Disney does this all the time- she posts links to reports of arrests and convictions and thinks she’s the one exposing it all and then moans “something must be done” while others are actually doing something while she sits at home begging for fag & beer money.
Does she really think that there is a “Planet Earth Planing & Tech. Dept” responsible for the weather? I assume it is a joke, but you can’t be sure. Maybe she really is that mad.
A woman who once met Malcolm Ogilvy and still has nightmares says:
I’ve met Malcolm Ogilvy. Does that count?
Well said, Sam. Plus Robinson hates Muslims, so Angie sees him as a kindred spirit.
Couldn’t help being a bit catty ….meeeow 🙂
Nice work, Sheva 🙂
Great results TSLF.
Is she removing evidence of fraudulent claims, too ?
No, I think when we got that first one taken down this morning, she shat herself and took down the others to avoid a second/third strike.
Then she thought she’d be safe putting up two kitten videos but as soon as she saw us talking about letting the owners of the videos she’d (rather hypocritically) stolen know about it so they could report her for copyright infringement, she shat herself again and took those down too.
I did tell the owners, btw 🙂
I think she was also taken aback and monumentally embarrassed after spending all night bragging to all and sundry about how she’d had my channel removed (she hadn’t) and then I replied to her on the very thread where she was shouting about how my channel no longer existed. So I think there’s also an element of saving face here 🙂
Didn’t she lie some more the other day, saying that she’s never made fake medical or health benefit claims?
Title of this video (reported): What is Shungite and Why its so powerful for your health
Got your back, hehe:
She’s made loads of false medical claims. We have a screenshot somewhere of her listing all the things orgonite can cure. Total bullshit, of course.
Cos she likes to stay smug……. We should invent something Smugonite or something …. lol 🙂
Oooh, lets see it, please TOT
Equador is obviously a country on the planet Zog where they happily exchange certificates from SwissIndo for cash.
I’m not convinced you would get much for them in Ecuador. However; it you send them to me I will pay the equivalent of 100 Venezuelan Bolívar for each one.
Too funny, what a fcking hypocrite….. As it goes, I think Naima is making out that I also run all the MKD channels…. which obviously I don’t, or that I am Sophie Green or you or anyone she fancies calling me……. I havn’t taken any videos down…… HopeGirl acting as agent for Angela Power Disney made a third strike on the new Real Fresh Start Foundation, to protect her buddies on Fresh Farts…….. she hopes ! lol….
And no, I don’t think she is really a christian….. I am fortunate to have met many christians along the way and each one of them would be as disgusted with her evil practices as I am. She is fake and rotten to the core and just uses any self image that she thinks will help her fool people.
Angie still has one fan left, then:
Looking at some old footage of Kevin Annett the other day, I suddenly realised that it was probably HIS skull that the starchild skull was a model of,,,,, it just looks very similar in size and shape 🙂
Wait till you’re in court Angie, then see how you like it ! Only none of us will be daft enough to stop the wheels of justice turn for you, but the press will have a field day afterwards 🙂
OK, brace yourselves and try not to chuck bricks at the screen or lose the will to live…
http://angelascaches.org/tommyrobinson-sabinemcneill-melanie-shaw-uncut-unplugged/
Thankyou very much, are you one of my devotees, by any chance TOT ? lol
If only we could arrange for Debs to be exempt from the law of gravity. We could all wave goodbye to her as she floated off into the cosmos.
2:10 – “Richie Allen says in his broadcast he thinks he’s exposing paedos. Well, he’s never exposed anything except for I’m sure he’s exposed himself a few times.”
Not to be confused with Tom Robinson:
2:36 – “If that’s the standard for professional journalism, I’m horrified, Richie. I’m disgusted.”
Sounds a real bargain.
Never one to exaggerate is she? How many times has she been the victim of attempted kidnaps?
I like how Angie has used a photo of her younger self in the video’s thumbnail.
HypeGirl got scammed ?
*Vive
*Hoaxtead
14:01 – “The Muslim invasion of Europe”
Yep. She actually said that.
Did some scientific research and this is as close as I got to Shungite
She’s ranting about immigrants but…er…she is one, isn’t she?
Thanks…on it.
Lyrical Larry says:
Belinda, the cow
Was sure she knew how
To set up a kangaroo court.
When she heard Hoaxtead shout
That her secret was out,
She cried and reached for her passport.
Thanks for the information, mate. By the way, is this you in this top secret surveillance footage?
100th Monkey business
Disappearing is the order of the day it seems. Yet there’s plenty of whistleblowers and GCHQ Trolls around as far as I see it.
What’s everyone else spending their Illuminati Shadow Government Black Op Paycheque on this week ? I was thinking black tinted windows in my car so the truthers can’t see me on CCTV. Maybe some white Shorunite crystals to give my braincancer microwave cannon an extended range. I’ve had it pointed at Mad Deb;s shack for the last month and she’s raising her tolerance.
Lawful Rebels? Imma Chaotic Rebel myself.
Both of them, Treyvon too.
Hahahahaha deadlegged with a makeshift pirate flag
snigger
Bahahahahaha!
The worst part is that she promoted bitcoin which is terrible for the environment, requiring an absurd amount of energy to mine a single bitcoin, and at the same time she’s promoting a supposedly environmentally friendly free energy machine that will never work and needs plugging in, lol.
Have you seen how many posts are on her blog about 5G? Debs is another one obsessed with 5G! It’s like the conspiracy sheep are all brainwashed into following each other. I wouldn’t be surprised if they both subscribed to this magazine:
She loves 5G, because it’s dangerous radiation, along with chem trails and undersized carrots, can be cured by using their awful plastic crystals and stupid pyramids. She’ll jump on any conspiracy she can make money from,
On another note . . . . https://s15.postimg.cc/4q7lxdq6j/fiddler_s_green.jpg
OMG, it’s a Fotler scam on a bun, it’s all there. At bottom though It appears to be all about Mr Smith’s problems with council tax, his mortgage and other debts, so he declares them void in his common law court and tries to make a little £££ by selling useless documents to other people.
The usual mystery (Neelu is the same) about how people appear to be simultaneously fooled by this stuff, and cynically using it to scam other people. He appears in the Quatloos thread Practical Lawful Dissent FMOTL Antics, and I think one of the cases discusssed on the site by two creepy avatars (one with disturbingly rolling eyes) may be a case followed in a BBC Radio 4 documentary about freemen.
nuf said…
Landline telephony has problems of its own, but no-one ever mentions those, because of Big Wire.
OMG, does she look more vile than ever and done, reported. Any headline will do for Angie, nothing said about the fact that Tommy put the victims in the case at risk and also the case itself……. cos She doesn’t know and she doesn’t care about any real victims only those like her who make shit up about famous people or politicians.
That alleged journalism course she did in university was a waste of time. She is still ignorant to the fact that D-Notices are not compulsory.
There are times when you can laugh at idiots like Neelu but she really is a bloody creep. The “Disappeared” was a term originated by the desperate families of young activists who were kidnapped by the dreadful murderous Pinochet regime in Chile and who were never found. Stories abounded of young people rounded up and machine gunned in a stadium, of being hog-tied and flung out of helicopters over the sea.
These vile people appropriate a term that is so meaningful to the mothers who “coined” the term to try and describe their sheer desperation of never knowing what happened to their child.
But as in the way they steal the term “whistle blower”, they reduce the seriousness of an important subject with their own selfish & petty claptrap.
I love Quatloos. It shows there are sensible people among all these loonies.
Blast from the Past !. Great song and way ahead of his time. I marveled at this song when it first came out and the fact he performed it on Top of The Pops was amazing and a credit to the BBC then.
Reminds me of how music could be powerful and have a real message before it dissolved into financial mediocrity.
That’s an excellent point, Sam. Disgusting behaviour.
For anyone who missed the gag there, read the full song title and then watch/listen to any random snippet of Angie above.
What she’s not revealing here is that Bitcoins are actually made out of re-cycled Organite and this pair are counterfeiting Bitcoins with Organite which they have actually counterfeited.
Scamming can get complicated.
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Video is still up, so much for YouTube’s 24/7 flagging service. Actually it’s bollocks and only a small percentage of reports are acted upon.
It’s just there so you can feel like you did something.
If they did act Free the Hampstead 2 would be wiped off the site completely.
We need to stage a coordinated operation to flag every single interview video numerous times till the whole channel is taken down, that should be the number one priority.
I agree in principle, but here are some numbers to think about:
YouTube videos tagged “Hampstead Cover up”: 17,800
YouTube videos tagged with the names of the two children: 30,800
YouTube videos tagged with father’s name: 1,390
YouTube videos tagged “Hampstead Satanic”: 8,900
Yes, there will be overlap amongst those categories, but this gives a sense of what we’re up against. What we really need is a concerted legal effort to force YouTube to obey the court order which was made in February 2015. They need to take down the videos wholesale. While it’s satisfying on an individual level to remove them one at a time, it’s really like farting against thunder.
You don’t say. If only the legal guardian lodged the correct claim and YouTube added it to an auto flagging digital fingerprint doodah then it’d have an effect. I blame a lot of Americans with poor cognition knee jerking this thing seven ways to Sunday
I know, if YouTube can ‘sense’ a music copyright violation at 1,000 paces, how are they unable to notice when thousands of illegal videos are being uploaded and shared? And even if they can’t use some kind of visual flagging, it’s a simple matter to write a programme which would sort videos by keyword and create an ongoing database for them.
If it was legally required that they detect and remove it they would. But that’d take a lawyer badgering them, or a much bigger campaign that a few dozen of us can muster. It’s pretty much an unregulated free for all and paradise for idiots posting crap.
That is what they do…… I’m sad that it still boils down to mass reporting. I’ve been thinking that there needs to be a mechanism for a case like this………… once a restraining order is in place, especially if children are involved, then it should get all an automatic wipe …………The amount of vralised vile still out there about Hollie and the children, all generated by certain platforms, colluding and with clickalottys and bots galore at the ready…… surely tech wizards can sort this ?
We could possibly contact a Hampstead MP or counsellor ? If it was a Metallica song or Star Wars clip it’d go down. I’m sure YouTube would act if it was done properly. Mere flagging is pointless.
What some call people’s courts and justice, other’s call extremists and lynchings
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The stoopidest troofer: Tere Joyce on Hampstead
It’s been a busy week, so it took our transcription team a while to get round to giving American alleged stand-up comedian Tere Joyce’s take on the Hampstead SRA hoax a listen. (They are currently lying down in a dark room with cold compresses against their temples, but recovering well, thanks.)
We learned of Tere’s video on Friday, the day she attempted to spring to her friend Angela Power-Disney’s defence.
We’ll let you judge how well that worked.
It all started innocuously, if predictably, enough:
Am I wasting my time talking about the people that are in the hive mind? Well…maybe not. And the reason why I don’t think it’s a waste of time is because….people are getting under attack.
People are getting targeted. People are having, I dunno, policemen show up at their house, and confinscate [yes, that’s what she said] their computers, and their cellphone, and they’re saying you need to come down and make a statement because we’re trying to figure out if we can have a lawsuit against you.
What you’re putting out on social media, what you’re saying on shows like this right now, This woman has been on our show, my show, right here on American Freedom Radio, she’s getting her computer confinscated, she’s getting her cellphone taken away from her to be investigated if there’s something there, so they can get a lawsuit on her for slander.
And do you want to know, do you wanna know who it is? And also what it’s about? Oh, I’ll tell you who it is. It’s Angela Power-Disney.
Um…we got stuck back at “we’re trying to figure out if we can have a lawsuit against you”. For “slander”.
Now there are some rumours that she was arrested, and I shared that with a few people mostly privately, I didn’t make any announcement online or any of that because I did want to find to whether it’s true or not and she was not arrested.
Wow, how very responsible of Tere! Sadly, though, it goes downhill from here.
There was this other [bp?] that came out, let me read that to you, just so you know, because see again, our media, or social media, or people connected to it…it’s like a rumour. It isn’t that she had her stuff confinscated blah blah blah, now she’s been arrested, which she never was. She’s not been arrested. But…here’s what did come out. This is from Rev Dr Anthony G Pike, and this was to the Hampstead Group.
And it says,
‘Extraordinary men international, St Anthony battling atheists, anarchists, democrats, capitalists and psychos. Some urgent news just in is that our X-Girl, Angela Disney, 61, has been arrested by four IRA knee-capping thugs who nicked her cellphone and computer on the 17th of August at her home in Oldcastle, “C-O Meath”.
‘So finally, the Hoaxtead devil-worshipping baby eaters have been able to arrest their quarry, after she outed one of their top leaders by giving his real name, who then began baying for her blood with ominous death threats. IRA thugs also burnt to the ground our GG-grandads’s stately home in “C-O Cork” in 1921, and are now known as the police, aka Gard, and also of course the military in the Irish version of MI5 and MI6. So folks, looks like Angie’s heading the way of [redacted] and others who’ve blown the whistle on the whole Hampstead SRCA coverup, i.e. to jail. Yours in the battle for planet earth, Dr Anthony G Pike’.
Back to you, Tere:
Well you know what, Doctor Reverend, you were inaccurate, all right, I don’t know why you did this, I don’t know why you painted it this way, and because you painted what you just said this way, you’re kind of discrediting…I mean, how am I supposed to believe everything else that you put here in print? Okay?
Pro tip for Tere: you’re not supposed to believe everything that jackass puts in print. You’re not supposed to believe anything he puts in print. So far, his track record for accuracy is in the negative digits. (That’s “below zero” to you.)
See, this kind of stuff lacks integrity as far as I’m concerned.
Ahahahahahaha!
Oh. She’s serious. All right, carry on…
And it really is something that needs to be stopped, and we need and that’s why I’m saying it, because you’re spreading things that aren’t there, and you gotta question yourself, why are you saying that? Like why aren’t you working within the facts?
So I said it, even I said it, there’s a group on Facebook that’s private, you know, it’s a private chat, on IM Message [You mean ‘Facebook Messenger’?], that I am involved in, that people know Angela, and they are kind of in the loop of super soldiers and things like this, and I shared this in the group, I said Angela was arrested, and now, when I text Angela, I get the information that that’s not accurate, she was not arrested, okay, but what did happen, and I’m sure it’s okay if I read you her words, she said,
“No, I was just put under caution for volunteering a statement. File going to be sent to director of Public Prosecutions to see if it should go to trial. They wanted to see my evidence and sources, they didn’t arrest me or gag me, so that has got to be a good sign. I have a statement with no attorney, I’m taking a big risk by the two cops seem to believe me. So the cops were laughing as they dropped me home, assuring me that I had not been arrested”.
So she went in and she made a cautionary voluntary statement.
Anybody out there familiar with the law? Anybody know what a “cautionary voluntary statement” is? No? Good, at least we’re not alone.
And so that’s what she did. She was never arrested, the cops were laughing when they dropped her off, they, I guess maybe they’re not even seeing this as seriously, but here’s what happened: RD, RD, who is the father of the two children who were on camera, saying what they said and that’s how Hampstead happened, he is the one who actually had this done to Angela. So he’s gone after her, for slander, on the Hampstead case.
No. Not slander. Harassment.
Okay. Now. [long pause]
There happens to be a group called Hoaxtead, which is a group of activists or advocates that go after people who are accusing Hampstead of Satanic ritual abuse.
Okay, I’m just telling you just so you know, if you’re new to this topic, this is why I’m giving you the background in a remedial form just to like educate, because [inaud] people listen to my show and they will not know the background to the extent that there is [inaud] out in many different alt media circles, as well as a little bit of the mainstream, but any of the mainstream journalists that decided to broach this topic have been, they were kicked off their shows, they were fired, and had their social media accounts taken down.
Beg pardon? When exactly did this happen? And to whom?
For example Ben Swann, who has now started his own media via the internet and who as a solution to what the mainstream media is doing about information and real journalism.
To our knowledge, Ben Swann the former CBS evening news anchor in Atlanta, GA, was sacked because he had attempted to revive a “controversial” (aka bull-goose loony) news segment without the station’s knowledge. For real journalists, this is actually considered a bit of a no-no. Okay, a lot of a no-no.
And no, Swann never reported on Hampstead. He did talk a lot about Pizzagate as if it were a real thing, but not Hampstead. Maybe he never had time to get to it, who knows?
But do go on.
So RD, just so you know, was the father of these two children, and if you go to YouTube, just type in Hampstead, and you will see these two children talking about Satanic ritual abuse, abuse by basically the entire town. [Wrong]
From daycare centres [Wrong] other neighbourhood families [Wrong] the police, you know, everybody seems to be in on it in this one particular location as abusing and performing Satanic ritual abuse on children, including child sacrifice, baby sacrifice, drinking of blood, and all these kinds of conversations and dialogue came out of a couple of little kids.
And then there were people that went after, pursued what was going on, and those people have really…I have seen people, the people who talk about Hampstead, have had the most extreme backlash than any other group that has talked about child paedophilia association to the elite or to anybody in general, okay?
Now, RD is an actor, if you google his name, you will see him, there’s pictures of him with the Hollywood sign, he’s done a movie, I think he did a movie called “The Bullet”, um, I think its kind of silly you know because there’s a picture of him holding a bullet between his fingers looking all serious and I dunno, it just seems kind of hokey to me, but that’s me, all right, wouldn’t be a movie that I’d…I wouldn’t be watching that on Netflix, of course I’m a chick, so…maybe it’s because I’m a girl, I’m just not into bullets.
Why are we talking about bullets? Does she actually know what the Hampstead SRA hoax was about? What time is it? Can we go home yet?
But, so, RD is the father [Yes, so you’ve said], actually, our television networks have interviewed RD in defence of him, as a victim, against these Satanic child abuse allegations [Wrong][Unless by “our” she means “UK television networks”][Possible but not likely]
And yet, I don’t know, it doesn’t seem like, not one of the people who seemed to interview him, if I can remember right, and I should probably go back and watch them, I would think that one journalist would say, “Well if those are your children, why were they saying those things, and why were you allowing somebody to actually film your kids saying those and be on the internet in the first place? But where were you when your kids were being interviewed, and do you have anything to say about what they said, like why were they saying that?”
We can think of one really important reason why a journalist would not ask that. Can you guess, Tere?
It’s because it would demonstrate conclusively that they had never done even the slightest research into the case, and that they had no fucking clue what they were talking about. We don’t know if you are aware of this, but real journalists are meant to actually know a little bit about what they’re reporting on. Go look it up. It really is a thing.
I mean, why would a six-year-old go into a great amount, I mean the little boy looked like he was about six or five or something like that, or maybe even younger, I mean the girl…they looked,…I mean the girl and the boy were two years apart and they barely looked any older than six or seven years old, even the little girl, so they were little kids!
Does Tere actually know when the events she’s talking about were meant to have happened?
And those children are describing things like human genitalia, female genitalia, male genitalia, talking about tattoos, the things they did, what they did, and their father was there….
Now we never hear from the mother, the mother’s never come forward, they talk about the mother, they talk about how the mother isn’t involved in the occult like they are, and yet we don’t hear anything.
Uh, but the media is so willing to defend somebody like this, I mean, does anybody else see a pattern here? I mean, I don’t see the mainstream media going “Wow, is this guy really a paedophile?”
Wow, based on the astounding evidence Tere’s given us so far, we have no idea why this hasn’t already happened. (Tere: the foregoing is called “sarcasm”. Apparently you’re a little unclear on that topic, so we suggest you just skip past it.)
And what is this about the Satanic ritual abuse, because I know that it sounds like it’s an outlandish topic for people to talk about like as if, it’s so horrific that you can’t imagine, you can’t imagine somebody doing something like that, it just seems insane. Right? Like what do you mean, cannibalism? That’s just ridiculous, I mean, for a really long time, I thought of people who were Satanists as, “Oh, they’re just being silly, there is no Satan. Oh, take your devil horns off, and take your frigging robe off, you look ridiculous. am I supposed to take you seriously?”
Even Col Michael Aquino with his eyebrows, you know, on Oprah, I’m like come on, really? Why is he in the military? What’s wrong with these people? That was my initial reaction to it when it first…when anything Satanic even came up, I was just like “really, okay, whatever”. … Whatever… [long pause with slurping sounds] I don’t know why I’ve ben thirsty the last few days when I’ve been doing a show. … Maybe because it’s the hot weather (sigh)…
So this guy, now, the kids are grown up more, and they did an eBay commercial. I don’t know if he works for eBay, whatever, he’s older, he’s gained a little more weight, and he has his kids, who now look like they are adolescent or pre-pubescent, or maybe they are adolescent now, they’re teenagers, are now on the commercial with him, and everything’s all hunky dorey. Like, what was that all about? How come nobody answers, why did we even go through this?
Let’s discuss basic arithmetic for a moment.
Tere says that the children in the original videos were six years old, max. Now she says they are adolescents…so, 13 years old, give or take. And yet the original videos were made in 2014. This means that somehow, in the space of four years, the children became seven years older. Perhaps she thinks we age more quickly here? Perhaps she really is as brainless as she sounds? The mind boggles.
Okay, lets’ say this isn’t true. let’s say this isn’t true, let’s say none of it’s true. Then why were your kids saying it? and why didn’t the media pick you up and make an example out of it? and why is Angela Power-Disney getting her stuff confinscated, and looked through and now she has to make a statement and you want to sue her, if it’s not true?
Er…what?
Now, here’s another thing that we need to consider in this dialogue. Because it’s really important, I think it’s really important to peel the onion and look at this from every single angle. Don’t just go oh it is what is it what is happening, what’s not happening. Right?
We swear to God that is an accurate transcription. We don’t know what it means, but it’s accurate.
So a lot of people, let’s say Sarah Ruth Ashcroft, one of the things that she says is, “Well if Tom Hanks isn’t guilty then why hasn’t he sued me yet?” Isaac Kappy will say the same thing, that’s their excuse of them being guilty. “Well they’re not suing me so they must be guilty”. They would be guilty if I was lying because they don’t want to go to trial because they might be found guilty, that;’s why they don’t want to act like it’s happening.
That’s been a biiiiiiiig excuse, coming from Isaac Kappy and Sarah Ruth Ashcroft, who also work underneath the QAnon banner. Like I said, I sympathize with anyone who’s making allegations of paedophilia. And they’re very very brave to come out. But there’s a lot of brave people who show their face. And they do interviews. Even when they lie, they show their face and they do interviews.
And until Sarah Ruth Ashcroft can actually come on camera and make a public testimony I don’t think that she’s always going to not lack total credibility.
Is this some kind of test? “I don’t think that she’s always going to not lack total credibility”. What does that mean? Why are we doing this? May we stop now?
And the fact that she’s using a QAnon hashtag and again, I’m not saying that Q doesn’t exist, or that it’s all a psy op, or whatever, that’s a whole ‘nother conversation. But the fact that other people do, and the opposition does, means that not showing your face and using a QAnon hashtag automatically discredits you for any mainstream credibility.
Oh my God. She said something which made a small yet discernible amount of sense. “People who work under the QAnon banner lack mainstream credibility”. This, folks, is an actual true statement, from the mouth of Tere Joyce, who so far as we are able to tell, is not well-acquainted with such things.
We’re going to spare you the part where she asks whether Hampstead is in England, or the other bit where she calls Angela Power-Disney “Angela Lansbury”. Or all the other bits which made us grit our teeth, roll our eyes, and pray for death.
But in all seriousness, if this is the current state of “alt journalism”, we fear for the future of humanity. Over and out.
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Oh dear. Mindless gossip hashed out as fast as it’s read off a blog.
On another note, what happened to Angela’s car ? She’s previously blogged that she needed funds to get it on the road. Another blog she discusses getting a lift to hospital.
Can we have a post dedicated to wild speculation on why she mentions two cars being taken then shuts up (a rarity) about the topic completely.
I would hazard a guess it was either untaxed, uninsured, a rusty eyesore or all three at once.
Oh the poor impoverished aristocrat (unchecked but she sports a Diana style ring and rode horses as a girl) reduced to having her grotty rustbucket towed off to be crushed.
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Mind you if she was to buy 12 months mot, insurance and road tax this minute, she probably wouldn’t need it, know what I mean.
Haw haw haw
The poor princess 👸 will either have to ebeg taxi fare or take the bus.
Was Tere Joyce the entertainment in the interval section of this show? I am getting fat jelly babies don’t you know.
* fat on jelly babies
Proper ones ? With just a faint dusting of fine icing sugar ?
A Talmudic Law expert writes says:
Is there a special sub-class of stupidity that we can place Tere & her wigs in?. I mean any real radio journalist (oi you in the back row..control your laughter, I won’t warn you again!) would be circumspect in broadcasting claims made by a person who is under investigation that basically proves that what they are accused of is true ie: an illegal campaign of harassment that could destroy a victim’s life.
Do they have Legal Aid in Ireland?. I really think for Ange’s sake I should send my legal pal Seamus O’Holligan from the prestige law firm Dumas & McPhail to offer her some friendly advice.
The Ghost of John Birch says:
” the other bit where she calls Angela Power-Disney “Angela Lansbury”
A Tip for the Troofer Community & Freedom Radio Broadcaster Extraordinaire Tere Joyce. True fact: The recently sacked mega-millionaire Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is the nephew of British actress Angela Lansbury.
Please alert QAnon and toss this fact into the mix. With 7 Degrees of Separation, you can easily weave this into a vast Pedo Conspiracy with Tom Hanks, Oprah Winfrey, and Michael Aquino (plus I know for a fact that in Mr. Turnbull’s ritzy harbourside home suburb there are NO PIZZA RESTAURANTS !. Why?)
old castle, see oh mead,
That’ll be County Mead
The Plot Thickens Considerably says:
Has Tere Joyce inadvertently or by design introduced a new element to the vast worldwide conspiracy run by the long-lost Rothschild family member Sir Edward Heath who faked his own death and who now lives in Bohemian Grove with Elvis Presley (Remember: Elvis is reputed to have died from eating too many Comet Ping Pong Pizzas!)
Is Angela Power-Disney, in fact, an invented character played by the actress Angela Lansbury? Has anyone ever seen them together in the same room?. Is EC too hasty in attempting to pour scorn on Freedom Radio warrior Tere Joyce’s ramblings?. Look at the similarities between the two Angelas: both are glamourpusses!. Am I sane?
Issy T. says:
You’ve reminded me of that old joke about the two Irish gay men – Patrick Fitzgerald & Gerald Fitzpatrick.
That was a real treat to read EC, I laughed all the way through.
I think they call people like Tere ditzy although her vagueness and general air-headedness could be the result of something else…not necessarily a bang on her head.
just type in Hampstead, and you will see these two children talking about Satanic ritual abuse, abuse by basically the entire town.
Ah. Hampstead is a town. All these years I thought it was a suburb of London. That’s why we need this better-informed American perspective.
Trebor Bassett (advertising) Jelly Babies, only the best and original of Jelly Babies count. Fake unoriginal copies of Trebor Bassett (more advertising) Jelly Babies are no good if you want to be authentic and original, nobody wants to be a fake like Becki Percy. Iceland (even more advertising) is where I get my jelly babies from, and my oh my the fun just keeps rolling in with Angela Power Disney, and she is making me fat on jelly babies.
So what was the local time in Canada when you posted this, EC?
Stalking and harassment latest:
The general philosophy of this human dumpster fire seems to be
(1) If you defame some random stranger on the Interrubes, and they don’t sue you, that is an admission that you are right.
(2) If you defame some random stranger on the Interrubes, and they do sue you, that is also an admission that you are right.
That’s a caption contest waiting to happen!
Anyone loooking for a reasonably priced house in the Ilford area? Needs some attention.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-67000765.html
Didn’t Neelu say £160,000?
Hmmmmmm Bertie Bassett. I’m big on jelly babies and liquorice allsorts.
How’s becki percey doing ? She still think Donnie trump’s gonna save her ? Sooner she’s home the better, so she can quit her nonsense grifting, ebegging and crappy candle business and get stacking the shelves in Tesco’s.
A bong in her lungs maybe ? She’s dumb as hell and does zero research, knows nothing to begin with and just reads out the latest crap she got alerts for. It’s sloppy, unprofessional and utterly lacking in charisma.
Good luck with that (sigh):
Ginger Red says:
Wilfred Hyde Park, you are the lucky winner of a ‘no frills’ date with Neelu & Neddy Ellis! Congratulations! 🎉🎊🎉
Legal aid ? I should hope so. In angelas case it doesn’t matter. If she had johnny rumpole of the bailey Cochrane on the job he’d tell her to plead guilty and get a bargain, but the idiot will refuse and take the maximum. A million quid on lawyers couldn’t save her. The daft bint spoke to three hours with no lawyer and the digits evidence they’re working through is as string as it gets, not that they need much with her face and voice in video after video making her slanderous (allegedly) claims. The case would look pretty watertight just from identifying two kids protected by court anonymity, that she called for hackers to attack the family business is clearly harassment. That a ds and a sergeant attended shows they’re serious. I can only assume that her emails and messages link her to other hoaxers and the exchanges may amount to further charges, co defendants. It’s all fun and games till pc plod knocks on you door.
Turnbull ? Well we know a bull has horns, like the devil. So if this shapeshifting demonic space lizard turns into a bull it’s obviously because he’s a servant of satan. Case closed. Burn him at the stake.
Anyone here speak Ogilvy? Any idea what the creepy twat’s banging on about here?
No idea but for those who missed it late last night, his latest victim is Emma Thompson’s daughter, whom he’s attacking and calling a liar for claiming she was sexually assaulted on a train last year. Here’s a summary of the evidence he presented to support that serious allegation:
LOL, I have been thinking of heading over to the UK, how mean of it would it be for me to buy it???
London is a city. But the city of London isn’t actually a city, or London. Same for the city of Westminster. It’d confuse the hell out of folks who number their streets how the geography of London works. Its got cities within it, boroughs, towns, hamlets, villages, all sorts.
There’s no excuse these days with google earth so easy to access.
Shall we also explain that you brush your hampsteads and put on a dicky dirt and Peckham Rye? This teres a right Hampton and needs a kick up the Aristotle.
All in all, though, he appears to be having a great weekend…
Just don’t mention his own dabblings in witchcraft and astrology. Apparently it’s a really sore point with him and he doesn’t like to shout about it in front of his Christian fundamentalist mates. So shhh
Hey EC, soon as you finish the latest chapter of your Canadian mystery novel polish up my spelling would you? I hate leaving errors all over.
I’ve no idea who he’s banging on about but to have stumbled on that he must have been trawling porn sites again, something he’s previously denied 🙂
I should have said “borough” rather than “suburb”.
This teres a right Hampton
Not a Berkshire? I never expected you to be so polite.
Actually, knowing Malcolm he probably posted that himself, lowlife scum that he is.
Actually Hampstead isn’t a borough. It’s in the borough of Camden.
Just be aware that she’ll be knocking on your door every day, demanding a remedy for the home you stole on behalf of the baby traffickers 🤣
I like how it says
This profile is only visible to registered users
On the clearly visible profile.
Ogilvy obviously has an x hamster account himself then. Mucky swine.
Hampton Wick, Dick.
Saved for posterity:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1M6Sn-x3v9y9UekLcQ0xaZzFjNvk7MKCx
LOL, Turnbull is just one step removed from the devil imho, and the one that started the entire debacle (Dutton) is the devil incarnate, he and trump would get along famously, their world views mesh quite nicely, but Dutton has intelligence, which makes him far more dangerous….
Looks like Irish law is a little tougher than the English.
12 months for minor harassment and up to seven years for a serious case
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/oireachtas/seven-year-prison-sentence-for-internet-harassment-in-d%C3%A1il-labour-bill-1.3375834?mode=amp
Seven years, that has a nice poetic ring about it. I once broke a mirror, seven years bad luck. Thankfully my lawyer reduced it to three and a half on appeal.
Well, I hope you spent those seven years reflecting on what you’d done.
I’ve sent Tere a link to this post. It might help with her ongoing education.
Shattered by it, still in pieces. I maintain my innocence as it was obvious the mirror was also framed.
Years ago I smashed the rear view mirror in my car and I’ve never looked back.
More great advice from one of Neelu’s psycho “friends”. Sigh
I see Facebook have removed their ‘theft and vandalism’ reporting category. Good to know they’re taking the whole ‘cleaning up their act’ thing seriously. Sigh
Christ, how many psychos does this woman have on her friend list? 😮
Oh really smart mr Williams, add arson and destruction of property to the list of charges she would face….
(hint it ISNT hers anymore, it belongs to the bank who financed her when she stopped making payments and the courts awarded the house to them to sell to recover the money owed…)
So setting fire to it and pouring concrete down the drains is destruction of somebody elses property, not to mention she would STILL owe the money and as a smoldering ruin wont sell for much, she would actually end up owing even more!!!!
Typical of these clowns, turn a parking ticket into a jail term every time….
LOL um…(counts on paws)….(looks up time zones)….(tries to pick one, decides on Newfoundland)…10:30! Give or take.
Poor man had to also listen to another of Mr Ellis’s loony lectures.
By Jove, I think you’ve got it!
My undying admiration & a hearty handshake. 🙂
Cannot disagree with you there.
Sorry, no idea.
This is well worth a listen!
LOL no problem.
Wouldn’t surprise me.
Mr. Trump thinks his name is Malcolm Trumble.
A Bailiff muses says:
How rude of them to throw Mr. Edward Ellis (Equity Lawyer) out into the rubbish. I’m pleased Neelu was able to recover him. Does that mean there are still another 99 residents inside the house?
A National Trust clerk writes says:
We are ensuring you will not be forgotten Neelu.
You ask Whiskers to complete one task…
I’d prefer not to link his latest videos but can I nominate Matt Taylor for the following award?
Creature from The Black Lagoon says says:
ARGHHHHH ! I saw it too!. Sweet Jesus- what is it?
Damn, that’s good! Kudos, SC
Becky Percy is feeling depressed because her candles not making enough income to pay the bills. She however had a nice holiday in San Diego and is back refreshed for more false allegation making. Trump is not being very interested in Percy, must be because she is an illegal immigrant.
Oh no, bad pussycat! That’s a shade away from being a classic 😂
Nice house for sale in Ilford, comes with personalised crazy lady stalker.
A night of passion with Neelu, congratulations.
Not sure, but I’ve heard that if you ask it out for coffee and a chat it’ll turn tail and run. 😉
LOL I think Trump might have more pressing issues to deal with. Being uninvited to John McCain’s funeral, for example.
Whinging? When did this happen, Angie? Do you have a link?
Colgate shares just plummeted.
😂😂😂 “Social worker and psychological warfare operative”. Yes, that’s totally a thing.
“DRACO-REPTILIANS DEVILS AND THEIR SHIPS BEING HELD HOSTAGE ON EARTH FOR TRIALS”
New troll folder – Tere Joyce:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1BY3ITN8EkHjjpQRpmJnhXpHOJx37yAA2
That video will keep Cat, Angie and Ogilvy busy for days 😂
Seems Heather Brown (aka Pru Halliwell, aka Suzy Jones) is having a rough weekend 😀
Thanks to Special Agent J for drawing my attention to these
Oh dear. Another shocking exposé? I can hardly wait. 🙄
More self-incrimination and headless chickenry…
NB it was Ella who was made to attend anger management classes at Tavistock, not RD. And JournoAngie knows this.
tdf says:
@Grobnob
First of all, that’s a bill, so not law.
I have grave concerns about the bill as proposed. For example, there is a great danger that powerful public figures would abuse the regulations to bully citizens who ask legitimate questions, or raise legitimate concerns.
There are enormous, egregious, significant and well-documented problems with corruption in Ireland. (This blog has previously, for example, written about the case of Garda whistleblower Sgt McCabe the tip of a rather filthy iceberg). I would, frankly, question the need for such legislation – there is already anti-harassment legislation in Ireland, including in relation to internet harassment.
The fact that the bill was proposed by the current Irish Labour party leader, unfortunately, heightens my concerns, as elements in that party have previously attempted to introduce very severe restrictions on freedom of speech in Ireland (and bear in mind Ireland already has tough defamation laws).
https://www.irishexaminer.com/viewpoints/analysis/laws-against-hate-speech-muzzles-freedom-of-expression-366836.html
It won’t. They’re all too stupid to understand how stupid they are. Think of it as intellectual blindness, they just see blurry shapes, no details.
Shhhhhh
Don’t let the mobsters know that.
Becki is an absolute idiot. It’s lucky none of the victims of her lies has been attacked because of her ridiculous assertions that everyone she dislikes is a paedophile. She looks like one of Vic Reeves’ drawings with her eyes too far apart. McCain? I think I heard an interview of him while prisoner of the Vietnamese on a documentary. Didn’t Trump, who dodged the draft and would be too weak for the physical rigours of basic, call him a coward and unpatriotic for being a pow ? I don’t like Trump.
That’s right, Mr. P. And you’ve no idea how close Hoaxtead came to being called Scamden!
Leaving aside the ‘mobsters’, I’d like to hear your own views.
Advocating a crack down on freedom of speech under the guise of ‘anti-harassment’ is an extremely dangerous course of action and needs to be thought through. It could be used against this blog, for example.
I find this an extremely troubling proposition:
“2. Harassment
The offence of harassment is currently found in the Non-Fatal Offences against the Person Act 1997. The new version provides that a person who, intentionally or recklessly and without lawful authority or reasonable excuse –
persistently follows, watches, pesters or besets another person, or
persistently communicates with another person, or
persistently communicates with a third person about another person, is guilty of harassment if those acts seriously interfere with the peace and privacy of the victim or cause alarm, distress or harm to the victim.”
It is not difficult, for example, to see such proposed legislation used to bully and interfere with the rights of citizen who raises concerns with a politician.
Looks like the next round is on me then. Pretty accurate.
More doubts, Angie?
An X rated site for hamsters?
Mucky Malcolm indeed.
Hamster abuse. It’s the next frontier for the troofer set.
Yes, I think this is a really good point. I did notice that during Rupert Quaintance’s trial last year, the court spent a great deal of time determining the definition of “harassment” as it stands under the 1997 Freedom from Harassment Act. It does tend to be a somewhat mutable concept, and at that time the settled-upon working definition was that a “reasonable person” who “knew or ought to have known” that their actions would cause fear and distress, could be held culpable.
Interestingly, at that time there was some discussion of this blog, which Rupert stated was run by RD. It was determined that some of the comments on other social media platforms which might have come from regular readers here were rude but not harassment per se.
The famous example was a comment from one “Roger Flutterby” who referred to Rupert as a “knuckle-dragging twat”. The judge’s comment on this was that if Rupert was unable to take the heat online, he ought to stay out of the kitchen.
Another interesting point is that while Rupert claimed to have received multiple threats, including death threats, from this blog and commenters here, when the judge asked him to produce same, he was unable to do so.
I realise that the Irish definition of harassment is differently worded, and to my (non-legal) eye it seems a bit less mushy and ill-defined than the UK one. And I do take your point that a law like this could be used to crack down on legitimate dissent, or criticism of another’s behaviour.
It’s a difficult conundrum, as what’s sauce for the goose must also be sauce for the gander, but at the same time, how are we to protect innocent victims of harassment campaigns without some such statute in place? I suppose the answer lies in balance, proportionality, and use of the defence that harassment is not a criminal offence when it is used in an attempt to prevent a crime.
Yes, that’s an interesting point about the car(s). I still don’t understand why they were seized, nor why Angela isn’t complaining about their loss.
As for her alleged links to royalty, and her claims to being “distressed gentry” or whatever, doesn’t every second person in Ireland ride horses? Re the ring, I laughed the first time I saw it, and it hasn’t lost its charm.
the defence that harassment is not a criminal offence when it is used in an attempt to prevent a crime.
Shirley APD et al. could then use the defense that they genuinely believe that a crime is on-going, to justify their campaigns of harassment.
Not really, since the persons she has targeted have all been cleared of any wrongdoing by the High Court in a judgment rendered on 19 March 2015.
In both cases which have reached the Crown Court, the admissions (a series of facts which both prosecutor and defence agree are accurate) read into the record were that in 2014 two children made false allegations of SRA against various people including their father, their teachers, children and parents in their school, social workers, and police officers. Both sides agreed to the facts of the police investigation, the children being taken into protective custody, and the fact-finding hearing which led to the 19 March 2015 judgment by Mrs Justice Pauffley. It was agreed that a massive amount of information was released onto the internet, in contravention of a court order intended to protect the children in the case.
It would be nearly impossible, short of a successful Supreme Court challenge, for any court to determine otherwise.
The “persistently communicates with a third person about another person” clause is particularly troubling.
Are they trying to outlaw gossip?
What if I persistently communicate concerns about the people who spread the Hoaxstead libels with this blog? What if I persistently communicate reports of criminality or unethical behaviour by a public figure to another public figure, or to a journalist?
One can think of all kinds of communications which would fall foul of this bill.
Yes, I think that does sound pretty dodgy. I’m not as familiar with the process in Ireland, but I assume they fine-tune these things before they go to final approval? (Or am I being unduly optimistic?)
No, I think you’re right, there will be finetuning. Even in the report Grobnob put up, it states that the current Minister for Justice agrees with the need for updating of the legislation on internet harassment but states there will be changes to the proposed bill.
I do think it’s important to get this one right (or as right as possible) across all jurisdictions. Before the Quaintance trial I wasn’t really aware of the amount of interpretive leeway there is in the 1997 Freedom from Harassment Act. I think that as a society we need to consider very carefully what we can and cannot tolerate now that the internet has become our primary mode of communication.
Agreed. If we don’t get it right the next generation could turn against the internet & go ‘back to basics’. Actually, you know, conversing with and meeting people. Mightn’t be a bad thing!
LOL yes, a shocking concept.
Angela’s not happy at all..
‘Angie v Clever People, 26.08.18’
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ht5IQKiBRnVCsKlL0V6S5H4wOJAEt2z3
The Taylor of Scamama says:
Really, Matt? Or do they just object to you using your own children in your hate videos, you sick fuck?
Ogilvy ‘logic’ – apparently not having any videos on your channel makes you a paedophile now. Go figure
Just got a notification from Facebook. They’ve confirmed that threatening to burn down a house doesn’t breach their community guidelines. Warms the cockles, doesn’t it.
CatChairInTheRye says:
For his information, I have 3 playlists that are set to private, as is all my other content. My music taste is classical if he really needs to know. He only had to ask.
Blabberwatch says:
Thanks for the heads-up, Bazza
The Toothpaste Liberation Front says:
The irony of it is that Malcolm doesn’t have any content on his channel either. He’s probably been too busy investigating the Great Solero Mystery.
Hey he was looking for Hampstead and mistyped hampster…. REALLY!!!! Anyone could do that!
“The Pope is a shell that houses a worm.” Well, you learn something every day. 🙄
I think I liked it better when he was telling us about Roger, the 8-foot-tall butterfly.
X-FILES, TWILIGHT ZONE, oh, I’m really going to take her seriously now.. 🤣
ICE LOLLIES ARE A TOOL OF THE DEVIL. You heard it here first.
Alternatively, the tool of the devil is an ice lolly:
“Intercourse with the Devil, she said, was very painful, since his penis was a yard long and scaly, and his semen icy cold.”
Good heavens. Makes you wonder why anyone would bother with him at all, doesn’t it?
I picked the wrong week to stop taking PCP.
Not the Anton laVey deathbed lie again. Some idiot called Patricia claimed a ‘high up Satanist’ freaked out on his deathbed saying there’s something very wrong, there’s something very wrong . . . LaVey was sick, doped up to his eyeballs and slipped away quietly. I think it was Patricia King or something. No one has a shred of evidence for it, yet all the mugs insist it happened.
Yawn. Won’t be watching that drabbard’s stack of wank borefest.
Trash lady doesn’t even know the right spelling for “Aleister Crowley”, let alone the details of his philosophy & death.
Crowley just got old n tired and ended his days burnt out. He was a solid mountaineer, half decent poet and general rogue. That he isn’t credited for bringing a lot of eastern philosophy to the west is a shame. I wouldn’t lend him money though.
Overall a great eccentric, cultured and educated.
Overrated for what he wasn’t and barely recognised for what he was.
He should have written more fiction and poetry and laid off the skag.
I am mildly freaked to see a discussion about Crowley on here, as I’ve literally just been watching this:
She is more or less correct about Crowley as regards his end, no?
I tried to research his descendants and one of them seemed to be a bit…mad. Not necessarily unusual for talented people or descendants of talented people, mind.
http://www.artcornwall.org/features/Aleister_Crowley_Ataturk_McAlpine.htm
See also the sad fate of Lucia Joyce, the daughter of James Joyce (who I think met Crowley via the poet WB Yeats).
http://www.openculture.com/2017/02/how-james-joyces-daughter-lucia-was-treated-for-schizophrenia-by-carl-jung.html
He died aged 72 of bronchitis aggravated by pleurisy and heart disease in reduced financial circumstances. He outlived lemmy for instance, who clocked up 69 years. He had clap in his youth but I’ve only ever heard the syphilis rumour from nuts. He lived three lifetimes worth, drank, drugged and shagged enough for a dozen rock bands combined and even appears on sergeant pepper. His writings still sell okay and he’ll be remembered in a century, lng after
Blimey O’Reilly, I think Catherine needs some happy pills!
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Bold and the Beautiful Spoilers: Sally Calls Wyatt The Wrong Name In The Bedroom
SpoilersThe Bold and The Beautiful
By Chrissie Marie Last updated Nov 30, 2019
The Bold and the Beautiful (B&B) spoilers tease that Sally Spectra (Courtney Hope) will call Wyatt Spencer (Darrin Brooks) the wrong name during sex. It’s a move that puts Wyatt in a sour mood. He will wonder why she would call out his brother’s name and might call him to re-examine his whole relationship with her.
Wyatt proposed to Sally on a whim after he realized that Flo Fulton (Katrina Bowden) was a fake. It dawned on him that he picked the wrong girl and he immediately wanted to reunite with Sally. But maybe that was nothing but a mistake? Here’s what you need to know about what’s coming up on B&B.
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B&B Spoilers – Sally Spectra’s Blunder
During sex, Sally moans Liam Spencer’s (Scott Clifton) name instead of Wyatt’s. It is something that gives him pause as he wonders why she would say Liam.
Several years ago, after Thomas Forrester (Matthew Atkinson) left her for Caroline Spencer (Linsey Godfrey), Sally had a thing for Liam. He helped her with her business, and he tried to fight his dad for her building.
In the end, she lost her building and Spectra Fashions went down too. She decided to work for Forrester Creations, giving up her dream of running a fashion house.
But Liam decided he loved Steffy Forrester (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) and he would do whatever he needed to in order for his marriage to work. It broke Sally’s heart but she understood that he wanted to do the right thing.
So, why after several years would Sally moan Liam’s name? She clearly moved on and she isn’t in love with him anymore.
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Bold & The Beautiful Spoilers – Wyatt Fuller Begins To Questions Everything
This little mistake begins to chip away at Wyatt’s mind as he tries to forget that Sally called him his brother’s name. He wonders why she would do that and if she was still in love with him.
Of course, B&B spoilers say that she will work hard to prove it was nothing, but a mistake and Liam means nothing to here. But she already said it and Wyatt cannot unhear it.
This could be the start of his reunion with Flo. Once she learns that he is upset with Sally, she will try to twist that in her favor.
Do you think Wyatt and Sally can survive this? Could Sally still have a thing for Liam? Don’t forget to come back later for more The Bold and the Beautiful (B&B) spoilers, news, and casting updates!
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State Home Health Leaders Go on the PDGM Offensive
On a federal level, the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), LeadingAge and the Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare (PQHH) have all ramped up their home health advocacy efforts this summer and in early fall.
Increasingly, state home health leaders have joined in on those efforts as well.
Over the past three months, home health leaders in North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Michigan, Kansas and Texas have all publicly written opinion pieces slamming the current version of the Patient-Driven Groupings (PDGM) model and the Medicare cuts that potentially come with it.
“This unnecessary and draconian cut to Medicare for seniors could result in home health agency closures and force seniors into in-patient settings like nursing homes to receive the medical care they need for a higher price to patients and taxpayers,” Rachel Hammon, a registered nurse and executive director of the Texas Association of Home Care & Hospice, wrote in a July 15 op-ed.
“Across Kansas, the home-health industry employs more than 7,300 people,” stated Kansas Home Care & Hospice Association Executive Director Jane Kelly in an Aug. 10 opinion piece. “These home health workers deliver quality, compassionate care to more than 29,700 Kansans annually. Their jobs could be at risk under the PDGM, with payment cuts to Kansas providers under the new plan projected at almost 11%.”
And other state home health leaders have expressed their concerns on a more personal level.
“Rural patients, like my grandparents, particularly appreciate the fact that they can receive care near friends and loved ones, instead of having to travel long distances to receive care in facility-based settings,” Maegan Carr Martin, executive director of the Tennesee Association for Home Care, penned in a Sept. 1 column. “Yet despite the clear benefits, the federal government is moving to impose new regulations that threaten to rob Tennesseans of the ability to age in place.”
Overall, the proposed home health payment rule released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on July 11 included updates that would increase Medicare payments to home health providers by 1.3%, or about $250 million, in 2020.
However, the proposed rule also included language that actually increased PDGM’s widely opposed behavioral adjustment aspect, which broadly pertains to CMS assumptions around how agencies code and handle Low Utilization Payment Adjustment (LUPA) claims.
When originally introduced, PDGM’s behavioral adjustments posed a potential 6.42% cut to home health payments in the coming year.
That figure jumped to 8.01% in CMS’s more recent proposal.
In theory, PDGM is supposed to be budget neutral, a point mandated by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018.
“Every year, growing numbers of senior citizens are choosing to receive care in the comfort and safety of their own homes through Medicare’s home health benefit,” John Beard, founder of Alacare Home Health Services, wrote in a Sept. 4 op-ed. “Unfortunately, despite the expanding need to maintain and strengthen home health services in our state, recent policy developments in Washington, D.C., threaten to undermine patients and providers alike.”
Birmingham, Alabama-based Encompass Health Corporation (NYSE: EHC) announced plans to acquire privately-owned Alacare for $217.5 million in April.
Currently, legislation — H.R. 2573 and S. 4.33 — designed to refine PDGM and jettison its behavioral adjustments exists in both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate. Dozens of co-sponsors on both sides of the political aisle have signed onto the bills in support of the home health industry.
Barry Cargill, president and CEO of the Michigan HomeCare & Hospice Association, praised Sen. Debbie Stabenow, a Democrat from the Wolverine State, for her legislative support in an Aug. 14 opinion piece.
“Sen. Stabenow, along with several other members of Congress, is hoping to stop any impacts before they are felt by patients,” Cargill stated. “These bills would require Medicare to implement reimbursement rate adjustments only after CMS observes any behavioral changes by home health agencies. It’s smart health policy that removes assumptions from provider payments and instead reimburses caregivers based on facts.”
Apart from PDGM, federal health care policymakers are also trying to phase out Requests for Anticipated Payments (RAPs) starting in 2020 while expanding the Review Choice Demonstration (RCD).
Both points are likely to yield more advocacy from state home health leaders in the months to come.
Alacare Home Health and Hospice, Encompass Health, Tennessee Association for Home Care, Texas Association for Home Care & Hospice
[Updated] HHS Announces Plans to Expand the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Model
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Establishing a sense of direction is first step for open science cloud – Dr Juan Bicarregui
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by Catherine Collins
<h2>Establishing a sense of direction is first step for open science cloud – Dr Juan Bicarregui</h2><br /><p><strong>You coordinate the EUR 10 million European open science cloud pilot project, which is laying the groundwork to develop the open science cloud. Could you remind us what the ultimate ambition is for the cloud? </strong></p> <p>‘One of the things Commissioner Moedas (the EU's research, science and innovation commissioner) has said, which I agree with completely, is that this is going to allow a new generation of scholars to share and communicate data and discoveries in a way that has never been done before. The idea is, that everyone can share their information, the computer services, the algorithms, the analysis of the data, in order to make better discoveries. If you read a paper and you see a graph, you will be able to click on the graph and you’ll get the data of what’s behind that graph. You can also read up on the analysis that produced the data. That will push science along a lot more quickly.’</p> <p><strong>You're one year through the two-year pilot project. Can you explain what you’ve achieved so far?</strong></p> <p>‘There were a number of barriers to the science cloud identified last year. A lot of those were about the way that science is done. We needed to remove those barriers by gathering people together across disciplines, across countries and across roles. That’s the first job – bringing everyone together to agree what we need to do.</p> <p> <div class="quote-view quotesBlock quote_horizontal"> <div class="quotesTop"><img src="https://horizon-magazine.eu/sites/all/themes/horizon/images/quotes_top.png" alt="" title="" /></div> <p>‘In theory sharing is good, but in practice it can be difficult to get it right.’</p> <blockquote><p>Dr Juan Bicarregui, Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK</p></blockquote> <div class="quotesBottom"><img src="https://horizon-magazine.eu/sites/all/themes/horizon/images/quotes_bottom.png" alt="" title="" /></div> </div> </p> <p>‘We need to reach a consensus about what we should be focusing on and what the programme should be. That’s the biggest thing that this pilot phase is doing, it's building this sense of direction and the prioritisation of the different and possible activities.’</p> <p><strong>There are several different open science cloud platforms already in Europe. How will you integrate them into the main European open science cloud?</strong></p> <p>‘The underlying principle is that we’re not going to build something new from scratch. We’re putting together the existing infrastructures that each domain has. We’re working with existing disciplinary infrastructures – for example, <a href="https://www.elixir-europe.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ELIXIR</a>, which manages biological data, the <a href="https://www.epos-ip.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">European Plate Observing System</a> which monitors the Earth’s crust and the <a href="http://www.helix-nebula.eu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Helix Nebula</a> project – to see how we can make them interoperate better.’</p> <p><strong>What are the main challenges that you’ve seen so far? </strong></p> <p>‘In the technical area, it’s about making improvements without breaking what’s there. As I said, the infrastructures in the various domains already work. We have to see what we can do to improve sharing without adding extra complications. We’re not trying to replace them but improve them.</p> <p>‘Part of the challenge is to come to a common understanding of what the potential benefits are. Another area we’re looking at is the rules of engagement. If you want to put your service on this cloud, are there quality thresholds that need to be put in place before you’re allowed to get it online? And where is that bar, so that consumers know what level of quality to expect?’</p> <p><strong>After the pilot project finishes, what are the next steps? </strong></p> <p>‘The pilot is not really building much new technology. It's more like a design study, we're looking at what we are trying to build and how will we build it, rather than actually building it. The pilot runs for two years from last January so we’re halfway through, roughly.</p> <p>‘There are a number of projects starting in the new year. There’ll be the EOSC-hub starting in early January with over 70 partners. It will develop the technological side of the open science cloud.’</p> <p><strong>There’s been a lot of debate and discussion about how the European open science cloud should proceed. What are your thoughts about this? </strong></p> <p>‘There’s a balance that needs to be struck between continuing to develop the domain-specific infrastructure and trying to share infrastructures across domains. That’s what most of the debate has been about – where’s the sweet spot between those two. If we could share infrastructure then we could be more efficient. In theory sharing is good, but in practice it can be difficult to get it right.’</p> <p><a href="http://bit.ly/newsalertsignup" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img class="" src="https://horizon-magazine.eu/sites/default/files/news-alert-final.jpg" alt="" width="983" height="222" /></a></p> <p><strong>When do you think that researchers will be able to start using the cloud?</strong></p> <p>‘Some of it, very soon. Some parts are already being built now. Then the new projects that will start in January 2017, they’ll start delivering new services about a year from then. And we’ll build from there. It’s not a big bang thing, it’s about improving incrementally.’</p> <p><strong>Are you optimistic about the European open science cloud?</strong></p> <p>‘Am I hopeful it will work – yes, of course – I wouldn’t be running this project if not! But I also think it’s a long road. It’s a gradual change, each step helps but we’re (not) going to change everything overnight. I do think it will eventually change how science is done.’</p> <p><em>If you liked this article, please consider sharing it on social media. </em></p> <br /> <img src=”http://www.google-analytics.com/collect?v=1&tid=UA-40077089-1&cid=establishing-a-sense-of-direction-is-first-step-for-open-science-cloud-–-dr-juan-bicarregui&t=event&ec=republish&ea=read&el=establishing-a-sense-of-direction-is-first-step-for-open-science-cloud-–-dr-juan-bicarregui&cs=republish&cm=republish&cn=republish&cm1=1" /> This post <a href="https://horizon-magazine.eu/article/establishing-sense-direction-first-step-open-science-cloud-dr-juan-bicarregui.html">Establishing a sense of direction is first step for open science cloud – Dr Juan Bicarregui</a> was originally published on <a href="https://horizon-magazine.eu/">Horizon: the EU Research & Innovation magazine | European Commission</a>.
Dr Juan Bicarregui says it’s a long road to a full European open science cloud but some parts will be available for use very soon. Credit — Kevin Casey
Changing the way science is done in Europe is the first job in setting up the European open science cloud, a huge shared data repository that will enable data from all publicly-funded research to be freely accessible, according to Dr Juan Bicarregui from the Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK.
You coordinate the EUR 10 million European open science cloud pilot project, which is laying the groundwork to develop the open science cloud. Could you remind us what the ultimate ambition is for the cloud?
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‘One of the things Commissioner Moedas (the EU's research, science and innovation commissioner) has said, which I agree with completely, is that this is going to allow a new generation of scholars to share and communicate data and discoveries in a way that has never been done before. The idea is, that everyone can share their information, the computer services, the algorithms, the analysis of the data, in order to make better discoveries. If you read a paper and you see a graph, you will be able to click on the graph and you’ll get the data of what’s behind that graph. You can also read up on the analysis that produced the data. That will push science along a lot more quickly.’
You're one year through the two-year pilot project. Can you explain what you’ve achieved so far?
‘There were a number of barriers to the science cloud identified last year. A lot of those were about the way that science is done. We needed to remove those barriers by gathering people together across disciplines, across countries and across roles. That’s the first job – bringing everyone together to agree what we need to do.
‘In theory sharing is good, but in practice it can be difficult to get it right.’
Dr Juan Bicarregui, Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK
‘We need to reach a consensus about what we should be focusing on and what the programme should be. That’s the biggest thing that this pilot phase is doing, it's building this sense of direction and the prioritisation of the different and possible activities.’
There are several different open science cloud platforms already in Europe. How will you integrate them into the main European open science cloud?
‘The underlying principle is that we’re not going to build something new from scratch. We’re putting together the existing infrastructures that each domain has. We’re working with existing disciplinary infrastructures – for example, ELIXIR, which manages biological data, the European Plate Observing System which monitors the Earth’s crust and the Helix Nebula project – to see how we can make them interoperate better.’
What are the main challenges that you’ve seen so far?
‘In the technical area, it’s about making improvements without breaking what’s there. As I said, the infrastructures in the various domains already work. We have to see what we can do to improve sharing without adding extra complications. We’re not trying to replace them but improve them.
‘Part of the challenge is to come to a common understanding of what the potential benefits are. Another area we’re looking at is the rules of engagement. If you want to put your service on this cloud, are there quality thresholds that need to be put in place before you’re allowed to get it online? And where is that bar, so that consumers know what level of quality to expect?’
After the pilot project finishes, what are the next steps?
‘The pilot is not really building much new technology. It's more like a design study, we're looking at what we are trying to build and how will we build it, rather than actually building it. The pilot runs for two years from last January so we’re halfway through, roughly.
‘There are a number of projects starting in the new year. There’ll be the EOSC-hub starting in early January with over 70 partners. It will develop the technological side of the open science cloud.’
There’s been a lot of debate and discussion about how the European open science cloud should proceed. What are your thoughts about this?
‘There’s a balance that needs to be struck between continuing to develop the domain-specific infrastructure and trying to share infrastructures across domains. That’s what most of the debate has been about – where’s the sweet spot between those two. If we could share infrastructure then we could be more efficient. In theory sharing is good, but in practice it can be difficult to get it right.’
When do you think that researchers will be able to start using the cloud?
‘Some of it, very soon. Some parts are already being built now. Then the new projects that will start in January 2017, they’ll start delivering new services about a year from then. And we’ll build from there. It’s not a big bang thing, it’s about improving incrementally.’
Are you optimistic about the European open science cloud?
‘Am I hopeful it will work – yes, of course – I wouldn’t be running this project if not! But I also think it’s a long road. It’s a gradual change, each step helps but we’re (not) going to change everything overnight. I do think it will eventually change how science is done.’
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Tzav: What “Fire” Burns Within You?
March 22, 2018Rabbi Richard AddressD'vrei Torah1
Written by: Rabbi Richard Address on March 22, 2018.
This week’s portion, “Tzav” carries through the themes of the rites associated with the sacrifices in the Temple. We read of the various rites and rituals, the elaborate ceremonies associated with the priests and their clothing. Our commentators have had much to say about the role of sacrifices and what they could mean for us today. Surely every colleague has preached on how the concept of sacrifice can be interpreted and every Bar or Bat Mitzvah, who has these portions for their Shabbat, has struggled to find the relationship between these ancient rites and modern life.
I would like, to draw your attention to Leviticus 6: 6. The opening of “Tzav” recounts the burnt offering and the instruction that “A perpetual fire shall be kept burning on the altar, it shall not go out” (“lo tichbeh”). I his “Living Each Week”, Twerski relates two views on this phrase. One he relates from Rabbi Akiba who sought to tell us of the desire to pray with such devotion and passion that we go into a zone and are oblivious to everything else. He also channels Rabbi Shneur Zalman who saw the words rendered as if to cal on us to extinguish the negatives (“lo”) in our life. With no punctuation in Torah, one can interpret as one likes. Twerksi also notes a comment by Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev who interpreted these words to say that even in the midst of negativity, we can strive to find some positive. (pp. 205-207)
We recently interviewed Beth Steinhorn on the Jewish Sacred Aging podcasts (see the link on home page) who runs an organization that works with Boomers as volunteers. Like other groups (like Encore) what seems to be present in many of our generation is really a living example of Leviticus 6:6. For many, we are at a time in life when we have the ability and time to follow a passion in life. That fire within us pushes many of us to “give back” to the world. Many Boomers , now leaving full-time work, can draw on years of very powerful experience to share with the next generation. Surely, there are enough “causes” and people who could use this fire. But there is another benefit. That fire of life that, we hope, remains not extinguished, allows us to continue to live and grow as human beings. Age is no barrier to that fire, indeed, as long as we have that fire, that passion for life and living, we continue to evolve and grow and experience this gift of life. That is, I suggest, a powerful message of this verse and these two words, “lo tichbeh”. As long as that fire within us burns, we live.
Mark Pinzur March 22, 2018 at 9:20 am
Good morning, Rabbi…hope you are safe and warm! The interview with Ms. Steinhorn resonated with me, since I am one of those Boomers concerned with using my skills to help others. I recently began teaching an ESL class at the CH Library, and it has been a gratifying experience . What a joy for a teacher to have a class of motivated, hard working and grateful students! Welcoming this group, made up of adults from nine different countries, is what America is about…in sharp contrast to the vision of our current president. Best, Mark
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Building Skill in Videogames: A Play of Bodies, Controllers and Game-Guides
Ben Egliston University of Sydney
https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1218
paratext, technicity, skill, videogames, metagame
Egliston, B. (2017). Building Skill in Videogames: A Play of Bodies, Controllers and Game-Guides. M/C Journal, 20(2). https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1218
Vol. 20 No. 2 (2017): build
In his now-seminal book, Pilgrim in the Microworld (1983), David Sudnow details his process of learning to play the game Breakout on the Atari 2600. Sudnow develops an account of his graduation from a novice (having never played a videogame prior, and middle-aged at time of writing) to being able to fluidly perform the various configurative processes involved in an acclimated Breakout player’s repertoire.
Sudnow’s account of videogame skill-development is not at odds with common-sense views on the matter: people become competent at videogames by playing them—we get used to how controllers work and feel, and to the timings of the game and those required of our bodies, through exposure. We learn by playing, failing, repeating, and ultimately internalising the game’s rhythms—allowing us to perform requisite actions. While he does not put it in as many words, Sudnow’s account affords parity to various human and nonhuman stakeholders involved in videogame-play: technical, temporal, and corporeal. Essentially, his point is that intertwined technical systems like software and human-interface devices—with their respective temporal rhythms, which coalesce and conflict with those of the human player—require management to play skilfully.
The perspective Sudnow develops here is no doubt important, but modes of building competency cannot be strictly fixed around a player-videogame relationship; a relatively noncontroversial view in game studies. Videogame scholars have shown that there is currency in understanding how competencies in gameplay arise from engaging with ancillary objects beyond the thresholds of player-game relations; the literature to date casting a long shadow across a broad spectrum of materials and practices.
Pursuing this thread, this article addresses the enterprise (and conceptualisation) of ‘skill building’ in videogames (taken as the ability to ‘beat games’ or cultivate the various competencies to do so) via the invocation of peripheral objects or practices. More precisely, this article develops the perspective that we need to attend to the impacts of ancillary objects on play—positioned as hybrid assemblage, as described in the work of writers like Sudnow.
In doing so, I first survey how the intervention of peripheral game material has been researched and theorised in game studies, suggesting that many accounts deal too simply with how players build skill through these means—eliding the fact that play works as an engine of many moving parts. We do not simply become ‘better’ at videogames by engaging peripheral material.
Furthering this view, I visit recent literature broadly associated with disciplines like post-phenomenology, which handles the hybridity of play and its extension across bodies, game systems, and other gaming material—attending to how skill building occurs; that is, through the recalibration of perceptual faculties operating in the bodily and temporal dimensions of videogame play. We become ‘better’ at videogames by drawing on peripheral gaming material to augment how we negotiate the rhythms of play.
Following on from this, I conclude by mobilising post-phenomenological thinking to further consider skill-building through peripheral material, showing how such approaches can generate insights into important and emerging areas of this practice. Following recent games research, such as the work of James Ash, I adopt Bernard Stiegler’s formulation of technicity—pointing toward the conditioning of play through ancillary gaming objects: focusing particularly on the relationship between game skill, game guides, and embodied processes of memory and perception.
In short, this article considers videogame skill-building, through means beyond the game, as a significant recalibration of embodied, temporal, and technical entanglements involved in play.
Building Skill: From Guides to Bodies
There is a handsome literature that has sought to conceptualise the influence of ancillary game material, which can be traced to earlier theories of media convergence (Jenkins). More incisive accounts (pointing directly at game-skill) have been developed since, through theoretical rubrics such as paratext and metagaming. A point of congruence is the theme of relation: the idea that the locus of understanding and meaning can be specified through things outside the game.
For scholars like Mia Consalvo (who popularised the notion of paratext in game studies), paratexts are a central motor in play. As Consalvo suggests, paratexts are quite often primed to condition how we do things in and around videogames; there is a great instructive potential in material like walkthrough guides, gaming magazines and cheating devices. Subsequent work has since made productive use of the concept to investigate game-skill and peripheral material and practice. Worth noting is Chris Paul’s research on World of Warcraft (WoW). Paul suggests that players disseminate high-level strategies through a practice known as ‘Theorycraft’ in the game’s community: one involving the use of paratextual statistics applications to optimise play—the results then disseminated across Web-forums (see also: Nardi).
Metagaming (Salen and Zimmerman 482) is another concept that is often used to position the various extrinsic objects or practices installed in play—a concept deployed by scholars to conceptualise skill building through both games and the things at their thresholds (Donaldson). Moreover, the ability to negotiate out-of-game material has been positioned as a form of skill in its own right (see also: Donaldson). Becoming familiar with paratextual resources and being able to parse this information could then constitute skill-building.
Ancillary gaming objects are important, and as some have argued, central in gaming culture (Consalvo). However, critical areas are left unexamined with respect to skill-building, because scholars often fail to place paratexts or metagaming in the contexts in which they operate; that is, amongst the complex technical, embodied and temporal conjunctures of play—such as those described by Sudnow.
Conceptually, much of what Sudnow says in Microworld undergirds the post-human, object-oriented, or post-phenomenological literature that has begun to populate game studies (and indeed media studies more broadly). This materially-inflected writing takes seriously the fact that technical objects (like videogames) and human subjects are caught up in the rhythms of each other; digital media exists “as a mode or cluster of operations in consort with matter”, as Anna Munster tells us (330).
To return to videogames, Patrick Crogan and Helen Kennedy argue that gameplay is about a “technicity” between human and nonhuman things, irreducible to any sole actor. Play is a confluence of metastable forces and conditions, a network of distributed agencies (see also Taylor, Assemblage). Others like Brendan Keogh forward post-phenomenological approaches (operating under scholars like Don Ihde)—looking past the subject-centred nature of videogame research. Ultimately, these theorists situate play as an ‘exploded diagram’, challenging anthropocentric accounts.
This position has proven productive in research on ‘skilled’ or ‘high-level’ play (fertile ground for considering competency-development). Emma Witkowski, T.L. Taylor (Raising), and Todd Harper have suggested that skilled play in games emerges from the management of complex embodied and technical rhythms (echoing the points raised prior by Sudnow).
Placing Paratexts in Play
While we have these varying accounts of how skill develops within and beyond player-game relationships, these two perspectives are rarely consolidated. That said, I address some of the limited body of work that has sought to place the paratext in the complex and distributed conjunctures of play; building a vocabulary and framework via encounters with what could loosely be called post-phenomenological thinking (not dissimilar to the just surveyed accounts). The strength of this work lies in its development of a more precise view of the operational reality of playing ‘with’ paratexts.
The recent work of Darshana Jayemanne, Bjorn Nansen, and Thomas Apperley theorises the outward expansion of games and play, into diverse material, social, and spatial dimensions (147), as an ‘aesthetics of recruitment’. Consideration is given to ‘paratextual’ play and skill. For instance, they provide the example of players invoking the expertise they have witnessed broadcast through Websites like Twitch.tv or YouTube—skill-building operating here across various fronts, and through various modalities (155). Players are ‘recruited’, in different capacities, through expanded interfaces, which ultimately contour phenomenological encounters with games.
Ash provides a fine-grained account in research on spatiotemporal perception and videogames—one much more focused on game-skill. Ash examines how high-level communities of players cultivate ‘spatiotemporal sensitivity’ in the game Street Fighter IV through—in Stiegler’s terms—‘exteriorising’ (Fault) game information into various data sets—producing what he calls ‘technicity’. In this way, Ash suggests that these paratextual materials don’t merely ‘influence play’ (Technology 200), but rather direct how players perceive time, and habituate exteriorised temporal rhythms into their embodied facility (a translation of high-level play). By doing so, the game can be played more proficiently.
Following the broadly post-phenomenological direction of these works, I develop a brief account of two paratextual practices. Like Ash, I deploy the work of Stiegler (drawing also on Ash’s usage). I utilise Stiegler’s theoretical schema of technicity to roughly sketch how some other areas of skill-building via peripheral material can be placed within the context of play—looking particularly at the conditioning of embodied faculties of player anticipation, memory and perception through play and paratext alike.
A Technicity of Paratext
The general premise of Stiegler’s technicity is that the human cannot be thought of independent from their technical supplements—that is, ‘exterior’ technical objects which could include, but are not limited to, technologies (Fault). Stiegler argues that the human, and their fundamental memory structure is finite, and as such is reliant on technical prostheses, which register and transmit experience (Fault 17). This technical supplement is what Stiegler terms ‘tertiary retention’. In short, for Stiegler, technicity can be understood as the interweaving of ‘lived’ consciousness (Cinematic 21) with tertiary retentional apparatus—which is palpably felt in our orientations in and toward time (Fault) and space (including the ‘space’ of our bodies, see New Critique 11).
To be more precise, tertiary retention conditions the relationship between perception, anticipation, and subjective memory (or what Stiegler—by way of phenomenologist Edmund Husserl, whose work he renovates—calls primary retention, protention, and secondary retention respectively). As Ash demonstrates (Technology), Stiegler’s framework is rich with potential in investigating the relationship between videogames and their peripheral materials.
Invoking technicity, we can rethink—and expand on—commonly encountered forms of paratexts, such as game guides or walkthroughs (an example Consalvo gives in Cheating). Stiegler’s framework provides a means to assess the technical organisation (through both games and paratexts) of embodied and temporal conditions of ‘skilled play’. Following Stiegler, Consalvo’s example of a game guide is a kind of ‘exteriorisation of play’ (to the guide) that adjusts the embodied and temporal conditions of anticipation and memory (which Sudnow would tell us are key in skill-development).
To work through an example, if I was playing a hard game (such as Dark Souls [From Software]), the general idea is that I would be playing from memories of the just experienced, and with expectations of what’s to come based on everything that’s happened prior (following Stiegler). There is a technicity in the game’s design here, as Ash would tell us (Technology 190-91). By way of Stiegler (and his reading of Heidegger), Ash argues a popular trend in game design is to force a technologically-mediated interplay between memory, anticipation, and perception by making videogames ‘about’ a “a future outside of present experience” (Technology 191), but hinging this on past-memory. Players then, to be ‘skilful’, and move forward through the game environment without dying, need to manage cognitive and somatic memory (which, in Dark Souls, is conventionally accrued through trial-and-error play; learning through error incentivised through punitive game mechanics, such as item-loss).
So, if I was playing against one of the game’s ‘bosses’ (powerful enemies), I would generally only be familiar with the way they manoeuvre, the speed with which they do so, and where and when to attack based on prior encounter. For instance, my past-experience (of having died numerous times) would generally inform me that using a two-handed sword allows me to get in two attacks on a boss before needing to retreat to avoid fatal damage.
Following Stiegler, we can understand the inscription of videogame experience in objects like game guides as giving rise to anticipation and memory—albeit based on a “past that I have not lived but rather inherited as tertiary retentions” (Cinematic 60). Tertiary retentions trigger processes of selection in our anticipations, memories, and perceptions. Where videogame technologies are traditionally the tertiary retentions in play (Ash, Technologies), the use of game-guides refracts anticipation, memory, and perception through joint systems of tertiary retention—resulting in the outcome of more efficiently beating a game.
To return to my previous example of navigating Dark Souls: where I might have died otherwise, via the guide, I’d be cognisant to the timings within which I can attack the boss without sustaining damage, and when to dodge its crushing blows—allowing me to eventually defeat it and move toward the stage’s end (prompting somatic and cognitive memory shifts, which influence my anticipation in-game). Through ‘neurological’ accounts of technology—such as Stiegler’s technicity—we can think more closely about how playing with a skill-building apparatus (like a game guide) works in practice; allowing us to identify how various situations ingame can be managed via deferring functions of the player (such as memory) to exteriorised objects—shifting conditions of skill building.
The prism of technicity is also useful in conceptualising some of the new ways players are building skill beyond the game. In recent years, gaming paratexts have transformed in scope and scale. Gaming has shifted into an age of quantification—with analytics platforms which harvest, aggregate, and present player data gaining significant traction, particularly in competitive and multiplayer videogames. These platforms perform numerous operations that assist players in developing skill—and are marketed as tools for players to improve by reflecting on their own practices and the practices of others (functioning similarly to the previously noted practice of TheoryCraft, but operating at a wider scale). To focus on one example, the WarCraftLogs application in WoW (Image 1) is a highly-sophisticated form of videogame analytics; the perspective of technicity providing insights into its functionality as skill-building apparatus.
Image 1: WarCraftLogs. Image credit: Ben Egliston.
Following Ash’s use of Stiegler (Technology), quantifying the operations that go into playing WoW can be conceptualised as what Stiegler calls a system of traces (Technology 196). Because of his central thesis of ‘technical existence’, Stiegler maintains that ‘interiority’ is coincident with technical support. As such, there is no calculation, no mental phenomena, that does not arise from internal manipulation of exteriorised symbols (Cinematic 52-54). Following on with his discussion of videogames, Ash suggests that in the exteriorisation of gameplay there is “no opposition between gesture, calculation and the representation of symbols” (Technology 196); the symbols working as an ‘abbreviation’ of gameplay that can be read as such. Drawing influence from this view, I show that ‘Big Data’ analytics platforms like WarCraftLogs similarly allow users to ‘read’ play as a set of exteriorised symbols—with significant outcomes for skill-building; allowing users to exteriorise their own play, examine the exteriorised play of others, and compare exteriorisations of their own play with those of others.
Image 2: WarCraftLogs Gameplay Breakdown. Image credit: Ben Egliston.
Image 2 shows a screenshot of the WarCraftLogs interface. Here we can see the exteriorisation of gameplay, and how the platform breaks down player inputs and in-game occurrences (written and numeric, like Ash’s game data). The screenshot shows a ‘raid boss’ (where players team up to defeat powerful computer-controlled enemies)—atomising the sequence of inputs a player has made over the course of the encounter. This is an accurate ledger of play—a readout that can speak to mechanical performance (specific ingame events occurred at a specific time), as well as caching and providing parses of somatic inputs and execution (e.g. ability to trace the rates at which players expend in-game resources can provide insights into rapidity of button presses). If information falls outside what is presented, players can work with an Application Programming Interface to develop customised readouts (this is encouraged through other game-data platforms, like OpenDota in Dota 2).
Through this system, players can exteriorise their own input and output or view the play of others—both useful in building skill. The first point here—of exteriorising one’s own experience—resonates with Stiegler’s renovation of Husserl's ‘temporal object’—that is, an object that exists in and is formed through time—through temporal fluxes of what appears, what happens and what manifests itself in disappearing (Cinematic 14). Stiegler suggests that tertiary retentional apparatus (e.g. a gramophone) allow us to re-experience a temporal object (e.g. a melody) which would otherwise not be possible due to the finitude of human memory.
To elaborate, Stiegler argues that primary memories recede into secondary memory (which is selective reactivation of perception), but through technologies of recording, (such as game-data) we can re-experience these things verbatim. So ultimately, games analytics platforms—as exteriorised technologies of recording—facilitate this after-the-fact interplay between primary and secondary memory where players can ‘audit’ their past performance, reflecting on well-played encounters or revising error. These platforms allow the detailed examination of responses to game mechanics, and provide readouts of the technical and embodied rhythms of play (which can be incorporated into future play via reading the data).
Beyond self-reflection, these platforms allow the examination of other’s play. The aggregation and sorting of game-data makes expertise both visible and legible. To elaborate, players are ranked on their performance based on all submitted log-data, offering a view of how expertise ‘works’.
Image 3: Top-Ranking Players in WarCraftLogs. Image credit: Ben Egliston.
Image 3 shows the top-ranked players on an encounter (the top 10 of over 100,000 logs), which means that these players have performed most competently out of all gameplay parses (the metric being most damage dealt per-second in defeating a boss). Users of the platform can look in detail at the actions performed by top players in that encounter—reading and mobilising data in a similar manner to game-guides; markedly different, however, in terms of the scope (i.e. there are many available logs to draw from) and richness of the data (more detailed and current—with log rankings recalibrated regularly). Conceptually, we can also draw parallels with previous work (see: Ash, Technology)—where the habituation of expert game data can produce new videogame technicities; ways of ‘experiencing’ play as ‘higher-level’ organisation of space and time (Ash, Technology). So, if a player wanted to ‘learn from the experts’ they would restructure their own rhythms of play around high-level logs which provide an ordered readout of various sequences of inputs involved in playing well. Moreover, the platform allows players to compare their logs to those of others—so these various introspective and outward-facing uses can work together, conditioning anticipations with inscriptions of past-play and ‘prosthetic’ memories through other’s log-data. In my experience as a WoW player, I often performed better (or built skill) by comparing and contrasting my own detailed readouts of play to the inputs and outputs of the best players in the world.
To summarise, through technicity, I have briefly shown how exteriorising play shifts the conditions of skill-building from recalibrating msnesic and anticipatory processes through ‘firsthand’ play, to reworking these functions through engaging both games and extrinsic objects, like game guides and analytics platforms. Additionally, by reviewing and adopting various usages of technicity, I have pointed out how we might more holistically situate the gaming paratext in skill building.
There is little doubt—as exemplified through both scholarly and popular interest—that paratextual videogame material reframes modes of building game skill. Following recent work, and by providing a brief account of two paratextual practices (venturing the framework of technicity, via Stiegler and Ash—showing the complication of memory, perception, and anticipation in skill-building), I have contended that videogame-skill building—via paratextual material—can be rendered a process of operating outside of, but still caught up in, the complex assemblages of time, bodies, and technical architectures described by Sudnow at this article’s outset. Additionally, by reviewing and adopting ideas associated with technics and post-phenomenology, this article has aimed to contribute to the development of more ‘complete’ accounts of the processes and practices comprising skill building regimens of contemporary videogame players.
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Ben Egliston, University of Sydney
Ben Egliston is a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney, in the Department of Media and Communications. His research is principally focused on e-sport and competitive gaming, with particular emphasis on phenomenological dimensions of these practices.
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Made-in-Lethbridge solution protects Transit drivers
By Jensen, Randy on May 28, 2020.
LETHBRIDGE HERALD
The City of Lethbridge has fabricated new shields for Transit drivers as an additional protective measure against the possible transmission of COVID-19.
Approximately half of the City’s Transit fleet have been retrofitted with the shields and installation continues for the remaining buses, the City said in a news release. When looking in the marketplace for an acceptable product to protect drivers, it became clear that purchasing the shields would not be economically feasible for the entire Transit fleet.
“The original products available in the market were designed to protect drivers from assaults and cost over $5,000 each,” says Mario Galeana, Transit maintenance manager. “But we knew this was important for protecting our staff and our riders so we took it upon ourselves to create something in-house.”
The Transit maintenance team began working on prototypes, testing them and working closely with drivers and the Transit Union to ensure they meet staff safety measures without disrupting the operator’s workflow or ergonomics. The materials for the new solution cost approximately $100/bus and are being installed by City staff.
“We now have a solution that everyone is proud of and confident in, all for a fraction of the cost,” says Galeana.
In April, the City of Lethbridge suspended regular Transit routes due to COVID-19, moving to a ride-by-reservation system. This helps limit the number of riders per bus and reduces potential contact with drivers.
Transit will continue operating the reservation system at this time and will ensure shields are in all buses before regular transit is operating again. The shields will be important to keep drivers safe when fare payments and front passenger loading returns.
For more information on the City of Lethbridge’s response to COVID-19 http://www.lethbridge.ca/covid19.
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By Lethbridge Herald Obituaries on March 6, 2014.
It is with great and profound sadness we announce the passing of our precious mother, Theresa Marie Black
Water, beloved wife of the late Stanley Black Water Sr. on March 1, 2014 at the age of 76 years.
A Wake Service will be held at CORNERSTONE FUNERAL HOME, 2800 Mayor Magrath Drive South, Lethbridge, on
Friday, March 7th, 2014 from 5:00 P.M. – 9:00 P.M.
A Funeral Mass will be Celebrated at ST. MARY’S IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CATHOLIC CHURCH, Blood Reserve,
Alberta, on Saturday, March 8th, 2014 at 11:00 A.M. with Father Pawell Andrasz O.M.I., Celebrant.
Interment to follow at St. Catherine’s Cemetery, Blood Band, Alberta.
Honoured to Serve
Cornerstone Funeral Home & Crematorium
2800 Mayor Magrath Drive South
Lethbridge, Alberta T1K 7B1
Telephone ~ (403) 381-7777
Fax ~ (403) 381-3128
Toll Free ~ 1-(888)-381-7778
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MRS. MAY BRADLEY, beloved wife of the late Mr. John Bradley of Lethbridge, passed away at the St. Therese
Villa on Wednesday, March 5, 2014 at the age of 96 years.
Funeral arrangements to be announced when completed.
ROBERT “BOB” PETER CLIFFORD, beloved husband of the late Pauline Clifford of Lethbridge, passed away at
the Chinook Regional Hospital at 6:40 p.m. on Saturday, March 1, 2014 at the age of 88 years.
He is the loving father of daughter Dianne (Charles) Faist of Burlington, Ontario, children Samantha
(Paul) Dowdall, Graham (Sarah) Yaxley, son Douglas (Carol) Clifford of Mississauga, Ontario, children
Daniel (Krysta-Lee) Clifford, Lisa (Justin) Burton, Allen Clifford, son Brian Clifford of Warner, Alberta
and son Brent (Julie) Clifford of Sherwood Park, Alberta, child Davis Clifford. He is also survived by
great-grandchildren Siena, Austin and Tealyn.
He was predeceased by his parents Emamarion & Daniel Clifford as well as brothers Gene & Dale Clifford.
Bob was born and raised in Shaunavon, Saskatchewan and moved to Climax, Saskatchewan as a teenager. He
attended Notre Dame School in 1943, playing hockey for the Notre Dame Hounds. He joined the Army in 1944
and trained as a paratrooper in 1945. Bob was discharged in 1946 and met the love of his life shortly
after in 1947. Together they spent time in Regina, giving birth to their first child/daughter Dianne and
moved to Moose Jaw in the early 1950’s where three boys blessed their household. In 1964, The Clifford
family moved to Montreal to further Bob’s career with Robin Hood Multifoods. In 1977, Bob and Pauline
along with their youngest son Brent, moved to Lethbridge, where an opportunity became available with
Ellison Milling. Bob spent the next 15 years working there.
In retirement, Bob was very involved with the Catholic Ghurch as a member of the Knights of Columbus. He
was also an avid volunteer at the Lethbridge Soup Kitchen. Bob loved fishing and was an avid gardner,
growing a variety of vegetables that he then donated to those in need (mainly the Lethbridge Soup Kitchen
and the Food Bank). Bob always gave willingly of his time and resources to help those who were less
fortunate than himself. He also gave to a number of associations that assisted children in third world
countries around the world. Bob loved sports, but especially baseball & curling. Even through some of the
tough times, Bob would persevere. You could often see him serving at the Soup Kitchen because he simply
loved helping others. The phone conversations not only as a father but also as a friend will be dearly
missed.
Relatives and friends are invited to meet with the family at CORNERSTONE FUNERAL HOME, 2800 Mayor Magrath
Drive South, Lethbridge to pay their respects on Thursday, March 6, 2014 between 6:30 PM to 8:30 P.M.
A Funeral Mass will be Celebrated at the OUR LADY OF THE ASSUMPTION CATHOLIC CHURCH, 2405 – 12th Avenue
South, Lethbridge on Friday, March 7, 2014 at 11:00 A.M. with Father Francis Tran, Celebrant.
Interment to follow at Mountain View Cemetery.
In memory of Bob and in lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Lethbridge Soup Kitchen, 802 – 2A
Avenue North, Lethbridge, Alberta, T1H 0C9
ELISABETH GRAHAM
Mrs. Elisabeth Graham, beloved wife of Mr. Don Graham, passed away on Monday, March 3, 2014 at the age of
Funeral arrangements will be announced when completed.
Send condolences at
http://www.mbfunerals.com.
Martin Bros. Funeral Chapels Ltd.
610 – 4 Street South
Lethbridge, AB T1J 4P3
Phone: (403)328-2361Â Fax: (403)382-3623
http://www.mbfunerals.com
DOREEN LILLIAN SWAN
MARCH 21, 1921 ~
It is with deep sadness we announce the passing of our Mother, on Sunday, March 2nd, 2014, in Calgary.
Doreen was born in Edmonton, Alberta to Queenie and George Fallwell, the oldest child with three sisters
(Maree, Pat, and Shirley), and a brother (Ron).
After the family moved to Lethbridge, she married the “Love of her Life” Dan on August 22, 1942. Together
they worked as part owners of Purlex Dry Cleaners for over 25 years. They raised their two children and
took every opportunity to experience life and nature to the fullest; with weekend camping trips over the
Logan Pass, to Rosen Lake and Tie Lake in BC, where they built their family cabin. Dan passed away in
Doreen was an inspiration to all as she carried on her life travelling the world, even while working at
Hagen Electric from 1965 – 1989 as their office manager. Upon retiring she moved to Tie Lake, where she
lived with her dogs and enjoyed her “little piece of heaven”- the cabin, the mountains, and the lake.
Doreen is survived by her son Barry (Deb) Swan and daughter Peggy (Garth) Johnston; her grandchildren
Kerry (Chris) Spanos and their children Alie and Ashton; Tara (Ron) Stone; and Amber (Ryan) Chelle and
their children Savhanna, Gavin and Brooklyn.
The family would like to thank all of the very special people in Mom’s life. We would especially like to
thank her dear niece, Marilynne, who cared for her with love (Doreen’s Guardian Angel). Also, thank you
to the nurses and staff at Bow-Crest Care Centre in Calgary.
A Memorial Service will be held at 1:00pm on Saturday, March 8, 2014 at MARTIN BROTHERS RIVERVIEW CHAPEL,
610 4th Street South, Lethbridge.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Cancer Society, 317 10th Street South, Lethbridge, AB
T1J 9Z9.
RITA JUNE JOHNSON, beloved wife of the late Douglas Johnson, passed away at St. Michael’s Palliative Care
on Friday, February 28, 2014 at the age of 62 years.
She is survived by her children: Scott (Melonie) Johnson, Tammy (Rob) Hill, Darren (Jessica) Johnson, and
Robynn (Brian) Ficiur. She has seven living grandchildren: Cody, Tristan, Katie, Madelyn, Zach, Max and
Elizabeth, and another expected at the end of April.
Rita was predeceased by her brother Ray Harbinson, her parents Leah (Haws) and John Harbinson, her
husband Doug Johnson, and her grandson Ethan Johnson.
Words cannot express how much this wonderful woman will be missed by her adoring family, her friends, and
all who knew her through church (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), and work (Servus
Credit Union).She always had a smile, a hug, and a listening ear for everyone. She was an example of faith, service and generosity.
A Funeral Service will be held in her honor on Saturday, March 8, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. at The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, WEST STAKE CENTRE, 560 Highlands Blvd. West, Lethbridge.
Friends may meet the family on Friday, March 7 from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. at CHRISTENSEN SALMON GENERATIONS FUNERAL HOME, 703-13 Street North, Lethbridge, or prior to the service at the church on Saturday, March 8 from 10:00 to 10:45 a.m.Interment will follow at the Medicine Hat Cemetery at 4:00 p.m.
Christensen Salmon Generations Funeral Home Ltd.
703-13 Street North
Lethbridge, ABÂ Â T1H 2T2
Email:Â condolences@generationsfh.ca
Sign guest book:Â http://www.generationsfh.ca
PETER BAIER
Mr. Peter Baier, beloved husband of Mrs. Irmina Baier, passed away on March 5, 2014 at the age of 86
 Martin Bros. Funeral Chapels Ltd.
Toll Free: 1-800-382-290
BARBARA ROGOZ of Lethbridge, passed away at the Chinook Regional Hospital on Tuesday, March 4, 2014 at
the age of 59 years.
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It is with broken hearts that the family of CODY DOUGLAS RUSSELL announce his passing at the Chinook
Regional Hospital on Sunday, March 2, 2014 at the age of 20 years.
He is left to mourn his parents Kevin & Rena Russell and beloved sisters Joelle and Dana of Milk River,
AB, grandparents Roy & Dolores Brown and great uncle George, aunts and uncles David (Kathy) Russell,
Cecelia (Guy) West, Leah (Barry) Pavcik, cousins, extended families and friends.
Cody was predeceased by his grandparents Roy and Elsie Russell and great auntie Joan.
Cody was born on August 26, 1993. He was known for a contagious smile and sense of humor. He will be
truly missed by all who knew him.
A Celebration of Cody’s Life will be held at the MILK RIVER CIVIC CENTRE, 321 3 Avenue N.E., Milk River
on Monday, March 10, 2014 at 11:00 A.M. with Rev. Sarah Wallace officiating.
In lieu of flowers donations may be made, in memory of Cody, to Suicide Prevention and Outreach Program offered by Lethbridge Family Services, by sending a cheque to 1107-2nd Avenue “A†North, Lethbridge AB.
T1H 0E6 or donating online by visiting http://www.Ifsfamily.ca, or to the charity of your choice.
 Honoured to Serve Cornerstone Funeral Home & Crematorium
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Single Sign-On (SSO) is a concept where a user authenticates and can access multiple applications without having to log in to those other applications. This is pretty common within enterprises so users don’t have to log in to all of the applications they use every day.
According to Techopedia.com, the advantages of using SSO are:
Eliminating credential reauthentication and help desk requests; thus, improving productivity.
Streamlining local and remote applications and desktop workflow.
Minimizing phishing.
Improving compliance through a centralized database.
Providing detailed user access reporting.
By maintaining a centralized user database, it is also easier to remove access when a user leaves the company by invalidating their SSO credentials. SSO authentication can be extended by adding an authorization database, where authorizations for specific application access and privileges are stored. This authorization database can be used for ongoing access management and control what privileges the user is permitted within an application.
Many enterprises use applications like Computer Associates’ SiteMinder (now known as Layer7 SiteMinder) or similar products to provide SSO support for their on-premise applications.
What is AWS SSO
AWS SSO is a cloud-based SSO service to easily manage access to all of the accounts configured in your AWS Organization. For a discussion about AWS Organizations, see my Medium article.
Using AWS SSO eliminates the need for operating your own SSO infrastructure. It easily manages your AWS Organizations account access, can integrate with many third-party applications, and it provides a Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) configuration tool to extend AWS SSO to any SAML enabled application.
Setting up SSO AWS
By default, AWS SSO provides a directory to store your user information and credentials. If your organization already has a Microsoft Active Directory service in use, you can connect AWS SSO, eliminating the need to maintain two directories.
To set up AWS SSO, you will need to: — configure AWS Organizations and associate the accounts you want to grant access to through AWS SSO; — enable AWS SSO in AWS Organizations; — verify you have the required permissions to set up AWS SSO.
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To enable AWS SSO, open the AWS Console and navigate to AWS Organizations.
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Scroll down to AWS Single Sign-On, and if not enabled, click on the “Enable” button. Once enabled, click on AWS Single Sign-On, to go to the setup page for AWS SSO.
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Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act
Assented to 2005-11-25
An Act to establish a procedure for the disclosure of wrongdoings in the public sector, including the protection of persons who disclose the wrongdoings
Recognizing that
the federal public administration is an important national institution and is part of the essential framework of Canadian parliamentary democracy;
it is in the public interest to maintain and enhance public confidence in the integrity of public servants;
confidence in public institutions can be enhanced by establishing effective procedures for the disclosure of wrongdoings and for protecting public servants who disclose wrongdoings, and by establishing a code of conduct for the public sector;
public servants owe a duty of loyalty to their employer and enjoy the right to freedom of expression as guaranteed by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and that this Act strives to achieve an appropriate balance between those two important principles;
the Government of Canada commits to establishing a Charter of Values of Public Service setting out the values that should guide public servants in their work and professional conduct;
2005, c. 46, s. 59(E).
Marginal note:Short title
1 This Act may be cited as the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act .
Marginal note:Definitions
2 (1) The following definitions apply in this Act.
Agency[Repealed, 2010, c. 12, s. 1678]
chief executive means the deputy head or chief executive officer of any portion of the public sector, or the person who occupies any other similar position, however called, in the public sector. (administrateur général)
Commissioner means the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner appointed under subsection 39(1). (commissaire)
investigation means, for the purposes of sections 24, 25, 26 to 31, 33, 34, 36 and 37, an investigation into a disclosure and an investigation commenced under section 33. (enquête)
member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police means a person who is a member or a special constable of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or who is employed by that force under terms and conditions substantially the same as those of one of its members. (membre de la Gendarmerie royale du Canada)
Minister[Repealed, 2010, c. 12, s. 1678]
protected disclosure
protected disclosure means a disclosure that is made in good faith and that is made by a public servant
(a) in accordance with this Act;
(b) in the course of a parliamentary proceeding;
(c) in the course of a procedure established under any other Act of Parliament; or
(d) when lawfully required to do so. (divulgation protégée)
public sector means
(a) the departments named in Schedule I to the Financial Administration Act and the other portions of the federal public administration named in Schedules I.1 to V to that Act; and
(b) the Crown corporations and the other public bodies set out in Schedule 1.
However, subject to sections 52 and 53, public sector does not include the Canadian Forces, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service or the Communications Security Establishment. (secteur public)
public servant means every person employed in the public sector, every member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and every chief executive. (fonctionnaire)
reprisal means any of the following measures taken against a public servant because the public servant has made a protected disclosure or has, in good faith, cooperated in an investigation into a disclosure or an investigation commenced under section 33:
(a) a disciplinary measure;
(b) the demotion of the public servant;
(c) the termination of employment of the public servant, including, in the case of a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a discharge or dismissal;
(d) any measure that adversely affects the employment or working conditions of the public servant; and
(e) a threat to take any of the measures referred to in any of paragraphs (a) to (d). (représailles)
senior officer means a senior officer designated under subsection 10(2). (agent supérieur)
Tribunal means the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Tribunal established under subsection 20.7(1). (Tribunal)
wrongdoing
wrongdoing means a wrongdoing referred to in section 8. (acte répréhensible)
Marginal note:Taking a reprisal
(2) Every reference in this Act to a person who has taken a reprisal includes a person who has directed the reprisal to be taken.
2005, c. 46, ss. 2, 59
2006, c. 9, s. 194
2010, c. 12, s. 1678
2.1 [Repealed before coming into force, 2006, c. 9, s. 195]
Amending the Schedules
Marginal note:Amending the schedules
3 The Governor in Council may, by order, amend
(a) Schedule 1 by adding the name of any Crown corporation or other public body;
(b) Schedule 2 by adding or deleting the name of any portion of the public sector that has a statutory mandate to investigate other portions of the public sector; and
(c) Schedule 3 by adding or deleting any provision of any Act of Parliament.
2005, c. 46, s. 3
Promoting Ethical Practices
Marginal note:Promotion of ethical practices and dissemination of information
4 The President of the Treasury Board must promote ethical practices in the public sector and a positive environment for disclosing wrongdoings by disseminating knowledge of this Act and information about its purposes and processes and by any other means that he or she considers appropriate.
Marginal note:Obligation to establish — Treasury Board
5 (1) The Treasury Board must establish a code of conduct applicable to the public sector.
Marginal note:Other provisions do not apply
(2) The Treasury Board’s obligation under subsection (1) applies despite the provisions of the Financial Administration Act and of any other Act of Parliament that otherwise restrict the powers of the Treasury Board.
Marginal note:Consultation with organizations
(3) Before the code of conduct is established, the President of the Treasury Board must consult with the employee organizations certified as bargaining agents in the public sector.
Marginal note:Code to be tabled
(4) The President of the Treasury Board must cause the code of conduct established by the Treasury Board to be tabled before each House of Parliament at least 30 days before it comes into force.
Marginal note:Chief executives shall establish codes of conduct
6 (1) Every chief executive shall establish a code of conduct applicable to the portion of the public sector for which he or she is responsible.
Marginal note:Consistency
(2) The codes of conduct established by chief executives must be consistent with the code of conduct established by the Treasury Board.
Marginal note:Application
7 (1) The codes of conduct applicable to a portion of the public sector apply to every public servant employed in that portion of the public sector.
Marginal note:Conflict — RCMP
(2) In the event of a conflict between the code of conduct established under subsection 5(1) or 6(1) and the code of conduct established under section 38 of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act , the code of conduct established under that section prevails to the extent of the conflict.
Wrongdoings
Marginal note:Wrongdoings
8 This Act applies in respect of the following wrongdoings in or relating to the public sector:
(a) a contravention of any Act of Parliament or of the legislature of a province, or of any regulations made under any such Act, other than a contravention of section 19 of this Act;
(b) a misuse of public funds or a public asset;
(c) a gross mismanagement in the public sector;
(d) an act or omission that creates a substantial and specific danger to the life, health or safety of persons, or to the environment, other than a danger that is inherent in the performance of the duties or functions of a public servant;
(e) a serious breach of a code of conduct established under section 5 or 6; and
(f) knowingly directing or counselling a person to commit a wrongdoing set out in any of paragraphs (a) to (e).
(g) [Repealed, 2006, c. 9, s. 197]
1 - Short Title
2 - Interpretation
3 - Amending the Schedules
4 - Promoting Ethical Practices
5 - Code of Conduct
8 - Wrongdoings
10 - Disclosure of Wrongdoings
19 - Complaints Relating to Reprisals
19 - Prohibition Against Reprisals
19.1 - Complaints
19.5 - Disciplinary Action
19.7 - Investigations into Complaints
20 - Conciliation
20.3 - Decision After Investigation
20.7 - Public Servants Disclosure Protection Tribunal
20.7 - Establishment
20.8 - Administration
21 - Proceedings
21.1 - Applications by Commissioner
22 - Duties of the Commissioner
26 - Investigations
36 - Reports
39 - Office of the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner
39 - Public Sector Integrity Commissioner
39.3 - Staff
40 - Prohibitions
40 - General Prohibitions
42.1 - Employers
42.2 - Contracts
42.3 - Offence
43 - Confidentiality
45 - Protection
48 - General
52 - Excluded Organizations
54 - Five-year Review
54.1 - Transitional
55 - Consequential Amendments
55 - Access to Information Act
56 - Canada Evidence Act
56.1 - Federal Courts Act
56.2 - Financial Administration Act
56.5 - Official Languages Act
57 - Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act
58 - Privacy Act
59 - Coordinating Amendments
60 - Coming into Force
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A Little Sunshine / The Coming Storm / Web Fraud 2.0 — 137 Comments
Mail from the (Velvet) Cybercrime Underground
Over the past six months, “fans” of this Web site and its author have shown their affection in some curious ways. One called in a phony hostage situation that resulted in a dozen heavily armed police surrounding my home. Another opened a $20,000 new line of credit in my name. Others sent more than $1,000 in bogus PayPal donations from hacked accounts. Still more admirers paid my cable bill for the next three years using stolen credit cards. Malware authors have even used my name and likeness to peddle their wares.
“Flycracker,” the administrator of thecc.bz crime forum, hatches plan to send drugs to my home.
But the most recent attempt to embarrass and fluster this author easily takes the cake as the most elaborate: Earlier this month, the administrator of an exclusive cybercrime forum hatched and executed a plan to purchase heroin, have it mailed to my home, and then spoof a phone call from one of my neighbors alerting the local police. Thankfully, I had already established a presence on his forum and was able to monitor the scam in real time and alert my local police well in advance of the delivery.
This would-be smear campaign was the brainchild of a fraudster known variously online as “Fly,” “Flycracker,” and MUXACC1 (muxa is transliterated Russian for “муха” which means “fly”). Fly is the administrator of the fraud forum “thecc[dot]bz,” an exclusive and closely guarded Russian language board dedicated to financial fraud and identity theft.
On July 14, Flycracker posted a new forum discussion thread titled, “Krebs Fund,” in which he laid out his plan: He’d created a bitcoin wallet for the exclusive purpose of accepting donations from other members. The goal: purchase heroin in my name and address from a seller on the Silk Road, an online black market that is only reachable via the Tor network. In the screenshot pictured above, Flycracker says to fellow members:
“Guys, it became known recently that Brian Krebs is a heroin addict and he desperately needs the smack, so we have started the “Helping Brian Fund”, and shortly we will create a bitcoin wallet called “Drugs for Krebs” which we will use to buy him the purest heroin on the Silk Road. My friends, his withdrawal is very bad, let’s join forces to help the guy! We will save Brian from the acute heroin withdrawal and the world will get slightly better!”
Together, forum members raised more than 2 bitcoins – currently equivalent to about USD $200. At first, Fly tried to purchase a gram of heroin from a Silk Road vendor named 10toes, an anonymous seller who had excellent and plentiful feedback from previous buyers as a purveyor of reliably good heroin appropriate for snorting or burning and inhaling (see screnshot below).
Flycracker discussing the purchase of a gram of heroin from Silk Road seller “10toes.”
For some reason, that transaction with 10toes fell through, and Flycracker turned to another Silk Road vendor — Maestro — from whom he purchased a dozen baggies of heroin of “HIGH and consistent quality,” to be delivered to my home in Northern Virginia earlier today. The purchase was made using a new Silk Road account named “briankrebs7,” and cost 1.6532 bitcoins (~USD $165).
Flycracker ultimately bought 10 small bags of smack from Silk Road seller “Maestro.” The seller threw in two extra bags for free (turns out he actually threw in three extra bags).
In the screen shot below, Fly details the rest of his plan:
“12 sacks of heroin [the seller gives 2 free sacks for a 10-sacks order] are on the road, can anyone make a call [to the police] from neighbors, with a record? Seller said the package will be delivered after 3 days, on Tuesday. If anyone calls then please say that drugs are hidden well.”
Last week, I alerted the FBI about this scheme, and contacted a Fairfax County Police officer who came out and took an official report about it. The cop who took the report just shook his head incredulously, and kept saying he was trying to unplug himself from various accounts online with the ultimate goal of being “off the Internet and Google” by the time he retired. Before he left, the officer said he would make a notation on my report so that any officer dispatched to respond to complaints about drugs being delivered via mail to my home would prompted to review my report.
FOLLOWING THE MONEY
I never doubted Flycracker”s resolve for a minute, but I still wanted to verify his claims about having made the purchase. On that front I received assistance from Sara Meiklejohn, a graduate student at the University of California, San Diego who’s been analyzing the role of bitcoin and anonymity on the Silk Road. Meiklejohn confirmed that the bitcoin wallet linked to in Fly’s forum thread was indeed used to deposit two bitcoins into a purse controlled by anonymous individuals who help manage commerce on the Silk Road.
Meiklejohn and fellow researcher Damon McCoy, an assistant professor of computer science at George Mason University, have been mapping out a network of bitcoin wallets that are used exclusively by the curators of the Silk Road. If you wish to transact with merchants on the Silk Road, you need to fund your account with bitcoins. The act of adding credits appears to be handled by a small number of bitcoin purses.
“All Silk Road purchases are handled internally by Silk Road, which means money trades hands from the Silk Road account of the buyer to the Silk Road account of the seller,” explained Meiklejohn, author of the paper, A Fistful of Bitcoins: Characterizing Payments Among Men with No Names, to be released in October 2013 at the ACM Internet Measurement Conference in Barcelona, Spain.
All About Skimmers — 49 Comments
Don’t Get Sucker Pumped
Gas pump skimmers are getting craftier. A new scam out of Oklahoma that netted thieves $400,000 before they were caught is a reminder of why it’s usually best to pay with credit versus debit cards when filling up the tank.
The U.S. Attorney’s office in Muskogee, Okla. says two men indicted this month for skimming would rent a vehicle, check into a local hotel and place skimming devices on gas pumps at Murphy’s filling stations located in the parking lots of Wal-Mart retail stores. The fraud devices included a card skimmer and a fake PIN pad overlay designed to capture PINs from customers who paid at the pump with a debit card.
A PIN pad overlay device for gas pumps. Photo; NewsOn6.com
According to their indictment (PDF), defedants Kevin Konstantinov and Elvin Alisuretove would leave the skimming devices in place for between one and two months. Then they’d collect the skimmers and use the stolen data to create counterfeit cards, visiting multiple ATMs throughout the region and withdrawing large amounts of cash. Investigators say some of the card data stolen in the scheme showed up in fraudulent transactions in Eastern Europe and Russia.
As the Oklahoma case shows, gas pump skimmers have moved from analog, clunky things to the level of workmanship and attention to detail that is normally only seen in ATM skimmers. Investigators in Oklahoma told a local news station that the skimmer technology used in this case was way more sophisticated than anything they’ve seen previously.
Security Vendors: Do No Harm, Heal Thyself
Security companies would do well to build their products around the physician’s code: “First, do no harm.” The corollary to that oath borrows from another medical mantra: “Security vendor, heal thyself. And don’t take forever to do it! ”
On Thursday, Symantec quietly released security updates to fix serious vulnerabilities in its Symantec Web Gateway, a popular line of security appliances designed to help “protect organizations against multiple types of Web-borne malware.” Symantec issued the updates more than five months after receiving notice of the flaws from Vienna, Austria based SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab, which said attackers could chain together several of the flaws to completely compromise the appliances.
“An attacker can get unauthorized access to the appliance and plant backdoors or access configuration files containing credentials for other systems (eg. Active Directory/LDAP credentials) which can be used in further attacks,” SEC Consult warned in an advisory published in coordination with the patches from Symantec. “Since all web traffic passes through the appliance, interception of HTTP as well as the plain text form of HTTPS traffic (if SSL Deep Inspection feature in use), including sensitive information like passwords and session cookies is possible.”
Big Yellow almost certainly dodged a bullet with this coordinated disclosure, and it should be glad that the bugs weren’t found by a researcher at NATO, for example; Earlier this month, security vendor McAfee disclosed multiple vulnerabilities in its ePolicy Orchestrator, a centralized security management product. The researcher in that case said he would disclose his findings within 30 days of notifying the company, and McAfee turned around an advisory in less than a week.
Interestingly, Google’s security team is backing a new seven-day security deadline that would allow researchers to make serious vulnerabilities public a week after notifying a company. Google says a week-long disclosure timeline is appropriate for critical vulnerabilities that are under active exploitation, and that its standing recommendation is that companies should fix critical vulnerabilities in 60 days, or, if a fix is not possible, they should notify the public about the risk and offer workarounds.
Hacker Ring Stole 160 Million Credit Cards
U.S. federal authorities have indicted five men — four Russians and a Ukrainian – for allegedly perpetrating many of the biggest cybercrimes of the past decade, including the theft of more than 160 million credit card numbers from major U.S. retailers, banks and card processors.
The gang is thought to be responsible for the 2007 breach at credit card processor Heartland Payment Systems that exposed some 130 million card numbers, as well as the 2011 breach at Global Payments that involved nearly a million accounts and cost the company almost $100 million.
Federal prosecutors in New Jersey today called the case the largest hacking scheme ever prosecuted in the U.S. Justice Department officials said the men were part of a gang run by Albert “Soupnazi” Gonzalez, a hacker arrested in 2008 who is currently serving a 20-year-prison sentence for his role in many of the breaches, including the theft of some 90 million credit cards from retailer TJX.
One of the accused, 27-year-0ld Dmitriy Smilianets, is in U.S. custody. Vladimir Drinkman, 32 of Syktyvkar, Russia, is awaiting extradition to the United States. Three others named in the indictments remain at large, including Aleksandr Kalinin, 26 of St. Petersburg; 32-year-old Roman Kotov from Moscow; and Mikhail Rytikov, 26, of Odessa, Ukraine.
According to the government’s indictment, other high-profile heists tied to this gang include compromises at:
Hannaford Brothers Co: 2007, 4.2 million card numbers
Carrefour S.A.: 2007, 2 million card numbers
Commidea Ltd.: 2008, 30 million card numbers
Euronet: 2010, 2 million card numbers
Visa, Inc.: 2011, 800,000 card numbers
Discover Financial Services: 500,000 Diners card numbers
In addition, the group is being blamed for breaking into and planting malware on the networks of NASDAQ, 7-Eleven, JetBlue, JCPenny, Wet Seal, Dexia, Dow Jones, and Ingenicard.
The hackers broke into their targets using SQL injection attacks, which take advantage of weak server configurations to inject malicious code into the database behind the public-facing Web server. Once inside, the attackers can upload software and siphon data.
The government’s indictment alleges that the thieves were at times overwhelmed by the sheer amount of data yielded by their SQL attacks. On Aug. 12, 2007, Kalinin allegedly sent Gonzalez an instant message that he’d just gained access to 30 SQL servers on NASDAQ’s network, but hadn’t yet cracked the administrator passwords that secured the data inside. “These [databases] are hell big and I think most of info is trading histories.” On Jan. 9, 2008, after Gonzalez offered to help attack the trading floor’s computer systems, Kalinin allegedly messaged back, “NASDAQ is owned.”
A Little Sunshine / Web Fraud 2.0 — 9 Comments
Haunted by the Ghosts of ZeuS & DNSChanger
One of the challenges in malware research is separating the truly novel innovations in malcoding from new nasties that merely include nominal or superficial tweaks. This dynamic holds true for both malware researchers and purveyors, albeit for different reasons. Researchers wish to avoid being labeled alarmist in calling special attention to what appears to be an emerging threat that turns out to be old news; the bad guys just want to avoid getting scammed into paying for an old malware kit dressed up as the new next big thing.
Source: RSA
On Tuesday, RSA Security somewhat breathlessly announced that it had spotted KINS, a ZeuS Trojan variant that looked like “a new professional-grade banking Trojan” that was likely to emerge as the “next Trojan epiphany” in the cybercrime underground. RSA said the emergence of KINS was notable because the reigning ZeuS Trojan derivative – the Citadel Trojan — had long ago been taken off the market, and that crooks were anxiously awaiting the development and sale of a new botnet creation kit based on the leaked ZeuS source code.
“Since December 2012, when the spokesperson of the Citadel team took the Trojan off the semi-open underground market, cyber criminals have been scrambling to find a replacement,” RSA’s Limor Kessem wrote. “In early February 2013, RSA fraud intelligence researchers began tracing hints about a new crimeware tool called ‘KINS’. At the time, the information about the Trojan just a rumor, but in sporadic comments, fraudsters were associating a Trojan named KINS with the Citadel source code, looking for its developer in order to reach out to him and purchase KINS. The rumors were soon hushed and ties to Citadel were denied, mostly in what appeared as a case of fearful fraudsters who did not want to be denied the possibility to buy the next Trojan.”
But according to Fox-IT, a security research and consulting group based in The Netherlands, KINS has been used in private since at least December 2011 to attack financial institutions in Europe, specifically Germany and The Netherlands. Fox-IT says KINS is short for “Kasper Internet Non-Security,” which is likely the malware author’s not-so-subtle dig at the security suite offered by Russian antivirus maker Kaspersky.
Source: Fox-IT
In its own analysis of the banking Trojan malware, Fox-IT said KINS is fully based on the leaked ZeuS source code, and includes only minor additions. What’s more, Fox-IT notes, many of the users of KINS have already migrated to yet another ZeuS variant, suggesting that perhaps they were unsatisfied with the product and that it didn’t deliver as advertised.
“While the technical additions are interesting, they are far from ground breaking,” wrote Michael Sandee, principal security expert at Fox-IT. “With an array of fairly standard features, and relatively simple additions to the standard ZeuS, such as reporting of installed security product information, the malware platform does not bring anything really new. There are however some features of this malware, not aimed at the functionality for the person using it, but aimed at complicating malware analysis.”
OLD MALWARE, NEW PAINTJOB?
From the bad-guy perspective, this infighting over malware innovation is on display in a new malware offering that surfaced today on a semi-private forum: The seller is pitching a resurrected and modified version of the DNSChanger Trojan, a global contagion that once infected millions of PCs. The DNSChanger botnet, which hooked into infected systems quite deeply and spread to both Windows and Mac computers, was eradicated only by a worldwide, concerted digital quarantine and vaccination effort — combined with the arrest of its creators.
Toward A Greater Mobile Mal-Awareness
Several recent developments in mobile malware are conspiring to raise the threat level for Android users, making it easier for attackers to convert legitimate applications into malicious apps and to undermine the technology that security experts use to tell the difference.
Last week, Symantec warned about a new malware toolkit or “binder” designed to Trojanize legitimate Android apps with a backdoor that lets miscreants access infected mobile devices remotely. Binders have been around in a variety of flavors for many years, but they typically are used to backdoor Microsoft Windows applications.
Symantec notes that the point-and-click Androrat APK Binder is being used in conjunction with an open-source remote access Trojan for Android devices called called AndroRAT. “Like other RATs, it allows a remote attacker to control the infected device using a user friendly control panel,” Symantec’s Andrea Lelli wrote. “For example, when running on a device, AndroRAT can monitor and make phone calls and SMS messages, get the device’s GPS coordinates, activate and use the camera and microphone and access files stored on the device.”
The company said while it has detected only a few hundred AndroRAT infections worldwide, but that it expects that number increase as more tools for AndroRAT like the APK binder emerge.
Perhaps more worryingly, Symantec said this week that it had discovered two malicious Android apps in the wild that take advantage of a newly discovered and potentially quite serious security hole in Android applications. As first outlined roughly two weeks ago by researchers at BlueBox Security, the so-called “Master Key” vulnerability could let attackers convert almost any Android application into a Trojan, all without altering its cryptographic digital signature. Android uses these signatures to determine if an app is legitimate and to verify that an app hasn’t been tampered with or modified.
Web Fraud 2.0 — 33 Comments
One-Stop Bot Chop-Shops
New fraudster-friendly content management systems are making it more likely than ever that crooks who manage botnets and other large groupings of hacked PCs will extract and sell all credentials of value that can be harvested from the compromised machines.
Templates like this are helping to spread one-stop-fraud shops.
I’ve often observed that botmasters routinely fail to fully eat what they kill. That is, they tend to chronically undervalue the computers at their disposal, and instead focus on extracting specific resources from hacked PCs, such as using them as spam relays or harvesting online banking credentials. Meanwhile, other assets on the hacked PC that have street value go unused and “wasted” from the fraudster’s perspective.
More often, when miscreants do seek to extract and monetize all of the account credentials from their hacked PCs, they do so by selling access to their raw botnet “logs” — huge text files that document the notable daily activities of the botted systems. To borrow from another food metaphor, this is the digital equivalent of small farms selling their fruits and vegetables as “pick-your-own;” such commerce produces some added revenue without requiring much more work on the seller’s part.
Recently, I’ve been spotting more online fraud shops set up using what appear to be pre-set templates that can be used to sell all manner of credentials from hacked PCs. These shops all sell credit and debit card information, of course, but also lists of emails culled from victim computers, hacked VPN and RDP credentials, Cpanel installations, PHP mailers, FTP access, SSH logins, and online gambling accounts. Some of the panels are even reselling hacked credentials at popular porn sites. Goods can be purchased via virtual currencies such as Perfect Money and bitcoin.
The shop shown below — blackhatstore[dot]ru — borrows the trademarked image of the Black Hat security conference franchise. It’s sometimes said that there’s no such thing as bad press, but I’m pretty sure the folks at Black Hat don’t want their brand advertised or associated in this way (by the way, I’ll be speaking at this year’s Black Hat in Las Vegas next week). I alerted the Black Hat organizers to this fraudulent site, so I wouldn’t expect it to remain live much longer.
This bot chop shop trades on the good name and trademarks of the Black Hat security conference franchise owned by UBM Tech.
Breadcrumbs — 29 Comments
Styx Crypt Makers Push DDoS, Anti-Antivirus Services
I recently published a piece that examined the role of several Ukrainian men likely responsible for making and marketing the Styx Pack malware exploit kit. Today’s post will show how this same enterprise is linked to a DDoS protection scheme and a sprawling cybercrook-friendly malware scanning service that is bundled with Styx-Crypt.
Anonymous antivirus scanning service — captain-checker.com — bundled with Styx.
As I noted in a graphic accompanying a July 8 analysis of Styx, the $3,000 exploit pack includes a built-in antivirus scanning service that employs at least 17 antivirus products. The scanning service is “anonymous,” in that it alerts Styx customers whenever one of the antivirus tool detects their malware as such, but the service also prevents the antivirus products from reporting home about the new malware detections.
When Styx customers click on one of these malware scanning reports from within the Styx pack panel itself, the full scanning results are displayed in a new browser window at the domain captain-checker[dot]com (see screenshot above). The Styx panel that I examined earlier this month was based at the Internet address 5.199.167.196, and was reachable only by appending the port number 10665 to the numeric address. At first, I thought this might be a standard port used by Styx installations but that turns out not to be the case, according to interviews with other researchers. I didn’t realize it at the time, but now I’m thinking it’s likely that the panel I examined was actually one run by the Styx Pack curators themselves.
I discovered that although captain-checker[dot]com is hosted at another address (46.21.146.130), it also had this 10665 port open. I noticed then that captain-checker shares that server with 12 other Web sites. All of those sites also respond on port 10665, each revealing a captain-checker login page. Among the 12 is uptimer[dot]biz, one of two sites that led to the identity of Alexander “Nazar” Nazarenko — one of the main marketers and sellers of Styx pack.
Not only are all of these sites on the same server, an Nmap scan of these systems shows that they all are on the same Windows workgroup — “Reality7.” This dovetails nicely with the other domain that I noted in that July 10 story as tied to Nazarenko — reality7solutions[dot]com.
Many of the other domains on the server (see graphic to the left) use some variation of the word “wizard,” and share a Google Analytics code, UA-19307857. According to SameID.net, this code is embedded in the homepage for at least 38 different Web sites.
In my previous story on Nazarenko and his Styx Pack business partner — Max “Ikar” Gavryuk — I noted that both men were advertising “Reality Guard,” a service to help protect clients from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks designed to knock sites offline. I had a closer look at their site — reality-guard[dot]com — and learned several interesting things: For starters, the site also responds with a captain-checker[dot]com login page when you append “:10665” to the domain name. It also is on a Microsoft Windows workgroup called “Reality7”. Finally, the reality-guard[dot]com home page includes an icon for virtual currency Webmoney that when hovered over pops up Nazar’s Webmoney account (someone changed the name on this account from “Nazar” to “Lives” within hours after my July 10 story on the Styx Pack purveyors).
Botcoin: Bitcoin Mining by Botnet
An increasing number of malware samples in the wild are using host systems to secretly mine bitcoins. In this post, I’ll look at an affiliate program that pays people for the mass installation of programs that turns host machines into bitcoin mining bots.
The FeodalCash bitcoin mining affiliate program.
Bitcoin is a decentralized, virtual currency, and bitcoins are created by large numbers of CPU-intensive cryptographic calculations. As Wikipedia explains, the processing of Bitcoin transactions is secured by servers called bitcoin miners. These servers communicate over an internet-based network and confirm transactions by adding them to a ledger which is updated and archived periodically using peer-to-peerfilesharing technology. In addition to archiving transactions, each new ledger update creates some newly minted bitcoins.
Earlier this week, I learned of a Russian-language affiliate program called FeodalCash which pays its members to distribute a bitcoin mining bot that forces host PCs to process bitcoin transactions (hat tip to security researcher Xylitol). FeodalCash opened its doors in May 2013, and has been recruiting new members who can demonstrate that they have control over enough Internet traffic to guarantee at least several hundred installs of the bitcoin mining malware each day.
The FeodalCash administrator claims his mining program isn’t malware, although he cautions all affiliates against submitting the installer program to multi-antivirus scanners such as Virustotal; sending the program that installs bitcoin mining bot to Virustotal “greatly complicates the work with antivirus” on host PCs. Translation: Because services like Virustotal share information about new malware samples with all participating antivirus vendors, scanning the installer will make it more likely that antivirus products on host PCs will flag the program as malicious. Rather, the administrator urged users who want to check the files for antivirus detection to use a criminal friendly service like scan4u[dot]net or chk4me[dot]com, which likewise scan submitted files with dozens of different antivirus tools but block those tools from reporting home about new and unidentified malware variants.
This Google-translated version of the site shows the builder for the installer.
I gained access to an affiliate account and was able to grab a copy of the mining program. I promptly submitted the file to Virustotal and found it was flagged as a trojan horse program by at least two antivirus products. This analysis at automated malware scanning site malwr.com shows that the mining program installer ads a Windows registry key so that the miner starts each time Windows boots up. It also indicates that the program beacons out to pastebin.com (perhaps to deposit a note about each new installation).
The FeodalCash administrator also claims that his affiliates are not permitted to distribute the installer file in any way that violates the law, but of course it’s unclear which national laws he might be talking about. At the same time, the affiliate program’s Web site includes a graphical tool that helps affiliates create a custom installer program that can install silently and be disguised with a variety of program icons that are similar to familiar Windows icons.
Also, the administrator demands that new users demonstrate the ability to garner hundreds to thousands of installs per day. This is a rather high install rate, and it appears many if not all affiliates are installing the mining program by bundling it with other executable programs distributed by so-called pay-per-install (PPI) programs. This was apparent because a source managed to gain administrative-level access to the back-end database for the FeodalCash program, which includes hundreds of messages between affiliates and the administrator; most of those messages are from new registrants sending the administrator screenshots of their traffic and installs statistics at various PPI affiliate programs.
Getting Skimpy With ATM Skimmers
Cybercrooks can be notoriously cheap, considering how much they typically get for nothing. I’m reminded of this when I occasionally stumble upon underground forum members trying to sell a used ATM skimmer: Very often, the sales thread devolves into a flame war over whether the fully-assembled ATM skimmer is really worth more than the sum of its parts.
Card skimmer device made for Wincor/Nixdorf ATMs
Such was the fate of an audio-based ATM skimmer put up for sale recently on a private crime forum. The seller, a Ukrainian, was trying to offload a relatively pro-grade skimmer powered by parts cannibalized from an MP3 player and a small spy camera. The seller set the price at $2,450, but made the mistake of describing the device’s various parts, all of which can be purchased inexpensively from a variety of online retailers.
For example, he told forum members that the main component in the card skimmer as an MSR-605, which is a handheld magnetic stripe reader of the sort that you might find attached to a cash register/point-of-sale machine at a retail clothing store, for example.
This ubiquitous device can be had for approximately $200 at a number of places online, including Newegg.com and Amazon.com. The seller went on to describe the inexpensive flash storage drive that was incorporated in his device, and the modified tiny video camera that was hidden on the underside of a fake fascia designed to be affixed to the top of the ATM and record victims entering their PINs.
This tiny spy camera powers the fake ATM fascia that records victims entering their PINs.
The image below shows the fake fascia as it appears from the side meant to be pointed toward the PIN pad.
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Hackers Sell Access to Bait-and-Switch Empire
Cybercriminals are auctioning off access to customer information stolen from an online data broker behind a dizzying array of bait-and-switch Web sites that sell access to a vast range of data on U.S. consumers, including DMV and arrest records, genealogy reports, phone number lookups and people searches. In an ironic twist, the marketing empire that owns the hacked online properties appears to be run by a Canadian man who’s been sued for fraud by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Microsoft and Oprah Winfrey, to name a few.
Earlier this week, a cybercriminal on a Dark Web forum posted an auction notice for access to a Web-based administrative panel for an unidentified “US Search center” that he claimed holds some four million customer records, including names, email addresses, passwords and phone numbers. The starting bid price for that auction was $800.
Several screen shots shared by the seller suggested the customers in question had all purchased subscriptions to a variety of sites that aggregate and sell public records, such as dmv.us.org, carhistory.us.org, police.us.org, and criminalrecords.us.org.
A (redacted) screen shot shared by the apparent hacker who was selling access to usernames and passwords for customers of multiple data-search Web sites.
A few hours of online sleuthing showed that these sites and dozens of others with similar names all at one time shared several toll-free phone numbers for customer support. The results returned by searching on those numbers suggests a singular reason this network of data-search Web sites changed their support numbers so frequently: They quickly became associated with online reports of fraud by angry customers.
That’s because countless people who were enticed to pay for reports generated by these services later complained that although the sites advertised access for just $1, they were soon hit with a series of much larger charges on their credit cards.
Using historic Web site registration records obtained from Domaintools.com (a former advertiser on this site), KrebsOnSecurity discovered that all of the sites linked back to two related companies — Las Vegas, Nev.-based Penguin Marketing, and Terra Marketing Group out of Alberta, Canada.
Both of these entities are owned by Jesse Willms, a man The Atlantic magazine described in an unflattering January 2014 profile as “The Dark Lord of the Internet” [not to be confused with The Dark Overlord].
Jesse Willms’ Linkedin profile.
The Atlantic pointed to a sprawling lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission, which alleged that between 2007 and 2011, Willms defrauded consumers of some $467 million by enticing them to sign up for “risk free” product trials and then billing their cards recurring fees for a litany of automatically enrolled services they hadn’t noticed in the fine print.
“In just a few months, Willms’ companies could charge a consumer hundreds of dollars like this, and making the flurry of debits stop was such a convoluted process for those ensnared by one of his schemes that some customers just canceled their credit cards and opened new ones,” wrote The Atlantic’s Taylor Clark.
Willms’ various previous ventures reportedly extended far beyond selling access to public records. In fact, it’s likely everyone reading this story has at one time encountered an ad for one of his dodgy, bait-and-switch business schemes, The Atlantic noted:
“If you’ve used the Internet at all in the past six years, your cursor has probably lingered over ads for Willms’s Web sites more times than you’d suspect. His pitches generally fit in nicely with what have become the classics of the dubious-ad genre: tropes like photos of comely newscasters alongside fake headlines such as “Shocking Diet Secrets Exposed!”; too-good-to-be-true stories of a “local mom” who “earns $629/day working from home”; clusters of text links for miracle teeth whiteners and “loopholes” entitling you to government grants; and most notorious of all, eye-grabbing animations of disappearing “belly fat” coupled with a tagline promising the same results if you follow “1 weird old trick.” (A clue: the “trick” involves typing in 16 digits and an expiration date.)”
In a separate lawsuit, Microsoft accused Willms’ businesses of trafficking in massive quantities of counterfeit copies of its software. Oprah Winfrey also sued a Willms-affiliated site (oprahsdietscecrets.com) for linking her to products and services she claimed she had never endorsed.
KrebsOnSecurity reached out to multiple customers whose name, email address and cleartext passwords were exposed in the screenshot shared by the Dark Web auctioneer who apparently hacked Willms’ Web sites. All three of those who responded shared roughly the same experience: They said they’d ordered reports for specific criminal background checks from the sites on the promise of a $1 risk-free fee, never found what they were looking for, and were subsequently hit by the same merchant for credit card charges ranging from $20 to $38. Continue reading →
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IndiQube targets over four million sq ft of flex-office by 2021 – ET RealEstate
BENGALURU: Flexible office operator IndiQube plans to expand its managed office business across Bangalore, Pune and Hyderabad as the demand for serviced offices is expected to grow in 2021.
The firm that operates around 2.5 mn sft serviced offices across major cities plans to add another 2 mn sq ft space by the end of 2021— the majority of it coming up in Bangalore.
“Covid-19 has accelerated the trend of managed spaces in the country. Going ahead, the hybrid model of workspace will be the future,” said Rishi Das, Cofounder, IndiQube.
It counts Unacademny, Makemytrip, Philips and EY among its clients. The company said it will focus more on managed spaces to cater to the growing demand from large corporates.
“We had slowed down expansion in other cities due to Covid-19 as the focus was to stabilise the existing centres. By the end of 2021, we plan to have 70,000 seats under management,” he added.
As large corporations return to the workplace, they are likely to further leverage flexible space to reduce capital expenditure and create cost savings, while allowing for split teams and de-densification requirements.
“We are also seeing good opportunities to take over older commercial buildings and release them. We will add 1 mn sft through refurbishing older buildings,” said Das.
Irrespective of several short-term disruptions and challenges, increased demand from large enterprises, will support the growth of the flex space market to more than 50 mn sq. ft. by 2023.
It is anticipated that flexible space will grow by an average of around 15-20% per annum over the next three-to-four years, although this trajectory will not be linear.
“While the flex-space market more than tripled in the last 3 years, the momentum going ahead will be relatively slower. Players are likely to tread cautiously, and the overall market is expected to expand 1.5 times from the current size,” Samantak Das, Chief Economist and Head of Research & REIS, JLL India.
At present, Bengaluru and Delhi NCR together account for more than 50% of the flex space stock in India, with Bengaluru housing around 10.6 mn sq. ft. of such spaces.
Posted on January 15, 2021 Tags Bengaluru, Co-working firms, Co-working spaces, hyderabad, IndiQubeLeave a comment on IndiQube targets over four million sq ft of flex-office by 2021 – ET RealEstate
315Work Avenue leases around 1,00,000 sq ft workspace in Bengaluru – ET RealEstate
BENGALURU: Flexible office provider, 315Work Avenue has leased one lakh sq ft of office space in Bangalore to cater to the growing demand from large enterprises.
The new office will be spread across two properties located at Koramangala and old Madras road in Bangalore and will have around 2000 seats.
“In the current situation, taking a conventional office space is becoming challenging for companies. Most of the companies are looking for flexible office spaces, and thus safeguarding them from Capex cost, longer lock-in terms, huge deposits etc.
Corporates and large enterprises too will avoid high capital expenditures and look towards flexible working spaces to expand business. Moreover, the pandemic has highlighted the importance of de-densification of office space and adoption of hub and spoke model,” said Manas Mehrotra, Founder, 315Work Avenue.
315Work Avenue plans to beef up its total portfolio to 25000 seats this year with a focus on south and west India, while further strengthening its presence in Bangalore. The company currently manages 15 workspaces with around 12,000 seats across multiple prime locations in Bangalore.
“We have also signed around 1000 seats last month with multiple companies and we foresee a huge jump in coworking space demand in coming months, as people want to have flexibility in the way they work, including locations, office tenure, options to expand and downsize anytime etc,” said Mehrotra.
According to a Savills India report, leasing activity by coworking operators is expected to increase by 42 per cent in 2021 over 2020, and the share of coworking space take-up in overall office leasing activity is poised to rebound to a 15 per cent share in 2021, similar to the 2019 level. Bengaluru and Hyderabad continue to see maximum traction of the total leasing activity in the coworking segment.
Posted on January 15, 2021 Tags 315work avenue, Bengaluru, Co-working spaces, hyderabad, Manas MehrotraLeave a comment on 315Work Avenue leases around 1,00,000 sq ft workspace in Bengaluru – ET RealEstate
Hyderabad: RWAs in Malkajgiri approach UFERWAS over fixing watermeters at own cost – ET RealEstate
HYDERABAD: Water users in GHMC Malkajgiri circle are in a dilemma over fixing water meters at their own cost. The municipal administration and urban development (MAUD) department has made fixing of water meters by consumers mandatory to avail the benefit of free water up to 20,000 litres per month.
The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) sent SMS alerts to all the consumers of Malkajgiri circle on Tuesday on fixing the water meters at their own cost. Responding to the alerts, some residential welfare associations (RWAs) approached United Federation of RWAs (UFERWAS), an apex body of RWAs, and appealed to HMWS&SB MD M Dana Kishore to resolve the issue.
UFERWAS general secretary BT Srinivasan said the water board had taken up Malkajgiri water supply scheme with World Bank assistance. The project cost was pegged at Rs 338 crore.
As per the tender norms, HMWS&SB was to fix the water meters to all 35,000 consumers in Malkajgiri circle for free under the provision of ‘meter and a chamber.’ “The water board built water meters chambers on all the premises of domestic consumers at free of cost, but forgot to install the water meters,” said Srinivasan. He also said water supply had been commissioned but fixing of water meters was kept pending.
“Now, the water board is insisting consumers to get the meters fixed at their own cost to avail the free water scheme,” he said, adding that thousands of connections in Malkajgiri circle do not have meters and consumers are paying a minimum bill of Rs 258 per month.
For households that consume about 20 kl per month, the monthly bill comes to around Rs 320 which would be waived. Water bills will, however, be issued as per the tariff to those consuming above 20,000 litres a month. HMWS&SB assistant engineer, Defence Colony, Srivani said they are waiting for guidelines from the HMWS&SB head office on resolving the row over water meters.
Posted on January 14, 2021 Tags ghmc, HMWSSB, hyderabad, Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply, MalkajgiriLeave a comment on Hyderabad: RWAs in Malkajgiri approach UFERWAS over fixing watermeters at own cost – ET RealEstate
Housing launches across top seven markets witness sequential spike in Q4, up 112%: Report – ET RealEstate
MUMBAI: The improvement in housing sales momentum in the last few months has managed to renew business confidence among real estate developers as indicated by the rising project launches activity across the country.
The ongoing fourth quarter has witnessed launch of 26,785 new residential units, more than twice the launches seen in the previous quarter that ended in September. Hyderabad property market dominated the new launches accounting for nearly 40% of the overall launches during the quarter and Bengaluru followed with over 16%, showed a JLL India report.
However, the new launches are still restricted when compared to the pre-COVID levels as more developers across markets are focussing on completion of their under-construction projects and clearing existing inventory.
While the overall sequential jump in launches is 112%, property markets of Bengaluru and Delhi-NCR have seen a substantial increase in launches at 304% and 221% rise respectively during the quarter.
The business confidence is rising given the rising sales activity. Top seven key Indian cities saw sales recovery gains of more than 50% in 2020 with Hyderabad, Mumbai and Delhi NCR gaining maximum foothold as compared to 2019. In Hyderabad, the Western Suburbs accounted for more than 70% of the overall sales, while in Mumbai, sales were driven by Thane and Navi Mumbai, with a combined contribution of over 50%. In Delhi-NCR, Noida and Ghaziabad accounted for nearly 80% of the sales.
“GDP in the July-September quarter of 2020 showed higher than expected recovery. During the same quarter, the housing market showed some initial signs of recovery as well, with sales increasing by 34% on a sequential basis. In the backdrop of issues like job security and fall in income levels, this uptick in sales was a significant achievement. The fourth quarter has witnessed a 51% improvement in residential sales, and not just that, the improvement has been evenly spread among all seven cities,” said Ramesh Nair, CEO and Country Head, India, JLL.
He believes the housing market is set to chart a new chapter of growth in 2021, fuelled by affordability, reinforced desire to own a house and renewed interest from certain buyer segments such as non-resident Indians (NRIs).
On an annual basis, overall launches across the top seven cities dipped by 31% to about 95,000 units in 2020. Development focus on mid and affordable segments continued during the quarter with more than 80% of the new launches in the sub Rs 1 crore category.
Moving ahead, the focus on this price segment is expected to continue with developers trying to reap benefits of strong pent-up demand in this segment. Most of the new launches in the southern markets of Bengaluru, Chennai and Hyderabad were in the sub Rs 1 crore category.
According to Samantak Das, Chief Economist and Head of Research & REIS, India, JLL, as the sector shows signs of recovery, prominent developers are expected to be at an advantage and capture a greater share of the market.
Given that the affordable and mid-segments below Rs 1 crore continue to witness maximum sales traction, select developers are also reviewing their projects to make them more aligned to buyers, both in terms of product and price, he said while adding that buyers are unwilling to take any risks and are showing higher preference for completed projects, or projects where significant construction is underway.
Posted on December 23, 2020 Tags covid-19, Delhi NCR, hyderabad, JLL India, mumbai, trendsLeave a comment on Housing launches across top seven markets witness sequential spike in Q4, up 112%: Report – ET RealEstate
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Prevention, Not Litigation, Should Be Primary Strategy For Youth Sports Concussion
By Douglas Abrams JD
Douglas E. Abrams, J.D.
Preventing Concussions
Sports-Related Concussions & Subconcussive Injuries
Brooke de Lench, Founding Executive Director of the Moms Team Institute of Youth Sports Safety, hits the target when she calls concussions "the predominant youth sports safety issue of the 21st century [1]." Parents are much more concerned today about the perils of sports-related traumatic brain injuries than parents were even a few years ago. Few parents can avoid concern because medical researchers report that concussions remain a risk for athletes in nearly every youth sport, and at every age and ability level.
As research into youth leaguers' concussions continues, commentators have urged various child-protective strategies. This article compares prevention and litigation, two strategies that tend to dominate the headlines.
I have been a lawyer for nearly 40 years, and I coached youth ice hockey for 42 years. My experiences teach me that prevention efforts must remain the primary strategy to meet the youth sports concussion crisis, not litigation. The reason is that prevention is proactive; litigation is mostly reactive.
When prevention efforts reduce concussion rates, innocent young victims are spared traumatic brain injury, and thus stand a better change of moving unscathed from adolescent sports into a healthy adulthood. Personal injury lawsuits do not spare even successful young plaintiffs who go to court.
Whether a lawsuit results in a court judgment or in a private settlement, it usually does nothing to make a concussed youth athlete's life good; the most that such a lawsuit can often do is make that life less bad. Litigation plays catch-up because the pain and suffering an the injured athlete and their family have experienced, and will likely continue to experience, cannot easily be undone simply by paying money. Benjamin Franklin was right: "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."
To be fair, the specter of litigation - normally, damage actions for negligence -- can lead decisionmakers to improve safety conditions before injury happens, and individual lawsuits can help a family manage burdensome medical bills and future accommodations where fault for their player's traumatic brain injury rests with a coach, team, or league. But litigation's role in youth sports health and safety is secondary, not primary.
Juvenile Prevention Initiatives Common in America
In youth sports, emphasizing concussion prevention efforts plows no new ground because juvenile prevention programs are already part of America. Inside and outside of schools, prevention programs seek to protect children from an array of potential dangers, such as delinquency, bullying, and peer violence. In each circumstance, prevention's aim is to intervene before injury occurs, rather than only to react by going to court for damages afterwards.
Concussion safety advocates, however, must set realistic goals because no prevention program can eliminate 100% of the targeted conduct or condition. Delinquency, bullying, or school violence programs succeed when they reduce rates of unacceptable incidents, even without achieving total elimination. Concussion prevention efforts in youth sports similarly succeed when they reduce unacceptably high rates of serious childhood and adolescent traumatic brain injury. Reduction, not perfection, is the test.
National, State, and Local Prevention
Concussion prevention efforts in youth sports begin at the national and state levels, but successful prevention ultimately depends on what happens at the local level.
The national and state levels
National youth sports governing bodies (USA Soccer, USA Hockey, and others), and state high school activities associations, weigh rules-based changes and other initiatives that seek to prevent concussions and other traumatic brain injury. A few recent initiatives warrant brief mention here.
USA Hockey recently reached a concussion-related decision to postpone body checking until the Bantam level, [2] which begins at age 13. A growing number of youth and interscholastic football programs have limited the number and frequency of full-gear "hitting practices" that programs may conduct before and during the season (a measure the American Academy of Pediatrics recently endorsed [3]). In both sports, better training of coaches and a focus on teaching "Heads Up" tackling and body-checking, is showing promise in reducing the number of concussions and neck and spine injuries.
In the legislative arena, all 50 states and the District of Columbia have enacted statutes to improve prevention and treatment of youth sports concussions. Most of the statewide concussions statutes enact three core mandates: (1) leagues and teams must provide parents, coaches, administrators, and players with pre-season information and education about the dangers of concussions, how to recognize their symptoms, and how to help promote healthy recovery, (2) coaches must immediately remove from a practice session or game a player who is suspected to have suffered a concussion, and (3) the player may not return to action until a physician or other licensed medical professional clears the player and affirms that return is medically appropriate.
With good-faith local enforcement, the state youth sports concussion statutes show promise by establishing workable protocols. The statutes remain works in progress, however, because many currently regulate only interscholastic sports, and not private youth sports organizations that use public fields and other public facilities [4].
Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, famously said that "all politics is local." He meant that more than anything that happens in Washington, it are events occuring at the local level that influence the decisions of voters by affecting their daily lives most directly. I sometimes think that all youth sports safety is local, too, because games are played on fields and other venues largely beyond the direct daily supervision of national and state governing bodies based hundreds or thousands of miles away.
Safety rules and statutory standards stand the best chance of preventing concussions when coaches, league administrators, game officials, and parents insist on responsible local enforcement and when they ensure that games are marked by sportsmanship. Intuition and common sense affirm medical studies which suggest that, particularly in contact and collision sports, it is the adults who increase the risk of avoidable injury when a local game spirals out of control as a result of dirty play and disrespect for the rules of the game.
Think about majestic buildings (national and state safety standards) which take years to design and construct, but which can be imploded in a few moments (adult misconduct at a local game). Think too about a handy injury-prevention formula that I offered my teams' parents: "Sportsmanship + Respect = Safety."
The specter of injured youth leaguers' lawsuits may encourage national and state governing bodies, school districts, leagues, or individual coaches to take safety more seriously. A coach who suspects a concussion without being certain, for example, may be quicker to remove the player from the game because the coach and other school officials understand the potential consequences of allowing the player to continue: personal injury lawsuits resulting in large settlements or court awards, producing career-threatening personal embarrassment, and/or jeopardizing the program's every existence by increasing insurance premiums.
A negligence lawsuit, however, can compensate a youth athlete only for injuries that have already occurred. A third or more of the recovery after settlement or trial may go to the plaintiff's lawyer under the contingent-fee retainer agreements common in personal injury suits. Compensation surely is no small matter to players and their families facing daunting medical expenses and potential lifelong distress for injuries that evade prevention efforts, but compensation does nothing to reverse the injury's immediate and sometimes permanent consequences.
Safety is Goal #1
I recognize that participation in sports inevitably brings risk of injury at any age, and that contact and collision sports depend on a measure of controlled violence within the rules of the game. Advocacy for greater safety in a particular youth sport presumes that the sport will continue to enroll youngsters. Prohibition is not the safety advocate's goal.
My parents allowed me to play youth hockey years ago, and I remain thankful that they did. I write often now about player safety in youth hockey because I want the game to thrive locally and nationwide in an atmosphere marked by the greatest possible safety. (That is why I applaud USA Hockey's forthright leadership on safety issues that concern parents and families.)
We know much more about concussion prevention today that we did a generation, or even a decade, ago. A decade from now, we will know more than we do today. Advocacy for greater concussion safety continues to stimulate discussion on t [5]his website, in medical journals, and the popular media. Plug in the word "concussions" in the search box on this website yields a treasure trove of valuable articles written by Brooke, Lindsey Barton Straus, and an array of medical researchers and other nationally prominent contributors over the past 15 years. Moms Team Institute's Youth Sports Concussions Safety Center [6] now has more than 4,000 pages of information, videos, and other resources, and it is continually updated to reflect the latest in medical research and expert consensus.
Building on the Six PillarsTM concussion risk management model [7] featured in MomsTEAM's PBS documentary, The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer [8], the Institute is working with national, state, regional and local youth sports organizations (YSOs), university athletic training departments, parents, health care professionals, allied non-profits, governmental agencies and other experts to aggregate and/or develop and disseminate comprehensive, sport- and issue-specific, and easy-to-understand "best practice" standards of care templates and checklists covering all aspects of youth sports health and safety, from injury prevention and risk reduction, and nutrition and hydration guidelines, to preventing all forms of physical, psychological and sexual abuse. Once such best practices are established, local programs will be encouraged to apply to become SmartTeams [9].TM
As a member of MomsTEAM's Board of Directors, I am thrilled that MomsTEAM and Brooke de Lench's long and outstanding record of advocacy for greater youth sports concussion safety prompted Sony Pictures [10] to invite the Institute to participate in a social media campaign called #ForThe Players, not just to publicize the studio's new movie, Concussion [11] and increase public awareness of the dangers of traumatic brain injury in football, but to support the important work of the Institute in making football, and all contact and collision sports, safer through its "Dance or Donate" challenge in which football fans are asked to post a video on Twitter, Instagram, or YouTube of the touchdown dance they perform after their favorite team scores, and challenge their friends to either post a video of their own (Dance) or make a contribution to MomsTEAM (Donate). I am heartened to learn that many people are doing both [12]: dancing and donating.
Together, we can make youth sports safer, not through litigation, but through advocacy.
Sources: Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine Blog, 5 Questions with Brooke de Lench, MomsTEAM Institute of Youth Sports Safety, http://cjsmblog.com/2015/11/23/5-questions-with-brooke-de-lench-momsteam-institute-of-youth-sports-safety/ [12] (Nov 23, 2015). This article also adapts, with permission, two of my law review articles: Confronting the Youth Sports Concussions Crisis: A Central Role for Responsible Local Enforcement of Playing Rules, Mississippi Sports Law Review, vol. 2, p. 75 (2013); Player Safety in Youth Sports: Sportsmanship and Respect as an Injury-Prevention Strategy, 39 Seton Hall Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law, vol. 39, p. 1 (2012).
Douglas E. Abrams is a nationally recognized youth sports expert and professor of law at the University of Missouri, specializing in family law and children and the law. For Professor Abrams' full biography, click here [13].
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A longtime law professor and youth hockey coach argues that national, state, and local programs designed to prevent concussions are preferable to litigation because they are proactive, not reactive. 40 years, and I coached youth ice hockey for 42 years. My experiences teach me that prevention efforts must remain the primary strategy to meet the youth sports concussion crisis, not litigation. The reason is that prevention is proactive; litigation is mostly reactive.
Youth and High School Sports Concussion Cases: Do They Show The Limits of Litigation In Making Sports Safer? [14]
NFHS Recommendation To Limit Full-Contact Practices In High School Football Gains Traction [15]
Concussion Safety Laws in Place In Every State [16]
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[1] https://mail.momsteam.com/blog/brooke-de-lench/praise-momsteam-nice-but-fight-make-youth-sports-safer-not-yet-over#ixzz22VEOtiR9
[2] https://mail.momsteam.com/usa-hockey/usa-hockey-consider-ban-body-checking-at-pee-wee-level
[3] https://mail.momsteam.com/health-safety/pediatrics-group-refuses-to-endorse-outright-ban-on-tackling-in-high-school-youth-football
[4] https://mail.momsteam.com/team-experts/using-power-permit-promote-concussion-safety-in-youth-sports
[5] https://mail.momsteam.com/
[6] http://momsteam.com/health-safety/concussion-safety
[7] https://mail.momsteam.com/health-safety/prevention-not-litigation-should-be-primary-strategy-youth-sports-concussion#!six-pillars/cnz4
[8] http://www.thesmartestteam.com/
[9] http://www.momsteaminstitute.org/smartteams™-0
[10] https://mail.momsteam.com/health-safety/prevention-not-litigation-should-be-primary-strategy-youth-sports-concussion#ForThePlayers
[11] https://twitter.com/ConcussionMovie
[12] http://cjsmblog.com/2015/11/23/5-questions-with-brooke-de-lench-momsteam-institute-of-youth-sports-safety/
[13] https://mail.momsteam.com/team-of-experts/douglas-e-abrams
[14] https://mail.momsteam.com/concussion-class-action-lawsuits-may-show-limits-of-litigation-as-tool-to-make-high-school-and-youth-sports-safer
[15] https://mail.momsteam.com/health-safety/nfhs-approves-concussion-task-force-recommendations-discussion-with-state-associations
[16] https://mail.momsteam.com/health-safety/every-state-has-youth-sports-concussion-safety-law
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[8] The brand split ended in 2011 and the WWE and World Heavyweight Championships were unified in 2013, leaving the former as the only title to challenge for until the reintroduction of the brand split in 2016, which added the WWE Universal Championship as a choice. At WrestleMania XXVII Jim Ross returned to commentate, along with Josh Mathews and new SmackDown color commentator Booker T; the sudden change of commentary was due to a singles match between regular commentators Michael Cole and Lawler. It contributes to the worldwide commercial success of WWE through media, merchandise, and shows. The tapings occurred on March 25 and 26, 2020 at multiple locations including the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida. At WrestleManias XIV, XV, and 2000, Pete Rose became involved in a short feud with Kane that became a running gag with each appearance ending with Rose receiving a Tombstone piledriver or chokeslam from Kane. レッスルマニア36 （WrestleMania 36）は WWE が主催する ペイ・パー・ビュー イベント、かつ年間最大で世界最大のプロレスイベント レッスルマニア の第36回大会。 2020年4月4・5日（日本時間5・6日）にWWEネットワークで放送された。 [9]。, さらに3月21日には同大会前後を含むTVショウを集中的に収録。3月25・26日に本大会収録をするとPWInsiderが報じていると言う[1]。, 1月26日にヒューストンで行われたRoyal Rumbleで優勝したドリュー・マッキンタイアは、翌日の『ロウ』でブロック・レスナーとのWWE王座に挑む決意を表明[10]。その後、Super ShowDownでリコシェから王座を防衛したレスナーと正式に王座戦が組まれる。, 2月27日のSuper ShowDownで行われたガントレット形式トゥワイク杯戦。AJスタイルズは終盤まで生き残り、あとはレイ・ミステリオを撃破するのみとなった。しかし、スタイルズはミステリオを手下であるカール・アンダーソンとルーク・ギャローズに襲撃させる。そのまま勝利かと思われた矢先、ジ・アンダーテイカーが登場。チョークスラムを喰らい、あと一歩のところでトゥワイク杯を逃す。3月7日のRAWにて、スタイルズは本大会でテイカーへの挑戦を発表する。, 2月27日のスーパー・ショーダウンでゴールドバーグはユニバーサル王座を奪取し、翌日の『スマックダウン』で、次期挑戦者をロマン・レインズを指名。しかしレインズはコロナ感染と2018年に公表した白血病の合併症の懸念から4月3日『スマックダウン』で、相手をブラウン・ストローマンに変更して対戦する[11]。, 一方女子ロイヤルランブル戦を制した女王シャーロットはNXT女子王座を標的にリア・リプリーを襲撃する。2・16NXTテイクオーバー:ポートランドでの王座戦、防衛に成功したリプリーはシャーロットを襲撃。シャーロットは「レッスルマニアで会おうぜ」と堂々と王座戦予告を宣告した。, 去年のレッスルマニアで史上初女子の試合でメインイベントとして行われ、ロウ・スマックダウン（その後王座陥落）女子王者を奪取した"ザ・マン"ベッキー・リンチは3・8に行うエリミネーション・チェンパー戦で6人で次期挑戦者を決定[12]。アスカを破ったNXTのシェイナ・ベイズラーが挑戦権を獲得した。, I - 2 - III - IV - V - VI - VII - VIII - IX - X - XI - XII - 13 - XIV - XV - 2000 - X-Seven - X8 - XIX - XX - 21 - 22 - 23 - XXIV - XXV - XXVI - XXVII - XXVIII - 29 - XXX - 31 - 32 - 33 - 34 - 35 - 36, エリミネーション・チェンバー - マネー・イン・ザ・バンク - バックラッシュ - スーパーショー・ダウン - エクストリーム・ルールズ - ペイバック - ストンピング・グラウンズ - クラッシュ・オブ・チャンピオンズ - ヘル・イン・ア・セル - クラウン・ジュエル - TLC:テーブルズ・ラダーズ・アンド・チェアーズ, ザ・レスリング・クラシック - ゴールデンボンバー - ディス・チューズデイ・イン・テキサス - ワン・ナイト・オンリー - キャピタル・カーネイジ - イン・ユア・ハウス - オーバー・ジ・エッジ - フューリー・ローデッド - インベイジョン - キング・オブ・ザ・リング - リベリオン - インサレクション - バッド・ブラッド - タブー・チューズデイ - ディセンバー・トゥ・ディスメンバー - ニュー・イヤーズ・レボリューション - ワン・ナイト・スタンド - グレート・アメリカン・バッシュ - アンフォーギヴェン - サイバー・サンデー - アルマゲドン - キャピタル・パニッシュメント - ジャッジメント・デイ - ザ・バッシュ - ブレーキング・ポイント - フェイタル・4ウェイ - ブラッギング・ライツ - ヴェンジェンス - ノー・ウェイ・アウト - オーバー・ザ・リミット - ナイト・オブ・チャンピオンズ - ロードブロック - グレート・ボールズ・オブ・ファイヤー - バトルグラウンド - ノー・マーシー - グレイテスト・ロイヤルランブル - エボリューション - ファスト・レーン, WWE and local dignitaries officially announce that WrestleMania 36 will take place in Tampa Bay in 2020, WrestleMania 36 location: WWE returns to Florida with 2020 show in Tampa Bay, WrestleMania officially moved to the WWE Performance Center, WWE Splits Audience-Less WrestleMania 36 Into Two Nights, Rob Gronkowski helps Mojo Rawley win the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal, 01/27 WWE Raw Results: Powell’s review of Edge’s return, Royal Rumble winners Drew McIntyre and Charlotte Flair, Seth Rollins and Buddy Murphy vs. Samoa Joe and Kevin Owens for the Raw Tag Titles, Liv Morgan vs. Lana, 4/3 WWE Friday Night Smackdown results: Powell’s review of the final push for WrestleMania 36 with John Cena responding to Bray Wyatt’s challenge to a Firefly Funhouse match, Miz TV with The Usos and New Day, WWE announces the women’s Elimination Chamber match participants, winner to face Becky Lynch for the Raw Women’s Championship at WrestleMania, WrestleMania 36 Kickoff Show results: Powell’s live review of the night one pre-show, WrestleMania Kickoff airs tonight and tomorrow beginning at 6 ET/3 PT, WWE Women's Tag Team Champions The Kabuki Warriors vs. Alexa Bliss & Nikki Cross, Raw Women’s Champion Becky Lynch vs. Shayna Baszler, Intercontinental Champion Sami Zayn vs. Daniel Bryan, SmackDown Tag Team Champion John Morrison vs. Jimmy Uso vs. Kofi Kingston (Triple Threat Ladder Match), Universal Champion Goldberg vs. Braun Strowman, WrestleMania 36 Kickoff Show results: Powell’s live review of the Night Two pre-show featuring Liv Morgan defeated Natalya, WrestleMania 36 results: Powell’s live review of Night Two featuring Brock Lesnar vs. Drew McIntyre for the WWE Championship, John Cena vs. “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt in a Firefly Funhouse match, Edge vs. Randy Orton in a Last Man Standing match, Rhea Ripley vs. Charlotte Flair for the NXT Women’s Championship, NXT Women’s Champion Rhea Ripley vs. Charlotte Flair, Edge vs. Randy Orton (Last Man Standing Match), Raw Tag Team Champions The Street Profits vs. Austin Theory & Angel Garza, SmackDown Women’s Champion Bayley vs. Sasha Banks vs. Lacey Evans vs. Tamina vs. Naomi (WrestleMania Fatal 5-Way Elimination Match), WWE Champion Brock Lesnar vs. Drew McIntyre, 4/6 WWE Raw Results: Powell’s live review of the night after WrestleMania 36 edition featuring new WWE Champion Drew McIntyre, what’s next for Edge, Seth Rollins, Becky Lynch, and Shayna Baszler, https://ja.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=レッスルマニア36&oldid=80467643. In 1994, WWF offered "Fan Fest" for the weekend of WrestleMania X, which allowed fans to step inside a WWF ring, participate in games, meet superstars, and purchase merchandise; the event was followed up in 1995 with another "Fan Fest" for WrestleMania XI. WrestleMania X8 was the last WrestleMania to be produced under the WWF name, and featured Triple H defeating Chris Jericho to win the Undisputed Championship. [40][41] The three-day event included similar activities to that of the one-day line-up. Celebrities such as Aretha Franklin, Cyndi Lauper, Muhammad Ali, Mr. T, Alice Cooper, Lawrence Taylor, Pamela Anderson, Mike Tyson, Donald Trump, Floyd Mayweather, Jr., Pete Rose, Burt Reynolds, Mickey Rourke, Snoop Dogg, Sean "Diddy" Combs, Kid Rock, Fred Durst, Ozzy Osbourne, Ronda Rousey, Rob Gronkowski, and Shaquille O'Neal have participated or made special appearances within the events. John Cena would go on to retain his WWE Championship against Shawn Michaels, while The Undertaker would win the World Heavyweight Championship from Batista. The event featured Owen Hart defeating his elder brother Bret; a ladder match for the WWF Intercontinental Championship also headlined, in which Razor Ramon defeated Shawn Michaels. The following year WWF held its first WrestleMania Axxess event at the Anaheim Convention Center expanding upon the party idea of WrestleMania Rage Party. In the first main event, The Undertaker defeated Triple H in a Hell in a Cell match via pinfall, officiated by WWE Hall of Famer Shawn Michaels, extending his WrestleMania streak to 20–0. The record stood until February 14, 2010, when the 2010 NBA All-Star Game broke the indoor sporting event record with an attendance of 108,713 at Cowboys Stadium, since renamed AT&T Stadium, in Arlington, Texas. [39] From 2002, WrestleMania Axxess would be extended to a three-day event (March 14–16) and would be held at the Canadian National Exhibition. The match between Savage and Steamboat would go on to be regarded as one of the best matches in WrestleMania history, is acknowledged by many (including Vince McMahon) as having "stolen the show". The ECW Championship was defended for the only time at a WrestleMania event, when Kane emerged as the new ECW Champion in a record 8 seconds, while Randy Orton retained the WWE Championship and The Undertaker won the World Heavyweight Championship for the second consecutive year, defeating Edge. The event was the second WrestleMania to be held at an outdoor venue. WrestleMania 31 was held at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California on March 29, 2015. WrestleMania's widespread success helped transform professional wrestling. [26] It was originally scheduled to take place solely on April 5 at the Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida and to air live, but was moved due to the COVID-19 pandemic. At WrestleMania XIV, Austin defeated Shawn Michaels to become the new WWF World Heavyweight Champion in a match that featured Mike Tyson serving as the special enforcer. [1] In 2016, WrestleMania 32 surpassed WrestleMania III as the highest-attended professional wrestling event ever held in America, with 101,763 fans in attendance at AT&T Stadium, although the company revealed that attendance figures are manipulated for marketing purposes through investor calls. WrestleMania 35 was held on April 7, 2019, at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. 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WrestleMania 35 was the 35th annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event and WWE Network event produced by WWE for their Raw, SmackDown, and 205 Live brand divisions. The main events of WrestleMania 22 featured Rey Mysterio win the World Heavyweight Championship against Kurt Angle and Randy Orton in a Triple Threat Match, and John Cena retains the WWE Championship against Triple H. Edge defeated Mick Foley in a Hardcore Rules match, where Edge infamously speared Foley of the ring apron through a flaming table at ringside. Da Wikipedia, l'enciclopedia libera. The event was the first WrestleMania to be held in the state of Louisiana. The Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York, the Rosemont Horizon (now Allstate Arena) in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont, Illinois, and the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena in Los Angeles. Yokozuna defeated Bret Hart to become the WWF World Heavyweight Champion, only to lose it to Hulk Hogan. However, this option was never chosen. Howard Finkel, who is credited with coming up with the name "WrestleMania" in 1984,[11] has served as the long-standing ring-announcer and has appeared at every event except WrestleMania 33, but since the WWE Brand Extension, Lilian Garcia, Tony Chimel and Justin Roberts have taken over as announcers for their respective brand matches. Brock Lesnar defeated Dean Ambrose in a No Holds Barred Street Fight, Charlotte defeated Becky Lynch and Sasha Banks to win the inaugural WWE Women's Championship (now Raw Women's Championship), Chris Jericho defeated AJ Styles in a singles match, The League of Nations (Sheamus, Rusev, and Alberto Del Rio) (with King Barrett) defeated The New Day (Xavier Woods, Kofi Kingston, and Big E) in a six-man tag match, Zack Ryder won a 7-man ladder match for the Intercontinental Championship, and The Rock defeated Erick Rowan in a record breaking 6 seconds match. John Cena defeated Edge for the World Heavyweight Championship also involving the Big Show, while Triple H retained the WWE Championship against Randy Orton. The first WrestleMania was held in Madison Square Garden in New York City; the 10th and 20th editions were also held there. To date, this is the only time consecutive WrestleManias have been held in the same venue. For five of the first six WrestleManias Gorilla Monsoon and Jesse Ventura served as the color commentators (the exception being WrestleMania 2, which was split among three venues and had Monsoon, Ventura, and Vince McMahon split up with guest commentators), while Bobby Heenan, Gene Okerlund, Lord Alfred Hayes and others filled guest roles. WrestleMania centers on the main event matches, primarily for the WWE Championship - and additional world titles, such as the World Heavyweight Championship (2003–2013) and the WWE Universal Championship (since 2017) – as well as matches involving celebrities such as American footballer Lawrence Taylor or actor Mr. T. Other WWE championships are also contested for, while the match card also includes gimmick matches and matches involving personal feuds. Other main bouts included Sting's first-ever WWE match against Triple H which he lost, The Undertaker returned and defeated Bray Wyatt to get his 22nd victory at the event's history, Randy Orton defeated Seth Rollins and Rusev lost the United States Championship and his unbeaten streak to John Cena. The event also saw the return of the Ultimate Warrior who defeated Hunter Hearst Helmsley (later known as Triple H) in the latter's WrestleMania debut. WrestleMania IX was the first WrestleMania held at an outdoor venue. Although Tyson had been aligned with Michaels and his stable D-Generation X, Tyson revealed to have been aligned with Austin all along as he personally counted the pinfall and declared Austin the winner. The event included autograph signings and mementos to inductees of the WWE Hall of Fame. WWE first produced the event in 1985 and has since produced 36 editions, with the most recent having been held in Orlando, Florida on March 25–26, 2020 (aired April 4–5). The event has facilitated the rise to stardom of several top WWE wrestlers. This match was billed as having 'a McMahon in every corner' as Triple H was accompanied by Stephanie McMahon, The Rock by Vince McMahon, Big Show by Shane McMahon and Mick Foley by Linda McMahon. The following year at WrestleMania XV, Austin defeated The Rock to regain the WWF Championship. Four French commentators were at ringside: Jean Brassard and Raymond Rougeau (WrestleMania 13), Phillippe Chéreau and Christophe Agius (WrestleMania XXX, WrestleMania 31, WrestleMania 32, and WrestleMania 33). The event also featured the return of Stone Cold Steve Austin after a year-long hiatus, while Kurt Angle defeated Shawn Michaels in a highly acclaimed match. The creation of the ECW brand in June 2006 gave the Rumble winner a third option: to choose to challenge for the ECW World Championship. WrestleMania 2000 featured the first-ever Triangle Ladder match for the WWF Tag Team Championship, involving The Hardy Boyz, The Dudley Boyz and Edge and Christian. Most WrestleMania events have taken place in large stadiums in large cities, with some in sports arenas. In attendance were business celebrity Sy Sperling and broadcasting executive Tony D'Angelo. Trish Stratus competed in her first WrestleMania since the twenty-second edition, teaming with John Morrison and Jersey Shore's Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi to defeat LayCool and Dolph Ziggler. The World Heavyweight Championship was defended for the first time at the event, with Triple H retaining against Booker T, while Brock Lesnar defeated Kurt Angle to win the WWE Championship. WrestleMania XXX was the 30th annual WrestleMania event produced by WWE on April 6, 2014, at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. Hulk Hogan defeated Vince McMahon and Shawn Michaels participated in his first WrestleMania match in five years, defeating Chris Jericho. This incident would set up the main event for the following year's WrestleMania. For the first edition of the event, see, Rollins was not originally scheduled to be in this match, but he cashed in his, Two matches were taped elsewhere. The following year, the event returned to the United States for WrestleMania VII, which was originally scheduled to be held at the outdoors Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. It took place on April 7, 2019, at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford , New Jersey . The event also featured John Cena winning the WWE Championship and Chris Jericho retaining the World Heavyweight Championship. The event also marked the unannounced return of The Hardy Boyz, who won the Raw Tag Team Championship. It was the first WrestleMania since WrestleMania 29 in 2013 to feature two world championships on the line: Raw's Universal Championship, defended for the first time at WrestleMania, and SmackDown's WWE Championship. Shawn Michaels unsuccessfully attempted to hand The Undertaker his first defeat at a WrestleMania in an acclaimed match, and the WWE Intercontinental Championship was defended at the event for the first time since WrestleMania X8 with Rey Mysterio defeated John "Bradshaw" Layfield.
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CD review SANTA CRUZ ‘Katharsis’
(7/10) Finnish rockers Santa Cruz went through some rough months. After having released three pretty good longplayers things clashed on the 2018 US tour when the guys were on the road with Fozzy. Massive internal problems led to nearly all members stopping with Santa Cruz and it was singer Kuosmanen being the only one remaining.
Kuosmanen, also known as Archie Cruz, put some effort into continuing with Santa Cruz, which demanded a total restart. The frontman moved to Las Vegas and began a collaboration with Kane Churko. New songs have been written and were recorded, also together with the new lead guitarist Pav Cruz. Next station was Hollywood where the guys recruited with Ero Cruz and Toxy Cruz a rhythm section for the band that then went for rehearsals for upcoming live shows.
The album, that resulted out of the earlier mentioned cooperation is entitled ‘Katharsis’ and it certainly stands for a musical shift. Was it a dirty Hard Rock sound, reminding of bands like Skid Row, that made the first three longplayers to exciting ones, the new longplayer reflects a modernization of Santa Cruz sounds. Keyboards and samples became part of their music, which is generally spoken nothing bad. In this specific case though it doesn’t really help.
‘Katharsis’ is an album that doesn’t bring a lot of new to the table. Songs aren’t bad ones but it’s mainly music we’ve heard a lot of times. Santa Cruz went from a down-to-earth Hard Rock band towards a commercially oriented Rock band with modern songs like ’Tell Me Why’ and ‘Ture Believer’ being totally exchangeable with other bands. What manifests the move in the best way is the cover version of Cyndi Lauper’s ‘Time After Time’. Not that it’s a badly done interpretation, it just reflects a different direction of Santa Cruz.
The band stood at a crossroad in 2018 and founding member Archie Cruz decided to adjust direction with the effect that Santa Cruz became one out of many bands rather than the dirty Hard Rock powerhouse they have been in the past.
Changing of Season
Into the War
I Want You to Mean it
True Believer
Tell Me Why
It Was You
Time After Time (Cyndi Lauper cover)
Label: M-Theory
Genre: Modern Hard Rock
Release Date EU: October 18th, 2019
CD Review, Katharsis, M-Theory, MHMB, Modern Hard Rock, Modern Rock, News, Rock, Santa Cruz
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CHARLES BLACKMAN "Goodbye to all That" Original, Signed Ink on Paper 30cm x 21cm
CHARLES BLACKMAN (1928 - 2018)
Original Ink on Artist Paper / Card
Title and Dated: Goodbye to all That, 2014
Hand Signed: Lower Image
Embossed Seal: Lower Image (Blackman)
Sheet Size: 30cm x 21cm (Minimal roughness to some edges/corners but can be Framed Out)
Condition: Excellent - New
Comes with a Certificate of Authenticity from the Charles Blackman Foundation Certifying that the work illustrated and described above is an original and authentic drawing by Charles Blackman, recorded in the archives of the Foundation as Inv. No. 8887.
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Charles Blackman Biography
Charles Blackman was quite simply one of the most highly regarded figurative artists in Australia. In a career spanning more than 60 years, Blackman has gained a local and international reputation as a mainstay in post-War Australian art. Probably best known for his Schoolgirl and Alice in Wonderland series, he was also a member of the Antipodeans group, and a contemporary of Sidney Nolan, Arthur Boyd and Albert Tucker amongst others.
Born in Sydney in 1928, Blackman’s career in visual art began as a young illustrator with the Sydney Sun newspaper. He developed his skills with night classes in drawing and design, and gained recognition for his art after moving to Melbourne in the late 1940s.
Blackman exhibited with the revived Contemporary Art Society in 1953, and was also one of the original signatories of the Antipodean Manifesto. The Antipodeans reacted to the rise of abstract expressionism, fearing that American abstraction in particular was becoming the dominant style of international art. The group’s defence of modernist and figurative art lead to major exhibitions for Blackman in London in 1960 and later in Paris.
His most familiar work, the Alice in Wonderland series reflect his facility for dream-like imagery and a melancholy sense of foreboding. His work includes portraits, landscapes and studies using a range of fine media.
His work was included in the Whitechapel Open Exhibition in 1961 and Tate Gallery exhibitions of Australian Art 1962-63. A major retrospective, Schoolgirls and Angels, was organised in 1993 by the National Gallery of Victoria. His work is held in all Australian states and many regional galleries.
Blackman has won many prizes including the Rowney Prize for drawing (1959) and the Helena Rubinstein Scholarship (1960) . He was awarded an OBE in 1997 for services to Australian art.
In 2006, his painting Alice’s Journey fetched $1.02 million at Sotheby’s auction - a (then) record price for a living Australian Painter.
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Generation One: For this website, I'm considering Henry Hillard Martin, his wife, and his wife's family the first generation. These are photos and documents relating to the first generation to use photography.
Generation Two: I am trying to make this section more along the lines of Henry Lee Martin and his siblings.
Generation Three: Primarily a collection of photos and documents relating to eight children of Henry Lee Martin.
Generation Four: Photos and documents relating to the children of 'The Eight'.
T.J. Finklea Sr.: Dad's Uncle T.J. passed away on May 1st and I thought it may be appropriate to share some photos from Aunt Bobbie's albums.
George Douglas Martin, Jr.: Cheryl Martin sent these pictures from the Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary of her mother and father in 2004. George Martin and DeLois Hanson were married on December 27, 1954.
Martin Family Documents: Marriage certificates, copies of Bible pages, war records, and much more. Eventually, these photos will have descriptions on the index page. (If you want to write said descriptions, I'd owe you a beer or two and a hearty thank you!) GoogleDrive
Family Group Sheets: They probably have a more formal name, but that's what some online researchers called them. Anyway, these are the pages that have a family group on one page. (George and Nootsie listed at the top and all ten children listed below.) I scanned over 80 of these pages that Aunt Bobbie created. They are not complete, but there is a lot of information on them.
County Line Cemetery: This is where Henry Hillard Martin was buried. This album makes an attempt at giving directions. Photos and directions to the cemetery.
Morgan Cemetery: Near Splendora, this is where some of the Henry Lee Martin family have been buried. There are photos and directions to this cemetery.
Short video (3.1Megabytes) of the Martin gravesites at Morgan Cemetery.
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Re: Gundam Unicorn Novel Ending
Post by schwarz ritter » Mon Jun 04, 2012 10:20 pm
Exactly! Now, why would we even bother to know what happened in UC 0096 if there will be no relevance whatsoever ten years later?
It's the model kit conspiracy, you see: we need more HGUCs, so we need more of this stuff.
Hopefully, OVA will make it better. HOPEFULLY.
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Post by Overlord Zaru » Tue Jun 05, 2012 1:03 am
Basically the author makes Banagher merge with Unicorn akin to Shinji to Unit 01 when it was trapped in Leliel, but instead of going off into space for "infinite possibilities" Banagher misses the warmth Mineva gave him and the NT-D goes "meh, do what you want" and returns to her arms.
At least that's what I heard.
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Post by schwarz ritter » Tue Jun 05, 2012 1:04 am
Isn't that what I just said?
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Post by Cybaster » Wed Jun 06, 2012 1:08 am
he is then taken even further into the future, one in which humanity has moved beyond the Solar System and colonized other parts of the Galaxy (implying Macross? LOL).
I wouldn't be surprised if it's actually a reference to certain Yuichi Hasegawa manga side stories where
an aged Judau Ashta/Grey Stoke attempts to assemble and lead a Colony Ship full of Newtypes to colonize outside the Solar System during the Crossbone/Victory Gundam eras.
That, or past the ending of the Gundam 00 Movie.
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Post by schwarz ritter » Wed Jun 06, 2012 1:10 am
Cybaster wrote: That, or the ending of the Gundam 00 Movie.
Do not despair! Fukui doesn't insult us THAT much.
More like, they are simple glimpses, like how the Star-Gate sequence plays out in the 2001 Space Odyssey movie.
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Post by J-Lead » Fri Jun 08, 2012 1:12 am
schwarz ritter wrote: Exactly! Now, why would we even bother to know what happened in UC 0096 if there will be no relevance whatsoever ten years later?
Didn't Mineva pretty much castrate the Zeon cause during her reveal of laplace's box and her accompanying speech at the end? I'd say that's pretty relevant, seeing as we don't see a whole lot of Zeon after Unicorn.
I mean, there's the Oldsmobile douchers I guess, but they're just a bunch of old-timers that didn't get the ZOINKS memo.
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Post by schwarz ritter » Fri Jun 08, 2012 1:39 am
Well, I would assume that
the reveal of the Laplace's Box contents would actually strengthen the Zeon cause. Or if not, then at least cause a huge, space-wide insurrection that would overthrow the Federation rule on Space. I don't see why it would castrate the Zeon cause at all. Unless, of course, Unicorn has some sort of deeper, Evangelion-esque meaning I didn't get. ME BE DUMB. ME NOT GET UNICORN NONSENSE. DUH.
Instead, we get the Crossbones, which only lasted about two decades? And ended up as hippie pirates? And then there's the Zanscares, who also lasted for a few years. Perhaps that's the effect it had: the rise of new spacenoid movements.
Like I and Ronan said, nobody will care, and all of the sacrifices will be futile. And I think that sucks.
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Post by Deacon Blues » Fri Jun 08, 2012 2:27 am
What bothers me is that there was no background information with what Mineva was doing from when she was last seen in Zeta-ZZ era. I guess that small scene in the Z Gundam game about her going to Earth to get an education or whatever was pretty much nullified given the fact she comments to the diner owner about it being her first time on Earth. And then there's the aftermath... a "Zeon Princess" just disappears again? :/
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Post by mcred23 » Fri Jun 08, 2012 3:55 am
J-Lead wrote: I'd say that's pretty relevant, seeing as we don't see a whole lot of Zeon after Unicorn.
Well, it'd kind of hard for those groups to keep going. You're steadily running out of OYW vets and old Zeon hardliners (Or more properly, Zabi supporters, since most of the holdouts seemed tied to them in one way or another) keeping the cause going, and then I'd imagine the RoZ (Who are Anti-Zabi anyway, as shown by their actions in Zeta) giving up it's autonomy didn't help matters.
schwarz ritter wrote: Instead, we get the Crossbones, which only lasted about two decades? And ended up as hippie pirates? And then there's the Zanscares, who also lasted for a few years. Perhaps that's the effect it had: the rise of new spacenoid movements.
The Crossbones were around for around 20 years, but really only the last five of those were publically (After they attacked Frontier and founded Cosmo Babylonia) before they fell apart due to civil war, and then you get some of them off-shoot into the pirates who last another decade or so. And the Zanscare Empire is founded and defeated in just five years.
However, both of those, and all the other movements and whatnot we see in the 2nd UC Century, have more to due with lax Federation control of the colonies and the general indifference of their corrupt leaders to anything going on that doesn't directly affect them. They barely lift a finger to stop either groups rise to power, and then officially don't do a damn thing to bring them down (The Crossbones bring themselves down, while it's another case of EFSF units acting without official government support that helps defeat the Zanscares, as we mentioned in the Victory thread). I'd say that lack of opposition is the biggest reason for all those things, rather than something that is probably written off as just another small part of the Federation-Zeon conflict that ends four years later (And those groups that come along years later have their own wild agendas that really don't seem related at all to that event anyway).
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Post by schwarz ritter » Fri Jun 08, 2012 7:07 pm
Deacon Blues wrote: And then there's the aftermath... a "Zeon Princess" just disappears again? :/
Indeed. The whole second half of the novel series is a bunch of rushed clusterZOINKS. I would assume Banana gets his undeserved hot sexy love with Mineva (I still think he's unworthy of her). Then again, that would be unless the Feds don't catch up to them first and "disappear" them due to the incident. Sadly, we'll never know until 2014 :/
That, or they make a sequel or some side-story to explain to us why the hell didn't the Box cause a wide-spread rebellion or some sort of "Second One Year War".
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Post by Kratos » Fri Jun 08, 2012 7:25 pm
It didn't because nobody's in a position to fight a war, and because Zeon once again loses any sort of centralized leadership (Frontal dies, Mineva renounces them, and a faction can only go through so much before it stops being able to do anything). But one thing that you will notice from later series is how weak the Federation becomes, particularly in its hold over the colonies. This could be related to Box's contents going public: a war is averted for the time being because nobody can fight one (and I imagine our heroes have something to do with that as well; I'm told the reaction to its public revelation is people "people losing their ZOINKS", but Mineva serves as a major calming influence), and the Box does, in its own way, bring about the Federation's fall - or,any rate, severely compromises their power and influence.
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Post by mcred23 » Fri Jun 08, 2012 7:45 pm
Kratos wrote: But one thing that you will notice from later series is how weak the Federation becomes, particularly in its hold over the colonies. This could be related to Box's contents going public: a war is averted for the time being because nobody can fight one (and I imagine our heroes have something to do with that as well; I'm told the reaction to its public revelation is people "people losing their ZOINKS", but Mineva serves as a major calming influence), and the Box does, in its own way, bring about the Federation's fall - or,any rate, severely compromises their power and influence.
The weakness of the Federation (Or more accurately, its leaders) was being shown well before the events of Unicorn. It shows up in Zeta where they can't control a branch of their own military from committing war crimes. Then again in ZZ where the various officials do everything in their power to bow to Haman to save themselves, something they basically repeat in CCA when they willingly believe Char in an effort to avoid a war, only to have Londo Bell save their butts. Heck, the reason the OYW didn't end after a month was General Revil escaped from captivity, gave his famous "Zeon is Exhausted" speech, and that kept the Federation fighting on instead of surrendering in Antarctica as they originally intended to do.
So, aside from the OYW when Revil is basically running things, it's not like the Federation ever has anything close to strong leadership or control over anything. It's usually lower ranking guys and individual units acting on their own (Or even in direct opposition of orders) who bail the Feds out time and time again...
Hmm, I suppose it does seem to lie on the same side as 0083, as an answer to a question that didn't exist in the first place - and plenty of people seem to enjoy 0083 in spite of this. We'll see what the OVA does with the Box and the ending, at any rate. Considering the generally high quality of the production so far, I remain optimistic.
Post by J-Lead » Fri Jun 08, 2012 8:00 pm
schwarz ritter wrote: I would assume Banana gets his undeserved hot sexy love with Mineva (I still think he's unworthy of her).
The guy has saved her life (in quite a badass fashion, I might add) in I7 simply because he psychically "felt" her, put himself in harm's way against asinine odds so that Daguza would stop holding her hostage, saved her life again in ep5 just because he psychically heard her cry for help, and pretty much pulled her and the entire Garancieres out of Earth's gravity with sheer willpower fueling the NT-D, and then, among other things,
gave up newtype godhood and the prospect of exploring the universe for all eternity as the perfect life form just to be with her.
At that point, I think the question is whether or not Mineva's worthy of him, and if she isn't soaking the bedsheets with Banagher on a nightly basis post-Unicorn, then I'd be mighty flabbergasted.
Kratos wrote: It didn't because nobody's in a position to fight a war, and because Zeon once again loses any sort of centralized leadership (Frontal dies, Mineva renounces them, and a faction can only go through so much before it stops being able to do anything). But one thing that you will notice from later series is how weak the Federation becomes, particularly in its hold over the colonies. This could be related to Box's contents going public: a war is averted for the time being because nobody can fight one (and I imagine our heroes have something to do with that as well; I'm told the reaction to its public revelation is people "people losing their ZOINKS", but Mineva serves as a major calming influence), and the Box does, in its own way, bring about the Federation's fall - or,any rate, severely compromises their power and influence.
Pretty much said what I was going to say. The later part of the timeline kind of imply that the colonies have governments much more separated from Federation policy. The Federation government doesn't seem to see much at stake in letting the Crossbone Vanguard take the Frontier sides, perhaps because they just don't have as much invested in colonial politics as they used to.
Also, I think there's a part of her speech where she says that while the forced migration to space was difficult, that it was also a necessary move on the part of the Federation, and that the contents of laplace's box were basically proof that the migration was originally done with goodwill towards those forced into space, and that it was the world's responsibility to bring about the potential it enabled. Then again the translation of the ending couldn't possibly be more sloppily done, so I may be misinterpreting the line entirely.
mcred wrote: The weakness of the Federation (Or more accurately, its leaders) was being shown well before the events of Unicorn. It shows up in Zeta where they can't control a branch of their own military from committing war crimes. Then again in ZZ where the various officials do everything in their power to bow to Haman to save themselves, something they basically repeat in CCA when they willingly believe Char in an effort to avoid a war, only to have Londo Bell save their butts.
Zeta and ZZ are a bit of a special case, since in the former, pretty much their entire military was either under the command of the Titans or part of the AEUG, and in ZZ, their military strength is severely weakened and scattered thanks to the events of the preceding conflict.
But that's aside the point; Pre F91, the Federation was weak due to incompetence and really bad judgement on the part of it's leadership in terms of what to do with the military. In F91 and most series following it, the Federation literally just doesn't seem to care anymore, even when it's own troops are being slaughtered. The most oversight we see is the occasional colonial garrison, and the Crossbones were pretty much able to build and mobilize an entire army without the Federation noticing, which I imagine would be difficult to do in a Federation-controlled political environment. Even before Unicorn, I always thought the term "Warring space states" kind of implied that the colonies, by that point, were pretty much self-governed.
Then again, the setting in F91 could really use some development, since the events are pretty self-contained and don't give a whole lot of exposure to the earth's sphere aside from what it needs to show.
Rescue Romances. I love those: they're perhaps the most shallow kinds of romances I've ever seen. I can tell Mineva is quite smart and shallow herself. For some reason, they remind me of Twilight logic...
That, and the fact that Banana pretty much made things worse with his Mary Sue logic doesn't make him worthy of "eternal happiness". But hey, I mean, he is the Ultimate Newtype, right? He can do whatever he wants and get whatever he wants because he's perfect.
Warring Space States is a perfect termn to use in the post UC 100 era.
schwarz ritter wrote: Rescue Romances. I love those: they're perhaps the most shallow kinds of romances I've ever seen. I can tell Mineva is quite smart and shallow herself. For some reason, they remind me of Twilight logic...
I'm just going to flat out say it; Your hate for the character (which I'll say, is pretty shallow in itself) kind of making your opinion of him and his actions difficult to take seriously. I know you don't like him, but you're not going to see me discounting, say, Aang's accomplishments in ATLA just because I found him annoying (and far more mary-sueish.)
schwarz ritter wrote: Warring Space States is a perfect termn to use in the post UC 100 era.
Warring Space States is the term for the post UC 0100 era.
Or at least post-0120.
Post by schwarz ritter » Fri Jun 08, 2012 10:32 pm
J-Lead wrote: Your hate for the character (which I'll say, is pretty shallow in itself)
Perhaps that's just it: its shallow and meaningless.
J-Lead wrote:
I wasn't saying it wasn't...
Post by Cybaster » Sat Jun 09, 2012 2:02 am
mcred23 wrote: Well, it'd kind of hard for those groups to keep going. You're steadily running out of OYW vets and old Zeon hardliners (Or more properly, Zabi supporters, since most of the holdouts seemed tied to them in one way or another) keeping the cause going, and then I'd imagine the RoZ (Who are Anti-Zabi anyway, as shown by their actions in Zeta) giving up it's autonomy didn't help matters.
That, and Mafty's resorting to terror tactics in UC0105 to reinforce the Zeon (read: Quess') cause probably killed any credibility Mineva might've restored with Laplace's Box to begin with --- Hathaway had turned a legitimate Zeonic war of independence into his own personal campaign of vengeance against the Federation (especially after his true identity as Mafty Navue Erin was revealed to the local press, making him look like a brat rebelling against his father's beliefs rather than a legitimate crusader for spacenoid rights), and after Mafty was suppressed, the Earth Sphere was outright tired of the Zeons and the Federation in turn had its own share of new warlords to deal with, so combined with a 30-year gap...people probably went their own separate ways and forgot about what Zeon fought for.
In Japanese, the term for the F91-onwards era was named the Ujou Sengoku Jidai (Era of Feuding Space States), I think.
Post by J-Lead » Sat Jun 09, 2012 6:39 am
Cybaster wrote: That, and Mafty's resorting to terror tactics in UC0105 to reinforce the Zeon (read: Quess') cause probably killed any credibility Mineva might've restored with Laplace's Box to begin with --- Hathaway had turned a legitimate Zeonic war of independence into his own personal campaign of vengeance against the Federation (especially after his true identity as Mafty Navue Erin was revealed to the local press, making him look like a brat rebelling against his father's beliefs rather than a legitimate crusader for spacenoid rights), and after Mafty was suppressed, the Earth Sphere was outright tired of the Zeons and the Federation in turn had its own share of new warlords to deal with, so combined with a 30-year gap...people probably went their own separate ways and forgot about what Zeon fought for.
IIRC, Mafty was more about preventing the Earth Federation from passing a bill that would allow them greater investigative powers in terms of finding people on earth they deemed "illegal" and forcefully deporting them to space. It was literally a case of "What, you don't have Earth Federation-approved citizenship? Off you go from the only home you've ever known, then. Good luck finding a new one in space!" I don't think it had anything to do with Zeon or Zeonic movements, or even spacenoid policy for that matter. The events of Hathaway's flash are more about the Federation's domestic policy, not it's foreign one.
Besides, that story is dubiously canon to begin with, given it's status as a sequel to Belty's Kids.
Post by mcred23 » Sat Jun 09, 2012 11:35 am
J-Lead wrote: Besides, that story is dubiously canon to begin with, given it's status as a sequel to Belty's Kids.
For what it's worth, Mark noted here (And it was discussed again here) that Sunrise does include it on their timelines, so they seem to support some version of it, although exactly what details are unknown.
That can-o-worms aside, AFAIK, the events that are included are kinda small scale and self contained, so I don't think it would have all that much of an impact on the wider universe anyway.
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Imaging features of biphenotypic primary liver carcinoma (hepatocholangiocarcinoma) and the potential to mimic hepatocellular carcinoma: LI-RADS analysis of CT and MRI features in 61 cases
Theodora A. Potretzke, Benjamin R. Tan, Maria B. Doyle, Elizabeth M. Brunt, Jay Heiken, Kathryn J. Fowler
OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this study was to determine the frequency with which biphenotypic primary liver carcinoma (also called hepatocholangiocarcinoma) may be misclassified as hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) when only Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System (LI-RADS) major features are used and after consideration of ancillary features. MATERIALS AND METHODS. A review of all pathologically proven biphenotypic primary liver carcinomas diagnosed at one institution from 2006 to 2014 was performed. Two subspecialized abdominal imagers independently reviewed cases using LI-RADS version 2014 and assigned major features, ancillary features, and additional findings. The number of lesions meeting imaging criteria for HCC was determined after assessment of major features alone and after the addition of ancillary features. RESULTS. Sixty-one patients (30 men, 31 women; mean age, 62 years; range, 2289 years) with biphenotypic primary liver carcinomas who underwent pretreatment multiphasic contrastenhanced MRI (48 patients) or CT (13 patients) were included. According to LI-RADS major features alone, 33 (54.1%) lesions met criteria for HCC and therefore might have been misclassified. Thirteen had arterial phase hyperenhancement, washout, and a capsule. Twenty had arterial phase hyperenhancement with either washout (15 lesions) or a capsule (five lesions). After evaluation of ancillary features, 29 of these potential mimics exhibited at least one ancillary feature favoring non-HCC malignancy, possibly leading to appropriate reclassification. Of the four carcinomas that met criteria for HCC by major features and did not have ancillary features favoring non-HCC malignancy, two (3.3% of all tumors) fell within the Milan criteria. CONCLUSION. Most biphenotypic primary liver carcinomas have features of non-HCC malignancy and can be correctly categorized as such. Addition of ancillary features to major features may improve diagnostic accuracy over systems in which only major features are used.
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https://doi.org/10.2214/AJR.15.14997
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Potretzke, T. A., Tan, B. R., Doyle, M. B., Brunt, E. M., Heiken, J., & Fowler, K. J. (2016). Imaging features of biphenotypic primary liver carcinoma (hepatocholangiocarcinoma) and the potential to mimic hepatocellular carcinoma: LI-RADS analysis of CT and MRI features in 61 cases. American Journal of Roentgenology, 207(1), 25-31. https://doi.org/10.2214/AJR.15.14997
Imaging features of biphenotypic primary liver carcinoma (hepatocholangiocarcinoma) and the potential to mimic hepatocellular carcinoma : LI-RADS analysis of CT and MRI features in 61 cases. / Potretzke, Theodora A.; Tan, Benjamin R.; Doyle, Maria B.; Brunt, Elizabeth M.; Heiken, Jay; Fowler, Kathryn J.
In: American Journal of Roentgenology, Vol. 207, No. 1, 01.07.2016, p. 25-31.
Potretzke, TA, Tan, BR, Doyle, MB, Brunt, EM, Heiken, J & Fowler, KJ 2016, 'Imaging features of biphenotypic primary liver carcinoma (hepatocholangiocarcinoma) and the potential to mimic hepatocellular carcinoma: LI-RADS analysis of CT and MRI features in 61 cases', American Journal of Roentgenology, vol. 207, no. 1, pp. 25-31. https://doi.org/10.2214/AJR.15.14997
Potretzke TA, Tan BR, Doyle MB, Brunt EM, Heiken J, Fowler KJ. Imaging features of biphenotypic primary liver carcinoma (hepatocholangiocarcinoma) and the potential to mimic hepatocellular carcinoma: LI-RADS analysis of CT and MRI features in 61 cases. American Journal of Roentgenology. 2016 Jul 1;207(1):25-31. https://doi.org/10.2214/AJR.15.14997
Potretzke, Theodora A. ; Tan, Benjamin R. ; Doyle, Maria B. ; Brunt, Elizabeth M. ; Heiken, Jay ; Fowler, Kathryn J. / Imaging features of biphenotypic primary liver carcinoma (hepatocholangiocarcinoma) and the potential to mimic hepatocellular carcinoma : LI-RADS analysis of CT and MRI features in 61 cases. In: American Journal of Roentgenology. 2016 ; Vol. 207, No. 1. pp. 25-31.
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AU - Fowler, Kathryn J.
N2 - OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this study was to determine the frequency with which biphenotypic primary liver carcinoma (also called hepatocholangiocarcinoma) may be misclassified as hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) when only Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System (LI-RADS) major features are used and after consideration of ancillary features. MATERIALS AND METHODS. A review of all pathologically proven biphenotypic primary liver carcinomas diagnosed at one institution from 2006 to 2014 was performed. Two subspecialized abdominal imagers independently reviewed cases using LI-RADS version 2014 and assigned major features, ancillary features, and additional findings. The number of lesions meeting imaging criteria for HCC was determined after assessment of major features alone and after the addition of ancillary features. RESULTS. Sixty-one patients (30 men, 31 women; mean age, 62 years; range, 2289 years) with biphenotypic primary liver carcinomas who underwent pretreatment multiphasic contrastenhanced MRI (48 patients) or CT (13 patients) were included. According to LI-RADS major features alone, 33 (54.1%) lesions met criteria for HCC and therefore might have been misclassified. Thirteen had arterial phase hyperenhancement, washout, and a capsule. Twenty had arterial phase hyperenhancement with either washout (15 lesions) or a capsule (five lesions). After evaluation of ancillary features, 29 of these potential mimics exhibited at least one ancillary feature favoring non-HCC malignancy, possibly leading to appropriate reclassification. Of the four carcinomas that met criteria for HCC by major features and did not have ancillary features favoring non-HCC malignancy, two (3.3% of all tumors) fell within the Milan criteria. CONCLUSION. Most biphenotypic primary liver carcinomas have features of non-HCC malignancy and can be correctly categorized as such. Addition of ancillary features to major features may improve diagnostic accuracy over systems in which only major features are used.
AB - OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this study was to determine the frequency with which biphenotypic primary liver carcinoma (also called hepatocholangiocarcinoma) may be misclassified as hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) when only Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System (LI-RADS) major features are used and after consideration of ancillary features. MATERIALS AND METHODS. A review of all pathologically proven biphenotypic primary liver carcinomas diagnosed at one institution from 2006 to 2014 was performed. Two subspecialized abdominal imagers independently reviewed cases using LI-RADS version 2014 and assigned major features, ancillary features, and additional findings. The number of lesions meeting imaging criteria for HCC was determined after assessment of major features alone and after the addition of ancillary features. RESULTS. Sixty-one patients (30 men, 31 women; mean age, 62 years; range, 2289 years) with biphenotypic primary liver carcinomas who underwent pretreatment multiphasic contrastenhanced MRI (48 patients) or CT (13 patients) were included. According to LI-RADS major features alone, 33 (54.1%) lesions met criteria for HCC and therefore might have been misclassified. Thirteen had arterial phase hyperenhancement, washout, and a capsule. Twenty had arterial phase hyperenhancement with either washout (15 lesions) or a capsule (five lesions). After evaluation of ancillary features, 29 of these potential mimics exhibited at least one ancillary feature favoring non-HCC malignancy, possibly leading to appropriate reclassification. Of the four carcinomas that met criteria for HCC by major features and did not have ancillary features favoring non-HCC malignancy, two (3.3% of all tumors) fell within the Milan criteria. CONCLUSION. Most biphenotypic primary liver carcinomas have features of non-HCC malignancy and can be correctly categorized as such. Addition of ancillary features to major features may improve diagnostic accuracy over systems in which only major features are used.
KW - Cholangiocarcinoma
KW - Hepatocellular carcinoma
KW - Hepatocholangiocarcinoma
KW - LI-RADS
U2 - 10.2214/AJR.15.14997
DO - 10.2214/AJR.15.14997
JO - American Journal of Roentgenology
JF - American Journal of Roentgenology
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Weeks later, family slams ‘errors’ linking Plateau LG Chairman Mandyau’s death to Covid-19
5 months ago Masara Kim
Late Ezekiel Mandyau
Plateau State: The family of the Late Chairman of Barkin Ladi Local Government Area, Barr. Ezekiel Mandyau says it is displeased with the official management of information regarding his death last month.
Mandyau died on 2nd July, 2020 with many, especially on social media, linking the death to covid-19.
The rumours, “fueled by the vagueness” of a later released hospital report, caused “a lot of trauma and stigmatization for the family, even in its moment of grief”, said brother to the deceased, Mr. Daniel Mandyau in a press statement.
“Our late brother was healthy and strong with no visible symptoms of covid-19 before he fell ill on Tuesday, June 30th, 2020.
“He attended a thanksgiving service on June, 28th 2020 in honour of his Kinsmen killed in the attacks of June 23rd, 2020 in Nghar village, Gashish District, Barkin Ladi LGA.
“The next day, he inaugurated a Task Force to enforce the use of face masks and other government provided guidelines for the control of covid-19.
“On Tuesday, the following day he was still strong with no visible difficulty in breathing as is commonly associated with covid-19.
“For the records, a test was carried and the result was not out when he died but was “suspected” to have been positive for covid-19.
“However, for precaution, the family and close associates submitted themselves for test on 5th July, 2020 having related closely with him during his last hours.
“By the later released results, none of the family members and the close associates tested positive for the virus.
“NCDC officials were not aware of the result issued by JUTH,” says the statement.
The family frowned at the mention of “suspected COVID-19” alongside “cardiac arrest” on Mandyau’s death certificate, failure of officials to isolate family members during the wait for the “suspected” test result and delay in conducting burial for the deceased in line with COVID-19 protocols.
“If he were truly positive, these errors would have exposed the family to danger,” said the statement.
The family however declared sustained support for government in its drive to rid the state and the nation of the deadly virus, appreciating all support during their grief.
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CMS to Require Prior Authorization for Some Group 3 PWC Codes
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) plans to implement a prior authorization policy for two Group 3 power wheelchair codes.
The two affected codes are K0856 (power wheelchair, Group 3 standard, single power option, sling/solid seat/back, patient weight capacity up to and including 300 pounds) and K0861 (power wheelchair, Group 3 standard, multiple power option, sling/solid seat/back, patient weight capacity up to and including 300 pounds).
The new prior authorization requirement will impact Medicare claims beginning on March 20 in four states: Illinois, Missouri, New York and West Virginia. CMS intends to roll the policy out nationwide in July.
In explaining the prior authorization process on its Web site, CMS said the new requirement “will require the same information necessary to support Medicare payment today, just earlier in the process. It will not create new clinical documentation requirements. The prior authorization process assures that all relevant coverage, coding and clinical documentation requirements are met before the item is furnished to the beneficiary and before the claim is submitted for payment.”
A Medicare prior authorization power mobility device demonstration project featuring power wheelchairs and scooters has been in place for years in 19 states, but that demonstration didn’t include K0856 or K0861 codes.
That demonstration has been largely lauded in the industry because providers can check a Medicare beneficiary’s eligibility for the prescribed power mobility device before delivering the vehicle.
CMS published a final rule in December 2015 announcing its intention to implement “a prior authorization process for certain DMEPOS items that are frequently subject to unnecessary utilization.” The final rule included a list of 135 DME products that the agency had declared “frequently subject to unnecessary utilization. CMS would then implement a prior authorization rule for DME chosen from the list.
CMS had scheduled a Jan. 26 Open Door Forum to discuss the roll-out of the new prior authorization process for the K0856 and K0861 codes, but later canceled it. At press time, the agency had not announced a new date or time for the call.
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Fender CN-90 Review, Affordable and Easy to Play Classical Guitar
October 1, 2020 October 1, 2020 by Donovan Jennings
The majority of guitarists were drawn to the instrument by some cultural phenomenon, like Jimi Hendrix, Jonny Greenwood, or Kaki King. Watching these masters of guitar play can be life-changing, but how do you get to that level? If you’ve never picked up a guitar before, you’ll quickly learn it isn’t as easy as it looks.
Of course, all budding guitarists have to start at the bottom, and the classical nylon guitar is often the first foray into the guitar world. While not as sexy or sleek as a Gibson Les Paul Custom, a classical guitar offers easy playability, affordability, and a perfect platform for new learners.
Fender, one of the premier names in musical gear, has created the CN-90, an affordable and easy to play classical guitar. Throughout our Fender CN-90 Guitar Review, we’ll discuss why a classical nylon guitar is a right choice for beginners and whether Fender’s CN-90 is the best place to start.
Fender CN-90
Affordable and Easy to Play Classical Guitar
Built and Backed by the Reputable Brand, Fender
Spruce Top Provides Loud Resonance, Durability, and Overall Clear Tone
Easy to Play Neck, Awesome for Beginners
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Fender CN-90 Classical Acoustic Guitar
What Customers are Saying?
The Fender CN-90 is a basic classical acoustic guitar that is marketed towards beginners and those looking for an inexpensive “bang around” acoustic. Created using all laminate wood, the CN-90 is an affordable way to decide whether playing guitar is right for you or your progeny.
Fender’s expansion into classical guitar may be relatively new, but the company has been revolutionizing the music world since 1946. Nearly all of their acoustic guitars are created in China or Indonesia, but don’t let that deter you. A vast majority of acoustics are made overseas, which helps keep prices low.
Built and backed by Fender
Reasonably priced
Simple to care for and maintain
No case or gig bag included
All laminate construction
On first glance, the Fender CN-90 may seem like an average nylon classical guitar (but I think that headstock is pretty cool!).
In the following sections, we’ll take a deep dive into how this guitar is built, with a bit of history and information on the woods, construction techniques, and overall fit and feel of a classical guitar.
Rosewood and Mahogany – Time Tested Tone
Laminated wood is the choice of builders when affordability and quality are at the top of the list. With the Fender CN-90, laminated spruce was used for the top, and laminated mahogany for the back and sides.
Spruce has been used on acoustic guitars and orchestral instruments for hundreds of years. It is a time-honored wood because of its loud resonance, durability, and overall clear tone. Its choice as an acoustic guitar top is perfect, especially if you plan to play the CN-90 for a few years.
Like spruce, mahogany is another wood that has been used for centuries, especially in famed Gibson guitars like the Les Paul. When used as a tonewood in the back and sides, mahogany produces a “scooped” tone, meaning more emphasis on the highs and lows. Pairing spruce and mahogany is a winning choice, producing a well-rounded acoustic tone.
Easy to Play Neck
For first-timers, the neck of a guitar is arguably the most important part.
Most new players won’t be able to hear the difference between a $100 and a $2,000 acoustic, but they will instantly know whether the guitar is hard to play or not. A big, thick, and unruly neck will quickly derail most learners.
With the Fender CN-90, the neck is slim and slightly shorter than a standard acoustic, making it an excellent choice for new musicians, especially the younger ones.
Built with… Fans?
Acoustic guitars are built using a technique called bracing. If you look inside the soundhole of a guitar, you’ll see that it isn’t just slabs of wood stuck together – it’s a complex network of long, thin pieces of wood, creating the bracing pattern.
For nearly 200 years, most classical guitars have been built using the “fan” bracing style. Viewed from the inside, this bracing pattern has the look of a folding hand fan (as seen in depictions of ancient China). This fan brace provides lightweight structural integrity and also helps amplify the guitar’s bass range.
Why Play Classical
As a kid, I would try to play my dad’s dreadnought acoustic and feel engulfed by its size. At the age of 12, I was gifted a cheap classical guitar and it has been a companion ever since. Compared to a standard dreadnought acoustic guitar, classical guitars are smaller, much easier to play, put less strain on your fingers.
Standard steel string guitars have a way of making your mistakes apparent, while a classical guitar has a soft mellow tone, and mistakes and dead notes aren’t so obvious. The nylon strings require less effort to push down, and if you accidentally miss a note, the sound is much more forgiving.
Fender CN-90 Review Specification
Body Style Classical
Top Material Laminate Spruce
Back and Sides Laminate Mahogany
Neck Laminate Mahogany
Fingerboard Rosewood
Bracing Fan Brace
Bridge Rosewood
Nut and Saddle Plastic
Finish Gloss
Electronics None
Accessories None
Despite its lower price tag, the Fender CN-90 is built right alongside the company’s more expensive acoustic guitars, and customers across the world have nearly unanimous praise for this classical acoustic.
As often seen in entry-level guitars, most of the buyers are parents of teenagers who are interested in learning. However, a surprising number of reviewers were experienced guitar players who wanted a new guitar to complement their existing lineup.
One experienced guitarist noted in their Fender CN-90 Review that it played nearly as nice as his more expensive classical guitars and enjoyed the smaller neck. A parent of a new player stated that her daughter loved the guitar and was playing it constantly.
Relatively few negative reviews exist, and the ones that do cite the factory strings as a problem. These reviews stated that the original strings had a “cheap” feel and sound, with most changing them out for a higher quality set. A good idea with any new guitar is to change the strings soon after arrival, as old strings can produce an uneven and rough tone.
Like most classical guitars, the CN-90 has no built-in electronics, but that shouldn’t be a hindrance.
For an in-depth look at the CN-90, check out this video.
As a parent with aspirations to teach my children guitar, I believe that a classical acoustic is the best place to start. Not only did it work for me, but you’ll also find that most classes encourage classical guitars as for first-time learners. With that in mind, I feel that Fender CN-90 is a great choice for new players and their fiscally-conscious parents.
While there may be cheaper options out there, the Fender name remains an icon in the guitar world, and the CN-90 is true to the brand’s build philosophy. This classical acoustic takes the guesswork out of picking the right guitar.
As a few of the reviews noted, buyers may want to have a new pack of strings ready to go. My personal favorite is D ’Addario Pro-Arte. Changing strings is just a normal part of playing guitar, so learning that necessary evil early on will pay off later down the road.
Donovan Jennings
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Landing legs on SpaceX’s next mission
Back in November, following SpaceX’s first launch of a geostationary satellite, CEO Elon Musk said in a call with reporters that his company would attempt to bring back the first stage booster rocket on its next International Space Station supply mission.
SpaceX had successfully restarted the Falcon 9 first stage and steered the booster rocket through a controlled reentry into the atmosphere, an industry first. The rocket made it most of the way back to a soft landing in the Pacific Ocean, before instability caused by a lack of aerodynamic control caused it to crash, Musk said.
Controlled reentry, coupled with the kind of stabilized landings that SpaceX has demonstrated in flight tests closer to the ground, said Musk, would enable a successful safe return of the rocket in the next orbital test.
Reusable booster rockets are the Holy Grail of space flight. Currently booster rockets worth tens to hundreds of millions of dollars are simply discarded after launching their payloads. Imagine ditching an entire 747 after each transatlantic flight, and you’ll see why spaceflight is so expensive.
Musk and SpaceX flight want to change that equation with rockets that can be refueled and launched again. On his Twitter feed, he posted this picture of the Falcon 9 being fitting with landing legs for the ISS cargo delivery flight scheduled for March 16. He also tweeted that the rocket will land in the ocean following the flight, rather than on land as intended in the future.
“F9 will continue to land in the ocean until we prove precision control from hypersonic thru subsonic regimes”
Reusable booster rockets could change everything. Already SpaceX provides the lowest launch cost per pound to orbit, sending satellites to geostationary orbit for around 25% of competitors’ prices. A reusable vehicle could drop the price to as little as 10% of historical prices. It’s all in service of Musk’s ultimate vision: enabling the human settlement of Mars.
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MEET THE PATELS
Talk to anyone, and you’ll find that marriage has about a 50% success rate. Whether the two know it each other a lifetime, or have just met. Whether they date for years or for weeks. Whether they choose each other or it was arranged, marriage success is roughly the same. Everyone has a fifty-fifty chance.
If this is true, why then put so much emphasis on it? Why fret and sweat, hoping to finding a perfect and compatible mate when the outcome is essentially a coin-flip? Emotions? Most likely. Fear? Definitely. But I suspect that tradition is most likely the strongest reason. No child wants to disappoint its parents, and when it comes down to marriage, there can be an awful lot of disappointment.
That is essential where the documentary, Meet the Patels, comes from.
Ravi Patel is American by birth, Indian by decent and actor by trade. He lives in Los Angeles, and for the past two years, Ravi has been dating Audrey, a redhead from Connecticut. But the kicker is, Ravi’s parents have never met Audrey, nor do they know of her existence. Ravi’s parents are Indian and the product of a very happy and successful arranged marriage. They are still holding out hope that Ravi, and his older sister, Greeta, will eventually come around to the ways of their tradition and follow suit.
Although Ravi resists it, his biological clock is ticking and the desire to please his parents causes Ravi to break it off with Audrey and find a nice young Indian girl to settle down with. His parents couldn’t be happier, and immediately spring into action. Thankfully, Greeta grabs a camera to document the process à la Real World, and what she uncovers is both universal and personal.
Meet the Patels is less about Ravi’s search to find his mate, and more about his personal search to understand his parents and his heritage. Making this all the more interesting is that Greeta is exploring as well. In essence, Greeta’s approach to Ravi’s story is not simply one of cinéma vérité, but cinema by way of the diary, with Ravi’s confessions and discoveries unfolding before the lens while Greeta’s reactions either equal movement (from this subject to that) or linger (silently probing deeper without doing anything).
Meet the Patels is amateurishly made — the camera shakes often, is occasionally out of focus and a microphone can often be found in the upper right hand corner of the frame — but Meet the Patels is the exception, not the rule. Here is an instance where amateurish qualities adds a personal aesthetic rather than a detraction. We are watching Greeta write a story of her brother and parents in real-time, with each revelation and discovery coming 24 frames a second.
And it’s funny. Hard to beat that.
Directed by: Ravi Patel, Greeta Patel
Written by: Matthew Hamachek, Billy McMillin, Ravi Patel, Greeta Patel
Produced by: Janet Fries Eckholm, Geeta Patel
Starring: Ravi Patel, Champa V. Patel, Vasant K. Patel, Greeta Patel
Alchemy, Rated PG, Running time 88 minutes, Opens October 2, 2015
October 1, 2015 July 22, 2019 Michael J. CaseyBilly McMillin, Champa V. Patel, Greeta Patel, Janet Fries Eckholm, Matthew Hamachek, Meet the Patels, Ravi Patel, Vasant K. Patel
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Lots of interest in the MCL86 core
March 3, 2016 December 31, 2020 MicroCore Labs
Well over 100,000 page views to date of Steve Liebson’s blog posting on the MCL86 core. Cool!!!
8088 microprocessor IP core fits in 308 LUTs, runs at 180MHz on a Kintex-7 FPGA
The MCL86 is a 16-bit, microsequencer based, cycle and structurally compatible, soft IP core of the 8086/8088 microprocessor. Like the original processor, the MCL86 Execution Unit (EU) is separate from the Bus Interface Unit (BIU) which allows it to be utilized in a wide range of applications from a drop-in 8086/8086 replacement to a highly customized system-on-a-chip. The MCL86 consumes a minimal amount of space and power which leaves the majority of the silicon available for user logic.
The MCL86 EU core utilizes only 308 LUTs which is less than one percent of the smallest Kintex FPGA and less than ten percent of the Lattice XO2-7000 FPGA. Block RAMS are used to hold the microcode.
The MCL86 core has been extensively tested on desktop computer hardware which demonstrates the robustness of the core. Please see our Links page for YouTube videos of the MCL86 running desktop applications on real hardware. We have also developed an exhaustive test suite to ensure the core accurately emulates the original processor.
The core has the option to be cycle compatible with the original 4.77Mhz 8088 microprocessor which allows the MCL86 to be a drop-in replacement. If this is not enabled then the core can execute instructions significantly faster.
The core’s extremely small footprint makes it ideal for embedded applications where a microcontroller is required that draws the minimum of power and logic resources. It runs the legendary x86 instruction set which has the support of thousands of books, tools, and other resources. Millions of desktop computers and embedded applications have been developed around this processor which make it a ideal choice for an embedded FPGA or ASIC controller.
The project source-code is on GitHub: https://github.com/MicroCoreLabs/Projects/tree/master/MCL86
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Statement of NALC President Fred Rolando on Yesterday’s Events in Washington
“Yesterday’s attack on the U.S. Capitol, just steps from our headquarters, was a disgraceful betrayal of our democracy, our elected officials and the law enforcement personnel who protect them. That it was incited by the outgoing President of the United States makes it all the more appalling. We condemn it in the strongest possible terms.”
“Letter carriers, like our fellow American citizens, are diverse, opinionated and passionate about their values and politics, which NALC appreciates and celebrates. But a line has been crossed that can never be excused, accepted or repeated.”
“Yesterday, should have been a peaceful and happy day. One on which members of Congress represented their constituents and the will of their states’ voters by formally certifying presidential election results. It should have been a day when dissenting Americans gathered peacefully to exercise their First Amendment rights to protest.”
“Instead, a mob, triggered by a president who refuses to accept the results of our recent election, attempted to thwart the hallmark of our democracy for more than two centuries – the peaceful transfer of power. That is unforgivable.”
“Although it is deeply saddening that four people lost their lives, we can take some solace in the fact that the attack on our democracy utterly failed. After order was restored, a joint session of Congress reconvened and certified the results of the 2020 Election by accepting the votes of the Electoral College. President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will be inaugurated on January 20, 2021.”
"We believe President-elect Biden’s record of working with leaders in both parties to make progress and build unity will help us overcome the poisonous partisanship that has plagued our country for so long. I hope every member of our union will join me in doing our part to heal the deep divisions that led to yesterday’s tragedy.”
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A Year of Conservation Education
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Conservation is a human responsibility
“What defines an invasive species? Are humans an invasive species?”, one of my students asked me during lunch. Earlier that day he had asked a similar question in front of the whole group, but I had responded that we didn’t have enough time to get into a long debate about the contentious definition of an invasive species. I said that if he wanted, we could debate whether or not humans were an invasive species over lunch. Instead of playing Pokemon Go like all the other students did at Zoo Camp during lunch, he came over to talk with me about conservation.
The United States conservation movement began in 1872 with the establishment of Yellowstone National Park. Nineteen years later, in 1891, US Congress passed the Forest Reserve Act. Since then, Americans have been campaigning and educating the masses to be responsible stewards of the environment. Recent (a relative term) public relations and education programs have included Keep America Beautiful (est. 1953), the US Forest Service’s Woodsy Owl-Give a Hoot! Don’t Pollute! (1971), and NAMEPA’s Save Our Seas (est. 2007).
As a Conservation Education Fellow at the Bronx Zoo, I had the chance to work with brilliant young people, already passionate, creative, and driven. In my experience, education is simultaneously the most rewarding, frustrating, and exhausting activity in which one can participate. But despite all the stress the kids I worked with put me through last summer, I still believe that this is the most important part of my job as a scientist: educating others, particularly young people, about what I do. And I don’t just teach them, young people teach me an amazing amount, even about topics in which I consider myself an expert.
While I was home from school for winter break, I visited the Robotics team at my local middle school. The students were tasked with not only building a functional robot for their competition, but also with creating a responsible invention, the theme of which for 2017 was helping marine wildlife. Before even getting into a discussion of marine wildlife, the topic for which I had been brought in as an “expert” to whom they could ask questions, I was already impressed with the robots they were building. So many young students, including a younger sister who came up to the middle school every week once she was done with a day of elementary school, were engaged in innovation and creativity. Needless to say, these students already seemed like they had a lot they could teach me.
Are biodegradable fishing nets in our future?
Their ideas in design and solutions to environmental issues far surpassed anything I could have come up with so quickly on my own. I came in with basic information for them, ready to give them a summary of what I knew about the local marine environment and its inhabitants. They asked me endless detailed questions, drawing out pieces of information I didn’t even know I knew. But what they gave me in return was the applications of my work; their creative minds turned my basic knowledge of sea turtles in the Long Island Sound into an idea for biodegradable nets.
But I cannot talk about education without talking about its difficulties; I did refer to it as the most frustrating thing I’ve ever done in addition to the most rewarding. In all challenging jobs, people are able to grow and learn about themselves. Education, however, amplifies this through the lens of reflection. In each student, I see myself or someone else I know. Each student is also someone I get to know as a person in terms of their strengths and weaknesses, their frustrating habits and ingenious spurts of inspiration. These complexities and intricacies in each unique individual push teachers to new levels of growth and achievement with each lesson.
And even when the kids are annoying or crazy or downright ridiculous, there’s always a story to tell and laugh about, even if the laughing comes years down the line. Teaching is fun even when it’s arduous; young students never fail to give material for a fascinating or hilarious story.
At the end of the summer I got to work closely with a small group of high schoolers, an experience which was made both more frustrating and more fun because of the proximity of my age to theirs. I taught an elective called “Future Leaders in Conservation” for three weeks. During the three weeks, we developed leadership skills, culminating in a final project that involved creating an educational game to teach to younger campers. They were given the chance to experience what my summer job had been like.
How about a game of “Mongoose, Hawk, Cobra”?
As our final sessions were coming to an end and the day of their presentations grew closer, I was increasingly nervous that the games wouldn’t work. Four-year-olds might not be able to jump from hoop to hoop pretending to be falcons, nor would they understand the rules to “rock, paper, scissors” when it suddenly became a game involving mongooses and cobras in order to demonstrate predator-prey relationships. The final day came and it was extremely hot out and the group arrived late. Overheated kindergarteners have even more trouble concentrating than they usually do. Thirty minutes later, six high schoolers had successfully played three games of their own design with twenty-four kindergarteners. I congratulated the future leaders on their success in an activity they reflected was, as I had told them it would be, both frustrating and fun.
Later that day, I spoke with my coworkers who were working with the younger kids. During lunch time, the kindergarten campers were overheard playing “mongoose, hawk, cobra,” the game which I had thought would be hardest for the younger campers to understand. I could not contain my joy because it meant that I had also been successful – I had taught my kids how to teach.
Julia Zeh
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Chapter 91: Necromantic Relationship
Posted on August 29, 2015 by mike777ac
When Michael teleported outside of the basement bathroom, he muttered “Since bullshit ‘extra-dimensional’ magic is so abundant, there’s probably some kinda special… Yup, there it is; the goddamn Gateway to the Necropolis.”
Just like the name suggested, by sacrificing the relatively small space that was formerly a bathroom, he was able to purchase a square kilometer. Of course, it came at the steep price of a level-ten, rank-E, Boss’ mana-core and thirty gold coins.
However, the moment that the eerie gateway of damnation appear before him, the Nephilim felt as if his entire body was freezing and spontaneously combusting at the same time. The feathers on his pure-white wings immediately disintegrated, along with the flesh and muscle, until all that was left were rotting bones.
He screamed “Ow~, what the fucking cunt?!” as he jumped away from the pitch-black double-doors. Then the material of the wood started to warp and change; eventually, it appeared as if there were obsidian bones lining the walls around the former bathroom.
Sarah shouted “Shut the hell up!” as she lazily stood up, off the cold and hard, stone floor. Her bright blue irises and violet sclera were glowing in the nearly light-less room, as she glared at the noisy man.
Michael groaned, as the rotting wing-bones turned into dust and were sucked into that pitch-black gateway. If he had been using the ‘Lightening’ spell, the same thing would have happened to his entire body.
Then he sighed dramatically, before walking over to the Dark-Goblin and telling her “Oh hey, I got you a present. Pack up your-uh ‘my’ skeleton, and let’s find out what the fuck was so damn expensive…”
The naked girl stared at the strange double-doors, and felt the cold chill in the air, wafting towards her. Sarah asked “The hell is that thing?” while unconsciously walking towards the gateway.
He placed his hand on her small, slimy right shoulder, and said “Oi, shove the bones into your inventory first.” as he easily turned her tiny body around. While he was guiding her towards the skeleton, Michael noticed that her Stamina bar was nearly full.
Sarah reached out with her long, worm-like, pitch-black tail and sent the remains into her third bag-slot. She grumbled “How much fucking stronger did you bastards get?”
As they were standing in front of the Gateway to the Necropolis, he snickered and showed her the silver glove on his left hand, and bragged “I finally got my first Epic~, and these underwear are actually Rare armor too.”
The Dark-Goblin complained “You’re such a cunt.” before attempting to pull on the circular handle, but it wouldn’t budge. She yelled “Why the fuck can’t I open this damn thing?!”
Michael tried to touch it, but his right hand nearly became frozen a few inches away, so he muttered “Ya probably have to make some kinda blood-sacrifice?” An Obsidian Wakizashi appeared out of her palm, and she unhesitantly stabbed it into the left side of his throat.
However, since her Attack Rating was so much lower than his Defense Rating, there wasn’t even a scratch. He started laughing hysterically, as he grabbed the back of her neck with his left hand, and slammed her face into the door’s metallic handle.
She screamed “Ow! Fucking asshole!” as a small ‘-17’ appeared above her head. Her nose was broken, and her teeth had torn apart her bright-blue lips, causing large amounts of violet blood to pour out.
He sighed dramatically, and complained “Maybe we just have ta say ‘Open sesame?’ Hmmm, oh wait, I have a better idea… Why don’t we just teleport inside?” However, while he was about to send out his wisp-form, the gates began slowly opening… “Hahahahaha~, oh God, it was a push door!”
Sarah’s injuries were quickly regenerated by the house, but she was still scowling at the hysterically laughing Nephilim. What irritated her more than anything else, was the fact that she couldn’t even hurt him as long as he was wearing that armor: even if it wasn’t activated. She coldly ordered “Take off your clothes, now.”
Without hesitation, Michael Unequipped everything, and smirked at the naked girl who also unsheathed her sword. Contrary to his expectations, she didn’t attack him, but entered into the Necropolis instead.
He followed after her, though he felt as if the temperature was on par with the ‘Temporal Freezer.’ However, instead of a pure white, cubic room, there was actually a dark and cloudy sky above them.
They both glanced around at the eerie plot of land, and noticed that there were huge walls of bone in all four directions. There wasn’t any particular odors or sounds; the ground was covered with frozen soil, but it wasn’t particularly creepy aside from that.
After the walked out to the center of that square kilometer of space, Michael muttered “Welp, I’m sure it’ll end up being a lot more cozy once you fill it with rotting corpses, right? Anyway, it mentioned in the description that Darkness Aura is multiplied by like, ten times in here… so I figure that you should be able to reanimate my corpses way faster.”
Sarah licked the violet blood off of her upper lip and then grinned, while making the skeleton appear on the ground in front of her. Then she stood up and told him “Get on your fucking knees… I’m going to ‘thank’ you.”
He complained “Fine~, but I’m not sucking your worm-hole. I mean, if there weren’t sharp and jagged barbs on it, then I wouldn’t care…” as he did as she commanded. The frozen soil didn’t damage his skin, but it was still extremely cold and uncomfortable. If the two of them didn’t have such incredible eyesight, they wouldn’t have even been able to see each-other in that nearly light-less Necropolis.
The little girl turned away from him, then bent over and lifted her tail up, causing him to become extremely aroused. A level-one, rank-F, Human corpse suddenly appeared below her; its head had been almost completely destroyed.
However, the rest of the body was relatively intact: including its reproductive system. She placed the limp sexual organ into her mouth and chomped down, immediately jerking her head to the left and tearing it off.
She made sure to turn around and show it to him, as she chewed it up and swallowed the relatively fresh and bloody piece of meat. Michael smirked, “Your technique is pretty shitty… but at least you know how to swallow? Hmmm~, if you died, and I kept your corpse, would you be jealous if I fucked it instead of you?”
Sarah walked over to the kneeling man; their faces were at the same height, so she was able to easily wrap her tiny hands around the sides of his neck, while shoving her bright-blue tongue into his mouth. While they were ‘passionately’ kissing, her tail plunged into the gaping hole that she had created and started to devour the corpse’s internal organs.
The Nephilim grabbed the backs of both of her thighs and violently forced his way inside of her. She didn’t scream, even as she was being torn apart, but instead, bit down fiercely into his tongue.
He abruptly stood-up, then used all of his weight to crush her, on top of his headless Human corpse. The fragile rib-cage and sternum was easily shattered, and if they weren’t still technically in the house, her Health would have reached zero.
As her violet blood poured onto and into the Human flesh and bones, it sizzled loudly, before bursting into purple flames. However, Michael didn’t stop what he was doing, and even though Sarah was screaming in pain, she was still wearing that sinister grin the entire time.
Since the two of them were rather preoccupied, they weren’t able to notice that the fumes from that burning corpse were drifting towards that lonely skeleton. As the smoke entered into its nostrils, mouth, eyes, ear-holes and below the jaw, it all condensed inside of the rapidly forming pitch-black pearl.
When they were finally finished violently ravaging each-other, a message popped-up in front of Sarah’s face: “You have created a Darkness Golem: Human Skeleton, Level-1, Rank-G. Stats have been inherited from the original owner.”
[Item Information
Name: None
Titles: None
Experience: 0/10
Race: Human Skeleton
Rank: G
Class: None
Specialization: None
Profession: Unemployed]
[Stats
Health: 10/10
Mana: 15/15
Stamina: 5/5
Mana Regen per minute: 20
Health Regen per hour: 10
Strength: 3
Vitality: 1
Dexterity: 3
Agility: 1
Intelligence: 3
Wisdom: 2
Perception: 1
Charisma: 1
Willpower: 0
Luck: 0
Aura: .5
Attack Rating: 15
Defense Rating: .5]
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40 thoughts on “Chapter 91: Necromantic Relationship”
midnightover on April 19, 2020 at 7:06 am said:
Why do I get aroused as well… Yayyyy, I’m fucked up toooooo xD
Hildegarde on August 23, 2016 at 4:40 am said:
You are really really twisted, my dear friend~~
Glad to see that in this world there are still people like you~~
you, take my upvote !!
mike777ac on August 23, 2016 at 5:06 am said:
Thanks lol
Kei on September 12, 2015 at 4:58 am said:
“Hahahahaha~, oh God, it was a push door!”
this was the first thing in this novel that made me laugh uncontrollably
Void on August 29, 2015 at 11:55 pm said:
Misliding doors will be the end of us all.
Cerzo on August 29, 2015 at 8:53 pm said:
mike777ac on August 29, 2015 at 8:56 pm said:
3 hours before the chapters come out?
Leech on August 29, 2015 at 8:38 am said:
Amaelzaekil on August 29, 2015 at 5:30 am said:
This series is gory and disgusting, yet i still find it funny. Is there something wrong with me?
Nah, I think that’s pretty normal lol. It’s the people who wanna censor everything and freak out over the smallest things, who have the serious problems :P.
Of course, I’m the type of person who laughs hysterically while watching horror movies… but whatever, maybe I’m just too jaded.
Amaelzaekil on August 29, 2015 at 11:09 am said:
And i am the guy whom gets scared at every single thing… Well, this isn’t much different from the slaaneshi from warhammer 40k
Idk what the Slaaneshi are? lol
If you really want to know, http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Slaanesh
Steveman on August 29, 2015 at 2:26 am said:
How many professions can a player have? Is it one only or can a player unlock multiple proffesions once they reach a certain stage in their first profession? Or is it like you can get another profession every rank or two?
It’s more like, you can switch to a new profession when you meet certain conditions, but if you want to go back to a profession that you used to have, it costs 1 silver per level of the profession lol. Basically if you wanted to switch professions a lot, it would probably get expensive, but it wouldn’t be that bad. Of course, you can basically have as many as you want, as long as you actually know how to use them? Like, if someone is an amazing artist, and they get rid of their Art-related profession for something else… they won’t stop being an amazing artist lol. The same way that the MC is a Musician, even though he doesn’t have music related professions lol.
Essentially, with enough time, money, and Intelligence(Cause without enough memory, the person would just forget everything lol) it’s possible for Players or even NPCs, to be masters of a bunch of different professions.
izana258 on August 29, 2015 at 2:23 am said:
Oh, nice chapter
So many pink feeling around.
Or rather stupid feeling
Come on dude, if the door can’t be pulled, so push it. Didn’t it remind stick man gif with bazooka
People have feelings lol, I’m sorry if that offends you QQ. Also, who hasn’t tried to pull open a misleading push door before?
Wut? Nope, I’m not offended. Some place playing prank with it’s customers by place “pull” sign to its supposed “pushed” door. That’s why I learn my lesson
Lulz, I would definitely fall for that… assuming that I could even read the sign with my shitty eye-sight :P.
spetznaz3111 on August 29, 2015 at 1:34 am said:
is he gonna choose summoner class lol i think he needs an op as fuck class
His Class is Guardian, Summoner is a Profession lol. Also, Summoner is really fucking overpowered in so many ways… but you’ll find out soon enough, muhuahahahaha!
Beck Harbinson on August 29, 2015 at 3:31 pm said:
about that what exactly is spawning i honestly can only begin to imagine
Lmao, take a wild guess? Well, it gets talked about later to a certain extent, but it’s called ‘Chaotic Breeding.’
prairieeagle on August 29, 2015 at 1:24 am said:
…I…I need an adult?
Jake on August 29, 2015 at 12:57 am said:
Leecher5515 on August 29, 2015 at 12:43 am said:
Wait a second why is it tommorow on WordPress, last night tomorrow was three hours later
mike777ac on August 29, 2015 at 12:53 am said:
Lmao, 00:00 in wordpress time is 8 pm for me :P. I’m gonna keep releasing the story at 8 pm every day… even if I’m not awake at 8 pm, it doesn’t matter now that I’ve discovered the wonders of scheduling rofl
Yay early release by three hours… Only know because I obsessively check every other hour O_0 ! Surprises are happy things and emoticons rock XD
Dash323 on August 29, 2015 at 12:18 am said:
Sigh……..Sometimes I cant decide if this series is just disgusting or incredibly honest in revealing your inner psyche….
Probably both? Which is why it’s funny lol.
DonRoronoaZoro on August 29, 2015 at 12:45 am said:
lol i agree so fun to read it all
This guy gets it 🙂 lol
Dash323 on August 29, 2015 at 1:05 am said:
True. Its probably also the reason I’ve read everything you’ve written 8D
Lmao, I wonder if it would be a spoiler to say that there’s a lot of action around chapter 100 :P… and I don’t mean the Necromantic kind lol.
I think most stories have some kinda ‘formula’ that they follow. Like, “drama>action>sex>action>drama>tragedy>action>drama>sex” or something like that… but I’ve just been kinda doing whatever and going with the flow of what needs to happen, lol.
Also, I feel like I mix drama, action, and sex together a lot, which ends up becoming comedy, because of how ridiculous it all is lol.
leoid on August 29, 2015 at 2:20 am said:
mikey is insane. just deal with it and let him write(lol)
I’m not insane… just a little crazy? lol
I think this is probably one of my favorite titles so far lol. Get it? Romantic Relationship + Necrophilia/Necromancy = Necromantic Relationship
I’m gonna be posting 3 chapters in about 2 and a half to three hours… Chapter 94 freaked me out a bit, and I was the one who wrote it roflmao. The ‘Ew-Factor’ is certainly very high tonight, and the ‘Holy shit! What the fucking fuck did I just expose my fragile brain to?!” is at an all time high in chapter 94 QQ. Well, the sad thing is, my actual dreams are usually a lot more disturbing lmfao.
Chapter 5: Meeting New People... And Animals
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Mitobridge
An Astellas Company
targeting mitochondria advancing human health
science & pipeline
We have joined forces with Nanna Therapeutics in the field of developing medicines for the treatment of diseases linked to mitochondrial dysfunction.
nanna therapeutics
U.S. FDA Grants Fast Track Designation for ASP0367/MA-0211, a Selective PPARδ Modulator Being Developed for the Treatment of Primary Mitochondrial Myopathies
TOKYO, October 20, 2020 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas” ) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation for the development of ASP0367/MA-0211 (“ASP0367”) as a potential treatment for primary mitochondrial myopathies (PMM).
PMM is a complex mitochondrial disease in which genetic mutations primarily impair the function of mitochondria, resulting in reduced muscle function, reduced endurance to exercise (i.e., exercise intolerance), increased fatigue, and muscle atrophy. In addition, PMM may present serious and life-threatening health conditions due to multiple organ involvement. For example, decreased myocardial function may lead to cardiomyopathy and heart failure. Decreased function of respiratory muscles may cause respiratory failure and pneumonia. In patients with mitochondrial disease due to pathogenic mutations in either the mtDNA or nDNA genome, the minimum point prevalence is estimated at 12.5 in 100,000 (approximately 1 in 8,000) for adults with clinical manifestations, and 23 in 100,000 (approximately 1 in 4,300) for adults with or without clinical manifestations.1 There is no FDA-approved treatment for PMM, a rare disease with a high unmet medical need.
Preclinical data and results from Astellas’ Phase I healthy volunteer study collectively suggest that ASP0367 - an orally administered PPARδ modulator - could improve exercise intolerance and fatigue in PMM patients by increasing the number and enhancing the function of mitochondria in patient’s cells. ASP0367 will be entering a Phase II / III study (MOUNTAINSIDE) to validate the efficacy and safety in PMM patients.
Astellas explores mitochondrial biology as a Primary Focus of its R&D strategy and is committed to providing treatments using new modalities. Targeting mitochondrial function is an innovative approach to address diseases with significant unmet medical needs in novel and effective ways. With the acquisition of Mitobridge, Inc. in 2018, Astellas has gained access to Mitobridge’s expertise in mitochondrial biology and a pipeline of innovative programs including ASP0367.
The FDA's Fast Track designation system aims to expedite the development and review of therapeutic agents for serious or potentially life-threatening diseases with high unmet medical need. The Fast Track designation is expected to accelerate the clinical development of ASP0367.
“Primary mitochondrial myopathies are a serious, complex disease with significant unmet need and no approved therapies,” said Salim Mujais, M.D., Senior Vice President and Therapeutic Area Head, Medical Specialties, Astellas. “With the development of ASP0367, an oral, once daily modulator of mitochondrial energy production, we are hoping to alleviate the serious burden of this disease on patients, their families and caregivers.”
“At Astellas, mitochondrial biology is one of our Primary Focus Areas, driving our commitment to bring new biological concepts into the clinic for rapid proof of concept,” said Mike Patane, Ph.D., President of Mitobridge, an Astellas Company, located in Cambridge, Mass. and part of the Astellas Biomedical Innovation Hub. “We are pleased to see this new milestone for ASP0367 as it shows steady progress in our Primary Focus and further demonstrates our focus on turning innovative science into value for patients.”
U.S. FDA Grants Fast Track Designation to Astellas for the Development of ASP1128 for Patients at Risk for Acute Kidney Injury
TOKYO, October 28, 2019 – Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Kenji Yasukawa, Ph.D., “Astellas”) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation for the development of ASP1128 for patients at increased risk of developing moderate to severe acute kidney injury (AKI) after coronary artery bypass and/or valve (CABG/V) surgery. The Fast Track designation is intended to facilitate the development, and expedite the FDA review, of drugs to treat serious and life-threatening conditions so that, if approved, the compounds can reach the market more expeditiously.
ASP1128 is an investigational compound that is a potent and highly selective PPARδ modulator. ASP1128 is believed to have protective effects on kidney cells that are under cellular stress following CABG/V surgery by promoting fatty acid oxidation in the mitochondria. Further, ASP1128 may have the potential to reduce systemic and local inflammatory responses and oxidative stress. The 1128-CL-0201 proof of concept Phase 2 study is ongoing. The study design is a randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled study enrolling approximately 220 patients across the United States.
“Following the acquisition of Mitobridge, Inc. in 2018, Astellas is now at the forefront of developing mitochondrial-directed therapeutics. Today’s announcement is an exciting advancement in an entirely new therapeutic modality and approach with the potential to treat patients with AKI, an area of high unmet need,” said Salim Mujais, M.D., Senior Vice President and Therapeutic Area Head, Medical Specialties, Astellas. “Astellas recognizes the serious burden of AKI on patients and we are pleased that the FDA also acknowledges this unmet need and has granted the Fast Track Designation for ASP1128.”
Mike Patane, Ph.D., President of Mitobridge, an Astellas Company located at Astellas’s site in Cambridge, MA, commented, “Mitochondrial dysfunction is now recognized as an important driver in various diseases with high unmet medical need. For the past six years, our team has focused on this research, first as a biotech joint venture with Astellas and now as an integrated global Biopharma. At Astellas, mitochondrial biology is one of our Primary Focus, and this biology platform drives our commitment to bring new biological concepts into the clinic for rapid proof of concept. Developing ASP1128 in AKI is the lead example of this effort and our robust pipeline as this area continues to expand.”
About ASP1128
ASP1128 is a selective modulator of PPARδ. The Investigational compound is a potentially first-in-class approach to treating AKI. Mitobridge, an Astellas Company. has generated pre-clinical data demonstrated that intervention with ASP1128 improved mitochondrial function, overall energy metabolism and performance of the kidney following an acute ischemia reperfusion injury. In AKI animal models, ASP1128 improved renal function, histopathology and injury biomarkers. Additional information about the trials and participating centers can be found at Clinicaltrials.gov (identifier: NCT03941483).
About AKI
AKI is a sudden loss of kidney function that often occurs in hospitalized patients as a result of cardiac and/or vascular surgery, trauma, infection, cardiac disease or being treated with nephrotoxic anti-cancer therapy. AKI occur in up to 30% of cardiac surgery patients. Dialysis is required in 2% to 6% of the cardiac surgery-associated AKI patients. Currently, there are no drug available for either preventing or treating AKI. The clinical manifestations are, in part, due to early-onset mitochondrial deficits that drive multiple pathophysiological events that lead to AKI and appear to be linked to the severity of AKI and progression to Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD).
About Mitobridge, an Astellas Company.
Mitobridge, located at Astellas’ site in Cambridge, Mass., is dedicated to delivering therapeutics that improve mitochondrial function. Our team of experienced drug discovery and development scientists is leveraging their exceptional knowledge of mitochondria biology to develop a pipeline of innovative programs for the treatment of kidney, muscle and other diseases with high unmet medical need. Mitobridge was launched in October 2013 with funding from Astellas Pharma, Inc., MPM Capital and Longwood Ventures and a shared vision for the promise of mitochondrial-targeted therapeutics. In January of 2018, the Company was acquired by Astellas Pharma. For more information about the Company, please visit www.mitobridge.com. The Mitobridge site, now acting as one of Astellas’ affiliates in Massachusetts, continues to advance innovative compounds to proof of clinical concept and works with global Astellas teams to advance mitochondrial and biology driven medicine.
About Astellas
Astellas Pharma Inc., based in Tokyo, Japan, is a company dedicated to improving the health of people around the world through the provision of innovative and reliable pharmaceutical products. For more information, please visit our website at: https://www.astellas.com/us/
Cautionary Notes
In this press release, statements made with respect to current plans, estimates, strategies and beliefs and other statements that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements about the future performance of Astellas. These statements are based on management’s current assumptions and beliefs in light of the information currently available to it and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to: (i) changes in general economic conditions and in laws and regulations, relating to pharmaceutical markets, (ii) currency exchange rate fluctuations, (iii) delays in new product launches, (iv) the inability of Astellas to market existing and new products effectively, (v) the inability of Astellas to continue to effectively research and develop products accepted by customers in highly competitive markets, and (vi) infringements of Astellas’ intellectual property rights by third parties.
Information about pharmaceutical products (including products currently in development) which is included in this press release is not intended to constitute an advertisement or medical advice.
Contacts for enquiries or additional information:
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Astellas Completes Acquisition of Mitobridge, Inc.
Tokyo, Janurary 24, 2018 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Yoshihiko Hatanaka, “Astellas” ) today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Mitobridge, Inc. (“Mitobridge”), and Mitobridge has become a wholly owned subsidiary of Astellas as of U.S. Eastern Time January 23, 2018.
By exercising the option right to acquire Mitobridge, Astellas paid $225 million1 to acquire 100% of the equity in Mitobridge. In addition, Mitobridge shareholders will be eligible for additional payments from Astellas that total up to $225 million2 depending on the progress of various programs in clinical development.
The transaction accelerates Astellas’ research and development in diseases associated with mitochondrial dysfunctions and will enable the delivery of innovative new treatment options to patients. At this point, Astellas will maintain the organization in Cambridge, MA, and retain the Mitobridge name as a division of Astellas.
Astellas is still reviewing the impact of the completion of the acquisition on its financial results for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2018.
As Astellas is a shareholder in Mitobridge, the actual payment by Astellas to Mitobridge shareholders after adjustment based on the estimate of cash and cash equivalents etc. held by Mitobridge is $161.7 The amount is subject to further true-up based on actual numbers as of the closing date.
As Astellas is a shareholder in Mitobridge, the actual payment by Astellas to Mitobridge shareholders will be $165.5 million.
Astellas Pharma Inc., based in Tokyo, Japan, is a company dedicated to improving the health of people around the world through the provision of innovative and reliable pharmaceutical products. We focus on Urology, Oncology, Immunology, Nephrology and Neuroscience as prioritized therapeutic areas while advancing new therapeutic areas and discovery research leveraging new technologies/modalities. We are also creating new value by combining internal capabilities and external expertise in the medical/healthcare business. Astellas is on the forefront of healthcare change to turn innovative science into value for patients. For more information, please visit our website at https://www.astellas.com/en.
Contacts for inquiries or additional information:
Astellas Acquires Mitobridge Under Existing Collaboration
-Accelerating the Discovery and Development of Novel Drugs that Target Mitochondrial Functions -
Tokyo and Cambridge, November 30, 2017 - Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Yoshihiko Hatanaka, “Astellas”) and Mitobridge, Inc.1 (President and CEO: Kazumi Shiosaki, “Mitobridge”) today announced that Astellas has exercised its exclusive option right to acquire Mitobridge under the amended terms of the October 2013 partnership agreement governing their an R&D collaboration focused on discovering and developing novel drugs that target mitochondrial function. Mitobridge will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Astellas following the close of the acquisition.
Under the 2013 partnership agreements, Astellas and Mitobridge have collaborated to discover and develop compounds that target mitochondrial function. These drug candidates have the potential to treat genetic, metabolic or neurodegenerative disorders as well as conditions of aging. MA-0211, the most advanced program emerging from the collaboration, is currently in Phase 1 clinical studies for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD).
“Astellas has increased the involvement in mitochondrial drug discovery through its partnership with Mitobridge and the network of key scientists that the company has assembled. The achievements resulting from the collaboration have exceeded our expectations including the rapid advancement of multiple programs,“ commented Yoshihiko Hatanaka, President and CEO, Astellas. “Through the acquisition of Mitobridge, Astellas accelerates our investment in diseases caused by mitochondria dysfunctions in order to deliver innovative new treatment options to patients.”
“We at Mitobridge are delighted to become part of Astellas’ major initiative to develop new therapies for serious diseases. We are grateful for the tremendous support and guidance from Astellas, MPM Capital, and Longwood Fund that enabled Mitobridge to rapidly build an exciting pipeline,” said Kazumi Shiosaki, Ph.D., President & CEO, and co-founder of Mitobridge. “Mitobridge – as a subsidary of Astellas – will now have additional resources to continue to advance and expand on its achievements to date.”
By exercising the option right according to the amended agreement, Astellas will pay an upfront fee of $225 million2 to acquire Mitobridge. Mitobridge will be eligible for additional payments that total up to $225 million2, depending on the progress of various programs in clinical development. The closing of the acquisition is subject to customary regulatory approvals, and is expected to be finalized in the next several weeks.
The impact of this transaction on Astellas’ financial results for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2018 will be immaterial.
(1) The name of Mitokyne, Inc. was changed to Mitobridge, Inc.
(2) As Astellas is a shareholder in Mitobridge, the actual payment by Astellas to Mitobridge will be $165.5 million. The amount assumes the current Astellas’ shares on a fully diluted basis. The amount will be adjusted depending on the cash and cash equivalents etc. held by Mitobridge at the closing.
Acquisition Summary
(1) Acquiring company: Astellas Pharma Inc.
(2) Major shareholders of Mitobridge: MPM Capital, Longwood Funders Fund, Astellas Pharma Inc.
(3) Payment: Cash on hand
(4) Amount:
$225 million* to make Mitobridge a wholly-owned subsidiary of Astellas
Up to $225 million* in future contingent payments based on the advances in clinical programs
*As Astellas is a shareholder in Mitobridge, the actual payment by Astellas to Mitobridge will be $165.5 million. The amount assumes the current Astellas’ shares on a fully diluted basis. The amount will be adjusted depending on the cash and cash equivalents etc. held by Mitobridge at the closing.
(5) Expected timing of closing: Next several weeks, subject to customary regulatory approvals
Overview of Acquired Company
(1) Corporate Name: Mitobridge, Inc.
(2) Location: Cambridge, MA
(3) Representative: President & CEO Kazumi Shiosaki
(4) Founded year: 2011
(5) Number of employees: 27
(6) Relationship with Astellas: Equity-method affiliate, research and development partner
About Mitobridge (fka Mitokyne)
Mitobridge is discovering and developing small molecule therapeutics that enhance mitochondrial function and that build upon the emerging scientific findings linking mitochondrial dysfunction with disease pathologies. The Company is progressing innovative approaches to the treatment of diseases with high unmet medical need with the strategy to establish proof of concept in rare diseases and then expand into more common diseases. The Company was founded in 2011 with seed financing from MPM Capital. In October 2013, it closed a Series A financing from MPM Capital, Longwood Fund, and Astellas Pharma and a shared vision for the promise of mitochondrial-targeted therapeutics.
Astellas Cautionary Notes
Mitobridge Presents Preclinical Data Demonstrating Beneficial Effects of PPARδ Modulators in Acute Kidney Injury at American Society of Nephrology Annual Meeting
Results support the therapeutic potential of targeting mitochondrial stress associated with kidney injury and advancement of MA-0217 into clinical studies
CAMBRIDGE, MA, November 6, 2017 -- Mitobridge, Inc., dedicated to the discovery and development of therapeutics that improve mitochondrial function, presented results highlighting the potential of selective PPARd modulation to treat acute kidney injury (AKI). AKI is the sudden loss of kidney function that often occurs in hospitalized patients following cardiac and/or vascular surgery, trauma, infection, cardiac disease or treatment with nephrotoxic anti-cancer therapy.
The data, presented last week at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Nephrology (ASN), demonstrated that Mitobridge’s proprietary compound MA-0217 (also known as MTB-2) corrects the mitochondrial deficits and alleviates the renal dysfunction in a rat ischemia reperfusion AKI (IR-AKI) model. Additionally, MA-0204, a close analog of MA-0217, dosed post IR-AKI in a rat model of patients with hypertension, chronic kidney disease and diabetes and thereby at high risk to develop AKI, reduced kidney injury, accelerated recovery of kidney function and decreased the onset of fibrosis and slowed progression of diabetes and chronic kidney disease by 4 weeks. The posters are available on the Company’s website:https://mitobridge.com/news/publications.
“These proof-of-concept data demonstrated that MA-0217 can enhance mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation in human kidney cells and restore kidney function in animal models of the disease” commented Effie Tozzo, Senior Vice President, Translational Sciences at Mitobridge. “These results are encouraging and support advancing MA-0217 into clinical development as a first-in-class interventional approach for cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury (CSA-AKI).”
“AKI is a serious condition and there are no currently approved therapies to help manage patients,” said Bruce A. Molitoris, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Indiana Center for Biological Microscopy at Indiana University. “MA-0217 may address the cellular injury, mitochondrial dysfunction and organ damage associated with AKI and represents an innovative option for this life-threatening condition. The presented data are quite promising and I look forward to seeing the compound enter clinical development.”
About Mitobridge
Mitobridge is dedicated to delivering therapeutics that improve mitochondrial function. Our team of experienced drug discovery and development scientists is leveraging their exceptional knowledge of mitochondria biology to develop a pipeline of innovative programs for the treatment of kidney and muscle diseases with high unmet medical need. Headquartered in Cambridge, MA, Mitobridge was launched in October 2013 with funding from Astellas Pharma, Inc., MPM Capital and Longwood Ventures. For more information about the Company, please visit www.mitobridge.com.
About MA-0217
MA-0217 (MTB-2) is a potent and highly-selective PPARδ modulator and the second program to emerge from Mitobridge’s platform. The compound is a potentially first-in-class approach to treating acute kidney injury (AKI). Mitobridge has generated preclinical data demonstrating that intervention with MA-0217 improves mitochondrial function, overall energy metabolism and performance of the kidney following an acute ischemia reperfusion injury.
AKI is a sudden loss of kidney function that often occurs in hospitalized patients as a result of cardiac and/or vascular surgery, trauma, infection, cardiac disease or being treated with nephrotoxic anti-cancer therapy. AKI affects more than 13 million people each year worldwide and is associated with extended hospitalization and increased mortality. Currently, there are no therapies to prevent or treat AKI. The clinical manifestations are, in part, due to early onset mitochondrial deficits that drive multiple pathophysiological events that lead to AKI and appear to be linked to the severity of AKI and progression to Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD).
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Mitobridge Adds NAD⁺ Modulation as a Therapeutic Approach for Improving Mitochondrial Function
Mitobridge Adds NAD+ Modulation as a Therapeutic Approach for Improving Mitochondrial Function
Company Licenses Intellectual Property from École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
CAMBRIDGE, MA, September 18, 2017 -- Mitobridge, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company pioneering the discovery and development of products that improve mitochondrial function, broadens its therapeutic approach to include Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide (NAD+) pathway modulation. The company entered into a license agreement with École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) for intellectual property (IP) related to the treatment of a broad range of diseases as well as conditions of aging utilizing compounds that boost NAD+ levels. The company is advancing therapeutics for muscular dystrophies and myopathies as well as kidney, liver and neurodegenerative diseases that will benefit from improved mitochondrial function.
NAD+ is an essential coenzyme that plays a key role in metabolism, mitochondrial energy production and cell signaling. Numerous studies have demonstrated that reduced NAD+ levels are associated with mitochondrial dysfunction and that maintaining or raising NAD+ levels in cells that are under stress diminishes the deleterious effects. Compounds that protect or elevate NAD+ levels could provide therapeutic benefits in many medical and age-associated conditions. Mitobridge is developing drug candidates that are directed at multiple points in the NAD+ biosynthetic and metabolic pathway. Our approach to modulating NAD+ levels includes programs targeting Poly ADP Ribose Polymerase (PARP), Aminocarboxymuconate Semialdehyde Decarboxylase (ACMSD) and N′-Nicotinamide Methyltransferase (NNMT).
The exclusive worldwide license includes IP based on research from the laboratory of Johan Auwerx, MD, PhD. Dr. Auwerx, a leader in the field of NAD+ modulation, is a Professor at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. “Modulating NAD+ levels represents an innovative strategy for improving mitochondrial function and holds great promise for therapeutic development. I am delighted that Mitobridge is pursuing this approach and look forward to working with the team to progress new product candidates,” stated Dr. Auwerx.
This intellectual property expands Mitobridge’s NAD+ modulation patent portfolio, which also includes composition of matter patent applications. “Our goal is to develop novel therapeutics for restoring healthy mitochondria and impacting severe diseases with limited treatment options. This license strengthens our IP estate and expands our opportunities to address multiple medical conditions associated with mitochondrial dysfunction,” stated George Mulligan, PhD, Senior Vice President, Translational Medicine.
Mitobridge is employing several therapeutic strategies for improving mitochondrial function. The first compound to enter clinical development is MA-0211 (MTB-1), an orally bioavailable PPARd modulator being tested in healthy volunteers in preparation for a trial in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). As DMD is characterized by mitochondrial defects, inadequate energy supply and muscle fibrosis, intervening with MA-0211 may be therapeutically beneficial for all DMD patients, regardless of their underlying dystrophin mutation. Additional clinical studies of MA-0211 in other diseases characterized by mitochondrial defects are currently being planned.
Mitobridge is dedicated to delivering therapeutics that improve mitochondrial function. Our team of experienced drug discovery, translational and development scientists are leveraging their exceptional knowledge of mitochondria biology to deliver a pipeline of innovative programs for the treatment of muscle and kidney diseases as well as other serious medical conditions. Headquartered in Cambridge, MA, Mitobridge was launched in October 2013 with funding from Astellas Pharma Inc., MPM Capital and Longwood Ventures. For more information about the Company, please visit www.mitobridge.com.
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Mitobridge’s Novel Treatment Approach for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Advances into Clinical Development
First-in-Class PPARδ Modulator with Potential to Improve Mitochondrial Health
CAMBRIDGE, MA, August 8, 2017 -- Mitobridge, Inc., a pioneer in the discovery and development of products that improve mitochondrial function, today announces a key milestone with the initiation of the first-in-human Phase I trial of its PPAR-delta (PPARδ) modulator, MA-0211 (also known as MTB-1). The study will assess the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of MA-0211 in healthy volunteers, which will provide the basis for a trial program in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) patients. MA-0211 is the first clinical compound to emerge from Mitobridge’s mitochondrial enhancement platform. The PPARδ modulator aims to reverse the mitochondrial deficits in DMD, which play a key role in disease progression.
DMD is a rare genetic disease caused by loss-of-function mutations in the dystrophin gene. This debilitating fatal disorder affects males and leads to progressive cardiac, skeletal and smooth muscle weakness and eventual loss of muscle mass. Mitobridge’s research has confirmed and expanded upon previous studies showing that mitochondrial defects contribute to abnormalities in the dystrophic muscle and play a central role in the etiology of DMD.
“PPARδ modulation represents a promising therapeutic approach to improving mitochondrial function and muscle health in DMD patients,” stated Mike Patane, CSO of Mitobridge. “This milestone with our lead program further validates our mitochondrial enhancement platform and ability to generate promising drug candidates that modulate mitochondrial function. Our research teams are actively evaluating MA-0211 in other diseases associated with mitochondrial dysfunction and developing other novel approaches to restoring healthy mitochondria.”
Mitobridge scientists have assembled extensive nonclinical data in patient samples and genetic animal models demonstrating that MA-0211 may be therapeutically beneficial to DMD patients. Treatment of DMD patient muscle cells with MA-0211 upregulated genes related to fatty acid oxidation, which increased mitochondrial function and mitochondrial biogenesis. MA-0211 was evaluated in the widely used DMD mouse model, the mdx mouse, which has a point mutation in the dystrophin gene and recapitulates many of the deficiencies seen in DMD patients. Once-daily oral dosing of MA-0211 for five weeks in mdx mice produced several therapeutic benefits including increased running endurance on a treadmill, decreased muscle necrosis and inflammation and decreased diaphragm fibrosis. In a similar study, six months of dosing in older mdx mice resulted in decreased serum creatine kinase and improved cardiac and respiratory function compared to untreated mdx mice. The strong pre-clinical data are the basis for advancing the compound into clinical development and highlight MA-0211’s potential to reverse key defects and slow disease progression. MA-0211 is being developed with the Company’s corporate partner, Astellas Pharma, Inc.
Recently, George Mulligan, Mitobridge’s SVP of Translation Medicine, presented an update of the MA-0211 program at the Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy Annual Connect Conference on June 30, 2017. The presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/leQnKrVm4YI
MA-0211 (MTB-1), an orally bioavailable PPARδ modulator, is the first clinical compound to emerge from Mitobridge’s mitochondrial enhancement platform. In studies with patient muscle cells and animals, MA-0211 improves mitochondrial function, overall energy metabolism, muscle performance and regeneration. As DMD is characterized by mitochondrial defects, inadequate energy supply and muscle fibrosis, intervening with MA-0211 may be therapeutically beneficial for all DMD patients, regardless of their underlying dystrophin mutation. Additional clinical studies in other diseases characterized by mitochondrial deficiencies are currently being planned.
Mitobridge is dedicated to delivering therapeutics that improve mitochondrial function. Our team of experienced drug discovery and development scientists are leveraging their exceptional knowledge of mitochondria biology to develop a pipeline of innovative programs for the treatment of kidney and muscle diseases with high unmet medical need. Headquartered in Cambridge, MA, Mitobridge was launched in October 2013 with funding from Astellas Pharma, Inc., MPM Capital and Longwood Ventures. For more information about the Company, please visit www.mitobridge.com.
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Mitobridge Announces Sponsored Research Agreement to Evaluate PPARδ Compounds in Cells from Patients with Mitochondrial Disease
CAMBRIDGE, MA-- Mitobridge, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company pioneering the discovery and development of products that improve mitochondrial function, announces the signing of a sponsored research agreement to assess Mitobridge’s selective Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor Delta (PPARδ) modulators in mitochondrial disease patient cell lines. Mitobridge will support research in the laboratory of Dr. Marni J. Falk, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and Director of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Mitochondrial-Genetic Disease Clinic. The aim of the collaboration is to evaluate the therapeutic effects of PPARδ modulators on mitochondrial function in fibroblasts derived from patients with genetically-defined mitochondrial disorders.
“We have a shared commitment to progressing innovative treatments for mitochondrial diseases, a group of disorders with tremendous unmet medical need,” commented Effie Tozzo, PhD, Vice President of Translational Biology at Mitobridge. “We are delighted to be collaborating with a leading mitochondrial disease clinician-scientist who has demonstrated expertise in translating her experience with patients into important scientific advancements.”
The research plan is designed to evaluate the ability of Mitobridge’s proprietary compounds to improve mitochondrial function in patient cells. The cells harbor specific disease-causing mutations in mitochondrial DNA and in nuclear genes that are essential for mitochondrial energy production. Positive results could support the clinical development of the PPARδ modulators for certain mitochondrial diseases such as MELAS and Leigh’s Syndrome. Earlier this year, Mitobridge convened a panel of key opinion leaders in the field including, Patrick Chinnery, MD, PhD, Richard Haas, MD, Gregory Enns, MD, Michio Hirano, MD, and Tanja Taivassalo, PhD, and they recommended that Mitobridge study the activity of PPARδ modulators on mitochondrial function in patient-derived cell lines.
Mitobridge believes that testing therapeutic candidates in Dr. Falk’s collection of fibroblast cell lines, which are derived directly from mitochondrial disease patients’ skin biopsies, should lead to a better understanding of the defects in these cells and the potential benefit for patients.
Members of Mitobridge Mitochondrial Myopathy Advisory Panel
Patrick Chinnery, MD, PhD, Professor of Neurology and Head of the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Cambridge, Richard Haas, MD, Professor of Neuroscience at UC San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine and Director of the UCSD Mitochondrial Disease Laboratory, Gregory Enns, MD, Professor of Pediatrics (Medical Genetics) at Stanford University, Michio Hirano, MD, Professor of Neurology at Columbia University and Co-director of the North American Mitochondrial Disease Consortium (NAMDC) and Tanja Taivassalo, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Kinesiology at McGill University.
Mitobridge is a leader in the emerging field of mitochondria-related drug discovery and development. The Company is utilizing its innovative screening platform to identify and develop novel therapeutics that improve mitochondria function and provide treatments for mitochondrial genetic diseases, musculoskeletal, kidney and neurodegenerative disorders as well as diseases and conditions of aging. Mitobridge’s scientific founders and advisors include world-renowned leaders in biology and mitochondrial function. For more information about Mitobridge, please visit the company's website at www.mitobridge.com
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Mitobridge Secures Key Intellectual Property from the Salk Institute
– Agreement includes comprehensive intellectual property estate for multiple programs
–CAMBRIDGE, Mass., February 23, 2015 — Mitobridge, Inc., previously known as Mitokyne, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company pioneering the discovery and development of products that improve mitochondrial function, today announced that the Company has entered into an agreement with the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences to access intellectual property and technology related to Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor Delta (PPARδ). The exclusive worldwide license grants key patents and reagents developed in the laboratory of Mitobridge co-founder Professor Ronald Evans for the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of diseases in both humans and animals. Dr. Evans, who was bestowed the Lasker Award for his work in nuclear hormone receptors, is the March of Dimes Chair in Developmental and Molecular Biology and Professor and Director of the Gene Expression Laboratory at the Salk Institute. He is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.
Mitobridge is advancing a selective PPAR modulator (SPPARM) program based on recent developments in the understanding of the pharmacology of this drug target and the potential to utilize a PPARδ modulator as an exercise mimetic. The Company’s latest results indicate that a PPARδ modulator may be working through mitochondria and have potential to treat mitochondrial myopathies as well as other musculoskeletal disorders.
“We are excited about the opportunity to capitalize on the innovative PPARδ technology that has been developed over the past several years in the Evans lab. The results from pre-clinical studies suggest that our molecules might be safer yet similarly effective to earlier generation PPARδ compounds”, commented Mike Patane, PhD, Senior Vice President of Drug Discovery at Mitobridge. “We hope to translate the original discoveries from the Evans lab into meaningful therapeutics for disorders that will benefit from improving mitochondrial function.”
The Company was launched in October 2013 under the name Mitokyne to capitalize on the emerging biological understanding of how mitochondria function impacts health via bioenergetics, signaling, dynamics and biosynthesis. The Company recently changed its name to Mitobridge and filed a trademark application for that name. In addition, Mitobridge has closed a second tranche of financing led by MPM Capital, Longwood Fund and Astellas Pharma Inc.
“I am pleased with the progress the Company has made in our first year and the commitment demonstrated by our investors and our therapeutics partner, Astellas Pharma,” said Kazumi Shiosaki, PhD, President and CEO of Mitobridge. “Considerable insight linking mitochondrial dysfunction and disease pathologies has been gained over the last few years, and Mitobridge is poised for a leadership position in discovering innovative therapies.”
Mitobridge is a leader in the emerging field of mitochondria-related drug discovery and development. The Company is utilizing its innovative screening platform to identify and develop novel therapeutics that improve mitochondria function and provide treatments for mitochondrial genetic diseases, musculoskeletal and neurodegenerative disorders as well as diseases and conditions of aging. Mitobridge’s scientific founders and advisors include world-renowned leaders in biology and mitochondrial function. For more information about Mitobridge, please visit the company's website at www.mitobridge.com
About the Salk Institute for Biological Studies
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies is one of the world's preeminent basic research institutions, where internationally renowned faculty probes fundamental life science questions in a unique, collaborative, and creative environment. Focused both on discovery and on mentoring future generations of researchers, Salk scientists make groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of cancer, aging, Alzheimer's, diabetes and infectious diseases by studying neuroscience, genetics, cell and plant biology, and related disciplines.
Faculty achievements have been recognized with numerous honors, including Nobel Prizes and memberships in the National Academy of Sciences. Founded in 1960 by polio vaccine pioneer Jonas Salk, MD, the Institute is an independent nonprofit organization and architectural landmark.
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Astellas and Mitokyne to Pursue Mitochondria-Related Disease Therapies
– Collaboration Will Focus on Expanding the New Frontier of Mitochondria-Related Disease –
Tokyo and Boston, October 7, 2013 --- Astellas Pharma Inc. (Tokyo Stock Exchange: 4503, President and CEO: Yoshihiko Hatanaka, hereinafter called “Astellas”) and Mitokyne, Inc. (President and CEO: Kazumi Shiosaki, hereinafter called “Mitokyne”) announced today that the two companies have entered into an exclusive R&D collaboration focused on discovering and developing novel drugs that improve mitochondrial functions. These drug candidates have the potential to treat genetic, metabolic or neurodegenerative disorders as well as conditions of aging. The emerging biological understanding of mitochondria, along with new tools and assays available to better elucidate mitochondrial function and processes, will enable the identification of breakthrough treatments for patients suffering from mitochondria-related diseases and improve their quality of life.
Concurrently, Mitokyne closed a $45M series A equity financing from Astellas, MPM Capital, and Longwood Founders Fund. In connection with the financing, Ansbert Gadicke, MD, MPM Capital, Rich Aldrich, Longwood Founders Fund, and a designee from Astellas joined the Mitokyne Board of Directors.
Under the collaboration agreement, Astellas and Mitokyne will collaborate to discover and develop compounds that target mitochondrial function. Mitokyne will lead all the research and drug discovery activities and be responsible for delivering IND candidates, whereupon Astellas will assume all clinical development activities as well as commercialization. In addition to generating a pipeline of novel drug candidates, Mitokyne is developing a novel mitochondrial screening platform to enhance ongoing R&D programs and identify new drug targets. Astellas has the exclusive right to acquire Mitokyne during certain periods during the term of the five– year agreement. Including upfront, R&D funding, acquisition and milestone payments, the total value of the partnership agreement could reach up to $730M. Taking into account Astellas’ participation in Mitokyne’s equity financing, Astellas’ actual payment for the acquisition based on equity in Mitokyne could be over $500M in accordance with conditions of the agreement.
“This R&D partnership is an excellent opportunity for Astellas to utilize more external capabilities and resources, and to undertake initiatives related to new therapeutic areas, as we announced “Reshaping Research Framework” in May,” said Yoshihiko Hatanaka, President & CEO of Astellas. “Through this partnership, we expect to pursue advanced drug discovery and establish a winning model with which it can solidify its position as the leader in the field of mitochondria-related diseases, and eventually develop advanced medical solutions for patients around the world, adding to our portfolio of innovative new drugs.”
Mitokyne’s scientific founders include world-renowned leaders in biology and mitochondrial function. Johan Auwerx is the Nestle Chair in Energy Metabolism and Professor at the cole Polytechnique Fdrale de Lausanne. Andrew Dillin is the Siebel Distinguished Chair of Stem Cell Biology, HHMI Investigator and Professor of Genetic, Genomics and Development at UC Berkeley. Ronald Evans is the March of Dimes Chair in Developmental and Molecular Biology and Professor and Director in the Gene Expression Laboratory at Salk Institute for Biological Studies and was awarded the Lasker Award for his work in nuclear hormone receptors. H. Robert Horvitz is Professor in the Department of Biology and a member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research and of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Horvitz received the Nobel Prize in 2002 for his contributions to mechanisms of cell death. The scientific founders will join Mitokyne’s Scientific Advisory Board, which also includes founding member Jodi Nunnari, a Professor of Molecular & Cellular Biology at University of California, Davis.
“I am delighted that we were able to bring together a committed corporate partner in Astellas along with great investors and scientific advisors to help shape and build this company in such an exciting area,” said Kazumi Shiosaki, CEO and co-founder of Mitokyne. “Clearly Astellas and Mitokyne share a singular vision to become leaders in discovering and developing novel compounds that beneficially modulate mitochondrial function. Both companies will be able to contribute their complementary strengths to forge a robust partnership.”
The impact of this collaboration has been accounted in Astellas’ forecasts for fiscal year ending March 2014.
Astellas Pharma Inc., located in Tokyo, Japan, is a pharmaceutical company dedicated to improving the health of people around the world through the provision of innovative and reliable pharmaceuticals. Astellas has approximately 17,000 employees worldwide. The organization is committed to becoming a global category leader in Urology, Immunology (including Transplantation) and Infectious diseases, Oncology, Neuroscience and Diabetes Mellitus (DM) Complications and Kidney diseases. For more information on Astellas Pharma Inc., please visit the company website at www.astellas.com/en.
About Mitokyne
Mitokyne is a biotech company focused on mitochondria-related drug discovery and development. The company is utilizing its innovative screening platform to identify and develop novel drugs that improve mitochondria function and provide treatments for genetic, metabolic and neurodegenerative disorders as well as diseases and conditions of aging. Mitokyne’s scientific founders and advisors include world-renowned leaders in biology and mitochondrial function.
About MPM Capital
MPM Capital is one of the world's largest life science-dedicated venture investors. With committed capital under management in excess of $2.6 billion, MPM Capital is uniquely structured to invest globally in healthcare innovation.
About Longwood Founders Fund
Longwood Founders Fund is a healthcare venture capital firm that founds, manages, and builds biotechnology companies. Longwood’s mission is to identify technologies and to found companies that will advance new therapeutics that can not only make a difference in the lives of patients worldwide, but also create significant value for investors. This is achieved by leveraging the management team’s history of successful biotechnology company formation and operational leadership.
About Mitochondria
Mitochondria are present in almost every cell of the human body. The main function of mitochondria is generation of ATP as the energy for humans to function. In addition, mitochondria are involved in numerous other functions including fatty acid metabolism, reactive oxygen species (ROS) production/elimination, cell death regulation, and so on.
About Mitochondrial Diseases and Mitochondria-Related Diseases
Mitochondrial diseases are caused by various mutations, acquired or inherited, in either mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) or nuclear DNA (nDNA). Dysfunction of mitochondria can affect only certain tissues due to factors not yet fully understood. Affected patients suffer from muscular dysfunction, neurological dysfunction, cardiac dysfunction, ocular/otic dysfunction, metabolic dysfunction and so on. Typical onset in most cases is during early childhood, impairing a patient’s quality of life.
Three disorders account for 60~70% of mitochondrial diseases:
1) mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS);
2) chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia/ Kearns-Sayre syndrome (CPEO/KSS); and
3) myoclonus epilepsy associated with ragged-red fivers (MERRF).
Other mitochondria-related diseases include Leigh’s syndrome, mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalopathy (MNGIE), Alpers’ disease, Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON), neuropathy, ataxia, and retinitis pigmentosa (NARP) and fatty acid oxidation disorders (FAOD).
Mitochondrial dysfunctions are suspected of playing roles in seemingly unrelated disorders, such as muscular, metabolic, neurodegenerative, ophthalmic, aural and other disorders that include cancer, heart failure and kidney damage. Specific disorders considered to be linked to mitochondria-related diseases include Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), stroke, mood disorders, diabetes, fatty liver disease, osteoporosis, cancer, peripheral arterial disease (PAD), agerelated hearing loss (AHL) and others.
Today, the diagnosis of mitochondria-related diseases remains a complicated process due to the wide range of symptoms.
American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Kidney Week 2019; Washington, DC
Design of the 1128-CL-0201 study, A Phase 2 Proof of Concept, Double-blind, Randomized, Placebo-controlled Study of ASP1128 in Patients at Risk for Acute Kidney Injury following Cardiac Surgery (pdf)
Poster Presentation ASN Conference, San Diego, October 2018
Mitobridge Poster presentation at American Chemical Society Meeting, Boston, August 2018
American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Kidney Week 2017; New Orleans, LA
Poster: PPARδ modulator MTB-2 enhances fatty acid oxidation (FAO) in vitro and attenuates ischemia-reperfusion-induced gene expression changes in vivo, 48 hours and 14 days post AKI (pdf)
Poster: Modulation of PPARδ with MTB-2 post-reperfusion attenuates ischemia-reperfusion-induced acute kidney injury (IR-AKI) biomarkers and histopathology in rats (pdf)
Poster: MA-0204 modulation of PPARδ promotes recovery after AKI in normal and aged proteinuric diabetic CKD Zsf1 rats by enhancing fatty acid oxidation in proximal tubular epithelial cells (pdf)
INFORM: International Network for Fatty Acid Oxidation Research and Management; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Poster: A novel small-molecule PPARδ modulator for the treatment of fatty acid oxidation disorders (pdf)
Medicinal Chemistry: Gordon Research Conference; New London, NH
PPMD: 2017 Connect Conference; Chicago, IL
Presentation: MA-0211 Activates mitochondria and improves multiple abnormalities in DMD patient muscle cells and mdx mice
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Poster: Selective PPARδ modulation with MA-0211 improves disease phenotype in DMD muscle cells & mdx mice (pdf)
UMDF: 2017 Scientific Program Mitochondrial Medicine; Washington, DC
Poster: PPARδ modulation improves the bioenergetic defect in mitochondrial myopathy (pdf)
Euromit 2017: International Meeting on Mitochondrial Pathology; Cologne, Germany
Poster: Characterization of small molecule inhibitors of Drp1 (pdf)
FASEB SRC - Mitochondrial Biogenesis and Dynamics in Health, Disease and Aging; West Palm Beach, FL
Poster: Discovery of MF-0094, a potent, selective and cell permeable inhibitor of USP30 (pdf)
2017 Keystone Symposia Conference: Mitochondria Communication; Taos, New Mexico
Poster: PPAR modulation partially restores the mitochondrial deficiency caused by the absence of dystrophin in mdx mice (pdf)
Poster: A novel assay evaluating mitophagy in postmitotic skeletal muscle cells (pdf)
PPMD 2016 Annual Connect Conference; Chicago, IL
Presentation: MTB-1 mediated gene regulation shows beneficial effects in DMD patient cells and mdx mice (pdf)
NHLBI/NIDDK Mitochondrial Biology Symposium: Novel Roles of Mitochondria in Health and Disease; National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland
Poster: Mitochondrial deficiency in primary myoblasts from mdx mice (pdf)
Intimate Relations—Mitochondria and Ageing
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Targeting acute kidney injury in COVID-19
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Mitobridge; Highly selective peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor d (PPARd) modulator demonstrates improved safety profile compared to GW501516
Mitobridge; Selective PPARδ Modulators Improve Mitochondrial Function:Potential Treatment for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD)
Mitobridge; Novel highly selective inhibitors of ubiquitin specific protease 30 (USP30) accelerate mitophagy
Mitobridge; Novel highly selective peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor d (PPARd) modulators with pharmacokinetic properties suitablefor once-daily oral dosing
Discovery and characterization of selective small molecule inhibitors of the mammalian mitochondrial division dynamin, DRP1
Mitobridge Dpr1
Novel highly selective peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor δ (PPARδ) modulators with pharmacokinetic properties suitable for once-daily oral dosing
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A Novel Mitophagy Assay for Skeletal Myotubes
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Specialty firm Edison Pharmaceuticals of Mountain View, California, has entered a strategic alliance worth up to $4.3 billon with Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma (DSP) of Osaka, Japan, to develop drugs for inherited respiratory chain diseases of the mitochondria. Under terms of the deal, the companies will jointly expand Edison's pipeline, bringing…
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Abigail (Oli) Grenke, Journalist
The Girl’s Track team began practice on Tuesday, Mar. 14. Although it is early in the season, the group already has some big goals and plans for the spring.
The team meets in Track Coach Mr. Ron Woodruff’s room, number 508, every day after school from 2:50 to 4:00, but sometimes they will keep practicing hard until 4:30. The last day to sign up is Mar. 24.
“Our goal is to get as many girls involved doing something positive and something healthy,” said Woodruff. “Even if you’re not the top runner, you’re always looking to improve yourself.”
Last year, the girls track team sent five girls to compete at the state level. This year, three of those girls are returning to the team.
“Our goal is always to be in the top of the conference,” said Woodruff. “[But] on an individual level, we always tell the girls to make your personal best.”
The team has greatly grown in size over the past few years. Three years ago, the team only had twelve runners participating, but this season, the team saw 42 sign-ups.
“It’s a unique year because every year we start over with a new group,” said track coach Mr. Bill Bippes. “We have phenomenal young ladies on this team. We’re excited to see what they can do and I’m really excited about where we’re headed.”
This season, the coaches are focusing on more than just breaking records and winning matches. They hope to help the girls become the very best runners they can be, and to meet and beat their own personal goals and records.
“At the end of every year, we can look at everybody and say, ‘we reached our potential, we gave our best, we achieved 100% of what we were capable of,’” said Bippes.
For more information about joining the team, contact Woodruff or Bippes. Runners need a physical on file at the high school athletic office in order to try-out or participate.
Oli is a junior this year. She likes playing video games and her violin. Oli also enjoys singing, drawing, and gardening.
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Statement by Premier of Nevis Hon. Mark Brantley for staff affected by Four Seasons Resort restructuring
NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (October 15, 2020) — The following is a statement from Hon. Mark Brantley, Premier of Nevis and Minister of Tourism regarding an announcement made by the Four Seasons Resort, Nevis, on restructuring its operations and the effect on staff.
My government has been advised by the Four Seasons Resort that it has today served notice to some 280 workers at that Resort that “due to the delay of the reopening of the borders and resulting loss of business” the Resort has been forced to restructure its operations and now requires “only the minimum staff members necessary to support significantly reduced occupancy levels”.
These workers are entitled to all benefits and payments owed to them and we are advised, can be collected between October 19-23 as advised by the Resort.
This news was expected but is nevertheless tragic news for our island and yet another harsh reminder of the carnage caused to our economy by this Covid-19 pandemic which has destroyed economies globally.
My government assures affected workers that we shall work closely with the Federal Government to ensure that they receive their full severance and other benefits to which they are entitled. We are also committed to partnering with affected workers and their families to do all that we can to assist them in this difficult period for them and for our island home.
My government looks forward to the reopening of our borders on October 31, 2020, and the gradual reopening of our hotel sector, and will continue to engage in an aggressive marketing campaign to attract business to our island.
As Premier, I give my solemn pledge that we shall not allow Covid-19 to defeat us. This pandemic has been a health crisis and has now become a full blown economic crisis, but as a government that has always put our people front and centre of our decision making, I assure each and every affected worker that my government shall not abandon you in this period of difficulty.
Our island has thus far endured the brunt of this crisis and are still standing. We have done so with the grace of God and the excellent leadership of our Covid-19 Task Force which has guided us exceptionally well thus far.
We know that the most glorious dawn comes after the darkest night. Let us join hands and hearts now and overcome this crisis together. I am confident that we shall endure and overcome this period of hardship.
As Nevisians we have faced crises before and I am confident in the indomitable will and courage of our people. This too shall pass with the grace of God.
I hope to make a further statement in short order on this matter.
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Analysis of Material Properties under Bending Load
Stephen Yonke
In this experiment, we attempt to better understand how materials properties are tested. We tested a number of simple beams of different materials under a stress. The bending of the materials allowed for us to calculate the Poisson's Ratio and elastic moduli for each material. From this, we were able to not only compare materials but also methods of measuring elasticity. Despite some error in our results, which can be explained by the scale of our measurements in relation to the stiffness of certain materials, we find both strain gauges and equations of cantilever to be appropriate measurement techniques for measuring the elastic modulus of simple beams.
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\documentclass[prb,preprint]{revtex4-1}
\usepackage[colorinlistoftodos]{todonotes}
\title{Analysis of Material Properties under Bending Load}
\author{Stephen R. Yonke, with Johan Johns, Niya Taylor, Andrew Bothun, Demis Thomas, and Michael Duncan}
\email{syonke@hawk.iit.edu}
\affiliation{MMAE 372 Friday Lab, Dr. Sammy Tin}
\date{22 January 2016}
\begin{abstract}
In this experiment, we attempt to better understand how materials properties are tested. We tested a number of simple beams of different materials under a stress. The bending of the materials allowed for us to calculate the Poisson's Ratio and elastic moduli for each material. From this, we were able to not only compare materials but also methods of measuring elasticity. Despite some error in our results, which can be explained by the scale of our measurements in relation to the stiffness of certain materials, we find both strain gauges and equations of cantilever to be appropriate measurement techniques for measuring the elastic modulus of simple beams.
\end{abstract}
\section{Introduction}
When any material is subjected to a force, that force is distributed throughout the total area of the object. We refer to this distribution of force on the material as stress, and is defined in Equation 1. Stress, as a function of force and area, will be measured in pounds per inches squared, or psi.
\begin{equation}
\sigma = \frac{F}{A}
\end{equation}
When stress is applied on an object, the object must react accordingly. Thus, when force is applied to a beam, the beam bends. This bending, or any reaction to a force across a material, is called strain \cite{nasa}. The nominal tensile strain is defined as the extension of a material compared to its length. We represent this concept as $\epsilon$. Stressed materials do not, however, only strain in the lateral direction. Any lateral strain is accompanied by tensile strain. The ratio between the two is called the Poisson's ratio, and is expressed as $\nu$ in Equation 2.
\nu = \frac{\epsilon_{lateral}}{\epsilon_{tensile}}
Now that we know how a material will react to stress compared to itself, it is possible for us to define how different materials will act to the same stress. We call this the elastic modulus, and is defined as the stress on an object versus the strain it experiences. This varies for every material, allowing us to tailor our material choices to the needs of the application. The elastic modulus, in terms of stress and strain, is shown in Equation 3.
E = \frac{\sigma}{\epsilon}
In this experiment, we will attempt to determine the elastic modulus three ways. In the first method, the stress and strain will be determined, plotted, and the slope of the plot will give us what is called the Young's Modulus. The final two methods stem from Equation 3. Using data taken from our materials, we will use Equation 4 to solve for the stress \cite{lab}. In this equation, \textit{F} is force applied, \textit{L$_i$} is the length from the strain measuring guide to the applied load, and \textit{b} and \textit{h} represent the base and height of the beam measured.
\sigma = \frac{6 F L_i}{b h^2}
Alternatively, we will use Equation 5 which allows us to measure stress from the displacement of the material being stressed. This gives us our third method of calculating what we will call the average modulus. \textit{L} represents the length from the support to the load, while $\delta L$ represents the displacement of the beam due to the load.
E = \frac{4 F L^3}{\delta L b h^3}
\section{Materials and Procedure}
In this experiment, four materials were tested by the MMAE 372 Friday Lab group. Glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP), wood, steel and aluminum were all put under similar strain conditions meant to stress them across the spectrum of their elastic load limit in order to collect the necessary stress, strain, and displacement data. The height, base, total length, and length from strain gauge to load was measured for each beam, and is displayed in Table 1.
\begin{tabular}{| l | c | c | c | c |}
Sample & Height (in) & Base (in) & Total Length (in) & Strain Gauge to Load (in) \\ \hline
GFRP & 0.2528 & 1.04 & 12 & 11.47 \\
Wood & 0.5225 & 0.983 & 12.3 & 11.8 \\
Aluminum & 0.5 & 1.09 & 12.25 & 11.75 \\
Steel & 0.184 & 1.1 & 12.23 & 11.73 \\
\caption{Dimensional data for four materials tested}
In order to measure stress, strain, and displacement, the material is fixed to a support wall and subjected to a skyward load. Strain gauges were placed along the top and bottom to measure transverse and longitudinal strain. A diagram of the set up is pictured in Figure 1. Figure 2 shows a picture of the experimental set-up, with the displacement measurement device visible. Three pieces of data could be taken under a given load in this set up: the load in pounds-force, the displacement of the beam in inches, and the four-axis strain.
\begin{figure}[!ht]
\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{figure_1.jpg}
\caption{Diagram of the system}g
\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{photo2.jpg}
\caption{Picture of the system, with displacement register. Wood sample}
Each sample was tested at fifteen different loads across its elastic spectrum, in order to give us the widest data set possible. From this data, calculations were made in accordance with the before mentioned equations, providing information on the Poisson's Ratio and elastic moduli.
\section{Results}
To determine the results of the experiment, Poisson's Ratio was first calculated by plotting longitudinal and transverse strain. A fit of the data was taken, and from this fit, a Poisson's ratio could be determined. The plots and fit equations, of which the slope is the Poisson's Ratio, is pictured in Figure 3.
\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{poissons.JPG}
\caption{Poisson's Ratio, top (blue) and bottom (orange) strain considered, for four materials. The slope indicated by the fit equations represents Poisson's Ratio.}
Figure 4 represents the results of determining the Young's Modulus. The difference between the Young's Modulus and other elastic modlui is that Young's is the slope of a stress strain curve. Thus, longitudinal strain was plotted against stress, measured both on the top and bottom of the materials, and again, a fit was established from this data.
\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{stressstrain.JPG}
\caption{Stress versus Strain for all four materials, the Young's Modulus being the slope of the fit equation of each line.}
Our final two methods of calculation came in using Equation 3, 4, and 5 to determine the average elastic modulus by strain (Equation 4 into Equation 5) and by displacement (Equation 6). These results, based not on fit but on calculation of the data given by equations and then averaged, is summed with all our findings in Table II.
\begin{tabular}{| l | c | c | c | c | c | c |}
Sample & Poisson's & Poisson's & \textit{E} - Top & \textit{E} - Bottom & Average \textit{E} by & Average \textit{E} by \\
& Ratio - Top & Ratio - Bottom & (psi X 10$^6$) & (psi X 10$^6$) & Strain (psi X 10$^6$) & Displacement (psi X 10$^6$) \\ \hline
GFRP & -0.1187 & -0.1259 & 3.141 & 3.1798 & 3.08 & 2.80 \\
Wood & -0.483 & -0.229 & 2.2656 & 2.4156 & 2.30 & 1.72 \\
Aluminum & -0.3065 & -0.2934 & 8.7938 & 8.4965 & 8.97 & 8.02 \\
Steel & -0.2287 & -0.2357 & 28.774 & 28.852 & 30.50 & 69.51 \\
\caption{Poisson's Ratio and Elastic Modulus Results for all materials}
\section{Discussion}
From the determined results of the experiment, three conclusions can be made:
First, Poisson's Ratio, or the rate of strain-longitudinal to strain-traversal is rather constant. We find that the solutions are nearly identical in three cases (GFRP: factor of .94, Aluminum: .96, Steel: .97), with the outlier being wood at a factor of .47 between top and bottom. The plot of Poisson's Ratio makes this clear, and we attribute this to the possibility that wood, being the most porous and least dense of all materials surveyed, may posses unique properties for distributing strain across itself. Perhaps the strain "dissipates" into the porous space of the wood. Its natural flexibility allows it to bend less uniformly. For the metal and poly carbonates, however, we find these more brittle elements to strain quite uniformly.
Second, we see that the four different materials posses a wide range of elastic modulus values, as to be expected. What we traditionally think of as the "stronger" materials (aluminum, steel), exhibited greater resistance to stress. Metals, particularly steel, which has likely undergone a more rigorous hardening process than aluminum, possessed a modulus nearly 10 times as great. This is why steel is so widely used in rigid construction, while aluminum is more likely to be used in mass-production capacities where resistance to stress is not an issue.
Finally, we observe an interesting discrepancy in the relationship between the Young's Modulus (\textit{E}) and
the two methods for calculating average elastic modulus. If we consider Young's Modulus as the most accurate measure as assume two things: the linear fit of the data takes the stronger average and that the information regarding max elastic load was correct and not exceeded. If this is correct, we must judge strain-based average elastic modulus versus displacement-based average elastic modulus versus the fit of the Young's Modulus. We find that in almost all cases, displacement-based calculations were less accurate, generally returning too low of a value, or in the case of steel, too high.Sources of error for the displacement method may be that as the beams bend more and more, as steel did, the one-axis displacement gauge is incapable of measuring the true change in displacement. This, in conjunction with the knowledge that the strain gauge was capable of measuring at a level of specificity far beyond the displacement gauge, allows us to conclude that strain data and Equation 4 are a superior means of calculating the average elastic modulus.
\section{Conclusions}
In conclusion, this experiment was intended to provide familiarization with stress, strain, and displacement measuring methods and equipment, by calculating and making observations of the Poisson's Ratio and the different methods of determining the elastic modulus of different materials. The materials in question all performed rather consistently, as shown by Figures 3 and 4. The results, as shown in Table II, are generally in accordance with our perceptions of the materials tested, with exceptions likely due to measurement equipment limits or the natural properties of the samples tested. We ultimately find that Poisson's Ratio generally remains constant across a beam of the tested size from top to bottom, and when using the Young's Modulus as a benchmark for the elastic modulus, strain-based calculations provide the next most desirable average elastic modulus. Further experiment should be done to further test the displacement properties of steel, and theories regarding the porous nature of wood.
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\bibitem{nasa} "Engineering Materials I" Fourth Edition, Elsevier Publishing, Michael Ashby and David Jones, pages 30-36, Accessed 29 January 2016
\bibitem{lab} MMAE 372 Lab 1 Instructions, IIT, Dr. Sammy Tin, Accessed 22 January 2016
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How do many keyboard players sound different in each song?
Something I find truly intriguing, is when a keyboard player sounds completely different in each song they play. The band ∆ (Alt-J) is a good example of this.
I'm a one-man recording band myself, and looking to make my music more interesting by trying this as well. Which is why I am wondering how people usually do this. Do they simply use the Midi signal from their keyboard and feed it through a laptop? Do they use keyboards that have the necessary software and hardware (sliders, buttons, etc) to alter their sound to their liking? Or do the keyboards simply have a wide array of pre-defined sounds that can be used?
I'll take the freedom to anticipate the "all of those things you mentioned" answer, by also asking which of these options would be easiest to start out with for somebody who has never played keyboards or synthesizers. I do play the piano well enough to make the switch technically, but I'm absolutely uneducated about how to get the sound I'd want.
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By the way, I have nothing against downvotes, but it would be nice if you could leave a comment when downvoting, so that I'll know how to edit and improve this question – Lee White May 16 '14 at 12:49
This is sort of like asking how to make spiced chicken taste different. Yes, different spices are different. I don't think it's much of a question. – user28 May 21 '14 at 3:37
Updated the headline to reflect the actual question you are asking. I agree with Matthew that this is not really a good question here, as there are an infinite number of ways to do this, but the edit may at least help stop people downvoting just for the headline. – Doktor Mayhem♦ May 27 '14 at 23:36
First of all, yes you anticipated correctly: all those things you mentioned are used to control the program/patch/timbre of the instrument. Hardware synths, software synths, DAWs, etc, have a way to program, save, and change their settings. Once saved, you can recall these settings at will. This set of settings is called a patch. Some instruments will also have a bank of pre-defined patches. You just tell your platform "I want this patch", and load it, then play it.
Non-digital instruments without some kind of setting recall feature will need their patches to be set manually between songs and/or as needed. I've seen this being done in a live setting, with modular synths.
I think that as a beginner the easiest option is to use a DAW and a software synth. In particular, a non-linear DAW tailored for live performance specifically, like Ableton Live or Bitwig Studio.
With this setup, you can switch between patches using the tools provided by your software synth, or you can set one patch per MIDI track, and just arm the MIDI track that you want to play (which means that you can move between patches with just one click).
All these can be achieved with any DAW, but Ableton Live offers some fun tools that will help you go crazy patch-wise, like Instrument Rack (where you can group many synths, audio effects, and MIDI effects together into one single patch) and clip view (non-linear playback of MIDI and audio tracks).
Von HuffmanVon Huffman
Playing for recording is not necessarily the same as playing live, sound-wise. In a studio situation, you can mess about with all sorts of sounds and the mixes you can achieve with them.
Live, you could just use a piano sound - if you only had a piano, then that's what would happen. However, keyboards now have a plethora of different sounds, so players will tend to use them.When I'm out on keys, I'll use maybe half a dozen main sounds : piano, electric piano, vibes, several (Hammond) organ sounds, strings and a couple of 'synth' sounds. Let alone the occasional horn sound - trumpet, sax, flute.
Listen carefully to lots of recordings and you'll hear these coming and going throughout the song. So, given the opportunity to emulate this sort of variety, we do.
Often, I'll listen to the sound palette of what's going on in a song, and try to fill it with the 'missing bits'.Obviously, it's not clever to fill up all the spaces, but complementing the existing sound is easier when one has a big choice of noises to use. So we do.
TimTim
The existing answers are very good, and I'd like to add that in some genres, the role of the keyboardist is not only to compose and/or play the keyboard part, but also to create the synth sounds (patches) that actually define the band's sound. This is true not only for synth pop, but often in rock music as well (Bon Jovi, Toto etc.) and other genres.
Sometimes the keyboardist is not that much a synth geek, and others help them in the synth programming; in Toto there is one keyboardist for the piano parts, and another for all the synths and organs.
If you get a relatively better (=more expensive) hardware keyboard, it will probably have thousands of factory patches, and hopefully an easy way to start editing them.
marczellmmarczellm
In your question you talk about differing sounds of bands like alt-j, so I believe we need to talk about keyboards and synths. A common misconception is that keyboards are the same thing as a synth. Keyboards are often shipped out with permanent patches and that's it, some will have recordings of a sound that are played back when you press the key.
A synth is an actual sound generator. It has oscillators that generate waves that are then mixed and put through FX and other tools to create an enormous palate of sounds (a bit like mixing paints for new colours). A good synth is specifically designed to shape the sound quickly and easily with lots of relevant knobs to access the parameters.
A synth is a sound creating tool that you can program for the perfect sound. Creating a perfect sound is an art in itself and can take many hours, weeks even for each patch. Music with defining synth sounds will usually have been designed by someone with a lot of thought, care and attention.
To get the sound you want, you need to go through some tutorials. Google "Synth ADSR tutorial" or something similar to get you started. Be careful with software synths as a lot can be weak sounding but there are some good ones. What you need to look for is something that allows you to EDIT the sound dramatically and not be confined to the parameters of a patch. (you will probably need a midi keyboard for this but some let you use your computer keyboard)
Next up from software is a hardware synth. Depending on your style, you need to pick the right synth for your sound as there are substantial differences between makes and models.
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Multi-instrumentalist and filmmaker Tom Abbs has been performing and recording in a variety of contexts (classical, rock, jazz, and improvised musics) since age eleven. Tom started his musical training at the age of seven playing piano. A couple of years later he changed his instrument to cello and by the time he was eleven he was playing the bass. He was handed a tuba in seventh grade and his conquest of the “low end” began. Tom went on in his teens to win accolades in state and national competitions for his work as a soloist and ensemble player.
He came to New York in 1991 to attend the New School’s Jazz and Contemporary Music program where he studied with such masters as Reggie Workman, Buster Williams, Joe Chambers, Brian Smith, Junior Mance, Arnie lawrence, Chico Hamilton and Arthur Taylor. By the end of his third semester at the New School Tom was playing gigs every night of the week and made the decision to leave school and concentrate on performing. He has been working steadily ever since. In the past decade Tom has developed a driving percussive style on the bass that encompasses the deep emotion and grit of Charles Mingus and Jimmy Garrison while showing the dexterity and inventiveness of Scott La Faro. His fluid tuba style has shed many of the instrument’s sluggish connotations and transformed it into a soaring solo and sharply percussive groove machine. Equally comfortable in “free” and “inside” settings, Abbs' versatility and depth as a player has kept him busy backing up the likes of Lawrence “Butch” Morris, Charles Gayle, Daniel Carter, Cooper-Moore, Steve Swell, Roy Campbell Jr., Sabir Mateen, Ori Kaplan, Jemeel Moondoc, Assif Tahar, Borah Bergman, Billy Bang, Andrew Lamb, Warren Smith and many others. Tom is currently a member of the collective groups, Triptych Myth, Yugnaut and Transmitting. He leads the band Frequency Response and tours with his solo multi-media project Multifarious.
Tom is the founder and driving force behind the arts coalition Jump Arts, which since between 1997 and 2002 presented over 150 performances and educational workshops in New York City. Jump Arts is dedicated to creating viable opportunities for revolutionary artists of different generations, backgrounds, and experiences with a strong focus on emerging artists. Since 2002 Jump Arts has dedicated itself to artists services through physcal sponsorship and media services. Jump was voted “Best Arts Collective in New York City” in 2000 by The New York Press.
Tom has taught music through the New York City Parks Department, Columbia University’s Greenhouse Nursery School and currently teaches artist residencies in the New York Public Schools. He also presents a free outreach program through Jump Arts called “The Creative Sound Workshop” which incorporates musical story telling and hands-on learning. Show less
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Glenmark Kicks Off Monoclonal Antibody Pain Studies
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Glenmark Pharmaceuticals S.A., a wholly owned Swiss subsidiary of Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd., announced that GBR 900, a novel monoclonal antibody is entering human trials. GBR 900 targets TrkA, a receptor for nerve growth factor (NGF) involved in chronic pain signaling.
In 2010, Glenmark gained an exclusive worldwide license from Lay Line Genomics S.p.A. (Italy) for anti-TrkA antibodies and their entire intellectual property portfolio in the TrkA field. GBR 900 is the optimized anti-TrkA antibody emerging from this exclusive worldwide license.
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Glenmark Pharmaceuticals today said its novel monoclonal antibody for potential treatment of chronic pain is entering human trials.
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Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd. through its Swiss Subsidiary receives USD 5 Mn. as milestone fee payment from Sanofi
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Total Payment received for GBR 500 monoclonal antibody programme from Sanofi is USD 55 Mn
MUMBAI, April 15, 2014: Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd. has informed the Stock Exchange today that the company through its Swiss subsidiary has received USD 5 million as
milestone payment from Sanofi on a collaboration of its VLA2 (alpha2-beta1) integrin monoclonal antibody. GBR 500 is a first-in-class therapeutic monoclonal antibody for chronicautoimmune disorders.
Glenmark has received from Sanofi already USD 50 Mn as an upfront payment in FY2011-12. Hence, the total amount received by Glenmark from Sanofi for its first in class VLA-2monoclonal antibody is USD 55 million
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Glenmark GBR 500 enters into Phase II clinical development for ulcerative colitis
Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, has commenced the Phase II study of GBR 500 for ulcerative colitis.
GBR 500, an antagonist of the VLA2 (alpha2-beta1) integrin, is a first-in-class therapeutic monoclonal antibody for chronic autoimmune disorders.
The randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study will investigate the efficacy and safety of GBR 500 in patients with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis (UC).
Glenmark Pharmaceuticals chief scientific officer Dr Michael Buschle said that UC represents an area of substantial unmet medical need, despite treatment advances in recent years.
“We’re pleased with the continued progress of our partnership with Sanofi and excited about the commencement of this trial,” Buschle said.
The trial, which will be conducted at multiple clinical sites in North America and Europe, is expected to involve approximately 84 patients.
Patients participating in the study will receive multiple doses of either GBR 500 or placebo, administered over a period of several weeks.
Glenmark has completed Phase I of GBR 500 in the US, won licensing rights to all therapeutic indications from Sanofi and is conducting the clinical development programme.
The trial is part of a strategic global collaboration between Glenmark and Sanofi to investigate GBR 500 for the treatment of chronic inflammatory disorders.
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Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Out-Licenses Novel Monoclonal Antibody, GBR 500, to Sanofi
Combined Upfront and Potential Development, Regulatory and Commercial Milestone Payments Could Total US$613 Mn
MUMBAI, India, May 16, 2011 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Glenmark Pharmaceuticals S.A (GPSA), a wholly owned subsidiary of Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Limited India (GPL), announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Sanofi to grant Sanofi a license for the development and commercialization of GBR 500, a novel monoclonal antibody for the treatment of Crohn’s Disease and other inflammatory conditions. The transaction is expected to close in the coming month subject to customary closing conditions, including the expiration or early termination of the waiting period under the HSR Antitrust Improvements Act.
Under the terms of the agreement, Glenmark will receive an upfront payment of US$ 50 million, of which US$ 25 million will be paid upon closing of the transaction and US$ 25 million, which is contingent upon Sanofi’s positive assessment of certain data to be provided by Glenmark. In addition, Glenmark could receive potential success-based development, regulatory and commercial milestone payments. The total of these payments could reach US$613 Mn. In addition, Glenmark is eligible to receive tiered double-digit royalties on sales of products commercialized under the license.
GBR 500 is an antagonist of the VLA-2 (alpha2-beta1) integrin. It is a first-in-class therapeutic monoclonal antibody and has established proof of concept in animal models across a range of anti-inflammatory conditions. Glenmark has completed Phase I dosing of GBR 500 in the US and the drug has been well tolerated with a good pharmacokinetic profile. Plans are in place to initiate clinical proof of concept studies in Crohn’s Disease. Sanofi has licensed the rights to all therapeutic indications.
“There continues to be a strong medical need for safer and more efficacious products for the treatment of Inflammatory Diseases,” said Elias Zerhouni, M.D., President, Global Research & Development, Sanofi. “GBR500 brings an innovative approach to Sanofi’s Immuno-Inflammation portfolio, which we believe may address a significant gap in treating Inflammatory Diseases which would be of huge benefit to patients”.
Glenn Saldanha MD and CEO of GPL, “This collaboration on a novel first-in-class monoclonal antibody validates Glenmark’s world-class innovative R&D capabilities in the drug discovery arena. We are pleased to have this second licensing collaboration with Sanofi, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world and the first one from Glenmark in the field of novel biologics”.
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Glenmark’s novel molecule ‘GRC 27864’ for chronic inflammatory diseases including pain entering human trials
April 4, 2014 3:14 am / 1 Comment on Glenmark’s novel molecule ‘GRC 27864’ for chronic inflammatory diseases including pain entering human trials
GRC 27864 is a potent, selective, orally bioavailable inhibitor of mPGES-1
The molecule has successfully completed pre-clinical and Phase 1 enabling studies. Regulatory submission has been filed for Phase 1 trial (first-in-human)with MHRA, UK
mPGES-1 inhibitors selectively block the production of PGE2 while sparing other prostanoids of physiological importance
With this announcement, Glenmark has reaffirmed its position globally in the development of novel pain therapies
Mumbai, India: April 3, 2014: Glenmark Pharmaceuticals today announced that its Novel Chemical Entity (NCE) ‘GRC 27864’ is entering human trials. This NCE program targets Microsomal Prostaglandin E synthase-1 (mPGES-1) as a novel therapeutic target in pain management. Selective mPGES-1 inhibitors are expected to inhibit increased prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) production in the disease state without affecting other prostanoid metabolites and, consequently, may be devoid of the GI(gastrointestinal) and cardiovascular side effects seen with NSAIDs and COX-2 inhibitors, respectively.
Glenmark has completed preclinical studies and Phase 1 enabling GLP studies for its selected lead molecule, GRC 27864 and has filed a Phase 1 application forfirst-in-human trial with the MHRA, UK. The Phase 1 studies are to be initiated soon and are likely to get completed by January 2015. Following this, Glenmark will also be initiating a proof of concept study in patients with acute pain.
Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd. through its Swiss Subsidiary receives USD 4 Mn. as research fee payment from Forest Laboratories Inc.
March 25, 2014 7:34 am / 1 Comment on Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd. through its Swiss Subsidiary receives USD 4 Mn. as research fee payment from Forest Laboratories Inc.
Total Payment received for the mpges-1 program from Forest Laboratories is USD 15 million
March 25, 2014: Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd. has informed the Stock Exchange today that the company through its Swiss subsidiary has received
USD 4 million as research fee payment from Forest Laboratories Inc. on a collaboration for the development of novel mPGES-1 inhibitors to treatchronic inflammatory conditions, including pain.
Under the terms of the agreement signed in FY 2012-13, Forest made USD 6 million upfront payment and also provided an additional USD 3 million
to support the next phase of work. In September 2013, Glenmark received an additional amount of USD 2 million as research fee payment from Forest Laboratories Inc.
Hence, the total amount received by Glenmark from Forest Laboratories Inc towards its novel mPEGS-1 inhibitors program is USD15 million.
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Glenmark conferred with Best Biotech New Molecular Entity Patent award
January 16, 2014 4:00 am / 1 Comment on Glenmark conferred with Best Biotech New Molecular Entity Patent award
GLENMARK PHARMA
IDMA best biotech NEW MOLECULAR ENTITY patent award to Glenmark
YEAR 2012-2013 YEAR in Mumbai India
PATENT US 8236315
GLENMARK PHARMACEUTICALS, S.A., SWITZERLAND
Elias Lazarides, Catherine Woods, Xiaomin Fan, Samuel Hou, Harald Mottl, Stanislas Blein, Martin BertschingerALSO PUBLISHED ASCA2712221A1, CN101932606A,EP2245069A1, US20090232804,WO2009093138A1
Publication number US8236315 B2
Publication type Grant
Application number US 12/358,682
Publication date 7 Aug 2012
Filing date 23 Jan 2009
Priority date 23 Jan 2008
USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet, US 8236315
The present disclosure relates generally to humanized antibodies or binding fragments thereof specific for human von Willebrand factor (vWF), methods for their preparation and use, including methods for treating vWF mediated diseases or disorders. The humanized antibodies or binding fragments thereof specific for human vWF may comprise complementarity determining regions (CDRs) from a non-human antibody (e.g., mouse CDRs) and human framework regions.
The present disclosure provides a humanized antibody or binding fragment thereof specific for vWF that comprises a heavy chain variable region sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 19 and a light chain variable region sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 28 ……….. CONT
MR GLEN SALDANHA
MD , CEO GLENMARK
INDIAN DRUG MANUFACTURERS’ ASSOCIATION (IDMA)
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Tel : +91 – 22 – 24944625 / 24974308. Fax : ++91 – 22 – 24957023
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Glenmark receives final ANDA approval for Desoximetasone Ointment USP, 0.25%
Desoximetasone 382-67-2 cas
September 23, 2013: Glenmark Generics Inc., USA the subsidiary of Glenmark Generics Limited has been granted final abbreviated new drug approval (ANDA) from the United States Food
and Drug Administration (U.S. FDA) for Desoximetasone Ointment USP, 0.25% their generic version of Topicort® by Taro Pharmaceuticals USA Inc and shipping will commence immediately.
Desoximetasone Ointment is indicated for the relief of the inflammatory and pruritic manifestations of corticosteroid-responsive dermatoses. According to IMS Health sales data for the
12 month period ending June 2013, Desoximetasone Ointment garnered annual sales of approximately USD 40 million.
Desoximetasone is a medication belonging to the family of medications known as topical corticosteroids. It is used for the relief of various skin conditions, including rashes. It helps to reduce redness, itching, and irritation. Desoximetasone is a synthetic corticosteroid, a class of primarily synthetic steroids used as anti-inflammatory and anti-pruritic agents.
There are two brand name products:
Topicort Emollient Cream (0.25% desoximetasone)
Topicort LP Emollient Cream (0.05% desoximetasone)
When using desoximetasone, some of the medication may be absorbed through the skin and into the bloodstream. Too much absorption can lead to unwanted side effects elsewhere in the body. To keep this problem to a minimum, avoid using large amounts of desoximetasone over large areas, do not use it for extended periods of time, and do not cover it with airtight dressings such as plastic wrap or adhesive bandages unless specifically told to by your doctor. Children may absorb more medication than adults do. Desoximetasone is for use only on the skin and should be kept out of the eyes.
Desoximetasone can also be used to treat some types of psoriasis.
Topicort general info
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Glenmark Gets USFDA Nod For Alcohol Abstinence Drug
September 22, 2013 12:43 pm / Leave a comment
Glenmark Pharmaceuticals said it has received US health regulator’s approval to market generic version of Forest Laboratories’ Campral Delayed Release Tablets, a drug used for alcohol abstinence, in the American market.
Glenmark Generics Inc, the US-based subsidiary of Glenmark Generics Ltd (GGL), has been granted final abbreviated new drug approval (ANDA) from the United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) for Acamprosate Calcium Delayed Release Tablets, Glenmark Pharma said in a statement. read all at
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GLENMARK- ELOVERA , for dry skin disorders
September 18, 2013 5:09 am / 6 Comments on GLENMARK- ELOVERA , for dry skin disorders
Compositions:
Elovera extract 10% cream, Vitamin E 0.5%
Category–Locally Acting Skin Preparations
* Aqueeze adequate amount of elovera moisturizing body wash onto wet hands or wet loran and work into a creamy lather. apply it all ovr the body, keep for some time and then rinse with water.
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Products Name : Elovera Moisturizing Body Wash 150ml – (Glenmark)
Elovera Cream, manufacture by Glenmark pharmaceuticals limited , is cream enriched with vitamin E and Aloe Vera. It’s a very special cream specially for treating scars and other minor pimple spots on the face.
reviews from net
My skin is very much oily hence I get these ugly Pimples very profoundly. On top of it i have the habit of bursting out the puss from these pimples. I always play it with my hands and as a result forms some very ugly scars on my face which are visible from distant away.Though I am bit dark with my completion ,even then It’s clearly visible and my mother scolds me like hell for bursting the pimples out.Honestly I just can’t stop my hands reaching out for them no matter how busy I am so Finally has to resort to some ointments to reduce the visibility of the scars.
I did try few popular products but were of no use basically. The spots didn’t get reduced but instead effected the completion of my face.Finally my mother came to my rescue. She had hear about this Elovera Cream from some one and bought home one for me.Initially i was a bit skeptic but finally I thought of trying it. For the first few days it had no effect what-so-ever , but slowly it started clearing the skin blemishes. My skin started showing it’s effects and the scars became less visible. Not only does it clear the scars but it helped me to fight the ugly pimples as well.
My face became much more glowing and healthy and i use the cream regularly even now.It’s really a magical product and should try it for clearing the blemishes and other skin problem.
GLENMARK-A new way for a new world
August 24, 2013 3:43 am / 12 Comments on GLENMARK-A new way for a new world
http://www.glenmarkpharma.com/GLN_NWS/homepage.aspx?res=P_GLN
http://www.glenmark-generics.com/
Traded as
BSE: 532296NSE: GLENMARK)
Pharmaceuticals, Drugs &Healthcare
Gracias Saldanha
Mumbai, Maharashtra[1], India
Glenn Saldanha, MD & CEO [2]
Medicines and Vaccines
1031.10 crore(US$160 million) (2009–2010)[3]
7,000 [4]
Glenmark Generics Ltd[5]
www.glenmarkpharma.com
Glenmark Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical company headquartered in Mumbai, India. [6] It manufactures and markets generic formulation products and active pharmaceutical ingredients (API), both in the domestic and international markets. In the formulation business, its business spans segments such as Dermatology, Internal Medicine, Paediatrics, Gynaecology, ENT andDiabetes.
It has four manufacturing facilities for formulations and additional three facilities for APIs. These manufacturing facilities are located in the states of Maharashtra, Goa, Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat in India.
It operates in 95 countries through its subsidiaries, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals USA, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals UK. Glenmark Pharmaceuticals SA. [7]
HEAD OFFICE AT ANDHERI MUMBAI INDIA
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WORLD-CLASS CAPABILITIEIS: Glenn Saldanha (left), Managing Director and CEO, along with Dr. Michael Buschle, President Biologics, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals at a press conference in Mumbai on Monday. Photo: Paul Noronha
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RESEARCH CENTRE AT MAHAPE INDIA
Glenmark Pharma – The persevering innovator
Glenn Saldanha, chairman, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd
Every Tuesday, unmindful of the gridlocked traffic, Glenn Saldanha, the 43-year-old Chairman of Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd, or GPL, makes it a point to visit his research centre at Mahape in Navi Mumbai. It is the hub of Glenmark’s focus on creating new chemical entities, or NCEs, R&Dspeak for original drugs. Leading the innovation for Saldanha are his lab coat-clad scientists and researchers peering into the test tubes, burettes and pipettes at the Mahape facility.
“Almost 30 to 40 per cent of my time spent on business goes into issues relating to innovation,” he says. That includes thinking about research strategy, deciding on which chemical targets to focus on and which therapeutic segments to chase, and even hiring key R&D talent. Today, out of Glenmark’s 600-odd scientists, 400 are involved in NCE research.
The past 13 years have convinced the ardent admirer of Steve Jobs, the iconic former CEO of Apple, that the future lies in innovation. “If you look at how some of the largest corporations of the world were built, it is clear you need to have innovative products,” says Saldanha, a pharmacist by training, who voraciously reads scientific journals to stay updated on current scientific thought and trends. “Look at what Apple has created… that is the way to build a mega corporation, and that is the key reason why, despite our setbacks, we believe so heavily in innovation.”
Creating an NCE has been the Holy Grail for Indian pharma companies, including giants such as Dr Reddy’s Laboratories and Ranbaxy Laboratories (now owned by Daiichi Sankyo of Japan), but without any major success so far. These companies have reviewed their focus on NCE research and some branched into related activities like differentiated products. So has Glenmark, but it also soldiers on with drug discovery as its key focus area. With five molecules currently undergoing trials in various phases, the company now leads the charge of the Indian drug research industry.
Even one successful launch, say that of revamilast (for asthma and rheumatoid arthritis), which has potential peak sales of $2 billion worldwide, could change the fortunes of the company, though one can never be sure till it actually happens. Next year, Glenmark is likely to have half a dozen compounds in Phase II human trials. Saldanha hopes to hit the market with one or more of his drugs between 2015 and 2017. This potential upside is precisely why Glenmark is in this listing of Tomorrow’s Goliaths, and not any of the other bigger or faster-growing companies.
Undiminished zest
“Every year we expect two more molecules to get into clinical trials,” says Saldanha, his zest undiminished by past failures. “In 2008, in a span of one or two quarters, our entire pipeline pretty much got wiped out, but we never lost our commitment and passion.” At that time its most advanced molecule, oglemilast, used for treating patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, had to be abandoned when its Phase IIb trials produced unsatisfactory results. It also had to suspend clinical development of GRC 6211, a compound for treating osteoarthritis pain, because of side effects.
Unlike other companies that reduced NCE development efforts when faced with similar situations, Glenmark persevered. “We never downsized our research team and did not cut back on budgets,” says Saldanha. “We did not even cut travel and our scientists continued to participate in major global conferences.” It is hardly surprising that his core R&D team has stayed put. Consider Neelima Joshi, 48, Senior Vice President and Head of NCE R&D, who was part of the dozen-odd people who set up the Mahape facility in 2000.
Even then, she says, Glenmark’s management was clearly focused on innovation and the move was in anticipation of the product patent regime that was to come in 2005. It was the impending change in India’s patent law that shaped the mind of the 29-year-old Saldanha in 1998, when he returned to India after working with Eli Lilly and PricewaterhouseCoopers to run his father Gracias Saldanha’s formulations business. After India became a signatory to General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, it changed its patent law in 2005 from a process patent, which encouraged creation of copies of blockbuster original drugs with minor process changes, to a product patent, where the original drug’s patent itself is recognised in India, thereby prohibiting the creation of copies. This key change, and Saldanha’s passion for research, convinced him to steer Glenmark the NCE way.
However, not everyone agrees with Glenmark’s approach to NCE development, especially of giving away a promising molecule in the early stages to big multinational companies for further R&D. The argument: outlicensing a molecule at a later stage can give a company better valuations. The alternative is to do what Piramal Healthcare wants to – not outlicense. “We believe in taking the drug from the bench to market,” says Dr Swati A. Piramal, Vice Chairperson of Piramal Healthcare, which hopes to deploy the funds it got from sale of its formulations business to Abbott for its R&D efforts. “We are now at the end of the 10 years, having begun in 2002, and we hope between 2012 and 2015, we will hit the market with a new drug.”
While Piramal’s approach is a bench-to-market one, others such as Sun Pharma have developed a different model. Sun Pharma has created a separate research entity called Sun Pharma Advanced Research Centre, better known as SPARC, whose sustainability is built by making differentiated and innovative “generic-plus” products (in simple language, the risk is less, as the basic ingredient is known, but the company is developing a patented technology and a better-targeted product with intellectual property built in). What is more, the returns from this are to help fund the research programme.
On the other hand, Hyderabadbased Dr Reddy’s, one of the pioneers of India’s drug discovery journey, has today rationalised its research programme. It had, in fact, tried out a unique model of creating the country’s first integrated drug development company, Perlecan Pharma, which had equity capital commitments from ICICI Venture and other investors. But it soon saw the outside investors exit and brought back Perlecan into the Dr Reddy’s fold after delays in progress of candidates were not acceptable to some partners who had wanted early monetisation.
Beyond NCEs
Dr Reddy’s has now widened its scope beyond NCEs to differentiated products and formulations where improvements are made on existing products that have limited competition in the market. Its only Phase III candidate, balaglitazone, a diabetes drug, has yet to deliver the goods; the asset class it belongs to, glitazone, has had to deal with an overhang of safety concerns, especially in cases where there is a prolonged use of the drug. Yet, Dr Reddy’s sees sense in Glenmark’s model. “It is a viable model and a right strategy for a small company as Indian companies do not have the capacity to take the drug on their own to the market,” says Satish Reddy, Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director of Dr Reddy’s. “They will need to depend on upfront and milestone payments, and royalties.”
Analysts are cautiously optimistic as Glenmark will have some six compounds in Phase II only next year. Plus the fact that Glenmark has still not hit the market with a new drug weighs it down. “It has had no material success so far; they may make it big but it is difficult to say right now,” says a Mumbai-based analyst.
Even in 2000, our management was clearly focused on innovation and the move was in anticipation of the product patent regime that was to come: Neelima Joshi
On his part, Saldanha argues that he has already recovered his R&D investments. “Till date, we have spent about $120 million in innovation research; against that we have got around $200 million as upfront and milestone payments.”
Says Nomura Financial Advisory and Securities in a recent report: “Glenmark has generated outlicensing income every year from 2004/05 to 2011/12 – except 2008/09. Average licensing income has been Rs 1 billion over the eightyear period. With seven development assets in the pipeline, we believe Glenmark will be able to continue to book licensing income, although the quantum and timing cannot be predicted.”
With standalone revenues of Rs 1,154.63 crore and consolidated revenues of almost Rs 3,000 crore, Glenmark hopes to hit the $1-billion mark soon. And if one of the NCEs sails through, the impact on the topline will be significant – a huge distance travelled for a company that clocked less than Rs 100 crore in the late 1990s. Certainly, Saldanha’s long drives on the Mumbai roads to his R&D headquarters are proving worthwhile.
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Cafe24 connects 5 new SEA countries through Shopee
A total of 6 countries connected, including Indonesia and the Philippines
Doors open for Cafe24 merchants to directly sell to 650m Southeast Asian consumers
Merchants learn how to sell their K-style products through Shopee using Cafe24’s Multimarket Management service at a seminar held by Shopee on Nov 21 in Seoul, South Korea. Source: Cafe24
E-commerce merchants in Korea are now able to sell directly to six Southeast Asian countries with a single click.
Global e-commerce platform Cafe24 announced on Dec 11 that it is expanding its integration with SEA’s number one online marketplace Shopee. Following the integration with Shopee Singapore through Cafe24’s Multimarket Management service in October, the new integration will add Shopee’s Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, and Taiwan marketplaces.
Merchants on Cafe24’s e-commerce platform can now sell to a total of six SEA countries just by uploading their products onto their DTC stores and connecting to Shopee’s markets. The easy and convenient integration is expected to further vitalize cross border direct sales to SEA.
Shopee is one of the most popular online marketplaces among 650 million SEA consumers. It generates over 10 billion dollars in annual Gross Merchandise Volume (GMV). Shopee also leads in mobile shopping market share in key SEA countries and Taiwan.
Jaesuk Lee, CEO of Cafe24, said, “Southeast Asia is one of the most rapidly growing consumer markets in the world today.” He added, “Cafe24 strives to open new doors for merchants so that they can be successful in global markets like Southeast Asia.”
Meanwhile, Cafe24’s Multimarket Management service allows merchants to register products available on their DTC stores to external marketplaces like Shopee in a single click. Connecting products to multiple sales channels help increase revenue. The service is available for all Cafe24 merchants.
About Cafe24
Cafe24 is a global success platform that provides a one-stop business environment for e-commerce merchants so that they can achieve continued growth by focusing on their creativity. Cafe24 has established an e-commerce ecosystem with 1.7 million Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) merchants and various global partners in areas like payment, shipping, and marketing. Cafe24 is poised for growth as more DTC brands and e-commerce participants continue to join the burgeoning industry.
About Multimarket Management
The Multimarket Management service is a tool that helps Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) stores sell on online marketplaces, social commerce sites, and other external marketplaces by syncing products with the main Cafe24 DTC store. Adding new products, managing orders and shipping information can all be efficiently managed from the Cafe24 admin. This service enables merchants to sell their products on multiple online channels with less complexity and maximize sales.
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Home » Football » Liverpool set to test Bayern Munich’s resolve with bid for midfield ace
Liverpool set to test Bayern Munich’s resolve with bid for midfield ace
Nic Doggett | 27.01.2014
Liverpool are targeting the exciting young Bayern Munich midfielder Xherdan Shaqiri as they look to bolster their midfield.
Brendan Rodgers has several injury problems at present, including key midfielder Lucas Leiva, and is on the lookout having missed out on Egyptian winger Mohamed Salah this week.
The Reds are currently in fourth place, eight points behind table-toppers Arsenal with 16 games left to play this season.
Xherdan Shaqiri scored on his last International start against Albania
But their good run of form has stalled slightly, having been top of the Premier League at Christmas, and Rodgers is keen to add players who can make an immediate impact.
Rodgers said: “This is a brilliant club and we try to get players in for the now, we need players who can come in now and help us.
“I’d rather wait and look at our young players than bring in one or two squad players.”
Xherdan Shaqiri has scored six goals since joining Bayern Munich
Shaqiri fits the bill as the talented midfielder would slot nicely into the Reds’ side and the former Basle player has been tracked by the Northern Irish manager for several months.
The 22-year-old midfielder began his career at Basle but moved to Bayern Munich for around 11 million Euros in 2012.
However he hasn’t held down a regular starting berth in the Bundesliga, with the arrival of Mario Gotze and Thiago Alcantara in the summer pushing the youngster down the pecking order.
Xherdan Shaqiri has made 30 appearances for Switzerland
The midfielder first came to prevalence when called up to the senior squad in 2010 for the 2010 World Cup.
That was a surprise call-up by manager Ottmar Hitzfeld and England fans may remember Shaqiri, as he scored in a 3-1 defeat by England during the Euro 2012 qualifying campaign.
Now, having lost out on Saleh, Brendan Rodgers is set to test Bayern Munich’s resolve with a bid for the Swiss star.
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Home » Premier League » Man Utd looking to get back on track after Aston Villa glitch
Man Utd looking to get back on track after Aston Villa glitch
It is fair to say that Manchester United have turned their season around, as they sit up in third after 17 games, with a three point cushion on fifth-placed Southampton in the Premier League.
All Red Devils chiefs and fans wanted this term was a top four finish (odds-on at 1/5 to do so) and thus secure Champions League football again for next campaign. Luckily, they next face a Newcastle United side, whose form has dipped in recent weeks after a remarkable purple patch that saw them climb the table as well.
While Man Utd were on a run of six straight wins, prior to their 1-1 draw last time out at Aston Villa, the Magpies have just one victory in their last five. The hosts, therefore are odds-on at 2/5 with Coral to take the three points, while Newcastle are 7/1 chances.
Alan Pardew, though, can take heart in that his side won at Old Trafford last season 1-0, so are tempting 33/1 chances to record that scoreline in their favour once more. The Toon have even restricted the Red Devils to just two wins in their last five Premier League home games against them, and have odds of 7/2 to claim a draw.
But Louis van Gaal will be keen to make amends for his team’s sloppy display against 10-man Villa, and could start with Radamel Falcao again, with the Colombian seemingly back to full match fitness. Striker Falcao got the equaliser at Villa Park, so is 6/5 to net anytime again, and 9/2 to strike last.
Man Utd’s leading marksman this term Robin van Persie will be keen to get back in the goals, and tops the anytime market with his skipper Wayne Rooney at evens.
Juan Mata, meanwhile, will be hoping to be on the scoresheet again, having bagged a brace last season against Newcastle at St James’ Park. The Spaniard is 9/4 to net anytime, and 12/1 for two or more again.
For Newcastle, Papiss Cisse will be their main threat, with the Senegal striker being his club’s top scorer this term, and been on target against Man Utd twice before in all competitions. He is 11/4 in the anytime market.
Van Gaal has endured a difficult season in terms of injuries to his players, but he could finally have a near-full squad to pick from for this Boxing Day clash. The likes of Luke Shaw, Ander Herrera, Chris Smalling, Marcos Rojo and Marouane Fellaini should all be fit to return. Angel Di Maria, who came off the bench against Villa after returning form a hamstring problem, could start.
Newcastle, meanwhile, will be looking to bounce back from their 1-0 home loss to bitter northeast rivals Sunderland, but this match should be too early for Jonas Gutierrez to return. The Argentine made a winning comeback in the reserves in his first game since overcoming cancer.
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Study Sets Baseline for Sleep Patterns in Healthy Adult Dogs
Tracey Peaketracey_peake@ncsu.edu
A new canine sleep study from North Carolina State University could serve as a baseline for research on chronic pain and cognitive dysfunction in dogs, potentially improving detection and treatment of these conditions.
“The study was necessary because research on dogs and sleep has outpaced our basic knowledge about what a ‘normal’ sleep/wake cycle looks like,” says Margaret Gruen, assistant professor of behavioral medicine at NC State and corresponding author of the work. “The studies currently available are over 20 years old, only followed small numbers of dogs or dogs that were not in a home environment, and didn’t really capture data that is relevant to how dogs live (and sleep) now. We designed the study to update these findings and fill the knowledge gap.
“And for me, someone interested in how dogs develop and age, it’s a critically missing gap: we talk about a symptom of age-related cognitive dysfunction in dogs as being a disruption in the sleep/wake cycle without really understanding where the baseline is.”
The study followed 42 healthy adult dogs – 21 male and 21 female – ranging in age from 2 to 8 years old. The dogs wore activity monitors on their collars for a two-week period, and their owners filled out a questionnaire on the dogs’ sleep patterns. Functional linear modeling of the activity data showed that most dogs have two activity peaks during the day: a shorter window from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., followed by a midday lull and a longer active period from about 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. All dogs were more active during weekends than weekdays.
“Since most of the participants were pets of people who work outside the home, we saw that the dogs were most active when human interaction happens,” Gruen says. “There were the occasional outliers – we did capture some midday ‘zoomies’ – but the pattern held true on average across 14 days for each dog. These findings aren’t surprising – they line up with many of the assumptions we’ve been making, but now the data are characterized and documented.”
The research revealed that weight and sex had an effect on the active periods; lighter dogs tended to be more active in a short period just after midnight, while female dogs seemed to be more active during the evening peak than males. Even in these healthy adult dogs, age had an effect; older dogs were less active during the peak activity times.
“Our hope is that this will serve as a foundational study for future work on the relationship between pain, cognitive dysfunction and sleep disruption, and as a study that is relevant to the way dogs live now,” Gruen says. “By establishing norms, we can better identify abnormalities and intervene earlier in the process. We can also use this as a baseline to evaluate development of adult sleep patterns in puppies.”
The research appears in Scientific Reports. NC State graduate student Hope Woods is first author. Duncan Lascelles, professor of translational pain research and management at NC State, also contributed to the work. Evolutionary anthropologist David Samson and his team, from the University of Toronto, Canada, created the functional linear models.
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Note to editors: An abstract follows.
“Let sleeping dogs lie: A functional linear modeling approach to sleep-wake cycles in dogs”
Authors: Margaret Gruen, Hope Woods, Duncan Lascelles, North Carolina State University; Ming Fei Li, Ujas Patel, David Samson, University of Toronto, Canada
Published: Online Dec. 17, 2020 in Scientific Reports
The study of companion (pet) dogs is an area of great translational potential, as they share many conditions that afflict both dogs and humans. These include conditions that affect sleep, including chronic pain and cognitive dysfunction. Significant advancements have been made in the ability to study sleep in dogs, including the development of non-invasive polysomnography; however, basic understanding of dog sleep patterns remains poorly characterized. The purpose of this study was to establish baseline sleep-wake cycle and activity patterns using actigraphy and functional linear modeling (FLM), for healthy, adult companion dogs. Forty-two dogs were enrolled and wore activity monitors for 14 days. FLM demonstrated a bimodal pattern of activity with significant effects of sex, body mass, and age; the effect of age was particularly evident during the times of peak activity. This study demonstrated that FLM can be used to describe normal sleep-wake cycles of healthy adult dogs and the effects of physiologic traits on these patterns of activity. This foundation makes it possible to characterize deviations from normal patterns, including those associated with chronic pain and cognitive dysfunction syndrome. This can improve detection of these conditions in dogs, benefitting them and their potential as models for understanding human disease.
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15 Key Questions Venture Capitalists Will Ask Before Investing In Your Startup
Venture capitalists make decisions constantly about whether or not to invest in various startups. The majority of the time, the answer is no. There can be many reasons for this decision, including that the startup is not within the firm’s focus or stage of desired investment. But assuming the company is within the investment parameters of the fund, here are 15 key determining factors for whether a venture firm will or will not decide to invest in a startup that is seeking venture capital.
Ready to pursue VC funding? Be sure you understand the kinds of questions investors will ask.
1. Is There a Great Management Team?
Many investors consider the team behind a startup more important than the idea or the product. The investors will want to know that the team has the right set of skills, drive, experience, and temperament to grow the business. Anticipate these questions:
Who are the founders and key team members?
What relevant domain experience does the team have?
What key additions to the team are needed in the short term?
Why is the team uniquely capable to execute the company’s business plan?
How many employees does the company have?
What motivates the founders?
How do you plan to scale the team in the next 12 months?
Ultimately, the investor will need to make a judgment about whether the founder and team will be enjoyable to work with. Does the investor believe in the team? Is the CEO experienced and willing to listen? Also, involving experienced advisors can be very helpful in the early stages to help bridge an early stage team that is still growing.
2. Is the Market Opportunity Big?
Most investors are looking for businesses that can scale and become meaningful, so make sure you address the issue right up front as to why your business has the potential to become really big. Don’t present any small ideas. If the first product or service is small, then perhaps you need to position the company as a “platform” business allowing the creation of multiple products or apps. Investors will want to know the actual addressable market and what percentage of the market you plan to capture over time.
For most investors, a “big” market opportunity is in excess of $1 billion in sales annually.
3. What Positive Early Traction Has the Company Achieved?
One of the most important things for investors will be signs of any early traction or customers. A company that has obtained early traction will be more likely to obtain venture financing and with better terms. Examples of early traction can include the following:
The creation of a beta or minimally viable product
Initial or pilot customers, especially brand name customers
Admission into competitive programs such as Y Combinator or other technology accelerators or incubators
Investors will want to know, How can the early traction be accelerated? What has been the principal reason for the traction? How can the company can scale this early traction?
Don’t forget to show early buzz or press you have received, especially from prominent websites or publications. Feature the headlines in a slide on your investor pitch deck. List the number of articles and publications mentioning the company.
4. Are the Founders Passionate and Determined?
Many venture capitalists look for passionate and determined founders. Are they individuals who will be dedicated to growing the business and facing the inevitable challenges?
As Paul Martino, General Partner of Bullpen Capital, says:
“We have a saying at Bullpen that we like ‘blue collar’ CEOs. That means that we like to see nuts-and-bolts operators, not pie-in-the-sky dreamers. Demonstrate that you’ve spent time looking up our background and investment portfolio finding mutual interests. I like founders who (1) know their metrics cold; (2) have a clear idea of the business they’re in; and (3) know how to grow it. What gets my attention is a hard-nosed, determined founder who, with a few operational pointers combined with a solid, already existing plan, can get to an even bigger outcome. That’s the kind of ride I want to take.”
Deepak Kamra, General Partner of Canaan Partners, makes a related point:
“Yes, you need to appear professional if you are going to be starting a serious business, but you need to show some passion and enthusiasm. Startups are hard, and they take a long time, and you will need to show that you have the inner drive to get through the highs and lows. This doesn’t mean you have to jump up and down and wave your arms. Perhaps it’s a story about what is driving you to get into your business, why it’s personal, or why there is nothing else you would rather do than spend the next 5 to 10 years living and breathing this idea of yours.”
5. Do the Founders Understand the Financials and Key Metrics of Their Business?
Venture capitalists look for founders who truly understand the financials and key metrics of their business. You need to show that you have a handle on all of those and are able to articulate them coherently.
Mark Patricof, founder of Patricof & Co., says:
“Know exactly what you want to spend your money on. Don’t tell me how long it will last; tell me what you want to prove. The most impressive entrepreneurs communicate the value of their businesses through numbers. A conversation centered on a company’s revenue growth, sales funnel, and customer churn causes an immediate connection with investors because when entrepreneurs position themselves as metrics-driven, it’s as though they’ve entered an investor’s mind.”
Josh Stein, General Partner of DFJ Ventures, says:
“Know your KPIs (Key Performance Indicators). Effective entrepreneurs understand what their top priorities are and manage their companies by focusing their teams around a handful of critical metrics that reflect those priorities. I’m always interested when a founder can articulate her KPIs, talk intellectually about her team executing to improve them, and has a clear sense of where those metrics can be in a year or two.”
6. Has the Entrepreneur Been Referred to Me by a Trusted Colleague?
Venture firms get inundated with unsolicited executive summaries and pitch decks. Most of the time, those solicitations are ignored. The way to capture the attention of a venture capitalist is to get a warm introduction from a trusted colleague: an entrepreneur, a lawyer, an investment banker, an angel investor, or another venture capitalist.
7. Is the Initial Investor Pitch Deck Professional and Interesting?
The first thing the venture investor will expect is to see a 15-20 page investor pitch deck before taking a meeting. From the pitch deck, the investor hopes to see an interesting business model with committed entrepreneurs and big opportunity. So make sure you have prepared and vetted a great pitch deck. Looking at other pitch decks and executive summaries can help you improve your own. See How to Create a Great Investor Pitch Deck for Startups Seeking Financing.
8. What Are the Potential Risks to the Business?
Investors want to understand what risks there might be to the business. They want to understand your thought process and the mitigating precautions you are taking to reduce those risks. There inevitably are risks in any business plan, so be prepared to answer these questions thoughtfully:
What do you see as the principal risks to the business?
What legal risks do you have? Will the business model comply with applicable laws, including expanding privacy protections?
What technology risks do you have?
Do you have any regulatory risks?
Are there any product liability risks?
What steps do you anticipate taking to mitigate such risks?
Startups that can show they have reduced or eliminated product, technology, sales, or market risks will have an advantage in fund-raising.
9. Why Is the Company’s Product Great?
The entrepreneur must clearly articulate what the company’s product or service consists of and why it is unique, so entrepreneurs should expect to get the following questions:
Why do users care about your product or service?
What are the major product milestones?
What are the key differentiated features of your product or service?
What have you learned from early versions of the product or service?
What are the two or three key features you plan to add?
How often do you envision enhancing or updating the product or service?
10. How Will My Investment Capital Be Used and What Progress Will Be Made With That Capital?
Investors will absolutely want to know how their capital will be invested and your proposed burn rate (so that they can understand when you may need the next round of financing). It will also allow the investors to test whether your fund-raising plans are reasonable given the capital requirements you will have. And it will allow the investors to see whether your estimate of costs (e.g., for engineering talent, for marketing costs, or office space) is reasonable given their experiences with other companies. Investors want to make sure at minimum that you have capital to meet your next milestone so you can raise more financing.
11. Is the Expected Valuation for the Company Realistic?
If you tell an investor you want a $100 million valuation even though you started the business three weeks ago, or don’t have much traction yet, the conversation will likely end very quickly. Often, it’s best not to discuss valuation in a first meeting other than to say you expect to be reasonable on valuation. But the venture investor also doesn’t want to waste a lot of time on a deal if the valuation expectations are unreasonable or not attractive.
Valuation at an early stage of a technology company is more of an art than a science. To help bridge the valuation gap for early stage startups, you often see investors looking for a convertible instrument with customary conversion discounts and valuation caps. These instruments, such as convertible notes and “SAFEs,” have become quite common. For more information about this, be sure to read A Guide to Venture Capital Financings for Startups.
12. Does the Company Have Differentiated Technology?
As most venture investors invest in software, internet, mobile, or other technology companies, an analysis of the startup’s technology or proposed technology is critical. The questions the investors will pursue include:
How differentiated is the company’s technology?
What competitive advantages will there be over existing technology?
How easy will it be to replicate the technology?
How costly will it be to build the technology into each product?
13. What Is the Company’s Intellectual Property?
For many companies, their intellectual property will be a key to success. Investors will pay particular attention to your answers to these questions:
What key intellectual property does the company have (patents, patents pending, copyrights, trade secrets, trademarks, domain names)?
What comfort is there that the company’s intellectual property does not violate the rights of a third party?
How was the company’s intellectual property developed?
Would any prior employers of a team member have a potential claim to the company’s intellectual property?
Is the intellectual property properly owned by the company, and have all employees and consultants assigned the intellectual property over to the company?
If the intellectual property was developed at a university or through government grants or with open source technology, how does the company have the right to use the technology?
14. Are the Company’s Financial Projections Realistic and Interesting?
If you present investors with projections showing the company will achieve $5 million in revenue in five years, they will have little interest. Investors want to invest in a company that can grow significantly and become an exciting business. Alternatively, if you show projections in which the company predicts to be at $500 million in three years, the investors will just think you are unrealistic, especially if you are at zero in revenues today. Avoid assumptions in your projections that will be difficult to justify, such as how you will get to a 400% growth in revenue with only a 20% growth in operating and marketing costs.
In order to believe your financial projections, investors will want you to articulate the key assumptions you have and convince them those assumptions are reasonable. If you can’t do that, then the investors won’t feel you have a real handle on the business. Expect that investors will push back on the assumptions and they will want you to have a cogent, thoughtful response.
15. Is Your Legal Formation Clean and in Compliance with Applicable Laws?
Investors don’t want to invest in a company that has legal issues with the founders or third parties, failed to properly issue stock or options, failed to make securities law filings, has unaccredited investors, or hasn’t complied with employment laws—these are all red flags. Before pitching your business, you need to make sure the company is clean from a legal perspective. An experienced startup lawyer can help significantly. See 10 Big Legal Mistakes Made by Startups.
Richard D. Harroch is a Managing Director and Global Head of M&A at VantagePoint Capital Partners, a large venture capital fund in the San Francisco area. His focus is on Internet, digital media, and software companies, and he was the founder of several Internet companies. His articles have appeared online in Forbes, Fortune, MSN, Yahoo, FoxBusiness, and AllBusiness.com. Richard is the author of several books on startups and entrepreneurship as well as the co-author of Poker for Dummies and a Wall Street Journal-bestselling book on small business. He is the co-author of the recently published 1,500-page book by Bloomberg, Mergers and Acquisitions of Privately Held Companies: Analysis, Forms and Agreements. He was also a corporate and M&A partner at the law firm of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, with experience in startups, mergers and acquisitions, and venture capital. He has been involved in over 200 M&A transactions and 250 startup financings. He can be reached through LinkedIn.
Larry Kane is a corporate partner in the San Francisco office of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. He represents newly formed and high-growth technology companies and venture and private equity investors. Larry’s typical representations range from formation and early stage corporate counseling, angel and venture capital financing, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and partnerships to venture fund formation, lending and other commercial transactions. Larry’s practice focuses on a range of technology companies spanning education technology, software and SaaS business, education server, consumer products, and semiconductor business. Larry can be reached through the Orrick.com site.
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Looking out at the room filled with newspaper executives from across the country gathered for the inaugural meeting of America's Newspapers, our keynote presenter on Monday told them, "I am inspired and I have a sense of hope."
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Take Nnamdi Kanu seriously, Wole Soyinka advise Nigerians
admin June 6, 2020 June 6, 2020
Professor Wole Soyinka the International Nobel laureate winner has cautioned Nigerians to take Mazi Nnamdi Kanu seriously, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra,(IPOB).
Wole Soyinka made this known in an interview where he berated the fact that “Aso Rock has no leadership under Buhari has lost a touch of trying to make Nigeria great. There is no point deceiving ourselves because the young man Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has proud to the whole world that he has some facts and figures to prove his claims.”
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But, I urge the President to come out and counter those allegations which are detrimental to Nigeria dismantling, which will be against the wish of most of us that are living and we fought for the unity of this country.
It is very pathetic and appalling to know that someone is claiming so many things which look real and truthful but people are only laughing at those allegations which is detrimental to the unity of the country but you have to look at it from the other way round based on the things happening and all that he has been saying you could see that there is some fact and element of truth in his outburst that Nigeria has no president.
Where is the Vice President of Nigeria? Who supposed to be the next if the president is not in a position to handle the affairs of the country.
“He is nowhere to be found I am not afraid of going to prison because I have been there on several occasions even during the military times so this is democracy and must be practiced the way it should be we are not in a military regime.” the professor concludes.
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Off shore vessels owned and operated by Border Force were using low bandwidth SATCOM services for their communication needs where the costs were driven on a per usage basis. As the volume of data required to be transferred between each vessel and headquarters increased, the SATCOM usage costs per vessel became prohibitively expensive. Nova Systems was engaged by Border Force to evaluate their SATCOM communication requirements and support Border Force in procurement of SATCOM capability for installation onto the vessels that would provide a long term lower operating cost to Border Force while at the same time supporting increased data rates to support reliable transmission of high data rate real time and non-real time services.
As part of the evaluation process for supporting the introduction of new SATCOM capability within Border Force, Nova Systems was responsible for modelling different SATCOM procurement and cost models as well as evaluate different alternate SATCOM capability options including both commercial and military services. Nova Systems was instrumental in developing the statement of work as well as supporting tender evaluation to choose the best value for money option. The selected solution which uses a complex combination of both commercial and military SATCOM capability to cover Border Force’s unique operating needs has resulted in Nova performing key activities in support of the introduction of Border Force as one of the first Whole of Government customers to utilise the Australian Defence Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) system. Nova Systems was able to provide leading support to Border Force due to its vast experience in dealing within complex SATCOM environments where a deep level understanding of the capability trade space and stakeholder needs is essential to ensure the optimum solution is procured, installed and operated. The work that has been conducted by Nova Systems SATCOM for maritime Border Force is now a basis for the delivery of SATCOM capability within the land domain for other Whole of Government customers.
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How Doctor Strange indicated the last possibility of winning!
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Howdy, everyone. This post might contain huge ‘Spoilers’, so warning leave here if you don’t want to get spoiled and if you haven’t seen the Endgame this article isn’t for you!
Many didn’t get this scene but Doctor Strange could not tell anything to anyone for what he has seen in the future or otherwise it wouldn’t have happened.
But, Doctor Strange does give an indication that this is the time and the one possibility that they could win! And Iron Man in no time understood his hand sign that this is it, this is the only ‘one possibility’.
Russos also talked about the Tragic death of the Iron Man- “The reason we choose Iron Man, in the end, was because he was the closest one to Thanos at the time. In all the futures, Doctor Strange foresaw Iron Man was the only one who could get close to Thanos and do the snap.
People usually think the death of a hero is a horrible tragedy. But we think this is different. When his death was able to bring back hope, to save half of the universe, then his death was powerful and meaningful,” Joe Russo said.
SOME PEOPLE MIGHT MOVE ON BUT NOT US!!!! There is no post credit scene but they do give Iron Man a tribute at the last with the sound of the making of Iron Man Suit from the first movie of his in the background of Marvel Logo.
Tony Stark dies at the End of Avengers: Endgame using the Gauntlet to dust out Thanos and his army, the power of the stones was even almost too much for Hulk, therefore it kills him. Though who is the kid who was standing at the back at Tony’s funeral, see here.
This fulfills Doctor Strange’s 1 in 14,000,605 probability of winning; the reason being he gave up the Time Stone in Avengers: Infinity War because Tony couldn’t die yet. Stark leaves behind a hologram message for his daughter, Morgan.
Second of them is Black Widow, who sacrifices herself on Vormir in order for the Avengers team to get the Soul Stone.
Hulk attempts to bring her back while undoing Thanos’ snap using the Stark Gauntlet but says it is impossible, though currently, it isn’t clear whether it brought her back or not. However, she’ll return to screens in the Black Widow prequel movie slated for next year.
Other characters which are still dead in Avengers Endgame are Vision, Heimidal, Loki, Gamora (sacrificed for soul stone one).
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If your goal is to become the ultimate couch potato, Panasonic is now offering a package of consumer products that may make your living room seem more real than reality itself — or at least a lot more desirable. Following up on its goal of ruling the world of three-dimensional entertainment, it now offers 3D Viera Plasma HDTV sets, a Blu-ray 3D disk player, a 3D camcorder, and (of course) the special glasses needed to absorb it all. Video options include screen sizes from 50 to 65 inches, and each TV comes with (only) one pair of Panasonic 3D eyewear. (The company also has built a 152 inch plasma display, but it isn't included in the Viera lineup at this point.) The disc player can handle 3D media but is also compatible with various audio standards, and it upconverts standard definition video
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Key Route Plaza mural
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Key Route Mural
CC SA-NC-BY Our Oakland
Title Key Route Mural
Artist 2005 by Rocky Rische-Baird
The Key Route Plaza mural was a large, colorful mural on what used to be part of a Key System station at Piedmont Avenue and 41st Street. The spot marks where the first Key System train arrived in 1904. The train in the mural is #159, which last left the station at 6:45 pm on April 20th, 1958. The mural is full of meanings, starting with the obvious, giant figure of F.M. "Borax” Smith, creator of the Key Route. When funds ran low for the mural, the artist offered to depict donors to the project riding inside car #159. There are other figures of note through the image as well.
According to Rische-Baird, the mural depicted characters from various times during the whole span of the Key Route's life. The mural wasn't about the train, but about the people it carried and connected with it. Some of the people include:
Francis Marion "Borax" Smith, who created the Key System (with the large key)
Granville T. Woods, a brilliant inventor and electrical engineer (with the bolt of electricity)
a train operator who used to sing Irish songs to the passengers as he drove the train (with the harp)
the mechanics and engineers who kept the trains running
people from General Motors and Firestone (who brought and end to the Key System) making secret deals among thememselves
the soldier carrying oil represents gas rationing during World War II, which led to a boom in ridership on the Key System and appreciation for it
Susan Svendsgaard and Taylor Fitzpatrick near train doors. Jane Hartman Adamé: My grandparents. He was a painter and she was a music teacher. He’s holding one of his paintings and if you look closely, she’s holding sheet music. After he passed, my grandmother had a gallery featuring his artwork and others on Piedmont Ave.
Photos CC SA-NC-BY Our Oakland
"Borax" Smith women's suffrage, Granville T. Woods train operator who sang Irish songs Susan Svendsgaard and Taylor Fitzpatrick
In December, 2014, the mural was destroyed while the space was being renovated for the new tenant, Kronner Burger. According to them, the wall behind the mural was covered in black mold and a former window wasn't properly supported. The artist spent over six months, 8 hours a day painting the mural, and so was understandably devastated to learn about its destruction:
"It seems like this mural about communal loss [ of the Key System ] because of blind consumptive greed has fallen to the same enemy." 1
The artist wasn't notified about the impending destruction of the mural. Whether or not the mural could have been saved, it was such an amazing mural that it would have been worth trying.
The negative Yelp reviews have started coming in for Kronner Burger (even though it hasn't yet opened), mostly based on residents' anger at the destruction of the mural.
Further Updates
An anonymous editor added:
@2015 Update on Destruction of Rische-Baird's Key Route Mural
Now You See It, Now You Don't - How Oakland Was Robbed Of A Great Work Of Art
or The Kronner/Brandel Spin on How to Destroy Public Art ( And Appear To be The Victims)
Destroying Great Art for a Ho-Hum Hamburger
Rocky Rische-Baird's phenomenal "Key Route System" mural, painted on the side of J's Hamburger & Such was not just an extraordinary piece of artwork. it was a loving homage to generations of Oakland residents that resided in and near the neighborhood. Residents who had relatives that worked on the Key Route System, residents that are third generation Oaklanders. With a blend of ethnicities and residents from all walks of life, the mural showed the skill of the Oakland designers, laborers and visionaries who created the Key Route System. A positive work of historical beauty, the Key Route Line Mural is /was exactly what Oakland needs more of. Not less.
The building is currently owned by Hal Brandel ** & other associates. Mr. Brandel also owns Cafe Trieste, immediately next door and Bar Cesar on the other side of Trieste. Mr. Brandel has certainly done well for himself in the bay area real estate scene and kudos' to him for being so successful. Success none the less, funded by the thousands of local residents and visitors that spend money in Mr. Brandel's establishments. No big story here. Mr. Brandel has a keen sense for business and has picked some key spots for investments, including Berkeley.
But, it is Mr. Brandel's assertion that the Key Route Line mural had to be destroyed because it would have cost tens of thousands of dollars to repair/restore the wall behind it. Hmmm. Really, between Mr. Brandel, his associates and the new tenant, Chris Kronner they couldn't come up with the money for this project. Seems like a hard roll to swallow.
When Chris Kronner took over the old J's space he made the decision to destroy the existing Key Route Mural for financial reasons, rather than find an alternative solution that would keep the mural intact. The heart of the problem was supposed years of decay and black mold. Ok. But why wasn't the neighborhood and the artist that created the mural notified of the problem. The artist, Rocky Rische-Baird was not notified of the impending doom of the mural and was contacted after the fact by a concerned resident, not by Brandel or Kronner. *1. The deed was hidden by a "protective tarp". Such protection you should never know from.
"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest." Benjamin Franklin
The Piedmont Avenue Improvement League (PANIL) was stunned to learn about the beginning of the destruction of the mural after the fact.*2. “Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.” Ouida, Wanda
Apparently the offer of the local PANIL to start a crowd funding source of income to offset the cost of saving the mural was ignored by Brandel, Kronner, et.al. *3. There were many people ready to support Kronner/Brandel in finding a positive solution to the problem. But money, greed and duplicity won out.
Kronner asserted that he tried everything he could to find a solution, but after his meeting with the PANIL he realized how "aggressively angry" the locals were and decided it was better to not go public with his plans to destroy the mural.*4. So he did so in a secretive underhanded manner. Not the best way to ingratiate your business to your new neighbors.
"Let no such man be trusted." William Shakespeare
Ok, so a hot, well, tepid San Francisco chef comes into a quaint little Oakland neighborhood with big plans for what his under construction web site so boldly refers to as Oakland's Burger Paradise. And he does not want to have a transparent public conversation about his plans to destroy a positive part of the neighborhood that he is moving into, because he realizes there is quite a lot of opposition to his plans. Duh! Is Kronner kidding, a business person in this era that doesn't understand the power of on-line funding. He never even gave the citizens of Oakland the opportunity to step up to the plate and raise the money to save one of Oakland's most important public works of art. Am I the only one choking on this point?
Oh and in an effort to show some kind of Oakland cred's, Kronner states that his partner and business partner has lived in Oakland for twenty seven years. The fact that he is a fairly new resident himself cannot be pumped up by his associations. Where has HE actually lived and worked for the last twenty seven years? Well, he has been doing a pop up in Oakland since around March of 2014. Not that it matters, but if you're going to distort facts to make yourself look like a bigger part of the community than you are, well it raises questions of credibility.
Oakland already has Barney's Burger, True Burger, Sparky's and a dozen or more established burger joints that are definitely upscale in relation to the many fast food burger joints dotting the East Bay. So King Kronner feels that only he can give Oaklanders the best burger via his Oakland Burger Paradise and to do so he needs to help destroy an important piece of Oakland Public Artwork.
Because it would be too costly for them to find a better solution, Kronner and his cronies, Brandel and associates are trying hard to convince Oakland residents that water damage, black mold & crumbling walls were too much of a financial burden for them to shoulder, even with help from public crowd funding. I do believe that there are commercial building owners with less assets than Brandel, who have made major improvements to their properties knowing that their investments would be repaid through future rents and partnerships with tenants. i believe this is called foresight.
As to the extent of the damage. Apparently the damage was due to a covered over window that was walled up for years. Since the rest of the wall is still intact the owners/tenant must have found a way to remove/halt the black mold from spreading further. Mold that was supposedly exacberated by recent rains. Was it the new construction/destruction that allowed the recent rains to pour into the walls.*5. Interesting that they were able to limit the damage to just the size of space that a new window will take up.
And often times excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse." William Shakespeare
In articles about their move, Kronner talked about how J's Hamburgers & Such is such a light and airy space and would be better for Kronner-Burgers chefs to work in, compared to their last space at Bruno's in San Francisco. With the old wall and mural intact, the interior of J's was light and airy. I know that for a fact since I have frequented the place since 1965, through out it's change of ownerships
The currently stark white/blue trimmed facade of the old J's, new Kronner's is just screaming out for a touch of color. Instead of a magnificent mural, perhaps Kronner would be more comfortable with a graffiti tagged business. More San Francisco edgy than the museum quality work of Rische-Baird.
In the past I have enjoyed patronizing Cafe Trieste, but alas cannot envision myself spending my time and money in an establishment who's owner cares not a wit about the art, history and citizens of the neighborhood that he is benefitting from. And as for Kronner's new restaurant, I doubt it will be worth all the hurt it has caused. May it R.I.P. sooner than later.
Bottom line, when a new tenant/owner comes into a neighborhood and destroys much beloved works of art in a secretive manner, using "protective tarping" as a subterfuge and then expects the locals to swallow their story hook, line and sinker, they better be prepared to do a lot of bailing out lest their ship sinks before it ever sails.
https://localwiki.org/oakland/Key_Route_Plaza_mural
*1-5. Credit to http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2014/12/16/kronnerburger-and-oakland-neighborhood-association-at-odds-over-destroyed-mural/
*1.As for the artist himself, Rische-Baird responded via email, stating he was “so disgusted that it’s hard to find words.” His wife, Erica, however, penned a long statement expressing anger and disappointment that a solution could not be found.“I feel so sad and angry about all of this. It simply is not fair,” she wrote in part, adding, “there WAS a choice. And they made the choice, without letting the community or artist have a say. A choice to save it would have taken a bit of effort and time, which the mural was WORTH.”
*2. “Horrified. Absolutely horrified and shocked,” Valerie Winemiller from the local neighborhood association, the Piedmont Avenue Neighborhood Improvement League (PANIL), says of her reaction to hearing the news. “It was a mural that was paid for by community donations, and it was just horrifying and shocking that someone would cut a hole out of middle of it without coming back to community first without any notification.”
*3 Winemiller, however, paints a different scene. She says that she referred Kronner to a muralist friend with experience in restoration and indicated she was willing to kick-start a community fundraising effort to pay for the work, but that she never received a response.
*4 “We did consider making some sort of announcement, but after the laughably aggressive interactions with the neighborhood association, it seemed like it would have just invited more problems and would not have been to anyone’s benefit,” he says. “Yes, it would have been nice for people who wanted to, to say good bye to the mural, but there wasn’t any realistic plan offered up to save it. A decision had to be made, because we needed to move forward … It’s a bummer that it’s gone, but there wasn’t anything that could be done. I did my best.” Chris Kronner.
*5. Some residents, however, discovered late last week that the mural, which had been covered by a blue tarp to protect it from the rain, had been partially destroyed when a large chunk of the wall had been taken out to expose and reinforce a previously covered-up window.
*Hal Brandel is a Member of 4 Musketeers S.P., LLC and holds active roles in eleven companies and inactive roles in five additional companies .
4 Musketeers S.P., LLC filed as a Domestic in the State of California filed on Monday, March 29, 2004. This corporation is approximately eleven years old according to documents filed with California Secretary of State. 4 Musketeers S.P., LLC also lists Walter Wright as Member.
**Hal Brandel's additional active roles include:
• Managing Member of 2439 10th Street, LLC
• Member of 4 Musketeers-Piedmont Ave. LLC
• Member of 2514-2520 San Pablo Avenue, LLC
• Member of 2530 San Pablo Avenue Associates, LLC
• Member of 2801 Adeline LLC
Hal Brandel is connected to other officers through these corporate roles. One of the top connections is CA1 .
Another anonymous editor wrote:
Unfortunately, the mural had been painted on a wall that had been improperly installed in 1961 by the then-tenant, J.O. Kirby, to replace a window that interfered with Kirby's plans for the space. In November 2014, a contractor working for the new tenant, Kronner Burger, opened up the wall from the inside and discovered that the wall was falling apart, leaking water, and basically ready to collapse, creating an imminent safety hazard. The owner of the building, Steve Eigenberg, told Steve Lydon of PANIL to contact Rocky Rische-Baird to see if he had any interest in repairing the wall, since Rocky had agreed to be fully responsible for the mural when it was originally painted.
It is not clear whether PANIL was able to reach Rocky, who had since moved away from Oakland. After three weeks without any commitment from the artist, Mr. Eigenberg authorized the tenant's contractor to make the necessary repairs to the wall to eliminate the public safety risks. Given the fragile state of the wall and the size of the window opening, it was not possible to preserve the removed portion of the mural in one piece. The pieces were delivered to the family of Rocky's wife, who still live in the area.
PANIL has make statements to the effect that Rocky wasn't notified about the potential removal of the mural. If this is true, it is only because PANIL was unable to track him down once it became clear that the wall was unsafe. PANIL has also asserted that they were, in their words, "stunned" to learn that the mural had been taken down. Again, this is disingenuous, since PANIL knew that the wall was in terrible condition and that it was up to Rocky to try and fix the problem. Given the atrocious and unsafe condition of the wall, the proposal for a crowd-funded solution was not realistic. Neither was the suggestion that Kronner work with a "muralist friend with experience in restoration," since the problem was not a damaged mural, but a crumbing and unsafe wall underlying the mural.
Key to the Past San Francisco Chronicle April 3, 2005
Oaktown Art blog
Key Route Plaza mural is gone Our Oakland
Kronnerburger and Oakland neighborhood association at odds over mural Inside Scoop, SFGate.com
Piedmont Avenue: Landmark neighborhood mural is destroyed Oakland Tribune December 17, 2014
Oakland Community At Odds Over Moldy Mural ABC7News.com December 18, 2014
Kronner Burger's Public Art Controversy in Oakland the Bold Italic December 18, 2014
more about the Key Route Plaza mural Our Oakland
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This article studies traditional and modern theories of executive compensation, bringing them together under a unifying framework. We analyze assignment models of the level of pay, and static and dynamic moral hazard models of incentives, and compare their predictions to empirical findings. We make two broad points. First, traditional optimal contracting theories find it difficult to explain the data, suggesting that compensation results from 'rent extraction' by CEOs. In contrast, more modern theories that arguably better capture the CEO setting do deliver predictions consistent with observed practices, suggesting that these practices need not be inefficient. Second, seemingly innocuous features of the modeling setup, often made for tractability or convenience, can lead to significant differences in the model's implications and conclusions on the efficiency of observed practices. We close by highlighting apparent inefficiencies in executive compensation and additional directions for future research.
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Saturday 29 June 2013 - Pyrenees GR10 - Day 15 - Lescun
We walked about 3 km today, with minimal ascent - basically a couple of trips to a table d'orientation kiosk.
Weather: sunny
A lovely warm rest day in Lescun.
Our last breakfast with John and Paul was savoured, before the two heroes set off on the next stage of their 'Tour Aventure' adventure - to Etsaut.
We had a lazy day, with a couple of trips along to the 'kiosk' and its fine view over the village of Lescun to its eponymous cirque (pictured).
A chat with the owners of the excellent gite - Maison de la Montagne - helped us to plan our route for the next four days. Axe and crampons are advised for the 2185 metre Col d'Ayous, between Etsaut and Gabas, and the 2465 metre Hourquette d'Arre after Gabas, so we've devised an alternative that also requires the day before those sections (ie tomorrow) to be changed. The changes make for a good compromise, albeit involving a tad of road walking. Gourette to Arrens-Marsous on GR10 is no problem, but we'll have to assess the viability of the next section to Cauterets when we reach Arrens-Marsous.
We aim to stay safe. The scenery will be wonderful regardless of the route taken if this weather holds.
Also, Jill W has kindly informed us that the Oasis gite at Barèges is due to reopen on Monday, so we have been able to book it for 8 July, though we aren't looking forward to the scene of devastation that will await us there. Jill's information, and that from Nick and others has been very helpful and is much appreciated. Thank you.
Dinner was in the local restaurant, just down the road, the Bar des Bergers. A nice meal, similar to last night's at the gite, featuring the usual 'garbure' (vegetable soup, sometimes with ham) and confit of duck, a local favourite featuring slowly cooked duck legs.
We didn't see much of any other HRP or GR10 walkers, apart from one misguided chap who thought the HRP was easier on the knees. He hasn't come to the boulder fields yet, and our experience indicates that both routes average about 1000 metres of ascent a day. I agreed to differ; he was unwaveringly correct. I doubt we'll meet again.
(I may of course be completely wrong - it wouldn't be the first time!)
I've failed miserably to catch up with other people's blogs. Never mind. We did however catch sight of the Tour de France stage finish in Corsica. It looked really strange...
Sent from our GR10 trip - see here for our itinerary
Labels: France, Pyrenees, Pyrenees 2013, Walks
Occasional Pyrenean Flowers (4)
Yesterday we enjoyed passing massive clumps of this milkwort, probably the common 'Mountain Milkwort' (Polygala alpestris) variety.
Labels: Flowers, France, Pyrenees, Pyrenees 2013
Friday 28 June 2013 - Pyrenees GR10 - Day 14 - Stage 11 - Arette-la Pierre-St-Martin to Lescun
Distance: 16 km (Cum: 209 km)
Ascent: 500 metres (Cum: 10,840 metres)
Time taken: 7.75 hrs including 1.75 hrs stops
Weather: fog, dissipating to 'cloud over France', with high peaks attracting their own cloud
At last, a wonderful mountain day with stunning views from a fine route.
Jean, Refuge Jeandel's eccentric but kindly guardian, gave out quite a bit of route information last night as we slurped our aperitifs.
All fourteen of us at the Refuge, nine French and five English, were walking GR10. Of the English, John decided on the taxi option, and he was joined by Roland and Marie, as well as Pierre's quartet.
The rest of us left, as advised by Jean, in a single international group.
Luckily the mist immediately cleared, and we were able to follow the waymarks, more or less, for a while. It was slow going over limestone pavements choked with snow. Gilles demonstrated how to escape from a snow hole after plunging in up to his chest.
"Can you see me! " he kept shouting as the camera shutters clicked and he sunk slowly deeper.
We went wrong, ascending to around 1920 metres when we should have stayed a good 100 metres lower. The waymarks had been hard to find as many were obscured by snow. A laborious descent over rough and steep ground saw us back on the path for good.
The wrong route did offer the bonus of some fine views, one of which is pictured above.
We ascended to Pas de l'Osque up an easy scramble (thankfully free from snow) and spent a while there admiring the multitude of alpine flowers and the fine views in all directions.
At 1922 metres this should have been the highest point of our trip to date, if we hadn't gone inadvertently higher a few minutes earlier.
Before us lay the crux of today's walk, described our Cicerone guide as 'cross the bowl to the SE'. That was easier said than done as the steep scree across which the path traversed was inundated with snow. We later discovered that David and John's guide had them roped up for this section yesterday.
We, however, had Gilles, who stamped his way across, making it easy (if a bit scary) for everyone else. François positively skipped across in her new crampons. She seemed oblivious to nearly tripping and stumbling and getting tangled in the long excesses of the straps.
We soon reached Pas d'Azuns (1873 metres), where the unmistakable profile of Pic du Midi d'Ossau came into intermittent view through swirling cloud, though Pic d'Anie dominated the immediate view.
Lunch was savoured in this lofty spot where we were safe in the knowledge that there were no significant further difficulties to come.
Gilles endeavoured to feed the choughs and ants with the remains of some cereal he had bought in Hendaye. It can't have been very nice or he would surely have eaten it by now.
The 'magnificent seven' then took a few self-timed pictures before disbanding and taking the easy and enjoyable path to Lescun at their own pace. Five of us assembled for drinks at Refuge de Labérouat, about an hour above Lescun. They seemed to have just one booking, from Jean-Yves, tonight. We think they were going to pretend that they were full when he turned up, not wanting the hassle of catering for just one guest!
We ate with Stuart, and Pierre's family, at one of the village's gites, but we failed to find John and Paul. We should see them tomorrow.
Our hotel, Hotel du Pic d'Anie, is a fine, wood panelled establishment, where we were greeted by an ancient lady called Matilda Carrafranq, whose family have owned the early 19th century hotel for five generations. Unfortunately she was unable to supply us with a Wifi code and every time we try to find someone we encounter a building with the ambience of the Marie Celeste, with ghostly voices in the background.
We've heard from David that he and John have had to go home due to a foot problem. That's a great shame. We enjoyed our week with them. Hopefully when they return there will be less snow and flooding and they will be able to enjoy the GR10 path from Lescun in all its glory.
Thursday 27 June 2013 - Pyrenees GR10 - Day 13 - Stage 10 - Pont d'Enfer to Arrete-la Pierre-St-Martin
Ascent: 1360 metres (Cum: 10,340 metres)
Time taken: 6.0 hrs including 1.5 hrs stops
Weather: blue sky to start with, clouding over by 11 am, becoming the usual thick blanket with cloud base below 1800 metres by lunch time
We took our time over breakfast as Michel needed to dispose of all his other guests from the full hotel before taking us back to Pont d'Enfer. Luckily most of the guests were a group of French cyclists, so dealing with them was no more taxing than dealing with the sole German who didn't understand his bill.
Michel is an endurance fanatic. He has driven buggies in the Dakar Rally many times. He demands respect for that. The hotel was great. It has lots of circular walk and other opportunities, and would be a good place to spend a few nights. It was good to explore the village and listen to the swifts.
The church opposite the gite in Ste-Engrâce, with its wooden roof and stained glass windows, not to mention its expectant red kite, was dark inside. As was the ravine that we soon found ourselves ascending - much like a half hour version of Lud's Church. We'd expected some mud, but today's paths over limestone all seemed well drained.
Remnants of cast iron pipes gave away the route of a 1950s compressed air pipe to La Verna, further up the ravine. A visit to this site of a hydro electric scheme involves negotiating a 600 metre tunnel before reaching a huge cavern. Worth a visit sometime, but not today as Sue had gone far ahead.
Good paths through pleasantly cool woods with giant fungi and a lousewort not in our book, led to a fortuitous pause. Sue spotted a Ghost Orchid. We'd not seen one before. She was a bit chuffed and left a big arrow for Roland and Marie, who we'd just passed. They saw the arrow, but didn't understand it...
Soon we reached the ruined Cabane d'Escuret de Bas, with views back over our route and down to Ste-Engrâce. Pierre's team was ahead and Roland and Marie caught up. Whilst a bit cooler than in the trees, this was a great spot - at last we'd found a wonderful wild flower meadow in which to enjoy our cheese and tomato baguettes.
This afternoon we continued past some delightful wild camping spots to a high col, before descending to Refuge Jeandel, where we have the same bed that we had on our last visit nine years ago.
The alpine flowers hereabouts are wonderful. With the help of a newcomer to the group, Jean-Yves, Sue has tracked down a number of 'new sightings'. Apart from those, familiar snowbells and gentians have appeared, and whilst the vultures are still around, we have moved into an area where choughs are more common.
On cresting the 1760 metre col, a very wintry scene greeted us, together with men carrying skis and snow shoes. Oh dear!
There are fourteen of us here, all on GR10. Jacques and Julian have gone home, and Eric and his nephew Nicholas have continued to Lescun. Everyone else is part of the familiar group.
It has been a very jolly evening despite some uncertainties about tomorrow. The conditions are 'unusual' for the time of year. Some taxis have been ordered. Bizarrely, François is the only one of us with crampons (albeit they are still in their box!).
Today's coup is this Ghost Orchid. It doesn't look much but it's quite rare, and a new 'spot' for us.
June 2013 - Pyrenees GR10 - A Problem
An email yesterday from Robert and Emma, owners of the Hotel du Tourmalet in the village of Bareges, brought home to us the dire straits of Bareges's residents, and some impending practical problems of our own.
Here's an extract:
Hello Martin,
I'm very sorry to have to let you know that unavoidably we will no
longer be able to accept your booking at the Hotel du Tourmalet
following the serious flooding that hit the Pyrenees last week. There
is currently no public access to Bareges, as the Tourmalet road and
many of the bridges in the upper valley have been badly damaged. The hotel itself has suffered some undermining of its foundations, and we are awaiting an expert opinion on whether it can be repaired, or if
the decision will be made to demolish. The important thing is that we are all safe and our family has been reunited, albeit in temporary accommodation.
In terms of your holiday plans, I'm not sure that you will be able
to find accommodation in Bareges, as many of the businesses there
have been affected and the majority of the population has been
evacuated...... I am also not sure whether the standard GR10 route in
the Bareges valley will be accessible, as the bridge across the river to Viey has been destroyed. ...
The state of France has declared the damage to the Bareges valley to be a Natural Catastrophe.
Once again, I am sorry that we have to bring you this bad news.
With our deepest regret
Well, our hearts go out to all in Bareges, including Robert and Emma and their family, who so far as I am aware have spent several years renovating the hotel that may now need to be demolished.
And we thought we'd had bad weather!
So far as I can see, the place we have booked in Cauterets is still taking bookings for the period we are there. This despite us being told that the town is cut off and being supplied by helicopter.
Our two nights after Cauterets - in Luz-St-Sauveur and Bareges - look blighted. We've heard that the Spanish side has also been affected - a Spanish route being a possible option. But we have no Spanish maps or guidebooks with us.
Something of a dilemma. Suggestions as to how to resolve it, perhaps by a route through Spain from before or after Cauterets, to after Bareges, would be most welcome (by email to mobile@topwalks.com).
(Currently we will be charged a lot if we cancel our Cauterets booking.)
The photo was taken shortly after we set off from Hendaye, before the deluge.
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Wednesday 26 June 2013 - Pyrenees GR10 - Day 12 - Stage 9 - Logibar to Pont d'Enfer (staying in Montory)
Ascent: 1120 metres (Cum: 8980 metres)
Time taken: 6.75 hrs including 1 hr stops
Weather: dark and cool under a leaden sky - cloud base 1200 to 1400 metres
The forecast 'blue sky' day didn't transpire.
I've been busy with 'stuff' so here's a dictated version of Sue's diary entry:
Another day without waterproofs, but a cool 12 degrees at the high point, and the thick blanket of cloud lingers. Shorts all day but fleeces on and off. It had been a promising forecast, but we woke to cloud with faint blue patches.
Packed before breakfast, so got away at 8.15, after trying to keep our belongings separate from those of François who had arrived at 6.50 pm last night, and had the fourth bunk in our room. From Logibar, a circular walk of the Holzarté gorge can be done, and this was the path now followed by GR10. The river was close by at the start, a torrent of steely blue water.
Flowers were also good, growing on the limestone crags. An open section led to a superb suspension bridge, built by Italians over the woods and river a long way below.
The track climbed gently and was wet and dark in places. Long slugs were the most prolific wildlife. Stuart, who we'd walked with up to the bridge, soon motored off. At the top of the gorge the path did a switchback over a small bridge, then traversed an open hillside where my (Sue's) camera battery was further drained by the Rampion, Fragrant Orchids, Broomrape, etc.
After a particularly wet section we climbed again before meeting the other path at Plateau d'Ardakhotchia. The cold wind prevented a stop there, but a little further up the hill we had half an hour in the lee of the wind. Here we received an email from Bareges, to be referred to in a separate posting.
From our vantage spot we watched Gilles climb up to us, then we all watched over twenty vultures wheeling about the sky - below there must have been some prey.
The path continued to climb, then joined a track that, again, contoured around the hillside.
(Sue is pictured here. )
The rocky wall next to the track was covered in flowers, notably a few dark pink orchids, a clump of Trumpet Gentians, Butterwort, and Birds-eye Primrose. We got a 'fly past' from vultures just above.
After passing some farm buildings, the path again climbed, past a clump of trees under which much Round-leaved Saxifrage was growing, then up to today's high point, Col d'Anhaou, at 1383 metres.
Lunch was eaten just down the road - there was a good view, apart from it being cool, and blanketed in cloud! (Really! -Ed)
Much of the descent was on small roads and tracks, but grassy shortcuts were available. There were also some sunken green lanes leading down, one coming out at an attractive gite, with several more immaculate gites in the vicinity.
The 'pont' at Pont d'Enfer took us over a very blue river and up a steep lane to meet the road. Due to the GR10 gite at Ste-Engrâce (only 55 minutes walk onwards) being full, we had booked the Auberge de l'Étable at Montory, about 12 miles away by road.
Our spirits rose as we saw a car park for the Kakuetta Gorge. Our intention was to hitch, and a couple who were just returning to their car were duly accosted and agreed to take us as far as the road junction to Logibar as they were staying in St-Jean. Luckily a second car stopped almost immediately. A couple from Paris with their grown up daughter. They were staying on t coast but kindly went out of their way to deliver us to Montory village. Aren't people kind.
Remarkably, after stopping walking at 3 pm we arrived in this small village at 3.30. Being next to the shop, provisions were stocked up, and then we checked in to this Logis establishment. Fortunately, the proprietor, Michel, speaks English so hopefully we can find a solution to the problem of getting back to today's finish point. As usual the washing is done. Now it's time for a beer. (Pictured)
That's five minutes dictating and an hour editing!
Later: it's pleasantly warm down in the foothills in this pleasant village, and we've enjoyed an excellent meal.
That's all - I've had enough and I expect you have too.
Tuesday 25 June 2013 - Pyrenees GR10 - Day 11 - Stage 8 - Col Bagargiak to Logibar
Ascent: 430 metres (Cum: 7860 metres)
Weather: we started in cloud and finished in sunny periods
Although it wasn't raining, my jacket was needed at the start of today's walk, though by the end, after a very gradual transition, t-shirts and a yearning for a beer were the order of the day.
The paths were excellent, with very little tarmac. Even before dispensing with anoraks and gloves, we noticed an 'improvement' in the flora. Butterwort and Round-leaved Saxifrage lined the banks of the narrow lane we set off down, and numerous species were observed during the course of the day. I think we must have moved into a limestone area.
The cloud has hung over nearby peaks all day, so although the local views have been fine (indeed, very pleasant) anything distant has been obscured. But it hasn't rained!
A troupe of 17 of us exchanged places a few times before settling down into a sort of running order. It's maybe like being on an Exodus or Explore trip with an incompetent leader. Eventually we all made it to Logibar, where some of us had booked accommodation and some hadn't. The auberge is full, and everyone seems to be here.
We are sharing an annexe with Stuart, who we found languishing outside the auberge, having been laid up for a day with a stomach bug.
Pierre's party took their time, but I suspect his comment about his mother in law - "she's very noisy today" is good news and means that Chantal is managing well.
John and Paul are delighted with their room, which is a little more private than ours, from which we have had to evict some freeloading campers (they claim they had permission to use our en-suite as a public convenience, but we aren't so sure!)
Today's image shows Pierre leading his team past at our lunch stop beyond Cayolar Mendikotziague, not to be confused with the nearby Col du Middleraynerton.
Later: a half decent half board meal at the auberge has been consumed. Our room for four is now full. The auberge is full. There is a big group of canyoners here as well. François got the last bunk. There are now 17 GR10 people in our little group. As already mentioned, we picked up Stuart this evening - he has spent all day at Logibar with his tummy bug. Other new additions are Gilles from south of Toulon, a refugee from the HRP who is going to Banyuls, Eric and Nicholas from near Paris who started yesterday from Estérençuby (just as well they missed the rain, judging by the look of their kit), and we now know the pair with the huge rucksacks with bits hanging off to be father and son, Jacques and Julian.
Ron (we are going back a few days - we didn't expect to hear of him again) is reported to be a day ahead, with John and David's contingent!
Tomorrow - we will be straying from GR10 on a mini adventure. ..
After yesterday's complaint about the flowers, today has brought a welcome improvement.
This Lesser Butterfly Orchid seen beside this morning's path will no doubt be the first of many of that variety we will admire.
Monday 24 June 2013 - Pyrenees GR10 - Day 10 - Stage 7 - Kaskoleta to Col Bagargiak (Chalets d'Iraty)
Time taken: 7.25 hrs including 1.5 hrs stops
Weather: heavy cloud, slowly clearing but returning later, with a cold NW wind - temperature as low as 4ºC before taking account of wind chill
We expected sunshine today, but woke to heavy black cloud, down to about 1200 metres. At least we got our first day without the need for waterproofs, but three layers of clothing and warm hats and gloves were the order of the day.
The rustic gite provided breakfast from its fridge, with no sign of the guardian, who took our money last night. I think Pierre's team must have made the coffee, and they were thoughtful enough to make sufficient for the four lazy Brits, with Chantal restraining François from scavenging our baguettes!
It wasn't the best breakfast ever, but it served its purpose.
By 8.30 we were strolling up the road, admiring the remnants of the Spring Squill that carpeted the Apennines in April. The flowers on this trip have so far disappointed us, perhaps because of the nature of the soil, perhaps because of the late spring. We have observed quite a bit of Love-in-a-Mist, which is probably appropriate given the conditions.
A man with two paint brushes was tarting up the waymarks at Col d'Ithurramburu. We stopped for a chat whilst he took a break from his red and white daubs. He shook his head when we told him we were heading for Luchon. "Too much snow" he claimed. However, he also expressed reservations about our ability to get to Iraty today. (We arrived here at 4 o'clock.)
We passed Roland and Marie, from Bayonne, who have been quietly in attendance since we started at Hendaye. Like Pierre and Yolaine they are aiming for Banyuls.
John and Paul soon shot past with their day sacks, and we overhauled Pierre's Annecy contingent.
Above Col d'Irau (Sue is pictured near here with a view back towards St Jean) we entered a zone of lovely stone waymarks. Stone circles and the remnants of old buildings were just visible in the mist. Skylarks tried to cheer us with their melodic song. The birds on this trip haven't disappointed - it's disappointing though not to be able to identify more of them. Today I'm sure we saw several different types of lark, but I can't say more than that.
After visiting our highest point to date - the 1466 metre summit of Occabé - we headed down some revolting forestry tracks to Chalet Pedro. The old tracks have recently been gouged by huge tree trunks being dragged down them, leaving horrid muddy grooves.
John and Paul were lunching at the bottom, where Simon, a new member of the cast, made a brief appearance. He's hoping to complete Georges Veron's version of the HRP. We may not see him again as he has continued beyond Iraty to camp. He looks well equipped, apart from his footwear.
Soup - a massive bowl - and hot chocolate went down well at Chalet Pedro, setting us up well for the last two hour ascent to Iraty, where we have a more than adequate room with two bunks and a scary notice about bed bugs. I'm itching at the thought!
Reception is 700 metres back down the road, and they didn't give us any shower tokens. This blow was resolved when Roland and Marie turned up and immediately (seeing Sue's distress) gave us one of their tokens. It gave enough time in the shower for both of us, and Roland and Marie were rewarded with a cup of tea.
Of the thirteen of us who left Kaskoleta this morning, all* are now here and only François was absent from the restaurant at Iraty tonight - the rest of us were all, so far as I could see, tucking in to their €14 randonneurs' meal. Very tasty it was too.
*That's me and Sue, John and Paul, Pierre's team of four, Roland and Marie, François, and two men - possibly father and son - who appeared last night with huge packs, which are a puzzle to the rest of us. It's a pleasure to be on holiday with such a friendly group of people.
Sunday 23 June 2013 - Pyrenees GR10 - Day 9 - Stage 6/7 - St-John-Pied-de-Port to Kaskoleta
Time taken: 5.5 hrs including 1.25 hrs stops
Weather: cloudy with drizzle at times
It has happened before, and it'll happen again. Our rest day ended on a downbeat note when we discovered that Sue's new camera takes a different battery to mine. They look the same, but mine is thicker. So the charger doesn't work with Sue's battery. Neither of us checked. Duh! Efforts to get Sue's charger sent to Lescun had not borne fruit when yesterday's posting was drafted, hence no mention then. Today, Julian Next Door and 'Stay at Home Hazel' (aka 'The Fixer') have come to the rescue. The charger will be posted to us tomorrow. In the meantime we will just have to share my camera when Sue's battery depletes.
This incident brought back memories of our Italian Border Route, when I thought I'd fried Sue's new i-pod in the heat of our first rest day.
We set off today in a light drizzle that came and went all day.
Mainly on country lanes, we steadily rose to Col d'Handiague (587 metres - not high enough for our heads to disturb the clouds). On the way we passed François, who has started her walk today.
Wheeling kites seem to be taking over from the vultures, but the latter were seen circling high above a nearby summit.
Then we descended to Estérençuby, where John and Paul, a pair from Yorkshire who are having their luggage transported every day, were enjoying their lunch. On the way down we had passed Pierre and the lovely Yolaine, whose parents, Joel and Chantal, have now joined the party. Chantal is a real character and spent a while in Leigh - she should keep us entertained this week.
Tea at the auberge in Estérençuby fortified us for the climb to Gite d'etape Kaskoleta, where John and Paul were installed.
The guardian was absent but had left details of the rooms which the pre-booked customers should occupy. Our name was not on the list. Others, also pre-booked, were not on the list. There is room for 14.
'Interesting'.
Meanwhile, Pierre and his family, pre-booked since February and allocated a room, sat outside in their down jackets (at 600 metres in the south of France) enjoying a beer (pictured).
We keep hearing about possible problems further east. Late snow could be blocking our way - that's been clear for some time - but now it seems that some of the places we plan to stay in have been subjected to flooding and may even have been washed away. We'll find out in due course.
Eventually the guardian arrived. "I didn't know what sort of bed you would want" was her excuse for not allocating us a room. We are now ensconced, with François, in an outdoor chalet. It's a bed for the night.
Later: quite a comfy bed, all the better for our finding a heater.
Half board here is a reasonable €32 per person, including as much wine as you can drink. For starters we got a luxurious omelette with mushrooms and chillies, etc. Then sausage and pasta, with mushrooms and a creamy sauce, followed by fruit salad in kirsch, with Basque cheese and cherry jam.
We certainly can't complain! The company was good as well - we ate with John and Paul, and Pierre and his family - all very jolly.
Tomorrow's forecast is fair - will it be our first dry walking day?
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Try is the second single to be released from Pink’s 2012 album, The Truth About Love. The song was originally sung by GoNorthToGoSouth, a band fronted by Ben West and Michael Busbee.
The song received mostly positive reviews from music critics, who praised its production. Andrew Hampp of Billboard commented “With a melody reminiscent of ‘Whataya Want from Me,’ the 2009 hit she penned for Adam Lambert, the single already pairs well sonically with Pink’s catalog. Josh Langhoff of PopMatters called it “an ode to romantic persistence over crisp ‘Hysteria’ guitars.” John Murphy of musicOMH wrote that ‘Try’ “demonstrates that she has a voice that not enough people give her credit for. For want of a better phrase, it’s a full-on power ballad, with yet more references to love going wrong, and the sort of thing you can imagine someone like Kelly Clarkson pulling off in her sleep.” Amy Sciarretto of Pop Crush also saw similarities with Clarkson, writing, “It’s a belter with a soulful voice, and she sounds like Kelly Clarkson with this song. The midtempo track finds Pink mourning, lamenting and musing on a relationship that is breaking down at its core. It hurts, but this song is a salve over the wound.”
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