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Hedge Funds Were Too Impatient with Zillow Group Inc (Z)
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Although the masses and most of the financial media blame hedge funds for their exorbitant fee structure and disappointing performance, these investors have proved to have great stock picking abilities over the years (that’s why their assets under management continue to swell). We believe hedge fund sentiment should serve as a crucial tool of an individual investor’s stock selection process, as it may offer great insights of how the brightest minds of the finance industry feel about specific stocks. After all, these people have access to smartest analysts and expensive data/information sources that individual investors can’t match. So should one consider investing in Zillow Group Inc (NASDAQ:Z)? The smart money sentiment can provide an answer to this question.
Zillow Group Inc (NASDAQ:Z) investors should pay attention to a decrease in hedge fund sentiment lately. Our calculations also showed that Z isn’t among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds (click for Q3 rankings and see the video below for Q2 rankings). Hedge fund sentiment towards Zillow hit its all time high at the end of June. Around half of those funds that bought the stock during Q2 sold out of Zillow in Q3. They should have been a little more patient with Z. Video: Click the image to watch our video about the top 5 most popular hedge fund stocks.
5 Most Popular Stocks Among Hedge Funds
Hedge funds’ reputation as shrewd investors has been tarnished in the last decade as their hedged returns couldn’t keep up with the unhedged returns of the market indices. Our research has shown that hedge funds’ large-cap stock picks indeed failed to beat the market between 1999 and 2016. However, we were able to identify in advance a select group of hedge fund holdings that outperformed the Russell 2000 ETFs by 40 percentage points since May 2014 (see the details here). We were also able to identify in advance a select group of hedge fund holdings that’ll significantly underperform the market. We have been tracking and sharing the list of these stocks since February 2017 and they lost 27.8% through November 21, 2019. That’s why we believe hedge fund sentiment is an extremely useful indicator that investors should pay attention to.
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Unlike the largest US hedge funds that are convinced Dow will soar past 40,000 or the world’s most bearish hedge fund that’s more convinced than ever that a crash is coming, our long-short investment strategy doesn’t rely on bull or bear markets to deliver double digit returns. We only rely on the best performing hedge funds‘ buy/sell signals. Let’s go over the key hedge fund action encompassing Zillow Group Inc (NASDAQ:Z).
How have hedgies been trading Zillow Group Inc (NASDAQ:Z)?
At Q3’s end, a total of 38 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were long this stock, a change of -25% from one quarter earlier. By comparison, 22 hedge funds held shares or bullish call options in Z a year ago. With hedge funds’ sentiment swirling, there exists an “upper tier” of noteworthy hedge fund managers who were boosting their holdings substantially (or already accumulated large positions).
The largest stake in Zillow Group Inc (NASDAQ:Z) was held by SRS Investment Management, which reported holding $222.2 million worth of stock at the end of September. It was followed by Slate Path Capital with a $87.2 million position. Other investors bullish on the company included Eminence Capital, Teton Capital, and Matrix Capital Management. In terms of the portfolio weights assigned to each position Teton Capital allocated the biggest weight to Zillow Group Inc (NASDAQ:Z), around 12.41% of its portfolio. ThornTree Capital Partners is also relatively very bullish on the stock, dishing out 6.41 percent of its 13F equity portfolio to Z.
Since Zillow Group Inc (NASDAQ:Z) has witnessed declining sentiment from the smart money, we can see that there is a sect of funds that slashed their positions entirely heading into Q4. At the top of the heap, Josh Donfeld and David Rogers’s Castle Hook Partners dropped the largest stake of all the hedgies watched by Insider Monkey, valued at an estimated $60.5 million in stock, and Karthik Sarma’s SRS Investment Management was right behind this move, as the fund dropped about $41.6 million worth. These transactions are interesting, as total hedge fund interest fell by 13 funds heading into Q4.
Let’s go over hedge fund activity in other stocks similar to Zillow Group Inc (NASDAQ:Z). These stocks are Flowserve Corporation (NYSE:FLS), Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ:SABR), First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ:FSLR), and Ciena Corporation (NYSE:CIEN). This group of stocks’ market valuations resemble Z’s market valuation.
[table] Ticker, No of HFs with positions, Total Value of HF Positions (x1000), Change in HF Position FLS,19,225613,-7 SABR,25,224467,13 FSLR,30,347342,6 CIEN,29,489215,-7 Average,25.75,321659,1.25 [/table]
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As you can see these stocks had an average of 25.75 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $322 million. That figure was $880 million in Z’s case. First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ:FSLR) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand Flowserve Corporation (NYSE:FLS) is the least popular one with only 19 bullish hedge fund positions. Compared to these stocks Zillow Group Inc (NASDAQ:Z) is more popular among hedge funds. Our calculations showed that top 20 most popular stocks among hedge funds returned 37.4% in 2019 through the end of November and outperformed the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by 9.9 percentage points. Hedge funds were also right about betting on Z as the stock returned 31.3% during the first two months of Q4 and outperformed the market by an even larger margin. Hedge funds were clearly right about piling into this stock relative to other stocks with similar market capitalizations.
Disclosure: None. This article was originally published at Insider Monkey.
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‘The Lighthorsemen’: A Study in True Masculinity
January 31, 2019 By Jim Cornelius 13 Comments
By David Wrolson, aka “Breaker Morant”
The Lighthorsemen ells the story of the Australian outfit’s epic charge against the Ottoman Turk defemses at Beersheeba in Palestine during World War I.
The Lighthorsemen is a movie about the Australian Light Horse regiments and their famous charge on Beersheba in Palestine in World War I. The taking of Beersheeba turned the Ottoman Turks out of their defensive line in Palestine and marked a turning point in the campaign in the Middle East.
For the purposes of this essay; the charge is almost an anticlimactic moment.
I wish that a different way could be found to teach history in our schools. History teaching incorporating the Australian Light Horse would be a lot more exciting than memorizing meaningless acts and dates. The “Australian Light Horse” — now there is phrase to stir the blood of any young man.
With the recent kerfuffle over things like the Gillette ad and “Toxic Masculinity” and so forth, The Lighthorsemen stands tall and true as a symbol of true masculinity. It shows adult men being men together.
I was fortunate to first see The Lighthorsemen after I saw the movie Dunkirk and the comparison could not be more stark. I hate the movie Dunkirk to the very core of my soul and with the heat of a thousand suns. I have never been to war, but to my core, I believe that The Lighthorsemen shows a truer picture of war than Dunkirk. Men die, but they have fun and they laugh and they ride naked on horseback into the Mediterranean.
Period photograph of Australian Light Horse frolicking in the Mediterranean.
Another key to understanding The Lighthorsemen as a personification of true masculinity came from one of my favorite books “Quartered Safe Out Here” by George MacDonald Fraser. “Quartered Safe” is Fraser’s memoir of World War II in Burma.
Fraser describes a squad mate that he calls “Forster.” Nobody really liked Forster. Forster was meaner than the rest and a bit of a bully. However, when you found yourself hesitating in the mouth of a Jap bunker and looked to your right; Forster would be at your side, just like you always knew he would be.
“Forster” is in The Lighthorsemen too, by another name. He is universal. Every group of guys has a Forster. I think every group of guys needs a Forster. On the other hand, Forster needs the group too, his rough edges are polished off and they all make everybody better.
One of my favorite scenes is when the Australians walk into a bar and start getting razzed by English troops with the obvious potential for a bar fight. One of the Australians, who obviously likes to fight, is held back by his mates and they walk out of the bar. At this point in the movie, the Australians have been held in reserve and the English have seen heavy fighting, so that is what the razzing was about. However, both sides know that they will be fighting side by side against the Turks next week and they are just testing each other.
The “Bar Fight” is universal. I have seen it in my own life. We lost a football game that we should have won and 35 years later it still haunts us. It still lives with the victors too, it is one of the great shining moments of their lives and they treasure it as one of their great memories.
Whenever, we (the losers) run into a member of the winning team, they crave talking to us about it, not to brag about it, but because they can talk to us about it. We were there with them, tested on the field of battle and we understand just how big a deal it was. It is within us all till our dying day.
Anyway, the winning team was trying to find a tape of the game and ran across a key member of our team in a bar who has tapes from that time. One guy asked nicely for it and my friend might have given it to him, but then their “Forster” smarted off and no way were they getting the tapes after that.
I joke that the two schools should have a class reunion together and we could be 70 years old and it wouldn’t be very long until the fists started flying as emotions will still be raw and we all crave to be tested against each other again.
Another favorite scene is the goodbye scene between the nurse and Dave, the main character, in a train station. Dave had been wounded and the nurse and he had fallen in love.
As the goodbye continued, you can tell that Dave is thinking, “Enough with the goodbyes, I have to go now.” It is time for him to leave for the wars now and he can’t get away fast enough. There is something universal in that scene about true masculinity. We have to leave as a knight on the Crusades for Jerusalem. But, let’s not fool ourselves, we don’t “Have” to go, we “Get” to go.
The Lighthorsemen features the man we all wish we were: Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, the lone scout against the Turks. The clever trickster who fools the enemy by a risky gambit. “Meinertzhagen” is universal. We all wish we were him.
The Lighthorsemen has the universal theme of the replacement having to prove himself to the older, more experienced men. They don’t make it easy for him. They test him and make him better. He won’t be a man in his own eyes until he meets the test.
“The Test” is universal. A man has to be tested to be a man in own eyes and we have largely lost that in the modern world and that is why so many of our young men are lost. There is no way for them to become men in their own eyes. To become a man in your own eyes is the most important feature of true masculinity. Even more than that, I think to be a man, a man has to feel that he is a man in his father’s eyes.
The Lighthorsemen is an ideal picture of true masculinity.
Every facet of true masculinity is perverted in gang culture, but I think even that perversion shows how much men crave the ideal model. It is ingrained in us. The attacks on traditional masculinity won’t even let our young men know the model exists and they can’t understand what they are craving and are being forced to feel they are wrong somehow for being who they are.
They are lost with nothing to grab on to.
Tagged With: history, masculinity, Toxic masculinity, World War I
Jim Cornelius
Born in the suburbs of Los Angeles, Jim Cornelius grew up dreaming of distant frontiers, of mountain men, long hunters, African explorers. His older brother gave him a tattered copy of Allan W. Eckert’s The Frontiersmen, a biography of Simon Kenton, and the twig was bent. Graduated from...
FRANK JENSEN says
Good one Jim
Jim Cornelius says
Dave Wrolson, our Breaker Morant gets the credit for this one.
lane batot says
Yes; excellent. And dang–I’ve not seen this film yet–I obviously need to rectify THAT. I DID see “Gallipoli” many, many moons ago. As for such “comrades and mates in arms” being ingrained in male DNA–you have NO IDEA HOW ingrained! You should watch a group of wild male chimpanzees gathering together to go off on a territorial patrol against their enemy neighbors! The similarities are STARTLING!
Breaker Morant says
I also have the time-tested “Circumcision group” thing that tribes have used for millennia in mind. You might not like all the guys in your group but they are your “mates” and you go to battle with them and so forth.
There is something important about the idea of boys stepping into manhood together that we have lost.
MANY so-called “primitive” tribes around the world had both male and female puberty ceremonies, where young people–once they “passed”, were accepted fully as adult members of the tribe, and all the rights and respect that came with adulthood, totally side-stepping that awkward, confusing phase our modern Western society refers to as “teen-agers”. And they didn’t have the delinquent problems so commonly experienced in our society’s expectations of teens. Very wise.
J.F. Bell says
I’d venture a guess a significant part of our troubles in the modern western world come from how badly have been mishandled rites of passage.
What few remain have been so diluted as to be worthless. Helicopter parenting precludes exposing a child to the kind of risk necessary to properly mark the occasion. And as far as boys are concerned, any time a traditionally male ritual expands to allow females the lure is soon enough diminished to the point of irrelevance. If a girl can be a man, too…honestly, where’s the prestige?
Craig Rullman says
The Marine Corps still has an extremely effective rite of passage, and remains a warrior culture — one reason it is under constant attack in our culture. But it is difficult to point to very many others.
Thank You, Frank. I enjoyed writing it.
Hats off to Jim for the pictures. They are perfect.
David Wrolson
Ugly Hombre says
Aussy’s are great guys tough bastards- remember them fondly from the PI.
Great Allies and world famous fierce fighters.
Their bar room antics are long house Viking like- legendary and epic.
The “flaming dance” ploy to get a round of beers for the lads and the “see my sox?” beer girl trick…
Thanks UH
Re-Aussies as tough bastards
Just found a book about a guy who rescued tens of thousands of Assyrian Christians at the end of WW1.
“Debt of Honour” by Sarah Lindenmayer is jumping high in my list.
In George MacDonald Fraser’s collection of “Private McAuslin” short stories” the one called “Night Train to Palestine” has a fun vignette of Australian soldiers and RAF pilots in competition for some nurses in a bar on the train.
Gawd, I love Fraser-especially the McAuslin stories and “Quartered Safe Out Here.”
A great companion movie is Gallipoli (Peter Weir, 1981). I’m sure you’ve seen it but if not, you absolutely must. One of the finer ones that will zap you at the DNA level.
A good documentary in this vein would be The Battle of Long Tan, presently available on youtube, centering on the 1st Australian Task Force facing off with a numerically superior NVA regiment outside Nui Dat in 1966. Probably one of the better Viet Nam productions I’ve seen.
Tough bastards ain’t the half of it.
deuce says
Great job, David! You nailed this one.
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Advanced Automation in Shipping Takes Center Stage at IMO
Sean T. Pribyl
Advanced automation in the international maritime industry has officially arrived on the international stage, as the International Maritime Organization’s (“IMO”) Maritime Safety Committee (“MSC”) 99th session furthered the discussion on Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (“MASS”). The topic garnered a great deal of attention, with the IMO receiving 19 papers from industry and various countries in support of the MASS regulatory scoping exercise. The international interest in this topic echoes sentiments of the IMO Secretary-General Kitack Kim, who recently acknowledged that digitalization—including autonomous ships—remains at the top of his agenda, along with climate change and seafarer issues.
It is clear that technology continues to outpace the regulators, however, and more is still needed in the way of cultural acceptance. In fact, the industry challenges that the IMO faces over the next decade harkens those of disruptive technologies at the end of the 19th century with the advent of the automobile. At that time, England adopted what were commonly referred to as “red flag” traffic laws, which essentially required someone to walk in front of a moving automobile while waving a red flag to warn the public of the approaching automobile. Near the turn of that century, the Pennsylvania state legislature also proposed a law that would require the driver of a “horseless carriage” when approaching livestock to stop, dissemble the vehicle, and conceal the components behind nearby bushes. Cultural acceptance has long dismissed such initial concerns presented by the automobile.
While the automobile is not directly analogous to ships, the maritime industry is no stranger to innovation, having accepted the introduction of unmanned engine rooms, automated ports, and electronic navigation. To that end, Norwegian company Kalmar recently announced that they will deliver digitalized and autonomous container handling when the autonomous container vessel Yara Birkeland calls on port in Porsgrunn, Norway. The port of Caofeidian, China, is adding 20 self-driving container trucks, and APM Terminals in Vado Ligure, Italy, recently received remotely operated gantry cranes. In these operations, a human will likely remain in the loop. Thus, even as technology transforms intermodal transportation, and companies decide whether being an early adopter of disruptive technologies is the right fit for them, cultural acceptance remains vital to progress.
MSC 99—One Small, but Significant, Step
Over the next two years, the IMO’s regulatory scoping exercise will evaluate existing legal frameworks in order to assess the safe, secure, and environmentally sound operation of MASS. The scoping exercise will assess the human element, port infrastructure, and the marine environments, and examine several international instruments related to safety, collision regulations, stability, seafarer training, and search and rescue. MSC 99 was thus not intended to answer all industry questions attendant to MASS. Rather, it was meant to be a first step in the larger regulatory scoping exercise. To that end, it succeeded and achieved important consensus on three threshold areas related to MASS for purposes of the scoping exercise: 1) a methodology in which the scoping exercise will be conducted, 2) the definition of vessels with advanced automation as MASS, and 3) a description of the levels of autonomy applied to MASS. In other words, MSC 99 gave the IMO and stakeholders a common language on which to build the discussion.
The scoping exercise will first identify current provisions in IMO instruments and their applicability to ships with varying degrees of autonomy. Next, the MSC will conduct an analysis to determine the most appropriate way to address MASS operations. MSC 99 also succeeded in reaching agreement on a much-needed term to apply to vessels with advanced autonomy—“MASS,” defined as “a ship which, to a varying degree, can operate independently of human interaction.” While such a determination may seem nonconsequential, much debate has surrounded this issue given the meaning of vessel or ship under domestic and international law. Moreover, MSC 99 received contributions from several countries and stakeholders on descriptions of the degrees of autonomy under which MASS may operate, and the IMO announced the following agreed upon degrees of automation to facilitate the scoping exercise:
Ship with automated processes and decision support: Seafarers are onboard to operate and control shipboard systems and functions. Some operations may be automated.
Remotely controlled ship with seafarers onboard: The ship is controlled and operated from another location, but seafarers are onboard.
Remotely controlled ship without seafarers onboard: The ship is controlled and operated from another location. There are no seafarers onboard.
Fully autonomous ship: The operating system of the ship is able to make decisions and determine actions by itself.
With these discussion points, the IMO is poised to develop thoughtful dialogue in the scoping exercise. Notably, the Legal Committee will also conduct a separate scoping exercise in parallel with the MSC, both of which will help shape the much-needed legal discussions related to advanced automation on ships, such as those related to negligence, liability, marine insurance, and navigational risk.
Status of Advanced Automation in the United States
As the MSC continues its scoping exercise, the United States is also attempting to close the innovation gap on European counterparts. While the United States has never lagged technologically, Europe has been more active in practical application of advanced automation. Now, U.S. innovators are capitalizing on emerging opportunities in several maritime sector segments. In fact, A.P. Moller-Maersk recently selected Boston-based Sea Machines Robotics to trial artificial intelligence technology aboard one of their container ships to augment situational awareness for safer and more efficient maritime operations. Such investment in technology could lead to the ability to add more containers to a vessel with the same crew complement, and has the collateral effect of furthering the point that “autonomous” does not necessarily mean “unmanned”—a common misnomer in the industry.
U.S. innovators are also developing new technologies that are furthering growth in the “Blue Economy,” a sector focused on sustainable use of the oceans that contributes approximately $1.5 trillion annually to the global economy, according to the World Bank. The Department of Defense’s Project Overlord, an ongoing government solicitation for unmanned surface vehicles, will help drive the domestic conversation on issues such as COLREGs compliance. And, federal agencies like the Maritime Administration are taking formal strides to help bolster the U.S. marine sector through dedicated initiatives. Overall, the United States is making formidable strides towards embracing more innovation technologies.
The IMO has indicated that it has a strategic view on the future of disruptive technologies in the industry—an industry in which regulations and international instruments are in many cases borne out of disaster. The proactive steps made by MSC 99 show that the IMO is balancing the advanced technologies with the human element, all with the aim of reducing the number of marine casualties and incidents. Importantly, MSC 99 set a valuable tone in the first steps of the scoping exercise in understanding the issues surrounding MASS before an incident occurs.
As the industry awaits formal IMO guidance or resolutions on MASS, domestic testing and practical implementation of MASS must continue under existing legal frameworks with an emphasis on equivalencies and competencies, as compared to those of manned vessels. Stakeholders should therefore continue to consult with counsel when considering use of these emerging technologies to ensure necessary compliance under the current legal regime.
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5 Life Lessons from the World’s Hardest Rock Climb
by Blane Bachelor
The climbers move up the notoriously difficult Dawn Wall. Flickr/Peter Stevens
On Jan. 14 , Kevin Jorgeson and Tommy Caldwell claimed one of the world’s most impressive athletic feats: summiting the Dawn Wall of Yosemite's El Capitan, known among experts as the world’s hardest rock climb, without any aid.
Lacerated fingers, cold temperatures, and brutal falls weren’t enough to stop this dynamite duo from becoming the first to ever free-climb the route, using only their hands and feet to ascend. (The ropes and bolts only caught them when they fell and weren’t used to help them scale the 3,000-foot rock.) Climbing aficionados are calling their 19-day journey “the climb of the century.”
Of course, such an incredible feat isn’t in the cards for everyone. But that doesn’t mean we can’t be inspired by it. Here, some life lessons we couldn't help but contemplate as we cheered the pair on.
El Cap is the largest monolith in the world. Flickr/Tim Lenz
With all due respect to climbing legend Alex Honnold , who achieves some of his most superhuman feats on solo climbs, sometimes you just need a buddy. In fact, early on in his dream to conquer the Dawn Wall, Caldwell realized he couldn't do it alone. " I am incredibly lucky to have found such an amazing partner in Kevin Jorgeson," he told Rock and Ice magazine in April 2014. "Sharing the experience with him has made it many times richer than it would have been without him."
And then, there are the low points when a friend's presence can mean all the difference in the world. Just ask Jorgeson: At one brutal stretch, the Santa Rosa resident failed 11 times in seven days as he tried to finish (or, in climbing speak, "send") pitch 15, a beastly traverse with razor-sharp holds the width of a credit card.
But Caldwell, a more accomplished climber who had already completed the section and moved ahead, was always within reach, offering moral support to his climbing partner in Jorgeson’s first free ascent of El Cap.
“Now I am in full support mode until @kjorgeson catches up,” Caldwell posted at one point on his Facebook page. “Today Kevin managed to climb pitch 15 in the most inspired climbing moment of his life. It was such an intense and incredible thing to witness.”
Even more impressive about Caldwell's accomplishment? The Estes Park, Colorado native did it without his left index finger, which he lost in a handsaw accident in 2001. When doctors told him reattaching it would mean he couldn't use it for climbing, he decided to have it amputated.
LESSON 3: Super Glue is always good to have on hand.
This versatile stuff can hold together a hiking boot, patch up a hole in a raft, and, in a real pinch, bind your fingers to tape well enough that you can deal with the pain of razor-sharp holds. According to one media report, Jorgeson did just that as he struggled to complete pitch 15, as his battered fingers could have meant the difference between failure and success.
The takeaway: Tuck a tube or two into your favorite backpack and glove compartment—you never know when it will come in handy.
LESSON 4: The seemingly impossible becomes doable when you take it one step (or pitch or hold) at a time.
Just looking up at El Cap from the valley floor, its sheer size and scope is mind-boggling enough; at one point, climbing the Dawn Wall unassisted had been called impossible. Yet, by breaking down the 31-pitch climb into manageable chunks and spreading it out over 19 days, Caldwell and Jorgeson did it. The bottom line: In the face of the overwhelming, just focus on moving forward inch by (chalky) inch.
LESSON 5: Never, ever, ever give up.
Perhaps the most captivating aspect of this amazing accomplishment was Caldwell and Jorgeson’s dogged determination to make it up that damn rock, no matter what. As Jorgeson wrote on his Facebook page during his struggle to conquer pitch 15: "I’m not giving up. I will rest. I will try again. I will succeed.”
Yeah, it’s cliché, but it’s something that bears repeating: If you really want something, keep at it. Thanks for such an inspiring reminder, guys.
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Adorable Bulldog Goes Viral for Cute but Hilarious Cover of Josh Groban’s “You Raise Me Up”
An adorable bulldog is making waves online for its cute videos with his dads, singing covers to various songs, including Josh Groban’s popular song, “You Raise Me Up”.
In Cologne, Germany, there is this adorable French bulldog named Junior who loves to go on long drives with his owners, Walter Ledermuller and Emanuele Zaubert.
Photo credit: The Epoch Times / Facebook
To pass the time as they traveled several miles on long stretches of seemingly endless highways, Walter and Emanuele would often sing along to the music on their stereo. But they were rather amused when Junior began to sing along to their music!
Junior’s claim to fame actually began as far back as 2014 when he sang to “Say Something” by A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera. Walter and Emanuele said the song was playing when Junior just began to howl along. It amused them so much that the pair recorded Junior ‘singing’ for their family members to see. But it turned out to be an internet gem.
Soon, the video had millions of views! As the “Junior mania” swept the internet, his ‘singing career’ was launched. Fans would fall in love over and over again with Junior as he sang covers of popular songs, including Rihanna’s “Diamonds” and Adele’s “Hello.”
Junior is so adorable that each video remains popular to his fans. Just like Josh Groban, his cover of “You Raise Me Up” would become one of his top hits! And while it can’t rival the 79 million views that Josh’s original video received, you’ve got to admit that 17.4 million views are really not that bad, huh?
'You Raise Me Up' feat. Junior The Bulldog🤗😊Credit: ViralHog
Posted by The Epoch Times on Thursday, November 16, 2017
Facts about “You Raise Me Up”
“You Raise Me Up” is one of the most popular songs by American singer-songwriter Josh Groban. But did you know that he did not write the song and that it wasn’t originally intended for him.
The music was written by Secret Garden’s Rolf Løvland and the lyrics by Brendan Graham. The Irish-Norwegian duo released the song in March 2002. While it became a hit in the UK, the song’s popularity fizzled out until it was recorded by Josh the following year, when he was picked by David Foster who decided to produce the song after hearing it from another musician.
The song became so popular and propelled Josh to fame. The song would also be covered by many other artists, including Westlife, but none were as popularly associated with the song as Josh.
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The cowboys rides again, and again, and again... George Strait just announced another stadium show, with Chris Stapleton and Little Big Town serving as support.
The King of Country Music is heading to Minneapolis’ U.S. Bank Stadium on Aug. 22. The last time these three acts were together they sold-out Mercedes-Benz Superdome at the 2018 Bayou Country Superfest. No reason to think this will be anything less than another sellout.
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Angular U Women's Initiative Contest Winner Announced
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A few weeks ago we launched our contest to send a passionate female coder to Angular U in San Francisco. Today we’re pleased to announce the deserving winner!
Cue the drumroll…
Meet Elise Worthy, who is the co-founder and technical director of Ada Developers Academy, a women’s-only tuition-free coding school in Seattle that was founded as a non-profit org in 2013.
Elise will join fellow AngularJS developers in San Francisco at Angular U on June 22-23, with her flight and accommodation on us, and her ticket provided by our friends at Angular U.
Congratulations to all who entered! There were over 140 inspirational entries, making the decision a difficult one. After deliberations, we felt that Elise was the best candidate because not only will she personally benefit from attending the conference, but most importantly, she will be able to give back to the community through her work at the academy. Her work at Ada Developers Academy and her knowledge of the issues facing women in the industry are impressive and motivational.
We caught up with Elise to hear more about what she thinks of AngularJS, learn about her work and the challenges facing female developers, plus get recommendations on what companies can do to tip the gender balance.
What attracts you most to the AngularJS framework and to JavaScript? What makes it most compelling for students at your school?
Ada primarily teaches Ruby and Rails, but increasingly we’re seeing companies asking for students to learn JavaScript, so we’ve adjusted our curriculum to provide more JavaScript training, and I think that trend will continue. Angular has really emerged as a framework that many people are using, and I’m now hearing about Angular more than anything else. One of our students did her capstone project in Angular and then after graduating from our school came back to teach new students AngularJS.
What do you hope to learn at Angular U to share with your students?
I have spent the last few years running the school more than writing code, so I’m actually excited as I’m now transitioning into a technical role again, to build up my dev skills in Angular. Seeing Angular 2.0 evolve shows that it has grown a lot and it is becoming more common for businesses to use. I’d like to pick up some resources to share with the students and encourage our school to work more with Angular development in the classroom.
What was your professional experience like in the tech industry, before you started Ada Developers Academy?
I always worked with engineers and software developers and I was always jealous of how they could understand things more deeply than I could. So, in 2010 I taught myself how to do basic programming. Then I got into Hungry Academy which was started by Living Social, where I was paid to learn how to be a developer… Following the program, I was employed in a couple of software development jobs and then I started Ada.
What events catalyzed the founding of the academy?
My co-founder Scott Case came up with the idea for Ada because he was responsible for hiring and couldn’t find enough female engineers and wanted more on his team. When he asked what I thought about doing a boot camp for women, I said ‘I’m in’ and so I stopped everything I was doing to start the school. In my career previously, learning how to program was lonely because often I was the least experienced person in the room, and often the only woman. Starting Ada gave me the ability to create something that I would have used myself.
Washington is a really interesting place for tech. We’ve got many tech companies here, and it’s home to Microsoft, Expedia and others, and when we founded this school there were 20,000 unfilled STEM jobs, and the majority were in software development. By starting the school in Seattle we could help provide engineering talent and also ensure that there were women working as developers.
Despite best intentions to hire female developers, many companies find it hard. Can you elaborate on some of the systemic issues facing female developers and the industry?
There’s a pipeline problem. there aren’t enough women and girls learning programming in school and so that causes a lack of women in the field to pick from. There are also systemic problems that cause women to leave programming… Not just overt sexism, but also the small biases that teams can have that make women potentially feel uncomfortable.
Do you think there are more women entering coding schools now and getting active in the software developer communities?
I see more gender parity at community events. It’s so cool to go to user groups and different events because even if a dozen Ada students go that can shift the balance. But I think a lot more can be done. Ada is only able to admit ten percent of the women who apply. That means 90% of the women who apply have to find another method of learning and getting jobs as developers. There are many ways to support women who want to get into development.
What do you recommend companies do to support women who code?
If you’re not in Seattle and you can’t work with Ada, then I recommend making sure that your development team is equipped to handle diversity. Make sure that people feel welcome, no matter what they look like, whether male or female. Then make sure that the board or leadership is onboard, and then host an internship program so you can allow students to get on your team through a non-traditional path.
Here at Rangle.io we look forward to continuing to support women in the industry however possible and creating more initiatives to promote gender diversity within the company. This summer, we’re thrilled to be co-hosting a Women Who Code TO workshop with two of our developers, Christine Davis and Abdella Ali, who will be leading an intro to AngularJS workshop. Stay Tuned here for details! Also, if you’re a woman who codes, we encourage you to take a look at our job listings, and consider a role with us.
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This image taken of the library at Combermere Abbey in Cheshire, England by Sybell Corbett clearly shows a determine sitting in the chair on the left. It’s believed to be the ghost of Lord Combermere, a British cavalry commander in the 1800s. Peter Berthelot took this picture of his spouse, Diane, sitting on a pew on the Worstead Church in Norfolk, England in 1975. When they’d the movie developed, they noticed a ghost sitting on the pew behind Diane. A man allegedly stayed within the church all evening sometime in 1830 to try to disprove the theory of ghosts, however he claimed the following morning he had actually seen the white woman seen on this image. This picture taken from the SS Watertown exhibits the faces two crewmen, James Courtney and Michael Meehan in the water. The two men died while onboard the ship and were given a burial at sea.
He meant merely to photograph the elegant spiral staircase, often known as the «Tulip Staircase», in the Queen’s House part of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England. Upon improvement, nevertheless, the picture revealed a shrouded determine climbing the steps, seeming to hold the railing with each arms.
She stated it might solely have taken a miracle for her to survive the crash, and lo and behold, there’s a angel-like figure in attending firefighter Sharon Boo’s photo. At first glance you’d think there’s nothing mistaken with this photograph. But look again, and you will see a tall, dark determine sporting what could be a monk’s frock, with a hood, within the high left. This is a photo of the Coventry Freeman society displaying everybody on the event, together with the mysterious determine, bowing their heads.
That’s why I rarely cover paranormal subjects – I’m extremely skeptical that any of it is actual, at least the photographed stuff. Thanks on your input David – that’s very attention-grabbing about photos eleven and 17.
The legend says if there is one empty seat in the back of a automobile, she’ll get in, so the younger individuals all the time make certain to have a full again seat.
In 1947 a lady went to visit the grave of her 17 12 months old daughter.
Thanks in your enter David – that’s very fascinating about photographs eleven and 17.
They say it happened three days in a row, however they don’t say if it was caught on the safety cameras three days within the row.
In Quezon City, Philippines, there is a fantasy that says a girl in white with long black hair stands in the middle of Balete Drive.
High in the church’s loft, seen in the upper proper-hand nook of his photograph, is the transparent form of what looks like a lady. According to Brackley, to his data, there were solely three people in the church at the time the picture was taken, and none of them had been in that loft. While touring the historic House of the Seven Gables in Salem, Massachusetts – the birthplace of American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne – Lisa B. The ghostly picture of a small boy seems to be within the shrubbery, peering over the picket fence.
Nobody on the occasion was seen carrying that type of clothing. When the picture was developed, there was a person sitting in the pilot’s seat who hadn’t been there when the photo was taken. This image, taken sooner or later in the Fifties shows a small household sitting at a desk. Two boys sit happily on their mother’s laps but a pretty terrifying and surprising visitor has also dropped in. Here is a spherical-up of essentially the most well-known «ghost» photos of all-time. Some have been faked little doubt, however they look so good on first inspection they may definitely convert some non-believers.
The ghost, considered that of Lady Dorothy Townshend, has been glimpsed several instances for the reason that early 1800s. Although Lady Townshend officially died of smallpox in 1726, extra lurid legends later sprung up, together with that she was locked in her bed room by her husband for committing adultery. Witnesses describe the phantom as having an air of madness or menace about it. The specter has reportedly been seen intermittently in regards to the corridor for the reason that photo was taken. Neil Sandwich took this photo of a farmhouse the place his pals were getting married.
Ignoring an absence of shown history on the picture — it might be good to know Liz’s aunt’s name, for instance — there may be one side to the pictures that bothers me completely. RICHMOND, Virginia- An eerie sight in a marriage picture has a newlywed couple stunned. People declare a ghost has been captured in picture taken at a North Carolina inn. Guest’s picture at a Newfoundland wedding ceremony exhibits what seems to be a floating man. This unusual apparition appeared in a photograph taken by Rev. Kenneth Lord in 1963 at Skelton-cum-Newby Church of Christ the Consoler. No earlier evidence of paranormal exercise had been reported at the church. Experts have stated the picture is not the results of a double publicity, though its veracity continues to be topic to debate.
Finally, his dad granted his wish and suited him up simply in time to take part of the game. With only a few minutes left to spare, Jason was pushed by considered one of his teammates as they made the outstanding run and made the ultimate landing. Teams from both sides congratulated him for a historic milestone. As a smiling Jason stated, “It was very stunning.” Truly, this occasion is a new promising step to greater possibilities that might be held onto for a lifetime.
This will permit on your digicam to register an identifiable determine in sharp element, however be clear because the model wasn’t in body the whole time. Look down a little and you’ll see a man’s face with a black prime hat on it. That’s the “ghost.” I don’t physician any photographs so folks can evaluate them of their unique state and make up their very own minds. For me, there’s an excessive amount of glare in the photo from all the open, arching windows, and it’s type of out of focus. I don’t seen a picture there, just a few bad digicam work. I suspect the household obtained the dates wrong or confused, and he could have been alive at the time the photograph was taken.
The story could also be simply the stuff of urban legend, however the accounts were intriguing sufficient that an article in regards to the phenomenon, »The Haunted Railroad Crossing,» was written. The article included a photograph submitted by Andy and Debi Chesney. Their daughter and some of her friends had recently been to the crossing to test the legend, and she took some pictures. Inexplicably, a wierd, clear determine turned up in one of the photos.
You’re principally combining two pictures in a single right here -one with you in body and one without – so any sluggish motion in between will register. Whether you buy the slot-in filters or the threaded, an ND filter is necessary for daytime ghost photography so as to limit the amount of sunshine that hits your sensor. The picture comes after a father photographed his daughter and noticed what he believes to be the disembodied legs of a samurai ghost. One kind person took the chance to photoshop the hideous face out of the photograph, a lot to Kevin’s delight. After posting the photo to Reddit, dozens of fellow-customers posted feedback joking about who the picture was.
This explicit picture was taken at Devil’s Den, by a vacationer who did not discover the soldier until after the picture had been developed. When he had the movie developed, nevertheless, he saw the ghost folks now refer to as The Watcher. Some folks declare she is an aboriginal woman in traditional garb, others think she a white lady in a nightgown. You’ll wish to sleep with the lights on after seeing these unexplained ghost photographs. For more inspirational ghost photography, please visit this Youtube video. It’s a set of photographs by photographer Cole Thompson, which show to be stellar examples of this course of.
Several vacationers gathered for a farewell party on the resort and determined to take a group photo. One of the celebration, Mr. Todd, arrange his Canon film digicam on a close-by table and pointed it at the group. The table is the white band on the bottom of the photographs. He set the self-timer on the digicam and hurried back to the table. The shutter clicked and the movie wound ahead, but the flash didn’t hearth. In 1982, photographer Chris Brackley took a photograph of the inside of London’s St. Botolph’s Church but never anticipated what would seem on the film.
Since you’re going for a haunting picture, your ultimate picture will be enhanced by your environment. Pick a location that compliments the temper you are going for – this will only be useful to your picture. When moving out of body, do so quickly to avoid any blurring.
First of all, if you don’t know what I imply by ghost pictures, have a look on the image under. Posing for a picture in entrance of their new house, this household had no concept about who – or what – was peeking out of their entrance window. This picture of two young women exploring Manilla has been creeping everyone out since 2000.
When she visited the church at the time of the picture, Diane was in ill health and was taking antibiotics. This picture was taken at Corroboree Rock at Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia in 1959. What does not seem to be a trick of sunshine and shadow is a human type, semi-transparent, wearing what looks like a long white gown or robe. More curious, the determine seems to be holding something in the method that an individual holds a digital camera or binoculars. The unusual cowled spectre seems to be wearing clothes very like a monkfrock from one other time. Lord Mayor Walter Brandish, who was present at the dinner, mentioned there was no one on the occasion who was dressed like that, and he could not clarify the presence of the interloper in the photo. «I photographed my boyfriend within the lodge,» mentioned Iovan.
“I used to think there was possibly something in the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall till I discovered the original SPR research file,” says Murdie. An enterprising American amateur photographer called William Mumler is regarded as the first person to capture a ‘spirit’ in a photograph within the early 1860s. We have distinctive methods of displaying how much we love the people who matter most in our lives. To say that love knows no boundaries is an understatement to some people who have such great affection in direction of others. He wanted to precise how a lot he loves his son, and for him, the best way to do that is by having a tattoo of his child – on his face. Fortunately, it was through the thrilling sport of 2012, when all these items took an incredible flip.
Christiana Quada Dennis uploaded her favourite marriage ceremony photograph of her and her new husband, Kevin. Sometimes the household of a deceased particular person will use a priest as a matchmaker. Other times they may omit a pink envelope with presents and believe that the deceased person’s partner will reveal himself. The origins of Chinese ghost marriage are largely unknown, however stories of it being practiced at present can still be discovered. This picture depicts England’s Wem Town Hall burning to the bottom in 1995. It additionally seems to depict a lady staring blankly at the digicam from within the building.
The main issue distinguishing Japanese ghost marriage from its Chinese counterpart is the incorporation of non-human spouses. A deceased particular person just isn’t married to a useless person, nor to a residing one, but to a doll. The most common ghost marriage is between ghost man and bride doll, however ghost ladies are occasionally united with tiny, inanimate grooms. I’ve seen the pictures displayed there during an event and can say that in my life I’ve never seen anything comparable aside from what I felt.
In the days following, crew members swore they saw the faces of the two men in the waves. So the Captain took a sequence of 5 photographs, 4 exhibiting nothing unusual, one showing this image, as if there have been two faces in it. Had an amateur ghost-hunter spent a couple of minutes taking flash pictures of that room at night time, the mud would likely have appeared as an orb–and its true cause virtually definitely overlooked as an explanation. I took a number of flash pictures of the world, and I noticed that the constructing (primarily a barn-like construction) was quite dusty.
Thus, ghost pictures started as an unseemly blend of photographic error and outright hoax. Although the concept of ghost marriage looks as if a strange tradition to those that first hear about its apply, it is seemingly rather more common that one would think. It represents a stage of devotion to the deceased partner of the dwelling spouse in the present day, considerably overshadowing its initial intention of safety in ancient China. In haunting the family, the youthful generations were in danger for a downfall of their family name and fortune. Thus, the wedding was not merely for the reassurance of the useless, however equally essential—generally extra so—for the sake of the remaining residing relations. The Mormon belief that marriage is everlasting allows for a wedding ceremony to be carried out on those that have already died, in a fashion much like posthumous Mormon baptisms.
Experts, together with some from Kodak, who examined the unique negative concluded that it had not been tampered with. It’s been stated that unexplained figures have been seen every so often in the neighborhood of the staircase, and unexplained footsteps have additionally been heard.
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Despite there being some graves for kids nearby, the child within the image has never been recognized. A little more durable to explain, perhaps, is the ghostly hand image on the end of the right-hand armrest of the chair . This, too, could be pareidolia, however its resemblance to a limp hand precisely in the place where an executed man’s hand would be is putting. The Berthelots returned to Worstead Church the subsequent summer season with the picture and showed it to Reverend Pettit, the church vicar. He defined to Diane the legend of the White Lady, of whom she had by no means heard. It is said that the ghost is a healer who appears when someone close to is in want of healing.
Of The Weirdest Wedding Photos Ever Taken
In 1891, Sybell Corbet was taking a photograph of the library at Combermere Abbey in Cheshire, England. Sat in the chair within the foreground of the shot is the faint define of a person’s head, collar and proper arm.
The sense of loss felt in lots of international locations after the struggle led some to desire a reunion with their misplaced relations and pals. Englishman William Hope, by then already a longtime spirit photographer, was a kind of very prepared to place his experience ahead. By World War One, spiritualism and spirit photography had gained some notable supporters including novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – a member of the Ghost Club. Around this era, some of the famous spirit images was taken.
These ghost marriages had been much like each a wedding and a funeral. The households of the participants will change presents of varied sizes which can embody cakes, dresses, and cash. The following couples decided to have a little enjoyable with their wedding ceremony portraits, and the results are straight-up hilarious. Some of those unusual of us usedPhotoshop to jazz up their images, some used plain old bad style, and most used an virtually criminally funny mixture of the 2. Wedding pictures are often something that a bride and groom will cherish for their complete lives. Couples usually shell out a lot of money to get the right photographer and venue, and other people usually take the whole formal portrait thing pretty significantly. Photographer Neil Sandbach took a collection of pictures at an English farmhouse in 2008.
Bachelor’s Grove is named being some of the haunted cemeteries on the planet, susceptible to some fairly unimaginable tales of mysterious phenomena, however it’s most well known for “The Madonna” ghost picture. «I needed this image more than she or anybody may ever know. THIS is my household. And we shall be together once more,» she wrote. In the photo and others taken at the article wedding shoot, a light-weight appears beside Thompson in the area that by no means changed form or shade. Angel advised the New York Daily News that when she informed Thompson concerning the mild, Thompson said, «I told you my child would show up.» «I do know that ️Lake has been watching over us particularly after we got married,» Thompson wrote.
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1966 Ferrari Is The Most Expensive Car Sold In Online Auction
The car broke a three-month-old record set by another Ferrari.
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Covid-19 may have derailed life as we know it, but you would never know it from the classic car market. Even as auctions have moved online, collectors continue to snap up rare and historically important cars. In fact, a 1966 Ferrari 275 GTB Long Nose just set a new record for the most expensive car sold on the internet.
The gorgeous ’60s speedster sold for a jaw-dropping approx.$4.33 million at Gooding & Company’s Geared Online sale late last week, according to a press release from the auction house. The sky-high hammer price easily broke a record that was set just three months ago, when a 2003 Ferrari Enzo sold for around $3.7 million during an auction held by RM Sotheby’s.
1966 Ferrari 275 GTB Long Nose Gooding & Company
The record-setting price tag falls squarely in the middle of the auction house’s $3.85 million to $4.55 million estimates for the vehicle. Why so much for this particular car? Because in addition to being kept in immaculate condition over five-plus decades—it still features its original Bianco finish and tan leather interior—it’s one of the final two-cam 275 GTBs ever built. Making the sporty coupé even more exclusive is that it’s one of just 40 factory-equipped with an improved torque tube driveshaft and the optional high-performance six-carburettor intake.
“I think this car is virus-proof in the sense that it is a really, really exceptional 275. It’s basically an all-original car with an original interior, a lot of original paint, and long-term ownership,” Gooding & Company president and CEO David Gooding told Bloomberg News before the sale. “It’s special—pandemic or not.”
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The 275 GTB wasn’t the only Ferrari to fare well at the auction. The top four sales prices all belonged to cars from the Prancing Horse. In addition to the record setter, another 2003 Enzo sold for approx. $3.29 million, a 1995 F50 went for approx. $2.98 million and a 1992 F40 hammered down for $2.28 million. Overall, 71 per cent of the lots up for bid at the inaugural event sold, bringing in a total of around $20.3 million.
Over $98 million worth of collectible cars have been sold in online auctions held by Gooding & Company, RM Sotheby’s and Bonhams since the pandemic began, according to Bloomberg. While there have been signs that things could be slowing down—sell-through rates are down about 10 per cent overall—cars costing more than $140,000 continue to move at a brisk pace.
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Pablo Mercedes Y Los Cojones del Diablos with “Devil & God”: An album that will amaze you!
Aprile 8, 2018 Gennaio 27, 2019 Nick
When we think of Rock and Metal, immediately the alarm for satanism for someone and more. By now, these two genres are historically associated with the cult of the devil, at least for part of the mass culture, but it is not always so obviously, as has been demonstrated several times over the last 50 years.
What I want to talk to you about today, however, is a partial truth, of a “sui generis” case, where one can not and must not, for the most part, be the important one, judging from the appearance. I’m talking about Pablo Mercedes and his latest album, “Devil & God“. Yes, of course, I know what you can think of with a name like that, with a training that is called “Pablo Mercedes Y Los Cojones del Diablo“, but I invite you to stop for a moment before making hasty conclusions.
Let’s start from the beginning: Who is Pablo Mercedes?
To answer this question, we must take a step back in time, to 1979, when an old, Punk-style collective, with the name “Rabid“, began its journey into the world of professional music. Years of experience, records, shows, lead to the new and definitive deployment of the 21st century. The creators are Pablo Mercedes (Voice and Percussion) together with his old friend Senor Penguino (Guitars), who like to define themselves as the two new “Disciples of Diablo.”
Attention, because as I said before, you have to know how to look deeper, beyond appearances and this reference must be seen from a purely artistic point of view. Mercedes and Penguino are in fact two warriors of the new millennium, bearers of a lost musical faith. The music they created is something new, but at the same time nostalgic, that It makes you go back to the old 60s, now so far. And here is the surprise! because with a high-sounding name like “Devil & God“, you could think of who knows what extreme work, but it is not! That album is a perfect amalgam, a meeting point between Rock and Blues.
The new consortium of the two musician, flanked by Juan Euro (Bass) and Max Panzer (Drums), perfectly knew how to mix the hardest and most decisive moments of Rock music and Metal, with the most sophisticated and intrinsically romantic Blues, both with all their possible nuances, alternating a series of songs all very original and different from each other and that never tire. That’s why, such music can only be defined as a product of the Devil, but you know, when you make a deal with the Dark One, you always pay a price and that is a life of debauchery, highs and disorder … or maybe it’s just appearance? The audience will have to say it.
With this wonderful new work, the “Pablo Mercedes Y Los Cojones of Diablo” are ready to carry around their music and conquer Europe and the World.
Devil and god
A captivating start, with a guitar reminiscent of a country motif. The women’s choirs enter the scene, then the drums and so on. Mercedes enters the scene, starting to speak iconically, reminiscent of some old forgotten dialect, but with a pleasant sound, which brings to mind a tough and wild Old West.
It tells of a small town, theater of the clash between the Devil and God. They are looking for women, when four bad guys arrive here. They would have liked to make plans and business, but it is not so easy to deal with the Lord and the Dark and in the end, neither their mouths nor their guns have sounded any more.
The verse has a hard and sustained rhythm, up to the refrain that has an air and pica, but more delicate, singing from a sweet voice. This pattern is repeated 3 times, but with small and subtle variations, pleasant to find. To break the apparent repetition is the guitar solo, well elaborated and inserted, ready to join a manual ending.
In the Shade
A folk trio begins to make its way in silence. The harmonica appears first, then a benjo and the last percussion. This is the story of a man who likes his life, without worries and without work, who is happy with the simple love of his woman.
Here the song surprises you and from what seemed like a simple folk ballad, a bridge takes you back to a piece and drags you into the purest rock of the 90s. Knock or not at the door of the workhouse? A reference that can not fail to make Guns N ‘Roses think for some reason.
Particular attention is paid to the bridge and to the guitar solo of the second part. They are the perfect amalgam between blues and rock.
Whorehouse Boogie
In a very decisive way, the drums and the guitar make their way to open the piece. The atmosphere is a real reference to the past, an old-fashioned Rock & Roll, enriched by a harder tone. Without a doubt, it is music suitable for the story, a story of frenetic and unreserved love, of pure carnal relationships guided by instincts and the desire to enrich them with … something more.
The song sways on the waters of time and music makes a jump between the ages, becoming suddenly more modern, between the bridges and the refrain, to become old style in the verse.
Get Your Haircut and Get a Real Job
The air of folk rock can be breathed from the beginning. A piece suitable for music lovers: the story of a young rebel, eager to spend his life playing and listening to records, but from everywhere come the reproaches and warnings; he should have a job and get settled.
A piece whose charge grows more and more going forward and exploding approaching the end, in a spectacular guitar solo that opens the door to a new genre, much more marked by Hard and Metal.
Elli Buj
Probably the song with the most country and folk character of all. It can be understood from the banjo and the percussions that open and shortly afterwards, from the harmonics that follow closely. Elli Buj is a strange and violent girl who feeds an unstoppable impulse: scare and kill. No one would not run off his feet and screams of terror and hatred against her rise everywhere.
The structure of the piece is interesting. The verse and the refrain play a very similar role and in some ways are a bit ‘the same thing. Despite the theme of the song, the music that initially does not seem suitable changes and surprises. In fact, the somewhat distorted electric guitar plays a fundamental role in this case when it appears and performs its solos.
Made in Detroit
To understand where we are, the song starts with the sound of a loaded pistol and a shot. That’s right, we are in the infamous Detroit and to accompany us is one of the most successful musical mix of the album, a rock blues with very harsh colors. The perfect music to accompany a long journey, especially in a place that is not the best reputed. The verse, solo and refrain recall a lot Aerosmith in “Pink”.
This song totally distorts what has been heard so far. Simple, calm, extremely romantic, yet melancholy. No matter what you read the words or the sadness interpreted in living a seemingly sad life, with the need to stun to make it better, this piece is everything. This is one of the cases where I do not want to make anticipations or surprise, but expect a breathtaking duet.
We return to the hard rock line, almost punk. A story of love and abandonment, of a life destroyed without Lucy, who was like a beacon in the night, like the sun in the sky, like everything and more. The piece knows where to go and continues straight on its way. The continuous use of the anaphora recalls the sadness of the soul of the singer, but the song proceeds fast and this repetition is not heavy.
The most interesting parts are the bridge and the solo, to which I recommend to pay attention.
Here again we make another change and descend deeper and deeper into the bowels of hell. This song, with a metallic flavor, is bleak and violent; a hymn to the screams, of pain, of terror, of those who let themselves go arrived at the moment of death. These screams welcome everyone and are the entry ticket for Rocksenstein.
Perhaps it will conceal less surprise than others, but surely this song meets the tastes and needs of fans of the genre.
Rock & Roll Band
Last song to close the record in beauty. It starts with a voice, young, feminine and an echo that calls, which declares love for music and wanting to become a rockstar. This is how one of the most iconic and strong songs of the whole album starts. A powerful guitar and a well-beaten drums to support it. This piece speaks of love for rock bands, of the desire to be, of success and, as already mentioned, of the passion for music. In the end this is the desire of every musician and rocker: to be a rock star.
It is the longest song of all and perhaps the most iconic for the guitar riffs, the solos and the incisiveness of the strophes. To be felt until the end, even more than once. Thanks to Mercedes and all of you.
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External reserve hits new low, below 4 months import
The stress of dwindling oil revenue is mounting on the economy as external reserve drops below USD30 billion last week, indicating less than four months import bill. The decline which came with last week’s withdrawals for meeting forex demands put the total figure at USD29.9 billion.
The international standard for healthy reserves is six months import cover, which for Nigeria should be about USD48 billion. Nigeria’s external reserves had crossed USD60 billion mark, indicating over eight months cover, or literally excess reserve of over USD10 billion a year ago just before the oil price decline.
The pressure on the reserves was worsened by the relentless defense of the naira by Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) since last year even when it was clear that the exchange rate was unsustainable at official rate of N155/USD1 before the apex bank was forced to accept a devaluation to N199/USD1 in the fourth quarter 2014. At current level the reserve has hit below its lowest point in the past 10 years.
CBN had attributed the pressure on the external sector to unscrupulous demand for foreign exchange and had subsequently scrapped its auction system early this month. Also the apex bank is going after the dollarization of the domestic economy which it felt had added to the unwholesome demand for the resources already in depletion by supply crash.
A continued decline in external reserve at current rate would trigger a call from either the International Monetary Fund or the World Bank, which will both be keen on offering financial assistance, according to economy observers. With the pressures it is clear that the Federal Government would resort to external borrowings to manage the challenges.
Apparently in anticipation of this development the Finance Minister and the Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, had in January this year, hinted of plans to augment capital spending with “external long-term concessional borrowings for infrastructure projects”. Among those being courted to provide the funds are the World Bank and China.
According to economy experts, ”Nigeria may continue to explore other options in addressing its revenue gap problems so as to avoid dialing the IMF/ World Bank, but should the oil crisis linger longer than expected, and Nigeria’s foreign revenue continues to dwindle, that call may become inevitable.
Nigeria’s federally collected revenue is likely to decline further by about 25 per cent this quarter. The chief executive officer, Financial Derivatives Company Limited (FDC), Bismarck Rewane had alluded to this pessimistic future in a presentation recently in Lagos saying that the declining revenue will serve as a wake-up call for Nigeria. According to him, decline in prices of other commodity is unlikely to cushion the effect of lower oil exports on the balance of trade, adding that the wake –up call would essentially focus on improving domestic tax income while diversifying export earnings sources.
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Nine men charged for cultism at Apapa
John Omoaka
Nine men were on Wednesday arraigned before an Apapa Magistrates’ Court for allegedly causing breach of peace at Apapa. The defendants were said to be members of a secret cult known as Aye.
The nine men were identified as Sodiq Lawal (23), Rasheed Ismaila (22), Suleiman Ganiyu (20), Jamiu Damilare (25), Samuel Akinmuleya (23), Jimoh Musiba (18), Michael Ajayi (20), Ibrahim Ismaila (18) and Lucky Ladi (18).
The prosecutor, Tony Elike told the court that the defendants committed the offences January 29, 2018 at about 9am at Ireti Street, Ijora Badia, Apapa.
They had in their possession two daggers, quantities of weed suspected to be India hemp, cutlass, charms and other dangerous weapons.
The prosecutor added that the defendants conducted themselves in a manner likely to cause the breach of peace by barricading the street.
According to him, the offences contravened Sections 411, 43(1), 42(9), 329, 44(4), 133(8) and 168(d) of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State 2015.
However, all the defendants pleaded not guilty to the eight-count charge brought against them.
In his ruling, Magistrate Moses Fadeyi granted all the defendants bail except the 4th defendant in the sum of N50,000 with one responsible surety each in like sum. This was because the 4th defendant Damilare, already had another pending case in court; he
had been charged for stealing.
Furthermore, the surety must be resident in Lagos with evidence of tax payment. The court ordered that N20,000 be deposited into the Chief Registrar’s account.
He adjourned the case till March 7, 2018 for mention.
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Words Apart and Others by Jonas Mekas
Translated from Lithuanian by Vyt Bakaitis.
Words Apart and Others brings poems spanning three decades of Jonas Mekas's career (1967-1998) to English audiences for the first time.
The book opens with a timely and discerning preface by poet Anne Waldman.
“In his poems, Jonas Mekas, the legendary filmmaker and artist, takes a Dantean journey down through the circles that surround the self. And like Dante, instead of seeing horizontally from some fixed place to the horizon, Mekas sees vertically, but from the lit world into the depths of experience. Besides enacting a vertiginous examination of the meaning of a life, the striking verticality of his lines functions like an auger “going / deeper, / deeper / in.”
“Just like his films, Jonas Mekas’s poems hold his dignity, their pace unfolding as the poet looks down at mountains from a plane. Later he’s a bit of an actor sitting on the shore, anticipating darkness, uses ‘soul’ as singular, remembers being little and those old friends and then it is day, bright yellow and he is beginning again. The colors here are true, the experience is so real. Mekas’s poems are a plain joy to read, timely and refreshing like a perfect glass of water.”
In the Rail
An interview with Jonas Mekas.
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More articles by Jonas Mekas.
Jonas Mekas is the widely renowned filmmaker of radical means. And while his first book of poems, published seven decades ago, has established itself as a classic, he continues to maintain a proliferating, vigorous presence in Lithuanian letters. A new book of poems he has written in English, The Book of Her, is soon to appear.
Vyt Bakaitis, the translator, has published two books of poems, City Country and Deliberate Proof, as well as the anthology he compiled and translated, Breathing Free/Gyvas atodūsis, which draws on some 200 years of Lithuanian verse.
Anne Waldman, poet, performer, editor, cultural activist, is the author most recently of Trickster Feminism (Penguin, 2018), Extinction Aria (Pied Oxen, 2017), and Voice’s Daughter of A Heart Yet to be Born (Coffee House Press, 2016). She is a Professor of the Practice for Brown University’s Arts Initiative Program in 2018. She is a Guggenheim recipient, holds a lifetime achievement award from the Before Columbus Foundation, and has received the USA PEN Center Award for her magnum opus, The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment.
Texts: Jonas Mekas
Translator: Vyt Bakaitis
Cover: Softcover
Type: Poetry
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Frost & Sullivan Honors Asia-Pacific’s Leading Organizations in the 4th Virtual Ceremony for the 2020 Asia-Pacific Best Practices Awards
Fourteen companies recognized for their exemplary performance and valuable contributions in shaping new trends across Asia-Pacific
SINGAPORE, Dec. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Frost & Sullivan honored Asia-Pacific’s leading companies at the 4th Virtual Awards Ceremony of the year today. A total of 19 awards were presented to organizations for elevating performance benchmarks and for their outstanding achievements in the industry. This annual event is now in its 18th consecutive year, with 2020 marking the first time the ceremony has been broadcasted virtually.
Congratulating the 2020 winners and recognizing their best-in-class performance, Hazmi Yusof, Senior Vice President, Asia-Pacific, at Frost & Sullivan said, “2020 has been an unforgettable year filled with challenges, but with every challenge comes opportunity, and many of you have showed resilience and commitment to continuously bring improvement and success to your industry. Quoting a Swedish proverb: ‘Rough waters are truer tests of leadership. In calm water, every ship has a good captain.’
The awards presented were segmented across five major sectors:
Visionary Science
Congratulating the 2020 winners and recognizing their best-in-class performance, Hazmi Yusof, Senior Vice President, Asia-Pacific, at Frost & Sullivan said, "2020 has been an unforgettable year filled with challenges, but with every challenge comes opportunity, and many of you have showed resilience and commitment to continuously bring improvement and success to your industry. Quoting a Swedish proverb: ‘Rough waters are truer tests of leadership. In calm water, every ship has a good captain.’ Heartiest congratulations to all the award recipients."
The award recipients were identified using Frost & Sullivan’s proprietary, measurement-based methodology derived from extensive primary and secondary research, in-depth interviews, analyses, and industry benchmarking. Numerous award categories were carefully reviewed and evaluated to reflect the current market landscape and highlight emerging trends in Asia. A detailed study was further conducted on each of the nominated companies, focusing on real-time performance indicators, such as market share, revenue growth, customer acquisitions, product/service value, and technology innovation. The companies that emerged represent outstanding leaders that are driving positive trends in the Asia-Pacific economy.
Award Titles and Categories
Regional Titles
2020 Global Medical Gloves Technology Innovation Leadership Award
Smart Glove Holdings
2020 Asia-Pacific Fixed Broadband Service Provider of the Year
AIS Fibre
2020 Asia-Pacific Web Application Firewall Vendor of the Year
2020 Asia-Pacific OSS/BSS Vendor of the Year
Netcracker Technology
2020 Asia-Pacific Hosted IP Telephony & UCaaS Growth Excellence Frost Radar Award
NTT Cloud Communications Singapore Pte. Ltd.
2020 Asia Pacific Cloud Infrastructure Services Provider of the Year Award
NTT Ltd.
2020 Asia Pacific Managed Security Service Provider of the Year Award
2020 Asia-Pacific Airport Automation Growth Innovation & Leadership Excellence Frost Radar Award
2020 Southeast Asia Managed Security Service Provider of the Year
Trustwave, a Singtel Company
National Titles
2020 Indonesia CRO Customer Value Leadership Award
PT. Prodia Diacro Laboratories
2020 Malaysia E-Commerce Logistics Service Provider of the Year
2020 Malaysia Express Logistics Service Provider of the Year
2020 Malaysia Express International Courier Services Customer Value Leadership Award
Federal Express Services (M) Sdn Bhd
2020 Singapore Cloud Infrastructure Services Provider of the Year
2020 Singapore Managed Security Service Provider of the Year
2020 South Korea Endpoint Security Vendor of the Year
AhnLab, Inc.
2020 Taiwan Cloud Infrastructure Services Provider of the Year
2020 Taiwan Data Centre Services Provider of the Year
2020 Taiwan Mobile Data Service Provider of the Year
The 2020 Frost & Sullivan Asia-Pacific Best Practices Awards virtual banquet is supported by the following media partners: ACN Newswire, AI Time Journal, CryptoNewsZ, Chief IT, Asia Research News, CEOWORLD Magazine, and Developing Telecoms.
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Home Featured Sculpture Dominion by Tom Holland examines how Christianity still shapes modern Western morality
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This huge and sweeping account of the past 2500 years has a similarly large-scale ambition: “to explore how we in the West came to be what we are and to think the way that we do.” And his argument is compelling: even those who reject religion – those who hold to atheism, humanism, scientism, secularism – find their beliefs ineradicably shaped by Christian presuppositions.
Holland writes that Christianity continues to infuse people’s morals and presumptions “so utterly that many failed even to detect their presence. Like dust particles so fine as to be invisible to the naked eye, they were breathed in equally by everyone: believers, atheists and those who never paused so much as to think about religion.”
Holland manages to traverse Western history from the Persian invasion of Greece in 480BC to Donald Trump by the technique of taking some often obscure figure or event and expanding from that to social transformation. So he leaps from the Apostle Paul, herald of a new beginning, to church fathers Irenaeus and the development of the canon, Origen and the invention of theology, the council of Nicaea, Martin of Tours and the exaltation of poverty, and Bede and a calendar based on the birth of Christ.
Perhaps Holland’s most important contribution is to lay waste the secularist founding myth that reason, empiricism, evidence, humanism and the like emerged in the Enlightenment fully formed like Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus, not only owing nothing to the preceding centuries but indeed in contrast to them.
Holland, an atheist, is no apologist for Christianity but is honest enough to acknowledge that his values and world view emerged from Christianity rather than pagan antiquity.
Holland explores the influence of the world’s biggest faith.
Take human rights, a key concept in modern law and ethics. Rights are by no means self-evident or inalienable, as the US Declaration of Independence states, and would have attracted contempt in pre-Christian societies such as ancient Rome or China.
Rights’ essential precondition is the Genesis teaching of humans made in God’s image, and therefore endowed with dignity and worth. It led Gregory of Nyssa in the fourth century to rail against slavery and abandoning unwanted infants on rubbish heaps, and was made explicit by 11th-century canon lawyer Gratian, who pronounced that everyone was equal in the sight of God. Anything in the legal system obstructing this idea had to go.
“Much flowed from this formulation that earlier ages would have struggled to comprehend. Age-old presumptions were being decisively overturned: that custom was the ultimate authority; that the great were owed a different justice from the humble; that inequality was something natural, to be taken for granted,” Holland writes. In 1550 Bartolome de las Casas demanded justice for South American Indians, using the term “derechos humanos”, human rights. The genius of the authors of the US Constitution 200 years later was to garb in the robes of the Enlightenment the radical Protestantism that shaped the fledgling nation.
Darwin, in contrast, pointed out how unnatural such a concept is in the light of evolution, observing that “philanthropy and care for the poor must be highly injurious to the race of man”.
And today the insistence of the United Nations and others on the antiquity and broad acceptance of human rights is a fiction to allow it to be a global rather than merely a Western understanding. Secularism, in an identical manner, depended on the care with which it covered its tracks, Holland says.
The idea of the secular, contrasted with the religious, is an important theme of the great fourth-century theologian Augustine, in The City of God, and reaches fulfilment in the humiliation of Henry IV before Pope Gregory in 1076, which divided the religious and secular realms (giving the Church great power in both).
So embedded is it that nearly a millennium later German chancellor Angela Merkel appealed to it in 2014 to claim that Islam belongs as much as Christianity in modern Germany. So it may, but not because traditional Islam admits the idea of the secular, a notion born purely from Christian history. To Islam, it is an artificial divide. But, as Holland notes, the West has become skilled in repackaging Christian concepts for non-Christian audiences.
The idea that science needed to set itself free of dogma and superstition, possible only in the Enlightenment, is another fiction that can be believed only by those ignorant of history. Holland turns to Abelard – the ill-fated lover of Heloise – who devoted his post-castration life to promoting the idea that God’s order was rational and governed by rules that humans could seek to comprehend. His conviction that identifying the laws that governed nature would honour the God who made them led to the founding of universities in the 12th century.
Himmler, who had a 50-year plan to eradicate Christianity, believed the strong had both a duty and obligation to eliminate the weak.
Similarly, humanism has smuggled in Christian assumptions unacknowledged. Without the biblical story of creation in God’s image, the reverence of humanists for their own species “risks seeming mawkish and shallow”. Indeed, philosophers such as Peter Singer have attacked such notions as “speciesism”.
And the claim in the Humanist Manifesto that morals can be developed from science is another fantasy. “The primary dogma of humanism – that morality is an intrinsic part of human nature based on understanding and a concern for others – found no more corroboration in science than did the dogma of the Nazis that anyone not fit for life should be exterminated,” Holland writes. “The wellspring of humanist values lay not in reason, not in evidence-based thinking, but in history.”
An interesting thesis is that those who most truly understood Christianity’s radical role were those who most despised it, and here Holland cites Nietzsche, the Marquis de Sade, Thomas Huxley and Heinrich Himmler. Nietzsche thought Christianity a slave morality, a way for the weak to bind the strong, but also recognised its values could not survive without the God who sanctioned them. Himmler, who had a 50-year plan to eradicate Christianity, believed the strong had both a duty and obligation to eliminate the weak.
Holland acknowledges that the course of Christianity has been a mixed blessing. Christians have indeed been oppressors and exploiters, although the backlash against that has also been Christian. He details many embarrassing aspects, from crusades to corruption, and especially the totalitarian idea of truth that justifies persecuting those who differ. The heresy hunters of the inquisition survive today in the self-righteous “woke” fanatics, who no longer have the power to burn people at the stake but try to end careers, ruin reputations and close down discussions.
This is an astounding book, not only for its scope – cultural, political, social, intellectual, historical – and its originality, but for its masterly writing. Holland has a knack for the colourful twist. Writing of the summer of love, 1967, he notes: “Preachers, seen through the marijuana haze of a squat in San Francisco, had the look of bigots. Where was the love in short-haired men jabbing their fingers and going puce?”
He also has an eye for fascinating detail. For example, we owe capital letters and question marks to the abbot Alcuin of Tours, adviser to Charlemagne in the eighth century, who did a vast amount to popularise the Bible as a single source of revelation.
But sometimes Holland is a bit too graphic to be comfortable. His detailed discussion of death by crucifixion is stomach-churning; still more so the Persian punishment of the scaphe, in which the victim is trapped inside a log but for his extremities, covered in honey, and devoured over days by insects and maggots from within. Believe me, Holland’s account is horrifically more detailed.
In an enterprise as vast as Dominion, there are inevitably lacunae. Critics have observed that Holland underplays the role of Eastern Orthodox Christianity and the rise of trade, but the book is already nearly 600 pages. Another occasional weakness is that Holland’s narrative style means that he may pass over contested aspects of history to stick with his main line, though footnotes can redeem him.
For me, perhaps the most compelling point is the way Christianity defines even its opponents. Even as the woke generation condemns Christian history as oppressive, patriarchal, racist and all the other now-standard derelictions, the standards of justice and equality by which they judge these shortcomings remain ineradicably Christian. In that sense, Holland concludes, Christendom will remain with us a while yet.
Barney Zwartz is a Senior Fellow of the Centre for Public Christianity.
Barney Zwartz, a senior fellow of the Centre for Public Christianity, was religion editor of The Age from 2002 to 2013.
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Listen: Schultz, Thomas Repetto, New York discussed on Mafia
"Charm offensive was extremely successful and the end result was was that schultz got off on his trial that he was not found guilty that the system at the time required a consensus vote to find him guilty they were not able to achieve that so his case was tossed out schultz was genuinely surprised by his victory and the small town judge was a poem and the judge of the case was just infuriated and actually gave a little speech in the courtroom saying basically implying that you know out of town people have come here and tried to impress the locals and this is terrible and basically scolds the jury author thomas repetto the judge ruled later that those folks could never serve on jury he said this this decision is against the evidence dutch had beaten the government rap for tax evasion but on his return to new york schultz discovered that other forces had also been conspiring against him schultz one and malone but he quickly realizes that he's been betrayed by one of his closest associates bo weinberg who's been with them for years with schultz on the ropes weinberg had been plotting to betray him to his archrival lucky luchino lucky luciano he was in communication with a guy named long willman and was sort of communicating with them and basically saying i'll help you take over dutch schultz's criminal empire if you give me either a chunk of the proceeds or let me run part of the empire myself so bo was thinking very much scholtz is either going to go to jail or get kim."
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Charm offensive was extremely successful and the end result was was that schultz got off on his trial that he was not found guilty that the system at the time required a consensus vote to find him guilty they were not able to achieve that so his case was tossed out schultz was genuinely surprised by his victory and the small town judge was a poem and the judge of the case was just infuriated and actually gave a little speech in the courtroom saying basically implying that you know out of town people have come here and tried to impress the locals and this is terrible and basically scolds the jury author thomas repetto the judge ruled later that those folks could never serve on jury he said this this decision is against the evidence dutch had beaten the government rap for tax evasion but on his return to new york schultz discovered that other forces had also been conspiring against him schultz one and malone but he quickly realizes that he's been betrayed by one of his closest associates bo weinberg who's been with them for years with schultz on the ropes weinberg had been plotting to betray him to his archrival lucky luchino lucky luciano he was in communication with a guy named long willman and was sort of communicating with them and basically saying i'll help you take over dutch schultz's criminal empire if you give me either a chunk of the proceeds or let me run part of the empire myself so bo was thinking very much scholtz is either going to go to jail or get kim.
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Listen: Green Party, Chancellor Sebastian Courts, United States discussed on Monocle 24: The Briefing
"Sebastian cuts and his conservative People's Party win eight clear your victory in the country's general election but will the former chancellor look again to the scandal-plagued far right party in forming the next government our news panel will evaluate the latest violence in Hong Kong which comes on the eve of celebrations for the seventieth anniversary of communist rule in China plus. We'll find out why Turkey wants is to become more self sufficient in its military strength and we'll also hear about a new project in Finland which is trying to support peaceful coexistence between people the country's growing wolf population all that plus a flip through the newspapers and a rundown of the day's top business stories as well right here on the briefing with me Daniel Beach Welcome to the briefing we begin by turning our attention to Austria where former Chancellor Sebastian Courts as won a general election and in convincing fashion snap election was called following the collapse of the previous government made up of the People's Party of Mister Courts and the far-right Freedom Party hardy video had revealed the Freedom Party's openness to Russian influence. Peddling courts will now have to choose between shifting left or going back to his former allies in the far right party to form a new government for more on this. I'm joined by tests should covets. UK Correspondent for Austria Profile magazine Tessa. Thank you for joining us and and welcome back to the show Were you surprised at all. I don't buy this results. I think everyone was surprised because the opinion polls before forty elections showed a better resort for prognosis for the far-right what happened I think in the last weeks before the elections was that the far-right Freedom Parthiv got involved. There were some revelations about expense scandals around the leadership and former former head of the party has gone and that further dampen their the the results so a combination of the bitter video scandal from May with these new revelations just kicked him off the chances to return to government as the logical partner that for Christian for Sebastian quote what's so we will see now in long probably difficult coalition negotiations if he indeed will to the Green Party as coalition nations partner. I want to come back to that expensive scandal you mentioned but you are right. The Green Party did surge which is quite curious here sort of square in the middle the People's Party the Conservative Party is the Social Democrats as well which is quite curious. The Conservative Party gained a lot of ground far right lost ground obviously because of of that scandal but with the performance of the Greens does that put into question where the former chancellor is going to look for a new partner in in his coalition while he's definitely the successful populist he managed to gain votes though his previous coalition was failed completely in renewing Australia sort of fear contract with the people in the future so they just had to resign after eighteen months and still he comes out as the one who is the staple prime minister that people trust again to form another government so that's the first thing so the second thing is that the Zeitgeist has changed a little bit in the last two years so the last elections refund on a tough immigration stands after the refugee crisis resulted in strong anxieties in the population this time we're sort of in the middle of Friday's for future a frenzy people thinking about the climate catastrophe more than about the the consequences of immigration could try to push the immigration a topic in all conversations or interviews during during the election campaign but in fact the resides in the success of the green pod shows that the younger voters want something else than the constant immigration debate so they turn to the Green Party and a lot of people in the middle of the society also thought that they wanted some kind of the more open minded and more progressive stance on questions like immigration European Union and end climate and those people voted either green or for this small Liberal Party which was also quite successful. Do we have any indication of which way ah the former chancellor is leaning here for his Coalition Party as he say sort of it is a popular thing now more people are thinking about the climate obviously climate change rather more people voted voted green so he's quite young guy as well not only in age but in his political experience so may he be more curious to to shift left in in building and continuing to grow on his popularity he might and this is a big test now for him as a politician because he was very quickly quickly turning to become one of these right wing populace strongmen tough on immigration and constantly talking about political Islam. I am in how to sort of restrictor these influences in Australian in his Austrian homeland and artists sixty. You know the rhetoric from other other right wing politicians in Europe to now. He has the chance to move back to the middle and do a coalition with the Green Party ideologically. Lee I think this will be quite difficult for him because he has always said that he felt comfortable in the coalition with defy red because they shared a lot of his reform plans and also this anti immigration stance now we will see what he will do and it will be a a very big test also for the Green party because they are much more progressive much more welcoming to immigration much more open minded and in then Sebastian could so for them to go into coalition is quite dangerous too but it's now the moment where Australia has decided and where the Green Party ends passive quits mainly mainly those two have to decide if they want to prevent the fire to come back from into government or not and we will probably see this by the end of the year beginning of next year only the results so the next week will be quite interesting Tessa. Thank you so much for this just fits their now with a look at some of the day's other the news headlines here is multiples yielding offen- thank you Daniel Saudi Arabia's Grand Prince Mohammad bin Salman has warned at oil prices could spike to unimaginably high the numbers if the world doesn't come together to deter Iran speaking to CBS. He said he would prefer a political solution to military one. The bruins also accepted some responsibility for journalists Jamal Kashoggi's killing but denied personally ordering it dozens of world leaders have gathered in Paris for the funeral of former President Jacques Chirac who died last week H. Eighty-six. He's to be buried at Dimona symmetry in the French capital Jackson. I served two terms as president and twice as prime minister and the unemployment rate in the eurozone dropped in August its lowest level in more than a decade figures by the European Union statistics official the jobless rate in the nineteen nineteen country courtesy block fell to seven point four percent in August reaching its lowest level since May two thousand eight when the Eurozone's economy begin to feel the negative impact the prime mortgage crises in the United States. Those are today's headlines back to you Daniel. Thank you your lean. Let's now get the days latest business headlines and I'm joined on the line by Bloomberg's. You and it's nice to have you on the program I dump a partial to Nile from the US over increased restrictions on Chinese investments. What can you tell us about that. Yes we heard on Friday from Larry cudlow the head of President Trump's national economic council deliberations inside the white off of what some hawks at labeled a potential to financial decoupling of the world's two largest economies it sound like rather grand expansion of the trade war between China and the US we understand that the it's the options discussed including forcing a listing of Chinese companies from US exchanges imposing limits on investments in Chinese markets by US government pension funds and also on putting putting caps on the value of Chinese companies including indexes managed by US firms but now we've had something of a partial denial from the White House downplaying the limits of this the administration is not contemplating blocking Chinese companies from listing shares on US stock exchanges this time so not really denying the entirety of these suggestions are also saying at this time leaving the door. Perhaps open to more restrictions in this this all comes across the head of those key trade talks October tenth and eleventh the important days for those Chinese vice premier will be heading to the US. We all L. Senior officials to discuss the ongoing trade while this is very much something which markets keeping an eye on so watch out for more headlines on the trade front and on the Market Watch. What about this tax hike in Japan. How is that affecting thanks yeah prominence. The Shinzo will be hoping it's third time lucky for his tax increase. The plan tomorrow is to increase the sales tax from eight percent ten percent now. They tried and failed to do this twice. The Japanese Economy of course has been in a fragile Rajon state for years more than a decade really and consumer spending pretty fragile now. Japan is keen to show that it serious about chipping wait debt of course Japan's public debt load is the biggest in the developed world in twenty fourteen the last time this was tried right. There was a serious damage to the economies of this time they've already hedged their bets of the raft of countermeasures designed to smooth out the boom and bust in in consumption and buy some some calculations they actually add up to more than the total extra proceeds from the tax increase in the first year so they've tried to did this a bit more carefully this time also some disparity in economic forecasts as to how Japanese economy is going to fare this year. I'm this survey. Bouma reckon that the economy will shrink violent annualized two point seven percent in the final three months of two thousand nine hundred a pretty bad performance elements to round out the year four Japan by the spread of forecasts is unusually wide so far. We've got some preliminary data on consumer spending four September and shows that there's been a bit of a spike in sales of home appliances and furniture buying but it's not really a mad rush to splurge so the some signs of people buying ahead ahead of this tax increase but the Japanese government selling the hoping this time they can finally get this tax hike through the door you and thank you for this. you in pots. They're in a very busy Bloomberg newsroom."
Green Party, Chancellor Sebastian Courts, United States discussed on Monocle 24: The Briefing
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Sebastian cuts and his conservative People's Party win eight clear your victory in the country's general election but will the former chancellor look again to the scandal-plagued far right party in forming the next government our news panel will evaluate the latest violence in Hong Kong which comes on the eve of celebrations for the seventieth anniversary of communist rule in China plus. We'll find out why Turkey wants is to become more self sufficient in its military strength and we'll also hear about a new project in Finland which is trying to support peaceful coexistence between people the country's growing wolf population all that plus a flip through the newspapers and a rundown of the day's top business stories as well right here on the briefing with me Daniel Beach Welcome to the briefing we begin by turning our attention to Austria where former Chancellor Sebastian Courts as won a general election and in convincing fashion snap election was called following the collapse of the previous government made up of the People's Party of Mister Courts and the far-right Freedom Party hardy video had revealed the Freedom Party's openness to Russian influence. Peddling courts will now have to choose between shifting left or going back to his former allies in the far right party to form a new government for more on this. I'm joined by tests should covets. UK Correspondent for Austria Profile magazine Tessa. Thank you for joining us and and welcome back to the show Were you surprised at all. I don't buy this results. I think everyone was surprised because the opinion polls before forty elections showed a better resort for prognosis for the far-right what happened I think in the last weeks before the elections was that the far-right Freedom Parthiv got involved. There were some revelations about expense scandals around the leadership and former former head of the party has gone and that further dampen their the the results so a combination of the bitter video scandal from May with these new revelations just kicked him off the chances to return to government as the logical partner that for Christian for Sebastian quote what's so we will see now in long probably difficult coalition negotiations if he indeed will to the Green Party as coalition nations partner. I want to come back to that expensive scandal you mentioned but you are right. The Green Party did surge which is quite curious here sort of square in the middle the People's Party the Conservative Party is the Social Democrats as well which is quite curious. The Conservative Party gained a lot of ground far right lost ground obviously because of of that scandal but with the performance of the Greens does that put into question where the former chancellor is going to look for a new partner in in his coalition while he's definitely the successful populist he managed to gain votes though his previous coalition was failed completely in renewing Australia sort of fear contract with the people in the future so they just had to resign after eighteen months and still he comes out as the one who is the staple prime minister that people trust again to form another government so that's the first thing so the second thing is that the Zeitgeist has changed a little bit in the last two years so the last elections refund on a tough immigration stands after the refugee crisis resulted in strong anxieties in the population this time we're sort of in the middle of Friday's for future a frenzy people thinking about the climate catastrophe more than about the the consequences of immigration could try to push the immigration a topic in all conversations or interviews during during the election campaign but in fact the resides in the success of the green pod shows that the younger voters want something else than the constant immigration debate so they turn to the Green Party and a lot of people in the middle of the society also thought that they wanted some kind of the more open minded and more progressive stance on questions like immigration European Union and end climate and those people voted either green or for this small Liberal Party which was also quite successful. Do we have any indication of which way ah the former chancellor is leaning here for his Coalition Party as he say sort of it is a popular thing now more people are thinking about the climate obviously climate change rather more people voted voted green so he's quite young guy as well not only in age but in his political experience so may he be more curious to to shift left in in building and continuing to grow on his popularity he might and this is a big test now for him as a politician because he was very quickly quickly turning to become one of these right wing populace strongmen tough on immigration and constantly talking about political Islam. I am in how to sort of restrictor these influences in Australian in his Austrian homeland and artists sixty. You know the rhetoric from other other right wing politicians in Europe to now. He has the chance to move back to the middle and do a coalition with the Green Party ideologically. Lee I think this will be quite difficult for him because he has always said that he felt comfortable in the coalition with defy red because they shared a lot of his reform plans and also this anti immigration stance now we will see what he will do and it will be a a very big test also for the Green party because they are much more progressive much more welcoming to immigration much more open minded and in then Sebastian could so for them to go into coalition is quite dangerous too but it's now the moment where Australia has decided and where the Green Party ends passive quits mainly mainly those two have to decide if they want to prevent the fire to come back from into government or not and we will probably see this by the end of the year beginning of next year only the results so the next week will be quite interesting Tessa. Thank you so much for this just fits their now with a look at some of the day's other the news headlines here is multiples yielding offen- thank you Daniel Saudi Arabia's Grand Prince Mohammad bin Salman has warned at oil prices could spike to unimaginably high the numbers if the world doesn't come together to deter Iran speaking to CBS. He said he would prefer a political solution to military one. The bruins also accepted some responsibility for journalists Jamal Kashoggi's killing but denied personally ordering it dozens of world leaders have gathered in Paris for the funeral of former President Jacques Chirac who died last week H. Eighty-six. He's to be buried at Dimona symmetry in the French capital Jackson. I served two terms as president and twice as prime minister and the unemployment rate in the eurozone dropped in August its lowest level in more than a decade figures by the European Union statistics official the jobless rate in the nineteen nineteen country courtesy block fell to seven point four percent in August reaching its lowest level since May two thousand eight when the Eurozone's economy begin to feel the negative impact the prime mortgage crises in the United States. Those are today's headlines back to you Daniel. Thank you your lean. Let's now get the days latest business headlines and I'm joined on the line by Bloomberg's. You and it's nice to have you on the program I dump a partial to Nile from the US over increased restrictions on Chinese investments. What can you tell us about that. Yes we heard on Friday from Larry cudlow the head of President Trump's national economic council deliberations inside the white off of what some hawks at labeled a potential to financial decoupling of the world's two largest economies it sound like rather grand expansion of the trade war between China and the US we understand that the it's the options discussed including forcing a listing of Chinese companies from US exchanges imposing limits on investments in Chinese markets by US government pension funds and also on putting putting caps on the value of Chinese companies including indexes managed by US firms but now we've had something of a partial denial from the White House downplaying the limits of this the administration is not contemplating blocking Chinese companies from listing shares on US stock exchanges this time so not really denying the entirety of these suggestions are also saying at this time leaving the door. Perhaps open to more restrictions in this this all comes across the head of those key trade talks October tenth and eleventh the important days for those Chinese vice premier will be heading to the US. We all L. Senior officials to discuss the ongoing trade while this is very much something which markets keeping an eye on so watch out for more headlines on the trade front and on the Market Watch. What about this tax hike in Japan. How is that affecting thanks yeah prominence. The Shinzo will be hoping it's third time lucky for his tax increase. The plan tomorrow is to increase the sales tax from eight percent ten percent now. They tried and failed to do this twice. The Japanese Economy of course has been in a fragile Rajon state for years more than a decade really and consumer spending pretty fragile now. Japan is keen to show that it serious about chipping wait debt of course Japan's public debt load is the biggest in the developed world in twenty fourteen the last time this was tried right. There was a serious damage to the economies of this time they've already hedged their bets of the raft of countermeasures designed to smooth out the boom and bust in in consumption and buy some some calculations they actually add up to more than the total extra proceeds from the tax increase in the first year so they've tried to did this a bit more carefully this time also some disparity in economic forecasts as to how Japanese economy is going to fare this year. I'm this survey. Bouma reckon that the economy will shrink violent annualized two point seven percent in the final three months of two thousand nine hundred a pretty bad performance elements to round out the year four Japan by the spread of forecasts is unusually wide so far. We've got some preliminary data on consumer spending four September and shows that there's been a bit of a spike in sales of home appliances and furniture buying but it's not really a mad rush to splurge so the some signs of people buying ahead ahead of this tax increase but the Japanese government selling the hoping this time they can finally get this tax hike through the door you and thank you for this. you in pots. They're in a very busy Bloomberg newsroom.
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Listen: Pope on sex abuse: 'We showed no care for the little ones'
"We showed no care for the little ones we abandoned them those the words pope Francis contained a, three page letter today addressing the cover up. Of sexual abuse of children by priests Recently discovered in Pennsylvania the pope also demanded accountability. But Michael Norris former Catholic and board member now of the survivors network of those abused by priests also known as snap says the letter gave no concrete plans of action to tackle the problem we need transparency everybody you know there are there are still priest, inactive ministry in the Catholic faith that. Had been credibly accused of sexual misconduct and people in those Paris's don't know about it another victim reacted to the pope's letter by saying that mere words at this point deepen the insult and the pain for scholars of the Catholic church the question. The pope's letter raises is whether there will be follow through many scholars believe the problem for, the judge one it's been unwilling to change for centuries to get more men to become a priest when you don't. Have enough priest round even in the most. Catholic region on. Earth Latin America home to forty percent of the world's one, point three billion Catholics there in in many countries such as Guatemala the majority of the priests are foreigner and that says professor Andrew chestnut Virginia Commonwealth has created a huge problem for the church one it, doesn't really want to talk about been this kind of unstated. Policy that you know better bad apples in a barrel Apples at all which. Is he says goes to the core of one of the churches tenants the vow of celibacy,"
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We showed no care for the little ones we abandoned them those the words pope Francis contained a, three page letter today addressing the cover up. Of sexual abuse of children by priests Recently discovered in Pennsylvania the pope also demanded accountability. But Michael Norris former Catholic and board member now of the survivors network of those abused by priests also known as snap says the letter gave no concrete plans of action to tackle the problem we need transparency everybody you know there are there are still priest, inactive ministry in the Catholic faith that. Had been credibly accused of sexual misconduct and people in those Paris's don't know about it another victim reacted to the pope's letter by saying that mere words at this point deepen the insult and the pain for scholars of the Catholic church the question. The pope's letter raises is whether there will be follow through many scholars believe the problem for, the judge one it's been unwilling to change for centuries to get more men to become a priest when you don't. Have enough priest round even in the most. Catholic region on. Earth Latin America home to forty percent of the world's one, point three billion Catholics there in in many countries such as Guatemala the majority of the priests are foreigner and that says professor Andrew chestnut Virginia Commonwealth has created a huge problem for the church one it, doesn't really want to talk about been this kind of unstated. Policy that you know better bad apples in a barrel Apples at all which. Is he says goes to the core of one of the churches tenants the vow of celibacy,
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Data from: Time scale matters: genetic analysis does not support adaptation-by-time as the mechanism for adaptive seasonal declines in kokanee reproductive lifespan
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Dataset published via Dryad
Seasonal declines of fitness-related traits are often attributed to environmental effects or individual-level decisions about reproductive timing and effort, but genetic variation may also play a role. In populations of Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.), seasonal declines in reproductive life span have been attributed to adaptation-by-time, in which divergent selection for different traits occurs among reproductively isolated temporal components of a population. We evaluated this hypothesis in kokanee (freshwater obligate Oncorhynchus nerka) by testing for temporal...
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Data from: QST FST comparisons with unbalanced half-sib designs
Kimberly J. Gilbert & Michael C. Whitlock
QST, a measure of quantitative genetic differentiation among populations, is an index that can suggest local adaptation if QST for a trait is sufficiently larger than the mean FST of neutral genetic markers. A previous method by Whitlock and Guillaume derived a simulation resampling approach to statistically test for a difference between QST and FST, but that method is limited to balanced data sets with offspring related as half-sibs through shared fathers. We extend this...
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Data from: Landscape structure and the genetic effects of a population collapse
Serena A. Caplins, Kimberly J. Gilbert, Claudia Ciotir, Jens Roland, Stephen F. Matter & Nusha Keyghobadi
Both landscape structure and population size fluctuations influence population genetics. While independent effects of these factors on genetic patterns and processes are well studied, a key challenge is to understand their interaction, as populations are simultaneously exposed to habitat fragmentation and climatic changes that increase variability in population size. In a population network of an alpine butterfly, abundance declined 60–100% in 2003 because of low over-winter survival. Across the network, mean microsatellite genetic diversity did...
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Data from: Jerzego, a new hisponine jumping spider from Borneo (Araneae: Salticidae)
Wayne P. Maddison & Edyta K. Piascik
A new genus and species of hisponine jumping spider from Sarawak, Jerzego corticicola Maddison sp. nov. are described, representing one of the few hisponine jumping spiders known from Asia, and the only whose male is known. Although similar to the primarily-Madagascan genus Hispo in having an elongate and flat body, sequences of 28s and 16sND1 genes indicate that Jerzego is most closely related to Massagris and Tomomingi, a result consistent with morphology. Females of Jerzego...
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Data from: Indirect genetic effects underlie oxygen-limited thermal tolerance within a coastal population of chinook salmon
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With global temperatures projected to surpass the limits of thermal tolerance for many species, evaluating the heritable variation underlying thermal tolerance is critical for understanding the potential for adaptation to climate change. We examined the evolutionary potential of thermal tolerance within a population of chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) by conducting a full-factorial breeding design and measuring the thermal performance of cardiac function and the critical thermal maximum (CTmax) of offspring from each family. Additive genetic...
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Data from: Transcriptome analysis indicates considerable divergence in alternative splicing between duplicated genes in Arabidopsis thaliana
David C. Tack, William R. Pitchers & Keith L. Adams
Gene and genome duplication events have created a large number of new genes in plants that can diverge by evolving new expression profiles and functions (neofunctionalization) or dividing extant ones (subfunctionalization). Alternative splicing (AS) generates multiple types of mRNA from a single type of pre-mRNA by differential intron splicing. It can result in new protein isoforms or down-regulation of gene expression by transcript decay. Using RNA-seq we investigated the degree to which alternative splicing patterns...
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Data from: Immune response genes and pathogen presence predict migration survival in wild salmon smolts
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We present the first data to link physiological responses and pathogen presence with subsequent fate during migration of wild salmonid smolts. We tagged and non-lethally sampled gill tissue from sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) smolts as they left their nursery lake (Chilko Lake, BC, Canada) to compare gene expression profiles and freshwater pathogen loads with migration success over the first ~1150 km of their migration to the North Pacific Ocean using acoustic telemetry. Fifteen percent of...
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Data from: Divergent transcriptional patterns are related to differences in hypoxia tolerance between the intertidal and the subtidal sculpins
Milica Mandic, Marina L. Ramon, Andrew Y. Gracey & Jeffrey G. Richards
Transcriptionally mediated phenotypic plasticity as a mechanism of modifying traits in response to an environmental challenge remains an important area of study. We compared the transcriptional responses to low-oxygen (hypoxia) of the hypoxia tolerant intertidal fish, the tidepool sculpin (Oligocottus maculosus) with the closely related hypoxia intolerant subtidal fish, the silverspotted sculpin (Blepsias cirrhosus) to determine if these species use different mechanisms to cope with hypoxia. Individuals from each species were exposed to environmental O2...
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Data from: Multiple plant traits shape the genetic basis of herbivore community assembly
Matthew A. Barbour, Mariano A. Rodriguez-Cabal, Elizabeth T. Wu, Riitta Julkunen-Tiitto, Carol E. Ritland, Allyson E. Miscampbell, Erik S. Jules & Gregory M. Crutsinger
1. Community genetics research has posited a genetic basis to the assembly of ecological communities. For arthropod herbivores in particular, there is strong support that genetic variation in host plants is a key factor shaping their diversity and composition. However, the specific plant phenotypes underlying herbivore responses remain poorly explored for most systems. 2. We address this knowledge gap by examining the influence of both genetic and phenotypic variation in a dominant host-plant species, Salix...
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Data from: Social evolution in structured populations
Florence Débarre, Christoph Hauert & Michael Doebeli
Understanding the evolution of social behaviours such as altruism and spite is a long-standing problem that has generated thousands of articles and heated debates. Previous theoretical studies showed that whether altruism and spite evolve may be contingent on seemingly artificial model features, such as which rule is chosen to update the population (e.g., Birth-Death or Death-Birth), and whether the benefits and costs of sociality affect fecundity or survival. Here we unify these features in a...
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Data from: How much of the world is woody?
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1.The question posed by the title of this paper is a basic one, and it is surprising that the answer is not known. Recently assembled trait datasets provide an opportunity to address this, but scaling these datasets to the global scale is challenging because of sampling bias. Although we currently know the growth form of tens of thousands of species, these data are not a random sample of global diversity; some clades are exhaustively characterised,...
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Data from: Adaptive divergence along environmental gradients in a climate-change-sensitive mammal
P. Henry & M. A. Russello
In the face of predicted climate change, a broader understanding of biotic responses to varying environments has become increasingly important within the context of biodiversity conservation. Local adaptation is one potential option, yet remarkably few studies have harnessed genomic tools to evaluate the efficacy of this response within natural populations. Here we show evidence of selection driving divergence of a climate change-sensitive mammal, the American pika (Ochotona princeps), distributed along elevation gradients at its northern...
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Data from: Individual performance in relation to cytonuclear discordance in a northern contact zone between long-toed salamander (Ambystoma macrodactylum) lineages
Julie A. Lee-Yaw, Chris G. C. Jacobs & Darren E. Irwin
Cytonuclear discordance in contact zones between related lineages is common, with mitochondrial clines often being displaced from clines in nuclear allele frequency. Proposed explanations for such a pattern include adaptive introgression of mtDNA or a neutral wake of mtDNA being left behind following hybrid zone movement. However, studies investigating these hypotheses are rare. Our previous survey of genetic variation in the long-toed salamander (Ambystoma macrodactylum) highlighted a potential case of cytonuclear discordance between two lineages...
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Data from: Predators, energetics and fitness drive neonatal reproductive failure in red squirrels
Emily K. Studd, Stan Boutin, Andrew G. McAdam, Charles J. Krebs & Murray M. Humphries
Neonatal reproductive failure should occur when energetic costs of parental investment outweigh fitness benefits. However, little is known about the drivers of neonatal reproductive failure in free ranging species experiencing continuous natural variation in predator abundance and in the energetic and fitness costs and benefits associated with parental investment. Long-term comprehensive studies are required to better understand how biotic, abiotic, and life history conditions interact to drive occurrences of reproductive failure in the wild. Using...
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Data from: The relationship between parasite fitness and host condition in an insect - virus system
Michelle Tseng & Judith H. Myers
Research in host-parasite evolutionary ecology has demonstrated that environmental variation plays a large role in mediating the outcome of parasite infection. For example, crowding or low food availability can reduce host condition and make them more vulnerable to parasite infection. This observation that poor-condition hosts often suffer more from parasite infection compared to healthy hosts has led to the assumption that parasite productivity is higher in poor-condition hosts. However, the ubiquity of this negative relationship...
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Data from: Genetic covariance between components of male reproductive success: within-pair versus extra-pair paternity in song sparrows
Jane M. Reid, Peter Arcese & Sylvain Losdat
The evolutionary trajectories of reproductive systems, including both male and female multiple mating and hence polygyny and polyandry, are expected to depend on the additive genetic variances and covariances in and among components of male reproductive success achieved through different reproductive tactics. However, genetic covariances among key components of male reproductive success have not been estimated in wild populations. We used comprehensive paternity data from socially monogamous but genetically polygynandrous song sparrows (Melospiza melodia) to...
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Data from: Quantifying inbreeding avoidance through extra-pair reproduction
Jane M. Reid, Peter Arcese, Lukas F. Keller, Ryan R. Germain, Alexander Bradley Duthie, Sylvain Losdat, Matthew Ernest Wolak & Pirmin Nietlisbach
Extra-pair reproduction is widely hypothesised to allow females to avoid inbreeding with related socially-paired males. Consequently, numerous field studies have tested the key predictions that extra-pair offspring are less inbred than females’ alternative within-pair offspring, and that the probability of extra-pair reproduction increases with a female's relatedness to her socially-paired male. However such studies rarely measure inbreeding or relatedness sufficiently precisely to detect subtle effects, or consider biases stemming from failure to observe inbred offspring...
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Data from: Stark sexual display divergence among jumping spider populations in the face of gene flow
Gwylim S. Blackburn & Wayne P. Maddison
Gene flow can inhibit evolutionary divergence by eroding genetic differences between populations. A current aim in speciation research is to identify conditions in which selection overcomes this process. We focused on a state of limited differentiation, asking whether selection enables divergence with gene flow in a set of Habronattus americanus jumping spider populations that exhibit three distinct male sexual display morphs. We found that each population is at high frequency or fixed for a single...
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Data from: Evaluation of demographic history and neutral parameterization on the performance of Fst outlier tests
Katie E. Lotterhos & Michael C. Whitlock
FST outlier tests are a potentially powerful way to detect genetic loci under spatially divergent selection. Unfortunately, the extent to which these tests are robust to non-equilibrium demographic histories has been under-studied. We developed a landscape-genetics simulator to test the effects of isolation by distance (IBD) and range expansion on FST outlier methods. We evaluated the two most commonly used methods for the identification of FST outliers (FDIST2 and BayeScan, which assume samples are evolutionarily...
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Data from: The evolution of environmental tolerance and range size: a comparison of geographically restricted and widespread Mimulus
Seema Nayan Sheth & Amy L. Angert
The geographic ranges of closely related species can vary dramatically, yet we do not fully grasp the mechanisms underlying such variation. The niche breadth hypothesis posits that species that have evolved broad environmental tolerances can achieve larger geographic ranges than species with narrow environmental tolerances. In turn, plasticity and genetic variation in ecologically important traits and adaptation to environmentally variable areas can facilitate the evolution of broad environmental tolerance. We used five pairs of western...
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Data from: Landscape genomics of Populus trichocarpa: the role of hybridization, limited gene flow and natural selection in shaping patterns of population structure
Armando J. M. Geraldes, Nima Farzaneh, Christopher J. Grassa, Athena D. McKown, Robert D. Guy, Shawn D. Mansfied, Carl J. Douglas, Quentin C. B. Cronk, Armando Geraldes & Shawn D. Mansfield
Populus trichocarpa is an ecologically important tree across western North America. We used a large population sample of 498 accessions over a wide geographical area genotyped with a 34K Populus SNP array to quantify geographical patterns of genetic variation in this species (landscape genomics). We present evidence that three processes contribute to the observed patterns: (1) introgression from the sister species P. balsamifera (2) isolation-by-distance and (3) natural selection. Introgression was detected only at the...
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Data from: Nontarget herbivory by a weed biocontrol insect is limited to spillover, reducing the chance of population-level impacts
Haley A. Catton, Robert G. Lalonde & Rosemarie A. De Clerck-Floate
Insects approved for classical biocontrol of weeds are often capable of using close relatives of their target weed for feeding, oviposition, or larval development, with reduced preference and performance. When nontarget herbivory occurs and is suspected to reduce survival, growth, or fecundity of individual plants, and insects are capable of reproducing on their nontarget host, characterization of spatial and temporal patterns of the occurrence and intensity of herbivory is valuable for predicting potential population-level effects....
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Data from: Tisaniba, a new genus of marpissoid jumping spiders from Borneo (Araneae: Salticidae)
Jun-Xia Zhang & Wayne P. Maddison
Six new species of marpissoid jumping spiders from Sarawak, Borneo, are described in the new genus Tisaniba Zhang & Maddison. They are the type species, T. mulu Zhang & Maddison sp. nov., as well as the species T. bijibijan Zhang & Maddison sp. nov., T. dik Zhang & Maddison sp. nov., T. kubah Zhang & Maddison sp. nov., T. selan Zhang & Maddison sp. nov., and T. selasi Zhang & Maddison sp. nov. The spiders...
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Data from: Genetic evidence of hybridization between the critically endangered Cuban crocodile and the American crocodile: implications for population history and in situ/ex situ conservation
Yoamel Milián-García, Roberto Ramos-Targarona, Etiam Pérez-Fleitas, Gustavo Sosa-Rodríguez, Leiter Guerra-Manchena, Manuel Alonso-Tabet, Georgina Espinosa-López & Michael A. Russello
Inter-specific hybridization may be especially detrimental when one species is extremely rare and the other is abundant owing to the potential for genetic swamping. The Cuban crocodile (Crocodylus rhombifer) is a critically endangered island endemic largely restricted to Zapata Swamp, where it is sympatric with the widespread American crocodile (C. acutus). An on-island, C. rhombifer captive breeding program is underway with the goals of maintaining taxonomic integrity and providing a source of individuals for reintroduction,...
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Data from: Overdominance interacts with linkage to determine the rate of adaptation to a new optimum
Jeremy Draghi & Michael C. Whitlock
Overdominance, or a fitness advantage of a heterozygote over both homozygotes, can occur commonly with adaptation to a new optimum phenotype. We model how such overdominant polymorphisms can reduce the evolvability of diploid populations, uncovering a novel form of epistatic constraint on adaptation. The fitness load caused by overdominant polymorphisms can most readily be ameliorated by evolution at tightly linked loci; therefore traits controlled by multiple loosely linked loci are predicted to be strongly constrained....
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A Guide to the James and Rosa Evans Store Ledgers, 1919-1934 Evans, James and Rosa Store Ledgers Ms2015-009
A Guide to the James and Rosa Evans Store Ledgers, 1919-1934
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Collection Number Ms2015-009
Special Collections, Virginia Tech
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James and Rosa Evans Store Ledgers, 1919-1934
0.2 cu. ft. 1 box
Evans, James Ransom (1874-1952); Evans, Rosa Belle Kirk (1879-1970)
This collection consists of 2 ledgers, one from 1919-1920 and the other from 1932-1934. The ledgers contain purchases and payments from the patrons of a general store owned by James and Rosa Evans in the Pennington Gap--St. Charles area of Virginia.
Permission to publish material from James and Rosa Evans Store Ledgers must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: James and Rosa Evans Store Ledgers, Ms2015-009, Special Collections, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
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The collection was donated to Special Collections in 2014.
The processing, arrangement, and description of the James and Rosa Evans Store Ledgers was completed in March 2015.
James Ransom Evans was born in November 1874 in Lee County, Virginia. In 1900, he married Rosa Belle Kirk (also born in Lee County, in 1879. By 1919, the couple owned a general store in the Pennington Gap, Virginia, area, that they ran in to the 1930s. James died in 1952; Rosa died in 1970. Both James and Rosa are buried in Pennington Gap, Virginia.
This collection consists of 2 ledgers, one from 1919-1920 and the other from 1932-1934. The ledgers contain purchases and payments from the patrons of a general store owned by James and Rosa Evans in the Pennington Gap--St. Charles area of Virginia. A receipt from the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company was found in the 1919 ledger detailing the purchase of 15 boxes of tobacco including Yellow Jackets and Camels. Most debts were paid in cash with only a very few paying with checks. The 1932 ledger contained notes from patrons asking for the Evans to send them certain items, including a note from Pearl Haynes asking for "5 pairs of overhalls....and she would pay in a week or two." Products during this time were mainly necessities with fewer luxury items such as candy as opposed to the 1919 ledger.
The ledgers are arranged chronologically.
Evans, James Ransom (1874-1952)
Evans, Rosa Belle Kirk (1879-1970)
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US Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter
U.S. vacating air base in Pakistan after troop deaths
By CNN's Tom Watkins
The United States is vacating an air base in Pakistan at Islamabad's request following a NATO attack that killed two dozen Pakistani soldiers.
U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter told Pakistan's Waqt TV on Monday that the United States is leaving Shamsi Air Base in Balochistan Province southwest of Quetta. U.S. drones have taken off from the base and refueled there for operations against Islamic militants, according to sources familiar with U.S. drone operations in Pakistan.
The order to clear out of the base comes in the aftermath of a November 26 incident in which a NATO airstrike killed 24 Pakistani troops.
According to two U.S. officials familiar with an initial assessment of the incident, U.S. commandos were working alongside Afghan troops when they came under fire. The troops did not tell Pakistani authorities about the mission ahead of time because they had thought it would take place entirely within Afghanistan, the officials said.
U.S. and Pakistani officials said Friday there were conversations between the sides before the strike, but they differed on the content of those conversations. A Pakistani military spokesman said the attack hit the wrong target.
A probe, headed by U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Stephen Clark, is under way.
The loss of the base is unlikely to have any major impact on operations in Pakistan, experts said. A U.S. official said Sunday that the "loss of access to this base would not lessen capabilities, as it has served primarily as a back-up capability for quite a while now."
The United States flies drones out of Kandahar in nearby Afghanistan, so the impact should not be enormous, said CNN National Security Analyst Peter Bergen.
Still, there would be an impact, said Anthony Cordesman, who holds the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "You're talking potentially 40 to 60 minutes' added reaction time," he said.
But the issue is broader than simply closing an airbase, Cordesman said.
"It's what Pakistan intends to do about its airspace," he said. "If it's saying, in addition to the base closing, that it will no longer cooperate to allow the United States to use Pakistani airspace and there will be no cooperation on targeting and no quid pro quo where we would use systems to hit at insurgents or extremists which were threats to Pakistan as well as Afghanistan, then it goes much further," he said.
"It also basically means that, if you're going to do this, you're clearly violating Pakistani airspace and, if you're going to do it, you may have to rely much more on stealth."
International law is clear, he noted. "You can't, in theory, send an intelligence aircraft over somebody's airspace. Period. The fact that people do it all the time doesn't make it legal. If you go beyond that, and the vehicle or airplane shoots something, that's an act of war."
Former CIA covert operations officer Mike Baker said that, from a logistical point of view, closing the airbase is "irritating, inconvenient, concerning." But, he added, "It won't impact our ability to strike at a target."
Baker, who is president of Diligence LLC, a global intelligence and security firm, described the base closure as "one more step down this dysfunctional road with the Pakistanis," but predicted that "cooperation between CIA and other intelligence portions of our military and the Pakistanis" will continue.
"Regardless of what happens in the headlines, there is an operational level of activity that continues to move forward because, ultimately, it is in the Pakistanis' best interest to continue to try to counter some of the extremists' activity."
High-level Pakistani officials have supported, quietly, the U.S. drone campaign for years, he said. "They've been playing the same game that any other nation will play - they want a little bit of plausible deniability."
In other words, when public opinion turns against the drone attacks, the officials will turn against them, too, Baker said. "Once they feel threatened from their own population because of their support and cooperation from the United States, that's when they'll turn on us," he said.
"Will they decide a drone strike in Pakistani airspace without permission is an act of war? Doubtful."
U.S. officials have long prepared for Plan B in Pakistan, he said. "If you have facilities in any country where you have a somewhat occasional volatile relationship, you're always looking for alternatives," he said.
The issue of U.S. and other NATO forces entering Pakistan has been a sensitive topic in that country since May, when U.S. commandos killed al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad without Pakistani leaders' consent.
NATO has called last month's casualties "tragic." U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta called the incident a "tragedy" and offered condolences. President Barack Obama called Pakistan's president Sunday to express condolences over the airstrike. He said the incident was not a deliberate attack on Pakistan, the White House said.
The incident exacerbated already strained relations with Pakistan.
"Such attacks ... demonstrate complete disregard for international law and human life," Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said the day after the attack.
Khar asked the United States to vacate the Shamsi Air Base within 15 days.
The U.S. Embassy in Pakistan confirmed Monday that Munter said the United States is complying with the request.
On Monday, Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani said Pakistan wants to have good relations with the United States based on mutual respect and clearly defined parameters. "I think that is doable," he told state-run Associated Press of Pakistan. "I think that it won't take long."
He said that new ties being negotiated with the United States would ensure that the two countries "respected each other's red lines" regarding sovereignty and rules of engagement along the border. "I think we have evolved some mechanisms, and we are ready to cooperate" on peace efforts in Afghanistan, he said.
In Washington, deputy State Department spokesman Mike Toner, referring to the cross-border incident in which two dozen Pakistani soldiers were killed, said he welcomed Gilani's remarks.
"From the very moments after this tragedy, we've been clear that this relationship is vital to U.S. national security interests, it is vital to Pakistan's national security interests, it is vital to the region's interests that we work together productively. And we are committed to addressing the issues between us and moving forward," he told reporters.
CNN's Pam Benson, Nasir Habib, Nick Paton Walsh and Barbara Starr and journalist Shaan Khan contributed to this report.
Filed under: CIA • drones • Intelligence • Pakistan • Terrorism
Sharen Coyt
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Stop sending money to Pakistan and stop giving them other aid. See how fast they change their tune. They've already demonstrated they're wiling to harbor terrorists and protect them with state resources. #($*& them. With a spiked bat. Twice.
No body needs your money, Its America who needs Pakistan . They are just asking for the cost of services they provide.
Wsabi
So WHY are we still friends with Pakistan? It is obvious to most that they were implicit in their dealings with Bin Laden. Their actions after we got him speak volumes to what their intentions are.
So why are we not ripping these guys a new a**hole right now?
Propaganda won't do any thing against Pakistan, They have nukes for annihilating any aggression.
You know you a pakistani when 1. You own $ 300 machine gun & a $5000 rocket launcher but run around barefoot. 2 You have more wives than teeth. 3 You think vests come in two styles: bullet-proof & suicide. 4 You can't think of anyone u haven't declared Jihad on. 5 You consider TV dangerous but routinely carry ammunition in your underwear . 6 You are amazed to discover that mobile phones have uses other than setting off road-side bombs. 7 You refine cocaine for a living but have a moral objection to drinking beer
Baloch Khan
US should help the Baloch freedom fighters who are fighting Pakistan and Iran for their independence and in return Baloch will give them the Shamsi airbase as well as permanent military bases in Balochistan, so the US to kick the asses of Paki and Iranian terrorists and extremist. US does not need to waste its time and its taxpayer's money on Pakistan and to be blackmailed or stabbed in the back by Pakistan. Pakistan is a terrorist state and it harbors terrorism. Let's declare Pakistan as such and stop all funding to this terrorist state. Time to take the war on terror to Pakistan. Pakistan is the TERROR. Let's finish this TERROR structure once and for all so everyone can live in peace.
Than America will be terrorist supporter.
So in short, they want more money. Forget Pakistan. India will surely let us use their border. Perhaps Pakistan would learn not to bite the hand that feeds them if we build up some fortifications on India's side of the border.
No body is stopping you, Go ask India if they can provide the access to their bases.
Cassandra Chu
... One has to ask why we Americans are even there in the first place. We really have little to gain and it's very expensive. This is overstepping foreign policy that should be reigned in. In Iraq the reason is OIL. In Afghanistan the reason is OPIUM.
Definitely imagine that which you sttead. Your favourite justification seemed to be on the net the easiest factor to remember of. I say to you, I definitely get annoyed while other folks think about concerns that they just do not know about. You controlled to hit the nail upon the top and also defined out the whole thing without having side-effects , other folks could take a signal. Will likely be again to get more. Thank you!
CIA = SELF-SERVING LIES, CORRUPTION, EVIL, SECRECY, DECEIT, PROPAGANDA.
GET LOST YOU MOTHERFUCKING PIGS. Get the FUCK OUT OF our land.
20th Stryker Soldier
We will not. When our CO gives the order, we are going to come in and skull fuck You with 5.56 mm NATO rounds. My M4 is "dying" to meet You. Even Obama sees You for the terrorists You are. Hate our way of life ? Why ? Because we have hot women and beer and hotdogs ? Then You and all You hippocritic ragheads fucking die. I had a Muslim room mate that claimed to be "pure" by Allah only to learn he was fucking cocktail waitresses two at a time. And then You want to kill us ? Fuck You ! We will kill You first.
Security Forces Airman
HUA!
December 6, 2011 at 1:19 pm |
USGOV
Just like when seal team six was skull fucked and shot down. I heard it was so bad they had to bring in sponges to gather the remains of the bodies of the pussies. This is exactly the reason 9.11 happened when gay Stryker above thinks it's ok for a dumbass to go occupy foreign lands without repercussions. I hope some raghead ieds you and your entire unit
December 7, 2011 at 3:05 am |
... A lot of us Americans don't want for us to be there either. It's the CIA and the Zionist-Controlled politicians that cause the problems.
DPatriot
Dont worry , we are ... Only to bomb you smelly dogs back to the stone age ... which was only 2 years ago for you lol . Go beat your women and rape your children some more you sick pigs
We dont want your land it is a desolate wasteland and are country is beautiful. We had to go to your land to stop some of your people from killing our people when all we want is peace. When the job is done will leave you to your tribal, masacast, backwards ways forever.
Natedontknowjack
Don't feed the trolls people.
Don't worry Americans can't sustain the cost of war forever, They know the end of Soviets because of Afghan war.
ban the koran
It's long past the time when America needs to recognize that Islam is not a relegion and is not peaceful. It is a violent sociopathic ideaology, far worse then nazism, with identical stated goals of world domination and genocide. It is a threat to the entire planet nad all its inhabitants. Its practice should be allowed, its followers should they choose to continue to follow it, should be executed.
Amen brother
crymore
Ignorant, party of two, your table is ready.
Lmao great. These two buffoons have probably never met any Muslim. They are so wrapped up on what fox news tells them that they don't know that their local hospital probably employs a lot of Muslims. I bet they have never even been to a mosque to see what they actually talk about
Good News for you, Islam is the fastest growing religon in America. Do whatever you want to but don't forget "When truth is hurled against falsehood, falsehood perishes, for falsehood by its nature is bound to perish"
We should realize that Nazis from Europe should never be appeased, most middle east dictators are slaves of Nazis, they must be kicked out of power.
If past experience is anything to go by, funds provided to Pakistan eventually will find its way to furthering interests of Muslim fundamentalism as evidenced by the investiagtions and assessments made as part of the war on terror. Terror seems the chosen path of the Muslim fundamentalists to build an identity and to threaten innocent people to surrender to their ideologies.
The good or bad thing is that teh use of funds is the same whether it is from USA, China or any other sources (including from Saudi or other private Muslim donors). The only difference is that for China, unlike western countries concerned with humanity and human rights, it makes no difference if the funding is in the form of nuclear technology or military capabilities.. In fact China believes that teh larger a nuisance and threat Pakistan is for the rest of the world, the better it serves China's interest – A thorn in the flesh of USA, EU, India.. are all equally welcome and leave China enough breatning space. Of course China knows and doesnt care a bit that Pakistan is digging its grave and could potentillay cause unlimited human catastrophe. What China doesnt know is that it is not immune to the disaster and the tragedy that it forever is giving up its respect as an honorbale soceity by using Pakistan to project terrorism. May be down the timeline when the military dictors posing as peoples' leader in China gets exposed and the Chines people see teh truth, there may be some change. Until such time, unfortunately it is Pakistan's neighbours and western nations that offer the resistence to a fanatical nation trying to take humanity down the grave ....
Ironically, the result of current belligenrant behavious of Pakistan could be its downfall.... A positive outcome in Afghanistan through sutained development there and direct foreign influence from responsible nations could eventuallu call Pakistan's bluff and leave them as the untouchables in the world !!!
IIf money is not there than there won't be any fight against terrorism, The oil money from Saudi Arabia will continue to brainwash the 10 million refugees from Afghanistan, ultimately Pakistan will have to kick back those refugees to Afghanistan.
We need to just go in and fucking kill em all.
Best response I've heard all morning.
You will get nuked before you kill any body.
Raymond Babcock
pakistan is harboring terroist we should cut them of along with palistinans why should we pay there security forces when they are killing israels let iran pay there salaries
You pay for the access to supply route for your military, you pay for military base use.
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Sentinels shine at Earth Observation data exploitation course
Nearly 100 young scientists from 30 countries recently gathered at the Szent István University in Hungary, to attend a training course on land applications using satellite data and tools.
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Serenes Forest > Path of Radiance > General > FAQ
Q) Are the new features from The Sacred Stones in this game?
A) Generally speaking, no. So you can say goodbye to things like repeatable maps, movement on the world map, branched promotions (including the new classes introduced for this), two routes and etc. Whilst this might sound disappointing, it should be noted that Path of Radiance was initially developed before The Sacred Stones. Also the new features were generally atypical of the Fire Emblem series (barring Fire Emblem: Gaiden, which was the inspiration for the game).
Q) What differences are there between this and other Fire Emblem games?
A) Almost too many to list! Basically the system used in the GBA games has mostly been thrown away and replaced with elements from the older SNES titles. If you’re worried that this is a bad step- don’t fret, since the SNES titles were arguably the best in the series. Also, whilst there are many differences, there are almost the same amount of similarities. So if you’re a veteran of the Western titles, this game should still feel like a Fire Emblem game, and feel like a brand new game at the same time.
Anyway, most of the differences can be picked up by reading through this section of the FAQ.
Q) What are the Laguz and how do they work?
A) The Laguz are one of two races that feature in this game. Well, it’s a bit misleading, since you get way more Beorc (human) characters than Laguz characters. The Laguz function a little like the Manaketes in The Sacred Stones, and are able to do heavy damage when transformed. However, unlike Manaketes, they do not spend all their time transformed. Instead, Laguz characters must wait until their Transformation Gauge is filled, which at that point they transform into their animal form, which is the only time they can attack. Then they will stay in that form until their Gauge runs out, returning to their demi-human form, and the cycle repeats.
Different Laguz characters raise their Transformation Gauges at varying speeds. Some characters start chapters with a near-filled Gauge, others start with a half filled Gauge and there are even some who start with an empty Gauge. An item called the Laguz Stone can be used to immediately fill a character’s Transformation Gauge. The Demi Band can be equipped to keep a character permanently transformed, but with lower transformed stats, while the Laguz Band does the same, but with no decreased stats (however only certain Laguz characters can equip it).
Also the Laguz are divided into three main tribes- the Beast tribe, the Bird tribe and the Dragon tribe.
Members of the Beast tribe take on the form of big cats. They boast above average attack and defence, as well as excellent movement. As the name implies, members of the Bird tribe take on the form of various large birds. The Hawks and Ravens of the Bird tribe are almost a parallel to the Tiger and Cats of the Beast tribe, with the extra advantage of flight. The Herons are more specialised- they are able to restore HP to adjacent allies, and their main function is to allow units to move again after waiting (like Dancers and Bards in the other games). Finally members of the Dragon tribe take on the forms of… Dragons, which are the strongest of all Laguz.
Q) Is there Dark magic in this game?
A) No. Also there are no Shamans.
Q) How does the Weapon Triangle work for magic?
A) Fire beats Wind, Wind beats Thunder, Thunder beats Fire. Light is neutral to all three. (A similar arrangement was used in Genealogy of the Holy War and Thracia 776.)
Q) What are the 3 difficulties like?
A) Easy Mode was newly introduced for the English versions. This mode is aimed at beginners and awards much more experience points compared to the other modes.
Normal Mode is the default mode. Its difficulty is approximately equal to that of Blazing Sword (Lyn Normal Mode) or The Sacred Stones.
Hard Mode is geared towards Fire Emblem veterans. The difficulty of this made is approximately equal to that of Mystery of the Emblem or Sword of Seals.
In the Japanese version there wasn’t an Easy mode, but instead there was a difficulty above Hard Mode, which was called Maniac mode. This mode is apparently of similar difficulty as Thracia 776 (arguably the most difficult game in the series).
Q) How does the Skills system work?
A) Like in Genealogy of the Holy War and Thracia 776, certain characters may come with innate Skills or you can teach Skills to characters. These Skills affect various things both during battle and outside of battle. For example, the Adept Skill gives a character a chance of performing a two-hit attack during battle.
In this game, Skills are divided into Standard Skills and Mastery Skills. To learn a Standard Skill, you must go to the “Manage” menu, at the Base, and use a specific scroll that teaches that Skill (for example, to learn Adept requires an Adept scroll). Mastery Skills are more special and a character must be promoted before they can learn the Skill. To learn a Mastery Skill also requires you to go the “Manage” menu, but this time you must use an Occult scroll on that character. Which Mastery Skill is learnt depends on the character’s class.
Unlike in the previous games, characters possess a Skill Capacity gauge, which determines how many Skills a character can have at once. So a single character can no longer have dozens of skills. Different Standard Skills have varying amounts of capacity usage, ranging from 5
to 20, while all Mastery Skills take up 20 Capacity.
Also note that Standard Skills are further divided into Soldier Skills and Citizen Skills. Soldier Skills are determined by class (for example, all Thieves have the Steal Skill). Meanwhile, Citizen Skills are determined by character (for example, Ilyana has the Shade Skill). When you teach a character a Skill, it will be listed as a Citizen skill.
Q) Do the Supports work like the previous GBA games?
A) Yes and no. Like in the GBA titles, a character can only have 5 levels of support, with A counting as 3 supports, B counting as 2 supports and C counting as 1 support. Also, the support bonuses still only apply if the two characters are within a 3 square radius of each other.
However, unlike in the GBA titles, you do not need to have characters waiting on the map for several turns to build up support levels. Instead, support points are increased by just having two characters participate together in the same chapter. Once enough support points have been accumulated, you can activate the support conversation back at the Base (and not on the battlefield like the GBA games).
Q) How many movies are there?
A) Practically speaking, there are just 6, but all (except one) are of good length- lasting about a minute or longer. Technically, there are 2 extra movies, but these ones cannot be accessed from the Theatre, for obvious reasons.
Ike practicing against Greil
Greil fighting the Black Knight
Meeting of the Laguz
Ike and Mist listening to a song
Mist holding the Fire Emblem (lasts about 10 seconds)
Ike and Elincia at the castle
Opening movie
Chapter opening
Q) Can you link up using the GBA-GC cable?
A) Yes, but only after completing the game. By linking up, you can unlock character art galleries and new Trial Maps for each game (Blazing Sword and The Sacred Stones). Note that The Sacred Stones only has a handful of character art that can be unlocked.
Section 2: Mid-game
Q) Where is the Fire Emblem theme?
A) You’ll hear it eventually.
Q) How comes Ike and Mist can’t support each other?
A) Characters with a special relationship do not require supports, as they have an in-built bonus. These bonuses are listed in this page.
Q) How does Biorhythm work?
A) As chapters progress, the character’s Biorhythm touches 5 distinct points- highest, high, middle, low and lowest. At the two high points, the character receives a +5 bonus to accuracy and evade, while at the two bottom points, the character receives a -5 penalty to accuracy and evade. At the middle point, the character receives no stat bonuses. Tempest and Serenity respectively double (+/-10 accuracy and evade) and halve (+/- 2 accuracy and evade) this effect.
Q) Do Mages need Strength?
A) Yes they do, since Strength is now used in place of Build (also known as Constitution) to calculate Attack Speed. In this game, if the user’s weapon Weight is higher than their Strength, they receive a Speed reduction equal to (Weight – Strength). Just remember that this applies to all units, whether physical or magical-based.
For example, if Ilyana has 4 Strength, 11 Speed and she’s holding Thoron (Weight of 7) then she gets a 3 Speed deduction (ending up with 8 Attack Speed).
Q) What does Build do now?
A) Build now determines an unit’s Weight. An unit can only Shove an unit, if their Weight isn’t more than 2 points lower than the unit’s Weight. Units can also rescue allied units if their Weight is at least 2 points greater than the allied unit’s Weight. Weight is also used as a factor in the Warrior and Berserker’s Colossus skill.
Q) Do physical units need Magic?
A) Well, there are a few swords, lances and axes that act as magical weapons- their damage is based off the user’s Magic stat, instead of Strength.
Q) What determines how much Bonus EXP you get?
A) Most of the time, it is solely determined by the number of turns taken to complete chapters- the less turns taken, the more Bonus EXP you get. However some chapters may have discreet bonus objectives, which reward some Bonus EXP if you complete it, such as keeping the Priests alive in Chapter 22. When you’ve beaten the game once, you can toggle a Bonus EXP display from the Configurations menu, which appears at the end of each chapter to show you how much Bonus EXP you earned (and how).
Q) What does MVP stand for?
A) Most Valuable Player. From what I can see, it is determined by number of kills, EXP gained and maybe other things.
Q) Can you recruit Nedata?
A) No, he’s just a slightly less generic Bandit.
Q) How do you promote characters?
A) For all normal characters, once they’ve reached Level 10 (or higher), you can use the Master Seal to promote them. Alternatively, once they have reached Level 21 they will promote automatically.
Q) When does Ike class-change?
A) Automatically once you’ve complete Chapter 17.
Q) Can Thieves promote?
A) Volke can promote to an Assassin at the end of Chapter 19. Sothe can not promote at all.
Q) Which playable characters can use Light magic?
A) Only Rhys can, once he promotes to Bishop.
Q) How do you determine a Paladin’s 2nd weapon type?
A) When you promote a Sword Knight/Lance Knight/Axe Knight/Bow Knight, a menu will appear asking for your preference. The available options are Sword, Axe, Lance or Bow. Obviously the Knight will already have one of those weapon types already, so you pick one out of the other three. Already-promoted Paladins (i.e Titania and Geoffrey) already have both weapon types determined from the start.
Q) What’s the point of giving Sages Knives?
A) To be honest, I don’t know. I never give them Knives anyway, since all three Mages that you get have mediocre Strength. Some suggest it makes fighting enemy magic users more effective- since enemy magic users generally has high resistance, but low defence, and your character has high resistance to take less damage from them. However I find using a Sage’s superior magic works just as well, or even a physical user.
Q) How comes the Knight Ward doesn’t work?
A) You need to go to the equipment menu and equip it. Unlike the items in the GBA games (eg. the Iron Rune), you must equip items to gain their effect. This also applies to the Laguzguard, Beorcguard and Full Guard. (Also note that you can only equip one accessory at a time.)
Q) How comes the Beorcguard doesn’t work?
A) Its in-game description is incorrect. It only prevents the effective bonus when enemies attack you with Laguz-killing weapons.
Q) Do Coins do anything?
A) No. It is suggested that they can be used to distract Ravens from stealing more important items, but that probably wasn’t its intended use. Coins do have an use in the next game, Radiant Dawn, which transfers obtained Coins from this one (however they aren’t used for collecting, so don’t fret if you miss any).
Q) Where are the Arenas or Secret Shops?
A) There are none in this game.
Q) Where are all the items in the desert (Chapter 15)?
A) Please check this page.
Q) Why is Nosferatu light magic?
A) It’s kind of a long story… First of all, Nosferatu was called “Resire” in the Japanese Fire Emblem games and it actually started life as a light magic spell. Anyway, to cut a long story short, Resire was changed into a dark magic spell for the GBA titles, which is also the same time that it had its name changed to Nosferatu for the English versions. In this game, it returned to being a light magic spell again, but unfortunately it kept its Nosferatu name…
Q) What happens if Reyson dies in Chapter 17?
A) Don’t worry, he doesn’t die (he just retreats). You can still recruit him normally later on. This also applies with Ulki, Janaff and Tibarn if they somehow died in this chapter as well.
Q) What should I do with Naesala in Chapter 19?
A) First talk to him with Ulki or Janaff. Naesala will then automatically go and talk to Reyson and become a NPC. Also, if you somehow manage to defeat him in this chapter, you can still choose him during the Final Chapter.
Q) How comes I can’t critical Naesala?
A) Naesala’s weapon (Beak) enables him to negate criticals. Other weapons that have this property include Ragnell, Alondite (the Black Knight’s sword), Gurgurant (Ashnard’s sword), Tibarn’s Beak and Giffca’s Claw. Note that this property is bypassed if a character has the Wrath skill or performs the Triangle Attack.
Q) How can I recruit Jill once she’s talked to her father?
A) If Jill has an A support with either Mist or Lethe (although it’s actually impossible to reach higher than a B support with Lethe at this point), then Jill will not be convinced by her father. If you don’t have the required support level, then make sure Jill doesn’t talk to him, as nobody can recruit her back.
Q) How do I avoid killing the priests in Chapter 22?
A) If any priests block the path, use the “Shove” command on them.
Q) Why do weapon levels take so long to rise?
A) There are a few reasons for this phenomenon. Firstly (and perhaps most important) the “fatal hit bonus” from previous games is gone-
that is Weapon EXP is no longer doubled during the strike that kills the enemy. Then, there is also the introduction of Bonus EXP (getting EXP without fighting) and a general lack of enemies.
To counter slow weapon level rising, I suggest using weapons with high Weapon EXP like Steel, Killer, Class-effective weapons and long ranged spells etc. Since forged weapons (aside from Steel etc.) use the basic weapons, which have low Weapon EXP, it is recommended not to overuse them if you’re trying to raise weapon levels.
Q) How do you defeat the Black Knight?
A) The most commonly used method is to make sure Ike has learnt the Aether skill (teach him that skill using an Occult scroll). Then it’s a case of engaging the Black Knight several times and praying that Aether activates. Because of this, victory or defeat in this battle is pretty much determined by luck. However, don’t forget to heal Ike, with some Elixirs, as you don’t want to restart the whole chapter again because Ike unexpectedly died.
A less common method is to equip either or both of Adept and Wrath on Ike, and have Ike fight the Black Knight from range. Adept allows Ike to occasionally double attack the Black Knight, and Wrath occasionally allows him to critical the Black Knight when he has under half HP. This method is quite effective as it also prevents Ike from being hit by the Black Knight’s Luna skill. Note that, if you’re playing in Hard Mode, the Black Knight will move to attack at melee range, so Ike may still suffer a Luna blow.
If Mist is still alive, she will automatically enter the battle as well, so you can use her to heal Ike. However if you are planning to use Mist in this battle, it would be a good idea to train her beforehand. Even though the Black Knight won’t attack Mist, reinforcements will appear before the beginning of Turn 3 and they can inflict a lot of damage on her if she is weak. Mist can also help to kill the Bishop reinforcements, to prevent them from healing the Black Knight.
Once Turn 5 (Enemy Phase) ends, Nasir will appear and stop the battle.
Q) What happens if Ike retreats from the Black Knight battle?
A) Nothing really changes, the game treats it as if Ike failed to defeat the Black Knight within the 5 turns.
Q) How do I defeat Ashnard?
A) Just like facing the Black Knight, there isn’t really an easy way. However, this time Ike is not the only character who can do damage, as Ena, Nasir, Tibarn, Naesala and Giffca can also do damage.
Ike with the Aether skill is probably the most common ways to defeat him. So make sure to train Ike well and teach him that skill using one of the Occult scrolls. Otherwise if you have both the Resolve and Wrath scrolls handy, teach both to either Ike, Ena or Nasir and hope for a critical when the character is under half HP.
In Hard Mode, Ashnard is a slightly trickier beast. He will start to move when a character moves close to his attack range and will do the same after 10 or so turns pass. Since he has a huge movement range, be careful that your weaker/slower units don’t enter his attack range. As if Ashnard moving wasn’t bad enough, he will also resurrect (and become slightly stronger) after you’ve beaten him the first time.
If Ike is strong enough, the simplest way to win is probably to have him solo Ashnard, making sure your staff users cast Physic to back him up. Otherwise, you could try sending out your three strongest units (preferably including a character who can damage him) and try and trap him against a wall. At the every top of the map, there’s an area where you can trap Ashnard using just one character, if you can somehow manipulate him to move there.
Section 3: End-game
Q) Who is the Black Knight?!
A) Unfortunately you never find out (yes, even if you defeat him in battle). In this game at least. His identity is revealed in the next game, Radiant Dawn.
Q) Who is Sothe looking for?
A) As with the Black Knight’s identity, it’s never revealed in-game who Sothe is looking for. However, just like the Black Knight’s identity, it is revealed in Radiant Dawn.
Q) What happened to the individual character endings?
A) Unfortunately, they are absent in this game. Instead, the ending is more reminiscent to that of Genealogy of the Holy War, albeit less complete. Many suggest it was arranged like this to make way for the sequel.
Q) Is there a support conversation viewer after the game?
A) Unlike the previous two games, there is no such option. A support library, for this game, is available in Radiant Dawn.
Q) Are there any rankings?
A) Like The Sacred Stones, there are no real rankings. You can only view the Number of Turns to clear each chapter and the number of kills each character has. (This does not include Trial Map rankings.)
Q) Who is ??? in the character illustrations?
A) I think there are only two possible characters who you must recruit to get their art- Stefan and Giffca. To recruit Stefan, please check this page. As for Giffca, just choose him in the Final Chapter when you are asked to request help from the Laguz generals.
Q) When unlocking the Trial Map characters, can I just keep repeating the Final Chapter to increase my playthrough count?
A) No, I’m afraid it doesn’t work that way. You have to beat the entire game from the Prologue.
Q) Is there anything new in the subsequent playthroughs?
A) You can choose whether to use Random Mode or Fixed Mode for growths. In case you’re wondering, Random Mode is the same way of leveling-up that you do normally. Also, from the 2nd playthrough onwards, certain characters are automatically equipped with special growth rate-boosting bands.
Q) What do the bands do?
A) They increase a character’s growth rate by a small amount (a total of 10% each), and work in both Random and Fixed Mode. (Also note that the bands only appear from the 2nd playthrough.)
Q) What’s the difference between Random and Fixed mode?
A) Firstly, Random Mode is the one that has existed in every Fire Emblem game to date. Each character has set growth rates in each stat and, when they level up, the RNG (Random Number Generator) determines if they get a rise in a particular stat.
Fixed Mode is a slightly trickier concept. Basically characters grow towards their average stats, but that’s only half the story. The other half is that their stat ups are affected by the enemy class they face and their equipped weapon and item.
This page has a more detailed description about the concept of Fixed growths.
Q) What language is Life Returns in?
A) It’s supposed to be sung the ancient language of Tellius, but it’s all just backwards Japanese in reality.
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Terrier Tribune
Men’s Basketball: Q&A with 2024 guard CJ Jones
by Ethan Fuller
Featured image courtesy of BU Athletics.
By: Ethan Fuller
Boston University men’s basketball added a prolific sharpshooter to the roster when CJ Jones committed back in October 2019. The Los Angeles native spent a post-graduate year in NEPSAC competition as a member of Vermont Academy, where he wowed college coaches with his ability to get open and make shots from long range.
The 6-5 guard becomes a Terrier after choosing BU over a dozen-plus Division I offers, including Bucknell, Vermont and Penn. But the road to Boston and Division I basketball was foggy at times. Jones talked to Ethan Fuller this week about his path to BU, his play style, and his passion for music.
Ethan Fuller: When did you start to realize that you could reach the Division I level?
CJ Jones: That feeling came about as late as I thought it could come. My junior summer on the club team I played for, the club guy told me, “You’re a D3 player, D2 player, maybe you could walk on at an Ivy if your grades are good.” But I basically had gone into this meeting with him thinking I could play in the WCC and the Patriot League, and I just wasn’t that level of a player. And hearing that was like, wow, maybe I’m not a Division I player.
So that summer I went to six of seven Ivy League camps … and the coaches asked me, “Have you heard of prep school?” And I’d heard of schools like Oak Hill, but I’m not really familiar to what they’re talking about, and I get introduced to NEPSAC. It was actually at my Dartmouth Elite camp that I met Coach [Mike] Quinn. At that camp I met Coach [Alex] Popp of Vermont Academy. Two months later we went out and visited.
EF: So you looked at post-grad right before senior year?
CJ: I had a good idea that I wanted to do post-grad. I was a late bloomer, I was still growing, my dad grew late, I’m still developing. Senior year was really tough — I had no Division I recruitment. Any Division I radar was completely off the table. There were definitely times when I thought, wouldn’t it be easier to play D3 somewhere, or just walk on? What if I end up doing this year and I don’t become a Division I player — now what?
I came home one day and I started telling my mom all this and she was like: shut up. Made me go work out. And from that point on, I never second-guessed it again. There was a two or three-month period [after senior year] where I got a skills coach, I started going five times a week with him and three times a week on weights. Started going out less, sleeping more, eating better food, and just totally leveled up in two months’ time.
EF: When did that recruiting breakthrough come?
CJ: The big thing I was preparing for were the two NEPSAC live weekends we had. Those were the two weekends you were gonna have 100, 200 college coaches on hand. I was focusing on: I’m gonna let them know who I am and why I worked so hard. And it was so awesome. I played some of the best basketball I ever played. Halfway through that week I got my first offer and by the time I got home I had six offers, and by that time the next week I had twelve. It completely blew up.
It kinda wasn’t a surprise at the same time because I sat down and I laid it out, and I put all my eggs in one basket and locked on that. The fun part for me was going from this unknown guy to the top guy on my Vermont Academy team. You have all these guys who have been recruited since eighth grade and they’re just like, “Damn, how did you make that happen? Tell me how to do that.”
EF: You committed well before BU would have this successful season. What made you choose the school and the basketball program?
CJ: Even just the first phone call I got from Coach [Joe] Jones — he’s a super charismatic, big-energy guy. I was like, wow, he’s really genuine. Throughout the recruiting process you get to talk to so many people and you’re trying to figure out whether he’s for real or if it’s just an act, but I continued the relationship with Coach Jones and Coach [Michael] Quinn and was able to get on campus and see what the culture was like at BU and was realizing that would be the place for me.
What I realized on the visit was that there’s so much I’m gonna be able to get out of the college experience … just by being in the city of Boston alone. To me it felt like Boston didn’t get enough of the college love — I don’t know, maybe it just wasn’t on my personal radar. But [the visit] completely opened my eyes.
EF: You’re also really interested in music and film. How do you think you can explore that in Boston?
CJ: To me, it sounded like [BU] could cater to wherever you want to go or reach for. I obviously have this passion for basketball, but my dad actually works for Fender [Guitars]. He played basketball in college and then overseas and now he works for a music company and taught himself how to play guitar. Music’s huge in our family; I make little beats on my computer, my brother and I do. Music and basketball, especially hip-hop, are so synonymous.
Dreaming as big as I can is wanting to pursue what I’ve learned. Whether or not I’m still playing basketball, with the education I’ve received … with the college experience I have, maybe I can take a music class, or a film history class — classes where, is this really for me? I can see that.
EF: Who are some players you like to watch?
CJ: The main guy I’ve always watched is Klay Thompson. Between him, Bradley Beal and CJ McCollum, the way those guys are able to shoot it but also defend on the other end of the floor is something that I want to raise my game to. One of the really great pieces about those three guys is even though they’re all known for their shooting ability, they can all play within space and make stuff for themselves as well as teammates. That’s a role I can play to get me a lot of minutes in college.
EF: And BU plays in space and moves the ball around a lot. How do you think that skill set will fit in nicely with what they do already?
CJ: It’s gonna fit great. One of the things I’ve been able to learn right away is it’s such a great group of high-character, hard-working guys. Playing with guys with that kind of personality makes it easy because they understand some of the more unselfish aspects of moving the ball and setting off-ball screens, and the value of being a good teammate and putting in hard work. All these little things that go into building a winning culture, which is exactly which I think BU won this year. These are kind of like my people. I think I’ll have a lot of fun playing with these guys.
EF: With the coronavirus locking down California, what does a workout look like for you now?
CJ: [My friend] has a weight room in the garage at his house and I have a 10×15, small little slab of backyard space with a hoop so we can get some mid-range work in. But mostly it’ll just be an hour, hour and a half of lifting in his garage and after, just play one-on-one or shoot a little bit. You’re always training and preparing for something and right now is big, preparing for BU and wanting to get in the best shape, but it’s a bummer. You’re kinda just waiting.
EF: If you could pick any team to upset in the NCAA Tournament, who would you pick and why?
CJ: I think it would probably have to be Duke if we’re gonna say dream, dream upset. As crazy as it would get, I think Duke would be the coolest thing ever. I became a big Kyle Singler fan watching him and those Duke teams that were winning at that time. I’m also sort of a Dukie — not a big Duke fan, but I admire everything that program does. That would be nuts.
EF: If you could pick a single pregame hype song, what one would you pick?
CJ: The pregame hype song I’ve used the past couple of years has been “Dipset Anthem.” That’s a song I play every time we get off the bus — I don’t know why, it’s just a habit I have. Something about that song feels like you’re about to go into battle.
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Great interview! Your love of basketball and the BU culture, and your excitement about being in Boston shine through. I’m so impressed at how you set a goal, committed, and made it happen. Now I’m going to go listen to “Dipset Anthem”!
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Public Health Rep. 102(4 Suppl):iii-iv
Windom, Robert E.
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Women's physical health and well-being
Alexander, Duane F.
Public Health Rep. 102(4 Suppl):9-11
A relatively small number of physical disorders are unique to women, are more prevalent or serious in women, or require special prevention or intervention strategies in women. Among the earliest of these to appear developmentally are precocious puber...
Welcoming remarks
Young, Frank E.
1987 Jul-Aug
Public Health Rep. 102(4 Suppl):1-3
Social factors affecting women's health
Gentry, Jacquelyn H. H.
Introductory remarks
Miller, Sanford A.
Public Health Rep. 102(4 Suppl):20-22
The relationship between diet and disease has become a key component of health promotion and disease prevention efforts to assist the public in improving their overall health status. The definition of nutrition is in the process of transformation; it...
Nutrition and cardiovascular diseases of women.
Dustan, H P
Atherosclerosis and hypertension are, by far, the most common cardiovascular diseases affecting women, and both are influenced by diet. Atherosclerosis occurs more commonly in men than women; generally women are 10 to 15 years older than men when sym...
Making a difference through prevention
Williams, Valerie N.
The use of drugs during pregnancy and lactation
Berlin, Cheston M.
It is a regulatory fact that only 14 drugs are approved for use during pregnancy; none of them is specifically approved for use in nursing mothers. With the current emphasis on breast feeding, more data describing levels of drugs in fetal blood and d...
Norris, John A.
Henney, Jane E.
Women can help to control the outcome of various cancers to which they are susceptible through preventive measures and early detection. Low-fat, high-fiber diets will decrease the incidence of breast and colon cancer. Routine screening for cervical a...
Williams, T. Franklin
Public Health Rep. 102(4 Suppl):62
This important topic, aging, is really a woman's issue as things now stand. Someday, it is to be hoped, it will be more a man's issue as well, but that is one of the research challenges.Few features of the human aging process have such enormous perso...
Climacteric medicine: cornerstone for midlife health and wellness.
Notelovitz, M
Public Health Rep. 102(4 Suppl):116-124
Midlife care should consider the whole woman, with preventive attention to osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease. A new delivery system, using a skin patch, is available for replacement or additive hormonal therapy. Useful hormonal therapy may incl...
England, Mary Jane
The American Medical Women's Association has chosen as one of its strategic goals for the next year, and probably for a lot longer, preventing young women from smoking. Smoking is of great concern to all as the death rate from lung cancer among women...
Women's reproductive health: recent advances in therapies.
Stillman, R J
Normal cyclic menstruation involves a delicate concert of hormonal events, characterized by midcycle ovulation and, if no pregnancy is achieved, menstrual flow. Women's health--and especially their reproductive health and fertility--may be affected b...
Alcoholism and women's health.
Blume, S B
There are a variety of reasons why women are believed to be more susceptible than men to the effects of alcohol. Physical factors, such as body water content and hereditary predisposition to alcoholism, differentiate women from men. Social factors in...
Premenstrual symptoms: another look.
Woods, N F
A collection of over 200 symptoms has been labeled premenstrual syndrome. Common belief is that most women experience a marked increase in symptoms premenses. Cyclic variations in the prevalence of commonly cited perimenstrual symptoms were estimated...
Substance abuse and women's health.
Johnson, E M
The prevalence of illicit drug use is higher among men than women, but new drug use occurs at twice the rate for females as for males. Recent data from emergency rooms and medical examiners support this pattern, but females were more likely than male...
Nutrition and health--an individual responsibility.
Dodds, J M
The report of the Public Health Service Task Force on Women's Health Issues identifies five social factors which affect health and also apply to nutrition: cultural and social values, which are at the heart of issues of body size; economic status, wh...
Prenatal risk factors for mental retardation in young children
Broman, Sarah H.
In a prospective study, prenatal risk factors for mental retardation were identified in two large samples of white and black children followed from gestation to age 7 years in the Collaborative Perinatal Project. Important antecedents of severe and m...
Vaitukaitis, Judith L.
Public Health Rep. 102(4 Suppl):103
These discussions will encompass important areas which relate to the pathophysiology of the menstrual cycle. Unfortunately, only a narrow window of the pathology that is associated with the menstrual cycle will be presented. For instance, areas not t...
The physician-patient relationship
Ross-Lee, Barbara
There is a direct connection between the doctor-patient relationship and the quality of care. An increase in female and minority physicians leads to a corresponding increase in physician perspective, which allows for improved identification with the ...
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How to Use Data to Improve Customer Service Performance
By Scott Kendrick April 3, 2018 April 1, 2018
The relationship between increased employee engagement and a company’s revenues are strong. Multiple studies, including research from Gallup, have found that the odds of success were nearly double for those workers in the “engaged” group versus the “disengaged” and the 99th percentile had four times the success rate.
In customer service departments – and in this article, I’ll be discussing call centers specifically — there’s a pressing need for improved engagement. Managers within these customer-facing groups must contend with high turnover rates and welcome any tactics that can foster engagement and staff that want to stay and grow with the company.
4 performance stages
Part of developing engaged employees is to have them reach a state of “unconscious competence.” What this means is the person performs actions “second nature,” so they’re competently doing many tasks without wasting time through conscious thought. The end result? The employee works efficiently and quickly, and the customer is satisfied. The “unconscious” part means they’re confident in their expertise and training and present themselves as a trusted and knowledgeable problem solver.
This goal stage is preceded by three other stages, starting with “unconscious incompetence” where a worker does not know the skills they are lacking, “conscious incompetence” that comes with understanding they have a shortcoming, and then the third stage of “conscious competence”, a state that allows the worker to perform, but not efficiently. They’re missing that “second nature” element.
Supervisors and managers can leverage analytics and coaching to get their direct reports to the unconscious competence stage and develop an engaged and efficient team.
Customer facing operations
In a call center environment – and this applies to all customer-facing associates — reaching the fourth stage begins with an understanding of the agent’s shortcomings. They might not speak to the customers with empathetic language, or they might not have a mastery of the company’s product line. No matter the specific area of improvement, the agents can only get better if they have access to accurate and frequent feedback.
Traditionally in a call center environment, this feedback would come from performance reviews that would look at “hold times” and other static metrics and include a sampling of one or two percent of an agent’s calls. Such an approach does not provide agents with reliable performance assessments that are true reflections of the agent’s typical work.
Automated data gathering
One way call center managers address this problem is through automated monitoring and scoring of 100 percent of call, chat, and email conversations. Using advanced speech and text technology, there are platforms that can transcribe all of this content and turn it into searchable, easily categorized text and structured data. By flagging calls that contain desired or undesired language combined with other measurements such as silence, agitation, or transactional measures, interaction analytics platforms automatically score every call. This provides a much more accurate, consistent, and timely reflection of the agents’ performance.
The power of analytics is that they provide agents and anyone who regularly interacts with customers with a tool that can help them reach the elusive fourth performance stage. It helps them correct their behaviors early in their careers before they become ingrained habits. The analytics also can provide positive feedback, so workers feel supported and are encouraged to help other team members through peer-to-peer training.
Managers of new hires can quickly move them through the performance stages, and also identify customer representatives who are simply not a good fit for the organization. Such moves can drastically cut down on attrition rates and give management a chance to spot and retain top performers, even moving them into broader roles within the company.
With drilled-down analytics, the managers can spot agents that are very good at specific situations such as compliance language or those that are most adept at talking customers through difficult situations. The agents’ roles can then be shifted to best suit their strengths, which drives their own engagement and ultimately improves customer satisfaction.
Data can make coaching targeted
Performance assessments can be improved through coaching, and when that coaching is informed by 100 percent call capture, it’s much more effective. Instead of basing coaching on inaccurate assessment data or on less informed perceptions about an employee’s interactions with customers, a supervisor can instead rely on empirical data. The coaching is much more targeted and makes more contextual sense to the employee. Automated scoring allows for feedback to be delivered directly to agents, allowing them to self-coach, and motivate through competition. When this pattern of coaching is continually repeated, it builds the agent’s skills.
Scoring agents based on transactional data only, such as closed sales, may incorrectly suggest agent “John” lacks closing skills. In the typical call center that bases performance reviews on manual monitoring of only a handful of conversations each month, supervisors may miss that “John” has excellent closing skills, but is not aggressive enough with sales attempts — (has the skills, lacks the will). Inaccurate feedback such as this from management can be frustrating, and the attempted coaching is likely ignored. When the coaching is informed by 100 percent of actual call content, then managers have the right information to accurately evaluate performance. They can talk to “John” about his actual shortcomings on the phone, while giving him praise for those things he is doing well.
“Sometimes Opinion is Better Than Data.”
Coaches can use automated call categorization reports to both spot negative behaviors (non-approved language, long conversation pauses, etc.) and to reinforce positive behaviors such as empathy-based language, proper greeting, and use of disclosures. Automated scoring based on voice analytics removes guesswork and bias, allowing coaches to tie call metrics to incentives and raises, to show the agents that performance is rewarded. Such a dynamic improves agent retention and makes coaching easier and more productive.
Given the accuracy of the information with the performance assessments, managers can use that data for incentives and raises, so agents can see a correlation between their effort and compensation. Companies that can deftly combine analytics and context-based unbiased coaching can turn average agents into high-performers who operate in the ultimate unconscious competence stage. These agents are in turn more engaged with their work and the customer experience, which translates into bottom-line revenue growth.
Scott Kendrick
Scott Kendrick has 20 years’ experience in software product management, design, and marketing for everything from shrink-wrap consumer applications to enterprise cloud solutions. At CallMiner, he introduced the tag-line “Listen to your customers – Improve your business” which is both something he passionately embraces in marketing and product management, and how he articulates the benefit CallMiner Eureka brings to market.
Prior to CallMiner Scott was Sr. Director of Global Product Management at MIVA (an internet search marketing company), and Director of Product Management and Marketing for the New Ventures division at Corel Corporation (makers of personal and business software CorelDraw® and WordPerfect®). Scott holds a BScE in Civil Engineering from Queen’s University (Ontario, Canada), and is certified in Pragmatic Marketing and SCRUM.
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EDITORIAL: STEM degrees are beneficial for the nation
State Hornet Staff
Without scientific research, we would still believe the Earth is flat, the center of the universe and only 6,000 years old. Doctors would not sterilize their hands between handling corpses and performing surgery.
The number of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) degrees are not at the level they need to be in order to fill the jobs that demand such qualifications. However, even when unemployment is still at 9.4 percent in California, a significant amount of STEM jobs remain unfilled due in part to the lack of STEM degrees being awarded.
According to the National Science Foundation, STEM bachelor’s degrees have consistently represented a third of all bachelor’s degrees in the U.S. since 1991. However, that statistic is significantly lower at Sacramento State, though it has been slowly rising.
According to the Office of Institutional Research, when the recession hit in 2008, both undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in STEM classes consisted of 4,335 (15 percent) of the 29,011 students enrolled at the time. Between 2008 and 2012the number of undergraduate STEM students reached 19 percent while the amount of graduate STEM students actually fell to 13 percent of the overall student body
As of 2012, the total amount of STEM students at Sac State, as of 2012 is 5,333 out of 28,539 students, or 18.7 percent. This is far below the average demographics of the rest of America’s universities.
Even if Sac State was at the same level as the national average, it still might not be enough to fill the gap in the job market – a gap so large that enough people are immigrating into the U.S. to fill these vacant jobs at such a rate that the situation warranted government legislation.
The House of Representatives passed the “STEM Jobs Act” last November. The bill aims to reorganize how STEM educated foreigners are accepted for green cards while also adding another 55,000 green cards to be admitted into the country. Doctors and doctoral students would be accepted first, with master’s students getting any leftover green cards.
Not only are STEM jobs affected, but scientific research seems to be taking a hit from the job drought as well. NASA, an organization designed entirely around exploration and research, is a fantastic example of how a combination of how this job drought, in combination with the recession, has impacted scientific research.
NASA scientists have developed a vast array of technologies – from the lasers used in Lasik eye surgery to better prosthetics to even something as commonplace as memory-foam mattresses. However, even with its contributions, the Guardian published a chart detailing NASA’s budget as a miniscule percentage of the federal budget since its inception.
At 0.5 percent, NASA funding is the lowest it has ever been since 1960. One of the side effects of these budget cuts was the permanent retiring of the space shuttle and cutting the NASA staff down to size.
Not all is bleak, though. In the AFL-CIO fact sheet for last year, the union reported steady, fast growth in STEM fields, with 24.8 percent of the union’s workers in a STEM job. It’s still a buyer’s market with STEM jobs, but every day there are less STEM job available.
So get out there and study the universe.
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EDITORIAL: Great, we had an anti-racism convocation — here’s what Sac State needs to do next
EDITORIAL: Give us back our damn money, Sac State
EDITORIAL: Sac State students are asking for transparency and safety, not a vacation
EDITORIAL: It’s better to get it right than to get it first
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In Which I Finally Get My Ass to Pizzeria Bianco, Have Amazing Pizza, and Finally Write About It
Published: December 10, 2009 Last Updated: August 9, 2018
From the mailbag:
I now log into Slice every day and really enjoy it. When will you have the write-up and photos from Pizzeria Bianco up?
--Rich S.
[Photographs: Adam Kuban]
OK. Bianco. Yeah.
Sorry, Rich. I'm actually trying to juice the Slice traffic numbers by making you and the rest of the readers who have been following Pizza Madness 2009 check the site every day.
... Just kidding. I just got a bit behind with Thanksgiving and now the holidays and all that jazz. Now it is time to tell my tale. In mind-numbing dear-diary detail. For I wish to remember this day until time withers my body and mind. Here we go ...
So, yeah, Pizzeria Bianco. It's been a bit of a (very inside) joke around here that yours truly, the editor of a pizza weblog that purports to be on top of all things pizza, had not ever been to Bianco. It really start to hurt when almost everyone I knew had been and emailed in about it. And then when folks like Norman and Paulie and Famdoc started giving me shit about it in the comments.
Well, thanks to the project Ed and I are working on, it was now my time.
Anticipating lunch at Pizzeria Bianco spin-off Pane Bianco, I walked hurriedly along the moving sidewalk in Phoenix's Sky Harbor airport, stopping only to snap a photo of the dramatic airport backdrop (above) before grabbing a shuttle bus to connect to the city's awesome little light rail system.
Please excuse the continuity issues. This nighttime snap is the only good photo I have of the great Phoenix light rail train. This is from after my feast at Pizzeria Bianco. The Phoenix light rail system made it incredibly easy to get to Pane Bianco, Pizzeria Bianco, and Matt's Big Breakfast the next morning. At least for the purposes of this trip, Phoenix was by far the easiest city to navigate.
I hopped the light rail and 20 minutes later was at my hotel in midtown Phoenix. It was a little past noon.
For this leg of the trip, the only pizzeria on my agenda was Bianco, and having ample time to kill before it opened at 5 p.m., I figured I'd mosey a couple stops up the light rail to Pane Bianco for lunch. Serious Eats overlord Ed Levine had recommended Pane almost as highly as Pizzeria.
But then I looked closely at the key card to my hotel room:
What the hell, I thought. Forget Bianco, then. I'll just order in some Domino's, watch some PPV TV, and head home tomorrow morning.
But seriously. I charged my various data-gathering devices and then headed out to Pane Bianco.
One thing to note about Pane Bianco is that it is nowhere near the downtown Bianco compound. Pizzeria Bianco is in historic Heritage Square, a small area of preserved old-time buildings in downtown Phoenix. Pizzeria B itself is in an old machine shop. Next door to it is Bar Bianco, in an old house. I had somehow assumed that Bar Bianco and Pane Bianco were in the same house. No dice. Pane Bianco is on Central Avenue, a main north-south corridor, about four miles north of Pizzeria. Here:
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The bed is my hotel. The thumbtack to the north is Pane. The one to the south is Pizzeria B and Bar B. The north-south red and blueish-purplish lines are the light rail. All in all, pretty darn good luck with the hotel that the travel agent booked me into, wouldn't you say?
(Nota bene: At this point I should give a shout out to the blog PHX Rail Food, which I found very helpful during my short stay in Phoenix. It details all the good places worth going to within a half mile of the region's light rail line.)
Pane Bianco
Pane Bianco is essentially a take-out sandwich shop with a small area for ordering and a step-down kitchen behind the cashier area. You can take your sandwiches to-go or eat them at one of several picnic tables under an awning out front. [Photograph: Robyn Lee]
Pane Bianco is Chris Bianco's sandwich shop. It's open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
"A sandwich shop?" you say. "Big deal."
[Photograph: Pane Bianco]
Well, the crazy thing about this sandwich shop is that the bread (pane, in Italian)—small rounds of ciabatta, about the diameter of a softball—are baked fresh throughout the lunch service. As you stand in the small ordering area up front, you can see the bakers pulling the hot disks, puffed up like hot pita bread, from the wood-burning oven in the step-down kitchen area below. As soon as the bread is cool to the touch, it's split open to house your ingredients, and you get a still-warm sandwich base. How awesome is that?
I was in a bit of a pickle as to what to get. The soppressata sandwich was what I really wanted, but I'd been trying to keep it as healthy as possible during the trip and didn't want to add preserved meat to my gullet when I didn't have to. My next choice was fresh mozzarella and tomato, but I hesitated. I'd essentially be having the same thing later that day. Obviously (see above), I went with the fresh mozzarella sandwich.
Pretty damn good. True to the Bianco way — source the best ingredients and don't do anything to muck them up. Just let 'em shine. Sort of like what they teach doctors: First, do no harm.
No harm, no foul here. I ate half (keeping room for dinner) and saved the rest for my plane ride lunch the next day.
It was now 1:30 p.m. Time to go stake my place in line at Pizzeria Bianco.
Pizzeria Bianco
I hopped back on the light rail, got off at Van Buren Street (the downtown streets are named after presidents), and walked to the Bianco compound. Taking my time, I got there around 2:30 p.m. Guess what? FIRST IN LINE! No surprise, right?
Yeah, it's true that people do line up well ahead of the 5 p.m. opening time, but 2:30 is admittedly crazier than usual.
Ed Levine had given me owner-pizzaman Chris Bianco's phone number, telling me to call and that since Mr. Bianco knows and likes Slice I could probably skip the line.
But it was important to me that I get the everyman experience*—and, as a point of personal pride, I WANTED TO BE FIRST IN LINE.
After snapping some pics, I plunked down on the first bench, pulled out my laptop, and started editing and organizing photos. But I had a problem: I had to take a leak.
Luckily there's a pub across the street that's open from lunch on: The Rose and Crown. And it has free wifi. I grabbed a beer, hit the can, leeched the signal, and then reclaimed my spot on the bench. (Tip: You can still get the Rose and Crown wifi signal from the bench in front of Bianco.)
Shortly after 3 p.m., a hip young woman sat down on the next bench over. After a bit, we started talking.
(See, the thing I'd heard about the line at Bianco—apart from its legendary length—is that it's not uncommon to make friends with your fellow captives. Nothing like shared suffering to bring people together.)
Turns out that this woman, Anastasia L., was Bar Bianco's wine distributor rep. She was there early on business and, work done, was killing time before her husband and friends met her there for dinner at 5 p.m. She gave me some pointers about the line ...
The line at 4:15 p.m. It's orderly chaos. Some people are at the waiting tables in front of Pizzeria Bianco (under the awning), some people are on benches, some are on foot. Still others are sitting inside Bar Bianco or on the grass under a tree. As Anastasia pointed out, they all know exactly where they are in the line-up and will guard their place fiercely.
"People usually start lining up around 3:30 p.m.," she said. "They usually line up at the door, but you'll be fine on the bench here. People keep track in their heads of who's where in the line—and, trust me, they won't anyone skip ahead."
Anastasia and I chatted for about 20 minutes before the first of the "real" line-waiters showed up. And by "real," I mean people who were not pizza-bloggers or people who were not Bianco's wine broker. These folks stated taking seats on the benches lining the sidewalk. For some reason, nobody sat next to me on my bench. I had taken a shower that morning, and I looked somewhat presentable. What gives? I thought.
And then a gentleman by the name of Marty asked if he and his wife, Cathy, could sit there. "We know we're eighth and ninth in line," he said, "we're not going to cut, but we'd like a place to sit."
After a bit, Marty and I started chatting. Turns out he's quite a food-lover. (As are most of these folks in the line, I assume.) But Marty's gone so far as to work with some cattle ranchers in his home state of Nebraska to raise some special cattle, feeding them a precise-sounding diet, and then dry-aging their meat into what Marty said were some crazy-fine steaks. He tells me about the chefs he's had sample the steaks and how he has tried to distribute the meat. It's been a while, so I don't remember all the details Marty told me about his beef adventures, but suffice it to say, he sounded like a man obsessed. In other words, he's good people, I thought.
At this point I realized I had identified at least two of my "victims." See, I needed to gather some folks to eat with, so I could try one of each of Bianco's six pies on the menu. Marty and Cathy sounded like ideal companions. (Anastasia, if you're reading, I would have invited you and your husband, but you sounded like you had a large crew already and that you had the Bianco connex to make your own way. Sorry!)
[Photograph: Robyn Lee]
Anyway, around 4 p.m., Bar Bianco next door (above) opens and the Pizzeria B staff brings out the chairs for the tables just in front of the pizzeria door. So then there's sort of a rush to get a bottle of wine or a beer and grab one of the available chairs. Again, although the crowd reconfigures to the new seating arrangement, you can tell that everyone has a mental pecking-order of who's where in the line.
You can see the waiting-area tables just in front of the pizzeria's door. They are coveted seats. [Photograph: Robyn Lee]
I soon found myself at the first waiting table with Marty and Cathy and another couple, Teri and Rich (whose email message appears way way way at the top of this now interminable blog post). We all get to talking and we all find out something crazy: We are all Kansans of some sort.
From left: Kansans in da house—me, Teri, Rich, Cathy, Marty.[Photograph: Anastasia L.]
Rich and Teri live about 15 minutes from where I grew up in suburban Kansas City and are in Phoenix on vacation. Marty and Cathy are originally from the Sunflower State. Of the five of us (if I remember this correctly), four of us (maybe even all five of us) are University of Kansas alumni. Upon finding this out, we all break into a quick chorus of the "Rock Chalk Jayhawk" chant. What I do not tell them: I am so nuts about Kansas that I have a tattoo of the state seal on my right bicep. So, yeah, you could say the pizza gods had smiled upon me and that I had found the perfect companions to experience Bianco with. Rich and Teri and Marty and Cathy were now all sucked into the Slice Pizza Madness 2009 vortex. And the whirlwind was just about to start ...
Oh, yeah. The door of opportunity had opened. We were in. And after 2.5 hours of waiting, I relished this view out the window at the slowpokes:
Oh, yes. That is a sweet view, is it not?
In Which I Finally Talk About the Pizza itself
This whole trip, I had a nagging thought: Bianco is not going to live up to the hype. I mean, how could it? I've only heard from everybody and his brother that it's awesome, life-changing pizza.
So I expected it to be good, even very good, but in no way life-changing. I mean, it's just pizza, right?
Obviously I'm setting this up to say that it lived up to the hype and then some. It did and it didn't.
Basically, two pies there really bowled me over: the Marinara (tomato sauce, oregano, and garlic) and the Rosa.
The marinara needs no explanation, but if you're not versed in pizza, a marinara pie is basically crust, tomato sauce, and some seasonings—usually salt and pepper and basil (and sometimes a sprinkling of Parmesan). I usually avoid marinara pies because, although I was raised in Kansas, I was born in Wisconsin, which means I LOVE ME SOME CHEESE. But I figured, How soon will I be back to Bianco? Might as well try them all.
I think I can speak for our entire table when I say we were surprised at the richness of flavor on this pie. It was remarkable how much could be done with so little. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Since I've been doing this thing in chronological order, let's rewind back to the first pie to hit the table, the Biancoverde:
The Biancoverde (literally "white-green") is a pie with fresh mozzarella, Parmigiano-reggiano, ricotta, and arugula. No sauce. Good, but I don't remember it that well because ....
... out came The Sonny Boy, with its salami and olives—a couple steps up the deliciousness scale.
If I had not jumped the continuity train, the Marinara pie would have been pictured here, as it was the third pizza to arrive among us. So, moving on to the fourth ...
... The Wiseguy, wood-roasted onion, house-smoked mozzarella, and fennel sausage. Though I normally love the sausage and onion combo, and this one was delicious, it was soon to be eclipsed by ...
THE ROSA!
I mean, look at that thing.
Or, maybe that's not a great picture? It had gotten dark by the time the Rosa came out, and Rich was holding up a candle over the pies to try to help me get some light. So lemme steal another one of Robyn Lee's Bianco pictures to illustrate the awesomeness of this pizza:
Click me bigger! [Photograph: Robyn Lee]
If you're not already familiar with the Bianco repertoire, the Rosa is topped with red onion, Parmigiano-reggiano, rosemary, and Arizona pistachios.
What kind of crazy-ass topping combo is that? A genius one. Absolutely amazing. The sweetness of the roasted onions, the nuttiness slight crunch of the pistachios. The saltiness of the Parm. And there's just enough rosemary — a little goes a long way, and here there's just a hint of it. Not enough to get tired of it, I reckon, if you ate a whole Rosa by yourself. Not that I'd know for sure. I could have eaten a whole Rosa myself, but I had to share with my new friends.
Anyway, last to come to the table was the Margherita. See, this would have been an amazing Margherita anywhere else. But at Bianco, it took a back seat to the Rosa. Like the way-back back seat in a 1970s station wagon. Still, it was pretty damn good. With a certain umami flavor to it that few of the Margheritas on this trip just didn't have. It wasn't just the right amount of salt — it had a deep, rich, savory oomph to it.
It was all a whirl. By the time we neared the end of the meal, there were stray slices from each pie and I think I could see the gears turning in everyone's head: "I want the last slice of XYZ pie. It's mine! It's mine! (But I don't want to look greedy."
Somehow, I weaseled the last slice of the Rosa. And I think the other stray slices disappeared as well. I don't think we had any leftovers. Rich, Teri, Marty, Cathy: Did we have any leftovers? We better not have!
On the way out, I thanked Mr. Bianco and the staff for a great meal and got a tip for my pre-flight breakfast. "Go to Matt's Big Breakfast," Mr. Bianco said. The guy knows food. How could I ignore that recommendation? (Here's what I thought of MBB.) And, funny enough, who did I see there but Marty and Cathy.
Anyway, I gathered my gear, hopped on the light rail for the last time, and made my way back to Sky Harbor with time to spare. (By the way: Phoenix Sky Harbor IS AWESOME. It has free, airport-provided wifi. No T-mobile hotspots, no Boingo crap. Sky Harbor, you're one classy airport. Thank you.)
A few hours later I was in Kansas City, visiting my parents and recharging my physical and mental batteries before the final stop on my tour — Delancey in Seattle.
I'll blab a little on that later today. Unfortunately, I have no photos from that leg of the tour, as I lost my photo library during an upgrade to Mac OS X 10.6.
*If by "everyman" you mean "someone who takes the day off to line up 2.5 hours before a place opens."
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By Scott DargisJan 30, 2017, 12:35 AM EST
WWE’s “Road to WrestleMania” kicked off with the 30th annual Royal Rumble from the Alamodome in San Antonio.
With numerous plausible outcomes on the table in the two world championship matches and the 30-man over the top rope battle royal, this was one of the most anticipated Rumble Pay-Per-Views in many years.
Shockingly, it was the lack of surprises in the Rumble match that made the show feel a lot less memorable than it should have been.
The most unpredictable Royal Rumble in years ended with a surprising finish, but it wasn’t the right choice
Randy Orton is one of the best performers in the business, but this Royal Rumble match was promoted as the biggest Rumble match ever. It was a golden opportunity to make a new superstar.
The PPV overall was a thumbs up show because every match was entertaining, but the booking of the Rumble match itself was highly questionable. After Tye Dillinger’s surprising entrance at number 10 (who would have guessed it?), every person who entered the match up until Brock Lesnar (26th), was a full-time mid-carder.
If you want to make the case that Corbin (entered 13th) is higher on the card than the other guys who entered around him, you can, but the point stands. Besides Corbin, Dean Ambrose, all three members of The New Day, Cesaro and Sheamus, James Ellsworth, Miz, Randy Orton, Rusev (who was a total afterthought), Bray Wyatt, Dolph Ziggler, Luke Harper and Apollo Crews entered the match in some order from 11-25.
And then we finished off with Lesnar (26th), Enzo (27th), Goldberg (28th), Undertaker (29th) and finally Roman Reigns (30th). When Undertaker came out 29th, I thought OK there are two possible options for the final entrant.
Either Kurt Angle (very unlikely) or Samoa Joe (a lock I thought) is making the ridiculously long walk to the ring.
Here comes Reigns out to a chorus of thunderous boos so loud that you couldn’t hear his music over the speakers in the Alamodome.
If Vince is really trying to get Reigns over as the next big babyface, why is he coming out 30th? And why the (expletive deleted) is he booked to eliminate the Undertaker? The latter spot should have been reserved for a heel because the crowd was predictably going to respond in a negative way when Undertaker’s feet hit the floor.
Perhaps Meekmahan wanted Orton to get a huge babyface pop and knew that he could use the crowd’s hate for Roman as a springboard to get that reaction, but whatever the case, Orton is headed for a championship match at WrestleMania and John Cena is currently holding the WWE World Heavyweight Championship.
Cena vs. Orton for the 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000th time? Don’t sign me up.
I guess the rumor that popped up last week about Orton facing Wyatt for the title at Super WrestleMania Sunshine has some legs.
Goldberg vs. Lesnar was handled perfectly
I love that Goldberg has Lesnar’s number. Brock’s shockingly quick elimination by Ol’ Bill should set Paul Heyman up for a great promo.
Lesnar wanting redemption vs. Goldberg at Mania is such a simple storyline, but the crowd will eat it up.
Why no Samoa Joe?
If you’ll allow me, I’m going to rant here for a bit. If you don’t care about Joe, skip to the next section.
Would this not have been a perfect time to bring Joe in and establish him as a powerhouse?
Maybe he could be Shane’s representative to face AJ Styles at WrestleMania. I suggest this because I think we’re headed for Shane vs. AJ at Mania; even though after Shane-O-Mac’s last showing in the ring, he should hang up his wrestling sneakers and wind pants forever.
Seriously though, Joe has nothing else to prove in NXT. He’s turning 38 in March and SmackDown’s roster could really use a boost heading into WrestleMania season. Much like Styles did last year, Joe could have established himself as a threat on the main roster in 20 minutes.
This felt like a gigantic opportunity that was wasted. Plus, the Rumble match could have really used a surprise in the middle of the match.
The biggest shocker of the weekend was Seth Rollins showing up at NXT: TakeOver
After Rollins “lost” his spot in the Rumble match to Sami Zayn, I kept trying to figure out when Rollins was going to show up. The idea of him causing havoc at the NXT special on the WWE Network seemed like a fantasy booking idea that was never going to come to fruition.
And then it actually happened! Rollins snuck into the ring and stole the microphone from ring announcer Mike Rome and demanded that HHH come out and fight him. The crowd exploded and made Rollins feel like a white hot babyface. Triple H of course didn’t fight Rollins and instead sent out security to “forcefully” remove Rollins from the building.
Even though Rollins vs. HHH is a predictable WrestleMania program, this moment provided the feud with extra fuel it desperately needed.
AJ Styles and John Cena had an excellent match, but it wasn’t as good as their SummerSlam classic
The concept of hitting a big move after big move that leads to constant near falls has been the crutch for Cena matches since his run with the United States Championship.
There’s a reason why Cena always does this. It works.
But when you’ve already seen Cena and Styles go through sequences similar to what we saw on Sunday, the spectacle of Mr. WWE vs. Mr. TNA wrestling for the company’s biggest prize just doesn’t feel as big as it should have.
Styles kicking out of an “avalanche Attitude Adjustment”: Check.
Cena hitting a Code Red for a nearfall: Check
Styles hitting five of his cool moves that he busts out every once and awhile: Check
I don’t want to totally bury this match. It was very good and both men should be praised for performing at this level on such a big stage, but when you’re stepping into the ring with someone for the third time in a one-on-one situation, the match should feel different than the first two and this one did not.
Kudos to Cena for coming up with a very cool finishing sequence that we haven’t seen before.
Neville wins the Cruiserweight Championship
But will he save the division? The crowd was mild at best for his match with Rich Swann.
Gallows and Anderson finally win the tag titles
It’s about time! With the amount of times G&A have “failed” to become the tag team champions, they really needed a win and could benefit from a nice long reign with the titles.
Will they get that long reign? Probably not. I wonder if Enzo and Cass are going to win the titles at WrestleMania….
Bayley and Charlotte put on one hell of an opening match
I hope both girls got a standing ovation when they walked through the curtain. This was a wonderful opening match, which played to the strengths of both performers.
Charlotte mocked Bayley by yelling at her that she should be sitting with the fans. This ignited Bayley to make her comeback, which got a big reaction.
It seems like every show now must include a big spot on the apron, but the Natural Selection looks like one of the safest moves to take in that position. Even though you wouldn’t know it by how well Bayley sold the move.
I can’t wait to see these two face off again at WrestleMania. Unless Nia Jax gets involved, which seems likely with how quickly she ran through Sasha Banks.
Braun Strowman “saves” Kevin Owens from dropping the Universal title to Roman Reigns
Apparently all of those pep talks backstage between Owens, Jericho, and Strowman got the big guy in the spirit to help Owens.
Wait, what am I doing? That’s not how we cover sports entertainment here!
The idea of having Jericho drop an object that plays into the finish is so elementary that Vince probably figured the match needed an extra surprise in the final act. Enter an angry Strowman who chokeslammed Reigns on an announcer’s table that still had two monitors on it. Luckily, Roman didn’t land on top of them.
Even though Owens walked away with the championship, this wasn’t a particularly strong win for him. Don’t expect him to carry the red strap into WrestleMania, but who knows who K.O. will face at Fastlane.
With Finn Balor almost ready to return, it would make sense for those two to square off for the title and a spot in the Universal title match at WrestleMania.
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United Autosports head to Monza, Italy this weekend (9-11 October) for the penultimate round of the European Le Mans Series and Michelin Le Mans Cup.
The British team are current LMP2 and LMP3 championship leaders and are aiming to keep those championship leads in tact heading into the final round of the year at Portimao.
The #22 crew of Phil Hanson and Filipe Albuquerque are leading the LMP2 championship by 29 points from their nearest rivals, team mates Alex Brundle, Job van Uitert and Will Owen in the #32 Oreca 07. Both car crews will be aiming for the top step of the podium this weekend in the hope of clinching United’s eighth LMP2 class win in a row, while Filipe Albuquerque will be aiming for his sixth straight ELMS pole position.
Over in LMP3, the #2 Ligier JS P320 crew of Wayne Boyd, Tom Gamble and Rob Wheldon are still leading the championship heading into round four after suffering a DNF at the last race in Paul Ricard. Scoring maximum points in the first two rounds gives them a 14-point lead over second place, while the #3 crew of Jim McGuire, Andrew Bentley and Duncan Tappy lie third in the standings after a second place finish at Paul Ricard in August.
The Michelin Le Mans Cup heads to Monza for round five of the series, after visiting Le Mans for the Road to Le Mans event. A pole position and fifth place at Le Mans for Wayne Boyd and John Schauerman in the #23 Ligier leaves them eighth in the championship, while a fourth place finish for Daniel Schneider and Andy Meyrick in the #24 Ligier at Le Mans leaves them sixth in the standings. Both cars will be aiming for podium finishes to score as many championship points as possible before heading into the final round at Portimao.
“To be leading both the LMP2 and LMP3 championships heading into the final two rounds of the season is pretty incredible. I know the team will keep their heads down and concentrate on the race in hand and aim to get the best results possible and then we will see where we are heading into the final round.”
“The races this year have come around so quickly, from one to the next, given the current circumstances, so the team have done really well to put in all the hard work they have to get us to this point. They really deserve the results we are getting at the moment. Of course we are not getting complacent and we are focusing on each race at a time, but it is in the backs of our minds about championships so we will not be taking too many risks either. Let’s see where we are come Sunday evening.”
Source. United Autosports
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Ras GTPases: Singing in Tune
Marc Symons1,* and
Yoshimi Takai2,*
1The Picower Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY 11030, USA.
2Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.
↵Corresponding authors. E-mail: msymons{at}picower.edu (M.S.); ytakai{at}molbio.med.osaka-u.ac.jp (Y.T.)
Science's STKE 06 Feb 2001:
Vol. 2001, Issue 68, pp. pe1
DOI: 10.1126/stke.2001.68.pe1
Marc Symons
Yoshimi Takai
A review of the meeting "The Ras Superfamily of Small GTP-Binding Proteins," FASEB Summer Research Conference, Snowmass, Colorado, 15 through 20 July 2000
The molecular cloning of the human proto-oncogene encoding Ras was reported nearly 20 years ago. Since then, Ras has become the prototypical member of a superfamily of small guanosine triphosphatase proteins. Despite the maturity of this field of research, the discovery of new functions and interactions between the superfamily members continues unabated. Symons and Takai have written a meeting report on the latest findings on the Ras superfamily.
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Hello, my name is Vincent Miailhe. From a scientific background in mechanical engineering, I branched out after my studies towards heritage and, more specifically, archeology. As an archaeologist for more than 25 years and agent of the National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap), I am specialized in topography and especially photogrammetry. I work in the French territory of Poitou-Charentes as well as abroad in Sicliy, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Libya, Palestine, Jerusalem, and Syria in the framework of French archaeological missions under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and I teach photogrammetry and mapping for geographical information systems at the University of Poitiers.
Aware that archaeological excavation is a destructive discipline, it is important to collect all the three-dimensional information of the remains uncovered before their removal. Topography using a total station does not collect all of this information. So I turned to photogrammetry in 2011 to meet this demand, as well as for other reasons. The first is the cost—a digital camera is less expensive and more easily transportable than a laser station. The second reason is the possibility of generating high definition orthophotographs of the remains, both in plan and in elevation, a very popular practice in architectural archaeology, a discipline in which I often intervene within Inrap.
Initial Forays into Photogrammetry
I started photogrammetry with PhotoSynth for practical reasons: my computer was not powerful enough and manual point matching, which was required by the most popular software at the time (PhotoScannerModeler3D), took too long when working with more than a hundred images. PhotoSynth allowed me to align a large number of photos and create a dense point cloud. I carried out my first photogrammetric survey on the castle of Coudray-Salbart, an imposing fortress of the 13th century AD in the town of Echiré in the Deux-Sèvres (France).
This digital surface model combines both a conventional topographic survey carried out with the aid of a total station and photogrammetric survey only of the castle. I used 3DReshaper to join the two surveys and 3ds Max to complete the missing areas of the mesh, including the top parts of the castle that could not be recorded because I did not have a drone. This model remains simple and without texturing, but this first test allowed me to see the many possibilities that I could draw from photogrammetry even if only the topometric data. My second model and first that I textured is the abbey of Maillezais in Vendée.
Tools and Workflow
All my photogrammetric surveys (Olympus OM-D E-M10) are coupled with a topographic survey completed with the aid of a total station (Leica station TS06). I cannot conceive of photogrammetry without a topographic survey. It allows me to scale the 3D model, to georeference it—essential in my work as a cartographer—and, of course, what is most important for me, to verify the accuracy of the 3D model that remains the very heart of my topographical work. I work with different software: PhotoScan, MicMac, 3DF Zephyr, CloudCompare, MeshLab, AutoCAD Map 3D, 3DReshaper, 3ds Max, QGIS.
Now all my professional interventions on complex remains or artefacts are done by photogrammetry. My most complex subjects have been:
the curtain north-east of the castle of Coudray-Salbart, entirely scaffolded on its two faces (Image 1), leaving less than a meter of space to take the 6,500 photos;
Image 1: Scaffolding covering the curtain wall at Coudray-Salbart
a network of cellars on two levels under the Hotel Claveurier in Poitiers.
These two interventions required a great work of topography with complex pathways in cramped and difficult to access places like spiral staircases or underground casing; but without this topographic work, I could never have realized these two 3D models. I love challenges.
Sharing Data on Sketchfab
If digital surface models allow me to extract vectorized planes and orthophotos, what can I do with these 3D models? Most of the time this data remained on my computer, my own colleagues could not open it. This is where Sketchfab comes in. All at once it is a communication tool during conferences, allows for dissemination of discoveries to people who can not visit a site, and conserves the memory of cultural heritage often threatened with destruction. Now, I take more pleasure in doing photogrammetry because I know that these works will be shared beyond the scientific community.
I take care to put the 3D model in its historical context, including an explanatory text, and in its geographical context by sharing plans or images of the environment. It is important for me to transcribe the sensations that I have during my surveys. That’s why I like adding sounds to my models, like the sound of the wind in a gallery (e.g., in the hypogeum that I recorded in Palestine), or the water that flows in an aqueduct conduit, or croaking crows in a castle… These are small details that, I hope, immerse users when consulting my models on Sketchfab.
Practical Applications for Photogrammetry
Image 2: Protective coverings on stained glass windows at the church of St. Eutrope, Saintes.
The digitization of heritage also makes it possible to restore the original appearance of a monument. During a photogrammetric survey on a part of the church of Saint-Eutrope in Saintes (Image 2), I masked out the protection grids of the stained glass windows and I was able to obtain a model of the Roman chevet with holes in the bays. Having done photogrammetry inside the church, I was able to show the stained glass as it could be seen from the outside, restoring the original appearance to the Church of St. Eutrope.
I find a lot of interest in the use of 3D printing, especially for the blind. It is difficult for them to perceive a monument of great dimension or an artifact that they cannot touch—a description is often their only alternative. With 3D printers, one can easily materialize digital models. Through these impressions, blind people can touch the object and get an idea of the volumes and the details of a monument or an artifact. I did this with the Arch of Germanicus in Saintes (Image 3) from a photogrammetric survey.
Image 3: 3D printed replica of the Arch of Germanicus at Saintes.
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First Place Winner: Something Green
Story Embers
By Bethany Fehr
Green. Not eaten. Not trampled into the dust. Food, or maybe poison. It didn’t matter which.
Prisoner 13358 hadn’t been actively searching for either. If he had, he would have passed over the spot. An inconspicuous clay lump shielded the leaves that cowered between the stack of lumber and the barracks wall.
Instead of awakening desire, the discovery sharpened 13358’s sense of emptiness. Desire would have meant hope of satisfaction, and he had lost track of the last time he’d experienced such an emotion.
Without raising his head, he assessed the drifting mass of bodies for any sign that he was being watched. He moved slowly, out of habit to avoid attention, and slid into a crouch against the wall. Hunching over his prize, he loosened the lump of earth, exposing the plant’s slender stem.
He froze.
“Don’t kill,” rasped the voice in halting German. “Let it grow.”
13358 jerked his head around. Behind him, a man leaned against the barracks. The red triangle with the yellow overlay on his uniform identified him as both a political prisoner and a fellow Jew. Most importantly, he wore no kapo’s armband, no brand of authority. His face bore the image of starvation common to the camp’s inhabitants, and he would have been unremarkable except for his intent, bright-eyed gaze.
Not an aggressor. A competitor. 13358 afforded him only a moment’s regard before turning back to his treasure.
“Please.” A bony hand settled on his shoulder. “Töte nicht.” Don’t kill.
The clash of the bell announcing curfew shattered the stillness. A guard approached, and the stranger lifted his hand. Scrambling to his feet, 13358 joined the flow of bodies jostling their way into the barracks.
Without even the slightest twinge in his countenance, he stepped over the corpses of those who had collapsed during the evening roll call. He had stopped asking himself why a long time ago. Cruelty had no answer. It no longer surprised him.
Yet the whisper at the edge of his consciousness sounded strangely like why.
“You’ve had your share! I’ll teach you not to be greedy!”
The kapo distributing the bread shoved Prisoner 13358, and he staggered away empty-handed.
Though the accusation was false, resisting would be pointless. As he blended into the crowd, he considered going through the line a second time. But tomorrow’s rations might be worthless to him if he received a beating for his trouble.
He wandered through the area outside the kitchen, scanning the ground for any scraps that might have fallen. Upon finding none, he remembered the plant hidden behind the last barracks.
He doubted it had lived until the next morning. His bright-eyed competitor had probably claimed it for himself.
Still, he could have a look.
As he walked along the rows of barracks, he tripped over the leg of a prostrate figure. He didn’t recognize the victim, whose battered appearance attested to a recent flogging. What attracted his interest was the hand tucked inside the half-open shirt. Gingerly, he peeled back the filthy material.
His hunch had been correct. The hand clutched a piece of bread—a whole day’s ration. Unable to believe his luck, he reached out to confiscate it.
A hand grabbed his wrist.
The man was not dead yet. Though too weak to raise himself from the ground, he clung to the morsel with all the strength left in him. But he could only fight for so long. With a final tug, 13358 succeeded, and the man crumpled with a croaking sob.
He would soon breathe his last. The food would have been wasted on him.
13358 wolfed down half the bread, reserving the rest for morning. He climbed to his feet and lingered for a few seconds, feeling he had forgotten something.
A sprig of green flashed into his mind’s vision. He headed in the opposite direction, straight for his own barracks.
“Raus! Raus!”
Prisoner 13358 lurched out of his bunk and onto the floor, dodging the swinging baton of the block elder. He merged with the bodies pressing toward the barracks door and exited into the predawn glare of the watchtower searchlights. Taking his place in line for the latrine, he nibbled on the half crust of bread he had safeguarded through the night.
As the line shuffled forward, he caught a glimpse of a face that seemed familiar. He stopped chewing to study the man’s profile. Was he an acquaintance from before the war? Or could he be the bright-eyed stranger from the other night? 13358 kept staring, but he was too distant to be able to confirm his suspicion. The man handed something to the smaller prisoner beside him, who lifted it to his mouth. He had given away bread.
When 13358 had finished in the latrine and arrived at the line where the camp’s weak excuse for tea was being distributed, the man and the boy were there. A pair of clear eyes fixed on 13358 with an expression of recognition.
13358’s meager breakfast burned in his stomach, and he averted his eyes.
In the evening, Prisoner 13358’s wandering led him back to the barracks across from the latrine. The stack of lumber hadn’t been touched. But what might lay behind it called to him.
He bent, peering into the gap between the wood and the wall.
The prick of disappointment surprised him. Sure enough, the soil had been disturbed. A small mound of earth had replaced the clay lump that concealed the leaves. Someone had uprooted the plant.
Or maybe not. One of the sun’s farewell rays shone through a crevice in the pile of boards, revealing a glimmer of green.
The hollow in 13358’s stomach gaped wider. He squatted and clawed away the dirt.
As his fingers met the cool leaves, a pang stabbed through his spirit. He recoiled. As the shock ebbed, hunger again unleashed a wild cry. What was this animalistic instinct, this void that clamored for something to devour?
13358 grazed his fingers over the protective barrier he’d flattened, one more mark of another’s ownership in a world that had stolen everything from him. The plant wasn’t his, but he could change that.
But then it would belong to no one.
Once more, 13358 reached into the gap. He carefully reshaped the soil into a miniature barricade.
That evening began a near-daily pilgrimage. Sometimes 13358 would take a detour on his way to and from the latrine; other times he’d sneak off before curfew. Often he would simply walk by to satisfy his curiosity over whether the plant still existed. On occasion, he’d count the glossy leaves, each smaller than his thumbnail.
Learning whether the plant had survived the day became a moment to look forward to. The pulse of bewilderment upon finding it intact never diminished. Nothing else inside the camp was constant. The question was not whether the plant would disappear but when.
One evening when rain transformed the dusty streets into a quagmire, 13358 had to rescue the plant from drowning. Kneeling in the mud, he scooped out a channel, diverting the water along the side of the building. When he glanced up, Bright Eyes stood behind him, watching, and offered a nod of approval.
Bright Eyes belonged to a different labor detail, but scarcely a day passed that 13358 did not see him in the barracks, in the lines, or during roll call. The boy was usually with him. The sharp contours of each of their faces carried a resemblance, though the boy’s eyes were as clouded with pain as the man’s were clear. If they weren’t father and son, they might as well have been.
For months, the only faces that had made an impression on 13358’s memory were those that signified a threat: the kapos and the block elders, who maintained their precarious positions of power through brutality that sometimes rivaled that of their SS masters. All other faces melted together as they drifted in and out. Why remember a bunkmate who could be reduced to ashes the next day? 13358 had no reason to form attachments. Until Bright Eyes.
13358 realized he was only allowing the Nazis another chance to hurt him. One day he would rove through the camp and Bright Eyes would be gone. But he didn’t stop seeking out the silent exchanges between them.
The plant was growing beyond its boundaries. In addition to short branches that stretched skyward, it had shot out runners along the ground. Soon it would escape the shelter of the lumber pile, despite the accumulating collection of soil that concealed it. Pruning had become necessary. Prisoner 13358 gently removed two of the longest runners, then grasped a stem that was shorter than his hand yet close to exposing itself. But before he could sever it, his fingers brushed a tiny knot at the base of a leaf.
Anticipation crept over him. He knew something no one else did, and he didn’t want to keep it to himself. Bright Eyes and the boy were waiting in line for the latrine, and their presence intensified the impulse to share his news.
Bright Eyes met 13358’s gaze as he neared, his brows raised in question. When the line moved, he stepped forward with a pronounced limp. The boy reached out to steady his father, his face pinched with concern.
Guilt sank in 13358’s gut. For an instant, he had forgotten the suffering. How could he have derived pleasure from something so trivial? Or ask someone else to do the same?
Bright Eyes still searched 13358’s face expectantly. Finally, he spoke himself. “You saw it too? A few days and we might have a bloom.”
The creases around his clear eyes softened in a smile. And it didn’t feel wrong.
13358 tried to shake the cold from his bones as the morning roll call was dismissed. His sluggishness had already relegated him to the back of the columns. He hurried to fall in with his labor detail before a kapo descended on him.
Ahead, Bright Eyes’ limp had worsened, and the boy struggled to support him. As 13358 passed, Bright Eyes urged his son to go on without him. The boy protested, his voice cracking under the strain of fear.
13358’s detail began to form up. Behind him, the kapos shouted as they clubbed the weakest stragglers.
13358 shuddered, this time at his own foolishness. Sliding one arm around Bright Eyes’ back, he waved the boy on. “I’ve got him.”
After a prolonged look of dread, the boy released his father and loped away.
13358 all but dragged Bright Eyes along, managing to stay ahead of the kapos and their batons. They reached the company just in time to watch it march out without them.
A blow cracked across 13358’s shoulders. The batons herded the two into the ranks of another kommando that was not yet full. The kapo in charge wore a green badge: a criminal, likely a murderer. For some, the position was merely a job, a chance for slightly improved conditions. But the cold gleam in this kapo’s eyes indicated that he relished inflicting pain.
Bright Eyes stumbled as the detail moved out. The kapo was on him immediately, striking him across the shoulders. Throughout the march, the vicious kapo singled him out every time he faltered.
Ordinarily 13358 would have been relieved not to be the object of the abuse. Today, he barely suppressed a cringe whenever the baton collided with Bright Eyes’ torso or limbs.
The march ended at the edge of an unfinished drainage ditch. Some of the prisoners were supplied with shovels, others with rakes. All were expected to excavate the same amount of dirt. The sky darkened, and rain pelted the prisoners. The bottom of the trench became a slimy morass, sucking at the men’s feet, slicking the tool handles, and slipping through the teeth of the rakes.
13358 was fortunate enough to have a shovel. He kept his head down and his body in motion. If he functioned like a machine, they would leave him alone. It was the weak ones, the humans, who got tortured. But even in his resolve, he checked on Bright Eyes every so often. The injured man had managed to maintain a steady pace, though each clump of mud he heaved aside deepened the agony on his face. If they could just hold out until the day’s end. 13358 refused to think any further ahead.
“You there! Look at me when I speak to you!”
13358 went rigid. Were they addressing him? Should he turn? Would it make a difference if he did?
In his peripheral vision, a kapo lunged forward. But 13358 wasn’t the target, and his heart lurched as he recognized who was.
The kapo swung his fist, and Bright Eyes slammed into the muck. Ribs cracked in tandem with the sickening thuds of the baton and the kapo’s boots against flesh and bone. His friend released gurgling, mud-choked gasps.
An SS guard spectated, his expression somewhere between boredom and mild amusement. The other prisoners labored on, their eyes on the ground. Bright Eyes’ gasps hushed, and his body stilled. The onslaught continued.
Then a thick, heavy silence coated the air.
A wave of rage surged within 13358. He envisioned his shovel cleaving the kapo’s skull.
They would shoot him. He didn’t care. They had already murdered the man he had once been. Nothing was left of him to destroy.
He slogged forward several steps and raised his shovel’s dripping blade.
His focus landed on a blur of green. The triangular badge on the kapo’s uniform.
13358 could almost feel the hand on his shoulder, hear the voice admonishing him from the dead. Töte nicht. Don’t kill.
His shovel splashed into the ditch.
A clout from behind sent him reeling, and he lost his balance. A kick drove the breath from his lungs. As a stream of vile language cascaded from above, he struggled to regain his footing in the sludge.
He had to get up, to live. Someone else needed him to return to the camp.
He grappled for the handle of the shovel beneath him. Another kick. Moaning, he hauled himself upright, jabbing the shovel into the mud. The baton lashed at his back. He didn’t waver and hurled one shovelful of mud, then another. The blows subsided.
The hours melded into the familiar numbing ache of body, soul, and stomach. Three more prisoners dropped, two mauled by the vicious kapo, another consumed by exhaustion. The pile of corpses hovered at the fringe of 13358’s vision. He didn’t let himself look or think. He couldn’t. Not yet.
When a halt was called, the survivors gathered up the dead. 13358 bent to retrieve the body of the man whose memory had sustained him. The rain had washed the mud and blood from his face. His eyes were open, their brightness extinguished. Gray-blue. He had never noted the color.
The company trudged back to the camp in silence. 13358 panted under his burden, the corpse so wasted that his fingers completely encircled the ankles. His mind chanted out a promise to the rhythm of his footsteps. I’ll find him. He won’t be alone.
When 13358 laid the body down to be tallied with the rest of the day’s dead, he had no time for a final goodbye. Perhaps it was a mercy that these souls wouldn’t have to endure another roll call.
As 13358 took his place in the column, he scanned the sea of faces, chafing under the urge to crane his neck to look in more directions. But never had avoiding the batons been so important. Somewhere in the crowd, the boy strained to hear his father’s number.
The minutes stretched out. The delay meant someone was missing. The boy? Had he thrown himself at the fence in grief? He hadn’t. He couldn’t have. It had to be someone else. Hours elapsed, and the light faded. More prisoners collapsed.
Not him. It’s not him. I’ll find him. I promise.
When roll call finally ended, 13358 beelined for the kitchen. After receiving his portion of bread, he scrutinized the row of prisoners from a distance. Did that withered frame belong to the boy? What about those empty eyes? He loitered until the last stragglers hobbled into the queue, but the boy never appeared.
13358 headed for the barracks. Perhaps someone there knew the boy, or his father, and could tell of his whereabouts.
At the side of the building, a small figure stood. 13358 hastened closer, unable to trust his eyes in the dimness.
It was the boy. A prayer of thanks jerked unbidden from 13358’s lips.
The boy gave no sign of recognition but continued to stare into the dark, slack-jawed and hollow-eyed.
13358’s vow weighed heavily on him. What did he have to offer the boy? He couldn’t lie, couldn’t pretend that the senseless violence had meaning. Words were useless. Yet what else could he say?
Air rushed from the boy’s lungs, and his chest folded in on itself like a punctured tire. His face remained stoic.
With that breath, all traces of Bright Eyes’ existence seemed to scatter like ash. Horror overcame 13358. In a short time, all evidence of the boy’s father would be obliterated. His only burial place would be the memory of those who had interacted with him. For many, the grave would be unmarked. 13358 had never even learned his name.
13358 resolved that Bright Eyes would not be forgotten, and his son needed the reassurance. “What was your father’s name?” he asked.
The boy didn’t answer, or even move. 13358 had begun to wonder if he would ever show signs of life again when a soft voice eked out, “Meisl. Pavel Meisl.”
The boy shifted, for the first time lifting his vacant gaze to 13358’s face. “Your name?”
A pang of remembrance resonated through 13358’s chest. A feminine voice echoed in his mind, lovingly murmuring his almost foreign name.
He clung to his wife’s sweet tone for a moment, letting it ring before releasing the name from his lips.
“Andreas…Andreas Bernstein.”
“I am Jakub.”
The boy’s empty hands hung limp at his sides. Whatever had happened to his bread ration, he had no remnants for breakfast. Perhaps he had never received it, or he had eaten it without regard for the next day. What reason would he have to care for himself, with no one left to care for?
Andreas uncurled his fingers and gripped his own crust with both hands, intending to tear it in two. Instead, he tucked the entire piece into Jakub’s palm.
For several moments, Jakub gaped at the bread as if he might be imagining it. Then he stirred, and with careful precision, he divided the fragment into two equal halves. He extended one to Andreas.
Though Jakub did not meet Andreas’s eyes, the gentleness of his gesture and the steadiness of his outstretched hand reflected his father’s clear gaze.
Andreas accepted the bread and squeezed Jakub’s forearm in an expression of gratitude. The bell rang, ushering the last of the prisoners into the barracks.
Nightfall brought respite. Where the man and the boy huddled in the overcrowded barracks, hunger and sorrow succumbed to dreamless sleep. Outside, the shelter of darkness granted the plant a reprieve from the threat of hungry eyes and tramping feet.
Dawn stripped away the cover of night and filled the streets with misery and marching footsteps. For some, the march led to death; for others, only a step nearer to it. For one detail of prisoners, the stack of lumber across from the latrine was their destination. As they dismantled it board by board, the plant trembled. Carelessly, unnoticed, a fatal footstep crushed the leaves into the mire, tearing the stem from its roots.
In the shadows of twilight, the man and the boy returned. A pair of quivering hands cradled the plant’s broken remains and tried to wipe away the mud.
The man paused. Tenderly, he pushed aside a layer of sodden foliage. The seed of a smile spread across his weary face, softening the harsh lines and kindling a spark of wonder in his eyes.
In the midst of the leaves glowed a single blue blossom.
Bethany Fehr has been a student of story since she learned to read. She writes historical fiction, often infused with a gentle touch of fantasy. Storytelling is her space to explore difficult questions and discover the character of God, and she hopes her stories will encourage others to think deeply about their faith. Classic authors George MacDonald, C. S. Lewis, and Harold Bell Wright are a few of her favorite sources of inspiration. Bethany lives in Alberta, Canada, where she sings with her family’s bluegrass/gospel band, teaches English to adult learners, and trains for a future career as a developmental editor.
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Libby on October 8, 2020 at 5:44 pm
Bethany, what a beautiful, beautiful story. This piece… it brought me sorrow, it was so painful – but the way hope shone through was oh, so powerfully done. Congratulations on winning, this is truly a wonderful work of art <3
Fehrmaiden on October 9, 2020 at 8:22 pm
Wow, thank you so much Libby! Your encouragement really blesses me. I’m so glad my story was meaningful to you!
Dakota on October 11, 2020 at 4:25 pm
Well done! I enjoyed reading it. 🙂
Fehrmaiden on January 13, 2021 at 2:50 pm
Thank you, Dakota!
Kristianne on October 13, 2020 at 5:28 am
This story is absolutely beautiful. It actually brought tears to my eyes. You did such a great job developing the atmosphere of hopelessness and suffering and also bringing out the hope the prisoner found in the flower. Well done!
Thank you so much Kristianne! This means so much to hear!
Sarah Wiens on October 15, 2020 at 10:33 pm
Three cheers, Bethany! *virtual confetti*
Thanks, Sarah!
Rolena Hatfield on October 16, 2020 at 11:59 am
Can I cry now?! Yes? *runs away to grab a tissue* Well done, Bethany! What a beautiful story portraying brokenness yet illuminating hope in the midst of it! *sniffles and smiles*
I’m so glad it moved you Rolena! This story means a lot to me and it blesses me so much to know that other people are sharing the feels!
Kate Flournoy on October 17, 2020 at 1:30 pm
Beautiful. I’ve got goosebumps. Congratulations on the win—you earned it. 😉
Thank you, Kate!
Anne-Marie on October 17, 2020 at 4:40 pm
Oh Bethany! God has given you such a gift through your writings. It was so special to reread this story. I had forgotten how it ended and wow, I love how you infuse hope and beauty amongst so much suffering. I love how the prisoner’s character changed in the story. Thank you for penning this!
Thank you so much for your lovely words, Auntie Annie! You’ve always been an amazing encourager!
Terah Stevens on October 20, 2020 at 8:41 pm
-wow. There’s not much more you can says. It’s an amazing work of art, God has truelly given you a gift gal!!
This is such an encouragement, Terah! God has certainly used this story to bless and teach me, and I’m so glad it’s blessed you too!
Emalee Springfield on January 17, 2021 at 11:31 pm
Wow! This story is stern and solemn, beautiful and hopeful! I absolutely love the way you shone the warm light of hope in the midst of such a cold place! What a lovely illustration of the truth that light shines brightest in the darkness! I also loved the touch you added by withholding any names until characters were revealed! Thank you for sharing such a wonderful story!
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Rehearsals and auditions that DO use music or otherwise include loud noise may use classrooms at any time on weekends, after 1:30pm on Fridays, and after 8:00pm Monday-Thursday, subject to availability.
PH 207 is an exception to the above policy and may be used Monday-Thursday starting at 5:00pm, subject to availability.
In all cases, students using classrooms for rehearsals and auditions are asked to be respectful of other events taking place in surrounding classrooms or within the building and must abide by all other policies related to classroom and building use. If any group is repeatedly disruptive to others, the privilege of using classrooms may be revoked at the discretion of the University Registrar’s Office and/or Undergraduate Production.
Student organizations should also note there is a custodial charge for classroom reservations beginning at 12 PM on Friday through Sunday night for events including conferences, seminars, concerts, meetings, etc. with outside (non-Yale) attendees.
Questions about your classroom reservation request? Email classrooms@yale.edu
Performance Spaces
Woolsey Hall
Battell Chapel - Remember that Battell Chapel is primarily a sacred space. Events held in Battell must be respectful of its primary function.
Be sure to read the information on reserving performance and rehearsal spaces. Contact Undergraduate Production staff with questions.
The Schwarzman Center and The Presidents’ Room
The Presidents’ Room and the Schwarzman Center reservations are to be made through Yale Catering. Use of the Schwarzman Center and the Presidents’ Room is only allowed for events with catered food service. To guarantee your reservation of these spaces, a non-refundable deposit is required, which will be applied toward your final bill. The rate to secure your reservation for the Schwarzman Center is $800.00. The rate to secure your reservation in the President’s Room is $180.00.
Room Use Fees
A fee of $1,600.00 is charged for the use of the Schwartzman Center
A fee of $360.00 is charged for the use of the Presidents’ Room
Contact Maureen O’Donnell at 203-432-0752 for reservations.
Sterling Memorial Library
Lecture Hall and Memorabilia Room
Linonia and Brothers Reading Room
Nave and Selin Courtyard
Payne Whitney Gymnasium & Other Athletic Facilities
To request use of a facility please call 203-432-1420. A full list of facilities can be found here.
Outdoor University Spaces
Permission for use of outdoor spaces must be obtained at least twenty-four hours in advance of a weekday event and forty-eight hours in advance of a weekend event.
Application for Use of Outdoor University Spaces
Library Walk (between Jonathan Edwards and Branford)
Crescent between Morse and Ezra Stiles Colleges
Swing Space Court Yard
Grassy Area on Tower Parkway (outside of Swing Space)
SSS Courtyard
Becton Courtyard
Old Campus
Click on the links below if interested in reserving the following outdoor spaces:
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Trace Adkins proclaims he's "Better Off" staying at home with the one he loves in his new single.
The country crooner dropped "Better Off," his first single since 2017, on Friday (March 20). Adkins' signature baritone shines on the light-hearted, feel-good tune that finds him opting for a lively night in with the woman he loves over venturing into the downtown crowds.
Dropping a needle on the vinyl and a spark of romance make for an ideal evening in Adkins' world, crooning in the chorus, "Turn this night on to eleven but / Those thoughts in your head and / Those pillows on your bed and / That dress, these lights / They're all better off."
The country star also unveiled the video on the day of the single's release, which features a real-life couple sipping red wine and dancing the night away in a converted studio overlooking the downtown Nashville skyline.
"I wanted to do a performance-style video where I could use my band, so we started there. We could have gone in a few directions with this song, but I wanted to be cognizant of keeping the video sexy but classy," Adkins explains to CMT. " I have worked with the director, Mike Stryker, on a few different projects and enjoy his directing style. Mike suggested using the dancers to add some elegance. The fact that the dancers also happen to be a couple added authenticity to their scenes."
And it seems as though Adkins is "Better Off" on the music front, as he recently signed a new label deal with Verge Records. The singer is currently working on other new music in anticipation of a forthcoming project.
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Onshore Power Supply
Cost calculation
Emission calculation
Why do it?
Equipment and solutions
OPS calculation tool
Stepwise approach
Terminal selection
The shipowners’ perspective
Sector organizations
Standardization organizations
Website initiators
OPS installed
Ports using OPS
What is OPS?
What is the difference between low- and high-voltage systems?
Low-voltage systems use multiple cables, making it more labour-intensive to hook vessels up to the grid. The position of the voltage transformer may also differ, depending on the system, being located on the quay or on the vessel itself. At some ports a crane is used to take the cables to the ship. At the Port of Los Angeles, with the best known low-voltage system, the transformer was set up on a work barge. This system is not used anymore, however. Most of the systems currently in use are high-voltage; see the section on ports using OPS. The main reason for this is that most ships can be connected using 1 or 2 high-voltage cables on a reel rather than 15 to 30 low-voltage lines.
What is the cost for the port?
The cost of supplying high-voltage electricity to the port and then to the berth can differ significantly from one port to another. This is mainly because of variations in the distance to the nearest high-voltage supply and, more importantly, the number of substations/connections that require upgrading. Other costs that vary include the need for additional overhead electricity lines, poles and underground cables. In addition, the cost of retrofitting cables into an existing terminal is usually significantly higher than installing cables in a new-build terminal.
How much power is needed for an average stopover in a terminal?
Power requirements depend very much on the type of vessel and the time at berth. According to available information, cruise vessels require up to 16 MVA, container vessels up to 6.5 MVA and ferries and RoRo vessels up to 3 MVA load. Energy consumption is calculated by multiplying the vessels power consumption (MW) with the total time (hours) of consumption.
Who benefits most from the implementation of OPS?
Apart from achieving a much better working environment onboard and in the port, the environmental benefits are the great driving force. Studies show that society is the big winner. This means OPS can help ports demonstrate they are local environmental leaders and responsible citizens whose activities take place for the benefit of local communities. This helps counter any perceptions of the port as a “dirty neighbour” and can provide a platform for the port to intensify both its environmental activities and its cooperation with the local communities. Putting environmental interests at the heart of port activities affirms a port’s place at the heart of its community – a “win-win” scenario for all concerned.
There are several advantages and disadvantages of using OPS.
Major reductions in local emissions (air pollutants and greenhouse gases).
Reductions in noise levels (improves working and living conditions).
Reductions in vibration levels (improves working and living conditions).
Improvement in license to operate and company image.
The emission reductions are only achieved when a ship is at berth.
Electrical frequencies differ between regions.
Different systems have and are being installed.
Implementation of OPS requires large investments on the quay and on the ship.
More detailed information on the pros and cons can be found in Environment & Health section and in the C40 WPCI guidance document.
WPSP
Area of interests
Community outreach and port-city dialogue
Governance and Ethics
Port projects
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London’s new Mayor blasts Trump
Ben Snell, Contributor|May 13, 2016
London’s new mayor, Sadiq Khan, criticized presidential candidate, Donald Trump’s take on Islam and how it could make the U.S. and the U.K. “less safe”.
Last week, Khan was elected mayor of London, which makes him the first Muslim mayor of a Western capital city.
Sadiq made his comments in a response to Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims entering the United States and how Trump would in fact allow Khan to enter.
The mayor said in a statement, “Donald Trump’s ignorant view of Islam could make both our countries less safe — it risks alienating mainstream Muslims around the world and plays into the hands of the extremists.”
On Monday, Trump told the New York Times he was “happy” that Khan was elected mayor. The Times asked him how the presidential candidate planned on enforcing the ban with Trump replying: “There will be exceptions.”
Trump also stated, “I think it’s a very good thing, and I hope he does a very good job because frankly that would be very, very good.”
In November (right after the Paris terror attacks), Trump was criticized for calling for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.”
During Khan’s campaign for mayor, he would consistently accuse his opponent (Zac Goldsmith) of “drawing from the Donald Trump playbook” when targeting his religion.
Khan told Time magazine Monday, “”I think to try and look for differences, to try and turn communities against each other is not conducive to living successfully and amicably.”
Khan stated that if Trump does indeed win the election, “I’ll be stopped from going there by virtue of my faith, which means I can’t engage with American mayors and swap ideas. Conservative tacticians thought those sorts of tactics would win London and they were wrong. I’m confident that Donald Trump’s approach to politics won’t win in America.”
Trump has in fact made comments that Britain has “a massive Muslim problem.” However, a public U.K. petition to ban Trump for his hate speech has gained nearly five-hundred thousand signatures.
In January, the British parliamentarians held a non-binding debate on the issue with one debater saying, “I don’t think Donald Trump should be allowed within one-thousand miles of our shore.”
Trump has raised many eyebrows in this election and it seems that his statements are already having a negative effect on America’s foreign affairs. If he is indeed elected though, London’s mayor definitely won’t be here to see it.
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Forensic archive
Original photographic boxes
Original photographic boxes containing dry glass plate negatives, New South Wales Police Forensic Photography Archive. Photo © Jamie North for Sydney Living Museums
The archive’s negatives
The New South Wales Police Forensic Photography Archive contains photographic negatives in several formats and sizes created between around 1910 and 1964. These negatives are both a record of how New South Wales Police used photography and a reflection of how photographic technology changed during these decades.
In the black and white analogue photographic process, the negative can be considered an intermediary to the positive photograph. It is the source image used to print multiple identical prints. The negative has a supporting base layer that is coated with a light-sensitive silver gelatin emulsion. After exposure in camera and processing, the negative contains a monochromatic, tonally inverted image. The bright areas appear in blacks and the areas of deep shadow have no visual presence on the clear support layer. The archive comprises negatives that are manufactured, retail products (not handmade) and are a precursor to the black and white films still in use today.
The archive’s two main negative formats are dry glass plates and sheet film (probably nitrate or cellulose). The earlier negatives are dry plates, while sheet film is the primary format later in the collection. However, different formats and sizes were in use concurrently.
Half-plate size negatives in dry plate and sheet film formats from the New South Wales Police Forensic Photography Archive. Photo © Jamie North for Sydney Living Museums
The negatives themselves reveal much about the photomechanical processes used by police. The range of negative formats is evidence that New South Wales Police employed a number of different cameras (and/or camera backs) for their photographic work and that these cameras were updated over the years.
After taking the photographs, police photographers chemically processed the negatives in a darkroom and printed them for use. Ultimately the photographic prints were pinned to case files and presented in court, alongside other evidence. The negatives were filed separately and could be reprinted if evidence was called into question or the case was revisited.
Once an investigation was complete, police photographers stored the processed negatives in the original cardboard boxes, stamped with identifying numbers, and, later, in paper envelopes with handwritten inscriptions. As the original indexes that once explained the content of the archive have been lost, these original enclosures give vital clues to help us understand the negatives, and provide information about the manufacturers, formats, sizes and emulsion speeds of the negatives used by police around the time the photographs were taken.
The negatives were much-handled working records, as evidenced by the marks, abrasions and fingerprints of policemen still visible today. Information about the suspect and image content has sometimes been written on the emulsion (reverse) side of the negatives in ink or pencil; this needed to be written back to front in order to appear the right way around on the printed photograph. Sometimes parts of the emulsion have been scratched, sketched or inked out by the photographer to obscure or conceal details originally captured in camera.
Deterioration is inherent to any photographic medium. A negative’s material, chemical processing (and its residue), handling, storage history (temperature and humidity) and age are all factors that could impact the state of preservation. The passing of time is evident where emulsion shimmers silver, is yellowing or has been completely washed away as a result of the flood that first brought the negatives to the attention of their police rescuers.
We repackage, register and identify the negatives prior to digitisation. Each negative is rehoused in its own archivally stable enclosure and stored alongside related negatives and the box or envelope they were found in, so the original archival order is retained. After the negatives are scanned, they are stored in a climate-controlled room with stable relative humidity and temperature to prolong their life.
Coolroom shelves showing original negative boxes with stamped ends.
Photo © Jamie North for Sydney Living Museums
Coolroom shelves showing original brown storage envelopes with photographers’ inscriptions.
A half-plate negative with handwritten ink inscription on the emulsion side.
Original plate negative boxes and negatives in their archivally stable enclosures.
Holly Schulte
Curator Digital Assets
Holly is the Curator Digital Assets with Sydney Living Museums where she is part of the Collections & Access team.
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John Maclean: greatest of the Red Clydesiders
Posted on May 3, 2019 by Scottish Socialist Voice // 0 Comments
SPEECH FROM THE DOCK: “I am not here, then, as the accused; I am here as the accuser of capitalism, dripping with blood from head to foot...” – John Maclean
by Bill Bonnar · This year (August 24th) marks the 140th anniversary of the birth of John Maclean. It also marks the 100th anniversary of Red Clydeside yet no memorial to those tumultuous events would be complete without reference to Maclean; the greatest of the Red Clydesiders.
Born in Glasgow in 1879 be became an active socialist from an early age. In 1913 he was a founder member of the British Socialist Party and was active in its predecessor; the British Social Democratic Federation whose leadership included the likes of William Morris and Elenor Marx.
Yet it was his militant opposition to the carnage of the First World War which brought him to prominence and made him a target for the authorities.
In 1915 he was jailed under the Defence of the Realm Act and as a result lost his job as a teacher. In 1916 and 1918 he was arrested again and jailed for sedition.
Open air lectures
After losing his job as a teacher he became a full time Marxist lecturer and organiser founding the Scottish Labour College. His lectures, often held in the open air, became legendary often with hundreds of workers attending.
Internationally his reputation grew and in 1918 was appointed by Lenin as ‘Bolshevik Ambassador for Scotland’.
When the British Communist Party was launched in 1920 largely absorbing the Socialist Party in the process Maclean decided not to join and instead attempted to launch a separate Communist Party of Scotland. Later this would morph into the short lived Scottish Republican Socialist Party.
His years in prison allied to generally poor health took a heavy toll and in 1923 Maclean died of pneumonia at the tragically young age of 44. His funeral was described as the largest ever seen in Glasgow then and now. Much has been made of the decision by Maclean not to join the newly formed Communist Party. After all he was an members of the British Socialist Party which became the CP and was an avowed communist. Yet his reasoning was clear cut.
The British Socialist Party emerged from the British Social Democratic Federation and largely inherited its structure. The key word was here was Federation. The Socialist Party was a fairly loose based organisation with a federal structure in which the Scottish Section had a great deal of autonomy.
The newly proposed Communist Party had a much more centralised structure which Maclean opposed. There was another reason. Most people within the Socialist Party in Scotland where strong adherents of Home Rule for Scotland. This included many who, like Maclean, were advocates of independence and the break up of the imperialist British state.
Most within the wider British Communist Party where hostile to the idea of Scottish Independence in part as a reaction to the rise of nationalist sentiments which helped fuel World War and because they believed it undermined the unity of the British working class. When, in 1921, the majority of the Scottish section of the British Socialist Party voted to join the new Communist Party Maclean left to try an found a Scottish equivalent.
It would be another 70 years before Maclean’s idea about establishing a Scottish based Socialist Party would come to pass. When the Scottish Socialist Party was founded in 1996 it saw itself as the direct heirs to John Maclean.
Like him the SSP unites the twin objectives of socialism and sovereignty around the aim of a Scottish Socialist Republic. Like Maclean the SSP rejects all forms of nationalism embracing instead the internationalism of the international socialist movement.
Imperialist UK
Like Maclean it sees the United Kingdom as an essentially imperialist construct whose demise is in the interests of all workers of Britain. If Maclean was around today he would be at the heart of the independence movement arguing that independence could never be an end in itself but rather a vehicle in the wider transforming of society.
We have just ended the commemorations for the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War, For socialists like Maclean the was was the greatest collective war crime in history. A war not between good sides or bad sides; all were as bad as each other. A war in which countless millions of innocent young British, German, French, Russian soldiers et al were slaughtered on behalf of their respective ruling classes.
Maclean exposed this at the time and called for workers to revolt against the carnage.
Scotland has plenty of statues commemorating those who died in particular to the politician and generals who sanctioned the slaughter. Maybe its time for a statue to Scotland’s greatest anti-war hero; John Maclean.
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Karl Klinger: the first tour guide of NB
By Tara Kohlenberg, Sophienburg Executive Director — Tourism has been an important economic facet in New Braunfels for many years. All can agree that the beauty of natural springs bubbling out of a rocky hillside to form the crystal clear Comal River, Landa Park, historic homes and businesses, music venues in
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Southern Movement Infrastructure Exchange
The Southern Movement Infrastructure Exchange is a new collaborative initiative dedicated to growing and strengthening a network of responsive, values-aligned fiscal sponsors and other intermediaries to grow, connect, and leverage their resources to fuel grassroots-led movements.
The project is led by the Campaign for Southern Equality and the Southern Vision Alliance, with support from the Out in the South Fund.
Are you involved in developing strategies to redirect funds and resources to LGBTQ grassroots organizers? Join the exchange by completing this survey!
About the Southern Movement Infrastructure Exchange
We’ve been saying for a long time that grassroots leaders have the potential to transform the South, but they need the funding and support to sustain and amplify their efforts. Indeed, that belief is foundational to our work across the Campaign for Southern Equality and why we created our Southern Equality Fund.
Overall, the South receives roughly 25% of national LGBTQ funding. The vast majority of that funding goes to large nonprofit organizations in large cities, often removed from the communities most directly impacted. Throughout the South, low-wealth queer and trans people of color, immigrants, and folks in rural communities have always led tremendous grassroots responses to forces that acutely impact LGBTQ communities, including regressive legislation, housing and job precarity, and police brutality.
To sustain their efforts, these grassroots organizers seek funding, but often, they are turned away because they do not have 501(c)(3) status. Simply put, the current system of funding isn’t designed to support power-building at the grassroots level. Limited funding hasn’t stopped queer grassroots organizers from doing outstanding work – but imagine what might be possible if we could remove this structural barrier to funding for those on the frontlines of this work.
It’s time to explore how we can make the vision of the Southern Movement Infrastructure Exchange – which will grow and strengthen a network of responsive, values-aligned fiscal sponsors and other intermediaries to grow, connect, and leverage their resources to fuel grassroots-led movements – a reality.
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The Southern Vision Alliance (SVA) supports emergent grassroots groups & efforts organizing for social, racial, economic, gender, and environmental justice in the US South. We build movement infrastructure, mobilize resources, and incubate collaborative solidarity.
This project aligns with the Campaign for Southern Equality’s Southern Equality Fund, which provides funding and training to Southern LGBTQ folks doing heroic organizing in their hometowns. We prioritize groups and individual leaders whose access to funding and support is limited due to barriers such as not having 501c3 status, or being located in a rural area.
The Out in the South Fund, a project of Funders for LGBTQ Issues, provided support for the Southern Movement Infrastructure Exchange. The Out in the South Fund is a collaborative fund that awards matching and planning grants to catalyze locally-driven Southern funds that address the needs and strengthen the assets of LGBTQ communities in the South.
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Realme 5 will be presented on August 20th
The brand has been landing on our market not long ago Realme, for the uninitiated, it is a series now independent that in the past belonged to OPPO. Realme deals with the creation of mid-range smartphones, however, after the launch of some of its smartphones, the time has come to talk about something new and cutting-edge.
REALME 5: HERE IS THE OFFICIAL DATE
During these months Realme's plans have been unveiled, however the much discussed issue will soon make its debut on the market Realme 5. As confirmed by the company's CEO (Madhav Sheth), it will be the first smartphone marketed in India to use the new 64 megapixel Samsung sensor. The latter will collide with the brand new Xiaomi device, which also features this type of sensor.
It’s time to take the #LeapToQuadCamera with the next generation camera technology on a smartphone. Gear up as we launch # realme5series at 12:30 PM, 20th August. Know more: https://t.co/IczXkhy4lB pic.twitter.com/mfBOAzfDZl
– realme (@realmemobiles) August 12, 2019
During the 6th of August there was an event dedicated to the photographic sector in which some details of the new Realme were revealed, but it was not made official. The official presentation date appears today, the confirmation comes through the brand's twitter profile. The previous hypothesis was on forecasts regarding August 15th, but today we can report the official date! The presentation of the smartphone will be held on August 20th at 12:30.
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As usual we will be happy to bring you all the features of the device as soon as it is revealed.
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Opposition To The Us Involvement In Vietnam War
The antiwar motion in the US from 1965-1971 was the most crucial movements of its kind in this nations history. The United States first became involved in Vietnam in 1950 when Leader Harry Truman started to under estimate the costs of France's war contrary to the Viet Minh. Later, presidents Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy increased the US's political, economic, and armed forces commitments progressively throughout the fifties and early sixties in Vietnam. Well known senators experienced already started criticizing American participation in Vietnam through the summertime of 1964, which resulted in the most significant antiwar activity that America has ever before seen. The antiwar movements radically changed American plan and pressured the U. S. out of Vietnam. ("Antiwar_") The primary reasons behind North american opposition to the Vietnam War can be split into the next categories: feelings from the draft, honest, legal arguments against U. S. intervention, and the reaction to how the multimedia portrayed the devastation in Vietnam.
Protest to the draft or conscription has been an element of all American wars, from as soon as the Spanish North american War in 1898 and up to now in Iraq and Afghanistan. However during the Vietnam Conflict, draft evasion and draft level of resistance come to an all-time high. Almost 27 million men were of age to be drafted during the Vietnam War; of those 27 million, 16 million never served (Haugen 60). Many didn't serve anticipated to medical reasons or spiritual convictions. Others did not serve because these were still in school so they simply deferred. On the 16 million that didn't serve many, not absolutely all used these exemptions to purposely not be drafted. The revolt inside the armed service combined with the gigantic civilian antiwar motion, draft resistance slightly put a restraint on the government's capacity to wage a battle in Vietnam, and brought the war home in a personal method for that technology of young men. Draft resisters filed as conscientious objectors, and didn't report for induction when called, or even attemptedto claim they were disabled. Soldiers went AWOL or and people that were called to service fled to Canada through Underground Railroad sites of antiwar followers all to avoid going to Vietnam (Kindig).
The decision to make use of the draft lotto system for the war increased the amount of protest by hundreds. However, to keep the support of the wise and influential participants of society, school students weren't called up to provide. In fact, universities were the epicenter of the antiwar activity. Thousands of students throughout America still protested what they believed to be an strike on the people's to choose for themselves whether they wanted to battle because of their country or not.
Between 1963 and 1973, nine thousand a hundred and eighteen men, young and old, were prosecuted for both burning up draft cards and refusing to be drafted into the army. In 1965, David Miller, burnt his draft greeting card in public areas and was sentenced to two. 5 years in prison. This encouraged many people throughout America, and inspired Anti-Vietnam War teams to organize conferences where teenagers burnt their draft credit cards. Of the most famous of these was Muhammad Ali, or Cassius Clay, the heavyweight boxing world champion ("Vietnam Protest") Cassius declared himself a conscientious objector, and explained that he was Muslim which it was against his religious beliefs to take a life. He then modified his name to Muhammad Ali. The governor of Illinois called Ali "disgusting" and the governor of Maine said that Ali "should be placed in utter contempt by every patriotic American". In 1967, Ali was sentenced to 5 years in prison for draft evasion, but his conviction was later overturned on charm. Furthermore, he was stripped of his title and suspended from professional boxing for more than 3 years ("Gale").
Muhammad Ali was one of the many distinguished BLACK figures to speak out up against the battle. Other Civil Privileges innovator, including Martin L. Ruler stated that as a result of draft immunity relished by college students, it was mostly the indegent and blacks which were being directed off to serve in Vietnam. In fact between 1966 and 1968 forty percent of U. S. fight troops fighting in Vietnam were black (Haugen 51). Confounding this anger at the governments "draft" insurance plan was the actual fact many areas in the south denied African Americans the right to vote in elections. Meaning that African Americans were fighting with each other in Vietnam for a country which denied them the protection under the law they were struggling with to give another country ("Vietnam Protest").
"By 1967, antiwar activists in the democratic party were angry that no politician got risen to test Lyndon Johnson's conduct during the battle in Vietnam. That season, a number of these democrats convinced Minnesota senator Eugene McCarthy to perform against Johnson for the democratic solution in the approaching election. No-one expected that Johnson-who experienced a strong acceptance rating-would be defeated, however the antiwar followers hoped that McCarthy's bid would at least drive a discourse of American plans in Vietnam. McCarthy, however, canvassed college campuses for support and soon acquired a huge military of America's young ones behind him. In his nomination conversation, McCarthy argued that America was paying high price because of its conflict in Vietnam, and this the current administration was willing to spend billions of dollars and waste thousands of America's young men without any end in look. McCarthy insisted an alteration was needed. "(Haugen 54)
As the public became more and more annoyed with the conflict in Vietnam, a big number of teams and organizations were intended to oppose the conflict effort. "The considerable antiwar efforts centered on universities, with the students participating in leading tasks. The antiwar movement in america from 1965-1971 was the most important movements of its kind in the nation's history. The movement attracted people from college or university campuses, middle-class suburbs, labor unions, and federal government institutions; the activity gained countrywide prominence in 1965, peaked in 1968, and remained powerful throughout the period of the conflict. This antiwar movements had a great impact on American foreign insurance policy and essentially compelled the united states out of Vietnam (Barringer). These teach-in's were mass public demonstrations usually in the springtime or semester. By 1968, protesters numbered almost seven million with more than 1 / 2 being white youths in school. " ("Anti-war. ")
The teach-in motion was gentle in the beginning, but after university students travelled home in the past due 1960's, a fresh kind of protesting came up and substituted the old way. These new actions grabbed the eye of the White House, specially when 25 thousand protesters marched down Washington Avenue. Over another 2 years, the antiwar motion snowballed. Many Activists like Abbie Hoffmann, Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, and superstars and music artists like Jane Fonda and Jefferson Airplane, and many others used the antiwar cause and waved antiwar banners. Their different speeches and their music reflected the anger and hopelessness that many Americans felt above the Vietnam Warfare. Even the GI's stationed abroad commenced supporting the antiwar movement in whatever way they could, from putting on peace icons to refusing to obey certain purchases (Bexte).
By past due 1967, in America protestors actually started triggering problems. As the bombings and body count up in Vietnam extended to rise; so did civil unrest. One hundred thousand antiwar protesters compiled in New York City, hundreds more in San Francisco. There were urban riots in Detroit. Antiwar rallies, speeches, demonstrations and concerts prolonged being organized from coast to coast. There was a backlash against exactly what was military. Military returning home from overseas were no more called as heroes but "baby killers" (Bexte).
Next came Richard Nixon, and his main marketing campaign promise to People in america was that he would end the battle with Vietnam with organized troop withdrawals. Yet the American presence in Vietnam remained the same and casualties actually increased, as do the expense of running the warfare work. Taxpayers were paying 25 billion dollars per 12 months to financing a conflict that nobody believed in anymore. The Woodstock concert brought five hundred thousand together from across North America in a non-violent protest resistant to the battle. Then Nixon's plan to attack communist resource locations in Cambodia failed and set off another round of protests. This was accompanied by the Kent Talk about student protest in May of 1970 which switched deadly when Country wide Guardsman fired into crowds, killing 4 students and injuring dozens more. Students all over the united states became enraged and over another few days and campuses all over the US arrived to a virtual standstill (Bexte).
Media coverage helped thousands of people to see graphic scenes of human being suffering in the Vietnam War and the powerful protests and presentations on back again at home.
"For nearly a decade among university, work, and dinners, the American community could watch villages being ruined, Vietnamese children getting rid of to death, and American body carriers being sent home. Though first coverage generally backed U. S engagement in the battle, television news considerably changed its framework of the battle following the Tet Offensive. Images of the U. S led massacre within my Lai dominated the television, the daily atrocities committed by North Vietnam and the Viet Cong rarely made the nighttime news. Moreover, the anti-war activity at home gained increasing multimedia attention as the U. S soldier was ignored in Vietnam" (McLaughlin).
This quote helps it be very clear that mass media coverage of the Vietnam Battle was graphic and coated America relatively negatively. The advertising criticized American strategies and actions remaining and right. The coverage managed to get appear to be America was the cruel merciless military that would get rid of civilians and kill metropolitan areas; however North Vietnam and the Viet Cong's brutality gone unseen in the marketing, for this reason Americans looked at the media like America was doing the incorrect thing and would have to be discontinued quickly. This portrayal was helpful to gaining much more support back in America, even if the help was gained through very biased multimedia.
People on both attributes of the Vietnam issue realized that the mass media was a robust tool in influencing the general public opinion in america. Leader Johnson also recognized this, and keep the general population sympathizing with him, he asked armed forces leaders to concern progress reviews. These reports provided facts and numbers supporting Johnson's promises that communist pushes in Vietnam were finally being defeated. But when Americans viewed the evening media, they observed and saw a significantly different storyline (McLaughlin). This is called the credibility space. The credibility difference was the idea that what People in america saw on television set and read or observed from politicians wasn't always the complete complete fact (McCormick).
The military services and politicians protected up situations for years before they were learned in Vietnam. For instance there was an entire village was wiped out for near no reason. In March 1968, a product of American military were given purchases to get rid of everyone in the community of My Lai in South Vietnam. They had received this order because the government had given information that a few of the village had been aiding the North Vietnamese. Despite the fact that nobody in the village had even terminated a shot, the military lead everyone from the community into a huge ditch and opened up about them with automated rifles. This was called the My Lai Massacre (McCormick). Armed service officials could actually cover this up for over a year, but when the storyline of the tragic needless destruction of any village come to the press, m any Americans were shocked. Tv coverage of the My Lai Massacre was the most detrimental for the American soldier's reputation. Though first accounts explained that the procedure killed one hundred enemy troops in March 1968, it was discovered a yr later that Lt. William Calley and his taskforce had killed up to 3 hundred and fifty South Vietnamese civilians. The massacre and Lt. Calley's trial became one of the wars leading testimonies. Moreover, it released the main topic of American warfare crimes into television's coverage of the warfare (McLaughlin).
In realization, the antiwar movements in america from 1965-1971 was the most crucial movement of its kind in this nation's history. The main reasons for American opposition to the Vietnam War can be divided into the next categories: opposition from the draft, ethical and legal quarrels against U. S. intervention, and the a reaction to how the advertising portrayed the devastation in Vietnam. People associated with the antiwar movements believed the draft lotto system to be an attack on the people's right to choose for themselves whether they wanted to combat for their country or not. This can also show the moral problem people possessed with Vietnam, many believed we'd no to be there by any means and our tactics were immoral. Also the advertising played a massive part in influencing the general public. It showed People in the usa at home the brutal actuality of that which was taking place in South Vietnam and no one liked what they found. It was each one of these factors that contributed to creating the Vietnam antiwar movement. The antiwar activity radically evolved American insurance policy and compelled the U. S. out of Vietnam.
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Ronaldo: Liquid Nitrogen Treatment, 3am Ice Baths, Hitting Volleys While Doing Chin-up Are Why He Looks Like Superman
The secrets that make Cristiano Ronaldo a physical phenomenon: Liquid nitrogen treatment, 3am ice baths and hitting volleys while doing chin-ups all help Real Madrid star look like Superman aged 33
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Despite his 33 years, Cristiano Ronaldo is still ending the marathon season with a sprint finish, heading into his sixth Champions League final in great form and a phenomenal physical shape that belies his age and astounds both fans and rivals.
He insisted this week that he actually has a ‘biological age’ of 23, and claimed ‘I can keep playing until I’m 41’.
Those close to him speak about dedication being the key but there is also a very clear plan that Real Madrid’s all-time top scorer sticks to stay ahead of the rest. His super-human fitness is built on three pillars: Pilates-based gym-work; rest and recuperation; and diet and hydration.
© Provided by Associated Newspapers Limited Cristiano Ronaldo is still the force behind Real Madrid’s surge to a third consecutive Champions League final
© Provided by Associated Newspapers Limited Ronaldo trains under the eye of Zinedine Zidane
He has not always got the blend right. Earlier in his career, there were fears at Madrid that his gym routine and failure to rest were a threat to his fitness. He remains as dedicated but he has learned how to recharge and recuperate.
And much of that recuperation takes place in the water. After every game, Ronaldo goes for a swim. Mentally those lengths at home, alone, or accompanied by his son Cristiano Jnr, help him unwind from the tension of the game. They also work the upper body with triceps, biceps, pectorals and deltoid muscles in his shoulders all getting the full treatment as well as the latissimus dorsi, the large muscles that spread across the back and side, that give him that superhero silhouette.
© Provided by Associated Newspapers Limited Zidane is one of the key men in his fitness
regime, according to the player
© Provided by Associated Newspapers Limited Ronaldo poses in the gym this week as he flexes up to face Liverpool
And after the obligatory post-match swimming, there is more water therapy with hot and cold water baths to stimulate muscle regeneration, a high-pressure water jet to massage muscles, and a walk-in Cryotherapy chamber, worth £50,000. It’s the post-match recovery method favoured by Franck Ribery who, as at 35, is an excellent advocate for it.
Ronaldo had one installed in 2013 after hearing it had worked well for the Bayern Munich winger. The liquid nitrogen emitted reaches temperatures of between minus 160 and minus 200 degrees Celsius – bearable for about three minutes but with huge regenerative dividends.
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Current Reading manager Paul Clement, who was a coach at Real Madrid for two years, spoke about the incredible levels of commitment he saw from Ronaldo regarding his very particular cold-water recuperation programme.
He recalled how after one Champions League game in Turkey the squad got taken back to the Valdebebas training ground near the city’s airport at 3am. Most players just wanted to pick up their cars and go home but Ronaldo went for an ice bath instead.
That emphasis on resting can also not be underestimated. It was at a launch of a new chain of gyms last year when he said: ‘It’s not true that I do 3,000 sit-ups a day. I’m not sure if I even reach a 1,000 in one week’.
© Power Sports Images/Getty Images Cristiano Ronaldo of Real Madrid celebrating his score the second of Real Madrid shirtless during the Supercopa de Espana Final 1st Leg match between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid at Camp Nou on August 13, 2017, in Barcelona, Spain.
Going to such extremes would injure lumbar muscles at worst and at best just exhaust him. It’s not all about sweat and suffering but clearly, the muscle definition is not just the result of rest.
Ronaldo sleeps for at least eight hours a day but all the rest and recuperation are only worth it because they allow him to indulge in daily work-out regimes that physically keep him one step ahead of other players. He works out for three hours, five days a week at Real Madrid’s Valdebebas training complex or in his huge home gym.
The leg curls give him those bulging Rectus Femoris muscles in his thighs but it’s the unseen core strength that gives that ability to leap and then hang in the air so often seen when he scores with headers. And much of that core strength comes from another of the secrets to his longevity – Pilates.
The key Pilates apparatus is the ‘Pilates Reformer’. Via a combination of straps, springs, sliding seat and loops it offers greater resistance that someone’s body weight alone would offer them if they were working on a mat with free-weights. And the focus is on the entire core, building muscles that would have been left out of traditional workouts.
His promotion of the discipline is limited to a few Instagram snaps but Ronaldo is as convinced a convert to the late German fitness coach Joseph Pilates’s method as anyone.
What is astounding is the mental discipline involved in Ronaldo’s brutal post-training workouts. His home pool is no more than 25 metres in length but he has the concentration levels to go up and down it for the good of his body when other players might be relaxing after matches. The Pilates apparatus is also demanding on the mind. There is no ball in sight when he goes through those gruelling routines.
© Provided by Associated Newspapers Limited Ronaldo’s phenomenally muscular legs are sculpted in the gym, which he visits daily as part of a gruelling regime
© Provided by Associated Newspapers Limited They are the large muscles that spread across the back and side, which he hones with, among other exercises, chin-ups
There are times when he can’t resist integrating the ball. During one of his favourite chin-up routines, he puts a football between the knees. After each set of 10 chin-ups, he drops the ball from his knees on to his right foot and volleys it into a strategically placed basketball two metres in front of him.
Ronaldo’s expertise in the gym field has led to him to going into business with American company Crunch Fitness and there are plans to open over 100 more gyms in the next few years with his CR7 branding.
© Provided by Associated Newspapers Limited His Superman silhouette is down to the work on his latissimus dorsi
© Provided by Associated Newspapers Limited Resistance training is a vital part of his workouts
If Ronaldo has honed his workout routines and incorporated rest as the years have passed he has also refined his diet. He tends to eat four or five smaller meals rather than three big meals a day. Everything is designed to speed up metabolism. That’s why he steers clear of sugary foods that slow down that process.
He is not vegetarian but he knows that fish is preferable to meat because of the lower fat content. That does not need to be a problem because the Portuguese dish Bacalao a la Brasa (braised cod) is one of his favourites.
© Provided by Associated Newspapers Limited He is a devoted disciple of Pilates, which focuses on core strength
There are plenty of whole grains, egg whites and fresh vegetables and he knows that one of the most important times to eat is immediately after a game when the body is crying out for replenishment. Gone are the days when Real Madrid players refuel on pizza. Their stars always eat sushi post-match and that fits Ronaldo’s strict regimen.
He never drinks booze and was angry when in 2015 his 30th Birthday celebrations – to which Colombian singer Kevin Roldan was invited – were later portrayed as having been ‘alcohol-fueled’. Roldan put a video on social media, and Ronaldo was filmed, glass in hand, leading many to jump to the wrong conclusion that he was consuming alcohol at the £200,000-plus bash. What was worse was the timing – the party came just hours after Real Madrid had lost the Madrid derby 4-0. The false accusations of a lack of professionalism upset him but it was the alcohol claim that really hurt.
He remains guarded about the habits that have made him such a physical phenomenon into his thirties but one thing he is happier to open up about is how big a part certain individuals have played in his maintaining himself in such good shape.
That’s not just weights spotting partner Cristiano Jnr but his mother Dolores Aveiro and coach Zinedine Zidane. Dolores spends time in the exclusive La Finca neighbourhood of Madrid where she can be near to her son and his partner Georgina Rodriguez and can help care for his three youngest children Eva, Mateo and Alana.
© Provided by Associated Newspapers Limited Rest and relaxation are a vital part of Ronaldo’s life as he gets older
She makes sure his food is prepared according to those important restrictions on fat and sugar content. And she can help make sure his environment is relaxed enough for him to be able to dedicate so much time to training.
Zidane ensures that everything is right for Ronaldo on the pitch too. He is rested more than ever in the early part of the season so that he can be right for the games that really matter. In the past there was a reluctance to sit out games. Even the ones that did not matter were important opportunities to amass more and more goals as he smashed the scoring records of first Alfredo di Stefano and finally Raul.
© Provided by Associated Newspapers Limited His down time is spent with his family and partner Georgina Rodriguez
The former Spain captain scored 323 goals in his 741 appearances for the club and it was a record that most believed would never be broken. It is a distant second now with Ronaldo currently on 450 goals in just 437 games. How many would he have scored had he clocked up the same number of appearances as Raul?
He will not get to 741 games – Raul played at Madrid for 16 years while Ronaldo is in his ninth year. But behind that famous quote from agent Jorge Mendes that his player would go on scoring goals for Madrid until he was 40 is a deep-lying desire to go on as long as possible.
© Provided by Associated Newspapers Limited His diet is meticulously controlled, with
fish and vegetables key
© Provided by Associated Newspapers Limited Water is at the centre of his recovery process
Indeed, Ronaldo himself said this week in the build-up to the final: ‘Right now I have a biological age of 23. I’ve still got a long time left, I can keep playing until I’m 41. I’m feeling good, happy, I can’t complain.’
Sports science has come a long way since Sir Stanley Mathews played until he was 50. His secret was fasting one day a week. Raul had his own secret weapons as he played on until he was 33 – Ronaldo’s age now. He used to sleep in an oxygen tent that replicated conditions of high altitude.
© Provided by Associated Newspapers Limited Cristiano Ronaldo Jnr is following in his father’s footsteps
© Provided by Associated Newspapers Limited He spots Ronaldo Snr while weight training in the gym
Ronaldo may yet graduate to that but for now, his own methods are working well. As another Champions League final approaches, Liverpool must not underestimate a man now heading into his mid-thirties: he looks as fit to rule now as he did in 2009 when he arrived at the club and remains the physical specimen all players aspire to be.
CRISTIANO RONALDO’S INCREDIBLE CAREER SO FAR (AND HE WANTS TO PLAY ON UNTIL HE’S FORTY!)
Clubs:
Sporting Lisbon (2002-03) – 25 games, 3 goals
Manchester United (2003-09) – 292 games, 118 goals
Real Madrid (2009-present) – 437 games, 450 goals
Honours:
4x Champions League
3x Premier League
1x FA Cup
2x League Cup
2x La Liga
2x Copa del Rey
3x Club World Cup
Portugal – 149 caps, 81 goals
Individual honours:
5x Ballon d’Or
2x FIFA The Best Men’s Player
1x FIFA World Player of the Year
2x PFA Player of the Year
1x PFA Young Player of the Year
2x FWA Footballer of the Year
1x Premier League Golden Boot
3x La Liga Top Goalscorer
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Plan a day of museum-hopping in sunny Singapore and explore the island nation’s rich heritage, unique design, diverse cultures, history and more! From the essential museums that you must tick off your list to the lesser-known cool art spaces, here’s our guide to Singapore’s best museums and art galleries.
Wandering the halls of a well-curated museum is one of our favorite ways to spend an afternoon. Lucky for us, getting cultured in the Lion City is an easy feat. Singapore is home to a large range of museums loaded with top-notch permanent collections, unique exhibitions and offbeat treasures, meaning that whatever piques your interest – whether it’s art, music, history or culture – there will be something ready to wow you.
If you’re not sure where to start, we have rounded up Singapore’s best museums for you. Scroll on down for something more than the usual arts-focused spaces and explore a broad spectrum of other fascinating collections. Many of these are even located near each other so you could design your own museum-hopping trail.
The National Museum of Singapore is the largest local museum. Known previously as the Singapore History Museum, it is made up of two main galleries: the Singapore Living Galleries, which focuses on four themes: film, photography, food and fashion, and the Singapore History Gallery, which shows the history of Singapore from its 14th-century beginnings to present day.
Address: 93 Stamford Road, Singapore 178897
Nearest MRT Station: Dhoby Ghaut
An iconic cultural landmark and gem of modern architecture amidst the Singapore skyline, where art, science, culture and technology meet. Designed by renowned architect Moshe Safdie, the ArtScience museum has a lotus-inspired structure and has collaborated with the likes of The British Museum, London, Science Gallery International, Dublin, and The American Museum of Natural History, New York. Throughout the years it has showcased various notable exhibits including Marvel Studios: Ten Years of Heroes, as well as exhibits by Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali.
Address: 6 Bayfront Avenue, Singapore 018974
Nearest MRT Station: Bayfront
The National Gallery of Singapore aims to create dialogues between the art of Singapore, Southeast Asia and the world to inspire a creative and inclusive society. It focuses heavily on art from the 19th century up till today and works with many notable international museums such as Tate Britain and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea.
Address: 1 St Andrew’s Rd, Singapore 178957
Nearest MRT Station: City Hall
ASIAN CIVILISATION MUSEUM
The Asian Civilisations Museum is the only museum in Asia with a pan-Asian scope, featuring Asian antiquities and decorative art from the 19th century. It houses 11 galleries, showcasing more than 1,000 artifacts from the civilisations of West Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and China, thematically organised to emphasize the flows of ideas and artistic traditions.
Address: 1 Empress Pl, Singapore 179555
Nearest MRT Station: Raffles Place
RED DOT DESIGN MUSEUM SINGAPORE
Housed along the Marina Bay Waterfront Promenade since 2017, the Singapore Red Dot Design Museum is more than an educational trip. It is one of the most interesting places you can visit, featuring intricate and ground-breaking designs created by winners of the prestigious Red Dot product design awards. The museum also features one of the best design shops in Singapore, where sleek objects from around the world can be purchased.
Address: 11 Marina Blvd, Singapore 018940
Nearest MRT Station: Bayfront / Marina Bay / Downtown
MADAME TUSSAUDS SINGAPORE
Madame Tussauds Singapore not only features the usual international superstars but also local celebrities including Gurmit Singh and Jack Neo. Enjoy their latest permanent fixture, the Marvel 4D Experience – an interactive exhibition with life-sized figures of your favourite Marvel heroes.
Address: 40 Imbiah Rd, Sentosa, 099700
Nearest MRT Station: Located in Sentosa, accessible via HarbourFront
VINTAGE CAMERA MUSEUM
For photography amateurs and professionals alike, the Vintage Camera Museum is the first and only gallery in Singapore that houses a collection of over 1000 vintage cameras. From old-school spy cameras to pistol cameras and the original drone cameras that were attached to pigeons, discover the ancestors of today’s photography equipment. This gallery does not have a “no-touching” rule, which means that visitors can actually pick up and try out the vintage cameras themselves!
Address: 8D Jln Kledek, Singapore 199263
Nearest MRT Station: Bugis
You can take in the sights and sounds of Singapore in the comfort of the island’s extensive train system and public bus network. All these heritage places are accessible via MRT/bus using the Singapore Tourist Pass, a practical and affordable way to embark on your own journey of discovery! For more tips on places to visit in Singapore, follow @SingaporeTouristPass on Instagram.
The Singapore Tourist Pass is a special ez-link card that offers tourists unlimited travel on Singapore’s basic bus services, MRT and LRT trains. In addition, the pass comes with many additional perks & discounts, which makes it a must-have to experience Singapore to the fullest.
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By Ria Genteroy
Stranger Things season 4 will delve further into Jim Hopper’s backstory, says actor David Harbour who plays the chief’s role. Previously, Harbour has already said that the upcoming season is his most favorite yet because of his character’s overall development. Presumably, that means breaking out of Russian prison camp where he’s last seen in and making it back to Hawkins.
Hopper was pictured as a force to be reckoned with all throughout the show’s current run. He’s the chief of their town and has since protected Eleven and her friends from the miseries of Upside Down. Despite that, not much has been said about his past.
Stranger Things only revealed to viewers that Hopper’s daughter Sara died, leading to his divorce with wife Diane. Hopper struggled after and as a result, became dependent on alcohol. However, that plot was eventually pushed aside to give way for the main story’s supernatural elements to unfold. This time, more about his character’s past will be revealed in the upcoming season.
In an interview with People, Harbour said, “You really do get to see a lot of his backstory of who he was as a warrior in a sense and sort of the mistakes he made in the past come back to visit him.” Fans may witness Hopper finally dealing with traumas from his past, as Harbour adds his character “just sort of unfolds.”
What else can we expect from Stranger Things season 4?
Harbour also shared that the other characters on the show will receive a similar attention to details. Their stories will “get elaborated [on] and reveal different aspects of themselves.” This applies especially to his young co-stars, who have visibly grown up throughout the progression of the show.
Watching the cast grow up over the years puts Harbour in a soft spot. He claims it is “very moving, especially when you play a character like my character.”
“It really rattles around in your heart, just these ideas of the passage of time and just the fact that the beautiful thing that people are as children, just don’t get to remain,” he said. “The world affects us, the world changes us. We grow, we develop and those beautiful eyes of a child sort of become something different as we age.”
tbt to freaking out over how much our children had grown pic.twitter.com/GfSE22uWRY
— Stranger Things (@Stranger_Things) July 4, 2020
“So it’s very moving just to watch them grow up and especially to be like an avuncular father figure on the show and be so protective of those kids,” the actor added. “To watch them grow up I get a degree of pride and also fear for all of them.”
We certainly can’t wait for the changes and progress each character will bring to view come next season. Stranger Things season 4 has yet to announce a final release date, but previous seasons can be streamed via Netflix.
David Harbour, Netflix, Stranger Things
Ria Genteroy
Ria Genteroy is an English Language Studies graduate from the University of Santo Tomas. A media personnel by profession and a storyteller by heart, she aspires that her words spark meaningful conversations.
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American Steam merchant
Elizabeth under her former name Floridian. Photo from City of Vancouver Archives, CVA 447-2219
Name Elizabeth
Type: Steam merchant
Tonnage 4,727 tons
Completed 1918 - Standard Shipbuilding Corp, Shooter´s Island NY
Owner A.H. Bull & Co Inc, New York
Homeport New York
Date of attack 21 May 1942 Nationality: American
Fate Sunk by U-103 (Werner Winter)
Position 21° 35'N, 84° 48'W - Grid DM 4741
Complement 42 (6 dead and 36 survivors).
Route New York - San Juan, Puerto Rico
Cargo 3500 tons of general cargo, including 40 US Army trucks and construction material
History Laid down as Swedish Scandinavic for Rederi A/B Transatlantic (G. Carlsson), Gothenburg. Taken over by US Shipping Board (USSB) and completed in March 1918 as Muscatine. 1928 renamed Floridian for Strachan’s Southern SS Co (Strachan Shipping Co), Savannah GA. 1936 renamed Elizabeth for A.H. Bull SS Co Inc, New York.
Notes on event
About 04.15 hours on 21 May 1942, U-103 fired from about 400 yards a star shell across the bow of the unescorted Elizabeth (Master Walter Gwynn Hudgins), which was en route on a zigzag course at 11 knots about 30 miles south of Cape Corrientes, Cuba. Three minutes later a shell struck the stack. At 04.35 hours, one torpedo was fired that struck the port side between the #3 hatch and the engine room. The explosion killed the three men on watch below and destroyed the main steam line, the condenser, the shelter deck and the radio shack. The ship quickly stopped and the radio operator sent distress signals and received acknowledgments. The armed guards fired two shots from the after 4in gun (the ship was also armed with two .30cal guns) at the U-boat but missed. Ten minutes later the complement of eight officers, 27 men and seven armed guards abandoned ship in one lifeboat and one raft. After another ten minutes the vessel sank stern first. Three men on the raft were never seen again. 21 hours after the attack the remaining 36 men landed on the western Cuban coast, halfway between Cape San Antonio and Cape Corrientes.
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PUBG Mobile combats cheating with 10-year ban
Bengaluru, Oct 5 (udaipur kiran) PUBG Mobile in its ongoing efforts to curb cheating within the game, on Saturday announced a 10-year ban on players who are found in violation of the developer’s gaming standards.
The use of unauthorised third-party apps or hacks that provide an unfair advantage to a player will be condemned with the ban, the company said in a statement.
Players also have the option to report other gamers who are suspected of cheating, using the in-game reporting system that notifies the responsible team, who will ensure that stringent action is taken. This includes publishing the IDs of confirmed cheaters.
PUBG Mobile is addressing the issue on a monthly basis, ensuring its players of a fair gaming environment.
In an unprecedented move, the company had issued a 10-year ban to over 3500 players in September.
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HomeCitizen GreenCitizen Green: High Point’s black epicenter, then and now
Glenn Chavis, the preeminent historian of African-American life in High Point, on Washington Street (photo by Jordan Green)
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Citizen Green: High Point’s black epicenter, then and now
Washington Street today might not be quite what it was back in the day. As the hub of black commerce and culture in High Point, it boasted two cab companies, multiple dentists and doctors, a law office, a YMCA and YWCA, a couple movie theaters and grills, a skating rink, a putt-putt golf course, two hotels and malt shop.
Still, it’s a pretty lively scene as Glenn Chavis, the pre-eminent historian of African-American life in High Point, gives a television interview to Spectrum News. Just as the cameraman sets up the shot, a barefoot woman fashionably dressed in black slacks and a pink top takes a seat on a metal bench, removes a flattened cardboard box and then reclines like a 1940s film siren with her arm flung back. Just then, a man riding past on bicycle while smoking calls out, “Hello people in TV land! Goddamn, I dropped my cigarette.” A man in a pickup blows his horn to greet Chavis, a familiar figure on the street.
Later, they move down the street to its eastern terminus and stage another shot near the Washington Quick Mart, where a sidewalk vendor is selling sundresses and shades. Chavis takes a break to alert me: “Did you see that transaction? Those two white ladies pulled into the parking lot, took care of business, and were in and out just like that.”
Three police officers on foot sweep down the street in the old-school manner, warily eying bystanders and waving curtly. They rouse the woman on the bench, who wasn’t sleeping so much as sunning.
Now in its sixth year, today the only takers for Chavis’ Washington Street tour are two reporters, but previously he’s guided the likes of Mayor Bill Bencini.
Washington Street flourished during the years of segregation. This Saturday morning, Chavis mentions a former slave named Hinton who initially opened a restaurant on Main Street, but was forced out in the 1910s as white supremacy consolidated in North Carolina, and Hinton wound up building an 11-room hotel on Washington Street. Conversely, integration in the 1960s offered black entrepreneurs access to larger markets and set in motion the district’s decline.
While segregation kept black dollars circulating in the black community, the injustice of Jim Crow inflicted plenty of tragedy. The two hospitals operating in High Point in the 1930s demonstrated how the color line might occasionally blur but tended to sharpen when the stakes were raised. Guilford General Hospital, located at the end of Washington Street, served only whites, Chavis said, while the more remote Burrus Memorial Hospital was open to both races.
Chavis’ grandfather came to the High Point from the mountains, and he was fair-skinned with straight hair. When his grandfather’s appendix ruptured, Chavis says, he was taken to Guilford General Hospital. His wife, who had dark skin, came to visit her husband, only to be told, “We don’t treat colored patients, and we don’t even have a colored janitor.” When the hospital staff found out Chavis’ grandfather was black, they put him out.
More tragically, Chavis recounts a story from the early ’30s about a “fair” woman of African descent who was dating a white man. They got into an argument in a cab, and he slit her throat. The cab driver dropped her off at Guilford General, but her vindictive lover called the hospital and informed the staff that the woman was black. Chavis says they bandaged up the woman’s neck and put her out on the curb, where she bled to death.
While white institutions dealt cruelly with black people in a segregated society, black establishments appear to have provided convenient opportunities to absorb blame when conflict arose within the white community.
A short-lived, black-owned silent movie theater that opened on Washington Street in 1912 was the setting for the death of Officer William Witcher, the first High Point police officer killed in the line of duty. Contemporaneous newspaper accounts uncovered by Chavis indicate that Witcher was on duty at the movie theater and Chief Ben Ridge and another officer arrived between 9 and 10 p.m. on a night in September 1913. The story also indicates that Witcher was killed while responding to a fight between two black men in September 1913.
“Officer Witcher told his wife: ‘If I die, sue the city because the police chief shot me,’” Chavis says.
While the coroner’s verdict indicated that the person who filed the pistol shot was unknown, one article states, “Chief [Ben] Ridge said two Negroes saw a white man whom they didn’t know fire the fatal shot from near the side of Chief Ridge. Another four Negroes saw the flash of the gun but could not identify the white man.”
The movie theater appears to have closed in the aftermath of the shooting.
Much later, when he was a teenager, Chavis recalls a more wholesome kind of excitement.
Speaking of the L&M Grill, located near the present-day Jackie’s Place nightclub, he says, “It was packed. After football games you couldn’t even move around in there.”
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Teaching Scholars Programme
Take the step and be ready to make the change!
What is Nanyang Technological University-National Institute of Education (NTU-NIE) Teaching Scholars Programme (TSP)?
TSP is a prestigious award for outstanding young persons with a passion and calling to be professional leaders in education. It is a four-year programme that offers a wide range of education-related and overseas opportunities. Moreover, TSP students are given the chance to be part of a close community of exceptionally motivated and talented educators. It aims to produce graduates with intellectual rigour, strong leadership, and global perspective to make significant contributions to education.
Who can apply to NTU-NIE Teaching Scholars Programme (TSP)?
TSP is a multidisciplinary, guaranteed residential, academic programme for NTU-NIE undergraduates in the Bachelor of Arts (Education) [BA (Ed)] and Bachelor of Science (Education) [BSc (Ed)] programmes.
Candidates with good A-levels, Polytechnic and International Baccalaureate students with high grades, NUS High, and other equivalent qualifications are encouraged to apply.
Selection will be based on Scholastic Aptitude and an interview process.
How is NTU-NIE TSP different from the other local universities scholars programmes?
TSP provides personal, cultural and leadership development opportunities for outstanding students. The TSP is a rigorous programme that is geared towards helping students connect their academic and personal goals, and through these experiences empower them to be informed citizens, ethical leaders, and active contributors to our society.
TSP provides opportunities to work with academic advisors and eminent research mentors. For instance, as part of the NTU Undergraduate Research Experience on CAmpus (URECA) programme, it aims to cultivate a research culture among the most able undergraduates in NTU. It is a unique opportunity for outstanding NTU undergraduates to pursue independent research under the supervision of a professor over an 11-month period.
In addition, TSP allows students an option to take electives from NIE, NTU (including University Scholars Programmes electives) and overseas universities.
In the programme, teaching scholars are able to attend seminars and dialogues with distinguished professors, policy makers and trailblazers.
The programme also aims to develop a global perspective on education through semester exchange and/or international practicum. Teaching scholars learn beyond the classroom through a wide range of research, internships (eg. NHB, MOE, AST, ELIS, etc.), and overseas service learning opportunities, attend leadership programmes and workshops. Teaching scholars will also be given the opportunity to present their research in an international conference. This will serve to develop them as professional leaders, and sharpen their research and communication skills.
How much does NTU-NIE TSP cost?
If you are selected to be in the NTU-NIE TSP Programme, you will be sponsored by the Ministry of Education .
Is NTU-NIE TSP a scholarship?
TSP is not a scholarship disbursement programme. However, students who apply for the TSP will be considered for MOE Scholarships or Awards.
Students who are recipients of MOE Scholarships or Awards will automatically be placed on the NTU-NIE TSP and with full sponsorship by MOE.
For details on scholarships, please email scholars@nie.edu.sg
What are the academic expectations of TSP students?
TSP students are need to maintain a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 3.5 and above throughout their course of studies. TSP students are also expected to participate in NTU-NIE activities and contribute to the NTU-NIE community.
Does TSP offer overseas learning opportunities?
Yes, TSP strongly encourages and provides financial support for its students to actively engage in a wide range of experiences beyond the classroom, both overseas and locally.
In particular, TSP aims to develop a global perspective on education through semester exchange and/or international practicum. It is a unique platform for TSP students to initiate and customise their learning experience in a global context.
Overseas Service Learning experience will also be provided in the programme. The experience strives to nurture personal attributes such as compassion, humility, other-centeredness, resilience, adaptability, determination, commitment, enterprise, a sense of mission etc.
Teaching scholars will also have the opportunity to present their research at an international conference.
What is the difference between the curricular workload of a TSP student and a non-TSP student?
A TSP student has an additional curricular workload of at least 15 academic units (AUs). (1 AU represents an average workload of one hour per week in the form of lecture/tutorial classes or three hours per week in the form of laboratory/field sessions)
Upon successful completion of the programme, what degree will I graduate with?
TSP students will graduate with a BA/BSc (Ed) with direct honours conferred depending on your academic performance. They will also receive a TSP certificate designating them as a NTU-NIE Teaching Scholar.
How many students will be admitted each year?
The NTU-NIE Teaching Scholars Programme will admit as many qualified candidates as possible.
Is on-campus accommodation compulsory for TSP students?
Teaching scholars have a Guaranteed Residential Experience in NTU throughout their studies. NTU has 16 Halls of Residence that are home to some 9200 undergraduate students. This community forms a massive family unit, actively engaging in social exchange and mutual help. Living in an undergraduate hall is a unique experience.
However, such privilege is not compulsory.
What do TSP graduates go on to do?
TSP graduates will be groomed to pursue careers in teaching and leadership positions in the Ministry. Some may go on to do postgraduate studies at both local and overseas universities.
Do you allow accepted students to defer admission?
Yes, but such decisions will be made on a case-by-case basis.
Are TSP students able to get involved in student clubs?
TSP students are encouraged to join student clubs at NIE/NTU.
Are TSP students allowed to take courses from other Colleges / Schools in NTU?
Yes, TSP scholars are NTU students.
Can any NTU applicant apply to NTU-NIE TSP?
TSP admits students from the NTU BA (Ed) and BSc (Ed) programmes. The applicant must have stated BA (Ed) or BSc (Ed) as one of the choices when he/she applies at NTU.
What are you looking for in a Teacher Scholar?
Prospective Teacher Scholars must demonstrate:
Outstanding academic achievement
Creativity inside and outside the classroom
Passion for teaching and to make a positive difference in this world
Strong character and leadership skills
Energy, ideas, an ambition to learn and innovate
Interdisciplinary curiosity
Has vision and global perspective
Please refer to NTU’s website for the admission period relevant to your qualification http://admissions.ntu.edu.sg/UndergraduateAdmissions/Pages/default.aspx.
Upon logging in the NTU website, choose BA (Ed) BSc (Ed) as one your preferred choices. Check the box that says ‘to be considered as a TSP applicant’.
Go to MOE’s website and apply for MOE scholarship.
I was offered a place by NTU during the Early Admission and Scholarship Exercise, am I still allowed to change my choice? If so, how do I apply?
Yes, you can still change your choice during the normal admission window for your qualification background.
I am serving National Service and has been offered placement by NTU/NUS, am I allowed to apply for the TSP programme? If so, how do I apply?
Yes, you can still change your choices during the normal admission window for your qualification background.
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Nicotine by Nell Zink
Category: FICTION | Reading Level: very good
From the much acclaimed author of MISLAID and THE WALLCREEPER, a fierce and audaciously funny novel of families-both the ones we're born into and the ones we create-a story of obsession, idealism, and ownership, centered around a young woman who inherits her bohemian late father's childhood home. Recent business school graduate Penny Baker has rebelled against her family her whole life-by being the conventional one. Her mother, Amalia, was a member of a South American tribe called the Kogi; her much older father, Norm, long ago attained cult-like deity status among a certain cohort of ageing hippies while operating a psychedelic 'healing centre.' And she's never felt particularly close to her much older half-brothers from Norm's previous marriage-one wickedly charming and obscenely rich (but mostly just wicked), one a photographer on a distant tropical island. But all that changes when her father dies, and Penny inherits his childhood home in New Jersey. She goes to investigate the property and finds it not overgrown and abandoned, but rather occupied by a group of friendly anarchist squatters whom she finds unexpectedly charming, and who have renamed the property "Nicotine." The Nicotine residents (united in defence of smokers' rights) possess the type of passion and fervour Penny feels she's desperately lacking, and the other squatter houses in the neighbourhood provide a sense of community she has never felt before. She soon moves into a nearby residence, becoming enmeshed in the political fervour and commitment of her fellow squatters. As the Baker family's lives begin to converge around the fate of the house now called Nicotine, Penny grows ever bolder and more desperate to protect it-and its residents-until a fateful night when a reckless confrontation between her old family and her new one changes everything. Nell Zink exquisitely captures the clash between Baby-Boomer idealism and Millennial pragmatism, between the have-nots and want-mores, in a riotous yet tender novel that brilliantly encapsulates our time. ...Show more
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They tell us that human happiness lies only in the future. But what if it really lies in the past? Hobart, 2022- a city with declining population, in the grip of a dark recession. A rusty ship sails into the harbour and begins to unload its cargo on the site of the once famous but now abandoned Gallery of Future Art, known to the world as GoFA. One day the city's residents are awoken by a high-pitched sound no one has heard for two generations - a factory whistle. GoFA's owner, world-famous tycoon Dundas Faussett, is creating his most ambitious installation yet. He's going to defeat the internet's dominance over our lives by establishing a new Year Zero- 1948. Those whose jobs and lives have been destroyed by Amazon and Uber and Airbnb are invited to fight back in the only way that can possibly succeed- by living as if the internet and the smartphone had never been invented. The hold over our lives by Gates, Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg and the rest starts to loosen as the revolutionary example of Factory 19 spreads. Can nostalgia really defeat the future? Can the little people win back the world? We are about to find out. ...Show more
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New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis brings you three classic stories about finding yourself in unexpected predicaments...Hero For HireBrazilian heiress Terry Monteverde was supposedly killed in a tragic accident. But how could a dead woman give birth to a baby? Bounty hunter Rick Singleton go es underground in Rio to find out.His only lead is Terry's sister, Nina Monteverde. She's sweet, shy à and not telling what she knows. Rick's a dangerous man to cross, but Nina's not afraid...Rick is. He's defenceless against her innocent charm. And that scares the hell out of him.Shadow HawkWhen his latest mission turns into a bloodbath, Agent Conner Hawk realises he has been set up by someone at the top. Wounded and on the run, he has no choice but to take beautiful Abby Wells hostage. After all, she's in danger too.And if the only way to keep the fiercely independent communications expert safe is to cuff her and bring her along for the ride, he'll do it. Only, given their close contact, it's not long before Hawk's thinking about a totally different kind of pleasure.A Royal MessFirst she's bumped from first class to coach, then she's robbed, gets soaked in a rainstorm and now is stranded on a ranch full of animals she's afraid of!As far as days go, Princess Natalia Brunner has definitely had better ones. If not for the timely rescue by a good-looking cowboy, she would have quit this day long ago. But just like the old Westerns, the sexy Tim Banning has her thinking she should hang up her tiara and stay awhile... ...Show more
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Emotional, powerful, unforgettable. From a stunning new literary talent, you won't be able to put down this novel about a mother's love for her children - it will break your heart. Ava and her two young sons, Max and Teddy, are driving to their new home in Sheerwater, hopeful of making a fresh start in a new town, although Ava can't but help keep looking over her shoulder. They're almost at their destination when they witness a shocking accident - a light plane crashing in the field next to the road. Ava stops to help, but when she gets back to the car, she realises that somewhere, amongst the smoke, fire and confusion, her sons have gone missing... From a substantial new Australian writing talent, Sheerwater is tense, emotional, unforgettable. Perfect for readers of Mark Brandi's Wimmera and Stephanie Bishop's The Other Side of the World, this is a beautifully written, propulsive, gut-wrenching and unputdownable novel - an aching, powerful story of the heroic acts we are capable of in the name of love 'Sheerwater is that rare gift of a book that balances gorgeous, glittering language with breathless pace. Leah Swann writes with devastating honesty ... This is an extraordinary novel - I tore through it, captivated by the imagery and the setting, desperately hoping for a happy ending.' Rebecca Starford, author of Bad Behavior ...Show more
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Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded in White Point with a fisherman she doesn't love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. Leached of all confidence, she spends her days in isolated tedium and her nights in a blur of vodka self-recrim ination. One morning, in the boozy pre-dawn gloom, she sees, a shadow drifting up the beach below - a loner called Luther Fox, with danger in his wake.'Awe-inspiring . . . There are few finer stylists writing in English today.' Chicago Tribune'Wonderfully alive, inventive and assured.' The Age'Vividly written in a seemingly efffortless prose that never puts a foot wrong.' Sunday Times(London)'His prose retains the power to both to shock and to fill us with wonder.' The Bulletin'A compelling novel.' Times Literary Supplement'Beautiful, aching . . . compelling.' Washington Post ...Show more
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The tale of an Australian woman who had to let go of the past and look into the future. Whether a loved one is taken from us through a prolonged illness or suddenly unexpected, our mind and body goes through a world of change. Death is something that we all experience at some stage of our lives; but no t very often, hence we don't get an opportunity to learn how to deal with it. Rebecca Landers has a perfect life. A loving and devoted husband, a close relationship with her daughter, a wonderful job, and lots of amazing friends and family in her home city of Perth. What more could she ask for in life? When a sudden unexpected tragedy strikes Rebecca, her world is shattered and she is confronted with having to cope with a future of being alone. As the days seems to roll into weeks, and then months, she knows she has to eventually draw on every bit of strength she has left and pull herself together. But how was she going to be able to do this? Could the answer be found during a visit to Seattle? ...Show more
The Poppy Wife by Caroline Scott
**A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK** Perfect for fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and 1917 If someone you loved went missing, would you ever stop searching for them? ''This excellent debut is a melancholic reminder of the rippling after-effects of war'' The Times ''[An] impressive debut... a touching nove l of love and loss'' Sunday Times 1921. The Great War is over and while many survivors have been reunited with their loved ones, Edie''s husband Francis has not come home. He has been declared ''missing, believed killed'', but when Edie receives a mysterious photograph in the post, taken by Francis, hope flares. And so she begins to search. Francis''s brother, Harry, is also searching. Hired by grieving families to photograph gravesites, he has returned to the Western Front. He too longs for Francis to be alive, so they can forgive each other for the last conversation they ever had. And as Harry and Edie''s paths converge, they begin to get closer to a startling truth. An incredibly moving account of an often-forgotten moment in history, The Photographer of the Lost is an epic novel of forbidden love, loss and the shattered hearts left behind in the wake of the First World War. Caroline Scott is a freelance writer and historian specializing in WWI and women''s history. The Photographer of the Lost is partially inspired by her family history. Praise for The Photographer of the Lost: ''There''s only one word for this novel... and that''s epic... A beautifully written must-read'' heat ''A gripping, devastating novel about the lost and the ones they left behind'' Sarra Manning, RED ''The pain of not knowing where a son, brother or husband lies, and the guilt and psychological dissonance that torment survivors, are movingly conveyed in this terrific first novel'' Daily Mail ''Scott has done an amazing job of drawing on real stories to craft a powerful novel'' Good Housekeeping ''A deeply poignant and immersive novel . . . told in beautiful, elevated prose. I was completely caught up in these characters'' stories'' Rachel Hore, author of The Love Child ''What a wonderful debut novel. So accomplished. It grabs you from page one with such immediacy, such urgency. With a mystery at its heart and a moving, but page turning hook, I couldn''t stop reading'' Lorna Cook, author of The Forgotten Village ''A profoundly moving story of love and loss. The Photographer of the Lost is a sublimely rendered portrait of the search for answers amidst the chaos and devastation left behind in the aftermath of World War 1'' Fiona Valpy, author of The Dressmaker''s Gift ''A poignant hymn to those who gave up their lives for their country and to those who were left behind'' Fanny Blake, author of A Summer Reunion ''I was utterly captivated by this novel, which swept me away, broke my heart, then shone wonderful light through all the pieces'' Isabelle Broom, author of One Winter Morning ''Beautiful, unflinching: The Photographer of the Lost is going to be on an awful lot of Best Books of the Year lists, mine included... unforgettable'' Iona Grey, author of The Glittering Hour ''Momentous, revelatory and astonishing historical fiction!'' Historical Novel Society ''Had me spellbound from the first page to the last'' Hazel Gaynor, author of The Lighthouse Keeper''s Daughter ''An amazing debut. It captivated me from start to finish and I can''t recommend it highly enough'' NB Magazine ...Show more
Wild by Kristin Hannah
From the New York Times number one bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes 'Wild', a remarkable story about the resilience of the human spirit, the triumph of hope, and the promise of new beginnings. In the rugged Pacific Northwest of the United States lies the Olympic National Forest – a vast expanse of impenetrable darkness and impossible beauty. From deep within this mysterious land, a six-year-old girl appears. Speechless and alone, she offers no clue as to her identity, no hint of her past. Having retreated to her hometown after a scandal left her career in ruins, child psychiatrist Dr. Julia Cates begins working with the extraordinary little girl. Naming her Alice, Julia is determined to free her from a prison of unimaginable fear and isolation, and discover the truth about Alice’s past. The shocking facts of Alice’s life test the limits of Julia’s faith and strength, even as she struggles to make a home for Alice – and find a new one for herself. ...Show more
The Yield by Tara June Winch
Winner of the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2020. Winner of the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction 2020. Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2020. Just tell the truth and someone will hear it eventually. The Yield in English is the reaping, the things that man can take from the land. In the lang uage of the Wiradjuri yield is the things you give to, the movement, the space between things. Knowing that he will soon die, Albert ‘Poppy’ Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. His life has been spent on the banks of the Murrumby River at Prosperous House, on Massacre Plains. Albert is determined to pass on the language of his people and everything that was ever remembered. He finds the words on the wind. August Gondiwindi has been living on the other side of the world for ten years when she learns of her grandfather’s death. She returns home for his burial, wracked with grief and burdened with all she tried to leave behind. Her homecoming is bittersweet as she confronts the love of her kin and news that Prosperous is to be repossessed by a mining company. Profoundly moving and exquisitely written, Tara June Winch’s The Yield is the story of a people and a culture dispossessed. But it is as much a celebration of what was and what endures, and a powerful reclaiming of Indigenous language, storytelling and identity. ...Show more
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Author: VGwrites
I am a storyteller, author, editor, blogger, and retired university professor of Creative Writing. Now in Central Florida, I still teach every now and then, but write most of the time. Most recently, I poetry was featured in Mo Joe The Anthology. My last book, 10 Stories Down, a poetry collection published in September 2011, is inspired by several long-term stays in Beijing. Life and Other Things I Know: Poems, Essays and Short Stories (Elephant Eye Press, 1999), was the first. Throughout the years, the list expanded to include: African American Children's Stories: A Treasury of Tradition and Pride, Grandma Loves You: My First Treasury, African American Stories: My First Treasury, Like A Dry Land: A Soul's Journey through the Middle East and contributions to Take Two, They're Small, an anthology of poems, memoir, essay and fiction on food. My poetry, fiction and essays have also appeared in Yellow Medicine Review, Washington Living, Upstate New Yorker, The Southern Quarterly, Reporter Magazine, Drylongso, Fyah, MentalSatin, Pinnacle Hill Review, Invisible Universe, Bridges, Ishmael Reed's Konch Magazine, New Verse News, and UpandComing Magazine.
Engle tends to make a common literary trope into a page-turner, because she is not afraid of the weird. The fish-out-of water scenario and deft prose in her 2013 debut work, Clifton Chase and the Arrow of Light, brought to mind Mark Twain’s 1889 classic, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. Part of that is the author’s early exposure to classics such as,
Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty, Joanna Spyri’s Heidi, Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, and The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis. I could go down the line with other examples, but suffice to say she draws readers toward the familiar then takes them to an odd place.
Metal Mouth, the newest novel, extends the trend into a dazzling fresh plot. Just about the time you think, I know what’s going to happen, you’ll be wrong.
Engle’s main character, Mahlorie, rises out of a cascade of whiny, contemporary teen protagonists as a beacon. Don’t misunderstand. The girl is confused and furious about her parents, schoolmates, life, love, and loneliness as anyone your are likely to hear in the hall at a local middle or high school. Her voice is as real and at times grating as Rafe Katchadorian, the main character in James Patterson’s Middle School Series.
In fact, some readers might want to turn away by page 20. Hint – read past page 50. The story twists from tedious to tense, and readers drop into suspense. Mahlorie gets braces, nearly dies in a lightning strike, and meets what might be a boyfriend, if he is real. She can hear him in her head. He hears her. They roll down the road to weird with an end that does not disappoint.
How? Why? Read the novel. Young readers will want to know about how braces bring boys, or what Mahlorie does with the guy. Read. The smooth prose, clever plot twists will snag middle-schoolers. Adult readers will marvel at how Engle so clearly channels teens.
Posted on 10/12/2018 Categories authorsLeave a comment on Love As a Trick in the Head
Karen Gorback characterizes Freshman Mom as a “debut novel,” yet she is no rookie author. The 270-page novel shows readers why it is as complicated to do right by those you love as it is to make the most of yourself. That said, the tensions between the main character’s urge for self development and the obstacles posed by real life makes clear that a dream deferred does not have to become lost ambition.
Meredith Lieberman, the main character, a 39-year-old divorcee’, is the template for a contemporary single mom. She is fiercely loyal to responsibilities for her children, loves her mother, and asks questions about what it means to love herself. Those who know little of the realities of single parenthood, or about women in general, will learn from this novel.
This is a story for our time. The numbers of single mothers in college has doubled since 2000, and continues to creep higher and higher. By 2012, more than 11 percent of undergraduate women were single parents, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. The great benefit is the tale’s insight into the mind and spirit of many such women. For them education is aimed at the improvement of career potential, and that can mean a lot. IWPR states that 4 in 10 women in two-year colleges are likely to dropout because of dependent care obligations.
Gorback writes about those realities with a clarity and pace that will rivet readers’ attention. The main weakness is that the plot is too much like what is seen on the Hallmark Channel. The lesser players in this tale are not as developed as they might be. Also, Meredith’s conflict with her friends and family are not as edgy as might appear in nonfiction stories of this type.
Overall, I can’t wait for Gorback’s next novel. Like most authors she will find her stride as she continues to tell stories that speak a truth she knows too well.
Posted on 17/01/2018 17/01/2018 Categories authorsLeave a comment on A Story For Our Time
Welcome to the worldview of Sonia Cunningham Leverette, author of BJ’s Big Dream, a work that more closely captures the way a child’s mind works than any I have read in a long time. That said, no doubt the writer’s insight into the young comes from more than 30 years experience in education. She is an assistant superintendent in Spartansburg, South Carolina, as well a parent. Her earlier children’s books, He Never Slumbers, about a bullied boy who seeks help from God, or What is that Stinky Winky EEEwww Smell? , which counsels against selfishness, add more to prove that Leverette earnestly wants to instill positive values and speak to the real issues that bedevil children in the early years.
Anyway, the author gave me a copy of the book for an honest review. Let’s get to it.
Bj’s Big Dream will be a hit in most story circles for early readers. The bright, colorful illustrations by artist Deanna M, blend beautifully with the narrative that on surface is about a little boy who wants dreadlocks. At first, the narrative seems a little hesitant. The author does not spend a lost of time on details or try to tie story elements together. Leverette provides an acceptable sequence of events, combined with beautiful images. That alone will rivet little eyes and minds.
Beneath the spare, straightforward paragraphs where the author blends BJ’s actual experience with a daydream of a walk in the woods where he is threatened by three wolves and an angry bear, lies a tale that offers adults a chance to show and talk to young people about their power to make a dream come true. BJ’s Big Dream is a charming blend of fantasy and fact that urges children to strive with courage beyond what they see as their limitations. Yes, and there was that part that made me say, “Whoa! That’s how my grandson’s mind works.”
BJ, the main character, as the story is told drives a rides through the forest on an all-terrain vehicle. “BJ dreamed he was driving a four-wheeler when a huge snake fell from a tree and wrapped around his shoulders,” the book states. As I said, “Whoa!”
That small scene is the kind of fantastic story element that is likely spark in the mind of a child eight years old or less. My grandson is likely to tell me a story and have some thing like that happen, and I would be drawn aback to say, “What?”
The adult mind might find such “out of nowhere” events jar the way they see reality develop. That is the main reason most authors would have a number of steps that lead to the drop of the snake. The incident has to come together in a sequence that grownups see as “logical.” Sonia Cunningham Leverette taps into the fantastical and recreates that part of the stories and others in a child’s logic.
BJ’s Big Dream will bring great excitement when read to those whose mastery of books is about to blossom. The main character, BJ, is resourceful and quick-witted. The adults in the tale are supportive. Youngsters might gain a number of impressions from the story. Clearly, one is that daydreams happen, yet hard work – at times even a little effort and a plan – can make real desires come true.
Posted on 20/05/2017 20/05/2017 Categories achievement, African American, authors, children, growth, lively, self-discipline, youthTags #BobMarley, #dreadlocksLeave a comment on Dreams Are Never Too Big for the Brave
Author, B. S. Gibbs, summarizes this as a “chapter book for kids … illustrated with a dozen intricate, beautiful drawings.” True. The attorney/storyteller inspired by Jane Austen, light fantasy, “and all things medieval,” goes on to tout Janetta and the Book Thief as a trove of positive pleas for reading, kindness, inclusiveness, and anti-bullying. Those things are apparent. What is not immediately evident, yet makes the 47-page story stand out, is its elegant plot, straightforward prose, and ability to be a great discussion-starter.
The story is largely uncomplicated. That makes the read ideal for third- to fifth-graders whose energy levels almost forbid them to focus on anything that moves slowly. Gibbs’ mystery tale about someone who takes the last chapters of books is easy to follow and grasp, which is the book’s strength and weakness.
Janetta, the main character, chases down the who and why behind the thefts, which first struck me as a weird story element. What is the value of the last chapter of a book?
I then looked at the work from some other angles. I considered what life might be if the last chapter of every story disappeared. The incompleteness hit me. I was able to connect with Janetta’s motivation. The character says, “I can’t imagine my life without reading!”
To that extent, Gibbs’ heroine might interest a reader, yet comes off as too perfect (apologies, but that is the only word that comes to mind) to square with reality. An average 8- to 12-year-old is not obsessed with reading, despite most parents’ wishes.
The fairies who invite Janetta to Eloria, the book-fairy land, Queen Esmeralda and the villain, Sir Grumpsalot, do not have enough edge to compete with the kinds of characters contemporary grade-schoolers find in other books and on television. Gibbs’ chapter book reminded me of plots and characters I have read in works from some Latin American writers. That is the book’s major shortfall.
A minor one is a slip in the digital layout. In the Kindle version I perused, several of artist Anca Gabriela Marginean’s illustrations slid into the lines above them. Sentences were obscured, which distracts the reader. The saving grace is that the story is pretty easy to grasp, so the gaffs do not cause a person to get lost.
Those elements aside, teachers and parents will find that the message about the effects of bullying in Janetta and the Book Thief and the power of one kind act to change a person’s life overtakes most of the work’s weakness.
Janetta tells her fairy friend Violetta that Sir Grumpsalot, “rejects all of you so that you cannot reject him.” That defensive stance is at the heart of many rubs and scrapes, even in adult life. The line is a great place to launch a discussion with young people on a bully’s motivation, or offer them insight as to why they indulge in brusque acts.
Fear is powerful, as the story makes clear. “I believe he also tells himself that he doesn’t like any of you. But, I believe he desperately wants to be friends. He just doesn’t know how and he is scared to try.”
I won’t give away the end. Gibbs’ story is a saga about loves. Janetta loves books. Book fairies love to inspire writers. Grumpsalot loves to be mysterious. As those elements collide the reader comes to a happy conclusion. The path is worth a glance. Violetta and the other fairies learn that no one is beyond redemption. For youth today, that is a most important lesson.
Posted on 18/05/2017 Categories adventure, attitude, authors, children, fiction, girls, lively, youthTags fantasy, readingLeave a comment on A Reader Rescues a Bully’s Love
Many Americans have made their peace with the “gotta get ahead” pace of daily life. In fact, often urbanites and sophisticates in the United States wear the burden of their busyness or over commitment as a gold star. Yet, some dream about how life might be in a smaller place with a slower pace. The biggest dreamers imagine themselves abroad – Italy, France, Africa, or China. The speculation touches the part of the soul that whispers, “What is more?”
There is something innately romantic about the idea of going to Provence, a storied region in the southern France that makes most people sigh who yearn for wine, cheese and conviviality, combined with beautiful vistas, and a slower pace of life. Keith Van Sickle’s One Sip at a Time: Learning to Live in Provence responds to the hunger like a four course dinner. I had the same positive reaction to Frances Mayes’ Under the Tuscan Sun, and more ever more to former fashion editor Karen Wheeler’s Tout Sweet series.
The author, a tech consultant who made his bones in Silicon Valley, gets a taste of life outside the “run, run” daily pace in the United States during a work assignment in Europe. Van Sickle and wife Val went to Neuchatel in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. “We lived in a village so small that the streets did not have names and the cows outnumbered the people,” he offers. That is a sample of the wit, clarity, insight and personality in the prose that makes the work an even more attractive read.
One of the interesting dimensions of the work is the author’s spirit. He does not glamourize life in Provence, but rather lays out the ups and downs of the adventure in breezy snippets. Most of the chapters are short yet filled with insight. Readers will enjoy the challenge as he and Val struggle to learn a new language, and find ways to let go of common U.S. practices. For example:
We were in St.-Remy and stopped at one of our favorite restaurants for lunch. I went to the restroom, a one-room affair used by both men and women, and had to wait in line behind four ladies.
When I finally made it to the restroom I was surprised to find the toilet seat up. Even after four ladies! I told Val about this and she said it was common, that even when there was a separate ladies room, women would often leave the seat up after they were done. Apparently it’s a French custom.
Readers will be quickly impressed by the way Van Sickle gives wings to words. His sentences tend to be tight, which allows him to pack a lot of detail, meaning and humor into a small space. Rather than a “and the next day” narrative, the 192-page book is more about “and then there was the time,” which helps to quickly carry the reader through the story. For example, I loved a tale he told from his first days in France in a three-paragraph chapter:
Soon after we arrived, we went for a hike around the Etang de Berre, a bay so large that it’s almost an inland sea. We sat on a bench to eat our lunch and a poodle came up to me, looking for a handout.
I had finished my sandwich and was eating an apple. I figured that since Lucca liked apples this poodle would too, so I tossed him a piece.
Obviously, I had not counted on the refined palates of French dogs. He sniffed the apple and gave me a withering look. Then he turned his back, heisted his leg over the apple, and trotted away.
Van Sickle rolls out the adventure of his adjustment to Provence with a similar candor, which in the end develops a voice that bids the reader to relate to the author more as a friend than an adventurer. Most readers will read the last word in the book and wish they could hear one more tale. One Sip at a Time ends, yet the author offers Francophones, dreamers, travel-lovers, as well as those who might want to try a similar adventure, a chance to continue the relationship through a blog where he share insights into France and the adventure that is life.
One Sip at a Time reminds readers of when travel memoirs were a major entertainment source, and the urge to travel was more tightly tied to discovery. The reader gains insight into how one struggles to fit into another culture. At the same time, Keith and Val show readers that an effort can capture a dream. Readers who might want to move to the French countryside can make it, One Sip at a Time.
Posted on 16/05/2017 17/05/2017 Categories adventure, authors, change, dogs, immigration, independent authors, memoir, memoriesLeave a comment on A Sip and aTrip Takes You into a Dream
Find More than You Think in Fink
A one-eyed, brown cat. and rhyme so tight a reader is roped into fanciful beliefs, or memories of a past when life and fear seemed huge, simple and quick. I am sorry regret it took me so long to discover Rick Felty’s writing. The three-book, early reader series about Tab itha Fink yielded a book each year since 2015. I am overjoyed, now to be caught up. The stories filled me with admiration as a children’s author, and as a reader let me see the world again like a wide-eyed kid. The most recent work, Tabitha Fink: Ninja at Night, proves that a story told well in rhyme can bring a smile and even anticipation to adults. Readers will see the author’s progress through the narratives.
His first book, Tabitha Fink The Cat With One Eye, is less clever in its prose and scenario. In the dedication of his third book, Felty talks about his stories as a “journey of discovery.” That is the most apt description of the way the word play appears in the 45-page work.
“I am Tabitha Fink, somewhat hard to ignore,” he writes. “with only one eye where some others have more. I’ve still got one tail and four paws on the floor. I am still Tabitha Fink as I have mentioned before.”
The 39-page second book, Tabitha Fink on a Mission to Mars, spins a tale that is more playful. “I am Tabitha Fink on a mission to Mars,” the book says, “where they don’t fly blue planes, and they don’t drive red cars. But I know they do something to travel about so I’m going to Mars , to figure it out.” The adventurous makes the trip in a “cat rocket ship.” She discovers a Martian family and says, “And it turns out they do things like all of us do, with a few minor changes. I
will show them to you.”
I imagined youngsters’ fascinations with those simple unadorned sentences. The words have a blunt feel that hit the mind with a clarity that offers a moment-to-moment I get it! There is a completeness in the main character’s description that ushers listeners and readers into familiarity with the feelings and a desire to almost reach out and pet the furry hero.
Felty, who is an Emmy-winning television producer, writes prose so lyrical that the smooth word play pulls a reader into the tale. At some points wildly alliterative in the ways of a Dr. Seuss or Shel Silverstein, Tabitha Fink The Ninja at Night has a conflict that appears so trivial. Tabitha’s mouse playmate Bartholomew Blink is stalked by a slew of night terrors – a big furry monster, an evil witch, a dragon, some blue bears, and a smelly troll. Yes, the problem is simple, but Tabitha’s struggle tugs at the memory. The unique character modeled after his family pet is pushed into the eerie situations that seemed a big deal when I was a kid. I began to recall what it felt like to face fear of the dark. – in the lack of light, and Felty’s cyclops hero confronts her friend’s fright as a ninja with a flashlight.
Tabitha Fink books are the kind of imaginative and fanciful explorations that children scream for at bedtime or story time in school. Felty’s clever use of language and plot sets a pleasant diversion for adults, too. Before I was aware, page after page flipped as I rushed to see the ninja’s deeds. At the last of 68 pages, like Bartholomew the mouse, I was satisfied by the charming conclusion of the darkness dilemma. As many readers, I was only disappointed that I might have to wait another year for more.
Posted on 21/04/2017 21/04/2017 Categories adults, adventure, authors, children, fiction, fun, humor, life, live, love, memoriesLeave a comment on Find More than You Think in Fink
A Hunger for Innocence
Some scenarios are always creepy, and Appetite for Innocence: A Dark Psychological Thriller by Lucinda Berry holds the secret. The plot is resonates with the intensity of James Patterson’s Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider, from the Alex Cross series. As the prolific Patterson, Berry, a real-life clinical psychologist, tells a story that highlights the vulnerability of young women and girls, and determination of sick male minds to brutally despoil their sexuality and sense of trust.
The narrative shows the author knows her way around the human psyche. The character’s descriptions and reflections add another level of intensity to a tale that is already a page-turner. Set in the contemporary “live out loud” social media-culture, the villain trolls status updates and other trash and tribulations that real-life millennials, especially girls share so willingly to find victims who are virgins. “They’re locked away in his sound-proof basement until they’re groomed and ready,” as the publicist Heather Harrison described. “He throws them away like pieces of trash after he’s stolen their innocence. Nobody escapes alive.”
Then there is a clever twist. Ella, the main character is a resilient and resourceful girl who the police and FBI believe foiled the aims of a serial rapist. She escapes and frees a slew of intended victims, once of which is Sarah. Readers will think they know this tale of cat and mouse, yet they do not. Berry’s “twist” takes Ella beyond the initial challenge into a plot that is as dark as promised. Ultimately, readers will wonder whether the title applies to more to the criminal or his victims.
Berry dramatizes the innocence of the characters through many statements and gestures. Those moments add a sense of truth to the fickleness in young thoughts. After the rescue, Ella states:
I don’t have the heart to tell her [mother] my faith in God was the first thing I abandoned in the basement. In the beginning, I prayed so much I even did it in my sleep, begging for protection, guidance for the people trying to find me, and to watch over Mom. God had always been as real to me as the bed I slept in at night and the walls of my house. I’d carried my Bible in my backpack since kindergarten. He was my compass, always my due north. His job was to love and protect me from harm. As time went on and things grew worse, it seeped in what a fool I’d been to believe. At first, I saw it as a test of faith. I’d always been taught God tested your faith, but it wasn’t a test—it was torture. It boiled down to two options: God was real, present, and directly involved in our lives like I’d been taught or nothing I’d been taught was true and God wasn’t real. He was either there and did nothing to help me or he didn’t exist. I quickly decided there couldn’t be a God because no God who was supposed to love me and had the power to intervene in my life would do nothing to save me. I didn’t have to be scared of going to hell because of my unbelief. I was already there.
There are deeper moments when the yearn for salvation seems lost that will tug at the heart. At the same time, the experiences are so natural that the actions become chilling in their reality that many readers will shudder. For example, when Ella confides:
I get up slowly. It still hurts to stand. I shuffle into the bathroom to change my pad first. I don’t want to bleed on any of his things. I don’t think the bleeding is ever going to stop.
To believe her resolve is exhausted would be to miss the strength that lies beneath the discourse that sounds so naive. With its references to artifacts of teen life such as Gilmore Girls the author demonstrates a comprehensive knowledge that might scare young readers with its truth. The use of Ella’s and Sarah’s voices breeds a fascination with the similarity of the main characters, despite their avowed differences. Eventually, the plot makes a final turn in the revelation of Sarah’s real role in the drama. Most of what happens in the end will come as a surprise even to those who have read Berry’s earlier novels Phantom Limb and Missing Parts. Spoilers avoided, those who read Appetite for Innocence are in for a wild ride. If you love crime, suspense and thrillers give the work a chance.
Posted on 11/04/2017 11/04/2017 Categories audiobooks, authors, girls, teens, social media, traumaticLeave a comment on A Hunger for Innocence
A Pleasant Trip into the Fantastic
Touch of the White Wolf
By B.J. Hunter
Palmas Publishing
Touch of the White Wolf leads readers into a journey of discovery that is humorous, yet tugs at the heart and mind. Perhaps my perspective is bent, yet the very concept of a human transformed into an animal makes me want to laugh. What makes me excited about this novel is that the author turns the implausible into a reality. Readers will be able to step through their imaginations into the story, which eases one past the fanciful episodes among the forest creatures into poignant reflections about what it means to dominate, and how the natural world might see humankind.
B.J. Hunter, immersed in Florida’s wildlife since her teens, cared for squirrels and other animals at a shelter in her youth. That background allows her to weave a narrative embedded with pathos. The first-time author gives the reader a sense of the unbreakable ties between the human and natural worlds as the main character, Jenna, recounts sights, sounds, sensations and emotions.
At the same time, the experiences of a teen who is not even sure about where she fits in her birth family, stretches the bounds of belief. Best news, is that Hunter who works in the concrete, legal world during the day, cleverly reaches toward the abstract in words. The author prods readers to traipse beyond the limits of their disbelief into the unfamiliar, even as the switch from homo sapiens to canis lupus happens:
A wave of dizziness hit her and she fell back into her chair. Looking for the fox, she saw it running back into the forest. She tried to get up and run after it, but she couldn’t stand and instead tumbled forward onto the ground. What was going on?
She looked down at her feet, they were covered in white fur. Her hands had become paws and her whole body had become that of a wolf. She was covered in thick white fur from head to toe. She looked back at the fox who had stopped and turned to her.
The fox didn’t seem to notice the change in Jenna’s appearance , and called to her, “Come on, we haven’t much time!”
Jenna tried to quell her rising panic as she tried to figure out the transformation.
It took a moment for it to hit her, the fox was actually talking to her in growls and barks – and she understood him!
OK, I can accept that a teen discovers her inner wolf. At the same time, as a reader, I did not feel Jenna’s “rising panic,” even in my thoughts. At first, I saw the seemingly laid back introduction of that key plot element as a weakness. I gave the author’s approach a second look, and realized the technique gives the story an Alice in Wonderland affect. Jenna’s out-of-nowhere transformation scene is a gateway to a slew of surprises. The narration positions the reader as a witness to the fantastic.
I won’t reveal much more about the plot, because the novel deserves to be read. Touch of the White Wolf is a treat for young mind’s that crave the relief of an imaginative world. Jenna is brave, loyal, kind and self-sacrificing, and manages to avoid the stereotypical teen angst. Those who love heroes will be more than satisfied. Readers who like intrigue will find the girl’s sojourn of discovery to fulfill a legend compelling. Lovers of the fantastic will enjoy when the heroine teams up with a dragon.
As I flipped the last page, I wanted to tell Hunter, “give me more.” Adventure lovers will concur. This debut to what I hope will be a series, effectively manages characters and plot to draw the readers’ attentions to the environment, other creatures, and slips in a subtle commentary on the fate of bullies.
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Hamilton in Love for Young Hearts
New York Times best-seller Melissa de la Cruz, noted for the critically acclaimed Blue Bloods series dives into the 18th Century romance of Alexander Hamilton and Eliza Schuyler. Out flows a historical saga that teens and young adults are sure to find filled with intrigue and delight. Read an excerpt of Alex and Eliza: A Love Story, due for release by Penguin Random House on April 11.
“Hamilton,” the Broadway play is likely to be on the must-see list for years to come. The popularity of that representation of George Washington’s brash young aide and statesman bodes an even greater reception among youth. Hamilton is now back on many Americans’ radar.
De la Cruz targets Eliza, a rebel as the youngest of three daughters one of the fledgling nation’s leading families, and shows how that nature drew her to the rakish Col. Alexander Hamilton. She is part of one of New York’s most elite families. Hamilton, born on the West Indies island of Nevis, is exuberant that his appointment as chief aide to the leader of the Colonial Army in 1777 affords him a chance to marry into a high society.
Orphaned by an unwed mother, Hamilton, whom John Adams once described as, “the bastard brat of a Scottish peddler,” is from the wrong side of the blanket, yet bright and ambitious. Eliza Schuyler is a child of privilege to the manor born. What happens when they met according to historians became an epic love story.
Cruz is more than able to excite young hearts. Her Blue Blood series sold more than three million copies. Also, her Witches of East End series became an hour-long television drama on the Lifetime network.
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A Tale That Can’t Be Told Too Often
The American Dream and the Untold Story
of the Black Women Mathematicians
Who Helped Win the Space Race
William Morrow and Company
Paperback – 576 pages – 978-0-06-246644-0
Paperback – 368 pages
Downloadable Audio – 978-0-06-247207-6
MP3 CD – 978-1-4417-0970-7
Ebook – 368 pages – 978-0-06-236361-9
Even if you closely watched former President Barack Obama’s actions, you might not have noticed the administration’s less controversial deeds such as the awards of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. As of this summer, more and more Americans have discovered that among the many great achievers the White House honored was a representative of a corps of truly unsung heroes. Mathematician and physicist Katherine Johnson, long retired and living in Hampton, Virginia, is one of a hardly acknowledged crew of black women responsible for NASA’s (the then-National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) early success.
Those who know black life in this country during Segregation will attest that the story is nearly incredible. Yet, without Human Computer Project head Margot Lee Shetterly’s account of their experiences in the above cited book the accomplishments and struggles might have been overlooked. That too should be noted for those who flocked to movie theaters during December 2016 to check out director Theodore Melfi’s at-points-lighthearted drama, Hidden Figures.
The movie unearths and gives a nod to Johnson and mathematicians Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Hoover who broke down the walls against color and gender at the then-Langley, Virginia space launch headquarters. As a review in Publisher’s Weekly promised, the text probes “relationships among blackness, womanhood, and 20th-century American technological development,” to create a work that is “crucial to understanding subsequent movements for civil rights.”
More than anything the film and book serve as a reminder of African Americans’ perseverance and adaptability as tools for survival.Those are traits many in U.S. society have cast aside, and about which many born after 1965 are unaware. The story of Johnson and the others cannot be told to often, and their strengths might need revival.
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Vintage Photos: Times Square’s Transformation in the ’90s
by diksha
1993-1998, photo by Gregoire Alessandrini
While the biggest complaint New Yorkers may have about Times Square today is the tourists, just over 20 years ago, a trip down 42nd street was a completely different experience, as many New Yorkers will remember. The “Great White Way” has undergone many changes in the past century and though recent changes have been more subtle, the 1990s were a transformative decade as Times Square shed its risqué past for a more family-friendly environment.
As part of a cleanup project led by Mayor Rudy Giuliani, places that were known for their seedier entertainment, such as the Victory and Empire theaters, were reclaimed and redesigned. The goal was to turn the gritty Times Square that was into a place that welcomed people of all ages.
If the transformation wasn’t clear by the shift in the theaters’ audiences, it was visible with all the construction throughout the decade. Theaters were demolished or completely renovated to both preserve their history and provide venues for the new Times Square. Families were now flocking to the new and safe Times Square. Yet not everyone was happy–many complained that the area had lost its excitement and its authenticity.
One result of the changes brought to Times Square was the boost in theater audiences. In 1997 alone, over 10 million people went to see one of the many new shows, such as The Lion King, in the new theaters of Broadway.
See how Times Square transformed during the 1990s in these photos by Gregoire Alessandrini:
Selwyn Theater, 1993. Photo by Gregoire Alessandrini
Empire Theater. Photo by Gregoire Alessandrini
Times Square Theater. Photo by Gregoire Alessandrini
42nd Street Destruction, 1997. Photo by Gregoire Alessandrini
42nd Street Construction. Photo by Gregoire Alessandrini
Photo by Gregoire Alessandrini
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Giant Sculpture “Brick House” by Simone Leigh Towers Over the Newest Section of NYC’s High Line
by Nicole Saraniero
Simone Leigh, Brick House, 2019. A High Line Plinth commission. On view June 2019 – September 2020. Photo by Timothy Schenck. Courtesy the High Line
New York City’s High Line has always provided a unique platform for displaying and viewing outdoor works of art. This summer there will be a new way to experience art on the High Line with the opening of the Spur, the newest section of the park and the last stretch of original rail tracks. The Plinth is an exhibition space which will be the focal point of the Spur’s massive plaza. It will allow visitors to view monumental works of art in the round, and will open with an inaugural installation by artist Simone Leigh.
Since the Spur is not open to the public yet, Simone Leigh’s Brick House can currently be seen from the street, towering over 10th Avenue and 30th Street from atop the Plinth. The bronze bust is sixteen feet tall and depicts a Black woman “crowned with an afro framed by cornrow braids along the hairline that extend into four braids, each ending with a cowrie shell.” The sculpture’s domed torso is a combination of a skirt and a clay house adorned with a pattern of elongated ridges.
Brick House is the first work in Leigh’s series Anatomy of Architecture, which will explore the melding of the human body with architectural forms of regions in West Africa and the American South. For the High Line sclupture, Leigh drew on multiple sources of inspiration, from the Batammaliba architecture of Benin and Togo to the restaurant Mammy’s Cupboard in the southern United States. Setting Leigh’s sculpture on the Plinth against the backdrop of New York City’s soaring architecture, visitors to the Spur will be inspired to contemplate how our buildings reflect our own society.
Simone Leigh, Brick House, 2019 (in production). A High Line Plinth commission. Photo by Timothy Schenck, 2018. Courtesy of the High Line.
The Spur will open to the public on June 5th, but if you are an Untapped Cities Insider, you can join an early access tour led by Friends of the High Line Co-Founder Robert Hammond, and be one of the first to see the space! Our first tour on May 6th is already sold out, but you can grab one of the last remaining spots on our May 14th tour. Not an Insider yet? Become a member today to gain access to free behind -the-scenes tours and special events all year long!
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Financial globalisation and inequality: Capital flows as a two-edged sword
Barry Eichengreen, Balazs Csonto, Asmaa El-Ganainy, Zsoka Koczan, 14 January 2021
Global inequality has fallen in recent decades, but within-country inequality has risen in a significant number of national economies during the same period. This column identifies the channels through which financial globalisation accentuates inequality and suggests how these could be mitigated by accompanying policies.
Marcela Escobari, Eduardo Levy Yeyati, 07 January 2021
COVID-19’s impact on welfare, as well as its legacy, will likely differ significantly between North and South America because of differences in the labour market structure across the two continents. This column highlights informal labour markets in developing economies of South America as a potential explanation for the larger and more persistent impact of the pandemic in the South as compared to North America. It suggests targeted training and new regulation to mitigate the precariousness of the workforce in these economies.
Local inequalities of the COVID-19 crisis
Augusto Cerqua, Marco Letta, 18 December 2020
There is widespread concern about the toll of the pandemic on local economies, but little causal evidence to assess its real costs. This column presents an impact evaluation of the local economic effects of the COVID-19 crisis in Italy, based on a counterfactual application of machine learning algorithms. It documents that, to date, impacts on employment and firms have been dramatically uneven across the Italian territory and spatially uncorrelated with the epidemiological pattern of the first wave. It shows that this heterogeneity is associated with sectoral specialisation, exposure to social aggregation risks, and pre-existing labour market fragilities. Finally, it argues that such diverging local trajectories call for a place-based approach in the policy response to the crisis.
How social position shapes views of fairness
Kristoffer Balle Hvidberg, Claus Thustrup Kreiner, Stefanie Stantcheva, 16 December 2020
How individuals understand their own social position – and how that understanding shapes their stance on inequality more broadly – are questions of longstanding concern to social scientists. This column uses a unique combination of data to address these questions, linking a large-scale Danish survey that elicited perceptions of income and fairness to detailed administrative data on true income positions and life histories. It finds that individuals are well informed about their own social positions, and that their beliefs about fairness and unequal outcomes correlate more closely to that position than their political views do.
Learning during the COVID-19 pandemic
Anna McDougall, George Orlov, Douglas McKee, 10 December 2020
Many higher learning institutions have shifted to remote learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Although research has found that online classes can be just as effective as in-person classes, there is evidence that suggests disadvantaged students may perform relatively worse. This column compares student performance on a set of standard assessments at four PhD-granting institutions in the US before and after the switch to online classes. It finds little evidence that disadvantaged groups were further disadvantaged by the pandemic in their college learning. Instructor experience with online teaching and the use of active-learning techniques have a positive effect on student outcomes.
Capitalist systems and income inequality
Marco Ranaldi, Branko Milanovic, 03 December 2020
Similar levels of income inequality may coexist with completely different distributions of capital and labor incomes. This column introduces a new measure of compositional inequality, allowing the authors to distinguish between different capitalist societies. The analysis suggests that Latin America and India are rigid ‘class-based’ societies, whereas in most of Western European and North American economies (as well as in Japan and China), the split between capitalists and workers is less sharp and inequality is moderate or low. Nordic countries are ‘class-based’ yet fairly equal. Taiwan and Slovakia are closest to classless and low inequality societies.
Antoine Bozio, Bertrand Garbinti, Jonathan Goupille-Lebret, Malka Guillot, Thomas Piketty, 18 November 2020
How much can redistribution policies account for long-run changes in inequality? This column reveals that the reduction of inequality implied by redistribution is significant in France and the US and increased throughout the entire 20th century, but pre-tax income inequality appears to be the main factor accounting for the differential levels and trends in the two countries. These findings suggest that policy discussions on inequality should pay more attention to policies affecting pre-tax inequality and should not focus exclusively on redistribution.
Recovery capacity: Readiness for a new economic landscape
Margareta Drzeniek, Sheana Tambourgi, Ilaria Marchese, 12 November 2020
COVID-19 is accelerating structural transformations, notably towards more digitalised and more automated economies. This column presents a COVID-19 economic recovery index which considers the extent to which a country is exposed to major health effects from COVID-19, the degree to which a country’s economy will be affected by the crisis, and a country’s capacity to recover and rebuild to pre-COVID-19 levels. To guide their economies out of this crisis and to ready them for the coming transformation, governments need to restore trade flows, manage the risks of slowing global economic convergence, and actively prepare for accelerating economic transformation.
Couple formation and parental wealth
Sander Wagner, Diederik Boertien, Mette Gørtz, 01 November 2020
Couple formation plays an important role in affecting both the extent to which wealth remains concentrated from one generation to the next and in subsequently shaping wealth inequalities. This column uses administrative data from Denmark to study partner selection based on parental wealth. It finds a relatively low correlation in partners' parental wealth overall, but a high degree of homogamy at the top of the parental wealth distribution. In addition, it finds that homogamy based on parental wealth has increased steadily during the period 1980-2013.
Pursuing inclusive growth
João Tovar Jalles, Luiz de Mello, 22 October 2020
Widening income disparities and slow productivity growth in many countries have rekindled interest in the policies that can deliver strong and equitable growth in output and living standards. This column presents a chronology of inclusive growth episodes, defined as increases in GDP per capita without a concomitant deterioration in the distribution of household disposable income. These episodes are more likely to occur where human capital is high, tax-benefit systems are more redistributive, productivity grows more rapidly, and labour force participation is high. Trade openness and a range of institutional factors, including political system durability and electoral regimes, also matter.
Pandemics and inequality: A historical overview
Guido Alfani, 15 October 2020
The relationship between pandemics and inequality is of significant interest at the moment. The Black Death in the 14th century is one salient example of a pandemic which dramatically decreased wealth inequality, but this column argues that the Black Death is exceptional in this respect. Pandemics in subsequent centuries have failed to significantly reduce inequality, due to different institutional environments and labour market effects. This evidence suggests that inequality and poverty are likely to increase in the aftermath of the Covid-19 crisis.
Pandemics and inequality
Sergio Galletta, Tommaso Giommoni, 03 October 2020
The COVID-19 outbreak is expected to increase income inequality around the world as the poorer are likely to be hit harder by the pandemic’s negative economic impact. Focusing on Italy, this column argues that such distributional consequences also appeared during the 1918 influenza pandemic. Income inequality became higher in areas more afflicted by the flu pandemic, and this is mostly explained by a reduction in the share of income held by poorer people. This effect seems to persist even a century after the pandemic.
How Americans use time saved by working from home
Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Steven Davis, 23 September 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a sudden, massive shift around the world to working from home. While there is great concern how this will affect inequality and how the economy will adjust, the shift has also saved billions of hours of commuting time in the US alone. Drawing on original surveys, this column estimates that the shift to working from home lowers commuting time among Americans by more than 60 million hours per workday. Americans devote about a third of the time savings to their primary jobs and about 60% to other work activities, including household chores and childcare. The allocation of time savings differs substantially by education group and between persons with and without children at home.
An age of rising inequality? No, but yes
Ravi Kanbur, 21 September 2020
From the public discourse, it seems clear that we are living in an age of rising inequality. However, common measures of income and consumption inequality disguise a more nuanced pattern of inequality change across the world. This column argues that inequality within countries has not been rising everywhere and that inequality between countries has decreased. At the same time, technological progress is increasingly displacing basic labour in favour of skilled labour and capital, across borders, and widening the wage gap. The overall effect is unclear. National policies to mitigate inequality are needed but, in the absence of international cooperation, are constrained by cross-border spillovers.
The intergenerational transmission of wealth in rich countries
Brian Nolan, Juan C. Palomino, Philippe Van Kerm, Salvatore Morelli, 19 September 2020
Whether and how much intergenerational transfers contribute to wealth inequality is still subject to debate. This column analyses household survey data on inheritance and gifts inter vivos in France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and the US to relate current household wealth levels and inequality to the receipt of intergenerational wealth transfers. In these countries, large transfers increase overall wealth inequality. Strengthening taxation capacity and instating lifetime capital acquisitions tax for gifts and inheritances may help counter the dis-equalising effect of intergenerational transfers.
Immigration and the welfare state
João Guerreiro, Sérgio Rebelo, Pedro Teles, 09 September 2020
Immigration policy has become a hot-button issue in both Europe and the US, with questions concerning optimal policy as well as the welfare state dominating discussions. This column revisits the idea of the immigration surplus, exploring a number of possible scenarios in terms of how policymakers should address the challenge. Correctly configuring fiscal policy so as to capture the benefits of both high- and low-skill immigrant (and native) workers is at the heart of optimal policy design and may help to address the swelling anti-immigrant sentiment that continues to exist in many countries today.
Socio-demographics predict behaviour during a pandemic
Nicholas W. Papageorge, Matthew Zahn, Michèle Belot, Eline van den Broek-Altenburg, Syngjoo Choi, Julian C. Jamison, Egon Tripodi, 05 September 2020
Individual behaviours affect the spread of infectious disease. This column examines factors that predict individual behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic in the US using novel survey data. People with lower income and less flexible work arrangements are less likely to engage in behaviours that limit the spread of disease. The burden of measures to stem the pandemic is unevenly distributed across socio-demographic groups in ways that affect behaviour and potentially the spread of illness. Policies that assume otherwise are unlikely to be effective or sustainable.
School attendance during a pandemic
Sofoklis Goulas, Rigissa Megalokonomou, 17 August 2020
During the 2009 swine flu pandemic, Greece eased its high school attendance policy despite few cases being reported among children of high school age. This column examines the relationship between the relaxed attendance policy and absences, academic performance, and neighbourhood income. Students of higher prior performance took more absences, while students of lower prior performance kept going to school. Prior performance is positively associated with neighbourhood income, suggesting that students in poorer neighbourhoods may be less likely to follow school distancing guidelines during a pandemic. The relaxed attendance policy is associated with decreased performance for students that take more absences.
Racial disparity in COVID-19 deaths
John McLaren, 11 August 2020
In the US, COVID-19 tends to magnify inequalities by disproportionately hitting minorities, particularly African Americans, who suffer from higher COVID-19 mortality rates. Higher rates of infection appear to be the cause rather than factors related to treatment. Using an indirect approach, this column uses census data to identify the socioeconomic factors that cause different racial groups to be differentially exposed to the virus. Very strong racial disparities in COVID-19 mortality rates are seen for African-American and First Nations populations. Occupation, income, poverty rates, or access to healthcare insurance appears to matter little. Pre-COVID-19 use of public transport, however, may be a significant factor.
Poverty, inequality, and COVID-19 in the US
Caitlin Brown, Martin Ravallion, 10 August 2020
Income is linked to COVID-19 risk factors: poorer people are less likely to be able to socially distance or telework. However, higher-income areas tend to have more in-person interactions. This column disentangles the socioeconomic influences on COVID-19 behaviour and outcomes across the 3,000 counties of the US. Counties with higher overall income inequality tend to have higher infection rates. A higher population share of Black Americans and Hispanics is associated with higher infection rates. These effects do not fade over time from the first infection.
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reference:lists
Using a list
Forwardings
ODBC Mailing Lists
Administering Lists
The Lists section in VPOP3 lets you view and manage the various types of 'List' which VPOP3 supports
A list will contain zero or more 'members' (usually email addresses) which can be messaged all at once. To send a message to all the members of a list, you will usually send an email to the listname at a valid domain.
For instance, if your 'Local Domains' setting is set to mycompany.com;mycompany.org, and your list is called Customers, then you can send a message to all your customers by sending an email to customers@mycompany.com or customers@mycompany.org
All lists except for Groups can also be made public, if you tick the Allow incoming mail to be sent to the list option in the list settings. In this case, for incoming SMTP messages, it uses the same rules as for locally sent messages, but for incoming POP3 messages, it will use the Accepted Domains setting for the mail collector for the list's email address, rather than the Local Domains setting. If the Allow incoming mail to be sent to the list options is not ticked, then any incoming messages to the list's email address will be treated the same as incoming messages to an unrecognised address.
If you want the list to have other names, then you can use mappings to create aliases for the list.
A Distribution List is a simple list containing zero or more email addresses (local or remote).
A Mailing List has a lot more features than a distribution list. For instance, a mailing list supports user subscription and removal from the list, modifying message headers to support discussion lists, banning people from lists, and so on.
Forwardings are not really 'lists', because they can only contain a single email address, but they are managed here because they are, essentially, just a special case of a Distribution List, but with only a single member.
ODBC Mailing Lists are only available in VPOP3 Enterprise.
An ODBC Mailing List is a list where all the members are retrieved from an external ODBC database. VPOP3 cannot manage the list members - that has to be done outside of VPOP3 - but the other features of Mailing Lists are supported.
A Group is a separate type of list which can be used for administrative purposes. For instance, you can set that all members of a particular group cannot send outgoing messages. You can also send emails to all of a group's members, as with a distribution list, but this will only work internally.
Some permissions (eg with calendar sharing in VPOP3 Enterprise) can use a group as the 'target' of the permission - for instance, you could set it so that all members of the 'sales' group have permission to read someone's calendar.
Each user can only be in at most one group, and this is set in the user's settings, rather than in the group settings.
To administer Lists click on the Lists button at the top of the administrator pages. You can add or remove lists by clicking on the New and Delete buttons at the top of the list of Lists.
To edit a particular list, you can double-click on the list name in the list of Lists:
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Breaking the Shackles
Separated and abused by the magi, twins Laine and Baine each swore to do whatever it took to break free and save the other. But when Baine arrives at the werewolf village prepared to rescue Laine and return home triumphant, he soon learns that any plan involving a dragon and a werewolf is bound to go awry.
30 review for Breaking the Shackles
Mandy*reads obsessively* – Feb 21, 2013
Ok, Mell Eight is going on my auto-buy list, her stories are cute, sweet and have dragons. :) Laine and Blaine ( as the mother of twins myself, that made me shudder) were held as slaves for years, drained of magic and shackled. Blaine has been searching for his twin ever since he was freed, but when he finds him, he finds so much more. Laine's has already been rescued by the wolves and dragon shifters and yep, added to the alpha wolf's hoard, lucky guy that he is. But Blaine isn't getting the shor Ok, Mell Eight is going on my auto-buy list, her stories are cute, sweet and have dragons. :) Laine and Blaine ( as the mother of twins myself, that made me shudder) were held as slaves for years, drained of magic and shackled. Blaine has been searching for his twin ever since he was freed, but when he finds him, he finds so much more. Laine's has already been rescued by the wolves and dragon shifters and yep, added to the alpha wolf's hoard, lucky guy that he is. But Blaine isn't getting the short end of the stick, so to speak, he has a dragon wanting to add him to his bling. The romance is sweet and muted as in a lot of LT3s stories and there is tons of political goings on, plans being made, battles being fought. I read this series out of order, but that didn't deter my enjoyment at all.
Ami – Mar 08, 2013
2.5 stars Hmmm, a couple of friends' reviews said that this was their least favorite story from The Dragon's Hoard series. I have to agree (based on comparison with book #1 of course, since I have yet read book #3). I think the problem is the story features TWO couples within a novella length. Which is just not enough for me to create an attachment to either couple. Maybe if they have their own dedicated stories, in different sections of the story, I could appreciate it better. But because it isn 2.5 stars Hmmm, a couple of friends' reviews said that this was their least favorite story from The Dragon's Hoard series. I have to agree (based on comparison with book #1 of course, since I have yet read book #3). I think the problem is the story features TWO couples within a novella length. Which is just not enough for me to create an attachment to either couple. Maybe if they have their own dedicated stories, in different sections of the story, I could appreciate it better. But because it isn't, just when I start to care for Laine, I would be pulled out to read from Baine's perspective, and vice versa. It makes me a bit cranky, to be honest.
Deeze – Feb 18, 2013
Another entertaining story in this series. I did feel a little more chemistry in this tale, although the mystery story line takes centre stage over any romance. But the little bit of romance there was gave me my MM fix lol. I love the dragons most and can’t wait to dive into the third book. I hope there is more of Nyle and his Hatch Mother lol. ETE Yep definitely better after reading book 3. I really wish there were more books in this series. ETA Still wish there were more books.
Cole Riann – Oct 01, 2012
Review posted at The Armchair Reader. 2.75 stars This is definitely a light, comfort read, even more than the first book which introduced more of the world as the first book. Also, this short novella was split between two romantic couples as each pair of a twin falls in love with one of the shifters, wolf and dragon of the new alliance. So overall, I found the story rather superficial, without time to form any sort of plot or get into the characters, since the story relied heavily on the mating bo Review posted at The Armchair Reader. 2.75 stars This is definitely a light, comfort read, even more than the first book which introduced more of the world as the first book. Also, this short novella was split between two romantic couples as each pair of a twin falls in love with one of the shifters, wolf and dragon of the new alliance. So overall, I found the story rather superficial, without time to form any sort of plot or get into the characters, since the story relied heavily on the mating bond trope. After the end of the first book the human castle is left in shambles from the fight with the Magi. When the last Magi was killed the dragons and wolves found a young human man whose scent immediately caught the attention of the Alpha wolf, Reese. Breaking the Shackles is his story, and his twin brother's, Baine. Born as Maji, not to be confused with Magi, the race of creatures that tried to subjugate the humans in the first book, the Maji are the receptacles of magic that shared a symbiotic relationship with the Magi. Once up on a time the Maji offered their magic to the Magi (who had no magic of their own) in order for their protection. In recent years, however, the Magi enslaved the race of the Maji to forcibly steal their magic. Laine and Baine were taken from each other in their teen years. They've spent a few years apart, Laine waking up in a new type of slavery (or so he thinks) among the wolves, and Baine freed a couple years before and searching all this time for his brother. Their parents are waiting for him to return with his brother; now that the Magi have been killed, there is a vacuum of power where the Maji's society is, and their family and others are clamoring to become the leaders of the people. When Baine finds his brother, he isn't too happy to see that Laine might be falling for the wolf who has claimed him, and equally upset by the green-haired dragon that keeps following around calling him pretty and shiny. I laid out my main difficulties with this story above and for the most part they are the same ones I had with the first book, only compounded by the extra relationship and less time for the story. All the problems I had with it ultimately relate to that. The way that it manifested was mostly in two ways. First, there just wasn't time for the relationships to get off the ground. Basically, they meet, they bond, and the story is over. For Baine and Dean (the dragon) there is a little more between the steps, concerning Baine's jealousy of Laine's relationship with another man when he just got him back and his feelings of duty to return to his family. Mostly, however, what bothered me was there wasn't time to set up the proper background of Laine and Baine's family, which directly relates to the end of the story and the perceived threat the werewolves feel. The ending and the issues with their family seemed to come completely out of the blue. Previously in the story we only hear that they both feel some varying level of responsibility to return to their family, but very little about the family themselves, or even more than just a couple paragraphs about the structure of magical slavery the Maji were subjected to. It gave the ending very little impact. If you're looking for a short and sweet dragon- and wolf-shifter series then this book and it's prequel will suffice, but it isn't the best. I was a little disappointed by this book even though I knew, roughly, what to expect, so I'm not entirely sure I'll read the next book and I probably wouldn't recommend them unless you want something cute and mindless.
Daesy – Jun 26, 2019
In this 2nd book the story seemed shorter and with less plot, but still I liked it. The Twins, now finally free, were able to find their mates, and we learned about the races of Magi and Maji. The world that the author is using is incredibly huge and interesting and it's a pity that the books are so short, because like this there isn't enough space to really explain all the things we would like to know. In this 2nd book the story seemed shorter and with less plot, but still I liked it. The Twins, now finally free, were able to find their mates, and we learned about the races of Magi and Maji. The world that the author is using is incredibly huge and interesting and it's a pity that the books are so short, because like this there isn't enough space to really explain all the things we would like to know.
Tailtiu – Feb 06, 2013
3,5* and I'm looking forward to read Stealing the Dragon 3,5* and I'm looking forward to read Stealing the Dragon
Sandra – Apr 24, 2015
Good, but not as many feelz as the first. I'm not sure why this one didn't hit as hard as the others. Part of it was that I liked the addition of Baine, but felt he got shafted. Despite loving romances, I didn't appreciate that the 'mate'/lovers relationship took precedence over siblings and despite having been searching for years, Baine is simply supposed to get over it since they have mates now. I wish a better compromise could have been reached. I wanted this to be a story about Lane and Bain Good, but not as many feelz as the first. I'm not sure why this one didn't hit as hard as the others. Part of it was that I liked the addition of Baine, but felt he got shafted. Despite loving romances, I didn't appreciate that the 'mate'/lovers relationship took precedence over siblings and despite having been searching for years, Baine is simply supposed to get over it since they have mates now. I wish a better compromise could have been reached. I wanted this to be a story about Lane and Baine, as much as it was about Lane/Reese and Baine/Don. I also didn't get a sense of their relationships progressing, the way I had in book 1 with Leon and Nyle. In all books of this series there is somewhat of an inst-love component since the dragon's know immediately if something(one) is in their hoard, and of course werewolves know their mates immediately. But in book 1 we saw some actual relationship development after the insta-love got it's hooks in. Here, Lane was resistant due to his shackles, then they came off and he was all about Reese. Bain was resistant to Don due to wanting to focus his attentions on his brother and reconnect with him, than the floodgates opened and he was fine with it. A little too much tell and not show with regards to their feelings. Even though this book was not my favorite in the series (I have since gone on and loved book 3), it still works as an audio book. I like this narrator and think he does a good job with the characters in this world. Audiobook received from the publisher in exchange for an honest review, reviewed for Hearts On Fire
Ayanna – Mar 02, 2013
*pouts. I wanted more of Nyle+Leon... I really want to know... how does Dean magically know about sex? I mean, isn't it a "not-dragon" thing to do? Maybe they just skipped all of the extemporizing and such that Leon and Nyle had? Still...it seemed like it was a foregone conclusion when it should have been more like, "You're part of my hoard now. That means you're my pretty and I'll take wonderful care of you because you're my pretty and o_o WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?????" Just a little hint of tha *pouts. I wanted more of Nyle+Leon... I really want to know... how does Dean magically know about sex? I mean, isn't it a "not-dragon" thing to do? Maybe they just skipped all of the extemporizing and such that Leon and Nyle had? Still...it seemed like it was a foregone conclusion when it should have been more like, "You're part of my hoard now. That means you're my pretty and I'll take wonderful care of you because you're my pretty and o_o WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?????" Just a little hint of that would have been adorable since Dean was such a self-assured...(I'll be nice and won't say prick because *shrugs)...yeah...anyways, just a little hint of that would have been cute. Cuz c'mon, authors. You need to earn your squees. (I can see maybe why xe wouldn't; it'd be a bit too close to what happened with Nyle+Leon. I can also see why xe didn't go for the "We are going to do this sex thing" route because that's what Gail was all like. But still. *Consistency is all I ask ~sob*) The ending was just awk for me. I mean, it wasn't even that funny. It really was head-desk-worthy. In fact,
Elspeth – Feb 26, 2013
This was my least favorite of the series so far, it wasn’t bad it was just not as fun as the first and third.
Bookwatcher – Apr 11, 2014
I loved the first book of this series (Finding the Wolf) but this one no. I liked it a lot, but in my modest opinion it's confusing!!! The plots excellent, like in book #1, but the constant change of point of views between all characters made me want to scream! There are 3 couples in this book, and ALLTHE time I was wishing it would stop, and talk about just ONE of those couples, not all. So that's my problem, the reason of 3 not 5 stars. I would certainly recommend it, because the world is fanta I loved the first book of this series (Finding the Wolf) but this one no. I liked it a lot, but in my modest opinion it's confusing!!! The plots excellent, like in book #1, but the constant change of point of views between all characters made me want to scream! There are 3 couples in this book, and ALLTHE time I was wishing it would stop, and talk about just ONE of those couples, not all. So that's my problem, the reason of 3 not 5 stars. I would certainly recommend it, because the world is fantastic, with all that great creatures... The plot is again very original and interesting... I will keep reading this series :)
Chris, the Dalek King – Feb 21, 2016
(If you haven’t read Finding the Wolf, this may be a tad spoilerish. I tried to keep out a lot that might spoil book one, but I may mention a few things related to the plot of the book.) The maji, born to be vessels of magic, have long been held as slaves to the other half of their community, the magi. But the tide has turned and the maji seek to break free of their chains. That freedom will come from different sources, though, for the twin maji, Baine and Laine. Separated by their masters for ye (If you haven’t read Finding the Wolf, this may be a tad spoilerish. I tried to keep out a lot that might spoil book one, but I may mention a few things related to the plot of the book.) The maji, born to be vessels of magic, have long been held as slaves to the other half of their community, the magi. But the tide has turned and the maji seek to break free of their chains. That freedom will come from different sources, though, for the twin maji, Baine and Laine. Separated by their masters for years, they must each find a way back to each other. Or, perhaps, find a new path to walk together. Um, I guess I should point out that despite what my half-ass’d summary might hint at, this isn’t acutely a twincest story. Sorry. Though I would have totally taken one of those as well. ;D No, this is the story of two brothers who have to find a way to look past their captivity and find themselves the masters of their own fate. Laine, who was featured in book one, has to break free of his chains (both metaphorical and physical) and see if he can have a place with Reese, the werewolf who has taken him in. Baine on the other hand has fought his way to freedom, only to find himself bound once again to an imposed duty by his family and his community. He feels bound to the duty almost as much as he feels drawn to Dean–-a dragon who has every intention of gathering the young maji into his hoard. I found I enjoyed this story a bit more than I did the first, probably just because I didn’t know how it was going to end. I liked how the author set up the magical world of the maji/magi. It was a lot more interesting than I thought it was going to be from what I read of the first book. Unfortunately there were a few editorial issues with this story. Most notably the fact that Baine becomes Blaine at several points in the book. I did have to take a few points off for that. I’m not one to usually moan about grammar/spelling things (since I am horrible at it myself), but I kinda like my main characters to have the same names all the way thru the story at the very least. Dragons and werewolves and magic made this an entertaining read. It was less quick-paced than the first book, but made up for it with all the tension between the various MCs. I am really enjoying this series and look forward to whatever is next. This book was provided free in exchange for a fair and honest review for Love Bytes. Go there to check out other reviews, author interviews, and all those awesome giveaways. Click below.
Talya Andor – Apr 12, 2013
Breaking the Shackles introduces an interesting magical concept, a pretty unique one I think, where there’s essentially magic transmitters and magic amplifiers. Leaving that aside, the story focuses at first on Laine and Baine, and their recovery process. I enjoyed the fact that the story spends time on this, and shows the different ways that Laine and Baine have been affected by their divergent experiences. The story moves at a fairly quick clip and relationships unfold for both twins in the fir Breaking the Shackles introduces an interesting magical concept, a pretty unique one I think, where there’s essentially magic transmitters and magic amplifiers. Leaving that aside, the story focuses at first on Laine and Baine, and their recovery process. I enjoyed the fact that the story spends time on this, and shows the different ways that Laine and Baine have been affected by their divergent experiences. The story moves at a fairly quick clip and relationships unfold for both twins in the first third of the story, but time is spent developing both of those. It’s clear that neither Laine or Baine can jump right into love, though their love interests both seem meant to be. It’s a shifter thing, though, so I can go with it. Maybe it’s a little convenient, especially with Baine being paired off so that he doesn’t drown in his jealousy over Laine having someone when they’ve just been reunited, but it works for the world that Mell has built. From the beginnings of a fairly straightforward plot, we get some good twists and character growth, so there’s a lot packed into a short space of time. It’s a quick read, but it was satisfying to me because it covered a lot without feeling like it skimped on any one storyline. As with the previous story, Breaking the Shackles dangles a tantalizing tidbit for continuance, this one even more shiny (in my opinion) than the one before.
TT – Jul 18, 2014
This story encompasses two twins and we are introduced fairly quickly to their intended mates. I skimmed a few reviews before purchasing/starting this book so I was prepared for some disappointment, as many of the readers said this book was the least satisfying of the series. With lower standards in mind, I actually enjoyed this for what it was. Mostly a lot of world building and we do get some returning characters which was enjoyable. The focus was more on romance than sex which I heartily appr This story encompasses two twins and we are introduced fairly quickly to their intended mates. I skimmed a few reviews before purchasing/starting this book so I was prepared for some disappointment, as many of the readers said this book was the least satisfying of the series. With lower standards in mind, I actually enjoyed this for what it was. Mostly a lot of world building and we do get some returning characters which was enjoyable. The focus was more on romance than sex which I heartily appreciated. Laine is sweet, his alpha mate is sweet and so their whole romance is slow and…yup, you guessed it-sweet. Baine was a little tougher. I am not a fan of bratty men who are loved just because of their attitude. Dean is enamored for no good reason to the mouthy Baine and suddenly and inexplicably (I think due to magic) about 2/3rds of the way through Baine begins to reciprocate Dean’s feelings. Meh, whatever. I liked the story; I can forgive a bit of rockiness. Three stars is just right for this book.
Anna C – Sep 27, 2014
The romance part was so-so and kinda off when Baine's magic suddenly "activated" in his vein and made him realized that he actually loved Dean from the start, and then I was like "WTH? O___O" But I gathered maybe that's one of the Maji (Baine's race) way to find their mate. However, aside from that, I liked the plot and the mystery part...and we got to see Nyle and Leon again. :) But the most hilarious scene was when the bewildered Gail finally got the result of her "experiment" with Toel. LMAO. The romance part was so-so and kinda off when Baine's magic suddenly "activated" in his vein and made him realized that he actually loved Dean from the start, and then I was like "WTH? O___O" But I gathered maybe that's one of the Maji (Baine's race) way to find their mate. However, aside from that, I liked the plot and the mystery part...and we got to see Nyle and Leon again. :) But the most hilarious scene was when the bewildered Gail finally got the result of her "experiment" with Toel. LMAO.
Jilrene – Jan 27, 2013
Another fun read in the Dragon hoard series. This one is a little different since you have the story of two couples. Twins Laine and Blaine are very different and find polar opposite mates. Another well written story.
Icedave – Feb 07, 2013
~♥ Elle ♥~ – Mar 08, 2013
Update: Re-read June 11, 2013 Not quite at the same level as the first one but this is still a fun and sweet read. :)
Southernangel – Jun 07, 2013
So in love with this little series.
Sara – Apr 17, 2014
JL Lucaban – Oct 26, 2016
Really cute, really really cute. I can't help but love the characters and the story, (Including the first book, and possibly the rest too.) Now unto the next one!!! xD Really cute, really really cute. I can't help but love the characters and the story, (Including the first book, and possibly the rest too.) Now unto the next one!!! xD
Kathleen – Aug 09, 2017
2.75 stars Wow, that was....mediocre....in every way possible.
Pixie Mmgoodbookreviews – Oct 04, 2012
4 Hearts Review to follow
jennifer Jensen – Aug 05, 2017
Great continuation of The Dragons Hoard This was a good story. Basically a continuation from the first story so it should be read in order. Loved that the twins found their HEA.
Lie – Aug 07, 2017
Was hoping Baine's arc would be a bit more complicated and elaborate, but it was rly a waterfall. ...I like Gail and Toel in the background setting up a story, I wonder if that's book 5. Was hoping Baine's arc would be a bit more complicated and elaborate, but it was rly a waterfall. ...I like Gail and Toel in the background setting up a story, I wonder if that's book 5.
Shelby – Sep 25, 2017
Kastle – Jul 20, 2019
Georgiana – Apr 29, 2020
~3.5 STARS~
Kath – Jan 15, 2017
Ok so this was a nice read, But not as nice as the first book! It would have been nicer, I would want to think, if Laine and Baine had gotten their own books not joined because it doesn't really allow you to get really deeply into the two different couples give us time to care for them and get to know them a lot better, I found it a bit distracting the constant shift from Laine view to Baile and I think Baile's story could have had so much more to it from the way it was developed and how everythi Ok so this was a nice read, But not as nice as the first book! It would have been nicer, I would want to think, if Laine and Baine had gotten their own books not joined because it doesn't really allow you to get really deeply into the two different couples give us time to care for them and get to know them a lot better, I found it a bit distracting the constant shift from Laine view to Baile and I think Baile's story could have had so much more to it from the way it was developed and how everything worked out but hey nothing we can do about that. I did like the difference in personalities between even them and the way their relationships, from what we got really, was developed, a little more I sign would have been nice but beggars can't be choosers..... Personally though, I found of the two that Baile and Dean relationship kind of had a bit more interest and build up than the others...... But hey can't wait for the next one!
Sapphera – Nov 01, 2014
This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. This book leaves me conflicted about its contents, while Mell Eight is an author who I have established that I enjoy her books, I have issues with this series so far and this book particularly. For one, it is too short and tries to contain too much information, splitting the contents until there is barely any dialogue per page and most of the interactions are thoughts and observed glaces and touches due to the switching of point of views around the characters. Laine is an interesting character, b This book leaves me conflicted about its contents, while Mell Eight is an author who I have established that I enjoy her books, I have issues with this series so far and this book particularly. For one, it is too short and tries to contain too much information, splitting the contents until there is barely any dialogue per page and most of the interactions are thoughts and observed glaces and touches due to the switching of point of views around the characters. Laine is an interesting character, but he is then described as being removed from his emotions, while having clearly displayed them, the only difference being the addition later on of the emotions of happiness and love which is hardly the broad spectrum. There is no antagonism to his relationship apart from a sulky brother who is brushed off despite being separated from his twin for a period of time and his own mental shackles needing to be dealt with. The development of the relationship goes from nothing to everything, where the act of removing the physical shackles is all it takes for Laine to fall hard for his mate and spend the rest of the book giving sappy looks and tutting at his brother for not falling instantly. The brother in question Baine spends the first half of the book as a sulky invalid whose opinion and thoughts are dismissed because he's young and naïve and then at the drop of the hat he completely changes his outlook and everything is rainbows just as his mate declared all along. The change of attitude after being shown the expanse of jewels Dean owns makes me think he's a gold digger rather than the fated mates bonding as suggested. I think my issue with the book is that it's short but rushed. It focuses on odd points that slow the pace and the relationships aren't the focus, just the occasional understanding look is apparently enough to show eternal devotion. As other reviewers have pointed out, the parents are mentioned briefly without emotion throughout the book, but near the end the twins feelings for the parents goes from neutral to hatred because of how they were being used, but had at no point previously been mentioned as though it was added as an afterthought to entice readers emotions. And there seem to be a lot of unnecessary explanations in the descriptions in this book. As an example: "Reese asked again in a voice that lacked any traces of worry that he was hurting Laine by treating his parents so callously." Is something I consider to be awkward phrasing and unnecessary information. One extra tiny thing that annoys me about this book is the "immortality" of all these characters, the suddenly introduced maji who are immortal apart from the fact they've all been killed previously, the 'immortal' magi who have now been wiped out because of their corruption, and the archaic dragons who 'research' but only seem to possess by glittery jewels and nothing tangible to actively tidy apart from sparkles.
Charly – May 24, 2013
Marginally better than the first, but still suffers from subpar writing Warning: This review might contain what some people consider SPOILERS. Rating: 5/10 PROS: - There’s an interesting folklore here, which I’m assuming is original to the story/series. The interweaving of dragons, wolves, humans, and other magical beings in the series is fun. - I like getting to see two romances within the span of a single story. (see cons below also) - Reese’s softness and quiet concern with regard to Laine are ve Marginally better than the first, but still suffers from subpar writing Warning: This review might contain what some people consider SPOILERS. Rating: 5/10 PROS: - There’s an interesting folklore here, which I’m assuming is original to the story/series. The interweaving of dragons, wolves, humans, and other magical beings in the series is fun. - I like getting to see two romances within the span of a single story. (see cons below also) - Reese’s softness and quiet concern with regard to Laine are very sweet. CONS: - Both romances left me wanting far more. The story is so short that the author would have been hard-pressed to create a meaningful romance for *one* couple; dividing the time between *two* couples just doesn’t work well. - The writing consists of mostly telling rather than showing. Here’s an example: “Reese led Laine around the village, pointing out other interesting sights as they went. Laine fell more in love with the place with every new area he saw.” This is all we get on the subject; we don’t actually get to see any of these “interesting sights” in the village. - I don’t like to see exclamation points in books unless they appear in dialogue. If the narrative contains many of them (which is the case with this story--“His hand went right through the tree!”; “Only he suddenly had four hands!”; etc.), they make the writing seem amateurish to me. Overall comments: The writing is still simplistic, but there’s a bit more depth here than in the first story. That said, I found the plot to be anticlimactic and the romances of both couples to be lacking. The sexual attraction and feelings of love are sudden and oversimplified; the first sex scene felt so contrived as to be almost painful for me to read.
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Back to the future: “Chaos and instability Washington’s official policy line” By William Bowles
“In the operation the West conducted on Georgian soil against Russia – South Ossetians were the victims or hostages of it – we can see a rehearsal for an attack on Iran. There is a great deal of “new features” that today are being fine tuned in the theater of military operations.
“…[T]he likelihood of a war against Iran was growing with each passing day, “As a result, the situation in the region will become destabilized…causing chaos and instability” was becoming Washington’s official policy line. — ‘Russian analyst points to link between Georgian attack and Iran’.
All the talk by the major Western powers of a return to the days of the Cold War must surely be a wake up call to us all as to what is in reality the ultimate expression of a resurgent and I might add, desperate, imperialism, the recreation of its historical enemy for the better part of the 20th century, Russia, but is Russia the object of desire here? I think not, at least not directly, Georgia is yet another piece on the chessboard, the question is, do the Russians want to play and if they do, by whose rules?
War has been for the better part of five centuries the ‘solution’ to capitalism’s woes, indeed wars of aggression over resources and competitors is the norm for the major powers of the West. But for a brief period, less than fifty years following the end of WWII, the existence of a nuclear-armed Soviet Union curbed the inevitable drive toward a major conflagration over markets and the imperative for the accumulation of capital, without which capitalism is a dead duck.
So with the former Soviet Union out of the way all the signs pointed to a 21st century dominated by the leading imperialist power, the US; after all, where is the opposition?
But reality has a way upsetting the plans of even the most powerful nation on the planet. I am reminded (again) of a major article that appeared in the Economist following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 which amazingly lamented the passing of the Soviet Union, arguing quite forcefully that without an enemy to drive the economies of the West things could only go from bad to worse and how right they were in spite of the invention of the ‘war on terror’ as a cheap replacement for the war on communism (though an ‘enemy’ which is essentially invisible does have advantages over one which can give as good as it gets).
It’s obvious that the Georgian provocation instigated by the US, is part of a larger and even more ominous scheme of destabilization, but the issue here is more complex than ‘grand schemes of world domination’ because I contend that the real world of the collapsing capitalist economies is now dictating events (which makes the situation even more dangerous for all of us).
First of all, Russia is in the way of the US move Eastward, which is where Georgia plays a vital role, hence the need to get Georgia into NATO. However, as with many of the US’s previous ‘allies’, Saakashvili has proved to be totally unreliable (if not mentally unbalanced), and if as seems more than likely, the US ‘advised’ him to invade Ossetia, it has proved to be yet another strategic blunder, or did the US assume that the Russians would roll over and play dead?
Either way, under the circumstances the ‘Cold War’ card was all that was left to the West, but bluffing is all well and good when playing poker but not when the game is chess.
But the Western ‘allies’ are in a bit of a bind, especially the EU members who are divided over what action, if any, to take, especially France and Germany whose economic ties to Russia are at risk. The UK predictably, has been banging the war drums, under the guise of defending ‘new democracies’:
“There was a strong element of what Miliband does best: preaching democracy to new democracies – which are more than converted to the principle – while asking for little in return for his praise that would be awkward for them to give.” — ‘David Miliband at last delivers the right words in the right haircut’, The Times, August 27, 2008.
And in another Times piece, we read:
“David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, also flew to Ukraine to assemble the “widest possible coalition against Russian aggression” — ‘Cold War tension rises as Putin talks of Black Sea confrontation’, The Times, August 28, 2008.
But in actuality, short of going to war, what can the US and its allies actually do? The situation is perhaps revealed by the following quote:
“A former British ambassador to Tbilisi said that Nato might have to send troops to the region. Donald McLaren, who was Ambassador to Georgia from 2004 to July last year and is now retired, told the Today programme on [BBC] Radio 4: “I think we shouldn’t be too complacent or too scared in a situation like this.”
“He suggested that a peacekeeping force made up of troops from the US, Britain, France, Germany and Russia should be sent to Georgia to replace the Russian units. If Moscow rejected such a proposal, he said, Nato had only two choices: “To give up and surrender and say to the Russians, ‘It’s your backyard, you’ve won’, or to put men on the ground to protect Georgia’s sovereignty and the east-west oil and gas pipeline from the Caspian and Central Asia.” [ibid]
The problem for the West is that has no mandate to send troops, so short of an illegal invasion there’s very little it can do:
“Nato diplomatic sources said that no one within the alliance was speaking about sending troops. “We have no mandate to act in the Caucasus” [ibid]
A mini 9/11 in a far-off land?
There’s also no doubt that the inflammatory rhetoric coming out of Washington is directly connected to the November presidential elections and what better way of boosting McCain’s chances of winning than by invoking the ‘Russian menace’ given the almost total ignorance the US public has over what really happened on August 7 and after. And this allegation is now borne out by prime minister Putin’s latest statement.
“Mr Putin told CNN US citizens were “in the area” during the conflict over South Ossetia and were “taking direct orders from their leaders”.
“He said his defence officials had told him the provocation was to benefit one of the US presidential candidates.
“The suspicion arises that someone in the United States especially created this conflict with the aim of making the situation more tense and creating a competitive advantage for one of the candidates fighting for the post of US president.” — ‘Putin blames US for Georgia role’, BBC Website, 28 August, 2008
And Putin’s allegations are not without substance. Only days before Georgia attacked Southern Ossetia individuals from the Republican Party were in Georgia.
“And so it was that a team from the vice president’s office, U.S. security officials and others were in Georgia several days before the war began.” — ‘Why was Cheney’s Guy in Georgia Before the War?’ By James Gerstenzang.
And given that the Georgian armed forces have been armed by the US and Israel, drawing such conclusions is not surprising.
Clearly though, provoking the Russians into taking military actions was not unexpected, even the desired outcome, as it provided the US and its capos, with the perfect propaganda weapon, one which was promoted in a very specific way from the onset of the war, namely it was Russian, not Georgian aggression that was the cause. Georgia has been consistently presented as the ‘David’, conveniently ignoring the fact that it is directly (and openly) a US/Israeli client state.
As I have indicated elsewhere, from the hour Georgia launched its blitzkreig on the capital, the Western media and the states downplayed or ignored the Georgian attack and focused instead on Russsian ‘aggression’, a theme which they have maintained to this day.
Then there is the ceasefire document drawn up by Sarkozy of France, which when the US read it objected quite strongly to some of its provisions, especially the issue of Russian troop withdrawal.
“U.S. Deputy State Department spokesman Robert Wood said the Russians ‘without a doubt have failed to live up to their obligations under the ceasefire agreement.’
“An immediate concern expressed by all sides involved buffer zones outside of two Georgian breakaway provinces, South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Russia insists it has the right to create these zones under the cease-fire deal, but Wood said, ‘Establishing check-points and buffer zones are definitely not part of the agreement.’
“Wood is of course wrong. Point 5 of the signed ceasefire agreement says:
“Russian forces must go back to positions they held prior to the outbreak of hostilities. Pending an international peace monitoring mechanism, Russian peacekeepers will take additional security measures.” — See also ‘The Mysterious ‘Sarkozy Letter’’ for a complete rundown on the events leading up to the ceasefire and after it had been signed and implemented on August 17.
The devil, as far as the US was concerned lay in the phrase “Russian peacekeepers will take additional security measures”, which can mean anything you want it to and under the circumstances, with the US promising to re-arm Georgia, the Russians would be fools not to take whatever “additional security measures” they felt were needed. And in any case, what right do the US or the EU have to dictate to the Russians how they should respond to an unprovoked attack on its citizens?
Wood, by the way is one of the State Department officials who was in Georgia only days before Georgia invaded.
But it is perhaps Point Six of the Ceasefire Agreement that the West has done its best to destroy:
‘Launch of international discussions on security and stability arrangements for Abkhazia and South Ossetia.’
Instead the West, led by the US and the UK have inflamed the situation by sending an armada into the Black Sea, promised to re-arm Georgia, broken off any meaningful dialog with Russia, and re-invented the Cold War. And in so doing, backed Russia into a corner by refusing to recognize its legitimate rights.
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Force spectroscopy of barnase-barstar single molecule interaction
S. K. Sekatskii, M. Favre, G. Dietler, A. G. Mikhailov, D. V. Klinov, S. V. Lukash, S. M. Deyev
Results of the single molecule force spectroscopy study of specific interactions between ribonuclease barnase and its inhibitor barstar are presented. Experimental data obtained for the force loading rate ranging 2-70 nN/s are well approximated by a single straight line, from which the dissociation barrier of the width of 0.12 nm and height of 0.75-0.85×10-19 J can be inferred. The measured value of specific interaction does not depend on the NaCl concentration. This apparently contradicts the well-known dependence of the binding energy of this pair on the salt concentration, but such a "contradiction" is explained by the insensitivity of the force spectroscopy data to the relatively long-range electrostatic interaction. The latter essentially contributes to the value of barnase-barstar binding energy revealed by biochemical measurements, and it is exactly this electrostatic interaction which is influenced by the salt concentration.
Journal of Molecular Recognition
https://doi.org/10.1002/jmr.1030
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Sekatskii, S. K., Favre, M., Dietler, G., Mikhailov, A. G., Klinov, D. V., Lukash, S. V., & Deyev, S. M. (2010). Force spectroscopy of barnase-barstar single molecule interaction. Journal of Molecular Recognition, 23(6), 583-588. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmr.1030
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In: Journal of Molecular Recognition, Vol. 23, No. 6, 11.2010, p. 583-588.
Sekatskii, SK, Favre, M, Dietler, G, Mikhailov, AG, Klinov, DV, Lukash, SV & Deyev, SM 2010, 'Force spectroscopy of barnase-barstar single molecule interaction', Journal of Molecular Recognition, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 583-588. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmr.1030
Sekatskii SK, Favre M, Dietler G, Mikhailov AG, Klinov DV, Lukash SV et al. Force spectroscopy of barnase-barstar single molecule interaction. Journal of Molecular Recognition. 2010 Nov;23(6):583-588. https://doi.org/10.1002/jmr.1030
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Comment: Over to you, Thina Maziya: “To land this business as a black and relatively young manufacturing entity attests to the fact that the Shoprite Group is indeed committed to giving market access to local entrepreneurs.”
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A little more on the really important people who joined the Woolworths family last week, and no, we’re not talking about the water guys, although Woolies must be relieved that something went unexpectedly right for them on social media for a change. We are, of course, referring to Mr Kneale and Mrs Skweyiya, brought in to shore up the board and help with the difficult decisions the Dapper One will need to make in the next couple years. Mr Kneale, in addition to his general retail experience, brings expertise in the beauty and cosmetics trade, an area in which Woolies seeks to grow, bringing in a wider range of global cosmetic brands and beginning to offer something known as a “cosmeceutical" experience instore. Beauty experienced strong growth at Clicks during Kneale’s tenure there. On the downside, say some analysts, what the board really needs now is more members with experience in the thorny and arid wastelands of Australian retail.
Comment: Although you don’t necessarily have to choose, do you?
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Pick n Pay The pearly gates
We’re pretty sure the copywriter really, really wanted the client to go with “Meet Your Maker”, but slightly wiser heads prevailed, and what we have is a slightly less fatalistic “Meet The Maker”, an otherwise extremely commendable initiative by Pick n Pay, which is in the midst of a major small-supplier development drive at the moment. “Meet the Maker” involves store space being set aside in an initial eight locations nationwide for the showcasing of small ‘Pick Local’ suppliers and their products, which range from table salt, through cookies to household cleaning products. Pick n Pay, you will recall, launched its Enterprise and Supplier Development (ESD) programme last year with 100 suppliers, whom it supported through enterprise development and training to the tune of R170m.
Comment: A win for the business, a win for small suppliers and a third, special win for the Beloved Country, which needs all the good news it can get right now.
Libstar Twinkle, twinkle
Speaking of private label, which we were just above, those Libstar results. Libstar, you will recall, produces Denny mushrooms, Pringles and the Lancewood dairy range, as well as a whole bunch of private label food for the big retailers, including Woolies, Shoprite and Pick n Pay, and they’ve just released their first set of results since listing last year. How did that go? Not bad, considering: revenue up +12.5% to R9.9bn, and operating profit down -3.5% to R574.9m – the latter due in part to an impairment loss of R42m in its dairy-blend and fruit concentrate beverage division, the future of which is under consideration. The business is focusing its efforts in some promising areas – a new tea plant for the local and export markets, a new soft-cheese facility, and the expansion of its prepared meal operations, to meet demand from a growing convenience sector.
Comment: Promising stuff, after a not-so-good listing and even worse interims. We’ll be keeping an eye on their progress with considerable interest.
Tongaat Hulett, Aspen Bitter pill
Trouble down in the canefields as Tongaat Hulett’s new CEO Gavin Hudson brings in PwC to look over the books, on the suspicion that there was something iffy going on with land sales, which may have been tacked onto the bottom line to give it a bit of a boost before the sales themselves actually went through. As far as we can tell, anyway. To send a further chill down the boxer shorts of worried investors is the fact that PwC were also appointed to have a gander at things just as they were going south at Steinhoff. And in other news of the worrying among the rolling hills north of Durban come calls from punters for Aspen CEO Stephen Saad and deputy Gus Attridge to consider hanging up their white coats for the good of the team. Some analysts believe that in expanding manufacturing capacity ahead of actual sales, Aspen abandoned the model that got it to where it was: a manufacturer of inexpensive generics for emerging markets.
Comment: The boom years of the Mbeki administration saw the growth of some great South African businesses. It is to be hoped that they will ride out the storms of these more difficult years.
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The Economy Reserve your places
The Reserve Bank – operating at time of writing with the independence it has historically enjoyed – deliberates about the interest rate at the end of the month. Which way will it go? If inflation is anything to go by, sideways: the CPI slowed to 4% for the month of January, you will recall, sliding from 4.5% in December, and lower than the predictions of 4.3%. But, it seems likely that the fuel price is in for a jump in the weeks to come, and with electricity 13.8% up on last year, it will also make itself felt in the basket. By the time you clap your eyes on this deathless prose, retail sales for the month of January will have been released, so you’ll known how that went. Year on year, you will recall, 2018 came in at +2.1% compared to +3.1% in 2017.
Comment: Hard times. The businesses that ride these out will be well-positioned for the upswing, when it comes.
International Retailers Bricks and stones
In Germany, Lidl is installing charging points for electric vehicles at 400 of its stores, and competitors Kaufland and Aldi are catching up fast, too. In the US, retailers Walmart and Target are disrupting Amazon right back, with their share prices up +14.16% and +12.73% respectively, while rival Amazon lags at +6.03%. As Walmart and Target head online, paradoxically, their existing stores, doubling as pick-up points, are increasing foot traffic – while online retailer Amazon is only now developing the bricks and mortar stores its shoppers demand.
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Word on the street is that AVI, which turned in a fairly solid set of interims if you take out the footwear component, may be on the lookout for possible acquisitions, at a time when other businesses are looking at restructuring. Possible targets for acquisitions may, say pundits, include units currently owned by Libstar, the Rhodes Food Group, and maybe even Pioneer Foods. Watch this space.
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Larging it on the loyalty front this week are Pick n Pay, who are doubling up on their Smart Shopper Just for You discounts every Thursday through to the 7th of April. Over 520 million cash-off discounts will be loaded onto shoppers accounts, based on their shopping histories. And, presumably, bringing them rushing into the stores to redeem these. Nice work.
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Condition Assessment Helps Calgary Systematically Repair, Replace Water Mains
Published by Bill Jappy April 13, 2016 View Profile
For more than two decades breaks and replacements of water mains in the City of Calgary, Alberta climbed alarmingly. At its peak, the City was coping with a break rate of 70 per 100 km and main replacement surged from about 3 km per year in the early 1970s to more than 30 km by the late 1990s.
“We had areas where the pipes were being eaten alive,” says Roy Brander, who was Calgary’s senior infrastructure engineer until 2015. “In the worst cases, water mains that should have lasted for more than 50 years were being replaced after only seven to 10 years of service.”
Corrosive soil was the culprit. The city was growing rapidly during those years and much of the new development and water infrastructure was built in soil that aggressively attacked metallic pipelines. The City quickly found itself spending about $27 million per year to replace and repair water mains, even as construction costs were skyrocketing during the Alberta oil boom.
Choosing its Battles
Brander and the City fought back, turning to technologies such as PICA SeeSnake condition assessment to help identify the most vulnerable water mains and implement cost-effective management strategies that are contributing to annual savings of about $2 million in averted pipeline repair cost.
SeeSnake is a non-destructive, inline condition assessment tool that uses remote field testing (RFT) technology to measure the actual remaining wall thickness from the inside and outside of a pipeline. The tool precisely locates areas of wall thinning, pitting, holes and cracks along the entire length of pipeline and around the circumference.
In the 1980s and 1990s water mains were replaced in Calgary based on the age of the line and the number of breaks experienced over a set period of time. It wasn’t unusual for four or five breaks to trigger the replacement of the water main for an entire block. Often, Brander says, once the pipeline was removed, corrosion was isolated to only a few sections and the majority of the line could have provided many more years of reliable service.
“SeeSnake condition assessment data gave us the courage to not replace pipelines,” Brander says.“Especially in areas where the pipelines carry a high consequence of failure.”
A crew lowers the SeeSnake tool into a water main through a hydrant, enabling condition assessment be carried out more quickly, for lower cost and without disruptive excavation.
Proactive Strategies
Over 115 km of 6- and 8-in. diameter water mains have been inspected by SeeSnake since the program began in 1998. “You can’t go more than three or four blocks in any direction before coming across a street where the water main has been inspected by SeeSnake,” Brander says. Since SeeSnake can be inserted into these mains through a hydrant, inspections can be conducted quickly and easily with little disruption to the neighbouring community and businesses.
Data from SeeSnake condition assessment was incorporated into detailed maps that show areas of pitting, corrosion and wall thinning. These maps also show soil resistivity, soil acidity, chloride levels, sulfate levels and redox potential, which was obtained from hundreds of thousands of soil tests taken around the City’s metallic pipe network. This information was used to identify pipelines that were at the greatest risk of failure, predict where breaks would occur and respond proactively.
“Pipeline corrosion occurs at a linear pace,” Brander says. “We can extend the data to predict when a pipe will fail and experience through holes.”
This strategy enabled Brander and his team to identify areas that were more susceptible to failure and, in some cases, conduct additional SeeSnake inspections to verify localized corrosion in a water main and make repairs to small sections. The savings were huge since the City could avoid the early replacement of the entire main on a street, which sometimes stretched up to 400 m long.
SeeSnake’s precision was part of the reason Calgary’s program worked so well. Each run of the tool would not only reveal holes, but also the precise locations of pits and the actual amount of pipeline that remained, expressed as a percentage.
This is a major advantage over other technologies that are limited to leak detection or measurements of average remaining wall thickness. Measuring average remaining wall thickness can reveal how much of a pipe section has corroded, but doesn’t show how it is distributed across the pipe or if corrosion is concentrated in a particular area.
Even when holes exist, Brander says that replacement may not be needed immediately. For example, SeeSnake may show graphitization and through holes in a section of thick-walled cast iron pipeline that is buried in heavy clay soil. The heavy soil often holds the graphite plug in place for quite some time so repair is not urgently required. Brander says that farther down the same length, defects may be in looser soil so he will address those sooner because he knows they are more likely to leak.
Program Pays for Itself
Calgary’s approach to water main risk assessment and management is paying off in a big way. Pipeline condition assessment data provided by SeeSnake has enabled the City to proactively target problem areas and address breaks before they happen. Using this strategy, breaks in metallic pipelines dropped continually during Brander’s term at the City and went from 600 per year to less than 250 per year. SeeSnake inspections have also assisted the City to dramatically reduce the amount of pipeline that is replaced — cutting the work from about 35 km annually to only 6 km in recent years.
“The program paid for itself,” Brander says. “In Calgary, condition assessment was about one tenth the cost of replacement, so if we averted or delayed replacement once out of every ten inspections, we were breaking even.”
But Calgary was doing much better than that. “SeeSnake helped the City to maintain a pipeline replacement budget at $10 million per year for several years despite skyrocketing construction costs,” Brander says.
Fighting Corrosion
SeeSnake’s biggest benefit for Calgary, according to Brander, was in helping to decide where to apply cathodic protection to prevent corrosion and extend the life of water mains. Cathodic protection is widely used in Alberta’s oil and gas industry to protect pipelines and Brander believed that the proven technology could have a big impact in helping Calgary win its battle against corrosion in its water mains.
“We used SeeSnake to identify pipelines that were just about to fail. Those that had pits with about five percent remaining wall thickness., Brander says. These pipelines, according to Brander, had about two to five years of life left and would reap the greatest economic benefit from cathodic protection. Once the anode was applied, it would prevent corrosion to the pipe and extend its life by 20 years, deferring construction costs and disruption to the community.
SeeSnake also found many areas where pipelines were experiencing heavy corrosion, but not to a degree that warranted immediate anode retrofit. “We made notes to revisit those sites in a decade or two and attach anodes then,” Brander says.
Anodes also became a standard component for metallic water mains in new development and were attached every time a water main was repaired. Though the City now uses PVC pipe for new development and pipe replacement, hundreds of kilometres of metallic pipe is still in service. SeeSnake will continue to play an important role in managing that infrastructure, according to Brander, though he has doubts as to whether many of those pipes may actually be removed.
He says that new technologies to refurbish pipelines may make more economic sense than replacement. This approach, combined with SeeSnake condition assessment and accurate soil maps may help Calgary and other cities with aging pipelines reduce the cost of water main replacement even more.
Bill Jappy is director of sales and marketing for PICA Corp.
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UEFA Champions League 2019/20: Manchester City vs Lyon – tactical analysis
Another interesting game in the UEFA Champions League 2019/20, where all teams are in Lisbon and no one would want to leave after just one game. Between the clash of Manchester City and Lyon, Rudi Garcia and Pep Guardiola were trying hard to get into the semi-final.
The game at Estádio José Alvalade was an exciting battle, and the result must be extremely painful to City fans. Guardiola was criticized for overthinking once again, but is it really the situation?
This tactical analysis will answer the above question, not judging by the results, but by the process, details and tactics of the managers.
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Manchester City were playing indifferently tonight, it was more like a back three with Aymeric Laporte, Fernandinho and Eric García playing as the central defenders. Rodrigo Hernández, İlkay Gündoğan and Kevin De Bruyne playing at the midfield. David Silva, Bernardo Silva, Riyad Mahrez and Phil Foden were all benched.
Lyon started in a very predictable and usual 3-5-2 formation in Portugal. Unsurprisingly, Moussa Dembélé did not start as Memphis Depay was available, who partnered Karl Toko Ekambi as the forwards.
Positional play analysis
The defensive scheme of Lyon was predictable, in the continental competitions, as Garcia would not risk exposing the backline by playing in a back four. Instead, the default shape was a back five, asymmetrically leaning on the ball-side. The below image was an example from the Juventus game, where Lyon were using the same approach. One of the features of this shape was the flexibility to lock the wide areas, as the ball-side wing-back pair out extremely early to the opposition wing-back or full-back, it was a 4-4-2 permanently.
However, the shifting process was often imperfect, as the remaining four at the back were stretched. This potentially created a lot of separations and isolations, especially the centre-backs were defending in a man-oriented manner. Leaving the defensive considerations, the main strategy of City was to exploit these gaps and issues to create the opportunities.
The tactics somehow worked quite well on the left flank, probably because the right-footed left wing-back – João Cancelo was a special weapon. The wrong-footed player offered the diagonality to open the through-ball passing lanes towards Raheem Sterling, who preferred to make runs behind the defence. The below scenario was one of many examples, Cancelo recognized the run of Sterling. City capitalised on the chaos during the shift, Bruno Guimarães did not follow the runner tightly, and allowed Sterling to receive the ball in the penalty box.
Apart from the diagonality of Cancelo, another factor that led to this approach was the personnel at Lyon’s defence. Comparatively, Jason Denayer was far less aggressive and strong than Marçal, it was easier to exploit the dynamics during the shift on this flank. It seems the defensive line of Lyon was set way lower than the Juventus games, perhaps 4-6 yards deeper. This limited spaces available behind the backline for Sterling to exploit, perhaps this has saved the day, as the English international was forced to face the sideline, unable to cross and meet the central targets.
To further exploit the structure and setups of Lyon, Gündoğan utilized his runs and movements to manipulate the marker – Maxence Caqueret. The right midfielder of Lyon was often tasked to man-mark the runners, comparatively, Houssem Aouar on the other flank was a different type of player, seldom offering the same service.
A very important task was on the central defenders of City, as they have to carry the ball forward to join the attack. The back three should have offered the flexibility to do this, for other reasons, this did not work well. However, when Laporte adapted to the rhythm, his comfortability on the ball was a great asset to break into the left flank, creating opportunities as explained in the above example.
Since the strikers of Lyon were not too committed in the defensive side usually, City always possessed a 4 v 3 numerical advantage on the left (Laporte, Cancelo, Sterling and Gündoğan vs Léo Dubois, Denayer and Caqueret). This suggests a free player should be available to develop the attack.
An ideal example was shown below, which was another common pinning strategy of Guardiola – placing the key player between the centre-back and wing-back, occupying both. This would double-up to create a temporary 2 v 1 against the wing-back, with Cancelo below. Despite this was a 3 v 3, City still utilized the free man to progress.
To construct the attack with more spaces, Gündoğan reduced the frequency of forward runs to keep Caqueret higher. This could open larger spaces in this region, freeing Laporte to connect with Cancelo, or join in with De Bruyne.
However, there were some issues for the change of game plan. In this system, the centre-backs were responsible to initiate an attack. It took the defenders around 25 mins to settle the tactics, before of the half-hour mark, the Citizens failed to register any shots.
This was why García started the game, as he was also good on-the-ball , so could execute the instructions. A very important condition to be achieved was to manipulate the second line, if the pass were played too early, Lyon midfielders could easily adjust their positions and catch the receivers.
The defenders must be brave to bring the ball forward and be able to read the game. García did extremely well in this example, resulted in one of the best chances of City in the first half. Before praising De Bruyne’s incredible pass, the Spanish defender had done a lot. He carried the ball forward, took three to four touches, and only released his pass after two Lyon midfielders – Guimarães and Caqueret moved closer. This guaranteed De Bruyne was receiving the ball without instant pressure and with spaces. Also, Denayer was never aggressive to deal with these situations.
However, not everyone could execute this tactic well. As a negative example here, Rodri played the pass too early to Walker, although there was no real pressure from the forwards.
It was an accurate ground pass to Walker, but it took less than a second for Aouar to close the right wing-back. The timing and circumstance to pass were suboptimal from Rodri.
The structure of City was asymmetrical, so it hindered the development of the right flank. Usually, Fernandinho played the long passes and the attack of City ended, as the faster the ball goes, the faster it comes back. Why was the same scenario kept happening?
Part of the issue was the starting positions of Sterling and Jesus. They were staying on the opposite flank, and the Brazilian striker almost never makes the diagonal runs to exploit spaces available during the shift. Here, despite Walker and De Bruyne created huge spaces, the front players were not interested in getting into those areas to create the dynamics of offering options.
Without supportive runs, another issue appeared. As a right-footed player, Walker was receiving the ball with Maxwel Cornet instantly pressing his receiving foot. The only viable central option was De Bruyne, only if he dropped, as Rodri was less mobile to support. This was impossible to progress unless Walker took on Cornet and drove to the byline, but the right wing-back almost never got the time to adjust his body to do so.
Mahrez in, was everything normal?
Many say the introduction of Mahrez has changed the game, it was true, but it was not totally because of the shift of formation (3-5-2 to 4-3-3). The Algerian winger was a lot better in the final third, and also offered the quality to take on defenders or receiving long passes. The use of Mahrez also balanced the attack, pinning Lyon deeper. Around 55 minutes, another forward of Lyon – Toko Ekambi, had to drop as the wide midfielder, with Garcia hoping to restrict the impact of Cancelo by the numerical balance.
Instead, most chances of City in the second half were coming from transitions instead of positional plays. Despite reverting to a usual 4-3-3, some issues remained, and the build-up was not that good.
To offer protection to the back four, Gündoğan and Rodri now stayed deeper, not even trying to get behind of the Lyon second line. This has totally lost manipulation of the second line, the attacks lost the dynamics they had when even three layers were available (3-2-5). When the centre-backs were carrying the ball forward, they would never pick the pivots as they were marked so early. City were still trying some long balls or cross-field balls to simply things, but duelling and physicality was never the strength of this team. Laporte played diagonally to Mahrez here, and nothing was achieved.
This was how the second goal was conceded. Yes, it was an error from Laporte, but the underlying issue was the lack of dynamism. Gündoğan and Rodri were staying too deep again, leaving Sterling as the only viable option for Laporte.
Despite the passing lanes seeming to be opened, this was liked a pressing trap when Caqueret recognized the intention and intercepted the ball. This shape also lost control of Aouar in the transitions, whenever he got the ball, Lyon were great, and a counter-attack opportunity occurred. We will dive deeper into this part later.
Apart from the structural issues in the positional plays, in general, the performance of City was below par. After four seasons under Pep, City should be quick, flexible, and rotating in tight spaces. However, those threatening combinations were unseen in Portugal and City failed to break the block effectively.
As an example, Rodri had the ball and two teammates were supporting the midfielder below, Jesus was occupying two players and Mahrez had a 1 v 1. There were many combinations plays to progress but Rodri did not even try to find these two players. Instead, he dribbled inward and tried to play the cross-field pass, being intercepted.
Off-the-ball and control
The reason Pep and his team chose a back three was also because of preventing the counter-attacks of Lyon. Garcia’s team played with two strikers, and both were unselfish runners, especially, Toko Ekambi, who made a lot of forward runs. Merely leaving the centre-backs to deal with the duo was risky, and the backline of City was unstable this campaign. Playing Fernandinho on Depay’s side would be a mismatch physically in the 1 v 1s. If asking the pivot to help the centre-backs, then, Aouar would be totally free, which was also dangerous.
Playing in a back three allowed City to control the transitions better. In the first half, Lyon were almost silent in the transitions, did not create any opportunity from the counter-attacks. Fernandinho did a tremendous job to control Aouar, either by fouling him or pressing him instantly.
The example was demonstrated below. When playing against two strikers, without the +1 superiority could be dangerous, if not Fernandinho covering Depay below, the Dutchman striker could be driving towards the goal.
Subbing in Mahrez and taking Fernandinho out of the backline had improved the offensive performance of the team, but City also paid the price when defending. Apart from the second goal, in fact, the signal had warned a few minutes before, when Lyon broke the press, unbalanced the City defence and left Walker 1 v 1 against Cornet on the far side. If not for Walker’s alert to clear the danger from the long pass, City might have considered earlier.
Also, abandoning the back three also left Aouar uncontrollable in most cases, including the below case and how City have conceded the second goal.
What caused City to lose the game was the pressing, a long-lasted issue from this campaign. Since the post-lockdown, Guardiola always tried to press without pushing the backline high, failed at Stamford Bridge when using a 4-3-3 press against Chelsea. In this game, it was too difficult to press Lyon with the front three plus pivots, the opposition centre-backs were unreachable when they stretched the backline.
Even Jesus could mark Guimarães, the numerical deficit in the midfield was not nullified since the Lyon striker, as Depay could drop to support. Here, Rodri and Gündoğan were dragged away by the midfielders, respectively. De Bruyne was not defending enough today, the carrier in his zone always received less pressure and have the time to play the ball, including this example.
This was a very similar issue in the first conceded goal, attributed to a collapsed press. Here, De Bruyne approached Marcelo without using the curved-run to cover Marçal, leaving the wide centre-back free to play the out-ball. Meanwhile, the pivots were immobile to travel large horizontal distances to cover the defence.
Whenever losing a game like this, Guardiola is overthinking, everyone forgets City have tried a back three in late 2019, I still remember Pep received a lot of praises because of it. If City go to the game with a very “usual” 4-3-3 formation, the exposed backline is very likely to concede in the transitions, similar to the second half, who should be guilty?
Based on the pre-game analysis and long-lasted issue of the team, Pep has chosen to adapt and control, the decisions are not out of nonsense, on the contrary, they all make sense if you watched Lyon this season. Another year of disappointment when looking at the result, but these situations are becoming a mental issue for City to surpass. The responsibility is on all parties, and City have to break into the semi-final in the future.
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The High Court has issued a stern warning to former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak over his Facebook post on former Bank Negara governor Tan Sri Dr Zeti Akhtar Aziz.
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— Free Malaysia Today (@fmtoday) January 7, 2021
Ho Kit Yen – January 7, 2021 2:53 PM
KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court warned Najib Razak today not to continue his “attacks” against former Bank Negara Malaysia governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz, who is a witness in his 1MDB corruption case.
Judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah granted an order sought by the prosecution after hearing arguments from both sides.
“The accused cannot make statements as if the trial is conducted in public domain. No statement must be made in the course of the trial,” Sequerah said.
He said the former prime minister’s Facebook posts against Zeti were tantamount to “an attack against the witness”.
“The court will take necessary action to preserve its integrity,” he said.
Ad hoc prosecutor Gopal Sri Ram had told the court earlier that Zeti had been listed as one of the prosecution’s witnesses.
He said Najib knew she would be called as the prosecution had served its witness list to the defence in August 2019.
The prosecution sought an order to warn Najib after the MalaysiaToday portal, run by blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin, claimed that Zeti’s husband and two sons had received over RM100 million in funds from businessman Low Taek Jho, or Jho Low, the mastermind behind the 1MDB scandal.
Responding to the report, Najib urged Zeti to speak up against the allegations, citing that she came out with a statement in May 2018 to declare that she was unaware of the existence of funds or transactions in his bank accounts.
In a statement, Zeti denied the allegations and said she would not be able to make any further comments as she was a potential witness in Najib’s 1MDB trial.
Najib’s lawyer, Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, told the court the reason cited by the prosecution to move for a court order to warn him was “flawed”.
He said Zeti was the one who had launched “attacks” against Najib since he was charged in court with misappropriating RM42 million from SRC International, a former 1MDB subsidiary, in 2018.
“She further made comments in a financial magazine, Euromoney, during the course of the SRC International trial, where she said BNM knew about 1MDB since 2013 and she had raised the matter with the prime minister.
“If we were asked who cast the first stone, it was her and that prejudiced his (Najib’s) trial,” he said.
Shafee also claimed that then attorney-general Tommy Thomas knew about Zeti’s statements during the course of the SRC International trial but “he did nothing”.
The defence maintained that Najib’s action in asking Zeti to “speak out” on the allegations against her family did not come under the ambit of contempt.
“Unless he threatened her, then it’ll be another story. This matter should not be taken any further. This proceeding is a warning to everyone here in court and they are better educated now,” Shafee said.
Deputy public prosecutor Ahmad Akram Gharib told the court that Shafee raised a crucial point in his argument, when the lawyer pointed out that “everyone has learned a lesson”.
“Either way, the counsel ‘agreed’ something wrong was done here.
“She (Zeti) did not make any personal attacks against the former prime minister in the two news reports. In the 2018 news report, she was responding to his statement on her,” he said
Akram said the defence did not call Zeti to testify on its behalf in the SRC International trial to “set the record straight” on the news reports, adding that she was one of the prosecution witnesses offered to the defence.
https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2021/01/07/halt-attacks-against-zeti-judge-tells-najib/
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Court warns Najib over FB post ‘attacking’ Zeti
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1MDB TRIAL
The High Court has warned Najib Abdul Razak to refrain from attacking prosecution witness and former Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz on social media.
Judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah issued the warning during the former premier’s RM2.28 billion 1MDB corruption trial in Kuala Lumpur this morning.
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Career Services at West Coast University-Los Angeles rolled out the coffee cart this February, to remind students that it's never too early to prepare for entering the workforce.
"We want students to know they can always come to us for help, and not just when they are close to graduation," WCU-Los Angeles Career Services Director Arpine Zohrabyan said.
Upcoming WCU-LA Events
April 12: Career Fair; 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Career Services is also offering no-cost professional headshots for websites like LinkedIn
May 4: Nacho Average Career Services event
Career Services hosts a Resource Fair with a Cinco de Mayo theme and nacho bar.
Besides free mochas, lattes and cappuccinos, Career Services provided students with advice on the best way to look for their dream job or continue their education after graduation.
Samantha Delgado, a representative from Ceders-Sinai's volunteer services, was also on hand to answer questions about becoming a certified nursing assistant or volunteer at the non-profit hospital.
"We're looking for self-starters, folks who can work independantly, that have great interpersonal skills and are just eager to learn or help in any way they can," she said.
Delgado said many of the full-time nurses at her hospital love taking the student-volunteers under their wing and showing them what it really feels like to work in a hosptial.
"It's really a great opportunity to build relationships with our nurses," Delgado said, adding that about 50 of the registered nurses (RNs) on staff used to volunteer at the hospital.
WCU Career Services offers students and graduates with career assistance, including help with writing resumes and cover letters, interview preparation, individualized career advice, portfolio development and more.
WCU cannot guarantee employment. Programs vary by campus. The views and opinions expressed are those of the individuals and do not necessarily reflect the beliefs or position of the school or of any instructor or student. For graduation rates, median debt of graduates completing this program and other important information, visit westcoastuniversity.edu/disclosures.
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Is Apple Abusing its Monopoly Power? With David Heinemeier Hansson - WBD234
Date: Wednesday, 17th June
Project: Basecamp
Role: Founder & CTO
New concerns have been raised around Apple's business model after the company rejected future updates for Basecamp's newly launched email app Hey. Apple initially approved the app, but then put it on hold — meaning Basecamp couldn't submit any updates or bug fixes until it added an option for users to subscribe to Hey's service through an in-app purchase.
Basecamp has disputed this decision, saying it shouldn't be forced to allow users to sign up for Hey through in-app purchase, subjecting then to Apple's 30% tax on its subscription fee.
HEY's predicament has highlighted inconsistencies in Apple's policy execution, having allowed other apps with similar business models to exist in the App Store without mandatory in-app subscriptions. They have also made exemptions for streaming applications and rivals; Amazon and Netflix.
The case has raised questions about how Apple is operating and whether it's exercising an anti-competitive advantage over services from third-party developers.
HEY's fight comes as the company is already facing two EU antitrust investigations after Spotify and other firms filed similar complaints to those raised by Basecamp.
In this bonus episode, I talk to Basecamp Founder & CTO, David Hansson. We discuss Apple’s threats to remove their email app HEY from the App Store and Apple’s monopolistic business model.
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Sometimes, the most dangerous criminals and infamous villains the Doctor faces can't be allowed to roam free. However, most of the time within the Whoniverse, the prisons they're locked up in are just as deadly.
From creepy maze-like hotels to forgotten Time Lord prisons, these secure facilities aim to keep the worst of the worst from terrorising the universe, but you wouldn't want to find yourself locked up there!
It wouldn't be uncommon, as some of these facilities hold prisoners who really shouldn't be there. Even the Doctor has been arrested and thrown into these high-tech complexes alongside unforgettable mortal enemies and unsuspecting allies.
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This list aims to unlock some of Doctor Who's most intriguing, mysterious and impregnable prison ships and space-jails and reveal which despicable criminals or innocent inmates have served time there.
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Julie Orloske’s Photo Captures the Beauty of Morning Raindrops
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More ludicrous erasure: students at Brown demand removal of two Roman statues, while students at UW Madison vote to remove Lincoln statue
At Brown University there are two bronze copies of statues of Roman emperors. One is of Marcus Aurelius:
. . . and the other is of Caesar Augustus (sources of both photos, and a discussion of the statues’ history, are here)
Well, all statues these days are subject to intense scrutiny, and a group of 6 students representing “Decolonization at Brown” (endorsed by 28 student organizations at the University, including the Brown Birding Club), wrote a petition/letter at the Blogonian—an independent student newspaper at Brown University—about the two monuments. The students and groups strongly assert that the two statues are harmful because they exemplify white supremacy and values and thus are offensive to students of color. They have to come down!
Read (click on screenshot) and weep:
What’s telling about all the beefing is that the claim that the statues symbolize colonialism and white supremacy, and were put up to show that Brown was trying to inculcate its students with whiteness, are not based on fact, but on student offense. There’s no record of anything intentions to codify white supremacy. Rather, the statues were clearly erected to symbolize Rome as an antecedent of Western culture and philosophy. Some quotes from the beef above:
Last spring, Brown’s Public Art Committee proposed to restore and relocate the bronze copy of a Roman statue of Augustus, which currently stands in front of the Ratty, using tens of thousands of dollars solicited from an unnamed donor. Under this proposal, the statue would be moved to the Quiet Green, across from the Slavery Memorial.
We strongly oppose this proposal and urge the Public Art Committee—and any community members or donors who are invested in the role of public art at Brown—to replace both the statue of Augustus and the statue of Marcus Aurelius (currently on Ruth Simmons Quad) with new works of art commissioned from local Black and Indigenous artists.
These monuments were brought to our campus with the goal of upholding the ideals of the “perfect” white form, white civilization, white supremacy, and colonialism—ideas that we believe are incompatible with Brown today. Consequently, removing and replacing these statues is a crucial step in confronting such legacies. We see this as a moment of immense opportunity for transformation and reflection, and we hope that the broader campus community, the Public Art Committee, and potential donors will, too.
It goes on and on like this; the language is by now very familiar:
Because they are not actually from ancient Rome, we must understand them as modern monuments to a set of values and political stances which existed when they were commissioned for Brown’s campus.
. . . The connection between the U.S. and Rome is entirely ideological. There is no natural or direct tie between the two—there is only a fabricated lineage of whiteness. Statues made in the Roman-style, like the two at Brown, are intended to materialize this connection. They convey the supposed supremacy of white values over non-white cultures, a reading in which non-white people should learn and aspire to whiteness. Alt-right groups, like the Proud Boys and Identity Evropa, use this idea of “white virtue” to ground white supremacy.
. . . To the significant number of students, staff, and faculty at Brown today who are not white, these statues function as a constant reminder that Black, Indigenous, and people of color are not included within Brown’s conception of the University community. The presence of these statues is therefore not only incompatible with, but violates Brown’s stated commitment to inclusion, equity, and change.
The authors and supporting organizations call for the complete removal of the statues.
I deny, first of all, that these statues are harmful, or that any students genuinely feel offended by them (there’s also an antiracist monument calling attention to Brown’s involvement in slavery). The offended, I argue are pretending to be offended, using offense as a means of asserting power—of making the campus do what they want. If these statues are removed because Rome engaged in expansion, well, let’s just write off every monument to Greece and Rome, both bellicose empires, but also empires that helped form the ideals of the West. And why not expunge all Roman and Greek writing from the curriculum as well?
At least one student— a woman of color—has pushed back in an article at the Brown Daily Herald, another student newspaper. While Bhaskar could use some lessons in how to write more simply (I’d recommend her reading Strunk and White or Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language”), she does make the point that what goes for statues can also go for curricula. After all, if a Roman statue is offensive, what’s to ensure that readings of Roman and Greek thinkers won’t be expunged, too? No more Meditations of Marcus Aurelius the Colonizer and White Supremacist.
A quote from Bhaskar:
Now, more than ever, the world needs graduates and scholars who are able to recognize the many intricacies and layers of the past and who can use this multifaceted knowledge to consume historical and artistic vestiges of the past with intentionality and a capacity to use such lessons to guide progress. The University must move beyond tendencies to censor “uncomfortable” or “controversial” topics that fail to echo the outspoken post-modernist and left-leaning images associated with Brown in favour of upholding the tenets of free inquiry and the preservation of nuance within the exploration of historical relics. Outlining tangible steps for creating robust anti-racist curricula, while equipping students with the patience, wisdom, and skill-set to grapple with uncomfortable realities and relics of the past, is crucial for the University to uphold its mission of “communicating and preserving knowledge and understanding in a spirit of free inquiry.”
There’s one student who’s much wiser and more thoughtful than the many who have a kneejerk reaction to classical statues as symbols of “white supremacy.”
Meanwhile, on the campus of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, a statue of Abraham Lincoln sits in front of the administration building atop a hill. I saw this when I visited Madison to speak at the FFRF:
Well, Lincoln is in bad odor, too, these days. Lincoln! The man who fought a war against those who wished to preserve slavery, and issued the Emancipation Proclamation! Why Lincoln? Well, read and weep again:
A group of students are calling for the removal of the Abraham Lincoln statue at the top of Bascom Hill on the UW-Madison campus.
This comes after protesters took down two statues on the state Capitol grounds: one embodying the state’s motto “Forward” and another of Civil War Union Army Col. Hans Christian Heg. The students say despite the former president’s role in the abolition of slavery, he had a racist past in supporting the notion of a “superior” white race.
“I just think he did, you know, some good things…the bad things that he’s done definitely outweighs them,” Nalah McWhorter, president of the Wisconsin Black Student Union, told the Badger Herald.
Lincoln was memorialized on the university campus for his role in creating land grant universities, of which UW-Madison is one. The land for the campuses was largely seized from Native American tribes in 1862 through the Morrill Act. Lincoln also ordered the execution of 38 Dakota men that same year.
The students say the sum of the former president’s actions warrant taking down the statue.
“And I do want the 100% removal of the statue. I don’t want it to be moved somewhere or anything like that. I want it removed,” McWhorter said.
And on what basis did “the bad things Lincoln did definitely outweight the good ones”? Does Ms. McWhorter know how many lives were saved or made better by the ending of slavery in America? Yes, Lincoln did order the execution of 38 Dakota tribesmen who killed settlers and soldiers, but he also commuted the death sentences of many more of the convicted. But against that we must measure Lincoln’s legacy, and I can’t imagine what kind of mind would decide that Lincoln caused more harm than good. Again, I assert that this is faux outrage disguising an attempt to get power over a university. Removing a statue of Lincoln, or of Roman emperors, will do exactly nothing to ameliorate racism or better the opportunities for minorities.
In fact, following a student petition with many demands, the first of which was to remove the Lincoln statue (it also demanded the abolition of the campus police), a resolution was brought before the student government demanding attention to BIPOC demands, including doing something about the Lincoln statue, one of the “remnants of this school’s history of white supremacy.” According to Campus Reform, a right-wing site, the student government passed that resolution unanimously.
I don’t know what’s worse: these student demands to remove statues that not only honor great men, but remind us of history, or the pusillanimous administrators who bow to those demands. Northwestern President Morton Schapiro is a welcome exception, but after the students and African-American Studies Department castigated Schapiro’s hard-nosed response to defund-the-cops protestors, he’s showing signs of caving.
For those who think that all this madness will end when Biden is elected, I wouldn’t hold my breath. The students have had a taste of power, and they won’t stop until they’re running the asylum.
Posted on October 28, 2020 October 28, 2020 by whyevolutionistruePosted in censorship, college students behaving badly, history, wokeness Posted at 10:15 am
60 thoughts on “More ludicrous erasure: students at Brown demand removal of two Roman statues, while students at UW Madison vote to remove Lincoln statue”
GBJames says:
Makes me a bit embarrassed to remember that I was a student at UW once.
DrBrydon says:
Yes, there is no slippery slope; it’s a waterslide. We already know that the Wokiees are committed to “decolonizing” everything. Truth is just another aspect of white supremacy.
Kevin Henderson says:
A waterfall. Why any statues then? Like not even caricatures of anyone or anything. Even Mickey Mouse, surely, offends someone, somewhere.
Mussolini called Mickey Mouse “the most miserable ideal ever created. Mice are dirty.” He was a fan of Popeye, however.
As long as we are banning symbols of colonialism, are we going to ban any statues of Hispanics from Latin America? They stole the land from indigenous people.
blitz442 says:
Homo sapiens probably displaced other hominins so yeah, no statues of any modern humans anywhere ever again.
ThyroidPlanet says:
Important footnote or asterisk — the “McWhorter” is not John McWhorter — I had to read that twice to snap out of it.
daniaq says:
I think the pusillanimous administrators who bow to those demands are worse.. . I just can’t… This is so depressing.
Nicolaas Stempels says:
“I don’t know what’s worse: these student demands to remove statues that not only honor great men, but remind us of history, or the pusillanimous administrators who bow to those demands.”
I hope you used that ‘I don’t know what’s worse’ as a way of speaking. I’m sure you think these administrators are worse (at least I do). These students are youngsters, barely out of puberty, with very ‘influenceable’, often wild ideas and goals, while the administrators are supposed to know better, have a more matured view of things.
whyevolutionistrue says:
Lincoln’s statue will be removed from Bascom Hall only over the body of UW System President Tommy Thompson. He will never allow it(nor should he, or his successors).
Ken Kukec says:
I should think a former governor like Thompson would be less reticent about throwing his weight around than an academic bureaucrat who came up through the ranks.
If I’m recalling correctly, during the rough and tumble of his political career, Thompson was given to the occasional gaffe, but rarely shy about sharing his opinions. 🙂
revelator60 says:
I wish President Thompson all the luck in the world combatting these self-righteous fools. He’ll need it.
Randall Schenck says:
I would not think that Biden’s election would have anything to do with this. These children live on another planet not connected to this country’s own history or people. The only thing to be said is they are dead wrong and apparently have no business studying history in the first place. Without Lincoln, or Washington for that matter, it is doubtful if we would even have a country. If the children do not know this, I certainly cannot help them.
Steve Gerrard says:
We have seen how effective Trump was at countering wokeness during the last four years, i.e. not at all. The notion that presidents control popular culture is a bit daft. They also don’t control what kind of music people listen to or what kind of hair styles people wear.
Historian says:
Did Lincoln make what by today’s standards would be considered racist pronouncements? Yes. Did he for most of his career support the idea of colonization, the proposal to ship freed blacks out of the country? Yes. Did he believe prior to the war that the federal government had no power to interfere with slavery in the states that it already existed? Yes. But, let’s consider what he did when he attained the presidency.
First, he ordered the used of armed force to oppose secession. It is not at all certain that any of the other major political figures of the times that could conceivably have become president in 1861, including his Republican rivals for the nomination in 1860, would have done this. Thus, it is probable that if it were not for Lincoln, an independent slave republic of at least seven states would have come into existence. How long slavery would have continued to exist in this new country is anyone’s guess, but probably at least for 50 years. After that, probably some sort of apartheid system would have been initiated. In addition, slavery would have remained legal in those slave states that had not seceded.
Second, Lincoln continued the war even when things were going badly for the Union. If, in fact, another president was in command and surprisingly had resisted secession by using force may very well have thrown in the towel.
Third, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation and then supported the 13th amendment, which abolished slavery. We cannot be at all sure that any other president would have issued an Emancipation Proclamation.
The ignorant protestors have no idea what this country may have turned out to be if it were not for Lincoln. As all extremists of whatever ilk, they exhibit a common trait: the demand for purity. And, in Lincoln’s case, they probably do not realize how he evolved over the years.
Chewy says:
The execution of the Dakota in Mankato was a tragedy, but the student’s summary (ordered execution of 38) perhaps typifies the attitude and ignorance of this group. Lincoln personally reviewed the trial transcripts of over 300 who were condemned to death, and personally saved 264 of them, plus one more at the last minute. And that during the midst of the Civil War.
W.Benson says:
The Indians apparently revolted after the US [Lincoln?] failed to meet its treaty obligations to supply food and left the them — men, women, and children –to starve overwinter on their reservations. Only one indigenous group rebelled, but afterwards Minnesota kicked all off their treaty-guaranteed reservations and deported them to the Dakotas. [This is what I remember offhand of the case, and I may not be entirely accurate] During the Civil War, federally backed railroad construction linking the East to California, with the coming ethnic cleansing of the Great Plains Natives it implied, never ceased.
One of the few good things you can say about the Civil War is that it ended slavery, the Union, as a abstract entity, survived, and Lincoln was never able to put into action his deportation (resettlement) plan for Black people. This course of events was largely due to Lincoln’s incompetency. What can you say of a war in which one young soldier died for each 5 slaves freed? It could have been done better. Much better.
Done better? How so?
His deportation plan? The fact that Lincoln was once in favor of that, as were millions of other people back then, does not in any way mean it was his plan. Thomas Jefferson had the same idea many years before Lincoln. To say Lincoln was incompetent kind of puts up forward as a southern boy? That is where most of that comes from along with the lost cause.
Rowena Kitchen says:
From the 1850s, Lincoln was called an abolitionist by a number of people. The deportation plan was proposed by various individuals in differing iterations, not exclusively by Lincoln. All the issues surrounding slavery and the Civil War were extremely complex, with no easy solution.
Prior to announcing the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln tried to get the northern states to each come up with their own plan for resolution of the slavery issue. They didn’t do it. When a comparatively positive point was reached in the war, he gave the Emancipation Proclamation which freed all the slaves in the Confederacy.
We have fought this war ever since it happened with lots of second guessing. Had any of us been there, I doubt whether we could have handled this enormously complex
set of issues better than Lincoln did.
If Lincoln could have taken steps to prevent the Civil War, then yes you have a point.
I’d like to hear you flesh that out (or at least point to some sources that do).
A good argument demonstrating that Lincoln’s incompetence led to the Civil War would be something that would greatly diminish him in my opinion, and then I could start to entertain arguments to lower his standing in history.
uninterestingthings aka Dominic says:
He was born the same day as Darwin- that’s good enough for me 😌
“If these statues are removed because Rome engaged in expansion, well, let’s just write off every monument to Greece and Rome, both bellicose empires, but also empires that helped form the ideals of the West.”
And basically every other empire and most countries throughout history, including the African, Middle Eastern, Asian, etc., which also engaged in widespread slavery. Heck, even most Native American tribes were “expansionist,” fighting each other for land and enslaving those from other tribes long before Europeans arrived on the scene. But, somehow, I have a feeling that none of the aforementioned empires and tribes will receive the same opprobrium.
Yeah, I’m sure eg. the Comanche ’empire’ leaders would be flattered and cheer with joy in agreement to be called ‘oppressed’.
Yes, there is no empire possible without war and oppression, and ’empires’, big or small, are found all over the place.
Thomas Leahey says:
Cancelling Marcus Aurelius is especially ill considered, because as a Stoic he was opposed to slavery and as Emperor he took numerous steps to improve the lot of slaves, to free them when possible, and to reduce the number of captured enemy soldiers made into slaves, often at risk to his political interests.
See https://donaldrobertson.name/2017/11/05/did-stoicism-condemn-slavery/
Marcus Aurelius is a personal hero to me. His writings have helped me a better person in many ways, from handling hardships to increasing my ability for critical thinking.
Mark R. says:
Indeed, and one just has to read his Meditations to know he was a thoughtful, empathetic, self-conscious and “good” man, trying to become better. But to even try and judge an ancient human from 2,000 years ago is the height of folly. While there at it, these students might as well call for the cancelling of god- he loved slavery and murder and oppression; after all, it was god and the bible that affirmed whites and the West were supreme and should rule the world.
Robert Elessar says:
And they’d better cancel themselves, while they’re at it, just to save time later, since none of them have achieved “purity” by any kind of definition they might choose, it’s almost a mathematical certainty.
Instead they choose the cosmetic option: go after statues and stage useless campaigns whose only aim is to give them an air of moral purity they will never really have.
To live in America and prosper here means accepting a degree of moral impurity, given our nation’s history. That doesn’t mean complacency, and we can all take steps to better the lives of African and Native Americans. But throwing tantrums about statues of Lincoln isn’t one of them. This would be a wonderful time for the University’s History department to school those misguided children.
Well, isn’t that what they are actually doing? Any deviation from the orthodoxy of the day is punished.
I agree about Marcus Aurelius, as good an emperor as they get.
JBaldwin says:
I’ve thought about the cancelling of God thing before. It seems like a logical (!?) extension of their thinking but I don’t think it’ll happen. Cancelling God would offend to many POC, especially those of faiths with a demonstrated willingness to use deadly violence against wrongdoers.
No way the Woke are ready to take on the true believers.
jezgrove says:
The students demanding that the statue of Marcus Aurelius be removed clearly know nothing about him. If they want to decolonize somewhere maybe they should leave the US, which would at least be a practical and principled step – or isn’t that how this stuff works? (Full disclosure: I am one of the members of staff of Marcus Clawrelius, so I could be considered to have a … er… cat in this fight!)
rickflick says:
What a revolting development this is.
Indeed, Riley!
Jon Gallant says:
In my day, the normal activity for campus pranksters was raiding the girls’ dorms, or decorating statues without regard to who they depicted. But in those days, nobody expected the administration to bow down before the pranks. Nowadays, similar campus escapades need only dress up as “decolonization” in order to secure a near-official halo. Our host correctly understands that the present escapades are also meant to exercise power, which makes them potentially a little more worrisome than their prank predecessors.
They also reflect the woke undercurrent of resentment against the entirety of European civilization. That civilization includes, among other things, freethinking, the Enlightenment, experimental science, the principles of democratic government, and little things like the students’ cars, bicycles, and telephones. Before long, we may expect student demands to “decolonize” not only history and language, but also transportation, electricity, and medical practice.
Dick Veldkamp says:
Is “wokism” a special American thing?
I don’t see much of it here (Netherlands).
There is some discussion about statues and street names honouring bad guys (e.g. there is a former national hero called J.P. Coen, who had about 15,000 people massacred because they did not want to give him a nutmeg monopoly).
But -aside from some occasional fringe views- the discussion is pretty reasonable: should we add a plaque detailing what he did, or move him to a museum, that sort of thing.
I haven’t heard calls to remove books from libraries. Also trigger warnings, micro-aggressions and safe spaces are unknown here (AFAIK).
Maybe people from other parts of the world can weigh in.
Dermot O'Sullivan says:
Nope, Dick. Iceland: I quote, “(The Centre for Capacity Development, Sustainable Use of Natural Resources and Societal Change) is primarily funded by the Icelandic government, as part of the Icelandic Ministry for Foreign Affairs development assistance plan. It operates under the auspices of UNESCO as a category 2 centre, aligning the fields of specialisation in teaching and research and contributing to the implementation of UNESCO’s strategic programme objectives.”
It has 3 development programmes that you could almost guess at for Iceland: Geothermal Training, Fisheries Training and Land Restoration Training. Oh, and one more, the runt in the litter. Gender Equality Studies and Training. In case you need to spot the racists on the cod trawler. Intolerably smug and sanctimonious mind-readers and excommunicationists: everything you could guess about them is true.
I would say things in Brazil are bad too.
I know it is not really about facts but power, with these people, but wait until they hear about the Spanish, Arabian and North African emperors of Rome. 5 Spanish emperors, I think. Not so much Latinx as Latinv.
The closest I have ever found of what we moderns would call ‘racism’ is this interesting quote on wet-nurses from the C2nd CE.
“What the mischief, then, is the reason for corrupting the nobility of body and mind of a newly born human being, formed from gifted seeds, by the alien and degenerate nourishment of another’s milk? Especially if she whom you employ to furnish the milk is either a slave or of servile origin and, as usually happens, of a foreign and barbarous nation, if she is dishonest, ugly, unchaste and a wine-bibber; for as a rule anyone who has milk at the time is employed and no distinction made.” (Favorinus in Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights, 12.1.17).
kraeuterbutter says:
There were three emperors off Hispanic origin: Trajan, Hadrian and Theodosius the Great. Septimius Severus originated from North Africa. Elagabalus hailed from Syrian parents. And Philip the Arab was born in what is today Shahba, Syria.
Just to name a few non-Roman, non-Italian and, maybe, PoC emperors. 🙂
I was thinking of Arcadius and his brother Honorius re: this Spanish imperial purple. I’m not sure if this is decolonizing or colonizing the emperorship.
On top of that, the Egypt that Rome conquered was ruled by the Ptolemaic empire – white Greeks, basically.
You look at the track of Roman conquests, and most of that land area is land from which the colonial powers of the later 15th-18th centuries arose. They conquered the very people the wokies complain about being in power.
Regardless of what nationality was ruling Egypt at whatever time, the people were Egyptian and of many derivations. Without taking the time to go look for the specific period involved, the southern half of Egypt was once Kush or Nubia and Black. Maybe Black statues should be removed also. All or none.
Given the fact that history has usually been told by the so-called victors and that history is routinely modified to meet the needs of current times, one not only needs to study recent history, but a very broad swathe of history, to get a better sense of what may really have happened. For example: we are given the impression that Africa has always been very primitive, but there were some very important highly civilized, intellectual and wealthy cultures in Africa. And, the Chinese haven’t always been reclusive. Once upon a time, they had the best seafaring navy in the world with highly designed, huge ships. They conducted trade as far away as Africa. And, although, Genghis Khan and bunch were murderous barbarians (as were many others of that time), they were admirable governors accepting beneficial elements from throughout the territories they ruled.
For the most part, the “woke” not only do not know ancient history but, don’t know the reality of their own time.
Rowena, Kraeurterbutter and Eric. If you are interested, I’ve done a week of a MOOC by FutureLearn called ‘Rome: A virtual tour of the ancient city’ by Prof. Matthew Nicholls of the University of Reading and so far it is stellar. https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/rome
He has created a digital 3D reconstruction of Rome in the C4th CE. He really knows his onions.
In my experience, MOOCs are either really good or really bad: this looks to be one of the great ones. I recommend it.
Curtis says:
Winning Wisconsin would really help Trump’s prospects.
What irks me the most at a personal level is the attitude of the demanding individuals. “And I do want the 100% removal of the statue. I don’t want it to be moved somewhere or anything like that. I want it removed.”
I’d be inclined to respond the way I did to my kids when they were very young and slipped into such language, by sayin, “Oh, this is fun. I want…a pony…and I want…world peace…and I want…a unicorn…and I want…a trip to Paris…”
It’s astounding how entitled and privileged these students are.
Charles A Sawicki says:
The WOKE need to stop this piddling protesting of a few statues. Being committed to “decolonizing”, they should commit themselves to decolonizing America! Namely, they should remove themselves and all other non-Native Americans from the land that was clearly stolen.
Ah, but that would seriously impact their class and cultural privileges! University students at good schools are rather slow in giving those up. They would rather engage in pointless gestures of moral vanity.
These students remind me more and more of Mao’s Red Guards or Stalinist organizations in the former Eastern Bloc countries. If at some point they should fully assert their will, then after their triumph they will begin to tear themselves apart through self-criticism and self-incrimination. For then there is no more external “enemy” that they could fight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Guards#Factionalism_within_the_Red_Guards
miss keating says:
“… no record of anything intentions to codify …”
“the bad things Lincoln did definitely outweight the good ones”?
[the “t” is not standard, but may have been intentional]
I attended Gonzaga University. There you’ll find a statue of one of the school’s more famous alum, Bing Crosby.
How long before students realize his recording of “White Christmas” is a clarion call to racial supremacy and demand its removal?
Pliny the in Between says:
Rare is the individual who exceeds the limits of his or her time. Those that do, aren’t likely to accomplish this feat in every endeavor or aspect of their lives. That’s probably a good thing because total outliers generally run afoul of the masses before too long. And even if they were, it’s likely that even their more enlightened baseline would fall short of the norms of some future time. But these incursions beyond the boundaries of the status quo are where progress begins. The heroes of enlightenment are those that moved the boundaries forward – not the current generation of the woke who denigrate anyone who falls short of modern perspective. Moving the needle forward is heroic – even if you don’t completely exceed the limits of your contemporary programming. Our secular heroes are incrementalists. Celebrate that instead of tearing down their legacy because they weren’t born of your time and didn’t start with your advantages.
Jerry, how dare you write this in the oppressive letters of the latin alphabet?! I am so offended!
Actually I am offended by the ruddy Romans, but this is getting into Life of Brian territory!
Interested to hear what WEIT readers think to this – were the Roman models for the American republic not Republican Romans, rather than these two emperors? Consider all the early leaders if the revolt – my guess is their models were Cicero & his ilk?
The first memorial statues in St Paul’s Cathedral under the dome, include John Howard the prison reformer, & a rather awkward looking Sam Johnson depicted as Romans, I would say as republicans… I wonder if as the 19th century progressed, imperial Rome became more important as a model for both British & American empires?
But what have the Romans ever done for us?
Colin McLachlan says:
The effort to remove the statues of Roman emperors reminds me of the fire of Notre Dame a few years ago. There were a lot of posts by SJWs on social media asking why they should care about a building built “on black bodies.” They had to be educated that 12th Century France didn’t have black slaves. Do these college students think that all of the Roman slaves were African?
The SJW posters were undoubtedly unaware that Notre Dame cathedral is in a place called Paris, which is not in the USA. You can’t expect avid students of Critical Theory to know every little thing.
Recently saw something claiming The Lord of the Rings was racist because Tolkien wrote it in an environment of Jim Crow. It had to be explained to her that the UK never had Jim Crow laws. SJWs are extremely Americancentric.
DutchA says:
Well, next we’ll see ‘Romanes eunt domus’ again on the walls.
I think theres a relativism or assumed equivalence at play in these phenomena. A notion that nations, states, etc. of any sort are equivalent – relativism. Forgive my weak knowledge on these examples, but tribes, nomads, “city states”, constitutional republics, communist regimes – the only reason any one stands is relative, and the same country could be based on a different type of nation if only for the “race” of those in the executive roles.
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The Blob is back in this horrific tale about a vile, malignant life-form that crashes to Earth in a cozy, rural American town called Arborville. Untroubled by conscience or intellect, the Blob does only one thing – and it does it well. It eats anything and everything that moves: men, women, and children. It wants to swallow the entire town of Arborville. The original version of the Blob thrilled and terrified movie audiences back in the 1950s. Now the oozing, gooey killer is back. On October 29, 2019, SCREAM FACTORY™ is thrilled to present THE BLOB Collector’s Edition Blu-ray. Directed by Chuck Russell (The Scorpion King), the film stars Kevin Dillon (Entourage), Shawnee Smith (SAW movies), Donovan Leitch (Glory), Jeffrey DeMunn (Billions) with Candy Clark (American Graffiti) and Joe Seneca (A Time to Kill) as Dr. Meddows. A must-have for sci-fi horror enthusiasts and movie collectors, this definitive collector’s edition contains special bonus content, including two new audio commentaries, over four hours of new interviews, and more. Preorder is available now at ShoutFactory.com.
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Improving Culture Through Inclusive Language
Good business relies on one thing — communication. We communicate to teach, to market, to inspire, and so much more. But what if in that communication, we are unknowingly offending our audience? What you may not realize is that a lot of everyday, commonplace phrases are rooted in discrimination, assumptions, and bias. By being intentional with our language, we can create environments where people feel valued and respected. Ready to learn more? Read on!
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Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is a trending topic from the boardroom to the break room; but it's hard to keep up with the latest trends, language, and laws. While many studies show DEI is important to company culture, it's also critical to improving productivity and ultimately your bottom line.
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Inclusive language is the daily practice of intentional and unbiased word selection that acknowledges diversity, conveys respect to all people, and promotes equitable opportunities. Inclusive language seeks to honor the diverse identities of every person, making them feel valued and inviting them to be part of the conversation.
Inclusive language might not come naturally, even for people who believe in and advocate for the value of diversity. Intentional, inclusive language requires us to repeatedly examine our unconscious biases and our linguistic customs. It calls for education, mindfulness, and practice to avoid reinforcing harmful language habits and assumptions.
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Santorum: Trump needs to 'be aware' his treatment of black female reporters 'a problem'
By Megan Keller - 11/12/18 10:05 AM EST
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Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) said President Trump Donald TrumpIran convicts American businessman on spying charge: report DC, state capitals see few issues, heavy security amid protest worries Pardon-seekers have paid Trump allies tens of thousands to lobby president: NYT MORE should be more aware of the wider implications of being combative towards black women reporters.
"He does attack everybody," Santorum, a contributor on CNN, said Sunday in an appearance on the network's "State of the Union" show.
Santorum was discussing a couple instances from the week before when Trump had notable clashes with black women reporters.
"The president does treat everybody that confronts him poorly, but that being said he needs to be aware of what he's doing."
"He can't see this in a vacuum," Santorum explained. "He went after people, specifically African American women, and he has to recognize that that's a problem and he shouldn't do that."
During a lengthy and heated press conference in which Trump slammed CNN's Jim Acosta, Trump accused Yamiche Alcindor of "PBS NewsHour" of asking a "racist question" when she attempted to ask about the president's support of white nationalism.
During the same press conference, Trump admonished National Urban Radio Network White House correspondent April Ryan and told her to "sit down" when she attempted to ask a question.
Later in the week, Trump admonished CNN reporter Abby Phillip, calling a question from her "stupid."
Trump also lashed out at Ryan as a "loser," saying she's "been a loser for 21 years" and "doesn't know what the hell she is doing" well threatening to pull more press passes after his administration pulled Acosta's credentials last week.
Ryan over the weekend penned an op-ed that argues Trump is especially aggressive with female, black reporters, a contention she has made before.
Ryan is a frequent critic of the president's tone with the press.
Alcindor, Phillip and Ryan are all black women, but some, like Santorum, have argued that they were treated just as aggressively as anyone else who the president perceives as being combative or disrespectful.
In the same press conference where he went after Alcindor and Ryan, Trump also lashed out at Acosta, calling him a "rude, terrible person" and saying that CNN should be "ashamed" of employing him.
While Santorum on Sunday contended that the president needs to watch his tone, he also said that the questions Ryan, Alcindor, and Philip asked were "incendiary."
"I think he's just combative," he said, to summarize Trump's behavior.
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PHOTO: Bar immediately closes after being packed with maskless crowds at reopening
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A bar in Fort Lauderdale, Florida immediately had to shut its doors after being packed with maskless crowds at its official reopening.
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported that after weeks of being shut down during the COVID-19 pandemic, the bar had to close due to customers violating pandemic-related rules.
Over the weekend, The Wharf Fort Lauderdale was filled with people drinking, dancing, and ignoring social distancing guidelines. Reports say county code officers had to break up the partying.
“If they’re not making patrons wear masks, they’re leaving us no option other than to shut them down,” Broward Mayor Steve Geller said.
“Our goal is not to shut down businesses. It’s to get compliance. If we have to shut down businesses that are intentionally violating our laws, maybe that will send a message. They have to obey our orders for the safety of the public.”
Dr. Ralph Levy, a doctor who works by the bar, walked by the establishment on its opening day and was shocked by the partygoers not wearing face masks.
“As a doctor who has gone through this since March, it was disheartening. The place was packed, everybody was close together,” Levy added,
BREAKING: The Wharf bar in Fort Lauderdale shutting down two days after its reopening, citing COVID-19 health crisis https://t.co/XK9ZQkYnpH pic.twitter.com/kAmqo4pAOA
— South Florida Sun Sentinel (@SunSentinel) November 22, 2020
On Sunday, county officials who visited the bar several times on Saturday night confirmed that the business was violating COVID-19 guidelines.
Officials say The Wharf was letting customers in without a face mask and reported that the bar didn’t have a plexiglass divider. However, the business said that they didn’t have any guests enter the bar without a mask. If a patron did not have a face mask, the bouncer at the door would give them a mask.
“Once inside the open-air venue, guests chose to ignore the rules and congregated near the main bar despite over an acre of property where they could socially distance,” the bar said in a statement.
Emilio Guerra, co-owner of the bar, said his business had to close down due to the county’s forced guidelines.
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How technology is encouraging society to be stupid
by Lauren Gilmore — in Insider
Merry Christmas. Happy birthday. Happy… Darwin Day?
In the long list of observed holidays, Darwin Day may seem like a weird one to celebrate. But as the father of evolutionary thought, our buddy Charlie has given us plenty to consider, and changed everything we understand about ourselves and our world.
While this is a great day to sit back, grab a copy of Origin of Species, and revel in all that humanity has done for science and reason, this post is written to do quite the opposite.
Instead of diving into Darwin’s discovery of natural selection, I’d rather touch upon how the advent of modern technology has made us dumber. Not in a blatant ‘Darwin Awards’ aspect, but in a more subtle – and possibly more disastrous – way.
The internet has only been around some 20-odd years, yet it’s hard to imagine life without it. I live abroad, but am able to stay in touch with friends and family across the globe. And in a world as vast as ours, the net has given us instant access to a myriad of information otherwise impossible.
Make no mistake, I’m not demonizing the Web, but our dependence on it has a sinister side – turning our thoughts into a scattered and superficial mess with its constant distractions.
You can’t go a minute without checking your texts or see who’s favorited your most recent tweet. I, myself, have checked my social media accounts four times while writing this. Being always connected has become almost as habitual as breathing. And yet we can’t remember how we got to this point.
As Roman philosopher Seneca put it: “To be everywhere is to be nowhere.”
It’s not the internet that’s to blame, however, but our own craving for distraction.
When we’re constantly distracted and interrupted, our brains can’t forge the neural connections that give distinctiveness and depth to our thinking.
In an experiment at Stanford University, it was determined that our thoughts become disjointed with increased distractions and multitasking. As such, we’re much less able to distinguish important information from the trivial stuff.
You can barely navigate the internet without coming across fake news. I can’t recall when the flair for the dramatic became the norm, but when clickbait titles were no longer shiny and new, publishers had to resort to other creative tactics for traffic. Combine this with anyone and everyone having the ability to publish and post online and you have this new obsession with 100 percent misleading ‘news’.
While people are quick to blame the publishers, it’s the millions of people who can’t be bothered to pick up a newspaper or find a decent online source. Not to mention those who can’t tell the difference between Breitbart and The Associated Press.
If you can’t name your two US senators, you are not all of a sudden an expert in governmental proceedings. Yet everyone believes they are. They believe their opinion is on par with facts. This is just one way lies and conspiracy theories routinely gain credibility. Add a bit of bias to the mix and you’ve got the perfect mathematical equation as to why false new stories are so persuasive.
That’s exactly why fact-checking doesn’t work anymore. As Susan Glasser, former editor of Politico, explains “Even fact-checking perhaps the most untruthful candidate of our lifetime didn’t work; the more news outlets did it, the less the facts resonated.”
But fake news isn’t solely damaging to the people it’s targeted towards. Pizzagate wasn’t just a funny name to a fake conspiracy, it motivated a lone gunman to enter a restaurant with a loaded weapon.
Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel wrote that only when we pay close attention to information are we able to associate it “meaningfully and systematically with knowledge already well established in memory”. Such associations are essential to mastering complex concepts and critical thinking.
Unfortunately, we now live in a world where you don’t need to think to do anything. We’ve become dependent on the internet to collect information instead of looking to ourselves to problem-solve. Everything from news to opinions to locations are just a Google-search away.
As technology advances and social media algorithms continue to only show things it perceives we like, we will continue to live in an echo-chamber of our opinion and those that think exactly like us.
It’s up to us as a society to keep ourselves informed and educated, not be dependent upon technology to do it for us.
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Quarterly Review: High on Fire, Ruff Majik, Merlin, Workshed, E-L-R, Sibyl, Golden Legacy, Saint Karloff & Devil’s Witches, Burden Limbs, El Supremo
Posted in Reviews on October 1st, 2019 by JJ Koczan
Another day, another batch of 10 reviews on the march to 50 by the end of the week. Will we make it? Yeah, probably. I mean, I think there was once when I had to skip a day or something but even then I made up for it and there’s never been an instance where the Quarterly Review fell apart. The one quarter I decided to nix it (was it last year?) I made up for it by doing 100 reviews instead of 50 the next time out, so we got there eventually. It being Tuesday, the end of the week looks far off, but indeed we’ll ge there eventually, and there’s a lot of good music between now and then, so let’s hit it.
Quarterly Review #11-20:
High on Fire, Bat Salad
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Ruff Majik, Tårn
Guitarist/vocalist Johni Holiday, bassist Jimmy Glass and drummer Ben Manchino return with Tårn, Ruff Majik‘s second album on a quick turnaround from their 2018 debut, Seasons (review here). Aligned with Lay Bare Recordings for the vinyl release, the deceptively quick and even more deceptively complex seven-track/36-minute offering finds Ruff Majik digging into dirt-caked tonality and classically punkish sneer in Holiday‘s vocals. There are moments where they sound like Queens of the Stone Age (“Speed Hippie”) and moments where they sound like Black Flag (parts of opener “Schizophrenic”), but as a roller like “Heretically Happy” or the earlier post-Zeppelin stoner sneak of “Gloom & Tomb” show, Ruff Majik are perhaps most interested in sounding like themselves. They’re gleeful as they toy with doomed vibes on closer “Seasoning the Witch,” and the seven-minute “I’ll Dig the Grave” earlier thrills with changes drawn together by a pervasive and righteous groove. With Tårn, Ruff Majik have found their wavelength, and it suits them.
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Merlin, The Mortal
Be it heretofore established that sax-laced Kansas City psych-doomers Merlin don’t give a fuck. They don’t give a fuck what you expect, they don’t give a fuck what everyone else is doing, they don’t give a fuck if they meme the crap out of their own band. They’ve got their thing and they’re doing it. And you know what? They’re right. The Mortal is their fifth full-length in six years, following as a sequel to early-2018’s The Wizard (review here), and with flourish galore in arrangements of organ, sax, flute, percussion, accordion, trumpet, etc., alongside the foundation of songcraft that comes through the guitar, bass, drums and always-theatrical vocals of Jordan Knorr, the band recount tales along a dark-magical mystery tour of gorgeously flowing and still-weighted psychedelic plunder. They have become a buried treasure of weirdo/geek rock, and whether it’s the peaceful drift of “Ashen Lake” or the cacophonous heavy riffing of “Basilisk,” the stage-setting prog of “Towerfall” or the consuming swell that carries out the apex of closer “The Mortal Suite” — King Crimson chase and all — Merlin‘s work has never sounded so masterful. Will there be a third installment in the tale? Nothing quite like a trilogy.
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Workshed, Workshed
They’ve since added a third party in bassist Helen Storer (Fireball Ministry, among others), but Workshed‘s self-titled Rise Above Records debut LP was recorded as the duo of guitarist/vocalist Adam Lehan and drummer Mark Wharton. More than a quarter-century ago, both Lehan and Wharton played on Cathedral‘s pivotal first two albums, but in Workshed, and certainly there are some shades of doom on a stomper like “Anthropophobic” here, but the bulk of Workshed‘s nine-song/47-minute first offering is given to post-Entombed buzzsaw noise sludge, riffs crunched one into the next in an aggro, punk-rooted fashion that rife with a sense of willful punishment that comes through in sheer impact from front to back. Vocals call to mind Tom G. Warrior immediately and are suited to the social commentary of “If This is How it Is” and “This City Has Fallen,” while the grueling march of “A Spirit in Exile” leaves room for some atmosphere to eek through, which it does. They trash out in centerpiece “On Sticks of Wood” and chug their into a last fade on closer “It Doesn’t Have to Be That Way,” but by then they’ve long since made their statement and left a trail of destruction behind them. Would they have been signed to Rise Above without the Cathedral connection? Probably not. Does the album earn their place? Absolutely.
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E-L-R, Mænad
With their first full-length, Mænad, Swiss post-metallers E-L-R cart a gorgeous and textured course through patient and progressive songweaving that lends itself to hypnosis through its churning rhythm as much as its overarching melodies seem to evoke other worlds. It is not without its sense of challenge and certainly plenty heavy in its tone and groove — at least where it wants to be — but it’s also rich and provides a level of depth to its mix that should have others in the genre asking how they did it. A transitional drone at the end of “Devotee” brings about the 10-minute “Above the Mountains There is Light” and a long contemplation begins, working from the ground up on a pilgrim’s path to the eventual payoff. The resonance there is something unto itself, but even as “Ambrosia,” “Lunar Nights” and “The Wild Shore” find the stylistic footing that opener “Glancing Limbs” and “Devotee” seemed to hint at earlier, E-L-R maintain both an ambient sprawl and a consuming sense of passion that makes their work here all the more thrilling. This is a debut, following only a single 2018 demo that had two of the same tracks. What that tells me is look out for this band, because this kind of potential doesn’t come along every day and when it does, you want to be there for the follow-up. The impeccable taste of Prophecy Productions pays dividends once again.
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Sibyl, The Magic Isn’t Real
Otherworldly doom rock marked by echoing vocals oozing out from deep in the mix and gotta-hear-it bass tone complemented by choice riffage and a fervent thud in the drums, even if the aesthetic of Richmond’s Sibyl is familiar enough, there’s plenty to dig about their debut EP — what one might’ve called a “demo” in eras past — The Magic Isn’t Real. The stylistic elephant in the room is RVA’s own Windhand, but Sibyl take a more psychedelic path to heavy oblivion, and with four tracks in the range of four to five minutes, The Magic Isn’t Real comes across as well focused in its songwriting despite the ethereal touches in the actual sound. Cool vibe, and as they work some noisy shuffle into “Spinning Webs,” they show themselves as being less restricted than otherwise might be the case if they were purely committed to doomed drudgery. I’ll give bonus points as well for naming the penultimate track “Sexpionage,” just on principle, but it’s in stretches like the subdued creeper opening of “Blood Moon” and the engrossing, still-somehow-moving wash of “Pendulums” that Sibyl really showcase their intention.
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Golden Legacy, Golden Legacy II
London heavy noise duo Golden Legacy offer five tracks and 23 minutes of anti-genre, adrenaline rock to follow-up their 2016 self-titled EP. There’s a strong undercurrent of modern punk and indie to their sound, which is what gets them the “anti-genre” consideration, but it’s the energy of their delivery carrying them one way or the other as they drive through the harsh snare of “Cut and Crash” following the chunkier tone of opener “Moon” and just before centerpiece “Dirty Mouth” finds its way into grunge-style howling beastliness. Comprised of drummer/vocalist Lorena Cachito and guitarist Yanni Georgiou, the two-piece find winning momentum in “Salvation,” while closer “Thirsty” opens with a mellow drum progression gradually joined by the guitar and builds into more progressive and dramatic movement, casting off some of the rawness of the songs before it in favor of more complex fare. It still manages to soar at the end, though, and that seems to be what counts. They might be rawer now than they’ll eventually turn out, but that suits most of what they’re doing in adding to the emotionality on display in Cachito‘s vocals.
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Saint Karloff & Devil’s Witches, Coven of the Ultra-Riff
Alright, look. I don’t even think I have the full thing, but whatever. Saint Karloff and Devil’s Witches came together to release the Coven of the Ultra-Riff split — it can be so hard to find the right coven for your family; have you considered the Ultra-Riff? — and they each play an original track and then they cover each other’s songs and then Saint Karloff introduce the progression of “Supervixen (Electric Return)” and Devil’s Witches take up the mantle and run with it on “Supervixen (Acoustic Return),” so yeah, it’s pretty awesome and kind of all over the place but whatever. Get your head around it and get on board with whatever version you can grab. Vinyl came out through Majestic Mountain Records and tapes were through Stoner Witch Records and I’m fairly certain it’s all sold out already and probably stupid expensive on Discogs, but do what you need to do, because this is what Sabbath worship in the year 2019 is supposed to sound like. It’s bombed out of its gourd and has long since dropped out of life. It’s exactly where and what it wants to be.
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Burden Limbs, There is No Escape
I’m not going to pretend to have the grounding in post-hardcore to toss off the influences under which Burden Limbs are working, but to listen to the blast of noise in “How Many Times Must I Reset” and the near-industrial wash of noise they conjure in the subsequent “Hypochondriac,” it’s clear they’re working under one influence anyway. There is No Escape (released through Glasshouse Records) runs 24 minutes and carries four songs, but in that time the band around founding figurehead and guitarist/vocalist Chad Murray manage to challenge themselves and the listener alike to keep up with their turns and emotional resonance. Murray is joined by two bassists, another guitarist, keyboards/synth and drums, so yes, there’s something of a busy feel to it, but even echoing cavernous as they are, the vocals seem to draw the songs together around a central presence and add a human core to the proceedings that only makes them all the more affecting as would seem to be the intent.
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El Supremo, Clarity Through Distortion
Sometimes these things take a while, but El Supremo was formed by now-ex-Egypt bassist Chad Heille has a solo-project and released a self-titled demo in 2008, to which Clarity Through Distortion is the follow-up full-length. Now joined by guitarist Neil Stein (also ex-Egypt, and who also played some on the demo) and organist Chris Gould as well as bassist Cam Dewald who came aboard after the album’s completion, the instrumentalist full-band incarnation of El Supremo waste no time diving into dead-on tonal and riffy righteousness, taking classic heavy cues and running with them in modern production richness, sounding clear but natural as a jam like “Moanin’ & Groanin'” turns into a shuffler as it moves into its second half, or the mellow sway of the 14-minute “Supercell” at last runs head-on into the lumbering motion that will carry it through to the end. I don’t know how much clarity — at least of the existential sort I think they mean in the title — they might’ve found by the time the bluesy “Lotus Throne” rolls over into the shreddy “Outro” that caps, but if the method is distortion, they’ve certainly got that part down.
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Friday Full-Length: Egypt, Egypt EP
Posted in Bootleg Theater on September 6th, 2019 by JJ Koczan
First issued in 2005 by the band themselves, Egypt‘s four-song self-titled demo was picked up first by Lyderhorn Records in 2007 and then by MeteorCity for release as a debut EP (review here) in 2009. That latter version, coming at a time when the label was under new ownership and revamping its lineup with bands like Freedom Hawk, Elder, Leeches of Lore, Olde Growth, WhiteBuzz and New Keepers of the Water Towers, seemed to find an audience that has stayed consistently loyal to it over the last decade, and Egypt, who had already disbanded, wound up getting back together as a result. A reboot! Oh what a difference distribution can make.
Egypt formed circa 2003 in Fargo, North Dakota, and as the trio of bassist/vocalist Aaron Esterby, guitarist Ryan Grahn and drummer Chad Heille, they’d embark on their debut EP very much as an initial demo. In fact, the only things that really make it an EP at all are the quality of Heille‘s 2004 recording/mix/master and the fact that it was later released as one. Otherwise, the four-track 31-minute outing could just as easily be called a demo and left at that — while we’re at it, you could also call it a full-length if you wanted to; it’s long enough and there’s nothing in particular lacking to hold it back from being an LP. At least nothing lacking by accident. There is one pervasive lack that defines in no small part the release as a whole: the lack of bullshit. You’ll find none in catchy, on-that-wah bass of opener “Valley of the Kings,” the massive-sounding “Queen of All Time (Red Giant),” the smoky stoner blues roll of “Dirty Witch” or the fuzzy jam-out in “Touch Ground.” Tone and groove, verses and choruses — Egypt‘s Egypt took the approach of slowing down and revamping classic heavy rock swagger as a languid, flowing thing, not necessarily prone to jams in the finished product, as even “Touch Ground” touched ground eventually, but representative of the take of a new generation of heavy rock playing off that which MeteorCity helped define in the post-Kyuss mid- and late-’90s. Each riff, rumble and crash was made to count for maximum impact, and in a changing rock underground marked by the rise of take-it-with-you social media listening experiences and word of mouth, Egypt thrived at a time when, effectively, they were already dead. Put it in your ‘Go Figure’ file; I know you have one.
The shortest song on Egypt‘s Egypt is “Dirty Witch” at 7:27. That, “Touch Ground” and “Valley of the Kings” all hover around seven and a half minutes, while “Queen of All Time (Red Giant)” tops nine. Why that matters is it means each track has enough time to establish its own presence. The songs aren’t just about building up to a hook or an instrumental exploration, they’re a place to dwell, at least for a time. To be sure, “Valley of the Kings” has its chorus, but it’s also got its fuzz-caked gradual unfolding, a stick-click leading into the
wah-bass bounce and the flowing vibe that Egypt keep holy throughout the entire release. What was the *new* stoner rock at the time did not lack for self-awareness, but there’s consistently something organic about the listening experience of Egypt‘s self-titled, which was less sludgy than some of their later output would become and proffered a kind of heavy blues that ran concurrent to the work of an act like Texas three-piece Wo Fat with whom Egypt would share the Cyclopean Riffs (review here) split in 2013.
A sometimes gruff character in Esterby‘s vocals was offset by the warmth of the guitar and bass tone surrounding and even in “Queen of All Time (Red Giant),” where the band married together Sleep-style riffing with a vintage-heavy mentality, engaging a hugeness of nod neither to be understated nor discounted. The ’70s flair came forward more on “Dirty Witch,” with its classic rock misogyny playing off notions of Deep Sabbath (or would it be Black Purple?) might’ve been, and “Touch Ground” dug into a more patient motion that made its impact all the more vital upon its arrival after a long, mellow intro. The short version? Egypt killed it. They absolutely did. What was their demo did more in terms of sound than a lot of first records, and did so with an overarching natural feel that became central to its whole character. It was like they plugged in, hit record, and went for it, threw a bird on the cover and were done. It’s never that simple in real life, of course, but especially when the finished product continues to sound so good even a decade/decade-plus later, it’s nice every once in a while to pretend otherwise. If you want to call that escapism, so be it.
The aforementioned Cyclopean Riffs split with Wo Fat came out just a couple months after Egypt‘s return from the abyss/debut album with guitarist Neil Stein, Become the Sun (review here), and that began a run that would find the band increasing their reach domestically and abroad for the next five years until they called it quits in 2018. During that time they were consistently productive, following Become the Sun with the split as well as two more LPs in 2015’s Endless Flight (review here) and 2017’s Cracks and Lines (review here), which showed them continuing to grow in terms of style without letting go of the central heft that that seemed always to be so essential to their process. A cover of Thin Lizzy‘s “Suicide” would be the capstone included on Glory or Death Records‘ tribute compilation, and since the second breakup, Heille and Stein have gone back to their prior instrumental outfit, El Supremo, which Heille founded in 2008, to issue the debut album, Clarity Through Distortion, this summer.
One tries never to say never in rock and roll in any situation, but whether or not the second Egypt disbanding will hold, I honestly couldn’t say. They managed to put out three killer records and made it to Europe in 2015, touring with Tombstones and playing Freak Valley Festival, so if they were the type to tick off boxes, they certainly ticked off a few good ones, but on the other hand, Cracks and Lines seemed to leave a few things unsaid, so I don’t know. Whatever happens in the future, the band never seemed to forget the initial impact their self-titled had in getting them going again. They’ve reissued it a couple times and have CDs available through Bandcamp for a whopping $5, presumably while they last. Which reminds me…
As always, I hope you enjoy.
To answer your next question, yes, I really did just buy that CD. I know I have the MeteorCity version and I may or may not have the original CD-R from the band, but screw it, the price was right and it’s early so impulse control is low.
Kind of an up and down week, but whatever. I ate a lot of garlic, I hung out with The Pecan, watched some baseball. The Patient Mrs. started her new job. This weekend is Nebula, Sasquatch, Mirror Queen and Geezer at the Saint Vitus Bar and the show’s going to be so good I’m actually kind of nervous for it. I’ll have a review up Monday, but hell’s bells, how am I supposed to even talk about something like that? “Duh, bands are awesome,” for like 1,500 words. What a wreck. If I have a brain left, I’ll see what I can do.
Also a couple premieres next week, from V, Alunah, Fire Down Below, and reviews of Monolord and High Fighter. An interview with Lori from Acid King that’s scheduled for tomorrow that was originally supposed to happen on Wednesday, which was The Patient Mrs.’ first day of classes, which meant I was on toddler-duty full-on and therefore by 2PM ready to bash my brain into the wall and very much not ready to give due attention to the 20th anniversary of Busse Woods. I love that record. I’d rather not fuck up the interview, if I can avoid it. Fortunately, Lori was kind enough to reschedule.
Look for the audio of that to come. I don’t know if anyone actually listens to those things — should I maybe break them up into parts? — but they’re fun to do. I like talking to people about their work, I just don’t have the will 15 years later to transcribe that conversation, nor the money to pay someone else to do it. That’s also time I could be reviewing something, and the hours of my day are limited and precious. I’d rather be writing about a record than misquoting someone talking about one. Call me crazy.
So anyway, more streaming interviews, I guess. Parker Griggs from Radio Moscow has a new band that I think I’ll be talking to him about, and I’ve floated Alunah and Heavy Temple as future possibilities. I wouldn’t mind hitting up Monolord either, frankly. Or Ufomammut, if I could make it happen.
I also need to write a piece about the art showings at Høstsabbat sometime in the next week or so that I have no idea yet how I’m going to frame. These things are complicated in my head sometimes. I’ll get there. Will I get there before I do the Lowrider PostWax liner notes or the Acrimony liner notes I need to do? I don’t know. I’m trying my best.
Alright, I’m gonna go read for a couple minutes before The Pecan wakes up and sets about dismantling the world around him, one choking hazard at a time. Please have a great and safe weekend, and please check out the forum and radio stream and get a t-shirt from Dropout if you haven’t yet.
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El Supremo Announce Clarity Through Distortion Due This Month; Live Debut Imminent
Posted in Whathaveyou on June 3rd, 2019 by JJ Koczan
Based in Fargo, North Dakota, the four-piece El Supremo are getting set to issue what’s being considered their full-length debut, Clarity Through Distortion, this month. It will be the outfit’s first outing since 11 years ago, when they released a self-titled demo that featured drummer Chad Heille handling all the instruments himself, one-man-band style. He and guitarist Neal Stein would join Egypt a couple years later, and that put El Supremo on the backburner, but with that group having called it quits last year, the project has been revived as a stage-ready four-piece.
To that end, the new incarnation of El Supremo will make their live debut on June 17 supporting Year of the Cobra at The Aquarium. Details on the show are on Thee Facebooks, and the band provided the following via the PR wire:
El Supremo is an instrumental rock band based in Fargo, ND. The band has recently completed a new album entitled Clarity Through Distortion, set for release in June of 2019. This new record features Chad Heille on drums and bass, Neal Stein on guitar, and Chris Gould on organ/keys. Live bass duties are handled by Cameron Dewald, who also plays in death metal band Gorgatron with Neal Stein. The band’s sound ranges from psychedelic and melodic to crushingly heavy and doomy. Influences rooted in classic rock, stoner rock, and old-school metal.
El Supremo was originally formed as a one-man project with Chad Heille playing all the instruments and handling recording/production. A self-titled full-length demo was released in 2008, with Tom Canning and Neal Stein contributing guitar solos to the recording.
Chad and Neal went on to play in the band Egypt from 2012 to 2018. During that time, Egypt released three full-length records, a split LP, made numerous compilation appearances, reissued their first demo and toured 16 different countries playing several notable festivals with some of the most important bands in the stoner/doom/rock/metal underground scene.
After Egypt split, it was decided to revive the El Supremo name and a new record was written and recorded in the latter half of 2018. While the band prepares for the release of Clarity Through Distortion, material for another batch of tunes is already in the works.
El Supremo is:
Chad Heille – drums
Neal Stein – guitar
Chris Gould – keys
Cam Dewald – bass
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Quarterly Review: Sumac, Cortez & Wasted Theory, Thunder Horse, The Howling Eye, Grime, URSA, Earthling Society, Bismarck, Grand Reunion, Pledge
Posted in Reviews on December 7th, 2018 by JJ Koczan
As we land on what would otherwise be the end of a Quarterly Review — day 5, hitting the standard 50 records across the span of a week that this time we’re doubling with another 50 next week — it occurs to me not how much 100 albums is, but how much it isn’t. I mean, it’s a lot, don’t get me wrong. I’ve been sitting and writing about 10 records every day this week. I know how much that is. But it’s astounding to me just how much more there is. With the emails I get from people looking for reviews, discs sent in the mail, the messages on Facebook and everything else, I could do another 100, easy.
Well, maybe not ‘easy,’ but it would be full.
Is it a new golden age of heavy? 45 years from now are rockers going to look back and say, “Hell yeah, from like 2012-2019 was where it’s at,” all wistful like they do now for the ’70s? Will the Heavy ’10s be a retro style? I don’t know. But if it was going to happen, there would certainly be enough of an archive to fuel it. I do my best to cover as much as I can, but sometimes I feel like we barely crack the surface. With 100 records.
That said, time’s a-wasting.
Sumac, Love in Shadow
What are Sumac if not the most vital and highest profile atmospheric metal act out there today? With Aaron Turner (Isis, etc.) on guitar/vocals, Brian Cook (Russian Circles) on bass and Nick Yacyshyn (Baptists) on drums, they qualify easily as a supergroup, and yet their third album, Love in Shadow (on Thrill Jockey), is still more about creative growth and the exploration of sound than anything else. Certainly more than ego — and if it was a self-indulgent exercise, it’d probably still be pretty good, frankly. As it stands, the four massive tracks through which Sumac follow-up 2016’s What One Becomes (review here) and their 2015 debut, The Deal (review here), refine the sound Sumac has developed over the past three years-plus into a sprawling and passion-driven sprawl that’s encompassing in scope, challenging in its noise quotient, and in utter refusal to not progress in its approach. And when Sumac move forward, as they do here, they seem to bring the entire aesthetic with them.
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Cortez & Wasted Theory, The Second Coming of Heavy: Chapter Nine
Ripple Music‘s split series The Second Coming of Heavy hits its ninth chapter in bringing together Boston’s Cortez and Delaware’s Wasted Theory, and neither band fails to live up to the occasion. Cortez‘s range only seems to grow each time they hit the studio — vocalist Matt Harrington makes easy highlights of the opener and longest track (immediate points) “The Firmament” and the echo-laden “Close” — and Wasted Theory‘s “Ditchpig,” “Abominatrix,” “Baptized in Gasoline” and “Heresy Dealer” are so saturated with whiskey it might as well be coming out of their pores. It’s a decidedly North/South release, with Cortez rolling straightforward New England heavy rock through “Fog of Whores” and the Deep Purple cover “Stormbringer” while Wasted Theory dig with all good speed into a grit that’s more and more become their own with time, but there’s a shared penchant for hooks and groove between the two acts that draws them together, and whatever aspects they may or may not share are ultimately trumped by that. As Ripple starts to wind down the series, they continue to highlight some of the finest in heavy that the underground has to offer. One would expect no less.
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Thunder Horse, Thunder Horse
There’s an unmistakable sense of presence throughout Thunder Horse‘s six-song/43-minute self-titled debut that undercuts the notion of it as being the San Antonio four-piece’s first album. With professionalism and a firm sense of what they want to be as a band, the Texans liberally sprinkle samples throughout their material and hone a professional sound built around massive riffs and even-more-massive lumbering grooves. Indeed, they’re not strangers to each other, as three-fourths of the group — guitarist/vocalists Stephen Bishop, guitarist/sampler T.C. Connally and drummer Jason West — double in the more industrial-minded Pitbull Daycare, whose debut LP came out in 1997. Completed by bassist/vocalist Dave Crow, Thunder Horse successfully cross the genre threshold and are well comfortable in longer cuts like “Liber ad Christ Milites Templi” and “This is the End,” both of which top nine minutes, and shorter pieces like the rocking “Demons Speak” and the shimmering finale “Pray for Rain.” With “Coming Home” and the sneering “Blood Ritual” at the outset, Thunder Horse pulls listener quickly toward dark atmospheres and flourishes amid the weighted tones therein.
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The Howling Eye, Sonorous
Poland’s The Howling Eye make a lengthy long-player debut with Sonorous, but more important than the reach of their runtimes — closer “Weedblazer” tops 16 minutes, the earlier “Reflections” hits 12, etc. — the reach of the actual material. The common pattern has been that psychedelic jamming and doom are two distinct things, but The Howling Eye tap into a cosmic interpretation of rolling riffs and push it with an open spirit far into the ether of spontaneous creation. It’s a blend that a group would seem to need to be cautious to wield, lest the whole notion fall flat, but with the assurance of marked chemistry behind them, the Bydgoszcz-based trio of drummer/sometimes vocalist Hubert “Cebula” Lewandowski (also harmonica where applicable), guitarist Jan Chojnowski and bassist Mi?osz Wojciechowski boldly shift from the more structured beginnings of the funky “Kairos” and the aggro beginning “Stranded” into an outward push that’s ambient, psychedelic and naturalistic all at once, with room left over for more funk and even some rockabilly on “The Potion.” It is not a minor conglomeration, but it works.
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Grime, What Have We Become
Their roots in metal, North Dakota trio Grime — not to be confused with the Italian sludge outfit of the same name — unleash their first full-length in the form of What Have We Become, an ambitious 51-minute offering of progressive heavy rock marked by thoughtful lyrics and fluid songwriting made all the more so by the shared vocals of bassist Andrew Wickenheiser and guitarist Nick Jensen, who together with drummer Tim Gray (who would seem to have been replaced by Cale Mogard) effect a classic feel through “Alone in the Dark” while chugging and winding through the not-a-cover “Hand of Doom” with some harsher vocals peppered in for good measure. Seven-minute opener and longest track (immediate points) “Through the Eye” sets a broad tone that the rest of the record seems to build on, with the penultimate “Sunshine” delivering the title line ahead of the grittier closer “The Constant Grind,” which seems to payoff everything before it with a final explosion before a big rock finish. They’ll need to decide whether their sound will ultimately tighten up or loosen over time, but for now, what they’ve become is a band with a solid foundation to grow from.
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URSA, Abyss Between the Stars
Modern doom meets a swath of metallic influences on URSA‘s full-length debut, Abyss Between the Stars (on Blood Music), as members of Petaluma, California’s Cormorant take on such classic themes as wizards, dragons, yetis, witches, a spider king, mountains, and… actually, yeah, that covers the six included tracks on the 46-minute LP, which shifts gracefully between epic fantasy doom and darker, soemtimes more extreme fare. It’s easy enough to put URSA in the narrative of a band started — circa 2016 — around a central idea, rather than just dudes picking up instruments and seeing what happened next. Not just because bassist/vocalist Matt Solis, guitarist/keyboardist Nick Cohon and drummer Brennan Kunkel were already three-quarters of another band, but because of the purposefulness with which they approach their subject matter and the cohesion in all facets of their approach. They may be exploring new ground here, but they’re doing so on sure footing, and that comes not only from their experience playing together, but from knowing exactly where they want to be in terms of sound. I would not be surprised if that sound adopted more post-Candlemass grandeur with time — one can hear that burgeoning in “Serengeti Yeti” — but whatever direction they want to go, their debut will only help them on that path.
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Earthling Society, MO – The Demon
Look, if you can’t get down with a bunch of freaks like Earthling Society tapping into the lysergic fabric of the cosmos to come up with an unsolicited soundtrack to a Hong Kong martial arts movie, I just don’t know what to tell you. Issued by Riot Season, the seven-track MO – The Demon is reportedly the end of the band’s technicolor daydream, and as they crash their plane into the side of “Mountains of Bliss” and hone space rock obliteration throughout “Super Holy Monk Defeats the Black Magic Mothafucker,” their particular experimentalist charm and go-anywhere-anytime sensibility demonstrates plainly exactly why it will be missed. There’s a sharp high-pitched tone at the start of opener “Theme from MO – The Demon” that’s actually pretty abrasive, but by the time they’re through the kosmiche laser assault in “Spring Snow” and the let’s-be-flower-children-until-it’s-time-to-freak-the-fuck-out throb of closer “Jetina Grove,” that is but a distant memory. So is consciousness. Fare thee well, Earthling Society. You were a band who only sought to make sense to yourselves, and for that, were all the more commendable.
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Bismarck, Urkraft
Norwegian five-piece Bismarck bring spaciousness to doom riffing on their debut album, Urkraft, which is constructed of five molten tracks for a 34-minute totality that seems much broader than the time it takes to listen. Vocals are growls and shouts across a cosmic stretch of tone, giving a somewhat aggressive pulse to heavier psychedelic soundscaping, but a bouncing rhythm behind “A Golden Throne” assures the song is accessible one way or the other. The 10-minute “Vril-Ya” is naturally where they range the farthest, but the Bergen outfit even there seem to be playing by a set of aesthetic principles that includes maintaining a grounded groove no matter how spaced they might otherwise get. Rolling riffs bookend in opener “Harbinger” and closer “The Usher,” as “A Golden Throne,” playing-to-both-sides centerpiece “Iron Kingdom” and the subsequent “Vril-Ya” explore atmospheres that remain resonant despite the low end weight that seems to chug out beneath them. The mix by Chris Fielding at Skyhammer (who also co-engineered) doesn’t hurt in crafting their largesse, but something tells me Urkraft was going to sound big no matter what.
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Grand Reunion, In the Station
In the Station doesn’t seem like anything too fancy at first. It’s produced cleanly, but not in any kind of overblown fashion, and Grand Reunion‘s songwriting is so solid that, especially the first time through their eight-track debut LP, it’s easy to say, “Okay, that’s another cool hook,” and not notice subtleties like when the organs turn to keyboard synth between opener “Eres Tan Serpiente” and second cut “Gordon Shumway,” or to miss the Latin percussion that Javier Tapia adds to Manuel Yañez‘s drumming, or the ways that guitarist Christian Spencer, keyboardist Pablo Saveedra, bassist Mario Rodríguez and Tapia work to complement guitarist Cristóbal Pacheco on vocals. But all of that is happening, and as they make their way toward and through the eight-minute fuzzer “Band Band the Headbang,” through the soaring “Weedow” and into the acoustic-led closer “It’s Alright,” the character and maturity in Grand Reunion‘s songwriting shows itself more and more, inviting multiple listens in the most natural fashion possible: by making you want to hear it again.
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Pledge, Resilience
16 minutes of scathing post-hardcore/sludge from Portuguese four-piece Pledge, who are in and out of their Resilience EP with a clean break and a windmill kick to the face. The newcomers lack nothing for ferocity, and with the throat-searing screams of Sofia M.L. out in front of the mix, violent intentions are unmistakable. “Profer Lumen Caecis,” “The Great Inbetweeness,” “Doom and Redemption” and “The Peter, the Wolf” nonetheless have groove built on varying degrees of extremity and angularity, with Vítor Vaz‘s bass maintaining a steady presence alongside the guitar of Hugo Martins and Filipe Romariz‘s drumming, frenetic as it sometimes is. I wouldn’t say things calm down in “The Peter, the Wolf” so much as the boiling seems to take place beneath the surface, waiting for a time to burst out, which it eventually does, but either way, for all its harsher aspects, Pledge‘s material isn’t at all void of engagement. It does, however, state the requirement right there on the front cover.
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Egypt, Cracks and Lines: Expanding the Known
Posted in Reviews on October 13th, 2017 by JJ Koczan
When North Dakotan trio Egypt issued their second full-length in 2015, already there were stirrings of a companion-piece tracked at the same time that was coming soon. Not that they didn’t say plenty with Endless Flight (review here) itself, which was a delight in tone and groove and its general approach to songcraft — I said at the time that it was immediately recognizable as Egypt‘s own, and I very much stand by that. That there would be more material to come drawn from those recording sessions was an exciting prospect. The trio of bassist/vocalist Aaron Esterby, guitarist/recording engineer Neal Stein and drummer/cover artist Chad Heille had never sounded so fluid, and one knew from the wait between Egypt‘s original demo, released in 2009 via MeteorCity as a self-titled EP (review here) and 2013’s Become the Sun (review here), that Egypt records don’t come along every day, so hey, the more the merrier.
As it turns out, Cracks and Lines is less of a companion-piece or Endless Flight than one might expect — at least in the sense of being more of the same. Instead, with Stein at the helm recording, mixing and mastering, the three-piece course through five tracks and 38 minutes that greatly expand the scope of who Egypt are and what they do as a band, finding a stylistic foothold in a blend of their trademark bluesy sludge on songs like “Final Heist” and the 11-minute rolling title-cut, while elsewhere delving into melancholy psychedelia on “Dirge” or tripping out in a spacious, Hammond-infused jam on 13-minute closer “What Lights this Ocean.” Oh, and for good measure? There’s a KISS cover. They do “Watchin’ You” from 1974’s Hotter than Hell and have no trouble making it their own.
All of this, and especially the languid finish of “What Lights this Ocean” has the effect of broadening Egypt‘s overall reach. Yeah, in their more straightforward nodding moments, on “Watchin’ You” or the apex of “Cracks and Lines,” they still nod toward the likes of Weedeater with Esterby‘s dry-throated shouts and one-time splitmates Wo Fat — with whom they issued Cyclopean Riffs (review here) in 2013 — but that expectation in no way accounts for putting the melodic, calm and wistful “Dirge” as the three-minute centerpiece of the offering, with its subtle swirl of backward guitar and clean-sung verses. Nor does it jibe with “What Lights this Ocean” on the whole, which, while it draws from elements Egpyt have put to use in the past, represents a marked shift in focus toward psych-blues that stands as a realignment from anything they’ve done before. Even “Final Heist,” which at just under seven minutes long one might argue is intended as a familiar lead-in for listeners before the band gets to their more ranging fare, plays to a more patient feel in its rollout, saving a weighted boogie for its final third as the payoff for the slow nod preceding.
Again, not necessarily unheard of from Egypt, but done in a new way. It’s interesting to think of these songs as having been put to tape at the same time as Endless Flight, if indeed that’s how it worked out, because the band clearly then took the glut of material and sculpted two different outings from it — one that affirmed the direction of their debut and built on the accomplishments there, and this one, which pushes into newer territory altogether. Without knowing the circumstances of the recording, it would be almost too easy to read progression into this material — the sense of Egypt continuing to move forward from Endless Flight, when the reality is that what they accomplish with Cracks and Lines isn’t growing beyond its predecessor, it’s completing the picture of how much they’ve grown since the debut. The mind boggles.
The most important bottom line, of course, is that it works. From “Final Heist” through the early bounce of “Cracks and Lines,” into the melodic drift of “Dirge,” the stage-ready swing of “Watchin’ You” and the final, liquefied wanderings of “What Lights this Ocean” — on which Andrew Steinberg sits in for the aforementioned Hammond contribution, much bolstering the ending of the full-length as a whole — Cracks and Lines succeeds in delivering the impression of Egypt as a richer band in their presentation than one knew they could be before, while maintaining a loose, natural feel throughout. As it was finally put together to coincide with a summer 2017 European tour, Cracks and Lines might be thought of along similar lines to Geezer‘s Psychoriffadelia (review here), with which the New York heavy psych-blues rockers similarly jammed their way into more expansive terrain, but however one might want to frame them, these five tracks showcase a side of Egypt not previously heard in this way.
One can’t help but wonder if on their next outing, the Fargoans might try to bring these stylistic maneuvers together with the more forward sludge rock that typified Endless Flight, essentially combining the vibes of the two albums as a logical next step forward for their sound. If anything, Cracks and Lines makes it harder — though also more fun — to speculate what might be next for Egypt, but either way, the underlying message here is that while one might have come out of Endless Flight feeling like the total scope of the band had shown itself and that the task before them was then to set about refining that scope on a third album through songwriting and general level of performance, production, etc. — that, in other words, their course was set — they’ve instead shifted their narrative with a sonic left turn and given themselves a broader palette to draw from as they move toward what might be a more satisfying long-term development. So while Cracks and Lines complicates guessing who Egypt want to be as a band, it excites in demonstrating just how unsettled that issue still is and that there remains plenty of exploring to do.
Egypt, Cracks and Lines (2017)
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Egypt Announce Cracks and Lines Preorders Available; July Euro Tour Confirmed
Posted in Whathaveyou on May 29th, 2017 by JJ Koczan
Egypt head back to Europe in July for a tour that rounds out with slots at Stoned from the Underground in Germany and Red Smoke in Poland, and by the time they go, the Fargo, North Dakota, three-piece will have issued their new album, Cracks and Lines. You might recall the band posted the 11-minute title-track of the record back in March — though one didn’t know at the time it shared its name with the record; very sneaky — to give a substantial tease to the follow-up to 2015’s Endless Flight (review here) and reassure their broadening listenership that their bluesy sludge rock remains well intact moving into their next release.
Good to know and good to hear. I’d already been looking forward to the rest of the album, and if you’re in a similar mindset, they’ve got preorders up now through their Bandcamp and have posted the album art and tracklist. Though “Cracks and Lines” itself was 11 minutes long, I’m thinking the rest of the offering might be pretty short since they refer to it as an “EP/LP.” Either way, new Egypt and I’ll take it.
They were also recently confirmed for Glory or Death Records‘ upcoming Thin Lizzy tribute (info here), so plenty going on. Here’s info from their social medias:
Egypt – Cracks and Lines
The digital and CD preorders of our new EP/LP/album “Cracks and Lines” are now live on bandcamp. The release date is set for 6/20 for the digital/CD. Physical CDs should be in our hands on or before the release date. If a delay occurs we will let everyone know. Vinyl will be coming, but a bit down the road. Check it out. Cheers.
1. Final Heist
2. Cracks and Lines
3. Dirge
4. Watchin’ You
5. What Lights This Ocean
Here are our 2017 European tour dates. We’re super stoked to be heading back over to Europe this Summer. Check it. Presented by Total Volume & Eclipse Productions!
1-jul Rare Guitar – Münster DE
2-jul Le Garage – Liege BE
3-jul Le Glazart – Paris FR
4-jul Le Ferraileur – Nantes FR
5-jul OFF
6-jul Coq D´Or – Olten CH
7-jul Dome of Rock Festival – Salzburg AT
8-jul KVLT – Budapest HU
9-jul EXIT festival – Novi Sad RS
10-jul Club Daos – Timisoara RO
11-jul Elektropionir – Belgrade RS
12-jul Vintage Industrial Bar – Zagreb HR
13-jul Das Bach – Vienna AT
14-jul Club 007 – Prague CZ
15-jul Stoned From the Underground Fest – Erfurt DE
16-jul Red Smoke Festival – Pleszew PL
EGYPT is:
Aaron Esterby – Bass/Vocals
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Egypt Announce July European Tour Dates
Posted in Whathaveyou on April 14th, 2017 by JJ Koczan
Go back if you will through the last couple years of this site’s archive of posts about Fargo, North Dakota, sludge rockers Egypt (dig in if you dare) and you’ll probably find the running theme of their being included in two kinds of lists — most anticipated albums and best albums of the year. Their most recent outing, late-late-late 2015’s Endless Flight (review here), was both, and I’ve basically been waiting for them to follow that up since they released it, so the thread continues.
Another kind of post common for Egypt? European tour dates. They made a trip to Europe last year in Spring to play Desertfest and the by-now-veterans will head back this summer for slots at Dome of Rock, EXIT Festival, Stoned from the Underground and Red Smoke, as well as club shows between. All this as eagerness mounts for their next album, the coming of which they heralded last month by unveiling a rough version of the new track “Cracks and Lines” (posted here) that found their crusty vibes and rolling grooves well intact, not that there was any doubt.
I don’t know how much new material they’ll be playing on this run or what exactly the status is of the recording for the next LP, but Egypt are definitely “between records” at this point, so if you ever thought of catching a sneak peak at some new material from them, this would seem to be a prime chance.
Dates follow:
Egypt – 2017 European Tour
Hello. Here are our 2017 European tour dates. We’re super stoked to be heading back over to Europe this Summer. Check it.
3-jul Glazart – Paris FR
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Egypt, “Cracks and Lines”
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Egypt Post “Cracks and Lines”; New Album Coming Soon
Posted in audiObelisk, Whathaveyou on March 7th, 2017 by JJ Koczan
However many tracks it might turn out to have on it, it’s a safe bet that North Dakota heavy rockers Egypt are unveiling a substantial portion of their next album in making public the 11 minutes of “Cracks and Lines.” Even in its unmastered form as heard below, the track is a stomper, with the steady snare of drummer Chad Heille punctuating the sleek, classic-minded slow-motion boogie from guitarist Neal Stein and the raspy vocals of bassist Aaron Esterby. The same three-piece issued their last outing, Endless Flight (review here), at the very tail end of 2015 — I counted it in my Top 30 of 2016, for whatever that’s worth — and proffered much tonal density, but I’m digging the spacier vibe that “Cracks and Lines” digs into as it moves past the halfway point.
We’re still well in the Sabbathian playbook, but a little drift in the guitar and vocal chillout sounds right on to my ears, especially with Esterby‘s bass bouncing along at the bottom of that echoing cavern. As a first impression for whatever the next record might be called — don’t know yet; will let you know when I do — it’s a positive one, and I guess ahead of a Spring or Summer 2017 release, which is still a ways off, they don’t need it to be anything more than that necessarily. Dudes’ nod is just about always welcome by me, and after speculating that we’d hear from them in 2017, I’m glad to hear that coming to fruition. Sooner the better.
Look for more to come as we get closer to the album release, and I wouldn’t be surprised if at some point in the near future the trio announced another round of European touring. They’ve been racking up frequent flier miles over the Atlantic the last couple years, so it wouldn’t be out of character, but they also recently put word out that they’ll appear at the Red Smoke fest in Poland this July. Could it be an album-release tour in the summer? Would make an awful lot of sense, but we’ll see when we get there.
Esterby had a few words to say about the impending full-length and other whathaveyou, and you’ll find that under “Cracks and Lines,” which is on the YouTube player below.
Egypt, “Cracks and Lines” unmastered audio
I think that I said a while back that the new record was done and was being mixed and all that stuff. Well, I was wrong at the time I said that. Turns out there was more work to do. Now I can say with certainty that the new album is finished and will be going to mastering next week. We’re excited, nervous, stoked, concerned, and many other things for you guys to hear it. It’s always painful to let go…haha. But, now is the time.
We’ve never been very good at promoting stuff. We’re kind of a DIY type outfit so there is very little fanfare when it comes to announcements. We’ll be sharing a tracklist and other important odds and ends very soon. In the meantime, here is a song from the new record. It’s not mastered and it’s a youtube rip, so be gentle. If you have 11 minutes to spare give it a listen. Hope you guys dig it. We’ll talk soon. Cheers.
We are extremely excited to announce that we will be playing Red Smoke Festival in Poland on July 16th. Killer lineup so far. We’re beyond stoked to be a part of it.
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COVID daily death toll tops 1,200 as number of patients in hospital hits new high
Rebecca Speare-Cole
Ambulance crews transport patients into City Hospital in Birmingham. The West Midlands has several areas in the top 10 highest-growing coronavirus numbers. (PA)
A further 1,243 people have died within 28 days of a positive test for COVID-19 in the UK, bringing the total death toll to 83,203.
Hospital figures have also hit a new high with 35,075 COVID patients on wards as of Monday – a 22% increase from last week.
Home secretary Priti Patel announced the new figures at a Downing Street press conference on Tuesday, adding that 2,431,648 people have now received a vaccine.
The four nations also recorded 45,535 new cases on Tuesday, according to the official data.
What you can and can't do under current lockdown rules
This latest death toll is lower than the record 1,326 fatalities reported on Friday, which also saw a further 68,053 cases.
The UK has seen one of the worst death tolls in the world and in parts of London, it's believed that one in 20 people are infected.
The latest figures come after the UK government's chief medical adviser, Professor Chris Whitty, said the next weeks of the pandemic will be the worst yet to hit that country – even as it rushes to ramp up its mass vaccination programme.
A paramedic works in the back of an ambulance, parked outside the Royal London hospital. (Getty Images)
Making a rare broadcast round of TV and radio stations on Monday, Prof Whitty also said the new variant of the virus – which has caused record infections, hospital admissions and deaths in recent weeks – “undoubtedly” makes every outdoor situation “slightly more dangerous”.
Now, the government is reportedly considering the introduction of even tougher lockdown restrictions in an attempt to halt the spread of coronavirus.
Boris Johnson and other senior ministers have discussed scrapping the exemption allowing people in England to exercise with another person from outside their household as people continue to flout the rules, according to the Daily Telegraph.
Watch: COVID-19: Peak demand on hospitals might not come until next month, expert says
On Sunday, scientists called for the introduction of stricter “Asia-style” lockdown rules to tackle the new COVID-19 variant.
It comes after the British Medical Association reported that more than 46,000 doctors and nurses have contracted coronavirus.
Meanwhile, health chiefs said some patients have waited up to nine hours in ambulances outside hospitals.
Health secretary Matt Hancock also warned that "the pressure on the NHS is very, very bad" with the number of COVID patients in hospitals at a record high as he urged people to stick to the lockdown rules.
New COVID hotspot saw cases rise 150% in just seven days
All supermarkets should ban shoppers who aren’t wearing face masks, says minister
In the meantime, seven mass vaccination centres have now opened, and there's hope of reaching all those in the top four priority groups – about 15 million – by the middle of February.
The hubs which are located in Bristol, Surrey, London, Newcastle, Manchester, Stevenage and Birmingham.
Queues formed outside the sites early on Monday morning as nurses prepared to vaccinate thousands at socially distanced tables or cubicles.
Watch: PM’s controversial bike ride did not break the law, says Met Police commissioner
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Working to change the family law system of justice
Weak, Ineffective Judges
Pathology of PA
CAFCASS
The ‘Standard’ Parental Alienation Case
Financing Your Case
The Scandal of Court Fees
The ‘Standard’ Case
Mediators and Guardians
Using Existing Law
Robust Judgements
Following Precedent
Enforcing Court Orders
Options for the Judge
Decided Court Cases
Transfer of Child’s Residence
Orders for Contact
Human Rights Convention
Parental Responsibility (‘PR’)
Consultation on Children Cases
Transparency of the Courts
Adjustments to the Children Act
Child Contact Page
Reply to Child Arrangements Programme Review (Private Law)
It could be argued that the causes of injustice in the family court are many and varied, that there is a very complex ‘symptom picture’ and that the arguments are finely-grained.
We have to look at judges, CAFCASS, societal and cultural norms and world views, the role of Legal Aid (or the lack of it), Litigants in Person, and so forth.
My claim is that, whilst this may be so, the single most obvious and ‘fixable’ cause of injustice in the ‘Family Law System’ is weak, unenlightened judges.
I am an estranged father and former Litigant in Person. My own case was high-conflict and I ran a website for some time that collected data from other users that had been involved in high-conflict cases, so the comments I make in this document are based not only on my experience but on the experiences of about 50 or so survey-responders. My comments below refer only to high-conflict cases.
Weak and Unenlightened Judges
If one reads high-conflict cases, they are all more-or-less the same. The ‘template’ runs much like this:
Mother (usually) denies contact;
Father applies to the court;
Court orders contact;
Mother ignores order;
This process is repeated over a number of years until the child becomes so estranged from the father and indoctrinated by the mother, and so much time has passed that the child refuses contact;
If the father has sufficient will and resources, he might get his case to the Court of Appeal, where the judges acknowledge the reality that the father-child relationship is by now beyond repair, and the father leaves the court as just another “tearful and wholly-deserving father”, a phrase that has been used, shamefully, more than once;
The above process goes on for several years – in several cases a decade or more – all because the judges have failed to get to grips with the issue of contact, and make robust orders that are actually enforced.
Judges are well-familiar with such cases, and the broad concept of a child being deprived of contact with one of its parents, by the other parent – see Mrs Justice Bracewell in V vs V:
“This is neither a unique nor even unusual [my emphasis] case to come before the courts. Unfortunately, the courts at all levels are well accustomed to intractable contact disputes which drag on for years with little or anything to show for the outcome except numerous court hearings, misery for the parents, who become more entrenched in their positions, wasted court resources, and above all serious emotional damage to the children.”
So, Judges have seen it all before, and are not ignorant, of course, about the issues in these cases, but most are unenlightened and out of touch with issues like ‘parental alienation’ (which although having been described as ‘mainstream’ in the superior courts is routinely dismissed in the lower courts as ‘American twaddle’).
This is what one of my survey respondents said about his expert’s report:
“Amazing report that was dead on accurate: took 19 hours of interviewing and 8 psychometric tests of both parents, child and grandparents on each side. Diagnosis V995.51 (child abuse) and v61.29. Alienator showed in test to get MAXIMUM score on narcissism test. 220 page report from the psychiatrist and….Judge said Parental Alienation was an American thing and the report was waffle!
Lack of Funding and Support for judges
Judges would probably appreciate more bailiffs, tipstaffs and court officers. Perhaps more judges would be more robust if they had a ‘flying squad’ of tipstaffs who could enforce Orders and protect them from angry litigants (regrettably an increasingly common phenomenon, but which is perhaps not completely surprising if – as I argue – judges have lost the respect and confidence of the public).
The Criminal Burden of Proof being required to make committal orders
We already know that 98.8% of the time, judges do not put punish defaulting litigants at all. Perhaps jail is not considered, because the criminal standard of proof is needed.
But I doubt this, for one compelling reason: Punishments like community service require only a civil standard of proof – and these punishments are not used either!
Next, though, we could introduce other punishments that require only the civil standard of proof, like confiscating a parent’s driving licence or passport, as proposed by Suella Braverman MP. But I cannot see that this will help. If judges are already failing to punish with other measures that require only a civil standard of proof, why should they start doing it with new measures?
Suella Braverman has mooted a ‘three strikes’ option – that is, the defaulting party is given two opportunities (generous, I think) to comply before being punished in some way…Perhaps there is something to this. If this party breaches an order, the judge reprimands them. Then, if the parent defaults again, the judge might say ‘look, I really, really mean it this time’. So, the parent is well and truly on notice, and is going to have trouble pleading no mens rea presumably. But this happens already and still recalcitrant parents ignore court orders.
Judges have become a laughing stock, so we arrive at the final possibility…
Judges are weak, feeble windbags
This is an allegation that I feel has some traction. A very cursory examination of the evidence reveals this:
Judges consistently make ineffectual orders, seeking review after review (“I’ll order this and see how it goes in 3 months or 6 months’ time”), or endless adjournments, as HH Judge Wildblood points out, and which we see many times, for example at para 7 of D vs H 2011] EWHC 3521 (Fam) where Hedley J notes:
“There were a considerable number of factual disputes between the parties, and, indeed, criminal proceedings had occurred at one stage, and accordingly, Her Honour Judge Harris, who endeavoured to provide judicial continuity at Watford, fixed a fact-finding hearing for 17th October 2008. For many different reasons, but as a matter of fact, that hearing was adjourned on no less than seven occasions before ultimately being considered by the learned judge on 25th March of 2009 and, in respect that, the judgment which she gave on 24th April 2009. I will say more about that in due course.”
Certainly, adjournments and delays for ‘review’ are OK once, maybe a couple of times, with short reviews – a month at a time maybe. But time and time and time again? That harms our children. Delay is inimical to justice. That is not only obvious, but is spelt out in the Act;
When making such orders, judges can affect a ‘monitoring order’, where CAFCASS could report back as to whether the order has been followed by the parties. Judges will routinely express a ‘hope’ that a recalcitrant parent will see sense and facilitate contact and stop hurting their child. They then seem surprised when there is no compliance with their order;
Judges do not enforce their own orders as already mentioned. This is a very common complaint – a ‘flabby’ judicial response, that sends out a disturbing message to the parties, that it is OK to defy court orders and suborn children into doing so. Only 1.2% of court orders are enforced.
Judges do not follow precedent.
‘Flabby’ Judicial Responses to Breaches of Court Orders
Sir James Munby, recently-retired President of the Family Division, said this, 15 years ago:
“Other things being equal, swift, efficient, enforcement of existing court orders is surely called for at the first sign of trouble. A flabby judicial response sends a very damaging message to the defaulting parent, who is encouraged to believe that court orders can be ignored with impunity, and potentially also to the child.”
Mrs Justice Parker says this, in re H:
“Children who are suborned into flouting court orders are given extremely damaging messages about the extent to which authority can be disregarded and given the impression that compliance with adult expectations is optional.”
Committal to Prison – Why not Jail?
Well, the traditional wisdom has been that putting a recalcitrant parent (usually mother) in jail is not going to help the child.
But putting a murdering mother in prison is not going to help her children. Putting a violent mother in jail is not going to help the children. Perhaps we cannot put any mother in prison for any criminal offence, lest she cries “but what about my kids?!” Mothers are put in jail all the time for all sorts of criminal offences, as are fathers.
Why should there be an exception for breaking court orders that relate to the welfare of children, unless judges consider contempt of court in a child-related matter a somewhat trivial offence?
In addition, putting an offending parent in jail will actually help. This parent is a bully. They are bullying the other parent and they are bullying the child. They are even bossing the judge. Teaching them a lesson is desirable, and necessary. I am not saying that they should go to prison forever and the key thrown away – 24 hours in a cell is a very sobering experience. Like all bullies, parents like this will not stop without a metaphorical punch on the nose.
And if the court is squeamish about committing the offender, there is a range of other options.
The court can order the disobedient parent to pay the other parent compensation for financial losses (S. 11 (O) of the Act):
“If the court is satisfied that—
(a)an individual has failed to comply with [a provision of the child arrangements] order, and
(b)a person falling within subsection (6) has suffered financial loss by reason of the breach,
it may make an order requiring the individual in breach to pay the person compensation in respect of his financial loss.”
This can be ordered for parties that breach court orders, and can be used in conjunction with other orders. (Section 11 (J) of the Act)
The court can order a disobedient litigant to pay a fine.
Costs Orders
Normally, in family matters, each side pays its own costs. In high-conflict cases, I would argue that if there is a level of intent from the (usually) mother to ignore orders, a deliberate attempt to disrupt contact and so on, a costs order would be appropriate – that is, that the defaulting parent pays the legal costs ‘thrown away’.
Compounding Punishments
The court can compound punishments – for example, the judge may order a period of imprisonment and a fine, and community service, and compensation, or any permutation of these.
Judges have a range of powers. They simply do not use them.
There is a strong feeling amongst survey-responders that CAFCASS officers are incompetent and do not understand these cases at all. The words of Mrs Justice Parker in re H (2014) ring true (the initial words here are from McFarlane LJ when the case was appealed by the mother):
“Neither the social worker nor the Children’s Guardian supported an immediate change of residence. In justifying her conclusion in favour of an immediate change of residence, the judge explained her reasons for disagreeing with these two professionals as follows:
“72. The social worker, JW, who is warm, caring and committed, urges me to leave the children living with the mother because that is what they say they want. Until I enforced contact she was also saying that there should be no contact, because that is what the boys say they want. The proof of that pudding has been very much in the eating, on present showing. I have more than once stressed in this case, as in others, that the word used in the Children Act about wishes and feelings is “ascertainable” and not “expressed”. “Ascertainable” often means that the Court has to look at actions rather than words. The ascertainable wishes and feelings of these boys have been demonstrated by the evidence that they are more than happy to be with their father. I suspect they may feel some relief being out of the maelstrom. Their grandmother is calm and robust.
73. The Children’s Guardian also urged me to do nothing and not to intervene because of what the boys say they are not willing to see their father. She has done remarkably little as a Guardian. She has not read most of the papers, she hardly knows the boys. When it was put to her that if this was a case of parental manipulation and recruitment, then this could be or would be emotionally abusive to the boys, she took that on board seemingly, or at least superficially, but then said, “But the boys say they don’t want to go.” She was reminded that they were fine when they went on contact. “Oh,” she said, “but the boys don’t want to go.”
One can almost feel Mrs Justice Parker’s frustration bubbling off the page. It seems clear that she considers the officers involved, in that case at least, to be rather unintelligent.
CAFCASS officers need to be educated, but they do know about parental alienation. Their library on the subject is vast, according to former president, Anthony Douglas, but only 2% of CAFCASS officers attend the non-mandatory course on the subject.
The problem in my view is not that CAFCASS officers do not understand the concept of parental alienation, it’s that they do not accept the existence of it – that is, that they believe, like judges, that it is ‘American twaddle’.
So, whilst judges tend to be super-conservative and, I argue, totally out of touch, social workers are woolly-headed liberals who believe that the child’s expressed wishes trump, and should trump, all other considerations. Mrs Justice Parker points out that it is the child’s ascertainable feelings that carry the day, but social workers are ill-equipped to do the ascertaining, and politically hostile to the idea that ‘grown-ups know best’. Strange bedfellows indeed.
Most family lawyers have switched from private law cases to public law cases (where funding is still available).
So, maybe what parents should do is to try and move high-conflict cases from the private to the public arena (S.37 of the Act). It seems, however, that social workers do not recognise abuse unless it is egregious physical abuse, so judges are unlikely to persuade a local authority to take the case on – see HH Judge Stephen Wildblood on this, but perhaps we can take heart from cases like W (A Child) [2014] EWCA Civ 772 where Ryder LJ judged emotional harm as significant and equivalent to other kinds of abuse, but only…on the facts of that particular case.
But Legal Aid is a sideshow and a political football. All of the injustices we see today were present long before Legal Aid was abolished. Certainly, it would not do any harm at all for it to be reinstated, but that bell has been rung and is not going to be ‘unrung’ any time soon.
Are parties really better off when represented by lawyers? There is scant evidence of that in the case law.
Judicial Diversity
Three cases stick out in my mind, having reviewed the case law. Three cases where the judge was decisive, robust, effective. They are V vs V (Mrs Justice Bracewell, now deceased), re H (Mrs Justice Parker) and re B (2017) adjudicated by HH Judge Gorden-Saker. All three judges were women.
This speaks to a point I have already made about outmoded paradigms. A female judge is, by definition, successful. It is therefore more likely that a judge like this will not accept a ‘1950’s paradigm that women belong in the home, with children. A relatively liberal-progressive approach might also be more likely to be shared by judges from different ethnic backgrounds, and by younger judges.
But our judges are almost all white, middle-class men. This type of individual is always going to be more likely to conserve existing hierarchies and indeed quite likely to hanker after days gone by, when the world made sense to them. But not only can one not wind the clock back, one cannot stand still either.
Transparency and Precedent
More transparency is needed. Every family court decision must be reported. This will keep the judges honest and will help restore confidence in the legal system.
Of course, lower-court judges must follow the rulings of the Court of Appeal. Now, it will be argued that “well, all children cases are unique – you cannot have a one-size fits all type of family justice”. This response is both glib and wrong.
Obviously in order to be bound by a precedent, one’s case has to be on ‘all fours’ with the previous case. But although all children are different, all high-conflict cases are, in essence, the same, as set out in my template at the beginning of this response.
There is an old saying: “If you can’t argue the facts, argue the law. And if you can’t do that, shout louder than your opponent!” Of course, the law is the same in all cases. Everything is governed by the Children Act 1989, and all subsequent Acts that have added to or amended the law have been (rather usefully) subsumed into the main body of the Act.
And, I would argue, the facts of these cases, whilst different are not so different. They all involve recalcitrant, contumacious, disobedient litigants who simply ignore orders and fail to turn up for hearings – with nary a (meaningful) murmur from the judge. All high-conflict cases involve false allegations against the party applying for contact. So much so, indeed, that my survey reveals that judges are not interested in such allegations precisely because they know them to be false. Those allegations are invariably that the father has physically or sexually abused the child, or, if a mother, that she is promiscuous or mentally unstable. It’s as if there is a high-conflict ‘playbook’ that everyone has read except the parent who is denied contact. He learns the rules a decade later, though, sure enough.
Transparency is the key. If all lower-court cases (most especially District Judge cases and Magistrates court decisions) were publicised, there would, I am confident, be an outcry. Why, we would ask, are these case mishandled time and time again? It’s not because the judiciary don’t ‘get it’ – it seems to be simply that they do not want to get it. Lower-court justice is pretty much ‘make it up as you go’. Our children deserve consistency and predictability.
As I understand the position, the Minister for Justice is now the same person as the Lord Chancellor. I don’t remember there being a big fuss about this. But surely this strikes at the heart of our judicial system. Judges must be, and be seen to be, crow-bar-separated from the Executive and the Legislature, assuming that we wish to avoid a charge of running a totalitarian regime.
High-Conflict -vs- Low-Conflict Cases
Whilst there are certain common areas between these types of case, high-conflict cases need a completely different approach.
The reason is simple. In low-conflict cases, there is still a chance that matters can be resolved relatively amicably, which, to be trite, is in everyone’s best interests. So perhaps ‘gently does it’ is the right approach.
In high-conflict cases, however, there is no chance of that. None at all. So ‘kitchen table’ methods like mediation are a waste of everyone’s time (this is clear from our survey results).
How do we tell the difference? Well, I am advocating that all cases involving children be triaged by an experienced family judge and that they then take different judicial paths as a result of this triaging procedure. The low-conflict cases can be referred to mediation, freeing up judicial time for high-conflict cases, which must be dealt with energetically, and with robustness and exactitude, as I have already argued.
Judges must be guided (others may know the means for so doing) to be robust, and to enforce their own orders;
All children cases to be triaged;
All children cases to be reported and available for scrutiny;
Judges, CAFCASS and society at large to be educated as to changing societo-cultural gender paradigms;
More judicial diversity;
Of these, number 1 is the most important. If cases are dealt with robustly, they will not keep popping up to haunt the judiciary, Banquo-like, time and again. In essence, ‘a stitch in time saves nine’. So, judicial robustness not only costs nothing, it will save money.
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gt version?
sleepn24seven
i was nosin around and came upon this "gt" version and did not know wat it was and if there is one then where can i find one?
DiRN
I'm guessing you are talking about the GT version in Europe?
60k$ and only in japan i believe
gt_concept.jpg
jinxxycat
Holy sheeeiiiiite batman, 60K?
ZChickz.com ZROCMy Cardomain Page
Japan, that's it. I can never remember what the German one is called. But yeah, that one's JDM only
I think I could spend $25K on Lucy and have her looking hotter than that....don't really dig on the nose or the butt, sideskirts are OK and I don't think those vents look right where they are behind the door panels...that's just my opinion tho...Wheels are pretty OK, is that the Nismo wing version 2? The floating looking one? I think it detracts from the look of the Z. OH WELL maybe I am the only one w/ that opinion but not worth the extra $25K unless it makes mad more HP than our Z's....
I like the vents if they let out heat, but most likely they don't. And as far as non body changes go, you get some of the NA S-Tune Nismo mods. Most of the increased price is for the fancy little GT emblem
smoothz
Looks like a Porsche GT-2...almost.
So why do they call it a GT? To make more money? Hmm...
Like Terri said, for $25k I could make my Z look kickass and more unique than the S tune GT. Most of that would be spent on engine mods, then the bodykit and paint.
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." - Calvin
I think it's called the S-Tune GT because it's the S-Tune version of the Nissan GT car
cedusett
You could easily make a much better looking (and faster) version of the Z for an extra 25K. This one isn't much of a difference as far as performance goes... almost as bad as the dealer markup on NISMO Z's...
Eibach Pro Kit
JWT Pop-Charger
Z-Xtreme Grounding Kit
Fairlady Z emblem
JDM Shorty Antenna
Silver Z Emblems
Tinted side-view mirrors (blue 35%)
angelo350z
Yeah it's a limited edition Z available only in Japan. Nissan had to make so many modifications to the factory Fairlady Z to make it competitive in the JGTC 500 class to the point where the car couldn't qualify as a "production" car. Hence, Nissan had to produce, correct me if I'm wrong, 25 of these cars to compete. The article's in Road and Track, I believe. By the way, the car's got 300 hp.
That doesn't make any sense to me, because adding 13 horsepower wouldn't make the JGTC car any closer to "production" in my book but I'll take your word for it.
As for the 300 HP number... like I said that's only 13 horsepower, which is about what you'd get from adding an intake and exhaust.
Would an intake, exhaust, and an ugly body kit cost you 30 grand? That's the question all these people driving this car should ask themselves... right before they punch themselves in the face for being a moron.
LBSOHK
Originally posted by SmoothZ@Sep 27 2004, 10:27 AM
please dont compare that ugly Z to my dream car..
I dont know who would buy that Z for 60K
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Sorry for the confusion. The modifications that I was referring to were mainly to the aerodynamics of the car. I mean giving the Z an extra 13 hp wouldn't help it out that much considering the JGTC 500 class is limited to cars with close to 500 hp (hence the name). The JGTC 500 Fairlady Z looked so different than the factory Z so Nissan had to produce 25 350Z that looked more like the JGTC car.
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Week in Review: AOL Got a New Head of Video, Videoplaza Launched Konnect, Ebuzzing & Teads Became ‘Teads’
By Vincent Flood On October 10, 2014
Acquistions, launches, new hires and rebrands — here’s what happened this week in video advertising. For a weekly summary of industry news and other VAN interviews and videos, sign up to the weekly Video Round-Up.
Attendees to Experience Virtual Reality at New Video Frontiers
Anyone attending New Video Frontiers in London on October 22nd will have the opportunity to try out one of two Oculus Rift sets, thanks to AKQA, the event’s VR sponsor. Resh Sidhu, AKQA’s Creative Director, will also be explaining how virtual reality will turn the advertising world on its head, ushering in a media revolution comparable to the introduction of the ‘talkies’ in 1900. Tickets for New Video Frontiers are now on sale and can be bought here.
Rentrak Acquired Kantar Media’s US-based TV Measurement Assets
Rentrak acquired Kantar Media’s US TV measurement business of WPP’s Kantar business unit for $98 million in Rentrak common stock. A Rentrak said the deal will give the US TV ratings marketplace ‘a single massive and passive TV measurement ratings service’. Under the agreement, Rentrak will also integrate its national and local TV measurement with a number of Kantar’s U.S.-based services that focus on digital media, advertising expenditure and purchase data.
Videoplaza Launched ‘Konnect’, a Video SSP
Videoplaza launched its video SSP solution which is aimed at broadcasters and premium publishers. Read full story.
Ebuzzing & Teads Rebranded as ‘Teads’
Ebuzzing & Teads, rebranded as ‘Teads’ this week. Teads specialise in outstream video ad formats which the company monetises using its video SSP. Ebuzzing’s range of video advertising solutions solutions are now directly managed within the Teads’ platform, as a managed services offering for agencies. The company also announced that Christophe Parcot, former director of Yahoo Europe, has joined the company as Chief Operating Officer.
AOL Hired Dermot McCormack as President of AOL Video & AOL Studios
AOL today announced Dermot McCormack is joining AOL from Viacom as President of Video and Studios. McCormack succeeds Ran Harnevo, who has left to pursue other opportunities, but who will remain as Executive Producer of AOL’s first long-form Original Series, Connected. McCormack joins AOL after almost 6 years at Viacom, where he most recently ran Viacom Music & Logo’s Connect Content Group.
TubeMogul hired Mauricio Leon as Commercial Director for Europe
TubeMogul have hired Mauricio Leon, who was Commercial Director at Performics, a division of ZenithOptimedia, to work on the company’s EMEA expansion. Leon has held a variety of TV buying roles in the past, having spent 13 years working in TV buying at agencies such as Mediacom, Starcom Mediavest Group and Leo Burnett, before making the move into digital where he was Commercial Director for Performics. His first job was on the sell-side, with ITV. Leon’s remit will be to head up TubeMogul’s platform and agency sales teams across Europe while also developing the company’s role in programmatic TV as the market evolves.
MTGx Chose FreeWheel in Pan-European Deal
FreeWheel, a sell-side video ad platform, announced today that it has been selected by Stockholm-based MTGx, the digital accelerator of Modern Times Group (MTG), to monetise the group’s digital inventory across the Nordics and Central Eastern Europe. FreeWheel say they served more than 50B video ads in the first half of 2014, with over 15 percent of that traffic coming from Europe, representing 70 percent of the TV VOD inventory in the US and over 80 percent in the UK.
EE Launched Its HbbTV Service
EE, a UK-based communications company, launched a new TV service. EE TV works with home TVs, tablets and smartphones, allowing customers to access live and recorded Freeview, On Demand and Catch up across multiple devices.
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Google Ad Chief: “How Many Of Facebook’s Video Views Are Engaged?”
The battle for online video supremacy seems is heating up. A Google ad executive sent a shot across Facebook’s bow today.
Google’s advertising chief Sridhar Ramaswamy questioned the value of Facebook video, when the social network counts views after only three seconds of attention.
“How many of Facebook’s video views are engaged views?” Ramaswamy asked in an interview with The Wall Street Journal at the ad:tech conference in San Francisco.
Touche? We emailed a Facebook spokesperson for comment and we’ll update this post if we get a response.
The battle has been joined in the last year, after Facebook started pushing more video into users’ News Feeds in June. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has said serving more organic video is intended to make the appearance of video ads seem more natural to people. Facebook hasn’t said how much it’s making from video advertising, but it is creating plenty of cover for video ads, reporting in April that it’s serving more than 4 billion video views a day.
But Facebook’s view metrics have caused some raised eyebrows. Video on Facebook autoplays in News Feeds and a view is triggered after three seconds of a user’s attention. YouTube, on the other hand, counts a view after about 30 seconds. Other video platforms have their own standards as we reported last week.
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Deadly trend continues in Manitoba, as 14 more COVID-19 deaths are announced
Published Friday, November 27, 2020 10:27AM CST Last Updated Friday, November 27, 2020 1:34PM CST
Dr. Brent Roussin, Manitoba chief public health officer, speaks during the province's latest COVID-19 update at the Manitoba legislature in Winnipeg Saturday, March 28, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods
WINNIPEG -- A deadly trend of COVID-19 continued in Manitoba on Friday, as health officials announced a near record-breaking number of deaths.
On Friday, Dr. Brent Roussin, the chief provincial public health officer announced 14 more people have died of COVID-19. This is among Manitoba's highest number of COVID-19 deaths in a single day.
"We continue to announce these deaths every day, we continue to announce higher numbers than what we can sustain," Roussin said, adding in total, 280 people have died due to COVID-19 in Manitoba.
Along with these deaths, the province reported 344 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of cases in Manitoba since March to 15,632. These cases push the five-day test positivity rate in the province to 14.5 per cent.
The majority of the cases announced were in the Winnipeg region, which had 178 cases, and a test positivity rate of 14.2 per cent.
The other cases announced on Friday include:
15 cases in the Interlake-Eastern health region;
73 cases in the Northern health region;
13 cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region; and
65 cases in the Southern Health–Santé Sud health region.
INTENSIVE CARE NOW OPERATING AT 152 PER CENT CAPACITY
The province reported 310 more people have been listed as recovered, which brings the total number of recoveries to 6,487. Hospitalizations jumped by 15 on Friday, with a total of 322 people in hospital.
Lanette Siragusa, the chief nursing officer for Shared Health, said as of midnight, the province's intensive care units were operating at 152 per cent of its normal pre-COVID capacity. She said 46 people out of the 110 patients in ICU have COVID-19.
To free up inpatient beds, as well as redeploy staff to help with the surge of COVID-19 patients, the province has postponed 1,136 surgeries in the past month, Siragusa said.
While daily case numbers are no longer dramatically climbing, Roussin said they are staying at a level the province cannot maintain much longer.
ROUSSIN URGES MANITOBANS TO STAY HOME THIS WEEKEND
"The message has been clear and it's been unwavering – it's to stay home," Roussin, asking Manitobans to stay home as much as possible this weekend.
He said there should not be any gatherings this weekend – including faith-based gatherings.
READ MORE: Defiance of church near Steinbach, Man., coming at a cost to neighbouring church
"The weekend is coming up, and so there is always those urges to get together with others, or to run non-essential errands," Roussin said. "My ask to you is to stay home – stay home this weekend. Connect with people virtually, only out for essential reasons, don't leave the province to go shopping, don't do any non-essential activities."
The deaths reported on Friday include:
A man in his 50s and a man in his 70s from the Winnipeg health region;
A man in his 50s and a man in his 70s from the Interlake-Eastern health region;
A man in his 70s from the Southern Health region;
Two women in their 80s, and a woman in her 100s from Winnipeg, whose deaths are linked to the outbreak at the Saul and Claribel Simkin Centre;
Two men in their 90s from Winnipeg, whose deaths are linked to the outbreak at Golden Links Lodge;
A woman in her 90s from the Prairie Mountain Health region, whose death is linked to the outbreak at Fairview Home;
A man in his 90s from the Southern Health region, whose death is linked to the outbreak at the Rest Haven Nursing Home;
A woman in her 70s from Winnipeg whose death is linked to the outbreak at Parkview Place; and
A man in his 90s from Winnipeg whose death is linked to the outbreak at the St. Norbert Personal Care Home.
This is a developing story. More to come.
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CTV News Winnipeg at Six for Monday, January 18, 2021
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Garr9988, Story Artifact, Class A,
Class A-4
Class C-1
Class J-3
Transformative Artifacts
Emperor Zhongzong's Bamboo Steamer
Now that I've become a full-course identity
Take a bite of me
I hope that I've become a flavorable delicacy
Emperor Zhongzong of Tang (Li Xian); Wu Zetian
Bamboo steamer
Identity self-incorporation.
Identity replacement.
Consuming food prepared in steamer.
TBA (Out and About List)
TBA (Archived for 726F888)
Food-888A
Date of Collection
1 Origin
Origin[edit | edit source]
Emperor Zhongzong of Tang (656 - 710), born Li Xian, was the third son of Empress Wu Zetian and fourth Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. Very soon after ascending the throne after the death of his father, his mother quickly had him replaced in favor of one of his younger brothers and exiled. On his way to where he was to stay, his wife/empress consort (Empress Wei) gave birth to a daughter, Princess Anle (Li Guo'er), who was doted on very much by both her parents.
Whe he was eventually called back to the throne by his mother, and reigned as Emperor for five years, most of the power actually belonged to his mother, his wife, his wife's lover, and his own daughter, and he was easily influenced. He was also known to have attempted to promote the son of his wet nurse to a position of high ranking.
As an adult, his daughter Lu Guo'er wished for power thanks to her parents' constant doting, and she wished to be Empress Regnant like Zetian and to be crown princess, which Zhongzong repeatedly denied. This, among other factors, inspired Zhongzong's own daughter, mother, and others decided to have him killed - this was accomplished by having him eat a poisoned cake.
Chongyang cake is a traditional cake that first became popular in the Tang dynasty, prepared by being baked and steamed. The food is symbolic and means the appreciation and the memory of families and friends who have passed, while it also reminds people to value and highlight the importance of family relationships.
When food is prepared in this steamer, the user may concentrate on an aspect(s) they desire from others, be they physical characteristics, personality traits, talents, etc. Those aspects will be imbued into the dish, and when eaten, the consumer will gain that trait themselves, at the expense of replacing a trait of their own.
If enough traits are absorbed, the user's appearance and personality will become erratic and discordant; different physical traits such as eyes, nose, hair, limbs, or skin color in certain areas will appear mismatched and haphazardly slapped together, and their personality and sometimes even voice will rapidly and randomly change to reflect the aspects or the very people the aspects were taken from. Eventually, the user will become completely unrecognizable and will lose all aspects of their original self.
Collection[edit | edit source]
This artifact has yet to be collected in canon.
This artifact was collected by the Warehouse from the household of male exotic dancer Basil "Tart" Murong and Pepper & Reese Hammond.
Basil comes from the herb of the same name. Murong (慕容) is a Chinese surname combining characters that mean "to admire"/"to desire, yearn for" and "to contain", "bearing, posture", or "appearance, looks". Thus, it can be interpreted as meaning "to admire/desire (one's) bearing/appearance", or "to contain what one admires/desires".
A tart a sweet pastry dish; as an adjective, "tart" refers to a sharp, acidic flavor; it is also a slang word for a sex worker or someone who dresses promiscuously.
Pepper and Reese are named after peppermint and Reese's Cups candy respectively; Hammond is a Norse or Germanic surname that means "high protection" or "home protection".
This artifact was inspired by "Appetite of a People-Pleaser" by GHOST.
This artifact and its story are also inspired by "Hansel & Gretel", where a pair of siblings are lured into a witch's house made of candies and treats.
While unintentional, this artifact can be considered a loose counterpart to the Sense-Transferring Bridal Garter.
See Also[edit | edit source]
Emperor Gaozong’s Ox Bone Figures
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Trump just got caught using Memorial Day to hawk his own merchandise
By Peter Mellado
It’s a high bar, to be sure, but President Donald Trump may have just done the most brazenly crass thing of his presidency. The Commander in Chief of our nation’s military just tried to exploit the memory of our nation’s fallen military heroes to sell campaign crap from his website.
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A post went up Saturday morning on the president’s official Facebook page advertising a Memorial Day sale at the official Trump online store.
“In honor of Memorial Day, we’re doing 25% off all MAGA gear!” the post reads, before reminding followers to “Use code REMEMBER” to receive this lucrative deal.
Someone really needs to remind the President that Memorial Day is the most sacred federal holiday our country recognizes. To the confusion of many –including the current occupant of the White House, apparently – Memorial Day is not a day of outsized patriotism to celebrate all things ‘Merica. That’s Independence Day.
Nor is it a day to honor our veterans, as worthy of celebration as they may be. That’s Veteran’s day, which we celebrate on November 11. It’s not a day to honor the men and women in uniform currently defending our nation around the globe, either. That would be Armed Forces Day, which is observed on the second Saturday of May every year.
Memorial Day, by contrast, is not a celebration at all. At least it’s not a supposed to be. While for most of us it marks the official start of summer and a chance to enjoy a three day weekend, for the armed forces and gold star families, it’s a day set aside specifically to remember the brave men and women who have died while serving in our nation’s military. It’s a solemn occasion meant to honor the ultimate sacrifice many have made in defense of our country.
While there can be some legitimate debate about how best to remember and pay tribute to these fallen heroes, exploiting their sacrifice to make a quick buck selling cheap made-in-China nicknacks is probably something everyone would agree is not only crass and offensive, but un-American.
President Trump’s fawning fanboy followers either support or give him a pass for his attacks on Mexicans, certain veterans, women, and Muslims, to name just a few of his favorite targets for denigration and dehumanization. Will they finally draw a line at dancing on the graves of America’s heroes, for no other reason than to line his own pockets?
Peter Mellado
Peter Mellado is a writer, producer, and a branding and messaging specialist with over 15 years experience. He studied history at San Jose State University, and resides in Los Angeles.
Pardonpalooza! Trump’s pardon power ready to be unleashed as he heads into his last day in office
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Tenn. Congressman says he saw Rep. Boebert usher a group on a Capitol tour in days before insurrection
Trump treachery! — Campaign staffers said to be directly involved in organizing the rally that turned violent
Karl Rove: Trump will be convicted if Giuliani defends him at impeachment
Ivanka tries to defend her dad’s record in office and does a face plant when social media responds
Washington Press
Will he pardon himself and his family or won’t he is the lingering question as the clock ticks down.
Melania Trump’s petty gesture generated an avalanche of social media scorn.
Despite the gun-toting Colorado lawmaker’s protests that she never conducted any tours, Congressman Steve Cohen stands by his eyewitness account.
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Solar Cycle 24 Update for February 2015
Solar cycle 24 contines to be lower than the vast majority of predictions that came out during the waning years of solar cycle 23. David Archibald gives an update on the current progress of solar cycle 24, showing that it remains quite low, and under-performs almost all of the “official”predictions based on models and other forecasting tools, some of which claimed as late as 2006 that cycle 24 would be 30-50% stronger that cycle 23. So far, solar Cycle 24 has been most like Solar Cycles 10 to 15 which started in 1855 and ended in 1923. It is noteworthy that solar cycle 10 produced the famed Carrington event, which if it occurred today, would likely wreak havoc with our sensitive electric grid and electronics.
Guest essay by David Archibald.
Figure 1: Sunspot Number
Source: SILSO data/image, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels
Solar Cycle 24 has been stronger for longer for about a year now. This plot of sunspot number that decline from the second peak is underway.
Figure 2: AP Index 1932 – 2015
The Ap Index, a geomagnetic index driven by the Sun’s magnetism and the solar wind, remains at levels of previous solar cycle minima.
Figure 3: Sunspot Area versus Ap Index 1932 – 2105
From Jan Janssens’ website Solaemon, this graph plots the Ap Index with sunspot area from 1932. Absolute lows in the Ap Index correspond to solar cycle minima but the peak in the Ap Index can be much later than peaks in the solar cycle. Note that the Ap Index was quite strong during the 1970s cooling period up to the Solar Cycles 20/21 minimum.
Figure 4: Monthly F10.7 Flux 1948 – 2015
The F10.7 flux is not subject to observer bias and thus many prefer it to the sunspot number. This chart confirms a second peak in Solar Cycle 24 over the last year. A F10.7 flux above 100 is warming, below 100 is cooling. So the last few years have put a little pulse of warming into the climate system.
Figure 5: Heliospheric Current Sheet Tilt Angle 1976 – 2015
The heliospheric current sheet tilt angle flattens at solar minimum. For the Solar Cycle 23/24 minimum, that occurred in October 2009. From that minimum, the tilt angle had the fastest ascent of the instrument record which happens to be only three and a half cycles. The peak in the tilt angle this cycle is also the broadest in the instrument record. If that means anything, it possibly means that there is not much drive behind it.
Figure 6: Solar Wind Flow Pressure 1967 – 2015
This graph shows a rise from the low in the late 1960s to the peak at Solar Cycle 22 maximum and then the 23 year decline from that peak. It is this flow that modulates the flow of galactic cosmic rays in the inner planets of the solar system.
Figure 7: Oulu Neutron Count 1964 – 2015
Galactic cosmic rays produce a continuous shower of neutrons in the lower atmosphere. The climatic significance of these neutrons is that they provide nucleation sites for cloud droplets. Clouds in turn reflect more sunlight than land or open ocean, cooling the planet. The neutron count follows solar activity with a lag of about a year, reflecting the time the solar wind takes to get to the outer parts of the solar system.
Figure 8: Sum of Solar Polar Field Strengths 1976 – 2015
This data is from the Wilson Solar Observatory and thanks to Dr Hoeksma for updating the data. As with the broad top in the heliospheric current sheet tilt angle, there appears to be a broad top and not much energy in the system.
Figure 9: Smoothed Sunpost Number in months from minimum
Also from Jan Janssens, this figure shows Solar Cycle 24 (green line) compared to the averages of Solar Cycles 10 to 15 (solid blue line) and Solar Cycles 16 to 23 (solid red line). In terms of analogue cycles, Solar Cycle 24 has been most like Solar Cycles 10 to 15.
Figure 10: Sunspot Latitude
Yet again from Jan Janssens, this figure shows the sunspot latitude of Solar Cycle 24 (green line) compared to the average of Solar Cycles 19 to 23. Note for the purpose of this graph, a different month of minimum is used. In this case it is August 2007. This graph is important in that it shows that Solar Cycle 24 is no faster or slower than the previous five cycles. That does not preclude Solar Cycle 24 from becoming a very long cycle if the tail includes a period of no sunspots.
David Archibald is a visiting fellow at the Institute of World Politics in Washington.
His most recent book is Twilight of Abundance (Regnery, 2014).
Advances in research of electric car batteries presented at #AAAS
Mann tries to revive his dead hockey stick with a press release
I keep telling everybody that those dudes in the 70’s had it right.
lsvalgaard
A F10.7 flux above 100 is warming, below 100 is cooling
There is no evidence for that, see e.g.
http://www.leif.org/research/Reconstr-F107.png
from http://www.leif.org/research/Reconstruction-Solar-EUV-Flux.pdf
Reply to lsvalgaard
Newbie question here.
The lower values don’t seem to vary much but at first glance there would appear to be a warming/cooling link if the peak is above or below 150. Is there a possible link?
DontGetOutMuch
Fix this…
Solar Cycle 24 has been stronger for longer for about a year now.
pochas
Here’s a scare story:
http://townhall.com/columnists/patrickmichaels/2015/02/15/untitled-n1957682
This story predicts that as a result of Global Warming there will be droughts in the US southwest due to lack of El Ninos. What may actually happen is that there will be no El Ninos not because of Global Warming but because of low solar activity. Then the droughts will be blamed on, who else? Nasty humans and their poisonous CO2.
Frank Lansner
David Archibald: As always, extremely useful material. David, since you have a very effective way of explaining your material it would be nice to see a more general decription in your words on the nature of the different parameters. For example, if you explained the nature of the tilt data im sure all – including me – would get the picture of why this parameter is scientifically interessting and important.
Kind Regards, Frank
Russ Steele
Reblogged this on The Next Grand Minimum and commented:
The sun has an impact, the question is what is the real impact of sunspots. Some information for your own evaluation.
Andres Valencia
Thanks, David.
I also look at the International Space Environment Service (ISES), Solar Cycle Planetary Index, Ap Progression:
http://services.swpc.noaa.gov/images/solar-cycle-planetary-a-index.gif
From Space Weather Enthusiasts Dashboard (NOAA-NWS Space Weather Prediction Center), at http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/space-weather-enthusiasts
Johanus
I think Archibald wants low solar activity to support his cooling predictions, but uses Ap fig2 , which is geomagnetic storm index driven by solar wind. Fig5 solar Flux reflects true solar activity, which not much different than sc20.
If low solar drives cooling why doesn’t it get cold during the minima between the cycles? I.e. no sunspots then!
Reply to Johanus
There is no relationship between Ap and Temperatures, regardless of Archibald’s wishful thinking:
http://www.leif.org/research/Ap-and-Temp.png
Ulric Lyons
“There is no relationship between Ap and Temperatures..”
In the shorter term, slower solar wind correlates well with negative NAO/AO and El Nino episodes/conditions. If the declining solar plasma pressure/density since the mid 1990’s is responsible for the strong warming of the AMO since then (by increasingly negative NAO increasing poleward ocean transport), the global mean surface temperature would naturally increase its warming rate for a period. Because of oceanic negative feedbacks, there should be no direct relationship between the solar wind and the global mean surface temperature at inter-decadal scales.
And why have you adjusted the Ap so high around 1870?
http://www.leif.org/research/Ap-Monthly-Averages-1844-Now.png
Reply to Ulric Lyons
Because of a correction of the Helsinki data around 1870: http://www.leif.org/research/Error-Scale-Values-HLS.pdf
“Specifically, the adopted scale value of the horizontal force variometer appears to be too low by ∼ 30 % during the years 1866–1874.5”
The paper also says
“..and the adopted scale value of the declination variometer appears to be too low by a factor of ∼2 during the interval 1885.8–1887.5.”
I would expect to see a couple of warmer years on CET there if that were so, but there’s no sign of it. The 1866 to 1874.5 adjustments look ridiculously high, I don’t buy it.
It doesn’t matter what you buy. The upwards adjustment is a fact and is accepted by the most ardent critics of my work. As there is no demonstrated relationship between Ap and temperature, it is not surprising that you don’t see any.
Leif said: “As there is no demonstrated relationship between Ap and temperature, it is not surprising that you don’t see any.”
Makes sense. That would be similar to saying that Average Global Temperature is directly proportional to CO2 concentration.
MarkW
Thermal lag
“To summarize, we find that both solar hemispheres have increased their rotation rate since the late 1990s until recent years. Moreover, the increase rate is fairly similar in the two hemispheres, so that the hemispheric asymmetry in rotation rates has been roughly constant, with the southern rotation being slightly faster. This period of recent solar speed-up coincides with
the decline of the Modern Maximum (a period of exceptionally high activity during most of the twentieth century), which is evidenced by the overall reduction of sunspot activity, vanishing of small sunspots, decreasing solar wind density and magnetic field, etc. We also note that similar albeit shorter and less significant periods of both hemispheres speeding up were only found during the two lowest solar cycles 12 and 14 at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth century. These results strongly suggest that, at least momentarily, there can be and, in fact, there currently is a negative correlation between the solar surface rotation rate and sunspot activity. The causes of these results can be found in the interaction between the solar differential rotation and the magnetic field. Simulations (Brun, 2004) have shown that low Maxwell stresses in weak magnetic fields lead to a high rotation rate at low latitudes where sunspots appear.”
http://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2015/03/aa25169-14/aa25169-14.html
Rather than these short term cycles which many agree indicate a Dalton like Minimum … I am interested in the Milankovitch Cycle. On popular science documentaries I’ve heard the claim it will be 40,000 years until the next glaciation phase in the million plus year ‘ice age’ we live in. The more reputable person suggested precession entered a phase where the tilt range put us back into the cycles prior to the previous 5 cycles where the interglacials were 50 or 60 thousand years instead of 10 thousand years. I have yet to see this topic addressed directly however. As for the current “Dalton Like Minimum”, our advances in a whole range of technologies will mitigate most of the cooling and the contaminated surface data (UHI) will disguise much of the trends so that it is looking more like the ‘Climate Change’ movement will morph into an ‘Energy Tax’ movement without skipping a beat and once again the advance in technology subsequent average ‘standard of living’ will disguise the economically destructive activities of government. In summary, we can afford to purchase our illusions (a luxury good per say) and it will take a long time before we decide to know the truth, if ever. Thanks for keeping the discussion out there though.
Reply to len
Not a lot is right here. Yes the curren ice age is a million year plus – about 2.5 million years.
There hasn’t been 5 long 100 000 year cycles – the correct figure is 8.
The cycles before this time weren’t 50-60 thousand years – they were 40 thousand years.
Reply to tty
OK, so I didn’t get the Neogene or whatever right off, now I’ll have to research the 8 cycles although it’s been 10 years since I’ve dug through this stuff. The information about the previous time previous to this is thin as I presume its based on the margins of glacial tills not over-ridden … but OK, I didn’t remember which was longer, the interglacial or glaciation which gives one or the other 20 thousand years ….
I just have to say … so what … now that we have the details are out of the way, are we in a new glaciation? … or has something changed as suggested vaguely in a few scientific documentaries. I appreciate the technical corrections, but you didn’t answer the big question.
Do we have 10’s of thousands of years to the next glaciation, or is it just a Heinrich Event away, which from what I’ve seen we don’t understand very well.
Apologize for not using Quatenary Period. Quick search with some clues inspired here and found … “More recent work by Berger and Loutre suggests that the current warm climate may last another 50,000 years.” OK, now I have something interesting to look at.
“An Exceptionally Long Interglacial Ahead?, A. Berger, M. F. Loutre (2002)”, given the date, I must not have been that interested in the past. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/297/5585/1287 Appears to be universally referred to … by the way your 40 thousand year assertion is incorrect, there is no correct answer as it gets quite messy although less drastic in deviation from mean. Also there were not 8 ‘long Milankovitch Cycles’, there are 10 documented ones with a cursory glance with 4 being somewhat like the last. You did get the 2.5 million years close enough however.
http://www.climate.unibe.ch/~born/share/papers/eemian_and_lgi/berger_loutre02.sci.pdf
SO much hand waving (and economic destruction) for one 20-yr period (1978-1998). Holocene is 11.5 k yrs and counting with hundreds of 20 to 30 yr up/downs (climate change?). Holocene is the 52nd ‘warm period’ of the Quaternary (104 MIS with 52 cold periods followed by 52 warm periods) and that’s IF we agree that the Quaternary started at 2.58 my (just as easily to claim that it started 3.1 my or 3.4 my based on MIS data set). Since 1950, we’ve gone from 4 Gtons of atmospheric carbon loading annually to the current 38 Gtons of carbon loading, yet in those 65 years, we’ve experienced only 20 years of ‘warming’, yet still “debate” the CO2, GHG meme.
Frederick Colbourne
Two references, Andre Berger calculated that the analogue to the present Holocene interglacial is the interglacial 400,000 years ago, Marine Isotope Stage 11.
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/3ICESM/3ICESM-11.pdf
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008AGUFM.U33B..01L
Various estimates give sea level during MIS 11 as high as 20 meters above the present, 66 feet.
“We found that the northern and southern hemispheres both have been speeding up since the late 1990s – the ending phase of the MM. The activity level in cycle 23 is significantly reduced compared with other cycles during the space era. The recent minimum between cycles 23–24 lasted rather long, and various solar activity measurements reached unusually low values. The solar wind density and the heliospheric magnetic field intensity were reduced by nearly one third, both reaching uniquely low levels since the measured time of about 50 years (Cliver & Ling, 2011; Jian et al., 2011). The sunspot activity in cycle 24 is even more significantly reduced and matches the low level at the beginning of the twentieth century. This supports the negative correlation between solar rotation rate and sunspot activity.”
Also, I show the International Sunspot Number Ri:
http://sidc.oma.be/images/wolfmms.png
From Monthly and smoothed sunspot number (Ri) (SILSO, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels), at http://sidc.oma.be/silso/monthlyssnplot
Salvatore Del Prete
http://jonova.s3.amazonaws.com/graphs/model-trend/scaffetta-2013-mwp-fig23.gif
Now if one looks at this chart(in the above) the bottom one with the blue temperature curve and compares it to the latest study showing the solar secular cycle one will see a good correlation between global temperature and the solar secular cycle.
The solar secular cycle trend from 1610-2010, and the absolute values of the solar secular cycle trend correlating with the global temperature trends (1610-2010), and absolute values of the global temperature.
The solar secular cycle trend also shows a distinct increase in solar activity from the period 1930-2005 period, versus the period from 1650-1930 in that the solar secular cycle through out that period of time never exceeds 125 ,in contrast to being above 125 from the 1930-2005 period of time, with a peak of 160!
In addition if one examines the data, at times when the solar secular trend breaks 100 on the down slide the global temperature trend is down although the global temperature value starting points may differ most likely due to other climate items superimposed upon the global temperature trend such as the state of the PDO,AMO or ENSO.
During the times when the solar secular trend broke 100 those being the period 1660 -1720 and 1780-1830 both corresponding to the Maunder Minimum and Dalton Minimum ,the global temperature trend is in a definitive down trend. In addition even from the period 1880-1905 when the solar secular cycle approaches the 100 value, the global temperature trend is slightly down once again.
Then on the other hand, when the solar secular cycle trend exceeds 125 from 1930 -2005 the temperature trend is up and shoots really up when the great climatic shift takes place in 1978 which is when the PDO ,shifted from it’s cold to warm phase.
The data from the above shows quite clearly that when the solar secular cycle breaks 100 on the down slope look for a global temperature cooling trend to begin from what ever level the global absolute temperature is at, and when the solar secular cycle rises and breaks through 100 on the upside look for a global temperature trend to rise from what ever level the global absolute temperature is at.
A general rule I see is when the solar secular cycle exceeds 125 global temperatures trend up or are at a higher level and when it breaks 100 on the downside global temperatures trend down or are at a lower level.
If this latest solar information is correct and that is a big if ,but if it is correct, it shows the climate is more sensitive to primary ,and the secondary effects associated with solar variability.
In addition my low average value solar parameter criteria for cooling may be able to be adjusted up some , due to this latest information.
One last note, it looks like around year 2010 the solar secular cycle trend finally broke 100 on the down swing which would be the first time since 1830, when the solar secular cycle broke 100 on the up swing and had since stayed above that level until year 2010.
THE GRAPH SHOWING THE SOLAR SECULAR CYCLE IS ON PAGE 13 OF THE PDF I HAVE SENT . LOOK BELOW.
http://www.leif.org/EOS/Maunder-Minimum-Not-So-Grand.pdf
vukcevic
Reply to Salvatore Del Prete
Zolotova paper
extended planetary feedback correlation to full 400 years
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/LFC11.htm
Now as far as solar flux values cooling should set in when that reading exceeds sub 90 but with the latest data which has just been presented(if correct) I may have to increase that number.
Neutrons are small magnets, although the sum of their electric charge is 0. Therefore, their energy is converged under geomagnetcznego field lines.
In the northern hemisphere it is a northern Canada and central Siberia.
“Since neutrons are neutral particles, they do not have to overcome Coulomb repulsion as they approach charged targets, as experienced by protons or alpha particles. Neutrons can deeply penetrate matter. On the other hand, without an electric charge, neutron beams cannot be controlled by the conventional electromagnetic methods employed for particle accelerators. The magnetic moment of the neutron allows some control of neutrons using magnetic fields, however,[24][25] including the formation of polarized neutron beams.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_magnetic_moment
Reply to ren
The increase in of neutrons since 1990.
http://cosmicrays.oulu.fi/webform/query.cgi?startday=01&startmonth=01&startyear=1990&starttime=00%3A00&endday=15&endmonth=02&endyear=2015&endtime=00%3A00&resolution=Automatic+choice&picture=on
Using planetary feedback formula devised and published more than 10 years ago, extrapolation suggested non-smoothed SC24 to peak at approximately SSN =80. At same time re-phased version tracks polar magnetic field with well over 90% accuracy.
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/SSN.gif
Reply to vukcevic
As before, the correlations are exceedingly poor.
Have you got better or simpler one?
No. OCCAM’S RAZOR states that a scientific rule interpreted as requiring that the simplest of competing theories be preferred to the more complex, explanations of unknown phenomena be sought first in terms of known quantities.
Only hypothesis that are plausible need be considered. Crackpot theories don’t count.
Sometime it takes a crackpot to shout “the emperor has no clothes”.
Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake after proposing that the stars were just distant suns surrounded by their own planets, and moreover the possibility that these planets could even foster life of their own (a philosophical position known as cosmic pluralism).
Now 400 years later we know he was correct.
Actually, it also cooled during the 1950s – 1960s. Until ~1975 it was a negative PDO. I think the solar advocates may be making the same mistake of misattribution as the aerosol guys.
It could be some sort of two or three way combo, I suppose. But I think PDO is the better explanation.
Many who do not have a good understanding of the climate system are guilty of the following, which is why all the data they put up trying to show no cause and effect is misrepresentative. They have no understanding of the dynamics and the interplay of those dynamics.
The problem with so many in climate science is that the scientist in this field try to prove their points as to what may or may not effect the climate with specific items, as if they are in ISOLATION, rather then in the context of the entire climatic picture.
Again a given force and magnitude changes of that force which may impact the climate has to be taken into consideration with the entire spectrum of items that are exerting an influence on the climate at that given time ,along with the state of the climate at that given time in order to get a sense of what impact that specific force may or may not exert on the climate.
This is why it is so hard to prove and show a simple cause and effect relationship between the climate and items exerting a force upon the climate even though it does exist.
FrankKarr
No need to guess at least one who you are referring to.
azleader
Cycle 24 most closely matches Cycle 12 (1878-1890). Nothing else comes close:
http://www.pbase.com/image/159141997.png
I don’t think the graph projects out to 2105
As well as being “low” in various measures, this cycle also looks like it will be quite a bit longer than the average. Hasn’t that also in the past been correlated with cooler temperatures and does this hold up?
lSvalgaard: I believe your arguments are closely tied to at belief that effect from Sun should be reflcted in Earth climate immideately rather than (logiccaly) on an accumulated basis.
ONE (or just half) weak Solar cycle cannot be expected to cool down Earth Oceans over night. Only when more weak Solar cycles have been observed you can seriously question the role of the Sun if temperature development has not been affected.
Reply to Frank Lansner
Indeed see Del Prete above.
John Finn
ONE (or just half) weak Solar cycle cannot be expected to cool down Earth Oceans over night.
Perhaps – but I’m not sure we’d expect the oceans to continue warming either.
There is another thing that puzzles me. David Archibald shows the 1970s cooling period on Fig 3 above. The implication being that the weak solar cycle 20 (which began in 1964) caused the cooling. But the cooling actually began in the mid 1940s and ended in the 1970s.
So, not only did earth’s climate respond immediately to solar cycle 20, it anticipated it 20 years before the event. I can see that this solar/climate link is pretty complicated.
Reply to John Finn
Sorry – should be Fig 4 not Fig 3. in above post.
Bill Illis
Yet Total Solar Irradiance from the Sorce TIM instrument has recently been in the 1,362.3 W/m2 range which rivals the peaks of solar cycle 19 (the largest one) in 1958 from its most recent reconstructions.
http://lasp.colorado.edu/home/sorce/data/tsi-data/sorce-total-solar-irradiance-plots/
http://lasp.colorado.edu/home/sorce/data/tsi-data/
Reply to Bill Illis
TSI is relatively tame animal. Solar initiated geomagnetic storms are far more effective, colliding with the Earth’s magnetic field short term oscillations in the polar regions (particularly in the Arctic, where the field is split) modulates the high altitude atmospheric density, in turn interfering with polar vortex.
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/GSC.gif
http://s23.postimg.org/691bp3lln/Sun_SST_AMOC.png
Along the lines of Solar Secular Cycles and correlations with global temperatures we have SCD ,in the above graphs which is solar cycle deceleration. One can see very strong correlations. Look at the data.
There were lots of weak cycles in the past. And you should really question Archibald here.
“Launched in November 2013, Swarm is providing unprecedented insights into the complex workings of Earth’s magnetic field, which safeguards us from the bombarding cosmic radiation and charged particles.
June 2014 magnetic field
Measurements made over the past six months confirm the general trend of the field’s weakening, with the most dramatic declines over the Western Hemisphere.”
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Swarm/Swarm_reveals_Earth_s_changing_magnetism
Polar vortex pattern.
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/stratosphere/strat_a_f/gif_files/gfs_z05_nh_f00.gif
Newest model Earth’s magnetic field.
http://oi61.tinypic.com/339j1qg.jpg
William Astley
Disingenuous Comment (definition): A comment lacking in candor; also : giving a false appearance of simple frankness : calculating (A person making a series of disingenuous comments might have an hidden agenda.)
Leif,
Your above comment is misleading and appears to be disingenuous. It is a fact that solar wind bursts create a space charge differential in the atmosphere which through the process of electroscavenging changes the amount of high latitude clouds and changes the properties and duration of tropical clouds which in turn affects planetary temperature.
Comment: There are multiple peer reviewed papers which I have quoted multiple times in this forum which falsifies your above comment and supports the assertion that I have just made.
http://sait.oat.ts.astro.it/MmSAI/76/PDF/969.pdf
Once again about global warming and solar activity
Solar activity, together with human activity, is considered a possible factor for the global warming observed in the last century. However, in the last decades solar activity has remained more or less constant while surface air temperature has continued to increase, which is interpreted as an evidence that in this period human activity is the main factor for global warming. We show that the index commonly used for quantifying long-term changes in solar activity, the sunspot number, accounts for only one part of solar activity (William: Closed magnetic field) and using this index leads to the underestimation of the role of solar activity in the global warming in the recent decades. A more suitable index is the geomagnetic activity (William: Short term abrupt changes to the geomagnetic field caused by solar wind bursts, which are measured by the short term geomagnetic field change parameter Ak. Note the parameter is Ak rather than the month average with Leif provides a graph for. The effect is determined by the number of short term wind bursts. A single very large event has less affect than a number of events. As Coronal holes can persist for months and years and as the solar wind burst affect lasts for roughly week, a coronal hole has a significant effect on planetary temperature) which reflects all solar activity, and it is highly correlated to global temperature variations in the whole period for which we have data. ….
…The geomagnetic activity reflects the impact of solar activity originating from both closed and open magnetic field regions, so it is a better indicator of solar activity than the sunspot number which is related to only closed magnetic field regions. It has been noted that in the last century the correlation between sunspot number and geomagnetic activity has been steadily decreasing from – 0.76 in the period 1868- 1890, to 0.35 in the period 1960-1982, while the lag has increased from 0 to 3 years (Vieira
et al. 2001).
…In Figure 6 the long-term variations in global temperature are compared to the long-term variations in geomagnetic activity as expressed by the ak-index (Nevanlinna and Kataja 2003). The correlation between the two quantities is 0.85 with p<0.01 for the whole period studied. It could therefore be concluded that both the decreasing correlation between sunspot number and geomagnetic activity, and the deviation of the global temperature long-term trend from solar activity as expressed by sunspot index are due to the increased number of high-speed streams of solar wind on the declining phase and in the minimum of sunspot cycle in the last decades.
Solar wind bursts create a space charge differential in the ionosphere which removes ions from high latitude regions and adds ions to the tropical region, with the return current moving through the ocean. This phenomena is called electroscavenging.
See section 5a) Modulation of the global electrical circuit in this review paper, by solar wind bursts and the process electroscavenging. Solar wind bursts create a space charge differential in the ionosphere which removes cloud forming ions. As the electroscavenging mechanism removes ions even when GCR is high, electroscavenging can make it appear that GCR does not modulate planetary cloud if the electroscavenging mechanism is not taken into account.
http://www.utdallas.edu/physics/pdf/Atmos_060302.pdf
Atmospheric Ionization and Clouds as Links Between Solar Activity and Climate
Observations of changes in cloud properties that correlate with the 11-year cycles in space particle fluxes are reviewed. The correlations can be understood in terms of one or both of two microphysical processes; ion mediated nucleation (IMN) and electroscavenging. IMN relies on the presence of ions to provide the condensation sites for sulfuric acid and water vapors to produce new aerosol particles, which, under certain conditions, might grow into sizes that can be activated as cloud condensation nuclei (CCN). Electroscavenging depends on the buildup of space charge at the tops and bottoms of clouds as the vertical current density (Jz) in the global electric circuit encounters the increased electrical resistivity of the clouds. Space charge is electrostatic charge density due to a difference between the concentrations of positive and negative ions. Calculations indicate that this electrostatic charge on aerosol particles can enhance the rate at which they are scavenged by cloud droplets. The aerosol particles for which scavenging is important are those that act as insitu ice forming nuclei (IFN) and CCN. Both IMN and electroscavenging depend on the presence of atmospheric ions that are generated, in regions of the atmosphere relevant for effects on clouds, by galactic cosmic rays (GCR). The space charge depends, in addition, on the magnitude of Jz. The magnitude of Jz depends not only on the GCR flux, but also on the fluxes of MeV electrons from the radiation belts, and the ionospheric potentials generated by the solar wind, that can vary independently of the GCR flux. The roles of GCR and Jz in cloud processes are the speculative links in a series connecting solar activity, the solar wind, GCR, clouds and climate. This article reviews the correlated cloud variations and the two mechanisms proposed as possible explanations for these links.
The graph below shows the number of days with a geomagnetic storm per year and how strong those storms were. This will give you an idea in which years there were a lot of geomagnetic storms.
http://oi57.tinypic.com/2ai1ztg.jpg
Ren, is there anything going back to the previous two or three solar maxima like this?
Reply to Ian Cooper
http://www.climate4you.com/images/Ap-Index%20Since199001.gif
One last comment I would like to make which is the following:
The sun has changed from an active mode (1850-2005) to an inactive mode post 2005, therefore making future solar predictions and even comparisons based on the active period 1850-2005 in my mind is very dicey.
Dr. Archibald
Your Fig. 8 for Solar Polar Field
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deprives Polar Fields of the magnetic polarity, thus creates an inappropriate impression of 11 year periodicity, solar oscillations are closely correlated to the planetary feedback
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/Back1.gif
(not as yet noticed by Dr.S, but that shouldn’t stop you and others observing the close correlation between two)
During Dansgaard-Oeschger or Heinrich cooling events, the jet stream speed increases which increases the amount of dust that is deposited on the Greenland ice sheet (the dust is coming from China). During a Heinrich event there is a hundred fold increase in dust deposited on the Greenland ice sheet.
The recent observed changes: 1) Highest sea ice in recorded history in the Antarctic (starting in 2012), recovery of sea ice in the Arctic, and increased jet stream speed (starting in 2013) supports the assertion that what was inhibiting the solar magnetic cycle modulation of planetary cloud cover is now starting to abate.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-01-13/surging-jet-stream-winds-hinder-u-s-bound-flights-from-europe
Surging Jet-Stream Winds Hinder U.S.-Bound Flights From Europe
Stronger westerly headwinds for U.S.-bound flights are stretching out travel times, forcing some planes to stop for refueling. Trips such as London to New York, a busy business route, are running almost eight hours — 45 minutes longer than voyages in September.
Two Philadelphia-bound American Airlines flights, one from Brussels and the other from Amsterdam, had to touch down on Jan. 11 to refuel in Bangor, Maine, said Scott Ramsay, the carrier’s managing director of its integrated operations center. The journey from Brussels took 9 hours and 16 minutes, about an hour more than three months earlier, according to industry data tracker FlightAware.
Flights across the Atlantic to eastern U.S. cities in December 2013 averaged 19 minutes later than a year earlier, according to industry data tracker MasFlight.com. Travel times in December 2014 were similar to those in 2013, MasFlight’s data from more than 1,300 flights a year showed.
With the threat of increasingly strong headwinds every winter, airlines face higher costs on those westbound flights with the use of extra fuel and the crew’s time.
“When you were planning to fly non-stop, stopping for fuel costs money,” said George Hamlin, president of Hamlin Transportation Consulting, who has more than 40 years of experience in commercial aviation and aerospace.
http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/440/1/012001
The peculiar solar cycle 24 — where do we stand?
Solar cycle 24 has been very weak so far. It was preceded by an extremely quiet and long solar minimum. Data from the solar interior, the solar surface and the heliosphere all show that cycle 24 began from an unusual minimum and is unlike the cycles that preceded it.
We begin this review of where solar cycle 24 stands today with a look at the antecedents of this cycle, and examine why the minimum preceding the cycle is considered peculiar (§ 2). We then examine in § 3 whether we missed early signs that the cycle could be unusual. § 4 describes where cycle 24 is at today.
The minimum that preceded solar cycle 24 was unusual in its depth — the 10.7 cm flux was the lowest recorded, while there were sunspot free days than have been recorded among recent cycles. The minimum was also of a much longer duration than any other minimum in recent history.
The minimum preceding the cycle showed other unusual characteristics. For instance, the polar fields were lower than those of previous cycles. In Fig. 1 we show the polar fields as observed by the Wilcox Solar Observatory. It is very clear that the fields were much lower than those at the minimum before cycle 22 and also smaller than the fields during the minimum before cycle 23. Unfortunately, the data do not cover a period much before cycle 21 maximum so we cannot compare the polar fields during the last minimum with those of even earlier minima.
Other, more recent data sets, such as the Kitt Peak and MDI magnetograms, and they too also show that the polar fields were weak during the cycle 24 minimum compared with the cycle 23 minimum (de Toma 2011; Gopalswamy et al. 2012). The structure of the solar corona was also quite different from what is expected during a normal minimum. As can be seen from the LASCO images shown in Fig. 2 the solar corona has the canonical solar-minimum structure during the cycle 23 minimum, but the coronal did not have a simple configuration of streamers in an equatorial belt as it was during the previous minimum in 1996.
The differences between the cycle 24 minimum and the previous ones were not confined to phenomena exterior to the Sun, dynamics of the solar interior showed differences too. For instance, Basu & Antia (2010) showed that the nature of the meridional flow during the cycle 24 ….
Reply to William Astley
Yesterday I noticed this weird thing. I looked on:
http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/view/#TRUE
Date 13th February 2015
Daily posted true color view of entire Earth. Visible dust spreading from China eastward is just scary. It covers substantial percentage of Earth area. There are additional dust sources in India, Indonesia and Arabian peninsula.
Simply Jet stream is blowing…
Like many articles here this one lacks both an initial abstract / summary and the final conclusions.
Unfortunate since with these things the message would be communicated more quickly and effectively to more people.
Here is how you write a scientific article:
Say what you are going to say
Say what you have said.
WUWT should encourage posters to include an abstract and conclusions paragraph.
Reply to Phlogiston
This is less an article than a presentation/update of the latest data. As is evident from the discussion, there are many ways to interpret. I admire WUWT for not always telling me what to think and letting me think for myself.
Reply to ckb
A summary does not have to force an interpretation.
It just means that more people will read it – and understand the author’s point in writing it.
Many simply don’t have time for all the minutiae.
John in Oz
From the many disparate responses in this thread from (apparent) experts, it amazes me that there is so much reliance on ‘The science is settled’ from the pro-CAGW crowd and that politicians/academic societies can make such certain statements regarding this issue.
provoter
I have a polite, well-meaning question for Leif. I mean it when I say it that this is not a ‘gotchya.’ I’m just trying to understand Leif’s position:
Are you confident there exists no solar mechanism that could possibly have any meaningful effect on ~cyclical changes in temperature on Earth? To put it another way: are you confident you understand both solar activity and Earth’s climate dynamics well enough that if such a mechanism existed you (or the world) would already have discovered, understood and explained it by now?
I understand, by the way, you don’t see such a mechanism and this leaves you doubtful of one’s existence. I’m wondering how foolish you deem it to for others to feel that the case is actually far from closed.
You obviously know a lot, but I always have difficulty getting a grip on what your fundamental position is with respect to climate-change-related solar-Earth interaction.
Thanks in advance if you take the time to respond.
Brad Crawford (provoter)
Leif Svalgaard
Reply to provoter
There is [should be] a solar effect of the order of 0.1K over the cycle. Anything larger than that is not obersved.
Reply to Leif Svalgaard
Thanks ever so much for the thoughtful response, Leif. I can feel my enlightenment rising as I speak.
O H Dahlsveen
Well now. A thought has just entered my silly little mind;
“If the dark spots on the surface of the Sun are dark because they are colder than the rest (spotless part) of the Sun’s surface, then why should the Earth warm when there is plenty of “Sunspots”?
Is that just because we say that a Sun that is full of spots; “Active””
Is it not more likely that a “Spotless Sun” will send out more energy than will a “Spotty Sun”, thus warming the Earth more?
[The solar specialists tell us that the “darker” sunspots do measurably reduce the solar energy received at top of atmosphere (compared to normal for that day of year), but the effect is very, very small. Measureable, proportional to the area of the sun covered, but small. .mod]
Joel O'Bryan
Reply to O H Dahlsveen
Sunspots are cooler, but faculae more than make up the difference during active phases of the cycle.
“Faculae> are bright areas that are usually most easily seen near the limb, or edge, of the solar disk. These are also magnetic areas but the magnetic field is concentrated in much smaller bundles than in sunspots. While the sunspots tend to make the Sun look darker, the faculae make it look brighter. During a sunspot cycle the faculae actually win out over the sunspots and make the Sun appear slightly (about 0.1%) brighter at sunspot maximum that at sunspot minimum.”
source: http://solarscience.msfc.nasa.gov/feature1.shtml
David forgot to update us on how his prediction for a 2 degree temperature decline over the duration of Solar Cycle 24 is shaping up.
David Archibald
Thanks for asking. Of course it is going very well but the result has been a bit more intense and regional than many had thought possible. Specifically it is giving Boston a walloping with a temperature of -2 degrees F as I write this. Boston is now headed for its greatest ever winter snowfall amount. This a result consistent with what is predicted from global cooling. Don’t lose your faith.
Reply to David Archibald
Of course it is going very well but the result has been a bit more intense and regional than many had thought possible.
Do you mean some place have cooled but quite a lot have warmed.
Specifically it is giving Boston a walloping with a temperature of -2 degrees F as I write this.
I take this to mean that Boston is currently a couple of degrees below normal. This is not a trend, David, it’s simply short term weather. You now seem to be claiming success because some locations (or one at least) are a bit cooler than normal.
There has been a sudden and significant slowdown in the solar magnetic cycle. There are in the paleo climatic record cycles of warming and cooling that correlate with solar magnetic cycle changes (both hemispheres). The regions of the planet that warmed and cooled in the past were high latitude regions. High latitude regions warmed in the last 70 years. AGW predicted warming was in the tropics not in high latitude regions.
See Greenland Ice temperature, last 11,000 years from Richard Alley’s paper, Bond’s paper persistent solar influence on North Atlantic Climate during the Holecene, and Does the Current Global warming reflect a natural cycle. Based on an analysis of cosmogenic isotopes, solar activity in the late half of the 20th century was the highest in 12,000 years. The high period of solar activity correlates with the period when the planet warmed.
Shiva analyzes past climate cycles that correlate with solar magnetic cycle changes and calculates that 0.47C +/- 0.19C of the recent warming can be attributed to the grand solar maximum.
Unexpectedly there is now the highest amount of sea ice (all months of the year) in the Antarctic in recorded history and there is now recovery of sea ice in the Arctic.
Conclusions: It appears a significant portion of the warming in the last 70 years was due to solar magnetic cycle changes rather than AGW. It that assertion is correct the planet will now cool (up to 0.6C of cooling based on Shiva’s calculation), due to the sudden slowdown in the solar magnetic cycle.
Greenland ice temperature, last 11,000 years determined from ice core analysis, Richard Alley’s paper.
http://www.climate4you.com/images/GISP2%20TemperatureSince10700%20BP%20with%20CO2%20from%20EPICA%20DomeC.gif
http://www.climate4you.com
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/09/05/is-the-current-global-warming-a-natural-cycle/
“Does the current global warming signal reflect a natural cycle”
…We found 342 natural warming events (NWEs) corresponding to this definition, distributed over the past 250,000 years …. …. The 342 NWEs contained in the Vostok ice core record are divided into low-rate warming events (LRWEs; < 0.74oC/century) and high rate warming events (HRWEs; ≥ 0.74oC /century) (Figure). … ….The current global warming signal is therefore the slowest and among the smallest in comparison with all HRWEs in the Vostok record, although the current warming signal could in the coming decades yet reach the level of past HRWEs for some parameters. The figure shows the most recent 16 HRWEs in the Vostok ice core data during the Holocene, interspersed with a number of LRWEs. …. ….We were delighted to see the paper published in Nature magazine online (August 22, 2012 issue) reporting past climate warming events in the Antarctic similar in amplitude and warming rate to the present global warming signal. The paper, entitled "Recent Antarctic Peninsula warming relative to Holocene climate and ice – shelf history" and authored by Robert Mulvaney and colleagues of the British Antarctic Survey ( Nature, 2012,doi:10.1038/nature11391), reports two recent natural warming cycles, one around 1500 AD and another around 400 AD, measured from isotope (deuterium) concentrations in ice cores bored adjacent to recent breaks in the ice shelf in northeast Antarctica. ….
http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/davis-and-taylor-wuwt-submission.pdf
http://www.essc.psu.edu/essc_web/seminars/spring2006/Mar1/Bond%20et%20al%202001.pdf
Persistent Solar Influence on North Atlantic Climate During the Holocene (William: Holocene is the name for this interglacial period)
http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0409123.pdf
On climate response to changes in the cosmic ray flux and radiative budget
We examine the results linking cosmic ray flux (CRF) variations to global climate change. We then proceed to study various periods over which there are estimates for the radiative forcing, temperature change and CRF variations relative to today. These include the Phanerozoic as a whole, the Cretaceous, the Eocene, the Last Glacial Maximum, the 20th century, as well as the 11-yr solar cycle. This enables us to place quantitative limits on climate sensitivity to both changes in the CRF, and the radiative budget,
F, under equilibrium.
to the above caveats and those described in the text, the CRF/climate link therefore implies that the increased solar luminosity and reduced CRF over the previous century should have contributed a warming of 0.47±0.19C, while the rest should be mainly attributed to anthropogenic causes. Without any effect of cosmic rays, the increase in solar luminosity would correspond to an increased temperature of 0.16 ± 0.04C.
Grand minima and maxima of solar activity: New observational constraints I.G. Usoskin, S.K. Solanki, and G.A. Kovaltsov
…We present an updated reconstruction of sunspot number over multiple millennia, from 14C data by means of a physics-based model, using an updated model of the evolution of the solar open magnetic flux. A list of grand minima and maxima of solar activity is presented for the Holocene (since 9500 BC) and the statistics of both the length of individual events as well as the waiting time between them are analyzed….
See figure 3 in this paper. It shows that solar activity in 20th century particularly in the last half of the 20th century was the highest in 12,000 years and more importantly the duration of the high period was the longest in 12,000 years.
William: This paper notes the observed warming is at high latitudes which is not agreement with the general circulation models. If AGW was the cause of the warming the majority of the warming should have occurred in the tropics.
http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0809/0809.0581.pdf
Limits on CO2 Climate Forcing from Recent Temperature Data of Earth
Doug Allen
The skeptic in me thinks of the following after reading the update and comments-
“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”
But Vulcevic may turn out to be right-
Sometimes it takes a crackpot to shout “the emperor has no clothes”.
Penn and Livingston, in their September 2010 IAU publication “Long-Term Evolution Of Sunspot Magnetic Fields” predicted that Solar Cycle 24 would peak at an International Sunspot number of 66 and Solar Cycle 25 at 7!! Any update? Amy others who have made predictions for cycle 25?
Reply to Doug Allen
except in this case the emperor does have clothes. The solar cycle is progressing as predicted. The rest of Vuk’s missives are just pseudo science and self-delusions. Someone who compares himself to Bruno, Einstein, and other luminaries deserves no consideration.
“Emperor” in Washington must have very thick clothing.
Hi Mr. Allen
Vukcevic equally may turn out to be not right, but if he is right, it will be still dismissed.
Dr. Livingston’s was an interesting short term experiment, magnetic events go up and down, as the SC24 picked up so did magnetic field.
On SC25:
According to well known Svalgaard algorithm there is a relationship between polar field max and SSN Rmax, it works well as far as it can be assessed from the available data.. If the current polar fields peak at around 50-60 micro Tesla, the SC25 Rmax should be in region of 35-40 which is in line with SC5 & SC6 . Dr Livingston has underestimated SC24, not by much, perhaps it was done using the Svalgaard’s formula, but the. formula can’t be used for SC25 for at least 2 years. I think SC25=7 is well bellow anything outside the Maunder Minimum, and may be a gross underestimation.
The SSN smoothed number has hit 80, (may go even a bit higher, provisionally 82)
http://sidc.oma.be/silso/DATA/monthssn.dat
Ray Tomes
In the comment by William Astley, his graph shows a temperature cycle which averages 1150 years and is not due to peak for about 150 years yet. That cycle is related to other commonly reported 2300 and 4600 year cycles.
Dalton Minimum, here we come…..
Jay Hope
Reply to John MIller
If we’re lucky……
Michael Daly
“This plot of sunspot number that decline from the second peak is underway.”
jai mitchell
Looks like we will be cooling down any day now.
any day now. . .
joelobryan
Reply to jai mitchell
SH–> summer to fall to winter…. no doubt.
dbstealey
Looks like we will be heating up any day now.
Reply to dbstealey
NH spring into summer…. no doubt.
Don’t forget we’re still waiting for el Ninot.
rishrac
Has anyone done the math, just curious, as to how much warmer the earth should be from 1998. The rate of retained heat was stated as 240w/m^2. Multiply that by the surface of the earth, I am assuming every hour every day since 1998. So about 515 x 10^6 sq. m.. x 240 is about 1.23 x 10 ^11 x 365 is about 4.5 x 10^13 w/m^2 x 24 hrs .. would up it to 1.08 x 10^15 and then the years lets say 15.. 1.62 x 10^16 w/m^2.. .. Using just that number from the IPCC of 240w/m^2 retained, does anybody think it should be a heck of a lot warmer? Now remember that since the rate of co2 in the atmosphere is still increasing, then the rate at which the level of retention should also be increasing. Either the air or the oceans should be a lot warmer… just not hiding. The dire predictions the IPCC made back in the early 2000’s would already be true according to the math. I think that if CAGW were true and the predictions based on the numbers were true, most if not all of us would accept that. Skeptics would be very few in number, and the debate would really be over. It didn’t happen, it doesn’t look like it is going to happen either.
And some people think that the relationship between solar activity and climate is a crackpot idea
Reply to rishrac
Has anyone done the math, just curious, as to how much warmer the earth should be from 1998. The rate of retained heat was stated as 240w/m^2
No. 240 w/m2 is the average solar insolation across the earth’s surface. It’s nothing to do with retained heat. The current imbalance (incoming-outgoing) is reckoned to be between 0.5 w/m2 and 1 w/m2. Because of difficulties obtaining direct measurements, the imbalance is currently estimated from ocean heating.
A Tip: Before labelling any idea as “crackpot” it might be best if you improved your understanding of the issue first. While mainstream climate scientists have probably over-estimated climate sensitivity to rising CO2 concentrations don’t make the mistake of thinking they are complete idiots.
No you are wrong. Retained is the exact wording. This is the insanity of trying to talk to CAGW people. I have the exact numbers here from the IPCC and the math. 343 w/m^2 incoming. 240 w/m^2 retained and 103 w/m^2 out going. If these numbers aren’t right, explain to me how the IPCC could make such dire predictions without them? That is the only way that the IPCC could even begin to say that the temp would increase by 2 C by now. Or that the north and south poles would melt. I’m saying yes, with that amount of heat, those things would surely happen. Without out that math and numbers, the IPCC cannot say that co2 has attributed 0.5 C of temperature increase. I didn’t make the hockey stick chart with the temps being flat across the LIA or the MWP to correlate with co2 levels. I do understand the issues. Additionally, since new research has stated that half of the observed warming was due to the release of heat from the oceans, Then how do they justify those statements? Basically, if your saying that those numbers aren’t right, then we really don’t have a problem with co2 and 97% of climate scientist are wrong. There is no way to get to CAGW without it. You can’t downgrade this argument and still claim that co2 is causing global warming. I have extensive amount of data and information from the IPCC and Associates, none of it makes any sense. Much like your reply.
Donald L. Klipstein
If solar activity nosedives over the next couple of decades, what’s the story if global temperature holds steady? Either that solar activity does not matter for global temperature, or that CO2 does?
Dr Isvalgaard;
Could you show the error bands for the pre-1860 to present global air temperature?
I’m thinking that -.4C falls within a very wide margin of error.
Reply to Jim G
As the temperature data is not mine, I can’t really do that. You can probably find such information elsewhere.
Good question, however I am the original Jim G so would request that you change your sign on to Jim G1 or something else or I will. Let me know.
The Original Jim G.
I haven’t posted in awhile, however, I have been visiting these boards since about 2008.
Claiming originality to a common name is rather dubious.
I apologize for not calling you on it back then.
Jim G1
Won’t argue the point since you consider it “dubious”. I am now Jim G1.
Reply to Jim G1
And clearly, a gentleman as well.
I tip my hat to you sir.
rgbatduke
I’m guessing that I’m a bit late for this to matter to anyone, but this graph does show the HadCRUT4 error bars all the way back to 1850.
http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Toft-CO2-PDO.jpg
The bounds are, according to Met-Hadley, 95% confidence bounds from all sources of error — model, bias, and measurement. I am deeply skeptical, of course, that these error bars are at all reasonable. According to Met-Hadley, the error in the global temperature anomaly in 1850 was around C. In 2014, it was around C.
To put this in simple terms, if we assume nothing but the expected error from averaging over N measurements, not taking geographic coverage, systematic bias, missing data, the UHI effect and model errors into account, to halve a normal error require 4x as much data. They are, therefore, effectively asserting that there are only 4x as many independent samples contributing to the 2013 average compared to the 1850 average, and this is truly absurd.
Note that the contributions from vast undersampled portions of the globe — like most of the Arctic and Antarctic and Australia and Africa and the Americas and even much of Asia — ooo, and let’s not forget the oceans — back in 1850 that have to be infilled and kriged and smooted and interpolated strictly and nonlinearly add to the expected error relative to pure gaussian scaling from presumably independent samples. Then there is the obvious fact that the samples they have are not independent — they are highly clustered and located predominantly where humans live, meaning that they are hardly random samples drawn from a hat containing all of the surface points on Earth, uniformly distributed. This too increases expected error relative to a normal. And this is before accounting for bias and model error. HadCRUT4 includes separate line entries for three categories of error — bias, measurement and uncertainty, and model error. In 1850 their measurement error alone is given as ~0.038 C. In 2014 it is given as ~0.036 C. Both of these numbers are utterly absurd. We couldn’t measure the average temperature of my back yard to 0.038/288*100 = 0.0125% relative accuracy over the course of a year.
Then there is the treatment of systematic bias — oh, wait, HadCRUT4 doesn’t correct for UHI, I forgot. Then there is the utter neglect of the probability of systematic shifts in recording procedure like those that Lief has tediously corrected for in the sunspot record. Lief has the advantage here — he has access to superbly correlated proxies of solar activity that were measured to very high precision and consistently back over the period where sunspot observation methods were discretely changing along with the observers, and he had to correct for only a comparatively few observers. The thermometric record is essentially uncorrectable, as any proxy used to correct it is going to have even worse resolution than thermometers, and thermometers are already susceptible to numerous sources of potential systematic error that, at this point, we could not possibly correct for. All of this increases the uncertainty at best, and the neglect of UHI correction simply makes the numbers nearly meaningless as they could be precise at the levels indicated and still be significantly in error due to UHI.
It is telling that HadCRUT4 considers errors from bias and model uncertainty to be greater than pure measurement error, the precision of the basis for their model computation of the rest. Yes, they explain what their errors are based on in their documentation, but that doesn’t make them actually representative of probable error in the numbers themselves, or reasonable.
To conclude, C is right at the asserted level of 95% confidence for HadCRUT4 as of earlier this year when I downloaded their dataset and description. In my fairly well-founded opinion, this error estimate is absurdly low for 1850, simply because in 1850 some 2/3 of the planet was Terra Incognita as far as any sort of systematic measurement of temperature with reliable instrumentation and methodology is concerned. The “hot spot” in the Pacific, for example, that de facto boosted the planetary anomaly this year would not have been observed at all. El Nino’s and La Nina events would not have been observed — they were not observed and officially recorded or studied until 1893, and our knowledge of them prior to the 20th century is almost entirely inferential.
All of this is further evident in our inability to produce the actual global average surface temperature to a precision greater than 1 C now. Different models produce that large a spread, and the likely error is larger than the spread itself given the relatively small number and lack of independence of the models. One then has to rely on a complete lack of drift in methods that compute an “anomaly” relative to a modern baseline, and all such methods inherit at least the error in the baseline temperature, and are further confused by the fact that the baseline is not the baseline average of a stationary process. A single metaphor to illustrate — if one infers flood or drought by measuring the depth of a river relative to a “normal depth” baseline, one gets reasonable numbers as long as the river stays in between its normal, comparatively steep, banks. However, once the river rises to where it spills out of those banks, the water spreads out over vast plains and stops rising proportional to the flood. Similarly, once the river shrinks to where it leaves the steep sides, the assumptions of linearity no longer hold. Computing flood anomalies now compared to flood anomalies in the 19th century require a fair knowledge of how the entire topology of the river basin has changed in the meantime, because these things are not stationary. Similar things affect e.g. tidal gauge records — in the Outer Banks where I live in the summer, violent weather periodically reshapes the entire coast and sound depth, which in turn have a nearly unpredictable effect on the tides measured even at sites where the gauge has sat for a century.
Many other things have an effect as well. No matter how pristine the data, one cannot reliably compare the anomaly of even a single, unaltered tide gauge now to the anomaly measured 100 to 200 years ago as being truly representative of the alteration of the mean depth of the ocean. One can try to correct for some of this, but in honest statistics the corrections come at such a high price in assumptions that they don’t really alter the error bars much. Information theory — ignorance is ignorance — information entropy — and one cannot reduce entropy by wishful thinking or a guess.
Consequently, I do not have much confidence at all in the global surface temperature anomaly estimates. I think that they understate their probable error (which is already rather large compared to the total change “observed” by the models that produce them) by at least a factor of 2. I do not think that our knowledge of the anomaly is any better than our knowledge of the mean temperature itself, order of C, over the entire 19th century and is only very slowly decreasing in the 20th century until the advent of satellite measurements and ARGO. Post-1980, I think our knowledge is pretty good. Post 1950 it isn’t terrible — WWII and the subsequent cold war brought about military measurements, at least, of the entire globe from roughly this period on. Before that it blurs, then blurs some more, to the point where we might as well use tree rings as thermometers by the middle of the 19th century, where neither one of them has any global precision worth mentioning.
[Thank you. Have you considered asking this detailed of a reply be promoted to its own thread? .mod]
Dr, Svalgaard says:
The solar cycle is progressing as predicted.
Thanks doc. No doubt, up to this moment indeed it does, future is uncertain as ever.
‘vukcevic’ is just as surprised as anyone else that his formula works so well!
The rest of Vuk’s missives are just pseudo science and self-delusions.
The ‘delusions’ dates back to the time when the Nasa’s top scientists and various other solar experts were predicting ‘highest solar cycle ever’, and even precedes well known Svalgaard’s prediction by a year or two (an unforgivable ‘transgression’ by vukcevic and ever since the bone of contention)
As years go by, failing to overturn the formula’s accuracy (and there were number of unsuccessful attempts) by now only ammunition left is just few papier-mâché blanks, ‘pseudo science’ and ‘self-delusions’, ‘man of superior ignorance’, ‘danger to society’, notable ‘D&K syndrome’ exponent and whatever else is left in the arsenal of feeble insults. Man come up with something stronger.
This type of commentary indeed may sway a few, it is a method, admittedly employed with some success by the AGW promoters with their ‘think-lite’ beverage recipe.
Someone who compares himself to Bruno, Einstein, and other luminaries deserves no consideration.
Evidently ‘vukcevic’ is not Giordano Bruno, fortunately neither Dr. Svalgaard is the pope Clement VIII. When in Rome visit Campo de’ Fiori. We all know about Galileo, who at the last moment denounced himself, but Bruno did not.
Do not expect Vuk to give up in face of few paltry and worthless little ad hominem. Of course burning at the stake would be another matter; there I think following the Florentine would be vastly preferable.
‘Einstein’ is your mistaken embellishment. Not my hero. His Nobel prize was nothing to do with the theory of relativity, it was based on the work of his ex-wife, a brilliant mathematician Mileva Maric (Einstein failed his exam), he apparently gave her half of the Nobel money to keep her quiet.
And finally, there is a small matter of crackpot, if you unable to disprove something, fling an insult or two, it is an easy way out, it may work with some, but there is always the ‘boomerang effect’ to consider.
Now to the really important matter. Intensity of the solar cycles (as may have or may not been predicted by illustrious Dr. Hathaway, Dr. Dicpaty, Dr. Svalgaad or other partially eclipsed solar luminaries, or even ‘vukcevic’ the noisy minnow,) has little relevance beyond + or – 0.1C on the temperatures. What is more important it is the phase relationship of the magnetic oscillations, which is accentuated by long cycles, see comment above
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/02/15/solar-cycle-24-update-for-february-2015/#comment-1860218
Science is fun, if you can’t enjoy it go and do something else.
vukcevic’ is just as surprised as anyone else that his formula works so well!
As you well know it doesn’t work at all. A ‘prediction’ of the formula is that there will be no polar field reversal in the next cycle and also not around 1900. But we know that the polar fields did reverse a century ago. To expose pseudo science for what it is is a duty of every scientist [as it is indeed a danger to society] and you will not escape exposure. Science is fun, pseudo science is a cancer.
But we know that the polar fields did reverse a century ago.
Now scientist is talking science, instead throwing paper darts, with childish discourteous comments.
– No, we don’t know that, we are guessing that could have been the case. Polar fields measurements started in 1960s, Russians done some a few years earlier, but that was long after 1900s.
– You might say, the magnetic needle (better known as compass) deflections shows that it did. No chance !!!
Polar fields at their strongest as measured around 1975 were estimated to be around 300 microTesla. Magnetic field of the sun as any other falls off with the square of distance. Sun is 149,600,000 km away, no magnetic needle located on the earth can tell us what is the sun’s polar field doing.
– What magnetic needle measures is the ionospheric current induction variability, which in the morning is of one polarity and the afternoon of opposite, but that is if the solar wind never changes and the Earth never crosses the heliospheric current sheet. Magnetic needle reacts to all geomagnetic disturbances of both polarity which may change many times during 24 hours, see HERE (
– Horizontal geomagnetic component (to which you would inclined to refer to), has another more important use, it is in determining cause of natural temperature variability as I have shown here:
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net//GMEC-AMO.gif
and it is to your CREDIT (I fully acknowledge that) to bring the horizontal geomagnetic component to the science’s attention, you should have done more there, the climate link in the N. Hemisphere is strong.
– And finally, it is not true that formula doesn’t show polarity reversal (if extrapolated back to pre 1900), the reversal is there, but it lasted just about a year, as it may happen around 2024-25, see you then.
No, we don’t know that, we are guessing that could have been the case.
No, we KNOW this, because the 22-year cycle in geomagnetic activity [which we can follow back into the 1840s] depends on the sign of the polar fields. Section 9 of http://www.leif.org/research/suipr699.pdf
And here is how your formula [which was missing a minus sign] fails:
http://www.leif.org/research/Vuk-Failing-21.png
Zoom in on 1900 (enlarge the graph) and you can see folly of your claim !
The polar fields determine the size of next 11-yr solar cycle[which in turn determine the next polar fields] and the sign of the Hale polarity law and no 1-yr cycle can result [it takes time to make a cycle]. A 1-yr cycle is a good example of pseudo science [and of science illiteracy].
Since you are not going to do it, here you can see there was a reversal in the early 1900s !
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net//PF-1900s.gif
Quoting yourself to support yourself is fine, if you have valid data for 1900s. As I said above the East component of the geomagnetic horizontal field, derived from compass readings is by no means a measure of what solar polar field is doing.
Nevertheless, the equation shows a brief reversal
The daily variation of the East component has indeed nothing to do with the polar fields, but geomagnetic activity as measured by the aa-index or ap-index [or similar] does depend on the polar fields. Your confusion about this just shows how little you know about this topic. So, pay attention and learn.
A 1-yr cycle is a good example of pseudo science [and of science illiteracy]
Hey, wait a minute I didn’t say there was a one year cycle.
It more smells of ‘pseudo science [and of science illiteracy]’ to extend the what is happening currently into the past for which we have no data.
Sun does strange thing every 100 or so years.
You claimed on numerous occasions that you and no one else knows why, it is best to stick to what you claim as you know to be it, else tell us why SSN dips once a century.
If you accept my hypothesis that it is planetary feedback, I am more than happy to discuss merits of it or otherwise, else you are just squandering your valuable time.
The polar fields reverse at or near solar maximum for well-known reasons, so you are advocating a short solar cycle from 1903 to 1904…
But in any case you get the polarity wrong. We know that the polarity in the 19th century has followed the same pattern as during the 20th, so no mini-cycle in 1903. As I said, your formula does not hold up [which is not a surprise].
extend the what is happening currently into the past for which we have no data.
But we do have data that shows that your polar fields signs are wrong before 1900.
Can we have it ? or at least link to a data file, not some fuzzy -wuzzy assumptions. Data is the King ! No data no contest.
Earth, in case you did not know generates its own geomagnetic 22 year oscillation, another element in the ‘sun-planetary feedback’ hypothesis
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/Comp-Spec.gif
Eart’s magnetic field data: Jackson, Bloxham & Gubbins
Can we have it ?
E.g. Can we have it ?
But you can convince yourself by simply using the aa-index which shows the 22-yr cycle. No ‘new’ data is needed.
A big mistake is to try to predict future solar activity based on past solar activity from 1845-2005 when the sun was in an active overall mode in contrast to an inactive overall mode post late 2005- present. As evidence for this is the change in the AP INDEX VALUES, post late 2005 in contrast to the period 1845-2005.
The AP INDEX during that long period of time (1845-2005) comes in at an average value of approximately 14 , in contrast to the AP INDEX smoothed monthly average value of around 7 from late 2005-present.
That is approximately a 100% decline!
If this were not significant enough the data below supplied by William Astley , is even more telling. It is telling us which I have maintained all along that sunspot numbers do not tell the whole story of how variable or not the sun may be. In addition one can see the correlation between solar geo- magnetic activity and sunspots is not holding up very well.
I believe solar geomagnetic activity has a threshold value that if attained (AP INDEX 5 OR LOWER ) will have a significant impact on the climate for it will be able to over come much of the noise inherent in the climatic system. Threshold values are vital and once crossed that is when correlations are seen whereas if not crossed correlations from a particular force can be obscured by noise and other forces in the climatic system which can cause counter trends in the climatic system to what that particular force is exerting. Which for some reason does not seem to register with some that keep posting to show solar/climatic correlations do not exist. They just do not understand the complexity of the climatic system.
DATA FROM WILLIAM ASTLEY BELOW
Tom in Florida
” The AP INDEX during that long period of time (1845-2005) comes in at an average value of approximately 14 , in contrast to the AP INDEX smoothed monthly average value of around 7 from late 2005-present.
Are you sure it’s not a 50% decline?
http://www.solen.info/solar/polarfields/polar.html
Salvatore, filtering the data introduces distortions, so it is best to plot the raw data as obtained by the actual measurements see: http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net//PF.htm
The data from above shows a significant decrease in the spread and variation in degree of magnitude of the solar polar fields post 2000 (and especially post 2005 ) versus the period prior to that time.
Another indication that solar activity post 2005 versus the period before is not the same. The data is telling me this. I am not making it up out of the thin air.
thanks vuk
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/new-and-cool/historic_snows_has_climate_pause_deniers_spinning/
This is from Weatherbell. It shows they have been using solar/lunar analogs to predict winters and this has been when solar activity was not in the prolonged minimum phase it is now in.
To many this little ‘disagreement’ of an amateur with Dr. S may not be of much interest, but occasionally Dr. S comes up with a ‘gold nugget’ and should be credited for it.
As you can see he extrapolated the solar feedback formula well before we had any data (I hope he doesn’t remove it)
It is a very simple approximation, no way any reasonable person would expect its 100% precision for the what is happening at solar poles,after all ‘the sun is a messy place’
But what I hope you can clearly see is: the Maunder Minimum, Dalton Minimum, early 1900s minimum, and finally the forthcoming minimum.
Of course we have no data before 1960s but since then the formula shows an unexpectedly high correlation as displayed above: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/02/15/solar-cycle-24-update-for-february-2015/#comment-1860843
Of course we have no data before 1960s
We do have data before 1960s, e.g. http://www.leif.org/EOS/Polar-Fields-Faculae-Andres.pdf and the geomagnetic 22-year cycle back to at least the 1840s. As everyone can see from the figure you reproduce, you get the sign of the polar fields wrong every 100 years. That is why your formula and its underlying hypothesis don’t work.
Earth’s magnetic field has it’s own 22 year cycle
see:http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/02/15/solar-cycle-24-update-for-february-2015/#comment-1861071
No evidence for that.
Analyse Eart’s core magnetic field data from Jackson, Bloxham & Gubbins
When data we do not like, we claim no evidence.
When no data, we call onto a fuzzy-wuzzy logic
Your mistake is to believe that those phenomena are in any way related. So, say no more.
In one comment you claim [wrongly] “Polar fields at their strongest as measured around 1975 were estimated to be around 300 microTesla. Magnetic field of the sun as any other falls off with the square of distance. Sun is 149,600,000 km away, no magnetic needle located on the earth can tell us what is the sun’s polar field doing.”
Now you claim that they influence the Earth’s core. Pseudo science at its worst.
Gross misinterpretation:
Earth’s core magnetic field data (Jackson, Bloxham & Gubbins) shows 22 year cycle. Only a full could claim that the sun’s polar field of few hundred microTesla at a distance of nearly 150 million km would move the earth’s core field.
There are two possibilities:
a) Sun’s cycles (as feedback hypothesis goes) are affected by Jupiter/Saturn magnetic feedback. Earth happebs to be part and parcel of such feedback (there is 400 day sub-cycle present in most solar cycles, most notable around 1940’s (used as reference in my formula), At this epoch the Earth’s field went ‘nuts’ Link1
b) more likely scenario is that the Solar initiated geomagnetic storms are the cause. Energetic charged solar particles colliding with the Earth’s magnetic field short term oscillations in the polar regions (particularly in the Arctic, where the field is split) modulates the high altitude atmospheric density, in turn interfering with polar vortex. As the Earth’s core has number of components directly related to climate, scenario b) appears to be more likely
The polar fields are responsible for the sign of the 22-year cycle of geomagnetic activity [as any fool can see] and control the size of the heliospheric magnetic field at low solar activity. Geomagnetic storms are not controlled by “Energetic charged solar particles”, but by the magnetic field from the Sun interacting with the Earth’s magnetic field. None of these have any influence on the core field.
Oh yea, yea sun’s solar polar field of 2-3 hundred microTesla at best, at a distance of nearly 150 million km makes Earth move.
No chance !
NASA:
“NASA’s fleet of THEMIS spacecraft discovered a flux rope pumping a 650,000 Amp current into the Arctic. “The satellites have found evidence for magnetic ropes connecting Earth’s upper atmosphere directly to the Sun,” says Dave Sibeck, project scientist for the mission at the Goddard Space Flight Center. “We believe that solar wind particles flow in along these ropes, providing energy for geomagnetic storms”. Even more impressive was the substorm’s power. Angelopoulos estimates the total energy of the two-hour event at five hundred thousand billion (5 x 1014) Joules. That’s approximately equivalent to the energy of a magnitude 5.5 earthquake.”
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/203795main_FluxPower_400.jpg
The flux ropes don’t make the Earth move either. In both cases the magnetic field is the agent. At solar minimum the polar fields supply the HMF, at solar maximum, the flux ropes add a similar amount.
http://www.leif.org/research/The%20Strength%20of%20the%20Sun's%20Polar%20Fields.pdf
“The polar fields are almost sufficient to provide for the interplanetary magnetic flux”
The flux ropes provide the rest.
Changing the tune, arn’t you. Interplanetary field is is just few nanoTesla
Educating you [if that is possible]. Flux ropes are also a few nanoTesla [e.g. http://hirweb.nict.go.jp/sedoss/solact3 ] and they are intermittent so their average effect is comparable to the background few nT.
And the magnetosphere is present at all times, even when no flux rope impinges on the Earth’s magnetic field, so it is incorrect to say that ‘the flux ropes powers the magnetosphere”. the flux ropes disturb the magnetosphere slightly. From: page 34 of [from NASA publication]
http://www.leif.org/research/Geomagnetic-Response-to-Solar-Wind.pdf
“The energy deposited in a substorm [lasting 2 hours] corresponds to about 2 minutes of solar wind input. We see that substorms are not major collapses of the magnetosphere, but rather have the character of minor internal adjustments to changing external conditions”
Seen as the Earth uses the solar particles. Low solar activity and the strong response of the magnetic field.
http://oi57.tinypic.com/2hncspl.jpg
What we can see is that you get the Dalton Minimum timing wrong by two solar cycles:
http://www.leif.org/research/MM-Not-So-Grand.png
So, as I said, the formula and the hypothesis are no good.
Further conformation of the formula you failed to notice
Shows clear that you are two solar cycles out of phase with the Dalton Minimum, and also for the 1900-minimum. So, again, the formula and the hypothesis are no good.
If you look at the LINK you could see that at the time of the Dalton minimum there was a change phase by 90 degrees due to very short SC4a, which the formula picked out correctly. http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/LostCycle4a.gif
by time you get modifying all sunspot data records you’ll see it
I am glad Leif ,just sent his latest chart.( the real data probably a blend of this and what was earlier thought which does not matter.) What matters is the strong correlation which I pointed out earlier between the solar secular cycle (the black line) and global temperature trend and absolute global temperatures.
100 is key , which when broke on the down swing ,global temperatures trend down and on the upswing global temperatures trend upwards. It looks like the 100 value line has been broken around 2010 which is the first time since approximately 1830 which is when the Dalton Solar Minimum ended, and the solar secular cycle line crossed that value on the upswing and the temperature trend followed in an upward trend.
Note how high this value has been from 1930-2005 ,and note the global temperature trend.
The global temperature trend should be down from here to 2020 and probably beyond if solar minimum activity materializes the way it could very well do which I think is very possible.
From Vuk.
I say it can not be any clearer from the data that was just presented from the post Feb 16 at 8:56 am
Except that Vuk’s formula does not get the timing right. E.g. for Dalton is two cycles wrong.
Your own graph shows the Dalton Minimum from 1790-1830.
No, from 1798 to 1825. Vuk’s formula has it from 1765 to 1805, 20-30 years off.
Vuk’s formula has it from 1765 to 1805, 20-30 years off.
Nonsense ! !
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/SSC400yr.gif
There was no small cycle 4a. Regardless of what Usoskin thinks, see http://www.leif.org/EOS/j143-Lost-Cycle.pdf and that still does not help you being off by 20 years for the Dalton Minimum.
What I see from this data is Maunder Minimum around 1660-1705, Dalton Minimum from around 1790-1830 a slightly weaker period of solar activity from 1880-1910 and then rather strong solar activity from approx. 1930-2005.
I see what you are saying, but I am going by your data Leif.
What Dr. S is trying to do, is to use extrapolated polar field for which we have no data before 1969’s instead of the sunspot numbers for which we have data.
See February 16, 2015 at 10:23 am above.
We DO NOT KNOW what polar fields were doing before 1960s !
Actually the Babcock’s measured the polar fields in 1952, but the other indicators are valid as we understand the physics involved, See: http://www.leif.org/research/Asymmetric-Solar-Polar-Field-Reversals-talk.pdf . Here you can see the predicted distribution versus the observed [when the effect is large enough to be unambiguous: http://www.leif.org/research/22-yr-Cycle-in-Geomagnetic-Activity-png The colored circles indicate the polar field polarity.
http://www.leif.org/research/22-yr-Cycle-in-Geomagnetic-Activity.png
If you can’t see it, look at this overlay. Red box is where Vuk has his Dalton Minimum but where the two largest cycle of the 18th century actually happened. Blue box is the real Dalton Minimum
Wrong !
Indeed you are wrong. And changed your formula to boot.
Forgot the Figure:
Clearly Vuk’s formula is no good.
Another nonsense, formula was published in 2004
so what? it is still wrong.
see http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/02/15/solar-cycle-24-update-for-february-2015/#comment-1861255
Vuk, what years do you think the Dalton Minimum occurred in? From when to when? I think it is 1790-1830.
Take Usoskin as your guide
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/LostCycle4a.gif
see :http://arxiv.org/pdf/0907.0063.pdf
goldminor
I would equate the year 1790 as being approximately equal to current conditions today, in relationship to when the next minimum will set in. I would call this pre-minimum conditions. My expectation is that 2017 will be the kickoff year.
Here are the real facts:
Formula NFG.
With Vuk’s Sunspot Formula added [the one he professed was ‘nonsense’:
Another nonsense:
Here is Vuk’s formula
In the top panel you have SIN for the blue curve. In the bottom you have COS.
Here is your formula’s performance:
You cant help yourself writing nonsense.
It would help if you read what is written rather than squandering time on your nonsensical graphs.
Here is what is said:
If you look at the LINK you could see that at the time of the Dalton minimum there was a change phase by 90 degrees due to very short SC4a,
and here is what is said in 2003, published Jan 2004:
“ Prior to 1813 a 90 (degrees) phase shift is required ( ‘Sin’ instead of ‘Cos’ functions).”
http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0401107v2.pdf
page 1, se also Fig.1
It doesn’t do any good to your reputation making up things.
Since there is no cycle 4a, you are still wrong:
http://www.leif.org/EOS/j143-Lost-Cycle.pdf
“All the above arguments taken together provide very strong support for the proposal that cycle 4 was a single sunspot cycle and that no cycle has been lost.”
tumetuestumefaisdubien1
Over 70% of the Earth surface is covered by the ocean, preferably at lower latitudes. It can be reliably estimated, that – due both the geographic distribution of the ocean on the surface of the Earth and its extremely low albedo – about 90% of all the solar radiation reaching and absorbed by the surface of the Earth and converted to heat is absorbed by the ocean. The ocean mostly is liquid water. Some of the liquid water optical properties (reflectivity, absorbtivity) are EXTREMELY wavelength dependent – e.g. the difference between the water absorbtivity in the visible vs. UV and IR regions is couple of orders of magnitude. The solar spectrum peak region happens to be almost same as the water absorbtion spectrum (google: Absorption_spectrum_of_liquid_water.png) low (it is merely a coincidence). Therefore it looks that even a slight solar spectrum composition change should significantly change the total amount of the solar energy which is absorbed at the Earth surface and converted to heat. Such spectral shifts due to the changes of the solar activity during the solar cycle and very possibly beyond are very strongly suggested by the SORCE satellite SSI data (see Ermolli et al 2013) – Even if the TSI stays completely flat, if the solar spectrum composition changes the amount of the solar radiation absorbed by the ocean and tranformed into the heat content there per unit of time can significantly change, especially if the solar spectrum composition change trends in some way over longer periods of time than one solar cycle and the heat content there accumulates or dissipates. In terms of energy carried the most significant region of the solar spectrum reaching the surface of Earth is the visible region. The SORCE data suggest that the total energy carried in the visible region of the solar spectrum (and also SWIR region) very significantly RISES during the solar cycle MINIMUM period while the energy carried in the UV (and only fraction of it reaches the surface of Earth due to its absorbtion in the atmospheric ozone layer) and NIR regions significantly declines and therefore, if the SORCE SSI data are right, the models trying to link the TSI and the global surface temperature changes are obsolete. If the SORCE SSI data are right it clearly couldn’t work so simply like that. In such case we would need to have quite longer than one solar cycle SSI dataset for deciding the question whether the solar activity changes are or aren’t responsible for the global average Earth surface temperature changes. Without it the claims that the solar activity changes do not have anything with the GW observed in the past or the claims to the contrary would be scientifically more or less unreliable and baseless.
milodonharlani
Reply to tumetuestumefaisdubien1
Quite right. But the pronounced UV flux variability can also affect climate.
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Changes in the UV flux marking the solar cycle certainly play its role in the climate, no question about that and the question is only how much, however due to the higher atmosphere effectively absorbing large part of it such UV intensity changes only partially reach the surface of Earth. Also as the reanalysis of the SORCE SSI data show (for quick comparison see the figure 2 in the Ermolli et al 2013 – http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/13/3945/2013/acp-13-3945-2013.pdf) its share on the ΔSSI/ΔTSI is considerably lower than previously calculated (although still higher than previously measured in other solar spectrum researches) and is more or less on par with the opposite changes in the visible region. On the other hand most of the visible region of the solar spectrum reaches the lower troposphere, with clear sky the surface of the Earth and even penetrates relatively deep into the ocean (orders of magnitude deeper than the UV and IR) even at very high incidence angles (because the index of refraction of water is much higher than that of the air and also because there is waviness on the surface of the ocean, relatively lowering its reflectivity considerably and especially near terminator) where it is almost fully absorbed and converted to heat.
After first seeing the SORCE solar spectral irradiance data results in the Ermolli et al I was very intrigued by it, especially by the paradox behaviour in the visible region, suggesting strongly it is not so simple with the solar irradiation intensity as it so far looked and due to my previous research into the ocean insolation I have immediately suspected that such spectral shifts could interact with the extreme optical properties of the water in the ocean on such magnitude and amplify the effect in such manner that it would be a big game changer for whole the quest for the solar activity – surface temperature link. So I was deeply looking into the data and the issue trying to replicate Ermolli et al results – which more or less I now confirm – at least for the UV, visible and NIR regions (for the SWIR there are some startling artifacts in the data which unfortunately make it unreliable enough for me to be able to confirm the results fully and I unfortunately haven’t succeeded to resolve this problems with the LASP – the SORCE satellite program coordinator). When I’ve applied the results to my working finely grided (1°) empiric ocean insolation model assuming for the moment that such changes counteract the changes in the UV spectrum in order suggested by the relatively still short SORCE SSI series I came to the conclusion that in such case the presumed higher intensity in the visible spectrum during the solar cycle MINIMUM periods of the last couple of solar cycles could explain the the 1970-1990s warming period, because it would both by the principle and order of magnitude explain the reason for the rise of the ocean heat content (the ocean is carrying by far most of the heat content at the surface of Earth resulting from the solar irradiation, order of magnitude more than land and atmosphere combined, not speaking about its tiny CO2 content…). To reliably confirm such conclusion empirically I would need considerably longer SSI data series than the data acquired by the SORCE satellite. But in any case, because the liquid water optical properties have such a potential to amplify the solar spectral irradiance changes influence on the ocean heat content distribution throughout the epipelagic zone of the ocean and its total amount coming to the existence over a unit of time, I now strongly believe that if there will be a physical link between the solar activity changes and the global average surface temperature changes confirmed in the future it will be by the SSI not TSI and it will be more due to the spectral composition changes in the visible (which reaches lower troposphere and surface of Earth almost unipeded and mostly gets absorbed and converted to heat there in the depths of the ocean epipelagic zone), than UV regions of the solar spectrum. I can be of course mistaken, but after looking into the solar data for years including the spectral data I’m almost sure the future research will confirm this my “prophecy”. I strongly think that this is not a layman blablabla ad hoc choosing a belief but based on years long deep looking into the actual solar data including the most recent ones so far looking to have a potential of causing a fundamental paradigm shift in the understanding of the solar activity – climate link.
which I agree with.
So, you agree that Vuk’s formula has failed.
Yes, because the Dalton Minimum did not occur where the blue box is.
cor where the red box is.
here is what is published in 2003
Take a good look at Fig.1.
Dr. S graphs are nonsense.
Your paper states: ” For the period prior to 1800 correlation fails.”
Still wrong, unless you are referring to your formula.
No I was not referring to my formula, I was referring to the little green man from Mars.
Lets’ speculate a little.
Question IF (a big if) the AP index stays at these levels or goes lower from here and IF(a big if) the polar fields stay as is what would that be indicating to you, besides weak solar activity? Leif ,that question is for you?
As geomagnetic activity usually rises to a [perhaps second] maximum some years after solar maximum, I expect Ap to go up. The polar fields will also increase as it usually does until about three years before the next minimum, so I don’t see anything unusual.
Let us leave it at that for now and see, since that has occurred in the past.
The past is often a pretty good guide for the present and the future.
In the illustration the top graph is what I published in 2003, the bottom one is what Dr.S would like you to believe what my graph shows
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/V-S.gif
You are welcome to make your own mind, I do not intend to deal any further with continuous stream of this made up nonsense.
btw link http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0401107v2.pdf
As is clear, your correlation [both in my rendition and yours] fails for the Dalton Minimum. So, your formulae are no good.
Even if you change the SIN to COS in 1800 the correlation still fails [even more spectacularly]:
So, your formulae are NFG.
I just wonder why do you persist with that utter rubbish, it is an embarrassment.
Copy of the formula I published available here
And here is screen-shot of what the Excel makes of it (just done).
Here Sin is changed to Cos at 1800
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/Formula-ScreenShot.gif
And here is the formula you used to make your point:
Doesn’t look like your Excel formula…
But then you have been known to change formulae as the rest of us change underwear…
You will persist with a nonsense and innuendo.
You can not read, can you?
Only difference is a phase shift 2pi/3 (120 degrees) instead 2pi/4 (90 degrees), it can be either, to be determined for the best phase coincidence.
But what about your embarrassing rubbish, if I were you I would remove it from http://www.leif.org/research/ website, before too many people see it.
Such manipulating after the fact to make things fit better is a no-no, and the effect is major: almost completely removing the solar cycle at 1800:
Reducing selected sunspot numbers by 20% is just fine.
I sincerely hope that your calculations for so called ‘corrected’ sunspot numbers are a bit more sound than reproducing my formula. No surprise no one wants to know Svalgaard’s ironed out solar cycles.
Changing tune again? The point is that your old formula does away with a cycle in 1800, the new one still gets the Dalton minimum wrong: http://www.leif.org/research/Vuk-Failing-25
Formulae no good.
Heh, listen who is talking?
That was just quick test to show that you were plotting an ‘embarrassing rubbish’.
But even if I did change something, it is my formula, my property not yours.
In contrast, you go around changing other peoples data, internationally accepted to be good for many decades, collected day by day, by dozens if not hundreds of dedicated people, just to suit some god knows what agenda.
In view your utter failure to plot sum of two Cosines, perhaps you should rush back and check your compass readings. I fill huge sympathy for the people of whose work you are attempting to make another utter mess. Not much else I can say, so I am off to bed
So, Vuk, since you change formulae as the wind changes you could cut through all that by simply reproducing this Figure with what you think is your best SSN and PF formulae.
By the time you finish fiddling sunspot data, a strait horizontal line will do just fine.
Have you ever offered your services to the global temperatures record keepers, or maybe they turned you down, it is an exponential (hockey stick) line they need.
It is past midnight here, good night doc!
It would be appropriate for you to do what I suggest, if you are man enough for it.
As for In view your utter failure to plot sum of two Cosines you seem to trust Excel, so here are the Excel formulae for my plot:
F768: 1799.857143 0.74937503
=2.3*ABS(SIN(PI()/2+2*PI()*(F768-1941)/(2*11.862))+SIN(2*PI()*(F768-1941)/19.859))
F769: 1800.142857 1.036998485
=2.3*ABS(COS(PI()/2+2*PI()*(F769-1941)/(2*11.862))+COS(2*PI()*(F769-1941)/19.859))
If you are not up to it, it doesn’t matter because we know the result:
As for sunspots, perhaps this is helpful:
http://www.agenciasinc.es/en/News/The-Sun-s-activity-in-the-18th-century-was-similar-to-that-now
There is no way of sensible discussion between those who will insist on settled science and those genuinely interested in the events cause-consequence relationship.
This is particularly obvious with the CAGWs and in great measure with the solar scientists.
Solar scientists insist that Babcock – Layton hypotheses from 1960s is cast in concrete.
It states that polar fields drive next sunspot cycle, (based on probability of 1 in 100 of dead spots generate polar field, which then drives next cycle – ?!) , and the relationship between two is permanently fixed.
Up to date we have just about two polar field cycles (with a rather fuzzy start in the 1960s).
Question is could a solid theory be built on historical data of just tow cycles?
I doubt it. Why? You may ask.
Because it appears that the ‘fixed’ relationship between sunspot cycles and polar fields is heading for the breakdown !
Here SSN a PF are plotted on the same scale, where SSN is moved so it follows polar fields by about 5 years, as ‘settled science’ would have it, whereby polar field max is a measure of the next sunspot cycle max.
http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/PF-SSN.gif
There is a possibility, as we head on towards the forthcoming Grand Minimum that the breakdown of the phase relationship between sunspot and polar field cycles is the cause of the regular occurrence, about every 110 years (1690, 1800, 1910, 2020) of the pronounced sunspot minima.
In view of the above altering of the old sunspot records (whereby the past significant minima and maxima are eliminated) is an attack of science, I would define it as an anti-science practice
Science modifies hypothesis and theories as to fit not only existing past but contemporary acquired data.
Anti-science modifies past data to fit contemporary ‘politically correct’ inspired views.
Altering past sunspot records belongs firmly in the anti-science classification.
p.s. If the relationship between polar field and sunspot cycles regularly or occasionally break down it is a folly to attempt to derive one from the other.
To have a sensible discussion about science you need to know something about the science, and since you don’t, it is indeed hard to have a sensible discussion. There are no indications that the relationship between polar fields and sunspot cycles are breaking down, on the contrary it is helping to understand the solar dynamo. The [long overdue] revision of the sunspot number is a necessary step in the understanding and prediction of solar activity. You accuse Hoyt & Schatten of anti-science because they introduced the Group Sunspot Number which disagreed with the ‘precious historical data’.
Your plot is misleading and wrong. You say:
“Here SSN a PF are plotted on the same scale, where SSN is moved so it follows polar fields by about 5 years, as ‘settled science’ would have it, whereby polar field max is a measure of the next sunspot cycle max.” You fail to take into account that solar cycles have different lengths and that small cycles generally are longer. This means that the maxima occur later than the polar field maxima [at solar minimum]. Here is the correct plot with the black arrows showing the pairing up:
There are no indications of any breakdown. The cycle is formed from the dead remains of the previous cycle by dynamo amplification inside the sun. This is well-documented and understood, e.g.
http://www.leif.org/EOS/arnab-dynamo.pdf
You explicitly proved my point.
Look at right –ward inclination of your arrows; it has gradually moved from 90 degrees in 1970 to 45 degrees in 2007.
Let me explain what that means:
It means that the two relevant oscillation are moving out of a quasi-phase, or simply the relationship is not fixed, i.e. it is heading for breakdown.
Nonsense, there are not ‘two relevant oscillations’, but rather a single phenomenon: the self-sustaining dynamo converting poloidal fields to toroidal fields and back again. I take it that you did not bother to study http://www.leif.org/EOS/arnab-dynamo.pdf Do so, before putting your foot in your mouth again. As Al gore is reported to have said: “if you don’t know anything, everything is possible”. This seems to apply to you as well.
It contradicts the magnetic amplification (false) hypothesis.
Further the ‘dead’ spots (?!) sink, stronger the amplification by the internal dynamo, longer they take to resurface as the new ‘resurrected’ magnetic giants.
Implication: Longer cycles should be stronger not weaker.
Another ‘minor’ problem is the physics of this ‘magic’ amplification phenomenon, turning weak magnetic field of few microTesla to n x 100,000 microTesla or up to 5 orders of magnitude – a true miracle if ever there was one.
You are totally oblivious to learning. Study the link carefully: http://www.leif.org/EOS/arnab-dynamo.pdf
And here is more deep-going version: http://www.leif.org/EOS/Solar-Dynamo-Theory-Charbonneau.pdf
The amplification follows from Faraday’s induction law and the value found is just what the solution of the equation gives us. That you do not understand this does not mean that it isn’t so.
“It is typically formulated as an ad hoc ( Created or done for a particular purpose as necessary ) parameterization of the Babcock-Leighton mechanism, required here because a fundamentally nonaxisymmetric process must be “forced” into a global axisymmetric model,”
The above says it all.
Vukcevic with every month your rule increasingly confirmed and it is without discussion.
No, it just says that the calculations are constrained by the observations of a real-world phenomenon, as all theories must be.
You could benefit from studying http://www.leif.org/research/SSN/Munoz.pdf
But, apparently not.
Time will tell as the data comes in from this current cycle going forward.
Solar surface rotation: N-S asymmetry and recent speed-up
L. Zhang1,2, K. Mursula1 and I. Usoskin1,3
1 ReSoLVE Centre of Excellence, Department of PhysicsUniversity of Oulu, 90014 Oulu, Finland
e-mail: liyun.zhang@oulu.fi
2 Key Laboratory of Solar Activity, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100875 Beijing, PR China
3 Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory, University of Oulu, 90014 Oulu, Finland
Context. The relation between solar surface rotation and sunspot activity is still not fully resolved. The sunspot activity has been significantly reduced in solar cycle 24, and several solar activity indices and flux measurements experienced unprecedentedly low levels during the last solar minimum.
Aims. We aim to reveal the momentary variation of solar surface rotation, especially during the recent years of reduced solar activity.
Methods. We used a dynamic, differentially rotating reference system to determine the best-fit annual values of the differential rotation parameters of active longitudes of solar X-ray flares and sunspots in 1977–2012.
Results. The evolution of the rotation of solar active longitudes obtained from observing X-ray flares and sunspots is very similar. Both hemispheres have increased their rotation rate since the late 1990s, with the southern hemisphere rotating slightly faster than the north. In the 1980s, rotation in the northern hemisphere was considerably faster, but it experienced a major decrease in the early 1990s. On the other hand, little change was found in the rotation of the southern hemisphere during these decades. This led to a positive asymmetry in the north-south rotation rate in the early part of the time interval studied.
Conclusions. The rotation of both hemispheres has been speeding up at roughly the same rate since the late 1990s, with the southern hemisphere rotating slightly faster than the northern hemisphere. This period coincides with the start of a significant weakening of the solar activity, as observed in sunspots and several other solar, interplanetary, and geomagnetic parameters.
Key words: Sun: activity / Sun: flares / Sun: rotation / sunspots / Sun: evolution
It is well-established that the rotation slows down for high activity, and hence speeds up for low activity:
http://www.leif.org/research/Solar-Rotation-SOHO-EIT.pdf
http://www.leif.org/research/ast10867.pdf
RACookPE1978
Dr Leif Svalgaard
I have a question about the 2002-2011 SORCE TSI and TOA radiation data previously downloaded.
(Several years trend significantly (visibly) “out-of-normal” for 5 and 8 day periods, when plotted against the rest of the years for the same day-of-year. What is easiest for you to see the plots showing these periods: here (on this thread), by email directly, or as a posting to your website ( lsvalgaard.wordpress.com ). The website does not receive much traffic, and so does not appear to be monitored frequently.
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The lsvalgaard.wordpress.com site is just a place holder and is not really used at this time. My work can be seen at http://www.leif.org/research/
A plot of TSI from 2003 to now is here http://www.leif.org/research/TSI-SORCE-to-Now.png
Note how TSI in cycle 24 has risen well above the 2003-2005 level [as we would expect] invalidating the ill-fated Evans analysis so much discussed on WUWT.
I don’t know what you mean by “Several years trend significantly (visibly) “out-of-normal” for 5 and 8 day periods, when plotted against the rest of the years for the same day-of-year”. If you have something to show for it, WUWT is a good forum.
Process. The SORCE data was combined into one plot by day-of-year. It produced a very smooth wave, which curve-fitted nicely.. with a few exceptions. When I looked at teach “bump” in the otherwise very smooth curve, single year periods were very apparent: 5 to 8 day periods were distinctly lower (or hoigher) than the other 10 years for the same point in the orbit.
Curve fit (in excel format against DOY as a named variable)
=1362.36+46.142*(COS(0.0167299*(DOY)+0.03150896))
Figured I’d ask you what was the cause, if not simple instrument variation. Or if it has been questioned before.
http://tinypic.com/usermedia.php?uo=nvlS1L5AwLMD90%2FOaLdkOYh4l5k2TGxc#.VOVcni6Q6So
Entire plot, all data, by day-of-year
http://tinypic.com/usermedia.php?uo=nvlS1L5AwLP2z0mAnGBEc4h4l5k2TGxc#.VOVdwS6Q6So
Residuals after curve fit of data.
Days 0 – 50. One very evident “bubble” -Surely the sun didn’t “go dark” for a little bit?
http://tinypic.com/usermedia.php?uo=nvlS1L5AwLNLLOs2eiN814h4l5k2TGxc#.VOVexy6Q6So
Days 150 – 260
http://tinypic.com/usermedia.php?uo=nvlS1L5AwLPRx1iVoo7aUYh4l5k2TGxc#.VOVesC6Q6So
http://tinypic.com/usermedia.php?uo=nvlS1L5AwLP7zf9PG2K9A4h4l5k2TGxc#.VOVehy6Q6So
Boggers! I dislike the distractions of tinypics!
The “bubbles” are due to the passage of large sunspots. Here is TSI [and other indices] the past year http://www.leif.org/research/TSI-SORCE-Latest.png Note the large dip caused by Active Region 2192.
Thank you for the quick check, the quick reply.
We discussed the ‘phenomenon’ some months ago
(vukcevic November 7, 2014 at 12:31 am
On the other hand TSI is down when F10.7 is high, …..
L Svaalgard = Mosher = Zeke same ilk self proclaimed warmists by all accounts here to troll. We niow know this and anything they post from now on will be viewed with great skepticism
[If you wish to attract their attention (productively, not destructively), we recommend you spell their names correctly. use “Svalgaard” or “lsvalgaard” .mod]
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One should always view any comment ‘with great skepticism’, especially the likes of your comment.
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Federal and state officials who coordinate election cybersecurity said Thursday there is “no evidence” last week’s election was compromised, calling it the “most secure in American history.”
In a joint statement, members of committees within the Department of Homeland Security, including officials from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the presidents of the National Association of State Election Directors and the National Association of Secretaries of State, disputed “unfounded claims” of widespread voter fraud in the November 3 election.
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With vintage logo design, everything old is new again.
A retro logo can say a lot about where a company came from, its values and attitudes or what time period it’s trying to emulate. Learn how you can make a unique logo with a classic look.
The emotional power of retro design.
Graphic design has the power to instantly conjure up a specific time period. A complex monogram can look like something from before 1900. Weathered, stenciled lettering is characteristic of the early 20th century. Psychedelic colours call to mind the sixties, whereas bubble letters look like seventies signage and pixel art taps into memories of the eighties and nineties. Vintage logos and retro design are often nostalgic and inspirational and a clever, creative vintage logo can make a company seem original and like something from another era all at once.
There are two types of vintage logos: Those based on older, existing business logos that really do come from a retro era and new logos meant to evoke previous time periods. Here’s what you need to consider when pulling an old logo into the present or creating a new logo that evokes a different time.
How to update an existing vintage logo.
A vintage logo can reflect a company’s longevity and solid roots, a benefit that many heritage companies are able to capitalise on. “Some companies are more concerned with tradition, like a family business with a long history,” says designer Sarah Giffrow. “They’re interested in communicating their decades of experience.”
Bringing an old logo into the present usually involves simplifying complex vintage design elements. Logos from the late 1800s and early 1900s often featured details like coats of arms, scrollwork and intricate typography that cannot be scaled down easily for items like stationary or merchandise.
To update existing vintage logos, you must identify the necessary elements of the older logo and reimagine those logo elements within current design needs, like infinitely scalable vector images. When done skillfully, an updated vintage logo represents history and experience but also conveys that an organisation is relevant and with the times.
“It’s about simplifying an idea from the company’s past,” says Giffrow. She specifically calls out the IBM logo, a symbol that went from being very busy to its current incarnation as three clear letters. Over time, the logo became simpler but simultaneously more recognisable.
Sometimes a company will want to use older logos to highlight how long they’ve been around. If an organisation is celebrating a big anniversary, for instance, bringing back the original logo and putting it on celebratory merchandise can be a good way to stoke nostalgia and highlight the company’s brand story from the past.
For older logos that include intricate graphic design elements, ensure that they’re in a setting where those elements are all clear and visible. Hand-lettering and older forms of typography can get lost in the visual shuffle. Logos should always let the viewer sense what your brand is about without making them squint.
Tips for contemporary vintage style logos.
Some vintage logos aren’t old at all, but they want to call to mind a specific era. A barbershop might want to capture the feel of an early 20th-century tonsorial parlour or a record store might want to look like it’s straight out of 1967. To do that, a logo maker has to dive into the design trends and conventions of the time period they want to evoke. As much as possible, examine publications and artefacts that you want to emulate for design inspiration. Simply making a logo look weathered is not enough. “A lot of people will make it look worn,” says designer Ashley Lippard, “but that’s just an add-on.”
To truly call to mind a long-gone era, familiarise yourself with the printing and replication technology available at the time. Media from the past wasn’t as crisp or consistent as it is now. Vintage colours were less vivid and well defined than what modern printers produce and line registration and other details were often less precise.
“If you want an Americana feel,” says Lippard, referencing early 20th-century American design, “there’s a dirtiness to it. Use creams and strs. There’s texture.” Colours in the latter part of the 1800s and early 1900s were seldom clear. “Take pure red and add some black to it,” says Lippard. “That’s very Americana. Their printing wasn’t as good as ours, so it’s not as clean. Nothing was slick back then.”
However, bear in mind that your vintage logo still needs to function in the 21st century. Logos have to be legible, they need to scale up and down and they must look good in grayscale, colour and black and white. A logo might look like something straight out of the heyday of disco, but it needs to do real work in the digital age. “Look at what seventies t-shirts were doing,” says Lippard. “Pull from that, but don’t copy it.” Drawing on older trends doesn’t mean simply replicating the kind of work graphic designers were doing in previous decades.
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A good way to do this is to look at the field your company is in, and play to the contemporary design trends in that sector. “The industry they’re working in will help to narrow it down,” says Giffrow. “Certain colour palettes will not fly in certain industries.” Tech companies, for instance, tend to use deep blue colours. A vintage tech logo could evoke a monogram from the era of adding machines, but add in that contemporary blue to modernise it.
To get started, you can find vintage logo templates on Adobe Stock. Use them for inspiration or as the customisable building blocks for your next retro logo design.
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LAMU TRIP IDEAS FOR YOUR KENYA BEACH TOUR
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TRIP IDEA & SAMPLE ITINERARY FOR YOUR TOUR IN LAMU
When beach vacationing in Lamu, we recommend experiencing some of the surrounding Lamu Island attractions and tour activities after your Kenya safari to Masai Mara for the wildebeest migration, Amboseli, Samburu or Laikipia - Lewa, Nakuru and Naivasha - Great Rift Valley Lakes. You can also day trek or climb the 2nd highest mountain in Africa - Mount Kenya.
You may optionally extend out to other wilderness areas of Meru, Chyulu Hills or Tsavo East - Tsavo West ending with a twin-beach vacation and Swahili cultural tour in the exotic spice island of Zanzibar or Mombasa.
DAY 9 & 10
DAY 11 TO 14 (LAMU)
On your arrival in Kenya, we recommend spending one or two nights in Nairobi to unwind but also to give you an opportunity to experience this diverse and thriving city. The metropolis offers many local attractions where you can learn about the history of the pioneer city and the cultures that make Kenya a unique destination for any type of traveler, as well as partake of international restaurants, shop, markets in a vibrant afro-urban scene.
Recommended Accommodation Options In Nairobi
Hotel Tier 1 - Giraffe Manor
If you seek the graceful giraffe during your bush tour of Kenya, a stay at Giraffe Manor will give you one-on-one and once-in-a-life-time experiences with these incredible animals. The hotel maintains much of the original 1932 design while offering you all of the modern amenities you require for your stay. What truly sets Giraffe Manor apart from other travel accommodations in Kenya, though, are the resident Rothschild Giraffe that roam freely on the property and you don’t need to worry about trying to sight these creatures on its grounds as they regularly stick their heads through open windows and over balconies to garner feed pellets from AfricanMecca guests.
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Hotel Tier 2 - Palacina Nairobi
The Palacina Nairobi is residentially located for your historical and cultural tours in Nairobi, yet the location borders the Nairobi Arboretum Park and the presidential greens of the State House means that you are not disturbed by the city noise or air pollution from the traffic vehicle. You may choose from 14 boutique suites, including 2 penthouse suites, and, for travelers on extended business in East Africa, the hotel offers the choice of one, two or three-bedroom apartments. The standard amenities in the suites and apartments include internet access, satellite television with DVD player and mini bar. Suites are designed with a comfortable and spacious floor plan that includes living room, full private bathroom and private balcony, Jacuzzi tub and front-facing balcony.
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Hotel Tier 3 - Fairview Hotel
Despite being sited in Upper Hill close to the heart of the buzzing Kenyan city of Nairobi, Fairview Hotel is a tranquil property laid out among acres of lush greenery. Colonial style, two story buildings are scattered around offering guests on their Nairobi stopover tour a peaceful oasis, secluded from the pulsating activities of the city. A value accommodation, the Fairview Hotel is primarily suited to business travelers, but also a small number of leisure lodgers who are passing through the city on their safari adventures in Kenya.
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TOUR EXPERIENCES OF NAIROBI
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GREAT RIFT VALLEY LAKES OF NAKURU & NAIVASHA
Proceed to the alkaline Lake Nakuru and freshwater Lake Naivasha in the Great Rift Valley for the next two nights. Lake Nakuru National Park is a must for your central Kenya tour. See firsthand one to two million lesser and greater flamingos dip their curved bills into the warm, soda water of the lake to extract their favorite food -- special algae that are found in abundance in the unique lake. The most prominent wildlife in the park includes 56 mammals and 450 bird species. Exploring Lake Nakuru Park is an opportunity to see many of Africa's most prized fauna in a natural and beautiful setting. Resting at an elevation of 1890 meters is the serene freshwater Lake Naivasha, a superb oasis to include on your exploratory holiday in Kenya. Just beyond its shores are papyrus swamps, acacia woodlands, forests and unique geologic features that are remnants of the area’s volcanic past. The nutrient-rich soil is fertilized by an abundance of water, including the Gilgil and Malewa Rivers, to create an ecosystem that is known around the world for a diverse avian presence, as well as game animals. More than 450 bird species have been identified including varied small and large mammals. Lake Naivasha is a RAMSAR site, a designation that reflects the ecological importance of the wetlands around the lake.
Recommended Accommodation Options In Lake Nakuru & Lake Naivasha
Safari Tier 1 - Loldia House
Just less than three hours travel by road or twenty minutes by air from Nairobi is a place that gives you a taste for Kenyan country living – Loldia House. Enjoy a personalized holiday in central Kenya at the 6500-acre working farm set on the north-west shore of Lake Naivasha, a freshwater oasis in the magnificent Great Rift Valley. The colonial masonry architecture reflects an early settler style that luxuriously extends into the indoor common areas and 9 guest rooms. The four double en-suite rooms in the Main House feature muted color palettes that brilliantly accentuate the understated elegance of dressing tables, thatch and corrugated roofs, nightstands with lamps and chairs. Most rooms are positioned to provide views of the wild grounds and lake upon wakening, and private outdoor verandahs with lounging chairs invite quiet relaxation and conversation with a glass of wine. Spend the morning with an experienced guide that takes you to see hippos, zebras, elands, giraffes and other large mammals.
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Safari Tier 2 - Flamingo Hill Camp
Located at the border of Lake Nakuru National Park, Flamingo Hill Camp, a deluxe accommodation, gives you a front row seat to one of the most spectacular avi-fauna performances in the world! Each year, one to two million flamingos arrive at the lake to feed on the algae that flourishes in the warm alkaline waters. Watching the long-legged, pink-plumed lesser and greater flamingos wade around looking for food is interesting, but when all these birds take flight, the show really begins! The spectacle has made Lake Nakuru a favorite East African travel destination for wildlife photographers and nature filmmakers. While back at the camp, you are offered 25 guest tents in a homely, welcoming setting to ensure you have a comfortable and serene tour of Lake Nakuru with AfricanMecca, and the attentive staff are very helpful and responsive to your needs. Guest tents are situated amidst landscaped campgrounds with views of the surrounding flora, trees and valley.
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Safari Tier 3 - Elsamere
Elsamere is the one accommodation in Lake Naivasha that has an air of history and preservation about it. This is home where Joy and George Adamson spent their vacations and the later years of their life. Converted into a Great Rift Valley accommodation for value guest traveling in East Africa, Elsamere revives “Born Free” memories of the 1960’s and is famous for the European-style high teas that are served even today. The property houses a museum that preserves several items belonging to the Adamsons such as paintings, literature and other mementos from the movie that was adapted from the novel Elsa the Lioness. 10 rooms are located in single-story cottages with a portioned patio, overlooking the lake. Some of the lodge's rooms have a double bed while others have twin and triple beds making Elsamere an ideal budget accommodation for families sharing rooms. The cottages have names that bring back memories of Joy Adamson's pets, Pati (rock hyrax), Pippa (cheetah), Penny (leopard) and Elsa, the legendary lioness.
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TOUR EXPERIENCES OF NAKURU & NAIVASHA
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CENTRAL MASAI MARA
You will proceed to Central Masai Mara for the next two nights. For our adventurous, thrill-seeking guests who desire a front row seat to the crossing of the Mara and Talek Rivers during the wildebeest migration season, the most well-known part of the Great Migration, we recommend the central zone of the reserve. Central Masai Mara is also a year-round game-viewing mecca with impressive populations of herbivores and predators which remain even after the spectacular hordes of wildebeests and zebras have gone.
Recommended Accommodation Options In Masai Mara Central
Safari Tier 1 - Naibor Camp
Naibor Camp is an upmarket accommodation that is located along the Talek River, a superlative location for your boutique tour experience in central Masai Mara National Reserve. Being tucked away in the riverine forest that surrounds the camp makes you feel completely enveloped by some of Kenya’s untouched wilderness. The feeling is further enhanced by the proximity to wallowing hippos, crocodiles and other animals that are just meters away. With such an ambience, Naibor Camp is the perfect place to unwind and recuperate during your high-pace African safari activities. The camp is divided into three areas, and each area offers distinct facilities i.e. Main Naibor, Little Naibor and Naibor Wilderness. Naibor is a premium accommodation, so you are also treated to impeccable service by a staff that takes pride in helping guests feel at home. Their personable natures, excellent knowledge and outstanding professionalism exceed your every expectation. Main Naibor offers 7 guest tents with king size beds built from native fig wood, luxurious sofas, contrasting rugs along with other fused classic-modern design elements.
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Safari Tier 2 - Rekero Camp
A blissful wildlife vacation in Kenya with AfricanMecca awaits you at Rekero Camp, a deluxe accommodation that is situated on the banks of the Talek River in the heart of Masai Mara National Reserve. The wilderness is known internationally as a premier destination for authentic African plains safari experiences, and Rekero captures the romantic and adventurous spirits of our guests. The entire camp is designed to celebrate the beauty of the Mara ecosystem with minimal environmental impact. All structures are under canvas, including a mid-size dining tent under shade trees and a small lounge area that rests upon a platform with incredible river views. 9 guest tents allow for a maximum of twenty guests, so you are assured the benefits of an exclusive Masai Mara tour, such as personalized service, exceptional food, immaculate tents with few in-camp guests, top notch personable guides and much more. The décor of your tent enhances the subtle romantic ambience of the setting through a tasteful use of natural blonde woods, neutral colors and rich fabrics.
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Safari Tier 3 - Entim Camp
For your modest bush travel in Masai Mara, we recommend Entim Camp located inside in the heart of the reserve. Situated at the meeting point of the Talek River and Mara River, the camp offers a secluded setting, fitting location for activities, palatable food and adequate service. Each of the 10 non-frill tents has the necessary furnishings that you need for a comfortable East African safari overnight stay, such as beds constructed of local wood, storage chest, nightstands, bedside lamps and curtains over the windows. Nature’s beauty is brought indoors with decorative fabrics and accents in chocolate brown, rich gold and bronze, burnt red, sage green, hints of white and many other contrasting colors. Your private verandah has safari-style chairs and a small table where you can enjoy some private game viewing and moments of complete relaxation. Your guest tent is set up to give you views of the river together with supplemented sounds of wildlife traveling to and fro, including hippos, elephants and other herbivores, as well as lions, hyenas and some other predators.
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TOUR EXPERIENCES OF CENTRAL MASAI MARA
MASAI MARA - NORTH, EAST, SOUTH & WEST
After your stay in Central Masai Mara, you will proceed for two nights to a private conservancy in the northern, eastern, southern or western regions of the main reserve along its border, which serves as wildlife management buffer zones. Each conservancy is founded upon a mutually-beneficial collaboration between landowners, conservation organizations and guest camps. The private-ownership status of the conservancies also means that a greater variety of safari activities are offered to guests, many of which are restricted in the main reserve.
Recommended Accommodation Options In Masai Mara
1. Northern Masai Mara Camps And Lodges
The northern Masai Mara zone is comprised of six conservancies – Mara North, Olare Motorogi, Mara Naboisho, Ol Choro Oiroua, Ol Kinyei and Lemek. Each conservancy offers our guests unique accommodations, as well as incredible experiences in one of the world’s most pristine wilderness areas.
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2. Eastern Masai Mara Camps And Lodges
The eastern zone of Masai Mara offers accommodations in the private Siana Conservancy as well as in the main reserve. We advise our guests that this area has the highest density of camps and lodges when compared to other zones, with the exception of Leleshwa Camp and Mara Bushtops that focus on high-quality Siana wilderness experience.
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3. Southern Masai Mara Camps And Lodges
The southern zone of Masai Mara has the lowest density of guest accommodations when compared to the other zones. As a result, you enjoy a secluded experience in the remote bush country of the reserve and Olderkesi Conservancy. Cottar’s 1920’s Camp and Cottar's Homestead are extraordinary choices for our Tier 1 premier guests.
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4. Western Masai Mara Camps And Lodges
The western zone of Masai Mara primarily includes accommodations on private leased Maasai lands outside the public reserve with the exception of Bateleur and Kichwa Tembo Camps that are set in a very small private andbeyond concession that allows access to night game drives and bush walks. All accommodations in the western section offer game drives in the Mara Triangle areas of the public reserve - sometimes known as the Mara Conservancy under the Trans Mara Maasai Council
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TOUR EXPERIENCES OF MASAI MARA NORTH, EAST, SOUTH & WEST
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You will proceed to Amboseli for the next two nights. Amboseli National Park is a majestic landscape where predator and prey interactions unfolds every day across the 392 square kilometers (151 square miles) of protected wilderness. The park borders Tanzania and is situated at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's tallest peak, and the melting snow flows into underground springs that feed the swamps and wetlands that dot the plains. These water sources attract animals of all sizes, the most sought-after being– the free-roaming elephants, but you may also see elands, waterbucks, grant's gazelles, warthogs, coke's hartebeests, zebras and other grazing herbivores. The abundance of large prey supports lions, leopards, civets, wildcats and other elusive hunters, as well as jackals, hyenas and other scavengers.
Recommended Accommodation Options In Amboseli
Safari Tier 1 - Tortilis Camp
Tortilis Camp is situated secluded in the south-western portion of the park with spectacular views of Mount Kilimanjaro and access to its private Kitirua Conservancy. At 19340 feet, the extinct snowcapped volcano dominates the scenery and provides vital water to the plains in the park. Melting snow flows into underground springs that emerge in wetlands and swamps that attract an abundance of prey, predator and avi-fauna. Most of the guest accommodations are twin or double tents, but for families on an adventure travel in Kenya, the camp also offers a family tent and a two-bedroom boutique, private house. The makuti-covered tents are constructed of canvas with a thatched roof, and the open insect-proof windows allow fresh breezes to keep you cool during the day and to allow daylight in. The private house features a separate sitting and dining area, and the veranda is one of the finest places on the property to see Mt. Kilimanjaro. Tortilis also have a swimming pool to cool off from the warmth of the day and offers massage, pedicure and manicure bush services – great for vacationing honeymooners who want some coddling.
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Safari Tier 2 - Satao Elerai
As part of the “Out of Africa Collection” of camps in Kenya, the Maasai partnered Satao Elerai is a 17-room boutique accommodation for your exclusive, luxurious wildlife safari in Amboseli National Park. Set within a remote section bordering the southeastern portion of the park, the nostalgic neo-design of the accommodation is reminiscent of the camps that were used by Kenya’s earliest explorers, and the hillside location gives you breathtaking views of the savannah plains and mighty snow-capped peak of Mount Kilimanjaro. Advantageously, the camp is located in the private conservancy of Elerai thus affording AfricanMecca guests access to nature walks, Maasai village visits and night game drives within the dense conservancy. Constructed of acacia poles, cedar wood floors, thatch roof and other native materials, the 12 tents evoke the boutique romance of East Africa with unobstructed views of Mt. Kilimanjaro while the 5 chalet-style guest suites are designed with natural stone and acacia wood, and feature ensuite bathrooms with bathtub, as well as private verandas with a shrubland view.
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Safari Tier 3 - Kibo Safari Camp
Set in the heart of Maasai life on the scenic African plains and in the shadow of the largest, free-standing mountain in the world, the legendary Mount Kilimanjaro, Kibo Safari Camp is a huge, non-frill abode to stay as part of your wildlife vacation in Africa. It can take in over 150 guests on a full-house so expect personalization of services to be at the bare minimum. On arrival at the camp, your budget holiday in Africa starts with a modest welcome cool towel and juice drink to refresh you following the warm, dusty journey to the site. The wilderness bush and environmentally conscious camp structure and furnishings blend with their surroundings to provide a relaxing and peaceful atmosphere. Kibo Safari Camp has a total 73 canvas tents with a thatch roof to protect it from the heat of day, and options of double or twin, triple and family rooms are on offer. Each self-contained tent has an in-shower, sink and toilet, limited hot and cold running water and variable rationed electricity that operates only for few hours during the day and night.
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TOUR EXPERIENCES OF AMBOSELI
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Proceed to Lamu Island for your seaside vacation for the next four nights. Lamu is a distinctive beach and cultural travel destination in Africa. With a history that dates back to the 14th century, the island represents a time when life was much simpler, and you will quickly forget the stress and hectic pace of life back home. In 2001, the old town of Lamu was honored with the designation of a World Heritage Site by UNESCO to signify the significant global cultural asset found in what has become the oldest settled Swahili town south of the Sahara. The island is situated in the archipelago of the same name and shares the area with several other islands, including the two other larger islands of Pate and Manda. Access to these islands is primarily by boat, as only a small channel separates the islands from mainland Kenya. The coral reefs and habitats of the archipelago represent significant natural treasures, some of which are protected by the Kiunga Marine National Reserve. Common ecosystems of the region are mangrove forests, coral reefs and soft sand beaches. Migratory birds rely on the islands for nesting grounds together with sea turtles who are also frequent visitors and subject of many conservation projects. Below the water, guests will find a dizzying variety of marine life, from the smallest sea creature to the giant game fish that taunt every angler who visits Lamu Island. At the edge of Shela Village is a stretch of sand that covers more than seven miles till Kipungani. The pace in Shela is even more relaxed than Lamu old town, and you will find yourself wishing that you never have to leave. For the times when you want to escape even further, visit Kiwayu Island and Manda Island to get a feel for the life of a true castaway.
Recommended Accommodation Options In Lamu
Beach Tier 1 - Manda Bay
Lamu is a honeymooner and romantic escapaders’ Kenyan paradise! Your luxuriant and barefoot beach holiday on Lamu Island begins at Manda Bay, an exclusive rustic accommodation that eloquently combines relaxed coastal living with outstanding service and heavenly cuisine. The 16 banda cottages are built from local materials and feature a design palette drawn from the oceanic setting of the islands of Lamu that includes large raw timbers, intricately hand-carved furniture and thatch roofs, all gracefully enhanced with soft blues and greens encompassing a hint of warm coral color. For your seaside vacation on the Indian Ocean, your choice of cottage determines how close you are to the beach, with Beach Front Cottages being the closest and enjoying the best views of the ocean with only a few steps between you and the sand. In addition to the views, these cottages also allow you to receive the soothing sound of the waves lapping at the sand, and you may even be able to dangle your feet in the water from your veranda. Set further away from the beach and just behind the Beach Front Cottages are the Sea View Cottages, and nestled within the lush tropical vegetation are the family-friendly, more affordable Garden Cottages. All guest cottages include mosquito netting, ceiling fan, small refrigerator, en-suite bathroom with double vanity and private veranda. Manda Bay provides electricity to guest cottages 24 hours per day, but for environmental reasons, the main building only has power for eight hours each day.
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Beach Tier 2 - Kizingoni Beach Houses
The unsurpassed way to spend some quality time with family and friends is to take a beach vacation in Kenya at one of the most beautiful Lamu locales on the Indian Ocean. The Kizingoni Beach Houses are the accommodations to choose because they offer you exclusive, private villas, complete in every way with kitchenettes, living areas, dining areas, a swimming pool, swing daybeds, covered garden areas and few with play areas. Every house also has a designated speedboat and crew to take you around the islands for any activities you would like to book. The cottages at Kizingoni Beach are deluxe accommodations so you can be assured of quality amenities and friendly service though you might have to pay for added frills i.e. from fine wines to fuel for boat use. Kizingoni is sprawled over 24 acres of oceanside property on a secluded beach with soft golden sands contrasting with the deep blue water of the ocean amidst coastal vegetation of coconut and doum palms. The house-resort also has its own sample grove and vegetable patch and sources its fresh seafood right out of the Indian Ocean. Wind energy and solar panels via a battery inverter system are installed to generate power and hot water. Kizingoni Beach Houses have 7 villas in all. You can book the beach villas you will need for your seaside trip in Africa depending on the number of your guests. The rooms all have attached bathrooms while the number of bedrooms and size of the swimming pool might vary from house to house. All of them have the Swahili baraza sitting area for family conversations.
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Beach Tier 3 - Mike’s Camp
Mike’s Camp on Kiwayu Island is a rustic, modest accommodation that gives you access to the sand, water and surf for your relaxed beach vacation in Kenya. Located in the Lamu Archipelago, the island is a coastal hideaway for diverse seaside travelers in Kenya who want to escape the hustle and bustle of the more heaving African beach resorts without sacrificing the iconic coral reef, turquoise water and soft sandy beaches that have made Lamu a desired destination for discerning beach lovers around the world. The simplicity of the camp extends to every part of the operations, from supplies brought in by donkey to wind and solar generated power, and the 7 guest bandas are constructed of natural materials and situated on top of the sand dunes. The views from your open-sided banda are of the Indian Ocean or mangrove creek and you are well-spaced from your neighbor for an ideally secluded beach holiday in Lamu with AfricanMecca. A private veranda with hammock and day beds gives you a relaxing place to read, nap or watch the oceanic motion. Your king-size bed is canopied with mosquito netting to allow you to slumber safely and quietly while gentle tropical breezes keep you cool and comfortable. The “cast-away” ambience of your banda continues in the ensuite bathroom that features bucket showers, wash basin and water container to help you stay refreshed.
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TOUR EXPERIENCES OF LAMU
RECOMMENDED PRE AND POST SAFARI AND BEACH EXTENSIONS IN KENYA
After this distinct safari, we recommend a combination off-beat extension to either Samburu or the private conservancies of Laikipia in Northern Kenya combined with a visit to Tsavo, Shimba Hills or Meru in Southern and Eastern Kenya depending on your safari activity and wildlife preferences. Thereafter, harmoniously conclude with a beach rest and relaxation visit to the Eastern coast of Kenya with varied seashore, cultural and historic experiences available, including the Swahili islands and beaches of Mombasa (Diani, Galu, Tiwi, Nyali, Bamburi), Lamu, Malindi, Watamu, Kilifi, and the secluded Msambweni coast, idyllic islands of Funzi, Chale or also Zanzibar, off the coast of Tanzania. The options are endless!
NORTHERN KENYA SAFARI EXPERIENCE - RECOMMENDED FOR 3 NIGHTS STAY
1. Laikipia - Lewa Conservancy
Located in northern Kenya, the private conservancies of Laikipia represent an outstanding model of wildlife management that provides AfricanMecca guests with a distinctive safari vacation in Africa. The varied conservancies are home to the second highest wildlife density in Kenya, and while many other areas are experiencing dwindling populations of animals, Laikipia is recognized for its ever-increasing numbers of wildlife, including threatened, rare and endangered species. Guests who visit Laikipia during their bush travel in Kenya will not only see the Big 5 roaming freely, but also black and white rhinos, African wild dogs, Grevy’s zebras, reticulated giraffes, Jackson’s hartebeests and other rare species. One of the greatest advantages of visiting Laikipia during your adventurous tour of Kenya is an opportunity to view an abundance of wildlife while partaking of activities that are restricted in national parks in Kenya. These activities are further enhanced by the low number of other guests due to limited rooming capacity at the sub-conservancies, making Laikipia the perfect choice for those who desire an exclusive African safari experience. Dependent on where you are staying in Laikipia, activities include game drives, bush walks, horseback riding, camel walks and camel rides, aerial helicopter and bi-plan safaris, village visits and much more. With a history that spans over decades, we recommend as our preferred Lewa Conservancy in Eastern Laikipia, as one of today’s most successful conservancies in Kenya.
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2. Samburu National Reserve
Enjoy a quintessential Kenyan northern safari in Samburu with unrestricted access to authentic rugged East African wilderness. As you travel through Samburu, the diverse terrain transitions from rolling plains to volcanic remnants. The vegetation is concentrated along the Ewaso Nyiro River, the primary source of water in the reserve. You may not expect to see wildlife in such a stark landscape, but Samburu is home to an abundance of animal species. The most notable and sought after are known as the Samburu Special Five – Somali ostriches, Grevy’s zebras, gerenuks, reticulated giraffes and Beisa oryxes. More common mammals are Grant’s gazelles, impalas, waterbucks, dik diks, olive baboons, elephants, warthogs, hippos and carnivores, including lions, cheetahs, crocodiles, leopards, to name a few.
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SOUTHERN & EASTERN KENYA SAFARI EXPERIENCE - RECOMMENDED FOR 2 OR 3 NIGHTS STAY
1. Chyulu Hills National Park
Chyulu Hills National Park is a striking landscape of emerald green hills, open vistas, winding rivers, dense forests and pools of water with reflections of white clouds in azure blue skies. Remote and wild, the park and surrounding conservancies are largely untouched by humans with the exception of the Maasai warriors who protect and depend upon the land. Described by Ernest Hemingway as "The Green Hills of Africa," this Kenyan treasure is not known as a big game destination, but rather, it is one of the few places where you will find almost no signs of tourism, lending to the surreal sense of isolation amidst surrounding resident fauna.
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2. Tsavo East National Park Or Tsavo West National Park
Tsavo West National Park shares its northeast boundary line with Tsavo East National Park, and together these two park form one of the world’s largest national parks. Prominent natural landmarks include Mzima Springs in the northern region of the park including the Shetani lava flow. In Tsavo East National Park, you will be welcomed by immense savannah plains dotted with thorn bushes, stands of acacia trees, scrublands and woodlands along with the Athi, Galana, Tsavo and the seasonal Voi Rivers weaving their way along the landscape. Take a front-row seat in a custom safari vehicle in Tsavo to watch the natural behaviors of leopards, cheetahs, mane-less lions and other predators stalk impalas, gazelles, elands, wildebeests, zebras, fringe-eared oryx, dik-diks and other prey animals from the cover of dense bush and deep shadows. This immense action unfolds against a vigilant backdrop of grazing and foraging elephants, giraffes, buffaloes, rhinos and other large herbivores. Walk under tree canopies filled with scampering vervet monkeys, baboons and other tree dwellers.
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3. Shimba Hills National Reserve
Just 20 miles from the island of Mombasa is Shimba Hills National Reserve, a small wilderness that offers spectacular vistas and wondrous waterfalls amidst an equatorial forest. The landscape is shrouded in mist and clouds during the early morning hours, creating a mesmerizing setting for a superlative African equatorial vacation. The highland climate nurtures over 1100 plant species that attract a diversity of wildlife, such as giraffes, elephants, zebras, bushbucks, Harvey’s duikers, to name only a handful of the animals that feast upon the vegetation. Within the forests and jungles you may locate Syke’s monkeys, colobus monkeys, vervet monkeys and other tree climbers. While there are no large predators in the reserve, you may spot hyenas, serval cats, civet cats and other smaller carnivorous hunters. The list of species continues, as the reserve is home to more than 230 types of avi-fauna. Even the smallest denizens are well-represented, with more than 295 butterflies joining many other insects. These tiniest of creatures, as well as small mammals, support a healthy population of frogs, geckos, lizards, pythons and other reptiles and amphibians. The most-desirable animal, though, is by far the sable and roan antelope.
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Meru National Park is famed for its acclaimed setting of the book and movie "Born Free" by Joy and George Adamson. Your adventure in Meru begins as soon as you arrive. As you travel through its coarse roads, you will be struck by the rich canvas of colors and landscapes that the park displays. The earth is a vibrant rust-orange that offsets the lush green trees and vegetation of Meru. Trees like baobabs, acacia, doum palms and commiphora dot the expanses and the 13 rivers of Meru add a brown-green hue, their banks fertile and jade. The grasses of the plains are a sandy golden providing effective camouflage cover for the tawny lions, cheetahs and leopards that lurk in them, looking for a strategy to catch a prey meal of elands, zebras, reedbucks, waterbucks and more. Both white and black rhinos can be seen here that have been translocated from other wildernesses along with resident herds of elephants and buffalos. More than 300 species of birds thrive here and the rivers are rich with catfish and tilapia which in turn support a diversity of fish-eating birds like kingfishers, fish eagles and fishing owls.
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EASTERN KENYA BEACH EXPERIENCE - RECOMMENDED FOR 3 TO 6 NIGHTS STAY
The contrast of soft white sand and azure blue water lulls you into the enchantment of Kenya’s many beaches and islands. Each beachfront setting offers a unique experience to suit the personal style of every guest. Bury your toes in the soft white sand while watching soothing waves lap the shoreline. The aquamarine water of the Indian Ocean stretches as far as the eye can see, meeting the baby blue sky on the horizon. A lovely cocktail refreshes your spirit like the breeze in the swaying palm trees. The beaches and islands of Kenya melt away your every concern and rejuvenate your body, soul and mind. Below the Indian Ocean surface is a breathtaking world of marine life. Kenya is, in fact, home to some of the world’s greatest dive sites, including the second longest barrier reef on the planet. You can experience scuba diving, snorkeling, water skiing, kitesurfing, boating and angling for marlin, sailfish and other large game fish. Complement your beach vacation with Swahili historic and cultural experiences in Mombasa, Lamu, Malindi, Watamu and Kilifi.
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WHERE TO STAY IN LAMU
For boutique lodgings, we recommend Majlis Resort and Manda Bay while Kizingoni Beach Houses, Kipungani or even Kizingo Lodge are excellent mid-range experiences. Kijani Hotel is a budget option.
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Your seaside and cultural escapade to Lamu will be unforgettable. Tour of the old town, snorkeling, dhow safari, deep sea fishing, active watersports such kitesurfing, waterskiing are all available.
BEST TIME TO VISIT LAMU
January to March are the warmest months while cooler temperatures occur in July to September. In April and May, the long rainy season arrives and ends by June with short rains from November.
AfricanMecca Safari could not have been more helpful through the entire process of planning our trip to Kenya. Our trip to Lamu (a suggestion by Raza) was incredible, and Kizingo is a perfect place to stay there. All in all, we had an amazing time in Kenya.
Jordan Klein & Anna Kohanski - New York, United States
Lamu was fabulous. hot and sunny and we again were delighted with our accommodation. Everything was run smoothly and without any hitches and we are most grateful for a truly memorable holiday of a life time. You organised everything efficiently which made life so easy for us.
Angela Cook - London, United Kingdom
I had just the BEST time in Lamu - quite probably the holiday of my life - and am determined to go back in November. I have to say, the holiday was made by Altaf's dedication to what I needed - he worked very hard to ensure I got the full ten night stay at Kipungani, and I was impressed to say the least. Many thanks - I'll be back.
Jeremy King, Senior Producer GMTV - London, United Kingdom
Raza, I have returned from the trip to Kenya you arranged. It went quite well and all of your advice about hotels etc was correct and prevented me from doing things less than optimal. I really enjoyed Lamu; it is one of the best beaches I have seen.
Dr Thomas Walshe - Boston, Massachusetts - United States
Raza, I want to tell you that all aspects of our travel arrangements with you ran smoothly. Our visit to Lamu was most enjoyable and a pleasant contrast to the highlands. I will unreservedly recommend AfricanMecca to others.
Peter Moody - Cape Town, South Africa
I wanted to email you to say how well all your arrangements came together for Lamu - Peponi Hotel. The logistics worked very well, the venues fulfilled all expectations - the whole experience was splendid.
Robyn Taylor - Brisbane, Australia
Lamu Palace was really quite exotic, with again wonderful people, in great location, I felt like I was in the movie Casablanca. I will recommend your company to anyone I know travelling to Kenya. In deep appreciation...
Lynne Crawford - Boston, Massachusetts - United States
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Beef Plan request to attend Oireachtas TB meeting denied
Oct 9, 2019, 12:44pm
A formal request made by the Beef Plan Movement to attend the recent Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine meeting on TB eradication was denied, according to the farm group.
The Oireachtas committee issued the refusal in a letter to the Beef Plan’s national animal health chairman Micheál Rafferty on October 2.
Reacting to the refusal, Rafferty, who is also the movement’s county chairman for Monaghan, said it was very disappointing that the views of Beef Plan and its farmers were not going to be heard on TB.
He said that this decision follows on from a decision by Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Michael Creed to refuse the group access to the TB stakeholder forum earlier this year.
The Beef Plan representative claimed that generations of farmers have been living with the TB eradication scheme in various forms “for over 60 years now”.
Criticising the scheme, Rafferty described it as “not fit for purpose” and only paying “lip-service” to farmer concerns on wildlife.
“Whilst Beef Plan supports the views expressed by others who attended the committee, we want the scheme to deliver more, including better transparency around the scheme, its money, and for farmers’ hard work to be properly quantified and valued.”
Rafferty claimed that the latest refusal is “creating a trend” of the Government not wanting to hear views “from anyone who wishes to challenge their stewardship of the TB scheme”.
Rafferty said that the Beef Plan would rigorously pursue this issue and continue its efforts to have farmers’ voices heard, and this refusal will not be the end of this matter.
He said he has made contact with a number of political parties to have the decision reversed.
“In a recent ‘state of the nation’ survey conducted by AgriLand, respondents were asked ‘Which of the following farming associations, if any, are you a member of’, and the Beef Plan Movement was in second place behind IFA, at 29%,” Rafferty noted.
“It is clear that the Beef Plan has firmly established itself as a force within Irish farming within its first year of existence,” the animal health chairman concluded.
EU commissioner designate for agriculture undergoes another grilling from MEPs
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CENTRAL EUROPE JOURNEY TO KRAKOW, BRNO AND BERLIN NOV/ DEC 2019
The garden at the Villa Tugendhat, Brno
This Blog of our winter journey in Central Europe is being written unacceptably late! My only excuse is having too much to do – but the reality is I thought I had already done it. Therefore it will be briefer than I would like, and it may well suffer from lapses of memory.
None of this detracts from the pleasure our fairly small group experienced from a winter journey so close to Christmas in these lovely cities. Both Krakow and Brno are modest sized cities, but their wintry aspect with everyone in colourful winter gear and their centres suffused with Christmas lights and decorations, made for magical settings for Australians used to sun, heat and the sea.
Our first concert in Krakow was to be a Chopin recital by the 18 year old virtuoso Maria Moliszewska, but sadly she was replaced by a 40 something male pianist who both in his demeanour and his playing gave the impression he would much rather be somewhere else as far away as possible. The recital was in a nondescript room
It was cold in Krakow!
on the second floor of a city building, so it was quickly apparent this was not likely to be music-making of the front rank. Not a brilliant start to the musical experience of our tour.
Nevertheless we rugged up and enjoyed the exotic castles, churches, lanes and squares of the city with its flurries of snow. We collected on Friday 23rd at the brand new Opera House, all a brilliant dark red and glass both inside and out. The production of Donizetti’s Anna Bolena was good without having the last degree of excellence. The set’s constantly changing perspectives masked economy of means and the singing was first class, especially from the Anna and Enrico (Henry VIII). All the cast were Polish.
The central emphasis of the tour was the Centenary Janacek Festival in the composer’s birthplace Brno. We were there for a week staying in the comfortable Hotel Grandezza where most of us had spacious first floor rooms looking directly out on one of Brno’s main squares, which has crammed with the festive Christmas market, food stalls, and full of people from mid-morning until late at night. It was a pleasure just to stand at the window and take it all in.
Our first Brno concert was on Saturday 24 November at 3 pm at the Löw-Beer Villa, a large elegant modern house with a beautiful garden that led up a hill to the famous Villa Tugendhat. We heard the Skampa Quartet,a leading Czech string quartet playing a challenging program of Schönberg’s second string quartet, Bartok’s 3rd and Janacek’s Kreutzer Sonata Quartet. Inspired by the composer’s relationship with Kamila Stosslova, the passionate performance of the Janacek hit home to everyone in the audience and the applause was rapturous. This was a very strong start to our visit to Brno.
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The same day in the evening we attended a performence of Janacek’s opera Destiny (Osud) at the intimate traditional opera house, the Mahen Theatre. This was a highly dramatic contemporary take on the 1904 opera, never publicly performed in Janacek’s lifetime. It is a complex drama about a man’s experiences and mistakes in love and the intensity of the music and the drama was well portrayed. This was a production of the Moravian Silesian Opera Company based in the north of the country. At the performance, Andrew Neill and I met Paul Mauffray, an American conductor living in Brno and an expert on Janacek. We were to meet him several times during the week and later he led our group on an exploration of some of Brno’s interesting places.
On Sunday 25th in the afternoon, we gathered at the beautiful Villa Tugendhat, designed in 1930 by Mies van der Rohe, at the top of the garden with the previous day’s Löw-Beer Villa nestling below. The program of piano music was played by top Czech pianist Martin Kasik who spoke briefly about each piece in a fascinating program of central European music by Korngold, Kodaly and Janacek. We sat in a large room with a complete glass wall opening on to the autumnal garden on one side, adding greatly to the contemplative nature of the recital.
That same night we went to the Janacek Theatre, a large modern lyric theatre with little pretension to elegance, but offering good acoustics and facilities for opera, for a production by Opera Vlanderen, a leading Flemish company, of Janacek’s The Makropoulos Affair. This was one of the main attractions of the Festival and we were offered a very contemporary version of the opera set in a modern house with a view of the garden outside. The ageless 300 year old heroine Elinor Makropoulos was portrayed as a world weary punk style drug addicted singer, a very effective treatment and very different from the powerful well dressed opera singer usually presented. This production had its premiere in 2016 and is the work of leading Hungarian film director Kornél Mundruczó, whose films have often gained awards at leading festivals such as Cannes and Sundance.
On Monday 26th, we had a complete change of pace and took a private coach on a two hour trip to Vienna. It snowed all the way much to everyone’s delight, but in Vienna it turned to cold rain. Nevertheless it was a full and fabulous day starting with a visit to what was possibly the most comprehensive exhibition of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s paintings ever brought together anywhere at the Kunst Historisches Museum. The opportunity to see so many of his famous paintings up close and to study his incredible detail was wonderful, especially as some of the works exhibited were different versions of the same subject. Some of us then braved the foul weather and set off to another outstanding exhibition, this time at the Albertina, of a huge array of Monet’s paintings. I found this exhibition completely mind-blowing, giving special insight into the amazing work of the great French artist. We then all gathered for an early dinner at Claudia’s and her husband Michael’s traditional Viennese restaurant for the genuine article Wiener Schnitzel and othe local goodies.
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The very busy day culminated in a concert by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under David Robertson at the splendid 19th century Grosse Saal of the Konzerthaus. It began with a fast and furious performance of Bernstein’s Overture to Candide. Then we had a short delay while an enormous array of percussion instruments, pots and pans and anything hittable was assembled for a performance of the new second Percussion Concerto by James McMillan, featuring local percussion star Martin Grubinger. The sheer virtuosity and soundscape was phenomenal; Grubinger was like an athlete, darting around the entire stage to manage it all. He said later he had been practising it since February! After the interval, we had what I thought was a routine performance of Prokofiev’s 5th Symphony, disappointing considering it is such a lively and attractive piece, and the SSO was on show to such a discerning audience.
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No rest for the wicked and the next night, Tuesday 27th, we had an extraordinary operatic experience at the Brno Exhibition Centre, for Smetana’s pageant opera Libuse. This opera, first presented in 1881 is based on the legend of the 8th century Czech queen Libuse. The last act consists of a sequence of tableaux vivants foreshadowing Libuse’s vision of the future for the Czech nation. The opera has been seen as a celebration of patriotic Czech nation building, so it was a suitable centre piece for this Czech Centenary festival. The venue is huge, an enormous space for large trade exhibitions or indoor sporting competitions. They had mounted a large set of bleachers at one side of the roughly square space, allowing the entire vast space to be used as a setting for the opera, with the orchestra strangely located on the side to the right of the audience. Apart from elephants, we had just about everything else in the huge production: horses, processions, vast choirs and a panoply of past Czech presidents with huge heads, all overseen by a figure in white who appeared to represent a modern Czech hero viewing and pondering the nation’s progress. I found the whole thing oddly affecting, even moving, but I have to admit some of our group were less impressed.
The following morning, Wednesday 28th saw us on a train to Olomouc, a lovely baroque town where a guide showed us around. With compact squares, colourful baroque houses and churches and the remains of walls sloping from its top to the bottom, it was a charming experience of old Moravia. In the evening we went to the Reduta Theatre in the same square as our hotel. This is a very contemporary transformation of an old drama theatre, ideal for small scale music theatre or spoken drama. Janacek’s first opera Sarka was given in a modern update by Opera Diversa, an ensemble specialising in contemporary music theatre. Composed before Janacek developed his unique style, the legendary setting of the opera was turned into an absurd travesty in a contemporary room with a coffin and many mobile phones, so amateurish and awful that I wanted to walk out. Luckily it lasted less than an hour.
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The next evening Thursday 29th saw us return to the Brno Exhibition Centre for a large scale orchestral and choral concert featuring music by Janacek and Suk. The best known and most enjoyable piece was Janacek’s Sinfonietta , always a crowd pleaser with its panoply of brass in the first and last movements. The concert was conducted and managed by Gabriela Tardonova who conducted the Sarka of the previous evening. It was cold and unwelcoming listening to choral music in this vast space and again we were happy when it was over. Ms Tardonova clearly drew the short straw having to conduct Sarka and the choral music on successive nights. I felt quite strongly the problems of both performances were not her fault.
During our stay in Brno, Andrew Neill had introduced us to Maria Kucerova, manager of the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra. On our last day we were invited to their premises and to a final rehearsal in their lovely 19th century concert hall in the same building, designed at the same time and by the same architect who built Vienna’s great Musikverein. Though much smaller, seating only 500 people, both acoustically and visually, it is a treasure. We heard them play an unusual piece (by a composer whose name escapes me) where each short section is dominated by a single instrument like a kind of concerto for orchestra. This was followed by a fiery and exciting performence of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony. After the rehearsal I met with Maria Kucerova in her palatial office and found that despite Brno’s modest size, her orchestra permanently employed 116 musicians, had a busy year-round program of concerts, national touring, education in schools and colleges and a large and growing audience. So much so that a large 1500 seat concert hall with every modern facility was about to be built on a large site in the middle of the town.
Our final operatic performance in Brno on 309 November was arguably the finest. It was a much praised theatrical dramatisation of Janacek’s song cycle The Diary of One who Disappeared, presented by the Belgian ensemble Muziektheater Transparant, arranged by Annelies Van Parys and directed by Ivo van Hove. The series of 22 short songs tells the story of a young man who falls in love with a gipsy girl and runs away with her, all the time reflecting on the significance of what he has done. The piece was inspired by Janacek’s obsessive love for Kamila Stosslova. The treatment directed by the remarkable Dutch opera director Ivo van Hove sets it in a composer or writer’s studio with the artist and his girlfriend arguing about the implications of the songs/poems. The music and the setting was haunting and powerful.
On Saturday 1 December we returned to Vienna airport where Andrew and Vickie Neill and our manager Claudia left us, all to return home. At the same time we were joined by my wife Sally for our group flight to Berlin. Hardly were we installed at the Melia Hotel in Friedrichstrasse, than we were out again to the opera, this time to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, resplendent after eight years of painstaking restoration. The gorgeous foyers and the brilliant auditorium, all in white, cream and scarlet are dazzling. But this was just the precurser to a sensational evening of opera. We saw Monteverdi’s Coronation of Poppea in a marvellous production directed by Eva-Maria Höckmayr with Diego Fasolis directing the Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin. Basically it was a simple production on a steeply sloping stage with a shimmering golden patterned curtain at the back of the stage where the characters gathered in elaborate poses when not required for the scene and watched the real action taking place downstage. The cruel and cynical drama of Nerone and his lover Poppea, his abandoned wife Ottavia and the murder of the philosopher Seneca is told with great insight and laser-like characterisation from a fantastic cast. Especially outstanding was Roberta Mameli as Poppea. To think this riveting opera was composed nearly 400 years ago! The Akademie fur Alte Musik played Monteverdi’s amazing music divinely. I found the whole thing breathtaking, just about the best production of an opera I’ve seen.
We had arrived in Berlin in the middle of the Staatsoper’s Barockdays Festival and were treated to the very best visiting ensembles and performances. Ironically it coincided with the visit to Australia of its house orchestra, the fabled Staatskapelle Berlin and its music director for life, Daniel Barenboim. In its place we had the Akademie fur Alte Musik (for Poppea), Jordi Savall’s Concert des Nations, Christophe Rousset’s Les Talens Lyrique and maybe the best of all baroque ensembles, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Not bad substitutes!
On the Sunday 2 December, we attended no fewer than three performances. Rather an overload perhaps, but with such riches on offer in this premier musical city, it was impossible to resist. In the morning, we went to the new Pierrre Boulez Saal, a beautiful egg-shaped 600 seat hall designed by Frank Gehry and the new home for Barenboim’s East West Divan Orchestra and for the music school he has set up with Edward Said. The concert was by Jordi Savall and his Capella Reial and Concert de Nations presenting madrigals from Monteverdi’s 8th Book. The combination of Savall, his wonderful singers and musicians and Monteverdi’s madrigals was irresistible. In particular the performance of the long scena La Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda with their fabulous tenor singing the narrative with eye-riveting intensity was nothing short of overwhelming.
We had pre-arranged a lunch at a nearby restaurant as the afternoon concert by Les Talens Lyrique was a street away at the newly restored Apollo Saal in the Staatsoper, a glittering Baroque marvel. We heard French baroque cantatas by Rameau and his contemporaries Leclair and Monteclair given by a small ensemble and a soprano directed from the harpsichord by Christophe Rousset. It was virtuosic small scale pastoral stuff, rather pale and wan after the gutsiness of Monteverdi.
We caught taxis across town immediately after the performance from the Staatsoper to the Deutsche Oper, the second of Berlin’s three main opera houses for a 6 pm performance (no time for dinner) of Giordano’s classic verismo opera Andrea Chenier. The production was appropriately colourful and dramatic with both the lead tenor and baritone outstanding in their roles. Marie Jose Siri as the heroine Madeleine was also excellent. What a day we had! Everyone was exhausted and that night fell into bed.
There were no performances the next day so it was a chance for everyone to go to their favourite museum or simply relax.
On 4 December we were back at Deutsche Oper for a performance of Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann. This is Offenbach’s only real opera (besides about 100 operettas), and an opera I love with affectionate memories of Opera Australia’s terrific production of the 70s and 80s. This famous production by Laurent Pelly opened the new opera house in Lyon back in 2005 and has been seen and admired in many places. It features elaborate sets that constantly shift and create new perspectives, but the whole production is suffused in a pale greenish purple haze which I found depressing and antipathetic to the macabre romance of ETA Hoffmann’s story. It was well performed but I hankered after Joan Sutherland, Ray Myers , Graeme Ewer and Henri Wilden in Sydney.
Our penultimate day of the tour took us to Berlin’s superb concert hall the Philharmonie, built in 1963 in what was then No Man’s Land between the East and West sectors of Berlin. its assymetric seating layout with the stage almost in the middle was years ahead of its time and its excellent acoustics have proved its worth. The concert was sensational; we had Teodor Currentzis’ orchestra he calls MusicAeterna which hails from Perm, an industrial city in Siberia where its day job is to play for the Perm Opera and Ballet. Currenzis is a tall charismatic Greek who appears on the stage in a kind of caftan and has been drilling his musicians day and night for years so that they now are the most ‘in demand’ musical product in the world today. As a result, for us this program of Mahler songs and the 4th Symphony was eagerly anticipated. The Knaben Wunderhorn songs were gracefully sung with soft and subtle accompaniment from the orchestra. After the interval, the virtuosity of the orchestra and the extreme variations in dynamics from the quietest pianissimo were immediately apparent. It was a supremely asssured performance of great beauty with superb orchestral playing. It was greeted with a standing ovation with Currentzis and all members of the orchestra giving full simultaneous 90 degree bows. Currentzis gave a little speech and introduced a young composer whose new piece lasting nearly 15 minutes was given an electrifying performance that ultimately had the audience rising to their feet and shouting their excitement in the aisles.
A talk in the hotel in Berlin
The final performance on 6 December was in prospect, the biggest of them all. Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie in a new production for Staatsoper Berlin’s BarockDays Festival with the famed Freiburg Baroque Orchestra under Simon Rattle and a starry cast. The direction and lighting was done by leading designer Olafur Eliasson. Rattle said in the notes he had always wanted to work with him. It turned out to be a disaster from a visual point of view. The stage was bare and flat throughout, all scenic elements being created through lighting, much of it by laser and much of that directly focused, by accident or design, into the eyes of the audience. The costumes had no sense of any period, their design often being as a vehicle for the lighting. The singing was good, the orchestra gorgeous, but the distraction and irritation caused by the visuals so great that the performance was to a considerable degree ruined. Indeed one of our group became ill through the effects of the lighting and had to leave at the interval. A classic case of too many expert cooks spoiling the broth. I hazard a guess that the fame of Rattle, Eliasson and the choreographer Aletta Collins was so great, that neither the intendant nor any of these artists were prepared to make the basic call that the stage design and lighting were awful and must be changed.
(Belatedly) May 2019
The group (Most of these photos were taken by Sarah Labade!)
EASTER FESTIVAL JOURNEY IN EUROPE 2018
Above: Curtain Call for Parsifal at Baden Baden Festspielhaus
Sally and I have just returned to Sydney after our latest music tour, our 10th, that covered fascinating Strasbourg, the superb Easter Festivals in Baden Baden and Aix-en-Provence, and finally Barcelona. Six of us enjoyed a non-musical tour extension to Andalusia, to Seville, Cordoba and Granada, that in some ways, was the biggest eye-opener of all. Every tour gives us all more life-experience, mostly positive, a few things we would like to forget but need to learn from, and much that is really exciting and memorable. This was a big tour with a total of 21 people including our tireless manager Claudia, but it remained a really friendly, intimate group and everyone seemed to have a wonderful time. I think this was partly due to choosing relatively small-scale destinations, away from the ‘big city’ and high tourist places, though Barcelona is certainly a big city and a tourist mecca. What were the forgettable downsides? Well, the weather most of the time was unseasonably chilly and damp, but nobody complained. After all, early spring in Europe is hardly like being on Bondi beach in summer. You want to forget the ghastly experience of getting on and off the TGV in Baden Baden and Aix with a party of 20 people and over 40 pieces of luggage through one door in a minute and a half flat, but unfortunately it was unforgettable, especially the sight of Claudia hurling 20 kg suitcases on to the train like passing Rugby footballs. Never again, we agreed! And the really special moments? For me it was all memorable but what stood out were:
the totally unexpected performance of Bach’s Matthew Passion in Strasbourg by Benoit Haller’s wonderful La Chapelle Rhénane (we saw a leaflet about it a few hours before the performance)
Parsifal in Baden Baden on Good Friday with Simon Rattle directing the Berlin Philharmonic
the fabulous soprano Sandrine Piau in Mozart’s Great C minor Mass
Flautist Emmanuel Pahud playing Debussy’s Syrinx on a darkened stage in Aix
the hilarity and bonhomie of the whole group at the farewell dinner in Barcelona
Strasbourg has been cold and mostly wet, but in no way has dampened general enthusiasm for this beautiful and compact city, essentially on an island surrounded by the river and canals. Our hotel Cour de Corbeau is an elegant and ingenious remodelling of about 20 half timbered houses and commercial buildings, all huddled together for hundreds of years and now comprising a beautifully decorated and comfortable complex. Wet weather has compromised our strolling in the city, but the hotel’s comfort has compensated. Our excellent city guide took us more indoors than expected (because of the weather) and the remarkable cathedral in particular, and helped us better understand the complexity of this lovely Franco German city.
Departure day to Strasbourg from Paris. Bus to Gare l’Est, fast speeding TGV to Strasbourg and in less than 3 hours we are sipping tea in the Cour de Corbeau, a 16c medieval building with 21c amenities. A couple more hours and we are now sipping Crement Rosè and eating dinner together as we welcome all of us to the start of Easter Festival tour. 18 people from all backgrounds and places: Qld, ACT, London, NZ, and of course Sydney and Austria. Bravo Antony for once again making this all happen. Tuesday 27 March. Chilly, brisk, crisp morning to explore the city with a local guide The oldest cathedral in Europe taking 4 centuries to build with 320 steps to the roof (which I climbed!) we arrived in time to see the astronomical clock change to demonstrate the passing of time as the figure passes death. Incredible. We finished the tour at Eglise Saint Thomas with an organ built by Silbermann and played by Mozart and Albert Schweitzer in this fine Lutheran church.
Only one performance was scheduled for our three day stay, the Japanese composer Mayazumi’s opera The Golden Pavilion, based on famous novelist Mishima’s 1956 novel about the true story of a disturbed novice monk’s arson of the ancient Kinkaku-ji temple in Kyoto. Presented in the relatively intimate traditional theatre of the Opéra National du Rhin, it was a straightforward production, with simple staging and using lighting to highlight the complexity of the protagonist’s delusional obsessions. Musically stark and uncompromising and much of it composed with twelve tone techniques, the dramatic argument was fairly clear despite the use of two singers to demonstrate (presumably) the contrasting aspects of the protagonist’s personality. Despite the significance of the extraordinary events it dealt with and the serious and high quality performance, I found it ultimately unsatisfying and hard to enjoy. Many of our group disagreed and found it very moving.
For me the most outstanding experience in Strasbourg was the fortuitous opportunity of a performance of JS Bach’s Matthew Passion. On our third morning Sally saw a leaflet advertising the performance that night, our last in Strasbourg, so we quickly put it around amongst the group and most agreed to come. We bought tickets and arrived early as seats were not reserved and found excellent seats in the very large church. La Chapelle Rhénane is one of Europe’s leading baroque choral and orchestral ensembles, so it was a special thrill to stumble on this performance, that turned out to be as good as you could hope for and featured an especially eloquent Evangelist in Daniel Schreiber and the director Benoit Haller’s wife Salome Haller as alto. It was a very moving performance and as we donned our raincoats and umbrellas leaving the church and headed for a cold wet two kilometre walk back to the hotel, it seemed suitably spartan and spiritually drenching.
I have never been to Baden Baden before and had reservations about a place that was (and pretty well remains) Europe’s leading spa town where all the faded royals and aristocrats of European lineage take the waters, gamble away their dwindling fortunes and stroll through the parks and gardens. However in planning this tour, the opportunity of hearing the Berlin Philharmonic every night (as resident band), was too hard to ignore. As it happens, the town is charming and unpretentious and has gorgeous gardens just beginning to take colour in early spring. Despite the famous Easter Festival and the residency of their great visitor the Berlin Phil and Sir Simon Rattle in his last stint as Musical Director, the town is mercifully free of tourist hordes and to my amazement, there were many empty seats for the concerts in their splendid Festspielhaus. The Festspielhaus has a large modern dual purpose auditorium for concerts and opera seating some 2,500. Very plain and functional in its internal appearance, it has excellent acoustics and is built around an ingenious conversion and addition to the old railway station. We were in Baden Baden four nights and each night we went to a performance of the great orchestra, so cumulatively it was an extraordinary experience. In all its formats the refinement of its playing was outstanding
Sally says: The Lichtenthaler Allee started life as a narrow medieval track (where an assassination was attempted on Kaiser Wilhelm) and is nowadays a world famous boulevard to walk, cycle or stroll. It features magnificent mature trees about to blossom, ornate bridges over the River Oos, majestic hotels, bathhouses and elegant mansions. We walked to its end and back to enjoy soup in the Cistercian abbey. Our first performance in Baden Baden gave us several of the section principals of the Berlin Philharmonic added to the brilliant young players of the German Youth Orchestra under Simon Rattle. Each year the Philharmonic players tutor the cream of young German musicians selected to come to the Festival. After a terrific performance of Bartok’s early ballet suite The Wooden Prince, two of the young musicians presented Simon Rattle with a gift and between them made a speech of thanks as it was his last time he conducted the orchestra in this capacity. The Festspielhaus organisation has a major commitment to youth music experience and education funded by the creme de la creme of the German corporate sector, and Rattle has been a prime mover of this over the last 20 years.
Parsifal Curtain Call in Baden Baden
The big number both for the Festival (and for our tour) took place the next night (Good Friday) with a new production of Wagner’s Parsifal. Directed by Dieter Dorn, an older generation ex East German opera and theatre director now in charge of the leading theatre company in Munich, and of course conducted by Simon Rattle, it was played, cast and sung with the utmost refinement. The Gurnemanz of Franz Josef Selig, Amfortas with Gerald Finley and Kundry of Ruxandra Donose were all ideal in their parts; only Stephen Gould’s Parsifal could be bettered, though he sang well, but his awkward large frame and clumsy movement, like a tail wagging St Bernard, made him anything but a golden haired young hero. Many of us didn’t much like the production with the settings consisting entirely of grey pyramidal shapes being pushed around on wheels to form different abstract scenic locations. While I thought there was too much unnecessary pushing around, I felt they worked quite well to form symbolically suitable settings for what are after all very unspecific locations for the slow, unfolding story. The very naturalistic treatment of the individual members of the chorus as real people caught up in the drama was very effective and contrasted with most modern productions where they stand in rows or process in line and their only function is to occupy part of the stage and sing. All told, it was an absorbing and beautiful performance, undistracted by egotistical production values. However, now having seen many productions of Parsifal, I have to admit it unfolds at glacial pace, and for all its wrapt beauty, in this 21st century time-constrained age, it could do with some extensive cuts, especially in the endless Klingsor/ Kundry duet in the 2nd act.
The morning after Parsifal, Sarah, Robin and I soaked naked in the thermal mineral waters of the Friedrichsbad, an elegant bathing complex that originally catered to European aristocracy. We followed a 17-step bathing ritual that included a sequence of hot air baths, steam rooms, showers, pools, and optional massage. We shared a slightly awkward but fabulous experience! We began with a hot shower with huge shower heads to get started. This step is meant to get us clean and also adjusted us to being naked with strangers. After the shower, we took out towel and plastic slippers to a warm-air bath, lying on a towel on the wooden lounge chair. It was so peaceful and I loved the beautiful flower and bird tiles on the wall. Next was a really hot air room with more wooden lounge chairs but I had a hard time staying in this room for more than a minute. Then back to the same showers before a Soap and Brush massage. Lovely! Next we have thermal steam baths. We sit on a little napkin on the marble and enjoy the steam, take another shower before moving to the pools. They began warm and become increasingly cooler – both thermal and whirlpool. The most beautiful and majestic pool was the un-segregated one which we skipped – but it has the best view with a wonderful dome. It’s the area of the spa when we could best imagine the majesty of one of the grandest bathing houses in Europe. Next was a series of cold and very cold pools – only Robin braved the coldest. The final two rooms are for pure relaxation. In the first, you are quietly guided by an attendant into a dark room filled with raised beds covered in clean sheets and blankets. You are then each individually wrapped into a warm, soft cocoon to relax and sleep. It reminded me a bit of the sleeping pods on the Alien movie! After we broke out of our warm little cocoons, we were then directed to he final Reading room. This is a sunny room with chaise lounges, big warm towels, magazines, and warm tea. Looking back this was such a wonderful experience and it was definitely a highlight of time spent in Baden-Baden. PS. To my great surprise, the next day Antony went off through the same ritual at the Friedrichsbad – on the mixed gender day!
Our next concert offered Simon Rattle a rest day and the orchestra was conducted by another great maestro, Ivan Fischer, founder and artistic director of the superb Budapest Festival Orchestra, and a regular with the Berlin Philharmonic. Young Norwegian violin virtuoso Vilda Frang, tall, blonde and elegantly dressed in ankle length gold, tossed off Bartok’s First Violin Concerto with unruffled poise. An early work, not even published in his lifetime, in its contrasted two movements, it is said to portray his early unrequited love Stefi Geyer, also a violinist, in the dreamy opening movement and his own turbulent self in the second. The second half of the concert was devoted to Mendelssohn’s delectable Overture and Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the first and arguably the finest musical representation of Shakespeare’s great comedy. Unusually, we were given the full choral version with soloists of the Incidental Music. The delicacy of the Berlin Philharmonic’s playing had to be heard to be believed.
In a perfect conclusion to our musical offering in Baden Baden, Rattle returned to his orchestra with an intriguing but rarely played work, Bernstein’s The Age of Anxiety, a piano concerto in all but name, based on a WH Auden narrative poem about four strangers meeting in a New York at the end of WW II and imagining a new and different post war world. The soloist, the great Polish virtuoso, Krystian Zimerman, had been a friend of Bernstein and has been a champion of the piece during his career. It is a chameleon-like piece going through a complex variety of moods and styles, typical of Bernstein’s eclecticism, but always full of his passion for life and experience. It requires a huge orchestra with large solo parts for many of the musicians and the demands for the pianist are huge, requiring poetic pianissimi through popular song, jazz and complex counterpoint. it was a thrilling performance and our group loved it. The concert ended with a performance of Beethoven’s Eroica symphony that was an eye-opener showing what an amazing experience it can be with a great orchestra taking on one of classical music’s masterpieces. Rattle fined down the orchestra to early 19th century forces of fewer than 50 players. Tempi were brisk and the sound was lean but with perfect intonation and the most delicate sound in soft passages but precise and forceful where the music required it. The experience was not unlike the way Richard Tognetti directs Beethoven symphonies with the ACO with the added refinement of the Berliners and Rattle’s great skill in balancing each section so that no subtlety of expression is lost.
Sally says: Easter Sunday 1 April
To worship at a beautiful Lutheran church in Baden-Baden was so special. I thought our bath experience was a highlight but the Eucharist celebrated in the German language was even better. Hearing “Come all you people” from the Messiah the sound of “Panis Angelicus” sung from the height of the organ loft and performed by members of the Berlin Philharmonic chorus was beyond anything I had imagined. Walking through the suburban streets of Baden Baden early on Easter morning in the very crisp cold weather having shared the common cup and then sharing coffee and biscuits with parishioners after the service was glorious.
Travelling from Baden Baden to Aix on the TGV was quite an experience, but not one we would want to repeat. We remain grateful for everyone in the party being so helpful in getting themselves and the luggage on and off the train in breakneck speed during such short stops. But the lesson was well learnt that we should never again board or exit a train with such a large group, unless at the terminus of the route. In particular we are grateful to Chris Smith and Claudia for their efficient organisation. We didn’t arrive at our hotel in Aix until late and sat down for our second group dinner of the tour barely a few minutes before 11. The Aquabella hotel had everything prepared and we had a long table in the dining room entirely to ourselves. A good thing too, as there were 20 ravenous people and their hubbub would have terrified other diners silly enough to be eating at another table.
For Sally and me it was a thrill to be in Aix again; such a beautiful small city with the stone of its old buildings glowing pinkish yellow in the sun. After a guided stroll around the city in the morning, our first concert took place at the brand new Darius Milhaud conservatory hall with a superb recital by the great flautist Emmanuel Pahud (having a day off from his regular job at the Berlin Philharmonic) with the Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili. The program included Romantic chamber music pieces by Schumann and Schubert the former arranged for flute and piano, though originally composed for Clarinet. The Schumann Fantasiestueke is in three little movements and was a wonderful piece for Pahud to display his gorgeous rich tone and breath control. The Schubert Variations on the theme of the song Withered Flowers from his Maid of the Mill song cycle was less successful, even though written specifically for the flute this time. The song is sad and mournful but in this piece, after the statement of the melody, it goes through a long sequence of rather cheap and cheerful variations mostly to show off the cleverness of the flautist, spoiling the effect of the original song. After the interval, Pahud really got into his stride with a superbly atmospheric performance of Debussy’s L’apres midi d’un faune, a land mark piece of musical impressionism, usually for orchestra. Then the stage darkened and invisably he played Debussy’s remarkable three minute solo flute piece Syrinx, a quiet, abstract piece of no specific tonality that at the time of composition, was a revelation of flute practice. The effect of these ethereal sounds coming out of the darkened hall was mesmerising. The biggest piece of the program was Franck’s Violin and Piano Sonata, one of the supreme works of the genre, arranged for flute and piano. It was a tour de force and resulted in sustained applause and cheers from the audience.
Our days in Aix have been so enjoyable despite still surprisingly chilly weather. The early Easter this year has the advantage of fewer tourists and we now have glimpses of real warmth emerging in the Provencal deep azure sky. We organised a coach to the Luberon, a mountainous region north of Aix, the real heart of Provence and the location of many picturesque villages. We spent time in three villages, all of which are listed as Plus Beaux Villages de France (Rousillon, Lourmarin and Ansouis). They gave us a taste of the charm of ancient Provence, putting us in touch with a 2000 year old Roman bridge, origins of the Marquis de Sade, lavender fields, the first white asparagus of the season in the foodstalls, and colourful old houses and monuments. All the villages we visited are on the top of hills overlooking valleys and both cultivated and wild fields. The deep red ochre of the hillsides and cliffs of Rousillon viewed from the little terraces at the top of the town were especially spectacular.
Below: Flowers in Ansouis, Luberon village
First white asparagus in Roussillon.
Our next concert in Aix was at the Grande Théatre de Provence, a splendid newish hall with good acoustics, with an auditorium similar in style and size to the Llewellyn Hall in Canberra, but also apparently convertible for opera performance, where the opera is performed during the Opera Festival in July each year. We heard the much acclaimed French conductor Laurence Equilbey, a specialist in Classical repertoire of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, who has her own Insula Orchestra and Accentus Choir, performing the “Great” C minor Mass of Mozart, arguably his most profound and substantial choral work, though it was never completed. It was a serious and noble performance, no doubt suitable for Easter, but rather gloomy, and, dare I say, a little dreary for a Festival audience. For me it was enlivened by the sensational singing of French soprano Sandrine Piau, who in a slinky sparkling silver dress, looked as good as she sounded. Sally and I also were struck by the extraordinary hair of the timpanist who looked like he had a large yellow tea cosy plonked on his head.
We had a rendezvous with our Swedish friends Lars Brolin and Barbro in the nearby village St Martin that after so many years is a dream come true. For more than 30 years we’ve heard about the house in Provence that Lars built more or less by hand and now finally we were to see it! We caught a bus, were met by Barbro and given a wonderful lunch in the sunny courtyard with boeuf bourguignon, washed rind cheeses, almond tarte, and a delicious red gignondas rhone wine. To meet Ida, a loving wife and mother of two little girls when last seen as a 9 year old was simply marvellous. Thank you Lars and Barbro.
A visit to Mont Saint Victoire
Once again we return after some years to this spectacular region near to Aix, a favourite place where Cezanne frequently painted (and where he ultimately died) to climb around Mont St Victoire, this time bringing with us the more athletic members of our group. A wonderful day, warm and sunny, but Antony underestimated its length and the extent of the climb. He told us afterwards that on our earlier visit, we had walked in the other direction which was much less steep. So it turned out to be quite exhausting for some of us. However, in the end we all made it through safely and we really did have a magnificent Provencal experience with the deep blue of the sky of blue and fabulous views of the wild maquis bushland free of virtually of any other people.
Our final two concerts in Aix were greatly contrasted. At the tiny theatre Jeu de Paumes, we had an intimate recital of mostly French songs by young French mezzo Catherine Trottmann, still in her mid-20s and looking fabulous in a form fitting red dress. On the last night we returned to the Grand Theatre de Provence for an altogether larger-scale all-Brahms concert with Estonian conductor Paavo Jarvi conducting his Bremen Kammerphilharmonie. The Brahms was a thrilling concert with a big dramatic performance of the First symphony concluding the concert. The loud banging of the timpani in the introduction to the first movement seemed musically totally wrong, but there was no denying the power of the whole performance. In the first half we heard yet another brilliant young female musician, in this case 29 year old German violinist, Veronika Eberle, a true virtuoso, playing the Brahms Violin Concerto with enormous authority and not an ounce of ego. Despite Eberle’s playing, I found the song recital at the Jeu de Paumes a more intriguing concert. Though very young, Trottmann is an accomplished artist with an ability to merge her singing with her appearance and personality and offer a total performance. She chose a diverse and challenging program of mostly early 20th century song that happens to be the very best of French song. Her choices of Ravel and Faure and even the Parisian Venezuelan Reynaldo Hahn require experience and sophistication to bring them off. Many of the songs are party pieces for divas like Renee Fleming and Joyce Di Donato and all credit to Ms Trottmann for not holding back. While she will sing this repertoire with more oomph and panache in ten years time, it was a lovely recital and proved she is a singer to watch.
On Saturday 7 April we took a coach all the way south west along the French coast to Barcelona. it took most of the day but was quite relaxing and gave us plenty of time to check in at the Hotel Barcelo Raval and find something to eat for dinner. The hotel is new and very different from what we are used to. A multi-level cylinder covered in grey metal shutters, and emitting a blueish glow, it looks more like a space shuttle preparing to take off than a hotel. The ground floor has all the public facilities, like dining, reception, bar and lounge in an open area. The roof gives fabulous views of the city through 180 degrees, and the rooms, shaped like wedges, are set up unlike anything you have experienced in a hotel before. I liked it, but some found it disconcerting and at least one remarked that they would never set foot in it again.
On the Sunday morning we had an early 11 am concert in the relatively new performing arts centre, L’Auditori, a large plain and functional looking multi purpose building, and the home of the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra. The concert was part of a series of concerts for emerging soloists and the demanding program featured two concertos, Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto no 1 with a young British cellist and Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 1 wirh a young French pianist, plus Respighi’s The Fountains of Rome. The cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, was only 19 but gave a terrific performance. The Prokofiev suffered greatly from a terribly muddy acoustic in the hall and was virtually inaudible. Such an inadequate acoustic in such an expensive new complex is disgraceful.
It was a big day for us as most of us attended a concert performance of Verdi’s early opera Attila at the great opera house Gran Teatre del Liceu. In advance I wondered whether a concert performance of a little known opera with a cast of sub-international names was worth attending. How wrong I was! It turned out to be one of the highlights of the tour. We had splendid seats in the stalls and the soloists were lined up across the front of the stage with the orchestra on stage behind them and the chorus at the back. The performance was sensational, due in part to our close proximity to the singers, but also because all had terrific big voices, and freed from dealing with stagecraft and movements, could stand and belt it out. The Attila, in particular, Russian bass Ildar Abdrazakov had a fantastic stentorian voice, well matched by Italian dramatic soprano Anna Pirozzi, who marched on stage early in the piece in a most unflattering floral gown, opened her mouth and nearly blew us out of our seats by the sheer volume and brilliance of her sound. In the interval we repaired to the grandest and most elaborate gold decorated lounge for drinks, enormous and no doubt created at the height of early 20th century grandeur. After the opera we walked out along La Rambla stunned by the performance, hurrying back to our nearby hotel in the rain!
Barcelona is a truly fabulous city, and even though much of it appears down at heel and in need of some paint, the great squares, gardens and boulevards speak of a city of power and elegance. During our guided city walk, some of us talked to the guide about the continuing independence crisis for Catalonia. It seems to have become a most unsatisfactory deadlock with the central government in Madrid refusing to compromise and many of the leaders of the rebel Catalonian government either in prison or stuck abroad and unable to return. Our guide told us the intransigence of both sides is starting to irritate the people, most of whom want a settlement of some sort, though this seems to be a long way off. Two weeks after our tour we spent a few days in Basque country in Bilbao and San Sebastian (now called Donostia – the Basque name for the city). At the other end of the Pyrenees, the Basques have much more sensibly given up their previously lethal demands for independence and have settled for a swathe of special advantages from Madrid. The obvious prosperity of the Basque country seems to show pretty clearly the folly of Catalonian independence demands.
Our visit to Sagrada Familia, the great church and masterpiece of Antonio Gaudi, was overwhelming. Even 80 years after it was started, it is still uncompleted, though modern building technology will allow Gaudi’s almost impossible ideas to be realised and completed, hopefully by 2026. I found walking into it and being greeted by the riot of colour from its stained glass windows an extraordinary and very emotional experience. Not only the colours from the windows’ mostly abstract designs, but the profusion of asymmetric columns, arches, chapels, and vaults gives the interior a look of a gigantic spiritual garden full of enormous exotic plants and flowers. The exterior is just as fantastically extravagant and the profusion of slender curving towers, now surrounded by thin yellow cranes poking high in the sky gives a bizarre extra terrestrial look. I watched one of the cranes lifting a rosette for one of the towers being lifted across the church into the sky seemingly miles above the earth.
Later we were taken to Parc Guell in the hills on the outskirts of the city, a huge public park completely designed by Gaudi and replete with his most fantastic shapes, colours and designs for a public place to be enjoyed by everyone. The overall impression is that you have landed up in another world of huge multi-coloured magic mushrooms. Gaudi’s house is on the edge of the park and it is wonderful to see the adoration by everyone who sees it of this strange, miraculous reclusive artist.
In the evening we enjoyed our last tour performance. Fittingly, it took place at the fabulous Catalonian art nouveau extravaganza of a concert hall Palau de la Musica, completing a day of amazing visual, spatial experiences. We crowded in to the Palau de la Musica finding it relatively small compared to most symphonic halls, but the great art nouveau glass ceiling and the incredible detail of the high relief decoration on the walls, the ceiling, in the foyers, on the stairs and in every nook and cranny were inexhaustible. I found that an almost life-size coloured plaster horse a metre above my seat hanging from the ceiling.
The performance by the top orchestra from Florence, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy of the Beethoven 7th and Tchaikovsky 4th symphonies was almost secondary to the splendour of the venue. However we all loved both the place and the performance and it was a real high note to end the music of the tour, especially the sight and sound of the cymbals player accidentally dropping his cymbal on the floor. Personally, I enjoyed the Beethoven more than I did Rattle’s performance of the Eroica in Baden Baden with the Berlin Philharmonic. Ashkenzy prefers a more traditional 20th century style of playing Beethoven with steady tempi and more generous phrasing, rather than the swift and clipped style that Rattle gave us and is so prevalent today.
Our last day saw us enjoying the Miro and Picasso museums in Barcelona. The Picasso is devoted largely to his early works and obviously defers to the major museum for the great artist in Madrid. A couple of weeks later Sally and I went to his museum in Paris which was showing a remarkable special exhibition of the origins and effects of the famous Guernica painting installed in Madrid. The Paris exhibition was fascinating in giving a detailed analysis of the profusion of cultural and personal references in Guernica and how they developed in the many stages and versions of the painting before he settled on the finished version. For someone like me who had always thought it was a painting done in the white heat of outrage over the Spanish civil war, it was a revelation to learn how much thought he had put into it over a long period. Somehow it had become an amalgam of the deep personal and cultural influences of his life that had been gathered together to focus on the political cruelties of that age.
We reached the Miro museum in the hills on the edge of Barcelona by funicular. A beautifully designed gallery, largely defined by his requirements, it is an eloquent exposition of the great breadth of his artistic passions.
We were then scheduled to walk up to Montjuic Park overlooking the whole of the city but most of us decided to give it a miss and save ourselves for the farewell dinner. This took place in the restaurant across the street form the Barcelo Raval hotel. Sally decided to mix everyone up by putting place names on the table for everyone, and when we arrived the restaurant had set up a private room in most elegant fashion. I have to say we have hosted many tour farewell dinners before, but without doubt this was easily the best. The place looked lovely, the food was beautifully presented, tasty and unusual, and the wine flowed without stinting. The conviviality amongst the group was infectious and the noise level rose throughout the evening until it only be described as a din.
On the morning of 11 April we all departed from Barcelona, six of us to take the optional four day tour extension to Andalusia, while our tour manager Claudia and the rest of the party returned home or took off to other places around Europe. The six Andalusian enthusiasts flew to Seville and settled in a comfortable and very Spanish looking hotel called Fernando III, smack in the middle of the old town of Seville. While the tour’s scheduled musical performances finished in Barcelona, I was keen to experience an evening of flamenco seeing Seville is a centre of this art form. We found a flamenco lounge in a narrow old street not far from the hotel and enjoyed what seemed to be a very professional and authentic performance. It was very informal and seemed to be led by a pudgy middle aged man who played guitar and sang. Three other younger singing guitarists alternated with him both as soloists and in ensemble. They all sang with an unusual edgy guttural sound that is clearly what is required. They accompanied three female and one male dancers, who danced mostly as solos, but occasionally danced together. Their colourful traditional costumes and carefully choreographed movements were delightful. The whole thing was very relaxed with the artists laughing and chatting to each other between numbers, and sitting in the audience when not performing. No food was served but we were all given a drink before the performance and could order more if we wanted. Altogether a terrific evening.
The next day was cold and wet, not what we expected of Andalusia, and we were not pleased that we had to walk half way across the city in the rain to meet our guide Teresa, only for her to take us most of the way back to start the visit to the Real Alcazar and the Cathedral. The cathedral is immense, the largest Gothic cathedral in the world, surpassed in size only by St Peter’s in Rome and St Paul’s in London. It is gloomy (maybe because it was a wet day) but its sheer size gives it a dark magnificence, like a half lit Rembrandt painting. The main chapel (Capilla Mayor) is extraordinary with the retable above and around the high altar of astonishing size and golden detail, though through the screen before it and in the semi-darkness, the detail of the 45 separate high relief biblical scenes, was not easy to make out. However discreet search lights wash over the whole area and help the viewer to see more detail of the exquisite carvings. From outside, the Cathedral is so large it looks more like a city in itself. Its profusion of Gothic towers and decoration is overlooked by the Giralda Tower, the one remaining element of the Moorish mosque that was built in the 11th century. Seville was recaptured by Ferdinand III in 1248 and over the next two centuries this mighty cathedral was built. The guide then took us to the Real (Royal) Alcazar, the palace built around and replacing the Moorish palace. When Ferdinand III captured Seville in 1248, he and his notable successor Pedro I set out to rebuild the palace and what now stands of the Alcazar is their work and is regarded as the finest example of Mudejar architecture. The whole place takes a huge entire block in the middle of the city and is full of splendid buildings and gardens. Because of the rain we spent most of the visit in the interior which features the typical horse shoe arches with their incredibly slender pillars and elaborate Moorish geometric decorations on the walls. Most of the walls, especially in the lower sections are covered in patterned ceramic tiles of many colours.
We caught a mini-bus the following morning to Cordoba to see the great mosque Mezquita and then on to Granada; a long day but it proved to be well worth it. Cordoba is 200 kilometres north east of Seville on the banks of the huge Guadalquivir river.
The view of the massive Mezquita mosque from the southern side of the river across the ancient Roman bridge is a marvellous sight. The Mezquita is the largest mosque in the world built by the caliph Abd ar-Rahman III in the 9th and 10th centuries. From outside, a huge rectangular sandstone fortress on the north bank of the river, its appearance gives no sense of the phenomenal interior. It consists of no less than 18 parallel naves separated by endless rows of magnificent double semi-circular arches supported between two columns (one arch on top of the other). All the arches feature pink and cream or white zig zag patterns. The sheer spectacle and grandeur of these massive spaces with the hundreds of arches in rows has to be seen to be believed.
In the middle of the mosque is another incredible sight. After Cordoba fell to the Christians in the 13th century, three centuries later a complete Christian cathedral in Gothic style was built in the middle of the Mezquita by demolishing a central section of the interior Muslim arches. The cathedral itself is a splendid medieval church of great size and presence. What an amazing place the Mezquita is!
After we crossed the Roman bridge over the Guadalquivir, we made no further attempt to explore Cordoba, but took the mini-bus on to Granada. Approaching Granada, with its hills framing it, I thought I could identify the long anticipated Alhambra nestling long, flat and reddish grey in the hills above the city. As we got closer, I saw I was right. We arrived in the centre of the city to the Melia hotel, looking smart and elegant and checked in. In actuality it wasn’t as good as the foyer promised and Sally had to do a number on the elderly desk manager when she discovered our room was not to her liking, but then I have become used to this charade. We ate at a very traditional Andalusian restaurant that night that had plaques on the wall about the famous artists and politicians who had eaten there including Lorca and Picasso.
The Alhambra was the last big experience of our tour and it was well worth the wait. Claudia had booked us to start late to avoid the crowds, an excellent idea and the six of us took two taxis the quite short distance up the hills behind the city to the entrance, arriving at about 4.30. We met our very knowledgeable guide, who explained the background to the complex as we wandered through the beautiful gardens at the top of the site with superb views down over the city and along the ridge towards the main palace. The gardens feature long cultivated walk ways lined with cypress pines flanking long shallow pools with lush ornamented flower gardens alongside.You enter and exit open and closed pleasure pavilions, lined with elaborate geometric patterns on the walls, many by means of ceramic wall tiles. One exits on to a 50 metre long waterway like an ancient long slender infinity pool, except the whole enclosure is bounded at each end with intricately decorated walls with slender arches. Then we move into a series of ever finer and more spectacular halls with colourful geometric wall and floor patterns and delicate arches. One of the loveliest features is the way you come across intimate vistas from windows, secluded balconies, or simply slits in the walls. Another special charm is the fact it is located high in the hills over the plain and the city, and every aspect has beautiful views. No wonder the Alhambra is one of the most beloved and visited cultural sites in the world. Our visit lasted three hours but not a minute was wasted. It was the perfect way to finish our tour. The next morning we went our various ways, Sally and I to Lisbon for a short Portuguese holiday, our first visit to the country.
In Seville, Teresa our guide took us to the Cathedral of Santa Maria – ‘so exquisite no other would compare’ per a 1401 quote. I have to say that despite seeing magnificent Notre Dame, the English, European and even the Washington Cathedral and only 2 days ago Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia in Barcelona – this cathedral had me utterly gasping. Something about the transition from Moorish to Christian maybe or just the colossal size and wealth of the alter, huge roofed domes and columns that tower over us had me incredulous. It’s been plonked into the hollowed out area of the Mosque. However it was a pity it rained because Seville is the proud capital city of Andalusia and it was difficult to gain the extent of its charms. Teresa told us about the making of sherry, the orange trees, flamenco and the different Arabic influences and traditions. And of course the great changes made by Ferdinand III and Isabella. The other major site were some of the rooms of the royal residence and palace (Reale Alcázares). It is here that complexity of the past is revealed and the origins dating back to the early days of Arab rule. I wasn’t sure if I might’ve been looking at the Taj Mahal! How magnificent building of many aspects of his Mudejar tradition blending with Spanish and Christian design features, even a Star of David! I wanted to go to the old Jewish quarter in the evening as I had been advised to do so but the weather really prevented us doing that. I particularly wanted to find out a bit more about the Inquisition.
The tour of the Alhambra included the beautiful Gardens followed by the three Palaces. The garden beds are changed every two months so they are always in bloom. They are truly beautiful. Gorgeous ancient cypresses and of course numerous pomegranates, the emblem of Granada. Our guide told us the pomegranate has 613 seeds and the shape of the fruit can be found in the stucco walls of the design in the palaces. He also told us the apparently geometric wall and floor patterns are in symmetry to indicate perfection. Allah is not allowed to be visually represented thus perfection is in symmetry! The extensive long Moorish history, the rule of the Catholic kings, the effect of the discovery of the new world and Christopher Columbus, Peter the Cruel, Phillip etc etc all goes into the melting pot of this marvellous Iberian history of which I and many of us educated in post-Renaissance history are foolishly ignorant. One fact I had never heard was that the Alhambra fell into decline for a long period until the US Ambassador Washington Irving came in the 1890’s. It was then that he heard the ancient stories and tales and so wrote a collection called: Tales of the Alhambra. It was for this reason that it was then restored and returned to its rightful glory.
FIRST TIME IN JAPAN
Above: Wakayama Castle
Seeing most of our travel in recent years has been in Europe and most in connection with our music tours, we thought we should next time we have the opportunity to go over seas we should go somewhere we’ve never been before.
Japan! That was an easy decision: but when I thought about it, it didn’t seem easy at all. I have always thought them an inscrutable people, polite but remote, their language incomprehensible, and their culture, both modern and ancient, very distant from ours.
How were we going to cope, both of us such conventional Westerners? Worse still we arrived in the middle of the worst typhoon to hit Tokyo in many years. The was no rain when we got off the plane – were we in the eye of the cyclone? No it was a lull in the downpour of heavy rain that dogged our first few days
Above: Shibuya Crossing at Night
The first Japanese eye-opener was at the Narita terminal having our Japan Railpass validated. The Japanese are sticklers for the correct process and we found we had ten minutes before closing time to book all the seats for all our train travel for the next two weeks. The young lady dealing with us spoke flawless English, though still apologised for its inadequacy, and was as fast as a bullet train, her fingers flying over the booking calculator all the time laughing. We were done in 10 minutes and the door was softly closed behind us on the dot of 8.30. Efficiency+exactness+laughter=perfection!
Our hotel is 13 levels high but looks as wide as a little old Balmain terrace – same goes for the room we have. Tiny, and for the first time in my life I got claustrophobia. The window doesn’t open, the aircon seems to have only hot or cold, there is one metre between the wall and the bed for all the furniture and there is no room on the other side of the bed nor at the foot both of which are bound by wall. But the bathroom, though still minuscule, is superbly organised and everything works perfectly.
We are staying in Ginza, an old geisha district, but now slick hip and stylish with an amazing wide thoroughfare through the middle called Chuo-Dori with every smart world brand in colourful vertical signs on all the sleek up to the minute towers with glass fronts that line both sides of the street. On weekends it becomes a pedestrian space and most surely be the most elegant shopping street anywhere. We dived out of the rain into the outside lobby of the great Mitsukoshi department store, but found the doors closed waiting for the 10.30 opening and crowds of people waiting to be admitted. On the stroke of 10.30, two elegant female assistants stepped forward from inside the great glass doors, opened then and stood back while the shoppers teemed in. As they did every assistant standing In front of their counters bowed to the waist over and over again as the shoppers swept past. Sally of course pulled out her phone to snap the sight, and then we headed for the basement levels where the arrangements of every conceivable food delicacy have to be seen to be believed. Most of it has to be regarded as art as much of it doesn’t even look like food, or not food you feel you should sully by putting it in your dirty mouth. Some of it was quite grotesque – after all, it was Halloween. After an hour or more of entranced gawking, we agreed to come back in the evening and buy select delicacies for dinner back in our cell.
Another amazing Tokyo experience is the trains; not the bullet trains, that’s yet another. No I mean the subway and the surface trains of the so-called JR line (Japan Rail). Between them there must be at least 30 lines that intersect the Tokyo metropolitan area. The map is a riot of colour as every line is named and colour coded. They all cross each other endlessly and to get anywhere you have to master the impossibly complicated map. Verging on the Aspergers spectrum as Sally suspects, this is easy meat for me and after an hour or two of intense study, I feel I am an expert and guide a hopelessly lost wife with confidence up and down stairs, escalators, up lifts, down corridors, across concourses, into tunnels, finding the right exit (up to 20 or more for larger stations) and onto multi-coloured trains. During our five days in the city, I believe we were either on or getting to trains or getting off to find another train for more hours of the day than any other activity. But anyone fearing it will be too hard, don’t worry, every sign is in English as well as Japanese.
The hype these days about Japan is the food, asserted by many experts including Tetsuya Wakuda, who might just be a bit biased, that it’s the world’s best, combining Japanese finesse with all the great European and other cuisines. But being a musical traveller, I was determined we should visit Tokyo’s premier concert hall, the Suntory Hall, built by an industrial baron. For many years it has welcomed the great orchestras of the world whose world tours always include Suntory Hall.
Long before we left Sydney, I looked up the website to see what concerts were scheduled for the time we would be in Tokyo, prepared to schedule our trip around good prospects. As luck would have it a concert with the NHK orchestra, Japan’s best, with Christophe Eschenbach was scheduled but on the internet from Australia, no seats could be booked. I contacted Ben Ross, son of Fe and Don and a Tokyo resident. He reported it was sold out but his wife Naoko resourcefully got on to an online auction and found us two excellent separate seats. The hall is quite hard to find and our pocket wifi took us on a merry dance to get us there from the subway. Inside it is spacious and clad in elegant pale timber. Eschenbach offered an all Brahms concert – symphonies 4 and 1. The elderly Japanese gentleman beside me told me the Tokyo audience can’t get enough Brahms, and the orchestra clearly lapped it up – the performances of both symphonies were about the most incisive AND expansive I’ve ever heard. A large string section of 60 gave a deep rich sound with strong exact rhythms and perfect security at all times. The typical classical wind and brass sections led by a superb first flute for the gorgeous sad solo in the last movement of the 4th, were all you could want. After a lifetime of listening on and off to Brahms, I was struck by the large part in both pieces for the double bassoon who worked like a Trojan all night, belatedly recognising the origin of the characteristic grumbly sound in all his orchestral music. The concert came to a thrilling conclusion when in the final thrilling bars of the 1st, strangely played after the interval, with the whole orchestra going fff, the timpani, during fantastic ffff rolls, lost one of his sticks, which luckily fell on the drum and it was back in his hand for the final flourish in an instant!
To cap a wonderful evening, as we caught the subway back to the hotel, we decided the afternoon snack wasn’t enough and dropped in at a smart looking sushi restaurant a few doors up from the hotel. We sat at the counter in front of one of the two chefs and watched transfixed as he sliced chopped, squeezed and turned the variegated seafood into incredible shapes and then placed them in front of us. The tastes, colours and textures were divine, incredible plus a Pouilly fuisse chardonnay to wash it down. We left an hour later agreeing it was the most delicate and flavoursome meal we’d ever had – The Golden Rice Sushi.
Scrolling through the internet, Sally came across an organisation called Tokyo Free Guides that offers free guiding for tourists. She applied online and immediately had a response from a lady of a certain age called Ryuko – maybe in her 60s. Sally asked I’d she would b available the next day, Friday, and the deal was done. Ryuko agreed to guide us from 10 to 3 pm and we chose the Ueno/ Asakura district to the north of the city, full of older precincts, parks and cultural institutions. It’s a very impressive arrangement and the only cost to us was her bus or subway fares and lunch. She spoke perfect English, has done this for years and sees it as a sort of civic contribution as well,as being a pleasant way to get to meet visitors to her city. She can answer any question you throw at her and you takes you at a cracking pace anywhere you want. She took us to a nice restaurant for lunch high up over Ueno’s busy streets. Over lunch at our questioning she explained their very practical booking system which allows the volunteers to select guests they think they would like. For us the whole experience was most enjoyable and a great way to learn in a more intimate way about Tokyo. Another big thumbs up for Japanese generosity.
It was Ryuko who recommended the first ancient garden we visited on our Japan sojourn – she also guides in two or three of them. This is one of the most revered – originating 400 years ago but in its present state benefiting from the generosity of the Mitsubishi organisation. Unlike many, this garden is not integral to a shrine or temple but is redolent of the old Japanese virtues of peace, order, and integration of spirituality with nature. Equivalent in size to a large city block, it is based around a lake with three small islands in the middle. Gnarled ancient Japanese pines, many propped up with wooden poles surround the lake. Special stones, or rocks, have been brought from all over Japan to border the garden in seemingly haphazard ways, yet like every beautiful vista in the garden, the aesthetics are so elegant that you can’t help feeling that human intent has merged with nature. The maple and fruit trees, in contrast with the pines, are turning golden, pink and burgundy, though we are told autumn has come late this year and it will be mid to late November before the full autumn glory is reached.
One day, the first really clear sunny day we had, we decided to do a day trip up to the Hakone district where there are beautiful lakes, a cable car over the mountains and the best views to be had of Mt Fuji. All this turned out to be true and in many ways it was a lovely scenic day, but travellers beware: the travel time on the bullet train, then the oh so slow bus, then the pirate ship cruising the lake, the cable car (called the Hakone ropeway), then the interminable straphanging funicular down the mountain, then two more trains to get back to Tokyo – all this meant that 90% of the day was in crowded conveyances, much of it standing.
Eating the superbly prepared and presented food is one of the most easily appreciated delights of discovering Japan. Only once were we disappointed during our Tokyo stay. Our last day was solidly wet all day and included a rather gloomy wander ( with another voluntary guide) through the Imperial Palace gardens under umbrellas. I had booked a special treat for dinner at one of Tetsuya’s top recommendations, the world famous teppanyaki Udai Tei – he spent half a page extolling its mind-blowing virtuosity. We set out in the pouring rain to walk 20 minutes to our destination, Sally very dubious about the whole idea. I realised it would be costly so steeled myself to as much as $300 for the evening. It was hard to find but find it we did like drowned rats, and were greeted at the street by a charming hostess. A glance at the menu options at the door showed the cheapest option would cost $350 each, not including drinks. I never made a faster decision – we were off into the night before Sally even knew what was happening! Eventually, even wetter, we found a lovely modern/ traditional place where we had a delicious multi-course dinner for about $80 each, a far better way to cap our Tokyo stay.
Bullet Train at Kanazawa Station
Situated on the mid-west coast of Honshu and noted for its maritime culture, Kanazawa proved to be a fascinating place. Nearly three hours on the bullet train was more like a magic carpet ride and we drew into ultra modern Kanazawa station on the minute. As with most major Japanese cities, the station has everything – malls, high rise hotels, department stores and everything in between. Just as well as the weather on our arrival was foul – like Tokyo only worse – and trapped us (at least Sally) in shopping mode – new shoes, new bag while yours truly minded the luggage. It was almost dark when we made it to the hotel – sleek looking in the reception area, but again a tiny room with locked window encouraging claustrophobia. But this hotel had the advantage of its very own onsen, Japanese for bath house where men and women, separately, go through the naked cleaning and bathing ritual. I found it very pleasant, if a little disconcerting. Sally couldn’t wait to enjoy the experience but unusual circumstances made it VERY disconcerting for her, but that’s a story to be told by her at another time.
The next day, our only full day in Kanazawa, mercifully stopped raining, though the clouds were low. It turned out to be perhaps our best day in Japan yet. We headed for the Kenruko-en Garden, one of the supposed three best in Japan. The autumn colours were splendid and the paths wandered through an extraordinary variety of small vistas including two small lakes, a quite steep hill over looking the whole garden, avenues of exotic tiny trees, some with leaves in brilliant red and others in various hues from soft yellow through to pinks, oranges and burgundies, all contrasted with the bright greens of the pine trees.
Across from the garden was the contemporary Art Museum, much praised In the blurb in our Lonely Planet guide. It is a big airy building, all white and glass panels with high ceilings. The exhibition filling it, I don’t know whether it was permanent or not, was devoted to the idea of new ways of living for the new age. Much of it celebrated a link between Danish and Japanese design and was full of fanciful and fabulous as well as more serious concepts. A Danish artist called Helman(?) Lehl (?) had lived on Okinawa in a beautiful beach house for many years and during this time had been disturbed by the huge amount of detritus washed up on the beaches, all cheap plastic bottles, rope and other rubbish. He was so concerned about this ruination of the pristine landscape that he decided to draw attention to the issue by creating an art collection based on this colourful rubbish and published a book devoted to the amazing series of art works. We turned into the next large room and there it all was, in great hangings, pillars, installations and extravagant chandeliers, distorted and exaggerated in crazy mirrors around the walls of the huge room.
There was another exhibition of his of found stones he discovered quite by chance somewhere in India, none larger than a fist but all with extraordinary coulours and tracery. Apparently these are mostly agate. The museum was full of droll and serious exhibits, superbly presented, always in English as well as Japanese. I could have stayed there all day.
Almost next door is the DT Suzuki museum, a permanent tribute to the famous Japanese philosopher and exponent of Japanese Zen Buddhism who lived a very long life from the late 19th century until 1962. It is housed in a beautiful purpose built house in a lovely setting on the side of a wooded hill, exuding a peaceful contemplative atmosphere with a shallow infinity lake and paths through the woods. Perhaps the most notable teacher of Zen Buddhism of the 20th century, he fell foul of many colleagues with his mid-century glorification of Japanese swordsmanship and its association with militarism.
On our way back to the hotel, we stopped at the Omi-Cho market that apparently rivals the Tsujita fish market in Tokyo which we missed. Not only the seafood, but the bewildering variety of fruit and veg (the ubiquitous persimmon and nashi apple/pear). I bought a cup of halved fresh figs having a wonderful depth of flavour, but the real mouth bursting experience was a single massive oyster I bought at one stall. I saw these huge gnarled pieces of rock the size of a small pineapple and wondered what they were until I saw a woman buy one for 5000 yen ($6). The stall owner went away and brought it back opened with a giant oyster inside, perhaps 12-15 centimetres long. I gaped, bought one and ate it with chop sticks in three pieces dipped in the offered lemon juice. What a taste explosion! I let nothing pass my lips until dinner so I could savour the after taste.
The exquisite Japanese cuisine has now become a national pastime and everyone partakes of it. One of the eating phenomena is the restaurant floor, or two, at the top of every department store and now at the top of modern hotels. These might contain 20 or even 30 restaurants of every different style of Japanese cooking plus plenty of foreign fusion styles too. All of them, cheaper and more pricey, seem to be full, with rows of chairs outside each one; people waiting for up to an hour to get in. At least in the smarter stores and hotels, these are not takeaway el cheapos, but both casual and more formal fine dining places, many where the diners sit at counters while the wizard at the hotplate does his stuff.
In Kanazawa, on the top floor of the 5 star station hotel, we entered a place where each table had a little double bowl deep fryer heated by a tiny flame the diner can adjust. The waiter then pours an aromatic stock into the bowls and we are given an array of raw vegetables, condiments, pickles and thin slices of pork or beef that we each cook to our taste in the stock. To the uninitiated like us, it’s a bit messy, but delicious and we left very satisfied.
Inside Kyoto Station Complex
I imagined Kyoto, from what I had read that it was the ancient capital of Japan and a repository of great traditional temples and gardens, to be a place where you wandered through winding lanes like an old Japanese painting. How wrong I was! It is a large ultra-modern city with vast hordes of people straining even the most up-to-date infrastructure. To me it seemed even faster and more futuristic than Tokyo. The vast station complex with its huge open air atrium and an 11 storey outdoor escalator seemed to be lifting us to the moon (we had a full moon on our last night as we flowed endlessly up to the sky). Everywhere we went, even at the famous traditional sites in the woods and gardens on the outskirts, were so crowded with people that walking was often reduced to a frustrating shuffle.
In Australia we might decry the obsession with the selfie, but it’s nothing like the tourist sites in Kyoto with all the young, many dressed in Geisha-like gear, sporting phones on selfie sticks, posing and clicking en masse. 95% of the tourists seem Japanese, the trendy youth, the families and the old and the common feature is that everyone seems happy and relaxed, completely oblivious to the crowds.
We worked out the public transport system pretty quickly, mostly buses, which are very well organised but the crowds queuing and the traffic congestion especially around the station makes city travel slow and strap-hanging. Several times we visited the central shopping area around Gion and Kawaramachi-Shijo. If you can tolerate the crush of people, this is a fascinating area with the giant, elegant department stores, the labyrinth of lanes with every kind of shop and food outlets and the great market (which we missed). On our first day in Kyoto, we asked Maria at our ryokan (more about that later) where we should go to find dinner. Without hesitation, she said Pondo-Cho and told us to get the 207 bus to Gion. The swarms of people strolling and shopping were to us almost overwhelming. The rows of lights along the streets, the brightly lit shop fronts and the melodious chimes for all the street crossings made it all seem surreal.
Pondo-cho is unique. A long narrow walking street, maybe a kilometre long with the houses on one side opening on to the river, it is full of special interest shops, exclusive geisha destinations, dining clubs and intimate restaurants. We strolled along for a while, peeping into the establishments, nodding at each other and shaking our heads. I said, maybe here, or maybe there and mostly Sally said I don’t think so. Eventually she said ‘what about here?’ As almost always, I say ‘OK’ and we ducked into a tiny place where there was a counter beside the little kitchen. There were 4 or 5 people at the counter and I spied two tiny eating rooms near the river balcony where each held four people sitting on the floor. We took our place at the counter next to a woman who kept on shouting to the chef, ‘longer, longer!’ I thought she meant she wanted her meat cooked more so I gestured to the charming old Japanese chef accordingly, who quickly got my more empathetic approach to her demand. It turned out the couple sittiing next to us were Marie and Trevor who ran a scrap metal business on the Gold Coast and clearly had more money than sense. Sally was more impressed with Marie’s many facelifts than I was with the voice. I was rather won over by Marie as she guessed I was about 57 and nearly fell off her chair when Sally ungallantly told her the truth. However we had the most wonderful culinary experience in that little place with a long series of tiny dishes of every kind served to us, but the delicate tempura of fish and vegetables were the stand out to me. We drank a superb French Chablis and left knocked out by the subtlety of the food and its welcoming atmosphere. Much to their surprise, we returned the next night and had a different but equally delightful experience. When I asked the chef what the name of his establishment was, he help up a battered old frying pan with a friendly smile.
Kyoto’s traditional sites and gardens, usually connected to the temples and shrines, of which there seem to be hundreds, are mostly spread around the outskirts of the city, amongst the hills and woods surrounding the city. While we visited several, we only scratched the surface, but still had some remarkable experiences.
One day we walked the northern Higashiyama district for perhaps five kilometres after being dropped by a bus and walking to Ginkaku-Ji, a beautiful temple once the retirement villa of the emperor in the Middle Ages. We were more interested in the gorgeous autumn gardens that stretched up a verdant hillside with walking tracks and pools shimmering in the flawless sunshine, just about the first day of real sun we have had. The garden next to the lovely little lake features amazing mounds of raked sand, raked symmetrically with elegant traditional patterns. After leaving Ginkaku, we walked the Philosopher’s Path, literally a pathway along a little stream, under the shadow of the mountainside with little trees with autumn leaves along the way. Through a huge pine grove we came to a shrine called Honen-in, deep in the woods, very solemn. There was a room devoted to an art exhibition by an Japanese artist that seemed to me to epitomise the idea of deep Zen-like reflection. The paintings were of sombre natural settings: water, woods, branches of trees, all in dark greys, browns, blacks and suggestions of pastels, greens, blues and lilacs. Each one was overlaid with tiny bits of spatter, creating the effect of a sort of gauze between the viewer and the painting, making it seem even more remote and mysterious. I love them and wanted to take one home.
At the end of the Philosopher’s path, we found another extravagantly beautiful garden and temple called Eikan-do, and spent an hour admiring the colours, crossing the little bridges across the lagoons and watching two or three couples in traditional gear. Even with lots of people around, these secluded and colourful places exude peacefulness and tranquillity and you find yourself just standing and gazing.
It wasn’t all delightful like this. The hordes of people often got us down, despite their good humour. One day we travelled on a bus quite a long way to visit the Kyoto Crafts Museum as we’d met a Danish glass blower at the Frying Pan restaurant and she was exhibiting in another Danish Japanese exhibition at the Crafts Museum. It was all a bit boring and she had only two pieces in it so we decided to cut our losses and move on to the Kiyomuzu-dera Temple, one of Kyoto’s most famous. More crowded buses and then an endless trudge up a long steep hill lined with hundreds of garish stalls. There were so many people we were reduced to a crawl, made worse by lines of cars and taxi trying to make their way down hill. After an hour of this the temple and its surrounds were so packed, that we turned around and trudged back, tempers frayed and (my) feet and knees swollen and sore.
Sally was not happy with our accommodation in Kyoto, and I have to admit, nor was I, though it was I who organised it. I planned that in one city we should stay in a Ryokan, a traditional Japanese inn where you sleep in a futon on the floor and are given traditional hospitality including a multi court meal served in Japanese style. Ryokans are actually quite expensive because of the elaborate hospitality. Our ryokan in Kyoto turned out to be a ‘pretend’ Ryokan with the disadvantages of sleeping on a mattress on the floor, no tables or chairs, but also no special meals or service, indeed no food or drink at all.The only pluses were that it was clean and efficient and the girls at the desk were polite and charming. Spending six days groping around the floor was not a success.
Our day on the western edge of the city in the Arashiyama district was altogether a more pleasant experience. We wanted to walk through the famous bamboo forest and we did (with thousands of others). It was an eerie experience as the day became windy and blew the giant bamboo clumps all over the place, making a wild swishing, sighing sound. At the end of the bamboo forest we came across Omochi Sanso, a private retreat and garden created by a famous silent film samurai actor of the same name. 1000 yen to enter seemed a lot, but it was worth it just to escape the hordes and the garden turned out to be heavenly, in my opinion the most beautiful I saw on the whole trip to Japan. Immense trouble had been taken to juxtapose shrubs, rocks, trees, ponds, paths and vistas. Several tiny tea houses emerged from the paths and at one stage we reached a little ridge only to find we were overlooking a vast valley and stream way below with a huge mountainside facing us with a little temple in bright colours the only chink in the great slopes of pine trees.
In visits to foreign cultures in tourist mode, not knowing any or many individual people, it’s not surprising our most intimate experiences are often through the food. In Japan this is especially so, with such care being taken with its presentation and the frequency of small establishments with the kitchen in full view beside you. One night in Kyoto, we entered an open contemporary place, looking so attractive, only to find that it served only eel. Sally firmly decided salad was the only option for her, but I had a piece of grilled eel almost as long as your arm. Despite eel being a much relished delicacy inJapan, this was a mistake. The oily flavours and smell persisted in my consciousness until the next day.
But like our two visits to the Frying Pan, the food is usually a very satisfying cultural experience. One night wandering through the back lanes of central Kyoto we looked in at a little place where the young chef was at his counter and stayed. All he had was a small mesh cook top and a little blow torch, some sashimi, little cuts of meat and small piles of simple and exotic vegetables. Out of these meagre resources, plus an assistant to wash plates and serve, he fed 16 diners, eight at his counter plus four little tables. We had about six little courses, all carefully placed in front of us by him with the utmost charm.
On our last day in Kyoto, we again retreated to the fiesta on the edge of the city and climbed up to the amazing Fushimi Imari-taisha. It is a Shinto shrine consisting of thousands of vermilion torii, wooden squared gates or arches that you process through, the nearer ones quite massive but get smaller as you climb up into the forest. The path through the arches continues upwards through the forest and finally emerges on to the top of the highest hill where you look down on the whole of the city. Though Sally went to the top, after two weeks of walking up and down endless steep stairs, my knees gave way and I gave up half way up. It is a strange and mesmerising experience that got better the higher you go as the crowd thins as you go upwards.
Above: Wall painting in Emperor’s villa in Nikko
For our last day in the country we decided to go to Nikko, a town in the mountains two hundred kilometres north of Tokyo, noted at this time of the year for its magnificent autumn colours and its fantastic World Heritage listed temple complex Tosho-gu. It meant the bullet train back to Tokyo and two more trains to Nikko, arriving in the afternoon. It was lovely to find we were in a modest town rather like a ski village high in the mountains. With an hour or two before the sun went down, we took a bus to the former Royal retreat, a magnificent traditional all-wooden villa in the midst of another gorgeous garden with a little stream running through it. We loved the elegance of the many simple wooden rooms with tatami floor coverings, looking on to pretty internal courtyards to out the garden.
As our flight left Tokyo in the evening the next day, Sally decided she wanted to walk in the National Park around lakes high in the mountains before we left. We had a quick visit to the famous shrine complex but despite its spectacular appearance, the hordes had arrived early in the day and we beat a retreat to a bus taking to the mountains, labouring up dozens of hairpin bends till it got to a beautiful high lake called Chuzen-Ji. A walk around the lake could have taken a couple of hours, but my knees had given up the ghost so we sat on a crumpled old wooden jetty and gazed at the lovely lake and the mountains surrounding it and talked about our remarkable journey and pondered many thoughts and reflections about Japan and life in general. It was a very special way to end our trip in a slow and relaxed way. Eventually we got up and went to a superb craft shop and bought some lovely implements to take home and finally caught the bus back to Nikko and thence the trains to Tokyo and the airport.
What were our lasting impressions?! A busy, thriving, highly integrated society, charming and welcoming to strangers, but as a friend says, happy to see you leave fairly soon. A lasting impression for me was the ease and contentment of their lifestyle. Smiling and chatting constantly, you rarely see, at least in public, an argument or discord. The cities are immense: from the train you see huge districts rushing by of seemingly endless high or medium rise accomodation towers and blocks. But the people seem completely untroubled by the density of their living style. Admittedly we were mostly in large sophisticated cities but we saw no poverty or discontent even in the poorer side streets.
The fact that most of the thronging crowds visiting the sacred sites were Japanese was fascinating to me. The spirituality of these places is clearly a daily part of the lives of all Japanese. They visit these places constantly, not to worship, but to be there, to partake of that spirituality as prt of their almost daily lives. It is very impressive and clearly is a strong bond for the whole . Some ask how can this be when you remember the cruelty and militarism of World War 2? I think the trauma of the war changed the whole society, no doubt encouraged, even dominated by the post war influence of the US.
Tour finishes with Mahler’s 9th at Concertgebouw!
Our recent tour in May/June 2017 was the longest we have ever led – three weeks and one day, and included no less then 19 performances. Most tours are from 14 to 16 days as even small groups get tired by all the concentrated excitement. But this time there were so many wonderful performances on offer in five cities, we decided to go for broke; everyone seemed to have a wonderful time and never faltered. Our last day, a gorgeous sunny day in Amsterdam, saw us on an elegant old boat cruising the canals and enjoying a sumptuous farewell lunch. And to cap it all a few hours later, there we were at the world famous Concertgebouw listening to Mahler’s 9th Symphony, cheering at the end. What a massive contrast! Here is the link to the tour brochure. May June 2017 Brochure 3
Posted on June 9, 2017 October 4, 2017
Salome at Dutch National Opera
Malin Bystrom as Salome (Photo: Dutch National Opera above)
At the Dutch National Opera last night we saw a Salome of Richard Strauss that was nothing short of sensational. This was the sort of operatic performance, opera buffs dream of! The Salome was Malin Bystrom, a Swedish soprano with the sort of high effortless sound that cuts through the huge orchestra and never falters. In a truly terrifying performance, looking like a spoilt young demi-mondaine in a slinky white dress, and having been delivered with the blood soaked body of John the Baptist, she staggers through the pool of blood and lies on top of him singing her final phrases with thrilling and abandoned assurance. At the final curtain, the shocked silence finally broke into endless cheers and roars. It was the premiere of a brilliantly simple but dramatic new production by Ivo van Hove, featuring the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in a rare appearance in the pit conducted by their new music director Daniele Gatti.
Antony & Sally's Fantastic Journey 2016 (3)
Antony And Sally’s Northern European Journey 2015 (6)
Antony Jeffrey's and Andrew Nelll's Whistle Stop European Tour for Richard Strauss' 150th Anniversary (1)
Central Europe Journey Krakow, Brno and Berlin: Nov/ Dec 2019 (1)
Chicago and New York April 2015 (4)
England's Marvellous Summer Festivals Tour 2014 (3)
European Music Extravaganza 2017 (8)
Japan Journey October / November 2017 (5)
London Stratford and Edinburgh Festival 2016 (2)
Music Opera and Theatre in England and the Edinburgh Festival 2014 (3)
Vienna to Dresden via Berlin and Leipzig 2015 (4)
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Blue Ceiling Dance & Marc Boivin at Harbourfront April 7 - 9
DanceWorks presents a special shared program featuring
BLUE CEILING DANCE (Toronto) and
MARC BOIVIN (Montreal)
Thursday, April 7 - Saturday April 9, 2011; 8PM
March 2011 - DanceWorks, Toronto's longest-running contemporary dance series, presents Lucy Rupert of Blue Ceiling Dance and Marc Boivin, two acclaimed dancer/choreographers, on a shared program running April 7 - 9 at Harbourfront Centre's Enwave Theatre.
Lucy Rupert, founder and artistic director of Toronto's Blue Ceiling Dance and 2010 Chalmers Fellowship recipient, performs the world premiere of The animals are planning an intervention, an ambitious new solo to original music composed for a string quartet by acclaimed singer/songwriter Sarah Slean. The solo explores thoughts on instinct and mortality, and mines emotion and physical virtuosity, searching for traces of the many animals that live inside us. Living in the boundary between animal being and human being, between profound love and a terrifying sense that maybe nothing means anything, Rupert embodies the imagery of small animals and unheard voices.
The multi-faceted Lucy Rupert has collaborated with dance and theatre artists such as William Yong, Sashar Zarif, Peter Chin, Denise Fujiwara, Andrea Nann, Puppetmongers Theatre, Volcano Theatre, Circus Orange and Sarah Slean. She runs Blue Ceiling dance as a vessel for her interpretive and creative work delving into the shimmery and dark places of human psychology through physics, philosophy and dextrous movement. She is noted for physical and emotional complexity and a mesmerizing presence in performance. Since 2001, she has been working with Theatre Rusticle, perhaps most notably as the ship Titanic in April 14, 1912. She recently worked on two BravoFact films, one as the female lead with music by Sarah Slean and direction by C.J. Wallis. Lucy is co-chair of the Board of the Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists, Ontario Chapter.
Montreal dancer/choreographer Marc Boivin performs Impact, a hybrid, multidisciplinary piece with visual environment and conceptual design by Jonathan Inksetter, music by Diane Labrosse and lighting design by Yan Lee Chan. Synthesizing Boivin's 25 years of experience, Impact is a captivating solo in which the body is the very hub of expression, a place where everything moves and is moved. The piece examines the connections between people and the magnitude of their influence on one another. Though filled with personal anecdotes, the piece speaks beyond the boundaries of autobiographical narrative. Impact is Boivin's sixth choreography and his first solo for himself.
Dancer, teacher, improviser, choreographer, recipient of the Jacqueline Lemieux prize in 1999, Marc Boivin began his dance career in 1980 at Le Groupe de la Place Royale in Ottawa under the directorship of Peter Boneham. Five years later, he joined Ginette Laurin and her newly-formed company O Vertigo Danse. Since 1991 he has worked as an independent dancer, performing in the company creations and/or the commissioned works of many choreographers, notably Louise Bedard, Sylvain Emard, Jean-Pierre Perreault, Catherine Tardif and Tedd Robinson, among others and with improvisers Andrew Harwood and Peter Bingham. The members of the Regroupement québécois de la danse (RQD) general assembly elected him as president during the 26th annual meeting held on October 23-24, 2010.
"The dancer, whether he is curled up or balanced on one hip on the floor, or occupying space with his wide milling gestures, tracings, or pensive stases, hypnotizes us." - Le Devoir on Impact
• Lucy Rupert - Photo credit: R. Kelly Clipperton
• Marc Boivin - Photo credit: Sandra Lynn Belanger
BLUE CEILING DANCE and MARC BOIVIN
DANCEWORKS ANNUAL SILENT AUCTION April 7 ONLY
Fabulous finger foods and items for every budget!
at Harbourfront Centre's Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay West, Toronto
Regular Tickets: Adults $33.50, (Students/Seniors $22.50)
Box Office: 416-973-4000 OR online at www.danceworks.ca
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