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Is Victoria spending 10 times more on new prisons than on new public housing?
By Tiffanie Turnbull and James Lane
“This budget is spending almost 10 times more on new prisons than it is on new public housing."
Victorian Greens leader Samantha Ratnam. June 3, 2019.
Victorian Greens leader Samantha Ratnam has criticised the state government for announcing more new funding in the budget for prisons than public housing while 80,000 Victorians sit on waiting lists.
AAP FactCheck examined Ms Ratnam’s claim that prisons are to receive almost 10 times more additional funding than public housing.
A spokesperson for Ms Ratnam says her claim was based on figures from Treasurer Tim Pallas’ budget speech, and clarified that the Greens leader was referring to new promises of funding in the two areas of prisons and public housing.
Victoria's growing prison population is a key political issue. In June last year Victoria had 7666 prisoners, a seven per cent increase from 2017 - the second largest rise behind NSW, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The state also has Australia’s third largest adult prisoner population at 18 per cent and 50 per cent (3846 prisoners) of Victoria’s inmates have previously been imprisoned under sentence. [2]
For prison spending Victoria is above the national average of $109,821 and the fourth-most expensive prison system in the OECD, according to the Institute for Public Affairs. Victoria spends $131,400 per prisoner each year with only Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands spending more on each inmate, data from 2015 showed. [3]
A shortage of public housing has become a national policy issue. Last year a report by the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute found decades of inadequate investment has left Australia a shortfall of 433,000 social houses and units with 36,000 needed yearly over the next two decades to meet the future need. [4]
A Productivity Commission report in 2018 found the Victorian government spent an annual $82 per person on social housing, less than half the national average. As of June 2018 there were 82,500 people on the state's public housing list, which was growing by 500 names each month. The report from the Victorian parliament's Legal and Social Issues Committee report noted that more than 60 per cent of the state's public housing was more than 30 years old, with around 20 per cent of stock more than 50 years old. [5] [6]
In 2019-20 state budget the Andrews Labor government allocated $1.8 billion extra funds to build and upgrade Victoria’s prison facilities, a commitment that Mr Pallas announced in his budget speech on May 27. In the same speech, Mr Pallas also committed $209 million more to build 1000 new public housing properties. [7]
Based on these numbers, the Victorian government has announced 8.6 times more fresh funding for prisons than public housing.
AAP FactCheck concludes Ms Ratnam’s claim the Victorian budget includes 10 times more new spending for prisons than public housing is mostly true, however she has rounded the figure of 8.6 up to 10 rather than nine.
Mostly True - Mostly accurate, but there is a minor error or problem.
The References
1. ‘Victoria criticised for $2bn prison spend while neglecting social housing’. by Luke Henriques-Gomes. The Guardian. June 3, 2019: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jun/03/victoria-criticised-for-2bn-prison-spend-while-neglecting-social-housing
2. ‘4517.0 - Prisoners in Australia, 2018. Prisoner Characteristics Australia’. Australian Bureau of Statistics. December 6, 2018: https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/by%20Subject/4517.0~2018~Main%20Features~Victoria~22
3. ‘Victoria's 'madhouse' prisons are expensive, but are they making the state more dangerous?’, by Sarah Farnsworth. ABC. November 5, 2018: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-05/victoria-prison-system-costly-crowded/10454444
4. ‘Social housing needs to treble over the next 20 years through direct investment’. Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute. November 15, 2018: https://www.ahuri.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/29053/AHURI-MEDIA-RELEASE-Social-housing-needs-to-treble-over-the-next-20-year-through-direct-investment-15-November-2018.pdf
5. A report by the Productivity Commission found the state government spends an annual $82 per Victorian on social housing, less than half the national average. https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/lack-of-social-housing-a-blot-on-victoria-20190129-p50ube.html
6.‘Inquiry into the Public Housing Renewal Program’. Parliament of Victoria. June 2018: https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/images/stories/committees/SCLSI/Public_Housing_Renewal_Program/LSIC_58-11_PHRP_Text_WEB.pdf
7. ‘Victorian Budget 19/20 - Treasurer’s Speech’ (Pages 10 & 11). Victorian Government. May 27, 2019: https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/budgetfiles201920.budget.vic.gov.au/2019-20+State+Budget+-+Treasurer's+Speech.pdf
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10 Facts about Confederation Bridge
Sunday, February 28th 2016. | Buildings
If you are interested to know the bridge which connects Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick, Canada, look at facts about Confederation Bridge. In the past, the bridge was often called as Fixed Link by the occupants who lived in Prince Edward Island. The bridge was constructed from October 1993 until Mat 1997. On 31st, May 1997. The bridge was officially opened. It has the length at 12.9 km. The construction took the cost at C$1.3 billion. Get other facts about Confederation Bridge below:
Facts about Confederation Bridge 1: the toll bridge
Confederation Bridge has two lanes of toll. At Route 16, you can the Trans-Canada Highway takes the people to Cape Jourimain, New Brunswick. At Route 1, it takes you to Borden-Carleton, Prince Edward Island.
Facts about Confederation Bridge 2: the design
Confederation Bridge is made with the structure of post tension concrete box girder. It is included as a type of multi span beam bridge.
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Facts about Confederation Bridge 3: the curved bridge
The height of the curved bridge above the water elevation is around 131 feet or 40 m. Due to the ship traffic, it is made with the navigation span at 197 feet to 60 meter. Check Bridges facts here.
Facts about Confederation Bridge 4: the piers
There are 62 piers which hold Confederation Bridge. The gap of 44 primary piers in the bridge is 820 feet or 250 metres. The width of the bridge is 36 feet or 11 meter.
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Facts about Confederation Bridge 5: the speed limit
If you are interested to cross the bridge, make sure that you have already known the speed limit. You should never ride the vehicle more than 50 miles per hour or 80 km per hour. To cross the bridge, it will take 12 minutes.
Facts about Confederation Bridge 6: the toll
When you leave Prince Edward Island, you have to play the toll. In August 2015, the rate of the toll was C$46.00 for the two-axle automobile. If you ride motorcycle, you have to pay C$18.50.
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Facts about Confederation Bridge 7: the cyclists and pedestrians
You can cross Confederation Bridge if you take motorcycle or automobile. If you are a cyclist or pedestrian, you cannot cross it. However, you can use the shuttle service.
Facts about Confederation Bridge 8: the shuttle service
The shuttle service was free before 2006. Now it charges the cyclist C$8.75 and pedestrian C$4.25 when he or she leaves Prince Edward Island.
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Facts about Confederation Bridge 9: the official opening
On 31st May 1997, Confederation Bridge was officially opened. At 5:00 pm, the first traffic crossing was conducted.
Facts about Confederation Bridge 10: the Bridge Walk
During the Bridge Walk, there were around 75,000 people who participated in the opening of the bridge. Get facts about Brooklyn Bridge here.
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SPU Shooting Hero Talks About God’s Grace and Strength to Heal From This Tragedy for All
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The following is a statement from Jon Meis, the Seattle Pacific University student involved in the campus shooting on June 5. Jon is requesting privacy and will not speak to the media at this time:
To my brothers and sisters at Seattle Pacific University, and my brothers and sisters in Christ throughout the nation and the world, words cannot come close to expressing the tragedy that occurred this past week on our campus. Like everyone else, I would hear of these horrible events on the news, but go home knowing that it could never happen to us. On Thursday, my life changed. I was thrown into a life and death situation, and through God’s grace I was able to stop the attacker and walk away unharmed. As I try to return to a normal life in the aftermath of this horrible event, I pray above all things for strength for the victims and their families. While my experience left me in physical shock, I know that many people are dealing with much greater grief than I have experienced, and in honesty I probably would not be able to handle myself right now if I had personally known the victims.
I know that I am being hailed as a hero, and as many people have suggested I find this hard to accept. I am indeed a quiet and private individual; while I have imagined what it would be like to save a life I never believed I would be put in such a situation. It touches me truly and deeply to read online that parents are telling their children about me and telling them that real heroes do exist.
However, what I find most difficult about this situation is the devastating reality that a hero cannot come without tragedy. In the midst of this attention, we cannot ignore that a life was taken from us, ruthlessly and without justification or cause. Others were badly injured, and many more will carry this event with them the rest of their lives. Nonetheless, I would encourage that hate be met with love. When I came face to face with the attacker, God gave me the eyes to see that he was not a faceless monster, but a very sad and troubled young man. While I cannot at this time find it within me to forgive his crime, I truly desire that he will find the grace of God and the forgiveness of our community.
I would like to truly thank the responders who secured the building and the medical staff who looked after myself and those who were injured. After being in this situation myself, it is even harder to imagine what it would be like to have a job where one’s life is willingly put on the line every day. To our police, emergency responders, and armed forces, you have my greatest respect.
I am overwhelmed with the incredible generosity that has been showered upon me. It has been deeply touching to read the comments online and realize that my actions have had such a strikingly widespread effect. Moving forward, I am strongly requesting that any future donations be given to the victims through Seattle Pacific University.
I am grateful for the prayers and support coming from our home city and afar. In these next few days, weeks, and months, please continue to pray for everyone in the Seattle Pacific community. We serve a truly awesome God and I firmly believe that it is through Him alone that we will find the strength to heal from this tragedy.
Jon Meis
Student, Seattle Pacific University
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Everything That’s Wrong With American Horror Story: Hotel As Told By Whitney
Posted in As Told By A Fangirl by Whitney Weldon
In a truly shocking turn of events, Lady Gaga is not the thing that’s ruining American Horror Story this season. Over the last four years, AHS has pushed the boundaries of what is, or should be, acceptable for network TV. Finally, with the new season, Ryan Murphy and Co. might have gone too far.
For the record, I don’t think that Horror Story is actually scary. It’s been disturbing, and gross, and unsettling, and (on occasion) funny and touching. Not really scary, though. The one time it ever came close was an amazing scene in Asylum, when Lana Winters (Sarah Paulson) escapes from Briarcliff Manor with the help of seemingly decent psychologist Oliver Thredson, only to find that she is no safer outside than inside. The look of confusion, horror, and bitter disappointment on her face as she slowly realizes that Oliver (Zachary Quinto) is anything but her salvation is by far the best moment in the show’s notable history.
But then, the reason that moment landed so well was because we cared about what happened to Lana. The thing that differentiates seasons like Asylum and Coven (easily the strongest of the anthology’s run) is that they give us characters with whom we can fall in love, so we actually care when they are subjected to horrors, supernatural and man-made. I don’t think that these seasons were any less shocking or horrifying, they simply also provided us with a soft place to land.
Which brings me to Hotel. In only a few episodes, I’ve seen a dozen things that make me physically ill and, if you know me, that’s saying something. They are just vile enough that I won’t even mention them here. Suffice to say, while this show hasn’t ever been for the faint of heart, this new season might not be for anyone who didn’t spend their childhood torturing small animals.
Unlike previous (and much better) seasons, there’s unfortunately very little for audience to latch onto or identify with while they try to hold down their lunch. The closest thing we get to a hero is John Lowe (Wes Bentley) a police detective who (surprise!) struggles with alcohol dependence, a troubled home life, and a dark past. Minimal points for originality.
There’s also, so far, very little in the way of a story. There have been several violent murders, scenes of sexual torture, abject cruelty, but not much in the way of a discernible plot. I guess there’s a murderer? And some vampires? Who knows? Clearly not the writers.
Hotel is a perfect example of what can happen when a show can’t decide what’s more important: continuing to please their increasingly less avid fan base, or flipping a middle finger to network censorship.
-Whitney Weldon
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My 24 Hour Emmy Binge or My Slip in Sanity
Posted in Dinner and a Show, Fangirly Exposed!, Get with the Program, Live Texting, TV by Ellen Lloyd
This weekend I did something a little crazy. Ok, a lottle crazy. In a recent issue of Entertainment Weekly there was an article written by Marc Snetiker on how to best prepare for the Emmys next Monday. Well, how to best prepare for the Emmys in only 24 hours and because I’m a weirdo, my first thought was, “I could do this. I should do this. I’m GOING to do this.” I honestly don’t watch a lot of the Emmy shows, especially in the Drama category, so I saw this as the perfect opportunity to get myself edumacated.
I prepared by making sure I had all of the recommended episodes or at least access to them and by placing an order with Amazon Fresh to make sure I had a cavalcade of themed snacks. As you should do for any binge.
Oh, and I live-tweeted the whole thing. And it turns out you can tweet a lot in 24 hours.
In the words of Barney Stinson, "Challenge accepted." @EW pic.twitter.com/SdnI4rVO52
— Ellen Lloyd (@eel8) August 16, 2014
First show, first snack.
First up, Orange (Juice) is the New Black (Cherry Greek Yogurt). #24hourEmmyBinge @EW pic.twitter.com/Tpon55ifMu
For Orange is the New Black, I watched “Lesbian Request Denied” and I have to say this is one of the viewings that made me want to watch more.
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Moon has few memories of his people and in his own head he's more groundling than Raksuran. Unfortunately, Raksuran society is complex and filled with traps for the unwary, and Moon's place in it seems particularly difficult. He has to face the possibility that he's too different, that he's been alone too long, and that he'll never fit in. He survived on his own by instinctive paranoia, distrust, and deception, but he has to give up those hard-learned lessons if he wants to stay with his new family. Plus, the ancestral home the court has traveled to isn't the safe haven they hoped for.
I had a great time writing these books, trying to get back to that sense of wonder I had as a kid, reading about adventures in strange fantasy worlds. I hope you enjoy this excerpt...
EXCERPT — Chapter Seven from The Serpent Sea:
At dawn, Song and Floret left to carry the news to the colony tree, and Moon and the others flew west, following the mentors’ directions.
It took them seven days to reach the edge of the forest, pushing the warriors as hard as they could. Jade and Moon took turns carrying Flower, which let Stone fly ahead to scout their route and find game so they could stay well fed, while Balm and Vine left markers in the treetops so whoever Pearl sent could follow them. It was Jade’s opinion that Pearl was bound to send someone, since she wouldn’t trust them to do this right. Moon just hoped they wouldn’t need the help.
It wasn’t as easy as flying over open country, and they had two days of rain, but food was plentiful and finding shelter in the suspended forest was never difficult. The long flights left them all exhausted but, as Moon had discovered on the other lengthy journeys he had taken with Raksura, it left no one with the energy to argue. When they stopped to eat and rest, Stone talked about his travels, and Chime told stories from the mentors’ histories. Flower must have had stories too, but she was always too tired to talk. Moon knew from experience that being carried wasn’t easy or comfortable, even for Arbora.
They all avoided the subject of what they would do if their quest failed.
Before they had left Emerald Twilight, Flower and one of the other court’s mentors had shown them a mountain-thorn seed. It was a dead one, separated from the husk and used only to show young Raksura what they looked like, but Flower had explained that their seed would be very similar. It was about the size of a melon, a light brown color, with a hard ribbed shell like a nut.
Moon had lifted it, feeling the light weight. He could tell this one was dead; it felt empty on the inside, the rind dried away to nothing. He said, “How long can our seed stay disconnected from the tree before it dies?”
Chime and the other warriors had stared at him in horror. Apparently none of them had thought of that. Always more practical, Jade answered calmly, “I asked Stone that and he said he didn’t know.”
The Emerald Twilight mentor, a withered gray-white Arbora who looked older than the mountain-thorn, took the seed back from Moon and said ruefully, “No one knows. This has never happened before.”
The mentors had also been able to tell Flower the things that might need to be done to the seed to get it to attach to the tree again, once they found it. If they found it. It was all just speculation, since in the annals of seed-lore, this was a unique problem. But Flower had had Chime copy it all down, and sent it back to the court with Song and Floret.
Late afternoon of the seventh day, the forest ended abruptly, giving way to a field of lush green grass dotted with white and gold flowers, and then a vast blue body of water, stretching forever.
Moon landed on the shore and folded his wings. A light breeze came off the water, but he couldn’t smell salt. A short strip of sandy beach dropped away abruptly into the shallows, which were thick with reeds, cattails, and blue and purple lilies, their pads a good couple of paces across. Insects hummed and frogs sang. He stepped down to where the waves lapped the sand and crouched, scooping up a handful of water to make certain. It tasted fresh, so this could be anything from a large lake to a sweetwater sea. He stood and looked up and down the shore. The land curved out in a great arc, and there was no sign of any groundling inhabitants.
The others landed a little further up the bank, and Jade set Flower on her feet. Stone circled twice overheard, then dropped down to light near the others and shift to groundling. Moon joined the group, the grass releasing a sweet fragrance as his claws pressed it down.
Stone stretched, then winced and rubbed his neck. “I’ll scout for the island, the rest of you wait here.”
That was the only option. Flying over water was always problematic. Raksura could only go so far without rest and food, and they couldn’t get real rest without stopping to shift to groundling. And it was one thing to fly out over the shallow Yellow Sea, knowing the direction of the islands and that they lay less than a day’s flight for a warrior. It was another to fly out over an unknown body of water. But Stone had easily three times the range of even a young consort like Moon.
“You mean to start right away?” Jade looked out over the water. “You should rest and leave in the morning.”
Stone gave her a glare that Moon knew well. “I’m not wasting most of a day.”
“You should at least eat,” Moon told him. “It’s a bigger waste if you fall out of the sky and drown.”
This had the effect of transferring the glare to Moon. And Stone must be in a worse mood than it seemed, because he growled, a low rumble of threat.
Everyone twitched in nervous reaction, except for Moon, who was unimpressed, Jade, whose expression turned sardonic, and Flower, who yawned.
Stone was usually acerbic, but he didn’t growl often, especially in his groundling form. He had done a good job of hiding his impatience so far, but it was clear he hadn’t forgotten that it was his doing the court had come back to the colony tree. Moon figured that if someone was going to get slapped unconscious, it might as well be him. He said, “Good, let’s fight. That’ll save time too.”
Stone controlled a hiss, his jaw set. Then he flung his arms in the air. “Fine! Then get off your asses and hunt!”
As Stone stomped away, Chime, Balm, and Vine scattered toward the forest. “Hah,” Flower commented, and started back up the bank, wading through the tall grass.
Jade gave Moon a look, lifting a brow. He turned to stare out over the sea to avoid her gaze. Up to this point, the journey had been fairly straightforward. Now if the map was wrong, if they couldn’t find the island, they would have to turn around and go back to Indigo Cloud. And then figure out where to look for a new colony.
They made a camp on one of the broad lower branches of a small mountain-tree at the edge of the forest, only about a hundred or so paces above the ground. Jade kept watch over Flower and Stone while they napped, and Balm and Vine went hunting. Chime dug in the shallows, looking for roots, and found some sand melons and big white clams, while Moon wandered along the shore and made sure nothing tried to eat him.
Balm and Vine came back shortly with two hoppers out of a herd further back in the forest, one for Stone and one for the rest of them to share. After they had cleaned up in the lake, Balm flew back up to the tree to talk to Jade. Vine stayed on the beach, and Moon took the opportunity to ask him, “Why are you so anxious to help Jade now?”
“Do I look anxious?” Vine said, cleaning his claws in the grass at the water’s edge.
Moon didn’t react to the attempt at a joke, and Vine said, reluctantly, “I’m older than River, I’m bigger than River, and he doesn’t like me. And I’m not thrilled about having to defer to him. And that’s how it’s going to be, until Pearl gets tired of him.” He shrugged his spines. “It’s different for Floret. No male warrior is going to order the female warriors around. They’re too big, and they stick together.”
It had the ring of truth. Moon said, “So you think you’ll do better with Jade?”
Vine correctly interpreted the undertone of that question. “I think I don’t have to put up with River telling me what to do. Jade’s always been close to Balm; she was never interested in male warriors. And now you’re here, I’m guessing no male warrior is going to have much chance with her.”
Vine had that part right. Moon still didn’t entirely trust him, though his motives made sense.
After they ate, Stone said only, “Don’t wait up,” before he shifted and set off across the water.
They watched from the branch, through the screen of leaves, until Stone’s outline dwindled in the distance. Moon let out his breath, frustrated. He couldn’t just sit here and wait.
It was a good day for flying, the bright blue sky clear except for a few high clouds. He turned to Jade. “We could scout along the shoreline, maybe find some sign that groundlings were here.”
It was a relief that Jade didn’t ask why they should bother, or what good it would do if they did find evidence of groundlings, because Moon couldn’t answer either one of those questions. She looked at the warriors inquiringly. “Well? Scout or rest?”
“I’ll scout,” Balm said, sitting forward. She looked anxious for something to do as well.
Chime nodded. Vine said, “I’ll go with Balm.”
“No.” Jade looked down the shoreline. She was in her Arbora form, and her shorter mane of spines trembled as she tasted the air. “I’ll go with Balm. Vine will stay here with Flower.”
Vine gasped at the unfairness. “Why me?”
Jade twitched her tail, but she sounded more amused than angry. “Because I said so.”
It’s a test, Moon thought. Another test. Jade must have also noticed that Vine seemed to be changing his allegiance from Pearl to her. It would be good if he did; Jade could use another male warrior, especially an experienced adult like Vine.
Vine grumbled and made it clear he was being ill-used, but didn’t make any real protest. Jade and Balm set off to the south, and Moon and Chime headed north.
Moon flew along the curve of the shore, maintaining an easy pace so Chime could keep up with him. The fields between the forest and the beach were thick with grass and flowers, empty except for an occasional herd of grasseaters. Big and slow-moving, their backs were protected by a heavy green shell, so that only their little heads and stumpy feet were visible. Not a very good prospect for prey if they had to stay here much longer.
Moon wanted to get a good look at the shoreline, though he wasn’t certain what he was looking for. A groundling town with a harbor would be nice, a place where people who came across the sea to explore the forest might land their boats.
To his surprise, it wasn’t long before he found it, or what was left of it.
First he spotted stone pilings standing in the shallow water, making a rough square shape. He tilted his wings, gliding downward for a closer view. It looked like the remains of a dock or a platform that had been built out from the shore. If there were any remnants left on the land, they were hidden under the grass.
The further they went, the more pilings they found, tracing the outlines of more elaborate structures. Soon they were flying over the scattered foundations of a whole maze of buildings, long docks, and causeways. Moon cupped his wings and dropped down to land on a broken pillar more than three paces across. The stone was chipped and coated with moss. Tiny blue fish darted in the water just below. Chime managed to land on another piling nearby and flailed his wings for balance. “This was a huge city,” Chime called.
Moon turned to look down the shore. He had been so focused on what was below them, he hadn’t noticed what was ahead. “Looks like some of it’s still there.” Some distance down the shoreline, he could just make out structures, round beehive shapes, standing high above the water. They might be a part of the ruined city still standing, or other inhabitants had taken over the old pilings for their own use.
“What?” Chime turned, his spines lifted as he spotted the distant shapes. “Huh. I wonder if they know anything about the groundlings out in the sea.”
“We can ask,” Moon said.
As they drew near the beehive city, they turned away from the shore, into the forest. Flying under the cover of the tree canopy, they landed on a branch at the edge of the open beach.
From here, Moon saw the buildings were made of braided wood, some hundreds of paces tall. They stood on a wooden grid built out over the water, using the old pilings as foundations. A fleet of light woven boats were tied up under the grid, but the inhabitants seemed to be farmers rather than fishers. Vines grew up out of the water, trained to wind up wooden racks along the sides of the walkways, until some of the hives looked as if they were growing out of a miniature forest. He could see the inhabitants, too, paddling their boats, crossing the catwalks between the upper levels of the hives, picking some sort of fruit or pods off the vines. They were Kek, just like the ones who lived under the mountaintree roots.
“This is no help,” Chime said, disappointed. “They couldn’t be the groundlings who came to our tree. The forest Kek would have known what they were.”
He was right. It was vaguely possible that the forest Kek had told them an elaborate lie to cover up the actions of their seashore-dwelling cousins, but this was still far from where the seed was supposed to be. And these Kek looked a little bigger, but were still no match for the bones of the dead thieves. “Maybe they saw something. It’s worth asking.”
It was worth asking, but Moon still felt strange flying into a groundling settlement, even a Kek settlement at the edge of the Raksuran Reaches. He circled over the area nearest the shore first, Chime following his lead, just to see what the reaction would be.
The Kek didn’t seem frightened or angry at the sight of two Raksura in the air. They came out of the vine racks and the hives to look up, point and call to each other.
Bracing himself, Moon circled down toward an open section of platform and cupped his wings to land. The wood creaked as his weight settled on it; it was surprisingly spongy underfoot. Moon folded his wings to make room as Chime dropped down behind him. The Kek gathered around the edge of the platform and crowded the catwalks above. They kept their distance but still didn’t seem afraid.
One Kek came toward them. Like the old leader in the forest, he had stringy white growths on his arms and a squarish head. In Raksuran, he said, hopefully, “Trade?”
Moon wished he had thought of that, but he had no idea what the Kek would want. He countered, “No. Talk?”
A little taken aback, the Kek looked from Moon to Chime. “Talk,yes?”
Chime tugged on one of Moon’s spines and whispered, “Shift.”
I hate this part. Moon was never going to get over feeling vulnerable in front of a large crowd of groundlings who knew what he was, not even the Golden Islanders or the Kek. Chime was still tugging. Moon shook off his grip and shifted to his groundling form. The cool wind off the water pulled at his shirt, and the bright sun, which he had barely felt on his scales, warmed the back of his neck.
Chime followed suit, and the watching Kek murmured to each other in what sounded like approval.
The leader gestured for them to follow and led them further into the city, between the high wooden hives. The heavy greenery grew everywhere, hanging from racks overhead, climbing the hive walls. The place smelled of sweet green plants and moss, combined with the clean acrid scent that came from the Kek themselves.
On the brief walk they mutually managed to establish that the leader was called Khitah, and they were called Moon and Chime. Presumably the Raksura this city normally traded with could speak Kek, because Khitah had as much trouble speaking Raksuran as the forest Kek, and didn’t know any other groundling languages. Listening to him, Moon thought it was more the way the Kek’s mouth and throat were constructed; Khitah seemed to know far more Raksuran words than he could manage to say.
Khitah led them under one of the walkways bridging two of the hives and stopped to gesture up at it. Mounted along the arch of the bridge were several wooden plaques. Carved of warm-toned wood, they depicted views of the beehive city, with Kek paddling boats and harvesting their plants. It was clearly Arbora work.
Moon nodded, trying to look appreciative. Khitah seemed pleased.
Keeping his voice low, Chime said, “We should have brought them a gift.”
Exasperated, Moon asked him, “Did you know we were coming? Because I didn’t.”
“I’m just saying that next time we should—”
Moon turned to Khitah. “We want to ask about other people who live out on the sea. Islands? That way?” He pointed out toward the water, roughly in the direction the mentors thought the seed lay.
“Islands. People,” Khitah agreed, and made an expansive gesture, indicating most of the sea.
“Good. But what about that way?” Moon pointed again.
Khitah considered it, as the breeze stirred the feathery growths on his arms and head. He waggled his stick-like fingers in what seemed to be the Kek equivalent of a shrug.
“Maybe they just don’t know,” Chime said, a little frustrated. “Those round boats couldn’t make it very far out into the water.”
“But they trade.” Moon had forced himself to shift in front of a strange groundling settlement with only Chime for company, and he was unwilling to give up so soon. “They have to see who travels back and forth here.”
Maybe some of those words struck a bell for Khitah, because he turned back to the passage and motioned them to follow again.
They wound their way further into the city, through the green shadows of the plant racks and into the bottom level of one of the hives. Overhead, Kek moved on the reed floors, called to each other in their
soft voices, peered curiously down at the visitors.
They went down a ramp, then came out again to a dock area open to the sea. Partly sheltered from above by woven reed canopies, it had small wooden piers snaking out into the lapping water. Round Kek boats were tied up along most of the piers, except for one. Next to it was a large leafless tree, apparently growing up out of the water.
Not a tree, a boat, Moon realized, moving down the dock to get a closer look. It was round, the gray branches arching up from a thick mossy mat to form a bowl-shape. Something sat in the center, its form obscured by the branches.
Khitah pointed emphatically toward the strange boat. “Water traveler,” he said. “Go long way. Know much.” Moon started to step down onto the pier, but Khitah put a hand on his arm. His grip was light, like being caught by dry brush. He stared hard at Moon and said, “Careful.”
Moon nodded. The warning just confirmed his suspicion. “I will.”
“Why?” Chime squinted to get a better look at the shadowy shape inside the branches. “It’s just a groundling in a boat… isn’t it?”
“No. Stay here with Khitah.” Moon stepped down onto the pier, the reeds creaking under his weight, and moved toward the water traveler.
Drawing closer, he could see root-like tendrils floating in the water, growing out from the underside of the mat. The gray branches looked less like wood and more like gnarled horn. They were connected to the being that sat in the center, growing out of its arms, legs, back, chest. It wasn’t a groundling sitting in a boat; it was a waterling, and it was the boat.
A voice said, “Now what’s this?” It spoke Altanic, low and sibilant. Something about it made the back of Moon’s neck itch. The scent wafting toward him had a rank edge to it, odd for a water being of any kind. It was a predator’s scent. “A curious groundling come to talk to old Nobent?”
“You could say that.” Moon crouched on the pier, so his head was about even with Nobent’s. It gave him a better view of the water traveler’s face. It looked a little like a male groundling, his skin gnarled and gray like the horn structures growing out of his body. There were chips of the stuff above his eyes, down his cheeks, studding the curve of his skull. It wasn’t that the growths or the gray coloring were particularly repellent. Stone was gray and a little gnarled too, though not to this extent. But this creature radiated menace. “I need to know if there are any groundlings living out on the sea, that might travel to this shore.”
Nobent leaned forward. Out of the corner of his eye, Moon saw the outer branches of the boat stir slightly. Nobent smiled, deliberately revealing a toothless mouth. If he was meant to live like this, floating atop the sea, then there might be a second mouth in the bottom of the mossy-covered base that supported his upper limbs. Top one for talking, lower one for eating, Moon thought. It wasn’t the oddest thing he had seen. The branches looked stiff, but he bet they could whip around, seize prey, and snatch it under water. Obviously the Kek didn’t fear the creature, but there was hardly any meat on their light bones. It said, “Old Nobent doesn’t hear well. Come closer.”
Oh please, Moon thought. “Does that really work?”
Nobent hesitated, nonplussed, and something made Moon think that “Old Nobent” wasn’t so old. Nobent’s lips curled in derision. “You’re not scared of old Nobent? Nobent isn’t scary.”
Nobent was, however, annoyingly single-minded. This could go on forever. Moon shifted, flared his spines, snapped his wings out so they were half-unfurled. “I am.”
With a startled snarl, Nobent jerked back. His whole structure rocked and splashed water up onto the pier. Unimpressed, Moon flicked droplets off his claws. He said, mildly, “I’m not hungry yet.”
Nobent crouched, tugged his branches in tightly and made a protective cage around himself. “What do you want?”
“You know what I want. Tell me about groundlings who live out on the sea. Are there islands out there? Cities, traders? Do they come to this shore?”
Nobent eased forward, the fear in his expression turning into crafty greed. “Are you Fell? I’ve heard of Fell. You want the sea-goers? I’ll help.”
Moon controlled the urge to leap forward and rip Nobent’s head off. The fear of Fell had dogged him most of his life. All Fell were shapeshifters, all had black scales, and Fell rulers strongly resembled Raksuran consorts. It didn’t help that once Moon had thought he might be a Fell, for a brief and self-destructive time that he was still paying for, all these turns later. His voice tight, he said, “If I were a Fell, I’d take your help and eat you anyway. Tell me about the sea-goers.”
Nobent settled into his mossy bed and his branches relaxed a little. “The sea-goers don’t come here. They’re afraid of the forest.” With an air of injured dignity, he volunteered, “The Kek trade their rushes and edilvine to me, and I trade it to the sea-goers.”
That wasn’t helpful, though it explained why the Kek didn’t know much about what lay further out to sea. And if the sea-goers were afraid of the forest Reaches, it might be because they knew about the Raksuran colonies. “But other groundlings come to this shore, other traders?”
“Maybe.” Nobent seemed uninterested, and it was the first time in the conversation that Moon felt the waterling was being honest. “Not in a long time. There’s nothing here for them.”
“What about the far side of the sea? Do groundlings live there?”
“Probably.” Nobent leaned forward, eyes widening. “You want the seagoers.”
“Do they live in that direction?” Moon pointed with the tip of his right wing.
“Sometimes. They move around.” Nobent was more interested in his own questions. “What do you want them for? Nobent can help you, whatever you want to do to them.”
Moon couldn’t imagine what form Nobent’s “help” would take, and he didn’t want to. He countered with, “What do you trade for from the sea-goers?”
For some reason, that one made Nobent more cagey than ever. Moon asked more questions about the sea-goers, about what they looked like, why they moved around. Nobent’s answers were so cryptic it quickly became obvious that he had no intention of imparting the information. Moon decided to let it go, at least for now. He had found out what he really needed to know: there were groundlings living out on the sea at the point where the mentors’ map said the seed lay. Nobent couldn’t travel very fast, and now that Moon had his scent, he would be easy to track down again.
He stood, abruptly enough that Nobent sloshed backward again. With a somewhat nervous sneer, Nobent said, “You’re leaving? Too bad.”
“It’s getting late, and I’m hungry.” Moon cocked his head, letting the meaning sink in. He didn’t usually threaten to eat people, but he was having difficulty classifying Nobent as “people.” “I might be back.”
He walked up the pier to rejoin Khitah and Chime. “Good?” Khitah asked.
“Good,” Moon told him. “Thank you.”
They started back into the green shadows and sweet scents of the Kek city, a relief after the miasma that hung over the water traveler. Chime looked back over his shoulder, frowning. “That was odd. What did it tell you?”
“Not much.” Moon was certain Nobent had been lying, or obfuscating, for some reason. But it was some confirmation that they were in the right place, that the map hadn’t led them astray. “We’ll have to see what Stone finds.”
It was dusk by the time they returned to the camp on the tree branch and found that Jade and Balm were already back. They had found ruins along the shore too, but no Kek and no evidence of recent groundling habitation. Vine reported that his afternoon had been uneventful. “Flower slept the whole time,” he said. “I think she needed the rest.”
Flower, fidgeting around as if having trouble finding a comfortable spot on the branch, gave him an irritable glare. “No one cares what you think,” she told him.
Vine said wryly, “I noticed that.”
Chime handed her a pack to lean against. “Are you all right?”
She hissed at him. “I’m fine.”
No one was hungry enough to hunt again yet, so there was nothing to do but wait for Stone. The branch was more than wide enough for them all to sprawl on comfortably, and through the leaves they had a good view of the seashore. During the afternoon, Vine and Flower had built a little hearth: one layer of flat, water-smoothed rocks to insulate the wood, and a second smaller layer that Flower had spelled for heat, so she could warm water for tea.
The air was fragrant in the gathering twilight, scented with the flowers of the field and the leaves of their tree. The nightbirds and treelings and insects sang and hummed, and Moon tried to listen to the others talk and not be rabidly impatient for Stone to appear.
After darkness settled over the shore, Balm took the watch and they tried to sleep. Moon lay with his head pillowed on Jade’s stomach, wide awake. He didn’t realize he was tapping his fingers on his chest until her hand closed over his. She said softly, “It’s not a long flight for Stone.”
“I know.” He made his hand relax. “Still.”
Nearby, Chime said, “Pearl will know by now. I wonder… I mean, what will she do? Besides send someone after us.”
Jade snorted, quietly. “I think we know what she’ll do.”
Just past Chime, Vine groaned.
Moon finally dozed off at some point, only to wake abruptly some time later, when someone said, “He’s back!”
Moon sat up and startled Jade awake. It was still dark but he could tell from the quality of the air that it wasn’t long before dawn. Vine had taken Balm’s place at watch and Moon scrambled forward to his side.
A darker shape hung against the starlit sky: Stone, flying back toward the shore. By the time Stone reached them, everyone was awake. Flower was the only one who had slept heavily. Still bleary with it, she filled their kettle from the waterskin and put it on the hearth to heat.
Stone was just a big dark shadow as he landed on the end of the branch. The wood shivered with his weight, then went still as he shifted to his groundling form. He walked up the branch toward them, and Moon wished they had been able to camp on the ground, or anywhere else where they could have made a real fire. The heating rocks didn’t give off light and he wanted to see Stone’s expression.
Stone stopped a few paces away, and said, flatly, “I couldn’t find it.”
Jade stirred a little, and Moon knew she had just controlled the urge to hiss in disappointment. Chime shook his head, confused. “The seed? But—”
“The island,” Stone corrected. He sat down, moving slowly, and Moon heard his bones creak. “There’s nothing out there. I spent most of the night flying a spiral, looking for land.” He rubbed his eyes. “What I’m afraid of is that these groundlings were on a boat that sank.”
“Or the island moved,” Moon said. Suddenly some of the things Nobent had told him made a lot more sense.
Even in the dark, Moon could tell that Stone was giving him a look that would have sent most of the warriors skittering for cover. But there was more life in his voice when he said, “What?”
Moon told him, “We found a Kek settlement, and talked to a waterling trader. It said there were groundlings called ‘sea-goers’ who lived on the water and moved around.” He told the rest of it, with Chime inserting more details.
“That might explain it,” Jade said. “If we knew how these sea-goers were moving, it would help.”
Vine shrugged. “They could be on boats, or they could have a flying island.”
“If they have a flying island, it must be moving fairly fast,” Chime countered. “Too fast.”
“That’s right.” Flower sounded thoughtful. “It moved out of Stone’s range in only seven days. Flying islands drift slowly with the wind. Unless there was a big storm, and we’ve seen no sign of one, it would still be in the area. It’s more likely to be a boat.”
“Or a fleet of boats,” Moon added.
“Maybe.” Jade scratched her claws on the wood, thinking it over.
“How does the water traveler find them?”
“That’s… I don’t know,” Chime said slowly. “It has to be scent, doesn’t it?”
“Something in the water.” Moon shook his head. “The sea-goers leave a trail, somehow.”
Stone sounded weary. “We’ll figure that out when we get there. You all know how we’re getting there, right?”
“An augury?” Vine asked, turning to Flower. “No, we don’t need an augury,” Moon said before she could reply. He smiled. Old Nobent was going to help them after all. “We’ll follow the water traveler.”
ABOUT MARTHA WELLS:
Martha Wells is the author of nine previous novels including The Element of Fire, Wheel of the Infinite, the Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy, and The Death of the Necromancer which was a finalist for the Nebula Award. She has also had short fiction published in Realms of Fantasy, Black Gate Magazine, Lone Star Stories, and the Tsunami Relief anthology, Elemental. For more information, please visit the links below:
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Ridley Scott has seen Fortnite’s 1984 parody and he didn’t hate it
by RSSbot September 1, 2020, 4:07 pm 45 Views
Earlier this month, Apple removed Fortnite from the iOS App Store after Epic released an update that violated the store’s terms and conditions. Epic was prepared for this, however, and launched a comprehensive lawsuit complete with a parody version of Apple’s famous 1984 commercial. The original version was directed by Alien and Blade Runner director Ridley Scott, who apparently had some mixed feelings about Epic’s homage.
During an interview with IGN, Scott, now 82 years old, was asked if he’d seen the “Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite” parody commercial.
“I sure have and I wrote them because on the one hand I can be fully complimented by the fact they copied [my commercial] shot for shot,” Scott told IGN. “But pity the message is so ordinary when they could have been talking about democracy or more powerful things […] I think the animation was terrific, the idea was terrific, and the message was ‘ehh.’”
Part of Scott’s hesitation toward Epic’s message may come from the source material for both the parody and the original commercial. George Orwell’s novel, 1984, is a dystopian story about a totalitarian government that attempts to control its citizens thoughts and ideas — hence both commercials’ gray-uniformed workers.
It’s worth noting that Epic’s message was not far out of line with the original Scott-directed commercial. Apple’s version of the ad, which was released during the 1984 Super Bowl, was centered on the idea of Apple’s new computers coming in to break up the monolithic hold that IBM had on the computing market.
In other words, both the original and the parody were about smashing quasi-monopolies by comparing them to fascist governments. This similarity is part of what made the commercial the perfect target for Epic as it was preparing for this public legal battle with Apple.
While the two…
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Chelsea Transfer News: Blues Launch £45m Defender Bid
Chelsea have renewed their interest in John Stones after testing Everton’s resolve with a mammoth £45m bid for the talented centre-back
Fraser Crawford
With the winter transfer window now open for business, manager’s are working hard trying to strengthen their squads ahead of the second half of the season. Today, Chelsea make another move for John Stones….
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Chelsea have renewed their interest in John Stones after testing Everton’s resolve with a mammoth £45m bid for the talented centre-back, according to a report in the Express.
Stones has developed into one of the best young central defenders in European football since breaking into the Everton first team and his potential has led to interest from some of the Premier League’s top clubs.
Chelsea were strongly linked with the 21-year-old last summer and Stones ended up submitting a transfer request to try and push through a move to Stamford Bridge after Everton rejected three formal offers from the West Londoners – the highest of which was £37m [source: Express].
The Toffees held firm and refused to sell but it appears Chelsea are now determined to get their man this winter as the Express is citing a report coming from Spain which suggests they’ve now tabled a fresh £45m bid.
It remains to be seen how much truth there is behind these reports or how Everton would react to such an offer but it’s likely to be rebuffed if Roberto Martinez’s latest quotes are anything to go by.
The Spaniard told reporters that Everton will refuse all offers for their star men in January as they are determined to keep their squad together this winter.
“It doesn’t matter if a club comes in. We created a squad during the summer to see how far we could go over the season,” Martinez is quoted as saying by the Express
“We’ll never lose anyone in January, unless it’s somebody who hasn’t been playing and we need to find a solution.
If he’s a top performer, it’s not even a consideration.”
Stones is now an integral part of the Everton starting eleven having started in 18 of their 20 Premier League games this season so if the club hold true to Martinez’s claims, then Chelsea will have to wait until the summer to get their hands on the defender.
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Inicio Noticias Toronto FC drops Champions League opener
Toronto FC drops Champions League opener
Last Updated: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 | 11:41 PM ET
By John F. Molinaro, CBC Sports
In a matter of days things have gone from bad to worse for Toronto FC.
Still smarting from a heartbreaking decision against the Columbus Crew last weekend, Toronto suffered another major setback Wednesday night with a 1-0 loss to the visiting Puerto Rico Islanders at BMO Field.
Trinidadian forward Kendall Jagdeosingh was the hero for Puerto Rico, his goal in the 67th minute standing up as the difference in the opener of this CONCACAF Champions League preliminary playoff.
The winner of the home-and-away series advances to the group stage of the CONCACAF Champions League, a 16-team tournament featuring the best teams from across North and Central America and the Caribbean.
Because of Wednesday’s result, Toronto is on the verge of elimination in CONCACAF’s showcase club tournament at the hands of the Islanders, who compete in the USL First Division — one level below Major League Soccer, the top league in North America.
A loss or a tie in next week’s return leg in Puerto Rico will eliminate Toronto from the competition.
But even though Toronto is firmly behind the eight ball, coach Chris Cummins still likes his team’s chances of advancing, provided they show the mental strength to rebound from this loss.
“We’re still in this [series] … the players have to take some responsibility and pick themselves up,” Cummins said.
This has been a difficult week for the Canadian side.
On Saturday, the club threw away the lead by conceding two late goals — including one in injury time — en route to a 3-2 loss to Columbus in MLS regular-season action.
Despite the precarious situation Toronto finds itself in, Cummins maintains that the team won’t let its recent poor results affect its mindset going into next week’s make-or-break contest in Puerto Rico.
“We’ve had difficult times before when we’ve lost two [in a row], » Cummins said. «I’m not going to come into practice Thursday and mope around.»
The Islanders stated their intentions early, as Jagdeosingh and Jonathon Steele carved out quality scoring chances in the opening five minutes.
Jagdeosingh continued to cause the defence fits, breaking in on goal in the 20th minute after a shockingly horrendous giveaway in midfield by Toronto’s Dwayne de Rosario.
Toronto finally came alive midway through the half when Ali Gerba’s powerful header off a perfect cross from Chad Barrett flashed by the post.
The MLS side continued to threaten early in the second half.
Gerba and rookie Sam Cronin came agonizingly close with their efforts on goal, allowing the Islanders to escape.
Puerto Rico broke the deadlock when Jagdeosingh blasted a shot from close range, taking advantage of a mistake by Toronto goalkeeper Stefan Frei.
Toronto furiously pressed for the equalizer in the final five minutes of regulation, but Islanders goalkeeper William Gaudette made a pair of fantastic diving saves on Jim Brennan and Danny Dichio to preserve the win for Puerto Rico.
Toronto was missing two key players due to injury — midfielder Amado Guevara (ribs), and defender Nana Attakora (hamstring) — while a third starter, defender Adrian Serioux, was on the bench nursing a minor injury.
Cronin was back in the starting lineup, having been away for the last month with the U.S. national at the Gold Cup.
Wednesday’s game was the first of four in 10 days for Toronto.
Gomez Shines In Loss
Toronto FC coach Chris Cummins heaped praise on defender Emmanuel Gomez for his performance against Puerto Rico Wednesday night.
«I thought he was the best player on the field,» Cummins said.
Gomez, an 18-year-old native of Gambia, made only his second start for Toronto since signing with the MLS club earlier this year.
The youngster looked sharp against Puerto Rico, showing great poise and maturity, while forming a solid partnership in the centre of Toronto’s defence with veteran Nick Garcia.
Gomez attributed his solid outing against Puerto Rico to hard work in practice.
«I’ve been working hard and I will continue to work hard to [earn more starts,» explained the Gambian.
The Reds return to MLS regular-season action Saturday with a road game against the New England Revolution.
The team then visits the Islanders next Tuesday before returning home to host Spanish powerhouse Real Madrid on Aug. 7 in an international friendly.
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HB4NOW
Originally posted by sam10antha
I am surprised at the overall tone of your post. (I would say you're showing emotion, but that is an unpopular phrase right now...CORRECT? We're all autotrons...or something... )
1. Here's what I said...
I've mentioned MANY times that the search warrant included other pertinent information including the dogs (an area of interest to the judge, etc.). I am not saying that Brenda's statement was NOT (edited...) a factor in the search warrant, but it was certainly NOT the most central part of that warrant or LE's interest in DW Monday morning. snip..
That's exactly my point! The dogs wouldn't have meant a thing, seeing how Danielle had been in DW's home already. His not being home would not have been a factor. His hose being left out wasn't a big factor. But... HIS HAVING INFORMATION THAT ONLY COULD HAVE COME FROM THE VICTIM, AFTER SHE WAS KIDNAPPED, adds a whole knew view on anything DW did or said. To say otherwise, is to minimize the importance of Brenda's comments. It absolutely WAS the central part of the warrent!
Am I the only one that gets this? ANYONE????
Vinny Gambini: When you look at the bricks from the right angle, they're as thin as this playing card. His whole case is an illusion, a magic trick. It has to be an illusion, 'cause you're innocent. Nobody - I mean nobody - pulls the wool over the eyes of a Gambini, especially this one.
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Originally posted by HB4NOW
No, you're not the only one. I get it easily.
I agree any statement that "could ONLY be told to the perp by the victim" easily trumps uncoiled hoses, not being home, up/down blinds, porch lights on/off, and all the rest of the initial "incriminating evidence."
This subsequently recanted statement was the reason for the warrant IMO.... unless judges would commonly issue search warrants due to hose postions, porch light status, window blind status, and the like. If so, we are all potentially in big trouble.
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I know that your comprehension is generally excellent, so I had to go back and reread what I wrote because I don't remember saying the following, at all:
Please show me where I said this....(In one post I mention Monday (February 4th and LE)....???????
You are correct and I apologize. I picked up on the went there Monday part, but apparently didn't parse the sentence correctly -- probably in too much of a hurry to get out ot here.
I do agree with the following:
However, Mr. Feldman could have done this also. I would have helped his client, if he could have established a shorter period of time...particularly for the response of the dogs. Mr. Feldman did not do this either.
Gee, how often it seems to come down to the defense must prove the defendant's innocence. Let me just say that LE has the power, the resources and the OBLIGATION to find the facts.
As to the "Babs comments...": I asked Patrick about this since it is the second, third, or fourth time he's mentioned this. It is provacative play, but hardly good discussion, if I don't even know what the comment is....Wouldn't you agree? (Now that you brought up the "We know al about you comment...." I remember it was from one of the guys supposedly. What is the source for the comment, BTW? I've forgotten...)
I gave the source for the "We know all ..." statement: Brenda in her testimony said that Westerfield told her that Rick said that to him and he asked Brenda what it was all about. She said she told Westerfield she didn't know, that he would have to ask Rick. Rick testified that the only time he spoke to or with Westerfield the entire evening was when they were introduced when he first got there. It is unknown if Westerfield was questioned by LE about the statement.
I believe that Denise testified that DW was standing and watching the girls play pool, but was not talking, just staring. Maybe DW was tired...
Maybe Denise was tired. As has been pointed out, she did not mention anyone being or looking "creepy" when she was first interviewed by LE. Nasland testified that she and Westerfield stood talking and watching the pool game that included Westerfield's friends Gary and Jeff. Nasland also testified that Westerfield introduced her to Brenda and that the three of them had something like a 10 to 15 minute conversation.
I need some help with the following:
I don't remember a witness who testified about DW's Sunday night stay. Do you have a source? The surly guard said she saw him go back toward the cays, but that is hardly spending the night?
The surly guard's name is Heather Mack. She testified that while she and a co-worker were at the entrance Kiosk, Westerfield entered in his MH. There was a lot of Q & A about the time this occurred and whether it was dark or not. She did not testify that she saw him leave and she was not at the Kiosk all of her shift, which ended at midnight. I don't claim her testimony to be iron-clad proof that Westerfield spent the night there, but there was testimony that he entered and, IMO, to simply dismiss that testimony and declare Westerfield a liar is a stretch.
Seems I must add something here to convince the software I have entered more than five characters.
Originally posted by Brooks
Thank you Brooks!
I can stop screaming at my monitor now.
sam10antha
LOL...We've gone over this NUMEROUS times before, Patrick. I'll have go back and reread the warrant again, but among other things were the FBI profile, which seems to fit DW. That would be the number 1 item, IMO, if I were a judge.
The dogs acted differently at DW's than they did at any other homes in which Danielle sold cookies. That was a significant factor.
Brenda's comment was certainly part of the warrant, but FAR from the central or core part of the document.
The judge asked specifically about the FBI agent's profile, asking his name, and the dogs...If I were to guess what was most impressive to her, I would go with these two things.
For those interested...
Attachment 'A' 27818 pdf
Telephonic search warrent begins on page 37, spacifically BVD's comments starting on page 40.
Here's a summary of items/topics mentioned in the telephonic interview for the search warrant:
1. DW was not home on 2/2 during the first neighborhood canvass.
2. During 2-hour interview on 2/2/ with LE, Brenda stated that she ran into DW at Dad's on 1/25 and then again on cookie sale on 1/30. She goes on to say that she saw DW again on 2/1 at Dad's. She stated she did not discuss her children with other patrons at the bar. She said her children were only in DW's living room and patio area during the cookie sale.
3. DW was not home during the 2/3 search of the neighborhood.
4. Police wanted to contact DW so went to the home Monday AM. Made contact around 8:30 AM.
5. DW said the Van Dam children had been in the garage when HOPI showed interest in the far side of garage and the garage door. LE checked with Brenda; she denied this.
6. DW knew about father/daughter dance. Brenda did not remember discussing this.
7. The dogs did not show interest in MH, but explanation was offered that perhaps the exhaust and wind would have prevented scent detection.
8. DW's excessive cooperation was noted.
9. DW's mentioned that they Van Dam's were supposed to have a babysitter.
10. The hose was left out.
11. The park ranger's account of DW's over payment at the Strand.
12. A neighbor said that on the night of 2/1, DW's motorhome was parked in the neighborhood and the neighbor had to pull out to drive around it.
13. Used the word "we" when talking about the trip.
14. DW's trip itinerary is discussed.
15. FBI profiler/assistance is mentioned.
It doesn't appear to me that Brenda's comments were the main reason for the search warrant. BUT, we all know that just my opinion.... SAM
sam10antha posts: "LOL...We've gone over this NUMEROUS times before, Patrick. I'll have go back and reread the warrant again, but among other things were the FBI profile, which seems to fit DW. That would be the number 1 item, IMO, if I were a judge..."
My response: I wonder if anybody in the van Dam house that Friday night fit the profile provided to Agent Kristen Robinson of the FBI.
From court documents:
“On 2-4-02, at about 1400 hours, FBI Agent Kristen Robinson, K-R-I-S-T-E-N, Robinson, R-O-B-I-S-O-N, contacted FBI agents in Quantico known for profiling abductors.
A conference call was completed and I participated. According to the profile it is a distinct action of a person involved in abductions to want to help or display overly amount of cooperativeness.
A complete description of several possible suspects, including Westerfield, was provided to the profilers.
According to complete -- strike that -- additionally, a complete synopsis of the case was relayed to them.
Although the profilers could not provide a specific type of person to look for, they did relay the following: According to a 10-year study, most abductors of children ages five and above are abducted for sexual purposes, and most abductors are males usually living close by the victim’s residence or being an acquaintance of the victim's family.
According to the profilers it is highly unlikely this abduction was completed by a stranger because of the high risk of entering an unknown residence to take a victim.
The profilers believe the abduction was completed by someone familiar, with the interior of the residence of the victim.
Westerfield's residence is similar to the victim's house.
Based on, the information obtained by the profilers, Westerfield can be included as a possible suspect”
Before they had a profile, SDPD had Westerfield! Hmmmm!!!
The profile came AFTER SDPD had been "watching and waiting" Monday morning. A lucky guess? Never in a million years, yet they knew it was Westerfield before they had talked with him. How??? This tragedy was pieced together on the fly and everybody knows it!!! That's why nothing fits!!!
The evidence proves what a botched investigation and trial this really is!!!
March 12, 2002 PM 1
The Witness: Dorie Savage
By Mr. Clark
28 Q. What contact did you have with the parents,
1 Brenda and Damon Van Dam, in the course of your being at
2 the residence?
3 A. After the initial investigation the 2nd and the
4 3rd, that day I had no contact with them. But every visit
5 from there on out they were pretty much at the house when I
6 was at the house. So they were in other rooms or they
7 would come up and talk to me while I was there. Just very
8 casual hello, do you need anything type conversation.
9 Q. Were they cooperative?
10 A. They were very cooperative and very helpful.
11 Q. Was that true at all times that you had contact
12 with them?
13 A. Yes, it was.
14 MR. CLARKE: Thank you.
15 I have no further questions, Your Honor.
16 THE COURT: Go ahead.
18 CROSS-EXAMINATION
19 BY MR. FELDMAN:
20 Q. The Van Dams were very cooperative, weren't they?
21 A. Yes, they were.
22 Q. And they were so cooperative they would volunteer
23 information to you; isn't that correct?
24 A. To me personally, no.
25 Q. Or others in your presence?
26 A. Yes.
27 Q. And you didn't draw any adverse inference from
28 the fact that these people were so cooperative with you,
1 did you?
2 MR. CLARKE: Objection. Argumentative.
3 THE COURT: Well, counsel, I certainly know where
4 he's going. Overruled.
5 THE WITNESS: I'm sorry. Could you repeat that?
6 BY MR. FELDMAN:
7 Q. You didn't think anything bad about them merely
8 because they were being so cooperative with you, did you?
9 A. No.
10 Q. Do you think that because a citizen is very
11 cooperative with you, that in some manner that makes that
12 citizen more likely guilty than not?
13 MR. CLARKE: Objection. Argumentative.
14 THE COURT: Overruled.
15 THE WITNESS: No.
16 THE COURT: We've covered that. Let's go on.
17 MR. FELDMAN: Thank you.
16 I questioned van Dam about her conversations with others at
17 the bar on 2-2-02. I asked van Dam if she mentioned anything
18 about children to anyone at the bar, including Westerfield.
19 van Dam stated she did not discuss anything about her family to
20 anyone in the bar. I questioned van Dam several times about her
21 conversations with anyone in the bar andd about her family. I
22 told van Dam it was important for her to remember conversations,
23 as it may lead to other suspects. van Dam stated she
24 remembered one of her friends kidding her about a mother saying,
25 "you're such a mother." van Dam stated an unknown male in the
26 bar overheard the friend's statement, and said, "you're a
27 mother?" van Dam replied, "yes, I have three kids." The unknown
28 male said, "you don't look like a mother," and laughed.
1 van Dam stated she believed the male was using the statement as
2 a pick-up line. van Dam again stated she did not talk about any
3 family members to persons in the bar.
24 On 2-4-02 a San Diego police detective recontacted Brenda
25 van Dam and confirmed she had not told anyone about the upcoming
26 daughter/father dance. According to van Dam, the only persons
27 who are aware of the dance are immediate family members and
28 one neighbor next door, not Westerfield. According to Detective
1 Keene, out of the clear blue sky during the interview
2 Westerfield quoted and stated, "she said a baby-sitter was
3 watching her children, not her husband." Detective Keene, and
4 that's spelled K-E-E-N-E, was aware Danielle's father was
5 watching the children, but that was not common knowledge. In
6 fact, often on Friday nights Brenda and Damon, D-A-M-O-N van Dam
7 will have a baby-sitter watch the children while they go out for
8 the evening.
Maybe Danielle did actually go upstairs. It's pretty obvious we can't trust Brenda's memory. And this happened, before Danielle was taken. I wonder how many other things she didn't remember?
PDF telephonic search warrent
Edited to add;
3 Let's see -- Westerfield made several statements about
4 information only known by the victim and the victim's family.
5 Only Danielle van Dam could have told him about the daughter and
6 father dance, and only after she had been abducted. snip...
TweetyJas
Chirp! Chirp!
I think that DW's being overly helpful came across as very suspicious because he was opening drawers, opening up things to like make sure they see that she certainly was not in his house and his doing this was idiotic to them like he was working too hard to make them know he didn't have her, prove soemthing to them. If you know your house is being searched for a missing child in your neighborhood just let the cops walk through and look for themselves because you KNOW they won't find her because YOU certainly had nothing to do with it and certainly don't need to try and convince them anymore than any other neighbor would. LE has searched many a house for various different reasons and they know the usual normal responses. All that "look in here, oh let me open this" business put a bullseye smack dab in the middle of his forehead IMO.
I am sorry but nobody is that stupid and after reading something that Kenodenis posted about her daughter's study of child molesters it really makes sense. She told how these guys are how they act like a child when they are caught yet function as adults in society. I think I am going to copy it and post it here because it sure did make me think of DW when I read it even though she posted it in regards to Couey. DW's behavior during the search was just like a kid trying to convince his parent that he didn't do it.
This is what Keno posted over on another thread and I am copying that portion of her post over here. DW's behavior while having his house searched was downright silly IMO and very much like a child can act when being asked if they have such and such item that they should not have and they begin "proving" to you that they don't by showing places that it is not, opening drawers, opening closets showing every place that they know it is not hoping to convince you and you will give up. Parents like LE are NOT stupid and catch on to that old trick immediately and will be more convinced the kid or grown man in DW's case has something to hide. JMO.
Originally posted by Kenodenis on another thread:
My daughter, a Criminal Justice major in college (graduated Summa Cum Laude) has read many articles written by sex offenders. They have a very adolescent mind-set and talk about how they truly believed that their child victim was as attracted to them as they were to him. They even mention that the child was "flirting" with them so they knew it was okay to take it further. They go on to say that after they perform what it is they want to on the victim, they know they did wrong, but their biggest fear is the child will run home and tell. That is why they kill the victim. They are "deathly" afraid of getting in trouble with the parents. Just as we might have felt when we were kids, after punching out one of our playmates and seeing how upset he was over it.
This might explain why John Couey's physical demeanor in front of the judge reminded me of a naughty little child. He walked into that courtroom like a 10 year old kid who knew he'd done wrong. It was very strange, indeed, to see this piece of film.
These sex offenders never seem to mature beyond the age of 10 or 12, yet they live and operate in the adult world, too.
Of all the ex-con's who get released back into society even after years of psychotherapy in prison, I think pedophiles are the least likely to change because they seem to have two distinct personalities. One is adult and cunning, the other is naive and child-like. JMHO
Bemis1
I have noticed a few posters questioning DW as being the source of some information posted on this forum. Because DW is the source, the information simply isn't credible. But when we post statements and testimony from the vd's, it's considered irrelevant, or an attack. Well, my question is, if the van Dam's had told the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, might it have made a difference in the outcome of the trial? I don't care if it was a memory laps, coaching, or simply not being completely honest. I want to know if anyone thinks the truth would have made a difference?
Here's just one example:
Traffic got so heavy that the California Highway Patrol closed the south side of the highway to stop people from spilling out of their cars and crossing the two-lane road. Large flashing signs cautioned motorists, who were arriving from all over the county.
But it wasn't the place where Danielle's parents wanted their daughter's memory honored.At 3 p.m. yesterday, Brenda and Damon van Dam issued a statement asking people not to focus on that spot.
"Our hope is that those who wish to pay respect to Danielle's memory do so at the place where she often played – the (Sabre Highlands) mini park – rather than where her body was found. We want to celebrate her life over all else," the statement read.
June 6, 2002 under oath
THE WITNESS: BRENDA VAN DAM. B-R-E-N-D-A V-A-N D-A-M.
Q. HOW FREQUENTLY WOULD YOUR KIDS GO TO THE PARK?
A. RARELY. THEY'VE BEEN DOWN THERE MAYBE -- IT WASN'T VERY OFTEN. IT WASN'T A ROUTINE THING.
Would this be considered being honest? If this was the truth, why the conflicting statements? Was the earlier statement to the press, simply to keep people away from the recovery site? Was it a request by LE, to keep the traffic flowing on Dehesa Road, as it appears from the article, it was a safety concern.
Or was this testimony part of the coaching by the prosecution to make it appear, Danielle would have no reason to walk by DW's MH, on her way to the park? His MH was also parked at the park on at least one occassion, and kids were seen playing there at the time.
Were there no witnesses willing to testify that they had seen Danielle playing at the park, or even a friend of Danielle's to testify they played with her at the park, or even walked by DW's home either going to school, or home from school? Would a neighbor feel they would be helping a child killer, if they offered this kind of information to the defense? Or did the defense fail to question all the neighbors thoroughly? How about LE? Did any witnesses offer information that LE ignored? Weren't there witnesses that were ignored in the Scott Peterson case?
There are more statements that conflict with testimony, and If I don't post them, feel free to post them, and add your comments. I think the truth may have made a difference in the outcome of the trial. In fact, DW may not have become the only suspect, in a case which I consider a rush to judgement, based on false information. JMHO
I believe the outcome of the trial would have been the same if they had told the truth, but the path getting there would have been different. I think the VanDams put themselves under a high level of scrutiny with their initial attempts to keep their lifestyle choices under wraps.
I do, however think that they were justified in their request to honor Danielle at a place she played, rather than the place her mortal remains were discovered.
I don't consider Brenda's statements to be conflicting on the park situation. Danielle had obviously been to the park, expressed how much she liked it, and therefore they felt that would be the appropriate spot for a public memorial. The exact number of times the child was there is really of no matter to me.
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Originally posted by TweetyJas
Speaking of being too helpful. I've always thought the screwdriver - magnet trick by Damon was out of place. Like if the investigation got to a point where they couldn't find a point of entry, then he had that base covered even with a locked slider. Also his wanting LE to dust the windows for prints. Why would they? Did the windows look ajar or odd in some way?
(There's no need for an outcry over defending the vD's here either, just my opinion in what I found odd)
The spider never understands what the fly is complaining about.
Originally posted by GaVeLGraBBer
I found the magnet thing odd also
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A state of the nation report on devolution in England, published today by GK Strategy and onefourzero, has found that whilst the agenda continues to be a political priority for the Government, the public are disengaged and unenthused by the prospect of further powers and accountability being shifted to a local level.
The report argues that devolution has so far failed to win over the hearts and mind of people because of a consistent reluctance by Whitehall to relinquish control over public spending. The Government has sought to award greater powers over commissioning public services and infrastructure to local bodies, but done so whilst tightening the purse strings of local authorities. The main factor, the report suggests, is that people see devolution as a way to merely pass the buck of public spending cuts rather than empowering the regions.
In pulling together the report, GK undertook primary research using its sister company onefourzero, who use a suite of advanced social and online listening technologies to understand public opinion. A number of key findings were made:
• Our research shows that there has been a 37% decrease in online conversations regarding devolution in the UK from November 2014, when the first City deal was announced to present.
• Peaks in conversation in 2015 are most likely to be due to the announcements of devolution deals in Liverpool (November, 2015) and Birmingham (West Midlands Combined Authority agreement, November 2015.)
• What is remarkable is that despite the impending mayoral elections this May, conversations have steadily decreased year on year indicating a disengaged public.
GK argue that there are two likely reasons for the level of disengagement with the concept of devolution, both of which are closely associated with the specific roles of elected mayors. The first is that the two largest cities outside of London – Manchester and Birmingham – both voted against having an elected mayor less than five years ago in a referendum in each city. The second is that the public lacks a clear understanding over the role of the mayor in relation to the devolution process and the elected councils in the local authorities in question.
The report also features sector analysis from GK Associate and former Government Minister, Phil Hope, looking at the impact of devolution on health and social care and from former Southwark Council Leader, Stephanie Elsy, looking at how businesses will be able to work with the new devolved administrations. Other areas covered included education and skills and infrastructure and transport.
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Commenting, Chief Executive of GK Strategy, Emily Wallace said:
“There has been seismic political change in the UK, not least our vote to leave the European Union last June. Devolution in England however, something broadly agreed with by all major parties and an ongoing project of successive UK Governments, has failed to capture people’s interest in the way other issues have.
“A number of factors lie behind this, but a common view is that devolution in England has been delegation of blame at a time of public spending consolidation, rather than delegation of power and responsibility.”
Commenting on devolved health and social care spending, GK Associate and former Government Minister, Phil Hope said:
“There is no real pattern to the Government’s approach to devolving budgets and responsibility for health and social care across the country. Greater Manchester, Liverpool City Region, London, Cornwall and the North East Region are the most advanced in terms of decision-making powers.
“These local areas are taking a risk in the hope that the advantages of increased budgetary control, strong local relationships and a shared commitment to outcome-driven reform outweigh the political and service risks of coping with massive reductions in funding at a time of rapidly growing demand and nationally imposed costs.
“Devolution is one ingredient in the recipe for dealing with a drastically underfunded and poorly structured health and social care system. But unless the devolution deal is fair, manageable and affordable, the risks to local decision-makers and their communities may outweigh the benefits.”
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1. For more information please contact Ned Lamb on ned@gkstrategy.com or 0207 340 1150
2. You can read the full report here.
3. GK Strategy is a public affairs agency based in the heart of Westminster. Founded in 2009 by Co-Chairman Robin Grainger and Luke Kennedy, and run by CEO Emily Wallace, the agency offers a full range of public affairs and corporate communications services. GK Investor Services is the agency’s political research arm, while onefourzero is its sister agency.
4. For more information about GK Strategy, go to www.gkstrategy.com. For more information about onefourzero, go to www.onefourzerogroup.com
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Functional characterization of WAC, a candidate tumor suppressor gene in colorect
Conboy, Caitlin M.
University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States
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Colorectal Cancer (CRC) is a genetic disease in which progression is driven by the accumulation of mutations or epigenetic alterations in oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes. Despite significant progress, additional work remains to identify the heterogeneous genetic events that drive this process and to understand how they cooperate in disease progression. We have identified WW domain containing adaptor with coiled-coil (WAC) as a candidate tumor suppressor gene in colorectal cancer, based on its loss of function in three forward genetic screens for intestinal tumors in mice. Although little is know about the function of WAC, it has been shown that the WAC protein functions as an adaptor in multiple protein complexes in diverse biological processes, including transcription-coupled histone modification and golgi biogenesis. We hypothesize that disruption of WAC contributes to human colorectal cancer based on preliminary data showing that depletion of WAC in conditionally immortalized colonic epithelial cells leads to increased anchorage-independent growth in vitro. Additionally, sequencing the WAC gene in a set of 74 human colorectal cancer samples identified non- silent mutations in WAC at a frequency of 2.7%. In future work, we propose to define the mechanism by which decreased WAC expression contributes to anchorage-independence, and to characterize the functional deficits and transforming capacity of cancer-associated WAC mutants. Finally, we aim to describe the full transcriptional program regulated by the WAC complex under conditions of anchorage-independence, in order to describe a novel tumor suppressor pathway whose disruption may facilitate progression of colorectal cancer.
of this research to public health Colorectal cancer is the third-leading cause of cancer-related mortality in the United States and a significant publi health problem. The proposed work will expand our understanding of the genetic mechanisms of colorectal cancer. This understanding will contribute to the development of better pre-clinical models that faithfully recapitulate the human disease. Additionally, discovering and validating new genetic drivers will provide novel targets for drug development to improve treatment options and outcomes in colorectal cancer.
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Falae restates call for restructuring, says it is inevitable
By Tunji Omofoye, Osogbo
Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Chief Olu Falae, has said that the clamour for restructuring is inevitable if nation is to make meaningful progress.
He said the re-ordering, which is long overdue, could only become reality under a Social Democratic Party (SDP)-led government.
False, who is the National Chairman of SDP, stated this yesterday in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, while speaking at a mega rally organised to sell the party’s manifestoes to the people.
The former SGF, who noted that restructuring of Nigeria is overdue, said until something was done in that direction, peace and development might continue to elude the society.
Meanwhile, Omisore, who addressed the crowd shortly after he was presented to the electorate, alleged plan by the ruling party to rig the September 22 governorship election.
He said his party would resist any attempt to rig the election, urging the electorate to be vigilant by ensuring that their votes count.
He said: “You have to be extra-vigilant and ensure you monitor the electoral process until the correct result is announced.”
Besides, he promised total overhauling of the education, health and agriculture sectors, among others.
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N720 billion revenue under threat as 51 oil licences expire
By Roseline Okere
PHOTO: KARIM SAHIB / AFP
Owners, DPR decline comments on status of blocks
About 51 Oil Prospecting Licences (OPL) and Oil Mining Lease (OML) of different oil blocks have expired between 2010 and March 2017 and this is therefore threatening about $2 billion (N720 billion) in signature bonuses. Another 85 OPL and OML will expire between April 2017 and 2029, according to upstream concession status obtained from the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR).
Experts believe that the failure to renew the licences is robbing the country of several billions of unpaid signature bonuses.
Already, the House of Representatives has begun its investigation into leakages within the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) in respect of ownership, distribution and authenticity of OML, OPL, relinquishment, signature bonuses and bidding process.
About 17 Niger Delta onshore OMLs belonging to the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) will expire in the next two years.
Shell has decided to be silent on whether they will renew the oil blocks at expiration by 2019 or relinquish interest.
An oil-mining lease is usually granted only to the holder of an oil-prospecting licence (OPL), upon meeting set regulations, and the term of the licence shall not exceed 20 years, and may be renewed in accordance with the Petroleum Act.
Specifically, the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) said in its current oil and gas report that discretionary decision-making and lack of openness drove down competition and returns to Nigeria, including over $2 billion in unpaid signature bonuses.
For example, OPL 204 located onshore Niger Delta, belonging to Africoil and Marketing, whose licence has been issued since 1993, expired since 2010 and there is no information regarding its renewal.
Also, Alfred James Nigeria Limited’s OPL 302, which was awarded in 1991, has expired since 2001. Efforts to get current update on the block, proved abortive.
Continental Oil and Gas’s OPL 2007 expired since October last year while Summit Oil International OPL 206 expired in 2014.
Amalgamated Oil Company Limited’s OPL 425, which was given licence since 1992, is expected to expire by May 23 this year.
OPL 305 and 306, which belong to Crownwell Petroleum Limited will expire in June this year.
Also, KNOC’s deep offshore OPLC 321 and 323 have already expired since March 9, 2016.
None of the owners of the affected oil blocks were willing to respond to The Guardian’s enquiries regarding the current status of their assets.
Efforts to get update from the DPR on the current status of these oil blocks, proved abortive as the agency despite several emails and text messages, which lasted for one month, remained silent.
When contacted, the Head of Public Affairs at DPR, Dorothy Bassey referred The Guardian to the Manager, Public Affairs, Paul Osu who also delegated the responsibility.
The officer complained of difficulty in getting useful information across to The Guardian in the last one month, up to the time of filing this report.
The Corporate Media Relations Manager, Precious Okolobo, also remained silent on the possibility of Shell renewing its licences in 2019.
But Shell said in its yearly report and Form 20-F 2016, released at the weekend that of the Nigeria onshore proved reserves, 164 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe) are expected to be produced before the expiry of the current licences, and 377 million boe beyond.
This means at the end of 2019, the company will either renew the expired licences or relinquish its stakes in the OMLs. The company had in the last two years engaged in divestment of assets in its onshore operations due to militancy and low oil prices.
According to NEITI in its latest report, past upstream licensing processes in Nigeria have fallen well short of best practices and failed to secure maximum value for the country’s assets.
This it said, led to public controversy, including lawsuits, indictments, sackings, cancelled or revoked awards, and legislative probes.
“Many deals fell through, and barely half of the fields auctioned between 2000 and 2007 have seen serious drilling. The stated goal of increasing indigenous participation was not well served. Most of the marginal fields awarded during the 2000s have not produced.”
NEIT said that |past licensing rounds in Nigeria were not tied to any comprehensive asset development strategy or broader economic development plans.
It said that Nigeria needs to develop a strategy for managing its natural resource base for current and future generations, and tie each licensing round to that strategy.
According to the Deputy Director, Emerald Energy Institute, University of Port Harcourt, Prof. Chijioke Nwaozuzu, expired licences have to be renewed, unless the acreage OPL is being explored prior to expiry.
“OMLs can also be renewed by DPR if they are currently in production. What government has to do is to discourage ‘acreage-sitting’. These are operators sitting on their licences without doing anything to explore or develop them. Such licences should be relinquished and bid for in the next licensing rounds,” he added.
A Senior Lecturer (Energy/Oil & Gas Law) at the Department of Public and International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Abuja, Olanrewaju Aladeitan, said that the owners of the expired licences are supposed to apply three months before the final expiration of the oil blocks.
He said that the implication to the economy is that the country may not be able to benefit maximally from any oil block whose licence has expired.
Aladeitan added that it may also rob the country of signature bonuses, which would go a long way to ameliorate the country’s economic challenges.
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Police arrest female corps member for allegedly killing boyfriend in Uyo
By Inemesit Akpan-Nsoh (Uyo) and Joseph Wantu (Makurdi)
18-year-old girl sets boyfriend ablaze in Benue
A corps member serving in Akwa Ibom State, Chidinma Pascaline Oduma, has been arrested for allegedly hacking a man to death in his house.
The young lady, aged 26, reportedly hacked Akwaowo Japhet to death on Sunday.
She was caught while trying to jump the fence of the compound where the man lived. It was learnt that irate mob caught her, beat and stripped her naked after the victim was found dead.
Eyewitnesses’ account claimed Oduma macheted and killed her victim after several cuts on his stomach and face.
Confirming the incident, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Odiko Macdon, said the Commissioner of Police, Andrew Amiengheme, had ordered that a discreet investigation be carried out on the incident.
“On Sunday, around 11:00a.m., we received a distress call from our control room. So, we had to send our policemen to No. 219, Abak Road, where one Chidinma Pascaline Oduma, a corps member, was at the verge of being lynched by irate mob, but the police rescued her.
“When we carried out preliminary investigation, she informed us that Akwaowo Japhet took her to his house and while in the house, Akwaowo Japhet picked up a machete and attempted to kill her. She said she dispossessed him and used the same machete on him, which led to his death.
“The lady has been arrested by the police and she is in our custody. The Commissioner of Police, Andrew Amiengheme, has ordered a discreet investigation into the alleged murder, and as soon as the police is done with investigation, the matter will be charged to court,” he said.
Reacting to the incident, the Akwa Ibom State Coordinator of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Mr Julius Amusan, said the report of a female corps member hacking a man to death was unbelievable and unusual, but that the police had confirmed the incident.
“She is a serving Batch A corps member in Uyo Local Government area. The information on the matter did not get to me until 5:00p.m. on Sunday evening when somebody called to inform me. When the report came, I doubted it because it sounds strange that a female corps member would kill a man.
“It was when I got to the police station that we were able to establish what really happened. It is a very unfortunate development. We would not be able to say what actually happened and the incident surrounding it. We depend on police report because we are not eyewitnesses.
“According to investigation, the lady and the boy were not into any previous relationship. Sunday was the first day of their meeting. It was said that the girl returned from church and later went out to buy bean cake,” he said.
MEANWHILE, an 18-year-old girl set her boyfriend ablaze in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, yesterday.
The PPRO for Benue command, DSP Catherine Anene, confirmed the incident and said the perpetrator was already in custody.
Anene said the suspect poured petrol around the victim’s one-room apartment before setting it on fire.
She said: “We don’t know yet why she did that. We are yet to question her but I can confirm that she has been arrested and just brought to our custody. The incident happened around 2:00a.m. today (Monday) at Zaki-Biam street in Wadata.”
There have been cases of persons setting one another ablaze in the state lately. In October last year, a married man named Nicodemus set both himself and his lover, Shiminenge, ablaze, burning both of them to death. In November, a lady residing in Gboko town set her estranged lover ablaze after terminating their relationship on the grounds that the lady was disrespectful to his mother.
In December, a young man set himself ablaze in Aliade Town, Gwer East Local Government Area of the state for reasons that were not clear.
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Protest rocks Team Ekiti as athletes allege fraud
By Ayodele Afolabi, Ado Ekiti
05 December 2018 | 3:53 am
10 hours ago Sport
9 hours ago Sport
Ekiti State athletes to the 2018 National Sports Festival yesterday protested against the alleged fraud by the leadership of the Sports Council
Ekiti State athletes to the 2018 National Sports Festival yesterday protested against the alleged fraud by the leadership of the Sports Council, claiming that they pocketed N5 million out of N7 million approved by the state government for the fiesta.
The protesting athletes locked up the main gate of the Kayode Oluyemi Stadium in Ado Ekiti, preventing people from gaining entry, and also chased out state officials from their various offices.
One of the athletes who spoke with journalists on condition of anonymity claimed that the negotiations on the funds to be released between state government and the sports council officials had been on for long.
“It started from N32 million to N19 million, and they eventually agreed on N7 million. But they are now telling us that the state government approved only N2 million for the sports festival. We have been preparing for the festival for about three months now. Some of us came from the local government area to prepare for the festival.”
The general manager of Ekiti State Sports Council, Deji Samo, said the athletes were being sponsored for the protest for personal interests.
Samo dismissed the athletes’ allegations saying: “We have sent our file to the governor. We are expecting his response.
“It is when we get approval for fund that we will know how many of the athletes will go for the games. We will like to go to the competition with our medal hopefuls.
“Because of funds, we had to put the athletes through open camp. They have been preparing. All I know is that we are going to the games in Abuja and we will make the state proud.”
It was learnt yesterday that about 150 athletes were earlier scheduled to represent Team Ekiti at the sports festival, but 30 of them might be dropped due to paucity of funds.
“We have been to the Governor’s office last week Friday and they assured us that funds will be made available for our participation,” an official said.
“Going by the amount released, the athletes will have to make do with 3,000 naira per day for the 10 day event. Even the bus to convey us to Abuja is yet to be repaired.”
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Jake Dorst, CIO, Meritus Health, Chapter 3
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Jake Dorst, VP & CIO, Meritus Health
When Jake Dorst started as CIO at Meritus Health in late 2011, he came in with a pocketful of ideas. But he was soon hit with a reality check — a three-year wait for the Meditech upgrade that would hinder the process of attesting to stage 2. That simply wouldn’t do, so he and his team implemented a system that would help integrate ED and inpatient records. In this interview, Dorst talks about his ACO plans, his mobile device strategy, his motto when it comes to vendor management, and why job descriptions are never set in stone. He also discusses hiring a PR pro to help physicians ease into the electronic world, how he hopes completing his MBA will make him a better CIO, and how Meritus has benefited from employing a professional negotiator.
Forced innovation — “We cobbled together products that are now being sold as one”
Trust but verify
“I’m in the right spot at the right time.”
Pursuing an MBA
Building a CIO network
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We put a lot of innovative things in at Southside. We had a pretty ingenious way that we kind of cobbled together a couple of products which are now being sold as one.
We had weekly meetings about the progress of it, but a lot of it, as a CIO, is to trust what they’re saying, but actually dig into the system and make sure what they’re saying is really happening.
Part of it was hard work in getting it fixed, and part was putting a very good face and public relations piece on it. By the end of it, I saw physicians giving Connie a hug in the hall, so it was a win, and I credit her completely with that turnaround.
Wal-Mart can find a bag of Lay’s Potato Chips in Beijing, China down to the shelf, and we’ll lose a patient coming out of the ICU going to med-surg for an hour. Where’s the disconnect there?
I think most CIOs are getting into that situation now where as they come to the senior leadership table, they want to be prepared for that business talk that they’ve missed out on.
Gamble: How long were you at Southside Regional?
Dorst: About six years.
Gamble: While you were there, were there pretty drastic changes as far as the clinical application environment? I imagine during that timeframe there probably were many changes.
Dorst: Yeah, we put in McKesson Horizon Electronic Medical Record in a very short timeframe. We actually built the hospital without the capacity to have paper records, so we were forced to get that running before we left. That was a difficult situation. It took a while to recover from that, but we came back strong. At the end of it, the doctors actually really liked the product, and they liked being able to sign off electronically on their records from their house.
The precursor to PatientTouch was a product called IntelliDot. We put that in five years ago. So that was pretty cutting edge at the time as far as bar code drug medication administration is concerned. We put a lot of innovative things in at Southside. We had a pretty ingenious way that we kind of cobbled together a couple of products which are now being sold as one. We had Ascom phones and Ascom bought GE/Dukane, which was the nurse call system. So we had all those products in there working together — now you can buy them as one product now that Ascom took it over. The nurse call set-up we had there was really cool and innovative for the time that we put it in.
Gamble: How much time did it take to implement the McKesson EMR?
Dorst: Eight months.
Gamble: Okay, so you went from paper in eight months. Wow. As CIO, I’m sure there were a lot of things you learned from doing something like that, especially in a short timeframe. Anything that really stuck with you as far as what you learned from that experience?
Dorst: Yes — trust but verify. I was in the middle of building the hospital, so I had just about every department figuring out where their PCs and phones and networking closets were and making sure all the fiber was delivered on time and tested and toned and that we had electricity and cooling and everything else in the building, while the whole McKesson conversion was happening. Then when we opened the doors, we noticed that with the census physician’s list, if you came in through the ED — which is obviously the majority of patients — you didn’t get on the list. We probably should have noticed that before we opened up the doors, but of course we had a lot of McKesson consultants in the mix there. We had weekly meetings about the progress of it, but a lot of it, as CIO, is to trust what they’re saying, but actually dig into the system and make sure what they’re saying is really happening.
Gamble: As far as leading that kind of change, was there a good amount of resistance in going from a paper environment to something that was very different?
Dorst: Yes, there were at first, especially with the problems we had — I don’t want to call it a botched go-live, but there were definitely some issues with it. We spent about three months having biweekly conference calls with our McKesson vendors, our interface developers, the CFO and myself, and our HIM director. Every week we would go over the punch list. Once we got it down to where we thought it was back to where it should be in terms of true usability, I went out and hired a lady named Connie, who actually was working as an airline attendant at the time. She had a little bit of IT background but she was just the perfect personality for that; she’s very bubbly. You could tell she had a smile on her face every time she answers the phone; she’s super nice and would go out of her way to accommodate the physicians.
She actually would go to physician’s houses, help them log in to the VPN, sit with them for two hours at their house, and train them on how to use the EMR. She went to physician clinics and would sit there with the staff and help them log in and show them how to assign their patients and everything else. So part of it was hard work in getting it fixed, and part was putting a very good face and public relations piece on it. By the end of it, I saw physicians giving Connie a hug in the hall, so it was a win, and I credit her completely with that turnaround.
Gamble: One of the key things in being a leader is finding good people to put in these positions. I’m sure that that was also a very important takeaway — just to make sure you have the right people in place.
Dorst: Right. It’s a good lesson to not have very strict job descriptions or requirements.
Gamble: Oh yeah, sure. I’m sure that she didn’t initially plan on doing two-hour house calls, but if that’s what it took, then that’s what it took.
Dorst: Right, exactly.
Gamble: Now Southside Regional was your first CIO position, correct?
Dorst: That is correct. I was an IT director prior to that when was in a 200-bed hospital in Mississippi. CHS owned that hospital. It was my first entry. It was 1999, I think, down in Greenville, Miss. I worked as an IT director there before I moved to the corporate office in Nashville.
Gamble: You picked a pretty interesting time to have your first CIO role. The last six, seven or eight years, we’ve seen just a huge amount of change.
Dorst: Right. Are you familiar with Outliers, that book?
Gamble: Yeah.
Dorst: Ten thousand hours — the idea that you have to spend 10,000 hours to get good at anything. Unfortunately, I spent my 10,000 hours in healthcare IT, so I’m locked with it now. But I love it, it’s what I like to do, and I feel very lucky actually where it’s at right now with the focus on big data and population health and all the things that we’ve wanted to do for years but there may have been budgetary constraints.
Five years ago, the big spend was, what’s your latest MRI? How many slices is your CT? That’s where the money went. There’s been a paradigm shift now to, what system are you running? What’s your HIE? What’s your HIS? Those are the questions you’re hearing now, so it’s very good for us. I think the HIT industry is years behind the rest of the world, as far as business is concerned. Wal-Mart can find a bag of Lay’s Potato Chips in Beijing, China down to the shelf, and we’ll lose a patient coming out of the ICU going to med-surg for an hour. Where’s the disconnect there? I’m glad that I’m in the right spot at the right time here to really help make a difference and drive some of this new technology.
Gamble: There’s certainly never a dull moment in health IT these days. With everything going on right now, a lot of the CIOs we speak to are doing different things to make sure they’re on top of their game and a lot of that is through continuing education. I read that you are currently pursuing your MBA and I just wanted to ask you what drove you to do that.
Dorst: Actually, I completed it in December. It was just time to learn some more. I was going to more and more meetings where I didn’t understand what a financial statement was, or I was getting confused by what EBITDA meant, so I think it was time. I think most CIOs are getting into that situation now where as they come to the senior leadership table, they want to be prepared for that business talk that they’ve missed out on. I came up through the ranks of IT, and we were never really challenged with those types of situations financial-wise and in terms of strategy and business and understanding what marketing is and how the best way to sell your product.
I think it’s been very helpful for me. Like I said, HIMSS is always great. There are a lot of new products to learn about. I’m actually going to be on a panel Friday actually for Maryland and Virginia HIMSS and we’re going to be talking about the challenges that we’re facing and what big data means — does it mean anything, and cloud technology and those types of buzz words that you’re hearing around now. I like to stay abreast of what’s going on in the industry. I read HISTalk a lot. I’m sure everybody does in this industry. It’s very insightful and has a lot of new up and coming information.
Gamble: And then as far as just reaching out to other CIOs, is that something you do pretty often?
Dorst: Yeah, I’ve got a pretty good network just from working with people all across the country. I’ve tried to maintain those relationships. A friend of mine out in Texas is working with Vanguard Health and doing some pretty cool stuff out there with smart card technology. I was talking to him the other day; he actually won an award down at HIMSS, so I had to come back early so I wasn’t able to celebrate with him. They’re doing some pretty cool incentive programs to incent people to get their blood pressure taken and giving them reward points and things like that to spend in hospitals. There are some good ideas that are coming out. I reach out a lot to a lot of colleagues that I’ve met along the way.
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Luke Wale Quick Info
Date of Birth October 2, 1991
Zodiac Sign Libra
Girlfriend Quinn Alyssa
Luke Wale is a Canadian YouTuber, social media influencer, musician, and artist who is best known for his self-titled YouTube channel where he has amassed more than 950k subscribers and where he posts a wide variety of content including vlogs and storytime videos. He is also a skilled visual artist and musician and often posts his work on his YouTube channel. He has a secondary YouTube channel as well, titled itslukewale, which is dedicated to gaming and where he has garnered more than 100k subscribers. In 2017, he had joined the collaborative YouTube group known as Our World Away. He is popular on other social media platforms as well with more than 350k followers on Twitter and more than 450k followers on Instagram. Besides his self-titled primary Instagram page, he has 2 other accounts on the platform as well – c7oudx where he posts his music-related content and has more than 5k followers and lukemakesamess where he posts his visual artwork and has more than 50k followers.
Luke Wale
Luke Wale in an Instagram selfie from May 2018 (Luke Wale / Instagram)
Ontario, Toronto, Canada
YouTuber, Social Media Influencer, Musician, Artist
Luke Wale in an Instagram selfie from June 2018 (Luke Wale / Instagram)
Siblings – He has a younger brother and a younger sister.
Luke has dated –
Samm Rochelle (2015–2016)
Quinn Alyssa (2017-Present)
Luke Wale as seen in an Instagram Post in December 2017 (Luke Wale / Instagram)
Transgender (Straight)
Slender frame
Pierced lips
Wears ear studs
Tousled hair
Clean-shaven look
Often appears in a beanie
Has tattoos on both his arms
Luke Wale as seen in an Instagram Post in September 2020 (Luke Wale / Instagram)
Luke Wale Facts
He had socially transitioned from female to male in the mid-2000s, during his teenage years. Luke had known from childhood that he was a male trapped in a female’s body. This had made him the target of bullies at school and he revealed that even his teachers were not very supportive. He had joined YouTube in November 2007 as a means to escape his troubles – bullying, depression, and social anxiety.
He was first diagnosed with severe depression when he was 11 years old. During this phase, he would often encounter suicidal thoughts and had even tried to commit suicide twice but was saved by his mother on each occasion.
He often credits his time on YouTube and the support of his subscribers as the key reasons he was able to get out of his darkest times. One of the early adopters of the platform, he was named as one among the ‘Top 500 YouTube Partners’ of 2010.
He has a tattoo marked ‘11.12.07’, the date he had joined YouTube, to show his gratefulness towards YouTube and his subscribers.
He was born with the name Hunter and had later changed it to Jeydon Kyle Ingham and then to Parker Jeydon Wale, before eventually settling on Luke Wale.
Another thing that had helped him get through the tough times was music and he had started creating original music in 2006. He was attracted to the art form from a young age and has been a massive follower of Eminem and Michael Jackson. He had bought a guitar and taught himself how to play the instrument.
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Language experts are in broad agreement that English has one of the richest vocabularies of any language. More songs from The Meters; More instrumental songs; More songs from 1969; send your comment. If the called it "Sissy Strut", they were just calling names. Blog Robert Christgau had a positive review and called Ziggy Modeliste's drumming "The secret" adding "it's almost as if he's the lead. Song Tutorials → sissy informal disapproving. "[9], "The Meters to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammys", "The Meters remain the measure of New Orleans funk", "IMDb – Jackie Brown (1997) – Soundtracks", "WRTC Digital Archive Project – All sorts of versions of 'Cissy Strut, "DMB Almanac: 2009 International Summer Tour", Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies, Uptown Rulers: The Meters live on the Queen Mary, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cissy_Strut&oldid=984976101, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from November 2016, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 23 October 2020, at 06:27. Anyone can start learning songs. They released their self-titled debut album three years later, which spawned two Top 40 singles, "Sophisticated Cissy" (#34) and Cissy Strut, (#23). Both songs remain influential funk benchmarks that probably did more to get “Sissy/Cissy” into funk music consciousness than any other records, even though the Meters themselves never intended them to be Sissy songs. That's how that happened. Download our English Dictionary apps - available for both iOS and Android.
After that phrase, there’s a little tag to end the sequence where you pop down below the bottom C to play G, Bb, C, Bb, C. This melodic sequence is followed by two chords, a Bb chord and an F chord. All Years "Cissy Strut" is a 1969 funk instrumental by The Meters. "Friends In Low Places" by Garth Brooks was written by two Nashville songwriters after a meal in a local restaurant. Play your first piano song in just 7 minutes (or less). third, so when you’re playing over top of the C, remember to play an Eb to keep your embellishments working with the rest of the song. I just stepped out of the Time Tunnel on my way somewhen else to hip you to what was now -- then.
23 on the Billboard Hot 100. “Cissy Strut” has a truly infectiously funky groove indigenous to that great historical city. Create an account and sign in to access this FREE content. They also played an influential role as backing musicians for other artists, including Lee Dorsey and Dr John. The Meters are a band introduced to me by one of my favorite clients who had gone to Tulane, deeply entrenched in the New Orleans Sound.“Cissy Strut” has a truly infectiously funky groove indigenous to that great historical city. Toll Free: 1-800-439-8921 / Direct: 1-604-855-7605 / [email protected], Musora Media, Inc. © 2020 - Terms / Privacy. Learning chords is a great way to improve your piano skills without any music theory. Nocentelli explained to Gibson.com that he penned this song to replace their traditional opener. Most material © 2005, 1997, 1991 by Penguin Random House LLC. Worship Piano Lisa Witt / Ask MetaFilter is where thousands of life's little questions are answered.
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Modified entries © 2019 is passionate about songwriting, improvisation, and helping you become a creative musician! In 1969 the Meters released "Sophisticated Cissy" and "Cissy Strut", both major R&B chart hits. Last 50 years Art Neville was the elder statesman in the group, he already had a group called The Hawkettes. It could always be a double entendre, but "Cissy" was not a rare girl's nickname back in '69. Does he own an exotic animal? Cissy Strut is one of my favourite songs to jam along to thanks to its simplicity and catchiness. This beautiful song by Taylor Swift is from her album "Folklore". He’s worked as a composer for film, commercial, and theatre projects as well as a session musician and producer for recording work. Released as a single from their eponymous debut album, it reached No. The A.V. ", In 1939, a polka craze swept America thanks to "Beer Barrel Polka (Roll Out The Barrel). If it’s just you playing along, you can expand upon the suggestions above. And best of all it's ad free, so sign up now and start using at home or in the classroom. What happens when Kurt Cobain, Iron Maiden and Johnny Lydon are told to lip-synch? Cissy strut is one of those songs that’s quick to learn, yet there are endless ways to re-approach and re-interpret it. Add Definition. Decem means ‘ten’, but December isn’t the tenth month. It's the CCR edition of Fact or Fiction. Anyone can start learning songs. Cissy Strut by The Meters song meaning, lyric interpretation, video and chart position ... And we started opening the set with 'Cissy Strut,' but it didn't have a name or anything. It was just that song, that opening song.
One of the great masters of the Hammond Organ. Instead, you can think of each component of the song as an opportunity to break off and explore each section as a creative … This beautiful song by Taylor Swift is from her album "Folklore". "Look-Ka Py Py" and "Chicken Strut" were their hits the following year. Since the main riff uses that pentatonic scale with the Eb, you can try playing a C minor 7th chord underneath the riff to give it a whole new texture. The tune is comprised of two main sections, plus a tasty little solo for good measure. Here's how to break down your favorite song. This song uses the C pentatonic scales for pretty much EVERYTHING. 4 on the R&B chart and No. A monthly update on our latest interviews, stories and added songs. We used to play Top 40 stuff. This is before The Meters, man.
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There’s a reason that this simple funk/soul tune written in the 60s is still being covered and reinterpreted by countless bands to this day. [citation needed], Cissy Strut is a compilation album of thirteen songs released by Island Records in 1974. 23 on the Billboard Hot 100. If you know a few musical friends, even better! [4], The Meters also released another single, "Sophisticated Cissy", from the same album.
I also think that it was done so as not to offend gay people. That was really The Meters, but we weren't called The Meters.
Joni Mitchell wrote "Woodstock" - the most popular song about the festival - but didn't attend the event because she was booked on The Dick Cavett Show. And Lisa Witt’s “Chord Hacks” series will show you how to play the most popular chords, so you can play many of your favorite songs on the piano! I agree with the double entendre thing. Lisa Witt / Piano plays a vital role in some of the most famous rap songs in history. Released as a single from their eponymous debut album, it reached No. And one of the songs that everybody kind of played was a song called 'Hold It.' Cissy Strut is one of my favourite songs to jam along to thanks to its simplicity and catchiness. This morning I was talking to my wife about Lee Dorsey and the Meters, and we put on the tune ". After a label shift in 1972, the Meters had difficulty returning to the charts, but they worked with Dr. John , Paul McCartney , King Biscuit Boy , Labelle , Robert Palmer and others. Learn "Someone You Loved" by Lewis Capaldi. I got sick of playing that, so I wrote 'Cissy Strut.' Since this song is such a good tune to build on your improvisation flexibility, don’t just limit yourself to one variation of these chords.
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Highlights of Japan-related events scheduled for Nov. 16-22
Highlights of Japan-related events for Nov. 16-22:Nov. 16 (Mon)– NASA to launch SpaceX craft with Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi, three other astronauts aboard.The U.S. space agency will launch a spacecraft developed by private company Space Exploration Technologies Corp. known as SpaceX, founded by billionaire Tesla Inc. co-founder Elon Musk. The launch was pushed back one day due to weather conditions.– Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to meet International Olympic Committee chief Thomas Bach.Suga will meet with Bach in Tokyo as Japan prepares to host the postponed games next year…
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Mega Man 5 (NES) Review
October 20, 2018 December 14, 2018 David Hogan
As we near the end of the original NES run of Mega Man games, we start to see the problem with an action platforming game releasing so many entries on a single system. While there is a new bird companion (if you manage to collect all the slightly-hidden letters on all stages, which for the record, I didn’t… That’s what I get for going in blind!) the game otherwise feel like the same old, same old. Is that a bad thing, though? Let’s find out!
Charge Man is what you get when Thomas the Tank Engine gets pissed!
Mega Man 5 (known as “Rockman 5: Blue’s Trap?!” in Japan) was first released in December 1992 in both Japan and North America, then the following March in Europe. As per usual it’s seen multiple re-releases as part of collections on various modern platforms as well.
The line up of Robot Masters this time are Star Man (a rip-off of the old Leaf Barrier, but with stars instead!), Gravity Man (controls gravity…), Wave Man (water, specifically waves of water, I guess…), Stone Man (can cause stones to fall and can become hard as stone), Gyro Man (may as well be called “Helicopter Man”), Charge Man (may as well be called “Train Man”, who can… well, charge into people), Napalm Man (military themed, including flaming missiles, obviously!), and Crystal Man (crystals!). This leads to several levels of sub-bosses, a confrontation with a false Proto-Man, then finally Wiley’s Castle and a blatantly-not-so-final showdown with the evil Doctor.
Hey! An auto-scrolling level with you in a vehicle! Gameplay variety… sort of!
Run, jump, shoot. Accurate platforming and fun mini-bosses and full boss fights, you gain a weapon based on what robot master you destroy, you have a robo-dog that also has several abilities, and you can regain health and weapon power by picking power ups. Same old stuff, though as mentioned you can now add a robo-bird called Beat to your arsenal if you pick up a letter icon on each robot master stage (M-E-G-A-M-A-N-V… wait, I get it!), which is actually really helpful for two bosses in the game, especially the final one… which is why I struggled so hard against them, as I was bird-less. Also new is a special energy tank that not only refills your health, but all your weapon energies as well.
There is a moment in Wave Man’s level where you jump in a water vehicle and then jump and shoot while being pushed forward via an auto-scroll. It’s… slightly different! Hooray!
Oh, and your charged shot now has a slightly wider field of effect on it. Some of the stage design is very cool as well, especially Gravity Man, whose stage does the whole “switching from walking on the floor to walking on the ceiling” level mechanic which I was impressed to see here on a NES game. Overall the game felt easier than some others, except for those two bosses, but hey-ho… that was my fault…
Graphics and Sound:
Look at the different colours and detail on those mountains! Compare that to the basically blank backgrounds of MM1 and you can see a good bit of difference between them, despite being on the same console.
Graphics wise it’s much the same. Once again the level backgrounds look a little nicer, more detailed and bright, but the sprites are pretty much as per usual for the NES Mega Man series.
The Soundtrack is quite good this time, one of the Wiley stage themes was particularly dramatic-sounding and catchy. Something being memorable and catchy isn’t something I’ve said about 3 or 4, so it’s worth giving 5 an extra tick there…
Wiley’s Castle is certainly vast, if that background is anything to go by…
Proto Man, Mega Man’s brother, has turned evil and began a plan to conquer the world with eight powerful robot masters! … except it’s an inferior copy of Proto Man created by Dr. Wiley, and soon the real Proto Man reveals this truth as Mega Man then defeats the copy and goes on to defeat Wiley AGAIN. I’ll admit to finding it funny when Wiley appeared in his little UFO and raised his eyebrows again signifying the start of the fifth Wiley castle. They know the joke now, at least…
Thoughts Now:
This has to be the most Disney-looking enemy of them all…
Mega Man 5 is another fine Mega Man title. It has a few minor new hooks, but in general its just another set of fun levels to platform and shoot across. It gets no points for originality, and because of that some of the less interesting stages were a slog, but it did at least have a few fun level gimmicks to make it feel a bit fresher than 4 did. Recommended, but only if you’re a fan of the genre and playing through the series, otherwise the earlier or later entries would be better…
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Meet The Man Healing The Hurt Between Prince Harry and Prince William?
By Tanya Clark On Jun 9, 2020
If there is hope of thawing the cold war said to be simmering between Prince Harry and Prince William, it lies with Former Welsh Guards officer Mark Dyer according to The Mail on Sunday.
For over two decades he has had their father’s, Prince Charles, a blessing to be a surrogate sibling, which meant at various times pulling rowdy Harry from nightclub messes and giving military career advice to both.
Who is the man expected to help bridge the Princely divide?
Mark Dyer became a mentor to Harry and William following their mother’s untimely death. Now, according to The Mail on Sunday, Dyer has a new assignment, and that is helping to rebuild the relationship between Harry and William who now live on separate continents. Dyer was in the Army during the Troubles in Northern Ireland so this task is in his wheelhouse.
It is said that the brothers were estranged after Harry’s lavish, taxpayer-funded 2018 wedding to Meghan Markle, a woman with whom William advised Harry to take things slow, words that he took umbrage to.
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Dyer’s skill set would be perfect for mending any rift that may exist between the brothers
Can Dyer help Harry and William bridge any gaps between them? One friend observed that, “Both William and Harry are proud and angry.”
But, “Long transatlantic chats between Mark and Harry have started to reap healing dividends between the brothers. His advice to the Prince was, “’ talk and listen.’”
According to the friend, “Both felt let down by each other. William felt that Harry had deserted his family and his duty. Harry felt that William and Kate hadn’t welcomed Meghan into the fold.” “’However, both realized what was at stake and that they were in danger of losing each other. They are now talking, but it will take time to mend.”
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Mark Dyer was educated at Cheltenham College
Dyer reportedly became a mentor to the teen boys after the death of their mother, Princess Diana. At that time he assisted with planning gap years abroad, attended Harry’s Sandhurst passing-out ceremonies, and was a driving force in establishing his Sentebale charity in Africa.
Dyer is described as, “one of the few people who talks some sense into Harry.” He now runs the Brook House and he dined there with Harry the night before the Megxit deal was announced in January.
And it doesn’t hurt Dyer’s peacekeeping mission one bit that his American wife Amanda is said to be liked by Meghan.
Tanya Clark
Tanya is a freelance writer, educator, and therapist. She spends the days of her life caring for her bold and beautiful loved ones, she's young at heart, very restless, and made her debut at L.A. General Hospital.
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June 22, 2017 June 22, 2017 IHCA
Racing underway at Kiel
By World Sailing (as amended by IHCA)
Light wind, tactical specialists came to the forefront on the opening day of racing at the 2017 Para World Sailing Championships as a challenging breeze tested the sailors.
The Para Worlds, held alongside Kieler Woche (Kiel Week) sailing festival in Kiel, Germany, saw more than 80 sailors from 39 nations tested by an inconsistent 6-9 knot west north westerly breeze.
Two races were completed in the Open 2.4 Norlin OD, Men’s Hansa 303 and Women’s Hansa 303, all One Person Keelboats open to classified sailors with minimum disabilities.
Those who thrive in light wind and sailors with their thinking caps on, constantly looking for shifts and gains on the water, moved to the head of their respective fleets.
Christopher Symonds (AUS) took two race wins in the Men’s Hansa 303 with Rio 2016 Paralympian Piotr Cichocki (POL) following on both occasions.
The Australian and Polish racers hold the gold and silver positions at the early stage of the regatta. Three-time Paralympic medallist Jens Kroker (GER) follows in third overall.
In amongst a field of experienced Paralympians, Symonds’ early success does not come as a surprise as he holds world and national titles in the Hansa 303.
Cichocki and Kroker fought for the medals at Rio 2016 and with their experience Symonds has noticed an increase in competition and is enjoying sharing the start line with new faces, “It’s pretty special,” he paused. “When you get on the start line and you see people looking up to windward beat with just over a minute to go you know the sailors are switched on and watching. Those two guys [Cichocki and Kroker] were doing that and they’re very good sailors. There’s no doubt about that. To be amongst them is pretty special.
“I’m not a Paralympic sailor but I have been sailing for many years, since I was ten and I love it. My condition with Kennedy’s Disease has stopped me sailing bigger boats so now I’m in the smaller boats, travelling the world and loving it.”
Symonds has dedicated his life to sailing and since the 1970s he has taken multiple honours within the sport. His wealth of knowledge is high and knows that he can not take anything for granted, much like a certain team in the America’s Cup right now, “We’ve got a long way to go. It’s like being in Team New Zealand and not getting ahead of ourselves.”
In the challenging 7-9 knot breeze, the conditions suited the lighter sailors, such as Symonds. The slightly heavier Cichocki and Kroker used their tactical nous to sail at the front of the pack.
The forecast for the rest of the week is for stronger breeze and Cichocki knows he can make the gains to overhaul Symonds, “The Australian sailed really well and he’s a good sailor but I’m slightly heavier so he had some extra speed on me. The regatta is really long and we need to focus on the next day.”
In the Women’s Hansa 303, France’s Magali Moraines and Spanish Rio 2016 Paralympian Violeta del Reino share the lead on four points.
Moraines took the opening race win and followed up with a fourth. Del Reino sailed consistently, finishing second in both races.
Rio 2016 Paralympian Qian Yin Yap (SIN) took the day’s other race win and is third overall.
Full results are available at http://www.manage2sail.com/en-US/event/KielWeek
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How Crowds and Experts Kickstart the Arts
12 May 2015Research & Ideas
Ramana Nanda and Ethan Mollick look into how experts and crowds—the National Endowment for the Arts and Kickstarter—make choices about backing proposed theater shows.
Philosophers have talked by turns about both the "wisdom" and "madness" of crowds. But when it comes to assessing and funding the arts, just how wise are crowds—and how does their wisdom compare to that of art experts?
HBS Associate Professor Ramana Nanda sought to answer those questions in a recent study, which compared funding decisions of startup theater productions made by art-loving masses on crowdfunding website Kickstarter with evaluations by experts in the field.
“Most of the disagreements were on projects that the crowd liked but that the judges would potentially have given less money to or not have funded at all”
Crowdfunding platforms represent a major shift in the way art projects seek support and find success. Since its founding in 2009, Kickstarter has raised more than $1.5 billion for over 80,000 art projects, opening doors and lifting curtains for many projects that couldn't or wouldn't otherwise have gotten off the ground and onto the stage. In fact, Kickstarter now raises more money for artistic projects each year than the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), an independent federal agency established in 1966, which also funds artistic endeavors, albeit through very different means.
Where the NEA has a nearly 50-year history of art market-making, with vetted mechanisms for ensuring artistic quality and value, Kickstarter offers almost the opposite—it makes funding more into a matter of marketing savvy and mouse clicks. Hence Nanda's curiosity about the artistic merit therein.
The crowd identified breakout theater hits the experts sometimes ignored,
but also backed a box office bomb. ©iStock.com/jganser
"Crowdfunding has enabled a democratization of access [to funding]," Nanda says in his office at the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School. "That could be both potentially positive and negative. There is a lot of critically acclaimed artwork that could be systematically overlooked by crowds. On the other hand, you could imagine that experts aren't always good at keeping in touch with where consumers want to go."
When Experts And Crowds Collide
To better understand the gaps and overlaps between crowds and experts, Nanda and co-author Ethan Mollick, of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, began their study with a full set of applications for theater projects from Kickstarter and stripped them of their outcome information. They then distributed a set of three project successes and three failures to a group of individuals that had previously judged for organizations like the NEA and other funding bodies.
"The idea was quite simple: to render the projects the way the crowd saw them on Kickstarter, without outcome information, and have the judges look at them and judge them on things like artistic merit, feasibility, furthering cultural dialogue, and some sense of commercial viability," Nanda says.
There were two broad sets of results. The first was a "positive and statistically significant" correlation between the scores judges assigned and the outcomes of the crowd, suggesting that on average the two groups saw projects similarly based on the above criteria. The second set of findings was on divergent projects, which Nanda and Mollick were especially interested in. What did the crowd like that the experts did not and vice-versa?
"First, it's important to consider that there's a bit of an art to raising money from the crowd," Nanda says. "Sometimes the judges liked projects for which the artists hadn't quite figured that part out. That said, most of the disagreements were on projects that the crowd liked but that the judges would potentially have given less money to or not have funded at all. Those particular crowd favorites showed more variance. They were more likely to be breakout hits, but also included one flop that judges might potentially have been able to stop."
The crowd aggregation allowed the funding of many projects that were slightly outside the purview of what judges focused on, suggesting that Kickstarter's democratization enables a greater breadth of artistic production, says Nanda. At the same time, the study recognized that Kickstarter supporters weren't always applying the same kind of discipline and rigor in their analysis of projects. They simply liked a project and supported it, or didn't.
"Overall, the general sense is that the projects that found success on Kickstarter were by no means crazy," Nanda says. "Quite the opposite. The average size of the project in our sample was similar to the average size of a project funded by the NEA. And yet, you can imagine that the kinds of projects people put on Kickstarter and the kind they submit to the NEA are quite different in composition and style, which is why we can't definitively say whether crowdfunding is a substitute to grant-making bodies such as the NEA."
Receiving Funding Is An Art Itself
There are a number of extensions of the study Nanda says would be especially interesting and revealing if pursued. Those include looking at projects that applied to both Kickstarter and the NEA, where the discrepancies in funding would better show what succeeds where and why.
But the overall lesson for artists and entrepreneurs remains a valuable one—their commitment to funding, whether cleverly accomplished through crowdfunding or more technically done through grant writing, often requires as much dedication as the artistic process itself.
"Democratizing access for art funding is a good thing," Nanda says. "In that sense, crowdfunding is best seen as a complement to governmental support. There's no question that many projects being funded on Kickstarter would have been too small or too unconventional for many foundations, and we found they were still of critical quality and substance.
"In that sense, we found that we can't reject the wisdom of crowds."
This article first appeared on the Harvard Business School website under the title, How Crowdfunding Kickstarts the Arts.
In order to be published, comments must be on-topic and civil in tone, with no name calling or personal attacks. Your comment may be edited for clarity and length.
Crowd funding can be a useful source of finance. However, the combined genius of crowds to properly judge the quality and value of the product is something on which one cannot fully rely. Reason being that crowds have a tendency to blindly follow - just like animals - each other and can be dominated to follow the views of anyone who moves forward to assume a leadership-type role. Also that individuals in the crowds do not use their faculties objectively to unhesitatingly opine what they feel - they could differ from the mass decision but generally follow the majority voice willy nilly.
The study is interesting and has provided good food for thought.
Citizen, USA
You completely ignored the part about forcibly taking money from the people to fund the projects chosen by some politically connected elite. The NEA should be spun off, if people want to donate to projects the 'experts' choose that's fine. If not they should be able to donate to projects they like - including using the money for their own vacation. Theft is a poor basis for a society.
Zufi Deo
Founder, www.bizstuff.co
Thanks for the article. I think it has some good background information on how Crowd Funding is a paradigm shift.
I also think if you crossed applied data from the financial markets on cascades and herd behaviour you may be able to answer some the questions regarding the data analysis and user behaviour.
Look forward to more research on this area.
Ramana Nanda
Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration (Leave of Absence)
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What to Do in DTLA this Weekend: Wiznu Studio's Artful Salute to Women
The Power of Women - Gallery Gala and Benefit
Fine Art - Spoken Word Performance - Hors d'Oeuvres and Wine Pairings
Benefiting the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
Saturday, April 9, 7-11 pm
Tix $20 at http://wiznu.bpt.me/
DTLA, home of Wisnu Studios; photo by Michael Wisnieux
WIZNU Studio
724 South Spring Street #703
Miss that happening art scene you loved in NYC, Chicago, Seattle? Feel it this Saturday, as WIZNU Studio throws wide its doors this Saturday in it's artful salute to the Power of Women, with a multitude of mediums by and about women's strength and spirit. Cast aside all those old paradigms, and enjoy food, wine and enlightenment with this forward-thinking group of cutting edge artists and producers.
The exhibition of sculpture, painting, and photography titled THE POWER OF WOMEN is open Saturday, April 9 from 7pm to 11pm at WIZNU Studio 724 S. Spring St. #703, Los Angeles CA 90014. This gorgeous loft gallery event features visual art of women plus their words and music, with performances by DOLLHOUSE Actress Miracle Laurie and Rockabilly sensation & new Second City discovery Maureen Davis. Live performers include poetic readings and monologues by award-winning stuntwoman/actress Carly Sunae; SheTech founder, radio announcer & opera singer Rebekkah Hilgraves; and Spoken Wordsters Kelli Ostara & Anna Broome.
Hors d'oeuvres and wine pairings will be served amidst art on display and for sale, with partial proceeds donated to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
About the artists:
TANYA RAGIR'S art speaks the language of the feminine. Her most recent work - The Warrior Series, centers around states of being; facing internal/external barriers struggle and loss, risk and trust. Tanya sculpts in clay. Pieces are fired or cast in bronze, aluminum, stainless steel and polyester resin. Sizes range from inches to monumental. Her art reveals the very process by which the authentic expression of the feminine is centered between opposites, particularly in the historically contentious arena of sensuality versus power.
http://TanyaRagir.com
DANNY GREENE says "I paint women because to me, there is nothing harder to capture than the ecstatic beauty and power that women possess." After a near-fatal car collision, Danny, suffering from Post-Concussion Syndrome, was urged by his doctor to paint - for therapeutic benefits. People became shapes and colors, and he started noticing subtle changes of value, which appear to him as triangles of light. He is inspired by the works of Van Gogh, Henri Matisse, Diego Rivera, Francois Nielly, Frida Kahlo, and Pablo Picasso. Danny Greene's hope is for his story & art to touch and inspire as many people as possible. He hopes that everyone becomes aware of their hidden talent dwelling inside them, scratching to get out. http://DannyGreeneArt.com
MICHAEL WISNIEUX's life has been shaped by the love of women. "Mom was the beneficent Leo ruler of our family." Each project Michael has embraced has received the grace of mother Phyllis' love and nurturance. Michael's photographic legacy includes covering the historically influential Chicago music scene of the 1980s and 90s, capturing some of the most prolific icons of rock-and-roll: David Bowie, Dizzy Gillespie, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Peter Murphy and also Janet Jackson and Björk, whose photos are featured prominently as part of his contribution to the POW Gala Exhibit. http://Wisnieux.com
Actress MIRACLE LAURIE - featured live performer - is best known for her role as Mellie on Joss Whedon's DOLLHOUSE, with numerous film and TV projects with Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, Josh Duhamel and Dan Fogler also to her credit. Her newest project, Insane Jane, based on the cult comic book from Bluewater/StormFront Productions is currently in development. It is the story of a deluded, yet-well-meaning heroine who believes she has super powers and just might. When not acting or producing, she is one half the duo UKE BOX HEROES with her husband, actor Christopher May. http://MiracleLaurie.com
MAUREEN DAVIS - gala host - is lead singer of the popular rockabilly band Maureen and the Mercury 5, who have successfully crossed over from retro rock to mainstream with SRO performances at the star-studded Ultimate Jam Nights produced by Chuck Wright of Quiet Riot. She is "the first female band leader in late night history" (The Star) on Second City's late night talk show AFTER DARK WITH JULIAN CLARK. Davis was in the original cast of the Tony-winning "Into the Woods" with Bernadette Peters, and has toured the world and played Carnegie Hall. As a TV/film songwriter her music can be heard on CBS, NBC, ABC and the Oscar-winning film "The Descendants" with George Clooney.
ODEYA NINI is a vocalist and composer of contemporary and experimental music. Her work is an investigation of inner dialogue, polarization, cohabitation and the meaning of validity. As both a composer and soloist, her music acknowledges the arch from silence to noise and all its variant sonic exposures.
http://OdeyaNini.com
For more information, press and VIP passes or to schedule an interview, contact Julie Ann Keller at rhythmjulie@gmail.com or 559-287-6698.
Labels: #DTLA #Artshow #4/9/16 #loft #wineandcheese #maureendavis #miraclelaurie #tanyaragir #sculpture #photography #spokenword #benefit #lymphoma #Leukemia #$20
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Alternatively you can get to the toll plaza with a local train and a walk of 4 km. Take a local train (KM/REG) from Poznań Główny (central station) to [[Zbąszynek]] or [[Zielona Góra]] and get out after 12 or 14 minutes in [[Palędzie]]. From the station walk along the railway on Kolejowa street (going west). At the end of the street turn left on Pocztowa. At the end of this street turn right on Ojca Mariana Zelazka. 250 meter after the last houses you turn left on an unpaved fieldroad with willow trees. This fieldroad brings you to the toll plaza.
THIS METHOD DOESN'T WORK ANYMORE!.THERE IS A HIGH FENCE BETWEEN THE ROAD AND THE FIELD , AND THERE IS A POLICE STATION NEAR THE TOLL PLAZA. DON'T TRY IT ANYMORE!.
* '''Bus stop on ''Głogowska'' street'''
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Voivodeship:
Greater Poland (Voivodeship)
Licence plate:
PO, PZ
Major roads:
A 2S 5, S 11
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Poznań is a city in western Poland.
Hitchhiking out
Despite the fact that hitchhiking works great in Poland, getting out of a city can be a pain and Poznań is the best example for this. It is much more recommended to go to the toll plaza, but of course it can take some minutes longer than going to Głogowska street.
West towards Berlin (Germany)
A 2 E 30
Toll plaza Gołuski
Go to Ogrody (last stop of trams 2, 7, 17, 18 and many buses) and take suburban bus no. 718 (route, timetables) or 719 (route, timetables). The bus stop in Ogrody is on the other side of the street when you get off the tram. Get out in Dopiewiec. The ride takes about 40 minutes. You can also take a mini bus of private company Bis Trans which goes from the same spot in Ogrody to Dopiewo which is next village after Dopiewiec. Ask the driver to stop in Dopiewiec.
From there walk for about 2km south and then just jump over the fence (before the police station) to get on the parking after the toll. Here's the route.
Alternatively you can get to the toll plaza with a local train and a walk of 4 km. Take a local train (KM/REG) from Poznań Główny (central station) to Zbąszynek or Zielona Góra and get out after 12 or 14 minutes in Palędzie. From the station walk along the railway on Kolejowa street (going west). At the end of the street turn left on Pocztowa. At the end of this street turn right on Ojca Mariana Zelazka. 250 meter after the last houses you turn left on an unpaved fieldroad with willow trees. This fieldroad brings you to the toll plaza.
Bus stop on Głogowska street
Get to Górczyn (last stop of trams 5, 8, 14 and many buses). From there walk over the rail tracks by bridge and go straight for about 800m. Behind the second traffic lights there's a bus stop where you can hitch. There's no point of going further as expressway starts just a few hundred meters behind the bus stop. This expressway is a main road linking city center with motorway A2 from the west. There are also two petrol stations nearby where you can ask drivers. From the same spot you can hitch towards Wrocław so make a sign. A lot of local people will go to Komorniki, the first suburb of Poznań in that direction, where there are a lot of shops like Auchan (supermarket) and a McD. Often you will hear the recommendation that from there you will easily find a lift to the A2, but actually this is not true. Most traffic is coming from the A2 and is going to the center of Poznan.
If you happen to be stranded on that McDonalds, you can also walk towards Głogowska road, just under the bridge, there's a lane in direction of Świecko, that some locals take. You can either take this and go to Berlin directly or hitchhike until the toll plaza, which will be a much easier option.
If you plan to go to Germany, it is also a good possibility to catch a ride to Warszawa, get out at the toll box and change the side. Once on the motorway it will be very very easy to catch a ride to Germany because there is no big city inbetween Poznan and the border and if a car here stops for you, you can be quite sure it crosses the border.
Go to Ogrody (last stop of trams 2, 7, 17, 18 and many buses) and take bus no. 61 direction Krzyżowniki. Get out at the ninth stop called Ul. Wichrowa and walk along the road for about 300 m then you will see petrol station and McD's. Ask drivers there or stay on the road with sign or thumb. Also about 100 m after this place is a bus stop so it's more convenient for drivers to stop their car.
Comment by a local: It's more convenient to get off at a stop named Smochowice. You can hitch hike from there or (what i usually do) hitch until the bus 01 (going through Sady, don't mess it up!) arrives. Get on the bus, buy a ticket to Tarnowo and get off after you pass Sady. It's probably the 2nd stop after Sady, as far as i know the name is Marianowo (i'm not 100% sure about it though). You will notice it since it's a perfect place to hitch-hike: there are 2 lanes instead of 3, you are visible from a far distance and there is a lot of space for a car to stop. On your left side there will be a forest, on the right side there are few houses, in front of you there will be a board which indicates, that it's the road towards the Pl - D boarder.
"Comment by J.N.: Just ride bus 01 to Tarnowo Podgorne instead of confusing yourself over which bus goes through Sady. Ride/walk along the main road through Tarnowo Podgorne until the end of the village where there is a roundabout on which the local road joins road 92 going to Pniewy and Swiebodzin. You can hitchhike on the roundabout. The businessman who picked me up told me he and his colleagues prefer using this road over the highway as there are much less traffic jams due to roadworks and trucks" (10.8.2011).
East towards Łódź, Warszawa
Roundabout Rataje
Get to Rondo Rataje (roundabout). There are plenty of trams and buses going there. You can hitch just behind it, on a dual carriegeway (the one without tram tracks). There's no emergency lane or bus stop, but drivers generally stop there, and you may even expect some competition there, as it's popular spot for students hitching back from school. From the same spot you can hitch southeast towards Katowice, so make a sign.
Junction Poznań Luboń
In the city centre, just in front of the castle there's a bus stop called Zamek. From there take a bus 71 in the direction Osiedle Dębina and get off at the end. Go along the main road till you get to the motorway junction. You can ask at the red lights for a lift to the nearest petrol station on A2 (MOP Krzyżowniki), which is just before the junction Poznań Wschód (exit for S5 towards Gniezno). Ask: stacja benzynowa A2 (pronounce statsya benzenova ah dva).
See direction Berlin, then just go to the other side of the motorway.
Petrol station on Warszawska street
From city center take trams 6 or 8 to Miłostowo and get out at the last stop. From there walk along the road about 100 m and you will see Orlen petrol station. You can either ask drivers at the station or hitch at the end of it where is a place for cars to pull over. Optionally you can walk along the same road and after 200-300m you will see a bridge and Volkswagen factory. Hitch straight after the bridge on the bus stop (there is plenty of cars and trucks who are going by inner bypass around Poznan, so many of them are going for a longer distances, and you may avoid local traffic like it's possible at the first place mentioned).
Northeast towards Bydgoszcz, Toruń, Gdańsk 5 E 261
Take bus no. 73 direction Janikowo/Ogrodnicza from place called Rondo Sródka and get out after 11 stops (about 15-18 minutes) at bus stop called Bogucin Bałtycka. Hitch on this bus stop, it's on the road to Gniezno, Bydgoszcz and Gdańsk just after junction with Poznań bypass. You should notice railways nearby and crossed Poznań sign (end of the city zone). Notice that if your driver goes to Gnizeno, make sure you exit before the city, since the road becomes a motorway inside the city and there is no good spot to be found.
North towards Piła, Koszalin 11
From city centre e.g. Rondo Kaponiera take tram 9, 11 to Piątkowska and get out at the last stop. From there go north along Piątkowska street to the first junction, then turn west (left) and go to roundabout Rondo Obornicka. On roundabout turn north again (right) and enter national road no. 11 (you will see hipermarket Carrefour next to you). You can hitch after roundabout or anywhere along Obornicka street where is a place to pull over. There's almost always traffic jam, so cars go slowly, which helps hitchhikers.
Northwest towards Gorzów Wielkopolski, Szczecin 92
See direction Berlin by national road 92 as it's the same spot.
South and southwest towards Wrocław 5 E 261 and Zielona Góra 32
From bus stop on Głogowska street
See direction Berlin by motorway A2, from Głogowska street as it's the same spot.
From the village of Szreniawa
Get to Górczyn (last stop of trams 5, 8, 14 and many buses). Then take a bus 103 to Szreniawa (aproximatelly 15-20 min by bus from Górczyn). After getting off you can easily catch a car in the direction of Leszno, Wrocław.
Southeast towards Ostrów Wielkopolski, Katowice 11
See direction Warszawa by motorway A2, from behind roundabout Rataje, as it's the same spot.
The city has efficient public transport system with daytime trams and buses operating from 5.00 till 23.00 and nighttime buses and one tram running every half an hour. In Poznań you can not buy tickets at the driver, you can get them in newsagents (kiosk) and grocery shops, and there is more and more ticket machines on the stops. Some buses and most of the trams has ticket machines inside the vehicle and you can buy ticket there, but prepare coins. 15 minutes ticket costs 2,6 PLN (November 2012). Drivers don't care if you have a ticket and all the doors are open on stops, but there are controllers checking tickets from time to time. They can be tricky. Use casual dress and wait when bus or tram start its way and check ticket when you don't have chance to go out. Sometimes they are waiting to see someone not buying validating ticket to start their control trying to get at least one person on surprise. There is a good website showing you how to get from one point to another by public transport in major Polish cities.
In Poland you can find many places called milk bars or dairy bars (bar mleczny) where traditional Polish and Eastern European cuisine are sold. They are subsidized by the state and city authorities, so the prices are very low. Names and locations:
Caritas - Plac Wolności
Pod Arkadami - Plac Cyryla Ratajskiego 10
Apetyt - Ul. Szkolna
Przysmak - Ul. Podgórna 2
Normally they are open till 18.00 or 19.00. 'Apetyt' is open until 22:00.
There is "a chain" of 3 Vegetarian Bars (Bar Wegetariański) called Green Way where you can get really good food at very reasonable prices (big meals for about 2 Euro). Locations:
Ul. 23 Lutego 11
Ul. Taczaka 2
Ul. Zeylanda 3
Open: mon-fri 11.00 - 19.00, sat 12.00 - 19.00, sun 12.00 - 17.00 (bar on 23 Lutego Street closed on Sunday)
Bar Piccolo on Ratajczaka Str., Garbary Str. and Wroclawska Str. Small portion for about 4 PLN
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Throughout is a woman who disowns her feminine side,
Posted on July 19, 2019 February 25, 2020 by admin
Throughout history women have encountered many stigmas and societal restraints on their roles in society. They are forced to bow down to male dominance without a question in mind. This male superiority is a discretion that still lives on in some cultures of the modern world.
However, in the play, Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare, this type of prominence is not easily found. Set in medieval Scotland, the main character Macbeth is a Scottish general who thrives to overtake the throne of Scotland after his meeting with the Three Witches. Upon meeting the witches, Macbeth is easily swayed as the first of the witches’ many prophecies come true. As Macbeth is keen on unraveling his future, the driving force behind his actions resides within his wife, Lady Macbeth. Lady Macbeth is an unconventional character as she defies all stigmas of the medieval society, she is ruthless and ambitious, pushing her husband to commit an act of crime that soon spirals into a whirlpool of atrocious events. Lady Macbeth’s initial influence upon her husband to kill King Duncan is soon seen to lead a death order to Macbeth’s best friend, Banquo, and Banquo’s son Fleece. After his name to King seemed final, new prophecies arise of an upcoming war that ultimately leads to Macbeth’s downfall.
This disruption of gender roles presented through Lady Macbeth’s seizure of the dominant role is seen on many occasions throughout the play as she rules over her husband and dictates his actions. Although a deeper understanding of gender concepts of manhood and womanhood are established in medieval Scotland, Lady Macbeth’s defies these principles in a polarized rejection of womanhood and humanity in order to attain power that only men would have in this medieval society. A pivotal role introduced in Macbeth is the feminine dominant role acquired by Lady Macbeth. She is a woman who disowns her feminine side, ashamed and hostile, she only wills for the power of a man. As an active character throughout the play, Lady Macbeth is the initial force behind all of Macbeth’s wrongdoings.
As she dictates Macbeth to kill King Duncan, she inherits the role of a man during medieval times. When Macbeth starts to question his decision to go through with the murder of King Duncan, Lady Macbeth steps in and convinces him otherwise saying “Art thou afeard / To be the same in thine own act and valor / As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that / Which thou esteem’st the ornament of life, / And live a coward in thine own esteem, / Letting “I dare not” wait upon “I would, ” / Like the poor cat i’ th’ adage?” (1.7.39-44). Lady Macbeth is using her context to humiliate Macbeth and belittle him to feel ashamed for even hesitating.
Lady Macbeth’s type of behavior is seen to resemble the classic stereotypical male, all mighty and unwavered by the evil deeds she forces Macbeth to commit. These characteristics are well supported by Lady Macbeth’s initial drive for the throne. Lady Macbeth’s “Addresses her absent husband on priorities, she invites him to come to her quickly so that she can prepare him adequately by pouring her cruelty on him, and by chastising him with the valor of her tongue” (Rahman and Tajuddin, 129). .Her attempt to humiliate Macbeth is successful because she is able to bend Macbeth to her will very easily. This is possible because Macbeth is in a weak position, not only is he disturbed by the potential killing of King Duncan, but he is afraid of disappointing his wife. Lady Macbeth uses humiliation tactics because she knows well that Macbeth’s ambition of becoming the king is not strong enough; he does not have the evil in his character which is required to make him king.
Her lash of words not only push Macbeth to the edge of This argument provokes that to locate and examine the origin of evil, Lady Macbeth an analysis of her behavior has to determine whether this evil is in her nature or not. The evil found in her behavior and her drive for Macbeth’s throne concludes that is Lady Macbeth is the evil element present to push Macbeth over the edge.In grand scheme of Macbeth’s instability to make a decision, he is filled with the voice of Lady Macbeth who is constantly ready to give a tongue lashing. The lash of words that Lady Macbeth continues to diminish now include qualities Macbeth possesses in order to uphold the stature of men. With only one goal in mind, Lady Macbeth continues Macbeth’s emotional trauma as she calls upon the spirits to, “Come, you spirits / And that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, / And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full / Of direst cruelty” (1.5.38–41). Her dramatic call on the spirits to fulfill her wish is a way to eliminate her nature to all womanly attributes, provoke Macbeth to do the same.
She means to diminish his sense of compassion and pity which is a flaw to women, a quality she as a woman does not possess. Her speech is successful as she not only critiques Macbeth’s decisions indirectly, but his sexuality and character. She speaks to Macbeth strategically as she deliberately questions his manhood, hoping to invoke a reaction from him that will finalize his decision to go through with the murder.
Her constant disapproval disgraces Macbeth’s masculinity as men in this society are supposed to resemble fierce warriors and men of great might, but instead he is described to be the very opposite. In this speech, there is no such confusion as Lady Macbeth is willing to do whatever is takes to seize the throne, including throwing her husband under the bus. Her continuous harassment is strategic because as she exposes Macbeth’s dying masculinity as she unveils her tactics to force Macbeth into making a decision using her femininity and sexuality. Lady Macbeth craves to attain the power of Macbeth since he is too hesitant and in the events that follow after her call on the spirits, she shows that she is the real steel behind Macbeth and that her will is what forces him forward with his decisions. Lady Macbeth’s strategic behavior invokes certain reactions of “femininity sexuality, and evil, which exposes our persistent anxieties surrounding the alleged dangerous sexual power of Lady Macbeth” (Rooks, 151). After Lady Macbeth claims to be unsexed, she puts Macbeth in between a rock and a hard place, trapping him to fulfill her wishes using a ploy through her sexuality and femininity.
This claim bases upon on the depiction of Lady Macbeth, showing an implication that female sexuality can present as a dangerous quality in Macbeth. This analysis confirms Lady Macbeth use of sexuality to manipulate Macbeth throughout the play which supports Lady Macbeth’s goal to attain total power in Macbeth is valid. Lady Macbeth’s thirst for Macbeth’s throne reflects upon on her own hunger for power that she not only craves as a man, but also a king. She carries the element of jealousy since she is not able to fulfill the duties of a man during her time.
Lady Macbeth’s character reveals characteristics of sexualized evil, and manipulation in order to reach her goal. As Macbeth’s character changes from a respected Thane who has shown great loyalty to King Duncan to an evil tyrant, there is only one person who can take credit: Lady Macbeth. This is Lady Macbeth’s greatest accomplishment, for Macbeth to lose himself to her reign. Although her accomplishment is close to fulfillment, Macbeth still has recurring qualms about his wrong doings. Before Duncan’s death he knows that Lady Macbeth forceful tactics are not his conscience speaks “My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, / Shakes so my single state of man / That function is smothered in surmise, / And nothing is but what is not” (1.3.
52-55). Macbeth is flooded with a sense of not knowing who he is anymore. He thought that Lady Macbeth being a good wife is only to be discerned with her husband’s well-being and helping him continue his success. In this moment Macbeth realizes that his definition of success is different from his wife, but because of the loyalty he has for Lady Macbeth, he goes through with the murder of King Duncan.
But his guilty conscience “gives conception of murder that is initially Lady Macbeth’s and her role, as she perceives it, is to gestate his “courage” to obtain what he deserves and desires” (Abdalla 9). Lady Macbeth becomes even more powerful as she realizes that Macbeth’s compliance to her shows true loyalty and submission to her will. In this moment, Lady Macbeth breaks from her prison of gender as she truly displays the masculinity that a man or husband would have over a woman or his wife. Lady Macbeth finally held this power to control Macbeth after all of the manipulation and humiliation she causes him to endure. As the act later plays out, Lady Macbeth successfully convinces Macbeth to kill King Duncan and concludes that she is the sole source behind most of her husband’s actions leading up to Macbeth becoming king. Without her forcefulness and manipulations, he probably would not have had the courage to commit the murders that were necessary for his climb to power in the first place. In the pursuit to fulfill her ambition through Macbeth, she only succeeds in monstering not only herself, but Macbeth as well.
Her manipulation of words force Macbeth to change his entire character throughout the play.Taking a closer look at William Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth, it is easy to conclude that gender is out of its traditional order. This disruption of gender roles is shown by Lady Macbeth’s internal male characteristics, but external female figure. Lady Macbeth is not aligned with the stereotypes in medieval society, but nonetheless she tends to them from both inside and out. MacBeth contains a “fierce war between gender concepts of manhood and womanhood played out upon the plane of humanity” (Kimbrough, 181). Due to societal restraints, Lady Macbeth is unable to take formal authority in order to gain status and a kingdom of power, so she uses her husband as a vehicle to fulfil her ambitions. But her role as a feminine figure in Macbeth completely eliminates these parameters of a woman in medieval Scotland as Lady Macbeth interchanges her femininity for masculinity in order to get what she wants.
While she is not the only contributing factor, Lady Macbeth does play a substantial role in the downfall of her husband. She is a catalyst for Macbeth and essentially pushes him over the edge to comply to her wishes. Lady Macbeth ensures that Macbeth’s own insecurities are fully exposed while misguiding his future to her own liking. As the plot continues, a realization of Lady Macbeth and Macbeth’s relationship is analyzed to undergo a dramatic shift of dominance in their relationship. Although, her capabilities only extend so far, as she suffers the consequences of a guilty conscience, while Macbeth’s confidence only grows. Soon, he is no longer susceptible to her insults and by the end of the play the roles have completely switched and Lady Macbeth spirals into a guilt fueled insanity.
Despite the repercussions, Lady Macbeth is still able to complete her role in Macbeth’s life, to be the dominant spouse. She established this principle early on that she wears the pants in the relationship which contrasts the status quo of medieval Scotland. She defined the capabilities of women which are usually underestimated, but Lady Macbeth’s role played in Macbeth not only gave contextual evidence to her success in the play, but established an identity that is evade by society.
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Buying aircon is tempting, but it leads to carbon emissions – there are greener options
UK homes are not designed to cope with these soaring temperatures – we can invest in a good set of blinds, but it’s the governments job to build more efficient houses
By James Dyke
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When will it end? This oppressive heat feels endless. After days of temperatures soaring above 30°C the hope of some respite was recently offered by a band of storms that crossed the country. Perhaps like me you avidly tracked them only to watch them disappear and with them any hope of getting a decent night’s sleep. Legs were out from underneath duvets weeks ago.
Our days increasingly centre around attempts at keeping cool. Wouldn’t it be nice to lean over and have discomfort dispelled at the flip of a switch? That is what domestic air conditioning offers. At a cost. Even the portable units are not cheap.
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But before you make such an investment, you need to think about how you could be making things worse.
UK homes were not designed to keep the heat out. Many are not very good at keeping the heat in either. When it comes to efficiency, the UK housing stock is a laughing stock. Thousands have ineffective or completely absent insulation, and leaky windows and doors. With our previously mild climate we could simply turn up the heating during cold spells to maintain comfort.
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Air conditioning seems to promise a quick solution. Rather than invest in making homes more thermally efficient we spend money on pumping out the heat instead.
But that comes with a climate cost. An aircon unit that can manage the temperature of an average house demands as much energy as 15 fridges. Global energy demand from air conditioning is expected to increase threefold by 2050. By then, over five billion aircon units will require new electricity capacity equal to the combined capacity of the US, EU and Japan today.
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Much of this electricity will be generated by burning fossil fuels. Higher temperatures, more aircon, more carbon emissions, more climate change. A wicked reinforcing loop.
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If that’s not possible then at least fans can be used to circulate air, and at night when it’s cooler, open as many windows as possible.
Longer-terms solutions will come from increasing building efficiency. That means better wall and loft insulation, and where possible installing ground source heat pumps. These can both warm and cool buildings.
The Government has an important role here. While recent announcements of £2bn for home efficiency improvements is a step in the right direction, there are still new homes being built with old insulation standards. There must be a rapid ramping up of ambition.
Beyond that we must urgently reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Every additional amount of warming exposes a larger fraction of humanity to dangerous weather. We risk large portions of the Earth surface becoming uninhabitable. If global warming continues unchecked, future heatwaves will not just be discomforting. They will be deadly.
James Dyke is an assistant director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter
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“They cordoned off my street, arrested all my personal staff, my security man and took away all my children’s birth certificates. They sealed my house, my life is under threat. I said I have resigned and that I shared his vision and I am still with him politically, so what else do they want from me?” he said.
But reacting, the Edo State Commissioner for Information, Mr Paul Ohonbamu, accused Akerele of attempting to blackmail the governor, saying having accepted his resignation and appointed a new CoS, Obaseki had moved on and had nothing to benefit from attacking Akerele.
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“He is the least of our worry; no one is bothered about him; the governor has moved on. To say that the governor is after him is sheer falsehood and blackmail and it shows the kind of character we are dealing with.”
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John Kerry 1971: The U.S. must beware of foreign intervention for moralistic reasons
AllahpunditPosted at 5:21 pm on September 5, 2013
A little morsel from the “Firing Line” archives that’s making the rounds on Twitter. Skip to 3:51 for the key bit. Quote:
It gets us into a sort of messianic enterprise whereby we have this impression that somehow we can go out and touch these other countries and change them.
Fast-forward a decade or four and now he’s running around telling people that failing to bomb Assad two years after he started slaughtering people en masse would be “one of those moments in history that will live in infamy.” Although, in fairness to Waffles, he didn’t change his mind on this recently. It’s hard to remember now but he voted to invade Iraq in 2002 before symbolically voting against it in hindsight two years later as his party’s nominee. To judge from his career arc, a guy who became a national figure for speaking out against Vietnam has grown increasingly pro-war over time, to the point where he’s now comparing Assad to Hitler and the gas attack in Damascus to Pearl Harbor. Maybe that fact will help ease the pain of anti-war liberals who narrowly missed dislodging Dubya in 2004. With Kerry steadily evolving towards interventionism, who knows what exciting military adventures we would have had in the second half of the last decade with him as president.
Then again, is the quote above really inconsistent with what we’re doing now? The point of bombing Assad isn’t to change Syria, despite John McCain’s fondest wishes, it’s to do something “just muscular enough not to get mocked.” Bloody Assad’s nose now and maybe he’ll learn that if he wants to kill children, he’ll have to go on doing it with bombs and bullets instead of gas. How moralistic is that, really?
Exit question: He sure has worked hard to lose some of that Brahmin accent, huh?
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Home » TV & Movies » Bhuvan Bam: YouTuber, musician, celebrity next door
Bhuvan Bam: YouTuber, musician, celebrity next door
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Bhuvan Bam’s videos often feature him playing over 19 different people, each with their own look, quirks and style of speaking. Characters like Bhanchoddas, Sameer Fuddi, and of course Titu Mama have become very popular.
There was a time when pursuing a career in media and entertainment required good looks, art or film school degrees or parental pedigree. There were slots where individuals spent most of their careers – hero, heroine, heroine’s sister, Ramu/shyamu Kaka, villains, vamps, comedian.
But the explosion of digital content opened a new gamut of possibilities erasing many of the ‘rules’ that govern content selection on traditional TV channels or even in Bollywood. Having a camera in the palm of your hand and an audience who didn’t need to be in theatres or even in front of a television changed the rules around how content was made. It also created a new breed of content creators who turned to various social media platforms to find an outlet and eventually a profession.
YouTube emerged as perhaps the most popular platform to post full-length videos and small web episodes of shows that were high concept and created on shoestring budgets. Soon stars were born, who today are as well recognised and popular as A-list movie actors.
One of these content creators who catapulted to popularity is Bhuvan Bam. Born in Vadodara and raised in Delhi, Bhuvan is a musician at heart who ventured into the world of video creation purely by accident and a fair sprinkling of outrage. After a satirical video he posted in reaction to an insensitive journalist’s questioning of a flood victim went viral, there was no looking back for Bhuvan who started his ‘career’ playing his guitar at a restaurant from 8 pm to 12 pm every night.
While he was enjoying creating content and posting funny videos on Facebook, his friends told him that on YouTube, he could actually make his hobby/passion an income-generating occupation. Vines was then a popular video hosting service that allowed artistes to post and share six-second long videos, and that’s how Bhuvan came up with the name BB ke vines and created his own channel on YouTube. While there were plans to eventually change the channel’s name, the immense popularity has ensured that the name has stayed on. After a breakthrough Valentine’s day video, there was no looking back for this young man who is now not just recognised but mobbed in public.
Bhuvan’s videos often feature him playing over 19 different people, each with their own look, quirks and style of speaking. Characters like Bhanchoddas, Sameer Fuddi, and of course Titu Mama have become very popular. In fact, Titu Mama, even got a spin-off talk show of his own, Titu Talks and a chance to meet Shah Rukh Khan. While Titu is based on Bhuvan’s uncle, he relies on his observations and interactions with the people around him to find inspiration for many other characters he has created.
Each of Bhuvan’s videos is scripted, filmed and edited by him and he also is the only actor. Using basic props and wigs and a simple camera phone, Bhuvan films his rib-tickling videos at home with little or no help from anyone else. Even with popularity and a definite rise in his financial fortunes, Bhuvan has chosen to keep his characters grounded in their relatable middle-class ethos. Perhaps the fact that he hasn’t changed or upgraded his characters as his popularity grew or modified the way in which he films videos has ensured that his popularity sustains as well. Bhuvan became the first Indian to cross 10 Million subscribers on YouTube and now has a whopping 19.8 million subscribers on his YouTube channel.
Bhuvan and his brand have grown over the years and the singer-actor-writer now has a team helping him run the company BB Ki Vines Productions and a merchandise brand Youthiapa. But while it all seems like a dream come true from the outside, it has taken years of consistent work, patience and the ability to take risks to keep audiences engaged. Being a content creator on YouTube is a demanding profession that requires a near-constant personal involvement of the creator who is at the centre of this creative universe. The competition is fierce, and in an increasingly crowded digital space, one has to post clutter-breaking content consistently to build a subscriber base.
Each five-minute episode takes him typically 15 days to ideate and write, and Bhuvan only shoots it if his script manages to make him laugh. He films all videos on his phone and this usually takes him 4-5 hours. It then gets edited and uploaded on the same day, after which it’s time to move on to the next thing.
Very often the next task at hand is finding solace in his keyboard and guitar, composing tunes and writing songs. Music has always been his first love and he rather proudly says that he is a musician first and a content creator second. Bhuvan has released six songs to date, and while he does plan on spending more time composing and creating music videos in the future, he promises to balance his passion for music with creating comic videos that his audiences love.
Often the pressure of being constantly funny, creative or engaging does get to him. He has spoken candidly about going through a creative block and perhaps that’s why he is consciously working on fewer videos each month focussing on constantly raising the quality of content. He keeps penning ideas down as they come to him, and takes breaks to analyse what is working and what isn’t. Music is a constant solace and inspiring force as is observing those around him for inspiration.
2020 was hard for him, as it was for so many of us. Bhuvan contracted the Covid-19 virus but thankfully made a full recovery. However, this unexpectedly difficult year has impacted him both personally and as an artist. Like so many of us, it taught him to be grateful for his family and loved ones and appreciative of simple luxuries like being able to step out for a cup of coffee or going to the movies. The realisation that human beings are fragile in solitude has hit him hard and though technology helped us stay in touch with each other and kept him going professionally, this year and its troubles have only strengthened his resolve to stay connected with his viewers through great content.
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The new PFL fighter @ClaressaShields talked last year about the transition to MMA and the adjustments he needs to make.
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It’s Not Over! Pebbles Files New Lawsuit Over VH1’s TLC Biopic
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It’s been a year since VH1 aired “CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story,” and Perri “Pebbles” Reid is still mad about how the network made her look.
Filing a $40 million lawsuit against Viacom was simply not enough for Pebbles. TMZ.com reports that she claims the film has ruined her life in a new lawsuit (That’s right. Another one!), where she states that she was grossly misrepresented.
According to court documents, Pebbles believes that “CrazySexyCool” discredited her character by depicting her as a dishonest, cut-throat businesswoman that would stop at nothing to squeeze every last dime she could out of TLC. The group’s ex-manager argues that contrary to her portrayal in the movie as a cheat, she poured her time and money into the mission of making TLC one of the best-selling girl groups ever.
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Passengers begin leaving after ship's virus quarantine ends
Feb. 19, 2020 04:01 pm JST Mar. 5, 2020 | 12:05 am JST
By MARI YAMAGUCHI and FOSTER KLUG
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cracaphat
Feb. 19, 2020 12:44 pm JST
Meanwhile on military bases in Cali and Texas,day 3 of a 2nd quarantine begins.Sigh. A penny for their thoughts.
This is like holding pigs in a muddy pen, letting them lose in your house and expecting them not to get mud everywhere. Watch the virus infection rate soar in Japan.
klausdorth
Just looking at those reporters / cameramen......
This much for preventive measures.
Besides, did the passenger's luggage / personal belongings also get checked for Corona?
If not .... well, there you will have the mess.
SoylentGreen
The quarantine was largely for passengers because crew members kept sharing double rooms and continued to serve guests by delivering food, letters, towels and amenities, and entering passenger cabins for cleaning. Crew members also ate in groups in a crew mess hall.
Who on earth decided that this was ok? The company certainly takes some responsibility for deciding to continue the cruise in a 'business as usual' manner while in quarantine, but surely the authorities here should have followed stricter rules. Although this sentence put at the end of the article, it is clearly one of the primary reasons for the failure of this quarantine. Classic Japanese indecision at work!
Yrral
We got 200 Chinese in Atlanta under self quarantine, no infection
Jonathan Prin
So even if virus level is low, it could be there.
Anyway, it is already soreading in Japan. Use young taxi drivers/operators to lead passengers home. Below 45 of age, risk is very limited statistically (0,2%).
How about reporting how many people have overcome the virus after infection? All we read about is "number of infections" but the vast majority of people have overcome the virus.
people tested negative & got off the ship should be quarantined on land for another 2 weeks just to be safe. Unfortunately Japan wouldn't do that. Expect massive of infected cases in Japan in the near future.
sicksound
I must say I'm not worried by coronavirus itself, but how the Japanese officials are handling this situation. If you see the John Hopkins map places like Europe didn't really had a substantial increase of cases of coronavirus in the past two weeks, even if flights from China are coming everyday (just British Airways and Lufthansa halted their services and Italy closed the flights to and from China). The real problem in Japan is how slowly they reacted to this ongoing situation, I mean, Italy not the country you would think when thinking about "best emergency response" had the two infected tested in 24 hours, the poor fella here in Hokkaido had pneumonia for 11 days before they thought to check him if he had coronavirus or not. I can understand that he didn't go abroad, but in this situation when you have an influx of chinese people coming and going without any restrictions, why wouldn't you think to check him a bit earlier?
Educator60
The Miyaneya tv “wide show” is going to take up the Iwata Kentaro video starting now (Wednesday, Feb 19, 1:55 pm)
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fillmore2
Now you see why the ship had so much problems, at minimum, you need to get these reporter fenced out to some distance,
also the passengers release from ship should wear more protective clothing,
where is the order? security people keeping the reporters and outsider away from passengers.
look at the ... reporter right next to the passengers in the photo.
Why so lax here? mask will not stop the spread of virus , this is really disappointing, this type of disorganization from J government,
Northernlife
This seems like one big mess...
stormcrow
That's just plain crazy, isn't it?
Riding on a crowded anything in Japan has just gotten a helluvalot more dangerous.
As with the U.S. passengers recently evacuated to the U.S., the Japanese government should have set up installations which would have been safer to monitor the potential carriers to ensure that they're not infected before releasing in the general population. This whole thing was totally screwed up from start to finish by the bureaucrats.
DaDude
Because negative news, tragedy and panic pays.
Ramzel
Usually I’m not to critical of the Japanese government but this is plan and simple idiotic.
get them off the ship, sure, but not I to the general population. Isolate them for 2 weeks to ensure that they didn’t get infected yesterday, but not showing symptoms yet.
beentofivecontinents
More information on the state of those infected in Japan, please. How many are in serious condition and need ICU ?
If you have not gotten blood work, how can, they say they are negative, every American on that ship will undergo a exam and American, that did not leave for America, is stuck in Japan, if are infected
I try not to compare Japan and Korea for obvious reasons. You need to google 8 people left for South Korea vs these Japanese residents coming out of the ship. Both group were negative , I will leave at that
Somehow only Japan thinks that ship quarantine is successful.
Good luck everyone, be prepared for widespread COVID in Japan.
Aly Rustom
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga defended Japan's handling of the quarantine: “In the beginning, the United States expressed gratitude for the Japanese side. And there are many Americans who chose to stay on the ship."
Idiot.
Exactly. I've been on various news sites from around the world. EVERYONE is very critical about the handling of this whole debacle. And they are right to be so.
@gogogoToday
Sadly in today's world of headlines being more important than facts, bad news sells more papers and generate more clicks than 'good' news. I mean if you reported that a majority of the deaths are within a narrow demographic people won't panic... and the media love a good scare story.
Up to half the of the passengers are Japanese, and of those released after negative tests, they will go back to their homes. As they've been away from their homes for so long already, the very first place they'll be going after that is to the supermarket to renew their grocery supplies. Maybe a kombini or two for other things first, some may need to go back to work straight away, potentially crowded subway train rides involved for some of the above... Yup, this might become interesting.
tamanegi
Remember these hundreds of infections are believed to have come from one passenger...just one.
Because we all know that the mortality rate is something like 2%, and is concentrated among the elderly. There is no need to report on it further.
So if a million people were to catch it in Japan, about 20,000 would be likely to die, as many as died in the tsunami of 2011. These are hypothetically people who would still be alive if not for the illness.
Gorramcowboy
Every single person should be tested and cleared of the virus before letting them go into the general population. No test? You remained quarantined.
Jeff Ko
Japan did the right thing by imposing quarantine on the ship. Japan did the right thing by letting passengers go. Japan can do no wrong!
OssanAmerica
Japan has had quite a few cases of infection, some Chinese tourists, some Japanese who were in China, and some who had nothing to do with China at all. But as far as I am aware no one got it from any of the passengers of the Diamond Princess. Which effectively means that the quarantine was effective. To this point.
Tokyo-Engr
Not sure what to make of this. I hope this does not cause the virus to spread in Japan. This does not seem wise.
What can we do about this?
https://youtu.be/vtHYZkLuKcI
GorramcowboyToday 04:05 pm JST
The ones leaving the ship have been tested and received negative results. They also have no symptoms.
To be accurate, 2 taxi drivers have been infected in Okinawa, both believed to have had contact with passengers from the Diamond Princess when the ship called in Okinawa. But this was before the quarantine.
rgcivilian1
My thoughts on this is that we the readers get accurate information regarding increase or decrease of this virus as a result in ending the quarantine and allowing all these people into Japan. Election time coming time for a real change across the board.
TheLongTermer
Have to give credit where it is due: the CNN reporter who was covering this, did a good job. He basically said what I already knew, but I was surprised to see somebody from the MSM being so transparent about Japan.
The J gov has been trying to make this all go away before the Olympics. Having witnessed this behavior before, its a very J gov thing to do. Releasing these people out to the public, seems absurd but this is Japan. Thanks to the reporter for telling the world how it is here.
@Educator60 In that case, they got the all clear, no problem.
mmwkdw
How about that British Couple, who recently tested Positive and were shipped off to some place other than a Hospital - one without WiFi... which has curtailed their plentiful updates from the inside.
Letting people off this vessel seems to me to be extremely highly negligent, this could go very horribly wrong.
The virus roulette has just begun......pure insanity.
divinda
Today (Wednesday) another 79 passengers tested positive for coronavirus on the cruise ship, bringing the total to 621 infected on the boat, or about 1 in 6 people, or about 17%.
Elsewhere across Japan, another 6 Japanese were confirmed with it as well
Sorry, not 6 new cases in Japan today. Its now 9.
Sorry again, its now 10.
(why do they always announce new cases so late in the evening...?)
JonathanJo
Feb 19. Total confirmed cases in Japan now 74, not counting those who contracted the virus on Diamond Princess.
I'm very worried this will be well up into the hundreds by the end of the month.
Johns Hopkins publishes a map/table of global cases:
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
As of writing (this comment), there have been 75,280 confirmed cases, 15,030 recovered, and 2012 fatalities. The ratio of recovered to fatalities has risen from around 4:1 to 7:1, but unsurprisingly, it's a moving target and you can't read too much into the figures or get accurate forecasts by basic calculation. You can be confident that of the cases diagnosed so far, taking out the recovered and the fatalities, there are a lot more fatalities on the way. Then more from whatever new cases are still to come.
So yes, most people do recover. But that's true of most infectious diseases, even ones with high fatality rates or the potential for the most awful effects. Also, any disease that puts hospital staff at risk of death, as SARS did and this one does, is a serious threat to all of us.
Is there no common sense at all in corridors of power in Japan?
letting these passengers go into the general public will be the biggest mistake of this government.
they should of take these passengers to isolated locations for 2 weeks period for more testing and keep them out of general public
Samit Basu
Japanese citizens are free to return to their homes, no self-quarantine required.
What can go wrong here...
Divine Wind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjGEGMLs4TE
Deserves it's own thread to be honest.
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The Day After and at the point of this writing, it’s not been decided who will be president. When reading this though, it’s likely you know who is as well who our new commissioners and district attorney are.
The work, the passion, the energy, dedicated by candidates and their supporters along with the money spent are now of history.
My thanks and congratulations to all who participated, from voters and election judges to campaign workers and the candidates themselves. It’s our task as citizens to keep making democracy happen.
The Frankenstorm is too of the past; remaining are the cleanup and rebuilding and the horrific memories. The place, primarily the mid-Atlantic seaboard, is different than New Orleans after Katrina or Tuscaloosa, Alabama after a tornado flattened a good portion of the town in April 2011. While those in Hurricane Sandy’s bull’s-eye have endured other challenges, this is something rare, not a 100-year storm, but a 200-year one. The closest weather historians can find to this cataclysmic storm is in the early 19th-century when records were not recorded measurably, but anecdotally.
Besides New Orleans and Tuscaloosa, I can list many more places but it’s unnecessary. All we need to understand is the recent weather-wise past is prologue: The atmosphere is warming and with that more and more violently intense storms are certain; and as long as denier mythology is given the same intellectual respect the same credibility as is real science, it will continue. Get used to the new normal.
There are three types of climate-change deniers: fanatics, fossil fuel corporations, and everyday people who opt to hide behind the falsehoods disseminated by the first two groups because of the inconvenience it would cause by sharing ownership for the warming trend
Deniers’ arguments rest on baseless data and are, thus, irrational. Disciples swallow it and then adhere to it dogmatically. Accordingly, climate change has become an emotional issue, making it near impossible to dispassionately bring those of such persuasion to the truth. One might as well try to rationalize with a would-be suicide bomber of the illogic of his act since he’s guaranteed only 70 virgins once he gets to heaven. Across eternity, once he’s done deflowering the 70 nymphs, what’s next?
If one insists on taking actions that result in his/her ostensibly being rewarded or damned in an afterlife and those actions cause me no harm, I don’t care. It’s akin to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes maxim, “Your right to swing your fist ends at my nose.”
Same-sex marriage and abortion are moral issues for only those of a particular religious persuasion. For the rest of us, they are human and civil rights issues. What we do to our planet, however, is a moral issue or ought to be one for all, and the consequence for depravity will not be hell as a post-life destination but, instead, a hell on earth of our own construction.
As I opened with, at the time of this writing the election results are not in, but my hope is that we locally as well as nationally were wise enough to elect dedicated stewards for our most precious treasure: our natural home. For in the end, if we should destroy the very environment that facilitated mankind’s rise and sustains our existence, it won’t matter how the stock market preformed or how many of jobs were created the last quarter, which leads to a broader notion.
Through this election season, I’ve come to realize that both Republicans/Tea Partyers and Democrats and both conservatives and liberals have faith, but in very different arenas.
For RTP’s and conservatives, the emphasis of faith lies in the other: mystical forces, mysterious powers and unseen hands-at-work, whether God or capitalism, beyond human understanding. For Democrats and liberals, faith tends to relate more to the here and now, in our case in America and Americans and in pragmatic problem-solving based upon science, data, and experience.
When one has faith based upon evidence, it requires no leap; for the rest, it does. In that regard, there is no rational space between religious fanatics and climate change/global warming deniers.
As it is with the difference between a frog leaping out of the hot water when tossed in and another placed in cool water and then slowly boiling to death due to it acclimating to its ever-warming environment, so it is with humans. I guess one can call it a perverse way of making lemonade out of lemons, which perhaps in a generation or two will be viable crop to harvest in our Colorado high country should we continue to sit on our hands and do nothing to slow the warming rate.
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Bibliographies to help you learn about Jewish Genealogy
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1. Books
http://www.iajgs.org/publications.html Jewish genealogy books you can purchase from the Intl Assn of Jewish Genealogical Societies
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Hal Bookbinder’s list of Jewish Community Books.
JGSGO Jay Schleichkorn Library Collection. A collection of books useful in Jewish genealogy. This project is the work of the late JGSGO member Jacob “Jay” Schleichkorn, who also edited the JGSGO newsletter. In 2012, the collection was donated to the Orange County Library System, because the library’s location was no longer available to us. See spreadsheet with titles, authors, and call numbers of the books in this collection.
This collection included microfiches. Details of the microfiche are found here:
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2. Periodical articles
a. Beginning Jewish Research, Ancestry Magazine, March/April 2003, Volume 21, Number 2, pages 34-39.
b. Most libraries subscribe to at least some of these.
Family Tree Magazine, published 7 times a year by F+W, 10151 Carver Road, Suite 200, Cincinnati, OH 45242
Family Tree Magazine, October-November 2014, Volume 15, Issue 6, pages 54-58. How to organize and save family photos for future generations.
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c. A genealogist’s guide to digital estate planning. National Genealogical Society Magazine, July-September 2014, Volume 40, Number 3, pages 62-64. Advice and resources for saving your material, including online and social media, now and after your death.
3. Jewish newspapers and magazines
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_newspapers_in_the_United_States
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We could show the climatic conditions as the initial basis for dressing. It’s the initial possibility that comes in your thoughts that dressing may have grown to be an inevitable necessity, especially in regions where cold temperatures is dominant. Arlinda Kazazi explained the annals of clothing with the next sentences: “The clothing that starts with the covering of the sexual limbs is generally related to the geographical structure and the human body. “.
Dressing habit, which started for various reasons, also affected one’s world view, psychology, and social level. This change has revealed the perception of the human with the dressing. The initial man and the very first prophet, Hz. We all know from many religious books that the wife and children of Adam made clothes manufactured from cloth. It’s learned from historical researches, excavations and various documents about the clothes of the tribes or communities living in ancient times. More in depth information on the subject is likely to be given in greater detail in these sections, but briefly; We could claim that the clothing styles of people in ancient times have changed and differed in accordance with social categories. In America Anthropologist Erik Trinkaus from Louis Washington University revealed that 42,000-year-old toe bones in Tianyuan Cave in China revealed that individuals began to use shoes about 40,000 years ago in East Asia.
At the same time, a bronze statue of a lady with a short-sleeved blouse and a fancy skirt was within Elam, that was thought to fit in with 5000 BC, and was considered to be fashionable at that time. These remains reveal that the Elam civilization is at an advanced stage in wool weaving. Regarding bending wool, wool is also processed because sheep were raised in Mesopotamia since ancient times. “It is accepted that the people of Babylon were wearing woolen clothing in 6000 BC, and the Assyrians and Chaldeans were the first countries to utilize wool.” “An important civilization of Ancient Asia, China contributed to the annals of clothing with silk fabrics. On the basis of the documents, silkworm’s BC. It is famous that it was grown in China in 2000 and silk was obtained from its cocoons &rdquo ;.
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***1/2 (3.5 Stars), All The Money In The World
All The Money In The World ***1/2
Date: 23/06/2018Author: Jules 0 Comments
A film now infamous due to the last minute decision by director Ridley Scott to replace the currently “indisposed” Kevin Spacey, by re-filming all of his scenes with Christopher Plummer.
An action that ran slam bang into another controversy, when it emerged Mark Wahlberg was paid colossal re-shoot fees whilst his female co-star Williams received next to nothing, with Walhberg eventually donating his extra fees to charity.
Can the film emerge from not one but two controversies unscathed?
The movie follows a largely linear path, essaying the kidnapping of the young grandson of John Paul Getty in Italy. Getty was quite literally the richest man in the world at the time, due to his oil based fortune.
When a ransom is demanded, Getty takes the somewhat unusual step of refusing to pay, not even a reduced amount and promising absolutely nothing, despite the boy’s mothers pleas.
Meanwhile a slight, tenuous relationship builds up with one of the captors (Romain Duris) and JP III (Charlie Plummer), which allows for a sliver of contact and compassion.
As the kidnappers get more desperate, as the scheme is dismissed as a hoax, darker forces become involved and the hostage situation gets more serious.
Getty himself merely carries on counting his millions, albeit allowing some time for his resident “fixer” Fletcher Chase (Wahlberg) to make the whole kidnap business go away. Gail Harris, JP Getty III’s mother (Williams) becomes increasingly desperate but fails to sway Getty or his right hand man to pay the required amount.
Plummer is excellent and is always interesting to watch when he is on screen. Snarling at reporters, viewing ticker tape as his fortune ebbs and flows. When asked how “much would it take to make him feel secure”, “more” he replies which sums up his whole mindset. Well that and the pay phone installed in his mansion for visitors to use….
Williams usually excellent seems to struggle here, seemingly not quite sure the role she is required to play. Wahlberg is unfortunately as bland as ever, adding nothing to the role as written on the page. Charlie Plummer (JP III) is solid in a difficult role but we get to see or understand little of his mindset in captivity.
It would have been interesting to see the Spacey cut of the film, any less than a commanding performance would have further impacted the film adversely. Whether the film benefited overall from the extra publicity, for good or bad is debatable.
With a worldwide take of only $56m, the films backers would have expected a better return for sure. Maybe they needed Getty’s business sense, with Getty Sr. eventually paying a $2.2 million ransom, the maximum tax deductible amount. “Generously” lending the remaining $0.7m to his son, with repayments at 4% interest…..
Overall a reasonably solid retelling of a well known true story, embellished and edited as required for a two hour film.
Christopher Plummer’s scenes are enough to keep the viewer interested but this is a rather bland recreation of what should have been a taut thriller, with Ridley Scott’s usual directorial flourishes, largely absent.
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iHeartRadio Parent Company Clear Channel Becomes iHeartMedia
James Swift Jr. · Sep 16th, 2014 · 0 Comment
Perhaps in a bid to distance itself from the less than favorable reputation it has gained over the years with the on air personalities it promotes, other affiliations, and from scooping up regional stations, Clear Channel decided a rebranding was in order. Taking the name of the mobile app that carries its channels, Clear Channel will now be known as iHeartMedia Inc.
Prior to the rebranding, Clear Channel had no method of getting its hundreds of stations in large and small markets to listeners outside of live streams on the stations’ individual websites. With iHeartRadio being launched in 2008 as iHeartMusic, Clear Channel’s empire of—at the time—750 stations came together under one accessible banner.
Over the course of six years, iHeartRadio spread to smartphones, tablets, and gaming devices. At the moment, iHeartRadio sports around 800 stations from around the U.S, an often advertised festival, and over 50 million subscribers.
With the achievements of the iHeartRadio platform, the popularity of internet radio and podcasts, and the steady decline of traditional over the air radio, it seems fit that Clear Channel would take its popular brand’s name in the same way Justin.tv took Twitch.tv’s name and became Twitch Interactive.
Unlike Twitch.tv becoming the flagship—and eventually sole platform—for Twitch Interactive, renaming a parent company that has been around for over 40 years doesn’t seem as important or necessary a move.
The Clear Channel name is mainly mentioned when there’s a job available at a local station or when it comes to the guidelines of some sort of prize giveaway or sweepstakes hosted by a station during commercial breaks. Renaming the company itself comes off as effective in making everything more uniform for legal reasons, but does little to change the image and history of the company.
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Short story – The Star Girl by Debasis Tripathy
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There is something about the autumn air in India, a general sense of leisureliness. The slow air touches you in a fashion that launches and fills festivity in your senses. No doubt there are so many festivals that queue up in the Indian calendar during this season.
Bidyut had joined the Durga Puja mass celebration near his ancestral home in his lane in Cuttack. There is a distinct trait to how people in old cities celebrate their festivals. The thousand-year-old city, where he had spent his childhood, was draped in a shawl dotted with countless lights. There was none in the city who was left untouched by the thrill. Everyone was soaked in the mood of the festival. But Bidyut was one who liked time alone. He preferred sombre darkness over light, which doesn’t let you hide. He knew many people in the city and was not really a shy person, but given a chance he liked to keep a distance. He enjoyed watching people celebrate but could never be a part of the party.
He moved away from the luminous surrounding to a hazy corner and lit a cigarette. The smoke that swirled up from his mouth formed different shapes. He raised his head, at an obtuse angle, to recognize the shapes – a human female without a head, very slender at the waist, followed by a broad exclamation mark, and then an irregular circle. Nothing finite, a figment of his imagination. He loved the moment.
“Got a light?” a female voice intruded into his zone of seclusion.
He passed the matchbox to the lady without a word. She was about the same height as he was. Maybe an inch smaller, but she had an erect posture and that, combined with her slim body, made her appear taller. Her hair was short and her head was a lovely egg shape. She must have been no older than twenty-five. She wore a pale yellow dress with a sapphire blue cotton jacket with lots of embroidery on it. She didn’t wear lipstick and her lips clearly indicated that she smoked a lot. She exuded confidence and freedom. An astonishing buoyant character. The first impression.
“Mind if I stand next to you?” she asked.
A minute or two of silence. Then a shrill alloy sound of conch shells, bells and hulahuli cries of women from near the Durga pandal, tore the stillness into hundreds of pieces. Both of them turned behind to the dissonance. Reflex action.
They nodded and smiled together. Bidyut folded his hands together as an obeisance to the goddess of divine Shakti, an old habit since his childhood. Though he was not religious, he loved the fun element of following a harmless tradition.
Bidyut made it a point to be in his hometown with his brother’s family during Puja. In this big world, they were the only ones he could call his own. His mother had succumbed to cancer while he was studying in Cincinnati and his father died a couple of years back. There was no way he would break his connection with his blood. His brother had a seven-year-old daughter and Bidyut was extremely fond of her. She was the main reason he kept coming back to Cuttack frequently, at least once in three months.
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August 2015 - Volume 6 - Issue 8
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Translational Medicine: Bench to Bedside
Butyrate and Mucosal Inflammation: New Scientific Evidence Supports Clinical Observation
Cushing, Kelly1; Alvarado, David M1; Ciorba, Matthew A1
1Department of Gastroenterology, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri, USA
Correspondence: Kelly Cushing, MD, Department of Gastroenterology, Washington University, 660 South Euclid Avenue, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
published online 27 August 2015
Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology: August 2015 - Volume 6 - Issue 8 - p e108
doi: 10.1038/ctg.2015.34
Short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs), such as acetate, propionate, and butyrate, are bacterial metabolites generated via the fermentation of dietary fibers. Luminal SCFAs are recognized as a preferred energy substrate for the colonic epithelium. As early as the 1980s, SCFAs were observed to offer therapeutic benefit in some forms of colitis.1 Since then, clinical trials have produced variable results in confirming the efficacy of SCFAs for diversion colitis or for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)-associated colitis. Putative mechanistic explanations for these clinical effects have been put forth along the way, particularly regarding butyrate.2 Now, more than two decades after the initial clinical description, research is illuminating the basic mechanisms by which SCFAs influence gut immune responses to promote homeostasis. These findings have stimulated a resurgence of interest in the topic. This Translational Medicine: From Bench to Bedside mini-review focuses on recently published papers evaluating the basic immunologic effects of butyrate on mucosal inflammation and integrity.
Butyrate limits intestinal inflammation by promoting the formation of the regulatory T cells (Tregs), a population of adaptive immune cells that suppress inflammatory responses.3, 4 Furusawa et al. sought to identify the mechanism by which commensal microbiota induce Tregs.3 They found that “germ-free” mice have lower numbers of Tregs than conventionally raised mice, which have an intact gut microbiome. They also observed that a high-fiber diet led to greater Treg numbers than a low-fiber diet. Metabolomic analysis identified an increase in SCFA production in mice fed the high-fiber diet. Using dietary supplementation to increase cecal concentrations of acetate, propionate, and butyrate, the authors found the most significant increase in Tregs occurred in animals receiving butyrate. In a related study, Arpaia et al. illustrate the importance of resident microbe metabolites (SCFAs) in extrathymic Treg generation.4 Tregs were induced by fecal extracts from conventionally raised mice, but not by fecal extracts from germ-free mice or mice treated with antibiotics. This group further showed that supplementation with butyrate in drinking water, was sufficient to induce Tregs in mice. In both studies, the increase in Tregs was attributed to the inhibition of histone H3 deacetylases (HDACs, a class of regulatory proteins that function as inhibitors of gene expression). Treatment with butyrate relieved HDAC inhibition of FoxP3, a protein important for formation of Tregs.
Butyrate also modulates the function of innate immune cells. Chang et al. observed a reduction in pro-inflammatory cytokines in macrophages treated with butyrate in vitro and in macrophages isolated from mice given butyrate in their drinking water.5 The implicated mechanism was again related to butyrate's ability to inhibit HDACs, and thus the inflammatory cascade. This finding is interesting as it demonstrates that microbes produce metabolites that suppress “first-line” innate immune cells from mounting an inflammatory response against these microbes.
Singh et al. proposed another mechanism of action for butyrate in the innate immune system. They found that this SCFA activates a receptor for niacin in the colon called Gpr109a.6 Genetic ablation of this receptor resulted in an increased susceptibility to colitis. Dendritic cells and macrophages isolated from Gpr109a knockout mice showed reduced capacity to promote T-cell differentiation into Tregs even in the presence of butyrate. Furthermore, the authors linked their findings to colon carcinogenesis by showing Gpr109a-deficient mice had increased susceptibility to both colitis-associated and genetically driven (Apc) colon cancers. Finally, the authors also demonstrated that butyrate signaling through Gpr109a on epithelial cells promoted expression of the pro-homeostatic cytokine IL-18. Taken together, the authors concluded butyrate is important in promoting an immune tolerant colon mucosa, which is resistant to neoplasia.
The effect of butyrate is not limited to immune cells. Kelly et al. demonstrated that butyrate increases colonic epithelial cell oxygen consumption, leading to a phenomenon known as “physiological hypoxia”.7 Physiologic hypoxia is a good thing as it supports normal intestinal barrier function through the activity of hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF). Disruption of the gut microbiota with antibiotics reduces luminal SCFAs and epithelial aerobic metabolism. These changes lead to HIF destabilization and reduced barrier function. Thus, butyrate also has a role in maintaining healthy colon barrier function, which prevents the flux of potentially pathogenic microbes across the epithelium.
Together these studies paint a remarkably positive picture for SCFAs, and butyrate in particular, in promoting and maintaining mucosal homeostasis. However, a few caveats should be considered before we move to offering SCFA or butyrate enemas to all our colitis patients. As previously noted, butyrate's efficacy in human colitis trials conducted to date has been inconsistent. This discrepancy was also present in the mouse models of colitis. Where butyrate reduced inflammation in a T-cell-driven mouse model of colitis,3 it did not lessen colitis severity in a model initiated by disruption of the epithelial barrier.5 The pathophysiology of human IBD is complex, but generally involves both immune cell activation and epithelial barrier dysfunction. Perhaps a missing link in understanding the inconsistent clinical trial results lies in how butyrate or other SCFAs affect the growth and differentiation state of normal epithelial cells. These functions are critical to wound healing that is required to achieve mucosal healing in IBD. To date, in vitro studies evaluating butyrate's effects on the colon epithelium have been done exclusively in colon cancer cell lines that do not accurately reflect the normal epithelium. Fortunately, new methodologies now exist that allow the culture of normal (non-cancer) human epithelial cells8 and can be tailored to address these critical unanswered questions.
In summary, these recent studies provide new mechanistic insight as to how bacterial derived metabolites (SCFAs) impact the mucosal immune system and suppress inflammatory signaling. Butyrate appears to have the most powerful effects on innate immune cells, adaptive immune cells, and epithelial barrier function. These exciting findings strongly indicate that butyrate or other microbial metabolites deserve rigorous evaluation as therapeutic targets for IBD and colon cancer. Additional mechanistic studies will hopefully guide us in how these can be most effectively applied and overcome the limitations of efficacy observed in clinical trials over the last two decades.
Guarantorof the article: Matthew A. Ciorba, MD.
Specific author contributions: Kelly Cushing, David Alvarado and Matthew Ciorba were involved in review of the literature, preparation of the manuscript, and final editing of the manuscript.
Financial support: Support provided by W. M. Keck Fellowship (D.M.A.), grants T32DK007130 (K.C.), and DK100737 (M.A.C.).
Potential competing interests: None.
1. Harig JM, Soergel KH, Komorowski RA et al. Treatment of diversion colitis with short-chain-fatty acid irrigation. N Engl J Med 1989; 320: 23–28.
2. Thibault R, Blachier F, Darcy-Vrillon B et al. Butyrate utilization by the colonic mucosa in inflammatory bowel diseases: a transport deficiency. Inflamm Bowel Dis 2010; 16: 684–695.
3. Furusawa Y, Obata Y, Fukuda S et al. Commensal microbe-derived butyrate induces the differentiation of colonic regulatory T cells. Nature 2013; 504: 446–450.
4. Arpaia N, Campbell C, Fan X et al. Metabolites produced by commensal bacteria promote peripheral regulatory T-cell generation. Nature 2013; 504: 451–455.
5. Chang PV, Hao L, Offermanns S et al. The microbial metabolite butyrate regulates intestinal macrophage function via histone deacetylase inhibition. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2014; 111: 2247–2252.
6. Singh N, Gurav A, Sivaprakasam S et al. Activation of Gpr109a, receptor for niacin and the commensal metabolite butyrate, suppresses colonic inflammation and carcinogenesis. Immunity 2014; 40: 128–139.
7. Kelly CJ, Zheng L, Campbell EL et al. Crosstalk between microbiota-derived short-chain fatty acids and intestinal epithelial HIF augments tissue barrier function. Cell Host Microbe 2015; 17: 662–671.
8. VanDussen KL, Marinshaw JM, Shaikh N et al. Development of an enhanced human gastrointestinal epithelial culture system to facilitate patient-based assays. Gut 2014; 64: 911–920.
© 2015 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of The American College of Gastroenterology
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Mike Aubrey December 12, 2014 Books, Greek, Language, Lexicography, Linguistics
The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek
If anything could supplant LSJ, this could be it. I’m looking forward to picking up a copy. The fact that it relies so heavily on the papyri & inscriptions is hugely significant. I have wanted to examine the Italian edition for some time, but having it available in English circumvents that entire issue. It would be, nice, however, if Brill did us the favor of giving us a non-online digital edition.
A list price of $125 for full lexicon is surprisingly reasonable, too.
There’s a pre-order already up on Amazon:
The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek (Amazon link)
ISBN 978 90 04 19318 5
Hardback (approx. 2400 pp.)
List price EUR 99.00 / US$ 125.00
Brill will be publishing the English translation of Franco Montanari’s monumental dictionary Vocabolario della Lingua Greca.
Be sure to take a look at the preview PDF.
The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek is the English translation of Franco Montanari’s Vocabolario della Lingua Greca. With an established reputation as the most important modern dictionary for Ancient Greek, it brings together 140,000 headwords taken from the literature, papyri, inscriptions and other sources of the archaic period up to the 6th Century CE, and occasionally beyond.The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek is an invaluable companion for the study of Classics and Ancient Greek, for beginning students and advanced scholars alike. Translated and edited under the auspices of The Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC, The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek is based on the completely revised 3rd Italian edition published in 2013 by Loescher Editore, Torino.
The principal parts of some 15,000 verbs are listed directly following the entry and its etymology. For each of these forms, the occurrence in the ancient texts has been certified. When found only once, the location is cited.
Nearly all entries include citations from the texts with careful mention of the source.
The Dictionary is especially rich in personal names re-checked against the sources for the 3rd Italian edition, and in scientific terms, which have been categorized according to discipline.
Each entry has a clear structure and typography making it easy to navigate.
“For a number of years now, scholars at ease in Italian have benefitted enormously from the riches, layout, concision, and accuracy of Professor Montanari’s Vocabolario della Lingua Greca, with its added advantage of the inclusion of names. Hence classicists in general will welcome the English version of this very valuable resource.” Professor Richard Janko, University of Michigan
“Franco Montanari is a giant in our field, and his Dictionary is a major leap forward for us….” Professor Gregory Nagy, Harvard University
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Helma Dik on December 12, 2014 at 3:58 pm
Unfortunately the source material for the translation, Montanari, is quite disappointing, from what I hear from those working on the Greek-Dutch dictionary (an independent project from this one). But it would certainly be nice to have this one in addition. I’d add that it might be handy to learn Spanish [DGE] (and Dutch) as well:-)
Mike Aubrey on December 12, 2014 at 4:06 pm
A friend had spoken rather highly of the Italian edition, but he’s a language enthusiast rather than a lexicographer, so that’s unfortunate to hear. I do hope then that the translators were allowed some flexibility in their editing.
I’ll be looking forward to the Dutch project. The language is already on the to-do list. There’ just too much good work coming out of Dutch Universities to ignore.
I can handle Spanish and have referred to DGE when I’ve visited the University of British Columbia library. The later volumes tend to be better than the earlier ones, but that’s fairly common with these sorts of projects.
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John Trumbull’s Famous 1818 Painting Declaration of Independence Virtually Defaced to Show Which Founding Fathers Owned Slaves
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Statues of slaveholders and their defenders are falling all over the U.S., and a lot of people are distraught. What’s next? Mount Rushmore? Well… maybe no one’s likely to blow it up, but some honesty about the “extremely racist” history of Mount Rushmore might make one think twice about using it as a limit case.
On the other hand, a sandblasting of the enormous Klan monument in Stone Mountain, Georgia—created earlier by Rushmore sculptor Gutzon Borglum—seems long overdue.
We are learning a lot about the history of these monuments and the people they represent, more than any of us Americans learned in our early education. But we still hear the usual defense that slaveholders were only men of their time—many were good, pious, and gentle and knew no better (or they agonized over the question but, you know, everyone was doing it….) People subjected to the violence and horror of slavery mostly tended to disagree.
Before the Haitian Revolution terrified the slaveholding South, many prominent slaveholders, Jefferson and Washington included, expressed intellectual and moral disgust with slavery. They could not consider abolition, however (though Washington freed his slaves in his will). There was too much profit in the enterprise. As Jefferson himself wrote, “It [would] never do to destroy the goose.”
What we see when we look at the Revolutionary period is the fatal irony of a republic based on ideals of liberty, founded mostly by men who kept millions of people enslaved. The point is made vividly above in a virtual defacement of Declaration of Independence, John Trumbull’s famous 1818 painting which hangs in the U.S. Capitol rotunda. All of the founders’ faces blotted out by red dots were slaveowners. Only the few in yellow in the corresponding image freed the the people they enslaved.
These images were not made in this current summer of national uprisings but in August of 2019, “a bloody month that saw 53 people die in mass shootings in the US,” notes Hyperallergic. Their creator, Arlen Parsa sought to make a different point about the Second Amendment, but wrote forcefully about the founders’ enslaving of others. “There were no gentle slaveholders,” writes Parsa. “Countless children were born into slavery and died after a relatively short lifespan never knowing freedom for even a minute.” Many of those children were fathered by their owners.
Some founding fathers paid lip service to the idea of slavery as a blight because it was obvious that kidnapping and enslaving people contradicted democratic principles. Slavery happened to be the primary metaphor used by Enlightenment philosophers and their colonial readers to characterize the tyrannical monarchism they opposed. The philosopher John Locke wrote slavery into the constitution of the Carolina colony, and profited from it through owning stock in the Royal African Company. Yet by his later, hugely influential Two Treatises, he had come to see hereditary slavery as “so vile and miserable an estate of man… that ‘tis hardly to be conceived” that anyone could uphold it.
There were, of course, slaveholding founders who resisted such talk and felt no compunction about how they made their money. But lofty principles or no, the U.S. founders were often on the defensive against non-slaveholding colleagues, who scolded and attacked them, sometimes with frank references to the rapes of enslaved women and girls. These criticisms were so common that Thomas Paine could write the case for slavery had been “sufficiently disproved” when he published a 1775 tract denouncing it and calling for its immediate end:
The managers of [the slave trade] testify that many of these African nations inhabit fertile countries, are industrious farmers, enjoy plenty and lived quietly, averse to war, before the Europeans debauched them with liquors… By such wicked and inhuman ways, the English are said to enslave towards 100,000 yearly, of which 30,000 are supposed to die by barbarous treatment in the first year…
So monstrous is the making and keeping them slaves at all… and the many evils attending the practice, [such] as selling husbands away from wives, children from parents and from each other, in violation of sacred and natural ties; and opening the way for adulteries, incests and many shocking consequences, for all of which the guilty masters must answer to the final judge…
The chief design of this paper is not to disprove [slavery], which many have sufficiently done, but to entreat Americans to consider:
With that consistency… they complain so loudly of attempts to enslave them, while they hold so many hundred thousands in slavery and annually enslave many thousands more, without any pretence of authority or claim upon them.
Jefferson squared his theory of liberty with his practice of slavery by picking up the fad of scientific racism sweeping Europe at the time, in which philosophers who profited, or whose patrons and nations profited, from the slave trade began to coincidentally discover evidence that enslaving Africans was only natural. We should know by now what happens when racism guides science….
Maybe turning those who willfully perpetuated the country’s most intractable, damning crime against humanity into civic saints no longer serves the U.S., if it ever did. Maybe elevating the founders to the status of religious figures has produced a widespread historical ignorance and a very specific kind of nationalism that are no longer tenable. Younger and future generations will settle these questions their own way, as they sort through the mess their elders have left them. As Locke also argued, in a paraphrase from American History professor Holly Brewer, “people do not have to obey a government that no longer protects them, and the consent of an ancestor does not bind the descendants: each generation must consent for itself.”
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Thursday 30 July 2020 / 11:32 AM Justice
Lord Falconer responds to CPS measures to tackle low level of rape prosecutions
Lord Falconer, Labour’s Shadow Attorney General, responding to the announcement of new measures from the Crown Prosecution Service to tackle the low level of prosecutions for rape and serious sexual offences, said:
“These measures are welcome, however it is extremely concerning that rape convictions have now fallen to the lowest level on record in England and Wales, with no adequate explanation to why the figures have dropped so sharply.
“More needs to be done to ensure that victims have the confidence to come forward to report these crimes, and have faith that the criminal justice system will be there to support them throughout.
“The CPS needs to urgently identify the causes of why prosecution levels are so low, learn these lessons quickly and act swiftly to reverse this worrying deterioration of prosecution levels to ensure that victims of rape and sexual violence are not denied their right to justice.”
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Steubenville Continues
By Anneliese Mahoney | October 10, 2013
The nightmare of the Steubenville Rape Case isn’t quite over for the small Ohio town. On October 7, 2013, another arrest was made in the case, this time of a 53-year-old man named William Rhinaman. Rhinaman is the director of technology at Steubenville High School. He has been indicted for tampering with evidence, obstructing justice, obstructing official business, and perjury.
Rhinaman was not the only adult in Steubenville to lie, refuse to talk, or tamper with evidence. As Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine told CNN, sixteen different adults refused to talk to investigators. A grand jury, formed on March 17, will determine if any of these others committed indictable crimes. They are mostly looking at whether any employees failed to report a rape they knew had occurred. Rhinaman was the first to face charges, but more may be to come.
AG Mike DeWine will not elaborate on what exactly Rhinaman covered up or what perjured statements he provided, but he did state that the charges are directly related to Rhinaman’s job as an Internet Technology employee. The indictment claims that Rhinaman’s involvement in the case began with the night that the rape occurred—August 11, 2012.
Immediately after being arrested, Rhinamen was held in a local jail without bond. He had a hearing on Wednesday, October 9 in which he was let out on a $25,000 personal recognizance bond.
The Steubenville case took the nation by storm. It was unthinkable—everyone who saw the news footage was horrified that two young men could sexually abuse a 16 year old girl, and that dozens of their peers could stand by and watch it happen. But in a lot of ways the media was more shocked by the way in which the rape was discovered. All of these young people who were present at the party in which the rape occurred took pictures, tweeted about it, texted about it, and generally communicated through social media.
The screen shots that some bloggers managed to grab of the blatant online conversations that these young people had were horrifying. But what is most horrifying is that they thought this was acceptable. Now the world discovers that not only did these teenagers feel this was acceptable, but also that the other adults in their lives perpetrated this despicable cover up. If any of these 16 adults who are being investigated by the grand jury did in fact help a group of young adults cover up the sexual abuse of another, they deserve to face the full force of the law.
[CNN]
Featured image courtesy of [John Perry via Flickr]
Anneliese Mahoney
Anneliese Mahoney is Managing Editor at Law Street and a Connecticut transplant to Washington D.C. She has a Bachelor’s degree in International Affairs from the George Washington University, and a passion for law, politics, and social issues. Contact Anneliese at amahoney@LawStreetMedia.com.
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Scheme Cheated Investors Out of $14.5m
[Courtesy of the Denver Post]
Fake fix-and-flip real estate scheme bilked investors of $14.5 million — and sent Colorado woman to prison
A 59-year-old Colorado Springs woman who ran a fraudulent fix-and-flip real estate business has been sentenced to federal prison for eight years and must repay $14.5 million to investors.
Denver U.S. District Judge Christine Arguello also sentenced Karen Lynn McClaflin to serve three years of supervised release following prison on two wire fraud convictions.
McClaflin fraudulently issued multiple fake deeds of trust for the same home to several different investors simultaneously, according to a news release by U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer and FBI Agent-in-Charge Calvin Shivers.
“For a lot of years, the defendant lied a lot of people out of millions of dollars,” Troyer said.
Karen McClaflin took advantage of innocent investors by knowingly and wittingly creating a deceptive home-investment scheme, Shivers said.
Prosecutors allege McClaflin and an unidentified partner opened a franchise of We Buy Ugly Houses in December 2005 with the idea of using investor funds to purchase and renovate distressed houses, then sell them at a profit. Wallowing in heavy debt, the partnership ended in 2011 when the partner filed for bankruptcy. McClaflin started her own company — Homesource Partners — and dropped the franchise but kept the business model.
We Buy Ugly Houses has independent franchisees across the country, including in Denver and Fort Collins, and are not tied to McClaflin.
Between 2011 and 2017, McClaflin told clients that her company would buy ugly homes at 80 percent of their “as is” value, and her team of contractors would repair the homes and sell them for a profit of up to 15 percent in as little as 30 days, according to the news release written by Troyer’s spokesman, Jeff Dorschner.
McClaflin sometimes did not tell investors when “their” property sold and did not return the investor’s principal upon that sale as promised, the news release says.
Starting in 2013, Homesource Partner’s debt had grown too high and the interest payments owed to investors far exceeded the gross profits earned by Homesource Partners. But McClaflin continued recruiting investors.
A steady flow of investor funds kept Homesource Partners operating, said IRS Special Agent In Charge Steven Osborne, who oversees criminal investigations in Colorado.
“Financial fraud schemes are often described as a house of cards,” Osborne said. “The underlying structure can fall apart at any time and expose the individuals responsible.”
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Real estate website Zillow has a provocative data point for every renter thinking about buying these days: That move pays off after just three years on average nationwide.
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In the combined Los Angeles and Orange counties, the magic number is 4.3 years, assuming the buyer has made a 20% down payment. Buying wins out after only 1.6 year in the desert community of Banning. But Newport Beach residents must wait 14 years for buying to make more financial sense than renting.
The analysis takes into account a host of factors potential buyers should think about when considering the leap, including the down payment, mortgage and rental payments, buying and selling costs, property taxes, utilities, maintenance costs and tax deductions. The analysis adjusts for inflation and forecasts home value and rental price appreciation.
Zillow senior economist Svenja Gudell said the data should help homeowners get a rough and immediate sense of whether buying makes sense in a particular area in relation to their financial situation.
“For a home buyer out there, it is really tough to get a good grip on the buy-versus-rent decision,” Gudell said. Although buying a home is a deeply personal decision, she said, the analysis gives consumers “a sense for ‘Am I ready to make this decision?'”
The new take on the classic rent-versus-buy debate comes at a tenuous moment for the housing market. Many analysts believe that a housing bottom has been reached but don’t expect a return to the heady days of the real estate bubble. There is already some concern about the strength of the recovery, with home sales slowing in June as inventory remained tight and buyers paid higher prices.
At the same time, rents are rising, housing affordability is at record levels, and mortgage interest rates remain very low. These factors are prompting many renters to consider homeownership.
Stuart Gabriel, director of UCLA’s Ziman Center for Real Estate, noted that the main lesson from the subprime mortgage debacle and the housing bust was that homeownership shouldn’t be pushed at all costs. Federal policy has been adjusted to support this new point of view.
“One of the things we have learned in recent years is, obviously, house prices don’t always go up, and even over the very long term in certain markets homeownership may only offer a minimal return,” Gabriel said.
“What we have all learned is to treat homeownership as a bit of a dangerous animal. You know it’s not always good, and it’s not good for everyone.”
Things to consider when buying, particularly in an slowly appreciating market, include how mobile will you be, your financial situation, marital status, career goals and personality, Gabriel said.
Richard Green, director of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate, added that in many regions buying has become increasingly attractive compared with renting. There are also non-financial reasons for buying.
“I can enjoy living in this house for the rest of my life, and nobody can throw me out of it,” he said. “You are consuming something, and you have control over it, and control has some value.”
Zillow’s analysis, which covered more than 200 metropolitan areas and 7,500 U.S. cities, found that buying is a better financial decision than renting in the Riverside-San Bernardino area if you live in the home for at least two years. That rises to 3.2 years in the area including Oxnard, Thousand Oaks and Ventura.
The San Francisco metropolitan area’s break-even score of 5.9 years encompasses a range from two years to 24.3 years.
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Court Report: Texas cancer survivor Andrew Jones is an inspiration because he’s only living for the future
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Sometimes, Texas coach Shaka Smart can’t help but to drop a knee and scan.
“And I get down on one knee because I like that vantage point, just kind of watching for a little bit and I’m like, this is just unbelievable,” Smart said.
Smart’s reflecting on the moments that catch him every so often when he watches Andrew Jones. The Texas redshirt junior’s comeback journey from a leukemia diagnosis has become among the more defining, uplifting stories in college basketball.
Smart is of two minds when he’s on one knee. There he is, watching this walking testament of motivation playing at an all-Big 12 level. But the coach also remembers all those days he’d drive down to Houston, visit Jones in the hospital and see more weight melting off him with each subsequent visit. It might have been 40 pounds gone at Jones’ weakest point. Recently, one of the family’s closest friends texted Smart a picture. It shows Jones doing a basic balancing exercise. One of his willowy legs hangs in the air. Smart is spotting Jones, who has numerous tubes attached to him, all of them linked to a metal IV pole.
“He’s just so thin,” Smart said.
And then Smart looks at the the picture from this past weekend. Jones with ripped muscles, confident shooting form, a man who has made it all the way back.
Andrew Jones taking the winning shot in Texas’ game at West Virginia last Saturday.
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It’s been a long way back, but it’s not as though Jones has belatedly sprung to action this season. Texas was a 19-win team last season and Jones played in every game, logging minutes and production as important as anyone else on the roster.
“He contributed to the team mightily, we won five games in a row near the end of the season and was the leading scorer on the team in that stretch,” Smart said. “He’s doing better and better, which is awesome. I’ve not been associated with a more uplifting story than this since I’ve been playing or coaching, so it’s great, it’s awesome, but it’s also not — for him — he’s not looking in the rearview.”
But thinking back to more than two years ago, it’s a wonder. There was a time when Jones was receiving periodic treatments where he’d get a peripherally inserted central catheter (known as a “PICC line”) into his arm that would be attached to a bag with chemotherapy treatments. He wore the bag around his waist like a fanny pack. For months it was part of his daily appearance.
Texas Andrew Jones in 2019, practicing while having a PICC line connected due to cancer treatments.
“For most people that would severely limit what you’d be able to do basketball-wise or in the weight room or physically in general,” Smart said. “But for him he was so steadfast in his insistence that he was going to train just like everyone else.”
Jones would lift weights, keep up with light individual skill training and even tried to play live basketball with the PICC line in his arm. He was insistent on continuing to rehab but also to be around basketball as much as he could physically handle it in an effort to better his mental health. His primary doctor endorsed this approach and encouraged him to do whatever he could truthfully tolerate.
“At first it was like, man, you can shoot, but are you going to be able to play live?” Smart said. “Then all of a sudden we’d walk in the gym and he’d be playing one-on-one with one of his teammates. … It got to the point where he’s regularly, in the middle of everything we’re doing, live, with that thing in his arm with a sleeve over it. That was probably the best visual representation of, man, this guy is not going to be stopped and he’s made of some different stuff.”
Jones is an inspiration. Smart described him as a deep-thinking person who’s invested in making the world around him better. Jones and his dad have put so much sweat equity and time into a grassroots basketball team that is giving back and making opportunities for young players in the greater Dallas area. But as you see him do what he’s doing, know that Jones is always looking forward. Yes, he’s been willing to tell his story to inspire others. But he’s not relying on the past for stimulus. He’d like to leave the leukemia behind him forever, thank you.
“Personally, it just feels great just to be out here, doing the things that I love every day, being able to play basketball with all my friends and my teammates,” Jones said after making the game-winning shot at West Virginia on the three-year anniversary of his teammates finding out Jones was diagnosed. “I just put all the glory to God for allowing me to be in a position to be healthy, alive and being able to play a high-level brand of basketball. So I’m appreciative of every opportunity, of each day, and I try to make the best of it.”
So this is a story about a man who has become an idol locally, even nationally, but also continues to push forward. He’s living for now because this is what he envisioned four years ago, as a five-star prospect. Jones hoped to make Texas as good as it’s been in more than a decade. This season’s team has that shot.
This is Smart’s best squad since he got the job in 2015. But Jones has been putting in the work and has long since proved himself. When you watch him, know that he’s been a major factor for well over a year at this point. This story turned good the day Jones had his final chemotherapy treatment in 2019, and it became a wonder as soon as he returned to play.
It went to another level with that winner against West Virginia.
“As you can imagine everyone wants to talk to him, there was just this three-year anniversary when we told the team,” Smart said. “But when you go through something like this, almost every day’s an anniversary. There’s the anniversary of when you were diagnosed, of when he moved hospitals, and a lot of those memories are painful.”
Now he’s vital to this team and is one of the best players in the Big 12. Texas is not a top-10 team without him. He put up 18 points in the first half against Texas Tech on Wednesday, in a game UT ultimately lost by two on a late shot by TTU’s Mac McClung. Those defeats are frustrating, but Jones’ very presence signifies leadership. Texas should will be fine because Jones sets the example. His story deserves to be among the most commonly told in the sport this season, but when we do it, let’s remember to talk about where he’s going just as much as where he once was. That’s how Andrew Jones got to where he is right now.
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The last time so many blue bloods missed NCAAs
High-profile programs coached by Hall of Famers are struggling more than usual this season. Kentucky is 4-7 and will need divine intervention to make the NCAAs. Duke is 5-3 and sits at No. 96 in the NET. Michigan State is 85th in the NET and has an 0-3 record vs. Quad 1. North Carolina was putrid last season and currently claims a 1-3 Quad 1 record with a NET ranking of 53. Indiana is a respectable 8-5, but in a tough Big Ten and with just one Quad 1 win so far, who knows? And Arizona, which has been a top-two program out West over the past 30 seasons, is on a self-imposed postseason ban.
You might be wondering when was the last time an NCAA Tournament happened without, say, Duke, Kentucky and Michigan State? Or one without Duke and North Carolina? Or one without Indiana, Arizona, Duke and Kentucky? The big one: When’s the last time all six of these prestigious programs missed the NCAAs in the same year? Here are the most recent instances when at least three of these schools didn’t dance. Every tournament since 1984 has had at least four of the six schools above.
The last time we didn’t have an NCAA Tournament with …
• Arizona, Duke and Michigan State: 1983
• Arizona, Kentucky and Indiana: 1979
• Duke, Indiana and Michigan State: 1977
• Duke, Kentucky and Michigan State: 1976
• Arizona, Duke, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina and Michigan State/any other combination: 1974.
So what about that 1974 tournament? It was the last one to feature fewer than 32 teams (there were 25) and schools were not seeded. NC State won the championship that year over Marquette. Kansas and UCLA also made the Final Four.
The only other NCAA Tournaments without all six: 1939, 1943, 1944, 1947, 1950, 1965.
The years without five of the six since 1960: 1960 (only Duke), 1961 (only Kentucky), 1962 (only Kentucky), 1963 (only Duke), 1970 (only Kentucky), 1971 (only Kentucky).
Feel free to reference back to this come March, because while I highly doubt all half-dozen teams miss out, I think the chances are high at least three don’t get there.
UC Davis hopes to end 55-day playing drought
Meet the team that hasn’t had a single positive test but nevertheless still hasn’t played a game in more than seven weeks: UC Davis.
The Aggies have been inactive due to ordinances from health officials in California’s Yolo County, which sits just outside Sacramento. UC Davis is the only Division-I school in Yolo County, meaning it’s the only men’s basketball program put in this situation. In early December, the county’s health director, Aimee Sisson, banned sports (among other activities) and furthermore didn’t even allow UC Davis or any other team to leave the county to play sports outside those borders.
So Jim Les’ team was stuck. Unlike nearby Santa Clara County, which saw Stanford, Santa Clara and San Jose State all flee that county and temporarily relocate in an effort to continue their seasons, UC Davis had nowhere to go and no one to play. It was also barred for nearly three weeks from practicing. The move was a pre-emptive strike by the county to try and get ahead of spiking case counts that were doomed to get worse. Health officials wanted no undue risk.
“It seemed really awkward and different to be watching games on TV and all these teams competing and us not competing,” Les told me. “That left all of us with an empty feeling.”
But Les was patient and understanding the whole time. Sure, the team was frustrated — but it wasn’t outraged. It was not able to practice initially; the team lifted weights and did conditioning outside in the cooling northern California climate.
“We want to put in perspective,” Les said. “Families are losing loved ones, people’s businesses are impacted and there’s so much fallout from the virus and we don’t want the focus to be on us and not playing basketball. Though we’re disappointed, our first and foremost goal as coaches is to keep these young men healthy. And if we can do that and prevent any positive tests, that’s a big win.”
Health officials cleared UC Davis for practice shortly before Christmas. Every practice requires every person to always have masks on, and it’s not yet known if that will continue to be the case for UC Davis games. More good news arrived Wednesday, when the no-sports mandate in Yolo County was lifted, enabling the Aggies to resume their season. They’re scheduled to play their next game on Jan. 22 at UC San Diego. If that game is played, it will mark 55 days since their last Division I game on Nov. 28.
The team’s going to do what it can to make up for lost time. Les joked that his players have had enough of him — it’s time to get games in as often as possible and as safely as possible. So in the Mondays or Tuesday to come, UC Davis will try its best to schedule a couple of the 10 D-I schools within 190 miles of its campus with eight of those schools being less than 110 miles away.
“They’re competitors, they want to play and they want to get back on the floor and in my opinion they’ve earned it,” Les said. “We feel very fortunate. I wasn’t sure we were going to get to play this early.”
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Each week I highlight reader questions, so find me on Twitter and @ me with whatever you’d like answered.
Unfortunately, I did recently/defiantly say Wisconsin was better than Michigan. And, never being one to run from my misfires, we addressed this an amusing way on the most recent episode. If you’re not already subscribed, head over to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, Stitcher — or whatever your preferred pod provider is — and hop on board. I promise you’ll enjoy college hoops season that much more if you’re listening to us talk about it three times per week.
If you missed it but want to have some fun: I took a stab at how I think the NCAA will schedule out the entire NCAA Tournament. This comes after we learned what many of the COVID-19 protocols will be for teams that make it to March Madness. So, this gent is asking about whether or not the selection committee will opt to bracket the field in a true S-curve (strongest team plays the weakest and snake through matchups that way) since geography won’t force tinkering. I think that will be the goal, but remember that with the Big Ten likely to send 10 or 11 teams, some movement will be inevitable. I would expect clarity on this front by mid-February.
This question obviously being asked in the spirit of the College Football Playoff just wrapping up. Thankfully college hoops doesn’t operate this way. But if you’re asking if college basketball only had a four-team tournament but still kept the same game inventory, meaning 30-ish results for all teams, I ran the past 20 years worth of NCAA Tournament data and only included the four teams that got No. 1 seeds each season. It’s impossible to know who would have won each of these tournaments each year, but the more appearances, the higher the chance. If we’re only taking four teams, then the four teams are obviously the top seeds. There have been 80 handed out over the past 20 tournaments, with more than 40 schools getting a No. 1. But I reduced it to those with at least three No. 1 bids to give you an idea of what programs would be the most dominant in that span.
• Duke: 10
• Kansas: 9
• North Carolina: 8
• Kentucky: 5
• Villanova: 4
• Virginia: 4
• Arizona: 3
• Gonzaga: 3
• Michigan State: 3
• Stanford: 3
It’s going to take conference commissioners laying down the law, and that’s just not going to happen pre-NCAA Tournament. College basketball coaches are as bad with consistent mask-wearing during competition as any other sport. It’s been evident since the first day of the season. I asked Rachel Lattner, a health care professional who helped oversee the WNBA’s bubble and Mohegan Sun’s Bubbleville earlier this season, about this.
“That comes to personal responsibility,” she said. “As much as you can wear a mask, that is beneficial in any sense. The coaches, and some schools this is where the varying in protocols and schools system, their leadership changes from team to team. Some schools are super strict on it. Other schools, they’re more lax on it, or have a bit more flexibility. But coaches really need to think about, not just the issue of close contacts and people getting the virus and needing to isolate, but also athletes are at risk because the virus can affect their heart cells, their heart receptors. We want to make sure that if a player were to get it, we’re allowing them time to recover and really connecting them with the right healthcare professionals to make sure that they’re healthy and safe to go back and play. But we want to prevent them from having any issues.”
In short: Coaches should be wearing masks and complying as much as possible. It’s the best, safest way to do this in what’s obviously a season prone to reasonable criticism, given this season is only possible because of unpaid amateur athletes who feel compelled to play amid the dark backdrop of a deadly pandemic that’s killed more than 400,000 Americans.
Final shots
Loyola of Chicago’s Cameron Krutwig is an old soul with an old-school game, and his career accomplishment this week put him with the all-time great in the history of the Missouri Valley. Krutwig has eclipsed 1,500 points, 800 rebounds and 300 assists. The only other MVC players to ever hit those marks are legends: Larry Bird, Hersey Hawkins and Oscar Robertson.
Duke’s loss at Virginia Tech on Tuesday means there’s a good chance it’s not ranked next week. UNC is unlikely to jump into the AP Top 25, too. So come Monday, it should mark the first week since December 1982 that neither team is ranked. (H/T, Bryan Ives).
Dennis Gates and Cleveland State are roaring. The Vikings are 8-0 in Horizon League play, the best start in school history. This is the same team that allowed a record-setting 40-0 run to Ohio in November and lost 101-46. Gates is a rising star in the coaching industry.
Last week’s Court Report highlighted Drake‘s 13-0 start. Then it went on COVID pause, and after losing zero games due to the coronavirus through the first seven weeks of the season, the Bulldogs have had five games pushed back and might not get a game in again until Jan. 30.
Two weeks ago Northwestern had visions of making the NCAA Tournament when it started 3-0 in the league with wins over Michigan State, Indiana and Ohio State. Since then NU’s lost four straight and is scheduled to face Iowa next, on Sunday.
The NCAA on Monday kicked the can down the road on enacting rules to empower college athletes to make money through name, image and likeness — and to immediately transfer without having to sit a season. Both are expected to be voted into existence later this year, but it’s not good news for the NCAA that legislators took notice of this, amid a historic second impeachment of Donald Trump in the aftermath of the storming of the Capitol, to remind the NCAA of what lawmakers intend to push through in the coming months. This is going to be a huge year, and potentially a crisis of existence for the century-old organization.
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From the Aston Martin DB4 Convertible to the Lamborghini Muira – Here are the 5 coolest vintage cars at the Grand Basel car show
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Porsche 550 Spyder and Lamborghini Miura among luxury models of past and present, plus hi-tech concept designs at inaugural car show in Switzerland
The inaugural luxury and classic car trade show, Grand Basel, opens its doors to the public in Switzerland today.
The four-day event at the Messe Basel exhibition centre in Basel, which features 113 cars on exhibit, marks the start of the show’s world tour, which will also visit Miami Beach, in the United States, and Hong Kong.
The first show features collectors’ pieces from the past and new top-of-the-range cars from the present that have been carefully-selected, by members of an experienced advisory board.
You will find not only the most elegant and luxurious classic models at Grand Basel, but also one-off contemporary editions and hi-tech concept cars of the future.
Here are five of the highly coveted classic cars being exhibited at Grand Basel that are a must-see.
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A rare Aston Martin DB4 Convertible – only 70 were ever made.
1. Aston Martin DB4 Convertible
Driving with the top down and the wind in our hair – who doesn’t love a good classic convertible?
The Aston Martin DB4 convertible is one prime example of such a car.
Only 70 of these babies were built, making it one of Aston Martin’s rarest convertibles.
A Lamborghini Miura, which appeared at the start of the 1969 film, ‘The Italian Job’.
2. Lamborghini Miura
The Lamborghini Miura is highly coveted because of its appearance in the opening sequence of the 1969 film The Italian Job, which starred Michael Caine.
Its vibrant and beautiful orange colour will also immediately draw your eyes when you are walking among the exhibits at Grand Basel.
A Maserati Ghibli Spyder, which was designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro.
3. Maserati Ghibli Spyder
Not many Maseratis have made a showing at Grand Basel, but the Ghibli Spyder does not disappoint.
With its soothing blue colour and steel body that ends with a low, shark-shaped nose, this Ghibli Spyder was designed by a young Giorgetto Giugiaro, who has also displayed some of his other masterpieces at the show.
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A Porsche 550 1500 RS Spyder, which was designed by Ernst Fuhrmann.
4. Porsche 550 1500 RS Spyder
This is not the only Porsche on show, but it is definitely one of the more famous ones.
The sports car has a tragic association with the American film actor James Dean, who was killed in a road accident while driving his Porsche 550 in 1955.
The Porsche 550, beautifully designed by Austrian Ernst Fuhrmann, definitely deserves a closer look if you are at the show.
A Jaguar E Series 1 Cabriolet, which was described by Enzo Ferrari as ‘the most beautiful car ever made’.
5. Jaguar E Series 1 Cabriolet
White, sleek and shiny, the Jaguar E Series 1 Cabriolet is a beauty to behold.
When it was released in March 1961, the late Enzo Ferrari, the Italian racing driver and founder of the eponymous luxury marque and motor racing team, called it “the most beautiful car ever made” in an interview with Classic Car Review.
Note – This story was originally published on SCMP and has been republished on this website with permission.
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1 Biographical Information
2 Resources and articles
2.1 Related Sourcewatch
"Robert-Jan van Ogtrop is currently a private investor in renewable energy and clean technology companies with a view to sustainability. He is also still a member of the Advisory Board and Industrial partner of CVC Capital Partners. He joined CVC after a successful career which included being Chairman/CEO of Bols Royal Distilleries and CEO of the Executive Board of Remy Cointreau-Bols.
"He has an MBA from the Graduate School of Management of the Netherlands and has studied at Harvard. He has worked to spread sound business principles, and the nurturing of local entrepreneurs, in East Africa through his Chairmanship of the Board of the TBL Mirror Fund. Robert-Jan is also deeply involved in other ventures at the interface of conservation and good business ethics, such as the African Parks Foundation, the Foundation for Natural Leadership, the Wilderness Leadership School and the Wilderness Foundation."[1]
Director (chair), African Parks Network
Supervisory Board, SkyNRG
Ambassador, World Wisdom Council [2]
Resources and articles
Related Sourcewatch
↑ Robert-Jan van Ogtrop, SkyNRG, accessed December 15, 2011.
↑ World Wisdom Council, Club of Budapest, accessed December 16, 2011.
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TV's Greatest Sidekicks (2004)
TV Special | 60 min | Comedy
Television's biggest stars gather to honor TV's greatest sidekicks.
(archive footage)
Bea Arthur
Hermione Baddeley
(archive footage) (as Roseanne)
Dixie Carter
Rachel Chagall
Anthony Clark
Julia Duffy
Georgia Engel
Dennis Rosenblatt
12 October 2005 | laitalguy
| A warm and loving tribute to the great sidekicks of TV!
This special celebrating the great female sidekicks was indeed special. It was chock full of memorable and funny moments from some of the best (and under-appreciated) shows that have graced the airwaves and starring the grand dames of comedy.
For starters, the hosts, Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams (aka "Laverne & Shirley") were very funny and still have the chemistry that made them stars of L&S. They connected well with their guests and made sure their guests had the spotlight - always.
The reunions were fun and exciting too. Mary's "sidekicks" from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" opened the special and were delightful. It's hard to see the line between them and the beloved characters they immortalized on one of TV's best shows. Betty is still amazing and funny, Valerie is lovable and Georgia is overdue an Emmy (Everybody Loves Raymond spin- off?). The ladies talked about their jobs with a fun clip package include Carla from "Cheers," Jackie from "Roseanne" and the hysterical Clea Lewis from "Ellen." Yes, stars and supporting stars were honored throughout.
Bea Arthur and Rue McClanahan, as best friends from "Maude," were gracious, real and spoke lovingly of the other sidekicks who left us - the feisty Esther Rolle and the hilarious Hermione Baddeley. The feuding clips were beautifully edited.
The tribute to Vivian Vance was loving, but too short. She is the queen of sidekicks and paved the way for some many in a brilliant, understated manner. Brava Vivian!
It was great to see the mothers and daughters as sidekicks. Peg and Kelly Bundy, Ann and Julie Romano ("One Day at a Time") and Mo'Nique and Countess Vaughn (hysterical) were memorable. We loved Mona and Angela ("Who's the Boss?") - Katherine Helmond is a treasure and Judith Light pays her co-star her due. And who could forget Fran and Syliva - Fran Drescher and Renee' Taylor - two brilliantly comic actors.
Jackee' Harry and Marla Gibbs also joined the line-up. Jackee was also a big talent in "227" and she and Marla still play well together. The clips on "sex" were classic too.
The BEST part was the first reunion of "The Golden Girls" (minus the retired Estelle Getty). Lifetime couldn't even get them together on-camera for the reunion special. All three stars (and Getty) won Emmys and all deserving. The tribute to Estelle was warm, funny and reminded me to keep watching the show and buy the DVDs.
I want to see more!!!
It was very touching to see all the ladies for the curtain call finale. BRAVA LIFETIME and to all the great sidekicks - Alice Ghostley, Lauren Lane, Cloris Leachman, Christine Baranski in the show - and Agnes Moorehead, Marion Lorne, Polly Holiday and many others.
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Posted on January 7, 2011 April 10, 2017
The First Annual PSU Coaching Challenge
I posted this link on twitter with the caption: “Austin Urban Rail Goes To Hell”. Note entry number for giggles.
I really don’t have time for this, more about salve with the 60 hour workweeks, shop young family including baby that still doesn’t sleep nights, and impending back surgery, but I have to say something, so I’ll be brief.
I offered a year or more ago to become involved with Leffingwell’s team on the urban rail project. I was ignored. (Note: I offered quite nicely.)
Recently, the plans have crystallized – and it’s bad. Shared running almost everywhere – except for one (admittedly long, but not really relevant) stretch from I-35 to the airport, the trains will be stuck behind cars – or at best, buses (including local buses). No, a ‘possible future transit lane’ on Guadalupe/Lavaca doesn’t mitigate; unless it’s reserved for ONLY Rapid Bus and the train – and I don’t see that happening; it’s going to be stuffed with locals too, and that’s if it even happens.
Unlike Brewster McCracken, who talked up reserved guideway everywhere except the leg out Manor to Mueller, Leffingwell’s team has relented and the plan now calls for the trains to be stuck in traffic almost everywhere important. McCracken talked about “time certainty” being a big deal on a trip to/from the airport (or to/from work, of course). You don’t get that without your own lane – period. No amount of Rapid [sic] Bus technology is going to get you there.
This rail plan, in its current state, is not worth fighting for. In fact, it’s probably worth fighting against, as was the 2004 plan that so many of the “why don’t you just stay civil” folks failed to affect in any way, shape, or form.
Be ready for a lot of the same people who claimed from 2004-2010 that car drivers would switch in droves to a train that required them to ride shuttlebuses to claim that the fact that these trains are stuck in traffic won’t keep people from switching to them.
Remember who was right before, and who’s been wrong the entire time. Or just be lazy and maintain access to the gladhanders to stay “civil” – and hold hands as we all ride the train off the cliff together – your choice.
And Not a done deal, you say? The engineering docs look pretty much done-deal level to me; as do the interactions with the media (note: the ONLY media outlet to cover the issue of guideway AT ALL was “Impact Central Texas”; their story here – good job guys; and shame on everybody else).
The urban rail system route is expected to follow Guadalupe and Lavaca streets, San Jacinto Boulevard and Congress Avenue. It will travel with traffic and may potentially receive signal priority at traffic lights, similar to Capital Metro’s buses.
An urban rail system in Austin is expected to cost $200 million in its first phase of development. The track will be 33.8 miles in length and extend from Mueller to downtown to the Austin Bergstrom International Airport. Photo by Bobby Longoria/Community Impact Newspaper. Click for a larger image.
“Big difference between this and a bus is that it can fit 170 people, mostly standing, where a bus caps out at 60 or 80,” Spillar said.
Hey guess what another big difference between this and a bus is, Rob? The bus that’s stuck behind somebody double-parked can change lanes. A train sharing a lane with cars is the worst transit possibly imaginable in a city where most people drive – it has the worst aspects of buses and the worst aspects of trains with almost none of the good parts of either.
More background on Why Streetcars Suck courtesy of Jarrett Walker here: streetcars: an inconvenient truth
So I guess I need to update my “IT’S NOT LIGHT RAIL” chart:
If your train runs on freight tracks, can’t run in the street, and requires shuttle buses – IT’S NOT LIGHT RAIL. Know what else? If your train doesn’t have its own lane – and relies on the same crap Rapid [sic] Bus uses to get a leg up, IT’S ALSO NOT LIGHT RAIL.
Summary: If you want to live in a city with good urban rail, your best bet now is probably to move away. Seriously.
spreadsheet behind this image coming sometime down the road, maybe.
CM flacks like JMVC and board members like Mike Martinez are making statements that rail ridership has improved. Here’s 3000 words to the contrary, pulmonologist fresh off Capital Metro’s presses. First two pictures directly from them; third one directly from me.
Continue reading “The First Annual PSU Coaching Challenge”
Posted on November 5, 2009 April 10, 2017
Football: Myth destruction
So my alma mater has scheduled the worst team in 1-AA for a game in 2011. This sucks. But it can be improved. Allow me to share with you the second verse of The Nittany Lion fight song; no, disorder no rx not the idiotic Big Ten one awkwardly added in 1993; the classic one; the one I sung marching to the stadium in uniform every week; the one I sing to my kids today; the one that none of the megahomers at Black Shoe Diaries likely even know.
Follow the links on each line. We clearly can turn some past disgraces on their end, neuropathist if our primary goal is to schedule pansies. We can also re-establish some classic rivalries with the traditional powers that used to rule football with us back when Paterno was young. Get to it, this Tim Curley!
There’s Pittsburgh with its Panther,
and Penn her Red and Blue,
Dartmouth with its Indian (woowoowoowoowoo),
and Yale her Bulldog, too (ruff, ruff).
There’s Princeton with its Tiger (grrrr),
and Cornell with its Bear (BEAR NOISE).
But speaking now of victory,
We’ll get the Lion’s share.
We may need to change the last two lines to something more suitable; like “But speaking now of filling our 110,000 seat stadium without playing road games; We’ll get the Curley’s Share”. Also, we may want to skip Pittsburgh; they may actually win once in a while. But we can work on those details later.
As I told Mr. RUTS, THIS IDEA FREE FOR STEALING. Pay special attention to Yale and Princeton. Those jerks.
Yes, emergency you haven’t seen a crackplog in a long time. I did warn you, viagra 40mg and since she came home almost a month ago, I have spent several fun overnights in the ER, and am barely sleeping (hint: preemie baby recovering from intestinal surgery is like normal newborn TO THE MAX!).
Today’s Chronicle finally covers the live music issue, with a quote or two from your truly, thanks to Wells Dunbar. I think it lets Morrison off a little too easy – but is overall a good read. For another pointer, my pals at the Austinist gave me a nice “he told you so” shout-out.
For crackplog-lite, please check the twitter. I promise the crackploggin’ will resume; but right now I’m just trying to get enough time to work.
Just sent to the morning show guys at 590-KLBJ, women’s health who were discussing the 3-foot passing rule and then let a caller drag the show down into the typical “cyclists don’t pay for roads” nonsense. They didn’t start there, but also didn’t contradict her…
Although you probably don’t remember, y’all have had me on your show a couple of times for a short talk about transportation. This morning on the way into work, I heard you and your listeners talking about the 3-foot-passing law that Gov. Perry vetoed; and the last caller I listened to made some very inaccurate points which you didn’t challenge at all which need to be corrected, regarding paying for roadways.
The fact is that in the state of Texas, the state gas tax is constitutionally dedicated to the state highway system (and schools) – meaning it cannot be spent on any roadway without a route shield (number) on it. For instance, I-35, US 183, RM 2222 – state highways; can get gas tax funding and usually do (with some local contributions thrown into the mix). While the federal gas tax has no such restriction, in practice in our area, the metropolitan planning group that disperses such money spends almost all of it on the state highway system as well.
What does that leave out? Well, essentially 99% of the streets cyclists ride on when they’re actually trying to get somewhere. Not just little roads – major roads like Enfield/15th; Cesar Chavez; all the numbered streets downtown; Windsor; Lamar north of the river; Burnet south of 183; etc. – these roads don’t get one cent of funding from the gas tax.
What about vehicle registration? Goes exclusively to the state and county governments – and the county doesn’t spend any of their money on roads inside city limits.
So cyclists do, in fact, pay for the roads they ride on – in fact, they likely overpay by orders of magnitude considering that their ‘bill’ for using one of those city-funded streets is the same as if they drove that day, yet they cause a lot more damage and take up a lot more space when they drive (you can fit a lot more cyclists on a street like Speedway than you can cars, in other words).
Please don’t let your callers get away with this kind of hurtful know-nothing reactionary attack. While “cyclists don’t pay for roads” is a patently false statement, there’s plenty of valid disagreement on the 3-foot-passing rule that could have been explored instead, and the listeners deserve that higher-quality discourse.
City of Austin Urban Transportation Commission 2000-2005
Looking at this in retrospect, I forgot to even mention that the city pays for its roads with general funds – mostly sales taxes, property taxes, and utility transfers. D’oh. Will email them accordingly. (Still sick with plague and no sleep).
I still don’t have much time myself, about it obviously, but did discover a great new blog called Human Transit which I’m slowly poring through – a transit planner from Portland, seems like. One of the first great finds has been a discussion of the inconvenient truth about streetcars which expands quite well on a point I’ve made here many times in the past: streetcars running in a shared lane are actually worse than buses on the metrics of speed and reliability.
Please check it out; I’m adding them to my blogroll.
Was going to do a nice outline before I jumped in, viagra 60mg but then I saw this really well-done brochure by Capital Metro on ‘how to ride the train’ which encourages this myth.
Red Line Myth #1: This ‘urban rail’ line will deliver you to within a quick, discount short, cheap walk of your office building, like most other successful (light) rail lines have done.
Look at this picture, from page 5:
Looks like the train goes right in the middle of downtown, doesn’t it? Looks like it’s right on Congress Avenue south of the Capitol, where all those big office buildings are! Firmly rebutting everything I’ve been telling you about how you’ll use commuter rail, if you do?
Continue reading “Football: Myth destruction”
Posted on June 19, 2009 April 10, 2017
Turn Disgrace into Disgrace-Aid
This is pretty amazing. Thanks to Barry Ritholtz for finding it.
The original:
These guys LOST TO OLE MISS. AT HOME.
No, valeologist Ole Miss isn’t magically superpowered because they happen to be in the SEC. Here’s where Florida stacks up against Penn State so far this year:
Rank (Sagarin PREDICTOR) Team Result
14 Georgia Florida 49, web Georgia 10 (Neutral Site)
15 Ohio State Penn State 13, infertility @Ohio State 6
Looks pretty good so far, right? Not so fast. The next entries for Florida:
23 LSU @Florida 51, LSU 21
30 Ole Miss Ole Miss 31, @Florida 30
Huh. One thing sure seems to jump out at you, doesn’t it? But surely this doesn’t show anything, right? Penn State hasn’t played anybody that good at home, right? Let’s expand that section of the table:
19 Oregon State @Penn State 45, Oregon State 14
27 Illinois @Penn State 38, Illinois 24
39 Wisconsin Penn State 48, @Wisconsin 7
52 Tennessee Florida 30, @Tennessee 6
Well, I’m sure we’ll figure out some new reason why Florida deserves it more. Keep on trucking, internet warriors!
As part of an excellent series of takedowns of BRT, psychotherapist the San Francisco Bike Blog has written an excellent rebuttal to the frequent claims that BRT or Rapid Bus plans can function as stepping stones towards light rail. One relevant excerpt relating to a transitway in Ottawa that was designed to be convertible to LRT::
The study concludes that with limited financial resources, for sale it is better to invest in new rapid transit corridors than to replace an existing one. It is not considered cost-effective to convert the Transitway to LRT at this time.
Please check out the rest. There’s a lot more good stuff in the other links from Jeff’s collection as well, mind including impacts on the urban environment from smelly, noisy, uncomfortable buses versus electric trains.
In our case, our potential investments in our completely useless Rapid Bus plan are completely nonportable to light rail (the stations are on the wrong side, for instance). Ironically, as the linked story points out, every improvement that could be made to make Rapid Bus more like Bus Rapid Transit would make it less likely we’d ever see light rail on the #1 corridor.
Quick reminder as I prepare to go on a business trip. The reason we need to subsidize projects like the Domain, cheap and especially Mueller, stomatology is that existing crappy strip malls actually cost us (the city) more money than they make but thanks to our suburban zoning code, story they are the only thing that can be built without special subsidy or regulatory relief.
Read that again. You heard me right – Brian Rodgers’ strip malls are already getting subsidized via the tax code and already get regulatory preference in the zoning code. We tax by land and improvement value rather than assessing based on the costs generated by retail – and strip retail is the worst on this scale, since, for one simple example, if you want to visit a half-dozen different stores on Anderson Lane, you may have to move the car 6 times(!). That’s not good for Austin, and it shouldn’t be subsidized – but if we can’t change the tax/regulatory code, and the neighborhoods won’t let us do that, then at least we can attempt to level the playing field by subsidizing their more sustainable competition.
I’ll try to fill this argument in with some backing data when I get more time, but I thought it important to say this right after the election, since he and SDS are making noise about how close they got. The only reason it was that close is because most people have no idea how much of the status quo isn’t natural or ‘choice’; but actually the result of public policy that has favored suburban crap like strip malls for decades.
It makes it even harder when a project like Mueller faces so much opposition from nearby neighborhoods that affordability has to be ‘bought down’ rather than provided through more reasonable density entitlements (subsidizing affordable housing is less efficient than getting the ridiculously low-density zoning out of the way and letting the market provide more supply, but local neighborhoods hate that, so we had to settle for this far-inferior option). No, Virginia, Mueller isn’t going to be high-density, not even close – the area around the Town Center, if it’s ever built, will approach but not exceed the density of the Triangle – i.e. moderate density mid-rises.
Update: Austin Contrarian argues that retail subsidies are bad but leaves a “design subsidy” hole large enough to admit both the Domain and Mueller, arguably. I’d have no problem dressing my position up in a similar fashion except that I suspect this is too nuanced for the average “corporations bad!” voter to accept.
PS: I believe on this issue that I’m now More Contrarian Than The Austin Contrarian. Woo?
CNN’s Campbell Brown’s words ring true in relation to this pantload, impotent whom the media never bothered to fact-check on anything:
Brown spoke of the “false equivalency” that’s often practiced in journalism. “Our view is that when Candidate A says it’s raining outside, and Candidate B says it’s sunny, a journalist should be able to look outside and say, ‘Well it’s sunny, so one of these guys is wrong,'” she told Stewart.
Guess what? Sal Costello was wrong on almost everything he ever said. But you wouldn’t know that for reading the Statesman, or the Chronicle, or even Burnt Orange Report – and the transportation discourse has suffered drastically for it. Instead of flat-out telling their readers that Costello’s position wasn’t true, they, at best, alluded to it indirectly, assuming people would get it. They didn’t. As a result, people now honestly believe his bullshit about being double-taxed and the money supposedly diverted to ‘toll roads’ from ‘free’ways.
In this whole process, one might assume the losers are suburban motorists. Not so; the losers are central city Austin residents, both drivers and non-drivers, who have to continue the unfair process of paying for suburban commuters’ highways through both the gas tax subsidy and the property tax and sales tax subsidy. With toll roads, at least suburban commuters would have paid something closer to the cost of their choice to live out there. Now? Back to business-as-usual, meaning people who ride the bus in East Austin get to subsidize people driving in from Circle C. My environmentalist friends who think this means “no roads” are deluded – the phase II toll roads weren’t highways to nowhere like Southwest Parkway; there already exists sufficient commuting demand and more than enough political support to make these roads happen, whether ‘free’ or tolled.
Anyways, to our erstwhile Circle C Crackpot: don’t let the door hit you. And shame on you, reporters. It was raining the whole time, and you let people think there was an honest disagreement on the weather.
(The worst part? As I mentioned to a facebook friend, he actually made me feel a little bit sorry at one point for this guy. UNCLEAN).
You can guess how I feel about the #1 target from this comment I just left at this thread at gm-volt.com. Yes, herpes the same bunch of idiots who scoffed at me and others a few months back who said the Volt wouldn’t make it because GM was going Chap 11.
Hint: Ford might be worth throwing a life-jacket to. The others? (Outer blockquote is me).
It’s also important to remember that it wasn’t only the U.S. automakers who built these lumbering behemoth trucks and SUVs. Toyota, the auto maker with the fallen green halo is slowing down production of its Toyota Tundra monster truck plant here in San Antonio. They have also stated that they do not plan to build a plug-in hybrid and have talked down GM’s progress on the Chevy Volt.
More crap from denialists.
Honda and Toyota didn’t fight CAFE kicking and screaming and getting loopholes for awful SUVs and pickup trucks. Toyota sells trucks to those who want them, sure, but hasn’t tried to create the market from those who didn’t want them and never needed them.
As for talking down the Volt, they’ve sold a million Prii. Even if the Volt was an obvious success, talking down the Volt to sell the Prius isn’t damaging to the economy, the environment, or our national security the way it was when GM spent years talking down hybrids so they could continue to sell polluting inefficient SUVs.
GM needs to die in a fire. Yesterday.
I always forget to mention GM’s role in destroying urban rail. Yes, a lot of the stuff you hear is exaggerated if not myth, but they did play a large role in it nonetheless.
If GM was a person, I have a hard time believing we wouldn’t be charging him with treason for enabling our enemies (and disabling our ability to pressure our ‘friends’ the Saudis) and destroying our environment and our economy.
Some folks are getting excited about the “downtown” station being nearly complete on our asstastic commuter rail line. Maybe the pictures below will be of some help. Click on the pictures for explanations.
1. “Why is that bus labelled “DOWNTOWN” if this is the “downtown” station?
2. “What is that yellow line and why is it so far from all the big buildings?”
3. “Well, website like this are there any office buildings within a short walk of the ‘downtown’ station”?
On my next business trip, decease probably next week, I’ll try to take some time to get a better image of dots overlaid on a better map for “major downtown office buildings” built from actual data rather than from my own recollection. Expect it to look even less promising than that last image from 2004, though.
Bonus Update in case it’s lost: a comment I just made in response to the typical CM talking point (in comments to their own article about the ‘downtown’ station) that this is just a ‘start’ for a multi-modal transportation system that will make choice commuters somehow enjoy changing vehicles three times on the way to work:
Unfortunately, that’s a load of nonsense, Misty; there is no way this line can possibly serve as a first step anywhere worth going, because the vehicles (and technology) you chose is incompatible with truly urban rail – can’t navigate corners sharply enough to ever go anywhere closer to where the actual commuting demand is.
To the readers, the best hope for urban rail in Texas is to get the CAMPO TWG plan passed before people realize how awful this commuter rail start is, because while it connects to commuter rail and has a suboptimal route itself, it at least serves a few good sources and destinations directly without requiring transfers.
It’ll be decades, if ever, before we reach traffic levels which actually make transit trips with transfers anything but a poison pill for choice commuters. Any plan, like this commuter rail debacle, which relies on transfers for most of its ridership is thus doomed to failure.
Updated update
Nice photo from priller at the skyscraperpage forum. The pointy building in the distance is the closest offices of any signficance, and they’re right past the edge of the normal quarter-mile rule for how long the average person would be willing to walk to work to take transit on a regular basis.
Finally got around to these, stuff
mostly today:
Urbanist sites (Austin):
Bike sites (Austin):
Austin Bike Blog by Marcus Sanford
Bicycle austin blog – defunct for a while, apoplexy
now getting some action from the LOBV folks
Fellow award-winners at ATXBS.com
Occasional commenter: Snowed In
Recent blogroll addition the Austin Bike Blog points us to a study on cyclist behavior in bike lanes and wide curb lanes. Years ago, health pre-blog and pre-cycling-killing-arthritis, I wrote the following on passing behavior in both facilities which still has some relevance today. Dragging this into the blog so it can be archived and whatnot; original is here. Done with HTML tables, the way God intended! Unfortunately, that doesn’t translate so well inside the blog. Any HTML/Movable Type geniuses want to suggest a formatting fix for me here?
One of the most common arguments in bicycle transportation circles stems from the disagreement over whether bike lanes or wide outside lanes provide "better passing distance". Foresterites claim that wide outside lanes are better for a variety of reasons; bike lane advocates come back with the "dedicated space" argument; which Foresterites then attempt to rebut by saying passing distance is "better" in wide curb lanes.
I have direct experience in this matter: my commutes to work generally take me along Shoal Creek Boulevard in north central Austin; which had fairly wide (6′?) bike lanes for several years; and then very wide (19′) curb lanes for several more years. I found that a typical 10-pass scenario would go something like the table below. The "distance" given is from car’s mirror to where I was riding in approximate center of bike lane.
Passing distance on Shoal Creek Boulevard with Bike Lane Passing distance on Shoal Creek Boulevard with Wide Outside
1 3.5 ft With minor fluctuation, the typical pass
with the bike lane consisted of the driver giving about half a foot
of distance between their right mirror and the bike lane stripe; thus
providing approximately the same passing space every time. Why does
this happen? Motorists are conditioned in other traffic interactions
to respect lane stripes.
2 3.5 ft
10 3.5 ft
1 5 ft Some motorists (perhaps even a majority)
provide better passing distance in the wide outside lane scenario
because they are thinking about how much space to give, rather than
letting the lane stripe decide for them.
9 2 ft On the other hand, some other motorists provide considerably
less passing space without the lane stripe to guide them (some from
ignorance; others from antipathy towards cyclists riding in "their
lane").
10 1 ft
Average passing distance from centerline of my bike: 3.5 ft Average passing distance from centerline of my bike: 4.0 ft
10th percentile passing distance: 3.5 ft 10th percentile passing distance: 1 ft
In this dataset, the 30th percentile passing distance for wide outside lanes was worse than for bike lanes; meaning that 3 out of 10 times, the passing distance could be expected to be less for wide outside lanes than it was for bike lanes. (Or, to turn it around, 7 out of 10 times, the passing distance in wide outside lanes would be better than in bike lanes).
Despite the fact that this dataset shows a superior passing distance in 7 out of 10 cases for wide outside lanes, I would choose the bike lane over the wide outside lane in this scenario. I submit that the deciding factor for cyclists, if they are thinking rationally, should not be the average passing distance; since most motorists, whatever the facility, do a fairly good job of providing adequate passing distance. The deciding factor should be the likelihood that motorists who, because they either don’t know or don’t care, don’t provide adequate passing distance. Clearly, in my experience, although average passing distance can be higher in a wide outside lane scenario, the minimum passing distance can at the same time be a lot lower. In this dataset, for instance, I’d argue that the 2 ft and 1 ft passes were close enough to be dangerous (given my width).
I’m probably much more amused by myself than warranted. Judge for yourself:
Been itching to climb aboard a Capital Metro train? Understandable, store given that we’ve been talking about light rail/commuter rail around Austin since the mid-1980s.
Well, that first chance will come next week when Capital Metro and the Downtown Austin Alliance host a “hop ‘n shop” at Brush Square. Up to now Capital Metro has allowed only the media and few selected others to take an up-close gander at the red-and-silver-and white train cars.
and my response:
There should really be a requirement that people spend 15 minutes sitting on board a stationary shuttle bus before disembarking and boarding the stationary train, shouldn’t there?
Erica from Capital Metro, store in comments to this post, troche brings up the fact that the third image (originally from the city’s old OnTrack newsletter, urologist updated with green and yellow dots by yours truly), had an error in how the circles were drawn around prospective rail stations on the extension to Seaholm many people unsuccessfully lobbied for in 2004. The point of this image was to show the locations of the office buildings — not the circles (although that is not inherently obvious if the image is viewed in isolation), and the error wasn’t mine (somebody at the city drew a 1/4 mile diameter rather than radius) – but I’ve known about it for quite some time; using the image just to show the office locations since I have not yet created a new map with a better representation of offices. Typically when I discuss this issue on other forums, I prefer to use a google maps link like this one which shows a walk of 0.4 miles to 6th and Congress.
However, some folks at CM just produced the image below, which is about the best light you can put this ‘downtown’ station in, and which I will post even though it has its own problem: an attempt to fudge the issue by presenting both the legitimate 1/4 mile circle and a far less legitimate 1/2 mile catchment zone. Another discrepancy between the maps, not anybody’s fault, is that in 2004, the station location was projected a half block or so farther east.
Please see comments after the image.
Important things to note here:
Most major office buildings are outside the 1/4 mile zone. Most are also inside the 1/2 mile range. However, using the same principle as above, note that, for instance, the second-newest big office building downtown is more than a half-mile from the train station. Essentially all major office buildings downtown, including this one, would have been within 1/4 mile of the 2000 light rail route, whether on Congress or Colorado or even Guadalupe/Lavaca.
The 1/2 mile radius is used as a fallback ‘rule’ to declare that you can attract a few more choice commuters to excellent high-frequency rail service than the 1/4 mile rule would suggest. The problem here, of course, is that the service we are providing is neither high-quality (doesn’t go to UT or the Capitol or anywhere else worth going if your origin is ‘downtown’) nor high-frequency (runs only every 30 minutes and only during rush hours). In addition, the expanded catchment area is most suited to the residential end of the trip – i.e. you might walk farther from your home to pick up the train if it’s really good – but surely not to take the train if the walk FROM the train station TO your office was extra-long – this is borne out by New York’s transit agency’s project to spend billions to bring the LIRR a bit closer to employment centers (see also: non-trivial unwillingness of choice commuters to tolerate transfers even from ‘good rail’ to ‘good rail’, even in Manhattan).
We don’t have a large population of people who would be willing to walk 1/2 mile to work from the train station (and risk mistiming a 1/2 mile walk back to the train station in the afternoon only to maybe miss the once-every-half-hour train) who, and this is critically important here: aren’t already riding the bus. The same people who would give the train such an incredible time investment are already going to be riding the buses from all over the city that head straight to their offices downtown. I speak from experience here: a long walk to pick up transit from the office isn’t sustainable in the long-run even for transit-positive people like me. If I had to pay $10/day to park, I might think differently, but then I’d already be taking the bus, wouldn’t I?
And, most importantly, if Capital Metro really believed that the average choice commuter would consider this train station to be within a quick, comfortable, walk of their office, they wouldn’t be providing these three downtown shuttles, one of which runs right up Congress Avenue.
The first of a series of images I created on the plane to JFK on Sunday night:
Red dots are 10+ story office buildings, check obtained from skyscraperpage. Click for larger image.
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Posted on December 11, 2008 April 10, 2017
Kool-Aid Overload
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Dear Entire Talk Radio And Internet, Part Deux
Dear Entire Internet And Talk Radio
Penn State isn’t Ohio State. Or Michigan, pathopsychology for that matter.
Colors in honor of current #1 and #2. Take that, thumb Aggees!
2007 Alamo Penn State 24, phthisiatrician Texas A&M 17
2006 Outback Penn State 20, Tennessee 10
2005 Orange Penn State 26, Florida State 23 (3 OT)
2002 Capital One Auburn 13, Penn State 9
1999 Alamo Penn State 24, Texas A&M 0
1998 Outback Penn State 26, Kentucky 14
1997 Citrus Florida 21, Penn State 6(*)
1996 Fiesta Penn State 38, Texas 15
1995 Outback Penn State 43, Auburn 14
1994 Rose Penn State 38, Oregon 20
1993 Citrus Penn State 31, Tennessee 13
1992 Blockbuster Stanford 24, Penn State 3
1991 Fiesta Penn State 42, Tennessee 17
1990 Blockbuster Florida State 24, Penn State 17
1989 Holiday Penn State 50, BYU 39
Bowl record over last 20 years versus SEC: 5-2
Bowl record over last 20 years versus Big XII: 3-0
(* – starting running back and wide receiver suspended for idiotic reasons).
Posted on February 14, 2008 April 10, 2017
Funniest thing I’ve read in quite some time
One of the many pieces of excrement flung against the wall by RG4N in the desperate hope something would stick was an ITE Journal article in which the author asserted a disproportionate (to square footage) traffic impact for “free-standing discount superstores” over 200, look 000 square feet. The conclusion, dentist in other words, seek was that 199,999 square feet stores should have a trip generation figure of X per square foot; while 200,000 square foot stores should have a trip generation figure of Y, where Y is much larger than X.
This is counter-intuitive to say the least. One could argue that the increased size results in more trips overall – which would be the result of continuing to apply X trips per square feet (X times 200,000 is obviously more than X times 100,000). One could even argue that the increased size results in fewer trips than the same number of square feet in _two_ stores (“one-stop shopping”). But the theory that a bigger store results in, and I emphasize units here, more trips per square foot has always seemed ludicrous to me.
Anyways, as it turns out, Wal-Mart went with a slightly smaller store – which the army of anonymous RG4N trolls have used for quite a while as conspiracy fodder – claiming that they snuck it in under the threshold to avoid these supposedly more valid rules (which, again, as far as I can tell, the ITE still hasn’t seriously considered adopting).
As it turns out, I wasn’t alone in my skepticism. In addition to several disagreements about methodology, the respondent (another traffic engineer) points out that the study was too small to be statistically rigorous; the stores were too different to draw any firm conclusions; and that the author’s supposed intuitive conclusion isn’t. Some excerpts follow, since I’m not sure how long this article stays up for free. I’ll leave out the most esoteric stuff.
As a transportation consultant who is involved in both the performance and the review of traffic studies, my colleagues and I at McMahon Associates, Inc. are extremely concerned that the August 2006ITE Journal article entitled “Trip Generation Characteristics of FreeStanding Discount Superstores” lacks the rigorous scientific analysis and thoroughness that we have come to expect in ITE Journal articles.
As such, although ITE Journal states: “Opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not reflect official ITE or magazine policy unless so stated,” the article may be utilized by transportation professionals and others as “gospel” even though its analysis is flawed, in our opinion, in many respects.
2. Additionally, the square footage of a gas station is not a good choice for independent variable, as compared to the number of fueling positions, when determining its estimated trip generation; i.e., a 225-square-foot building could serve four fueling positions or 14 fueling positions.
5. We also question whether the author confirmed, in her comparison to the ITE Land Use Code 813 rates, that the latter (ITE) square footage baselines are the same as she assumed, especially with regard to the garden center, which typically has significant (15,000 to 20,000 square feet) square footage. While we agree that the rates should be applied to “total” square footage, inclusive of a garden center, it is our understanding that the ITE samples were largely (or totally) based on building foundation square footage, not inclusive of outside garden centers. Our observations about baselines and “with and without gas pumps” are intended to reinforce our opinion that the author’s analysis appears to be an “apples to oranges” comparison rather than “apples to apples.”
7. There is also a fairly large discrepancy between the number of vehicle trips collected between different days at some of the supercenter locations. Site 3 shows an increase of almost 17 percent in site traffic between the day 1 and day 2 counts. The increases in site traffic between the day 1 and day 2 counts at site 1 and site 5 are both about 10 percent. The fluctuation in these counts suggests that there could be flaws in the data or that other factors may have been involved in the traffic generation of the site on one or both days of the counts. These discrepancies may reflect seasonal variations, as the article indicates that the first weekday count was taken in July while the second count was taken in October.
and here’s the one that I think is the most important to laypeople:
9. We also take issue with the author’s statement that “free-standing discount superstores intuitively should have a higher trip generation rate than free-standing discount stores, which by definition do not contain a full-service grocery store but have most of the other amenities of the superstore.” Are not shopping centers evidence that larger stores, with presumably more services or products in one location, result in documented lower trip rates, because customers shop longer and their shopping needs can be accommodated in fewer trips due to greater availability of goods and services? In fact, the author’s argument is shown not to be the case in Table 1 of the article, where the author’s own comparisons show that, as retail store sizes become larger and more services/products are offered, trip generation rates decrease. We also note that the number of samples for ITE free-standing discount store (47) and ITE shopping center (407) is large enough so as to make these land uses’ rates statistically more reliable than ITE’s rates for free-standing discount superstore (10 samples) or the author’s study (five samples).
In conclusion, while the author’s study and article adds to the body of knowledge on trip generation characteristics of superstores in excess of 200,000 square feet, its data and analysis of that data, we submit, are not rigorous or conclusive enough to support the article’s recommendation that the rates derived from the author’s analysis should be used as the future norm for 200,000 square-feet-plus superstores. Until such time that more samples are collected (we would recommend at least 20); preferably from various locations in the country, as she also recommends, to test geographic differences, if any; and are computed on common baselines first (separately, without, or with gas pumps) before combined (i.e., if not statistically different), we suggest that the jury is still out on the validity of this article’s rates, conclusions and future use.
Macy’s in Manhattan
Macy’s also has flagship (very large) stores in San Francisco and Chicago – and their Chicago store is pursuing adding a grocery store in the basement.
Harrod’s in London
Wal-Mart doesn’t have their cachet, hospital it’s true, for sale but Allandale also doesn’t have the cachet of central Austin. Nevertheless, diagnosis the contention that big boxes belong out on the highway (which, in Texas, inevitably means on the frontage road where pedestrians, cyclists, and transit users mostly can’t get to them), is absolutely false – the normal pattern, before suburban sprawl took over, was that the biggest stores were downtown, not out in the boonies.
As for the inevitable claims of “bbbbbut if it was in YOUR neighborhood, you’d feel differently”, there was an Urban Target slated for 6th and Lamar (much closer to true central Austin – not just center of population) when I lived in Clarksville and I was thrilled to death at the prospect. Don’t remember square footage, but it was supposed to be 2 floors with some kind of neat cart escalator and whatnot.
Now that RG4N has struck out, pulmonologist it’s time to assess the damage. RG4N is interpreting the judge’s decision not to comment on three of their four complaints as evidence that they were valid which is spectacularly delusional. Good show, visit folks. Thanks to the Chronicle for, even now, supporting RG4N’s desperate attempt to spin this as something other than a complete truth-slap. Hint: it’s not “curious” she didn’t address the “other claims”; it was predicted by a real lawyer quite some time ago.
I’m going to cover this in two or more parts; today’s is just a conservative estimate of the direct and immediate costs and what we might have otherwise done with that time and money.
The city’s legal costs are oft-quoted at $424,000. This is at least the contract with Casey Dobson. I’m going to be extremely conservative and round up the city’s direct costs to $600,000, including other legal costs, the time and money spent responding repeatedly to RG4N’s complaints (and to city council members who were desperately trying to find an angle to work).
Other direct and short-term costs I could have considered, but didn’t:
Lost sales taxes: I’ll be completely conservative and assume that every single dollar of sales tax we don’t get from six months or so of delayed opening would have just been shifted from other Wal-Marts or other stores in the city. I don’t believe this to be the case; if it were that simple, Wal-Mart wouldn’t be so eager to build the store. More likely would be a shifting of the natural coverage area of each store – with stores on the edge of Austin becoming less crowded and hence more attractive to shoppers further out, but this is hypothetical and impossible to measure. Easier to believe but still harder to measure would be the lost tax revenue from other businesses in the center which don’t have easily subsitutable competition – for instance, a delay in the move of the ice rink.
Lost property taxes – despite what you hear from RG4N trolls on the Chronicle’s blog, there is a property tax impact to this development – the land value may increase, or it may not, but I guarantee the structure value will increase dramatically – and the city gets to tax that building value (as does the school district, county, etc.). Impossible to estimate now precisely what that will be, but common sense would tell you that it will be substantial enough to consider as a major benefit of the redevelopment given that the structure value of the existing ghost-mall is measured at just south of 16 million.
Lost bus fares: I’m 1000% positive that the opening of this store will result in a major bump in ridership to and through the Northcross transfer center, which gives Capital Metro more fare revenue with zero extra cost (since they probably wouldn’t increase service until the buses were overflowing, given their past history). But again, hypothetical and impossible to estimate.
So let’s leave the direct and short-term cost at a mere $600,000 (the cost to the taxpayers; RG4N and the careening-towards-bankruptcy Allandale Neighborhood Association have their own set of costs, of course).
What could we have done with that money? Well, me, I’m a transportation guy. So I’ll give you two simple transportation options, and another one dear to my heart. Y’all are welcome to chime in as well.
12,000 linear feet of sidewalk at $50/linear foot. (Estimate obtained from a wide range of sources on the web; corrections welcome). That’s two and a quarter miles of sidewalk, folks, enough to cover a big chunk of the sidewalk gap in the densest parts of Central Austin (where the pedestrians actually are).
Restriping Shoal Creek Boulevard into the safe, sane design that every other city would have done – and in fact, recommended to us. Just read those archives. And the same people who cost us the $600K this time are the ones who cost us the million on SCB in the first place, don’t forget. Parking on both sides instead of just one was just that much more important than cyclist safety.
Operate a branch library for a year. Every time we go through a hiccup in the budget, we have to close libraries or delay their opening. I can’t get a breakdown precisely from the city budget after ten minutes of scrutiny, but I’m betting one of the branches could run for a year on that much money (operating expenses).
So there’s three. Anybody else have any suggestions? Of course, none of these were as important as catering to the tantrum of a bunch of people who just really really really REALLY don’t like Wal-Mart, and want us to engage the Care Bear Stare against the legal system.
Next up: the indirect and long-term costs (such as foregone opportunities to improve the site plan with the supercenter intact).
Another casualty of Responsible Growth For Northcross’ year-long tantrum has been the truth. Yes, erectile you heard me. People all over the city now believe varying combinations of the following absolutely incorrect, but truthy, narratives.
“Anderson Lane is some kind of pedestrian utopia which Wal-Mart will make worse”. This just came up yesterday, which is why it’s at the top of my list. BAD FORM, TERRA TOYS. You know damn well that your location on South Congress was ped-friendly, but your strip mall on Anderson Lane? Even a standard-model suburban Wal-Mart would be no worse for pedestrians, cyclists, and transit users than the awful strip malls lining both sides of Burnet Road and Anderson Lane.
“Northcross Mall is in the middle of a neighborhood!” – talk about defining down to irrelevance. Notice from the map at the link that neighborhoods are actually buffered from Northcross by those aforementioned awful strip malls in most directions. The Wal-Mart in my hometown (Boca Raton, FL) directly abuts single-family homes, for comparison’s sake. Which leads us into:
“Big boxes belong on frontage roads!” This one had some legs – even our city council fell for it. Sadly, xenophobia in Texas prevents people from seeing how ridiculous this is – in other states, frontage roads don’t exist, but it’s also not true to then fall back to “well, they must be right next to the highway exits, then”. I spent an hour of my life I’ll never get back proving otherwise to some willfully deluded souls in Allandale, but again, refer to the two Wal-Marts closest to Boca Raton – neither one of which is remotely near a highway off-ramp (Delray Beach example); and the one in State College, PA; on a road very very similar to Burnet Road (four lane with center-turn lane; quite far from off-ramp of the real highway). And they SHOULDN’T be on frontage roads, either – you’re dooming their workers and customers to perpetual car-dependence if you put them out there where they don’t belong.
“All we were doing was trying to get a public process, man!” (read with Tommy Chong voice for extra effect). The whole point of the zoning code is to establish a set of permissible actions which don’t have to go through the public process – and don’t forget the cry of this same bunch whenever a developer requests upzoning or a variance: “you knew what the zoning was when you bought the property”. Well, Lincoln knew what the zoning was when they bought the property, and it unquestionably allowed for exactly this kind of development. Nobody in these neighborhoods cared to do anything about it for years and years when Wal-Mart wasn’t the prospective tenant, of course. Which leads us to:
“We just wanted urban VMU development!” – if you bought this, you’re dumber than a bag full of hammers. The motivating force behind RG4N was primarily the anti-density brigade – the people who opposed VMU everywhere else in Allandale when asked nicely; the people who fought apartments for years and years and years; the people who pushed McMansion so hard. So now we’re to believe that, just coincidentally, they changed their stripes and are now urbanists precisely at the time Wal-Mart came knocking? If so, they’d know that new urbanists would welcome big boxes – as long as they’re built pedestrian-friendly – no matter HOW big. Like Harrod’s in London or Macy’s in New York, Chicago, or San Francisco. Granted, Wal-Mart doesn’t have their cachet, but neither does Allandale.
The city council wanted Wal-Mart all along. Uh, NO. City council members were trying desperately to find an angle to give you (RG4N) what you wanted – and ran straight into the brick wall of fact: the development had to be allowed, period.
That’s an incomplete list. Suggestions welcome, and I’ll update in later postings.
Whenever I hear this guy talk about how bad the Domain is, patient I wonder which ones of the strip centers filled with locally-owned businesses he owns. Because I haven’t seen one strip mall with local businesses in it that isn’t a pedestrian-hostile disaster.
Sign me up for MORE DOMAIN SUBSIDIES if it means that we encourage pedestrian use, disease even if it’s only inside the project. Too many of these awful strip malls inhabited by the local businesses who are fighting this fight are like the ones on Anderson Lane where even a confirmed car-hater like me is tempted to start the car and move it farther down the road rather than walk a quarter-mile. It’s just that awful.
When locally owned businesses do things that hurt us, healing they don’t deserve a pass. When Terra Toys reacts to higher rent by leaving a good urban environment and moving somewhere where nobody will walk to, and very few will walk around in, why on earth am I supposed to support them against Wal-Mart or the Domain, when those guys are at least trying to make things a little better?
Also, for extra credit, remember City Comforts’ primary rule of urbanism: it starts with the location of the parking lot.
Very quick hit today; not even any links, pilule although I may fill them in later if I get a minute.
My family took the #5 down to Town Lake yesterday for the First Night festivities (the parade was outstanding – best one I’ve ever seen). One simple thing we experienced shows why streetcars in shared lanes are completely useless.
We’re travelling southbound in the right lane of Congress (where shared-lane low-budget streetcar would inevitably operate as well). Oops, a car has stopped and is unloading a bunch of stuff with their flashers on. The bus driver quickly changes to the center lane to get around them and then moves back right.
A block later, somebody starts to pull out of one of the angle-parking spaces and stops. I was never able to figure out why – they may have been spooked by traffic. Again, the bus driver changes lanes and moves around the obstruction.
Anybody see the problem with shared-lane streetcar yet?
You get enough little blockages like that and the performance and reliability of the streetcar gets so bad that even the mystical streetcar fairy dust that supposedly makes commuters forget how to read their watch won’t help.
True light rail, with reserved guideway (“running in its own lane”) is a slam-dunk win for Austin. But shared-lane streetcar is a complete waste of time that actually performs worse for passengers than does the city bus that most of them won’t even take today.
Unfortunately, I have my suspicions that the Wynn/McCracken rail plan will end up having to rely on mixed-traffic streetcar service for a good chunk of its proposed route (and that’s only one of the two impending problems; the other being that the route absolutely must go up Congress and then Guadalupe, rather than over the east side of UT and then out to Mueller as in the useless Capital Metro proposal). So, once again, we’re scrod by our pal Mike Krusee – because of his push in 2000 to destroy Capital Metro, and then his push in 2004 to force commuter rail instead of light rail, urban Austin will probably end up with no rail at all, or, at best, rail which is actually less useful than city buses.
Yesterday, generic I posted a quick hit about our bus ride down to First Night which noted several times where a bus was actually more useful than a streetcar would have been. It’s actually fairer to say “less awful”, tablets of course, since anybody who knows me knows I don’t find bus transit remotely acceptable on a corridor like this either – it needs true light rail like Austin voters approved in 2000.
Now, I see that things aren’t going so great in Seattle with their stuck-in-traffic streetcar either:
On Sunday, the southbound streetcar was out of service at Westlake Avenue and Lenora Street because a car was parked in the way.
“In spite of the fact we have clearly marked areas, and despite signs we have, for some reason a driver parked their car so it caused a problem for the streetcar,” Sheridan said.
He did not know how long the streetcar was out of service, but one witness said he saw the streetcar still stopped at 8:30 p.m.
Quick recommendation: My readers who are tempted to fall for the monorail siren song, neuropathologist as well as those who have been misled by neanderthal clap-trap about “choo-choo” trains being too old a technology should check out this excellent piece by Christof in Houston.
As I’ve commented in his forums, resuscitator though, also be aware that these solutions are often pushed disingenuously by people who really want nothing to get done, because they don’t want the status quo to be threatened. In other words, whenever you read about monorail and especially PRT, be aware that a lot of the guys pushing this are doing so not because they actually want or expect it to ever get built, but precisely because they know it WON’T ever get built so they can protect transit funds which can later be diverted for suburban highways instead.
This has come up frequently in the past in regards to the idiocy of claiming that major retail belongs out on the frontage road (where I have claimed in the past that it’s impossible to practically provide good transit service). Here’s a much better version than my previous one, clinic and as a bonus, melanoma MS Paint was still tangentially involved!
(For non-Texas readers who may have wandered in from Jeff’s excellent transit portal, stomach almost all limited-access highways in this state are built from pre-existing major arterial roadways – where property access is maintained via the construction of new “frontage roads” which unlike perimeter roads often used for that purpose in other states, also serve as on-and-off-ramps. The incredibly wide road footprint that results makes it far more expensive to build new or maintain existing crossings over or under the highway).
Both images from google transit; click through for full details. This is basically the “how do I get from the drop-off for the express bus at the park-and-ride on the west side of the road to the entrance to all the office parks on the east side of the road”. Note that the address for the park-and-ride you sometimes get (12400 Research) doesn’t match the actual location, which is on Pavilion Boulevard back towards Jollyville.
First, the transit directions, which look pretty good at first:
Then, the driving directions, which look like this:
Huh. Wait a minute. If I can just jump across the road, why do the driving directions have me go down a mile and back? Let’s look at the satellite image (click to embiggen):
(Get more current satellite view here)
Oh. Now I see. Note that the bus stop images you see on the other side of the road are for a poorly performing cross-town route which suffers from the same basic problem – if you need to leave an office on that side of the street and go southbound on 183 back home, you get to walk to the next crossing – which on a normal street wouldn’t be that big of a deal, but crossings of frontage roads are few and far between. Farther to the northwest, crossings are even less frequent – you face a walk of close to 3 miles in spots to make this trip across the freeway. Taking that cross-town route would be even worse than taking the express plus the incredibly long walk, because it would require a long slow trip down the frontage road and then a transfer to a second bus, and because the service on the frontage road is inevitably low-demand, it doesn’t run very often either.
Keep in mind that this is just to cross the freeway. If you work at the Riata office park, you then face another walk of a half-mile or so inside the complex. I used to do this commute on my bike, with bus boost in the morning at times and am very familiar with the area – ironically, proximity to the Pavilion transit center was supposedly touted as a positive for this development when it was originally proposed. I was always pretty sure Pavilion used to connect with what is now called Riata Trace Parkway when 183 was just a six-lane divided arterial but have never been able to find a clear enough old satellite image to confirm, but our Tennessee correspondent has already confirmed in comments that it did cross.
For reference, my last job before this one was also on US 183, but between Balcones Woods and Braker Lane, which was much more accessible by transit – and yes, I did sometimes take the bus even on days where I wasn’t biking. I tried the bus commute once to Riata and never did it again – that walk, in addition to being far too long even for a nice comfortable express bus, is just dreadful, even compared to conditions down by Braker.
And, yes, there’s a personal reason this is coming up now too. All I can say now is dammit, dammit.
Coverage by the Chronicle and Austinist, viagra approved but I’ll focus on two very narrow areas here where they are dead wrong. Note: I don’t have the time to spend all day Saturday at the Convention Center to tell these guys stuff they already know deep-down, symptoms thanks.
The long PDF is here. Here’s the two things I’m going to address (I agree with most, but not all, of the remainder of the thing, but nothing else is as remarkably wrong as these):
#1: Two-way streets are NOT better for pedestrians and cyclists. The only thing you have to do to throw out this ridiculous piece of conventional wisdom that we need to convert all our one-ways to two-ways is imagine being a driver who is sitting waiting to make a left turn from a 2-way 4-lane undivided roadway downtown into a driveway or cross street. Hey, there’s a little break in traffic!, you think, GUN IT!. How’s that going to work out for the pedestrian crossing on the flashing Walk signal? You know, the one you couldn’t see until a split second before you hit him, because your view was obstructed by the oncoming traffic before the gap?
With one-way streets, you always get one cycle where pedestrians have a fully protected (solid-white walk signal) crossing (bar left-turn-on-red; which requires enough motorist vigilance to be very safe for pedestrians anyways). Crossing one-way streets as a pedestrian is comparatively much safer and much saner and much more pleasant than crossing a similarly sized two-way street.
The primary reason this 2-way nonsense keeps coming up is because people compare a narrow 2-lane 2-way street like 2nd street to a wide 1-way street with 4 or 5 lanes; and, of course, because they’re completely car-centric to boot. The greatest pedestrian cities in the world have tons of one-way streets. Throw out this piece of ‘wisdom’ that 2-way is better; it’s just not true.
(I plan on eventually writing a backgrounder on this one – suffice to say for now that you need to know that the primary motivating force behind this stuff are urban-but-suburban-minded business owners who want you to see their shop no matter which direction you’re driving; not people who honestly want to build a downtown people like to walk around in).
#2: The streetcar line proposed by Capital Metro will provide more people-moving capacity downtown – ABSOLUTELY FALSE. Compare/contrast with light rail, which certainly would have; and McCracken/Wynn’s rail proposal, which COULD, but if and only if they get significant chunks of reserved guideway and don’t follow Cap Metro’s stupid up-the-rear-end-of-UT-and-out-Manor-Road route. The existing AND FUTURE density in central Austin is on Guadalupe, not on San Jacinto and Manor Road (neighborhood plans out there don’t allow for enough future density to make running them a streetcar remotely worth the cost; and Guadalupe already has significant enough density to justify it).
If the streetcar runs in shared traffic, as it will according to Capital Metro’s proposal, it will not be able to attract many more people than do the buses that currently run around downtown. This is important, because building new transit that doesn’t actually get USED more doesn’t actually help with the person-moving capacity of the corridor.
In addition, the streetcar line as proposed by Capital Metro will not be a significantly better way to distribute commuter rail passengers than will the buses that will do it on day one. Read my recent comments about streetcar versus bus for starters – Capital Metro’s proposal runs entirely in ‘shared lanes’, meaning that the streetcars will be even slower and even less reliable than the buses these commuters won’t set foot on today. So it’s not going to be the ‘dessert’ which makes more people want to eat the ‘meal’. Once again, no improvement in people-moving capacity.
These use cases basically show you what a passenger on the commuter rail line will face. Imagine that the last segment is on a streetcar, stuck in traffic behind their coworkers’ cars, instead of on a bus. Does it make much difference?
I have a strong suspicion that the people working on the downtown plan know all of this, by the way, but there is a political risk to being too much against Capital Metro’s transit plan and the 2-way-street conventional wisdom. Nonetheless, it would have been very helpful for some caveats to be included at a bare minimum, like they did with the commuter rail line itself (their quote below).
In its first phase, the Leander-to-
Austin Commuter Rail Line will terminate in the extreme east/southeast quadrant of Downtown,
at Brush Square. This peripheral location is not ideal, being about a 30-minute walk to the
Capitol Complex, 10 minutes to Sixth and Congress (2.5 MPH) and 15 minutes to City Hall (2.5
MPH). While transfers to waiting buses are planned from the MLK Rail Station to UT and to the
Capitol, as well as from Brush Square to Downtown destinations, it is unclear how desirable these
bus transfers will be to the transit user.
Note the skillful caveats here. This particular page is well-done – it addresses the problem, while still being optimistic enough to satisfy people who think we can actually get more things done through consensus rather than forceful advocacy of our needs.
The rule of thumb for transit users is roughly a 5-minute walk, by the way, in case you were still wondering why I keep talking about what a disaster this thing is going to be. Light rail would have run to within a 5-minute walk of essentially all the major employment destinations in central Austin.
From “Dataholic” on this story. I still owe you guys at least one more installment of “What RG4N cost the city” which will be focused on lost opportunities to do the site better, cure but in the meantime, patient please read this:
Two judges have ruled that the City followed its own laws when it came to approving the Lincoln site plan. When there are laws, all sides have to abide by them, including Lincoln, including the City, including the neighborhoods. If the City capitulated to RG4N’s demands, it would be breaking its own laws, thus opening itself to being sued by Lincoln (and losing since the laws were followed –per 2 judges). This would be even costlier for the City (all of us), and would achieve nothing (in terms of getting rid of Wal-Mart). Even RG4N founders stated, very early on, that no public process was required to build a supercenter on that site.
Regardless of what you think of Wal-Mart, regardless of how much more preferable a different (or no) development might be, Lincoln owns the property and Lincoln followed the law.
If the laws need changing, then change them — but RG4N demanding the City break its own laws is divisive, expensive, and only a ploy to further the political careers of its leaders at the expense of the neighborhoods.
I couldn’t put that any better myself. And, no, I don’t post under anybody other than “m1ek”. RG4N needs to man up and admit they lost this, big-time, and the Chronicle needs to stop carrying their water just because they happen to be highly connected. Enough is enough. You’re making a mockery of yourselves and you’re hurting the city.
As alluded to at the end of this crackplog, health my company just opened a physical office in a patient +austin,+tx&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=30.268266,59.0625&ie=UTF8&ll=30.276284,-97.817674&spn=0.008042,0.01442&z=16&iwloc=addr&om=1″>truly awful part of the suburban wasteland. Today was the test case for “how bad is the trip home on the bus”, after getting rides to/from work with my wife and a travelling coworker all of last week (not so bad in the morning; but awful in the afternoon, especially for my wife, who had to invest 30-40 minutes getting to the office to pick me up to then spend 30-40 minutes going home). Ironically, this would be a great bike commute, if I could still ride my bike any non-trivial amount.
I’m still not sure how often I’m going to need to come in, but there’s a sliding scale here – at some point it’d require us to get a second car, which I don’t want to do for many reasons, not least among them financial (we couldn’t have taken our trip to Hawaii if we’d had a second car payment, after all). There’s a certain number of days per month on which we could tolerate a both-ways drive (very little); a larger number where we could tolerate a drop-off in the morning and a bus ride home (determining that right now); a larger number which might be achievable on something like a scooter, if I can get past some emotional barriers; and anything else requires that second car. At which point I also have to consider other options, because if I have to lay out the money and time for two cars, might as well look for somewhere that can make up the gap (or maybe downtown, or at least in a less awful suburban part of Austin where you can actually take the bus).
I am writing this on the bus – filling in links later. It’s a crackplivebusblog!
Google transit called this trip a 10-minute walk, a 26-minute bus ride, a transfer, and another 20ish minute ride from there, the last leg being one on which I can take about six different routes home, so no worries there. I was highly dubious of google’s estimation of the walk, having ridden this route many times on my bike, back when I still could, so I gave myself 25 minutes to walk and 5 minutes to wait (buses can and sometimes do arrive early).
Update on the next day: Now google is accurately saying 19 minutes for the walk. Huh.
Walking trip: Got to the elevator at 4:03 (after having to run back in and use office phone to call home, since cell phone battery had died). Started on the long, not so scenic, walk through suburban Westlake. Guh. No sidewalks, of course, on Allen (behind the Westlake High tennis courts and other fields). Pretty decent sidewalks after that on Pinnacle, which I took the rest of the way down. Walked past some middle schoolers who will doubtlessly be telling their friends they saw a Real Adult Walking – must have been a bum or a predator. Got to the bus stop at 4:20. Whoops – although google was way too optimistic, I was a bit on the pessimistic side. Would budget 20 minutes for the walk next time, if it happens, plus the 5 minute wait.
First bus leg:
8 people were on the #30 bus as it pulled up (exactly on time at 4:33). I made 9.
5 more people got on at Walsh Tarlton and Bee Caves. Total on bus counting me now 14.
1 more guy got on in the weird office park at the end of Bee Caves. 15 people on the bus now. Bus goes through a road at this complex and then turns up Spyglass to make a short loop in the wrong direction, at least for me.
1 more got on somewhere along Spyglass at one of the apartment complexes. 16 people now!
#17 got on at Spyglass / Barton Skyway.
At Spyglass, near north intersection with Mopac, one got on and one got off. Still 17.
Turned back onto southbound Mopac at 4:44. Guess that loop was worth it after all. Stopped for a couple minutes at the Bee Caves light, and then another 3 got on! We’re essentially at standing room now – one standing, although there are a couple of seats left. 20 passengers.
At 4:48, we turn into a bus bay to pick up a guy with a bike. That makes 21 passengers.
We cruise through Zilker Park without stopping and arrive at Robert E Lee at 4:51. Not a good day to be hitting the park anyways – but someday remind me to write a crackplog about how the city needs to jack up the parking prices there in the summer quite a bit higher. Still 21 passengers. A Barton Hills bus (#29) turns off Lee with about ten people on board that I can see (maybe more).
Amazingly, they’re still working on that Villas of Lost Canyon project. We arrive at the backup for the Lamar light at 4:53 and almost hit a bicyclist stopped in the right lane for no apparent reason. We’re back in civilization, as I see real adult people with apparent jobs walking about like actual pedestrians. Hooray! Stuck for a bit behind our friends on the #29 as they load a bike. Boo. Driver may not make my promised 4:59 drop-off if he keeps this up.
4:54: Somebody finally pulls the chain to be let off in front of the Armstrong Music School. Down to a mere 20. The bus is practically empty! The suburbanites are right!
4:55: Lady gets off at the corner of S 1st. Down to 19 people! I think I see a tumbleweed.
4:58: D’oh. Somebody signals they need off just past Riverside. Going to be hard to make my best transfer at this rate. Time to hibernate the laptop now, though; the rest of first leg is from memory. About 10 people got off at that stop! Holy cow. Down to 7 passengers now. All of those passengers walked over to S Congress to hop on one of the many buses that pick up on the other corner, by the way.
Transcribed later on from here on out.
The wait: Had my bus been just a minute earlier, I could have immediately jumped on the 4:59 #7 bus which was a few minutes late. Rats. As it turns out, my #5 bus was quite a bit more late.
Second bus leg (transcribed today from yellow legal pad – since the ride was way too jerky and crowded to crack open the laptop):
5:10: Bus arrives; I board. About 15 people on the bus.
5:11: 14 people still on at 7th/Congress.
5:13: 3 more get on at 9th/Congress.
5:14: One got off at 10th/Congress
5:16: 3 got on as we turned in front of the Capitol at the bus stop that our asshat governor is forcing to move. There were about 30 people there at that time. Up to here, ‘rapid bus’ on this corridor would have saved about 30 seconds of the 4 minutes it took to traverse Congress which is actually a bit better than I would have guessed. Not that the #5 would get that treatment anyways, but it was something to look at while we were stuck in traffic with the #1/#101, which would be the rapid service. Streetcar would have been no better than the bus I was on in this part of the route – but at least no worse.
Note for comparison’s sake that light rail on this route ala 2000 would have probably taken about 2 minutes. About two stops; no being stuck behind cars or other buses. Moving on…
5:17: Lavaca at 12th and 13th, one got on at each. Ride is getting even jerkier and crappier. Good thing I didn’t take out the laptop.
5:18: One more gets on at 16th.
5:18-5:24: We’re stuck in a very long backup from the light at MLK/Lavaca. This is where LRT would really have helped. As it turns out, streetcar would have been even worse because we saved a minute or two at the end by prematurely jumping into the center lane (bypassing a stop on the right where nobody was waiting). The streetcar, stuck on the tracks in the road, can’t make that decision. This helped a bit because the primary backup from this light was traffic heading to I-35 – the tailback in the right lane was about a block longer than the one in the center lane and moving much more slowly too.
5:24: Driver guns it to try to make up some time, as by this point we’re really really late. Note: this is why people who say you shouldn’t have rail until you can run the buses on time are idiots – the driver did everything in his power, but all the cars and a few other buses made it impossible for him to meet his schedule.
5:26: We slowly approach light at 21st/Guadalupe, having been stuck through several light cycles. Now we see why “Rapid Bus” won’t work at all – and the same thing would apply to “Rapid Streetcar”. The entire corridor is congested – we can rarely make the first green light we see all the way past UT, and quite often don’t even make the second one. At this point, a whole ton of people get on, and the bus is now standing room only, with 3 people standing and every seat full.
5:29: Stuck short of 24th. Once again, rapid bus shows its uselessness – as we could have held that light green till the cows came home, but the traffic from 26th through 29th would have still stopped us dead. At this point we’re probably more than 10 minutes behind schedule.
5:32: Finally made it to near the Dean Keeton / Guadalupe intersection; finally about to leave the “rapid bus” route (and also the light rail route). Note that light rail as planned in 2000 would have breezed through this stuff – making a couple of stops, but never getting stuck in traffic. The driver really goes fast on Dean Keeton – feels like 45, although it’s very hard to tell.
5:34: We pull over near the ped bridge over Dean Keeton and pick up a few more people. About 5 people standing now.
5:36: Finally on the way home. No more delays/obstructions.
5:38: Three people, including yours truly, disembark. Some of the remaining standees find seats. Bus has improved to only 9 minutes late, thanks to some speeding and ‘flexibility’.
Things learned:
Don’t trust the pedestrian part of google transit’s directions. I kind of suspected this before, but they clearly assume you can take a bees’-line. It would be a much better idea if they were to assume you had to take the same route as your car – they’d be erring in the conservative direction if at all – which is definitely the better way to err when walking to a bus stop!
They might be able to run the #30 a bit more often, if this is any indication. At least a bit more frequent during rush hours, as the people on the bus were (mostly) clearly headed home from work.
As another commenter alluded to on his blog, this is the kind of thing Ben Wear should be doing from time to time.
Rapid Bus is shelved, of course but today’s experience yet again confirms how useless it would be. Likewise, streetcar on this corridor in a shared lane would be an absolute disaster – even worse than the bus. Broken record time: Light rail as conceived in 2000 would have greatly helped this corridor – giving people a transit alternative which would be superior to the private automobile and FAR superior to slow, unreliable, jerky buses or streetcars.
Apparently just because the Popcorn Button works at home regardless of size of popcorn bag, viagra 40mg DO NOT ASSUME it will work on a non-home microwave. The entire office is filled with smoke. I’m That Guy, surgery dammit. (No, this is not a subconscious, or conscious for that matter, revenge for the location).
This is a letter I just sent to most of the City Council. I’ll try to link a few things from here, more about but no extra analysis – I’m really too busy at the office to be spending time on this, help even.
Councilmember McCracken and others, salve
I wanted to register my opposition to the ludicrous and irresponsible plans submitted by these two neighborhood associations in my area to completely opt out of the VMU ordinance on highly questionable grounds (claiming to have already implemented zoning accomplishing some of the same things while rejecting the rest based on parking and other typical excuses). There is no more critical corridor in our city for VMU than this part of Guadalupe.
My family and I walked up to the Triangle for a restaurant opening a week or two ago, and the streetscape along Guadalupe is just awful. This is the kind of thing that Karen McGraw‘s reactionaries are trying to preserve – oil change lots, gas stations, and barely used falling down storefronts which can’t be made economical when they are forced to adhere to suburban parking requirements. (The only healthy business along this strip was Vino Vino, which as you may recall, she tried to force to build a bunch more parking too).
The claim that this represents the will of the neighborhoods is questionable. If you read the backup material, you’ll see the same exact people who spent months and months building the McMansion Ordinance were the ‘voters’ on this plan – this isn’t the kind of issue you’re going to be able to get the rank and file of the neighborhood interested in, as you might have already figured. (But in the case of Vino Vino, you can argue that the true silent majority in Hyde Park made their feelings well known – the population in general is clearly not as reactionary about density as is their leadership).
You already gave these people way too much with McMansion – and the understood quid pro quo was that they’d have to accept additional housing units along transit corridors – and there’s no better transit corridor in central Austin than this one. Parking is thus no excuse. If you don’t force VMU here, you might as well throw in the towel everywhere.
Urban Transportation Commission, 2000-2005
My austinist post is up – this is why you haven’t seen anything from me in a while. In retrospect, cheapest as pointed out by truecraig, what is ed probably too much of a rehash; but we’ll see. Almost all about rail transit in Austin; with a little bit of bus thrown in for good measure.
This is a one-time affair; part of an idea truecraig had to allow frequent commenters to write a column.
From Black Heart Gold Pants:
How Joe Paterno met Fergie, doctor
parts 1, thumb
2, and 3.
Posted on October 4, 2007 April 10, 2017
Open letter to Tim Curley
Desperate hope for tomorrow
If a conservative is a “liberal who has been mugged”, approved there as the hoary old saying goes, here then a modern proponent of socialized medicine could be said to have been a fiscal conservative who has had more than five health care plans in the last four years (yours truly). I used to be 180 degrees opposed on this, but frankly, what we have is so much worse than even the bad socialized systems that it’s nothing more than ideological idiocy not to join the rest of the civilized world. To say nothing of the fact that we could easily match the French system, for instance, if we think the British or Canadian ones suck too much; and we’d spend less money overall, by all rational estimates (we already spend more public money than the average completely-socialized system; but we spend it stupidly and inefficiently on things like emergency care for the uninsured).
The people opposing such a move continue to spout baloney about waiting times, as if even those of us with insurance don’t wait as much or more in the US (and this matches my experience). For the benefit of equal or worse waiting times, I get to kick in thousands per year, and drown in paperwork (for all the payment plans we’re on to try to make sure we pay out of our HSA rather than out of after-tax money, and of course, to make sure I don’t overdraw the stupid thing). What’s worse is that the modern know-nothings who still push this disaster we live under are lying about the options people really have. You don’t realistically have the option to go to another doctor, even if you’re willing to pay standard (non-discounted) rates. Nor should you accept that as an answer – you’re already paying dearly for health care which these idiots claim is the “best in the world”.
Enough is enough. I’m turning in my capitalist-medicine decoder-ring. Call me Fidel LaFrenchie if you must. Better an honest socialist, if only for pragmatic reasons, than a lying capitalist.
Posted to comments and as letter-to-editor in their new interface, cialis but who knows if this new technology will work, condom so it’s reposted here for your pleasure. The 2nd Hawaii report coming as soon as work calms down a bit.
Commuters will only switch to transit if they are delivered to their final destination – within a couple of blocks. Failing to provide that “last mile” transport can doom an entire regional rail system. If far-flung suburbanites hate the bus, rx and their offices are too far to walk from the last rail or rapid-bus stop, then they’ll just keep driving, however long their commutes.
The part which was left out, in what’s becoming a disturbing trend of analysis-free journalism at the Chronicle, is that choice commuters will also NOT accept transfers as part of their daily commute, unless we’re talking about the Manhattan end of the scale where the transit alternative has the benefit of competing against 50-dollar parking.
Transfers from commuter rail to streetcar will not be any more attractive to daily commuters than transfers from commuter rail to shuttlebus – and choice commuters, as shown in South Florida with Tri-Rail, simply will not do the latter. Once you ride every day, the fact that the streetcar isn’t any faster or more reliable than the bus was becomes very obvious.
It’s time to remind people yet again: we did NOT decide to build what worked in Dallas, Portland, Denver, Salt Lake, Houston, and Minneapolis (light rail, or, what we would have built in 2000 and should have tried again in 2004). What we’re building instead was what failed in South Florida – a transit alternative which is utterly non-competitive with the car and will continue to serve only the transit-dependent at an incredibly high cost, while derailing transit momentum for decades.
This subject keeps coming up; and although I’ve explained it in bits and pieces in many crackplogs here, viagra as well as in other forums, prostate I’ve never put it all in one place before. But I’m also short on time, so I’ll reuse most of a post I made today to the excellent SkyScraperPage forums and just expand a bit.
The immediate relevance is a somewhat petulant response from Michael King to my letter to the editor in the Chronicle next week. I suppose this means I’ll be published, at least. The money quote:
we don’t find it particularly useful to hold our breaths on transit questions until we turn blue (or bile green), nor particularly helpful to respond to every interim proposal with cheerless variations on “it’s pointless and it won’t work.”
So, here it is: why it’s important to keep bringing up that this thing won’t work and WHY it won’t work, and what WOULD have worked instead:
South Florida built almost exactly what we’re going to build: a commuter rail line on existing tracks which is too far away from destinations people actually want to go to – so they have to transfer to shuttle buses for the final leg of their journey to work in the morning (and back from work in the evening). It has proved a miserable failure at attracting so-called “choice commuters”, i.e., those who own a car but are considering leaving it at home today to take the train to work.
Here’s how the experience has gone in the area:
Start with a largely transit-friendly population (retirees from New York, for instance)
In the mid-to-late 1980s, commuter rail gets built (requiring shuttle transfers).
Everybody who says anything says “this is going to work; rail ALWAYS works!”
Nobody but the transit-dependent rides it. (“we tried it and it didn’t work”).
Ten years later, whenever somebody brings up light rail, “we tried rail and it didn’t work here”.
In the meantime, a huge amount of money is spent double-tracking the corridor and increasing service; but still, essentially nobody who can choose to drive will ride the thing, because the three-seat ride (car, train, shuttle-bus) makes it so uncompetitive. (Remember that, like our rail line, it doesn’t run through any dense residential areas where people might be tempted to walk to the station – all passengers arrive either by car or by bus).
Fifteen years later, when people still don’t ride, somebody reads about TOD and thinks “maybe that will help”. Millions are spent trying to encourage developers to build residential density around the train stations to no avail (a bit unlike Austin in that here, all we need to do is allow more density and it will crop up by itself due to pent-up demand for living in that part of town). Nothing comes of this – because people don’t want to pay extra to live next to a train station where they can hop a train to… a shuttle-bus.
Twenty years later, whenever somebody brings up light rail, “we tried rail and it didn’t work here” is still the primary response – but finally some people are starting to say “well, we built the wrong thing last time”.
If there had been more people pointing out before, during, and after the system opened that a rail line which didn’t go where the people wanted to go would be a failure, it might not have taken twenty years just to restart the rail conversation there.
I don’t want it to take twenty years to restart the conversation here in Austin.
Don’t believe it will happen? Remember: the pro-commuter-rail forces, before the election, were saying let’s ride and then decide. People in South Florida rode. They decided. It didn’t work. It has taken twenty years to even start seriously talking about building rail in the right places (along the FEC corridor, or light-rail in Fort Lauderdale). We can’t afford twenty years here.
There are 119 schools in Division 1-A. ESPN has ranked them (well, oncology they’ve only done the bottom 19 so far). Among the 4 non-conference opponents for my school this year? #117, pill #118, and #119.
THIS IS NOT HOW YOU WON THE TITLE IN 1982 AND 1986, DAMMIT.
I didn’t think this could be any worse than last year. I was rong.
Thanks to RUTS for the find. FUH GUH BUH.
Absent other options (and local bus is not an option) they will drive. That’s where rail comes in. We can build it, dosage as some have suggested, in places where people don’t want to live right now in hopes that people will want to live there. Or we can build it where people already are, and where more people are coming, to take some of that load. We’ve learned from Main that people will ride rail if it goes where they want to go. We’ve also learned that dense development is most likely to occur in places that are already dense. Rail isn’t causing density — the density is coming anyway. Rail, done right, is a way to deal with the traffic that density brings.
Focus on this sentence:
We’ve also learned that dense development is most likely to occur in places that are already dense.
What parts of Austin are already dense? Why, the parts served by 2000’s light rail proposal, and skipped by commuter rail (and streetcar). And, no, sorry, TOD won’t make much of a difference.
We ignore lessons from other cities at our own peril.
From the online Chronicle letters; don’t know if they’ll have the guts to publish it given their overwhelming tilt towards Karen McGraw‘s ANC “granola mafia”:
Just caught your piece [“Naked City, recipe ” News] in the July 27 issue about our [Vino Vino] off-site parking hearing before the Planning Commission on Tuesday, July 24, and the opposition to our proposal by Karen McGraw. It’s good to see the Chronicle taking a peek, if even an ever-so-lightly colored one, at this little turf war going on right here in bucolic Hyde Park (you could have given us a ring, you know). As you correctly point out, parking in Hyde Park and along the run of Guadalupe in question (from 40th to 43rd) is extremely tight. That’s why we, along with our landlord, Thad Avery, have looked into every possibility to lighten our parking load along this slowly revitalizing stretch of Guadalupe. Ms. McGraw has led a “spirited” opposition to our attempts to find a solution. In spite of overwhelming approval by the Hyde Park Neighborhood Association back in February and last Tuesday’s unanimous approval by the Planning Commission, we still await the green light to do our thing. We’ve been at this process, grinding it out, for two years now, and this is a wee bit frustrating. As to the concern Ms. McGraw expressed for her parking lot, we have no intention of letting any of our customers use her lot. Ain’t gonna happen. No matter what she may say. About half of our customers are Hyde Park residents who have walked from their nearby homes, and this is part of the charm of being here in the first place. However, we are happy that some of the lunch customers of the deli located in Ms. McGraw’s building use our lot to park their cars.
But that’s a whole other story. In fact, there is so much more to the story. Anyway, thanks for all the coverage of all things Austin.
Jerry Reid
Manager, etc.
p.s. As for the mass-demolishing-of-homes-on-Avenue A-scenario Ms. McGraw fears, got a clue as to how much those houses go for these days? That would be one friggin’ expensive parking lot! Oh, and the bus? Yep, we rented a bus for our supporters. With more than 30 folks turning up to show their support, it was the least we could do. We had room for Ms. McGraw and her two supporters. They should have come along.
Update: Here’s the link to the letter in case anybody wants to comment. I highly encourage it.
Well, pills I’m all the way up to part 2 out of 3 on the May 2007 Hawaii trip, view and I still need to backtrack and talk about Newark in June and State College in July. Argh. Here goes. Go back and read Part One if so inclined.
Background: O’ahu is the only island with any real transit service (up to the standards of a medium-sized mainland city, ask that is; the Neighbor Islands have some desultory bus service). Inside Honolulu, buses run all the time – you see them more often than in most big mainland cities. The system in Honolulu has for a long time been a vast network somewhat centered on Ala Moana Mall – a huge mall with a couple of large bus areas. Waiting outside in Honolulu is no big deal, so that’s what they do. In Waikiki, where we spent almost all our time, the buses all run down the central two-way road (Kuhio) rather than the one-way couplet of Kalakaua and Ala Wai. The system is called TheBus which I find irritating.
The population on O’ahu outside Honolulu uses the buses a bit but the primary ridership is in Honolulu (and commuters to same). There’s a huge proportion of the population that is transit-dependent; and I’ll further divide that market segment (for the first time here, although I’ve been thinking about it for a long time) into two subgroups: the voluntarily transit-dependent (could afford to own a car but choose not to because the bus system is good enough) and the involuntarily (don’t own and can’t afford a car). Of course, choice commuters exist here too.
The transit-dependent are a larger proportion in Honolulu than in most cities on the mainland (save New York) because parking is difficult and expensive, wages aren’t that high, and the weather is very favorable for waiting for a bus or walking to/from the stop. Not too difficult to figure. Buses don’t get much priority boost except on the long Kapolei-to-Honolulu route, in which buses get a bit of a leg up by using the HOV “zipper lane”. In the city, there’s one bus boulevard (Hotel Street) in the small “downtown” Honolulu, but I have no experience there.
Bus fares are startlingly high. Subsidies are quite low – and you’d figure in an island where they have to simultaneously worry about earthquakes and running out of room, they’d want to subsidize people to leave their cars at home – but the farebox recovery ratio is very high (over 30 percent, which is quite high for a bus-only system). The system is recovering slowly from a strike a few years ago which induced a large number of the voluntarily transit-dependent (mentioned above) to get cars or find other ways to get to work. One-way adult fares are $2.00; anybody between toddler and adult is $1.00 each way. There are no short-term passes (shortest is a 4-day pass which isn’t that good of a deal anyways). Monthly passes seem more moderate compared to mainland prices.
Tourist usage is moderate – the system is used heavily by hotel workers, but you will see plenty of people who are obviously non-local getting on and off the bus in Waikiki. This crowd is heavily weighted towards the hotels on Kuhio and on the Ala Wai side – the people in the most expensive rooms on the Kalakaua side probably don’t even know the bus exists. But there’s far more young people staying along Kuhio anyways in the moderately priced stuff, and the books they read (like Lonely Planet) highly recommend the bus, and we saw plenty of that sort as well as a few retirees.
Now for our direct experience, first the two trips to Hanauma Bay:
The whole family took the #22 bus twice to Hanauma Bay, which is a really delightful place to snorkel, especially when you can get to the outer reef (we couldn’t on either time this trip due to high waves). Calm enough for very poor swimmers to get to see a lot of pretty fish; still interesting enough for the moderately adventurous; and very easy to get in. This is the beach where Elvis lived in “Blue Hawaii”, by the way; and I’ve been here about 15 times going back to my first visit as a middle-schooler.
Although the drive to Hanauma Bay is fine, and the views are nice, parking is a problem – the lot is fairly small compared to peak demand, and on a previous visit we actually were turned away once (this happens fairly often but we’ve been lucky overall). Parking fees, stupidly enough, are only like a buck. Somebody failed basic economics. So this seemed like a perfect opportunity to try out the bus – especially since the travel guides recommend it, and we were trying to save money by not having a mostly unused rental car all week.
We left our timeshare and walked out to Kuhio and waited. Actually, I had observed several buses running the route bunched together right before we got down there on one of our two trips (can’t remember which one), which is understandable given traffic conditions on this route. The buses theoretically run every 20 minutes or so, but due to bunching we ended up waiting much longer one of the two times. Boarding the bus was fine but SLOW – they still use an old transfer scheme like Capital Metro did until a year or so ago (slips of paper), and feeding in dollar bills for us (5 bucks; Ethan was free) took quite a while. On the first trip, we were headed out in what was supposed to be early but ended up mid-afternoon (more like 2:30 as it turned out), and on the second trip we headed out right after lunch.
The route took us past Diamond Head and provided opportunities for a lot of nice views there on a road I actually haven’t driven before. Both times, the bus was very full – at times, every seat was full (perhaps 30 seats) and up to 10 were standing. People constantly got on and off the bus – apparently some folks use this same route to travel to/from Diamond Head to hike, although you have a much longer walk to the ostensible beginning of the hike from the bus stop than from the car parking. Also noticed many middle-school age kids using the bus to get from school to various spots along the Kalaniole – some to go home, others obviously to bodysurf (headed past us to Sandy’s Beach). A handful of tourists like us were obviously headed to Hanauma Bay on both occasions. The bus rejoined my normal driving route near the Kahala Mall and then I got to enjoy the views like I hadn’t since my one bike trip there (before the arthritis many years ago) since usually I’m driving in traffic with enough lights that I can’t look at the ocean as much as I’d like.
The dropoff/pickup location at Hanauma Bay is awful. It’s a much longer walk to the entrance – and I feel every inch of it on my bad feet while also carrying our heavy snorkel bag.
Compared to driving: The total trip time was about 50 minutes, compared to maybe 35 in the car (but add in 20-40 minutes for the wait for the bus, and add in 10-15 minutes for what it would have taken me to get the car out of the garage and come back to the timeshare for a more accurate comparison). The cost of the individual trip was competitive – figure $3.25/gallon gas and a 12 mile trip = $1.95 each way, $1 to park for a total of $4.90, compared to $10 for bus fare. But since we were “voluntarily transit-dependent”, we didn’t have to worry about being turned away, and for the whole trip we saved about $250 on rental car costs ($300ish for a weekly rental car + $10/day to park it, compared to two daily rentals we did do at about $60 each). That made going without a rental car a great decision for the week we spent in Waikiki, but as mentioned in part one, I wish I had rented one for the couple of days we spent on the Leeward side (about the same price as using the car service!)
Return trip: We waited with a large group each time at the inconveniently far out bus stop, where Ethan amused himself by chasing chickens. Don’t know how close to schedule the bus was; we didn’t care much at this point. Ride back was nice – again, standing room only at certain times.
I also hopped the bus once by myself on a trip back from the rental car dropoff (on the Sunday when we switched from the timeshare to the Hilton) and helped a couple figure out which bus would take them to the airport (they were Australian; most Americans, even those who took the bus while here, would know it’d be better to take a cab to the airport when you have to deal with luggage). Unventful for the most part, and at the Hilton it’s obvious that nobody there takes the bus – the stop is outside the property and a bit of a hike. The Hilton seems like a spot where people who don’t know what they’re doing end up spending $20/day warehousing rental cars, frankly. Like is often the case when I’m returning to my house from downtown, I had a choice of four or five bus routes – whichever one came first, in other words; I think the one I took was the #8.
Finally, we all took a tour bus to the Polynesian Cultural Center one day, which was a nice trip – but not transit per se. The place was a lot less hokey than I anticipated – I actually recommend giving this a try, although bring a hat – it’s very hot out there.
Summary recommendations: If you go to Honolulu once, rent a car. You’ll want it to do the North Shore, Pearl Harbor, and a few other things you should do at least once. But if you’ve already been to those places, try getting by without it if you can – you’ll be surprised at how much money you save, not to mention time (parking a car in Honolulu takes quite a bit of time as well as money – and rental car agencies are even slower there than on the mainland). On our trip, we rented a car for 2 out of the 11 days – I just walked to one of the four or five options in Waikiki, got a car, and went back to the timeshare to load up the family (Lanikai Beach, where we got married and where we spent parts of both of those two days, is unfortunately not feasible to reach on the bus – although you can circle the island on one route if you’re sufficiently adventurous, it doesn’t go back down towards Lanikai; the only way to get there is two transfers, the second one of which runs very infrequently).
Whenever I get to it, look for the final part: Future plans for transit on O’ahu.
I am stuck on the porch of the condo with a purloined and slow internet connection, about it killing time while waiting for an install to complete for work, illness and for the flooring guys to show up (stuck in traffic in Georgetown). Here’s a short item I meant to link to much earlier:
Christof Speiler in Houston wrote a good article called 8 habits of highly successful commuter rail lines which was then followed up in an article on a LA portal. I highly recommend reading those links, sickness and then thinking about Austin’s line. Note how LA and Houston went back and forth about the difference between light rail and commuter rail – near the end a couple of folks point out that despite their differences, it is important to compare their ridership and cost because some stupid cities are pushing commuter rail lines in place of light rail alternatives, and that even in Manhattan, where parking costs far more than here, most commuter rail riders are disembarking at stations from which they walk to work, inducing the state to push for another LIRR stop on the east side because transfers are driving away many potential passengers. Now let’s grade Austin:
1. The ideal commuter rail line improves on current transit options.
Austin’s commuter rail line fails very badly on this metric. The existing 98x series express buses that run from the same far away park-and-rides will still beat the commuter rail + shuttle commute, even in heavier traffic than we have today, and there’s the long-term prospect of managed lanes on Mopac (if not done with the current stupid design) and on 183, which can bring the bus back ahead even when (not if) traffic gets much worse. And when traffic gets worse close-in, the shuttle buses will suffer (no reserved guideway, essentially forever, for the “connections” to UT and the Capitol and most of downtown).
2. The ideal commuter rail line makes use of unused rail capacity in a corridor where highway capacity is scarce.
Austin’s line passes this metric. Not much you can say here – the rail line is unused, and highway capacity is indeed scarce.
3. The ideal commuter rail line serves more than commuters.
(meaning, serves reverse commuters, people running midday errands, etc.). Austin’s rail line fails this metric badly. Only one mid-day trip, and no nighttime service at all.
4. The ideal commuter rail line has a city at each end.
Austin’s line fails this metric badly. No, the stuff being considered up in Leander isn’t going to make it a “city”; what they’re claiming as TOD is really just slightly more dense suburban sprawl (zoning restrictions slightly loosened, using commuter rail as an excuse). The design is standard suburbia – you will not see people from Austin riding the line up to Leander and then walking to anything worth going to.
5. The ideal commuter rail line offers good connections to multiple employment centers.
Fails. Badly. How many more times can we look at South Florida’s example (and other cities’) before we realize that people who aren’t willing to ride very nice buses today (98x express buses) aren’t going to be thrilled about two shuttle bus rides through stop-and-go city traffic every single day?
6. The ideal commuter rail line serves long trips.
Passes. Obviously. This line doesn’t serve close-in residents at all – but you can have Wifi for that hour-plus train ride from Leander to the station way out in East Austin. Of course, they have Wifi now on the express bus too.
7. The ideal commuter rail line connects to local transit.
Passes, marginally. Circulators will run from stations, but connections will be poor compared to the 2000 light rail line. This is Christof throwing a bone to the transit-dependent – if you’re going to run this thing and make it unattractive to choice commuters, you’d better at least have connections to local buses for the people who couldn’t afford to drive anyways. But that’s just catering to the people who have no choice but to accept multiple-transfer bus service today – you’re not making a dent in the number of people driving.
8. The ideal commuter rail line has stations you can walk (or bike) to.
Fails. Miserably. Capital Metro and their toadying sycophants already tried to push the lie that this line serves Central Austin. It doesn’t. Virtually nobody will be able to walk to stations, unlike the 2000 light rail proposal, which served all the same suburban park-and-rides, and additionally had stations within walking distance of dense residential areas and all of the major central employment destinations.
Looks like our score is a 2.5 out of 8. Christof, is that enough to be highly successful? I doubt it.
PS: Even though it’s one of the hottest days so far in a cool summer, I’m still comfortable working out here. Amazing how I can feel way too hot when the A/C in my garage office has it at 78, but out here with 94 and a breeze and something to look at, I feel fine. Now if I had only brought a cushion for my butt…
(TOD = “transit-oriented development“, this site which some people think can provide additional passengers for our commuter rail line).
Update: The author of the ABJ piece assures me in comments that this wasn’t “the” TOD project (not within the city limits) and claims that it had more to do with the housing market in general. This will teach me to link to articles for which I can’t read the full text. However, medications commenters and other media have indicated that this was being characterized as “a TOD” (I actually finally posted this after receiving 3 different tips from readers), and my language, while imprecise, was referring to “the first failure among the group of self-proclaimed TODs”, not “the first project declared to be a TOD has now failed”. Keep this one as a “maybe”. Certainly many people defending the commuter rail line have promised that it will provide stimulus for denser mixed-use development in that part of town – so the “weakening housing market” is in and of itself no defense here.
Original post follows:
Repeating the experience in South Florida with another stupid commuter rail line that requires shuttle-bus transfers, the first proposed TOD (really, not, just a slightly more dense suburban tract housing project) has collapsed in Leander. Expect more of these, although I expect Crestview Station and the Chestnut project will go ahead, since sufficient demand with or without rail already exists in those areas to fill the units allowed by the slight loosening of the way-too-strict zoning there. As Christof said, the most attractive place to add more density is where density already exists – don’t forget, too, that true TOD requires high-quality transit, not just anything slapped on a rail that runs to a station out in the middle of nowhere.
Does TOD ever work in cities without Manhattan-like density? YES!. It works great on light rail lines which have demonstrated good ridership among choice commuters. That requires rail lines which deliver most people directly to their destination (within a moderate walking distance). Like what Dallas did; what Portland did; what Minneapolis, Salt Lake, Denver, and even Houston did. Like what we almost did in 2000; and could have fought for in 2004 instead of rolling over for Mike Krusee. But it’s never, ever, happened on a commuter rail line with performance as poor as ours. Not even once.
Just sent to the Statesman in response to Ben Wear’s article this morning
There are a few key facts that Ben Wear left out of his article on the South Mopac bicycle/pedestrian bridge which paint a very different picture:
1. There used to be a shoulder (available for use by commuting and recreational cyclists) on the Mopac bridge until a few years ago (when it was restriped to provide a longer exit lane). When the shoulder existed, mind it was frequently used.
2. The 15% figure cited by Wear is misleading – when you run the same comparison on total transportation funding in our area, urticaria about 1% (last time I ran the figures) went to bike/ped projects.
3. Urban residents, this even those who don’t drive, are subsidizing suburban commuters through the toll-road ‘donations’ he mentioned (remember; the city has to repay those bonds from sources like sales and property taxes; not the gas tax) and in many other ways. When you add up the flows of dollars, it would take a couple of bridges like this every single year just to begin to make up for the money flowing out of Austin towards the suburbs, from drivers and non-drivers alike. Perhaps THAT would be a better focus for an article in the future. I’d be happy to help.
I spoke on this exact same 15% issue a few years ago on KLBJ’s morning news show but it keeps popping up as if we’re in a bad game of Whack-A-Mole. In this case, the 15% applies only to city funding, and includes pedestrian infrastructure which was never built back when saner cities would have done it (i.e. when the road was constructed in the first place). When I ran the numbers a few years ago, bike/ped funding for the whole area ended up at something like 1%.
Possibly in response to publicity about last week’s cancellation of a project which tried to catch some of its buzz, viagra approved the Leander TOD guys have gone on the offensive. But one particular comment is very telling, recipe and shows why, drugs well, it’s not really a TOD:
Angela Hood, co-founder of Artefacts, says the development will also incorporate some mode of transportation that will get residents and pedestrians to and from the commuter rail line at the heart of the TOD.
Here’s a hint: If it were truly a transit-oriented development, you wouldn’t be even thinking about how the passengers would be getting to/from the rail line – they’d ALL be walking, because it would be so dang close. A project which requires shuttle-buses to distribute passengers from a rail hub is NOT A TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT. It’s just a higher-than-standard-suburban-density mixed-use project.
Read up more on transit-oriented development here, from VTPI, including these requirements (I’ve picked several critical ones which the Leander project will not satisfy):
The transit-oriented development lies within a five-minute walk of the transit stop, or about a quarter-mile from stop to edge. For major stations offering access to frequent high-speed service this catchment area may be extended to the measure of a 10-minute walk.
A balanced mix of uses generates 24-hour ridership. There are places to work, to live, to learn, to relax and to shop for daily needs.
Parking costs are “unbundled,” and full market rates are charged for all parking spaces. The exception may be validated parking for shoppers.
Transit service is fast, frequent, reliable, and comfortable, with a headway of 15 minutes or less.
Automobile level-of-service standards are met through congestion pricing measures, or disregarded entirely.
Remember: this train service is going to run once every 30 minutes during rush hour, and when it gets to the Austin end, passengers must transfer to a shuttle-bus to get to their final destination, be it UT, the Capitol, or even most of downtown. It will not run at all the rest of the day, except for one mid-day trip. No night-time service; no mid-afternoon service. Thus, you can’t apply the more generous “high-quality frequently running rail service” metrics of the 10-minute walk.
So, if you want to call this Leander thing “new urbanist”, go ahead. It looks pretty nice on that metric. If you want to call it “mixed-use”, go ahead. I’m right there with you. But stop the charade that this is a transit-oriented development, because it’s not remotely so.
I’ll write up our Bad Capital Metro Flugtag Experience tomorrow I think. In the meantime, here Newsweek joins the parade of Prius FUDders by allowing Honda to reiterate the common assertion that the Prius kicks all other hybrid vehicles’ asses because it “looks different”. Of course, opisthorchiasis that’s a load of crap; the most iconic hybrid vehicle out there was the Honda Insight. Problem was that the Insight was a nearly useless car – underpowered, unhealthy uncomfortable, 2 seats, no cargo space. And for all that, you got about 5 mpg more than the Prius, back when the Insight was still being sold.
The reason the Prius sells so much better than the Civic Hybrid is because it’s a much better car. The Civic is smaller (different market segment, even), gets a bit less mileage, and has far less cargo space. (The Civic’s back seat doesn’t even fold down – because Honda stuck the battery there). In other words, Toyota learned from Honda, and developed a better hybrid system that was able to provide small-car Civic-like mileage for a car with more usable space than the Accord. They just out-engineered the Honda boys.
Yes, a few people at the margins bought it because it was more obvious. But the car is now outselling the majority of “regular” cars in this country – and it’s not doing so because of the hybrid halo. It’s doing so because it’s a medium-sized car which gets fuel-sipper mileage and can carry a friggin’ rain barrel with the hatch closed.
The Prius is our only car. The Civic Hybrid could never have managed to be. That’s basically all you need to know.
Last Saturday, order I went down to FlugTag with my 3 and 13-year-olds. I wrote down the next few buses on the #5 and #7; we picked the #5; and walked out to the stop. Three UT students were already there – also going to the FlugTag. Got to the stop at about 5:25 for the bus that should have been there at 5:32.
Note that the buses were running on the Saturday schedule – which means that instead of running every 18-19 minutes, price it runs every 38 minutes. IE, cough probably half as many buses as usual. I think the #7 was roughly the same.
We waited. And waited. Saw 2 buses go by northbound. By 6:00 or so, after I had called Cap Metro twice and been assured that the bus was only 5 minutes delayed, the 3 students walked to Guadalupe to catch the #1. Since my arthritis was already going to make this a risky endeavor, we stayed put. Called Cap Metro again, and was told this time that the 5:32 bus had already gone by – a lie. I let the agent have it; telling her that the #5 might have detoured down Guadalupe to make up some time but he damn well didn’t go by us. She told me the next bus would be by in about ten minutes (about ten minutes later than schedule). I figured we’d give it that ten minutes and then give up.
Five minutes later, a #5 bus comes by, and as I’m paying for myself and the boys, the driver is asking us to hurry, as he’s already 45 minutes late. A-ha! While the driver lied (apparently) to the dispatcher about where he was, at least he continued to run the correct route. We got basically the last 3 seats on the bus and settled in. As we headed farther south, the bus filled up more and more – by the time we reached Dean Keeton and Speedway, every seat and every standing position was full; and the driver started telling people at stops that he couldn’t take any more people.
Between there and the southern end of UT, we probably skipped another 30 people. The bus was full of brand-new UT students – I had to give a lot of directions – who were new in town and trying out Capital Metro for the first time.
Downtown was a madhouse – as expected – very slow on Congress. Our original plan was to hop off at Cesar Chavez and walk – but at 5th (right in front of Eckerd’s), the driver announced that there was a #30 a block behind him that would get us as close as possible to the event. So we, and 25 others, hopped off and then back on the #30, only to be stuck when a police car pulled right in front of us, stopped, and the officers went into the Eckerd’s and left their car right in front of us – forcing our bus driver to try to change lanes in the middle of gridlock. That took another 10 minutes (just to get around the cop car). Thanks, APD!.
By the time the #30 bus reached Cesar Chavez, we all gave up and got off the bus.
FlugTag was amazingly crowded, and I’m glad we went, but then I had to acquire ice cream I had promised the 3-year-old, and through a comedy of bad decisions ended up walking all the way to the convenience store near Peter Pan. Observed dozens of people waiting at every bus stop heading away from downtown (for the #10, for instance).
After the ice cream mission was completed, we walked out to Lamar intent on catching the #3. A dozen people there, too. Crap. Called Cap Metro and the next bus wasn’t scheduled for another 40 minutes! Decided to just walk the north side of the lake back to Congress, where at least I could choose between the first #1, #3, #5, or #7 to show up. Once we managed to struggle to the stop there, I was about dead (and am lucky I didn’t end up on crutches or in a wheelchair like the last time I pushed it and walked this much) and only had to wait about 15 minutes for a #7 (even passed up a #1 in the meantime).
So, what did Capital Metro do wrong? Well, they had no control over the traffic. There’s nothing they could have done about the hour it took to get from my bus stop at 35th and Speedway to Cesar Chavez/Congress. Of course, light rail a la 2000 would have worked great, but commuter rail wouldn’t have worked at all – because people would have had to take shuttle buses through that same traffic.
But one obvious thing Capital Metro could have done was simply run a bunch of these routes on their weekday schedules. This would have meant that the dozens of people futilely waiting at bus stops, many of whom were obviously trying Capital Metro for the first time ever, might have had a better impression. I’ll bet, however, that with the hour-long waits for buses in evidence, that Capital Metro gained exactly zero future customers, and probably even lost some who were previously willing to ride. Don’t tell me that’s too difficult – they have no trouble when they want to reduce frequency (run a Sunday schedule on a mid-week holiday, for instance).
People who are stuck on a bus that’s stuck in traffic aren’t going to blame the bus. Well, most of them, anyways. But people who are stuck waiting an hour for a bus only to be told that there’s no room to ride? They’re damn well going to blame the bus, and they damn well should. And meanwhile, Capital Metro is pushing a long overdue fare increase at precisely the worst possible time – making it trivially easy for the “bus riders union” to claim that they’re subsidizing commuter rail for Leanderites. Does it get any dumber?
And, moral of the story? Ride your bike. If I could still ride, I would have ridden down with the boys, and it would have been a piece of cake.
I’ve been meaning to post on this for quite some time (an Outlook reminder pops up every day) but was putting it off because I had intended on gathering together quotes from before the election, sales after, viagra buy and whatnot; showing the slip from 2007 to 2008 to 2009 to 2010. But the hell with it; Capital Metro’s even showing it in powerpoint presentations now, more about so here you go:
The only service being provided to central Austin in any way, shape, or form; the execrable Rapid Bus, is now scheduled for 2010. This service, as useless as it will be, was the only bone thrown to Central Austin for their votes (and, don’t forget, the vast majority of Capital Metro’s tax revenue). The sterling work of the boot-licking sycophants in the ostensibly pro-transit community has done absolutely nothing but further enable Capital Metro to screw the people who want, and pay for, transit. Good show, folks.
(“study” downtown circulator, by the way, means “try to convince the city and UT to pay for it”; and so far, the city has admirably been asking questions like “why is a stuck-in-traffic streetcar better than a stuck-in-traffic bus?”).
Since many people still think that if you build streetcar, rx they will come; here’s a set of use case-like tables which I hope will explain what the actual difference is between streetcars and buses. The first case is for “why can’t we just fix commuter rail by building a streetcar line to which they can transfer?”. The second case is for “won’t streetcar get more residents of central Austin to take transit to work?”.
Some shorthand below explained up here:
“Stuck in traffic”: Does the vehicle have its own lane, or is it sharing a lane with cars? This affects speed and reliability.
“Detourable”: If there’s a traffic accident in the shared lane, can the vehicle in question change lanes to get around it? This is a drastic impact on reliability.
“Fast/slow”: Is the vehicle capable of accelerating/decelerating quickly? Speed, obviously.
Stuck in traffic?
Detourable?
Fast/slow?
Circulators as applied to commuter rail service
Shuttlebus Yes Yes Slow
Streetcar Yes No Slow
Mode by itself (for residents of actual central Austin)
Notice anything? Whether you’re using the vehicle as a circulator or as your primary form of transit, it performs exactly the same. I know this seems obvious, but I still get people thinking that there’s some magic fairy dust that will make streetcars turn into good transit service for the people who actually wanted it, in both 2000 and 2004. No, credulous fellow residents of Central Austin, streetcar doesn’t bringing anything more to the table than bus does – arguably LESS, for daily commuters. Note the “Detourable” column. Yes, I’ve had times on the bus when I’ve benefitted from this capability. They won’t detour just to get around heavy traffic, but they darn sure will to get around an accident.
So what are some of the other benefits of streetcar not mentioned here? It provides a perception of permanence that bus service does not. This is worth something if you’re trying to stimulate development somewhere – but downtown Austin doesn’t need the help. It also provides a minor benefit for tourists – making it more obvious that transit exists, and making it more attractive (people from out of town are unlikely to want to ride the bus given the stigma of bus service in many other cities).
The only advantage streetcar has is for tourists – which is why, IF we build this thing, it should only be funded out of hotel/rental car taxes. Even if it ran through the dense residential parts of Austin, it would provide precisely nothing of benefit to those residents, who, by the way, pay almost all of Capital Metro’s bills.
If you’re seeing a lot of people with whom I normally agree pushing streetcars very hard, myocarditis and you might be wondering why I keep naysaying them, medical here’s a handy guide. Consider this list of pros and cons for two transit modes I talk about a lot: the city bus and light rail. And remember the target is daily commuters, not tourists – otherwise, we’re not really doing anything to improve mobility.
City buses are, well, normal buses. They’re what we run today.
Low capital costs (very little facility investment; moderate vehicle investment)
Slightly flexible (vastly oversold by Skaggs’ band of Neanderthals; but at least it can change lanes to get around an accident and can be detoured around a festival).
Slow – even on the open road (no traffic), will always be a bit slower than an econobox. And in stop/go traffic, poor acceleration is magnified.
Very unreliable – traffic is a big problem; and unlike in your car, you can’t go over one block if you feel like it (this is where the libertarian anti-transit trolls go so far off reality by claiming “flexibility”).
High operating costs – relatively few passengers per driver, even on articulated buses.
LRT, or “light rail” runs in the street where it needs to, but in a reserved guideway (has its own lane and some control over traffic signals) and runs in off-street right-of-way elsewhere. We almost passed this in 2000 and could easily have done so in 2004. In Austin, it would have run right down the middle of two-way streets such as Guadalupe and Congress – in its own lane, so in most cases, traffic congestion could not slow it down.
Reasonably fast – in similar conditions can accelerate or decelerate almost as well as a private automobile.
Very Reliable – more so, even, than the private automobile. Blows buses out of the water. This is a very key metric – people will accept a slghtly slower AVERAGE commute if the worst-case is basically the same as the average.
Low operating costs – very many passengers per driver, and electric drive is much cheaper than diesel.
High capital costs – requires infrastructure such as rails, electric wires, and expensive vehicles.
Now, for comparison, look at how streetcar stacks up, including all pros and cons from light rail and bus above. Note for the record that our streetcar proposal does not include any segments of reserved guideway, nor can it ever be converted into reserved guideway.
Pros from buses:
Low capital costs – Nope. Has almost all of the capital costs of light rail. Slightly cheaper vehicles, but you still need electrical wires and rails.
Slightly flexible – Nope. Unlike that city bus, it can’t even change lanes to get around a double-parked, stalled, or wrecked car. (Irrelevant for LRT since it has its own lane).
Pros from LRT:
Fast – accelerates pretty well.
Reliable – Nope. Just as unreliable as the city bus, if not worse (due to the flexibility liability).
Low operating costs – Partial. Not much better than bus in passengers-per-driver; but electric drive still provides some cost savings.
Cons from buses:
Slow – Win. Yes, streetcar can accelerate a bit better than buses, thanks, DSK. I submit this makes very little difference given:
Very unreliable – Loss. As indicated above, streetcar is likely to be even less reliable than city bus on the same route.
High operating costs – Partial. As indicated in pros section, somewhere in the middle.
Cons from LRT:
High capital costs – Yup, as indicated above, streetcar’s capital costs are practically as high as LRT.
The summary here: streetcars have almost none of the positives that light rail has but city buses lack; and it shares almost all of the liabilities of BOTH modes. It’s almost expensive to build as true light rail; but it’s also more expensive to run, and very unreliable, like city buses. Even in Portland (Home Of The Streetcar!), people who look at it dispassionately come to the conclusion that it’s usually juat a glamorous (for now) immobile bus.
But M1EK, you ask, what about all the people who won’t ride the bus today? Won’t they flock to streetcars because of their image? Capital Metro’s consultant certainly thought so.
The mode preference problem for buses versus rail is vastly misunderstood. It’s not that people always prefer rail over bus even if they’re exactly the same in all other respects, it’s that rail service in the past was always at least a little bit better than bus service on several of the critical metrics listed above. Even traditional streetcars held up as examples have some pros which the “streetcar vulgaris” we’re thinking about building here won’t – dedicated right-of-way in segments, for instance, or other enhancements. Streetcar seems to attract more people than buses because the rail service is usually far superior to the bus service it is being compared to. That’s not going to be the case here in Austin – all we’re doing is nailing the shitty buses onto rails, with all their old liabilities and some exciting new liabilities and, thus, streetcar isn’t going to buy us anything worth paying for.
No, there’s no magical streetcar fairy dust. Sorry, guys; even people who try it out of curiousity will figure out pretty quickly it’s actually slower than the Dillo used to be (combining speed and reliability).
Also, while I’m at it: another nugget from Appendix A, just confirming something I’ve been saying for a really long time, but which still hasn’t made any traction with the naive fools who think we can expand commuter rail into the center city:
(Note: Capital Metro is currently implementing Capital MetroRail using Diesel Multiple Unit
(DMU) type vehicles on its existing railroad right-of-way from Austin to Leander. Although in the
future transit system it may be desirable to extend this technology into the circulator corridor to
gain certain operational efficiencies, this technology is not envisioned as a viable alternative to the bus and streetcar technologies identified for further study. This is primarily because of the
mobility limitations of the DMU technology. DMU technology is therefore not included as one of
the potential technologies carried forward into the analysis of alternatives.)
(Yes, this ends up rehashing about 75% of the last post; but this one, I hope, does so more coherently).
Quick hit:
Most coverage of Round Rock’s attempt to set up their own bus which drops off at a Capital Metro stop is positive. But here’s the kicker that nobody’s talking about: Every Round Rock resident (or Round Rock worker) who rides this thing is getting a huge subsidy from Austin residents, noun because Round Rock doesn’t pay Capital Metro sales taxes. Each one of those riders from Round Rock is paying 50 cents or a buck to ride the bus, check and then Austin taxpayers are kicking in another buck or two. Round Rock taxpayers are kicking in only for the Tech Ridge to Round Rock portion.
The only fair thing to do here would be to charge Round Rock residents more to ride the Capital Metro bus but don’t expect CM to ever do this – they’d get spanked so quickly by the Austin-bashing state legislator that their heads would spin.
Look for more of this type of problem, for instance if/when Cedar Park starts a bus shuttle to the Lakeline commuter rail stop. In more progressive states, the free-rider (parasite) problem would be solved by not giving Cedar Park, Round Rock, Pflugerville, etc. the choice about whether to participate in a regional transit agency. Not so in Texas; once again, cities just have to grin and bear it as the suburbs suck out even more money.
Wanted to point readers to a discussion between Austin Contrarian and myself about fixed versus variable costs of driving, more about and how best to account the fixed costs. One thing many commute calculators get just absolutely and stupidly wrong is the idea that depreciation is a factor of miles driven (it’s actually far more a factor of age – miles a distant second). For instance, information pills this is a comparison I ran for one of the early comment’s on AC’s post: a 1998 Honda Civic LX, more about automatic, all other values default. All values as “private party” and “excellent condition”.
Miles driven
180,000 4,825
(KBB said 86,000 would be “typical”, but actually seems a bit low to me).
A 1998 Civic would be either 9 or 10 years old today, depending. The added depreciation due to driving normally versus the little-old-lady case is no more than $100 per year ($8.25 per month). The depreciation due to age swamps this figure by a factor of 10 or more. This stands to reason – would you really pay a ton of money for a 9-year-old Civic just because it wasn’t driven very much? Of course not.
What does this mean? Ignore the commute calculators which include depreciation, insurance, and registration, unless you’re one of the vanishingly rare few people who can completely get rid of a vehicle. Instead, use one of the calculators which only includes truly variable costs, like mine (originally written for bike commutes, but can be used to compare the cost for transit commutes just as easily – just zero out the cost of bike tubes and tires and put bus fare in “extra costs”). For instance, at gas prices of $3.00, and with $80 tires (about what our last set cost, each), you end up with these values for some of my old commutes (assuming I got to use our Prius instead of what I actually drove back then, which only got 38 mpg):
Home to 183/Braker (Netbotz) $1.31 $1.00 / $2.00 (regular / express)
Home to downtown (free parking) $0.46 $1.00
Home to downtown ($8 parking) $8.46 $1.00
Now, if AC’s parking cost was unbundled – charged per-day, his commute would actually come out cheaper on the bus by a fair margin, as indicated above. He indicated a monthly cost of $100, and I’m just guessing that $8 might be the price on the spot market, but that means that if he drives even about half the time, it’d be smarter to pay for the parking pass and then drive every day.
How can we fix this? If more of the costs of driving were borne directly by drivers, at the time they drove (or at least paid for gas), it wouldn’t be so artificially cheap. For instance, when I drive downtown, I’m using roadways which were paid for out of property and sales taxes – not the gas tax. If we were to pay for all major roadways out of the gas tax, well, first, Round Rock would start to have to finally pay something approaching the cost of their infrastructure without free-riding on Austin, and second, at the extra buck a gallon I figure it would take, the math would shift a bit. It’d shift more if we could get auto insurance priced by the mile (although you keep hearing about it, it’s never been an option for me or anybody I know personally). And, of course, if we paid for the costs of our Iraq adventure by gas taxes instead of through income taxes, the story would be even more different. But in the meantime, it rarely makes sense on purely economic grounds to ride the bus, even at our currently way-too-low fares so we’re going to have to keep working on the other reasons. Like reliability. Light rail, dependable in time and at least competitive with the car, on which you could comfortably work or read, would be an easy winner. City buses – well, I salute AC and Tim for being able to work and/or read on the jerky city buses, but I was never able to, and I doubt most people would consider it acceptable even if saving a couple of bucks. Unfortunately, of course, our brand-new commuter rail line is going to inflict two of those jerky bus rides on every single rail passenger every single day. Oops.
Quick hit, treatment found from Jeff’s excellent “City Transit Advocates” aggregator:
This recently released national study confirms that even in states with more progressive transportation policies than we have in Texas, nurse motorists do not pay the full cost of providing them with roads and ancillary services. Not even close. (I’ve seen the New Jersey study before and have used it many times; but nobody bothered to go to that level of detail for the nation as a whole).
And in Texas, story it’s a lot worse – we don’t allow state gas taxes to be spent on major roadways outside the state highway system (which screws cities like Austin in favor of suburbs like Round Rock); and we even require ‘donations’ from city and county general funds to get state and federal ‘free’ways built. If the subsidy recovery would be 20-70 cents/gallon nationally, it’d easily be over a buck here.
I hope the game ends up like this:
(image from Autumn Thunder, generic ironically, a Michigan blog, created in their AppyState aftermath).
If it doesn’t, expect me to be even more bilious for the next year. Oh, yes, it’s possible.
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Innovation and tradition
In the hills surrounding Neuchâtel (Switzerland) is the Manufacture of Panerai. A building that brings together all the specialties of haute horlogerie in the same location, combining the excellence of Italian design and the tradition of Swiss high technology.
An imposing headquarters that keeps the secrets of the firm and the essence of the brand, with a totally ecological operation. Glass walls to take advantage of natural light, solar energy and rain water for bathrooms and gardens.
Today, Panerai is one of the Olympian giants of world luxury watches, a multinational reference and one of the oldest high-end watchmaking firms.
Roots of innovation
Giovanni Panerai opened his watchmaking workshop in 1860 in Florence, the place functioned as a shop, workshop and the first watchmaking school in the city, thus the history of Office Panerai began.
Giovanni Panerai in his first store in Florence
Ten years after its opening, Panerai creates the Radomir for the Royal Italian Navy, a powder obtained from the radius that confers luminescence on instruments and devices. The patent for this substitution will be the first of numerous patents registered by the brand, throughout its history of innovations.
After this creation, the Italian firm created the Radiomir model shortly before the Second World War. This model was intended for submarines of the Royal Italian Navy and only 10 prototypes were produced in 1963.
Officers of the Italian Navy during an immersion exercise.
Italian Navy divers synchronizing their Panerai 47mm
The Radiomir model soon became a Panerai classic, so it is constantly evolving incorporating the latest innovations for the Italian Royal Navy.
Radiomir Panerai [Reference 6154]
Panerai Marina [Reference 6152/1]
The needs of the Navy become increasingly specific and extreme and Panerai creates watches that gave rise to current models such as Radiomir 1940, or the Mare Nostrum, of which only two or three copies were produced, exclusively for deck officers.
In 1949, the autoluminescent paste obtained from radium is replaced by Luminor, a compound obtained from tritium patented by the firm that inspired a new historical model: the Luminor.
After many years of innovations and new patents, Giuseppe Panerai died in 1972 and the management of the business and the secret contracts of the Italian Navy passed into the hands of the engineer Dino Zei and with him was born “Officine Panerai S.R.L.”
In 1993, Officine Panerai presents its first collection on a cruise ship of the Italian Navy, a collection consisting of three series of limited edition watches: the Luminor, the Luminor Marina and the Mare Nostrum, inspired by the historical models created by the firm in the Second World War.
Panerai Advertising (1993)
In the year 2002, the Italian firm is already an ineludible actor in the sector of international haute horlogerie and inaugurates the Panerai Manufacture in Switzerland. A milestone for Officine Panerai, which for the first time brings together Swiss haute horlogerie, exclusive design and know-how of the brand from the best international experts who plan, develop and investigate new technical and functional perspectives.
Finally, in 2015, Panerai launches internationally Panerai’s first movement, the P.2002, a manual winding caliber with GMT function and an eight-day power reserve inspired by the Angelus movements of the forties.
Innovation, development and maximum quality
For many years, Panerai has used the concept “Laboratorio di Idee” to describe its eternal commitment to the best innovations to increase more and more the standards and performance of its parts. An exquisite laboratory composed of highly specialized workers who work with only one objective: the excellence and maximum quality of each of their pieces.
This experimental work and the high research of the Laboratorio di Idee make it possible for the firm to offer its clients some of the most innovative and exclusive materials in the sector of luxury sports watches such as BMG-TECH, Carbotech, ceramics or Panerai Composite.
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BOOKCASE FOR… SOUND
23.07.2018 12.05.2018 Categories Own hands
Her originality is evident when you first glance at this construction, and with familiarity this impression is further strengthened. Judge for yourself.
Although this table was developed specifically for radio, however, is incorporated in it makes it universal. The fact that the rigid, one-piece part of it is only the main vertical box, and the shelves are inserted freely and can at any time be removed or moved between any other level. Let us consider how this is achieved.
As is clear from the introductory characteristics of the tables, the basis of it is a vertical box, bearing the entire load is constructive.
Its housing is assembled from two vertical panels, side panels, connected by horizontal panels krysheval and bottom parts, with the strengthening bars in the corners. Material of body panels — furniture Board or particle Board; they are connected between them in any convenient way for you: plug the round tenon (dowel) and glue (carpenter’s or PVA), on the screws or furniture bolts. As the gain in the corners can be used metal angles or wood bars of square or triangular cross-section.
Now go to the most interesting part of the body of the tables — her unusual skin, which plays the role of a brackets for shelves. It is formed by fastening to the vertical panels of a number of cross-beams — horizontal brackets, boards or the same material that was used for the housing tables. The hanging skin is easier to accomplish by means of screws, but be sure to pre-drill pilot holes appropriate drill bit smaller than screw diameter, then a vertical panel will not crack under load cantilever mounted shelves and placed them items.
Secret design
When hanging crossbars must comply with one important condition, which, in essence, depends on the originality of the tables: there should be a gap, dictated by the thickness of the future shelves. In addition, a pair of cross-members adjacent to both sides of the body, should be strictly on the same level relative to each other.
Depot that panel shelves are simply inserted in the cracks, in fact, only relying on a corresponding pair of crossbars.
Multi-tiered outdoor side table:
1 is a vertical panel; 2 — cross member-brackets shelves; 3 — shelf; 4 — furniture wheel, side (2 PCs); 5 — console, front wheels; 6 — front wheel; 7 — bar reinforcement; 8 — horizontal bar (two of them: the roof and bottom); 9 — drawers
The decision of installation of shelves in the locker make doubly universal. First, as already mentioned, they can be rearranged depending on the dimensions of the disposable objects. Second, the shelf can be inserted at different depths: end flush with the opposite side of the tables — and then the bedside table is like a wall; or through large output of a shelf on the opposite side, making the nightstand a bilateral, convenient to place near the table or even in the middle of the room.
If necessary, one or two crossbars may be hiding boxes for all auxiliary things — then do the crossmember for the front panel. Housing easy to assemble boxes from thick plywood, with a bottom of hardboard or thin plywood. As a support and sliding rails is better to use metal corners.
This is the most simple details tables, as they are only panels, are sawed from furniture Board or particle Board. Their width should be such that allows you to freely push them into the main box of a bedside table between the strut-brackets; and the length — depending on whether the unilateral bedside table, or shelf will permeate through it. The possible combinations of these elongated shelves with a short that in addition to the specific amenities have a positive effect on the aesthetics of the tables.
Additional usability of the table gives the availability of the furniture wheels. Three of them: two of them are located along the edges of the bottom panel, and the third forward on the bracket from the metal bracket — it provides the necessary stability to the table, especially when unilateral location on the shelves.
Two-sided arrangement of shelves tables
The cart version of the tables:
1 — wooden console furniture wheel; 2 — a crossbar with two wheels
As truck tables can be assembled from wooden bars of the T-shaped support on which to place all three wheels. The support bars are interconnected lock vpoldereva, on the screws with glue. After assembling them and installing the wheel bearing is mounted on screws or bolts and nuts to the bottom panel of the tables.
It can be performed at the stage of preparation of individual parts, and after the whole table will be collected.
Like most homemade furniture, all preparations for it should be thoroughly abraded with sandpaper — operation is required before any subsequent form of painting or papering
Given the potential shift shelves, it is best to procure them from furniture Board, only covered in several layers of a furniture varnish. If the material tables served as the DSP, after grinding the surfaces must be primed again, sanded and then painted with enamel or nitropaints, and after if you want a varnish.
The inner surface of the boxes can not paint, but the lower part of the tables and a cart with wheels is the best paint in black or dark brown color: it will look good in contrast with the main finish the rest detail.
B. VLADIMIROV (software development magazine “Praktik”, Germany)
FURNITURE INVISIBLE
To create the greatest comfort and spaciousness in the room, especially in small apartments, it is possible to produce just such a "set" (Fig. 1), which I called "UNIVERSAL". It's enough...
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2011 MotoGP Sepang 2 Day 3 Press Release Roundup
Submitted by David Emmett on Thu, 2011-02-24 16:36
Here's the final round of press releases from the Sepang MotoGP test:
Bridgestone:
Stoner sets scorching pace in Sepang; top three faster than outright record
Sepang International Circuit, Malaysia – Second pre-season test
Tuesday 22 – Thursday 24 February 2011
Bridgestone slick compounds available: Front: Hard, Extra Hard. Rear: Medium, Hard
The second of the pre-season tests at the Malaysian Sepang International Circuit was brought to a close today after three dry and hot days of running, despite rain threatening the final 45minutes of Thursday.
The track temperature reached a high of 57 degrees Celsius, and the fastest times on each day were set in the cooler morning or late afternoon runs. The third and final day of the test was the fastest overall, with the leading Repsol Honda duo of Casey Stoner and Dani Pedrosa both lapping the 5.5km circuit in under two minutes. The top three riders also each lapped quicker than the official circuit best lap of 2m 00.518s, set by Valentino Rossi in 2009.
The fastest laps were set using the harder option front tyre for its increased stability under braking, especially given the high track temperature and the heavy braking points from high-speed at Sepang, coupled with a softer rear for the extra traction and grip advantage it offers. Some riders though, including Valentino Rossi, preferred the softer front.
Bridgestone took advantage of the opportunity to further tyre development by supplying every rider with one front and one rear test-specification slick tyre, in addition to normal allocation of two compounds of front and rear slicks.
During the test, the Sepang International Circuit also raised money for their ‘RM2 or More’ campaign supporting the Malaysia Flood Relief Fund. Teams were invited to donate for each member of staff present, but instead Bridgestone donated for each tyre brought to the test, meaning RM1000 for 1000 tyres.
Hirohide Hamashima – Director, Bridgestone Motorsport Tyre Development
"I am happy with tyre performance at this test because the track temperature has been high but, owing mainly to the development of the bikes over the winter, the times at the front are incredibly fast. We have gained a lot of data from this test and have been able to confirm the performance of the 2011-spec front and rear slicks so I am pleased about this. Several riders also completed long-distance runs and durability and consistency were satisfactory even in such demanding conditions so I am confident of tyre performance again this year.
"This has been a valuable test for our fundamental tyre development work too and we have gathered good data and feedback from riders on our front and rear test tyres, so I must thank them for their support. We are always working hard to improve our tyre technology, and this work will help us to ensure we have the right developmental direction for future tyres both for MotoGP of course and also for our Battlax consumer road tyres."
Weather: Tue: Dry, Wed: Dry, Thu: Dry. Ambient 27-34°C; Track 37-57°C (Bridgestone measurement)
Successful Test for Yamaha Factory Racing in Sepang
Texan rider Spies wrapped up his three day test at lunchtime today having completed 32 laps in the morning session. Although the team had kept back four sets of soft tyres for this final day, only two were used in less than ideal conditions to set a faster lap time. Despite this he managed to record his fastest time of 2'00.678, his personal best for the circuit and 0.86 under the pole position time of his team mate Lorenzo from last year's Malaysian Grand Prix race.
Lorenzo's final afternoon session was played out in dramatic fashion, the World Champion completing a 20 lap race distance run under dark skies split by forked lightening. The Mallorcan kept a consistent pace throughout, confirming the improvements of his M1 and, as with his team mate, lapping consistently under last year's race times and beating his pole lap of last season's Malaysian GP race by 0.534 seconds.
Ben Spies, Yamaha Factory Racing Rider, 5th, 2'00.678, 32 laps
"It was a productive test, we got through a lot. I had one small mistake but on the plus side we had a lot of stuff we accomplished so it's all good. We still have some work to do obviously but we're not too far off race pace. We need to figure out how to get the bike a little bit quicker for a few laps, definitely for qualifying and the beginning of the race. It wasn't the most ideal conditions today for a quick lap, I did go to put in a few this morning and was pretty pleased with the time. I'm looking forward to a few days rest now in cooler temperatures at home before Qatar! The team have been awesome again, I'm really pleased with how we're working together."
Jorge Lorenzo, Yamaha Factory Racing Rider, 7th, 2'01.003, 48 laps
"I feel quite tired, after two and a half days of testing I've finished with a long 20 lap run. The results have been quite good, we had a very consistent pace and I was happy to have improved some things with the bike. I think we've made some big steps forward with traction and feel, although we still need to improve our lap time."
Wilco Zeelenberg, Yamaha Factory Racing Team Manager
"It was a good day today to wrap up, I am satisfied with the results of the long run. Jorge was very consistent and the grip didn't drop that much towards the end, he kept a good pace which is a strong point for him and important that we didn't lose that. Of course we saw our competitors were very fast this morning but it's only the second test of the year, I think Qatar will be a very different story. We've improved the package compared to the last time we were here racing here which was our goal. Of course we have more work to do and we will continue to work on it."
Massimo Meregalli, Yamaha Factory Racing Team Director
"We've definitely had a good test, we've improved the traction of the bike a lot and also the handling. Compared to the last test Ben's improved by a considerable time so he's quite satisfied with the set up. There is still a gap to the fastest riders but in terms of long runs we are very competitive so we will go to Qatar knowing we can achieve a good result.
Jorge found a good set up this afternoon and achieved a really good long run so we have achieved the targets we set before we came here, I am very satisfied with the team and how we have performed."
GREAT END TO TEST IN SEPANG FOR REPSOL HONDA TEAM
The final day in Sepang witnessed an incredible display of speed from all three Repsol Honda riders . Within 10 minutes of the track opening for the final day's testing, Casey Stoner on his first flying lap of the day recorded a time of 2'00.122 - five hundredths faster than his quickest (and top of the day) lap on day two. However, on his next lap, Stoner put in a sub two minute lap of 1'59.665 almost a second quicker than the circuit best lap recorded in 2009, which remained unbeaten for the rest of the session.
Within fifteen minutes of this incredible feat, Dani Pedrosa also lit up the timing sheets as he clocked a time of 1'59.803 - putting the two Repsol Honda riders out of reach from the rest of the pack, while the other Repsol Honda rider Andrea Dovizioso was fourth in 2'00.541 - all these times recorded in the first forty-five minutes of the day.
After this virtual qualifying session, the teams resumed the normal testing programme. Stoner spent the day working on his engine management system and his final chassis comparison check, making a final choice in which direction to take ahead of the Qatar test on the 13th and 14th March. Pedrosa also worked on engine mappings and then further suspension work in the morning. In the afternoon he concentrated on completing a long run, although not race simulation. Dovizioso made further chassis comparisons, geometric changes and tried a few electronic settings to assist corner entry, in the afternoon he also did a long run.
The team will now pack up in Malaysia and head west to Qatar for the final test of the winter before the season opening race on March 20th.
CASEY STONER – 1st - 1'59.665
"We had a good day comparing the chassis' again and I'm happy we have made our decision on which one we'll use for the season. We also tried a lot of electronics with engine braking and found improvements in a few areas, and some losses in others so we need to rectify these. The chassis we've chosen always behaves in the way we want it to, no matter what set-up we use, we are also able to adapt it fairly easily. So when we get to Qatar in a few weeks we'll be able to test different set-up's at the same time and get more track time on it. Some changes can be quite time consuming to do, so having the two bikes with identical chassis will be useful. The test here has been very productive for us, we did a long run here today - almost race distance - and gathered some key information. I'm feeling more and more comfortable on the RC212V and I can't wait to get to Qatar".
DANI PEDROSA – 2nd - 1'59.803
"We did a very good three days testing; both tests here in Sepang have been very positive. We improved the braking and worked a lot with different chassis configurations and electronics. It's been a much better winter test than last year, even we know that everybody will improve for the first race. I'm leaving Sepang satisfied and I think testing in Qatar will give further opportunity to check our work at another circuit, with a different layout and track conditions to what we have had here. I've spent more or less the same time with last year's chassis and the modified 2011 chassis and my best lap time was with the 2011 version, but it will be nice to check it again in Qatar and take there the final decision. I think the bike and myself are in a good shape and we are getting to Qatar with more confidence than last year, but we need to keep our feet on the ground because we had many pro blems at the beginning of last season and then we improved a lot, so the others can do the same. Nothing is clear until we start racing".
ANDREA DOVIZIOSO – 4th - 2'00.541
"The good point is that we are really fast, and to have the first two tests like this is a great thing. Also, when we tried the race simulation we were fast so this is confirmed that we are strong and can fight. However, after completing the simulation I discovered a problem in the front - as I had in some races in 2009 - after a few laps I lose some grip in the middle of the corner. I will leave this test very happy but we're far from perfect, we need to study what we changed that caused this problem as it occurred after we added just five litres more of fuel. Anyway, even with this problem I completed many fast laps and we are very fast compared to last year. I feel without the problem I had in the front of the bike, I would be able to achieve a similar pace to Dani and Casey, so I'm happy about this".
Bautista ends Sepang test on a positive note
Rizla Suzuki has completed the second pre-season test with Álvaro Bautista taking almost half-of-a-second off his best ever time at the Malaysian circuit.
Bautista recorded a fastest time of 2’01.194 from his 34 laps around the 5,548m Sepang track to give him eighth place overall on the timesheets. Despite a slow front end crash at turn nine earlier in the day – that Bautista walked away from uninjured – Suzuki’s Spanish star was able to continue with the comprehensive test schedule, despite still suffering with the after effects of yesterday’s headache that caused him to require clinical treatment.
Bautista was able to try some new Bridgestone tyres today as well as a number of geometry settings and refine some of the earlier settings that he tried during the first two days of the test. Honda’s Casey Stoner finished the test as the quickest rider as he became the first person to lap the Sepang circuit in a sub two minute time.
Suzuki’s engineers now have two weeks to work on the data from this test before the final pre-season test of 2011 takes place at Qatar. The first race on the 2011 calendar will be held under floodlights on Sunday 20th March also at Losail in Qatar.
Álvaro Bautista:
"I felt a little better this morning, especially after the Clinica guys gave me a special vitamin drip. On my first run I made my best Sepang time so far, but actually I made a couple of mistakes and it really should have been a 2.00 something, after that everybody was using older tyres and the track is getting hotter so it gets less easy to make similar times, but I was happy to be able to make mid 2.01’s on old tyres. The test wasn’t the best on my side, because my condition wasn’t great and I didn’t make the long run today – sorry to Suzuki’s engineers about that – but we have improved the bike in areas that I really believe will help us in different conditions. The Suzuki is now stable, has good feeling and it’s fast – I hope we have the same feeling in the colder conditions of Qatar - now I just want to race!"
Paul Denning – Team Manager:
"A little bit of a strange test but at least we got some clear results! Thanks also to Nobu and the factory engineers for their efforts; they got through a lot of very detailed work that will help us in the future. Álvaro is maybe a little disappointed in his ultimate pace, but eighth overall on the sheets is really nothing to complain about given that we all know the difference between Álvaro ‘the rider’ and Álvaro ‘the racer’. The team has been working very well and very calmly, and it now feels like time to race. The competition this year and the depth of field is absolutely brutal, we hope that Rizla Suzuki and Álvaro is part of the fight!"
Colin Edwards and Cal Crutchlow make big progress in Sepang
Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Team riders Colin Edwards and Cal Crutchlow declared themselves satisfied with the progress at the end of a hugely productive three-day MotoGP test session in Malaysia today.
Edwards was thrilled with his work over an exhausting three days as typically searing hot and sunny conditions dominated the test at the 5.5km Sepang circuit.
The experienced American, making final preparations for his ninth MotoGP campaign, spent the entire test working on a range of different geometry settings to find the maximum turning performance with a new YZR-M1 chassis he first evaluated earlier this month in the first Sepang test.
Edwards was also delighted with significant progress in improving rear grip as he concentrated on fine-tuning his set-up to suit the harder option Bridgestone rear tyre rather than pushing for an outright fast lap time. He finished in sixth position overall with a best time 2.00.966 to finish just ahead of reigning World Champion and fellow Yamaha rider Jorge Lorenzo.
Crutchlow was able to show his true potential on the final day after a difficult start to the test, which is the second of three pre-season outings for the British rider. Crutchlow had to overcome a nasty bout of food poisoning picked up on his way to Kuala Lumpur that left him a weakened physical state for the entire test. Two crashes on the first day were quickly forgotten as he concentrated on making progress with consistency on the hard compound Bridgestone tyre with a range of set-up changes. He also focused on perfecting his riding style and made big strides in adapting to the b raking technique of the Yamaha YZR-M1 machine to finish in 14th position.
Edwards and Crutchlow will be back on track under the spectacular Losail International Circuit floodlights for the conclusion to the winter testing schedule on March 13/14.
Colin Edwards, 6th - 2'00.966:
"This test has been awesome for us and I've had a lot of fun, even though the conditions have been really extreme with the heat. I've got a lot of experience and I've been riding motorcycles forever, but even I'm still learning a lot and I've really enjoyed coming here and changing the bike to see what does and doesn't work. I've figured out a lot of things with the new bike and the Bridgestone tyres and I've also learned that for an old guy, I'm not finished yet. I spent most of the test working on the new chassis, mainly experimenting with geometry and we made a lot of progress. My team is really smart and together we played around with a few ideas and got the bike to a point where I'm really satisfied. We improved front feeling compared to the last test and we can finish the corner a lot better. I'm really happy with the progress with rear traction too. Yamaha has done a great job and we leave Malaysia tired but with a lot of confidence. I'm now looking forward to getting Qatar and starting the racing."
Cal Crutchlow, 14th - 2'02.034:
"It has certainly been an eventful week and the good thing is that it ended in positive fashion. The food poisoning I picked up on the way to Sepang didn't help my preparations and I've felt weak all through the test as a result. Two crashes on the first day didn't help my confidence and day two was a struggle to be honest. We made a lot of changes to the bike without helping me feel more comfortable. My team have b een fantastic though and given me great support and the last day was much better. For the first time I was able to do a decent lap time, but the important thing is I was able to be more consistent and feel more confident with the bike. We made improvements to the front and rear of the bike and I'm pretty happy with a low 2.02. The front felt more stable and while I'd like a bit more rear grip, we've made progress in that area as well. Qatar will be another big learning curve for me because I know the track, but I haven't ridden a MotoGP bike there and I've never raced under the floodlights. I'm confident with the set-up changes we made here that I'll be competitive in Qatar too."
HONDA SWEEPS TOP FOUR SPOTS OF SEPANG TEST
Casey Stoner (Repsol Honda RC212V) led a Honda sweep of the top four spots by topping the time sheets for the third day in a row by running the fastest ever lap of the Sepang Circuit in Malaysia.
The 2007 World Champion wasted no time getting up to speed, taking advantage of the relatively cooler morning temperature to dip under two minutes on his second tour of the 5548m track. Stoner’s lap of 1m, 59.665s was half a second faster than he’d gone on Wednesday and a target that proved untouchable. The only rider to make a serious run at Stoner was team-mate Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda RC212V). The Spaniard also dropped below two minutes on his second lap, then improved his time on his third lap to finish at 1m, 59.803s.
After his morning run for the record, Stoner worked with his technicians to decide which chassis to use going forward, as well as testing the electronics on the engine braking system. Then followed a simulated race run of 16 laps – the race is 20 laps – during which his pace was much faster than that of the 2010 race-winner. Pedrosa wasn’t as certain on his chassis choice – he tested both the 2010 and a modified 2011 version – and will reserve his final decision for the test in Qatar just prior to the season kick-off. He also worked through various engine mapping and suspension solutions.
Third on the day went to Marco Simoncelli (San Carlo Honda Gresini RC212V), the fastest rider at the previous test here three weeks ago. The Italian second year MotoGP rider was fastest on the seventh of his 46 laps. His best time of 2m, 0.163s was also under the previous best lap of 2m, 0.518s set by his close friend Valentino Rossi in 2009. After putting his name among the leaders, Simoncelli spent most of the afternoon doing a simulated race run of 21 laps. "Super Sic" couldn’t match his Wednesday race pace, but put it down to choosing the harder Bridgestone rear tyre, which wasn’t as effective today.
So complete has been Honda’s domination of the pre-season testing, that Honda RC212V riders have not only been fastest on all six days, an unprecedented feat over the first two tests, but other than the first day of the early February test Honda riders finished one-two every day.
And today Andrea Dovizioso (Repsol Honda RC212V) made it four Hondas in a row by nearly joining his fellow Honda riders under the previous record lap. Like Stoner, Pedrosa, and Simoncelli, Dovizioso used the harder compound front Bridgestone and the softer rear tyre to set his fast time early on. His successful outing finished with a 15-lap endurance run. The one hitch in his test was a lack of mid-corner grip while running with a full fuel tank, something he and his team will work to resolve in the test prior to the first round in Qatar.
Hiroshi Aoyama (San Carlo Honda Gresini) was fastest in the hot middle of the day. His best lap of 2m, 1.328s came on his 20th of 48. The time was his fastest ever at Sepang as he continued the development work on the Honda RC212V. The Japanese star found a good baseline from which to improve at the final test of the pre-season in a few weeks’ time.
Toni Elias (LRC Honda MotoGP) had an exhausting day of development. The Spaniard opted not to perform a race simulation, instead working in short bursts to improve the set-up of the Honda RC212V. Other than a five-lap run early in the day, the 2010 Moto2 World Champion never ran more than three laps in a row, while trying to find his comfort zone after a year away from the premier class.
The teams now have just under three weeks before the March 13-14 final pre-season test at the Losail Circuit in Qatar. For the first time ever, the race weekend will be spread over four days, with the first day of practice on Thursday, March 17 and working up to the season-opener under the lights on Sunday evening, March 20.
HONDA MotoGP RIDER QUOTES
Casey Stoner (Repsol Honda RC212V): 1st, 1m, 59.665s
"We had a good day comparing the chassis' again and I'm happy we have made our decision on which one we'll use for the season. We also tried a lot of electronics with engine braking and found improvements in a few areas, and some losses in others so we need to rectify these. The chassis we've chosen always behaves in the way we want it to; no matter what set-up we use, we are also able to adapt it fairly easily. So when we get to Qatar in a few weeks we'll be able to test different set-up's at the same time and get more track time on it. Some changes can be quite time consuming to do, so having the two bikes with identical chassis will be useful. The test here has been very productive for us; we did a long run here today - almost race distance - and gathered some key information. I'm feeling more and more comfortable on the RC212V and I can't wait to get to Qatar."
Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda RC212V): 2nd, 1m, 59.803s
"We did a very good three days testing; both tests here in Sepang have been very positive. We improved the braking and worked a lot with different chassis configurations and electronics. It's been a much better winter test than last year, even if we know that everybody will improve for the first race. I'm leaving Sepang satisfied and I think testing in Qatar will give further opportunity to check our work at another circuit, with a different layout and track conditions to what we have had here. I've spent more or less the same time with last year's chassis and the modified 2011 chassis and my best lap time was with the 2011 version, but it will be nice to check it again in Qatar and take there the final decision. I think the bike and myself are in a good shape and we are getting to Qatar with more confidence than last year, but we need to keep our feet on the ground because we had many problems at the beginning of last season and then we improved a lot, so the others can do the same. Nothing is clear until we start racing."
Marco Simoncelli (San Carlo Gresini Honda): 3rd, 2m, 0.163s
"I am very happy for the time I did this morning. But today we were a bit confused during the race simulation. Yesterday, with the hard rubber I could be very fast, but this afternoon, from the beginning, I was considerably worse; I could not do the same time. Anyway, I'm pretty calm, because the performance today was determined by a choice of tyres, which was not just a good idea - maybe it would be better to opt for a soft rubber like other people did - and I was fast in in the race simulation. But I repeat, we are not at all worried and even go away from Malaysia very happy with the work done in these three days and also happy to change the track because after six days of evidence in these two tests at the Sepang circuit, I was quite exhausted by now."
Andrea Dovizioso (Repsol Honda RC212V): 4th, 2m, 0.541s
"The good point is that we are really fast, and to have the first two tests like this is a great thing. Also, when we tried the race simulation we were fast, so this is confirmed that we are strong and can fight. However, after completing the simulation I discovered a problem in the front - as I had in some races in 2009 - after a few laps I lose some grip in the middle of the corner. I will leave this test very happy, but we're far from perfect. We need to study what we changed that caused this problem as it occurred after we added just five litres more of fuel. Anyway, even with this problem I completed many fast laps and we are very fast compared to last year. I feel without the problem I had in the front of the bike, I would be able to achieve a similar pace to Dani and Casey, so I'm happy about this."
Hiroshi Aoyama (San Carlo Gresini Honda): 9th, 2m, 1.328s
"Finally we have finished these tests, which have been very challenging for me. We have done so much work that I was partly satisfied and partly not. The team supported me a lot and together we are able to understand the way to go about the technical solutions to be taken for the season. In the end I'm happy and I can not wait to arrive in Qatar for the next test and begin to build on the great work on this circuit. I am happy to work with these guys and I hope to shortly give them satisfaction."
Toni Elias (LCR Honda): 16th, 2m, 2.941s 2m, 2.410s
"If we consider the three days in total we took a step forward on suspension set-up and chassis geometry. Now that we have a much clearer idea of the direction to go in I am happy with the work we have done. I'm not as happy with my lap time, but we were too busy working through other things. These days we have done several comparative tests and found a different feeling on the bike compared with the first outing here three weeks ago. Now we will check the data we gathered to be more competitive in Qatar for the last test session before the season starts. I want to thank the guys for their efforts because they are helping me a lot to adapt to this bike."
LAST DAY OF TESTING FOR DUCATI MARLBORO TEAM IN MALAYSIA
The Ducati Marlboro Team concluded the second Malaysian test with the knowledge that important work awaits them over the two weeks before the next outing, in Qatar. After a positive start, the progress was slower than what the team had hoped for, with Valentino Rossi and Nicky Hayden finishing the third day 11th and 12th, respectively.
The Italian rider lost an entire day of testing, as he spent Wednesday in bed with a bad flu. Today he was back aboard the GP11, but despite hard work with his crew and lowering his best time compared to Tuesday, the necessary margin of improvement is still significant.
Nicky Hayden had similar difficulty making steps forward, despite his feeling with the bike improving steadily over the three days.
Next the team will meet with its fans on March 4 in Bologna. After that, the riders will be back on track on March 13 and 14 at Qatar’s Losail International Circuit for the final winter test, prior to the MotoGP season opener at the same venue.
Valentino Rossi (Ducati Marlboro Team), 11th, 2:01.469 (59 laps)
"We can’t be satisfied with this test because we didn’t reach our goals, which were to finish close to the top six and especially to reduce the gap to the front. Instead, we’re 1.8 seconds back, and our rhythm is also lacking. After the first day, we thought we could do it. We had started well and were able to make the bike work with the hard tyres, which is good. After that though, we didn’t take steps forward. Although we have some good ideas for the electronics that I’m optimistic will solve those problems relatively easily, I’m not as confident about the chassis setup. We tried hard, but we haven’t yet managed it. I’m able to brake hard, but I’m still having trouble in mid-corner. It was definitely a disadvantage to only ride two days instead of three because we had to rush at the end and try many things in order to understand as much as we could. We were prepared for that possibility, but it started to drizzle, making it impossible to push. There could be some good solutions for the future, but we weren’t able to confirm them. This circuit hasn’t traditionally been favorable to the Ducati. The next test is in Qatar, where the track is different, so we’ll see if we can go faster there."
Nicky Hayden (Ducati Marlboro Team), 12th, 2:01.469 (71 laps)
"We’ve tested a lot of options over the course of this test, like different geometry and electronics. We’ve just been trying to improve the feeling and eliminate stuff that didn’t work, focusing mainly on finding a base setup that could work for this season. We’re still behind, not because of any major problem, but a combination of little details that prevented us from getting the results that we’d hoped for. I’ve got a good bike and team, and we definitely need to do better than this. We’ve got a lot more work to do, but we’ve made progress this week, and we’ve still got some options we can try at the next test. It’s going to be a competitive season, no doubt. A lot of guys are going fast and pushing hard. We’ll have to work hard to try to take full advantage of this bike’s potential. It’s been three long days, and our team—everybody from engineers to mechanics to tire guys to suspension guys—has worked really hard the whole time."
PLEASING END TO THREE-DAY MALAYSIAN TEST
The second round of tests at the Sepang circuit ended in postive fashion for Team San Carlo Honda Gresini. Determined and consistent, Marco Simoncelli found further confidence with his Honda RC212V, and was in amongst the front group throughout. He finished the test with an impressive time just four-tenths off the fastest rider Casey Stoner, and more importantly yesterday he rode at a consistently fast race pace. Less than month remains before the first race in Qatar and "Super Sic" is increasingly convinced he has made good progress and will be capable of fighting for podium finishes. It was a satisfying test also for Japanese rider Hiroshi Aoyama, who strung together almost 200 laps over the three days, in his attempts to clarify the technical changes to make before the season begins.
Marco Simoncelli (3rd 2'00"163 46 laps) "I am really happy about the lap-time I managed this morning, although we were a bit confused during the race simulation I did. Yesterday with the hard tyre I was able to go very fast, but this afternoon from the off I felt worse and couldn't lap at the same pace. Anyway, I'm pretty calm because today's performance was more down to a poor choice of tyre, perhaps I would have been better to go with the softer one like the others and I would have been quick in the race simulation. However I repeat, I'm not at all worried and leave Malaysia very content with the work we've done over these three days and also happy that we get to change tracks now because after six days of tests at Sepang I'm slightly "overdone"!
Hiroshi Aoyama (9th 2'01"328 48 laps) "This test finally comes to an end and it's been quite a challenge for me. We have worked so hard, and in some parts I'm satisfied and in others not so. The team has really supported me a lot and together we have been able to understand the path to take in terms of technical settings for the season ahead. In the end I'm happy and I can't wait to get to Qatar for the next test so we can build on the great work we have done here. I'm really happy to be working with these guys and I hope to give them something back in return soon."
Fausto Gresini "This second test in Malaysia has made us understand that Simoncelli has grown a lot since last year and is capable of being consistently fast. He has laid down an impressive lap-time and is amongst the top riders, but he also did a good race simulation - even if we did realise that we could do even better when we take a look at yesterday's times. Nonetheless this is all part of the experience you must gain, and it's normal that this kind of thing happens in the tests as it helps us get ready for the championship proper. I'm also happy with the progress the team has made as a whole; with the extra support from HRC and the bike that Honda has made available to us. I'm also impressed with Marco's physical preparation compared to last year. They are all steps forward that propel us towards a season that should give us a lot of joy. It's also been a positive three days for Aoyama who never even went for a fast lap-time and focused on finding the right settings to adopt for the forthcoming season. We have a great squad and I'm sure we'll be very entertaining this year. "
Karel Abraham ended the official MotoGP test at Sepang in 18th place
Although the Cardion AB Motoracing rider was faster again, he ended the official MotoGP test at Sepang in Malaysia in 18th place and completed the timesheet.
With the heat having intensified and the track temperature reaching over 60°C, Karel Abraham completed 55 laps on board his Ducati Desmosedici GP11 and set a best time of 2.02,506.
"I cannot be satisfied with this result because I know that I can be even faster," said Abraham who was 2,506 seconds behind the fastest rider. "At the morning, when the other riders set a fastest times, we worked on the motorycle and at the afternoon we cannot beat them due to heat."
"Team mechanics worked on the set-up, especially on the traction of the motorcycle," continued Abraham after his return to the garage of the Cardion AB Motoracing team. "We found out something and now we are hoping that we will be ready for the next test."
Having completed two official MotoGP tests at Sepang in Malaysia, the Cardion AB Motoracing rider will have another chance to get familiarize with his Ducati during the next official MotoGP test at Doha in Qatar one week before the first race of the 2011 season.
LAST DAY OF TESTING AT SEPANG
Third and last day of testing for the MotoGP at Sepang. Satisfaction for Loris Capirossi, who ended the session, after 39 laps, with the best time in 2'01.493, just a few thousandths of Hayden and Rossi, the Ducati Official Team duo. Were not enough 42 laps for Randy De Puniet to improve yesterday's position. The French, however, was able to lower his lap time of 449 thousandths with his 2'02.386. The next appointment is fixed on March 13, in Qatar, where the riders will face the last test before the start of the season.
Loris Capirossi - Pramac Racing Team - 13th fastest lap time in 2'01.493
"Today we worked better. We have done important development on the bike. My lap time is almost identical to that of the team Ducati, for us this is cause for great satisfaction. We still have a lot to work, with the right method the results will come".
Randy De Puniet - Pramac Racing Team - 15th fastest lap time in 2'02.155
"I can not be happy for this day. I found in my bike the same trouble, especially when braking and also when entering the corners.I remain confident for the next test in Qatar, where Ducati has always achieved good results".
Hector Barbera
Karel Abraham
Nicky Hayden
Ben Spies
Colin Edwards
Hiroshi Aoyama
Randy de Puniet
Toni Elias
Loris Capirossi
Sepang, Malaysia
I would like to point out
Hugelean replied on Thu, 2011-02-24 17:26
I would like to point out that Loris is not anywhere near as quick as Vale but the timesheet says he is. Small comfort at this stage but I'll take it.
Go Rossi!! Go Ducati!!!
PIT BULL replied on Thu, 2011-02-24 18:17
Thanks for the wrap up David.I expect much of the same at the Quatar test,followed by the race.The European rounds,in cooler weather, I suspect, will drag the Yamaha's further forward. Ducati.Sad but true.
Many called Stoner a one hit wonder post 2007. Best 'one hit' Ducati ever had the good fortune of contracting. I can think of 15 million reasons they wish he was still in their saddle.
That's a wrap
Damo replied on Thu, 2011-02-24 18:50
Thanks so much David. I'm so glad I found this site :)
Stoner is in great form. It's amazing what he can do when he is confident in the machinery under him.
He definitely made the right decision switching brands to Honda.
I wonder....
Ciccio replied on Thu, 2011-02-24 19:24
... how fast would Casey Stoner ride the GP11 Desmosedici. I´m positive he would be the fastest Ducati, but, Could he manage a top 5 with this year´s bike?
The alien territoty is re-drawing its frontiers.
Since he did it in 2007
frenchie replied on Thu, 2011-02-24 19:51
for the first time he jumped on the bike, then in 2008, 2009 and 2010, I have no doubt he would be top 5 or even top 3 if he had stayed at Ducati. He's always been super fast in testing, no matter the Desmodeci millesime.
But Hayden going backwards (7 tenths from his test time last year) is not a good sign at all...
if only ducati had been
dudulalah replied on Thu, 2011-02-24 20:06
if only ducati had been willing to make the changes stoner asked for. yet they felt rossi had the magic wand. now they must be wondering if they didnt kick themselves in the foot.
"“We are not fast enough in the corners. We have a problem for turning the bike, so I always have to slow down too much to make the good line. I cannot ride the Desmosedici in the right way.""
After all the cheap shots at Casey by Rossi and Burgess about not trying hard enough, this is sweet music to the ears. I'd respect rossi even more if he would man up and apologise for the cheap shots they took at Stoner last season now that they have first hand experience of the crap that kids been dealing with the last few years!Ducati could say whatever they wanted when it was Casey and Nicky about the bike not having any problems but they can't say that with Val struggling. soon we will all acknowledge the genius that is Stoner. love him or hate him, the boy is blindingly fast on two wheels!!!
Agree totally with you.
gearsau replied on Thu, 2011-02-24 20:39
Casey couldn't beat Nicky in
Hugelean replied on Fri, 2011-02-25 09:57
Casey couldn't beat Nicky in the first half of last year, until he borrowed Nickys settings(Nicky interview concerning softer option when Casey wanted stiffer) in the second half of the season and got a couple of wins. Whilst casey has done brilliantly on the honda, it's a well documented that he got everything he asked for from ducati (who have been quoted saying they did everything they could for Casey) and yet the 2010 bike was a shadow of the successful 2007 bike.
I think Dani didn't choose his frame deliberately before Casey so as not to influence Caseys decision, because he knows development and setup are Caseys weakest points. Gonna be a very interesting year at Honda with those two. It is not a criticism in my view just an opinion born from the fact that his first championship was too easy. Now I don't mean riding wise.. that was pretty special, but that he just jumped on and it all worked perfectly that year. I think Dani will pull himself above all the other Honda riders as the season progress due to his ability to set the bike up. However all the hondas are uber fast. It will be interesting also to see how the yam and ducati evolve this year as they both look behind especially of course Rossi and the ducati..
the making of a miracle lap
http://www.gpone.com/index.php/en/news/37-ultime-news/2993-stoner-cronac...
3 laps and then...
Upon1 replied on Fri, 2011-02-25 04:28
I'm very happy that Stoner is awesomely quick on the Honda, but I would like to know why he did 3 blindingly fast laps, and was then in the pits for just on 30mins.
Something that he was criticised of was not spending enough time on the Ducati to work out what the problems are. While he can string together 25+ sub 2.1min laps, he does these not more then 4 or 5 at a time if I not mistaken.
Just curious is all...
The most well documented fact...
From 2010 was not that Stoner followed Nickys settings, but that he went to the 2009 forks, 42mm, as opposed to the 48mm that were the 2010 forks but Nicky stayed with the 2010 forks. Funny that Rossi and JB who are without doubt the best developers wanted the same thing. Even if Nickys settings worked last year, they aren't now.
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Birds do it, bees do it. But apparently if you happen to be the next single woman to serve as a university president in some parts of these Southern United States, you won’t be allowed to do it – that is, live with a partner in the usually big, beautiful, university-provided campus president’s house.
Dr. Gwendolyn Boyd, is leaving Johns Hopkins, and is slated to become the first Black female president of her alma mater, Alabama State University in Montgomery, next month.
“Her contract requires the 58-year-old engineer to move into the president’s home…(one) clause states ‘for so long as Dr. Boyd is President and a single person, she shall not be allowed to cohabitate in the President’s residence with any person with whom she has a romantic relation.'” http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/01/17/263484808/no-cohabitation-for-alabama-states-first-female-president
She seems to have no problem with this clause, after all she signed the contract. Still, it makes me smile to think about the “scandal” happening in France right now. President Hollande jets around at night on his scooter, disguised in his helmet to visit his lover, a film actress. He is only discovered by the fashionable French press because of his shoes! It’s all over the papers, but knowing some French people as I do, and listening to the interviews on the streets of Paris, his citizens could care less! Alors, Les Liasons Romantique!
Fidelity is over rated in France. “When it comes to extra-marital affairs, the French are the most forgiving nation in the world, according to a recent study. The U.S., however, is still as unforgiving as ever, ranking 27th on the list, right between Brazil and Ghana.” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/16/infidelity-study_n_4611674.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009
What I didn’t know until I read the above article, is that President Hollande is simply cohabiting with his First Lady, Valerie Trierweiler, who was his previous mistress. Yes sirree folks, they are NOT married, but have been together since 2007. I am trying to imagine this arrangement in the USA. My brain just cannot do it, sorry. But let’s try…it would be like Bill living cohabiting on Pennsylvania Avenue with Gennifer Flowers, and then seeing an intern on the side. You can see how the first part just wouldn’t work!
If there’s one thing I learned from moving South, it’s that things move a lot slower down here. We talk to strangers, we help each other in airports, we drive slowly in the left lane. In fact, I’m pretty sure our Governor would never close any lanes in a grudge match, after all we can snarl traffic just fine by stopping to talk to a neighbor on the road. And no Virginian would think of honking their horn!
So maybe this cohabitation clause wouldn’t work at NYU, and it certainly wouldn’t be considered at any French university. I doubt that the clause would have appeared on a male president’s contract. But I’ve got a feeling that Dr Boyd has bigger fish to fry. Might I suggest she give our single female UVA President Teresa Sullivan a call? After all, somebody always gets hurt when all those glass ceilings shatter. http://www.virginia.edu/presidentsreport/
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Paul Ryan Endorses Donald Trump
U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) listens to a question during his weekly news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., April 28, 2016. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
WASHINGTON (AP) ” The Latest on House Speaker Paul Ryan’s endorsement of presumptive GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump (all times Eastern Daylight Time):
Donald Trump is celebrating his endorsement from House Speaker Paul Ryan on Twitter.
“So great to have the endorsement and support of Paul Ryan,” Trump writes.
The message comes after Ryan announced he’d be voting for the presumptive GOP nominee in an op-ed in a local Wisconsin newspaper.
Ryan had told The Associated Press that he needed time to get to know the billionaire businessman before he could support him.
Ryan had previously criticized some of Trump’s positions and the two men have significant differences on an assortment of policy issues.
One of Donald Trump’s top House backers is applauding Speaker Paul Ryan’s decision to throw his support behind the presumptive GOP nominee.
Congressman Chris Collins of New York says in a statement that Ryan’s endorsement “reinforces the fact that Republicans are united in our fight to defeat Hillary Clinton.”
He adds that, “Americans across the country recognize Donald Trump is the leader our nation needs to make America great again and erase the failures of the past seven and a half years.”
Trump has continued to lash out at some of his Republican critics even as he tries to unite the party behind his candidacy.
Ryan tells the AP he needed time to get to know Trump before endorsing.
House Speaker Paul Ryan says Donald Trump didn’t offer any deals in exchange for his endorsement.
The Wisconsin Republicans told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview Thursday afternoon that he simply needed to reach the right “comfort level” to endorse the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. And he determined that Trump would do more to enact conservative policies than likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
Ryan tells AP, “This isn’t a deal.”
He says he decided to endorse Trump early in the week after a series of three or four private conversations and ongoing communication between their staff.
He adds, “I just wanted to have a good comfort level that these principles and policies were something we would be able to work with him on. And it took some time just to have those conversations.”
House Speaker Paul Ryan says he still has differences with’ Donald Trump, but he’s endorsing the Republican presidential candidate to help unify the GOP.
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Ryan spokesman Brendan Buck says the statement marks a formal endorsement.
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Prague 1 plans to allow some beer gardens to remain open after 22:00
The new Prague 1 administration won’t implement planned restrictions announced in the fall
Written by Raymond Johnston
Travel Daily News Eat & Drink
Patrons dining at an outdoor restaurant on Havelská street in Old Town, Prague 1
The current administration of Prague 1 is turning back some of the restrictions on drinking.
Some businesses will not have to close their outdoor seating gardens at 10 pm, if they can ensure tranquility at the tables.
Restaurant operators should close their outdoor gardens at 10 pm, when the rules for night time quiet begin. Many businesses in the city center have exceptions and can close at midnight or even 2 am.
The previous administration of Prague 1, led by then- district mayor Pavel Čižinský (Praha 1 sobě), in autumn 2019 proposed an amendment to do way with the exceptions. New Prague 1 Mayor Petr Hejma (STAN), in office since January 14, will continue to tolerate exceptions.
“Prague 1 does not want a blanket ban on front gardens (almost three hundred in our area) after 10 pm, as was suggested last year. That would mean that you wouldn’t have dinner and beer in the front yard during the summer evenings. The blanket ban was discriminatory not only for locals but also for hundreds of honest entrepreneurs whose front gardens received no complaints. Therefore, councilors today decided to postpone the changes in the market order,” the Prague 1 Facebook page stated.
“Permits for front gardens will only be granted to those who will observe strict conditions so that the residents of Prague 1 are not disturbed at night. On the contrary, it is unnecessary to limit the front gardens that do not disturb any local residents in their surroundings,” they added.
“Each front garden will be carefully assessed by the Commerce and Services Commission until the end of June. This will mainly take into account whether the operator is able to maintain calm in its surroundings. For example, operators will have to ensure a night-watchman in the front garden,” they said, adding that local residents could participate in the evaluation process.
The Town Hall will set further rules during the spring.
The response to the district’s Facebook post has been fairly negative, with most people saying the new district administration favors business over the well-being of residents. People also asked for more rules for front gardens concerning their appearance and their size, as many narrow streets were unpassable.
“Selling the city happily continues. What locals go to dinner after 10 pm in a garden? You act as if there are still a lot of businesses in the center where the locals can go. You just sell us out in favor tourists, because the money is better than from the citizens. Congratulations,” one person said.
Signs explaining night noise rules. via Raymond Johnston
“Prague 1. Unsustainable tourism, the devastation of everything that was unique in Prague. The newly baked coalition is already showing off. A city just for business, and not for living at all,” another person commented.
A third person said that the problem goes all the way back to the 1990s. “The front gardens should all close at 10 pm. What you write is utter nonsense. You can see how the new leadership goes to the businessmen. If it is still a city where people live, then you can no longer support the Disneyland that has built up there since the ’90s. There is plenty of time [to drink] until 10 pm, and then the night quiet just should apply. Tourists as well as locals should go inside pr just go for a walk. The city can be enjoyed in the evening without front gardens,” he said.
Entrepreneurs who want to have a garden in front of their establishment will have to apply for permission. They should receive visits from Technical Road Administration and other municipal officials including in some cases preservationists.
The city in 2017 promised to simplify the system to allow for applications electronically, but this has not yet happened.
Night noise has been a big issue in Prague 1. There have been efforts to close popular streets to vehicle traffic. A noise meter warning people to be quiet backfired, as tourists tried to see how high they could make it go. Despite signs on may streets in Prague 1, tourists have been unaware of night noise restrictions.
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The day was the 7th, the month was August, the year was 2017 and Weaveworks came out with a post entitled GitOps - Operations by Pull Request. Since that day GitOps has been increasing it's popularity and gaining traction in the DevOps world.
Imagine the following scenario: we make a change to the infrastructure and a Kubernetes cluster is deleted. Fortunately the infrastructure is described in Terraform and (maybe) we get the cluster back quickly. Now we need to figure out what needs to be deployed. We trigger deploy pipelines and quickly realize some pipelines were deactivated, some worked but the application fails to start while others fail altogether. Recovery is not as smooth as we'd hoped.
In it's simplest definition, GitOps is the practice of using Git as the source of truth from which almost everything can be operated. By using Git (or another version control system) as the source of truth we gain things like version control, history, peer reviews and rollbacks. By having a declarative description of our operations we can, with more confidence, make and rollout changes as well as recover from failure because everything that needs to be operated is in version control.
GitOps principles
The entire system described declarative - instead of having a set of actions to be performed (e.g. spin up this server, place this file at that location, install X service) we describe state (e.g. 1 server, this file at that location, X service running). A tool can look at this definition and reconciliate. Kubernetes is system that employs such practice;
System state is versioned in Git - single source of truth from where everything can be derived and driven. Rollbacks can be done by using Git. Security guarantees with commit signing and authorship of changes;
Changes can be approved and automatically rolled out and applied to the system - changes can be be automatically applied to the system. No need for cluster credentials to make a change to your system. This allows for separation between what needs to be done how it's done;
Software agents alert on divergence and correctness - software agents can look at a system definition, alert on divergence and take the next step of reconciling. This also ensures the system is self-healing.
What can GitOps do for me?
Increased Productivity - increased Mean Time to Deployment with automated, continuous reconciliation and integrated feedback loop;
Enhanced Developer Experience - use of familiar tools (e.g. Git) to manage updates without needing to know the internals of the system (e.g. Kubernetes). Newly on-board team members can get up to speed and start making changes faster
Improved Stability - audit log of changes outside of the system itself. Audit trail of who did what which can be used to meet compliance requirements and ensure stability;
Higher Reliability - use of Git to revert/rollback and fork, gaining stable and reproducible changes. Allows for reduced Mean Time To Recovery (MTTR);
Consistency and Standardization - consistent end-to-end workflows using the same tools and practices across the entire organization;
Stronger Security Guarantees - authorship and origin of changes. Audit trail can be used for compliance. Divergence and reconciliation can be performed in a secure way.
GitOps CD Software Agents
With a declarative source of truth in Git, tools can be built to alert on divergence and reconcile state. Below are a few examples of what already exists out there.
Flux - "Flux is a tool for keeping Kubernetes clusters in sync with sources of configuration (like Git repositories), and automating updates to configuration when there is new code to deploy";
Argo CD - “Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes”
Jenkins X - “Jenkins X provides pipeline automation, built-in GitOps, and preview environments to help teams collaborate and accelerate their software delivery at any scale”.
Is GitOps a silver bullet? Definitely not. It's just another practice to have in our arsenal to manage day-to-day operations. Take a look at GitOps Decisions by Ian Miell.
In a world where we hear and talk a lot about making code run concurrent or in parallel, there's sometimes a little bit of confusion between…
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Another perspective on hypothetical Richard Armitage autographs
[Richard Armitage signs an autograph, weekend of July 14-15, 2012, San Diego, CA. Source: Me, My Thoughts and Richard Armitage]
Went out for a while to visit my favorite beer purveyor. Don’t judge. Beginning Monday at sunset I have to go for a whole week without consuming any fermented grains because G-d said so. Due to my increasing connoisseurship of Belgian fermented grains, accomplishing this will probably be the hardest this year it’s ever been. It’s not the drinking — I could switch to wine — it’s the taste of that beer. Anyway, I digress from the actual point here.
I was seated at the bar chatting with one of my favorite bartenders, Chad, and I asked him how he was, and he said he was okay except he’d been working a lot more the last week. When I asked why, he told me that he and his partner, Lisa, had just rescued a cat and that it cost them $400 to get it fixed and chipped and treated for whatever ailments it had. And they had to get kitty x*nax prescriptions for their other cats so they’d all get along from the beginning. He showed me a bunch of pictures. They were really happy, he said, because the kitten was so affectionate.
I admit I’m not a huge kitten lover but I made appropriate noises. “And,” I said. “If the cats start getting along, you can underdose them and resell some of the drugs on the street.”
He laughed. “I could use it myself, at the moment, with the extra shifts.”
“Oh,” I said, “Is that just because of the expense from the cat? I could tip you more than usual.”
[Richard Armitage signs autographs on the red carpet at the New Zealand premiere of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, November 28, 2012. Source]
He laughed. “You already tip enough,” he said.
Then he told me that he and Lisa had gone recently to an event called Mega-Con and on top of all the other costs for transportation and lodging and food and so on, had spent $700 getting two posters with autographs from the series regulars of the ST:TOS cast, who were apparently all simultaneously present. One for him and Lisa, and another one to sell someday, he said.
“$700?” I said. “For entry to the con? Or the posters cost that much? Were they collectors’ items?”
“No,” Chad said. “For the autographs. It was $35 apiece for the autographs of the regular cast members plus $70 for Sir Patrick Stewart’s.”
[I think I remember that correctly.]
“Yeah,” he said. “Expensive. But totally worth it. Sir Patrick Stewart is just exactly like he seems.” Then he did a kind of imitation of Stewart saying “Make it so!” Chad finished by saying, “Lisa absolutely loved meeting him, and so did I.”
I agreed it might be neat to talk to Sir Patrick Stewart face to face for three minutes, and the conversation turned to other things, like the virtues of St Bernardus vs La Trappe Quadrupel, which I am sure you care about less than I do.
I’m not in search of an autograph, as I’ve said before, but like many fans last fall, had wondered why anyone would pay for an autograph of Richard Armitage’s sold on ebay and gathered by some fairly unpleasant people, if s/he could simply write to ask for one, but suddenly this puts things into a little more perspective.
[Note that in this post, I am neither approving nor disapproving of the activities of amateur or professional autograph collectors.]
[Richard Armitage, with photograph-eager fans on the red carpet at the Tokyo premiere of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, December 1, 2012. Source.]
Does anyone know: is this standard? Fans go to a convention and then pay for autographs of actors on top of that?
If so, then I can see why someone might want to buy one on ebay. Because presumably if someone sells his or her autograph, he isn’t giving it out for free on most occasions. I assume one signs for free on red carpets — but it’s a pain to get to a red carpet, and while it can be wonderful and transformative, as we’ve seen, the results are far from guaranteed, if you’re standing in the wrong place.
Or is the reason that Mega-Con can charge for this that they get all the regulars together in one place and so convention visitors have a hope of getting everything they want at once? Which would be especially attractive, I guess, so the organization charges the fee as a way to cut the numbers of people lining up and keep the actors from suffering too much?
I wonder if Richard Armitage will ever sell his autograph in this way?
Or the dwarves all together? Will there be conventions with all the actors who played the dwarves, each charging $40 for an autograph?
Servetus shakes her head.
[Note that I’m not saying Richard Armitage or anyone else should or shouldn’t sell his autograph. As always, I think Richard Armitage should do what he thinks he needs to do, and doing this kind of thing will neither get him into or out of heaven or my good graces — distinctly different places, I might add. I’m just wondering about everything I learned tonight from Chad.]
~ by Servetus on March 24, 2013.
Tags: autographs, fans, Richard Armitage, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
60 Responses to “Another perspective on hypothetical Richard Armitage autographs”
It varies convention by convention. Some actors aren’t big names ala Stewart/Shatner/Nimoy so they pay their own way to convention and then sell their autograph to make money. I’m not familiar with Mega-Con, but some of these bigger conventions are able to attract the big names with nice big appearance fees and then sell tickets to the attendees guaranteeing a chance to get an autograph thus making both the actor guest and the convention organizers a nice chunk of change.
Little Red said this on March 24, 2013 at 3:22 am | Reply
Wow, that was a really quick and simple answer — thank you!
Servetus said this on March 24, 2013 at 3:23 am | Reply
Hmm, that is interesting. Frankly, I’m not sure how I feel about the whole concept. I suppose, the cost can only be what the market will bear. For the record, I don’t think I’d pay for anyone’s autograph unless proceeds were going to charity, but if people are willing to pay…
obscura said this on March 24, 2013 at 3:23 am | Reply
yeah, the cost will be what people are willing to pay (Chad was satisfied with his and Lisa’s bargain, it seemed to me — he was probably more bemused by the cat anti-anxiety meds than the autograph costs). And Stewart just bought a big brownstone in Park Slope so he probably has expenses to meet … and a wedding to pay for … I’m not judging. I’m just sort of turning the question over in my mind …
Me too…what is troubling is not so much the direct market, but the kind of stuff described below that happens in search of these autographs to sell. Makes the antiquities black market seem tame by comparison. It’s kind of off my radar since I’ve never been big on memorabilia…too much commitment to keep it in one piece.
I really think you should collect the stuff b/c it means something to you, because odds that it will appreciate in value are really so low. I want to use / play with all my Hobbit toys rather than keep them in boxes. And honestly — given the thousands of autographs Armitage must have signed in his life, how much will any one be worth in the next century?
I would agree with that…I’ve picked up bits and pieces of the and that over the years from travel and what not, and that kind of stuff I’ve cherished. I haven’t been inspired to any Armitage stuff yet (beyond DVDs). although that plush Thorin was very tempting…maybe next installment.
I am of the “get it because YOU really want it and will enjoy it” school rather than in hopes of it becoming valuable one day. That’s why none of my RA-related collectibles are in boxes/have tags, etc. That’s just me. And I gotta say, plush Thorin AND plush Gandalf are just TOO cute. Trust me on this. 😉
I think you are right, Serv–RA has signed boocoodles of autographs already. Why think they will become that valuable in the future?
Of course, the autographed photo of RA that my husband got for me a few years back is very precious to me, in large part because MY HUSBAND GOT IT for me. That says something special to me. 😀
fedoralady said this on March 24, 2013 at 4:29 pm | Reply
Nerd Expert here – I’ve gone to the San Diego and the New York Comic Cons. Yes, there are actors who are not featured in any of the regular Con activities, but are just there to make money from selling autographs. Some actors don’t charge you just to talk to them, if they’re not busy. I had a lovely chat with Michelle Forbes from Star Trek and True Blood the last time I went. LOL! Some actors seem to just make their living showing up to charge for autographs (and pictures) and some are selling books or stuff. Star Wars people charge a lot. James Marsters (Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) seems to show up a lot. I think it’s vaguely creepy, but it is fun to see them signing, even if you don’t pay (like me).
marieastra8 said this on March 24, 2013 at 3:36 am | Reply
if it helps them makes ends meet ….
I used to say, when I started blogging, that i wished I could pay Richard Armitage in some proportion to the pleasure he gave me. I’ve made a point of both purchasing legal copies of everything of his I’ve seen that’s available for purchase, and of donating money to charities he’s recommended. I suppose this would be another step in that direction, hypothetically.
I can’t imagine he’d ever be at a convention and not be busy, though.
I had NO idea actors did this at conventions or other places! I mean I know they sign stuff but for money? DId that happen at Comic Con this past year with The Hobbit actors? I saw photos of them signing but assumed it was an expected event there???
But I see that as a totally different thing than what we saw in NYC. These guys didn’t care who they stepped on, hit in the face, pushed into the streets. Again…I had NO idea! Well I did with about 5 mins of heads up time from a friendly photographer. He was worried about it. I was too dumb to know take it too seriously. Altho I thought the security guys and cops could’ve handled things differently, I will have to say that the security guy was right beside RA and you can hear him i the vids saying as they worked their way down the line, “You’ve got one already.” or “He’s already signed one for you.” Not that it stopped them from whacking me one more time!! LOL!
It just galls me that these guys turn around and sell the autographs for a nice, tidy sum…yeah we all have to make a living, but at whose expense?
Again, I need to shut up about it but you can’t imagine how intense and scary those 10 seconds were. And I don’t know if this happens at “all” red carpets or it was just NYC. I’d love to get on ebay and put out a bulletin about the thugs they may potentially buy from. But would they believe it? Nah, probably not. If nothing else, my experience might be a warning to other unsuspecting old ladies! 🙂
The Queen said this on March 24, 2013 at 4:03 am | Reply
as far as I know no one paid in San Diego, but I don’t know. And they were trying really hard to promote an upcoming film there — it’s a bit different with ST:TOS, which has been off the air since … 1994?
I’m glad Armitage has an experienced guy to shield him.
No one would have been charged for an autograph at the WB’s Hobbit signing at SDCC. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of there being a charge for a studio-organized autograph session there (since the studios are trying to promote something), and the ones arranged through SDCC in the Sails Pavilion, the signees can’t charge for those either. They can charge if they have their own setup on the exhibitor floor (say, if they are the guest of a publisher maybe, or toy manufacturer, etc). Patrick Stewart always charges more than his fellow cast members. I thought it was because he attended cons less frequently than the others, but that seems to be changing in the last year (as Servetus notes he *does* have wedding expenses coming up!).
There were the One Ring Conventions (ORC) in LA a few years ago and you could buy autograph tickets and photo ops, prices varied depending on the cast member. I can’t remember, if I ever knew, what percentage went to the convention organizer and what percent went to the actor.
asilomar11 said this on March 24, 2013 at 10:08 am | Reply
At the risk of being obnoxious and pedantic, the TOS acronym refers to the show from the 60s and the subsequent movies. TNG is the acronym for the The Next Generation which did end in 1994.
Little Red said this on March 24, 2013 at 8:31 pm | Reply
Yeah, I know — I will fix it one of these days.
oh, and you’re not *old*.
I agree it’s different if the actor himself is taking the profit as opposed to an autograph collector. I guess everyone has to make their money somehow, though.
Yikes! That’s one expensive scribble!
morrighansmuse said this on March 24, 2013 at 4:11 am | Reply
I wonder if the value will appreciate and Lisa and Chad will be able to sell their additional poster at some point at a profit?
Thinking more … maybe part of what’s being paid for is indeed that two minutes of getting to say, “I really love your work and admire your talent,” not in a crowd, not in a crush, and getting to see the actor’s face reacting to your praise. (This must be excruciating to the average actor — it’s definitely something I could ever do, not that I’m in danger of that.)
I’m not sure that’s worth $70. OTOH, it might be worth $35.
I am going to write more about this, but that is one of the things that was the biggest turn-off to me about Hugh Jackman since he became a BIG STAR. It was for charity (Broadway Cares Equity Fights Aids) but he was charging thousands of dollars for an opportunity to get a picture and autograph with him, and wouldn’t take pictures with fans outside the theater. When he was in the play A Steady Rain with Daniel Craig they sold their undershirts to audience members for $10,000! Seriously. Even for charity I think it’s creepy.
Had we been after autographs, I would’ve been really peeved as it was tough for “real” fans to get one! I was curious about the whole red carpet thing more than anything…and of course, seeing RA was the cherry on top.
Too sad about the Jackman attitude. I guess I had him pegged as a regular guy.
Also, the fact that each of the 6 guys had armloads of pics to throw on top of me and others…an AT the actors, was a huge clue. Ya think? Plus, we helped them with the actors’ names..they had NO idea who was who. Give me a break!
I have purchased autographed items on ebay before….a couple of Catherine Marshall’s books that she signed. I treasure them as I admire her greatly. As much as I admire RA, it’s not quite the same. For me. For others, it’s a big deal.
Well for Pete’s Sake…I just had an idea. I could raffle off my busted up Gumpaste Thorin!! Now…if I could get RA to sign it, just think… 😀
Well you may not be judging Servetus, but I am! I think selling autographs at a convention is appalling and my respect for someone like PS goes down when I hear he has done it. It it weren’t for the fans, actors wouldn’t be able to command obscene amount of money for what they do – and if signing autographs becomes a way of paying the rent its time to get a day job, in my opinion. And whilst I see no harm in a charity using an autograph as a way of raising funds, I think it is fairer to set up a raffle or competition so it doesn’t simply go to the fan who can afford the most.
The Queen wasn’t the only one put off going to a red carpet by the behaviour of the ‘professional’ autograph hunters. I saw the video and was really glad I wasn’t there. I was pleased RA seemed to be differentiating between genuine fans and scalpers by only signing RA for the latter. It’s just a shame the genuine fans got roughed up in the process. But once actors start charging for autographs, it becomes a slippery slope, in my view.
Bollyknickers said this on March 24, 2013 at 5:50 am | Reply
My issue with judging it partout, bollyknickers, is that I just don’t know enough about why anyone does what they do. PS had a terrible childhood by all accounts, and even when he had “made it” on British stages, not a very comfortable life. Maybe he has debt; maybe he wants to help out his kids; maybe, maybe, maybe. Maybe he has a cocaine habit. Or is in debt to loan sharks … I just don’t know. In a capitalist world we are all selling something in one way or another. I’d rather he sell his autograph than a few other things I can think of that he might have available. And the thing is, in this particular case, Lisa and Chad were happy to pay.
I don’t really want an autograph of anyone’s, even of people who are significantly more important to me than Richard Armitage. But I could imagine paying $80 to be able to talk to Richard Armitage face to face for three minutes, without being tackled by other fans or autograph hunters, to tell him what his work had meant to me. (Not that I’m going to, I have no plans to attend any Hobbit or CA-related convention, just that I could see doing that.)
As mutch as I love Richard I could never buy his autograph, thats the most stupid thing I have heard, lol. I don’t think I would care mutch for a free autograph either, what would I do with it. I feel sorry for the actors who are writing autograps for these autograpshunters/ fake fans.
I don’t really care if actors sell their autograps, it’s up to them what to do but it actually feels a little like the same as begging for money. Myself I would have too mutch pride to do anything like that, I hope RA feels the same. It’s just a name after al.
Thora said this on March 24, 2013 at 10:46 am | Reply
I’m sure if he did it, he’d have a specific reason 🙂
OMG, I had no idea this type of activity goes on. Personally I would not pay a single red cent for anyone’s autograph and that includes Richard Armitage. To be honest I would not even want it free because what the heck am I going to do with it afterwards?
I can’t imagine Richard’s autograph ever being worth anything with the thousands already circling the globe and that number is growing.
I had heard years ago about Hugh Jackman’s huge ego so I am not surprised.
collarcitybrownstone said this on March 24, 2013 at 12:14 pm | Reply
Well, in defense of Hugh Jackman, he was doing it for charity. Don’t know about his big ego – everyone who works with him seems to think he is very nice and a lovely person. Still, the selling of autographs and picture opportunities is creepy, and not letting people take pictures with him at the stage door was wrong.
marieastra8 said this on March 24, 2013 at 5:51 pm | Reply
Not the actors sell their autographs on conventions. The responsible persons who organize the convention do to make profit with the event
Herba said this on March 24, 2013 at 1:03 pm | Reply
But surely event organizers could not do it without the OK from the actor, so it’s six of one, half dozen of the other.
obscura said this on March 24, 2013 at 1:46 pm | Reply
Sure. the actors get paid for their attendance and the organizers make moeny with that.
It sounds a little awkward but for a lot of people conventions are the only chance to see some of the actors in the flesh and if you pay for a autograph or a picture it’s your own decision…
I visited my first convention last year and had a lot of doubts about it but in the end it was a great experience (I haven’t bought a autograph but paid for a pic with one of the guests)
I get the attraction of the conventions…the chance to meet and greet, etc., and I certainly don’t begrudge anyone who attends… it’s the process itself that bugs me I guess. I mean, the fact that we live in a society that puts a price tag on virtually everything as long as someone, somewhere is willing to pay. The horse is out of the barn on that one I guess 🙂
I think one could only turn th wheel around if all fans would decide to boycott for example the third version of a dvd but like you said: someone is always willing to pay…
Looking at it from the standpoint of the economist — price is also a way to regulate access. I don’t think an actor in that setting can really say, I won’t do anything with fans. On the other hand if contact were free, he might be totally overwhelmed. Setting a price is a way to make the numbers of fans fall in terms of people self-selecting who are willing or able to pay.
I hate to think that actors can actually “make a living” from selling their signature and deigning to grace the fans with their presence. For me that really throws the whole relationship between star and fans out of kilter. I acknowledge that the balance is already tipped towards the star, anyway, but I think that the actors need to be reminded that they are nothing without the public, and that autographs and/or presence at fan events is *their* payback. – I completely understand the common practice of paying for p&p for an autograph when you send in for one, but charging on top of that just seems like a rip-off. Buying an autograph on eBay would hold no meaning for me because I would always remember that that autograph was written for someone else.
guylty said this on March 24, 2013 at 1:25 pm | Reply
Don’t you think they already know that they are nothing without the public? Armitage has more or less said this (“it’s the fans who buy all those tickets”).
I think those autographs on ebay might have their purpose. Let’s imagine a bedridden fan of Armitage who is never going to get to go to a red carpet or meet him — and a situation where a friend wants to give a wonderful present but it’s too late to be able to count on the “free” autograph getting to him. Purchasing something the fan will love in a convenient, reliable way? Seems like win/win to me.
I have to concede that in your scenarios it makes sense to have autographs for sale. What I object to is the whole money-making side of it. It just seems ludricous to me, to be paying hundreds for a signature on a photo.
I think we could differentiate between something having a price and something having value (let’s say). Here’s something that has value to some people, that probably most of us belief should (however) not have a price. But in capitalism the second something has value, a price gets assigned to it.
Servetus said this on March 30, 2013 at 9:44 pm | Reply
Yup – it’s a capitalist world that we live in… And even as a leftie I will admit that having prices can be alright – as long as they are realistic.
guylty said this on March 31, 2013 at 1:50 am | Reply
I know that some fans are disappointed that RA apparently doesn’t intend to attend any cons (except Comic Con, and I wonder if this year they won’t focus on new actors?), for example Hobbit Con in Germany, but this put it into perspective.
Jane said this on March 24, 2013 at 4:42 pm | Reply
He doesn’t seem to have the requisite personality. I mean, who knows what he’s really like, but he doesn’t really seem to have that outgoing bonhomie as an easy or natural response.
I am not sure how I feel about this. I don’t think it is right for someone to get an autograph only to sell to the highest bidder. I would need the memory attached to it to make it mean something. I just don’t know if I would even want an autograph or not, I have not really though about it. That not to say that we don’t have autographs, a friend of our family wrote a book (hopefully he will get the rest wrote soon) and we have his autograph in the book. We also had him sign the copy I sent to my friend.
katie70 said this on March 24, 2013 at 7:05 pm | Reply
I think what your comment correctly points out, katie70, is that the experience of obtaining an autograph can be a very personal one. For some of us it would be meaningful, for others not, for some of us only if we had personally met the person, for others, one requested through the mail is sufficient.
I agree with many of you about paying for autographs and have always followed this policy at the conventions I’ve attended over the years since the scribble has no intrinsic value. But there’s a new wrinkle this year since Shatner will be appearing at a fan-run convention that I attend every year. I don’t know what he charges for an autograph but I’m certain it’s going to be huge. I’d love to get my TOS dvds with Captain Kirk’s image autographed by him just like I got the Sulu and Uhura ones signed by Takei and Nichols. None of them is getting any younger after all.
I’d be interested to know what you decide, Little Red.
Conventions and autographs are weird things. I rarely attend cons as an actual attendee, since most of the time I’m working as a vendor, which has given me a somewhat different perspective. At the last big convention I worked, there was a rather wide range of big-name and lesser-known actors; Patrick Stewart was there (his autograph went for $80 that day!), along with many TOS and TNG guest stars. Many of the actors were paid directly for autographs by the fans, rather than the con runners selling autograph tickets and collecting the money. (Oh, con runners. Such an appropriate term, really.)
Of the actors that I talked to, nearly all of them were using the autograph sales as supplemental income. For them, working the convention doesn’t pay enough to really make it worthwhile, which is kind of sad considering ticket prices to the convention. (I had one actress who was interested in buying something from me, but said she needed to sell some photos and autographs first!)
On the other hand, I also worked a different convention with a slightly different set-up (same con runners, though), where the actors have no say in setting prices of autographs/photo ops, etc., and in fact have no idea how much the tickets sell for unless they do their own research. They’re just paid by the con runners and go about their business. (Some of the actors have been horrified when told how much the tickets are.)
Personally, I don’t tend to collect autographs since a scribble on a piece of paper doesn’t mean much to me; if it’s the only way to talk to an actor whose work I love, fine, but it’s not really my thing. Although I do enjoy giving them blank pieces of paper and saying “Have at it,” then watching the looks of terror or glee that cross their faces when they realise they can do more than just scribble their names…
yaaurens said this on March 26, 2013 at 11:31 pm | Reply
I can imagine that would be kind of stressful — write whatever you want? In that kind of setting I’d be grateful if people would just tell me what to write.
It’s unfortunate that the con organizers can’t get enough money together to make it worthwhile for the actors. I’ve organized many conferences myself and I know how hard it is to come up with money for honoraria, but you’d think with the entry prices being so high … then again, they could probably be higher. Look at how quickly ComicCon in San Diego sells out.
Yeah, I’m a little bit evil with the blank piece of paper thing. At least some people enjoy having a blank canvas to play with, though!
The sad thing is that the conventions (at least the ones I’ve worked) seem to be rolling in money and the entry fees just keep climbing higher and higher. Yet somehow it doesn’t quite trickle down to all of their guests…
Happy Passover, btw!
yaaurens said this on March 30, 2013 at 4:56 am | Reply
Didn’t Ringo Starr stop signing autographs for that reason? He didn’t like how he’d sign something for free to be kind to an admirer, but the “admirer” was actually just someone who wanted his autograph so they could sell it on to ACTUAL fans for lots of profit. He didn’t want to see his fans screwed out of their hard-earned cash for the benefit autograph touts.
Also, giving cats prescription meds to help them get along?! That’s wrong on so many levels and, frankly, horrifies me. There are a number of natural things you can do to help them get along – including things that are 100% free, such as a proper introduction. Sure, it takes time, but medicating perfectly healthy animals is insane. 😦
Traxy said this on March 28, 2013 at 11:43 am | Reply
Although it’s not against the comment policy on the blog, Traxy, I would be grateful if you didn’t call friends of mine “insane.” They’re doing something their vet suggested to them, and I’m sure they have reasons. It’s also something a lot of people with pets do in the U.S., whether you like it or not.
We had to start giving one of our cats anti-anxiety meds when we traveled any distance because otherwise she’d become extremely ill–vomiting and extreme diarrhea, which stressed us ALL out, including our other pets. I hated having to do it, but it kept her from being horribly sick, and it was only used short-term. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.
I think it’s really hard to judge animals and people you don’t know and their decisions based on three sentences a third party writes about them over the Internet in a post that’s actually about something else. JMO.
I agree. I once was called a b*tch on my own blog for having outside animals as pets, the poster referencing something I wrote in the blurb about me at the bottom of each post. I think they were pissed off because I didn’t have nice things to say about 50 SoG but that reaction seemed a bit extreme and. in this case, had nothing to do with the post they were commenting upon, either.
I was talking about the practice of using drugs when it’s not needed being insane, not your friends, but fair enough.
Traxy said this on March 28, 2013 at 6:02 pm | Reply
the implied subject of your sentencing “giving … is wrong” was quite obviously “people,” which includes my friends.
Replied through email to not clog up comment section further.
Traxy said this on April 1, 2013 at 2:57 pm | Reply
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Daily B: The Official James Holden Remixes for "Breathe On Me"
|By Bradley Stern
It’s not often that I come across a Britney mix I haven’t heard, but when I do? OH! The sheer delight.
A few days ago, my friend Jonny of love:jonny sent over a remix I’d somehow never heard before: The James Holden vocal mix of the Steve Anderson-produced “Breathe On Me,” arguably my second favorite B song of all time.
The remix takes the throbbing trance perfection of the original and brings it to somewhat spookier new heights, stretching and distorting the singer’s sexy moans into lonesome cries on top of spaced-out synthesizers and bright flourishes of electronica. I’m utterly obsessed at the moment.
After a little e-snooping, the mix led to some intriguing info about the song–and yes, further confirmation that “Breathe On Me” was indeed intended to be a single off of 2003’s In The Zone.
James Holden was officially commissioned by Team Spears to mix the song back in 2004. According to a snippet he posted on his website back in July of 2004 however (just one month after Britney’s injury on the set of “Outrageous”), the single’s release was canceled:
the britney mixes i did recently.. it turns out “breathe on me” isnt going to be a single ever, so they’ll never be on vinyl. so they’re high bitrate mp3s from the original digital masters. i hope you enjoy them, it’d be a shame if noone ever got to hear them so this is the best i can do.
The article is no longer active on Holden’s website, and the site that re-blogged the information back in 2005 doesn’t have working links to the remixes. Luckily, they’re still circulating around the interwebz in glorious high quality, and I’m more than happy to share the wealth!
Along with the Vocal Mix, you’ll definitely want to nab the Dub Mix as well. Even though there’s hardly any vocals (aside from one signature Britney breath, the chorus line, and a few utterances of “baby”), it’s a slick, electro-glitchy affair that really compliments the original.
While “Breathe On Me” will never see the official single treatment it so rightfully deserved (one of the worst pop injustices of all time!), we can still cherish the memories of what might have been with these lush mixes.
I hope you love!
PS: Make sure to check out my interview with Mr. Anderson from earlier this summer in which he talks briefly about the experience of writing the track for B. Yay!
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EMINEM THREATENS TO RAPE IGGY AZALEA IN A VIOLENT NEW SONG TITLED VEGAS
Eminem often calls out celebrities in his rap songs, but he may have taken things a bit too far with his newest track, ‘Vegas,’ during which he threatens to rape Iggy Azalea. Read the disturbing lyrics here.
A one minute clip of Eminem ‘s new song “Vegas,” which is a part of his upcoming album Shady XV, was released on iTunes on Nov. 19. On the track, the 42-year-old Grammy-winning rapper targets Iggy Azalea , 24. The lyrics are quite disturbing.
Eminem’s New Song ‘Vegas’: Rapper Threatens To Rape Iggy Azalea
Is Eminem taking things too far? He raps in “Vegas”:
“So swallow my pride you’re lucky just to follow my ride.
If I let you run alongside the Humvee. Unless you’re Nicki, grab you by the wrist, let’s ski.
So what’s it gon’ be?
Put that shit away Iggy.
You don’t wanna blow that rape whistle on me.
Scream! I love it.
‘Fore I get lost with the gettin’ off.”
its especially akward because my 14 year old brother is the biggest eminem fan and now the artist he admired says he wants to rape me. nice!
— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) November 20, 2014
Wow. We know Eminem is known for his rather explicit lyrics (let’s not forget “Love the Way You Lie” with Rihanna), but he seems to be taking things way too far, and comes off as offensive, not just towards Iggy, but also women in general!
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THE SONG TITLED ‘KIM’ IS THE SICKEST WORK BY EMINEM A.K.A BRUCE MARSHALL MATHERS III AND I FUCKING LOVE IT !!!
“Kim” is a song by American rapper Eminem which appears on his 2000 album The Marshall Mathers LP. The song reflects intense anger and hatred toward Eminem’s then-wife Kim Mathers and features Eminem imitating her voice, and ends with Eminem killing Kim and placing her corpse into the trunk of his car. Eminem wrote this song, along with “’97 Bonnie & Clyde” (where Eminem and his daughter go to the lake to dispose of Kim’s dead body), at a time when he and Kim were having marital problems and Kim was preventing him from seeing his daughter Hailie.
On the clean version of The Marshall Mathers LP, this song is replaced by a clean version of “The Kids” (an unedited version can be found on the CD single of “The Way I Am”, the UK and deluxe editions of The Marshall Mathers LP).
Ever since they met in 1989, Eminem and Kimberly Anne “Kim” Scott have had an on-and-off relationship. They had a daughter together named Hailie Jade, who was born on Christmas Day 1995. The couple married in 1999 and divorced in 2001, later re-married in 2006 and divorced that same year. “Kim” is the second song by Eminem about Kim, the first being “’97 Bonnie & Clyde” from his major-label debut album The Slim Shady LP (1999). An instrumental version of the song is played at the start of the music video of “The Way I Am”.
Eminem is both emotional and aggressive throughout the entire song, as the song portrays him murdering Kim.[1] The song begins with Eminem in Kim’s home (after murdering her husband and her stepson). Eminem is talking calmly to their daughter, who is sleeping, and subsequently starts to shout verbal abuse at Kim, which remains a common element throughout the entire song. Eminem sings “So long, bitch you did me so wrong/I don’t want to go on living in this world without you” in the hook two times.
In the second verse, the setting changes to Eminem and Kim in a car. During the verse, he shouts “There’s a four year old little boy laying dead with a slit throat in your living room!”. In the album version of the song, the words “four” and “boy” are censored, because of the Columbine High School massacre and its reference to child murder. An uncensored, rare version of “Kim” was leaked into the internet, before the massacre and album release, which was titled “Bitch So Wrong”, which doesn’t censor the words “four” and “boy”, but has bad quality and is slightly different from the album version: It doesn’t have the intro and outro, smashes are not heard when he says “This couch, this TV, this whole house is mine”, the truck’s horn is different when he says “What the fuck’s this guy’s problem on the side of me?!”, and rustling is not heard in the woods when Kim is running away from Eminem. The chorus of the uncensored version is also different from the album version, with the album version echoing Eminem’s voice, the choruses sound different each time in the uncensored version, but the last chorus is similar to the choruses of the album version. The song continues with Eminem driving frantically through traffic, and stopping in the woods, where Kim tries to run away, but fails. The final verse ends with Eminem slitting Kim’s throat, while screaming “Bleed, bitch! Bleed!”. The song then ends in a prolonged outro during which the listener can hear a skit called “Mommy”, which was released on The Slim Shady EP, which was placed before “Just the Two of Us”. The skit includes sounds of a dead body being dragged through the grass and thrown into the trunk of a car. This same skit is played as the beginning of “97′ Bonnie & Clyde” (a later remastered version of “Just the Two of Us” from The Slim Shady EP), indicating the association between the two songs and the direct chronology of events.
The Rolling Stone album review of The Marshall Mathers LP stated that:
Things degenerate from there into the mountain of bile reserved for Kim, the mother of his baby and the star of the world’s most public ongoing murder fantasy […] ‘Kim’ has Eminem screaming at his ex in an insane stream-of-consciousness hate spew. There’s little humor to blunt the shock of the hellbent animosity of ‘Kim.’ What makes it powerful is that, of course, he doesn’t just hate her. It’s the most harrowing sick-love song since Guns N’ Roses’ ‘Used to Love Her.'[2]
While Entertainment Weekly wrote that:
‘Kim’, a prequel to ’97 Bonnie and Clyde’ is a shout-rapped enactment of domestic violence so real it chills… ‘Stan’ and ‘Kim’ blaze significant new ground for rap.
Complex ranked “Kim” at #21 on their list of the 25 most violent rap songs of all time[4] and at #4 on their list of the 25 most depressing rap songs.
1. “Superman”
Good Lordy whoadie, you must be gone off that water bottle
You want what you can’t have, ooh girl that’s too damn bad
Don’t touch what you can’t grab, end up with two backhands
Put anthrax on a Tampax, and slap you ’til you can’t stand
Girl you just blew your chance, don’t mean to ruin your plans.
2. “My Name Is”
My English teacher wanted to flunk me in Junior High
Thanks a lot, next semester I’ll be thirty-five
I smacked him in his face with an eraser, chased him with a stapler
And stapled his nuts to a stack of papers
Walked in the strip club, had my jacket zipped up
Flashed the bartender, then stuck my dick in her tip cup.
3. “Just Lose It”
I get a little bit out of control with my rhymes
Good God, dip, do a little slide
Bend down, touch your toes and just glide
Up the center of the dance floor
Like TP for my bunghole.
4. “The Real Slim Shady”
It’s funny; cause at the rate I’m going when I’m thirty
I’ll be the only person in the nursing home flirting
Pinching nurses asses when I’m jacking off with Jergens
And I’m jerkin but this whole bag of Viagra isn’t working
And every single person is a Slim Shady lurking
He could be working at Burger King, spitting on your onion rings
Or in the parking lot, circling
Screaming “I don’t give a fuck!”
5. “Brain Damage”
Way before my baby daughter Hailey
I was harassed daily by this fat kid named D’Angelo Bailey
An eighth grader who acted obnoxious, cause his father boxes
so everyday he’d shove me in the lockers
One day he came in the bathroom while I was pissin
And had me in the position to beat me into submission
He banged my head against the urinal til he broke my nose,
Soaked my clothes in blood, grabbed me and choked my throat.
6. “Still Don’t Give a Fuck”
I walked into a gunfight with a knife to kill you
And cut you so fast when your blood spilled it was still blue
I’ll hang you til you dangle and chain you with both ankles
And pull you apart from both angles
I wanna crush your skull til your brains leaks out of your veins
And bust open like broken water mains.
7. “Insane”
Don’t you know what felch means? (yeah), well then tell me would you rather get felched or do the felching
Fuck him in the ass, suck the cum out while you’re belching
Burp, belch, then go back for a second helping Can you dig what I’m sayin’ man, can you smell me?
I want you to feel me like my stepfather felt me.
8. “I’m Shady”
I just wanna make a few things clear
My baby mama’s not dead she’s still alive and bitchin’
And I don’t have herpes, my dick’s just itchin’
It’s not syphilis, and as for being AIDS infested
I don’t know yet, I’m too scared to get tested.
9. “Role Model”
I came to the club drunk with a fake ID
Don’t you wanna grow up to be just like me!
I’ve been with 10 women who got HIV
Now don’t you wanna grow up to be just like me!
I got genital warts and it burns when I pee
I tie a rope around my penis and jump from a tree
You probably wanna grow up to be just like me!
10. “Shit On You”
I’ll Shit On You! I’ll spit on you
Start pissing and do the opposite on you
You weren’t listening, I said I’ll cop a squat on you
Start spilling my guts like chicken cordon blew and
Straight shit like Notorious B.I.G. did to that bitch
on his skit on his last album
Pull my pants down and…
You may also want to read Eminem’s Sickest Lyrics :
https://mynameisemmanuelmuema.wordpress.com/2013/12/17/the-sickest-lyrics-by-eminem/
EMINEM SPITS 100 WORDS IN 15 SECONDS PROVING THAT HE IS THE FASTEST RAPPER IN THE WORLD !!!
Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), better known by his stage name Eminem and by his alter ego Slim Shady, is an American rapper, record producer, songwriter, and actor. Eminem is the best-selling artist of the 2000’s in the United States. Eminem is truly talented and this can be proven by listening to his longest song from his latest album Marshall Mathers LP 2 where he spits 100 words in 15 seconds. Here are the lyrics he spit at an unbelievable speed.
“Lyrics coming at you at supersonic speed,
Uh, summa lumma dooma lumma you assuming I’m a human
What I gotta do to get it through to you I’m superhuman
Innovative and I’m made of rubber,
so that anything you say is
Ricochetin off a me and it’ll glue to you
And I’m devastating more than ever demonstrating
How to give a motherfuckin’ audience a feeling like it’s levitating
Never fading, and I know that haters are forever waiting
For the day that they can say I fell off, they’ll be celebrating
‘Cause I know the way to get ’em
I make elevating music
You make elevator music ”
THE SICKEST LYRICS BY EMINEM
Hey peeps, here are the most disturbing lyrics I have heard from Eminem…
All these fans screamin’ is makin’ my ears ring (Ah!) So I just, throw up a middle finger and let it linger
Longer than the rumor that I was stickin’ it to Christina
Cause if I ever stuck it to any singer in showbiz
It’d be Jennifer Lopez, and Puffy you know this!
I’m sorry Puff, but I don’t give a fuck if this chick was my own mother
I still fuck her with no rubber and cum inside her
And have a son and a new brother at the same time
And just say that it ain’t mine, what’s my name?
From the song I’M BACK.
Fe-fi-fo-fum, I think I smell the scent of a placenta
I enter Central Park, it’s dark; it’s Winter in December
I see my target, put my car in park and approach a tender
Young girl by the name of Brenda and I pretend to befriend her
Sit down beside her like a spider, hi there girl, you mighta
Heard of me before, see whore, you’re the kind of girl that I’d assault
And rape then figure why not try not to make your pussy wider?
Fuck you with an umbrella, then open it up while the shit’s inside ya
I’m the kinda guy that’s mild but I might flip and get a little bit wilder
Impregnate a lesbian, yeah, now let’s see her have triplets and I’ll disintegrate them babies as soon as they’re out her with formaldehyde and cyanide, girl you can try and hide,
you can try to scream louder
No need for no gunpowder, that only takes all the fun outta murder and I’d rather go “vinn-vinn!” and now
you see just how the
Fuck I do just what I do when I cut right through your scalp
Shit, wait a minute I mean skull, my knife seems dull, pull another one out”
From the song STAY WIDE AWAKE.
I was born with a dick in my brain, yeah fucked in the head
My stepfather said that I sucked in the bed ‘Til one night he snuck in and said
We’re going out back, I want my dick sucked in the shed
Can’t we just play with Teddy Ruxbin instead?
After I fuck you in the butt, get
some head Bust a nut, get some rest
The next day my mother said “I don’t know what the fuck’s up with this kid!
The bastard won’t even eat nothing he’s fed
He just hung himself in the bedroom he’s dead”
“Debbie don’t let that fucker get you upset
Go in there, stick a fuckin’ cigarette to his neck I bet you he’s fakin’ it,
I bet you I bet he probably just wants to see how upset you would get I’ll go handle this of course, unless you object”
“Ah go fuck his brains out, if any’s left in his head”
Don’t you know what felch means?
(yeah),
well then tell me
Would you rather get felched or do the felching
Burp, belch, then go back for a
second helping
Can you dig what
I’m sayin’ man, can you smell me?
I want you to feel me like my stepfather felt me
Fuck a little puppy, kick the puppy while he’s yelping “Shady what the fuck you saying?”
I don’t know help me! What the
fuck’s happening, I think I’m fucking melting
“Marshall I just love you boy, I care about your well being”
No Dad, I said no, I don’t need no help peeing I’m a big boy, I can do it by myself see
I only get naked when the baby
sitter tells me She showed me a
movie like “Nightmare on Elm Street”
But it was X, and they called it
“Pubic Hair on Chelsea”
“Well this is called ass rape, and
we’re shooting the jail scene”
From the song INSANE.
I keep them feelings locked in a vault
So it’s safe to say I’m uncrackable
My heart is truly guarded, full body armor
Bitch you just need a helmet because if you think you’re special, you’re retarded.
Thinkin you’re one of a kind, like you got some platinum vagina, you’re a train wreck, I got a one track mind
Shorty you’re fine but you sort of remind me of a 49er
Cause you been a gold digger since you were a minor
Been tryina, hunt me down like a
dog, cause you’re on my ass
But you can’t get a scent because
all of my spare time is spent.
From the song ASSHOLE.
Craziness at its best
This is my best song as of now. Em has got huge talent. It takes a whole lot to rap as FAST and as AUDIBLY as he does in this verse from The Marshall Mathers LP 2 ( Eminem’s 2013 album)
“And I just bought a new Raygun from the future
Just to come and shoot ya
Like when Fabolous made Ray J mad
Cause Fab said he looked like a fag
At Maywhether’s pad singin’ to a man
While they played piano
Man, oh man, that was a 24/7 special
On the cable channel
So Ray J went straight to the radio station the very next day “Hey, Fab, I’mma kill you”
(JJ Fad)
Innovative and I’m made of rubber, so that anything you say is ricocheting off of me and it’ll glue to you
For the day that they can say I fell off, they’d be celebrating Cause I know the way to get ’em motivated
You make elevator music
Oh, he’s too mainstream
Well, that’s what they do
When they get jealous, they confuse it
It’s not hip hop, it’s pop
Cause I found a hella way to fuse it
With rock, shock rap with Doc Throw on Lose Yourself and make ’em lose it.”
From the song RAP GOD.
“Yo Sue!”
Get away from me, I don’t know you
Oh shoot, she’s tripping…
I need to go puke!! (Bleahh!)
I wasn’t tryin to turn this into somethin major I just wanted to make you appreciate nature.
Susan stop crying i don’t hate ya, the world’s not against you I’m sorry your father raped ya. So what, you had your coochie in your dad’s mouth.
That’s no reason to start wiggin and spaz out.
She said, “Help me I think I’m having a seisure!”
I said “I’m high too (bitch) Quit grabbin my T-shirt (let go!)
Would you calm down you’re startin to scare me.
She said ” I’m twenty-six years old and I’m not married. I don’t have any kids and I can’t cook”
I’m over here Sue, (hi) you’re talkin to the plant, look!
We need to get to a hospital ‘fore it’s too late
Cause I never seen no-one eat as many shrooms as you ate.
From the song MY FAULT.
[Announcer]
Meet Grady, a twenty-nine year old construction worker.
After coming home from a hard day’s work, he walks in the door of his trailer park home to find his wife in bed with another man.
(“WHAT THE FUCK?!?!”) (“Grady!!”)
[Dr. Dre]
Alright calm down, relax, start breathin..
[Eminem]
Fuck that shit, you just caught this bitch cheatin
While you at work she’s with some dude tryin to get off?!
FUCK slittin her throat, CUT THIS BITCH’S HEAD OFF!!!
Wait! What if there’s an explanation for this shit?
(What? She tripped? Fell? Landed on his dick?!)
Alright Shady, maybe he’s right Grady but think about the baby before you get all crazy
Okay! Thought about it, still wanna stab her?
Grab her by the throat, get your daughter and kidnap her?
That’s what I did, be smart, don’t be a retard
You gonna take advice from somebody who slapped Dee Barness?!
What’chu say? (What’s wrong? Didn’t think I’d remember?) I’ma kill you motherfucker!
Uhhh-aahh! Temper temper! Mr. Dre? Mr. N.W.A.? Mr. AK comin’ straight outta
Compton y’all better make way? .How in the fuck you gonna tell this man not to be violent?
Cause he don’t need to go the same route that I went
Been there, done that.. aw fuck it…What am I sayin? Shoot em both Grady, where’s your gun at?
[gun fires, is cocked, and re-fired]
From the song GUILTY CONSCIENCE.
Dressed like a sailor, standing by a pile of garbage
It’s almost dark and I’m still tryna nail a trailor park bitch
I met a slut and said “What up, it’s nice to meet ya”
I’d like to treat ya to a Faygo and a slice of pizza
But I’m broke as fuck and I don’t get paid till the first of next month
But if you care to join me, I was bout to roll this next blunt
But I ain’t got no weed, no phillies, or no papers
Plus I’m a rapist and a repeated prison escapist
So gimme all your money
And don’t try nothing funny Cause you know your stinking ass is too fat to try to outrun me I went to grab my gun
That’s when her ass put it on me With an uppercut and hit me with a basket of laundry
I fell through the glass doors Started causing a scene
Then slid across the floor and flew right into a washing machine
Jumped up with a broken back
Thank God I was smocking crack all day
And doped up off coke and smack
All I wanted to do was rape the bitch and snatch her purse
Now I wanna kill her
But so I gotta catch her first
Ran through Rally’s parkin lot and took a shortcut
Saw the house she ran up in
And shot her fucking porch up Kicked the door down to murder this divorced slut
Looked around the room
That’s when I seen the bedroom door shut
I know you’re in there bitch! I got my gun cocked!
You might as well come out now
She said “Come in, its unlocked!”
I walked in and all I smelled was Liz Claiborne
And seen her spread across the bed naked watching gay porn
She said “Come her big boy, lets get acquainted”
I turned around to run, twisted my ankle and sprained it
She came at me at full speed, nothing could stop her I shot her five times and every bullet bounced off her
I started to beg “No, please let go”
But she swallowed my fucking leg whole like an egg roll
With one leg left, now I’m hoppin around crippled
I grabbed my pocket knife and sliced off her right nipple
Just trying to buy me some time then I remembered this magic trick
Den Den Den Den Den Den, Go go gadget dick!
Whipped that shit out, and ain’t no doubt about it
It hit the ground and caused an earthquake and power outage
I shouted “Now bitch, lets see who gets the best!”
Stuffed that shit in crooked and fucked that fat slut to death (Ah!! Ah!)
Come here bitch!
Come here!
Take this motherfucking dick!
Bitch, come here!
From the song AS THE WORLD TURNS.
Yo.. Slim Shady!
Yo.. I’ll fuckin.. I’ll..
I’ll puke, eat it, and freak you (eww)
Battle? I’m too weeded to speak to
The only key that I see to defeat you would be for me to remove these two Adidas and beat you and force feed you ’em both, and on each feet is a cleat shoe
I’ll lift you off your feet so fast with a roundhouse you’ll think I pulled the fuckin ground out from underneath you
(Bitch!) I ain’t no fuckin G, I’m a
I ain’t tryin to shoot you,
I’m tryin to chop you into pieces and eat you
Wrap you in rope and plastic,stab you with broken glass and have you with open gashes strapped to a soakin mattress
Coke and acid, black magic, cloaks and daggers (ahhh!)
Fuck the planet, until it spins on a broken axis
I’m so bananas I’m showin up to your open casket to fill it full of explosive gasses and close it back with a lit match in it while I sit back and just hope it catches
Blow you to fragments
Laugh, roll you and smoke the ashes.
From the song HELLBOUND.
Guess it’s time for me to get the dust off and pick myself up off the carpet
But I’ll never say the L-word again, I L-L-L-L… Lesbian
Ahh, I hope you hear this song and go into a cardiac arrest
My life would be so much better if you just dropped dead.
“I got 99 problems and a bitch ain’t one”
She’s all 99 of ’em; I need a
I take ’em all out; I hope you hear this song and go into a cardiac arrest
Have a heart attack and just drop dead
And I’mma throw a fucking party after this, cause YES,
My life will be so much better
If you just dropped dead
I was laying in bed last night thinking
And this thought just popped in my head
And I thought, wouldn’t shit just be a lot easier
If you dropped dead
I would feel so much better.
From the song SO MUCH BETTER.
IM GONNA BE ADDING MORE SICK TWISTED LYRICS TO THIS POST EVERY DAY SO STAY TUNED AND ALERT…
Thank you all for granting me 40,000 VIEWS
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Onboard Coronavirus Outbreak Forces Coast Guard Cutter Stratton to Return Home to California
The Coast Guard cutter Stratton, seen here in 2011, returned to its homeport in Alameda, Calif., Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020, after 11 crew members tested positive for the coronavirus. (Patrick Kelley/U.S. Coast Guard)
Stars and Stripes | By Caitlin Doornbos
The Coast Guard cutter Stratton on Wednesday cut short its counter-narcotics patrol in the Eastern Pacific after 11 crew members tested positive for coronavirus, the service said in a statement Thursday.
The Stratton returned to its homeport in Alameda, Calif., three weeks after leaving for patrol Oct. 28 and after several crew members began showing virus symptoms Nov. 11-12, according to the Coast Guard.
Ill crew members were given rapid coronavirus tests and quarantined on board until returning home. They "reported mild symptoms and are receiving medical care," according to the statement.
Once at Alameda, medical staff tested the cutter's entire crew, which then went into quarantine, the Coast Guard said.
"The crew's health and safety is my highest priority," the Stratton's commander, Capt. Bob Little, said in the statement. "Stratton has a highly resilient crew, always dedicated to the mission. Our mission today is to get healthy so we can continue our service to the nation."
It remained unclear Wednesday how the virus made it on board. The crew had undergone self-quarantines last month and had to pass two coronavirus tests before getting underway, according to the statement.
The Coast Guard did not say when the Stratton plans to return to sea. The 4,600-ton cutter can accommodate a crew of up to 170, according to the service.
"We continue to perform all statutory missions while taking the necessary precautions to protect our members and the public," U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Area commander Vice Adm. Linda Fagan said in the statement.
"We are committed to maintaining our operational readiness and will continue to perform critical missions that protect our national interests, promote economic prosperity and ensure public safety," she added.
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Ryan Detert: "A.I. can solve the influencer marketing problem"
Ah, influencer marketing, that vague term that implies a person's importance, or connection to an important person. Influencers are anyone that can attract a substantial following—so if that person is interested in your product or service, they can "influence" their following to do the same. By providing targeted exposure to an already engaged follower base, influencers have now become the holy grail for brands in a world of ad blockers and skeptical consumers.
Influencer marketing grew out of the more quirky, obscure corners of the internet. Six years ago, Ryan Detert was a digital comedian, creating parody Twitter accounts. He unintentionally fell into the world of influencer marketing when he clocked his substantial amount of followers, "I had 30 million followers on Twitter and Instagram from my parody accounts of President Obama, Buddha, and Santa Claus. These accounts, sometimes overnight, attracted thousands of new followers."
I had 30 million followers, but you couldn’t sell a parody Barack Obama Twitter account to brands
But, back in the early days, Detert struggled to monetize his following, "I couldn’t make any money from these accounts. You couldn’t sell a parody Barack Obama Twitter account to brands."
Detert pursued the potential he saw in using accounts to market to consumers. He started verticalizing niche handles like @Travel @Automotive and @FashionandStyle, building up millions of followers, and selling his posts to brands. These were the early origins of influencer marketing; when money was slowly-but-surely becoming invested in influence potential. Fast-forward to today and there is a different story. Influencer marketing is a now a million dollar industry, predicted to be a $5-$10 billion dollar market in the next 5 years. It’s no longer difficult to persuade brands to invest in a pre-packaged audience, they are spending huge money on influencers such as teenage vloggers to endorse their product.
Influencers come with a steep price tag, but how can brands determine their ROI?
The problem with this is that no accountability and little transparency to ensure results. Influencers come with a steep price tag, but how can you determine their ROI? If you invest one million in a YouTube star, how can you be certain of their worth?
Detert saw the potential of artificial intelligence as the solution to this epidemic. "You need technology to be able control brand safety, validate the delivery of the media and target the right consumer base."
His company, Influential, is a data-first influencer marketing and artificial intelligence technology platform that democratically matches brands with influencers based on demographics, psychographics, and contextual relevance.
You will look for things demographically, contextually and psychographically to target the best possible individuals to speak on your behalf.
The platform uses IBM Watson personality insights to analyze language used on social media to determine which influencers exhibit the personality traits desired by a brand. Detert is optimistic about A.I.’s potential to solve the influencer marketing problem, "Human perception plus machine learning equals the best possible results. To find the best influencers you will look for things demographically, contextually and psychographically to target the best possible individuals to speak on your behalf."
Influencer marketing and artificial intelligence are two of the most over-hyped and over-used buzzwords in the world of marketing right now. With all the talk about chatbots, real-time personalization and automated data mining, in the marketing industry alone, A.I. is worshipped as the cure-all for its problems. But when it comes to influencer marketing A.I., might just be its solution, and its future.
For Detert, using A.I. for influencer marketing campaigns is a no-brainer.
"Why would you spend money on TV and radio when there's now a place where you can micro-target consumers and amplify reach at the same time?"
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V 5 N. 123 End of Another Year
Roy , Steve , and George
outside the Silver Bar, Franklin, Ohio April, 1998
We're better looking now in 2016
Hello to all of our loyal and first time readers. It's been a three week dry spell with postings on the blog. I just hit a streak of laziness, I do confess. Anyway we hope to pick it up in the New Year which will be the start of our 7th year of this 'hobby'. It has become a big part of our lives. If we were a business we might be feeling a bit worried as our readershp is down by almost 30% from last year at this time when we peaked at 10,000 hits per month to around 7,000 this month. Heads would be rolling in corporate America. Some have suggested the average age of our readers may account for this. They're dieing off or going to nursing homes. Say it isn't so. Anyway rest assured we will plod on trying to keep pace with fifty year old issues of Track and Field News. TF&N doesn't seem to be offended by our use of their works, so we will keep at it, although we think we may stop when we reach 1970 (four years from now).
Roy decides what will be covered in each of those old issues. We obviously can't review everything. He writes the synopsis in Ukiah, CA, sends it to be proof read in Piqua, OH by our mutual friend Steve Price, then it is sent to me on Vancouver Island, BC to do photo searches, editing and posting onto the blog. The photo searches tend to turn up other stories and incidents to add to Roy's and Steve's work and out of it comes Once Upon A Time in the Vest in its various and sundry formats. This year I see we've posted 123 entries. In July we were honored by the Track and Field Writers of America as the best Track and Field Blog of 2015. This was entirely unexpected as were were neither aware of the organization or their annual award, but we will continue to do our best to serve track and field readers who remember those times and those who want to learn something about the period.
Interestingly our troikaesque relationship began about 1984. Roy and Steve had known each other in the club coaching world of track and field from the late 1970s. Roy coached a very successful high school runner Debbie Heald who held the national high school indoor mile record in 1972 until it was broken only two years ago by Mary Cain. Steve had for years coached the Kettering Striders in Ohio and then went on to the collegiate ranks at U. of Dayton, Bowling Green , and currently University of Findlay, all in Ohio. In 1984 Steve got a coaching gig in Bahrain in the Persian Gulf and wrote regularly to both Roy and me. At that time I was teaching in Zimbabwe for a few years when we met in Dayton, OH my hometown. I had been a so so miler at the U. of Oklahoma. So Steve started forwarding Roy's letters to me, and we began circulating all our letters between the three of us. I finally met Roy about 1987 in Montreal after we had returned from Africa, and then once more when my family were on our way to Beijing for a one year teaching contract in 1988. We continued our correspondences often via cassette recordings which became more popular than letters for several years.
I started a small blog in the 90s about U. of Oklahoma track and field alums of the 1950s and 60s and played with that for several years with the help of a cyber astute cousin living in South Korea.
Then one day in 2008, Roy sent me his first synopsis of a couple of TF&Ns from 1952 and 1953
To see this initial posting, go to the right side of your screen and begin scrolling down , down, down, to the first posting Vol. 1 No. 1.
The rest is blog history now on our 494th posting.
In these six years we've met, written to , or talked to a lot of nice people including three wonderful fellow bloggers, John Cobley, David Baskwill, and Gary Corbitt. The non-bloggers include Pete Brown, who keeps us supplied with missing TF&N issues, Earl Young, Ernie Cunliffe, Jim Allen, Jeff Allen, Dick Trace, Bruce Kritzler, Steve Price, Geoff Williams, Les Hegedus, John Lawler, Bill Schnier, Susan Asuaba, Phil Scott, David Rapp, Steve Fisher, Dennis Kavanaugh, Bill Flint, Michael Solomon, Neville Soll, John Lawson, Gail Hodgson, Marti Liquori, Jerry McFadden, David Costill, Bill Blewett, Bill Fink, Arjan Gelling, Bill Dellinger, Rick Lower, Leif Bugge, Bob Tague, Ray Wyatt, Bill Dotson, John Bork Jr., Paul O'Shea, Grace Butcher, Rene Mathison, Web Laudat, Jim Perry, John Perry, Jim Metcalf, Al Lawrence, Billy Mills, Tom Murphy,Bill Stone, Bob Roncker, Bob Schul, Bill Jacobs, Walt Mizell, Bruce Yerman, Chuck Frawley, Dan Laquerre, David Bailey, , David Webb, Dick Daymont, Gary Wilson, Dixon Farmer, Eric Tweit, Scott Epperson, J.D. Martin, Jeff Lucas, Jeremy Mosher, Jared Ashmore, Joe Swanson, Jose Sant, Kara Storage, Tara Storage, L.J. Cohen, Lars McGee, Lefty Martin, Matt Farmer, Michael Reneau, Orville Atkins, Pat Moran, Paul Ebert, Preston Davis, Rich Elliot, Rich Davis, Billy and Ras Calhoun, Ray Olfky, John Wilderman, Ricardo Romo, Richard Mach, Sheppard Miers, Stephen Morelock, Sylvia Gleason, John Coyne, Thomas Coyne, Tim Tubb, Tom Trumpler, Lee Smith, Woody Young, and John Mitchell.
All the best for a safe, healthy, and prosperous New Year
George and Roy
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V 5 N. 122 The 1948 Olympic Silver Medalist in 110 HH and the 1949 Little Rose Bowl. What's the Connection?
A few days ago, our friend Pete Brown sent me this query. Even though this is a track and field blog, we reserve the right to drift occasionally from the cinders and forest paths and write about the lesser sport of 'college football' when there is a track connection.
Backstory: Clyde “Smackover” Scott from Smackover, AR
http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2761
Note: he won a SILVER medal in the 1948 OG in the 110 meter hurdles. Track was a mere afterthought to Clyde Scott who was a famous football player. He had a younger brother who was tiny and attended Little Rock JC.
This leads us to the infamous JUNIOR ROSE BOWL game which started in 1946 and eventually morphed into the Pasadena Bowl. It pitted the strongest JC from California vs. the strongest JC team from the rest of the nation. I attended at least five of those games in the first half of the decade of the 1950’s. One of the highlights I saw on TV in 1949 (as I recall) when Little Rock JC beat Santa Ana JC 25-19. I was age ten at the time. If memory serves me right, a kid from Little Rock JC fielded a punt in the fourth quarter on about his own 40 yard line and ran backwards from sideline to sideline all the way back to about his 5 yard line. His team finally set up a wall and he ran forwards something like 95 yards for a TD which won the game for his team. The big news stories were his weight (130lbs +-) and his brother being a silver medal winner in the hurdles in the London OG the year before.
Any info anyone can provide on this incident would be highly appreciated. The hurdler brother was the famous Clyde “Smackover” Scott of Arkansas. I cannot remember the first name of the Scott fellow who fielded the punt and ran for the long TD. It was a big deal in the Pasadena Star News, I remember that. The sports editor was Rube Samuelson in those days.
PS---A few years later Kilgore JC showed up with a chorus line of “Rangerettes” who were a Texas version of the Rockettes---that was another highlight; I was agog.
Clyde 'Smackover' Scott' (14.0), William Porter (13.9), Craig Dixon (14.1)
Pete;,
This is probably Smackover on the left. Isn't there an equivalent in Oklahoma, called Slapout? Want me to put this piece on the blog? It's a good read. And somebody might remember the brother's name.
Might be some old Pasadena Star News online with the story. When did the Junior Rose Bowl die?
I think Lawton JC in Oklahoma may have played in that about 1961 with Joe Don Looney who then transferred to Oklahoma. Bud Wilkinson's first JC transfer after which he said , 'never again'. Joe Don was a 230 pound full back who led the nation in punting. He ran a hand timed 9.7 100 yards and could squat 600 pounds. One of the earlier football players who was into weight training. You'll remember Billy Cannon at LSU was also one of the early lifters who was a football All American and a decent sprinter and 56 foot shot putter. Joe Don didn't have a lot of respect for authority and was eventually kicked off the Oklahoma football team. He ran track with us in 1963 and drew a big crowd when he and Gayle Sayers were paired off in a 60 yards in the OU Kansas indoor dual meet. Sayers clean house. After that race early in the meet the crowd all left as the meet went on for another hour or so.
One of the reasons the picture above is possible is the picture just below. It shows Harrison Dillard pulling up on a hurdle in the Olympic Trials and not qualifying. Dillard was a 'sure thing' to make it in the hurdles. Nevertheless he qualified in the 100 meters and went on to win the gold medal in that event in London.
From Life in Sports 1985 edited by Richard Whittingham
Wallace Kirkland photographer
Four years later in 1952 Olympic Trials, Craig Dixon would hit the deck and Dillard would win the trials and go
on to a gold medal at Helsinki to add to his 100 meters gold. Photo provided by Pete Brown.
Pete,
If you look at this video at the 18:10 mark, you will see the punt and the runback by Benny Scott.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWb1-vZJTQY Also, this article mentions it—about half way down: http://www.aymag.com/historical-gems-little-rocks-junior-rose-bowl-champions/
I didn’t realize there was a Little Rock JC. Eventually it became Little Rock University. Jon Epperson and I went to a basketball game there once. And, I took a college course there while I was in the AF there. Now, it is University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Dennis Kavanaugh
Smackover Scott at Arkansas
Smackover played two years at the Naval Academy in 1944 and 45, but transferred on to Arkansas after he escorted the reigning Miss Arkansas around the Academy during a publicity visit. He ended up marrying her and transferring to Arkansas for another three years of eligibility. That was quite common during and after the war as the eliigibility rules were relaxed, and some guys were able to parlay up to six seasons of playing time. You can see in this youtube clip that he had some great wheels.
Clyde Smackover Scott
Thanks to Dennis and George. Given I was 11 years old in 1949 and I’m 76 now my memory wasn’t too bad. Little Benny Scott was about 5’6” and weighed about 135 soaking wet. They said he covered 135 yards all told in his famous runback of a Santa Ana JC punt. He did not go back as far as his 5 yard line however---caught it on the 40 and circled back to the 15 before he turned upfield. Everybody was talking about it for days. I had to go the neighbor’s house to see it as we did not have a TV until three years later.
The final game in the series was in the mid-1970’s. It lasted on and off for about 25 years.
Benny’s brother Clyde Scott got the silver medal in the London OG high hurdles timed in 14.1. William Porter of the US got the gold in 13.9.
V 5 N. 121 December , 1965
The collegiate cross country season is over. The indoor season hasn't begun. What would seem like a dearth of competition is saved by those wild and crazy guys in New Zealand who have their track season in November and December.
But before we take you down under, we would be amiss were we not to mention the last two US cross country meets of the season. The AAU and the USTFF have struck a bargain permitting unrestricted participation in all US meets. Collegiate athletes are free to run in AAU meets. But not this year as this agreement came about three weeks after the AAU and USTFF meets and even if it had been earlier, doubling would have been tough as the meets were held on the same day, Nov. 27, in New York and Wichita.
John Lawson puts the cherry on top of his seasonal sundae in the USTFF meet. He adds this gold medal to those of the Big Eight, Central Collegiate and NCAA meets which currently occupy his sock drawer. Southern Illinois' Oscar Moore shows no fear as he goes out hard, building up an 80 yard lead in the first two miles of the six mile race. There is a fine line between courageous and fool-hearty as Oscar discovers in the third mile when Lawson begins to reel him in.
Oscar Moore
The dual ends not with a bang but a whimper as the Kansas senior makes his move and assumes a 100 yard lead by the end of the fourth mile. From that point the question isn't who will win, but by how much. Lawson's final 200 yard margin, 28:51 to 29:25, almost allows him to put his sweats on and sign autographs before Moore finishes. Oscar has enough left in the tank to hold off NCAA six mile champ, Doug Brown of Montana, by eight seconds. Thirty-two seconds later Kansas freshman Jim Ryun crosses the finish line in fourth. The University of Kansas team is running as the Jayhawk Track Club so that Ryun, ineligible for the NCAA meet as a freshman, might be included. They take the team title easily, 38-65-69 over the Houston TC and Southern Illinois.
Ron Larrieu
The last three AAU championships have been won by Mihaly Igloi's LATC , now disbanded. This doesn't stop Ron Larrieu, still coached by Igloi, from dominating the field for his first AAU championship. He is out early with Canadian Dave Ellis, Bill Morgan and Eamon O'Reilly. O'Reilly drops off at two miles. The remaining three stay together as they disappear behind Cemetery Hill on the Van Cortlandt Park course. With a mile and a half remaining, Larrieu makes his move on the course's steepest hill. Any doubt as to the winner is removed in seconds. Larrieu's time, 31:12, is 24 seconds off Bruce Kidd's course record, but is excellent for the muddy conditions. Ellis and Morgan are runner ups in 31:40 and 31:50.
But the big news awaits us in New Zealand where Kip Keino and Jurgen May are enjoying the mild weather of the southern hemisphere. The headline in the September issue of Track and Field News proclaimed “1965 World Mile to 10,000 Record Revision Complete”. Not so fast, Cordner and Bert, we got one more coming.
In Auckland on Nov. 27 Keino warms up with a solo 3:41.9 1500. The big one comes on the same track three days later. Running alone after the first 120 yards, Keino is on a mission, one that ends with a 5000 meter world record, 13:24.2, clipping 1.6 seconds off Ron Clarke's mark. His half mile splits are given as 2:06.5, 4:16.0 (2:09.5), 6:28.7 (2:12.7), 8:33.8 (2:05.1), 10:47.0 (2:13.2) and 12:58.4 (2:11.4). His three mile time is only the second ever under 13 minutes (Clark 12:52.4).
Ed note: Our more astute readers may notice a discrepancy in those splits. He ran his fastest split in the middle of the race? No one was with him – Bill Baillie was second in 14:01.2 - so there was no one he was trying to drop. There is no mention of a quickened pace. Hmmm. What if there was a misprint and the two mile mark was hit in the typographically similar 8:38.3? That would make the fourth half mile 2:09.6 and the fifth half mile 2:08.7. The error would have to have been made on the Auckland end of the communication, as T&F News made a point of the two mile time being 8:33.2, 6.8 seconds faster than Clark's split in his record race. Something for the more insightful among us to ponder.
Keino says he could have gone faster if he had someone with him but that this is the fastest track he has ever run on.
Jurgen May doesn't experience the same warm, cuddly New Zealand welcome as Keino. He loses the mile to John Davies 3:59.0 to 3:59.1.
On Dec. 4 there is a meet in Napier which Keino and May attend. May takes the half easily in 1:48.9. Keino once again has no significant opposition and soldiers on by himself to a 3:56.9 mile.
Kipchoge Keino
Jurgen May
Dec. 6 finds the two visitors in Tokoroa where Keino displays admirable consistency, cranking off another 3:56.9 to defeat Davies, 4:01.0. May strides through an unpressed half in 1:49.7. Two days later in Hamilton, Keino, suffering from a lack of competition, runs 3000 in 7:50.4, 10.8 seconds off his world record. It appears that he will have no significant competition on this tour.
That assumption would be wrong. On December 11 on the 386 yard grass track in Wanganui, the site of Peter Snell's first mile world record, he tangles with May over 4.56 laps, yep, a mile. Maybe May can push Keino to the record. Keino welcomes the challenge. He leads through the quarters in 56.4, 1:55.6 (59.2) and 2:54.9 (59.3) with May close. The penultimate furlong goes off in 29.6 (3:24.5). The record, 3:53.6, is within range. But so is May who is now on his shoulder. As they enter the final straight May's 1:46.3 800 speed comes into play. Keino can't hold him off. May blows by enroute to the second fastest mile ever run. His 3:53.8 misses Jazy's WR by two tenths. Keino has to settle for 3:54.9.
Their last meeting comes four days later in Auckland with similar results. Keino tries to shake May but succumbs with 40 yards left, 3:54.1 to 3:54.4. Merry Christmas, Michael Jazy. Your present is getting to keep your record.
Our next report will take you inside for the start of the 1966 indoor season. Stay tuned.
V 5 N. 120 Stanford's Top Running Back Has a Great Lineage - Dave Sime
Rome 1960 100 Meters Final
Hary 1st, Radford 3rd, Figueroa 4th, Budd 5th, Norton 6th, Sime 2nd
Subject: Christian McCaffrey's (Stanford All American running back) grandaddy
Just found out this morning that Christian McCaffrey's maternal grandfather is Dave Sime. Kinda gives the kid a leg up on the rest of the world. Roy
The following article appeared recently in Newsweek discussing the incredible athletic heritage of Christian McCaffrey back to his grandpa Dave Sime, Olympic 100 meter silver medallist in Rome 1960. Not just grandson and grandfather but all those in between the two have an impressive set of athletic credentials. Why this was not a Sports Illustrated piece
we'll never know.
Sime McCaffrey linkage from Newsweek Nov. 20, 2015
This came from a friend of a friend:
I see you just sent this to me. Had I mentioned that Sime's daughter Lisa, McCaffrey's mother, went to Ransom where I taught and coached? Early in her 9th grade year I went down to the outside basketball courts where some of the kids were running line drills, challenging eachother. And this young blonde girl was right with the best male sprinter on the track team. I asked who she was and someone said, "Lisa Sime". Oh!
This recent Newsweek article tells all about Sime - especially his opthalmologist career in Miami. He was my opthalmologist for years. But it barely mentions Lisa Sime's own athletic accomplishments. She was good in Track but best in Soccer. Good enough to make SI's Faces in the Crowd feature as a high school junior after scoring 9 goals in a game and 52 in that season.
Lisa Sime Faces in the Crowd Sports Illustrated 1986
Back in the late Sixties I was running in a Track meet at Dade South. The Gold Coast AAU Championships, as I recall. Looked up during the 100 prelims and this mid-30s white guy was beating some of rhe best Miami area sprinters. And I knew I recognized the stride. Dave Sime had just showed up. I think I still have a newspaper clipping somewhere with both our names in the results. Geoff Pietsch
Here is Bud Greenspan's bit on the 1960 sprinting debacle in Rome. You even get a bit of Melbourne and some Ohio St. Michigan St. football in this clip. Apologies.
Rome Sprints Greenspan
V 5 N. 119 African American Long Distance History from Gary Corbitt
Here is some more reasearch from Gary Corbitt:
African American Running History in November
Summary Edition
1921: 11/19 R. Earl Johnson –Edgar Thompson Steel AA wins AAU National Cross Country in Pittsburgh.
1922: 11/30 R. Earl Johnson finishes second to Ville Ritola – Finland in the Berwick Marathon (9 miles).
1928: 11/18 Gus Moore- Brooklyn Harriers wins AAU National Cross-Country title at Van Cortlandt Park.
1929: 11/28 Gus Moore becomes the only African American to win the Berwick Marathon.
1940: 11/28 Ellison “Tarzan” Brown the Narragansett Indian wins Berwick Marathon.
1942: 11/1 Frank Dixon-New York University wins IC4A Cross-Country Championship at Van Cortlandt Park.
1942: 11/29 Frank Dixon-NYU wins AAU National Cross-Country title at Newark NJ.
1949: 11/28 Bill Lucas – Manhattan College places 4th at NCAA Cross Country Championship.
1955: 11/28 Charles Deacon Jones-Iowa wins the NCAA Cross-Country Championship at East Lansing.
1958: 11/17 Ron Gregory-Notre Dame takes second place in the IC4A Cross Country Championship at Van Cortlandt Park. .
1961: 11/21-61 Steven Machooka-Cornell the first great Kenyan U.S. college champion wins the IC4A Cross-Country Championship at Van Cortlandt Park.
1962: 11/26 San Jose State wins the NCAA Cross-Country team championship with an integrated team.
Top African American finishers in the 1962 NCAA race:
6th Ron Davis – San Jose State
11th Harry McCalla – Stanford
18th Ben Tucker – San Jose State
30th Horace Whitehead – San Jose State
1964: 11/23 Elmore Banton – Ohio University wins NCAA Cross Country title in 20:07.5 at East Lansing.
1966: 11/21 Oscar Moore – Southern Illinois places 10th in NCAA Cross Country Championship
1968: 11/28 Ted Corbitt age 49 became the oldest American to win a U.S. running title with a win at 50 miles.
For more running history go to the following:
www.tedcorbitt.com
V 5 N. 118 More on Adolph Plummer,seldom seen photos and teammate comments
Yesterday we announced the passing of Adolph Plummer. In the few hours since that release, Adolph's teammates have been communicating with each other and some of these comments and especially these exceptional photos have surfaced from those conversations. Planning is already underway to erect a statue in honor of Mr. Plummer. Thanks especially to Rene Matison and Pete Brown for the photos below.
At the age of 19/20 years , I ran the 220 yard dash against Adolph. He was in the third lane ,I was in the fourth lane. I thought as I was running the curve that I was doing pretty good.....UNTIL Adolph pulled along side of me at the top of the curve and said "Rene let's go". It seemed as for every 2 strides I took, Adolph took one. Here is how I describe his running...smooth as silk, cheetah, gazelle.
I won the race...There is no doubt in my mind he allowed me to win.
Here are some pictures from my files.
Rene Matison
Adolph Plummer and Earl Young Wow!!! Ever see two more relaxed quartermilers?
supplied by Rene Matison
Repeat Performance, this time against Dennis Richardson (or Earl Young?) waiting for confirmation
Adolph Plummer, Ed Lloyd, Jim Stewart, Joe Garcia, Art Carter
Arizona State vs. University of New Mexico Ulis Williams holding off Adolph on the Mile Relay
Holy Cow 6850 spectators for a dual meet? I bet the basketball coach was jealous.
supplied by Pete Brown
220 on old Zimmerman Field March 25, 1962
New Mexico v. Brigham Young
Plummer Lane 4, Jim Whitfield Lane 2 Larry Kelly Lane 3
Zimmerman Field was last used in 1962 for Track and Football
supplied by Ray Mathison
L to R: Joe Garcia, Ed Lloyd, Pete Brown and Adolph Plummer on the way from Abq to Los Angeles for the Coliseum Relays.
On Friday, May 17, 1963, Adolph blew the crowd of 35,000 away with a 44.7 mile relay split. Freshman Art Carter led off in 48.8, Joe Garcia 47.1, freshman Ed Lloyd 47.5 and Adolph Plummer 44.7 for 3:08.1. This was eight days before Adolph broke the world record in the 440.
Just read your story on Dolf. Well done. In respectful humor I say — He beat me again. He was awesome when he wanted to be.
Be sure and let me know when the memorial will be.
Adolph was a great man. I'm flooded with memories of so many races I had the privilege to watch.
We will gladly support a memorial to him.
Thank you Pete for sending his track bio.
Jon Epperson
From Ed Lloyd
Thank you for these photos, they bring back a lot of memories. As young freshmen from Boston, Art Carter and I had some great experiences with Dolph and learned an awful lot from him concerning the mental aspects of running, stride length and pace through the first 330. There is so much one can say about him, but nothing speaks louder than his plain natural ability and kindness.
Great photos Rene. Thanks for sending.
I just remembered something from Adolph’s record run. I was a sophomore in high school at the time. The day after the run, I was reading the sports page, and there was a great quote. I wish I could remember the writer, but I have to plead old age and poor memory on that one.
Anyhow, the writer was explaining that records are normally lowered by pecking away in small chunks. However, he said on this one, “Plummer blew this record away into unrecognizable smithereens.”
I thought that was a good description.
Chuck Schuch
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Wind turbine company Nextera & MNR destroy Bald Eagle Nest & habitat
Posted on 01/08/2013 by wind resist
Thanks to all who helped contribute pictures (Betty, Ernie, Jim and anyone else I’ve missed!). To the rest of the world- please use them to show the rest of the world what the MNR, Nextra and the Ontario government are up to.
Fisherville, Haldimand Cty, Ontario:
Today, at approximately 10:30am, Florida basedwind company Nextera Energy chainsawed down the tree limb (large cottonwood) holding a beautiful, active, bald eagle nest (species of Special Concern in Ontario).
How is this possible? Yesterday at 5:00pm the MNR gave a permit to this corporation to destroy this eagle pairs nest, and cut down the tree— as long as they were able to do it by January 6th –
tomorrow. In typical cold government language, it is justified that the tree and nest should be removed as it was “scheduled to be removed for the construction of a road, and within 20 metres of the blade sweep of a proposed turbine“. The MNR was nto at the tree/nest removal site to see taht it was done properly. Nextera’s construction company “Whites” did the removal. I asked the police officer, who seemed to trust that these guys were ‘moving’ the nest, not just making a kindling pile, “If there are only 57 bald eagle nest in Ontario, what are the chances that ANY of these workers has ever removed an eagle nest before?”. Slim. And that is why they had to go through pans A, B, C, D etc to figure out how to lower it onto some straw bales….. they clearly didn’t have a clue what they were doing. and the MNR remained out of sight, as if they had nothing to do with it.
More famous quotes from the MNR:
“By removing the nest before January 6th it is anticipated they will find another suitable nest location and will avoid disturbing them during their critical nesting period…….Removing the nest will reduce the risk of eagle mortality at the site.“
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117 thoughts on “Wind turbine company Nextera & MNR destroy Bald Eagle Nest & habitat”
thebiggreenlie on 01/05/2013 at 18:57 said:
Send this to David Suzuki, Tyler Hamilton, CANWEA, OSEA and every other Wind Lover and ask for their comments……………………….they will probably reply that Nextera cares so much about the Eagle’s stress level within a wind development that they decided to give it a new home!
Time these idiots were made to watch the results of their misguided and insane love of Green energy and how it’s killing us!
DEB CLARK on 01/06/2013 at 20:25 said:
THAT IS TERRIBLE THAT YOU WOULD DO THAT,
SHAME ON ALL OF YOU WHO HAD A PART IN THIS.
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christopher swift (@wyatt99) on 01/05/2013 at 19:03 said:
You comrades must discard your bourgeois concerns! We must all sacrifice for the good of The Party and Our Glorious Leader! Bald Eagles are a decadent symbol of corrupt capitalist system!
(I shouldn’t joke, but it keeps me from crying….)
Donna Quixote on 01/05/2013 at 19:07 said:
Reblogged this on Quixotes Last Stand.
Segue C on 01/05/2013 at 19:08 said:
Nest robbing is a new low.
Sylvan Bob on 01/05/2013 at 19:21 said:
Did they build that nest in the last couple of months? That looks like a couple of years worth, at least. I’m not an expert by any means, but they use the same nest year after year, just adding on until sometimes the nest itself will make the tree fall. If that nest wasn’t built in the last several months, then EVEN BY THE EXISTING RULES they should have known about it and not located the turbine there. But hey – maybe they just didn’t notice it, eh?
I’m saying a special prayer to the nature gods that all their anger should be focused on that one turbine – may it have one problem after another and never come into operation.
May the cranes fall over, the electrical wires get cut, the bosses cars have flat tires – and if they ever get it up there, it should catch fire on day one.
And may everyone at Next Terror have boils, hemorrhoids and then catch STDs from their spouses.
And that’s just for starters.
ScheissKopfs.
Many thanks to those who went.
1957chev on 01/05/2013 at 22:56 said:
This is a sad day for humankind. We are definitely in a downward spiral. Not so long ago that nest would have been cause for celebration and joy. Now it brings sadness to see the lack of respect man has for everything that stands in the way of money-grubbing greed.
Petra on 01/05/2013 at 19:24 said:
Someone will need to let the eagles know that either they will have to move to a new area as their nest has been moved, or that they will need to build a new nest/home.
Excellent pictures!
Perhaps someone in the M.O.E. office has sent the eagles an eviction notice.
Judy Lane on 01/06/2013 at 09:28 said:
Does anyone realize they sent sent the eagles into extinction once, they can do it again.
This is what we should be showing our children. A perfect example of the true follies in the rush to push these over-priced inefficient pieces of machinery upon us, witness the destruction of beauty and precious life in it’s path. This is a prime example of the wisdom in teaching your children to question authority. Just because someone is in a position of power over you, does NOT mean that they have your best interests at heart. The GEA has ripped the soul out of our government entirely. No one is safe from their twisted agenda. Common sense no longer prevails. Democracy is losing the battle to survive along with our eagles. The schools are brainwashing our children into thinking this is good, and we are obligated as parents to tell them the ugly truth as soon as they are mature enough to handle it. They’re well-being is at stake, and they deserve the opportunity to fight back. If a foreign entity were attacking, would you push them into the closet, or teach them to defend themselves? I am teaching my son to defend himself.
Susan Smith on 01/05/2013 at 20:30 said:
This action of chopping down the tree and removing the nesting place of mating Bald Eagles is a shame and makes a travesty of all things “Green”.
Shame on all of you who organized and perpetrated the crime.
It took 8 men of questionable morals to do the job at overtime pay on a Saturday (with all faces turned from the cameras.
A plan shrouded in secrecy and evil, but reeking of money…like everything associated with the Industrial Wind Turbine projects.
It’s a very sad day.
I don’t know how these individuals can live with themselves. They’ve sold their souls for a few dollars. Birds, bats, people, it’s all the same to them, just shove them out of your way and don’t think twice. All pro-windies deserve a special place in hell.
Ben on 01/06/2013 at 14:19 said:
1957chev “All pro-windies deserve a special place in hell.”
Sorry but are your smoking crack? I don’t agree with the destruction of this nest in the slightest but ignoring location what would you rather instead of wind turbines, huge solar panel networks, 20 story high hydroelectric dams, or would you just rather stay with coal, oil, or gas plants and their pollution (that is not helping the environment in any way), or would you rather a nice new nuclear plant and all the centuries of nuclear waste storage that go with that option along with all the potential risks – and yes I do acknowledge that CANDU’s are safer than most. While wind turbines do have some negative points, namely they’re not always the most attractive things to look at and sometimes locations seem to be a case of throwing a dart at a map, their positives of clean, cheap electricity (and yes I do think the subsidies are stupidly high) with no pollution generally outweigh the negative aspects.
tears won't stop on 01/06/2013 at 22:50 said:
Thank you Susan for understanding the true nature of the joke that is the wind turbines and their green energy. McGuinty and his “Green Energy Act” has never been about green energy but has always been about money, money and more money and the fact that HE IS THE BACK POCKETS of the companies that want to wipe out rural Ontario. It goes to show how really stupid and corrupt MCGUINTY is that he would do this to such a vital part of our economy – that of our farmers who feed us. I am sickened and more than that I am so saddened by this that I have moved from right where the Eagle nest is/was (literally) to an area in a city so far removed from McGuinty’s plan to destroy.
Brenda1970 on 01/05/2013 at 20:28 said:
Where did this happen?
This dispicable event took place in Fisherville.
Hey Ben, if I was smoking crack, I would likely be as uninformed as you . Before you begin to make such ridiculous statements, do your research. Not on the wind companies website, they are selling this scam. Everybody on this website has already done so. We know that wind energy is a scam. If you don’t, you are not paying attention. Shame on you.
Wind energy a scam? Well that’s a new one of me, I never knew that you couldn’t harness the power of the wind to produce electricity. Sure I don’t agree with the way the government is handling things and some of the locations for turbines are just baffling but to say that wind power itself is a scam is mis-informed. That would be like saying coal does not produce CO2, nuclear power doesn’t produce nuclear waste and that solar power works at night. The only scam involved is the way the subsidies are being handled and the way in which it seems that a company can place a turbine wherever they pretty well like, the power and concept itself is good. Indeed when combined with solar and hydroelectric power the few issues that do arise around continuous supply can be minimized. Wind itself is not the be-all green energy solution, it is part of the puzzle, when you and the government wake up and realise that to replace existing “dirty” power sources with clean energy requires using ALL green energy sources combined then progress may be made.
If this group achieves anything it should be three things, one continued installation of turbines – in SENSIBLE locations (off shore in the middle of Lake Huron would be a good choice as it would be isolated from people, non-visible from shore and subject to higher continuous winds than land based turbines), abolition/revision of the current subsidy scam (revision would involve fair subsidies with loop holes closed, yes even nuclear power is subsidised!) and promotion of other green energy sources, I for one would love to see roofs across Ontario equipped with solar panels with the energy produced powering your own home first and then the grid with any excess.
I fully intend when I build my own house to have geothermal power, solar panels on the roof (those panels on the yard are just ugly), with the possibility of a small wind turbine in the yard as generally speaking wind turbines are more effective when solar panels are not and vice-versa, they are complementary power sources working at peak in generally opposing conditions. Trust me when I say that I understand a far greater amount around the technical side of these power sources than the average person so I cannot stand by when the actual concept of wind is being attacked as a scam, it simply isn’t. The scam is the way in which the Ontario government is managing it!
Dave B. on 01/05/2013 at 21:00 said:
Would NextEra have us believe that removing the nest from that tree, at that location, will definitely prevent a bald eagle or perhaps two of them, from being killed by turbine blades? I hope someone living near that turbine site can keep an eye on the area for eagle mortalities. A video or photo of dead or maimed bald eagles would make a huge impact statement, a testimonial to the true mentality of this current Liberal government. Wouldn’t a photo and narrative in the Toronto Star, or National Post drive home the message? Think of the political implications come election time!
When you’re given lemons, make lemonade.
I sure hope some good can come of this disgusting act.
Bert on 01/05/2013 at 21:39 said:
Dumb %uckers!! Hope your families families get cut down and destroyed as well!!
Nazca on 01/05/2013 at 21:42 said:
The whole Green Energy Act is nothing more than our elected people selling out to the highest bidder. How can a so called Green Act be so disrespectful of our endangered nature? We are in favour of protecting our environment,but this is absolutely not the way to do it . The people responsible for this should be held criminally responsible.
suspicious and dismayed on 01/05/2013 at 21:44 said:
This is such an absurd situation that people don’t know what to say. The people are mourning, as we should be. These are major losses for all of us.
What punishment would be appropriate for this kind of despicable behaviour?
If “green zealotry” is the offence, then we should heap shame on these @ssholes everywhere. But who’s to blame?
the Ministry of Energy? Consultants to the Ministry of Energy?
http://envirolaw.com/wind-energy-resources/
http://envirolaw.com/dealmakers-year-awards/
http://envirolaw.com/massachusetts-expert-panel-wind-health/
http://envirolaw.com/health-wind-science-sad-federal-priorities/
http://envirolaw.com/dutch-wind-turbine-noise-study/
Lets put all turbines in one remote area, and banish all the pro-windies to live there with each other for the rest of their useless lives. Turbines and pigs, all happy and content together.
debs say on 01/05/2013 at 22:11 said:
seems to me ,there is no care of the eagles or their nest…it s all about the fricken blasted money again, and again, and again.
Nothing matters to them but money. I don’t know what good money is when they are destroying the earth and everything on it. GREEN MY A__. They don’t care who or what suffers. If I hear one more person claim they are still stupid enough to believe IWT’s are good for the environment….I will scream! NOBODY can really be that stupid.
ROGER L ARNOLD on 01/05/2013 at 23:11 said:
Seems to me that if you have enough dollars behind you to feed the greedy corrupt government officials, anything is possible!!! This is just a travisty of unjust!! If you or I did this, we’d be fined heavily, see jail time or both!! But somehow these I.W.T companies can get their way no matter what the consequences or what impact on the environment may be at stake!!
Dalton McGuinty gave them a free pass to run roughshod over rural Ontario with NO consequence.
Unfortunately, it is our money that Dalton uses to fund this campaign of terror. The GEA and FIT program make this scam very lucrative, and we will be forced to finance our own destruction.
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hangar17 on 01/06/2013 at 03:37 said:
Reblogged this on Time for Action.
Debbie L. on 01/06/2013 at 05:47 said:
Collusion: (i) a secret agreement, esp. for a fraudulent purpose. (ii) Law such an agreement between ostensible opponents in a lawsuit.
If this act was not a rock-solid example of collusion between the Ministry of Natural Resources (i.e., posting a notice to the EBR moments before 5pm on a Friday afternoon) and an industrial wind turbine proponent (Next Era–having equipment onsite and the eagle’s nesting site destroyed before 10:30am the next morning–and a Saturday no less) then what is?
McGuinty and his minions are beyond feeling shame or remorse–“psychopaths” comes to mind!
johana on 01/06/2013 at 11:01 said:
Mike Crawley, Pres of the FEDERAL LIBERAL Party AND Pres of AIM PowerGen/IPC/IPR – GDF Suez/Plateau Wind is one of McGuinty’s BEST BUDDIES and colluders in this GRAND TAX larceny.
We, the tax paying surfs have NO SAY in this grand give away of our hard earned savings; we don’t write the laws that force us to pay for IWTs we don’t want and don’t need.
When will it become clear that we don’t owe a duty to unjust laws and actions perpetrated by rulers who have absolutely NO REGARD for those who have been submitting to them?
Johanna, you are absolutely correct. If they won’t return our power to us democratically, we have no choice but to fight for it. We do not want or deserve this travesty being visited upon us. They have shown complete disdain for anything or anyone who stands in their way.
I really hope that everyone is being proactive with this thing and not just making a comment and forgetting about it the next day. We all need to send this story with the pictures to our MP’s, MPP’s, every news outlet, every radio statioin, every nature group/bird group we can find. It might take a few hours of your time, but one person alone doing this won’t make an impact.
We ALL have to get busy and get this out EVERYWHERE!! Email everyone on your list. Post this on your FB page. Be proactive and be LOUD!!!
OWR on 01/06/2013 at 08:46 said:
Absolutely right Donna– half the work is giving the information, the other half is getting it OUT THERE. Please send everywhere!!
I have been showing these pics to everyone I can today including the mayor in West Lincoln, (whom nobody trusts), and Tim Hudak, who is posting it on the wall in his constituency office, I will spread the word to anyone who will listen. it is very valuable ammunition in our arsenal against this windscam. Proof of their disgusting attitude towards anything that gets in their way. Humans will get equally abused, and with just as little recourse. We must stop this NOW.
You go chev!!! I emailed Hudak as well. We just have to keep hammering home the absolute insanity of this decision. Great to know that the Ministry of Natural Resources doesn’t have the foggiest clue about the habits of nesting eagles.
Even a 6th grader could probaby have told them that this was a very very BAD idea.
Please refrain from negative comments about Natives. I will remove these posts. The question is not, “Why weren’t they there?”, it’s, “Why weren’t you there. We cannot expect them to protect everything all the time, and only put themselves out to be charged with trespassing etc. while we “idly” stand by watching. This is our job too. Anyone who watched Bill Monture and Lester Green at the ERT hearings, putting heart, soul and energy into trying to stop these projects, just like the Haldmiand Wind Concerns Group, would only have praise for what they have done.
Ernie on 01/06/2013 at 13:25 said:
Thanks you very much for your kind words. Yes Bill and Lester did a masterful job in an unfamiliar environment, twice, to no avail. This act is what they were arguing against and the evidence is now in pictures. Thanks for taking the time to travel to Haldimand once again to get this out there as fast as possible.
Andre on 01/07/2013 at 09:58 said:
Let’s face it Nextera and the MNR try to pull a fast one and caught a lot of people off guard. The MNR only posted this on the EBR on December 31st and only gave 7 days notice at a time when they hoped people would be to busy to notice. This was intentionally kept low profile not to draw attention to the issue. The whole process is slimy.
Lorrie on 01/06/2013 at 09:10 said:
This government continues to get away with outrageous corruption and destruction because of the apathy and ignorance from far too many of ALL of us. Muriel says, “There is no reasoning with our elected officials, but it’s time to unite and to take a hard stand against further habitat destruction; because, the habitat destruction will not end with the eagles, the migratory birds or the animals in the forests that are too close to the vibration and noise of the turbines—it will
extend to the destruction of OUR habitat.” A ton of OUR neighbours know only too well about the destruction of OUR habitat. Don’t care if I sound like a broken record; how many have abandoned homes? How many have quietly sold at loss and moved? By loss, I mean financial and emotional. How many sit, trapped by finance or unwilling to put someone else into a toxic home?
You are absolutely right Lorrie, this is just a small example of the lack of respect the wind companies and their allies show towards everyone and everything that stands in their way. If anyone thinks that people will be treated any better than the eagles….they are sadly mistaken. Nothing is sacred to these miscreants. People are suffering as we speak, and they are being denied any recourse. Maybe they can build an “artificial home” for these people elsewhere so that they will not be harmed as they say they have done for the eagles…..oh ya, people are not yet on the “endangered species list”. We are left to fend for ourselves.
Marshall Rosenthal on 01/06/2013 at 09:22 said:
The bastards!
We did not hear about the plans for demolishing the tree and nest until after the fact at 3pm Saturday. I am hoping that communication will be better and we can get to areas of conflict in time to make a difference. Of course…everything “Green” is a deep dark insidious sneaky secret. But we can try!!!
I am also thinking too….that with the support of the Natives, we are all coming from the same place in trying to prevent the distruction of rural Ontario. Perhaps some good will come out of a horrible situation.
I believe Wainfleet is arranging a rally for all wind turbine groups. More information on this would be great. We can plan together and help and make an impression on our provincial government.
anna on 01/06/2013 at 10:09 said:
Well another deed done in the name of money who cares about nature…. let’s destroy where we live and the beauty surrounding it….. when will these big companies start to be responsible for their actions…. they are bullies …..
tom wasilewski on 01/06/2013 at 11:14 said:
The Ontario Government has been simply ignoring the importance of bird migration along the Lake Erie shoreline and over Lake Erie (also true for the other Great Lakes of Ontario, Huron as well ). At the Lake Erie Port Stanley, Ontario hawkwatch of Hawkcliff the most observed numbers of migrating golden eagles in eastern North America was reported (Fall season-2011). It was a total of 269 golden eagles. Golden eagles are in very limited numbers in eastern North American and some experts believe they are a sub-species of the western North American Golden Eagle. Also large numbers of migrating bald eagles are being reported.at this Port Stanley hawkwatch (one of the top hawkwatches in North America for all species of raptors).
The Ontario Government has failed to recognize the importance of eagle and other bird migration along the shoreline of Lake Erie and the other Great Lakes (as well as over the Great Lakes). The Ontario government continues to blindly accept inaccurate information from wind companies as the truth without providing an investment in trully independent, scientific studies of bird, bat, butterfly migration before and after these projects are built.
Tom Wasilewski
Coordinator of the Northwestern PA Eagle Conservation Association
Edinboro (Eerie County), Pennsylvania
They take the word of the wind companies so that they will not be held responsible when the truth comes out. They are trying to get around all of these important issues without any publicity. Killing eagles or destroying their habitats does not make for good publicity. They would much rather that this was kept secret. Wind companies are taken at their word???? On the honour system? There is NO honour in the IWT business, and that is painfully obvious. Citizens groups are being forced to spend their time, and hard-earned dollars doing the job of trying to protect ourselves and our lands, because the government institutions that are supposed to, do it, refuse to do it. The green energy act is a vile disgusting piece of legislation that needs to be thrown out…..immediately. If an energy source is so destructive that people don’t want it, they have NO right to force it upon us. I’d rather use woodfires and candles than continue along this path.
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louisebgregg@yahoo.com on 01/06/2013 at 11:48 said:
The best way to make money is to not spend it. Conserve energy. Create Starry Night Cities and Towns. I believe we could save 50% of our energy by turning out the lights at night. If you think we are safer by leaving the lights on in commerce buildings we could have motion censor lights that go on at night when someone enters the building and or room in a building. Light inter fears with wild life for example baby turtles use to now to walk toward the ochean because the light from the moon and stars reflecting off the ocean was dominant. This lead them but now they wander off in the wrong direction because of the ambient light from our cities. The dark shadows created by our too bright street lights makes it dangerous for a person to walk at night. I was living in Marfa Texas when we decided to be a Starry Night City. We turned off as many lights a possible turned down and hooded some lights and the only new rule was bicyclers had to have lights on their bikes at night. The City saved money and it also supported the Mac Donald Observatory 30 miles away above Ft. Davis. Night is a beautiful place with the lights off. Louise Gregg
I could not agree with you more. Subsidies should be given to individuals rather than corporations. It would be much better to insulate homes, or develop conservation practices that reward people for doing their part to limit the energy expended. I have a difficult time believing that they think windpower is really going to do anything other than make rich people richer. I love the darkness of the rural area, and I find my rural counterparts to be much less inclined to leave a carbon footprint the size of the city dwellers. Yet we are expected to supply power for their excessive demands? The reality is that we are producing enough power to more than meet our needs without a single turbine. This a money-grubbing scam, and nothing more.
I have been saying the exact same thing. We’re headed in the wrong direction…trying to increase production of energy, rather than pushing conservation.
Jim Wiegand on 01/06/2013 at 12:12 said:
Even worse than this nest being taken down, will be the death of eagles and other species from the newly placed turbines. I have studied wildlife for decades along the wind industry’s phony documents and studies. If anyone thinks for one second that the wind industry has been forthcoming and honest about their mortality impacts to birds and bats, consider these two astounding facts from America; (1) There has been an ongoing slaughter of golden eagles in Texas that has never been disclosed. 2) With over 30 plus years of operation at Altamont Pass, approximately 35 bats have been reported killed by their thousands of wind turbines. This works out to about one bat per year being killed over an area of 86 square miles. The true number could be 5000 or it could be 500,000. What ever the number it is, this 35 number is off by thousands. Maybe even the worst has happened; the Horay bat might have even been wiped out from this region.
Most people have no idea how devastating these turbines are because after word got out about Altamont pass, the industry tightened security changed everything about their operations to hide impacts. This is the primary reason extensive gag orders are now written into their contracts all across America.
As far as prosecuting the Wind industry for their slaughter, there has always been a hands off policy towards the wind industry. About the only time you hear from wildlife protection agencies is when they want to make changes in the laws for the wind industry or to cover for them when word has leaked of a crippled eagle being seen near a wind farm. Their behavior and the lack of meaningful studies is without question evidence an ongoing mortality cover-up between the USFWS and the wind industry. There is one certainty; you will NEVER hear the truth about wind turbine mortality from the wind industry or the USFWS because they have been working together for decades.
These are shocking truths about an industry many embrace. An industry built on fraud and deceptive marketing. Today the state of Vermont is in the process of putting a 3 year moratorium on wind projects. They are looking for the truth. The rest of the North America needs to follow.
Recently I was presented with this question. How would I respond if I were running the USFWS and was not allowing this agency to cover for the wind industry?
I would co many thing but first of all we would have an accurate count of all the whooping cranes in Texas along with the sub adults and juveniles so real condition of this population could be disclosed to the public. After all over 200 are missing from this population and there are now thousands of deadly wind turbines that litter their habitat.
I would have USFWS personnel responsible for checking the GPS transponders on whooping cranes, checking on their well being every 6 hour period during daylight hours. Presently the whooping cranes are not checked on unless there is a lack of movement for 24 hours. This huge gap gives a wind farm more than enough time to move any dead whooping cranes.
I would have every gag order ever written into a wind industry dismissed under eminent domain laws for the sake of protecting our natural resources. It would seem to be an easy matter because is all too obvious that the extinction of wildlife and destruction our natural resources are far more valuable to our society and future than the small amount energy produced from wind turbines.
With the gag orders out of the way a complete investigation would be conducted into the history of operating wind farms. I would concentrate on the wind farms located in the habitat of endangered species.
I would have a federal law passed so it would be a felony to conceal the death of any protected species killed at a wind farm. Owners that profited from the concealment of bodies would lose their land much in the same way a drug dealer does. I would also have rewards, big rewards because we would be fishing for big fish.
I would initiate a series of truly constructive wildlife studies to determine the cumulative damage that has been done by these wind turbines. These studies have been avoided for over 28 years. It would asl be a given that not one of the sell-out experts that worked on bogus wind industry studies would be part of any of these new studies. . I would set up a DNA data bank that would prove to the world that eagles and other species killed at wind farms were being killed from populations thousands of miles away. The USFWS is already in custody of many such carcasses. Analyzing these carcasses alone and comparing them to remote populations would probably be enough to establish vast mortality footprint of wind turbines.
I would have cadaver dogs searching wind farm properties for buried carcasses that were hidden from the world. Some locations in particular I would bet would have body dump sites that look like the Auschwitz.
I would try not to bother Congress with any of this because their time is much better spent investigating really important matters like Lance Armstrong, Barry Bonds, and Rodger Clemens.
Yes, it would feel pretty good to see a Dirty Harry sent in to clean house and kick some wind industry asses. God knows they sure need it. But justice usually only happens on the big screen. That is why so many films are successful.
I would like to see cameras set up to film the destruction, if you are forced to live near a turbine, use the opportunity to show the slaughter that is taking place. It is perfectly legal, and difficult to deny.
M.F. on 01/06/2013 at 13:08 said:
http://www.carolinian.org/Publications/Shop/Haldimand_Factsheet_Final.pdf
See page 7.
We’re all fortunate to live in Haldimand County and it’s being destroyed every single day that passes.
Our local dictatorship can take with them as part of their legacy the knowledge that they have participated in the local extinction of a rare and majestic bird and the destruction of one of the nicest rural areas of Ontario.
I don’t know how these bottom dwellers sleep at night….
SpeakOut Ontario on 01/06/2013 at 13:11 said:
Re-Posted on our Facebook page and Twitter.
Publius on 01/06/2013 at 13:57 said:
Eagles rebuild nests in the same area when natural destruction occurs. There is no reason to believe this pair of eagles will not start rebuilding nearby and still have the same hazard. What is likely is that they will not offspring this year, or do so without an adequate nest. Those massive nests take time to build, and to do so in the winter means risking using valuable energy the eagle needs to survive the cold winter. (They do not migrate, but simply move to where they find open water to fish.) This idiotic action will cause at least the delay of offsprings, and possibly the deaths of the mature eagles as well – either trying to rebuild or still hitting the windturbine.
There are good places for wind turbines, but keep them away from known raptor territories.
Keystone cops are running the government.
Please enlighten us. Where are the “good places for wind turbines” that you refer to?
One good place I can think of, but McGuinty would have to bend over really far to place it there.
How about your house.
Karen b. on 01/06/2013 at 14:10 said:
Thanks, Jim Wiegand. If only you would be installed as the President of the US instead of the aid and abetting element who allows the ongoing destruction in California; who was responsible for appointing EPA dictators the likes of Lisa Jackson; all who have lawfully given the green energy companies a free pass to kill and maim. See this video: http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/2057224707001/the-cost-of-wind-power/
Fines of $10,000 per eagle destroyed are waived for the wind industry! They get a free
“get out of jail card” as well — no prosecution here.
In Ontario we see the same picture. Ministry has rules about keeping wind turbines away from sensitive habitats. It now seems as though the way to enforce these rules is simply to move the habitat. So there! The turbine construction is now within these rules. Simple solution, is it not? Just remove the habitat — impeccable logic.
Fast forward to the Ostrander Point situation and this excerpt:
The Blanding’s Turtle, Whippoorwill and other species soon to be evicted from Ostrander Point, however, must now rely on the goodwill of the developer for their survival. All this so that Dalton McGuinty can say he was green . The Ontario Liberals will pick a new leader later this month. Absent the blind ambition of its current leader, the party—or more likely its successor government—will begin backing away from McGuinty’s green energy schemes. Why? Because they don’t work and we can’t afford them.Perhaps more compelling to the politicians, however, will be the unrelenting images of the industrialization of a pristine rural ecosystem at Ostrander Point and the destruction of the habitat of two endangered species—in the name of green energy.We must kill, so that we may save.This will be a harder slogan to sell after Ostrander Point is ruined. rick@wellingtontimes.ca
In the case of the eagle’ net, I suppose no one know just where the occupant was or is and whether or not the pair had been tagged and is there a follow-up to actually determine what where this eagle pair will be?
Imagine trading that nest on your property for a ******* wind turbine. Now imagine a world that allows let’s this happen. Have faith because the crowds that will want to see this industry in Hell will one day number in the millions. Vermont is Ground ZERO.
Jorgen Hansen. on 01/06/2013 at 14:19 said:
Another Case of some Idiot Burocrat being influenced by business . PROTECT THE BIRD MOVE THE TURBINE. Discusting.
Wayne Gulden on 01/06/2013 at 14:57 said:
Back in 2007 EC did a survey of 17 raptor wintering sites, finding that just 4 of them were particularly densely populated. 3 of those 4 are now within wind energy project boundaries: Wolfe Island, Amherst Island and Fisherville (the scene of this nest removal). Only Glencoe, the worst of the 4, has escaped – sort of, so far. Here’s the text of their findings, from the Wolfe Island bird study.
Environment Canada compiled the results of recent winter bird surveys from 17 sites in
southern Ontario, and concluded that just a few sites across southern Ontario provide the
necessary conditions to support high numbers of wintering raptors (Environment Canada, letter,
September 21, 2007). Two sites, Amherst Island (3.14 raptors/kilometer) and Fisherville (2.14
raptors/kilometer) had higher raptor densities than Wolfe Island (1.4 raptors/kilometer, with 1.92
raptors/kilometer west of Highway 95), which had similar densities to a site north of Glencoe.
The remainder of the sites supported raptor densities that were an order of magnitude less than
these four sites (Environment Canada, letter, September 21, 2007).
Scott on 01/06/2013 at 14:59 said:
As someone who observes photographs and documents our local raptor population including the local Bald Eagle convocation I find this reprehensible. However maybe it’s time all the various anti turbine groups amalgamate and pool their collective resources across Canada and possibly including groups in the US. Considering that this is their national bird wouldn’t it be good to get their backing on this matter?
barbara on 01/06/2013 at 16:11 said:
At least southern Ontario does not have many tall and strong trees that can support an eagle’s nest anymore. The other trees have been cut down but old cottonwoods do remain. Had an eagle’s nest near here in a cottonwood but a neighbouring idiot drove them away by setting off holiday fireworks on several occasions but the eagles did relocate a short distance away.
Even if the MSM did report the destruction of this eagle’s nest it would have very little meaning to city people. The just think the eagles can just find another location because city people don’t know anything about the nesting locations and tree requirements for eagles. The tree branching has to be right as well a tall strong tree.
This is how things like this are gotten away with. No general public awareness of meanig of this situation.
I have been saying for a long time that all of the anti-wind groups need to come together to form one united and MASSIVE force. I don’t know how to get that done though.
Judy Allen on 01/06/2013 at 15:12 said:
These eagles will NOT go away… they own their territory and will return and try to build another nest! What then? We humans are just nuts, trying to change Mother Nature… I pray that these eagles are safe and not headed into the turbine because we have TAKEN or tried to take their territory… makes me cry lots of tears and the arrogance and stupidity and egocentrism and narcissism and money grabbing bevavior of these humans… WHAT IS WRONG WITH THEM???
Jefferson Smith on 01/06/2013 at 15:33 said:
Shocking and disgusting. But not a surprise to those who have been observing the complicity of the MNR (and the MOE) over the years. Those ministries, backed by the Green Energy Act and its FIT program, have enabled the wholesale destruction of the rural landscape, at present only 1/5th complete (there is still about 4500 more turbines on the way).
This event is a surprise and an outrage to the average Ontarian, but I have some questions for the local stakeholders (opposition) in this project. In no way would I say anything that would belittle the efforts of the many who opposed this project, and of course, I cannot know all that has gone on in the courageous battle to stop it, but I must say, as one currently fighting a local wind project, that I am aware of the locations of the wind turbines proposed in Melancthon and as a resident of the area I can see what is around each proposed turbine location. The locations are defined within a metre on the project maps. I am invited by the process to comment to the proponent (and the MNR, MOE, and the local politicians, and free to contact the local media) about specific concerns for the turbine locations. I can raise a “big stink” about a specific turbine and insist that it be moved (even though I know they will not listen), and at least I have raised the awareness BEFORE it is too late.
Did the local opposition know the eagle’s nest was next to a turbine? (for sure, they knew where the turbine was going to go) And did they make a “big stink” (with a paper trail) about this with the proponent and the MNR (and the media)? If they did, why am I only finding out now, after it is too late for me and thousands of others to do anything? Just asking. There may be a good lesson here for the other projects assaulting our province.
In any case, this is another sad event in a long, and growing, sad chapter in Ontario’s history.
“Did local opposition know the eagle’s nest was next to a turbine?”
http://ontario-wind-resistance.org/2012/11/27/nextera-turbine-within-100m-of-active-bald-eagle-nest-in-haldimand-county/
“Did they make a “big stink”?”
Please define “big stink”. How “big” is a “stink”?
“More than ’40 dba'”? “Less than 120 metres”? “Letters to the editor, elected representative, neighbours, friends, family, bureaucrats,”? etc, etc, etc
“Why am I only finding out now?”
Because obviously you’re not as committed as you ought to be to these very important matters.
“Is it too late for me and thousands of others to do anything about it”?
Only you can answer this question.
“(for sure, they knew where the turbine was going to go)”
Your assumption [above] STINKS
The 3 IWT developing companies – Capital Power, Nexterror, Samsung NEVER gave local residents exact locations of their IWT placement – proprietary information don’t you know!
Local residents – Haldimand Wind Concerns and INCLUDING First Nations chiefs and members confronted the PROPONENTS, the MoE, local and national MSM, appealed in TWO Environmental Review Tribunals.
My involvement started in Dec of 2004 when Mike Crawley, President of the Federal Liberal Party, anounced his company AIM PowerGen was going to erect 66 IWTs along the north shore of Lake Erie in a Major Migratory Flyway west of Long Point.
Appeals to our Municipal Councillors fell on deaf ears.
Our MPP read our > 70 person petition in to the Legislature and our MP listened to our pleas for mitigation.
Mike Crawley & CO. then struck the coup de grace – by surrounding my house and our community with 18 IWTs ALL within a 3 km radius and my health has been deteriorating ever since.
YOU chose NOT to learn about “IT” until it is too late for you and 1000’s of Ontarians to do anything.
What are YOU going to do about “IT” now that you have learned about it?
David on 01/06/2013 at 15:59 said:
If they would put a fan cage over the blades of the wind turbine there would be no bird kills but that would cost money which they do not want to spend or never thought about it.
WillR on 01/07/2013 at 10:16 said:
If they would put a fan cage over the blades…
Excellent idea. Do you have a proposed design?
You do know the scale of the design and the rigidity of the material required — right? And then there is the drop in efficiency of an already next-to-useless device.
As a final step — have you considered that a “toothbrush” would be required to remove light planes, large birds and politicians flung with trebuchets from the mesh of such a “bird cage”?
I’m not saying that your idea is just plain darn silly — like some might — but it does need a little work…
Darlene on 01/06/2013 at 16:05 said:
We as humans almost brought them to extinction once. They barely make it off the endangered list and government starts letting the big business (that almost destroyed them the first time) start all over again. Will they never learn? This makes me sick!
bushman on 01/06/2013 at 16:06 said:
sad to say but our gr$$dy neighbours that sold out are being ignored in this mess if not for them and their need for more in their pockets this nest would still be their, look where most of these turbines are going land owners that really need the extra $$$$$$$$$$
Yvonne Vinall on 01/06/2013 at 16:50 said:
We have had the same eagles nest for 20 years every year they come back to have their lil ones for 20yrs. They protect their nest and so do we. We live in Hatzic B.C. Canada. This is near Harrison which is world know for it’s eagle population. We must all protect this majestic bird . Yvonne Vinall
Hatzic B.C. Canada .
BIX on 01/06/2013 at 17:33 said:
The Anti Rackets Bureau of the OPP clearly states that it will investigate government corruption.
I’m waiting for an answer as to what is needed to begin an investigation. For sure they will ask for some kind of real proof whatever that may be. Stay tuned because maybe , just maybe we will get a call to collect proven data. Continued condemnation with words is a must but there has to be a means of challenge that won’t break the bank like a legal circus.
Please keep us up to date on this.
Make sure that we see it!
Good! It will be interesting to know what response you will get from your inquiry.
I’m sure there is lots of proof. It is going on every day. The GEA act should be illegal simply because it takes away our right to defend ourselves, as well as the rights of all gov’t institutions to help us. They tie our hands behind our backs while the wind companies take the boots to us. This should be illegal in itself.
fcsmls on 01/06/2013 at 17:57 said:
I witnessed this travesty personally, and am saddened by what has happened. These eagles were actively living in this nest (I have photos dating from Nov 2012 of them in the nest) despite what the permit for destruction suggests. I also have other photos of this pair of eagles, dating back to 2010 when they first started living in the area. The biologists missed the mark here big time! Shame on you and your green energy act — it would be better called “Destroy nature and your relationship with your community act” !
Great that you have photos!
The photos taken on Saturday show what eagles need to nest. In general, they need a tree that large birds can fly directly into, is tall and strong with the right kind of branching that will support the nest weight. location near a food source is needed also There are not so many trees left in southern Ontario that have all the right criteria for eagle nesting.
Ms on 01/06/2013 at 20:34 said:
My fiancé and I are locals and were told the pair was seen flying around the location at about 4pm that afternoon looking for their nest. Such a disgrace.
Tereasa Messer on 01/06/2013 at 18:45 said:
Hypocrites…..http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151523875580134&set=a.474717535133.379450.323814010133&type=1&theater
Lori on 01/06/2013 at 20:20 said:
This is absolutely absurd! Tell me how these eagles will have time to rebuild a nest- in January – in time to reproduce? That nest wasn’t built in day, but years! I can’t believe biologists would say it’s the right thing to do? We are taking up all of the wilderness form every bird and animal every single day – but to tear down a bald eagles nest from a cottonwood tree, brings it to a new low level. i am ashamed of everyone that was involved in the endeavor. Shame On You ALL!
Christina Seelen on 01/06/2013 at 20:22 said:
sad that the only resort was to remove a nest of a beautiful wild bird instead of adjusting the location of the road and turbine.
It wasn’t the only option, it was the easiest for them. They do not care about the eagles or anything else but money. The turbines shouldn’t be in our rural agricultural areas to begin with. Corruption has allowed this travesty to take place.
vaughan on 01/06/2013 at 20:25 said:
When will the insanity of this lame and shameful mentality stop….it leaves a pit in my stomach.
Not soon enough. It should have come to an end long before now. This is just insane.
CapeV on 01/06/2013 at 21:58 said:
Moving a nest so birds won’t be killed may seems like a reasonable thing to do, but this is another adverse environmental impact associated with wind development. It is called ‘displacement,’ where development may force birds to seek other habitats; in other words driving the birds away from their local homes and haunts.
But this is a new twist. The same agency, MNR, who undoubtedly talked about ‘displacement’ in their reviews of wind projects in Ontario, have now become the very displacers. MNR is now aiding and abetting the very process that any responsible natural resource agency should have strongly condemned.
Marjorie Mcpherson on 01/06/2013 at 22:19 said:
Thank you for not giving a About the Earth and what is trying to live in it,Shameful,Sad,Unhappy, Mad as hell, This is just a few of the things this makes me feel about you people.Just doing your jobs right? Money is what it”s all about for you,I feel sick for you so sleep well after your hard day of work,Better yet don”t.
About 10 years ago the MNR charged a good friend of mine $10,000 for cutting down the trees adjacent to a Bald Eagle nest in Norfolk County. Now the MNR is providing permits so that IWT companies can cut down their nests, a species of Special Concern in Ontario! The difference being, my friend did not realize (still no excuse) the error of his ways, whereas the MNR realize exacly what they are doing!
Terry Mitchell on 01/07/2013 at 07:45 said:
This isn’t even a wind turbine issue. It’s looking out for Mother Earth and a protected species, previously unknown to the area, now nesting here.
MA on 01/07/2013 at 08:13 said:
The nest was removed to make way for an industrial wind turbine. How is that NOT a wind turbine issue? Perhaps people had better start waking up to see the monster they have created. This is not about green energy, this is about big money.
I got this response from Rob Stang this morning:
I am not the Green Party critic for Natural Resources. I have been sent dozens if not hundreds of emails in error because someone on the website organizing this protest didn’t check to see who they were spamming before putting my email on the website. One wonders what other facts they don’t bother to check. Please make some effort to have them stop spamming me. I have been a naturalist all my life and care deeply about the plight of bald eagles, but I have no tolerance for incompetent people who send spam over the internet.
He has been removed. His own website states he was named Critic by the Green Party. Perhaps he should get around to fixing that. He doesn’t understand what “spamming” means. The Green Party obviously doesn’t want to hear about this.
Dan Wrightman on 01/07/2013 at 09:04 said:
It’s kind of a disingenuous and snarky response from Mr. Strang. He doesn’t mention in his letter that he was the MNR and environment critic until late last year.
http://www.citizen.on.ca/news/2012-10-11/Local_News/Rob_Strang_stepping_away_from_politics.html
I would say it’s downright hostile. His own website still says he is the Critic. http://www.robstrang.ca/2011/08/03/strang-appointed-green-critic/
He offered no alternative contact.
Hostile? You have no idea what the word means — interfere with his pension or his salary or his grants and then you will then understand the word hostile…
He has his priorities straight… My understanding is that they have a priority of getting funding from big bad oil companies — that takes time and effort — they have no time for the small stuff… at least if they are like the other environmental groups that’s the deal…
If you have the 40 year old information readily available, why don’t you share it with us?
Read this link from Bird studies Canada miffed. http://www.birdscanada.org/download/BAEArpt.pdf As of 2011 there were only 57 Bald Eagle nests in southern Ontario. Why do you think it was removed to make room for a wind turbine? It certainly wasn’t about saving the Bald Eagle it was all about saving money for Nextera. Read the section in BSC link about failed or abasndoned nests. It happens all the time. The nest removed was succesful and apparently active for 6 years. There is no guarantee the eagles will rebuild a new succesful nest
“Miffed” was leaving really nasty and juvenile comments for several people all over the site. That’s one angry Windie. His comments have been deleted. We don’t need to focus our attention on his hostility.
Tom Blacksmith on 01/07/2013 at 13:55 said:
Dan, this is interesting. 6 years huh?
“Since receiving all required approvals for this project, Bald Eagles (listed as special concern in Ontario) have built a nest within the project location.”
Laura Fair on 01/07/2013 at 14:54 said:
Hi Petra – read above . . . the Act isn’t all that old — it’s been updated actually . . . the links are included in my comments above.
The statement on the EBR said that “it was anticipated that the eagles will find another nest”. That’s not very definitive! When one considers there’s 900 turbines in Ontario already with another thousand planned, but only 57 nesting pairs its a thin margin to gamble on a maybe the eagles will find another nest rather than move a turbine. .
Linda on 01/07/2013 at 09:52 said:
Go back to the beginning. “regularly occurring human disturbances ”
200+ industrial wind turbines located within 60km of Lake Erie shoreline for just a few projects of the currently approved projects. Turbines that would be located in a Globally significant flyway, winter raptor concentration site, and location of the largest portion of the southern Ontario Bald Eagle population. (Review statistics from Jodi Allair’s 2011 report). Consider reviewing testimony of Scott Petrie about displacement is equivalent to habitat loss
(http://ontario-wind-resistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/samsung-ert-decision-2012.pdf)
The operational impacts of the turbines extend much further than their roads, transmission lines, substations, and rotating blades.
(Blade tip speed stated to be be over 300km wake turbulence effects 400-700metres, etc review testimony given at the Summerhaven appeal hearing)
Starting at the beginning:
*Why was the nest destroyed?
*What is the real purpose for destroying this nest, habitat, and exposing harm human health to erected and operational wind projects?
*Where are the eagles, and other species including homo sapiens suppose to relocate?
*Most importantly… Why and who benefits in what manner?
windreceptor on 01/07/2013 at 11:24 said:
Please check the links to the emails. My daughter’s petition got sent to the wrong person and that person is quite upset with the spam.
I have this feeling that the Migratory Bird Treaty between CANADA and USA has been violated. No worries, I will contact US Dept. of Justice to see what their take is on this — thanks for photos – will be very helpful.
PETRA – here is the information you want . . .
Migratory Bird Treaty Act (FYI where it says Great Britain – it NOW refers to Canada)
http://www.fsa.usda.gov/FSA/webapp?area=home&subject=ecrc&topic=waf-ma
1. Maintain a buffer of at least 660 feet (200 meters) between your project activities and the nest (including active and alternate nests). If a similar activity is closer than 660 feet, then you may maintain a distance buffer as close to the nest as the existing tolerated activity.
2. If you perform your activity closer than 660 feet due to a similar activity existing closer than 660 feet, then restrict all clearing, external construction, and landscaping activities within 660 feet of the nest to outside the nesting season (i.e., outside the nesting season is from August through mid-January in the Midwest).
3. Maintain established landscape buffers that screen the activity from the nest.
It reads, more or less, that you have to “build around” an eagle’s nest min. 660 feet away (being the “buffer) and that you “cannot disturb any part, nest, or egg of any such bird.” (16 U.S.C. 703). This applies to birds included in international conventions between the U.S. and Great Britain, the U.S. and Mexico, the U.S. and Japan, and the U.S. and the Russia.”
(Again Great Britain — they specify that is now CANADA).
Presidential document (Migratory Bird Treaty Act) can be found here:
http://www.fsa.usda.gov/Internet/FSA_File/eo13186.pdf
The bottom line is they definitely “broke the treaty” – that is obvious.
“The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for good men to do nothing”
Ken Bell on 01/08/2013 at 14:16 said:
Here is a record of my conversations with Joad Durst, Area Supervisor, MNR Niagara District
From: Ken Bell [mailto:kbell.green@gmail.com] Sent: January 7, 2013 12:44 PM To: Durst, Joad (MNR); Subject: Eagle Nest Removal
Hello Joad My name is Ken Bell and I have some questions regarding the removal of the eagles nest. Hoping you can help me understand the decision. I’m wondering, under which act the application was made? Which act covered the review process and under which act it was finally approved. Thank You
On Jan 7, 2013 1:57 PM, “Durst, Joad (MNR)” wrote: Hello Mr. Bell – in response to your questions – the permit was applied for, reviewed and approved under the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act: 7(3)
Nests and eggs
7. (1) A person shall not destroy, take or possess the nest or eggs of a bird that belongs to a species that is wild by nature. 1997, c. 41, s. 7 (1).
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to the nest or eggs of an American crow, brown-headed cowbird, common grackle, house sparrow, red-winged blackbird or starling. 1997, c. 41, s. 7 (2).
(3) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who destroys, takes or possesses the nest or eggs of a bird described in that subsection,
(a) in accordance with the authorization of the Minister; or
(b) in the circumstances prescribed by the regulations. 2012, c. 8, Sched. 16, s. 2.
From: Ken Bell [mailto:kbell.green@gmail.com] Sent: January 7, 2013 6:44 PM To: Durst, Joad (MNR) Subject: RE:
Thanks for getting back to me Joad. Could you tell me which reason was used?
And where I can see regulations 2012 c.8, Sched. 16, s. 2. thanks you Ken
On Jan 8, 2013 10:09 AM, “Durst, Joad (MNR)” wrote: Mr. Bell – subsection a) was used – this authority is delegated to an Area Supervisor.
Regulation 2012 c.8, Sched. 16, s. 2. – is simply “an Act to implement Budget measures and to enact and amend various Acts”. What it states for the FWCA:
Subsection 7(3) of the Act is repaealed and the following is substituted: Same (3) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person who destroys, takes or possesses the nest or eggs of a bird described in that subsection,
(b) in the circumstances prescribed by the regulations.
It really has no bearing on implementation of the Act itself.
The Area Supervisor was Joad Durst. After calling him today Joad told me that the nest was reported last year. I asked how long the nest had been there. He said that the biologist had determined that it was “recent”. He said that “options” were considered but the decision to remove was influenced by contractual considerations with the proponent, NextEra. Apparently, by having to move one turbine, they would have had to go through the entire review process.for the complete project. I spoke with the biologist, Anne Yagi who conducted the natural heritage assessment. She didnt tell me a lot except to say that the eagles were a “recovering population” in the area. I got the impression that she didn’t personally approve of the removal.
Is what Joad said about having to go through a complete project review to move a single turbine actually true?
Was there a positive determination of the actual age of the nest?
I find it VERY hard to believe that an entire review would have to be redone. All the past projects that I’ve seen, the developer moved around the locations of the turbine right up until the last minute, keeping every one guessing. It has happened in almost every project!
If a Minister can wave his wand and do away with regs on eagle’s nests, I’m sure a simple move of turbine location could also have been accomplished. More bull$hit, If you ask me.
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annonymous on 06/08/2014 at 19:22 said:
They should be ordered to erect a nest pole with a nest pelartially or completely built somewhere nearby. That was done in BC and it works find the eagles even wtched it being built and then moved right in after it was completed being built be the humans.
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Home Frontier Markets Uganda greenlights Total on Tilena oil project
Uganda greenlights Total on Tilena oil project
Total E&P has gotten the go ahead for its Tilenga oil development in Uganda. The project received a green light by the country’s National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) after a 10-month evaluation by the regulatory body.
The French oil major said the approval from NEMA was a major step in Uganda becoming an oil producer, however conservationists are still not onboard with the project due to its location in the Murchison Falls National Park. The park is a leading tourist destination and home to endangered species of animals, birds, insects and reptiles.
NEMA’s approval was a result of a 10-month process that involved several field visits to the project area and public hearings to capture concerns of especially the affected communities.
“People expressed their views with regards to the project violating their cultural rights; the people also asked NEMA to ensure that management plans for noise, dust and water pollution are in place before any approval is done,” Dickens Kamugisha, the head of the Africa Institute for Energy Governance (AFIEGO), a Kampala-based non-profit told The Independent. Kamugisha is also worried about the fact that the environmental body approved the project without taking into account the views of over 2,000 people who turned up for the public hearings in 2018.
Kamugisha says civil society also took exception to the fact that the presiding officer for the two public hearings was Fred Kabagambe Kaliisa, the former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development who now advises President Yoweri Museveni on the oil, gas and mining sector.
The Tilenga oil project is located on License Areas 1 and 2 which are currently operated by Total E&P Uganda B.V and Tullow Uganda Operations Pty Ltd and is found in the north of Lake Albert closer to the Uganda-DR Congo border.
It includes six oil fields, an industrial area, buried infield pipelines and supporting infrastructure, including camps, most of which are within or near the ecologically fragile Murchison Falls National Park and the Nile Delta.
NEMA is now undertaking its evaluation on the environmental and social impact assessment for the Kingfisher project in Hoima that was submitted by CNOOC Uganda Limited, the Chinese operator that is looking at developing oil production infrastructure along the southeastern side of Lake Albert.
Both the Tilenga and Kingfisher projects are estimated to cost $8 billion and will respectively have processing facilities with capacity of up to 190,000 and 40,000 bpd. These processing facilities are supposed to feed crude oil into the refinery and the 1,445-km long export pipeline once production starts, which is now scheduled for 2022.
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The Loose Foundations of Criticism against Phrenology
The Position of Academic Psychology against Phrenology
In today's psychological environment, it has become fashionable to criticise and reject Phrenology. One should look at some basic textbooks of psychology to see how the science is disdained and despised: one can read statements like "Phrenology is unscientific", "Phrenology is a quackery" and other crap of this kind. In most these cases, these rejections are stated without prior assessment of the values of Phrenology as a science.
This leads to a derisory attitude to phrenology among the psychologic community and the "intelligent" public. They "knew", because their teachers had told them so, that phrenology was a pseudo-science, discredited, and of no value. And so generations of medical and psychological students have been only too happy to pursue their studies with a distorted view of what phrenology is and has to offer.
The classical works about Phrenology went into oblivion: With so much essential reading to do, which student is going to waste time reading what authority has told him is unnecessary ?
The brave psychologists who recognise Phrenology's values have often to do so in secret, out of fear of being ostracised by their colleagues.
The History of Criticism against Phrenology
This criticism goes back very far in history. In fact, in 1808 Dr. Gall presented a Memoire to the Institute of France which was referred to a committee of five, including Cuvier. At first the Committee considered the claims of Gall favourably, but when Napoleon Bonaparte came to hear about it, he severely reprimanded the Institute for submitting to be taught anatomy by a German, who even had the impertinence to state that the Emperor had no philosophical mind (Napoleon had in fact the sloped front of the practical realist)! With the result that the Committee was forced to present an unfavourable report. Since then Gall and his teachings were ridiculed and attacked in virulent words. And as Bernard Hollander wrote (cited by Frances Hedderly): "Forthwith the journals, schools and academics formed a sort of holy alliance against the system of Gall, and all would have been over with it long ere now, were it possible for the triumph of any alliance over truth to continue for ever."
Without any further objective investigation of the science, this criticism is held up to today, and handbooks and encyclopaedias copy each other's negative propaganda about Phrenology since nearly 200 years.
This absurdly based criticism is further illustrated in the following two quotations:
Phrenology is always criticised by those who never studied the science, using rather obscure reasonings and aprioristic statements
- - - Dr. DESCURET, "La Medecine des Passions"
No subject has ever been so thoroughly misrepresented, even by learned men of acknowledged authority, and no author has ever been so libelled and with such malice as Gall, and this notwithstanding the fact that there is not one man of scientific repute who has written anything which would indicate that he examined Gall's chief works.
- - - Dr. Bernard HOLLANDER, "The Mental Function of the Brain"
Why Criticism is wrong
It would be an absurdity to reject Phrenology as such, without first assessing thevalue of the science, as is unfortunately too often done today.
Extensive experimental verification of the Phrenological localisations have proven their practical value. The Phrenological analysis of personality remains of incomparable value to assess the character.
A Critical Appraisal of Modern Phrenology
Phrenology and the influence of the environment
Phrenology is a science based on observation. It is experimental and constructed on an analytical-synthetical base.
Starting from the measurements made on a subject's skull, it is possible to state which character faculties are more or less developed. The combination of these faculties yields an overview of the subject's character and personality. These are the innate propensities of the subject, the real foundations of the personality, which may be adjusted but not changed by external factors like environment an education.
One can compare this as follows: whileas the Phrenological analysis describes a person's naked body, external factors provide the clothes, which, even when influencing exterior appearance, will never change the body itself.
Errors in the Phrenological diagnosis
Some errors in the diagnosis may however occur. They can be attrituted to the following causes which can easily be recognised:
Subjective causes of error; due to errors in the Phrenological interpretation of the skull
Incorrect or incomplete examination of the skull (for example when the observer is misled by the subject's hairstyle)
Insufficient attention for the interaction between faculties. This is a very common cause of errors. It is not correct to make a judgment on one single faculty; the interaction of other faculties must always be taken into account. Example: a strong Destructiveness does not in itself stand for a violent, aggressive person; a strong development of Moral faculties may lead this person's dynamic forces towards higher aspirations.
Objective causes of error. This are disorders in the brain of the skull which distort normal development of the brain.
Pathological deformation of skull
Major psychological disorders
Drug addiction leading to brain disorders
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Among other things, he clarified that he was only shot one time, though the bullet inflicted three wounds. "It was not gang-related at all," he said. "It just happened out of the blue. We don't know who did it, we don't know why. We don't know nothing."
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Police release names of both victims in fatal crash on Highway 17
Jay Baxter CTV News Northern Ontario Digital Content Producer
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SUDBURY -- Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) has released the names of both victims in the fatal crash on Highway 17 Friday morning.
Zachary Duval, 23, of Espanola was the driver of the vehicle traveling eastbound.
Robert McGirr, 62, of North Bay was the driver of the vehicle traveling westbound.
Police responded to the collision at 7:25 a.m., located on Highway 17 approx. 1 km west of Highway 6.
Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers from the Espanola Detachment, Manitoulin-Sudbury Emergency Medical Services (EMS), the Baldwin Township Fire Department, and the OPP Technical Collision Investigators (TCI) all attended the scene.
The investigation continues under the direction of the Office of the Chief Coroner and the Ontario Forensic Pathology Service (OCC-OFPS).
A post mortem examination is scheduled for Dec. 1 and Health Sciences North (HSN) in Sudbury.
Updated: Nov. 27, 2020 2:03 p.m.
Ontario Provincial Police said Friday afternoon two people were killed in the crash on Highway 17 between McKerrow and Massey.
"Investigation has determined that two vehicles were involved and two persons have been confirmed deceased as a result of the collision," police said. "OPP Technical Collision Investigators were called in to assist with the investigation."
Highway 17 has now been reopen, police added.
"The investigation is ongoing and further information will be provided once available."
OPP Const. Peter Van Den Diepstraten told CTV News in an email it was a head-on collision involving two vehicles.
"We are unable at this point to release any details of deceased persons but to only say it is a fatality," Van Den Diepstaten said.
It is still unclear what time the collision happened.
Van Den Diepstaten confirmed to CTV News the collision happened at 7:25 a.m.approximately one kilometre west of the Highway 6 junction.
when the incident happened, OPP said in a tweet vehicles were blocking the road and emergency services were at the scene of a collision west of Espanola.
"Highway 17 is expected to be closed for several hours, while the OPP investigates this collision and motorists are asked to please obey the road closure signs," said police in a news release.
The highway is closed in both directions between Highway 6 in McKerrow and Highway 553 in Massey, and police are stopping heavy westbound traffic on Hwy 17 at Nairn Centre and eastbound traffic in Blind River due to the closure.
"Detour for eastbound light traffic via Lee Valley Rd. No westbound heavy traffic past Nairn Centre and no eastbound heavy traffic past Blind River," Ontario 511 said.
Few details are known at this time. It is unclear how many vehicles were involved.
"The investigation is continuing and further information will be provided once available," police said.
Two other crashes are being reported by the Ministry of Transportation (MTO) on Highway 17 Friday morning in Nairn Centre and Blind River, but Van Den Diepstraten said there are no other collisions.
"These are just points where traffic is being stopped," Van Den Diepstraten said. "MTO is assisting the OPP with traffic."
No details on how many vehicles are involved in any of the crashes, if there are any injuries outside of a fatality or the cause of the collisions.
Earlier Friday morning, a pedestrian was killed in a crash involving a pickup truck on MR55. Read more about that tragic incident here.
More details to come on this developing story.
Hwy 17 is closed between Massey and McKerrow following a crash Friday morning. Nov. 27/20 (Ontario 511)
Sudbury's MR55 reopened following crash that killed a pedestrian Friday morning
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Review of Eleanor Stanford's (Cape Verde 1998-2000) memoir História, História
Lawrence F. Lihosit
História, História:
Two years in the Cape Verde Islands
By Eleanor Stanford (Cape Verde 1998-2000)
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Reviewed by Marnie Mueller (Ecuador 1963-65)
There are as many different Peace Corps memoirs as there are returned volunteers who choose to write them, each unique to the author and his or her experience, each generously sharing a hard won world view with the reader. We all have our favorites, mine are Mike Tidwell’s The Ponds of Kalambayi, Geraldine Kennedy’s Harmattan, Kristin Holloway’s Monique and the Mango Rains, Peter Hessler’s River Town, and Moritz Thomsen’s masterwork, Living Poor. These are the books I recommend to other writers, book groups, travelers, and friends who just want a good, original read. I will now add Eleanor Stanford’s História, História to the list. In fact, as I read her book for review, I found myself already telling anyone who would listen, that it was a must read.
It’s a physically beautiful, tiny book, four by five inches, one hundred and twenty eight pages, wonderful in the hand and convenient in the purse where I carried it this past weekend, reading on the subway, at the grocery checkout, and waiting for a friend outside a museum, disappointed when I had to return to everyday life.
“This is how it begins:” Stanford writes, “História, história, a mother calls, drawing the children into the lasso of lamplight.” And we are led into the world of her narrative, by the incantation of the word história, signifying both history and story in Cape Verde’s Creole and Portuguese. It’s the perfect title for this perfect book.
Stanford begins as her plane descends to Sal, one of the ten islands of the archipelago, a sere, stark place. What could be a cliché of travel writing becomes a metaphoric moment in her hands.
We had been flying over unbroken ocean for hours, and suddenly we were descending, despite the fact that there was no land in view. …As some miracle of radar lowered us down on this bald patch of desert in the middle of the Atlantic, I could hear the small gasps and murmurs of disappointment among the other Peace Corps volunteers…”This is Cape Verde? Doesn’t verde mean green?” Even those of us who had done their research and read up on the islands were unprepared for such absolute bleakness.”
In the course of 16 short chapters, in sentence after sentence of startling prose, that at times feels biblical: “História, história: once there were ten islands scattered in the sea. No one lived there: no stone houses leaned into the volcanic cliffs. No goats browsed the rocky hillsides. Only the call of the tchinchirote echoed in the dry ravines.” Drawing upon Darwin’s observation of the tchinchirote warbler, on poets and anthropologists of the first world, and on the inhabitants themselves, Stanford creates the world of Cape Verde both past and present, its culture, its strengths and failings, its people and their food. Theirs is a history of famines and droughts, of service as a portal for slave trade to the New World, of colonial rule and independence where Portuguese is the official language but Creole (Kriolu) the verbal currency, of dust that “coats everything with a fine film,” of sorrowful haunting music called Morna, its lyrics as poetic and allusive as Stanford’s own sentences. She interweaves the story of her time on the islands with theirs, alluding to parallels of identity or lack thereof, of starvation and self-starvation, of poverty and poverty of self. I don’t think I’ve read another Peace Corps memoir that so captures the ambivalence of being there, the love/hate relationship on both sides, the desire for connection and the desperate need for solitude, the wish to fit in and the resistance to going over completely into the other culture, the imperative to contribute and the constant feeling of failure, the need to save others and yet find a way to hold on and save whatever is left of oneself in the cross fire of cultural confusion.
She has come to Cape Verde with her husband of just one year; they’re in their early twenties but have known each other since they were twelve. She sketches both herself and him with a light touch. All we know for a long time is that his name is Dan, that his mother tongue was Portuguese, that he has thick dark hair, is full-lipped and with his “… ability to blend in anywhere,” is often thought to be Cape Verdean. He is robust and open to all foods which he eats with gusto. He tinkers with a guitar, playing the same Paul Simon song over and over in his spare time. She is a long time vegetarian who has decided to eat fish while in Cape Verde. In the morning when not teaching English she writes in her journal and one suspects composes poetry as, according to her bio, she is a well published poet. Writing and the few hours of stolen solitude are what sustain her. One surprising piece of information, given our sense of her fragility, is that she runs six miles each day, up and down mountains over harsh terrain in a culture where women would never conceive of running.
It was her idea to join the Peace Corps. In fact every change in their lives in their next two years is initiated by her. Enervated by town life she lobbies for them to move to a small nearby village where they’ll have a “real Cape Verde experience“ living without running water and electricity. Half a year later, exhausted by the effort of the venture-“…the lack of privacy, the dust, the wind. How difficult the smallest task was: taking a bath, feeling my way out to the outhouse at night, cupping the candle flame in one hand.”-she pushes to move back down into town. He is resistant initially to each change, but always comes around, becoming the one who whole heartedly embraces the new experience, while she is thrown around by competing emotions, growing envious of his success and fortitude.
But the real issue, I believe, and one that Stanford barely foreshadows but eventually weaves into the narrative, is the story of a marriage floundering under the corrosive power of living in a culture imbued with gender inequality, primarily sexual, where the majority of women are attached to men who have other women on the side and where Dan can drink with the men and dance with young girls who press tightly against him.
What was a revelation to me in reading this memoir was that though, as female Peace Corps volunteers, many of us had to deal with destabilizing sexual indignities, I’d always assumed it was easier in this regard for the married women among us; it never occurred to me how much more damaging it could be if the cultural mores entered that most intimate place, the marital home. But as Stanford writes, “Perhaps we were both more affected by the culture around us than we chose to admit. In Cape Verde, only a fool holds her husband accountable.”
Things only get worse when they return to São Filipe, the original town assignment. In a chapter entitled “Postcard from the Volcano”-which contains reverberations of Malcolm Lowery’s Under the Volcano with its alcoholic counsul-Stanford’s addiction to starving herself, an incipient problem for some time, becomes full blown.
“I stripped myself to bone and sinew, stored the flesh in the lined pages of my notebooks:
I woke at 5, starving. At six I ate a yogurt. Apple, coffee, some leftover rice. Milk and sugar. Loneliness. Mid-morning snack: 2 squares of chocolate. A handful of raisons.
Deeply invested in willpower as salvation, she continues to run her six miles a day. Still not able to overcome her depression and paranoia, she secretly purges her food until Dan catches her in the act and alerts the Peace Corps nurse.
This story has a happy ending which I won’t spoil for the reader, but in the course of attaining it, once she is home with her extended family, we learn an astounding prior omission of fact, at least for me, that both Dan and she had been fairly observant Jews. She relates a story told by her grandmother, “…how she and my zaydee had been married at twenty, then left for Switzerland two weeks later….How could she know that no one would rent to them because they were Jews….”
As a Jew myself, I have to believe that this piece of information was pertinent to the path of self-starvation she found herself on as she tried to get control over her life in a foreign country where she could never fully fit in. Admiring as I am of the subtle, allusive qualities of the book, one that reads more like a novel than a memoir, I wish she’d let us in on this important piece of her identity much earlier in the book.
For those among us who may condemn her for not being hardier, or able to put aside her difficulties and just attend to her work, let them know that through all of her personal struggles, Stanford continued to fulfill her duties as a teacher even when it meant traveling on the back of a flatbed truck each day from the village to the larger town where the school was located. She palpably loved her students and they her, as supported by word after she left that the children wept for her, wished for her return, and said she was their best and favorite teacher. Courage and commitment come in many forms; to be able to carry on despite internal turmoil and then write a superb, brutally honest, cautionary book, proves the truth of what it really takes to give over your life for two or more years in the hope of making the world a better place.
Eleanor Stanford is a marvelous writer; she’s earned her place among the very best in the canon of Peace Corps writers, indeed a high honor.
Marnie Mueller’s Peace Corps book, Green Fires: A Novel of the Ecuadorian Rainforest, was a winner of the Maria Thomas Award for Fiction and an American Book Award. The Climate of the Country, her second novel, is set in the Tule Lake Japanese American Segregation Camp, where she was born. My Mother’s Island, which takes place in Puerto Rico, was a BookSense76 selection and is currently under option for a feature film. She is at work on a non-fiction book, Triple Threat: The Story of a Japanese American Showgirl.
Lawrence F. Lihosit says:
Only an e-version is available.
Jason Pettus says:
Lawrence, there’s actually a paper version for sale on the same page there where the ebook version is available. Find them all at http://www.cclapcenter.com/historia .
It’s a lovely compelling review of what must be a remarkable book. The reviewer says the book is perfect. But further down in the review she says she wishes the author had told us earlier that she is Jewish. That’s very interesting — both the reviewer’s observation and the thing observed. Very interesting indeed.
Eleanor Stanford says:
Thanks for the lovely review, Marnie. Just wanted to clarify, it is available as a handmade hard copy as well–just scroll down on the link.
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Association of Apolipoprotein E Genotype and Cerebral Palsy in Children
Maxine M. Kuroda, Mary E. Weck, John F. Sarwark, Aaliyah Hamidullah and Mark S. Wainwright
Pediatrics February 2007, 119 (2) 306-313; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2006-1083
Maxine M. Kuroda
Mary E. Weck
John F. Sarwark
Aaliyah Hamidullah
Mark S. Wainwright
OBJECTIVES. We tested the hypotheses that apolipoprotein E genotype, in particular carriage of the ε4 allele, is more likely to be associated with cerebral palsy and that children with more severe neurologic impairment are more likely to carry this allele.
METHODS. In this cross-sectional study, 209 children with cerebral palsy were matched with healthy control subjects according to gender and race. Diagnosis of cerebral palsy was confirmed through physician consultation, medical chart review, and parent interview. Apolipoprotein E genotyping was performed with DNA obtained with buccal swabs. Severity of motor impairment was rated by physical therapists, and occipitofrontal circumference was measured.
RESULTS. Compared with gender- and race-matched control subjects, overall risk for cerebral palsy was elevated 3.4-fold among children carrying an ε4 allele and was particularly elevated for children with quadriplegia/triplegia. This finding was independent of birth weight. Carriage of the ε4 allele was also associated with increased severity of cerebral palsy and with a trend toward increased likelihood for microcephaly. Moreover, children carrying an ε2 allele were at greater risk for cerebral palsy.
CONCLUSIONS. These data implicate the apolipoprotein E ε4 and ε2 genotypes as susceptibility factors in determining neurologic outcomes after perinatal brain injury. Additional studies are warranted to establish the role of apolipoprotein E in specific pathogenetic pathways leading to cerebral palsy or poor neurologic outcomes after perinatal brain injury.
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Maxine M. Kuroda, Mary E. Weck, John F. Sarwark, Aaliyah Hamidullah, Mark S. Wainwright
Pediatrics Feb 2007, 119 (2) 306-313; DOI: 10.1542/peds.2006-1083
Risk of Stroke Following Trauma or Infection
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Ms Kate Cranney
https://people.csiro.au/C/K/kate-cranney
I am a science communicator, scientist and artist.
As a Communications Advisor with the Land and Water, and Energy areas of CSIRO. I deliver communications campaigns, liaise with the media, work with scientists to create communications materials, and develop content on the teams' research.
I hold a Master of Science (with Distinction) from the University of Melbourne, and a Bachelor of Law (Hons)/ Environmental Science from Griffith University. I have a background in botany, law, digital story-telling, community natural resource management, quantitative ecology, private conservation and fine art. See www.katecranney.com
Drawing, running, reading and bushwalking. I grew up on a sheep and cattle property in western Queensland, and am drawn to working in remote, beautiful parts of Australia.
Master of Science (with Distinction) (Majoring in botany and science communication)
University of Melbourne, Victoria
Bachelor of Law (Honours)/ Bachelor of Science (Environment)
Griffith University, Queensland.
International Fellowship on Science Communication
International Specialised Skills Institute and the George Alexander Foundation
OEH/ ESA Prize for Outstanding Outreach in Science
NSW Office of Environment and Heritage/ Ecological Society of Australia
Communications Advisor (Land and Water, Energy)
I deliver communications campaigns, liaise with the media, work with scientists to create communications materials, and develop content on CSIRO's research in two business units: Energy, and Land and Water.
Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (for my Masters project at Boolcoomatta Reserve)
International Fellowship on Science Communication (through ISSI and GAF, see above)
Working with the women rangers from Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands. Visiting PNG and Arnavon Community Marine Park (the first national park in the Solomon Islands), before helping to bring 50+ of these leaders together for a week of training in Brisbane, for 'Nature's Leading Women'.
Field research and reporting in the Simpson Desert in far west Queensland. I was the 'reporter in the field' for Bush Heritage, interviewing, filming and writing stories about the research done by the University of Sydney. It was hot, sandy, fun, dawn-to-dusk science.
Climbing tall trees for science. I worked for a month in the rainforests of Queensland and Borneo, collecting and sorting samples of insects for the Smithsonian Institute's global insect biodiversity study, ‘IBISCA’.
Communications Coordinator, Melanesia Program
Science Communicator
Research Assistant (Entomology, field ecology)
Policy Officer with the Torres Strait Islander Rangers
Torres Strait Regional Authority
Policy Officer with the Water Allocation and Planning group
Department of Natural Resources and Mines (Queensland)
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Response to Expanding the role of social science in conservation through an engagement with philosophy, methodology and methods
https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13130
Nibedita Mukherjee (Lead Author)
David C. Rose
Davide Geneletti
Mark Everard
William J. Sutherland
In a previous series of papers (Sutherland, Dicks, Everard, & Geneletti,), we summarise the use of a range of social science methods in conservation decision-making. Moon et al. () claim that the special feature risks narrowing the scope of social science research and suggest that we presented a limited perspective on the field. They thereby criticise the special feature for not doing something that it never intended to do in the first instance. We did not claim that the list of articles covered in the special feature is a comprehensive list (which it obviously is not) and we are unclear why anyone would think it is. While we consider the Moon et al. () paper to be a useful contribution for conservation scientists as a supplementary paper, it serves less as a critique to the special feature. Moon et al.('s () paper makes very few direct and substantive criticisms of points raised in the special feature. We respond to areas of contention referring specifically to research philosophy, bias, and data reporting. Moon et al. () criticise the set of papers for perpetuating an objectivist view of the world. We believe that it would be rather disconcerting for the research community if there were no social truths to discover. Rather, social science research methods conducted in specific places can be good ways of exploring how truths vary in different contexts. We also note that Moon et al. () completely missed the point we were trying to make about psychological biases, which are quite different to the issues associated with researcher bias highlighted by them. We encourage readers to pay close attention to the use of social science methods in conservation science. We reiterate, however, that the main purpose of the special feature was to ensure that social science methodologies for decision-making are accessible for all conservation scientists to use, regardless of disciplinary background.
Methods in Ecology and Evolution
bias, conservation social science, decision-making, focus groups, interviews, philosophy, policy-making, qualitative methods
Bibliographic note
Early title: Response to Moon et al. (2018) in reply to "Sutherland, W. J., Dicks, L. V., Everard, M. and Geneletti, D. 2018. Qualitative methods for ecologists and conservation scientists
Semi‐quantitative characterisation of mixed pollen samples using MinION sequencing and Reverse Metagenomics (RevMet)
bmotif: A package for motif analyses of bipartite networks
Revisiting niche fundamentals with Tukey depth
A methodological guide to using and reporting on interviews in conservation science research
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Jayyus villagers protest the Wall and theft of their land
Postat den 15 juli 2008 av palestinagrupperna
Date report written on: July 11th, 2008
The International Women’s Peace Service, Haris, Salfit, Palestine.
Tel:- (09)-2516-644.
Email:- iwps@palnet.com
On Friday July 11th, IWPS volunteers joined the villagers of Jayyus, other international activists, Israelis and local Palestinian government officials in a peaceful demonstration against the Apartheid Wall. Jayyus, located in the Qalqilya district of the West Bank, was one of the first villages to be affected by the construction of this ”separation barrier”: over 78% of Jayyus’ land (9,800 dunums), as well as 2,000 olive trees were confiscated by Israel for the construction of the wall in 2002.
Farmers who wish to access the fields lying beyond it must now apply for difficult to obtain permits and pass through one of three gates in order to reach their land. This has caused numerous financial problems in the village’s families, as most are now cut off from their main source of income, agriculture.
Due to a 2006 ruling by the Israeli high court stating that settlements were to be a considered a security priority, Israeli army officials were asked to draw up new routes for the separation wall. The new plans for Jayyus still mean a loss of 6000 dunums of land, and further disadvantage the village by not including access gates to the fields which would remain behind the wall.
The Jayyus community has until July 28th to respond to this new proposal, but the message they sent Israel as they stood in front of one of the gates today was loud and clear: remove all sections of the Apartheid Wall!
Jayyus is calling for international support in removing the Apartheid Wall from its land as well as from all of the occupied Palestinian territories.
July 9th marked the 4th anniversary of the International Court of Justice’s hearing, which deemed the wall illegal. Israel has yet to remove any part of it
For more information, please contact the mayor of Jayyus, Mohammed Taher Jabber, by phone at 0599-886861 or via email at baladietjayyous@yahoo.com
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Washington, D.C. – Today, Pay Our Interns released the findings of its House internship audit, finding that only nine percent of Congressional offices advertise paid internships.
Last September, the House of Representatives appropriated $8.8 million to fund congressional internships, creating thousands of paid opportunities for young adults regardless of their socio-economic status. The Committee on House Administration released guidelines for offices to utilize their respective $20,000 allotment in late March allowing them to pay interns beginning in April, but we received numerous alerts from current interns and prospective applicants their respective congressional member was still advertising unpaid internships. As a result, we conducted an analysis on how House offices are advertising their internships.
Using publicly available data, we identified congressional offices that offer paid internships, do not offer paid internships, or omit internship payment information on their website.
We found:
9 percent of House offices advertise that they offer paid internships
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30 percent of House offices omit information about salaries on their website
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Carlos Mark Vera, Co-Founder of Pay Our Interns. “We have heard from several offices that the $20,000 is simply is not enough to pay interns. While we continue to work with the Appropriations committee as well as others to obtain more funds, it is extremely important for offices to use what they have. This is not a Democrat vs. Republican issue. With only 9 percent of House offices advertising paid internships, it is clearly a congressional issue. We are calling on all offices to update their websites to reflect that internships are paid, and reach out to POI with questions about establishing a paid internship program.”
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Since beginning his career in the late 90s, Japanese producer Yasutaka Nakata's maximalist take on electro-pop has gained favor with his some of his country's largest pop acts. His sparse new Caps Lock isn’t the easiest entry into his music, but features enough great moments to make people revisit his past.
Since beginning his career in the late 90s, Japanese producer Yasutaka Nakata's maximalist take on electro-pop has turned two acts (techno-pop trio Perfume and model-turned-performer Kyary Pamyu Pamyu) into household names and chart staples in his native country. Capsule, his personal outfit alongside singer Toshiko Koshijima, racked up critical accolades while his more mainstream projects changed the nation’s pop landscape. Recently, his influence has spread across the sea—North American artists Grimes and Passion Pit cite his sound as an inspiration, while his fill-every-second-of-the-track approach predicted the booming EDM sound (popular producer Zedd has mentioned Nakata in interviews).
Caps Lock, Capsule’s 14th studio album and first for Warner Music Japan, could have been his opportunity to jump into the EDM scene he helped shape and turn the spotlight on himself. Instead, he’s made an album thematically structured around a computer keyboard. This is Nakata’s most spacious creation yet, a recording that finds the usually manic Nakata taking time to let ideas develop slowly and indulge in some experimentation. He’s chasing down his own artistic ideas—after spending so long developing others—and ends up with a muted full-length. It isn’t his best work, but it’s among his most interesting.
Nakata's decision to mix things up isn’t a huge surprise, however. Capsule has always been a shifty group sonically, originally working with the globe-hopping sounds of Shibuya-kei, a late-90s style popularized by Cornelius and Pizzicato Five. Those artists jumped to pounding, club-friendly electro-pop, which the pair explored up until the more headphone-friendly Caps Lock. Nakata has included one excellent gateway into his music here with “Control", a busy number highlighting the cornerstones of his production style. Save for a sparse intro, “Control” bounces forward on a cascade of synthesizers and Koshijima’s digitally warped vocals. He even stuffs in some laser sounds, a nod to his earliest constructions.
Yet nearly everything else on Caps Lock finds Nakata entering new territory. Whereas nearly all his past work burst into life right away, the songs here take their time to develop. “Delete” and “Space” start as minimalistic chugs, Nakata introducing new sonic elements slowly as each plods ahead. His newfound interest in delayed gratification is intriguing, but Nakata still needs to work on finding a climax, as both “Delete” and “Space” press forward without ever reaching a real payoff. It brings to mind the similarly aimless work of (frequent Capsule comparison) Daft Punk on the Tron: Legacy soundtrack.
Nakata also shows off a newfound interest in sampled sounds on Caps Lock. A ticking clock appears during the first leg of “Delete” and plays a more prominent role on “Esc". The latter track is the most left-field work he’s ever done, less a song and more a field recording of a haunted attic complete with footsteps and whispers. “12345678” places sampled sounds of floorboard creaks and a car horn into a more conventional song structure, and this collage approach makes for an interesting three-minute experiment. Unfortunately, the song lasts just over six minutes, and Nakata’s charming approach soon turns tiring.
Of all the changes to Capsule’s music on this album, the only big misfire is Nakata’s decision to rely on Koshijima’s voice less in his final mixes. She only appears on half of the songs here, and in two instances she’s reduced to nothing much more than single-syllable topping, her addition failing to add much to either “Delete” or “Space". It’s not that Koshijima boasts great chops—every singer Nakata has worked with gets put through layers of digital manipulation. Yet the processed singing fits in seamlessly in Nakata’s buzzing tracks, and add warmth to his songs. The two best songs on Caps Lock are the ones that let Koshijima linger; on a song like “Shift", Nakata slices up his singer’s words thin but also rearrange them into catchy android speak.
Caps Lock is the sound of a producer who has spent the last few years dealing almost exclusively with the demands of pop songwriting getting the chance to dump a bunch of ideas out of his head at once, resulting in an album that’s all over the place. It’s a strange, albeit brave, album, given Nakata's current visibility. Caps Lock isn’t the easiest entry into his music, but features enough great moments to hopefully make people dig into his rich past.
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AFGANISTAN (Country) Russian, Polish, Slovak, Slovene, Croatian, Bulgarian, Finnish, Estonian, Icelandic, Greek, Indonesian
Form of AFGHANISTAN in several languages.
AFRIKA (Region) German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Russian, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian
Form of AFRICA in several languages.
ALBANIJA (Country) Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Macedonian, Slovene, Lithuanian
Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Macedonian, Slovene and Lithuanian form of ALBANIA.
AMERIKA (Region & Country) German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Luxembourgish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Hungarian, Hebrew, Albanian, Armenian, Georgian, Tatar, Bashkir, Chechen, Kazakh, Uzbek, Indonesian, Malay
Form of AMERICA, used to refer to the continents and sometimes to the United States of America.
ANGOLA (Country) Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Albanian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Turkish, Georgian, Indonesian, Malay
Portuguese form of Ngola, the royal title of the kings of Ndongo, an African kingdom that was conquered by the Portuguese in the 17th-century. It was a Portuguese colony until 1975, when it became an independent country.
ANTWERPEN (Settlement) Dutch, German, Luxembourgish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Finnish, Hungarian, Slovene, Croatian, Bosnian
Dutch form of ANTWERP, as well as the form in several other languages.
ARGENTINA (Country) Spanish, English, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Czech, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Macedonian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Estonian, Lithuanian, Georgian, Indonesian, Malay
From Latin argentinus meaning "silvery", a derivative of argentum meaning "silver". This is the name of a country in South America, arising from a Latinized form of Spanish Río de la Plata meaning "river of silver".
ARMENIJA (Country) Croatian, Bosnian, Slovene
Croatian, Bosnian and Slovene form of ARMENIA.
ATINA (Settlement) Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian
Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian and Macedonian form of ATHENS.
AUSTRALIJA (Region & Country) Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Lithuanian
Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Lithuanian form of AUSTRALIA.
BELGIJA (Country) Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovene, Macedonian, Lithuanian
Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovene, Macedonian and Lithuanian form of BELGIUM.
BELIZE (Country & River) English, Italian, Portuguese, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Estonian, Polish, Hungarian, Romanian, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, Indonesian, Malay
From Spanish Belice, earlier Balis, from the name of the Belize River, which may itself be from Mayan beliz meaning "muddy water". This is the name of a country on the Atlantic coast of Central America.
BENIN (Settlement, Body of Water & Country) English, Italian, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Estonian, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Slovene, Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Romanian, Indonesian, Malay
BERLIN (Settlement) German, English, French, Polish, Hungarian, Croatian, Serbian
City in Germany, the name of which is of uncertain meaning. It is possibly derived from an Old Slavic stem berl- meaning "swamp".
BJELORUSIJA (Country) Croatian
Croatian form of BELARUS.
BOLIVIJA (Country) Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovene, Macedonian, Lithuanian
Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovene, Macedonian and Lithuanian form of BOLIVIA.
BRAZIL (Country) English, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Macedonian, Malay
From the name of a type of tree, called pau-brasil in Portuguese (brazilwood in English). It may ultimately derive from Portuguese brasa meaning "ember". This is the name of a country in South America.
ČAD (Body of Water & Country) Czech, Slovak, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Macedonian, Slovene
Czech, Slovak, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Macedonian and Slovene form of Arabic تشاد (see CHAD).
DANSKA (Country) Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovene, Macedonian
Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovene and Macedonian form of DENMARK.
EGIPAT (Country) Serbian, Croatian
Serbian and Croatian form of EGYPT.
ESTONIJA (Country) Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovene, Macedonian
Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovene and Macedonian form of ESTONIA.
ETIOPIJA (Country) Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian, Lithuanian, Latvian
Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian, Lithuanian and Latvian form of Aethiopia (see ETHIOPIA).
FINSKA (Country) Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian
Croatian, Serbian, Slovene and Macedonian form of FINLAND.
FRANCUSKA (Country) Croatian, Serbian
Croatian and Serbian form of FRANCE.
GANA (Country) Western African, Akan, Ewe, Portuguese, Russian, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Albanian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian, Turkish, Georgian, Armenian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Turkmen, Uzbek, Mongolian, Korean
Form of GHANA.
HRVATSKA (Country) Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Macedonian
Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian and Macedonian form of CROATIA.
INDIJA (Country) Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovene, Macedonian, Latvian, Lithuanian
Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovene, Macedonian, Latvian and Lithuanian form of INDIA.
INDONEZIJA (Country) Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovene, Macedonian, Lithuanian
Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovene, Macedonian and Lithuanian form of INDONESIA.
IRAK (Country) German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Croatian, Serbian, Slovak, Greek, Armenian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Thai, Lao, Mongolian, Indonesian
Form of IRAQ in several languages.
IRAN (Country) Persian, Arabic, English, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Greek, Hebrew, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Urdu, Indian, Hindi, Indonesian, Malay, Burmese, Thai, Tagalog, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian
Derived from Middle Persian Eran, related to Old Iranian Arya meaning "Iranian, Aryan". This is the name of a country in western Asia, formerly called Persia in the West.
IRSKA (Country & Island) Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Macedonian, Slovene
Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Macedonian and Slovene form of ÉIRE.
ITALIJA (Country) Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, Lithuanian
Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian and Lithuanian form of Italia (see ITALY).
IZRAEL (Country) Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Croatian, Slovene, Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian
Form of ISRAEL.
JAPAN (Country) English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian
From Portuguese Japão, which was derived from a Malay form of Riben, the Chinese reading of NIPPON.
JERUZALEM (Settlement) Dutch, Slovak, Slovene, Croatian
Dutch, Slovak, Slovene and Croatian form of JERUSALEM.
JORDAN (River & Country) English, Danish, Norwegian, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Macedonian, German, Swedish, Finnish, Estonian, Polish, Slovene, Biblical
River that flows between the countries of Jordan and Israel. The river's name in Hebrew is יַרְדֵן (Yarden), and it is derived from יָרַד (yarad) meaning "descend" or "flow down". The river has lent its name to the country to the east (in German, Swedish, Finnish, Estonian, Polish and Slovene this is only the name of the river, with the name of the country taking a different form).
KANADA (Country) German, Swedish, Icelandic, Finnish, Estonian, Lithuanian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Russian, Slovene, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Georgian, Indonesian, Malay
Form of CANADA in several languages.
KARPATI (Region) Serbian, Croatian
Serbian and Croatian form of CARPATHIANS.
KAZAHSTAN (Country) Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Romanian
Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Macedonian and Romanian form of Kazakh Қазақстан (see KAZAKHSTAN).
KENIJA (Country & Mountain) Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian, Lithuanian, Latvian
Form of KENYA in several languages.
KINA (Country) Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, Albanian, Greek
Form of CHINA.
KIRGISTAN (Country) Polish, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Macedonian, Icelandic, German
Form of KYRGYZSTAN in several languages, as well as a German variant.
KOLUMBIJA (Country, Region, Settlement & Political Subdivision) Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovene, Macedonian, Latvian, Lithuanian
Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovene, Macedonian, Latvian and Lithuanian form of COLUMBIA and COLOMBIA.
KONGO (Region, River & Country) Central African, Kongo, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Russian, Bulgarian, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Macedonian, Turkish, Georgian
Form of CONGO in many languages.
KRAKOV (Settlement) Czech, Slovak, Russian, Croatian, Serbian
Form of KRAKÓW.
LAOS (Country) French, English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Finnish, Estonian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Uzbek, Turkmen, Greek, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Armenian, Indian, Hindi, Nepali, Malay, Indonesian, Tagalog, Filipino
The name of a country in southeastern Asia, derived from the Lao people, the majority ethnic group. Their name may be derived from an Austroasiatic root meaning "human". The name Laos was originally applied to the region by France, who established it as a colony in 1893. It achieved independence in 1953.
LIBERIJA (Country) Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovene, Macedonian, Lithuanian
Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovene, Macedonian and Lithuanian form of LIBERIA.
LITVA (Country) Russian, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Georgian
Russian, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Slovene, Bulgarian and Georgian form of Lietuva (see LITHUANIA).
LONDON (Settlement) English, German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Russian, Croatian, Serbian, Slovene
From Latin Londinium, of unknown meaning. This is the capital city of the United Kingdom.
MAĐARSKA (Country) Croatian, Serbian
Croatian and Serbian form of MAGYARORSZÁG.
MAKEDONIJA (Region, Country & Political Subdivision) Macedonian, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovene, Lithuanian
Macedonian form of MACEDONIA, as well as the form in several other languages.
MARKE (Political Subdivision) Croatian
Croatian form of MARCHE.
MAROKO (Country) Polish, Estonian, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Greek, Georgian, Indonesian
Form of MOROCCO in several languages.
MARRAKECH (Settlement) French, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Croatian
French, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish and Croatian form of Arabic مرّاكش (see MARRAKESH).
MEDINA (Settlement) English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Dutch, Croatian, Serbian
Form of Arabic المدينة (al-Madinah) meaning "the city". This is the name of a city in Saudi Arabia, considered a holy site in Islam because the Prophet Muhammad was based there for a period.
MEKSIKO (Country & Settlement) Finnish, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Southern African, Afrikaans, Hindi, Indian, Bengali, Nepali, Indonesian
Finnish, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Afrikaans, Hindi, Bengali, Nepali and Indonesian form of MEXICO. In Finnish it refers only to the country, not the capital city.
MIJANMAR (Country) Serbian, Croatian
Serbian and Croatian variant form of MYANMAR.
MJANMAR (Country) Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovene, Macedonian
Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovene and Macedonian form of MYANMAR.
MONGOLIJA (Country, Political Subdivision & Region) Latvian, Lithuanian, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Macedonian, Slovene
Latvian, Lithuanian, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Macedonian and Slovene form of MONGOLIA.
NAZARET (Settlement) Spanish, Italian, German, Polish, Czech, Greek, Armenian, Croatian, Serbian, Ancient Greek, Biblical Greek
Form of NAZARETH in various languages.
NEPAL (Country) Nepali, Indian, Hindi, English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Finnish, Estonian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Romanian, Slovene, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Greek, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Indonesian, Malay, Sanskrit
From Sanskrit नेपाल (Nepal), of unknown meaning. This is the name of a landlocked country in south Asia.
NIGER (River & Country) English, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Swedish, Croatian, Serbian, Late Roman
Meaning unknown, possibly of Berber origin, though influenced by Latin niger "black". This is the name of a river in western Africa (and a country that is named after it).
NIGERIJA (Country) Lithuanian, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Macedonian, Slovene
Lithuanian, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Macedonian and Slovene form of NIGERIA.
NIL (River) Arabic, French, German, Luxembourgish, Catalan, Czech, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Azerbaijani
Form of NILE in various languages. In Arabic it is properly written with the definite article: النيل (al-Nil).
NIZOZEMSKA (Country) Croatian, Slovene
Croatian and Slovene cognate of NIZOZEMSKO, referring to the Netherlands.
NJEMAČKA (Country) Serbian, Croatian
Serbian and Croatian cognate of NIEMCY, used as the name of Germany.
NORVEŠKA (Country) Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, Slovene
Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian and Slovene form of NORWAY.
PADOVA (Settlement) Italian, Romanian, Croatian, Serbian
Italian, Romanian, Croatian and Serbian form of PADUA.
PAKISTAN (Country) Urdu, Punjabi, English, Italian, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Polish, Slovak, Russian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian
From Persian پاک (pak) meaning "pure" and the suffix ستان (stan) meaning "land of". The name was coined in 1933 by the Pakistani nationalist Choudhry Rahmat Ali who justified it as an acronym of Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir and Sindh, plus the final three letters of Baluchistan.
PEKING (Settlement) German, Dutch, Luxembourgish, Swedish, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, English (Archaic)
Form of BEIJING in various languages, as well as an older English form.
PERU (Country) English, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Russian, Ukrainian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Hungarian, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Georgian, Indian, Hindi
From Spanish Perú, older Birú, which was possibly derived from the name of a chieftain (who nevertheless resided in modern-day Panama).
POLJSKA (Country) Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovene
Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Slovene form of POLAND.
PORTUGAL (Country) Portuguese, English, French, Spanish, Galician, Catalan, German, Dutch, Luxembourgish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Estonian, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Indonesian, Malay
From Portugale, which was derived from PORTUS CALE, the old name of the city of Porto. The name of the city was later applied to the entire country.
PRAG (Settlement) German, Swedish, Danish, Icelandic, Luxembourgish, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Turkish
German, Swedish, Danish, Icelandic, Luxembourgish, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian and Turkish form of Praha (see PRAGUE).
RUMUNJSKA (Country) Croatian
Croatian form of ROMANIA.
RUSIJA (Country) Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian, Lithuanian
Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian and Lithuanian form of RUSSIA.
SENEGAL (River & Country) Portuguese, English, Spanish, Italian, German, Swedish, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Finnish, Estonian, Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Romanian, Turkish, Armenian, Persian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Uzbek, Turkmen, Mongolian, Indian, Hindi, Bengali, Korean, Indonesian, Malay, Tagalog, Filipino
From Portuguese, possibly from the name of the Berber Zenaga people of northern Senegal. This is the name of a river in western Africa, and a country named after it. It gained independence from France in 1960.
SIRIJA (Country) Lithuanian, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Slovene, Macedonian
Lithuanian, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Slovene and Macedonian form of SYRIA.
SLOVAČKA (Country) Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian
Croatian, Serbian and Macedonian form of SLOVAKIA.
SLOVENIJA (Country) Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Macedonian
From medieval Slavic slovene referring to the tribe of the Slavs. This is the Slovene name for Slovenia.
SOMALIJA (Country) Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, Slovene
Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian and Slovene form of SOMALIA.
ŠPANJOLSKA (Country) Croatian
Croatian form of Hispania (see SPAIN).
SRBIJA (Country) Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovene, Macedonian
Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovene and Macedonian form of SERBIA.
SUDAN (Country) English, Arabic, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Italian, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Slovene, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Indonesian, Malay, Chinese, Thai
From Arabic سُود (sud) meaning "black", referring to the darker skin of the inhabitants. This is the name of a country in Africa. In Arabic it is properly written with the definite article: السُودان (al-Sudan).
ŠVEDSKA (Country) Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Macedonian, Slovene
Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Macedonian and Slovene form of SWEDEN.
ŠVICARSKA (Country) Croatian
Croatian form of SCHWEIZ, used as the Croatian name for Switzerland.
TAJLAND (Country) Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Macedonian
Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Macedonian form of THAILAND.
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Biff Byford, Saxon, Interview.
Del Preston July 5, 2013 Text Interviews Comments Off on Biff Byford, Saxon, Interview. 849 Views
After twenty albums Saxon still have the ability to rejuvenate their talent and direction. As we all know Saxon have had their fair share of high and lows, and with their latest album ‘Sacrifice’, they have proven again to the modernism people of the metal world, Saxon are still soaring high.
In the interview, I wanted to capture that essence of early working class life and the truth of what it’s like to be in one of the most successful NWOBHM bands, and to gain an understanding of how much our roots effect the actions and career paths we take.
‘Dogs Of War’ is being released on special edition picture disc vinyl. It is an album that was originally delivered during the dark time for NWOBHM as grunge was at it’s pinnacle. Saxon tackle it with their heaviest album yet, a cover that’s fixated in the minds of their fans and Saxon’s pursuit. It was a challenging time for the bands progression and mainstay guitarist Graham Oliver to split from the band he founded back in 1976.
Lara- Why ‘Dogs Of War’ album – do you have any personal attachment to this album, as it was recorded in Boston back in 1995, an old Yorkshire mining town much like Barnsley?
Biff- Well it was the first of the heavier albums song wise and it was Oliver’s last album it was written in Boston but recorded in Manchester and Hamburg. It was a difficult time for the band as I was trying to bring back a more anthem -ed style of song writing.
Lara- Saxon are very much a hard working band with a strong work ethic. Does a working class environment get the best out of you guys considering you have recorded a few albums in Boston and yourself growing up in a sleepy village such as Honley?
Biff- Well we are a working class bunch of guys and we have never stopped I am a country boy at heart so but it’s the love of the music that drives you.
Lara- Saxon have only just released ‘Sacrifice’. Surely the focus would be on the just released album that has been so successful- ‘Sacrifice’ took a heavier turn compared to ‘Call to Arms’. ‘Dogs Of War’ was your album noted for being more aggressive and notorious for the album artwork and riffs, especially in the album title track- does that have any relevance in the re-release?
Biff- The focus is on ‘Sacrifice’ at the moment. Demon Records (who are releasing ‘Dogs Of War’) have nothing to do with this. ‘Sacrifice’ is a heavier album with melody, which is a Saxon trademark, so I suppose they are connected in some way. The artwork was an original painting by Paul R Gregory
Lara- Over the years there has been experiments with different styles in your music but still keeping to that true hard rock sound that Saxon has. In the album ‘Dogs of War’ and looking at ‘Sacrifice’ there is changes to the delivery of vocals, ‘DOW’ a more quiet softer touch and ‘Sacrifice’ an aggressive and visceral feel. Do you feel you still have to prove yourself as a vocalist?
Biff- ‘Dogs Of War’ was produced by the same guy who produced ‘Solid Ball Of Rock’so the sound is friendly. ‘Sacrifice’ was produced by me and mixed by Andy Sneap so it had a much more aggressive feel. I don’t really think about if I am a good vocalist… I leave that up to fans and critics!
Lara- Going way back when you were an aspiring vocalist, was it tough to be taken seriously coming from Barnsley, what techniques and styles did you look upon when defining your own style?
Biff- I think it’s tough wherever you’re from when you are an unknown band. Our early style was Blues Rock with a Prog influence but with a bit of Led Zep, Sabbath iand Wishbone Ash in there.
Lara- Saxon are one of the longest NWOBHM bands going. How do you feel about the current metal scene and who do you feel will be the successors to the throne?
Biff- Well I suppose Saxon and Maiden are the more successful of those times. I think the scene at the moment is wide open for some bands to come along and take the Throne.
Lara- As a band that has just released their twentieth album, do you feel there is much legitimacy in the music industry or do you think the days of bands having careers that span twenty albums are over?
Biff- I think it’s all changed with digital technology these days. You have to embrace it but keep an eye on the past. I think bands can still have long careers.
Lara- Thank you Biff for your time.
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So there I am, in Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon, at about 3 o'clock in the morning, looking for one thousand brown M&Ms to fill a brandy glass, or Ozzy wouldn't go on stage that night. So, Jeff Beck pops his head 'round the door, and mentions there's a little sweet shop on the edge of town. So - we go. And - it's closed. So there's me and Keith Moon and David Crosby, breaking into that little sweet shop, eh. Well, instead of a guard dog, they've got this bloody great big Bengal tiger. I managed to take out the tiger with a can of mace, but the shop owner and his son, that's a different story altogether. I had to beat them to death with their own shoes. Nasty business really. But sure enough, I got the M&Ms and Ozzy went on stage and did a great show.
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Mac’s McLaren: Peter Revson, Dave Charlton and John McCormack’s McLaren M23/2…
Posted: July 24, 2014 in F1, Features
Tags: British Grand Prix 1973, CanAm Series 1979, Dave Charlton, John McCormack, MclarenM23/2 Ford, MclarenM23/2 Repco CanAm, McLarenM23/2 Repco Leyland, Peter Revson, Repco
(The Cahier Archive)
Peter Revson on his way to fourth place in McLaren M23/2 in the 1973 Spanish GP, Montjuich Park, Barcelona.
No other individual chassis has raced in F1, F5000 and Can-Am championships before conversion back through F5000 to its original F1 specifications. McLaren M23/2 is that car.
The McLaren M23 was one of the marques most successful designs, winning Grands’ Prix from 1973 to 1977 and Drivers and Manufacturers World Titles for Emerson Fittipaldi, James Hunt and McLaren in 1974 and 1976.
Coppuck’s Design…
Gordon Coppuck was responsible for the teams innovative and successful CanAm and Indycar designs, Ralph Bellamy’s departure from McLaren and return to Brabham gave Coppuck his F1 design chance.
The car followed the conceptual path blazed by the Lotus 56/72 in having a chisel nose, side radiators and rising rate suspension, rather than the Tyrrell ‘bluff nose’ alternative aero approach of the day. McLaren’s very successful M16 Indycar followed the 72 so it was a logical step for Coppuck, using the well established McLaren interactive design approach, with many on the shop floor having input into the conceptual stages of new car development.
The M23 was a typical British ‘kit car’ of the period with its Cosworth DFV 3 litre V8 and Hewland FG 400 5 speed gearbox. New deformable structure rules mandated for ’73 allowed a fresh approach to address the M19’s shortcomings which were a lack of straight line speed and weight. The chassis was formed in 16 gauge aluminium sheet, all joints bonded and riveted, the radiator sidepods an integral extension of the structure. Fuel tankage was centralised to promote a ‘Tyrrell like’ low polar moment of inertia, the driving position pushed forward relative to the M19.
Front suspension comprised rising or progressive rate linkages, a large lower wishbone and top rocker actuated inboard mounted spring/shock units. At the rear a reversed lower wishbone, single top link and twin radius rods were used, spring rate progression was achieved with the winding of the coil springs.
Front bulkhead, nose-cone support, master cylinders, wide-based lower wishbone, top rocker & inboard spring / shock, workmanship clear…(John Lemm)
Brakes were Lockheed ‘Can-Am’ calipers, rotors 10.5 inches in diameter, outboard at the front and inboard, beside the gearbox, at the rear. The bodywork was ‘all enveloping’, the airbox neatly covered the engine aiding airflow to the rear wing. Wheelbase of the new machine was 101 inches, front track 65 inches, rear 62.5 inches, the length was 170 inches with the whole lot weighing a claimed 1270 pounds distributed 34/66 % front to rear.
1973 Grand Prix Season…
Four of these ‘original spec’ cars were built for 1973, the prototype M23/1 was tested at Goodwood by Denny Hulme before setting off for the season opening South African GP at Kyalami. Denny was immediately quicker than in the M19, rapidly adjusting to the ‘far forward’ driving position- Hulme put the car on pole at Kyalami and lead the race before puncturing a tyre on debris.
Other McLaren team drivers were Mike Hailwood and Peter Revson in his first fulltime Grand Prix season. Revson started his grand prix career in the early 60’s before returning to his native USA and making his name in the Can-Am series which he won in 1971 in a McLaren M8F. He was also McLaren’s Indy driver.
A relaxed Peter Revson prior to the start of his successful British GP at Silverstone ’73…his first GP win (unattributed)
M23/2 debuted in Revson’s hands on 8 April 1973 at the Silverstone International Trophy, finishing 4th, it was to be his car for most of the year, his promise as an F1 driver fulfilled with a tremendous victory at Silverstone in the British Grand Prix.
McLaren’s ‘cub driver’ Jody Scheckter, in another M23 famously caused a multi-car pileup after losing control at Woodcote at the end of lap 1 and proving the strength of Coppuck’s design.
Peter Revson en-route to victory in M23/2 , Silverstone ’73 (unattributed)
M23/2 was used by Scheckter later in the season in Canada and the US before being sold to South African ace Dave Charlton.
Dave Charltons’ Championship car in 1974 and 1975…
Dave Charlton delicately drifts M23/2, South African GP Kyalami 1975. He finished 14th in the race won by countryman Jody Scheckters’ Tyrrell 007 (reddit.com)
The McLaren replaced Charltons’ Lotus 72D for the South African National Championship, it was incredibly successful winning 8 races and Championships in ’74/5.
Dave set a Kyalami lap record in the 1975 Rand Winter Trophy which stood for years until broken in the ground-effects era. The cost of F1 cars was getting out of hand, so Charlton offered the car for sale with the introduction of Formula Atlantic as South Africa’s Championship class from 1976.
Dave Charlton in M23/2 Brandkop circuit, Orange Free State, South Africa ’74…2 SA Championships on the trot in ’74-5 in M23/2 (David Pearson)
Rob Ryders’ shot of Dave Charlton at the 1972 British Grand Prix, his Lotus 72D retired with gearbox failure. (Rob Ryder)
Oran Park Gold Star round 1978. McCormack, Graham McRae, McRae GM3 Chev, Elfin MR8 at rear (John Shingleton)
Aussie F5000 racer John Mc Cormack was the eager purchaser- ’Charlton was a terrific bloke to deal with, I bought the car, 20 wheels, multiple sets of front and rear wings, bodywork, 2 types of airbox, less engines, which I should have bought and sold later, then the exchange rate moved in my favour so it was a really good deal’.
‘McLaren were still racing the car when I bought it, I had contacts there and they were used to dealing with customers so it all made good sense, as long as we could get the engine to play its part….’
John McCormack promoting the ‘Racesafe Wool TT’ racesuit circa ’76
John McCormack aboard his recently acquired Brabham BT4 Climax at Penguin Hillclimb, Northern Tasmania in 1967 (HRCCT)
McCormack started racing in his native Tasmania breaking into the national scene with the purchase of Jack Brabham’s ’62 AGP car, a Brabham BT4 Climax.
He proved he could mix with the ‘big boys’ in an Elfin 600C Climax, a very competitive car when fitted with a Repco ‘740 Series’ V8 in place of the old Climax.
He bought the very first Elfin MR5 Repco in 1971 and via his connection with PIARC’s John Lanyon did the Ansett sponsorship deal to create the two car ‘Ansett Team Elfin’ with Elfin owner/designer/driver Garrie Cooper. McCormack and his team developed his car to be very competitive, winning the Australian Drivers Championship, the ‘Gold Star’ in 1973 and the NZ GP, part of the annual Tasman Series of eight races run in Australia and New Zealand every summer, in 1973 and 1974.
Tasmanian Gold Star race success. Mac second in the 1967 Symmons Plains event to Greg Cusacks’ Repco engined Brabham BT23. Car is McCormacks’ ex Brabham BT4 Climax (oldracephotos)
In search of ‘the unfair advantage’ over the heavy Holden and Chevrolet engined cars, Repco’s Phil Irving spotted the new Leyland P76 family car engine, a 4.4 litre aluminium block V8, at the Melbourne Motor Show.
Elfin’s John Lanyon quickly did a deal with Leyland and Repco to jointly fund development of an F5000 variant of the new engine for a car specifically designed for it to distribute the weight in a fashion more akin to an F1 car, rather than the ‘ tail happy’ F5000’s. McCormack characterised the 5 litre beasts as ‘like having a pendulum in the car’. Cooper’s ‘Little Car’ was the Elfin MR6, a new design which debuted for the 1974 season.
John McCormack debuts the Elfin MR6 Repco Leyland # ‘MR6L 6741′ at Oran Park on 30 January 1974. A big panic as the car was running late and was launched in NSW, at Oran Park near Leylands’ Zetland HQ, a long way from Elfin’s base in Edwardstown, Adelaide… Mac was not happy with the Tasman Series starting in NZ several days later but the car did manage a few laps despite not having ever turned a wheel before…MR6 small by F5000 standards and very 1973 Tyrrell 006 like in appearance.
Repco developed an engine with a capacity of 4931cc, a 94mm bore and 89mm stroke. As originally developed, the engine used the P76 cylinder block fitted with special liners and main bearing stiffening plates, the cast iron crank was replaced with steel units after initial failures. Cylinder heads were P76 with flowed inlet and exhaust ports and larger valves. Pistons, con-rods and bearings were Repco, as was the dry sump setup which utilised three stage pressure and scavenge pumps. Fuel injection was by Lucas and a Repco Lorimer dual point distributor fed by coils provided the spark.
Critically the engine weighed only 160kg compared with the Holdens 220kg, however the claimed power of 425 bhp @ 6800rpm and 375 lb ft of torque at 5500 rpm was far less than the circa 500 bhp of a Holden or Chev. Elfin’s Dale Koenneke quipped that the engine when first raced in early ’74 had ‘no more than 365 bhp’ when installed in the MR6. History tends to support the contention that the horses were ponies rather than stallions!
The engine had many teething problems, the fragility of the engines blocks and cast iron cranks together with consistent overheating were exacerbated by Repco’s withdrawal from racing and therefore lack of commitment to the project.
McCormack used both the MR5 and MR6 in ’74, before converting the MR6 to accept the Repco Holden engine. ‘Dale Koenneke said enough! We put in all this effort and the thing just shits itself, lets put the Holden into it’ in this form winning the ’75 Gold Star.
McCormack, an independent thinker was still convinced the Repco Leyland could be a winner in the right car, the question was finding one!
And so, M23/2 came to Australia, sans DFV but with plenty of spares…
McCormacks team of Dale Koenneke and Simon Aram did a beautiful job installing the Repco Leyland into the car without ‘butchery’.
The engine, after modification of the harmonic balancer and relocation of water pump and oil tank, fitted neatly into the tub albeit as an unstressed member, which the DFV of course was, the engine supported by traditional tubular ‘A frame’s.
Engine sans exhausts, neat installation of the Leyland engine where a DFV was designed to go apparent. ‘A Frame’ engine mounts, side rads, inboard discs, conventional parallel lower links, single top link and coil spring/ shock units in contrast to inboard front set-up…(JohnLemm)
McCormack engaged famous Aussie engineer Phil Irving (ex Repco, Vincent) to further develop the engine from its Repco base.
Irving designed new heads cast by Comalco, which eliminated separate valve guides and seats. The design also featured a ‘bent’ pushrod to allow more room for straight inlet ports. John said ‘Power increased to around 435bhp and 410 ft/lbs of torque, more mid range punch than the Repco Holden. An alternate cam delivered 470/380, but this stressed the overall package causing many block failures. All the talk on Friday night at the Horsepower Hotel never won races, it was about torque as well as power and whilst we were light on power we had plenty of mid range punch and a well balanced overall car package’.
The Hewland FG 400 gearbox was marginal in F1, the torque of the beefy Repco required new gears cut by Peter Holinger’s now famous Holinger Engineering concern in outer Melbourne.
Another of John Lemm’s Coongie Avenue , Edwardstown shots …outboard rear suspension, Hewland FG400 box…fragile in this application given the engines torque, radiators in a constant battle with heat…and off to the left side you can just see the nose-brackets of the Elfin MR6 tricked up as a display car at the time
The Repco and Chev engined Lola, Matich, Chevron and Elfin chassis’ had more power but the McLaren was lighter, the superb balance, handling, and braking of the design was maintained as the DFV and Repco Leyland were similar weights.
John was convinced he had his ‘unfair advantage’….’the drivability of the car with its long-stroke engine was great, it was an excellent high speed car, it wasn’t quite so good on slower tracks where it lacked feel at the back due to fixed length driveshafts. The car had quite a high roll-centre and was very sensitive to aero tweaks on fast circuits, it was flat into turn 1 at Phillip Island, really quick!’
After much media interest McCormack raced the car at the Oran Park Gold Star round in September ’76 putting it fourth on the grid, a valve failing on lap 22. A win followed at Calder in October then pole at the ‘Island, leading until a tyre deflated, despite this the car finished third in its inaugural Gold Star Series.
Oran Park Australian Grand Prix ’77 (unattributed)
Car sponsor Budget Rent a Cars’ Bob Ansett convinced John to hire Frank Gardner to assist with Team Management in the Rothmans International series but a poor championship caused by unreliability was succeeded by a Gold Star win at Surfers.
At Sandown the car gave cooling problems but the final round at Phillip Island showed its true pace, 2 seconds a lap clear of the best Lola on this circuit which is a test of power and handling. McCormack was well in the lead when problems again intervened, John pitting for 2 laps then limping home picking up enough points to win his third Gold Star Series. The year was capped with a win in the ‘Rose City 10,000’ at Winton.
McCormack and John Walker, Lola T332 Chev, Oran Park Gold Star round 1978…’lift off’… (John Shingleton)
1978 started poorly with Rothmans Series unreliability followed by an Oran Park Gold Star round win.
The Sandown AGP was a terrible race with multiple accidents, the McLaren out virtually from the start with head gasket failures. John dominated at Calder only to run out of fuel with a lap to go. The Phillip Island round was cancelled- John finished second in the Gold Star.
The season ended again with the ‘Rose City 10,000’ at Winton. Amongst the competitors was James Hunt, the 1976 World Champion making a one-off appearance in Australia driving an Elfin MR8 Chev. John was second on the grid to him, Mac having an unfortunate event in which a stone jammed a brake caliper causing a pit stop- he finished fourth in the race won by Hunt.
‘Perick of a thing, will it last ?’, F5000’s were brittle and the Leyland Repco was never left alone for long…McCormack and team Adelaide International Raceway ’78 (John Shingleton)
1979 also started poorly with 5th the best result from four Rothmans International Series meetings, Larry Perkins won the title in an Elfin MR8 Chev. The McLaren’s last F5000 race was the 1979 AGP at Wanneroo Park, Western Australia where a gear broke.
McCormack entered 20 F5000 events for 3 wins and victory in the 1977 ‘Gold Star’ ahead of cars much younger and more powerful than his 1973 McLaren! Unreliability was the issue with 10 DNS/DNF results, mind you the Chevs and Repco Holdens were also brittle.
Can-Am 1979…
M23/2 Can Am, Mid Ohio ’79 (Mark Windecker)
By 1976 F5000 had been ‘destroyed’ by Eric Broadleys fantastic, dominant Lola T330/332/332C series of cars.
The Tasman series was over, the Kiwis adopted Formula Atlantic/Pacific and Australia persevered with F5000, somewhat against the global tide. The US F5000 series ended at the duration of the 1976 season and morphed into 5 litre single seat Can-Am sports cars, with Lola T332 derivatives remaining the dominant car for some years.
McCormack, a professional racer, converted the McLaren from an F5000 to a very attractive Can-Am car- M23/2 travelled back over the Pacific again! ‘It was time to have a look at what was happening in the US, things were quiet here so Simon Aram and John Webb designed and built an attractive body and off we went’.
US paddock shot, circuit unknown. Body designed and built by Simon Aram and John Webb (‘From Maybach to Repco’ Malcolm Preston)
He was taking on a big challenge, the Can-Am series in 1979 included Keke Rosberg, Jacky Ickx, Alan Jones, Geoff Lees, Vern Schuppan (Elfin MR8), Bobby Rahal and Al Holbert amongst its competitors.
‘Its true there were some top teams but the quality of the fields rapidly fell away. No one knew the series was on wherever we went, it was poorly promoted, the Americans were much more into Nascar and Indycars, you had to leave the circuit to go and buy fuel at some of the tracks!’
The McLaren competed in three rounds for a best result of 12th at Watkins Glen in a series dominated by Lolas with Ickx winning in a T333CS. ‘There was a weight advantage if you ran 4 litre engines, we did two of the races with the 5 litre Leyland and one, the final round, with the 4 litre which gave around 400BHP, the weight thing was academic as the cars were never weighed’.
It was no disgrace in this company in a six year old car run by a small team far from home. In the end money was tight and it was time to return to Australia to compete in a Jaguar Sports Sedan his team had built, and at the instigation of sponsor, Unipart, contest the 1980 AGP which was run to F5000 and F1 rules!
McCormack in M23/2, Mid Ohio Can Am ’79 (Mark Windecker)
Back to ‘Oz F5000 & finally Home to Woking…
John McCormack at the Winton, Victoria, Historic meeting in May 2013, interested, interesting and intelligent. McCormack was outside the mould, successfully going in his own direction throughout his career. I suspect the Leyland engine would have got the better of all but someone like him who applied his experience and pragmatic engineering approach and knowledge to making the thing work despite its fundamental structural weaknesses as a race engine. (Mark Bisset)
Alan Jones was on his way to winning the 1980 World Championship, so the 1980 AGP rules were amended to attract the new champion and his Williams FW07 to Australia. Also making the trip from Europe were Bruno Giacomelli and his Alfa 179 and Didier Pironi, of Team Tyrrell who drove an Elfin MR8 for Ansett Team Elfin.
McCormacks’ team converted the McLaren back into F5000 specifications, he was looking forward to the race. ‘The McLaren was not a light car, it then weighed about 1430 lbs, because the AGP was being run to F1 rules we lightened the car enormously by about 200 lbs’.
‘I normally flew to meetings but we a were running late with the preparation of the car so I travelled as a passenger with my mechanic to get some sleep. There was some fog about, he dozed off at the wheel near Keith (in rural South Australia) hitting a tree having glanced off an earth mover which made an horrific accident slightly better than it may have been! I got a brain injury in addition to the physical ones, I have about 70% of my mental capacity, not enough to race again’.
McCormacks car awaits the driver, Calder paddock AGP 1980…rare shot showing the car in its ‘Resin Glaze’ livery for the event it never started, John badly injured in a road accident in rural SA enroute to Calder (Chris Jewell)
Sadly, that was the last race for both McCormack and the much used M23.
John went on to build a number of successful sports sedans for others and today has property, retail and mining interests near his home town of St Helens on the Tasmanian East Coast.
McLaren built thirteen M23’s. M23/2 competed in 54 events, more than any other M23 chassis and winning more races than any other M23 as well, 54 starts for 12 wins. 1 F1 Championship GP, 8 South African Championship rounds and 2 Championships, 3 Australian Gold Star rounds and 1 Championship. Only a Can-Am win eluded it in its multi-faceted life.
McCormack was focussed on his health and rebuilding his life, the car was offered locally for sale around 1982, without any takers as F5000 had been replaced by Formula Pacific. It was just an old uncompetitive car at the time!
And then along came McLaren’s Ron Dennis ‘hoovering up’ cars for the factory collection where M23/2, converted back to its Yardley McLaren F1 spec, takes its Museum place in the pantheon of the company’s rich, ongoing 50 year history!
M23/2 travelled the globe as an F1 car, crossed the Atlantic to South Africa, the Pacific to Australia, the back across the Pacific to the States, back to Australia and finally to Woking in the UK, just down the road from Colnbrook where it was built all those years before- a remarkable journey from class to class and back again, competitive all the way throughout!
Monterey Historics : the car in front is an M26 but the rest are M23’s, M23/2 the second car…
Etcetera…The story of the McLaren is not complete without delving a bit more into the Leyland engine and its parentage…
Irving/McCormack/Repco Leyland F5000 engine: drives for oil pumps, dry sump, metering unit, Lucas fuel injection,…all ready for installation into the M23 at McCormacks’ Coongie Avenue, Edwardstown, Adelaide workshop (John Lemm)
Coventry Climax, the ‘Cosworth of their day’ caused chaos for British Grand Prix teams when they announced that they would not build engines for the new 3 litre F1 commencing in 1966.
They had been engine suppliers to most of the British teams since 1958. Repco had serviced (and built the engines under licence) the 2.5 litre Coventry Climax FPF 4 cylinder engines, the engine ‘de jour’ in local Tasman races, but were looking for an alternative to protect their competitive position, Jack Brabham suggested a production based V8 to be built by Repco .
He identified an alloy, linerless, V8 GM Oldsmobile engine, a project abandoned due to production costs and wastage rates on imperfectly cast blocks. He pitched the notion of racing engines of 2.5 litre and 3 litre displacements using simple, chain driven, SOHC heads to Repco’s CEO Charles McGrath.
GM developed a family of engines, the Oldsmobile F85 and Buick 215 were almost identical except that the F85 variant had six head studs per cylinder head rather than the five of the 215 and was therefore Brabhams preferred competition option.
Brabham had seen the engines potential much earlier, racing against Chuck Daigh’s Scarab Buick RE in the cars one off- and only race appearance at Sandown in early 1962. The car raced in 3.9 litre form and had plenty of ‘squirt’, albeit the underdeveloped chassis was not as competitive as the Coopers under brakes or through corners.
The engines competition credentials were further established at Indianapolis that year when Indy debutant Dan Gurney qualified Mickey Thomsons’ 215 engined car 8th, the car failing with transmission problems after 92 laps. It was the first appearance of a stock block engined car at Indy since 1945.
An idea is born…Jack Brabham checking out the 3.9 litre Buick engine in Chuck Daighs’ Scarab RE in its one-off Australian appearance at Sandown in early ’62, its only race experience…(‘Jack Brabham with Doug Nye’ Doug Nye)
Whilst the engine choice was not a ‘sure thing’ its competition potential was clear to Brabham, as astute as he was practical. At the time the engine was the lightest mass production V8 in the world with a dry weight of 144 kg with compact external dimensions to boot.
Repco acquired 26 of the F85 blocks and won the 1966/7 World Drivers and Manufacturers Championships as well as countless other races globally with engines using these and later, from 1967, Repco’s own ‘700’ and ‘800’ Series blocks.
Repco’s Maidstone workshops producing the RB620 3 litre F1 engine, 1966
GM sold the production rights of the engine to Rover in 1967.
When Phil Irving saw the Leyland engines at the Melbourne Motor Show he thought he knew them well. However the original GM design had suffered in its transition to Rover and then to Leyland. In essence their were fewer head bolts on both the inlet and exhaust sides of the heads, in addition the block and heads were sand, rather than die cast which made them weaker and less uniform. Finally, the heads had smaller ports than the originals.
The fundamentals of the engine to take increased operating loads and power were lacking. Irving made changes by adding material to the block and head castings which also facilitated the installation of main bearing strengthening bars, such changes homologated by Leyland in accordance with F5000 rules.
Repco claimed 440 BHP with an absolute rev limit of 7500 rpm and a crank life of one hour. It was soon found that the fragility of the block and cranks required a maximum of no more than 7000 rpm.
Repco publicity shot of the Leyland Repco engine in its original form as fitted to the Elfin MR6 in 1974 (Repco)
With further development post Repco, McCormacks’ team- with the new Comalco heads, different valve sizes, inlet port shapes inspired by Honda and shorter exhaust primaries, John had a vaguely reliable engine consistently giving 435BHP and 410lb ft of torque. Not a lot but enough to do the job, much like Phil Irving’s Repco Brabham ‘620 Series’ engine in F1 in 1966, that engine was not the most powerful in the field but it did the job, albeit much more reliably than its F5000 relation!
The Leyland/Repco/McCormack/Irving F5000 V8 was truly a triumph of development over design on a tiny budget!…
Letter from Leyland Australia to Repco confirming the commercial arrangements to develop the engine, happy days, no lawyers and complex legal agreements! (‘ Maybach to Holden’ Malcolm Preston)
John McCormack for the considerable time he contributed, Malcolm Preston, thanks for your written submission
‘The History of the Grand Prix Car 1966-1985’ Doug Nye, ‘Maybach to Holden’ Malcolm Preston
The Rolling Road/John Shingleton, Mark Windecker (Can-Am), Autosport TNF, John Lemm, Greg Flood, The Cahier Archive, Greg Falconer, oldracephotos.com, David Pearson, reddit.com, Rob Ryder, Chris Jewell, Werner Buhrer cutaway drawing
A few more M23/2 Shots…Addendum…
Peter Revson, German GP 1973, Nurburgring. 9th in the race won by Jackie Stewart (Unattributed)
Ian Scheckters Tyrrell 007 in front of Charlton in M23/2 Kyalami 1975 (unattributed)
M23/2 Repco, Sandown Park 1977 (unattributed)
Rose City 10000, Winton 1978. This race was won by James Hunt in an Elfin MR8 Chev (unattributed)
McCormack on the grid, on the far side is John Walkers’ Lola T332. Oran park Gold Star meeting 1978. (John Shingleton)
‘Don’t let me down baby…’ Adelaide 1978 (John Shingleton)
Adelaide 1978, entourage a contrast to the Birrana 274 F2 and Stephen Frasers’ Cicada further back…(John Shingleton)
Winton Dummy Grid much the same today, there is a shed where the nifty Dunlop Bus is though. McCormack ‘Rose City 10000’ 1978 (John Shingleton)
Mid Ohio CanAm round (Mark Windecker)
Wonderful Mark Windecker Mid Ohio shot shows the attractive one-off body fashioned by John Webb and Simon Aram in Adelaide. Still some Repco support, car ran the last Can Am round for the team at Watkins Glen with a 4 litre version of the Repco Leyland, exploiting a weight advantage afforded smaller engines by the rules (Mark Windecker)
And finally, Unipart Merchandising 1978 style…the T-Shirts @ $3.20 are a snip….
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Home News Prime Minster Theresa May has announced she will resign as Conservative Party...
Prime Minster Theresa May has announced she will resign as Conservative Party Leader
The Prime Minster Theresa May has today announced that she will resign as Conservative Party Leader on 7th June in a statement.
The Prime Minster walked out of 10 downing street and stated it has been the greatest honour of her life.
The PM plans to stand down following pressure and backlash from her own MPs against her latest Brexit Plan.
May said it has been the greatest honour of her life to serve as the second female Prime Minster.
Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom resigned on Wednesday admitting that it was with great regret and a heavy heart.
Leadsom admitted she had states within the Cabinet to shape and fight for Brexit.
She was the 36th minster to leave under May.
It is with great regret and a heavy heart that I have decided to resign from the Government. pic.twitter.com/f2SOXkaqmH
— Andrea Leadsom MP (@andrealeadsom) May 22, 2019
Pressure had been mounting for May to stand down and issue a time table for her exit.
“I am today announcing that I will resign as Conservative leader on Friday 7 June,” May said in an official statement made outside the doors of number 10 Downing Street.
“Ever since I first stepped through the door behind me as PM I have striven to make the UK work not just for a privileged few but for everyone and to honour the result of the referendum.”
“I negotiated the terms of our exit. I have done everything I can to convince MPs to back that deal. Sadly I have not been able to do so. It is now clear to me that it is in the best interest of the UK for a new PM to lead that effort.
“I have agreed with the party chairman that the process for electing a new leader will begin in the following week. It is a matter of deep regret that I have not been able to deliver Brexit. My successor will have to find a consensus. Consensus will only be possible if those on both sides of the debate ‘compromise’.”
May had been charge for nearly three years following the resignation of David Cameron back in 2016, but she has suffered through a dramatic and eventual term as Prime Minister.
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Yosef’s Bones, Yosef’s Greatness
April 28, 2005 at 9:22 pm · Filed under Holidays, Pesach
Torah Portion: Pesach
Chag Sameach [happy holiday] from the foggy and drizzly North Shore!
We’re in the middle of Pesach [Passover] this week, so the regular weekly
Torah reading is set aside for a special text connected to the holiday- all
week, in fact, there have been readings from different part of the Torah which
mention or explain the Pesach celebration.
This Shabbat is the seventh day of Pesach, so the reading is Exodus 13:17 –
15:26. The seventh day reading begins where the Torah portion Beshallach
begins, with the Israelites actually picking up and leaving, and concludes with
the “Song of the Sea,” the great victory poem that Moshe sings after the
Israelites have crossed the sea and left the pursuing Egyptian army behind
It makes perfect sense to read the Song of the Sea at the end the week of
Pesach, since the Exodus was a process, beginning with the preparations
four days before the night of the 14th, and ending with the Israelites safe from
Pharoah on the other side of the sea. This story stretches out from Shmot/
Exodus 12-15 (more or less), and in fact, most of these chapters from the book
of Exodus are read over the course of our holiday week, on days one, three
and seven. (Why the readings aren’t continuous, but skip around different
parts of the Torah on different days, is a question for another time.)
A benefit of reading the entire exodus narrative is that we are reminded of
small details, some of which carry great meaning. So amidst the familar parts
of the story, like the plagues and Pharoah’s recalcitrance and the splitting of
the sea, there’s an episode that you may not have noticed, in which Moshe
fulfills the promise made by Yosef’s [Joseph’s] brothers (at the end of the book
of Genesis) to bring his bones out of Egypt, back to the land of Israel:
“And Moshe took with him the bones of Yosef, who had exacted an oath from
the children of Israel, saying, `God will be sure to take notice of you: then
shall carry up my bones from here with you.’ ” (Shmot/ Exodus 13:19)
Imagine the scene: all the Israelites are scurrying about, leaving Egypt in a
hurry (too fast for their bread to rise, after all), but Moshe remembers a
promise made hundreds of years beforehand, and finds an ossuary probably
long forgotten by everybody else. The emotional symbolism is almost
palpable: just as God remembered the Divine Promise to the Israelites in
Egypt, so too will the Israelites remember their promise to the man who was
responsible for saving their ancestors by bringing them to Egypt. Yosef was
the first Israelite to be sold into slavery, which brought him down into Egypt,
but now even Yosef will be liberated from the land which both imprisoned and
empowered him.
So perhaps we could say that Moshe goes and gets Yosef’s bones because
to do so is to bring the story full circle, as it were. Yet I think there is
reason that Yosef is brought back into the exodus narrative, and it’s crucial to
the spiritual message of the Pesach holiday. Let’s remember that Yosef is
sold into slavery by his brothers, yet after many years, he reveals himself to
them (after he’s become Prime Minister) and provides for them during the
famine. Yosef- in my understanding- eventually relinquishes the bitterness he
might feel towards his brothers, in order to move their lives forward together.
Similarly, there is actually a commandment in the Torah not to hate Egyptians
(cf. Deuteronomy 23:8), even after the years of slavery and oppression. In fact,
we dramatize this point at our Seder by pouring out a drop of wine for each of
the plagues, in order to demonstrate that our cup of joy is lessened when
human beings suffer, even if those people are our enemies in a present
conflict. The holiday of Pesach is about taking joy in our liberation, not about
bitterness or desire for revenge- even when Pharoah’s army is drowned, the
midrash [ancient Biblical interpretation] says that God stopped the angels
from singing, since human beings were suffering and dying.
It’s really hard not to hold a grudge. I struggle with it every single day; it’s
easiest thing in the world to remember wrongs and hold on to the resentments
of past humiliations. Much harder is to be like Yosef, taking back his
estranged brothers, even after they sold him into slavery. So maybe that’s why
Moshe went to go get Yosef’s bones- he was going to need this reminder of
Yosef’s spiritual greatness if he was going to move his people into the future
and not have them get mired in bitterness over the past. Leaving Egypt meant
leaving the state of enslavement- including the mental enslavement of
emotional paralysis in negativity and resentment. That’s what Yosef did, and
that’s what Pesach challenges us to do, too.
You can read the text of the seventh day Torah reading here:
http://learn.jtsa.edu/topics/parashah/jpstext/pesah7.shtml
Pesach: Brokenness and Hope
Pesach is almost upon us! In the midst of all the cleaning,
shopping and cooking, I do hope you take some time to reflect
upon the meaning of the holiday. You might read a haggadah
that you don’t ordinarily use, in order to glean new commentary;
you might go to the internet (suggestions below) to find great
Passover teachings to bring to your Seder table; you might
simply stop and think about the meaning of matzah, maror, and
zeroa and how eating these foods (or, in the case of zeroa, not
eating) teaches us profound lessons about empathy, memory,
and peoplehood.
For me, a particularly profound moment of the Seder comes right
before we tell the story of our liberation, when we break the
middle matzah, putting one piece back between the two other
matzot and saving one piece as the afikoman. Here is a deep
truth: we have to acknowledge our brokenness, the broken
pieces we all carry around, before we can tell the stories which
set us free. Brokenness exists in a dialectic with healing- or, to
put it another way, we can’t be set free till we know what
imprisons us.
So at the beginning of the seder, we break a matzah,
representing the broken spirits of our ancestors and our own
fears, pains, and griefs. Only then do we tell the story about how
our ancestor Jacob went down to Egypt, but his children came
back out again. We, too, get stuck in “narrow places” (mitzrayim =
Egypt, but in Hebrew, this word means “narrowness” or
constriction) but we too will come back out again singing, if only
we open ourselves to faith and hope. A seder takes a few hours
to go from the first broken matzah to the joyous singing of Hallel
[Psalms of praise] after the meal, but it represents the spiritual
journey of a lifetime, a constant renewal from brokenness to
healing, from constriction to joy, from fear to redemption.
A happy and healthy holiday to all,
For more great Pesach teachings, here’s enough for a month of
seders:
http://www.jewishfreeware.org/downloads/passover/
http://www.myjewishlearning.com:80/holidays/Passover.htm
Achrei Mot: Intimacy and Dignity
April 20, 2005 at 9:18 pm · Filed under 3. Leviticus, Acharei Mot, Shabbat Hagadol, Special Shabbatot
Torah Portion: Achrei Mot and Shabbat Hagadol
It’s springtime, and so Pesach cleaning is fast upon us. . . but
we have one more regular Torah portion to read before the
special readings for Passover.
The Shabbat right before Pesach/ Passover, coming up this
week, is called “Shabbat Hagadol,” or “The Great Shabbat,” and
it is generally accepted that this day gets its name from the
special haftarah [prophetic reading], which ends with a prophecy
of the “great and mighty Day of the Lord.” The haftarah on
Shabbat Hagadol is part of the general message of redemption
and hope which is central to the Pesach holiday- more about that
in a separate email.
The Torah portion for Shabbat Hagadol can vary with the
calendar; this year, it is connected to Achrei Mot, which is a
difficult parsha, usually read with the next one, Kedoshim. Achrei
Mot first describes the priestly ritual for Yom Kippur, commands
the Israelites to make sacrificial offerings in only one place, then
prohibits eating anything with blood in it, and ends with a long
list of forbidden sexual relationships. This list of sexual
prohibitions begins and ends with a warning not to copy the
practices of other nations. Most of the specific prohibitions begin
with a warning (presumably, to men), “do not uncover the
nakedness of. . . ” and then names a specific relationship.
Because of the unusual wording in this section of the Torah, the
general idea of forbidden sexual relationships has taken on the
name “arayot,” from the word for “naked.” As Conservative Jews,
we may have variety of historical and moral interpretations of
certain specifics in this chapter, most notably the blanket
condemnation of homosexual acts, but on a much more general
level, I think it’s worth thinking about the wording the Torah uses
to describe what it doesn’t like. “Uncovering the nakedness” is
obviously a euphemism for a sexual act, but it also conveys a
more general ethical sensibility of modesty and privacy,
especially in the most intimate areas of our lives.
Anybody who glances at the magazine covers in drugstores or
supermarkets knows that modesty and privacy aren’t the guiding
values of contemporary North American society- with two clicks
of a mouse I can see or read about the most private details of
other people’s lives, and not just celebrities. Think back just a
few weeks, for example, to the raging controversy over Terry
Schiavo, and how the newspapers, magazines, and broadcasts
carried graphic images of Terry half-covered in her hospital
gown, or with her feeding tube exposed.
I find it fascinating that those people within our society most
loudly interested in “Biblical values” had no apparent problem
with Terry Schiavo’s medical procedures being part of the public
record for (quite literally) all to see. Now, an obvious rejoinder is
that medical procedures- or divorce proceedings, or financial
records- are nothing shameful, and that people who take their
lives into the public sphere can’t reveal only the parts they
choose. I suppose that’s technically correct, but I also wonder if
the Bible doesn’t call us to a sense of modesty which is not only
about sex, but also about dignity, the dignity of choosing to keep
some things within our most trusted relationships.
To put it another way, only an ethic of modesty- in a general
sense- creates the possibility of intimacy, which has to be freely
chosen if it is to be authentic. To “uncover the nakedness,” to
use the direct-object language of Achrei Mot, is to remove volition
from intimacy, and thus render it an ethical abomination. Carried
into our sphere of public discourse, I wonder if we who take the
Bible’s ethics seriously might not argue that not everything which
can be revealed should be revealed, and that a media culture
which leaves nothing to privacy undermines the very possibility of
choosing to uncover oneself within the safe boundaries of family
and intimate friendship. That seems to be the model the Torah
advocates, and which still to this day stands in tension with the
society which surrounds us.
You can find the text of this week’s Torah reading and haftarah
http://www.jtsa.edu/community/parashah/index.shtml
PS- My recent thinking about the relationship between privacy
and dignity was initiated by a recent article in The New Republic,
“On the Shamelessness of Our Public Sphere,” by Rochelle
Gurstein. It’s a good read.
Metzorah: The Imperative of Inclusion
Torah Portion: Metzorah
Greetings from sunny- but not yet warm- Swampscott!
This week we continue our study of the laws of scaly skin blemishes; the parsha
begins with a discussion of how the metzorah [person afflicted with a skin
blemish] is ritually purified, and then goes on to describe what happens if a “plague”
[visible discolorations or growths] appears in a house. The portion concludes with the ritual impurity imparted to one – male or female- who has certain kinds of genital emissions.
Last week I proposed that underlying this complex set of rules about bodily
functions (or dysfunctions, as the case may be) is an ethic of caring for individuals and preserving their dignity. This week, I’d like to bolster my case by pointing out
that the rules for ritual purification of a metzorah make a distinction between the
requirements for wealthy and poor persons. A person of means brings a total of three animals for sacrifice at the end of his week of separation. (See verse 14:10, which you can find here: < http://learn.jtsa.edu/topics/parashah/index.shtml >)
However, a poor person is only required to bring one animal, as we read a few
verses later:
But if he is of insufficient means and cannot afford [these sacrifices], he
shall take one [male] lamb as a guilt offering for a waving to effect atonement for him, and one tenth [of an ephah] of fine flour mixed with oil as a meal offering, and a log of oil. (Vayikra/ Leviticus 14:21)
The less wealthy person’s offering for ritual purification is about a third as
much as the regular offering – which may seem like a rather subtle point of ritual
practice, but has huge ethical implications in a wider context. The Torah is, after all,
understood to be Divine revelation (however we understand that process to be mediated), and thus we’re left with the rather non-negotiable conclusion that God cares about people of differing financial means being fully included in the religious life of the Jewish community.
This religious imperative to make the spiritual centers of Jewish life inclusive
and sensitive to financial issues speaks directly to a problem in our community,
which is the feeling among many Jews (with whom I speak almost every week) that they’re not welcome in our synagogues, schools and institutions unless they can pay high levels of dues or contributions. I understand that many synagogues and other
organizations try as best they can to grant abatements, but what strikes me
about our Torah portion is that the policies of inclusiveness are made known to all.
It is simply announced that “if he is of insufficient means, this is what he will
bring,” and left at that. This contrasts sharply with the various procedures (interviews, tax form reviews, etc.) we use in contemporary Jewish life to determine if somebody “needs” an abatement, which often produce great resentment, anger and shame (again, I hear about this almost every week).
The challenge of funding Jewish life, while at the same time making it
accessible to all who seek it, is not simple. Many congregations have instituted “fair share” dues, which can be a sliding scale according to income or a percentage of income which everyone pays. There are many other ways in which we could live out our spiritual ideals of inclusiveness and dignity, but the larger point is that our attempts to build spiritual community fail if they are not sensitive to diversity of means.
To put it another way, one of the reasons Judaism insists that spirituality
happens within community is precisely so that we we learn how to care for others, as God cares for us, and in so doing, become more fully aware of the Divine image
within ourselves and others. If the Torah goes out of its way to tell us that the
metzorah of insufficient means was to be welcomed into the most sacred spaces and rituals, then surely we can find a way to make sure that Jews all along the financial
spectrum feel truly welcome in every organization dedicated to Jewish life.
PS- The Reconstructionist movement, in particular, has done good work to help
connect finances and religious values in congregational life. You can find
texts,
teachings and discussions of how to make Jewish life more inclusive here:
http://www.jrf.org/cong/res-money-cong-life-main.html
Tazria: The Non-Rush To Judgement
Greetings from Swampscott, where it’s almost spring!
That’s the good news.
The bad news is that the next two Torah portions are among the most
difficult of the yearly Torah readings, because the topics seem both arcane and highly
anachronistic. This week’s parsha, Tazria, begins with laws of tumah,
or ritual impurity- which means separation from areas considered holy- in the
period after childbirth. The next few chapters deal with scaly skin blemishes,
which must be examined by the priests in order to declare a person ritually pure
and thus able to rejoin the community in its religious life.
You can find the text of the Torah portion and the special
pre-Passover maftir (concluding Torah reading) and haftarah here:
Clearly, we do not look to the Torah for medical knowledge- the one
thing that all contemporary commentators agree upon is that the scaly skin blemishes described in Vayikra/ Leviticus are not the disease we call “leprosy,”
(Hansen’s Disease), but that’s where the agreement ends. Some believe that the Torah implies that such blemishes were understood as the manifestation of spiritual
condition, perhaps indicating a supernatural punishment, while others think that they were a morally neutral physical phenomenon. Furthermore, the very idea of “ritual impurity” and the concomitant exclusion from sacred areas is foreign to our sense of what is “natural” (like bodily fluids or skin blemishes) and our very legitimate desire to be maximally inclusive in our communal practice.
So what DO we do with these passages? How do we, with our modern
medical knowledge and inclusive ethical sensibilities, deal with verses about
the blood of childbirth and menstruation, scaly skin blemishes and discolored
hairs? One classic line of interpretation sees the scaly skin disease as Divine
punishment for misdeeds. While such midrashim (creative or homiletic Biblical interpretations) help us understand what the ancient sages considered to be an ethical and upright life, I’m personally left unsatisfied. I want to forge a more direct
relationship to the text of the Torah itself, if possible, and not only read it through the lens of such strong moral symbolism.
So returning to the text itself, with its vivid descriptions of
bodily fluids, scabs, lesions, and discolored skin, I’m struck by how carefully the Torah lays out a program for connection between the elite of ancient society (the
kohanim, or priests) and those who might be the outcasts (people in various states of
ritual impurity.) The Torah says, very clearly, that a primary job of the religious and
social leadership is to work with those in greatest danger of being shunned. Not only that, but the Torah also clearly and unequivocally commands the priests to see each
person as an individual, examining them down to the smallest hair or patch of
skin, in order to bring them back into the community if at all possible.
Remembering that what is true for the priesthood is now true for
entire people of Israel, (since there is no longer a priesthood, as such) I think one
way we can read parshat Tazria is to see an ethic of caring for individuals
underneath a sea of specific rules. That ethic goes something like this: When someone is in distress, don’t rush to judgement, but look carefully at each person, right down to the details of specific circumstances. Don’t judge people if it’s not your job to judge- remember, only the priest could declare that someone had the kind of scaly skin blemish which required temporary separation. Finally, precisely where there is potential for people to feel cast out or marginalized, that’s where the Torah wants us to pay close attention to our thoughts and actions.
Parshat Tazria might be the hardest parsha of the Torah, but not, I
think, because its subject matter is so distant from our contemporary frame of
reference. I think Parshat Tazria may be the hardest parsha of the Torah because what it’s asking us to do – refrain from quick judgement, see people as individuals, and always reach out to those on the margins- is a life-long process, a challenge to each of us which is central to our evolving spiritual maturity.
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Ondo Election Tribunal: PDP Closes Its Case, INEC Asks For More Time To Study Petition
By Web News January 14, 2021 22 0
The People’s Democratic Party, PDP and its candidate in the Ondo 2020 October 10 Governorship election, Eyitayo Jegede have closed their case before the State Election Petitions Tribunals sitting in Akure. Counsel to the petitioners, Mr Onyechi Ikpeazu said they had opted to narrow their case to the evidences presented before the court. Jegede and […]Read More...
Probe Threat of Violence Ahead of Guber Polls – Ondo PDP Chairman
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The People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has described the last Saturday’s local government election in Ondo state as a mere waste of resources and called on security agencies to investigate various threats of violence ahead of October 10 governorship election in the state. Speaking with newsmen in Akure, the new State Chairman of the PDP, Alhaji […]Read More...
Opposing Views, Accusations Trail Ondo PDP Congress
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Different reactions and accusations have been trailing the state congress of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, currently going on in Akure. A chairmanship aspirant, Mr Dennis Alonge expressed dissatisfaction with the conduct of the event. Mr Alonge who is a former National Youth Leader of the PDP frowned at the set up and choice of location […]Read More...
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John Cleese Sparks Outrage After Tweeting He's 'Not That Interested In Trans Folks'
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John Cleese angered fans over the weekend with a series of tweets defending “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling’s controversial views on transgender people.
In September, the “Monty Python” actor and comedian signed an open letter in solidarity with Rowling, who has repeatedly made headlines this year after implying on social media ― and in a lengthy essay ― that the idea of gender identity invalidates her experience as a cisgender woman.
Cleese, who played Nearly Headless Nick in “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” and “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,” was asked about his support for the author on Twitter Sunday. He responded, “I’m afraid I’m not that interested in trans folks,” before adding glibly, “I just hope they’re happy and that people treat them kindly.”
He went on to list a series of other topics he was “more [focused] on.”
I'm afraid I'm not that interested in trans folks
I just hope they're happy and that people treat them kindly
Right now I'm more focussed on threats to democracy in America, the rampant corruption in the UK, the appalling British Press, the revelations about police brutality... https://t.co/y6l33FBQNL
— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) November 22, 2020
...Covid19, the incompetence of the British government, China's complete disregard for the necessity to abandon fossil fuels, the developments in France between Macron and Islamicists, diabetes, and the recent deaths of several of my close friends
Does than sound hard-hearted ?
“Deep down, I want to be a Cambodian police woman,” he noted elsewhere in the exchange. “Is that allowed, or am I being unrealistic?”
And later, he added, “When a woman who was once a man is competing against women who have always been women, I think she has an advantage, because she inherited a man’s body, which is usually bigger and stronger than a woman’s.”
Needless to say, Cleese’s comments received a blistering response on Twitter. Among those to chime in was “Queer Eye” grooming guru Jonathan Van Ness, who is nonbinary and who noted that “trans & non binary people aren’t being treated kindly” and told him to “worry about the staggering inequality your country faces.”
Dear @JohnCleese you’ve made several transphobic comments here. You do seem to not only be interested in trans folks, but also adding to transphobia at a time when trans people are being murdered world wide. Trans & non binary people aren’t being treated kindly. https://t.co/7rzztvadoL
— Jonathan Van Ness (@jvn) November 22, 2020
Instead of worrying about American democracy worry about the transphobia gripping the UK. Worry about the staggering inequality your country faces & keep LGBTQ issues out of your chapped ass lip having mouth unless you due to some miracle become an ally.
LGBTQ author and activist Charlotte Clymer shared similar sentiments.
“Well, John, we are not being treated kindly,” she wrote. “And I’m not talking about cordiality. I’m talking about discrimination in employment, housing, health care and other areas of living, all of which is exacerbated when public figures speak from ignorance and bigotry on trans rights.”
As of Monday evening, Cleese had not responded publicly to the controversy. HuffPost reached out to the actor for comment and did not immediately hear back.
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Thermal boundary characteristics of homo-/heterogeneous interfaces
Koen Heijmans, Amar Deep Pathak, Pablo Solano-López, Domenico Giordano, Silvia Nedea (Corresponding author), David Smeulders
The interface of two solids in contact introduces a thermal boundary resistance (TBR), which is challenging to measure from experiments. Besides, if the interface is reactive, it can form an intermediate recrystallized or amorphous region, and extra influencing phenomena are introduced. Reactive force field Molecular Dynamics (ReaxFF MD) is used to study these interfacial phenomena at the (non-)reactive interface. The non-reactive interfaces are compared using a phenomenological theory (PT), predicting the temperature discontinuity at the interface. By connecting ReaxFF MD and PT we confirm a continuous temperature profile for the homogeneous non-reactive interface and a temperature jump in case of the heterogeneous non-reactive interface. ReaxFF MD is further used to understand the effect of chemical activity of two solids in contact. The selected Si/SiO2 materials showed that the TBR of the reacted interface is two times larger than the non-reactive, going from 1.65 × 10-9 to 3.38 × 10-9 m2K/W. This is linked to the formation of an intermediate amorphous layer induced by heating, which remains stable when the system is cooled again. This provides the possibility to design multi-layered structures with a desired TBR.
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Heijmans, K., Pathak, A. D., Solano-López, P., Giordano, D., Nedea, S., & Smeulders, D. (2019). Thermal boundary characteristics of homo-/heterogeneous interfaces. Nanomaterials, 9(5), [663]. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano9050663
Heijmans, Koen ; Pathak, Amar Deep ; Solano-López, Pablo ; Giordano, Domenico ; Nedea, Silvia ; Smeulders, David. / Thermal boundary characteristics of homo-/heterogeneous interfaces. In: Nanomaterials. 2019 ; Vol. 9, No. 5.
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Where to buy AI domain name at a great price?
April 11, 2019 By Pramod
AI is a top-level domain that was launched in the mid-1990s for a Caribbean county called Anguilla. Initially, only people living in the country were allowed to register the domain with the extension AI. Things have changed now. ICANN is now allowing users across the world to register and use an AI domain. This is because of the rapid evolution of machine learning/Artificial Intelligence technology.
AI is a cutting edge technology that has changed the picture of the world completely. It is helping scientists in solving complex problems. It is also employed by organizations to make smart decisions, reduce manpower by automation, analyze a huge amount of data, etc.
AI-powered applications learn to solve complex problems by themselves or by the mistakes of others. Confused? Well, let’s have a look at two of the most talked about AI products, Google AlphaGo, and the first non-human citizen, the Sophia robot.
AlphaGo: Alphabet’s subsidiary DeepMind had developed an AI backed program called AlphaGo. Once the application was ready, Google decided to test it in the real world. They invited world champion Lee Sedol to compete with AlphaGo. Before the competition, Google made AlphaGo play against itself overnight.
During the competition, AlphaGo stunned Lee Sedol by winning 4 matches out of 5. Google’s AI application kept learning from its defeats. In just 7 to 8 hours, AlphaGo learned the complex game of Go.
Sophia robot: Sophia, a robot that makes special appearances on several shows can answer the questions of interviewers correctly. Sophia is powered by AI. It is not just a dummy fitted with a tape recorder that plays pre-recorded sound files to impress people. Sophia can show emotions just like humans do. It has been designed to interact with humans.
AI is a technology that will continue to help mankind in several ways. In the future, it will assist scientists, doctors, engineers, and businesses in several ways.
If you’re building an AI-based product, it is very important that you put your product in front of the world. The best way to do this is to register a domain with the extension AI. Here are the few benefits of owning a site:
Massive user base: The Internet is accessed by over a billion people every day.
Great potential to get free leads: If you add a blog to your site and publish good content on a daily basis, your site will get traffic from search engines.
Marketing: If you don’t want to set up a blog, you can still reach a large number of people by promoting your site on social networking portals.
Although the popularity of AI technology has grown multifold, NameCheap is the only top registrar that is allowing users to register an AI domain name.
What features does Namecheap provide to the users?
Should you wait for other companies to support this TLD?
Namecheap provides free WHOIS data protection to users. WHOIS protection ensures that your personal details such as email address, phone number, address, etc won’t be made available to the users that use whois lookup tools to get information of the website owners. Other registrars may charge up to 8$ to provide the same service.
Namecheap lets users enable two-factor authentication. It supports the Google Authenticator app and phone-based authentication. In both the methods, Namecheap asks users to enter a 6 to 8 digit displayed by the app or sent to the user’s registered phone number.
Register your ai domain here on Namecheap
If you need help with an issue related to the domain, you can get immediate help by using the Namecheap live chat tool. In addition to this, you can also raise a ticket. Live chat is the best and fastest way to get in touch with a Namecheap support executive.
NameCheap sells AI TLDs for $68. You won’t find any top registrar selling an AI TLD at this price.
No, 1000s of domains are registered every day. Fortunately, not many people are aware of the AI domain extension. By the time it becomes a popular extension, most easy to remember domain names would have been registered. Thus, this is the best time to buy AI domains. What are you waiting for?
Final thoughts: AI is the future. If you’re working on an AI project or you own a company that develops machine learning applications, register your ai domain today to reach a wider audience.
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Blue-Light Therapy for Acne Vulgaris: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Anna Mae Scott, Paulina Stehlik, Justin Clark, Dexing Zhang, Zuyao Yang, Tammy Hoffmann, Chris Del Mar, Paul Glasziou
Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare
PURPOSE: Antibiotic use in acne treatment raises concerns about increased resistance, necessitating alternatives. We assessed the effectiveness of blue-light therapy for acne.
METHODS: We analyzed randomized controlled trials comparing blue light with nonlight interventions. Studies included people of any age, sex, and acne severity, in any setting, and reported on investigator-assessed change in acne severity, patients' assessment of improvement, change in inflammatory or noninflammatory lesions, and adverse events. Where data were sufficient, mean differences were calculated.
RESULTS: Eighteen references (14 trials) including 698 participants were included. Most of the trials were small and short (<12 weeks) and had high risk of bias. Investigator-assessed improvement was quantitatively reported in 5 trials, of which 3 reported significantly greater improvement in blue light than comparator, and 2 reported improvement. Patients' assessments of improvement were quantitatively reported by 2 trials, favoring blue light. Mean difference in the mean number of noninflammatory lesions was nonsignificant between groups at weeks 4, 8, and 10-12 and overall (mean difference [MD] = 3.47; 95% CI, -0.76 to 7.71; P = 0.11). Mean difference in the mean number of inflammatory lesions was likewise nonsignificant between groups at any of the time points and overall (MD = 0.16; 95% CI, -0.99 to 1.31; P = 0.78). Adverse events were generally mild and favored blue light or did not significantly differ between groups.
CONCLUSION: Methodological and reporting limitations of existing evidence limit conclusions about the effectiveness of blue light for acne. Clinicians and patients should therefore consider the balance between its benefits and adverse events, as well as costs.
Annals of Family Medicine
https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.2445
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Phototherapy Medicine & Life Sciences
Acne Vulgaris Medicine & Life Sciences
Research Personnel Medicine & Life Sciences
Randomized Controlled Trials Medicine & Life Sciences
Anti-Bacterial Agents Medicine & Life Sciences
Scott, A. M., Stehlik, P., Clark, J., Zhang, D., Yang, Z., Hoffmann, T., Mar, C. D., & Glasziou, P. (2019). Blue-Light Therapy for Acne Vulgaris: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Annals of Family Medicine, 17(6), 545-553. https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.2445
Scott, Anna Mae ; Stehlik, Paulina ; Clark, Justin ; Zhang, Dexing ; Yang, Zuyao ; Hoffmann, Tammy ; Mar, Chris Del ; Glasziou, Paul. / Blue-Light Therapy for Acne Vulgaris: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. In: Annals of Family Medicine. 2019 ; Vol. 17, No. 6. pp. 545-553.
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Aspects of verb morphology in Newfoundland Micmac
Humber, Alan George (1971) Aspects of verb morphology in Newfoundland Micmac. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
In this paper we attempt to give a concise description of some aspects of verb morphology in Newfoundland Micmac, showing, where such exist, differences between them and those of mainland Micmac. -- To begin with we have given a brief account of the Micmacs in Newfoundland, deeming such an account a necessary prelude to the study of their language. Thereafter we have discussed the personal and inflexional endings of intransitive and transitive verbs. -- These determined we proceed to an analysis of the intransitive and transitive verbs per se, summing our conclusions with respect to these verb categories and including lists of intransitives and transitives which we obtained in researching this paper. -- The following chapter is then devoted to a brief study of the formation of the past and future tenses of the indicative mood. -- The final chapter contains our conclusions with respect to the verb morphology of Newfoundland Micmac. We have also suggested another area of research which could be undertaken with the utmost urgency because of the rapid depletion of our sources of linguistic information.
Bibliography: leaves [72]-73.
Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of > Linguistics
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Micmac language; Indians of North America--Newfoundland and Labrador--History
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